I'm not looking at you funny! It was an awesome scene. Honestly the creepy stalkerishness of Ror watching Dan sleep and stealing his aftershave aside, the specific way the dialogue played out there - the way he left the implication that Dan could be the next one attacked to stand out there on its own, awarded special importance - says something. Something subtle, but something nonetheless. If he was just trying to push Dan's buttons I think he would have emphasized Laurie most likely, or even himself - he knows Dan values other people's lives over his own, and if he was just going for a reaction, that would have been the obvious way to go. But he emphasized Dan instead, which seems to be a tacit admission that that was what was weighing on his own mind the most.
In the movie, of course, they gave us Ror's 'maybe I was keeping an eye on you' line in their first scene, which was <3 and not in the GN, and we also got hobo!Ror visibly stalking Dan just about everywhere he went. XD Which got across a lot of the same overall impressions as the newspaper/aftershave/thanks for the coffee scene - but I still missed it. Everyone focuses on the handshake scene and while I agree that's a pretty blatant bit of subtext, this scene here is really just about on the same level imo.
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Date: 2009-05-09 07:15 pm (UTC)In the movie, of course, they gave us Ror's 'maybe I was keeping an eye on you' line in their first scene, which was <3 and not in the GN, and we also got hobo!Ror visibly stalking Dan just about everywhere he went. XD Which got across a lot of the same overall impressions as the newspaper/aftershave/thanks for the coffee scene - but I still missed it. Everyone focuses on the handshake scene and while I agree that's a pretty blatant bit of subtext, this scene here is really just about on the same level imo.