and that's the thing, cousin...I'm part of the fire.

So this is one of those totally random fandom-musing posts that comes out of nowhere.

Any and all Andromeda fen on my flist are probably quite aware that I'm very in love with one Seamus Harper and his various character/story arcs. Also probably very aware that I have severely mixed feelings for the episode "Bunker Hill" -- I love the Harper, I love the Harper/Rommie, I love Boston and the Boston kids and Mark Hildreth as Brendan and the whole human/Dragan war in general, and this is also the episode that got me to completely hate Dylan with a passion.

This musing is on "Bunker Hill", but it's not on the above part...no, as mixed as my feelings are for the episode, they make sense. However, the following quote always throws me off whenever I rewatch it, and I will explain why:

Harper: "Well...It's a place you love, it's, you know, a good feeling. Until you have to see it all torn down around you."
Rommie: "And there's nothing you can do to stop it."

The "it's a place you love" bit makes sense. As bitter as Harper often is about Earth and growing up there, he is just as often nostalgic and clearly in love with his homeworld and its history. (Harley-Davidsons, people.) "Until you have to see it all torn down around you", however, does not make sense. Because it was all "torn down" more than two hundred years before Harper was born. He was raised in the post-apocalyptic hell, not thrust into it.

It's easy enough to write it off as Matt and Joe wanting to simultaneously give Harper and Rommie a chance to bond over their mutual loss of civilization and give the audience a sympathetic view towards Harper's Earth. That, however, doesn't hold up for an in-universe view which is what I always aim for when analyzing fandom stuff.

So, uh. Anyone have any ideas for what Harper means by that? It's possible, I think, that he means seeing his family killed off one by one; it's possible that he means some increase in Magog or Nietzschean attacks when he was a kid; it's possible he's being poetic. But none of those answers exactly works for me.

and that's the thing, cousin...I'm part of the fire.

So this is one of those totally random fandom-musing posts that comes out of nowhere.

Any and all Andromeda fen on my flist are probably quite aware that I'm very in love with one Seamus Harper and his various character/story arcs. Also probably very aware that I have severely mixed feelings for the episode "Bunker Hill" -- I love the Harper, I love the Harper/Rommie, I love Boston and the Boston kids and Mark Hildreth as Brendan and the whole human/Dragan war in general, and this is also the episode that got me to completely hate Dylan with a passion.

This musing is on "Bunker Hill", but it's not on the above part...no, as mixed as my feelings are for the episode, they make sense. However, the following quote always throws me off whenever I rewatch it, and I will explain why:

Harper: "Well...It's a place you love, it's, you know, a good feeling. Until you have to see it all torn down around you."
Rommie: "And there's nothing you can do to stop it."

The "it's a place you love" bit makes sense. As bitter as Harper often is about Earth and growing up there, he is just as often nostalgic and clearly in love with his homeworld and its history. (Harley-Davidsons, people.) "Until you have to see it all torn down around you", however, does not make sense. Because it was all "torn down" more than two hundred years before Harper was born. He was raised in the post-apocalyptic hell, not thrust into it.

It's easy enough to write it off as Matt and Joe wanting to simultaneously give Harper and Rommie a chance to bond over their mutual loss of civilization and give the audience a sympathetic view towards Harper's Earth. That, however, doesn't hold up for an in-universe view which is what I always aim for when analyzing fandom stuff.

So, uh. Anyone have any ideas for what Harper means by that? It's possible, I think, that he means seeing his family killed off one by one; it's possible that he means some increase in Magog or Nietzschean attacks when he was a kid; it's possible he's being poetic. But none of those answers exactly works for me.