Posted by Astronommy 4 years ago Report

That was a gorgeous not-boombox! The desperate display of affection was never going to happen, but this brazen conquest, bowling over Adam's sense of seclusion and security, seems very organically consistent with Claire's recently reinforced sense of responsible dominancy. And it's the big debut of her costuming masterwork!

So many things are coming back around in this chapter, like the earlier hints of Claire's industry insider connections, the Demon Claire design and its purpose, Adam's Adamnapping history, Adam and Claire's undocumented, but implicitly nominal con-going experiences, and Claire's talents for acting and thinking through social scenarios. It is a totally bonkers plot she's put together, but it does feel like it couldn't have gone down any other way now that it's been set in motion.

It was a treat to be shown this lush new environment after the familiarity of Adam's golden cage mansion, and various nondescript urban settings. The colors alone! Claire Monster's raging reds against the park's greens, all turned down and tinted by the fog and the night lights.

The scaled-down trailer's reactive structural delicacy made the whole scene of Adam getting whisked away so much more hair-raisingly tense and majestic, and I loved seeing Claire get a kick out of her relative sense of power in that setting! I am almost prepared to take back my attack on the phones as drama-leeches for the excellent moment of one of them almost monke-wrenching the whole plot, too.

Faye's such a benign take on the Devil, enabling Claire's criminally-minded idea for a future (possibly mutually beneficial) consideration, and praising her demonic form -- even turning out to have been behind this career opportunity for Adam which had sent Claire's world reeling sideways! Even confident power players can get moved by someone's naked sincerity and rules-be-damned artistic ambitions, I guess, and it was really one artist woman recognizing the values and needs of another, and helping her out.

The final gesture of acceptance and appreciation from the plot's victim was perfectly sweet and uplifting, thank you for that potent little high at the end of the downpour of beautiful-in-their-own-way downers!

Posted by 4ofSwords 4 years ago Report

<grin> It was definitely a Claire-version of a boombox.