Well, you won't get it from me. The visual images are strong, but ... I feel like I'm reading a different Lewis Collins role. What I like in Bodie is that although he can be angry and violent, it's not without cause, and then there is that whole other side, the playful, silly, joking side.

I've read a number of fics in this past year that show one or both of them as this damaged, and though I see the appeal of a redemption arc ... I don't see anything like it in the actual episodes. Thank god. Seeing it now gives me a feeling like the one I had as a teen, reading Harlequin/Mills and Boon-type romances and, instead of wanting the couple to be together, thinking, "Run, girl! Now!"

But just as I'm thinking that this Bodie doesn't deserve to pull anybody into his wobbly orbit, he tries, and he tries so hard for that connection that it's heartbreaking. He's terrible at it. But he keeps trying. He wants to be human, but he doesn't know how.

And I admire the writing. That image of Bodie flushing with rage like blood in milk, I'll remember that for a long time.