[spoilers] Harry and Ruth. The Wonder Years.

[Silktie]

(01-12-2010 07:34 AM)DogSoSmall Wrote:  I appreciated binkie's answer to my question about why can't this work, but it all still seems very ephemeral to me. What is it about humans that they seem to long for tragedy over happiness? Apparently realism and intellectual integrity demands it, but why? Two people love each other. So be together. There is no moral dilemma here other than a contrived one. They both have the same moral code. If they endanger the country by being together, then so does every single person who works for the intelligence services and has a partner, a child, a parent, a good friend. Should everyone in that job just be an island in order to have a successful career? Anyway, we've already seen that it's not being a couple that affects Harry's decisions. He chose to save Ruth after she had rejected him. Honest acknowledgment of their feelings and how they would want the other to react in future moral dilemma situations is the only useful way forwards.
Hope springs eternal!!

Yeah, I'm with you. There's a lot to be said for eternal optimism. For me, until one of them very definitvely tells the other one that they don't love them, or you know, one of them actually dies, there will remain hope that they can sort themselves out. Ruth may have said no to marriage, but she's never said to anyone that she doesn't love Harry.

Besides, I do love watching them try to make sense of it all.

It brings a bit of a human element to the show.