[spoilers] Harry and Ruth. The Wonder Years.

[Byatil]

I've not watched S1-6, but I did see a cute clip on youtube where Ruth asks Harry to come to her house, and he thinks she's inviting him over for dinner and seems completely bewildered by it all xD I think little things like that are very telling.

Ruth is obviously fairly confused in terms of her emotions - in 8.1, Harry asks her if she loves George, and she replies "I'm not willing to discuss my feelings towards him" or something to a similar effect, which to me always implied that she still had strong feelings towards Harry. She then goes on to call him a "heartless bastard" as Harry is willing to have her step-son killed. These feelings must be extremely conflicting for her. Whilst she obviously has feelings for Harry, she always holds herself back - for fear of getting hurt? She knows how ruthless Harry can be (pun not intended!) and I think that scares her, as a woman who always considers the morality of any situation the team is placed in.

I think it's believable that the team would pick up on their relationship, being people who are apparently good at observing and analysing things without gossiping about them. As we are supposed to believe that Lucas is conflicted with his own feelings of love throughout S9, I think it makes sense that he would be looking for 'answers' in other people's relationships - he justifies his selfishness by telling Ruth to "be selfish for once".

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(15-01-2011 04:07 PM)Tea Lady Wrote:  I got the impression that Dimitri knew of H/R love (with that having been explored in the scenes that must have been cut between Ruth and Dimitri) but Beth didn't. Hence her reaction "how does that get him closer to Albany?" She didn't seem to get it, that Lucas was using Ruth to get at Harry.

The embarrassed look on Tariq's face though and the wringing of his hands, I thought meant that he got the H/R love. As for Lucas, Ros probably helped him there, with several comments she made in S8. Lucas may also have had access to the Cotterdam files with his level A clearance. He seemed to know that Ruth had sacrificed herself for Harry with his comment "you've done enough."

Yeah, that's the impression I got as well. Beth seemed a bit too self-centred to pick up on the fact that Harry and Ruth had a strong relationship, but Tariq and Dmitri seemed fairly clued-up. Ros was close to Harry, so yes, I'd assume Lucas would have picked up on things from her comments on the relationship.