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i really wish just SOME writers on tv right now had the like, really intrinsic, focused understanding of faith and religion that's present in person of interest, with Root's devotion to the machine, to the ideal of cybernetic enhancement, but also like. to HAROLD by extension
like the way she sees harold as her father in some ways because she sees him as THE father, not bc she sees him as a father FIGURE, not because she needs or wants his approval or his parenthood, but bc he is the originator of a GOD, her god
LIKE IT'S JUST. SUCH A FASCINATING DYNAMIC
like i fucking wish that anyone who wrote for a fantasy show with ACTUAL paladins and witches w faith etc had this level of depth or complexity in their presentation or exploration of the feelings involved bc i love it
I have so many ideas for how they could implement Mac's sexuality into storylines seeing as we haven't really seen him with any sort of partner/ how he interacts with men romantically.
I think it'd be interesting to see Mac start to date a guy that Mac really wants to like, but the guy just isn't as badass as Mac. Mac's new boyfriend likes going on dates to Color Me Mine and wine tasting and Mac finds these types of dates painfully boring. He feels like his masculinity is being stripped away from him by going on such "girly" dates, but he really likes the guy so he continues on with it. Mac would have this whole struggle throughout the episode, worrying his sexuality is causing him to go soft, and he doesn’t wanna be any less of a badass just because he’s gay.
(Obviously, it’s stupid to stereotype his boyfriend as being non-masculine for wanting to go on dates that aren’t fueled by testosterone, which is sort of the whole commentary of the episode.)
Mac gets tickets for him and his boyfriend to go to a monster truck rally as it's something Mac actually wants to do and he hopes his boyfriend would try doing something Mac likes for once, but his boyfriend declines, saying that kind of stuff just isn't fun to him. Mac loses his temper and goes off about how he's been doing stuff he doesn't think is fun this entire time.
The pair end up breaking up because neither is willing to try new things for the other, which results in Mac coming home sullenly. When Mac comes through the door, Dennis asks why he looks so glum. Mac doesn't mention the breakup, but he does mention he has an extra ticket to the monster truck rally. Dennis excitedly asks, unprompted, if he can come to the rally with Mac. Mac just smiles.