Fifty Shades Feckless: Chapter Two
Dec. 15th, 2012 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astra_auroraThis week has been insane, sorry for the delay.
We last left off with Grey being all angry and shit about Ana being topless. He first points out that Taylor and the rest of their security team are probably enjoying the view, and then references a moment between the second and third books, where news of their engagement was leaked and Ana was mobbed by paparazzi. Basically, he doesn't want her appearing topless on the cover of any trashy media outlets. Fair enough. He's pissed, as is Taylor, and then we get some weird kind of... bigotry, I guess would be the right word.
Taking my hand, he signals up to Taylor and his two sidekicks, the French security officers Philippe and Gaston. Weirdly, they are identical twins.
Yes, because identical twins are so uncommon.
They go to the marina, get onto a JetSki and go for a ride, and as they do so, I'm struck by one of the things I hate the most about this series. Examine these lines:
Taylor is stony-faced behind his dark glasses. Shit, he's mad at me too.
"Displeased," he says instantly. "I'm not very happy about you wearing so little right now."
He's bristling with tension and anger. My heart sinks. Every other woman on the beach is topless- it's not that big a crime. In fact, I look odd with my top on. I sigh inwardly, my heart sinking. I thought Christian would see the funny side... sort of...
They're treating her like a kid. Throughout the series, Grey and just about everyone connected to him treats Ana like a kid, a minor, an innocent- someone who needs to be told what to do. He gets angry at her over every little thing- Christ, he's more like a father with a wayward daughter than a newly-married man with his wife. If he actually tried talking to her and telling her stuff, then she wouldn't accidentally screw up, but I'm starting to think that Grey just loves being mad at her. Oh, the implications...
So, Judge Turpin and Johanna get back to the boat, he forgives her after calming down and telling her not to take her clothes off in public (especially given what her parents would think) and I get mad again. Grey, you're rich and powerful and famous. Ana isn't, and hasn't been for long. How is she supposed to know what to expect unless you tell her?
Anyway, Ana asks who owns the boat. A rich British knight, in fact (no mention of how Grey actually got the boat, FTR). Ana asks if he's as rich as Grey (yes) and Grey reminds her that she's also now as rich as him. And Ana pisses me off again.
"It's odd. Going from nothing to"- I wave my hand to indicate our opulent surroundings- "to everything."
First, that line is shite. Second, WHAT THE FUCK? Nothing? You weren't poor! You had loving parents and a decent roof over your head. You went to a decent university! Ana, you have no right to say something as bad as that to someone who actually did go from having nothing to having everything!
Bitch.
Ana flashes back to the prenup argument. Mia reads an article to Grey from a news site. The article basically says 'We hear that Christian Grey is engaged, but we don't know who to. Whoever she is, she'll have a really big prenup.' Mia reads it as though it's a joke, but the ensuing silence makes it clear that there actually has been prenup talks. Ana hasn't even considered one, Grey is deadset against it, and Carrick is for it. Grey gets really pissed off, and explains that basically, Carrick's still pissed about Elena (Grace told him). He refuses to discuss a prenup, at all.
Back in the present, Ana narrates that Grey hasn't brought it up since. He's been trying to make her spend a lot to get her used to the wealth. Ana's still in practical mode.
Anyway, they fuck with handcuffs, blah blah blah, boring, and the chapter ends.
That was Chapter Three. I really wish I could edit out all the sex scenes.
We last left off with Grey being all angry and shit about Ana being topless. He first points out that Taylor and the rest of their security team are probably enjoying the view, and then references a moment between the second and third books, where news of their engagement was leaked and Ana was mobbed by paparazzi. Basically, he doesn't want her appearing topless on the cover of any trashy media outlets. Fair enough. He's pissed, as is Taylor, and then we get some weird kind of... bigotry, I guess would be the right word.
Taking my hand, he signals up to Taylor and his two sidekicks, the French security officers Philippe and Gaston. Weirdly, they are identical twins.
Yes, because identical twins are so uncommon.
They go to the marina, get onto a JetSki and go for a ride, and as they do so, I'm struck by one of the things I hate the most about this series. Examine these lines:
Taylor is stony-faced behind his dark glasses. Shit, he's mad at me too.
"Displeased," he says instantly. "I'm not very happy about you wearing so little right now."
He's bristling with tension and anger. My heart sinks. Every other woman on the beach is topless- it's not that big a crime. In fact, I look odd with my top on. I sigh inwardly, my heart sinking. I thought Christian would see the funny side... sort of...
They're treating her like a kid. Throughout the series, Grey and just about everyone connected to him treats Ana like a kid, a minor, an innocent- someone who needs to be told what to do. He gets angry at her over every little thing- Christ, he's more like a father with a wayward daughter than a newly-married man with his wife. If he actually tried talking to her and telling her stuff, then she wouldn't accidentally screw up, but I'm starting to think that Grey just loves being mad at her. Oh, the implications...
So, Judge Turpin and Johanna get back to the boat, he forgives her after calming down and telling her not to take her clothes off in public (especially given what her parents would think) and I get mad again. Grey, you're rich and powerful and famous. Ana isn't, and hasn't been for long. How is she supposed to know what to expect unless you tell her?
Anyway, Ana asks who owns the boat. A rich British knight, in fact (no mention of how Grey actually got the boat, FTR). Ana asks if he's as rich as Grey (yes) and Grey reminds her that she's also now as rich as him. And Ana pisses me off again.
"It's odd. Going from nothing to"- I wave my hand to indicate our opulent surroundings- "to everything."
First, that line is shite. Second, WHAT THE FUCK? Nothing? You weren't poor! You had loving parents and a decent roof over your head. You went to a decent university! Ana, you have no right to say something as bad as that to someone who actually did go from having nothing to having everything!
Bitch.
Ana flashes back to the prenup argument. Mia reads an article to Grey from a news site. The article basically says 'We hear that Christian Grey is engaged, but we don't know who to. Whoever she is, she'll have a really big prenup.' Mia reads it as though it's a joke, but the ensuing silence makes it clear that there actually has been prenup talks. Ana hasn't even considered one, Grey is deadset against it, and Carrick is for it. Grey gets really pissed off, and explains that basically, Carrick's still pissed about Elena (Grace told him). He refuses to discuss a prenup, at all.
Back in the present, Ana narrates that Grey hasn't brought it up since. He's been trying to make her spend a lot to get her used to the wealth. Ana's still in practical mode.
Anyway, they fuck with handcuffs, blah blah blah, boring, and the chapter ends.
That was Chapter Three. I really wish I could edit out all the sex scenes.
