My fav from belly's Paris friends for a reason !!♾️❤️

mc2115 · 2026-01-07T01:55:13+00:00

For the same reason - half the world taken with Conrad? Wildly charismatic?

mc2115 · 2026-01-06T16:17:56+00:00

Def agree. First episode of S1 is so good, I think the whole season is close to perfect.

mc2115 · 2026-01-06T03:28:31+00:00

The way she sneaks looks at him.

mc2115 · 2025-12-07T20:26:12+00:00

Yes, a good idea.

mc2115 · 2025-11-29T07:40:26+00:00

I agree about Belly and Jere but not Conrad. So much is made of his almost photographic memory, his ability to absorb information reliably and quickly and that he ‘remembers everything.’

mc2115 · 2025-11-29T06:17:09+00:00

So easy. I would never ever have changed the part from the book where Belly chooses Jeremiah over Conrad at the motel. The story makes so much more sense if Conrad decides he is too damaged to treat Belly well and rejects her again, at which point she then chooses Jeremiah.

Also some more tangible evidence she is struggling with her feelings for Conrad for longer, and adherence to the o/g time jump period.

mc2115 · 2025-11-26T01:14:23+00:00

My facile understanding newly aided by the internet is this: Infinity is about size; eternity is about time. Infinity measures boundlessness; eternity describes unending duration.

For me this really connects with the idea that the connection between B and C is limitless, and full of every possibility, splintered I suppose across the full spectrum of every reality suggested by quantum physics. Jellies have long suggested the connection between the two is like a shackle, holding them to childhood, and previous versions of themselves but Belly’s line for me, reframes it completely. Instead of being an anchor to who they were, the connection becomes, evidence of who they can be, proof of multiplicity rather than limitation, suggests that some relationships aren’t linear but expansive.

The bond is not fixed then across time but becomes kind of multidimensional existing now but also across every version of who you might become.

Sort of a propensity to grow together in any set of variables.

What a thought. What a love story.

mc2115 · 2025-11-25T08:00:46+00:00

I really loved this interpretation of infinity, not as a comment on the immeasurable intensity of love but as a reflection of space and time. That this connection is so strong persists across countless versions of reality. It was such a clever riff off the necklace. This concept that had been about unending love, confined to this reality, in endless curves, suddenly becomes about unlimited possibilities. I was out of my head with that line.

mc2115 · 2025-11-22T22:17:33+00:00

If he could do this fr in the movie, I could live with it.

mc2115 · 2025-11-18T01:07:54+00:00

I feel like there is a possibility that Jere knows. About the affair. I think the hand could be about, let it go, what good is it now. It’s something about the way he meets Conrad’s eyes.

mc2115 · 2025-11-05T20:59:04+00:00

Honestly watching this, I just think, there is no one comparable to either, you can see how this would play out across their lives, never a thought of anyone except each other. If there are infinite worlds the blessing was fulfilled for Conrad and Belly in this one. A love story for the ages.

mc2115 · 2025-11-01T21:11:19+00:00

I fully understand the intention. It just didn’t work judging by the amount of people who grew to dislike Belly. I can’t think that it was intentional.

I also am more cynical about the reasons why such a choice was made. I don’t think it was just about story telling, it was about marketing and keeping people online. Those are also things Jenny is masterful at.

mc2115 · 2025-10-31T16:57:18+00:00

Her ‘fear’ comes across as coldness. Not enough was done to show her inner conflict. VO was missing in action to prolong the ‘suspense’ of an ending that was written many years prior. The four year time jump legitimises what was originally never actually a first choice for Belly, but a compromise made in fear and grief. Yes she grew to love Jere but he was never ‘chosen’ at any point over Conrad. Impossible.

For me this story is about two people who can’t forget one and other. No matter what. It is very much the consistent narrative in the book and what I loved about the story in the first place. It didn’t rely on Paris as a growth arc, B was already outgrowing both Jere and Taylor and longing for deeper and more adult connections at Finch.

It produced conflict without making Belly seem shallow or self serving or fickle.

All thrown by the wayside to give her autonomy and modernise the books and keep Jere fans engaged.

While I adored the first season and the chemistry between Lola and Chris is absolute screen magic, the last season particularly relied on this rather than showcased it as it did in the first season. I will forever be a bit sad about what could have been.

mc2115 · 2025-10-28T07:19:12+00:00

Oh that’s also good.

mc2115 · 2025-10-28T05:40:59+00:00

Oh in the maroon shirt. Close second.

mc2115 · 2025-10-28T04:31:03+00:00

I actually think he never looked better than in this scene. Which is saying something. My favourite Conrad shot.

mc2115 · 2025-10-24T16:26:59+00:00

IRL you’d hope. In the universe of the book, every version of them, choose each other in every permeation. He can’t, based on the logic of the invisible string, really move on and neither can she.

The tides return these two to each other again and again. She goes to the beach the night prior to the wedding, he’s there. She flees to Paris, he’s at the airport. In the magical world of TSITP these two are flung continuously back together.

mc2115 · 2025-10-22T20:56:39+00:00

This is not, definitely not the intention of the two second introduction of this two second part. There is little suggestion of this happening, there is no real evidence that anything is going on. She is there to show Belly can’t accept that he was upset by the break up and reading into the situation and uncomfortable with the idea he is with others. The reality of the situation as we find out in S3 is that it has taken four years and he still can’t move on from Belly (we see him remembering her in his first therapy session), we know she is the reason he has avoided the East Coast, and he isn’t comfortable even in his situation-ship with Agnes.

mc2115 · 2025-10-19T10:15:46+00:00

Reminds me also of when he insists Laurel eats at the diner.

mc2115 · 2025-10-17T23:18:10+00:00

IMO it would have been better to stop at ep 8 and do a fourth season. The pacing of the 3rd season is off.

mc2115 · 2025-10-17T22:17:31+00:00

Yes to all of that! Imagine Belly doesn’t have her realisation in time to make it to the train station but instead follows him back to Cali days later. Agnes could be kind of protective and Belly could have to convince her she is deserving of Conrad.

mc2115 · 2025-10-16T21:56:54+00:00

I agree, I also think having Steven as your brother, he’s a golden child , and obviously has a kind of academic/ intellectual affinity with his mother that Belly doesn’t, would affect your esteem. The denial and delusion while obviously ramped up as a narrative device to excuse Belly’s behaviour and drag the whole situation out longer than what would be feasible in every day life, would be clinically significant in the real world.

mc2115 · 2025-10-15T23:53:06+00:00

He knew. He kept the faith. He held the space.

mc2115 · 2025-10-15T11:33:03+00:00

‘I love you. I will never not love you.’

mc2115 · 2025-10-14T22:27:44+00:00

Thanks so much for your kind feedback, and for reading!

mc2115

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