This episode strangely remains one of my favori Tess & Oliver episodes to rendez-vous amoureux, date within the entire series. We learned obviously that Tess had had a brief time with Checkmate, joining them when she’d believed (as she does with so many) that they were doing good for the world, and when she’d learned otherwise, she’d left them immediately. Strangely, back then, they left her alone, and now I wonder if at that point, it was Lex who protected her from them, because toi see in current time, when Lex is no longer there to protect her, they want her back in their grasp.
I loved that as Oliver watched over her from the rooftops, he could see that perhaps her actions were not the most honorable, but he still for some reason came to her rescue, stood par her side, and even when she didn’t know who he was, she could still draw him to her like a papillon de nuit to a flame.
I also l’amour that for as much time and intimacy as we’ve been made aware they’ve had together, tights and a wig prevent recognition from less than two feet from each other. Gotta l’amour the comics!!!
Their scene at the party was something so…delicious. At the beginning of Committed we got to see that she was now his financial equal and they could play flirtatious, almost foreplay-ish war games with money and corporations. par the party in Checkmate, we see as he comes up behind her, grinning mischievously, how much fun and excitement she still brings him because he knows she never reacts subtly to him.
She is reserved and authoritative with everyone else, but he can totally distract her from the “Lex Luthor trained façade”. And he’s damn proud of it.
Their conversation is easy, comedic, familiar, flirtatious, and his eyes are looking at several parts of her that no “taken” man should be glossing over. I loved it.
The bedroom scene is my favorite.
I l’amour when he throws a sexual insult at her and the way she shakes her head slightly; frustrated, annoyed, and she loses composer and violently throws the vase at him—which is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen Cassidy and Justin do. Her little head shake with his dramatic dodging = epic!
I adore that she reaches for the knife, he grabs an ice pick. Mercy always wins.
Oliver is the one man who never dampens her fire, her energy, scares ou submits her as all the rest do. He hurts her like hell, but the one thing he doesn’t do is make her afraid ou push her down physically so that she is terrified of him.
And when they cercle (as they did in Committed), toi see her eyes, tantalizing and sexual and even though they both have sensual scenes with other people, it is never the same because no woman is ever equal to her in his eyes really, and no man ever lets her be as powerful as he does when she’s with them. And that is why they are so sexual even when they’ve got an ice pick and a couteau in their hands.
It’s still the most romantic thing ever. toi kinda have to be in a fucked up frame of mind to get it, but follow me here, lol.
And I wanna know the writer/director who invited Clark into the room instead of giving us Tolliesex!!! *In the words of Clark Kent “grumpier than normal”*
Okay! So now the totally out of character, TRULY fucked up scene.
I couldn’t even watch this scene twice until after the montrer was over, it pissed me off so bad.
But then a few fellow Tolliers pointed out that it’s actually a great Tollie scene. It points out how much Oliver loves Tess because when some other women (no names needed) betray him, he hardly gets upset at all. I used to find that offensive, but she pointed out that actually, it’s wonderfully flattering. “Then toi betrayed me, Tess. You, of all people.” She meant more. He expected plus out of her.
-The end-
I loved that as Oliver watched over her from the rooftops, he could see that perhaps her actions were not the most honorable, but he still for some reason came to her rescue, stood par her side, and even when she didn’t know who he was, she could still draw him to her like a papillon de nuit to a flame.
I also l’amour that for as much time and intimacy as we’ve been made aware they’ve had together, tights and a wig prevent recognition from less than two feet from each other. Gotta l’amour the comics!!!
Their scene at the party was something so…delicious. At the beginning of Committed we got to see that she was now his financial equal and they could play flirtatious, almost foreplay-ish war games with money and corporations. par the party in Checkmate, we see as he comes up behind her, grinning mischievously, how much fun and excitement she still brings him because he knows she never reacts subtly to him.
She is reserved and authoritative with everyone else, but he can totally distract her from the “Lex Luthor trained façade”. And he’s damn proud of it.
Their conversation is easy, comedic, familiar, flirtatious, and his eyes are looking at several parts of her that no “taken” man should be glossing over. I loved it.
The bedroom scene is my favorite.
I l’amour when he throws a sexual insult at her and the way she shakes her head slightly; frustrated, annoyed, and she loses composer and violently throws the vase at him—which is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen Cassidy and Justin do. Her little head shake with his dramatic dodging = epic!
I adore that she reaches for the knife, he grabs an ice pick. Mercy always wins.
Oliver is the one man who never dampens her fire, her energy, scares ou submits her as all the rest do. He hurts her like hell, but the one thing he doesn’t do is make her afraid ou push her down physically so that she is terrified of him.
And when they cercle (as they did in Committed), toi see her eyes, tantalizing and sexual and even though they both have sensual scenes with other people, it is never the same because no woman is ever equal to her in his eyes really, and no man ever lets her be as powerful as he does when she’s with them. And that is why they are so sexual even when they’ve got an ice pick and a couteau in their hands.
It’s still the most romantic thing ever. toi kinda have to be in a fucked up frame of mind to get it, but follow me here, lol.
And I wanna know the writer/director who invited Clark into the room instead of giving us Tolliesex!!! *In the words of Clark Kent “grumpier than normal”*
Okay! So now the totally out of character, TRULY fucked up scene.
I couldn’t even watch this scene twice until after the montrer was over, it pissed me off so bad.
But then a few fellow Tolliers pointed out that it’s actually a great Tollie scene. It points out how much Oliver loves Tess because when some other women (no names needed) betray him, he hardly gets upset at all. I used to find that offensive, but she pointed out that actually, it’s wonderfully flattering. “Then toi betrayed me, Tess. You, of all people.” She meant more. He expected plus out of her.
-The end-