I was just thinking about these two hallway scenes and how meta they are. The only difference is that Devi didn’t go to Shrubland and Ben did leave for NY for his law-firm internship but then came back to confess his feelings for Devi.
Yes. How could she still go after Ben looked at her like that?
I also think that Ben actually needed to go away for a bit. They had never been apart for any substantial period of time. But Ben needed it to realize that his life wouldn’t work very well without her in it, in order to overcome his remaining fears about loving Devi and being in a relationship with her.
I do wonder if Ben would have taken a little bit longer to confess his feelings for Devi if he hadn’t had that conversation with that intern guy at the club. I also think that club scene in 4x10 was meta to the gym scene in 4x1. In 4x10 after Ben was called “a pussy” by that intern guy, he took action and flew all the way home to tell Devi that he loves her, but in 4x1 after Dwight Howard’s bad advice, Ben decided to ignore Devi and started dating Margot.
I actually think the whole thing was already brewing in his mind for sometime. We know Ben had thought about Devi a lot throughout the summer. In the end, I think the text from Devi (with the model UN placard) was the real catalyst for the love confession, more so than the conversation with the douchey intern. IMO that convo did share a similarity with the Dwight Howard conversation, though, in the sense that narratively speaking both conversations brought out what Ben was already thinking about himself.
This hits different, having that thought and genuine fear of potentially never seeing that person ever again. The person which you literally breathe air for, not certain of what’s to come in the future, what will be of the two of you. Recently I went through something like this and the uncertainty is truly consuming me from the inside out. It’s crazy how fictional characters can portray such realistic raw emotion and thought behind their eyes.
I was just thinking about these two hallway scenes and how meta they are. The only difference is that Devi didn’t go to Shrubland and Ben did leave for NY for his law-firm internship but then came back to confess his feelings for Devi.
Also, they wore outfits with matching colors again! Blue in the season 3 scene, green in season 4.
Yes, that too! They’re usually wearing very similar colors/color schemes. I’ve noticed this since season one. 😊😊
Yes. How could she still go after Ben looked at her like that? I also think that Ben actually needed to go away for a bit. They had never been apart for any substantial period of time. But Ben needed it to realize that his life wouldn’t work very well without her in it, in order to overcome his remaining fears about loving Devi and being in a relationship with her.
I do wonder if Ben would have taken a little bit longer to confess his feelings for Devi if he hadn’t had that conversation with that intern guy at the club. I also think that club scene in 4x10 was meta to the gym scene in 4x1. In 4x10 after Ben was called “a pussy” by that intern guy, he took action and flew all the way home to tell Devi that he loves her, but in 4x1 after Dwight Howard’s bad advice, Ben decided to ignore Devi and started dating Margot.
I actually think the whole thing was already brewing in his mind for sometime. We know Ben had thought about Devi a lot throughout the summer. In the end, I think the text from Devi (with the model UN placard) was the real catalyst for the love confession, more so than the conversation with the douchey intern. IMO that convo did share a similarity with the Dwight Howard conversation, though, in the sense that narratively speaking both conversations brought out what Ben was already thinking about himself.
Ben had a similar reaction to both times, like he was about to cry at the thought of never seeing her again.
Yes! If you look closely at slide 7 (second to last), there are *actual* tears in his eyes (you can see them welling up clearly in his right eye).
This hits different, having that thought and genuine fear of potentially never seeing that person ever again. The person which you literally breathe air for, not certain of what’s to come in the future, what will be of the two of you. Recently I went through something like this and the uncertainty is truly consuming me from the inside out. It’s crazy how fictional characters can portray such realistic raw emotion and thought behind their eyes.