Post by mageoftime on Apr 28, 2016 18:38:19 GMT -5
So, I originally watched the show as it was airing, when I was between the ages of 7 and 10 (the first episode I think my sister and I watched on DK was 'Pheromones'). Even though stuff got sorted out around the time I was 10 and watching the finale, I still didn't have strong feelings one way or the other about Victor, other than being unsettled - which seems to be kind of his thing: he's pretty much, for most of the show, a red herring. We all think he's the Final Boss, but he's not quite the evil dad we are looking for.
I'm 21 now (yikes) and I've been rewatching, and I had some thoughts and feelings about Victor, particularly during 'Stopwatch' and after. (Note: A lot of this is personal feelings, though a lot of those are based on canon stuff, I clearly am not someone who worked on the show and can't say all of my meta is 'accurate'.)
Victor already knows somehow how everything is going to play out, or at least has a feeling.
He knows that Josie doesn’t understand her part in it. He knows she’ll screw up.
So when he shows Vaughn the ball, and says, “this is what Josie really wants”, that’s true. But I also think he knows that Josie isn’t a bad person, just someone without all the answers.
He seems almost forced when he says that Josie isn’t trustworthy (he clearly doesn't trust Kelly, but he has reason. Kind of like the Snape-Harry thing in HP - being bitter at a child for their parent's actions), and he doesn’t seem like he enjoys telling Vaughn “she’s using you”. He doesn't come across as gloating at all, more scared.
He also probably doesn’t fully believe it himself - he probably knows that Josie truly cares for Vaughn, but he also knows that Josie doesn’t know her place in the events, and that if she has the ball, she’s going to endanger everyone because - let's be honest - she has a pretty clear track record of impulse control problems, and often jumps to conclusions.
He’s pretty tragic, honestly - he starts off as a smart, but not very popular, kid who likes a pretty girl. (He appears to be the only member of the science club in 1977, for heck's sake.) She finally notices him, and he’s found an incredible source of power (the ball) that he can build on in his work, and she recognizes it (technically, she's there to make sure he gets it - but that's another story) and they start to not only date, but work together. They get married, have a kid, work on some really cool science kooky together…
Then she vanishes in a lab accident in the lab they created together, he’s left alone with a maybe one-year-old son, and he spends nearly eighteen years trying to get her back. He blames himself. He doesn’t know that this was all foreseen…and that it also wasn’t quite supposed to happen (i.e., Sarah wasn’t supposed to fall in love with him, and they weren’t supposed to have Vaughn, either).
Everyone sees him as a bad guy. He also has to play it up to avoid the destruction of not only the timeline, but the universe…by his former friend's daughter, whose absent father is set on destroying it all. He knows that she doesn’t understand. He also knows that he himself doesn’t understand.
The cost of playing into the “bad guy” trope to do all this is…he’s detached. His son doesn’t trust him. Some of his employees even don’t trust him. But like…his son, the only thing he really has left of his wife, turns against him.
From where I stand, I feel he really, truly does have the best intentions. He loves Vaughn. He even cares for Josie, I think, in his own way. He just wants his dang wife back…and to not be destroyed along with the rest of the universe.
I'm 21 now (yikes) and I've been rewatching, and I had some thoughts and feelings about Victor, particularly during 'Stopwatch' and after. (Note: A lot of this is personal feelings, though a lot of those are based on canon stuff, I clearly am not someone who worked on the show and can't say all of my meta is 'accurate'.)
Victor already knows somehow how everything is going to play out, or at least has a feeling.
He knows that Josie doesn’t understand her part in it. He knows she’ll screw up.
So when he shows Vaughn the ball, and says, “this is what Josie really wants”, that’s true. But I also think he knows that Josie isn’t a bad person, just someone without all the answers.
He seems almost forced when he says that Josie isn’t trustworthy (he clearly doesn't trust Kelly, but he has reason. Kind of like the Snape-Harry thing in HP - being bitter at a child for their parent's actions), and he doesn’t seem like he enjoys telling Vaughn “she’s using you”. He doesn't come across as gloating at all, more scared.
He also probably doesn’t fully believe it himself - he probably knows that Josie truly cares for Vaughn, but he also knows that Josie doesn’t know her place in the events, and that if she has the ball, she’s going to endanger everyone because - let's be honest - she has a pretty clear track record of impulse control problems, and often jumps to conclusions.
He’s pretty tragic, honestly - he starts off as a smart, but not very popular, kid who likes a pretty girl. (He appears to be the only member of the science club in 1977, for heck's sake.) She finally notices him, and he’s found an incredible source of power (the ball) that he can build on in his work, and she recognizes it (technically, she's there to make sure he gets it - but that's another story) and they start to not only date, but work together. They get married, have a kid, work on some really cool science kooky together…
Then she vanishes in a lab accident in the lab they created together, he’s left alone with a maybe one-year-old son, and he spends nearly eighteen years trying to get her back. He blames himself. He doesn’t know that this was all foreseen…and that it also wasn’t quite supposed to happen (i.e., Sarah wasn’t supposed to fall in love with him, and they weren’t supposed to have Vaughn, either).
Everyone sees him as a bad guy. He also has to play it up to avoid the destruction of not only the timeline, but the universe…by his former friend's daughter, whose absent father is set on destroying it all. He knows that she doesn’t understand. He also knows that he himself doesn’t understand.
The cost of playing into the “bad guy” trope to do all this is…he’s detached. His son doesn’t trust him. Some of his employees even don’t trust him. But like…his son, the only thing he really has left of his wife, turns against him.
From where I stand, I feel he really, truly does have the best intentions. He loves Vaughn. He even cares for Josie, I think, in his own way. He just wants his dang wife back…and to not be destroyed along with the rest of the universe.