Rhodes - All the Gold

[byslantedlight]

Ohmigodses! Why did nobody tell me? You've let me leave Rhodes sitting on my shelf all this time without a single mention, anywhere on my flist, of Rhodes/Pickering! Rhodes/Pickering!

I'm just... there was Rhodes/Pickering! And in the most tragic, heart-tearing of circumstances! I mean - what if Pickering hadn't died? Would history be different? Maybe it wouldn't be, but...

Oh, and MS plays it just gorgeously! Who would have thought it of a man with a moustache? I mean, I really hate moustaches, but I swear MS could carry off... oh, I dunno, a really bad one!

Okay - some pic spam. Beware for scenes of wrenchingness aimed at your heart... *sniffs*

So - to set the scene, Rhodes and Pickering meet and have dinner...


Pickering moves in (MS gets to throw furniture around in a tantrum cos he's peeved when Pickering says it might be too "cramped" for him after all - the furniture throwing is to make room for a bed, and Pickering is amused enough by it all to say yes...


And they just... get on really well, and Pickering makes MS Rhodes laugh and laugh...



But wouldn't you give it all up for someone who looked at you like this?


And oh but wouldn't you look like that for an MS who looked like this?


Except... just... (prepare yourself...) tragedy strikes - Pickering is thrown from a horse, breaks his leg, and scepticemia sets in... And Rhodes looks after him, but... but...



...it's just... *sniffs*... it's just not good...


And...and... just... ohhhh, more tissues please... Rhodes doesn't want them to take Pickering away for the funeral... See his face, oh see his face!




At the funeral...


Really, I was so not ready for that to happen - for Rhodes to fall in love with Pickering (I know, I know, not historically proven, but they did share a house together, and Rhodes did ride hundreds of miles on top of the mail coach, amidst the mail bags, to get back to him when he found out he'd had a relapse, and he did break down at the funeral...) and then for Pickering to... oh, and just when they were looking so happy, you know?

*sighs sadly*

"Rhodes" in happier times...





And oh, I know I need to catch up on replies and drabbles too, but... sometimes I forget how relaxing, and how good it is to just watch telly of an evening... *vbg*

(PS - I'm up to four placement offers... *headdesk*)

Comments

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

I knew the history history, but I didn't realise they'd actually tackled the relationship in the programme. They make a lovely couple. Such tragedy. Maybe explains why Rhodes became such an arsehole in his later years, perhaps.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

They did - I'm looking forward to seeing what they make of the rest of it all now. I guess I wasn't expecting so much personal stuff, so that impressed me too!

It's funny, the series makes it sound as if he started out with ever such good principles, and treating everyone including native Africans fairly and well - even standing up for them at risk to himself - but changed his ideas/thoughts etc to the point that the man who'd been his best friend and supporter - a native African who'd been educated in the UK (I think!) - left him completely... Only we're not really given a reason for this change - yet - it's just presented as some sort of deep change in him, and seemed to have been happening before he met Pickering, or during the time they were together, or...

Shall have to watch the next ep to find out more!