Odd Man Out wrote:What really impresses me is how far Ruby's come. Don't forget her reaction to toy when she first arrived. She's not even looking out of sorts so much as flat out annoyed. That's progress.
It was the three-person shower scene that told me that. Faced with sinking or swimming, she chose to swim. But the fun thing is, just because she can now process this stuff without barfing, doesn't mean she approves of it. That should make for some entertaining conversations, when she puts a coherent argument together.
Abraxas wrote:Amber is not Gary's girl -she kinda owes him proper sex but thats a different topic-
Funnily enough, Amber is one person who would accept the idea of someone
owing somebody else a calibrated amount of sex.
Amber's always has struck me as if she likes what she sees, she does sex on the first date... meeting but thats kinda understandable cause porn star background.
The implication from Ma3 was that she got into porn because she was quite so enthusiastic about sex in the first place. (Which would probably be a horribly dumb decision in the real world, of course.) But whatever. Chicken and egg.
Her problem is that she really needs to modulate that approach a little if she wants to live in the non-porn world. Not saying that her current approach is morally wrong, or that she should hide her enthusiasm, but the fact is, most people take sex a little bit more seriously, and feel that there's supposed to be some emotional commitment involved. If you open the relationship with sex, where do you go from there? Are you saying that you and the other person have nothing else to do with each other but screw?
Case in point; Ray. He'd probably make her a pretty good boyfriend. He's hunky enough to match her fantasies, he seems like a nice guy, and he's interested in her day job. But it's not going to happen. He started with the slight problem of knowing of her primarily as a porn star, and now his mental association for her is going to be the girl who was banging his brains out within twenty minutes of their first meeting. I'm sure he'll be a gentleman about it, but it'll be hard for him to see this as more than a friends-with-benefits situation after that.
I'm not saying they shouldn't have had sex; Ray kind of needed it to reestablish his heterosexuality. But honestly, an hour of getting-to-know-you conversation first wouldn't have killed them, and would have established this as more than a one-shot fuckbuddy association.
And, of course, the only character who might be dimly aware of what Amber got wrong there is Ruby...
