I refer to the three original ones (The Bourne Trilogy) by Robert Ludlum: The Bourne Identity (1980), The Bourne Supremacy, and the Bourne Ultimatum. Story and characters are quite different from the cinema version.
Always possible.
They did that and the answer is: his ability to be in a close emotional relationship has started to develop. Before he became a killer Oliver couldn't even share a flat with the woman he claimed to love (Laurel). Afterwards he could at least spend some months with Felicity in a long vacation - or maybe a kind of retreat - that had at least some similarities to a "normal life".
If you ask me, Oliver was way more dysfunctional before the island than afterwards.
This is, btw, a big difference between Oliver and David Webb in "The Bourne Trilogy". David Webb was indeed leading a normal life with job, family and all, before becoming Delta. But Oliver's life never had been that normal. He never had any teachers he respected and he could learn from, his parents gave him everything he wanted but never good examples or boundaries that would have lead to any kind of responsibility or compassion. He was scared of everything regarding responsibility or change as a whole. He had nothing he was good at and could be proud of. We saw similar psychological problems in Thea and Tommy in season one. Both were full of insecurity and pain - and I think so was Oliver before the island.
They started to do that with Laurel. There were a few scenes with Felicity, too, in season one where they seemed to go there but Felicity was not developed enough then to go through with it.
I agree about the writing but look at it from the point of view of Oliver developing in the direction of normal. After all these years he finally was not too scared any more to live together with a woman and even propose marriage to her. This "domestic bliss" was something he had not been able to even try before the island. When most of his friends were already in stable relationships and everybody expected it from him he could not even try. Don't you think this inability must have hurt him ?
Yes, season three and four were quite a disaster in many ways. But it seems to me that season five is back on track again. Though of course Felicity is now not in a position any more to be what you described. But at least they develop Felicity now and so far it looks like in the right direction.
Always possible.
They did that and the answer is: his ability to be in a close emotional relationship has started to develop. Before he became a killer Oliver couldn't even share a flat with the woman he claimed to love (Laurel). Afterwards he could at least spend some months with Felicity in a long vacation - or maybe a kind of retreat - that had at least some similarities to a "normal life".
If you ask me, Oliver was way more dysfunctional before the island than afterwards.
This is, btw, a big difference between Oliver and David Webb in "The Bourne Trilogy". David Webb was indeed leading a normal life with job, family and all, before becoming Delta. But Oliver's life never had been that normal. He never had any teachers he respected and he could learn from, his parents gave him everything he wanted but never good examples or boundaries that would have lead to any kind of responsibility or compassion. He was scared of everything regarding responsibility or change as a whole. He had nothing he was good at and could be proud of. We saw similar psychological problems in Thea and Tommy in season one. Both were full of insecurity and pain - and I think so was Oliver before the island.
They started to do that with Laurel. There were a few scenes with Felicity, too, in season one where they seemed to go there but Felicity was not developed enough then to go through with it.
I agree about the writing but look at it from the point of view of Oliver developing in the direction of normal. After all these years he finally was not too scared any more to live together with a woman and even propose marriage to her. This "domestic bliss" was something he had not been able to even try before the island. When most of his friends were already in stable relationships and everybody expected it from him he could not even try. Don't you think this inability must have hurt him ?
Yes, season three and four were quite a disaster in many ways. But it seems to me that season five is back on track again. Though of course Felicity is now not in a position any more to be what you described. But at least they develop Felicity now and so far it looks like in the right direction.
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