Stefanos and Dimitra are still big question marks, and I feel like Eva getting engaged to Stefanos (and having known him from childhood) must be significant.
Marina still seems to be acting way too guilty if nothing else happened between them on Crete. Why would she be so angry at him just for showing up to say goodbye? I still think she's hiding some degree of infidelity from Andrew.
I could see her being angry. Pretty woman having to deal with a guy that won't back off? Having to deal with men weaseling a "just one last..." to try to incrementally get into her pants? Anger as a reaction doesn't seem too farfetched.
That's fair if you judge this scene by itself, but not when you combine it with the fact that she intentionally left James out of the story when she initially told Andrew about encountering Gjoka before the surgery, and how she seemed shocked and nervous when she found out that Andrew knew about James just before this current flashback.
He didn't. He went to her hotel, and the hotel reception called Marina on her cell phone at the doctor's office. She left the doctor's office to go back to the hotel. I'm assuming she told James where she was staying at some point.
I was wondering if Joel actually knows Marina at all up to this point. I suppose so, but she did leave Athens the day after the initial dinner and then Joel was off with Nikos somewhere.
I think it's perfectly reasonable for her to be angry here, James behavior is a bit creepy here. That doesn't rule out some one night stand between them in Crete. It's fairly obvious Marina thought her time with James, whatever it involved, is over, and popping up uninvited is not a good thing to do.
I think this is the first time we really see the hotel beyond the patio where the dinners are.
I can chalk up her omitting talking about James because she's concerned Andrew would accuse her of infidelity (which is literally what happened). And her being shocked and nervous because there isn't any reason Andrew should know, and so it's discomforting for her "lie" being found out. We know that their relationship has had some difficulties previously, so I can understand her trying not to introduce questions of her faithfulness by not talking about "hey, funny story: I met a guy at a bar. I totally turned him down but after I got threatened, he pretend to be my husband" while her real husband looks like her aunt
.Sure, nothing here has ruled out a possible one night stand. But thinking it through... honestly, what's actually important is that in present day, it seems like Marina is still on Andrew's "side" (or at least, isn't part of the plot to keep Andrew femininzed). And in the flashback, she's not joyful at seeing James. I'm guessing, this dream sequence will primarily answer "How did James end up being accepted as Marina's husband", and what's to come should be "What event caused Andrew to go into auto pilot to fully be Elena during the missing time?"
To get help? I think you're remembering that wrong, or maybe I am. She told Eva that she went to Crete because she needed some time alone to calm down after getting into a fight with Andrew about him ruining their honeymoon:
Wha..? That's a huge leap. Given Andrew's actions, she's pretty justified in being disillusioned with their marriage, and it seems natural that she might become interested in someone else. That doesn't necessarily make her a bad person, and she clearly still cares for Andrew. Going along with the conspiracy to feminize him against his will and hand him over to her uncle just to get him out of the way would be downright evil. A more sane solution would be to help Andrew get out of danger first and then divorce him if she wants to be with James.
That was her answer to Andrew's question about what she did about the guy who was following her (Gjoka). James helped her deal with him. That's what she's referring to. But that's not the reason she went there.
I mean, we still don't know what Andrew's past actions were. At best, we know that it's something that can be forgiven but the excuse was improbable. And again, Marina's first instinct was to reject James' advances.
Theory 2:Theory #1
James just showed off his international detective skills, so I'm doubling down on my undercover agent theory from my previous post.
Theory #2 - Everyone is going to hate this one.
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I agree James is in on this, but on motivations or orders are to direct her away and give up on Elena.Theory 2:
I'll be honest, while I'd think it's very unsatisfying from a narrative standpoint, so I'd dock those points, I would actually give some credit back to Melissa (if this was intentional) in terms of foreshadowing. But honestly, I think it's more likely this is just Melissa's writing limitations causing her to reuse certain types of dialogue. Less fun, but I think probably more likely, lol.
I think Theory 1 is reasonable. And if in play, it wouldn't surprise me if James told Marina, and she's cooperating with his investigation to try to help Andrew (or maybe, that's why "Elena" was needing a password as she was on the inside?).
I was mostly referring to Andrew's actions that we've witnessed in the comic. i.e., getting drunk at dinner, agreeing to spend the next several months as Elena (and thus effectively cancelling their honeymoon), and then seemingly spending the night with Nikos (the first time, on D+4). When you combine this with the mysterious incident from a few months ago and the fact that Aphrodite (aka Andrew's subconscious) stated that he's in an unhappy marriage, it's easy to sympathize with Marina straying from him (if she did).
If she started falling for someone else, it would lessen the blow when she inevitably loses Andrew. She seems to be a good person who doesn't deserve this, so readers are going to want a happy ending for her. Or at least I do. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a one night stand- I'm just seeing evidence of Marina feeling disillusioned with her marriage while on Crete and then acting guilty in front of Andrew after returning from Crete. Maybe it was a kiss, or just flirting. But something happened.
I think you're an avatar of Aphrodite.Theory #1
James just showed off his international detective skills, so I'm doubling down on my undercover agent theory from my previous post.
Theory #2 - Everyone is going to hate this one.
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