I ...LOVE that some men call me on my shit and won't be with me if I'm detached. It's just what a LIE needs and wants
He doesn't make a mess of anything.
She heard him loud and clear.
He isn't caving.
He's realizing she is being psychologically open and not closed off and that it's actually okay for him to not retreat from her because she's not just doing her guarded and detached from sensitivity thing.
She grew up with a lot of trauma.
She's great at strategy and is very opportunistic.
Daniel wants to be loved. He doesn't just want to ride each other.
They care deeply about each other, but he has had a hard time trusting her.
They've proved themselves to each other over a period of years, grown as people, and built trust.
She pursued him to come back to the living when he was kinda zombified by the Ori. She wouldn't give up on him. And he had cradled her burned-at the stake-dead body in his arms. She was restored, but they both experienced her actual death, afair, so ...that's a deeply affecting thing...
He's just scared.
And rightly so.
The first time she takes him hostage and comandeers his ship she's into getting it on with him. He's one of the most
geek who holds a torch for his accidental wife from a decade ago that he lost in all of Sci-Fi. I mean the nerdman
romance is strong with this one, and he's not really into dating. He still feels married to the alien woman he got setup with and
developed feelings for and then lost to aliens about a decade ago. And he's felt affection and remembers with Sha're and isn't into JUST sex. Vala
starts out being comfortable with just sex. It's mutual, pleasurable, and can't confuse her and her ineptitude with Fi.
It's no surprise given Daniel's better with feelings and Vala is better with diversion that the two start out in the non-overlapping areas of the venn diagram.
In this scene that you're worried he messes up in by kissing her, he has made it pretty clear:
be real with me or get out.
And that's good because she's coming on with her normal cavalier charm and direct approach and none of the 'I love you' stuff. And he is concerned she's just into riding each other.
They've been attracted to each other for a long time, but he's not just going to jump with the LIE for something physical and fun and diverting, and he wanted to make sure it wasn't that.
The actors actually advocated for this tension and an emotional, feisty discussion because they felt it was more realistic than what the writers came up with initially.
And when Daniel sees her genuinely sensitive, he is pleasantly surprised she was letting herself feel and realized she was willing to actually be IN IT. And he felt safe
In a later scene he reassures her they aren't together out of him having no other options.
YOU CAN MUTE THE MUSIC.
I don't think it's the best orchestrated love story of all time, but there's a definite connection between the actors and the characters.
AND he *is* listed as EII, like you thought
, 5w4. .. with LII as a second guess by some voters on personality database.
having that ennea 5 makes him seem more ILI sometimes to me, but I think Ixxj fits him well.
Also, while the woman actor is LIE-Ni, the character is played as a deeply troubled, chaotic strategist after resources in the moment, and I think she's way more LIE than Se-dom, but the character often gets a SEE typing.