Re: the soulmates angle ...
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm delighted by your explanation, CC. I don't feel like going back to find the comment post of mine, so you'll just have to trust me it's there, but during the scene where Hank comes home and just holds Elise, I said something like "Does anyone else keep seeing Lois and Clark in this scene?" It so totally felt like them to me, which is why, as much as I loved Silas's reaction to Petal, I really wanted the soulmates to be Hank and Elise.
And the section you quoted was why:
”Yes.” She smiled at him as if he was her prize pupil, making him feel ridiculously proud and foolish all at once. This was his job. His work, and yet, she had something. Something he hadn’t even come close to thinking of. He couldn’t be anything but awed and grateful.
This is one of the parts that did it for me ... that just sucked me in to their love story and made me hope that they were the ones. Alone, they are each great, but together, they are unbeatable. And now, after (how many? a few?) years of marriage, they will finally be able to unite completely, and the world will be a better place for it. Hank and Elise will create the new Utopia ... and that's exactly how it should be.
Happy sigh. Thanks for your thoughts on that, CC.
Kathy
