#it seems im not the only one who has a brainrot too
do you ever think about how carmen and julia are the greatest loves of each other’s lives?
they’re both incredible individuals on their own, doing just fine with their occupations and whatnot, but then they meet each other. they don’t need each other, but they still complement each other and make each other better people.
for julia, the chase of carmen sandiego was never about capturing her. she saw someone who had a story to be told and listened when everyone else turned away. she knew carmen was good- or at least not the criminal everyone believed her to be- from the very beginning, and was already on her side from the first episode. she sought her out because she wanted to confirm her suspicions, never intending to put an end to her actions. she understood what carmen was doing and wanted everyone else to as well. she was one of the only people who saw carmen for who she was instead of what she did.
for carmen, all it took was one conversation for her to know julia was unlike the rest. she never felt the need to explain her actions to julia and convince her that what she was doing was for good because julia already knew. even though she figured out on that train that julia was an agent- based on chase being her partner- she still left the magna carta with her because she knew it’d be in good hands. carmen saw someone that got her, who shared a mutual love of history and desire to recover artifacts for the world, and didn’t judge her just because she was an agent. julia wasn’t the only one who saw beyond- carmen did too. she saw how julia preferred history over her job, and was the one that encouraged julia to pursue that passion of hers, or ‘follow her heart’, as she said.
it’s always been trust for the two of them. it’s the very foundation of their relationship, and it’s what makes their interactions so unique. from the train to milan to stockholm and oxford university to egypt and more, it’s trust and that unwavering faith in each other that’s led to their success. (or downfall, if you look at stockholm. it was never about the ‘betrayal’, but the miscommunication and broken trust instead.) and with their trust, as duane said, they’re able to work in tandem without being in the same scenes together much of the time.
“the two have a connection that defies space and time in some ways,” duane stated, and he’s right. not just because he’s the showrunner, but because you can clearly see it in each of their scenes, whether it be individual or together. carmen (presumably) doesn’t know that julia went to chief asking to recruit her after their second meeting in milan. she doesn’t know that julia’s been fighting for others to see her like she does behind the scenes. julia doesn’t know that after she quit A.C.M.E (because she couldn’t spend her life taking down carmen, i have to add), carmen was still thinking about her and never forgot her when other people moved on. even when the conversation wasn’t about her, carmen brought her up. their connection lived on through each other’s actions and words.
and then there’s carmen’s mother. the answers carmen’s been wanting from the start, the one loose end to her story that’s always been pushed aside for the sake of the bigger picture. it was julia who tied that up for her and gave her the happy ending, no questions asked. one of the biggest parts of carmen’s story was given to julia to resolve, and she’d done it with zero hesitation.
julia was just an interpol agent when she first saw carmen, and carmen was just a thief when she first saw julia.
and yet, they saw each other as so much more, and never stopped showing each other ways to prove that. isn’t that something to think about?
