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letsgostealaleverageblog:

“Pcat: One thing we loved about it is that it shows Sophie having a relationship with people other than Nate – and it’s a relationship that doesn’t rely on nagging and disapproval for a change. Everyone is at the top of their game, and that’s fun to see. Pcat! Anyway, yeah, if you look at the eps in the order above, you see the Sophie arc tracks a little more evenly, and it’s not so Nate-centric over the course of the season. Annnd before we get to the questions for “The First David Job”, a sidebar: We knew it wouldn’t work. The Sophie/Nate relationship. Well, not at first, but as soon as we started working with the actors (and it was really Tim and Gina who got us here), we realized: a.) If Nate’s as screwed up as we want, Sophie’s a sap for putting up with it now that she’s actually working with the guy on a regular basis, but b.) if Nate’s normal enough for the relationship to work – a relationship built on the already tenuous foundation of romanticized, idealized verisons of each other – he’s not as fucked up as we want. So we embarked on an occasionally frustrating, but to me much more creatively satisfying arc, of showing that real relationships are really, really hard. Sophie, in the arc of the season goes through: 1) this guy I’ve got a sexy, flirty relationship with, kind of a mutual crush based on our exotic lifestyle, is finally available …
2.)… but neither of us are exactly who we think we are …
3.) … he’s a drunk. A baaaad drunk …
4.) … who won’t talk about his problem, or even what we’re doing here in this weird pseuod-relationship …
5.) … who plainly really cares for me but that bit of vulnerability is almost worse because he …
6.) … won’t stop drinking and is getting worse and …
7.) … shutting us all out and self-destructing in front of us and –
8.) – now says, out loud, how much he despises the fact his ex-wife thinks he’s a criminal. Like me. Frankly – fuck that. Fuck YOU, Emotionally Unavailable Guy. I’d steal the Second David too. So basically, Nate/Sophie was always meant to stutter. We’ll see what happens now that they’re starting from a different place in Season Two. The two halves of the finale should really be seen together. The first half is Action Half, while tonight, while action-riffic, is mostly Nate closing out his emotional arc for the season. For better or worse. Whether his need for vengeance finally destroys him – well, we DID say that we closed out Season One without any idea of whether we had a Season Two …”

— John Rogers, on Nate and Sophie’s relationship in S1.