Carisi was really tense during that scene too, as soon as Barba finally disclosed the first threat from that same guy, that he was approached by that guy who threatened to crack his skull on the tops steps, Carisi looked like he was angry and restraining it, and Rollins visibly noticed, Carisi was leaning towards Barba and if Rollins wasn't there he probably would have had his hands on Barba shaking or holding him. Carisi was half sitting on Barba's desk and looming over Barba, his hand on his own knee looked like it could easily be raised to touch Barba, while Rollins is slighter further off and wander off at some point while Carisi stayed close. Maybe it's slash goggles, but I'll totally would not be surprised if Barisi happened earlier in the year.
Yeah, totes agree, Sonny looks SO pissed at him. Amanda is more frustrated, like, you can tell she totes believes Raf would pull that, too, just live with death threats for a year without telling anyone. But Sonny is srsly panicking. That's not even slash goggles, I think, that's just the acting choice in the scene.
Amanda initially hid the fact that her old boss raped her and that her old precinct spread vicious rumours about her when they were up here meeting her and SVU...and get angry when Amaro tried to 'coddle' her, I think Amanda kinda get why Barba hid the threats, and it's totally understandable why Carisi would be SO MAD and looming, but that does stress Rafael out as well, that kinda reaction is why how or part of why Barba justified continued hiding the threats until it got to the point where the guy cornered him an elevator and made an outright threat to shoot him. I really got the vibe that they used to sleep together, or dated, but not at that moment, but the feelings are still there I think if Barba and Sonny were still dating at that point and not just causal hook-ups, than Sonny would have noticed the threats, but Barba deliberately pulled away earlier because Sonny got too close, or definitely after the threats started, and Sonny didn't want to push him, there was so much other stuff going on with the SVU squad and Barba seem to have things together when Sonny was shadowing him, but now, Sonny is angry at himself for not noticing earlier, and he really wants to cuddle Barba. Season 17 was very different from the ones before, it's got more Hannibal flavour, more cop show than court show, but looking back it was really the perfect place to end it and Season 18 ended up retconning a lot of stuff. The way it ended, Season 18 should have started with Sonny and the squad coddling Rafael, because the threats from BX9 won't go away.
Yeah, I would pay real money to see a scene where they all protect Raf just for once and give him some comfort. He deserved it so often on the show. :(
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