His Need To Keep Her Where He Can See Her. And Its More Fear Than Love - Tumblr Posts

Don't know if anyone talked about this yet but Matthew Modine posted a video of El and Brenner with a quote taken from the second act of Romeo and Juliet.

To sum it up in modern terms, It's where Juliet compares her desire to control where Romeo goes to a spoiled child keeping their pet bird tired by a thread simular to a prisoner in shackles.

This perfectly represents their dynamic metaphorically, Brenner attempting to make himself the dominant aspect of El's identity for his selfish desires (framing it as "love") and knowing that'll end if the thread becomes too loose.

But that got me thinking, you know who else in the past was controlling about her identity.

where she has also been referred to as a "pet."

Expressed concern about her leaving.

AND be the only other pairing that's been compared to Romeo and Juliet?