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It really is remarkable how MASH's longevity so totally shapes the experience of watching the show. It's a war that lasts three years, over a decade has passed, everyone's hair has gone grey, the head nurse has become a different person, the wisecracker has cracked, children grow up, marriages come and go, people leave, the new guy is only there for a year, he's become a part of your soul, it's winter again and again and again and again.

I genuinely don't think there's a better way to imitate how an experience like that can so completely change people. No TV program can capture the intensity of bonds forged through three years in a warzone, but by continuing for eleven seasons the fans are able to still develop that level of attachment to the people of the 4077th.

There's a scene where Hawkeye tries to commiserate with BJ about missing the folks back home, and BJ says that Hawkeye's dad will be the same as he always was but BJ missed out on Erin's development in a way he'll never get back. Now I love this interaction, but I think BJ is forgetting that the people they left behind aren't the only ones changing.

Compare Hawkeye in the pilot to him in the finale, do you really think his father will recognize him? They're both adults, it's only been three years, it shouldn't be that different; and yet Hawkeye's hair is grey and his eyes have lost their spark. You couldn't get that in three seasons of TV. Even if they'd tried, it wouldn't have felt as genuine and organic to the viewers because we wouldn't have gotten to really feel that gradual shift in Hawkeye's persona. It's not just about the writers planning out arcs for the characters, it's about the series itself developing over time.

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CONCLAVE (2024) cinematography by Stéphane Fontaine

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rooting for anyone at the grammys that will force taylor into ego death

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A church that doesn't provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone's skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed -- what gospel is that? Very nice, pious considerations that don't bother anyone, that's the way many would like preaching to be. Those preachers who avoid every thorny matter so as not to be harassed, so as not to have conflicts and difficulties, do not light up the world they live in.

Oscar Romero, The Violence Of Love

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Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl

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Huge congrats to rpf for winning the war on rpf

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amen

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Ralph Fiennes as Thomas Lawrence in CONCLAVE (2024), dir. Edward Berger 🐢

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cooking up another Conclave post about Cardinal Lawrence....choosing John as his name....his crisis of faith and the desire to be John the Beloved but he is doubting Thomas....concerned about the direction the church is going and being the first pope to choose John after John XXIII....there's something to this

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The gay implications of Conclave are not about the old many yaoi-ification of the movie but instead about a community where so many people's decision to join was in part because of the lack of any kind of allowable gay public life and the implications of continuing to live that life in an institution that doesn't allow this when the western world now for the most part allows gay people to exist in public and live their lives.

Up until very recently (80s or so) religious life existed as a haven outside the confines of heterosexual marriage and for all its sins and faults and the issues with mandated celibacy is an environment that encourages fulfilling and loving friendships between men and men and between women and women.

I feel like I can't word this eloquently and its now honestly beyond Conclave but I feel like a lot of people don't know about this dynamic and how it still exists today. Obviously there are the priests who are fire and brimstone homophobes and though I hate the stereotype about this for some it really does come from a place of self loathing. But for all of those priests there are also many who are gay and fine with it even if they don't talk about it and are living in with the tensions of all these things. And I think examining the sexuality of Conclave is more interesting in this lense.

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I have been saving up my earnest and entirely correct takes on Conclave for too long so sorry for what I'm about to drop

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WEBGOTT: but it's just a supercut of us

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Margaret houlihan they will never understand you like I do

Haven’t changed my picture on here in like 6 years but I think it’s time 😌

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Haven’t changed my picture on here in like 6 years but I think it’s time 😌

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the way this review gets me deep inside

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CAPT. LEWIS NIXON III | Band of Brothers 2nd Battalion S2 → 506th PIR S2 → 2nd Battalion S3

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i loooove when ppl act like speculating about celebrities sexuality/relationships publicly on tumblr.com is bad. he’s not reading your blog, baby.