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I wish a very fuck you to people who shit on shows or characters or whatever in the tags on a post about it. Keep that shit to yourself

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Superstore (2015-2021) Favourite platonic pairing: Jonah Simms & Cheyenne Thompson

-"Honestly, your whole look and vibe is very classic narc." "Did you tell him that you know me?" "No, I don't want him to think I'm friends with a narc."

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ALYAH CHANELLE SCOTT as WHITNEY CHASE The Sex Lives of College Girls | 3.01

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Ghosts (US) Purgatory Arcs Theories

I tacked parts of this onto someone else's post but decided to create my own post. Patterns I've noticed in the show under the cut. (p.s. Let me know what you think! Agree? Disagree? )

It seems like the writing puts the main ghosts into (3?) major purgatory arcs. I think these are guiding their character growth. There's definitely overlap, so it's not perfect, but here's what I think:

Alberta = Her longterm boyfriend cheated on her, and the man who he was cheating with murdered her. Added layer of her also being wronged by Hetty in the afterlife. I know she also has unfinished business on the stage, but that is only because she was murdered-- she was on the path to more success right before that. I wonder if we will see more secrets that were kept from her, and how she can use her voice to find justice.

Grouping 1: Wronged By Trusted Companions

Alberta, Pete, ( Sass??)

Pete = His wife was unfaithful, and he was completely blind to it, which caused him to be cautious and untrusting in both life and death. They do also dive into his fear of exploration/ stepping outside the lines. I still feel like the adultry arc fits into this perfectly, because he was too afraid to see what was happening, so he became blind to other types of exploration as well.

It's possible that Sass fits into this group-- hopefully we have another Sass flashback soon.

They act like their true selves, and are already good people that don't need "redemption." It seems the only reason they are in the afterlife is to learn more about what was affecting them when they were alive.

I imagine their arcs go as follows:

Learn of wrongdoings that happened to them in their lives (A= ✅ P= ✅ )

Confront those who did the wrong (A= 🟡 P= ✅ )

Completely move on from the wrongdoing/ avenge themselves (A= 🔴 P= 🔴 )

📚 Expanded ramblings on Alberta and Pete to be linked here (when I write them).

Thor = We know he had a child that he was unable to raise. We learn he was abandoned by his viking crew, but we don't have a ton of flashbacks to back that up. I think it's possible that we learn he lost his way somehow, because his main purgatory arc seems to be about creating a relationship with his son (and flower).

Grouping 2: Lost Their Way /Unfulfilled Potential

Thor, Flower, (Sass???)

Flower = We learned that Flower went to LAW SCHOOL and was going to get married, before her fiance died. After that she became involved with a variety of cults, and ended up stealing money from one of them. Her arc has been about making a mark on the world (daisy's coffee), and healing her fear of abandonment (relationship with Thor.

I really feel that Sass could fit in this group, though we STILL don't know how he died. His unfulfilled potential of being a story teller already fits into this arc.

Both/all of these characters have destinies that they didn't fulfill due to their own actions. They also both had pretty preventable deaths. It seems like their purpose in the afterlife is to get a redo, or a continuation of their story. This also explains why they are the stable couple.

I imagine their arcs go as follows:

Share the truth about their stories with the group, including insecurities (F= ✅ T= 🟡 ) (I still feel like we're missing something from Thor)

Learn that they were able to accomplish more in their lives than they thought (F= ✅ T= 🟡 )

Find a way to fulfill their potential from beyond the grave (F= 🔴 T= 🔴 )

📚 Expanded ramblings on Thor and Flower here (when I write them).

Hetty = We've seen Hetty admit that she chose money over love or others many times, which ultimately caused her unhappiness. In addition to cutting every human rights corner, she also held herself to unreasonable social standards. Even in her death, she admits she chose money over a loving mother for her son. She's had a lot of redemption episodes so far, but definitely still far to go. Also I really think she's going to find out she's Irish.

Grouping 3: Status Seeking/ Denying True Self

Hetty, Isaac, Trevor

Isaac = Isaac denied his true self during his life. On another note, he also seemed to be striving for higher status. In his afterlife he really exaggerates his involvement with famous founding fathers. Always wanting to be "in the room where it happens," he even bought a giant carriage in hopes that he would be invited into the freemasons. It seemed like his book was part of his purgatory arc at first, but I'm actually thinking it wasn't a push towards getting sucked off. I wonder if we will see more along these themes in the upcoming diary episode.

Trevor = while he has ultimately shown that he is a good guy, he still tried putting up appearances until his death; he wasn't willing to admit his good deed to his friends. He is still overly concerned with how he is viewed by others, and gets too pre-occupied with status. I think Trevor has had a lot of redemption- style discussions and episodes so I'm hoping there's more layers to the story so he doesn't get sucked off lol.

I think all three in this grouping have made the most strides through their purgatory arcs, but I also think that means there's at least one or two more things they're hiding from the audience. Their purpose in the afterlife is to find and accept their own identities without the promise of wealth, comfort, or status.

I imagine their arcs as follows:

Share a redeeming story about caring selflessly for others, to establish to the audience that they are more than they appear (H= ✅ I= ✅ T$= ✅ )

Be pushed to acknowledge wrongdoings in their life and actively begin to correct them in the afterlife (H = 🟡 I = almost ✅ T$= almost ✅ )

Accept who they are/ their place in the afterlife without the hope that they will receive a reward in any way (H= 🔴 I= 🔴 T$= 🟡 )

📚 Expanded ramblings on Hetty, Isaac and Trevor here(when I finish them).

Finally, I should also say that I'm not sure it's the writers intention to get any of the ghosts sucked off. It's supposed to be a fun comedy. From what I can tell from the BBC version, they didn't really get sucked off. But it's fun to think about.

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Hetty & Trevor | Ghosts 2x16

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9-1-1: Lone Star Casts Peyton List as Campbell’s Wife… and Accomplice? (Exclusive First Look).

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Buck in fanfics: chimney is so awful to me and to my sister and I hate him and I'll never forgive him for xyz

Buck in canon: chimney <3

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Okay HEAR ME OUT ABOUT THIS MADDIE PLOT

So they rescue her obviously, and she's unconscious. They take her to the hospital and find out the baby's okay, but she's still out. When she wakes up, she's upset cause she assumes she's miscarrying. Chim goes in to see her and talks about the baby, thinking she knows it's okay, and she has a moment that parallels the chimneys alive scene

I had this thought, and now I'm running to Google docs

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Wait I missed Tristan saying this is the third time??? Bro needs to get neutered, god damn

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I wanted a maddie plot so careful what I wish for I guess

But I am excited to see chim lose his shit

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Watching 911 is so much more fun when you don't go into the tag

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I feel like at some point eddie needs to be the adult in this scenario and go talk to Chris in person

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I'm glad it's being verbally acknowledged that pascal is treating stella differently than everyone else, especially the other officers. It makes me hopeful it'll be addressed at some point

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i know gabriel's murder will almost certainly be solved in the next episode but i kinda dont want it to be. i want carlos to have to live with his grief. or at least if it is solved i dont want it to magically fix everything. i want an acknowledgement that hes been simply delaying his feelings and throwing himself into the case for a year and half is not the same as grieving. i want him to realize living with life on pause indefinitely is not living. i want him to move on whether he solves it or not because putting someone behind bars wont bring him back. justice is not the same thing as closure

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I think is worth mentioning that the situation with Enzo and Jonah took TK by surprise too. But Jonah is his little brother and of course TK will do anything to protect him. And right now protecting him is making sure his little brother grows up in an environment with love, because as someone who had a father who was distant basically from his 8 to 18 years, TK knows how emotional support is important to a kid, and as good as the board school can be they can't really offer that.

Yeah, he is looking unreasonable, but only because this isn't a situation where a compromise can be reached. This isn't a case of baby fever, Jonah is his family and TK is the only immediate adult who can take him. I feel like there is three trigger points here. The first, Enzo being a remind of all the issues TK had with Owen. The second, how this sense of duty to be good big brother to Jonah also make his own feelings of grief over losing his mom resurface. The third, how his conflict to Carlos, before Enzo and Jonah, was so similar to the one who led Gwyn and Owen divorce. And TK has been understandable and supportive of Carlos for a year and half leaving the lights on and making sure he eats something more substantial than vending machine food, but TK is also a human that with accumulated frustantions and now having to make this big time sensitive decision has reached his breaking point.

There’s no right or wrong side here. Lets just give both TK and Carlos grace.

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#only one is fully committed to having his dick out

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Yeah I feel like, at least for me and as shown in the ep him, there's a difference between having kids and taking in an already living, breathing kid that you know and love that needs it. Not everyone can make that distinction though, and that's where the conflict comes in

I feel like TK being at a kind of boiling point with Carlos putting all this time and energy on the case makes sense. Like between the seasons, it was a year of this. A year of him feeling like he doesn't really have a place in his marriage. Plus tack on Enzo and Jonah situation, he was fighting with his dad last episode, his captain is out of work for cancer treatments. I wouldn't say it's unreasonable for him to be feeling like he wants to move on, especially when a lot of things around him are telling pointing towards parenthood and the idea of living your life, not pressing pause indefinitely

I don't think either of them are right or wrong I think both of their arguments have merit and I dont think TK was being unreasonable from his perspective