#07x02

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😅😬🥴🤗😳😱 for @heymrspatel

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o f c o u r s e y o u d o

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World Sleep Day 😴

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IAN GALLAGHER Shameless—S07E02

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OUTLANDER EPISODE 702: Who can resist Grandda Jamie?

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Yeah okay so I need to make this post because I haven't seen anyone talk about this. People probably have but I literally cannot find anything. Also forgive me for this coming across as unorganized word vomit. It's late and I'm mad, I'm having trouble with my thoughts right now.

TW for general ableism, the occasional f bomb, and the mention of autism speaks. Also a slight spoiler warning for anyone who hasn't seen season 7 of The Flash but at this point I feel like most have.

Putting this under a cut because it's sort of long

So I just finally convinced myself to start watching season 7 of the Flash and I have some thoughts. Specifically episode 2. Where the artificial speed force makes Barry able to "speed think". So at first when I read the description I laughed and made a joke about it comparing it to my autism. To my horror I didn't expect it to be so accurate when I pressed play to the episode. The artificial speed force made him a lot smarter and a faster thinker. I made a comment about it being like the savant autism stereotype. But it was just that. A comment.

As the episode went on Barry started speaking without inflections or emotion (and Grant is pretty notably expressive I've noticed so that was odd to me). Then the rest of the team started getting after him for making decisions without using his emotions and the fact that he was sorta being heartless about the situation with Eva. The majority of the people in the team got hurt by Barry's lack of emotion and it even went as far as to paint him somewhat like a villain. Granted it all stopped the second he forcibly pulled Iris out of the mirror dimension and saw how hurt she was, but all I saw in that episode is the stereotypes that people think of me and the rest of the autistic community. That we're all savants and that we don't care about other people's feelings, let alone have any ourselves. So naturally in my hurt state I took to the internet to try and see if anyone had said something about it.

To find nothing.

Now am I overreacting? Probably. But it fucking hurt to watch this episode. It was painful and I had to keep pausing it because all I could think of was the bullshit that people like Autism Speaks say about us. And it was 10x worse because I already headcanoned Barry as autistic and adhd (like myself) way before this episode. Whether it was blatant intentional ableism or accidental, it fucking hurt and it was a low blow. The Flash has been a comfort show for me for a long time and to see something like that just... Hurt.

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this episode is pissing me offfffff AGH

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JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN as Jason Crouse The Good Wife: Season 7, Episode 2 - Innocents

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📸 • Ryan in Season 7 Episode 2 (“Rock the Boat") of 9-1-1

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Ian being adorable for @darlingian

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sara sidle + seeing right through him

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How does Jamie comfort Claire, in her moment of such crushing grief? When she feels she has lost everything and everyone that is so precious to her?

By promising to be the one person she won't lose.

"Grieve for them, mo nighean donn. I'll be here."

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And this is why I never get on boats

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OUTLANDER EPISODE 702: Two villains meet their untimely ends

Watching the second episode of season 7, I realize how much I've missed the show. They packed a lot into this episode. There were all the feels associated with Amanda's birth, the MacKenzie family saying goodbye to Jamie & Claire, Wille and Bree meeting at last, and Jamie severing his relationship with Lord John because of the war.

But there was plenty of dark drama too, starting with Allan Christie's confession and death, and ending with the Big House on fire.

So I thought I'd take some time to dissect the tangled paths that led two Outlander villains to their deaths in this episode--and to consider the choices that some Outlander protagonists made regarding these villains.

Ian's Retribution for the death of the "bairn" he once thought was his

Episode 702 started with a death, which proved to be apt foreshadowing for its ending.

Allan Christie's death in this episode is very much like the one in the book. Alexander Vlahos brought a good mixture of sleaziness, despair, and infantile anger to his portrayal of Allan.

Cait deftly portrayed Claire's enormous frustration at being put in a situation where she had to stop a man from killing himself, whom she probably wished would die for his crimes.

Finally, John Bell as Ian fully embodied his role as a Mohawk warrior. He was believable in how he stolidly disposed of Allan for having killed the "bairn" he had originally thought was his, but which he still thought "deserved to live." There was nary a sign of the carefree, mischievous lad Ian used to be. (Sadly there was also nary a sign of the boy who was distraught when he thought he accidentally killed someone in the print shop fire.)

Allan Christie was a horrible human being, who had gotten away for years with the incest of his sister Malva, and eventually with Malva's murder and the death of her unborn bairn. [The flashbacks illustrated the creepy brother-sister story perhaps too well--I was extremely uncomfortable watching them.]

Furthermore, Allan's attempt to hide his guilt almost resulted in Claire being hung for a crime for which she was innocent. It also indirectly led to his father's sacrifice to protect Claire.

Still, Claire, ever the physician who takes her oath to preserve life seriously, went above and beyond the call of duty by wrestling the gun away from Allan before trying to talk him out of suicide.

But Claire's valiant efforts were in vain because Ian made the decision to step in and grant Allan his death wish.

Ian's code of justice comes from both the Scottish Highlands and the Mohawk nation; therefore, he does not appear to have any qualms about taking the life of a murderer.

But there are issues I had with Ian's decision, besides the ones I have about his playing judge, jury, and executioner.

Although I agreed with Claire's decision to try to stop Allan from killing himself, I had issues with Claire's suggestion to Allan that he run away.

What I wished had happened is that Ian and Claire had worked together to take Allan to justice. In doing so, they could have cleared Tom's name. Even if they believed that Tom was dead, his memory deserved not to be tainted by a murder he did not commit.

However, I do appreciate that Claire felt that Tom's sacrifice had also (probably unwittingly) spared his son from having to die for Malva's murder. I don't think Tom knew that his son had killed Malva, but the end result was that Allan was free. Claire clearly thought it would have been a waste of Tom's sacrifice, if his son took his life.

Yet, I still wish that Ian in particular had chosen a different course of action, one that didn't involve Ian and Claire having to dispose of the body.

The irony could not have been lost on Claire that she had just escaped from an unjust charge of murder for one Christie, only to go on to help Ian cover up the murder of another Christie.

Both Claire and Ian were lucky that Mrs. Bug decided to help them rather than turn them in.

Wendigo Donner: The man who lost his moral compass in an uncaring past

We saw Roger in episode 701 meet Wendigo Donner, another time traveler, who had come back to help the 18th century indigenous people avoid the genocide that was to come. Unfortunately, Donner's plans went awry, and he ended up becoming a criminal, who didn't do anything to help Claire when she was kidnapped.

Brennan Martin as Donner did a good job of showing just enough of the decent man that Donner used to be to get the kind-hearted Roger to take pity on him.

Fortunately, Bree talked some sense into Roger, and he decided not to help Donner. We don't know what Donner would have done, if Roger had helped him to escape. But most likely, the end result would have been the same.

Despite Donner's crimes, Roger was sympathetic to him, because he felt guilty for some of the things he himself felt compelled to do (or not do) after going through the stones.

Still, Roger never lost himself to despair, anger and selfishness like Donner did. That's because the love of Bree, Jemmy, Claire, and Jamie helped to provide him with a moral compass as he confronted many of the hardships of living in the past. (It probably also helped that Roger was a minister's adopted son.)

Although it is clear that Donner had unselfish motives to travel to the past to help the indigenous people, when he arrived in the 18th century he was truly alone. The rest of "the Montauk Five" weren't with him--or weren't alive.

Unfortunately, unlike Roger, Donner never found a caring group of people in the 18th century to provide him with a moral compass to help him avoid losing his way, as he struggled with the difficulties of living in the past.

Over time, whatever concern Donner had for others took a back seat to his own needs, gradually corrupting him, and tragically leading to this:

The Big House finally did burn down on December 21, 1776. Not on January 21, 1776 as had been recorded. The colonial newspaper had gotten the date wrong.

The epicenter of all that the Frasers had built on the Ridge went up in smoke with the careless lighting of a match. A match that didn't belong in the 18th century, wielded by a man who didn't belong there either.

Still, I'm glad the show's writers made one change from the book in this scene. In the book, it was Ian who lit the match and accidentally caused the ether to explode (after Donner and his gang had been captured).

But it is far more fitting that the show's writers decided to literally show that it was Donner and his selfishness that ultimately made everything go up in flames at the end of his life--and of this episode.

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I thought watching the season 2's second to last episode would be fun.

It was supposed to be fun.

Now I am in my bed bawling, crying and screaming and praying that everyone makes it out alive because WHAT.

THE.

ACTUAL.

FUCK.

Like genuinely no show made me cry this much before and scream out loud "NO! DON'T LET HER DIE!" before begging to sob and choke on tears.