#1x7 mine

[neverswungonswingingstars]

What did they put in the water this episode??

Lestat in The Thing Lay Still

[tomwambsgans]

austerlitz / prague

[tallbisexualwantstobeloved]

much love for including the fact that old man Alastor has zero idea of queer terminology

[frankiebirds]

anyway: last thing about the fox.

I think the order in which the team reacts to frank fielding* hurting himself is pretty interesting.

Gideon and Morgan are first, simply because they're the ones closest.

Hotch and Elle are next, with Elle a little behind...

But when it comes to actually restraining Frank, Elle, who is still new and less experienced, lingers behind. If you watch the scene carefully, she actually backs away, too.

And finally, Reid stands at the very back. He enters the room but doesn't go any further, and the camera pans down to show him rocking back and forth on his feet, like he can't decide if he wants to run into or out of the room. I think it's possible that Diana self-harmed at some point in the past (although granted, the self-harm in this scene is a different "type") and he may have been having some unpleasant memories.

*the brother of one of the victims, who goes to her house despite her husband not wanting him there, is seen by her through the window, and thinks she mouths "go away" at him when she actually mouths "help me"

[gingerylangylang1979]

Possessiveness

One thing people don't really speak about is the possessiveness growing between Carmy and Sydney. It's not at the forefront of their dynamics but it's there and I imagine it will grow in intensity.

They chose each other. Carmy chose Syd. She is the only person that he selected on the staff. Syd chose Carmy. She could have found a job at much better establishment than The Beef, but she didn't choose the restaurant, she chose him. By episode 1x2 Richie establishes Carmy as Syd's best friend. By episode three they are saying we. By episode 1x7 Tina establishes that Syd is Carmy's friend. Nobody else in the kitchen is acknowledged as a unit by the others. That same episode Carmy loses his shit when she leaves. He feels like she belongs there, with him. He feels betrayed. He thought they were a unit.

In season two we see them side by side, in sync, in unison, dressed alike, early on. Throughout the season we see Carmy interject when Marcus or Connor has her attention. We see Syd's obvious jealousy of Claire. But the two most intriguing things are Syd asking for his undivided attention and him demanding her presence. She doesn't want to share it, she doesn't want to share him. And when Carmy gets stuck in the fridge he cries out for her. They each feel entitled to have the other, when they want, in some capacity.

It's subtle but I think the possessiveness brewing is so delicious and hot and insane. I don't know where it's gonna go but I know it's going to manifest in big ways and I'm going to love it.

"You will be mine, all the time."

[strange-relics]

What’s your favorite cold open?

Which episode to you go back to the most?

Are there any songs that make you think of the show?

My favorite cold open isn't really a true cold open, as it transitions into the full episode after the theme song/intro plays, but it's the first few minutes of 1x13, Large Blade. The whole team badgering Jack about only bringing one zip-tie is funny enough, but then he does the high-pitched "I'm not the bad guy!" bit and it lives rent-free in my brain! (Runner-up goes to 1x7's "and a 100-meter daaaash.)

I go back to 2x12, Mac + Jack, the most, probably. There's just so much to love about that one and I love to rewatch it. If we're talking from a writing perspective, though, it's the infamous 5x5. My brain has just dissected that one and the little clues it leaves behind to the point I have a 4-part fic series I'm working on based on Jack not being dead. (Mine kinda bypasses seasons 4-5, though.)

As for songs, Live and Learn by Joe Public. It was in one of the episodes (can't remember which) and ever since, whenever I hear it, my mind automatically equates it with MacGyver.

Also, thank you for the ask! It's my first ever, so I hope I did it correctly!!

[ama-metal]

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[murfpersonalblog]

"That's not Claudia's and Louis's perspectives, that's your perspective."

I literally posted TWO gifs of Claudia literally saying her perspective was that Lestat's actions towards her--AND Louis--made her feel like they were his slaves--which she ALSO says in the book! (and which is EXACTLY what Louis said Lestat made him feel like in 1x3 before Claudia was even there!)--and you're saying that's NOT their perspectives but mine? XD And that this show & Lestat's dynamics with his 2 Black fledgings isn't about race? Wow. (This is PRECISELY why I used a variety of source, SPECIFICALLY so nonsense like this isn't allowed to fly over the radar to gaslight or rewrite the narrative when we all watched the same frikkin show yet you're telling me these scenes don't effing matter or didn't frikkin happen.)

"Lestat treats her terribly but Louis is as responsible for Claudia's turning and being stuck in that house as Lestat is and she ignores that."

NO she does not ignore it--she read Louis for filth in 1x5 right before she left about him not taking her to a hospital. She asks Louis over & over & over to get the train with her in 1x6; and Daniel says in 1x7 that Claudia's diaries said she "hated your guts;" and even in S2 she's PISSED that Louis "picked another one, OVER ME!" She NEVER ignores Louis' culpability; what on earth are you talking about???

"He tells him tell me if you don't love me and I'll go away and Louis doesn't. He knew he'd ultimately take Lestat back at some point and Lestat realizes too so he keeps trying and succeeds after 7 years."

And HOW did Lestat succeed? With ANOTHER love-bomb in the "Come To Me" record, which he got HIS MISTRESS ANTOINETTE to sing to Louis--you're telling me that wasn't EXPLICIT manipulation!?

Also! Just cuz Louis loves Lestat & wants to be with him doesn't mean he's not having his pigtails pulled & his emotions manipulated--getting "a rise" out of him. He's well aware that he's having his chain yanked, and he's pissed about it "I hate you," cuz he KNOWS Lestat's no effing good & doesn't deserve him. Louis has TRASH taste in men--that doesn't stop them from being trash. XD

"That doesn't mean Armand was constatly manipulating Louis's memory. We never see that."

I LITERALLY said "god knows how many false memories planted in Lou's head that Armand used to shape Louis into the perfect compliant stepford spouse;" where "god knows how many" specifically addresses the fact that yeah, we DON'T know how much Armand effed up Louis' memories--only heaven & hell knows! And that's insidious AF--it makes the horror so much worse, cuz now Louis will NEVER know how much his agency/autonomy was VIOLATED, what to believe and what to doubt--"where does the bullsh!t start Armand, Amadeo, Arun?" Esp. when Louis seems to be mad at Armand in one scene/ep and then strangely back to being happy in the next. The show deliberately leaves it openly ambiguous wtf was going on--the only way we'll know more is if they do a TVA, where Armand finally admits to more shady things he did behind Lou's back--like the Frankenstein operation on book!Claudia; or if they pull a Merrick and have ghost!Claudia say more.

"Louis didn't actually need Daniel to point out he saw Sam in two places and Armand was far stronger than the coven."

YES he did--he even excused the discrepancy, saying he must've misremembered, cuz he doesn't trust his own memory anymore; "I just got it wrong."

"He never really interrogated Armand's lie because he'd rather go with his version and not be alone and to spite Lestat."

I've already discussed Louis' hesitancy to interrogate Armand & Lestat's lies (x x), cuz it's waaaaay more than that. The whole point of his insistence that Daniel continue the interview despite Armand's constant interventions was wanting to finally get to the bottom of "Truth & Reconciliation;" "I want this, to remember!" Louis wasn't thinking about spiting Lestat when asked Armand about Banishment--he wanted to know how the heck he managed to survive, cuz SOMEONE obviously made the audience say that and it sure AF wasn't Santiago. XD Even if he thought Lestat had done it, Lestat blew his chance to set the record straight in the Tower Scene, cuz Loustat BOTH assumed that Armand really did want Louis to live. Armand was more scared to be alone than Louis. Louis even said in 2x3 that he was gonna leave & find some place small & uncrowded, specifically to be ALONE & AWAY from vamps! "I was thinking London. If it's too large, maybe Dublin." But yet I--EYE!--am the one always reading characters in bad faith? Ok, y'all. XD

"Louis knew Armand had chosen the coven. He knew he was complicit in his daughter's murder. Armand didn't lie about that. He only lied about saving him and it was a circumstantial lie."

That's not a circumstantial lie at all. Louis asked Armand POINT BLANK, and Armand took the credit specifically to manipulate Louis--cuz Armand DID pull him out of the wall (a MONTH+ later)--lies mixed with truths are most convincing!

EVERYTHING Louis chose/decided afterwards ("do not find yourself at the theater tomorrow night at curfew; this is your death Lestat") hinged on that ONE "seismic lie:" that Armand said "Banishment," not Lestat. Louis was deceived into accepting that despite Armand's betrayal, selling them out to the coven, that Armand realized his mistake and was actively tryna get Louis (& Claudia) out safely (x x x). Cuz that was THE most commendable thing that happened; Lestat saved Louis' life (again). But Armand stole that from them, just like he stole "Tell him I love him, Armand." He's a effing snake. But here you are, blaming Louis for Armand's treachery & making excuses for yet another abuser.

"You're mixing and matching events as some sort of proof. I'm not going to waste time to prove to you otherwise."

If you call analyzing CONTEXTUAL EVIDENCE from the show itself AND its showrunner as "mixing and matching events," just cuz I can walk and chew gum at the same time? Sure, I guess. XD But fine, don't take my word for it. Nalyra just posted this ask today, wrt whose interpretations of the show we should trust the most:

So AGAIN, when Sam Reid himself says Lestat was lovebombing (ie: manipulating/controlling) Louis in 1x6 with all his gifts & apologies, stop saying we're reading into these characters in bad faith or coming up with our own interpretations or perspectives, just cuz we can be critical and choose not to only focus on the positives, but also acknowledge the effed up negatives in this show about "domestic abuse, gaslighting and love-bombing" in an interracial relationship.

For all of his shortcomings, Lestat loved Louis as he was.

Even at their worst, as the books took Louis away from Lestat--the same way books had taken his mother--Lestat never took the books from Louis.

And in an effort for forgiveness, Lestat looked to gift Louis a precious tome from his favorite bookstore.

Yet Armand always kept them out of reach for fear that something else might capture Louis.

[beaulesbian]

All I know is Will is alive. Will is alive! He’s out there somewhere. All we have to do is find him.

[ohtendril]

Ted and Rebecca + color matching

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Beautiful bastard

Lestat in The Thing Lay Still

[tomwambsgans]

tom's signature frozen silence, abrupt head-turn, and dead-eyed stare when he hears something that he wants badly not to internalize

[ambiguousdisorderken]

Dean in Hook Man

[allisonedit]

Every Allison Scene:

1.7 Night School

[schruutes]

Sarge, you re-assigned our drug case?