#also don't get me wrong -- to me personally chris being temporarily gone is the worst of the news even if we suspected

[bakasara]

ooof that was so anti-climatic lol. I coulda told you Gerrard was gonna become captain come onnnnnnn!

kinda meh thoughts following, skip post if not interested.

with how this abridged season has been focusing more on character-driven stories (rather than cycling through emergencies as heavily, I mean) due to time constraints, and with how that slightly shifted the kind of dramatic/emotional beats the show is trying to hit viewers with, I really thought they would've gone for a more melodramatic cliffhanger. instead, every potentially serious cliffhanger is either solved or already has some kind of positive outlook on it spelled out in the narrative -- bobby woke up and is fine, bathena lost the house but know who likely did it and remembered they have all they need in the people they love, buck and madney are fine, henren hasn't gotten mara back but they know she's with madney and happy, and eddie did lose christopher but his parents are keeping in contact/sending him pics and it's been stressed it can/could be short-term. gerrard arc for s8 (mini-arc??? longer arc??) was insanely obvious IMO because they wouldn't have bothered calling the actor back and reminding us he's a piece of shit otherwise, but even if it hadn't been it's the least of the possible tragedies that were suggested and, for now, more akin to a Big Annoyance than a tragedy.

my sister and I have been calling the s8 captain Gerrard scenario "nightmare 118" since last week's episode aired (like nightmare worlds in silent hill, y'know?), btw.

anyway like.. go girl give us nothing.

(also this is more of a funny pacing thing than anything, but the "I hope you [have daddy issues]" line was so unexpectedly obscene (not in a bad way!!) and it was followed by an actually very serious and dramatic scene and the juxtaposition was SO jarring I had to go back to rewatch the following scene twice and my eyes were LITERALLY WATERING HYSTERICALLY. but that was the height of my emotional response to the episode and maybe it shouldn't have been.)