#but also if anyone knows what ep they were filming when those pics dropped please let me know

[mego42]

(sorry for my bad english💀 i hope you understand) i was thinking that we will see the next episode rio boxing, without any shirt on him🤭 so that's mean we will see him bullet scars, right? i really wanna see beth reaction!! any your thoughts on that?

omg your english is great!!! better than mine tbh hahaha

i’m not sure if next ep is the boxing ep, i am v bad at tracking what’s filming when (can anybody weigh in?). 

as far as seeing the scars, i’m of two minds about it. i think one of the reasons dean doesn’t have a visible scar is bc the show doesn’t want to remind the audience rio shot him quite that blatantly and graphically. while it does come back from time to time, it’s usually either in dialogue or subtly implied and i think that’s a conscious choice to not forget it but also keep rio sympathetic (not that i think seeing scars would make us sympathize with dean but bc it would be a graphic reminder of the violence rio is capable of and i think the show tries to walk a p fine line there) (and occasionally tumbles face-first into the mud but i digress). so in that sense, i could see them not showing the scars to keep the 213 shooting sort of back-burnered and the focus on the current conflict since the fallout of that seems like something the show has tried to put to rest and move on from.

that said, they have been working in reminders of it (thinking of the PT on fitz’s bill in s3, rio erupting about it in 306, oh right and the like, whole first half of s3 being about the fallout of it, hahaha)

personally, i would LOVE for them to be there. aside from the sheer magnitude of the anGsT of it all, it’s a part of their history and i think it’s important for it to be layered in. i know i’m a little off the beaten path here and LOVE that they’re not addressing it, that it’s just like, something beth and rio have absorbed as a fact of who they are (and honestly have always headcanoned that it’s not so much the shooting that’s an issue for rio bc like, hello his line of work, as much as it’s the personal betrayal which OH MY GOD TYING INTO 408 AND BETH NOT CHOOSING HIM *AGAIN* AND IM GONNA GO LIE DOWN) (though, to @hypermania’s point, yet another time he didn’t exactly give her a good reason to and all i’m saying is maybe they both have stuff they need to work on to make this busted ass carnival ride of a relationship function a little better) (sorry i’m digressing again)

where was i? oh right, i would love to see the scars for angst and also as a reminder of the gravity of the event and history of their relationship. this season does seem to be going a bit harder on beth feeling the ramifications of her choices than they have before (not that she hasn’t before, i would argue that the show spent a lot of energy showing how affected she was by both 213 and 305, but i’m thinking about ruby calling her out, phoebe calling her out, fitzpatrick calling her out, it’s a little more textually direct than i think they’ve been before), so i could def see them being a present factor esp if beth is in that scene. as far as a reaction, i would comfortably put money on her aggressively NOT reacting, BUT the choice to include them will be telling bc it indicates the show wants the audience to see them and remember what happened which is a subtle, implicit way of indicating that beth is also seeing and remembering what happened. 

but! who knows! they also seem like they really really really want to move on from 213, so. 

if they are there and beth does see them, rest assured that i will actually die and any further activity on this blog will be from beyond the grave. 

[agl03]

I know anyone can edit it, needs to be taken with a grain of salt and whatever but do you think it means anything that Iain is not listed as part of the main cast or guest cast on Wikipedia for season 5? As of 8:45 pm est today

Hi Anon!

Nope nothing to worry about, because yes ANYONE can edit that page.  

Iain is listing in IMDB for the full season.

Overlord just wrapped and as of last weekend he was still in London, but hopefully he’s been back this week and is filming again.  If not he’ll be back shortly.

I totally get that its frustrating and scary that we haven’t had a BTS pic of him yet and I know I’m a broken record with this but:

Please remember Iain is a very private person, he does not like his picture taken and put up on Social Media.  That cast and crew respect that.  And no matter now many times someone asks they won’t post a pic of him until he’s ready.

I can count on one hand pretty much how many times we’ve seen Clark and Henry combined since filming began.  Ming has been pretty elusive and Lil has dropped off a bit the last few weeks (in costume).  

There may be a story reason we aren’t seeing him now that he’s back.  Nick was the ONLY reason we saw him at all during the filming of the Framework arc.  There was NOTHING from set in order to hide the whole Doctor thing.  So he could be being hidden for story reasons.  Just like we have yet to see Jeff in costume.  

If I’ve learned anything in my years doing this is that we see what they want us to see.  If they don’t want something out there…its not out there.   One of the best examples is Aida as Ophelia/Madame Hydra surprised the heck out of me and that is hard to do.

The cast, crew, Iain, Colo, ABC, spoiler writers, and likely people who aren’t even affiliated with the show know by now that the fandom is worried about the lack of Iain.  

Colo said, not to worry.  I know this is “you’ll get the trailer soon” Colo but he wouldn’t lie about something like this.  

More of me being a broken record.

The writers knew when they started writing this season when Iain would be back from Overlord and were able to plan accordingly.  

As I’ve said many times we are likely going to see Fitz in a more reduced role in the first few eps.  He will likely somehow be isolated from the main action be it kidnapping, separation, or injury.   That is simply the easiest thing to do.

They are able to film his scenes for multiple eps when he’s back since we have a fair amount of lead time, even if we come back sooner than we originally expected.  I have heard both via messages and in my ask box from multiple people who work in the TV industry also affirming this.

A great example is the Maveth Scenes.   Jemma’s tag, 4722 Hours, and the Planet rescue were all filmed at the same time.   Then those scenes were used in multiple episodes.  

If he wasn’t coming back it would have been announced by now.  Iain is still under contract with AOS and there was likely special concessions made so he could come back late for Overlord.  

If he wasn’t coming back I’m pretty sure we’d be able to tell with Lil too.  She would be sad, upset.  And she’s been super happy. 

Finally Iain is coming off of an intense 4 Month movie shoot only to fly across the Atlantic, move back to LA, and jump right into AOS.  Catching up on scripts/filming, hair/make up consults, and costume fittings.   That has to be exhausting and he just might not be ready to have his picture taken.   

Iain will pop up when he is ready and when he can be seen story wise.  Until then we just have to be patient (I know you all hate it when I say that).  Worst case we won’t actually see him until NYCC….48 Days from now.   Or we get surprised and he pops up on Monday in a Solar Eclipse Miracle.  It will happen when it happens and until then we can just hold tight and enjoy what they are posting from set.