#dr who 2x04

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Au revoir mon amour by Zélie is tenth doctor coded (with madame de Pompadour) and it's insane I never noticed it 🥹 the lyrics is so accurate it made me tear up

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pll rewatch 2x04

The Great Gatsby billboard staring at them from above after they get an A text!! Conveniently in this sketchy location for the girls to maybe wonder if there’s a camera in that eye. Okay, maybe they didn’t wonder, but I sure did

Everyone did a solo session with Dr. Sullivan before Hanna does this episode, hmm. Emily might’ve talked about moving to Texas, Aria about her parents cheating or blustering on about something else, but I bet Spencer showed up, brought her homework, and said nothing.

When her mom stops her in school, Aria immediately assumes Ella wants feedback on her teaching. I’m starting to enjoy when Aria is like this to her mom because my opinion of Ella as a parent has sunk compared to my memory of her.

When Caleb makes fun of Lucas’s room being filled with toys, Hanna immediately defends them as collectibles. Hanna probably does get it, given her own 1001 handbags and shoes.

Wren sucks more every time he shows up, he is passing out drugs to his ex-fiance and should lose his medical license.

Sullivan: “I’ve talked with a lot of young people about loss” Maybe Sullivan specializes in teenagers, with a focus on grief. Give the Liars’ parents a half-point for finding a relevant therapist.

Hanna is guarded about saying that a combination of guilt, anger, and fear is what she feels about Ali - so far, the girls haven’t really discussed with each other the experience of being friends with Ali. They gesture to it, like with Spencer pointing out Emily’s easy acquiescence to Ali, but they do not expose their own vulnerability in depth to each other

And I think Hanna would be the least likely to do so with the others

Aria is forced to endure sports and I am forced to endure too many shots of shirtless dudes (in a Philly November? Wear a a shirt!)

At least Aria gets rewarded with getting to ogle Jason. That man’s biceps are gigantic and I did not recall this about Jason

Omg there’s more Emily/Samara scenes at swimming meets. RIP Paige hope you’re oblivious to this

Doubt she is, because Pam Fields is yelling DANBY all over the stands and you know Nick McCullers is going “see if you got anchor you would’ve gotten a guaranteed offer too and not mere interest”.

Nick McCullers exposing the letter lie after doing some digging would’ve been so funny and so bad and both Paige and Emily would have wanted to melt off the face of the planet

Spencer wishes she could sleep over at Aria’s :( Last time she wanted Emily to stay over. Someone be a nice non-threatening sleepover buddy for Spence already :(

Pam is extremely charmed by Samara, who talks about the challenges of glue guns and the delights of crafting (with her mom). Samara gives good parent.

Generally speaking I spent very little time contemplating Samara back in the day, but I appreciate the way she functions in the context of Emily and Pam’s mending relationship 

Samara does all do this before a second date though, which, wild. Wild as well is Emily telling her the letter is fake. The unearned guilt must be eating at her.

So, Hanna in 2x04. It is specifically helping Lucas with his Danielle date and him thanking her that drives her back to Sullivan’s office. With every Liar, there’s the damage that Alison does to the girl and there’s the girl’s complicity in Alison’s cruelty, and somehow it is Lucas saying he no longer sees the latter in Hanna that drives Hanna to fully reject the former. As I said above, I don’t think any of the other liars have gotten as far as Hanna does this episode in extricating Alison from herself. Hanna’s the only liar whose present version we’ve seen interact with Alison so far, and there’s no regression to her flashback behaviour. 

All of the liars felt chosen by Alison, and all of them had an angle Alison was working. The way Alison comes at Emily and Hanna, I think, is that both girls are experiencing adolescence as their bodies betraying them. But where I don’t think Emily’s personality was wildly different pre-Alison, for Hanna I always get stuck on Mona’s anecdote of Hanna as a child bowing after a successful backflip, even when covered in vomit. A kid happy to get attention, fond of some showmanship, in contrast to the more muted one in the flashbacks. That isn’t all Alison - female adolescence in general gets some credit - but it’s hard to separate it from Alison. 

Hanna’s imaginary Alison suggests Hanna is scared of the liars moving on from her. I don’t think this is (as of yet) a fear we’ve seen any of the others express, and it’s a fear that has no basis in the current liar dynamics, so that’s interesting. I do read Hanna as the most guarded in S1 about the gang getting back together. I like that her conclusion here is that this has nothing to do with the liars or Alison (or Ashley, or Caleb, or Mona, or god forbid her dad), that she has herself and always will. Am reminded of a different blonde teenager who replied to “Take all that away...and what's left?” with “Me.”

I thought she was wearing a robe when Lucas came by her house in the morning and I was so thrown that she was wearing the same outfit at Sullivan’s till I realized it was a regular top

Why is Aria so pissy about Mike not playing basketball? The audience knows it’s bad vibes but girl, your parents pay zero attention to what y’all do after school, that’s how you have so many hours to waste in Fitz’s apartment or hang out with your friends you are banned from seeing. Do you want to rock this boat. 

Emily wants to call Garrett when they all shadow Melissa and Wren. I STG Emily it worked out with Toby but not all sketchy-seeming men are worth your trust. Glad Aria is a “No” on calling Garrett

As the four liars approach the abandoned barn (1) Emily would like take a photo, to prove to the cops they are honest kids (2) Hanna would settle for not getting murdered (3) Aria wonders if Ian has a gun, because “he’s a bad guy” (4) Spencer is laser-focused on Melissa

Yeah, that tracks.

Best A message of the episode: NOSY BITCHES DIE, painted in red across the wall in Sullivan's office

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All Eyes Lead to the Truth | Season Two Masterpost

That's a wrap on season two! From Flukeman to Albert Hosteen, we explored 25 of the characters that helped make season two of The X-Files so iconic!

Here's a look into all the characters we've met so far!

2x01 | Little Green Men - Senator Richard Matheson (@monikafilefan)

Soon, secrets will snowball. Good people will suffer. Even senators will lose much more than their seats.

2x02 | The Host - Flukeman (@gaycrouton)

Fluke.

2x03 | Blood - Sheriff Spencer (@admiralty-xfd)

Based on the fact that there was simply no reasonable, logical explanation the man would have to do something like this, Spencer knew he could only turn towards the illogical – and that happened to be the X-Files.

2x04 | Sleepless - Salvatore Matola (@fridaysat9)

He could hear their screams, just like every night when he laid down in his bed and stared at the ceiling until the sun came up.

2x05 | Duane Barry - Duane Barry (@gaycrouton)

Someone had his implant. Someone… a woman in Georgetown.

2x06 | Ascension - Dr. Takeo Ishimaru (@admiralty-xfd)

He misses the quiet. Now it seems all he hears is drilling and beeping and yes, sometimes screaming.

2x07 | 3 - Kristen Killar (@fridaysat9)

There’s an emptiness inside her that needs to be satiated with blood… or something else.

2x08 | One Breath - Melissa Scully (@monikafilefan)

Melissa reaches out to gently smooth a stray tendril tangled within one of the many strips of tape stuck to Dana’s porcelain skin. The brittle hair snaps in two, and Melissa swears she can feel a piece of her heart snapping right along with it.

2x09 | Firewalker - Dr. Daniel Trepkos (@admiralty-xfd)

Albert Einstein was known for changing the world, he would say to Jessie if he could. Daniel Trepkos would only be known for destroying it.

2x10 | Red Museum - Old Man (@fridaysat9)

He may have been the only person in town who was making such a connection, but maybe these FBI agents had open minds and might consider it. Something had gone wrong in this sleepy little town and no one, not the townspeople or the sheriff, was doing a goddamn thing to fix it.

2x11 | Excelsis Dei - Dorothy (@monikafilefan)

If Leo tells these nice people that orderly Gung gives them special pills he makes to help them feel alive again, then maybe Gung will get in trouble. Maybe he won’t be able to free any of them from the confines of their minds like this anymore.

2x12 | Aubrey - Danny Valladeo (@gaycrouton)

Working in the lab felt like helping them put together a puzzle while blindfolded. The catch was, you never got to see the end picture until their case reports were finalized, and even then, the final image was abstract beyond recognition.

2x13 | Irresistible - Dr. Karen Kosseff (@fridaysat9)

In all her years working as a therapist for the FBI, Karen had learned that partnerships, be they successful or not, were integral in how an agent functioned, both inside and out of work. An open and trusting partnership could make an agent feel secure and safe, leading them to a successful career and a well balanced life. Without trust, accidents happened, careers ended, and lives could be lost.

2x14 | Die Hand Die Verletzt - Andrea (@monikafilefan)

There’s a presence here, they say. A consistent darkness that lingers like the gray haze coating Milford New Hampshire before sunrise. It’s an old story, whispered about in covert corners of community potlucks and PTA meetings.

2x15 | Fresh Bones - Chester Bonaparte (@gaycrouton)

In voodoo, it’s believed that the dead will come back again, that we should not be afraid of death.

2x16 | Colony - Bill Mulder (@admiralty-xfd)

Fox’s eyes glint with the sparkle of curiosity Bill still remembers from when he was a boy; way back when they watched their first episode of Star Trek together. Back before he knew he wasn’t his boy.

2x17 | End Game - Alien Bounty Hunter (@monikafilefan)

There is an extraterrestrial race war rising within his world: a rebellion in the making. A faction of clones and shapeshifters rallying against the oil that made them. Fools, all them. Hybridization cannot be tolerated. Purity of the alien race must be maintained.

2x18 | Fearful Symmetry - Sophie (@gaycrouton)

Willa not understand. Sophie scared. Baby go flying light.

2x19 | Død Kalm - Captain Peter Barclay (@admiralty-xfd)

He doesn’t know how or why but he knows what’s happening, like a road map for his mortality is written on his insides. He can see the end, and it’s close.

2x20 | Humbug - Mr. Nutt (@fridaysat9)

He didn’t need a suit and a hideous tie to make him matter. He wasn’t a caricature of a man, all handsome features, strapping physique, and perfectly placed sarcastic remarks. No siree.

2x21 | The Calusari - Golda (@gaycrouton)

Golda knew it was a matter of time before the Devil caught up to her. She’d looked into his eyes.

He knows her now.

2x22 | F. Emasculata - U.S. Marshal Deke Tapia (@admiralty-xfd)

Tapia grimaces. “You mean… ew.”

“Yeah," Mulder replies. "Ew.”

2x23 | Soft Light - Detective Kelly Ryan (@fridaysat9)

She tried to file everything away– the questions they asked, the things that seemed important to them, the way that they seemed to be able to converse without words.

Watching them made her feel like a novice, but at the same time, made her excited for her future as a detective.

2x24 | Our Town - Jess Harold (@monikafilefan)

Jess smirks. Chaco has no idea just how close he is to being the entrée in the same stew he’s so eagerly served the residents of Dudley for decades.

2x25 | Anasazi - Albert Hosteen (@admiralty-xfd)

There is a saying in Navajo tradition: that true love is like the wind; you cannot see it, but you can feel it.

There was true love between the FBI man and woman. I could fee

Stay tuned for more perspectives coming in Season Three!

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Jess Watches // Wed 16 Oct // Day 383 Synopses & Favourite Scenes & Poll

Star Trek: Prodigy 2x04 Temporal Mechanics 101

Although separated by decades, the Infinity and the Voyager crews band together to save Gwyn's life. A mysterious messenger reaches out to Gwyn.

IMDb: Erin Macdonald, who plays Dr. Erin in the Temporal Mechanics 101 instruction guide Dal us watching, is functionally playing herself as she is the science advisor for all modern Star Trek.

Call the Midwife (with mum) 9x04

Nonnatus House welcomes four male junior doctors to live and work among the midwives while Fred tries to help a sick man whose home is to be demolished.

No offense to pigeon man, but why build up the introduction of male doctors only to barely feature them and then have them leave after one episode? Not necessarily a complaint as the show doesn't really need them anyway.

Derry Girls (rw with mum) 3x04 The Haunting

James's driving skills are put to the test as the gang set off in a van full of hooch and high hopes to an adult-free house in Donegal. The Quinns visit a local psychic in the hope of making contact with a much-loved family spirit.

To all the lesbian farmers in my area, I am available.

Burn Notice (rw with L) 1x09 Hard Bargain

A house-sitter's fiancée has been kidnapped, and Sam guilts Michael into a rescue while he's negotiating with a D.C. bureaucrat to stop the burn notice.

IMDb: While chasing Lucio after the mall scene, Michael is seen being hit by a car. This resulted in a real injury for actor Jeffrey Donovan.

Also, IMDb: Keen viewers will notice a sharp cut after Sam says "Thanks Mike. It's just Photoshop." This is because no matter how many times they tried to keep the scene going after that line, Jeffrey Donovan could not help but lose himself laughing at how Bruce Campbell delivered it. Eventually they just picked the scene up from after the line.

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[initial reactions] Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x04 - Among the Lotus Eaters

I don't know what it is about this episode but this is the episode that' really made me feel.

I already liked SNW but for some reason, I've felt a distance towards the show and characters that I can't really explain. I like all the characters, particularly Uhura, La'an, and Una but it feels like there's a remove?

Like a stretchy fabric between myself and the characters that's all on me, intellectually, I knew I liked the show! I love the look but emotionally it hadn't touched me, again it's totally on me. I've been wrestling with it since I watched all seasons of SNW.

But this episode? Somehow it breached the barriers and I felt it.

Maybe because SNW tackling one of the themes I've always loved -- identity. Especially the amnesia trope, who are you in the dark, or in this case, who are you if they remove all your memories?

Pike is still a good man with a good heart, and Dr. M'Benga is a healer despite what he had to do during the war. La'an, unfortunately, got the short shrift since she spent most of the time recuperating but, also at heart, a good person. A loyal person and a damned good security chief.

And Lieutenant Erica Ortegas is a damned great pilot.

Also, a starship navigating through an asteroid field? Always a favorite for me -- like c'mon there's a reason why I adored the asteroid/nebula scene in Picard S3!

Plus, this is another show that has a Starfleet ship throwing asteroids around!

(Not to mention the Chateau Picard wine on the dinner date with Captain Wynonna Earp and Pike!)

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Rambling thoughts while rewatching Lone Star ep 4x11 – Double Trouble (Finishing Edging the Bet made it so that I am just now getting to a rewatch of the episode (only watched it live))

The pregnancy & dropping out were my two biggest suspicions for Wyatt’s news

Joining the FD was a little farther on my list – but I didn’t expect to see three announcements (although technically – you could combine the dropping out & FD thing together)

So how are along is she?

When did he decide to drop out of school? When were these midterms? Did he complete his first semester then, but quit ½ way through the 2nd?

Doesn’t TK remember hearing about Mateo’s cousin? He was there for the first time Mateo mentioned Marvin

So – he came from the side of the wall – not the door to the bunk room? – that blocking just seemed like a weird choice.

Someone suggested taking shots anytime Mateo or Marvin say “cuz” = 8 shots in like 2 minutes (3 for Mateo & 5 for Marvin)

The “I’d like to teach the world to sing” reminds me of the kid songs videos – it was on the “Teach the world to sing” (we had it on VHS – because I am old).

“I would really suggest that you try to calm down.” Carlos Reyes – to a woman that should be dead

Carlos thinking – “Thank fuck, you guys finally got here for this woman that should be dead, but is yelling at me about the demon spawn children.”

I am not a fan of going to the Dr. either lady

I want an orange tree in my back yard. Too bad it wouldn’t hold up well here.

That is a lot of kids balls/toys

Carlos “dad joke” Reyes

Winston Churchill gave a lot of good speeches – none of them are ones that I would think to watch to get ideas for my child’s wedding toast (and I am a history nerd like Owen) – but it does make sense for him – if he ever gets a pet that he gets to name – that is what I would guess that he would name them.

I am a fan of Tommy in her gym clothes.

This scene is probably the most I have EVER related to Judd. The self-doubt/loathing is so hard to look/see past. At least he has Tommy & Grace.

What does Judd even have in his hand in the firehouse kitchen scene that was alphabetized

“As long as these chimes don’t go off” give “Unless the bells go off” vibes – Owen talking to Gwyn in 2x04 (old) firehouse kitchen scene.

That Mateo is into pokemon – not surprising – BUT – where did all his cards come from? Did he rebuild his collection once he moved in with Owen or was his collection at the firehouse, miraculously saving it?

$24,100 is a lot of fucking money.

If I had been asking my husband to fix something for 4 years – I would have already figured out how to fix it. That is a long fucking time man.

I like clipboard Marj – but I am ready for firefighter Marj to come back

If you have an uninsured porshe (at least in the US) – you are an idiot. Or any high dollar car.

If he got $900 for the pokemon card, and $24,100 from Nancy – how is he tapped now? Wouldn’t it be that he was already tapped?

Also – That explains why he still lives with Owen

Apparently Mateo decided to do the “take a shot for each time Mateo or Marvin say cuz” game

I think that the sitcom thing fits Mateo’s character – but would have been weird for anyone else – with the exception of maybe Owen.

So, did Marvin keep his hair that pink color to keep a guilt trip on Mateo – since he used it to cover for him in the first place?

Also – these are some old looking 13-year-olds.

How did Mateo not know he was a DREAMER until he was 17?

So setting a school on fire made Mateo want to be a firefighter? I can buy that, makes a lot of sense – I like getting the whys of their job choices on these shows.

Who did he move to Texas with at 16? But still not know he was a DREAMER until he was 17?

He lived with his aunt & uncle from 6-16, then ?? from 16- at least adulthood?

Turpentine smells so bad

Did Mateo take over his cousins love of scientific facts?

Who cares about those other milk customers when there is french toast on the table?

I can’t with the mustache

This is the most Buck that TK has ever been. Accepting the french toast, then his ‘boss/partner’ saying ‘no’, then him saying the same, only sad.

“He might get shanked with a toothbrush.”

Milkman Judd just keeps eating his french toast

Guess it is good to have a paramedic in the family

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top 10 gayest h2o episodes: a definitive ranking

i'm back with another ranking, but this time it's a little different! today, i'll be ranking the top 10 gayest episodes of h2o: just add water. (in MY opinion. i realize that this show has no canonically LGBT+ characters, but come on, the subtext. also, i write sapphic h2o fanfiction, what did you expect?) anyway, please don't take this too seriously, it's just for fun.

ranking below the cut!

honorable mention: 1x05 "something fishy"

i'm just going to link this post and let it speak for itself.

10. 1x26 "a twist in the tail"

the episode where the girls are "outed" (the official h2o jaw youtube channel uses this term, no joke) to dr. denman, zane, his father, and nearly the world. thankfully they're able to avert exposure with advice from their gay mermaid mentor/queer elder, miss chatham. however, they begrudgingly have to give up their tails (temporarily, though they don't know this). even with the challenges that being gay a mermaid poses, they've still come to love what they are.

9. 2x11 "in over our heads"

rikki almost dies trying to retrieve a deep-sea treasure and emma cradles rikki's head in her arms while trying to save her. so... yeah. emma also shows hostility towards rikki's boyfriend, zane... and i get that he was a mermaid hunter last season, but this also reads like emma is jealous of his relationship with rikki. but on the flipside, zikki is kind of like a het relationship for gay people. idk. there's a lot going on here.

8. 3x21 "the jewel thief"

rikki and bella's moon crystal necklaces gravitate towards each other and cause a city-wide electrical blackout. this is gay, please don't make me explain. oh, cleo also gets a matching crystal necklace in this episode and the girls all wear them to symbolize their "friendship" (or are they just in a throuple? nobody knows).

7. 1x18 "bad moon rising"

mainly put this episode here because of emma's iconic line to rikki: "if we're going somewhere we're going together" and then their smoldering gazes that follow. but, generally, the subtext is off-the-wall. when rikki loses control of her powers, she thinks she's a danger to society and tries to isolate herself—just like how gay people have been told for thousands of years that we're destructive to society. this one is kinda sad actually :(

6. 1x07 "moon spell"

not only are we introduced to camp gay miss chatham, but there's something really queercoded about embarrassing your family at a party (as emma does in this episode). she also calls rikki "rikki baby" and now i'm realizing that this ranking is pretty much a love letter to rikma.

5. 2x04 "fire and ice"

sometimes i think the writers just forgot who rikki's canon love interest was at the time?? half of these season 2 episodes frame rikki and emma as girlfriends. anyway, emma's desire to be rebellious and wild reads like a baby gay trying to be something they're not after coming out. in the b plot, nate tells lewis he's not "manly" enough and the latter struggles with this. maybe it was unintentional, but some lines make it seem like the show is queercoding lewis. i'm here for it, either way.

4. 2x17 "moonstruck"

a moonstruck rikki and cleo try to expose emma as a mermaid to ash, but without context, you'd think they're trying to tell him that emma's a lesbian and that's why she's been so secretive and distant with him. another mermaid=gay allegory? no one knows for sure, but sources (me) say yes!

3. 2x06 "pressure cooker"

ah, yes... another episode where the writers forgot that rikki and emma weren't dating, included multiple scenes of them on an actual date, and hoped we wouldn't notice. plus, we see that rikki is emma's phone wallpaper. cleo and charlotte also could've had an enemies-to-lovers moment here, but what do i know?

2. 1x01 "metamorphosis"

three teenage girls discover something life-altering about themselves and must stay closeted keep the secret from the rest of society. in the process, they become much closer to one another but also feel isolated from their families and other girls their age. are we reeeally certain that this isn't an allegory? sure, a lot of this applies to the rest of the show, but "metamorphosis" is the episode that started it all, so...

1. 2x18 "the heat is on"

this episode is actually the reason i made this ranking. not only does rikma's homoerotic feud cause a thunderstorm, but they (+ cleo) ditch their boyfriends at the juicenet to celebrate their "anniversary" of becoming mermaids. okay, straighties! bonus points for zane and ash's UST during that game of pool.

end notes

it doesn't surprise me that this list consists mostly of season 2 episodes, because rikma was probably at its peak (imo) in the first half of season 2. it also doesn't surprise me that only a single season 3 episode is here. i'm not sure why that is—maybe it's emma's absence, maybe it's the way the tone of the show shifted considerably from the end of season 2 to the beginning of season 3. anyway, hope you enjoyed this :-)

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[[For clarity’s sake as somehow people are still seeing this, this was posted after 2x04 “Watcher” with no knowledge of anything subsequent.]]

Can we just talk about how Seven is so dedicated to keeping Raffi on track, trying to support her, displaying more acts of self-initiated physical contact than we’ve probably seen in the entire rest of her character’s airtime put together

((((i tried to start literally counting it up: this episode alone or even all of S2 vs Picard S1 + all of VOY, but adult!me determined there are apparently limits to how much time I’m allowed to spend on blorbos when also accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars of graduate school debt, so i guess just trust our collective Seven-stan memories here))))

and it’s all because Raffi with Elnor is Seven with Icheb and that went so terribly wrong; she spent 13 years just losing herself again until she could vaporize that bitch

and so when she says “losing him was not your fault”

-- like, the fucking pain there that’s she’s suppressing for Raffi, because in so many ways (literally-directly, indirectly by leading Bjazyl to him, etc) losing Icheb was Seven’s fault,

and maybe, 13 years and a little bit of closure later it doesn’t hurt as much but afaik, even in the extended canon (i.e. No Man’s Land), there’s not been anything to suggest she’s fully told that backstory to anyone.  So Raffi has no idea that Seven so viscerally understands and tbf in probably a worse way because even 13 years later, even finally getting her murder!closure, there’s no way to emotionally logically anything-ly ever really accept that it wasn’t her fault because it was

(and that’s not even getting into how -- the show seems to be ignoring this so far, which is consternating, but Elnor family-bonded with Seven as well in season 1, and then also was killed by her “lover” -- even if Seven wasn’t momfigure as much as Raffi, I kind of hate that they’ve ignored the repeated pattern in favor of her just supporting Raf.  Holding out hope they address this, but definitely have faith that fanon’s gonna jump all over that because we love  ♫♩trauma♩♫)

she just has to try to keep going, because . . . “every damn day of my life” etc.

talk about fucking character growth, and even just irl human inspiration -- she fucked up and bad things happened and she’s gotten to a point that she can live with that and just try to keep helping people, but also allow herself to be open to emotional engagement (despite how that’s what got Icheb killed in the first place)

and so for her to be trying to support Raffi so much -- they misdirected us with the “cellular photograph” scene that it would be Seven totally unable to fit in in the 21st century, but in this latest episode, it’s Raffi who needs Seven’s rationality and temperance (other than in driving skills lmao) to keep from blowing everything

and it makes sense -- Seven still falls back on borgspeak sometimes, especially without her cortical node or other implants in this AU, can’t find the correct vocabulary and has to rely on honed skills of improvisation and charm (and privilege of being pretty and white in the 21st century); but her still tightly-regulated emotions so perfectly complement how Raffi’s are out of control right now

but just the fact that she can have that control when the parallels are so fucking obvious is . . . i mean, i’m really hoping it’s not just “this is something fandom noticed that they didn’t think of at the time” and we get some kind of scene where it all comes out, but either way

-- anyway, this is way tl;dr but have my seven meta for the night

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Hi there, love your blog! was wondering if you could help me find a scene that I'm only half-convinced I'm remembering correctly, basically I have a vague memory of Lilah walkin on a rooftop all smug and dramatic, possibly while watching Angel fight. No worries if nothing comes to mind it's just been driving me crazy lol, thanks

hi! thanks! i love that you and everyone following love the blog cause it makes me love running it 😊

okay so fair warning i'm a bigger fan of btvs so i've seen it and know it far better than ats and i haven't even rewatched ats fully in awhile (currently doing the world's slowest rewatch for like a year or two and only on mid s2).

but immediately my brain was like s4! and i think if this isn't a made up memory/dream you have then it's most likely to have happened between s2-4.

but she is also in s1 so that's still a possibility and she's only in 36 episodes, so i could do some sifting through those episodes when i have some time later but for now i figured i would list all the episodes she's in if anyone else wanted to do that.

but also maybe one of the 200+ followers who might all know the show better than i do or at least have seen it more recently, might know exactly what scene you're talking about.

TL;DR: which episode possibly features Lilah walking on a rooftop looking smug and dramatic while possibly watching Angel fight? (sidenote: i just had a memory of i think Lilah and Gavin watching Angel fight from afar... so if i'm right that would narrow it down to episodes with both Lilah AND Gavin.)

episodes with Lilah and Gavin listed under the cut

EDIT: it was 4x04

Lilah Episodes (with Gavin):

3x02 (maybe this episode i wanna say)

3x04

3x06 (or this one)

3x08

3x09

3x10

3x19

3x22

4x01

4x07 (or this one)

4x08

Lilah Episodes (without Gavin):

1x16

1x18

1x19

1x21

1x22

2x01

2x04

2x10

2x11

2x12

2x15

2x18

3x15

3x16

3x17

3x18

3x20

3x21

4x02

4x04

4x05

4x12

4x13

4x21

4x22

[hournites]

hi, T i really like your blog and love to read your posts about stargirl. I love the dynamic between beth/rick and yolanda/courtney. But I feel like they’re not that close as a group unless they’re fighting the villain of the week. I was wondering what you thought about this. thank you have a nice day. btw is there a discord or something for fans of the show?

Hey anon!!

It’s really super interesting actually that you bring this up. I was talking to @theozmachronicles the other day about how much we do in fact love the whole JSA dynamic as a group of teenagers in that it is a highlight of the show and there seems to be a collective wholesomeness to the team as a group. The four are friends in a way that is not as easily distinguished by the superhero team in The Flash, let’s say. I can honestly tell that Yolanda & Beth, Rick & Yolanda, Yolanda & Courtney, Courtney & Beth, Rick & Courtney and Rick & Beth all have distinct friendships. I’m especially thinking about the 2x04 milkshakes scene where we see Rick react to Courtney’s non-verbal plead to let Yolanda’s order slide. That speaks more to Rick and Courtney’s friendship and what he’s willing to do for her than it reveals what we already know about what Courtney thinks of Yolanda. Then a few minutes later Rick is laughing at Yolanda’s comment about Eclipso’s origins sounding morbid, kinda goes on their little “we relate because we both brood” dynamic going on there. I also think of Yolanda’s protectiveness and admiration of Beth in the next gifs.

I think what you’re picking up on right now is a thread (or theme, I might say) that the 4 are currently hiding secrets from each other. And these secrets are most clear cut in the Yolanda & Courtney dynamic and the Rick & Beth dynamic. Rick and Beth know about Dr Mid-Nite and Beth’s family issues. Courtney and Yolanda know about what happened with Brainwave and awkward encounters with Artemis. While it does work to split them in pairs to get substantive character arcs for all 4, I definitely do see how this comes to a head. At the end of the day, I see these 4 teens caring deeply for each other and spoilers 👇 there is going to be some resolution to amend the gap in knowledge etc.

Speaking of this, I do think it’s important to acknowledge that Yolanda is….really depressed right now. She’s being forced to go to summer school with Courtney when she doesn’t actually need to be in summer school, and work when she’s not in school while basically getting disowned by her parents and still trying to keep up with amending her guilt over Brainwave and trying to holdfast onto her faith while dealing with creepy headaches. On top of being a superhero actively helping out and going to team missions with the rest. She’s clinging to Courtney as her best friend right now because she’s the only one who she told her secret to and I think that Courtney is the one thread she’s currently holding onto to stay afloat. But she’s going to need more than just Courtney’s support to get through this and ^ my speculation for episode 7 is that the support will come for all of them with all of their issues because they care about each other so much. My guess is that the divisiveness is intentional for a narrative purpose so we can learn more about the characters separately, before cohesion again as a group unit heading into season 3. I believe the starsquad is already very strong, especially for only 18 episodes! But of course their bonds can develop more and still should (especially as romance enters the fold) and I’ll be looking to it!

Finally, there is an hournite discord specifically that I know of (and am part of). Info is at @hournitenation

[multimetaverse]

have any other actors updated their imdbs for diary??

Not much in the way of big new updates which is surprising since S2 is only a week away. There's actually an old update that I only just noticed now, the actor who plays Davis the racist white tennis guy from the rival team who made fun of the accent on Cañero is in eps 2x01 and 2x06. I hadn't noticed because I didn't recognize the actor. I don’t think his character will be super important but it is interesting that Davis’ last appearance is in 2x06 which is CJ’s first appearance. There’s a good chance that Davis will say something, probably racist, to Bobby or CJ and I could see Bobby standing up for CJ or vice versa and that’s their first big interaction ( I could definitely see Davis making fun of CJ’s afro but we’ll see). 

The actor who plays Craig, Sam and Gabi’s married gay co-worker had updated his imdb a while back and he’s only in 2x07 this season. Dr. Cooper’s actor just updated his imdb and he’s in eps 2x01, 2x07, and 2x10. There’s a character named Adrienne who I think was one of Elena’s classmates in S1 who’s in eps 2x02, 2x05, 2x09, and 2x10. Another classmate named Flip is in eps 2x02, 2x05, and 2x06. A brand new character named Clara is in eps 2x04, 2x06, and 2x10. A new character named Hannah is only in ep 2x01. There’s a freshman girl character credited for 2x05, maybe a girl one of Bobby’s crew talks with in the background or something since she doesn’t get a name. Most of the mains and major recurring characters haven’t updated yet though so we might not know how many eps Cami or Jessica or Joey are in until the season is out. 

Also for any fans of doafp out there, I highly recommend you check out the smash hit New Zealand rugby series Head High which just premiered the first ep of its 8 ep S2 run. It’s a great show that tackles a lot of important subjects and has a very engaging gay story line with Tai Roberts the star rugby player and his crush on his openly gay classmate Steven Grimstone. If you need a link for the 6 ep S1 or for 2x01 you can send an off anon message to santiagonex on tumblr and rumour has it he might be able to hook you up. 

[fallout-terminals]

2x04 To 2x22 Character Allowed on the Wesley Crusher Friendship Ship

Second Officer Klag 02x08- he’s a pain in the ass, but once you get to know him he’s cool. And he would be a good influence on Worf.

Salia 02x10- Not a permanent member because she has a job, but definitely visits often. Those kiddos were cute together and we should see them as mature adults with their own lives going on.

Sarjenka 02x15 - She’s a child who deserves the world.

Ensign Sonya Gomez 02x16 - she’s cool. I’d trust her with everything but a hot chocolate

Dr. Pulaski 02x18- she took deadly poison tea just for friendship purposes. She believes in responsible bad decisions.

Brenna Odell 02x18- I love people who are hostile to the English and everyone they’ve ever met. She’s a woman who knows what she wants and her ambition is to be lauded. She would be great at keeping the gang on task.

[mantra4ia]

The Best of: Lucifer S2

***21 Days of Lucifer: Countdown to Season Five. August 7, 2020***

Top Moments:

Trixie meets Amenadiel in the hospital while visiting her mom and almost immediately calls him a guardian angel, calls him good, and refills his morale to 100% like a sage.

Linda meeting the divine Goddess while being awestruck and simultaneously fiercely protective of Lucifer “I’m not telling you anything.” Everything with Linda and Amenadiel really. This was a really strong season for the both characters, they are all-stars. And Rachel Harris can do anything with Duct tape apparently.

Lucifer trying to Chloe-proof everything in the precinct and being her body guard in an effort to thwart Uriel cosmic probability pattern from taking her out.

Lucifer’s traumatic meltdown spiral over the course of Monster after killing Uriel, ultimately resulting in him revealing his true face to Linda. God, that scene breaks my heart.

Maze and Linda on opposite sides of the therapy office door when Maze gets so excited about finding her calling and slides the first bounty check under the door made out to “Mazikeen Smith” because she’s the first person Maze wants to celebrate with.

Lucifer finally driving Chloe’s PD vehicle

The questioning of all of Lucifer’s ‘exes’ at the precinct / and finding Lucifer’s (fandom-nod) stalker with her giant string theory board during Stewardess Interruptus

Chloe saves LUX from demolition for Lucifer, first by quashing the police call, then by getting it declared a historic site.

Domesticated devil bliss: Lucifer in the Decker kitchen stealing Trixie’s breakfast sandwich that Chloe just made, and then telling Chloe that her dad would be proud of her and being bewildered that he made her cry.

Dan and Lucifer settle the record during, of all things, improv.

Honorable Mentions

Chloe beating a criminal with a yoga mat while enumerating the sins of betrayal, aka “there’s a special place in hell for women who betray other women”

Lucifer’s parent trap of Mum and God Johnson

Lucifer firemen-carrying his mother off of a dancing table at LUX

Amenadiel standing up for Lucifer to Mum when he’s in pain trying to ignite the blade

Maze blowing up Amenadiel’s car

The corvette stunt driving scene on the airport runway where Chloe looks like she’s about to toss her cookies

Trixie mutilating her doll and Lucifer getting excited about buying her a new one despite Chloe’s protests

Lucifer shocking himself back to hell

“Do not touch the charred crotch”

Maze and Dan team up to dispose of corrupt warden Perry Smith to the Russian mob

Dan and Lucifer team up to get Boris Sokolov in for questioning by staging a hit request on Lucifer, and Lucifer makes a complimentary remark in the sauna on how fit Dan is. 

The Tribe girls night out with Chloe’s lost time in which she invited Maze to move in.

The guys night out where Amenadiel fails woefully at dancing and keeping a low profile, revisits the “Cosmos” bit

At the end of Quid Pro Ho, Lucifer brings Chloe dinner in his penthouse to make up for the date he ditched.

Amenadiel brings Maze flowers and sees Penelope Decker again

The Chloe-Mum tag team aka Chloe pats down the Divine Goddess 

Chloe’s awkward “double date” case-setup with Dr. Garrity from the mental health unit, Maze, and Amenadiel, aka “I like the shape of your head.”

Lucifer and Dan being captured while Lucifer is mimicking him, Dan getting beaten and Lucifer breaking out of handcuffs to free them both only after the fact.

Best Guests:  

Timothy Omundson as God Johnson

Runner up: Michael Imperioli as Uriel in Weaponizer and A Good Day to Die. Alas, poor Uriel.

Note - I don’t consider Tricia Helfer as Mum a guest because of her season long arc

Funniest Moment:

Breaking out of the asylum planning and slo-mo execution with God Johnson

Runner up: The two part payoff when Lucifer complains about Mazikeen moving in with Chloe saying “you better not sleep with her before I do” when, only a handful of episodes later, Chloe and Maze pose as a married couple on a case (2x15) and Maze remarks “she’s a pistol in the sack.” 1-0 Mazikeen. 

Honorable mention: Ella and Lucifer re-enacting the stabbing rampage of Azrael’s blade in the wellness studio / Dan grabbing Azrael’s blade and trying to kill Lucifer over pudding

Most Memorable Dramatic moment:

The ensemble hospital scene in A Good Day to Die part one of which Mum and Lucifer collectively drag each other out of their own hell loops and the latter half of which Amenadiel levels up to Gandalf and holds his ground to help his brother succeed in rescuing Chloe.

Runner up: Lucifer confronts Uriel in Father Frank’s old church

Honorable mention: Lucifer sends mom into the void to start over

Best Fight scene:

Lucifer vs Uriel (2x05)

Runner up: The Tribe kicking *** and taking suspect names at the bar while getting Chloe drunk. Particularly Maze when she says, “No one calls my stank a stank,” breaks a pool cue and cracks skulls (2x04)

Honorable Mention: Maze and Lucifer beating the crap out of each other because Maze thinks Lucifer is going to abandon her for until they literally summon the ref (aka Linda) (2x17)

Favorite Trixie moment:

“Trixie Morningstar, nice to meet you.“ Trixie and Lucifer infiltrate the private school in Deceptive Little Parasite, and he later bonds with her and calls her clever after she reveals that she’s been putting on a brave face every time her mom goes to work. (2x15)

Runner up: Trix faking out Lucifer be going in for the hug and switching it up to the high five after she lets Lucifer take her first breakfast sandwich. (2x07) 

Honorable mention: Dr. Trixie - Wusses don’t get lollies. (2x18)

Favorite Episode:

God Johnson

Runner Up: A Good Day to Die

[purpleplaid17]

Jess Watches // Mon 16 Oct Synopses & Favourite Scenes

Call the Midwife (with mum) 6x00 Christmas Special 2016

A group from Nonnatus House travels overseas in order to assist a struggling clinic in South Africa.

I would like to know more about Sister Julienne and Dr Myra and if they had a romance at some point. You definitely get the vibe that they've explored each other bodies in a past affair. Also, if Barbara were to sing softly in my ear I too would've got pregnant.

The Consultant 1x05 Sick

Craig calls in sick so he can investigate a lead about Patoff - the mystery deepens as bizarre details are revealed. In the meantime, Patoff continues to play his own games with the employees.

Wild theory: Patoff is an A.I and the gold skeleton was being made for him, which is why he struggles walking upstairs, because his limbs are so heavy.

Our Flag Means Death 2x04 Fun and Games

After he's banished from the Revenge, Blackbeard unwittingly receives relationship advice from some dysfunctional old friends.

Anne & Mary having the toxic relationship, while Ed & Stede were so tender with each other. A contrast in vibes I didn't know I needed when I saw who was guest starring. Also, I 🖤 🦄.

Over the Garden Wall 1x08 Babes in the Wood

While Wirt and Greg lay down to rest, they're drawn into a dreamworld of cherubs, flowers, and clouds.

The weirdest episode yet, which is mad to say about an always weird animation lol. I hope with Beatrice's help that Wirt can rescue their leader.

Shelter 1x08 Found (Season Finale)

The gang finds strength and comfort in being together. Mickey saved Bat Lady's life which she repays by finally telling him about a terrible tragedy that took place in the tunnels under her house.

How did Mickey and Bat Lady not have to go to the hospital for smoke inhalation?? He was so clever to figure the pipe thing out; Rachel proudly accepting bestie status. And possibly more with the way she was looking at Ema lbr; Spoon should join the cheerleader team so Rachel can teach him all their routines. This shit was bananas! (B-A-N-A-N-A-S)

[tiffgeorgina]

do you have any favourites parts of season 2? (I agree that the plot has been.... Thin? Non-existent?) But what are the things about this season that you've enjoyed?

hello anon! a few things i’ve enjoyed are:

-the new guest stars. watkins, hill, and raphael are knocking it out of the park. we waited longer than i wanted to to see june and dulé but hey, at least they’re here now! im already kinda attached to their characters and im pretty sure all of them are gonna get fucked over so im scared fjgkjhfdg

-just seeing all these mf characters again. ive missed them so much kjhgkdfjh i could watch them watch paint dry and i’d be okay with that bc i just MISSED THEM

-CONNIE. RESURGENCE. OMFG. i saw xosha roquemore (the actress who plays her) credited for 2x05 a couple weeks back and i FREAKED. OUT. god why do i love this narc. acab except for connie because i like her and she’s pretty (seeing her in full color and 80s style was a REVELATION)

-mo coming back ugh i missed him at the jammer group. seeing him complacent and beaten down HURT. im ready to see him fuck blair up i love blair but he’s walking away in handcuffs this season if mo has anything to say about it

-blair/harris. ok they’re cute i said it (plus they’re easily getting the most screentime out of all the couples this season which is nice bc their relationship is so much less established than the others)

-mo/dawn flashbacks mo/dawn flashbacks mo/dawn flashbacks mo/dawn flashbacks mo/dawn flashbacks!!! i knew we would be seeing their backstory but i didn’t expect it to be the first thing we saw all season!!! i love mo/dawn and i love getting backstory since i was waiting to know more about their past for so long and!! it’s here!! now we know everybody at the jammer group used to work for leighman and that’s why they hate them and we know mo and dawn go back a decade and!! it’s just so satisfying to KNOW i love to see it

-the entirety of Fore! (2x04) yassir. fucking. killed. that. shit. he was the sole writing credit for that episode, and when i saw that on the imdb page i simply knew it would be god tier. and it was! admittedly a little plotless, but that’s par for the course this season, plus it was early enough in the season to get away with it i think. the twist at the end. corky’s entrance. blair/harris. blair being an idiot. blair being a high idiot. yassir x being the king of feminism. yassir lester writing andrew’s emmy reel like that. we haven’t seen season 2B yet but 2A peaked with fore!. period. try to disagree with me. you can’t.

-ofc the 80s aesthetic that we all know and love. i saw somebody describe black monday as a period piece once and it seemed kind of ill-fitting bc it’s not set in victorian era england but yk what? it’s totally fitting. this is a period piece. the 80s slap.

-blair being the villain that we know he is. i wish they would quit stalling on this because it’s making all the characters seem monotonous and non-distinct, but i like those moments where blair snaps (“WE ARE DOING THIS” and “i am the only family you need now. just me”) andrew’s such an excellent actor and it’s fun to see this side of his range since he’s usually played really nice and wholesome (or at least not downright villainous) characters. he’s sending chills down my spine with some of the shit he’s doing and saying this season. andrew. emmy. nomination. now. GIVE IT TO ME NOW.

-momentary mo&blair resurgence (even if it’s fake). i miss mo&blair as father-son so fucking much anon you don’t even know. finding out that they were the ones clicking their heels in 2x06? i could’ve CRIED

-being right. ok this has a bit of lore but i have been STALKING the imdb page for black monday for MONTHS. bc they’ll add episode titles, or screencaps, or cast members all the time without telling anybody, and everything’s been accurate so far (so it’s not some troll lying on imdb we know that lol). specifically, in 2x09, there’s a character credited as dr. gabe egon. the tl already had suspicions that he had smth to do with conversion therapy bc there’s this one picture that sho released where you can see all this shit mo’s written on this board, and it DEFINITELY SAID CONVERSION THERAPY. and this episode comes around and roger is walking out this door that says “dr. gabe egon ~ therapy for the religiously erect” or whatever and i was like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and then roger blurts out that it’s literally CT and i !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this shit is in different areas for better or for worse and even if im confused and bored at the same time being pulled along for the ride is fun as hell

-the naming scheme for the episodes. i literally had no idea what they would do for the episode titles this season since there’s no countdown to black monday, but i like how it’s shit that the characters say/write. bc then a character says the episode name and you’re like !!!!!!!!!!! jfhgdfjk. plus it kinda tells you what’s going on--i knew 2x06 would be about a ponzi scheme before blair even proposed the idea in 2x05 bc the ep is titled Arthur Ponzarelli. and i knew fore! would be the episode where blair and the harrises are golfing and blair gets hit by a golf cart since “fore” is a golf term. and i know that 2x07, “who are you supposed to be?” is the weird halloween party ep where everybody looks ridiculous and ppl are def gonna be getting into it. 2x10 is titled “i don’t like mondays” and idk what that means but i bet mo says that line in the show. and 2x09 is titled “at that time” and im so scared bc that episode has a blair flashback and WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHAT DOES IT ALL MEANNNN

-more women and more women being relevant to the plot. good. it was getting a little obnoxiously man-influenced here. cmon the majority of the cast AND the majority of the directors AND the majority of the producers AND a majority of the writers AND both the creators can’t ALL be men. like pick a struggle.

whew that list was longer than i expected it to be! thanks for the ask anon! what are y’all’s favorite parts so far?

[capitanogiorgio]

The Fisherman scene in Cobra Kai 2x04

There’s something about the fisherman scene in 2x04. Beyond the Miyagi echo thing, Miyagi’s “sign” to send Daniel or whatever.

It almost looks like a dream or a vision or even a hallucination. You see at the beginning of the scene, while Daniel is walking towards the camera, we can see background strollers going in the opposite direction, as if leaving the beach. With the shot of the fisherman, you can also see people in the background going opposite from where the fisherman is. The beach gets filtered out as if there’s only Daniel and the Fisherman left, no one else. Just the sea, the Fisherman and Daniel.

Everything in this scene screams that it’s not just a simple random encounter. The fact it’s before the sea/ocean is a first indicator. It has many symbols but in some cultures and mythologies, the ocean is linked with the afterlife, with the link between the living and the dead, the deads being all together within the ocean. And it just so happens that Daniel finds a fisherman, with an accent and who doesn’t speak English very well, exactly like Mr Miyagi. Coincidence, right? I think not.

(Not to mention the beach is also a gentle nod to the different training scenes of the Karate Kid trilogy, especially the first and third films where Daniel 1) first see Miyagi use the Crane Technique 2) Perfects the “Miyagi” kata in the third movie).

Second of all, the Fisherman. He doesn’t have a name, could fool Daniel it was Miyagi for a second, as foolish a thought as it was (but I guess when you’re as lost as Daniel is throughout the show you may tend to see the one you’re desperately looking for anywhere, even if this doesn’t make any sense). He’s mysterious, seeming full of wisdom. To link it back to the ocean being the link with the world of the dead : the Fisher King from the Arthurian legend has many sources of inspiration and one of them is from celtic mythology, concerning the god Nodens who was believed to fish the souls of the dead. All of these symbols are too big to ignore when you watch this scene. Other symbols include patience, that the fisherman will wait calmly until he catches a fish. And that’s exactly what the Fisherman says to Daniel: “You just have to be patient.”

And third, this has not passed anyone’s attention that the Fisherman sports a similar beard/moustache combo as Mr Miyagi (and I would argue a similar haircut but it’s difficult to judge properly because of the hat. In any case, the length is more or less the same).

(And, as I said, both characters talk in a very similar way with 1) a foreign accent 2) with a type of english that doesn’t use articles or the verb “to be” too often)

And then, there’s the final shot of the scene, when Daniel leaves and we see the Fisherman with his back turned to us. It’s not a wide angle shot of course but the way that shot was framed, clearly adds to the feeling that they were alone on the beach, that it was an eerie encounter, maybe an apparition or a hallucination of Daniel’s desperate and lost mind.

Tl;Dr: What I’m trying to say is that this scene, as emotional as it was, seems to me more than just an hommage to Mr Miyagi (and Pat Morita by extension) and maybe more of the fabrication of Daniel’s desperate search for Mr Miyagi’s guidance especially since the return of Cobra Kai. I doubt the show would take on a fantastic-like approach with the theory of the Fisherman is an apparition of Mr Miyagi’s soul, so I’m going with the theory of Daniel’s lost self.