#i felt like doing this little extra shout out because we're often overlooked

[nanamis-bigtie]

happy pride, everyone - and especially my fellow bisexuals, aspecs and enbies ❤

[variousqueerthings]

end of episode/pre-final-episode thoughts!

i really do like fraser and thatcher tbh, i wasn't sure to begin with, because of the eternal curse of "the love interest" but she gets to be very cool and competent (and dommy), which would be the kind of woman that draws fraser + i like that she punched the guy in the face that kept calling her "darling," was waiting for that + she helped solve the case!

also gotta shout out the semaphore bit. was it accurate? no idea. was it funny as hell + showed off their in-sync competencies? fuck yeah

i think there were some underlying questions this season about ray's and fraser's relationship, brought up in the beginning and then popping up here and there, notably very in-your-face in "juliet" and i did feel like i was missing an extra smthinsmthin in terms of them talking it out, because it's been... simmering. and also at times bubbling over. but then largerly kept to the subtext or dropped in many episodes that were more fun and whimsical, but then in this episode they did name a lot of it (and i liked that it happened because of a seemingly stupid thing - fraser getting the glory he doesn't even want, while ray feels overlooked - it's a neat little human "straw breaking camel's back" moment)

so going into the finale: i wonder if it will call back anything or be a whole new Thing coming up? it feels like s2 was a long denouement, including a fair few characters we saw in s1 (off the top of my head, bank robber lady, gerrard, frankie, frasers dad, rays dad, eric (recast/bit of retcon, but we can work with it), the DA, mr mustafi and the landlord, lesley nielsen, and that kid who chronically lies), and a lot of storyline that felt like it was about defining relationships, rather than building to a big finish, a la s1 which had a whole three episode finale. on the whole it feels almost like retrospective wrap-up, rather than halfway through the story (perhaps because it got cancelled a million times?) (also i am curious now, because i always thought dief and fraser met on the ice floe, but i seem to have misread that and that came a lot later. it was fraser who saved diefenbaker first....) -- there weren't a lot of Big Episodes this season, i'd say the biggest was "juliet is bleeding," followed by maybe "red white and blue" or "a bird in the hand," the former being probably the Big Finale that we're about to follow with a more emotional epilogue (although the saint-stuff Took Me Out) and the latter a continuation of the pilot, making it feel like the most longstanding plot

i imagine it'll continue along the lines it has -- something a little softer perhaps, that is, something centering relationships, especially fraser's and ray's and allowing some retrospective work to be done to show how much they mean to each other. maybe a thing allowing fraser and meg to reaffirm their Thing. more similar to "letting go" than to "victoria"

how many times.... has fraser suffered a head-wound? in his life? because it feels? like a lot of times? are you okay? is your brain? okay?

there have been a couple of fun damsel-in-distress moments for fraser and i think ray should Bask in those more often. you might think fraser is a Saint, but you're his Knight In Shining Armour, so... you're winning at life, I'd say

gonna finish the season now and then i think go back and document along similar lines to s1, but with a few little shifts in what it is im looking out for

spoiler for s2ep17 (gj don't look)

bomb-mandated couples therapy