#it's something that's the most prominent in s6?

[normalbrothers]

how's the family?

[tdaywasamaritale]

so i was having autism time with @yaboieif when we started talking about felix graham de vanily and i came to an excellent realization

so you know at the end of season 5, where they show all the heroes together and felix is part of them? yeah that always irked me. for several reasons actually-

1. argos is publicly felix graham de vanily. everyone (or at least everyone at the diamonds dance) saw him transform. they know it’s felix (or even adrien agreste) but even if devices weren’t allowed at the event like the secret meeting at the agreste mansion, then word of mouth certainly would’ve done it. also, i think most people probably figured out his little stunt with redmoon wasn’t an akumatization, via interviews or other reporting

2. felix has always had an angle, no matter whose side he was on. this is more clearly seen in the later seasons, firstly in season 4 when he betrays ladybug in order to get the peacock to have control over his (and adrien’s, and kagami’s) safety. secondly, he works with kagami in season 5 to take gabriel down, NOT TO HELP LADYBUG NECESSARILY, but the key motive is taking gabriel down. it’s always been his agenda, even if he ends up helping ladybug in the process.

therefore, when i saw him in the finale standing with the other heroes, with a stupid protagonist goody-goody smile on his face, something didn’t sit right. where was the angle?

i’ll FREAKING TELL YOU the angle, gents. who do we see prominently featured as a villain in the new trailers for s6, other than cerise?

tomoe tsurugi.

so i present to you felix’s angle for joining the HERO TEAM that opposes the VILLAINS: he’s freeing his girlfriend.

badabingbadaboom i’m the maker of the cain and abel sentitwins post i understand and i see things

[riacte]

I know you made a post a while back on how to write Rendog, do you by any chance have tips for False or any posts on how to write her? The docs I have found on False are very limited XP

Thanks for the ask!

I personally find False tricky to characterise because her reactions can be finnicky and unpredictable, but that's why I like her.

False loves animals. Her bases are full of them and she gives them silly names like Noddy (she's bad with names)

False has mentioned her favourite animals are foxes and she didn't really understand the bird association until chat pointed out it was because she built an eagle for like two times

False knows she has an intimidating reputation but she doesn't fully vibe with it because she thinks she's rusty and out of practice.

False is community oriented and quietly connects different areas done by hermits (what she did at the end of S6, especially prominent with the districts, also what she's doing with the rivers this season). She keeps the group together and keeps infrastructure running (she contributed to the HC7 Nether hub) without making a big deal out of it

Based off the above, False has a flexible style and can work with a variety of aesthetics/styles while keeping them coherent with the overall landscape, clean, and on a realistic scale (realistic for Minecraft builds anyway). She has a keen eye and can easily pick up the finer details of someone's build/vision.

False's kindness really shines through her actions. She may be snarky and sarcastic a lot of the time, so you may not hear her say she cares for someone or openly show verbal affection but you know she does because she does favours for them/spends time with them/remembers specific details about them. Which ironically ties to the following:

False has bad memory and Does Not Remember a lot of "significant" things (she forgot her MCC10 Orange team once)

Some phrases to pepper in [insert British accent]: "Oh my goodness" "Blimey" "What the heck man?" "Flippin'" and her catchphrase of sorts for this season in the form of a horn— "Oh my God HI"

False sometimes introduces her male collaborators with a mister prefix to the audience presumably for fun and whimsy, I don't know if she does this for the female collaborators

False is VERY skittish and scared while being competent at facing whatever she's scared of. She's constantly confused. Think Xisuma and Mumbo's type of British confusion. She's paranoid.

False is mischievous and quick witted. She can come up with pranks on the fly and execute them swiftly. (For example, the invisible hat/briefcase prank on Gem) She loves punching/shooting/killing people and throwing them into one block holes.

Honestly, False is just random at times. Why does she have two phantoms in boats on her base? Dunno. Why does she sleep in that awfully cramped staircase bed? Dunno but it doesn't seem like she's changing it. Why is it called Big Business? It just is. It's for fun and whimsy (until she gets scared and starts crying and running away).

False has a tendency to randomly sneak up on someone and randomly escape. She's hard to catch. She's an enigma.

False tends to stay quiet during big group events and is also the type to get talked over

It takes time for her to warm up to new people so she'll be pretty quiet around them, however she will speak up for business/practical purposes (eg. her comms when she plays competitively).

I think this already gets talked a lot but False has great spatial awareness + reflexes and does a lot of the wrangling when it comes to team games

I don't think this can make it into a fanfic but she LOVES using emojis 😄🤨😒 I think for her HC7, most of her episode titles have an emoji

This is more of a personal interpretation but False seems like she would be scared/wary/paranoid of things most people don't care about but then when something actually freaky shows up she's like "yeah sure whatever".

False disrupts the flow when she's expected to go with it and goes with the flow when she's expected to disrupt it.

TLDR:

Surface level: quiet, skittish, alarmed, confused, nervous, wary, awkward, snarky, sarcastic

Under the surface level: cautious, considerate, kind, patient, loyal, humble

I really want to emphasize that she teases/kills/roasts her friends because that's how she shows affection. The more I watch her, the more it hits me how kind and patient she is but I guess that doesn't fit into the slay girlboss trope. And if she does show affection, it's in a subtle way, like quietly correcting someone's self deprecating joke or giving "gifts" to them in the form of pranks.

[whateverisbeautiful]

How do you feel about the other couples on the show? Glenn and Maggie, Carol and Ezekiel, Denise and Tara, Aaron and his husband (forgot his name), Abraham and Rosita, Abraham and Sasha, Father Gabriel and Rosita, Daryl and Connie.

This one’s interesting! I’ve never really delved into other TWD couples all that much, so it was fun to write my little take on each of the ones you asked about here. I wrote it in order of my least to most favorite of these couples. Thanks for the question.☺️

#8: Father Gabriel and Rosita: I must admit, when these two first kissed in that S9 time jump, I thought for sure we were watching a Father Gabriel dream sequence lol. They were the most wth couple from the seasons I watched. Even Father G and Jadis made more sense since they both have had snake tendencies throughout their TWD tenure. To me, Rosita and Siddiq were the better pair, and it would have been nice to see them last together.

#7: Denise and Tara: Denise was definitely the better half of this couple. I really liked her, and was never crazy about Tara. To me, the most likable thing about Tara was her relationship with Denise. Both before and after her relationship with Denise, I really didn’t care much for her. But as a couple, I thought they were overall sweet in the brief moments that focused on them.

#6: Abraham and Rosita: I think Abraham and Rosita’s breakup scene really taints my overall view of this relationship because it was so cold hearted and made it seem like what they had was never as meaningful to Abe as it was to Rosita which was sad.. They were okay together, even tho in retrospect they do seem like a pairing that made it work rather than just being naturally really compatible.

#5: Aaron and Eric: They didn’t get much focus together, so I didn’t really have any particular feeling about this couple. They were cool and I like that they sorta took Daryl in when the group first arrived at ASZ. I was super neutral on them but then their final moments together in season 8 were genuinely heartfelt, and so that made me care more about them just as they were saying goodbye.

#4: Carol and Ezekiel: I liked these two together. They were quite opposite from each other but it worked. It was nice seeing Carol get to experience a genuinely good guy who really loved and respected her after enduring Ed. Exekiel brought out a lighthearted optimism in Carol that she needed and he felt she saw him for more than his royal persona which he needed. It was sad they split after losing Henry. I get they have to grieve in their own ways but it was disappointing that Zeke got a little emotionally abandoned when she left him. That situation made me all the more grateful that Richonne’s marriage survived and remained truly healthy after losing their kid.

#3: Glenn and Maggie: Ok so this one is interesting because of course I really like Glenn and Maggie together but I’ve just never been crazy about how they initially got together in s2. It was fitting I guess for two young people in an apocalypse but idk it’s a little rushed. And then because they were supposed to be the prominent twd love story it started to feel like they had less and less involvement in other parts of the story. I think Glenn especially was under utilized in s5 and s6. But their love and devotion to each other was moving, especially in season 3. One of the most heartfelt elements of their storyline was seeing Hershel come to embrace Glenn as a son. It’s good Glenn and Maggie found each other in this world. And thinking about it now, I’d have loved to see Glenn, Maggie, Rick, & Michonne on a run or excursion or something together in Richonne’s canon era before Glenn was tragically taken for good.

#2: Daryl and Connie: These two would absolutely be my 2nd favorite twd couple below Richonne, if they had become canon. Daryl & Connie really should have been official because they’re so good together. And it really seems like the only reason they didn’t is because of outside schedule conflicts and maybe Daryl needing to be solo for his France spin-off. But I loved this pair, Once Rick left TWD, the show had so few threads and relationships that felt fresh and compelling imo, and the ones that still had heart were Michonne and her kids and Daryl and Connie to me. I love the way they understood each other and the way Connie brought out such a sweet side of Daryl. They both lit up around each other. They had a great natural chemistry. And their energy together was so sweet and warm. I always like to think whenever Daryl comes back home and Rick gets to observe Daryl around Connie, Rick’s gonna quickly pick up on something between them and let Daryl know he should go for it.

#1: Abraham and Sasha: This one surprised me and their time as a couple was brief, but I actually really loved these two together. And I felt the show did a good job of making both Sasha’s relationships (with Bob and then with Abe) feel just right for her in their own unique ways. After she had experienced so much loss and trauma in season 5, I’m glad Sasha got to find new love and enjoyment in life again with Abraham in season 6. I like that Abe’s humor and Sasha’s no-nonsense actually balanced each other out and brought out good sides of each other. I think it’s so heartwarming that Abraham felt so hopeful about the future because of being with Sasha and even wanted a kid with her. And that peace sign he gives her in the lineup and Sasha’s reaction to it😭. That small heartbreaking moment between them lingered with me for awhile. Then I liked getting even more insight into their loving and supportive dynamic in Sasha’s flashbacks from her final episode. For being such a short-lived relationship they got me to care and believe they sincerely found a good thing with each other.

[waywardmillennial]

Puppet History Trailer Breakdown

The PH season seven trailer dropped on Watcher TV today and I'm going to try to break it down New Rockstars style - so settle in because this is a long one!

disclaimer: I am an oxymoron of a human who notices lots of details and misses other clues - so I might not have caught everything but I tried!

[s7 trailer easter eggs and spoiler-y thoughts under the cut]

The trailer opens with the Professor looking at the billboard for Phorgedytol, the tagline of which reads "(something) WITH YOUR BRAIN"

[note: this is different to the Phorgedytol billboard we see at the end of the trailer that reads "FRENCH THE VOID!"]

the first shot of Ryan in the trailer is from the episode with Aria Inthavong

behind them on the bookshelf you can see what I think is a brachiosaurus (from the late Jurassic era), a pair of alpacas, and the Genie lamp very prominently displayed!

then we cut to this interaction Ryan: How long has it been since we've been in class? to which the Professor gives a very non-committal "Uhhhh...."

[Interesting, no? Possible side-effect of the Professor taking Phorgedytol maybe?]

then we cut to guest Alex Song-Xia with a possibly foreboding comment

[this probably has no lore implications but I like that there's a framed copy of this photo that Ryan tweeted in 2021 on the set]

the trailer continues with the Professor talking to the guests

then the trailer cuts to what could be a major lore drop with Ryan saying, "You keep my wife's name out of your god damn mouth!" as he marches to the theater to slap the Professor

[notice how this is in black and white -that's the trailer edit not mine- so perhaps this is a flashback of some kind? Maybe to something that happened to make the Professor want to take Phorgedytol?]

Remember in s6 Ryan and the Professor were friends (see: the JC Penney photoshoot) so seeing a moment like this in the trailer is, for lack of a better phrase, a slap in the face

Based on what all the guests are wearing in the trailer it looks like The Slap will happen in Claudia's episode, based on the shot right before Ryan gets out of the chair (their reaction face is gorgeous btw)

we get a great out of context line from Sara Rubin

and the Professor talking about his anatomy with Brennan

Then the Lore Drop Hits

[yeah the rest of this was just a drop in the bucket in this trailer tbh]

The cuts happen fairly fast with overlapping VO - I posted most of the main shots earlier and there are some shots of the history skits that I skipped to focus on the Lore. These shots also have some alt descriptions in this post of things I noticed on the rewatch

VO Script Mysterious Puppet: No, you louse. You sops. You absolute men. Ryan: Well, this is collusion. They clearly- Professor: That's not collusion. Ryan: It's collusion! You guys fucking figured it out before this. Brennan: Just get on his wavelength, man. Professor: Get on my level! Ryan: You're just not ready for the truth!

[First reactions: The Professor is wearing a party hat for a lot of this trailer, and so is the new puppet. So they must have been at the same party. Also, the Professor is standing in front of a sign that reads "Six Nasty Seasons" even though this is the trailer for season seven. Is that from the season six wrap party? Could it also point to Phorgedytol symptoms that we're 'missing' a season?

The horse puppet looking through the door has a moustache, so is very likely not Dorothy Ruth or Stanley Melvin Murphy. Maybe DR's fiancé? This same moustachio'd horse is in the pasta scene

Hard to say which horse is walking towards The Brown Derby but fun to note that was a real chain of restaurants in LA starting in 1926]

Then the Professor meets with the new Shane character - shall we call them Patch for now?

and that's the trailer in a nutshell!

*Roll End Credits*

Other reactions:

Delighted that we get canon confirmation that the Professor goes by Connie McNasty, at least some of the time

Love that Joyce and Garrett are back this season!

The noir, old Hollywood vibes of this trailer are gorgeous and overall it looks really well-made!

I hope we get some explanation for the slap that's not Ryan and the Professor becoming enemies again

the Liza Minelli* of it all

Not too sure on many theories at this point, but I'm sure it's going to be a great (but maybe nail-biting) season!

[caramelminie]

can i put my tinfoil hat back on

i know everyone is very upset with the finale right now, i am too but i don't think it's the end of buddie

he didn't say that they were wrong or that buck isn't in love with eddie he just said that buck still isn't listening to them and doesn't believe that it's true. to me it doesn't seem like it happened for nothing but rather like it was a scene to introduce that idea to the general audience

and of course it's still very possible that the writing wasn't good and it actually meant nothing but i truly hope that's not the case. they brought it up several times, that usually doesn't mean that it's nothing

also something i've been wondering this whole time is if they're trying to restart what they were doing with buddie after s5 and s6 seemed to shut it down so strongly. their progression in s7 and s8 resemble s2 and s3 so much to me. in s2 eddie had just barely been introduced, buddie was a very new concept and did honestly start out seeming like a good friendship. as it progresses we can start to see the chemistry between them and the first shift we really start to see is 2x10 where the worker tells buck that they have an adorable son and he thanks her. the overall progression of buddie in season 2 remains pretty tame though for the most part.

then in season 3 we can start to see a real shift, especially with the tsunami situation. then there's the ''super gay'' kitchen scene(oliver starks opinion!) where you can really see that they have a different friendship than the others. there's more tension when they speak and theres several flirty scenes between the two. then in ep15 we see just how much the thought of losing eddie affected buck, him sobbing in bobby's arms and digging for eddie in the pouring rain really signals that buck loves him deeply and is terrified of the possibility of his death. that's where we start to feel a huge shift in their relationship but it's still kinda up in the air.

s4 continues on that path, they keep it pretty ambiguous with the same flirty undertones we've been seeing the past two seasons. then in the finale it seems like an obvious opening to their feelings realization, especially for buck when he's in the ambulance with eddie. and it was supposed to be!! they intended on going canon with buddie after that but fox said no (😒) and after that buddie basically seemed to get buried 6 feet under. new partners get introduced for both of them afterwards and we don't make much valuable progress.

5x6 has the scene where the prisoner threatens eddie & christopher and buck shows a very angry reaction, clearly upset by the thought of somebody hurting them. but he's with taylor throughout i think all of s5 and eddie is with ana for the first three episodes before they breakup and he proceeds to not really date anybody the rest of the season.

in s6 both buck and eddie meet potential partners. we have the lightning strike scene where eddie damn near loses it thinking he's about lose buck. he was also shot off the ladder with the strike but it was less severe and once he realizes the state buck is in he basically forgets everything that just happened to him in a panic to save buck. but even in s6 with the occasional flirting there isn't a lot of obvious signs that would tell the ga that they may be a possible couple. to me it's very important to focus on what they do for the ga because that's where they make things more obvious so nobody will act like they didn't see a plot coming. s6 ends with marisol and natalia and basically no hope for buddie.

then after s6 they switch to abc. there's obviously some differences with the show but for the most part most things are the same. buck and natalia break up and later on we get buck's coming out arc where he realizes he's bisexual. honestly i have no interest in speaking about tommy but unfortunately some of his scenes are important to this so.. i have no choice 😒 from the start eddie is very prominent in their relationship, from casual mentions of him to him just showing around them he seems to just always be a part of their relationship. eddie cheats on marisol with his dead wife(wtf was that storyline) and they break up. christopher ends up going to texas because of that situation as well. this clearly affects eddie and he eventually comes to the decision in s8 to move to texas and be with christopher to rekindle their bond and hopefully regain his trust.

losing eddie takes an obvious toll on buck, the man moved into his house and called him practically every single day until he came back. buck and tommy break up(thank god 🙏) and later on they hook up(in eddies house.. the audacity) and when they talk about possibly getting back together, tommy jokes about the competition(eddie) being eliminated. buck is strangely defensive over this and tommy ends up leaving. this is where i think oliver didn't say anything incorrect in that article. buck literally is not shown exploring the possibility that he actually is in love with eddie, and that doesn't change when maddie brings it up as well. he denied it and refuses to consider it any further, repressing any possibility of those feelings being real. that doesn't mean he isn't in love with him, it could just mean he's still in denial. he keeps reminding people eddie is straight when they suggest the possibility of his feelings and i think it's that way for himself as well. he refuses to consider it because he doesn't want to get hurt and ruin the friendship they have. 8x17 was our holy grail and honestly i think molly green and james leffler should write all of s9 but i digress!!

i think we got our hopes up after that + the insane buddie promo run we got leading up to that finale and all of that resulted in a lot of disappointment and pain from how.. underwhelming the finale is. they share a few looks that i personally find suspicious but i might just be desperate idk 😭 eddie ends up saving buck & ravi from the building collapse and buck(in my opinion) looks at eddie with an overwhelming amount of love in his eyes. it's a different look than what we've seen so far, the way they watched eachother in that moment felt so intimate that to me even with the disappointing ending and lack of any real conversations between the two i feel like it's still not the end. i don't think oliver and ryan meant to queerbait with those interviews but i genuinely think they either know something we don't or the showrunners weren't truthful with them. they have never focused so heavily on buddie promotions before this, which brings me back to thinking they're trying to reintroduce it to the general audience. we're upset because we have been following along with this since s2 but the ga hasn't really been considering buddie. i think that the scenes of them accusing buck of being in love with eddie weren't for nothing but rather to make the ga consider it. they won't make them canon immediately after that, they need to build it up more now that it's more of a directly mentioned thing. i think that abc is replicating the same progression we first saw from s2-s4, if you compare s2 with s7 and s3 with s8, they honestly seem very similar in terms of buddie. i think because of that they will possibly go canon at the s9 finale like they intended with s4. it feels like abc wanted to redo the buddie storyline rather than pick up where we left off, so to us it feels like we're regressing rather than getting somewhere in their relationship but it's actually what is going to lead us to them ending up together. abc has multiple slowburn storylines and i wouldn't be surprised if this was another, they just shouldn't have done it to a ship that already had 5 previous seasons of progress.

i could be wrong about all of this and they could genuinely just be queerbaiting for viewership, but to me it just seems unlikely. however tim minear always likes to keep us guessing so idk lol he could actually just be ruining their storyline

i'm sorry that this is so long btw!! i also haven't watched some of the episodes in a while so please correct me if i'm wrong about anything

edit: i also forgot to mention that we are all upset about buck moving out but they don't actually say he's left yet. he's viewing apartments but he hasn't picked one he likes yet. i think in s9 he will still be searching for one and staying on the diaz couch for now, because he's not having luck finding any that feel ''right''. i think they might be doing a parallel to when he was helping eddie pick a place in el paso where he kept nitpicking them, he'll do the same with his place until he eventually just stays with them(and gets promoted from couch to bed 😌)

[raayllum]

Anyways time to analyze this screencap

This was originally a split second clip from the Bardel projects' reel, although it's since been omitted... and interacted with online by some of the team / cat's out of the bag, so uh - here's the meta!

The first aim is to try to establish when this is taking place timeline wise (aka in which season and when). The second will be who I think this scene involves (which is Rayllum and I'm gonna explain why). Spoilers for 6x01 thanks to previous Cons and proceed with caution if you don't want any spoilers!

So 6x01, "Startouched," has Rayla and Callum embark to the Starscraper by the end of the episode alongside Stella. This means they will presumably not be reuniting with anyone else from the Main Cast until at least the season's midpoint (6x05) if not later (6x07-6x08), by which point the plot will likely be in full swing, even if Aaravos was not released by the season's midpoint. That means there may not be as much time for something that seems like a cute little filler moment as this seems to be.

Not impossible, but I think it's unlikely that this shot/scene is from S6 from a plot / time standpoint.

Another reason in this column is that we know Hat at least, but presumably the other Baitlings too, are with Soren and Zym when they go to Lux Aurea to meet up with Corvus again.

So there's no way, realistically, it could be in early season six. If it is in later season six, it means that Callum and Rayla succeed at the Starscraper / escape relatively unscathed enough with a small window between reuniting with the boys / Ezran and shit hitting the fan. It is a window, narrow, but not impossible

My early estimate could also be early S7 as, again, the latter half of the final season will be particularly intense, and I could see the characters trying to have some down time / make the best of a bad situation earlier on in the season when there's a bit more time, well, to let them try

As for the boat itself...

The first thing is that the boat is decorated quite prettily and prominently with roses, which just feels romantic. Stella is juggling and the Baitlings (who seem to be singing) seem to be putting on some small, endearingly silly sort of performance. possibly added by the two (Star arcanum?) birds we see. There's also a warm yellow-ish light source coming from the bottom of the picture and subsequently probably the upper middle of the boat, which makes me think of candles.

I'm willing to bet that this is a Rayllum moment since it just screams Callum being very sweet and romantic, and setting up this (maybe they have to take a boat and he wants it to be better, maybe it's just for fun) boat to try and distract Rayla because she doesn't really like them. I can't see Janai or Amaya being interested in a little animal circus performance, so that rules them out to me, and we hardly ever see Stella be separated from Rayla, even temporarily. So I think this being a Rayllum scene makes the most sense because of Stella's inclusion, and maybe it is Callum wanting to do something special for her, whether it's them officially getting back together, or just spending some time together even while the world is ending cause y'know, they missed out on two years of dates they could've gone on, and want to use some of the time they have left for that.

Stella is also juggling Adoraburrs, which have a tendency (presumably) to be primarily close to the Moonshadow forests, since we don't see the tiny ones anywhere else in Xadia, so it could even be a pit stop on the way back to the Silvergrove to get her and her family unghosted, perhaps (and all the more reason to try and take her mind off things).

My other consideration for a pair is Sorvus, since I could see Soren being silly and setting up the Bailting choir (he seems close to Hat in particular) and I think Corvus would be endeared by it, ultimately. That doesn't account for Stella though, and while Soren and Corvus are clearly friends/co-workers on the crownguard, they haven't had a lot of even teasingly romantic development, so I don't feel like the story is really gonna prioritize them heavily as a romance (especially because we have Karim/Miyana, Callum/Rayla, possibly Aaravos and someone in his past, Claudia/Terry breaking up and presumably getting back together, we're gonna get Runaan/Ethari back in these coming seasons in addition to Lain/Tiadrin, and there's always Janai/Amaya, of course). TDP already has a lot of romantic relationships in it, so I feel like Sorvus, if/when they do get together, would probably be a smaller moment later in the final two seasons, and they probably wouldn't get as big a focus as a scene like this seems to imply just from a pacing/character standpoint

Plus, Rayllum kinda has a thing with boats and important moments for them happening on said boats, but that is a meta for another day

[receivedhope]

i LOVE dave but it’s honestly crazy to me that heart/omw are considered his huge redemption arc episodes when most of his screen time is spent, once again, venting his emotions at kurt and leaving it up to him to fix dave - the way dave tried to make himself feel better by shoving kurt around is not that much different from trying to make himself feel better by wanting kurt to accept his feelings so he can validate his progression in accepting himself. his confession has a lot of emphasis on how he feels and you can get from it that he kind of expected kurt to just. pick him over blaine?

and it’s fairly well established dave is extremely aware of how others perceive him and is also a fairly good actor, we’ve seen this in Furt, we’ve even seen this PQ - and it’s also why NBK’s locker room kiss was such an effective one-two punch because no one expected it. i don’t want to imply dave’s disappointment/sadness at kurt’s rejection is not sincere and i don’t think he played those emotions up, but i absolutely do believe showing himself so openly was deliberate so that kurt would feel bad for him.

dave treats kurt either as the personification of his own homosexuality or as a projection of his own crisis, which is why the more dave is pressured to fit in, the harder he comes down on kurt. and the more dave opens up to gay culture, the more he wants to be with kurt. kurt is always up on a pedestal for dave, something kurt’s “i’m better than you” self-preservational tactic probably doesn’t help with.

i also think the way he kept trying to reach kurt in OMW was… bad, lol. kurt clearly felt conflicted about it, his empathy and morals always win over his backbone and survival instinct and i also think it was another moment of dave imposing himself on kurt. and kurt even felt guilty about ignoring him! you don’t owe him anything!

the hospital scene is much less about dave (who is at most a prominent side character) than it is about showcasing how forgiving kurt is. you can (and should, imo) feel bad for dave, but this was not a redemption arc. that will come in s6, when he respects (and suspects even before the fact) blaine and kurt enough to leave them be and give his blessing. THAT is something dave from the first three seasons wouldn’t have done.

[myimaginarywonderland]

Maybe I am just so in love with the way this new era is set up but I genuinely don't get some criticism.

It is very obvious to me that Ms Flood is set up to be a bigger reveal next season. Like how the silence was already mentioned in S5 but only really became important in S6. There is clearly more to her they are building up to and being angry that it wasn't revealed feels a bit like missing out that set up.

Ruby making it snow and having a song in her heart? Obviously because she became important. The one thing she has always wanted to know for her whole live was who her mother was and probably all she could ever remember from that night and the taps she has so obviously watched multiple times was the snow and the Christmas Carol. A sort of live line if you will, a ray of hope in the search for her mother. A memory. The oldest song in the universe will always be the first to be remembered. So many songs, sounds we know because we have somehow unconsciously saved them to our memory even if we can't recall it. The oldest song in the universe is the first one to be remembered which for Ruby was the song that played during her being left at the church. The oldest song is a memory, a distant melody you recall without even knowing about it and that was clearly what Maestro was referring to.

Just like how Ruby's mom was important because of the mystery she posed and the question, Ruby's memories were important because they were the constant thing she had when trying to find her mom.

It snows because we, the Doctor and everyone else, has made Ruby important because of the mystery she is and therefore the one thing that is the most prominent and important will be her memory of that night which includes the snow.

So when she thinks about that night, when she , the girl who was made important by the most powerful God in the universe and probably like the TARDIS Ruby has some of that hanging onto her in some way seeing as she traveled with the Doctor, really is emotional, when she faces the dilemma of her family situation for her, of course it will snow. Because snow is important to her, because the memory of that night, the one question she never got an answer to will obviously resurface in those situations.

Ruby just like everyone else in the RTD era is an ordinary person who became extraordinary through the Doctor, through the impact she had on him, the thing she represented to him. She was a mystery, the most obvious one that the Doctor wanted to solve. She made herself important which in turn made her memories real because her story is real.

Ruby is the perfect example of how storytelling. You mention something, you meet some that is plagued by that one question and it becomes an obsession so big that when you finally get the answer it won't be satisfying because you have built it up so much in your head that nothing no matter how big would most likely ever compare and then when you actually reflect on it, it is brilliant.

Ruby's character is probably going to be one of my favourite merely because of how she was written.

[snekverse]

I'm in a mood I desperately need to talk about my interpretation of myst s6/how how I plan to tackle it in my lil rewrite bc it makes NO fuckin sense to me lol

N e ways first and foremost that relic nonsense: I actually don't mind it conceptually, I think it works within the (limited) context and world building set up for us. My issue comes from the aftermath, specifically regarding those who were turned into relics. Literally wtf yknow. N e ways in my head the way it works is that being Relic'd involves essentially just boiling you down to your most prominent, most powerful attributes. For Mr. Ultima over here his strongest attribute should be obvious, hence him being blinded after being unreliced. Similar for lucinda losing her ability to use magic. Zane I think is a little more complicated being a normal dude for the most part but I think his intelligence would have been highlighted, which was likely heightened during the forever potion experimentation. I like the idea of him having brain/memory problems afterwards, but again I fucking hate how it was executed. I want to make it worse lol. I'm thinkin either broader gaps in memory or jumbled memories where maybe a bunch of em kinda just get mixed together or have random shit added so there's no way to know for sure which parts are real and which parts aren't. I've also been toying with the ideas of short term memory and maybe minor loss of motor function?? Idk I don't wanna fuck him up too bad lol but canon is SUCH bs I can't get over it I gotta do something.

[nolabballgirl]

Im a white girl and im just learning here so forgive me if im slow on this. But i don't understand why druck is put on a pedestal with regards to how they've tackled race/developed their characters of color. Druck also tends to dismiss race entirely (Sam, David, Fatou and Abdi) or make the trauma of characher their whole character (Ava and David) or underdevelop characters when they've had space to do more (Amira, Sam & fam). So why is druck deemed better than other remakes in this area?

hi, Anon! thanks for your ask. okay, so for me to answer your questions, you have to accept two premises:

neither skam nor any of its remakes (including druck) are perfect.

when a remake acknowledges audience pain and admits that it has made mistakes, hires writers of color, and then greatly improves upon its mistakes, that has to be commended.

so, let's break down race and representation for the remakes. and as you will see below, the remakes are so egregiously bad when it comes to race and representation, that when you compare druck after jünglinge took over, it's on a separate level altogether and that's why i believe druck is deemed to be better when it comes to race and representation. (also, i'm skipping skam nl and skam austin from this analysis because who knows how those two would have ended up...and begoña owes me a heart to heart after she ruined by beloved skam españa, but let's be real, eskam had a long way to go too.)

druck -

well, from the list in your ask and from the hard work that skamofcolor put in, druck is a remake with one of the most racially diverse main cast members in both the old and new gens as well as the most characters of colors in side characters as well, so that's an improvement compared to the other remakes. but you're right, there were a lot of missed storylines they could have tackled with the old gen.

druck's sana season (amira mahmood) does not put their sana through weeks of torture or ruin the girl squad in the process. (and as a muslim, i will say their handling of islam was the best among the remakes but i digress...) however, amira did not get her full 10 weeks of screen time and the show missed a huge opportunity diving into shared microaggressions and racism that sam, abdi, etc. also faced. and druck was ripped for it! for cutting amira's time and playing it way too safe and not giving sam her fair due, among others.

now, here's where druck does something that no other remake has done and honestly, this is where i think most of the praise stems from. they listened to the criticism! wait, showrunners and writers can do that?! do you mean we are not just yelling into the avoid? not only have the writers said the ways in which they could have improved (even after s6 they discussed audience perceptions and overestimating how ava/mailin would be received, etc.) but they also hired JÜNGLINGE to bring the new gen to life. if you are unfamiliar, this is how they describe themselves:

JÜNGLINGE is a film collective of mid-twenties raised in the hybrid cultures of post-migrant Germany. We believe that young, European film needs to tell queer, diverse and most of all – specific – stories about growing up and living together in our societies.

so looking at that progress over time from druck s1 to druck s6, i can't help but give them them props for such a marked improvement. in fact, i don't think ANY single skam season covers race and ethnicity as well as s5 and s6 did. sure, they were not perfect (see point 1 above), but my god, the strides that these two seasons made. so much so that in s6, we had a non-white interracial couple as main, who were both unapologetic about their ethnicities and upbringing and culture (Gambia and Vietnam). and having fatou/ava's friendship be so prominent, listening to them talk about black hair, and referencing nazis in germany - yes to all of this!

and let's talk about ava! what an amazing character who was allowed to be angry, giggly, happy, sad, and express herself, without falling into tropes like imane from skam france, and so many people can relate to her struggles with white liberal mailin. there was a sensitivity there that's so rare in these remakes. and what druck couldn't do with amira/kiki, they were given room to explore here, and i really do feel that it was an important story to tell, especially in the age of whitesplaining, white feminist tears, and white liberals talking over women of color.

skam france -

eight seasons in and skam france is STILL mistreating its characters of colors and not given them their full due. now with bilal literally taking a back seat to jo (look at the YouTube header for crying out loud!) but ever since yann in s1, skam france has done such a horrible job with its depiction of POC, especially black characters. daphne is one of the most racist vildes and the treatment of imane (even beyond her season) has been vile and unfair.

and you would think that post s6 and after a new showrunner and writing team was hired on, that there would be improvements (similar to what druck did above), but no! look at how both aurélien and judith were treated in s7, and after a strong opening for s8, it looks like bilal is now taking a backseat to jo, and once again, skam france and its new team are prioritizing a white character over a character of color.

and has there been any acknowledgment by the skam france team of the criticism over the years? rather, david has often doubled down in the face of fan critiques - just an unwillingness to listen, and so we are left with this as a result.

skam italia -

say what you want about skam italia but when it comes to race?well, they certainly take the cake for the whitest remake, so much so that swaths of fans will refuse to watch this remake for the "wana" debacle, and rightfully so. (whitewashing of the sana casting) and remember how people tried to defend this casting decision? but don't forget that italy has a higher percentage of muslims living in the country than norway does! give me a break.

and how can i forget how hajar brown was dragged after she, as a woman of color, deemed to shade and criticize casting decisions for this remake?

wtfock -

do i even need to get into wtfock and its representation on race?! i mean s4 and s5 are arguably the two worst seasons of any skam remakes period. and the complete lack of acknowledgment from the showrunners after the torrent of criticism they received. the egregiously racist writing. i am a defense attorney by profession, and even i am struggling. there's seriously no defense for them here...

so given all this above, i hope this explains why i value the steps druck has taken, especially in s5 and s6, to tackle and improve their depiction of race and representation.

[cpd-55055]

i know this sounds mean but do you think hailey and jay are the only ones who develop their characters unlike the others?

I feel like all the characters have developed in some way in the past 10 years. Some characters have had much more character development than others, but there is still change. I haven't watched much of S1-S4, so I can't attest to character growth then, but in S5-S9, all the main characters have grown in some way.

That being said, I do think Jay and Hailey have developed as characters more in S9 compared to Kim, Adam, and Kevin. S9 showed Hailey growing as a cop, and by the finale, we saw a clear picture of what kind of cop she wanted to be. We noticed some changes in Jay's character, him crossing some lines and following Voight blindly. I'm still curious how that will play out next season.

For Kim and Adam, it's hard to see character development when the majority of their storylines are related to Burzek and their personal life. And even then, we haven't seen much change in that situation. The last time Kim and Adam had storylines that weren't about Burzek was S6, and in my opinion, that was the last time we saw significant character development for either of them, especially Adam. I guess Kim had some character development in S7 and S8 as she became a mother during those seasons, but in S9, even though both characters had tons of screen time, their development was very stagnant.

For Kevin, it's hard to see character development because he barely gets any screen time. S8 was definitely his most prominent season as it focused on his views on the blue wall, and he had several episodes focused on that. But in S9, we only got three episodes about him. And all three episodes were focused on his failed relationship with Celeste. That isn't enough time to show a character grow.

I think it's important to show a character change and develop, or else the character gets boring. That's what happened with Voight. For the past 9 seasons, we see Voight go rogue and do something illegal. Then the writers try to give him a redemption arc, but he returns to his dirty ways again. It's this same cycle over and over, and as a viewer, I'm getting tired of it.

Hopefully, S10 brings a new dynamic for each character! 🤞🏼

[riacte]

#lays down to think about rendog#committed to the drama but always feeling the need to play the foil or supporting character rather than the hero

RIGHT! Ren rarely centers himself as the hero of the story. Even in heroic cases, he'll say he's with a group of heroes who helped him along (Blue Bats). And most prominently: Ren is most willing to act as the hero when he has someone to fight for.

Demise 2 is self explanatory and the textbook example. This is also basically Ren's agenda in Life series. Third Life: Martyn was his employee and he refused Scar's offer for Martyn's sake. In Last Life, Ren immediately devoted himself to Lizzie because he was feeling lonely and purposeless. In Double Life, Ren was assigned to be soulbound to BigB and was ecstatic over it because he had someone to belong to by default, and that someone also belonged to him. Ren had people to fight for. A group to feel belonged to and fight for.

This is in contrast to Ren having an ideal to fight for, in which Ren will likely commit self sabotage, twist his ideals, and turn into the villain. In S9, Ren wanted to solve the diamond inflation and carried out infrastructural change. In S10, Ren wanted to organise his friends and also do infrastructure. This can be seen in the latter parts of 3L when Ren moves on from being Martyn's boss to Dogwarts' king, and wants to absorb allies into his Dogwarts faction to go against Monopoly Mountain (his "ideal" being defeating Desert Duo and protecting his Red Banners instead of merely protecting Dogwarts). This is in contrast to Ren playing "good" characters when he has someone to fight for, because fighting for a friend is a noble and sympathetic deed, whereas fighting for ideals is a classic villain origin story.

Ren doesn't become a hero for his own sake. He'll become a villain if he's pursuing his own ideals (so everyone else can use him as villain), but he's willing to give being a hero a shot if he's fighting for friends. His narrative is splattered with self sacrifice and self sabotage. He'll fight for everyone, but not himself, because he'll purposefully turn evil when he's fighting for himself.

This is why Demise 2 was so satisfying. Ren types himself as the loser of the game, doesn't bother to gain a kill, but when his favoured champion starts getting anxious, Ren decides to take a brave step forward. Because for False, he would. (Side note: I feel like Ren's involvement in S6 Civil War stemmed from being blamed for a prank on False, and he assured her he wouldn't do anything to her because they were neighbours.)

This was also why late stage Third Life hits crazyyyy. Martyn going "get me a shield and I'll follow you to the ends of the world". Martyn fights for Ren in the way Ren fights for other people. Something about being the hero for someone who doesn't dare to be hero of himself. Something about someone who doesn't dare to be hero of himself being the hero for someone else.

Behind the perceived selflessness is self deprecation, because Ren doesn't think his goals and ideals are worthy to be fought for. But his friends? They're always worthy. And that love and desire to be useful propels Ren past his self doubt.

He's at the altar, willing to turn red to protect his friends. He's at Bdubs' place, standing close to the trap to lure him in, willing to die so Bdubs will die with him. He's at the nether roof, positioning himself as the final boss, willing to end his reign and tie up the plot. To Ren, sacrifice is love.

Big Terracotta and the "Let's overthrow Rendog" storyline

My knee jerk reaction to Ren saying they would be making minigames to fight over the permits because they wanted the plot to progress was "oh no NOT again". I initially thought of the minigames in the King Ren arc finale but I suppose it's also similar to the Mycelium War finale. I love minigames, but it's like another Ren vs Scar plot, which might very well (but not necessarily) extend into Neighbourhood vs Mountain plot (and I guess the Redditors will cry about a "civil war" because they've been anticipating it since the season began).

First of all: Big T is basically Ministry rebranded. It doesn't contain everyone from the Neighbourhood, but it's inherently linked. From what I remember of that stream from months ago, Ren's idea was for the Neighbourhood (at the time the Ministers) to band together and sell terracotta. To me, the Neighbourhood feels like it's become a conglomerate of its own: they live next to each other, they collab together, build farms and minigames together, and they have storylines together. The Ministry storyline pretty obviously formed the basis and set the tone. False's rivers permeate through the entire neighbourhood. They have a meeting spot and maps and roads and villager set ups and the bank of Iskall. It's not just "people conveniently live close to each other"— it's "people whose individual storylines intertwine". We got invested in the Ministry storyline. The minister roles felt fairly early season to me, so no surprise that it ended. Now we get Big T, which seems like an optimistic look forward with the idea of a "permanent" branded group because it's about selling a highly wanted commodity.

But what if it's not.... permanent? What if Short-T gets the permits? What then? Another rebrand? I have absolutely no doubts that the Neighbourhood, broadly speaking, will continue to hang out as a neighbourhood. At least until they run out of space / ideas in there. So it's not like they'll stop interacting if Big T ceases to become a thing, but that's exactly what it is— Big T gives them something to do. A common storyline. A collab opportunity.

Back to the Ministry storyline. It's a typical "Rendog seizes power" arc that we've seen before, prominently in S9 King Ren arc. But the thing is, it kind of fails at sculpting Ren as this awful leader who needs to be overthrown. (Partially due to Cleo's mic not working when they suggested overthrowing Ren, and there were also talks of people doing a coup, but in the end Ren decided to take the matters in his own hands.) Ren tries to be incompetent and bossy but they all end up indulging him. Because, despite everything, Ren is good at bringing people together, both in and outside of the game. He organises stream weekends (the others were thanking Ren on his shift during the last stream weekend, a while ago on another stream weekend Scar made Ren tear up with his heartfelt words). He "annoys" people into following him, and then he gets scared of the power, "annoys" people into overthrowing him, and BOOM Rendog kickstarts another plotline by playing the villain (again. And again).

(Arguably, Third Life also kinda followed this formula. I had a feeling Ren was trying to make the Red King unlikable by barging into people's houses and demanding them join the Red Army, and Martyn did "claim" he had "planned" to "betray Ren" from day one (looking at the camera with knowing but non-judgmental stare) but didn't do it.)

Point is, Ren has the personal charisma and thick enough skin to start groups and wrangle people into joining them. He's silly and the hermits love him, so they kind of bemusedly smile and let Ren drag them along. That's his first way of uniting people. Ren's second way of uniting people is by playing the villain, which he often employs and tries pushing it into this direction. In the Ministry plotline, the first way worked, but nobody cared enough to overthrow Ren (lol) so the second way didn't work that well.

... And I feel like Ren doesn't trust himself to play the role of a good leader. He has to be evil. Because he likes dramatics and being publicly humiliated (side glance) and killed. And also because he doesn't like playing the role of a good leader despite having clear visions of infrastructure / change he wants to achieve (S10 roads, S9 Hermit Quests). If anyone's dreaming big about community storylines and banding together to work on something, it's Ren.

So my fear for the Big T storyline is that Ren will seize power again and turn evil so they can overthrow him and Ren volunteers to be the villain for plot progression. I like seeing Ren being in the leader role. But to see him be overthrown again feels a little sad considering what they all went through so far. I don't want more self sabotage. I don't want Ren to go "yeah it's fine you can have it". I don't want Big T to lose the permits and disband. Obviously Big T isn't just Ren, but Ren is the main guy who does story and roleplay.

Good news: Big T contains competitive people who will no doubt enjoy defeating Scar and Bdubs. Bad news: those are the exact same type of people who like trapping Ren in pits. Even if Big T as a whole pulls through, I hope Ren doesn't do something stupid on purpose to set himself up. I want the power of friendship and neighbourhood solidarity to win. It's such a good overarching storyline and content.

[bredforloyalty]

hey every time i log onto this website and read ur posts, i relate so heavily to your personal intertwinement with the story + characters and i absolutely understand your perception of R&M cuz? i always saw it as an encapsulation of the cycles of abuse especially through generations within family? and when i try to explain that to other people like irl or w/e while watching it theyre like wat .. so i UNDERSTAND where ur coming from and i FEEL bad that u get embarrassed or w/e (altho i deal with those feelings too?) basically just trying to tell you you are HELLA seen and far far from alone

🥺🥺🥺 THANK YOUUUU i appreciate that..... mayhaps a certain type of childhood or family life primes a certain understanding of rnm and an investment others don't always have. it's a factor that plays heavily into connecting with this series for sure.. many of us (fans. or whatever) are like this, like it is that deep for us but even to those people, i can scarcely relate. because most of them have this umm desire to see the wrongs righted and to be comforted by the show and then the writers notice that and then i don't feel that rick's change of character is gradual enough and involves enough sacrifices and struggle and lol you get the idea!! i like tragedies, i prefer to be hurt by my shows, that's the type of comfort i need. i digress.. but the point is, often i feel like a minority in here, thanks for taking the time to tell me you relate and you understand <333

also hmm i feel like within the group of fans that are dedicated and care about the future of this show, very few are in it for. comedy. or cool sci-fi moments? or maybe more like, all of the dedicated fans are dedicated to the story and the characters and definitely not to the old structure of rnm that allowed it to be an endless fun machine. at some point you have to make the stuff that happens count and affect the characters so people have something to come back for, so the episodic format could not have been maintained, not with the sudden widespread interest in the show. the new direction, the sincerity and drama and addressing canon and letting the characters grow Are for us, those who ended up caring! but i'm still embarrassed about caring, in my worse moments, i can't help it :P the writers even went out of their way to make fun of us for our investment in s4 and 5 and since it's popular, i see many casual viewers around who simply don't care that much. and are just here for a laff. that's weird to me!

and, the new direction puts me in a weird position because i did love it for the dysfunction and the angst, that's an integral part that needs to be featured predominantly in my opinion to make the hopeful moments really hit (and it's prominent in my family too HYDHBY so that would just feel more realistic for me and satisfy Me personally)

maybe i'm just concerned with what upcoming seasons are gonna do because if we have a long way to go until the end, i would have preferred if they took more time with the overarching storylines of seasons 1 through, idk, 3..... and just generally approached the previous seasons with very slow character development in mind, but character development for sure. if they were more deliberate about it and didn't have an "oh shit we have expectations to live up to now and loyal fans to satisfy. but we don't wannaaaa.. don't tell us what to do :'(" crisis in the middle of it lmao. i don't have a fundamental problem with betterment arcs, i'm just not sure this will be done right in the particular instance of rick and morty

i'm also just pondering the different subsets of viewers now and how conflicted the show has seemed (in the past. i wouldn't apply this to s6) about what it wants to be... and thinking about all the ways my affection for rnm could be misunderstood 😔 the worst "fans" have been the loudest, they didn't exactly give us a good name lol, but this is personal for me so i can't just stay away or keep silent (duh!) so i oughta consider the public perception. and perceptions are super varied! it's another one of those shows that isn't a show, it's popular enough and inconsistent enough to be a phenomenon. so inevitably i will be embarrassed, it means so many different things to different people and i care. i care very much

[sheffran]

Maxwell Beverly Sheffield

Actor: Charles Shaughnessy

Basics:

Marital status: (re) Married 💍

Birthday: January 19, 1957

Age:

Season 1 - 41

Season 2 - 42

Season 3 - 43

Season 4 - 44

Season 5 - 45

Season 6 - 46

Zodiac sign: Capricorn ♑️

Chinese zodiac: Snake 🐍

Element: Fire 🔥

Sex: Male

Nationality: English 🇬🇧

Religion:

• Catholic

• Jewish (due to being married to Fran)

Occupation:

Broadway producer (S1-5; formerly)

Movie producer (S6; currently)

Other:

Fatherhood (😂)

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Family:

(Wife) : Sara Sheffield (✝️)

Daughter: Maggie Sheffield

Daughter: Grace Sheffield:

Son: Brighton Sheffield

(2nd) Wife: Fran Sheffield

Daughter: Eve Sheffield

Son: Jonah Sheffield

Son-in-law: Michael

Grandmother-in-law: Yetta Rosenberg

Mother-in-law: Sylvia Fine

Sister-in-law: Nadine Cooperman

Father-in-law: Morty Fine

Aunt-in-law: Freida Fine

Extended:

Mother: Elizabeth Sheffield

Father: James Sheffield (✝️)

Brother: Nigel Sheffield

Sister: Jocelyn Sheffield

(half) Sister: Conception (paternal)

Other:

(foster) Daughter: Mei-Ling (through being married to Fran)

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Nicknames:

Max (by Fran in S5&6)

Honey, sweetie, etc (by Fran)

Mr Sheffield (by Fran in S1-4 and Niles)

Again, out of habit, Fran tends to use Maxwell’s surname particularly when intimate with her husband

Maxwell (by C.C.)

Maxi (by Jocelyn)

Puddleduck (by Jocelyn)

Maximillion (by Fran; shortly after married him)

Dad/Daddy (by his children)

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Appearance/ personality

Maxwell has black curly hair, with a dyed patch of grey that starts off small to be with in season 1 only to get more prominent as the seasons progresses. He has olive green eyes and oftentimes wears a suit and tie normally but sometimes changes into something casual or beach-y depending on the location he’s in

How would you describe Maxwell’s personality?

* Fatherly

* Conservative (with work)

* Smart

* Competitive

* Jealous

* Chivalrous

* Proactive

* Overprotective

* Emotional (with family and close friends only)

* Apprehensive (whenever he’s wrong and Fran’s right)

1. Regarding her mismatched purse

2. Assuming that Maggie’s party was unsophisticated or unfit enough for his daughter, with the food fight.

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Trivia:

Maxwell has had 16 girlfriends and 2 wives, namely Sara (✝️) and Fran

It’s been mentioned, by his butler, Niles, that he was similar to Pierce Brosnan

He had oftentimes showed signs of, indiscreet, jealousy whenever a male took interest in Fran

He is (5 or 10 years) older than Fran

He was temporarily deaf due to a high frequency (most likely because of Fran’s voice)

Despite him being British he is actually quite ticklish

Most likely had jerked off by the thought of Fran throughout the 5 years; when he couldn’t, unfortunately, commit to her

Maxwell’s English accent becomes slightly more gruffer when he’s flirting his wife

[alexkarevsource]

This might be something you would have already done, but Alex being good with kids/good in peds before s6?

Great idea! I've done something like this before, but not as specific.

I hope I'll get to it at the weekend.

In the meantime I want to invite everyone to send in scenes from s1-s5 where Alex worked with kids. I have a pretty good idea of most of them, but I'm always worried I might miss some that are not so prominent in my mind.