#renewsohelpmetodd

[thewickedbohemian]

If I had a nickel for every 2020s major-network procedural drama-but-not-a-gritty-one where a somewhat-neurodivergent young-ish-adult male protagonist with daddy issues but not the conventional kind gets rescued from a professional failure by the opportunity to work for his very-enneagram-1-esque mom in a work environment that puts him in contact with a lot of strong women (including an old female friend in the sense of old friend not old woman) and a much more straightlaced guy who's a dramatic foil to him to the point of homoerotic sexual tension, I'd have two nickels (or should that be Nichols) which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

Now let's get one of those shows picked the fuck back up and make sure the other show doesn't share its fate of needing to be saved that way

[fandomrelatedshowerthoughts]

Remember how before Ezekiel's real backstory was revealed (albeit somewhat not jiving with how he's talked about in season commentary but that's another issue) there was this whole big theory among the The Librarians fandom that he was Jenkins's kid. Well, if you watch So Help Me Todd (and if you do you should help save it), you'd know that (albeit half-genderbent and with a couple siblings) the relationship between Margaret and Todd Wright is essentially that (that kind of dynamic but they are indeed parent-child)

[thewickedbohemian]

Which is why we should save/resurrect what we've got

no offence but the reason tumblr is “dying” is, well, yes, of course the cursed like/reblog ratio and the change in user behaviour (because of people being used to how instagram and tiktok work) BUT also the lack of weekly shows. i say it with my whole chest, they don't produce captivating and engaging stupid weekly tv shows anymore because streaming killed that so you have spikes of activity here when Something happens in general fandom or up to three days after a new season of whatever drops and then it's a wasteland. this is obviously an old woman yelling at a cloud missing supernatural and the vampire diaries and pretty little liars and all these other shows type of post but honestly give me back weekly tv shows where i have something to watch for 40 minutes almost every day of the week after work so then i can read and reblog it on tumblr give it back for the sake of my sanity

[thewickedbohemian]

Hyperspecific poll for opinions on fandoms (as opposed to the last one I did which was relationship with fandom as a whole)

Some explanations

my theory of the Tonys having anti-teen bias is evidenced by snubs of various kinds for shows like Starmites, The Lightning Thief and Be More Chill and Dear Evan Hansen only swept imho despite this because (despite how its own movie would end up turning out) it's kinda the Broadway equivalent of an Oscarbait movie

the thing about changing the HP-related things' names is e.g. the only reason the irl quidditch league or w/e should have changed the sport name to quadball is the adjustment needed for Muggles to play and since in concept and using-house-symbols the sortinghatchats system still shows its HP influence, it shouldn't have dropped house labels

what I mean about the Eureka thing is that I have a theory that due to things like when Eureka was founded, the kind of people it attracts and the endogamy implied by its secrecy, not a lot of people in town know much of anything about Aspergers/"high-functioning" autism/"low-support" autism despite how many people in town would probably test as having it so only a case of autism as severe as pre-time-jump Kevin would register to most Eurekans as autism (and he didn't get cured he just got higher-functioning/lower-support, still doesn't explain how a timeline jump changed that though)

She-Hulk's show not only deserved more seasons but longer ones, think of what it could have got on a network instead of a streaming service

[fandomrelatedshowerthoughts]

Everyone fearing that (especially with Lyle/Ariel) more So Help Me Todd seasons would still mean no chance at Tyle clearly doesn't have a lot of familiarity with how slowburns on procedurals work. There's always at least one One Before The One (like how on Bones Booth had Cam and Hannah among others and Bones had Sully) until things take the time to get realized (and also so we can see the hints at true feelings through jealousy). Even if we end up with Lyle/Todd/Judy (my preferred outcome if possible as I see the case for Tyle but I don't want to sacrifice Jodd for it) there's still a perfect parallel to that with the Leverage trio and Elliot also having had outside girlfriends.

[thewickedbohemian]

"Rage", a poem I wrote based on the Emily Dickinson poem "Hope" and some of my positive interpretations of the Rage aspect

(and also kind of emotionally motivated by my struggles to try and get So Help Me Todd saved #savesohelpmetodd #renewsohelpmetodd)

"Rage" is the thing with fire

That's burning deep inside

When justice needs a little push

Or rules need be defied

And though it may not seem like much

When only from one voice

The rage of many joined as one

Can shout above the noise

The fire must be kept alight

And do not stop the song

For it's a call to set things right

Together we are strong

[thewickedbohemian]

And if we help another network save So Help Me Todd, it and Elsbeth can create a new better-written trend of ADHD super detectives #savesohelpmetodd #renewsohelpmetodd

Community Basic Intergluteal Numismatics | 5.03

[thewickedbohemian]

Because so help me Todd, we cannot let this end on the reported cliffhanger

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ADHD headcanon poll

These are all obscure ADHD headcanons either because the thing the character's from isn't a big-name fandom or not a lot of fans of it had thought about the character having ADHD but I have and I want to see who else does

[thewickedbohemian]

Thoughts on the High Potential pilot (a day late as I caught it on the re-broadcast)

Nice way to set the scene and what's the name of that song

quite the impression of your parenting girl

wow...just...wow with the math

Sheldon Cooper voice "someone touched my board"

And...busted

So did they seriously think she was the potential suspect

actual potential suspect full of righteous anger

cue the infodump, I wonder how much this show is going to teach me

you say HPI I say neurodivergent something

nice timing ex

and now they're both in the holding cell

good info Letty but I feel like the wrong guy asked

and we've set up the couple

good on boss lady admitting vulnerability

That's what she needed, empathy

going about mach 3 (mentally and verbally) and giving me Elsbeth flashbacks

surprise entrance after dramatic storm-off in 3...2...1

because nobody ever suspects the cleaning lady

Morgan's quirks come with crime-show genre-savvy I see

weird alibi, maybe on purpose?

I like how the stock footage or w/e kinda subverts the trope of the whole Sherlock/Shaun/Cassandra thing

"dark night of the soul" before the start of the partnership right on cue

Why do I feel like the kids might Jessica-Fletcher her in to the answer

already with the family-coded foreshadowing of where this is probably going to end up if this sticks around a while (plus another ballin' needle drop)

working in synchrony and holy Rube Goldberg murder plot

And a similar fake-out to the Elsbeth ending

You've made your point with the childcare thing

But also I hate to sound like a broken record but if you enjoyed this pilot as much as I did you should also sign this petition to get So Help Me Todd picked back up for a 3rd season (as if you like this pilot you should watch SHMT and if you miss SHMT you'd like this) so we can help keep a wave going of female-led procedurals especially with "weird girls" at/near the center (as SHMT has Judy who if the show goes on could very well be "Todd's Todd" in terms of detective-apprentice-ing)

[thewickedbohemian]

Had the chorus of the Owl City song "This Isn't The End" stuck in my head for hours while in a state of anxiety over trying to save So Help Me Todd and, well, this filk resulted

(original song here for reference)

The planned seven seasons of So Help Me Todd

Shouldn't end on a cliffhanger so help me god

Scott said although the fight might be tough

There might still be a chance if we're vocal enough

The questions and loose ends that leave us all vexed

Cannot be solved just by article text

We want the new stories on our TV

So let's fight for someone to make season 3

When the rain falls down

When it all turns around

When the light goes out

This isn't the end

The fall season schedules are already out

But that shouldn't cause us some despair or doubt

Midseason, cable, and streaming too

Are options to seek to give this show its due

When the rain falls down

When it all turns around

When the light goes out

This isn't the end

When the rain falls down

When it all turns around

When the light goes out

This isn't the end, no

Keep signing and writing and spreading the word

As its chance depends on us all getting heard

Or get on the news if that's not enough

By waging a protest or sending in stuff

This show deserves the ending that Scott had planned

And didn't deserve to get suddenly canned

Keep up the hope and keep up the fight

Help the little guy like Margaret and Todd Wright

The defense attorneys we must defend

It's just the beginning this isn't the end

It's just the beginning this isn't the end

(As long as Scott Prendergast says there's a chance we can get more show (and the stories told not just the questions answered in interviews) we should fight to make that chance as high as possible including spreading the hashtags #savesohelpmetodd #renewsohelpmetodd and #sevenseasonsandamovie)

[thewickedbohemian]

Thoughts on a show that deserves to not have this end its run and a show that can carry CBS's Blue Sky torch while the former hopefully makes it to another network

So Help Me Todd

ok where are they

boy is Todd a fish out of water

nice to see you two again

Never noticed the logo's a nest before

Hi Judy from seemingly out of nowhere nice to know they're continually dating not just one

ok where'd everybody go

ADHD's worst nightmare, reception

As if Margaret needs more on her plate Allison

OK Beverly sounding like a GoT character

hi suits, hi potential setup

nice multitasking and nice trick

Wright vs Easton

OK gay Tyle moment and Pitch Perfect reference

not Lyle getting an Elliot Spencer moment of accidental fame

anyone else think Margaret might be autistic

no no no triggering phobias

Todd how much phone shenanigans have you been doing

So Judy is Todd's Todd, cute

We're just bringing out all the returning faces

Gus goes dad mode on his gf

getting a little bit of Librarians vibes with the trio working together

Esp. because Judy knows multiple languages

metaphorically-RIP Francey

Answer the phone Margaret

this smells like a setup

good standing up for yourself Allison

cue ending montage proving why we should have a S3; Jodd kiss, senior associate Susan, detective!Allison in the future etc.

not as dangerous a cliffhanger as I was expecting but still something that means we deserve more seasons to have answers

Elsbeth

ok so alcohol snobs now (why are we always investigating rich people's cases here)

writer girl's cute

some of their talk feels like it codas the SHMT that just ended

mom had almost that kind of roommate

taking matters into his own hands I see

would the real Gemma Nelson please stand up, we're gonna have a problem here

I love that both SHMT and Elsbeth had bribery framing metaplots

Elsbeth playing with everything again

Bejeweled breast pumps no thanks

that looks like the cutest mocktail I've ever seen

whatcha doin with your shoes

still think Claudia's the real mastermind

nice unintentional foreshadowing (or at least dramatic-ironic foreshadowing) with the bartender thing

Joe feels like the most sympathetic killer and Gemma the most unsympathetic victim this show's ever had

the random acts of kindness shit (though not to lethal levels obviously) reminds me of stuff my sister used to do in a club at her high school

Ivy's too obvious a red herring even without the dramatic irony

No Broadway reference so far I'm surprised unless Deborah S. Craig counts (as she's half of what counted in E3)

Cue everyone immediately trying to make that mocktail (he listed the ingredients it's a matter of ratios)

I would think the story about bullying's a lie except Teddy's gay

and Joe's superhero complex suddenly got scary

One sting another sting

And Captain Wagner pulls a Todd

Weirdest Elsbeth outfit ever and ending you'd expect of a season finale when it's not

[thewickedbohemian]

So Help Me Todd fans or whatever you want our demonym (a la stuff like Whovians) to be, our efforts have been noticed by freaking Forbes. Keep spreading the petitions and the message around and try to contact the networks if you can to get even more eyes on us/it. In the words of Margaret Wright "We MUST win"

#savesohelpmetodd #renewsohelpmetodd

[thewickedbohemian]

I understand that this is a good idea in reality too but that SHMT-fan feel when your-as-in-my first thought was Todd and Allison Wright

we need civil partnerships for siblings and I’m not joking

the desire to file taxes jointly =/= the desire to screw each other

a pair of identical twins who live in the same house should be allowed to share social security benefits and they shouldn’t have to pay inheritance taxes

i think it’s reasonable to want to extend your health insurance to your own flesh-and-blood that lives in your home. I mean, hypothetically, I could just marry a random person I met last week and get all of those sweet, sweet legal and financial benefits, but as of now, in the US, the law makes it impossible for a pair of siblings to contribute to each other’s IRAs, and I think that’s a travesty

just my wacky, controversial opinion

[thewickedbohemian]

Thoughts on a show CBS should make room for and its perfect "roommate"

So Help Me Todd

In medias res so in medias I can barely follow

Okay so why is Beverly in France

I would take that as a Tyle tease if they didn't both have a date

Lylex, please, not in that much public

Todd, Lyle can hear you

And yet again with thing I interpret as metaphor for show's issues, this time Susan's career (#savesohelpmetodd #renewsohelpmetodd #wrongdecisionCBS #makeroomforsohelpmetodd)

Oh hi Gus Oh hi three patterns at once

That's a little too-suspiciously suspicious

Todd being all ADHD again

Of course the burner plays Pokemon music

Todd got punked, of course

And Todd gets revenge via emotional manipulation and a whole lot of donuts

Susan totally looking like more Margaret's daughter than Allison

generation wars, girl athletes who sound like walking TikToks and sus tennis coaches, did the writers of Elsbeth write this

And the prank war's still on

Wow, Judy cleans up nice

Way to be subtle Todd and isn't those distractions suspicious

Ok, Alex isn't Alex, and my hopes for a potential S3 involving a Lyle/Todd/Judy triangle similar to the Leverage and Librarians OT3s just went up

To be fair Todd kinda deserved getting got by his own prank after the glue

More proof SHMT and Elsbeth are meant to be together, yet another "Ball Girl" (Elsbeth S1E5) reference with Margaret playing tennis in astrobrite pink

Of course parking tickets tipped off Lyle

Judy's turned on by detecting ;)

Margaret/Gus = Tyle parallel?

was she supposed to be the one who got glitterbombed (I'm surprised she didn't forcibly shut down their prank war)

And so a trap is laid

Susan seems like yet another "kid" of Margaret's she has to save

Spontaneous date night go

So Alex isn't even Mabel and I have a crazy idea for how we get CBS to get this back if the two remaining episodes of the season don't contradict this; we have the real her join the ensemble of one of the FBIs linking SHMT to that universe without diluting it

Elsbeth

controlling parents, creepy bosses and people not being who they seem, I guess this is a dual-way parallel

could the dance guy be more obviously gay

Another dumb Elsbeth murderer, the tape makes it not look like an accident

Of course she found the cake

I love the throughline of the murders mirroring her adapting to New York

Convenient sus affair is sus

Please tell me those fleeting mentions of Fosse and Broadway aren't all that count as our Broadway-reference-of-the-episode

What is Elsbeth wearing?

So not gay just Extra^TM

Of course Elsbeth wants to learn that Chicago dance

even more SHMT flashbacks as Kaya whose side are you playing

For half a second I thought they were going to pretend to be lesbians and this was going to be SVU with Benson and Rollins at the fertility clinic all over again

Having a bit too much fun with the golf cart are we, I'd be the same if I could drive worth a darn

Oh so that's where the tape went

I know it's not the exact one but it's more than just rainbow; Elsbeth looks like she's wearing Riley's sweater from Inside Out

Yoda are we quoting?

Please don't ADHD out near the dangerous things in the kitchen

Dissolves in water, huh...

Time for a science lesson

Oh so there's the Hot Honey Rag, I was worried we weren't going to get a proper Broadway reference (and now I'm wondering how Carrie Preston's singing voice is as Elsbeth could totally pull off a Psych-esque musical episode just like SHMT)

Elsbeth's place is just so Elsbeth and there's everyone from previous episodes who didn't turn out to be a murderer and I think the intern chick and hip hop tour guide are going to be a thing (and fingers crossed these people show up in more episodes that didn't just spotlight them)

Uh oh here comes the captain and now things are getting as whose-side-are-you-on as they are for Susan on SHMT

[thewickedbohemian]

Watched the So Help Me Todd S2 premiere and I Have Thoughts

Nice to see Todd taking things to the next level and feeling even more like Shawn Spencer (even down to the helipad thing feeling totally a Shawn reaction, or maybe an Ezekiel Jones one)

Speaking of which, it seems Todd's trickster luck's still in full force (as since early on S1 SHMT I've grouped Shawn, Ezekiel and Todd together in my mind as similar tricksters who feel like they all have the same pseudo-magical freaky luck/Bugs Bunny bullshit (Shawn has been Word-Of-God said to work by Bugs Bunny rules as much as one could in a live-action setting) going on hmm maybe crossover fic potential esp. since Bugs Bunny takes a lot of Doylist influence from the mythological Loki do with that what you will )

Alison's blonde hair leading to (esp. as she might be an INFP like me) even more "self-recognition through the blorbo" (as if she'd had bangs it would look a lot like mine) and between that and how much I already am in the weird state of both relating to and crushing on Todd, if we get more depth on Lawrence and there's something other than gayness there for me to connect to (like people have said if anyone in the ensemble could be neurodivergent autistic!Lawrence is a possibility) it's going to be (albeit without the crush for the example with minors) The Middle all over again with me vibing with all three siblings and a mom a lot like mine

Speaking of dyed hair is it just me or does Margaret's look as if she dyed it black I mean seriously she looked a bit like an older Regina Mills at some points

OK so how many permissions did they had to get for how much they expied about CBS news (I mean to the degree of having a J. Giannola as an anchor and I think the weatherman's name was also similar to one of our local (Oregonian here) guys)

Even if it was only briefly Lyle singing was not on my bingo card (that and the announcement of Heather Morris joining the recurring cast makes me wonder if musical episode in our future?)

Love the Margaret/Harry and Todd/Susan moving on parallels

Between those and all that stuff with the station full of gays including the actual-news-interns thinking Todd's cute and even down to them pointing out his "gay" look at dinner, potential tease for Todd rebounding with a guy?

Love the whole Phantom Of The Opera motif with not just the lighting "chandelier" drops and the music but the culprit being the lovestruck guy with the facial disfigurement who right before the final drop said something about "love never dies" (aka the title of the POTO sequel)

Major ?! about the whole scene with Beverly and Susan and the partner track, I know firms can have more than three partners but if you'll pardon throwing a blorbo from another show briefly under the bus what is it with badass beautiful bitches named Beverly and butting their butt into everyone's business (and yes the alliteration was accidental until about halfway through)

Just going to bring this petition back around so people keep fighting to make sure this isn't the end (it being Elsbeth's lead-in (albeit two weeks later than I originally thought) indicates the network has some degree of faith but I want to make sure especially because online acquaintances in the industry have told me IF it gets a third season (but that's the operative part here) a fourth is almost a guarantee)