#s1e15

[varlysca]

if DS9 were hit with "things from your imagination coming alive" again, Julian would probably imagine Garak this time. Question is, would fake!Garak be as submissive as fake!Jadzia was or would he be way more similar since their to and fro is what makes their relationship

[gravity-falls-daily]

Date: June 25th, 2024

Episode S1E15: The Deep End

This is it! He likes you! Go for it, Mabel! It's time! Ask him out on a date! So, hey, you wanna go dry off? Maybe hit the snack bar or—? ("I-I'm afraid I cannot! For I have a terrible secret! I must go.") I'm upset. Yet intrigued!

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Have fun!

[everrsilly]

im sorry i am watching s1 e15 and. wendy you are Awful at your job. what the fuck is a lifeguard tryout. what the fuck is an “assistant lifeguard” are you a lifeguard or not??? is wendy even capable of saving someone?? why does she get unlimited water balloon access and i don’t??? please i just got my recert i want to work at the gravity falls pool

[eleventh-mugiwara]

LMAO Yuji please.

[queen-daya]

Hunter Smiling in Every Episode -> Return to Kamino (1x15)

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

Miami Vice S1E15: Golden Triangle, Part 2

Castillo learns his wife is still alive-- and in Miami.

Let me just start by saying: really getting the sense no one who worked on this show knew that there are multiple countries and cultures in Asia. I'll give them credit for it not being a standard 80's "the East frightens us in a capitalist way" TV show plot, but Castillo is like. A samurai? Who learned how to Samurai in... Thailand. His Thai wife and her new husband and the drug lord who brought them here all seem to have Chinese names, and I feel like somehow this is all supposed to be related to the Vietnam war. Also I'm pretty sure none of the actors in this episode are Thai. I... okay, Miami Vice. Not your best look.

The episode opens on what is apparently supposed to be a flashback to Thailand (but is definitely just Miami) set to Catch the Wind, but not the Donovan version. Castillo is in a speedo and Joan Chen is wet. It's extremely unclear that it's a flashback.

Crockett and Tubbs show up at Castillo's house and Tubbs examines his statue. Castillo explains what's going on and. And. And I'm gonna get into some Old Skool Fandom(TM) heresy here, but: I do not understand Castillo/Crockett when Castillo/Tubbs is right there. Sonny asks about how they can help transactionally ("you've done stuff for us before, we should do stuff for you"): Rico switches to Spanish and asks for Martin to let them in. Tubbs spends the whole episode with his eyes glued to Castillo, and is the one who notices when something is wrong first every time. Sonny barks at Castillo's enemies; Rico waits beside him, gently and persistently trying to get him to open up. Rico drives this whole episode, with Castillo sitting shotgun-- poor Sonny is relegated to the back. Tubbs is 100% ready for this to be Scary Boss Gets Tender With His One Employee Who Gives Him Space to Be Vulnerable and Sonny is still stuck on "the US government is corrupt sometimes."

Castillo tells Sonny and Rico to "call next time" before they show up at his house; they laugh as if he is making a joke. I do not think he is making a joke.

John Santucci is here as a corrupt official and he talks openly about how basically he's in charge of the flow of opium into poor urban communities in the US, and Sonny gets his 10-mile predator stare on. After Dale (Santucci) leaves, Crockett and Tubbs directly confirm with Castillo: so he's an American federal agent who is doing drug crime for profit? Also Miami Vice was just about speedboats and shoulderpads, right

Following up on that, when Castillo meets with Lao Li, the Thai drug lord who Dale is working with, Lao Li basically smiles and says he's not a criminal, just a capitalist, and that he's here to retire in Miami. But it's not political or anything

Of course they undercut this with Castillo saying something like "no it's not, it's Southeast Asia" when C&T say the whole drug thing is "nuts," and it's like. Really, Castillo? You think the problem is the region where economic circumstances created by the US necessitate the sale of drugs to the US? And not the US?

Peter Kwong is here as the shitty teen(?) grandson of the drug lord and there's a scene where he and another grandson literally snicker about how they're going to do SO much crime when Lao Li is like "no one do crime plz"

Castillo is positioned as having an unshakeable sense of duty and loyalty and honor, but when it comes down to it, his code of honor is not the code of honor he claims to be bound to. His sense of duty and the rules he follows are, in fact, rules he follows to the letter-- but they're personal, not societal. He tells Sonny he is a police officer and that he would not do vigilante justice, and then has an entire family and all their associates, including children, put under 24 hour police surveillance because he thinks maybe one of them might do crime eventually. He has nothing to actually get Lao Li arrested for, so he carefully manufactures a situation where Lao Li's hand is forced into killing. What Castillo says (and he doesn't generally say a lot) and does often don't match up, but he's incredibly forceful and convincing. Lao Li recognizes this-- he points out that they're much the same and that he shares great respect for him-- but it's very easy as an audience to be convinced that Castillo is significantly less morally grey than he is. He is absolutely loyal and bound to a code of honor-- but it's the code of honor of a gangster, not the law.

Lao Li definitely tries to play the "maybe this could be an enemies to lovers story wink wink" at the end there and Castillo is like "enemies is good"

My stunning wife Joan Chen is the most beautiful woman on earth and Castillo should've just been like "do you want two husbands." I think Ma Sek would've been into it. And maybe then he wouldn't have gotten involved in crime and Heart of the Night (in which both his actor and Joan Chen are replaced anyway-- Ma Sek's actor is literally replaced with James Saito who plays a different character in this fucking episode) wouldn't have happened

Did we all know John Santucci was a jewel thief before he became an actor? And that he became a thief again when apparently no one other than Michael Mann wanted to hire him? Because I did not

[lifewithaview]

Jensen Ackles, John Dennis Johnston, Ken Kirzinger, and Alexia Fast in Supernatural (2005) The Benders

S1E15

After hearing in 'smallville' Hibbing, while masquerading as Minnesota state police, a boy's story about a monster probably was inspired by a Godzilla movie, Sam points out the county was marked by dad as suspicious and has the state's highest ratio of disappearances, but Dean just wants to relax, at least till the morning, until Sam disappears on the parking lot. Dean teams up with local police woman Kathleen, who even after finding out they impersonated cops decides not to arrest him before Sam is found, because her own brother also disappeared years earlier. Their search reaches the large, lonely house where a sinister human family keeps Sam and others in cages, and their intentions at least are monstrous...

*Dean Winchester: Well, I'll say it again. Demons I get. People are crazy.

[platinum-iridium]

oh this episode is actually good. this schizophrenic man did a mass shooting and they explore the causality of his (male) rage vs. his mental illness. spoilers below the cut.

he's got deep seated issues with women because after his schizo crisis his college girlfriend aborted their baby because she didn't want to be tied to an unstable man. as an aside i'm glad she was depicted sympathetically because that could easily have gone the other way. more women need to be aborting for that reason.

anyway he nurses all this rage over the incident and 10 years later he ends up having delusions of his (aborted) daughter having been kidnapped and he ends up shooting people over it. the interesting part is when they get to the bottom of this, they have to decide if he should be not guilty bc of mental disease/defect or regular jail based on whether his mental illness made him do it. and they end up deciding he's just full of rage and violent and the mental illness wasn't at fault.

which is kind of a refreshing take because how many times do we blame male violence on something other than maleness? esp when whatever the secondary factor is occurs in women it doesn't make them violent at the same rates as men. obviously there's nuance to be had but i'm glad the dude didn't get a pass on violence because of his mental illness.

completely ignoring the subplot about TJ. like literally i completely forgot about it even though i just watched it. didn't need to be there

[mirabilefuturum]

SABATON BLAST

[gravity-falls-daily]

When Mabel take a picture of Dipper giving Mermando CPR did she keep the picture

she definitely kept the picture :> a girl's gotta have some premium blackmail material at all times!! also a great scrapbookortunity

[a-batcher-a-day]

[mrgoldantiquitiesdealer]

Who has been your favorite person to deal with and why?

Sheriff Swan. It's rather refreshing to deal with someone who refuses to be intimidated. Irritating at times, and I can't say I relished my journey in the back of her squad car. All the same, I must say I'm looking forward to locking horns with her again.

[queen-daya]

Omega Smiling in Every Episode -> Return to Kamino (1x15)

[peytonsource]

1x15 peyton sawyer icons

[lifewithaview]

William Mapother and Dominic Monaghan in Lost (2004) Homecoming

S1E15

After the missing Claire returns with no recollection of what has happened since before the doomed flight of Oceanic 815, Jack and Locke formulate a plan of defense against her kidnapper, the mysterious Ethan Rom, who threatens to kill off the other survivors unless Claire is returned to him. Meanwhile, the disappointment Charlie feels when Claire does not remember him triggers recollections of Lucy, a woman he had let down in the past back in England where Charlie ruined their engagement so he could steal money from her to fuel his escalating heroin addition.

*The copier that Charlie tries to sell is model 815, the same number as the ill-fated plane.