okay i love the emotionally stupid gay men as much as the next guy (clearly) but man it was actually so refreshing to hear, explicitly in repeatable words!, that a character loves the other romantically and undeniably.
like, i get whats happening when characters dont say it in words, right? its been the way of doing things for years for reasons, but nowadays its mainly 'the character hasnt realized how they feel yet' or 'theyre in denial of how they feel' or 'they cant find it in them to say it out loud yet' and hey, those are all fine! theyre so super fun and add to the drama and story
but holy shit to actually hear stede be like 'the man i love is ed' (paraphrasing) like got damn and in the first season too??
just. what an absolute treat. didnt realize i wanted that until i got it. thank you.
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During a LOT of scenes from The Bad Batch all I can do is praise Jurassic Park and it's iconic cinematography.
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i think what strikes me so much about amc iwtv is how obsessed the cast is with their character and the other's characters. not as in oh my god i love them but as in. i put genuine work into understanding whats happening, here is a 5k essay on the backstory of this one 0.3 second long grimace change in a 7 minute outburst kind of thing.
when all you have are set scenes and dialogues you COULD half ass it and just do that. but the sheer commitment to go all out, the work that goes into that, how harrowing it is emotionally and physically to work through things as your character. for your character. thats just what blows me away.
and i think a lot of that resonates bc of working theatre. like you have this text from 400 yrs ago and its just words and you can't ask the author what's going on. so you're relying on interpretations from other people and ultimately have to decide whether thats enough or whether you're the kind of person to go "in my mind, i'm saying this bc of xyz". and you talk to your castmates and they riff off you. and then a single exchange of 2 lines turns, for you, into an unravelling of years of backstory that you convey with the flick of a wrist.
idk it's just special to me to see it happen with this show.
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it's difficult to describe exactly, but it constantly feels like I'm some kind of amalgamation of at least 8 different people trying desperately to pretend to be one consistent being. which, of course, fails spectacularly because pretending to be a real person is a momentous and, frankly, sisyphean task.
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