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the cultural reputation of Hawkeye Pierce is wild bc you'll see members of Gen X who grew up watching MASH and haven't revisited it since recall Hawkeye as a macho military man who constantly gets pussy and sticks it to the man but then you watch the show and he's a antiracist bisexual pansy who DESPISES the military, (who does still stick it to the man) hates guns and begs for men to get him pregnant
THIS ALSO HAPPENED TO MY FRIEND JIM KIRK!!!!
Montana opening up some incredible possibilities here. imagine the chaos you could cause by filing a fraudulent marriage certificate for two random people who've never met
New fanfic trope: Montana Absentee Wedding
@biscuityskies YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE THAT IN THE TAGS!!!!!!
In Prince's funky name, amen.
Millennial here. All the above and:
Please send me the training or tutorial in a written format with maybe some screenshots if necessary. I don't want a video tutorial. I don't want to waste time trying to scroll to the exact moment in the instructions that I need and then have to pause and replay it because I missed the .01 seconds of actually relevant information.
Please. Text. Maybe some images for clarification. I can read. I promise.
Skimmable, SEARCHABLE instructions. If they're long, there should be a hyperlinked table of contents.
i keep seeing the panic about the bts photos and being like “what do we think this is? lone star?” but then i remember that even lone star, the character death capital of the 9-1-1 universe, wouldn’t commit to killing their captain. literally no matter how many times they teased it. or how badly i wanted it. tldr i think everyone will be fine
A story to boost the morale of a broken country.
Ok but the article is actually insane. It starts with telling you about this specific incident and then drops on you the fact that train robberies are happening more and more in recent years and a couple of reasons are because there are so few railroads is very easy to figure out which one is carrying a specific shipment *and* that because trains are forced to be so long nowadays (many are multiple miles long) they don't even know they've been robbed most of the time until it's long gone.
yay for the train robbery renaissance
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i understand that lashing out is not the emotionally mature thing to do but evan buckley is the poster child for adult children of emotionally immature parents so idk what you want him to do about that. like, go to therapy? he did. willingly. of his own volition. it's not like buck hasn't done the work on his own and it's not like he doesn't own up to his mistakes and apologise for them. it's just that there is something broken inside him that cannot be fixed, not with therapy and not with all the love in the world. it's just something you learn to live with.
but on the other hand, maybe if the man standing (8x11) or sitting (8x06) opposite him let buck decide for himself how he feels about the people in his life, for example eddie (8x11) and tommy (8x06) they wouldn't be in this mess. (and this isn't me criticising tommy for god's sake, he's insecure, he was projecting, it was piss poor communication on both sides. no one @ me)
1x02 Diefenbaker’s Day Off // 2x08 One Good Man // 2x13 White Men Can’t Jump to Conclusions // 3x01 Burning Down the House | Normalized
due South does a main character re-casting better than any other show on TV, and they do it by playing with television's own accepted meta-narrative.
Recasting a character has a long tradition in television, creating a viewership that knows and understands the storytelling short form at play. As viewers, we realize that sometimes actors aren't available to reprise a role (or simply aren't interested in it anymore); but, for the sake of the story, sometimes the show needs that character to come back. So we lean hard into suspended disbelief and just go with it. After all, the characters in the show accept the parareality of it—why shouldn't we?
Of course, the most famous example of a character recast would be the Dick/Darren disaster on 1960s sitcom Bewitched, when Dick York was unceremoniously replaced by Dick Sargent in the role of Darrin Stephens. ("The Dick Wars" would have gone absolutely insane).
it was... not successful
But they weren't the only ones to do it. Aunt Viv from Fresh Prince, Becky from Roseanne, Daario Naharis from Game of Thrones, Greg Serrano from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (pain, agony)—recasting characters but maintaining the fiction is a storied tradition in TV. New actor, same character; totally normalized.
And shows continue to do it, even today, with a—uh—similar dedication to fucking it up doing it poorly.
why must we be punished like this
due South even engages in this trope itself in season 2, when hard-hitting investigative journalist Mackenzie King is recast and they don't even try to find an actress who looks similar. In 1x02 Diefenbaker's Day Off, she's played by brunette Madolyn Smith-Osborne; in 2x08 One Good Man, she's been replaced by blonde Maria Bello, and nobody talks about it.
yeah i'm absolutely the same person, obviously
Everyone diegetically (within the world of the show) is just like, oh yeah, that's hard-hitting investigative journalist Mackenzie King. Totally. Only non-diegetically (outside of the world of the show) does the viewer go "No, that's not the same person." Internally, the fiction proceeds as usual.
So what would happen if, say, Samantha Stephens turned to Dick Sargent and said "You're not Darrin," when everyone else in the show continued to treat him as though he was? Or if Jaskier told Geralt that he knows he's not actually Geralt, and everyone treated him like he was delusional?
Or if Fraser, even, had recognized Mackenzie King as someone entirely different, and everyone treated him like he had a hole in his bag of marbles because of it? Of course that's Mackenzie King; even her boss knows it. No, she's never been a brunette. What are you talking about?
And that's exactly what happens in Burning Down the House.
the rays vecchio
Diagetically, everyone else treats Callum Keith Rennie's character as though he is Ray Vecchio. "Oh, good, you found him," says Det. Huey. Elaine, Franchesca, literally everyone else both at the station and outside of it treat Callum Keith Rennie Ray Vecchio as though he is David Marciano Ray Vecchio. They're acting exactly as any other TV character would in the face of a recasting: as though absolutely nothing had happened.
Except for Fraser.
Fraser's specific brand of parareal Canadian plot magic means that he's immune to the recasting blindness; he's acting as an agent of the viewer, voicing our non-diegetic concerns. Fraser is (as he so often is) a character with one foot outside of the narrative. He's just always been like this and he doesn't know why.
oh this man is infuriating and hot, fuck. shit.
And for a character who already thinks he is likely insane (he sees the ghost of his dead father! He communicates with his deaf half-wolf! He is instantly committed to a mental institution upon voicing the actual true story of his life!), this is very extremely distressing. Fraser thinks he's actually lost it this time, because everyone else in due South is acting like a TV character, and Benton Fraser is acting like a viewer.
This is so brilliant on so many levels. They just fully lampshade the damn thing. It allows our protagonist to speak for disgruntled or confused viewers. It engages at a postmodern level with television as a medium with a storied history (and due South is incredibly postmodern; nearly every episode is or contains a reference to another piece of media). It's written from the perspective of someone who loves and is knowledgeable about TV tropes.
And it gives us an entirely new Ray while still maintaining respect and loyalty to the original, something no other straight (lol) recast could ever do.
Genuinely one of the most clever, witty, well-crafted hours of television ever made. I could write essays about so many different parts of it. And I guess I will!!!!!!
It’s Burning Down the House week in our dS Stacked Rewatch!
I need a little help here
me decoding and reading the message
this feels like a sensitivity training for how to not commit micro aggressions against vampires in your workplace
just to ease my followers
oh hell yeah you’re absolutely right
to the people writing “jumpscare” and putting a trigger warning for the presence of a canon gay character in the comments section of a post where said canon gay character is present:
YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
this, this jumpscare, trigger warning bullshit?
THAT IS LITERALLY THE GAY PANIC DEFENSE THAT LETS HOMOPHOBES GET AWAY WITH MURDERING QUEER PEOPLE AND PEOPLE THEY MERELY PERCEIVE TO BE QUEER.
we’ve been telling you to check your homophobia for months. THIS IS WHY. you’re out here bringing the gay panic defense to life over a canon gay character on a prime time network tv show.
also, if you didn’t know, this is what “gay panic” means. not that someone is gay/queer and encounter someone hot and they get so flustered they panic. it literally means that someone “panicked” (sarcastic air quotes) because they perceived someone to be queer and they perceived that someone to hit on them, and they harmed that person up to & including murder because they panicked and lost control of themselves because ew, gay. (there’s a similar trans panic legal defense that sanctions the murder of trans people, and people perceived to be trans.)
and you’re out here screaming gay panic over a fictional character.
this is what we mean when we say that being queer does not make you immune to being queerphobic.
this applies to mutuals as well. your dash should be your happy place, so no hard feelings and i wish you the best in life
4YO understands superman better than Zack Snyder
Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.
Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.
We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.
If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.
To the people in the notes acting like this is an opportunity for The Revolution: L. MAO, even. Have you considered the amount of additional power that corporations are going to have by the end of this, and how difficult it's going to be to take that away from them? Democrats are not going to be able to go "oh the government is rubble, time to massively overhaul a shit ton of private businesses and enter a massive legal battle by setting up single payer healthcare!" We're going to be lucky if Medicare is functional.
To the people somehow blaming the Democrats for Trump's actions: log off touch grass go to a town hall I am begging you.
