ive never actually watched anything gordon ramsey (except chef jr) so i thought id check out kitchen nightmares

it is WILD how different the british 2004 version is from the american 2007 version oh my god

and its not because "ooh americans are insane"

the british one (at least the first few episodes ive seen) is a little depressing, because they didnt do a good job framing a narrative arc. a restaurant is suffering believable problems, ramsey comes in, fixes the restaurant...and then theres a check in a month later to reveal that it went back to shit the second he left. it's honest, but not very fun television.

the american one has the opposite problem. i actually couldnt even get through the first episode because it's so over-the-top obviously staged bullshit. like i can practically SEE the director off screen saying "yes! now everyone shout at once!" and theres a cheesy narrator telling me EXACTLY what i'm supposed to feel at all times. i guess its probably entertaining for some people, but my god i can actively feel my brain going numb at how stupid and substanceless it is.

like, i know reality tv is a shithole, but surely there was a middle ground here, where they told mostly real stories, but with a little bit more editing flare to give it a satisfying emotional arc.

the fact that david tennant married the woman who played his daughter on the TV still haunts me occasionally (this is nothing against georgia, we love georgia) but the thing that makes me sit up at night in a cold sweat is the fact that his FATHER IN LAW is the fifth doctor. imagine your fucking father-in-law is Doctor Who. anyways.

Liberty media really out here trying to fabricate a brocedes championship battle, as if its something that can be manufactured and wasnt the inevitable conclusion of that particular brand of relationship

with the graphic novels i’m being prompted again to consider trc tv show teaser trailer concept that has lived in my brain for?? over a year at this point??

just imagine. a sleepy virginian small town from above, a girl pedaling down the sidewalk on a bike. blue’s voice narrating as we slowly get closer.

“being the only normal one in a psychic family is bad enough.” cut to blue’s face as she rides. “what’s worse is being the one with a curse.”

a series of quick flashbacks of various women looking nervous, sad, and/or apologetic to blue at varying ages. maura’s voice. “if you kiss your true live, he will die.”

blue, on her bike, skids to a halt near aglionby academy. she watches the boys in their fancy uniforms and their arrogant smiles, their raven emblems. still narrating, she says, “so i have two rules. one, don’t talk to boys, because they’re trouble. and don’t talk to raven boys, because they’re bastards.”

she pushes off again. pan out to a darkening, cloudy sky. “you can’t outrun fate. but i didn’t expect it to find me so soon.”

the graveyard, st mark’s eve, with the dead marching past. then blue’s perspective, of only one lone boy, and neeve hisses, “take his name. he’ll die within the year.”

blue follows as the camera zeroes in on the boy’s face, his aglionby sweater, his rain-soaked shoulders. he stumbles to his knee, fingers splayed in the dirt. blue asks, “what’s your name?”

“gansey.”

the screen goes black.

“is that all?”

“that’s all there is.”

music slams in alongside a montage of scenes, gansey, ronan, adam, noah. these have some dialogue and are long enough to establish their personalities and relationships with each other. mostly generic/immediately pre-canon things like the dolly/car dragging incident, but also a few early book one scenes. included near the beginning is gansey asking, “what do you know about welsh kings?” and explaining, “legend says he’s only sleeping, and whoever wakes him gets a favor.”

blue’s voice comes back near the middle of that: “i have my rules. we were never supposed to meet.”

half-second flashes of her meeting gansey in nino’s, adam outside in the parking lot, whenever she met ronan and noah officially.

“i guess i was never any good at following the rules.”

another montage like before, now showing all of them in various scenes from book one, getting faster, more jumbled, and soundless except for the music as we go. it culminates in flashes of the cabeswater scene, completely incomprehensible but full of fear. in the end, adam lands on his knees in the forest, hands splayed in the dirt. gansey’s voice screams, “adam!”

screen goes black again. blue says, “this is a year people die.”

[the raven cycle, coming 20XX]

If you’re still doing wip weekend I’d love to ask for some bake off please!

WIP Weekend | Askbox | Original GBBO AU snippet EXT. GARDEN PARTY - DAY: AERIAL SHOT OF BAKERS AND FAMILIES SOCIALISING - WE SEE QUICK GLIMPSES OF BAKERS FROM CURRENT SERIES IN PASSING BEFORE CUTTING TO STEVE INTERVIEW STEVE Yeah, it’s been cool just to be in the tent, you know? My best friend’s crazy about this show. Terrible baker, but she loves it. So when I got in, that was like, her dream come true. STEVE V.O. CONTINUES OVER DINESH HELPING STEVE WITH STAND MIXER - MEL SINGING INTO WHISK WITH STEVE - EDDIE HOLDING UP LADLE OF JAM FOR STEVE TO TASTE I gotta say, I didn’t really know that much about, uh, Bake Off when I first showed up, but--yeah. I get it now.  CUT BACK TO INTERVIEW  Wouldn’t change a thing.

the program isn’t a time loop but it’s worse. time continues passing but time also doesn’t exist anymore. you can die but you’ll come back and the consequences of your actions will still be there. eventually there’s nothing left but you killing and dying and coming back over and over again until you’ve lost any shred of humanity you had left. except min because she’s god’s specialest main character with not enough personality left by that point to lose anything significant

This Willy wonka nightmare pop up thing in Glasgow is giving me all the flashbacks to my time working in a toys r us nightmare pop up that was also terrible and badly done and I love/hate that this is apparently a universal experience that some of us have now lmfao

My Projects (movies&Tv Shows Ver.)

A movie about Mary Ann Neville (Dafina) and Maximillian “Max” McMillan (Freddie) getting together to make their single parents end up together

Season 4 Special Episode “Whisper in the Sanctuary”. Played Nepherle, one of the young apprentice priestesses in the sanctuary that helped the Doctor

Summary of episode: the Doctor and his companion end up in a sanctuary on planet Myrato in the Palioxis galaxy. Here the Doctor finds out that the voices that hunt the Sanctuary are not the voices of the Gods its people worship.

Season1-Season4. Played Aranna Garner the daughter of a noble family in King’s Landing and a good friend to Arya Stark (Maisie Williams). After wishing Arya a goodbye, Aranna discovers that the castle isn’t a safe place anymore.

A tv show where Rosalee Caprice (Dafina) gets kidnapped at the age of 5 near her home in London and get send to Japan. There she moves from foster home to foster home until she ends up with the Boo. She gets close to her foster family and the one living next door.

Dafina played a nameless kid for the first five minutes of the movie. But in 2022 it was announced she was going to play Eve in the remake of the movie.

A movie about a group of five teenage girls trying to live their last moments as teenagers before entering adulthood and the responsibilities that comes with it.

Played Eriska, a young girl from a futuristic world where humans and robots live pacefully with each other until tension between the two groups arise and they are on the edge of a war. When getting out to stroll around the city, after curfew, she stumbles into an unusual group of robots.

A two seasons drama serie about a girl, Raelynn Adeline Younge (Dafina) is on the site of an archeologist research with her father, Walter "Walt" Younge(Jake) and finds a ancient artifact with the power to reveal echoes of past event. Adeline keps the discovery a secret changing her life for what she things the best.

Dr. Eleanor Harper (Katheryn) a renowned psychlogist, begins to experience unexplained phenomena aftwe taking on a mysteriious new patient, Marco Pinelli (Ferdia). The patiend, a traumatized individual with a dark past, claims to be haunted by spectral whispers and shadows, some bads and some, not so evil.

Cayla Vincent, (Dafina) is one of the latter, is trying to keep Marco out of troubles but things don't go as planned when Cayla "friends" attack a new victim

what on earth happened to russell t davies. these last three doctor who specials have been so utterly CRINGE i felt my entire soul wrinkling up in second hand embarrassment. sure, even his first run had goofy monsters and silliness all around, but there were some really impactful, well-written episodes, too. but now the emotional moments don't land at all, the lines are utterly shite, the plot is exasperating ???

how do you bring back both david tennant and catherine tate and give them such subpar material to work with, i'd never leave my house ever again. i would throw my phone into the sea, go off the grid. RTD somehow fumbled each and every potential for any sentimental reunion between the two by giving them the most mediocre lines i've ever heard spoken on tv. i am genuinely baffled. i want the confidence of this man, to just bullshit my way through any job

neil patrick harris was operating at maximum capacity, too, but it's like RTD was DEAD SET on making this the absolute worst. i can't even go into that ending and regeneration. wtf did i just watch 😭

Stranger Things scripts:

1.01 "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers" (Green)

1.01 "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers" (2nd Pink)

2.09 "Chapter Nine: The Gate" (Blue)

4.07 "Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab" (Green)

4.09 "Chapter Nine: The Piggyback" (Yellow)

How to tell if a Stranger Things script is real or fake:

When the script is over, END EPISODE appears in all caps, underlined and centered." (Source)

I don't think it made them look good to be honest and Rhaenyra was still fine with killing him, the only reason they didn't is because Daemon offered another option. I don't think the show needs to explicitly spell out bad deeds are bad, either way fandom will do what it does so you shouldnt really make this for the lowest common denominator

yeah and see i do completely agree with you— i like the choice and i like the moral ambiguity— but i just think that the writing of the laenor twist was just kinda unclear in general wrt their motivations. is it intending to show their moral ambiguity? if so then that feels at odds with rhaenyra having a whole scene earlier in the episode where shes like ITS OK laenor LOVE IS LOVE i accept you for JUST WHO YOU ARE its OKAY TO BE GAY <33333 which feels like theyre trying to set up laenor’s exile as a kindness because she cares about him? otherwise what was the purpose of that scene? and what was the purpose of laenor saying he wants to stay with rhaenyra and be with his family? ive seen like 30 completely different and opposing interpretations of what *actually happened* bc daemon and rhaenyra’s entire discussion about what to do with laenor had to be written with as much double meaning as possible to preserve the twist. leaving a lot of questions unanswered. like... how does laenor feel about it? we dont know! some people thought it was originally planned as a murder but qarl intervened. some people thought laenor was super happy to abandon westeros and obviously agreed to the plan ahead of time (which would feel inconsistent with his earlier scene?). did rhaenyra feel troubled about doing it? was she completely chill about it? why would daemon want him alive? we dont see any of this! and the story moves so fast that any emotional ramifications will probably not get any exploration. so like my problem is not with the choice itself but with the writing around it being kinda weak and unclear, if that makes sense? idk hahaha

this ai boom fucking sucks and it concerns and disturbs me how much so many people in our generation are embracing it. but also im a failure at praxis bc i cant stop listening to the squidward ai cover of my way

I know like some people think this is stupid bla bla but with the increase in restrictions on women’s reproductive rights there really needs to be more talk about abortions in tv and film, abortions framed positively, abortions as difficult yet necessary, abortions as womens decisions

can we talk about how overproduced reality tv has gotten and how it’s completely ruined the genre

MY FRIEND, I ABSOLUTELY CAN!!!! 🥰 Starting from the beginning...

PART ONE: ORIGINAL FILMANIA PRODUCTION & FATE

It’s 2019-20, you’re Mile Phakphum Romsaithong, a very rich socialite who plays guitar. You’re bored and you’ve been thinking about getting into acting, and have been offered misc. BL casting opportunities before (1), but never really felt like any of them were For You, so you turned them down. 

Then, one day, you find out that there is a BL currently casting from the studio Filmania, where the male lead is based on you (2), at least your public persona/physically/whatever. Being a puppy of a man, you are delighted, and go read the script, and then the books, and decide you’ll go to the casting call for it.

At casting call, you re-meet Apo Nattawin Wattanagitiphat (3), who you went to college with and had a giant crush on (4). You guys hit it off IMMEDIATELY, chemistry unhinged, and get cast as Kinn and Porsche. Apo takes it, even though he has historically had a bad experience with the Thai acting industry (5). You are delighted by this incidence of FATE!!!!!!

PART TWO: IF YOU DON’T HAVE FATE ON YOUR SIDE STORE-BOUGHT IS FINE

The show gets dropped (6) Something something the authors, something something the company, whatever. I assume, if you are Mile, you are very sad! And if you’re Apo you’re also pretty sad, because it seemed like for once even with all the industry BS you had a cool dude on your side who you hit it off with, and it was gonna be a cool show. On the heels of that, if you are Mile, and have stacks of money, and see your college crush who is an unbelievable actor about to re-give up on acting and call it a wash, you are like, “wait, I have stacks of money and know everyone”.

So you, Mile, call up the head of the small talent agency you’re signed with, Be On Cloud, which is really just your buddy Pond Krisda Witthayakhajorndet in a fake mustache and a trench coat, and go, hey! So! Have you ever wanted to make television? I have a man here I CANNOT allow to be sad under any circumstances, and also, we’re really good at this and there’s an audience here.

PART THREE: BE ON CLOUD, KINNPORSCHE TAKE TWO!!!!

Pond, being just as unhinged as Mile, thinks about it for a second, and is like. Well. How different can making television be from running an event planning company, which is my real job (7). It’s just calling up a bunch of different guys who are good at their jobs and putting them in one place. And I know so many different guys! Let’s do it!

They get the rights (handwaves this I don’t know anything about it) and jump into production. They get their shit together UNREALISTICALLY quickly (6), and on top of that, since they’re starting from scratch and they’re just A Bunch Of Guys led by Pond and Mile, they decide that their priorities are #1 making art and #2 making Apo happy. With regards to #1, they rework the script (8), hire the best acting coaches money can afford, and put the cast through character-building and intimacy workshops. With regards to #2, they toss out all the industry bullshit that has sucked for him in the past -- no more crew/cast hierarchy (9), no more homophobia on-set (10), no more fake fanservice (11).

FINALE: MIRACLES IF U BELIEVE ETC.

Magically, it turns out, when you create a great working environment, you get really, really good TV!!!!! Which means that their unhinged plan succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, and now Mile & Apo are internationally famous superstars who hang out 24/7 with their squad of 16 close friends, and we get to watch them do it. And it has been, genuinely, a fucking privilege. 

To end this tale with a personal note, one of the reasons I allowed myself to get so invested in KinnPorsche so fast is because it was evident from every aspect of it -- the show itself, the BTS, the actors interviews -- that the people working on this show both really cared about the show and were genuinely having a great time. There is nothing like seeing art made by people who are passionate about making it! 

Their enthusiasm, their hard work, and their obvious enjoyment of the process & each other’s company are what made me feel like I could trust what they were making, because you could tell no matter what else it was, it was from the heart. And that’s really something special! Especially in this day and age!! 

And even though they could pull it off this time because of the circumstances (financial and social), I hope that it shows BL television CAN be made in a way that keeps the actors comfortable and safe and happy, and encourages change for the better across the industry as a whole. KinnPorsche shouldn’t be the last wild BL passion project; it should be the first one of a new wave. (bangs gavel) Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Changing Channels as gay dean propaganda. After Gabriel I guess sees Dean watching Dr. Sexy, somehow knows Dean likes Dr. Sexy, AND after Gabriel sees just how Dean reacts to his Dr. Sexy and sees that Dean’s crush is so legit as to break the illusion and help Dean uncover Gabriel, Gabriel– as his torture meant to break them– scripts Dean into a sitcom scene version of Supernatural where he’s hooked up with a random woman in a bikini. This is Supernatural as a tv show written by Gabriel within Chuck’s universe, so it’s essentially a parody of the most shallow read of the show possible. And while Dean’s reaction to Dr. Sexy was entirely unscripted and real, a true act of his free will, his encounter with the woman in the motel room is entirely forced, scripted by an angel, and fake.

WOMAN But we did do work! In depth.

Laugh track. DEAN waves at her as she leaves. SAM shuts the door and shakes his head. DEAN speaks through a forced smile.

DEAN How long do we have to keep doing this?

And it’s torture, and it's so interesting that this in particular is torture, because it's not like getting shot or slapped or strapped to a machine to get hit in the balls, it's just a dollhouse version of Chuck’s bigger universe, endlessly playing their parodistic roles that Gabriel has assigned to them.

And then Dean, in another genuine act of free will, goes on to figure out the Trickster is an angel because of Cas’s literally disrupting the plan by breaking into the fake, scripted Supernatural™ where Dean is scripted to act as if he's had sex with a random hot woman, and Dean figures it out because he can read Cas and knows him and can tell that Cas knows Gabriel just by seeing how he looks at him.