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twoidiotwriters1 · 3 years

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Starcrossed Losers 2.V (Josh Wheeler xF!Reader)

A/N: Now that I have more time on my hands expect a whole lot more of this baby coming your way :) -Danny

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Listen to me :)

Listen.

I'm not trying to defy my boyfriend's authority around here, can you really blame me for what I'm trying to do?

I don't get how the others aren't freaking out about this, like, those kids have eyes everywhere and now there's some freaky cult controlling them, right out of a dystopian story! Though I guess our whole situation may seem dystopian in general, I mean look at us, bunch of kids pretending to know what we're doing.

Either way, I'm just doing a quiet field trip, Nathan will come back with news of whether Sam will help or not, and we'll just look around the place... nothing more.

I don't have a death wish. I promise. Katie's death isn't weighing on me, I don't want to join her anytime soon, I'm actually quite happy, all things considered.

Then why am I here, the first hour in the morning, waiting for Nathan to come back?

Maybe I'm feeling like I have some adrenaline here that wasn't used and after going to one place and another now I can't stay still. And also because those AV kids might really need our help.

I find Nathan halfway to the school, he's not alone, Sam, Mona and Maya are with her. I groan a little at the sight of my former friend, and I can tell by her expression she wasn't expecting to see me either.

"Goodmorning, my queen," I smile at Sam, bowing a little just to make the ambience lighter.

"L/N," She bows back, her mocked solemnity making me grin in return. "Nathan has told us the issue, but only the basics. Care to tell us more?"

I tell them everything I know, I even play for them the last minutes of the newest episode, I see my worry reflected on Sam's eyes and I know I came to the right place.

"I knew Melissa," Sam said grimly. "She had the talent to see the positive things out of everything... You have the map?"

"I memorized it."

"Cool, then let's go."

"What?" I blink. "Hold on, Sam, we can't just show up."

Sam frowns. "Why not?"

"Didn't you hear the recording? I don't know what the fuck happened there but it sounded like they were heavily armed, or at least that they are very violent."

"Well, you have a sledgehammer, Nathan has his crossbow, Mona has..." She looked over her shoulder. "Mona has herself. Maya has a pocket knife..."

"What about you?"

She shows me a taser and winks. "Think we're good to go."

"I don't know..." I bite my lip.

"Okay, here's a suggestion," Nathan starts. "Let's not fight yet? I know for a fact that Alex would kill me if you die."

"And?"

Nathan looks at me with this truly confused glance.

"I don't want you to die, Y/N."

I beam at his comment, however, Maya makes sure to ruin it right away.

"Yeah well, you haven't been around her enough lately, have you?"

"Neither have you, Maya," Sam gives her a warning look. "Y/N, we won't force you to go with us if you feel it's too risky, just tell us where to go."

"I won't let you go alone! It was my idea!" I exclaim, then pinch the bridge of my nose with a little exasperation. "Fine, we go. But we have to be quiet and we won't attack unless we really have to."

Sam and Nathan agree right away, Mona and Maya grunt and scoff, but I guess that's a yes.

We start moving then, only to stop five minutes later.

"Do you guys hear that?" I lift my hand so everyone stays quiet.

"Hear what?" asks Maya.

I hush her again, and turn to my right, recognizing the bright backpack peering from a trashcan.

"An!" I hiss in annoyance.

I quickly skate to the trashcan and lift the lid, revealing the tiny figure of Angelica looking up to me with a guilty smile.

"Surprise?"

"What the hell are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same," She frowns. "Josh told you to leave it alone."

"Since when do you listen to Josh?" I scoff.

"Since I realized a bunch of nerdy weirdos aren't worth risking my tribe!" She rolled her eyes. "They're probably dead already, Y/N! We should go back to the mall!"

She whines and pulls my arm as if to trying to drag me, I snatch my arm away and glare at her.

"I can't leave more people behind, not again."

Well, maybe this is about Katie a bit.

"You think those kids will thank you?" Angelica insisted. "They're losers! As soon as they find a better place they'll squirm away to the safest cave, there's a reason why rats survive longer than heroes, Y/N."

"I swear to god, sometimes what comes out of your mouth doesn't make any fucking sense," I reply. "Go back to the mall and stay there, if Josh asks, tell him I went to the school to finish my negotiations with Sam."

"I won't lie, he'll kick me out with you!"

"He won't kick me out!"

"Why not? You think he'll stop just because you make out a few times during the week? He could easily do the same with any other girl– No offence, but if he got over Sam Dean he can get over–"

"Stop!" I say, really not looking forward to hearing the end of that sentence. "You're already in trouble by knowing where I am, so you either come with me or you get lost but choose now because we don't have time for your temper tantrums!"

Angelica stares at me with that little frown she does before taking down her backpack and grabbing her taser.

"Fine," She growls. "But you better move your annoying ass faster, you're way easy to follow even while wearing those stupid roller skates."

"I was trying to be quiet," I argue.

"Wait, she's coming too?" Mona frowns. "We can't be babysitting while we search for a cult."

"I don't need a babysitter," Angelica rolls her eyes. "I could kill you in a heartbeat if I wanted to..."

"I'd like to see you try–"

"Okay!" Sam interrupted. "Let's just... keep going..."

As we keep going Nathan and I engage in a comfortable chat, it's weird to see him again, but not as weird as with Alex, I guess that by now I'm just used to find random people from my past. I'm not trying to avoid it, I don't mind being reminded of my past now that I have things to look forward to. I'm not sure exactly what, but I know I have a future, and maybe that future lies here or somewhere else, but as long as I stay alive I have one, and that's enough.

Nathan and I kinda have the much-needed talk about the elephant in the room, how we were an almost something, surprisingly enough, there are no hard feelings coming from either of us.

'Well the wind it brought my sails to you And my course was true We talked about the lovers we had How they never followed through Oh they never follow through'

"I still regret leaving you like that though," He tells me. "It's not that I was sick of you guys, I just... I don't know, felt like I was wasting my chance somehow?"

"Your chance?"

"Yeah, I mean during high school I was just the 'nice guy', you know? After the nuke I thought I would find something else to be but I'm still the nice guy, I let you escape when you stole half of our weapons, and now I keep Maya from doing fucked up things with the tribe when she thinks no one's paying attention..."

"That's a good thing to do," I try to cheer him up.

"I wish I could be more like you," He smiled fondly at me.

"What do you mean? The artsy girl?" I snort.

"You weren't the artsy girl– I don't know, you were just... you. I never felt like you had to belong anywhere to be worth something... I'm not like that."

"Maybe I never tried to belong, but I was lonely," I sigh. "I obsessed with reading of other worlds, imagining alternate lives that my actual real-life just felt... out of place. I always felt something was missing. The only time I had the feeling that my life was going somewhere for the first time was when... when you asked me out."

Nathan smiles at me, and even though I feel a little guilty about it, I can't help but feel glad that I can witness such a breathtaking smile from so close.

'You told me how the life you lead Is a made up thing How you wish you were as interesting As half the things you read Oh as half the things you read'

"Ah, I don't know," He sighs, looking away from me. "I guess I wasn't made to be part of a tribe, I really liked my time as a loner, you know?"

"Then why did you stop?"

He smiled again. "Because I also really liked you."

I blush at his statement, but I try to remain as neutral as possible.

"Well, if I'm allowed to say it, love is a really stupid reason to quit a good life," I admit.

"What?" He laughs. "Didn't you join your tribe because of Josh?"

"Not only because of Josh!" I defend myself. "I also joined because I had a purpose, I take care of them."

"Well, but most of them can take care of themselves now, don't they?" He teased. "C'mon, the only reason why you stayed is that Josh has you wrapped around his finger."

I frown a little at that.

Nathan kinda has a point, right? Alex already has my notebook filled with first-aid treatments and indications, most of the kids now know how to fix a broken bone. Do they really need me?

"Hey, not that it's bad," He adds, nudging my arm. "If I had what you have with Josh I would stay too, you guys seem happy."

Are we happy?

'I'm a wanderer I've always been undone And the shadows cast upon my soul Are clawing from the sun'

How much of this happiness will last once we get used to each other? And how much of that happiness is what it's keeping us together right now?

Are we really done with running away from places and being alone? I said I was, Josh said he wanted to stay with me. We said we'd be together. We are together.

Angelica's words come back to me in full force: 'If he could get over Sam, what makes you think he wouldn't be able to forget about you too?'

'I'm sure it's nice to think I'm something that you need But I promise when the sun ascends you'll see that's just a dream I'll never come around'

Do I really trust in love enough as to let it build the rest of my life? My future depends on whether Josh and I stay as a couple, and out of the two of us, I'm the one who'll lose the most if we break.

I obviously enjoy my time with Josh, and I really like him... but is liking him enough reason for him to stay? Or he'll leave as soon as I push the right button?

Just like with Sam...

'I must admit that the faith I had Is fleeting fast Cause you told me how you never let go And how that keeps you in the past'

No. I won't start this again. Josh already proved himself thousands of times. He chose me, he stayed with me. More yet, he came back for me when I left.

"It's here," I say abruptly, stopping dead in my tracks.

Everyone stops behind me. Ahead of us, there's a huge mansion, not too far from where Josh's old safe place is. It looks empty, but there's a security camera that luckily isn't pointing our way. I signal the group to give a few steps back and we hide around the corner.

"Okay, we need to get closer, we need to make sure they're–"

"Psst!"

I stop and straighten in my place.

"Did someone just 'pst' at us?"

"Psst!"

"Oh shit," Nathan looks up to the window above us and quickly prepares the crossbow. "Don't move!"

"Hey hey hey, it's fine!" The girl's voice says from the second floor. "You guys need to get out of the street right now, they're going to be here soon."

"What?"

"Come in!"

"Yeah, like we're going to listen to a stranger," Maya scoffs. "How do we know you're not with them."

"I know you," She says simply, then she turns to look at me and smiles. "I know your boyfriend. I talked to him once."

"What?" I tilt my head. "You mean after the nuke or..?"

"When you left the mall, he came to see me," She adds calmly. "Come in, I won't hurt you."

Her words make something inside my head click:

"Mavis?"

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elliebartlets · 3 years

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7.22 Tomorrow

***This is long but I don’t care cause it’s my last one :(

Episode:

• ha what election? (I saved this episode for tonight. Although watching the predictions and numbers is kind of addicting, I need a break from it.)

• lol those opening shots of DC were like the kinder version of house of cards

• “You did a lot of good, Jed.”

I always thought that was sweet but didn’t the administration accomplish a whole lotta nothing?

• oh just pardon the lady who did weed!

• “Mrs. Bartlet and I gotta hitch?”

“Hike up that skirt, you’ll do fine.”

• “You’re gonna do great Josh. You don’t need me.” 😫

• “Nancy how’s your mother doing? Tell her I’m looking forward to seeing her again soon.” Lmao

• Debbie watching Bartlet take his sweet time writing the letter is killing me she’s so exasperated

• absolutely screaming at the fact that I was in that hallway and room that Abbey and Bartlet are in

• I wonder where they shot the inauguration scene

• the Oval Office getting cleaned out always made me sad

• Abbey looks kinda annoyed. and she started clapping after the rest of them lol I bet she’s zoning out

• aw Debbie

• that ain’t Evelyn Baker Lang

• the OG staff that stayed on are Sam Josh and Donna. Everyone else is moving on

• nothing against Ronna, I like her fine, but I just can’t believe she’s taking over Mrs Landingham and Debbie’s job

• “Where’s Mrs. Bartlet?”

“Already inside the car.”

aksjs I just love how quickly Abbey wants to leave. She said “yeet” and went for the car and didn’t even say goodbye to the Santoses

• “What in the world was he trying to prove by not wearing an overcoat?”

Hm maybe that’s why she didn’t wanna say goodbye

• CJ going into the press room for the last time

• Is that Barney from parks and rec?! Omg it is!!

“TED!!! GET IN HERE!!!”

• ok but why does the first lady’s cheif of staff have a much larger office than the presidents cheif of staff? Donnas office is huge compared to Leo’s/CJ’s. Is the East wing bigger?

• wait I wanted to see what Bartlet wrote to Santos!

• “Do you work in the White House?”

“No. No I’m sorry I don’t.”

Ugh my heart

• ok I didn’t cry again!! I’ve only cried at this episode the first time I watched it

Podcast:

• guest stars: basically the entire west wing cast

• This podcast was 2 hours long so please just bear with me. also this episode was filmed January 2020. This year. That feels like forever ago.

• The finale was watched by 10 million people

• “Martin, could you tell us a little bit about what it was like working with Stockard Channing? The dynamic that the two of you have on screen is...”

“My only disappointment working with Stockard is that she did not like one of my favorite movies, Grease. It was a forbidden topic. I don't know why, but she didn't like the movie, she didn't like herself in it.”

“She was terrific.”

“I thought so too. Maybe she'll get this message.”

• He also suggested Mia Farrow for the role of the First Lady.

“Yeah, she was my first choice.”

“This is going to be great for Stockard. It’s just going to be...I mean, you got bigger problems than Grease now.”

“I'm done.”

Lmao first of all that conversation was hilarious and second of all Grease isn’t my favorite movie but Stockard Channing is the reason I watch it everytime sooo 🤷🏽‍♀️

• The scene with Santos and Helen exiting the building and walking across the street was shot in front of Blair House, one of the guest houses of the President used to host visiting dignitaries and other guests. They were only allowed to step in the doorframe and then step out and walk down the steps.

• Josh: *asks the audience a question about Downtown Abbey*

Audience: no response

Josh: You guys watch any other TV?

Lmao

• oh my god Allison Smith (Mallory) is a singer!? she played Annie on Broadway (“I only do finale’s named Tomorrow, apparently.”) and just sang the chorus from tomorrow and I wasn’t expecting that at all

• “I could not imagine not pardoning Toby, because I don't think Richard would have ever spoken to me again.”

• Bartlet’s final stroll around the West Wing was the final shot

• “I thought the most ambitious scene was where Bartlet's walking and mentioning everyone by name. I was like, anybody who writes that scene for Martin Sheen is a brave writer indeed.”

“I will just mention that earlier tonight – sorry– sorry, Mr. Sheen – he did forget Aaron Sorkin's name. He referred him as the guy who created it.”

“I'm kind of glad that I only did one other of these.”

• “I wanted to ask about acting beside your daughter in The West Wing.”

“Renée–”

“Renée, I know.”

Lmao

• he enjoyed working with his daughter and hopes she did too (she never talks about it lol)

• There was a deleted scene where Will had to leave a note for Lou who was coming on to be the new Press Secretary and had a hard time figuring out what to leave her.

• JOSH: “I remember one of the strongest memories I have of this final episode, is what I think was the final scene, and everybody clapping and surrounding Martin after finishing the final take. And I remember kind of backing up and feeling, even though it was very special and I was moved, but I felt like it was other people's moment. The people who had been there from the beginning.”

MARY: “Yeah, I just felt lucky to–”

JOSH: “It was their very special thing, and I was happy to be even peripherally involved.”

BRAD: “And it was–”

JOSH: “Shut up, Brad.”

Lmao

• There was a scene right after Bartlet gives Charlie the constitution where Bartlet leaves the building and everyone applauds, but it was cut.

• The inauguration scene was a platform built in the parking lot of Warner Bros. studios.

• Aaron Sorkin had an office on the Warner Bros lot and they asked him that day if he wanted to be in the inauguration shot.

• The way Aaron planned on ending the series was having Bartlet leave the White House gates and dissapear into a crowd of people walking on the street. (Would that have actually worked? Wouldn’t people recognize him and he’d be flanked by secret service?) He told Eli Attie this a few days before he wrote the episode Red Mass, which has Senator Stackhouse walking into a crowd.

• Eli Attie suggested the final scene of the show, after showing Bartlet’s final scene, should be a sort of a hard cut to the Oval Office with no music, and military advisors leaving, and Santos behind his desk and him turning to Josh and saying, “What's next?” And then hard cut to black.

• Despite being known as Aaron’s idea, the walk and talk was created by Tommy Schlamme.

• Al Gore called Sorkin to recommend Eli Attie as a writer. Oh just kidding Eli emailed Al Gore telling f him he really wanted the job and gave him talking points of what to say

• NBC originally wanted the show to have more drama and action.

AARON: “You might remember from the pilot that Cuban refugees, on rafts, are trying to make their way the ninety miles to the coast to get here. Warren Littlefield and the NBC executives wanted Josh to basically swim out after them and rescue them, like really rescue them.

BRAD: “Like Rahm Emanuel in a Speedo.”

RICHARD: “Which explains why they didn't want Toby.”

• “The pilot originally ended with the line, “Thank you, Mr. President.” Ok. Bartlet said, “Josh, don't ever do it again.” Josh said, “Thank you, Mr. President,” and left, and we fade it to black and we rolled credits. And it was Tommy who said, “You know, I just, I feel like we should get the sense that life goes on.” And perhaps it was because I had no idea what episode two would be and I didn't want life to go on, I was resisting that. And anyway, that's where the line “What’s next?” comes from.”

• Sorkin didn’t notice Richard’s wedding ring until they were shooting the pilot. He told Richard he didn’t think Toby was married and Richard said he wasn’t. Sorkin then asked him why he was wearing a wedding ring. Richard said “it’s for you to figure out.”

Richard himself had decided that he had been married but lost his wife, which gave him a dark drive to be focused on work. He didn’t tell Sorkin his idea (“I – that actually would have been pretty good”) so Sorkin came up with the idea for him to have an ex-wife.

First of all wow I wonder what the show would’ve been like if off the bat, Toby had a wife who died. And secondly I love the lack of communication between them lol

• Allison Janney isn’t there but called Melissa’s phone to say hi! (And then proceeded to ask her where she left the key lol)

• People come up to ask Marlee Matlin and ask her why Joey didn’t get to hook up with Josh

• Sorkin was planning on killing off Andy. Kathleen York had no idea until Richard told her “I’m really glad after you had the baby that you made it.”

“Perhaps there was a discussion. Look, once I killed Mrs. Landingham, nobody was safe on the show anymore.”

“So, thank you for letting me live.”

• The scene in the episode Five Votes Down where the staff is walking down a stairwell into the hotel kitchen involved 11 takes, a grease fire, and a cameraman falling down the stairs.

• At the time, The West Wing set was the largest set ever built for TV.

• Janel Maloney didn’t quit her waitressing job until season 2. She was being hired episode to episode as a guest actor and didn’t know when her last episode would be.

• BRAD: I have a very clear memory of, I remember they said “Cut,” and I walked over, I think you were at the monitor. And I was like, “I love her.”

• oh my god they almost had a Halloween episode?!?

Kevin Falls pitched the idea five times to Aaron whenever an episode was going to air the week of Halloween. Dee Dee Myers told him the White House Press Corps brings their kids in to trick or treat.

“And I thought, “All right, well, there's something in that. Like, what if Bartlet is just Scrooge about Halloween? Like he doesn't get it. He thinks these kids are little thieves coming in for candy, and he's going to lecture them about like the true meaning of All Hallows Eve, and Ichabod Crane or something like, that'll be a funny cold opening, and that’s all I’d need to start if I can just – if I could just hand these guys eight pages tomorrow, I'll be happy. I don't have to know what's going to happen in the rest of the episode.”

That was on September 10, 2001. God that’s depressing.

I like the idea of Bartlet lecturing the kids because that’s what he does best, but I’m not sure I see him being a Scrooge, especially to kids since there’s that one scene where he greets a bunch of schoolchildren and he’s so good and funny with them.

• They filmed in DC two or three times a year for exterior shots.

Some stories they shared about DC:

~ The former NSA director of Bill Clinton’s called Sorkin to his office and wanted to know why there was no NSA on the show, which is how Nancy McNally became a character.

~ On his day off, Richard got a phone call from the White House Chief of Staff asking if he would host the National Breast Cancer Coalition at the OEOB.

~ Another time he was at a brunch with famous Washington people when General Alexander Haig, the former Secretary of State, walked up to him, his eyes boring into Richards, and said “I find your show eerie” and walked away before Richard could say thank you.

~ While filming Noël, Brad was allowed to go in and out of the White House gate for the last scene. One time he was walking in with Josh Bolten, the Deputy Chief of Staff and the secret service let Brad in, but stopped Bolten and searched his bag.

~Aaron Sorkin didn’t go to DC during the filming of Noël because his daughter was born. Tommy Schlamme got the choir, who sings outside the White House at the end of the episode to sing a Hebrew lullaby which translated to “welcome little princess”

This story by Brad which was too funny to put into words

Well that’s it. Dang I’m kinda sad the podcast is over. Also no more long posts about the west wing from me (which is why I don’t feel bad that this is so long.) the last time I rewatched the show and made posts about it, I told my self the next time I rewatched the show, the posts wouldn’t be as long...yeah that didn’t work out. Anyway hope y’all enjoyed this I will still post about west wing just not obnoxiously like this :)

#the west wing #tomorrow #tww #the west wing weekly #tww weekly #rewatching tww

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composethesilence · 3 years

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Soap Writing alt title angry old man yells at cloud

Let me make it clear I flipping love Charity and will always adore her character but maaaan

the thing with ED as well as American soaps is that they are using these characters flaws as a crutch and not a way to tell meaningful storylines. We do not see the push and pull. We don’t see the struggle with their inner demons.

Under RM *honestly its just me being hella angry and writing about it lol

Charity is prime example. Lately, she’s been downright dreadful. Where is that battle between who she was and who she has become? One sec she’s in love and faithful, fighting for her kids and the next episode she’s kissing some guy and neglecting her kids. That is the old charity and the old charity was not 3 dimensional. Yes, there were times when we saw bits of development (earlier scenes between Debbie and her relationship with Cain and Jae) but for the most part she was the Siren archtype with no redeeming qualities. It is the same with Cain. They always revert back to his archtype even when though he has potential to move pass that. It’s television, you are allowed to write changing and developed characters. You are allowed to have your character blackslide but using it as a crutch is just ridiculous.

A good example of a character changing for the better AND having moments of backsliding is

Carol from TWD. She is a beatutifully written character. Her progression from meek to badass and in some cases back to being reserved and self doubting is absolutely brilliant.

For soaps

Sharon Newman from Young and The Restless

now I know I’ve done my share of eye rolling about Sharon, but there was a point where her character truly changed. She wasn’t the damsel anymore, she took charged. Then she switched back to her old ways but there was reason and the audience could see little bits of her old ways coming back bit by bit. We saw her struggle with the old and new. We saw her reach out then quickly pull away. Sharon a few years ago was strong and flawed and reveal. Sharon 2020 is...tolerable.

Another example is Olivia freakn Spencer. Another character with a boxed archtype that truly developed into something much greater. She had some really tough relationships with Josh, Phillip, Alan and Jeffrey(lets not talk about that). Slowly we saw her grow. Trhough her trauma, much like Charity, she found strength. And again, like Charity she went back to her old ways at times. She was hella flawed. And even though GL did some weird shit towards the end of its run, showing the raw metamorphisis of Olivia(and honestly the rest of the cast) was brilliant. I mean, let’s talk about Reva.

Other mentions: Erica Kane, Carly Corinthos(back in the day Carly, this bs now is a hot ass mess)...

What I wish would’ve happened with Charity and Vanity is

1. We see the slow decent of her character. Yes she had some doubts and rough patches during Vanessa’s cancer SL but audiences believed she could move pass that based on her unwavering loyalty to her fiance and deterimination to get Johnny. We even had a beautiful scene with V “zooming” in. And then boom she goes back to her old ways without any build. And she continues to spiral and treat her kids like shit. (more shitty).

2. If she is going to spiral out of control maybe have the character do something different than the default ya know? Something that ADDS to the character.

3. If there needed to be a breakup(i don’t see why it had to be tbh) they shouldn’t have gone with a ridiculous cheating sl. In LDR and medical truama the lack of communication is always a factor for breakups. However, I would love to have seen an amicable short break to regroup.

4. They could’ve just not went down the break up storyline. This was my problem with Robron. I HATE what they did with them, and I wasn’t even a big fan of the ship. In Vanity’s case, they could still do the LDR because audiences are forgiving giving to situation(covid, mat leave etc). This way we could dive into Charity’s character and truly rebuild her relationship with her kids including Johnny. With Robron, I really would’ve prefered they just recast but whatever that’s in the past I guess. Good luck to the new ship.

ED is just not on my list right now, not just because of Charity but even Chas + Paddy bit frustrated me to no end. Cain is just annoying and the entire Gabby sl is...I can’t.

I would love to see compelling sl and characters. I want to be immersed in ED. Instead its just eh...

But like don’t get me wrong I still adore ED and will still watch it but like...maaannnn

and it’s not just ED. God knows I detest American soaps at the moment. The genre itself is just lacking. We get better character dev in online soaps...

It’s not the fault of the WR. I know there are restrictions and certain guidlines you HAVE to follow but maaaaannn this shit is irky.

*sry for the spelling + grammar errors.

#charity dingle #emmerdale #cain dingle #sharon newman #soaps #I think I am just tired of soap tropes tbh

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popculturebuffet · 4 years

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Close Enough Reviews: The Canine Guy

We’ve finally reached the end.. hopefully not of the season and there are hints that there’s a little more to come so fingers crossed, but of the massive bomb. 12 episodes, with three thankfully done already. 1 day. Doors open let’s go after the blurb and the cut. Josh and Alex have a falling out over a yearly tradition that leads to Josh befreinding a talking dog raised on Jim Carrey movies, while Bridgette drags Emily to a cabin in the woods, wooo ooo, to try and get their music duo back on top and run into musical legend and living god Weird Al Yankovic. Dare to be stupid under the cut.

Like many episodes of this show, and what i’ve said is a strength this episode is two plots tha tsomehow end up smashing into each other but unlike the rest it’s 22 minutes. The show was, unsuprisingly originally convinced this way, as recently revealed by JG himself during the show’s premiere day reddit ama, but the execs later decided to simply cut most of hte episodes down to 11 minutes to improve hte pacing, which as we’ve seen clearly worked . But this one DOES make full use of it’s 22 minutes and does make me hope if hte show gets a season 2 they feel free to ping pong a bit. So with that settled, let’s dive in. Our A-Plot starts with a flashback showing Josh and Alex’s yearly tradition: Going to midevil times together, due to having seen it in the cable guy, even qouting it and other jim carrey movies as the two were super fans. This continues fine into college but by last year alex just.. isn’t as into it. IT’s a sacred friend ritural and all but Alex is just getting bored. Things come to a head in the present where, when Alex tries to just flat out get out of it, as he has press agents looking at his viking novel he’s been working on who might actually publish it and as his characeter profile, if not the series makes clear, just like josh and emily’s own dreams this is his. It’s resonable, they could just resschedule.. but Josh feels betrayed lashes out, Alex calls medivial times stupid and historiclaly inaccurate (even if he loves fecatia dippers with tomato soup ), and Josh storms off. Josh wallows, and finds the mead tastes like horse piss (Which leads to an utterly great and gross gag when it turns out ita ctually is, the guy serving it says “He’s on to us”) And switches to brownies using the same horse. Sometimes a grossout gag can work. However Josh soon finds a new buddy in a talking dog named dog guy who was tourtred by and is running from the scientest who created him for reasons we’ll get to in the climax. And since the dog was also raised on jim carrey movies, and gets josh’s refrences and love of htem, the two quickly bond. Alex is pissed and jealous, somehow more than with his own ex wife, to see this despite trying to clear his schedule to make things up to josh, as he’s still a good guy and can realize he was wrong, and has his meetings, which are boring or frustrating, whie also stalking JOsh and Dog boy. Alex in a fit of rage at seeing dog boy seemingly tear up his manuscript calls the scientest, who popped by earlier looking for him.. only to find out that he just tore up the ending because he felt , as ac ollege graduate no less, that it could be a franchise and the two become friend. WHile Josha nd Alex fight over him Dog GUy’s creator kidnap him and the two head off, their freindship exploding over josh calling the cops and the two both wanting the dog to be their new best friend as well as the whole medievil times thing. Meanwhile Pearles tracking dog guy’s creator, because as she explains to ready cold cases are her majong and lets Candace be the corrput denzel washington type which unlike the previous pearle bit has REALLY not aged well for a number of reasons, but none I can blame the show itself for.

Alex and Josh head after dog boy and find that the crazy lady who made him is making animal films (It was tourture because she’s bad at it and she was still genuinely abusive) and seeing dog guy as a failure wants to chop up his balls (after using 80 diffrent terms with alex scremaing “Just say balls), to make new dog guys. Meanwhile in the B plot we first see Bridg and Emily’s comedy rock act which is genuinely funny but fails to impiress with Bridgette having grown frustrated over emily’s focus on candace, in a nice parallel.It also shows that for all her social mediaing and partying, Bridgette DOES take her music seriously but it hasn’t been able to progress without her musical partner.Emily waffles on joining her for a cabin retreatto work on it, with bridgette evne assuming with a fake emily she made out of pillows that emily would bring candace but nope: Candace is left with pearle and josh is busy with a dog so Emily is free. Things still don’t go well: Emily still won’t focus and is on her phone constantly, and emilys defense of “well you were on your phone at your wedding” when BRidgette calls her on it falls flat in a nice moment when bridgette points out she’s divorced. It’s also a nice moment of self relfeciton that shows Bridgette has learned from “Robot Tutor” and accepted her part in her marriage falling apart. The two fight until an angel appearls: Weird Al Yankovic! Like I hoped it really is him! Not that it’s HARD to get him to do voice work, he’s done quite a bit and he’s always happy to pitch in for another comedian, as Red Letter Media recently pointed out he’s kind of the bridge to all eras of comedies as he never really went away. When the two ask which is better: using your family or shutting it out, he admits there’s no perfect way to write a song or no one right way you just do your best.. and in his case stab yourself iwth a narwhal tusk and pray to a demonci god. Then one of the crazy lady’s animals attacks, we get another trailer homage and as they approach our herooines both apologize, Emily admitting Bridg is like her sister and in a funny but still sweet moment BRidgette admits she’s like a half sister... and only dosen’t say the full sister because she has a sister and dosen’t throw that around lightly, but the sentiments the smae. But the animals are recalled to deal with Josh and Alex, so while Emily and Bridgette follow them we get our climax. Alex and Josh naturally crumble under hteir new foes, but both , like their spouse and ex spouse, reconnect over their mutual love of dog boy and apologize for their behavior to one another, sharing one last dumb and dumber most annoying sound in the world.. which ends up being the key to defeating the animals with Pearle soon swooping in to arrest dog boy’s creator.. for unpaid parking tickcet,s a good gag. She’s in jail, Dog Boy is free and the whole madness and talking dog has given Bridgette and Emily a new song. Our friends are all best pals again, Dog Boy spends time with bost his best friends before nleaving to start his own theater and work on his acting career, so he could show up again and I really hope he does. That last part was revealed via a hilarious where are they now that shows where all the animals oepn up and we close, hopefuly not on the series but on this day Final THoughts; This was a really good one. While admitelly havn’t not watched any pf the classic jim carrey films in years, though I own dumb and dumber I just haven’t gotten around to rewatching it, it was a nice throughline and the kind of specific nostaliga this show is great at. It was also nice to see a conflict where alex is being througly resonable to start and shows that beneath his nutty exterior (he also assumes the scinetests plan is at first to make furries even sexier (his note, add more nips)) is a guy who like his friends has a dream. We see the same with Bridgette who most of the time is’nt on give a fuck mode but here we see there is something besides her friends and ex husband she cares about: her music. It’’s a nice roll reversal to see BRIDGETTE, be the one to take something seriously and Emily to be the one who can’t commit to it and it takes compromise and both realizing they need each other to work. IT’s a nice examination of the shows core freindships that also has a wonderful talking dog and of course weird fucking al being amazing as allways. A stellar close out to this swarm of episodes and hopefully not hte series. I”ll give my thoughts on the season as a whole later if this turns out to be the season and in a few weeks if not, but for now I finsihed this matharthon and i’m glad: Close enough is a damn good show that while having some more eh episodes, has a good strong emotional core, a great cast, great humor and is creative as hell while improving on the genre and even it’s predecessor. Just a delight to watch. I have regular coverage of Amphibia and Owl House coming up saturday, and hopefully close enough will continue each week, but if not until we meet agian later days. I’m going to go lie down. WOO.

#close enough #jg quintel #hbo max #the canine guy #streaming #reviews

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buddietomytarlos · 3 years

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9-1-1 S4 Ep6 Thoughts *Spoilers*

Thoughts under cut so they’re not annoying and take up the entire tag :)

- So we’re gonna start on a speed chase—WAIT DID SHE SAY ENGINE 118? Oh yeah someone steals it I forgot lmaoooo

- BUCK 3.0 asdfghjkl; “not sure what inspired the software update” EDDIE WITH THE ONE LINERS WE LOVE IT

- His parents are gonna come to his therapy omgggg

- BUCK SCREAMING AT THE PROBIE DAMN

- OMG THE QUIET WORD. THAT EP JUST HAPPENED IN THE NIGHT SHIFT TOO ASDFGHJKL;

- lmaooooo the dishwasher was quiet

- BUCK IN THE GLASS ROOM WITTH TH EFIRER SUPPRESSION SYSTEM LMAO

- How did that guy even duct tape himself up there like??

- “you might regret that later” yeah rip to his hairs

- WAIT THAT’S LEGAL BECAUSE HE RENTED IT FOR THE WHOLE DAY….???

- Ana is so pretty though fuck but I’m not here for the random flirting… well a tiny bit but that’s just because I’m a sucker for one patching up the other

- oh look his duct tape isn’t holding who’s surprised…

- I couldn’t type about many of these quick situations bc I was suctioning my mom but rip to Buck’s outfit

- OH GOD HELIUM ASDFGJKL; reminds me of that episode with the brownies. Also, Buddiie being the only two unable to stop laughing lolol

- Rip when can they eat </3

- Viejas (?) did he just call them old women?

- “No curse here” *glaring at Eddie* lmaooo

- CHIMNEY AND BUCK TEXTING JOSH AND ASKING FOR BAY LEAFS AND BELLS

- “universe is screaming at you” mmhm yeah probably trying to tell Eddie and Buck that they should be together

- BUCK TRYING TO HIDE HIS FACE FROM THE PICTURES

- Chimney reading a baby book

- FIREWORRKS….. FUCK. Also not him trying to take out the fire with his tiny little hose

- THERE’S NOBODY AT THE 147 FHSADJKFASHFHKJSF well then-

- “THEY’RE SO FOCUSED ON WHAT THEY DON’T HAVE, THEY MISS THE CHANCE TO SEE WHAT’S IN FRONT OF THEM.” He thinks he’s talking about Ana awww no it’s about BUCK

- I always love these deep, emotional conversations

- WHAATT EVEN JUST HAPPENED…?

- BOBBY RECOGNIZING TTHAT DUDE YESSS. Buck running after him oof. OH SO THIS IS HOW THE TRUCK IS STOLEN. Buck I love you but what is knocking on the truck gonna do, make him stop? ahdfksfsdf

- For a sec I thought that girl running was May

- Imagine seeing police cars chasing after a firetruck

- Rip to whoever’s car that was

- Buck having to be in the gurney lmao

- Eddie’s gonna be the one to talk him down mmhm that’s right

- EDDIE FTW!!!

- HE TRIPPED OVEVR THHE FUCKING FIREHOSE LMAOO

- Not this dude suddenly wanting to be a cop… bruh

- Bobby buying breakfast for them ahhhhh

- I knew someone was gonna choke at breakfast

- so who’s gonna manip Eddie and Buck sitting at a table together like a date since they both are at tables in the same type of light

- “Jinx!” hahahahaha

- um… why are you watching people— that’s so weird and never good and that’s why you got hit in the head :((( I hope he’s okay

#9-1-1 #Thoughts #Spoilers

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majicmarker · 4 years

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why did you dislike 'the hating game?' (haven't read it; i'm just curious)

AAAUURGGHH okay. OKAY. it’s been a hot minute since i read it, so i’m going off strictly memory here — i am thinking of doing a reread, for the record, but chances are high that’s just going to remind me of/reinforce my initial bad impressions — BUT —

(oh god, this became an essay so fast, but to be fair to myself i’m coming off a depressive episode and almost everything in this world pisses me off, so this is just where we’re at. and, yeah, i’m really picking this shit apart, no doubt, but I've always owned up to being an enormously picky reader, so we’re off to the races here, i said what i said, etc., etc, ad nauseam)

you know what, i’m gonna preface this with the One Thing I remember above all else about this book. i am 100% sure this wasn’t the intention but, oh my god, the one thing i will always remember is how lucy (the heroine) refers to one of her superiors as “Fat Little Dick.” dude’s actual name is richard, he’s short and annoying, blah blah. this is supposed to be funny, and i — much as i’m a fan of vulgar humor, lord, i’ll tell you about my favorite shows and movies sometime — find it so incredibly off-putting, that it’s the first thing I think of whenever i see this book mentioned. the immaturity of the nickname doesn’t bother me so much but it’s like, the fact that it’s meant to be clever that irks me. it’s just... gross, to me. this is really individualistic, but i can’t talk about this book without bringing this up because, for me, it set the whole tone for what i was about to read. this is the humor of the whole book, it falls cringingly flat to me, and that means a lot when it comes to a romantic comedy.

in that vein... look, there is seldom an occasion in which i enjoy first person. this is completely a personal preference, so it’s not a point i hold against this book in particular, but i just... i really gave this book a shot, despite being immediately turned off by the style. first person runs rampant in romance and like, that’s fine, i do have a couple i enjoy and, anyway, it’s not a dealbreaker for me and overall it doesn’t actually speak to the quality of the work. like i said, total personal preference — but. but. it depends on how you write it, and i just didn’t see the merit of it here. I think we would have benefitted from dual pov, even if both sides were written in first person.

a nitpick, perhaps! and tbh this particular detail might be suited to a larger discussion of narrative structure dependent on genre, but! in this case i just don’t like it and we can go from there.

MOVING ON.

lucy has no friends. what the fuck is that? she’s twenty-something and, as far as her character reads, quite sociable. even if she was some awkward mess (like, hey, me too, y’all should’ve seen me in my twenties), she’d probably still have, like, one person she could confide in, and yet... nada. (this is what i recall, anyway. as i said, it’s been at least a year since i tried this book out, so maybe i’m forgetting someone, but from what i remember, this fact stood out to me almost as plainly, painfully, as the “Fat Little Dick” gag.) i’m pretty sure all she has in this world is her job, her weird crush on josh, and her smurfs collection. also, she’s short. that’s cool, but it’s not a personality, and any which way i don’t need to be reminded of it every page.

on a broader scale, i, personally, find lucy and josh both profoundly unlikeable. lucy is irritating and, if she were a friend of mine, i’d tell her to her face that she needs to get her shit together because this is ridiculous. and josh is just, an asshole? imo. he’s every other guy i’ve met at a bar who pretends he’s really into his personal development but at the same time he won’t go to a therapist. so, like, what’s the point? he’s dull at best, and i’m not surprised robbie amell’s been cast for the film adaptation (last i knew of, that is). and the thing is, like, in romance, the characters need to be likeable. you’re rooting for their personal lives; there is no “greater good” or whatever else at play here. all i care about are these people and, in this case… i can’t deal with them. if this was YA, absolutely, yes, i’m here for it. but, again, these characters are whole-ass adults. i don’t necessarily expect your life to be together at this point — mine certainly isn’t — but have some self-awareness, for the love of god.

ON THAT NOTE, the book’s focus is on these twenty-something romantic leads, but it reads so juvenile. meg cabot’s high school romances have more self-awareness and depth than these career-oriented Adults. don’t get me wrong — i’m all for relatable, for insecure, for the identity struggles that really shape your twenties, because oh my god, do I Get That, but this was just all so… god, it reminds me of the stuff i’d write in junior high. it’s like what i imagined it was gonna be like to be a grown-up. this is probably personal preference all over again, but it doesn’t read authentic to me. it’s shallow, and sexual without being really, actually emotional. i’m seeing the lust, but i’m being force-fed the love.

and, before i drop without precedent the whole “career-oriented” thing that the plot itself seems to have done — the professional, essential, conflict is never resolved. spoiler alert, i guess, but the conflict hinges on the love interests being up for the same promotion, but we end the book with the male lead quitting and taking a job elsewhere — so his career is stable, right, but the job that’s been waiting in the wings this whole time? your guess is as good as mine as to who gets it. much as i disliked this whole Thing, by the end i still hoped lucy would be offered some professional satisfaction, but we never actually find out.

and, listen, i don’t remember any of the sex scenes. i know they’re in there, but i have zero recollection because they’re boring. gratuitous, maybe, but that’s only if you believe some of the book’s naysayers. i guess i’m a naysayer, too, but it’s not because the sex stuff made me take up a confessional booth for ten minutes (no shame, i’m just saying, from experience, most priests don’t care if you read erotica, okay, they’ve heard it before and frankly they just wanna go home because it’s ten A.M. on a saturday and already they could use a shot of jack in their coffee),

but if y’all know me, you know i love a good sex scene. what i’m getting at here is that, like, these ones just slid off my radar like melted butter. not good melted butter, either. (this is a bad metaphor, maybe. but the point is that i don’t remember them and i don’t even care.)

i guess, on the whole, the tone here doesn’t land for me. it’s just not real, it feels so forced, so wannabe funny and edgy and relatable, but none of those hit quite right. when i first read it, i recall thinking sometimes that “alright, this isn’t bad,” but then i had to deal with “Fat Little Dick” again, or i was constantly reminded of other things — lucy is short, josh is hot, they hate each other, no scenery is described in a way that i can actually picture it, yadda yadda — or else i was subject to quite a bit of body-shaming. that shit was casually sprinkled all over the place, which was both irrelevant to the story, to the characters, and it was just obnoxious. this sort of casual bigotry happens in romance all the time and, like, i’m over it, so i’m gonna point it out every time i try something new and it crops up.

when this book was rec’d to me, when i saw all the accolades, i thought i was in for some new, fresh, revolutionary read — but then it wasn’t actually… anything. “sometimes it was sort of funny” is the best thing i can say about it, and that’s the best thing i can usually say about most other romances i’ve tried in the last couple years, so i’m not seeing the distinction here, i don't see anything special. i legitimately do not know why this book in particular is so popular. like, there are romances out there that i Hate, poetically, with the fire of a thousand suns, but at the same time i understand why they hit the bestseller list (yet another Discussion all on its own). but this one? i’ve got nothing.

i’m tentatively considering doing a reread. as i mentioned earlier, but this is probably only going to reinforce everything i don’t like about it, which means eventually i could perhaps give you a more comprehensive answer as to why i so thoroughly Did Not enjoy this book. but, like, who even wants to read that shit? ireally don’t mean to be an asshole about this, but I Don’t Get It, and some of it legitimately pissed me off (the body-shaming, lucy having no friends, both of which are entire Essays onto themselves) — and it’s that second thing i’m not gonna apologize for. in case anyone wanted an apology, but… too bad.

anyway, in the meantime, i hope this answers your question well enough. it’s actually probably Too Much. but i’m bored and lonely, so i’m gonna go off like a firework best i can, whoops.

#long post #y'all I am legit sorry if the read more link doesn't cut it #anonymous #ask

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ourmanifestoisfun · 5 years

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4x16 episode thoughts

I have thoughts! And also possibly a rather unpopular opinion at the conclusion.

Rebecca...no creeping on Dr Akopian!

“I’m retired from stalking but you never lose the skills”

Loving “The Bachelor” shade and that Dr Akopian’s advice is just, no catfights

Also really amused by the “big chairs” thing because, well, yeah. Coffee shops be like that sometimes.

I will forever be confused about how much money Nathaniel is meant to have access to

Shirts stay on LOL - but Skylar is so ripped though! Maybe just the arms.

Mm yeah, taking one dollar off breakfast specials does tend to make people bonkers

Paula’s new job is actually, gasp, A JOB! Must be an adjustment from Whitefeather

Also her and Scott have a four times-a-week marital sex quota? DAMN they’ve come far.

While the gurlgroup’s opinions are definitely just meant to reflect the fandom rather than what they probably would think, I’m still amused

Paula is probably a good example of ‘even when you try to give it up, those damn OTP feels come back’. Also, I can buy that she would be suspicious of Nathaniel re: infidelity

Heather flipping from Team Greg to Team Nathaniel just amuses me. Then again, she did also date Greg.

Calling him Armie Hammer hot definitely made me laugh though. And I really hope there is a video of Nathaniel singing Etta Mae’s Lament just floating around out there, because that would be great.

Greg being a different actor in a “moral, political sense”, hah, that’s good

And now they’ve actually kicked off a betting pool. Whoops!

WHIJO SONG AND HE’S KILLING IT

God love those outfits. Valencia’s especially, damn

Damn Father Brah, also “priest school” callback!

They finally got Donna Lynn tapdancing! And Valencia’s pirouettes!

...oh they called back to the Group Mind!

God that was some awesome choreography.

Okay, they are lampshading Greg being the underdog already.

That is quite a cut of the number of times that Paula has said she doesn’t like Greg...but on the flip side, she has described him as sexy multiple times as well.

I like that they are trying to make a point that Josh isn’t trying to live in the past with this date, because I could see that as an easy write-off, but the fact that this is the well he returns to is still a little concerning for me.

Oh, they did bang in summer camp! Well, did stuff. I’ve always gone back and forth on that point.

God I am a sucker for stars, that was lovely

Valencia I hope your finances are okay after all of this

Noted: Paula works at Eastbriar Law Group

“So you don’t disappoint your son again” GREG NO BAD you still have not improved on your words.

Also yeah, being in Paula’s good graces is probably still a good thing, but she’s still not Rebecca. Still, that was a lovely gesture, Gregory.

“I’ve been hoping that the San Andreas fault will open up and swallow Nathaniel” aldkfjskdfjdk this was cute

But this is so awkward, with Josh living at the house. I hope that whatever next week’s decision is, that he chooses to move out on his own.

Nathaniel’s date location is gorgeous. Isn’t that the spot where Rachel and her husband got married? I can totally see why.

That is very clever about listening to the concert, Nathaniel, though I do love that his date went a little bit wrong. Going with the flow is part of your new mantra, dude.

GOD THAT WAS CUTE

...Though the fact that the aerial shots came from a drone is prettyyy creepy. Y’all are being kind of scary here.

I do love that Darryl bet on Nathaniel. “Papa’s got a winner!”/“Mama’s got a winner!”

WEIRD AL OMG!

WHERE’S THE BATHROOM REPRISE OH MY GODDDDD

poor Weird Al balloon guy. Do not shit in his balloon.

Rebecca, stop stalking Dr Akopian!

The Love’s a Game reprise is very bittersweet, because it’s too true: everyone is going to be hurt in some way, whether she chooses one or none of them. And THAT’S why people hate love polygons!

The thought of Nathaniel betting on himself really amused me

I like how the theme of games keeps coming up - they are supposed to be fun, they are not supposed to matter, even if you lose you're meant to just shake it off and go back to your everyday life...but those things aren’t always true. They can matter and they can hurt. None of these guys are treating these dates like a game, even if they use the lingo and the people around them are placing their bets, because at the end of the day, they all care.

“Death by lightning bolt. It’s quick, it’s painless. I do like the guy, after all.” - idk I just found this line really, really funny.

I hope Valencia didn’t lose too much money, poor baby.

Greg and Rebecca’s end banter is really sweet.

So...this may be an unpopular and even wrong opinion, but I think that Greg’s date puts him even with the other guys, rather than necessarily ahead of them. Greg being able to tell Rebecca that she is the love of his life is absolutely character development: he’s come full circle from his fuck-up at Jayma’s wedding back in season 1: even back then, Rebecca didn’t need trappings of true romance (at least not by the end of the night) to stay with him, she just needed him to tell her how he felt about her. Given her mental health at that point, there is a very good question as to how long that would have been enough before she tripped back into obsession with Josh, but it would have meant something.

However, I think I will be very annoyed if it is played as the “truest” romance. Neither Josh nor Nathaniel said anything like that admission on their dates because it isn’t something they are afraid of because they have already told Rebecca that they love her - Nathaniel by his own admission has done this several times. Instead, their dates highlighted the qualities about them where they have fun with Rebecca. And it isn’t that Rebecca doesn’t enjoy the dates - it’s the ticking clock at the end that is freaking her out, because love is not a game.

That doesn’t mean that there isn’t the set up for it: they have paralleled Josh and Nathaniel a lot this season in regards to Rebecca, which does make Greg the odd one out and they would be able to have him be the endgame with that justification that he’s different...but given that and the way this episode is structured, as well as the consistent lampshading of Greg as the underdog, that really feels like the straightforward solution and this show...doesn’t do that.

And look at the wording of how the guys tell Rebecca that they care:

Josh: “It’s always felt like someone is writing a story about us” Nathaniel: “I think we’re meant to be together.” Greg: “You know you’re the love of my life, right?”

All of these lines, even Greg’s, with his lowkey, domestic date, are about the incredible narrative importance of Rebecca in their lives, in the past, present, and future. For Josh, it’s how she’s kept returning to his life. For Nathaniel, she made him imagine a new life going forward. For Greg, it’s how just being with her has such an effect on him. And, frankly, those sentiments aren’t exclusive to each guy - you can apply each one to all of them. But that’s also why I felt the dates turned out more even keeled, despite the structure. And at this point, I really doubt they’ll try to pull the ‘oh it isn’t genuine love’ for any of them.

In addition, People have been making the point for some time that having her pick one of the guys might end up feeling weird, because it would turn the show into the “Rebecca & _____” story, instead of it being Rebecca’s story. The most likely scenario to me is still that Rebecca ends up alone/possibly with Jason, while the other guys are shown to have moved on with their lives. Everyone who has followed this blog will know that I very much have my bias, and I always will. This episode did not change that one whit. But beyond that, given the spoilers for next week, I think everyone will get a little fanservice with their favored guys, but that ultimately, she will not be choosing any of them. But I think they will all be happy, and that means a lot.

I love this show, guys, and I’m going to miss it.

#ceg spoilers #season 4 #crazy ex girlfriend #episode thoughts

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nellie-elizabeth · 6 years

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: I Want to Be Here (4x01)

It's back! This show is a life-changing, beautiful, incredible journey and I'm so happy that we get to see the story play out as the creators intended, even though I'm bummed this will be the final season. Let's hop to!

Cons:

The only thing I ever have to complain about with this show is that I want more of some of the side characters. So while everything in this episode was golden, we didn't spend any time with Valencia and her girlfriend, we didn't see White Josh going about his life journey, etc. etc. But that's not really a problem of bad writing or anything. It's just that when I watch this show I'm so enamored with every little moment that we get, that I find myself constantly craving more. Not a bad problem to have!

Pros:

I want to talk about the technical proficiency of this show for a second. The songs are just so excellently produced. "No One Else is Singing My Song" is a song that relies in part on tight vocal harmonies not just to make the song sound pretty, but to carry the punchline to a multi-layered joke. And if these talented vocalists, the sound mixers and editors, etc. didn't do a good job of creating these harmonies, the joke would fall flat. In "What's Your Story?" we see how the use of light can make or break a song, and there's an excellent moment towards the end when Rebecca flinches away from a spotlight and breaks the fourth wall, adding another layer to the title of the song itself - this is a story about someone telling their story, and she's not doing it right.

And let's talk about titles a little more broadly, too: this episode, and the episodes coming up, do away with the naming convention of having the name "Josh" or "Nathaniel" in every title. Now, we get "I Want to Be Here" and next week's "I Am Ashamed." So on and so forth. There's a great deal of power in that decision. For one thing, Rebecca's "I Want to Be Here" is about wanting to be in jail to serve her penance, but it's also a pretty hopeful moment given the fact that she survived a suicide attempt in the last season.

Let's talk about privilege a little bit, too. Rebecca wants to hear her fellow prisoners' life stories, only to come out of the experience realizing that she has an enormous amount of privilege, and that choosing to be in jail as a symbol of her penance is a really gross thing to do. Her friends tell her this, but she also comes to the realization on her own. There's a bit part where a white prisoner tells us that she got two months for stealing a sweater, and a black prisoner remarks that she got three years for the same crime. We don't need any more time spent than that to get the point that this whole system is completely screwed up, and Rebecca, while suffering marginalization for being a woman and Jewish, is still undeniably more privileged than virtually anyone else in jail with her. This, all by itself, would be a good point to make. But as is always true with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, they take it one step further. Valencia yells at Rebecca, telling her to stop whining. It's good that she's realized her privilege, but now what's she going to do about it? She can use her advantages to help people, or at the very least she can shut up about how hard it is to be aware of your privilege. This was such a great message for liberal, progressive folk in general. God knows it's a lesson I could certainly be reminded of every once in a while.

Okay. Now for the boys. Both Nathaniel and Josh have "backsliding" moments in this episode, just as Rebecca does, where they fall back into selfish patterns and look for an easy fix for their complicated problems. Josh wonders if maybe he has some sort of disorder that would explain his behavior. Heather and Hector tell him he's being selfish and needs to place responsibility on his own shoulders, but Josh wants that "easy fix" that Rebecca sang about back in "A Diagnosis." And Nathaniel is back to pushing himself to unhealthy extremes, or "emotional cutting" as George puts it, as he embarks on a "Death Wish Adventure" out in the woods without supplies or directions. But by the end of the episode, Josh has decided to see a therapist (Dr. Akopian's husband!) and Nathaniel has reached out to George and allowed his friend to help him. It doesn't mean they've both solved their problems. Recovery and actual improvement take a long, long time, and the journey never really ends. It's something we're learning with Rebecca, too.

As a side note, I want to comment on George for a second as well. He was a character introduced as a running gag, and now we get to a point where when Nathaniel shakes him awake in his tent and asks for sausages, and George smiles in delight, there's a real emotional investment and joy in the moment. I love that this show can do such magical things with such apparently one-note jokes or characters. Valencia is one of the biggest examples of this, but it happens with so many of the characters on the show. George is just some guy. He doesn't have to go out of his way to befriend Nathaniel, who treats him pretty harshly most of the time, but he decides to put someone else's happiness ahead of his own comfort every once in a while. And he's genuinely pleased to be able to help Nathaniel learn about himself. How adorable!

There's this small part of me that felt annoyed that this first episode of Season Four turned back the promises of last year's finale. Rebecca's cathartic moment of "pleading responsible" is revealed for what it truly is - a cop-out and a way for Rebecca to use symbolism to try and dramatically right her wrongs in one fell swoop. But then I think to myself - of course. If we've learned anything from watching this show, it's that the big, dramatic "aha" moments aren't really what changes a person and helps them get better. Rebecca's suicide attempt was a huge moment that dramatically altered her life, sure, but it's not the first time she's done that, and it didn't magically turn a new page for her last time either. It's her decision to do her homework, to try and take risks while not going overboard. It's her decision to attend her therapy (both with her group and one-on-one) and rely on her friends for support. These aren't big moments, they are the every-day things that you need to do if you want to really grow as a person. So here we see that Rebecca "pleading responsible" wasn't a cathartic reset. It was just yet another attempt at a reset. And now Rebecca, who doesn't get to stay in jail, because Trent wakes up and confesses the truth, needs to find the way to improve organically and over time. She starts by volunteering at the jail with free legal advice.

Oh, and we must not forget Paula. The end of last season saw her feeling an intense sense of betrayal upon realizing how often Rebecca has manipulated and used her. Here, we see that Paula is desperate to help Rebecca get out of jail, and ultimately she succeeds in this goal. How? Well, Trent wakes up from his coma and confesses the truth about his stalking and his attempt on Nathaniel's life. But here's where it gets interesting - just as Josh, Nathaniel, and Rebecca all have moments of backsliding but ultimately seem to make a step in the right direction, we see Paula threatening to blackmail Trent unless he comes clean. This is a big step backwards for Paula, who has been worried that her sketchy behavior would hurt her chances to become a lawyer. While we see the others take at least a token step towards a better version of themselves (Nathaniel is honest about his feelings for Rebecca, Josh goes to therapy, Rebecca decides to help people), with Paula we see the step backwards without the hope for a course correction. I'm really curious to see how this goes!

Nathaniel and Rebecca's scene at the end gave me so many complicated emotions and I'm at this point where I genuinely don't know if they're going to be together when this show ends, and I also don't know how to feel about that. What I love so much about their scene together is that it encapsulates so much of what is wonderful and what is damaging about them as a couple. They genuinely love each other so much, and you can see that. Nathaniel is so head-over-heals it's almost devastating to see. When Rebecca says she can't go to Hawaii because she's still working some stuff out, Nathaniel says she's being silly and selfish. This is an unkind and maybe a bit unfair thing to say, but the bigger point here is that Nathaniel is not totally wrong. Rebecca has to learn to be middle of the road. It's a lesson she started last season and she's got to keep going with it now. She's learned that she is privileged and that she needs to own her past bad behavior. Volunteering to help women in jail is an absolutely wonderful idea and hopefully she can do some real good in someone's life. But all of that doesn't mean that she can't go on an expensive vacation with the man she loves. The two aren't mutually exclusive. I think it's a lesson Rebecca and Nathaniel are both going to have to learn if they want any chance of personal fulfillment, let alone a stable and honest relationship with one another.

I could talk about this show indefinitely. It's so good. It's funny, and charming, and real, and sometimes harsh. I'm so glad this final season has a longer episode order than the last couple of seasons, because I don't want to say goodbye too quickly!

9/10

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TØP Weekly Update #69: Proud of Our Boys (11/2/18)

Technically, not a lot happened this week. Also, everything happened. Does that make any sense? I don’t know, everything’s been a blur since Tyler Joseph wore a pride flag on a Halloween show in the capital of the United States. Let’s cover that and more in this week’s Update!

This Week’s TØPics:

The Bandito Tour Continues

Tyler Visits the Live Lounge- Or, Rather, It Visits Him

The Best Interview of the Trench Era, Conducted by Fans

“My Blood” Moving Slowly but Steady Up the Charts

Major News and Announcements:

No new music, no new tour announcements, but plenty of other things going on this week.

Mark is helping to keep our lanes nicely watered, as he returned to giving us weekly doses of video content for the tour starting almost immediately after the release of last week’s Update. The first episode covers the planning for the tour, Tyler and Josh receiving the first physical copies of Trench, Josh’s unique method of opening CD cases, and Josh getting a nice head injury after falling off his riser during a rehearsal. Plus, there’s a pretty nice piano interpolation of “Morph” to kick the whole thing off. The second goes more into the depths of planning and staging the show, giving a glimpse of just how much of a diva Tyler Joseph is when it comes to getting every aspect of the tour right. It doesn’t exactly put him in the nicest light- he calls the prototype clip that drops his “Stressed Out” beanie “garbage”, clearly expects the crew to be as intimately familiar with his music as he is, and pushes pretty hard to get the transitions faster and faster. But hey, that approach worked to produce a great show, and Tyler makes sure to thank the crew in every Trees Speech.

I was wavering between whether to include the content from the BBC Live Lounge sessions here or in the Shenanigans section, but considering that we got three HD video performances and a high quality recording of a new cover, I’m gonna tie it in here. In-between the stops in Washington and Atlanta, Tyler flew back to Columbus solo to record a session for the world-famous Live Lounge from Newport Music Hall (because of course Tyler was that extra). Sitting at a gorgeous shiny piano and wearing an outfit that looks like a flannel traffic cone (in a good way, honest), Tyler played some stripped-down covers of “My Blood” and “Ride”, using brand-new vocal interpolations for both of those songs that are just incredible. Live Lounge is most renowned for its covers, and Tyler delivered there as well with his version of Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan’s classic “9 Crimes”. It’s an incredible rendition of a gorgeous song, and the fact that Tyler mentioned the track way back on “Drown” when “9 Crimes” was a brand-new song makes it land as even more heavy. The real kicker came just this morning, when Live Lounge revealed that they recorded one more song: we have our first high quality performance of “Neon Gravestones”. I still haven’t fully recovered, mate.

Performances, Interviews, and Other Shenanigans:

Touring continues to keep us well fed. As I mentioned in the opening, Tyler grabbed an offered pride flag during “Holding On To You”, which deeply affected the entire Clique, especially our LGBTQ+ family. So many kids in that community struggle with depression and lean hard on this band’s music to get through; this clear and pure gesture of support, while small, simply means the world.

Outside of that show, there were plenty of other great moments from the tour this week. You can tell Tyler’s been tinkering with the format as he’s been getting feedback from the audience response. Despite how dedicated Tyler was to getting back to the stage for the end of “Pet Cheetah”, the big drop now starts while Tyler is still on the skybridge above the pit’s head, which makes way more sense. The ending of “My Blood” seems to be reduced to just getting the audience to fight to be louder than the other side rather than try to harmonize different bits. And Josh keeps writing city-personalized messages on his chest that he shows off to the crowd as he walks across the bridge, dramatically removing his jacket like something out of Magic Mike.

Also, Tyler tossed a frisbee in Boston and the boys discovered finger guns in Philly. Those were pretty cute moments, gotta share ‘em if you missed ‘em.

Interviews continue as the tour travels the nation. KISS FM Cleveland kept the tradition of B.S. first meeting stories alive with a deep dive into Josh’s talent as a painter, though that’s really the only thing you need to watch that interview for. Boston station ALT 92.9 does a little better, though he mistakenly attributes the backflip to Tyler and asks when Josh will get out from behind those drums... To his credit, the interviewer asks about how Jim is accommodated on the tour (unsurprisingly, the crew fights over who gets to look after him) and what Tyler learned from co-producing Trench with Paul.

The best interviews, however, have all been in the form of fan meet-and-greet conferences that have been finding their way online. There’s just something to the energy of these interviews that is so much better than the awkward and rushed ones in cramped green rooms hosted by radio station interns who obviously just Googled a few facts before they’re rushed in. These fans truly care about their band, and their questions were thoughtful and about so much more than just trivia.

The best of these, I think, is from St. Louis’s 105.7, a station that’s always had pretty good relations with the band.

Tyler has tried to be more intentional about seeing the places they go on tour outside of the venues, with the mindset that he wants to have better stories to tell his kids (oh my God, please help me...). His favorite place that he’s visited? Hobbiton in New Zealand. I love these nerds.

Tyler and Josh talk about the origins of that gorilla suit that shows up in the “Ode to Sleep” video.

They talk about how one of the more difficult aspects of touring early on before “making it” was eating healthily enough to sustain regular shows when they were broke and the only places that were open to eat late at night after shows were Taco Bells.

Tyler tells a truly heart-wrenching story of being at his parents’ house and seeing his two baby nieces playing with (and vomiting on) the keyboard that taught him to play music and opened up the world for him. The obvious emotion in his voice as he talks about learning the “Pachelbel Canon” from staring at the keys for hours and the clear joy he felt at getting to share this private moment with Jenna... I still haven’t recovered.

When one fan asks how she might learn to overcome creative blocks in her career of graphic design, Tyler gives a really technical explanation of how he got past blocks when writing “Neon Gravestones” and “Pet Cheetah” before taking those lessons and extracting how they might broadly be used to help any artist “shock the system” by breaking habits.

Tyler says that he anticipates that “Legend” will be pretty tough to perform live. He further states that a lot of songs don’t emotionally affect him much because he has to worry about achieving the technical aspects of his performance. That said, “Neon Gravestones” has been really emotional for him, and “Holding On To You” is so driven into him now that he actually can think about what he’s saying.

Tyler views the two-man nature of the band as a challenge rather than a crutch to excuse the use of backing tracks due to how hard they have to work to keep audience attention. Tyler does appreciate the dynamic of having a bunch of people collaborate for music (as shown by the cover medleys), and he is not vehemently against the idea of adding members in the future. He’s just very happy about the way things are with just him and Josh.

Josh once again gets very open about his struggles with anxiety, particularly speaking in front of people, tracing it back to how he would even ask teachers to give him alternatives to giving presentations because it scared him so much. He’s come so far since the Vessel days where he just wouldn’t talk in most interviews at all, and I’m so proud of him.

Tyler is against the “Magellan” method of trying any and all new foods, preferring stuff he knows will satisfy his hunger (he mentions that’s been difficult to stick with now that he’s married to Jenna).

Tyler says that you can tell which of his songs started with lyrics before composing the music based on which have rapped lyrics. The raps are almost always poetry that he’s tried to incorporate into a song- otherwise, he almost always starts with the melody.

Another great conference-style interview comes on behalf of Philly radio station 104.5, whose fans also gave some great questions:

As tactfully as possible, Tyler passes on a question about what event specifically motivated him to write about “Neon Gravestones”, saying that he could not do so without violating the respect that he hopes underlines the message of that song.

Tyler tells a pretty rough story about a time when he was working at a restaurant to support the band and school, only to lose weeks of wages to a traffic ticket. It’s a scene that will definitely be in the band biopic in thirty years, but it’s also just a very thoughtful reflection on Tyler’s part about how unfair a feeling it can be to realize that our labor and time are so commodified.

Tyler used to be real annoyed that Josh didn’t like Russel Crowe as an actor, mainly because he admitted that he didn’t have a good reason for it (Tyler Robert Joseph always has a reason). Josh deciding one day that he’d like Russel Crowe because not doing so aggravated Tyler seems like a pretty neat microcosm of their entire personal and professional relationship.

Tyler and Josh haven’t noticed any bands “copying” them, no matter what music press looking for an easy descriptor might say because all they have to copy is “freedom to write whatever kind of song they want”.

Josh keeps himself grounded by searching “21 pilots” on Twitter. Tyler agrees, but also points out that their relationships to their families also play a big role (“our respective families, to clarify”).

Finally, on social media, Tyler keeps hopping on social media to troll fans and his own band account. I hate him so much.

Chart Performance:

Things continue to be a little quiet for Twenty One Pilots on the US charts. The tracks from Trench are slowly sliding off the Hot Rock Chart, with “My Blood” being the only track to gain traction in any region- radio. With that said, however, “My Blood” also managed to sneak onto the very bottom spot of the Hot Pop chart, suggesting that we are approaching a potential crossover moment. We’ll have to wait and see if that happens. (I can only assume until then that Tyler’s having to ignore a lot of phone calls about a radio edit that cuts that slow first verse to keep the general listener’s attention; watch for that.)

Upcoming Shows:

(Can you believe that all of Tyler’s meticulous planning for the marketing and promotion of this album cycle has been totally supplanted by Josh’s cute dog?)

On topic, there’s another host of important shows this week, so let’s get into it!

Show 13: State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA (11/2)

Capacity: 21,000

After visiting his hometown with Josh yesterday, Tyler rejoins the touring crew today to play a show for the folks in Atlanta at the newly-renamed State Farm Arena. This is bound to be a special one: though the band has headlined the huge Music Midtown festival in the city, this is their first ever arena show in this major metropolitan market. It’s sure to be a real special show.

Show 14: Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL (11/3)

Capacity: 21,500

The band’s next stop is at a more familiar ground. The band played Amalie during the last arena leg. Twenty One Pilots actually has a pretty extensive history of playing shows in Tampa stretching all the way back to college shows from before they were signed. Tyler has some relatives in the Florida area, so expect some more cute moments from this show.

Show 15: BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL (11/4)

Capacity: 22,300

The touring crew continues their journey south to the outskirts of Miami. Again, they’ve played BB&T before, but if there’s one thing this band has proven time and time again, it’s that they’re not ones to ever get complacent.

Show 16: Toyota Center, Houston, TX (11/6)

Capacity: 19,3000

It might surprise you to learn that the band has never played an arena show in Houston, despite the city being one of the biggest metropolitan centers in the United States. That oversight will be corrected on Tuesday with a show at the NBA Rockets’ home venue.

Show 17: American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX (11/7)

Capacity: 21,000

The last show before our next Update will be held in Dallas. Once again, this marks the second show Twenty One Pilots will have played in the space. Texas will continue to get plenty of love after this show, but we’ll get into that more next week!

Power to the local dreamer!

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THE MUN WATCHES. The Resident 02x04 - About Time

Chastain is flooded with concert goers after a stampede at a music festival leaves many in need of doctors. As Conrad and Nic race to help Josh Robinson, a professional adventure guide with a long list of prior injuries, Devon works with a musician who swears he is sober, even though his toxicology report suggests otherwise. Meanwhile, Bell stirs the pot when the hospital's revered orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Kit Voss, demands a better resident, Julian works to get her boss on Bell's good side.

Live-blogging under the cut.

Okay, folks. Here we go. HERE WE GO.

Ready for more power moves and flashbacks....hopefully. Oooooooh. So this whole lawyer interrogation thinger is related to the Music Fest. Cool. AW. NIC LOOKS SO CUTE.

THAT SOUNDS LIKE A POWER VOLTAGE PROBLEM. Annnnnnd people are being trampled. As you do at a music concert. Oh is a shooting???? IDK. Something is going on. TANC ARE YOU SUING CONRAD? WTF MAN. WHAT HAPPENED TO LIVE AND DEATH BRIGADE PALS. [ The mun does realize that she is confusing shows right now but WHATEVER. MY POINT STILL STANDS, MAN. ]

Aw. Bless Dr. Nolan for sticking up Conrad even though it was a lie. Good man. I really hope that doesn’t end up biting him later. AYE LOOK. Devon’s working on the guy that’s going to play that song that Nic and Conrad dance to later. I AM EXCITE.

Jessica forking sucking up to Bell. Ugh. YAY. WE ARE MEETING DR. VOSS TONIGHT. I LOVE HER ALREADY. She just gets down to business. ....Okay. A little mean to her new kid. But I do like that she didn’t super shame him....until she said dermatology. I love her saying ‘who’s this douche?’ Hilarious.

TAAAANNNNCCCCCCCC. Ugh. I am so upset that he is going to be suing or some such later because I want to love him and I really like this scene with Nic and Conrad.

I am very curious about this guy with a blood alcohol level that says he hasn’t had a drink. I remember seeing something on a show I think about someone similar that didn’t drink but it caused a blood alcohol level because of something else. I DO NOT REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS AND NOW IT IS GOING TO ANNOY ME.

Vulture scene. Just. Yes.

I LOVE TANC LOOKING AT CONRAD WHEN HE SAYS THAT NIC WAS THE BEST NP FOR HIM. TANC JUST NOT MEETING HIS GAZE.

I really REALLY love Mitchell. I know Conrad doesn’t like his dad and thinks the worst but I really think that Mitchell cares and loves him. // Mina and Raptor’s scene in the OR. I do agree with him. She does need to watch and learn. You are his student. You don’t know everything yet.

OH god. I know this device guy. WHAT WAS HE IN. WHO IS THAT. The boss. WHAT DID I JUST SEE HIM IN. UGH. *imdb* Not sure his name so this isn’t working....I will check back. He looked a bit like Jason Priestly. God I miss Haven. ( Still need to watch Private Eyes. )

LMFAO. I love Raptor deciding to side with Bell and send Okafor to play with the others. I am laughing so hard. Like. Mina I love you. But you are not the best yet. You still have things to learn. I love the music Voss listens to in the OR. I also love her talking to Mina. This is fab. I like it.

OH LOOK. EMTs GETTING PERKS JUST TO GET PEOPLE BROUGHT IN. I remember a similar thing on Chicago Med.

Awwwww. I really do like Julian. I am so upset that it is going to be a problem for Devon and his fiancee but I just...I REALLY like her. ( Kinda spoiler: I saw a casting call today for people in an Indian wedding for an episode.”Brandi is booking a big East Indian Wedding scene next Wednesday Oct. 17th in Stone Mountain. I am looking for East Indian looking Males and Females,…" SIGH. So either Devon realizes he’s being stupid and actually doing something wrong or else this is going to continue up to the wedding and either end that day horribly or continue after it which is also not okay.

LOL. I don’t know why I find it funny whenever Peachtree St. is named. ( If you’ve never been to Atlanta, there are SO MANY streets/drives/places/etc. named Peachtree. SO MANY. LIKE. GOOD GOD. )

Is Tanc having a seizure? Oh nooooooooo. Okay. So Tanc (Josh...but I’m calling him Tanc just because) is now wheelchair bound. RATHER THAN DEAD. I hate vulture lawyers like this woman. I feel bad for adventure boy but he would have been dead if they’d waited. At least he is alive. I get that his entire life is no changed. Like what he does for income is no longer an option (or at least not fully). I am sad but also glad he isn’t dead........ He was just going on about Conrad being a good doctor right before that happened. SO COMPLICATED.

HA. Backfired on you Raptor. Mina wants to stay with Voss for now. “I’m the first of my own line. An ancestor. Not a descendant.” LOVE IT. YOU GO, MINA.

Annnnd here is how we get the concert. Nice. Let him sing!

“Did you ever think the best decision is HER decision?” BAM.

Very little Irving and Nolan in this episode. But still a great episode.

I love this song/ singer. His voice is so comforting. I love this style. I want more. Time to look him up!

Oh no.......what is happening with that look of Nolan to Bell. I don’t like this. This looks bad.

“You’re a swayer.” I LOVE IT. They are...just so damn sweet.

CONRAD’S FACE WHEN HIS DAD SAID HE WOULD BE WITH HIM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. CONRAD SAYING THANK YOU. THE FEELS OF THIS. JESUS.

....oh shit. Daddy’s in the elevator with Tanc.

DAMN.

“So next time someone saves your life....say thank you.”

Sum-up of my first watch ( which is written as 9-1-1 comes on which I’ve never actually watched ) :

Good episode. I think I might have missed the Gilmore Girls ref. Possibly. I’ll watch it again tomorrow at least once. A little sad we didn’t get much more of the music fest but I get that it wasn’t the focus. It just felt like it WOULD be from the promos. Love the cases. Do want to know a bit more about Tanc/Josh’s final outcome. Is he going to walk again? Mitchell said he was in physical therapy. Time to research things to try and figure out what might have happened because of the Burr Hole crainiostomy. Not sure how I feel about Mitchell taking over and getting rid of the court case. Like.....yay? But also I know Conrad would not like it if he ever found out. But yay for him not getting ruined by this? FEELS.

I also really like Mina working with another doctor for a bit. Voss looks really fun. I also like that there is a leading female surgeon in a department that Mina can learn from. I know we had the other female doctor in Season 1. I want more, please.

Preview/looking at the next episode on IMDB: ....WAIT. IS THAT. OKAY. In the imdb list they have Bradley ( aka skylight falling, med school leaving, Bradley. HE IS COMING BACK!? ) listed as being in the next episode. Steven Reddington is apparently back for at least one episode. In the following week is the Halloween episode and supposedly we’ll see Nic’s baby sis again.

#☤ ┊ THE MUN WATCHES. / ◜ ❝ too many shows to little time ❞◞#☤ ┊ THE SHOW. / ◜ ❝ a look behind the medical curtain ❞◞#the resident #the resident spoilers

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notes: i did a thing. surprisingly junior was easier to write than blas which i didn’t expect and thought you should know. the swearing is creative liberty i just have a head canon that junior swears a lot. also this was inspired by a goddamn drake and josh episode so. i’ll stop now.

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junior's pov

it's been four months. four months since my entire world came crashing down right in front of my eyes. the funny thing is, i was the one who destroyed it. i was so sure he was gunna leave, so sure he'd get sick of me someday and move on. i guess my self conscience just figured we'd get it over with sooner rather than later. the thing is, at the time i didn't know i was self-sabotaging. i thought the best way to keep him would be a living thing, a responsibility binding him to me. turns out i should've gone with a dog like i wanted to in the first place. god, i don't know what i was thinking. you know what, i wasn't, obviously, or i wouldn't be here, dancing off my 4th shot with my soon to be fuck of the night. i'm just having fun, don't know what's wrong with wanting to feel good. even if it's only for a few hours, doesn't really matter. he needs me more than i need him. he's probably sleeping alone, unlike me who is definitely getting dicked down tonight.

"get up!"

i groan, rolling myself over. the other side of the bed is cold, meaning what's his face must've left right after we finished. that's why i like bringing my one night stands here, it's their responsibility to get up and out of here before the rest of the house wakes up. the only downside is dante, he doesn't exactly appreciate being woken up at 3 am and having to go to the playroom for peace and quiet. not like i really give a fuck though.

"get," a pillow hits my back. "UP!"

i sigh, sitting up and rubbing aimlessly at the sleep in my eyes. "romeo, what the hell?"

romeo's standing at the side of my bed, equipped with another pillow. "junior, it's 12. get up and do something for christ's sake!"

i squint at him. "what do you want me to do?"

romeo rolls his eyes, snatching the pillow back up from where it was on top of me. "literally anything, i don't know, look for a job maybe?"

"good one, romeo. really." i chuckle sarcastically, gathering the covers back up and laying down again. "now get out of here i was up till 5."

"junior, come on," he yanks the blankets off my body, resulting in a surprised yelp from me. "seriously, what happened to your job at the orphanage?"

"why do you care?" i bite, annoyed at how invasive he's being.

"because junior, you're my little brother. you've been doing nothing but drinking and fucking random guys for the last four months, i think i'm allowed to be a little concerned." he says, and i cross my arms.

"well you aren't, i'm fine, like i've told you a million fucking times. leave me alone!" but he doesn't listen and gets persistent, because he's romeo.

he hits me with the pillow again, and i scowl. "you aren't fine, this isn't fine! i have nothing against you going out and having a good time every once in awhile, but not every single day. this isn't healthy."

"oh, are you a doctor now? how would you know what's healthy for me and what isn't?" i spit back, clearly agitated. how dare he, why does he think he has any say in my life?

"i don't have to be a doctor to know that getting drunk every night isn't good for you."

"ya, well, i don't really care what you think is good for me. i'm an adult and i can make my own damn decisions." i say, my voice finally sounding a bit normal again after waking up.

romeo looks at me for a second, worry behind his eyes. then he turns around and tosses the two pillows back onto dante's bed where he got em'. "you may be an adult but you're acting like a child." i roll my eyes, i am not. "you don't have to care what i think is good for you, just, get dressed and come with me while i run errands today. please."

"what errands?" if this will shut him up, then i guess it's worth it. i throw my legs over the side of my bed, waiting for an answer.

"grocery shopping and then dante forgot some papers here this morning, so i gotta go to the bar and drop them off."

i glare at him until he realizes why i'm so put off by that.

"blas is off today."

i know. "whatever, i thought we established that i've been over him." liar. i try and push the anxiety out of my head. i'm not lying, i'm over him.

i get up out of bed and stretch, shooing romeo out of the room so i can get dressed. i'm not lying, he needs me way more than i need him. he'll come crawling back eventually... i hope.

grocery shopping isn't that bad, it actually feels good to do something normal. but the hurt still buzzes around in the back of my head, making me want to get a buzz. as much as i love romeo, there's no denying who i actually want to be doing this with. i don't even think we did this when we were together, but, i don't know, i always considered this a domestic goal of sorts. just something i wanted and never got, like a lot of things in my life. definitely over him though.

on the way to the bar is when romeo brings up the orphanage. "so are you going to tell me why you haven't been to the orphanage?"

i sigh, ignoring eye contact by staring out the car window. "it was a starting point, so i could make money while thinking about what i really wanna do." hopefully my years of bullshitting my way through high school papers can be put to some good use here. though to be fair, what i said wasn't entirely bullshit.

"okay well, for that to be valid you still have to be working there. and don't tell me what you "really wanna do" is get pissed every night and hoe around. that doesn't count."

"really? "hoe around?" i look over at him, not even bothering to cover a smile. he throws me a glare and i go back to looking out the window. "working just isn't my thing, alright?" he can drag me around all he wants but it doesn't mean he gets a productive conversation out of it.

"okay, now i want the real reason-"

"i'm here, romeo." i snap, gaining his attention. "don't push."

surprisingly, romeo doesn't pester me the rest of the way there. he leaves our conversation where it was and we get out of the car, heading into the bar. romeo holds the door open for me and i walk in with my head down. the second i look up, my breath gets caught in my throat. blas is working today, dante must've changed his schedule. romeo notices him too, which is why he grabs my arm.

"you can go wait in the car this'll only take a sec-"

"why would i wait in the car?" i interrupt, staring daggers at him. he gets the message.

"come with me in the back then. we'll find dante, get him the papers and get out of here."

i shake my head, removing his hand from my arm. my eyes haven't left blas this entire time. he's with someone. "you go ahead, i'll be fine."

romeo looks over at blas and sees the new development to the situation. "junior stay here, okay? i'll be right back." he looks torn as he takes a step away from me, but finally he apprehensively disappears into the back.

i get why he was so scared to leave me alone, because i disregard everything he just said and walk right up to blas and his new friend.

blas' pov

4 months of absolute hell, and i'm not even exaggerating when i say that. it's only hell on the inside though, on the outside i'm doing pretty okay. not great, but pretty okay. it's worsened over the last few days though, having lucre tell me about junior's daily "boyfriends" didn't help at all. that was essentially what drove me to confront junior, which inevitably blew up in my face. just seeing him again, god it's taken me awhile to recover. that comment is also why i started following junior on instagram again, and why i'm regretting that now. his story from last night is showing a picture of him and one of these so called daily "boyfriends". a surge of jealousy and hurt run through me. i quickly scroll out of it and exit instagram, hoping it'll calm me down. i don't even know where all this jealousy came from to be honest, i've never been that guy. but everything is... was different with junior. he made me feel things i've never felt, and now we're apart and he's moved on. as i said, pretty okay but also hell.

i look up from my phone to see francisco walk in, waving. i give him the best smile i can muster and wait for him to get over here. "hey, sorry we had to reschedule," i start once he's reached me. "i'm like dante's only good bartender."

"it's okay, i honestly thought you had work today anyway. maybe i should start learning your schedule." he says, almost as a nudge to something else. but i act as if it's gone over my head.

"maybe. so you ready to go?"

"uh, ya, so i was thinking we-"

"blas, hi."

i don't even have to look up to know who interrupted francisco, i'd know the voice anywhere. my heart skips more than a few beats upon seeing junior stood in front of us, despite having seen him only a few days ago. he looks disheveled but awake, which is strange these days. his eyes are still as pretty as ever though. sometimes it blows my mind that he questioned my love for him when he looks like that. i know it runs deeper, he just never let me go that deep.

"hey," i say, trying to look pretty okay and not surprised. "you're out of bed."

"mhm."

every angry part of me dissolves when i see him. all i've ever wanted to do was protect him from every demon that haunts his pretty little head, which is why the anger is replaced with worry.

"are you doing okay?" i ask, raising an eyebrow. junior's expressions stay neutral, giving me no indication of whether or not i'm saying the right things.

"i'm fine, who's this?" he asks, doing a once over of francisco.

when junior and i started dating, i thought it'd be him i would be introducing to my exes. turns out i was very wrong. "junior, this is francisco." the words die on my tongue by the end, but they don't even notice as francisco goes to shake his hand. junior doesn't take it. i don't blame him, i didn't exactly treat one of his daily "boyfriends" with any courtesy.

"new boyfriend?" junior asks stiffly, his hands still in his pockets like they were at the beginning of the conversation. he's holding back, i can tell.

"maybe, just getting to know each other." francisco answers, sending me a confused look.

"you know what, blas, i'll wait outside for you, okay?" i nod, and before i can stop myself i give him a quick peck before sending him on his way. the anger might of left, but the pettiness did not.

"well, i gotta go, romeo will be out soon." i look back over at him, ready to present a triumphant smile, but i'm met with glassy eyes and a low demeanor. "nice seeing you."

with that, he turns to walk away. something in me starts to nag, so i call after him. "junior!" he faces me again, and i drag my teeth over my lower lip. "please take care of yourself."

he doesn't even answer me, just hurries romeo out of the back and exits.

francisco and i have a nice time, but it's not over fast enough. i find myself counting the minutes until francisco pulls into my complex parking lot. it's raining pretty heavily, and it gets louder as the car idles and we park.

"thanks, i had a lot of fun tonight. i'll call you-" my hands on the car door when francisco stops me.

"blas, wait."

"what?" you could say i'm a little annoyed as all i've wanted to do the past couple hours is go home, crawl into bed and never come out. well, at least not until work tomorrow.

"that guy, earlier... is he your ex?" i nod, albeit a little confused. why is he bringing this up?

"look, i think you're great, but it's painfully obvious you're still in love with him." i've been got, gal.

"painfully?" i chuckle in attempt to turn it into a joke. he doesn't laugh, so i drop the act. "i didn't think it was that obvious."

he sighs, looking at his lap with his hands still gripping the steering wheel. "i just don't wanna be with someone who's still mentally in another relationship."

"and that's valid," i squeeze my eyes shut for a second, realizing what this is. i've been being a total dick to him and i didn't even realize it. "no, you're right. i wasn't present with you at all tonight, and i apologize. you're a good guy and you deserve someone... who's not me."

francisco gives me a sympathetic smile, putting a hand on my shoulder. "i would say call me when you get over him but-"

"i don't think i ever will be." i interrupt, shaking my head. i'll move on eventually, but not from him. i'll look for him all my life.

"i figured. have a good night, blas." i say goodbye and jump out of the car, trying not to get soaked as i run to my apartment.

i make some mate, which just happens to be all i have to drink. junior always did the grocery shopping, and ya we didn't live together long but it's hard to forget once you fall into a routine. i'm just about to pour myself some when there's a knocking at the door. i frown, looking over at the clock on the stove. it's 10:30, who the hell could be over here at 10:30 when it's practically storming? almost as if on que, there's a crack of thunder.

it's followed up with another furious knocking, and then i hear it. "blas? blas, open up. please!" it's junior. again, could recognize his voice anywhere. it's embarrassing how quickly i get to the door, unlocking it and throwing it open.

"junior-"

he barrels inside, barely giving me time to close the door before he goes off. "blas, i'm sorry, okay!" he's crying, but it could also be the rain, i'm not sure. he's absolutely drenched head to toe, shivering, and he wants to do this now?! "i'm sorry, i was wrong, i need you way more than you need me!"

"what-"

"i was an idiot four months ago, okay? i was so fucking sure you were gunna leave me because i refuse to acknowledge my abandonment issues so i rushed things instead of telling you how afraid i was but- it all just got so out of hand i- i... i'm sorry."

"junior, what the-"

"no, let me finish! please blas just," he runs a shaking hand through his wet hair, looking more broken than when we separated at the clinic. "getting shitfaced and fucking different guys every night doesn't help the fact that i haven't slept properly in four months. it doesn't help the fact that i don't even know where to start on figuring my life out when i only see you in it. it doesn't help the fact that romeo took me grocery shopping today and all i could think about was how i wish it was you and- and-" junior collapses to his knees, sobbing.

i drop with him, engulfing him in a protective hug. "hey, hey, it's okay." i try and soothe him. after a few moments the sobbing subsides, and junior carefully lifts his head from where it had made it to my chest. i wipe his tears with my thumb, practically feeling my heart break seeing him so defeated.

"it's not okay." he says in a small voice, and i lift my hand to cup his cheek. "and i don't deserve you."

"you do-"

he cuts me off again. "i don't. i'm the biggest fuck up in the world and yet you're still here, protecting me." his voice breaks, sounding lost.

"that's because you see a fuck up," i smile down at him fondly. "i see a human being who has issues just like every other human being does." he smiles back even if it's just the tiniest bit, and i realize he's still practically dripping. "come on, let's get you into something dry, ya? it doesn't look like you'll be going home." i say, and more thunder cracks as proof.

after changing myself, i walk into the bedroom to see junior standing in the doorway. the exact spot we had our first kiss. the rain isn't exactly helping the nostalgia. i join him though, observing him as he stares off somewhere in the other direction.

"you were wrong ya know," i break the silence, causing him to snap out of his trance and look at me. "about you needing me more than i need you."

"i doubt it."

"really? cuz i haven't slept properly for four months either. fuck junior, most nights i don't sleep. all i ever have in the house is mate, and a day doesn't go by where i don't miss you next to me. and it's hell."

junior looks up at me, and suddenly i can't hold back anymore. something about junior makes me fearless. though i think this is less fear and more just the need to be closer. before i can connect our lips, junior stops me. could he make this anymore like our first kiss?!

"wait, i just, i need you to know some things first." i don't draw back, but i nod, allowing him to speak. he lets out a shaky sigh, and i grab his hand for reassurance.

"i need you to know that i want to go to therapy, work on not only my anxiety but my abandonment issues. i've realized that's what's caused most of our past fights, me not knowing how to balance myself out and be rational. but i want to learn, not just for us but like... for me."

i smile, cupping his cheek with the hand that's not holding onto his. looking into his eyes, i can tell he's being sincere. and honestly, this is all i've ever wanted from him. to admit his issues to himself and want to work on them, even before we were together. i never wanted him changing for me, hell i fell in love with this dorky idiot in high school, i've always liked who he is.

"i would love to stand around and tell you how proud i am of you," junior chuckles, rolling his eyes. "but i haven't touched you in four months, can i kiss you now?"

"please." he practically whimpers, and who am i to deny either is us of what we want?

there's no fireworks when our lips meet or a cliche pop song playing in the background like they try and sell as reunions in movies, but it's perfect. it's my perfect. i let go of his hand and slowly move mine up to his face, letting them snake down his body. his arms sling around my neck, and i clutch at his waist. he doesn't taste like he did four months ago, now it's more like safe and not knowing what he wants, but hopeful. the thing is, normally i criticize him for not having a goal which is so stupid because i don't even know what mine is. it's been him for so long, even when i lost him it was still him. i guess we have a lot to figure out together. i kiss him over and over again, not even caring how desperate i'm being. i know what deprivation feels like, and i never want to feel it again.

after awhile we separate, panting, resting our foreheads together. "wait, what- what about that guy you were with earlier?" he really has some of the worst timing.

"broke up," i kiss him again. "something about how painfully obvious it was that," another kiss. "i'm still in love with you."

we kiss again, and junior smiles into it. my heart practically goes crazy, i've missed that.

"well... are you?"

"never stopped being in love with you, never will." i mumble, moving to kiss down his jawline.

"good, cuz i didn't-" i earn a moan out of him. "either."

"bed?" he nods excessively. we have four months to make up for.

#blasnior #disaster gay and fond gay

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elliebartlets · 4 years

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18th and Potomac

Episode:

• god dammit

• y’know what? I can’t wait until the end so I’m just gonna say scream it:

MRS. LANDINGHAM’S DEATH WAS UNNECESSARY !!!!!

• “Joey, is there any good news in there at all?”

“No sir.”

*cue happy upbeat theme song!!!*

• “Margaret! Where’s Josh?”

“He’s on his way.”

*Josh enters* “Leo calm down, I’m right here.”

“He’s right here.”

Lmaoooo I love Margaret so much

• I love that CJ throws her glasses on the table (that pains me cause mine are on the verge of breaking) and Toby hands them back to her when she’s interrupted with a message.

• Not that I didn’t love her before, but I am loving Donna even more on this rewatch. She takes finding out about Bartlet’s MS well and even asks if he’s in pain. What a smol bean!! If I had to pick one character to be stuck with in quarantine, it’d be Donna (and Abbey, but I’m lowkey intimidated by her so I feel like I’d accidentally say something dumb/insulting and she’d slit my jugular)

• speaking of Abbey, after she gives Sam complicated medical jargon, she gives him a look like “do you even know what I’m saying right now?” even though she clearly knows that he doesn’t lol

• everytime I watch this I’m always like “nooo Mrs. Landingham don’t go pick up the car!!!”

• like Sorkin really had to give us a funny and touching scene between her and Bartlet just to make the pain of what happens 100x more horrible huh

• and he was gonna tell her about the MS!!! I believe she had her suspicions or knew something was wrong, but he was actually going to confirm it to her so she wouldn’t be blind sighted by the interview and then this happens alfkskajab fuck everything

• lmao Abbey’s still going on about medical stuff to Sam

• oh the extramarital affairs question makes me cringe. although he did say “as the president’s physician” not “as the president’s wife”

• Abbey talking about how doctors write prescriptions for family members anyway despite AMA ethics reminds me of this Bartlet family fanfiction I read where she prescribed antibiotics for Liz not knowing she was on birth control and having sex with Doug and the antibiotics interacted with the birth control and that’s how she got pregnant with Annie lol

• I kinda like that Toby told Donna about the MS instead of Josh

• The ending scene where Leo is telling Bartlet about Mrs. Landingham is beautifully frustrating. That’s the only way I know how to put it. Bartlet’s reaction is distorted by the glass windows, and, at least for me, part of me wants to see his reaction but the other part of me thinks it would be too painful.

Podcast:

• guest star: Oliver Platt (Oliver Babish)

• this episode aired in May 2001. In October 2001, there was a poll similar to the one in the show.

At the time:

~ 92% of Americans were aware of MS.

~ 48% believed that the disease would have little to no effect on decision making abilities.

~ 48% believed that MS medications are effective.

~ 77% of people who were aware of MS would remain confident in a leader’s ability to perform his or her job duties despite the disease.

It is possible and most likely that because of The West Wing, these numbers were a lot more positive than the ones in the show.

• Hrishi thought that Toby telling Donna about the MS before Josh did was a carry over from the previous episode when Leo told Abbey about Zoey’s health form before Bartlet did. Both Bartlet and Josh were annoyed by someone else telling their, ahem, significant others

(PRESIDENT BARTLET: How could you tell Abbey about the health form before I did?

JOSH: You told Donna. Why didn’t you let me?)

and Hrishi points out Leo violated some sort of marriage boundary between Jed and Abbey, and it feels like Toby did the same with Josh and Donna because “even though Josh and Donna aren’t married, let’s face it. They basically are.”

• On the Sam and Abbey scene in the basement:

“I also felt like she might want to throw him on the table and take him right there. There’s a little bit of something. She gives him a look. There’s a little bit of a potential cougar moment happening.”

akdjdjs JOSH NO

• “It makes me wish that the First Lady was in every episode though.”

“She’s fantastic. I mean she always lights the place on fire.”

• The California Assembly had a moment of silence for Mrs. Landingham after the episode.

• Mrs. Landingham was killed off because during a smoke break at an event, Kathryn Joosten told Aaron she was going out for a pilot and he didn’t listen to the rest of what she said because he kept picturing what it’d be like if she left the show. He then thought Mrs. Landingham’s death would send Bartlet right over the edge with the whole MS thing. God dammit Aaron.

“What would’ve happened if she just didn’t mention it?”

“Maybe Charlie would’ve died.”

Omfg I can’t

• Kathryn didn’t start acting until she was 42. She was a psychiatric nurse before she got into acting.

• Apparently John Larroquette (Lionel Tribbey, the First White House counsel we see) was supposed to come back but something fell through. From what I gathered from the interview, he either only wanted to come back if he was in the show more.

• Oliver is good friends with Allison and knew Bradley and Richard before going on the show.

• While he liked the scenes he was in the past few episodes, he thinks the greatest scenes he has are the upcoming ones in season three with Abbey.

#the west wing #18th and potomac #mrs. landingham #oliver platt #kathryn joosten #multiple sclerosis #the west wing weekly #tww weekly #tww #rewatching tww

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Part One: The Wild, Wild West. (Frontierland S06E18)

Episode Summary: While searching for a way to defeat Eve, the Winchester brothers and the reader stumble upon Samuel Colt’s journal. Realizing Samuel might have the answer to their problems, the three of them ask Castiel to send them back in time to meet the man himself. While Sam and the reader are reluctant to time travel, Dean is beside himself with excitement to return to the Wild, Wild West. Pairing: Dean Winchester x Reader Word Count: 6,871.

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The reader’s mentioned outfit:

P.S. For those who are wondering, I got inspiration and took the look from the show “Westworld.” (Which I’ve been conveniently watching the past few weeks…I totally recommend you check it out!)

Josh Carver was an unconventional best friend in every sense of the word. You had known him since you were fourteen but lost contact with him when he moved away a few years later to try and pursue a college education. Of course that didn’t last very long. Almost a decade passed before Josh was reunited you with under circumstances that resulted in him being possessed by a demon and your house wrecked after a break-in. Now the only conversations you had were mostly over the phone. And the only face to face contact you had since reuniting again was after you died and came back to life—which was three times now.

You expected every time you picked up the phone to have a conversation with Josh he would finally tell you to go screw yourself and never talk to him again after the trouble you caused him. You turned his life upside down for the worst, and you would respect his wishes. But he never did that. He was always so happy to hear from you and willing to help with whatever sort of trouble you got into. When you asked him for some help dealing with the Mother of All and her freaks, along with a few private things, he jumped on the opportunity to be apart of the action.

You were overjoyed to be able to see Josh again in person on better circumstances. He was the exact person you needed now that all the Campbells were gone. Josh was book smart and had a knack for research. But there was a problem with your plan. You still needed to convince the boys to go along with your idea to have the man around. For whatever reason, they always had a dislike for Josh. You never understood. Luckily with some subtle threats and favors you were able to get them to begrudgingly agree.

You told Josh to meet you at Bobby's place to get started, worrying about the small details like where he'd sleep and other arrangements later on. You just wanted him to get here in one piece. It had been so long since you'd seen him in person. And this as the first time he was going to be working with all of you. You hoped the boys wouldn't scare him off the moment he stepped into the door. While Sam had grown quiet on the matter, Dean was still going strong of expressing his emotions on the matter when the day of Josh’s arrival came.

"I still don't like this guy." Dean, for what felt to be the tenth time this morning, made his opinion clear on the matter. You were occupying Bobby's desk with a book opened and your second cup of coffee this morning slowly being nursed. You glanced up for a moment to acknowledge what your boyfriend said with an annoyed glare. "He gives me the creeps."

"What? Josh is harmless." You defended your old childhood best friend from the judgement of your significant other. You gave him an eye roll at his dramatic behavior as you turned the page to the next one so you could continue reading a book Bobby had yet to get to after hoarding a few more books of lore. "The last time you seen him you almost kicked his ass for no reason.”

"No reason? He threatened me first. Not to mention the last time we really saw him he thought you were his fiancée" Dean defended himself against you. You were, yet again, interrupted from your reading as Dean continued on this much useless conversation that was leading the both of you nowhere at this point. You raised your brow slightly from what Dean implied, calling him out on the little white lie he pulled and how he was bringing up a scenario that happened in another universe different from your own. “Whatever. I still wanna punch him in the face. He’s a dick.”

"What is your probl—" You were about to ask him what was getting him so riled up, but then it hit you. You've seen this type of behavior from him before not too long ago. The way he was acting all tough, bringing up something that happened a few years ago to the strange universe mix up. You rested your arms on the desk and narrowed your eyes on the man as your lips stretched into a smirk, suddenly realizing what it was. "Oh my God. You're jealous."

“What?” Dean scoffed at what you were trying to imply by his behavior before letting out a slight chuckle. He tried to act normal by crossing his arms over his chest and calmed his expression into more of a calm one. You weren't the least bit fooled by it. "I've got nothing to be jealous of."

"Sure there isn't. What's there to be jealous of? Not the fact that he's only been my best friend before I met you. And in another universe him and I are madly in love while you and I didn't work out." You casually brought up the conversation again about the messy situation you and the boys were thrown into against your will. Dean's expression dropped slightly, you broke out into a smile at how he looked. "Oh my God. You're so gullible."

Dean crossed his arms over his chest and looked away from the joke you pulled and pretended to be calm. He always promised you that he'd never be the possessive, jealous man who would get angry if another guy dare so looked in your direction. It wasn’t in his nature. Whenever you weren't working a case and enjoying some time out in public, Dean might do something like inch himself closer to you or wrap an arm around your waist if he saw a guy try to make a move on you. It was the subtle things that Dean did you enjoyed. He let the world knew that you were his, and he was yours.

You always found jealousy to be a turn off. Yet seeing Dean like this, squirming with possible thoughts of what might happen when Josh got here, it sort of felt....good. It was like sweet revenge for all those years he would shamelessly flirt with other women right in front of your face. You knew it was a bit childish to play slightly into the idea you had any sort of feeling for Josh. He was a close friend from another life before you devoted yourself to hunting who happened to know everything about the supernatural, too. It was a strange friendship you had, but it worked. He was like what you were for the boys. A crutch to a lean on when things got tough.

You shut the book you were previously reading and pushed yourself up to your feet when you heard knocking on the front door. You gave Dean a smile and patted him on the chest lightly to reassure him that everything was going to be fine before rushing to the door before Bobby or Sam could answer it. Before you did, you smoothed out your clothes and fixed your hair to make sure you looked somewhat presentable for a friend you hadn’t seen in months. You inhaled a breath before opening up the door. Josh stood on the porch with his hands causally in his jean pockets as he looked around the place, taking in all the glory of the place. When he turned his attention forward, you welcomed him with a grin.

“Well, well, well.” You mumbled from who you saw standing right in front of you. You crossed your arms over your chest and stepped back to take a good look at your friend you hadn’t seen in months. “Look what the cat dragged in.”

“You didn’t happen to drop dead while I was gone, did you? Am I talking to your ghost or something? ‘Cause I feel like the only time i get to see you in person is when you died." Josh replied back to your sarcastic remark. Dean stood in the doorway of the library where you couldn't see him, even though your back was to him. He mocked your laugh you made at the stupid joke Josh made that wasn't the least bit funny. “Damn, Y/N. It’s so good to see you.”

“Come in, come in.” You ushered the man inside as you opened the door wider and stepped out of the way so Josh could be formally introduce to everyone. You nervously swallowed when you heard the sound of multiple footsteps approaching. Shutting the door, you noticed it was the brothers who were here to greet your guest. “Where’s Bobby?”

“He’s getting a few things before we hit the road.” Dean said. You nodded your head and gave the boys a quick glance when Josh greeted the two men with a friendly smile. The brothers could see the threatening glare subtly hidden in your calm expression if they tried to pull anything stupid. Dean decided to be the bigger person here like you wanted him to be. He outstretched his hand and offered it to Josh for him to shake. "Hey, man. Been a long time."

Yeah. Too long." Josh said. He shook hands with the older Winchester before nodding greeting the same way to Sam when he greeted the man with another hello and a firm handshake. You had a feeling things were going well. But you weren't holding your breath that things would last this long. "Glad I could be apart of this whole situation. I’ve been doing a lot of research.”

“You sure you really want to do this?” Sam’s question made your attention avert to him. You expression dropped slightly as you began to stare at him with an angry glare from what you think he was trying to do. The younger Winchester only made a joke as he cracked a smile to keep things civil. "There's a lot of book research involved. Gets kind of tedious."

“Don’t worry, man.” Josh said. “I’ve been waiting to get in on the action for a long time.”

You let out a sigh of relief from how smooth things seemed to be going. So far the brothers had welcomed Josh with no problem and carried on a civil conversation. Footsteps from the kitchen made you realize there was one person for Josh to meet. You pushed the man slightly forward to greet someone Josh was the most nervous of all to meet after everything you told him about. "Bobby, I'd like you to meet someone..."

+ + +

Over the past few months the four of you, including Josh, had been tirelessly trying to find a way to take down Eve for good. All of you spent countless hours collecting all sorts of books and sat in front of your laptop scouring the internet for some kind of hint to find what her weakness was. But you kept coming up blank. You needed to find something before you had a face to face with the thing. While you were having trouble doing so, you remembered that you weren’t the only one who knew about the Mother of All and wanted to see her dead.

Samuel Campbell had been tracking down Eve and her little monsters with what was left of his family even after his boss, Crowley was killed off. He kept a neat and organized office that you were rarely allowed to go into without him supervising you. There was one time Samuel trusted you enough to let you in on a secretive spot when you first started hunting with him and told to never go back down there again. Yet here you stood in the middle of his office with the boys, Bobby and Josh. The entire Campbell residence had been abandoned for a few months now. It was the only place you could think of to find a possible lead on how to stop Eve.

The only problem was trying to remember where it was. You didn’t spend the last several hours stuck in the Impala with the brothers in the front seats with you and Josh in the back, making awkward small talk for all of this to come down to nothing.

“Look it’s here somewhere.” You mumbled in frustration. You examined the wooden floors with a close eye, trying to find some kind of handle that Samuel had tried to hide in plain sight. All you could remember about Samuel’s hiding spot was that it was underground, he had a special way of getting in. He tried to hide it from you, but you saw. There were no rugs and tables around the place to make it easily hidden. Except for his desk. You walked forward and tried to move the heavy object by yourself, but you failed miserably. “Dammit. Sam, Josh. Move this thing.”

You stepped out of the way for the two tallest men to move the desk so you could get a closer look around at the floor when nothing caught your eye. The two men moved the desk with ease so you could continue your search. What you were expecting to find was some sort of secret latch hidden underneath the desk. Maybe it was too obvious. Maybe you were looking at this all wrong when you noticed a loose screw ever so slightly popping out of place.

You crouched down on the ground when a suspicious hunch grew at what you saw. There was nothing like this on any other part of the floor. It took a few tries before you pulled out the screw from the spot it was resting in. You expected the screw to come popping out, but it remained safely fastened into the wood, making you realize this was the handle you were looking for. You used all your strength to open up the opening of the trapdoor that lead to the underground layer Samuel tried so hard to hide from you. Your lips stretched into a smirk of victory. If only that old bag of bones could see you know.

Dean turned on the flashlight and took a step to inspect what might be down there before any of you got the idea of going exploring down there. What you saw was a lot of dust and cobwebs along with a ladder leading down. “Well, I’ll be damned.” Bobby mumbled, impressed at what he saw, and curious for what was down there waiting to be explored.

You did the honors of being the first one to go down into the underground layer with everyone else following behind one by one. You stumbled a bit in the dark before finding what felt to be a lightswitch and turned it on. Slowly the lights began to kick on as the boys came down first along with Bobby and then Josh. "Welcome to the Campbell family library." You gestured an arm around at the decent sized space that was lined with numerous books and a college of all sorts of information. "Maybe we'll be lucky and find something useful."

Josh was an awe at what he saw, from the books to the old photographs on the walls of what you were presuming to be Campbell relatives from decades before. Dean circled around the place and examined what he saw. “Samuel collected all of this stuff, huh?” He asked. You nodded your head, seeming to think that’s what he did. “Wow. Well, what are we looking for?”

“Well, anything that’ll put a run in Octomom’s stockings.” Bobby said. You placed your hands on your hips and looked around the room to see the entire place was covered in stock piles of books and leather bound journals. All of you were going to be here for a while. “Pick a row.”

You looked over at Josh to see how he was doing. The man swallowed slightly as he suddenly felt overwhelmed at the vast amount of knowledge surrounding him. He decided to get to work on one part of the room while the boys each took a spot. Bobby turned on a few more lights to give all of you some better lighting. You skimmed through at least a few dozen books but only ended up pulling a few books that seemed what you might be looking for. Bobby got lucky when he found a book that was exactly what he needed. Soon enough after going through almost all of the books here, the five of you headed to the table to do the hardest part of all; research.

Samuel kept a good collection of books that mentioned Purgatory, but nothing mentioned about Eve herself. You looked up every once in a while to see that Josh was focused on reading the books he pulled off the shelf as the boys quietly did their own research. Everything seemed to be going well like you hoped. You returned your attention back to the book you were reading and turned the fragile page to continue.

“Either of you jokers ever heard of anything about a phoenix?” Bobby’s question made all four of you look up from your books. You furrowed your brow slightly from what he was asking.

“River, Joaquin or the giant flaming bird?” Dean asked, giving a few possible examples.

"It says here that the ashes of a phoenix can burn the Mother." Bobby read off from the book, making you wonder if it was the same mother you were trying to stop.

“That’s great.” You said, thinking this was the exact leading you spent over the past few hours looking for in all of these books. “Where do we get one?”

Bobby shrugged his shoulders, “You got me. I thought it as a myth,”

"They never make it easy for us, do they?" You muttered underneath your breath. You let out a quiet sigh as you rubbed your eyes in slight frustration when you were forced to take a detour in all of this. "Great. Well, let's see if we can find something about a phoenix."

More research meant more books were needed to be pulled off the shelf. You and Josh worked on gathering different ones from the shelves while Sam and Bobby went through the ones you had on the table. Dean worked on going through some leather bound journals after he stumbled across quite a few of them. While you went through your fifth book, Dean stood with the same journal he had in his hands as he read it underneath a small lamp. A small smile was on his lips as he continued on reading adventures that were intriguing for the man. The more he read, the more he realized he might have found the jackpot.

“Guys. Guys, guys, guys, check this out.” Dean excitedly said. He came walking over to the table and sat himself back down to show you the journal he had been reading. You looked up to see there was a smile on his face. “‘’March 5th, 1861. Sunrise, Wyoming. Gun killed a phoenix today. Left a pile of smoldering ash.’”

“Really?” Sam asked, intrigued at what he heard. “Whose gun?”

Dean’s smirk grew as he answered his brother, “Colt’s.”

“Colt?” You wondered as you raised your brow in curiosity if he meant what you were thinking. “Colt, like—”

“Like the Colt, Y/N. From…” Dean shut the journal to show off the front leather cover with what appeared to be a devil’s trap etched into it. He broke out into a grin when he flipped to the very first page for you to read the famous name of a man who had wrote his name into over a hundred and fifty years ago. “Samuel Campbell’s journal.”

“What?” Sam asked, breaking out into a grin. He pointed at the journal with a bit of disbelief at what he was staring at. “That’s his?”

“Wait, wait.” Josh looked over at you, confused at who this Samuel was. While the boys argued over who could see the journal like a bunch of five year olds, Josh asked you a few questions to try and get caught up to speed. “Who’s Samuel Colt?”

"Samuel Colt is a man who created this gun that could kill about any monster. Demon, vampire, whatever. Except, in our experience, not the devil. Learned that the hard way." You explained to him, cracking a slight smile at the end of your sentence. Josh raised his brow, obviously wanting to know more about what you meant about the devil. You shook your head slightly, giving him a look that you'd tell him later. You still needed to figure out this whole other situation. "What else did Samuel say about the phoenix? What does it look like? Hell, does it have feathers?”

“Just says ‘phoenix.’” Dean said, not being able to provide more information than that.

“Did he say where he tracked it?” Bobby asked, the older Winchester shook his head.

“All right. I guess we gotta find one of our own.” Sam said. “Whatever it is.”

Dean stared at the journal for a moment or so until a plan hatched itself in his head. He sat up straight in his seat and placed the journal down on the table. “I know where we can find one.” He said. You gave him a curious look, wondering what that brain of his was thinking. “March 5th, 1861. Sunrise Wyoming. We’ll Star Trek IV this bitch.”

Your expression slowly changed as your brow furrowed slightly, now feeling slightly confused at his reference you didn't quite get. You and Sam exchanged a look, the both of you lost as Bobby admitted, "I only watched Deep Space Nine."

“Star Trek IV, save the whales. Right? Is that even possible?” Josh asked the older Winchester, curious if the man was making a reference to a movie he had watched. When Dean nodded his head, Josh broke out into a grin at what he was thinking. You stared at your friend with a baffled look, causing him to clear his throat, feeling slightly awkward at his nerdiness that was peeking through. “My dad got me hooked on the show and movies when I was nine. We would go to a Star Trek convention every year until he died.”

“Wait, what’s possible?” You asked the two men. “What the hell are you two talking about?”

"Finally. Someone who gets a good reference. It's like I don't even know you guys anymore." Dean gestured a hand to Josh before giving the rest of you a disappointed glare. You were happy to see the two of them were getting along with their eighties movies, but you rolled your eyes when he stalled on telling all of you his genius plan. "We hop back in time, join up with Samuel Colt, hunt the phoenix and then we haul the ashes back home with us."

“Time travel?” Bobby asked. Dean broke out into another smile as he nodded his head. “That’s a reasonable plan?”

“We got a guy who can swing it.” Dean said. You began to think his idea wasn’t so bad after all. He shut the journal and pushed himself up to his feet, dragging the chair across the floor. Dean thought for a moment about the right way to recite a prayer so your friend could get down here to help all of you. “Castiel...the, uh, date of the world is in the balance...so come on down here.” You looked around the room to see where the angel might have appeared out from. But he was nowhere to be seen. “Come on, Cas. I Dream of Jeannie your ass down here, pronto. Please.”

A few seconds later you heard the familiar sound you had associated with angels and their fun act of popping out of thin air. You were expecting to be greeted with the familiar trench coat and suit Cas had worn over the past three years. Instead a woman stood with a smile. Dean stupidly mumbled Jeanie, the angel corrected him with her real name.

“Rachel.” She introduced herself to all of you. “I understand you needed some assistance. How can I help you?”

“Well, uh, we kind of need to talk to the big kahuna.” Dean told the angel.

“I’m here on Castiel’s behalf.” Rachel said. Sam found the excuse a little bit strange. He asked where your fellow angel friend was. “Busy.”

“Busy?” Dean repeated what the angel said, she nodded her head. “Well, we’ve got a line on the Mother of freaking everything, so—“

“I’m sure your issue is very important, but Castiel is currently commanding in army, so—“ Rachel cut off the older Winchester, feeding him an excuse you weren’t buying when you pushed yourself up to your feet to butt yourself into the conversation.

“So we get stuck with Miss Moneypenny.” You said, guesting an arm to the angel that stood behind you as you broke out into a smile. Josh nervously chuckled, afraid of what the right kind of response was. You told him all about angels, but this was the first time meeting you.

“So you need to learn your place.” Rachel snuck a command in. Your smile slowly faded as your expression changed. You turned around in your spot to give the woman an amused, almost curious expression at what she just let slip out her mouth.

“Excuse me? What did you just say to me?” You asked the angel. Your lips stretched into a smirk as you stared at her with an expression that showed you weren’t the least bit afraid of her. “Let’s get one thing straight here, sister. You don’t ever talk to me like that. Because I don’t know who the hell you think you are—“

"I'm his friend." Rachel stated. You crossed your arms over your chest and stared at her. You made it quite clear that you were friends with the other angel, too. "No, I don't think you are. I think you call him when you need something. We're fighting a war."

“Okay,” Sam said in a calm tone. “We get that.”

“Clearly you don't, or you wouldn’t call him every time you stub your toe you pretty, entitled little piece of—” Rachel thought it would be a smart idea to let her true feelings show. She was letting it all out as she raised her voice as she continued speaking. You crossed your arms tighter over your chest as you stared at the angel, waiting for the moment to tell her how it really was. Before she could say something she would regret, a familiar voice cut her off.

“Rachel.” Cas stood across from his supposed friend. “That’s enough.”

The woman composed herself, trying to make it appear that she wasn’t having an embarrassing fight with a couple of humans that he called his friends, too. “I told you I’d take care of this.”

“It’s all right, you can go.” Cas said. Rachel was surprised to hear the angel was staying to hear out whatever sort of ridiculous scheme you were about to waste his time with where there were more important matters at stake. “I’ll come when I can.”

Rachel respected her friend’s change of plans, she was gone in the blink of an eye. You let out a sigh of relief to know that she was far away from this place. “Wow.” Dean said, a bit taken back at the first impression the woman made on all of you. “Friend of yours?”

“Yes. She’s, uh, my lieutenant. She’s committed to the cause.” Cas said. He took a step forward and looked around the table to see all the familiar faces he was expecting, except one that he had never seen before. He stared at Josh with a bit of a curious expression. “Who is this?”

"Oh. Uh, right. Josh, there's someone else I want you to meet." You said, looking over at your other friend. Josh suddenly looked like a deer in headlights when he realized he was about to meet the one and only Castiel you spoke so much about, from the high and lows. You smiled slightly at his priceless face. You guestred for him to get up to his feet, the man did so in the matter of seconds. "Josh, I'd like you to meet possibly the only friendly angel—Castiel. We just call him Cas. It's easier."

"Castiel. It's such an honor to meet you." Josh said. He wasn't sure what to do, being that he was finally able to meet the angel you had talked so much about. He nervously put out his hand in front of him for the angel to shake, Cas stared at him. Josh nervously chuckled and put his hand back to his side, wondering if he might have done something wrong. "Right. Uh…”

“Don’t worry. He’s awkward about human...things.” You explained the best you could about Cas’ strange behavior to your friend. You turned your attention back to the angel and to the reason why you called him down here in the first place. “Now, how do you feel about the 1860s?”

+ + +

The next morning all of you were back in Bobby’s house after finding a possible lead to take down Eve. You settled Josh into a nearby motel for the remainder of his stay, however long that might be until you got this situation settled down. Josh had taken it upon himself, after nervously asking Bobby, took go nuts over the collection books the older hunter had collected over the years that were just gathering dust instead of being used.

While Josh stuck with lore, you and Sam helped Bobby get the weapons you might need like guns and knifes. You occupied yourself by loading up your gun with iron rounds along with one chamber full of silver. You didn’t know what was a phoenix's weakness, and if you happened to see one without the colt, you rather be safe than dead.

“Where the hell’s Dean?” Bobby asked. You glanced up for a moment from what you were doing to see that the older Winchester had been out for a while, at least over an hour now.

“Supply run, he said.” Sam mentioned what his brother’s excuse was. “I don’t know.”

“Um, about your plan…” Cas spoke up the first time this morning since he got here. You told him about Dean’s great idea about jumping back a hundred and fifty years to see a phoenix get killed with the very gun you were hunting for just a few years ago. It seemed there was going to be a bit of a complication in Dean’s genius idea. “You’ll only have twenty-four hours.”

“What?” Sam asked in a surprised tone. He pushed himself up to his feet and walked over to the angel to hear the angel’s reasoning. “Why?”

“Well, the answer to your question can best be expressed as series of partial differential equations.” Cas said. All of you were smart to handle a complicated explanation, but you told the angel to break it down so even Josh could understand why you would have such limited time. “The further back I send you, the harder it becomes to retrieve you. Twenty-four hours is all I can risk. If I don’t pull you home within that time, you’ll be lost to me.”

“Well, then we better get you a watch.” Dean’s voice came out nowhere. You leaned over ever so slightly to see that he was back from his supply run. You were a bit surprised to see he was carrying three rather large paper bags. You gestured a finger to the bags, asking what all this was about. “We are going native. Gotta blend in.”

You could feel your face drop slightly when Dean put one of the bags he was holding down to the ground and held out the other two for you and his brother to take. You looked down at the bag logo, reading that it was from a place called Wally's Western World with a cowboy and a lasso. You grimaced slightly as Sam quickly shot down the plan his brother was trying to pull.

“Uh, no thanks. I’m fine.” Sam said. The older Winchester knew that would be a stupid idea as he mumbled his brother’s name. “Dean, I can wear this.”

“And look like a spaceman?” Dean asked.

“Look, I’m with Sam on this one. Just because you’re obsessed with that Wild West stuff—” You said, Dean scoffed at your accusation and denied that he did. “You have a fetish for it. I bet you got me a saloon girl outfit for me.”

“Shut up. No I didn’t.” Dean said, suddenly acting hurt at the accusation on his poor judgement of a time period outfit that wouldn’t work for the hunt. You didn’t fall for it as you raised your brow slightly, knowing you were still right about his unhealthy obsession with westerns. “I like old movies.”

“You can recite every Clint Eastwood movie ever made.” Sam said. “Line for line.”

“Even the monkey movies?” Josh asked from the corner of the library he was standing with a book he was reading. Dean tossed the man a glare from the conversation he butted himself into.

“Especially the monkey movies.” You said.

“His name is Clyde.” Dean mumbled. You shook your head from how Dean played himself into that one as Sam gestured an arm at his brother to prove the point he was trying to make. Dean held up the bag for his brother. “At least wear the damn shirt. And Y/N, I did not get you a saloon girl outfit...They didn’t have any.”

You rolled your eyes and grabbed the bag from him as Sam did the same, giving into the point that Dean was right. You couldn’t go walking around in 1861 with jeans and a flannel. It would raise too many questions. You claimed the upstairs bathroom to change leaving the boys to fend for themselves to find a place to get into character. You were expecting the outfit Dean picked out to be either non-practical or stupid. However, you were rather pleasantly surprised to see that everything fit right and seemed like it would work for this hunt.

The outfit Dean picked out consisted of a light blue pinstripe button up you tucked into a pair of beige jeans that paired well with a basic brown belt and riding boots that were your own. To top it off you even wore the hat he got you and adjusted the holster you would use to carry around at your side. You even went the extra mile of pleasing Dean by incorporating a bandana that matched the color of your shirt. Now you couldn’t help yourself but have a bit of fun. You tied it around your neck and pulled it up to conceal most of your face, only leaving your eyes. Maybe this wouldn’t be so bad, after all.

You exited the bathroom when you heard someone calling your name from downstairs after you were the last one up here. Making your way down the staircase and to the library, you made your grand entrance in the outfit Dean picked out. You couldn’t help yourself when you quickly drew your hands up and made finger guns for the hell of it since you were dressed like a bandit.

“All right, nobody move. This is a stickup.” You said, your voice slightly muffled from the fabric around your mouth. “Give me all your money.”

“Who the hell are you supposed to be, Billy the Kid?” Bobby asked. You mocked his question as you pulled down the bandana so it now rested around your neck like it was supposed to be. “All of you look like you’re going to a hoedown.”

“This is stupid.” Sam grumbled. “Told you I would look stupid.”

You turned your head to see that Sam was wearing a white button down with what looked to be yellow flowers designed into his shirt along with a cowboy hat he refused to wear. "Sam, you look so handsome." You complimented him as you broke out into a smile from how he managed to pull off the shirt so well. You looked over at his brother, who was smiling ear to ear at how you were pulling off the outfit he picked out Your smile smile slowly faded when you saw him dressed in way you weren't expecting. "Dean...what the hell are you wearing?"

“Now, is it customary to wear a blanket?” Cas asked. He couldn’t help himself but ask when he noticed the older Winchester’s outfit drastically differed from Sam’s and yours.

“It’s a serape. And, yes. It’s, uh…” Dean corrected the angel and got ready to explain the history of how it came into fashion. However it would have to wait for another day when you and his brother gave him a look. “Never mind. Let’s just go.”

You looked down at the desk to see Bobby had filled the duffel bag filled with some of the gold you stole from the dragon layer you hit a few months back. You grabbed your loaded gun and placed it in the holster of your jeans for safekeeping before you reached for the gold, wondering why all of you would need it. Bobby reminded you that things were different over a century and a half ago. Money you had like credit cards and dollar bills of presidents would be useless. It was all about gold back then.

“I’ll send you back to March 4th.” Cas said. “That should give you enough time to find the colt and this phoenix creature.”

“All right, well, see you at high noon tomorrow...partner.” Dean said, breaking out into a grin as he finally got to say something that he probably had always wanted. You and Bobby rolled your eyes when Dean added an added wink for effect.

Cas stepped forward to the three of you to send you a hundred and fifty years into the past, which would be the longest you had ever went back into. Time travel was some weird stuff. One minute you were standing in Bobby's library, and the next minute you were sinking into what felt like mud. You opened your eyes to see that you were standing on a dirt road with the boys, a wooden sign just ahead with the words of “Sunrise WYO” painted in bold white letters. All of you had made it with no trouble at all. The fun was just about to begin.

“Oh, now we’re talking.” Dean whispered. He was in absolute bliss at what he was surrounded by. You were just happy you didn’t step in anything that came out from an animal’s ass. Sam made sure to program his watch for a twenty-four hour countdown. “Alright, let’s go find Samuel Colt. Hey, we should try to find a saloon first...see what we can get from the locals.”

“Sure.” You agreed with the plan. You looked over at him and took one glance at that serpae before letting out a chuckle from how ridiculous he looked. “Whatever, Sundance.”

“Hey Sammy. Think we’ll have time to hit on the saloon girls?” Dean asked. You looked over at the man with a slightly disgusted look. Those girls were a walking petri dish of infections. There was a chance you could catch something from just breathing the same air as them. Dean knew his idea was a stupid one. “Kidding. Come on.”

You and Dean started to head into town, Sam took one step to follow behind, but he stepped into something that didn't feel like mud. "Oh dammit." The younger Winchester hissed. He looked down to see that he walked right into a fresh pile of horse manure. He lifted up his new cowboy boot to see it was covered in crap. "Come on."

“You know what that is?” Dean asked his brother when he took it upon himself to rest a hand on his shoulder to balance himself in attempt to kick off the manure before it could stick.

“Yeah.” Sam said, getting ready to say a not so nice word. “It’s horse—”

“Authenticity!” Dean cut off his brother with a grin.

Dean walked off without realizing that he nearly let Sam lose his balance and fall face first into the manure. You offered to help Sam by letting him lean his giant frame against your shoulder so he could kick off the crap before heading into town. You noticed that he was eyeing the bandana. "Don't even think about it." You warned him. You liked how it worked with your outfit. And Dean would be disappointed. "Get that crap on me I'll rub your face in it."

Sam rolled his eyes in frustration when he was left to kick off the manure as a last resort since he had no other options. He managed to get most of it off before the both of you caught up with an impatient Dean, who was nothing more than excited to get this hunt started.

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Scott is the flattest series regular in Teen Wolf. Teen Wolf dropped the ball with Scott. He’s surrounded by characters with amazing depth and character growth. He is the main character of the show and yet he’s the one everybody dislikes. I don’t dislike Scott. I don’t mind Scott, actually. He’s a good character, just like most characters in the show. But, I don’t love him. Same goes for a lot of people, as well. For a character we’re supposed to like, he’s not really that likable. In the beginning of the show, Scott started off as a bit of a naive, not the sharpest tool in the shed kid. But, I liked him anyways. His stupidity was funny to me and that gave him a bit of charm, weirdly enough. Then, seasons later, he becomes super mature. He develops a hero complex and has this thing against killing no matter what. He definitely took a turn for the worse throughout what you’d call character development. Scott became a flat character.

There was this old trend in literature about making the protagonist what you call an, ‘Epic Hero’. Basically, it’s a perfect hero. And Scott is by no means a perfect hero, but the show-writers gave a half-assed attempt to make him this God-like figure who could do no evil, who’s never selfish and always selfless, and who saves everyone because he loves everyone and tries to protect his friends no matter who’s bad or good. The thing is, we don’t like perfect heroes. Do you think an average person will look at Scott McCallHimPerfect and say, “he wants to save everyone. My god he’s just like me. He believes in good and evil. Damn I love him, just like me.” Nobody says that because Scott is not relatable in the slightest. He doesn’t have a personality other than, girls. Save people. Allison pretty wanna marry. Must not kill kill equal bad.

Do we even know anything about Scott? It might be just me, because I haven’t seen the show in a while. But what interests does Scott have? Because I don’t think we know the slightest about his hobbies and interests other than he plays lacrosse and likes to save people I guess. Do we ever see why he went to UC Davis? What does he want to be when he’s older? So yeah. Not only do we know next to nothing about what his personality and life is like outside of the supernatural, but he also acts all high and mighty. Bad combo.

One of the most annoying Scott moments—for many people—was when he yelled at Stiles for ‘killing’ Donovan without even listening to him. He took the word of Theo, some dude he barely knew, over his best friend. So, he was flipping his shit about Stiles killing someone because as he says it, “we don’t kill.” Despite the fact that almost all of the pack members and their allies have killed before. Scott develops this viewpoint on life throughout the series. He takes on this black and white view on life, thinking that if there’s someone against the pack, they’re a villain. They’re bad. But, if they’re an ally, they’re good. He doesn’t take into consideration that people are morally grey. He doesn’t recognize that the world isn’t black and white. There’s no such thing as good and evil. We’re all just...people. Scott never gets this fixed. He doesn’t make room for the thought that people who kill aren’t always evil. I feel bad for Stiles, because yeah, maybe Stiles could’ve explained what happened better, but the fact that his best friend wouldn’t give him a pass for self-defense is sad. Malia killed when she was eight and he never seemed to care. Kira killed that one guy when she revealed herself as a Kitsune and he she got a pass. Derek has killed many people and he doesn’t care. But the second Stiles kills someone, it’s suddenly an issue to Scott. Hypocritical, much?

In addition to all this, Scott’s also not the selfless hero everyone makes him out to be. He’s actually rather selfish and he’s proven this time and time again. Scott ditched Stiles time and time again to save Allison or someone else who never needed his help. He was also more than willing to throw Derek under the bus and blame him for some murders. I can’t remember any more times he’s done this, but let me know if you remember other examples.

I wish that he was more like his season one self. He went from 0-100 real fast in terms of ‘maturity’ and I found that annoying. His stupider self was more charming and was more interesting. Scott was struggling with dealing with his transformation and I wish this lasted for more than one season. It would’ve made him a much better character. And I do like Scott. I know it doesn’t sound like it, but I like Scott and most of the other characters. He has his moments. Some good moments, some times I really do like Scott. But I wish he wasn’t so flat. I wish we knew a little more about him. The hero complex is an old, overused cliché and I was Scott was....y’know....more relatable.

Here seems as good a place as any to say it, so...the true alpha thing is BULLSHIT and it completely ruined Scott's character. One of my all-time favorite Scott moments was in 3a when he threatened Gerard, saying that if Gerard lied about Deucalion and people got hurt because of it, he'd come back and kill him. And almost immediately after that Scott becomes a true alpha and is like "Oh, wait... nevermind, then." Stiles should have at least said something like "Dude, Donovan was trying to kill ME," but all he ever says is "He was gonna kill my dad," which is not at all the reason why he killed Donovan. Not to mention that he didn’t even deliberately kill Donovan, it was a complete accident. The writers did that whole, ‘he was gonna kill my dad’ thing on purpose. If I was Stiles, I’d say, “seriously, Scott? That psycho was literally trying to kill me! And I didn’t even kill him! He fell and impaled himself!” The thing about his dad was to create more of a divide. But leaving out that Donovan was legitimately trying to kill Stiles is even more annoying to me because it leaves them room for Scott to be like "I know the difference between murder and self-defense," later on when they reconcile. If Stiles says it outright then Scott looks like too much of a dick for not taking that into account. But all of that only still makes sense if you've forgotten that Theo specifically said that Donovan went after Stiles when he lies to Scott about how it happened. So, it's already been (at the very least) implied to Scott that it was a self-defense situation (that got out of hand, according to Theo), but because Stiles doesn't specify that it leaves some (less than plausible, but okay) room for Scott to backtrack and be all "Well, I didn't know THAT. THAT changes everything." That's why that "lie of omission" bugs me so much. Stiles was not obligated to share his trauma with Scott if he didn’t want to. And Scott’s neither Stiles’ alpha, father, nor authority figure, so he doesn’t get to judge/condemn Stiles or demand an explanation from him. Not to mention that Scott is the very same hypocritical scumbag who threw a temper tantrum when Derek didn’t let him assassinate Peter like Scott WANTED and DEMANDED in Season 1, tried but failed to assassinate Gerard because ”He threatened to hurt my mom! I had no choice!” in Season 2, and conspired with the likes of Deucalion to assassinate Josh and Tracy in Season 5. Scott committing premeditated attempted murder for his own benefit and using Derek as his own personal murder weapon is good, but Stiles accidentally killing Donovan in self-defense to protect himself and his father is wrong and Stiles is a monster?! Lmfao sure, Scott! Scott McCall is a true something alright. A true hypocrite Stiles didn't because he was in a self destructive spiral. He didn't think he deserved to be forgiven and he thought he should lose Scott. The Dread doctors were constantly reinforcing his negative thoughts about himself through Theo and his own hallucinations because that was his greatest fault and source of his trauma

in the beginning scott was more than willing to kill to get what he wanted (for example when he was gonna kill peter since he thought that would cure him), which was always funny to me idk. i do love scott though especially the first 2 seasons scott since he changes after that, but he’s not the strongest character in the series and they should’ve done the whole ‘true alpha’ stuff differently imo

Scott McCall is literally the blandest, flattest, weakest, most useless fictional character ever. He’s just a badly written and portrayed Gary Stu and a judgmental bigot with abusive tendencies and no character development. Scott became a “True Alpha” due to his canonically nonexistent strength of character, virtue, moral superiority, and force of will, he’s never held accountable for his abusive actions and behavior, and the only time people dump his toxic ass it’s either not his fault or they are being wrong, psychotic, and unreasonable. Scott is such a Gary Stu it’s like a 12 year old on an ego trip wrote him. Scott yelled at Stiles, played judge, jury and executioner with Stiles, and accused Stiles of being a violent, unstable, dangerous, inhuman monster and a serial killer for choosing not to share his own trauma with Scott and for daring to accidentally kill Donovan in self-defense in Season 5; and yet Scott’s the one who threw a temper tantrum when Derek Hale didn’t let him assassinate Peter Hale in Season 1, conspired with Gerard Argent behind everyone’s back and used Derek as his murder weapon because “He threatened to hurt my mom! I had no choice!” in Season 2, lied to Kira about her fox to control her in Season 5A, plotted/conspired with Deucalion to assassinate innocent chimera victims Josh and Tracy in Season 5B, played up an injury that had long healed just to convince his friends to help him and not abandon him again in Season 5B, and wanted to sacrifice Tierney and Jiang to a mob boss to save his own ass in Season 6. There are 100 episodes suggesting that Scott is more than comfortable with killing someone, with lying, and with engaging in violent actions (premeditated murder) to protect himself and his mom despite all his big “killing is bad and wrong” speeches. Scott McCall is a true something alright. A True Hypocritical Asshole and Toxic Friend I remember this one time where Isaac told Scott he liked Allison and wanted to kiss her and Scott just threw him against the wall for having the internal thought to kiss her. He didn’t even do anything!! Plus, when your friend, who’s a survivor of abuse, advises you to hit him, you don’t actually do it!

And I love how Scott gave absolutely no sign of being gay, he’s even said numerous times he likes girls. Take those numerous denies over Stiles’ silence when asked about liking boys. Sceo is the worst ship I’ve ever come across of. The only ships regarding Theo that make sense to me are Thiam (Liam x Theo) and Steo (Stiles x Theo). The others, however, are total crackships. The fact that Theo didn’t show any care or remorse after he killed Scott proves it. And, they barely have any interactions after season five and the times they do, Scott is advocating Theo being sent back to prison. How is that shippable material?

”I’ve heard a lot of the defense of Scott McCall SWAT team, and I’ve heard a lot of them are hypocritical and mean. You can’t pull the race card because we don’t like a character. Scott is just bland, it’s got nothing to do with racism” You took the words right out of my mouth. Scott Stans pull out the “Scott McCall is a poor oppressed Mexican brown boy leader protagonist” every time Teen Wolf fans criticize Scott’s canonical abusive actions and behavior. They also claim that pointing out that Scott was unhealthily obsessed with Allison is racist, even though anyone who watched the actual show knows that Scott is canonically unhealthily obsessed with Allison – so much that he abuses Isaac out of sheer jealousy and hallucinates Allison making out with Jackson TWICE Exactly! Especially because he shoved Isaac into a wall just for thinking about Allison, AND SCOTT AND HER WERE BROKEN UP. He is super possessive of her to the point where he is interfering in Allison’s love life when they weren’t even together. I know there’s a bro-code, but Isaac didn’t even do anything. All he did was think about kissing her and he got thrown into a wall. And yeah, the Tumblr post said Stiles was obsessed with Lydia and nobody calls it out. Stiles was obsessed, but at least he didn’t react poorly when Lydia moved onto another boy. Scott McCall being a toxic friend and an even shittier character is not a Latino thing. It’s a Scott McCall thing

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