i don't trust sapphics when they tell me somethings good anymore

I went to daycare with this girl named Roxy. She and I were, like, best friends throughout grade school, and then we sort of, like, made out in high school, you know? (...) She's like family. Dani & Roxy in The L Word: Generation Q

I get it I too would yearn for her 20 years after she left me

the non-existent chemistry made me laugh 😭

James Marsters' accent definitely slips/wavers sometimes and, even as someone who is hypersensitive to accent slips when Americans play British characters lol it's not the worst thing ever because he's usually pretty solid and it just kind of seems like Spike has spent a lot of time out of the UK. Which he has.

But the two British potentials are unforgivably bad. I think I would like them more as characters if their accents weren't so terrible. Why didn't they just get British actresses??? Or spend more time coaching them for their 6 lines of dialogue??? God it drives me insane. The fact that the first 3 potentials we're introduced to are these two and Kennedy (who is extraordinarily unlikeable) means the introduction of the potentials suffers a lot. Molly should have just been allowed to be American because other than the accent she's fine and they should have introduced Vi (one of the few likable potentials) here too.

The way Trina and Joss will be so close to having a sweet besties moment and then these writers will muck it up by trying to force a power dynamic on a friendship is really something. Cause was Joss adding that "because I say so" after the nice "because you're you" really necessary?

I knew they wouldn't be able to maintain the magic the temps did when it came to writing Joss as a realistic friend but it still hurts to watch them fall right back into the crappy friendship writing patterns.

just rewatched 6x07 and honestly i wish they would have made felisa eddie’s love interest instead of marisol

Random question: Would you consider yourself a shipper of MSR (i.e. the series would be lacking a lot to you without the romance) or just that the relationship is a natural beat of the show? I read the point-by-point revival article you posted and was curious what your stance on that point is :)

The romance was baked into it from the start, imo, because Spotnitz and CC cast DD and GA for their insane chemistry (though CC never admitted it openly like Spotnitz did-- Gillian ratted Chris out. XDD) The nature of the show was to hold it off as long as possible, like the old Westerns where the kiss only happens when the battle is over and the sun is setting. It's the romantism that CC was going for, I believe.

Yes, the romance is a huge part of it. But really? I'm not someone who becomes obsessed with romance for romance's sake-- I dislike a lot of rom coms, for instance-- and the early friendship building blocks are crucial to the depth of the MSR dynamic for me. :DDDD

The eternal question: are they soulmates? The early years of the show didn't intend for them to be so-- more or less that they were bound together on Mulder's quest against everything. But the longer the show went on, the more fate became a reoccurring topic of conversation; and I believe Carter steered it in that direction. I'm not complaining, personally, if they're considered soulmates because soulmates became baked into the show (and that doesn't include The Field Where I Died); but I can see the argument for the non-soulmate convo. I think it falls on whatever side you base your MSR on. :)))

And thanks for dropping in! :DDDDDD

........would anyone read it if i did something stretching the colony-end game Clone Samantha arc and played with a ~pseudo love triangle featuring Scully being horribly, shamefacedly jealous of the attention that (supposedly) Samantha is getting from Mulder and Mulder being confused about what his feelings even are towards the woman who may or may not be the adult version of his lost kid sister and Clone Samantha is dealing with a case of protective hero worship upon finally meeting the mythologized boy-hero-scion-enemy target figure she's heard about from CGB and the others in the program since her odd beginnings?

despite being a lesbian i do not care for the may and cate romance like i love both of them sm and i would absolutely fold for cate too but. everything about their relationship is just moving so fast that it doesn't really feel like it's been built up to enough??? i love may and cate sm individually but i feel like they don't have the chemistry to pull off such a fast build relationship... at the same time i also just kinda care about the estranged randa sibling dynamics like i cheered when they were calling each other brother and sister and hugging like yes!!! found family except they're literally blood related too!!!

“No. Good point, Hel.”

“Thanks, Olive.”

Helena Bonham Carter and Olivia Williams in Ten Percent 01x02 (2022-)                                          

Home Improvement is interesting (at least in early seasons--I can't speak to later ones) because it's one of those stereotypical sitcom marriages where the husband is a meathead who makes colossal mistakes all the time, but in this case, you understand why these two stay married to each other. They have fun together! They make each other laugh! They're both very flawed people (Tim moreso, of course) but they can laugh at each other and at themselves. You get the sense that those differences and flaws are part of the reason they like each other. Sure, they fight about the Gender War Issue of the Week, but you can believe that they can fight and make up so often because their relationship is strong enough to weather it. It's just interesting to me, because I didn't expect that to be a Cheesy '90s Family Sitcom thing that held up well.

okay, so. judging by the tags and comments, the duffel bags are unsurprisingly just awful writers, and vickie apparently broke up with her boyfriend due to an earthquake which i guess gave her an epiphany about liking robin? (the water’s turning the frogs gay, and the earthquakes are turning the people gay.) honestly the weirdest fucking way to get two characters together that i’ve ever heard of, and i’m sure someone out there is going to say, “well, they had a lot to cover in the last two episodes,” forgetting that there were six or so episodes before that, and if they weren’t going to genuinely dedicate time and effort to robin getting a love interest, they probably just shouldn’t have done it at all. maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but failing ronance, i would’ve rather had robin happy and single than whatever the hell this half-assery is. it’s like they just. scribbled the basic idea down and left it at that. i can do better in sixty seconds. watch. 

rally ends. robin tries talking to vickie again. vickie mentions that she’s only in band because her parents pushed her towards it since it looks good on college applications. she admits that while she enjoys music, she doesn’t like the performing aspect or the crowds because she’s actually very shy. or she actually wanted to be a cheerleader. hell, maybe even both. maybe her shyness stopped her from joining the cheerleaders, so she signed up for band instead because she could at least try and blend into the group. spin it however.

there. she has a character and a personality less like robin who is awkward, sure, but talks a mile a minute and isn’t exactly what i’d call shy. now you have vickie “aw, it has pickles..” and robin “EXCUSE ME, SHE ASKED FOR NO PICKLES!” instead of robin and her glorified background extra clone.

then you can take the scene with vickie snogging her boyfriend and tear it into a hundred tiny pieces. idk if they were at an arcade or carnival or what, but just have robin accidentally back into vickie, who’s alone. vickie’s all, “oh, robin! i didn’t expect to see you here!” with a li’l shy girl smile that makes robin want to die from cuteness. they can say whatever, and then it can end with vickie saying she never got the chance to give robin her number after the rally and writing it down for her and holding it out like, “uh, if, y’know... you want to be... friends, that is.”

this is, like. the bare minimum. i wrote this in one swoop. it requires only one more scene than they gave her. you cannot tell me they tried, because they didn’t. what exactly would’ve been so hard about doing something along the lines of what i just wrote? would we still have deserved better? yes, because why should the straight ships get all the screentime and onscreen development etc. but it would’ve been a lot better than what they did give us. 

obviously hbo gossip girl had many flaws but one of them was having too many main characters with 0 chemistry and giving the least attention to max luna and monet aka the three most interesting ones and focusing instead on the boring ones . the actors not having the charm that characterized the original cast also was a huge factor of the show's cancellation

some of these love interests in star trek r way too good actresses to be one episode and yet here we are.

trying so hard to keep an open mind about irulan in dune part 2 and fight against the natural impulse to be consistently angry about the casting when we haven’t even seen anything eyt