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Eddie Diaz saw a man facing deportation and his solution was "send the undocumented immigrant to Texas"

Eddie, sweetheart, I love your big, dumb heart

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Watching seasons 11 and 12 feels like I'm witnessing a culling

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Goodbye King

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The fact I had no idea JLH was not only in Criminal Minds but as a main role before I started watching is insane. That was the biggest plot twist of the show for me so far

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It has been upsetting me for multiple seasons that Criminal Minds chose to name two significant characters Aaron and Erin when Americans pronounce both names the same way

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First watch through, on season 5:

Wow Criminal Minds really loves locking Hotch in the torture chamber

Hope one day they remember where the fucking key is

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How lovely to see an actress expressing the interpretation of her character being asexual be so immediately treated as if she just said a slur about the autistic community

Fun fact: both her being autistic and asexual are headcanons. Yes, her autism is very heavily coded and I am not so bad at reading subtext to act like that is not meant to be the read, but considering this is a show that has no issues with expressing labels, as of now it is no more explicitly canon than her sexuality is, even if pretty much everyone knows she is written as autistic.

But of course people see potential asexual representation and interpret that as "this is so messed up, not letting your autistic character live a full life"

You can absolutely disagree with her, talk about it, that's fine, but I have no idea why or how this has become a genuine discourse. Yes, not all autistic people are asexual and not all ace people have autism, but this isn't even someone who is canonically either and people are already getting offended at the prospect of her possibly being on the ace spectrum.

She might be. She might not. The quality of representation matters on how it's handled, very few things are inherently just wrong. But the world is so sex focused just the very concept of asexuality being more than the only trait of a character gets the actress callout posts.

Asexuality and autism are both so often treated as jokes, and I understand the misconception about those 2 things going hand in hand, but let's not act like we're judging an actual malicious or ignorant storyline instead of jumping down the throat of an actor who literally just stated an opinion about her own character that may or may not even happen.

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What is it with 911's inability to pace storylines the last few seasons? Either they stretch a storyline way too long to the point it feels nearly minute by minute, or they tell the entire arc in a montage and be done with it in one episode

Obviously I know they're unlikely to entirely ignore it for the rest of the season and that it's a triggering topic, but if you want to do an arc like this I think you have to be willing to take the time to do so. I have never seen a series speed run an addiction storyline before

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I don't keep up with fan opinions enough to know if this is an out of pocket statement or not, but honestly Ogilvie is such an interesting character for me and I really do appreciate the role he fills in the story.

This is a person who seems to have simply never been in a position where him being wrong would have had significant enough consequences for him to consider it.

He's smart, well cultured, and is not obviously from a demographic of people who would have intrinsic reason to be concerned of how their actions are perceived. Generally, people make all sorts of mistakes and errors that can feel soul crushing at the time but funny years later, but someone who feels so confident in themselves and has every logical reason for that confidence might see the situation more distantly. This is a good thing in a sense, obviously less anxiety and stress is good, but in Ogilvie's case, I feel like no mistake that he's ever made had severe enough consequences to make him doubt his abilities or even his opinions.

Logically and academically, there are absolutely ways to blame a person for their weight or their addiction. Of course that's bullshit, humans don't function like that. People have so many ways of ending up in any given situation, so (I would like to think) most of us understand that sometimes even the smallest of mistakes can have unexpected and tragic consequences, and sometimes it might be nothing but genuine bad luck. And now, he's in a position where there are undeniable and potentially tragic consequences for messing up. Where people could die if he does, and for the first time I feel like his confidence is shaken.

Obviously this is all personal interpretation, and we still have episodes left of the season so I could super well be proven wrong, but as things stand I have to appreciate who I feel is a nuanced character who 100% is not written to be liked (as of yet). It's nuance where, at the moment, it's not about making the character better or more likeable, but simply about filling a role in the story that I think honestly matters a lot more at this stage than the character himself.

It's literally 4am when I'm writing this so I probably did not explain myself very well but I just wanted to get the thoughts down somewhere

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I am obsessed with her

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Does Doctor Abbot ever actually sleep?

A character so good you can't wait until the end of the season to bring him in so you accidentally make him a superhuman

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I'm absolutely gutted Ian wasn't able to be in Smosh Hospital but I have to say Angela switching out with herself every time was one of my favourite parts of the live show

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I haven't seen the documentary myself but from what I'm gathering from all the clips and information is that the entirety of season 5 was the actors and writers going going "Hey I actually have a way to do this in a more satisfying way, can we talk about it?" and the Duffers going "Mmm, no, I think we've got it"

Explains...so much

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I'm genuinely curious what they spent their massive budget on because I probably liked the season more than most but I'm not even going to try to defend some of the CGI this season

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I know it does suck, but you've gotta laugh that Stranger Things decided "Yeah let's do a documentary about our big, final season" and it's a season so badly recieved that some people believed it wasn't even real

People went "this is so garbage, it can't be real" and the creators fired back with "no no! We can prove it is, we have a whole documentary to show you!"

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At no point in the show was Mike ever able to look El in the eyes and say "I love you." Not even as she was saying goodbye. He said it once when he didn't know she could hear and next when she was in a trance

I feel bad for both of them, that's a brutal and heartbreaking way to write a romantic relationship

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I feel so bad for Finn. He keeps getting bad actor claims directed at him but as soon as he actually gets any kind of material or direction he's so expressive and talented. He conveyed more just through expression during the Mac-Z sequence than he did during any other scenes and with the way the Duffers talk about that moment they obviously actually directed him and everyone around as well. I've been on film sets and it is so hard to do something correctly if you aren't given insight into what the director wants, so it's pretty clear to me that either they did not care enough about Mike to give Finn any feedback on his performances or actual significant dialogue to work with, or they for some reason specifically directed him to be withdrawn.

I truly don't think it's his fault nor that he deserves to be labelled a bad actor, and I just hope that episode 8 at least allows him to actually show that