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Wilmer Valderrama and Meagan Good on the set of ‘Minority Report’

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I find it interesting how we see all of the Minority Report characters being simultaneously utterly selfish and completely selfless - just like real people. The writers are doing a really great job of letting us see into the mindset of a cop when the cops are actually good. 

Vega, for instance, wants to do good and will do anything to save lives. Blake wants to protect both himself and Vega, but gets frustrated when she won’t let him protect her. We can infer that this stems from his relationship with his mother - he wants to save her, and yet she has no desire to be saved by him. 

So when you add his sensible nature to his Head of House™ complex AND his extreme desire to succeed past what the world expected of him, he’s in the mindset of wanting to help her, resenting her refusal, and absolutely terrified at the prospect of one or both of them, most especially himself, being fired and having their career ruined. He can’t face the idea of not being able to take care of himself and his mother, which he feels is his duty, just as being a good cop is his duty.

Adversely, Vega’s worst fear is failure of a different kind. Not in her career, necessarily, but in saving people. She seems like to type of cop to take every loss home with her. She could probably give you an annotated list of every murder she didn’t solve. So when faced with the prospect of solving a murder after the fact, or risking her career to save them, she would risk her career every single time.

They’re so similar, but so different. Their respective tragic pasts pushed both of them to law enforcement, specifically with the intent of helping people. At the end of the day that is always their goal. But their ideal endgames are basically polar opposites. 

[larakeela]

Thanks for the amazing characters.

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[larakeela]

I loved Meagan good as lara vaga and ppl who talked bad about Meagan were nothing but haters. Meagan is a talented actress and she made lara very likable! plus she was very pretty

this is so true. Meagan was nothing but a good, gracious actress who played a complex, very real character. i never understood people who said they didn’t like Lara? or that Megan was a bad actress? i’m a very impressionable person and when someone says something negative about something I like I doubt myself, but really. Meagan was excellent and Lara was a loveable character. and yes she was unbelievably pretty.

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The thing about Minority Report is that literally nobody gave it a chance. 

First there was the complaint that it was the “carbon copy” of Sleepy Hollow. As if we can’t only have one scifi show with a black female lead. As if we don’t have other shows (that star white people) that are the same as each other.

Then there was the complaint that Lara Vega was “unlikeable”. Unlikeable? If Lara Vega were white, you’d bet your ass she’d be seen as “badass”. But unfortunately for white people, Lara Vega is a black character. A black character that actually was cared for by its show runners. A black character that was an actual lead. A black character that actually had plot, a family, and backstory.

I can’t even think right now of all the other shit that people have flung at this show, but basically I’m still angry. I talk about it a lot (less often now), but I do still talk about it. Because the show should be talked about. This show gave us the MOST AMAZING LAW ENFORCEMENT TRIO THAT COMPRISES OF 3 PEOPLE OF COLOR OF DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES. We even got backstory on Will Blake and a full episode dedicated to his experiences even though he wasn’t a /main/ character. 

I could probably go on and on but it’s like 1:30am. Anyways. Watch Minority Report.

[claudia-kishi]

minority report rewatch ❖ the american dream

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How did a Sprawl punk who tattooed her face to fool facial recognition cameras wind up as a cop?

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Lara being a badass in the pilot of Minority Report

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[claudia-kishi]

It’s our time to rise, walk through that hell.

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[Caption: a gifset of various female characters of color from different shows, with the quote “We will be heroes with stories to tell” arranged with one word over each gif. The characters are: Joan Watson from Elementary, Lara Vega from Minority Report, Jane Villanueva from Jane The Virgin, Daisy Johnson from Agents of SHIELD, Happy Quinn from Scorpion, Joss Carter from Person of Interest, Amy Santiago from Brooklyn 99 and Melinda May from Agents of SHIELD.]

[claudia-kishi]

minority report rewatch ❖ the present

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minority report rewatch ❖ honor among thieves

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minority report rewatch ❖ fiddler’s neck

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episode aesthetics ❉ minority report

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