#chnt meta

[agentlove]

remembered jedidiah canonical skyrim enjoyer, proceeded to have the stupidest thought to ever make me sad which was “when’s the last time he gamed”

but like seriously though the stress! the constant juggling of responsibilities! he’s a distant guy but he certainly isn’t making time for HIMSELF with that distance! does he have hobbies anymore outside of keeping everything ticking in perfect harmony? i don’t think he does!

[punksrespectpronouns]

whenever i get like depressed and don't know how to keep going....

I just relisten to file 23 - the wood of the caskets from camp here & there for these lines

[agentlove]

BEFORE THE NEW CAMP EPISODE DROPS have i talked about me and my partner's predictions for where s2 is headed. bc there's a lot left to the season but we feel like the adam plot is reaching a climax so our little game theory is that jedidiah or someone else will kill/exorcise/otherwise get rid of him and the antagonist for the rest of the season will be natsume, who doesn't understand any of the gravity of what adam's done and is just a kid grieving his cool camp counselor and he's gonna turn the talent show into a nightmare for everyone involved. i feel like that'd be a cool extension of the s1 themes among the counselors of "how do we talk about dangerous adults to children", and the answer to that being "well, if you don't, bad things will happen" - as well as s2 focusing more on children being in active danger than s1 did

[agentlove]

ok now its out i looove the new camp episode btw. i have been waiting for AGES for the other shoe to drop with joshua and how sydney's assholery towards him actually makes him feel and how it factors into yvonne's relationship with sydney - i love getting to see sydney in a different light via the rare instance of a character who is closer with jedidiah than him through yvonne, all three members of this argument royally pissed me off individually at least once and it felt like i was listening to my neighbors fight and i say this as a compliment.

the laugh track is so damn good and elevates it so much too. joshua is really interesting. i honestly wasn't sure how i felt about his worldview and i'm still not sure i do, he's an interesting critter though and actually getting a look into his psyche after him being mostly-comic-relief for so long feels very well-earned. such an emotional rollercoaster of an episode: i think yvonne is the character i agree with most in the argument but the whole thing is just so entangled with personal biases and all that it feels a little grimy to entirely agree with any of them. which is a great feeling for a piece of fiction to inspire and something this show is really good at. it really feels like listening to a friend group implode lmao.

i did find the "cis privilege" aspect of it to be a bit heavyhanded in a way that didn't land for me as much spoken directly as it did as subtext, but camp is very heavyhanded in general - the social commentary in this podcast has admittedly never really done much for me but i do definitely admire the balls on this show for putting a lot of these things as plainly as it does.

also i LOVE yvonne and jedidiah's friendship oh my god it's so good. agonizing. in general this trio has some of the most interesting stuff going on to me and i've always been curious how much yvonne and joshua know about things like sydney's death, as people close to both him and jeddie at the time, and jedidiah's tendency to not really acknowledge that sydney exists to other people as much as he does him.

ALSO x2: not related to this episode specifically just an overall thought, in the earliest parts of the season i was wary of jedidiah's new va but now i think it's really really settled in well. i think both vas bring different but still very appreciated vibes to the character- s1 jedidiah being more shy/meek/pathetic and s2 jedidiah being more depressed/distant/gruff, both are very important sides of him and his dialogue in s2 fits the new voice perrrfectlyyyy. love it. love him. i love when 'endearing' flaws are a double-edged sword and i think the progression of jedidiah's voice to be more low and cold and hollow, though obviously unintentional, fits that well lol. my problematic fav

[punksrespectpronouns]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD! THERE’S NO WAY I’M GONNA BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS

source: from the Mayfield & Belov discord server

[punksrespectpronouns]

relistening to file 29: The eggs of Basket Case from CHNT and just can’t take it seriously when Jedidiah says

Hey… I haven’t gotten anyone at the nurse’s office today. You guys know that if you get hurt, you don’t have to wait for Sydney to come back, right? I am as qualified a nurse as he is. So if you scraped your knee or had a nightmare or something… I dunno. Don’t be shy.

???? WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT! I PRESENT EXHIBIT A (from the finale)

I’m not a medicine man. I’m an engineer. I don’t heal people. I fix broken machines.

And what’s the first thing you do with a machine that isn’t working right?

You turn it off and back on again.

I REST MY CASE, YOUR HONOUR

LIKE WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING AS A NURSE FOR CHILDREN. I CALL BULLSHIT. THE KIDS DON’T NEED YOU TO FRANKENSTEIN THEM INTO EXISTENCE THEY NEED HELP TREATING THEIR HUMAN BODY WITH HUMAN AILMENTS. LIKE BRUISES AND SCRAPES