#flora habstat

[sauxyan]

The Basic Eight (and Flora) as Mice

[beatricebidelaire]

about: counting the characters

i’ve been watching community recently and got to the remedial chaos theory episode where jeff rolls the dice to decide who to get the pizza and abed says sth like “you know you’re creating six timelines right” and jeff says “sure abed”. and the thing is even though in an earlier episode of partnering up for biology class i already knew that they have 7 people in the group i totally didn’t register this fact when watching the remedial chaos theory episode and it’s not until abed points out how they have 7 people and jeff have created a situation that no matter which number comes out from the dice roll he wouldn’t need to get the pizza. like i just completely did not think about the total number of people in the group up until then.

and then i was thinking about how when i was watching the ocean’s 8 i didn’t realize at first that without hathaway’s character they’d only have 7 people so she must eventually get involved nor did i realize, before the revelation of the biggest twist of the basic eight, that there’s a very simple explanation for why flora habstat is always hanging out with the group and they can still be the basic eight. sometimes the clues are just there all along.

the moral of this, perhaps, is to count the characters, which i never do until it’s too late, so it seems.