#videobeweis

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Thorsten in Videobeweis (2022)

[viennaisalwayscalling]

Wie blau kann eine Tatort-Stuttgart-Folge sein?

Videobeweis: Ja!

[eolewyn1010]

Okay, my co-sufferers, down to business. Tatort Stuttgart, "Videobeweis". Mind spoilers as you go, I'm gonna discuss details. Also, these are personal opinions, not universally valid facts.

...this was not a very good episode. I don't think it's down there with the worst (that'd be "Der Mann, der lügt" and "Der Welten Lohn", I suppose) because it held some entertainment value for me, but I don't know if I can spare many compliments for a Tatort episode that has me ending on: "...huh? What were they going for?" Because it breaks the immersion when I'm wondering what's going on in the heads of the writers, not of the characters. I'd much rather be like "oh my GAWD, Basti, noooo, you were doing so much better, please don't go drinking anymore!" than "whut. That is completely OOC for Thorsten."

So, Thorsten. I analysed my feelings about his arc very carefully, because of course my shipping senses went haywire when Someone Else Than Basti Set Their Eyes Upon Mine Finely Aged Man. And I realized that's not it. It's not the attempt to set up a flirt for him once in a while - it's that what they did was absolute cringe. WHY DO THEY ONLY EVER THREATEN TO GET IT ON WITH WITNESSES AND SUSPECTS??? Did anyone ever tell the Tatort writers that that's fucking unprofessional behavior? Seriously, I was kinda relieved back in "Stau" when Basti had a few nice chats and some smiling with a woman who wasn't directly involved in the case at hand. And now I know why: Because when Thorsten gets his boner on for a potential murderer just cause She's Got Legs and gets himself into a situation like he did in this episode, it makes him look fucking stupid. And I don't know Thorsten to be stupid. Last times he did something so enormously dumb was 1st, putting too much trust in a kid whom he desperately wanted to help, and 2nd, putting too much trust in Victor de Man, someone he had a long and complicated history with (and let's be real, we all think they had something going on). Setting himself up for a lot of trouble and backstabbery for the slim chance of getting some from a very untrustworthy, very unsympathetic lady who might be kinda attractive but with whom he doesn't have a bond at all is not a Thorsten thing to do.

Onward: The lady in question was very unsympathetic. By the end of the episode, I was like: "I believe her, I think after what was done to her I would have done the same to that judgy asshole with the camera - but I still think she's a bitch." I didn't like her at any point in the episode, I hardly managed to feel sorry for her. And that's where I try to go into the writers' heads; I think that was what they were going for, that a rape victim doesn't need to be a likable person or treat what happened to them in a manner I find sensible or understandable. People are diverse and their psyches process bad things in various ways. I might think she was an idiot for how she interacted with the police about the whole matter, but for her, that might've been the only thing to do in her situation. Problem is, I can connect the rape and the homicide via her emotional state. I cannot connect either of them to her behavior toward Thorsten (and, on another branch, to her ex-girlfriend). Because even as he's only doing his job and initially only interacts with her because investigations, she plays into Thorsten having the hots for her, she manipulates the situation to the point where she could have (and would have, as soon as he'd displeased her) gotten him into serious trouble - so that, when Thorsten nopes out of it and comes to distrust her, I'm happy that he won't believe her anymore. Which, considering how the case turns out, yes, is a fucked-up mindset, and now I wanna wash my brain. It's lowkey the same with the ex-girlfriend, fueling her protectiveness and her attempt to help. Because of how manipulative and in-power that woman's looking all the time, I'm not emotionally buying into the moments when she's vulnerable, even though I believe her. The episode is leaving me dissatisfied with the resolution.

Now, that was a lot of salt. Let's have a look at the sugar:

Stefanie Seiler is a keeper. We need to keep 'er. No, really, the Azubine (that's her superheroine name) has sass, knows her shit, her perspective is important, Basti gets total Papa vibes over her and I'm soft for that dynamic - I want her to stick around! We haven't had a full team in such a long time! Last time I instantly decided to embrace someone that fully in TO Stuttgart, it was the original team. SWR, she needs to stay!

On that note, how Sebastian goes: "You condescend to Azubine? You condescend to her like she's not competent and cool enough to be Nika's successor? Oh! Oh, jail for co-worker! Jail for co-worker for One Thousand Years!" I love me a Basti who respects his female colleagues and values their opinions.

Basti and Thorsten communicate! Sebastian is clearly displeased with Thorsten's behavior (I choose to read this as jealousy, fight me), but they talk about it without him flying off the handle again and behave like adults. And they go for a drink together by the end of the episode.

I live for rambling Basti. I wanna draw him in a Sherlock Holmes outfit now muttering ominously about dog poop while Thorsten and Stefanie look on in confusion. Congrats for being the brain in this episode, if to the detriment of Thorsten's character.

Would be amiss not to mention the back ointment scene. Yes, Sebastian, please do give Thorsten's back a few scratches rubs okay that still sounds pervy very innocent first aid measures. Stefanie's face says it all. Azubine is all of us.

Ugh, that was a pretty exhaustive take, and I still feel like I forgot something. Was easier to just think "huh" about this one. Anyway, thanks for coming to my brat talk.

[die-dritte-halbzeit]

Was mach ich hier eigentlich ?

Durch meine inzwischen schon fast ungesunde Obsession mit dem Sport,  welcher in England geboren wurde, in Brasilien lebt und in Katar anfängt zu sterben habe ich mich entschieden einen Blog zu eröffnen der sich mit allem was der Fussball mitbringt beschäftigt. Ich möchte zum Anfang auch noch ein paar formale Dinge ansprechen wie den Namen des Blogs: Während sich in den ersten beiden Hälften ein Spiel entscheidet ist die dritte Halbzeit ein dehnbarer Begriff. Aufgrund einen äusserst kurzen Zeit in welcher ich versucht habe selbst Fussball zu spielen ( Eine Doppelpack bei einem 24:0 gegen den Tabellenletzten würde ich als meinen persönlichen sportlichen Peak bezeichnen) kann ich keine grossen Geschichten erzählen wie denn Kreisligalegenden ihre 3 Halbzeit verbringen. Ich kann nur so viel sagen, dass auch die Älteren ihre ganze Routine und Erfahrung an der Theke hier ausspielen können. Ein Journalist hingegen bezeichnet seine dritte Halbzeit als die Zeit in welcher das Spiel zusammengefasst wird und wahlweise ein paar wutentbrannte Tweets in das Internet geschickt werden. Wenn ich ehrlich bin würde ich mich hier ungefähr in der Mitte platzieren und das ist wohl auch gut so. Auch eine gewisse Seriosität muss mal gebrochen werden wenn der Schiedsrichter in der 95. Minute zum Monitor läuft um nochmal zu untersuchen ob die Grossmutter des Hundes eines Spielers nicht vielleicht doch den Ball auch nur minimal mit der Hand berührt hat. Was wir im Endeffekt aber sagen können ist, dass dieser Blog sich wohl vom Inhalt her zwischen 100% Meijer und Stammtischrunde an der Kneipe bewegen wird. 

( Ich möchte übrigens klarmachen, dass der Name dieses Blogs vor meiner Erkenntnis entstanden ist, dass die Prügelei zwischen Hooligans nach dem Spiel auch als dritte Halbzeit bezeichnet werden kann ... ) 

[spieltagslyrik]

Kurzes, weil unerwartetes Gedicht zum Pokalfinale

Die Adler krall'n sich den Pokal 'ne Sensation ist's allemal Recht kurz fällt aus das Spielgedicht Weil: Ahnen konnt' man's wahrlich nicht

Bleiben, wenn die and'ren feiern Ist nicht so das Ding der Bayern Frankfurt gewinnt - es schwelt der Neid Sogar den Videoentscheid

[all-the-gae-things]

"KANNST DU MIR DEN RÜCKEN EINREIBEN" EXCUSEZ MOI

[all-the-gae-things]

"Kann man diesen Augen widerstehen?" - meinte Thorsten damit jetzt den Hund oder Sebastian?