patrick ball saying he's excited that langdon has a "third act" to storyline means that the NEXT storyline that langdon has will center around falling in love with mel. you agree.
just in case no one ever heard it yet. here's the "stick with me" aka my namesake and it's the red sauce that makes me go crazy and hurt others and myself
(i believe there was a script transcription that showed he was saying it to mel but i haven't found it yet)
kingdon brainrot is so real because every day i think i'm free and then it turns out i'm not.
anyways i don't think we are collectively insane enough about the editing choices during the mel/frank break room scene in season 2. because what do you mean, for the duration that mel says the line "we don't always get everything right the first time" we are looking at langdon. the whole line. we are watching him watch her. his expression doesn't change, he just gazes at her. we don't get everything right the first time.
and then we cut to mel, and she continues talking. it gives the impression of frank realizing that that statement is true and applicable in MANY other ways. and we proceed to get confirmation that he's been thinking about that scene for the rest of his shift! because he seeks her out in the finale to apologize for snapping at her! he was thinking about that moment THE WHOLE TIME!
idk what the editors are on but it's probably kingdon cocaine because i truly cannot think of another explanation for this
#death to the found family trope#more specifically: death to calling mel a pittling#literally javadi whitaker and santos all canonically think mel is weird and took no time to bond with her in ten months#she is not their friend! she is not a fucking pittling!#my s3 campaign: give mel real friends instead of cutesy fake friends who only like her when convenient (via @langdonfranks)
what really gets me about the pittlings and the possible pittlings dynamic is that it feels like the writers kind of WANTED the pittlings to happen? like, there's a lot of moments scattered around that make me understand and kind of yearn for the pittlings dynamic - you have mel rolling her eyes like a disgruntled older sister watching whitsantos banter, you have the cute little macgyver moment between mel and whitaker, you have the trinity and mel karaoke scene, there's the obvious of "they all came in and had their first day together in season 1", etc.
HOWEVER. and its a big however. the writers (like many things) fumbled what could have been an adorable dynamic between the four of them by having the ACTUAL pittling trio (javadi, whitaker, and santos) all treat her like she's weird! like, in the paper shredder scene, mel has to nudge her way in just to get to the shredder, and then trinity and even dennis are kind of :| about her presence until she kicks it and the scene ends. isa briones says that mel is a "punching bag" for trinity because she doesn't understand the jokes she makes and trinity KNOWS that, and their dynamic has been weird since season 1 (but that needs a post in and of itself). dennis finds mel's coping mechanisms in season 1 odd. javadi and mel never interact with one another, so one of the only concrete moments we have between the two is javadi going "MEL?" and not following up with what she thought mel's supposed problem was, and dennis doesn't require any clarification because he understands exactly what she meant by that.
the pittlings dynamic ultimately doesn't work the way that i want it (and the writers want it) to work out! because mel is continously othered in that damn ER!
which, i will say, does create this interesting dynamic when it comes to mel's characterization. mel is in the weird middle-zone where she doesn't really belong with ANYBODY in that ER (sans langdon, of course). she hasn't been in the ER as long as langdon, samira, cassie, and (when she was here) heather, and doesn't fit in quite as well with the senior residents' dynamic. but then you also have the pittlings, and mel doesn't fit in THERE despite being there as long as they have, because the pittlings find her weird and offputting. this really builds up this feeling of mel being alone. she doesn't HAVE people that she's able to turn to, not even her attending, who brushed her off immediately after asking her if she had people to talk to. this then spirals into mel's attachment issues and how quickly she clings to langdon, and how unwilling/scared she is to let becca branch off and be her own person outside of The King Twins.
anyways all this yapping to say i think that the pittlings dynamic CAN work and CAN be cute if the writers let literally any of them step back and realize that they've been treating mel rudely and actually put in the work to bond with her. but honestly post season 2 i kinda hope she gets closer to all the older residents instead atp 💀
the captain scurvy callback is still one of the cutest things that happened tbh. like frank making the joke??? waiting for it to land so mel gets it??? smirking at her like an idiot??? mel immediately jumping on board and referencing something he said once nearly a year ago??? and then frank calling this little joke an ‘inside thing’ when dana tries to asks about it??? like that’s INSANE sorry.
Hey•fave fall out boy songs lyrics from each albums?? Wondering 💭
omg what a sweet question!! very difficult one to answer, i have a favorite lyric from EVERY song ever, but i will try to narrow it down to two per album because i simply can't pick just one
TAKE THIS TO YOUR GRAVE:
"You want apologies/Girl, you might hold your breath/Until your breathing stops forever, forever/The only thing you'll get/Is this curse on your lips/I hope they taste of me forever" || Chicago Is So Two Years Ago (i can't explain why i like this lyric so much, i think it just reminds me of being an angry teenager LOL)
"And if I could move I'm sure it would only be to crawl/Back to you/I must have dragged my guts a block/They were gone by the time we (talked)/Woah I want to hate you half as much as I hate myself" || The Pros and Cons of Breathing (this is my favorite song from this album!! and i just think the wording of this lyric is really good, i think it encapsulates the feeling of hating yourself for wanting/needing one person who did you wrong really well, and i think it rocks)
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FROM UNDER THE CORK TREE:
"Please put the doctor on the phone 'cause I'm not making any sense/Blame everyone but me for this mess/And my back has been breaking from this heavy heart/We never seemed so far/I'm hopelessly hopeful, you're just hopeless enough" || I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (dark alley is my beloved underrated gem, i especially loved it as i was growing up and this song really spoke to me and felt like it Saw Me when my mental health was at its worst as a teenager, and it's stuck with me ever since)
"To the love, I left my conscience pressed/Between the pages of the Bible in the drawer/"What did it ever do for me?" I say/It never calls me when I'm down/Love never wanted me, but I took it anyway" || XO (its especially the last line that really gets me, but i feel like i don't need to explain why this lyric is peak from this album)
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INFINITY ON HIGH:
"All the boys who the dance floor didn't love/And all the girls whose lips couldn't move fast enough/Sing until your lungs give out" || This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race (lyrically, this might be one of my favorite albums, so its really funny that THIS is my favorite lyric. BUT IT IS!!! "sing until your lungs give out" was my senior quote in high school, and i want to get it tattooed to me someday. one of those lyrics that run through my head when i'm going through it, much like "get your pussy up get your money up")
"Born under a bad sign, you saved my life/That night on the roof of your hotel/"Cross my heart and hope to die, splintered from the headboard in my eye"/Photo-proofed kisses I remembered so well" || GINASFS (it's a MIRACLE i didn't put all of ginasfs on here, i have listened to this song more times than i've heard my name being called brah i LOVE this song, but this one gets special favoritism because i believe in the sweet true gay love between patrick stump and pete wentz hope that helps)
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FOLIE A DEUX:
"I'm a loose bolt of a complete machine/What a match, I'm half-doomed/And you're semi-sweet" || Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes (disloyal order is, hands down, my favorite song. ever. like back when the 'what is your vecna song' trend went around in 2022, THIS would be that song. another instance where i had to restrain myself to not just put the lyrics to the entire song, but this one is special to me, because 1, peterick is true and real for those with eyes to see it, and 2, it reminds me of me and my best friend. and is also a really good line <3)
"You're a bottled star/The planets align/You're just like Mars/You shine in the sky/You shine in the sky/Are all the good times getting gone?/They come and go and go and come and go/I've got a lot of friends who are stars/but some are just black holes" || 27 (folie is and will always be my favorite album period and trying to get me to choose lyrics was, i thought, going to be a hard task... but then i remembered that 27 is super peak. i'm a sucker for space references, what can i say.)
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SAVE ROCK AND ROLL:
"I will sing to you everyday, if it will take away the pain/Oh, and I heard you've got it, got it so bad/'Cause I am the best you'll never have" || Miss Missing You (mmy is the best song on this album, argue with the wall. i'm not going to SAY why this is my favorite... i'm leaving that up for interpretation...)
"Letting people down is my thing, baby, find yourself a new gig/This town ain't big enough for two of us/I don't have the right name o-o-or the right looks/But I have twice the heart/Anything you say can and will be held against you/So only say my name, it will be held against you" || Just One Yesterday (FAWK i love a song about a toxic relationship, i fall for it every time hook line and stinker. i also think that this song is underrated. idc how many people love it, its not enough, this song is fantastic.)
BONUS: "And hell yeah, I'm a dick, girl, addicted to you" || The Mighty Fall (had to give this lyric a shoutout, because my friends and i fuck it up heavy style every time it comes on in the car)
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AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO:
"And in the end/I'd do it all again/I think you're my best friend/Don't you know that the kids aren't al-, kids aren't alright?/I'll be yours/When it rains it pours/Stay thirsty like before/Don't you know that the kids aren't al-, kids aren't alright?" || The Kids Aren't Alright (YES i know this is straight up the chorus NO i don't care because it fucks like hell. if you don't like this song, i physically cannot trust you, its just not happening. idk the chorus makes me think of the people whom i love so very much, and it's hitting especially hard since i'm moving back home soon)
"And I just need enough of you to dull the pain/Just to get me through the night till we're twins again/Till we're stripped down to our skeletons again/Till we're saints just swimming in our sins again" || Twin Skeleton's (Hotel in NYC) (again, i'm a sucker for a toxic theme for a song. this song is so hauntingly beautiful to me, it's so foreboding and it fills you with this sense of dread almost, and i can never exactly place what this song means to me. but it's peak!)
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MANIA:
"Take all your possibilities and take away the limits/Take your ideas and throw away all the gimmicks/I do the best with what I have/The pills are kicking in/The pills are kicking in" || Sunshine Riptide (this album, to me, is all about the struggle that comes with crawling out of a mental health spiral, and this one ESPECIALLY because of the way patrick sings it strikes a chord with me as this very raw feeling 'i'm struggling with the push and pull of everything but i'm pushing through anyways'. idk this is a top 10 favorite song for me. possibly even top 5!)
"I love the world, but I just don't love the/Way it makes me feel/Got a few more fake friends and/It's getting hard to know what's real/And if death is the last appointment/Then we're all just sitting in the waiting room (Mr. Stump?)/I am just a human trying to/Avoid my certain doom" || Church (again, i don't think i need to explain this one, it's a hard ass bar what can i say)
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SO MUCH (FOR) STARDUST:
The Entirety Of The So Much (For) Stardust Song (i'm sorry, i physically cannot pick just one set of lyrics for this song, because i think you need the ENTIRE song to really feel the weight of it all compounding into this one crushing "oh my god this is the best song they've ever written, played, and sung before". this is the best song on probably the best album. trying to narrow it down is like pulling teeth, so just take "all of them" as my answer)
"But I didn't take the love when I had the chance, but I swear I'm not sad anymore/So make no plans and none can be broken, no plans and none can be broken/Do you laugh about me whenever I leave?/Or do I still need more therapy?" || Fake Out (slightly embarrassed to admit that hearing fake out for the first time was a slap in the face because i related to it a little TOO hard. if you told me american rock band fall out boy studied my brain to make fake out, i'd probably believe you LMFAO)
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OKAY IM DONE NOW this is SO long but i hope this answered your question! <3
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