Most horror films show your teenage years as this powerful time where all those possibilities enable you to fight against a threat from outside. I saw the TV glow does the exact opposite. It shows the emptiness, the endless existence of adolescents. Knowing that something is wrong, the need to change while being absolutely terrified of change. Growing up queer, autistic, depressed, trans and/or with strict parents, realising that you do not belong but a part of you tries to conform so fucking bad. This movie was able to show the horror of surviving instead of living.
ohh my god but what if there is still time. what if there is still time. hey. there is still time? there is still time. have you heard. there is still time. hi. there is still time. did you know. there is still time.
I saw someone talk about the last line of ‘Gnaw’ by alex g implying freedom and just teenagers having fun and forgetting about their problems.
But to me, i see it as a reassuring, fake affirmation in the short run. Compared to the lyrics from the last verse like ‘I won’t tell your mother’ and ‘She won’t ever discover, the things you kept under the covers’ it emphasises a secret that’s being kept. Whether it’s self-harm, a relationship, or something shameful. ‘Please don’t cry’ also imply that the narrative is in a emotionally harmful situation, whatever they’re dealing with. The ‘There is nothing wrong’ feels like a temporary relief to calm the thought of everything going wrong for the narrative, and to maintain calmness with the people around the narrative whom they’re keeping this secret from.
(Mainly about Chase tho, and in the first few seasons cause I love the og group)
- Chase and House both love working with kids, their easier to talk to and they don’t lie as much.
- Foreman HATES working with kids, they’re loud, they’re messy, they’re hyper, they’re annoying.
- Chase hates the jokes made about his dad or his upbringing but doesn’t want to seem overdramatic so doesn’t say anything.
- Foreman and Chase frequently have religious debates (Chase chose religion/Foreman was raised religious) both of them have a love/hate relationship with it.
- Chase is really understanding and patient with children and the mentally ill, he is incredibly short tempered with everyone else.
- Cameron, Chase and Foreman all keep their apartments spotless for different reasons (Cameron’s a neat freak, Chase is a snob, Foreman’s just really well organised).
- Cameron will sometimes buy small things for the others if it reminds her of them or if she thinks they’ll like it.
- Chase reads encyclopaedias for fun.
- they all insist on the Dr. Title; Foreman, Cuddy and House cause they earned it, Wilson and Cameron cause they love their jobs and like people to know, Chase cause he doesn’t like being called Mr. (Trans chase propaganda).
- Wilson and House are both bisexual and waiting on the other one to make the first move.
- Chase definitely experimented with men and liked it but he’s also a whore and likes just about anyone.
- he also definitely experimented with some freaky stuff whilst dating that one banker girl, he also definitely liked it.
- sometimes house just makes things up about one of the doctors to the other two cause he thinks it’s funny that they believe him.
- Cameron likes to see how many outrageous jokes and comments she can get away with before one of them questions her.
- Chase is autistic in the overly loyal, gullible, black and white, rule following way.
- House is autistic in the curious, over thinking, superiority complex, ‘rules are made up’ way.
- Cameron is also autistic but masks a lot better than house, who doesn’t mask, and Chase, who tries to and fails.
- Cameron is “straight” cause she doesn’t want to admit to anyone else that she’s bisexual, she’s “bisexual” cause she doesn’t want to admit to herself that she’s gay.
- Chase believed in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy until a concerningly high age (like 14-16).
i think that's what i saw the tv glow did honestly.
that moment when you're watching it as a trans person, and every cell in your body is begging her to not stop, to not run away, please please please. you need to see it more than you've needed anything. and then she does. she sees everything inside herself in a bathroom all alone where we've all been, and she closes it all up, her emaciated and sickly body barely holding her up, and she walks back into an arcade room apologizing for her outburst to a building full of people who refuse to see or hear her.
and then you realize, while your chest feels like it might just cave in under the pressure, that this film refused to afford you the relief of seeing someone else do what you must, to give you that false and fleeting pressure eased. no. if you want this film to have a good ending, you have to make it yourself. you have to do what she could not, because otherwise, well. you just saw your future.
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