hot takes & bad poetry

macchiatos, vampires, & other statistical improbabilities ~I’m just here for the ships~ dramione, ghoulcy, LoVe, zutara, kastle, osblaine, reylo, quinda, mohabbot, kwantos, etc

[vampiricalxdata]

I’m just a girl

standing in front of a morally grey fictional man

asking for a redemption arc.

[vampiricalxdata]

ive been working on a pitt/haunting of hill house au which makes this whole nw, million dollar horror film interview a little extra funny to me personally

[alicent-florent]

Taggie / Bas Rivals S02E02

[vampiricalxdata]

I know tony’s bad but imagine the tenth doctor singing pat benatar to you

I understand you cameron cook

[treecitysessions]

Why does everyone think fiction is just fantasy wish fulfillment now and not like an exploration of themes and ideas

[ny-ji]

I’m jumping back into the revival of this topic lol

Robby projects himself onto Samira, which is why he treats her like crap.

I said this kind of stuff... mainly because I genuinely thought it would lead somewhere narratively.

a S3 payoff, a (real) apology from Robby, Samira finally hitting the brakes, an arc showing the total car‑wreck that is Robby’s mental state and biases and the damage he causes to everyone else on the road (Samira especially).

Plot twist → 🤡🤡

in the end it really was just a white guy spiraling and constantly humiliating his woc subordinate… and she’s the one who apologizes at the end before disappearing the next season

[abyssalmedusa]

“she could go to Jupiter and he’ll find her” i’m still grieving btw.

[bernthalslut]

Frank loves Karen so much he can’t even sustain a hallucination of her that is hateful towards him. he sees her as so forgiving, so safe—she stops screaming and speaks to him, hears him, and hugs him. she has always been there at his lowest and seen him as human and loved him back.

and he sees her wearing the same clothing as his wife

she knew what I was. she loved me anyway.

[redbelles]

I'm here. I'm here, it's okay.

THE PUNISHER: ONE LAST KILL dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green

[vampiricalxdata]

karen and curtis being frank’s anchors as he drowns in overwhelming grief is so

ugh

[vampiricalxdata]

The Punisher: One Last Kill felt like a Doctor Who Christmas special and I will be treating it as such moving forward.

which is to say it’ll be playing at all future christmas events I host

[chasingm00n]

MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

Benjamin Bratt as Detective Eric Matthews

[vampiricalxdata]

MAX MINGHELLA IN WHITE LOTUS

mike white is the only respectable showrunner out there

[samirasystole]

also can i just say how weird it feels to me that samira motherfucking mohan, who is thorough as shit, who checks every box twice, who makes sure to get everything right, DOESN'T HAVE A BACKUP PLAN FOR HER POST-RESIDENCY PLANS???? she seems like the person to have several backup plans and at least a publication or two even if the administration makes it harder. attendings would have asked her what her plans were, and it would have knocked her into shape to build a banger CV to apply.

this girl did a several cool procedures based on case reports she read last season. she is ambitious as hell. she is research oriented. she would have heard crus talk about his applications and would have freaked out that others were further ahead in research and publications, and she would have made it happen. at least season one samira would have. or did they turn her whole character into a sad unambitious woman who has had all the life beaten out of her. who has none of the same fierceness and doesn't read rare case studies that abbot showed her, or cares about new research, or is excited at medical gadgets or at all excited to do and learn new stuff.

this is a woman who has a backup plan to a backup plan and broadens her horizons at every chance she gets. even if her plan was to go to jersey, to me at least she would have also applied to positions in pittsburgh just in case something happened. or at least, she used to be. what did they do to my girl

[wetsandmemories]

I love the parallels between frank and samira but the fact it took frank to commit crime for robby to be bitter and angry and disappointed with him, while samira just.. has to be a woman. and like. show that she is vulnerable

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

notice how samira mohan was more emotionally drained at the end of this season than she was in season 1 after dealing with 100 gunshot victims at once. such is the power of an evil white man.

[vampiricalxdata]

The thing about The Pitt was that I’ve never really had multiple versions of myself feel seen in a single tv show.

In the first season, I saw so much of my twenties in Santos: her anger, her frustration, her trauma on full display any time someone checked a red flag box. But even as that season aired, I didn’t expect her to be treated correctly and/or appropriately because that type of character never is.

But if Santos was my twenties, Samira is my 30s and I was honestly caught off guard by that. In a world where I didn’t know it was an option still available to me, Samira Mohan has felt like a coming of age story.

Being only 2 years older than the character and having also lost a father [figure] at such a young age, it was particularly strange to watch her breakdown this season. Knowing the way that loss causes you to take on too much parental responsibility before you’re even grown enough to understand what that really means. The way it primes you to be the kind of person who gives up too much of your personal life to familial duty; the kind that sacrifices too much of your emotional and mental health, centering others (in her case, her patients, Robby’s approval, etc.) in a way that is toxic and unfair to the self— it meant so much to me.

And it wasn’t just the arc or development that made it so special. It was the care and thought that Supriya Ganesh brought to this character that makes her so unparalleled. And this character that I love so much, this character that I appreciate so deeply, has invigorated me in a way I haven’t experienced in years.

And while I maintain I have no faith in any show to handle a woman character like Trinity Santos, whose rage and pain is at the forefront of her experience, with the care she deserves, I did in spite of myself hold my breath for Samira. So, to lose her at her lowest, after being berated and belittled for 15 hours (more if you consider both seasons and all the unseen shifts between) by her boss (a boss which I and many others have known every version of in real life) without resolution or hope for a future where she chooses herself and her happiness— it’s a gut punch.

And even if I remain unsurprised by the absolute stupidness and apparent allergy to quality programming that seems to plague every Hollywood exec and writers room right now, I’m still heart broken for this lovely, achingly real fictional character. And I’m so grateful for the time we got to have with her, even if it was only for a little while.

And if nothing else, it’s a reminder of something I’ve known since elementary school, which is that boys are boring and they are incapable of seeing beyond the scope of their perspective. And that’s why these men will try and fail to create the prestige they so desperately want. And maybe it makes me a bitch, but watching them stumble through this PR crisis brings me such joy.