I post a lot about the ship but that's not even the worst thing that's not the thing that the show completely pissed on and hurt a lot of its viewers doing.
It's the ableism. It's Harry being turned into this antiquated disabled caricature solely to be laughed at. They know he's seen as autistic/nd. They all know, Alan especially knows and he has a large part in what Harry does says and is presented as given how much of Harry is improv.
Calling someone with Harry's traits a child just spits in the face of every real disabled/nd/autistic/etc person with said traits. Being so cruel to him for said traits is even worse. Watching the second half of s2 felt like a hatecrime and s3 is just a true blue sitcom out of the 80s. The act of making Harry like this in the first place for a joke is hurtful and so is the way he's treated in the show. The more disabled he became, the worse he was treated.Hitting him, calling him names/an animal, making fun of his voice/mannerisms/language, Asta's endless exhaustion rolling her eyes sighing on top of calling him a child when he does anything or tries to communicate, while she's supposed to be his friend. You're supposed to laugh at and think whatever he does is stupid, weird, wrong. If someone called him the r slur I'd be like yep that tracks for this show.
Season one made me feel seen, no one treated Harry like shit and if anyone was mean Asta would step in, people wouldn't make a huge deal out of his awkwardness it was just accepted, the humor of his failings felt like the writing was laugh with him instead of at him, we were meant to feel sympathy and closeness and believe in his better nature. There was SUCH a focus on being an outsider and feeling of not belonging, how that wasn't a bad thing and there were people who would accept you. The whole bond between him and Asta was about outsiders finding one another in a world that was cruel, but in Patience Harry could see the best in humanity and maybe not feel so alone. Breaks my absolute fucking heart that it's all gone, that people in the real world making this show said nope ableism and cruelty for our sitcom!
Falsettos is my favorite musical and I've lost count of the times I've seen it, but for some reason it just hit me that when Marvin says "I left my kid, I left my wife, to be with you", it's a direct answer to Whizzer's "All your life you wanted men, and when you got it up to have them, who knew it would end your life?"
Because Whizzer is talking about AIDS. He's been an openly gay man for much longer, he's been with other men, and he knows how repressed Marvin was. So, he's commenting on how tragic it is that now that Marvin allowed himself to enjoy this, they'll both end up dead.
But Marvin knew he'd lose his life for this. He had a tight knit family, perfectly patriarchal, and he put it all on the line in the name of Whizzer's affections. And they're both stubborn and they're both drowning in toxic masculinity and so neither of them actually admitted this simple truth: Whizzer was afraid of loving Marvin because he thought all he wanted was sex.
It takes Whizzer's death for them to finally fix their greatest misunderstanding. Finally Whizzer says "I'm sorry it's over, now that you could have the sex you wanted", and Marvin replies "It wasn't the sex, it was you. I'd end my life again if it meant I could live with you. I did it before already".
And I'd like to believe that I'd do it again, and again, and again.
My favorite thing that happened on OFMD Twitter today, possibly my favorite thing ever? When #HoistTheAds went live and the cast and crew came out of the woodwork to let us know they felt the love. Every other post on my timeline all day consisted of people aggregating and sharing cast posts from other platforms (mostly Instagram). Pirate Dad himself David Jenkins was taking the time to personally like every single one of the 1200+ comments on his post, just to show us he was seeing them and give back the love fans were giving.
Truly something else. If after everything, we don't succeed, at least now we know that they know how much we love them.
Eddie Diaz would have screamed that it wasn’t fair and begged Cap to let him find a way to fix this.
Eddie Diaz may have realized something was wrong sooner.
Eddie Diaz would have assured Cap that he would take care of the 118.
Eddie Diaz would have held Evan Buckley while he sobbed because his only good father figure was dying only feet away.
Eddie Diaz would’ve known and could have said final words to Bobby.
If they really are killing off Bobby, Eddie Diaz deserved to be there to say goodbye.
Did anyone else notice on the reading list some of the books repeat? Did they run out of classic literature lol
Gabi: “Where’s Lena? I’m worried about the safety of my clients bc she’s crashing out.”
Hugh: “I’m not gonna tell you 😏 not until you commit yourself to ME.”
*literally one day later*
Dhan: “Lena hurt Gabi”
Hugh’s stupid ass:
Okay crazy theory that I doubt will happen but it did I called it. The season ends with Gabi either killing herself or letting Lena kill her. Sir doesn't follow her into death however as he blames her family for self hatred to the point of death and not saving her so he now is determined to break them but not by just killing them as that would to easy. That is how in season 3 we will be able to get more of Dahn and Zeke flashbacks as sir will play with their traumas. Obviously I don't want Gabi to die as she is my favorite character and I would be devastated but this would be interesting to see play out.
(Edit: Another way they could do this is if Gabi is put in a coma either from Lena or from a failed suicide attempt. Sir would be just as pissed)
Am I the only one upset it wasn't Trent that Sir went after? Like I need that man to see how crazy Sir is so he backs off Gabi.
Work decided tonight would be the night cable doesn't work so I can't watch it live or until tomorrow because of when I get off work I will be giving my thoughts tomorrow till then i am not checking tumbler lol