The Fact That This Fits So Well Ahhhh

Of all things in the episode today, I did not expect to see a birth.

Also TRINITY SANTOS - love that she speaks Tagalog

Initially I had no interest in watching the new Ghostbusters movies (Afterlife and Frozen Empire) as I was wondering how on earth they were going to work this in with kids.

**contains spoilers**

I watched Frozen Empire (FE) the other week and was immediately counting down the days till Afterlife came onto Netflix just so that I could see more of these characters. I’m a sucker for family dynamics and good family relationships and for me FE ticked all my boxes, especially with Gary Grooberson and his interactions with the family.

My main point of this post is Phoebe Spengler. Since the first moment she was on screen I was glued to it. She’s quite androgynous in appearance to me and I’ve been finding myself wanting more of that represented in media these days.

I like all the characters but Phoebe really stuck with me. Just look at her:

(Don’t get me wrong, I love Trevor too, but Phoebe is just 🤌)

These two movies had a good family dynamic with siblings portrayed in a way that didn’t make me cringe, an adult being very mindful of the developing family relationships he’s building AND a neurodivergent young teen who’s androgynous in appearance? That and I’m 90% certain Phoebe had a crush on Melody in FE.

I neeeeeed to devour movie analysis and fanfictions on these films and Phoebe.

8/10

Amazing headline

"Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order."

You’re insane, I love you

LEVERAGE GRIFT TRACKER

I FINISHED SEASON 1! Shoutout to @grandma-waldo for the idea

Extra details in the parameters and the job list. I kept a list of all grifts in order they occur through season 1. If I thought about it before hand I would have draw a line between each episode but oh well hindsight and all that.

Any questions? Yes I welcome them and I'll try to answer them. Want to know why I split something? Just ask - there was definitely an overthought process to my madness. Any ideas on adjusting job titles? I want to hear it please. I invested too much in this lol but it's been fun.

Season 1 was tough in trying to decide what the jobs would be while trying to keep them broad and trying to think so I wouldn't need to add anymore come later seasons . Also me and excel nearly got into a fight.

I'm going to do the rest of the show but that will be slow coming. When I figure out how to make a master list with links, I'll make one. Since this is like my 4th post on the topic and there will be a bunch more to come

Surprises and Revelations

- Hardison grifts in intense spurts

- there was only 1 real royalty grift in season 1??? And it was hardison?? But there were 5 Southern Belle/Beau grifts

- Sophie was the first athelete?? Ik I already posted that but it still shocked me (Olympic luge)

- Parker interacts with people more than most of the team - she thieves in the shadows but she talks to people often as a misdirection

- FBI and just an ordinary person (Civilian) were the most common grifts of season 1 > not surprised since everyone played FBI in pilot part 2

- runner up was The Damsel. Plenty of times the team did the Damsel and Damsel's Knight grift together as a misdirection. But going "oh no I need help" to a stranger/mark was more popular

- Hardison and Parker were the most likely to play the Damsel card

(Sidenote: i thought about wanting to know all the scams the team calls out in the show. "Burn scam" "the cherry pie" etc. But I think someone has already made a list but I can't find it. Also my family might kill me if I restart the show - again. I was already getting side eyes for skipping back a few seconds to check out who was grifting when I wasn't paying attention)

If you've read this far! Thank you! Hope you have a great week!

i'd write an essay about how much i love this scene if i could but i'm not a writer so i'll just settle for drawing it since i don't see fanart of it a lot

the contrabass saxophone is such an absurd instrument

i literally can’t listen to tik tok by kesha without thinking about that goddamn star trek tos fanvid…you know the one

I’m so mad at season 4, how dare they kill JJ? I watched it ages ago and I was so furious. I went back onto ao3 to see people’s perspectives on JJ’s death and I’m glad I’m not the only one.

Since they did kill him off - and I stand by that they could’ve done that better, having Groff be the one kill him was so awful and I could go on but I won’t.

JOHN B SHOULDVE BEEN BAWLING. THEYVE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR YEARS AND THAT WAS IT??????

It should’ve been so much more. There should’ve been so much more emotion. Yeah I get Kie is was the girlfriend but JB was his best friend for so long they’ve been through so much together and idk but I was hoping for a super emotional death, not just John B just kneeling there.

I was looking forward to more jj and shoupe content but that won’t be happening (thanks to one fic, I’ve absolutely craved more of those two)

I’m so glad the fandom is writing about those final moments and putting so much emotion into it, I love you all