Sir Is Crashing The Fuck Out And I'm Here For It. I Know It Shouldn't Be But It Is Funny As Shit Watching

More raptaurs! This time we got Tony Stark and Anakin Skywalker.

Jamie WTF are you doing!!! Also 2 weeks agian NBC you are evil!!!

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:

Now that we know for a fact he's out due to a promo what are people thoughts on how long he'll be free? Personally I think it will last long into season two.

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:

I've slept on my thoughts for the episode.

1. I think who ever took Jamie is a women based on their build. Maybe Heather/Lena would explain why Jamie is so obsessed with getting information on Gabi. Margaret has also not interacted with her yet so she might have known her back then and we just don't know that.

2. Ethan needs to die!!! I hate that man so much. Like you admitted the only reason your helping someone who very clearly needs help is because you want to study them like fuck off!!!

3. Am I the only one who is loving Gabi being obsessed with Sir too. Like her hallucinating him agian. Aaaaaah!!!

4. Lacey channel Sir and get your man's back and get rid of shelly. She was obsessing the entire episode and I love that for her.

5."Bubba's bitch in cell block k" is my favorite quote from episode. Love me some Gabi going off on the suspects.

6. Sir getting himself beat up so Gabi comes and sees him because he's hurt is funny af and the way he pouted when it didn't 🤣. Also Gabi was ready to come see him anyway and she didn't even now about him getting beat up so honestly it probably would have worked.

Final thought how dare they make me wait 2 weeks.

Am I the only one who thinks Mike and liv are carrying this season

ofmd wasn't "profitable" enough but I didn't even get the feeling hbo wanted to make money off of it. They didn't promote it when s1 dropped, and the promo for s2 was erratic at best. They don't sell merch. Or physical copies. There's no bts documentaries other than what actors (shoutout to Samba ilu) make themselves in their spare time.

It took more than a full year for me to be able to watch s1 legally! I still can't access s2 legally anywhere! It's not that ofmd is unprofitable, it's that hbo refuses to profit off of it, because - well, because profiting off of it would mean investing work and money into it.

And like. Of course, when you compare it to the juggernauts hbo holds rights to, like GoT, ofmd is small fishes. But.

How on earth do these clowns think cult classics happen?

A Game of Thrones was first published in 1996 and didn't make it on the NYT beststeller list until 2011. The first edition of the first Harry Potter book was 500 pieces. And yeah, TV shows are different, but if you look at today's media landscape, would things like Star Trek, or Buffy, or Doctor Who stand the slightest chance? These things take time, is my point. A piece of media doesn't become a massively profitable, beloved classic over night. It takes time and effort to build that kind of franchise.

And the thing is! Nobody who makes these decisions even likes stories. I'm convinced that whoever is in charge at hbo, at amazon prime, even at disney, thinks storytelling is dumb and for idiots. They think it's enough to just slap the name of something people love on whatever garbage they spit out, for it to be profitable. They think it's the brand that sells: Look this has "Lord of the Rings" on it! Look, this one has "Game of Thrones", you like Game of Thrones don't you? Watch my show, boy.

But this isn't how this works. It's not the name that sells (unless, I suppose, you're the MCU, and even there one gets the impression the trick is finally stopping to work), especially not when the product is bad. People aren't idiots.

But it's not about making something good. It's not about making a meaningful piece of art, or telling an engaging story. ofmd served its purpose; it drew in all the subscribers it ever would, so there's no point in letting it go on. Even in the s2 that we did get, this is evident: the penny pinching is palpable, it's clear that the studio didn't want to spend any more money than absolutely necessary on it, and then cut the budget by 40%.

It's not about art. It never has been.

And it's not even about profit, because to be profitable eventually, stories have to be allowed to thrive first. You tell a good story first, and success happens later, often much, much later.

And ofmd was incredibly, astonishingly successful. It was the most in-demand series for weeks after the s1 finale. But even that wasn't enough, it's never enough, ofmd could have made record-setting profits and it still would have been cancelled, because -

Well, I don't know. Because we live in a bad time for art. Because Orwell was right, and stories have become commodities, like shoelaces. Because. Well. It's not about telling a story, is it?

What's the point of a story? What's the point of making something for the joy of making it? What's the point of a piece of art, existing, if it cannot be transferred into numbers for the stockholders?

idk how to end this. I hope David Jenkins finishes the story he wanted to tell, even if just for himself. I hope, against all odds, that weird, fun, heartfelt, beautiful little stories like ofmd continue to happen.

But goddammit.

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In regards to the bees per Tim