On Wording In The Final Scene

I watched the first three episodes of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 5.

I…Eh…

First of all, where is the Gaslight? We haven’t seen it in so long.

Second, I’m sad to see that there’s still a lack of long stand-up performances…in this show about a comedienne. This was a problem in season 4, and I hope they fix it as S5 goes on.

I’m so glad season 4 Midge is mostly gone. I hated how insufferable she was in Season 4 and that Susie was never able to get through to her. That’s the core of their relationship, and I don’t like that it took so long for her to get over herself.

The flash forward openings were…weird. On one hand, Miriam being kind of an absentee mother makes some sort of sense, but seeing her as another version of Rose is kind of disappointing.

As is the reveal that she’s apparently been married four more times. Like, why can’t she find happiness? I never liked the arc about ending up alone, but I was willing to accept it as Midge putting romantic relationships on hold for a bit after putting it ahead of everything for so long.

But apparently she no longer speaks to Susie either? I HATE the explanation they give too. Their whole “we’re not friends, we’re coworkers” finished midway through the second season, and was a huge and endearing bit of Susie’s growth. I’m sure they’ll expand on it, but it’s just sad. And they showed the inverse of it mostly effectively in Season 3.

I hate that this show seems to really be doubling down on its message of “you have to be alone and distant from literally anyone to achieve your dreams.”

Season 1 and Season 2 (barring the finale) were about finding personal growth by pursuing your own ambitions.

Season 3, which I didn’t enjoy as much, is where the “ending up alone to succeed” stuff really started after being seeded in the Season 2 finale. Yeah, it’s hinted at in the S2 premiere, but it’s more about the final end of Midge and Joel specifically. The plot line with Ben is also more about Midge opening up with a potential romantic partner, and how perhaps she isn’t ready or compatible with someone in that moment enough to settle down.

She’s only about a year out from her divorce, so it makes sense that she realizes that she isn’t ready to settle down again.

I don’t really get why she decided that one failed relationship automatically equals alone forever. I guess it’s because she’s also super influenced by Lenny’s performance, but…that’s another problem. Her idolization of him is just such a weird step in the wrong direction for her character.

She’s putting him on a pedestal the same way she did with Joel, and it’s him that is the one to get her out of her self-destructive phase.

Susie once told her “You do not need a … man at your side to do this”. Except she does.

I hate some of the messaging in this show, but hopefully the final episodes will make up for the stuff I didn’t like just like the Lenny and Midge blue room scene did last season.

Incorrect Good Omens Quotes Part 2:

I know a lot of these have been done but this is partly just for me.

Crowley: My crush isn’t picking up on my hints.

Anathema: What hints have you given them?

Crowley: Well, I think about them a lot.

Crowley: And sometimes I even think about talking to them.

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Aziraphale: Okay, but what if we went to dinner not as friends this time?

Crowley: AS ENEMIES?!

Aziraphale:

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Crowley: *angrily presses Aziraphale against a wall* WHERE'S THE MONEY?!

Aziraphale: ...

Aziraphale: Are we about to kiss-

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Crowley, throwing their head into Aziraphale's lap: Tell me I'm pretty!

Aziraphale, lovingly stroking their hair: You're pretty f***ing annoying, that's what you are.

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Crowley: Aziraphale is playing hard to get.

Crowley: Little do they know, I'm a master at playing hard to get rid of.

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Crowley: This date is boring!

Aziraphale: This isn't a date. I said I was going to the store.

Crowley: Then why did you invite me?

Aziraphale: I didn’t, I specifically said "don't come with me," then you said, "f*** you Aziraphale I'll do whatever I want!

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Crowley: Aziraphale and I are no longer dating.

Aziraphale: Crowley, that’s a horrible way of telling people we’re married.

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Aziraphale: I owe you one.

Crowley: That’s ok. You can just date me and we’ll call it even.

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Aziraphale: Come to dinner tonight. I can’t cook, but I’ll bring plenty of free wine.

Crowley: Marry me.

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Crowley: I’ve been dropping them the most insanely obvious hints for millennia now. No response.

Aziraphale: Wow. They sound stupid.

Crowley: But they’re not. They’re really smart actually. Just dense.

Aziraphale: Maybe you need to be more obvious? Like, I don’t know… “Hey! I love you!”

Crowley: I guess you’re right. Hey Aziraphale, I love you.

Aziraphale: See! Just say that!

Crowley: Holy f***ing s***.

Aziraphale: If that flies over their head then, sorry Crowley, but they're too dumb for you.

Crowley: Aziraphale.

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Gabriel : Enough! How dare you mock me in such a manner!?

Crowley : Well. How would you like me to mock you? I take requests.

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Aziraphale : There's nothing worse than people using big words they don't understand.

Crowley : I photosynthesize with this.

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Aziraphale : Do you want to explain the text you sent me last night?

Crowley : It was autocorrect.

Aziraphale : Autocorrect wrote "You're so hot. Please step on me."?

Crowley : Yes.

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Aziraphale and Crowley, to the angels/demons: I'm allergic to death.

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Crowley : I was born for politics. I have great hair and I love lying.

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Crowley : Don’t worry, I have a permit.

Aziraphale : ...This just says “I can do what I want”.

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Aziraphale : You know, Crowley , when you generalize, you tell general... lies.

Crowley : ...

Crowley : Are you trying to teach me moral lessons through puns.

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Crowley and Aziraphale : What’s up? I’m back.

Shadwell or Heaven/Hell : I literally saw you die. You died. You were dead

Crowley and Aziraphale : Death is a social construct.

ai does not belong in creative spaces. period.

i hope you were charmed by my tendency to fall into long silences

Ncuti Gatwa has my favorite Doctor intro. No sadness of a fan favorite departing hanging over him.

There’s something new, something other than the Doctor being sick or erratic. (It worked for especially well for Ten because of the story and because it gives his eventual reveal so much weight, and it gives him 15 minutes uninterrupted to showcase the full-range of his character), but that doesn’t have to be the formula forever.

This time we get so much time with a genuinely kind, energetic, supportive Doctor who said, “it’s okay to take a break. And while you do that, get the one thing you never let yourself have, I’m going to go be amazing. He straight up says “sit down, I’ve got this”

For the first time since I originally watched Born Again, I felt like I made a friend.

I don’t want this incarnation to actually be some weird limbo version of the Doctor that’s going to eventually regenerate into 15, because that means you’re taking away the beautiful, wonderful positivity and kindness that Fifteen innately possesses. Gatwa’s doctor is just an incarnation that is born ready to finally let go of angst and sadness that has defined the last two decades of the show.

Someone he loves (his past self) is going to take care of themselves and heal, and that’s what makes him okay. He’s not ‘fixing’ anyone, he’s not ONLY there to help. He wants to head back out into the stars immediately (well, evidently the club) and he does. As he should.

Fifteen is absolutely the Doctor. The Doctor who is kind and beautiful and fun from the word go. I can’t wait to watch his adventures.

Fourteen, for me, will forever be the Doctor in a garden telling stories and basking in the love of his family that he always wanted and finally has and can sneak his family off for low-stakes, but no less magical adventures. No future regenerations, no merging with Fifteen later down the line, no becoming the Valeyard.

If that’s not what the intent was…honestly I don’t care. If that’s what is revealed later… honestly I will probably ignore it.

Fourteen is explicitly told to just sit down for awhile, so I don’t feel like he’s hanging over 15. But if David comes back, I’ll still be in for a phenomenal performance of a wonderful incarnation of a character I adore, by an extremely talented actor who loves the show as much as any fan because he is one, and one who is getting the chance to continually fulfill his greatest childhood dream.

The specials are not perfect, but I can connect with them in a way I haven’t been able to connect to the show in a long time. There was a real focus on character again, something I personally enjoy in storytelling.

If that isn’t what you like, that’s fine. My opinions are just that, and by definition can’t be right or wrong.

Doctor Who is science FICTION. It is an endless web of retcons and contradictory lore. It is a show where an alien ship that fits an entire dimension inside of it, that can travel anywhere in all of time and space, looks like a police box and requires a key.

Sometimes I don’t need it to make perfect sense. Sometimes I just want to watch a character I love get something nice after being saved emotionally by his awesome queerplatonic bestie and his happy, supportive mitosis brother!

Sometimes the real world is hard, and I just want a happy ending in my escapism.

When she started quoting Lenny my heart broke 💔😩

The second story in my “Domestic Burlesque” series is complete! Please check it out and let me know what you think!

Okay, the next installment of Domestic Burlesque is up. This deals with some heavy elements so mind the tags. Please tell me what you think!

Good Omens S2 Incorrect Quotes 1

Police: You’re under arrest for trying to carry three people on a single motorcycle.

Nina, with Muriel and Maggie behind them: Wait, what do you mean THREE?!

Police: Yes…three.

Nina: Oh, my God— What the fuck!?

Police: Wha-

Nina: Crowley FUCKING FELL OFF!

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Crowley: *coughs blood*

Nina: Don't die, Crowley!

Crowley: Don't tell me what to do!

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Aziraphale: We have to plan, we have to figure something out.

Crowley: Aziraphale, when have any of our plans ever actually worked? We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose.

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Crowley: I’m a masochist, not a loser.

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Muriel: Hello, I'm Muriel. I work at a shop now. Here to help. Look, they gave me a badge with my name on it in case I forget it. Very helpful, as that does happen.

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Jim: Do we have any orange juice left?

Crowley: *pours the remaining juice into their cup*

Crowley: Sorry, we’re all out.

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Aziraphale: Okay, but what if we went to dinner not as friends this time?

Crowley: AS ENEMIES?!

Aziraphale:

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Maggie: One time I went to hand Nina a bowl of soup. I wanted to say “Careful, it’s hot!”, and “Here’s your soup!”, so instead I blurted out “Careful it’s soup.”

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Crowley: I’m gonna mix a can of Red Bull with seventeen shots of espresso in a fishbowl and then chug it while Kids by MGMT plays in the background so I can perceive twenty-three spatial dimensions and fight my own soul.

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Aziraphale: That sounds like a terrible plan.

Crowley: Oh, we've had worse.

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Muriel: Where are you going?

Crowley: To either get ice cream or commit a felony. I'll decide on the way.

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Nina: Are you drinking enough water?

Crowley: Sometimes my tears get in my mouth.

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Maggie: Why are you drinking?

Crowley: I drink when I'm depressed.

Maggie: But you're always drinking?

Crowley: *smug grin*

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Crowley: I’m not mad, I just need to know why you two had a fake ID.

Muriel: *Incoherent mumbling*

Crowley: Huh?

Muriel: …You need to be 18 to hold the puppies at PetCo.

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Crowley: My gender is in a constant state of flux.

Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.