#now that’s television

[k--o--m--o--r--e--b--i]

studying queer history (i’m watching star trek)

#I think i’m so funny #star trek #spirk #star trek tos #spock #james t kirk #watching this show is like a punch in the face #like you hear abt how this is like the first ‘ship’ #and you go yeah right 🙄 #I bet this show from the 60s is sooo gay #and then BOOM #2nd episode ‘I feel ashamed of our friendship’ #WOW #now that’s television #mine

[shinelikethunder]

You asked me to teach you chess, and I've done that. It's a useful mental exercise. Through the years, many thinkers have been fascinated by it. But I don't enjoy playing. Do you know why not?

Because it was a game that was born during a brutal age when life counted for little and everyone believed that some people were worth more than others. Kings and pawns.

I don't think that anyone is worth more than anyone else. I don't envy you the decisions you're going to have to make. And one day I'll be gone, and you'll have no one to talk to. But if you remember nothing else, please remember this:

Chess is just a game. Real people aren't pieces. You can't assign more value to some of them than to others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice.

The lesson is: Anyone who looks on the world as if it were a game of chess deserves to lose.

— Harold Finch, not knowing how to explain to his AI offspring that it should care about people (but doing his best), Person of Interest 4x11 “If-Then-Else”

#person of interest #harold finch #michael emerson #if then else #remains on the shortlist for 'best episode of television i've ever seen' #i posted this monologue once years ago but the formatting on old tumblr quote posts gets super mangled so let's see if this is any better #as a bonus now it can come with a clip of emerson's actual performance #the whole ep being framed by flashbacks of him teaching his machine chess and then this one laying it all out... destroys me. every time.

[outoftoucherlocksholmes]

place your bets NOW on who will WIN THE BIGGEST DIVORCE OF THE 21st CENTURY!!!!

#succession #succession hbo #shiv roy #tom wambsgans #tomshiv #siobhan roy #sarah snook #matthew mcfadyen #chiantishire #all the bells say #the munsters #connor's wedding #living+ #tailgate party #succession spoilers #started sketching this after tailgate party and i didn't have a chance to actually finish it until now #you know. with nine hours left until the finale drops #okay i have to go to bed now so i can like. experience this event in television history tomorrow

[graff-aganda]

Currently watching the funny psychic murder show

#[walks into the fandom of a television show from 2006] hey man does anyone want some doodles #excuse how they may look. first time drawing them and i just freeballed their child selves from memory #psych #psych usa #shawn spencer #burton guster #shawngus #graffart #sorry only doodles for now ive gotta CRUNCH !!!

[shesnake]

Community season 6 episode 13 "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television" (2015) dir. Rob Schrab

#community #danny pudi #abed nadir #television #tv #* #q #subtitles #long post #alison brie #gillian jacobs #rewatched all of this recently and uhhhh yeah this is why I don't believe in TV at the moment. as an industry/artistic medium #it's not that it always used to be like this it's that it's never like this now ever

[slashermary]

‘you’ve just met yourself. i’ve known you for years’ is still the most romantic thing i’ve ever heard and they let my favorite little cornfed closetcase say it on live television to another man. incredible.

#every now and then i remember the born again identity is one of the most romantic pieces of television i’ve ever seen and it’s just like #:’) he thought he was dead and he betrayed him and broke his heart and he missed him so much and he forgave him the second he came back #even if he didn’t want to!!! bc he loved him!!! god… #caroline.txt

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

i think the second you start putting together a list of the writers and what their gender/sexuality identities are for the sake of proving the ofmd writers room isn’t as queer as you think it should be you’re already in too deep. the fact that an izzy fan did all that AND went even FURTHER and just openly assumed everyone was cishet if they couldn’t immediately find evidence otherwise is beyond parody. i can’t even find it in me to be upset or anything i’m just amazed at how little self-awareness some ppl have. how do you type all that up and post it without ever stopping to think “wait is this a shitty thing i’m doing” like babe what is WRONG with you

#also like maybe you guys didn’t like the season bc queer ppl aren’t a hivemind #maybe a very queer writers room made a season of television that you just. didn’t enjoy #maybe you not liking the season doesn’t have anything to do with evil terrible cishets maliciously ruining queer stories #maybe it’s just a matter of taste. idk. just a thot #ofmd #ofmd fandom crit #txt #mine #og #the izcourse #anyway i just got home from a Journey and i am now about to become unconscious. goodnight

[teafer]

goodbye riverdale... i'll miss you so bad

#riverdale #archie andrews #betty cooper #veronica lodge #jughead jones #cheryl blossom #i'm so so sad for real. greatest show on television </3 #wherever shall i find themes and narratives and so many insane gay people now??? #fanart

[sitzfleischh]

Okay inspired by this post by @irispurpurea and this post by @ouidamforeman (both of which are excellent, please read) I wanted to add some thoughts about the structural weirdness of season 2.

The reason season 2 feels so structurally WEIRD is that it's the second beat what is now a three act story, but that wasn't written as one in the first place.

Season 1 was a complete, self-contained story arc with completed character development, based on a complete, self-contained novel. The story of Good Omens is about an angel and a demon going from opposite sides to their own side, aligned with earth and its humans. And at the end of season one this story has been told! It's done!

If you want to keep the story going, then, you have two options -- either you find a completely new story to tell with these characters, or you do what Neil Gaiman et al have chosen to do and you complicate and unresolve the conclusion from the first story in order to tell the same story but in an even bigger and more nuanced way.

The challenge of season two, then, is to reframe the events of season one not as a completed story but as the first act of a three-act arc.

And genuinely I think this is just not the way that most TV shows tasked with writing their second season go about doing it. Not that this is a bad choice! But the reason it feels weird on first glance is because it's taking its structure from like... half of the sequel to a novel, not a TV show that gets a second season.

This is the point of all of the historical flashbacks in season 2-- to make us understand that Crowley and Aziraphale are not on the same page and haven't been for 6000 years, despite appearing to be by the end of the first season.

The other thing I think season 2 does is make the whole story about Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship in a way it just wasn't in season 1. Taken on its own, season one's A-plot is the apocalypse, and the B-plot is relationship between this angel and demon.

What season two does then is literally FLIP the importance of those two things structurally. Season one's apocalypse and various side characters now occupy the same place as the Gabriel mystery in season 2. Which is also why it feels so weird to be like "wait this thing that felt like The Big Important Thing before is now suddenly the background of something else."

All this to say, this season is SO structurally interesting because it's just straight up not like other TV shows in structure, and because of the way everything now has to be marketed and framed in trailers as one, more typical kind of story, AND because the first season was a complete story that has now been reframed as an incomplete story, Good Omens season two feels very weird but imo much less weird upon rewatching, and will again feel less weird once we have season 3 and the story gets to complete its arc.

#good omens meta #good omens #good omens analysis #good omens s2 #anyway I have been THINKING THOUGHTS lately lmao #and the state of television right now is so fucked but also so interesting to me #if they told the exact same story but as a 12-episode second series instead of two 6-episode series #I think people would feel completely different about it -- myself included! #is Good Omens perfect? no. Do I love it with my whole heart forever? absofuckinglutely #my good omens meta #sitzfleischh.meta

[little-cereal-draws]

In a strange way, Izzy's speech to that nose prince guy is even better now. They can cancel ofmd, they can cancel every queer show they have, they can erase them from digital existence and leave them to rot in a vault, but that won't stop us. We'll remember the shows, we'll make more queer art, we'll tell more queer stories, we'll move away from them and start our own platforms if we have to. Nothing they can do will stop us because we're fucking pirates

#it already meant a lot to me but now it has another layer #i'm trying to be hopefully now as a queer creator going into film/television #i want to tell queer stories but the studios keep canceling every show i look up to and it's so fucking discouraging #we have to remain hopeful that they'll still get told. somehow. #(a rare bit of optimism from me lol) #ofmd #our flag means death

[daily-hanamura]

Aww bancho that's such a sweet sentiment! It's really

Oh.

#p4 #p4g #p4d #persona 4 dancing #persona 4 #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #DONT TOUCH ME IM VULNERABLE RIGHT NOW #everyday i come on to this app to yell at you guys about how important yosuke is to yu #i know we all know this already but still BUT STILL every time i look at the evidence i want to cry #LOOK AT HOW CLOSE TO HIS HEART BANCHO HOLDS YOSUKES WORDS #GUYS THAT WAS THE FUCKING SCENE THAT RISE WAS CONFESSING HER LOVE TO YU IM ACTUALLY YELLING BECAUSE #HERE YU IS. REPEATING YOSUKE'S WORDS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION #he's good with his queue

[scullys-scalpel]

This may be my favorite moment from any piece of television

The Golden Girls | 3.02

#the golden girls #one for the money #iconic truly #dorothy zbornak #blanche devereaux #rose nylund #80s television #80s sitcom #retro tv #Dorothy and Blanche's reactions make this even funnier #my shitty cell phone gifs #now i know thso has been giffed many a time but i wanted to do it as well 😄 #betty white #bea arthur #rue mcclanahan

[ylissebian]

together, then (everything stays, but it still changes)

#u guys don’t even know. episode 7 meant EVERYTHING TO ME #bubbline is the reason i realized im a lesbian… back when i was just a little kid… to have THIS now. it’s CRAZY. In Every Universe! man! #means sooooo much to me. ough and to get butch bonnie right after ive realized i am… it’s sooo personal to me this episode is SO EVERYTHING #adventure time #fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #bubbline #gumlee #marceline #princess bubblegum #marshall lee #gary prince #still so funny that they named him gary. incredible show beautiful television

[beaft]

idk how common of an experience this is but i find intense sculpted muscles on men to be actively off putting. if a man in a movie takes off his shirt and has a 6 pack i instantly lose all interest in him

#e.g. the twilight movies where i thought jacob was hot right up until he stripped and was revealed to be Buff #and then i was like oh never mind #a bit of ab is fine but the full action man treatment with the rippling muscles is just nothing to me. it doesn't look real #saw a man like that the other day at the gym and it was so weird like get back in the television boy #be shh now

[samsrowena]

my "chuck won" brain vibrating out of my skull when i think about dean being the one to give john the letter and why he would be trying to change the past if he's supposed to be "happy in heaven"... WHAT IS GOING ON

#i swear i am too impatient to watch weekly television just tell me everything. now. alsjfkflfld #spn.txt #the winchesters #spnwin #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #chuck won theory

[vegaseatsass]

So the way I assume at least some number of people felt about Pit Babe ("not sure this is hanging together narratively, but OMG THIS SHIT IS CRAZY! I HAVE TO GO TELL TUMBLR!") is the way I feel about Blank the Series. Well, I was right that the younger Nueng (who I will call Anueng) is named after the older Nueng (who I will call Nueng), because Anueng's mother was in love with Nueng. HOWEVER! Fah named her daughter after Nueng as an act of SPITE. Nueng didn't reciprocate her affections, so Fah ended up fucking Nueng's fiance - maybe as a way to feel close to her unrequited love ?? - and getting pregnant at age 16. Nueng encouraged her to abort the child for the sake of her future. So 20 years later, Fah tells Nueng YES I named my daughter after you: because you RUINED MY LIFE! By 1) breaking my heart when we were kids 2) almost causing me to miscarry my daughter, whom you are now in love with!!!! So both of Anueng's parents were and probably are in unrequited love with Nueng. They produced a baby who has decided her only mission in life is to get with this older woman... who both her parents are/were in love with. Now if that is not enough melodrama for you, Nueng left her fiance at the altar but he is still like, into her and likes hanging out with her. As soon as she told him he's Anueng's father he wanted to become a part of his daughter's life. So Nueng becomes like the gatekeeper of time with Anueng. Fah is like "help me bond with my estranged daughter (who wants to fuck you just like I do)". Chet, the father, is like "will you allow me to see my daughter (who wants to fuck you just like I do)?" as if it's Nueng's call... So in response to the epic guilt Nueng's feeling about Anueng's almost-miscarriage (it wasn't actually her fault btw, Fah is lying to chain Nueng to her out of guilt), Nueng arranges an amusement park date between her two exes, their daughter, and a guy who likes their daughter, even though the daughter in question only wants to be there with Nueng. There's one hilarious scene where Nueng tries to set both mother and daughter up on an age appropriate heterosexual date through a haunted house while she fades into the background, and they both rush through while the men jump and gasp in fear, because the women only want to get back to Nueng waiting outside. I just don't think I can express how weird this is. Nueng sets up a birthday party for the girl who has been professing her love for her since they met, where all the attendees are intended to help Anueng move on from her, but there is NO distinction between "people who can parent you instead of me" and "person who wants to fuck you instead of me". Nueng makes a sincere comment about how easy it is to fall in love with Anueng, TO HER FATHER. Anueng's MOTHER is jealous that her daughter likes Nueng better than her. It's just all sooooooooooo fucking weird and psychosexual. 20yo Anueng's babyishness remains incredibly offputting to me, but my friend has pointed out she only does that when she's around Nueng, so it's very obviously a performance. When she's around literally anyone else she kind of just looks like she's dissociating 24/7. Plus her abusive grandmother has kept her so sheltered and isolated and abused that it's not surprising she doesn't really know how to socialize authentically. So even if it's not my bag I'm like, narratively compelled by whatever the actual fuck is going on in this GL. And did I mention: Mon and Sam are there, too!!!! There's a whole plotline where Anueng is jealous of Sam because she thinks Nueng and Sam are girlfriends. When she finds out they're actually sisters (and she double-checks onscreen: ACTUAL, biological sisters? This isn't a pseudocest situation?), she's like oh! So you like beautiful rich women! All I have to do is replace your sister by becoming a beautiful rich woman myself!!!

#i don't actually expect anybody to read this but i had to expel it from my brain #i am truly stunned by what's happening in this television series #YES I NAMED MY DAUGHTER AFTER YOU... BECAUSE YOU RUINED MY LIFE!!!! #anywayyyyy will you help me bond with my daughter since she likes you more than me now? #what is even happening #blank the series #dear diary