i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.
I think we should write more straight relationships with 2010s TV queerbait tactics. Let that man and that woman's lives be horribly intertwined, let them take bullets for the other, let them be each other's meaning but NO KISSING. They are holding each other platonically. You're crazy for reading anything romantic into it at all tbh
the first episode of lie to me is a masterclass in scriptwriting and as someone who has studied scriptwriting i'll you why
it introduces characters in a non obvious way, no 'hello brother' (no offence vampire diaries but it's lazy) a good example of this is cal talking about his daughter and the show cutting to emily on screen, now you know who she is but the script didn't have to explicitly state it
next, it introduces a new character on the first episode. eli, gillian and cal have all known each other for years, there's no room for new information but introducing torres as a new character on the first episode means that the audience gets to see her learning about everyone else, which gives the audience an easy way to also learn information about the characters without having things like 'omg rememeber when you and matt dated before your parents died six months ago' (again, no offence vampire diaries)
thirdly, it gives good character insight. from the first episode you can tell that gillian is the sunshine to cal's midnight rain. you can see how much he cares for gillian after the issue with her husband and in the last scene you can see that he doesn't hate the world with the way he helps that random lady. you can tell things about his character that some shows take ten episodes and forty flashbacks to tell you. (i'm just looking for vampire diaries digs now, i like the show but the script work is lazy)
it also tells you exactly what the show is about in a creative way, having cal explaining what he does to a classroom, criminal minds does a similar thing in its first episode, which i also think is fantastic and if anyone wanted a breakdown of that, i'd be happy to.
it's an absolute crime that this show was cancelled when it was and personally i think they should bring it back and hire me for the script work.
So embarrassing but who cares. But so embarrassing but who cares but it’s so embarrassing but also who cares but it really is embarrassing but really who cares BUT it’s so embarrassing though probably nobody cares but it’s embarrassing asf and nobody cares but
Your generosity conceals something dirtier and meaner. You're incapable of facing your ambitions and you resent me for it. But I'm not the one who put you where you are.