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juneandnick · 1 year

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5x02 : Ballet (My POV)

In her bedroom, with in the background the music All I Have To Do Is Dream by The Everly Brothers, June is remembering moments how she was abused by Serena. Before to stand up and to bury a gun in the garden. It is clear that she is not done.

Serena returns to Gilead, demanding the best for Fred’s funeral. In the trailer (in a deleted scene), Joseph says to Nick: Does not matter what she knows, it matters what she believes. It is true that she seems suspicious seeing them on the tarmac.

I really enjoy Lawrence’s humor: It is elegant yet brutal - I am just one Commander. Nick is on the rise. But he is still a puppy. There is only so much we can do.

June is always obsessed by her revenge. It recalls what Joseph said in S4E10: It will not be enough. Whatever happens to him if we get him, will not be enough for you.

She cannot talk with Luke or Moira, so she tries with Rita. Because she knows the Waterfords, she knows how it was in that house. “Sadly” for her, Rita wants to move on. She works on it since she is free. It is true that June does it awkwardly.

So June is alone with nobody to talk. It reminds me S1E06 when she comes to Nick’s flat. She needed to talk and Nick was there for her. She needed a safe space without to be judge and she always found it with Nick. In Canada, she has nobody.

If it is that Luke makes her feel guilty: You gotta be here. You gotta be right here. All right? Because I need you here and Nichole needs you here. You family needs you here. And if you are not … I do not know what is gonna happen June to us.

So Luke blames her. He made her feel guilty. Does not matter what she wants, what she needs. It is his concerns who matter and that is all. And it makes me crazy that not once does she put him in his place (in the whole f***ing season).

In S1E02, June says: It is forbidden for us (handmaids) to be alone with the Commanders. We are not concubines. We are two-legged wombs. So it is very curious that suddenly it is not a problem for Commander Putnam with Esther.

I love the interactions between Mark and Nick. Let it be the silent ones: At the Putnam house. Or this meeting on a deserted road. I wonder if this is really their first exchange. Because Tuello says: I was wondering if we would get to talk. This suggests that they had exchanges before but maybe through intermediaries.

I am glad to see Nick asking about June and Nichole. In the background, I love the music we have when Mark tells to Nick: But America can be a very forgiving place.

We have June at a ballet while Serena is at the Fred's funeral. The scenes are total opposite: The light vs the dark who remind us Swan Lake. Which is also a wink to S1E08, when Serena gives to June a music box with the music of the Swan Lake. June says: A girl trapped in a box. Which describes exactly her in her marriage!

However the music that we hear during the ballet / funeral is The Sleeping Beauty also a work composed by Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski. But the wink to this music will come later in the season. A beautiful and an unexpected wink. I loved it. ❤️

Bruce Miller says: Serena has choreographed the funeral. It makes her look powerful. She declares the war to June by putting Hannah in the center stage. But she also highlights Nick behind her during the procession. Is it a double threat?

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Music by Adam Taylor

- Getting Dressed For The Ballet/Funeral ❤️

- Hannah on TV ❤️

Source Pictures: Screenshots (by me)

#the handmaid's tale #osblaine #june osborne #nick blaine #S5E02 #season5 #my POV #music #adam taylor

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doctorloup · 1 year

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Well. OK. So......

So, Season 3 of Shadows at the Door got funded in two days and I thank you for granting us sweet Professor Troughton content, beloved internets people. But GUESS WHAT – chavoid is a selfish void who still wants bigger angrier and queerer mountains. Also, I promised you a week of weird North East content and I am a Void of My Word! Day 3 of #SatDNETour is S1E06 Pit Village. Some friends of mine used to live in the village of Anfield Plain in northern County Durham, at the time one of the cheapest places to buy a house in, as the protagonist of this story tells us, and that’s the place I think of whenever I listen to it. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pit-village/id1440913727?i=1000428417794 The spectre that haunts this part of County Durham the hardest is probably Margaret Thatcher as most of the housing was built in the 19th century to supply the coal mining industry. The original Anfield Plain Co-operative Store from this period is preserved at Beamish Museum.

Nearby Beamish Hall Hotel is also reputedly haunted by the ghost of a lady who had a doomed romance with a man from nearby Pockerley Manor, sneaking through a secret tunnel to visit him at night. Renovations in the early 2000s uncovered old cellars behind the ladies’ toilers with a bricked-up tunnel entrance.

Other spirits from the very haunted hall include a lady who suffocated in a trunk while trying to avoid a pre-arranged marriage and an Edwardian lady in pink seen with a parrot and a cat. More North East hauntings tomorrow. Why not check out Shadows at the Door, available on your favourite podcatchers or if you can, help fund EVEN MORE haunted tales…

#Shadows at the Door #audiodrama #GhostsandGhoulsoftheNE #Shadowfacts #audiofiction

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daria-meoi · 4 months

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Thought I'd give it a try. In response to this post from @piratecaptainscaptainpirates

Ended up ranking a bunch of first and last and shovelling the rest in the middle without particular consideration for their placement. That middle section is in no way set in stone.

The Innkeeper, s2e03. My go to comfort episode. And knowing the amount of work and love put into its final minutes makes me ecstatic about it. Had it on a loop in the background at some point.

The Pilot, s1e01. I just love it. Meeting everyone for the first time, Stede is adorable, he has glasses (which are the loml actually and the only reason I keep watching this stupid show is my hope to see them again), and dressing up as a bunch of fancy boys, and the British arseholes, officer Hornberry, and Nigel, an all. Just the right amount of quirkiness for my taste. It is incredible. I'd probably have put it in the first place if it weren't occupied already.

Act of Grace, s1e09. Love from the start to the end. The whole interrogation sequence, the Crew, all of them and every one in particular, the great punch, Chauncey, Hornberry, this man is a fearsome pirate, soft desperate touches, the king George himself overthinking things as usual, boys' outfits in the academy (I see a person in those breeches, shirt, socks and shoes - I offer them my hand in marriage. It's a reflex), the kiss and soft touches again, Ed's delight and the most baby Stede's face. And the heartbreak.

This is Happening, s1e07. I love the way the world expands and deepens and breathes there. I love Jim's storyline. Olu shines. The Swede. Nana is bonkers and horrible and toxic and great and "my only family", which will be paralleled later to a certain other toxic character. And Blackbeard's Bar&Grill&Other Delicacies&Delights&Fishing Equipment and Snake Snacks. And Lucius' intervention and speech which I'm unable to repeat at a fraction of the same speed for the life of me.

Fun and Games, s2e04. I can't believe myself now. On the first watch when Stede approached Ed under the blanket I was, to put it mildly, very cautious about the perspective of them actually talking it through on screen. Because talking it through on screen is a very tricky business when the viewer knows more than the characters. I can imagine a thousand ways of making it tedious and cringey to watch. But it turned out so very lovely. Unbelievably lovely. You wrote me a lovely talk-it-through!

We Gull Way Back, s1e08. Calico Jack is nauseating. But he had to be like that. Get off my ship. Now. Morning, Captain. No, it isn't. The telescope and the black (or rather red) eye. The Chain ❤️

The Best Revenge is Dressing Well, s1e05. I love their fancy outfits with a wig and flowers and little bows. And the pyramid scheme. And Stede's delight in causing havoc. And the moonlit chickening out.

Red Flags, s2e02. It is heartbreaking. And real. And heartbreaking. You have hope, it's cute. And Ed is insane[ly beautiful]. And heartbreaking.

Impossible Birds, s2e01. Because it feels so fucking real. And I'm afraid your life is better without me. And brings me flashbacks of me crashing wall tiles in a sliiiiiiightly similar situation. Thank goodness I never had a gun.

The Art of Fuckery, s1e06. It was a wonderful fuckery. Stede's stabbing face 😅 I'm a witch and this is my cat. Miao. And I'm your friend. And did I do it right?

The Gentleman Pirate, s1e03. The Cream of the Caribbean and the Genital Pirate. You've heard of me? Also blood does look good on all white garments as internet warriors should know.

A Damned Man, s1e02. Oh, please move! I probably have children, Bonnet. They will never see papa again! I'm a dirty filthy murderer! Take me away! Don't you trifle! He does have the eyes of a madman. Sorry, you do.

Mermen, s2e08. It's long overdue to put it somewhere. Let it be here. Because it was good and it made me feel good. And it finally stopped that torture, which had been the fandom experience up to this point with constant "Aha, eat your shit, Izzy-haters! We always knew he was a blameless little angel! And we are getting all so validated!" And turned it into a different one.

Discomfort in a Married State, s1e04. I don't know why it's so low. It is wonderful all the way through. I love it.

Wherever You Go, There You Are, s1e10. I love Mary. And Evelyn. Stede is painful to watch. But I loved the "unhand me or bleed" thing. Yes, baby, you have it in you, together with all the soft and frilly things. I'm here for it. Just choose your subject wisely next time and maybe don't drink so much. Ed is heartbreaking. Cutting the toe was frankly cathartic. Loved it (as a vindictive dick I am at heart) and hated it (for Ed's sake) simultaneously. And it ends on a hopeful note.

Man on Fire, s2e07. It is a good episode I suppose. Lots of things happening. Lots to love. But it pains me. And the characters and their doings cringe me at places. And I'm not strong enough for it.

The Curse of the Seafaring Life, s2e05. Oh, hello, it's me, and I'm unpredictable sometimes. I love my boy in his suit. And the revisiting of the moonlight scene, and the thumbs war, and "you won". But the episode as a whole felt like a filler and a waste of opportunity and time in a timewise constricted season.

Calipso's Birthday, s2e06. It feels like a cushion after you pull it out of a washing machine - all the stuffing is a lumpy wet mess here and there, the rest is just a sad empty sack. Also "poison into positivity" repeated again and again in a clanky way like a ball bearing in a spray paint can. It was driving me crazy and throwing me out of the story and into a filming set, where actors are failing to find a way to say a particular line from the script and instead of dropping it or replacing it with something more organic, power through, with, well, that exact clanking result. I loved Ned Low though, he was cute. And the kiss and the curtain thing were hot as the fucking, which followed.

#ofmd #no one in their right mind will read it i suppose

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blue-mint-winter · 2 years

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Star Trek Enterprise s1e06 The Andorian Incident

Archer decides to visit Vulcan monks doing Kolihnar because he’s curious. I thought he doesn’t like Vulcans?

Picking a known Vulcan hater Tucker to accompany him in this visit was an odd choice but later on it worked because he was needed to repair the transmitter. Other than that all he could do was make stupid remarks to Vulcans.

And once again Archer and Tucker talk shit in private about Vulcans just before T’Pol comes to the room and I’m sure she heard it all with her Vulcan hearing.

The monastery is regularly attacked by Andorians who despite the treaty are suspicious that monks are spying on their system.

Andorians beat up Archer for being in cahoots with Vulcans.

It is revealed that humans smell bad to Vulcans. I don’t think that was an issue before?

Violence is an answer.

I love that plot twist at the end - Vulcans really were spying! And the monastery was just a cover for it!

This puts Spock’s Kolihnar phase in a new light. Was he also actually doing undercover work then? It would fit with him later doing that secret mission on Romulus. I like the idea of Kolihnar monks being Vulcan version of section 33 or something like that.

The decision to let Andorians know of Vulcans breaking the treaty is interesting. Doesn’t that put the human-Vulcan relations under even more strain? Is is just an act of sticking it to Vulcans? Standing up for the truth? Getting good rep from another species? Hm.

s1e07 Breaking the Ice

Episode with two parallel plots - Archer finds a big comet with some unique mineral that he decides to get samples of and T’Pol gets a coded message from a Vulcan vessel that just came around to observe. Very suspicious of them, especially after last episode.

Also they get drawings from kids on Earth and Archer has the crew answer some of kids’ questions about living on starships. Tucker gets a question about toilet lol.

They have Hoshi decode T’Pol’s message and it’s a letter summoning her to Vulcan to marry her fiance. Tucker finally has enough decency to apologize to her for reading it.

Under Doctor’s suggestion T’Pol decides to ask Tucker for advice about her problem because he’s the only person who knows about it and she won’t tell more people. And he gives her a spiel about free will and making her own choice for herself.

Looks to me like Enterprise was her way of escaping this marriage from that moment she requested to stay onboard. And obviously she has to stay because then there would be no one logical on the ship and they’ll probably die off somewhere in the cold vacuum of space.

Archer asks the Vulcan captain for a dinner hoping if he saw how Enterprise looks he’d leave them. Once again it’s apparent he completely misreads the aliens because Vulcan isn’t interested in Enterprise or spying or even the comet and its rare mineral.

Then something goes wrong on the comet and the guys there need a rescue. Archer has to swallow his pride and ask Vulcans for help (thanks to T’Pol who’s getting a hang on how to convince him to do rational things - “do this to prove to Vulcans you aren’t arrogant and prideful”).

In conclusion, Vulcans aren’t spying on Enterprise. It’s much, much worse. They are babysitting the silly humans in their silly little ship.

#st #ent #my thoughts

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