Something I’ve been thinking about lately is that small moment in “Air Turtle” where immediately after the Daves lose yet another game, Leo says how sorry he is and how he’s doing his best as the mascot. This moment is so short but it’s honestly jam-packed with a whole heap of characterization.
His need to apologize for things clearly not his fault - especially when it feels like he messes up the job he was given despite doing the best he can (the phrase “it’s not about you” takes a new meaning when this is one of the lessons to be learned from that - that he is not always solely responsible for things going wrong), his need to save face and make a connection with an older adult man in his life (something he consistently does throughout the series - he’s got a few daddy issues, always collecting potential father figures, it’s no wonder he jumps at the bit to keep rapport), and the way he sounds and looks and the words he chooses really pushes how he is just a kid (“Mr. the Dunk, I’m so sorry”).
Like I know it’s a one off moment that doesn’t truly mean much, but when put against the rest of the series it works really well with the rest of Leo’s established character and helps in solidifying later concepts as well.
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As a fat lady with a huge butt I was like. Oh I probably can't get a miniskirt :( BUT I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY GIRL MAYA HAD ME!!!! longer in the back..... You're incredible
HEHEHEHE YES!!! i got u!!!
i feel like bc most of our models have some sort of badonk situation it can make the skirt look all one length if ur not thinking about it/dont already know
until you see the photos of devin
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"dead" vs "gone"
the relentless UD/Henry-coding of the word "gone" (+ a bonus implication for Max)
chewing on how often El says the word "gone" where you would expect "dead":
where could she have gotten that?
I promise the length of this post is mainly due to screenshots
so did El just not learn the word for death til she got older? no, because this predates the Henry "gone" line:
so she knew "dead" in '79. and those lab kids are obviously super dead, so she must understand Henry's "gone" to mean something other than deceased.
having no memory of this, El goes on to use almost exclusively "gone" in the first couple seasons. but she says "dead" too, especially later on. as if they're a tight venn diagram, but not a circle.
we've got "Mama is dead" and two "Papa is dead"s, which is pretty neato. the first two are false and the third one is true in that she's referring to Brenner but... what do you want to bet that it's also false in the sense that her biological papa is alive and closer than we th[gunshot]
other times I can find her speaking any form of the word:
love the combo in the Papa one. Henry's not dead but if only Papa would've let him go he would be gone!
so chronologically:
mama is dead
barb is gone
mother is gone
sara is gone
papa is gone
papa is dead
so many dead
they are going to die
papa is dead
once she switches from "Papa is gone" to "Papa is dead" in season 2, she's never said gone again, so far, but we have a season left. I would put money on somebody, probably her, saying that Henry is "dead and gone" by the end of 5.
I also want to talk about the way literally everybody else uses the word "gone"
SO MANY of the times the word is "gone" is used on ST, especially as an adjective, we know that person's circumstances to have something to do with the lab/the UD/Henry - even when the speaker doesn't, and is merely using it to mean "dead" or "away".
an example? I can find you one or two:
and with that in mind, let's look again at Max's final words:
if you needed proof that "dead" and "gone" are two different things, they had Max say both "I don't wanna die" AND "I don't wanna go."
Lucas, with her in the natural, spoke to the dying.
El, with her in the supernatural, spoke to the going.
El's line isn't referring to stopping Max from dying, which we already know she did. El promised she's not going. as a separate thing. :)
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I know the Musk "trillion people means more Mozarts" thing is stupid as fuck but I just saw a prominent blogger reply to it by saying anyone has the ability to be a Mozart and I'm sorry but "talent doesn't exist" discourse has officially gone too far, and I say that as someone who hates the word "talent" and has replaced it almost entirely with the word "skill" in my vocabulary.
Not everyone is a prodigy. Yes, prodigies get lost because they lack opportunity, but that still doesn't mean everyone is a prodigy. If everyone WAS then everyone with enough wealth and opportunity WOULD be and like. I'm sorry, have you SEEN what a fucking moron Elon Musk actually is?
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