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compilation of The Gentlemen outfits (part 12)

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Admit it, I saved your ass.

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This is such an excellent Duke episode, showing us his various different types of coolness right from the start. 

I also like that we get to see a slightly different side of the Gull - a physical side I mean, with a different camera angle at the bar. And a different angle of the outside at the end too.

The Everwood is such a great set. I wonder if that place is still abandoned in real life.

It’s a great Trouble to echo Audrey’s situation. And great acting from the guy playing the different versions of the Cornells too.

Also interesting that this is one of those Troubles where Audrey doesn’t talk the Troubled person down to safety but effectively talks him into killing himself.

I don’t really understand why Henry bolts back inside when they’re about to leave. Sure he doesn’t want to lose his father’s medal, but there’s no reason to think it wouldn’t be safe there in its hiding place.

But what really bothers me about this episode is that for most of it, it sets up this idea that Henry is on his own because he has no one else, that he’s not only squatting in a half-built hotel but doing so in a so in a way where he has a hiding place ready to go because he’s there to escape something worse, ie that he’s lived with violence or abuse, presumably at the hands of his father. It sets that implication up and then has Duke, who also knows what it’s like to have an abusive father, not only call Henry’s dad but get him to come to the Gull without even telling Henry or talking to him about it at all. Springing a potentially abusive father on a teenager who may have run away from hom to get away from him seems not only unhelpful but also entirely out of character for Duke. It makes for a nice structure to the episode, but from Duke’s point of view I don’t really get his thought process here. Yes there’s an implication in the middle of the episode that maybe Henry’s father wasn’t that bad afterall (and maybe we’re supposed to assume the hiding place is to hide from Cornell); but the fact Henry contradicts himself just serves to show that Duke doesn’t necessarily have all the information - so how can he be sure he’s making the right decision when he calls Henry’s father for him?

Of course though the highlight of the episode of Nathan’s drunk dancing XD (a little bit of Lucas goofiness slipping through)

s02e08 - Friend or Faux

What to do when you've done something terrible and can't face up to it? Why, create an evil copy of yourself of course!

This week the gang meet two versions of Cornell Stamoran, via Henry the kid working in Duke's bar. Cue plenty of running around the fantastic set of a half-built hotel, and dramatic end to the Trouble when Audrey talks one Cornell into shooting the other.

There's also a more everyday kind of drama as the Selectmen start to make life difficult for Nathan as Interim Chief, and Duke finds out Evi hasn't been entirely truthful with him about her relationship with the Rev.

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Pretend, for a moment, that you’re an 18-year-old teenager from a family living below the poverty line.  One day, you make a silly mistake and get a ticket for it. Nothing major - maybe you rode the subway without a ticket or smoked too close to the entrance of a building. Maybe you were loitering. Either way, one thing is for sure: you definitely don’t have the money to pay the ticket.  So you don’t.  Eventually, you miss the deadline to pay your ticket, and you get a letter in the mail that says you have to go to court. But your life is chaotic, and a court date for a missed ticket is the least of your concerns. Your family moves constantly, which disrupts your life and puts you behind in school. You have one disabled parent and one parent who is always working, leaving you to raise your younger siblings by yourself. You have no means of transportation. There is rarely any food in the cupboards. The utilities are constantly getting shut off. The week that you were supposed to go to court, your family gets another eviction notice, your cousin ends up in the hospital, and your parent finds out that their disability payments are being reduced.  So you miss your court date.  Since you missed the court date, you automatically lose your case - now you have no hope of arguing your way out of the ticket, which you still can’t afford to pay. You can do community service hours instead of paying, but you don’t have time to do that, now that you have to work part-time and odd jobs on top of everything else to keep your parents off the streets and your siblings out of foster care. You know that you probably won’t finish high school on time, let alone fulfill your hours. You might be able to explain your circumstances to the judge, but you have no idea how to go about doing that now that you’ve missed your court date, your literacy skills are years behind thanks to your constant game of school roulette, and even though legal help is available to you, you don’t know how to access it or if you can afford to do so. But that’s still the least of your concerns - since you missed your court date, the judge has also charged you with failure to appear. 

Which means you now have an active warrant out for your arrest.  And just like that, you’re now a part of the criminal justice system. A silly mistake that a middle-class teenager could have solved with Mommy and Daddy’s chequebook in a single afternoon has caused you weeks or months of stress and headaches over a process you don’t fully understand, and has ended in criminal charges. Instead of having a funny story to tell over dinner when you come home from college next Thanksgiving, you are now facing additional fines (that you still can’t pay), the possibility of a couple of nights in jail, the possible suspension of your driver’s license, and the possibility of being taken into custody any time you interact with the police. The next time your parent comes home drunk and violent, or someone breaks into the house, you think twice about calling the cops - you now have to decide if every emergency is “worth” the possibility of being hauled off to jail. And in the meantime, the circumstances that caused that first mistake haven’t gone away - you still don’t have the money to pay for the subway, you are still more likely to live in a house filled with smokers, you still can’t afford quit-smoking aids, you still live in a chaotic household that deeply affects your mental health, and you still don’t understand the legal system or who you’re supposed to talk to for information and resources. So while those other teenagers get to go through life believing that they were “good kids who sometimes made silly mistakes”, you now get to go through life thinking of yourself as a criminal. And that might be the most damaging thing of all. 

When I worked with homeless teenagers and young adults, I saw this process play out again and again and again and again. The kids often considered themselves “criminals” or “bad kids” because they had arrest warrants and criminal records, but few of them had ever actually committed a serious or violent crime - the vast majority were simply unlucky kids who did something stupid and didn’t have the skills or resources (or wealthy parents) required to get them off the hook. I had classmates in my upper-middle-class high school who did far worse things with far fewer consequences, because Mommy was a lawyer or Daddy was an RCMP officer, and some of those kids grew up to be lawyers or police officers themselves. The kids I worked with never got that opportunity. Second chances cost money, and the difference between a “crime” and a “mistake” has less to do with the offense, and more to do with the circumstances you were born into. 

So when we’re talking about crime, punishment and who is “worthy” of being helped, maybe keep that in mind.

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Theo James as Eddie Horniman on The Gentlemen (2024) → 1x07 “Not Without Danger”

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It’s not like I have a thing for guns, because I don’t. Duke Crocker + guns however, now that’s a different story.

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Dukes with guns

Looking good and getting shit done

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s02e08 - Friend or Faux

What to do when you've done something terrible and can't face up to it? Why, create an evil copy of yourself of course!

This week the gang meet two versions of Cornell Stamoran, via Henry the kid working in Duke's bar. Cue plenty of running around the fantastic set of a half-built hotel, and dramatic end to the Trouble when Audrey talks one Cornell into shooting the other.

There's also a more everyday kind of drama as the Selectmen start to make life difficult for Nathan as Interim Chief, and Duke finds out Evi hasn't been entirely truthful with him about her relationship with the Rev.

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Farscape | 1x15 Durka Returns

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... more thoughts!! ...

Some high quality Nathan/Duke snark at the beginning there in Nathan’s office, Duke snatching paperwork off his desk XD

Love Audrey talking Nathan into a little late night B&E - “I bet you look good in black.”

It’s interesting how different Troubles are responded to in different ways. There is no attempt - none at all - to cure this one. Audrey doesn’t try to talk anyone around; it’s not even mentioned as a possibility. Rather, it is a story of acceptance - accepting the boys as they are, rather than trying to fix them. 

This ep is also a really good insight into The Rev; his backstory, what he’s really like as a person. He’s such a good Bad Guy. And the story of his wife too, and the lengths she had to go to to leave him.

I love the image at the end of them all walking out into the sea; the black cloaks are a really nice visual touch (even if they would seem to have very little practical point to them). 

The whole thing starts off really creepy but then by the end has shifted into this haunting music that’s really lovely.

I would love more story on the part of the family who are left behind though; the wives and mothers and women who have to simply wait and wonder and hope that their relatives are OK.

s02e07 - The Ties That Bind

One of Haven's spookier episodes, the story this week follows what at first appears to be a sinister cult on the outskirts of town ...

... the truth is soon revealed of course, about the 'cult' and also about the Rev's past. Meanwhile in the Rev's present the episode poses more questions than answers as Duke tries to find out about his father's past, and Evi seems to be more involved with the Rev and Haven's mysteries than expected.

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The Gentlemen | Netflix

Geoff and Sabrina - I can't be the only one shipping these two ...

... so here is a little fic;

He let the silence sit for a moment or two, then prompted, “Is there something you want to say, Your Grace?”

She looked back up at him then. “Sometimes, I wish you wouldn’t call me that,” she admitted, voice tight and small.

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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"You know you wouldn't want it any other way" - Meredith Brooks "Bitch"

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THEO JAMES Dolce & Gabbana 40th Anniversary Party 

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The Gentlemen | Netflix

Geoff and Sabrina - I can't be the only one shipping these two ...

... so here is a little fic;

He let the silence sit for a moment or two, then prompted, “Is there something you want to say, Your Grace?”

She looked back up at him then. “Sometimes, I wish you wouldn’t call me that,” she admitted, voice tight and small.

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Oh, I must have overlooked this. Sorry.