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sorry it always cracks me up when people watch soaps and go "oh no conflict! oh no drama! oh no people lying to themselves about their feelings! i don't want this!" like is this not just par for the course for a soap opera especially?

the angst is going to be angsting and i hope to god they stretch it out for months and months!!!! it'll make the eventual reunion even juicier.

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i like langdon and i think people should be careful about how they talk about addiction but i do find it a bit annoying that people conveniently leave out the fact that the man actively put OTHERS in harms way not just himself. i definitely think some of the reactions need to be more empathetic towards addicts but this idea that if someone, whether it be a character or an audience member, is upset at langdon it automatically means they have no empathy or grace towards addicts is a bit much for me. maybe robby would have handled the langdon situation a bit better had he not found out during maybe the worst shift ever but i think he gave the guy a lot of grace considering i'm pretty sure most people would have fired langdon on the spot. like it's one thing if robby found out he was an addict, it's another thing to find out that he has put himself in a position that can potentially harm patients? and not only that that he's been stealing from patients? come on.

also the writers WANT you to be a little upset at langdon. having empathy for his situation and being frustrated and a little pissed with him can coincide. they're clearly setting him up for a specific arc.

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what truly impresses me about the iwtv fandom is their ability to talk so loudly and confidently about things they clearly have zero clue about. discussions about "co-leads" and main characters versus supporting characters have people confidently saying that due to one character having less screen-time than the other it means they're no longer a main character in the narrative. anger over episode submissions for COMPLETELY different award guilds. anger over actors supposedly not being submitted for categories that DON'T EXIST. anger over social media posts because to them that's what awards campaigning apparently is.

amc needs to do better with their awards campaigning but post-breaking bad awards bodies do NOT reward them the way they would like hbo or netflix. they couldn't get better call saul to the finish line. they had one of the most critically acclaimed shows in halt and catch fire and got them nothing. awards are a popularity contest and a show like iwtv, with queer main characters and black leads that also happen to be a genre show, are never going to get rewarded as they deserve. so the fandom constantly crashing out every week at this point, for nominations this show is probably never going to get because the industry rarely acknowledges and rewards shows like this, is kind of wild to me. you're just straight up fighting the air at this point.

this is an industry-wide problem and people have every right to call out the industry (and even amc, because they certainly could do better, for it) but fandom has somehow turned this whole mess into their own personal stan wars where they act like they can speak FOR actors themselves and act like those actors would be perfectly okay with you pitting them against each other and badmouthing their friends and co-stars. just incredibly embarrassing behavior from a fandom of supposed adults.

i also want to say there are some people in the fandom who genuinely care about the racism the actors of colour in the show face and i know they discuss and talk about these issues in good faith but then there are some who clearly co-opt every discussion and turn it into an opportunity to get out their really strange parasocial hatred against certain actors and some people are VERY transparent about this.

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i've discussed this in another places but truly i have tried to give the people who hate the s2 finale the benefit of the doubt and who hate the louis/lestat reunion especially a little grace but it's been a couple of months since then and i'm over it doing that lol. there is valid criticisms in terms of pacing that i can probably agree with but every single "complaint" i've seen about that reunion scene in particular is in such bad faith and i find it fascinating how most of it comes from people who supposedly hate lestat but then they choose to center the entire finale ON him. when the finale and that reunion especially was about louis.

the main complaint i've seen about that reunion is this idea that lestat was automatically forgiven for all his crimes (not true) and that somehow claudia's death is being used as a way for them to get back together (it was not). and it's from people who supposedly care about louis as a character and yet all their discussion and bad faith readings is consistently always about lestat. they never attempt to understand WHY louis goes to seek out lestat, why he chooses to hug him, why louis thanks lestat for the gift. if you cared about louis at all as a character, every single choice he makes in that finale is consistent with his character arc and his journey. he goes to see lestat not in an attempt to get back together or to forgive him for every single wrongdoing but because he's the only other person in the world who can understand the grief louis is feeling and has felt for decades now but has never had a chance to fully express it. but instead so much of the discussion from that side of the fandom is "lestat this" "lestat that". like my god, for people who supposedly hate that character you sure spend your entire time making him the center of the narrative even when the show isn't attempting to do so.

i wish certain people in this fandom would just admit that they don't actually care about louis at all as a character because it's so clear so much of the so-called ~interpretations~ of the show are just due to the ship wars some people have made up in their heads or because they hate a character so much it has affected their ability to properly analyze the show in front of them and not the show in their heads.

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something about the way certain armand stans are incapable of talking about his trauma and motivations to explain his actions (very valid thing to do about a character) without throwing louis completely under the bus for it

"i understand armand... louis didn't treat him well" "louis never seemed that committed to a relationship so i get why armand did it"

like you know you can talk about why armand's actions are the way it is without victim blaming louis in this situation right? oh louis wasn't as commited or into armand the way armand was into him? so therefore it's understandable that armand directed a trial that lynched him and his daughter? and ultimately murdered louis' daughter?

i like armand. he's a fascinating, compelling character but some of you seem to like a version in your head that's completely made up. the version where he's louis' sad jilted lover and not the man who directed his daughter's murder nor the man who mindfucked louis for god knows how many years. somehow you, the audience, has fully bought into armands's "uwu i'm a victim louis the coven forced me to choose and i couldn't prevent it" bullshit. it's WILD. armand IS a victim in many ways, it's extremely important to talk about WHY he is the way he is but in his relationship with louis? he's the one with the power there. louis is HIS victim. not the other way around.

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does the iwtv fandom know that liking or disliking a character or a ship does not equate to irl activism? why are you out here trying to win the moral superiority olympics over a fictional show?

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there's a section of the interview with the vampire fandom that seem absolutely miserable watching this show lol

they dislike what they see on-screen, they dislike the actors interpretations of their characters, they act like their interpretation of their material is the Correct interpretation and call everyone else media illiterate and then when the show doesn't subscribe to their headcanons and the show they built up in their heads doesn't happen they throw tantrums about it, they're constantly doom posting about what's going to happen in a season 3 that has yet to be written or filmed

i've hate-watched a couple of shows in my lifetime so i'm not above a little hating but also if a show makes me this upset and angry i know to call it quits and like watch it via clips on youtube or gifs or something

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me happy and thriving knowing that the show is always going to be about louis and lestat and them together:

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i truly hate the word “cringe” especially when people use it as some sort of criticism to heartstopper. the show is just incredibly earnest and open-hearted and i truly think people just use the word “cringe” when they’re uncomfortable with any kind of genuine sincerity or earnestness being presented.  i think the shows sincerity and earnestness is easily its biggest strength (it’s other biggest strength is kit connor’s big, sad expressive eyes lol).

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the amount of eye-rolling i have done while watching these hour long ted lasso episodes.

i hope this is the final season of this show because i need them to end it now. they’re done. i’m over it. save juno temple and put her in a show that gives her something to do.

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can’t take any of the “succession s4 is bad writing” posts on here because it’s coming from a certain section of fandom lol

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watching roman and kendall enable each other’s worst decisions while clearly very much not dealing with logan’s death is genuinely incredibly painful. like my god put them in therapy now. those men are NOT okay.

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every time i see fandom theorize about backdoor dealings or ppl tampering with pieces of paper behind the scenes in succession i wonder what show they’re watching. read any jesse armstrong interview and he’s open and honest about how they’re not the type of show that hides things from the audience to do a surprise gotcha twist. every single ~twist~ this show has had has been built up on-screen with the only exception being the season finale stuff with the waiter. you are not watching lost or some sort of mystery box show that needs solving. like, enough.

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moments of tenderness and comfort are so rare on this show (and when we do get it it’s mostly between the siblings) that seeing kendall and stewy get one in the latest ep genuinely threw me for a loop

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every time anyone on here attempts to do “succession” style dialogue it is very very bad. please leave that up to the succession writers. every single attempt to write the way greg talks is YIKES.

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certain people in djats fandom fascinate me. the lack of reading comprehension is truly wild sometimes. you see someone tweet about the “she sees all of me” scene with billy and said person complains about how it makes no sense because camila literally saw him when he was at his worst. like, please get real. that is not what he meant lmao.

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my unpopular djats fandom take is that while the show is not great or perfect as like a tv show, i appreciate its commitment to making it’s character far messier and flawed than taylor jenkins’ reid ever allowed them to be. sorry i think a camila that is insecure re: her relationship to billy, is jealous of daisy and actually is actually allowed to express that hurt and anger is far superior to whatever nonsense tjr wrote. her original email ending just further proved it lol. i think fandom eats up her extremely hollow brand version of feminism ~women supporting women~ (even when one women was having an emotional affair with your husband) shit but frankly a better writer would allow these characters to show far more complex emotions and relationships *shrugs*

if anything the issue with the show is that they were far too faithful to her (bad) ending and they should have course corrected on that one.