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POCAHONTAS (1995)

dir. mike gabriel and eric goldberg

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🫶🏼🫶🏼 Leverage: Redemption The Date Night Job // The Swipe Right Job

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leverage is a monster-of-the-week show, but the monsters are corporate greed, conglomerates, and capitalism.

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Do you ever think about how Audrey Hall spent years of her marriage walking on eggshells, trying not to say the wrong thing, always waiting for the moment when an oppressive silence became an explosion.

But now she’s at Skeldale House, with noise and bustle and a man who is the very definition of all bark and no bite, and she answers back and doesn’t put up with any of Siegfried’s nonsense because she feels safe.

Still from @royalbesties who has all the best pictures

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yes! this exactly. part of me thinks he asked because he knew she was likely to say no. now he can tell himself that she’s the reason they didn’t end up together.

There is NO WAY IN HELL William actually thought Eliza would drop her entire life and career in London to move to another continent just to marry him. Plsssss! That was a last, last ditch Hail Mary shot and he knew it, be so for real.

Honestly, I think this might've been more for the sake of reiterating to the audience that Eliza and William are ultimately incompatible and that she doesn't want to conform to what he wants in a wife and a marriage. They gave her the option to marry him, under his conditions, and she said pass.

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DS9 as a show dares to ask the important questions, like for example “would Star Trek still be good if it was set at the food court at the mall??” and the answer to that is “yes, and actually it will somehow be better”

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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

(Ann Landers)

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t-shirt that says i <3 when fictional characters make shortsighted and selfish decisions that will certainly make things worse and lead them to ruin

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THE HOLIDAY (2006) dir. Nancy Meyers

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Mary Oliver, from "Snowy Night"

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It isn’t christmas until I’ve sobbed my way through the all creatures great and small christmas special 😭😭 what a gorgeous episode ❤️

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05.07 / You are so brave and quiet.

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Having just finished season 5 of this show, I wanted to share my thoughts on the new direction of the series. I don’t go too much into detail, but if you want to avoid spoilers, don’t read until after you’ve watched the series.

I want to start out by saying. I like that they went with a different dynamic for the relationship between Eliza and Blake. William and Eliza had great chemistry. They had history. Their dialogue crackled. There is no way the show could replicate that with a new male lead, and I like that they didn’t try.

The series was most successful when not forcing Blake and Eliza together. They are both unavailable and not looking for a relationship. They are both getting over heartbreak and loss. I wish the show had committed to them not being together or even interested in each other for the whole season. Let the characters and the audience breathe.

I see the critiques out there about Blake being too “perfect.” I agree with those to some extent. I wish they’d made the character more layered, gave him more obvious flaws, or have him make some more mistakes. Maybe have him struggle more with being a girl dad. Yet also, the fact that he’s perfect is kind of the point.

William and Eliza had chemistry but ultimately they weren’t compatible. I think as much as he loved her, part of William could never accept that her career was as important as his. They also didn’t share the same vision of what marriage for them would be. William had very traditional expectations of what a wife should be. Eliza doesn’t. Eliza would always be fighting for him to see her as an equal.

Blake and Eliza start on a more even footing. His issue with private detectives is with the whole profession, not just that she’s a woman in that profession. Over the season, he sees that she’s competent. In Ep 2, he sees that she’s honorable. He changes his view towards her. He still doesn’t see her as a partner, but he does see her as a colleague. He’s willing to work with her, within the limits he has for someone who doesn’t work for Scotland Yard.

From Eliza’s perspective, he’s a bit of a challenge. She can’t run rings around him the way she did with William. Her old tricks don’t work. When she needles Blake, he doesn’t fight back. He calmly draws his lines and holds them. She has to show up differently to get him to work with her.

I also love the contrast of their relationship histories. As I said earlier, both of them have been in love before. But Blake has relationship experience that Eliza does not. Eliza was in love with William (and maybe part of her still is) but she doesn’t know how to have a relationship. She has to learn to be in a mature relationship. We know almost nothing about Blake’s marriage, but In assuming is was a happy one. Eliza has a lot to learn before she’s ready for a relationship.

With all that said, while this new dynamic had a lot of potential, the execution (especially in the last two episodes) was clumsy. The writers rushed their mutual interest and used Blake’s daughter to bond them together.

She shows up at his house at the end and it didn’t feel earned. It seemed more as if she didn’t want to be in an empty house after the wedding than that she wanted him. I get the writers didn’t have time to develop other characters but are we supposed to believe this woman doesn’t have any other options?!?

I wish they had made the new relationship more of a slow burn. If Eliza and Blake are more compatible, let them take time to discover that. Let them be friends first. Let them build chemistry over time.

I definitely have thoughts about many of the other characters and relationships in season 5, but I wanted to start here.

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she had me cheering and clapping and pointing at the screen

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