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THE OFFICE 2x15 | 2x21

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Just rewatched Star Trek Voyager's Scorpion, so I'm reposting something I put in someone else's comments a while ago.

Scorpion is just great storytelling from top to bottom, with excellent character work and a winning introduction for Seven of Nine. It's also the perfect example of everything I find captivating about the Janeway/Chakotay relationship.

The two-parter demonstrates that their trust and respect borders on need, and that the lines between professional courtesy and personal affection are decidedly blurred. It proves that Chakotay, often criticized as a doormat, is willing and able to vigorously disagree with Kathryn's judgment and give orders contrary to hers. We see Kathryn repeatedly taking professional disagreements with Chakotay as personal betrayals. It shows Chakotay's discomfort with Kathryn putting her life on the line when safer options exist. Even the twist ending exploits other characters underestimating Janeway's and Chakotay's ability to work past disagreements to find common ground. This is all in addition to the touches and meaningful looks and the "I can't imagine a day without you" and "Are you with me?" "Always" of it all.

Most notably: it demonstrates that, for two people who never openly explore their feelings for each other because they don't want their judgment compromised in a dangerous work environment, they are already compromised. Deeply so. And that's not conjecture; the actors have admitted that they worked with each other and the directors to put that subtext there on purpose.

What we get is a personal and professional relationship that feels real, in all its unglamorous glory. And it's why J/C, in my opinion, is the most beautiful love story in TV history. Which is astonishing for a couple who never even hugged onscreen during Voyager's original run.

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Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)

#I see your hand flex and I raise you to uncalculated hand holding

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OH NO THE COOKIES, Loid should be proud of Yor though, she did it without fainting or hitting him LOL

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tim and lucy recover a wedding ring and there is some VERY INTENTIONAL foreshadowing

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Julie & Luke + mouthing each other’s lines

JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS (United States, 2020-, dir. Kenny Ortega) ↳ 1x02 “Bright” / 1x09 “Stand Tall”

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NORTH AND SOUTH (2004)

dir. brian percival

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Northanger Abbey (2007)

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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995) dir. Ang Lee

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You know what I want, I want the glasses trope but swapped

you know how movies will do the thing where they take the nerdy character and make them look beautiful without their glasses

we’ll have it swapped where you take your love interest, someone who doesn’t normally where glasses and then show the main character catch them when they’re by themselves and they’re using reading glasses, or wears contacts normally when they’re out in public and wears glasses at home and have them get attracted to that

not only will be a nice way to turn a trope on its head but it could also be a physical representation of characters B getting more comfortable with Character A where they show a more personal side of themselves

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One of my favorite artworks.

By jane_dee

Quote by J.R.Rogue

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every fitzsimmons hug ⇻ 3.09 ‘Closure’

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me rewatching the little mermaid 2023 and seeing ariel/eric fall in love for the 1000th time

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PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS

I Plunge to My Death (1x04)

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the way hicks immediately checks on ripley and gives her a tracker and includes newt and makes sure ripleys sleeping and teaches her how to use a gun and doesn't let go of his little unit until he's sure they're safe we were robbed

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sigourney weaver is the definition of timeless beauty