#Episode 7x03

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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Explains the Various Pairings in ‘Riverdale’ Season 7

NOC Interview: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Explains the Various Pairings in ‘Riverdale’ Season 7 @WriterRAS @CW_Riverdale #Riverdale @TheCW @warnerbrostv #NowLeavingRiverdale

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is the creator of Riverdale, which is based on characters from the Archie Comics. New episodes of the seventh and final season will continue to air Wednesdays at 9 PM ET on The CW. This interview will include spoilers for episode 7×03, “Chapter One Hundred Twenty: Sex Education.” (more…) “”

[sunglassesmish]

TOMMY KINARD IN EVERY EPISODE (so far)

[dawntainbobbynash]

Absolutely in love with how much depth 7x03 added to Bobby just by showing us what he must’ve been like when he was a young firefighter who hadn’t been promoted to captain yet. There’s the physical ability that reminds you that he was literally born and raised to do this job, and makes you imagine what stunts he was pulling when he was 30 years younger and hadn’t broken his back yet. The quick thinking and leadership skills that he’s been honing for his entire life. The level of calm and care he showed to the others that tells you that people must’ve felt so safe in his hands even on the worst day of their life. Everything about this episode showed just how good he was at this job and how he earned his promotion.

And then there’s the absolute devastation he felt when he lost Wes that suddenly makes it crystal clear how this job he loves so much set him on the path to alcoholism. The ease with which he shut off his own pain and stress to focus on moving forward and taking care of the others that makes it clear how nobody might’ve seen that he needed help with coping until it was too late. The fact that his actions were so reminiscent of Buck that Athena made the comparison out loud, and you understand that he’s so strict with Buck now because in his youth he was Buck and he knows how he turned out, so he does everything he can to give Buck the guidance and support he needs not to self-destruct like he did. You can also see in this episode how he knows that being good at the job is not enough and why he makes sure his team takes care of themselves just as much as the people they save.

He is a fourth-generation firefighter and this job has shaped so much of who he is from the day he was born and 7x03 just did such a good job of showing that

[smuganya]

ÉLITE 7.03 | Bling-Bling

[contemplatingenjoyingoutlander]

OUTLANDER 07x03: NOT "Just a Cat"

In the show, Claire thought that Adso had died in the fire. So of course she was very relieved to find him alive. But as soon as she found him again, she had to say goodbye--at least for a while. And Claire found herself sobbing.

In the book, the morning after the fire, Amy McCallum’s son Aidan found Adso in his bed, so Claire knew he hadn't died. However, shortly thereafter, Claire had to say goodbye to him when she was leaving for Scotland. She also began to sob.

In this excerpt from An Echo in the Bone, Jamie shows he understands some deeper meaning as to why Claire weeps:

“It’s not—don’t worry, I’m … He’s only a cat,” I said, and a small fresh grief tightened like a band round my chest. “Aye, I know.” He moved beside me and put an arm round my shoulders, pulling my head to his chest, while he gently wiped my face. “But ye couldna weep for the bairns. Or the house. Or your wee garden. Or the poor dead lass and her bairn. But if ye weep for your cheetie, ye know ye can stop.” “How do you know that?” My voice was thick, but the band round my chest was not quite so tight. He made a small, rueful sound. “Because I canna weep for those things, either, Sassenach. And I havena got a cat.” --A scene from Diana Gabaldon's An Echo in the Bone (2009, p. 123).

Yes, Adso symbolized all that Claire had lost and a way for her to let out some of her grief.

However, I don't think we should diminish the fact that in the show, Claire was also expressing both relief that Adso hadn't died, and actual sadness that she had to leave him behind when she left for Scotland.

As a therapist, I've listened to many of my clients over the years as they grieved the loss of a pet. They often apologize for their grief, because it's "just a cat" or "just a dog."

But our pets are also members of our families, who give us unconditional love and much joy. Therefore, of course it is perfectly natural for us to feel deep sadness at their loss.

Adso was also special to Claire just because of the joy she felt in being with him. Of course she would be sad at having to leave him behind, not knowing if he would continue to be all right.

There's also something special about raising a cat from kittenhood that brings out the "cat mother--and father" in most of us.

Cait has been a "cat mother" in the past. I know she had two cats as an adult, possibly more when she was younger. Many fans watched Cait take great joy in her cat Eddie. Many of us also mourned for Eddie, when she died.

Actors draw on their own experiences to realistically express emotions. I wouldn't be surprised if Cait had drawn on her experience of losing her cats, when she wept for Adso.

In conclusion, there were many reasons that Claire wept after saying goodbye to Adso. But Adso was a family member to Claire. Never, "just a cat."

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Chicago PD 7x03 | Infection pt. 3

Matt Casey & Will Halstead

[sevensoulmates]

Hi there! So I was wondering about that many articles about buddie being posted everywhere, do you think this a good thing or a bad thing? Or is this something inconsequential, like it doesn't mean anything? Are we reading too much into this?

Because I saw many fans panicking over this and many others being happy about it and I'm just confused 😕

Honestly, we're so early in the season that I can't really tell you what these articles will mean. We won't really know if they were putting these articles out for a purpose or if it was just general marketing until we get a little further into the season or finish the season.

I do understand the urge to read into it, and I do too. The Gay Times article in particular had me like 👀? Like why would THAT particular publication put out an article for a pairing that is both unconfirmed queer and not canonically together at this point in the series? That was giving something odd, like maybe someone there maybe had a connection and knew that they could put this out and it wouldn't be "queerbait" because they know it will be fulfilled at some point. But all of that is JUST speculation and I am not a marketing expert therefore I can't really say with authority the reasoning behind why there's SO MUCH buddie media happening right now.

I will say that the explanation of "oh buddie sells so of course media outlets would capitalize on it" falls apart when you consider that buddie has ALWAYS been a huge draw for many to the show and all of these outlets could've been putting out fluffy pieces like this before if all they truly cared about was clicks and engagement. Whether FOX wanted it or not wouldn't matter because journalists aren't paid by the networks to write articles. So they could've just wrote whatever the fuck they wanted all these years and have been capitalizing on buddie (ESPECIALLY after s4) this whole time. And yet we were NOT getting this in season 4 or season 5 or season 6. It's only now. And it's not crazy to believe that some journalists (not all) might have some inside connections and knowledge.

What will come of this, only time will tell.

[nothingunrealistic]

asia kate dillon as taylor mason and toney goins as philip charyn in billions 7x03 “winston dick energy”. undoubtedly the same scene as this shot from the season trailer

[booasaur]

Inside No. 9 - 7x03 - “Or is that all in his head?”

[wikiangela]

omg I knew that family would forget the kid

this is so stressful why am I already crying jfc barely 4 minutes and I'm invested in that family, someone pls find that kid 😭🤣🤣

911 always does such a good job at making me care about all these random people we're gonna see once for a few minutes istg 😂

[passiveagressivepoet]

okay okay okay

the thing is i think dean killing amy pond was super in character and in line with where spn was in the show’s journey. like the boys are barely beginning to question if all monsters should be killed. i get why dean’s moral compass said yes to killing amy, they’ve killed other monsters for less. she murdered people - yes for her son and i agree that her death was fucked up - but they literally killed monsters for waaaaaaaay less than murder. i get why sam let her go (the whole eye for an eye thing since she saved him) but if positions were reversed and dean had let someone like that go sam TOTALLY would’ve gone and murked her.

was it foul to kill a mother for trying to help her child and make the child watch? yes, absolutely. do i also think it was super in character and made sense in the characters’ emotional journeys to that point in the show? also yes. do i think sam would’ve killed her if roles were reversed? ABSOLUTELY I FUCKING DO

anyways the morality explored in this episode is super interesting and i think jackles did a great job directing

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also given that the logic of said superiority authoriority is an entitlement to deny someone's personhood & use them as an object for your purposes, from obviously getting to direct what they must do & can't do, to enjoying whatever gratification from lashing out / demeaning which is also going to serve as an affirming exercise in authority when one can do that from an insulated elevated place....a crucial part of whatever form of this violence, from the most nanoscopic triangle in the sierpiński triangle pyramid scheme hierarchy, to the hypothetical largest (zoom in or out to whatever degree: the same shit also), being that indeed the superior parties need the deserved insulation from any Consequence to exerting their superior status, including indeed from having to witness the consequences For the "inferior" parties, such as whatever externalizations of suffering they recognize as such, which either (a) need to be put away (b) are manipulative performances or otherwise exaggerated (e.g. being a pussy / not even having the sense to realize how little suffering they're Really experiencing) or (c) can be fun to witness if you decide you enjoy that as an affirmation of power as per your ability to completely detach from any avoidance of causing pain, harming for its own sake, b/c you Can

all which is to frame how Interesting it is that after all those moments of going "well, they keep bothering with reaction shots of winston noticeably feeling hurt & expressing it, sometimes also verbally. it's like it could be setting up something" it set up Nothing; while once again just like has been done dozens of times a scene just Ends on winston being rejected &/or hurt, no resolution then, no resolution ever, and in the case of 7x03 was so significant an attack that just like in 4x11 when mafee gets to take out his own Loyalty Insecurity on winston while everyone else hangs around in tacit to overt approval, everyone just leaves the room & we get winston staying behind in the Most distant position aaand scene's over! thread's over! david levien get back here after you Liked that 4x12 livetweet of mine pointing out "so see & winston was right anyways??" like....that is: we are given the Perspective of someone who is also now Leaving winston behind, thus immune to the consequences of however that treatment could actually affect him or how he might struggle to deal with that now (who cares! the answer is: Alone) like Whatever, next time we see him he's completely fine now. and i'm just so happening to think that all the little moments of getting to see winston wither & withdraw & etc in reaction to being shitted on was also us being granted the perspective of Gratification that he's punished for speaking or existing or whatever, without it ever going anywhere or mattering beyond that instant. we too are the ones who surely get to relentlessly bully the autistic person & damn if we don't at least enjoy someone getting to go off the rails restoring their ego by doing absolutely whatever they want to him, which just so happens to be perfectly aligned with getting him Back In Line. pull yourself together winston! the only consequences you're experiencing we wanna deal with are the ones where you give us the algorithm we decided we want, actually. and now let's look across the rest of the season where the consequences for wags for being this way (or anyone else for standing by, ready to benefit, with philip bafflingly declaring as well how actually it was brutal in a good way) is approximately fuckall even as of course nobody's pretending he's one of the personal growth guys out here: rian is though, and didn't have to "grow" out of abusing winston or thinking that was fine & good or that of course she's inherently superior! and in the end we have more affection and interest for the Epic Asshole than their Cringe Targets

[cockworkangels]

baby sam is such a cute and sweet little guy but he makes me so so so so sad. he wanted out of the hunter life so bad and he gets back in for over 15 years and it's even worse than he ever could have imagined and he lost more than he could have imagined

[gaybitcheddiediaz]

ROCK THE BOAT BY HUES CORPORATION I CALLED IT

[smuganya]

ISADORA ARTIÑÁN Élite | 7.03

[llove-me-anyway]

something that needs to be mentioned as well is the power of the writers. we know Tommy wasn't supposed to be on that rescue but then it worked out that way with him being there. and they managed to take this unlikable man dude who had very little redemption arc (until 7x03) into a love interest that most of us are rooting for really hard and actually enjoying so much and they did that within like an episode and half. not even talking about the fact it is a love interest to our Buck who we wanted to be with Eddie and no-one else for years now! it's just *chef's kiss* they slayed so hard with this storyline. none of us saw that coming. it is a crack ship come reality.