#SCRIPT: OLIVER

[kerflooey]

@bloodymabel : ‘i just want you to know that this is really nice’

The night had been … what it had been. A night to be talked about, certainly. And remembered. He knows he should be feeling something. Not to say that he isn’t feeling anything, he just knows that it’s not the right, human, decent thing to feel. A man had died, twice, and the most raucous thought crossing his mind is will my name make it on the papers when they print about this tomorrow?

As the three of them rummage around his apartment, he tells himself that anticipation could be a way to cope with the shock. They’ll get interviewed about it; they have to. Legally and show-business-ly. How far could he stretch that actor-director bond? Ben wouldn’t be around to contradict him.

They could’ve talked on the phone for hours, him being the gentlest mentor of a lost artist striving for his first true raw performance. They could’ve talked the greats together, Ben’s compliments and his placing him, Oliver Putnam, up there with them being so humbling.

Mabel and Charles chatter about the more … haunting implications of the whole thing. Podcasting about it again seems like a given, and for once he's glad not to feel like the sole driving force behind that production. Don’t get him wrong, it’ll be a great addition to what he will have going on … and he’ll have a lot going on. Would a documentary on the play’s continued production, as a means to honor its former star, be way too much?

Charles leaves eventually (old man!), and being left alone with her makes him realize Mabel might not exactly be feeling the right thing, either. Her intense, Nancy Drew persona is one of the many great things about her, but even he can admit she’s immersing herself far too intensely, far too soon. It’d be less worrying if they were already at the point in the investigation where things get juicy, but …

He doesn’t know how to be comforting. He’s usually comforted. The best thing he can do is pick up one of those tiny boxes of apple juice (who knows where it came from, or how long it’d been there) and offer it to her. He takes his sit back next to her, making a little jest out of scooting closer.

‘I just want you to know that this is really nice’

  "Pah, don’t mention it." – it’d been the last thing on his cupboard.  

A silence settles in. She doesn’t fill it, prompting him to sincerely (sincerely!) ask, “are you sure you’re okay, kiddo?”

[riickgrimes]

Look, I just gave you what you wanted! Like everyone else does. Everyone puts on a show for Felix. So I'm sorry my performance wasn't good enough. I think...I think you need to see somebody. You need help, okay? Seriously. No, I don't. I just need you to understand how much I fucking love you.

[eddiegayass]

This might be the worst his tattoo cover up has ever looked and that's saying something

I know they are so behind schedule but there's no excuse for this lmao

[corallapis]

[k-wame]

OLIVER QUICK & FELIX CATTON ↳ Saltburn (2023) dir. Emerald Fennell

[gothamite-rambler]

Green Arrow (on the phone): Hey… Speedy.

Roy (with Lian): Not my hero name anymore. What do you want?

Green Arrow (ignoring the car crash behind him): Nothing major. I’m close to your town, dealing with a few villains with Canary. She wants you to come over for a family dinner, by the way, but I need you too.

Roy (making slime with Lian): For what?

Green Arrow (hesitating): You know… to bring your bow and arrow… and wear your hero suit. It doesn’t have to be the one I gave you.

Roy (indifferent): I would expect not. I'm pretty sure you still have that one, and I can’t fit it anymore. You sound like you're in the middle of a fight and need assistance.

Green Arrow (laughing nervously): Right, you’re not wrong. It’s kind of overwhelming here, and my other sidekicks are with their bigger teams. So you can step in and-

Roy: Ask me correctly or I'm dropping this call.

Green Arrow (struggling to form the words): Can you… It would be great if… I need your help! Okay? You’re my original sidekick and my son, and I really need your help! Please!

Roy: Geez, chill. I’ll meet you there. I've just been waiting for you to say that for years. Lian... I should keep her home.

Lian: I would prefer that. CoryXKenshin uploaded a new Poppy's Playtime and I can't miss that.

Roy: I have no idea what you just said, but okay you enjoy that. You owe me, Ollie. I expect to be compensated for this.

Green Arrow: Compensation? I got you and wouldn't avoid paying my kids for helping me out with fighting criminals. And thanks, Arsenal. I mean that.

Roy: No prob.

[tevanbuckley]

rewatching the lone star cross over with the knowledge/confirmation that buck's bi is sooooo funny, because look at him

if you saw these still out of context in what world would you assume they're from a scene where buck is consoling tk about his dad being presumed dead? like no wonder tk clocked his ass.

it's even more hilarious that this interaction apparently set off zero alarm bells in buck's head and so it took him a whole three more years to come out. he really just thought he allied too close to the sun.

all i'm saying is buck's lucky tommy was single because otherwise he would've carried on accidentally flirting with hot queer firemen and never putting the pieces together.

[titans-and-jla-mini-fics]

Lian: What is it?

Oliver: A cross—

Lian (shouting): What is it?!

Oliver: A cross—

Lian (shouting, bouncing on her toes): WHAT IS IT?

Oliver (momentary pause): ...You put her up to this, didn't you?

Roy chuckled, arms crossed, clearly enjoying his father's frustration. He handed Lian twenty dollars for successfully annoying Oliver.

Roy (lying): Not at all.

Oliver composed himself and continued showing off the weapon.

Oliver: It's a crossbow. A crossbow is a special kind of bow that shoots arrows, but instead of using your hands to pull the string back like you would with a regular bow, it has a trigger like a toy gun. It's yours now.

Oliver handed the empty crossbow to his granddaughter, but Dinah rushed over and snatched the weapon out of her hands.

Lian: Oooh, you got me a crossbow? Thanks, Grandpa!

Oliver: She's so precious.

Dinah: Which one of you decided to give this to her?

Roy pointed to Oliver, who shrugged in response.

Oliver: I adopted Roy for the purpose of being an archer. I'm only teaching my granddaughter to be efficient in the… sport as well.

Dinah: You are not teaching her the sports version!

Oliver: You don't know if I am. You're just assuming that I am a bad guy. Right Roy?

Roy cackled in response, unable to respond due to how hilarious this whole conversation was.

Lian: Grammie, please let me use it? I promise I'll be safe.

Dinah hesitated, but the pleading look in Lian's eyes quickly broke her resolve. She handed the crossbow to Roy, closing her eyes.

Dinah: I'm watching you, and if she gets hurt or hurts someone, it's you both I'll be punishing!

Lian giggled as Dinah took a few steps back, preparing to safely watch the training.

Lian: Daddy, she's gonna give you a time-out if you mess up.

Roy (ruffling his daughter's hair): Shush.

[eleanorandphantom]

RICKY WHEN I CATCH YOU RICKY🧑‍🎤 🏃‍♀️💨

I HAVE BEEN THINKING OF MY MPHFPC DR SO FUCKING MUCH LATELY AAAAAAAAAAA

(I’ve also been obsessing over Ricky for some reason, like idk what it is but he keeps poppin in my head)

So like here’s some memories/details I remembered that I’ve obtained over the past week!!

Noor has a favorite grey sweatshirt that Lilly bought her, it has their names embroidered in the hand cuffs

Ricky’s singing voice is VERY similar to McCafferty and the song BEACHBOY is literally him

Claire is scared of swinging but when Olive or Enoch pushes her on the swing she is okay

Olive loves to run through the halls but on the ceiling when she takes her boots off

DEVILS ACRE SMELLS SO DANK EWWWWW (but like why do I love it there so much)

Ymbrynes have a social status based on their pocket watch (a beginner ymbryne would have a small quarter sized pocket watch with little to no engravings, as they grow as an ymbryne they will advance to bigger and more ornate watches, so far Miss Avocet was known to have the “best” pocket watch. It is an honor to be gifted your first pocket watch by older ymbrynes)

Millard sleep walks, and it’s terrifying because he normally sleeps without clothes so miss P forced him after a while, we had to walk in the middle of the night cuz he got out of the house and we couldn’t see him 😭

Bronwyn has hyperhydrosis like I do in my CR, she gets a lil insecure

Jacob talks about Ricky a lot to Noor, only to Noor because he feels that if he spoke about him to anyone else they would be terrified

Fiona hates growing mushrooms but they are one of her favorite plants

Hugh found a way to get high on honey. Miss P was PISSED.

Sharon is such a drunk uncle when he’s not brooding or mysterious, very grunkle Stan vibes

anyways that’s it for today!!! Please send asks I wanna talk about this more but I need detailed questions 😭🙏

[charliewrites99]

So, which brave soul is going to ask Oliver why exactly was this his favourite episode?

[saltburn-bi]

by the way like. mad respect to the people saying oliver was riding farleigh in that scene but what we saw onscreen appears to have Only been a handjob. they definitely fucked though

[altsunthinkable]

So I was telling my mother (who watches 911 but like in a normal general audience way) about the whole alive Bobby theory today. And in running it down for her, I finally settled on the things that make me most lean towards believing it.

1. Oliver sharing the "buried alive" script page. Now, I actually do think the script page was fake and posted as an April Fools joke (particularly because JLH also posted it but it wasn't legible enough so then Oliver did it too). BUT given that Oliver is aware how fans scrutinize his social media activities and he has outright said he didn't want fans to feel mislead if he "liked" Buddie stuff so he wasn't going to do it anymore... would he really go along with a joke saying Bobby was alive if that isn't going to end up being the case? It wouldn't seem to fit with the care he's shown towards fans' expectations in the past.

2. Oliver's post about Peter saying "we miss you at work with us every day" when we know for a fact he's been on set pretty much this whole time. Not "we will miss you." But something we know to actually be false because he hasn't been missing yet.

3. Oliver sharing then deleting the two photos of Brad Torrence just hours after the funeral scenes were shot downtown. It wasn't just one photo which could have been an accidental "oops I didn't mean to tap that one" share. It was two separate photos. We all thought it was odd at the time and wondered what it was about. But then someone (I'm sorry I don't remember who) pointed out what the suicidal Hotshots fan said in 8x08: "You're my comfort captain... You're killing off Captain Banner? You can't! ... Do you realize how many people would be devastated if you did that?" Brad dismisses it as 2 days on TMZ tops. The fan then quotes the inspirational speech from the end of Hotshots season 2 word for word and reiterates: "You can't kill off Captain Banner. He's what keeps the 119 fire family together."* And Brad decides he'll agree to have Banner live. And we see for a fact that he goes through with it.

4. Angela Bassett saying she found out when she got the script when Tim Minear said in an inteview that he called each cast member and told them, giving details about how they reacted (that it took 15 minutes to convince Aisha he wasn't joking).

5. Ryan not doing a goodbye post directed to Peter at all. Not even a photo of the two of them together. Just sharing a silly fan edit of Bobby with a pink bow on his head.

Those are the main offscreen things that have me 🤔🤨. On screen see also:

1. Chekov's rat. Why make a point of showing Chimney bringing it out of the lab when they didn't even acknowledge its existence while they were inside? And we had that post-episode still showing someone taking the rat away from Chim while he's in quarantine. That got cut from the episode but was apparently important enough to write and to shoot.

2. The awkward and otherwise unnecessary cut from Chimney on the phone with Maddie saying "he knew" to the 4 nameless faceless people in hazmat suits caring out the already closed body bag before panning to Bobby's helmet on the floor. It's awkward AF. If they wanted the helmet shot for emotional punch they could have gone just to it. Or panned across some of the blood Bobby had coughed up on the floor and then settled on the helmet. Or maybe even from Bobby's boots and legs from where he died knelt at that table to his helmet. The shot of the body bag being carried out by unknown people was completely out of place. Unless it's important that we know that.

3. The choice of Work Song. We know this show loves itself some on the nose musical choices. "No grave can hold my body down. I'll crawl home to her." There so many songs about death and loss they could have used to just as poignant an end. But this is what they picked.

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*Tim has cited the Captain Banner stuff in interviews saying it was him choreographing his intentions to kill Bobby. But given Oliver's choice to share those pics when it was already clear fans had figured it out it was Bobby's funeral being filmed, I can just as easily see it being Tim feeling incredibly pleased with himself and clever that he told us exactly what was going to happen - Captain Banner Nash is going to live! My bet is he probably was bummed out some fans were on to him so quickly so he decided to mention it to try to again say "see, he's dead!" Ala "the body bag didn't convince you?" Which is also weird thing to say if that shot doesn't end up being important...

[buckleyy]

just had a horrible thought. what if buck is having nightmares where bobby is actually alive and he needs his help and the whole thing with bobby being buried alive (bobby in the coffin) is just a dream that shows how torn up with grief and denial buck is (this next part is for fujo bobby) and then he wakes up in a cold sweat gasping and eddie wakes up next to him because he’s in town for the funeral it makes more sense for him to stay at his old place with buck and the couch isn’t very comfortable

[bybobbysbeard]

hmm

[gothamite-rambler]

Lian: What is it?

Oliver: A cross—

Lian (shouting): What is it?!

Oliver: A cross—

Lian (shouting, bouncing on her toes): WHAT IS IT?!

Oliver (momentary pause): …You put her up to this, didn't you?

Roy chuckled, arms crossed, clearly enjoying his father's frustration. He handed Lian twenty dollars for successfully annoying Oliver.

Roy (lying): Not at all.

Oliver composed himself and continued showing off the weapon.

Oliver: It's a crossbow. A crossbow is a special kind of bow that shoots arrows, but instead of using your hands to pull the string back like with a regular bow, it has a trigger—like a toy gun. It's yours now.

Lian: Oooh, you got me a crossbow? Thanks, Grandpa!

Oliver: She's so precious.

Oliver handed the empty crossbow to his granddaughter. Lian took it, pretending to shoot imaginary arrows.

Dinah: What are you—Oh my goodness!

Dinah rushed over and snatched the weapon out of Lian's hands, making the little girl pout.

Dinah: Which one of you decided to give this to her?

Roy pointed to Oliver, who shrugged in response.

Oliver: I taught Roy how to become an archer — why wouldn't I teach our granddaughter as well?

Dinah: Don’t do that! Don’t use the fact I love that little girl as a defense for letting her use a crossbow!

Oliver: I’m only teaching my granddaughter to be efficient in the… sport of archery.

Dinah: You are not teaching her the sports version!

Oliver: You don't know if I am. You're just assuming I’m a bad guy. Right, Roy?

Roy cackled in response, unable to respond due to how hilarious he found the whole conversation.

Dinah: Lian, be honest — wouldn't you like to have a different toy to play with?

Lian: Grammie, please let me use it! I promise I'll be careful.

Dinah hesitated, but the pleading look in Lian’s eyes quickly broke her resolve. She handed the crossbow to Roy, closing her eyes.

Dinah: I’m watching you. If she gets hurt or hurts someone, it’ll be both of you I’ll be punishing!

Lian giggled as Dinah took a few steps back, preparing to supervise the training safely.

Lian: Daddy, she’s gonna give you a time-out if you mess up.

Roy (ruffling his daughter's hair): Shush.

Lian (pretending to shoot the crossbow): Watch me. Bang! Bang! Bang, bang, bang!

Oliver: It’s not a gun, sweetie.

[bringthesauerkraut]

John Oliver interrupts Jon Stewart attempting to break a sex scandal

"...there really should be a pair of Harry Baals"

I love whenever they did these sex scandal song slams cuz I always imagine how weird the phone call to the R Kelly style singer must have been every time 🤣

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