#helena taylor

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All this drama surrounding Helena Taylor has been a hot mess since day one. She started off bitching about how she "only" $4000 doing a job that probably took her a week at most to do. She had the audacity to act like some low income worker when that's more money than what a lot of people make in about two months. Most people would be grateful to earn anywhere near that amount of money in just a week. She came across as a spoiled brat who doesn't know the worth of dollar.

She then proceeded to urge fans to boycott the game and tell Jennifer Hale she had no right to play the role of Bayonetta. Who made Taylor the casting director? She completely overstepped her boundaries by throwing shade at another actor and wanting a game to financially suffer just cause she didn't get her way. I guess the hard work the programmers, animators, writers and other voice actors put in the game doesn't matter to her.

To top it all off, it turned out she's a lying narcissist. She was actually offered $15,000 while she wanted to make SIX FIGURES! Bitch where!? $4000 is already a hefty sum of money let alone $15,000, which was EXTREMELY generous of the dev team. There's no way in hell she needs six figures. Does she think she's some Hollywood celebrity? Does she want to be paid just to breathe? Be humble. Its so annoying how quick the Internet was to paint this entitled woman in a working class narrative.

She's obviously not strapped for cash if Bayonetta had been her only voice role for the past few years. She has no passion for the industry and she only wanted Bayonetta as a paycheck. Brats like her need to find a new job cause this industry ain't working out for her.

It's nice that her stupidass boycott attempt has led to a huge increase in preorders and im sure Jennifer will do a stunning performance. Helena made a complete fool.of herself and doesn't even have a paycheck to show for it.

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Helena Taylor lied about her pay but also her charities is anti abortion 😬

It’s a no for me scoob

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If you’re not paying attention to what just happened in the Bayonetta fandom start paying attention to it right now

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Bayonetta 3 Boycott

So... is anyone else really sick and tired of other peoples dickheadness ruining things you love?

Most of you are aware of the Helena Taylor situation by now I'm sure. I was pretty upset when I first heard the news but I'll be honest that I really had no intention on boycotting the game. Some really short sighted people on here will say that means I'm a callous greedy asshole who doesn't care about anyone and that I deserve to have my kneecaps busted. But considering just how much has come out since this mess started I think its fair to say that those people wouldn't understand the concept of nuance if they were lectured on it everyday for a year and their final exam was being beaten with the text book.

To be fair I don't judge anyone regardless of where they choose to stand on this issue, its just those particular morons who think a single purchasing decision is enough to draw a full conclusion on a person's moral character. It's a lose lose situation. If you boycott the game your not really hurting the Nintendo executive bastards who are probably at the heart of Taylor's situation. In fact if you wanna start boycotting games that underpay their workers you're basically gonna have to boycott every game in the industry.

Likewise if you choose to play the game it's probably gonna have at least a icky aftertaste to it. But as many have pointed out Taylor isn't the only person whose had any attachment to this game. There are tons of workers including coders, designers, sound engineers, and even other voice actors etc who have put a lot into this game. and boycotting a relatively niche game that Nintendo and the industry at large isn't too invested in probably isn't gonna have the wide sweeping change a lot of people think it will.

Do what you think it right guys, and try not to be assholes to each other for trying to navigate a shitty situation as best they can.

And remember to stay gay and stay magickal.

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lolol so helena taylor may have misrepresented her pay offer.... it wasnt $4000 total... it was $4000 per 4 hour session, which is 4 times union rate, of which there would be likely at least 4, plus residuals

Im not dismissing that voice actors deserve better/fair pay and treatment than they've been getting, but that issue may not be what was going on here

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I’m literally sitting here with a rainstorm raging around me thinking about every single relationship (of any type) of Eddie’s that we’ve been shown. And I hope this makes sense after my app deleted what I had previously written for this meta!

Nearly every single one of them has been easy for him - except for a few, those with Buck, his father, Taylor and Josh (and arguably Ana which is a whole other interesting conversation point that I'll get to!) I'm not going to go into the Buck and Eddie relationship and its lack of ease - its a whole post on its own and I want to focus on the other aspects of Eddies journey through these other relationships he has.

Because he easily befriends Hen and Chim, there’s an easy relationship that develops with Bobby, and even with Athena. We’ve seen an easy friendship between him and Karen, easy friendships grow with the people at dispatch (lindaand May espeically). We saw an easy friendship with Michael (and David) and then at the firehouse with Lena, with Ravi and with Lucy (the two minutes of it we saw!)

He has a good realtionship with Abeula nad with Pepa - they're his family yes, but the show takes the time to show us that their relationships are close and good ones.

He even makes friends with the woman Pepa sets him up with (even if they have no further contact beyond that awkward date it was still friendly and reads like they could’ve pursued a friendship if they had wanted to beyond that meeting) even Marisol is easy and requires very little effort or energy on his part.

Even with Shannon - there might be a bit of suspicion initally, but he falls back into bed with her pretty easily, and then back into some form of a relationship with her. He re-finds that magic and it’s pretty easy for him, even if what we see heavily implies its all surface level and sex.

And now we have Tommy and this easy friendship that just clicks, but more on that a bit later.

If we look at the difficult or more complicated relationships he has, well they tell their own story and the subtext is delicious.

Let's start with Ramon. It not an easy relationship and Eddie feels a lot of resentment towards him. There are a million heart metaphors in play around this relationship and the moment we see it being repaired and beginning to heal is telling. Eddie has spent his entire journey through fatherhood scared of ending up the same type of father as his own and the moment he recognises and accepts that he isn't following the same path and that he doesn't have to/wont in the future, is the moment we see it heal and Eddie is able to move forward. from then on we're shown that relationship as being in a much more positive light and we see his own relationship with Chris improve as well.

Ramon is a mirror for Eddie and fatherhood.

Then there is Ana - while they had a good initial meeting it quickly turned sour when Chris fell of the skateboard and got injured. Ana stops being Christophers teacher and leaves the school and then when they meet back up in s4 it became easy once they’d cleared the air - but easy in the fact that Eddies heart wasn't really in it and he was ultimately sticking it out or Chris.

I find the Ana thing interesting because there is the fact that it doesn’t read to the audience like Eddie would’ve pursued anything with her had he not been pushed by his friends. and this plays into the theme surrounding Ana - she is a parallel of Shannon.

From what we know from what Eddie has told us - he met Shannon and it was magic, then she got pregnant so they go married, Eddie signs up and things turn sour. Eddie gets injured and comes home - they are at loggerheads with one another until she leaves. then they meet back up again once Eddie has moved to LA an they fall back into bed with one another and essentially pick back up their relationship. its easy, but again they are not truky in it for themselves or each other - they're sticking it out for Chris.

See where I'm going - the ups and downs of Eddie and Ana's relationship hits the same points at the same moments as Eddie nad Shannons relationship did.

So like Ramon, Ana is a mirror, just she is a mirror to Shannon rather than Eddie himself. Because the moment Eddie breaks up with Ana is also the moment he accepts the reality of his relationship with Shannon was about Christopher rather than about himself. from then on we see him building a more positive experience about Shannon for Christopher (we know as an audience that they have probably been talking about Shannon etc, but its actually from this moment on when we are shown it - its when start to see pictures of Shannon more explicitly being shown in the Diaz house outside of Christophers bedroom)

Then there is the Taylor Kelly of it all and this one is a fascinating one to me. Eddie dislikes Taylor because she is pretty damn similar to Helena Diaz. I know that sounds a bit far fetched, but they have the same personality traits and hit similar beats. Taylor is loud and forceful, her personality is domineering and we are shown her taking over and or inserting herself into every scene scene she's at and into places she does't belong. She has next to no qualms about throwing people under the bus for her own benefit and to ensure she stays the centre of attention.

Helena is the same - pretty much every scene we see her in she pulls focus she is domineering and controls the conversations and the narratives. She thinks she knows best and inserts herself into places she shouldn't be (the scene from Eddie begins where she sends Eddie back to get a juice box for Chris is a prime example of this and its implied by Shannons reaction and words that its a common occurrence) even down to making all the food for Ramon's retirement party because she doesn't trust the caterers. She, like Taylor, has no qualms throwing people under the bus to be the centre of attention - even her own son - at her husbands retirement party - an event manifestly not about her and yet she makes it about her.

And the thing is Ramon, personality wise, is very similar to Buck. This is particularly true when it comes to his relationship with Taylor - it mirrors Ramon a fair amount - going along with Taylors wants and needs rather than his own and allowing her to control things. Letting her be the centre of attention and dominate the relationship. The fact that things come to a head with her in the same episode (hero complex) as Eddie begins to reconcile with his father and we are shown Helena throwing Eddie under the bus (in the same way Taylor did with Buck (I can't reiterate enough this is in the very same episode).

One of the reasons I personally think Eddie dislikes Taylor as intensely as he does is because of these similarities between Ramon and Buck and Helena and Taylor. I couldn't say if its on a conscious or subconscious level, but Eddie knows that his parents marriage isn't perhaps an especially happy or good one, that they are fundamentally not really right for one another. I think he perhaps sees his father as downtrodden and under the thumb of his mother and that he's essentially trapped and won't get out because it's too late and he doesn't want that for Buck. Like I said its not necessarily on a conscious level, but it makes sense with the context we have that even if he isn't fully cognisant of his feelings/ the depth of his feelings for Buck, the last thing he would want is for his friend to become a shell of himself in the way his father has at the hands of a woman who is exactly like his mother.

This is such a choice by the show to parallel Ramon and Buck, especially if you entertain the concept of people marrying versions of their parents (generally taken as men marrying women similar to their mothers but it can also be applied to a queer relationship and the idea of a queer man marrying a man who is similar to his father), so Eddie ending up in a romantic relationship with Buck would play into this as a trope/ concept - one that I would actually love the show to explore.

Finally - Eddie has a difficult relationship with Josh at dispatch that we never really truly see resolved. So as far as we know, while the last time they interacted showed them in a slightly more friendly light, it was still evident that they are not friends and there is still tension there. the reason this is super interesting is that Josh is the only single gay guy on the show (and is loosely friends with buck and the show riffed on the idea of Maddie setting them up) and because Eddie hasn’t reckoned with his queerness yet, he can’t become friends with Josh. If the show continues the way it has - reconciling those relationships that are not easy for Eddie once he has accepted/confronted/ reckoned with that aspect of himself, I think we might see him become friends with Josh once he’s actually accepted he’s gay!

The fact that the Josh relationship hasn't been resolved is what makes this friendship Eddie has struck up with Tommy so interesting - it's looking like its going to play out along a similar (extended over multiple episodes) line to the Buck/Red friendship for Eddie (I'm not going into the Buck aspects of Tommys appearance in this meta). Its about Eddie reckoning with himself so all the dialogue that has seriously queer undertones to it and the directorial choices of bro high fives etc that are all just a little too much and trying a little too hard - its all about Eddie facing up to himself and looking in the mirror and accepting all the parts of himself.

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we talk about how weird it is referring to two name actors with one name but do you know how weird it is to refer to three name actors by two names??

like thats sarah jessica parker, NOT sarah parker

imagine

jonathan taylor thomas as jonathan thomas 💀

jamie lee curtis? nah, jamie curtis

helena carter

jennifer hewitt

joseph levitt

sarah gellar

mary moore

mary winstead

catherine jones

neil harris 💀

its so bad

who is that? michael jordan or michael jordan

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No but seriously imagine it

You’re seeing Paramore on a concert. Everyone is having a great time. Paramore seem a little excited. “We have a surprise for you guys.” Hayley says. All of a sudden FOB come out and start singing “Thnks Fr Th Mmrs” When Patrick gets to the chorus, someone else starts singing…

“Long ago, Just like the hearse you tied to get in again.”

Red lights flash everywhere, and you see Paramore singing “Thnks Fr Th Mmrs” along with FOB, while MCR is singing “Helena”. Everyone in the crowd is going wild and crying. Then if things couldn’t get any better, Dan and Phil walk onto stage and kiss, holding the gay flag.

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