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summerstorm) wrote2026-03-10 06:22 pm
summerstorm) wrote2026-03-10 06:22 pm
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I finished my first playthrough of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and I enjoyed it a LOT. I want to make a proper post about it, but I do not have the energy right now, so you get my thoughts on TV instead.
The Pitt:
Getting a real kick out of the Langdon/Mel breadcrumbs. I don't know that I want it to go canon or anything, but I just enjoy how much of an impression he made on Mel (and to a lesser extent, even on Santos, with the "wanna guess his blood alcohol?" throwback) and I don't mind suspending my disbelief that A Single Day of knowing him would still be so present in their memory all these months later. It was a very traumatic day.
I was pleasantly surprised they made Santos/Garcia explicitly canon. I did not see that coming, but yay, lesbians! Even if they're super toxic. Maybe especially because they're toxic. I don't particularly want them to fix their problems (every time I think about what Garcia might be like as a partner, I recoil) so I'm enjoying whatever they have going on.
McKay being somewhat self-conscious about probably having been the type of doctor the woman with PCOS was talking about and making sure she wasn't ignored was great. like you could tell she was having some Feelings inside and I was kinda proud of her for keeping them there. Growth!
Honestly, this show is just fun for me. I love that it's a prestige show with a majority female cast, even if Noah Wyle is like, The Guy. I still don't understand why they got rid of Heather, though. I wasn't invested in her, but at least I had positive feelings toward her. I haven't really warmed to Al-Hashimi yet, and her coming back with the director to tell everyone their computers were getting shut down was by far the most unsettling thing I've seen on this show. Fuck graphic injuries, they (either Al-Hashimi or just, whoever made the decision) couldn't have given the ER a heads up so people could save shit?
It's a very fun plotline, though. I like it a lot. Unlike the hints that Robby wants to kill himself. That's no fun and I am deliberately ignoring them. Thankfully I am not invested enough in him to find it upsetting, but oof.
I watched the last two episodes of 9-1-1 and the Nashville crossover and all I really want to say -- because I mostly enjoy the show for what it is, and I hate spec -- is that I hope that's all the second-hand embarrassment they make me put up with this season. They were fun episodes, but I had to distract myself through some scenes. Also, I cannot believe the Nashville set-up is... that. Every time they cut to the two mothers of Chris O'Donnell's children, I cringed so bad. If they were going to do something interesting, like have them forget him (I've only known him for one episode and if anything happened to him, I would cheer, oh my god, he sucks? He sucks worse than Owen!) for each other, sure. But this shit is the most trite, misogynistic trope and I feel like every time they make a new 9-1-1, they just go backwards.
The Pitt:
Getting a real kick out of the Langdon/Mel breadcrumbs. I don't know that I want it to go canon or anything, but I just enjoy how much of an impression he made on Mel (and to a lesser extent, even on Santos, with the "wanna guess his blood alcohol?" throwback) and I don't mind suspending my disbelief that A Single Day of knowing him would still be so present in their memory all these months later. It was a very traumatic day.
I was pleasantly surprised they made Santos/Garcia explicitly canon. I did not see that coming, but yay, lesbians! Even if they're super toxic. Maybe especially because they're toxic. I don't particularly want them to fix their problems (every time I think about what Garcia might be like as a partner, I recoil) so I'm enjoying whatever they have going on.
McKay being somewhat self-conscious about probably having been the type of doctor the woman with PCOS was talking about and making sure she wasn't ignored was great. like you could tell she was having some Feelings inside and I was kinda proud of her for keeping them there. Growth!
Honestly, this show is just fun for me. I love that it's a prestige show with a majority female cast, even if Noah Wyle is like, The Guy. I still don't understand why they got rid of Heather, though. I wasn't invested in her, but at least I had positive feelings toward her. I haven't really warmed to Al-Hashimi yet, and her coming back with the director to tell everyone their computers were getting shut down was by far the most unsettling thing I've seen on this show. Fuck graphic injuries, they (either Al-Hashimi or just, whoever made the decision) couldn't have given the ER a heads up so people could save shit?
It's a very fun plotline, though. I like it a lot. Unlike the hints that Robby wants to kill himself. That's no fun and I am deliberately ignoring them. Thankfully I am not invested enough in him to find it upsetting, but oof.
I watched the last two episodes of 9-1-1 and the Nashville crossover and all I really want to say -- because I mostly enjoy the show for what it is, and I hate spec -- is that I hope that's all the second-hand embarrassment they make me put up with this season. They were fun episodes, but I had to distract myself through some scenes. Also, I cannot believe the Nashville set-up is... that. Every time they cut to the two mothers of Chris O'Donnell's children, I cringed so bad. If they were going to do something interesting, like have them forget him (I've only known him for one episode and if anything happened to him, I would cheer, oh my god, he sucks? He sucks worse than Owen!) for each other, sure. But this shit is the most trite, misogynistic trope and I feel like every time they make a new 9-1-1, they just go backwards.
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I am right there with you. The time they took to gather everyone, to slowly explain it to them as ICT was shutting everything down? It made me livid. Like... there is a cyber-attack, we are aware of it, and Al-Hashimi should have come down and immediately grabbed a trusted staff member or two and tell them to start saving, start taking photos of the board.
They were ridiculously lucky that someone had a photographic memory -- it shouldn't have been handled so badly.
(I mean, surely, even the head honcho has worked in offices long enough to understand the importance of quickly calling out to everyone to save their work? Like, I only work in financial offices, and we've had thunderstorms / blackouts / whatever where someone literally yells across an office "Everybody save! IT said the system might go down!")
But, yeah, taking the time to try to be corporate and calm about it, instead of practical? I can totally understand Robby's annoyance at the whole thing.
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I would have understood if they didn't want to alert the person who was committing the cyber attacks in case they... I don't even know, did it faster? But it's not like a bunch of people didn't already KNOW. It certainly didn't seem like they'd intended to keep it under wraps until it happened. They just did Not Think.
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Yes, that's it exactly. They just didn't consider the actual impact.