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Not sure if you are sitll keeping uo with Lovecraft Country but Euby abd Christina is so enthralling. I mean Christina is evil and up to absolutely no good but whatever she and Ruby have going on is so weird and messed up but also… I can’t look away?

Um. I get it, for sure, I see the gifsets and stuff, and they do look intense and interesting, stuff’s happening there, but I just can’t get over what the show did to two QWOC already. And as I’d said, right, at the time, however badly they were regarded then (and most people hardly seemed to care about the second), they’d be forgotten soon enough and they were. It just bothered me, how cavalierly it was handled. 

Separately from that, I just couldn’t get over how the characters were written, I honestly was starting to dislike all of them as people, they would be so selfish or self-righteous or hypocritical. I like to ship by really getting into the characters and in Christina’s case especially, she seems so weird and racist, I just wouldn’t be able to get into that. But hopefully it ends well for you all!

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i sent one of the asks about THOBM and it truly was just to help you decide, i didn’t mean to make you feel pressured to watch it or anything! Because I do understand not wanting to go through that pain or not liking stories like that! Wev’e already suffered too much, there is no need to do that with fictional characters if we can avoid it. For me, though, I love suffering hahahah have a great week! xo

Oh, no worries, I just didn’t want it to seem like I didn’t appreciate people offering their input, I did. And yeah, I think…just not for me.

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Just like you the f/f in Hill House didn’t really do much for me. Nell is what got me and the mom too. I LOVED it. I was watching with friends and sped through without them in the end. Season 2 though… Meh. It picks up after episode 5 but it’s less scary which I didn’t like and I also just didn’t… I don’t know, BELIEVE it about Dani/Jamie? Great actresses but together no spark. To me. Especially since they’re this years long love story it felt hollow? As a whole though S2 was just ok to me.

Ah, but see, I even find my memories of season 1 tainted by how sad Olivia and Nell’s endings were! I don’t just dislike BYGs for meta reasons, because of–well, all the reasons we already know, what it reflects of the creators and society, how it’s a rare glimpse of others like us, etc, but I also just dislike sad endings in general, for every other kind of story. 

I don’t actually mind it being less scary and I’ve only seen gifs and clips of Dani/Jamie, they seem cute, I don’t think that would be my objection to it. I would almost prefer not loving them, so the ending wouldn’t be so crushing.

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You don’t have to reply to this, but I just wanted to throw in my two cents about bly manor. I absolutely found the ending tragic and sad. I’m still sad and I finished it two days ago! Yes, their relationship is beautifully done and they get a good 10 years of being together, but you know the whole time it’s only going to end in heartache. You watch it waiting for the other shoe to drop, and for me that makes it so much worse than them not getting a future at all. I get not wanting to watch it.

Right, right, I get that! I mean, I wouldn’t say no future is worse, lol, but sad endings definitely linger for me, and I don’t find them cathartic or beautiful, just sad. So I think that does decide for me, thanks for writing in!

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I mean for the flashbacks those were mainly small scenes too so they can probs just have them quarantine too before flashbacks since they usually only involved a few people (I DEFINITELY wanna see more Lu and Mei flashbacks haha)

Hmm, true, true, but it just means the circle grows larger, right? Maybe not in poor Mei’s case who ends up mostly interacting with Lu, but she was in the middle of mission control before, I’d hate for them to cut out meaningful scenes for convenience. And of course Matt and Lex interact heavily with Emma, but then everyone else they interact with becomes part of that? Well, as you said, maybe they’ll just quarantine the people entering the smaller bubbles and try to figure out something else when they’re part of larger scenes.

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I assume for the mission control scenes maybe they’d just have less people in the scenes or they’d have them more spaced out or they’d just write in the pandemic for mask reasons or they could just do close ups so it’s only a few people at a time.

I guess…it’s gonna be so interesting but kind of sad to see how media handles this in the upcoming TV season. Some shows already tried to do eps with mostly video conferencing, some tried animated, some wrote it into the plot, some are having just a few actors on screen (and set) at one time. 😡 Like, every time we see scenes with just a couple of people we’ll be like, I wonder if this was because…? And will often be right.

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The only issue I could see is that apparently Away is one of the most expensive shows Netflix has ever produced. But the showrunner is super optimistic and apparently there’s been whispers about season 2 and also they’ve already bought the spacesuits and stuff so that may make it cheaper? The showrunner said they have a multi season plan and that it’s worth the price tag. Plus I don’t see why Netflix would spend so much money on a show not to renew it. They clearly believe in it enough.

Wow, was it? I suppose the space sfx but I remember seeing in one of the Expanse BTS that it wasn’t THAT hard or difficult to mimic no gravity, just wires and then CGIing them out, similar to what this show’s doing, I’d assume. Maybe not, with the bigger sets and the different angles… That’s a good point about Netflix actually wanting to showcase this one, that does indeed bode well for it. Fingers crossed, anyway! I need that Lu/Mei endgame.