i remember the open casting call for radio flyer. probably half the boys in my town skipped school for that. my cousin still claims elijah wood stole his career.

i just hope it lasts longer than jane and petra's friendship. they only get to be civil for about 10 show minutes at a time before they spin off into antagonism again.

i LOVE that they let xo just get it done and over with without hesitation or regret. everyone deals with abortions in their own way. for some it's literally just a medical procedure, but we rarely see that ever, but especially not in a character we're meant to care about.

and he carries on a conversation about tampons without losing his mind! i'd marry the man myself, if i weren't already marrying gina rodriguez.

i love that david pumpkins is the new chewbacca defense

this is one of the best headcanons i've ever heard

what i hate the most about rose's unmasking last season, is that the show made it look like luisa had finally found a healthy relationship only to reveal that it had been an illusion all along. this to me *was* genuinely cruel.

no one is saying to get rid of them entirely, just to let the murder rate of nyc breathe once or twice a year.

the showrunner said he feels murders are necessary because they create higher stakes. when all you get are murders though, the constantly high stakes cancel each other out. they've created a plateau.

i adored him as juice, and seeing him play such a different type of role and pull it off was a pleasant surprise.

agreed. the question in the writers room should not be "can we fit in another twist?" it should be "would another twist make sense and enhance the story?"

i also found it funny that joan is scoffing at the idea of someone wanting to be alone forever when she has had no life for an entire season and a half. but now she has a sister, so i guess that takes care of everything? hopefully sherlock won't sleep with her!

i didn't mind the killer lesbians reveal. i have to say though, with a third of all women-loving female characters on tv getting killed over the last few weeks, it's rather ill-timed. not as bad as their love letter to the nypd airing when black lives matter protests were still going up & down new york streets, but…

he's made similar comments before, and i find them ridiculous in the context of a dude who bragged about the existence of multiple versions of himself in fiction. "I fascinate. That can't be helped." or whatever he said.

doherty's story of how they got the ide for lin was kind of hilarious. basically "our exec producer pointed out that joan has a family too & suddenly we started thinking about a plot"

in a just posted interview, the show-runner said she won't be back this season, but if they "find the right story" for next year…

i feel like i need to watch all the lin-related scenes again because i was so outraged by the inexplicable myctofy nonsense i absorbed almost nothing of the first hour. then in the 2nd ep, she went from the A plot to the B plot, so she half as much screen time as she did before. samantha quan was very good, though,…

so they'd rather the show focus primarily on the numbers and have less plot and character development? takes all kinds to make a world.

the cases started feeling really long and boring in season 2 and i realized that in the beginning, even when they were convoluted and followed the same formula, the cases meant something. each solve brought back a little more of sherlock's confidence, or was a stepping stone to joan discovering her calling. there were…

Is it? Tell me more. I just binged all of POI so I know nothing about fandom opinions, but to me it's an almost perfect balance of character work/main plot/case of the week.