A LOT
Yeah, for me it was very much extending off "my name isn't 'my sister', my name is Becca" from last week, then Langdon emphasizing Becca's medical autonomy. They very deliberately asserted her humanity to contrast the ways that Mel has unconsciously objectified her and now needs to re-calibrate.
I don't disagree that there's a comedy beat in there, that's just observable fact, but I do think I'd disagree on, IDK, what the punchline is?
For me the comedy in Becca reveal (which I'd suspected the moment Langdon said UTI last week) was mostly in Mel's blue-screen-of-death reaction.
And on and on and on, it's so much meat for the writers and the actors and the editors to work with that we get these amazing scenes that are almost impossible to summarize because there's so much going on in the little details and I am cursed to read people talking about it like it's Grey's Anatomy
Santos is so plagued with trauma and ego-via-crippling-inescurity that she's evolved into human sandpaper, hurts everyone as a reflex, but can't think in any terms other than persecution when they inevitably pull away
Langdon is riding the high of rehab and is behaving like a new convert: zealous and passionate about his new sobriety to the point it's his whole personality, doggedly insisting on try to make amends with Robby and Santos despite them both actively avoiding him
Mel out of deep love for Becca, over the course of years, has objectified her, turned her into an idea, "My Sister"
Oglivie thought the ER would be cakewalk, he'd be able to walk right in, plant a flag, then kick back and absorb attention and respect
Whittaker is terrified of disappointing others
Part of what makes this show so good is that it lets you just enough into each character's myopic, selfish little bubble to understand why they're doing the destructive things that they're doing.
I'm seeing so many comments like "his job is to teach her, he's just doing his job."
Take the amazing scene where Langdon and Santos are working together and he's trying to work his way up to the Sobriety Apology that he's been trying to do all season and she clearly wants him to fall over and die, and he's just lobbing out bad questions as an excuse to say something.
This episode might actually be too good for its own good, too subtle, too nuanced, too complicated.
No, just an ambiguous waterslide collapse, nothing as notorious as Action Park
On a writing note: the waterslide collapse being a couple super gnarly cases (“that sounds like consent to me!”) rather than a reprise mass casualty event was good, very much a death-by-a-thousand-cuts season
I don’t know that I have a conclusion to that thought except that when Becca first showed up as a character I was a bit shocked and these are some thoughts I had while confronting that reaction.
A thing I’m mulling on is that Becca’s mannerisms used to be common in pop culture, albeit usually performed by non-disabled actors. We rightly stopped doing that, but instead disappeared characters like Becca entirely and moved into the Bazinga era of autism as a quirky superpower.
This was a great episode about Strong Personalities, both with the regular cast getting stood up to by their peers for their behaviour and also for The Shark coming in to show what a *real* "I'm a surgeon and thus better than you" asshole looks like.
Pitt S2E10 invisible thread
I know he’s aware it exists but I doubt he’s seen it
Huh, that would make it easier to get a very specific type of shot
The amount of time I spent sanding, this is the definition of bespoke.
We had a huge shoot this week, rented a studio and everything, and I feel like I owe James a $200 commission for inspiring me to make this, I continue to use it so much.
What are your hotel life hacks?
Mine is using towels to fine tune the height of their awful pillows.
To make it clear, this is the ambiguity. It's not *actually* about order of operations, it just looks like it is. It's actually about the grammar of math. It's like saying "Jim and Keith went to the store where he bought a bag of chips."
I haven't heard about that at all. I assume it's largely a "I bought this on Amazon" issue, like fake SanDisk memory cards?
Yeah, whenever I need to do math in LUA I go overload with parenthesis, I don't care how messy it ends up looking.
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I have bad news about calculators
That's the crux of what makes it engagement bait: is it written as 2(1+2) to imply the whole expression is the denominator, or is the writer just trying to trick you into making a mistake and thinking "well, that's attached to parenthesis so it goes first, even though it's just multiplication"
The thing I find fascinating about these engagement bait math "puzzles" is that they exploit a familiarity with better structured questions: if you actually do more algebra you're more likely to read 2(1+2) as the implied denominator because that's how it'd be structured in a proper equation.
