u/AltruisticAide9776

For context, I work as an admin assistant at a school. The parent of one of the kids is kind of macho, dominant, not amiable energy.

His daughter was maybe sick, and I called the mum, and the mum said she’d send the nanny to pick her up. But before that, I’d also called the dad (he hadn't picked up at that time), then he called back, and when I told him the mum said she’d be sending the nanny to pick the kid up, he was like, “Madame, I'm the one who decides.”

That interaction was a bit stressful because he was asking me lots of questions like what time the students have lunch, what activities are after that, and the time they start and end. While I should know all this as a school secretary, I didn’t, hence the slight stress. He also had a kind of impatient tone that was adding to me feeling flustered.

The second time his daughter was maybe sick, we had a short, neutral conversation on WhatsApp where he asked me if the stomach ache was very bad, if she’d eaten her fruit. I said I have magnesium I can give her that if he wants. He was like, do you have paracetamol? And after that, the exchange ended because the deputy head dealt with it.

But basically, after the second interaction, for some reason I got sort of curious about him. I googled him — he had this typical kind of fake LinkedIn persona — but he did mention one line about raising his twins. His kids are biracial, so I guess I was curious that his ex was a different race because he didn't seem the type that would be open-minded about different races or have any interest in other cultures.

But I did feel bad for his kids, that he seemed to be not letting the mum be in their lives, but of course I don't know what might have happened.

So up to that point, I guess I thought he was a single dad. Then later I find out from the other assistants working at the school I work that he has a girlfriend — the same race as the mum of his kids — so then I’m thinking, hmm, does he have a type?

But basically, if I was the FMC of a romance novel, he’d be a single dad (not toxic though, and potentially keeping the mum out of his kid's life), and he would appear gruff or cold like Mr Darcy appeared to Lizzie. But actually he is only cold because he has social anxiety, and most importantly he’d notice me — the quirky woman he spoke to over the phone at his daughter's school. Or maybe he just thought of me as the incompetent staff member at his daughter's school, or — and this is the most likely option — he just didn't think of me at all.

But my point is: real life is so different from the romance novel, because in a romance novel this would be the typical single dad trope and gruff mean guy who is actually a softie and kind of crushing on the quirky, average-looking woman working a low-level job. But no — in real life, the dude isn't single, is disagreeable/impatient (and it's probably not more complex than that as it would be in the romance novel), and no, he doesn't notice the FMC. And it's just kind of strange the FMC would notice him at all because he very likely has no depth to him as he would in a romance novel.

The end of the arc in real life — but in a romance book, you know they'll end up together.

This sassy line is from Kate but its the type of thing Ana Lucia could have said.

The dialogue was so good in lost ( who was the writer ? ) like its one of those quotable shows.

Also Kate was right, Jack was playing it smooth but he probably did want a pocket size picture of Kate he could carry around.

when Sarah asks him how the daughter took it. And when he is trying to tell Sarah that he wants to work less and spend more time with her and hugs her like dam how did Sarah resist the feel of that hug ? But ok her husband just admitted he kissed his patient's daughter which isn't exactly sexy so i get it..

Like usually i wouldn't find this kind of scene hot but the way the the actor acts it out i just do. And the way he lets out a cry when Sarah tells him he is leaving her ..

Interesting that Jack wanted to try and mend the marriage but not Sarah. Like Sarah got herself a hot surgeon guy, could she really do better but i guess maybe the other person was more emotionally available .

Wouldn't mind seeing more scenes of season 1 when their on the island ( cause i don't love the scenes of them not on the island that much except for Jack) .

But basically when Charlie tells Claire " first plane crash i take it " , and Clair goes " what gave it away " and Charlies " oh you can always spot the newbies "

Honestly whoever wrote the dialogue in lost was really good, so many lines one can still remember.

For context i live in a developing country so its surprises me that the ordinary person walking on the road had access to the weather forecast . I mean internet is there where i live but it still surprises me that someone thought to download the weather forecast app and check what the forecast would be.

Watching Harry Potter as a child got me so hyped to finally study chemistry , since in the lower classes its just science .

So we learn that Lilly was very good at potions , was Snape as well or was he particularly good in another subject namely defense against the dark arts ? ( now that subject doesn't have a muggle equivalent may Taekiwondo ? )

But no Snape was good at potions like lilly because he was the one put all those hacks in that book.

How cute and innocent that Harry thought that book might be his dad's or did he think it was his mum's ?

I also like how classy it is, she is not just assuming he d just be available to her, or maybe she did have a hunch he might be available based on his demeanor.

But also like how cool in 2004 ( or whenever lost was released ) to see a woman making the first move but making it in such a smooth , classy way. It even got a slight smile from Jack who was kind of going through it at that point.

And then at the end when she has to leave and just before going she turn back a bit and touches his arm slightly and says "And Jack the worst part is over " That totally reminds me of Harry Potter where Luna ( the quirky girl) was the one who could slightly comfort Harry after losing his god father.

I think Kate also had a moment like this when she sees Jack looking her prison mug shots and she tells Jack " i take better pictures than that " and I think also tells him she can give him one to keep in his pocket lol.

I'm imagining myself trying Ana Lucia's pick up line if ever met someone I found interesting at the airport but i just know it would be awkward as hell. Basically you gotta be Ana Lucia to use Ana Lucia's pick up line, it won't work or anyone else i think, not even Kate.

I feel like people ( especially back then) really think highly of doctors and feel they can solve most of life's problems ( i used to think that way too). And it makes sense that doctors are respected because med school is a killer and I know that because my sister went to med school. So i get why the producers felt that if someone can survive med school, then they have the skills to lead a group of strangers on a kind of magical island.

But doctors can also be just average people and not people that hold the answers to a lot of issues. Someone else commented that another reason Jack was chosen and not Sayid is that Jack represents the all American man and could have been a self insert for more people.

Sayid, the engineer, was more the type to really lead a group and delegate tasks , he just has that commanding presence that Jack did not . It just doesn't feel believable when Jack gives out an order versus when Sayid does.

You know Hayden would be his well meaning nosy self asking him where Rose, is , if he is texting Rose, if it's Rose that got his cheeks all rosy , why he never told him that the girl he was texting all this time was the Rose Landry, when they all going to have a double date.

When I saw the casting announcement of you deserve each other, i was just slightly disappointed. I actually do think Megan Fany could play Naiomi very well but maybe they could have cast a brown/black actor for the handsome dentist ? Or cast Laura Harrier ( gorgeous actress from spiderman) as Naiomi and leave Penn Badgey as Nick.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have rom coms with both leads as white, absolutely you should but there have been quite a few recently , anything but you and people we meet on vacation are the two hyped films that came out recently. And yeah there has been you, me and tuscany with two POC leads but honestly there are still so few when you think about it .

But actually i don't just mean a regular film , i mean specifically it would be nice if some hyped book adaptations could have a poc lead. This is because well us book readers would enjoy to see a bit more diversity in adaptations.

For Sarah Hoogle and Emily Henry books, although the races are not specified. they do come off as sounding white just from reading the books lol. But still i don't see an issue with casting Poc leads for some of these big contemporary romance novel adaptations . You see the romance novels with poc leads are a bit obscure so they won't get such a big budget adaptation like for example a Emily Henry book would which is why it would be nice to cast a poc lead for at least one of her books.

And a male poc lead maybe Dev patel. I'd love to see Laura Harrier and Dev Patel star together, i feel like their energies would really suit the two leads from the book.

We are already going to have two white leads for the adaptation of beach read ( btw excellent casting choice , i feel it really suits January and Gus ) and we already had two white leads for people we meet on vacation. So i think it would have been nice to have POC leads for you deserve each other ( one of my favourite romance books ).

In the book you deserve each other , i don't think their races are specifically mentioned so i feel like producers can take some creative liberty on that and even if they were mentioned, they could take creative liberty if their race had no bearing on the story.

I was not cool with Heathcliff being white in the recent adaptation of Wuthering Heights because his race is specifically important to the story, without that, it loses the depth the original book had.

Like Kate is sometimes flirting with him or being sweet with him but he never tries anything.

I think it could be these reasons.

a) She refuses to go to the caves with him.

b) Well the danger and unpredictability of being on a remote island after surviving a car crash.

c) Because of the what happened with his ex wife making him wary about getting close to someone.

d ) he is not that in to her at that point.

e ) He is shy plus fear of rejection.

What do you y'all think ?

Imagine Rose wearing the T- shirt with Rozanov written at the back instead of Hollander.

And oh the actors both speak French but different accents.

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Am I the only one that does not like how it looks ? Forgetting the hygiene aspect , it just look unfeminine ? Like do all these women with long nails feel in their feminine, witchy energy with their long nails ? Tbf it does look witchy.

P.s i'm saying as a woman.

Like he starts protecting Harry just for Harry.

And he doesn't necessarily need to meet another ( alive ) woman he is interested in, he could be the single type kind of like Sirius but i dunno i feel it would have felt empowering to see Snape move on from his childhood crush , maybe we see him wave at Lily's photo, give it a slight kiss and we see him walk away rather than the scene we did get in the film which was him crying over Lily's photo and clutching it.

If he was to have another love interest, what do you guys think of Tonks ?Although if i'm honest I just thought of Tonks because she is kind of the only female character we are introduced to in that age range. But i feel her quirky vibe would maybe make Snape smile sometimes and maybe Tonks has a thing for the brooding, academically smart types.

Like he starts protecting Harry just for Harry.

And he doesn't necessarily need to meet another ( alive ) woman he is interested in, he could be the single type kind of like Sirius but i dunno i feel it would have felt empowering to see Snape move on from his childhood crush , maybe we see him wave at Lily's photo, give it a slight kiss and we see him walk away rather than the scene we did get in the film which was him crying over Lily's photo and clutching it.

If he was to have another love interest, what do you guys think of Tonks ?Although if i'm honest I just thought of Tonks because she is kind of the only female character we are introduced to in that age range. But i feel her quirky vibe would maybe make Snape smile sometimes and maybe Tonks has a thing for the brooding, academically smart types.

And we see Kipp getting a bit jealous of how googly eyed she gets when he comes in to the coffee shop for a smoothie .

Eventually Nadine does get to go on a date with Scott and even dances with him at an event but something is just missing , he just doesn't get her the way her best friend Kipp does..

A year later, Scott is now showing interest in Kipp ( he is bisexual like the actor ) and this time Nadine is the one feeling jealous and gets another customer's smoothie order wrong because she can see Scott and Kip chatting on the other side of the bar..

Nadine asks Kip , does he not notice how he was so obviously flirting with him and he says no because only notices one person...

And Nadine and Kip leave their workplace and open their own smoothie cafe together.

The end .