u/KitchenImagination38

Hej! Does anyone know of a shop where I can print one copy of a pdf document? I send them the file via email or WhatsApp and they print it out for me? Thanks a lot!

Next season, I really really want Santos to catch a Munchausen By Proxy. It's exactly the sort of complicated, thorny issue that would cause lots of drama, and I think our girl is best-equipped to catch something like this. What else do you guys want for S3 for her?

For your information, every single person who has worked with Noah Wyle (in The Pitt, or otherwise) goes on about how great Noah Wyle, so I don’t know what the point is of re-hashing old stuff is. Honestly, Maureen comes across as a jealous hater who can’t actually make anything good, so has to shit on people who do.

I’m 27F and live with my dad, brother, SIL, and best friend Ally 26F. These past months we were all watching The Pitt together. Ally is REALLY into the show and the fandom and she has strong opinions. I thought it would be FUN to watch it with her since she likes it, not stressful lol. My dad’s life passion and work is television so he’s always telling us to look at the background, lighting, and other visuals for context bc it’s all part of the story. It can be fun sometimes draining. The Pitt does some camera work that my dad thinks is really funny because it makes things obvious in retrospect.

So we were watching the last episode yesterday and there’s a scene with two of the characters outside watching the fireworks. Dad was like “wait a second, I want to watch that again” and Ally was already annoyed because she does not like the man in the scene bc he’s the antagonist to her favorite character. But we replayed it and dad was giddy talking about the lighting, framing, symbolism, and he said “This is a really well done scene, it almost feels invasive to watch.”

Ally got so upset about this and started saying that he’s reading too much into it and it doesn’t mean anything or it doesn’t mean what he thinks, and she just went on this incredible rant about it. He was really surprised by her reaction and said “I’m talking about what the scene itself is conveying” and “This is not the first scene with them where it feels like you’re entering a bubble and there's a recurring visual pattern” and Ally was like “you people are so weird those two are like brother and sister, you’re delusional” and said that the guy who created the show even said it’s weird and that they’re like siblings. Dad said “You think I’m saying something I’m not, I’m talking about visual storytelling”

I told Ally she needed to calm the fuck down because calling someone who has literally worked in tv for years delusional over talking about a SCENE in a show is crazy work. Ally got super pissed off at me for tleling her to calm down and told me that I don’t get it because people like my dad are ruining the show by overanalyzing it and trying to force something that isn’t there. And that just because my dad loves television doesn’t mean he’s right about what he sees. Mind you my dad doesn’t care about any of the stuff she thinks he’s implying. He looks at it like art and she’s mad about something else entirely.

Anyway I want to know am I the asshole for telling Ally to calm down? Bc I get that SHE feels passionate about it too and she’s allowed to feel that way and act accordingly, it just felt like overkill.

Robert mentioned in the Jimmy Saville episode that Saville was able to come into contact with teens as a DJ early in his career and it didn’t arouse suspicion because the music scene always had a lot of teens hanging around, and Saville basically controlled access to famous musicians… and today it struck me just how normalised the exploitation of young women was. For people younger than 20: back in the day, it was normal for musicians to travel with groups of women, called groupies, who just followed the band from concert to concert. It was very well known and normal, there were movies about it (Almost Famous), some were famous, like Bebe Buell (Liv Tyler’s mom) and even freaking School of Rock had the line, “groupies are sluts, they sleep with the band”! Obviously none of these women were even in their late twenties or thirties, plus there’s the question if they could consent at all, given that they were fans, and the drugs didn’t help, either. And the whole thing was marketed as impossibly cool. Insane that that was a thing. Of course, celebrities using their fame to exploit people is still a thing, but back then it was just so normalised and glamourised. Just think about how many fanfics there are about popular musicians meeting an ordinary teenager after a concert, imagine that happening, and it was a total freaking nightmare.