on izzy hands

i just want to say. con o neil's performance. the goddamn powerhouse of his arc. the economy of his dialogue and how urgently and comprehensively it hit.

philadelphia story was a play made specificaly for Katherine Hepburn. she bought the rights to it, and made the movie of it. she cast across her the greatest actor of their time, cary grant. cary grant and katherine hepburn, in the movie made to fit them like skin, written by a guy who knew who to use the right words.

you know who won the oscar for that movie? a lil guy named JAMES STEWART, who had a lowkey support arc, a character not meant to be likeable or identifiable, prickly and hurtful. but for one gorgeous moment he stood in his light and he told katherine hepburn who she was, and the idea and the telling of it was made more real than she could have ever played it, even when it was made in real truth.

Con O Neil stole the show. He stole the show about two pirates in love and made it about one broken, jagged ass man, who gets knocked down and comes up silently with knives, who tried to hold together his broken heart by giving all the pain he had to keep it together, by growing soft and loving people, by finding family worth dying for, by doing edith piaf drag, goddamnit, this is his show now. the fandom is outraged because what happened was that they made izzy matter more and then they took him away so now even the kissing and the happily ever after doesn't matter as much as it could have done. Izzy Hands. Goddamn Izzy Hands.

THEY KILLED IZZY HANDS

Crowley, Aziraphale, and Yoko Ono

"It was love. You can't tell me that the man who wrote Help! didn't need love. It had Help in the title! Help, I need someone! He was literally asking for it!" 

"That's your problem, Angel. The man who wrote that song already had it. Cynthia and Julian?? You remember we went and visited – ”

“– yes he really was the sweetest baby–”

“– good job on getting Paul involved there, by the way–” 

“–yes well, but like I was saying just because he was a terrible father doesn’t mean he didn’t deserve–”  

“--he was a terrible man! You saw Cynthia’s face!” 

“...well. Yes. But I thought. Perhaps with the right person.”

“Angel there is no way you thought you made Yoko happen.” 

“My miracle was that the biggest songwriter in the world, who was making every single lover in the world feel the love pouring out and pouring into them, heaven was OVERJOYED with him in the early days, by the way, well, I just wished that he would find someone who he deserved. Who deserved him. We all deserved that.” 

“...”

“What did you do?”

“Same thing, actually.” 

“No, really?? But. Huh. Do you think –”

“–yeaah, we might have come on a bit strong if we both–”

“It broke up the BAND we could have just had them have a bit of a tiff–”

“– did you know, Happiness is a Warm Gun had a real moment downstairs, I got an award–”

“Crowley! CROWLEY. Crowley.” “Come on now Angel, it all worked out. You did love While My Guitar Gently Weeps–”

“--Harrison.” 

“Oh. Here Comes the Sun, you had that on all April–”

“ALSO HARRISON.” 

“...well I mean there had to have been–” “I COULDN'T STEP OUT WITHOUT HAVING WHY DON’T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD ON BLAST–”

“-- I did like that one. Mmm. You know, Angel…”

“...what. Why are you looking at me like that. Stop it at once. Why are you coming here. I’m mad at you. ” 

“You remember Come Together?” 

“I am furious. I do NOT remember Come Together. Put your hand away at once. I’ve never heard the song in my life. Leave my buttons alone! Not Sexy Sadie either. Crowley if you must just let me shut the door at – oh you just miracled – is that even – anyway you mustn’t forget that I’m – god right there–”

“You know, it’s worth even more when an angel takes her name in vain.” “If you don’t stop talking and kiss me right now I’m going to make the Kardashians talk about communism and it will all have been in vain.”

i just watched the last season of ted lasso and one of the key plot points when they're foreshadowing RoyxKeeleys breakup is that Jamie Tartt told Keeley he loved her at Rebecca's dad's funeral, and Roy forgave him for it. Like. I do think. From my heart. We're building up to RoyxKeeleyxJamie endgame.