Pessimistically Optimistic

Work Family (1x08)

Um.. Yes. 😆

It is my intention to astonish you all.

Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) dir. Thomas Vinterberg

#same energy

Potent minimalist art sends a strong message about police and vigilante brutality in America

Black people are tired, angry and prepared to die.  Rightfully so.  Generational pain.  Somethings got to give America.  (x)

A little update to this since I’ve been told the Romanian version and it is just terrific.

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So, it’s pretty much canon that Guinan and Riker happened at least once, right?

To this day, this is still the fucking smoothest back and forth I’ve ever whitnesed.

RIP Irrfan. I hope your soul is at peace. Thank you for all that you left behind

for @nickmillerscaulk

There goes that spine…

#iconic

Okay so David Shore himself said he’d “rather not go into it” when asked if there was a specific reason that it was Melendez who had to die. Nick said he only found out about his death six episodes beforehand, and in those six episodes we were given no Melendez-centric ones, no backstory on his character, and zero reminiscing on his three years on the show. We were barely given that in his final episode because it was so crowded with the four other plots.

Did Morgan and Andrews get to say goodbye to him? Did they call Jessica or his family? Were the staff informed one of their top surgeons was dying? Why wasn’t there more weight given to his and Freddie’s final scene together? Why is it that after all of the miraculous saves on this show for complete strangers, including an improvised underwater leg amputation in the same episode, they kill off an original lead from septic shock?

Shore has always been clear that he didn’t want to keep having near-misses with main character deaths on the show because then there would be no stakes. Which is fair. What is not fair is killing off a well-written and loved lead played by a devoted and incredible actor just to prove that you can. Just because you subvert expectations for shock value does not make it good writing. After all that buildup for him and Claire, everything him and Lim went through and the battle of the Limlendez and Melendaire ships, killing off Melendez right when things start to escalate between him and Claire makes no sense. Especially when Claire has gone through enough pain and loss this season alone. Him dying at this point in the story, when we still know next to nothing about his family or pre-series past, makes no sense.

Shore also stated how the plan for the finale since the start of the season was always for Shaun and Lea to get together, and with all of the horrible things they said to each other in the past few episodes it would take a lot for them to end up together. Such as, one of them almost dying? In David Shore’s mind, Shaun’s near-miss was just one too many. So another lead had to die in the episode, and who was the most convenient choice at the moment for the writers? Melendez.

So in the end, there is no greater reason for Melendez’s death, all of these loose ends were not intentional, and this was not some well thought out and well built up plan on the writers’ part. They probably just decided to kill him off when they wrote the finale so that Shaun and Lea could get together which, by the way, a huge part of the audience didn’t even care about after the clusterfuck of events preceding it. Melendez deserved better, Lim deserves better, and Claire deserves better.

The amount of disrespect for the characters, the cast, and the fans they displayed is unfathomable. This was an enormous mistake and I hope they realize that.

I stopped watching the Good Doctor because I didn’t find it entertaining anymore. Then, I saw posts about Melendez and Claire, who I liked together since season 1. I binged seasons 2 and 3 to be caught up with the finale, only to be shitteedddd on. Literal betrayal. ABC is not to be trusted after killing off Ripley and Melendez.

And I’m TIRED of black women carrying every bodies emotional loads, to get nottthhhiinngg in return.