CodenameFinlandia

They’re so good together on and off the ice

When they’re on the bench, they’re not just next to each other; they’re shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, leg to leg. One of them scoots down an inch, the other immediately follows. If Will leans forward, Macklin mirrors his action instinctively. If Macklin leans backwards to catch his breath after a shift, Will makes sure their bodies stay connected. They can’t help themselves.

When they’re orbiting each other on the ice, they’re almost too close. Pressed against each other’s backs, jerseys brushing, skates damn near touching. Skating away from each other and reconnecting milliseconds later just to have those fleeting little touches. Playful little checks against the boards during practice just to feel each other. Like they’re in their own little world.

Even off the ice, even when they’re not being broadcasted on live television, they just have to be touching. When they pass something to each other, their hands brush for just a second too long. When they’re next to each other, they’re pressed as closely as they can be (re: willmack interview with Cat and Toff). When they’re speaking to each other, it’s like the rest of the world disappears. Whispering and giggling in each other’s faces (re: the balcony video™).

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

Pilots and other transportation workers have absurd hours of service requirements that start your rest period as “the moment you shut the vehicle down” and can be as short as 9 hours in some cases.

Railroad workers have to be available on-call 6 days a week and be ready within two hours notice. They don’t get sick time.

Retail workers have to keep a veneer of politeness against any and all abuse or they can be fired.

Truck drivers get paid by mileage and rarely see pay for shipper or receiver delays.

Even in the house it was LOUD.  Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval.  You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off.  It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks.  People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit.  It did.  Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that.  People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

In episode 1 is when we have Shane kind of aknowledging his attraction through Ilya (and it is a secret between the audience and Shane).

It is always filmed from behind Shane or behind the parents so that the scene seems united, they are close even if sitting on the other side of the table.

In episode 4 instead we have a more open scene. The place looks the same (same glasses, same couches) so it is their regular lunch meeting, but this time we have multiple shots from afar, and shots of all three of them together - all showing how distant they feel. How far away Shane seems to sit/be:

There is almost a physical divisor between them (that glass thing in black), first between the audience/camera and Shane (cutting Shane), and then between Shane and the parents.

There is literally so much space that the waiter asks if they are waiting for someone else (and they are, because this is the episode where Shane finally realizes fully that he is in deep):

The scene is also always filmed by showing us Shane OR the parents, instead of putting Shane between his parents:

I think this really reinforce the feeling of distance.

The colors in these two scenes are also more "daylight cold" compared to the Cottage episode, where everything is full of light but also warm. And this also applies to the lunch:

We also have this beautiful shot of the whole family framed by the house (family pictures), and it makes it look like they are so close, it is such a small intimate space.

Shane and Ilya are also often filmed from behind Shane's parents, making the whole family seem so much closer than the shots in ep 4 and fully turning Ilya into one of the family:

Same for Shane's parents: