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I wrote a companion story for @iboatedhere's Mathematical Constant! I really love that story's exploration of grief, and I wanted to keep writing about it. Thanks, @iboatedhere for permission and support!
The second Josh opens his eyes he knows where he is.
Dark wallpaper that probably came with the house. East facing windows that overlook the water. Books, books, and more books. Not as many ferns as there used to be but signs of life are returning.
He’s exactly where he’s wanted to be for the last seven months; in Wolf’s bed, in Wolf’s room, in Wolf’s house.
Home, he corrects.
Wolf’s place has always felt more like home than his own condo. Warm and lived in. No pressure to put dirty clothes in the hamper right away or color code the closet or squeeze the toothpaste tube exclusively from the bottom.
Being here makes him feel like he can breathe again.
This is a great convo with a bunch of podficcers, some of whom have been podding for over fifteen years. I love the community aspect that emerges in this discussion. If you're interested in fannish history, archiving, or preservation, have a listen!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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I had to winnow it down by only including when he's smiling at/in response to Wolf. But, let's be honest, that's what we care about. I love the visual journey from first ep to last. [Sorry if the alt text is bad. It was hard to describe these. It's basically just Josh smiling while looking at Wolf every time.]
Spoilers for all of season 2 under the cut.
Smiling with his eyes in this first one.
It's small but there. He just pwned Wolf with his Oscar Wilde knowledge, and he's very pleased with himself.
Now we're starting to move to a different stage. The flirty stage! I'm here for it!
And then we go into a smile desert of FIVE EPISODES. 😭
And...we're back!
I'm 100% on board with these dopey smiles. The dopier the better.
I've always noticed the paintings and art on Brilliant Minds, in the hospital and outside it. The characters talk about art a lot, too, especially in 1x09 (The Colorblind Painter) and 2x09 (The Fire Fighter). Once I started to gather all the art, there was so much, it wouldn't fit in one post, but I winnowed it down.
Spoilers for all of season 2 under the cut.
I love that even in this brief scene from 1x02, the production team put art on the gymnasium wall.
It's hard to get good shots of the art in the hallways of the hospital, but I tried. This is Van in 1x03.
The art Gabriel Ferguson says could kill someone. God. It looks like something you'd buy at Lowe's. It never appears again, so maybe someone took Gabriel's advice and got rid of it.
More hallway art. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but Josh standing right between two paintings when Silva is about to tell him: You looked at your current boyfriend and you said your ex-boyfriend's name... Feels symbolic. The image is also doubled in the glass of the door on the right. So maybe I'm not looking into it too much lol.
The rec room plays such an important role, and I love that there's a mural.
I think this is the painting Ericka talks about in 1x12 when she says she bought an "investment piece." It seems like this painting at Dana's apartment is her replacement for it.
This art in the scenes between Dana and Katie is 🔥.
Oliver, of course, has tons of art on the walls of his home, though, notably, not paintings. It's botanical prints and photos, so more documentary and scientific, rather than purely artistic. His office is the same way. A contrast with Carol's house and office.
It's interesting, too, how Oliver changes his office art over time, adding things or moving them.
Carol has much different art from Oliver. This is one of my favorite shots. I remember the first time I saw it. I was so startled by that expression, and the vivid color.
Is this supposed to be art on the wall of Josh's season one office? Lol. Gabriel Ferguson would have something to say. Maybe this is some sort of equipment or light table? I sure hope so because if it's supposed to be art, Josh needs therapy.
Muriel also needs therapy. This isn't a painting that should be on a hospital wall.
The art in the patient rooms sometimes expresses an emotion that fits with the patient. Even when that patient is Oliver—an amazing painting to choose for his scene in the sleep study room.
Noah and Oliver both have fern drawings on the wall. I almost wonder if that one on Noah's wall was drawn by Oliver when he was a kid.
And Noah's art, which has some common ground with Oliver's, but also some differences.
I love 1x09 for all the art. And the discussion of it.
One of my favorite shots from the show. I love when art becomes part of the character framing.
Arianna dwarfed by the very floral and ornate art in her house.
This is another of my favorite shots: Matthew Ramati and his daughter.
Josh's childhood bedroom has basically the same stained glass window pattern as Oliver's house. No wonder he feels so at home at Oliver's. 😂 I really like the first shot below. It has visual unity and balance, showing the two of them as halves of a whole. The entire room has elements of Oliver in it, which makes it seem like Oliver was a presence in Josh's life, even before they met.
When I was watching the finale of Brilliant Minds, I noticed that Josh's room showed how much he and Oliver have in common despite their differences. Their discussion in this scene reinforces that idea.
For example, the decor on Josh's bedroom wall is similar in color and theme to what's in Oliver's office. The geologic time scale vs. the minerals on Oliver's bulletin board.
And, of course, there's a periodic table. And a metronome (it's that little device next to the photo of Josh). So Josh must have played an instrument when he was growing up.
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Since watching Brilliant Minds, I've become fond of elevators. I used to scorn them, and I always took the stairs—even when there were a LOT of them. But now I find elevators warm and comforting, and I feel joy when I ride in them. The weird things our favorite shows do to us.
I think the cinematographers use filters and lighting to alter the colors of many things we see on the show, and the main elevator is one of them. It can be a kind of gentle bluish color or a stark metallic silver, depending on what's going on. Episode 2x15 is brutal. Even the posters have been removed so there's no color at all.
The main elevator is the site of a lot of big moments, heartbreaking to romantic. It's probably most famously where Oliver and Josh make out.
I've only included Bronx Gen elevators in this post, even though there's also Ericka's elevator (which @dancelikeanarchitect will be posting about), the haunted house elevator, and the elevator at the hospital Oliver gets fired from in the pilot.
I put most of them under the cut for ease of scrolling. Info in alt text.
The elevator Ericka is in with Sam is a different one from what we usually see. And there's a shot of it that's kind of reminiscent of The Shining.
I checked thoroughly, and this shot from 2x15 is in the regular elevator (I know from geography), but the posters have been removed so it's totally stark. Just fucking heartbreaking. I think we're seeing the elevator from Wolf's POV. He feels alone, and like all the color is gone from his world.
2x13 and 2x19. The shirt in 2x19 isn't red, but it has those tones, and it looked close enough that it reminded me of the 2x13 outfit when I was watching. Ericka's sweaters in these two eps have a similar thing going on. 2x19 images under spoiler cut in case.
I love that Thorne is the only one to be totally normal around Wolf when
he returns to work.
I also love that he's so impressed by Carol (and calls her Dr. Pierce. She worked hard for that M.D.!). The Michelle Obama part is the best because Carol actually looks a lot like Michelle in this scene. I'm sure that was intentional.
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There are so many different patterns of hospital gown at Bronx Gen, and they often reflect something about the patient. I had to be selective with this post because, obviously, there are a lot of patients in gowns on this show... When I went looking for the gowns, I found some beautiful shots. Highlights through ep 2x19.
This pattern is used a lot at the beginning, but later seems to indicate patients who are emotionally significant to Wolf.
This type of pattern is often, but not always, used for younger patients.
Wyatt (1x03, not pictured because I couldn't get a good screenshot) wears the same pattern as Tommy (2x01)
Notably, the gown Benson wears at the private hospital later is plain dark gray.
Both Nora (2x13) and Alyssa (2x18) wear the color of Alice in Disney's Alice in Wonderland. Oliver wears it, too, at Hudson Oaks, but this post is only Bronx Gen gowns.
Sometimes the gowns reflect mental states, as here with Johnny. The gown is black and white.
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