Historical Obsessions

I plan do to a Anna x Bates Appreciation Week April 12-18, as that lines up with when they met in 1912 and about when they married in 1919.

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But if you asked, “Would you let the statue of liberty burn in order to save your child? your spouse? someone you loved a great deal?” the tune abruptly changes. At the very least, there’s a hesitation. Even if they deny it, I’m willing to bet that gun to their head, the answer would be “yes.”  

The basic problem here is that people have a hard time seeing outside their own sphere of influence, and empathizing beyond the few people who are right in front of them. You’ve got your immediate family, whom you love; your friends, your acquaintances, maybe to a certain degree the people who share a status with you (your religion, your race, etc.)–but beyond that? People aren’t real. They’re theoretical. 

But a national monument? That’s real. It stands for something. The value of a non-realized anonymous life that exists completely outside your sphere of influence is clearly worth less than something that represents freedom and prosperity to a whole nation, right?

People who think like this lack the compassion to realize that everyone is in someone’s immediate sphere of influence–that everyone is someone’s lover, or brother, or parent. Everyone means the world to someone. And it’s the absolute height of selfishness to assume that their lives don’t have value just because they don’t mean the world to you. 

But that guy deserved a Best Actor in a Comedy Emmy Award here.   

He gone

Bonus:

Mr Blobby: J̡̼̓̓ͮ͑ͩͭ̇͞A̧̬̙̹̝̻̼ͯ̑͆̉̿C̯̬̯̬̤̻̦̞̎̐̈̏́͗̀̐͘Kͭ҉̹̼̭̹̻͢

Eventually the skit became so well known that they couldn’t use it for Gotchas any more, because everyone knew it. Mr Blobby became a household icon, a regular character on the show outside of the Gotcha section but still used to humiliate celebrity guests and there was a novelty Christmas single released one year too in the vein of the kids TV format.

Here’s the movie spoilers for A/B in Downton Abbey Returns!

No new clips for them outside of the trailers, and Brendan in some random behind the scenes shots. The TV show clips actually had a lot of A/B + Baby Bates from S6CS (yay, at least PBS finally thinks he’s no longer a spoiler!), idk if that’s a sign, but like… show me film footage with their son, cowards… *cough*

Anyway, after a very quick summary of A/B as a couple and some old, dated, interviews we get something new…

GARETH: “[So many bad things happened to them,] that’s why it’s so great that at the end of season 6 that they have their child and we see them content and in a very good place, and that continues into the movie. We see them as a strong, united couple, who will have a really important role to play in the story of the movie.“ 

“Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul.”

― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn.

Love it.

Oh my god