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There aren’t two sides to every story. Some stories have five sides, some only have one.

Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were.

This was before Ellen came out.

This was before civil unions.

This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay.

There’s a shelter for homeless queer youth because of her. She left it in her will for them to receive a grant of $300K. The same center she raised money ($40k) for, doing one of her last live performances before retiring because of her own health in 2005. It took damage during Hurricane Sandy but was repaired. And it’s now literally called The Bea Arthur Residence.

Magnum PI was filming its last episode and WHAT GOING ON?? Is Juliet taking some vacation with Ethan outside of Hawaii (obviously she’s not leaving leaving because Higgins is part of the show so..)? 

Everyone is hugging Juliet so is that some kind of goodbye or because they wrapped the scene?

What’s your thought and theories?

Magnum P.I. Scoring Session

Finally watched it last night, and overall, I don’t have too much to add to the copious meta that’s already been posted.  Y’all are prolific! Most of the rest of my thoughts can wait until later tonight after I’ve had the chance to re-watch a second time, but this, I have to get out before it starts becoming an even more jumbled mess in my head:

LUCY PRESTON IS STUBBORN AS HELL.

YES, I SAID IT. 

Her repeated insistence that Wyatt’s happy and got everything he wanted while she’s left holding the bag flies completely in the face of all the evidence in front of her. Lucy’s an academic, and while she’s not involved in the hard sciences, she is someone who understands the importance of facts. She has convinced herself of the facts of the current state of Jessica and Wyatt’s relationship based on precious little other than what she knows of Wyatt’s memories and her own stubborn refusal to allow the man to speak for his own damnself. 

Now, to describe Wyatt as “not always great with words” is perhaps understating the problem, but how can he work out how he really feels when literally no one in his orbit is willing or able to help him vent all this crazy. (as a side note, this is a major fail on Rufus and Jiya’s parts as well). There’s no roadmap or guidebook about what to do when a wife who’s been dead for 6 years suddenly reappears thanks to an evil time traveling cabal and Wyatt’s reacting in pretty much the way any fallible human person might. 

Anyway, back to Lucy: in this particular area of matters of the heart, Lucy is the one taking Wyatt’s lead, instead of the other way around in most matters. We don’t know much about her previous relationships before Team Lifeboat came together, but it seems fairly likely that serious romance was not on her radar for a long time. So, she sees Wyatt’s experience with love and marriage and has used that as her guideline. 

Lucy’s also, I think, a romantic at heart, and what I believe scares her shitless about the possibility of Wyatt and Jessica’s marriage failing is that if she can’t trust how he felt about Jessica, how can she trust his feelings for her? What if he’s gotten it wrong both times? 

That is an angle I’ve never considered. I’ll have to focus on that when I rewatch again.