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Lmaooo I just watched the WH trailer and...good lord.

Well, I have mixed feelings about the Tomb Raider project for multiple reasons as you know. But I trust Phoebe Waller Bridge (troubled production and all) more than Emerald Fennell lol. She is authentic and funny at least.

If it helps, the Sophie casting official announcement came with two other announcements: Chad Hodge (Wayward Pines, Good Behavior) as exec producer and co-showrunner and Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun) as director and exec producer. One of my worries thus so far has been that with all the back and forth of Amazon with PWB, they hadn't mentioned any other names than Sophie. We now have a director and it seems Amazon brought in Chad Hodge to help with the scripts and steer the ship.

From the looks of it Phoebe does in fact plan to make Lara funnier.

All still very iffy and the stakes are too high for Sophie. If it does well, it'll be good for her. If it doesn't, it'll set her back as we've talked about. But given Amazon after sacking Jen Salke went on a mission to purge a number of franchise shows, I guess they feel confident enough to go through with this one. They could've axed it and saved money. They didn't recast Sophie despite the largely negative reactions before so I guess she tested really well and PWB stuck her guns out for her. The dudebros, who make up the main audience, hate everything about this show, of course. From Sophie to Phoebe to Prime Video's history with franchises - mainly with making them more woke. Now they're praising Alicia like we all have amnesia about how much they hated her back then.

Granted, I have only seen a few episodes of Jane the Virgin, but I agree SO HARD.

The question is, why do showrunners ever go for the White Bread boys? Why do they hold on to these characters so hard? Why do they shove them down our throats, even when we puke them right out? Why on earth do they think we will like them?

So many examples come to mind! Riley in BTVS, Duncan and Piz in Veronica Mars, Matt in the Vampire Diaries... 

They even look the same! These White Bread, Captain Cardboards, Nice Guys ™.

i still miss baby sara.

First of all good luck getting that job!

Also thank you so much, it’s always amazing to get messages reinforcing why exactly I started this blog in the first place. Book descriptions (which honestly??? dont matter much in tv adaptations) can still be followed while casting people of color.

I am an aspiring TV writer moving to Los Angeles next summer. Finding out how deep sexual harassment goes, that it’s happening behind shows I love to people I love has been both disheartening and enlightening.

I don’t know how you do it. If I’m having such a strong reaction and I’m only on the periphery, I can’t imagine what it’s like for you. 

I have a question: is it worth it?

I have my happy imaginings of what a writer’s room must be like. In my head it’s a positive place, a progressive place. Everyone knows what feminism is and what it isn’t. Everyone is a feminist. Though a tragic minority, the women in the room feel safe enough to become vulnerable, to open up, to reach the depths of themselves in the name of creativity, to build something beautiful and wonderful beyond themselves.

This whole thing has felt like a reality check. I’m going into this knowing it will be hard. I know I’ll be an assistant for years before becoming a staff writer. I know I may have to go back to living on ramen, just like I did in college. I know it will be long hours. I know it will be taxing on my mental health–as someone who does have mental illness, this will be especially hard.

The thing is, I don’t know what else I’d do if I didn’t have this dream of writing. That’s not true; I could go back to academia (where I’m from), give up on the dream, and forever wonder if I could have made it if I tried. I’d go back to analyzing television instead of hoping to make it myself. However, that life is sad to me. It’s pedestrian. It’s… ordinary.

I don’t know if I’m as strong as you. I don’t know if I could work under those conditions. I don’t know how I would come out on the other side of this.

I just want you to know I think you’re extraordinary. I want you to know that I admire you, that I hope to be like you, and not just because you’re on the path to my dream job. I don’t know exactly what happened. However, your posts make it clear this is much bigger than myself. That this is beyond “what did they do to my favorite characters.” That this is the work environment I’m willingly walking into.

That these are real people experiencing things that I can expect to experience myself.

My theory about season 3 hair is she couldn’t get it professionally done while waitressing as Anne, so she bought a box of hair color at the drug store and proceeded to over-streak her hair with bad, fake-looking chunks