(and also kind of emotionally motivated by my struggles to try and get So Help Me Todd saved #savesohelpmetodd #renewsohelpmetodd)

"Rage" is the thing with fire

That's burning deep inside

When justice needs a little push

Or rules need be defied

And though it may not seem like much

When only from one voice

The rage of many joined as one

Can shout above the noise

The fire must be kept alight

And do not stop the song

For it's a call to set things right

Some explanations

my theory of the Tonys having anti-teen bias is evidenced by snubs of various kinds for shows like Starmites, The Lightning Thief and Be More Chill and Dear Evan Hansen only swept imho despite this because (despite how its own movie would end up turning out) it's kinda the Broadway equivalent of an Oscarbait movie

the thing about changing the HP-related things' names is e.g. the only reason the irl quidditch league or w/e should have changed the sport name to quadball is the adjustment needed for Muggles to play and since in concept and using-house-symbols the sortinghatchats system still shows its HP influence, it shouldn't have dropped house labels

what I mean about the Eureka thing is that I have a theory that due to things like when Eureka was founded, the kind of people it attracts and the endogamy implied by its secrecy, not a lot of people in town know much of anything about Aspergers/"high-functioning" autism/"low-support" autism despite how many people in town would probably test as having it so only a case of autism as severe as pre-time-jump Kevin would register to most Eurekans as autism (and he didn't get cured he just got higher-functioning/lower-support, still doesn't explain how a timeline jump changed that though)

Nice to see Todd taking things to the next level and feeling even more like Shawn Spencer (even down to the helipad thing feeling totally a Shawn reaction, or maybe an Ezekiel Jones one)

Speaking of which, it seems Todd's trickster luck's still in full force (as since early on S1 SHMT I've grouped Shawn, Ezekiel and Todd together in my mind as similar tricksters who feel like they all have the same pseudo-magical freaky luck/Bugs Bunny bullshit (Shawn has been Word-Of-God said to work by Bugs Bunny rules as much as one could in a live-action setting) going on hmm maybe crossover fic potential esp. since Bugs Bunny takes a lot of Doylist influence from the mythological Loki do with that what you will )

Alison's blonde hair leading to (esp. as she might be an INFP like me) even more "self-recognition through the blorbo" (as if she'd had bangs it would look a lot like mine) and between that and how much I already am in the weird state of both relating to and crushing on Todd, if we get more depth on Lawrence and there's something other than gayness there for me to connect to (like people have said if anyone in the ensemble could be neurodivergent autistic!Lawrence is a possibility) it's going to be (albeit without the crush for the example with minors) The Middle all over again with me vibing with all three siblings and a mom a lot like mine

Speaking of dyed hair is it just me or does Margaret's look as if she dyed it black I mean seriously she looked a bit like an older Regina Mills at some points

OK so how many permissions did they had to get for how much they expied about CBS news (I mean to the degree of having a J. Giannola as an anchor and I think the weatherman's name was also similar to one of our local (Oregonian here) guys)

Even if it was only briefly Lyle singing was not on my bingo card (that and the announcement of Heather Morris joining the recurring cast makes me wonder if musical episode in our future?)

Love the Margaret/Harry and Todd/Susan moving on parallels

Between those and all that stuff with the station full of gays including the actual-news-interns thinking Todd's cute and even down to them pointing out his "gay" look at dinner, potential tease for Todd rebounding with a guy?

Love the whole Phantom Of The Opera motif with not just the lighting "chandelier" drops and the music but the culprit being the lovestruck guy with the facial disfigurement who right before the final drop said something about "love never dies" (aka the title of the POTO sequel)

Major ?! about the whole scene with Beverly and Susan and the partner track, I know firms can have more than three partners but if you'll pardon throwing a blorbo from another show briefly under the bus what is it with badass beautiful bitches named Beverly and butting their butt into everyone's business (and yes the alliteration was accidental until about halfway through)

So part 1 of a documentary on the whole SHMT sitch just dropped, watch and spread it to spread the message as A. I still believe just because Scott Prendergast may be working on another show doesn't mean we still can't fight for this one to come back (and my ideal scenario would be through a Leverage: Redemption crossover with Margaret as the kind of client that'd draw the team back to Portland (and Todd etc. getting in on the con as if Sophie need more neuroweird cats to herd) bonus points if the Watsonian reason why some of the grifting would be infiltrating various points of the legal system is because she knows Harry so he could just be himself but being another kind of lawyer or w/e) as long as so many years don't pass that the actors age out of believability in their roles (as shows have taken long gaps between seasons before as well as retooled themselves with slightly changed titles (so maybe we could sneak a comeback in in a way that makes them think spinoff like how S3 of The Orville was called The Orville: New Horizons)) and B. either way regardless of what happens with SHMT no other show deserves the same fate as it currently has

Yeah I saw Scott Prendergast's Insta I just wasn't sure how to take that message as I couldn't tell if he was just accepting he had to work on something else because he needed a job or if he'd truly given up (esp. as the latter would mean some part of the message inadvertently as if his ability to imagine the story he'd planned and keep the characters alive in his mind or w/e means he's okay with not doing the show when I didn't think him saying "one way or another, all So Help Me Todd stories will be told" referred to his daydreams any more than it referred to that goddamn article) and I did have some crazy ideas for how to build support if it could come-back-but-take-a-few-years, from him writing the story down in books and then bringing the show back now "based on the best-selling books" to including stealth-implied-crossovers in other CBS shows to make it a franchise