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trying again to watch twin peaks (i keep getting stuck and dropping it mid season 2) and wow. coop really is just a critter

the euphemism in Why We Build The Wall that always kills me is “the enemy is poverty”. because on the surface yes, people do want to keep the concept of poverty away from them. but thats not what Hades means. he means the enemy is poor PEOPLE. not necessarily the biggest difference, but when he says “because they want what we have got”, he is talking about PEOPLE, whereas saying he is keeping poverty out both makes his statements less precise, making it easier to weasel around, and dehumanizing the people he is working against. more genius writing by anais mitchell

hc that theres a timeline where lg could have saved cxs, but was so jaded by previous timelines that it never occurred to him. that in his mind, he’s equated injury to death, and at some point he gives up just a little too early. at first, i thought maybe cxs gets wounded and ql calls an ambulance, but lg dives before he hears the news that cxs made it through. he just disappears, leaving cxs to wonder how he could have abandoned him. and then i realized that then he would never get cxs’ power that way, so maybe it shows up differently. maybe cxs gets hurt and only lg is around. he has cxs in his arms, if he called an ambulance maybe they could save him, but lg has gotten so caught up in the time travel, in saving cxs meaning subtle changes to the timeline, and cxs being lost the second he gets seriously hurt, that it doesn’t even occur to him to try and save him the normal way. he truly thinks all he can do is hold him as he dies. hc that lg DID find a timeline where cxs could have survived and he didn’t even know it

unsure if this is really obvious but i just can’t get it out of my brain. one of the lines that always gets me in hadestown is in Epic II (or it might be chant i can’t remember) when Orpheus is working on the song and Hermes says what the entire audience is thinking; “look up!” with such force and desperation that it always catches me. yes, the reason Eurydice fell back into hadestown is because Orpheus looked back, but what if when he turned around that was why. what if he couldn’t trust his song to carry them out of hell anymore because last time he tried that, Eurydice died. The Fates are the personification of doubt but what if, in that moment, Orpheus’ doubt sounded like his mentor, begging him to look up, to open his eyes, and to not lose the woman he loves.

did you know 99% of Lu Guangs quit right before theyre about to find the timeline where Cheng Xiaoshi lives