the production team clearly looked at Travell Tillman and said "THIS MAN IS A PERFECT GEM AND WE NEED TO HIGHLIGHT HIS GIFTS FROM EVERY LITERAL AND METAPHORICAL ANGLE" and they were right.
All the Emmys! His performance has been incredible! We better get a backstory episode next season!
Totally agreed about the way it closed in on Mark this season and how annoying that is.
One of the other things I Loved about s1 was the fact that it felt like the dynamic between the core MDR team was the show's central relationship. It is not. The love triangle is the central relationship. This season, romantic love is, for everyone, the central relationship. It is the thing around which they build and explore their identities. It is, as [personal profile] genarti put it, shipper-brained.
THANKS I HATE IT.
Let me be clear: I don't dislike either of these things except that they are the only things.
EXACTLY.
. It's amazing how differently I would feel about this if Dylan had been in those shots as well -- if the choice that Mark was making had not been so clearly framed as Two Love Interests, but two lives lived.
Yes.
I am really hopeful that the show knows how narrow it went this season and is going to use it for a purpose next season, but WHO KNOWS at this point.
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Date: 2025-03-25 02:06 pm (UTC)All the Emmys! His performance has been incredible! We better get a backstory episode next season!
Totally agreed about the way it closed in on Mark this season and how annoying that is.
One of the other things I Loved about s1 was the fact that it felt like the dynamic between the core MDR team was the show's central relationship. It is not. The love triangle is the central relationship. This season, romantic love is, for everyone, the central relationship. It is the thing around which they build and explore their identities. It is, as [personal profile] genarti put it, shipper-brained.
THANKS I HATE IT.
Let me be clear: I don't dislike either of these things except that they are the only things.
EXACTLY.
. It's amazing how differently I would feel about this if Dylan had been in those shots as well -- if the choice that Mark was making had not been so clearly framed as Two Love Interests, but two lives lived.
Yes.
I am really hopeful that the show knows how narrow it went this season and is going to use it for a purpose next season, but WHO KNOWS at this point.