The kid episodes and the kids understanding Reese and Shaw better than anyone else in the show immediately
How Harold makes the :/ face so often that it’s stuck that way
Shaw trying to get Bear to like her
Bear. Just… everything about Bear. Knocking John down when he got back from Rickers, helping Harold through his anxiety, being depressed when someone doesn’t come home, the way that John and Harold squabble about him, the way he helps on missions, how Harold fusses over him while scolding John for feeding Bear table scraps…
Carter’s constant Done-ness with John
Carter’s dedication to her morals, but also her dedication to her friends
How the Netflix summaries of the episodes try to make things sound edgy and sexy but the show just. isn’t having it.
“Reese finds himself captivated by their latest person of interest” aka Reese makes a new friend and is respectful and supportive to women
“Lethal and sexy government operative Sameen Shaw finds herself on the run – and the new focus of Reese and Finch’s attention” aka Shaw shoots people for 40 minutes in practical clothing and Reese sometimes provides backup and also gets shot by Shaw in his two minutes of screentime
All??? these well developed??? female characters????? I don’t know what to do with them they’re so beautiful
Carter’s magnificent eyebrows and how she apparently had a nose ring in some time past
Also how she lied to the federal agent by “admitting” that she had smoked marijuana in college and he commented that everyone lied about that one and she was the first person to tell the truth
The “spilling my tragic feelings/backstory” part of the episode where Reese stands around and looks sympathetic as the 349872nd person that week tells all to him as they stand around waiting for backup or pickup or something
How he always listens and gives advice anyway
How tall he is compared to everyone
His face when someone even TALLER comes out to fight him
How he smiles right before he punches someone he doesn’t like
How Shaw does the same thing
The way Shaw and Reese squabble like siblings. Like. That is one of the most sibling-like relationships i’ve ever seen on screen
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
「Harold Finch」 “I’m going to kill you. But I need to decide how far I’m willing to go… how many of my own rules I’m willing to break to get it done.” —————– 「Loretha"Cookie"Lyon」 “The streets aren’t made for everybody, that’s why they made sidewalks.” —————– 「Raymond Reddington」 “There is nothing that can take pain away, but eventually you will find a way to live with it .” —————– 「Frank Underwood&Claire Underwood」 “We don’t submit to terror, we make the terror” —————– 「Diane Lockhart」 “You can slice an opponent to shreds, smiling the whole time, and they come back thanking you” —————– 「Bobby Axelrod」 “Well then, it’s a good thing I’m a rich fucking man.” —————– 「Annalise Keating」 “You call it crazy,I call it winning.”
“Pi.
The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
And this is just the beginning.
It keeps on going.
Forever.
Without ever repeating.
Which means that contained within this string of decimals is every single other number.
Your birth date, combination to your locker, your social security number.
It’s all in there somewhere.
And if you convert these decimals into letters, you would have every word that ever existed in every possible combination.
The first syllable you spoke as a baby, the name of your latest crush, your entire life story from beginning to end.
Everything we ever say or do.
All of the world’s infinite possibilities rest within this one simple circle.
Now what you do with that information–what it’s good for–well, that would be up to you.”
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WHY DON’T THEY DO THE LAST ONE EVERYWHERE
That last one is the pinnacle of positive reinforcement. That needs to be the industry standard.
This literally give me hope in humankind. maybe not the sponge one though.
They do the last one in Australia too!!!
I definitely think we should all do the last one.
THAT BOBBY DUNBAR ONE DONE GOOFED ME UP I want more info that
SO THE BOBBY DUNBAR STORY IS REALLY WILD AND I HEARD ABOUT THIS A FEW MONTHS AGO SO BASICALLY-
Four year old Bobby Dunbar and his family went on a trip to Louisiana in 1912, when Bobby suddenly disappeared. There was a lengthy 8 month search for the boy until supposed sightings of him with a man roused investigators, who believed to have found Bobby with the man Walters. When they asked Walters why he had the boy, he told them “Bobby” was actually the son of the woman who worked for his family named Bruce Anderson, and that he had permission to take him on a trip to Mississippi. Investigators accused the man of kidnapping and called for the Dunbars to identify their son. They also contacted the claimed mother Julia Anderson to see if this child was hers instead.
The absolute WILD part about this is that reports on how the kid reacted around either adult varied dramatically. Some say he ran immediately to Mrs Dunbar and interacted affectionately with the younger brother, whereas others reported he began crying and did not recognize any of the family members. Crazy thing is that on the first day of interaction, the Dunbars were actually UNSURE if this kid was theirs. It wasn’t until they stripped him down to check for birthmarks and scars when Mrs Dunbar stated she was more sure that this was her son. When Ms Anderson came to see the boy, she was supposedly ALSO UNSURE if the boy they found was truly her son and reports claimed the boy did not react to her at all. She asked if the boy she pointed out from a line of a few boys (probably to see if she can identify the correct one) was the one they found, she was denied an answer and figured she had definite doubts. When she was allowed to see his bare body the next day, she said that this was definitely her son Bruce, but the Dunbars already had been favored by the press and because Anderson had her initial doubts reported, they believed she was lying.
This whole ordeal was a result of classism and manipulative interviewing. The Dunbars were a wealthy family, whereas Ms Anderson was lower class and had children previously out of wedlock and no present husband. It’s also likely that when having the child meet the Dunbars that investigators insisted to “Bobby” that he was to meet “his” family and that those were definitely his parents. There were various levels of supportive press for the Dunbar family, but anything about Anderson and Walters was nearly exclusively negative.
Anderson was too poor to afford a lawyer to fight for returned custody of her son as well as Walters’ innocence, but in the end the Dunbars were granted the boy as their own and Walters spent time in jail for kidnapping. The boy was raised as Bobby Dunbar in a family of wealth and no reported suspicion of otherwise had followed, save for Ms Anderson often telling her eventual family that she had a son who was kidnapped by the Dunbars.
It wasn’t until “Bobby Dunbar’s” granddaughter grew interested in the mysterious case in the early 2000s, insisted that Bobby was definitely related to the Dunbars, and set out to collect evidence via interviews with the surviving Anderson children and documents of the investigation and legal defense papers used for Walters’ kidnapping trial. She was eventually given permission to submit a blood test to compare her father’s DNA with his cousin’s and it turned out that they were not related in the slightest, therefore Bobby was “Bruce” and the real Bobby was never discovered. The current theory is that Bobby fell into the swamp and got eaten by a gator.
