There’s a paid version here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bonniebonnie
Or I guess if you search for it online maybe you’ll stumble onto it? Sorry, this one doesn’t seem very easily found.
When the show found out about Lu and Mei’s relationship, the china crew leader mentions that she found a slip of paper with her handwriting on it, which I found kind of strange because it could’ve been written by anybody from their crew. Do you think they said that to move the story on quicker or were there too few crew members from the China team to have pinpointed it directly to their only astronaut representing the country?
Well, I figured it’s like any handwriting, it can be pretty distinctive? Is that not the case? Especially as Lu’s a talented calligrapher, I’d imagine her writing for an ILY would be prettier than what most people could manage?
What exactly is the storyline for lu and mei? I keep seeing gifs of them
Well, I don’t know how much detail you want, but basically, as I said, the show is about five international astronauts on a three year mission to Mars, with of course some extra focus on the family back on Earth of the lead of the show, the American. Who is Hilary Swank, I mean, she is the big name here.
But anyway, Lu is the Chinese astronaut and is married (to a man) and has a kid. There’s a lot of cooperation between the different space agencies so this particular team’s communications liaison at the NASA command center is a Chinese woman named Mei. In flashbacks, we see how Lu and Mei met and bonded and fell in love and how they didn’t act on it because Lu couldn’t do that to her husband, or son or country, being the whole face of China on this historic mission and all. In the present, after the mission’s started, they’re found out anyway and Mei is transferred to a different position away from the team. Lu is frantic to reach her to make sure she’s okay and finally is able to talk to her for a bit and their arc ends on a hopeful note but for now that’s the last we see of Mei.
They only really get the one episode (ep 3) but it’s so romantic, they center the other person and care about them and what matters to them in such a respectful, loving way. Like, I can be pretty judgy on endings, right, and I didn’t love that Mei was sent away so quickly, but what we got of them, they got me. The actresses really sold the emotion of it, the way they both openly accept they’re in love and how there’s that awareness in all their interactions. I just liked it. 🙂
Hello I love your work ?❤️I recently saw a German movie called Bonnie and bonnie and I found it really beautiful and I was wondering if you could make some gifs about it because there aren’t any other on tumblr. Thank you in advance ?
Hey, anon, sorry but I don’t really think I’ll ever get around to watching this one. I haven’t even watched movies I’ve been interested in and this looks, from the genre and ending, not really my thing? I’m sorry to respond so late just to say no, but. Honestly, you asked so nicely and I feel bad saying no…if you messaged me with very specific moments/scenes, maybe I could do those?
To think that we had Jamie Chung ready to be a badass queer Mulan. Damn OUAT.
Oh, like, absolutely, damn OUAT, but what do you mean? Has there been an interview where she discussed it or is this just about her being amazing in last night’s Lovecraft Country?
If we do get a 2nd season, which I really hope we do! (and to the people reading this that haven’t yet please go watch TBH you won’t regret it) how do you think Blair’s relationship with April is going to change and vice-versa since they both know what’s up now
Oooh, that’s definitely one of the most interesting potential arcs for s2. Like honestly, even in this season, it felt like we didn’t get enough of a reaction from Blair when Sterling revealed they were hooking up. Like, April? April “good girl fellowship leader sex blackmailer whose father they put in jail” Stevens?? I know she was all caught up in the end of the season drama with her own fight with Sterling and Miles and the mama drama but that little reconciliation outside Bowser’s place when they were talking about Miles and Luke and April, how was she not like, okay, but how? When? Why? Sterling’s putting on lip gloss for APRIL STEVENS?
But anyway, I understand that pacing and the season arc had other demands. Fine. Now that it’s a new season, though, and she knows…I think even if initially she thinks April broke Sterling’s heart, that’ll be resolved quickly enough that they can give this new dynamic some time. Something so massive happened to Sterling, to Blair as well but at least her parents are still who she always thought they were. We don’t even know if Sterling will know who her father is. Both Blair and April’ll be on the outer edges of that, I think it’ll give them a chance to create an unlikely bond. Maybe not immediately but at some point in the season, I fully expect the two of them to hang out together without Sterling.
Like, I suppose it’d also be fun drama if it’s the three of them but I can’t see that happening immediately, except perhaps extremely awkwardly in school or maybe even church, with Sterling holding Blair back from going after April. For her part, I think April’ll try to keep up a bit of a front like before, probably more polite and with the knowledge that Blair now knows, maybe dropping it in her concern for Sterling. The worst thing would be for April to barely be included in the eps that focus on the family drama, but given the situation with her father, she still has a major part to play. Once she finds out, I think she’ll be mad at Blair, but most of her ire’ll be reserved for Sterling, who’s the one she actually counted on to be open with her.
Ideally, I’d like for a little friendship to form between them because, like, Blair is honestly the sweetest kid and April has had to put on this facade for so long and underneath is like any other kid. And both care about Sterling so much, they have this major thing in common right off the bat.
Just wanted to clarify, as I think I was one of the folks who talked about Sterling thinking this was all a trick by April- I wasn’t thinking that was ever actually the case, more wondering if that dark thought ran across Sterling’s mind when she saw April flirting with Luke. That their whole thing had been some twisted head game April played with her. Obviously that got cleared up later outside. But I think she coulda thought it was a possibility given they were enemies less than a week before.
Ah, I’m answering this so late all the relevant previous asks are weeks old by now, but yeah, I assumed the anon was referring to other comments out there? Your ask hadn’t come across as implying it was an actual trick, just the possible perception of.
And honestly, thinking more on it, since I just giffed the scene where Sterling leaves the lock-in, the way she’s legit angry and going, what’s wrong with you, there’s this genuine confusion at what exactly WAS going on, so it could definitely have been a fleeting possibility, not even necessarily that it was all a trick, but that April was playing weird mindgames with her, the April she knew a week ago wouldn’t have flirted with Luke either.
i have never wanted a fic more, than i do stepril!! i remeber reading “childhood friends to enemies to lovers” on fandoms where the characters are like 30 and not even canon. come on fic writers, if we can conjure up childhood/teenage personalities/plotlines for people on their 30s, surely we can do this! please. anyone?
Aww, I’m sorry I took so long to reply but I actually went and checked ao3. When you sent this, there would have been 16 fics in the tag. There are now 91, so that’s not terrible!
But I super get your point, this is ripe for fic, it’s left in that perfect place where they’re separated but it’s the kind of conflict that you can play around and work with. Sometimes canon leaves characters SO far apart it’s like, okay, it’s gonna take 90k words for them to even be in the same room, and other times–and I find this HARDER, where they actually have no conflict at all, they should be together and just…aren’t? Like, how do you handle that in fic? “Hey, we should be together.” “We should.” The end. Post-s1 Stepril, you have so much juicy material, and all kinds of ways they can get back together or carry on a secret relationship, or have April react to Sterling putting her dad in jail (that might take 90k words).
Lmao at your comment about how people write HSAUs for characters in their 30s, or say, when they’re warlords in a dystopian future? I remember getting into discussions about why there were so many HSAUs and wondered if it was just people wanting to write away from canon, but, for example, Glee had a ton where they stayed in school. I think it’s that a lot of fic writers actually have experience with high school, sometimes recent, so it’s easier to write what you know, as opposed to hospitals or mysterious warehouses. Even if you haven’t been to American high school, there’s so much media out there based in it and it’s easier to research. It’s also interesting to write as a stripped down archetypey version of other worlds. The popular kids, the nerds, you slot people into simplified positions and try to replicate their original dynamics with way lower stakes.
Though I guess the really good fic, even if it’s a HSAU, goes beyond the basics, because like, look at the world of TBH. Sterling and April are somehow both the popular kids and nerds, and the stakes are certainly higher than they might be. Even if you start with this relatively simpler setting, people are complex. I haven’t really looked at the actual fics yet, but I assume most are canon adjacent and not like, doctor or rock star AUs.
TBH romances are so well written and acted! the awkwardness is real. it reminds me of the cutthroat honesty of Sex Education, but a little more PG rated. Which, I guess is also more age appropriate. I hope Netflix doesnt fuck this show up, especially since it got stuck on a cliff hanger
The awkwardness was SO well done, but I’m grateful it was always at a level where I wasn’t just covering my face in secondhand embarrassment. It was like..endearing, first love stuff. ^_^
I’ve never seen Sex Education but when I was making my friend watch TBH, she also compared the two. Wish it had that kind of popularity though, lol. You sent this quite a while back but no real progress has been made on the renewal front since and you can see the cast trying to promote it recently, which to me means it’s still up in the air. It truly would suck to not get at least one more season to resolve all these open threads.
You think the forehead touch and the hug got you invested in queen maeve and elena? watch the deleted scenes of this season… there’s a deleted scene that you will find very relevant to your interests… if you’re on youtube it is at the end of all the other scenes ;)
Oh, no, I was already invested, I just liked that scene anyway. 🙂
And oooh. I think you meant for last season, though, right. So many deleted Maeve scenes, whyyy. When she already has so little screentime. The one with the mirror and Homelander was so creepy, every scene with him feels like could go in any direction and its ominous af. And ahhhh, you weren’t wrong! That’s a great scene, and I was gonna wonderr why they cut it but given where s2 picked up with them, I guess it would be weird if this had happened. But I was still disappointed they didn’t show Maeve moving the couch at the end, lol.