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![stellarsteele:
I started watching Babylon Berlin when it premiered in 2017. I am not averse to foreign productions, but I sometimes find it difficult to relate to different cultural values. Further, as a romance genre fanatic, I wasn’t sure if this show would appeal to me.
Nonetheless, I gave this show a chance. It turned out to be one of the best shows I have ever watched.
In case you love romances as much as I do, there are PLENTY in Babylon Berlin.
[The next part of my commentary contains SPOILERS]
I was so happy when Gereon and Charlotte finally acted on their undisclosed love for each other in Season 3. The director of the show made a masterful decision to have their love surface* during Reinhold’s birthday party.
Like Reinhold and his lover, Gereon and Charlotte have a forbidden love. The Berlin police discourages any intimacy in their ranks.
I think that Gereon and Charlotte make a great couple because they have seen each other in the most vulnerable situations. Charlotte has seen Gereon struggle with drug usage and PTSD. Gereon has seen Charlotte come close to death multiple times.
I would be curious to see if Gereon will find out about Charlotte’s prostitution in later seasons. Would this impact their relationship? This remains to be seen.
Ultimately, this was a long awaited scene for me. It proves to me that love can materialize in even the most difficult times.
*Pun #1: Recall that Gereon saves Charlotte from drowning by delivering air to her from the surface of the lake in Season 2.
[This is purely commentary on Netflix’s Babylon Berlin. The content belongs to Netflix.]
: stellarsteele:
I started watching Babylon Berlin when it premiered in 2017. I am not averse to foreign productions, but I sometimes find it difficult to relate to different cultural values. Further, as a romance genre fanatic, I wasn’t sure if this show would appeal to me.
Nonetheless, I gave this show a chance. It turned out to be one of the best shows I have ever watched.
In case you love romances as much as I do, there are PLENTY in Babylon Berlin.
[The next part of my commentary contains SPOILERS]
I was so happy when Gereon and Charlotte finally acted on their undisclosed love for each other in Season 3. The director of the show made a masterful decision to have their love surface* during Reinhold’s birthday party.
Like Reinhold and his lover, Gereon and Charlotte have a forbidden love. The Berlin police discourages any intimacy in their ranks.
I think that Gereon and Charlotte make a great couple because they have seen each other in the most vulnerable situations. Charlotte has seen Gereon struggle with drug usage and PTSD. Gereon has seen Charlotte come close to death multiple times.
I would be curious to see if Gereon will find out about Charlotte’s prostitution in later seasons. Would this impact their relationship? This remains to be seen.
Ultimately, this was a long awaited scene for me. It proves to me that love can materialize in even the most difficult times.
*Pun #1: Recall that Gereon saves Charlotte from drowning by delivering air to her from the surface of the lake in Season 2.
[This is purely commentary on Netflix’s Babylon Berlin. The content belongs to Netflix.]](https://pics.me.me/thumb_stellarsteele-i-started-watching-babylon-berlin-when-it-premiered-in-71470108.png)
![stellarsteele:
I started watching Babylon Berlin when it premiered in 2017. I am not averse to foreign productions, but I sometimes find it difficult to relate to different cultural values. Further, as a romance genre fanatic, I wasn’t sure if this show would appeal to me.
Nonetheless, I gave this show a chance. It turned out to be one of the best shows I have ever watched.
In case you love romances as much as I do, there are PLENTY in Babylon Berlin.
[The next part of my commentary contains SPOILERS]
I was so happy when Gereon and Charlotte finally acted on their undisclosed love for each other in Season 3. The director of the show made a masterful decision to have their love surface* during Reinhold’s birthday party.
Like Reinhold and his lover, Gereon and Charlotte have a forbidden love. The Berlin police discourages any intimacy in their ranks.
I think that Gereon and Charlotte make a great couple because they have seen each other in the most vulnerable situations. Charlotte has seen Gereon struggle with drug usage and PTSD. Gereon has seen Charlotte come close to death multiple times.
I would be curious to see if Gereon will find out about Charlotte’s prostitution in later seasons. Would this impact their relationship? This remains to be seen.
Ultimately, this was a long awaited scene for me. It proves to me that love can materialize in even the most difficult times.
*Pun #1: Recall that Gereon saves Charlotte from drowning by delivering air to her from the surface of the lake in Season 2.
[This is purely commentary on Netflix’s Babylon Berlin. The content belongs to Netflix.]
: stellarsteele:
I started watching Babylon Berlin when it premiered in 2017. I am not averse to foreign productions, but I sometimes find it difficult to relate to different cultural values. Further, as a romance genre fanatic, I wasn’t sure if this show would appeal to me.
Nonetheless, I gave this show a chance. It turned out to be one of the best shows I have ever watched.
In case you love romances as much as I do, there are PLENTY in Babylon Berlin.
[The next part of my commentary contains SPOILERS]
I was so happy when Gereon and Charlotte finally acted on their undisclosed love for each other in Season 3. The director of the show made a masterful decision to have their love surface* during Reinhold’s birthday party.
Like Reinhold and his lover, Gereon and Charlotte have a forbidden love. The Berlin police discourages any intimacy in their ranks.
I think that Gereon and Charlotte make a great couple because they have seen each other in the most vulnerable situations. Charlotte has seen Gereon struggle with drug usage and PTSD. Gereon has seen Charlotte come close to death multiple times.
I would be curious to see if Gereon will find out about Charlotte’s prostitution in later seasons. Would this impact their relationship? This remains to be seen.
Ultimately, this was a long awaited scene for me. It proves to me that love can materialize in even the most difficult times.
*Pun #1: Recall that Gereon saves Charlotte from drowning by delivering air to her from the surface of the lake in Season 2.
[This is purely commentary on Netflix’s Babylon Berlin. The content belongs to Netflix.]](https://pics.me.me/thumb_stellarsteele-i-started-watching-babylon-berlin-when-it-premiered-in-71468979.png)
![sushinfood:
justamerplwithabox:
vivelafat:
prokopetz:
officialdeadparrot:
grellholmes:
elsajeni:
gunslingerannie:
justtkeepcalmm:
dean-and-his-pie:
fororchestra:
musicalmelody:
Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it”
Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.
To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.
On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.
I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…
Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.
The lengths we go for music.
Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.
One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”
And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:
[stifled giggling]
[reeeeeeally deep breath]
[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]
The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.
In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”
FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.
This is the best band post
Everyone else go home
Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this
which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,
that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that
Who does that?
This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.
Julius IdontgivaFucik
More like Julius Fuckit
Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share
: sushinfood:
justamerplwithabox:
vivelafat:
prokopetz:
officialdeadparrot:
grellholmes:
elsajeni:
gunslingerannie:
justtkeepcalmm:
dean-and-his-pie:
fororchestra:
musicalmelody:
Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it”
Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.
To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.
On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.
I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…
Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.
The lengths we go for music.
Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.
One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”
And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:
[stifled giggling]
[reeeeeeally deep breath]
[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]
The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.
In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”
FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.
This is the best band post
Everyone else go home
Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this
which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,
that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that
Who does that?
This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.
Julius IdontgivaFucik
More like Julius Fuckit
Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share](https://pics.me.me/thumb_sushinfood-justamerplwithabox-vivelafat-prokopetz-officialdeadparrot-grellholmes-elsajeni-gunslingerannie-justtkeepcalmm-dean-and-his-pie-69735260.png)
Quentin gives Director Bong the peace sign
👀👀👀 #FirstDayAtMyOffice https://t.co/u44zwdhy5s
![m808vthetank:
thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
doux-amer:
truestoriesaboutme:
dragon-in-a-fez:
imagine you saw an alien spacecraft and your first reaction was to critique its flat color palette and unimaginative lines
The Truth is Out There and It Has Bad Aesthetics
Because context actually makes the already great headline even greater:
“I know this is horrible,” del Toro continues. “You sound like a complete lunatic, but I saw a UFO. I didn’t want to see a UFO. It was horribly designed. I was with a friend. We bought a six-pack. We didn’t consume it, and there was a place called Cerro del Cuatro, “Mountain of the Four,” on the periphery of Guadalajara. We said, ‘Let’s go to the highway.’ We sit down to watch the stars and have the beer and talk. We were the only guys by the freeway. And we saw a light on the horizon going super-fast, not linear. And I said, ‘Honk and flash the lights.’ And we started honking.”
The UFO, says del Toro, “Went from 1,000 meters away [to much closer] in less than a second — and it was so crappy. It was a flying saucer, so clichéd, with lights [blinking]. It’s so sad: I wish I could reveal they’re not what you think they are. They are what you think they are. And the fear we felt was so primal. I have never been that scared in my life. We jumped in the car, drove really fast. It was following us, and then I looked back and it was gone.”
(x)
the same man that made a movie about making giant robots to fight aliens SAW SOME ALIENS, INSULTED THEIR AESTHETIC, and RAN AWAY SCREAMING
“there is intelligent life out there but it’s really fuckin tacky”
The real reason we haven’t made official contact with alien life is because they were offended by his remarks and don’t want to come back until we apologise: Guillermo del Toro says he saw a
real UFO and it was 'horribly
designed'
The Shape of Water director Guillermo
2.4K by Laura Hudson/2d
m808vthetank:
thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
doux-amer:
truestoriesaboutme:
dragon-in-a-fez:
imagine you saw an alien spacecraft and your first reaction was to critique its flat color palette and unimaginative lines
The Truth is Out There and It Has Bad Aesthetics
Because context actually makes the already great headline even greater:
“I know this is horrible,” del Toro continues. “You sound like a complete lunatic, but I saw a UFO. I didn’t want to see a UFO. It was horribly designed. I was with a friend. We bought a six-pack. We didn’t consume it, and there was a place called Cerro del Cuatro, “Mountain of the Four,” on the periphery of Guadalajara. We said, ‘Let’s go to the highway.’ We sit down to watch the stars and have the beer and talk. We were the only guys by the freeway. And we saw a light on the horizon going super-fast, not linear. And I said, ‘Honk and flash the lights.’ And we started honking.”
The UFO, says del Toro, “Went from 1,000 meters away [to much closer] in less than a second — and it was so crappy. It was a flying saucer, so clichéd, with lights [blinking]. It’s so sad: I wish I could reveal they’re not what you think they are. They are what you think they are. And the fear we felt was so primal. I have never been that scared in my life. We jumped in the car, drove really fast. It was following us, and then I looked back and it was gone.”
(x)
the same man that made a movie about making giant robots to fight aliens SAW SOME ALIENS, INSULTED THEIR AESTHETIC, and RAN AWAY SCREAMING
“there is intelligent life out there but it’s really fuckin tacky”
The real reason we haven’t made official contact with alien life is because they were offended by his remarks and don’t want to come back until we apologise](https://pics.me.me/thumb_guillermo-del-toro-says-he-saw-a-real-ufo-and-66390300.png)
DIRECTOR’S corner. Ran into JJ. Found out some THINGS. https://t.co/ElqGEdaUJn
Happy Birthday Erik Spoelstra! 1995: Miami Heat Video Coordinator 1997: Assistant Coach 1999: Advance Scout 2001: Director of Scouting...
![thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
doux-amer:
truestoriesaboutme:
dragon-in-a-fez:
imagine you saw an alien spacecraft and your first reaction was to critique its flat color palette and unimaginative lines
The Truth is Out There and It Has Bad Aesthetics
Because context actually makes the already great headline even greater:
“I know this is horrible,” del Toro continues. “You sound like a complete lunatic, but I saw a UFO. I didn’t want to see a UFO. It was horribly designed. I was with a friend. We bought a six-pack. We didn’t consume it, and there was a place called Cerro del Cuatro, “Mountain of the Four,” on the periphery of Guadalajara. We said, ‘Let’s go to the highway.’ We sit down to watch the stars and have the beer and talk. We were the only guys by the freeway. And we saw a light on the horizon going super-fast, not linear. And I said, ‘Honk and flash the lights.’ And we started honking.”
The UFO, says del Toro, “Went from 1,000 meters away [to much closer] in less than a second — and it was so crappy. It was a flying saucer, so clichéd, with lights [blinking]. It’s so sad: I wish I could reveal they’re not what you think they are. They are what you think they are. And the fear we felt was so primal. I have never been that scared in my life. We jumped in the car, drove really fast. It was following us, and then I looked back and it was gone.”
(x)
the same man that made a movie about making giant robots to fight aliens SAW SOME ALIENS, INSULTED THEIR AESTHETIC, and RAN AWAY SCREAMING
“there is intelligent life out there but it’s really fuckin tacky”
: Guillermo del Toro says he saw a
real UFO and it was 'horribly
designed'
The Shape of Water director Guillermo
2.4K by Laura Hudson/2d
thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
doux-amer:
truestoriesaboutme:
dragon-in-a-fez:
imagine you saw an alien spacecraft and your first reaction was to critique its flat color palette and unimaginative lines
The Truth is Out There and It Has Bad Aesthetics
Because context actually makes the already great headline even greater:
“I know this is horrible,” del Toro continues. “You sound like a complete lunatic, but I saw a UFO. I didn’t want to see a UFO. It was horribly designed. I was with a friend. We bought a six-pack. We didn’t consume it, and there was a place called Cerro del Cuatro, “Mountain of the Four,” on the periphery of Guadalajara. We said, ‘Let’s go to the highway.’ We sit down to watch the stars and have the beer and talk. We were the only guys by the freeway. And we saw a light on the horizon going super-fast, not linear. And I said, ‘Honk and flash the lights.’ And we started honking.”
The UFO, says del Toro, “Went from 1,000 meters away [to much closer] in less than a second — and it was so crappy. It was a flying saucer, so clichéd, with lights [blinking]. It’s so sad: I wish I could reveal they’re not what you think they are. They are what you think they are. And the fear we felt was so primal. I have never been that scared in my life. We jumped in the car, drove really fast. It was following us, and then I looked back and it was gone.”
(x)
the same man that made a movie about making giant robots to fight aliens SAW SOME ALIENS, INSULTED THEIR AESTHETIC, and RAN AWAY SCREAMING
“there is intelligent life out there but it’s really fuckin tacky”](https://pics.me.me/thumb_guillermo-del-toro-says-he-saw-a-real-ufo-and-64451133.png)
![Oh baby, @EW let me do a Must List!
None of this will be a surprise to YOU, but mentions include @TaikaWaititi, @oureric, Griffy & @rachelcmcelroy’s Wonderful!, Judee Sill, Liza Minnelli, @dave_malloy, Daniel Tiger... https://t.co/4PEFEmIGuh: MY MUST LIST
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
He stars as an aeronaut on HBO's His Dark Materials, is at work on movie adaptations of
Jonathan Larson's tick, tick...BOOM! and his own In the Heights, is enjoying the success of his latest
Broadway undertaking, Freestyle Love Supreme, and gives us daily pep talks on Twitter. But
the mega-multitasker still found time to tell EW about a few of the things he really, really loves.
TV
What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
I just binged. It is so genius. The history of incredibly
brilliant movies to TV spin-offs is alarmingly poor. They
don't usually stick the landing, but I think it's because
it's [director Taika Waititi] and the original team, it's
just a brilliant expansion of the conceit of the movie.
MOVIE
Cabaret
It's a master class in how
to translate the essence of
something from stage to
screen without literally
translating it. The show is
really different from the
movie, but no one's mad
at that movie, because
it's brilliant, and that's
the toughest act to follow.
We're golng for it with In
the Heights. I'm going for
it with tick, tick...B0OM!
I have a lot of projects, so
Cabaret is a big source
material for inspiration.
STAGE
Octet
This Off Broadway show
by Dave Malloy, the com-
poser of Natasha, Pierre
& the Great Comet
of 1812, was the last thing
I saw that really knocked
my socks off. It's a com-
pletely a cappella musical
about internet addiction.
My wife, who Is a tough
audience when it comes
to musicals, it was her
favorite thing she saw
all year.
MUSIC
Judee Sill
The podcast Wonderful, by
my friend Griffin McElroy,
turned me on to this song-
writer from the early '70s.
She doesn't have a lot-it's,
Wke, two albums and a
posthumous album, Just
Tke [rapper] Big Pun-but
m devouring it because
it's like this Southern Joni
Mitchell voice that I've
never heard. It's gorgeous.
HERE BOR IT
BOOK
Here for It
R. Eric Thomas, a
Baltimore-bred writer
and playwright, is one of
my favorite writers. I look
forward to his columns
every day. His first mem-
oir, Here for it [out Feb. 18,
2020], is like if David
Sedarls was completely
steeped In pop culture
Instead of living some-
where far away writing
about it. It's like pop cul-
ture-obsessed, Sedarls-
level laugh-out-loud funny
BONUS
Mister Rogers
Neighborhood
Can I make a request from the uni-
verse? I've watched my children fall
In love with Mister Rogers, but I can
only find it on demand once a week.
It's crazy. They fell In love with it via
Daniel Tiger. When they watch, they
feel like they're watching Daniel origin
stories. But I'd like more, please,
because it makes my kids very calm
and kind.-As told to Sarah Rodman
PHOTOGRAPH BY ERIC RAY DAVIDSON
EW COM
Oh baby, @EW let me do a Must List!
None of this will be a surprise to YOU, but mentions include @TaikaWaititi, @oureric, Griffy & @rachelcmcelroy’s Wonderful!, Judee Sill, Liza Minnelli, @dave_malloy, Daniel Tiger... https://t.co/4PEFEmIGuh](https://pics.me.me/thumb_my-must-list-lin-manuel-miranda-he-stars-as-an-aeronaut-64377993.png)
Francisco helps edit Tick, Tick...Boom! screenplay by ripping out about seven pages from the director’s copy (with apologies to Steven Le...
My director Leanne (to whom I gifted the complicated burger crisps) has given me this gift as a palette cleanser. It is incredible. https...
thegayfleet: oliverstarkk - Thanks for tuning in last night @911onfox fans! Hope you’ll be joining me and director @bradbuecker in the...
when the casting director casts you as a 28 year old extra, but you’re 33 in real life. by roastbeeftacohat MORE MEMES
¡¡Dale 👍 a Pepito poniéndole un alto a su Director !!
