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Ty McC
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Not sure what we’re doing here, or what I'm doing here, but I’m determined to enjoy myself, and my this soup’s delicious! Chicago 📍 🏳️‍🌈 🎥 🌃
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Jun 26
The scene we shot is the only time they show food service at the restaurant.

Now I just did a (literal) cursory scroll through the season. So we shall see when I give it a watch in full later on.
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Jun 26
But wouldn’t the director and camera crew know a table away won’t be seen? So they could have just used 6 of us.

1 table behind of 4, and 2 Bear waiters.

So did they cut something day of?

I was thinking they would use groups of us to sprinkle throughout the season. But it looks like
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Jun 26
Only the mains are in focus. Everything else is blurry in the background. So details like patterns of a pocket square, and jewelry wouldn’t be seen at all.

Plus what is shown is the scene we shot. There wasn’t any additional takes. It was 1 camera so it’s not like a 2nd would catch more extras.
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Jun 26
We also spent a day getting fitted for wardrobe. I put on 5 or so different looks. And they were very focused on our socks and pocket squares. — was that all just to help me get in character, not intended to be seen?

I get that “it might be seen” but also, has wardrobe seen the show?
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Jun 26
Turns out I am not in “The Bear”. (Which based off the shoot, and style of show, I would have been very surprised).

But I am left with some questions about the process and what changed.

Why did they fill up the restaurant with 90+ people only to have none of us on screen?
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Jun 26
Pop Quiz:

What was the last Tony Winner for Best Musical that featured an overture?
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Jun 25
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Jun 24
THIS IS GREAT NEWS FOR ILLINOIS!!!
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Grant Showalter-Swanson @gtswanson88.bsky.social · Jun 24
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/24/p...
Gov. JB Pritzker to announce he’s running for a third term in 2026
JB Pritzker’s decision to run for governor again settles a significant issue for next year’s election season, where candidates will be vying for an open US Senate seat as well as several in C…
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Jun 24
The soccer hooligan arc is wild.
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Jun 24
$400-450/mo to get to work is too much right?
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this queen
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 23
MORE IF THIS PLEASE!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Apr 23
Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 23
Takin me to Applebee’s tonight!
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 12
LET HIM COUNTY!!!
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 10
I’m surprised no one has made fun of see thru tech in sci fi movies. (I mean parody is a genre out of vogue these days) but it has zero practical purpose. Here are two sides of the same sign #film #scifi #designfail
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 9
TL;DR
White Lotus and Severance theories are getting out of hand.
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 9
Over scrutiny of the text also helps kill media literacy. We over think and over analyze each line and phrase and stance and base our conclusions on a millisecond. Which also is a an egregious mistake to make too. May balance and nuance be our guiding light.
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 9
our access to different theories. Streaming has changed how we perceive a show too (all at once/binge vs weekly).

Technology has changed how we engage too. We have the ability to analyze frame by frame trailers, scenes, whole movies!

Which also creates a sense of over scrutiny.
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 9
given.

And this isn’t a new problem. We see this play out in how politicians interpret the Constitution; and engage with the opposite party. or how Churches interpret the Bible, and how they engage with other religions or Churches.

Social media and podcasts have exponentially increased
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 9
When media literacy is outsourced or worse fully dead, we lose our ability to understand the meaning of the story, and how to communicate with other people.

We see the lack of engagement in comments that are snarky and quick to say the author is wrong, or no, the text is actually bad— no support
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 9
We lose the ability to distinguish criticizing and critiquing. Critique of the storytelling and its mechanics and what we interpret is fair game. That’s sorta the whole point. Saying you don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s bad. When a text elicits an emotion, that means it’s working.
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 9
than a prior episode is bad. We don’t know, have forgotten, how to engage with the text so that we can look both at an episode individually; and simultaneously look at it with the context of the whole.
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 9
(Assuming Production has its ear to the ground of what the fans are saying.)

Here more nuance can be presented but because of our prior dispensation to thing only good or thing only bad. An episode that doesn’t meet or exceed expectations equals bad. An episode that feels slower or less intense
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 9
… or don’t know what to do with

1) parts that don’t conform to it
2) parts that actively contradict it
3) make higher than normal logical reasoning to force it to conform.

As the theories gain popularity it can to a degree, influence production of future episodes. Like a snake eating its tail
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Ty McC @moonraker0022.bsky.social · Apr 9
from movies, games, tv shows, basically anything.

(And spawned a real world style of “Adam Ruins Everything” where he combines politics, policy, social norms, and history to explore why things became the way they are. But back to theories…)

As fun as they seem, many fail to acknowledge…
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