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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 15h

These are the things you pick up on when you've watched a lot of rom-coms.

Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 15h

So the kiss was a bad idea, but River gives her A Look before it and does that thing where his eyes flick down to her lips right before the kiss, which is very hot.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

These are my 2 AM thoughts.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

But then maybe anyone who chooses to be in Mi5 initially just has brain worms that make them want to stay no matter what.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

I've been rewatching some of the previous seasons recently, and how S3 ended made me wonder if at least one person would have resigned.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

Especially when she mentioned that you are probably also depressed.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

Kissing a woman unprompted after she gives an "I'm depressed" speech is just...

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, these two definitely have "let's bone" energy, but River absolutely does not know how to read a room or a moment.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

River has done many stupid things during this series, but kissing Louisa in that moment during the S5 premiere might be the stupidest thing he's ever done.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

I've watched the latest episode of Slow Horses of course because I'm awake.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

In the midst of my once a month bout of insomnia.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

I remember people walking out of Lehman with cardboard boxes of their belongings.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, this came out in 2011 not 2013.

Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

We had been there a few weeks before talking to women who worked there and then...boom.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously, I read Too Big to Fail the book.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

Bernanke just showed up. He co-wrote the textbook I read in Econ 101 in college.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know why I've chosen today to finally watch Too Big to Fail (2013).

I was in my office with my colleagues watching Bear Stearns burn.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

Me the first time I saw this scene:

a poster for absolute cinema shows a man sitting in a chair

Alt: Martin Scorsese with his hands up with the words "ABSOLUTE CINEMA" on the image.

media.tenor.com

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

The airplane graveyard! youtu.be/OpGNKO6wz10?...

The Best Years Of Our Lives 1946 airport scene Dana Andrews

YouTube video by Boeing B-17 Resource

youtu.be

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

The US made so many war movies during WWII that were straight up propaganda, but this one soon after the end of the war is better than all of them.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best war movies that isn't actually about the war in question.

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

The Best Years of Our Lives is really a miracle of a movie for how beautifully it speaks to the moment in which it was made while keeping one eye open for how it can serve as a kind of historical record. It's so hard to tell stories directly about the immediate present, but it manages it.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

I missed this phase because this was my mother's drink, and she let me take a sip of hers once when I was a teen, and I was disgusted.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

*PTSD flashbacks ensue* Why do college students always randomly get obsessed with making White Russians for a semester? Same thing happened with me. Whew, god. How I got over!!!

Stevie 'knows 8 kata now' Mattos @asmattering.bsky.social · 1d

i think about my white russian year and my teeth begin to hurt

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 2d

Using the military against American cities is...

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 2d

Have been dealing with friend stuff, so I'm just catching up on the federal government doing very illegal shit.

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