Posted: 7/14/16 at 1:31pm
Probably also at me. And my response has nothing to do with Raul specifically, it's just to ask why, in any context, one person's (singular?) experience of someone should negate someone else's? People are complicated; why should an actor be exempt from that? Look, you can dig back through a decade-plus of my verbal vomit on this thing and find piles of posts in which I, during my fangirl days, monologue with stars in my eyes. I don't think those accounts, by me or anyone else, are invalid, they're just different. But as I've gotten older, the big takeaway has been that yes, we can worship what these people pull off on stage, but at the end of the day, they are just people. Pants one leg at a time and all that. I remember standing with my mother waiting to meet up with a favorite actor who has, in my adulthood, become a friend; she saw us wave across the room, and she looked at me and said, "he's not like, a celebrity to you at all, is he?" I think being starstruck is a fascinating thing, and watching the process of your mind dismantling that is even more so. But I digress to make the point that views change, but the real point of this is why can't we regard them as flawed human beings blah blah blah.
I was going to answer the SVU cliffhanger question and then I realized that my memory is foggy. I do remember that the whole Barba death threat thing was definitely not as big a deal as the previews made it seem. The previews were all GRAVE DANGER and then it was sort of downplayed? I'm not particularly worried they're going to kill him off. But I AM curious to see where everything's going to go with the new showrunner at the helm.
Seconding the La Mancha wish, I have thought that for years.
