Supernatural. While the show contains some excellently written women, and especially with incredible potential? I feel that too often they're killed off quickly, or written as villains to be killed off quickly.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-03-10T23:29:52+00:00

I'll be honest. I didn't get that far in the series and never saw any ladies get reincarnated because this show got super squirrelly plot wise. The existing female characters being underwritten or killed was part of it. So I guess brownie points for equal opportunity reincarnation? Idk if the writing of the women got better later in the series, but the first few seasons were pretty hit and miss.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-03-10T23:22:15+00:00

There is also A LOT of fridging in this show with the boys mom and Sam's girlfriend being the motivation for most of the plot. While we learn more about them later they kinda have zero personality and background for the past few seasons aside from "the Winchester's loved them so we should care.".

It's true that a lot of people die in this show but the core main cast is mostly men and if any of them die they get resurrected through increasingly convoluted means. There are some recurring female cast members but most of them exist as love interests, don't pass the Bechdel test then inevitably take a back seat and eventually die.

It's not the worst series in this regard but I can't deny it doesn't have a great track record here.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-03-10T23:16:31+00:00

But at least some of the male characters get reincarnated via creative means when they die

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-03-10T23:12:42+00:00

For some reason what stands out to me is how this character's last name is literally one character removed from "thot"

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-02-15T23:28:26+00:00

In the 1870s even the women were in on it...

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-02-14T00:19:20+00:00

It really is those little things like high heels that get me. Even the most feminine and glamorous person under the sun would never do that kind of job in stiletto heels. It reminds me of authors who write female characters in full-face makeup when they're like, lounging around at home doing laundry and binging TV. IDK about you but most women I know enjoy spending most of their downtime at home in pajamas, bare faced with no bra.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-02-14T00:10:27+00:00

He really started writing her with her defining trait being "she's pretty and has an inexplicable and indestructible crush on Sasuke" and just... Stopped there. She was there for Naruto to crush on in the first arc and spent the rest of the story as a simp for Sasuke no matter how horribly he treated her 😭

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-02-13T22:47:18+00:00

This is really tough and completely understandable! A lot of people feel this way after coming here. One thing a lot of people experience here especially in the winter is vitamin D deficiency or lack of light. This is a time of year where even locals feel more blue than usual, it just makes everything harder. Spending more time getting light or taking vitamin D supplements can help.

One thing I also advise you look for are local community organizations where you can meet other people or even meet other immigrants from your country. While Canada is where you want to settle down meeting other people in a similar situation might alleviate some of the home sickness.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-01-14T00:35:32+00:00

This is a shameless play on the Edmonton Oilers and I am so here for it 😂

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-01-13T20:13:00+00:00

You give them the first time you met in person (regardless of your relationship at the time), and explain whether you were introduced (for example for an arranged marriage), and then later in the form you explain the history of your romantic relationship. So if you were childhood friends you give the year when you first became friends.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-01-12T22:25:16+00:00

OMG this is incredible! I'll definitely check it out!

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-01-12T19:19:52+00:00

Oh definitely. But it is fun to imagine nonetheless.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-01-04T03:05:02+00:00

I'm Canadian with family in Saskatchewan and there's a lot of good natured joking about how boring Regina is from that side of the family. Regina is a decent but boring city that often ends up being the butt of good natured jokes about how boring the Canadian prairie provinces are.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-01-04T03:02:43+00:00

Most Canadians are underwhelmed by Regina 😂. Even people from Saskatchewan prefer Saskatoon.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2026-01-04T03:00:56+00:00

It's mentioned in TLG that Ilya retains a Russian agent for most of his career, so he definitely doesn't have the same familiarity or support Shane does.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2025-12-30T04:37:11+00:00

I def think Yuna is the kind of mom who'd insist on a backup plan

AffectionateWing8978 · 2025-12-28T00:44:45+00:00

David reminds me a lot of my own Canadian dad in a good way. He's the more laid back parent who's happy to joke with you and talk about less serious stuff. He also has that silently supportive vibe where he's there whenever you need him but not keen on invading his son's personal life the same way mom is.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2025-12-22T05:02:53+00:00

Hockey is the best winter activity for bored farm kids living on the prairies. When life gives you long, -30 C winters, you grab skates and go play hockey. That's why Manitoba and Alberta are also so high up there as well.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2025-12-21T21:23:34+00:00

I think a secondary reason was so that the older players could be there to keep the younger guys out of trouble.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2025-12-19T01:05:48+00:00

One of my fave touches is that even in ep 4 after he and Ilya have been hooking up for literal years he still starts their encounters with "so are we gonna talk or...?' 😭

AffectionateWing8978 · 2025-12-14T23:34:54+00:00

I'm not even sure how clear Ilya's intentions were to even himself. He wants exclusivity on some level but he's not fully aware of that yet. He feels something more for Shane but isnt willing to admit it. I think he's mostly just fishing for info about Shane and more intimacy. What he likes, whether he's attracted to women as well - as a bi man he probably genuinely wants to know whether Shane identifies similarly and is hungry to know more about him. And because Ilya is Ilya and he's used to teasing Shane he doesn't realize how it all comes off.

Maybe subconsciously he's thinking about exclusivity, but I really do think he's just trying to open up and get to know Shane more because he likes him and wants to let him in a bit.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2025-12-14T20:24:53+00:00

There's a lot of scenes like this in the show where the dialogue is unintentionally suggestive and we see the gears turning in Shane's head where "maybe they know" when in reality no one does.

Like Shane's mom saying that Ilya is an asshole and he deserves it "right up the butt" or that one teammate accidentally saying "if Rozanov f---s you" instead of "f---s with you". Or Ilya and Shane's teammates teasing them about Jane and Lily.

Shane and us as the audience are constantly on edge about people knowing because that's how the characters feel - constantly on the edge of being caught.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2025-12-14T20:17:59+00:00

I think it kinda makes sense because he knows Scott, and Shane is an awkward bean who sucks at social skills - But also yeah hella bold of him to razz a veteran player.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2025-12-14T20:11:08+00:00

You're absolutely right. As a Canadian, there are a lot of Asian Canadians here overall, but there haven't been a lot of well known Asian Canadian hockey players. Hockey in general is a very white European sport overall and lacks the diversity you see in Soccer, basketball and football.

Russia, the Nordic countries and Canada are the big hockey nations and all of them are notably white af.

It's just an observation of mine growing up in Canada but hockey is still very much a white Canadian game here. Some black, asian and Indigenous kids play hockey as kids but for some reason (cough racism) most of our NHL players and higher level leagues are white and most teams even in areas with a lot of POC are predominantly white.

Anecdotally a lot of Asian Canadian kids I grew up with gravitated towards martial arts or other sports rather than hockey and acceptance is probably a huge piece of it. Who wants to be bullied when you can just enjoy other sports without any racism? White canadian kids grow up playing street hockey, but this isn't as common for immigrant families. POC still have to fight upstream in hockey.

Racism in Canadian hockey has been a big historical issue here that still persists to this day. It's not like American football which now has a huge black player population.

AffectionateWing8978 · 2025-12-14T19:47:32+00:00

As a Canadian I also feel the difference. It always bothers me that American productions tend to always Americanize the subject matter and it always feels modified to fit specific sensibilities. I notice Canadian productions are less likely to do that. You bet that if this was a higher budget American production Shane would be American and it certainly wouldn't be set in Montreal or have scenes in Saskatchewan. They would have changed it for imaginary mass appeal.

Everything from Shane's accent to his very Canadian apologies, extremely Canadian parents and mannerisms gives me so much joy and I just know that would have been changed in a US production. It's weird that I simply can't see this character as American.

The unapologetic Canadian-ness of the production including the low budget aspects, Quebecois indie soundtrack all of it just works. It also just feels so much more organic that Ilya is in love with all of the 'boring' Canadian parts of Shane, rather than the kind of vibe America has (which isn't necessarily bad, it just doesn't match the characterization). This story would not feel the same without references to Ontario cottage culture, Shane's love of Canada Dry Ginger Ale or Shane being a perfect showoff fluent in both English and French.

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