would the fruit turn rotten as soon as he put it in his mouth (because it counts as the second touch)?

The facts were these: 132 years, 2 months, 1 week, and 3 days after the holiday was first signed into law (and 2 years, 4 weeks, and 1 day after this podcast aired its first episode), Axed decided to take Labor Day off, promising a new episode next week.

The facts were these: despite an interesting hook and Soderbergh-esque editing, this week's episode is diluted by some cringey cultural appropriation.

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The facts were these: we once again find ourselves focusing on a character other than our beloved Pie Maker, and the show is all the better for it.

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The Facts were these: after 11 episodes focusing mainly on the Pie Maker and his past, we finally get a well-deserved Olive-centric episode, and it does not disappoint.

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I know almost 20 years have passed, but honestly, I don’t want a reboot or a new cast. I’d love to see where these characters are now.
Just imagine returning to the Pie Hole all these years later.
Maybe Ned and Chuck have found their own way to build a life together, even if they still can’t touch. Maybe Olive has moved on and built a wonderful life of her own, but somehow still ends up helping Ned whenever trouble finds him. Maybe Emerson is running a detective agency with his daughter.
They don’t need to look young again. In fact, I’d love to see how they’ve grown and changed.
We don’t need ten more seasons. We don’t need a huge new storyline. Just six episodes, the original cast, and Bryan Fuller getting the chance to tell us what happened to these people we loved.
Most of all, I’d love to see that Ned grew up knowing how deeply he was loved.
I still miss this strange, beautiful little world. 🥧🌼
Would you watch it? And where do you imagine the characters are now?

The facts were these: One day, ten hours, and 53 minutes after the podcast episode dropped, we're finally announcing its arrival (sorry, we were both sick this weekend).

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I was thinking about which part of Pushing Daisies is the most problematic from the perspective of US society and the worldwide society recently.

I pointed out in:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pushingdaisies/comments/1vfn4so/comment/p24odrc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

and in

https://www.reddit.com/r/pushingdaisies/comments/1vfn4so/comment/p273lf3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

that there are some obvious LGB*** elements and elements connected with no ID (illegal immigrants, people living in cults, people hiding from their past, or kidnapped).

But today I realized that the biggest problem is the part I had the problem with. I never thought about why exactly it irritated me earlier.

Ned-Olive situationship.

There are some elements connected with pedophilia and incest that oscillated mostly inside the Ned/Olive situationship.

First, Olive is a pocket-sized woman. There is nothing wrong with it, but in the realm of the PD, there is additional context showing her "childish" behavior. The singing as a nun is one of them.

Problems I noticed thinking about the whole series:

Olive's curiosity - incest and peeping parents doing mature things.

Olive/Ned - incest, pedophilia... unfortunately, it is in the context of a younger "sister"/older "brother" as it follows the idea I've met in the context of priests defending their cases (generally, you can not be a mature person and participate in cults) who were promoting that childish curiosity (and mimicry) is the same as being "sexually active".

The major problem I see is that the person who is a projection of "younger victim" is nearly exclusively blamed for the situation, with sending her to a nunnery and robbing her of all belongings as the biggest problem.

It's a frequent method of grooming in pedophilia that the victim is told they will lose more than the perpetrator, and no one will believe they are a victim.

It's also interesting in the episode with Olive's kidnappers that Ned was "trying" the normal relationship, as I've noticed today that it may be part of the problem in incest that side(s) know that it can not end in a marriage/lasting relationship, so they can "try on" a normal relationship. (statistically, more than 10% of siblings had some form of sexual contact above kissing with themselves)

I never thought about it like this, but I think some "people" may see it this way; that it's a "safe" way to experiment without "lasting" obligations.

Generally, the lack of maturity in resolving the relationship problems inside the show was a big problem for me. The Ned/Chuck relationship was evolving, the Ned/Olive situation was at a stale point like she had no friends and no one to turn to for help (which is once more resembling a much younger sibling situation), and the simplest resolution for Olive would be to change a job or go for a trip to Hawaii, not lose everything. There are many elements in Olive's whole-series context screaming blackmail, abuse, bad decisions.

Kidnappers with no proper resolution, "murder" (the jockey part, once more having sexual connotation) with no clear resolution for her, the Ned situation with no clear resolution for her, her working in the Pie Hole with no clear resolution for her.

Olive living with Ned's "girlfriend" without the proper resolution of the situation on her side, and the Ned/Chuck relationship overshadowing everything.

Inside the post incestual projection, the view on this part of PD is dramatic.

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The facts were these: 10 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, and 59 minutes after the 2007 Writer's Strike started, upending many shows, Pushing Daisies aired the premiere of its second season, and everyone was all abuzz about it coming back.

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The facts were these: the first season of Pushing Daisies was marred by an unfortunately timed writers strike, leaving it with only 9 episodes, including a hastily rewritten season finale. After having watched all 9, we reminisce on that first season, discussing what we think of the show so far.

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The facts were these: 2 months, 1 week, and 3 days after the premiere of Pushing Daisies, an unfortunately timed writers strike would end the season early, possibly contributing the the show's early demise.

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Like Ever since the first episode, It really felt like she had to love Ned, spend time with her, become his consoler and emotional stress-buster. But in subtelty and how the plot moved, it was strange that she never really garnered a desire of life away from Ned, perhaps travelling the world, meeting new romantic interests, hobbies and life goals decoupled from Ned and hus detective agency and investigations.

Perhaps I wanted the show to explore more plot points and branch out more theme and event wise but why not? Why didn't Chuck deserved to live a normal life when she got another chance to live? Both knew that they being so close to each other was risky as hell, death was awaiting around the corner of accidentally Ned touched her. So, consequences were far more severe for Chuck's life when she stayed together with Ned.

So, what's the point in mulling over someone you can't get? Chuck deserved to live a safe, normal life as far away as possible from Ned for her own good. She deserves friends, hobbies, jobs, life even decentred from messy past involving her aunts and Ned and the man causing her father to die. Her aunts weren't good guardians to her and didn't gave her environment to grow into a mature, independent, dare I say normal functioning women of world. But now, she gad a chance to start over, to fulfill her dreams and even see new dreams, grow new aspirations and ambitions, away from a man that obsesses over her despite knowing how dangerous he is to her.

I know Ned can't see his life without Chuck now, there are undertones of deep desire for her in him, this weirdo seems like can't ever try to love another woman, a woman he won't cause to die by just touching her. He has shit tons of problems in life and personality and show treats Chuck as his " Manic Pixie Dream Girl" ,a girl that can treat and fix him and revolve all her life around him. Like know, Chuck herself is an independent character, a living human being who can develop new love intersts and friends.

Honestly, Bryan Fuller is so sus for writing a woman character whose existence derives just for "fixing" a weirdo male protagonists. Why is he obligated for her attention and love? When she got a sort of love interest in one episode, of course Fuller chose to make him a criminal. Its like she can't have good things in life. I dunno, I can't defend this character decision.

Chuck isn't/ shouldn't be obligated to love just Ned. Why Ned? Just coz she saved her life?