Btw friendly reminder that the anime cut the scene where after jumping off the sinking ship Mitchell and Hawthorne encountered James L. - the Guild's top-level's secretary that the pm killed at the end of season 1 -... Only to find out it was actually his corpse standing tall, eviscerated and filled with lemon bombs, complete with graphic depiction of his face splitting open and lemon bombs rolling off it

Just saw this Jimmy skin for the first time from back when he could still experience joy and whimsy and uh yeah I can't blame anyone for having any parental instincts towards him (looks at myself and my moots and Doc)

Sorry if you've gone over this before but I was curious as to what you'd think it would take for Leo to finally break in front of his brothers?

We’ve actually seen Leo break his persona multiple times throughout the series! And pretty much each and every time has a common theme present: his family being in danger.

whose mom in TWST has a bite force? the tweels?

Sebek is the one who brags about his mom's cool teeth! that's from his first birthday card, where he spends twenty minutes going on about "my mom is the COOLEST, she's super good at magic, the only thing that matches the force of her personality is the force of her BITE! bite force is the signature power of our faerie clan, you see. anyway she's amazing, a constant source of inspiration to me, and--"

"okay, cool, what about your dad?"

"..."

"tell me about your dad, Sebek."

"...he's a dentist..."

the twins have their own birthday card moment though where they're like, "oh yeah, our parents are the heads of the Eldritch Deepsea Mafia" before immediately changing the subject to Floyd's shoes, and as far as I know this never comes up or is mentioned anywhere ever again.

carlo's inherent tragedy as a character means that if he hadn't died young he would've gone through something worse. the horrifying realization that he inherited his father's personality <3

still stuck on mhok's trauma, unsurprisingly. i keep thinking about the opening scenes of this show, showing us day losing his sight, and mhok losing rung. i really thought that the show would spend equal time and care on both

my first post about this show was pointing out that the first shot of day is a close up of his eyes, and the first time we see mhok, he's holding something in his mouth. and i thought it was so interesting that we see mhok gagged, because society generally doesn't care what people who've been incarcerated have to say. or poor people. and by and large, it doesn't care about the voices of traumatized people, either

and i was so curious to see what the show was going to do with that. i can't believe the show itself was never really interested in what mhok has to say

and i'm stuck on mhok's time in hawaii. the show highlighted over and over again how poor he is, and we know that he didn't like studying. what are his english skills like? we saw singha there, and i think one other thai person. was that the extent of his social circle? he seemed pretty happy to leave hawaii behind, so did he make no new friends? did he spend his days off just sitting in his room by himself, the way day did when he went to songkla with mhok?

i assume he and porjai were still in touch, but he moved abroad at a time when his ptsd was getting worse, and in the wake of a terrible breakup, and he just walked all of that off? alone???

feeling overly protective and over-responsible is absolutely an understandable trauma response for mhok, but you know what else is? losing a relationship, and feeling like you HAVE to go back and fix it, and that if you can just get a do-over, you'll be able to do everything perfectly this time, and you'll get everything right, and everything will be okay! this makes more sense to me in the final episode than the idea of mhok and day having a happily ever after does

Live Silvia reaction of when Brett Heroux (of @thedandy-detective) told her about getting beat up by cops

transcription bc it's illegible:

Brett: "--And then the constable landed one but it's fine. I'm fiiiiine"* *hasn't slept in 36 hours

Silvia: GIVE ME NAMES. ADDRESSES. THAT WRETCHED EXCUSE FOR A MAN, NAY THAT WORM SHALL NEVER AGAIN SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY WHILE I DRAW BREATH* *these are empty threats

-

-

-

-

I could say something meaningful about how Jason’s death affected Batman but honest to god I cannot get past how the symbol on Batman’s chest isn’t a bat but instead a fuckkng silhouette of his own head??? Does he wear that out places or is it just for training time???

Whatever, caption is Cass telling B she wants to get murdered but Bruce said no copying your brother you need to find your own schtick in Batgirl (2000) Issue 7 I guess.

Why are the implications here so funny like- did Reid wake up and said "I use a gun or a needle, but I gotta take a shot of something" ??

each of the thieves’ perfect/alternate… third semester realities are so interesting. like… what it suggests about them that that is what they wanted and consider a perfect (or happier) reality. and then the question of how they feel living in that reality after remembering the truth and until they dismantle it. like… half of the cast (makoto, haru, futaba) is living with dead relatives. ryuji is back in the club that he (kinda not really) ruined and was practically ostracized from. ann has her best friend back, both of them completely clean of the trauma inflicted by kamoshida. yusuke- fucking yusuke’s third semester reality is the most fascinating to me- his perfect reality is one where is mother is still dead and he’s still student under a much… generally better version of madarame- holy SHIT theres so much to unpack about yusuke’s reality

Entitled customers are funny, imagine kicking up such a fuss with our managers that 2 mall security guards had to be called to come mediate all because you and your wife not only can't read but also can't see that our menu literally serves soft poached egg, not a boiled egg, in our Japanese rice bowls

Anyway read the menu properly y'all and ask questions if you're unsure, don't be a dick to hospitality workers especially over dumb shit

Nick: Thanks, mom.

[Everyone stops and stares at Nick]

Nick: Why is everyone staring at me?

Sam: You just called Cassie 'mom'. You said 'thanks, mom'.

Nick: No I didn't! I said, 'thanks, man'.

Cassie, trying and failing to not smile: Do you see me as a mother figure, Nick?

Nick: No! If anything I see you as a smother figure 'cause you're always smothering me!

Abigail: Hey! You show your mother some respect.

Sorry but am I the only one that thought that episode…sucked? Like it was straight up bad. Horrible pacing, no wrap up of all the random characters and plot lines they’ve thrown around all season (the tuskegee airmen, Westgates spying, literally all the guys beside like the main 4). (Seriously it makes me so mad that the three redtails got all of 5 seconds of screen time, almost no lines. Literally what was the point of introducing them other than to pretend the show was iNcLuSiVe) Even at the end of BoB and the Pacific you get a much better idea of what happened to all the remaining guys. In this they’re like what happened to DeMarco or Hambone or Brady or (insert character here) we don’t know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The concentration camp scene felt shoehorned in compared to how it was done in BoB. Unless that actually happened to Rosie (which i haven’t heard anything about) but it was just like.. ok? It all felt so rushed and emotionless to me. Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with MoTA but it’s been downhill for me since episode 6 or so.

i already made a little (read: long) post-finale write-up here, where i talk about the use of the tuskegee airmen, l'sandra, and overall editing/pacing issues i felt the show had. but i don't agree with the notion that adding the redtails was in any way insincere or trying to halfass being "iNcLuSiVe", i just think they suffer from this show's obvious time constraints. and to summarize what i wrote in my linked post, there's a limit to what white writers/directors/producers can do when creating a story about black people. there are some stories i'd feel uncomfortable with them telling on their own, truth be told. dee rees wasn't the sole nonwhite director, but she Was the only black one. i think she did her job well given the limitations and i appreciate that they let her direct those episodes, rather than leaving it up to a team of white people trying their best to tell a black story.

the worst i can say about the finale is that it didn't feel like That strong of finale, tho i wouldn't go as far to say it "sucked" or call it "straight up bad". i liked it plenty, it's just the weakest of the hbo war finales imo.

as for the concentration camp scene, artistic license was taken with both shows. unlike what's seen in the BoB, easy company wasn't the first to arrive at kaufering, and there's 0 mention of the all-japanese american 552nd who helped them liberate it). similarly, rosie rosenthal did assist in liberating those camps, though it would've been after the events shown this episode. idk if he saw one in that up-close way seen in this episode, but he could've (i should research this when i have time). plus, it would've felt weird Not having him acknowledge them at all. "shoe-horned" is an odd term to use here imo, as both scenes more-or-less center a jewish character (BoB's liebgott and MotA's rosie). the former show has survivors the characters can help, the latter shows no one left to help. the former has all of easy company there, the latter has rosie there all alone. rosie's scene felt deeply personal in that way. at the end of the day, both scenes are communicating different things. that doesn't make one better than the other when they aren't trying to be identical. (disclaimer, i'm not jewish, so i'd be interesting hearing from the perspective of someone who wrt whether or not they felt it was "shoe-horned")

i can understand if you've disliked the show post-episode 6 (and episode 6 was a very strong episode i'm ngl). eps 7 and 8 were weaker in many ways, even to me, so i get it. everyone's entitled to their own opinion (i'd be a hypocrite saying otherwise). just understand that this blog is run by someone who overall enjoys this show despite its flaws! basically, i encourage you to take this energy and make your own posts.

I know we (collective "we" fandom "we") have discussed the progression from Nemik's "you sleep like a stone" to Cassian lying awake the night before the prison break scheme but have we discussed the broader arc from ep 4 and

"It's better to live. Better to eat, sleep, do you what you want" and not sleeping ahead of the prison break and "kill me or take me in" and then the logical follow-up question:

Will we no longer get squirrelly "Can I eat my food?" Cassian actually sitting down to eat in-script/on-screen in season 2?

This contemplation brought to you by trying to envision Kleya & Luthen's day to day Coruscant lives and how I simply cannot even picture either of them just eating a meal, and then sent into overthinking orbit by @ceruleanphoenix7 's observation a while back that, while we see Mon quite frequently in settings surrounded by food, we never actually see her eat any of it.

sweetie im so sorry you're not being allowed to flourish in live action and kill that damned clown, they don't deserve you