update from my last post: i am currently 90% of the way through Making Money and i think i’m actively losing my mind. in a good way but i’m losing it nonetheless. i’m literally a different person now. genuinely can’t believe that when i woke up yesterday i hadn’t even read Going Postal. i think i died and came back RIGHT
The funniest thing about SMTB to me now is that all the earlier chapters felt so long to write and they are all between 12-16 pages but then all the later chapters are clocking in at 20-29 and I'm forcing myself (and these morons) to shut up and try to break the chapters into shorter ones instead. And yet!
yeah don’t mind me I’m just trying to process Arthur and John finding the Faroe picture and Arthur expressing that he wished he could see it,, no no the tears are fine I don’t need a tissue
why aren’t we giving the stone to the butcher?? that takes care of the moral dilemma surrounding scratch and, in an abstract really creepy slightly homoerotic way, turns the butcher into an ally. why is our only option oscar?? it’d be so easy too, and neither of them even mentioned it?? like. before colins went to prison, slip the stone in his pocket and he goes straight to a psychiatric ward with restraints and bullet proof glass. like?? let’s be smart here. maybe i expected too much of them.
Allow me to preface with: I love where OFMD ends up. Every time I see something that makes me fear for a renewal (Taika noooo), I remember that everyone was was okay where it ended, and dammit the ends justified the means
But:
Fuuuuck it's overstuffed, objectively. And my measurement of overstuffiness is: Big Musical Moments.
OFMD has these amazing sequences where the music and the action and the story all blend together in this glorious literal symphony. A normal episode has 1-2 of these sequences, and they're fucking glorious and eternal.
The finale of S2? The finale of S2 has FOUR Big Musical Moments! Five if you count Ed coming out of the water!
It's too many, it just is. There's missing links between character moments, missing plot details--it's a mess.
But I fucking love it and I'm so, so glad they rushed, because a TV season ender is a balance between the story as a whole and the investment of its watchers. Jenkins and co. decided that the investment of the watchers--and the wholeness of its charaters--was more important than the mechanics of story. And if that make you feel cheated, that's fair and that stinks. But fuck, so many stories are about the endless continuance of the characters and the ego of the creators--it's pretty damn amazing to feel like the fans (*cough* of the main arc *cough*) are valued and the creators are less important than getting to a place where it's ok to end.
The last line of this show might be "fuck that's strong!" "maybe we just air it out a bit..."
And that's actually okay. And it is, somehow, beautiful.
But goddamnit, JUST FIVE MORE MINUTES and that episode would have been PERFECT...
when i get done with cazador, his own spawn won't even recognize him. he's going to come stumbling out of that room looking like he's been dragged ass-backwards through a hedge. he's going to be finding smears of my lipgloss in places he didn't even know he had. i sure hope that line about vampire lords and healing is accurate, otherwise he'll be walking with a limp for the next quarter century.
This shitpost was somehow the thing to wrench me out of my art block. I’ve been working on it over the past 3 weekends. The original vid I drew on top of is here, sorry for ruining it with genshit impoop </3