I grant that fandom puts a lot more emphasis on certain tropes than mainstream media ever does, but some of the tropes people are claiming only ever turn up in fanfic are pretty wild. "Oh, you like it when the villain's loved one dies and the villain goes off the deep end? Name one movie where that happens" buddy, that's literally the climax of Lethal Weapon 4. The villain in question is played by fucking Jet Li.
hi pals, i've got a bad case of acid reflux but i'm getting a haircut today AND applying for a new job, too, so wish me luck
decided to title the fic dealing with eddie's trauma from the lightning strike like a cat in the rain and i think it'll be finished tomorrow, fingers crossed
Drawing his brows together, Buck says, “Well, yeah. I’m not invincible, Eddie.” He shrugs. “You told me that.”
“Expendable,” Eddie corrects, sharper than he’s been since the first few shifts they shared. The asperity in his gaze is just as cunning, just as unsettling. “I said you weren’t expendable.”
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important disclaimer note that when i say "lethal weapon is absolutely batshit", i do not mean that it is Fun. i do not mean that it is Fun-Bad. i mean that it is a harrowing exploration of grief and depression and trauma shoved bodily into an elevator with a poorly-written sitcom-flavoured acab procedural, with all of the care and delicacy you might expect of this
like. listen to me. hi. one lead is begging for someone to kill him immediately after being tortured and the other is, over goofy music, freaking out because his wife shouldn't be allowed to interact with men at her workplace hahahhhaHHAHHHahhahahaha pop music over drone footage of LA. these issues hold equal narrative weight, and the other characters interact with & care more about the second one
it's not "haha what a weird show" it's "oh this media is fucking Terrifyingly Structurally Unsound and i am compelled and also Screaming" like WE HAVE FUN HERE but this is. not a good show not a recommendable show, often not even a Fun show, not even a KIND show by any stretch of the imagination, please know this and approach it accordingly