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I was wrong
It takes a lot to admit that, even more for me to admit that about MCD, but I was wrong about something in regards to this series. In a previous post I said that the worst episode of MCD was Season 2 Episode 95, because it was the culmination of the absolute failure that was Laurance's character arc. And I wasn't wrong about that, S2E95 is an objectively bad episode and I stand by it being one of the worst. But it's only one of the worst episodes of this series. Probably second or third worst.
The actual worst episode of Minecraft Diaries happens far earlier in it's run time than I anticipated. The actual episode that begins the degrading of every single main character happens within it's first season. The worst episode of Minecraft Diaries is Season 1 Episode 65, Our Fears.
For those of you who haven't watched MCD in a minute, or aren't insane like I am and recognize what happens in an episode from just a number and a thumbnail, this is the episode where Aphmau and Dante get chased into Malachi's abandoned castle and fall victim to his uncontrollable magic. A magic that shows people their greatest fears.
Now the concept of a ghost that forces the audience and the characters to come face to face with the leading characters greatest fears is a fantastic idea. I'm serious this is one of the best concepts for character work in the entire Aphverse. This is great, this can go so many good ways.
Aphmau's fear is pretty weak mostly because it shows her house on fire, nobody hurt, and Malachi comments that she's "Scared of losing the ones you love." My honest reaction to this was "She lost her house in episode 36 and didn't seem to care because her loved ones are safe. You wanna communicate that she's scared of people dying just show Zoey lying on the ground or something smh." It gets the job done, but not very well.
Dante's fear is the only one that's well done because it's an image of Gene about to rip apart the realm barrier in the Nether. This works surprisingly well despite only being one shot because it gets across Dante's connection to Gene and the Nether pretty well, setting up for the reveal later on. Dante's existence is this episode's single redeeming quality. And as much as I like the guy, he's not enough to hold up the episode after what happens next.
Now, dear viewer who presumably knows the plot of MCD because you've read this far into a post about this single episode, you know that at this point in the series Garroth has been found out by his brother and has the looming threat of the entire O'Khasis military on his mind all the damn time. Zane has already hurt members of his village in direct ways, and only didn't do more damage because he was called away for an emergency. Garroth has already failed to protect one lord, and he's nearly failed to protect another.
Laurance is a shadow knight. And even though the lore of shadow knights is still flimsy at this point, we know that they are very prone to killing lords, it's why Laurance renounced his position as head guard of Meteli and refuses to return. But that doesn't mean his desire for blood is gone. It just means it has a new target. Like say, the lord he comes to the castle in search of? That he has explicit romantic feelings for?
Again, this idea of forcing the audience and the characters to face their greatest fears is such a good idea, especially with these three, because they can all be interlinked. Aphmau fears losing her loved ones, Garroth fears failing to protect his people, and Laurance fears that he'll give into bloodlust. Are you picking up what I'm putting down? I don't know if I can make it anymore obvious where the show should have gone from here.
But, no, unfortunately Jesson wrote this series. So what could have been one of the best moments of character work in the entire series, instead became the beginning of the end for our would be love interests. I'm of course referring to how it's revealed that their actual "worst fear" is Aphmau getting with... Another guy. Not even her picking one over the other, just her holding hands with and kissing some guy that Garroth and Laurance DON'T EVEN KNOW!
And despite Laurance saying he's happy as long as he has Aphmau in his life, he starts getting enraged that another guy would have the audacity to kiss her. Even though the scene he's shown seems to be entirely consensual. And in response to this, BOTH OF THEM DECIDE TO TRY AND KILL THIS ILLUSION OF DANTE JUST FOR KISSING THE GIRL THEY LIKE!
AND THIS IS SEEN AS A GOOD THING BY THE SHOW!! Attacking this illusion breaks the barrier around the real Aphmau and Dante, and Garroth and Laurance are never punished for their actions here. Aphmau is barely concerned that her guards, the men she's willing to trust with her life, were willing to kill someone for the crime of kissing her. Hot fucking take, Aphmau maybe shouldn't trust these people after seeing that they're willing to kill a man over the crime of loving her when they want to.
And even hotter take, GARROTH AND LAURANCE WOULDN'T DO THIS! Both men have been shown to be highly protective over Aphmau, which makes sense it's literally their job to keep her safe, but that protective nature shouldn't cross over into actively interfering with her romantic life. They're fucking lucky it was just an illusion, what would have happened if Malachi used mind control? What if he was using Aphmau and Dante's bodies as puppets? What if Garroth and Laurance just killed an amateur guard whose only crime was being forced to kiss the girl they liked?
This is one of those writing decisions that truly baffles me. It was RIGHT THERE, HOW DID YOU MISS, IT (the perfect piece of character work) WAS THREE FEET IN FRONT OF YOU! The answer is that Jesson don't really care about the interesting character work, they care about tropes. They care about the main character being in a love triangle with two guys who equally suck but in different ways. They care about fans getting excited and debating over which ship is better. They care about pushing this love triangle onto viewers regardless of what makes sense for the characters involved because the writers fail to see the nuance of the characters that they fucking wrote the nuance of.
I fucking hate Episode 65. Easily the worst episode of MCD. Any episode after this when Garroth and Laurance act horrendously out of character in service of this love triangle (I'm looking at you episode 77, and episode 90, and season 2 episode 95, and season 2 episode 98), know that it started here. It started with episode 65.
Fuck this episode.
#I love being a hater#minecraft diaries#mcd#text post#aphblr#aphverse#laurance zvahl#garroth ro'meave#mcd aphmau#episode analysis#fuck episode 65#me and my homies fucking hate episode 65#actually despise this episode
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pll rewatch 1x07-1x08
while watching previous episodes, I was thinking, wait, Emily has to have a car this season because of [SPOILER]. Does she just randomly start appearing with one?
of course not. instead she wins a car (the BEAUTIFUL TOYOTA) in a raffle the same night she falls down in a mirror maze
1x07 begins with us still on Homecoming night, where we get (1) Spencer, Hanna, and Aria clinging to each other like frightened puppies while looking for Emily and (2) Toby bringing Emily to the hospital
Spencer suggests the trio split up and is immediately indignant at the idea she be the one to go alone lmao
Poor Toby. No one is nice to him :( Spencer said her classic "The devil has a name and it's Toby!" line but Pam also said "people cross the street when they see him", poor fricking teenager.
Emily is like, as someone who has exchanged more than one sentence with Toby, I don't think he's a murderer? and Spencer cannot stand it she is so annoyed
Emily phrases it as "why am in my bed and not in a body bag" <3 Emily's horror movie visceral imagination
FIRST BARRY MAPLE APPEARANCE. HE'S HERE. THE ONE KIND-OF OKAY COP IN ROSEWOOD. ALL HAIL BARRY MAPLE.
Hanna is back to winning her one-woman #BestAlly competition and she's doing so good! I'll repeat this in the tags of a future post, but it is so interesting to me that this is the first step in Hannily becoming close as a pair - before Hanna gets the photos, Aria and Spencer are the ones expressing individual concern over Emily, but once this arc happens, Hanna is all-in
And says exactly what Emily needs to hear. Also saying things to injured Emily: Pam Fields, who is stressing her daughter out and has no idea why.
Ella, Byron is a cheating douchenozzle but go to your son's sportsball game! Mike's done nothing wrong!
Spencer has zero concept of having a job, let alone a service one. Of course she can waltz right into the kitchen to chit-chat, of course Alex must be lying if he says he's working on a day the club is closed. Oh, Spencer.
She does take to making fruit kebabs to hang out with him
Alex says he's never seen her photo with devil horns before and I don't think he's lying...so an A thing? But I prefer to think that it was the kitchen employee from the day before who was all het up about Spencer's health code violations
can any of the liars look normal when talking to the blind girl. (Spencer about Jenna to Emily: You didn't eat one of her cookies, did you?)
well, Emily did okay, but Emily had to deal with Jenna straight up sitting on her bed. Who does that?? But very funny in light of the S2 Halloween episode, isn't Emily dealing with enough.
Aria playing peacemaker as Spencer and Hanna argue in the woods. Oh, Aria, it's like watching a terrier trying to get in between a bloodhound and a golden retriever.
and here we get our first inter-liar callout of Spencer's parents being there to bail her out! I completely forgot it was Hanna who does this, but very fair, Hanna, very fair
Lucas and Hanna bond over watching the stupidest youtube videos, which makes so much sense for them. SMH Sean, not even a smile for turkey on a skateboard? Between that and sending Aria flowers, you deserve the shenanigans you accidentally find yourself in later this season
Emily and Maya get to have nice cute banters about going on a date and manage to make out at a zombie movie without anything bad happening! Good for them!
Especially since everything non-Maya makes Emily look so distressed
like Toby, which leads to the best conversation Emily, Spencer, and Hanna have on Emily's window seat
Emily, clearly upset: I couldn't bring myself to ask. Jenna was so upset. But his bike… it looked like it was… like it was wrecked.
Spencer: Well, I'm not gonna cry over this, and neither should you.
Hanna: Spencer, if she liked him she can cry about it!
Spencer: Well, I'm sorry for speaking.
Spencer: ......Look she's right, I can't tell you what to feel.
and yet Spencer will never stop attempting to, love this maniac
good god I forgot about the Jason recasting, I look forward to when this dark-haired suit-wearer with a stick up his ass is gone
Best A message:
SUBJECT: THE DEDICATION
DO IT RIGHT. I'LL BE WATCHING. JUST LIKE TOM SAWYER. --A
Why did A prepend the message with a subject, do they miss emailing Spencer? I had to explain the Tom Sawyer reference too haha.
A's gonna trick them into painting a fence next
We get so many flashbacks of Alison being terrible by the lakeshore that summer day
Flashback dynamic notes: Emily smiles and laughs at everything Alison says, no matter how mean; Aria is horny for Noel and pays the least attention to Alison; Hanna laughs at the first insult Ali throws at Lucas but then very weakly tries to defend him; Spencer is...Spencer is almost getting bored of Alison's terribleness?
and yet "that's immortality my darling" remains, and so does Alison's bracelet in her nightstand drawer
I like to think Aria had to dig through all her shit to find her bracelet, compared to the other three XD
"what about justice" re: never finding out who killed Alison, Spencer my sweet summer child....sometimes Spencer is the most naive of the liars, in her own way
Spencer's already sent two S.O.S texts this season. Did the girls agree on this code or did Spencer just decide this is her way of asking for help and everyone automatically understood it
isn't this memorial a bit too revealing of her dynamic with y'all, I'd be so self-conscious
and yet, even after an episode filled with flashbacks of Alison's cruelty, I understand all four of their speeches for her.
#as much as i love how much more removed Aria's speech is in being about the concept of memorials themselves#the thing with 22 episodes is that they can really slow burn each girl's feelings about Alison in a way that feels real#pll watching#pll#jaggedwolf rambles#mine#wayne fields is in the pennsylvania national guard#which is completely compatible with an afghanistan deployment but is going to make zero sense with everything else they do with him
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what's up i'm still very ill with this bug/flu/whatever and i'm going to start binging all of good omens season 2 in a minute. but to spare you all 59850 posts on your dash about something you might not care about, i will instead use this post to liveblog! i will be going back to this post and editing it with every update, so if you're interested in hearing my thoughts you can come back here (and if you're not it should be easy to avoid)
here goes!
update #1: when i started watching i SWORE to myself i would let it all play out before obsessively rewinding the bits i liked after it was all over. less than 2 minutes in and i failed.
"I'd hate to see you getting into any trouble." now what if i chewed my arm off.
update #2: crowley shielded aziraphale first before aziraphale shielded him in the garden of eden???? what if i cried.
update #3: the power is finally back so i've finished episode 1. all this talk about the book of life is raising my goddamn hackles. terrified to see how it comes into play. it's very interesting to me that crowley hasn't told aziraphale about it, too. i personally think aziraphale would still hide gabriel even if he knew about the extreme sanctions.
also, shelly conn is fabulous but i feel her version of beelzebub is *much* more animated than anna maxwell martin's. she's incredible and i love all her mannerisms but at the same time i was very attached to the stoicness of the previous beelzebub so it'll take a little bit to get used to.
update #4: aziraphale doing the little 'one two three four' with his finger before singing to maggie. he's so precious to me he's the specialiest little guy in the world for me and i understand crowley because i, too, would get into trouble with both heaven and hell to keep aziraphale safe
update #5: episode two done. thoughts:
1- this is just a romcom isn't it. i mean.
2- the music that played while aziraphale said crowley needed to take him to hell invokes the music that played during the bandstand scene in episode 3 of season one. i LOVE each and every scene that examines the themes of 'your side, my side, our side' <3
update #6: i'm (not unpleasantly!) surprised that they're addressing aziraphale's classist rant from the book. on one hand i'd just considered it one of the things the adaptation decided to do away with, but now that they've acknowledged it, i'm now very excitedly anticipating a resolution to that conflict. because if i remember correctly in the book the matter didn't really get resolved, aziraphale just dropped this bombshell on me and i had to put the book down for a minute lol
i guess they've been hinting at beelzebub spying on the bookshop using the flies, but i'm curious as to why they would have that knowledge and pretend they didn't. what's the benefit for playing coy here? either there is, and we don't know what that is yet, or the flies are a red herring.
update #7: finished episode 3 and i'm honestly not sure i understood a lot of it! what happened to crowley after falling through the gorund?? did they send him to the pit of torture or whatever for stopping the suicide? also aziraphale is my favourite character but if he says something like "the virtues of poverty" again i'm going to bite his head off. anyway. crowley. don't you know you're a fictional character and that according to all laws of fiction, if you say "if any harm comes to aziraphale" it means it's probably gonna happen? smh
update #8: i still haven't watched any more since last update but. oh dear. i'm too worried to click 'next episode' because 1- the more it dawns on me what might've happened to crowley after getting pulled into the ground i get so hopelessly depressed and 2- 'it's too late. it's always too late' is a very worrying note to end on and i'm positively terrified!! for future reference don't watch anything emotional or worrisome while having a stomach bug. i'm writhing in my seat lol.
update #8: the chat between "jim" and crowley. i am gonna need a short break before unpausing :)
update #9: so i haven't updated for a while because i couldn't think but i just finished the series. i think i can't think. i think i need to sleep and i think i'm very very very very very sad.
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Silver Talks AniManga (06/08/23)
"huh why is zom ep4 here wasn't that last week's?" yeah but it got delayed to monday.
"oh ok. what about ep5 of it then?" it got delayed for a week, unfortunately they seem to be having production issues 😔
also FINALLY after months of waiting they added gokurakugai on M+ so got to read that
green - new series/new to me
Anime
Pokemon Horizons Ep16
the conclusion of this mini arc and the final member of the starter owner trio AND dot's first battle. it was a nice episode, looked better than the average one, tho not as much as I expected it would from what mega said but my fault for getting my hopes too high. dot finally told riko she's gurumin too (since riko is a damn fool) so it's good that's out of the way now too. ALSO they revealed some more villains, including 2 girls and both their designs and voices are great so looking forward to when it's their turn to hound the protags
Atelier Ryza Ep6
yooooooooo she said the thing
anyway it's crazy for me to think that we're already halfway through the season, time's fucked up
this episode marked the building of the hideout and the first little act of the story so we should be getting some more adventuring and such for the rest of this, dunno if they'll cover the whole game but we'll see, doubt they'd do a S2 but could be wrong
Zom 100 Ep4
well on ep 1 I said I the show looked great but I was worried about the studio being able to keep it up since they're new, and then ep 4 got delayed a day and now ep 5 got delayed to next week so that's... worrying, hopefully doesn't become a constant thing. tho despite the delay ep 4 still looked as good, but we'll see how it is for ep 5.
as for the ep itself it was nice, nothing really impressive other than the explosion near the start, I'm just waiting for the foreign girl to show up up and them all to get together and start traveling.
also also, saw some spoilers for the newest chap of the manga and it's very HUH, hope that the next chap shows it didn't really happen, or something happened after the cut cause otherwise it'd be very weird and make it hard to keep motivated to keep watching
Manga
Gokurakugai Ch1 - 10
I've been waiting for this got get added to M+ since damn march 1st!!! it got picked up for viz so I was like "oh should be on m+ soon enough" but apparently not smh. coulda've read it on viz but that'd require some work arounds and I was lazy + thinking it wouldn't take that long.
but ANYWAY this series. yet another exorcist series in the ever growing sea of them, tho that's not the reason why I decided to start reading it. it's cause the designs slap and the art's extremely good, but what pushed me over the edge was this incredible qt.
anyway it's good tho, wasn't expecting much but was plesantly surprised. started off just being a monster of the week thing introducing the charas and world but it just ended the first lil arc and it was good. seems like next up will be a training arc (?), tho waiting til next month for the next chap is gonna be rough.
Blooming Love Ch10
I said p early on that for a romance series this was moving p fast but I didn't expect them to be at this stage already. since there's not really other plot points to follow and whatnot idk what they could do next, so maybe it could end soon, but we'll see
Kill Blue Ch16
what the hell???? is it getting axed?? it's very weird for this to be happening out of nowhere like this when a big part of the plot was to find a way to revert his age again. guess we'll have to wait for the next chap to really have an idea but no jump next week so gonna be a hard wait
Spy x Family Ch86
it was quite the long arc (2nd longest after the ship?) but now it's over. it was good overall, had been a while since some twilight action, a lot of neat stuff happened but it doesn't feel like it moved the main plot forward, we'll see how the aftermath for it goes tho
Tenmaku Cinema Ch17
tenmaku has been good, as usual, just a shame that it's on the way to getting axed, they're already almost done with filming so just like 3-5 more chaps should be enough to finish? it's a shame readers didn't like it more, I think it's really good (helped a lot by it being a veteran duo) but oh well, I'll enjoy it while it lasts
Blue Box Ch112
very good chap, not only has it been a while since hina was around but she came back "recovered" from being rejected only to find out about them dating and going back to hurting all over again, this needed to happen sooner or later but I'm glad it was sooner. totally expecting her to date kyo tho but it's prob gonna be a bit til that (tho I could also see ayame dating him since the author has been teasing that for a bit)
My Hero Academia Ch396
you know a chap was good when you get to the end thinking it was too short and wanting more, had been looking forward to this fight, wondering how the hell he was even gonna do it but this is really cool. hype for the rest of it, also predicting that he's gonna take AFO down with him cause there's no way he'll live past this lol
Akane-banashi Ch73
I can't believe how right my prediction from months ago was... I jinxed my poor akane (tho I said hikaru would get 96 and akane 93 but close enough). great chap tho, the last few pages hit really hard too. hang in there akane I believe in you
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Thoughts on Teen Wolf the Movie while watching it pt.2
And the flashbacks hurt
Speaking of flashbacks, Derek punched through half a stone pillar in one go during season 2 so Scott wtf my guy. Ur a True Alpha, I thought that meant u were supposed to be better than everyone else "I'm stronger, I'm faster, I'm better" (think that's from the boys lol)
awww reunion 👏
Yeah I'm with Lydia, I wouldn't be too keen on looking at the sword that murdered my bestie either
why you not want Melissa to know ur here. Boy if you don't bring ur mom some dinner, she works very hard
Ofc it's a muscle girl it's ur damn vocal cords
Lmao Jackson is me. That pizza looks good, also I wish he had stayed for more season, I'm a firm believer that he was really supposed to be Peter's son and Malia is just made up of what his and Cora's storyline would've been had the actors stayed
Should've brought Ethan with you
Okay so wtf is going on w/ Jackson? is he werewolf or kanima bc all we see him use are kanima stuff now but at the end of season 2 he was full werewolf. Also like didn't they explain in like season 5 that it's supposed to be impossible to be two things and that's why the chimera's were such a big deal? Smh, really wish Colton had stuck around so this was explained but I respect his decision to leave
"Well it looks like a tree" Def would've been him in season 3
Wish they had just rebuilt the Hale house
"it was coming loose anyways" lies 😂😂
he broke alot of laws 😬
boy really just said "well I'll just change my name" like by doing that it'll alter his DNA 😭
Poor kid is so insecure about being a werewolf, maybe he's scared he'll be a failwolf like Scott. Nah but in all honesty the Hale's were like wolf royalty so that would be a lot of pressure to live up to. Plus I wouldn't love losing control of myself and being hunted down
Malia making me think of Dany "take off your clothes"
Derek trying so hard. You're doing great sweetie 👍
Love how Parrish just has a uniform already prepared
Also feel like if Malia had to have a love interest it should've been a woman
When ur fuck buddy decides he wants a relationship 😬
Why she so weirded out by relationship when they already act like a couple...
No explanation for Scolia break up. One is an incident, two is a coincidence, three's a pattern. are we gonna get enough for a warrent, what's after four?😭😂
"I missed you" "I missed you too" "No you didn't" "Okay, I wanted to" Believe it or not that's progress😂 Malia you know for a fact that you have developed better emotional skills, you've been human for like 14 years now and Lydia was one of ur best friends
"It's kind of awkward to see you" Should've been Kira telling Scott that. Or Allison could've said that to Kira, would've been and interesting love triangle if Scott and Kira were still together. Who would y'all have wanted to end up together had that happend in the movie, Scallion or Skira?
Don't y'all remember how impossible that thing is to find? Like y'all legit had to sacrifice yourselves last time to find it
How did Nogi get in Chris? We've got enough for a warrent people, Jeff we're coming for you jkjk
So it was that simple to get it out...why didn't we do that the first time? Ooo could've made it like that time when all the werewolves got possessed and tried to kill eachother bc of all the flies, but this time Chris does and its not the Nogitsune (well it is but u know what I mean)
Ur not even gonna try and catch Nogi...okay then
Malia you couldn't pick up on ur cousin's scent? Speaking of, Derek you didn't here your son jump out that window?
"you got got big" yea that's what happens to kids when a shit ton of years pass Scott 🤦♀️
So sleepwalking is just a sign of upcoming transformation? Huh, I just always thought Peter was controlling Scott some how, but cool I want to know more about the born wolves! We should all petition Paramount + to make a Hale prequel
The screamer😳 that sounds like a bad porn name
Malia acting like she found it😂
Eli's so slow to take the hint, he's so adorable and so much like me
Them saying don't tell Derek bc it's personal like um nah it's cause he'd say it's a bad idea
I feel like a blood sacrifice should've been made to wake up the nemeton again bc it goes dormant after a few years when nothing happens to it as we've seen countless times before, also this is necromancy so it should be a darker ritual. Like the ground where she died & the weapon that killed her is great but there should've been more steps & it should've been more complicated. If there's anything I've learned from the numerous fantasy shows I've watched is that magic like that always comes with a price
Cool ritual overall though, love how they almost got sucked into the nemeton
All this magic making Malia hungry, me too grl me too
I also love how it wasn't automatic, it took a few seconds. Maybe it would've been better though if she didn't come back to after they actually left and so Harris finds her without her memories and manipulates her by lying to her. Meanwhile the pack is grieving again and questioning why it didn't work
Also I forgot to say this, when Mr. Harris popped up in Liam & Hikari's restaurant I immediately thought "Ariana what are you doing here?😂"
Love how Allison came out looking 30, with her hair having grown out, and her makeup and nails done. Sis was really at the spa, not Bardo 💅 why y'all interrupted her, she was on a much needed spa retreat bc dying is so stressful
Also why didn't we just use this ritual to bring other people back?
Is she alive though, or is she still in just a state between life and death,, what if now her physical body us here but part of her subconscious is still over there? *gasp* then maybe we can talk to other ghosts through her if she gives up control of her body sometimes. Omg that would be a coll concept for another movie, someone taking over her subconscious
Now Malia's bout to pop a wheelie, seems like she still sucks at driving
Hey mama McCall's a doctor now!
Seems like she wasn't very suprised at some of the gang being back in town
I feel like the glow from the nemeton should've been just a black mist to represent the Nogitsune instead of the just green that kinda reminded me of the ghost riders; also I thought he needed a host?
should've made Allison his host so that they'd have a harder time killing him bc of the emotional damage
Imma add to the plot I made up earlier🤪 Allison comes back after Scott, lydia, and Malia leave and Mr.Harris gets her and manipulates her right, right, well then he gets the Nogitsune to possess her but she doesn't know it. Sometimes she's her, and sometimes she's not, but regardless she doesn't have all of her memories
Pt. 2 - 5
#teen wolf#teen wolf the movie#derek hale#eli hale#scott mccall#lydia martin#malia tate#allison argent#jordan parrish#chris argent#alan deaton#nogitsune#void stiles#braeden teen wolf#kira yukimura
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alright, i'm glad i can talk about season 2 here with you all!
i definitely agree with you, mod dice. the season was pretty good, but it wasn't really what i imagined? i think that's the word. it felt like it was lacking something, and something didn't feel right. also they left us on a cliff-hanger once again--and gave sally and hilda an incredibly short amount of screen-time..
good season nonetheless though, my siblings loved it. we had a good laugh when we saw bowl-boy on screen and king dice make an appearance again! ৻( •̀ ᗜ •́ ৻)
next season, i really wanna see some more characters. rumor possibly, cagney, grim except he talks this time, dr. kahl and his robot perhaps? i have a thing for the automaton smh
but overall, yeah. those we my thoughts! feel free to say any opinions of yours, mod dice <3
sincerely, veda 💌
I agree with most of your thoughts, Veda, and as for my own, well...
For one, I thought the season was just okay as opposed to the first one. Some episodes were great (A High Seas Adventure, Rats All, Folks, and The Devil’s Pitchfork), some were good (Release the Demons and Dead Broke), some were fine (Jailbroken and Charmed and Dangerous), and the rest were, in my opinion, either boring or awful.
As for the characters, I think they improved King Dice, worsened the Cup brothers, and continued to make the Devil the most entertaining character of the cast.
I don’t know how exactly to describe my reasons for disliking Cuphead and Mugman this season, as I’m not good at writing down my thoughts or analysing characters, but I’m going to try. I think my main (and only) complaint about their portrayal is that Cuphead’s occasional selfishness and his generally reckless behaviour were amplified far more than I believe they should have been, while Mugman came off as uncharacteristically temperamental and unhinged.
As for King Dice, I really like what they did with him. He was cunning and manipulative for once, and it was nice to see him behave like you’d expect his game counterpart to. I like this new side of him they’ve shown, and I hope they expand upon it in the next season.
As for the Devil, what can I say? He stole the show every time he was on screen, and while the show’s portrayal of him may not be the most faithful to the source material, he’s just so entertaining and well-written that you can’t help but love him regardless of the differences.
I think those are all my main thoughts, so I’m just going to quickly list off the rest of my opinions on other things as I don’t have much to say about them:
- Seeing Hilda and Sally, although briefly, was a real treat, and I hope we get to see more of them next season.
- The choice to make Captain Brineybeard a simp was not something I personally would have gone for, and yet it was done so well and ended up being so funny that I honestly wouldn’t change it.
- I wasn’t a fan of Cala’s accent. Don’t get me wrong, I liked her voice, and I think her voice actress, Natasia Demetriou, is extremely talented, but I just don’t think it fit Cala as a character. I think it would have been much better if it were Greek instead of Russian, as it would’ve served as a nod to her Greek myth-inspired origins.
- Also, learning about her mixed-species heritage was fun, and I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about it.
- I really liked what they did with Bon Bon and Werner, although I’m still iffy about Bon Bon’s voice and the fact that they made Werner an American who was just faking his German accent.
- “Oh, please, we’re friends now. Call me “The”.” is a way funnier line than it has any right to be.
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Hello!!! So I was reading the headcannons of some of the BC characters reacting to a S/O who falls off the bed while sleeping, and I was wondering....how would Jack, Asta and Yami react to that...? You can 100% skip this since you have lots of requests but uh yeah! Also have a great day/night!
Hello Anony!! HEHEHEH Thank you for requesting more characters for this idea! It's sucha cute one I'm just happy to be writing it again!
HERE is the original post and request!
TW: no smut but it is kinda implied or mentioned. other than that it is a safe one!
Jack | Asta | Yami
Jack the Ripper
The first time, this man didn't even know you rolled off the bed, smh.. Until you let out a little yelp and he woke up.
"Dafug are you doing on the floor at 2am in the morning y/n?"
"I fell off!!" you sat there feeling angry at the situation and in pain.
He scooped you back up with his long and strong arms, "you're so funny sometimes little bug."
Subsequently he would start noticing when you were rolling further and further away from him and eventually he wrapped you up in the blanket and he slept on the ends so you wouldn't fall off.
This man sleeps with the AC on no matter the season so you're always in a thick blanket anyway.
But this man is a sucker for cuddling you, so some days he'd be under the blanket with you and he'll have you wrapped with his four limbs, making sure you can't escape.
"We're stuck together like love bugs" he would laugh when you protest that his legs are so heavy on you.
"oh? I thought you're a mantis? I'll eat you up after we're done mating."
"oh?" he'd mimic you just to annoy you, "then shall we start mating now?"
Asta
This boy has sharp senses, so he'll open his heavy lidded eyes just to check up on why you are getting further away from his arms.
When he sees you at the edge of the bed, almost falling off, he'd catch you with his quick reflexes.
After a few times of witnessing you almost falling off the bed, he'd question you about it.
"y/n! Have you always been rolling off the bed?!"
When you sheepishly nod your head, he'd finally put 2 and 2 together and exclaim, "so that's how you get all those bruises! I always thought you got injured during training!"
He'd push his bed back against the wall as it previously was. (ever since you both started dating and you slept in his room, he moved his bed's position so you both had access to the end of the bed.)
"Now you won't fall off the bed sunshine!" he beamed at you, "I'll be here to catch you if you ever roll off!"
This sweet and thoughtful boy would totally put a mattress at the bottom of the bed if he had to go on missions so if you really fall off you wouldn't get hurt.
Yami Sukehiro
God help this man but he's an even deeper sleeper than Jack. Of course he wouldn't know when you fell off the first time.
But you didn't yelp or cry, you continued to sleep on the floor.
When he reached over and he couldn't find you, he thought you went to get a midnight snack or the toilet. Until he felt your ki really close to him.
He woke up eventually and finally found you on the floor, still sound asleep.
Geez how are you an even deeper sleeper than me. he smiled at your peaceful sleeping form for awhile before carrying you back up on the bed into his strong arms.
He cuddled you tighter from that day onwards, worried that you might hurt yourself when you fall off.
Until you start complaining that it's hella hot.
He'd totally tease you though, "if someone doesn't have the habit to roll off the bed then I wouldn't have to do this. Or should I just sleep on top of you instead?"
Proceeds to lay on top of you, nearly crushing you.
"Now I can't.. breathe.. Yami!" Your limps would be flailing and hitting him at the same time, trying to get him off you.
He sighs mockingly, "what am I ever going to do with you."
He now holds your hands when you sleep together and you've never fallen off once.
-end-
I hope you enjoy this one Anony (˵◕ ɛ ◕˵✿)
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Okey the season ended so we can talk about it now.
I think they handled the angst between Raelle and Scylla beautifully. I loved them finding each other and forgiveness. It's not just Realle forgiving Scylla. I feel like Scylla found her own redemption too. And their love stand againts everything.
Orphan Black handled Cosima x Delphine's story pretty poorly. I was worried about something like that but I'm happily surprised that Elliot come through.
Their relationship started pretty fast. So we never had time to actually see them building things with time. For me their love wasn't as strong looking or deep in season 1. But this season they took their time. We see them loving the other fiercely, kindly and of course distantly. We are sure of their love now, as Realle is sure too. 1x9 is long time ago now. The question marks are gone.
Also one of the thing that i loved about their storyline is that we never see any unreasonable drama. No cheating, nothing toxic. Most shows feed from these storylines, not even caring what they are doing to their characters arc. But there was none of that in MFS. They respected their love and made sure they didn't destroy that for the sake of drama.
Anyway,I love reading your takeaway. So what do you think about their storyline this season? Did you like it? Was there something you would change? And if you compare Seaoson 1 Raylla to Season 2, what is your takeaways.
(I'm not a native english speaker so forgive me for my poor writing. )
"Also one of the thing that i loved about their storyline is that we never see any unreasonable drama. No cheating, nothing toxic."
YES! THIS! EXACTLY! I swear I get so tired of all the drama these shows throw into a relationship for no reason. Some people were legit hoping for a "love triangle" where Raelle uses M to make Scylla jealous and I'm just over here like why the fck would you even want some dumb shit like that??? Raelle and Scylla obviously love each other even tho they're not together, like it couldn't have been more obvious that they both needed to work on themselves, but people wanna throw in a whole third person just to cause more trouble smh I'm so glad Eliot didn't go down that shitty road, even Taylor mentioned in an interview that Raelle wouldn't hook up with someone else out of spite because her love for Scylla is so strong.
I LOVE the way they handled their relationship this season as well as how they handled each character's individual growth. I'm glad they gave adequate time before the Raylla reunion, they didn't have them makeup quickly, they also didn't drag out their separation longer than it needed to be. I think the entire 8th episode was exactly what they needed to go thru before they could get back together. Scylla was respectful of Raelle's boundaries, she handled Abigail's contempt towards her so well... she went in with no expectations other than to help and protect Raelle and her sisters. Raelle not only acknowledged the fact that Scylla has changed, but she defended Scylla even when they were all under Nicte's spell in the cabin... in a moment where they're all slinging mud at each other she still points out that they wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for Scylla. Everything was perfect. Scylla only offered, she never pushed. Raelle kept an open mind, she didn't shut Scylla out. Their reunion couldn't have been handled any better.
I liked Raelle's storyline with Mother Mushroom, I'm glad some things fell into place by the finale but I still have questions. I really wish they would've explained how Scylla knew the seed for Mother Mushroom and how Mother Mushroom knew Raelle had that graveyard memory. I know they didn't have time to get to this in the finale but I can't help wondering if Raelle tells Scylla that Mother Mushroom is made up of dead witches... which includes Scylla's parents... that'd be interesting.
I fcking loved Scylla's storyline with adoptive mom Anacostia, then with mother-in-law Willa, and they even squeezed in a bit with foster daughter Breanna and father-in-law Edwin. Scylla's S1 storyline was completely about Raelle, so I'm happy we got to see her bonding with other people because building those relationships helped her grow. I mean it when I say "I came for Raylla, I stayed for Scyllacostia"... two women, on opposite sides, so different yet so much alike. Beautiful!
Comparing S1 Raylla to S2 Raylla... the first thing that comes to mind is while I believe their love for each other in S1 was real, by the end of that season, neither of them believed the others love was real. Raelle found out she was Scylla's mark & understandably doubted Scylla's feelings for her. Then Scylla begs for her forgiveness, making a point that she chose Raelle over the Spree, but the last thing Raelle says to her is "I'm sorry we ever met". Then you have S2 where by the end of this season, both of them know 100% that the other's love for them runs so deeply it can't be denied. We saw the love they still had for each other from the beginning, when Edwin asks Raelle about Scylla, when Willa talks about Raelle's childhood, it's written across Raelle & Scylla's faces every time they thought about the other. The difference this season was they had time to build a strong foundation for their relationship, whereas in the first season they just dove in head first.
Let me stop before I end up writing a whole novel on here 😂 I could legit go on and on about Raylla.
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In the trailer, Elias tells Amie “if you go and I end up here, then I’ll break.” While initially it sounded sweet or a sign of Elias trying to be more vulnerable and share his feelings (which is probably his intention), the more I have watched the trailer, the statement seems a bit unintentionally emotionally manipulative or codependent. Did he think about how hearing that would make Amie feel? Obviously bad and like she is responsible for his breakdown if she decides to go to US without any him smh. Even in season 2 when his dad told him about his shot to go to US, Klara told him to go and not worry about her. Just was wondering your thoughts as I find the statement a bit unsettling.
I also thought that line was worrying. I'm just worried overall for what Elias will go through this season, and I hope he won't become dependent on Amie like how Felicia became dependent on Ludde (but it's very likely).
The original line in Swedish "[...] då går jag sönder", meaning "[...] then I'll break", could also translate into falling apart or to be split into pieces. Elias is saying that not only will he be destroyed, but he's also hinting that he won't be able to be pieced back together again.
It's a really dramatic line that sounds romantic at first, but when you go deeper it's definitely alarming. Elias and Amie still haven't been together for that long at this point. When Elias dated Klara he never said anything unsettling like this, so I'm very sure that Elias isn't going to be in a good headspace when he says this.
Elias is going to struggle with eating, with training, and get kicked off the team. He's going to ignore his issues and run from his problems. And when he's confronted with the reality that things aren't going his way—that he worked so hard to reach his hockey dreams only to be kicked off the team—he will feel like he's lost everything besides Amie.
It's very likely that he will treat Amie as a comfort pillar and see her as one of the few good things in his life. I can see Elias feeling like if he lost her, then there wouldn't be anything left. So considering this, Amie leaving for the US might be an even bigger issue for Elias than we thought.
He got drafted to the US and probably felt like a failure and an embarrassment when it didn't work out. There is so much pressure on him because he's a Kroon, so I can only imagine how he must have felt returning to Oskarshamn to play in a declining club. He must've gotten ridiculed by hockey fans and that only worsened with the tabloids writing that Mats paid for Elias to move up in the rankings. His career might be over after this whole mess, and Elias just keeps overworking to convince himself that he can still turn things around.
His worst nightmare would probably be to see the person he's in love with go to the US without him. Elias might feel that he's not "good enough" to be playing in the US and that he might be abandoned because of it. He wants to go to the US and he wants to go there with the person he loves. That's my understanding of it, at least.
I hope Elias will get these demons out of his head and that he won't ruin any relationships because of them. As I've said before, I would be heartbroken if Elias ended up in Oskarshamn. I really can't see him staying there after graduation.
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Hi! Rewatch/watch for the first time anon here!
So I had finished the series (I forgot where I was when I sent my last ask, so I've been skipping a few episodes thanks to Liz's Giant Supernatural Skip/Watch List which I highly recommend to see if you're wanting to do a rewatch, especially post s5 cause I'm a s1-5 purist and the episodes after s5 can be a bit dotty).
From the guidance of that watch list, and disagree or agree with me, but I feel like s15 wasn't so great to watch live? (please I skipped a few episodes, so your opinion would be really good) Like maybe it started off strongly but it had a bit of out of character stuff e.g. I feel like Cas, Dean and Sam getting overpowered by demons is a bit out of character especially when Cas is an angel of thee lord. Like I know they didn't know Rowena was there, but it would have made more sense maybe if they appeared at the throne where Rowena was or like maybe Rowena discovered them idk....I can't think of anything, I just feel like they could have written their meet up a little better?
Then 15x18 my beloved, I actually watched the confession in Spanish that way it was more textual rather than subtextual that Dean loved him back (I say textual because Dean said as do I Cas, where as it was more implied that Dean loved him back when he said don't do this Cas and the part where he was crying and couldn't answer the phone - Dean loved Cas back and no one will convince me otherwise OKAY). I may have cried, laughed and puked in my mouth a little (do you get that reference), I did love seeing Rachel Minor back in the show but again it was the empty and not THEE Meg (my favourite demon next to Crowley).
I think overall it was interesting to rewatch s1-10, there were some really good moments (especially cause I skipped the crappy episodes) and interesting as a first time viewer to watch s11-15. I DID however watch deancasnatural so I had some context as to what was going on post s10 beforehand, I don't think I'll watch spn for a while now, just because I have second hand sadness in that you as a fandom deserved a narratively better finale. However its onwards and upwards from here, Jensen will be in the boys and probably have some other fantastical new roles/release new music and such and Misha will be doing more stuff as well and in the end Cas did win cause he got to tell Dean he loved him. I'll say it again but supernatural will always be known as having the gay angel, and god bless Misha for giving us that legacy, the show would literally have been dead 10 years ago had he not stayed on. At least we have thousands upon thousands of deancas fanfics and I follow a few amazing tumblrs such as yourself who I love interacting about supernatural with :)
hola mishamigo! glad you enjoyed your watch and rewatch!!!!
i can't skip episodes its a curse, my one fatal flaw gfhdjhdkjk but thank you for reccing <3
tbh, watching s15 live was amazing because 1) we knew it was THEE END and 2) it actually was crazy? and 3) my mind was trying to connect all the dots and it seemed like they were connecting the same dots as me, you know?
though i do agree, the season got boring in the middle there, post ep 9/10 i'd say. but then it caught up until the dreadful finale ruined every single thing. ugh.
also, getting overpowered by demons - especially cas - IS A PLOT CONVENIENCE rather than character continuity smh. remember season 14 episode 1 ???? cas getting beaten and bound by demons like that? garbage. DISAGREE. spn committed many sins but the biggest one was their treatment of cas.
yes I got your meg reference! haha! was great to see rachel back <3
YOU HAD THE ULTIMATE 15x18 EXPERIENCE BESTIE CONGRATULATIONS, wish that were me </3
I have second hand sadness in that you as a fandom deserved a narratively better finale
I will cry again. THEY KILLED DEAN TOO.
and the last part of your ask - so true bestie! also, yep. stay away from spn for sometime. watch ANNE WITH AN E if its your genre! I adore that show!!! I keep reccing it to everyone hoping someone would watch it XDD let me know if you do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kiss kiss!
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