Hobbits aren't considered adults until 33. So if we decide 33 is the hobbit equivalent of 18, that means a hobbit's twenties is basically their wild teen years. Meaning Pippin, who is 28 when he leaves the Shire, is basically a 15-year-old trying his best.
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In 'The Clothes Don't Make The Turtle':
Leo's just casually vibing with Don while Raph was stressing out.
when Raph asks Donnie (who's still vibing) after another transformation scene if he's got any ideas on what could be going on, you can see how confused Leo is too till Donnie says "less talky talk more groovie groove", and you see it hit him,
He swiftly turns to the speaker, the dots connecting,
Where they're all looking at the box confused, worried, or a mix of both, and then you have Leo there looking at it suspiciously before realization hits him,
This also told me a lot about his character the first time I watched it, because even though they were all catching on (and did at the end) Leo was the one who felt it first, and all because he noticed how the music kept distracting his genius of a brother, because that's all Donnie talked about the whole time they were under the musical spell, how the music was basically "taking control".
It just showed me then how, even though he does good a lot, smart Leon actually is, because he does the joking (his coping mechanism), and the one liners and such, anything to make his brothers laugh
How much attention he's actually paying to everything around them.
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[ cw: violence mention / death mention / ]
Will never stop thinking about how Leo, all alone in an endless void and being beaten again and again and again by the only other living thing around, still finds comfort in that space. The situation he was in was completely hopeless, and in any other circumstances he would not have escaped, at least not fast enough to save him from permanent (or even fatal) damage, be it physical or mental.
And yet, despite the bleakness of his situation, despite the agony and helplessness, all he needs is one glance at a crumbled photograph, one glance to remember his family, and that’s enough of a reason for him to smile.
Maybe that’s why his powers center around manipulating space - because no matter how much space is between them, no matter how dire his own situation may be, just the thought of his family, alive and okay, is enough to give Leo hope.
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It’s amazing how many walls I’ve hit-
I’ve been trying to imagine a 2012 alternate universe where Donatello was not a part of the Hamato’s lives and ya’ll would be amazed at how impossible it feels to create ANY content in a realistic world where they don’t have a Donatello to provide for them.
Algea garden? Doesn’t seem like it.
TV? Lights? Any working mechanisms? Likely not.
Running electricity or water? VERY likely not.
Classic smoke bombs? Nope.
Vehicles of any sort? Nope.
T-phones or cheesephone? Definitely not.
Access to city cameras or blueprints? Heck nah.
Ability to triangulate positions of their enemies?
Homestly, if Leo could do it, he would be.
Any Kraang/Foot equipment or data at all? Forget about it!
Gliders? Nope. Rocket? Don’t make me laugh. Go-Carts? Nope.
Music player? Nope. Techno-goggles? As if. Laptop? NOPE!
Decoded Secret Messages? You’re kidding, right?
Mutagen tracker? Never gonna happen!
Hot-air balloon disguised as a water tower?! NEVER. HAPPENING!
Any sort of medicanes or cures? In. Their. DREAMS.
Those little things they slip on their hands to scale walls??? Nada!
SERIOUSLY. THESE KIDS WOULDN’T HAVE LIVED THROUGH THE FIRST SEASON WITHOUT HIM. THERE WOULD BE NO HOPE OF SURVIVAL EVEN AGAINST THE KRAANG. THERE DEFINITELY WOULD BE NO 2012TMNT. PERIODT. HE IS THE LITERAL BACKBONE THE FANDOM WILL NEVER TRULY ACKNOWLEDGE.
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where would you have ended the series at? like some people say ftf, some say s7, some say it was right to go all the way through the revival.
do i have to keep it exactly as is and decide where to cut it off or can i go all the way through and change literally everything that happens? lmao
keeping everything the same, my ideal end would’ve been after s8. mulder and scully holding that baby, family restored, deciding he was the truth they had been looking for: that IS the end of this story. that is the only natural conclusion to what we’re doing here. there is literally no reason why it ever should’ve changed from that.
and i like s8!! other than the reproductive trauma nastiness and some dull episodes, i love the narrative of that season.
if you had to do s9 and for some reason we had to lose the baby, if i had my way, 2nd movie would’ve still been a MOTW (a completely different one lol) and dedicated a lot more to exploring the themes that are already present. what it means to be followed by “the darkness”, what it’s like to live in a haunted house, what the effect of missing child after missing child is on them and their relationship. the coping mechanisms that they’ve developed and the ways that it comes in-between them.
revival could’ve still happened, could’ve had a lot of the same ideas, i’ll even allow them the same motivations for trying to find the baby. but instead of killing jackson’s adoptive parents and doing…..whatever that was……it could’ve focused on mulder and scully getting back into solving x-files while getting to know him, on some level.
and on moving forward from that pathology that kept them so haunted for so many years; a lot of the growth they do have in the revival is in them talking about their child and not just avoiding it and carrying around the guilt. to actually be able to know him and form a relationship with him would’ve gone a long way to an imperfect but still satisfying resolution to their characters.
it’s wild how bad s9/IWTB/revival are when, in my opinion, it would’ve only taken such MINIMAL changes to be good?? CC clearly regrets the plot that ruined his show, and it would’ve been so easy to fix it, rather than try to erase it.
basically, i want IWTB and the revival, written by glenn and james not chris.
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much love and good vibes with this opinion: frankly tired of the general idea that ellie has no reason to still be upset with joel in game 2. like okay YES, he did it all to save her. YES, he made the right choice (imo), NO, he shouldn’t regret it at all
but he 100% lied to her for longer than he had to, not because it was best for HER but mostly because HE liked how it felt to be close to ellie and was scared to lose that. which is valid, but not enough of a reason to hide the truth from someone you claim to love.
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oh, so you're not into cuddles? who hurt you, dear
A long, long list of people, but I don’t mind curling up with someone. It’s just being pinned in a strangle hold that makes me a little antsy.
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I am once again overcome by the sheer magnitude of pranks Mikey and Leo could commit on the world of archaeology through their combined abilities of time and space
With enough time for Mikey in particular to be strong enough to make a small time portal - again within Leo’s portal opened in Someplace, Somewhere - they could plant so much shit just to mess with historians.
Like - Mikey wanted to try painting Greek-style pottery and Leo is like “hey hey wait…”
And now there is newly discovered evidence of Greek depictions of humanoid turtles laying around.
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