House M.D. but it's when Wilson says House's name

My S6 BTVS rewrite

I know this season has a lot of haters but I actually love season 6, I don't mind the depressing parts (meaning: most of the season) because I think it all makes sense for where the characters are at, and I think that after fighting a literal God having a season where the villain is Life really works storytelling-wise.

Having said that, though, I think that a lot of things could have been handled better and since all I have are correct opinions I'm gonna tell you what those are.

1. Willow's magic addiction

Basically I think they went too far when the magic became drugs in the most basic sense, when they start acting like she's "taking a hit" every time she uses it.

I think all of the important plot points could have been kept while making willow's addiction to magic about her need to be in control of everything (and everyone). Up to Tabula Rasa I wouldn't change anything, her use of magic is wrong because she starts using it to bend the world at her will, empowered by having successfully brought Buffy back to life.

After Tara leaves her she starts using even more magic while being reckless with it, she injures Dawn and she commits to stop using it because she realizes it wasn't healthy for her or for the people she loves.

I would eliminate Rack and his stupid crack house hide out, and everything that has to do with the physical withdrawal of going "cold turkey".

I think this also makes Willow responsible for her actions, while making magic = literal heroin absolves her of the blame, in the end. The fallout of having to deal with her dependence of it would also be way more compelling.

2. Spike's attempted r4pe

I would keep their toxic relationship and everything that led up to that god-awful bathroom scene, my only change is that I would make it so Spike is trying to turn her instead.

Hear me out. It would make a lot of narrative sense because all through the season he's trying to convince her she's a dark being just like him, he wants them to be equals because he doesn't think himself worthy of her so he's trying to lower her to his level. So, after Buffy rejects him again he's not thinking clearly and, in his desperation, tries the only thing he swore himself he wouldn't do since he loves Buffy because of her goodness.

After it happens, Buffy feels betrayed, Spike leaves and decides to try to get to her level, to truly change himself instead of trying to change her.

This is a minor thing too but in this rewrite after Spike leaves we don't know where he went and we don't see him again until the start of s7 when he already has his soul. I know this couldn't be done because of James Marsters' contract but in my dream s6 we don't know what happened to him so when we see him again everything about his sudden disappearence and current mental state is a mystery and we find out along with Buffy.

3. Xander dies instead of Tara

Ok maybe this one is based on my dislike of Xander and my love of Tara but I think this would work really well:

Willow and Tara haven't gotten together yet, Willow is working on her more controlling tendencies and they're just friends right now. When Warren shows up Buffy is in the garden with Dawn and Xander went up to Willow's room to talk to her, so both Buffy and Xander get shot, Dawn takes Buffy to the hospital and dark Willow is born after she's not able to revive Xander.

After that things are mostly the same, only this time we get a grieving Buffy trying to deal with the sudden loss of both of her best friends. She's devastated and a part of her says that yes, Warren deserves to die.

After everything happens and Willow is close to destroying the world, Tara is the one who shows up, she appeals to Willow's humanity and, through her love and compassion, saves the world.

tiktok's banned in my country but ive heard the scene where aaravos cries is leaked if so is there a way for you to share it here because i really wanna see my husband cry like a pathetic bitch (im mentally unwell)

(I UNDERSTAND YOU IT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO ALL UNWELL AARAVOS FANS)

andd ahh sure !!!

i also am in the process of getting the unedited footage from someone off tiktok/twt maybe so i will rb with that if/when i do

in the meantime here are all the edits i could find on tiktok

once again thinking about how so much of s6 liam and theo’s relationship is about theo choosing to do the dirty work so liam doesn’t have to. he went from trying to harness liam’s anger for his own gain to trying to help him get it under control— and even in triggers when he does intentionally piss liam off so they can fight to cause a distraction, he keeps liam from killing nolan right after. he tries to comfort liam (in his own Extremely Emotionally Stunted way) during the car ride home by pointing out how hard he tried to avoid hurting him. he does it again in the locker room, telling liam he’s making progress by not killing gabe— right before stepping forward and smashing gabe’s face right back into that mirror for himself to get the information they need. theo throws himself at the ghost riders as bait because he knows liam, despite his harsh promises, is too good of a person to do it himself. he pulls liam into the sheriff station bathroom and reality checks him about saving his friends and himself (also in the most Emotionally Stunted way possible) because he knows liam is sometimes blinded by his own idealism. he pushes liam ahead of him at the hospital and takes bullets meant for them both.

for someone who claims to relish in his own selfishness, theo time and time again shows that he’d rather get blood on his hands as long as it keeps liam from having to get it on himself.

Feel like there’s not very much attention paid to the S2 trauma of Tommy being coerced into use as an assassin.

(and, from a few of my notes during the S2 rewatch, the men he killed were sufficient to trigger great hostilities w Ireland; effectively he killed those men and (re-)started a war?) ‘The Chosen One’ / ‘I am Chosen’ / ‘May the Chosen One smoke?’

And then Churchill letting Tommy think he was being executed ‘Chosen One’ and crawling out of the grave owing his life to Churchill ‘I am Chosen’; the way Tommy asked for his last cigarette before that execution ‘May the Chosen One smoke’; his rage and disgust in both scenes, the coat on the meat hook and reminiscence of hanging…

The way he has to ‘give up on grace’ just prior to committing the first assassination, the way he has sex w Lizzie like eating a last meal he can’t even taste; the way he gives up on actual Grace as well as grace, just before he resigns himself to his own execution…

I mean, I’m nonsensical about it, can’t quite explain; at S1 it is a fairly hopeful ending; his personal ‘schemes’ for S2 reach high but aren’t wildly out of reach. To that point, when he’s killed it’s primarily been in the heat of battle.

But then he’s pulled off the street and forced to cold premeditated murder.

That first assassination he committed I feel did him some serious, serious damage, and that was the point that he did release any idea of ‘grace’ for himself, with everything that followed just further embedding that belief.

6x12 | Not Tomorrow Yet

Don't you guys think it's fucked up when Fiona starts dating and sleeping out of the house, leaving Debbie, Carl and Liam kind of for themselves?

Once she started dating Mike she would sleep at his place sometimes which I think it's okay, she was paying the bills and would leave dinner ready and communicate Debs and she was still looking out for them, they had health care and she took them to the clinic and all that. She needs to take care of her, live a life, sleep at her boyfriend sometimes, that's fine and healthy. But then she marry Gus and is often out of there, get together with Sean and doesn't even know what's going on with them anymore (aka "why there's nothing to eat in the fridge" "cause no one is doing the shopping" dialogue with Debbie, not knowing when it's their first day at school, letting Sammy move in and run things after her trailer got fucked by Frank), and then she gets her apartment and moves out completely and like, okay, Ian was a EMT, Lip is a mechanic already I think, she did said she wasn't going to support Debbie after her pregnancy (fucked me thinks), Carl's at military school, but Liam is still a kid! And Debs and Carl are still underage! And they are her responsibility.

It just doesn't sit right with me that Liam didn't at least moved with her.

Specifically Fiona defenders, I would love to hear more about it.

they just need time and space that's it! that's all! because the whole time they've known each other they have put all their feelings in the "deal with that later" pile! dean and cas both think feelings are a luxury and a liability so if there's any kind of crisis (which there always is) the feelings get put on hold. so when they finally can focus on the pile (and the feelings) they can do it. it won't be easy but it is very, very simple.

can't remember if i've actually written this down this specifically before so two main avenues (in my mind) as to how s6 may go plot wise

#1) Callum's identity, Rayla's sacrificial refusal, and no CHET aka Initial Choice + Destruction and then Salvation

Callum does dangerous, magical things (star magic? dark magic? both?) to get the moon fam and Kpp'Ar out of the coins in order to spare Rayla the sacrifice of the ritual and/or living without them. This leads to him being possessed (and eventually freeing Aaravos?). Either before or after the release, despite being urged by Runaan to fulfil what Callum asked her to do - and Rayla considering it - she refuses to sacrifice Callum and saves him in turn by reaffirming his identity. This fulfils his 'dark path' arc as well as her arc about sacrifice. This is a tighter, shorter arc overall, which may be more plausible in a 9 episode season, but it may be harder to justify the Moon Fam's release to the audience since some people are - understandably - going to be upset with Runaan and Ezran will already ward against or put his foot down about Runaan being freed even without this level of consequence.

#2) Rayla continues being self sacrificial, CHET aka Post-Possession Choice + Salvation and then Destruction

This one is more similar to the above - although it could have Callum being possessed more randomly (also might let Kpp'Ar and his possible Aaravos knowledge factor in more?) - wherein Callum frees the moon fam, but is independently possessed, and Rayla still saves him. However, this angle has her take a route of "I'll save him because it doesn't matter what happens to me in the process," hence leaving her open to be injured/needing to be saved once she breaks him out. Then Callum fulfils Aaravos' plans to save her (healing an injury, hostage cube or something else exchange, etc) and/or Ezran. This would fulfil his 'dark arc' and technically a smidge more agency (rather than what he did to help Aaravos being more hand waved as "you literally had no control"). This arc is longer and provides an avenue for the broyals to make up as well if they had a fight earlier on in the season if they team up to get Rayla. It also resolves her sacrifice arc by having it reaffirmed that the people who love her won't let her sacrifice herself anymore.

Subset: Ezran CHET variant

Have discussed this one before but now with extra caveats since we know the broyals are likely going to be having argument(s) next season:

Callum is possessed (regardless of coins or otherwise). Rayla resolves her sacrifice arc, like in Avenue #1, by refusing to sacrifice him and breaks him free before he can ultimately fulfil Aaravos' wishes. In the chaos, Ez is taken/injured, and Callum does whatever is required to save his baby brother (levels of irony being the Orphan Queen's connection with the cube perhaps, or that Viren wasn't willing to legitimately do anything to save Harrow, but Callum is for his king-brother). The brothers reconcile.

9-1-1 ▸ happy eddie diaz (67/?) ↳ requested by @tylerhunklin

That graveside Buddie conversation is making me insane because they are NOT on the same wavelength. They're trying to be, but Buck is questioning everything about himself and Eddie is going through it but they are still each other's person even when the rough edges don't fit together quite right but there is SO MUCH they aren't ready to talk about.

And then to follow it up with that scene with Christopher? Where Eddie left for just a second to go bring him something from the kitchen for them to share together, only to come back and find him passed out on the couch?

The way Eddie has love, has a family, but he still feels alone because Christopher is growing up and Buck hasn't been the same since the lightning strike and the shape of his family is growing and changing around him but he still feels stuck and I'm -

Thinking about Sam getting his memories from when he was soulless back which included memories of him being hypersexual in situations he didn't actually consent to since his soul was being tortured in Hell again. Only his body which he disagrees with most of the choices made did. Like how horrifying would that be.

the funny thing about the cameron, chase, foreman dynamic is like that in their s1-s3 era they dont' like each other much (do they ever?) but they appear to feel compelled to at least kind of pretend they get along even as they quite obviously don't like each other (this is less true in s3 whcih leads on to)

and then when they come back and they don't have to like each other anymore they actually do kind of get on more and it's just funny

i really wish we could’ve seen rory’s community service more than just standing in the middle of the highway picking up trash. like, i wish we could see her hanging out with friends from her community service, trading books, spending time because they seems to really like her and listened to her and i would’ve loved to see rory having other friends that doesn’t include in logan’s friends circle.

s16 we should get a macden sex scene where we get that sort of In-A-Box panning camera where we shift into a top down view of dens bed and it pans to den and he’s sweaty and his eyes are closed and he’s smiling and it keeps panning and we get to mac and he’s just like looking off to the side sort of giving like the Scratching My Head look because it was so ass. basically it was everything den has ever wanted but mac is so upset and scared because the pussy was trash and he doesn’t know if he can live with that in a relationship [it’s all in his head he was just so nervous he couldnt focus on the task that well and he’s self sabotaging almost. after they do it again he’s like wooooah.. woah] [this will not happen]

OHHH NO THAT'S SO GOOD I LOV THE WHOLE MAC SELF-SABOTAGING THING THAT'S LIKE... SO REAL??? 100% putting WAY too much pressure on himself (thnx to dennis tbh) meanwhile den is just like. content as could be, not a single goddamn complaint. tbh i think that's a lot more the core Macden dynamic... i like the running implication throughout the show that balance is restored to their relationship anytime they bang lolll (think s6/s15)

i rlly can see mac spending the whole time agonizing n weighing the Pros and the Cons n just catastrophizing to No End but then they bang a second-time n then shit's fine LOL very typical mac </3

being a demisexual kim wexler truther really meant suffering 10000000% more through waterworks because no demi would ever sleep with someone they don't have a special connection to and enjoy it, not even a bit. it's going totally against your nature and needs. that really read like "i have to have a basic allosexual relationship without the real connection i need because i have to punish myself". like. guys it was a horror movie.