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The Crown S5 review?
Eeeeh I'm still not sure where it ranks for me. For me, the seasons are probably--
Season 2
Season 1
Season 4
and then the last two spots belong to 3 and 5 but I'm not sure what order they're in. It's not a bad season of TV, but it's not up to par for The Crown and I'm not sure why, entirely. Because it had moments, but those moments were not consistent. Frankly, I think they pulled a lot of punches this season, where season 4 was nothing but punch after punch--and I don't get that. Like, why make a season as inflammatory as season 4 was, and then get scared after people react to that...?
Anyway, here are semi-organized thoughts
I Liked:
Elizabeth Debicki's Performance. Though I think Emma Corrin was a perfect 80s-era Diana, Elizabeth was perfectly cast for 90s era Diana. She had the accent down, the mannerisms (looking up from underneath her lashes, the head tilts, the wry smirks), Diana's snarky delivery and sorrow mixed with frustration and yes, vengefulness, along with the sense that she's kind of a good time girl who wants to have fun? One facet of Diana that people overlook is that she was a Sloane Ranger before she married; she married very young; and I found that a couple of the things the show pointed out about Diana (her codependence with her children despite her being a great mom, plus her desire to get out and be a bit messy in her 30s) are very common among women who get into bad marriages and have kids quite young. They experience the shit most of us do in our twenties like a decade later. I thought it was very authentic, and far, far, far better than whatever little girl lost routine Spencer had going on. Basically, the Emma to Elizabeth pipeline gives me Diana perfection.
The Fayeds. The Fayed episode was one of my favorites of the season? The acting was good, the pathos were great, I loved the way you could see Diana genuinely getting along with Mohamed. Plus, that episode had the flashback return of David, and that actor is just... great lol.
Diana and Hasnat Khan. Hasnat Khan is a figure that I think is really hard to fictionalize, but the actors had good chemistry and I really liked that soft little love arc. Even if lol it's gonna lead to one of my complaints.
Diana Being Petty. I'm so tired of victim complex Diana portrayals. Diana had fire and wit and she did go after the royals at points. By no means do I think she wanted the monarchy done for (she wanted the throne for William). But the individuals? Oh, she wanted them annihilated lol. Best scene of the season was her dialing no over and over.
What I Didn't Like:
So Much Miscasting. Look man, anyone who followed up Josh O'Connor giving like... an actual career-defining performance as Charles was gonna have a hard time. Dominic is not a bad actor. But he's not it for Charles, and he knew it. He and Elizabeth lacked chemistry, which took a lot of the tension out of their marriage story scene at the season's end--compare that to Josh and Emma's fight. Josh and Emma had chemistry. It made Charles and Diana's issues even more tragic.
Imelda was also miscast, OR maybe she could've done better with a better script, but like... It just wasn't working. She's a good actress, and the truth is that Liz has had less and less to do after her great personal crisis (her marital issues with Philip) settled in season 2. But like as the season went on I kept waiting for Imelda to inject more into the role, and it didn't happen? And again, I don't wanna blame her, because the writing was just--trying to give her something and giving her very little. But things like Dominic and Imelda both skipping the Windsor accent that everyone else nailed in previous seasons was just weird to me.
Jonathan Pryce I feel was less miscast, but again he had little to do that made sense or mattered; Lesley is a great actress but they gave her like, nothing? And Margaret had shit happening lmao. She had kids to raise, her health was failing (by the end of the season Margaret will be dead in less than 10 years). I get why they did a Peter Townsend retrospective episode, but it was weird to me that that was alll they did for her, and Margaret and Elizabeth's confrontation felt so hollow.
Wasted Time. The pacing and time allocation for this season was SO WEIRD. Look, let's be real fucking honest here. What people wanted from this season of The Crown was the War of the Waleses. They advertised that. It's what we were all looking forward to. And there was really? Relatively little of that. There could've been other family dramas to get into, but they obviously didn't want to (Andrew and Fergie, Anne's divorce). And I think PM knew the War of the Waleses was the big show, and he got scared and swerved at the last minute. It was.... a choice.
And the thing is? Not anything nearly as interesting was happening for anyone else all season. So we got like, Philip palling around with his ambiguous lady friend which caused marital issues that I don't think Philip and Liz had at that point lmao. And they just kinda settled on sorta being discontented in their marriage? Which was weird because elsewhere in the season he was very ride or die defensive of her, and frankly they've seemed comfortable since season 2's end.
We had a whole episode dedicated to THE PRINCE'S TRUST LOL. And like.... yeah, Tampongate, but Tampongate was mostly used to be like "oh look, middle-aged people in love", which has always been the royals' attempts to downplay that lol. And it's like... no it's still pretty weird and he was pretty married, y'all. Having PRINCESS ANNE be like "I think that was rather noble and cool" like lol??? ANNE????? It was just weird, man. And The Prince's Trust is cool for a one off subplot, but to be the backbone of a whole episode???
Then you had shit really rushed and shuffled about at points--the Hasnat Khan subplot just flickered away, the Fayeds were introduced in ep 3 and didn't come back until ep 10.
Toothlessness. Look, PM is not anti-monarchy at all lol. But last season, there was an element of like... scathing cynicism towards the family and the institution, and that by and large was missing here. Except for in some Diana scenes, the Fayeds' complicated relationship with British shit in general, etc. That was really pretty missing here. Charles is progressing it, Camilla is suddenly ready to step up lmao, they're just a family!!! And like.... Not just s4, but all of the previous seasons had a sense of doom about it all that just wasn't here. It felt like the abuses of the family were just sort of washed away.
Which leads to...
Inconsistent Characterization. Some of this may have come from the recasting, but I don't think so? There was an adjustment in s3, but this was different. Charles ended season 4 as this like, borderline monster who's got a terrible relationship with his parents and is really pretty spineless. Suddenly, with very little explanation, he has a spine and is like, actively maneuvering to get rid of his mom and REVOLUTIONIZE THE MONARCHY LOL. Listen man, I'm not saying Charles hasn't had some successful power plays, but uh... they happened pretty recently. His mom being at death's door is what gave him that opportunity. He wasn't there in the 90s. He did not have the capital and Philip was guard dogging her.
As mentioned before, suddenly Philip and Liz are on the rocks again to give them something to do... Anne is suddenly like Team Charles lol. Elizabeth lost a lot of her coolness, and we really like... we know it's a hard time but we don't really see her have that hard time.
And it's not just people who were recast at risk here--John Majors begins the season weirded out by these freaks and at the end is like IT WAS AN HONOR AND PRIVILEGE and I have no idea why lmao. Because he mediated the divorce? Why??? A waste of Jonny Lee Miller, tbh.
And then there was just shit I didn't totally get. Like the Romanov episode. How was that the most graphic Romanov execution I've ever seen? How was that meant to indict the Windsors but then whoops never mind?
So yeah, there were like... moments? But I walked away from it feeling like they came so close to hitting the target and veered at the last minute. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it and it did feel very different from the previous seasons. I never got that feeling that I was watching The Crown, a show where you get the "DUNNNUNNNNUNNUNUN" music over someone like, mournfully sipping tea and looking out a window, and you go "my god, this is CINEMA". They never earned that lol.
#the crown#like was it still better than lots of TV i've seen sure lol but that's more bc of mOMENTS than the whole
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I've been a bit of a salty spitoon over the recent events unfolding at NYCC so here's some GOOD news (sorta) >:00
I say (sorta) because I'm not a huge fan of mongie's work (or mongie herself) either, but DAMN if this lady doesn't know how to GET SHIT DONE-
Like GODDAMN is there a lot to show for here \(￣︶￣*\)
I don't know what the Let's Play After Dark or Omnibus works are, but it's really cool to see Linda Sejic's art here, I had NO idea what to expect when mongie announced she was going to NYCC and collaborating with Linda. I'm assuming Omnibus is likely a novelization or some kind of complimentary book to Let's Play because it has over 700 pages of stuff which is wild. Unless they just went and re-skinned the Volume 1 cover of Let's Play, I have no clue but it looks great. As for After Dark, yeah, again, no clue LMAO
Let's Play is returning in 2025, AND she's starting up a new series over on Manta (a publishing platform that's open to NSFW material which will definitely be better for mongie's work and will hopefully give WT a run for their money LOL) She hasn't stated yet where Let's Play's new home will be, but I'm assuming if it's not Manta, it might be a new independently-run site altogether, but again, we'll just have to wait and see. I remember her mentioning she wanted to do a fantasy series on her Patreon ages ago so it seems like she's finally getting the opportunity to do so. I have no idea what she's going to do with Let's Play after its S3 jump the shark finale LMAO
She's getting some merch made with BIOWORLD which is neat, though it'll be interesting to see how the quality comes out because the last creator I saw working with BIOWORLD was Smythe and the merch was uhhhh- not great. I posted about it on IG a while back but I don't know if I ever talked about it here so I'll def make that as a separate post for anyone who's curious.
But the BIG one - Let's Play is getting an anime, and it's from an actual animation studio which is a way bigger sign that it's a sure thing.
Again, I'm not a huge fan anymore of Let's Play or mongie in general, but I gotta give her credit where credit is due, she had WAY more to show for herself at NYCC than Rachel did, and the fact that she did all this after burning her bridges with WT, that's gotta sting for WT's and Rachel who still don't have anything to show for an animated TV show after four years. At this rate, there are gonna be more creators succeeding on a mass scale by choosing not to publish with Webtoons than those who did.
And who knows, maybe the anime adaption will tidy up all the problems original Let's Play had. It remains to be seen, but I think it's pretty neat to see mongie making such strides since she left the platform.
Something something, "I don't care if mongie wins, I just want Webtoons to lose" 😂
#tho again mongie has a lot of issues herself oof#that said she's still probably one of the least problematic out of rachel and snailords#that doesn't make her NOT problematic but you def don't see her ambushing fan groups or scamming her audience#she's got business sense and i'll give her that#now let's see if she can stick the landing >:0#webtoon critical#lore olympus critical#let's play webtoon
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HI HI HELLO!! This is my first request on stuff like this and I dont know if you write stuff for Pahkitew Island characters but can you give some Topher x GN!Reader headcanons about their relationship during TDPI? IF YOU CANT IT'S OK BTW-
Yess ofc I'd love to write for Topher! I've honestly never seen anything for him lol !! Kinda short but It's still pretty cute !!
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Topher x GN!Reader
Relationship/Dating HCs!
At first, you didn't believe someone as arrogant as Topher would be interested in you, or rather... You be interested in him.
The first week was definitely awkward when you began letting your relationship be more public to the other campers.
Some stared, others just laughed awkwardly.
Did you care? Absolutely not, but did Topher? Well, more or less.
He's not much for PDA if it meant his reputation could get harmed, but in private? He'll be clinging to you everywhere you go.
While he follows you around, be prepared to hear him rave excitedly about how much of a better host he could be, the safe route is to just smile and nod.
It makes him happy that your so invested in giving him attention with his dreams of being a real reality TV host.
"Y/N! You wanna hear my impression of Chris?! It's so accurate your going to want to hear it again, huh?"
"Yeah, why not?"
He's recited his impression at least 3 times to you already.
But he's dedicated, that's what made you love him so much. Although it can be a little too much sometimes, and you have to ask him to tone it down.
...He won't even try, so better to give up on that idea.
Honestly, if he ever planned to have a date with you in Pahkitew, he would plan it out for a week just for it to end up being clumsy, but it was definitely still romantic.
You found it cute, and he liked that.
The date was simple, a picnic in the forest away from everyone, what could go wrong?
A lot could go wrong.
When you first showed up, wearing some pretty average clothing... This dude showed up in a whole suit.
You didn't even know he brought a suit to the island, but then again it's Topher, so of course he would.
He had set up the blanket, the food, the lights.
It all seemed like a lot for just a picnic, but that's just how Topher was.
"Topher... You wore a suit?
"Yes! Do you like it?" He did a small but exaggerated pose.
You chuckle. "Sure."
The whole date went well, not counting the overbearing mentions of Chris.
You were both having such a great time you ended up staying there with each other for longer than you planned, even after the food was all eaten.
And when you did decide to leave for curfew, he would intertwine his hand into yours, walking you to the cabins.
You really love this dude, and he loves you too.
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*✧*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*✧*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
#total drama fanfiction#total drama#tdi#total drama fanfic#fanfic writer#fanfics#fanfiction#fanfic#topher total drama#topher td#total drama pahkitew island#topher x reader#tdi x reader#total drama x reader
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Olivia Rodrigo's shortlisted for an Oscar for Best Original Song. LFG!!! TS is gagging for that thing, imagine if she gets nominated and wins lol. The meltdown incoming. That girl could easily down the line go for an EGOT. She can make a documentary, host SNL or write a song for a TV series to win an Emmy and girlie pops has enough vocal and acting chops to star in a musical and go for a Tony. She's only gonna get better with time. I think Billie's gonna take it though. It would be the 2nd one for her. And Taylor's probably gonna go ahead and try to campaign her tour DVD for the Best Documentary next year (the eligibility period for this year ended on Oct. 2 and it also doesn't fall into eligibility rules).
The Special Rules Section, Part B, states: “Works that are essentially promotional or instructional are not eligible, nor are works that are essentially unfiltered records of performances.”
-Variety
Wouldn't be surprised if the Academy caves in and changes current guidelines so the ratings go up. If they do, Beyonce's film also becomes eligible. I'm no Beyonce fan but I've seen both hers and Taylor's films and let me tell you, if there would be only 2 options to pick a winner, I'd blindly go for Beyonce's. The performance level is better, the cinematography and editing were better, sound was better, visual effects and lighting were better, styling was better, there was behind the scenes footage and a new song during the end credits. Taylor's film looked like it was done last minute and edited in a hurry on your mum's old laptop. No offense, babes but it wasn't your best work.
Ugh, the lady is so desperate for an EGOT that it's funny. You're no Viola Davis, JHud, Barbra, Liza Minelli, Rita Moreno, Helen Hayes or Audrey Hepburn. Those women are/were TALENTED. Well, Viola, Audrey and Helen Hayes don't/didn't sing but they won for spoken word aka voice acting. The only way for her to win a Tony would be writing a musical or a play. But to do that you have to have multiple writing tropes for more than 1 perspective. Her short film dialogues were trash, let's be real. I wonder what's gonna happen with her directorial Searchlight project. Sure, it'll make lots of money if we even see the day of its release but I doubt she'll be considered for any awards for that. The only options that'll happen are a. to get the ratings up b. for shits and giggles. The only theatrics she can pull off are her childish tantrums in the media and shocked expressions at award shows/TK's throwball games. And even for that she has to have some liquid courage in her system otherwise she's as bland and pasty as they come. Poor thing, even with all that money and fame she still has no rizz.
Anyway, 2024 is new gen's pop girls' year and you can't convince me otherwise. Dua and Billie have new albums coming, Olivia's going on tour, Tyla's on the rise. Hoping for the OR sweep at the Grammys as well. LFG!
p.s Dr. Bridgit Mendler's the main Disney girl
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MY TOP 20 BL SERIES OF 2022
1. Love Mechanics [thai]
Overall just very well done series. The drama wasn't too silly or frustrating, it had nice kissing scenes and storylines, and YinWar's chemistry is getting better and better which each series they do. I really enjoyed it.
2. Semantic Error [korea]
Love the manga too and thought the tv depiction was nicely done. A bit less racey but that's expected. Korean BL's are my favorite and they are getting better each year. The chemistry bewteen the actors was great too. Plus I just enjoyed the storyline a lot.
3. Not Me [thai]
OMG I loved this one so much. One of Thailand's best imo. I've always liked offgun but this was the series that really pulled me in. They grew so much doing this one and felt more comfortable with each other. Overall, the storyline was just well done and really drew me in, I really loved it more than I was expecting to!
4. Blueming [korea]
Korea does it again. Seriously well done drama, loved the scenerery. I think the chemistry was nice, not my absolute favorite ever, but it was a very cute watch and the love scene was really well done!
5. Minato's Laundromat [japan]
My favorite Japan BL this year. I really liked the chemistry between the leads and the storyline. There were so many adorable scenes and moments and the ending kiss was so cute. Loved it.
6. Cherry Blossoms After Winter [Korea]
Another great Korean drama that first came from a Manga. The manga is definitely worth checking out, its super cute and the adaptation was well done. Not the best chemistry of all time but it was still very nicely done.
7. Old Fashion Cupcake [japan]
There were a few things about this one that threw me off a bit but overall it was a very enjoyable and fun series, I liked the dynamic of the mains, I enjoyed the premise and I liked that they were a bit older too. It was fun.
8. Love is in the Air [thai]
Cheesey at times and not the best story, could be a bit over dramatic, but the chemistry between the main two pairings is what really kept me interested. I love boths ships and the love scenes in this one were... um.... WOW. That's all. lol.
9. Kinnporsche [thai]
Extremly hot series, great production value, love the acting and premise, the dark/gritty vibe of the series was refreshing to watch. I really enjoy BL's with darker storylines. This seires was definitely more humorous than I was expecting. There were some awkward moments and I started losing a tad bit of interest near the end but the earlier episodes were so fun to watch.
10. Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss [japan]
Japan has some adorable ass BL's, that's for sure, and like SK, they are getting better and better too. This one was just utter adorableness? I really loved it. I found the premise to be super funny and cute. There were def. some weird bits and the kisses could have been better, but oh well.
11. Till the World Ends [thai]
Haven't seen the finale yet, but I found this series very fun and enjoyable. The premise was pretty unique and it just kept me very entertained from beginning to end.
12. My Only 12% [thai]
I LOVED this series in the beginning but the last two episodes were a bit odd with some random drama. I will say that the chemistry between santaearth was SPOT ON in this series. Santa in particular is just utterly adorable! The love scene and close moments were so well done.
13. Choco Milk Shake [korea]
The story was a bit dorky/over the top imo but it was still enjoyable and really cute to watch. I was hoping for more of a poly type thing I guess, but I'll take it for what it was.
14. Star in my Mind [thai]
Okay, so I admit, the storyline wasn't great, but I just adore joongdunk so I am a bit biased. The starting episodes were so good and then it kinda fell flat for me but I did enjoy the series. The side series was decent too. I'm stoked for the new series with these two cuz I think it'll be even better.
15. Kissable Lips [korea]
Vampires, check. Attractive leads, check. Chemistry, check. I love Korean BL's (have I mentioned that) but sadly, the series as a whole was just too short and felt kinda unfinished. Plus the ending not being very happy imo brought it down a tad. But love these two actors together. They were greaat in their other series as well. But I found this one to be a bit more intriguing.
16. Big Dragon [thai]
Chemistry between the leads was the best thing about the series. I also enjoyed the side ship. I thought the series kinda dropped off at the end I didn't enjoy the ending episodes but the earlier ones were really fun to watch and I am excited for season 2.
17. Senpai, This Can't Be Love [japan]
Another cute series from Japan. Not the best of the bunch but I liked the easy, nice, office setting and storyline.
18. Roommates of Poongduck 304 [korea]
Also cute, light, and enjoyable to watch. Not a whole lot else to say. If you haven't seen the behind the scenes kiss though GO DO IT. Best kiss ever?
19. Cutie Pie [thai]
ZeeNunew are just too cute together. Overall, the story kind of dragged in this one but the love scenes kinda made up for it? Shallow I guess lol.
20. Eternal Yesterday [japan]
This one started out strong, and I liked the chemistry between the two. But I didn't love the entire premise of the series. Ghost storylines aren't really my thing and I just knew it was going to end sad, so I couldn't get that invested in it.
Honorable Mentions:
Ghost Host, Ghost House [thai] - I can't rank this one because I've only seen 2 eps. I am enjoying it a lot so far. I didnt watch initially cuz the premise seemed odd but I kinda like how they are doing it and I am excited to watch more episodes.
Miracle of Teddy Bear [Thai] - Weird premise, but I am enjoying it so far. Not worthy of the top 20, I think the episodes are too long and frankly, the one guy constantly yelling and being awful is hard to watch, but I hope the last 6 episodes are decent. I think the concept is unique and the chemistry between the two is nice.
Check Out the Series [Thai] - Have only seen 2 episodes and its okay so far. The chemistry is good, but the plot is a bit slow for me, hope it picks up later. But can't quite judge it yet.
His Man [Korea] - Tehcnically this is not a BL but a reality series in Korea about young gay men trying to find love matches. It was SO good, if anyone is interested, definitely check it out. It was just cute, especially because the relationships were real. The pairing that ended up together at the end was my favorite from day 1, so I was happy. Hope they do a season 2!
Enchante [thai] - I got a bit bored of this series by the end of it but it was still very fun to watch. The storyline went a bit wonky in the end but it was okay. I did like the chemistry between the main two. Excited to see them in their other series later in 2023.
Color Rush 2 [Korea] - Season 2 didnt comprae to season 1, especially with the casting change, but I still enjoyed it. I like this universe and the storyline and the new ship was decent.
My Tooth Your Love [taiwan] - This list tells me that Taiwan needs to step up their BL game! After History and We Best Love (my favorite BL OF ALL TIME!) They haven't had many series I have loved. This one was the best this year. A few others this year were decent but I want more! Overall this series was nicely done. I enjoyed the early episodes a bit better.
Takara-Kun to Amagi-kun [japan] - I didn't seem to enjoy this one as much as other people seemed to. I think maybe I found the dialogue/translations to be a bit off/awkward? Not sure. I loved the dynamic of the main two characters the most, but I prefered some other Japanese BL's. But it was a fun watch.
Secret Crush on You [thai] - This show was so cringey at times, and the storyline was just overall a bit weird, but it was like a trainwreck that I coudln't stop watching and the chemsitry between the main two is just good... so, at least there was that.
Love Class [korea] - Honestly don't rememebr this series well enough to give a proper ranking but I think I enjoyed it haha.
Once Again [korea] - See above. I think this was the one about time travel? It was good, but didn't capture me like other Korean BLs normally do.
Plus and Minus [taiwan] - A tad less interesting than My Tooth Your Love, but more interesting than For Youth lol. The main actors dating in real life is HELLA ADORABLE THO.
Mr. Cinderella [vietnam] - The only Vietnamese BL to make the list. Bless the one company and actor who continue to release drama's for us. Sadly, I dont enjoy most of them as they feel a bit cheesey and unprofessional. This series though, I enjoyed the most so far.
The Eclipse [thai] - People love this series, but for me, it was just okay. It had nice moments and nice chemistry but overall I didnt love the storyline. Sorry friends! Excited for the new series with the main two though.
I did watch quite a few more BL's that didn't make my list, so it's possible I forgot something, but either they weren't that memorable or they were just okay for me. Some of the series I watched in 2022 came out earlier than 2022. So I didn't include them even if I watched them this year.
Here are the BL's I REALLY didn't enjoy. I can elaborate if anyone is interested...
Tuxedo The Series - enjoyed the chemsitry of the main two but the abuse I just couldn't look past. And the storyline fell flat.
To My Star 2 - Loved part 1, it's one of my fav. bls of all time but I hated what they did in season 2. They completely ruined one of the characters for me and I just couldn't get past it, despite their hot makeout at the end lol.
180 Degress Longitude Between Us - I admit, parts were well done, but I found it utterly boring 90% of the time and I didnt enjoy the relationship between the two, I found the age difference a bit off putting. IDK, something about the story just didn't grab me.
Fahlanruk the Series - So bad. Started out fine, but the constant abuse and yelling was just too damn much for me. I couldn't get into it.
Oh My Assisant- Worst korean bl I've seen so far. The SL was just so flat and the ending was really lame. I am sorry, this was a bust for me.
I am currently watching My School President and Never Let Me Go and OBSESSSING over them. So good and cute so far. I'm also enjoying Candy Color Paradox, The New Employee and The Director Who Buys me Dinner... all super fun and cant wait to see more eps as well as more dramas in 2023!
I will probably go back through shows from 2021 and make a list there as well since that is when I started watching BL. I will also make a list from my fav shows that were released prior to 2021 just for the fun of it!
Also check out my lists from other years!
https://gothicbarbie.tumblr.com/post/705678223200174080/my-top-bls-of-2019-and-earlier
https://gothicbarbie.tumblr.com/post/705674738528354304/my-top-15-bls-of-2020
https://gothicbarbie.tumblr.com/post/705227666795741184/my-top-15-bl-series-of-2021
#BL series#Top BLs#BLs im watching#bl kiss#boys love series#blueming#semantic error#love mechanics#cherry blossoms after winter#not me#bl drama#minato's laundromat#korean bl#thai bl#japanese bl#choco milk shake#his man#minato shouji coin laundry#till the world ends#old fashion cupcake#big dragon#my only 12 percent#mr unlucky has no choice but to kiss#star in my mind#senpai this can't be love#kissable lips#roommates of poongduck 304#cutie pie the series#enchante the series#love is in the air
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I'm not sure of how familiar the (non-spaniard) average tumblr user is with 11M (3/11?), but even if they know what I'm referring too, they probably don't know much about the aftermath here in spain. the 20th anniversary is approaching, and they're talking about the attacks a lot on tv, so that's what prompted it.
the gist of it is that in march 11th, 2004, there was a terrorist attack on madrid, spain, pertaining coordinating bombings on four trains. at the time, a conservative party was in power, with prime minister aznar (bush's wannabe best friend, and ally in iraq), and from the very beginning, the evidence pointed very strongly to islamic terrorism. but the national elections were three days away, the conservative party pushed for a narrative of domestic terrorism being responsible, and later, when that narrative just couldn't stand on its own, for one about a conspiracy being afoot.
like, this is (obviously) after 9/11 (11S here), but bush and the conservative party here were at different times of their term so it makes sense that the strategy was different. they probably thought they couldn't pull off what bush did in such a short time (building an ideology around The Enemy like that). and in part... maybe? I was very young (7yo) and my immediate circle was left-leaning, so I probably have a skewed version of things, but society did hold aznar accountable for the attacks. the impression was that although the war in iraq had its detractors, especially from the left, maybe the average citizen didn't think much about it one way or the other, but after that it was... why are we involed there in the first place? how is that any of our business? why did aznar drag us into this, and what have been the consequences of him trying to play in bigger leagues?
but there's a lot suggesting that it was the lie that broke the camel's back. the protests for the next few days particularly demanded to know WHO was behind the attacks, hearing the contradictory versions and noticing how flimsy the one offered by the conservatives was. and besides, aznar was the leader of the party, but he wasn't the electoral candidate, mariano rajoy was (he has his issues too, that filthy thief, but we're not getting into him now lol. the current leader of the party is friendly with drug lords and the former one likely faked his masters degree so there's a lot going in there). point being, I think admitting the truth and building a strategy around it, imo, would've worked better than the lie did.
because the lie was and continues to be brazen. to this day, I haven't heard a single member of the popular party (that's what the traditional conservatives here call themselves, btw) state without caveats that it was not ETA (the domestic terrorist group, now long dismantled, but still used by the conservatives as a discoursive tool). iirc, about 10 years ago aznar published a book where he insisted of the contrary. the closest I've seen was in an interview today, when the former foreign affairs minister of the party said he "doesn't believe in the conspiracy theory, never did" and "always said so, always wrote so" well I haven't read your books sir, but I very much doubt that, because the party line WAS lying, long past when it was even remotely reasonable because the very same morning of the attacks, the investigators had ruled out your version. investigators who were later harassed for contradicting that party line, btw.
he also says claims that the party didn't lie, that there was a "miscommunication" and that there was NO attempt on their part to use this attack for political gain, either before the election or during the next term, and look. I'm willing to buy the first part. I'm skeptical, but let's go with it. let's say they first really thought it was ETA for a hot minute, and just couldn't wait to get it out no matter how counterproductive that would've been for an investigation. let's say they then received an alternate version, one backed by the evidence and then... what? insisted on their own? desperately tried to convince the citizens of it? all but accused their rivals of complicity in the attack? and maintained that version, more or less explicitly, for all these years? after the terrorist cell was apprehended the next month, even?
where are the apologies? where are the acknowledgementes of all the incredibly bold lies? (like how there was "evidence" pointed to ETA, and they were talking, among other disproven facts, about a CD from a music band of the same geographical region as the terrorist group... ok). why is aznar still declining to talk about it this year, when everyone and their mother has something to say about this anniversary. come the fuck on, sir.
moving on from that, the thing here is. I have very mixed feelings on my country, but this is a period where I look back to and can feel some pride for my compatriots, tbh. they didn't let themselves be fooled, they didn't let themselves be used like tools for the conservative party. the socialist party won the election and they retired the troops from iraq immediately, as promised, and very much followed a very different strategy from bush's (who called prime minister zapatero to tell him he was very disappointed. zapatero is a true gentleman and wouldn't have told him where he could shove his disappointment, but I sure wish he had).
and I wonder where the fuck did that go lmao. because it sure isn't like that with their current leadership, both national (mr drug lord bestie) or regional (ms trump lite, probably the next party leader... she already took down the previous one because he tried to go after her corrupt brother so. give it time). I don't think we've gotten dumber but it sure feels like that sometimes. I think the real issue is that conservatives are radicalised and they will accept anything that allows them to attack The Enemy (mostly internal, this time they succeeded in that, I guess). said enemy being leftists, queers, feminists, immigrants (I did say mostly), regionalists, and so on.
and now you have people in that party straight up saying prime minister sánchez is an ally of hamas for speaking out against israel and their followers regurgitating that shit without seemingly one thought inside their skulls, but again, stupidity is not the damn issue here.
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To try and make my memory issues less Annoying i'm going to start cataloguing what i watch and my opinions on said things, i forgot to do it fresh after watching these first few things but in the future ill try and do it more soon after. You can block the tag jay tv time if you wanna filter this out and not see it!
POST NUMBER ONE: THREE THINGS WATCHED IN JANUARY 2024
YURI ON ICE
I'd heard vaguely about this way back when on tumblr and hadn't had any interest at the time; this was back when i was more interested in getting involved in discourse than really taking any media recommendations from my peers around me lol, older days on tumblr were a dark time huh. Anyway, watched this with my boyfriend this year because i have an interest in ice dancing, i like the sport, i wanted to see some sports anime drama around it!
So, my opinion and review. The show's opening credits are nothing to write home about, very clean looking yeah but kind of bland in a sort of mid 2010's corporate fashion- the show itself though starts with a boatload of charm and a very likeable main lead! The atmosphere was charming and fun and bubbly, everything felt very cozy; LOVED our main leads internal little monologues with little diagrams, loved his family his mom is like peak platonic ideal of an anime mom, loved the tongue in cheek nature of it! Aaaand then we hit what i would call the lowest point for the show, and one that i fully understand if it would be a complete deal breaker for people. That's right folks, we get fatphobic comedy! Whoo. This isn't the WORST i've ever seen but in those first two episodes or so it was prevalent enough to have me rolling my eyes, feeling uncomfortable and saying yeah, if this continues on we might drop the show. If not for how charming the rest of the show was I'm sure we would have dropped it right then and there! But what i am glad to say is that yeah, it drops off; of course it comes with the caveat that it only drops with the main lead losing the weight he was being mocked for, SIGH, but it at least started to feel less like we were going to have to sit through endless weird attitudes towards NORMAL WEIGHTS FOR A GODDAMN HUMAN BODY TO BE, and more like 'oh yeah these hardcore professionals in these fields have shitty attitudes towards bodies. That makes sense. Wish we didn't have to linger on it still because i dislike it thoroughly.' So anyway. Moving onto the next episodes the show really started to pick up for me and got me invested in the ice dancing; while a lot of characters come and go during the lead up to and the competition itself i found so many of them likeable and charming that i was rooting for them each time they took to the ice! I adored the 'rival' of sorts, fifteen year old yuri (not the titular one, different yuri) and we were cheering him on a lot; he's just a little angry kid that loves cats and wants to be the best!!! We wanted him to do good and have fun!!! And we found we were rooting like this for so many people, really feeling the vibe of watching a sport you enjoy and feeling the love for the art of it all.
Now speaking of art i will say i found myself not always totally in love with the animation during the skate segments; this show is really pretty looking for sure and certainly TONS of hardwork went into it so i don't wish to say anything against that- i don't even know if there IS a better way to animate this but. Well on occasion it felt as if the background slid at the wrong speed or angle or direction and didn't fully match the figures skating, making some of the speed and elegance of ice dance evaporate. A lot of animation also felt a little reused, a lot of the same motion being done with little variance aside from what the commentary dialogue says over top, but again i respect a ton of hardwork no doubt went into this and i'm sure animating competitive ice dancing is a daunting task so i'm not making any statements against effort or skill on part of the animators!! Just stating that i myself wasn't too taken with the animation during these segments.
Of course, at its core, what yuri on ice is really about is a blooming relationship; and oh my god. Okay so i'm kind of used to things tumblr called gay back in the day being....mmmm metaphorical, subtextual. Sometimes even not gay at all. So i wasn't prepared for how openly gay this was! There is clear romantic and sexual intent shown from JUMP, it is not shied away from nor shown as something to be demonized or to bring doom on the characters they are just Gay. Like REALLY gay. And maybe you're going 'well duh of course' but hey. I didn't grow up watching anything with gay characters or people in it, i still am not used to seeing open and happy gay people in media. Its still fresh to me! And it makes me happy! I don't know how they got this show to be SO gay, i would be surprised at something gaining mainstream popularity with 'THEY STRAIGHT UP GET ENGAGEMENT RINGS' level of gay nowadays never mind back then so i'm just sort of taken aback! That's cool!! That's still new to me!!
Now my overall review is: This show is a good fluffy watch, nothing too complex or complicated, might not blow your socks off but if you want something feel-good it's worth a try! Obviously with the understanding that if those first few episodes leave too bad a taste in your mouth i compleeetely understand and would not begrudge anyone switching off at that point, you'd be well within your rights because good lord we didn't need that put in. But yeah! Show's gay! Show's got ice dancing! Someone should take Yuri Plisetsky to the rainforest cafe!!!
DUNGEON MESHI
OK SO THIS WILL BE A SHORTER REVIEW BECAUSE WE HAVE ONLY SEEN ONE EPISODE VERSUS YURI ON ICE BEING A FULL SEASON, ALSO DO NOT FUUUUCKING SPOIL DUNMESHI STUFF MY BOYFRIEND HAS READ THE MANGA BUT I HAVENT.
Dungeon meshi is something i've known about for ages and known that i'd like, but i also knew it had a plotpoint adjacent to something that (genuinely depending on the day, its like a damn coin toss) can squick me out OR trigger me a bit, SO! I'd never read it, which i know is a damn shame! But my boyfriend really wanted to watch the first episode of the new dunmeshi anime and i really really wanted to watch with him and i'm really glad i did because it is SO good. It is so fun and witty and bursting with charm, every character is so likeable and it feels like you've known them forever from jump they settle so easily within your fondness for them! I adore how much they do not shy away from Laios being a very passionate weirdo, i love that the guy who is pretty much our main lead in our cast is. A PECULIAR MAN WHO YOU JUST REALLY CAN'T HELP BUT HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR. I've been this man before, the guy who's really into something nobody else gets!! I get it Laios i get it! Marcille Chilchuck and Senshi are all absolute delights too and each has their personality show vibrantly different from each other, feeling like individuals all with so much to like about them all; Marcille as the person to constantly be unsure about the CLEARLY PECULIAR THINGS THEY ARE DOING is especially great!!
Not only is this show a romp so far but it looks DIVINE, the animation knows exactly when detail and motion is needed and when a minimalist approach is needed to sell a gag; each character is rendered PERFECTLY from manga to anime, they are translated over with an expert touch that loses none of their charm- and according to my boyfriend this anime is a very straight forward adaptation, beat by beat following the way things are laid out in the manga's panels the way they are presented within that medium, and that's SO cool to me that they're managing to make precise things that worked so well on paper work just as well in motion!
I can't say too much about this story-wise or plot related just now as again, we've only seen the one episode, but it has left me hungry for more and really excited to watch the rest of it, and that's fantastic!!
PONYO
Oh wow this is three for three animated entries for the jay tv time list; not intentional but that's pretty cool co-ordination! Animated January..... ANYWAY!
CAN YOU BELIEVE I HADN'T SEEN PONYO YET! I've seen Spirited away and My Neighbour Totoro, but this was my first time watching Ponyo and ohhhhh my god it's wonderful. Every character is a joy, the world around them looks gorgeous, its all so sweet and nice and aaaaaaa
Sometimes small kids can be. Grating in movies, or the plot can be moved along in ways that are annoying to watch a toddler progress through, but not with this movie; the kids are SO cute, Sasuke is such a sweet lil kid and Ponyo is so fun- also the line early on at the daycare where the one lil girl says 'you don't have a job you're FIVE!' KILLS ME! This movie portrays little kids in a way that never crosses into the annoying small child thing that a lot of movies can do; and that's not all it does right! It's conflict never feels contrived or irritating, it always flows nice, it's characters never feel boxed into Bad or Good everyone is just a person trying to do what's right, the world never feels Too hostile or Too cosy it just feels nice and balanced! It's a joy to watch it really is, it's not a complex nor complicated tale but it doesn't need to be, its a movie to watch when you want to have a big happy smile on your face; it makes you want to clap and go yayyy!!!! So often because you love what's happening so much!
Sasuke's mom is SO FUCKING GOOD. Spoke about platonic ideal of anime mom earlier but Sasuke's mom takes the award for Coolest mom; she's driving fast and furious, she never once judges Ponyo for being a fishy, she's cool!! Ponyo's dad is equally good, i love a well meaning man who just can't help but come across as a Total Weird Asshole because he is just so much of a tired grumpy mess; and i love that he's not portrayed as evil or mean, just protective and misguided in places but ultimately just as kind as everyone else in this movie! And that's something i really appreciate, so much kindness flows through this movie, so much love for your fellow man (or fish); the community feels like a community because of it, families feel like families because of it. Kindness is so wonderful and the kind of kind, gentle understanding in Ponyo makes it's characters come alive! The final moments when Sasuke accepts Ponyo makes so much sense, he's a sweet lil five year old, he doesn't have any prejudice engrained in him, he likes his fishy friend!! And the world is saved by that!! And isn't that just delightful!
Also hey if we may get unprofessional Sasuke and Ponyo's moms had a little something going on between them, i think they could've had a lil something something. I'm just saying.
I also love Ponyo's dad SO Much. I couldn't fix him but. well. nay, i shan't say.
ANYWAY!!! REALLY GOOD, SWEET MOVIE! Definitely one i'll revisit on days when i want a nice sweet pick me up! It's gorgeous, it's heartwarming; oh my god and the ANIMATION!! THE ANIMATION! Every frame a delight, i appreciate so much of how well done the creatures of the sea are and how much are filled into every scene, making it feel bustling and alive, i appreciate how unafraid to make Ponyo look WEIRD they are it really adds to the charm, and the animation in general is just so perfect, its a work of art... I REALLY ENJOYED THIS MOVIE!
AND I THINK THAT'S IT FOR NOW, STAY TUNED FOR UH. MORE THINGS I WATCH I GUESS.
#jay talkin#jay tv time#this is more me more than anyone else i just think its funny to also publish it#its kinda a accountability thing then. maybe ill reemmeber to do it more if its public#and then maybe i wont forget things about things i enjoy!!!! bc my memory is bad lately LMAO
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brother crab’s 2023 seasonals in review: fall
most of the fall shows i'm watching are still an ep or two away from being complete but i'm leaving on a trip tomorrow and wanted to get this finished first so here we go
pretty sure none of this will change at this point (though aots and runner-up did just flip like five days ago lol)
FIRST UP. IN A STARTLING LAST MINUTE UPSET. ANIME OF THE SEASON
MIGI TO DALI!!! although for the past month or so i was convinced overtake! would take it, migi to dali has been coming to such a stellar climax that it's shot into the lead
overtake! is still exceptional and i've talked a lot about it this season, it's just a beautiful thing in its simplicity, with characters that are so Weird yet Real
migi to dali is EVEN WEIRDER in an astonishingly good way, it was intriguing right from the start and continued to build and build to a payoff that really blew me away
i don't think uniqueness is everything, sometimes a show that feels like i've seen it a hundred times before can still be my favorite thing of a season, it would just feel like home. but migi to dali's uniqueness is definitely a huge part in what makes it so alluring to me, the way it balances psychological suspense and comedy is so excellent and fresh
and now the sequels! in addition to spyfam, arknights, and dmdp, bpro and hpmi got sequels and hanako-kun got a little tv short
no comment on hpmi it'll get its own post
best sequel probably should go to dead mount death play, the world building is just fantastic to me, and this season definitely feels even stronger than the first (which was already very strong!)
however. i'm giving sequel of the season to arknights just for the sasha and eno ep, they put me on the fucking floor with that one
bpro s3 was unfortunately not really my thing, i want tsubasa happier and more well-rested :( but spyfam is adorable as usual, and some more hanako-kun was great (though we need more!)
quickfire thoughts on everything else:
onmyouji was unspectacular but surprisingly fun! and gay. gay as hell. asnm u have not led me astray this time
dog signal is not exactly High Quality but it's... fine and sometimes fun? i'm forever amused by the fact that it's billed as an educational series, and it kind of is! there's actual information about dog training in here. but there's also "guy walks other guy on leash in public for 2 hours" in here. and that was just episode one
kawagoe boys sing is a hot mess and i love it to bits, it starts out so silly that i'm sure it's an insta-drop for many people, but the club dynamics really come together throughout the series in a way i'm enjoying very much
bullbuster... talked about this a lot already, it was fine as an office drama/tiny business vs giant corporation type thing, but fell short on the mecha side of things
bokuame's shit. more on this later
atarashii joushi wa dotennen FREAKING ADORABLE. MORE OF THIS FOREVER
yuzuki-san chi no yon kyoudai EVEN MORE ADORABLE. MORE OF THIS FOREVER AND EVER
good night world was pretty decent, i overall... liked it, i think? it was very bingeable, so it was nice of them to drop it all at once lol and i liked the general premise and plot and all. but i think the wrap-up just felt a bit, eh, maybe slapdash to me? not Bad, but fell just short of exceptional
hoshikuzu telepath ADORABLE AS WELL as far as cgdct goes i'd say this is one of the better ones, kind of same tier as diy for me, but it's no yuru camp (the gold standard)
s-rank musume had a premise i really liked, and an overarching plot that was less compelling to me. wish we'd seen more of a focus on the family bond rather than like... magic and politics type stuff
watashi no oshi wa akuyaku reijou was a cute fucking yuri, the romance was a delight but as with s-rank musume, the 'plottier' bits were not as compelling to me
kamonohashi ron no kindan suiri feels like a very solid adaptation! makes me even more keen to read katekyo (which has been on my planning list for... fucking forever)
ragna crimson is pretty fun but not that outstanding, but like. really fun actually
shangri-la frontier is also very fun! not terribly high stakes (not really any stakes at all) but hilarious, action-packed in a good way, and probably especially entertaining for anyone who's played mmos before (because some parts are so so so relatable)
undead unluck is SO GROSS but IN A GOOD WAY idk how to explain this so i won't try
and sousou no frieren is anime of the year. no contest. (personally i disqualify my aots shows from winning aoty as well so i can do this. i can do anything i want forever)
as for the music!
we had a queen bee op this season and i will almost always pick queen bee as op/ed of the season when we have one, this is no exception. undead unluck's 01 takes op, and ed of the season goes to kamonohashi ron's lip-sync! just really like the vocals of that one
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blorbo of the season MADOKA-CHAN KOUYA ship of the season surprisingly it's a toss up between like. seimei/hiromasa (WHAT YEAR IS IT) and kinjou/aoyama from atarashii joushi. like. momose/shirosaki VERY GOOD but those side bitches... they are in my head
#crab watches#various things#fall 2023#brother crab's year in review#this was too many shows lmao#i need to learn to put some back orz#(<- guy who's got 20 shows on winter planning already)
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Hi....If you don't mind, can I ask, what are your top 10 (or top 7) favorite media (can be books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series)? Why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before......Thanks....
no need to apologize! this is a great question, thank you for asking! i think i'll go with anime just 'cause it's easiest (i have a MAL and rank every series i watch from 1-10). i originally had movies in here but i think i'm gonna cut them out and just keep it to series and ovas. and "why do you love them" is an AWESOME question I never get! i don't know if i'll be able to explain myself well, but I'll try!
fullmetal alchemist ('03). why? this was pretty much my gateway anime. it's been over 10 years I believe since I've last seen any of it, so it's entirely possible that my opinion has since changed. but i definitely have nostalgia goggles on for it, and i know it is actually good, too haha
2. natsume yuujinchou (specifically seasons 6, 5, 4, and 3). why? some seasons of natsume i have rated higher than others, apparently. natsume is a special show. due to the nature of how long it is, there is the drawback that sometimes it feels like it repeats itself and tells similar stories. but even then it is just such a good story of found family and finding love after a life of strife, and it's just. very good. (i do think it should end soon though before it feels like it's just recycling old stories)
3. made in abyss. why? season 1 still stands out to me above the movie and 2. it was such a special experience. the art, the animation, the background art, the music, it all comes together to create such a fascinating world. the weak point would definitely be its characters, but even then everything else comes together so well that it doesn't really matter. it has one of the best first episodes of any anime (when the sun came up over orth and the music cued in I knew I was hooked) and I also adore season 1's ending; if the show never got a continuation, it could have ended right there and I would have been content (not a lot of other anime can say the same about their endings!).
4. steins; gate. why? it's also been a very long time since i've seen this one, so possible my opinion has changed. still, I remember being super interested after the first episode, and the following 12 that people tend to critique as being "slow" or a "slog" never really felt that way for me. there was always something fun and interesting going on. i compare this one with link click a lot, just because people tend to go the magica route and i firmly believe steins;gate is the better time travel show (though lc isn't over yet so maybe an unfair comparison. still it'd take a LOT for lc to reach anywhere near the heights of steins;gate to me). when okabe goes back over and over to try and save mayuri, i just remember being absolutely floored. really good stuff.
5. vinald saga. why? it's just such a well constructed story. and the author's comments about not wanting a world with war is so interesting, given how violent the first season is. it's really interesting to watch thorfinn grow and change (and i never understood the hate that he was too violent or annoying or a brat? he's just a kid who's lost everything, cut him some slack jeez). i love the last shot of season 1, corny as it is-- all the memories reflected on the dropping knife was great. and askeladd was one of the best villains i've ever seen. he's not even ~morally grey~ or anything; he's pretty strongly in the wrong, but his thinking and motivations and everything are so interesting and compelling. i don't think it's perfect; there are flaws for sure (i wasn't the biggest fan of how in s2 canute just. decides to turn his ships back after a small conversation with thorfinn lol) but it is very good.
6. this boy cuaght a merman. why? ok this one objectively does not deserve a 10. it's a 30minute ova about a boy falling in love with a merman. that's it. it's not incredible or amazing or ground breaking. buuuuuut it's my favorite soubi yamamoto ova and i adore soubi yamamoto and so she's getting a place on this list. she is responsible for animating, storyboarding, backgrounds, directing, etc etc everything in here, it's incredible (and she was only like 25, or something when she did it. fucking bananas). i love her please go check out her works (besides crystallization)
7. noragami. why? ok again probably not objectively THAT good, but this is one of the first anime that got me to read the manga, and here I am some 10 years later (ok a little less than 10 years because I didn't start reading the manga the year it started publishing, I think). noragami's MANGA is incredible and amazing and wonderful. but I do believe (much against the popular opinion amongst noragami manga readers) that the anime is also amazing, and YES that includes season 1. the crew behind it really loved the manga I feel (at least the director did, and there's proof for that) and adapted it faithfully and well. noragami is a story of found family and of turning your life and fate around, and it's very good.
8. she and her cat: everything flows. why? this one is only 4 episodes, 8 minutes each. it tells a story of a 20-something (actually she's still in college iirc) who lives on her own with her cat, and is trying to be an adult. but it's told from the cat's perspective. it's so sweet; the cat comments on how she "grooms herself" (brushes her hair, puts on her interview clothes) and "looks pretty" and things and it is just so great. i love the line (not a direct quote) "she opens that heavy door again today and heads out. on the other side of that door is a somewhat unforgiving, somewhat cruel world. but she's doing her best to learn to love that world. and i love her for that." just....so good (also the show made me cry)
9. yuru camp. why? second iyashikei on this list! SOL/iyashikei is actually my favorite genre of anime, generally speaking, but it can be hard to do it well. yuru camp ABSOLUTELY does it well. i read a commentary once ages ago, about how one of the great things about yuru camp is that the girls are allowed to just... be girls, and it always stuck with me. there's no fanservice, and these girls really feel like real characters who exist. there was another commentary (maybe same one?) about how rin is this introverted, more lonesome character, but she enjoys the solitude. but what's cool about yuru camp is she is never forced to change or become more extroverted; her friends accept her for who she is, nadeshiko will invite her out but not push her, and then sometimes she does go out! and she changes and becomes a bit more social, but never gives up solo camping. AND the more extroverted, outgoing character INSTEAD comes to embrace solo camping! what a cool idea, executed amazingly! so the characters are a strong point here, but the banter and camping is a lot of fun too. i still haven't watched the movie, but i'll get there eventually!
10. odd taxi. why? this one is 100% on the writing. it is so clever and quick-witted, it's a ton of fun to watch. i've never watched any other anime like it. the mystery/thriller aspects are a lot of fun too, and i remember reading reddit threads and theories on this one as it was airing. what was so cool is that they plant subtle hints that you can ABSOLUTELY catch if you have sharp eyes (i likely wouldn't have if it weren't for reading others' theories) and you can know things before characters do. lot of fun.
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wow this was so much fun to write up! thank you so much for the question!
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I'm sorry but Kaylor Tumblr is an echo chamber right now, and dumb echo chamber at that.
Everyone including Swifties have been bored of the pap walks Taylor has been doing with her friends since after the first two or three she's done after dumping Toe, nobody wants to see Taylor do the same boring pap walks with the same boring people at the same boring restraunts while the vast majority of people think that her current street style looks like complete crap.
Swifties were so bored of all this boring shit that Taylor's doing for the 1989 TV rollout that a lot of them were coming up with wild theories about how there is going to be a secret B-side to 1989 TV that has vault tracks with titles that don't sound boring as shit and collabs with actually cool and interesting celebrities. The excitement Taylor drummed up for Swifties with the Google vault puzzle didn't even last that long, the excitement all died off within two hours of Taylor announcing the vault track names and Swifties went back to coming up with "theories" to try and make 1989 TV and everything around it less boring.
Taylor bearding with this football dude was actually a good move for her to make because now Swifties aren't bored to death over how lackluster the rollout for 1989 TV is anymore and now she's got the attention of people who wouldn't be interested in her without this dude as potential new consumers of her products and the only downside of her doing this was pissing off a miniscule section of her fandom, Gaylors, who have a major issue with too many of them acting like awful over-entitled brats because she's her own person who handles her closet exactly the way she wants to instead of coming out of the closest for the benefits of others even thought Taylor's indicated in her most recent album Midnights that coming out of the closet just so others can benefit is something she has zero interest or intention of doing.
Hello, anon. So, let me see if I got it right. You think everyone was bored and that's why Taylor had to get a beard? That he'll solve all the problems by keeping swifties occupied and boosting her sales? I don't even- lol first, if your fanbase is so thirsty for news or entertainment that they can't sit still for a few weeks, something is wrong in the way you handle them. She's either sending the wrong signals, spoiling them with too much content to the point that when one thing happens (like the vault to solve), they're already antsy for the next thing. Did they forget about the year she spent away?? Maybe they need reminding. If you kept up with her during 2014-2015, you'll remember what it was like the 1989 era - she did promote that album a lot. It worked and she didn't need a guy for it, how crazy. What I think most ppl around me are saying, is that she's the Taylor Swift. She doesn't need a man to boost her numbers. Sure, she's reaching a new territory and a new audience with this stunt, but she doesn't need it to make big bucks. She's at the top of her game, she's reaching a new high every day. Just check the charts or how her concerts are sold out. Not to mention that 1989 is an era based on her being single and happy, her preaching all around about having fun with her friends and enjoying life without a relationship. That seems to have been thrown out of the window now. She could do better promo if she wanted to, bc we've seen it before. Now it seems like even if she just dumped her last beard in the first semester, she can't go more than a few months without a guy. What message does it send, anon? Ppl have every right to be annoyed, even if we do understand she's doing it for even bigger numbers and to have a wider audience. Most of us have been here for years keeping up with her story. As far as I've seen, no one is being an asshole demanding her to come out or whatever. They're just wondering why this same old story again. You're allowed your feelings and opinions, anon, but remember, so are we.
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One thing that interests me about the response to the Netflix Persuasion is that it is by no means the only objectively bad Austen adaptation but it seems to be singled out more than others for both excessive hate, excessive defence, and just general discussion. I'm not sure I've ever seen so many reviews in mainstream newspapers for a streaming service Austen adaptation.
I'm not a fan of the 2005 P&P myself but it still has merits and is worthy of being considered seriously as an adaptation. It's the only one I can think of that has received this amount of vitriol. (And yes, some of that came from me, but I'm allowed personally to dislike a film!) Mansfield Park 2007 - does anyone bother with that? Did anyone bother with it when it came out except to say "lol that was a bad movie that totally failed to understand the novel, shame Hayley Atwell got caught up in it" and then move on and focus on the delightful Northanger Abbey that came out the same year or Persuasion which got some fans but otherwise did not leave a massive mark in the Austen adaptations world (mainly due to the legacy of the 1995 film). Nobody apart from a few devotees remembers the 1986 Northanger Abbey and the adaptation of Emma with Kate Beckinsale has largely disappeared. (Unfortunately IMO as I quite like it.)
All this to say that there have been lots of adaptations of Austen that just quietly disappeared or received criticism but ultimately nobody really cared. Why is Netflix Persuasion so different? Why is it so hard to just ignore it or laugh about how bad it is for a bit and then forget about it? Why do people seem to care SO MUCH?
A few suggestions:
the colour blind casting - this has had a big effect on the response, especially in certain corners of twitter and FB. Thankfully tumblr seems relatively free both of bad faith racist responses to the film and the irritatingly two dimensional response which is to accuse anyone who criticises the film of racism and gatekeeping. This is a shame as the casting is one of the film's biggest strengths. They all deserve a better movie but as soon as people can bring racism into a discussion, it gets blown up and becomes "important".
Netflix producing this film now makes it difficult for another adaptation to come along any time soon and people are angry about this, though that has always really been an issue when a new adaptation comes out.
Social media just wasn't as much a thing in the 2005-07 period and it is so much easier now for people to find other people to be enraged with or attack about a piece of media online so as soon as something gains traction even more people will talk about it and it snowballs.
People care a lot more about Persuasion than about Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.
It's been a loooooong time since we've had a "straight" historical adaptation of an Austen novel. It feels like we're saturated in Austen adaptations, but that isn't actually true. We've had Death Comes to Pemberley, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Fire Island but apart from Emma 2020 the last movie/TV adaptation of an actual novel were the 2008 and 2009 adaptations of Sense and Sensibility and Emma respectively. It's over 10 years. We're due for a new spate of adapting the novels, it seems to happen every 10 years, so people actually want more content to digest. (Not counting Sanditon here for so many reasons.)
Austen adaptations tend to reflect the society they're made in so a lot of the analysis is going into what this adaptation - and, arguably Emma 2020 - is saying about us. And if we don't like the adaptation, well, maybe that is telling us something uncomfortable about the state of the media and storytelling right now.
The screenwriter has said some pretty egregious things about not thinking racism was a thing in Austen's time (at least I'm sure he wasn't trying to say that, but it sure came out like that) and that he wrote this script so his teen daughter wouldn't be bored. That's enough to thoroughly dunk on it.
Honestly though I'm hoping that it will quietly die the death of bad adaptations but unfortunately so many people are talking about it and hate watching it (guilty as charged tbh on both counts) that this seems unlikely.
I'm actually not against Austen adaptations that play with convention and focus on satirical humour more than sweeping romance (Love and Friendship was brilliant in that respect) and Emma did a good shot at it and breaking the fourth wall could be a brilliant device if done well, which seems to be the trend in this decade's adaptations. But I hope the inevitable forthcoming adaptations of the other novels are, well, better.
#persuasion#netflix persuasion#persuasion 2022#cw: racism#jane austen#i'm slowly starting to get my thoughts together about persuasion#i have a lot of them
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in what ways is the 3ds better friend
Oh boy anon, I am so happy you asked, because the 3ds rivals the playstation 2 as my favorite video games console, so buckle in, because I have Many Thoughts about this. The switch, as I’m sure you know, has been an incredible success. Nintendo learned from the mistakes they made with the wii u, and they’ve been raking the money in ever since. But like I said before, which I imagine is what prompted you to ask this question in the first place, is that once you get past the novelty of the switch, it feels underwhelming. I primarily play it in handheld mode so my opinion is colored by that, but the thing is, it's supposed to be both a home console and a handheld console, and theoretically it's supposed to perform at least to generally equal standards. But it doesn't.
The original switch's battery life is garbage, and there's a huge downgrade in graphic fidelity between TVs and the switch's native screen. I'm by no means one of those people who thinks anything that isn't absolutely cutting edge is A Sin Against Viddy Gaems, and yeah I also get there's bound to be some downgrade, but I think that games shouldn't play like powerpoint presentation slides in handheld mode, I think that's a reasonable thing to ask. From what I've gathered this has been improved in the switch lite and oled versions, so I'll give them that, but the thing is that these deficits suggest that the ‘handheld’ mode was more of a sloppy after-thought than anything, sorta like an ‘just shove it on there we’ll deal with the problems later once everyone’s already bought one so it’ll incentivize them to buy the new upgraded version’ thing.
As long as we’re talking about hardware issues though, one thing I think is totally inexcusable is the problem with the switch joycon drift. That wasn't an honest mistake, Nintendo knew about this problem long before the switch came out. Originally they wouldn't even repair joycons out of warranty, but people made enough of a fuss about it that they started to. Apparently, with the switch oled they’ve ‘improved’ the joycons.
Note the term ‘improved’. Not ‘fixed’. ‘Improved’. Meaning that even 6 years after it launched, people are buying brand new switches and getting joycon drift. That’s total bullshit. I’ve heard people try to excuse these issues by saying ‘it’s wear and tear, of course it’s going to degrade after a lot of use’, which is also utter bullshit. How do I know that?
The oldest Nintendo console I have is an N64 that I basically inherited from my older siblings (lol I’m kinda the collection keeper nowadays). Now the N64 is uh… It has a weird controller that has awkward movement controls. But it still works just like it always did despite being over 20 years old. My ps2 is also over 20 years old and trust me, it has seen A LOT of use, but the original controller it came with and the extra I got a few years later also work just as good as new. So why does Nintendo suddenly get to pull the ‘wear and tear’ excuse when they’ve proven they and other video game companies can make durable controllers in the past?
I can’t really think of another video game console that has so consistently had such long reaching hardware problems, and not just little problems, problems that make some games basically unplayable (lol just try playing the game Card Shark on the switch with a drifting joycon, it’s not very fun), but Nintendo gets away with it because they’re Nintendo, and because the switch was their comeback. People love underdog stories, so that plus Nintendo’s brand loyalty (that Sony and Microsoft would probably put out a hit on someone to achieve for themselves, if it were only so simple) has made people feel lenient towards them…
But that good will and grace that Nintendo garners from many of its fans is wearing thin, which I think is fantastic because at the end of the day, Nintendo is another company that wants to make as much money as possible, and it should be held to much, much harsher standards! Especially since it’s a multi-million dollar company! But that’s another topic.
Another thing that has really started bugging me after I started messing around on my n3ds again is that the sheer amount of customizability in the 3ds absolutely puts the switch to shame. The switch has virtually nothing. You can mostly just change between the UI being black or white. But the 3ds has themes and folders you can organize your games in (or you can just have them all show on the main screen so you don't forget you have them, like I do with the switch -_-). They also have badges! Admittedly you get them through the badge arcade game, which is a 'free to start' game that tries to get you to pay real money, but you can easily get a lot of good stuff for free anyway.
I wouldn’t say this next part is bad, but it does indicate a change in Nintendo’s strategy and how that was likely influenced by their financial situation. The switch has a lot of ports. A lot of them. Like I said, this isn’t bad in and of itself, those games become easier for people to access in an easy, legitimate manner. But why would they suddenly change this? Traditionally Nintendo has been very picky about what it chooses to port, but nowadays the switch eshop is absolutely flooded with games of varying quality. It’s nowhere as near as bad as steam’s ‘quality control’ issues, but like I said, it just points to Nintendo’s underlying problems.
I’m not saying the 3ds didn’t have problems. Apparently when it first launched some people got headaches when they played with the 3d effect on, but given how a handheld console projecting 3d graphics like that was a brand new thing and how they actually seriously improved that (and how it’s totally optional anyway, it’s not necessary to the experience like oh I don’t know, the damn controllers of a home console), I think it’s more reasonable, and its launch titles were underwhelming (except Samurai Warriors Chronicles, God I love me a good Samurai Warriors, but admittedly it ran kinda eeehhh on the original 3ds, but the n3ds is much smoother).
Still, the 3ds is indicative of a time when Nintendo was flush with money and success from the wii/ds era in the 00s. The switch is indicative of when they were hemorrhaging money due to the wii u's failure and the 3ds' rocky start in the early-mid 10s. Marketing the switch as an all-in-one console was pretty smart, because I'm 99% sure they made that choice so they wouldn't have to split resources and money on developing two separate systems like they were generally expected to, since at this point Nintendo has practically cornered the market on traditional handheld game consoles. But it's clear the handheld part was tacked on and not given much thought, and that the whole process was rushed and occurred in a time of financial desperation.
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7/9/2023 update:
Listened to japanese for 6+ hours - 2 hours Final Fantasy X let's play, .5 hour listening to TTS audiobook while reading along, .5 hour watching Dracula musical, 3 hours listening to glossika japanese (on audio 10)
Dracula Musical: i watched this maybe 2 years ago and I remember it motivated me to want to get back into learning Japanese. Because I could follow the main idea (which to be fair, its based on Dracula so of course I could guess mainly what was going on based on the Dracula scene it looked like). Well I watched some of it again tonight: MUCH better grasp of specifics now lol. I'm relying on Kanji words heavily (because I can guess them faster), but the overall effect is still wooh I can follow some lines completely and other lines the main idea at least. Which is a lot more than the last time I watched this! I found it on bilibili with Chinese and Japanese subs if any of you want to watch. Notable features: its a rock musical, Dracula is played by a woman, the 3 brides of Dracula are played by men, Dracula is in love with Mina (like the Coppula Dracula movie). It also has my favorite Dracula ending of the various versions I've seen of the story.
【【荷花】D R A C U L A 熟肉-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/xv3grnN
Guardian TTS with kindle ebook: so if anyone else wants to go on this journey, amazon.co.jp has a lot of ebooks for fairly cheap prices (I think I literally got like 10 of the guardian ebook installments that come in chapters of 4, for free, today, just from points). I think you have to register with a Japanese address, and make sure you either use a different email than your amazon.com/other account OR you use a different password, so that when you log into kindle app you can log into your Japanese account (because if email used AND password are the same, you can only log into your first account you made - I ran into this issue until I just changed my password). To use TTS in Kindle app (on android), go to settings, accessibility settings, Talkback. Enable it. Pick where you want Talkback icon to be, I personally like putting it on my navigation bar so I don't accidentally tap it when browsing. Click Talkback settings, languages and install all the languages you need talkback to be able to do text to speech for. Pick the voice version of each language you most like the sound of. For language detection I suggest you pick Aggressive so it automatically reads the correct language when it runs into text in a new language (such as a web page with english then Japanese text). If you pick conservative, the audio may stay "English voice" even once other language text is encountered. If Talkback stops being able to read multiple languages (or any other app on your phone suddenly no longer can), then you'll want to to BACK into Talkback, back into Google language services settings, and re download the languages you need. For some reason Samsung likes to delete language data every so often if you aren't using it frequently. When Samsung deletes it, suddenly apps that use TTS on the phone have NO audio for non English languages (or non-whatever language your default is on the phone) and the phone will either NOT play audio for other languages at all, or attempts to play the audio with the default language voice (on my phone the English Voice) and it sounds absolutely awful and makes gratuitous mistakes.
Anyway. Once you have the japanese ebooks to your hearts content on kindle app, feel free to read. If you want TTS while reading, then open the ebook in Kindle and flip to the page you want to start on. Click Talkback icon. Then double click the ebook page. Once you've selected the page, Talkback should give directions on turning on Text To Speech (click twice, click twice to confirm). Then you should get a TTS voice from Talkbacks voice option you downloaded.
Actual progress while reading? Well I got through the prologue and chapter 1. For the prologue I just tried to follow the speed of audio (which was brain fryingly fast for me). For the first chapter, I read through it first and looked up unknown words. I confirmed my guess, which is that a lot of the Kanji words (in combination with me being familiar with these chapters plots already) means I'm guessing these words correctly for the most part. The major new words I need to learn: hiragana words! And the "helper" words that use Kanji (and tend to be 4 characters, Kanji hiragana Kanji hiragana). Words like just, suddenly, at the same time, drew back/fell back, and (4 variants for and used!). I also noticed a few grammar patterns that i guess I never studied a grammar guide High enough to either study or understand. 1. Adjectives (or maybe it's adverbs the way they were used?) Were used actually quite similar to the -ly in English or -de in chinese. Id see a descriptive word then a regular grammar pattern and it'd be describing the thing after it. After a few pages it got a lot more obvious when I was looking at a descriptive (which makes life easier). 2. I have had a rough idea of japanese sentence grammar for YEARS at this point. But actually reading I think made it clearer how to rely on the particles, and how much SHITA, DATTA, DEKITA, and SHI after verbs in the middle of sentences, crop up! I mean yeah they're all basic beginner class words. But just like English, do, was, did, doing are real fucking useful. Idk it wasn't like learning something new so much as reading enough I am able to notice This common pattern, which helps make it easier to single out and isolate hiragana only words that ARENT these and combination words that are HELPER words (like in the end, concluded, and then, just, suddenly) that I still need to learn. So basically, brute force making myself read IS Helping with improving my ability to parse words (which again is critical for figuring out hiragana words from conjugation and helper words from descriptives). 3. Word order was not actually as big a deal as... I guess ever? Maybe I've just listened to enough japanese I'm used to it. There was only two sentence where order confused me and it was a long ass descriptive sentence of Da Qing looking like a flattened fat persimmon and denting the car hood and saying it smells like a bomb dropped how did yunlan not notice, and the long ass description of Zhao yunlans messy room including all the items and how even a pig would be offended by being compared to its level of mess. Because I've read the novel I knew those parts so it wasn't too confusing, but they were very long sentences and I think I'd have been lost if it was a brand new novel to me.
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for the ask game— i’m not too familiar with your other fandoms buuuut 9-1-1!!
AAAH ty pigeon ily <3
Favourite character: CHIMNEY AND RAVI <3 <3 <3 Chimney was my absolute favorite dude, so I wasn't expecting Ravi to show up s4 and I just!! Immediately was obsessed with him!! He gets such little screentime but he is a main character in my heart @ s7 make it happen please <3
Funniest character: Chimney <3 The comedian actually xoxo
Best-looking character: RAVI <3 He's so handsome
3 favourite ships: Maddie/Chimney (they're one of my OTPs, I love them so SO much!!), Buck/Eddie (if they became canon they'd become an OTP so easily, I can tell lmao), and hmmmm. Both Henren and Bathena are super cute but I think Bobby/Athena really have my whole heart; they're just such a precious ship.
Least favourite character: Oh god Abby. I thought about saying characters like Taylor Kelly or one of the obvious male antagonists but that's very easy and like, Taylor was funny ASDFJKL. But Abby showed up in season 1 and I love Connie Britton's acting and am usually super into whatever she's doing in other shows and I was still sitting there feeling like I was watching paint dry with Abby which was so asdfjkl. I was incredibly relieved when I found out she was leaving after season 1 because I would not have been able to watch her scenes beyond that asdjfkl
Least favourite ship: I can't really think of any ships I've seen that I've hated? Fandom seems pretty one-track, for better or worse, so I haven't really seen any doozies personally. I guess in canon, Hen/Eva lol
Reason why I watch it: While I get that s6 was more Buck centered, in general, I love this ensemble and the way it truly feels like an ensemble. The characters are loved and it's so clear in the seasons with their spread - sometimes an actor may need to film something or do time off here and there, and the show works around that and makes their return feel special and focused. Also the rep!! I'm not going to pretend this is a perfect show lol, for sure not, but I really love and appreciate how basically every single character is representative in some way - Bobby with addiction, Hen and Karen as Black lesbians, Maddie as an abuse survivor, etc etc etc - and that these are treated as regular facts about them. Their storylines may be informed by their representation, and those things are important about them, but it's not the whole of their being. I feel like a lot of shows will boil their characters down to these and forget to make storylines outside of that, or view the characters by their identity rather than who they are as people, and I feel like 911 honestly does a great job showing how people's identities inform who they are and show these characters as complex, three-dimensional figures!
Why I started watching it: I saw nonstop gifsets of Buck & Eddie with Chris and I was absolutely obsessed with this little family! I had to ask a friend if they were canon though because I fully could not tell with gifsets alone lmaoo
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Digimon World 2 - First Impressions
And so it begins...another long ass Digimon PSX game playthrough. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic about this one. On the one hand, the gameplay seems more straightforward than the other one and the dialogue actually makes sense. On the other, they still aren't fully explaining things to me and the controls kinda suck. We'll see where this goes...I'm about an hour in with 1 mission under my belt (not counting the tutorial mission).
Notes:
-I had a lot of fun watching the early 2000s CGI intro, especially the beginning where Veemon bangs on my TV screen. Gotta love those fourth wall breaks!
Honestly, the CGI holds up very well in my opinion. I feel like I've seen crappier stuff come out more recently. It helps that these are digital, make believe creatures so there's no need for realistic textures.
-Right off the bat we get hit with the name "Zudokorn"...Okaaaay. That's a choice. I left the MC's name as "Akira" because why not? I like knowing the canon names for things.
-This game is pretty anti-exploration just like the first game was in the beginning. You can only move a limited amount of spaces in the dungeon before you run out of "EP" (engine power?) and the overworld is a boring map. When games switch from letting you walk from place to place to just clicking boxes on a map, they cut out a lot of important ambience/character that makes games memorable!
-I really like the little anime portraits you get when talking to characters. We only really saw that in the first game with Analogman. 2D art was a way better call in this era for this kinda thing
-Excited to have a turn-based, RPG style fighting system. The fact that we can see all of the digimon's moves 3D animated gives me Pokémon Colosseum vibes. I just hope sitting through those (kinda slow) animations doesn't become tedious.
-So this is a whole new, unfamiliar territory for Digimon. Instead of there being a select few chosen children, the world is populated by a bunch of "tamers," children and adults. I'm not sure if they permanently live in the digital world or just visit sometimes. They seemingly have jobs within the digital world, so it's like a whole functioning society. Not sure if these boss battles are like everyday nuisances or what. I'm assuming the main conflict hasn't been introduced yet.
-It's weird to me how Patamon is the data mascot and Agumon is the vaccine mascot. I would think Patamon would make a better vaccine mascot since he evolves into Angemon, but whatever.
-I debated a lot between joining the Gold Hawks or the Black Swords, but eventually decided the Black Swords seemed best. I think Sheena's really cute and I didn't like how the other groups seemed to look down on virus digimon. Goth route it is! (Named my DemiDevimon Loki hehe)
-Very curious to see how digivolving will work in this game. Will the evolution lines be more straightfoward than the first game? Will the digimon de-evolve? I just hope they don't waste away like they did in the previous entry because that was a huge bummer.
-Not a huge fan of the dungeon crawler genre because I find it kinda repetitive and bland from a design/experience perspective. That being said, I also haven't played very many dungeon crawler games so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about lol.
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I've been really curious, seeing as you clearly finished season 10, did you start watching s11 of spn or did you decide it wasn't worth it? do you think you're gonna watch through the last seasons of the show?
i am planning to finish up at least s11. technically, i've seen thru 11x03 and then i jumped ahead to 11x23, which is a surprisingly wild finale that i'm very curious to see how it plays with the context of the rest of the season, because i definitely have Thoughts about the Chuck & Amara resolution but want to actually see the rest of it before leaping to conclusions.
after that... i'm not sure. i can intellectualize it all i want (and will probably keep doing so lol), but what it really comes down to with later seasons is i'm just not enjoying them as i do early ones. i watched 11x03 last night and it was... an ok episode of a TV show. i watch a Kripke era ep and it's, oh hello Sam & Dean & messed up family dramas 🥰 i still think there's plenty for me to engage with abt the show without later seasons - i've really been enjoying thinking thru my Mark meta, and then i keep talking abt fic and would like to actually buckle down to finish my Dean & Bela in Hell AU, plus some other shorter fics i've been working on. that's much more fun for me than plodding my way thru a tv show.
on the other hand, given all that i've heard / seen secondhand about later seasons (s12 - s15), my curiosity might get the best of me, if only to watch these seasons for myself and decide what i think of them, fandom echo chambers be damned. knowing spoilers for later seasons, plus the finale, i just suspect i won't enjoy the these seasons very much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as much as i do think the Kripke era is objectively better written, the show changing into something i don't like doesn't make it badly written, per se, and there's a lot of wisdom in knowing when to drop a tv show / book series / etc. if it's not giving you what you'd like. sometimes if it sucks... real winners quit :)
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