Average Malevolent episode

Happy TGCF and Hualian Wednesdays to those who celebrate !

see what’s so funny is im writing about her tragedy for one of my uni assignments rn and im actually doing a good job of being concise and focused about it!! but my Point: ‘her tragedy’ the episode sharing its name with ‘her tragedy’ the comic theme that scores nanami’s silliest most devious and absurd moments. ‘her tragedy’ being tweenaged anxieties, vanity and snobbery, an over-attachment to an older brother; ‘her tragedy’ being the alienation this thirteen year old girl experiences such that she is completely isolated in her abuse and unable to understand it, or anyone else’s. being disarmed by this comic presentation of nanami’s character such that when she stares at you in the lift she seems to be asking you, how could this happen? and you cannot answer her because you know you have left this narrative slowly unfold, laughing at her tragedies until they become too uncomfortable for you. and you have to live with that. and you have to live with that. GOD. nanami im so fucking sorry i ever said anything mean about you dot jpeg

Did you see the thing humans believe? The light. Friends. No. No, I didn't. All I saw was black. I don't know, maybe Sebaceans are right. Maybe there's nothing after this, maybe... Maybe I wasn't supposed to die that time. Well... maybe you'll find out for certain this time.

FARSCAPE | 1.13 The Flax

BONUS

Listening to Spare Parts and had to stop and TAKE A SECOND because this Frank character really asked NYSSA who she's ever lost. Nyssa.

Aside from the fact that she's having Adric's death thrown in her face over and over due to the cyberman presence here, SHE LOST HER WHOLE PLANET. Every single person she KNOWS. Her father's FACE WAS STOLEN.

I am Fuming on her behalf what do you know Frank. She is so strong for not responding to that.

I think about this episode of The Simpsons sometimes...

Eyesome propaganda (Patreon)

añslkdfjaf. I had forgotten chris unwittingly prevents an assassination attempt on tony by being at the right place at the right time, because he's worried about his depressed state and thus has taken to stalk him around town, and that neither of them knows about it. it's both kinda funny and weirdly sweet lol.

i love it in doctor who when everything is soaking wet water is so cool in doctor who. and usually deadly but cool. waters of mars. dalek sets of sprinklers to electrocute people through the water. ten standing in the rain. submarine sinking. yay!

I’m watching Disneys Hercules TV series again and frankly I think if it was a big thing for people to watch and talk about today Adonis and Hercules would probably do numbers in modern fandom. People would scream at that golden apples and Gaia episode.

I’m just saying. People so would.

Also Cassandra is quite frankly the best and I love her.

And Aphrodite as well. She’s really probably the next best god after Hades in this show easily. Though Hermes is a good third. Also got to love Pain and Panic.

morgan what's ur opinion on the new ep

personlly i found the not-things fucking hilarious

slapped. love me an episode with The Horrors

y'all got outlived by the queer coded villain who was actually presumed dead for a few weeks?? skill issue tbh

i absolutely love what their dynamic turned into in the show but whenever i watch the sf pilot im reminded of how much i love the way charlie just kinda slugs on behind pim and lets him do his thing and the only time in the episode he really gets his own moment he has no idea what to say to desmond and can only say they’ve failed. like i love the side of charlie that can be like overly passionate and kinda unapologetic and the way there’s nothing that can change his mind when he’s set on something and i dont even want it to be changed back to that but man . i just love it

I'm this close to taking a screenshot from every HIGNFY episode to make a gallery of every single one of Paul's fabulous shirts (+hairstyles), lol.

(and then we could have polls to vote the best shirt from each series :D)

Andor is a fantastic show and I’m delighted to find I was wrong to worry but also if I go to the tag I find exactly the takes I was dreading:

1. people saying “oh it’s so much better than Rogue One”:

 of course, this is objective, but... no? They’re just different things, one was a self-contained ensemble war film and the other is a serialised spy thriller, what’s not clicking? This is like saying “The Americans is so much better than 1917″ like. this means very little they’re different media with completely different concepts, topics, themes...

also: Rogue One is actually also quite political and quite nuanced, it just doesn’t bother spelling things out as much. A show will naturally take time to do this, because it *has* more time.

a lot of people just hated Rogue One because it wasn’t what they’d come to expect from a Star War: no Skywalkers, strictly no Jedi, no lightsabres little to no goofy antics, very little dramatic Vader content. This never made it a bad film - and, as people are starting to discover, also doesn’t make it a bad Star Wars film. It’s just more focused on one side of the universe - the actual warfare, the politics, the dirty work - stuff that was always in the story, just mixed in with the more lighthearted/more fantasy-oriented things. Consider that maybe it wasn’t a bad movie, just a movie that disappointed you.

2. “Oh now I finally care about the people in Rogue One”

first of all, see above

Rogue One gave you plenty of reasons to care, actually, they just weren’t excessively telegraphed and large chunks of the audience apparently didn’t pick up on the character work and came out complaining that “the characters were flat and hard to relate to”.

3. “Diego is really bringing his A game for the show”

he was always this good, you guys were just mean (or had no... whatever reading comprehension for movies is)

4. “oh Cassian is so much more interesting in this”

controversial opinion alert, but... he’s actually *less* interesting in this, I think? (tangent under the cut)

In the film, after his first three scenes, here’s what you knew about Cassian: resentful of the system and his place in it (the look he gives the guy who bumps into him on Kafrene), deeply morally conflicted but uncompromisingly loyal to the cause, compassionate but ruthless, good with people, damn good shot (see: killing his informant on Kafrene), thinks on his feet (the trick with the gloves), does his homework (Jyn’s interrogation), obedient soldier, emotional restraint (talking to Draven), capable pilot, Friend of Droids(TM), observant/very aware of his surroundings, bordering on paranoia, but also willing to take a risk to make the mission run smooth (in the shuttle when Jyn takes his blaster)...

meanwhile on the show, nine episodes in, I picked up on the following: looking for his long-lost sister so there’s some familial love/protectiveness there, similarly for Clem whom he seems to have admired, good-ish with people and a decent manipulator (talking the alien tough guy down), a bit of a ladies’ man maybe (but on amicable terms with his ex), observant, thinks on his feet, generally capable with weapons and technology, good pilot. A bit cocky maybe.

I’m sure I’ve missed some, but... honestly I’m surprised people seem to find him more interesting because I’d argue what we’ve seen of his character so far isn’t actually very interesting? What happens to him is super interesting, but (at least after the first three eps) there isn’t much internal conflict in the character. If I wasn’t hyper invested in the character already and if he wasn’t played by Diego Luna... I’d find him a pretty boring main character, I think. The only moments that were genuinely intriguing to me about the character were “I’m here to win and walk away” because that’s such a specific thing that he knows is hilariously unrealistic... and now ep 10 when he made the guards get on programme (because a spy with a vindictive streak is... probably not long for this world - and also because it contrasts so nicely with Cassian’s incredible restraint during most of R1 that only slipped for a *second* after Eadu. So even that isn’t interesting to me purely on its own merit I guess)

Probably not it's intended purpose, but damn The Magnus Archives can be a good sleep aid sometimes