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crashingmeteorz · 4 years

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no one asked, but here’s the ba sing se bimbos playing among us:

the first time they play, jet gets red by accident. he doesn’t really care either way, but zuko asks demands they switch so that zuko can be red. jet finds this hilarious and refuses, citing red as his favorite color.

“that’s not your favorite color!” zuko says furiously. “oh yeah, then what is?” asks jet. “uhhh, green?” zuko says feebly. “wow. you really don’t know me at all. just for that, i’m keeping red.”

green is jet’s favorite color, but that’s not relevant.

zuko relents and goes with dark blue. jin picks lime because she thinks it makes her seem fun and perky. song switches between white and pink, because she can’t decide which makes her seem more trustworthy.

“white,” says jet. “pink,” says jin. “neither,” says zuko, thinking about how those are ty lee’s color choices as well, and how sorely she’s kicked everyone’s asses in this game.

jet thinks he’s smooth as the impostor, subtly throwing people under the bus and Very Obviously Doing Tasks. but he’s incredibly passionate when he’s a crewmate and thinks someone’s an impostor, so it’s a pretty obvious tell when he acts too relaxed. he gets voted out quickly. a lot.

“i’m sneaky! why can’t i win!” he yells. “you’re incompetent is what you are,” says song, “going to electrical for your first kill? that’s so overplayed jet.”

jin employs basically the same tactics, but does not get thrown out nearly as much since she keeps her poker face no matter her role. as a crewmate, she goes about tasks so diligently she often walks right by bodies, which results in her incorrectly getting voted out.

“i was doing the wiring!” she argues. “you stepped over zuko!” song argues back. “so? everyone steps over zuko!” jin snaps.

this is true, because zuko always dies. he’s literally always first to die. song kills him because he never assumes she’s the impostor and sticks by her. jin kills him because she’s figured out his ship route. jet kills him because zuko always accuses jet first, so it’s easier to get him out of the way.

zuko really, really likes being the impostor. he thinks sneaking around is the best part of the game. but for whatever reason, he barely gets impostor. it infuriates him, especially when he’s accused of being the impostor when he’s not.

“it’s definitely zuko,” says song after neatly murdering three people. “I WISH!” he yells, and gets ejected.

when he finally gets impostor after a dozen games in a row of being a quickly-killed crewmate, he’s so excited he screws up and vents right in front of jin. jin feels bad for him though, and lets him kill jet and some randos before suggesting it might be him.

“why didn’t you rat me out?” he asks when she later admits it. “you were so happy you ran around the cafeteria twice. it’d be like kicking a puppy,” she says.

they play with either the gaang, the fire nation gals, the freedom fighters, or randoms.

with the gaang, zuko has to give up dark blue to sokka, much to the bimbos’ delight.

“gee, zuko, why aren’t you giving sokka such a hard time about colors?” jet asks him sweetly. “because sokka isn’t an asshole, that’s why,” says zuko, blushing furiously.

“i’ll take yellow,” zuko says. “oh, okay...” says aang sadly. “FINE! ILL TAKE ORANGE!” zuko says, unable to upset aang without feeling nauseous.

“calm down, zuko,” says song. “it’s just colors.” “can i have white then?” he asks. “over my dead body,” she replies.

the impostor almost always loses with the gaang. they’re all too loyal, sometimes they even just outright admit they’re the impostor so as not to hurt anyone. aang is most guilty of this, making it all the way to the end and then not being able to kill katara when she sees him vent. if it weren’t for his guilt complex, he’d be deadly in this game.

with the fire nations gals, ty lee and song take turns switching colors.

“why can’t we do that?” zuko asks jet. “because i said so!” jet replies, not wanting to admit he’s gotten attached to red now.

the impostor almost always wins with the gals, everyone’s deceptive and clever, and loyalty basically doesn’t exist. once, terrifyingly, song and ty lee were the impostors. they won in three minutes.

with the freedom fighters, it’s just chaos. the duke will call a meeting just to ask if they can get friendlys later. longshot sits at security the entire time. i could write a whole separate post about them. everyone accuses everyone and they’re really, really bad at the game together.

when they play with randoms, somehow, it’s always little kids. the kids flock to jet for the most part. he makes them laugh and they trust him implicitly - they’re the only way he can ever get a good winning streak going.

sometimes song gets two or three little followers who think she’s nice and helpful. if they’re playing with new players, song’s the one who tells everyone how the game works and helps them figure things out.

zuko usually gets flanked by feral children. they absolutely cyber bully him and tell him he smells, but when it comes to the debates, they defend him with their lives. on the rare occasions he’s the impostor, he can’t bring himself to kill the kids and lets himself get caught.

jin mostly sticks to herself, she curses way too much to be responsible talking to children. but once in a while she’ll get a little weirdo who follows her everywhere. they say practically nothing, they do their tasks right alongside her, and when they do talk it’s just “my favorite snak is plain celery.”

“oh my god you’re such a little gremlin i would die for you,” jin says affectionately. “jin you can’t call a kid a gremlin!” says song.

“bark bark,” says the little weirdo, and song internally recants her earlier statement. the kid stays with them for like nine rounds and by the end he’s their son and that’s that.

all the kids ask the bimbos for their snap, and, as cool as these children are, obviously they can’t do that.

“we actually don’t own cell phones,” says song. “they’re illegal where were from,” says jin. “we’re trying to smuggle some into the country, we’ll get back to you when that works out.” says jet.

“where are you from?” the kids ask.

“rhode island,” blurts out zuko.

(yes, obviously, they also give the kids a lesson on not sharing personal info with strangers and boot out any suspicious parties because all four of them would lay down their lives for innocent children and that’s on canon.)

credit for this au of an au to @azenkii as always!

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#thinking bout them adopting kids in the original au #jin is required to have a little monster child of course #some insanely powerful earthbender that eats raw meat #that’s my boy she says #jinjetsongko #the ba sing se bimbos #jin #jet #song #zuko #sokka #aang #ty lee #the duke #longshot #atla #avatar the last airbender #among us #my stuff

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joyhigh · 3 years

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3 questions: 1(. are any other party members in the survivor au (aka in the group with buddy, rando, buzzo and if he's still there, bo), 2(. how do the others interact with buddy's baby (rando and buzzo, along with bo if he's still there), and 3, can buzzo do things that joy mutants can? like being able to jump high like peter, or bite heads of

Oh ty for these questions, I shall do my best to answer!!

1. Yes, there are! Part of the whole survivor idea isn’t just for Buzzo and Rando, I was planning on having Brad’s party members survive the confrontation with him at the end as well, albeit worse for wear. What I have in mind for the overall plot is Buddy plans to form her own “gang” of sorts, locating any survivors in Olathe who she deems trustworthy and starting anew somewhere else. I’m sure there’s be a few encounters with some the people who knew Brad along the line, some who join her and some who don’t.

2. Rando honestly is a huge help to Buddy when it comes to the baby, he falls into the uncle role quite well hehe. Raising a child is something Buddy didn’t really know how to prepare for, so having someone to help bear the load when it gets overwhelming helps her adjust to it a lot better. Bo keeps a respectful distance during his time around the child, Buddy still doesn’t know him all that well after all, but his music works wonders to calm the baby down when need be.

As for Buzzo, when the child was born he had limited interactions with them for the most part, he has his own reservations about being safe to be around the kid. I have a scene in mind where during one of Buzzo’s episodes he’s unfortunately proven right(has a flashback to the “Cut its paw off” incident). The infant is unharmed fortunately due to Buddy’s intervention but...it’s a close call. Buddy’s already very fragile trust in Buzzo frays substantially for a while, and since that incident she makes sure he doesn’t go anywhere near the child. Buzzo has no problem with that, he doesn’t trust himself either.

3. Yes, I think he can! Probably can’t bite peoples heads off per se but he can deliver a lot harder of a bite than a normal human. Can rip out a throat with relative ease and maybe tear off a limb if he’s really out of it—those sort of instinctual responses all come a lot easier to him when he’s more in the Mutant Zone. He’s probably generally more durable and agile too.

#asks #second chance au #buddy armstrong #rando #buzzo #taizarack

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grandducktale · 3 years

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As explained in my -- prologue post, -- I’ll be playing through Persona 4 the Golden, and despite knowing/having access to a guide to obtain the true ending for the game, I’ll be making alternate theories based on what I observe in my playthrough.

Credits to Cyberman65 for some of the screenshots here, as I didn’t want to start a new playthrough to fill in the screenshots I was missing.

My negative thoughts will be RP’d as Dagda, for example: You are aware that Persona 4 the Golden is a Video Game, kid? And one about murders, too? You sure you’re not the REAL culprit behind all of this, for wanting to play such a game? You wanna be like the hero of a television show, don’t you? But the hero of a television show is no true hero at all. .

Hey, that’s not true! Persona 4 is about stopping murders! Wanting to play a game about stopping the bad guys doesn’t make you a bad guy! And fiction can influence real life, for the better!

Huh. There’s that italized text again. Weird. Guess my finger slipped.

So my gameplay difficulty is set to normal. I could do very hard if I wanted, but Persona 4 is long enough as is. Let’s begin.

First, a disclaimer.

Wait, so this game’s about the power of the unconscious and mythology, and they say any similarity to real life is pure coincidence? Smells like red deer droppings, “kid.”

Eh all games have these disclaimers, nothing too weird. Life influences art influences life influences cosplayers having weird RP sex at sweaty convention halls

We meet this guy, purportedly named Igor. He welcomes me or the camera to the Velvet room, though it is a limousine.

Bulging eyes, long nose, crossed hands, death stare - he really seems trustworthy doesn’t he?

Eh no more or no less than a green guy with his jawbone showing and a literal question mark on his face. Besides, true ugliness is on the inside.

Igor claims that I have an intriguing destiny.

There’s a book called “The Darwin Awards” filled with folks who had intriguing destinies.

Maybe this one is actually intriguing, though!

So the Velvet Room, or limo, or whatever is said to exist between dream and reality.

In other words, in your subconscious, right?

Well no, I’m pretty sure this is a video game screen, with a .png portrait, and 3D rendered models. Though I’ve had dreams about video games before, so column a and column b.

So tautologically, I am bound by some sort of legal contract, otherwise how could I be here?

A contract? Singular? Think of all the EULAs you sign, terms of use, even the permission to go on field trips slips you agreed to.

Oh, maybe I’m not tautologically bound by a contract. So wait am I trespassing, have I already signed the contract in the future, or-

Maybe contracts only have as much power as you think they have

Maybe contracts only have as much power as you allow them to have

Sort of? The tarot draws from life, so in a way it is a conceptual mirror. But I’ve flipped a coin while thinking to myself really hard that if it landed heads a steak hoagie would manifest in my hand, and while the coin landed on heads, no such hoagie appeared.

Aye, there’s no steak save what we make for ourselves

A disaster happens, followed by confusion and hesitation. If that’s fortune telling, then I don’t think a single sentient being ISN’T a fortune teller of some kind.

Perhaps this game is actually just a bachelor’s party and Igor is lamenting the player character’s soon to be gone single status. Why else have a limo?

Will the mystery be “Why didn’t the old dream guy wear a seatbelt after predicting a misfortune at his limo’s destination?”

Ah going for the old deterministic sell because I’m in your limo, are ya? What if I just deleted the game and watched paint dried? Fate = Not intriguing = Defied!

Alright so yada yada yada he wishes me luck on the mystery and the anime cutscene plays. Time for me to stop just recapping and start theorizing based on differences or details I didn’t notice during Persona 4′s Endurance Run.

So this under 18 girl who we might encounter later on advertises a diet soda labeled calorie magic. If it possesses fantastic properties, that remains to be seen.

Now the above scene I vaguely remember from Persona 4, but I’ll mark it as noteworthy because

1. The protagonist is shown saying farewell to his class(more accurately, his teacher saying farewell on his behalf, and his classmates being upset). This implies that the student is well liked. The teacher says “Now hold on, there’s more”, as if to assuage the students disappointment.

2. When on a train, the protagonist is wearing a traditional Japanese school uniform as opposed to the dress code the school he leaves abides by. Dress codes might be important.

Now in Persona 4 Golden, the mystery starts out with the media reporting on an scandal, alleging that Enka Singing star Misuzu Hiiragi’s husband, Inaba Politician Taro Namtame, cheated on her with Mayumi Yamano(woman on the right).

As the protagonist rides on the train, his head aches and a blurry scene plays that seems to show Mayumi Yamano being assaulted.

Having a memory of assaulting a woman and waking in a cold sweat - you sure you’re playing as the “detective” in this game?

Was it the memory of assault that made the hero wake in a cold sweat, or the memory of the velvet room?

Well, in any event... the hero gets off the train, and meets his uncle, Ryotaro Dojima, and his cousin Nanako(the younger girl).

Oh come on, what are the odds you could show this screencap to some rando and convince them it was a game about being a male prostitute? Is he the hero’s uncle, or is he his “uncle?”

Giving earnest compliments doesn’t hurt anyone.

Hm. Since Dojima is very specific about calling himself the hero’s younger brother, and not the hero’s uncle, I guess it might be an incorrect deduction to say he is the hero’s uncle.

He is at once both close and distant from the protag.

No matter how ya look at it kid, it’s a power move. Not calling himself your kin, but reminding you of when you were a bawling infant, mewling, weak, and wetting yourself.

Uncle or the protagonist’s mother’s younger brother, Dojima views Nanako as the protagonist’s cousin. Nanako is shy.

Here’s where the divergences from Persona 4 start to happen.

An unfriendly looking girl wearing kneesocks picks a piece of paper up off the ground and claims that the protagonist dropped it.

The protagonist handwrote a note for Dojima’s address. Always good to be prepared analog style. Doesn’t this game take place in 2011?

That’s all the space I have for part 1. Next post will build on some of the differences, a character’s proactive and suggestive nature, and even some of the trivia learned at school.

#Persona 4 the Golden #Shin Megami Tensei #Shin Megami Tensei iv #lets play #Persona #Persona 4 #Dagda

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airedelalmena · 3 years

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(Screenshotted to avoid the attention from randos.)

I find it disturbing to have these kinds of ideas being promoted on television shows and presented as psychologically sound, without looking for other personal causes first (hormone levels (I would even argue some women are just low-libido thanks to maybe even estrogen levels alone), including thyroid hormone, other health issues causing stress, history of trauma, something else).

It was fishy enough when this began to be promoted as a politicized identity in and of itself. But for mainstream media to be pushing it just feels sinister. Right down to it being a confused kid visiting a supposedly wise, trustworthy counselor, met with the creepy scripted tone, told "adopt this narrative we're handing you, it's neat and tidy and doesn't make you ask inconvenient questions"

It's fine to not want sex. But. Just opting out of sex and calling it a "you" thing, "this is my identity and it's just me", avoids asking the big questions. Questions about why you feel that way and whether trauma plays a role. Questions about whether sexism, media, the female body and sex as a commodity, all the ugly forms sexuality is given in this era thanks to all of that, might be the problem. The fact that it's mostly young women identifying this way - with most of the minority of male individuals either having some trauma, being closeted as gay, or being somewhere on the spectrum and having difficulty with it purely related to that.

It's so convenient to this world if the questions about sexism's role in this and childhood trauma, especially for girls, are just not asked. Wrap it up in a neat bow and some question-discouraging clichés.

Whose agenda and why is this suddenly being pushed, when for years it was ignored?

Where is the money coming from? And the motivation behind the money?

Something about this feels very implanted and they're trying to make it feel "grassroots", a show following a natural IRL movement, when it just isn't. Feels like cultural engineering.

The way the acting is delivered is creepier and just reinforces how fake it feels - the original gif post here.

#something feels very not right about this #ref #i don't like what i'm seeing #makes me want to go off grid or become a hermit in a cave #sinister shit #the call is not coming from inside the house #unfollow me if you don't like me ok these are the posts i will make #asking real questions here #manipulation #writing #reasons not to watch tv #among others

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kinetic-elaboration · 5 years

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July 20: Thoughts on The 100 2x04, Many Happy Returns

It’s literally been five months since I did one of these…

The wasteland was a pretty cool concept and I’m sad that they kinda pulled back on it later. Like, when characters can get from point A below the wasteland to point B above it without apparently passing through it at all, it makes it seem like the area is actually not that big after all. Is it, like, just NYC? And maybe the metro area? Also, again, as usual, floored by the costuming on this show. Amazing.

So Zoran is the first human Jaha meets on Earth. A kid and a mutated human.

Clarke is so intensely pragmatic. She legit doesn’t care if people once tried to kill her, as long as they aren’t trying to kill her now. I don’t really see this as forgiveness, but rather an ability to forget the past that isn’t useful to her. Also lol @Anya for saying Clarke is weak, like who broke who out of the Mountain hmmm?

“Everything is Grounder territory.” Murphy telling the truth. And even if some parts of the world aren’t Grounder territory, how the hell would Bellamy know?

Murphy, canonically a terrible runner. Rewatching these early eps just reinforces his glow up since then. (Not in terms of running, but in terms of, like, haircut.)

The wreckage of the Factory crash is so devastating, following the trail of bodies to the crash site. I still wish we’d found out what happened to everyone else. I guess we’re supposed to assume the rest of the stations exploded before impact? But still. I feel some bitterness.

This saving Mel story is entirely, 100% about keeping Bellamy, Finn, and Murphy stuck for most of an episode, allowing Octavia to find them, and then forcing Bellamy to come back to Camp Jaha rather than continue searching for Clarke—so he can, you know, run into Clarke. It’s pure filler. And imo not even very interesting filler since I’m not really like a rescue/adventure story person. I can’t even figure out how Mel ended up stranded along the side of the cliff. Was she climbing up and then got tired? Also, on a related note, at what point do they, Bellamy in particular, realize which station this is? Is it immediately obvious from the wreckage, or only from the identity of the survivor? Because this is Bellamy’s home.

All that time they were talking, Sterling was there in the background, doing whatever. Honestly though shame on Bellamy a little for letting Finn convince him not to save Mel.

Totally forgot they built an electric fence at Camp Jaha. Then, began work on a radio beacon.

I can’t even pay attention to the Clarke and Anya scenes because I’m too attracted to both of them. Less so in the mud. Which is 100% gratuitous given that uh, I don’t think the Mountain Men who almost never go outdoors and are currently wearing big ass gas masks on their faces can smell shit.

Bellamy and his adventure squad are such dumbasses. Huh, let’s tie this thin rope with a single knot around a stump and then just watch our friend use it to scale the side of a mountain. Nothing can go wrong there. I mean there are fucking four of them just standing around watching when they could be, uh, securing the rope? Anyway RIP Sterling, cause of death: idiocy. (Slash the narrative’s need to put Bellamy in the hero role at this point, and to up the ante on his heroism, and to waste some time.)

To be more fair, I think this is semi-important for Bellamy’s characterization, an early version of ‘save who we can save today.’ He’s at a sort of crossroads at this point, not really a leader anymore like in S1, but sort of a leader, and he needs to figure out what sort of leader he’ll be.

Monroe’s “Sterling was one of us” warms my heart because it speaks to my “the 100 were a distinct social group” theory, which I wish (again lol) had been more important to the show and for longer.

Murphy does fall in, though, pretty fast. After Monroe says the ‘one of us’ thing. Which is actually pretty impressive given that a few days ago he was blasting a hole in the dropship and running away with all their ammunition.

This must be such a trip for Jaha, like, he is aware that forest exists still, because of transmissions from the 100, but he’s in the middle of the fucking desert, and this is all he knows of Earth, whatsoever. Also, again, these sets are perfect, I love them so much.

How did the City of Light become a legend among the Grounders? It’s made from the Alie 1 chips…. Didn’t Becca, like, not like those? I’m assuming of course that literally any of this was ever thought out or ever made sense.

“I have no room for hate.” You know what I’m just gonna say it: I think this is true. This is really how Jaha lives the rest of his life. I think people forget since he wasn’t really himself for most of S3, and even in S2 his mission to the City of Light seemed kind of nutty (and boring). But “I have no room for hate” both describes him pretty well, and is rather a lovely thing about him. If only he hadn’t been so obsessed with the COL, tbh. Searching for it was a bad idea from the very beginning and it was also, I think, a rather cowardly idea.

I forgot that this was where the concept of radiation disfigurement came in and was explained. Is that really how it works? Like random mutations, even generations after the event, from non-mutated parents? Lol I have no idea. That said, Sienna kind of looks like she has some scarring on her face, too.

Here is Jaha finding someone who left her people for her son, whereas he sacrificed his son for his people. Does this also change his mind on things going forward? Connect to his insistence on the COL, at the expense of a chunk of his people?

I miss this thing where characters knew other characters even though we’d never seen them interact before, because, like, a history exists and then the show acknowledges it. That was fun.

I shipped Raven/Wick and I don’t regret it, even though fandom’s toxicity basically killed it for me in a lot of ways. They had a good rapport. More importantly, he might literally be the only man to not take shit from Raven and to actually be brave enough to challenge her.

Engineering is such a damn good set.

This is a weird episode because our two mains have pretty much the least important, or at least least-interesting, story lines. They’re basically just being moved into position to reunite at the end of the ep, and that’s it.

Clarke: “I just need something sharp and sterile [to remove the tracker from your arm].” Anya: bites it out with her teeth.

Why do they bother putting trackers on the Grounders? Do they escape often?

Murphy’s not only helping with the rescue mission, he’s at the head of the line.

Bellamy’s legs appreciation.

Murphy: “Don’t you worry, Bellamy, I won’t drop you.” I mean…you did once try to hang him. But by-gones I guess. I do believe at heart Murphy just wants to be part of the crew.

I think the Raven and Wick scenes are my favorites of this episode. I have two uninjured legs and I wouldn’t climb that thing; Raven is a brave bitch. And when she has to give up and come down, probably the saddest moment of the ep, along with finding Factory station. Some of this is relevant to my big bang.

After literally all this, Finn’s still like ‘Bellamy, just drop that rando’ lol. No, bitch, don’t do this half-assed. Stop being a wimp and pull them both up.

Before it’s revealed that the horn is Octavia, this really does look like Bellamy and the No Good Very Bad Day lol: first Factory is found destroyed, then Sterling dies, then you almost die when your fake rope breaks, then someone starts shooting arrows at you, then acid fog rolls in, like, what now universe??

I guess another purpose of this story line, being fair again, is that Murphy and Bellamy are now officially friends again. Like Murphy has proven himself completely trustworthy as of that little nod between them.

“She blew the horn” is s obviously ADR to explain what exactly is happening here. Which is helpful, even though she’s clearly carrying the horn.

Blake sibling reunion!

“Three mechanics made it to the ground.” I mean… you’d think it would be more than that… what with the entirety of Mecha making it. Or was that station mostly casualties? I don’t know, this still doesn’t make sense to me, how they split up people between stations. Season 2 implied it was random, Season 3 implied it was by home station.

“Your leg’s messed up and that blows. Figure out a way to work around it.” Legit question: is there anyone else who would have said that to her?

I really, truly miss Wick tbh. One of the few characters with a sense of humor. (And yet again: he was good for Raven.)

They’re really playing fast and loose with the rules about language in this verse huh? Warriors speak English, no everyone speaks English, no English is for friends only I guess?

Jaha just wants to be a dad. Like, do I think he was a good parent… I dunno. Is he a better parent than anyone else on this show? At this point I would have to say yes. (No, Clarke does not count as a “parent” jfc.)

Ruthless Clarke ftw.

Jaha making a chess board just breaks my heart. Just let him be a dad!!

It’s been such a freaking long time since I watched this, I can’t remember if Octavia had braids in the last ep or not, like how long she’s had them. And it’s really bugging me, because someone else must have put them in, and I’m trying to figure out who that might be.

Also, where did she get the horn? I guess the implication is it was Lincoln’s… I can’t really remember. Wouldn’t it still have been on his person when he was captured?

Octavia went off the rails but at this point I’m still very fond of her.

The map Finn gives Bellamy lists ‘statue’ (Lincoln Memorial?), ‘twin trees’ (???), ‘Ark’ (Alpha Station??), and ‘amusement park’ AND amusement park is very close to Ark so my question is why didn’t they use that amusement park for something interesting??

Bellamy knows he shouldn’t let Finn go off alone but then, what can he do? Finn never really adhered to his authority. And I don’t think he feels like he can flex that right now, like it’s sufficiently established in this new order.

But he does arm Murphy. Which says a lot about how much he has decided to trust him, but also how little he trusts Finn. I forgot about this split in the character groups, though I should have remembered it, since of course this leads directly to the massacre.

“Parting, such sweet sorrow, right?” is an interesting quote from a kid who can’t spell ‘die.’

Aw, Clarke goes back to the dropship. I forgot about that. But then of course she doesn’t realize… anything. She doesn’t know the Ark is down, she doesn’t know what happened to the few of her friends who were on the outside. And her face when she sees the message to her, and only her name is still visible…

Blah blah blah fight sequence.

Creepy skeleton parts on the ground.

I think this could have been the start of an Anya/Clarke friendship of some sort: Clarke earns her respect by fighting well, Clarke’s people protect Anya, the alliance forms… too bad they had to kill her.

And Clarke figures out where Alpha is based on Raven and Wick’s balloon.

“We fell from Earth in a football stadium. I think they already know we’re here.”

BUT the balloon is also what sets off Byrne, and gets her so worried about Grounders she authorizes the ‘shoot on sight’ command that kills Anya and almost Clarke. On the one hand, this is a nicely wrought story line. On the other hand, they shouldn’t have killed Anya, so. A wash.

Was Byrne’s worry about the balloon warranted though? I can’t decide.

Zoran, such a kind soul.

How can there possibly be a bounty on Sky People (side note: Jaha’s reaction to that name like ‘huh well I guess that is what we are’) that people all the way out in the dead zone would know about? Like… they’ve been on Earth for like a month. And the war has only been going on for part of that time, arguably. If it even is a war.

Trent Lane voice: Betrayal, yeah, stab in the back, betrayal…

Too bad “To survive, we do what we must” didn’t end up in like the fandom lexicon. It’s a pretty good variant on the theme. Plus Jaha’s just so… like he’s been fucked over but he can’t even be mad, because he gets that she’s doing it for her son and he wishes he had that chance. Watching his scenes again, I really feel like he was underrated and I miss him a lot.

I wonder what happened to Zoran and family. Were they absorbed into the hive? More generally, what happened to people seeking the CoL before ALIE could get it properly running with Jaha’s help? Did they all just… die in the desert?

Alpha Station at night is so beautiful.

And Clarke is so happy.

And this is SUCH A SETUP FOR CLARKE AND ANYA TO BE FRIENDS OMG, Anya should have brokered peace with Lexa, there was such an obvious role for her… Her death was 100% random attempt at shock, this show’s #1 worst quality, which is saying a lot.

I mean shot in the back while she’s walking away these Sky Guards are incompetent.

RIP Anya.

I really thought the Bellarke reunion was in this ep for some reason. But then I also knew Anya died right at the end—for more Shock Value ofc—so I don’t even know. I remember the scenes but nothing of their order I guess.

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Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Category: Sci-fantasy [Star Wars]

Summary: Anakin Skywalker goes through the formality of putting on the Darth Vader suit.

Personal Comments: After watching The Clone Wars, I wanted to see if my impressions of this movie changed.

I was surprised by how well the actors/actresses handle the dialogue and many of the characters are actually not as dumb as I remembered, except for Anakin, who is a complete idiot. I mean, Anakin’s repeatedly defends Palpatine against the concerns of the Jedi Council, but then Palpy straight-up tells Anakin he’s wrong and Anakin still doesn’t get it. Palpatine has to literally spell it out for him. During one of the (many) “sitty and talky” scenes in the movie, Palpatine has---I counted---four evil head turns during a single conversation. That’s a lot of evil head turns. But Anakin still can’t put two and two together.

Palpatine takes a big risk by revealing himself to Anakin before all of his pieces are fully in place. Of course, it ultimately works out---not because Palpy’s plan was so carefully executed, but because Anakin is such an idiot.

After Palpatine reveals himself to Anakin, shouldn’t Anakin also question Palpatine’s story about preventing Padme from dying in childbirth? I dunno, a dude who’s mastered the evil head turn, talks like a monster, and admits to being a Sith lord might not be so trustworthy, but I’m no expert. He told you he could help you in a very specific, convenient way when you trusted him, then he admits to being a Sith lord. Maybe rethink his previous claims?

Anakin’s problems with the Jedi Council are portrayed as a personal conflict with Windu, which was an understandable choice for a film of finite length, but unfortunately comes across as another critique of Anakin’s character. Anakin commits Jedi-cide because he was passed over for a promotion by Windu.

The whole “Darth Vader” thing could have been avoided if instead of:

Anakin: “I want to come along to help arrest Chancellor Palpatine.” Windu: “No.”

we had:

Anakin: “I want to come along to help arrest Chancellor Palpatine.” Windu: “Sure.”

To summarize, Anakin’s “turn” to the Dark Side comes down to his beliefs that

Padme is going to die in childbirth

Palpatine is the only one that’s able to save her

First, I’m willing to bet Galactic Senator healthcare is pretty good, especially in a universe with faster-than-light travel and other technological advances. Do people even die of childbirth in the Star Wars universe? I would never have thought that was a possibility until I was fed it as pig slop in this movie. Second, Palpatine’s claim to save people from dying is akin to, well, standard medical care. So again, who’s Padme’s obstetrician?

Anyways, Windu brings along two rando Jedis and Kitt Fisto *heh* to apprehend Palpatine. The first two just stand there as Palpatine very slowly pokes each one with his lightsaber. Fisto lasts a few seconds longer but in actuality kinda just decides to die? Remember, this is a character who enjoyed being tortured by electric eels and held his own against General G.

By the way, why does Anakin cut off Windu’s hand? Why not just like, block his lightsaber? I mean, the point is he wants to keep Palpatine alive, right? Anakin doesn’t necessarily need Palpatine to be supreme emperor, he just needs to learn from him how to save hot pants Padme. In Attack of the Clones, Anakin slices up a pair of bugs atop Padme’s heaving bosom as she slept, so don’t tell me he’s inaccurate with the thing.

Also, I’ve seen this movie several times now, but I’m always shocked by just how fast Anakin’s “turn” to the Dark Side is. It is literally a matter of seconds. He’s fighting against it right up until the last moment and then suddenly just bows and professes his undying devotion towards monster face.

Also, why is Anakin killing all the kids? It’s been established his problem is with the Jedi as an institution and especially with the Jedi Council (summarized as a dislike of Windu). He should recognize the children are innocent in all of this? Does Palpy want Anakin to kill Ahsoka too?

(By the way, I hope Anakin remembered to take down his pod racing posters from his room in the Jedi Temple).

Why do Yoda and Obi-wan separate? Why not both go kill the Emperor and then deal with Anakin at a later, more convenient date? It’s just all so contrived and rushed...

Also, the whole “Darth Vader” thing could have been prevented if Obi-wan had put Anakin out of his misery rather than just leaving him there to be burnt to a crisp? I mean honestly Obi-Wan, that’s a pretty dick thing to do. Have you never burnt your finger on a stove? That shit sucks.

Finally, not gonna lie, I skipped the last 30 minutes of the film. 20 minutes of it is stupid lightsaber fights and the rest just jams everyone into their A New Hope starting positions.

Category-specific Comments: This is probably the best of the three Prequel films by default...

Personal Reference: Watched soon after finishing The Clone Wars, to see if that animated series changed my take on the movie at all. Nope, still bad.

My Enjoyment: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Actual Rating: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Little rewatch value, but it’s still technically Star Wars canon...

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