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vvalliu · 1 year
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stormbreakher · 1 year
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NEGAN SMITH The Walking Dead 11.23, “Family”
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atlasonfire · 1 year
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This is intentional. 100%. No way they give us this shot and leave it at that. Those are the two things that connect Judith with Rick and Michonne FFS they have to be coming back in this last episode.
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mcbride · 1 year
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Michonne clears path for Rick & Carl // Carol clears path for Daryl & Judith THE WALKING DEAD 6.09 No Way Out // 11.23 Family [requested by @onedayyoujustchange & @freefromthecocoon]
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hellboys · 10 months
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So why'd you tell the warden your name instead of mine?
THE WALKING DEAD 11.23 – family
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ajcrowleys · 1 year
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THE WALKING DEAD | 11.23
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freackthejester · 7 months
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Saw a post to this affect years ago, but Trans!Crowley (Supernatural) is a valid reading of the text and a delightful headcanon.
In life, it is canon that Fergus sold his sold his soul and went to hell and became a demon over a deal involving penile lengthening . ("Just trying to hit double digits" - 6x04Weekend at Bobby's)
Here's my take: if a cis man made that deal I would think it was pathetic, but if a trans man living in the literal 17th century made that deal I would get it. It would be a boss move.
So let's discuss this. Besides telling a joke, what is the writer (Dabb and Loflin team, feels like a Dabb line to me) saying about Crowley here? He's already been established to be a bit gay, and so therefore vain. But other than that it is not funny. Like, Crowley was just such an inherently evil guy that even back when he was Fergus he sold his soul for kicks?
That's also an incredibly shitty deal. It stops coming up later in the seasons, but crossroads demons are incredibly powerful, and can bring back the dead and imbue talents. And Crowley, the future King of the Crossroads and progeny of ROWENA Macleod sold his soul for an extension on an already oversided penis. In the year like 168X
It's a funny joke and it's what Fergus want you to think. A stipulation of the deal I imagine him making in this headcanon is that everyone's memories are changed so that it will be as if Fergus had always been known as male. It adds so much depth to his relationship with his mother if you imagine that Fergus actually grew up as an angry daughter. Being taught in the ways of witchcraft and being resentful of having to wear girls clothes
Literally okay so imagine the line "Now, Fergus was bright. Walked before his first birthday, but he hated pants. Hated them. He'd run 'round the village, his wee banger just flapping in the breeze." - Rowena 11.23 Alpha and Omega but this is an edited memory (she is talking to Chuck here while Crowley is angry yet oddly nervous.
It's so so canon to ME! If anyone wants to talk about trans Crowley I will listen.
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multiprises · 1 year
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« We’re the ones who live. »
Rest in Peace, The Walking Dead, 11.23
Greg Nicotero (D), Jim Barnes & Corey Reed (S), 13/11/22
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hq-screencaps · 1 year
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The Walking Dead 11.23 Family ↳ 2,085 1080p logofree screencaps
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thewalkingdeadband · 1 year
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CARYL'S LAST EPISODE... (It IS going to be long, beware...) please note that these are only my opinion and the things i felt while watching
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I dont know where to start... i posponed in order to try to gather my thoughts but its hard..
Im not okay. Im not fine. I keep thinking about what we were supposed to have. Them riding off together. Now imagine the same ending scene for them, saying both goodbye to the kids and Ezekiel, with the same beautiful music in the background....
We probably wouldn't have had an I love you then, nor a kiss i believe, but we would've had them leaving together and riding off to their spin off. Which was the plan. Which was the fucking plan. The fucking endgame plan. With or without canon. This is all i could think while watching the scene and hearing the music behind.
I was so caught up in the episode earlier with Rosita and everything happening that it almost took me the time jump to remember that it was the last twd ep ever and that they were going their separate ways at the end, within the next 20 mns or so. Thats when it hit me. Again.
So they were together the whole way this episode, taking care both of Judith, Carol taking care of Daryl, both respectfully giving Magna/Connie/Yumiko/Kelly some space to say goodbye and mourn Luke while trying to save Jude. And while watching over her, they gave each other at some point a beautiful longing look .
She helped him giving his blood, she teared up with relief when Little ass kicker woke up, her hands in her hair.
I loved all that.
Then: bam, action, back to the rest of the episode, fastforward to the end with them locking Pamela up and giving her the same kind of speech Richonne gave when they locked up Negan in the s8 finale. Please. And let's not even go back to Family 11.23, where they ran with Judith in Daryl's arms and Carol clearing the way, just as Richonne with Carl in s6.... Please, again.
But back to Rest in Peace:
Time jump: we have Connie running towards Daryl and my heart shattered a little, thinking "oh no its like Zeke in 9x01, they made them canon post time jump". But no, so huuuuuge relief, cause im not gonna lie and pretend: she did look like a girlfriend running towards her boyfriend in this scene, and that was totally done on purpose i believe. That said, we knew he was leaving and as far as we knew not with Connie so it didnt make sense for me to actually worry i guess ?
And then we see Carol. Short haired. Which i liked. Because if having long hair meant feeling safe enough coz Ed couldnt grab them anymore so no need to cut them short, having short hair again meant, in my opinion: now i feel safe regardless of my haircut, no one's gonna hurt me, Ed is long dead, i can feel safe and relaxed with long OR short hair.
And then we have the goodbye....
I wish you were coming with me. I was torn between screaming "dont we all" and "no shit sherlock".
This is going to be good for you, for me.
Yes. You heard that. To be separated. Good.for.them. Why? How? When? The hell does it mean? I had time to think abt it, and i dont like what i came up with:
"i love u too much and it scares me? We're too fusional? We hurt each other too much lately?? You re better off without me because im not good for u anyway? And to be alone - without u- for a while will allow me some time to heal ?"
After he says goodbye to the kids and zeke, Judith goes, hey, daryl, u deserve happiness too and yes, she seems to look behind, towards Carol but no, im not going to make conclusions out of it even if i love the idea, especially considering what Norman said to Vanity fair abt this line ("if there is any line from the finale that carries over to the spin off , it's that one"). That doesnt look good but i also know not to make a big deal out of what actors say - good or bad, honestly - and at this point i dont wanna care for now, we'll see.
Here's the link for this interview:
Then ... I LOVE YOU
SO... unfortunately, it was said in the same episode than Rosita/Eugene's i love you, and than Magna's " I love you" and "we love you so much" to Luke. So yeah, anyone can see it as platonic if they want to, and put Caryl in the same box as Rosita/Eugene and Luke/his group. It was done on purpose to me.. a la "see? This is the last episode, so this is the episode of the i love yous and do what u want with it"
BUT... the way he said it sounded romantic as hell to me (same as the look he gave her when he answered "yeah..." to her "its a beautiful day to head out"...).
This is her answer/response that bothered me. He said it as a sort of relief for me, like "i finaaaally let it out of my chest", and "i fucking mean it" but she brushed it off, a la "yeah sure pookie dont make fun of me" and to be honest i was almost expecting her to have a "staaaaap" Daryl call back (rofl/tears/idontevenknowanymore). Then she kind of realised he was serious and answered a bit shyly/awkardly i love u too. I was like oh come on!!!! Does she STILL think she's not good enough for his love??
To me he looked disappointed for a nanosecond, and then "oh well", touches her face, they hug, smile, look sad, and off we go. (Yes, maybe it was more Melissa/Norman than Caryl at this point, i dont know).
And then he looks like he wants to say something to her again, and i want to believe it was something like either "u sure u dont want to come ? Please come? " And/ or "i actually love you, you know ? " but eh...
At the end of the day, of course i loved the I love you. For freak's sake, he didnt say it to anyone else in this show, and it is a big deal coming from him, and he said it first. He could have just said: im gonna miss u so much. No, his last words to her were i love you. His last words ever in the main show were to Carol and it was I love you. Of course i screamed with joy regardless of everything.
Ok, to end this dead ass long post, two more things:
Considering everything, im glad Carol's with the kids. Since i like Carick, it gives me hope that maybe, maybe, he could reunite with his kids and Carol (with Rick being forever grateful to her once more), with Daryl - and Michonne of course - being obviously right beside him... since a Rickyl reunion is more than sure at this point, which would lead to a - one can hope- Caryl reunion too...
Also i like the idea of Judith taking care of Carol like Daryl asked. After everything, this is a nice concept. She needs to be taken care of, for once. And if its by the kids, nice touch, since she's taken care of them so much. Plus Carol and Judith being close is all i ever hoped for.
On a lighter note - and please note that it was only a joke to cheer me up, and that i LOVE Ezekiel :
Not my bf saying while watching the caryl goodbye: "look at Zeke being "lets get the fuck out of here kids im not watching this emotional goodbye" while still staying not too far behind to make sure Daryl's actually leaving"
It made me laugh trough my tears, but in all seriousness, Zeke gave them space and i loved him for that, also his hug with Daryl was heartfelt and touching. I want him to find happiness and really move on.
NB: i had a thousand more things to say, but its already way too long...
NB bis: i wish they had brought up the cherokee rose. They were in a beautiful place where there were probably a lot of flowers, he could have taken one and put it in her hair to cheer her up since she was crying and sad. Well, cherokee roses may not be easy to find i dont know... but you know, anything that makes a nice call back to that. Or the acorns. Or the bracelet. Make one last cute joke abt that. For example.
Oh, and have u seen how Maggie asked to see and talk to them both about exploring the world? Since Carol says u want to talk etc. I bet this scene wasnt changed and was in the original way to send caryl into their spin off...
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popchoc · 1 year
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Just watched 11.23 of The Walking Dead, which was fabulous - so thrilling, and I just loved the whole gang getting back together, one by one and from every corner!
But oh my freaking god: how can last week be the actual series finale?! After over a decade of traveling and fighting and surviving with all these characters that I grew to love?
Sigh...
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s-tuesday · 4 months
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Catastrophe - Sparkle Tuesday 11.23
VERSE
Know that I want you bad
Guarantee you won’t stick around
I will not drive my mind mad
Used to sink myself into the ground
Shadow you for weeks, I felt something
Let me go like that, now I’m falling
Alone again, I walk away
Honestly, I thought a met someone
Similar enough to soon become
Guess I was wrong, all I can say
PRE CHORUS
Try, try again
It’s no big deal to you
Try one more time
Now I’m tired of what I wanted to do
CHORUS
Catastrophe, catastrophe
Didn’t wait so you could see
Now it’s true that we’ll never know
Oh, oh
It’s a catastrophe, catastrophe
Effort in to watch it bleed
Didn’t find who I’m looking for
Oh, oh
VERSE
Bet you wouldn’t notice if I were gone
Daily check the clock to see time you’re on
Roll my eyes again
Up, down, pass me by
Moving past, dead in the eye
Better off, leave you behind
Never had a problem with my eyes
For some reason, don’t see a disguise
Back to stage one
Giving up has never been my thing
But how many more times do I try to sing?
I’ve had enough, I’m done
PRE CHORUS
Won’t try again
Don’t see a path that ends with the light
Alone one more time
No point in trying, I’ve got myself tonight
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doomdays · 1 year
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“when you stay soft, you die.”
lydia’s mom told her she can’t survive if she’s soft. she tried to mold her into something brutal, heartless, empty, void of any emotion or feelings, wanted her to not care about anyone or anything else. she wanted her to be a walking dead girl. that’s all she thought lydia was good for - another dead girl in her army. 
she wanted her close, because that was her daughter and she loved her (in such a twisted, fucked up way), but she wanted her to be who she wanted her to be, not who lydia needed or wanted to be herself. 
and then lydia found love, she found a family who loves and accepts her, she’s falling in love with someone who understands her in a way that no one really ever has, she has multiple people in her life who have become the kind of parental figures she always wished she had, and she’s good. she loves so hard, she cares so much, and she just wants to do the right thing, always. 
[i never thanked you for saving her.] “i never thanked you for saving me. we don’t have to. we just do it.” 
being a good person and trying to do the right thing is really just who she is now. she doesn’t have to think about it, she doesn’t have to calculate her every move - she’s just good. she’s soft hearted. and with everything she’s been through, everything she’s been told to be, etc., she shouldn’t be. but she is. 
lydia is a good person in spite of her mother. she wins. she gets to have a real life. 
“they’re human. not perfect, just human. that’s all i ever wanted.”
she just wants to be a human being, living, spending time with her family / her friends / her community. she wants to live. she doesn’t want to walk with the dead. she never did. she always wanted a piece of humanity and now she finally has it. 
and it breaks my heart in episode 11.23 because she literally just got bit, lost her arm, lost a whole lot of blood and could potentially still die - and all she cares about is the fact that elijah, jules, and luke are still out there, and they need their help. she wants to go. she wants to help. she doesn’t want to sit there and wait, she doesn’t want to be the person they’re focused on. she didn’t ever care about the fact that she had been bitten to begin with because she was too focused on trying to save elijah. 
“they need us. we don’t leave them. they need us.”
she puts other people before herself, which completely contrasts everything the w.hisperers were. if you couldn’t keep up, you got left behind. that’s the very opposite of what she does now. she got bitten because she refused to leave people behind; even as she’s injured and still bleeding, all she’s thinking about is them. 
she found her heart, she found herself, and she’s genuinely so goodhearted. she cares about people and that’s what she’ll always have over her mother.  and the best part is that everything her mother wanted her to be, just like her, is what got her mother killed, and lydia is still living, thriving for the first time in her life. 
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katsidhe · 3 years
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Ranking Every SPN Season Finale
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15) 11.23 Alpha and Omega. Dead last because not only is Chuck and Amara’s conflict defanged with a frankly silly anticlimax, but a lot of runtime is eaten up with establishing Lady Toni getting on a plane. The great weakness of an otherwise very strong season is that none of the awful compromises Sam and Dean and Cas made (especially Sam wrt Lucifer) ended up having relevance at all.
14) 9.23 Do You Believe In Miracles. Cheesy dying dialogue, Metatron hamming it up for way too long, that facepalming “the radio was on the whole! time!” twist, uncertainty as to the motivation of the whole confrontation that ends in Dean’s death. Also, this is the beginning of the end of walking back the beautiful work the rest of s9 established, with Sam saying things like “I lied.” I don’t like Dean’s death here at all, in staging, or conceptually, or thematically.
13) 12.23 All Along The Watchtower. I am basically obliged to put this in C tier because it is quite silly, but frankly, I like it more than its ranking deserves. It has the late season finale sin of cramming in an introduction to next season’s conflict in the middle of wrapping up this season’s—but it’s absolutely hilarious that they brought in multiverse portals. And for Sam and Dean, thank god the portal appeared, because otherwise they had absolutely no plan whatsoever to deal with Lucifer, and they probably would have died gruesomely. High points: Sam discovering Rowena’s death on the phone with Lucifer; the spooky introduction of Jack, the raised stakes with Mary trapped with Lucifer. Lowest point: the utter silly pointlessness of Cas’s death.
12) 10.23 Brother’s Keeper. This is the finale that I have the strongest mixed feelings about. There is a queasy lack of self-awareness in the treacly sentiment when Sam presents family photos as evidence of Dean’s goodness. The excuse of MOC!Dean as not the “real” Dean allows for the reasons behind this confrontation to be elided, even as its themes are echoed again and again. The chilling horror of Sam on his knees in front of Dean the executioner is potent and darkly enjoyable, but the instant redirection into attacking Death prevents any kind of real culmination. I can’t decide if I like this episode or loathe it, but I do think I appreciate it more now, after 14.20 and 15.17, than I did when it aired. 
11) 7.23 Survival of the Fittest. We’re on to B-tier! There’s nothing significantly wrong with 7.23. Meg crashes the Impala through a glass sign, so that’s fun. Kevin’s there. There’s action, there’s some cool stakes for next season established, Sam is left alone, which I love. The main sin here is just that most of it is fairly forgettable, because the strongest part of s7 was always the psychological drama of the Winchesters’ disintegration and isolation, not the physical conflict with Leviathans.
10) 14.20 Moriah. Lots of my points about 10.23 apply here, but Moriah is a much better episode, both because there is actual conflict of opinion, and because there is a lot more built-in uncertainty about Jack’s fate than Sam’s. Jack and Dean are onboard with Jack’s murder, just as Sam and Dean were agreed on Sam’s death in 10.23, but this time Cas is staunchly against it, and Sam is on the fence, torn as to how to intervene. So it’s much better drama. But then the crux of the issue gets defanged by Chuck’s reveal. Great s15 setup, but kicks the 14.17-14.19 build down the road. Extra points for Sam shooting God. 
9) 13.23 Let the Good Times Roll. I fucking love the 13.21-13.23 arc. The only thing preventing 13.23 from being A-tier are some wholly avoidable mistakes. The staging is silly; a face-palming amount of time was wasted on Maggie; the wires were a deeply regrettable choice. But even with all that, what we got was great, actually! The Sam-Jack-Lucifer church custody battle is still my favorite goddamn thing. Dean saying yes to Michael was both his only smart move and a devastating sacrifice. The character dynamics here are so JUICY. 13.21-14.01 is, IMO, one of the most fertile grounds for fic and speculation in the entire show.
8) 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two. Now we’re into finales that are fantastic without reservation. Off the devastation of Sam’s death comes Dean’s iconic deal. The actual confrontation in the graveyard is good too, though it’s second to the way we’re all reeling from part one. Azazel dies, Sam and Dean are bloodied and facing down new stakes. The only thing I dislike about this episode is John’s cameo.
7) 1.22 Devil’s Trap. This is the episode that ups the ante! Azazel in John, and Dean, and Sam, and the delicious family dynamic here; the stakes are so personal, and it’s a great examination what each of them is willing to pay for their quest: an electrifying taste of what’s to come. And the music, and the sheer fucking balls of just, crashing a goddamn truck into your main characters at the end of the first season. Nice.
6) 3.16 No Rest for the Wicked. Lilith is delightfully evil. We’re on tenterhooks for Sam to save Dean, we’re narratively primed to expect him to pull off something amazing, a last-minute miracle. But—nope! Sorry! Dean gets graphically ripped apart onscreen and now he’s being tortured in Hell! Shocking and bold, and a crucial turning point in the series. 
5) 4.22 Lucifer Rising. Fresh off 4.21 comes an excellent culmination of season 4′s devastation. The reveals from both Ruby and the angels, Sam draining the possessed nurse, Cas at last choosing to betray Heaven, and the final arrival of Lucifer: it all just works, really well. 
4) 15.20 Carry On. Part of the reason I’m ranking this so highly might be spite. But goddammit, bad wig and worse Carry On cover aside, this is a good episode, and a really, really good series finale! The deliberate anticlimax of Dean’s death, the quiet strength in Sam’s grief, the untroubled, unrushed pacing of Sam’s recovery and aging, and Dean’s drive. Supernatural said Sam Rights, and I wept like a tiny little baby. 
3) 6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much. Adventures in Sam’s mind! Cas and Crowley and Raphael and the double cross! The taste of cosmic horror! The end of season 6 and beginning of season 7, as Sam and Dean cope simultaneously with Sam’s psychological fallout and the consequences of their most powerful ally going off the rails, is fantastic. I love the literalism and the symbolism of Sam’s reintegration: this is an unapologetically Sam episode (as are the other top four, come to think of it). 
2) 8.23 Sacrifice. Sam’s heartbreaking deterioration in the church and Crowley’s disintegration are an electrifying climax to the trials. Dean and Sam’s final exchange is a breathtaking combination of raw emotion and delirium and a fascinating guilt trip. It’s a visually and conceptually stunning episode: the angels fall burning against a night sky; Sam surrenders the trials and collapses, dying. 
1) 5.22 Swan Song. You knew this would be number one, I knew this would be number one, we all knew this would be number one. It’s iconic for a reason. Sam and Lucifer talking through a mirror; the loss of all hope and the sky-high stakes. Stull Cemetery is the defining moment of so, so much of the rest of the series. Dean’s loyalty gives Sam the strength he needs to bury himself alive forever with his worst nightmare, and it saves the world, and it’s the highest cost either of them has ever paid.  
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mcbride · 1 year
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This family, my family, we would do anything to protect each other.
Aunt! CAROL & Uncle! DARYL + JUDITH GRIMES THE WALKING DEAD 11.23 ▶ Family
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daisybeewrites · 3 years
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the first noise we hear after meredith enters the hospital in 11.21 is the click of the gunman from 6.23/6.24.
then we hear mer’s mom trying to kill herself in the kitchen.
and the music from the carousel. which ties to ellis’s death and her chilhood.
then she runs outside the hospital and throws up, which parallels 1.01, after katie bryce coded and mer panicked.
we see mer remembering all the most important moments, from elevators to post-its to girls and guys in bars to zola walking to kisses and laughs.
its hard. seeing all the things we love about meredith and derek. but the hardest part is watching 11.22, and seeing the memories she thinks of after he’s dead. hearing the quiet ER at dillard. ellis grey’s sobering voiceover.
"who died?" because amelia remembers the look on peoples’ faces when they have to tell you that someone died. she’s been through it so many times.
watching mer see all the tears and death and running to san diego, remembering her mom all through 11.23.
funny, isn’t it? the way memory works? the things you can’t quite remember, and the things you can never forget.
goodbye, derek.
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