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megashadowdragon · 4 years ago

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me since book 1 of legend of korra when ever people try to claim mako was a womanizer, gary stu ( which requires a misunderstanding of what a gary stu is nad makos character people have thrown that term around to any character they dont like ) , or creators pet , manipulator , when that was never the case ( he never was mako is a human being who makes mistakes the narrative always acknowledged his flaws as things that needed to be worked on the idea that if a character makes mistakes and isnt specifically punished for them and good things happen to him afterwards its rewarding him for his flaws is nonsense the claim that he needed to suffer or have good things taken from him is bs korra was just as responsible for the love triangle as mako and claim that mako ending the show single was karma is nonsense he shouldnt be punished for not being perfect and making mistakes ( which is why korrasami only became popular due to the hate for mako and a desire for lgbt rep not due to any actual chemistry or because it would make sense ( korrasami was thrown in at the last minute as a retcon and publicity stunt/political statement optimistic view : bryke genuinely thought they would be doing good and helping people they compromised the story narrative by throwing it in at last minute cynical publicity stunt either way they tried to cover their asses by casting aspersions on critics

the narrative they made led to the idea korra would end the show single with possibly a hint to makorra getting back together I cant help but rolly my eyes when I think how certain fans would react to that there would be claims of queerbaiting when they queerbaited themselves nothing hinted at korrasami the only way you could see evidence is if you were wearing shipping goggles or ending up unhappy to be frank I would change ) ( and this was the case ever since I watched b1 ( I was part of the fndm since the first episode came out)

“Censorship explains why we couldn’t get a kiss and an “I love you” in the finale or blatant romantic scenes, not the utter lack of Korra-Asami interaction as a whole. They had six (to six and a half) minutes of interaction in the last season, spread out over six interactions/conversations. They’ve had nearly no on-screen interaction since “Long Live the Queen,” actually. They had the 5 second “I can come to the South Pole” convo in “Korra Alone” (which Korra refused), the single letter, their interactions in “Reunions,” and then the tea scene in “Remembrances.” After that, they don’t speak again until the last two minutes of the finale. The episode after “Remembrances” is the Korra-Mako field trip to the Spirit Wilds and Zaheer’s prison and the culmination of Korra’s recovery arc. Where was Asami? She had two lines in the whole episode, and they were both to Varrick.”

the aspersions Bryan cast on the fandom for not accepting what amounted to a last-minute retcon have been functioning (whether intentionally or not) to shield the creators from any criticism for their own fault in the poor execution of their endgame ship, allowing them to take all of the credit for being “subversive” and none of the blame for breaking their existing narrative to do it.

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it often feels that

I never liked prince wu and the only reason some people liked him was because he bothered mako if I could change prince wu I would follow what ikkinthekitsune said to have mako happy

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Biggest change to the initial setup? No Prince Wu. Instead of an obnoxious overgrown child of a Prince, our heir apparent is introverted, lacks the confidence to refuse just about anything, and is terrified of being in front of crowds. He’s the (implied-to-be illegitimate) child of a distant relative of Hou-Ting and a Republic City citizen. Oh, and he’s all of ten years old. In other words, everything about him screams “Raiko chose this kid as a convenient puppet” (instead of offhandedly implying it once and forgetting about it as was done with Wu). All of the time Wu wastes on comic relief in After All These Years is used to explain the political situation: the prince is a figurehead meant to display the trappings of royalty and legitimize Raiko’s chosen advisors. Kuvira’s supporters hate him not just because he’s royalty but also because they think he’s essentially giving the Earth Kingdom away to an imperialistic foreign power. Mako’s there to protect him both because Raiko ordered him to and because he’s one of the few cops the prince is comfortable around; as such, Mako actually feels bad for the kid and wants to protect him. (This prince is legitimately terrified by the scary adults throwing pies at him and bursts into tears as soon as they’re out of harm’s way. Mako comforts him and makes him feel a little better.) Korra Alone is close to perfect and stays pretty much as-is, albeit with Korra’s loss in the Earth Rumble ring being far less embarrassing – she gets some hits in, and the end makes it even clearer how distracted she was by Dark Avatar Korra. The Coronation follows up on the political changes. Instead of being all excited about how awesome he thinks the ceremony is going to be, the prince is afraid – of being on stage (Mako assures him he’ll do fine), of being king (Raiko assures him that his advisers will do all the work), and of Kuvira (Raiko assures him that she’ll step down). The prince thanks Kuvira and lets her speak the way Wu did in the show, except that it’s sort of implied that he’s looking for an excuse to not have to stay up at the podium for longer than necessary. Kuvira, of course, uses the opportunity to take over… and specifically points to Raiko’s use of the prince to control the Earth Kingdom as a reason why she’s justified in doing so. (The prince hides behind Mako when this happens. =( ) Some of the time saved by not having Wu freak out about the loss of his throne is used to show us the meeting of the world leaders, where they talk about why they think Kuvira is dangerous (she’s very with-me-or-against-me) and what they can do to stop her (not much as long as she limits her ambitions to the Earth Kingdom).

The Republic City part of Reunion is way more tense because Team Avatar are looking for a terrified kidnapped child instead of an aggravating jerk. (The prince still gets to ask Korra to go into the Avatar State because he wants to see her eyes glow, but it’s actually kind of endearing since he’s a little kid.)

and only people who wouldnt like it is mako haters who demonize him for being a human being who makes mistakes and twists him to be something he isnt to point where they claim bs things like claiming he called asami a leech when no it was a figure of speech it was avatar equivalent to ripping off a bandaid.

or whining that he was a bit of a jerk at the start or not immediately nice ( when mako is someone who unlike bolin has an icy demeanor and is wary of bringing new people in to circle but when you are in he will die for you he has been compared to zuko minus angst for a reason he was a jerk with a heart of gold he isnt going to be immediately friendly with people like bolin

( I cant help but think of the people who would say zuko should have suffered at the end )

#lok #legend of korra #the legend of korra #lok mako

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pyropsychiccollector · 6 years ago

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So, to explain - this is the Danganronpa characters from Trigger Happy Havoc, listed from my favorite to least favorite. I'll go ahead and explain my rationale, a bit.

Starting with the F rank, Hagakure.... He's just useless as hell. A comic relief character that somehow managed to make it out of that shitstorm alive, and he's just not a very deep, amazing character. He's easy to panic and confuse - hell, at the start, he was so convinced the school was pulling an elaborate prank on them... despite all the signs to the contrary. And his talent of fortunetelling.... even the average of his predictions being right (30% at most, 20% at least) is pretty piss poor. Celes set him up as her scapegoat, and while that is kinda sad for him, it kinda loses its effect when you consider he begged for you (Naegi) to donate your organs on the cheap so that he could sell them on the black market so that he wouldn't need to dip into his own life savings to pay off a debt to the yakuza.

.... Like I said, not that great of a character, and I'm super annoyed out of everyone, he was one of the survivors. XD

Moving onto E rank... Fukawa's a little better off than Hagakure. She's a super downer to talk to, and will not hesitate to insult you to your face (unless you're Togami), but she's a learned girl and she made some contributions to the story, though they be few and far in-between, in my opinion. Her obsession with Togami is annoying, though, and like Hagakure she dragged out the trials at times because of her insistence on certain culprits (like Naegi, in trial 1).But.... still better than Hagakure, honestly. Her talent's hell of a lot more useful than Hagakure's, too - not to mention her growth in later games and anime.

Rank D.... Yamada just seemed so flat (an otaku to the bone), and Leon just didn't have much time for you to get to know him. You could tell he was a lady's man, a skirt chaser, and he let the life-or-death situation with Maizono get to him... But Leon did show, at least marginally, that he did have a love for his talent; he just didn't care for all the formal, traditional stuff like shaving his hair off. And Yamada... Well, he was used and thrown away by Celes; what sets him apart from Hagakure is he was actually stabbed in the back by her, and he didn't try harvesting your organs to repay a debt that was totally and completely on him for scamming the wrong people.

.... So yeah, Yamada and Leon are somewhat more sympathetic characters, but they're either flat or just didn't have enough time to flesh out.

Rank C... Ishimaru kinda started out boring with his by-the-books attitude and obsession with studying, but you could appreciate his struggle with effort vs genius - geniuses have to work, too, but in some respects they can make it look pretty easy. Having to work from the bottom up is admirable. Plus, you kinda felt bad for how he lost his best friend in trial 2.... On the surface that looked a bit fast for a friendship to blossom between two people of seeming clashing personalities, but when you consider they all had their memories wiped.... It's not that crazy; on an instinctual level, they were still probably pretty good friends, which is why they gravitated to one another again (that's just my thoughts; we don't know a lot about the time they spent at Hope's Peak pre-Tragedy).

Togami started as a prick and elite snob.... Not to mention how he toyed with trial 2 for kicks. It was nice seeing him eat humble pie in trial 4...And though he sent you to your death in trial 5, he had some development toward the end of the game. .... A little. What probably raised him to C for me was his characterization in the second game and the Danganronpa 3 anime.... Still a bit stuck-up, but he'd bonded with everyone in his own way~

Fujisaki.... You just gotta feel sorry for the kid. Had a weakling complex for much of his life, and it only seemed to get better when he got in high school.... A nice, loyal friend, and inventor of Alter Ego, who survived into the second game.... Bummer that he was the fourth one to die.

B rank... I suppose Genocider/Genocide Jill was just a fun, kooky character. No qualms about murdering, and she had a loyalty streak in her (not just for Togami, but Komaru, too). Plus, it was kinda neat her memories of the Tragedy were used to help solve the last trial of the first game. That's just me.

Asahina.... She was a chirpy, sappy, loyal girl. Bit of an airhead at times, but she made contributions to the story. She'd probably be higher if she didn't try to screw everyone over in trial 4, but that was mostly Monokuma's fault for the planted fake suicide note, so not too many demerits against her.

Kyoko... definitely one of the most useful characters, had a backstory, and all-around nice girl, if not a tad awkward because of not interacting with others much. Similar to Asahina, she'd probably be higher up there if it wasn't for how she screwed Naegi over, in trial 5... I get the desperation of surviving no matter what (to solve all the mysteries), and it being a setup from Monokuma again, but her betrayal still kinda chafed. If Alter Ego hadn't saved Naegi, I probably would have downright hated her.... XD I suppose she loses a few more points for being mostly reserved and stuck in her detective work.... But overall, she's a cool character.

A rank... Junko surpasses Kyoko merely because she's a Joker-esque character. You still gotta hate her for being the root cause of all the misery, but the cray-cray kinda softens the blow. .... It's kind of like how the executions in Danganronpa can be funny, yet dark when you really think about them. And if you didn't have Junko, well, there wouldn't be any Monokuma.... and he can be even more Joker-esque, despite "just" being a mascot. XD

S rank.... Mondo was a meathead, and a jerk for punching your lights out in the first chapter, but he could be a real softie and loyal as hell. His guilt for causing his brother's death makes him easy to sympathize with, and his character flaw of easily losing his temper makes him pretty human. He didn't like murdering Fujisaki, and he was man enough to try and conceal Fujisaki's gender because it was something Fujisaki confided to him in good faith. A tragic character overall, but you're not annoyed by all the tragedy, like you can be with some characters (leers at Jellal from Fairy Tail).

Sakura is in a similar state. She's more level-headed than Mondo, but she can still get angry, and she had strong enough willpower to take her own life rather than murder one of her friends - and do it in a way that can make it clear so that the class trial doesn't drag on. Monokuma threw a wrench into that, of course, but it was still her intent to make it easy for her friends to live on. Her backstory with the man she loves, someone she acknowledges as stronger than her in spite of him currently fighting an illness, was pretty interesting, too.

SS rank.... Makoto's a pretty great protagonist - probably my favorite in the Dangan series. The "I'm ordinary to the cliché degree" routine can be off-putting, but he's got a strong spirit, and.... he's just a nice guy. Probably to the point of being TOO nice, and I guess that makes him a human character I can relate with... If he had even one selfish bone in his body, he probably could have gotten Sayaka to outright say she loves him, in the game. But because of circumstances, and because he thinks Sayaka is too high register for him (even though she's "interested" in him), he doesn't take the initiative and confess to her. Naegi just keeps bouncing back despite getting betrayed again and again.... Hagakure, Sayaka, Leon, Mondo, Celes, Asahina, Kyoko.... Naegi just keeps bouncing back~

And considering how I've talked about betrayals so far, you'd probably be surprised Celes is so high up there. But still, I find her to be a pretty down-to-earth character, a Queen of Liars, and a dreamer of dreams. She can be bratty, like when Yamada didn't make her "royal" milk tea, but I find her rage-induced states to be funny.... She's shrewd and cunning (save for trial 3), and I just kinda like how Naegi wormed his way into her heart, being the first of their classmates to reach "C-rank" in her hierarchy. Hell, she even joked about being pregnant with Naegi's child in that last free time with her.... You don't see any other girl doin' that in the series. XD

And finally, SSS rank.... the heavenly tier~

Mukuro's a badass and an adorable waifu rolled into one. Danganronpa 3 didn't do her much favor with her obsession to please Junko, but I do think she was loyal to a fault in that regard - otherwise, Junko wouldn't have done nearly as much damage as she had. The Danganronpa IF storyline, while fanmade, did a nice job of showing how Makoto could have affected her, and fleshed out her character pretty nicely. I still like her being a bit of a goober, being flustered at times, but I also like the badass side of her.... Not to mention her potential fierce loyalty to Naegi, if they'd had more time to interact....

And Sayaka, well.... XD I know a lot of people don't like her, but I definitely think she has more depth to her than most people give her credit for. I mean, think about how much emotion she showed in that first chapter - showed especially to Naegi of all people. If she wanted to hide her distress, her fears, why confide in him at all? If she was really plotting murder all along, why'd it take until the motive videos to "see" that potential for murder in her? She remarked how not talking to Naegi in middle school was one of her biggest regrets.... And isn't that a bit risqué for an idol to do? To reveal she has regrets at all? Japanese idols are supposed to be bubbly and love everybody, but she was pretty candid with Naegi in regards to what she thought about Mondo, after he volunteered Naegi to go find Monokuma's "motive". Sayaka betrayed Naegi, that's a fact; but it wasn't from the onset, and she most certainly didn't do it easily and without an ounce of regret in her heart. I suppose one thing for me that makes Sayaka's betrayal different from Celes and Kirigiri's betrayals is the fact she left behind evidence to absolve Naegi, to point to who really killed her (she even remembered what Naegi said about how to open his bathroom door). And what's more, she was conflicted enough that it led to her death at all. Kirigiri showed remorse over throwing Naegi under the bus, but only after the fact, and only made reparations after Alter Ego miraculously saved him. Sayaka's heart hadn't completely been in it when she betrayed Naegi, and that's something I liked; because it showed that, despite doing such a horrible thing, she cared about him. She betrayed him in a way that wouldn't physically hurt or kill him, and she hadn't intended dying on him, either; she didn't know about the class trial, and therefore didn't know she was endangering all of her classmates, including Naegi. It's very likely that had she succeeded in her murder of Leon, she would have confessed right away so that Naegi could live. For Sayaka, Makoto was a precious friend that reminded her that people can do nice things for others without any intent of getting anything in return. She loved his kindness, and was flattered he saw her as an idol worthy of worship.... despite how she confessed she'd done "bad things" to reach the top of the industry. Who knows what occurred back in their pre-Tragedy days.... The possibility for a relationship was quite high, considering how close they got to each other in chapter 1. That's just my thoughts, though.

#Danganronpa #Danganronpa Tier #Yasuhiro Hagakure #Touko Fukawa #Hifumi Yamada #Leon Kuwata #Kiyotaka Ishimaru #Byakuya Togami #Chihiro Fujisaki #Aoi Asahina #Kyoko Kirigiri #Junko Enoshima #Mondo Oowada #Sakura Oogami #Makoto Naegi #Celestia Ludenberg #Mukuro Ikusaba #Sayaka Maizono

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darkzorua100 · 7 years ago

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Well...that was underwhelming. I get that episode 71 was basically just set up for the start of the war between humanity and the Ignises, and there was no way they were going to be able to top episode 70 with everything that happened in that, but this episode just went by so fast that they didn’t even give us time to be whelmed by the reveals that they did give us. I mean, it didn’t help that the beginning of the episode was a four minute recap and everything else felt like stuff that we as the viewers were already able to put together, it was just the show confirming it for us. But hey, on the bright side, we got our new ED this week. The bad side? OP 2 is still the same. No changes whatsoever. I shouldn’t get annoyed at this, after all there was no evidences to begin with that we were going to get an updated OP, but at the very least couldn’t they have updated Revolver? That is just going to be awkward now seeing him in his old avatar when he’s in his new one in the ED.

Anyway, we pick up right where we left off in episode 70 with the whole Jin reveal and I do like how this episode finally establishes a term for how the Ignises view their humans. Lightning calls Jin his Origin which makes sense. Still want to know how the actual hell Jin created Light Yagami from his messed up state but I digress. As we expected, just based on his expression, Jin is basically just a lifeless drone for Lightning to use, imprisoned within his own mind. How does that exactly work though? I mean, Jin’s real body is in a coma right now with his consciousness being used as Lightning’s throne with his deeper consciousness being completely closed off. This is some Inception sh*t right here is all I can say to that. Back to the whole Origin thing, Lightning says something about it that I find interesting. He says, and I quote, “Ignis and Origins can’t help but to affect each other.” with Ai talking about how this is shown through Playmaker’s Link Sense. It is because of their connection, with Ai being the Ignis based off Yusaku, that Yusaku has that ability to begin with. Interesting. What does this say about the Lost Children and the Ignises as a whole then if they keep finding ways to affect each other whether they know it or not? Take for example Windy’s condition at the moment. He out right tried to kill his kid, if he’s alive or not who knows at the time being, and then that pain and suffering he unleashed on his kid circles back around to almost destroy him. I’m very intrigued to know more about this connection then ever now.

Playmaker puts together that Lightning was the one to destroy the Cyberse World and Ai, especially Flame, are pissed about that one. Basically Lightning did it as a giant reset button. Because they weren’t getting anywhere on their decision whether to co-exist with humans or to destroy them, because Flame, and, as revealed in this episode, Aqua wanted to side with humans. I think this basically confirms that Aqua went to her human so that’s going to be interesting to see when we finally see them in person. I also just loved the little moment between Flame and Soulburner when Flame told Lightning the reasons why he sided with Takeru in the first place.

Okay, that’s adorable. Unlike Yusaku and Ai, who grew to believe and understand each other as partners, Flame just naturally believed in Takeru from the start when he couldn’t even do that for himself. It really is just tough love between these two on why Flame is such a jerk to Takeru at times, other then just not being able to understand humans of course on Flame’s end, but it works and it is just nice. It is also just really interesting for Flame to say this as well because again, when you look at it from Yusaku and Ai’s prospective, if Ai had actually stayed in the Cyberse World after the first attack, he probably would have been on Lightning’s side. As seen in the first episode, he watched Playmaker from a gargoyle statue when he was on the run sure but if he never left in the first place, he more then likely would have never done that. As Ai stated, he and the other Ignises wanted nothing to do with humanity at first and considering how self preservation he was in the beginning of season 1, if Lightning told him that hey, the humans are going to be planning a full out war between us then yeah, he definitely would be on Lightning’s side if it meant he would be able to win and continue to live. Some nice indirect acknowledgement for Ai’s character development right there.

Of course, Lightning doesn’t share the same views as Ai and Flame do and just thinks it is a giant error in their programming. To put it in a nutshell, since he wasn’t able to talk them into joining his side peacefully, he’s going to try and reset them just like he did with their world when he gets the chance. Right now, Lightning has to save Windy’s life since he’s still kinda dying at the moment so he leaves with his star club. Playmaker and Soulburner make chase, and the Knights of Hanoi stay back to watch the show and make some phone calls to invite SOL Technologies to the party. Revolver feels like being lazy piece of sh*t this season, allowing his enemies to destroy each other. Considering the controversy at the moment with him and Datastormshipping in general, maybe that’s a good thing? Personally I enjoy watching Revolver murder fools with his gun dragons, but I guess we have to pass that up for another Playmaker vs Bohman duel because Playmaker needs to reveal his Synchro.

We get another reveal in this episode that it was actually Lightning that saved Playmaker and Ai from falling to their death after their duel with Spectre, not Revolver. Since Lightning couldn’t deal with the Knights when he was busy destroying the Cyberse World, he saved Playmaker to do it for him. For someone who thinks humans are inferior, you sure do trust them to save your existence from being bombed, Lightning. Well I guess Ai was with him so I guess he trusted Ai to make sure that Playmaker wouldn’t betray them or something? I don’t know, there are actually some flaws in your plan there, Lightning. Like what if he actually did lose against Revolver during that duel, you basically just got yourself killed because you didn’t feel like it was necessary to protect your kin personally and instead felt like trying to destroy them yourself for apparently your own salvation. Lightning’s plan is just weird.

After that reveal, Blood Shepherd and Go’s goons finally show up. Lightning sends out his army of Bit and Boot clones to take care of them (and fail miserably in the process) while Bohman suggests to take care of Playmaker while Lightning takes care of Soulburner. After we get some more nightmare fuel in the form of Jin pinching Windy’s eye out of its socket to create a data storm to separate the two, (on that note geez Vrains. I know it is October and all, with us getting a new Vrains episode on Halloween even (and on that note who is going to appear on that date? We had our lord and savior Zarc appear on Christmas, now better known as Zarcmas, so what are we going to be changing this date to now for the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom?) but you all have no chill when it comes to the body horror with the Ignises) Bohman appears in front of Playmaker to duel him and Lightning, with Jin, appearing to be going to duel Soulburner, with a pissed off Flame, sometime after that or maybe they are going to cut back and froth between these two duels? Regardless, I just like to say this now, Takeru and Flame are so screwed. There is no way in hell they are beating Lightning, especially with how pissed off Flame is at the current moment which could lead into so many misplays, and with the new ED revealing that it looks like Earth is siding with the humans, more on that later, unless they want to turn this into a 2 against 4, Flame is going to get reset when they lose and Takeru is going to get turned into a mindless drone in the process. If we are lucky, Lightning can really mess up his memories and turn Soulburner into a sadistic bastard instead. Now I’m not saying I want that to happen but please turn Soulburner into a sadistic bastard, please turn Soulburner into a sadistic bastard, Lightning. I need more psycho characters.

We get to finally learn the deal with Bohman and Haru for the most part. They are both AIs created by Lightning to surpass the Ignises. Apparently all the other times we saw Bohman, he was in the Alpha and Beta stages of his programming and now, more or less, in Opened Beta. Bohman calls himself the 3rd generation of Ignis, modeled after both Playmaker and Ai (guess that explains the whole thinking he is Playmaker thing), with Haru being the 2nd and Lightning, with the rest of the original Ignises, being the 1st. Bit and Boot were the original prototypes for the 2nd that lead into Haru if I’m getting all of this correct. He created these new Ais, Ignis 2.0 and 3.0, because Lightning feared that the Ignis as they are now will turn against each other like humans have done in the past (well he isn’t wrong, but just like Kogami, how fitting, you both fulfilled your own prophecies), and made Bohman as the vessel to untie and Ignis together. Figuratively or literally I’m not sure but hello Divine Ignis. It looks like we are going to be getting one in the future, if Bohman didn’t just claim to be it. Again, nothing that he says we should take at face value, because memory problems and all that, but it actually looks like he is legitimate this time around just based on how Lightning spoke to him and his actions leading up to this reveal. They actually make some sense, mad sense anyway.

And that about does it for the episode. Like I said, kinda underwhelming in my eyes anyway since all of these reveals we kinda figured out in some shape or form but hey, it was a setup episode so I can’t complain to much. We then get our new ED. Song wise, still don’t know how to feel about it. Visuals, it is mostly our characters changing from their RL appearance into their LV appearance. We get a shot of Ai, Flame, and Aqua together so yeah, definitely looks like Aqua is on our side and I’m hoping this is foreshadowing her appearing soon. Nothing with her human so if it isn’t Aoi, she might get added in once she is revealed I hope. We have a shot of Link Vrains with what it looks like a side by side of it next to what I’m assuming is its future self once Lightning is done with it. Speaking of which, we get a screenshot of Lightning and his group, Revolver in his new get up (once again, this is going to be weird if he is never going to be updated in the OP) with Spectre, and a shot of all our main cast of characters in a park together. Kusanagi, Emma, Akira, Yusaku, Flame, Aoi, Ai, Takeru, Aqua, Earth (yeah it looks like he is going to be on our side. Have fun with that one, Spectre), Naoki, Ryoken, and Spectre. The ED ends with us getting some of the Disaster Trio’s Ace Monsters: Playmaker’s Cyberse Clock Dragon and Cyberse Quantum Dragon (yeah he is getting a Synchro if anyone didn’t believe that before) Revolver’s Borreload Savage Dragon, and Soulburner’s Salamangreat Heatleo and Playmaker flying towards us and shattering the screen (thanks Yusaku! Now we have to repair that after each episode now!)

For the preview, it looks like whatever Bohman is saying to Playmaker and Ai is seriously pissing Ai off to the point where he is shaking from it but it looks like Playmaker is going to be the one to get Ai through this and he even gives him a smile in the preview (he smiled again ladies and gentlemen!). I hasn’t seen the cast list yet for 72 so I don’t know what else to say about it until I can find it but once I see it, I’ll be sure to give you guys my thoughts as always if there are any notable names and what could happen because of those characters.

#vrains #vrains spoilers #Thoughts #theories

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moccahobi · 3 years ago

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Do you like college aus? Characters with complex backstories and flaws? Immaculate descriptions? This is a great series for you!

Jo does an amazing job getting readers hooked! The MC is relatable and in a tough situation. Very quickly I found myself rooting for them to recover from their broken heart and wanting the best for them. This includes... Very mixed feelings about their best friend Nina. Like... I understand the complexity of being friends with two people before a fall out but Nina really seems to be taking Erin and Davis's side and I don't like it. It's one thing to keep the peace but to be so buddy buddy?? Smh.

I'm rooting for Kiko and Yoongi too! They seem so cute and the simple setup of Kiko not liking parties, wanting to leave, and then having them stay until 3am just talking to Yoongi? Love it!

And Taehyung! Oh Taehyung! He was introduced so well with the light flirting and the predicting the weather??? Omg! That sounds so cool. I'm so curious abt what his process for predicting weather is. And so kind of him to apologize to the mc when he realized that the mc was not just being sassy but was genuinely upset at him.

Also. I 100% believe that Taehyung hurt (or only hurt) his ankle. Standing at the top of a dark staircase? That's prime crying space. Maybe he twisted it a bit but I think that might be set up for a plotline. 👀 👀 👀

My live reaction is under the read more:

What a beautiful opening paragraph! I love it! Such beautiful language!

Awwe. The MC looking for their friend? I love! 🥺

I feel the struggle of the MC. Visiting friends from before college is complex!

🤣🤣🤣 Zoning out because of crunchy leaves is sooooo valid! Love that!

Oh? Why don't we like Erin? Why don't we??? 👀👀👀

Oof... Did Erin play a role with the breakup? If so... Idk how I feel abt Nina being friends with Erin still... Of course we don know what happened yet. Oof! This is so good at keeping me engaged! What an interesting plot!

OMGGGGGG! A triple! I'm in a suite that's supposed to be for 4 people (but only 2 people are living in it 🥴) and it's so nice to have your own bathroom!

Fashionably late 😭😭😭 I am painfully on time for things and for my experience parties are not the time for that. Ah hour and a half late sounds good for parties thoooooo

Awwwe. I feel Kiko. I'm not good at parties and leaving early is very nice. 😭

Awwe. My hunch was right. Erin and David cheated together. That's frustrating. Sounds like the party tonight will be rough. 🥺🥺🥺

"Maybe you'll meet someone" 👀👀👀 foreshadowing!

Awwe. So understandable that Nina is in a tough situation and soo understandable that it's isolating for the mc. You do a good job at humanizing Nina as a friend! 🥺

Awwe. The mc feeling jealous of Nina feeling so free for new relationships? Love the tough of angst!

Jin and Bridget no longer there? 👀👀👀

MC refusing to acknowledge how how he dude is. 🤣🤣🤣 Sure jan. Keep talking abt what u refuse to see!

Taehyung trying to flirt thru commenting the MC's hips. 🤣 I love

BLACK WIDOW???? OMGGGG

Licking ones elbow is a great party trick! Excuse me! Jk can show me that!

Taehyung predicting the weather? I'll be curious abt that 👀

Awwe. How kind of Tae to apologize. 🥺

Oooooof. Davis, Erin, and Nina. All in one spot... 😬😬😬

I feel u mc! Screw Davis and Erin! And Nina is being so mean by hanging out with them so and not being understanding. The mc was cheated on! Don't give me an eye roll. Smh

Ohhhh. Taehyung with a hurt ankle on the top of their stairs and Jimin AND Yoongi going to help? Seems like an interesting plot point! 👀

Chapter 1: Interesting Spider Facts || KTH

(banner by @itaeewon)

Title: What Was Hidden (Masterpost)

Rating: explicit, minors DNI pls

Genre: college!au, angst, eventual smut, strangers -> friends -> lovers -> idiots -> lovers

Pairings: Taehyung x female reader, MYG x OC

Summary: This is how it all starts: Taehyung is flunking Western Lit. You’re assigned to tutor him. His paper on Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata could pass or fail him for the semester. As you and Taehyung slowly become friends, then more, you learn that there’s a lot more to him than you originally assumed. Together, you navigate your own experiences with the play’s themes: one’s “true self” versus one’s “shown self”, darkness behind the facade, and how people can be quite literally haunted - and it has nothing to do with ghosts.

In which your best friend from home visits you on campus and you fall hard for over Taehyung down some stairs.

Chapter Warnings: language, recreational drinking

Word Count: 5k

I saw the sun and thought I saw

what was hidden

The Ghost Sonata | Scene III August Strindberg

Chapter 1 - Interesting Spider Facts

Saturday, November 3rd

The train comes in with a roar, the force of the air almost making you take a step further back from the tracks. As it slows to a stop, you fix your hair, which got blown all to hell by the train’s passing.

People start coming down the stairs, making their way slowly towards the parking lot, or towards where you’re standing on the paved trail that leads back to your college campus. You eye each of them, searching for a familiar face. A very specific familiar face.

You recognize her shirt before she’s close enough for you to see her face; you should - you bought her that shirt last Christmas. You wave an arm as she comes closer, and once she spots you her steps speed up in excitement.

It’s early November, and your best friend from home is visiting you on campus for the first time ever. It’s your third year, and she’s never come before now – between her own classes, and the distance, it just always worked out better to see each other when you went back to your parents’ house each time campus closed for a break.

You’re happy to see her, of course, but you’re also beyond excited to welcome her into your little world here, to show off the places you like to go, introduce her to the friends you’ve made in your time here.

You hug each other, ignoring her little rolling suitcase on the pavement beside you.

“It’s a bit of a walk back,” you warn her, starting to head back down the trail. “And then we have to sign you in as a visitor at the security place.”

You chat as you walk, and she fills you in on what’s been happening back in your hometown. You kick at small piles of fallen leaves as you walk; autumn is well underway and the trees that line the paved trail are nearly all bare. The crunching beneath your feet is oddly satisfying, and you realize you’ve been tuning Nina out to focus on stepping on crispy looking leaves.

“Sorry, what?” you ask when you notice she’s stopped talking and is looking at you sideways, clearly annoyed.

“I was saying that Erin told me there’s a party tonight?” she repeats, not hiding her annoyance at all.

Things have been a little weird with you and Nina lately, which is part of why you were excited to have her visit. You were hoping to rekindle how you used to be – you’d been best friends since middle school, with a ton of history between the two of you. You had a lot of love for each other, but things had definitely been strained recently.

It had started back in the spring, when you’d broken up with your last boyfriend, Davis. Your mom always said when it rains, it pours by which she meant bad shit likes to happen all at once. That had been your spring – you’d broken up with Davis, things got weird with Nina, and you’d lost your part-time job at a local bookstore when it went under and had to close.

Always in threes, you noticed.

In the seven months since all of that, you’d gotten mostly back on your feet. You’d dated here and there over the summer, trying to get over Davis. It was… a process. You’d also gotten a new part-time job through school, tutoring. Right now, early in the semester, the students who signed up were doing so voluntarily so the workload was pretty light. You knew, though, that after first semester grades went out you’d be assigned students to tutor if they were on official academic probation. That just left Nina as the final problem to be solved.

And you are doing a crackerjack job of it.

“I just love that you and Erin are so tight,” you mutter.

Nina rolls her eyes at you. “I’m sorry you two have your shit,” she says flatly, sounding not sorry at all, “but I was friends with her before that went down. Anyway, she said there’s a party tonight at -.”

“I know where it’s at,” you grumble, kicking more leaves. “I was already planning on us going. Not that I want to, now that I know she’s going.”

Nina rolls her eyes even harder, throwing in a dramatic grimace. “You need to move on from that.”

You say nothing, pressing your lips tight together. Conversations with Nina tend to turn into arguments, especially when the topic of Erin and Davis comes up.

“Anyway,” you say finally, after you walk in silence for a few more minutes, “we’re going to the party. My roommates are coming too.”

“Cool,” she chirps, happy again. “I brought like three outfits, you can help me choose. Are we thinking slutty? Classy slutty? Lounge slutty?”

“I’m noticing a theme,” you deadpan, and she laughs. It feels like old times, for a second. “I mean, it’s a frat party. I think you’re safe with any of the above.”

You sign Nina in as an overnight guest at the security station on campus and then lead her to your dorm. The sun is low behind you, despite it being only around 5 pm, as you swipe your school ID card through the card reader to gain access to your building.

“Oh good,” one of your roommates says as you open your door upstairs. “We were about to order pizza.”

You’re in a triple, which means three of you girls in one room; while this is not always ideal, the three of you do get your own bathroom. That makes it worth it, in your opinion. The other suckers have to share with the whole hall.

The roommate you get along with best, Kiko, is sitting on her bed, her laptop open in front of her. Your other roommate, Bridget, is sitting at her desk, leaning forward towards her light-up mirror, eyeliner in hand.

“This is my friend from home, Nina,” you say, gesturing back as Nina comes through the door with her tiny suitcase. “This is Kiko, and Bridget. You can put your stuff by the bottom bunk, it’s mine.”

Nina rolls her suitcase over as you and Kiko begin discussing toppings.

Two hours later, you’re crumpling up an empty pizza box. Behind you, Bridget pours vodka and juice into plastic cups as Kiko fiddles with her Bluetooth speaker to get the pregame tunes started.

“What time do you want to head over?” you ask the room at large. You run a hand through your hair, silently trying to determine if it needs a shampoo before the party.

“Ten? Ten thirty?” Bridget suggests. She’s sort of running the show – the frat guys are her friends, not yours. “Jin told me nine, so I feel like that’s an appropriate level of fashionably late.”

Kiko meets your eyes from her bed and you match her face quickly. Neither of you is huge on the party scene, honestly, and sometimes you both just can’t with Bridget’s nonsense.

“Is the party on campus?” Nina asks, from where she’s laying sideways across your bottom bunk, red solo cup in hand. Her long curls cascade over the side of the bed.

“No, Seokjin has a place off-campus,” Bridget tells her. “It’s not technically a frat house, but it kind of is.”

Nina looks at you, but it’s Kiko who speaks up to explain. “It’s not an official Greek-life frat house, through the school,” she says. “We have those. But Jin rents this house off campus – he’s had the lease the last two years - and all the guys who room with him are in his frat too.”

“Hopefully one of the younger guys can snag the lease next year,” Bridget muses. “After Jin graduates? I would hate to start having to party on campus again and deal with the fucking Campo.”

“Campus police,” you translate automatically for Nina’s sake.

A little bit later, Kiko makes her way into the bathroom, where you’re pressed up close to the mirror, trying to get your eyeliner even.

“How early am I allowed to bail?” she asks you under her breath.

You laugh a little. Normally you two stick together, and if one of you wants to leave early you go together. You’re not sure you can pull an early disappearing act while Nina’s with you.

“You can bail as soon as you want to,” you tell her seriously. “But I have to stay tonight. You’re on your own.”

You lower your voice, not wanting to be heard over the music playing out in the room. “And Nina told me that Erin is going, which means Davis is going. If there was ever a night I wanted to bail… believe me… it’s tonight.”

Kiko meets your eyes in the mirror, her mouth making a tiny little frown. “Are you going to be okay?”

Erin, who – yes – has been friends with Nina a long time, is the girl Davis cheated with back in the spring. Well, before that, probably. The spring was just when you found out.

You and Davis had decided to go to the same college back when you were still together, obviously. You regret it big time, now that you have to see him all over campus.

You’re a tiny bit tempted to tell Nina to go to the fucking party without you.

“Yeah,” you sigh. “It’s one night. I’ll just try to stay in a different room than them.”

“Maybe you’ll meet someone,” she says hopefully, leaning against the doorframe behind you. You give up on your eyeliner and untwist the top of your mascara.

“I’d rather not,” you say flatly. “Frankly, everyone on this campus with a penis can go fuck themselves.”

“That is not the right attitude!” Bridget hollers from the other room.

Nina comes to stand next to Kiko. You’re feeling a little trapped, with the two of them blocking the whole door.

“How long are you going to stay on this I hate men crusade?” Nina asks.

You want to point out that she has barely heard your crusading, as it were, since she was decidedly uninterested in listening to you rant back when you’d caught Davis and Erin. You knew she was in an awkward position, being friends with both you and Erin. You understood. But it had sucked anyway, not being able to talk to your best friend as you went through that.

“Until someone proves to me that I’m wrong,” you say, capping the mascara and taking a step back from the mirror.

“She says that,” Bridget says, coming to join the little party in the doorway, “but watch her tonight. Any guy that tries to talk to her, she’ll castrate. Verbally. You can’t say prove me wrong and then refuse to let anyone try, Y/N.”

“I can and I will,” you say lightly. “Now I need more vodka, so all of you scooch.”

It’s about a 20 minute walk to the house, which on a frigid November night is no joke.

“I should have had more to drink,” Kiko says solemnly. “So that I wouldn’t feel the cold.”

“We’re almost there,” Bridget tells her, pointing. “They’re at the end of that block.”

The music is deafening even from the street outside the house, and you have no idea how they don’t have the police there already. The neighbors must all be deaf… or other college kids. Bridget leads the way, opening the front door. The music goes from deafening to whatever the next step up might be. You resist the urge to cover your ears, but you adjust to it as you follow Bridget through the living room. It’s packed with bodies, but she’s been partying here long enough that she knows her way around.

You’ve been to parties here a handful of times, but not since becoming Bridget’s roommate in September. The fact that she’s friends with these guys is an interesting coincidence. You’re not sure you’ve even ever met Jin, but he and Bridget are on a first-name basis, apparently.

She leads you off to the staircase on the right, and up. It’s quieter upstairs, and she opens the first door in the unlit hallway.

“Coats,” she says, and you all toss your jackets towards the already mountainous pile on top of the bed.

Downstairs again, you have to fight your way through the packed living room to the kitchen, where the liquor and mixers are lining the countertops. Even though you pregamed, you hardly feel it at all, and you’re perfectly willing when Bridget suggests you all start with a shot.

“The guys are downstairs,” she informs you, after checking her phone. “We should go say hello.”

“Why?” Kiko mutters in your ear, and you smile at her. Nina is looking around eagerly, and for a second you wish you could feel like she does – like everybody you see is a new opportunity, a fresh start, a hopeful possibility. You used to feel that way, before Davis decided you weren’t worth his time, and that you were too stupid to catch him.

After you’ve all mixed yourselves drinks, Bridget leads you back through the jungle in the living room, steering you all left towards a door you’d never know was there. She opens it, and it leads down a dark, narrow staircase.

It’s not quite as loud in the basement, which means you can talk without screaming directly into each other’s ears. There are a few beer pong tables in the middle, and some couches shoved in a U in the back.

Bridget leads you to the opposite corner behind the pong tables. You recognize a few people in the group that’s crowded together back there – you’ve seen them here at parties, and a few of them around campus.

Bridget squeals and throws her arms around the neck of one of the taller guys, somehow managing not to spill her drink.

“Hello, gorgeous,” she cries, and you fight back an eye roll. You like Bridget, really. She’s just… her.

“Hello yourself,” he tells her, and you wonder if he knows her name or if to him she’s just another cute girl who comes to his parties.

She introduces the rest of you girls, and Jin rattles off the names of the guys around him, but you aren’t listening. You don’t care. You have zero interest in talking to any of these dudes.

After a few minutes, Nina takes your hand and pulls you to play beer pong with her. You’re not amazing at it – hand-eye coordination was never your forte – but she’s great, and you hold your spot at the table for longer than you thought you would. When you finally lose, you look around the room, searching for your friends. Jin’s crew is still lording over their corner of the basement, but you don’t see Jin himself anymore. You don’t see Bridget either – suspicious – but Kiko is still there, talking to a blond guy, so you head back that way, tugging Nina behind you by her sleeve.

She tugs you back, leaning close to tell you, “I’m going up to make a new drink.”

“Do you want me to come with you?” you ask, shouting.

She shakes her head, then points questioningly at your cup. You still have half of what you mixed earlier, since you’ve been drinking beer at the pong table for the better part of an hour. You shake your head no, and point at Kiko. “I’ll wait for you with Kiko!” you call to her, and she waves as she heads towards the stairs.

When you reach Jin’s little group and Kiko, she barely turns to acknowledge you, so engrossed in her conversation with the grumpy looking blond.

Well, cool. Now you have no one to talk to until Nina gets back – and knowing Nina, as you have for an entire decade, she’ll probably get swept up in conversation upstairs and never come back for you.

“You need to use your hips more,” a voice says, very close to you, and you startle.

“Excuse me?” you say, raising an eyebrow.

The speaker is most definitely one of Jin’s crew – you recognize him from other parties, and you think you might have shared a class freshman year – but you don’t know his name. He’s tall, practically towering over you (and you’re in heels!), and his dark hair settles in pretty waves just above his eyeline. You determinedly do not notice his jawline, the intensity of his gaze, the sexy cock of his eyebrow. You definitely don’t notice the cute-ass freckle on the end of his nose. Or the one on his bottom lip. You’re not looking at his lips.

You’re not.

Damn. He looks like a god. You hate him immediately.

“When you play pong,” he explains. “You have great hips – use them to box out your opponent.”

You look at him, blown away by the audacity. “Seriously? The first thing you ever say to me in your life, and it’s about my ass?”

He frowns, and you can’t tell if it’s playful or if he means it. “I didn’t say anything about your ass,” he points out.

“Tread carefully, Taehyung,” Bridget says, appearing out of fucking nowhere, slinging an arm over your shoulders. “Y/N doesn’t like to leave survivors these days.”

You give him – Taehyung, apparently - a level stare, hoping he’ll listen and back off. Instead, he licks his lips and then fights a smile as he says, “Is this like a black widow thing? I’m pretty sure they mate first.”

Your jaw drops. “You did not just fucking say that to me,” you say, voice low and dangerous even to your own ears.

He holds up his hands in mock surrender. “I’m just giving interesting spider facts. No need to get upset.”

“I’m done with this conversation,” you say flatly, and you cut your eyes at him as you turn to go. “Enjoy your night.”

“Wait, are you actually mad?” he asks, suddenly puzzled. Besides him, Bridget laughs, used to the way you chew up and spit guys out lately. “We were just flirting!”

“You might be flirting,” you counter. “Not me. I need to go find my friend.”

“She’s upstairs with her tongue in Hoseok’s mouth,” Bridget tells you, and you very nearly spit your drink all over Taehyung, which honestly would serve him right.

“Sounds like your friend has the right idea,” Taehyung says offhandedly, and you firmly turn your back to him, absolutely over it. He wants you to box out your opponents? You’ll start right now.

Beside you, Kiko tucks a piece of hair behind her ear and smiles shyly, still talking with the same guy. You catch Bridget’s eye and raise your eyebrow. She pulls out her phone and starts tapping away. When you feel your pocket buzz, you know it’s her.

[12:42 AM] Briiiiig: IKR!!!!

[12:43 AM] Briiiiig: that’s jin’s bro yoongi and I have NEVER SEEN HIM CHAT UP A GIRL

[12:43 AM] Briiiiig: THIS IS AMAZING

You smile, and type a message to Kiko - “Get it girl!!!!!!!!!!” You know she won’t see it until later - she’s so into this conversation, she probably doesn’t remember that phones even exist. “This is getting boring,” Bridget says to the group at large. “Does anyone have a party trick to share?”

“I can lick my elbow,” one of the guys, who sports a sleeve of tattoos and a few facial piercings says. The guys all boo him.

“I have a great party trick, but the pay-off is a little delayed,” Taehyung says, very seriously. “I can predict the weather - it’s going to rain like hell tomorrow.”

“My phone knows that trick too,” you say flatly, pulling it out and swiping over to the weather app. “And it says tomorrow will be warm and sunny.”

Taehyung levels a look at you, his earlier playfulness fading. “I’ll put money on it.”

You roll your eyes, over it and him. You choose not to answer, instead eyeing your empty cup. You head upstairs with two missions in mind – one, to detangle Nina from whichever poor soul is Hoseok, and two, to mix a new drink.

Maybe not in that order. You stop in the kitchen, eyeing the different liquors and mixers and trying to decide what sounds good. You’re settling on more vodka and juice when you feel someone come up next to you. You glance over to find Taehyung looking at you, brows furrowed.

“Oh my god,” you utter, completely exasperated. “Why are you following me?”

His frown deepens. “I feel like I actually pissed you off downstairs.”

“You did,” you tell him, eyes wide with disbelief. “So go away, please!”

“No, wait,” he says, reaching out a hand as if that will settle you down. “I wanted to apologize. Sometimes when I drink, dumb shit just comes out of my mouth without my brain’s permission. I wasn’t trying to be… disrespectful, or gross. But I think I was. I’m sorry.”

You hear absolutely none of this. You feel like you have tunnel vision: the whole party shrinking down, the kitchen fading, your pulse roaring in your ears louder than the music, as you spot Davis and Erin out in the living room, laughing with Nina and some skinny guy.

Davis looks great – all tan from playing soccer all summer, probably, his hair a little longer than the last time you saw him. You’re suddenly remembering how it felt to be tucked up against him, his arm around your shoulders, his laugh reverberating against you as you held on tight. But it isn’t you glued to his side, it’s Erin, her arm around his middle as she wobbles on strappy heels. Your heart is hammering in your chest.

“Okay?” Taehyung is asking you as you come back into your body. He’s looking at you intently. You’re suddenly so nauseous that you’re not sure you can make it to a bathroom.

“Sure,” you say, even though you have no idea what he’d been talking about. “Whatever. I need some air.”

You have to pass Davis, Erin, and Nina in order to get outside, but there’s nothing you can do about that. You walk quickly, eyes on the ground, shouldering people out of the way as you head for the front door.

You’re better the instant you pull your first drag of cold November air into your lungs. You take the stone steps slowly, stopping at the bottom and dropping to sit on the final stair. You rest your elbows on your knees and press your forehead into your hands, eyes screwed shut, trying to just breathe and steady yourself. Fucking Davis and fucking Erin and fucking disloyal Nina.

Your phone buzzes in your pocket and you pull it out, starting to feel the cold night air on your bare fingers.

[1:24 AM] Nina 💕: did u just go outside?

[1:24 AM] Nina💕: girl it’s cold! come back in

[1:25 AM] You: let me know when ur done talking to that piece of garbage and I’ll consider it

[1:27 AM] Nina💕: 🙄

You don’t answer this one. You’re calmer now, the quiet and the cold air doing wonders for your nerves. You lean back against the steps, feeling the cold seep in through your jeans, your fingers starting to sting. The clouds that pressed down on you and Nina earlier in the day as you’d walked the paved trail are gone now, and you can see stars clear and bright. You make out a few constellations idly, and hunt for the moon, which is hanging barely above the treeline. It’s a sliver tonight, barely there at all.

You wish you could talk to someone - anyone - about Davis. If you were about two shots drunker and another girl had come out here, you’d probably tell the whole damn story. Kiko would listen, you’re sure, but you hate unloading on her - especially because she isn’t a big sharer herself. You don’t like that it feels one-sided when you open up. Bridget would care, in a very Bridget way, but it would undoubtedly end in advice that had to do with getting someone else’s dick, and you just aren’t there right now. And Nina… well, Nina is inside laughing it up with the asshole in question, so there goes that.

You’re starting to wish you’d brought your coat. Once you’re cold enough you rise, heading back up the way you came.

Luckily, the group you had to pass on your way out have either disbanded or relocated, because you make it through the living room without seeing anyone you recognize. You make your way back to the basement door, ready to navigate the dark stairs.

Halfway down the stairs, you hit something solid and lose your balance completely, letting out a shriek. You tumble sideways, around the obstruction, and a hand closes roughly around your elbow, pulling you back. The sudden change of direction stops you from careening further down the steps, but it also jerks your cup out of your hand, and it splashes as it bounces down the steps. You twist, off-balance, and land on your ass two stairs down from where you tripped. You’re shocked that you didn’t break a heel… or a bone. The hand is still tight on your elbow, stopping you from sliding any further.

For a minute, you just sit there in shock, trying to figure out what happened.

“Ow,” you say finally, once you’re sure you aren’t going to fall down more stairs. “What the fuck.”

“You’re welcome,” a voice says, low, and of course it’s fucking Taehyung.

“Why are you sitting on the stairs in the dark?” you hiss, completely losing your shit. “I almost died!”

“I missed a step and hurt my ankle,” he says, voice still low. “I tried to warn you I was here – I guess you didn’t hear me.”

“I guess I didn’t,” you echo. His hand is still on your elbow, holding tight, as if you might still slide down the rest of the stairs. It’s too dark on the staircase to see his face clearly. Now you feel kind of like a jerk. You didn’t know he was hurt, you just thought he picked a bad spot to hang out. “I didn’t kick you or anything, did I?”

“No,” he says. “Are you okay?”

When you tell him you are, he finally lets go of your elbow, his fingers brushing the top of your arm lightly as it falls away from his grasp. You stare at each other in silence through the dark.

“Thanks for the save,” you say, feeling a little awkward. You’ve been pretty mean to him tonight, and you are fully aware of it. “Quick reflexes.”

You get to your feet unsteadily, eyeing your spilled drink on the steps below you. “How hurt are you?” you ask. “Can you make it down?”

He’s quiet for a second, and you actually feel a twinge of concern. Gross.

“I’m not sure,” he says finally, voice laced with defeat. “Do you mind going downstairs and getting Jimin? Please?”

“Yeah,” you say quietly. “I can do that.”

You make your way down the rest of the stairs, casting a glance over your shoulder at the bottom. You can barely make out his form, halfway up, a shadow just barely moving against the dark.

You approach Bridget and Jin, who are still talking with the same group of guys. No Nina in sight.

“Hey,” you say to Jin. “I’m looking for Jimin?”

“That’s me,” a guy to your left says, looking at you quizzically.

“Taehyung asked me to get you,” you explain, turning to him. “He’s sitting on the stairs back there, trying to trip people in the dark. He says he hurt his ankle.”

“Oh shit,” Jimin says, immediately putting his cup down on a nearby table and hurrying towards the stairs. The guy that Kiko’s been talking to all night – Yoongi – follows him at a clip. This seems like a bit of an over-reaction to you, but it isn’t your problem. You did what you were asked, and now you’re off the hook.

Kiko turns to you, face flushed, clearly fighting a smile. “Hi,” she says sheepishly. “How’s your night going?”

You laugh. “Not as good as yours, apparently,” you tease. “I can’t wait to hear about it later. Has anyone seen Nina? She was upstairs before, but I lost her.”

Bridget says, “She’s probably still with Hoseok somewhere. Hey, the couches are empty, anyone want to play Kings?”

Nina shows up a little bit later, the aforementioned Hoseok nowhere to be seen. She perches on the arm of the couch near you, watching as you all finish the round.

“Want to go soon?” she asks. “It’s almost three.”

“Sure,” you say easily. “Kiko? Bridg? You feel like heading back?”

Bridget isn’t thrilled, but she’s outvoted three-to-one, so you all head upstairs to find your coats and start the walk back. You don’t see any of the guys upstairs, or your ex. Thank goodness.

Back at the dorm, the four of you vie for mirror space as you scrub your faces with makeup remover. Kiko’s done first, slipping under her comforter and letting out a series of happy noises. Bridget climbs to her top bunk, and Nina slides into the bottom bunk that belongs to you. You rummage in the mini-fridge and pass everyone a cold water bottle before turning the overhead lights off. Bridget turns an old, nostalgic cartoon movie on the tv as you slide into bed besides Nina.

You drink sips of water, sort of watching the movie through half-closed eyes. You fall asleep, feet tangled with your best friend’s as they have been thousands of times since your childhood, before the opening credits can even finish.

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A thank you, as always, to my fabulous beta @kookstempo 😘😘😘 love u little one!

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lightsandlostbells · 7 years ago

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Druck episode 3 reaction

thirteen minutes is UNACCEPTABLE

Episode 3

Clip 1 - Returning home

I love the look of the show. That shot of them coming up from what I assume is a train station is so simple but effective, with the group breaking into two and Hanna and Jonas being left on their own to work through what happened on the trip. Us having some distance from the situation, being able to see Hanna turn away first away from Jonas.

I think the cinematography is adding a lot to my enjoyment of Druck. I just find it so calming and gently pretty, and the lighting is bright and there’s plenty of soft colors.

Matteo and Carlos left together, which might not mean anything except they’re going the same way, or maybe they’re legit friends, or maybe Matteo doesn’t really like him but he puts up with him because they have Jonas in common or because Carlos is their weed hookup.

Jonas saying that it’s just been the two of them (Jonas and Hanna) together lately. Interesting, implies that it’s not so much Hanna-Jonas-Matteo as we might have guessed. Or just that he’s feeling stifled by being around his girlfriend so much. Orrrrr that he has a secret that he wants to keep from her and it’s hard when she’s nearby?

Man I really really am wondering if the changes in these character dynamics are going to build up to something, I really hope!

This Jonas is earnest as hell and it’s going to suck if he has some big horrible secret. He’s my favorite of the remake Jonases so far; he’s flawed but he seems vulnerable and he’s got great chemistry with both Hanna and Matteo. We haven’t seen him at his worst yet, it should be said.

I legit laughed out loud at Hanna’s texting of Mia, especially Mia’s text bubble disappearing. I mean, that wasn’t a bad joke on Hanna’s part, except you usually don’t talk about STDs with people you just met.

I mentioned in some other posts that I find the credits/title cards on each clip of Druck and Skam France distracting, but I like that Druck has been putting things like casual banter and (as in this clip) Hanna’s heavy sighing over them. They can easily be cut from the scene when the whole episode is put together, but it keeps the atmosphere going a little longer and adds some small details of characterization or mood. I prefer it to having music always close the scene and play over the credits.

Clip 2 - Hero Party meeting

THEY CHANGED SHIT, YES

Awww, Kiki turns out to be cute! She turned it around fast. Also props to her for acknowledging that it was sweet of Hanna to try to find her a Sam. And she clearly did not make the decision to not be on the organizing committee on her own, and Sam knows she’s fibbing.

An explanation for the hero party! So from what I can tell from German viewers, this isn’t a usual German tradition or anything, it’s specifically for the show? IDK how realistic it is but making it a tradition specific to this school makes it a little less contrived. I don’t really get how throwing an amazing party for the graduating class will make the party for this class even better, since it’ll be a whole new class throwing the party for them, unless it’s in the sense of “we raised the quality level so far that they’re going to have to try to top us.”

This isn’t a bad way to adapt russ. I’ve been waiting for a version where the five girls all got assigned together on some project/event rather than coming together voluntarily. Plus Hanna met all the girls separately prior to this meeting, so there’s an established connection between her and all the girls.

Nice way to show Hanna being a follower with her just joining Kiki/Sam at this meeting and raising her hand after everyone else does. She does feel a very insecure version of this character.

This setup makes Leonie directly reject Hanna, Kiki, and Sam based on prior beefs, and her shunning Amira to the end is not a great look. IDK what she has against Mia except she’s a new girl who had the audacity not to know what the party was, so I guess that’s enough? They really are Los Losers.

Let’s talk about what a glorious nickname Blondus Maximus is and how there was a missed opportunity to call the Penetrator Chris character some variant of that (Brunettus Maximus?) Max can be a girl’s name too! Not sure how popular it is in Germany, though.

Shout-out to Amira’s brothers!

They also did something that I hoped they would do, instead of explaining Alexander to Hanna, they explained to Mia, who is the new girl, which makes sense. And we got her initial reaction to him.

German William/Alexander looks old as hell, even older than French William/Charles, lmao. No disrespect to the actor, I’m just not sure why the remakes are casting older-looking dudes in this role. Like Charles looks older than a teenager but almost everyone on Skam France does. Druck’s characters look like teenagers for the most part, so IDK why the William character has to be the one who looks like a teacher. Thomas Hayes was the right age.

I’m laughing at his socks. And him getting out of his car just isn’t the same without being flanked by several nameless members of his posse.

Some of the slow-motion effect is kinda strange and doesn’t look right. I noticed it in the first clip with Leonie’s walk, too.

I really liked Kiki after being somewhat underwhelmed by her first appearance (the same with Daphne, tbh). Sam and Amira remain great. Mia is the only one I’m not 100% sold on, though I think she could turn out OK.

Clip 3 - Mia and Hanna in Spanish class

OK I was wayyyy too excited that Mia mentioned her roommate using her IG to stalk guys. GERMAN ESKILD WHERE ARE YOU.

I did find it kind of weird why were they weren’t sitting together in the first place, because they walked into the room together and if Mia can just get up and move it’s not like they have assigned seats.

I felt kinda bad for the teacher in this one even if she shouldn’t be making mistakes. Her wardrobe looks like that of every enthused language teacher I’ve ever had.

Ahhh, still not sure how I feel about Mia so far? She’s cute but seems kinda stilted, and she looks a little older than the other girls (she’s 21 IRL). I do think she was better in this clip than in prior ones. Her character was more polite to the guy who’s talking to her than Noora or Manon was. She’s so far a far sweeter version of the character.

Also this clip amped up the Mia/Hanna. Mia was very, very eager to talk to Hanna at the start.

Clip 4 - Friend

You know what? I’m kinda with Jonas on this one. Why should you actually treat a bunch of assholes that you don’t like? Like this dude who apparently puts Nazi symbols on a teacher’s car? Fuck that guy, I wouldn’t throw him a party.

Obviously I don’t think he should make fun of Hanna wanting to participate, and Hanna is right, not all grade 12 students are going to be assholes. But Jonas’ reaction at least makes sense, rather than being like “this is wrong because I hate capitalism and this ties in for some reason.” (To be fair, Jonas’ opening monologue isn’t about capitalism this time around. He does mention Nazis in it, though!)

“Netflix and chili con carne” is the German version of Fresh Prince and nachos, eh?

Awww, Hanna made a friend! This Jonas seems very happy that Hanna made a friend, too.

General Comments:

Thirteen minutes?? THIRTEEN MINUTES??

no i’m not bitter

I cannot believe they teased that Hanna/Mia hangout and didn’t deliver. We didn’t even get any IG posts from whatever they were doing.

ok yeah i’m a little bitter. a smidge

Is it normal to be back at school the week following Easter? They weren’t there on Monday but I’ve seen people say they should be off the full week, I think?

Kinda wish we were going full on with the Hanna and Amira friendship but I can see how that scene was mostly there to establish her as a character through Hanna before the Hero Party, and I guess it’s possible that they will bond as a duo at some point. Maybe. I’m not thinking this is gonna be a total overhaul of S1.

Jonas and Hanna being all “it’s about being friends AND being in love” in the texts - goddamn they’re so sweet.

Also from the texts, it sounds like German Eskild is into bears. Man bears, to be clear.

This week’s episode better be at least 20 minutes, you can’t do me like that, Germany. I actually like your take on Norwegian teenagers.

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Doctor Who Reviews by a Female Doctor, Season Five, part II

Please note: these reviews contain spoilers for this season as well as other seasons of the reboot, and contain occasional references to the classic series.

Vampires of Venice: I usually like Toby Whithouse’s writing, and this isn’t really a bad episode on its own terms, but its continuation of the silliness that started at the end of the last episode kind of destroys it for me. There are plenty of good things: the “vampires” are effectively creepy, there are some good supporting performances here from Helen McCrory and Lucian Msamati, Smith gets some good comedy to work with, the episode is well-paced and fairly clever, the scenario of another dying species is a good way of introducing this Doctor’s approach to his actions in the Time War, and we get some intriguing references to the Silence. When the Doctor interacts with Rosanna, the story is vibrant and compelling—the two work together brilliantly, and Venice provides a nice backdrop for their struggle.

However, the Amy/Rory/Doctor romance situation continues to be really unpleasant, to the point where it makes it difficult to enjoy the episode. Part of the issue is that the love triangle is still being played as comedy; poor Rory may not be a fully formed character at this point, but he deserves better than to have the Doctor pop out of a cake at his stag party to announce to everyone that Amy kissed him. Rory does get some good moments in this episode, including the revelation that after the events of “The Eleventh Hour,” he started doing research into sci-fi theories—something which way more characters on shows like this should be doing—and his accusation that the Doctor endangers people by making them want to impress him. The rest of the time, though, he’s just stuck being jealous of the relationship between Amy and the Doctor, and one of his conversations with the Doctor features easily the worst joke of the season: “And you kissed her back.” “No, I kissed her mouth.” Good grief. The general ickiness of the vampire-fish plot makes the stupid love triangle look even worse—the Doctor does at least acknowledge that the effort to kidnap and transform young women so that they can re-people the fish monster race is unusually gross, but having a storyline like this while Amy’s sex life is being mishandled just seems particularly problematic. The actual portrayal of Amy is less troubling than the last scene of the previous episode was, largely because she seems more confused and uncertain and less traumatized, but she’s still a weaker character here than she was in most of the previous episodes. I don’t really have much to say about this episode—it’s an entertaining enough plot, but my general response to the love triangle story is just to shut my eyes, put my fingers in my ears, and wait for it to get better. Fortunately, this is only one episode away, but for now, I would have preferred Venice and its “vampires” if they hadn’t been burdened with the nonsense that the show is currently making Amy go through. C+

Amy’s Choice: “There’s something that doesn’t make sense…let’s go and poke it with a stick” says the Doctor, in a story that pokes at absurdity in a surprisingly delightful way. As the concluding episode in the ill-advised love triangle subplot, this episode should be a disaster, and yet it somehow manages to pull off a difficult story with a huge amount of charm and very little material that is reductive or insulting to the characters. I don’t love the idea of Amy being forced to choose what she wants in a life or death scenario, but this episode is pretty much the best possible version of this plot. It’s helped by a marvelously comedic script—the dialogue sparkles here to a greater extent than almost any other episode this season, giving us a fantastically funny version of the Doctor but also (and perhaps more impressively) of the other major characters as well. “I was promised amazing worlds. Instead I get duff central heating and a weird kitcheny wind-up device” doesn’t seem out of character for Rory, but it portrays his slightly aggravated regular guy persona in a memorable way, something that previous episodes hadn’t really managed. I love Amy going on about Leadworth’s terrible amateur dramatic society, which is about to attempt Oklahoma!, and I love even more her determined assertion that “If we’re going to die, let’s die looking like a Peruvian folk band” as she hands out warm clothing. The Dream Lord gets in some solid insults toward the Doctor--“If you had any more tawdry quirks you could open a tawdry quirk shop” is a pretty true statement, and really makes me want to see what a Tawdry Quirk Shop would look like. Some of the best moments for the Doctor himself come in the form of tiny details; I found his turning the “Open” sign around as he escapes into the shop to be an especially hilarious piece of the Doctor’s bizarre logic. The writers have started to get what kind of lines work best with Smith’s particular brand of quirkiness, and lines like “What a nice bench, what will they think of next?” and “Did I say a nightmare? More of a really good…mare” don’t seem especially funny on their own but they play nicely into the strengths of Smith’s acting.

Beyond the humor, this episode benefits from being immaculately structured. The zooming back and forth between dream worlds, with transitions marked by birdsong, makes for an exhilarating plot, and the continuation of time in both worlds simultaneously adds to the sense of stakes. The frozen TARDIS is a pretty simple idea, but it looks brilliant, and the story of the fantastically-named Mrs. Poggit and the Evil Elderly People is sort of wonderfully ridiculous. The actual choice that Amy has to make is set up as sensitively as the love triangle stupidity permits, and I particularly like that the story separates choosing Rory from choosing the fantasy of domesticity in the first dream world. It initially looks like staying with Rory means committing to the dream of being pregnant and a bit bored in Upper Leadworth, but her eventual realization of her feelings for Rory prompts her to destroy that world. She’s ultimately given a choice between two different versions of her life with Rory, rather than a choice between Rory and the Doctor, and there’s only a little bit of outright competitiveness, so it mostly feels like Amy thinking through what kind of life she wants to pursue with Rory rather than having to pick which man she wants. This is really important to the episode, which would pretty much be a lot of good jokes in the service of a bad, offensive story if it had mishandled the substance of the choices that she’s given here. No one seems to have put any thought whatsoever into how to begin the love triangle in a way that avoided outright character assassination, but there at least appears to have been some thought about how to resolve it without making a mockery of the characters. Amy also has real chemistry with Rory here, especially in the very cute scene in which he cuts off his ponytail. I had no real interest in their relationship after the previous episode, but I’m quite happy with them as a couple here.

A lot of this episode is bright and sunshiny and fun, but it’s also organized around the idea that the darkness in the characters is informing everything that happens. The Doctor claims that it is his darkness alone, but that’s pretty clearly not true, and there’s a lot of fun to be had in trying to figure out which bits of the story came from which character. The secretly sinister version of quiet, peaceful Upper Leadworth is a pretty clear reflection of Amy’s hesitation toward the world that she ran away from, while the frozen, drifting TARDIS is both the Doctor’s worst nightmare and, possibly, an expression of Rory’s uncertainty about whether the life of traveling and adventures is what he wants. The Dream Lord does a good job of taunting the Doctor, noting that his friends never see him again once they’ve grown up, but he’s even better at pointing out Amy’s flawed understanding of the Doctor, including her assertions that he never has to apologize for anything and that he tells her everything. The darkest moment is the first of many “deaths” for Rory, which is memorable mostly for Amy’s certainty that the Doctor will be able to fix it: “What is the point of you?” she demands when he can’t. I was put off, at first, by her total willingness to possibly commit suicide in order to reject this dream world, both because it makes her seem incapable of living without her fiancé and because she is pregnant with what seems like a baby she wants. Still, her language in this scene suggests that at least part of her thinking centers on an inability to believe that this can be the real world, as if the Dream Lord’s introduction of false realities prompted her to start putting tragedy in the “unreal” category. It’s not a healthy state of mind, but I can imagine it being a very tempting one, and the episode as a whole works very well as a large-scale version of Amy’s tendency to write bad things out of her understanding of reality.

The episode definitely has some iffy romantic things happening, which was inevitable given the love triangle arc it was a part of, but unlike the last episode and the end of “Flesh and Stone,” they’re at least happening to complex, layered people who are fun to watch. I don’t think it was really possible for this episode to emerge from the love triangle business completely unscathed, but it really brings much more sensitivity and humor to a bad setup than I would have expected, and it brings a very welcome stop to the Rory vs. the Doctor romance nonsense instead of letting it unfold across the season. Given where this plotline started, resolving it in a way that I actually like is…well, not quite as miraculous as rebooting the universe, but it’s pretty close. A-

The Hungry Earth: Things coming up from underground to grab you and pull you under is a properly scary concept, and the Silurians are good monsters, but this episode doesn’t reach the potential of either of those things. It’s odd, because when he returns in Season Seven, Chibnall’s strong point is that he is especially good at writing the Ponds: “The Power of Three,” for instance, has one of the most pointless plots in the show’s history, but still mostly works for me because the tension that Amy and Rory feel between their time-travel adventures and ordinary lives is so beautifully realized. There are some questionable moments with the Doctor in Chibnall’s Season Seven episodes, but some really great moments as well, particularly in his reaction to having to deal with the slow pace of life in the Ponds’ home. Here, though, it’s like Chibnall is going out of his way to make Amy, Rory, and the Doctor into unlikeable characters. There are constant jokes about how Amy’s wearing tiny shorts because she was expecting to go to Rio. There’s an awkward conversation in which Amy seems really uncommitted to her relationship with Rory, even though the previous episode ended on exactly the opposite note. Then she falls down a hole, after which she gets nothing to do in the episode beyond being terrified. We get a brief shot of her covered by dirt, she lies in a glass case and yells until she gets knocked out with gas, and then she wakes up in chains and wriggles about a bit before Mo tells her not to struggle because she’s just going to be dissected anyways. It’s a complete waste of Karen Gillan’s abilities, particularly after all the interesting work that was done with her in “Amy’s Choice.” Meanwhile, Rory wanders around, gets mistaken for a police officer, and just goes with it for no reason. I get that you might go along with whatever job you were mistaken for having if you were in space or the distant future or past because of the need to create a role for yourself in a world that you don’t actually belong in, but pretending to be a police officer when close to one’s own time and place just seems irresponsible. He does help the Doctor to trap a Silurian in some sort of meals on wheels van, which is fun, but otherwise there isn’t anything interesting for Rory to do here. The Doctor does a lot of shouting when Amy falls down the hole, and then he gets in a lengthy argument with Nasreen and Tony about whether various science-fictiony things are possible, and then doesn’t do much of note until making a speech about needing everyone to be the best of humanity, which falls awfully flat. Last week’s episode showed that the Doctor, Amy, and Rory can be absolutely delightful together, but they’re very dull characters here.

Minor characters vary in quality. Nasreen is fantastic—easily one of the best single-story characters of the season. She feels like a believable, interesting person almost immediately, and her TARDIS entrance is probably the best moment of the episode. Tony and Mo are all right, but Ambrose is already questionable, in preparation for being an outright disaster in the next episode, and Elliot is mostly annoying, although he has a nice conversation with the Doctor about wanting to leave home. Alaya is pretty one-note, but Neve McIntosh (who will eventually be cast as Madame Vastra) makes her as compelling as possible. The actual science-fiction plot here is really pretty good. There is some cool stuff with computer models, and some very nicely-directed horror sequences, especially the scene in which they frantically try to open the door to let Elliot in, only to find he has disappeared. The Silurians’ status as monsters who are not actually aliens makes them unique among the creatures on this show, so the story definitely carries a level of excitement, and the attention to the dangers of drilling grounds the story in the real world in an interesting way. By the end of the episode, though, Nasreen is the only character that I’m invested in, and so the good pieces of the plot just don’t mean very much to me. C+

Cold Blood: The title is appropriate for an awfully chilly episode. Nasreen continues to be a great character, and the Silurian civilization is visually very well done, but I find this episode difficult to get through. The most generous reading of it is that it was trying to do an interesting gender reversal, in that the male characters are mostly very peaceful, while Alaya, Restac, and Ambrose are militant or impulsively violent. It’s a workable concept, but it doesn’t come across well here because there is no effort to give this violence any depth or coherent motivation. All three of these characters are extremely one-dimensional, and very obviously wrong, and they are constantly being talked down to by men in a way that suggests the show sides unequivocally with the male characters. This is especially true of the insistence on hammering home exactly how terrible Ambrose is as a person. I don’t like Ambrose, but watching everyone tell her how much of a failure she is over and over and over gets cringeworthy, and it brings out the Doctor’s self-righteous side to an unbearable degree. He is perfectly fine with the Silurian scientist, who dissects and experiments on kidnapped people, but all he can think of for Ambrose is repeated scolding laced with contempt. (This season had been doing all right, until this point, with working with the Doctor’s arrogance in a way that was intriguing and not annoying; even his biggest burst of self-righteousness, in “The Beast Below,” gets shut down pretty much immediately by Amy figuring out a better plan than his. This episode, though? Definitely up there with Tennant lecturing Torchwood/UNIT/whatever other authority figures got thrown at him in terms of making the Doctor look like a big, dismissive jerk.) You could do really interesting work with, for instance, the idea that Ambrose’s maternal instincts actually prompt immoral behavior, but this is only interesting if you treat her like a person and not as a punching bag. The tone of the episode is honestly pretty close to sadistic pleasure in pointing out just how much of a failure she is, and that removes all of the potential from what might be a worthwhile look at gender stereotypes.

Amy at least gets to do something other than be a victim in this episode, but she still doesn’t seem like a fully realized character here. Her attempt to rescue the Doctor is completely treated as a joke, and even after this she mostly just sits around and provides humorous lines. You wouldn’t really know, from watching most of this episode, that she’s a main character in this show, because she just comes across as sort of background comic relief. I like the idea of having Amy and Nasreen negotiate with the Silurians for the fate of the planet, but Amy appears to be trying to take a nap during most of it, although she wakes up for long enough to suggest putting the Silurians in deserts. I like that the Doctor tries to stay out of the negotiation and allow humans and Silurians to take care of the situation themselves, but if he wants to provide encouragement he could find something more productive to do than stand around telling everyone to be extraordinary. In the end, the Silurians just decide to go back to hibernation for a long time, so nothing really comes of this entire storyline anyways. The issue of whether Silurians and humans could share the planet makes this episode similar to the Silurians’ debut episode back in Season Seven of the classic series, but this episode never finds the depth that that earlier episode managed to bring to this scenario.

Because the main plot does very little of interest, this episode is mostly memorable because of its shocking final scene, in which Rory is swallowed up by the crack in time. It’s a surprising development, and a far more emotional scene than the rest of the episode. While Rory has some good moments in the first two thirds of the season, he hasn’t really stood out to me as a character by this point; still, it’s horrifying to watch someone be erased from time, and Gillan does a nice job with Amy’s dramatic shift from agonized grief to complete forgetfulness. The explanation of why she could remember the clerics who were erased by the crack in time but not Rory is a bit half-baked, but otherwise it’s a solid scene that ends a highly questionable episode on a much more positive note. C+

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