#the power on Amazon prime

[bilboyagathechickenfootedhobbit]

I need you all to stop what you’re doing and go watch The Power RIGHT FREAKING NOW. It’s on Amazon Prime and I don’t care if you have to beg, borrow, or steal someone’s password, DO IT.

It’s based on Naomi Alderman’s book and even though it’s been a while since I read it, it seems pretty close to the source material and if it strays from it, it does it in ways that only add to the story.

The premise: young girls start to develop a new organ that allows them to shoot electricity out of their hands. Naturally, the government wants to regulate this, as they do anything having to do with women. The show follows several different characters around the world and does an excellent job of portraying the different cultures and incorporating different languages naturally into the dialogue.

Highlights:

- they show a fucking live birth oh my god it’s such a powerful fucking moment I’m getting goosebumps even typing about it

- victims of sex trafficking blowing a dudes dick off with electricity

- a girl making a man shit himself in a pool when she zaps him

- a gang of rebel women electrocuting a man after he calls them “daft cows”

- a woman beating a man to death for kicking her dog

- the Riyadh protest. The strength and the power, contrasted with the moment where the mother appeals to her soldier son, and the softness and love that follows

- Moana getting high with her mom, the mayor of Seattle

- a true array of diverse women and girls. Body types, races, upbringings, cultures…..there are just SO MANY WOMEN to admire and appreciate the diversity

- two lesbians using their electricity to get each other off, I wanted to cry, it was so sweet and tender and the one girl is fat, like ACTUALLY fat, not just “curvy but with more” and she got to be sexy and not have it be a punchline

- John Leguizamo playing a dad is just…..so good. I’ve loved him since he was a drag queen in To Wong Foo, and I’m so glad he’s aged so nicely along with my tastes

- the placenta power move, god I love General Zoia

The storyline is excellent, the character development is SO GOOD, the music……I’ve actually started keeping a list in my phone of all the music to make the ultimate feminist playlist, it’s so fucking good.

Amazon did a SHIT JOB promoting this. I LOVED the book and would have been ALL OVER this show a year ago when it came out if I’d known about it. I don’t know if it’s been renewed, but PLEASE PLEASE go and watch it. I really hope it gets some attention because I desperately want it to be renewed, I know what happens because I read the book, but I want to see how they portray it on screen!! Eve just got her strongest warrior and I want to see them kick ass together!!

GO WATCH THE POWER NOW!!!

[wlwangst]

the costume and hair/makeup department on wot was so special because they took so much effort to create costumes that accentuated each actor's body type and they incorporated so many cultural elements into each look.. but of course amazon decided to keep the lord of the rings show where everyone wears the color grey

[valar-did-me-wrong]

Elves are just SO Extra 😭 I love it!!

Source: Reddit (I suggest that if you haven't, check out OP's whole profile on there.. full of BTS from the show!)

[aaronwarner]

Harriet Herbig-Matten and Damian Hardung first costume rehearsal for Maxton Hall: The World Between Us.

[coderooster]

I love Cheyenne’s final solo. She’s just found out she’s basically lost everything that was important to her because she’s so HER and she’s dancing to a song called ‘I Married Myself’, which the choreographer said was perfect for her, basically implying she can’t care for anyone else but herself, something she has been told time and again.

The choreography itself is so complex. It looks like an amalgamation of her pushing away the outside world, fighting with herself about that but also feeling so free when she is alone, basically her entire character summed up in one dance.

But she doesn’t want to be this way. She fights the choreographer every step of the way until Gael breaks it off with her, where she becomes resigned to fact that maybe this is who she is and just gets on with it. Then at the actual performance she’s also dealing with the whole losing the job/making Geneviève mad at her situation too, and she channels all that hurt and anger and desperation into the dance, just like she tells that girl in the episode before. But it’s not enough, and she finally verbalises her frustration with being the way she is to Jack.

Plus, you have the little interlude of Mishi and Timeo reconciling and showing that it is possible for someone whose life revolves around ballet to still have close relationships, it’s just not happening to Cheyenne.

The entire symbolism of this dance is just gorgeous and cruel at the same time.

Cheyenne Toussaint, you break my heart.

[asianrabbit]

The Rings of Power: Season 2 (2024) Charlie Vickers / Sauron

[donavanmonarch]

Powerplex must have been in heaven during the Invincible War

[fukutomichi]

The Rings of Power - Season 2 / SDCC 2024 Trailer

[waterlooletterwrb]

Rings of Power is not about the forge of the rings, is about how every week Galadriel adds a new evil sexy boy for her collection.

[ssenncex]

Cr @robloxmilf

[favorite-characters]

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕃𝕠𝕣𝕕 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℝ𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤: 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕡𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕣

Benjamin Walker as 𝐆𝐢𝐥-𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐝 (sh. J. D. Payne, Patrick McKay / S02 / 2024)

[moeblob]

A lil guy !

[valar-did-me-wrong]

I freaking love the attention to detail in this show 🤌🏽

If you look closely here you'll see, Adar's nails were trimmed & neat when he was under Sauron. But he lets them grow long & claw like after the Uruk Revolution

My headcanon for this is Sauron despises orcs but he has enough love &or respect for Adar to have him as his second in command.. this is because he remembers Adar's elven form & doesn't see him as an Uruk completely. And to reinforce that Sauron will have him appear groomed with slicked back hair, trimmed nails, better clothes that actually are a set & cool accessories etc

Now once Sauron is gone, Adar tries to bridge the gap between himself and his children, by embracing Uruk esthetics a little more.. which imo must have made the transformation from Nenya even more shocking!

Like here he is, after spending thousands of years reclaiming his Uruk side & thousands of years before that accepting himself being an Uruk & suddenly after Nenya all those uncountable scars are gone, the chronic pains resulting from torture that must have become second nature disappear, his skin is alive again, his blood flows red under it, the wild shallow uruk hair have transformed into an elven mane..

..no wonder he got shocked into sense by that!

Imagine getting tortured, having your identity taken, made into a monster, living a fragmented life never fully belonging anywhere, trying to accept & move on from all that to somehow survive for your children & then getting transformed back into how you were before all that!

It would have made him recall everything at once & then he decided to come to terms with it all, accept what was done to him & what he did too, instead of deflecting it away by blaming Morgoth, Sauron or the Valar.. and to me this makes him and his growth & redemption even more special 🖤

[miyanaxxi]

Nothing, just Isildur getting split from Valandil in the eruption aftermath and now he’s probably going to find his way back to Númenor in season three—fully expecting Valandil to be waiting—just to find out he’s dead.

[halbrannatar]

brightest, most beautiful smile in the entire world

[asianrabbit]

The Rings of Power: Season 2 (2024) Creatures of Middle-Earth