the one problem i have with people my age and younger is that a lot of us do not have hands on hobbies. like i have spoken to so many people my age who go to work, go to school and then fuck around on their phone/computer for hours and then ???????? like no wonder ur depressed and have low confidence in urself. u need to get ur hands on something, feed those dopamine receptors! learn how to play guitar, garden, scrapbook, fucking make model trains. i don’t give a shit, MAKE SOMETHING!!
it feels better than drugs when i finish making a thing—and then show it off or gift it.
and then so people my age say to me ‘well—i can’t draw/paint/knit/etc. like you can. my stuff would be terrible.’ yeah, well duh—a part of developing skill is sucking at something and then practicing it over and over and over again until you suck less. u’ll have a hard time feeling lonely or bored when you can’t stop thinking abt a technique you want to try or something you want to make for someone else. making things has SAVED MY LIFE. it gave me a reason to keep living day after day when i wanted to die.
making things improved my generational relationships (when i worked for the newspaper i would talk to customers abt jamming recipes or cross-stitch, one of my grandmas always gives me pattern books and tell me abt when she knitted things for mom, my other grandma is giving me a wedding quilt that HER grandma gave her 50 years ago because she knows i will appreciate it). it also got me likeminded friends who also make things.
take a ceramics class! pick up water colors, bake cakes! learn to work on cars! make soap. DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE STARING AT A SCREEN.
it’s the content I didn’t know I needed and honestly a highlight of this season for me. like at the end where he’s saying goodbye to Amy and they hug tHERE IS NO HESITATION FOR HIM HE GRABS ONTO HER SO TIGHT OH MY GOD. did I replay that scene multiple times before moving on? yes. how many times? not. enough. times.
“I would do anything for her.” hear that? that’s the sound of my stone cold heart cracking a little.
also, as always, Jon Bernthal gave an incredible performance as Frank. but I mean that goes without saying. you already know he did a great job. I really like the insight that Frank gave about what’s going on in his head. One thing that really stuck with me is (and I’m not gonna get this completely right) “I can live with it, but there is no peace in here.” and he taps his head. that really just struck me. as well as the personal turmoil he goes through when thinks that he killed those three girls. you could see it on his face, in his eyes, he thought that he was a terrible monster and that he deserved to die. it was so painful to watch.
- I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I really, really liked the John Pilgrim character. 1) Josh Stewart is an incredible actor. He did a phenomenal job with this character. 2) when he was first introduced I thought “oh here’s the creepy religious bad guy whoopdeedoo whatever” and I thought he was going to be really static. but I was so pleased when they made him so much more dynamic when they showed his kids and his wife and gave him a real reason to be doing the things he was doing besides just being this season’s villain.
- okay and now I’m addressing Billy Russo and his character and his demise:
What the hell
that kind of specifically addresses his death.
so just like.... after all of that. after everything.... Castle just..... POW POW..... and it’s over? idk, I guess that’s just Castle being completely
~Over this bullshit~
but like..... come on. there was no closure there for either of them. I mean, not that billy deserved closure. he is literally one of the worst people. ever. but Frank needed it. or at least I thought that he did but I guess not. the only person who knows what Frank needs is Frank and that’s just how it is.
- Ben Barnes’ performance was amazing. he did a brilliant job with his character and I really enjoyed watching him.
- okay and the Beth character, I am so happy she was just in two episodes in the beginning honestly I would’ve been so upset if the end of the last episode was him driving to her house like no please thank you. like it was good to show that Frank is open to romantic relationships in the future (Kastle Kastle Kastle Kastle) but like. just stay in Michigan pls.
- SPEAKING OF KASTLE
that needs to happen. that’s all I have to say on that it’s pretty straightforward
“You can’t keep loving people in your dreams!” I think about that line at least once a day. it was just a really, really good line.
THE HOSPITAL SCENE BETWEEN KAREN AND CASTLE
art
the chemistry is absolutely amazing
the emotions they both convey through their facial expressions, the most subtle things, during that scene,,, like,,, I don’t even know how to describe it, but it was absolutely incredible
- at first, I didn’t really mind the whole manipulative religious homophobic maniac storyline because it gave us John Pilgrim (and Amy too and thus dad Frank) but looking back on it it would’ve been a lot better if the series had solely focused on the relationship and dynamic between Billy and Castle and Jigsaw/Punisher. I don’t know, I feel like a lot more could’ve been done with that.
- Krista DuMont (Dumont?) can go burn for all I care and that’s str8 facts.
- I don’t really mind Madani I think that she’s an okay character but geez okay just cALM DOWN
- Curtis is the only one legged black man for me. and he is probably the best thing to ever happen to Frank and to this series so from now on he has been christened as Saint Curtis by me. yes I have the authority to do that.
okay I think that’s it for now. if you read this, thanks! I know this is super long, but mostly I’m just writing this because I have no one else to talk to about it so this post is just me organizing my thoughts.
Sometimes a family is a mass-murdering vigilante, his ride or die “lawyer” girlfriend, the only black one-legged man for him, his newly minted CIA friend, and his mouthy marine salvaging adopted daughter.
I appreciate that when Frank Castle says he’s old-fashioned he means, “if you even so much as look wrong at a vulnerable person in my presence I’ll beat you to death with my bare hands and it will be your own goddamn fault” and not, “women are weak so you should let me handle it”
Connor: I can’t figure out the link between all these deviants! They’re all different models, made in different places, sold to different humans…what could it be???