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This has probs been discussed but I’m betting now the next ACOTAR book cover will be purple

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Watching XO, Kitty s2 for the plot:

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Why do I already ship them

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HDSBAGABSHS JACK CAME BACK okay so now that Violet is isolated from her friends/sees Xaden once a week and needs someone to rely on, Violet and Jack are gonna become best friends right? RIGHT??

I’m sorry but real enemies to lovers would be if Violet ended up dating Jack in The Iron Flame

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“i felt that five had to have a love story” okay steve !! fine. i’ll humour you. picture this : lila and five in the subway. they’re travelling to different timelines, loosing hope, trying to find a way home. then they get to a timeline and five sees dolores. but she’s a human, not a mannequin. he falls for her. loves her. wants to stay with her in her timeline. and that’s why lila has to force him to come home. she has kids, a husband, a life. five wants to stay with dolores more than anything. but he goes home, back to his timeline, because he knows he has to save his family. because he loves them more.

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Long ranty list of stuff that majorly Sucked in s4 of tua:

- number one thing I loathe is the convenient way tua got their powers back. We get this brief vignette of them without their powers in episode 1, and then by the end of the episode they conveniently find the marigold and *voila* have powers. Where were the stakes? The consequences? Show me TUA struggling to adjust to powerless life. Five annoyed that he has to use the stairs to climb a four story building. Diego failing to chop expertly w knives. Luther struggling to open jars idk give me something. Don’t just do a six year time skip and ignore the mundane!

- Adding onto ^ that I feel like it would make more sense to me if we saw TUA without their powers for maybe 3 eps in s4, and they go through a mini Journey to get them back. Instead it’s like the entire hook of the s3 finale is immediately resolved in episode 1, it annoys me to no end

- Five working for the CIA I sorta get… cuz it’s sorta what he did with The Commission. So now unmoored and powerless he’d probably go back to that lifestyle. But Five, paranoid violent genius in the room Five, not noticing the completely obvious umbrella tattoo on his boss’ wrist?

- Jennifer being introduced, immediately shrugging off the fact that her entire town was murdered/a Truman Show sham, and joining Ben with basically zero questions

- Jennifer getting no character arc beyond she was born in a squid and she loves Ben

- Getting zero recognition that Reginald is an alien. Like. Hello?? You just found out your pos father is AN ALIEN! Are the siblings seriously not going to talk about this

- Also what year is s4 set in. Why do they always dial rotary phones but mention cryptocurrency? What is this universe where everybody knows Reginald and he’s colloquially referred to as “the elite?” Are Reginald and Abigail the… President and Vice President? King and Queen? Just some people who started a massive corporation and got rich?

- No mention of Grace is criminal. It would have made waaaaay more sense if the lady who played Abigail was actually played by Grace. And it would add some heart to Reginald as a character too. Otherwise, instead of secretly loving Grace his alien wife, Grace is just some woman who was alive in the 60s and Reginald made a replica robot mom of her in 2019. For some reason. Idk I feel like the puzzle pieces were all laid out and for some reason TUA writers did not assemble them

- No mention of Pogo or Ray is also incredibly disappointing. Allison betrayed her siblings in order to be with Claire AND with Ray in one universe, but he’s not even in s4. Why even include him in the end of s3 then

- Okay maybe I’m pulling a blank but who tf is Quinn? How does he know Klaus? Why does he hate Klaus so much?

- Why does Claire know Klaus is immortal? Why is she all of sudden cool w her mom having eye glowy powers? You have no questions about that Claire huh…

- It also made sense to me that Lila and Diego would hate domestic life… and to me it seemed like even introducing their kids (not one, but three) was sort of silly. We only really saw Grace at the birthday party and then it seemed like Lila and Diego would forget and then remember their kids existed at weird parts

- Five and Lila giving up searching for a way out of the subway stations six years in seemed sus. Yes, take a break/eat strawberries but why would you stop searching for a way back? You’re supposed to be the best agents in the commission so like… where did that grit/determination go

- Ben dying and being mutated with zero understanding of what was happening to him… just sucked

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We won but at what cost

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Honestly I’m a longtime Five/Lila shipper… but s4 upset me (for sooooo many reasons but one of them is) because their relationship had exactly ZERO bad-assery to it

Let me review. Both Five and Lila worked for The Commission and were well-known BAMFs and kicked ass while working there regularly. They’re both violent and determined and don’t give up without a fight.

So knowing this… why would they give up searching for a way out in the train station to begin with? Like yes I’m all for taking breaks and showers and eating strawberries but can’t you do that AND continue to be the motivated violent ppl the previous seasons showed us you are??

Five literally got lost in an apocalypse for 45 years and still found a way back to his family, 6 years got nothing on him

I loved Lila and Five’s hate-to-sort-of-friends relationship from the get go in s2 to s3. I always appreciated their fight scenes and the undercurrent of violence in their relationship…

So where is that same kid who stepped on Lila’s throat in s2 huh? HUH?

Why is that snark suddenly totally missing here? Where’s the violence/side comments/determination to one up each other?

Yeah I definitely ship Five and Lila, but I ship the s2/s3 Five and Lila and not this soft core vanilla shit we got

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Correct me if I’m wrong but I feel like the one and only part of Deadpool and Wolverine that did not sit right with me was the decision to make Vanessa and Wade break up.

First of all, Vanessa is hardly shown in the movie, so I feel like they could have easily excluded the break-up part without changing the plot.

Second, Vanessa didn’t have a problem with Wade being sarcastic/gritty/dark/himself in the first two movies, but now her character is taking some sort of moral high ground and demanding Wade do something meaningful with his powers? In the first movie, when they meet and proceed to fuck each other’s brains out, I thought that established both Wade and Vanessa as similarly dark characters, so Vanessa suddenly wanting Wade to be a hero or whatever just felt out of character for her.

All goes to say it made the finale, where Deadpool is thinking about Vanessa while holding those electric wire-looking time destroyer thingies, sort of cheap? Or maybe not as impactful? He’s thinking about her while sacrificing himself, but she doesn’t even love him anymore.

But then very at the end at Wade’s house we see Vanessa take Wade’s hand, so does that mean they’re getting back together? Now that Wade’s saved the world she loves him again or…?

Idk their whole break up situation just felt like a silly and useless detail to me

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I’m so glad Starlight got away

KIMIKO SPOKE like no way

Kimiko and Frenchie kissing I’m screaming

I knew that bald headed asylum freak would be back

So glad Ashley saved herself with V cuz I love her

What are Ashley’s powers?

Loving A-Train’s character development this season

The Deep can fuck off though

I kept waiting for Firecracker to explode or something cuz of those meds

I was not prepared for Neuman to die like that

I was not prepared for that alien V creature to melt out of Butcher’s chest

Where is Ryan now?

Zoe going to Red River crushed me

So glad MM and Monique got back together

Shifter Annie freaked me the fuck out

Butcher freaked me the fuck out

Solider Boy’s coming back?

I gotta watch Gen V now to understand the last five minutes of crossover

How are the boys gonna get out of this one huh

I can’t wait for s5 my god

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I actually screamed

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Re-reading Divergent and looking back, it seems obvious Four is Marcus’ son just based on the first time we meet them

When describing Marcus:

When describing Four:

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I’m sorry but real enemies to lovers would be if Violet ended up dating Jack in The Iron Flame

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Rewatching The Boys and I feel like comparing Homelander in season 1 with who he is now in season 4 is absolutely insane.

Like, in season 1 he and Maeve used to date??

It’s so impossible for me reconcile the total maniac that he is now with someone who can date. Who is capable of dating. Like what was their relationship even like. Did they go out on dates? How did they meet? Who asked who out first? Maeve broke up with him… and he let her?? Instead of immediately lasering her head off? I need to know more but Maeve’s been long since axed from the show so…

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Okay so episode 4 humanized Homelander to the max, and I am absolutely Here for it.

Just… throughout the show Homelander tries so hard to be uniquely not human. He’s a god, he’s indestructible, the world’s greatest superhero, humans are just toys for his own amusement, etc. And yet the moments where he is human are what make him, to me, make him so entertaining. It’s a little reminder that this character wasn’t always evil. This episode was full of that.

90% of the time, he does all these awful, horrible things, he kills and abuses and tortures without remorse. He’s a complete asshole, the show’s number one antagonist. And then you’ll have these random glimpses of humanity that make you realize that monsters like this aren’t born, they’re made.

“You want forgiveness? Now? After you raised me like a fucking lab rat?”

“It hurt. A lot.”

The fact that he refuses to be called John, which is what the lab workers called him.

That he reminds us that he has nightmares.

It’s just such an enticing contrast for me that Homelander is trying to actively get rid of the parts that make him human, while I think those parts are what makes him the most interesting character of all.

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Seriously the contrast between Rhaenyra’s grief and Aemond’s nonchalance in 2x01 is insane

Like Rhaenyra is tearing her fucking heart out this entire episode

And that whole time Aemond is just chilling like

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this entire episode consisted of me looking for rats