Controversial opinion and it's only an opinion, but NADDPOD Campaign 3, episode 32 "The Ones We Couldn't Save" may be the best episode of the entire podcast.
Y'all can fight me, and you may be right, but it's still gonna be my top favorite.
the thing about emily axford as a player is that she rolls fine but whoo boy does she know how to play. theres a couple posts on here about murphs bad luck rolling vs emily "being able to roll a nat 20 on command," but that's just not true. emily rolls pretty middling, but she's very good at strategy, more often than not meaning that she is able to add buffs to rolls or have them work out even if she doesn't roll Great; we gotta give credit where credit is due, which is to emily's strategy and not to her rolls
I’d probably like the cabin fever casualties more (excluding Darren and Rebecca, fuck those two in particular) if they all didn’t
- run away from Uzi like she was the spawn of Satan towards the literal spawns of Satan
- very clearly try to isolate Uzi from the Disassemblers (“You can be our friend, little guy” step off, Emily)(V even joined them. Uzi saved your ass, tf is your deal, V)
- purposefully forget who Uzi was (those mfs were robots, that shit had to be purposeful)
I see popular tweets about Gilmore Girls and noticed people always ignore Lorelai was a victim of her parents emotional abuse. Both Richard and Emily tried to control every aspect of Lorelai life and tried to do the same with Rory, so much so that they treated their working class boyfriends badly because they weren't upper class. Furthermore, they are both extremely racist and treat their maids poorly. Lorelai is not perfect but as victim of toxic parents it's terrible to see people defend them+
+There was an episode where Rory was excited to see her grandparents until she discovered that her grandparents lied to her and that party they invided her was actually with high society boys so that she could break up with her boyfriend who didn't belong to their social class. Later they destroyed Lorelai's relationship with Luke, who is also a worker. There is so much manipulation, gaslighting and classicism but people ignore it.
+Just saw another thing: Richard and Emily Gilmore saying white blonde rich men are 'good breeding'. Emily even fantasizes about Rory, her granddaughter, having blond, blue-eyed children. How people really say they are the real good guys of the show????
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YUPPPPPPP there’s a *lot* of classism and racism baked into that show that get’s laughed off as Emily and Richard being a product of their time and like, “harmless” or whatever. Amy Sherman Palladino pulled some similar shit in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with the lead character’s parents, only this time she added some antisemitic caricatures, you know, as a treat 🙃
emily wilson comparing the inevitable earth-death to the truth-telling experience of the story of the iliad, where "your knowing changes nothing" but still you do know because:
"A new kind of heartbreak can be felt in The Iliad's representation of a city in its last days, of triumphs and defeats and struggles and speeches that take place in a city that will soon be burned to the ground, in a landscape that will soon be flooded by all the rivers, in a world where soon, no people will live at all, and there will be no more stories and no more names."
is in conversation with the ecocritical argument that grief and death and mourning will take us through the end, whatever it looks like, from bruno latour insisting on entering a "subjectivity" with everything else in the world now just as "subject" as us (not object) for being subjected to themselves and the othered phenomena, to donna haraway speculating about Speakers of the Dead who are humans that mutate their bodies to resemble those bodies of extinct or going-extinct creatures---
heartbreak is the only thing to be felt, in the end, they're claiming. anger and the will to fight are often object-less and externalized but they cannot change what is already written, despite their illusion of true power. no, it's the lamenters who remember and will guide the audience thru the narrative's conclusion. the vulnerability of knowing the story, a knowing that "changes nothing," but when all stories do inevitably vanish, at least they were told in the most prolonged way possible.