#I hate that episode too much for me to rewatch it

[perfectfangirl]

i'm not new to the fallout fandom but

and i also haven't made a written post in years but yet i'm sure there's already discourse on the tv show about it on here with me not finding it right away but i'd like to talk about how cooper [the ghoul man] decided to unalive and butcher another [going feral friend] ghoul, roger. though terrifying and universally morally reviled... i think it's a genuinely interesting choice of him to me with having his companion hostage [vault dweller] lucy around. morally, on the scale, it was oddly compassionate, for lack of a better phrasing. stay with me now! [ghouls just do not perish under usual circumstances in this universe and that guy would've been doomed to a "life" to fallout's equivalent of zombism] and though obviously i do not like that he did that [lmao like i'm repulsed despite very much knowing how the "fallout" games can go down, i mean there's a cannibalism perk 😭] i still think it was choice. and i think he was thinking about lucy when he made, despite how um how disturbing that entire scene was fldgld listen. when he went to the lead farmer's house, they thought so lowly of ghouls, that man and his son genuinely thought he was eating the farmer's daughter 😭 and until further episodes, i'm basically of the mind he'd probably only consume either bad guys or ghouls or both who are about to turn but anyways. back to the main point. cooper already has to face the prospect that he could be one of "them" any moment too, since he was no vials himself in that episode. so it was duly hard for him to watch--- knowing that person like that and then seeing them slowly turn. i think he knew even with any vials, that man was finished. compassionate might be a very odd word for me to use here but i say this for a couple reasons. it's "compassionate" for this universe, at least. the wasteland is cruel and unforgiving. if cooper was just after meat, why... he could've just had lucy. but i think it was an interesting choice to consume a friend type person and a [going feral] ghoul. he's not even consuming a regular ghoul. he put down one who quite literally was already turning into a feral one. it's giving "lost cause" [this show hurt just like the games, swear] looking back on the scene, he kind of tries to have a [last] warm conversation with him. about food. human food. rewatching the scene now, i actually barely caught the fact that cooper shot roger as he was looking away from him. like, my goodness, he didn't hate this man at all. this was mercy k ill if there was one. in the back of my mind, i keep thinking "was this his call to make?". in a lot of ways, i'm still on lucy's side about everything. but lucy isn't a ghoul. and i don't live in the fallout universe. there's always some type of alternative yet this is what cooper thought he should do. a few episodes later, lucy can't reason with a ghoul anymore and has to do the same thing [minus consuming them]. i guess it was his call. she is gobsmacked that he's really about to butcher and eat that man and it's kinda funny he asks her name. some insane foreshadowing that's intriguing on subsequent watches no less. i want to keep this a little short for sanity's sake--- but like. when lucy asks cooper how does he live like this. why keep going. briefly. for a short moment. while he's turned away from her. he remembers. he wishes. he misses. who he was. before all this. then, feeling contempt for who she thinks she is, he makes her butcher roger. and it was in that moment i realized cooper was for sure playing a character to cope. but that's a post for another time, wastelanders ⚡

[koichi-nomura]

I did my best :)

(Songs don’t count)

[harvestmoth]

steven got them for her

[kerorowhump]

ive talked in the past about keroro's desire to keep things as they are, static, because it's the only way he can have both keron and earth, but while rewatching ep140b I realized it shows the opposite side of this struggle

that no matter his efforts, it's a futile attempt and nothing is improving because everything is staying exactly the same. he spent a week racking his brain for a solution but the episode ends by showing us that he doesn't find one. could it be because the whole time he was fighting alone?

(his voice breaks in the first screenshot...) this to me feels like the same motivation he would have for invading. wanting to leave a mark, making something of yourself, mattering.

chibikero is in shadow, like the gunpla's shadow. he's not real anymore but he represents all the expectations and lost potential on his shoulders. while the small gunpla is in light like keroro. that's the reality of it. but that's also how he feels. small. he hasn't achieved any of his goals. he hasn't lived up to anything he said he would, everything he based his identity on. he's a "pitiful invader". his desire to matter perfectly encapsulates his abandonment issues too.

this collection will outlive him. it will speak of his greatness when he's gone. it's as much his identity as the invasion. it's also his tomb in the exact same way.

he's so happy for a moment organizing his whole collection on the shelves that he thought were gonna solve everything, enjoying the moment as it was, but in the end nothing changed.

is it because he's expendable? easily replaceable, like by a clone? is it because he doesn't see his own worth, so he has to get some (the keron star, his collection, the invasion)? because if he's not useful, he'll be thrown out? or because he doesn't want to be forgotten and left behind?

and yet

he remains insignificant and his fight is fruitless.

[nyaskitten]

It's so funny that the first five episodes of part 2 of s1 are just kinda... okay. Like e12 and e14 I'll forgive, but 11, 13, and 15 are NOT all that man...

E11 Does a poor job setting up the mediocre fetch quest for this half of the season, e13 the Wyldfyre stuff WAS admittedly hilarious and the Zane Day thing was interesting-ish but only when it comes to exploring Zane... and oh boy... e15... I don't like that one. It is not a personal favorite. AT ALL.

[hecksupremechips]

It’s so funny cuz before people started jumping on the 2020 atla bandwagon like not a single soul was out here thinking of zuko x sokka it was always that zutara shit and then all of a sudden people liked the gay ass zuko shit and me, who never considered this romance ever, was just like. Yeah okay cool :)

[time-like-tears-in-rain]

"he followed you home through the time vortex!"

[coolcarabiner]

when i was 16 i spent a lot of my free time flipping back and forth between watching supernatural and investigation discovery shows about brutal horrible gruesome murders and i seriously think it did insurmountable damage to my brain i wish i could go back in time and grab that stupid bitch by the shoulders n give her a good shake

[cockworkangels]

ooooh my god i'm going to pass away i can't do this

[niuxita21]

TFW the Girl You Love Tells You “Thanks But No Thanks. You’re Still My Best Friend, Tho!” - A novel by Ana

[oflgtfol]

like remember the raw animal panic of episode 3 where even before vader showed up on screen you still had enough things going wrong to build this sense of dread and it just kept building and then vader shows up and it just gets worse like the literal environment is dark its night and just by the shadowed silhouettes you can see him choking and killing innocent people just to draw obiwan out because he knows obiwan is watching, and he is, he watches in horror and youre like oh its inevitable this cant keep going its inevitable that theyre going to meet. and the dread gets worse. and then obiwan leaves leia behind to confront vader and the dread gets worse and then theyre running around in that dark fucking field thing and obiwan is on the defensive just getting chased and its dark and the only light is from vaders red saber as he just slowly hunts obiwan like some frightened animal and then hes cornered obiwan by like melting out of the SHADOWS visible only by the lights of his suit and the sound of his breathing, and then he beats obiwan TF UP!!! and then he THROWS HIM INTO A FIRE so that he can suffer like vader did “what have you become” “i am what you made me” etc LIKE ITS SICK ITS TWISTED IT WAS SO GOOD i love seeing obiwan suffering

[aro-aizawa]

i hate that when i have such a passionate belief of an aro headcanon, i viscerally hate anything that insinuates otherwise. even if i force myself to tolerate it, i’m never going to be 100% okay with whatever contradicts it and it’s so hard to let go of that hate.

[fateopposed]

i am thinking about. aizawa and shigaraki again.

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

I mean tbf, I hated the movie too, neither adapted well imo. So I wont watch the full show because it changed too much, it'll hurt. Like not so much on the Jace aspect, honestly, I'm sure he's great, but hearing what they did with Yin Fen makes me so mad. Like it completely changes Jem's character.

And also involving Raphael in romance is a fucking mistake. Boy is aroace, but they decide to only adapt the ace part. Not everyone needs romance.

But perhaps I watch Parabatai Lost on its own? Like I don't need to watch the whole show to understand it right? Like I'm sure context clues and the fact that I've read the series can make up for it. If the episode is really good, perhaps I watch it and take that as my one real experience with show, leave it on a good note.

And the Grace thing, again hard agree. They treated this girl like an unapologetic devil, and I mean, she isn't really apologetic, but also she's very sympathetic,and idk why people just choose to ignore that.

no i get not liking some of what the show changed, i also have a few issues with it lol, but i feel like you have to take into account that it’s a tv adaptation and it mattered more to make it work for tv than it did to be 100% faithful to the books. i feel like if you gave it another shot and just accepted that it’s tv, and tv will be tv, it can be immensely enjoyable!! where else would we get random sarah hyland fairy queen for one episode and then never see again because her and dominic sherwood broke up? where else would we get clary being the one bound to sebastian and not only interacting with her literal brother only through jace? where else would we get a simon and jace training scene? where else would we get malec playing pool? it’s tv it’s entertainment it’s hanging out with our buddies without the pressure of Impending Plot Stuff Needing To Happen Right Now….

[actuallyprobablyafaerie]

list of things that made me scream in pjo episode 3

Percy picking grover because he trusts him not to betray him!!! THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS OK

Luke still comes off as so likable and inconspicuous that whole convo he had with percy and the shoes i just

GROVER AND THE CONSENSUS SONG I CANT

annabeth staring at the different flavors of candy in the gas station and not being able to pick and just buying all of them. Thats the annabeth we deserve

ANNABETHS KNIFE APPEARANCE ALERT and a fury is IMMEDIATELY killed

uncle ferdinand foreshadowing……………

When annabeth and percy start arguing in the woods and grover tries to change the subject by talking about his uncle and they both completely ignore him. I LOVE GROVER SO MUCH

the bickering in this episode is ON POINT by the way

like the stuff theyre arguing about makes sense. Yes i would be concerned about those things too

ESPECIALLY since theres such a focus put on trust (esp after percy learns that someone is going to betray him) and percy and annabeth are arguing about stuff theyve lied or havent told each other about???? Sorry that might be skipping ahead a bit but GOD is that the good stuff

i love that they changed how the three of them ended up going into auntie em’s because before it was a little concerning that none of them figured out it was medusa. Plus having a fury outside just adds to the tension a perfect amount i think, because it really traps them in there

all the discussion about the gods and what medusa talks to percy about in the kitchen - YES MAKE ME HATE THEM!! All of this is adding up to lukes motivations making so much sense in the end

ALSO!! Them harkening back to sallys line in the first episode when she tells percy that not all heroes look like heroes and not all monsters look like monsters - they brought it back so perfectly. Percy wanting to trust medusa because of what his mom said, medusa calling Poseidon a monster, ALL OF IT is so good

When theyre down in the basement and grover puts on the shoes and then just fucking. Flies away and disappears into the darkness yelling a little. and annabeth and percy just kind of helplessly watch him go before being like - welp i guess that plans not working. That was peak comedy

them using annabeths hat on medusa and then using it to kill alecto THEY WERE SO SMART FOR THAT!!! Also percy just the invisible severed head was a hilarious concept to me

when percy suggests burying the hat in the ground with the hat on to make sure no one bad finds it and annabeth just!!! Agrees!!! And then grover has to be like no that hats important to her its a gift from her mother!!! And then percys like well we’ll find another solution then. That whole scene was good yes i liked that

also annabeth revealing that grover was her protector too and percy asks about it and grover just changes the subject and doesnt answer. He is the KING of avoidance

also grover finally interrupting annabeth and percy when they start fighting and giving his whole speech about getting along. That wouldve felt a little cheesy and preachy and out of place from anyone else but considering grover tried to get them to sing the consensus song a few hours earlier i fully believe that he would say that

I AM IMPERTINENT

Why the fuck wasnt there a lin manuel maranda jumpscare warning. I couldve used one of those

but actually all the jokes in this episode were so on point. Like percy calling drachmas chuckie cheese tokens. And him arguing about voting on the bus. Anyways

10/10 episode i will be rewatching like eight times before next tuesday.

[stardustshimmer]

That one episode of SpongeBob (Wormy) but it’s Kirby

(Let’s just say, hypothetically, Kirby wasn’t afraid of Capillers yet.)

Anyways, I thought it would be absolutely hilarious if, in this case, instead of that freaky bug closeup that pops up on screen from time to time, it's just a still shot of Morpho.

I had to force myself to rewatch the episode to get details right for this by the way. God, I hate that bug closeup. Spooky.

Aaaaaand one last doodle:

Ok, I had WAY too much fun with this.

I’ve been meaning to draw this idea out for a long while now, but this post got me motivated to actually do it.