#NOT MEANT TO BE A ROMANTIC PARALLEL

[moonah-rose]

Ghosts (S4x4, S5×4) / Doctor Who (S2x4)

[tomwambsgans]

literally all parallels to tomgreg are of the "control group" variety. as in they're intended to be just obviously similar enough to show you what's most significant about their differences aka where tom and greg are in fact healthier, more intimate, more successful, etc.

[thebaffledcaptain]

okay. thinking about how keith never had anyone to love him. thinking about how keith was ready to risk his whole career for the closest thing he had to a friend. thinking about how keith would have simply died for his country if he didn’t die for ewen and thinking about how his murder spared him that decision. thinking about how his gentlest ending would have been to die, as he did, in the arms of the man he loved.

thinking about how keith’s last gift to ewen is his ring and thinking about how he died with ewen’s parting letter to his wife in his breast pocket. thinking about how that’s probably the same place the dirk went through.

[endofthe1980s]

could a harvard girl and camden boy fall in love 🥺

[andi-o-geyser]

I’m so sorry but I think that the funniest thing they did in Top Gun Maverick was the fact that to try to beat the “Top Gun is really fucking gay” allegations they paired Mav up with a different woman this time but in doing so accidentally validated an entirely new gay ship. It’s like. Hey. Lean in real close. Hey. Mav’s got a new girlfriend this time and they’re exes with a fraught past but over the course of the movie make up and get back together, isn’t that so romantic? And then five feet away from all that shit Rooster and Hangman are just straight up saying they have an history with each other and they hold an intense rivalry before they eventually get over their differences and become friends and all the while Rooster is telling Hangman he looks good for the fiftieth fucking time that day and they keep playing romantic songs to piss each other off. The most hilarious thing is that the writers constantly use Maverick’s romances from both movies and basically parallel the only straight relationships with Rooster and Hangman’s relationship, and it’s like? Is this intentional? Is there something you want to tell us?? Because those two have STRONG hostile ex boyfriend energy if i’ve ever seen it, and if the writers want to convince me they’re straight they have another thing coming. If parallels with the only romance on screen then why no canon ex boyfriends. If parallels with both couples from both movies then why no gay. Hmm. Riddle me that Tom Cruise 

[aetherictree]

Has anyone gone through the series and catalogued all the ways Will and El parallel each other... Especially when it comes to how Mike feels about them and treats them?

Like, S1 Mike has an outburst where he claims to be the only one who cares about Will; S3 Mike has an outburst where he claims to be the only one who cares about El.

S2 Mike gives a monologue to help Will fight the Mindflayer; S4 Mike gives a monologue to help El fight Vecna.

Really feels like there isn't really much difference in how he feels about these two, hence his desperate need to draw a distinction between Friend Things and Girlfriend Things. The entire "romance" has the feel of Mike going "she's my friend, she's a girl, therefore girlfriend" and behaving in Ways People In Romantic Relationships Behave.

[quietwingsinthesky]

returning to the jack & abigail dynamic: i'm imagining that after the first two or three times abigail drags jack home to have dinner with her family, hannibal pulls her off to the side like "are you sure this is the friend you want to make? :)" (<- is thinking about how Jack is allergic to using napkins properly and will wipe everything off with his sleeves) (he's not rude, he was just unfortunately raised by winchesters)

and she just crosses her arms and shoots back with "you get to keep will >:(" (<- knows she will get her way, partly because hannibal is going to give her what she wants, partly because if he doesn't, she's not above asking jack to do a little mindwiping.)

at which point, hannibal just has to accept that she's going to bring home a weird little guy just like he did.

[sungsuho]

truly i dont care about naruto at all the world buikding is kind of fucked and the story telling js too long winded to keep me interested. but dear god. dear god. the entire relationsjip between sasuke and narurto drives me fucjing insane

[lady-tortilla-chip]

So many of y’all don’t realize that Zuko making a direct sacrifice for Katara in parallel to speaking out for soldiers he didn’t know and was ultimately punished for defending, is what seals his redemption, arc, and it shows.

[bidokja]

Read villianint cause of your posting about it, on the fucking floor now with the. Themes and parallels. Thank you I'm going to think about it for weeks now. The piano and violin scene makes me feel insane.

WE'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE (<- says this in the same way as a fisherman reeling in a big catch AND in the way medical staff in an ER drama yells as another victim from a pile-up rolls in the doors)

I TOLDDD YALL U WERENT READYYY there is NO surviving the piano and violin scene. 100 percent sure fire kill rate.

ye zimu's classmates thinking his recent brighter personality must be cause of a girlfriend when it's cause of ling chen. ling chen stealing the show for his aunt and smiling the whole time. the piano/violin duet being both a parallel to ye zimu's parents AND a foil/contrast to their past/alternate selves (showing us how their back-n-forth/push-n-pull has permanently changed from something they do Against each other to something they do With each other). the music notes overlapping. the flowers blooming. the butterfliesss. OTL

the way that ye zimu and ling chen are like DIRECTLY paralleled to ye zimu's parents who were super genuinely In Love. like, literally we learn his parents' backstory and how they fell in love and played violin and piano together IN THE MIDST OF SETTING UP FOR THE PERFORMANCE. COME ONNN. THE HEAVY HANDEDNESS HERE IS INSANE.

(like, fuck his dad all my homies hate his dad i hope he rots. but there is like Zero denying how sweetly deeply in love his parent were. that single "understood" from him Broke me in whole new ways. masterfully done writing to have you genuinely sympathize with him while still letting you Hate him and not justifying his actions. cause like. extra layer of meaning: what is that if not just how a traumatized kid would view their complicated relationship with their shitty parent).

[merrysithmas]

fanon: "jedi are prob allowed to have romance n' stuff it's just like secondary to their responsibilities and no one really cares"

the jedi in their preeminent text The Jedi Path: "ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT. IF YOU EVEN THINK FOR ONE MILLISECOND OF HAVING ATTACHMENT TO ANYONE, EVER, PERSONALLY YOU, YEA YOU, YOU SPECIFICALLY ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE ORDER. IN FACT IF YOURE EVEN READING THIS AT ALL IT MUST BE BC YOU CONSIDERED IT! wow... sad. so JUST GIVE UP AND DRAG YOUR MISERABLE WASTED ASS OUT OF THE DOOR YOU PATHETIC, CONTEMPTABLE DISAPPOINTMENT"

[dbssh]

there was one take in particular that gobsmacked me in how reductive it was. "walton is toxic because he romanticizes victors depression" LIKE HELLO????

[panvani]

I love love love VnC fan's inability to comprehend that an author would ever write anything gay on purpose. It was so sad for Noé when Louis died it was like losing a brother

[anthurak]

You know the more I've thought about it, the fact that Charlie and Vaggie do a romantic reprise of 'More Than Anything' feels like a strong indicator not just that Chaggie will end up being framed as a thematic parallel/foil to Lilith and Lucifer, but also that Charlie is specifically meant to be the counterpart to Lilith; the (half)human woman who inspires Hell through song, and Vaggie the counterpart to Lucifer; the fallen angel who fell in love with her.

[boqorka]

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[faerociousbeast]

they changed the one sakura ino scene too 😭😭