#TV Rants

[peachy-lemon83]

Topic change from my last posts bc I needed some break from the YouTube madness I sometimes get, so I have been rewatching some Criminal Minds episodes and Reid is my favorite character, and I love angst with my favorite character so of course I decided to watch one of those episodes.

Spoilers for s9 eps 23 “Angels” and 24 “Demons”

Like I watched it bc I remembered the corrupt police, Reid being shot, and then of course them trying to poison Reid and Garcia saving him. And wooooo are those some scenes. I did however very much forget the very end of Demons. The part where Alex is taking Spencer home and he asks about Ethan. And how she explains and then tells Spencer that he’s a lot like how she pictures Ethan to be (which already tears slowly falling down my face) BUT THEN I REMEMBERED THIS IS HER LEAVING

And when she leaves even Spencer seems to know that’ll be his last time saying goodbye like that “bye Alex” that was more to himself than her, him immediately going and checking his bag, him not even surprised her badge was in there. And damn what a time to have someone walk away and leave, right after they tell you, you remind them of their kid. Especially when Spencer’s dad walked away, when his mother loved him but ultimately didn’t take notice of him being late from school when they tied him up on the football field (not that she didn’t care it was during one of her episodes but like damn that added a lot more hit to this when he talks to Morgan about it in Elephant’s Memory) and he kind of had to leave her bc he wasn’t the best thing for her and her schizophrenia

add another tally to Spencers parental figures leaving , idk even know how many its at, at least 3 too many that I can think off the top of my head

[inspectorabed]

The Inspector and Constable Reggie will never be canonically romantically involved. The Inspector will live far longer then Reggie and though on the surface S02E13 looks like it’s about the strength of their bond not wavering despite eons and seperate planetary location, how they were yet able to communicate, theres an underlying theme of mortality. Reggie’s mortality, and his impending death. That moment where the inspector is in the chambre, realizing Reggie is dead here in the future, but that bittersweet realization that Reggie is just a nucleionic fluid replacement in the darsit away, is just so impactful. He’s not happy, and his dialogue to Barbara Clarke reflects it. He’s talking a lot slower, and that moment when he grabs onto Reggies arm, pulling him back in the darsit. When Reggie says he loves the inspector and the inspector says “mate, I missed you.” Not responding with the truthful “i love you too” or acknowledging the romantic undertones of that statement because the inspector knows he simply cannot love Reggie.

[ramyeongif]

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.

#LemonySnicket

[ilikethequiet]

I’ve been watching the new Quantum Leap and it’s...fine but I have some big ol’ issues with it; None of them are Ben, I think he’s great but his girl Addison? I despise her, she and Ben have no chemistry and I can’t see how they were ever a couple before he leaped. The only good thing about her was that her dad was Brandon Routh and in this house we stan Ray Palmer. 

The other annoying thing is the plot that is going on outside of the leaps (the mystery behind why Ben leaped in the first place, who the future jumper is after him now, why is there someone after him? How did Future!Ian leap into someone? ) is painfully slow, we’re sixteen episodes in now, we should know more by this point. 

Okay watching the end of the most current episode shed some light on something that is happening, but not one of those above things! It’s frustrating.

[whatafuckinnerd]

I find it unfathomable and astounding that Tumblr isn't more obsessed with Sam Reich. You're telling me there exists out there a man who was born into the aristocracy of our country—with every privilege of modern society at his fingertips—who didn't complete high school (due to his mental health) and instead chose to devote his life to making strangers laugh and raising awareness on mental health. A full-bearded short king who is so committed to being the change he wants to see in the world that he decided to take the company he worked for into his own hands so that he could make sure all the people who worked under him could keep their livelihoods.

How many other CEOs are out here being as honest and transparent with their target audience/market as Sam Reich is? How many of them acknowledge when they fumble and continuously strive to be better than they were? How many of them actually seem like they respect their talent, both in the cast and crew? Sam Reich is the standard we should be holding other CEOs to.

But forget about all that (I could talk for a long time about the respect I have for Sam Reich)—ignore just how respectable he is as a businessman and a person. Ignore all the wholesome reasons for obsessing over Sam Dalton Reich.

The man is a stone-cold fox.

He's a little chaos gremlin and an absolute evil mastermind all rolled into one classy suit and well-groomed beard. Whenever Sam is on the set, you can guarantee he is going to make you crack a smile. And for someone with such natural authority, he's never afraid to be the butt of a joke and show himself being embarrassed. Go ahead, watch any clip of him trying to improvise in No Laugh Newsroom and just try to resist that blush.

You're sleeping on a goldmine of a man, here, damnit! And I will NOT let this go ignored any longer!

[lostgirl1428]

Morning Pre-Ritalin ADHD Rant

Hot take. I don’t WANT season 3 to be the end of what we see with Din and Grogu BUT I could LIVE with it.

My generation and older gens are so used to like 13 season runs of shows with 25-28 episodes per season. LISTEN GUYS WE DON’T NEED THAT….

Fuck I DON’T want that. I mean look at what they did to Supernatural 🤦🏻‍♀️ I can’t even finish that show I stopped at season 10. I will however, (personally) make an acceptation for The Walking Dead…to be honest you can do A LOT with comic book adaptations.

Industry standard is now 3-5 seasons (typically 5) and 10-13 episodes per season.

I think it’s given elder Gen-Z (or zillenias as I like to call myself), Millennials, and Gen-X some whiplash. Don’t get me wrong though, done right, some episodic shows can go on for mad time, IF DONE RIGHT (i.e Criminal Minds).

However, these Disney shows specifically are so cinematic, each one is like a short film, I’m sure production costs and through the roof. Let’s be honest, despite what you may think of the direction the story line has gone in, it’s still absolutely breathtaking cinematography. Shout out to the SFX teams, puppeteers, both digital and practical effects artists and prop designers. They REALLY do manage to bring you to another world.

ANYWAYS. What I’m trying to say is, I WANT more Din and Grogu, however, I wouldn’t mind the show either ending there, or having a spin off for the other Mandalorians on their quest to retake Mandalore. 🤷🏻‍♀️

If they DO bring them back (and shit I’m sure they will because Grogu is a money maker let’s be real here) I’d like to see it turn into an episodic series. Granted I know some fans got annoyed with the side quest layout. However, if they continue with it, they literally set it up for an episodic run. Besides, I’m annoyed how they fucked up the storyline anyways, what was even the point if getting Grogu to Luke if he was gonna come back in TBOBF (AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THAT SHOW BTW, that’ll be another post)

Anyways, this is getting long, if you made it this far, share you opinions I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

[reality-schmality]

So, I’m finally watching The Man un the High Castle, and I have mixed feelings about it. But the main thing that’s bugging me is that they keep using the current American flag. Both timelines in this show (as of the end of season 2) are divergent from true historical events. At the very least, the main timeline with the American Reich and Pacific States should not be using the current 50-star flag. Hawaii and Alaska were officially made states in 1959, well after the fall of America according to the show. I just noticed it draped on Karen’s coffin and hanging outside Michiko’s house. There’s a bunch of anachronisms, which I’m looking past given the divergent history, but when it’s something so central to that divergent history, and therefore the whole show? Come on.

[reyna-obsessed]

book!percabeth are my parents but show!percabeth are my babies

[martellspear]

no cause like, the way they've turned gabe into this pathetic excuse of a man really got on my nerves. He's silly, almost idiotic in the show. I'm not saying that Sally should be mistreated but enduring what happened out of love for percy and how she breaks free from that abusive situation are intrinsically linked to gabe being this RAT

can't believe they'll do that to Sally and I hope I'm wrong and he'll eventually be what he's in the books (?) sounds unlikely though

[drberfarious]

percy looking off to the side at annabeth right before he's about to sing the consensus song 'cause he's a twelve-year-old trying to see how the girl he likes is going to react to some dumb shit he's about to do yeah I see you man

[locklylemybeloved]

i just KNOW the scene with the minotaur is going to BREAK me like reading it hurts but seeing on screen??? watching an actual child lose his mom????? on screen?????????? yeah its gonna hurt so good.

[the-paris-of-people]

I feel like we, as a fandom have never collectively discussed how fucking awesome Rachel Elizabeth Dare is. I honestly think she's the most underappreciated character in the entire fandom. Like demigods, she's incredibly creative, thinks and behaves outside of what's expected of her in the mortal world, and has this incredible power of sight that no one else has. She hates her father for being a developer, she volunteers in her free time to help raise money for art programs for kids, she's a great friend to Percy, she's incredibly brave (i.e. going into the labyrinth because 'she had no summer plans' , flying into a war zone, hitting Kronos with a blue hairbrush), she's really funny, but all everyone talks about is how much they hate her because she's a rival for Percy's affections but when you think about it... hello!!! Of course Percy has a crush on her she's "just as brave as Annabeth", incredibly creative, has complex feelings towards her family and her own identity... are you sensing a pattern!! Percy has a type!! All of this is made funnier when you realize Rick Riordan describes Becky (his wife) as a creative who he trusts with everything like he basically wrote two incarnations of his wife in a love triangle LOL

[ramyeongif]

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.

https://medium.com/the-brain-is-a-noodle/why-jane-the-virgin-is-my-favourite-tv-show-of-the-year-11bc44cfc608 / #LemonySnicket

[wowthatsextra]

We Percabeth fans are so spoiled because Percy STAYED screaming crying throwing up over Annabeth and it still isn’t enough 😭😭

There's a twitter discourse rn on Percy having a ~situationship~ with Rachel in TLO and people are like "If I was Annabeth I would date a guy in front of him and make him grovel" as if 1. Percy wasn’t thinking about Annabeth the entire time and 2. He wasn’t already groveling his guts out for years at that point???

Part of the reason why he even started hanging out with Rachel that summer was because him and Annabeth were having issues after what happened with Luke in BOTL. Yk when she "lost a love to worse than death"?? The same Luke she's had feelings for and blindly defended almost the entirety of the series? Percy was jealous of Luke and Annabeth since book ONE lmao and in book 3 he was terrified that she would swear off boys and hang out with girls forever... that boy has done plenty of groveling.

Look I get what you mean- Percy has had multiple love interests who he could've had real relationships with (Rachel, Calypso) whereas Annabeth was in a one-sided codependent dynamic with Luke which doesn’t count as much of a love interest. So I get wanting to, like, even the scales a bit. But the idea that Annabeth was the only one pining and waiting around for him while he got to pick between multiple girls is just... not true. She was as unavailable as he was. He was as in love with her as she was. It's a pretty even simp4simp relationship!

On another note, I never got why some fans are so worked up over Percabeth vs Perachel when it was never even a contest? Annabeth kissed Percy and he said he could stand there forever and try to remember his name. Rachel kissed percy and his reaction was "i don't want Annabeth to find out" 😭 Perachel is no threat to Percabeth guys. We can chill

Ok rant over

[peacherinerag]

I am being Completely Normal about the Percy Jackson season 2 renewal I am 100% sane right now

[annamaryllis]

Richard wrote misogynistic portrayals for most pjo women into his books, then went off and repeated it onscreen but worse

literally. girlbossified and fucked up sally's character, athena is unnecessarily villainous (while poseidon is sanitized...coincidence I think not!), frederick's actions are blamed on his new wife (and they literally didn't address that whole annabeth having regrets thing but I have a feeling it was about annabeth not reaching out to her dad...it's not the child's responsibility to reach out and try to mend the relationship...like richard's handling of their relationship was already bad enough in the books), thalia adding onto annabeth's trauma and "making her work for it" like wtf was that, annabeth getting stripped of her personality and turned into the stoic child soldier smart girl who struggles with emotions because how dare she act like a 12-year-old girl, percy "saving" her from her incorrect worldview and Showing Her The Way and how to act like a human (BOOOO annabeth is literally his mortal point, what reminds him of his humanity! she is the idealist! she's the one to not give up on luke, not him! like no the point is not that he's always been Not Like Everyone Else; percy spends the whole pjo series building up his worldview which is the accumulation of all of the lessons he's learned from all of the other characters and his experiences throughout the series. but ofc in the show he just shows up with it. I'm sure he'll be talk no jutsuing everyone soon enough ughhh), no goddess appearances, etc etc. and to think they thought they ate with that medusa redemption...athena is criticized for her actions and yet poseidon is never really scrutinized for assaulting her and is redeemed to be a loving caring father...