#also i have been living for the undercurrent of how much perfectionism fucks you up

[waters-and-the-wilde]

no but i love the fact that Dark Matters doesn't have something bigger and more insidious than the Theia

like. what they have is guns and prisons and corporate cronies. maybe a dragon's hoard of stolen tech that they're sitting on but are more concerned with controlling than actually using in any wide-reaching capacity. they're pretty big and spooky but in a smoke and mirrors way that belies the fact that their power is mundane and in some ways still vulnerable to a bunch of meddling kids plucky gay space rogues. maybe that's part of the power fantasy but also part of the message. idk there's something about the tension between how deliberately cartoon-y the tone of the show is and the way it deliberately inflates and then punctures that spooky factor that makes my brain go brrrrrrr like the power they wield is legitimately a threat but it's like how ursula k le guin talks about how evil is banal. and how sasha's both 'the big villain' and also 'you know what i'm not actually all that good at my job it's kinda embarrassing. guess i'll die. i hope we both die'

'evil is banal' and 'we changed some stuff enough to ruin some rich peoples' days and make things a little better and we're never going to fully grasp the long-reaching ramifications because nobody really can' and 'HEHEH MIND MELD ALIEN ROCKET ESCAPE' 'we don't look back at our explosions but not bc we're cool. we're not cool we're just looking to the future. maybe we're a little bit cool. c'mon let a lady and a car lady be a little bit cool'

i have some notes scribbled on my phone to the effect of 'sasha's not actually very good at her job bc dark matters is inherently fucked up' i should go find that