#bad writing decisions

[gwarden123]

One thing I am irritated by, from a creative perspective, is how much the wookiee jedi is just Chewbacca... but a jedi. Honestly, he's not even a proper Chewie clone, he's just that one thing that everyone remembers about "it's unwise to upset a wookiee" and that's it. He has no personality. He's basically just a bomb they have to defuse to keep the jedi busy for a bit and then get killed sixteen years later without talking to anyone. He could have been a bomb in the forest that they needed to get to before Manny Jacinto did and it wouldn't have made a difference!

[ofswordsandpens]

ever since I heard that RR was like "we decided that since Annabeth was so smart and 6 steps ahead of everyone, it wouldn't make sense for her to do x, y, or z like she did in the book" I've been physically ill, it haunts me

[persephryne]

Making Aegon a rapist was straight up bad and lazy writing.

Let me elaborate.

In the show, the first thing we learn about Aegon as an adult is that he is a rapist. We haven’t seen him yet but still we already know that he is an horrible despicable rapist, especially since Dyana is so young, which pretty much makes him a pedophile too. How could anyone root for a man like that ? And that’s where the problem begins.

Rhaenyra had already been established many times as the rightful heir to the throne in season 1. It has been made obvious that she would make a decent Queen too. In the meantime, it had already been shown that Aegon is not even a good person. He’s selfish, inconsiderate, a bully, and does not act like a prince at all. To put it plainly, he sucks big time and we as viewers already know it. Add what we saw in season 2, how reckless he gets, how he’s an alcoholic immature asshole, how he obviously knows nothing about strategics nor how to rule efficiently, or even how bad he is at high valyrian, and you can’t have anyone tell you in good faith that he would’ve been a better ruler than Rhaenyra.

However, had Aegon not been made a rapist, you would still feel for him even though he is not cut out to rule. Because he knows it too and tried to escape it and he was forced to attend his own coronation . Because this crown that he did not want does not fit him, even though he really tries to show that he is not as worthless as everyone seems to think and he just keeps failing. You would feel for him because the war ,that he has started when he was made an usurper by the people around him, has cost him his son’s life. Because the brother, who is partially responsible for his son’s death has now betrayed him and tried to kill him with dragonfire. Because the injuries he suffered make him look more and more like his father who never cared for him, never loved him and that he definitely hates. Which also probably why he tries so hard to make his mother proud of him and love him but he can’t and his main attempt has left him half-dead, half-burn. Not only that but his dragon, with whom he has the strongest bond known in Targaryen’s, history probably died during this futile attempt to prove himself. The only thing about his Targaryen’s heritage that he seems to care about has been destroyed all because he wanted to prove himself. Because he truly resents his Targaryen’s, his father’s heritage, it’s obvious, just as it is obvious that he didn’t want to marry his own sister but was forced to. It’s completely legitimate of him to want to distance himself as much as possible from everything that is Targaryen related. He is indeed more of an Hightower than a Targaryen, but can you really blame him for that ? Would you not try to fit somewhere else too, if you were in his place ? It’s all absolutely and undeniably tragic.

I wholeheartdely believe that, even if you would’ve root for Rheanyra to be Queen, you woud’ve probably still thought that Aegon, as bad as he is, did not deserves this much pain.

But because he is a rapist, well, he honestly does.

By not trusting the audience to see that Aegon is not a good person, nor a good a king, without having him comitting a literal crime, by making Aegon a rapist, the writers have annihilated any possibilities for an internal conflict regarding Aegon and Rhaenyra. The whole concept of « teams » just goes down the drain because of this lazy, manichaean, writing. And that, my friends, is bad writing at its peak.

[navree]

i'm sorry hbo allowed this writing team to plan out a ten episode season until a MONTH before shooting when they cut it down to eight????? and then kept production going when the writer's strike started like two weeks after and kept up for the entirety of the filming schedule??????? i said that filming during the writer's strike was the death knell of this season but oh my god i did not expect to be this fucking right

[thatswhatsushesaid]

characters who are oriented towards survival and self-preservation often look to other characters who are in more stable positions socially (and are similarly interpreted by some readers) as being exclusively self-interested. which is, i suppose, not a completely inaccurate interpretation. prioritizing one's survival is a type of self-interest. but it is self-interest that comes from a place of not wanting to, you know. die.

[xfactor7aurora]

Im so mad ab the think fast breakup I'm so serious

[the-way-astray]

what if i told you

i wish keefe had actually branded sophie

[goddesspharo]

Are the two of us still playing for your number? I thought I won. That's your problem. You always think you've won before the match is over.

[miquella-everywhere]

I hope the community will still keep making works( fanarts, fanfics) about miquella before the dlc. Really liked the idea that he was a rare kind soul that was actually trying to help.

Me and nearly every other miq lover anon 😔 Such an absolute shame...

[demodraws0606]

People complaining about Tsukasa5 already are pissing me off, because like, it's so unbelievably obvious what this event is trying to do and the fact that people are so hung up on "urgh dur tsukasa strong why can't he do a wall climb".

Like, first of all, a lot of Tsukasa's strength has been used as comedy before and also it's never been said that Tsukasa could specifically do a wall climb before so people calling this a retcon or a stretch is really dumb to me.

Sure we can make jokes about it, but this is not like a serious writing problem or anything.

Also are we just gonna ignore the fact this event is literally just a reference to his 3rd event in a silly trenchcoat. Or the fact that this is obviously meant to be WxS's downtime and training arc to prepare them to face the loose plotpoints in the future?

His inner dialogue when chasing the ninja is very clearly a reference to the whole Pheonix thing, how he can't reach it no matter how hard he tries.

The wall climb is like an extremely fucking on the nose metaphor to him climbing over his issues as an actor.

THERE IS ALSO THE WHOLE THING THAT HINTS THAT TSUKASA CAN ONLY OVERCOME HIS PROBLEMS IF HE HAS HELP FROM OTHERS (AKA tsukasa would've literally BEEN INJURED, if it wasn't for the fact the troupe's leader was there).

In fact this literally followed an event aka Tsukasa 4 where he FAILED to do his role correctly.

It's almost like this event is meant to be a transition point between Tsukasa 4 and 6, where Tsukasa builds up the knwoledge on how to face his problems.

But no this is just mid event because it's very silly and "wow plot is stupid why can't tsukasa wall climb".

WxS fans are slowly just turning into VBS fans in terms of how whiney they're being i swear

[dukeofthomas]

"They were never really that close pre-death" "Dick was mean to Jason before warming up" etc etc are the worst Dick&Jason takes possible. Why would you even say that about them

[eelfuneral]

I’m checking the “tech lives” and “tbb tech lives” tags so that I can see fun fanart and avoid the constant funeral that is the main tag and I’m STILL seeing stuff about how dead Tech is.

Can we…not do that?

[jonathanbyersphd]

Sometimes a sibling trio can be a self-proclaimed freak with a slight weed addiction, a boy who was demonically possessed and committed accidental homicide, and a girl with psionic abilities ❤️

[fromtheseventhhell]

HOTD is like if GOT started with Season 8's quality of writing and you could tell before it aired that was going to be the case when they decided to start the show off making huge changes. So glad I decided to ignore it altogether, sorry for the book readers who are currently suffering though 🙏🏾

[wikiangela]

wip wednesday

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I'm jumping between wips and ships so much rn, but trust me, it's even more chaotic in my brain like at all times lol it's so annoying

wasn't gonna post today but I figured I'd share a bit of the cheating fic bc I moved my self-imposed deadline to middle of may and istg I'm not moving it again so I need motivation to finish this lmao

(this scene is fighting me ngl, but I need it, and it's just gonna need a lot of editing but for now this is just a rough draft lol)

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Not breaking the kiss, Eddie shifts, throwing his leg over Buck’s lap, straddling him, and Buck’s hands immediately wrap around his hips, bringing him closer, as close as possible, just needing Eddie closer. Eddie gasps when their crotches collide, and breaks the kiss, Buck’s lips moving to Eddie’s neck.

“Buck.” Eddie whispers. “Buck, we- we should talk.” Eddie tries, but one of his hands is tangled in Buk’s hair, holding on tight. Buck stills his movements, looks up at Eddie and sees reluctance in his face. He’s not sure if it’s reluctance to stop or continue, and he needs to know for sure, would never want Eddie to feel pressured in any way. They have no alcohol to blame this time, after all.

“If you want to, let’s stop, and we can talk.” Buck says, voice a little shaky as he adds, “But we can always talk tomorrow?”, knowing this is a very bad decision, once again. He’s looking at Eddie’s face and sees something complicated, a conflict, a battle with himself. His eyes roam over Buck’s face, lingering on his eyes, then lips, then back to eyes. In the end, some part of Eddie wins, or loses, and he captures Buck’s lips with his own again.

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[elvenbeard]

Weekend Getaway

“A little weekend getaway was a good idea,” V sighed as he let himself fall onto his back and stretched, the synth-silk sheets of the hotel bed pleasantly cool against his skin.

“Got many more good ideas,” Kerry chuckled by his side, inching closer to lazily drape his arm across V’s chest. He tried not to flinch, not because he didn’t like or want the touch. He just still had to get used to this physical closeness with someone again, someone that he actually cared for more than he thought he was still capable of.

Outside, Night City was bathed in an unusual yet welcome heavy rain storm, engulfing their suite at the Dark Matter in pale blue light. V watched the rain pattering against the window for a while, hypnotized almost by the streaks it left, endlessly winding roads with endless possibilities. He couldn’t shake his tension even now, prepared that his holo would ring any moment, pull him away again, down onto the rain-slick streets, into the dirt and corruption, the lies and deception…

“Hey, you,” Kerry whispered and instead of just keeping his arm on V in a loose embrace, he actually held onto him now, gently pulling him closer and having him turn around. V didn’t resist, tried to shake off the dark thoughts, and as Kerry pulled him in closer, he hugged him back, arms around his shoulders, chest on chest. His heart was beating so fast, he wasn’t sure if he wanted Kerry to notice. Pale blue eyes were glued to his face and kissable full lips turned into a little smile.

“What’s on your mind?” Kerry asked, his hand trailing along V’s spine, lingering roughly at where his back tattoo was. Kerry seemed almost magically drawn to it, from their first night on, and V did not mind it at all. Even though he had not yet told him the story behind it, Kerry seemed to grasp its importance and meaning more than most people that had ever been able to. Wings, how cheesy. And yet, nothing would’ve felt more fitting to symbolize what V had gone through at the time he got it.

“You, mostly,” V said cheekily after a short pause, and Kerry’s smile widened.

“Only mostly?” he played annoyance, “Guess I gotta do something about that.”

He pulled V even closer, however that was even possible still at this point. V suppressed a whimper when Kerry pressed his forehead against his, and grabbed V’s thigh to hook it over his arm, fingers quickly wandering, massaging, slipping and sliding. V shivered and leaned into Kerry’s firm embrace and his teasing movement, hips moving with the pace he set with his hand.

“Yeah, that’ll do the trick,” he swallowed, helpless at how vulnerable yet at the same time good and safe he felt in Kerry’s arms.

“Told ya,” Kerry said quietly, their noses touching, “Got many more good ideas, if it means I can get ya outta your head.”

V wanted to laugh, but the noise he produced was closer to a moan. Kerry knew exactly what he was doing, what he had to do. It was a little scary, but even more so exhilarating, how well their energies matched not only in conversation but also in the bedroom.

“You just wanna keep talkin’, or show me what you’ve got?” V teased back, though thoroughly out of breath already. Surprised even, how he was able to form a coherent sentence still, while only Kerry’s fingers threatened to drive him nuts already. Kerry chuckled.

“Anythin’ for ya, V,” he whispered, breath hot against V’s neck. Then he slowly shifted without ever fully breaking contact between them, and truly made V forget about all unpleasant thoughts that had been haunting him the past few days. Maybe all of this was only temporary. But even more so V would savor every fleeting touch and every single moment they would get to share, just the two of them amongst themselves. Safe and vulnerable, comfortable and close, and finally not as alone anymore in all of this.

[>> uncropped and more pics on Pillowfort >>]