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#because she called them her friend because she didn't blame them for not being ezra
antianakin · 1 year
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I find it interesting seeing arguments about how of the three main people in relationships with Anakin, Ahsoka is the most "normal" about him. I'd actually argue that Ahsoka is not the most normal about Anakin, Obi-Wan is.
Obi-Wan is the only one who can remember Anakin as he was without denying who he's become. While I don't blame Ahsoka for simply... not knowing what happened to Anakin post Order 66, once she feels his presence in Rebels, she spends an entire year trying to find evidence that will refute what she already effectively knows. And when she finally faces him, the moment Anakin gives her a reason to believe it's NOT him, she takes it and decides it's true. Obi-Wan really isn't given a lot of time to sit in this place because he's shown the hologram of Anakin pretty quickly, but there's no attempt by Obi-Wan to try to excuse what Anakin's done, to try to tell Yoda that maybe Anakin was brainwashed or the security recording was tampered with. He accepts that Anakin's betrayed them fairly quickly in a way Ahsoka appears to struggle more with.
Ahsoka also is appearing to have trouble ten years down the line remembering Anakin without fear and anger. When dealing with Grogu and his own issues with fear and anger, Ahsoka refuses to have anything to do with him and just passes off the responsibility onto someone else specifically because he reminds her too much of Anakin. She no longer believes Grogu could EVER become a good Jedi because she knows what Anakin became. She can't remember Anakin positively now that she can't deny what he became, the things he did. Contrast that with the way Obi-Wan "separates" Anakin and Vader when speaking to Luke. He doesn't deny what Anakin's done because he says it pretty plainly when explaining it to Luke, that Anakin betrayed and hunted down the Jedi to the point of near extinction. But he can also extol some of his virtues, that he was a good warrior and a good pilot and is even capable of calling him a good friend. He can remember Anakin fondly without denying what Anakin has become and the things he's done. Anakin WAS a good friend, but he IS a traitor and an enemy.
Obi-Wan is the only one who can walk away. Obi-Wan may not land a killing blow on Mustafar, but he refuses to help Anakin and definitely leaves him to die. His choice to let Anakin live on the moon near Jabiim isn't about being unable to kill Anakin for Anakin's sake, but for his own. It would destroy Obi-Wan and require a sacrifice Obi-Wan is unwilling to give in order to kill Anakin. Obi-Wan would have to give in to anger and grief and pain to do it, which would mean making the same mistakes Anakin did. Obi-Wan's not capable of holding Anakin prisoner or giving him a trial, but he's unwilling to simply murder Anakin when he's defeated and incapable of truly defending himself either. Obi-Wan refuses to let himself become what Anakin's become.
Ahsoka refuses to walk away. Once she gets that confirmation that Vader is Anakin, she abandons Kanan and Ezra in order to never leave Anakin again because she's so caught up in her own guilt over the possibility that her leaving the Order may have led to Anakin's fate. She can't walk away. She can't save him, and the knowledge that she can't save him destroys her. She doesn't want to face or accept that she can't save him, so she stays in the Sith battlestation with Anakin, presumably hoping that she can kill 3 birds with 1 stone here: the battlestation gets destroyed, Anakin goes down with it, and she can die with him. At the very least if she dies and Anakin survives, she can die knowing she didn't abandon him again. Ahsoka cannot walk away, for herself or anyone else. Not initially, at least. Not until she gets literally pulled out of time by Ezra and forced to see him confront his own attachments.
Ahsoka is unwilling to hurt or kill Anakin once she knows it's him. Her angry declaration of "I will avenge his death" comes when she can still pretend Vader isn't Anakin, her cutting the mask off only happens before she gets the confirmation that he IS Anakin. The moment she gets it, the moment she can no longer pretend, she's pretty solidly on defense and nothing else and then she does one kamikaze move where she literally kneels in front of Anakin and theoretically is going to allow him to strike her down. She blames herself for what's happened to him and so can't truly fight him any more than she can walk away from him.
Ahsoka is so consumed by her relationship with Anakin and her inability to comprehend and accept that the Master she loved and the nightmare he became are the same person keeps her from being able to truly move on, even ten years down the line from discovering his betrayal. She's not the LEAST normal about him, that distinction I think will always likely have to be Padme's, but she's also not the MOST normal about him because Ahsoka's relationship to him was always based on lies, and seen through a child's rose colored lenses.
Obi-Wan raised Anakin, he understands Anakin's flaws, he knows Anakin can be arrogant and reckless and overconfident, he knows where that comes from in Anakin's past. He CHOOSES to have faith in Anakin, he CHOOSES to see the best in him and believe that Anakin can overcome his struggles. It's not an inability to see the truth about Anakin so much as it is an active choice to let Anakin have the space to make mistakes and a belief that even when Anakin stumbles, he'll get back up and find his balance again. It's also just a lack of information about how hard Anakin's stumbled to some degree.
Ahsoka doesn't have that foundation, she's a child with a Master she looks up to as a hero and someone she wants SO BADLY to emulate and impress. She CAN'T view him normally because she never truly gets the chance to evolve their relationship into something more equal, so when the truth of Anakin finally becomes known to her, it collides pretty hard with that childish rose colored version that exists in her memories. She doesn't truly have a way to combine the two versions of Anakin into a way that makes sense to her the way Obi-Wan is capable of doing. Which sucks for her because it leaves her in a limbo, unable to move on and unable to go back.
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gideonthefirst · 2 years
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man. thinking about how aegis is only aegis because of alita and they. left her to die
#aegis. learned how to be a person because they knew alita. because they heard alita's stories#because she called them her friend because she didn't blame them for not being ezra#they. if the chosen had been anyone but alita they would've been anyone but aegis. they might not've become a person at all#and that's. what they were really thanking her for on the train. it wasn't just the stories it was. themself. three people built aegis.#and they're all dead. and they had a hand in all three of their deaths even if like for the king it was a small one#it is. they would kill durandal even though durandal helped build them they would kill the king even though he built them and. they left#alita to die even though she's why they're anyone at all#and they knew she would die if they left. they knew they weren't leaving her with a chance.#and they still don't regret it because they're. alive. more than anything else alita taught them how to love being alive#the difference between wanting to live because of being scared of death and wantinglive because they Want To Live was. alita. she gave#that to them. i don't even really know where i'm going with this i just. man. she sure was the chosen.#the thing is that. they would have counted living as worth it even if the king had won and they'd had to be terrified forever.#they would have held just as tight they would have been just as grateful for the chance they were given#but they. there is so little to be afraid of. they wake up every morning and they can. go outside and look at the sky.#arion came to them after five years. it took five years for xem to be able to forgive them but they. maybe they will have a friend again.#someone else to learn from.#there is no one in this village who had ever seen their first body and there will be no one in the next or the next or the next#i can't even. i'm not even capable of Imagining the joy they feel for it all#she gave them such a gift......#maybe they take her name. maybe eventually they are aegis nikolaev. a name from the king and their other half and a name from the girl they#left to die even though she gave them life. maybe.#i am so unbelievably grateful and lucky that i got to play this game and this character with other players and a dm who Let me play this#game and this character.....#i just. man. game of all time. 4/6 dead and we Won. and aegis gets to live for decades yet.#dnd blogging#campaign: magic sword#character: aegis
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Coach (1)
Fandom: Dylan O'Brien
Pairing: AU Dylan x Fem!Reader
Mini series summary: Being a newly single mom of two kids wasn't exactly easy. And love wasn't exactly part of your agenda. So, should you avoid lusting over your son's baseball coach? Absolutely. But with a man like Dylan, could you really resist? Probably not.
Warnings: nothing major yet, small sexual innuendo, mentions of cheating and divorce
WC: 1.9k
A/N: a yes, to those who have been following me for a while may recognize this title, it's my old Dylan AU fic. Yes I decided to continue it. Updates will come periodically, because I write spontaneously and I cant guarantee quick updates. But I do promise I wont wait a whole year to update. And since I did some slight updates in the first 2 parts I decided to archive the old ones and repost them again. So yeah, if you've read them before great, give it another read, my writing is much better now I promise and if you're new welcome, I hope you like this mini series.
(You are here, part 2, part 3)
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Dylan stood by the side of the large field, near the home plate, occasionally yelling out suggestions and pointing out mistakes to the young boys. 
"Ezra! You have to watch the ball! C'mon! I know you can do better!" He called out to the blonde boy standing on the home plate with a bat in hand. Dylan then turned his attention to the dark haired boy with the baseball mitt and ball in hand.
"Roman! What's going on, buddy? You gotta focus, alright? You gotta work on that throw!" Dylan called out to the young boy, who half nodded and sighed heavily in response.
Not long after, Dylan signaled the young boys scattered throughout the large field to gather around. He spoke some encouraging words to the boys before allowing them to disperse and gather their equipment which meant practice was over.
Your son, however, stayed behind for a minute. There was an inaudible conversation happening between Dylan and your ten year-old, Roman. You watched from the bleachers as your son made some tired gestures at his coach followed by a small pat on the back from Dylan. You couldn't help but follow them with your eyes as they made their way to the bleachers, your eyes lingering a bit too long on the brown haired coach. An action that wasn't taken lightly by the female sitting beside you.
"You're staring at him again." Your best friend, Ezra's mother, Eliza -or just Liz, commented.
"I'm not." You muttered out quickly, tearing your eyes away from the handsome coach, your mouth hanging open for a couple of seconds. "I wasn't staring." You stated matter of factly and shrugged as you looked down at the small six year-old sitting on your lap, making sure she wasn't paying attention to the conversation.
"Really? The drool coming from your mouth says otherwise." Liz playfully ran her finger across your chin, pretending to wipe away at it. You slightly glared at her, an eye roll going her way.
"I'm not drooling. I wasn't even staring." You tried to defend yourself, making a small sassy gesture to her.
"Hey, I don't blame you. If I wasn't married," she took a pause as she eyed Dylan as he removed his baseball hat to run a hand through his messy chocolate locks, you couldn't help but stare as well. "I'd jump on his bones any day."
"Hey, there's young ears present." You said quietly to Liz as not to disturb the young girl in your arms.
Despite your attempt not to, you couldn't help but allow your eyes to fall once again on the field, following the handsome male that was the topic of your conversation. You had to hide the infatuated sigh that left your lips at the sight of your son's coach running around the field, talking to the kids and picking up equipment.
"Well he is handsome, I'll give him that.." You admitted quietly, "and he's really good with the kids."
Your friend smirked slightly at your words and wiggled her eyebrows at you.
"I bet that's not the only thing he's really good at." She eyed you suggestively and slightly nudged at you with her shoulder, "You should find out what other things he's good at."
Your mouth instantly fell open and your eyes widened at the insinuation.
"Eliza! Oh, my god. Don't say that." You slightly shook your head to brush off the embarrassment and hid your face on your hands to cover the crimson on your skin.
"Mommy you're warm!" Athena, your six year-old giggled as she grabbed your warm, sweaty hands. Even your daughter noticed the nervousness that crept up on you when it came to Dylan, even if it was just the topic of him. Truth was, you had been shamelessly crushing on your son's baseball coach ever since he joined the team a couple of months ago. 
Get it together, you should not be crushing on your son's baseball coach.
"I know baby, it's just hot out here." You tried to brush it off, but the knowing smirk on Liz's face wasn't exactly helping. "Thena, why don't you go get Roman and Ezra? They're over there." You pointed to the field where Roman and Ezra were talking —or more like just Ezra was, to the other kids on the team. She quickly nodded and bolted off the bleachers, somehow not tripping over the steps as she went down. You sighed heavily the moment the young girl was far enough and slightly turned your head in Liz's direction.
"You should totally ask him out." She said out of nowhere with a shrug and a smirk on her face. Your eyes widened for the hundredth time, and you instantly shook your head frantically, the idea alone giving you a headache.
"Ask Dylan out? No way. I.. No.. That's just.. No." Your cheeks slightly heat up at the preposition. But you quickly turned it down with a vigorous shake of your head, not even giving the idea a minute to sink into your brain. "No, he's Roman's coach. It's just wrong."
"Why? I mean, you're single, and as far as I know, he's very single. Soo," she dragged the 'o' as she wiggled her eyebrows and she nudged your shoulder, pushing you over a little in a high school girl manner, "Why not get ready to mingle with the hot coach?"
"First of all, I'm technically not single, not yet." You groaned with an eyeroll. As much as you and your husband —or ex-husband or whatever were no longer living together, the divorce process had been unnecessarily long and dreadful. So as much as you wanted to be legally single, you were still married to that piece of shit. 
"And second of all, if I were to date someone, which is a big if, I can't date Roman's coach out of all people. He already has enough as it is. It'll just confuse him and probably upset him more." You sighed heavily as you looked over to the side of the field, where all the boys were having a conversation about elementary boys' things. And there you saw your son, trying, and ultimately failing at joining said conversations. And with little Athena tugging at his side, all he got from the other kids was laughing and rejection.
Seeing your son's sad and hurt expression when the other boys laughed at him or even told him to go away broke your heart. You wanted him to be happy again. You wanted him to be the energetic and loving kid he was before your waste of a husband left. Ever since Ryan —your waste of a husband left, Roman hasn't been the same. 
For the past six or so months, he has been distant and seemingly unhappy. All he ever did was lock himself up in his room and play video games. He barely ever interacted with you and Athena anymore. He barely interacted with anyone, period. Once Ryan left, it was up to you to support your kids financially. Of course, their father still paid child support, but he sure as hell didn't pay your bills or everything you needed to spend on your children. Which meant you had to take him out of the fancy school he went to in order to still pay the monthly expenses of your home. And he just didn't quite fit in at school, especially now. 
So, you hoped that him joining the baseball team would change that, that it would help him open up again and that it would help him make new friends. But so far, it's worked just the opposite.
"So, I'm making dinner tonight. Do you want to come over with the kids and get drunk? Luke will watch over the kids." Liz spoke, interrupting your train of thought.
"That sounds a-mazing," you spoke in a song-like tune, a sigh of contentment leaving your lips. "But I can't. I told Roman I'd take him to that Italian place he likes."
"Tomorrow then. I'll have that Chardonnay you love so much waiting for you." She winked at you as you both stood up, ready to greet your children.
"Thank God for your alcohol stash." You joked, flinging your arms up in praise. 
You both laughed and smiled in your children's direction, but your smile dropped as your kids and Ezra approached you. Ezra was holding Athena's hand, while Roman walked behind them, with a certain heaviness on his step and an annoyed look on his face. And Athena had a small pout on her face.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
"Rome doesn't want to hold my hand!" Athena whined with a pout of her lower lip. She released Ezra's hand and exchanged it for your own. Ezra going to his own mom. While Roman simply stood there, with a hand stuffed into his pockets and the other messing with the strap of his bag, his gaze stuck on the ground.
"Roman, baby," you sighed softly, not wanting to give the poor kid a hard time. You understood he didn't exactly fit in, no matter how much he wanted to, and that upset him. You didn't want to add up to that. "Your sister just wanted you to hold her hand."
"She was embarrassing me.. I'm already the kid without a dad, I don't need to be the kid with an annoying  baby sister." He muttered, his gaze not once leaving the ground.
 His words were harsh, but lacked emotion. And it broke your heart. But as much as you wanted to tell him that it wasn't true, that he did have a dad, you'd be lying if you did. Ryan was already absent in your children's lives before the split, but at the same time he was there, and Roman felt as if he was. But now, his father really wasn't there, at all. And there was nothing you could do about it.
You sighed softly, gesturing your free hand out for him, "Roman, come here," a heavy sigh left the young boy's lips as he took a few steps closer, standing in front of you with his head hanging low and his eyes stuck to the ground. You used your hand to hold the side of his face, his eyes meeting with your own. "Baby, Thena just wanted to show you that she loves you. She didn't mean to embarrass you, right Thena?" You turned your attention to the small girl that hid behind your arm, her eyes glistening with tears.
The small girl sniffled and shook her head, "No.. I'm sorry Rome.. I won't do it ever again, I-I promise."
You exchanged looks between your children, your eyes finally landing on Roman as you waited for a response. You raised an eyebrow at him, your eyes speaking a silent 'and' to the boy. He eventually signed, almost too heavily, and nodded. 
"It's okay, I guess.. I don't really mind all that much." He half smiled, shrugging slightly.
Athena's expression quickly lightened, the small girl detached herself from your hand and hugged her older brother. And as much as he hated to admit it, he didn't mind the affection. He returned the hug and smiled, for a moment at least.
After a second or two, Roman slightly pushed Athena off him, signaling that that had been enough affection for a day. You breathed out softly, turning to look at Liz, who gave you a sympathetic smile in response. 
"Well my loves, off we go. Say goodbye to Auntie Liz and Ezra." Both your children did as you said. Athena hugging both of them, and Roman simply waving at them. Good enough.
And at last, you gave Liz a quick but tight hug, "I'll call you tomorrow." You said shortly before you grabbed a hold of your daughter's hand and your son's bag, and eventually parted ways.
Today was gonna be a long day.
《Here's an edited version of part 1. As always I hope y'all enjoyed it. I'm trying to get back into writing after a long year, hopefully this will help me get back on track. Let me know your thoughts. And let me know if you'd like to be added to my dylan/coach taglist which I do have》
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aros001 · 3 years
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Going in blind: Watching season 2 for the first time. Random thoughts.
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Huh. Only 7 episodes. Not complaining necessarily. For series with an ongoing plot I've definitely become more in favor with their seasons only having as many episodes as they need rather than them having to stretch themselves out to full up a certain number of episodes, which can lead to padding and just bad character moments.
Episode 1: Jeez. Catra visiting Shadow Weaver's cell just to rub her success in her face and verbally abuse her back for once. It's like a twisted version of Zuko and Ozai from ATLA. Catra's upbringing under her was abusive but this is far from a healthy way for her to deal with it. She's basically deliberately swimming in her resentment.
Episode 2: It's not that I'm rooting for her but by-golly was it fun to watch Catra act like just the absolute worst she could while she was Glimmer and Bow's captive.
I touched on this in season 1 but part of the drama of the heroes feeling guilt over leaving Entrapta behind is kind of lost on me a bit simply because it was her own fault it happened. She deliberately went back into the purge room because of her machine obsession, which then closed on her and erupted in flames. It was more than reasonable to assume she was dead and no one but her was to blame, so I'm not really able to be invested in their guilt over it.
That said, weirdly enough I do like that her "abandonment" doesn't seem to be even a blip on the radar for Entrapta herself. She hasn't joined the horde because she resents the heroes or felt left behind, she simply is so obsessed with machines and experimentation that she'll be on the side of whoever lets her do the most of that. Like, it's selfish and irresponsible but it's very in-character and I'd far rather have a traitor motivation be based in that over something stupid like a misunderstanding.
Episode 3: I love the mental image of Shadow Weaver thinking up princess-themed ghost stories to tell Adora as a child.
So, if the previous She-Ra Mara separated Eternia from the other realms/planets/whatever she did and that's what cut off the She-Ra line for 1000 years, I'm guessing Hordak may be from the time before that happened, thus his drive to create portals and calling Eternia a backwards world. Either he's naturally long-lived or his technology is extending his life.
Episode 4: You know, you could maybe argue it was vague enough that it could be taken other ways but I'm definitely getting some vibes here that Scorpia is crushing on Catra. She literally refers to the two of them as soulmates at one point. I know she says she's trying to be friends but this feels a level beyond that.
Fun little reference to the original She-Ra cartoon thrown in there (and maybe Cowboy Bebop...? James Bond...? What was Glimmer's art style supposed to be?). I like how it is more like just playful ribbing than anything outright dumping on the original. Again, I've never seen original She-Ra but whenever remakes/adaptations go out of their way to trash to the original I always kind of wonder why they bothered doing an adaptation if the original is just that bad? Also, I was having trouble sleeping so it was about 2am when I watched this episode and the very Eartha Kitt Catwoman Catra made it very difficult for me not to lose my **** and stay quiet. With how much of a contrast that version is from the one in this series, that was hilarious. Bonus note, it's a nice touch that Frosta's version of Catra is a pretty crasher in that sweet suit, since that's the only impression of Catra she's ever had.
Adora being a chosen one is definitely elevated up simply by how much the pressure of what she's supposed to be is getting to her. I'm likely going to keep making Avatar The Last Airbender comparisons throughout the series but that's partly because I went into this series figuring it'd be at least structured similar to ATLA (season 1 being more episodic and a little more kid-friendly as it builds up the world before getting more serious later). Adora and Aang are interesting to compare here. Aang's worries early on were less apparent because he was more in-denial/choosing not to think about his problems that much, which fit with his character as a free-spirited Air Nomad. While Adora is much more military-minded. She can't keep herself from thinking about her problems and trying to prepare for the worst-case scenario. And jeez, that idea of who/how Catra is in her mind. Not only beating her but making her watch as she takes everything she cares about away. Not Shadow Weaver, not Lord Hordak, but Catra. That whole Lion King Mufasa/Scar moment between them in episode 11 and their fight in the S1 finale really did a number on her mental image of her old friend. Not reasonably so.
Minor note: I'm sure I'm the only one who got this impression but by the look of it, the way the robot's eye moved, and the music, after getting the soda spilled on it that little spybot gained sentience for half a second and then immediately died. It was so darkly comedic I had to laugh.
Episode 5: So that red disc is basically She-Ra's Red Kryptonite, having an effect on the mind rather than the body. The drunk Adora joke doesn't really do it for me but it did get some nice interactions going between Scorpia and Sea Hawk, two characters I certainly wasn't expecting to bond. I did really like Catra's panic when berserker She-Ra nearly beheads her. The implication is that is Adora really wanted to kill her Catra would already probably be dead. It's a thing I like about powerhouse characters like Superman or Aang, who could just demolish everything around them and don't simply because they're a good person...which in turn makes them the scariest person on the planet when they're well and truly ticked off. I'm not going to lie, I do kind of want to see a She-Ra version of Aang when Appa was stolen or when Superman fought The Elite.
Also, Catra's line of "I have control over Adora. I'm not giving that up for anything.". There's a lot to read into there.
Episode 6: I guess my prediction was sort of right. Shadow Weaver became basically a magic parasite and while it did increase the power she's capable of the implication seems to be that she needs a constant fix of magic to keep herself going, thus her attachment to the Black Garnet.
Have we seen Micah before? Given how long ago the flashback seems set, the fact that Shadow Weaver didn't kill him and thus he probably becomes someone important later in life, I'm guessing he's Glimmer's dad and the queen's late husband, since I think he's the only important male character whose face we haven't seen yet. Also, he's voice by Ezra from Star Wars Rebels and that cracks me up for some reason. It's the exact same voice and a relatively similar character.
I compared Catra and Shadow Weaver with a kind of twisted version of Zuko and Ozai and that definitely still fits here. Both Catra and Zuko confront their parent and call them out for the inexcusable abuse they put them through but while that moment was the start of Zuko's upwards journey this and SW's betrayal seems like it's going to cause Catra to spiral even further. Makes sense why Adora leaving affected her so much. She's probably the only one Catra's ever had that she could consistently trust and rely on, even if she did somewhat resent her.
Not surprised Hordak is getting along with Entrapta. She's not socially aware enough to be scared or intimidated by him, so she'll speak frankly, and since all she wants to talk about is the machines, experiments, and how they could get them to work Hordak probably doesn't take much issue with that. She's producing results, which is what he cares about, thus also why Shadow Weaver and Catra started losing favor with him. I wonder if Catra is going through imposter syndrome? Shadow Weaver had that line that Entrapta earned her place next to Hordak and, if you think about it, Catra hasn't really "earned" anything. We saw that she didn't really take her training or studies that seriously, showing up late to combat practice and even getting partial credit for what Adora beat. She wasn't promoted to Force Captain because of her own abilities but because Adora had defected when she was supposed to get that title. She's come close to a few victories but never really had any except for Glimmer and Bow's kidnapping...whom she then basically let escape when she returned Adora's sword to her. She doesn't have the slightest clue how the horde's bureaucracy works when trying to get things done, like simply getting troops armor. Given how much better than her Adora always was and how little she herself has to her name, I wonder is subconsciously Catra believes she doesn't deserve her current position and thus why she's fretting so much over trying to prove herself.
Episode 7: Am I mistaken or did Bow's parents say that he's the youngest of TWELVE siblings? I was going to ask whether Bow was adopted or if his dad's used a surrogate or if maybe there's even just simply magic in She-Ra's world that allows two people of the same sex to have a child together but now I'm just focused on the 12 kids thing. I get nervous just imagining myself having more than one. You should see me when I'm with two cats. I have to pet both of them because I'd feel like I'd be making one feel left out and like the other is the favorite. I'm a mess with kids.
The dad with dreadlocks (Lance?), his design looked familiar to me and I finally realized it reminded me a of a fanart design for a human Grim from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Very different voices between those two characters though.
I wonder if there's any significance to the robot protecting the crystal having the same design as those in the artic in episode 5? Obviously both have the connection to the First Ones but the robot in the forest who was also protecting First Ones' tech had a more insect-like design over these more worm/Graboid ones.
I'm kind of curious what Hordak would have done if Catra had told the truth. Given his interactions with her and Shadow Weaver he doesn't seem like the time to tolerate failure but I suppose the implication here is that he at least would respect those who own up to their failures. Or I suppose more simply he was just testing to see if she would lie to him and since she did there's little merit in keeping her in a position of authority anymore where she could lie about important things again.
Season 2 verdict: Still enjoying it. Another person on this reddit recommended I view seasons 2 and 3 as one since they are basically just one season split in two. I was going to do that but this ended up longer than I thought I would, so I'll just do 2 and 3 separate to keep them semi-organized and easier to read.
I think overall Catra is my favorite character since she has the most interesting backstory, interactions, and just general path through the story out of everyone. She's like Pearl from Steven Universe or, well, Zuko. There's just so much baggage there that she's trying and kind of failing to deal with. I'm always invested in whatever's happening when she's onscreen. Hordak so far is a good big boss villain for Adora to face but Catra is a good archenemy for her.
Original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrincessesOfPower/comments/o027y3/going_in_blind_watching_season_2_for_the_first/
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My top 10 quarantine movies: Part 1
We kinda need to talk about this at some point, since we are locked up in a who knows how much time, been doing quarantine since february and i can't go out until there is a cure, because i'm a risky kind of person, so instead i have the need to watch the outside world through the movies, so i choose a top 10 of movies about reality or that has some sort of reality on them. First of them would be:
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Who hasn't been bullied at school as a kid? I know i have, so i know how the main character here feels, even if the anger is real i didn't ended up doing what he did. Because i'm not that dumb, but yeah, reminds me my school years.
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I haven't reviewed this one here, so this is about a satanic cult and the stereotype of guys who listen to metal has to be satanic kind of bullshit, makes you see how the world sees that kind of people, because we live in a world where pop is well received but rock it isn't, this guys here or a least some of them takea things to another level, because one of them ia crazy aa fuck, still good movie to watch.
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Another movie i haven't reviewed yet, it has been years that i was searching for this movie because the only thing i could remember was the guy in the poster locked up in a psyward with hia body all covered on ink, i didn't even remembered it was the jurassic park guy in this movie, this movie starts being a certain case of reality until the main character lost it, he goes full time mad crazy, and start seeing crazy shit in a lovecraft way of seeing crazy shit, but shows you how easy is for a person to go crazy and is a really interesting movie.
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On the edge is about a guy who had a meltdown and tried to commit suicide, then to not go to jail he opted for spending time on a psyward (yeah another movie on a psyward but this one is a drama, not horror... And with cillian murphy), so once there he meets the love of his life, make some friends, party a lot, one of his friends commit suicide, very emotional and interesting movie about real life and the world of a sad and depressed bunch of people.
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You know about this one, what you didn't knew is that is based on real life events, and tbh there is a character called randy here, a movie geek, just like myself, even if i never got stabbed in any part of my body, like he did... I don't have to talk a lot about this movie because there isn't a person out there who haven't seen it, and if there is... What are you waiting for?
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I have reviewed this one before, is somewhere in my blog, but damn, such a good movie and while this one doesn't seem too real, is about a girl who is in a coma and she is living a second life while in reality she is dying, so in his second life everyone is alive minus his boyfriend, and in reality his boyfriend is the only one alive. Both of their friends are dead, the 2 guys (and a girl) who crashed their car with the main characters car, are dead too, the main girl fighting for survive, a very crazy suspense/horror movie with amazing cast of great actors, i completely suggest it.
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A classic of the 90's if you haven't seen it is about a undercover cop returning to his childhood neighborhood to do some undercover job finding an irish mob boss who happens to be the older brother of his childhood best friend and also the big brother of his first girlfriend, which he starts to or tries to date again, a very well done movie, filled with action and romance.
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I also have reviewed this one, which is also about real life events. Plus here works one of my fave actors and actress, as you can see... Thora Birch plus the guy who plays thora"s best friend (daniel brocklebank) and a guy who looks a lot like nine inch nails singer tent reznor, and another guy who looks alike the guy who does vision in avengers, plus kiera knightley... the movie is about a girl addicted to the rockstar son (the brunette guy) and wants to spend the weekend with him but things go wrong when he invites his best friend (the blond guy), so she has to invite her blond friend (kiera) because thora's best friend knows about a hidden place and even has a key to a door of that said place which he gives it to thora and she ends up losing the key intentionally to spend a lot of time with the guy she likes, which shows how things turns to shit when they run out of food, people starts to get sick and or dying in horrible ways, just for the main character to blame his best friend for it, to clean her own ass of any guilt... A suspense/drama movie (not perfect for a lockdown situation) but perfect if you want to see a suspense movie.
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Crazy movie, about crazy people living in a hotel, can you imagine how that could end up? A guy who believes he is john lennon, a bunch of old people, a native american guy, Bono does a cameo, mila is one of the main characters along with mel gibson (moody cop) and jeremy davis (not the paramore guy) amazing fun loving movie about a bunch of crazy people, tim roth as a secondary character who commits suicide, hence why mel pays a visit to that hotel and the main reason why this movie was made, which u2 and sex pistols soundtrack, things couldn't be better.
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And the last movie of my suggestions for this lockdown is another based on real life events, some crazy guy who born to be evil, a murderer, with tilda as the mother and ezra as the son, you can not stop watching this crazy movie, very artistic colors and a real life story makes this movie a serious work of art, i highly suggest you to watch it if you haven't.
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