#beyond evil ep 13

[gillianthecat]

Jae Yi is the only non-cop of the main cast. She's also the moral center of the show, and that's key.

[boxoftheskyking]

Papa Hans flashback hair is so dorky

[mizldrizl]

Beyond Evil - Ep. 13 stills

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[gizkasparadise]

Hi, top 5 Kdramas please!

it was so hard to pick only 5 ;; but not in any particular order since they all have vastly different #vibes:

chicago typewriter. three people--a famous novelist, a ghost writer, and an errand girl--cross paths in modern-day Seoul and in different ways try to help the novelist complete his latest story -- a novel about freedom fighters during the japanese occupation of korea in the 1930s. however, as the story continues, and the trio get more and more involved with one another, it turns out the story isn't just a story, but the retelling of their past lives where they were lovers, comrades, and maybe even enemies. a rare kdrama where the ending is stronger than the beginning, this is a slow burn that takes its time to get going but once it does it's so SO good. drama, comedy, romance, everything!

welcome to waikiki. three losers (a prospective director, an aspiring actor, and a wannabe screenwriter) live in and run a sharehouse. one day, they wake up to find a baby in one of the rooms, and chaos ensues. so fucking funny, i love the ships, and the cast is well balanced between the three male leads and the three female leads. A+++

mystic pop-up bar. kang bae, a 20something who works in customer service, has a curse where whenever anyone touches him, they are compelled to tell him their deepest secrets. one night, he crosses paths with weol ju, a shaman who is cursed to an immortal/unending existence until she resolves the grudges of 10,000 humans because of a grave sin she committed in her mortal life. with her is gwi, a retired ghost cop who now helps her run a pop-up bar where they enter dreams and try to resolve weol ju's debt. kang bae joins them when weol ju offers him a bargain: use his powers to help her resolve the grudges, and once 10k are up, she'll remove his powers. you think this show is run of the mill case of the week, but it all builds together so beautifully and it's such a great found family dynamic. i love this ooone

bridal mask/gaksital. set in 1930s korea during the japanese occupation. kang to is a ratbastard -- a korean who works for the japanese as a police officer and turns in his countrymen. he becomes obsessed with hunting down BRIDAL MASK. a zorro-esque freedom fighter with a hidden identity. to get to him, he tries to capture mok dan, the daughter of a freedom fighter general and bridal mask's suspected lover. the first few eps get you thinking it's going to be a cheesey action show, but it's a fantastic tragedy with so many nuanced character arcs.

extraordinary you. dan oh is a rich high schooler at an elite academy, who has a crush on her aloof and disdainful fiance, baek kyung, and a tragic but non-descript heart condition. one day, she starts realizing parts of her memory are gone, and there's the distant sound of someone turning the page -- turns out she's a character in a romance manga, but not even the heroine-- just a side character. in order to change her fate, she enlists the help of 13 -- a nameless background character. so cute, quirky, and highly HIGHLY addicting. loving meta parody of high school shoujo stories like Boys Over Flowers.

bonus, because they were REALLY close to top 5: beyond evil (serial murder? in a small village? more homoerotic than you'd think.), arthdal chronicles (bronze age-esque fantasy epic with more ambiguous leads than you can shake a stick at), and happiness (when you have to stop the zombie apocalypse but there's only one bed)

[immortaltaro]

media thread post 2023

going to attempt to port over my media thread from twitter and use reblogs to update it

Avataro Sentai Donbrothers The Movie: Shin Hatsukoi Hero i enjoyed it more then the revice summer movie, shame like pretty much all mid series sentai movies its basically just an ep with a bigger budget

2. Ultraman Decker

MUCH IMPROVED OVER TRIGGER IN LIKE EVERY AREA, INCLUDING ITS USE OF KENGO. only real complaint i have is them revealing the Spheres motivations minutes before they are destroyed but thats a fairly minor thing looking at the show as a whole

3.ultraman: mystery of ultraseven

great stuff continuing the momentum of the last mini series, i do have issues with the ultra comic verse that dont get addressed, but regardless it was a great read, interested to see ma boi ace show up in whatever is next

4.kingdom hearts dark road

one of my fav KH stories, elevating xehanort alot, giving insight into how his beliefs formed and i absolutely need this freed from its mobile prison and given the back cover treatment

5. Ork #オーク

really cool, indy Toku production, it very impressive that this was filmed on an Iphone and goes this hard, well worth a watch, right now its free on youtube i recomed checking this out https://youtube.com/watch?v=GcibuY

6. ultraman decker finale journey to beyond the movie

it was pretty good, if the main series is a 10 this is like an 8, pretty fun time.

7.Avataro Sentai Donbrothers

i was sceptical as FUCK when this was announced, and inoue and the producer were saying how they wanted to make a sentai season that was a comedy drama aimed at 20somethings, but fuck did they land it. top 3 sentai seasons for sure. taro is my boi somethings like how under written murasame is, alot of the stuff with kijino and the zenkai gears turning into avataro gears plotline that was seemingly dropped ( if the Vs movie addresses this i take back the last one) bothered me, but as a whole i really liked this season

8.Psyren (reread)

this series goes hard. i love the cast and i think more people should read this.

9. Agents of mayhem - dropped got about 8/27 missions thought this. ITS ASS the cars feel awful, esthetical it wants to be overwatch soo bad. in the 4hrs 40mins i played enemies became spongy as shit and the second gat mission bugged turning 3 waves into infante boring and bland AND THATS NOT MENTIONED THE 1 MAJOR BOSS I FOUGHT THAT WAS JUST * puts up shield and summon turret* 3 TIMES THEN THEN BALL JOKE SEGMENT WHERE YOU SHOT ENERGY BALLS. THE BORDERLANDS TEIR REDDIT WRITING IS SO MIND NUMMING FUCK

10.Dandan Tenshi Fanclub

this was pretty cool for a one shot

11.Revice Forward: Kamen Rider Live & Evil & Demons

no "which ones the real one" plot is good. i screamed when they revealed the twist.

alot of the fanservice stuff i liked, like seeing that Hana opened her own detective agency in Blue birds basement was fun

12.Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO

really enjoyed this,really liked all the lil toku nods what with the gammas two ultraman inspired androids thats do rider kicks. hope we can get more content thats not as goku/vegeta focused

13.Luther: the fallen sun it was ok, i feel like it peaked with the jail brake.

the last 30mins brought it down for me

14.Digimon Ghost game:

its pretty good when all is said and done, 90% of this show is very solid MOTW/horror mystery stories with all the cryptic build up they have been seeding since ep 1 being all burned thought in the last 3eps.defo feels like they were trying to set up a movie with that last second alien reveal too. since most of its stand alone mysteries, the humans done really feel like they grow much over the course of the show its still a very fun time like an 8/10 id say love gammamon, they baby

15. coming out to my parents and telling them about @toni-the-oni

twas better then expected

16. Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀ ( manga volumes 1-4 )

binged all 4 volumes in a couple hrs, this is a very fun series, interesting world building and Inglis as a MC is amazing and i love her

17.Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀ (anime: season 1)

unsurprising i loved it ! i will say i liked the way the manga handled the content it covered more but this was still good,

18. Oshi no ko (ep 1, its feature length so imma count it ) holy shit watch it. it more then earns its length. this is something you need to experience blind.

19.brooklyn 99 season 8, the final season

bout a perfect a goodbye as a series can have

20.Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always (2023) eh, it was ok, rough in some aspects but overall alright

21.Oshi no ko manga (upto the current chapter 116) one of the best things ive read in a while. its going to be hard for the anime to fumble this bag.

22.Kamen Rider Geats × Revice: Movie Battle Royale

very fun movie, seeker really is that bitch in fortnite that builds a replica tadj mahall the second a fight starts. yeah a good ass time.

23. Kamen Rider Juuga VS Kamen Rider Orteca

it was alright, pretty fun moments with one line in particular that kinda took me out, the Drive cameos and call backs were great and honestly out of all the over demons/vail retools i think i like orteca's rider form the most out them

24. netflix Ultraman season 3 the final:

kinda mixed on it if im honest, i dont think theres ever really been a great "shapeshifters turn the publics opinion on it" and i wasnt super impressed with aspects of how Rena was written that said the last 2 episodes really were peak.

25. Power Antoinette ( upto the current chapter, theres only 2) the only series brave enough to ask the question what if Marie Antoinette was built like shehulk and used a guillotine like a sword

26.The Church Play Cinematic Universe : jenny Nicholson

watched this with @toni-the-oni this was such a wild ride, of ups downs and "robin in the hood" a 10/10 experience

26. Church of the rock 2023 production Beauty and the Beaster

watched this with @toni-the-oni Gaston sings BTS

27.Avataro Sentai DonBrothers VS Zenkaiger

extremely fun film, loved seeing everyone again, just a fun time all round and HOLY SHIT HOW CAN IT END LIKE THAT ?!

28.Geats Extra: Kamen Rider Punkjack

its alright, felt kinda like one of the covid clipshow specials we got for zero one, rolling rolling punk king fucks, so glad they went that hard with the insert song

[scortchedtoast]

Toast's Top 15 Title Tracks of 2023

1. Get Up, the whole EP- New Jeans: it was incredible honestly and since they kinda treated every song as a title track I lumped them all in for the number one spot.

2. Rose Blossom- H1key

3. Cupid- Fifty Fifty: The strike, the lawsuits, the members being kicked out and the general evilness of attract made this fall from its number 2 position but the song is a bop Aran and Soso did their thing.

4. Shining Bright- CSR

5. Eve, Psyche and the Bluebeard's Wife- Lesserafim: I know ppl got sick of it after all the remixs but I didn't listen to those so it didn't get overplayed for me.

6. Sugarcoat- Natty

7. C'mon- Jini

8. Bonvoyage- Dream Catcher

9. Ditto/ Omg- New Jeans

10. Girls' Capitalism- Triples

11. The Flash- Kwon Eunbi

12. Air Force One- Odd Eye Circle/ Sensitive Loosemble: I'm just so happy to have loona back air force one was a bit empty and senstive took time to grow on me but I'm biased so of course theyre in my list.

13. Spicy- Aespa: I am shocked beyond belief to add aespa to this list but they really hooked me with this song and then immediately lost me with drama.

14. Love me Like This- Nmixx: the official shift in their discography where we left mixx pop behind (for two comebacks).

15. Bite Me- Enhyphen: obligitory 1 boy group entry for the list. I was quite shocked by how much I liked the song when I heard it, so I went back and listened to some of their orher songs and I think they put out some good music.

Honorable Mention

#Menow- Fromis9: their whole album was incredible but menow was my least favorite song and since this is ranking title tracks they don't make the list. However if it was for albums they would be up at the top with New Jeans.

[brandonaguja]

Inanimate Insanity content warnings

I enjoy inanimate insanity a lot, but there are triggering/off putting things in it so I made a list. Please feel free to add on anything I may have forgotten and I’ll edit/reblog the additions in. Most of this is written down from memory. The list will be under the read more.

Unsanitary humor: poop and barf jokes sprinkled about season 1 (prominent in eps 1 and 12) and two joke in s2 episodes 1 and 2. Tissues is a s2 contestant who’s joke that he’s always sick and sneezes on other characters.

Transphobia: Paintbrush gender jokes

Fatphobia: s1 and early s2, Balloon and Baseball are the targets of the jokes. Mephone calls himself a fat slob.

Ableism: They make fun of Bomb’s speech impediments and exaggerates his stutters. Paper has an “evil” alter. Yinyang is another system in s2 and Yang is the “evil” alter, but he is developed beyond that in s3.

Character death (s1 ep 18)

Dieting: Salt and Pepper don’t participate in ep 7 because they’re on a diet, they are exercising in the party in s2 ep 1 instead of partying with everyone else, and are seen with diet dr fizz drinks in s2 ep 9. These are supposed to play into the “popular girls love to diet and watch their weight!” joke, which is bad regardless.

Drowning (s1 ep 18, s2 ep 11) 

Parental abuse (s2 episodes 13-14, shown through flashbacks in ep 13)

Unwanted romantic advances made by Salt against OJ 

Suitcase has hallucinations caused by stress that start in s2 ep 8.

Slurs: sp*z is said by lightbulb multiple times in s2, once being ep 5. The term fl*t f*ce is used against Fan in s2 ep 10 and while it was commenting on his paper nature, it is a derogatory term against Asians.

Addition to the last point: Fan appeared in season 1 as a racist caricature of a Chinese person. While this has been cut out of s1 and ignored in his s2 depiction it makes the term used against him more egregious 

[littlememebox]

The Good Place (2016) season 04 ep. 7-13

"You only have a few hours left in your first year,so why not do as many amazing good deeds for other people as you possibly can by midnight just in case?”

" Dude, magic is always lame. But it's especially lame here, where there's actual magic. ”

“There is a chance, yes. About 1 in 970 trillion.”

“You know? I would kill for an "oops, my bad."”

"On Earth, I never played a game unless I knew I could either win or bribe the ref so he'd throw it for me."

"Well, I swore I wouldn't tell, and keeping your word is a central tenet of deontological ethics."

"We hope that our early successes make up for the embarrassing mess we've become."

"Can you make them clap harder?"

"If it somehow helps, there's a small dove in your pocket!"

"I don't care what this place really is. Giant holes are bad, and we should go."

"Okay, wherever we are, I do not wanna be here when the clock hits zero, okay?"

"If there's one thing I know in this world, it's that you can always blow up the same thing twice."

"Because I have this stupid moral code that forces me to help everyone."

"Aw, man, are we gonna die again?"

"And you know what they say in Florida: "If you don't like this funeral, just wait a minute.""

"First, say something mean to me, really cruel, something that just guts me."

"Look, the point is people improve when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don't?"

"No one is beyond rehabilitation."

"The universe owes you a debt of gratitude for bringing this to my attention."

"Let's just slow down here, and say everything again maybe, because I think some of us were thinking about skateboards and don't know what's going on."

"Wow, you won. And you still somehow failed."

"This has gone too far. I'm composing some very sternly worded letters."

"I don't say "no" a lot. Did I pronounce that right?"

"Step one, get a plan. Step two, do the plan."

"It's called a Duval Ditchwater. It's Midori, Coffee-Mate, and ditch water."

"If you just read enough books and think hard enough, you can figure out the answer to any question."

"I know you're really smart, but that sounds wrong."

"Is this enough cheese? I hope this is enough cheese."

"Until I had to read this, I had a will to live."

"You know, I thought saying that out loud would make it less insane, but it did not."

"Sometimes, you just gotta chuck a Molotov cocktail at a drone and see what happens."

"I mean, where I'm from, most things blow up eventually."

"If you're always frozen in fear and taking too long to think about what to do, you'll miss your opportunity and maybe get sucked into the propeller of a swamp boat."

"I mean, I can't just open a door and walk through without knowing what's on the other side."

"But you live through the failure and you learn from it."

"By the way, I wasn't cheating before. Or eavesdropping just now."

"I need someone to help guide me, morally speaking, and I think I need it to be you."

"Yeah, kids are idiots. If they knew half the stuff their folks were up to, they'd lose their minds."

"That is so interesting because last time I checked, I didn't have a dad."

"If we going out, I'm going out with a belly full of warm pretzels."

"I'm sorry, are you wearing roller skates?"

"Hard not to be cheery when you're eating this delicious frozen yogurt."

"I don't care if everyone loses as long as you lose."

"I'm gonna go write an evil speech for when this is all over."

"Okay, we need to come up with our ideal plan in about 10 minutes."

"Fighting you is the most fun I've ever had."

[whatisgodtoanonbeliever]

Going into ep 11 of EAW with no context because I forgot what happened in the preview and refuse to look it up at this point so off we go

1. Ah, it was the gambling/con case

2. Okay since I just finished watching Beyond Evil, I recognize the guy in the blue shirt in the powerball scene and I am so proud of myself

3. My heart cannot physically handle a kiss recap at 8:30 in the morning

4. I JUST REMEMBERED THE HANDS ON THE WINDOW SCENE

5. All right, her waiting because seeing him was literally all she wanted is expanding my shriveled heart

6. SHE’S SO FUCKING HAPPY OH MY GOD

7. If I got trapped with my boss in an elevator and she started saying that I would be so uncomfortable

8. Okay you know what, CEO asked and got an answer so that’s on her

9. Woo Young Woo please never stop stating animal facts because I love them so much

10. Also if I ever met a cheesy couple like this I would be so unhappy about it, purely out of awkwardness

11. Why is this man shocked that him having been illegally gambling is going to pose an issue?

12. It started out “how Hairy messed up the date” and turned into a stand-up circle I love them all

13. Su Yeon be putting in the hours for men and I can respect her hustle but also god please leave the office sometimes

14. This defendant is a pure idiot

15. Jun Ho you are so weak for her, even when she gives you a heart attack and creeps everyone out. Mood

16. Okay the hands scene is so cute but the music is giving me Ratatouille meme music vibes

17. Anyone who knows more about contract law and verbal agreements than my 1 college class want to let me know how likely these guys are to even get the money? Because from what I (vaguely) remember I feel like these guys don’t have much ground to stand on since it’s only verbal, though that can be binding (at least in the U.S. I believe)

18. Okay they mentioned the binding part cool, I’m not a whole fool

19. “flexible” I’m done, let them lose, what do I care

20. Both of their little appearance checks for the video call? Immaculate

21. Okay but if someone called me and we just told bad jokes I would love it

22. Oh good they paid her and it will likely backfire, awesome

23. Min Woo you are giving such rancid vibes

24. Put that fucking packet down and pick up a spine or I will not be responsible for my actions

25. The dad and I will just be on bad terms until I see what he’s up to

26. Hello Trash Man

27. Maybe one day Myeong Seok will have the last word, but it is unlikely anytime soon

28. The sign language interpreter in the corner for the whale thing caught my eye, love that

29. Su Yeon snatching the expensive BOTTLE was the move but bb I am so sorry. Thank you random ex who’s trying to ruin this man

30. The crash fucking THREW me

31. Okay so Jun Ho having obviously been trying to teach himself more has me weak and I love him

32. This is the second show this week I have had with a parent/ parents walking in on their kids kissing pls

33. Oh so he chose THIS route

34. Good, my feelings for the mom are once again justified, because I highly doubt Min Woo won’t do it

35. Please let one of the protection squad find out and let them all at once find him in a dark alley

36. Preview: no thoughts at this time other than dolphin hat

[thebadtimewolf]

give me onscreen fluff no matter the cost

i think rtd2 should kill off dimemsion cannon-toting rose marion tyler. hey. im not saying its not gonna highly anger me if they kill her off doing something ooc because it will if they go down that route. make it make sense based on the material that is given. because this aint early 2000s now. its original and new. and not predictable and yt.

im saying so we can have onscreen scenes of then kissing and holding baby mia because i'll be fucking damned if you gave that to racist joan redfern but NOT TO ROSE????

this is because if meta crisis ten/tentoo does come back, there needs to be a reason why he is there alone. we saw what he does when hes alone and only one person attempts to stop him: he starts blowing shit up. doctordonna AND jackie couldnt stop him from basically being a bomber the whole time.

it'll mull him, not harden him or make him go evil like every predictable fanfic whenever rose dies and hes evil and blah blah. it'll ground him. and i dont want it to be like: oh rose passed away! Any way lets- no.

I want it to where the Doctor doesn't realize something is wrong beyond just tentoo being back. It would be the last thing he would think, the one thing they would never come to the conclusion to. I mean, for us it was decade or so ago but for the doctor, that was essentially billions of years ago. That was just plucked stray eyelash from two years ago in comparison.

And tentoo is keeping up appearences. Even says present tense verbs "she is doing great, she is currently so and so doing whatnot" but then it starts being noticeable. Bit by bit. He used 'did' or 'used to' a few slips. Here and there. Something that can brushed off as parallel world: different rules.

But then, near the climax, a gutpunch - you know rtd love his gutpunches of heartbreak - rose died and tentoo blamed himself for it. [mind you, there is a flashback of rose, teen mia, and tentoo just to establish that a comic or audio isnt now canon.] and its something mundane though not how danny pink initially died. at least mundane enough for it to happen but not too mundane enough to be ANOTHER FRIDGING DEFAULT TROPE.

tentoo and pete was there (yes surprise guest star shaun dingwall) and the look of horror on their face when they both rush out only for it to be too late.

but it gets tentoo to stop being trigger-happy. Yes, he gets hurt, but the reason the reveal happens is him saying something along the lines of 'i can't make my daughter into an orphan'

because if moffat gets a hold of that, he's gonna make stone rose a reality in the most cruellest way of killing off rose. Not send her back in time, just turn her into an irreversible weeping angel with no trace of anything that she used to be except her face and hair. I don't need that NO ONE NEEDS THAT!!! but as far as killing of fan faves go: thats your real motherlode there.

it shows no one is safe. tegan and kate stewart almost proved it to be the case. but killing off rose? rose tyler? dame rose marion tyler of the powell estate? that? that's a huge move. a big move.

but it explains so much in retrospect for 50th in film and novelisation. why the moment expressions are the way they are. why literally 10 and 11 could never see her but war and 13 and superpower companion from brooklyn, ny, gabby gonzalez can. why be a ghost haunting them? why be present yet also not at all to them? why be the yellow wallpaper in a burning room of gold? anyway.

give us what we got in one comic as a wandavision esque for empress rose's perspective but onscreen with the main girl! and we all saw i hate suzie fear ep i cried when her character died. let me repeat myself: i cried when billie's suzie's character in a fictional show within i hate suzie, the zombie show that doesnt exist, died. let her cook! i want my heart feel like regina mills in one of her ✨️always serving evil queen regality✨️came into my house, punched through my chest, crunched my heart like it was a simple wine glass stem and then emotionally tossed my body around like she about to audition for making me a new kind of muppet.

make us fear for EVERY 2005 COMPANION RETURNING (except jack because hes still immortal) make us actually clutch pearls and the fabric covering our stomachs!

[this is the same disney+ that now has uncensored punisher and the last time we had rtd writing in america was miracle day and that was gruesome in itself so 👀😬 the whiplash of heartbreakingly devastating opportunities is right there. especiall since rose is canonically established to be part of pete's world torchwood not unit so. yeah be afraid.]

[gillianthecat]

Joo Won looks v. good in this winter white turtleneck sweater and wool coat.

Apparently he's dressed up for his date with Dong Sik justice. And Dong Sik finally gets him in handcuffs! Hot.

This strategy was very clever, both in-universe and from a narrative perspective, and yet I did not see it coming at all.

(Joo Won seems to have been slowly easing up on his blacks as his slips further from his father's influence and moves closer to Dong Sik—first were his browns and greens on the fishing trip, and now he's gone to the full opposite. My color coding guesses: Dong Sik as blue-green, Joo Won as a black brooder repressing his true natural brown self.)

[psychewritesbs]

different anon here but i came across your evil post when i was perusing the tag — i loved seeing your thoughts as someone in the psychology field! i think you only watched the first season (based on the comment of watching 13 eps in 3 days), but if you were to continue watching seasons two and three (and four this summer!) i think you would find that the framing of the catholic church does get a little less "good guys"-y. this is probably in part due to the shift from being a cbs air-on-tv show with season 1, to a paramount+ online streaming show in seasons 2+. it's not a massive difference, to be fair, but they def start discussing some discriminatory aspects of the church, esp in regards to race & a bit in relation to sexuality and views on other religions. there is actually a very interesting plotline in season 3 regarding the catholic church that i would love to see your thoughts on, should you keep watching!

HOLA different anon. THANKS FOR THE ASK!!!! I love nerding out with others about psych. It's my thang.

Ok so, I just finished season 2 and these are my thoughts under el cut'o:

First I want to get this out of the way.

The Leland storyline... you know, where he gets to worm his way into everything that is convenient for the plot? I'm so over him.

I just want to punch him. Mrs. O'Brien and Thomas from Downton Abbey are far better at being cliché villains.

I love cliché machiuvelically tacky evil villains, but I have high standards because of Mexican novelas.

No one can ever trump Soraya Montenegro at being fabulously tacky evil.

Anyways, your comment totally reminded me about how in s1 they address the issue with children in the church and its stance on homophobia. So I love that they continue the theme with the exploration of how the church is racist, and my least favorite--sexist.

I have yet to see beyond the first couple of episodes in season 3, but I can appreciate that the church is framed as not such a good guy after all.

It's just that even if Evil is framing the church in not such a positive light, Evil still frames the Catholic God as "good", and the Catholic Devil as "evil".

At least from what I've seen... perhaps there's more surprises in s3 regarding that idea--the opening has been awfully similar to Westworld's opening since s1 so I get the sense the producers/writers are interested in delivering a similar feast for brainiac types like myself.

Um... ok so... everything comes back to Jujutsu Kaisen 😂.

Feel free to skip this section for more thoughts about the show.

Good vs. Evil

When I said that I preferred morally gray stories, I was specifically thinking about a liveblog post I had written about one of the chapters in the manga Jujutsu Kaisen. I'm not sure if the anon who recommended I watch Evil was thinking along the same lines, or if anon has read my jjk nerderies, but jjk puts a nice twist on the good vs. evil trope that Evil explores.

The mangaka, Gege Akutami, introduced a little symbol that I traced back to William Blake who had taken inspiration from Milton's "Paradise Lost" in his own understanding of the question of good vs. evil.

I haven't looked too deeply into either of their work, so read this with a grain of salt since I also can't confirm the accuracy of what I've read about them online, but I understand they both considered themselves to be Christian men who did not necessarily agree with the traditional interpretation to the problem of good vs. evil.

Regardless of the differences between Christianity and Catholicism, my understanding is that Blake saw "evil" as instinct free from reason, and "good" as reason (instinct may or may not be the right word).

Along the same lines, you have Jung's definition of libido.

Again, it's been years since I've read Jung's collected works, but if I remember correctly, the way Jung spoke of libido was as if it were psychic energy. In other words, unlike Freud, Jung did not necessarily see libido strictly as sexual desire, but rather our aliveness, our will, our desires, our instincts, etc.

Our neuroses, Jung thought, were often the cause of conflicts in the flow of said energy, like say, curbing your desires with reason.

From this perspective "evil" is not necessarily, you know... stereotypical selfish villain who is evil for the sake of evil evil...

... but rather the expression of libido unchecked by reason for self-serving purposes.

This all relates to jjk because jjk explores the idea that the stronger the ego sense of self, the stronger the character, which inevitably means that the character in question is selfish af and has no regard for others.

This is where it gets complicated because... how to say... is it truly evil for Kristen to have killed that serial killer dude when she was doing it to protect herself and her family?

I don't have the answer to it. All I can say is that Kristen had an impulse and acted on it without applying much reason outside of "I am doing it to protect my daughters and I will be careful not to incriminate his wife".

The show, however, explains this away as demonic possession (?) which doesn't sit right with me because it reduces her impulse to something "dark" and "undesirable" that only God (reason) can heal.

But like... reason devoid of instinct is basically artificial intelligence. In the end, you need them both. That is why people like Jung and Blake and even Buddhism advocate for a marriage of opposites, or walking a middle path.

It's really complicated and I feel like I am oversimplifying the whole thing lol. It's like Kant's trolley problem.

Maybe you have some insight about it or some nuance I may be missing that you'd like to share.

Anyways... it is the IRS episode that most felt like what good vs evil is from this Depth Psych perspective. And it kind of sucks because it only got such a brief mention with the Satanist t-shirt guy saying that he likes to do what pleases him as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

So my over-thinking brain can't get over the fact that Evil still frames the "devil" and "evil" as inherently bad. It reduces the concepts to black and white terminology when there is a lot of nuance to be had.

Evil

That out of the way... I was honestly getting bored with s2, ESPECIALLY with Leland, but the way it ended was so powerful. It's like they were saving the best for last.

Between Kristen's emotional confession and how s3 begins, I think I'm going to keep watching, just probably won't be as invested.

By the way, I LOVE Nun Andrea. What a fun and relatable character.

Ok, that's that. Thanks for reaching out! Looking forward to hearing from you again.

[nd-poite]

Dr. Who AU: The Stars Can Love You Back

Part 1:

Prologue:

- Roxana entered the universe + Roxana is severely wounded, full of emotional/mental anguish and she lays herself to rest // the endless stream of music begins + the strange planet builds itself & the illusion of goddesshood + opera begins. . .

EP 1: Impossible Dream

- Roxana appears in 1969 at lake silencio — dreaming, molasses — and is coerced into killing him a faceless man // His death releases enough energy to scare her, pinch her almost // she opens her eyes long enough to realize it’s real, sees him dying then falls through all of time to arrive trapped somewhere. . . Roxana falls back into a deep slumber and wakes up on Veridian confused

EP 2:

EP 3: Bookends

- Roxana finds Eleven again, 1969 and watches from across the lake as Amy and Rory burn his body — and realizes again that it was real // She’s so weakened, fighting // but cannot awake - and so her song begins

Interlude: Viridian I

EP 4: Jellybabies and Things

- love at first step

EP 5: Lightning Strikes

- One: love At First Sight

EP 6:

Four

Interlude: Viridian II

EP 7:

Nine - Love At First Kiss

EP 8:

Seven - Love At First Shock

EP 9:

Twelve

EP 10:

Four

Interlude: Veridian III

EP 11:

Eight - 5 Stages of Grief

She feels her body drawing, raging against the command // every night she closes her eyes and kills him // She stops trying to find him and instead indulged herself — but Fate/Time conspires against her // the Doctor is driven mad by the truth and has to have his mind erased every time — The 8th Doctor + War Doctor is strange, giddy, beautiful — they make love which — he can’t save her and it eats him alive which Leads her to realize she really can’t stay with him

EP 12:

Eight

EP 13:

Eight

Interlude: Veridian IV

EP 14:

Two

EP 15:

Nine

EP 16:

Four

Interlude: Veridian V

EP 17:

Six

EP 18:

Ten

EP 19:

Five

EP 20:

Four

Interlude: Veridian VI

EP 21: Lady of the Flowers

Eleven

- Roxana finds Eleven again, 1969 and watches from across the lake as Amy and Rory burn his body — and realizes again that it was real // She’s so weakened, fighting // but cannot awake - and so her song begins

- he’s been avoiding his death at Trenzalore/Lake Silencio for a long time //

Interlude/Epilogue: An Intermission Between Space and Time

And she realizes she can’t run forever from eleven but somehow — she’s meant to stay — which leads to her admitting to the crime, surrendering to Stormgate as penance // which cements to her that she’s getting stronger )) able to exist beyond her other self + Madame K starts dissecting her, reminding her that she’s still there — and this changes everything // And this going on for ages, she counts: dreaming of him, being tortured, wanting to save him, not wanting to leave him, him never remembering her, killing him at the lake, waking in horror, breaking things, being put back to sleep, never strong enough // fearing what evil powers Madame K will unleash using her blood/essence // she can only ever love him from afar,

- she hats with eight, foor, nine/ten

— it ends with Eleven showing up on Veridian which has never happened before

— which leads to her turning herself in post crimes to be in Stormgate// which inevitably leads to Flesh and Stone )) and she knows she’s succeeded in changing time

Part 2: Silence Will Fall

EP: The Lady of the Flowers

Breakfast on Pluto

The Big Bang

+ The Pandorica Opens

Blood of the Cybermen

Vincent & the Doctor

In the Time of Angels

+ Flesh and Stone

The Impossible Astronaut + Day of the Moon

The Celestial ToyMaker

Rebel Flesh + Almost People

A Good Man Goes to War

Veridian

3 Weddings and a Funeral Part 1

3 Weddings and a Funeral Part 2

The Christmas Special

Part 3:

[feuqueerfire]

Feu's January 2023 BL/GL Wrap-Up

A little monthly (spoilery!) wrap-up of all the shows I’ve watched or am watching in January 2023, general thoughts, and ranking of them all.

Recommendation of the month:

Strangers From Hell! Soooooo good~

Ranking

Strangers From Hell

Midnight Motel 

Choco Milk Shake = Roommates of Poongduck 304

The Director Who Buys Me Dinner = Girlfriend Project Day 1

Average Rating: 6.2/10 

MDL Updates - Added to Watchlist:

A section because I’m curious about how many shows I decide to add to my Watch List a month and also the ratio of watching them:adding them.

Added a whole bunch of K-Dramas which seem to be thrillers/crime/horror genre and/or have bromance-y plots after watching Strangers From Hell

My School President

Till the World Ends

Midnight Motel

Strangers from Hell

The Devil Judge

Beyond Evil

Psychopath Diary

Mouse

The Merciless

Parasite

Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu (The Full-Time Wife Escapist) - From the Certified Noonas podcast; apparently this talks about how the housewife is being compensated for her work and backup plans etc

Happiness - zombies but there is also fake dating? or contract marriage? or something. I think Certified Noonas mentioned it

Go Back Couple - Certified Noonas mentioned it. kinda reminds me of 18 Again except both people who are about to divorced go back in time

The Uncanny Counter - Certified Noonas. This is an OCN drama I think? seems cool 

lol I added so many this month, many of them non-bls (though a few are known for bromance vibes)

To Watch List At Start Of Month: 47

To Watch List At End Of Month: 49

Removed from To Watch List:

removing the first 3 are shows that I’ve been meaning to watch for a while but probably won’t actually ever get to (but if the mood really strikes, I’ll pick them up for sure because every time there’s an opportunity to watch them, I just make an excuse)

Until We Meet Again

You're My Sky

To My Star 2: Our Untold Stories

Flower of Evil - was considering watching this during my kdrama time but everyone seems to have complaints about the second half or last few eps and I can’t deal with that. Also saw a specific spoiler that I really hate so

Kei×Yaku: Abunai Aibou - it’s a bromance and people say the plot is weak. Think I’d rather watch higher quality bromance action/thriller shows

Love Class

Watching On-Air

Never Let Me Go

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Dec 13, 2022 - Feb 28(?), 2023

Watch Via: Youtube (free)

Watch Dates: Jan 1 - ONGOING, 2023

Rating: ?/10

Overall Impression:

tags: never let me go

Also Appears In: Never Let Me Go Ep 1 - 4, Ep 5, Ep 6, Ep 7, Ep 8 Live Blogging

Completely Watched

Midnight Motel - non QL

Country: Thailand

Release Dates: Dec 28, 2022 - Jan 12, 2023

Watch Via: Youtube (free)

Watch Dates: Jan 11 - 14, 2023

Rating: 6.5/10

Overall Impression: The acting was great, the script was comprehensible and well-paced, the production is good, featured sex work without villainizing the workers or the work itself. I loved Mote’s little fantasies of possible scenarios or of imagining an interaction in a different way (the card game with June, convo with dead Pat). I’m impressed by the creative team behind it. I won’t think about this much after today I don’t think but I liked this little show.

tags: midnight motel

Also Appears In: Midnight Motel Live Blogging

The Director Who Buys Me Dinner

Country: South Korea

Release Dates: Dec 15, 2022 - Jan 12, 2023

Watch Via: iQiyi (free)

Watch Dates: Jan 18 - 19, 2023

Rating: 5.5/10

Overall Impression: I feel like this should be higher just because it’s got a cool concept and the cinematography’s good but I felt like maybe 1 emotion during this whole show (the hug in the car), which sucks. The writing in the show sucked, both in terms of relationship development (there was none. why were they from A to Z without B C...) and the fantasy/lore aspects. In a better show, Dongbaek’s dying wish to be the one who remembers next time coming true would be a punch to the gut but here, I don’t gaf 

tags: the director who buys me dinner

I was wondering if I should watch Flower of Evil but because of the reasons mentioned above + he gets amnesia (?! agh), I’m removing it from my To Watch for now rip

I’m kinda in the mood for something longer and with darker tones though, so I’m looking at like Strangers from Hell, The Devil Judge, Beyond Evil which all seem to be horror or thrillers (and with BL undertones? I hear about Devil Judge a lot). I think I’ll watch Strangers From Hell cuz it’s like 10 1-hour long eps bc the others are 16 eps with 75 or 65 mins each ep.

Strangers from Hell - non QL

Country: South Korea

Release Dates: Aug 31, 2019 - Oct 6, 2019

Watch Via: :>

Watch Dates: Jan 19 - 23, 2023

Rating: 7.5/10

Overall Impression: The whole descent of Jongwoo was interesting to see, as well as how his environment and people around him made him who he is and what he had in him from previous experiences and by nature. The acting and cinematography/atmosphere were good. I liked the hallucinations/dreams (I loved it when I couldn't tell whether he really was breaking the keyboard until the CCTV showed it or whether he was beating up the supervisor until the others came in bc he had violent imagined scenarios so often) and I'm glad it was just 10 eps. I do like to think Moonjo's obsession was tinted with gayness. I like that he's dead but still alive through Jongwoo; that even if he was killed, he still won.

tags: strangers from hell

Also Appears In: Strangers From Hell Live Blogging

Girlfriend Project Day 1 - GL

Country: South Korea

Release Dates: Aug 19, 2022 - Sep 2, 2022

Watch Via: Youtube

Watch Dates: Jan 25, 2023

Rating: 5.5/10

Overall Impression: I watched this mostly with Korean subs (though I could also understand a bunch without the subs) with French ones underneath. It’s a good one to watch for learning/practice because the sentences were pretty easy to comprehend, even if I didn’t understand All of it. It was only 25 mins and so it was all very fast/shallow (it was cute so far) but I heard there’s gonna be a 2nd season, so maybe we’ll get more

Choco Milk Shake

Country: South Korea

Release Dates: Oct 25, 2022 - Dec 20, 2022

Watch Via: Youtube (free)

Watch Dates: Jan 26 - 29, 2023

Rating: 6.5/10 6/10  [Jan 25, 2024 Update: Decreased by 0.5 stars when rerating my top shows: 6.5 -> 6]

Overall Impression: Very cute and also had a fair bit of emotional moments, I liked it! Also got a fair amount of Korean practice out of it. However, it did take me 4 days to watch this though bc I kept watching only one or two of the short eps every day bc it didn’t have that pull of wanting to watch more. So it’s cute and well made the the actors for Choco and Milk did so well haha but I’m not super invested in the characters and probably won’t think about them much.

tags: choco milk shake

Also Appears In: Choco Milk Shake Live Blogging

Roommates of Poongduck 304

Country: South Korea

Release Dates: Oct 13, 2022 - Nov 3, 2022

Watch Via: Viki (free)

Watch Dates: Jan 29 - 31, 2023

Rating: 6/10

Overall Impression: I wish I was in more of a romcom mood because this was really funny, more so than expected but I didn't really care about the romantic aspect and the last ep was so fast and squished. It was good but not great.

tags: poongduck 304

Also Appears In: Roommates of Poongduck 304 Live Blogging

[itstheesemilore]

Flash Season 8 thread Continued <3

21st November 2023

S8E12:

- Quote about future

- I really like Sue and i'm glad that they found a way to team her up with Iris.

24th February 2024

Ep 13:

- Them making Mark do this monologue about their future plans so that the grief can hit more ohhh network tv is so predictable

- Just realised that Caitlin's mum is the same woman who plays Jamie's mum in a recent episode of Good Trouble.

- How does the CW have money to play a Billie Eilish song....?

25th February 2024

Ep 15:

- Chester holding Allegra's hand hmmmm the road to their endgame is so clear

Ep 16:

- See the way Barry's face is lit up with excitement as Joe talks about the board game like this is a #real nerd and i love him!

Ep 17:

- How do they have time for Allegra's story like FOCUS on the mission omds 😭😭

- Thawne is a serious hater to the core like this is beyond diabolical

26th February 2024

Ep 18:

- Awwww the Batwoman cameo featuring Camrus Johnson as Luke 🥺

- Thawne always wins because people always come back to him like every convo gives him new information and lets him think of new strategies and with this box, i'm so sure he already knows what's inside and will use it to escape somehow.

- The parallel between the speech Diggie gave evil Thawne about choosing between destiny vs family and the normal Thawne revealing that he gave up being a speedster to save the love of his life.....

- Also what are the odds that the only timeline where Thawne is a good person is also the timeline where he falls in love like!!!!!

- This little random love story was cute like i love a good "Come back to me" type of rescue!

- DCTV Flash is actually the most romantic superhero like he genuinely believes in the power of love

- AHHHHH cameo from Ray Palmer <3

- Evil Thawne looks good with this beard and hairstyle like he might be terrible but he's slaying

- NOT DEON OH MY????

Ep 19:

-THIS ENDING???????????

- [CLOSED]

- [CLOSED FOREVER]

- [WHATTTTTT]

- This is objectively the most painful experience that Barry has ever had in his lifetime

Ep 20:

- It's actually really sad that Thawne's only destiny is to be a villain and even when he tries to be good, he doesn't get the chance to live his life that way.

- Imagine waiting a whole week to watch this ep after the cliffhanger of the last ep......i would've been screaming every day

29th February 2024:

Ep 20 contd:

- I like the idea that Barry's parents are happy, alive & together in some timeline even if they're not technically his parents

- Flash & Iris doing that little fist bump and smile because they can't be affectionate in public ohhhh i love them

- "I never want to let you go" OHHHHHH this is #real soulmateism

- There's a lesson in Thawne's downfall like the darkness that powers you will ultimately consume you!

- Well that's a wrap on Season 8. Only 13 more eps left of the show overall in Season 9. I can't believe this show is slowly ending 😣

[retrofashionspazwhore]

SEPT '23

MON/TUES - THE JUNGLE (3/10)D

WED - WEDDING PLAN (7)

THURS - HARLAN COLBEN’S SHELTER (8), HEART STOPPER (RELEASED AUG 8TH) (4/8)W, WHEEL OF TIME SEASON 2 (1/?), ADVENTURE TIME - FIONA AND CAKE (5/?)

FRI -  HOME SCHOOL (18) W, DANGEROUS ROMANCE (4/12)D

SATURDAY - ONLY FRIENDS (7/12) W

LEISURE

LOVE BY CHANCE

RUNNING MAN (EPS LIST)

OFF GUN FUN NIGHT

E.M.S EARTH – MIX SPACE

E.M.S EARTH – MIX SPACE ซีซั่น 2 (1/10)

SUPERSTORE SEASON 3 (6/22)

FRUITS BASKETS (REMAKE) SEASON ONE (2/)

BEYOND EVIL (1/16)

THE GIFTED (6/13)

OFF GUN FUN NIGHT SPECIAL รักหลับกับออฟกัน SPECIAL (1/9)

HE’S COMING TO ME (3/8)

THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY SEASON TWO (8)

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999)

BOTTOMS (2023)

KNOCK AT THE CABIN (2023)

GLASS (2019)

TALK TO ME (2023)