#but i love every tv episode parody i’ve seen lmao

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Sometimes I just like to think about how much I love a good pov change within a larger story because you can revisit the same thing with multiple characters in a way that does some world building and also interesting characterization.

If I say “V managed to track down a few leads about what he was looking for.” It’s clear she’s just executing a task, and doesn’t feel that strongly about it. If I say “Goro found what he was looking for eventually— although only after enduring several increasingly difficult conversations with people he had never met and hoped never to meet again.” Then you know he is not well suited to the task and was in fact bitching to himself about having to do it the entire time.

The trick is just finding what moments warrant the echo. What thoughtless process for one character is another character’s gauntlet of annoyance, for instance.

[colingswood]

the finale

i know it’s been multiple days but i was busy/had to... calm down lmao

in a nutshell, i hated the finale. it was a travesty, a train wreck, a fucking joke. everything about it. even ignoring tw*ncer, it was so bad lol. it felt like a damn parody episode or a sitcom except nobody was laughing. i didn’t like the cece reveal but compared to this episode, 6.10 is now basically my favourite in the whole show

LIKE. the liars literally didn’t do shit. no sleuthing together one last time. no intrigue, or suspense, or epic struggle to give us ANYTHING to care about for the SERIES FINALE. NOBODY DIED? ??? we didn’t get answers? we didn’t get anything CLOSE to “””full circle””” except toby being taken advantage of sexually, AGAIN. the whole thing was basically about arias wedding and her random ass infertility. are you kidding me marlene? and THE POEM????? alex and spencer struggle for .5 seconds and then a poem saves the day. cute moment for spoby i guess, but not in this damn situation. i wanted to fear for people’s lives for gods sake. season one episode one felt more eventful, and it was half the length and all that happened was that they got a text message. the ONLY scene that granted me a single solitary emotion other than anger was when hanna and caleb were talking about having kids, but then i didn’t care anymore because the rest of the episode made me hate pretty little liars and every character

QUESTIONS

1. why did aria have multiple wedding dresses for no discernible reason? 2. i love horses, but why was it even in there? show melissa and spencer talking about, idk, ALEX?? BETHANY YOUNG WHO ALSO ALLEGEDLY ROSE HORSES AT LEAST ONCE? ANYTHING ELSE RELEVANT? not horseback riding 3. ali and emily, nor anyone else, fucking knows who the father of their kids is. and do they even care? apparently not. great 4. speaking of their kids, i saw some quote from marlene that said “twins run in the family”. EMILY AND WREN ARE THE BIOLOGICAL PARENTS. does marlene not know how surrogacy works? or did she forget alison wasn’t the mother? is THAT why the babies looked like her and not their actual parent(s)? 5. why would anyone want to watch a spinoff that’s just the exact same characters and scenario over again and why the hell was THAT the LAST SCENE  6. alison’s proposal was cute until it only served to highlight how one sided their relationship has always seemed. why do people ship them again?

7. why was this episode pretty much 100% dumb shit shoved together for fan service instead of wrapping up THE STORY OF THE TV SHOW WE’VE BEEN WATCHING THIS ENTIRE TIME? 8. and like everyone has said already, why the fuck did jenna marshall and a horse figure this shit out in 2 minutes while the liars sat around being like “well i guess ezra’s gone lol that sux” SPENCER’S TWIN i never wanted this, so like every fan theory i don’t want to happen, here we are. with spencer’s fucking twin.  WHY IS A.D A CHARACTER THAT THEY INTRODUCED IN THE LITERAL LAST EPISODE.  WHY WAS THERE NO MYSTERY IN FINDING THIS OUT? NO “OH NO IS SPENCER A.D? WHATS HAPPENING?” ??? NOTHING WHY DID THE LIARS NOT EVEN REALLY CARE? WHY DID NOBODY TALK ABOUT IT AFTER? WHY DID THEY THINK ANOTHER SECRET SIBLING WAS A GOOD REVEAL???????????????? im sorry but the way they executed this twin thing was so awful. it could have been ok even though i didn’t like it in theory. but it was worse than i imagined. really though, how are you gonna make the villain a twin who has no relevance to the rest of the show pre-timejump. WHY NOT MAKE A.D THE MASTERMIND WTF I DONT UNDERSTAND THESE CHOICES AT ALL. i wanted so badly to CARE. to be SAD. AFRAID. ANYTHING. i was surprised that they really did the twin thing, but that was it. tbh i wanted A.D to be toby or someone we cared about, and they had to kill that person to defend their friends. i wanted A.D to tie into everything. FULL CIRCLE. this episode just made the timejump fucking pointless because it was just another person randomly continuing The Game or whatever. it was the same storyline as fucking charlotte over again. it adds nothing to the overall story. nothing. THIS EPISODE AND THE PAST SEASON AND A HALF COULD HAVE BEEN DECENT. but it was the worst piece of television i’ve ever seen. god fucking damn it

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ʟɪᴠᴇʙʟᴏɢ» SDWAY!∙S2E1

Scooby Doo, Where Are You! S2 Ep1 – Nowhere to Hyde

Rambles/reactions/meta under the cut! Because I literally write thousands of words of this garbage once you get me started [NOTE: text taken & edited from a live chat with a friend]

aka, ‘I Watched Eps. 1-17 and Thought Show Was Way More Nuanced Than Everyone Remembered, Then Season 2 Changed the Writing Staff’

I WANTED to start on s2 since the s1 episodes have like, barely half the "scooby doo" cliches that this entire show is known for

i want a hallway chase scene BRING ON THE SECOND WRITING STAFF FOR MEMES

aka im afraid

[someone mentions magic show at "the high school"] wait do they go tO THIS HIGH SCHOOL????

are they home????

[re: shaggy mentions watching tv at home] YOU LIVE IN A VAN WHAT DOES HOME MEAN WHAT IS THIS

also i lied about casual watching i'm going to hyperfocus on this b/c skipping to season 2 it's already blowing my mind

that

that [coordinated screaming from gang] is not what they say when they seE A MONSTER

was the end of S1 like this or did the first 10 episodes just exist in a bizarre alternative universe where their personalities were more or less balanced so no one was too much anything

SHAGGY IS NOT SUPPOSED TO PRETEND HE'S BRAVE like okay yeah wow completely changing the writing staff is absolutely something that made this show into. uh, its own image

this actually feels like an episode of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo?? almost exactly tbh

minus the child-participation gags and Red Herring

[H-B ‘animation’] DAPHNE'S TINY LEGS

freddy when on earth--FREDDY YOU ARE NOT AGGRESSIVE YOU ARE JUST LIKE OBLIVOUS TO FEELINGS AND ALWAYS ABOUT THE MYSTERY

i didn't realize how attached i was to the gang in the first 10 episodes until they started morphing into the way the critics parodied them for 30 years after

the first ten episodes weren't like, even that good, they just had bits that I could read into that made the silliness worth it and no this characterization gets woooorse

also like I'm barely noticing the plot sorry, the episode guy is secretly a ghost from potion

uh, necklace. dried mud

THIS MOMENT IS GOOD. "RAGGY!" / "COMING, SCOOB!" friendship is my fave dynamic in this show

at least velma's still with the lovebirds [daphne and fred] [when gang splits up].

also my intuition is screaming 'duh it's the helga' [as culprit] but the fact they keep beating it in makes me wonder if they'll switch the formula just to fuck with me

because the big thing is it's always that guy with like, two lines, and she's shown up…………………thrice in three scenes

amgbghgmmmmm uncomfortable native american portrayaaaallllls

tho………like I swear there's this nagging feeling i have that i remembered shaggy being like, partially native american by ancestry and i have no idea why i would think so because nothing i remember in an episode i know of supports it

like, feels like something about a character you read in a wiki or fansite one time but then it's gone off the grid? that kind of thing itching thought you can't validate

and it's not the first time I've had that thought [that I'd possibly seen someone Shaggy was part Native-American] randomly during an episode this year that i'm watching but I never cared much about scooby doo before now so why would I have been reading character trivia

WHAT THE FUCK ARE "KNOCKOUT DROPS"

WHAT

okay hologram movie projectors are worse but KNOCKOUT DROPS

they couldn't even say chloroform--which like better they didn't say chloroform because that shit is kind of a murder weapon not a sleepy pill but it just sounds like they were too lazy to even look it up

oh i love that [recycled animation] fred face

ohhhhhh boy here it is

there's the musical chase scene

that's where it started, unless i'm forgetting a lot of music from the first ten episodes instead of wacky soundtrack stuff

OH FUCK THERE IT IS

THE HALLWAY

THEY DID DOORS

START OF DARKNESS

Larz Bourne

Tom Dagenais

Bill Lutz

^i literally searched up the episode and these three men are both responsible for COMPLETELY RUINING SCOOBY DOO WHERE ARE YOU and making it into a goddamn forty year monolith that is immortalized because of the direction change and the tropes so notorious that every kid remembers them and i'm so conflicted

………mild curious fred [scene] soothes me

i fully expect velma to deliver the denoument

does fred do it??? lmao that'd be a change from both the stock trope fred AND the original fred

okay here are some major costume plugs here

I CAN'T BELIEVE SHAGGY AND SCOOB DIDN'T FUCK [the trap] UP what do you fucking know

[incorrect guess on villain] and way to go gang you finally fucked one up

actually no they never really……had the guy pinned really when they caught him in early eps??

they just caught him and unmasked him and then used hindsight to figure out what the clues meant

in fact these guys suck at solving mysteries

THEY SHOULD BE 'CRIMINAL REVEALERS INC'

they're great at that part

okay rant delivered i'm just gonna listen to the music

SKINNY SCOOB LEGS IN THAT CREDITS SCENE