I know I went MIA last year after saying I was heading for Hammock Country but here I am, safe and sound and still in Hammock Country and missing royai what's up
rick riordan has his faults but he does know how to handle a main character who is like. supremely op. like yeah percy can make hurricanes with his mind but he'd rather go smoke weed with his girlfriend and his mom so he's not that big of a threat .
i'm a few hours in to tears of the kingdom and the vibe i'm getting so far is that link is the hylian version of tony hawk. they've all heard of him but none of them recognize him by sight
i appreciate that rtd knows when to fudge things in order to make a good story. like he wanted to cast Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble, literally saying it's like she was sent down from above to play the role, but she was 18 when she was cast. so he aged up the character of Rose Noble a couple years to be 14 or 15, not caring that it didn't make sense with the timeline. it's okay if you have to jokingly explain things as a magic time cloud or whatever, the minutia doesn't matter if it means you can cast someone perfect and tell a good story. and Yaz Finney is really, really perfect for that role. it reminds me of that thing Rachel Talalay said about Heaven Sent where the crew pushed back on her about the lighting in a couple shots because it didn't really make sense, and she said "it doesn't matter where it comes from. it comes from 'it looks good'."
idk! i just really appreciate when creatives know when to let things be bullshit sometimes for the sake of good art.
girls when. figurative death in doctor who. lost to a parallel world. memory erased. stuck in another time period. in between one heartbeat and the next.
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there's something to be said about like. ten and donna are so very similar, like twelve and clara are. but ten and donna would never become the hybrid because donna's similarities reflect all the doctor's best qualities whereas all of clara's similarities reflect the doctor's worst qualities. does that make any sense.