#disney+ series

[menheim]

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹 👀

[the-poor-miranha-quotes]

I think it's funny that when Peggy runs out to save someone from her past who is brainwashed and does everything to make sure he's not a monster, it's a romance, but when Steve does the SAME thing, it's not.

[ryanatwoodenthusiast]

watch diary of a future president !!

everyone, please, please, PLEASE watch diary of a future president on disney+ - it will be removed in a week but the list of shows/movies being removed, is still being finalized, according to deadline

everyone who sees this, please reblog, even if you won't/can't watch it yourself, i just want the show to remain available, so people (including myself of course) can still watch it in years to come

they've already decided to keep howard after saying it would be removed, so maybe, if enough people watch it, it will stay on the streaming service

if you're looking for reasons to watch:

the show centers on a family (a mother, her two children and her boyfriend)

the family is cuban-american (apart from the mother' boyfriend, who is american)

the mc is 12-year-old elena cañero-reed, who, as we learn in the first scene and hear in the title of the show, grows up to be president one day

the show is (partly) narrated by her, as these are the things she wrote in her diary when she was 12

each episode has a plot for elena, for her 14-year-old brother and for their mother (and her boyfriend), so it can appeal to all age groups

there is a lot of lgbtq+ presentation, both in side/background characters and one of the mcs has a storyline revolving around their sexuality (and, don't worry, their storyline is happy most of the time)

the show talks about themes of friendship, finding your identity, puberty, loss of a loved one (as elena and bobby's father died a few years ago) and more

if someone wants to watch it with their children (does anyone on tumblr have children? lmao) don't worry, the show has a positive message

the cast is very diverse

i hope some people watch it, and i'm going to put A LOT of tags, so this post reaches as many people as possible (i only have 6 followers, so i don't know if that would work otherwise)

@xhavibee (sorry for tagging you but you post a lot about doafp and i know you have a lot of followers, so if you reblog this, we could reach even more people)

everyone who sees this, please reblog, even if you won't/can't watch it yourself, i just want the show to remain available, so people (including myself of course) can still watch it in years to come

if you've read up until here, ily <3

[inkbutterflyuniverse]

So with Disney cancelling Big Shot, Doogie Kamealoha, and HSMTMTS ending, what's left? 🙃

[bybyefromurgirlodam]

Thinking about s2 like 4 weeks into filming s1.

Imagine the Grover in a wedding dress scene in SoM though.

I either want the dream to be as realistic as the rest of the show to confuse non-book readers (but also demigod dreams are realistic so..)

or I want it to look like it was filmed with one of those handheld cameras with the red recording light blinking and then at the end the camera falls like face first (lense?) into the ground and then the battery dies.

[before-the-black-pearl]

I made a meme template

LETS GO

Someone on Facebook added the second one lol

[zootopiathingz]

ZOOTOPIA+ TRAILER DROPPED YESTERDAY?????

[swsequelsalt]

The Mehness of Obi-Wan

Now that I’ve seen the whole thing, the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series was... well, at times it was fine. And at other times it was very irritating. Overall, I’d say “mild miss.” 

It would’ve benefitted a LOT from being cut down to about two hours in length. Maybe two and a half. So: A movie. That could’ve been cool.

Sundry Thoughts Under the Cut:

- When they first announced that Vader would be in this and Christensen would be returning, I figured there was only ONE reason to bring Obi-Wan and Vader back together before their fateful meeting in Episode IV: You can finally explain that moment in Return of the Jedi when Vader tells Luke that “Obi-Wan once thought as you do.” In other words, you tell the story of Obi-Wan trying to save Vader’s soul and failing. It’s been the most infamous question mark hanging over the continuity of the OT since 2005. But guess what? This Disney+ series makes absolutely no attempt to address it. Which boggles my mind.

- You’ve probably heard by now that the real stars of this show are Ewan MacGregor as Obi-Wan and Moses Ingram as the new character of Reva, aka “Third Sister” in the Inquisition. And I can’t fault the performances on these two whatsoever. They do amazing work throughout. Both of them are clearly invested in these characters and completely bringing their best to the table. It’s just that the material isn’t always worthy of them.

- Obi-Wan spends half the series as a total fuck-up until the moment when he instantly, inexplicably isn’t anymore. 

Remember how, at the end of Revenge of the Sith, Yoda was going to tell Obi-Wan how to commune with Qui-Gon, and Yoda said Qui-Gon would then train him while he was in hiding? Well, when this series opens, we quickly learn that Obi-Wan hasn’t managed to speak to Qui-Gon even ONE time. He hasn’t seen him or heard him at all. And he also hasn’t trained whatsoever. For ten. fucking. years. 

This subsequently leads into him spending three and a half episodes just completely sucking. He doesn’t know how to successfully disguise himself, he doesn’t know how to keep up a cover story, he doesn’t know how to fight with a lightsaber or even use the force anymore. He’s total rubbish! Except, weirdly, when it comes to guns? He actually kinda kicks ass with a blaster now — you know, the weapon Obi-Wan always considered to be “uncivilized”? No idea when he started training heavily on those things, but ok. 

ANYWAY, this all reaches Peak Embarrassment when Obi-Wan confronts Vader for the first time. He draws his lightsaber, but then he gets scared and opts to simply run away. Or he TRIES to run away. Like a methodical slasher villain, Vader doesn’t even have to run to magically catch up. Eventually, Obi-Wan has no choice but to very poorly attempt to block Vader’s lightsaber attack. Without explaining the entire climax, suffice it to say that ol’ Ben gets REAMED.

But then the fourth episode comes along. Near the start of the episode, we see Obi-Wan trying to pull a small object towards himself with the Force, but he can’t do it. He can only bring it like halfway across the table with difficulty. But then his mission to sneak into an underwater facility begins, and... he just instantly gets his mojo back! He can use his lightsaber like a pro. He can deflect blaster bolts back at stormtroopers. He can perform mind tricks. It’s not explained at all; he just suddenly is great at everything again. And he continues to be completely badass at all things for the rest of the series without anyone ever trying to explain the shift. What the fuck is that?!

- Sadly, Reva isn’t all that well-written for a bunch of reasons. Moses Ingram is bringing her A-game, and they let her down. She’s got a cool backstory and awesome underlying motivations, yet her actions often make no sense. 

In the third episode, she somehow easily senses the exact building where Obi-Wan is hiding amidst an entire town - when even Vader himself didn’t sense it or find it, just walked right past it! And then she instantly figures out that this same building contains a secret door that leads to an “underground railroad”-esque hiding spot for Jedi - even though numerous imperials have been through here and seen nothing at all, and there are no people hidden within (so she can’t be sensing any life forms). 

In the fifth episode, she finally is given the opportunity to do what she’s been pursuing for most of her life. All of her careful planning has led to this. So she naturally waits until the worst moment and takes action as stupidly as possible. .... Maybe the pressure of having decades of her life lead up to a single moment in time just got the better of her?

The worst instance of all this, though, are the CRAZY leaps of logic she takes in the very last episode. Based on some broken-up audio she hears at the tail end of the fifth episode, she somehow figures out things that she should have no way of knowing. But of course, she’s completely right. And she then pursues an objective that makes no sense and is completely out of character for who she’s established to be. Until at the end of the episode, she suddenly stops and... I guess remembers what her motivation actually fucking was? God, it is INFURIATING. If she ever appears in this franchise again, I hope they can try to give us some sort of retroactive justification for her actions in that last ep.

- The show would be a lot shorter if it didn’t spend so much time spinning its wheels. Sometimes they just repeat plot beats and sequences in a new setting, presumably because they figure the setting will be enough to make it seem different.

In Episode 2, Obi-Wan must rescue little Leia from captivity and then evade a bunch of stormtroopers hunting them while they make their way to a ship to escape. In Episode 4, Obi-Wan must rescue little Leia from captivity and then evade a bunch of stormtroopers hunting them while they make their way to a ship to escape.

In Episode 5, Obi-Wan and the nascent Rebellion are cornered by the Empire, and Obi-Wan determines that he must appear to give himself up in order to serve as distraction that will let the Rebels get away. Ah! but then, in Episode 6, Obi-Wan and the nascent Rebellion are cornered by the Empire, and Obi-Wan determines that he must appear to give himself up in order to serve as a distraction that will let the Rebels get away.

- Speaking of the actors, Hayden Christensen does amazing work in the Vader suit. I know it’s basically just a form of mime, but his movements look so powerful and threatening throughout. He also gets to reprise pre-burn Anakin in some flashback images courtesy of some digital de-aging, so that was cool. And on the topic of Anakin/Vader, I can’t believe how outstanding James Earl Jones still sounds at age 91?! I saw some rumors online that he might’ve been digitally enhanced beyond just the usual Vader reverb, but... either way, holy shit.

- One of the best moments in the show is probably Ewan’s reaction when he hears that Anakin/Vader is actually still alive. But I must admit that I was confused that Obi-Wan would be stunned by this information. I mean... he sees that Palpatine was calling Anakin “Lord Vader” even before their Mustafar duel. Did he forget that name, or did he somehow just never hear about the existence of a “Darth Vader” terrorizing the damn galaxy? 

- I wasn’t too sure about Vivien Lyra Blair as Leia when the series started, but she establishes that she’s up to it fairly early on. I was ultimately quite happy and impressed with her. 

- Lola is an adorable design, and also VERY marketable. But if we’re going to be seeing droids hanging  around the Organa residence, shouldn’t we have seen R2 and/or Threepio... ?

- I definitely did not expect Owen and Beru to get some pretty badass scenes? And actually do some fighting? Unexpected, but the writers and fight choreographers made it make sense. Although both Owen and Beru are willing and capable of standing up for themselves, the show doesn’t try to make them secret warriors or anything. They’re still just a couple of people trying to defend a farm for their family’s sake.

- I can’t argue much with the final battle between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader. It’s cool to see. It would’ve been much more resonant if they had used “Battle of the Heroes” or “Duel of the Fates” in the score somewhere, though.

- Before the final battle, Obi-Wan says this is it - this is where one of them will have to die for the other to live. And yet! When Obi-Wan kicks Vader’s ass, he just looks him in the eye and... leaves. He leaves this former friend of his, who he saw casually killing innocent civilians one by one back in Episode 3, to continue his reign of terror. Obi-Wan, you absolute fool. You’re now basically responsible for everyone Vader kills for the next ten years! You know that, right?!  You stood there and watched Vader walk down a line of innocent civilians’ houses as he killed them one by one in an attempt to draw you out. You KNOW what this dickcheese is capable of! Christ... if the writers didn’t have any logical excuse for why this would happen, they should’ve rethought the whole goddamn sequence.

[diamaris-blog]

I LOVE BAYMAX!!1!!1!1!!!

..that is all.

[cinemablind]

Disney+ Series ‘The Artful Dodger’ to Star Thomas Brodie-Sangster, David Thewlis, and Maia Mitchell Source: THR

[otakugoddes]

She-Hulk represents the part of the fandom that wondered if Cap ever got laid...and reacted how we would when we found out he was in fact...not a virgin (how could HE have died a virgin). Cap is a fucking sweet piece of rare A grade meat and who wouldn't want a piece of that ass. Anyone who wont has no taste.

Anyone who doesn't is ridiculous.

Of course he wouldn't be a virgin.

[menheim]

𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 & 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹

When Percy met Percy!

[the-poor-miranha-quotes]

let's talk about how Marvel created an episode focused on a native superhero character speaking a native language and who, together with other natives, beats up a colonialist; and then in the next one they go there and the moral lesson of the episode is that there is no problem in creating an empire if it is to bring "Peace and Justice"

[thesmartassdetective]

the title of jessica jones has been updated! 

[bybyefromurgirlodam]

I am going to watch ep6 of ms marvel soon but in the meantime...

! spoilers for ms marvel so far and WandaVision ¡

in ep5 najma does some sacrifice thing to prevent the djinn world from encompassing earth which means that there is still an episode left and so the only other possible thing left is Kamala having to beat the government somehow to save Kamran.

[batcavescolony]

Percy Jackson but Hestia has a cabin. that is where the unclaimed go because she goddess of home and family. Demigods get claimed faster because when they show up Hestia glares at her siblings, nieces and nephews untill they claim them.