#empire Script

[blackkatdraws2]

The narrator and the ugly ahh protagonist [Blank Scripts AU/non-canonical]

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

nope, still annoyed at the fact that Andor gave itself the neatest, most poignant way out of both the question "why is Bix not around in Rogue One" and "at what point does Cassian start doing things that he actively resents doing" (because so far he doesn't seem to feel a large amount of guilt - yes, he says the faces haunt him, but he seems very convinced he can live with it), plus being able to make an actual point about sacrifice while doing it - and then they used it instead for a cheap "badass" moment to end the arc on, even though it once again makes Bix all about her trauma with very little agency and opportunity to show off her skills or qualities, opens a bunch of plot holes and is still just setting her up to die for Cassian's manpain soon.

Because bringing Gorst back into the narrative is actually brilliant. They clearly can't figure out anything else that Bix has going on (not gonna rant about that here. again.), so it only makes sense. But it also actually presents a perfect moral dilemma:

Lonni is running the expansion of Gorst's heinous torture programme

he has likely passed this information on to Luthen, who in turn knows what happened to Bix

Bix cannot move past what happened to her, and clearly has violent fantasies about killing him, suggesting she would jump at the opportunity to kill that guy

killing Gorst would also sabotage or possibly end the torture programme

BUT any attack on Gorst, whose existence and programme is very hush-hush, will also immediately tell the ISB they have a mole very high up

now, you hand Cassian all these cards, and then you give him some kind of mission where he runs across Gorst, and recognises him. You put them in some office alone together, the doctor's back is turned, Cassian has a hand on his blaster - and, understanding that revenge is not worth blowing up their eyes and ears at the top of the ISB because almost nothing would be... he drops his hand, and politely excuses himself, and lets Gorst live.

Then, you have him either confess this to Bix or let it slip on accident. She cannot forgive him, and he cannot agree with her - because it is the greatest possible betrayal of her, but that doesn't make it the wrong choice. Then you have them split over this, and have Bix cut ties with Luthen and all the other rebel contacts too. This could be a more peaceful endpoint for her (she is, at least, free from Cassian and this Rebellion she has no agency in), or, if that is too defeatist, make her last appearances ones where she starts stalking this guy on her own. This way, she actually gets her revenge without needing an assist from the Cool Rebel Guys. So she kills Gorst independently of the Rebels, and depending on how bleak you want this ending to be, she either gets away with it and finally gets to leave Coruscant, or she gets arrested. If she gets arrested, her getting framed as a rebel terrorist for it and it serving to whitewash Gorst's actions to the public, actually boosting the programme, could be very terrible and poignant. But maybe we end on her arriving in some prison camp where she is celebrated as a hero by the other inmates, and hey, we could end it at an ambiguous shot of a rebel ship overhead, suggesting that maybe they're going to be liberated. You know, bring that hope theme from Rogue One back just a little bit.

Anyway, this accomplishes several things that the ending of the Gorst storyline we got does not:

Gorst's return actually serving some narrative purpose over "needs to come back so his death can allow Bix her Moment"

allowing Bix some actual agency and competence that doesn't smack of plot contrivance (instead of a half-minute sequence of her swanning in and out of an ISB building with no explanation or consequences)

moral conflict instead of an oddly unambiguous "you go girl!!" moment that the show has so far always avoided

pushing Cassian further to where he needs to be if they plan on lining him up with his R1-personality even slightly, and putting him more on Luthen's side instead of pitting him against him

allowing them to keep their mole without this becoming a plot hole

give Cassian something to feel genuinely guilty about without that compromising his belief in the cause or needing to fridge yet another woman to do it

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[katsmultiverse]

tell me about your rancher dr? :)

lol there isnt really much to talk about for it because it isnt one of my main drs nor have i done much scripting for it (im so bad at scripting at times- i dont script for some and then over script for others...but you already knew that lmfao 😭😭)

im still kinda deciding where i live in this dr but i think i'll probably live in montana but grew up in california. how i met my s/o, benjamin, was that i was drunk and alone at a local bar to which he, being the gentleman he is, left his friends and walked over to me, offering me a ride home and i, ever so reluctantly, gave him my address, letting him drive me home. once we got to my house he carried me into my house (i had fallen asleep in the truck because my property's on the outskirts of town) and carried me to my bedroom.--somehow my dogs knew that he could be trusted? surprising 'cause they like barking at everyone.--he pulled off my boots and tucked me into bed before venturing downstairs to my kitchen. he grabbed my metal water bottle from the fridge, a tylenol bottle from the counter, and a random half-eaten sleeve of saltine crackers. scribbling a little note on a random piece of paper with his phone number, saying to call if i needed anything. he left the note, water, tylenol, crackers, and my keys on my bedside table. he then left my house, making my home fall into a comfortable silence other than the crickets outside. the next morning i woke up, obviously, feeling like shit. i saw the note and decided to text him saying thank you for taking me home. we ended up talking and soon he asked me out to dinner, jokingly promising that there won't be any alcohol and let's just say that date ended well with him dropping me off at home with a good night kiss on my cheek. a couple years later we end up happily married and him waking up a grumpy me on sunday mornings to go to church with him despite me not being very religious. also, sometime after we get married we have the house on my property get knocked down so he and all of his friends (one's dad is a contractor who my s/o and a couple of his friends work with) could build me my dream home 😋🤭

i cant wait to shift to this dr, being woken up on sunday mornings by kisses and warm arms around my waist- EEK

by the way... yes the way we meet is inspired by the song Drunk Girl by Chris Janson

[batsyi]

I truly believe everyone should script that jen and pat never got a divorce

[wishwingalpha]

I miss my wife tails. I miss her alot.

[starwarjotta]

okay so after Tales of the Jedi we're getting Tales of the Empire and on a complete non-squitur, in TBB episode 3x10 Hemlock says the other operatives aren't ready yet, which means there're more clone assassins in the making my bet is still on clone x (or the current assassin clone or whatever you call him) being Tech, because him being Cody just wouldn't be the same, it wouldn't be as emotionally devastating for Omega and the Bad Batch as the clone being Tech would be and I saw a theory that maybe Cody is one of the other operatives whose brainwashing just isn't done yet instead so hear me out, hear me out after Tales of the Empire, we could get Tales of the Clones, right? and in Tales of the Clones we could get the story of what happened to Cody, that maybe Cody tried to escape the Empire in TBB 2x03, but he was caught and sent to Hemlock's sick assassin clone program, but the badass he is he's resisting the brainwashing and he maybe escapes??? MAYBE WE COULD GET THAT STORY OR SOMETHING??? WHERE HE ENDS UP ON TATOOINE LIKE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO IN THE OG KENOBI SHOW SCRIPT???? I'D BE SO UP FOR IT OKAY???

[grim-has-issues]

he said that he would not confess his feelings to faithful.

why?

because he doesn’t deserve her, he’s not worthy of her.

not that he “thinks” he doesnt deserve her or “thinks” he is unworthy for her.

he simply isn’t. every single version of himself knows it.

its as simple as that. theres nothing more to say.

the sky is blue, and albus doesnt deserve her.

humans breathe, and albus is unworthy.

[cassmouse]

To this day I don't understand how Ghostbusters Frozen Empire had the budget to hire all of these absolutely incredible actors, a surprisingly excellent cinematographer, a SFX team that's second to none, AND a phenomenal composer (HE WROTE THE 2005 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE SOUNDTRACK FOR FUCK'S SAKE)- and yet STILL couldn't manage to hire even semi-decent writers (this also applies to Ghostbusters Afterlife actually)

(whoever came up with the Phoebe/Melody plot goated tho)

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

So, it is reported that Legendary enlisted John Callaham to write the next MonsterVerse film follow the success of GxK.

What kaiju are you gonna hope for casting the next Godzilla film? Your film expectations? New Titans? Or even, new Godzilla design? Comment down below!

[endofbeginings]

this is sooooooooo important to me

[skyerana]

I just discovered the NPR Star Wars original trilogy radio drama. I love it deeply already.

[shindahime]

Hmmmm. Perhaps coming to this world was a bad idea, considering someone was pointing a sword at her. Considering she looked as if she was stealing a soul out of a dead child, she shouldn't have been surprised she was attracting unwanted attention. Dropping the child-shaped familiar, she raised both hands in surrender. Maybe if she explained...

"Don't worry! This isn't child murder, this is child labor!"

Nailed it.

Never mind the fact that the 'child' stood up and started laughing at them both.

@boomania

[boatemlag]

i might have autism?

[lucreziaces]

ruminating on lucrezia setting down the candle under the rope, knowing that it was 50/50 odds she was sending her own brother to his death and not really caring because no matter if he died or the lady he was spending the night with died, she would've gotten revenge for paolo's death versus her telling cesare to eat something before taking a meal with della rovere in case he tries something (because she knew his plans to poison both pope and son since it was really her idea). with juan, she leaves it up to the fates to decide if he will die, but with cesare she takes no chances, making sure he will only be poisoned enough to keep him from chasing her down, to allow her time to make a life for herself outside of rome, outside their love for each other. even though both brothers committed the same crime-- killing an innocent that she cared for (i'd actually like to argue that ces one upped juan by making lucrezia an accomplice to his crime!!), she was unwilling to punish them in the same way because she still held love in her heart for cesare, even if he did steal the last of her innocence. whereas, the second she put it together that juan had been the one to kill paolo, her love for him died.