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Thoughts I had during TGCF Season 1 the Recap!

Basically, I recap the First Season of TGCF with my reactions, before my Season 2 binge watch!

Ep 1

-Don’t go out there… don’t go out there… don’t go out there… don’t go out there… *Bride gets snatched* Okay, maybe you should’ve gone out there.

-Right after XL ascends, Lan Hai and Qing Tao then go, “Huh, Who is that?”  Then everybody yells at them, “PRINCE XIE LIAN!”

-So much Property Damage…

-Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!

-Fu Yao, *Is sarcastic and rolls his eyes* Basically me: He’s just like me fr!!!

-Hehehehehehe Dick joke XD

-Sees Bride!XL: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I’m Sorry XD!

-Yeah right a few alterations, she totally fixed his make up calling it.

-*Sees Bridesmaids NF and FY like* W H E E E Z E XD XD XD XD

-So that’s how he was able to last longer than the previous bride

-Pass me the Aux cord!  You better not be playing mainstream garbage! *Turns on One Flower and One Sword and vibes like there’s no tomorrow*!

-I now pronounce you both husband and husband!  You may now kiss the gro- I mean, bride!  

Ep 2

-Honey, He looks a little too good looking to be the Ghost groom

-That temple looks abandoned, and the animation camera for walking inside

-There’s the ugly mob

-Hehe Xie Lian’s aggressive kindness

-When the mob scooched away from Bride!Lian I freaking lost it XDXDXDXD

-And Nan Feng and Fu Yao inch away instead of defending him!  

W H E E Z E!

-The fact they both agreed to not explain anything XD!

-Xiao Ying is a real friend

-And hurting the injured is a real low for the mob

-They have enraged the ghost groom

-KO!  Flawless victory!

-Zombie brides!

Ep 3

-Didn’t know it a zombie apocalypse happened in Ancient Feudal China (I need to brush up on my history)

-Welp, now they’re grateful 

-Wait a minute, he was an acrobat???  Xie Lian Pre 3 ascension life spinoff when??? (That’ll prolly never happen)

-Man here comes the Bride Pun count: 3

-Now that is an Azula level breakdown

-They are not merciful with the body count in this whole series

-Woah saved by literal divine intervention

-Geez, Pei Ming this is why we don’t Ghost our Exes, Pun Count: 4

-Man, Xuan Ji, maybe you should’ve heard of the phrase, “Plenty of Fish in the sea”

-The way Xie Lian blinked when he realized he was still in the wedding dress XD!

-Restoring faith in Ming Guang

-Oh no Trauma

Ep 4

-He’s so distraught he couldn’t follow

-The telepathic matrix, is basically the world’s first discord server

-Thank you Ling Wen

-Aw he likes Hua Cheng’s name!

-That explains the fall of Xianle and the Moldy Face Plague

-Let’s be honest, Bai Wuxiang is totally responsible for Covid-19

-Woah Hua Cheng has made his mark on Heaven

-Aww he thinks the Butterflies are beautiful!

-Honestly, smart move Mu Qing and Feng Xin

-Oh she is so burnt out

-Yeah, who was the Prince of Xianle anyway?

-WHY IS EVERYBODY’S EYELINER GAME SO ON POINT?!?!?!?!

Ep 5

-The way he blew off that maple leaf

-Oooh that subtle hinting later on and symbolism with Xie Lian

-The way he moved in closer *fangirls like no tomorrow*

-I freaking love the instrumental version of Hong Jue

-Is he touched starved?  He is touch starved

-I love that when San Lang scared the Ghosts shitless they ended up running like no tomorrow, Ghost 1: Book it guys our lives depend on it!  Ghost 2:  But we’re already dead! Ghost 1:  Well it’s just an expression!

-And there was only one bed.  Oh my gods there was only one bed!!!

-Aw he caught him staring

-I believe you Ox cart man

-Heck with how popular TGCF is right now, Xie Lian would be worshipped today by fans like us

-His luck did rub off on you and you should take it all Xie Lian

-Welp time to go start the next arc

Ep 6

-Woah, that old man is traumatized

-Of course being a martial god, he has experience in combat.  Have you seen him in a sword dual at Yinian bridge? (Subtle Phineas and Ferb quote)

-Yep called it, and the gong noise when the door opened!

-“How did we get out here in the middle of the ocean???”

-Awww look at San Lang’s emo hoodie!

-You know what’s better than one evil Daoist?  Two evil Daoists!

-And he drank the whole thing like a boss

-Now Nan Feng’s acting like an NPC from a fantasy video game

-The woman in the teal cloak saw him

-He’s touched starved again!

-Best chemistry ever!

-And after Rouye grabs San Lang and Xie Lian says, “I didn’t mean San Lang”. Rouye goes: “Really? Ok!”  And then lets him go, that’s just the hypothetical dialogue I’ve got for the silk band

Ep 7

-It’s official!  Xie Lian is shorter than San Lang people! 

-I’ve heard of a close knit unit but this is just insane!

-There’s so many people

-Ooooohhh That poor poor general

-SO MANY COBRAS!

-Oh no and 4’s an unlucky number in China

-He is sucking the venom out like a G!  Get yourself a man like San Lang people!

-You know we’re all thinking what Xie Lian’s thinking about how he’s going to clean San Lang’s bloodied lips (I’ll let you share your answers in the comment section)

-And Fu Yao’s stuck with merchant sitting

-Really lovely desert travel music!

-Yeah he does know an awful lot

-Uh oh the woman in the black cloak spotted them

Ep 8

-Thank you San Lang for protecting your man like a champ!

-Ooooh cool more Ban Yue lore!

-Ooooh his poor, poor head

-And San Lang’s expression, is worried if he hurt him, but it worked!

-Yeah but our faces don’t stick out of the ground like a fresh tater!

-Aw no they’re gonna need sacrifices

-Zhao’s fight response kicked in

-Eeenie meanie meinie that kid (probably Kemo)

-“Sully not thine honor on innocent blood” That almost sounded like a bible quote…?

-Dude Xie Lian was royalty

-Trust fall!  (You’ll see next ep peeps!)

-Oh and Xie Lian’s scream!  Kind of needed more raw emotion though

Ep 9

-He’s gonna jump into the pit, he’s jumping into the pit, he jumped into the

-Xie Lian’s like: Well I am going down there, but I won’t go down alone!

-The pit’s entrance is sealed!

-Trust fall!  TRUST FALL!  

-He touched his throat!

-There’s your answer Xie Lian

-Dance fight!  Dance fight!

-You’re just gonna excuse the mass murder San Lang committed in the pit?????

-Let me just find somewhere that isn’t covered in blood

-Oh yeah you’re grateful for San Lang carrying you

-The faces they made when he called them out for jumping into the pit XD Xie Lian’s eyes are wide and blank while San Lan has a cat face! XDXDXDXDXD

-She came down!

Ep 10

-She saw Xie Lian and San Lang

-So many fallen Ban Yue soldiers

-Hi Fu Yao

-I wasn’t kidding when I said Fu Yao isn’t great at crowd control

-Thank you Fu Yao

-She’s holding his hand and he’s patting her head my freaking heart!!!! 

-Oh No! Vomit trigger warning for this episode people

-Xie Lian raised her more than her Yong’An father did (and to some extent her late mother)

-It was still a good choice after all Xie Lian

-Take it easy with the ‘Bad Cop’ routine Fu Yao

-Oh no a scorpion snake

-Well that’s bad

Ep 11

-Aiaigasa!  It’s Aiaigasa again folks AAAAAHHH!!!!

-Scorpion tailed cobras why’d they have to be Scorpion tailed Cobras?!?!?!?!?

-That explains the sandstorm

-Ooooh Pei Xiu army backstory

-Ugh Classist general

-No Ban Yue!!!!  She was so young!!! T - T

-Yeah where will Xie Lian go from here?

-Oooh Yizhen got name dropped too!

-Uncle Jiang is cured!

-And the way he’s running away from the duo XDXDXD!

-Here’s why Fu Yao left early, as they healed Uncle Jiang he contacted Nan Feng through the telepathic array and Fu Yao’s reason is:  Come on, you know how horrifying his highness’ cooking can be.  This is just my theory, and I’d love to hear your possible ones in the comments!

-And the way Hua Cheng moved in closer and just preferred to be called ‘San Lang’ my freaking heart!!!

Ep 12

-We are back in Puqi village folks

-I freaking love how Xie Lian says ‘The Crimson Rain Sought Flower’ Howard Wang’s voice could act as my new sleeping aid

-Oh yeah San Lang does treasure you dude

-Ban Yue deserves all the head pats!!!!

-Ban Yue, I think you should keep living despite all the mistakes you’ve made… other than that I also don’t know the answer like Xie Lian

-Aww Xie Lian will love him no matter if he’s hideous or a monster he really does have the best standards!

-Awwww He’s hot when he’s mad!

-Another Reason why Hualian works so well is that San Lang also Respects!  Xie Lian’s!  Boundaries (Yep still not getting involved with the Helluva Boss drama folks)

-It’s official!  That looks like an engagement ring people!

-Dude pass me the Aux cord!  Ya better not be playing mainstream garbage *Puts on Hong Jue at full blast and vibes like no tomorrow!*

-It’s like they’re running towards each other AAAAAHHH!!!

-Welp, see you guys later for Season 2!

Season 2! Here I come!!!!

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Just finished The Naked Time and I see why it gets referenced so much now. It was a fun episode and I loved the insights it gave us into some of the characters.

Sulu turns into a fucking pirate when he’s wasted. (You can tell Takei had fun with that one)

Spock is a sad drunk who cries about his feelings for his mom and Jim.

Jim turns into a damn romantic poet.

Spock, honey, you have nothing to be ashamed of. Jim, go walk on a beach with Spock.

Also, if I was the Captain, after this particular incident, that fucker Riley would be banned from engineering, from all alcoholic substances and from karaoke night. A random ensign could catch him singing in the shower and the Captain orders him dragged in for a drug screen. Just to be safe.

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Teen Wolf 1x12

Ah, yes, Chris honking at Scott instead of aiming a weapon at him is totally in character. We shall honk to warn this creature off, despite the fact that we’ve been stalking him for eleven episodes.

Lol, Peter just walks off like Stiles will do exactly as he’s told. Please don’t have Stiles do exactly as he’s told. Have him text Jackson and Danny to track down Scott’s cell and then tell Scott about it.

See? The woods are like two steps away from the school and it would have been a lot harder for the police and Argent’s to track Derek in the woods than on the streets in that one episode.

Allison’s reaction after Scott runs is approximately forty seconds long, some slow motion, mostly in close up with one long shot.

Scott’s reaction is approximately forty seconds long, some slow motion, mostly in long shot with one close up that almost immediately dollies back to a long shot.

And the one close up is on the scream instead of the sobbing.

Why do they keep making these choices to de-emphasize Scott’s pain/anguish/trauma? Like, it’s weird, right? It’s not just me?

Like, from the beginning they’ve been telling this story about how being treated like a monster doesn’t make you one. Pretty much every character, with the exceptions of Allison, Melissa, and Deaton have treated Scott like a monster, a pawn, a tool, a thing to be used. Some to more extent than others, but even Stiles has treated Scott like that on several occasions.

And the story seems to be trying to show us at every turn how Scott refuses to be used. Refuses at every turn to cast aside his humanity and descend into a mindless, angry thing that the Hales want him to be and the Argents expect him to be. The storyline, the dialogue, the acting all support this. But half the time the shots don’t, and it’s driving me nuts, honestly.

Does Jackson actually care about Lydia now too? My headcanon where he got empathic bleed from Scott is holding up, I see.

Oh. Menstruation jokes about a teenage girl from a grown man is definitely not gross and creepy and demeaning. I guess that’s one characterization they haven’t screwed up yet.

Okay, so, 1) it’s interesting that Chris recognized what Kate was doing but didn’t stop it, 2) it’s interesting that Kate was the one to volunteer to come instead of Chris bringing her in like I thought, and 3) Chris, buddy. You fucking chose to try to run Scott over and have him turn in front of your daughter, Kate wasn’t even there. Take ownership of your own fucking actions, my dude.

Lol, Kate, you’re usually a better liar than that. ALSO, I still haven’t heard how the school janitor was connected so until we do he’s an innocent victim.

And now we also know that Kate’s actions with the fire either weren’t sanctioned by Chris - most likely - or weren’t sanctioned within the hunting community at all. I’m still trying to figure out the hierarchy of the hunters, and how big the family/network is.

Now that Allison is in the know maybe we’ll learn more, but even with two born werewolves we’ve learned shit about that culture so I’m not holding my breath.

It makes no sense that he’s sending Kate with Allison unless he just wants Kate out of the way. Mrs. Argent would seem like a better choice in several respects, not the least of which she hasn’t been going behind Chris’ back with Allison already. Also, bro, Kate ain’t exactly the comforting type and your kid needs comfort right now.

Okay, so her mother clearly isn’t the comforting type either. Are we saying that Allison get her compassion from Chris? Oh boy.

They keep mentioning the ‘moral code’ they have, but not giving us details. I mean, it’s apparent that Kate doesn’t follow it, and clearly others are willing to bend it. But even the “good” ones like Chris still try to rile up werewolves into going past a specific line in the sand.

Hunters are just a bunch of cops, huh? No accountability, protect their own over anyone else, instigate werewolves to violence so that they can feel justified in killing them.

So I guess he did steal Jennifer’s car. Still doesn’t make sense how he and Derek got to the school before Stiles when they presumably left at least ten minutes after him, but whatever. Also, did Derek kill the nurse when he hit her in the face? There was definitely a lot of blood. And this now makes (at least) two people not associated with the fire that got murdered.

Scott going to the vet is a good fucking call and he should have done it sooner. He should, perhaps, actually call Deaton though because he’s like the only one who’s been both compassionate enough and capable enough to help you.

So, like, Allison doesn’t know who to believe, and I get that. Her family says they love her, but they’ve been lying to her. Scott says he loves her but he’s been lying to her. It’s hard to figure out who to trust.

Out of curiosity, though. How is Scott able to get past the Mountain Ash? Is it just because he’s got a key to the back, and never goes out the front? Did it only get added after Deaton was kidnapped by Derek or maybe it only works on Alphas? So many questions!

Hey, look, we actually got close up on Scott’s grief that actually lasted about the same amount of time as someone else’s! It can be done!

Well, I see the family resemblance between Derek and Peter now.

Oh. Hey. A cop being shitty? Weird. Like, fuck, dude, Jackson’s a goddamn asshole, but a) you don’t know anything about that, b) he’s a fucking minor, and c) you have no idea what the fuck happened or how traumatized he might have been. And, like, none of the other cops with him are pulling him back? Jesus Christ.

Aside from how it makes sense cause cops are just generally shitty, why the fuck would he act like that about two kids we’ve never really seen him interact with? Either he’s got something against Jackson or he’s weirdly protective over Lydia and both of those options creep me out a little.

No, no, don’t bother apologizing to the kid you manhandled for no reason.

“Only the responsible ones,” Peter says, ignoring the dead body literally underneath where Stiles is typing. And the janitor. Can’t forget that guy.

Stiles trying to protect Scott is nice, if futile.

Scott gets his terrible security protocols from his mother. But at least his was passively bad, while hers was actively bad. I still can’t believe she just let Jackson use her computer like that.

Also, his is not, you know, illegal criminally or civilly with criminal consequences that could include termination, up to $50,000 in fines, and a prison sentence.

I’m sorry, but did this fucking show give us a guy who not only knows about werewolves but feels totally secure standing up to one and subsequently getting the werewolf to stand down, which our main character witnessed, and then not have the main character, like, go to him for help? Just have him go there for refuge?

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, GIVE ME DEATON.

Oh, hey. Scott howling again. I hope this time works better than last time. I can kind of understand why this was not his first choice of things to try given his previous experience.

But, uh, are you telling me Peter didn’t hear that and won’t also come running? Or that Peter didn’t think to try that instead of the whole phone thing? Or, like, now that apparently Derek is his beta, Peter can’t track him that way like he’s basically done to Scott during this whole show?

I feel like the phone thing was put in there specifically as a way to make Stiles useful. Especially since we haven’t seen this skill set from him before.

FYI, that longitude/latitude puts you in Antarctica.

Lol, so we specifically made a comment about how the service might not work in a parking garage and popped out the mifi, but we’re totally able to bypass that same issue to get the gps coordinates from a phone that’s underground. Sure, Jan.

Okay, so at least Peter did hear the howl. And you know what? I’ll accept that Scott outsmarted him because he’s done it several times already. The weird part is that you’d think Peter would be the one more in touch with the werewolf instinct and Scott would be the one more apt to use technology, but we’re getting the reverse.

If I had any faith in these folks, I’d have to wonder if that was on purpose. Like, has modern werewolf culture lost itself to the violence and lost all connection to its proto culture? Not all werewolf myths cast them as monstrous and bad, particularly Irish and Scottish folklore have them as helpful protectors. Scott McCall.

Ummm, why is Allison at the hospital? Did she hear Jackson’s voicemail and insist on coming? Did Kate just dump her somewhere and then she heard what happened to Lydia?

I actually really like the super quick flashes of the bloody room and Lydia writhing. That was very effective.

Okay, so Kate’s using this to manipulate Allison some more. Gotcha. Chris, you’re dumb for letting her be under Kate’s influence some more.

Stiles, why would you even ask that?

Oh. Okay. So we’re good with biting people of color and women and turning them without asking, but you’re gonna ask the white kid if he wants it. Why do I, once again, feel like that’s social commentary that they didn’t actually intend to make, but is so spot on it’s painful?

Also, is this the first episode where they’ve explained that the bite doesn’t always take, and that it’s not due to the intent of the one biting, but the biology (?) of the one being bitten?

That still doesn’t explain why Peter didn’t bite more people when Scott balked. Peter clearly doesn’t mind sacrificing people when convenient.

Peter is really much better at manipulation than Derek was. He and Kate are cut from the same cloth.

Part of me thinks that Stiles was lying because we’ve seen him be envious of Scott. The other part of me knows that Peter’s a lying liar who lies and no one should ever trust him.

The stark fucking difference between how the Sheriff treated Jackson versus how he’s treating Stiles.

I feel like that phone battery would have died by now. I have zero memory of how good phone batteries were 13 years ago though.

Wait, did this fucking bozo not hear Derek roaring? Dumbass.

Why does the lighting on the walls of this place always look like the light is reflecting off water but there’s no sound of water when they walk. I noticed it in the last episode too. Very distracting.

Why the fuck did Stiles bring up Derek? First of all, he knows his dad knows that because he got his dad drunk and his dad told him he knows that. Second, unless he’s planning on confessing everything and getting the police to roll up to Derek’s place, then saying that right now is incredibly dumb.

Holy shit! They did it to someone other than Scott this time! Made him look dumb so that someone else could have a snappy comeback! Why is this thing that these writers do? I mean, other than them being bad at their jobs.

I honestly can’t remember, does Stiles know that Allison got the necklace from her aunt? Also, like, he doesn’t even describe it, but Stiles somehow puts it together, lol.

“You really want to talk about this right now?” Says the guy who has, of course, been super forthcoming with Scott about werewolves this whole time. Who literally didn’t just switch sides to help Peter in a way that left Scott traumatized and writhing half naked on a locker room floor. This guy who has totally never made Scott’s life actively worse or hurt him almost every single time they met.

Yeah, Fuckface, he wants to talk about this now and with good reason.

Derek’s practically his own movie theater with how much he’s projecting on all these kids.

Btw, I am taking this as confirmation that Derek had, in fact, switched sides and was not actually playing along to still try to stop Peter. Which means that he’s a trash fire of a human being who has currently done only two good things. Possibly ever.

Weren’t there just police all over the hospital? I feel like someone should maybe notice a group of armed men terrorizing two high school kids after what happened to Lydia. 

Scott’s sad little, “Just say you’ll help and I’ll unlock your other…” is so funny because, like, even if Derek said it Scott was resigned to the fact that he wouldn’t be telling the truth, but would unlock him anyway.

Chris’ friend tried to kill him, huh? Was it because he was surrounded by people he knew wanted to kill him? Was it because he was hurt and in pain and just needed to learn how to control it? Like, I feel like there were other ways you could have handled that, Chris. If all you’ve got is a gun, every problem looks like a target, I guess.

I don’t buy that Kate and Allison got there before Peter. He’s there somewhere. 

Why didn’t they shoot the flashbulb one first? It’s unnecessarily cruel, which is Kate’s M.O. but it still feels weird that Allison would go along with it.

Thank you, I guess for at least saying that Allison wasn’t willing to go along with killing. But, like, she knows Derek was being tortured. What did she think was going to happen if they did just capture Scott?

Lol. Okay, sure. Kate and Allison and Chris all got there before Peter.

“I did what I was told to do.”

Huh. I’m going to be real with you, I assumed that Kate would bust out with her warped views on why they need to die and that’s it’s a good thing and they’re just animals. I wasn’t expecting someone pulling her strings. I mean, I guess she could be lying, but why?

It makes way more sense that Chris is a naive idiot, honestly, than to think there wasn’t corruption in the hunters, they’re cops.

Lol, Chris, you fucking shot that same kid three months ago with no proof he’d spilled human blood. Bud, leg to stand on? You ain’t really got one.

Although good to know at least part of their code.

Wait, are these bullets even wolfsbane? Will normal bullets even kill werewolves? Derek was basically fisted through his chest and survived, so I guess I assumed they were more lethal than regular bullets.

We hunt those who hunt us. Well that’s definitely not the truth. Not if they were there the when Laura Hale died because she was the first victim and clearly a werewolf. 

Peter did you have to succumb to the drama of the creaking door? Really? You couldn’t have just quietly launched yourself at Kate and dragged her off before anyone could get off a shot?

Also, where the fuck are Chris’ men who were at the hospital with them? Why did Chris not call for backup en route since apparently Stiles gave him the location. Sloppy work.

I understand that you’ve loved her your whole life Allison, but you just found out that she killed a bunch of innocent people including children and she almost killed the boy you said you loved right in front of you. I feel like running after her is the wrong choice.

Perhaps checking on your father or grabbing back the weapon you lost are better first choices.

You know what? I’m fine with that. Kate dying in that house by Peter’s hand works for me.

I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here.

The shaky cam, the low light, and the fact that all three of them are wearing black leather jackets is not helping me figure out what’s happening in this fight.

Like, I don’t want to be reductionist and go for the simple metaphors, but for symmetry Scott should be in the red hoodie, Derek should only be wearing his light gray/dirty white shirt to show how he’s nominally fighting the good fight here even if he’s still not a good guy, and Peter should be in dark or colors indistinguishable from black.

Or they could have just used some more damn lighting, that’s an option too, I guess.

Well, I guess the cgi werewolf will theoretically make it a little easier to tell who’s who.

Hey, Stiles and Jackson. Good of you guys to show up. What kept you?

Wow, the practical effects for the Alpha are jarringly better than the cgi. Should’ve gone with as many practical effects as possible. Which is honestly so true for most things.

Oh. I guess they stopped by the chemistry room first. Lol.

Well. This is actually a very good strategy, Stiles. I can’t imagine anyone would react well to being lit on fire, but Peter’s going to react worse than most. Out of idle curiosity, why did you only make two?

I feel like, keep shooting is also an option here?

Look, Allison, girl. I get that you understandably believe Scott was telling the truth now, but, uh. If I were Scott I’d push you away until we could talk shit over because you totally let your aunt almost kill me in cold blood.

I get it’s a teen show, which means kissing instead of talking, but still. Not really appropriate after you watched your aunt get murdered and all y’all tried to burn a man to death.

“Because I love you,” is a bad answer.

How about because both you and my family lied to me and I didn’t know who to trust, so I trusted them because they’re my family and I’ve only known you for three months. But Kate showed that my trust in her was misplaced, and you showed that my trust in you wasn’t, and I’m sorry I almost got you killed.

Oh. Hey, Peter wasn’t all the way dead. We were all just letting him suffer and possibly heal up then? That’s a choice, I guess.

Now, big question time. Is Derek going to let Scott try to kill Peter to see if it will actually reverse the change or is he going to take his revenge for Peter killing Laura and screw Scott over forever?  Hmmm, based on almost all of Derek’s previous behavior, I’m stumped.

I wonder if the Argent’s knew about that possible cure. I wonder if a hunter getting turned and killing their Alpha is how they found out that it was a possibility in the first place. Or maybe a hunter started it as a rumor to try to get betas to kill their Alphas.

This just in, Derek Hale remains a garbage fire of a human being. This is my shocked face.

The Sheriff just out here touching evidence with his bare hands.

I love how in the episode where they specifically say that you either turn or die from the bite that immediately gets disproven. Hey, quick question: does anyone actually know anything about werewolves? Maybe that’s why we’re not getting any details. None of the writers fucking know anything either.

Ugh, Jackson’s back again. If Derek turns him, he’ll be the stupidest goddamn man alive. Which means he’s going to.

Any bets that Jackson being turned will somehow make him more scared than less?

Aaaand we’ve got more hunters coming. Is it like a tribunal because the Argent’s fucked up? Is it the person pulling Kate’s strings, who knows!

Okay, so, here’s the thing. The story structure is killing me here. Too much is happening after the climax. We didn’t need the Sheriff finding Kate, that should’ve been cut. It gave us no knew information and that storyline was wrapped up again with the newspaper article like 30 seconds later.

We didn’t actually need to find out about Lydia not being a werewolf and possibly being something else. There was already a cliffhanger about her, we didn’t need to resolve that cliffhanger only to immediately have a new one but with less tension.

This should have ended with just the Jackson & Derek scene to theoretically wrap up that storyline, and the Argent scene - which gave us new information - transitioning to Scott and Allison cuddling under the moon - which is the resolution.

Season One Thoughts

This is a story about not becoming a monster. Kate was monstrous because she was ‘just following orders.’ Peter and Derek and even Jackson to an extent were monstrous because they let their pain selfishly consume them and then took it out on everyone else. Chris is perhaps the least monstrous because while he clearly refused to see what was in front of him for years, when there was nothing else to see but the truth, he did step up. Scott is, of course, the monster who refused to be monstrous.

I think Scott is a refreshing character. He’s a lead of color in a teen show, which is incredibly rare. He’s a teenager who does dumb teenager things and makes mistakes, but tries so hard to do the right thing. He’s stubborn and kind, and those are shown as both strengths and weaknesses, which I like. He clearly takes after his mother a whole bunch, and they have a sweet relationship.

I thought Allison and Stiles were good, complex characters, but there were certainly some iffy fucking characterizations choices for Stiles at the beginning of the season and some iffy fucking mischaracterizations with Allison at the end.

And finally, with my whole chest, DEATON IS MY FAVORITE. I want to know literally everything about him and I hope so very much that he gets a chance to be the mentor that Scott deserves.

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Star Trek 1x28 - "Errand of Mercy" Review

We watch corporealized non-corporeal beings smile condescendingly at two galactic powers slap fighting in the playground, maman. It's a sight to behold -- Plus, we meet the Klingons for the very first time! Strap in and go with us on this Errand of Mercy...

Episode Reviewed: Star Trek 1x28 - "Errand of Mercy"

Hosts: David C. Roberson Effie Ophelders

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[fanfic-and-fandom-blog]

Toralei trying to use a "human filter" on her video call to Clawdeen had the same vibe as the kid using a "change eye color" filter to try to convince people they got colored contacts.

Toralei tried too hard and ends up making a fool of herself....once again.

Not gonna lie, I laughed

Also Lagoona needs to chill with the telenovela daydreams lol...

[chidoroki]

Tokyo Revengers S3EP13

aka: TRUCK-KUN DELIVERING KARMA

Oh!Tthey’re fighting where Akkun’s car crashed into Hina’s in the future!

Takemichi knocking Kisaki down to the ground not once but twice!

I get the sneaking suspicion that Kisaki gets the idea to kill Hina here in the future because Takemichi just told him it happens, like if he had said nothing then maybe that could’ve changed?

What was that? He touched Kisaki and what? Had a "dimensional scream" kind of vision?

Hold on, did Kisaki try to propose to her? And he goes insane because he got rejected?

Oh shit.. well then, good for her for turning him down! He’s a bastard anyways.

Of course the idiot still had the gun on him..

So, he was so driven to become number one hoodlum in Japan because that’s what a younger Takemichi wanted to be? All for some sort of payback for “stealing” Hina from him? God he’s desperate.

Bitch you’d go through all that trouble just to marry Hina? Even if he succeeded, there’s no guarantee that she’ll accept. Hell, she already rejected Kisaki once in one timeline.

“I love her so much, so why won’t she pay me any attention?” Maybe because you’re batshit insane??

Yooo Takemichi kicking the gun outta his hand with his busted foot! AND SNATCHING IT BACK WHEN IT LANDS THANK GOD.

Okay, well Takemichi certainly doesn’t seem the type to shoot someone and there’s no way he’d do so if Hina’s here now too.

Look at our boy sprinting after the fool despite the hole in his foot!

“‘Return to the future?’ Do you think I’m a time traveler?” I had a feeling he wasn’t!! But then how was he able to plan stuff out like that? I know he just told us his three plans but is he really that clever?

EXCUSE ME????? No way Kisaki just got ran over by a damn fucking truck??

The way that bitch landed in the ground, I’m dying! AHAA!

UM NO?? How in the hell can you be alive after that???

Bro his damn arm and leg are like twisted all the way around holy shit.

Yo they can play these flashbacks all they want but I won’t feel remorse for this idiot, I’m sorry.

Aw, Mikey shielding Hina’s eyes from the scene. He’s such a good boy. For now.. I'm aware he too goes a little crazy eventually, for reasons I dunno exactly.

Damn all that happened and I totally forgot about the Draken vs Hanma fight but I guess we just skip over it anyway. Shame, though Hanma does look good with his hair down like that.

“It ended with the gruesome result of five arrests and three deaths.” Goddamn. That definitely makes up for last season.

“The three dead were Emma Sano, Izana Kurokawa, and Tetta Kisaki.” DOES THAT MEAN KAKUCHO IS ALIVE???

You know, I was all excited to see Sanzu this season but he barely did a thing.

SWEET LORD KAKUCHO IS ALIVE!

But that’s where we’re ending it? No jump back to the future to see how screwed up the future is due to these deaths or anything? I guess that's okay? At least I don't need to see Chifuyu get headshot again like the last two seasons.. but it does feel like a weaker ending just a little bit. Was kinda hoping to get a sneak peak of next season's characters like we did with Izana for this season, specifically Senju. I want to see that chick so darn badly. Very excited for her! But overall a real good season. The build up to the big fight was stressful in the best way, the actual fight was crazy and Takemichi was at his best through it all too.

[scurvyratt]

Oz S1 E8: A Game of Checkers Live Reaction and Thoughts. As always my thoughts are not very profound lol

OKAYYYY this is the riot episode lets gooo

You know what's interesting is that in most media they use chess as a metaphor for life/whatever, but in Oz they use checkers instead. And checkers is kinda like the dumb mans chess (easier, less moves) so lol

Schillinger getting bullied by the other prisoners and his own sons lmaooo okayyy

"you lose an eye, you get kicked in the balls, you get a face full of shit,,, you become a different man" 😭

The birth of crazy Beecher

McManus would not survive one day in Em city like let's be real...

All I see when I look at Whittlesey is Carmela Soprano who is very mother to me. Like I kindaaaa dgaf about her

McManus is saurrr annoying I hate his bald incel ass😭

Rebadow backstory UNLOCKED... the way he stabbed someone then went to back to reading his newspaper lol he's so real

Some Miguel x Father Mukada realness... like what if they hid in the pod during the riot and kissed heh heh...

and the riot has started! All the Co's are in their flop era😭😭

I bet this episode was fun to film lol

Interesting how none of the muslims have their kufis on

Glynn is wearing an ugly ass vest I never noticed this before lol

Miguel asking to watch over the hostages----Re: MiguelXMukada

The way Idgaf about that cello player dude

Tobias spinning around in the background and doing fuck all while everyone is trying to organize the riot lmao

Mukada's haircut is uggo...

Said is power drunk omggg someone punch him or something

The way Adebisi doesn't hide his infatuation with Ryan😭like can you stop being a perv for one second omfg

Scott Ross fighting Kenny is so ijbol. Like why are you beefing with a little boy plz be serious

Does anyone else think that Miguel has a weird accent lol. I can't explain it exactly but I think he purposefully exaggerates it

The riot def establishes who (for the remainder of the series (or for as long as the character lasts)) has morals and who does not

Scott Ross is like weirdly taller than everyone lmao I notice it in every scene he's in

McManus hallucinating every inmate that has died under his watch... like girl just WAIT😭😭 there's gonna be a lot more where that came from... and you will NOT give af😭

Can I admit that McamnusXSaid is kinda my Oz crackship😭Like there's something there I think idk. But also their beef as a couple would be INSANEEEE

How are some of the dudes watching tv... I swear they smashed it when the riot started lol

NARRRR Adebisi took his little hat off. Put it back on neowwwww

Said is literally so funny when he shouts like what his problem actually. He needs a xanax I think

Adebisi backstory UNLOCKED

the National Guard is coming... the riot is about to end

Schillinger hiding in his pod when the National Guard started smoking the place💀

Okay episode over. Makes sense why they used checkers instead of chess now. Bcuz that riot was the messiest and dumbest thing that I've ever seen. Also the inmates had very limited options/moves (like in checkers!).

[mushstump]

Here all my thoughts while watching Ahsoka EP 7

- that senator is kinda sus but it may be me being salty

- FINALLY some mention about Mandalore, know it's Sabine's turn to say something about it

- Hera is my queen. And yes the Senate should be worried about Thrawn, at least Gideon is already out of game

- Anakin 🥰🥰😭 I will always have a soft spot for his story

- Ahsoka can stab me- I mean...uh...good technic...

- so...the purgill Ahsoka and Hyudan came will die? ;-;

- oh no it is worse it's a mine field. My poor whales ;-:

- Ahsoka you're really unlucky, it must be a thing from your lineage

- "her master was general Anakin Skywalker?"

"yes"

His face FHSJSJSKSHWJ

- Ezra and Bine talking and I can *feel* Sabine's anxiety bc I'm having too

- They kept his scar nice

- Sabine say something please. NOT THIS YOU'RE AVOIDING THE QUESTION

- "that's complicated?" Ezra is starting to see that something is not right

- oh hi cockroaches- I mean - siths (I think)

- the nightsisters are creepy I don't like then

- nicee Ahsoka and Sabine bond!

- I dont think Shin will kill them 👀

- Baylan, I like baylan. But what is he planning? I hope it is blowing up the spaceship

- where's the Wolfie? ;-;

- "she is like you but with less sense of humor"

"lightsaber?"

"yeah"

"great"

- where's the Wolfie yeey

- oh nice baylan and Ahsoka will fight?

- can they stop arguing? No they can't

- Ezra is in his kung fu era

- stormtroopers being useless as always

- Ahsoka offering to help shin, nice. Ofc she ran but it's ok it's a start

- Ahsoka smiled to Sabine and I'm okay now

- Sabine I can still see your guilt

- I hope we see the reunion Hera and Ezra and the meeting Ezra and Jacen at the next episode

Final thoughts: I think thrawn will get away bc it's only one(?) episode left. I already need next season. And I can't believe that we still don't have any mention of Mandalore coming out of Sabine's mouth.

My prediction to the next season? The ghost crew trying to keep Sabine away from prison

[vvitchering]

OKAY second viewing of the Mando S3 premier, this time with live reactions lets goooooo

the little "last time on the mandalorian" when we hear the armorer tell Din he isn't a mandalorian anymore she sounds so insufferable. I dislike her and I have since book of boba.

do you think baby mandos get to pick the colors of their helmets or they just get assigned these awful primary colors and have to live with that

why did they decide to have their very important mando baptism ceremony in a body of water infested with gator turtles????? Did no one check this out before hand???? They seem a little hard to miss

can you believe din literally fell out of the sky and saved all of their asses and they still treat him like shit lmaooooooo

din I am begging you to move on, you have so many friends who love you, you don't need these stupid asshats

he's sleeping sitting up in that tiny ass ship. Din. Please go get a real ship.

Grogu likes his little bubble though hahaha

the statue of IG fdsjfdklsfjdkls emotions

Karga wanted to give him a HOME ughhhh din please settle down i am begging

"all the more reason to stay with us" YEAH THATS WHAT IM SAYING

din leaning against the tree and looking menacing is what god put him on this earth to do

I like that Karga is ready to defend his own city

somehow.......cara dune died......

I must have THIS SPECIFIC DROID. THE ONLY ONE I LIKE.

hot potato baby!!

din sitting crisscross apple sauce in that little room ffhdsjfk how'd he get in there

din teaching grougu how to fly before he can talk. mmmmmaybe not the best idea but he got the spirit

why are his boots so loud on the castle floor???

why was she just hanging out in an empty castle lounging/sulking fdsjfhdk god i also dislike her so much GET A JOB BO

this episode felt so short, I really hope we get longer ones ):

I STILL LIKE IT. Still super hype about IG-11 potentially coming back as a supporting character! He was one of my favorite minor characters in the first season and I was really upset when he died. Totally an out of the blue decision to bring him back but I'm on board. Can't wait til next week!!!

[tonysoffandom]

Rewatching after my epic crying jag

How is it that Crowley has been hanging around the bookshop getting drunk with Aziraphale since opening day and any of the neighboring shop keepers don't just register him as part and parcel of said odd business?

[thoughtful-dragon]

Ted Lasso 3x11 reaction

Things I LOVED in 3x11:

Pretty much everything about the way Roy, Keeley and Jamie interacted; the way they worried about him and tried to be there for him and it just felt so solid and real, and like I could see how they would all function in a relationship together. Truly a gift

Roy in general was delightful. This has saved his arc for me. Still a bit tell not show, but he’s clearly now at a place where he has accepted he deserves good things and those good things are Keeley and Jamie (in whatever way you would like to read that)

The comedy between these three was fantastic as well

GEORGIE TARTT! I love her, I love her and Jamie’s relationship. I will not have any criticisms and will defend her and Jamie’s right to cuddle each other to the death.

Pep!! He was there! He hugged Jamie! This is all I care about! (They also had him say that he doesn’t care about the wins and losses! That’s ridiculous! I don’t even follow football and I know that it is ridiculous to have PEP GUARDIOLA say this!)

Things I am neutral/unsure about

I am sorry. I am a bit bored of Ted this season. I think he was one of the characters I was most invested in following season 2, but now… IDK. I thought the confrontation with his mother was well done, and I liked the ending but… I don’t know whether it felt as impactful as it could have

Nate coming back to Richmond, especially how it came about, was weird. No, it doesn’t make sense that the players are asking for him back, no, it doesn’t make sense that they would have any say in it. Also, I think I support Nate maybe figuring out what he wants to do without being pushed once again into football coaching. Maybe he would have been able to do that if people had let him keep being a waiter

Beard’s forgiveness of Nate – I LOVED the Les Mis story, don’t get me wrong and Brendan Hunt can really bring it on his delivery of these longer emotional speeches. But I don’t actually think it felt… right. Like, we know that Nate feels sorry for the press leak. WE know that Nate has written a 60 page apology, but Beard doesn’t, really. It’s never been properly addressed. And I kind of think that the writers want us to focus on Nate ripping the sign and shouting at Ted rather than the actual awful thing that he did. I just can’t quite see why Beard would forgive Nate (outside of radical forgiveness, which is… yeah, I don’t like it) without at least an acknowledgement of that. I also… don’t think he should have to. Or, he should let go of his anger, but that doesn’t have to lead to Nate working with him again.

Things I HATED:

Number one is obviously the radical forgiveness of James Tartt (I have already posted at length about this here and it makes me very angry so let’s leave it there)

Yeah. Boot room scene. Sorry. Bits were great. The implied intimacy. Roy. But the extent to which it was played to the audience for laughs was… awful and really uncomfortable. They do not do this with any other character’s trauma/emotional responses. It’s not OK.

The whole Man City game sequence didn’t quite work me. So: Jamie’s being booed by the Man City fans, which is… OK – but they have played them twice since he’s left and we have not seen this level of personal vitriol towards him. When I saw the trailer for this moment, I definitely thought he was getting some kind of negative press attention. So I don’t quite get this. Like, I know they’re at home and there would be more of them but…

The Man City players repeatedly fouling Jamie – putting aside the fact that none of these were caught by referees, in the game at Wembley there is a shot of one of the City players hugging Jamie and a general sense that, actually, he was quite well-liked. Now, this is football. Maybe they’re all different players now. But surely they’re not trying to say that Pep would create this kind of environment where the players would target a former player who was getting targeted by fans? I thought it would have been really nice to see support from the City players but not necessarily from the fans. Because I do think that City was a positive environment for Jamie, which they kind of try to imply with the scene with Pep, but have dramatically undercut it here

Did Ted Lasso emotionally manipulate a player into playing through an injury? Yes. Yes he did. It’s shit like this that makes me hate sports culture. When it happened, I briefly thought they were maybe going to address the fact that Jamie is used to hiding pain, stemming back to trauma and have him insist on playing through, but. No. I don’t think they realise the fucking irony here of insisting that Ted doesn’t care about the wins and losses, and yet putting the safety of a player below that. Arguably, it's not about the win, it's about… something else. But it is not prioritising helping Jamie so why should I give a shit?

Also, it’s only after that that the City fans turn around. Which. Is so fucking. So. Yes. There are obviously lots of different city fans there, but we focus in on a group who are being truly fucking horrible and then… Jamie… wins their approval by playing injured? Seriously, what the actual fuck? I didn’t buy this, but even if I did, this isn’t something we should be aiming for! Why should Jamie win these people’s approval through endangering himself? I hate it so much! And then they dare to show his dad’s friends saying his dad would have been proud to which my audible reaction was: I don’t care (briefly followed by: is he dead? But those hopes were dashed). That’s the whole point! Jamie doesn’t care. He shouldn’t care! Caring about his dad’s opinions was deeply damaging for him!

In conclusion, I will be focusing on the bits I loved and rewriting/fixing the others through fanfic. Just needed to get this out here because it has been driving me insane.

[sidecharactersdomatter]

Thoughts I had during TGCF S1 Ep 2

-Previously on TGCF… (Classic ATLA reference, and my whole experience summarized in this fandom is, “It really is for the fans who grew up watching and loving The Last Airbender”)

-More Butterflies!

-Aiaigasa!

-So much blood…

-“As if he’s walked a million miles…” (that subtle foreshadowing)

-Honey, He looks a little too good looking to be the Ghost groom

-The Rain stopped

-He’s removing the veil

-That was also foreshadowing wasn’t it (I’ve heard spoilers, and the final 8th book just came out sry)

-Ugh it’s an ugly mob, and it’s headed by the same bald jerk

-You’ll find out near the end of the season XL(I’ve already watched all of S1) 

-Ooh it ties in with Ep 1

-That temple looks abandoned, and the animation camera for walking inside

-The brides are all dead

-There’s that song again

-Another different walking perspective

-Woah black smoke

-There’s the ugly mob

-The fact that he though XL was a woman…

-The blinking I can’t XD

-Hi Nan Feng and Fu Yao :D

-Hehe Xie Lian’s aggressive kindness

-Thank You Nan Feng

-I wish the Ghost Groom was the bald mercenary

-Hey Xiao Ying

-When the mob scooched away from Bride!Lian I freaking lost it XDXDXDXD

-And Xie Lian’s face XD

-Also I called it she fixed his dress and makeup Yes!

-And Nan Feng and Fu Yao inch away instead of defending him!  

W H E E Z E! XD

-The fact they both agreed to not explain anything XD!

-That’s just disrespectful

-Great more bride zombies

-That’s gonna end up bad

-It really is disrespectful

-Thank you whoever just threw the rock

-More camera shaking

-And of course you’re leaving her with the deceased brides SMH all of you

-Is he Naruto running right now?

-I really don’t believe that whole “Nothing ventured nothing gained” phrase in this age

-How do you like that?  Instant trauma

-It really is for an older audience

-Now NF and FY got concerned

-And hurting the injured is a real low for the mob

-Pengtou you asshole

-Thank you Xie Lian or should I say, Xie Xie Xie Lian, (Yeah I’m gonna go see myself out now)  Bad Pun count: 1

-That’s nice Nan Feng

-They have enraged the ghost groom

-Xiao Ying is a real friend

-That explains the Nan Yang temple

-I love you Nan Feng

-KO!  Flawless victory!

-So the Ghost groom is a ghost bride

-No veils

-And I thought Pengtou was the ghost groom

-Zombie brides!

-Aw great it’s a cliffhanger

-Ooooh a new ending!

[ameliapodcast]

INTERN!!!!!

Cowboys!!!!!!!

Don't YOU LOVE SOME GOOD COWBOYS!!!!!

And the new Kozlowski name just dropped!!!

Tho Jack doesn't really suits him so well

Anyway, also loved that they worried a bit about each was super cute!!!

And Arthur is damn stupid, oh this man. Dunno how a man can live so much without learning at least the little bit about SENSE.

I'm certainly interested in the next Arthur Archives. That shall be fun.

Again: I love the interactions between Kozlowski and Arthur and I'm hoping we will be seeing more of it.

Uh who am I trying to trick I want these men to kiss tenderly under moonlight. They kissed. They married. They fuck. Anyway.

I'm a bit tipsy so I hope I'm making sense here.

Just loved the episode

<3 <3 <3

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Teen Wolf 1x03

Scott, baby child. There is no allure to a school bus.

Oh well this is definitely a nightmare. Choice of school bus is fair then.

It’s a little weird that we didn’t get to see Scott waking up panicked and not breathing, and instead are getting told about it when he’s already calmed down.

Now that I think about it, we haven’t spent a lot of time alone with Scott while he’s going through the trauma of shifting without wanting it. We really only had that one quick scene in the shower before he got cut off with him being concerned with someone else. Like, historically werewolf transformation scenes in cinema usually last for several minutes, but I went back and looked, and the scene we got with Scott in the shower was 21 seconds. Is that weird to anyone else?

Like, I’m not looking for trauma porn, but we spend more time with Scott trying to calmly work the problem or him panicking in the moment, and rarely get that visceral hit of, ‘there’s this thing happening to my body that I can’t control or stop.’ Which, I guess maybe comes from the fact that he is asthmatic and maybe used to that feeling? I wish that could have been explored a bit more.

But I guess, I’m also feeling like there’s a missed opportunity to explore the whole, this thing was doneto me past tense, but because of the trauma it is also continuing to happen to me and I can’t stop it. Like, he gets triggered and has both a physical and emotional response, but it’s not a flashback to his initial traumatic event, it’s actively happening again.

It’s being presented as a weird combination of traumatic violent attack and a sudden onset of chronic illness, but it’s not being explored that way at all. It’s being explored as a procedural. So weird.

Oh no, Scott! I agree with Stiles on this! Derek violently attacked you multiple times and threatened to kill you! Like, I get he’s the only other werewolf you know of but he’s a creepy, violent, shitbag whose behavior should not be modeled in any way!

Well I get the concern, but Fuckface still doesn’t seem to give a shit about violence, only about getting caught so I’m still not sure he’s going to be in any way helpful, and he’s more likely to be detrimental to your life.

Panicked boy hits a locker, feels ashamed about it and literally no one notices. Just your average day in high school, I guess.

Allison ruffling Scott’s hair was cute. 

Ahahaha! It’s Jackson’s locker! No wonder no one gave a shit.

Scott’s face!

This is the second time we’ve gotten an exchange where Stiles says something and Scott asks a clarifying question that Stiles think is stupid so he sarcastically snipes back at him.

And, like, I maybe I’m misremembering, but Scott doesn’t do that with anyone else, so it just makes it seem like the writer’s are specifically putting that in so Stiles can have the snappy rejoinder. Which…is a choice to make your lead character ask a dumb question just because you want to write snarky dialogue. I get it, it’s fun, but it’s not great writing.

I’m going to have to watch out for the writers using Stiles as a proxy. It also puts a spin on how much of an asshole he was in the first episode.

Quick question: where did the third friend from the first episode go? She was cute.

We’re, what, fifteen minutes later before they found the victim? That’s just bad work by their emergency services department.

I mean, Scott has a point. The first time he went after someone was Stiles in the locker room and he didn’t remember any of it. He’s also definitely sleepwalked before, so it stands to reason that he’d be freaked about this. Still think Fuckface is a bad call.

Last episode Scott tries multiple times to not play and gets (gently or not so gently) bullied into it by multiple people. This episode he tries to cancel with Allison and in the reverse of episode one, Stiles tries to convince him otherwise.

Back when he lived with his dad? That makes it sound like for a while he was living with just his dad. I wonder if there was some sort of custody battle and he went from living with dad to living with mom.

Why do any of these people hang around Jackson? He seems so tiresome.

Also, Scott, there’s a fine line between being proactive and shooting yourself in the foot. Stop shooting yourself in the foot!

Lol, Stiles asking Scott if he’s attractive to gay guys and the Coach in the last episode asking if it was boy problems implies that Scott is bi. I wonder if they’re actually going to do something with that. 

Also, which one’s Danny, they keep mentioning him. Hold on, let me look him up.

Oh, yeah. He’s cute. Also seems much older than the others.

I know he’s in a hurry, but he didn’t even lock his bike up!

Aww, I like the Vet.

The way that the Sheriff stepped into the doorway was 1000% Linden Ashby channeling Johnny Cage from Mortal Combat.

Lol, Scott trying to bribe his mom with dinner. Though why can’t he borrow Stiles’ Jeep?

While I understand why they had one parent work at the hospital and the other at the police department, it does lend itself to making it seem more like a procedural.

Bad security at this hospital. This is the second time Scott’s been in places he shouldn’t be.

Well that doesn’t bode well, but the guy freaked out at nothing before as well so I can’t read too much into it. Are we voting Fuckface as the attacker or our mysterious third werewolf? Arguments could be made for both.

Wait, hold up. Why his eyes blue? Is it just because his normal eyes are blue and Scott’s are normally brown or is it something else?

Poor puppy. Gotta be a cop dog and also have to deal with Fuckface? Bad life all around.

Uh, wait, no. You didn’t do shit to him, Scott. HE announced YOU to the hunters. HE was violent and skeevy and threatening to YOU, which was why you got him arrested. Like, I understand soft selling because you want his help, but please do not be believing the words you are saying.

Aaaand, I still hate this guy who continues to give no help and actively make Scott’s life worse. Let’s flashback to Kafka again with the whole being treated as monstrous leading someone to become a monster. Like, is that what Fuckface is trying for here? The total corruption of Scott?

DO NOT TRUST HIM. TERRIBLE IDEA. FUCKFACE IS BAD NEWS.

I understand Scott feels trapped between a rock and a hard place, but like, he doesn’t even know if he actually did anything yet. The not knowing is scary, but I feel like you can wait to find the answer. Put a camera in your room while you sleep to make sure you don’t go anywhere. There are options! 

Yeah, I don’t buy that. Obviously Scott wants to know if he’ll hurt Allison, but Fuckface is either blind, stupid or trying to manipulate Scott by saying he doesn’t care about that guy. Scott’s so clearly incredibly compassionate, we’ve both seen it multiple times and heard it from other characters. Don’t let Fuckface manipulate you into being someone you’re not.

Also, walk the scene of the crime is something he could have thought of himself and Fuckface is useless. And, like, not even a villain anymore. At least when he was attacking Scott he was proactive, but ever since he was arrested he’s been very reactive and I don’t like the change.

“Why am I always the guy keeping watch?” Says the guy who’s never been shown as the guy keeping watch.

Okay, the “oh my god,” line reading was pretty funny, but, like, your buddy thinks he murdered someone, maybe now isn’t the time to trivialize things.

Yes, please get your fingerprints all over everything.

Ah, the one time we had someone keeping watch is the one time we needed it. Convenient.

Oh, well, okay, your blood is already all over everything so I guess prints don’t matter.

So we’re thinking mysterious third werewolf, right? And Fuckface is looking for him and for some reason needs Scott’s help to find him?

Theory: Mysterious werewolf killed Laura, turned Scott and now Fuckface wants revenge and is using Scott to find him or lure him or something.

Wow, if that’s the case Fuckface is stupid as fuck. Like seriously, seriously dumb. It would have been so goddamn easy to earn Scott’s trust and get on his good side AND you could have been helping him while he was helping you, but instead you chose to be creepy and violent and manipulative and murderous. To a kid.

Ugh, okay, focus. Scott is not a murderer, and everyone’s happy.

Okay, look. At least half the time Scott is fucking with Stiles when he goes completely deadpan, right? Because his face sometimes twitches like he’s trying not to laugh at how affronted Stiles is, and it tickles me.

Lol at Lydia being all flirty with the dad. Points to the dad for not reacting at all. We need more of that in teen shows. I mean, we still don’t like the dad for shoot first ask questions later, but he gets points for that.

Oooh, Allison has moves. I love that for her. The fact that the hat stayed on kills me though.

Why would the bowling alley let them in if there was a curfew? Not very responsible.

Ugh, I hate Jackson. You’d think if he was sooooo competitive about bowling he’d not be hanging on Lydia like that.

I appreciate Allison standing up for Scott.

Oh boy, two people I don’t like or care about facing off against each other. Whosoever shall I root for?

It’s always a little bit funny to see someone doing something ordinary, but trying to be menacing about it.

So, we’ve established that Argent knows about Fuckface and his family, but we still don’t know exactly what pulled Argent to Beacon Hills. You have to wonder if Argent knows what happened with the fire (was involved with the fire?) that killed the rest of the Hales. If they were all like Fuckface I can only imagine that they had a lot of enemies though.

The gas station attendant watching this whole confrontation from inside with chips in one hand and a phone in the other with 911 already dialed.

Why is Lydia like this? I mean I don’t care about Jackson’s feelings, but doing this right in front of Allison is extraordinarily bad behavior. Scott and Allison should just leave, honestly.

Lol at Scott being like, yeah, no, I’m good here.

She sucks for his benefit, but also can’t stop antagonizing him. Ugly, toxic relationship. Is this just to contrast to how sweet Allison and Scott are in comparison or are we going to eventually see some depth in these other characters? Because I’m already at the point where I don’t even see why Allison is friends with them.

Scott has like five antagonists in this show. This kid needs a break.

Okay, so mysterious werewolf is another Hale, right? Except, hold up. Why would another Hale kill Laura? And why would they not contact Fuckface? I mean, I know I wouldn’t want to deal with him, but still.

This only contributes to my theory that all the Hales are terrible.

Yeah, sure, kill the dude. That tracks as a Hale thing to do.

I think it’s adorable that he said ‘hang out again’. Like, he was so despairing at the beginning because that was a friend phrase and not a romantic one, but he’s willing to meet her where she’s at, and she’s the one who says date and asks it to be just the two of them.

Doesn’t she have to sneak back in again because of curfew?

“Do either of you even play baseball?!” Funny, but bro, you gotta stop breaking into their house. This kid lacks all the personal boundaries and that would drive me insane.

Fuckface once again being the worst. I just can’t get over how violent he’s being to a kid. Like he’s a kid, and he hasn’t done anything wrong!

Fuckface deserved that, but kick him in the balls next time too.

I would like to remind everyone that this is an adult man fighting with a child because a) he’s a murderous villain or b) he can’t use his words so is choosing violence against a child.

So it’s option B and Fuckface is not only criminally violent but also the stupidest person alive. Got it.

Derek, this literally could have been a conversation over a cup of coffee, but you made this into three weeks of hell for this kid for no fucking reason.

Oh. Great. Alphas and betas. Yeah, this is totally not going to go to a stupid, fake, wolf pack hierarchy place.

On a brief production note, I’ve hated the way they’ve done the majority of these flashbacks.

Scott, the enemy of the enemy is not your friend. Don’t forget he’s a fuckface and cannot be trusted.

[heimeldat]

Guess who finally started listening to Gallifrey! Just 1.1 so far, but I’m hooked and you’re going to get inundated with my reactions.

My Leela! I didn’t know how much I missed her. And Romana being badass in her own calm way of course, but I’ve encountered her in other Big Finish stuff, so my reaction to her wasn’t as dramatic. I love horrible Time Lord politics and spy thrillers, so the plot is off to a good start. Brax seems like a decent enough guy (as far as Time Lords go, anyway), but he needs to chill out and let Romana be president. Overruling her decisions isn’t cool, man. Narvin needs a punch in the face. I hope Leela delivers.

[luv-eddiediaz]

This may not make a lot of sense at the moment, because if I stop to gather my thoughts, I will lose my thoughts. And I don’t usually do this, but my 911 friend doesn’t believe in Buddie, and normally, I’m totally cool just reading everyone else’s takes and keeping to myself, but something about this episode is sticking with me and I just can’t. 

First, Buck’s recovery being the secondary story line makes absolute sense - I don’t know if I expected it to be so equally shown, and I damn sure didn’t expect there to be so much Eddie (or at least to have the impact he did), because, like there didn’t need to be? Obviously, Eddie would show up to check on his friend, but he could have easily been one of the scheduled faces behind the door (which, every time that door opened, I was expecting him), but no, he never knocked. Instead, our boy full on ran away to Eddie’s house when he was overwhelmed from all the company that wouldn’t leave him alone and then fell asleep on his couch in half a second, because he couldn’t fall asleep on his own (I blame the pretty pillows - they looked scratchy). 

So, then Buck asks about being shot, and holy shit, I was not expecting that either. And I know, I know, we all held our breath waiting for him to take a line from all of our fan fictions and say I remember seeing you. But he didn’t, and I think I know why: If 911 is going to do the Buddie thing, they’ve made it pretty clear they will not do it until both of these men are healed and in perfect condition for one another, and so, our newly therapized and slightly wiser Eddie would realize that Buck looking a little like the mess that is so obviously inside his brain while sitting lost at his kitchen table is not the right time to make an admission about that. It’s not the time for Eddie to hint at his feelings lest he give Buck more to worry about. 

And can I just rant here for a minute? Because, like I wish sometimes the writers would let Eddie take off the white gloves he’s always handling Buck with and just drop the damn hints and then when he’s thoroughly adorable and confused, grab him by those broad shoulders and kiss him. I get that in order to be in a healthy relationship, we ourselves have to be healthy, but come on! If they’re going to keep collecting traumas like baseball cards, they’re never really going to achieve true, perfect health.

Anyway, for the first time, maybe ever, I felt pretty good about the Buddie of it all. I can’t put my finger on it exactly, maybe it was just because the scenes we got took me by surprise in a way the many others we’ve seen of them haven’t.