#episodes 1 and 2 so far

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

The 1995 radio drama with John Duttine, Amanda Root and Emily Watson!

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[thisnerdetteoverthere-blog]

Ongoing List of very tiny details in the pjo show that are ridiculously book-accurate:

The WORD BY WORD narration if the first page

Grover being a vegetarian (as shown in tge scene at the met where Percy wordlessly takes Grovers ham from his sandwich)

The turquoise uniform of the candy shop sally works in that’s hung up on a shelf in the background of the scene between sally & percy in their flat for like 2 seconds

The Chevrolet Cameron Gabe drives

Grover being 24

The minotaur wearing panties

„you drool when you sleep“

Mr. Ds Tiger-Print Shirt

The diet coke in his hand

The satyrs on the strawberry fields

Riptide being a pen with a cap

The fact that percy sleeps on a mat & and a sleeping bag in the floor of the hermes cabin when he first arrives

The number of pearls on luke & annabeths necklaces

Clarisses Cargo Pants & combat boots

Annabeth fixing Percys Armor

[kat-rose-griffith]

[cirrus-grey]

TMAGP 1: Darla

TMAGP 2: Daria

TMAGP 7: Dianne

TMAGP 13: Darrien

I know this is nothing but it feels like Something

(Even if the something is just Jonny and Alex poking fun at us for all the Michael/Mike/Mikaele jokes)

[iristial]

The childlike penmanship and utter abundance of hiragana and katakana that has its own implications aside, I was going to talk about how sweet and sad it was that the only kanji Shouma knows is "mother" (母). But then someone told me he also knows the kanji for "help [me]" (助)...that certainly adds to the context of Shouma's memories of his mother mainly being shrouded in fear

[frownyalfred]

curious as to if you’ve seen Titans (the live action TV show)? Really terrible show, but GREAT jason

who can forget the iconic "fuck Batman!" line? not me. I think about it all the time. I can't tell if I love or hate it.

[silver-colour]

OK so far the not-statements haven't scared me at all, despite the fact that the stories are well-written and compelling, and the ideas are objectively spooky

My theory for this:

We aren't hearing the victims, the people who suffered from The Spooks, the way we were in tma. We're hearing the things that might by tma-rules become Avatars for their Fear- and though the stories are spooky, its completely different to hear the artist, or the violinist, or the tree man or the needle guy commit the Spooks, willingly or otherwise, than it is to have the Spooks be told to you from the person who suffered from it

[favvn]

It is weird to me that And The Children Shall Lead is considered such a bad episode when, you know, The Omega Glory (dig into the details and it falls so flat despite its intentions, assuming the premise doesn't send the viewer away with its lack of subtlety) or The Paradise Syndrome (I believe I heard 3 seperate groups of Native Americans--Navajo, Mohican, and Delaware--each which had their original lands in very distant regions from each other as the inspiration for the inhabitants of the planet from the episode dialogue itself) exist as episodes. Hell, The Alternative Factor continues to be the snoozefest episode. When a show fails to even entertain regardless of the story's premise.... something bad has happened in production, be it in the writer's room or on the set or in post-production.

The only other kernel of info I can find regarding Nimoy's opinion is an unsourced claim that it was an inferior rehash of Miri, which, no offense Nimoy..... is it, is it really? Miri featured an inadvertantly manufactured disease that was slowly killing the children and immediately killing the adults. It wasn't a "being from another place comes to lure the innocent minds of children into being their willing pawns like the Pied Piper" set up. Both feature the token Creepy Children and adults dying after violent outbursts, but that's where the similarities end.

It is creepy to consider the idea of children being led by someone without any care for their welfare at heart. The Pied Piper is a fixture of storytelling for a reason because it taps into that fear of children being taken from their parents (be it physically or mentally and emotionally) and being so brainwashed they care for nothing around them, not even their dead parents. (That was such a good opening! It could have had tighter pacing for better impact but it still did its intended job to show the dissonance.)

It is shocking to see Kirk slowly lose command of the crew and the Enterprise herself, and to see him reduced to acting like a child as a result:

Say what you will about Shatner's over-acting, but it worked for this episode because anxiety isn't logical and it isn't a sign of maturity to give into it, especially for someone in Kirk's position. Shatner plays the scene as if Kirk is a frightened child, making himself smaller, folding inwards as if he cannot clearly be seen by everyone. His breakdown on the Bridge to the turbolift is the complete breaking and reversal of everything a captain is supposed to be. (Guards, put that man into a situation!) Kirk is no longer calm and capable of thinking carefully about his options. He lunges at Spock because what is Kirk's greatest fear if not the loss of command and being replaced by someone he feels can do his job better? (This has been seen in The Galileo Seven, Mirror Mirror, The Deadly Years, The Ultimate Computer, etc.)

Yes, a lot of the episode shows it wasn't fully developed--the sudden use of "the Gorgan" to name the "Friendly Angel" of the kids is the result of bad writing and a cut scene. Kirk's breakdown essentially being a refrain of "I'm losing command" again and again and again is either poor writing or it follows from how a breakdown works in altering thought and speech patterns to a fixation of the point gone wrong. The sudden push for "the kids must die" from Spock was not the first time he has had to urge Kirk to make the hard choice, but it was handled poorly rather than developed as it should have been (both a matter of writing and pacing). Yet this is hardly the first time Star Trek has had bad writing or an episode has failed to live up to the its potential, which I suppose is why I am so torn about its reception both by fans and the actors. This is the lowest point of canon, this episode? Because of what? That Spock was impacted by the brainwashing at first like everyone else until he snaps out of it? Because they hired a celebrity lawyer as the guest star instead of a real actor? Because it borrows elements from previous stories (one can argue there's elements of Miri and The Naked Time in this) instead of being wholly new and original? Because we get a glimmer or two of Spock using touch telepathy on Kirk for once after all the other episodes of physical contact between them? (It's Spock. A hidden page of the Writer's Guide had it stated that he must get a power upgrade every few episodes as a treat. It's not inconsistent writing, it's entertainment!)

[firehandlerfred]

Watching critical role but starting at campaign one so everytime i get a cr post it's like dodging a fucking bullet

[bacchuschucklefuck]

the never stop blowing up vhs is where cute twinks go to get harmed

[obessivedork]

Oh my god Aeryn and Pilot really DO understand each other better than anyone else ever could, they're trauma bonded they're friends they're both filled with self loathing about their pasts but they'll get through it together 😭 🖤

[emisirrelevant]

HAPPY PULP MUSICALS EPISODE 4 DAY!!!

Ahhhhhh it's finally here!! I just listened to Part 1, anyone else??

How Matt Dahan continuously raises the bar each time each episode is just something I cannot fathom.

It is the season of "Pulp Musicals fall"

I may or may not post my rough unedited notes from my reaction to Part 1 later

[springypaws]

Some midnight speedy sketches as I try to materialize how I imagine the Wolf 359 characters in digital form (I am not succeeding and Hilbert and Hera look nothing like how I imagine them)

Anyways

[chandralia]

I think I’m gonna make this a whole post in case people didn’t see my reply, but this is the pace we’re going this season:

If we keep going like this, Bakugo’s sacrifice should be around episode 9, Deku’s Vigilante Arc around episode 16… and Bakugo’s apology around episode 22.

Also Tsuyu’s key visual for this season was the color page for chapter 320

and Bakugo’s apology is chapter 322.

[white-weasel]

Season 3 of Psych is making me a lot more emotional in my rewatch than I remember being when I watched it back in 2012