#got episode 7.4

[13thdoctorposts]

At some point 13 fans needs to actually put the numbers to paper on the era's audience numbers, because my recollection is that they're perfectly on par and at times even better than Capaldi's and several of the latest specials. I'm tired of haters whining about 'everyone hated it' when they mean misogynists targeted it and boycotted it from the very instance of a rumour that 13 would be a woman.

Peter Nolan from Blogtor Who did a post on the numbers after the airing of Power of the Doctor, in one section of the post he compares the Whittaker and Capaldi eras…

“It’s remarkable then, that the Whittaker era of Doctor Who is overall on course not only to retain the audience it was given, but actually very slightly grow it. The average Thirteenth Doctor was watched by 4.67m viewers, up 0.12m (2.6%) on the 4.55m average of the Twelfth Doctor. It’s median viewing figure of 4.21m, meanwhile, is 0.34m (7.4%) lower than Capaldi’s, representing the boost Whittaker’s average is given by the large audiences for her first series. But overall, we haven’t seen Doctor Who just do a respectable job all things considered. Rather, it actually got ratings that would be good a decade ago.”

You can check out the whole article here https://www.blogtorwho.com/doctor-who-power-of-the-doctor-viewing-figures/?amp=1

As you can see the Whittier era did quite well especially when considering it had to fight to get through the Pandemic, which people seem to like to act like isn’t a big deal with their revisionist history of how difficult that time actually was. Not only were millions dying and getting sick, people were losing their jobs and lock downs were keeping people at home and a number of parents learnt how hard it was to home school your child even with a teacher on zoom, some while also having to work full time at home. This isn’t to mention the ridiculous amount of restrictions on how they could make the show and keep everyone safe. Sadly they also just didn’t have budget, it was why they needed Disney to come in. In the Who Corner to Corner podcast Chibs talks about how he wanted to do a new years special after Flux but was told there was no budget and he couldn’t do it but he wanted there to be a new year special so he ask if he used monster from the cupboard (a couple daleks they had sitting there) a warehouse and only 2 guest stars could he do it and they still told him they didn’t think so but he told them they were doing it and then we got Eve of the Daleks, one of my fav episodes of the run.

This goes to show the show was struggling to afford to make episodes it had no real money for marketing. If series 12 and Flux got the marketing series 11 did of course we would have seen even bigger numbers but Chibs stated in his Radio Free Skaro podcast from Gally One in 2023 that the only marketing budget they had after series 11 was marketing that could be done on the BBC that’s extremely limiting. They also didn’t have a brand manager unlike all previous eras. If you can afford a brand manager you’re not going to choose to not have one and having one probably would have also help quite a bit.

It’s not 2008 anymore, even Tennent couldn’t pull his 2008 numbers and that was with the big Disney budget to make the show and market the show, and they had a year to market the show and the most well known Doctor, so considering that vs what Chibs had to work with the Whittaker era is a solid era of Doctor Who. It just came at a time when the Budget was struggling, and the TV landscape was changing along with a campaign to try and destroy it before it began simply because they chose a Woman to be the Doctor, as demonstrated by the fact the BBC had to release a press statement backing Whittakers casting and the change to a Female Doctor. And that did have a snow ball effect of people picking everything apart to an insane level they do not do with any of the episodes from the male Doctors episodes a lot of which could be seen as far more problematic.

All this to say could the numbers had been better? Yes, if they had budget to market the show the way it needs to be marketed in a landscape with a million competing shows on far more streaming services than there were regular channels back in the day. But did the show do well with the limited resources it had. Also Yes.

[blueberrytwoberry]

Am I back to obsessing about the basketball scene? Yeah, but specifically because of the still the show released with Buck standing between Eddie and Gerrard because, tbh, that’s the most squared up and bristly i’ve ever seen Buck and it’s making me think thoughts, because, okay. 

This show consistently makes the most wild narrative choices and I mean, that’s clearly part of what I enjoy or I wouldn’t have stuck around for seven seasons, but i still think some of the wildest are related to The Basketball Game, but more because they had chances to be much wilder with it and didn’t even take them! 

Like, listen, we have Buck, who has basically been a hard no on any aggressive behavior for six seasons before this, never called himself a pacifist, but he and Hen are the only members of the main cast who never lean that way, hurting his bestie out of jealousy/frustration/anger (exact emotional motivation subject to interpretation by the viewer). 

That’s the kind of wild choice I expect this show to make! 

And it makes sense in a very messy way, because we know that Buck used to hurt himself for attention all the time. And I’ve got a research paper in me I think about what this says about Buck blurring the lines between BuckandEddie in his own head, if it’s okay {“okay”) to hurt Eddie because they’re BuckandEddie so it’s close enough to hurting himself that he didn’t even think about what he was doing, and how I’d have loved to dig into who was the end-goal recipient of attention for him. 

If they’re BuckandEddie and hurting Eddie means (to Buck) hurting himself, was he hoping for attention from Eddie, then, after the game? (This is, I think, the most likely option because the whole rest of the episode (barring the swerve at the end) is Buck trying to get Eddie to pay attention to him). Or does hurting Eddie mean it’s expected (and okay) for him to give Eddie attention after the game? 

Did everyone else reacting in a normal way to him fully taking Eddie out snap him out of that weird headspace? 

Doesn’t look like we’ll ever know because the show did surprise me there by completely swerving on Maddie’s reaction to Buck’s admission of what he did. Fully expected her to react more strongly because that’s basically… Maddie’s hot button issue (maybe unpopular take but I don’t think hurting someone becomes okay just because they aren’t your romantic partner). (Sigh the fic I never wrote about Maddie running into Eddie and seeing his ankle all bandaged up and all the feelings that’d bring up in her and the long-term fallout on her relationship with Buck because give me the obvious comparison to Doug.) 

In any case, i fully expected them to then drop the physical aggression right back out of Buck’s character after the end of 7.4. But hmmm that still makes me think maybe not and now i’m back to desperately wanting to talk about it again. Ah, well. 

[liam-an-siorc]

BBC Ghosts episode ranking

By Liam

Season 1

My favourites (Personal opinion)

1st: Happy death day (third episode) 2nd: Free pass (forth episode) 3rd: Who do you think you are? (Pilot) 4th: Gorilla war (second episode) 5th: Moonah ston (fifth episode) 6th: Getting out (sixth episode)

IMDB Rankings

1st: Moonah Ston (7.9) Joined 2nd: Happy death day, Free pass, Getting out (7.8) 3rd: Gorilla war (7.7) 4th: Who do you think you are? (7.4)

Best ones (My opinion)

1st: Happy death day 2nd: Moonah ston 3rd: Who do you think you are? 4th: Free pass 5th: Gorilla war 6th: Getting out

(5th and 6th can be swapped)

Why?

My Favourites (personal opinion)

1st: Happy death day: I just really love this episode I do think it’s one of the best but pats storyline was very nice it’s very cool to see a ghost with family that is still alive and visits it was sweet I was happy for him with his son I also think this episode is funny I found it funny Alison talking to the ghosts and terry thinking she was talking to him and being confused i loved bits like “WATCH OUT!!!!…..for the sugar terry?.. that’s to many” actually though that is a lot of sugar four?! Four?! for one cup of tea it must be so sweet can you even taste the tea but yeah, mainly Pats story line is what got it first place but also with the builders was funny. I also love the Kylie Mynoige thing and the captain and Julian’s friendship.

2nd: Free Pass: I like this episode because it’s something new and cool for the ghosts to do like Mary and Pat looking at the camera thing and the captain pretending to be the manager they are all so bored I feel bad I want them to have something to do it was a funny episode but they did stick with the same ish joke the whole way but still Thomas was funny in this episode very dramatic Mike also what was he doing strange man “why is that?” He kept saying the guy Toby nightingale ? I think is his name he was strange captain was being queer as always can’t think of a better way to say that there’s a lot going on in the episode so it’s not boring but not one of them best just entertaining one and this section is for opinion so it’s fine

3rd: Who do you think you are?: I think this is one of the best pilot episodes I ever seen uselly I don’t like rewatching pilots because they can be a bit boring but this one was really good they introduced the characters well and I just liked it I know all the words

4th: Gorilla war: this one is more continue on from the last one but I also really liked this I think the plague ghosts where very funny and one scene that was brilliant is where Alison gose to the hospital and the docter is a ghosts that was great same thing really as why I liked the pilot it’s also one of the funniest episode I think that’s whole scene where Mike is singing and drilling holes in the wall and fanny was sleeping and then there’s a whole and kitty is peaking through the hole was good and I really loved the plague ghosts

5th: Moonah Ston: I liked moonah Ston arguably it’s a very good episode but it’s just gets older I think then the other ones like I can’t watch it over and over well I can I do I just get a bit tired of it but the friends thing was great and Robin with the moonah was nice I love him so it’s nice to have an episode focused on him

6th: I don’t know why but this episode I did not love it as much as the rest it sort of just one story all the way through and it was filmed or directed different ?!? Maybe it seemed so different but it was still good because it’s ghosts and there where funny bits poor Mike trying to get rid of the goose berry’s and I felt bad for the captain but also it was funny. He did not make much sense in the episode he was trying to get rid of Mike and Alison but then made them stay? It was strange

I don’t know why IMDB people voted like that

Why? (Best ones (my opinion))

1st: Happy death day: still this was a great episode Pats story was really nice and it was funny it was a great 3rd episode because it probably connects you to the characters soon into the show the Kylie mynoige scene was great and Robin is very wise the character are all done very well in this episode and there relationships with each other.

2nd: Moonah ston: It’s a great episode the scene where they are all out on the couch is great like friends I love Alison asking Mary also “what do posh people wear?” And she says “Crowns?” I loved Mary’s involvement in this episode actually she was good poor Robin they all ditched Moonah ston ceremony for friends but then ending was nice and was a nice moment all together it was also smart with Barclay and the Fiji account I was wondering how Mike and Allison would get out of that mess though over all good episode with some very nice moments

3rd: Who do you think you are?: I just think it’s really good considering it’s a pilot one of the best pilot episode I have ever seen characters and plot was introduced well and it was not boring at all to rewatch so it gets points for that.

4th: Free pass: don’t know I really like it I just think the other ones should go first this section is not for my opinion well it is but it’s different

5th: Gorrila war: is great I don’t know why I put it here but the reasoning for the others makes them better I think

6th: Getting out: I don’t know it just not a lot happened it was a bit confusing the captains change but still a very good episode it’s hard to rank them because I like them all

Considering all that

1st: Moonah ston 2nd: Happy death day 3rd: Free pass 4th: Gorilla war 5th: Who do you think you are? 6th: Getting out

I’ll do next seasons then over all Aswell 👍🦈

[undertale-ost-tournament]

Tracks ordered by votes received, split by position (ties got the top position).

1st place:

Death By Glamour 84.3%

Hopes and Dreams 76.8%

ASGORE 67.5%

Spider Dance 64.7%

Finale 62.5%

Heartache 57.5%

Waterfall 57.1%

CORE 56.3%

Bonetrousle 53.7%

Battle Against A True Hero 52.3%

His Theme 52.0%

Ghost Fight 51.0%

Undertale 50.7%

NGAHHH!! 49.4%

Your Best Nightmare 47.5%

Spear of Justice 46.9%

Last Goodbye 44.4%

Determination 40.1%

Metal Crusher 39.7%

Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans 38.5%

Another Medium 38.1%

Nyeh Heh Heh! 36.7%

Here We Are 35.5%

sans. 33.3%

It's Raining Somewhere Else 32.2%

SAVE The World 32.2%

2nd place:

Bergentrückung 40.8%

Fallen Down (Reprise) 37.2%

Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap 36.1%

Ruins 35.6%

Fallen Down 29.5%

Spooktune 29.0%

Dogsong 28.7%

Alphys 28.5%

Dummy! 28.4%

CORE Approach 28.3%

Memory 27.9%

Home 27.8%

An Ending 27.2%

Dating Start! 27.1%

Power of "NEO" 26.9%

It's Showtime 24.1%

But The Earth Refused To Die 23.7%

Amalgam 22.2%

Tem Shop 21.7%

Bring It In, Guys! 19.8%

Shop 18.9%

Snowdin Town 16.7%

Good Night 15.4%

Oh My… 15.4%

For The Fans 6.80%

3rd Place (Danger Zone cut-off coloured):

Dummy! (28.4%)

Stronger Monsters (25.4%)

Small Shock (23.6%)

Once Upon A Time (23.3%)

Your Best Friend (19.94%)

Death Report (19.85%)

Temmie Village (19.7%)

Thundersnail (19.5%)

Snowy (18.8%)

Final Power (17%)

Reunited (16.1%)

Hotel (16.1%)

Home (Music Box) (15.5%)

Quiet Water (15.1%)

Undyne (14.9%)

She's Playing Piano (14.2%)

Oh! One True Love (13.1%)

Respite (13.1%)

Last Episode! (10.3%)

Uwa!! So Temperate♫ (9.3%)

Mysterious Place (9%)

Chill (6.2%)

Ghouliday (5.9%)

Barrier (4.4%)

4th place:

Spookwave 17.3%

Oh! Dungeon 16.2%

Dating Tense! 14.4%

Don't Give Up 13.9%

Long Elevator 12.9%

Premonition 12.5%

Start Menu 11.7%

Can You Really Call This A Hotel, I Didn't Receive A Mint On My Pillow Or Anything 11.6%

Uwa!! So HEATS!!♫ 7.7%

The Choice 7.5%

Uwa!! So Holiday♫ 7.4%

Enemy Approaching 6.82%

Dating Fight! 6.18%

You Idiot 5.91%

Live Report 5.7%

Ooo 5.3%

Wrong Enemy !? 5.0%

Confession 4.7%

Run! 4.6%

Anticipation 3.6%

Pathetic House 3.1%

Danger Mystery 3.0%

Dogbass 2.43%

Burn In Despair! 2.37%

Unnecessary Tension 1.8%

[sourcreammachine]

Doctor Who episodes ranked let’s go

(o’th’ revived era. and eight’s movie because i’ve seen it)

and two-parters are counted as one, but i get to define what a ‘two-parter’ is. this is because i’m in charge not you

9.11 Heaven Sent aka the stars align and somehow Moffat manages to pull an incredible script out of his arse after being stuck up there for so long aka Capaldi is the new Atlas from carrying his entire era aka now you understand why i’m splitting up some two-parters and not others aka ahaha 9.11 lol

3.8/9 Human Nature / The Family of Blood

1.9/10 The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances

3.10 Blink

2.4 The Girl in the Fireplace

4.12/13 The Stolen Earth / Journey’s End

1.6 Dalek

6.i A Christmas Carol

3.11 Utopia

4.8/9 Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead

7.v The Time of the Doctor okay hear me out first thing is i’m an absolute sucker second thing is why couldn’t season 7 have actually seeded any of this with actual thought and subtly rather than mystery-box hackery it literally makes me think of how much better his era could’ve been if Moffat wasn’t so up his own arse

2.8/9 The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit

7.iv The Day of the Doctor

4.11 Turn Left

3.4 Girldick

1.12/13 Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways

7.iii The Night of The Doctor aka my boi Eight finally gets done justice

4.10 Midnight

4.6 The Doctor’s Daughter

3.2 The Shakespeare Code

3.i The Runaway Bride

2.12/13 Army of Ghosts / Doomsday

2.3 School Reunion

6.11 The God Complex

4.1 Partners in Crime

10.11/12 World Enough, and Time / The Doctor Falls (look, i’m a sucker i know, and i couldn’t give a shit about Gomez and Simm, but fuck you Moffat actually figured out how to write human emotions. Talalay’s finest hour. Lucas’ finest hour. Moffat did not deserve a swan song but he got himself one somehow)

5.2 The Beast Below

8.8 Mummy on the Orient Express (despite the awful, horrible ending, see below (very far below))

4.7 The Unicorn and the Wasp

4.2 The Fires of Pompeii

7.12 Neil Gaiman’s Good Episode

1.1 Rose

5.1 The Eleventh Hour

2.7 The Idiot’s Lantern

10.1 The Pilot

5.10 Vincent and the Doctor

4.i Voyage of the Damned

6.4 The Neil Gaiman Fanfic Hour

3.1 Smith and Jones

4.4 The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky

6.10 The Girl Who Waited

1.2 The End of The World

5.12/13 The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

2.i The Christmas Invasion

6.7 A Good Man Jumps The Shark

5.6 The Vampires of Venice

4.3 Planet of the Ood

7.ii The Snowmen

1.11 Boom Town

3.12 The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords

1.7 The Long Game

7.7 The Rings of Akhaten

8.6 The Caretaker

5.7 Amy’s Choice

9.7/8 Zygons. you can basically hear Capaldi’s back cracking from him carrying it

4.v/vi The End of Time, Parts 1 & 2

10.6 Extremis, the most underrated episode fuck you

4.ii The Next Doctor

8.5 Time Heist

6.1/2 The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon

2.1 New Earth

10.3 Twelve Decks a Racist

9.ii The Husbands of River Song (yeah i’m a sucker, the ending gets me)

6.3 Curse of the Black Pearl spot, fuck

11.1 The Woman Who Fell To Earth (based on how it made me feel in 2018, looking back yeah the warning signs were all there)

5.4/5 The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone

5.11 The Lodger

1.3 The Unquiet Dead

7.4 The Power of Three aka Chris Chibnall Shits Himself on Live Television

2.5/6 Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel

7.9 Hide

10.5 Oxygen aka La Problema Es Capitalismo

8.1 Deep Breath

2.2 Tooth and Nail claw, fuck

1.8 Father’s Day

11.3 Rosa (bring back Blackman as an episode writer, she wrote Noughts & Crosses, she can do it)

7.11 The Crimson ‘Orror

6.8 Let’s Kill Hitler

6.5/6 The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People

4.iv The Waters of Mars

7.6 oh no it’s clara

9.10 yaay clara’s dead

5.8/9 The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood

12.5 Fugitive of the Judoon (again, based on how i felt watching it for the first time. it was a good episode and an interesting mystery box, just one filled with shit)

1.4/5 Aliens of London / World War Three

7.5 The Angels Take amy lol

2.11 Fear Her

8.4 Listen, aka the first episode that Capaldi carries, despite Moffat being himself again

10.ii Twice Upon a Time (ugh we could’ve had a brilliant trilogy to see out Capaldi, but instead we get Moffat masturbating on live television for an hour. look, The Doctor could have had an actual character arc - they feel like they’re on borrowed time after their resurrection on Trenzalore, after the events on Gallifrey they feel like any sort of feelings of ‘duty’ as last of the time lords (as errant and fleeting as such feelings might’ve been) are resolved, and after failing their BIG MASSIVE SEASON 10 ARC with Missy and getting stabbed in the back, and BILL [redacted for spoilers], they’re happy to accept their death - and that’s where the season ends. yuletide 2017 could’ve ended this arc, they’re taught the love of the universe again, they see the goodness they bring to all life - Clara, i am a good man. and when they sit down to die, those words ‘maybe just one more go’ could’ve had the weight of the universe behind them, it could’ve been the greatest who line ever written, had that line actually had weight on its shoulders. Moffat is a hack. mystery-boxing is hacking, end of story. Capaldi, the finest actor ever in the role, was done dirty by scripts with no weight and planning. Grand Moff lives up his own arse - that power gives him the ability to write incredible episodes such as Heaven Sent and everything he ever touched under Davies - but it makes all series, arcs and continuity fall apart into a pile of shit. this episode is the finest example - a universe of potential, reduced to one hour of self-congratulatory masturbation)

6.9 Night Terrors

11.9 It Takes You Away (the one with the frog god)

7.10 Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

9.12 Heaven Sent Part II: Whoops

8.9 Flatline

7.3 A Town Called Widowmaker

4.iii Planet of the Dead

9.1/2 The Magician’s Apprentice / The Witch’s Familiar

6.12 Closing Time

3.7 42

13.i Eve of the Daleks (the aisling bea one)

8.3 Robot of Sherwood

9.5/6 Maisie Williams

6.13 The Wedding of River Song

5.3 Victory of the Daleks

8.11/12 Dark Water / Death in Heaven aka i’m sorry Gomez but not even you can carry this

3.6 The Lazarus Experiment

11.i Resolution (…of the Daleks)

10.2 Emoji Robots

8.2 Into the Dalek

10.5 Knock Knock. Who’s There? Yer mum

7.13 The Name of the Doctor aka the Biggest Waste of Richard E. Grant until Rise of Skywalker

7.2 Dinosaurs on a Plane

10.8/9 The Pyramid at the End of the World / The Lie of the Land

Doctor Who: The Movie!

11.6 Demons of the Punjab

7.1 Asylum of the Daleks

7.8 Cold War aka i’m starting to think Mark Gatiss might be a bad writer actually

3.4/5 Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks

11.5 P’ting

9.3/4 Under the Lake / Before the Flood aka the Biggest Waste of Peter Serafinowicz since the Clone Wars didn’t bring him back. also a deaf person falling in love with their interpreter is the most toxic thing ever. and it’s 90 more minutes of season 9 tedium ugh

2.10 Love and Monsters. yeah this high up

8.7 The anti-abortion episode. and it’s not just for that fact alone nonono, The Doctor is such an unbelievable unforgivable cunt this time. at least Clara calls them out in that brilliant final-ish scene BUT they’re still unforgivable AND they get forgiven anyway next week?? literally they take the way Clara’s character arc was going and throw it all in the bin

8.10 In The Forest of the Shite

11.7 Kerblam!

10.9 Empress of Mars aka i’m starting to think Mark Gatiss might be a bad writer actually

9.i Last Christmas aka remember how they reset Clara’s character arc after Mummy for literally no reason???? THEY FUCKING DID IT AGAIN!! she’s literally put in limbo for an ENTIRE SEASON, after they gave her TWO good offramps and apparently chickened the fuck out from using them?? and expected me to care when she (spoiler)? also the episode’s like really boring. bonus points for the absolutely perfect casting of Nick Frost tho, very nominative determinism

10.i is my hatred of Doctor Mysterio unwarranted? probably. but i still hate it

12.8 The Haunting of Villa Diodati, the most overrated episode fuck you. no it is not ‘the only good episode of season 12’ - it’s just as bad as the rest. The Doctor is unnecessarily unlikeable. the villain boy is nonsense, uninteresting and unlikeable. and worst of all - i don’t want to have violent sex with any of the people in this villa

12.4 Nikola Tesla’s Tower of Terror

11.8 The Witchfinders

9.9 Sleep No More aka i’m starting to think Mark Gatiss might be a bad writer actually

13.2 Flux Part 2: War of the Sontarans (oh yeah like they don’t do war normally, that’s like saying the fucking ,, toasting of the toaster or something)

7.i The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe (it’s only Chibnall from here on out let’s goo)

12.1/2 Spyfall. literally how the FUCK do you waste both Stephen Fry AND Lenny fucking Henry how the fuck. also The Doctor basically committed a nazism right

12.3 Orphan 55, the second most underrated episode - a lot of people say it’s Chibnall’s worst but i think there’s worse

12.i Revolution of the Daleks (the priti patel one)

11.2 The Ghost Monument

13.4 Flux Part 4: Village of the Angels

11.10 The Battle of Rashhcjxjshog s Kjalapados

12.7 Can You Hear Me? (that was the one with the finger guy. no i don’t mean jonathan banks)

11.4 Spiders in Sheffield

12.6 Praxeus

12.9/10 how did they let chibnall get away with it. isn’t there supposed to be oversight. aren’t there supposed to be safeguards. how did they let him get away with it

13.1 Flux Part 1: The Halloween Apocalypse

13.ii Legend of the Sea Devils

13.3 Flux Part 3: Once, Upon Time

13.iii The Power of the Doctor aka thank fuck, it’s finally over

10.5 Flux Part 5: Survivors of the Flux

10.6 Flux Part 6: Fuck You Chibnall

[declanlikesmusic]

Today's Listens: Episode 003

August 7th, 2023

I almost considered not doing this day in full or just resorting it to a new mini-version of this series on the side, but that was because this day was quite busy and overbearing. I had to take care of some errands and deal with a good bit of a cramp, but by the end of the day, I felt much better and wanted to write more and more about each album I listened to today. So thank the unavoidable passage of time for this one. Let's get started.

Valve Studio Orchestra – Fight Songs: The Music of Team Fortress 2 (2017)

Yes, I kicked off this day after a very busy morning by treating myself head on to a soundtrack. Better yet, the soundtrack to one of my favourite video games of all time, Team Fortress 2. Seems a bit goofy for me to do, but even as I haven't played this game for a very long time (nor have I been able to thanks to my shitty laptops), I thought it'd be worth revisiting at least one of its greatest aspects. Obviously, this is a very good soundtrack. So many cuts on here are among some of the most iconic in video game history, especially to any fan of the game itself. I also just want to say that I love the album cover too and everyone's unique but stoic looks to the camera. I don't see why you wouldn't like something like this, most of the time, so I'd definitely go for it.

7.2 / 10

Highlights: Medic!, Intruder Alert, The Calm, Faster Than a Speeding Bullet, Drunken Pipe Bomb, Right Behind You, Team Fortress 2

Cut Copy – Bright Like Neon Love (2004)

After that, I wanted to tackle this debut album from what I thought were a french house group at first. I thought they were that because I knew about this album from the one-two punch of That Was Just a Dream and Zap Zap that one of my favourite artists christtt had featured on one of his most recent mixes, plus the fact that he sampled both of them too. It was great to hear those two in context, but when it turned out that they were more focused on pretty scant electropop singing, I was not as easily invested. I still got some very good tracks out of it by the end, but maybe I had wrongly anticipated what they were capable of as a band. Still, very good album all the same.

7.4 / 10

Highlights: Time Stands Still, Going Nowhere, That Was Just a Dream, Zap Zap, Autobahn Music Box

P A T H S パス – ビ​ジ​ョ​ン​ロ​グ​: S T A I R W A Y (2017)

I had always adored what PATHS was composing in 2017. I discovered him through this short-lived ビ​ジ​ョ​ン​ロ​グ (Vision Log) series of super long tracks / mini-albums of constantly flowing, seamlessly & originally composed vaporwave material. However, when I was revisiting this second instalment STAIRWAY, I was going through a bit of a stomach cramp, so I was unfortunately far from the ripe mood to revisit this very underrated and obscure piece of music. Which is a shame because, as a result, this shrunk on me very hard. I reckon I'll come back to loving it at a better time and a better mood, but as for right now, it just wasn't the right time to vibe to it as much as I wanted to "force" myself to.

6.0 / 10

Highlights: N/A

Tim Buckley – Starsailor (1970)

Now, you'll know this particular man for being the father of one of the most legendary yet sorrowfully short-lived prodigies in music history: Jeff Buckley. But that's not to undermine Tim at all, because not only does he also have a uniquely powerful voice, but he also has his own catalogue of critically acclaimed music. Albeit, in the case of Starsailor here, it was much stranger. This album is a freak; when I heard it for the very first time years ago, I was just in complete awe of what I was hearing. But as I revisit this one, what pulls me away from it was just that these individual songs don't hold up as… songs. It's a respectable listen, but one that I'm no longer anticipating to revisit myself, nor am I dying to recommend it.

6.1 / 10

Highlights: Come Here Woman, Moulin Rouge, Song to the Siren

魚魚 & Ｆｕｔｕｒｅ░Λｑｕａｒｉｕｍｓ░ＬＴＤ – fish​​​ス​​​プ​​​リ​​​ッ​​​ト (2023)

Now, this here is a random, newly released split record from the deep, fishy corners of the vaporwave community. This came about to me as a recommendation from an obscure vaporwave review Twitter blog and I'm glad I stumbled across it and took it upon myself to bookmark it then, because this was great first listen! 魚魚's side is especially dense, enrapturing and gorgeous, but Future Aquariums Ltd. deserves some credit as well, as their music seems to be more originally composed by comparison, even if it's overall thinner in sound. This was a great slushwave (wait, sorry, "fishvapour") offering from the two and I look forward to exploring more of their catalogues. Try it out if you're curious!

7.8 / 10

L. Media – new love rhapsody (for your entertainment, no. II) (2023)

Finally, this one is a lot, but it's the sequel to L. Media's for your entertainment from back in 2021. This new one released on New Year's Day is a very heavy sound collage / broken transmission album and it overloads the senses constantly; it's even more complex and all over the place than that first album already was to begin with. I can't say it's bad at all, this was a very good listen all around, but it's just much more complicated to even comprehend, because it switches between samples constantly and leaves me having to go back a certain track or two to properly even rate this thing. Try this one out of curiosity though, because there are some great sample flips scattered all over this record! You just have to look more closely for them.

7.2 / 10

Highlights: prayer I-IV, BELL, prayer V / 90210, #wearetheworld, RAYTHEON

There you go! Another day's worth of listens, reviews and ratings in the bag, despite all the hardships to get there. I may have rushed a few details here and there to get this out, some of these are complete rewrites, some of them are messy edits, but all the same, I hope you enjoy reading these.

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Transgneder Borger Rating (With Girlfriend @girlhusband1000wives )

Today’s Episode: Culvers

Founded in Wisconsin, Culvers is a fast-food resturant with 899 locations in 26 US states.

They’re well known for their burgers and their frozen custard, but they also serve seafood, cheese curds, and salads.

We arrived on a late afternoon, both of us incredibly hungry after a day of university. I had never had Culvers before, while my girlfriend has had it a few times previously, including while visiting Wisconsin, an experience she has likened to ‘going to Palestine for Easter’.

Perhaps this is why he proceeded to predict that this would be ‘the most anti-zionist burger of all time’ while pulling into the parking lot.

After we parked, we quickly made our way inside. I was immediately struck by the very particular aesthetic that the interior design was going for, a sense of chic my lovely girlfriend described as ‘cottagecore for people who are outwardly racist’

I was struck by the menu’s fixation on daily specials. Not only did they have a custard of the day, but they also had a reccomended meal. I wonder if they were trying to specifically evoke the concept of a local restuarant’s ‘daily specials’ in order to make their chain seem more human.

Musing aside, it was time to order. Both me and my girlfriend got the double butterburgers, with raw onions, pickles, and cheese (I got swiss, she got cheddar). I also got lettuce and mustard on mine.

I got the crinkle cut fries, while my gf opted for onion rings. She also ordered a scoop of the daily custard

After sampling Culvers’ in-house root beer (pretty good, 6/10) we sat down to wait for our food.

It arrived quickly, and given our famished state, we dug in with gusto. I was struck by how the burger tasted markedly better then most fast-food burgers. In short, it tasted real in a way most fast-food burgers fail to accomplish.

The fries were fine. I’m generally not a big fan of crinkle-cut fries, but these were passable. The onion rings were much better, crispy without the internals being mushy.

The custard, too, was very good. I only had a few spoonfuls, but it was yummy!

In conclusion: Burger good!

7.4/10

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Twice TV. Season 1. 7.7./10

I wouldn't recommend this show to my friends. I would recommend this to all my ONCEs. I wouldn't rewatch this season.

I like how hopeful and hardworking they are at this age. Tzuyu is so 사랑스러워 when she talks. I really liked what Momo talks about and how she speaks. It seems a lot more emotional and vulnerable than she seems now.

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Wednesday. Season 1. 7.5/10

I wouldn't recommend this show to my friends. I wouldn't rewatch this show.

Nero's grave is cool. I liked Thing kicking Wednesday's scrunched up papers in the trash. I like how creative and artistic Wednesday is. I like the racoons canoeing in the taxidermy place. I do find most of Wednesday's quips amusing. I love Eugene's loyalty the most.

Xavier is good at art.

How Hogwarts-esque. How I felt watching this is how I felt watching the show version of the Series of Unfortunate Events.

Poor Weems's and Kinbott's death.

Lol at Enid listening to Kpop. Lol at the black and white Rubik's cube.

Memorable Quotes: "I prefer spooky." "Color me intrigued." "It's amateurs like you who give kidnapping a bad name." "When the dance floor calls, you gotta answer."

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Something from Tiffany's (2022) dir. Daryl Wein. 7.4/10

I would not recommend this movie to my friends. I would not rewatch this movie.

Terri's a great friend and a great girl.

Gary being a liar is a red flag.

I just still feel we never mourned our relationships. We literally broke up with someone after a proposal?

The humor in this has more personality and realness than most comedies.

Memorable Quotes: "Don't worry, kid. I don't know social cues yet either.

I would recommend this show to my friends. I wouldn't rewatch this season.

Great acting from Sarah when she's in pain. This Bill and Frank plotline is beautiful. Nick Offerman appearing is a lovely addition. What a perfect character. I do like how we made Sam an ASL signer, Bill and Frank a happy couple, Sarah a black character, and added a native couple. Sam's writing pad thing is cool. Marlon and Florence are amusing. I like them a lot.

Wow Storm is Riley. The clickers have too human-like bodies still for me to be afraid. The bloater was good though. I can't envision public hangings becoming a thing again. Yeah, the diva cup will truly be invincible during the apocalypse. The Walking Dead walked so that the Last of Us could run.

Watching this is like reliving the game except I'm no longer an active player. But, what took me so long to accomplish, got done in such few episodes. It's amazing how the same the settings are to the game. It really takes me back. The angles seem the same too. I'm like I threw a molotov in this room, I hid behind the cars here.

Ew the mouth to mouth that Tess experiences before death, I would hate that. I'd vomit.

Memorable Quotes: "Love me the way I want you to."

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For The (Not)Watch: Episode 7.4

The Reason HBO Can’t Afford Direwolves Anymore

So this week wasn’t quite AS boring as last week, but that’s not saying much. I almost had an emotion or two. ALMOST...

We open on something other than Dragonstone for a change -- in the Reach(?) and on the Westerosi Wells Fargo Wagon, which Jaime is once-overing, while Bronn hangs out in the background demanding Jaime give him Highgarden, but Biggie Lannister is like “nah, mo’ money, mo’ problems!” Bronn’s not buying that line, though, and feels he should be on the list of debts the Lannisters pay off. He also makes some snarky remarks about Cersei which are actually 100% accurate but of course Jaime, like GoT watchers, is blissfully blind to the truth. Jaime then sends Bronn with the Tarlys to go shake-down local farmers for their sweet, sweet grains.

Then we head over to King’s Landing, where Tycho is hella impressed that Pinhead Cersei will be able to pay off her debts in one lump sum but is kinda bummed to be losing out on that tasty monthly APR. Cersei hints that Qyburn is in negotiations with the Golden Company to join her cause and Tycho vouches for them... but reminds Cersei that the Iron Bank ain’t doing shit until Jaime makes that big deposit.

Next we hit up Winterfell, AND WHO THE HELL LEFT THE KIDS ALONE WITH LITTLEFINGER?? Somehow that snake slithered his way into Bran’s chambers and is attempting some kinda cringeworthy heart-to-heart... Seriously I half-expected him to tell Bran “I’M YOUR DADDY NOW.” Instead he decides to give Bran a gift -- the Valyrian steel dagger that was used to try to murder him in Season 1. Bran’s like... “Thanks?” (But really, isn’t this kinda payback for last week when he threw Sandra’s wedding night back in her face?) LF starts monologuing about Catelyn, and Bran asks if LF knows who the dagger belonged to (I’m guessing just to test LF, because obviously Miss Cleo is gonna know exactly who it belonged to... right??), and of course LF is like “No idea!” Then he randomly mentions the word “chaos” and Bran’s creep-dar goes off, and he interrupts him by saying “CHAOS IS A LADDAH.” Yes, folks, Bran threw LF’s dumbest catchphrase back in his face and it was played off like a genuinely weighty moment and not something that required a laugh track in the background. LF has barely time to react before Meera comes in. LF leaves, and Meera makes the sad announcement that she has to leave to be with her family, and Bran’s just like “Cool, bye then.” And Meera’s like... “bitch that all you have to say to me????” And Bran’s just like “uhhhh thank you for your service?” Meera then be thinking hmmm maybe this is just like a teen comedy and he’ll come wheelin’ after me at the airport at the last minute to profess his love for me? But nah, Bran’s straight-up fixing to ghost her ass, smh. She’s like “my brother, your wolf, and Hodor all died for you, Bran!!” But he’s like

And because D&D would rather leave significant character development off-screen, they have Meera assure us that Bran “died in that cave.” Cool, thanks, good to know!

Meera leaves, and then Bran hears the familiar strings of the Stark Theme, and he knows that Arya is near! Yes, Arya has finally found her way back to Winterfell. She strolls up to the front gates and is immediately given a hard time by the guards in a blatant repeat of the same scene from Season 1 (not the first or last time we will be seeing rip-offs from the first couple of seasons just in this episode alone). One of the guards even tries to PUNCH her (???) before agreeing to left her in but telling her wait while they decide what to tell Sansa. And since WF is being guarded by 2 of the 3 Stooges, Arya is able to just wander off without them noticing.

The guards then enter what appears to be the Bat Cave where Sandra is hiding out and has pretty much no visible reaction to hearing that Arya is in the house. Which is funny because Arya implied to the guards that Sandra would have their asses if she found out they’d turned her sister away. Instead, she just kinda looks bored and is like, “whatever, I know where she is...”

We then go down to the crypts for one of the most-anticipated reunions in ASOIAF-dom!!! Buuuut this is GoT, so it’s all very awkward and forced. Like, seriously, Arya, you’re not fooling anyone...

Sandra runs up to hug her, but just like with Small Wonder Bran, Arya-Bot 1000 barely registers an emotion or even bothers to hug her back. WTF, people???

They briefly have a moment in front of Ned’s statue, which was kinda nice. I mean, they didn’t even call him stupid or anything!! The lowest of low-hanging fruit, but I’ll take it at this point... Then Arya says it doesn’t look enough like Ned and that it should have been carved by someone who knew his face, but Sandra says that everyone who knew his face is dead. Ummmm? Sandra, Arya, Bran, Jon, Cersei, Varys, Sandor, Jaime, Littlefinger, Beric, Thoros... that’s almost a dozen people right there who are still alive that knew what Ned looked like (though I can’t vouch for their stone-carving skills...). Then, as usual, the moment is completely trampled on when the two sisters bond over how they both wished they had killed Joffrey themselves HAHAHAHAHA so sweet. Then Arya tells Sandra about her List, and Sandra’s just like

They make vague allusions to all the things they’ve been through since their separation. They then venture the godswood to say howdy to Bran, who is a party-pooper as usual, calling out Arya on her plan to go to KL to kill Cersei. Sandra asks Arya who else is on her list... SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO BRING UP SANDOR BUT NOOOOOPE CAN’T HAVE ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT THE HOUND WITH OR IN FRONT OF SANDRA EVEN IF IT’S ARYA DOING THE DISCUSSIN’ so she’s just like “eh most of them are already dead.” Then out of nowhere Bran’s just like “check out this new toy Littlefinger gave me” and Sandra’s like “WHY IS LITTLEFINGER GIVING YOU WEAPONS” Bran’s like “doesn’t matter, don’t want it anyway” and gives it to Arya.

The three Starks then make their way back into the the yard, where Brienne and Pod see them, and Pod says, “Good job, m’lady!” and she responds pretty much the same way I did -- “I didn’t do shit.”

Then we hit up Dragonstone, where the Jonerys train is being happily conducted by Missandei and Davos. Both give their respective masters a forced series of “nudge-nudge-wink-wink” moments with regards to the other, so as to to remind the viewers that THIS IS TOTALLY A THING, YOU GUYS. Dany and Missy are taking a stroll, and when they see Jon, they exchange a look like two freshmen girls who have just been acknowledged by the varsity QB on the quad. It’s quite pitiful.

Anyway, Jon takes Dany into one of the dragonglass caves to show her something. Sadly, he keeps his pants on and instead ducks into a tunnel which opens up into another cave with a bunch of primitive drawings on the walls. Indiana Snow then schools Dany on how they were drawn by the Children of the Forest and depict their encounters with both the First Men and the white walkers.

P.S. the CoF totally phoned it in on the FM but got all HR Giger when it came to the WWs.

And even though Jon could have drawn those pictures himself and made up literally everything he said for all Dany knew, she considers this definitive proof of his claims and immediately agrees to help him... if he bends the knee. There’s a lot of whisper-talking and long-held gazes, which I think was supposed to be “sexual tension”.

They exit the cave with their chaperones, where they find Tyrion and Varys waiting for them, looking rather glum. Tyrion drops the bad news that although they took Casterly Rock, the Lannister forces took Highgarden and all the spoils. Tyrion tries to rally, but Dany reams him out for fucking up and suggests he did it on purpose cuz he’s really still loyal to the Lannisters (OH DUHHHHH). She then declares “enough with the clever plans” and decides instead to stick to more stupid ones I guess. To that end, she asks Jon what she should do.

Your QUEEN, ladies and gents. Has no idea what she’s doing and constantly has to ask the (much smarter) men around her to tell her what to do. But the mere fact that she is “in charge” is I guess enough for most people to declare this “feminist”. Sure, okay.

Anyway, Jon tells her that if she uses her dragons to annihilate everyone, she’s just “more of the same” and isn’t giving her followers anything better to hope for. Which is a fair enough assessment but we all know it’s being used to highlight Jon’s “dumb” honor and compassion because DRAGONS SO EPICCCCCC!!!

Back at Winterfell, Brienne is again cleaning Pod’s clock (remember when this kid killed a Kingsguard in the middle of the Battle of the Blackwater? D&D don’t either I guess), but then Arya rolls up on her with Needle and says she wants to throw down with the person who beat the Hound. Brienne’s like “haha cute” but then Arya pulls out all the water-dancing nonsense and completely flummoxes Brienne.

So, for those doing the math:

Brienne beat The Hound; Arya beat Brienne; ergo, ARYA CAN BEAT THE HOUND.

I really wanted to enjoy this scene, but I couldn’t forget that the last time we saw Arya actually spar with anyone was in Season 1 with Syrio. Now all of a sudden she’s the most formidable warrior in the Seven Kingdoms. 

Any-freaking-way, Sandra appears on her perch again (with LF not far behind, of course), and at first she seems pretty impressed with Arya’s skillz, but when it’s over, she just, like, storms off in a huff? Why??

She leaves LF to have a weird stare-down with Arya.

Back on Dragonstone, it’s now Davos’s turn to tease Jon about Dany, implying that Jon was staring at her rack apparently?? Jon’s like “ain’t nobody got time for that” but luckily they run into Missandei where Davos can continue on that train of thought. They then have a conversation about how bastard names work on Westeros (in Season 7?????) and Missandei declares that marriage isn’t a thing in Naath, and Dirty Ol’ Man Davos is like HAHAHAHA not where I come from either, wanna go grab a drink later?? Jon and Davos then start questioning why Missandei is so loyal to Dany, and Missandei begins to talk about Dany like Squeaky Fromme talking about Charles Manson.

^^ waiting for this dialogue to pop out of Dany’s mouth at some point this season...

Davos is basically like SORRY I ASKED. Just then, they’re interrupted by a dingy being pulled up on shore (somehow they didn’t notice this until the were RIGHT on the beach) containing Theon and the straggler Ironborn. Theon sees Jon and is like like “hey sup” and Jon’s all YOUSONOFABITCH!!! but stops just short of roughing him up because of what he did for Sandra. He then tells him that Euron has his sister and he needs Dany’s help to get her back, but Jon says she’s not home right now...

Where could she beeeeeee?? Welp, we hop back over the the Lannister wagon train, which, again, Jaime and Bronn are just sitting and watching. Apparently they are much closer the the Crownlands (or in the Crownlands?) than they had been at the beginning of the episode... They then decide to have some not-so-subtle small talk with Dickon Tarly, whom Jaime again calls Rickon, about how he fought pretty decently at Highharden but how he has yet to be really tested. THEN GUESS WHAT HAPPENS, GUYS??? The show is interrupted by a screening of Dances with Wolves--no, wait, that’s just the Dothraki streaming over the hill to fuck shit up... along with Dany riding Drogon.

COMMENCE BATTLE #371 TO DISTRACT THE VIEWERS FROM THE SHITTY WRITING!!!

Yes, it’s all very exciting and well-executed, if you ignore:

The Dothraki would have had to circumvent KL somehow to get there.

They couldn’t have gone by ship because Euron destroyed Dany’s fleet.

Horse-Surfing™

The scene was 90% about Bronn?? For some reason??

Dany, who not 10 minutes ago was complaining about not being able to feed her army, proceeds to destroy all the gold and grain the Lannisters were hauling.

Gratuitous horse violence because “edgy” I guess

WHY/HOW IS TYRION THERE?

So the big climax comes when Bronn gets promoted from Bronn of the Blackwater to Bronn of the Big-Ass Crossbow. Yes, in yet another ham-fisted callback to an early season, Bronn figures out how to use the giant ballista and fires an arrow straight into Drogon’s shoulder, forcing Dany to land. While she’s down, Tyrion is standing off to the side and spots Jaime on the battlefield and is mumbling for him to get the fuck out of there. But this is Jaime Fookin’ Lannister, he doesn’t run away from anything, especially his toxic co-dependent relationship with his twin sister!! So he grabs a spear and begins to charge toward Dany like he at the Hand’s Tourney (except we never actually saw him joust at the Hand’s Tourney, so once again, emotional impact of this moment is M.I.A.). Just as he’s about to strike, Drogon turns and is about to make him dragon kibble when he is rescued at the last second by, presumably, Bronn, and is swept away beneath an extremely deep puddle that just happened to be nearby. The End.

I know there are a lot of show-critics today who are super hyped about this battle (which is apparently a “reference” to the Field of Fire, ugh), but guys... sorry, no. I am way past the point where a showy battle scene is going to make up for all the nonsense that came before it. They’ve tried this trick already -- it was called “Hardhome”. It didn’t work on me then, and it won’t work on me now. I would have rather seen a more meaningful reunion between the Stark sisters than another expensive spectacle. If this is why the direwolves have disappeared, then sorry, I don’t consider it a fair trade-off.

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DoMA stats

There's this really cool podcast I adore called Deck of Many Aces. It's an actual play podcast whose cast are all somewhere on the aro and/or ace spectra, set in a fantasy world undergoing an industrial revolution. (Also each PC's past, present and future has been determined by a card drawn from the Deck of Many Things, but that doesn't come up much.) One of DoMA's selling points is its very long, chaotic, banter-filled introductions, and because my love language is statistics I've compiled some fun facts about those intros!

Length

The average DoMA episode is 15.3% introduction

The longest introduction (as a percentage of the video) is that of episode 18, Out of the Closet, which is a whopping 24.9% introduction. The shortest is episode 2, Trouble in Tepmet, which is 7.4% introduction.

The last time an episode was less than 10% introduction was episode 25, Law and Disorder. The last time before that was episode 8, Snowglobes and Secrets.

Running Jokes

Each episode, the DM Ellie gives a different backronym for DM as part of her introduction, of the form Demisexual ______. As of today, the 1st of September 2022, they have yet to repeat a backronym. The longest backronym so far is Demisexual Man-I'm glad-to-be-back (Episode 14, At First I Was Afraid), and the shortest is Demisexual Mug (Episode 12, The Fig Tree).

Episode 6, "I've Got Five Temporary Hit Points and Nothing To Lose", saw the players suggest various possibilities for the backronym as Ellie struggled to think of one, including Mother, Montague and Moo. Although Ellie claimed in Episode 16, Murder in the Clockwork City, that Mother was used, in fact the backronym settled on was Masochist.

In each episode, the players will interrupt Ellie's spiel by all saying 'bwam!' (This is much funnier than I'm making it sound, I promise). Over the course of the 44 episodes released so far, the bwams have taken a total of 2 minutes and 51 seconds.

Katie is occasionally mocked for always introducing their character as a "wizard who can fly". However, in the 36 main storyline episodes released so far, she has only done this 7 times.

[dr-spencer-reids-queen]

Extreme Aggressor: Part Two

Pairing: Eventual Spencer Reid x Reader

Word Count: 2.1k

Warnings: canon violence, canon language, canon talk of death, methods of kill, and angst

Summary: Jason Gideon is called back from a six-month leave from the Behavioral Analysis Unit to profile a killer. Meanwhile, the team flies across the country to Seattle when another young woman goes missing at the hands of "The Seattle Strangler," another serial killer.

Author’s Note: Here is it finally! After hard work, it is finally ready for your viewing pleasure! Please, feedback is always appreciated so let me know what you like about it and what you didn’t!

I do not own anything from Criminal Minds. All credit goes to their respective owners. If there is any warnings that exceed the normal death/kills from the show, I will list them. If you’ve seen the show, then it’s the same level of angst unless otherwise stated.

So without further ado, please enjoy!

After arriving at the police headquarters, you followed Gideon and the rest of the team inside the building. It still felt awkward between you and the rest of the team which is why you stuck to Gideon’s side the whole time. He walked fast throughout the building, and you did your best to keep up.

“He never stands with his back to a window. When I was between him and a doorway, he asked me to move,” Derek gossiped about your friend.

“That's hypervigilance. It's not uncommon in post-traumatic stress disorder.”

“Just how much disorder are we talking about?”

“Morgan, it's been six months. Everything's okay,” Hotchner calmed him down.

“And he brings along a woman we don’t even know? How do we know we can trust her? I’m sorry, but she doesn’t mean anything to me yet,” Derek asked just as you passed them.

Looking at them over your shoulder, you caught Spencer’s eyes before moving on.

“Give her time. You gave me time,” he said, catching up to you. “Sorry about that.”

“Don’t be. He’s right. I’m a stranger to you guys.”

“Hopefully by the end of this, you won’t be,” he smiled, walking into the main room with you that was crowded with uniforms.

“This is special agent Gideon, special agent Morgan, our expert on obsessional crimes, special agent Reid—”

“Dr. Reid,” Gideon interrupted.

“Dr. Reid, our expert on well, everything, and the newest member of our team, Y/N Y/L/N. And after two years busting my ass in this office, I hope you all remember me,” Hotchner smiled with the laughter that ensured throughout the room.

“He's willing to travel with the body,” Gideon speaks, looking at the map.

“Then he drives a vehicle capable of concealing one,” Hotchner added.

“1 in 7.4 drivers in Seattle owns an SUV,” Spencer spat out.

“But how do we know it's his car? Ted Bundy drove a VW Bug. What about a Jeep Cherokee? Jeeps are more masculine,” Derek voiced his thoughts.

“We all know how an unsub feels about asserting his masculinity,” Gideon chuckled.

“When did the bureau become involved in the case?” Hotchner asked the lead police officer.

“After the fourth body. He dumped that one out of state.”

While everyone was conversing and talking, you walked up the board with the recent pictures of the latest kidnapped victim, Heather. She went missing about a day ago which means she has about 24 hours left until she is dead—and the clock is ticking. Her image and the photos of the abduction site certainly does something for you, but it’s not enough. Reaching up to touch the image of her, you closed your eyes to see if you can get anything from a picture.

A flash of an orange car here, her heart rate increasing while inside the car, but other than that, you got nothing. It would be better if you were touching some of her things since the human body leaves traces wherever they go, whatever they touch. Since she wasn’t murdered, there isn’t a dump site that would give you even more clues and answers.

“What are you doing?” Spencer asked when he saw you.

Opening your eyes, you lowered your hand before looking at him.

“I am trying to connect myself with her through a photograph. It’s not that common to get anything, but it does happen. I see an orange car and her fearful expressions, but that’s about it.”

“What do you need in order to get a clearer picture?”

“Her belongings. Every human leaves a spiritual trace wherever they go. It’s stronger with personal items.”

“Agent Gideon, where would you like to start?” one of the policemen asked.

“Let's start at the site of the last murder. Y/N, you coming?”

“I think I’ll get a better read on Heather and whether she’s alive or not if I’m with her things. I’ll go to her house.”

“Reid and I will go with you,” Hotchner announced.

Knowing you wouldn’t go alone, you bit your own tongue and followed the two men out the door. The fact that the Bureau provided government standard SUVs were pretty cool. It didn’t take long to go to Heather’s house, and when you arrived, you met her brother and the dog she owned.

“Sandy, no, no, no. I'm so sorry,” Heather’s brother, David, apologized when the big dog started barking and trying to playfully attack you three. However, when it came to you, the dog just stared at you silently.

“No, it's okay. It's what we call the Reid effect,” Hotchner stated, causing the young doctor to be confused. “I'm agent Hotchner. This is special agent Dr. Reid and Dr. Y/N Y/L/N.”

“Y/N is fine,” you quickly added.

“You two look too young to have gone to medical school,” the man observed.

“They're PhD's. 3 of them. She has two.”

“Spencer,” you whispered softly to get him to shut up about it.

It’s not like you don’t want people to know you have 2 PhDs, but you just didn’t want the attention. Plus, if your dad knew you went to school to be a profiler in the FBI, he’d have your head.

“Are you a genius or something?”

“I don't believe that intelligence can be accurately quantified, but I do have an IQ of 187 and an eidetic memory and can read 20,000 words per minute,” he gushed. The man stared at him like he was crazy, so the young doctor just agreed. “Yes, I'm a genius.”

“Sandy, you get a lot of attention, don't you?” Hotchner asked the dog who just panted.

Instead of being with them, you took a look around the room to see if you can get a feel to the place. Heather’s spirit was here through certain items, but because there are more than one, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly where it’s coming from. The conversation went on about her dog until it got back on track.

“David, does your sister drive a Datsun Z?” Spencer asked when he picked up a magazine.

“No, but she's in the market for one. How'd you know?” he asked, and Spencer held it up. David just shook his head and took his dog outside since she was getting antsy.

“There's an immediate relationship established between a buyer and a seller, a certain level of trust. If I want to coax a young woman into my car, I’d offer her a test drive,” you said, causing the two men to stare at you.

Their bodies were emitting tension, and you knew they didn’t trust you at all. You needed to do something to prove to them that you were worthy enough to be on this team.

“Let me show you what I can do, okay?”

“Alright,” Hotch said.

Taking the magazine from Spencer’s hands, you closed your eyes in concentration. A multitude of pictures flashed through your mind due to the residue that Heather left behind, until those pictures turned into film. Heather was seated on the couch right behind Hotch and Spencer, flipping through the magazine happily. When she got to the page she wanted, she grabbed the red marker on the table next to her and circled the orange car a bunch of times. She then grabbed her money and began counting it to see if she had enough money to buy it.

“Heather is sitting on that couch, super excited to buy the orange car I keep seeing. She circles the one she wants with a red marker, and she starts to count her money,” you open your eyes, and began to flip through the magazine until you found the page you were looking for. “If I’m right, it’s this page she was on. She found someone with this exact car, and whoever took her did it because they got her to test drive it.”

The page you landed on was the same exact page with the red marker.

“Nice job,” Hotch complimented.

“That’s amazing,” Spencer muttered.

“Thank you. I just want to help, Agent Hotchner.”

“Please, call me Hotch.”

“Okay, then how about the fact that on one hand, we have paranoid psychosis, but the autopsy protocol says what?” Derek asked.

Back at the office, everyone was talking about the case and how the MO of this unsub didn’t make any sense. Derek was the one who was freaking out about everything since apparently not having a profile ready didn't bode well for him.

“Adhesive residue shows he put layer after layer of duct tape over his victims' eyes,” Spencer answered.

“He knows he wants to kill them, but he still covers their eyes. He doesn't want 'em looking at him, apparently. Okay, but then he takes the body and dumps it right out in the open, murder weapon nearby.”

“Not the MO of a paranoid convinced he's being watched or surveilled,” Spencer added.

Gideon stares at the drawing board while the rest talked about the case. Just by the look of his face, he was drowning out whatever they were saying. Even though you can get a read on his spiritual energy, that didn’t mean you could understand what he is thinking.

“Jason? What’s wrong?” you asked quietly, making sure only he could hear you.

However, he didn’t answer you directly.

“Alright, enough,” he interrupted the chatter in the room. “Let's tell them we're ready.”

“We're ready?” Derek gasped as Gideon left the room. The young genius started to write something down on his notepad, but the older agent wasn’t finished. “Reid, you're good with this? We've got a woman who's only got a few hours left to live, an incomplete profile, and a unit chief on the verge of a nervous breakdown.”

“They don't call them nervous breakdowns anymore,” you noted.

“It's called a major depressive episode.”

“I know, Reid,” Derek sighed.

Walking away from the board, you looked at Spencer quickly right before you left the room. Gideon gathered everyone in a conference room to deliver the profile and stood in the middle of the room with the tables blocking him in on three sides like a square. The rest of his team stood off to the side, and while Hotch, Spencer, and Derek were listening, you were watching the reactions of everyone in this room. If your abilities told you anything, it’s how untrustworthy even the most highly respected person could be.

“The unidentified subject is white and in his late 20's. He's someone you wouldn't notice at first. He's someone who'd blend into any crowd. The violent nature of the crime suggests a previous criminal record--petty crimes, maybe auto theft,” Gideon began. Running your eyes over every person in this room, you tapped into their energies to see what the normal eye couldn’t.

“We've classified him as an organized killer—psychopathic as opposed to psychotic. He follows the news, has good hygiene, and he's smart. 'Cause he's smart, the only physical evidence you'll find is what he wants you to find,” Gideon continued. The person right in front of you wanted to pay attention, but all of his focus was centered on his phone. He’s got some private issues at home that you rather not delve into right now.

“He's mobile, and his car in good condition. Our guess is a Jeep Cherokee with tinted windows. The murders have all involved rapes, but rape without penetration is a form of piquerism, and that tells us he's sexually inadequate.”

The person to your right is paying very close attention to what Gideon is saying, but she is focused on his lips and the way he talks which says that she’s attracted to him right now. That made you want to laugh because you knew for a fact that Gideon was seeing someone on the down low.

“What is it?” Spencer whispered when he saw the hint of your smile.

“That woman over there wants to bone Gideon,” you whispered back.

“How do you know?”

“I’m psychic, Spencer. I know more about a person than you think. Want me to do you?”

“No, thank you,” he whispered and got back to what Gideon was saying.

“Psychiatric evaluations will show a history of paranoia stemming from a childhood trauma—death of a parent or family member, and now he feels persecuted and watched. Murder gives him a sense of power. Organized killers have a fascination with law enforcement. They will inject themselves into the investigation. They will even come forward as witnesses to see just how much the police really know. That makes them feel powerful, in control. Which is why I also think in fact, I know you have already interviewed him,” Gideon finished, causing the entire room to feel shocked at the news.

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StackedNatural Day 128: 6x16, 9x15

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March 4, 2022

6x16: ...And Then There Were None

Written by: Brett Matthews

Directed by: Mike Rohl

Original air date: March 4, 2011

Plot Synopsis:

When Sam, Dean and Bobby run into Rufus, and the Campbells all hunting the cause of an upsurge in supernatural activity, tensions erupt into violence.

Features:

A rare Rufus appearance, Eve inducing family murder via Khan Worm, Rufus’ tragic backstory, a combination three-card monty bottle episode, Eve’s message.

My Thoughts:

For the most part this is a decent episode, I dig the bottle episode vibe of all of them being trapped in the warehouse being picked off one-by-one. Monster possession as a concept is… fine, I guess? It doesn’t feel like a scary, exciting new thing because they can and will do this exact concept again with demonic possession and it’ll work better. If they wanted to make us afraid of what Eve could create, it should have been something actually new.

I’m glad Samuel Campbell is dead, he annoyed me and I got bored of his storyline. I liked Gwen ok although I wasn’t particularly attached to her (and I don’t think either of the male cousins have died yet so I don’t see why the only female hunter had to be the one killed for shock value).

Rufus’ death annoys me. On it’s own it isn’t the most egregious thing the show has done, but it is part of a larger pattern of characters of colour being killed off to further the emotional arc of the white leads. We barely got any of his backstory before he died because they didn’t care enough to make him a well-rounded character until he was valuable as a dead guy.

Definitely not the worst episode of this season but I wasn’t particularly invested, either.

Notable Lines:

“A mother would never abandon her children like He did. You'll see.”

“Bobby, you got a cranial saw in the car?” “Of course.”

“Since when do you got a pacemaker?” “Since Bush Jr., term one. I'm down three toes, too, F.Y.I.”

“She has a message for you. ​​You're all gonna die. She's pissed. She's here. And it's gonna be nothing but pain for you from here on in.”

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 7.0

IMdB Rating: 8.4

9x15: #THINMAN

Written by: Jenny Klein

Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc

Original air date: March 4, 2014

Plot Synopsis:

As Dean and Sam investigate the murder of a teenage girl, they once again cross paths with the Ghostfacers.

Features:

The return of the Ghostfacers, ongoing tension between the brothers, 2 counts of paranormal fraud, the Ghostfacers straight up killing a guy.

My Thoughts:

This is a fairly mediocre episode for one featuring fan favourite Ghostfacers. I remember being pretty bored by it when it first aired too - I had caught up and was watching live at that point, and it annoyed me how much they were trying to capitalize on Slenderman being popular at the time. I don’t find any of the emotional beats hitting because the moral and parallels are pretty clunky. Also, I feel like I remember the actor playing Ed being a better actor in earlier episodes, but he doesn’t really emote much in this one.

Harry’s delivery of “we are the professionals, Ed!” did make me laugh out loud, and the beginning of the episode was fun watching the Winchester brothers being so incredibly bitchy to them.

The only scene that I felt emotionally connected to is the one where Dean was describing Sam breaking his arm at 5 years old and Dean taking him to the ER on his bike’s handlebars, which, I think they were trying to make me think fondly of baby Winchesters, but instead I flew into a brief blind rage at their father not being there to take him and not leaving them with any adult supervision that could have taken him. So.

Kind of a bummer that the first Ghostfacers episode we see in Stacked isn’t a great one.

Notable Lines:

I really didn’t write any down, sorry y’all.

Laura’s (completely subjective) Episode Rating: 5.7

IMdB Rating: 7.4

In Conclusion: Do we really get a whole weekend off? Dang.

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7 Seeds season 1 review *spoilers*

Don't know how I feel after finishing the first season...Like the premise of the show is great, haven't watched any apocalyptic type shows in a while. It's kinda lowkey dumb the government or whoever made this project didn't have an end goal? And why make all the Teams so far away, I mean I get it but why keep things a secret if we're all humanities last hope? It just felt like a bad plan.

Gonna discuss a couple of characters, starting with Natsu, honestly, she was pretty annoying when we first met her..still getting used to her cause she's making progress, I'll give her that. I'm saying all this like I wouldn't be crying my butt off if I woke up years after the world basically ended. I don't mind timid characters but she just got on my nerves like she kept falling over everything and when she his Hana's letter to Arashi, I mean she did the right thing in the end.

Episode 7 was depressing. I cried at the end for Mark and the other people. The way they all accepted their fate to die and all thanked each other for meeting one another. When mark was talking to the puppet..that was so sad!!!

After learning Takahiro's backstory he became probably my favorite character. I felt bad that he was by himself for 15 years, that's so crazy. Ok fair warning I'm gonna go off on a certain character, any guesses? Ya it's Ango. He's a literal piece of trash. He was very much angsty the moment we met him, and ya he has his reasons. But the moment he ALMOST r*ped Hana, he went on my hitlist. Idc what anyone's excuse is!!! Before that, he kept mistreating Hana just because she's the daughter of the professor but dude she had NOTHING to do with it so he really needs to redirect his anger towards someone else...like maybe the guides who were in on it??? It was very infuriating to watch. And the fact that the others in her group avoided her to give her space?? Like WHAT LOL. He was literally making life hell for her. Also referring to the last ep, ya'll really let her go down the cave with the group who you KNOW was mistreating her. C'mon now, Takahiro, Haru, anyone else could've gone with her!! I really hope she isn't a goner cause I'll be really upset.

If you couldn't tell I was half intrigued and half irritated AF watching this show. Hoping season 2 gives us more answers.

Rate: 7.4/10

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Interesting how in this tweet by Mary’s voice actor she refers to Mary as just Sergeant and how in the episode Mary says that she was Sergeant… never mind and then never says Marvel. I wonder if Mary as a part of Zatanna’s team will just go by Sergeant.

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I am manifesting good Billy scenes this yj season. listen the opening song is focused on the original members of the team from season 1. the first two episodes are about original main characters conner and m’gann. Billy had his biggest presence in the show in season 1. if they’re pivoting their focus to the original characters after oversaturating the cast the last 2 seasons then we may get… a slightly bigger Billy scrap then we got in seasons 2 or 3

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