#i watch sab

[wewillbehappyagain]

Mal in Shadow and Bone season 2: “So now I’m not sure we’ll ever know.” (“Know what?”) “Why I walked past three other orphanages until I found Keramzin. Whether my bloodline and your powers were the only reason we ever met. The only reason we fell in love.”

Mal in Ruin and Rising: (“Is that what’s between us? My power and yours? Is that why we became friends, why…”) “Maybe that brought us together, but it didn’t make us who we are. It didn’t make you the girl who could make me laugh when I had nothing. (…) Whatever there is between us, we forged it. It belongs to us.”

[nataliescatorccio]

JESPER & WYLAN + kisses

[theartofangirling]

if you hesitate, the getting is gone

eat your young | kaz brekker [youtube]

[iambecomeafangirl]

You want to torture ME? Netflix has cancelled every single one of my favourite shows, before the characters and the story could reach their/it's full potential. I know pain.

[useragarfield]

Are you sure?

[jeanmoreaux]

*appears next to you unprompted* OH and one more thing. they really did not have to strip wylan of his cleverness & cunning. actually, my son would have had jesper gladly reciting all the information on that passport before the man could have even entertain the slightest inkling of wylan’s dyslexia. 

[jakejeffreyperalta]

im not saying that kit and jack recreating the "no, not just girls" scene added 20 years to my life but kit and jack recreating the "no, not just girls" scene added 20 years to my life.

[rotisseries]

something about nina sitting there trying to start up mal's heart while alina leans over him, holding him dead in her arms, begging him to come back to her. something about how alina DOES get him back. how she calls him and he comes. something about how nina is witness to that. something about how one day nina will lean over matthias, holding him dying in her arms, begging him to come back to her, and he won't

[gojonanami]

hear me out

gojo but howl’s moving castle AU with a jjk twist—

[jimjimenezzz]

stabbing your love to save the world

Shadow and Bone 2.08 "No Funerals" | The Magnus Archives MAG 200 "Last Words"

[wewillbehappyagain]

The Shadow and Bone writers looked at the books they were going to adapt, saw the title “Ruin and Rising” and thought it said “Ruin and Rushed”

[sleepless-crows]

the crows actors talk about their characters with so much understanding and love. they really love the characters and this art that leigh made and i trust them so much. in netflix we don't trust. in the cast we do

[flowerangels]

shadow and bone season two spoilers, and six of crows duology spoilers for those who haven’t read //

ok. i’m a Wesper Girlie through and through and i actually love what they did in the show. I think having them meet the way they did and for them to get together so quickly speaks to the aging up of their characters and makes sense for the show (it’s also an added benefit that it could combat some of the one dimensional uwu soft boy view of wylan)

i’m also excited about (crossing every finger i have and knocking on every wood surface) how the books could be incorporated further down the line!! like the possibilities are endless

for example, after a reveal of wylan’s background and identity, we could still have snarky jesper! we could still have jealous wylan!! we could still have colm talking to wylan and telling him he’d be good for his son and that he’d like to think his son could be good for him too

we could still have you kissed the wrong boy in front of me and it could be you kissed the wrong boy in front of me and immediately knew it wasn’t me because you know what it’s like to kiss me

book wesper are something so special to me, their meeting, their slow burn, their slow and sure way of finding each other through taunts and being forced to work together and begrudging compliments and yearning appreciative looks but i like that show wesper have the chance to be their own thing and to develop a connection that is true to the changes they’ve already made to the crows and their story in the show

[romantichopelessly]

Shadow and Bone Season 2 Final Thoughts

I am going to split this into a SaB section and a SoC section, since I have very different thoughts on them.

Shadow and Bone

The Malina this season was EXCELLENT. Good stuff, excellent changes made on the front of Mal’s insane jealousy and miscommunication.

Gibson’s Nikolai was. So perfect?? I loved so much about him. He was just the right amount of dutiful and roguish, and I loved him.

Genya carried this season. The acting was so well done and always moving. She got the most tears out of me this season. Her confrontation with the queen & that scene in the last episode really got me.

No “I am not ruined. I am ruination.” Which was severely disappointing. I’m genuinely surprised it wasn’t there, because they kept in characters calling her ruined.

Tamar/Nadia were in just the perfect amount. They got crumbs in the book so I’m glad they at least got something here.

GenyaDavid was CARRYING this season. Every scene with those two was so heartachy. I cannot believe they moved up David’s death. But I’m not mad at it.

No “I am become a blade”. Honestly kind of glad for this kind of disappointed. It was funny as hell but also it would have been out of place so.

No Oncat???? Unforgivable omission.

Zoya deserved a bit more this season. Part of me felt like they shouldn’t have brought her in on the Shu Han side quest because she did so little there. She just felt like another body. Which she didn’t deserve.

The ending. Was so much and so much change that I have mixed feelings about. But props on them for taking the initiative to change that much.

Alina’s ending. I’m glad she didn’t have to lose her powers. While the epilogue with her running her fingers through sunlight she cannot bend is heartbreakingly good, I always disliked that ending for her. She deserved more than just a powerless domestic life because she wanted more. Yes she wanted to be able to be with Mal and be free, and I want that for her, but it shouldn’t have been at the cost of her powers.

Mal becoming a privateer is. I’m unsure of how I feel about it right now. It feels odd, because Mal has always said he only wants a calm life with Alina. But I get why they’re giving him this open ending, so they can continue. Which, by the last scene, they obviously plan to continue the SaB side of things into a King of Scars type story.

Nikolai’s ending. I am SO glad they went ahead and showed signs of his demon side. It honestly was good that they didn’t have him turn earlier in the season, because it would have felt cramped with everything else, especially when we just met him.

I do think Alina and Nikolai continuing the engagement is weird though. Why would they do that? How will it affect any possible future next season, especially if they’re going in KoS territory, with Zoyalai?

Six of Crows

Starting with the positives here: Nina CARRIED the crows this season. She was perfect. Annoyed with Kaz from the start. EXCELLENT with Inej and with Jesper a bit.

Similarly, the Helnik was perfect and heartbreaking. Just the right pacing even with the changes. They broke me. And the last scene of them actually killed me, I think.

For episodes 1&2 all I could think about with Wylan was how well they were capturing him. Just the right amount of genuine kindness and naïveté and snark.

I liked how they upped the violence for the crows. Everyone got to get a hit in. Kaz was a great step up in ruthlessness. Inej grew, and Nina actually got to use her powers effectively. And Wylan got some good shots in.

Episode 4 really threw me off with the crows though. I cannot believe that they added a scene from the last 100 pages of Crooked Kingdom to this season. Before the Ice Court. Kaz finishing off Pekka is the end of his arc. How on earth are they going to have him do the actions that it takes to get through the Ice Court Heist if he isn’t working to gain power and tear down Rollins?

Obviously they’re setting up Rollins to come back and be a threat again but how will that work?? He knows who Nina is. The CK heist hinges on Van Eck and Rollins not knowing who Nina is.

Wesper getting together actually made me feel dread as I watched it. I view the show and books as very separate, that’s how I enjoy them, but I couldn’t wrap my head around how they thought this was a good idea beyond fan service. Having Wesper together right off the bat ruins both of their character arcs. If they’re together before their growth, none of it means anything. Even in the show, to make it work, they had to fast track two very important reveals for them.

I was fine with Jesper’s Durast powers being revealed this season. I even expected it. I thought Inej and Kaz would find out, or say they knew this season. And maybe Jesper would use his powers in secret. But no. Everyone knew by the end of the season, and he barreled through self acceptance in like 3 episodes. WITHOUT A SINGLE COLM APPEARANCE. Do you get how bad that is?? Colm is integral to Jesper’s shame, and he didn’t even show up, and though I like the scene with his mom in theory, how will Jesper and Colm have any good tension now? How will SoC and CK even work if Jesper has already solved the biggest source of his self esteem issues AND his gambling problem?

Which, by the way, insanely weird his addiction didn’t really come up this season. It was mentioned once or twice but really had no effect on his character. Which. Addiction doesn’t turn on and off.

Wylan’s illiteracy came out way too soon as well. He didn’t really get a chance to prove himself before Jesper found out, which. I can’t even articulate now why I hate that so much. I’ll have to make a separate post.

Back to Wesper speedrun. We can’t have so many critical Wesper scenes because of this. No “not just girls”. No Kuwei kiss, unless it’s a huge stretch in miscommunication when they’re already dating. No “I was paying attention” when Genya tailors Wylan because of course it’s not a surprise he knows his face if they’re dating.

Another one of my favorite scenes that won’t work now: The Kaz and Jesper Big Fight. Jesper knows who Jordie is already. It loses all tension.

Inej’s ending also really bothered me. Her having freedom and starting her hunt for slavers BEFORE the Ice Court? I genuinely don’t see how they can make the ICH work at this point. How will these characters ever come back together? Why would Inej come back? Just because Jurda Parem was an issue? Because if so, I feel they’ll be leaning too much into the Crows being pawns of the crown, which ultimately destroys their purpose. They aren’t chosen ones in ANY CAPACITY. Yes, Inej may do things for more moral reasons, but in the end she doesn’t work for the crown. Because of how they treat the Suli, especially.

[eerna]

MAL TELLING ALINA TO GO THROUGH WITH THE POLITICAL MARRIAGE SO TRUE

[greensaplinggrace]

"darklina shippers will see alina wanting the darkling dead and treat it as high romance! 😡" lol of course I will? they're a lovers to enemies ship like damn girl learn to have some fun!