The Originals Season 4, built the Hollow up, and then squandered all potential in the name of a spinoff. Now, I know I play Hope, and I know without the spinoff I wouldn’t have so much material for her, but when I say I’m an Originals Based Hope Mikaelson, I mean that I tend to lean into the Crescent stuff, and I almost never acknowledge that the Mikaelsons are never around when Hope needs them. They may not be able to be there 24/7, but I refuse to believe they just dropped her off and let her fend for herself the whole time she was at the Boarding School.
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Something about Tucker being held to a higher standard than all of the other Reds and Blues in the later seasons. Sure he likes sex and makes “that’s what she said” esque sex jokes, but like, especially during Shisno trilogy, the show seems to really like putting him down or treating his love for sex like a comedic punching bag. Oh, Tucker’s a single dad who genuinely loves and cares about his one alien kid despite how that kid was forced upon him? Well actually he had sex with a TON of women on Chorus by using the fuck temple and now has a ton of kids that he’s reluctant to pay child support for. And speaking of the temple, despite it being said to make everyone on the planet super horny and sex obsessed, Tucker says he didn’t feel any different, because making him hypersexual is funny (why is it funny, RT?). And remember how Tucker’s arc during Chorus had him emotionally dealing with Felix’s betrayal? Well now he falls for the most obvious manipulative lies from Temple, I guess he’s just dumber now. And you remember that funny scene in season 5 where Doc is giving Sister a physical exam, and Tucker obviously really wants to see her naked, but because Doc keeps telling him to not come in, and likely out of respect, he doesn’t, while Red Team is secretly perving on her (which they never fucking get called out for), plus all the funny moments of him trying to flirt with her, and her either being receptive or so fucking weird that it takes him aback? Well Tucker still REALLY wants her, but he’s now a childish asshole who can’t stand the idea of her not wanting to sleep with him, and is now super self centered despite the arc he went through showing how he values others, and the series basically keeps fucking with him and making him miserable and barely ever giving him a moment of relief. And you know how he was mercilessly tortured for M O N T H S during Restoration? Well he doesn’t get to process that trauma, and despite all the growth he’s supposedly gone through throughout the series, his last moment is an offscreen sex joke because Tucker’s the perv, get it? We can’t let him have a fucking break despite literally everyone else being treated comparatively nicer or given some kind of levity. Why specifically Tucker, Rooster Teeth? What has he done that’s so bad to you that you continually treat his character this way despite the fact that he’s truly the best (and should have been main) character in this whole series?
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uuhhh in other new that lmk s5 trailer dropped and people are very
mixed
for context the new season is being partly animated by wildbrain i think. flying bark is still working on the show but probably due to all the other projects they've been working on like the atla movie the animation is off.
its understandable that people are upset. lmk has some of the most consistently dynamic and lively animation ive ever seen, and going from that to ok animation kinda sucks. as a culmination of a lot of what the series has been building up to people were inevitably going to be disappointed
at the same time people shouldnt harass animators. like ever. no amount of trying to petition or anything will change the s5, people are just trying to do their job and theres no probably no major changing to the finished product by now. and theres still a lot of that lmk charm in there, and we haven't even seen the whole season yet to judge it. flying bark is still working on it, and even if the animation never reaches the peak of the old seasons it still has the same writers so at least the writing has the chance to live up old standards. idk though we'll just have to wait and see
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Something something empathy compassion even with the worst kind of people but also how some people just continue to disappoint us and it’s ok to take a step back from them but also something something empathy and compassion even for the worst of us. Not you, but maybe someone else.
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(TRIGGER WARNING/TW FOR THIS ENTIRE POST GUYS) Dee angst for @anomalocaris-enthustist
<3 Dee is battling an eating disorder. We see him skip breakfast in one episode, and we also see him skip lunch to blackmail another kid at his school and pathetically attempt to “save” Heavy from gopher. His parents also threw a lunch bag at Heavy but it didn’t show them giving one to Dee??? Hmm that was weird of his parents. it’s suspicious that we really never see him actually eat
<3 Dee cuts… he always wears jeans and boots even when other characters are wearing shorts and he wears leather bracelets that he never takes off. Even in Heavy’s insta when they’re wearing “Halloween costumes” or got into Glam’s old rock clothes, Dee is wearing the same bracelets. And then when asked how he deals with everything? He hesitates for a second looks at his wrists, then simply states, “I have my methods.”
<3 Dee longs so desperately for his father’s approval. As we see in the show, he’s loved by his teacher at school and is almost worshipped as the smartest in the class. He performs well on every test. He doesn’t get the validation he wants from Glam so he looks to get it from his teacher instead. I feel like although Dee makes it seem like it comes easy to him, it doesn’t. I imagine little sticky notes about the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in his copy of Lord of the Rings, hours spent lying awake late at night thinking about the next unit, a pristine looking textbook for school and one with demented scribbles all over it to study at home. Music doesn’t come easy for Dee, sure, but if Glam nurtured it instead of rejecting that Dee has any talent at all, Dee might’ve been as good at guitar as he is at school.
<3 Dee is bullied at school. Not just by Chipmunk but by other kids as well. He always tries to be a hero and protect Heavy when Heavy gets in fights, but I feel like he may be bullied just in general when Heavy is not involved as well. I also have a theory where Dee sneaks out of the window at night because he has made “deals” with kids who would bully Heavy, but they leave Heavy alone in exchange for Dee going to meet them at night instead. Maybe sometimes they would be satisfied just beating Dee up, or sometimes they’ll ask him to steal things for them… the possibilities are endless
<3 Dee hates being looked at, maybe due to not liking his appearance. We see he averts his eyes when Lif looks directly at him, and he is outright mean to Diane when she stares for too long. He’s just very insecure about himself.
<3 Dee struggles with anxiety and depression. He just has the vibes for it
<3 Glam and Vicky focus so much on Heavy because he’s younger and such a handful that they forget Dee is still growing too. I’ve noticed they tend to treat Heavy more like an actual kid, but whenever Dee is involved they seem to treat him like an adult. For example, when they told Glam on separate occasions that he’d been summoned to school, Glam’s reaction to Heavy was just an “ok :)!” But when Dee came in Glam was surprised and disappointed like, “Oh… it’s you, Dee :(.” And it may be because they expect Dee to be more mature but they’re always harsher with him. Like when Dee doesn’t go to school bc he has a field trip first period and Vicky immediately starts yelling, but a few episodes later Heavy gets to skip school on the day of an important test for his birthday
(also guys making it clear that i don’t headcanon glam or Vicky as abusive. I think they both have trauma and they’re trying their best to overcome it and honestly the way they treat Dee is a pretty common dynamic some parents fall into. Although I do think they should maybe try to make up for their mistakes at some point)
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