Oddly for a sequel show, Cobra Kai is putting far too much weight on the original TKK film. They keep acting like this is teenage Johnny and teenage Daniel going toe to toe, but these are adult men. They should have lived adult lives and processed adult experiences and emotions before getting to the beginning of Cobra Kai’s story. Why can’t Johnny ever seem to grow up in a meaningful way? Why does Daniel keep chucking his healthy wealthy family life to the side to get involved in random ass karate shit? Why do they refuse to truly mend the fences between them? I understand showing trauma affecting them and TKK being an important moment in their lives, but the show acts like that was THE important moment in their lives. Nothing was bigger or more life changing than that (basically a high school karate tournament that happened one time) even though they’re decades past it. These characters aren’t truly allowed to be adult men grappling with the past, they’re written like stunted teens who are simply walking through some strange daydream life where they’ve got kids and jobs. And if the writers don’t ever treat them like adults, they’re never going to act like it nor will they ever grow in meaningful and permanent ways.
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Now I’ve been shipping buddie for yeaaarrsssss (aka 2 years lol) but all the toxic Buddie stan’s are like just making me want endgame BuckTommy/firefly sooooo baddddd (also Lou is just such a dork I wanna keep him in my pocket) (ps don’t attack me this just my opinion) (pps the fact I have to say that says a lot)
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for the ship ask game, have you ever thought about simm!master/eleven? would you like to?
would i ever!!!!!!
this was the basis of one of my posts about little amy so long ago. a hypothetical s5 where the master sticks with the doctor after he regenerates. but like can we talk about how insane that dynamic between him and amelia, the literal eight year old, would be. look at me. one of the defining things of eleven's run is that the first face he saw was amy's. seared onto his hearts!!! now, imagine that happens in a world where the master did everything right to be that person, and it was still amy. the tardis crashed, and the doctor went one way and the master went the other, and by the time the master drags himself soaking wet out of what was the swimming pool and into amelia's garden, the doctor is already having dinner with some random human child.
things simm!master is not above: being a little bitch to amy about this. yes, even when she's eight. (amelia pond with her stories about her magical raggedy doctor!! ...and the trash rat who crawled out of his time machine after him and threatened to eat her. wait okay hold on i know im getting distracted here but aslkjdalkjsd rory who amy makes dress up as the doctor vs mels who insists on dressing up as the master because she craves violence and an excuse to bite people.)
ANYWAY. god. eleven who is this bottomless well of grief and rage. and the master who is so much like him in this incarnation. silly goofy guys who burn too bright, burn up everything and everyone around them. what is simm!master if not a version of eleven untempered by kindness. i wonder what the master would have to say about a version of the doctor who is aware of how scared people are of him and uses it to his advantage. who scares the rest of the universe so much that they try to lock him away and kill him and do anything they can to get rid of him. when they lock the doctor up in the pandorica, does the master give him the final shove into the chair or is he a few feet away, just barely restrained, impotently snapping and snarling to prevent this?
but never looking at it directly, right? neither of them would be able to. not at what's between them, not at what came before. if you don't talk about that time you both saved each other, then maybe you can pretend it didn't happen.
i think the master would make eleven worse, no doubt about it. i think eleven might just make the master a little better, and he'd hate that but that wouldn't stop it from happening. they might find some sort of equilibrium, just this once, a little willing to bend in the aftermath of the events of the end of time. that part of the master that will be missy one day wakes up. the part of the doctor that was once the time lord victorious gets a last glorious breath. they can have that, together.
okay. okay. one last thing. gets ill thinking about eleven who is so physically affectionate being that way with the master. with mr 'im going to kiss my wife i married for political gain like im starving'. with mr 'time lord telepathy does not require physical contact but if we don't touch foreheads right now ill die'. with mr 'fuck u but also im gonna die in your arms, don't leave or let me go before everything falls quiet.' thinks about eleven touching him and hugging him and kissing him and- thinks about the master recoiling from it, hackles raised, or shoving the doctor away when he does. thinks about the doctor not stopping. thinks about the master getting accustomed to his touch, taking it greedily. (thinks about missy kissing the doctor to greet him later.)
yeag <3
[put any ship in my ask box and i’ll give my brutally honest opinion]
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i don’t want change and stress and uncontrollable situations in life
i want to be a lighthouse keeper where i do the same things every day in the same order at the same time and in the same way
i want to only speak to people like once a month when the ferry brings me necessities. i never have to stand in a busy drugstore trying to choose between 73 different types of toothpaste, i don’t want to cook proper meals, i don’t want to interact with other humans, i don’t want to hear any noise other than the rough sea slamming against the cliffs and the screeching of the seagulls. i want my round room in the lighthouse to be stacked with books. the ferry brings me fifty new ones every month, the books are old and have names written in them of people that are long dead.
i want to live off chocolate cereal in the morning, a varying type of fish for lunch, and dark bread with cheese for dinner. i want to have a black cat live with me there who gets the most delicious meals any cat has ever seen.
i want to befriend the birds that make halt on this tiny island on which i live. they bring me trinkets and i give them food and pet them. there’s a piano in the lighthouse — no one knows how it got there and who brought it. it’s just always been there. i teach myself. i can do that because there’s no one there to judge me. i’m all alone with my books, my cat, my music, and the sea.
i want such a life so badly. i want to escape, i don’t want this life that i have to live.
i don’t want to die, not anymore, but for goodness’ sake, this life is not worth living.
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Can a smart person tell me why Jane was into Kristina after the shit she pulled on him with the whole "your daughter never woke up" thing? Like, they clearly have vastly different principles/perspectives; what could have drawn him to her of all people?
I mean, Kristina kind of baffles me as a character to begin with. She comes across as completely sincere in her belief in the supernatural/afterlife/her own psychic abilities or whatever, and I'm not sure if that's the show writers trying to nod at the possibility of their existence or if it's just Kristina being deluded. And if she's not actually sincere, and she's scamming everyone all along, then why the hell would Jane want to be involved with her, given his own past?
Is there some third option I'm ignoring?
I've read some excellent posts analyzing Kristina's presence as a foil to Jane but I'm still confused as to why she would be set up as a love interest (even a failed one) for him.
Any thoughts?
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