ngl I love how an episode of Malevolent can end with Arthur being grievously injured (again) and my brain just goes 'yeah, okay, been here, he's gonna get better'
granted there's also now a part of me that kinda wants a moment where he doesn't to happen bc wouldn't that be a great 'oh f**** for real?' moment.
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Idk if this is a hot take or anything but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Jon didn’t have any friends (besides Martin) basically the entire series.
Sasha was nice enough but she was strictly professional. Tim was reasonable in the beginning and I like to believe they were friends but honestly he’s pretty wary of Jon s1. Melanie hated Jon the whole way through. Georgie was there for a bit before things got too messy, but the way she treats him s5 is like a time bomb. Basira treated Jon like a stove with a broken gas release, and Daisy, my god Daisy. I could go on and on about their relationship but it was really clear after the trauma she inflicted on Jon he could never truly trust her.
They all feed into the theme of Jon’s inhumanity, but I remember listening and being confused because I always saw ppl treating this like a found family when they never were.
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Me, throughout college, writing stories for professors: “meh, no one will notice this historical/cultural inaccuracy, I’m fine”
Me, two days after graduating, writing a fanfic: “if I cannot find out what the EXACT most BENIGN MEAL these two would eat at a tense dinner in a diner in northern Massachusetts during the early spring, I will hold an archivist hostage.”
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You know I love The Magnus Archives for a multitude of reasons but the coolest coincidence to me will always be the shortened name
Because it's TMA right. However, in Czech, the word "tma" means "the dark"
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The gate parallel (from the notes for ODE TO EPISODE 4 OF DANGEROUS ROMANCE podcast ep)
At the beginning of the episode, Sailom is invited to Kang’s house to study. He has to ring the gate bell and wait for Kang to come out and let him in.
The first shot we see him in is from the outside of the gates. He’s the outsider who gets a brief access in and a taste of privilege. The scene is filmed from his pov.
When Kanghan appears the camera focuses on him and we see this beautiful garden behind him. It's like Sailom is being temporarily invited into the grounds of a castle by this rich boy who, unlike Sailom, does not feel out of place in this environment.
However, at the end of the episode, Kanghan is waiting for Sailom by the gates IN THE RAIN. His umbrella is black, he’s dressed in black, everything behind him looks bleak and the scene even starts with us seeing him through the gates. It makes it look like he's behind bars and it feels like he's the imprisoned prince this time, waiting to get rescued, even though he’s the one doing the rescuing in this particular situation by pulling Sailom into his safe space. This contradiction also aligns with the fact that even though the scene is obviously from his pov, we still see his face and we still see him through the gates. So who's saving whom?
Then we jump back to the conversation between Kanghan and his grandma where he says the FAMOUS " Without wind, how can a windmill spin?". He's basically declaring that he can't function without Sailom (to his grandma), or, unknowingly confessing his love.
He looks troubled and anxious. Maybe he wasn't sure Sailom would actually show up, as suggested by Z.
Then Sailom appears and suddenly the background is brighter and more colorful. Sailom holds the blue umbrella with the pinwheel (a windmill for kids, as they were when they first met). It's the first time we see Sailom through the gates from Kanghan's pov.
And Kang’s face lights up, the chorus of the instrumental ost starts and he rushes to open the gate door. The rest is history.
HOW DARE THEY MAKE THIS MOMENT SO UNAPOLOGETICALLY ROMANTIC?!?
And then we're told about the moving in and we get how much weight this moment actually holds.
In conclusion, episode 4 is the story of how Kang fell completely and irrevocably in love. He was concerned and intrigued and overwhelmed at the beginning of the episode, but it’s undeniably love by the end.
He took Sailom under his protection, he hid him in his own world where nothing could harm him, just as the umbrella protected Sailom from the rain. And even though he's partially aware that Sailom helps him become better, he hasn't realized that he invited his own savior to live in his castle just yet.
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