#looking forward to s3

[okaydays]

It’s interesting, thinking about how there’s this fantasy of the fairytale prince rescuing someone from a mundane reality.

But in s2 of Young Royals, it’s Marcus, not Wille, who seems more dreamy and unreal and like a fantasy love interest brought to life. Wille’s never, ever embodied that fairytale ideal - he’s been shy and frustrated, he’s made mistakes, he’s pushed people away, he’s been a complete and utter mess at times.

And ultimately, that fairytale-prince-fantasy that Marcus tried so vainly to be - that was never going to be enough. Because really, no one can ever live up to that fantasy. And them trying to is really just a mask to hide the fact that they’re a regular, messy human being, like every human being is. And no one can keep that mask up forever.

But Wille (almost always) tries to just be himself. And figure stuff out, and ultimately learn how to be a better person even when he messes up heaps along the way.

And that’s the actual fairytale prince. Someone who just tries to be themselves, tries to be good, who acts like any other imperfect human being.

The mundane reality of being in a relationship with someone like that is better than any fantasy. And in realising that, they ended up living something dream-like and romantic, but at the end of the day, is wholly real.

[illegal-spiegel]

Alright gamers so I just finished Beastars and LEMME TELL YA-

[antisocial-transfag]

why are people legit so angry with neil about season 2??

learn to trust people to tell a good story for the love of god

[levok]

♡

My lowkey fave bit

[counting-stars-gayly]

They’re not going to rebuild Castle Byers because Will can’t rebuild his childhood, which is the reason he destroyed Castle Byers in the first place. He’d been trying to hold on to a level of carefree ignorance that no longer existed for him. The problems Castle Byers saved him from have been replaced by new problems that are bigger and stronger than a child’s fort. He needs to face them differently. Thank you and goodnight

[bluedillylee]

Ot3 troubles

[winters-rose-daughterofcain]

I've been trying to phrase things eloquently and I really can't so here you go. Part two really felt like it was trying have its cake and eat it as well in a lot of ways, and it really didn't work.

You give Cressida a whole redemption arc and friendship and put her in an impossible situation and humanise and make you sympathise with her, then want me to hate her again?

You show how Pen uses LW as a coping mechanism and how it's not good for her or those around her and not have her drop it?

You want LW revealed to the ton but no real consequences?

You double down on how Pens family treat her only to have them all come together and be forgiven at the end?

You sideline Colin in his own damn season and butcher Penelope so badly I almost wanted less of her as well?

You can't have everything. Not in such a short time span at least, and it really suffer from it. If you wanted to give Cressida more depth and expend on her role why was she tossed away like nothing at the end? Why did Eloise abandon her? Why was she treated as awful in part two after being put in an actual horror show of a situation? I know they needed the blackmail plot but you can't just give her depth, make her the antagonist and then drop her storyline in the drain that's not how that works. That's not complexity that's laziness, and laziness they created mind you.

They didn't have to write Cressida the way they did this season, if they wanted to make it easy they could have had her marry off screen between seasons to a rich man, they could have had Eloise befriending her be a mistake and had a different arc there, they could have had her LW claim be for any number of reasons, and her blackmail because she still has it out for Penelope. They added this to the story, and as much as I was sceptical at first (I have seen far too many botched bully redemptions) I was glad they did it aded a lot of depth and character interaction, it created some interesting parallels between Cressida and Penelope and seeing Eloise in a different, less intimate friendship with someone who, ironically, is a lot more open with her was interesting. Incomplete, but interesting. It was good, or it could have been. But you can't just turn like that and have it still work. You can't just have Eloise abandon her and have it treated as the right thing to do. You can't leave her with that ending and consider it a happy one. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You didn't create a complex antagonist, you created a scared lost girl who was cruel because she was taught to be and you left her to burn.

You could have had Penelope and Cressida talk to each other, could have explored the ways the mirror and the ways they differ. You could have had Penelope struggle, but untimely empathise with Cressida and help her out, she could have forgiven her for her years of torment because she of all people understands why she did it. You could have had her forgiveness mirror Colin and Eloise forgiving her for LW. You could have looked at how Cressida's openness helped her friendship with Eloise and how Penelope might start to incorporate it. About how by nature of Cressida's openness Eloise is learning to see other perspectives and listen more even if she still has work. You could have done so much with female friendship and camaraderie and empathy and you just... didn't.

The Lady Whistledown this season was just... I think I have a thesis which is most of my thoughts on Polin.

Whistledown was meant to be the subplot to the Polin storyline, not the other way around.

Putting aside my own wishes to have her end Whistledown for her character and for her and Colins relationship, and her love of Colin, her continuing it isn't unexpected I was afraid of this and thought it might happen even if it's lazy. If that was it and if it was handled better I think I could begrudgingly live with it. But it's not. Not only was it handled so so poorly it was the whole second part and for what? Part one was Polin. Part two was Lady Whistledown drama with some cute Polin moments sprinkled in-between with some mandatory angst. Tell me the resolution to Colins arc now. Quickly. You can't he didn't have one, we barley even saw him through Episode seven and eight. There is so much romance in your purpose being the person you love, IF and only IF, it's reciprocal. Penelope literally says in season two, when she has been Whistledown for over a bloody year that she hasn't found her purpose yet. They were meant to find each other. To both have their writing as their passion and creativity and fulfilment, not Whistledown, but her manuscripts, his stories from around the word their joint and secret words. But their centre, their purpose, their guiding light was always meant to be each other. It's what kept Penelope sitting at that window, it's what draw Colin to her at every ball. They had all the potential and set up to be the most beautiful, genuine, heartfelt relationship. But no.

Colin deserved to be angry. The woman he loves has lied, has hurt him, has his from him after all the times he was venerable with her and so, so much more. They deserved to argue. Penelope deserved to be more upset over this than crying in the moment and walking past him later. That's the man she loves, who she thinks hates her, who she know if he did hate her she would deserve it and she wouldn't blame him for a second. They deserved time and space and Colin deserved explanations and apologies. They deserved a later, happier wedding, they both deserved to have their feelings heard and said and listened too. Is that not the core of their relationship? Listening to and seeing each other? Would that not lay the groundwork for some really good well earned conflict and a really rewording resolution? The groundwork was all there that's what's killing me. The set up was all there for something so good which is why I was excited. I know screen time is limited, I know there is only so many emotional conversations you can have on screen, but Bridgerton primarily just people talking on conversations, when it's there bloody season surely they can space out the conversations that need to happen in a way that works with pacing. And to be honest, the screen time defence only works when the screen time that they did have was allocated well. And I'm not taking subplots. Even if I think a few could have been trimmed, the screen time Polin did get was just used so so badly. Colin got dust and that didn't even feel like Penelope had the time, just a mouth piece for the writers.

Rapid fire stuff because I need to expand on the above in more detail later lol.

The acting was flawless give everyone on that set their flowers.

I really like the Mondrich's and seem to be the only one who likes seeing them lol, their sweet and always a good time they just need a better storyline, or you know, one that actually has a resolution.

Not what I would have done for Benedict and I still want to see him look at art again but let's hope season 4 is better lol.

Don't like the way Penelope's family stuff was done, specifically Portia but it is what I thought would happen. Disappointed but not surprised. I'm biased tho so I won't speak on it too much. I lose too much objectivity.

Hate hate hate the baby thing tho, it was fine as a subplot with her sisters but her having the boy was predictable and also dear god the girls nineteen for fucks sake. No. Hated that.

Francesca the absolute love of my life. I adore her and John, I liked the conflicted with Violet, loved everything about her storyline this season she was perfect, my favourite part honestly lol. Also Michaela Stirling get behind me NOW. Sapphic Bridgerton fans truly are the bravest soldiers cause istg. Also I don't trust this fandom with any actor or actresses period but especially not a Black actress who's "ruining" your favourite storyline. So I will be greatly enjoying everything I see of all three of them Francesca John and Michaela, while watching with a sharp eye for any bullshit.

Kate, also the love of my life it was so lovely to have her back even if just for a bit. Wish they did more with Anthony especially him and Colin tho, but again, wasn't expecting much more. I do wish they would write them out with a bit more subtly tho it's getting almost funny how obvious it is.

The Violet, Marcus, Lady Danbury plot I didn't actually mind. Could have been trimmed a bit but it was good seeing the adults in more depth, I haven't watched queen Charlotte tho so I kinda feel like I missed some things.

Overall, I liked certain parts of this season I really did, especially if I fully ignore the context, and I'm happy for everyone who enjoyed it truly, but it was have an entirely different ending in my head. I'll definitely write about at some point but who knows if anyone wants to see that lol.

[huimangi]

SWEET HOME 2

2x07 / Cha Hyunsu & Lee Eunyu

[tobeconsumed]

Season 3 lestat has the potential to serve enough cunt on stage that it will kill me

[lovelylittlelosers]

Wait ok one last thing! Remember all the scenes we’ve seen in clips and the trailer and stuff that we haven’t seen yet! being in the lake, the white shirt party, deep talks on the lake shore, singing in the car, etc. also wille has painted nails at the white shirt party (I’m pretty sure?) so maybe another felice/wille bestie moment!!

[mswyrr]

I think Carmy is going to (thinking it's the only way to get Syd a Michelin star but, on a deeper level, not being able to imagine life outside of the toxic patterns that are mostly all he's known) reenact some toxic shit. And the "partnership" agreement is a way to keep Syd from walking out this time.

So, I'm actually really concerned about that.

I don't think this is conscious on his part - I don't think he's aware he's trying to make it harder for her to leave as he replays toxic patterns.

I think he just doesn't want her to leave.

But s3 is going to be rough imo.

It's not that he's mentally ill. It's that he's not managing it - he's not even trying because he's in denial that he has an illness.

Mentally ill people can be wonderful partners, in business or love. But highly dysregulated people who refuse to manage their illness cannot.

[wot-in-the]

mp100 really said hey it's kind of shitty how kids with special powers are told that their powers are what makes them special and it's really shitty how they are exploited into fighting others and it's really shitty how they are expected to do anything other than be normal kids with normal mundane stupid normal kid problems, can we have more stories like this please

[penny-for-your-past]

omg... so i won't spoil it and i haven't finished part 2 of bridgerton s3 yet (still one ep to go) but i'm finally understanding why they decided to delay benedict's story by one season and i'm uh. i'm on board with that decision now.

[grimbeak]

i do rly like the age range of characters this season tbh, like s1 was all late 30s-mid 40 year olds (the outliers being a demon and henry, who were both likely older than they thought they were due to originating from different realms, still mentally 30-40 though), s2 were all young, high school age teens (outliers being taylor at possibly 19 and lincoln at over 200 (technically still a teen though), still mentally teens though), and now in s3 we have a 16 year old, his 49 year old ex-teacher(who is drawn like a 70 yr old for some reason??), and two (afaik) undetermineds, likely around their 30s, with one being a maybe Italian drunk driver and the other being a slightly dissociative mother, and the mother and the teacher will probably kiss before we hit episode 10.

[twilight-zoned-out]

really appreciate how some of the stylistic elements in DGHDA were entirely unnecessary and you can just tell how much passion went into making things. That shot of Dirk with the telephone wire? 100% that shot was made just because someone thought it would look cool. The shot where all the lightbulbs turn on? Where Dirk simply walks around with the lightbulb in his hand and expresses his excitement with a smile? The futuristic armor??? The slicing of Mr. Priest’s face??????

[unfortunate17]

Ok me and the lovely @grizviser were chatting a while back about how S2 made some people feel like Wilmon were in lust more than in love because Simon never opened up about his feelings or his father and Wille is still hiding the extent of his anxiety.

But the thing is, love rarely hinges on knowing everything about a person - or even knowing all of the “big” things. Wilhelm can still love Simon without knowing about his family issues. Simon can love Wilhelm without knowing about his anxiety or feelings about Erik

Wille and Simon already know everything they need to know about each other - they understand each other and respect one another. And they’ve made a promise to deal with any problems together. To me, this is love at its most fundamental level. Everything else is simply extra.