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it was the rows of monster statues in the garden vs the terrified ordinary people turned to stone in the cave, it was how the encounter with medusa foreshadows the entire conflict with luke later, it was about when asked to turn on his companions percy immediately runs, it was about-
of the many injustices put forth toward the show by fans i think the most overall damaging and telling of a complete lack of critical viewership is the idea that sam riegel builds his characters with nothing more than the bit in mind. like you are only telling on yourself if you think characters like scanlan shorthalt and veth brennato are one-dimensional and depthless
[ID: 13 gifs from season 2, episode 8 “necessary evil” from the tv series “star trek: deep space nine”, the gifs show kira nerys and odo inside odo's office. odo is behind his desk, while kira is standing in front of the desk.
1st gif: "i misjudged you, major. you were a better liar than i gave you credit for." odo tells kira.
2nd gif: the camera cuts to a close up of kira, "you were working for the cardassians." she leans forwards.
3rd gif: the camera returns to odo, "i haven't been for more than a year. you've had all that time to tell me the truth." he stresses his point by leaning forwards as well.
4th 5th, 6th gif: kira replies, "i tried to tell you the truth a hundred times." she straightens up before continuing, "what you think of me… matters a lot." she looks downwards, "i was afraid…"
7th gif: "that it might affect our friendship?" odo inquires.
8th gif: kira nods, she is still looking down towards the ground.
9th gif: "maybe it doesn't have to." odo is not looking at kira while saying this.
10th gif: kira looks up and at odo, "will you ever be able to trust me the same way again?"
11th gif: odo slowly lifts his head up and looks at kira. he doesn't say anything.
12th gif: kira looks straight ahead.
13th gif: the camera shows both kira and odo standing from the side. the silence echoes between them. kira is still looking straight ahead at odo, while odo averts his gaze and looks down. /end ID]
the settings, lighting and colour in yosano’s backstory (BSD episode 46 / season 4 episode 9) are really poignant. i don’t have the words nor brain capacity to word this properly right now, so here’s a brief list of everything i loved:
first of all, the contrast between young yosano going down the steps to find the soldier dead, accompanied by a hellish red colour; and then at the end of the episode in the present, she is walking up towards the light;
- when tanizaki asks her if the agency was the one who saved her, the transition between light and darkness as she reveals it was mori who saved her, the “worst man imaginable”;
- where the steps leading to hell (the hanging body of the soldier) were left wide open, yosano here opens the door, showing that her choice, her decisions are important as an agency member — as opposed to being forced into the role she had under mori on tokoyami island;
- how ranpo, quite literally, brings her into the light during the fight between fukuzawa and mori. the shift in lighting is definitely intentional;
- and the way that their conversation happened against the backdrop of the sunset, a recurring motif in BSD. it not only highlights the act of him inviting her into the ADA, an organisation that sits between “night” and “day”; but also brings to mind how sunsets are often used (in a broader sense, not just BSD) to highlight change. this is certainly the case for them here; ranpo changed yosano’s life by bringing her into the agency.
the attention to detail really shows how bones went above and beyond for this. i think they did her backstory so much justice!
The Joker is Wild is an episode that really doesnt work where it is in the show
the idea that BJ is set off by like. jealous rage or whatever over Hawkeye comparing him to Trapper just doesnt work so late in the show when there's been 0 indication that BJ is jealous about Trapper at all. it feels like it comes out of nowhere, just a half-assed sort of reason given to set him off
ive mentioned this before here and I know its a hot take within this fandom but the supposed Trapper Complex just doesnt exist. in the 8 seasons that BJ is present in the show, I can think of three times Trapper's name comes up around him
Period of Adjustment, where he brings up that he feels like he hates Trapper. should be noted that BJ here is at about the lowest point we see him at, he's in complete despair, and he's also blind drunk. he also specifically brings up that he feels this way because Trapper has gone home- it has nothing to do with Hawkeye
Depressing News, Hawkeye refers to BJ as being the 'same size, same shape' as Trapper, and BJ's reaction can be construed as being not exactly pleased about it. I think this reads more as him just not being happy about literally being called Trapper's replacement, not him being jealous
then, of course, The Joker is Wild
because of this it really just doesnt make sense for BJ to suddenly have this jealousy in The Joker is Wild, not this late in the show. it would've honestly worked so much better if this episode happened back in season 4, because then you could've made that jealousy believable with BJ still establishing himself in camp and Hawkeye still dealing with Trapper's departure. but as it is, set in season 11, it really just doesnt work. its such a He Would Not Fucking Say That episode
I think Kinnporsche finally found that tone they have been looking for all season. Took us 10 episodes but the brutal, bloody, questionable moral, heartbreaking, mafia feuds thing they had going this episode was exactly what I was hoping for from the beginning.