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I believe Season 5 of Merlin, could have been improved simply by altering one variable; Arthur should have found out about Merlin's magic in the two part opener. I wouldn't have minded if he'd had the exact same reaction that he had in the finale, but at least then we'd have an entire season of him knowing the truth. It's not only about knowing Merlin's secret, I would have loved to see an entire season where Arthur played an active role in his destiny and was fully aware of what was to come. We saw four seasons of Merlin battling it alone, I would have liked a couple of episodes where they were battling it together.
#bbc merlin#arthur pendragon#merthur#most of the episodes could still happen#let's say Arthur finds out in part 2 and then the knights find out in the dark tower#The big change would be that Merlin could tell Arthur about Gwen being cursed earlier on#I may rewrite season 5
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if i was edwin payne and a giant inter-dimensional ghost-eating mushroom was about to consume me and my bff of 30+ years on the same day i went out of my way to dress up nice because i literally just figured out i was deeply and completely in love with him and despite my 100+ years of edwardian-era repression i already decided i needed to share this information with him as soon as possible because we are indeed that close, and said best friend/love of my life decided to take his hand off the branch/root thing we were clinging to trying not to get swallowed just so he could put his hand over mine for comfort in what even the evil witch attempting to obliterate us felt the need to comment on for being a sweet final moment, i would simply pass away. again.
#dead boy detectives#edwin payne#charles rowland#the case of the creeping forest#charles was insane for this one i dont know how edwin didnt combust on the spot#the most unrealistic thing about edwin payne is NOT that he's a ghost who does magic & pulls everyone in town except his own life partner#it's that he ever appears onscreen again after episode 6#total annihilation via mushroom was right there in front of him#and instead of offing himself he had the balls to look his crush in the eye again after THAT?#like i get the show has been very clear about the fact that the guy is especially resilient and such#it's a well-established and oft-returned-to plot point and all#but come ON#could never be me#HOW is his first line after getting out of that both sensible and slightly snide that boy does not deserve to be cool & collected already#im still not and it's been weeks since i saw it and it didnt even happen to me
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me on my death bed: a-and tell them...tell them that the rundown job...is the...most....episode...........of.................................television
#i dont understand you people (affectionate)#to me most episode of television has the most insane thing you could think of happening#and im still here months later to tell you all oh so lovingly that rashomon job while very fun is not insanity inducing#and if you disagree you can meet me outside and. we'll go for ice cream i guess idk#no wait i will tag this i will stand in my truth!#leverage#the rundown job
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y'know, i keep making a habit of swinging my bat at hornets nests, but i have to say i'm getting so, so tired of people complaining about shows not making perfect sense when they aren't even close to done. we're four episodes into this season of doctor who. we're four episodes into this season of bridgerton. and yet in both fandoms i keep seeing people whine that such and such didn't make sense or it wasn't explained all the way and by god you guys i think maybe explanations might come later in the season. this is something most viewers will recognize as being called a 'plot.'
#like maybe a tiny bit of media literacy... might save you#and if you think i'm being mean like. its okay if you don't get it at first. it's okay if you don't understand the themes. but maybe#instead of stamping your feet and saying this makes no sense and i hate what they're doing and and and#maybe you could try listening to other people's interpretations of things and you'll find that what the show is trying to tell you becomes#more clear! would you look at that. wild how that happens#like im sorry you're entitled to your opinions but calling things bad writing just because you don't quite get it or it doesn't resonate#with you personally... i don't think you should just say this was shitty and worthless#the examples im using are because both resonate with me btw. 73 yards was existential horror it was hill house and bly manor#(im going to write about this in another post btw bc it compels me so)#it was about the way fear of abandonment can haunt you how mental illness can haunt you how you feel like you can drive people away#just by being yourself (the Woman was Herself what caused ruby to be abandoned was Her it's about her feeling as though she was the cause#of everyone who left her even as a baby even the people who loved her most could decide to not love her at the drop of a hat)#colin bridgerton is masking and faking a personality because it has been proven that time and time again#being Himself is Wrong that he annoys people he makes himself into what people expect of him because he's tired of being abandoned too#his family ignores and does not reply to his letters this season PEN stopped replying to his letters#his brother was cruel to him for being a romantic his friends LAUGHED AT HIM for saying sex is meaningful to him and don't they feel lonely#his Fake Rake persona makes viewers cringe because! its!! fake!!! he's faking it! HE GETS CALLED OUT ON IT TWICE IN EP ONE#if you don't understand he's faking it then that's on you at that point! i don't know! maybe take a minute to sit in the discomfort and ask#why did this show make me react this way and do you think maybe it was on purpose#''73 yards was confusing'' do you think confusion may be one of the ways ruby feels about her abandonment?#there is a theme in all of her episodes so far is it ''badly written'' unclear to you or do you just refuse to think critically about it#txtly#and im sorry for tagging this its just for my blog i kinda wish they still didnt show up in tags if i tag them all the way at the bottom#[old lady ruby voice] ''i used to be able to tag things just for myself once upon a time''#bridgerton#bridgerton spoilers#doctor who#doctor who spoilers
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what are some of your favorite moments where sanji just gets screwed over (like the hgeegh bit)
I'm not sure if that's like. Getting screwed over so much as just being made fun of for saying silly things. That said I do think his bit where he just starts talking in wing dings (here) is incredibly funny and given the fact that it has been one of my most popular posts this month I think most of you can agree with that. I do in general think the zoro and sanji dynamic is incredibly funny even if I'm just skimming for sanjis I'll keep an eye out for them for a giggle.
#asks#anonymous#not sanji#i say that last part as if i dont have z0san blacklisted. i dont like them romantically#theyre just funny to me. literally antagonistic to each other for fun to the detriment of everybody around them#i love when zoro goes out of his way to rile up sanji which is. just about every time it happens#he's so teaseable its so easy to get under his skin like that#also since i'm already rambling in the tags i started watching high card recently#actually finished s2e2 when i saw this ask#hoping to get to s2e4 today if not more#<- guy who binged literally 10 episodes of it yesterday#uhm. if there are any high card fans following me... hmu i'm so obsessed with this series now#(not that. the enstars hyperfixation is going away thats still going strong#and ironically i started watching high card bc a friend mentioned an alkakurei high card au and i went oooo sounds neat)#but yeah. i need a vijay focused episode yesterday please and thankies.#but otherwise very solid series i think most of you would like it if you like one piece for the action sequences#characters are pretty well written too. chris...#someone on discord compared the cards to op devil fruits but if you could take them away and like. kinda?#the card chooses you but you have to activate it in play to like. use it#not entirely like a fruit that you eat and it becomes a part of you whether you like it or not#but anyway. watch high card#thats too many tags goodbye
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mannn i want a quality new fiction podcast to get hooked on
#i’m probably a little too picky but i’ve dropped a lot of pretty popular ones for mediocre acting#(takes me out of it)#(pretty sure that’s what happened with kalila. penumbra. bright sessions. 🤔 & so on)#(i think i dropped hallowoods for this reason too? or it felt too much like a wtnv copy or smth?)#i guess i could check whatever qcode’s most recent show is but 🤷#liiike i’d be down for the sort of wlw dark fantasy fun of smth like Mabel (without getting too deconstructed and blahh like they did)#and even tho i like old gods of appalachia silt verses malevolent etc—#they can kind of bum me out a lot?#(and there are a good number of shows like that)#red valley#red valley tho. love you.#it’s hard to find ones i click with so much#often just end up relistening to hftmt or dndads but those are more riffing than story. Or uhh good tma episodes sometimes.#and OLD old radio dramas#still i hunger. lol.#chatter tag
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im watching atla with my grandma and it is very much up her alley which is very cute. i think her favorite part is whenever momo does something funny because she smiles the most.
#i did have the passing thought#that maybe the show depicting chinese-inspired villages being invaded by a japanese-inspired army might be. not the greatest choice for us.#but honestly it wouldnt bother her shes a veeeeeeery tough and easygoing person#it did make me upset again at the remake though#because the original show feels like everyone else matters too#they meet so many refugees on the run and towns that are occupied and villages being menaced#the war isnt just a good backdrop for cool fights between the heroes and villains. its a blight on the lives of everyone who lives in this#world.#and the remake seems to be very much “everyone not in the main cast is an npc” (see: watching the genocide of the air nomads happen in the#first twenty minutes of the first episode)#and that feels. personal now.#bc my grandma hid from japanese soldiers. my great grandma risked her life transporting materials for explosives so she#could feed her family#they are people with personhood and individuality who didnt fight in wwii but their stories still matter#and atla feels like its validating that because it says that war affects everyone and the people who suffer from it the most are the ones#who need to have their voices heard#not just the people with the biggest capacity to cause change#so the remake throwing that away just to have more cool action scenes. leaves a bad taste in my mouth.#atla#atla remake salt#atla live action salt#atla salt
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so ep11 huh.....
#not putting this in the main tag because it's neg but#yeah what was the Point of misaki coming back at all#K and R had so much emotional development in ep8-10 and their relationship seemed so much more solid#and then we get this... are you telling me the close to three years they spent together meant nothing#that M was the only reason they even remotely cared about one another and that with her gone there was no reason to keep living together#these heart to hearts they had only revolved around M... R didn't even say a WORD about K getting SHOT... i do not get it really i don't#i'm glad R was the one to say yeah we CAN change as i'd wanted and predicted but still... he only stood up for M at the mansion#the photo had K in it too !!! gosh the writing was so atrocious in this one#the music selection during the K and O fight scene was also laughable... idk i'm just really bitter and upset#are these guys like... just colleagues at best... who also happen to take care of a child and live together...#it barely felt like they genuinely care for one another... instead it's like two parents who stick together just for their child's sake#like lottie said that's probably the most concerning message you could send in a show about parenting#anyways ! glad that others enjoyed this episode from the looks of it !#i really wonder what the finale will bring and if the K and R from ep8 and ep9 will come back from the war#my post#buddy daddies spoilers
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There's something so sickening about how the only hope of survival for many victims of the genocide in Palestine is the parasocial relationships they can form online. It's something straight out of the Hunger Games.
#it's good to have awareness to keep our eyes on palestine and witness and know what is happening#it's the least that we could do to know ppl as something other than an endless string of numbers#but the way people are responding on social media to specific individuals and quoting their most heartbreaking quotes or whatever#there's a feeling of spectatorship to it#maybe it's just me#but i think it's been happening for a long time and no-one's acknowledging how close we are to making atrocities entertainment#it began with the vietnam war when it was televised and people named massacres 'the most dramatic episodes'#and i think it's still happening now#free palestine#rambles#it's dehumanising how we can just scroll and look at children's corpses one video and then a meme in the next post#it's the absolute desensitizing of actual human suffering
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btw controversial but fuckk ptsd dude yohre telling me judt bc my parents shouldnt ever have been parents now i have to be fucked up for the rest of my life .
#i know like..coping mechanisms and ris8ng above and learning to live with it but like its fucking stupid and unfair bc im never gonna stop#having ptsd yk. my episodes might get less frequent i might build happier memories but jm always gonna have these memory blocks and trigger#s and nightmares like. forever. im never gonna get to have had a normal childhood thats the most fuckedbup thing ever#like ik this is whiny but like. why. why me what did i do to deserve that childhood. not that any kid deserves abusive childhoods obviously#it sounds like im like ermmm there r wayyy worse kids who shouldve been the ones to go to the zoo 💀 but like ykwim. why does#thus have to happen to so many ppl i hate it i hate it. i wish i could just Actually forget everything instead of just like. not rly#remembering it but Knowing it..yk. i know everything that happened to me even if its all blocked out#and i still feel like. the effects of it even the stuff thats jncredibly hazy to me. and jm never not gojng to feel that. my personality hs#literally been fucking shaped by the childhood i have and like. yes you can 'change' your personality a bit and your choices blah blah blah#but like. even with that. im still always gonna be like. my first impulse will always be distrust and doubt and fear. even if i train#myself not to Act on those emotions i still will always feel them. im always going to expect people to leave even if they dont even if i#dont let myself push them away its something im always going to be terrified of in the back of my mind. im never gojng to have#proper social skills bc i fully missed out on that stage of development im never going to be like. at the same level as my peers bc i#missed out on those skills. sigh. ik ik ik feeljng inhuman and feeljng different from everybody else is a jniversal thing but i truly think#im like. im missing something that everybody else seems to have and i dont even know what it is but i know i dont have it and everyone#can tell j dont have it and it fucking. sucks . basically
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#zaya#otp: of course i love you#zig novak#maya matlin#my edit#my edits#my screencaps#degrassi#I know the dance was cancelled anyway cuz of the storm but I just wish we could have had more zaya in this episode#I mean z*emund went nowhere (thankfully) and Zoe and maya never became real friends and Zoe screwed her over again later#*so while their plot was nice in this episode much rather would have had something with Zaya#even if Zoe was still in the plot but like if maya never ran off and maybe like drunkenly confessed that she did have feelings for Zig or#*or maya still does run off but zig goes after her instead and it eventually leads to a kiss in the rain or while they’re stranded at the#or while they’re stranded at the dot maya confesses her feelings after zig asks if there is another reason she was so upset he invited Zoe.#I love what we got in season 14 but idk I still like to think about what would have happened if they got together even a little bit sooner#but like we got Drecky(nonsense) Eclare(for the millionth time) and triles(which I have no problem with unlike most of the fandom)out of#*this episode so why not zaya?#or were they just going for unexpected pairings (excluding Eclare)#I’m rambling now I apologize.
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Fleabag
"People make mistakes... that is why they put a rubbers in the end of pencils"
#personal post#So i kind of forced myself to finish Fleabag season 1. Since the beginning i knew was not something i would see for pleasure#of course was very difficult as 1) i have become sex repulsed once again and 2) she is really fucked up. She needs a terapist#it was a recomendation from them and i knew i just see them in the character facing similar problems and similar way of thinking#the last episode hurts a lot and hurts me more after what happened between us. the decisions they made. the way it ended again#i know they wanted to talk about this. i shame myself once again as i was so late to do so. But yet again. i was right about my fears#about how i saw them reflected in her. how they were taking a similar bad road in life. how they mental illness was going to mess up all#after what happened with him. how they did not said anything. how they just give it all to please him and make a nice memory for him#after how they let him just go full gallop and basically let him use them in the most vulnerable moment so far...#i can only wish they learn. that they realize. that they finally could apply something from the life of another person. even if is fiction#after finishing this season. i can understand and let the anger that i had in me vanished just as fast as it came#but the sadness will remain. the event will remain. the need for me to stay away will remain. i can not help them anymore#it will only hurt me not being able to help. to feel powerless meanwhile i just see them going a downfall. mistake after mistake#i could not bear to see the person i cared the most being that fucked up and not try to help. but i already did that mistake. it finished u#my role as a caregiver is still so mixed within myself. as since my mistakes i would not force nor try anything without them doing it first#so. for them that are indecisive yet impulsive. that are people pleaser even when it hurt them deeply. naive with a gold heart#that want to be friends with all as they feel so lonely. Prisoners of they body and themselfs...#going that softly versus everyone else who is more assertive (even them in a impulsive moment) was not going to work just with words#but i can not do it in another way. i am more sensitive and delicate than one could guess just by looking at me. is not in my nature#forceful? nope. without caution? no. fast? no. i can not hold anger. i can not be unforgiving. Even when i always remember#i can still do damage. just not in a convetional way and is mostly involuntary. i am far from perfect but i am also far from terrible#i am a person who also had done mistakes. But being honest. excepting one i never did something so bad i could not forgive myself eventuall#and i say all this because even with all the pain that is forcing myself to stay away. i just hope they could find a healthy road again...#without the need to make more mistakes or do such things that they may not be able to fix or came back at all...#for them to not regret still being alive. to be happy in a good way without destroying themselfs#i just hope i can be able to see that one day. even if is just from far away and as a total stranger#because i like thing no one else would see and enjoy they beauty in they own unique way#vent post#vent tag#tw vent
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ok watched seeing red again
#BRO WHY DID THEY WRITE S/A IN THERE FOR NO REASON.#you already had the break up and fall out WHY ADD THIS.#xander walking in seeing what happens AND THEN NOT TALKING ABOUT IT AFTERWARDS WHAT IS GOING ON.#the only wrote this for shock value to get one character out of the picture so you could have a predicament in the next episode and so that#buffy and xander would make up faster. IM KILLING JOSS WHEDON#also takes soooo much from the end of the episode. like your still realing from that only to get hit w one of the most shocking deaths#in the series....#AND I KNOW HOW ITS GONNA BE HANDLED NEXT SEASON CHEWING ON WOOD#i do like a lot of s6 but man the ending of this story arc........#luna.txt#btvs
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i hate the term “female friendship” like it annoys me
#listening to the binchtopia podcast episode on comp het.. v interesting#but that kinda stuff just reminds me that i am not a ‘female’ 😭#i’m like why can’t i relate to all these stories about female friendships and female comradarie… and i’m like right bc u aren’t one bestie#sigh i hate how cis centered gender studies and feminism can be even though it’s very important#idk how to fix it or if it even needs to be fixed but yeah . it’s both annoying and freeing to not be able to relate to a lot of these#discussions#anyways . who up and wanna have a ‘female friendship’ w me (sex)#also i wonder how many of my ‘female friendships’ weren't fulfilling because of my lack of cisgenderness. like i was always the other#and these cis women were looking for comradarie in another woman and i just wasn’t that. and they could tell#i always used to wonder why i wasn’t getting the same thing out of female friendships as everybody else was or how liberal women make it#sound. and this is definitely a factor . which idk how i didn’t realize it sooner#also ofc being gay and having straight friends when i was younger#but even in my ‘female friendships’ with other lgbt women something is missing#like the most fulfilling relationship i’ve ever had is in fact with a man .#and idk how much of that is just chance like we just happen to click . and how much of it is bc i feel like i can relate to him more than#i ever could my ‘female friends’#also we have other things in common like he’s an lgbt person of color i’m an lgbt person of color etc .#but idk . i wonder how much gender factors into this#like i’ve had that in common with women and STILL something is missing#sorry for centering men in my life hashtag problematic hashtag internalized misogyny#also not to say that my current friendships with women aren’t fulfilling i love them . and it does help that they’re all lgbt poc#but there’s always this border i feel. like when they’ll be talking about hashtag womanhood and i just . don’t get it#SORRY for the long ass tags omg
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finished sandman. that sure was a bunch of different stories one after another. kinda makes you wonder if it would have been better suited being a comi-
#about me#mister gaiman dont @ me#anyway yeah my main problems are like entirely structural. its Too faithful to the originals comics#you cant really turn a different medium into another and have it still work theres gotta be edits#this show was so disconnected i knew immediately every time we'd started a new comic#huge momentum problems the individual stories worked fine but they kinda just didnt connect#in the way that tv shows do at least#they had reocurring characters sure but like. the story didnt continue#it was just different shit happens and then dream shows up#i think the reason people liked the corinthian the most is he was the most consistent throughline#he actually managed to stay relevant between the episodes#kinda felt like the only real antagonist everyone else was just gone within the episode#finishing with calliope tho i dont understand. like genuinely man this needed some sort of reason why we were jumping around#cus as is it just feels like a badly written drama#if you gave it some nerrative framing and made the jumping around intentional i think it could work#but dont pretend like theyre interconnected cus theyre not#starting in the fishbowl is also terrible cus it makes us think thats the overarching plot and then its done halfway through and your like#oh
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The pacing of the She-Hulk show is... bad.
The worldbuilding of the She-Hulk show is... bad.
The tone of the She-Hulk show is... uneven at best.
#Hearing that this show is supposed to be a comedy made a lot of choices make sense#And then I watched it and thought 'this isn't a comedy this is just generic one-liners'#(yes I know this is Marvel and I shouldn't be surprised)#Like why the fuck did they not throw themselves head first into making the show a comedy?#Jen can still be competent if the show is a full-blown comedy?#But the pacing... ugh the pacing#Everything happened too fast for emotional and narrative impact#but too slow for a half hour show#Also they did her origin in the dumbest way possible#And then hinged the episode on a familial relationship that the audience knows nothing about besides that it exists?#It's honestly impressive how Tatiana Maslany is still doing a good job acting and delivering lines given what she's got to work with#And I guess this isn't the show alone's fault but this is truly the most milquetoast version of the Hulk#Any conflict or interest within the character is gone#So why the fuck would I want to watch a full episode (and the first episode of the show at that!) that gives him so much screen time!#Also Mark Ruffalo I know you don't want to be here but can you at least try a little bit?#Maslany could act circles around him on a regular day but he is giving her NOTHING
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