The most irritating thing, is that if you watch season one and then immediately watch season two, everything makes perfect sense. It's a great story. Characters that are vessels for very real emotional storylines and symbolism, but at their core, are silly pirates on a silly pirates show.
However if you watch season one, then spend a year obsessing over the characters, obsessing over characteristics, traits, relationships that are not actually canon but convincing yourself they are. Getting so wrapped up in fanon that your version of the characters and the actual written canon characters are two completely different things. Yeah of course you're gonna be pissed.
Most of the backlash from season two is because people have been reading fanfics for a year and had wildly unrealistic expectations. It's actually fucking fascinating and should be studied. It just keeps happening over and over again in every new fandom and nothing changes
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i'm still processing everything and my mind is both all over the place and hyperfixated on that final scene.
but.
oliver said there have been crumbs throughout the show for years
oliver said this is how he has always seen buck
oliver said the fans weren't crazy for clocking buck as queer, because he himself saw it too
oliver said he had to pull back from fan interaction on social media because he wanted to validate our feelings so much but couldn't because those as*holes over at fox were holding him back
oliver said he planned on playing buck differently this season, leaning more towards bi buck and this was WITHOUT knowing what tim had planned
tim said there were studio execs back when who held all the cards basically confirming that fox refused to give them the green light for this story arc
tim said he's always viewed buck's love interests as flat and never moved the story forward
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NEW EPISODE OF PERCY JACKSON TONIGHT NEW EPISODE OF PERCY JACKSON TONIGHT NEW EPISODE OF PERCY JACKSON TONIGHT NEW EPISODE OF PERCY JACKSON TONIGHT NEW EPISODE OF PERCY JAC-
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So theres this like gruff 30 year old line cook guy at my work who i never talk to bc I'm on register but every few weeks I'll find out he has the exact same taste in tv/movies as i do which is wild??? Like a few weeks ago he was excitedly telling everyone he could about Nimona and how he found it randomly and loved it and wants a sequel and then today he came up to me all nervous and was like "hey i overheard you say you like vampires, idk if you've even heard of it but have you seen what we do in the shadows?" And reader I about lost my mind
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The annoying thing about people trying to recommend other shows for OFMD fans (and streaming services indirectly comparing them to OFMD, like what's happening now with the Dick Turpin show) is how OFMD really is a very unique show.
There are other shows with queer characters. There are other shows with good poc rep. There are other shows with great acting, or good anti-racist and anti-colonialist writing, or great chemsitry between the leads, or that are good comedies or romantic comedies or good comedies with thoughtful writing. But I can't think of any other show that hits all of these marks so, so well.
OFMD is just so specific. Yeah, the new Dick Turpin show is superficially also about a historical outlaw that's very historically inaccurate and makes him out to be polite and bumbling at it. But it doesn't have the heart, it doesn't have the depth. There are other shows about pirates, there are other queer romcoms. But trying to compare OFMD to other shows just makes it stand out so much more how they're not like OFMD.
We don't want other shows. We want our show back.
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Congrats on making it through, kings…
Some closeups cause I love drawing the sanajim interacting with humans so much:
Oh and the kings too:
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anyone else find it a little fucked up that gifsets/edits only get more than 1k notes if they’re concerning a brand new piece of media (film/tv episode/trailer) and if the edit is posted within like 10 minutes of said media releasing to the public??? and if it’s not, it’s basically ignored and dies or takes days/weeks to amass notes??? so most people will only deem creators “worthy” of a like/reblog to spread an edit around if it’s only relevant to whatever brand new thing has released, and if you’re even like a week late that’s not good enough and fuck you <3
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