One thing that was very interesting to me in this episode is the way Eddie was just... not joking about Buck's love interests.
That stuck out.
Usually when Eddie talks to Buck about his love interests, it's with an edge of fond exasperation, teasing laced around his gently delivered truths, but there was none of that this episode. Buck told Eddie he went to see Natalia and it was like something switched. Eddie's entire affect changed when Buck started talking about Natalia. He went from being loose and easy (as loose and easy as one can get when standing at a grave) to being... not combative, necessarily, but visibly actively not wanting to engage in conversation about her either, and it's not...
It's not even jealousy!! We joke a lot about Eddie and jealousy, but it wasn't that at all. It was a fatigue that comes with silence, that comes with holding your tongue, that comes with keeping secrets. Especially when Buck said that he feels like Natalia sees him. That look Eddie gave him immediately after? That was pure hurt. That was him saying I see you too, I've always seen you. But he can't say that. He can't say that, because to say that would be to say so many other things about the way he sees Buck, and to say so many other things would mean to have to unstick his tongue from the roof of his mouth about the ONE thing he's been holding onto ever since he was shot.
I don't know. I don't know, but I think Eddie taking Buck on a date and I think about how Eddie left his son—his heart—in Buck's care so they could bake cookies together (which becomes profoundly more significant in an episode where Christopher was talking about baking smores with his mom), and I think about Kenny saying Ryan has been doing some very nuanced work in the back half of this season, I'm like
Oh. Oh. I see it, thank you. Loud and clear.
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THE WAIT IS OVER!!! I FINALLY HAVE THESE PANELS IN GERMAN AAAAHHH
"There the endorphines flow! Aaah, I'm coming! Oooh yeeees!" Also ich hab ja auf "ich spritz gleich ab!" Gehofft aber das ist auch gut
"RIGHT IN THE WOMB!" HAHAHA THEY USED THAT TRANSLATION FOR THE GERMAN VERSION LETS GOOO
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Y'all. I can't believe how much people sleep on Ryan being just as chaotic as Shane, but in his own way. Chaos is a spectrum and Ryan and Shane are at both ends, which is what gives them so much chemistry when they interact. They built a whole franchise on the foundation of how well they play off of each other's energy. Shanergy can only be matched with Rynergy.
My point is, I was just reading the comments on the debrief and seeing how 90% of the comments are just outraged that Ryan doubled-down on the cat/ghost dog is just ... it's obviously a bit? Ryan knows it's a fucking cat (or raccoon). He probably would have admitted it if the original video hadn't gotten so many people commenting indignantly about it being a cat. Now he's sticking with the bit and I'm pretty sure that the more the audience works itself into an increasing collective tizzy, the funnier Ryan finds it bc he's a little shit whose sense of humor is 75% satire.
This bit is giving big "sharks' skin is so smooth" vibes, is what I'm saying, and honestly the only thing funnier than the bit itself is how much wank the bit is causing in the (otherwise generally wank-free, as far as I can tell) Watcher fandom bc people aren't realizing it's a bit.
But that's just, like, my opinion, man.
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ok if i was gonna do a collab zine for application for release from the dream. i have two thoughts. number 1 is less structured anyone just makes a page related to the song like whatever they feel like doing. number 2 would be more structured and ppl could take a different section of lyrics to make a page about so it coheres as a lyric zine. what do we think.
reblog so other folks can see if u want idk . also sorry in advance if i end up not actually having the time and energy to do this my brain is a fuck and im moving in a month so whooooo knows!
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there are sometimes who is strange in all the side-information that we have about TPN.
In a interview, the author told that Grandma was the one to choose the names of the babies.
But in a bonus comic, Isabella tells Ray, Emma and Norman how she choose their name.
So either she lied...
Either that's a incoherence.
Either Grandma didn't name the kids who were going to Isabella to let her "daugther" names them as she want.
....either Grandma had given other names to kids who were going to the Grace Field House 3 an Isabella deliberally changed the names in a way to say "f*** you" to her former guardian (since the demons didn't care about the names) and claim the kids as her own. Carol is the only one to not have had a change of name because of Krone presence.
I don't know why but the last idea is hilarous to me ^^"
I default to the bonus comic being the most accurate to simultaneously keep any sisters in HQ from potentially getting attached to the infants by giving them official names and to make the moms more endeared and caring toward the children they named themselves (for reference for anyone who hasn't seen it; a reward for scoring high on the official site's IQ test:)
(Reprinted in The Promised Neverland Art Book World; one of the few times we get to see them with their short sleeves for warmer weather.)
Unless Shirai meant Sarah named them literally right before handing them off to the moms in the plants, but I don't believe she'd care enough then or at any point after becoming Grandma.
That last one is funny though dlkfjsd
The little petty ways you get back at your mom when you're both victims and perpetrators of a violent system.
But you're right; Shirai's said some conflicting things over the course of the series' run that I think come from being run ragged by a hellish production schedule and a work just naturally evolving as opposed to being antagonistically contrarian to spite fans he views as obnoxious.
The other two that readily come to mind are Shirai saying the series could range anywhere from 10 to 30 volumes long…
(Mystic Code Book Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | October 2018 Franceinfo Interview | October 2020 Series Completion Interview)
…before his health took a nosedive and saying it was always going to be 20 volumes at most, with him wanting to maintain his sense of artistic integrity by completing the series on his own terms (the similarities between this and the way Yoshihiro Togashi ended Yu Yu Hakusho, one of TPN's biggest inspirations, is sadly staggering).
(Mystic Code Book Chapter 5 | October 2020 Series Completion Interview | TPN Wiki's Chapter 134 Page | WSJ Editorial Department 9/5/19 Update)
And him (and Sugita) being purposely mum about how he felt about Noremma when speaking with Cloverworks staff during the production of season 1 in 2018 compared to what he mentioned to Kendo Kobayashi in an earlier January 2018 interview, assuming he ultimately wanted to leave it up to the audience's interpretation rather than imposing his own (Demizu notably interprets all the relationships in the series as platonic).
(Minerva Confidential Report from the S1 Blu-ray | Mystic Code Book Chapter 1)
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