#review sort of?

[martharaccoon]

Mr & Mrs Smith TV Show

Spoilers// first thoughts while watching

Episode 2 Second Date

*touches the other side of the bed*

Is she looking for John??!?

Oh… for max… i thought there was a time jump 💀

Max chilling with John is everything

Snooping, come on now Jane 😭

Well at least she was straight up with it ig

Well i mean they aren’t normal so I guess it’s not as bad

😟 not the XXX website 😟

Girl did that on purpose to mess with him lmaoo

“Do you have a cat?” 🤨 ya uh bye bitch don’t talk to me

Jane slays

“What’s up with that guy?” John

“I don’t know but he’s kinda of hot tho” Jane😃

John : ☹️🤨

John did not like that 😭

Oh he’s down bad already

“Let’s make a pact, get money, go our separate ways, no sex” ya uh how long we thinking that’s gonna last

Mr. Hihi should’ve just went into match making as a job instead of this spy stuff.

Like bud keeps matching people that are compatible then they go AWOL like his greatest gift keeps screwing up his job.

Like just make your own dating app, you’ll have a lot more success there

Theory: Mr. Hihi is the neighbor

I’m just going to ignore what she did in the mirror there

John got that 20/20 vision, couldn’t be me

Nah I don’t like this bidder, brother you can’t just go and get in peoples personal space like that. Leave bow tie guy alone

John about to Rizz up this man

What

Is

Happening

“Your both dogs” what tf is going on rn 💀💀

😭😭😭 oh hell nah

Save me some one

HELpPPPPPPPPPPP

Stick him with the needle plzzzzz

Guys I can’t even explain what I just witnessed

Uh oh

This mission is screwed

Or not?

“I was with this man as a dog!” 😭😭

“Your just lonely” okay but that’s not a crime

Called them out fr

Mission half successful 🤷‍♀️

I mean nobody cared about this guy so

It’s time to get chopping

Jane: “Do you feel bad, I feel really bad”

John: *nods*

He getting it guys, he’s getting it

They got a movie theater?!??! Lucky bastards

I knew she put the porn there for him 😭😭

Jane: “And when I say out, I mean O-U-T out!”

John: 😑

Jane: 😬

Them messing with each other is gold

“Do you want to kiss me?” 😦😦😦 omg omg wait wait

“Yeah I’ll kiss you” guys wait what wait I was not expecting this in episode 2

Oh we getting serious real quick

That pact did not last a damn day 😭

Okay 3 strikes your out with this whole mission business. They can only fail two more times without backlash. And I’m guessing that backlash is death.

[t-hirstreview]

[theautistichalflinghole]

Does anyone else see the vision

[muchcelebrated]

PSA: If you loved My Lady Jane you should watch The Artful Dodger! It has immaculate romance and banter and angst and the two leads (Thomas Brodie Sangster and Maia Mitchell) have great chemistry!

It’s got great writing and is a part period drama, part medical drama, part romance, and has heist elements! I also really can’t overstate how great the romance is!

[jasper-the-menace]

If I had a dollar for every horror book I read this year (that was also published this year) in which a conservative cult used powers beyond mortal ken to enforce their conservative agenda onto a bunch of queer and neurodivergent children who then turned that power around to decimate the cult at some point in their lives, I would have two dollars, which isn't a lot but it's great that it happened twice.

Anyway, read Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and Mister Magic by Kiersten White.

[empire-of-the-words]

Just finished skimming Damian’s introduction (aka only reading the Damian parts so I could actually enjoy them instead of crying over what they did to Talia) and this kid. This kid.

He's so sassy, and while he's also very spoiled, it's extremely clear he just wants to prove himself to his dad. I just love him so much 🥰

Bruce is either a horrible parent (tbf this was just sprung on him and he has zero processing time but still) or has the absolute best dynamic with Damian. They're so cute when they're not clashing like BattleBots

Also, while I take absolute none of Talia’s stuff into consideration when characterizing her, the fact she gave Damian to Bruce literally because she couldn't handle him is absolutely hilarious. She literally went, "hey, you're a hardass. I bet you can calm this kid down". She was also entirely wrong

Plus this:

[ineffably-smote]

Macbeth, David Tennant - A very subjective, spoiler and emotion filled review

Just walking out of seing Macbeth at the Donmar and I have Feelings. Unsurprisingly, I primarily went to see it because David Tennant was in it. I love the play, big fan of Shakespeare but the trip to London was most certainly motivated by a very specific actor. Hence the highly subjective review. Fortunately, I also happen to quite like Macbeth. We studied it at school, and it holds a special place in my heart (back then, Hamlet was my favourite Shakespeare play but honestly, after tonight, I’m not so sure anymore. Anyway, I digress). It was my first time actually seeing an actor I’m a fan of in real life, so obviously the entire time my brain was just going oh my god that’s David Tennant oh my god that’s David Tennant like I actually could not comprehend it. The man I’ve spent hours staring at on a little screen is suddenly real, and right there. So yeah, that took me a hot second.

(Excuse the piss poor image quality, I took this with shaky hands without looking or bothering to focus the cam)

The Staging

Still starstruck and a bit dazed, one thing really really stood out to me: the staging. It was so, so good. I knew it was going to be minimal from the pictures I had seen, and it was, but it was also so insanely real. There were barely any decorations, and half the cast and the musicians were hidden behind a glass screen doing background noises and gestures. From where I was sitting I could not see them much, but could definitely hear them which added to the overall atmosphere. The stage was also really tiny, and the play benefitted incredibly from it. All the action was happening in one tight space that had been put to use incredibly well, particularly the banquet scene but I’ll come back to that because it deserves its own paragraph.

The way they chose to do the soliloquies was so fitting - all the actors start to move in slow motion - everyone else slowing down and just the characters speaking moving was so good, it made sense.

The Headphones

I’m a bit mixed about the headphones. They were amazing for the vibes, we could hear whispers and they really heightened some of the emotional speeches in the play - because when someone is struggling with guilt and trauma it makes sense for them to be mumbling rather than yelling. So that was really great. However, especially in the scenes where the actors where yelling/ loud I preferred to take them off a bit cause it felt more real that way. I’m so used to hearing actors voice on recordings, it does hit different when you can hear them for real. But, as I said, personal preference and that’s what’s nice, you can take them on and off as much as you want.

Famous Speeches

There were three speeches I was quite interested to see how they were going to be adapted - scorpions and dagger for Macbeth, and out damned spot for Lady Macbeth. These are classic, everyone knows the words, the plot but they managed to make it feel real in a new and touching way. I think here the headphones were quite helpful because they allowed the actors to actually whisper parts of those lines. They were so subtle, so embedded in the text they felt so natural which imbued them with all their power. I saw in a review Cush Jumbo’s out damned spot speech be described as “haunting”, and I wholeheartedly agree.

The Macbeths

I didn’t like Macbeth, the character, very much when I first learnt about him. His actions didn’t make sense to me, I couldn’t quite comprehend in my 21st century little brain how he went from I’m super loyal to the King to I will freely murder children for shits and giggles. But now, now I understand. It makes sense, it’s believable. And that’s a mix of the acting choices and teh overall setting. Like the opening scene, instead of presenting Macbeth as a glorious hero, he is presented to us as a traumatised hero. He spends the first few minutes washing the blood of his clothes, haunted by noises from the battlefield. And that sets the themes quite nicely, not ambition, as Tennant specified in an interview, but guilt and trauma. There are so many ways to interpret Shakespeare, that’s the beauty of it, and I think this version of Macbeth just resonated more with me (maybe because ambition I don’t quite understand but guilt I am intimately familiar with? Or maybe because it was David Tennant? I don’t know, probably a bit of both). Tennant delivers a convincing Macbeth. Yes, you can see his ambitions play out, but also his fears, his guilt, and that makes him into a complex three dimensional character that you want to understand.

And I absolutely loved this version of Lady Macbeth. Not just a powerful woman who bullies her husband into become an evil murderer (because again, here we can see traces of that in Macbeth from the start), but an ambition woman in love, with her husband, with power, and not quite healed from the trauma of loosing her child. Again another review said she is more of an enabler than a manipulator and I quite liked that description.

My Favourite Scenes

God the banquet scene. The one with the ghost of Banquo. An absolute masterpiece. I did not expect that scene to hit that hard. It was raw, it was powerful and even if Tennant was facing away from where I was sitting, even without seeing his face I could feel the emotion, the whole audience could. In a video essay on Tennant, @davidtennantgenderenvy highlighted how in almost every role he played, there is it is the classic Tennant breakdown moment, and breakdown moment it was. Not with tears, not as expressive as he sometime is but just enough for a King trying to hold it together but fear and guilt breaking through. I was absolutely overwhelmed and it was beautiful. The set up for the scene was amazing too - there were ceilidh, celebrations, I adored the contrast between these fast pasted scenes and guilt ridden whispers of the couple. And the way everyone sat down around the stage and suddenly it looked like a banquet table ? Just perfect.

Another really cool moment, less on the emotional side but more on the visuals was when Macbeth goes to get the second prophecy from the witches. Almost the whole cast is there, running around, moving, almost dancing and it gives the whole thing a mystical atmosphere. There’s smoke, Macbeth falls, is carried up high Jesus style, cowers, rises, it’s so busy and insane all the while there are whispers and whispers in the headphones - it manages perfectly to feel like a mystical moment.

Descent Into Madness & other cool things

For Macbeth, having the kid running around scene after scene, haunting him, and then scene where he kills him - GOD it’s powerful. Lady Macbeth’s descent into madness was so well characterised, I also loved the glass on the background that locked away some of the cast. Just wild. The actor that played Malcom actor was also really cool, and Macduff and Ross, big fan of all of them.

Overall I am overwhelmed with emotions. Tennant is truly one of my favourite actors - from Good Omens to Staged, Jessica Jones, even Harry Potter but also Mad to be Normal, Nativty, There She Goes, Around the World in 80 days, Doctor Who (god I’ve started a list, never start lists cause you’ll forget people) and so, so many more, I was truly beside myself with excitement and expectations for tonight. And it did not disappoint. I do not want to leave the theatre and I pray they release a recording of this because I want it imprinted on my soul.

(Side note: I don’t know how to use tumblr very well, for some reason whenever I try to reply to ppl it posts from my other blog? Anyway @raquel-and-sergio is in fact me)

[abybweisse]

Ch212 (p3), It's hard to find good help

After our earl questions Sebastian's suggestion to ever hire Mey-Rin, Sebastian turns the tables and questions our earl's offers to Finny and Snake.

Finny is indeed the product of a research facility in Germany, though we still don't know much about him, but now we know he really could barely speak back then. It wasn't just a barrier between languages but a barrier of speaking at all. Those kids were kept down there with just some basic toys and were apparently not given any education other than being forced to fight each other. Our earl defends the decision because Finny was like a blank slate, and they could teach him to be loyal. Sebastian concedes that Finny has become fiercely loyal to our earl and would probably rush into a burning building if our earl told him to.

But the decision to hire Snake truly surprised Sebastian. Our earl sees it as a better alternative than setting him free to make another attempt to kill him. He's (intentionally, I think) leaving out the option to kill Snake instead of hiring him or setting him free.

"His ability to manipulate snakes *has", not "have".

I'm not sure why our earl says Snake hasn't always been dependable (since he's been hired), particularly since he also says Snake preforms basic chores better than the other three. Perhaps he just doesn't consider Snake to be as loyal as the others, and that's probably quite true.

Poor Snake has lost his life, but hopefully Finny will come through this alive and ultimately successful... though he'll need more help to finish the job.

A waiter comes by, and our earl accepts the offer of tea, then he orders some for Sebastian, too, later saying it'd look odd if Sebastian wasn't seen drinking (or eating) while our earl eats and drinks.

"I feared for heavy snowfall." 😂

But that's just silly for the kid to say he has no leg room in that first class compartment. I think he just likes the dining car... and appreciates all that Sebastian does (sometimes appreciates it, anyway) but can't admit to it.

Now I'm not sure whether ch213 will be arrival in Brighton or something that happens during the transfer in Redhill.

[catboy-a-day]

catboy 170.. me rn.

[canisalbus]

I am so sorry if this is inappropriate but machete's fluffy ass is the greatest thing ever

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[martharaccoon]

Mr & Mrs Smith TV Show

Spoilers/first thoughts while watching

Episode 1 First Date

I’ve only watched the movie once so I’m coming into this show new and not deeply connected to the movie plot.

The first John and Jane shown seems to be a symbolism of what’s going to happen to the new John and Jane. (Minus the dying part)

I’m wondering if one of the main characters killed the couple. I feel like it would be a good plot twist. Kind of like “I killed them and I didn’t understand them, but now I do, now I know” and for some reason if one of them did I think possibly Jane did.

Interesting that we get to see a different way they become a couple in the show. I like that we’ll get to watch their relationship develop.

They have a cat 😭 They already have a baby

Oh okay Mr. Smith 😩

First date, kind of awkward.

So far it seems John is the more emotional one and I also wonder if they’ll bring up the accident that happened with him.

“I’m always right”- John

a minute later is wrong

“I’m not in it for the romance” I just knowww thats gonna bite her in the ass later.

“Mom where’s your ticket?” “I don’t know you…😕” lmaoooooo

Golden retriever x Black cat

Their dynamic is just:

John-“What’s your favorite color?”

Jane-“🤨”

John-“Well mines green.”

Jane-“🤨”

John-“…okay.”

The smirk Jane makes when John jokes with her during the play 😭 Getting distracted on the mission because they like talking to each other.

I have a feeling because that happened she’s going to push him away.

Okay the mission went good maybe she won’t push him away.

A cake??? A test to see if they work together-

Oh Shitttttt 😭😭😭 right as I was typing that the house gets it’s world rocked

The cake was actually a “cake” 💣 should’ve probably seen that one coming

“I thought there would be more high risk” blows up house first day

“Hey, be safe” 😭😭😭😭

I was not expecting Jane to be the one to question the organization first. I expected it be John but nope. I think that makes their characters more interesting though.

It’s her cat?????? What!

Actually since he was in the military it makes sense he wouldn’t question the people he works for. He used to following orders and turning off his emotions when he needs to.

“I was terrified” ☹️ screw that guy and his pancakes

Ending thoughts:

I don’t think Jane killed the first couple anymore. It’s probably to show what happens when couples go AWOL.

I like that even though Jane likes to keep her secrets that she isn’t completely cold. Like she questions who she killed and why she had to kill them.

Where John is a lot more outgoing and wants to get to know Jane. Yet he doesn’t think about the aftermath of the missions, doesn’t seem to really care (at least right now) about who he kills.

They aren’t the typical cold girl / happy guy dynamic

I liked the first episode so far. Interested to see if I’ll like episode two.

[nedlittle]

wow dude do you think oscar wilde may have been gay? should we tell the discord? should we inform rupaul?

[gingermintpepper]

drop the link on that fic of Zeus being a good dad?

Absolutely my friend!

As you can see, it's called Trials of Fatherhood by the lovely @z-eusie and in-between my agonies and right now, she's actually updated the fic and now the Apollo chapter is live!! Everyone should go read this fic, actually! It's a wonderful little compilation of moments that allow for showing both the ugliness and beauty of the gods when taken from a nuanced, compassionate perspective and it's always been one of my favourites to go back to every now and then just because of how fond I am of it. I'm especially fond of the Athena and Dionysus chapters myself but I hope everyone finds their favourite one. <33

[softness-and-shattering]

Ok the latest episode of dungeon meshi is gory as fuck.

Major episode 11 SPOILERS

Given that the episode is dragon part one, I assumed they would fight the dragon, mostly fail, cliffhanger, and the next episode would be defeating it.

I did NOT expect them to kill it, root around its insides, and find Falins fucking bones!!

The foot comes down on Senshi and he immediately vomits blood? Chilchuk knocked out by bricks to the head, Laios loses his leg?! (Nitpick but. If the leg was disconnected what was keeping him from falling out the dragons mouth? Anime rule of cool physics?)

And then. Chilchuk and Senshi is heaps of pain and Laios' leg is just itchy? Its a good joke, but I think there's more. Those heals were too easy after that amount of unprecedented violent gore.

Laios had a btw-line about of the dragon and is mating and then dismissed the thought with no given reason. So I think next episode theres gonna be a second Red dragon. ( Its possible part 2 will be next season, but following more common episode title namings, red dragon 1 and 2 will be the season finale. )

And theres the unanswered question of the whole season, why is the dragon more active, why is the ecosystem of the dungeon off-balance. I think next episode will be our big clue.

Re Falin, its no coinicidence we were introduced to the racist rich guy who assures us that souls dont leave bodies in the dungeon. That was confusing up till the last episode because the characters sure act like death is possible, and we've seen dead people and heard about body-retrieval. Then Namari goes to revivals to ask about Falin and there are bodies stored behind the desk guy. Which puts the pieces together, bodies that can be retrieved are retrieved, and the people can be revived. If someone cares to, and presumably pays for it. Someones gotta pay for retrievals.

Its also no accident that our warm-fuzzy sibling scene before finding Falins skull is about a ghost who is trapped with his body, and Falins intuition/ability with ghost magic. Can she be revived, will she stick around as a ghost, remains to be seen. (Remains.)

As someone who hasnt yet read the manga, Im also curious about long term story. Ive gotten the impression that theres significant story to go, possibly probably they reach the end of the dungeon? But Ive not seen Falin present in any of the art, and for the story to continue they need motivation to keep going.

So Im guessing that Falin ends up as a ghost, or unreviveable, and they have to get to the bottom to find the mad mage, work out what stops people from crossing over post-death (does that include monsters, orcs, humanoid mermaids or fish-oid[???]mermen), and only then can they bring Falin back to life.

That or they revive her and theres some other plot hook, but my guess is what I just described.

(Another silly nitpick, the fire is blocked by the adamantium but the heat isnt a problem until after the fire is done? "WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE TO EXHAUST ALL ITS FUEL" THAT WOULDVE LEFT FALIN BEYOND ALL HOPE!!!!!!)

And its funny re Senshi's knife, ooh its mithril it can cut through anything, well of course! he's used it to cut every single monster theyve eaten! And we never wondered how! Foreshadowing by cookware, its ridiculous and I love it.

Last point is it just me or are...is it Kaka and Kiki? Theyre discount Vex and Vax, right?

[devildom-moss]

Modes

[the demon brothers and Solomon are chilling in the living room at the HoL]

Satan: I have two modes: calm bookworm and rage.

Asmo: Aw, Satan. You’re so much more than an angry nerd.

Satan: Yeah, yeah, I know. I meant mode as in most occurring - as in my most occurring settings are equal amounts rage and “nerd.”

Mammon: I bet 1000 Grimm I can guess which one you’re in now.

Beel: No.

Asmo, ignoring them: Ohh, I see~ So, like Levi’s two modes are probably otaku and autistic?

Levi: What?!

Satan: No, there’s probably a good deal of overlap between the two, and neither of those are things that he can ever stop being - well, maybe the otaku part.

Asmo: Can’t turn off autism, though.

Levi: Wait! Am I-?

Mammon: Ha, bro’s got peer-reviewed autism.

Solomon: Peer’s got bro-reviewed autism.

Asmo: Well, what about this: Lucifer has two modes: caring older brother and scary sadist?

Satan: That would require those two to occur at the same rate.

Lucifer: You're aware that I’m in the room, right?

[enter MC]

MC: Hey, what’d I miss?

Levi: MC, am I autistic?

MC: . . . actually, I . . . did not mean to enter this room. *immediately turns and walks away*

Mammon, yelling after them: But everyone's in this room, already!

MC, yelling back: I know. I’m going to Purgatory Hall!

Solomon: Well, I should probably head back. MC~ wait for me~!

Levi: . . . but-? Am I?

Lucifer: I’ll make an appointment with a doctor for you later - after Belphie wakes up from his nap.

Beel: I can move him off your lap and carry him to bed if he’s in your way.

Lucifer: I . . . didn’t say he was in the way.

Asmo: Awww, see, caring older brother mode.

Satan: That's an outlier, but sure.

Lucifer: I’m scheduling an appointment for you, too, Satan.

[confusinglyamusingly]

I really do believe that any devastating queer horror film worth it's salt that breaks into the mainstream should have just as many one star reviews from confused cis people as it does five star reviews from people saying it changed their life