#s8 in a nutshell

[idjitwithanimpala]

"Can I at least get changed and clean up?"

"No, now go kill Dean"

really funny that naomi dragged castiel back to heaven after saving him from purgatory... and then didnt give him a change of clothes or a shave

Now we see why Cas left Dean to dig himself out of his own grave. Modeled behavior. Literally how Cas was raised. Thanks a fuck ton, Naomi.

[thephantomcasebook]

https://x.com/westerosies/status/1929572795026923698?t=_cxGf2DZlrpDnKLQ6NKh1A&s=19

This would be the GOT S8 tier episode

This is "House of the Dragon's" problem in a nutshell.

They have the worst time management skill I've ever seen by writers in a series, period.

You have 8 episodes, Dumb Fuck! How is Sara Hess's vanity project gonna help push forward the plot?! You dumb cocksuckers complained, endlessly, all off-season how WB cut you off at the knees by cutting two episodes and your budget. But now - with eight episodes now as your cut off - you have time for this bullshit?!

You've left out one of the most important characters in all of Westerosi history for two fucking seasons in Daeron Targyen - Hero of the Dance and still beloved by the small folk two centuries later. But thank God that we fucked around in Harrenhal for most of a season and we got an out of place Lesbian kiss, or a riot that never happened, and let's not forget two ... TWO! Rhaenyra and Alicent scenes that didn't push the story forward.

I'm gonna fucking go off the next time some idiot tries to use the excuse that WB is to blame for Season 2 being bad when its clear that these assholes have no concept -None! - of time management for storytelling.

[demdems]

Thoughts on the last episode of s8 [911]

> the two guys dying in the laundromat should've been buck and eddie idc I'm a buddie girlie and i want them suffering<3

> not enough rescues in the building tbh it felt super low stakes considering it's the season finale

> felt like eddie showing up was kinda funny like is he allowed to do that is he technically just a good samaritan helping out

> i am so mad that every time there's a chance for hen to progress in her career, whether it was moving on to be a doctor or becoming captain the writers refuse to let her do anything and just give an excuse like I'm mad that they gave up on her becoming a doctor what's the point of all the time and effort and begging for a second chance to retake her exam and doing work & school full time and the point of people of color joining the medical field to work in spite of personal bias like what the heck!! hen could've either been captain or given a better reason than shes bad at letting people do things and needing to do them herself like that's a flaw but itd be an interesting plot line to follow in s9 instead of giving up on it

> am very proud for chimney being teased at becoming captain for next season, with good reasoning i would've been happy with either hen or chimney taking the reigns, it's been hinted that he's been good in leadership since they revealed what pushed him into firefighting

> madney's second kid being named robert nash han is too funny im sorry i would've preferred if the babys middle name was Robert, like it's probably just me but it feels like the final nail in the bobby truthers coffinn like Dang tell me how u really feel about people wanting bobby back, also it's so strange how the baby's birth was stuffed into the last few minutes of the episode like i even forgot maddie was pregnant for most of the season omg like it was a passing thought for most of it, also what's with pregnant ladies who just gave birth looking like theyre made up for a photoshoot like full makeup done up hair like girl no way u look this fabulous right now

> why is buck moving out tim minear start running, like unless we somehow unpack this in s9 I'm just like what's the point of anything, like we don't see the convo between buck and eddie deciding what the living arrangement would be now that eddie is back home, no buck fumbling over himself cuz of the whole living in your best friend's house while u may or may not be in love with him, like girl

> my apologies to the fire captain in el paso bro was right about Eddie he really did just ghost them, also i still think it's kinda absurd that they made it seem like eddie would leave permanently for texas and made it seem like a big deal but eddie was in el paso for like what, weeks?? Like the stakes get raised but then topple down without much fanfare, which is basically s8 in a nutshell

Probably watching s9, out of spite, this chess game could not get any more embarrassing, it's 2018 again and I'm being baited by show looking at me and telling me false kick lies

[crossroads-of-the-raven]

Ninjago Season 7 in a Boat Sized Nutshell - So I heard that people have a hard time remembering this season so I wrote this:

(I mainly studied it to do a rewrite, post DotD AU)

TLDR; Twin Masters of Time, lost the battle to take over Ninjago in the past so, in the present, they work to go back in time so they can win the past battle with their new Snake Samurai army - also the Elder Twin is the reason why Kai and Nya were orphans.

For the long version; buckle up:

It starts the day after the Day of the Departed.

Cole is human, has new lava themed super strength/punches with the power of the staff of quakes and he has a cool ghost green scar (that is never talked about outside of a could-be-canon book: Way of the Departed; which takes place after S7 and before S8).

(TLDR about the scar; it's supposed to be a door to the Departed Realm that slowly gets bigger with exposure to yin/dark energy which means it's slowly splitting Cole's head open, and yes it is painful - this was considered too dark for the show - but they still gave us the Oni Trilogy)

The Ninja are at work cleaning up the museum after the events of the fight (the museum mess is mainly Dareth's fault though)

The Ninja have also decided to move into Sensei Yang's (no longer cursed) floating temple. Because of this Misako, Ronin, and Dareth are helping with moving day (but Dareth is just supervising because apparently he got a bad back after the events of DotD so Ronin and Misako are doing all the work).

Wu, meanwhile, is at the ruins of the original Monastery, waiting.

Back at the Museum, Cole is having trouble controlling his powers and Kai and Nya find a painting of their parents that was done a short while before they disappeared. (This is also where we find out that Nya was three when Ray and Maya disappeared).

(IDK where it was said but apparently Kai is two year older then Nya which means he was five when he became the man of the house - as someone whose parents grew up in Third World environments, a five year old with this type of responsibility is considered normal and acceptable especially when the kid is the eldest child who is expected to be the third parent).

The Ninja find a different painting of an Battle that took place almost directly after the events of the Serpentine War.

The painting shows Wu and Garmadon fighting the Hands of Time (Twin Elemental Masters of Time).

Back with Wu, the younger Twin, Acronix, has arrived in the present at the Monastery, exactly forty years after the Battle in the painting.

The Time Twins don't actually have their powers as their powers were put into four Time Blades made of chronosteel; the blade that speeds up time shows up in the present and this causes time to skip forward a few minutes.

Acronix beats up Wu and uses the blade to starts aging him forward, the Ninja arrive and Acronix escapes to meet up with the museum director who is in disguise and is actually Krux the older Twin brother who is now forty years older.

Krux grew with the times and hates technology (not like Kai, Kai accepts tech, Krux wants to destroy all tech)

Acronix is new to the present age and thinks that technology is the best thing to ever happen.

After the fight at the Monastery, the Ninja think that they won but then a Snake Samurai starts attacking the new Borg store.

The Ninja fight, Borg gets kidnapped and Zane is down for the count AGAIN.

Kai goes to the museum to get information on the Snake Samurai helmet that he was able to take (and we get a flashback of when Kai(2) met Nya the day she was brought home).

Nya tries to fix Zane (and find out what attacked him - and finds out that is was the Hands of Time but only finds out after Kai gets to the museum).

The Snake Samurai start kidnapping builders and when trying to stop them, Cole punches Jay into the trash (as in into the bin and close the lid)

Kai fights Krux and they are evenly matched (the only ones who are also evenly matched with the twins are Garmadon and Wu).

Krux tells Kai that Ray and Maya were traitors that worked for the Hands of Time. Kai gets angry, Acronix shows up to the fight, they beat up Kai, Nya shows up, Kai gets his second wind, they beat up the twins but Acronix is able to escape with his brother (and Cyrus who they kidnapped), by using the fast forward Time Blade.

With Wu out of commission, Lloyd takes over as temporary master in training (yes, they say it like that).

Nya keeps trying to fix Zane and Pixal is annoyed by her lack of skill.

The Snake Samurai start stealing metal this includes Zane, but Pixal uses his systems to electrocute the snakes, Nya's Samurai suit is stolen and then Pixal appears to go offline.

The Ninja try to stop the Snake Samurai from stealing metal, Ronin and Dareth try to help and Dareth ends up breaking Ronin's leg.

(The Snake Samurai stole Dareth's fake trophies - which he apparently buys from Ronin)

The slow down Time Blade arrives and the snakes kidnap Edna, thinking that she is a builder.

Jay saves Edna and the Ninja get the Time Blade from the snakes and bring it back to Yang's Temple.

(Zane, Jay and Cole decided to play with the slow down Time Blade. During this Cole accidentally cuts up Jay's stuffie, Mr. Cuddlywump)

The Twins, with their Snake Samurai army, attack the temple, break the Destiny's Bounty, and Lloyd almost dies but is saved by Samurai X 2.0 - a.k.a. Ninjago Queen Pixal Borg.

The Time Twin's Top General (the only Lady General) beats up the Ninja, takes the Time Blade, and kidnaps Wu.

The Ninja split up to cover more ground.

Lloyd, Zane, Jay and Cole go to the museum to see if Krux hid anything there.

Nya and Kai stay behind to try and fix the Bounty but they can't so they so they split up for their own personal missions.

Nya goes to her Samurai X cave to find out who is the new Samurai X.

Kai goes to get advice about evil parents from Skylor.

Lloyd's group finds a hidden passage into the sewers where they find Scales who tells them about the Snake Samurai and where to find them - they're in a swamp (Snake Samurai are called Vermillion Warriors and are the first generation progeny of the Great Devourer with the same instincts to consume everything - this is never explored)

Nya fights the new Samurai X (who is using everyone's voice except Pixal's), after which, she accepts the new Samurai X but she thinks it's Skylor.

Nya goes to Chen's restaurant, where Kai is talking with Skylor and Nya finds out that Skylor isn't Samurai X.

Kai tells Nya that their parents are alive and working for the Hands of Time.

The Jiang Smith Siblings are depressed.

Skylor comes back with two bowls of her favorite noodle recipe (the type that always cheered her up) so as to cheer up the Jiang Smith Siblings and she gives them good advice.

Nya agrees with Skylor's advice while also giving Skylor a back handed compliment (while pointing and waving her chopsticks in Skylor's face - like girl, rude, very rude).

Then the siblings get a call from Lloyd's group about where the Time Twins's hideout is.

The Siblings go to the Swamp to find their parents.

Lloyd goes to find Wu.

(Wu has been having nightmares about being alone, and about having failed Misako, Garmadon and Morro)

Zane, Jay, and Cole go to free the kidnapped people.

Kai tries to kills his dad before his mother stops him.

Kai and Nya get an explanation - Ray and Maya made the Time Blades that Garmadon and Wu used to take away and hold the powers of the Time Twins so Krux kidnapped them to work for him, as revenge.

(We also get a flash back that shows us Kai(5) and Nya(3) playing as their parents get kidnapped in the background)

The pause Time Blade shows up and is taken by the Time Twins then they go to the forge in the swamp where Krux was forcing Ray and Maya to make armor for the Vermillion Warriors.

In exchange for Wu and the cure for Wu, Kai and Nya are forced to retrieve the Reversal time blade from the Boiling Sea (a sea which is always on fire) and use a special dragon blade that is able to combine the Elemental Powers of Fire and Water to make the Fusion dragon so the siblings can travel into the Boiling Sea.

The siblings get the blade, then the Twins fast forward Ray, take the blade and escape back to the swamp where they were forcing Cyrus Borg to make a Time Machine Snake Mech.

Kai and Nya make the Fusion Dragon to get them all back to the swamp.

They all fight and Samurai X 2.0 shows up to protect Cyrus.

The Twins go back in time with their three generals and snake army, then Kai and Nya stowaway on the time machine with Wu.

The Twins show up in the past - seconds after their past selves dissappeared into a time rift - and attack the Elemental Masters and the Spinjitzu Brothers with their Snake Samurai army.

(We get to see Jay's Birth mother - Jay's rambling tendencies is both Nurture and Nature)

Change the past, change the future.

Kai and Nya pretend to be Ray and Maya so they can help out the Elemental Masters.

The Masters are winning so the Twin pull apart all the Snake Samurai including their Generals, so they can have them power/monuver the time machine to be an attack Mech - with the Mech, they get past Wu to surrender.

In the present all tech disappears, Ninjago City reverts to a pre-modern style, Samurai X 2.0 disappears, but no one notices because Zane has returned to how he looked when he lived in his father's tree.

(Side Note: Zane looks human again instead of just disappearing like Pixal - que the Zane is a reverse Pinocchio / use to be human theories)

Back in the past; Kai and Nya form the Fusion Dragon again to attack the mech, then Nya gets an idea and jumps off the dragon.

The water half of the Dragon starts to dissappear without Nya but Kai begs it to stay and the water dragon stays for Kai.

Kai attacks the Mech but eventually the twins decide to retreat by traveling to a different time; Kai tries to stop them but they dodge his attack and, in Kai's panic, the fuison dragon disappears while the twins time travel again.

Nya and Wu (who is cured) meet up with Kai; Wu had told the Ninja that, in the past, not long after the Twins had disappeared in the time rift, the Reversal Blade had been found by the Elemental Masters and Hidden by Ray and Maya in the Boiling Sea - so Nya went to find the Reversal Blade to cure Wu.

They then use the Reversal Blade to give themselves a second chance against the Twins.

Kai, back on the Fusion Dragon, picks up Nya and Wu - Wu gives his past self the Reversal Blade to hide and tells him and the past masters to drink obscuri-tea from Mistaké - then Kai, Nya, and old Wu sneak back onto the time Mech and it enters a time vortex.

Kai, Nya and Wu fight the Twins and Wu sacrifices himself to make sure Kai and Nya return to their proper time with the Reversal Blade to save Ray.

In the present, everything is back to normal, Zane is back to being a Nindroid and Samurai X 2.0 is back.

Kai and Nya use the Reversal Blade to save their father. Lloyd is now the leader and the search is on to find Wu.

~

*Tags edit and note*

Also check out the music for this season from The Fold

[fanfictionwritterwannabe]

Schrodinger's intimacy is magbel in a nutshell they're lovers but also not? Lovers at any given time.

It also fits Isobel’s state until s8, at any moment she can be borh dead and alive!

Neither enemies to lovers nor slow burn but a secret third thing called Schrödinger's intimacy. We are in love and we are not in love do NOT open that lid I swear to God.

[gotgifsandmusings]

A Very Good Queen

(aka a summation of Jon and Tyrion’s 20 minute scene in the finale)

[JON] She’s a very good queen

[TYRION] And...

[JON] And?

It was a very fast war

[TYRION] And?

[JON] And— Her dragon took care of all things

[TYRION] And, the Queen?

[JON] Oh the Queen...

[TYRION] Yes, the Queen.

[JON] ...She’s assured.

[TYRION] But there’s more

Were you upset?

Did you cry? They said the smallfolk cried.

[JON] I was very upset

[TYRION] Yes, and?

[JON]

I lead the rear end

[TYRION] No, the queen.

[JON] Oh, the queen

[TYRION] Yes, the Queen

[JON] I get why she’s angry, I guess

[TYRION] Guess?

[JON] Cersei murdered her friend

[TYRION] Where you there? Is she cold or violent?

[JON] And she’s not one to bend...

[TYRION] 

Is that right? Would you too? Can’t you see right away she is troubled? Can you claim that she’s stable, well-mannered, considerate, logical, docile, as just as she’s pretty, as smart as she boasts, is she all that you want in a ruler?

[JON] Would I know?

[TYRION] Well, I know

[JON] But how can you know what she’s like ‘til you watch how she rules and you see if you like it?

[TYRION] She’s far gone!

[JON] All I know is—  

[TYRION] We cannot trust— 

[JON] What I wish that I knew—

[TYRION] An impulsive woman

[JON] Is what makes something right 

[TYRION] If you’ve always been told that you’re right—where’s the profit in thinking?

[TOGETHER] She’s a very good queen...

[trailmixstar-blog]

Lance: the stars are beautiful tonight

Keith: yeah

Lance: you know who else is beautiful?

Keith: Lance istg if you say Al-

Lance: Allura is love Allura is life shes my wife i love her forever and

[shittinggold]

Here is my boyfriend Danny and here is my other boyfriend The Doctor. And here is his girlfriend Missy. And here is my girlfriend Me.

[1x12faith]

Here's my top 5 episodes from season 8!! I made it tablet-colored :)

s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 s6 s7 - s9 s10 s11

[lanceville]

allura doesn’t deserve to be forced into a relationship she’s clearly not interested in and knows she won’t reciprocate when she only asked for a friend by her side during those tiring times and lance is someone who loves from the bottom of his heart and deserves to be with someone who loves him as much as he loves them and to overcome his insecurities independently and not by getting into a relationship of unreciprocated romantic feelings

their beautiful friendship from back during the first four seasons didn’t deserve to be ruined and destroyed for a shallow forced relationship with no romantic chemistry that would obviously not work because both of them want something different and their needs don’t align either. allura and lance deserved to be best buds. their friendship was heartwarming as it was, and neither of them deserved any of this... forced shallow romance only brought misery and pain upon them both and for what. for nothing at all.

[kate--beckett]

Beckett, how much proof do you need before you finally accept the fact that your husband has been marked for death? Okay, If you had been marked for death then the demon would have killed you. Instead you were knocked out by a very human attacker who managed to run off with your… whatever dagger. 

[calliettes-posts]

Druck s8 in a nutshell

[prxyvol]

My ranking of NuWho Doctors

I just want you all to know that this is my opinion and i'm writing a review in which i am terrible at.

(EXCLUDING THE WAR AND FUGITIVE DOCTORS)

4th Place: Thirteenth Doctor

In my opinion tho, Jodie isn't to blame but the writers are. After seeing Flux, She kinda has some character development from what I see.

3rd Place: Ninth Doctor

Overall a very underrated Doctor, from what I heard many people seem to skip Nine and it's really sad because if Eccleston had a terrible performance then the show would've been canceled.

2nd Place: Twelfth Doctor

Yeah you might hate me, but honestly tho I quite like how he changed overall in his story, in S8 he's like anti emotional and then before he regenerates he hugs his two best friends for the last time.

At first I didn't like him at the start of S8 but at the end of S8 he's starting to grew on me, when S9 came in he had this cool uncle like personality that I found funny, and when S10 came that's when he's in his like full form.

Overall my opinion on him in a nutshell: S8 was like meh, in S9 I like him in some parts (Especially Heaven Sent), and in S10 you're one of the GOATs

1st Place: Tenth and Eleventh Doctors

To those who know about this account and this user, you already know about it.

To put it simply they're the Doctors that made me love Doctor Who. Smith introduced me since I watched him previously in The Crown, and Tennant made me love the show even more.

For Tenth, he's a practically a balanced guy, you did something wrong then you DID do something wrong, his love for pretty much everything, his personality, and his story arc.

He is the Time Lord Victorious.

For Eleventh, he's the emotional relief that the show needed after the overall drama of 10th's story arc, his child-like personality, he's like 10 without the romantic side, He really is a madman with a box.

So there it is, my terrible review/ranking of the New Who Doctors (excluding the War and Fugitive Doctors).

Again to clarify, this is overall my opinion.

[talkingtea]

Ok so im just trying to keep up. so the crossover ends this tuesday, then there’s a 3 month hiatus. The show comes back in March but on a wednesday, and the same time slot right? The first “official” ep of s8 is technically not the start of s8 because it’s a standalone flashback ep thingy with nora & bart and eddie?? Then s8e7 is when the show starts and it may or may not be related to the crossover? we know from eric that there are going to be 1 or 2 epic novels or something along those lines (whatever that means). And we know that there will be a time sickness plot that may have iris away from everyone for at least 2 eps bc of candice filming in the same outfit and location for weeks. oh and throw in a journalism plot and pulitzer too. oh throw in the golden boots as well. so that’s season 8 in a nutshell i think?? did i miss anything?

Don’t forget Ronnie is coming, hopefully to take Caitlin far, far away. And we assume given how ‘powerful’ Cecile supposedly is she’ll look like this by the end of the season

Even though the only person’s mind she’s able to read is Barry’s and not even in a way that actually helpful to him. 🙄

[kiss-my-freckle]

So... here’s the thing about those discs. Red never wanted Liz to take over his criminal empire. In fact, it was never a consideration until S7, and it wasn’t just a consideration because he was dying. It was a consideration because he saw that she was in a dark place, and it was obvious to him that she wasn’t gonna walk back into the light.

Red: It’s about my will and my various trusts. Seeing as how she’s the primary beneficiary, I’d like you to set aside a time to review them with Elizabeth. Gerard: You’re giving a cop the keys to your kingdom. Red: Regrettably. Gerard: Why do it? Red: Because where she’s going, she’ll need it. Gerard: And where, pray tell, is our plucky heroine going? Red: To a very dark and dangerous place. She doesn’t see it, or can’t accept it, but her path is undeniable. Gerard: You make it sound like she has no choice. Red: What did you say? Gerard: I said, “You make it sound like she has no choice.” Red: I guess that is what I’m saying. Sometimes there is no choice.

Understand that neither Kate nor her sister would be connected to these discs, since Red hadn’t considered Liz for his empire until S7, and Kate died in 4x22.

I also feel it makes more sense for someone to have taken them AFTER Liz died rather than before. After all, she accepted Red’s offer to take over his criminal empire, and would’ve safeguarded those discs herself. “We put it in a safe in Tivat.” In a nutshell, I believe Liz’s key will have the same playout as Cole’s. Someone took it after Liz’s death the way Red took Cole’s, and this person broke into the safe in Tivat the way Red broke into Cole’s. So, unless there was a Helen-like inside man for the vault in Tivat, it would require someone with Red skills to pull off obtaining those discs. The vault in Tivat may not be as heavily safeguarded as Helen’s vault, but it most certainly would require a  team. Much like the team it took to get into Cole’s vault. Much like the team Liz had to hire (The Fribourg Confidence) just to hit up the bank for Red’s thumb drive in S8. Or much like Scottie’s bank heist in S3, when she helped Red get to Diaz’s funds. 

Expect a team.

Why obtain the discs? There could be any number of reasons. I have no clue. Tell you what bothers me. The difference between Cole’s vault and Red's. Cole's vault was bare except for those discs. I mean... Red has a slew of stuff in his vault, including a huge stash of cash. So Cole got that vault, and only those discs were placed in it. It feels so bread crumb to me. Like this enemy is quite literally leading Red into a trap. They wanted those discs found that way.

Do I think they used Red’s key - or Liz’s? Definitely Liz’s. They got so close to her, and she trusted them so much... that they handed her a digestible tracker... and she actually took it. This is someone who knows Liz as much as they know Red and the task force. This is someone close. And they want Red to know they’re close. I felt the same with Cole’s lawyer, LaCroix. This enemy wants them to know just how intimately they know them. 

But I still don’t suspect Marvin.

[carylizzington]

The Blacklist in a nutshell... from Liz’s pov

‪S1- who’s dis man and why does he make me feel that way‬

‪S2- i can handle myself and protect u too xx‬

‪S3- we are JUST FRIENDS... right? but also i’m pregnant and i decided you’re a threat 😡‬

‪S4- 😠😠😠

‪S5- scratch all that, i’ll call u daddy if i want‬

‪S6- you big LIAR i fucking love u 😩‬

S7 - why the hell would i trust you over this stranger who claims to be my mom ?!?

‪S8- okay, you’ve ruined my life, i’m comin’ for u with the full force of my dumbassery

S9 (hopefully) - nevermind, you were right all along, pls forgive me ❤️