#season one episode ten

[catawonkus]

Merlin rewatch

The Moment of Truth

I love hunith being like “uther you’re a good king” knowing full well he killed like, everyone her lover and friends cared about

“Well, you’ve been terrible. Really. I mean it. The worst servant I’ve ever had.” “Thank you sire” I miss when their insults were friendly like this.

Morgana and Gwen immediately being like “road trip to save Merlin’s mom!!” And Arthur lasting like two seconds before coming along. Season 1 is so sweet. This is why I adored this show.

Every outfit Morgana wears in this episode is so hnnnnggg—

Merlin’s friend Will is the worst part of this episode though. But “merlin… merlin I’m scared” is honestly heart wrenching

Imagine how incredible it would’ve been if Merlin’s magic had been revealed in this episode. At least to like, Gwen. Who also looks adorable in this episode and her and Arthur are so sweet

My main question is… why is hunith trying sooo hard to get her son to fuck the prince? “You need him… he cares for you… two sides of the same coin”… Is she trying to set him up in a cushy position?

Merlin killed: 2

Arthur killed: 3

Caveat that the fight scenes were hard to see and I couldn’t tell if some of those bandits survived

Morgana and Gwen both get to kill a few people too

Merlin total kill count: 7

Arthur total kill count: 6

[witchofinterest]

[manybrokenquills]

FUCK

YOU GUYS THINK WALTER TOOK THE TEAMS STUFF OUT OF HIS KEEPSAKES BOX WHEN THEY FELL APART

[samkuchingdraws]

Some HAIKYUU!! sketches from the past couple of days~

[july-19th-club]

giggling and kicking my feet and prancing into my armchair to watch this annoying guy do embarrassing things on my tv show with his hot friend . and also Tim is there

[quietwingsinthesky]

“least favorite” isn’t anywhere close to bad. it just shows how damn hard the competition is going, but we’re talking about gold medals all around for each actor i’ve seen portray the doctor so far.

[thegirlfromgonewiththewind]

Personal review regarding what if…? season 2 episode 8 (spoilers)

No ok, I must admit, the episode was good in some aspects.

Wanda was majestic. Loki and Scott were hilarious and I loved every single moment with them.

Thor was amazing, dark and serious out of loss but still enjoyable, and the crumbs of his relationship with Hela were very nice.

I’ve actually liked Tony for the very first time in my life, probably because I tend to like him a lot more in AUs and fanfictions than I do in the normal timeline.

And then… there were those two.

I will never comprehend why marvel wants Steve to be so dependent on Peggy. And I will never comprehend why, to make him interact with her, they have to destroy or sideline every other relationship he has built, or make his character flat.

Bucky being friends with Scott was amazing, but the fact that him and Steve interacted like two times was extremely disappointing. You’d expect “best friends in every universe”, if you dislike the romantic pairing so much, to acknowledge themselves for more than a few scenes, in only one of which they’re in frame together (Bucky was literally 😐 while his best friend disappeared, come on now).

And the storyline about Peggy coming from another world to save the universe was just… Mbah. It could’ve been executed in another way without including her and it still would have made sense. It really feels like a Y/N insert.

Seeing literally any other character was so good, so fun, and they had to ruin it this way, making Peggy once again the self insert and girlboss she didn’t need to be.

Plus, forgive my constant complaining, but it’s extremely infuriating how all of Steve’s friends were eliminated to put the focus solely on Peggy. Where’s Sam? Where’s Nat? Where’s Clint? It’s not an underrated friendship we’re talking about, a big chunk of the fandom loves the cap quartet or team cap, and after civil war it would have been nice to see them interact, especially after its popularity and popular demand. Outlaw team cap would have been glorious, a good chance to bring back many characters who aren’t here anymore in the right way, and involve characters that are rarely involved in What if in the storyline, for a change.

The treatment of Sam in this series particularly angers me, and even more so in this episode. I understand not involving him in other storylines, but Sam was a big part of CATWS and he wasn’t even in the episode centered on that film. What, because Steve met him while running he can’t be introduced in any other way? And oh, there’s no excuse for this episode. If there was one episode they could have placed Sam in, it was this one. Sam was there in infinity war, where the mess happened, and he should have been with the other avengers in this one.

If marvel wanted to involve someone from another universe so bad, it should have been a Captain America Sam from another universe. Can you imagine the poetry of seeing Steve and Nat again after endgame? Can you imagine having closure with them both, and having fun in the process? It would have been so great.

Another great storyline without involving characters from other universes would have been one where Steve, who touched the time stone, accidentally brought everyone in the past, and he was the only one to remember it. And to go back and prevent everyone’s distraction, he had to recruit the avengers, who don’t know him and don’t trust him but that in the end become his friends and companions. It would have been so interesting to see the original avengers involved in something different from being some side characters or extras in the one woman show that seems to be What if, constantly centered around the same bland, one dimensional reimagined side character. Peggy’s blandness is so obvious in these episodes (aside for some random remarks that made me smile) that literally everyone who’s involved directly with her must be bland like her, otherwise risking to overshadow her.

I don’t think I was supposed to cringe and look away as much as I did during Steggy’s forced scenes, but I did. If they had to force Steggy and Peggy down our throats, at least they could have done something different from the same bland and boring storyline as always. I wouldn’t be as mad as I am now if Peggy and Steve’s relationship wasn’t as bland. I would have preferred an enemies to lovers type of twist or change, where Steve doesn’t trust Peggy and struggles with her because he sees in her a different version of the Peggy that died in that universe. But noooo, god forbid, let’s go with the same old song.

An episode five or ten minutes longer with a better, avengers-centric or Steve-centric storyline would have been much better than what we got.

And given that this was my most anticipated episode, I was very disappointed by it. I hope for the next seasons, if there’s other ones, Marvel will listen to the general complaint regarding Peggy and will give her a break. I don’t think any of the original avengers or relevant MCU characters made as much appearances as Peggy, and being a main focus in four episodes out of nine is ridiculous.

[eldritchqueerture]

the first two seasons of malevolent feel like a graveyard. everyone involved in this is already dead. everything has already transpired. its all done and we're just discovering the past

very reminiscent of those old short horror stories that are told from the perspective of an investigator who is only personally involved in the action to be the narrator

it feels like the story we're hearing is haunted by another story from the past

[fluffypotatey]

If SWK and MK come from the same stone, does that mean they are brothers? I don't know how others would see it though.

i think that all depends on the audience (and if i’m being honest, i hope that canon doesn’t clarify it precisely bc the fandom discourse will be insufferable 🙄 and i am so sick of THAT type of discourse)

are they brothers? if that fits with how their dynamic works for you, then sure! it makes sense when they do share the same egg, but also can we really place that as the distinction?

personally, SWK and MK’s dynamic to me reads like mentor/pupil that borders the line of familial (but what are those familial lines to me??? it is so vague, bestie if i’m being honest. sometimes i view them as brothers with an age gap. sometimes it’s uncle/nephew, and sometimes it’s grandpa/grandchild). i wouldn’t call their relationship brotherly the same way i would argue for the royalty duo. it’s just an unlabeled type of found family to me, ya know?

but canon-wise? well it has the mentor/pupil but also shows how they blur the lines into a friendship by s2. and then we have s4 teasing about SWK being MK’s possible dad (and why the teasing? well, the story is playing in the same assumptions audience members made: swk is a monkey, MK has monkey powers, they share similar enemies, and then you have the stone egg). but then the season ends leaving the connection between MK and SWK still vague while re-establishing the father/son with Pigsy and MK (and strengthening it in s5 bless)

AND THEN!!! S5 begins with SWK and MK finding their stone (i believe it was SWK who said “our stone” if my context clues are working) and even after MK’s origins are revealed, there still isn’t a solid confirmation on the familial aspect between SWK and MK but there is a connection. but i have no idea what the characters were saying, idk if they made any of that clear in s5

anyway, short answer: SWK and MK coming from the same stone does not need to mean they are brothers. it can be if you want it to even after lmk canon confirms or denies it. my personal interpretation is more blurry than brothers but to each their own

[laurapetrie]

THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW S05 E31

[freckleslikestars]

The many facial expressions of Dana Katherine Scully

THE X-FILES | 10.03 Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster

[sskk-manifesto]

Rabid wet dog vampire man

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

I love you 12 episode shows I love you 26 episodes shows from the 90s and early 2000s that still somehow bother to have monster of the week and filler, I love you five and three season shows that run exactly how long the story is supposed to be. I hate you Netflix making all shows short and canceling to get out of paying workers. I hate you HBO for selling all your stuff as a tax write off. I hate you reboots. I hate you “but it’s with their kids”. I hate you 24 season long shows that were meant to end in season six.

[jestiric]

nines my favorite doctor for the sole fact that hes just fucking insane like no other regeneration is

[elderwisp]

i wanna see beautiful boy next hmm

[theleafpile]

imagine all of the shows that shaped us only getting one season. imagine all of the shows that became a cultural zeitgeist only getting 8 episodes. imagine all of the shows that went on to explore depths of character getting canceled before we could wade into their shallowest reaches. imagine no more comfort shows being developed. no more monster of the week. no more heroes to be inspired by. no more risktaking. no more originality. no more stories being told that stay with us. no more opportunity for characters to become beloved.