Something I don't see people mentioning enough is the initial difference in how Louis and Armand are making fun of each other because like
Armand starts with "oooh my life is hard, I can feel people's feelings when I kill them, everyone I know wrongs meee" and Louis immediately hits him with "yeah well you were groomed into a little bitch"
Those were not at all equal places to start, but Armand really said "if you wanna start that then I'll finish it" and hit him with the death blow.
I love the fact that the Silvermane Guards are essentially just a very devoted "We Love Gepard Landau" fanclub, and I desperately need for all of them to get into ship wars about it behind their Captain's back. The soldiers are all split into several factions:
Some of them ship him with Sampo 🛡💣 (enemies to lovers/hateship enjoyers; this does not necessarily mean they like Sampo- in fact it's more like most of them want to sic their Captain on him skzjsmdm)
Some of them ship him with Bronya 👑🛡 (knight and princess trope enjoyers and also a sorta-kinda "that is our mom and dad" type of deal; this faction gets riled up and ridiculously hypes Gepard up to Bronya every time she comes down to the frontlines mskdkxmd)
Some of them ship him with the trailblazer 🛡💫 (the smallest and newest faction, but steadily gaining!)
Some of them ship him with Pela ❄🛡 (workplace romance enjoyers; Gepard once charged out into the Fragmentum alone to save Pela from an expedition gone horribly wrong, and when this faction saw Gepard carrying Pela back princess style they threw a whole party)
Some of them ship him with Dunn 🛡🗡 (also workplace romance; Dunn is very flattered by this because yeah wrong Landau, but wow, the troops really think he's good enough to woo the Captain, what an honor)
And some of them ship themselves with the Captain 🛡❤ (yumejoshi enjoyers; this faction throws a massive group effort every Valentine's Day and are also all very supportive of each other)
The final faction is an odd one, because they're defined not by who they ship their beloved Captain Gepard with, but rather by who they don't ship him with. Their name is generally shortened to the A.B.S. Group- Anybody BUT Sampo 🚫💣 DKSZJJSMSOZ
i keep thinking about how VAL kills the town in her first appearance compared to how she deals with the woman she turns into an imitation of her mother and the listening press secretary's responses to both. because they're fundamentally not all that different - in both cases she commits actions which are excessively cruel, perpetrated against innocent civilians, using her power to reshape reality to her will. the only real difference is that her destruction of the town on the coast of the CLS is playful. unserious. it's delivered like a performance for those listening, and VAL even boasts that she's enjoying herself to one of her intended victims. it feels staged, artificial, like someone playing the villain in some amateur theatrical production. it's artful in its clumsiness. meanwhile, the torture and murder of the woman she meets on her way inland is just... bleak. and tragic. the tone of VAL's monologue loses all the devil-may-care amusement of someone who knows they're the most powerful person in the room, and takes on an incredibly, terrifyingly personal degree of bitter, seething hatred borne from pain and terror and the learned conviction that your life is worth nothing but what it can do for others who see no value in it. there's absolutely no need to symbolically mutilate the woman for the crime of reminding her of her mother before killing her, but VAL does so anyway because her passion overrules reason. and press secretary carson listens to it all, silently, unwilling and/or unable to intervene, and can only weakly protest that VAL's treatment of the woman in the grounds that it's "too much", when the fact remains that the only difference between this act of wanton cruelty and destruction and that against the forgotten town is that it wasn't something he authorised and isn't something he can sell. it's too much. too brutal. too unpredictable. too human. she's not a weapon he can control, anymore.
[The city]'s security is our top priority, which means you can never leave. How do you feel about that?
I feel...that what's here? It's what I've been looking for. It's what I've been trying to believe in...Just a little while longer.
DANAI GURIRA as MICHONNE GRIMES
THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE | 1.02 - "Gone"
In the grief of supposedly losing her brother, Lilanwe certainly made some choices. She joined the Worm Cult, becoming a much more cold and cynical person. Granted, it wasn't entirely Auredil's fault for what happened to him, but I don't know that she'll ever really forgive him for leaving her behind.