#show thoughts

[the-august-one]

First episode of True Detective: Night Country is VERY promising.

Looks like they're getting back to the roots of the show with a bit of ambiguity about supernatural stuff.

Also, The Spiral™️ is back.

Also, Alaska is a very different environment than Louisiana, obviously, but it has a threatening wildness to it like Louisiana does. In the Deep South, along the Gulf Coast, there is this nebulous sense that the land wants to take back control...the swamps, the bays, the deltas, the woods...

Just from the first episode of Night Country, I'm getting a similar vibe. The land can support human life, but maybe it doesnt want to...

[moviethoughtsforthevoid]

the timeless children wasn’t as bad as i was expecting. writing was still kind of sloppy but that’s just doctor who. it’s not uniquely terrible or detrimental to the timeline or message i feel. when it first came out i heard a lot about how it destroyed the moral of dw by making the doctor into a god instead of a random traveler (basically who could be anyone) but. just watch every other episode of matt smith’s era and you’ve got that over and over again. i don’t know what about “super intelligent alien who specifically loves britain with more than one lifespan” ever screamed “random traveler do-gooder just like any one of us could be”. i don’t even agree that it made the doctor a god—an abandoned child from an unknown place doesn’t make me think the doctor has dominion over all, lol. more of a victim used to justify the creation of an elitist state. i do think they have to make the master less overtly and successfully genocidal though, since the franchise is taking itself so seriously and yet never truly brings him to justice. anyways i’ve only watched certain episodes of jodie whittaker’s seasons, but overall it’s just meh. not as bad as people make it out to be, but no shining example of tv brilliance either. definitely a factor of this is misogyny. just say women annoy you, idiot.

[impressionism]

I wouldn’t be surprised at this point if the show shows us Armand has been stalking watching Daniel (especially with life changing moments) since that first interview and just starts dropping nuggets nobody knows about but him. Just right there, listening and watching like the stalker his bitch ass is.

This thought comes to me at 4 am. The witching hour, oooooooh spooky 🤷🏽‍♀️

[estherwordnerd]

A lot of bad decisions were made by the Supernatural writers but one good one right off the bat was giving Sam and Dean the surname Winchester and immediately establishing that their reason for hunting again was almost exclusively because of their dad. A surname that immediately associated them with the kind of deadly weapons John did his best to hone them into. They tried but they couldn't avoid inheriting the family name or the baggage that came with it.

[thatbookscent]

Only 9 episodes into Till the End of the Moon, and the amount of times someone vomits blood is astronomical. It's gotten to the point that I laugh everytime it happens. Does that make me an awful human?

[clevervonskelli]

some thoughts on The Night Agent

Pros:

The real mix of male and female characters and their importance or roles within the narrative itself. It all felt so natural. 

For the most part, even the ‘villainous’ characters have so many moments where you can appreciate their complexity and flaws, rather than just dismissing them as (boring) baddies with purely evil motivations.

The relationship between Peter and Rose is nice. Could the story have worked without the romantic love angle? Yes. Could we have done without the heavy petting / possibly-alluding-to-dance-with-no-pants scene on the boat right when the intensity of the story and the stakes were very high? Most definitely. (Sorry, I usually hate that in action stories bc okay, if you could die in the next hour then why not, but also you have bigger fish to fry right now, folks!!). It was still nice though. They work as a pair and the chemistry was great. There was a sweetness to them that I really appreciated.

Enough people croak that it feels realistic, even if you’re still rooting for those miraculous, lucky saves that would end up making you think “they wouldn’t all make it if this was real” for the characters you like.

Background hints are given and there is a world outside the story (especially important for an action, conspiracy, thrill, run-from-the-gov type pieces that have the potential to feel very isolating and insular). But none of it is detailed excessively or used as a weird, unfulfilled diversion for the plot. It adds authenticity and stakes beyond the main thrust of the plot.

I cannot stress this enough: Rose essentially being like “I can’t hack EVERYTHING Peter, that’s not how the world works” and still needing to do physical, analogue, paper research. Yes, yes, YES!

Love that they didn’t take the comfortable way out and make Peter Sr’s shit be a part of this / another conspiracy and didn’t make things easy for Peter Jr. as a reward for everything he accomplished by the end of the narrative.

Every. single. time. Rose attacks someone.

**Bonus:

Rose and the Rome Tome nuts’ wallets? Perfection. The show’s capacity for quiet humour despite the action shenanigans is good throughout, but my god that early moment is never topped.

The Canada Post truck that cruises by in one of the most obvious shots I have recently seen of that happening for a show set in the US. Gotta love Canadian filming locations!

Cons:

The almost forced-feeling cursing and some overdone dialogue in the first couple eps. I’m not sure if I just got more used to it after or if it really did improve as the episodes continued.

A full emergency / med kit in the boat but they needed to crack open the liquor to sterilise the wound? What the hell?!?

Whatever the fuck was going on with the assassins in that hotel room re: her riding his hand like a rodeo participant. The impotent thing is fine, it brings something interesting to their dynamic and his character as a whole (although we certainly don’t like the possible implication that this adds to his heinousness or whatever because fuck that noise, THAT’S not why he’s a monster!) but the sex scene itself felt unnecessary AF.

Umm, on that note, creepy-eyes assassin lady? Stealing a baby and raising it rather than conceiving and birthing and raising it would still make you parents, and the kid could easily still end up as fucked-up as you’re imagining, even if it doesn’t share your genes.

Disregard my earlier comment about the benefit of so many people being knocked off; Cisco was an unacceptable loss and I want him to be not dead.

[glitchyko]

I’ve been debating on sort of, rambling about some lmk characters I’ve been having thoughts and how they’re handled, treated and what I enjoy about them, but I’ve never really done something like that before, I’m kinda worried it could unintentionally come across as though I don’t like them or I’m just complaining, I don’t want to seem like I’m being overly critical and negative if I bring up things I have issues with. I’m not sure what to do.

[no-mourners-at-my-funeral]

what if instead of putting the crows in the show they put like, original characters in the show. or even, if they wanted to fuck with the timeline, younger versions of some of the adults we see in soc. made them characters that would have held power in the barrel over teenagers like the (real) crows. this would raise the odds of the crooked kingdom storyline if it was established that the characters the crows were up against had already gone against the darkling and co. it would also lend itself to the preexisting themes of soc, because the whole point of that story was that it was about the nobodies of the world carving out a place for themselves, and pitting the crows against characters involved in the magical chosen one storyline would be so much more compelling than putting the crows themselves in the magical chosen one storyline

[daensa]

hbo has the recurring sin of rushing everything to get to the big moments. its annoying bc the big moments are only impactful if built correctly. the fact they jumped years between eps 5 and 6, years that on their own right could have been half a season... LOL they never learn

[mae-books-792]

I'm a sucker for when games/shows/movies have a character start basically powerless and nieve and by the end are a powerful expert.

Like how Luz in TOH started as a human with no magical abilities, learned the glyph language over the course of the show, and in the finale became a powerful being capable of utilizing this form of magic naturally (if only for a short while)

It's also why I love deckbuilders, roguelites. Heck, factory/city builders since eventually you get to a point where you can drop $10k on something without having a crisis.

[emeraldhearts-podcast]

What phrase do you say ironically now that would be said unironically in the future?

I'll start.

"What's a penguin? What's an ice burg?"

[ellie-screams]

Who's the Narrator? 2/?: Euphoria

Hi again! Welcome to another installment. Knowing the fanbase on this topic the reaction is probably gonna be spit on my opinions. I personally don't watch it but I see both sides of the issue. Euphoria is an HBO show that began in 2019. It follows the adventures of Rue and her friends on a variety of drugs. Rue is a recovering addict herself. While that is not a great summary of the show, that isn't why I'm here. Mostly I’m here to scream into the void, but really analyzing narrative structure of shows I find interesting. 

So down to the topic at hand. The narrator in this case is easier to point to than our last piece in this series. That narrator is Rue and her being the narrator puts things into an interesting perspective. Being an addict makes you see the world through a...different lense than most people. Her voice guiding the story of the show through literal narration gives us a different picture than normal. When I take all of this into account I don't think I can take her at face value. Especially when it come to people. So, this made me wonder if all of what she says about people is true or a product of her world outlook. Saying all of this I’m sure many people are probably is going to bring up the end of season 2 to say that her perspective is going to be different. The addict view of the world is not exclusive to addicts who are using, it continues even when the person is sober. This outlook actually contributes to being an addict. 

I want to see the show go a different direction. I have seen them do this in the special episode that centered on Jules. I want them to have different character perspectives for one overall event over the course of a season. Or a whole season to a different character perspective. Using the episode that focuses on Jules as the example, that episode made her my favorite character. 

I need to come clean about something here...I haven't finished season 2. The subject matter and my own memories regarding addiction make it difficult to watch and stay grounded. You can throw out this analysis if that is a deal breaker obviously. I could watch the show and continue feeling the way I do or just see the memes from the outside. Also the music good lord it is very good I need more. 

-Ellie 

[impressionism]

So uh, are we ready for next week’s episode? 

I have just a few things I’d like to see before S2 or some questions answered in general like:

1. RASHID, who tf are you really? I mean he’s living the life of being snacked on though… all in front of Daniel’s salad.

2. Swamp Lestst, I need to see this interpretation with Sam cos, this man 🤌🏽 Sam > Tom > Stuart

3. What is the current timeline? What’s real, what’s not or just plainly skewed, especially if this is the SECOND interview. Why omit this stuff we’re seeing now and not in the original interview? The stuff we are seeing now, especially with episode 5 would explain the hatred for the first interview. Plus Louis has the fire gift and a painting by Marius.

4. Where are the other vampires? It’s 2022, they are out there somewhere.

5. Theatre Vamps? Yes? I would like to see them.

6. Whose place is Louis staying in? Clearly he has some ownership with his things in there, Claudia’s diaries, possibly Lestat’s things… Lestat in a coffin asleep… is it a shared space with other vampires who come and go, almost like a sanctuary or hotspot?

Oh! How many days did Daniel stay with Louis for this interview?

[inkedberries]

after patrolling, unwinding in a diner somewhere ...

throw the man a bone batman geez

[moncuries]

guess what i watched on new years (a redraw kind of)

[wierdshenanigans]

"Don't worry kid, you're dad had plenty of kids he stopped helping out when he lost interest"

Theseus, who was helped by poseidon multiple times, but in the end was thrown off a cliff by the citizens of Athens and drowned. Drowned in the ocean, the very domain of his father.

Kymopoleia, who was neglected by Poseidon once he found her to be too violent, left to wander his abandoned palaces, given up as a war prize to man she didn't even want with no choice at all.

Bellerophon, who was given the pegasus to tame as a gift from Poseidon in some myths, dying by falling off of it on his way to Olympus.

I'm just saying, that line wasn't a random throwaway line by Ares, he means it.