#taika what the fuck

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

watching the director's commentary on Boy (2010) is a life changing experience as it turns out.

[ofmd-ann]

The Gravy Basket never looked so good ☠

[ceaselesswwatch3r]

i have come to the conclusion that neil gaiman and taika waititi should make something together and my reasoning for this, is just because

[pumpkinspicepirates]

#taikatuesday <3

[as-a-creww]

He called his boyfriend Zaddy. If you even care.

[squash1]

father to son

[ father to son, falsettos / ted lasso 2x02 / beartown by fredrik backman / boy (2010) / the raven king by maggie stiefvater / stick season, noah kahan / father and son, cat stevens / succession 2x06 / inútil, in the heights / dead poets society (1989) ]

[agilerose]

just watched ofmd episodes 6 and 7. y'all are NOT ready because holy SHIT. david, i'd like to have a word.

[natjennie]

can gay people ever be normal?

[weaponizedducks]

nandor and guillermo are arthur and merlin in another universe where it worked out and they were happy

[greencarnation]

So you are very vocal on the war on palestine, which is commendable. However, condemning other people who dont to the same is non- sensical. Do you know how many humanitarian issues we have in this world at all times you have never spoken up for? Nobody expects people to rally for Sudan and people who stay quiet on topics such as this arent condemned. So, go forward with your activism but unless you speak out on all other humanitarian issues you have no ground to critizise people who dont partake in what YOU think is important.

context: this is an ofmd fan upset i called taika waititi & co zionists and said you shouldn't support them

this isn't a "humanitarian issue" it's a genocide backed by your government and payed for with your taxpayer dollars and 24,000 people have been killed. silence IS complicity. what twisted logic is "there are other crises going on so i will do nothing"? also yeah man i'm not an expert on every world issue but if someone told me hey the person/people you're supporting are profiting off the sudanese genocide i would stop fucking supporting them as the bare minimum what is WRONG with you

[harrylovesspaezle]

WHATBTHE FCK THERE WAS A MERMAID STEDE AND ED KISS AND THEY STOLE IT FROM US???>?FMSFMGS GIVE IT HERE YOU PSYCHOS WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU DO THIS

[londonspirit]

[...] Jenkins believes Darby doesn’t get enough credit for his work, because he makes it look so effortless. “What he’s doing is very complex, because I believe him, and he’s also very funny, and he also drops in sometimes, and then he comes back and does something really stupid.”

[...] He remembers some initial trepidation at the prospect of directing Waititi, an acclaimed director in his own right, “but he’s very much, ‘Just tell me what you want me to do,’” Jenkins says, doing an excellent impression of the New Zealander’s accent. As funny as Waititi is, “for the scenes where he’s very serious and sad, he can access that stuff surprisingly quickly. And when he’s still, he’s just magnetic; I don’t think there’s a more interesting actor onscreen.” He finds that working with Waititi and Darby “is like working with my much cooler, much older, big brothers. Much, much older. Way older.”

[kermit-the-hag]

Anyone who feels guilt for wanting to continue watching What We Do in the Shadows because of Taika turning out to be a zionist dickhead, don’t. He wrote the film with Jemaine Clement (who is also Māori), and the tv show also credits Jemaine as the creator. Taika is just a spotlight hog and credit thief lol

[chibi-scone]

So that new Rhys Darby interview about s3 ….💀

[sarucane]

Allow me to preface with: I love where OFMD ends up. Every time I see something that makes me fear for a renewal (Taika noooo), I remember that everyone was was okay where it ended, and dammit the ends justified the means

But:

Fuuuuck it's overstuffed, objectively. And my measurement of overstuffiness is: Big Musical Moments.

OFMD has these amazing sequences where the music and the action and the story all blend together in this glorious literal symphony. A normal episode has 1-2 of these sequences, and they're fucking glorious and eternal.

The finale of S2? The finale of S2 has FOUR Big Musical Moments! Five if you count Ed coming out of the water!

It's too many, it just is. There's missing links between character moments, missing plot details--it's a mess.

But I fucking love it and I'm so, so glad they rushed, because a TV season ender is a balance between the story as a whole and the investment of its watchers. Jenkins and co. decided that the investment of the watchers--and the wholeness of its charaters--was more important than the mechanics of story. And if that make you feel cheated, that's fair and that stinks. But fuck, so many stories are about the endless continuance of the characters and the ego of the creators--it's pretty damn amazing to feel like the fans (*cough* of the main arc *cough*) are valued and the creators are less important than getting to a place where it's ok to end.

The last line of this show might be "fuck that's strong!" "maybe we just air it out a bit..."

And that's actually okay. And it is, somehow, beautiful.

But goddamnit, JUST FIVE MORE MINUTES and that episode would have been PERFECT...

[prettydjarinsoloinspires]

things i didn’t have on my bingo card of life:

Taika Waititi in one of my favorite queer ships of all time.

also not on said bingo card:

Rhys Darby being in one of my favorite queer ships of all time.