Verna to:
Perry: You sure you wanna use the sprinklers?
Camille: Don’t go see the chimps
Leo: That cat’s not available
Vic: Maybe it’s too soon for human trials
Tamerlane: You should really take a nap
Fredrick: Fuck you
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The Fall of the House of Usher is many things and I'm making a conscious choice to not scream about every single one of them rn, but what left me staring at a wall in tears is just... kindness. Death was kind. She gave every choice, every reason to stop. She would take these kids anyway but she also regretted having to take them like that. She cared when nobody else would, even though they kept making the wrong choices.
She's never cruel for cruelty's sake. She wasn't cruel to Lenore. She just sent a child to sleep as lovingly as she could, with kind words and kinder touch.
And I don't even know how to express the absolute heartbreak with blinding warmth among the cracks, when Death herself kneels before one man, worst man, honest man, who refused her offer – and thanks him with such respect.
Mike Flanagan, you fucking did it again. Carla Gugino, you... I don't even have words for you. That's a whole-ass masterpiece of human soul, meaning, and searching right there.
Kiss Death with kindness in the end
And when she parts
You part as friends
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I also like how House of Usher quietly calls out Madelines delusions of AI immortality. How Roderick is also fully suckered into this, saying that Madeline was close to cracking it despite at least one other instance (the heart mesh that needed more tests, more modifications, before it could possibly be ready) showing that his estimates are more wishful thinking than anything.
... But her final product, the Lenore bot, built upon thousands of questions Lenote answered, only offers a single word upon activation: "Nevermore." Lenore is dead, the bot will never recapture the spark that fueled her.
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mike flanagan pitching “the fall of the house of usher” to the netflix team: it’s a family, they’re all awful people, they’re all a little gay, and they all die horribly. all of this is established within the first 30 seconds. also carla gugino
💳💥💳💥💳💥💳💥
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