I will never be over Valerie's backstory.
It's not a "she's popular and bullies a less popular person" thing. It's not an "I'm going to hunt ghosts because they ruined my make-up one time" thing. It's a "this ghost ruined my life and now I have to fight for everything I want and I want him to be held accountable, no matter the cost"
They gave her such a compelling reason to be a ghost hunter! Obviously, we still root for Danny because he's trying his best, but it's refreshing to have a major antagonist who could have been just another mean girl be someone with real complexity, especially for a children's show
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Been watching Pit Babe with my best friend and the following have been my favorite parts
Having to pause so that we can laugh/discuss the nonexistent woman, nonexistent omegas, and how enigmas can get anyone knocked up 😅
Pausing so that she can rant about Way, and I can feel fully validated as she says the things I’ve been saying for months. Interestingly enough, we both know people who have been to prison for less.
Pausing so she can accept “mama/papa” while I laugh uncontrollably on the call
Agreeing that all these actors NEED to get whatever project they next audition for because damn they can act.
Discussing how an excess of money makes immunity terrifyingly believable
Agreeing that the club/bar looks like the front of house for the bar Porsche used to work at
“I can’t believe he’s that old…” every time Pon comes across the screen
Both of us recognizing that Sonic and North are the most “normal” members of Alan’s little found family, complete with the moderate levels of incompetence…and that we would be those two in this situation 😅😅😅
“Charlie is a puppy…like he’s very dog coded”
“Alan better not disappoint me!”
“Did he just walk in there?!”
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started watching the new live action avatar
it’s. It’s pretty ok I guess? But there’s a lot of things I’m not altogether happy about. It feels very. Generic. Which is kind of sad.
I’m only two episodes in though, so I won’t be too harsh. But there are a few things that I really don’t like, and number one was Aang going into the Avatar State in front of Sokka and Katara for the first time when seeing Monk Gyatso instead of when escaping Zuko, and that moment being isolated instead of the moment everyone in the world knew the Avatar had returned
in the original series, Aang goes into the Avatar State when confronted by irrefutable proof in the form of the skeleton of his best friend and mentor - the airbenders really were massacred and he can no longer deny it.
every statue of the Avatar around the globe lights up in a single moment. the legendary figure’s destined return is announced to the world by an overwhelming outpouring of grief and rage from a young child who just discovered that everyone he ever knew and loved is gone. it’s poignant. the Avatar’s return in that moment is not a triumph. that terrifying show of strength and power, enough to light up the world in its glow, is pure emotional anguish from a small twelve year old, who just saw the dead body of his mentor and now believes he is all alone
and Katara and Sokka having seen the Avatar State before means that there is less of the shock and “what is happening” in this pivotal scene (which was the main focus in the live action). of course Sokka is still concerned about them potentially getting flung off the mountain. but both of them know this reaction for what it is - mysterious power, sure, but primarily, they see and recognize his grief.
I just. what happened to “we’re your family now” and “neither of us are gonna let anything happen to you”??? :(
on a side note, I do feel like Katara and Sokka themselves have been heavily (heh) watered down. it’s a shame. Sokka’s my favourite, and I just think that I. Don’t trust writers with Katara now. (Why is her waterbending a secret? The whole reason she didn’t learn was because there was no one to teach her and she couldn’t leave… also where is her instant connection with Aang… where is their silliness… where did it go…)
however! I did like a couple things that were done and I want to be a bit positive so here
love Zuko and Suki’s actors. they did a great job
Sokka and Suki’s training together was cute ☺️ (though I wish he had worn the uniform of the Kyoshi Warriors…)
Aang himself is adorable :) (wish he got to be a little more silly but Netflix adaptations always are more serious for some reason)
I actually kind of enjoyed getting to see some of the scenes from the war’s outbreak. I prefer the way the original show portrays it, with a lot of info being learned reverse chronologically, but it was cool to see Sozin, and some of the airbenders, and a little more of Gyatso (who I also really enjoyed :’) )
Katara bending water at Aang and it reducing to them splashing each other without even trying to bend. Rare sillies!
I thought Kyoshi herself coming to defend her island was pretty sweet!!!
Katara getting flashbacks to her mother’s death on seeing firebending. Well I don’t like this, obviously, but it clearly shows how her mother’s death haunts her, and if they have Katara face off against Zuko again at the North Pole, it’ll be all the more triumphant.
Suki’s mom!!! Damn she was so cool!!!!!!
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Robin going from being the spoiled daughter of a wealthy woman to being a married woman and having to run a household including the cooking and cleaning and child-rearing all on her own (because of the time period you know Andrew wasn't helping much with any of those) would be super overwhelming. To not feel like her husband's intellectual equal would be incredibly difficult, too. And to have a sister-in-law as poisonous as Irene, sowing conflict between them! The sparkling person she had been when she met Andrew very likely faded as their first years of marriage did. All the while the nostalgia of Toronto, her mother's manipulation, wanting to feel valued again...it's no wonder she went back, after four years of trying to stick it out and falling short again and again. And Grandmother's emotional abuse might not have needed to be as strong when she was younger, but after that rebellion, once Robin got back, it had to get worse because Robin had been lost once before...Robin certainly made a lot of mistakes and could have made different choices that might have been better, but given that she's human, it's easy to see how she fell for all of this.
Really I have a hard time understanding Andrew's side of things so far. Irene is manipulative, ok, and she was on PEI while Robin had distance from the grandmother. But even still, it seems like he was an unsupportive husband. It took four years for it to build up to the point Robin felt like she had to leave, so he clearly wasn't awful but the little things chipped and chipped away. Because in the end, it was Robin being attacked by Irene and Andrew didn't get behind his wife, or at least not enough. He's human, too, but it's just hard for me to not feel like he does in fact hold a larger portion of the blame in what happened when it comes to those in the actual couple.
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Let me chew you out a little, since we have a couple minutes (Patreon)
[Panel 1]
Prismo: *mumble* *mumble*
[Panel 2]
Prismo: *mumble*
[Panel 3]
Simon: Hmph. “Just because it’s in your head-”
[Panel 4]
Simon: “-Doesn’t mean it’s yours,” huh?
[Panel 5]
Simon: Give me all the responsibility with none of the privileges?
[Panel 6]
Simon: And then you get mad at me for trying to pick up your slack?
Prismo: Hey...
[Panel 7]
Simon: Clearly you already expect that much from me!
[Panel 8]
Prismo: Hey, hey! I did the best with what I had! I didn’t expect any of this!
[Panel 9]
Simon: And yet you didn’t even consider telling me, so we could’ve avoided this?
[Panel 10]
Prismo: It’s not like I could’ve just- taken it out! I was locked out!
[Panel 11]
Simon: You could’ve done something!
[Panel 12]
Simon: Instead you let my life spiral around this thing, kept me tethered to Ice King’s Madness-
[Panel 13]
Prismo: Fionna and Cake are real thou-
Simon: NOW you tell me! After I find out for myself!
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genuinely the thing that’s got me stressed about welcome to derry is that it’s going to follow the lead of the 20172019 films and ignore the socio/racial tensions and the insane history of violence that was so important to the book, that it’s going to ignore the spiritual and metaphysical aspects of the ritual of chud, that it’s going to ignore of pennywise’s true form & it’s rivalry with maturin… the interludes are some of my favorite parts of the book because they just follow mike and his investigations and his familial relationships and history within derry, which really emphasizes the idea that pennywise and derry are inherently sick and eternally feeding off of each other. derry is not only haunted, it is a haunt. and mike hanlon is the only one who truly realizes this. i think if there was a way to make a welcome to derry style show it would have to be about mike and his father, but the basis for that has already been destroyed by the 20172019 films. while i’m actually genuinely curious to see what the creators do, i don’t think that this show will appeal to a large audience; certainly not the casual 20172019 movie enthusiasts, and definitely not fans of the book. idk though like i said i am curious but i’m guessing this show will be but another weird project with very little impact on the fans
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