#would still kiss but like….

[ackackh]

can u talk about what you love about generation kill? i tried to get into it once and it just didn't compel me. but i loved band of brothers and the pacific and i want to like gk

Yes, absolutely!

I’ll just start by saying that the tones for BoB and TP are much more similar to each other than either is to GK, so with that alone, it’s understandable that you might be like, eh, about GK. And it’s totally okay to not like something! But since you asked… :)

For me, the differences between the WW2 content and GK is what makes it more appealing. Even tho all of the shows are based off of journalistic works, GK feels more so, I think because it doesn’t have the hero-lens BoB and TP have. I like that. The characters are overtly flawed and sometimes hard to like initially, and it feels like a closer rendering to real life than the other two shows. I think that the creators of GK had to handle its contents differently, because OIF was not like, a net good? Or any good, really. And we as viewers know this, but the characters are, at most, conflicted in their feelings about it. And, for me, this conflict is what makes it so, how you say, JUICY.

The biggest thing for me is the characters. This show is fucking PACKED with dialogue and I watched it (voluntarily) many times with captions to pick up on all the little tidbits that are left all over the place in background dialogue, in the credits, and wherever else. It all paints a really detailed picture of these men in this very specific real-life situation that basically only happened once. I like the strong personalities, and I like the way in which they’re right, and wrong, and charming, and hard to swallow all at the same time. That’s what speaks to me, personally.

I’ll also just tack on that I understand why you might not find it compelling. I think it’s worth it to go into it with a different expectation than you might have with BoB and TP. For one, it doesn’t have the same story structure the other shows have. There isn’t as much material to pull from; where BoB and TP had years’ worth of stories to sort through and structure into a more conventional plot, GK takes place over like several weeks. In this way, it feels a bit more like a documentary, or maybe a series of related vignettes? If that makes sense. For two, outside of like two or three officers, there aren’t real good guys or bad guys. For the most part, everyone is just doing what they think they have to do to survive moment-to-moment. I think “how do I not get fucked?” Is a better internal logic for this series than any conventional narrative one that might be closer to, “here’s the problem. Okay, how do I solve that and progress the story” which the other two shows can more easily use.

Okay, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to talk for this long, and I feel like this is all over the place. But the take-away here is, I like it because it feels more real/realistic, the characters are extremely flawed and that makes them more life-like and interesting, and I find a show driven by characters more compelling than one driven by a more conventional plot.

[hansoeii]

It's about who.

[sam-violet]

chillin in the hot springs 🌱

+ a closeup

[puppyeared]

good morning sifloop nation

[haljathefangirlcat]

Charlie + picking up and twirling her badass spear-wielding former Exorcist gf

[mercysong-tardis]

Obi-Wan and Satine were made to dance to Hozier

Approximately 300 frames, many many tears, and 60 hours of my life later; I finally have the finished product. This Obitine animatic has been a dream project of mine and I’m so glad it’s finally done and I can share it with you all.

Of course Ahsoka has the receipts for the council

[theballadofmars]

I think that we, as a fandom, should talk more about the fact that sqq thought at one point: "Thank god lbh is not a demon who eats decaying corpses because kissing him would be a bit uncomfortable" at the beginning of VOLUME 2!! My man is not "down bad" for lbh he's straight up admiting that he would kiss him even if lbh was a cannibal he has zero chill.

[ryllen]

and some extra unused stuff while they are in affectionate mood

[moonkhao]

WE ARE | EP11

[anonymouscheeses]

So I watched all the episodes up to episode 7 and had the draw this cuz the idea jst couldn't leave my mind.

Ladies, Ben is grieving and yall is kissing? 😭 /j

[putterphubase]

We will be inseparable like this and won't go anywhere, right?

THE TIME OF FEVER (2024).

[greenbeany]

The funniest difference between Fish and Chips and Ghostknife is that Charlie actively had to fail a roll to stop Ghostknife from kissing after a season and a half of pining whereas Bizly has done everything in his power to convince the audience that Chip is straight but cannot escape Charlie rolling a nat 20 to kiss him and Bizly rolling a matching 20. After 20 episodes. The two types of doomed yaoi

[justabiteofspite]

I honestly don't get the spawn vs ascended debate when we really should all be coming together to shame those who think it's "unrealistic" that Astarion could fall in love with default dragonborn Durge on account of that Durge "not being attractive."

Like, I'm sorry, but are you fucking high? In what world is Default Durge not peak sex appeal? Big, tall, muscley thicc ass man who can barely run because he's so caked up with a deep, haunted voice struggling to overcome the darkness within himself all while looking like he could bite Cazador's head off in one satisfying crunch? You're telling me Astarion wouldn't be speed running that romance arc to climb him like a tree? Like that wet pathetic cat man looking for protection and attention wouldn't be the president, vice president, and treasurer of the "Top That Nice But Kind of Disturbed Hot Lizard" club?

Get fucking real.

[wistfulwatcher]

As for myself, I gave birth to a healthy baby girl. The creature spared our lives, and in return I honored her with my absolute silence. Some things, no matter how magnificent they are, are best left alone. And as to whether I'd ever see her again, the answer is yes. But that's another story.

LILY & THE MERMAID in SHE CREATURE (2001)

[saltpepperbeard]

fully losing it over these frames from the beach kiss btw

[rottengurlz]

toxic yuri vampires you will always be famous to me