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excuse me but renegade nell is one of the best fantasy shows i've seen in a while??? louisa harland is FANTASTIC in her role, the plot is so entertaining and original, i absolutely LOVED every second of it! i really really hope disney makes another season, because it so deserves every ounce of hype!

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funniest take I’ve seen during this whole mess with Watcher is someone getting mad about the paywall and calling Ryan, Shane and Steven greedy & then saying “this has ruined Taylor Swift day”

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steven lim: we actually need more money for higher production value so that you guys have the best! and we're bringing back a super expensive show! for you guys, the fans!

the fans:

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Renegade Nell is amazing. The showrunners had the balls to put the men in era appropriate massive wigs and cunty makeup

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Renegade Nell textposts part 1 yayayay

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the problem is not “how dare watcher want to make more money” because yes obviously it takes a lot of money to make quality content and creatives deserve to get paid

the problem is the way they are going about it now. removing previously free content that your fans have been loyally supporting for years and moving all new and old videos to your own exclusive website that you have to pay a separate subscription for now, it’s not going to work

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Do you guys also love it when you watch a youtube show for about a decade and then they decide to put it behind the paywall? And you can’t even pay for the subscription not only because it’s expensive and you’re already subscribed to plenty of other services BUT because you PHYSICALLY CAN NOT pay for a subscription of a service from a different country

Great, that’s exactly what we all wanted and needed 👍

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watcher leaving youtube... for a streaming service????

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Goryeo-Khitan War / kdrama review

This is a pretty much a spoiler free review of the first season of the Goryeo-Khitan War.

Goryeo-Khitan War is an long epic and very heavy and political historical drama, and a certain type of period drama that I thought would never come back into the scene in the current kdrama landscape that we now have, where the fluffy romances with only a few political plots here and there seem to have gradually taken over the period drama scene and each drama seems to get fewer episodes to tell us its story.

I feel like this show was successful in making this enormous and complicated story epic and successfully cramming in lots of history within these 32 episodes without making it too dense. It was rather thrilling thing to watch from start to finish. There seems been put quite a bit of detail within the narrative, although there are, of course, some deviations from history - and especially in the second half, or so I have read.

The focus of the narrative is largely on the war strategy of Goryeo and other things that came with the waging a war, the toll it took on the people and soldiers who fought bravely on the frontlines, the pressure it put on society or the elites who found ways to take advantage of the turbulent times that followed. And the story certainly captures the tension and depressing mood that came with it all – you're able to immerse yourself in the action and put yourself in positions in a way that you can feel every sword slash, every conspiracy, every deceit with the characters. But also every victory.

The first half of the drama focused very much on the action and the story holds no punches and gives you time to adjust before descending into chaos. And the story doesn't really take a break until about halfway through. There is constantly something happening, every little thing within the story affects something else, and each episode reaches a cliffhanger of sorts that makes it so you can't stop watching.

The second half of the story focuses a lot on exploring the aftermath of the war and the story shifts the pace of the narrative ever so slightly, although the story never really stops to a halt, but more so gives itself some time to catch a breath. It certainly gives us plenty of time with the characters and gets to know them all over again after the war and everything they've been through. But it becomes a bit of a repetition and there is a lot of 'men sitting at a table or standing together in a room and talking and arguing about things' sort of things happening. But the political intrigue was strong enough and the characters likeable that you just went along with it.

And although I think it's a very engaging narrative in many ways because the story successfully makes us feel for, and root for the main players of the story and their idealistic views – and the characters are all very interesting and flawed in their own ways. I did appreciate the angle to the story, that it would be difficult to get the country back on its feet after so much conflict, because I feel like that part is not often shown in shows like this, in such detail.

It can be said, however, that the plot seems to rule over the characters at times and not the other way around, but especially in the first part, in which case there's also an awful lot of plot and things like that happening and they want to make sure that the historical narrative is delivered properly.

I did enjoy the female characters here, even though they are few and their roles in the narrative was maybe a bit too the side, yet they were complex, and all served the story in some way. They may be in secondary roles and it's a super male-centric story, but they still felt genuine and real for this time the story takes place in.

This drama is gripping and epic in scope. It’s a thrilling history lesson about perseverance, loyalty and love of one’s homeland, the complexities of wars, and all that with some old school kdrama charm, which in a way makes the story a little fresh. It's not for everyone, but as a fan of the heavier kind historical kdramas, I really enjoyed the journey of political intrigue that Goryeo-Khitan War took me on. And I also just enjoyed getting a period drama from Korea that doesn’t happen during the Joseon era, because we don't get to see those every day.

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I adore this cast so much

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but more importantly.... where are the Goryeo Khitan War gifs????

where are the Knight Flower gifs?

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Yang Kyu's death scene was something truly old school epic!

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Ever since the trailer for season has been released I have seen some rather annoying comments which say that Colin, and Luke have become more interesting now that the glow up has happened, and that he used to be fat and ugly in previous seasons. People really are way too comfortable talking about peoples appearance and bodies. Most of the hate towards Polin is rooted in fat phobia, and it’s disturbing. Yes it’s a romance show, but that doesn’t give people excuses to make horrible comments about people’s bodies, there are actual people playing these people, and I think people forget just how easily comments can be seen. Reducing characters and actors to the sex appeal that you think that they can provide for you is a choice.

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The Bridgerton s2 bloopers are here!

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Selfie (2014) starring Karen Gillan and John Cho

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I'm gonna have a heart attack fuck