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sorry i’m just thinking again about kaz brekker, perpetual cynic, and his surprisingly optimistic view of fathers and sons. just. kaz knowing that the one thing that would ruin pekka rollins, the man he hates more than anything, who he couldn’t think less of, would be to threaten the safety of his son. kaz telling jesper that his father cares more about him than any farm. kaz saying “call me sentimental, but i didn’t believe a father could be so callous.” kaz’s fatal misunderstanding of van eck being that he couldn’t conceive of a world in which fathers don’t love their sons. thinking about what all this says about kaz’s own father, and everything he lost before he and jordie ever stepped foot in ketterdam.

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Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

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my favourite olympics subplot is this norwegian swimmer’s public love affair with chocolate muffins and his increasingly manic tiktoks about them... romance of the summer

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when talking about how the timeless child twist was revealed and set up at the end of s12, youtuber full fat videos said "for a central mystery to be set up and teased across the series only to be promptly thrown in the bin feels very cheap and insults the commitment the audience have given to the plot arc".

and that's how I feel about the conclusion to ruby sunday's arc

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alright well maybe my first review last night was too harsh but i still stand by my words that utopia + army of ghosts + bad wolf + the stolen earth all hold up as individual standalone exciting episodes with character development and conflict, worldbuilding, a real sense of place and time — the legend of ruby sunday felt like an exposition dump copypasted straight out of the tardis wiki with an uninteresting setting, uninspired direction and all in service of a lead-up towards what? a cheap anagram reveal of a one-off villain from 1975 whose motivations don’t stretch far beyond “kill everyone now because i’m evil and bad”.

don’t you dare compare it to utopia. utopia is one of the best, most nuanced and layered episodes of the entire show.

i feel like russell has been replaced by a zygon.

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Some Dot and Bubble thoughts (some unhinged, some perfectly hinged):

I don't think Susan Twist was Lindy's mum I think her title is "Mummy" - Lindy and her friends only refer to her as "Mummy" and I think this season has been really heavy handed on Ruby's abandonment issues so it won't surprise me if the series big bad is called The Mummy.

The guy at the end who says he's going to be the leader (gross) says his name is Brewster Cavendish, which is obviously at the start of the alphabet which makes me think he's coming back (which I don't like! Gross!)

Susan Twist is in Blue AGAIN ! She's been in blue the majority of her appearances (ambulance screen was blue / she had a blue hiking jacket on / the background behind her was blue this episode), maybe it's her favourite colour or maybe it means something! Is /she/ The Wild Blue Yonder?

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number one truther of simon drools in his sleep and baz finds it terribly charming

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I love an episode where everything is wrapped up neatly at the end

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the other thing about space babies is that it fucking sucks as an introdution episode. whiplash from boring contextless exposition to "ooooh look at our shiny CGI" is not my idea of fun! "season 1" my ass if this was my introduction to dr who i never would touch it again. compared to episodes like rose or the pilot that allow themselves to sit with the characters before jumping into plot, are confident enough to leave things unexplained because they know they can keep the viewer coming back for more regardless... we used to have real television

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saw this on the forbidden app could not resist reposting because it’s true. “the one who waits is almost here” is lazy LAZY writing. stop dangling lore in front of our faces… make it SUBTLE. show not tell…

did russell go to the chibnall school of bad screenwriting before his return because these episodes do genuinely feel like they’ve been created by a different person entirely than the emotionally intelligent, thoughtful showrunner who gave us the first four series

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∞ random Nikolai Lantsov gifs

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Demographic of people in the Witcher fandom iirc convinced there's such a thing as 'lute oil' which best as I can tell is incorrect

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No, you know what, everyone be nice to Liam Hemsworth. He's not the step Geralt, he's the Geralt who stepped up.

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No, you know what, everyone be nice to Liam Hemsworth. He's not the step Geralt, he's the Geralt who stepped up.

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fandom tumblr was another casualty of streaming services. we used to be on here posting about the episodes that were coming out weekly and posting gifs and writing insane shit about the tv shows we liked. now a new season of a show will drop and we’ll talk about it for a week. two weeks tops. and then that show will leave collectively conscious for 1+ year till the next season drops. there’s a reason succession sundays was a blast on here

we used to have real television

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