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The way Artemis revealed the Anti-Light’s awareness of Tara’s allegiances really could not have been more stupid, random and batwanky if it tried. The thing is, it was not necessary to come up with a tortured explanation of microexpressions and whatnot, because the heroes had more than enough cause to be cautious, if not actively suspicious of her.

From the very scene on Santa Prisca, there was no real reason to believe Slade was saying the truth, mask or not. It’s the fucking Light, deception is their forte, and I actually believed it was gonna be revealed that Shiva and Slade were aware of Batman the whole time. Bane showing up at the end of the episode to brag about no one getting on or off the island without his knowledge should have been enough to make Bruce at least consider they may have been trying to lead him astray, and that there was something fishy going on with Slade’s statement. No need to fellate the Bat, just allow the man some common sense.

Besides, the Team has experience with moles and traitors. Lots of experience. Half the OG 6 had their weaknesses used against them, to say nothing about the many ways to mindcontrol people in this universe. You really think they just let any rando in without keeping an eye on them? Cursory psychic scanning of new recruits by Miss Martian ought to be par for the course, even if I don���t see M’gann doing it right now and it backfired with Green Beetle. Also, this season literally had someone hack a Markov kid’s phone already before, with Dick and Brion, which could have been used as a parallel/foreshadowing for the reveal.

Apropos of phones, Tara’s is super suspicious. She has it the morning after getting rescued, so did she bring it with her from the arena? I imagine her rescuers would search her for stuff like tracking devices and confiscate everything she had on her person for security reasons, so I doubt the phone could have remained hidden. Did the Team give it back and Slade actually believe they were that stupid? Or did they not take everything she had on her? But that should have tipped him off they were playing dumb too, so who knows. (It’s also possible, I guess, that Will just had a phone lying around and gifted it to her.)

But even if you ignore everything that could have given the Team a reason to suspect her, Lex literally gave away on live television he has an information source inside the Hub! He says that he “happens to know” the Outsiders’ parents disapprove of their activities, but aside from Ed and his dad, none of the kids’ arguments with their guardians took place in public. Tara wrote the message about it when it was still too early to see how it would work out. The whole thing blew over quickly and quietly, so unless Lex had a camera or someone on the inside, he had no way of knowing about the issue! Dick and co. watching the whole thing without commenting on this is what confirmed to me they knew about Terra at that point. I actually expected both Lex and Tara to get a dressing-down for this total fuckup, but apparently everyone in the show had their IQs drained.

The showrunners too, clearly, because instead of these more sensible explanations, we were given the absolute bullshit about Batman reading fucking microexpressions from far away at a bad angle, which only worked because Slade just coincidentally happened not to be wearing his mask that one time. The whole thing could not be more about hyping up Batman if it wanted to, which may have been its ultimate purpose. After being pretty useless plot-wise and getting raked over the coals for the Anti-Light business, this may have been meant as a bone to throw at Batfans.

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#unless she literally had no living relatives but that seems unlikely

You’re probably right, but I do think it’s pretty likely her parents are dead.

She ran a whole animal sanctuary (which had her name), after all, which means she presumably owned the land as well as all the expensive equipment needed to treat the animals. It seems to have been private “business”, so I doubt she got much aid from the Quaraci government either. 

Which means she must have done the whole thing mostly out of pocket, and I’m not sure where she’d have the money from. It’s not like she had a prolific acting career, and I doubt whatever animal-related job she had in-between would have gotten her that rich. That and her fairly abrupt move with a tiny Gar gives me the impression that she must have inherited some wealth* around that time. I think she probably sold her parents’ house and used the money(+ her savings) to start the Logan Animal Sanctuary the moment she had Garfield christened as a sort of goodbye to her friends, and then left to live her gruff animal-loving hermit woman dreams.

Anyways, I’m not saying she had a good relationship with her parents, just that they didn’t completely disown her. And it’s possible she actually had some rich aunt or something help her out instead, but this just seemed like a plausible scenario to me.

*I’m not saying that her parents were super rich, since I imagine she could have bought land that wasn’t in a goddamn war zone in that case.

My headcanon that Marie’s relationship with her family went to shit after she came out/got outted is really only further supported by Gar canonically getting passed around from non-biologically-related guardian to non-biologically-related guardian with no mention of any of his and Marie’s actual relatives ever wanting to take him in

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This is the Dog of Protection.

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Actually something that would help Chloé along on her redemption arc, and that I’d really like to see, would be for André to stop being the mayor.

We’ve already been shown that he blatantly abuses his power and got his office through illegitimate means (slandering his opponents), so it would stop feeling like Chat and Ladybug are protecting a city that’s corrupt to it’s core.

Chloé would quit having as much power over everyone, and maybe also realise that her dad’s methods don’t always work. I think he’d keep the hotel, so the Bourgeois would still be rich. But they’d no longer have the entire city under their thumb.

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It’s funny how TSS has all these wonderfully obscure cryptids and mythological monsters that are clearly the result of a lot of research

But at the same time nobody working on the show bothered to check what colour robes real life Tibetan monks wear

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Here I go

So there’s been some (friendly) discourse on M’gann and I kinda feel like these are some of the basic reasons she causes so much of it:

•lack of in-universe discussion of some of her sketchy behaviour. She’s chronologically 48 years old, dating someone who’s chronologically a couple months. She gave her boyfriend a name from her beloved sitcom, in a way that creeps me out for reasons I can’t quite articulate. No-one but Superboy calls her out on rendering their enemies comatose - and when she hurts someone who turns out to not be an enemy, her internal reasoning about the situation is not really voiced.

•Quite frankly: her interesting and entertaining character development seems to take precedence over, like, the story being logical. In both seasons, her development requires the writers lower either the intelligence (or moral values) of other characters.

-S1: J’onn J’onnz has been on Earth for 50 years, and has been a part of the JL since its conception, about ten years ago. In all the time of his being on Earth, and stuff like the Mars Rover (presumably) investigating his home planet, no-one has ever seen a Martian ‘au naturale’ and recorded it in some way. It’s not common knowledge, and furthermore, either Batman doesn’t have anything on it in his files or Robin never managed to hack them.

-S2: Characters she’s accountable to either don’t notice or don’t care about her information-gathering methods. I don’t mind if it’s the latter - moral greyness is okay, Nightwing doesn’t need to have the same opinions as his comic counterpart etc. - but the show implies the former, and so does Weisman*. I’m not sure how you can miss the damage she’s caused when the League knows Psimon is/was comatose for years due to her.

So yeah, given all this, it’s hardly surprising M’gann is controversial.

* For example: http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=18860.

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Here I go

So there’s been some (friendly) discourse on M’gann and I kinda feel like these are some of the basic reasons she causes so much of it:

•lack of in-universe discussion of some of her sketchy behaviour. She’s chronologically 48 years old, dating someone who’s chronologically a couple months. She gave her boyfriend a name from her beloved sitcom, in a way that creeps me out for reasons I can’t quite articulate. No-one but Superboy calls her out on rendering their enemies comatose - and when she hurts someone who turns out to not be an enemy, her internal reasoning about the situation is not really voiced.

•Quite frankly: her interesting and entertaining character development seems to take precedence over, like, the story being logical. In both seasons, her development requires the writers lower either the intelligence (or moral values) of other characters.

-S1: J’onn J’onnz has been on Earth for 50 years, and has been a part of the JL since its conception, about ten years ago. In all the time of his being on Earth, and stuff like the Mars Rover (presumably) investigating his home planet, no-one has ever seen a Martian ‘au naturale' and recorded it in some way. It’s not common knowledge, and furthermore, either Batman doesn’t have anything on it in his files or Robin never managed to hack them.

-S2: Characters she’s accountable to either don’t notice or don’t care about her information-gathering methods. I don’t mind if it’s the latter - moral greyness is okay, Nightwing doesn’t need to have the same opinions as his comic counterpart etc. - but the show implies the former, and so does Weisman*. I’m not sure how you can miss the damage she’s caused when the League knows Psimon is/was comatose for years due to her.

So yeah, given all this, it’s hardly surprising M’gann is controversial.

* For example: http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=18860.

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Generator Rex’s timeline

I’m not trying to set up dates for occurrences in the past. Nothing on Alpha’s creation or Rex’s accident.

Just the show.

(For the sake of this timeline, we will assume episodes are in chronological order. The happenings of episode 2 occur after those of episode 1, and so on.)

We have several clues in reference to the school year:

-Episode 3 apparently happens during Spring Break, which would put it somewhere in March or April. -Episode 11 has Noah’s  junior prom as its main storyline. Prom is either in May or June. -In Episode 17, Noah spends several days at Bootcamp. This implies it’s school break, and if episodes are in chronological order, it’s most likely during summer vacation. -S2E1, S2E11, and S3E8 all occur during Noah’s senior year. “Hermanos” must have happened during a break for Noah, Claire and Annie to be available for several days. Given that many seniors (particularly ambitious ones like Noah) spend most of their breaks before graduation studying, the episode most likely occurs during the summer after they have finished high school. So yes, Noah probably graduated during S3, and we completely missed it.

Noah still being in school (during “Guy vs Guy”) after the 6-month timeskip also sets a date on the S2 finale. Depending on which state Noah goes to school in, vacation can begin from late May to late June, so the pre-time travel parts of “Lions and Lambs” could not have happened after January. (I assume “6 months” means somewhere between 5.5 - 6.5 months. Not that much room for inaccuracy.)

Then there’s character’s comments on how long something has been:

In S2E3, Six says Rex only remembers the past 18 months.

The earliest moment Rex can remember is when he first meets Six in the flashback during “Promises, promises”. That is also the day Rex celebrates his birthday, and the one year anniversary of his time at Providence.

You heard me right. Only 1 year went by between the flashbacks and the present. He hasn’t even been around for two years, aka 24 months, by “Waste Land”, and that’s several episodes later.

Even if you ignore the “18 months”, it’s evidently Rex’s first birthday at Providence. Six says he’s “surprised [Holiday] chose that day” to celebrate (why would he say that if Rex has had other birthdays with them?), and the way Holiday says “Rex has changed everything” also strikes me as said change being pretty recent.

And “Promises, promises” contains a further clue as to its date! 

The throwaway line that Rex is about to get his flu shots.

According to most sources, you are supposed to be injected with the flu vaccine by early fall. There’s some debate on whether it’s a good idea to get them by mid-summer, so just to be sure, we’ll be generous and place the episode somewhere between July and October.

Given that Episode 1 takes place a bit before March/April, this gives us at a minimum 4, at a maximum 9 months between Episode 1 and the events of the “Promises, promises” flashbacks. Not a whole lot of time.

An aside on the “18 months” comment:

If Six is being precise, this is at the very earliest the January (July two years ago + 18 months)  of the year after Ep1. However, if E1 was really 5 years after the Nanite Event (aNE), this would put “Waste Land” at almost 6 years aNE. If “Mixed Signals” happens after the episode, it would either make Caesar being lost for 5 years nonsense, or mean he’d already been around on Earth for a year. Yeah, I don’t think so.

Furthermore, remember how I said ‘Lions and Lambs’ could happen no later than January? The earliest possible date for Six to say it’s been 18 months is the same January. And there’s almost an entire season between the two episodes.

What I’m saying is: the only straightforward “fact” we have for the timeline is completely useless. It’s up to you to decide if Six is being grossly inaccurate or to pretend the entire comment is non-canon.

The timeline I’ve created happens to cohere with the continuing comments made on how long it’s been since the Nanite Event (which have always bugged me). So here you go:

In early spring, about 5 years after the Nanite Event, Rex makes his first public appearance.(Ep. 1) About half a year later, he celebrates his “birthday”. S1’s last two episodes and S2 happen in relatively quick succession. The time aNE, when rounded, is still 5. At the latest in January, Rex disappears with Breach. Sometime before the school year ends, he’s found in the desert. From this point on, it is more accurate to say it’s been 6 years aNE.

Basically: E1 (pre-March) E19 (sometime between July and October) S2E19 (at the latest, January)

Season 3 also takes a few months, which would put the finale somewhere in summer or fall.

Given that Rex doesn’t celebrate his second birthday/anniversary, the finale may have happened before whenever that is, in-story. But it’s also possible everyone forgot about it, or they decided against celebrating it because they were busy, or because of Six’s memory loss, or some other reason. tldr; I have nothing certain on “Endgame”.

By the way, this also implies the Nanite Event took place during spring or early summer. I didn’t expect to figure out anything about it, so I’m really pleased.

However, no matter how I look at it, Caesar saying the time-warp took him ahead 5 years still doesn’t seem quite right. It’s five and a half. Nothing else makes sense. He may have been hiding something, but it’s way more likely MoA just can’t do numbers. (or they don’t think half a year matters. Yes it does)

I could attempt to make the timeline even more exact, but the complete lack of specific dates in the entire series makes that nigh impossible. We don’t even have any holiday specials! (I hate that this works as a pun.) And there’s pretty much no way of knowing how much time passes between subsequent episodes.

A lot happens before the series that’s only alluded to. When was Providence founded? How much time went by between Rex selling out the gang and him being found by Six? etc, etc. But that is outside of the scope of this post, which is already long enough as it is.

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blondness: probably magic. The quickest way to get it blond and un-blond was to ask Zatara. It can’t have taken him more than a second. (Artemis’s Tigress makeover was whole lot more complicated, because Artemis had to look like a completely different person and Zatanna couldn’t know what her magic was needed for)

So... A wizard did it.

As for their school absences... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

how did Conner just have blonde hair for the Terrors ep? 

Like he and M’gann had to go to school at some point?

also in the timeline September 14-16 (which are the days the ep took place during) were Wednesday to Friday?

how did they explain that to the school? What was their excuse for missing 3 days of class?

How did Conner get his black hair back?

I need answers.

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Steve Rogers (and his idealism)

I think about Steve Rogers as a character a lot – I think about Steve, and I think about other people thinking about Steve, and I think about all of the ways that people misinterpret Steve, and how much people misinterpreting Steve hurts me, in an actual, physical way. 

Thankfully, the stubborn, lingering idea that Steve Rogers could ever be a conservative has been ground into dust. However, another persistent misconception remains – the idea that Steve Rogers is naive. 

Considering Steve’s history and his life experiences, thinking of him as naive is a little ridiculous. He grew up dirt poor, in a rough neighborhood, with one parent, whom he then lost at a relatively young age (and anyone who’s ever suffered a loss like that knows how irrevocably it changes you, how it peels whole chunks of your innocence away). He spent a chunk of his life surrounded soldiers, show-girls, and then more soldiers. He marched into a POW camp, liberated it, and then pulled the most important person in his life off the table where he’d been tortured.

He lost that most important person, and then sacrificed his own life, only to wake up seventy years later, in a world where everyone he knew and loved is either dead or at death’s door. 

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Actually, when the Metru came back, Whenua wanted to stay and rebuild. He talked about it to 2 people(Onewa and Matau, I think), and I actually felt it was a little sketchy - he could be just expressing an idea or he might have been inciting something like a rebellion against Vakama, if things hadn't gone like they did.

AU where one of these guys becomes leader instead.

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people asking me what kind of music i like is such a stressful experience