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some of my favourite tidbits from the librarians commentary (season 1) :

in the fables of doom eve was supposed to have bluebirds flying around her

john harlan kim ended up with the nickname rooftop for a while during filming

flynn doesn't really wear bowties after the first ep bc a lot of ppl drew comparisons between him and the doctor

charlene was supposed to have a fight scene in the first episide but it ended being cut due to restraints. it also wouldve been revealed she was a guardian then.

morgana le fey was into eve hitting her and had alicia been available in s2 mightve been the one eve was under the spell with (BI EVE CRUMBS WOO)

the way they talk abt ezekiel during the s1 commentary (at the time of filming the commentary theyd also filmed s2) definitely makes me think his s4 backstory was not planned at this point. id already kind of assumed theyd just added it in but the commentaries all but comfirm it tbh.

My personal fav thing they drop in the commentary is that cassandra killed her parents (which whilst im pretty sure its a joke. its my new personal headcanon)

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This is PERFECT!!

ok so my apple of discord thoughts

"worst version of yourself" is kind of an overstatement bc its less that it makes you worse and more that it takes away the parts that are good, if that makes sense? it doesnt make anything, it just warps and takes from whats already there.

so with jake, he thinks those things about art and being the only one who understands/appreciates it, but hes too kind to act on those thoughts yknow? and the apple took away the kindness that kept him from acting.

with cassandra, shes interested in those practical applications with fatal outcomes, but she would never act on them, again bc of compassion and self control. the apple took that barrier away.

eve and flynn see themselves as above the others bc of their various experiences and powers, but they dont act on it bc humility and caring for their teammates, being able to recognize their skills are necessary. humility specifically in flynns case. again the apple took that away.

my theory is that it did affect ezekiel. it took something away. not sure exactly what, but im thinking something along the lines of kindness again, maybe his care for others - the thing that makes him steal for charity rather than personal gain. the reason it doesnt outwardly affect him is he already hides that part of himself. the others cant see a change, they cant see whats been taken away, bc he hides it so deep down that they cant tell its been stolen.

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single player indie game where you’re trapped in a science facility in lockdown, causing all the scientists to enter a rage like state.

its you and your three friends (npcs) trying to get to the heart of the facility to shut it down but every time the npcs die everything resets and the npcs remember nothing (they should remember they’re your friends) and you can only go a certain route but the map says differently

and the puzzles seem easy but you’ve cut the wires and nothing happened and there’s too many rage filled scientists to get past and you can’t move the pipe on your own it’s too hot

so you learn from the npcs each time something goes wrong and you have to start over and they don’t remember telling you the story but you do you hold onto the light in their eyes as they tell you

but you can’t get past the last puzzle

everything you try you keep dying and there’s a way out there has to be (right? right?)

there is

you did it

you get everyone out

you lose your memories

you’re back in the facility

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This is why I hate time travel as a fix it trope.

Just finished The Librarians and, loved it, truly, such a good show and I will be obsessing over all the characters for the foreseeable future and watching the sequel series when it comes out but I have a Bone To Pick with that season 4 finale because WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY TIME TRAVELED THE ENTIRE SEASON OUT OF EXISTANCE???

The LiTs don't meet Ezekiel's mother and go on the most sibling-coded mission of their entire lives???

The team doesn't see Flynn actively choose his family over the library, even when his literal hero is telling him to do otherwise???

They never go to the team building camp???

Cassandra never goes to that "safest town in America" place and leads an entire community to face their fear???

Stone and Ezekiel don't get possessed by the spirits of two brothers whose love for each other ended a decades-long feud in the middle of a war specifically because the brothers knew they loved each other enough to make the same choice???

JENKINS DOESN'T JOIN A DND PARTY????????

Like yeah, Eve and Flynn remember and I guess they could have told them all but you're telling me none of the other characters remember the entire SEASON??? This is like when they memory wiped Ezekiel's time loop character development away but on crack I am distraught.

Also I'm actually fascinated by Christian Kane being the only confirmed reprisal how the hell are they planning on explaining everyone else being gone and Stone only being a reoccurring character I'm so afraid

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"Let's make it worth it."

DIEGO LUNA as CASSIAN ANDOR in Andor, Season 2 first look

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Tony Gilroy speaking in 2022 about the structure of Andor season 2.

Playing with “the negative space” is something I’m really intrigued (and slightly worried) about. So much story is going to be happening in those gaps.

But season 1 already did this so well, providing a huge amount of backstory simply by showing the present situation and a few key flashbacks. It’s just that in season 2 this filling in of the gaps will be happening every three episodes. I’m really hoping that because it’s already been done so well, season 2 won’t feel rushed. These a-few-days-in-a-year arcs have been described also as “needle-drops” in the old sense. We’ll start each in media res and will really have to pay attention. Because this is a series that repays you in spades for doing exactly that.

Those hints about the stories? What the passage of time does the characters? Hmm. “People get crazy”… yeah, like me – waiting for April 22nd.

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It's a little thing, but I love that injuries matter on Andor. Cassian gets a blaster burn in "Reckoning," and he's still dealing with it two episodes later. He binds the wound immediately afterwards on Luthen's ship, and it's cleaned, bandaged, and checked/redressed in the camp on Aldhani. The other rebels immediately notice that he's injured and worry that it'll be a liability during the mission. People ask about his arm and how he's doing.

I realize part of it is that we're looking at a ramshackle fledgling operation without access to bacta tanks for quick healing, so instead we get patch-up jobs without pain relief because they need to ration their meds. But in a galaxy where we've seen people take a lightsaber to the gut and be up and walking the next day, it's good to see a show where even something as comparatively minor as Cassian getting shot in the arm can't just be shaken off as nothing.

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The boys are back.

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😚😮😳😇

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We are all of us stardust, held together by love for an instant.

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Vin would be the best Uber driver.

Don't want to talk? Excellent. Tunes? Already on. Windows? Down. Snacks? He's got them. He knows where all the cops hang out and where the speed traps are so you are Arriving On Time so help him.

As long as you don't require petty things like A door. Because he doesn't have those.

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I think a lot of the relationship conflict between Ezra and Maude can be attributed to the fact that Maude divides the world into marks and not-marks, and when she came to town the first time she made the very easy mistake of drawing the line in a different place from Ezra.

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Arguably, if M7 has a protagonist, it’s probably Chris, in that a) he’s in charge, and b) it’s kind of his story overall(kind of. at least we have the most consistent arc/continuing story/goal for him of all the boys). But I’d probably argue there isn’t really a singular protagonist, it’s the Magnificent SEVEN after all.

But what if there was?

What if there was a thread running through everything and it all came back to one of the boys, because it’s their story?

What if it was Josiah’s story, about putting his past behind him and re-learning to live in the present and to stop blaming himself for the mistakes a young man made because he didn’t know any better and he was young. About finding faith again, about being the oldest and the one they look to for wisdom more often than not and sometimes not having anything to offer, because he’s just a man at the end of the day, no matter how much he’s read and how much he’s learned. About slowly rebuilding the church and all the setbacks he encounters and the friends he makes and the advice he gives and the relationships they build while they’re sanding down pews and mending the roof after storms and painting the walls and getting covered in paint as JD and Buck chase each other around like children.

Listening to Ezra tell stories about his childhood when he’s willing to and believing them, and maybe one day asking Maude if she knew what she was doing to him. Listening to JD talk about the books he read when he was out East, longing to be where he is now, and how it’s all very different, isn’t it. Sitting in silence when no one wants to talk. Being the mediator in fights, not just between the boys but also with townsfolk because he’s not only trusted as a level head, he’s also big enough to crack sense into them if they need it. 

Trusting the others, not just Vin, with Hannah’s story, with his story, and finding ways to help her, even if it’s a little and slowly. Riding out to the reservation and making friends there and learning from elders and writing down what he learns, because Vin can see what’s happening because he’s lived it, and Josiah sees it too, because his father was a missionary - he’s lived it too, just from the other side. Watching the boys get in trouble and officiating Nathan and Raine’s wedding along with someone from her village.

Just, Josiah’s story.

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