#1.0 spoilers

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general jiyan

[oc4everything]

Godzilla Minus One (2023)

[ladytp]

How it started

How it's going

[luochas]

HONKAI: STAR RAIL • KAFKA

[thefuckingcrowboy]

lovely cameo by Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler, a.k.a. Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler (a Terry Pratchett's Discworld character) in S02E03

[swordofmoonl1ght]

Dr. Noda's Speech, aka the scene that made me tear up in the theater of a Godzilla movie

ゴジラ-1.0 / GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023) dir. Takashi Yamazaki / Dr. Noda played by Hidetaka Yoshioka

[fiona-fififi]

If I'm being honest, I actually think I would prefer to see Tommy NOT become the boyfriend. I really like the idea of the two of them dating a bit, and Tommy helping Buck to explore a little, but I think it would be much more interesting if Buck doesn't immediately jump into a more serious relationship with him. Allowing Buck to explore more casually as he starts to figure himself out just feels a little more meaningful here. He's always so quick to jump into relationships. I'd rather see him really take his time and let himself have some fun. And absolutely, Tommy can be a major part of that. But so much of the speculation around them feels like it frames him as the boyfriend, but I don't know that that's what Buck needs from him, to be honest.

[mirokuna-hime]

I honestly think people are jumping the gun with their disappointment over the new story quest in 1.2

The whole purpose of Xianzhou Luofu arc is to set up future events.

The writers tell us this by having Kafka admit to the MC that the whole point of this operation for the stellaron hunters is to have the Xianzhou indepted to the Astral Express crew so that they will aid them in their fight against Nanook the destruction.

Herta Space Station and Jarilo-IV were used to introduce us to the game mechanics and to establish the trio of Dan Heng, March 7th and the Trailblazer with the Space Station also serving as a prologue.

Jarilo-IV however did nothing to develop the overarching main plot of the game. Belobog was it's own self contained arc to ease the player into the game and they are now using the Xianzhou Luofu arc to plant the seeds for future chapters.

People are already calling Blade a wasted character, because his confrontation with Imbibitor Lunae didn't play out like people hoped it would, because they didn't drop his entire backstory in this quest even though it's pretty clear that Blade, Kafka and Silverwolf will be reoccuring antagonists over the course of the story.

The prologue already introduced us to Kafka and Silverwolf, heck Silverwolf even got her own event.

Introducing Blade and his connection to Dan Heng to the player is what I would argue the other focal point of this arc. Every theme this story introduced to us can be connected to Blade (immortality being a sin, what it means to be mara struck, manipulation, the weight of our past actions and how we deal with them etc.), it's so that we can understand his story and motive.

Not to mention that it opens the door for character development and development of Dan Hengs and his relationship. Right now Dan Heng doesn't make the connection that Blade is his previous incarnations "friend" (in quotation marks because hoyoverse is being sussy with them) and he's still running away from the past. Meanwhile Blade is consumed by his vengence, his desire to die and he is also getting manipulated by Kafka (admittedly she kinda has to because of the Mara but that barely changes anything other than making us see her in a bit more positive light).

All points that will need to be adressed in following installments and I have faith in the Honkai writers to do these plot points justice, but it won't be right now.

We are in 1.2 my friends, let the story take it's time.

[blood-starved-beast]

Not dissing on anyone in particular but it's interesting to see people trying to retroactively justify or otherwise "call out" on the fact that Melinoe has no connection to her birth family. It's the Point I'd say. And thematically, she's likely never coming "home" for real. Cause it was never home. Can no longer be home and all.

[ink-ghoul]

I need to talk about the last seconds of Doc's episode, because the moment he realized what he was looking at was so great

[apparently-i-am-an-adult]

So I can watched episode 7 of My Stand in yesterday and I’m having some feelings.

I know we’re all loving Ming’s realization and what that means for him and Joe, but I’ve been thinking about what it says about Tong.

Think about what the audience knows about him initially: he’s a huge action star with a big fan base. From behind, his stand-in is identical to him. His girlfriend is the daughter of a rich family and her brother is desperate for his attention.

The first time we see him, he’s late for the shooting. He walks in with food without a care and says he would have come in later if he’d known they were going to have to move locations. The next bit I remember is the pool rescue scene, and he ditches that and has Joe do it. He’s so uninterested in his job he doesn’t even want to go to a press conference for a movie he’s starring in.

This is the biggest action star in the film industry and we don’t see him act once.

For me, I’m getting the implication that after Tong became famous, he got bored with the actual process of acting, but still uses his notoriety to do basically whatever he wants. So what if he shows up late? What are they going to do, fire him?

Even when the director threatens to kick him out of the movie if he doesn’t go to the press conference, he doesn’t even flinch. To him, it’s an empty threat. It’d be like kicking Tom Cruise out of the Top Gun franchise or Mission: Impossible.

Another crewmember even says the movie will be a disaster if they replace Tong with someone else, let alone a stand-in.

We the audience know that Joe has been Tong’s stand in for a while. He’s clearly been picking up a lot of the slack that Tong has been dropping, and he’s good at what he does, and Tong knows it. He knows it better than anyone.

Episode 7 shows us the scene that made Tong famous, and then reveals that he didn’t even do it. Joe did. And nobody knows because Joe was new and didn’t get credited. All the fame, all the notoriety, it should be Joe’s. And I think Tong is aware of it. Not that he thinks Joe deserves it, not at all. But he is 100% aware of what Joe does for him. Joe does all the work, and he gets to slap his name on there and take the credit.

The episode 7 reveal is fantastic because it adds so much more depth to what we have in episode 4: Tong isn’t just enraged at the audacity his stand-in has to try and replace him, he’s terrified because he knows he could.

TL;DR: Tong is a hack and he sits on a throne of lies. I can’t wait for this bitch to get his comeuppance.

[luxsea]

ITS A GREAT DAY TO BE A KARLACH ROMANCER 😳 IM VERY HAPPY W THE NEW PATCH

[sleepy-40400]

Kawoshin text message in a nutshell + more kaworu

I have a lot of evangelion dump shitposts and memes so I'm thinking of posting here

[yidou]

"Hmm, I think we only scratched the surface of this General Jing Yuan."

[anais-mirliaz]

oh yeah, baby, I'm done

now, I do have to put together the pdf and well. the website (yeah ok make me a webbed site w3) and then it will be GOOD TO GO because I'M DONE

[deluweil]

Can we stop for a second and try to sus out why is every new character a potential for a screw session with Buck?

There was Ravi (too young for crying out loud)

Every woman that we didn't even know her name and ended up being a rando guest star or a crew member.

There was every male or female character that could have been crucial (take Lucy for example - I know, they kissed but come on in the grand scheme of things there was nothing there except the dying cry of Buck's recent failed relationship)

And now you come up with Tommy? The man was a veteran of the LAFD when CHIMNEY started. (that's old ppl)

I mean, the biggest action Buck got in a long time on the show in recent years, was at the sperm donor story, with HIMSELF.

He may have been presented like a slut in S1 (really just a young damaged man looking for intimacy in all the wrong places), but he's been neutered pretty effectively by the (quite frankly bitter and hypocrite - I know how dare I, but come on, Hen cheated on Karen and Chimney was lying to impress his bitch of a gf back then. Bobby was just lucky to get over drinking and scored Athena - and been happily getting it on with her for the past five years) firefam.

You made Buck into some easy slut, when really, he's not.

And as Ryan pointed out in S2 bts, Eddie did have a good influence on Buck, as in - he gave him that closeness and care and intimacy he was looking for all along, Buck found out that intimacy isn't necessarily just sexual, and I love that about him.

And even though Buck or Eddie jealousy (not like we didn't already get plenty of that over the years) could be great and amusing, i do believe that like Ianto in Torchwood, Eddie is really Buck-sexual and vice versa (Buck is most likely Eddie-sexual) -because here it's more about the emotional attachment that brought them impossibly closer together and not just the fact that they're (indeed though) easy on the eyes,

That's my two cents anyway.