#1x07: blood drops

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Sara Sidle + Gil Grissom + Grissom vastly underestimating his wife’s sass.

“The windows are cracked.”

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It has been less than 24 hrs since I re-entered the hotd tag after watching 2x01 and I already feel the need to rant. Because I'm sorry but lucerys velaryon was corlys and rhaenys' grandson, irregardless of whether they were related by blood or not. Corlys is allowed to grieve for his grandson, who he just lost. Rhaenys is allowed to grieve for the grandson she just lost. Like, do I really have to explain that it is possible and natural for someone to love a child and see them as their grandchild even if they don't share blood with them. I have nieces who are my nieces through marriage alone, not a drop of blood shared between us and I love them as much and equally as much as I do my nieces and nephews who I do share blood with.

I have seen one too many posts, tweets etc along the lines of well that wasn't even their real grandson anyway, and of course rhaenys isn't sad that luke is dead that wasn't her real grandson and good luke is dead he and corlys tried to steal baela's birthright to driftmark, like not to be rude but stfu, this isn't about the succession of driftmark, it's about a dead child and the grandparents and family who are grieving him.

So basically yes corlys is allowed to be sad and to grieve for lucerys who he saw and loved as is grandson. Of course rhaenys is grieving for luke, just because there wasn't a moment when she explicitly says she's sad, just because she has pointed out during a time when she was grieving her own child that they weren't related by blood, does not mean that she didn't care and love luke as a grandson. She protected him from alicent's attack at driftmark in 1x07, in 1x10 she points out that the boys are in danger as heirs to the throne, luke included, and encourages corlys to side with rhaenyra and help protect them. It just hard for me to wrap my head around the idea that people care more about driftmark and who should inherit it than they do a child dying and the family who are left behind to grieve. You really think anyone gives a crap about who is going to be heir to driftmark when they are grieving for their grandchild, really?

So anyway, I'm getting really tired of those who are trying to argue that because luke didn't have velaryon blood he wasn't a velaryon and seem to think he isn't worthy of being grieved or loved. There's more to being a velaryon than blood, catelyn identified as a stark but there wasn't a drop of actual stark blood in her, laenor claimed luke, he gave him his name, he called him son, so yes luke was a velaryon. Anyway I think I'm done ranting now.

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Dexter Morgan Whump | Dexter

1x01 Checked by trauma team 1x02 Sprayed with blood 1x03 "Grieving",scared by alligator, slips, car robbed, (Flashback; manhandled) 1x04 Headache, annoyed, drops glass tube 1x06 Nervous, (Nightmare; cheek sliced), wakes up sweating 1x07 Angry outburst 1x08 Therapy, leaves in a panic 1x09 "Grieving", (Flashback; ER scene, serious bleeding, internal injury) 1x10 Remembers trauma x2, collapse x3, panic attack x3, shaking 1x11 Trauma revealed, angry 1x12 Drugged unconscious, held, restrained, manhandled, knee'd to the face, crying, heartbroken

2x01 Shaking, scared 2x02 Ambushed, hiding, trauma flashbacks, hallucinates brother 2x03 Group therapy 2x04 Worried 2x05 Upset, angry 2x06 Overthinking, angry at Doakes, upset 2x07 Tackled, knocked down, punched x3, bleeding 2x08 Ambushed, arm sliced, bleeding 2x09 Caught, held at gunpoint, shot in the leg (graze 🙄), manhandled 2x10 Bleeding, pain, wound reopens, angry 2x11 Trapped in burning apartment, coughing, passes out, ambulance

3x01 Manhandled, tooth knocked out 3x05 Worried 3x09 Very angry outburst 3x10 Kidnapped 3x11 "Kidnapped", restrained, "shocked (35:25)" 3x12 Home broken in to, followed, held at gunpoint, knocked out/kidnapped by The Skinner, restrained, crying, hand broken, hand bleeding

4x01 Sleep deprived, momentary confusion, caught sleeping in car, exhausted, car crash 4x02 Ambulance, neck brace, concussion, forgets password 4x04 Held at gunpoint, house broken in to, kicked, emotional clarity 4x05 Brotherly worry 4x06 Cuts his finger, bleeding, pinned, choked, couples therapy 4x07 Heartbroken 4x08 Guilt, cuts finger (minimal), 'emotional' 4x09 Tense, manhandled, angry 4x11 Territorial (32:00) 4x12 Briefly imprisoned, upset, heartbroken

5x01 In shock, heartbroken, collapse (47:50), emotional scream 5x02 Angry outburst in interview, very sad 5x03 Emotional relief, shot with tranq dart, ambulance 5x04 Knocked down, arm sliced 5x05 PTSD 5x07 Choked 5x08 "Recovery" 5x09 Protective father mode 5x11 Tazed unconscious, abducted, restrained 5x12 Car crashed, bloody forehead, held at gunpoint x2, 'caught', heartbroken, emotional outburst, upset

6x01 "Stabbed", pricks his own blood (fist bump), tackled 6x03 Held at gunpoint, car crashed (minor) 6x04 Scared for son 6x06 Angry/worried, loses a friend, sad, heartbroken, angry outburst 6x07 Brotherly passenger returns, rebellious mr slut, robbed, held at gunpoint 6x09 Blood dumped on him (31:00) 6x10 Betrayed 6x11 Exposed to poison, lightheaded, nose bleeding, pain, bleeding worsens, overtaken, hand stabbed, passes out, restrained 6x12 Stranded in the ocean, thirst/starving (mild), son taken, worried, caught

7x01 Paranoid, 'scared', confrontation 7x02 Slapped (09:00), angry about stalker 7x03 Murder daydream x2, angry outburst, frustrated x10 7x04 Thrown x2, knocked unconscious, hunted, bleeding 7x08 Shot at 7x09 Worried 7x11 Worried, elbowed 7x12 Arrested, held at gunpoint

8x01 Angry outburst/road rage, paranoid, overstimulated by Harrison, shoved, brief worry 8x02 Childhood lore 8x04 Car crashed/betrayed, head bleeding, drowning, unconscious 8x05 Therapy, angry 8x06 Drugged, passes out 8x07 Jumped, beaten/manhandled (41:45) 8x10 Heartbroken 8x11 Heartbroken, "bait" 8x12 Worried, heartbroken, stabbed, angry, crying, "dies"

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The five great laws (2x03)

Santiago reads out the 'Great Laws' that all in the coven must abide by to Claudia as part of an initiation ritual. Cutting between Claudia with the coven and Louis walking with Armand through the sewers, this scene highlights the danger that the Paris coven poses to Louis and Claudia. Each law that Santiago reads aloud has either been broken by Louis and Claudia, or will be broken as the season progresses, this threat continuing to loom over the two after this episode. This scene reinforces the doomed relationship between Louis and Claudia as a theme for the season, the distance between the pair causing Louis to lose hope in his life, and the bond between the two driving Louis's decision to start his relationship with Armand. Additionally, Claudia's desire for community with the coven is dashed immediately after the initiation, as she is given the role of 'Baby Lu', epitomising her struggle throughout the series. The scene is scored continuously by 'The Five Great Laws' by Daniel Hart, which ebbs and flows dramatically with the scene. "Don't give up on her. Tell her she's beautiful. Tell her that every morning."

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Killing Lestat (1x07)

All the tension and anticipation built up throughout 1x07 leads to this scene. After initially leading the audience into thinking Lestat and his lover Antoinette had bested Louis and Claudia's plan, Lestat suddenly chokes and falls, weakened from poisoned blood coursing through his veins. Louis watches on in horror and guilt while Claudia taunts, imitates and takes great enjoyment in Lestat's pain, even using his blood to note down his final words, "Mets-moi dans mon cercueil, Louis, Louis." (Put me in my coffin, Louis, Louis). Louis slices Lestat's throat with his cane from 1x01, embracing Lestat in his final moments until dropping him to the floor. The scene is beautifully scored by Daniel Hart's 'Vicious', reminding the audience of the pair's dangerous love and attachment to each other as it first appears at the end of 1x05. Afterwards, Daniel pokes holes in Louis's narrative, revealing that Louis purposefully avoided doing this to keep Lestat alive off of the rats in the dump. The scene is a captivating conclusion to the season, altering all character relationships in anticipation of season two. In Dubai, the mysterious Armand is finally revealed, and Daniel's confidence in questioning Louis increases. In New Orleans, Louis and Claudia's relationship is left fractured after Louis threatens her over Lestat's body, and Louis is guilt-ridden from killing his lover and maker. "Louis. We are joined by a chord. A chord that you cannot see, but it is real... I have loved you with all myself... I'm happy it was you... here with me... a la fin."

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Catherine Willows in Every Episode [7/259] 1x07 ★ Blood Drops

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Character: Callum (voiced by Jack DeSena)

Age Rating: TV-Y7 (FV)

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Genre: Animation, Found Family, Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Synopsis: In the magical land of Xadia, magic comes from six primal sources: the sun, moon, stars, sky, earth and ocean. When human mages create a seventh kind of magic -- dark magic -- they start capturing and harvesting the unique magical creatures they need as ingredients, which sparks a war between Xadia and the Human Kingdoms. Three kids from opposite sides of the conflict -- two princes and an elven assassin sent to kill them -- discover a secret that could change everything and decide to join forces and go on an epic journey. That trek could be their only hope of ending the war and restoring peace to both worlds. (Via Google)

Notes: This show is GOOD. If you like ATLA, you'll enjoy this. It gets progressively darker and more violent as the show goes on, so fair warning for that. The relationships between the characters are amazing, and there's also great diverse representation! I highly recommend.

TW's: Violence, mild blood/gore, death, child abuse/neglect, child endangerment, mild emetophobia

List Key:

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~ = a scene break

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1x01: sparring ~~ upset, argued 

1x02: teary-eyed, emotional goodbye ~~ knocked around, holding his head ~~ threatened

1x03: betrayed, stressed ~~ manhandled, restrained, voice taken (by magic), heavy breathing ~~ scared, gets voice back and coughing ~~ terrified, shocked and teary-eyed, out of breath

1x04: stressed ~~ held at swordpoint 

1x05: stressed

1x06: extremely worried, scared 

1x07: emotional conversation, stressed 

1x08: scared

1x09: scared, stressed 

2x01: sad, stressed

2x02: extremely emotional, sobbing ~~ grieving

2x03: grieving, worried, teary-eyed ~~ sobbing, comforted ~~ betrayed

2x04: stressed

2x05: grieving, stressed

2x06: crying

2x07: glowing eyes, passes out, concern for him ~~ helped to stand, weak

2x08: helped to walk, delirious, weak ~~ in pain, delirious, unconscious ~~ terrifying dreams ~~ concern for him ~~ struggling to breathe, concern for him

2x09: still struggling to breathe, held, concern for him, wakes up gasping

3x01: stressed

3x02: none

3x03: stressed

3x04: stressed

3x05: stressed 

3x06: emotional

3x07: out of breath, almost passes out

3x08: frustrated 

3x09: stressed ~~ choked, gasping for air  ~~ crying, terrified, almost falls

4x01: stressed ~~ startled ~~ solemn, crying 

4x02: stressed, startled 

4x03: angry ~~ solemn

4x04: angry ~~ scared, choking, half-collapsed, possessed, body puppeteered, glowing eyes ~~ still possessed, concern for him, collapsed, unconscious, held

4x05: crying, choked up ~~ emotional conversation 

4x06: stressed

4x07: emotional conversation, "i need you to kill me", talking about possession

4x08: stressed ~~ sleeping spell, weak, collapsed unconscious 

4x09: rough awakening, scared

5x01: stressed 

5x02: stressed

5x03: stressed 

5x04: terrified, worried about his aunt 

5x05: stressed 

5x06: none

5x07: half-collapsed, magical exhaustion, struggling to breathe, helped to stand, supported, concern for him ~~ tired ~~ hands chained behind his back, chin grabbed/manhandled

5x08: unconscious, chained to a pole, shaky breathing, slowly waking up, scared, threatened, electrocuted/beaten (off-screen)~~ slowly waking up, still chained, blood and bruises on his face, heavy breathing, in pain, chin grabbed/manhandled ~~ scared ~~ manhandled, hands chained behind his back, stumbling, collapsed/forced to his knees, concern for him, weak ~~ extremely worried, yelling, angry, knocked out ~~ chained, struggling, pained voice, collapsed ~~ weak, "blood freezing", choked, gasping in pain, struggling, dropped, struggling to breathe, concerned ~~ sad, concern for him, hugged, guilty 

5x09: concerned ~~ slammed into the ground, restrained 

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howdy! ive just watched 1x07, blood drops, and somethings really bugged me about the whole thing... I assume it's gone this way be ause greg wasnt in this episode and they didnt have another DNA tech cast BUT - i cant help but think the "dark twist" at the end of the ep (spoilers for people i guess?) could have been solved at the very start via basic DNA tests. i mean, with that much blood in the house surely they would have collected and tested dna from every member of the family just to match up who bled where. even if the sisters didnt have any scratches or visible injuries, surely they would have had their dna collected just for elimination. please tell me its not just hinky to me!!

hi, @someoneplsloverobbierotten!

so the collins family secret definitely could have come out earlier had someone compared brenda and tina's dna profiles at any point during the course of the investigation.

that said, i tend to believe there are some sensible in-universe reasons as to why no one actually ever makes that comparison (at least prior to when tina reveals the secret as part of her confession).

one is just a matter of simple timing/logistics: i.e., there is such a preponderance of blood evidence in the collins house, it literally takes catherine until halfway through the episode to collect all the relevant samples and bring them back to the lab for processing. it then presumably takes another long while—even given csi’s tendency to considerably misrepresent the speed at which dna tests can be conducted compared to what is actually accurate to real life—until said tests are completed. that so, it is unlikely anyone even generates complete dna profiles for brenda and tina until close to the end of the episode anyhow.

—and that’s if they generate them at all.

because that’s the other thing: i don't think there is ever a compelling reason to compare brenda and tina’s dna profiles to each other at any point throughout the episode, and especially not when there are other, more pressing tasks relevant to the investigation which need to be completed. 

more discussion after the "keep reading," if you're interested.

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see, in my limited understanding, the way things work at the lab is that evidence of the highest investigative priority tends to get processed first. moreover, results from the higher priority tests then determine what tests are performed subsequently and in what order.

it's not just a “start with the task at the top of the queue and work down” deal, where the tech just moves through all of the evidence submitted to them in the order in which they receive it, but rather more like a decision-making tree, where each completed objective and answered question suggests what must come next, with some branches of investigation either increasing or decreasing the priority level of others or even altogether making them obsolete, depending on what they unveil.

the fact of the matter is all of these processes take time, and not all tests can be run at once. particularly in a case like the collins homicide, where the amount of available evidence is itself overwhelming, it would be impossible to run every collected sample and possible test and especially simultaneously. priority has to be given to whatever tasks are deemed most relevant at the moment, while other less-pressing ones get put on the backburner to either be returned to later or else completely discarded.

for example, the tech’s top priority might be to work up a dna profile based off of a certain contribution. the resultant profile might then rule out certain suspects, making any dna collected from them no longer relevant, while simultaneously suggesting other suspects as likely candidates, making any dna collected from them the next top priority.

in the case of the collins homicides, blood evidence is indeed of importance to the investigation—however, not all the blood evidence collected is equally important to the investigation, and neither are all of the tests that might possibly be run to process it.

when the blood evidence first reaches the dna lab for processing midway through the episode, off-camera greg—or whichever tech lands the assignment—gives some samples and tests higher priority than the others.

while i can't say so for certain, i would think that in a case like this one, where there is no immediately obvious suspect and the motives behind the killings remain unclear—is this actually a ritualistic cult killing a la manson or just a copycat crime made to look that way in order to conceal the true nature of what has happened?—the team would be interested in trying to use the blood evidence to fill in those two big blanks, if possible.

that so, i imagine their top priority might be something along the lines of establishing if there is any extraneous blood not belonging to the slain collins family members present on scene—which is a strong possibility, considering stabbing killings often result in the killer(s) sustaining injuries to their own hands and arms while in commission the crimes—in order to potentially identify a suspect.

fulfilling that priority would require testing samples from both the blood pools in the bedrooms and hallway and the blood symbols drawn on the walls against the blood of the known victims in order to determine if there is any non-victim blood in the mix.

performing this test would require the collection of both blood from the victims and from the blood pools on the floor and blood symbols drawn on the walls.

brenda and tina’s dna may well be collected at this point for rule-out purposes, as well—though, not necessarily, particularly given neither one of them has any obvious open wounds on their person and all of the blood pools and symbols in the house seem to be fresh.

also, even if collected, their dna likely would not warrant automatic profiling; only in the event it became relevant to the investigation would it move to the top of greg or the other dna tech’s queue.

any further dna testing would then derive from the result of the preliminary set of tests—i.e., in the event that all of the blood collected matched the victims, there would be no need to then compare those samples to the ones collected from brenda and tina; however, if there happened to be an unknown dna contribution mixed in with the victims’ blood pools or the symbols, then grissom and the team would be interested in determining from whom that unknown contribution derived.

if the dna profile of the unknown blood contributor shared enough markers in common with the deceased members of the collins family, then at that point, the team would have it tested probably first against tina’s dna sample—as she is the more likely contributor—and then, if it didn’t match hers, brenda’s, and if it didn’t match hers, other blood relations from the extended collins family (i.e., aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc.).

however, if the profile showed no familial resemblance to the collins family at all, then at that point the dna tech would likely test any other potential dna evidence found on scene (like the saliva on the bidi) against the unknown blood contribution. they also would run the profile through codis to see if it matched anyone already in the system.

throughout this whole process, even if both brenda and tina’s dna were tested against the unknown contribution, their dna profiles still might not be looked at in conjunction with each other or in conjunction with any other samples from the family that might indicate brenda’s true parentage.

for example, if they tested a blood pool that contained blood from mrs. collins and an unknown contributor against brenda’s sample, then they might realize brenda wasn’t mrs. collins’s biological daughter but rather her inbred granddaughter. however, if they tested a blood symbol from one of the boys and an unknown contributor against brenda’s sample, then they might not realize there were anything awry, as their levels of shared dna might still be within the normal range for a full sibling match (roughly 38 to 61%) and not necessarily automatically suggestive of inbreeding. they also might not recognize that brenda was inbred if they only tested her sample against that of the unknown contributor.

it is therefore not a given that greg (or any other dna tech) would necessarily realize that brenda and tina share more than the expected twelve alleles between them in common.

and in their case, much more than the expected twelve, as not only is tina brenda’s biological mother but also her biological sister, as well.

since in the episode, it is never suggested that there are any blood samples taken from the house that derive from an unknown, non-victim contributor, i doubt either brenda or tina ever has their dna tested and especially not against each other—or at least not until after tina makes her confession regarding brenda’s true parentage.

it just never would be a priority given the preponderance of evidence the lab has to deal with from the case otherwise, the case’s “rush” status, the directions the investigation takes, the types of information the csis are ultimately interested in, etc., etc.

so all in all, ymmv, but i personally am okay with the revelation coming closer to the end of the episode. i don’t necessarily think it’s an unlikely sequence of events that no one would draw that connection prior to tina's confession.

thanks for the question! please feel welcome to send another any time.

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The biggest WTF for me is when book fans are like well Louis is a liar in the books about why xyz didn't happen in the show and I'm like well if he's lying about everything then why am I watching this show?? are you gonna retell the entire first season with what really happened? cause I feel like the show is wasting my time then.

Any and all Lestat propaganda is lost on me. Anytime someones like well in the books he's not like this, I'm like I dont care that's not what he's like on the show so stfu.

Also I have no fucking clue what ppl are talking about with daniel + armand most of the time like I don't understand how the fuck s1 hints at anything other than an adversarial relationship at the moment.

im assuming ur the same anon as here..

and its like yeah its obvious some things didnt happen the way they did cuz its louis’s point of view & we will get another look at certain scenes but if the whole season is a total lie thats a waste of tv lol. granted the book iwtv narrative is more straightforwardly dark. theres no two interviews theres just one interview in the 70s (which was contemporary. iwtv published in 1976) .and the most that’s ‘contradicted’ in that imo is.. of course getting lestat’s point of view and all but also. ok. so you know how in the show lestat kills the tenor and clicks out on louis saying embrace what you are? in the book, lestat did the same thing but it was w/ these sex workers/prostitutes instead. in tvl lestat is like well actually these women were robbing the seamen so i wasnt the bad guy. this is actually why i think show lestat is nicer than book lestat! not rly cuz he did the same shit to lily. seriously tho book and show les were twins separated at birth and sent off to different universes imo. & in the book louis links w/ lestat whos bog body down bad holding a child and turning his back on him its irony its melodrama and we’re never sure if that scene actually happened. according to les well it didnt and louis was just a drama queen embellishing. thats what louis is, a drama queen embellishing things LOL. & the suspicion around armand is warranted like hes a powerful vampire with an adeptness in the mind gift, but he also loves lestat + his form of showing that is yandere crazy af aka torturing the people lestat cares about if not beating and tormenting lestat himself and its like..armand would do some shit like that hes crazy but itd be a bit boring if all of s1 was a big lie ?. let all the yaoi be problematic! i def think that theres some freaky shit going on between armandxlouis… the 1x07 reveal was like heyy danny ik i just checked out 5 seconds ago but i went from a bad bf to worse :3 the snake sheds his skin as ive dubbed it. i thought armand was rashid tvc until i seen the marius painting and the reveal had me sooo hype. the finale is the biggest divergence in the book besides the obvious changes (race, era, certain scenes etc etc) the fact that theres 2 interviews and that armand x louis are together in the modern day. in the book armand broke up with louis just before the interview, tried to mack on bog body struggle bus lestat and when all that failed he went to fuck w/ daniel. daniel was named in the third book finally and he was revealed to be w/ armand to have this crazy psychosexual bdsm worldwide cruising (well. armand watching danny fuck) blood airtagging romance rigmarole for a few yrs post interview cuz armand wanted someone to teach him what being human was like again and daniel wanted a demonic satanic zaddy. i am the devil’s minion (title chap drop!) armand’s put in a situation where he has to turn a dying 32 year old (book) daniel into a vampire. in the show clearly, daniel is old now but hes dying still. s1 doesnt show much so i can get why ur confused but in later seasons the nature of all their relationships between show armandxlouis , daniel & what happened and how theyll adapt the axd dynamic will be clearer to us all. i just think ppl r too committed to particular fan theories or takes rn. the ennui of being into an ongoing adaptation

[moonlight-fan2008]

I know I that I diss on Josh’s character a lot lol but I don’t actually mind him. He’s cool and all and an interesting character but in my opinion the writers decided by like episode 5 “Arrested Development” that Mick and Beth were going to end up together or at least starting to show strong signs of them being together.

I mean we do have 1x04 Fever and every thing that went down but in terms of like signs or cinematic symbolism. They are the most apparent with 1x05 (in my opinion)

The entire episode of “Arrested Development” has Mick and Beth run into each other despite Mick trying everything in his power to avoid her.

First Mick and Beth run into each at the doctors office; Beth got a blood test done and Mick was doing whatever (maybe P.I stuff) and they bump into each other.

Then they run into each other at the morgue the night of Beth’s and Josh’s anniversary party and find out that their cases might actually be related.

After that Beth’s friend goes on about how Beth and Josh are fated and so on and talks about how Beth needs to “answer the call (from fate)” only to get a call from Mick which her friend mistakenly thinks is Josh and tells her it’s a sign from the universe that she and Josh should be together. But I think from a film perspective shows that Beth and Josh aren’t really “fated”

Beth also kisses Mick twice this episode lol and it’s like girl you got a boyfriend you can’t be kissing other people.

There’s some other things from the episode but to me those are the main things.

From that episode forward we have

1x06: B.C where the two are at odds about the drugs and Beth investigating them and Josh shows that he doesn’t really trust Beth because he thinks she’s at the club with Mick and kind of acts a bit testy with her about it and acts like she was cheating on him. I know he was probably stressed about the situation with Black Crystal and Lola and what not but it just seems like he’s pissed about something other than the drugs.

1x07: The Ringer where Josh’s not even shown from what I remember and Coraline/Morgan notes that Mick and Beth have an attraction to one another and makes a comment on it to the two of them separately. Beth is also quite touchy feely with Mick and gets jealous when Mick asks about “Morgan”

1x08 12:04 Am: Again Josh’s missing from the episode and Beth simply mentions things between them are tense. We also have another kiss between Mick/Beth and Mick tells Beth that things can never work out for them. I also think that the ending song was an interesting choice since it’s talking about seeing signs and getting together. *Some of the lyrics*

1x09 Fleur de Lis: Josh is not seen nor heard from this episode and Beth kind of acts like a jealous girlfriend when she asks Mick about Coraline and his relationship.

1x10 Sleeping Beauty: We see Josh again however only briefly and Beth has completely forgotten about their date night because she was willing to drop everything to help Mick. I know you can argue that that’s what you do for a friend but it’s interesting that she wasn’t going to bother and tell Josh what was going on until she was on her way to the airport.

1x11 Love lasts forever: Josh dies this episode and yes Beth wanted Mick to turn him and was very distraught by his death. But I think the turning him into a vampire was a last ditch effort to save him and perhaps alleviate some of her guilt for falling in love with Mick. And I think watching someone you cared about get shot to death and bleed out in front of you would be difficult for anyone to watch regardless if you fell out of love for that person.

Anyway did I over analyze things? Perhaps lol but I will never stop loving this show or talking about it.

[kneworder]

So all the Hargreeves have some form of an accelerated healing factor, right? Like Luther is obviously borderline indestructible (although I have a theory that he has to actively activate that ability, considering Diego was able to slash him by surprise in the pilot, yet jumping through a high ceiling in the bank flashback and getting shot with a missile launcher in 2x01 had like no effect), but what about the rest of them? 

Diego gets shot in the shoulder (1x05), wears a cast briefly but loses it by the end of the season, still can beat Cha Cha in a fight, and shows no sign of any kind of issue from then through the rest of the series. He gets shanked (2x02), the wound is cauterized but obviously not healed, and shows few signs of a problem for the rest of the series despite this being a moderately serious injury. He even gets a tractor dropped on his leg (2x10) and is up and walking around almost as soon as it’s off of him! Sure, this could be explained away as a fun combo of adrenaline, learned behavior from childhood, and Diego being an absolute madlad, but then we also have

Allison, who literally gets her throat slit, like rivers of blood and everything (1x08), survives a car ride home that is established on the drive out as not quick, is up and walking around THE NEXT DAY, is talking again within a few months, and is able to completely regain the ability to speak, with no change to her voice whatsoever after her recovery. With the amount she was bleeding, this is ... somewhat astonishing. 

Then there’s Klaus, who spends an entire day getting tortured by experts (1x04) and is only broken by watching his drugs get crushed up, which sure, maybe he was high and fairly numb to pain, but given what Hazel and Cha Cha did to that tow truck driver, we know they’re capable of some pretty awful things. Then we have the fact that he is able to get completely clean in, quite literally, a day. Detoxing from hard drugs takes a huge physical toll and a huge amount of time, but Klaus, who has been self-medicating so much for so long it’s a defining trait of his character, struggles far more with emotional fallout than any kind of physical you’d expect. 

And then we have Five. Dear God, Five. Starting off with something a little more forgivable, he survived a solid 40-45 years in an apocalyptic wasteland with no other people, limited intact architecture, and hugely limited food and water sources. Yes, he may be the CEO of survival, but you have to admit, it’s kind of improbable, especially for a child who’s likely never been without a stable food source or shelter. As for less excusable on-screen injuries, we have: cuts and digs around in own arm in an environment and with equipment that is definitely not sterile (1x01), gets thrown in the air and like at least five feet backwards by the Meritech explosion (1x04) and then just sits up no problem, walks around with an actively bleeding shrapnel wound for hours with nothing more than a limp (1x07) before passing out from blood loss and then being virtually fine once he’s patched up with no sign of a limp or any wound at all by 2x01. Stands right next to a tank when it goes off (2x01) and suffers no hearing loss. Gets vibe checked by Pogo so hard it draws blood (2x02), but look closely in 2x03 -- the scratches on his neck have already disappeared. And who could forget that he gets smacked with the infamous frying pan (2x10), a massive piece of cast iron thrown by a woman who may or may not still possess super strength, and gets up, remains lucid, and shows no hallmark signs of a serious head injury. Not to mention, of course, the numerous fights and other serious shenanigans he gets into over the course of two weeks -- Istanbul (1x01), Gimbels’ shootout (1x02), Commission escape (1x06), Mexican Consulate (2x04), Lila part 1 (2x05), killing the Board (2x07), Five v. Five (2x09), and Lila part 2 (2x10), which adds up to eight fights, five of which occur over the course of one week. While it is established that Commission agents are physically modified -- Hazel can go toe to toe with Luther, Five can’t snap the biggest Swede’s neck -- it’s unlikely any sort of modification to Five’s body would transfer to his ‘suspended across all instances of time’ teen one. Five may have pain tolerance so high it might as well be a second superpower, but the fact that he hasn’t physically shut down by the end of season 2 is a miracle. 

(Vanya doesn’t experience the same beatdowns as her siblings, and the few she does are mainly when she’s using her powers, in which case everything gets a little hand-wavey, but I will point out that the head wound she gets in the Hazel and Cha Cha assault on the manor (1x03) goes away fairly quickly!)

And sure, all of this could be explained as minor continuity errors, or minor details being shelved for the sake of plot, but the fact that almost all of the siblings seem to sustain major injuries they miraculously recover from is getting a little hard to ignore. The idea that they all heal just a little faster than normal makes a lot of sense -- they are superhuman, after all, and even they don’t know the full extent of their potential!

[ilkkawhat]

i love ebay

lmao between this and the grave danger script, i’m building up quite the collection

aka...1x07 Blood Drops!

Through my Nick-colored lens, a few things piqued my interest.........

SO did y’all know Nick was gonna have a girlfriend in season one cause I sure as hell didn’t, and beyond that...he doesn’t want her to take her shirt off???? And with him feeling like a “loser,” and his upset during this episode, I wonder if he’s thinking about....ya know....certain things in his past

instead of punching the doorframe, nick just seems like, visibly disturbed/upset at seeing the bodies. unbeknownst to him, warrick sees this and then this is how their convo transpires:

nick has an interesting moment with the coroner--more visible upset about the murders

there’s a subplot about the team getting their picture taken at the worst moment that grissom had even warned them about earlier (”don’t let the media catch you smiling”) and well this happens

which leads nick to of course get embarassed and he has this cute moment with grissom:

this is just a cute warnick moment

and then finally, the bit with nick in the locker room doesn’t happen in the script, but we get a bookend on his night with the girl:

[butterflydm]

wot s1e1: leavetaking; worldbuilding notes

Definitely contains book spoilers! I just want to go over all the things we already know (or ‘know’) from the series already. And, because I think it’s funny, what Moiraine knows and doesn’t know, and who she believed or hoped was the Dragon Reborn at various points along the season.

Major book spoilers! I am not assuming that everything I write about will come to pass in the show, but I am using my book knowledge to speculate on what elements of worldbuilding and lore are the same. There are also spoilers through the most recent episode of the show (1x07).

If Liandrin is still Black Ajah, I wonder if part of the pitch to her can be traced back to what Moiraine says about the arrogance of the Dragon. Liandrin talks about how men make the Source ‘filthy’ when they touch it. While she can lie (if BA), I don’t think she’s lying here. I think she really believes it. And while someone like Moiraine or Siuan might come to the conclusion that the Dragon Reborn needs to be an exception to ‘men must be gentled’, Liandrin may double down on the idea that especially the TDR must be gentled, because of his past.

We see this male channeler’s manifestation of ‘the madness’ as a full-bodied person, while Logain’s madness is much more abstract, like ghosts made out of the corruption on the power. Illustration of how it effects different people in different ways or are they showing us that this channeler is more affected than Logain?

Moiraine dismisses the idea that this man was TDR -- the first manifestation of the determined wishful thinking that also makes her doubt the words of the prophecy (like trying to completely skip the prophecies of the Dragon by killing the Dark One at the Eye of the World). If that man was TDR, they are screwed, so he had better not be.

She also drops two phrases here and doesn’t explain them, and both are incredibly relevant: she says there are four ta’veren in the Two Rivers and she says the old blood is strong there.

The Dragon Reborn would almost have to be ta’veren -- TDR is going to affect the fates of pretty much everyone in the world, they’re ta’veren pretty much by definition. They will shape the threads of people’s lives around them, like it or not.

And the mention of the old blood goes back to The Karaethon Cycle: even if she is using it more as a set of guideline than as rules, she’s certainly familiar with it:

He will be of the ancient blood, and raised by the old blood.

Any place where ‘the old blood runs deep’ is going to be a prime candidate for being the location where TDR was raised.

Skyscrapers! The Age of Legends was both a technological and a magical utopia and I love so much that this is already subtly seeded into the show. We are not in magical medieval times, my darlings! We are post-apocalyptic and Doing Our Best. More Horizon: Zero Dawn, not so much Game of Thrones.

I do admit that the symbol of the serpent in the title is more how I pictured the Aes Sedai rings, but probably harder for the viewer to spot on camera, so I get why they made it bigger and more bulky.

The ceremony for Egwene is a clear nod to how women access saidar, and the suggestion to me is that this ceremony has been passed down through time as part of what was originally a ritual to help women access the source once they were ready to begin training, but that those reasons have been lost to time. It’s a lovely ceremony.

Rand mentions the wolves, and the sound of wolves is a frequent background noise in many of the episodes leading up to Perrin going Goldeneyes on us. Arguments about Rand being placed on the backburner to the side, I would say that it’s Perrin’s story that gets pulled back the most from its pace in the books. Rand is not actually a big driver of action in the first book; it just feels like he does a lot because we’re in his head most of the time. Perrin, though, actually goes through a lot more in the book than he has in the show so far. This does make sense to me, because Perrin’s story also essentially ends a lot sooner than all our other main characters and then he’s basically in a holding pattern until the Last Battle. And that’s boring. So, if they give us his story more slowly, then it’ll keep pace with the other main characters.

Egwene and Rand... I’m trying to remember if it was confirmed in the books that Egwene was Latra reborn or if that was just a theory. I mean, as theories go, I always liked it; it makes sense that they’re connected in this life and come to odds in it, like they did in their last lives, but I don’t remember if it actually was a real thing or just something that sounded legit to fans.

I love the nod here to Rand doing small, thoughtful gestures for the people that he loves. Reminds me of some things from the books. <3

During the conversation with the three boys, the war in Ghealdan is mentioned. We’ll see the results of that war in episode four, but the way the news is delivered here -- some people heard down the mountain when they were trading the wool -- makes it clear how isolated the Two Rivers is from the cares of the rest of the world.

The growing distance between Rand and Egwene is seeded early on -- she’s already gotten that offer from Nynaeve and isn’t sure how to tell Rand, so she avoids him for most of the night. And Rand can sense that she has bad news to tell him, from the way she’s behaving. But, in a similar moment to one from the most recent episode, when Rand is in denial about big changes, he goes in big on his relationship with Egwene. Both times we see them sleep together, Rand is trying to fend off a big change about to happen in his life.

With Moiraine, they don’t have her try to hide that she’s Aes Sedai here, but they do have her use her entrance as a way to get everyone’s eyes on her so that she can scan the crowd and mark out the faces that she thinks are around the right age -- she notices Nynaeve first, then Mat, then Egwene, and finally Rand and Perrin.

Even in this first scene with the group, they show us that Rand and Nynaeve are the ones openly questioning Moiraine’s presence the most and being the most concerned about it. We also see where Rand’s doubts come from in the next scene, when Tam says, “Aes Sedai don’t fight wars. They pull the strings of the world from their White Tower.”

Love the transition from hearing the whistling while seeing the Fade do recon in the village and then Padan whistling the same tune as he drives his cart into the village. I haven’t said a lot about Padan, because I’m not sure exactly how far they’re going with his storyline, except that it obviously is continuing and it’s important enough that I assume we’ll get all the main beats at some point, but the actor was great in the small bits that we’ve gotten so far.

While Perrin’s storyline was slowed down, I’d say that Mat’s has been greatly accelerated. Again, makes sense for the similar but opposing reason that Perrin’s does -- most of Mat’s development happens after the first couple of books, so while Perrin’s storyline gets the brakes placed on it, Mat’s story gets a jumpstart, that way all the characters are more in sync.

As others have pointed out already: when Rand needs to think, he goes and sits on a mountain. Perfection. Flawless foreshadowing.

The show-only audience probably thinks of Rand/Egwene as The Official Couple of the show, destined to always get back together, so that’s... gonna be interesting to watch the show pull apart. The basic incompatibility of their life paths is only going to grow, not shrink, as time passes. I hope their eventual final break is as funny as it was in the books, tbh, because that scene was high-key hilarious. (it’ll probably be more dramatic instead, but I’ll Always Have The Books, lol)

The scene with Nynaeve and Moiraine, where Moiraine goes fishing for Nynaeve’s age and whether or not she was born in the Two Rivers, is where Nynaeve officially gets disqualified as TDR. Moiraine realizes that while she may meet one potential criteria, she doesn’t meet the second (which she trusts a lot more because it was a recent foretelling and not an ancient prophecy that needed translating). Nynaeve establishes her own personal bias and her reasons behind it to Moiraine as well, with her story about the old Wisdom (who I’m guessing could barely channel, if the Tower turned her away, but she was too embarrassed/prideful to admit that to her apprentice) who went to the White Tower at thirteen but was sent home again.

Nynaeve and Egwene hear something in the wind, though they don’t understand exactly what it means. Just an omen? Or maybe it was the sound of the Waygate opening up and letting the Trollocs into the Two Rivers? Lan finds the dead sheep in the next scene afterwards, so we know they’ve already arrived.

Heavy foreshadowing for Rand gets laid down in the next scene with Tam -- about the wheel, and remembering past lives, and the need for the wheel to keep turning so that people can try again and do a better job. We also get more hints that there’s something odd about Rand’s background -- the very thing that Moiraine was trying to figure out with Nynaeve -- when Tam has a hidden sword and recognizes Trollocs and is desperate for Rand to get the fuck out of dodge as fast as possible.

Related note: we see Egwene and Mat with their respective parents and there is a notable resemblance, unlike with Rand and Tam. Given Moiraine’s fishing expedition earlier, that weighs heavily against them as the potential Dragon Reborn, if Moiraine noticed it. (And in the walk between Tam’s house and the village, Rand learned he was... adopted is the polite term for it, I suppose... which he doesn’t share with anyone, of course, because that’s personal. I do think that learning this info later on should have an impact on show-only watchers if they do a rewatch of the show)

We get a third Dragon Reborn clue at the end of the episode -- the Dark One is chasing TDR. So, whoever is twenty, born to non-Two Rivers folk but raised in Two Rivers, and is being chased by the Dark One, that person is TDR. It’s impressive to me that I saw even book readers doubting if TDR would be the same person as from the books, because that’s everything you need to know to know exactly who it is by episode four. Even here in episode one, by what we know from process of elimination, Rand and Perrin are the last ones standing. And then Rand and Perrin split up at Shadar Logoth... and the Fade chases Rand. But the show does a good job of putting you inside Moiraine’s head -- and because she doubts her information, so does the audience.

Moiraine has officially told Lan that she doesn’t know who the Dragon is at this point, though we know she’s ruled out Nynaeve, so it’s down to the four who are the correct age.

[goodwhump-temp]

Vanitas Whump | The Case Study of Vanitas

1x01 In the Event of Rusty Hopes - Gutpunched, nosebleed, knocked unconscious by a rock (16:50) 1x02 In the City of Flowers - Thrown, knocked back aggressively 1x04 Night of Mocking Masks - Choked (07:00), chained, face cut, jumps from balcony, carried, dropped, blood sucked, worsening pain 1x06 Questions - Trapped in ice, pissed 1x07 Love - Bite mark drama (05:30), snatched, blood sucked, foot stepped on 1x08 Where Death Slumbers - Bleeding, choked, knocked into cell 1x09 Those Who Hunt Crimson - Pitied/annoyed, creeped out, Vanitas lore, hostage, genuinely spooked, thrown 1x10 Number 69 - Experiment lore (06:00), head kicked, paralyzed (trauma/10:35), knocked unconscious (11:40), head bleeding, nearly drowns 1x11 Promises - Arm bit, blood sucked, worsening pain 1x12 Point of Departure - Out of breath, annoyed 1x13 A Chance Encounter - Freezing, not breathing (cold af), arm sliced 1x14 The Witch and the Young Man - Very weak, poisoned, carried, passes out, scar reveal, fever 1x17 Hands Upon a Nightmare - Knocked unconscious (03:40), collapse/falls off building (08:49), headbutted x2, creeped out (Roland) x5, 1x18 Just the Two of Us - Scarred hand reveal (13:25), pain, bleeding 1x19 Snow Flower - Tackled, blood sucked, flustered 1x20 The Incurable Disease - "Dying"/physically ill (in love :)), Roland jumpscare, self-hatred lore, emotional agony (in love :)), freaking out 1x22 Blue Night - Experiment lore, sacrifice, scared, great pain, collapses, fever, weak, crying 1x23 Tears Like Rain - Angry, injects himself with drugs x2 (self-hypnosis), knocked back, knocked down, punched, bleeding, scared (19:15), 1x24 His Wish - Crying, weak, protected, collapse, knocked against the icewall, heavily bandaged

[raayllum]

What's your opinion on Zym removing Rayla's binding?

It’s one of the early examples of the show’s main theme. Although it’s implied through action > dialogue, the show still sets it up for Rayla’s attitude towards her binding to be a bit of a warning sign in the second episode. There is first the way her mission itself is something she has to make up for, once Runaan removes her from it and she decides to go to the castle on her own to “fix this” and make it right.

But more than that, it’s set up in parallel to King Harrow’s conversation with Callum.

H: I’ve done horrible things. I thought they were necessary. Now I don’t know. But I do know I will pay the price for my mistakes. C: There has to be a way to make it right.

Is show speak for “this is an unnecessary and brutal consequence,” alongside “this isn’t fair” (Callum in 1x02 about Ezran being the second target, and Callum in 3x03 about Rayla being Ghosted, because after all - “Why would you hurt someone who’s done nothing wrong?”). 

And it turns out that there is a way to make things right: the Dragon Prince. Which is enough for Rayla to stand on the rooftop with Runaan and not just argue for Ezran’s life - which the egg should secure, since that’s what he was specifically going to be killed over - but also for Harrow’s. Even though his blood price victim (Avizandum) isn’t miraculously alive. (Pit a pin in this for later.)

But it doesn’t work, and Harrow pays that price anyway, to deep pain felt by the boys and by Rayla. 

And then, on the ice, Rayla reveals what her binding is. Even the way her initial confession is framed shows that the binding is unnecessary: “You don’t have to do this now Rayla,” but she believes “Yes I do.” She believes it’s necessary, even though it’s not.

R: It will just get tighter and tighter until I lose my hand. But I’m ready to pay that price.

Because, like Harrow, she signed up to do horrible things she thought were necessary and then struggled with them and realized they weren’t. But this is her price. So why doesn’t she have to pay it?

Well for one, it makes perfect sense that the being you bound yourself to avenge could take the binding off. Magic is all about exchange in this show anyway, even if this is a positive example. Dragons are also uniquely magical creatures in the show (particularly arch dragons). Then there’s the fact the boys spend the rest of the season each looking for ways to help their friend (Callum thinks of the sunforge blade in 1x07 and Ezran is hopeful about the miracle healer throughout most of 1x08). 

Because thus far the boys have been the primary agents of change in recognizing the cycle (Callum: “Then it’s a cycle,” “Well that’s kinda circular”) and in changing it (Ezran wanting to tell Amaya, always trusting Rayla, “You’re right, it wants its mother”). 

And one of the key beliefs is not that consequences don’t matter, but that it doesn’t really matter if the ‘punishments’ for things are deserved. That vengeance is weakness.

Ezran: I’m sorry about what happened to your father and what happened to mine. But we don’t have to avenge them. We can choose peace. (3x02)

And more than that, that the young generation can not only make up for the mistakes of the old, but grow beyond them, and be better. 

H: I ask you and your brother to reject history as a narrative of strength, and instead have faith that it can be a narrative of love. (2x06)

H: Fate is a lie. Nothing is written in stone. You are free. (2x08)

Rayla’s chain is her metaphorical and literal chain, a punishment she carries with her throughout season one with the full knowledge of what will happen to her if she saves the princes. And she does so anyway, even catching Zym with her injured arm after dropping him because of it in the ice. She’s more than paid her dues and the pain itself was always unnecessary, because Ezran’s life was rightly spared and Zym was never dead in the first place.

So Zym takes Rayla’s binding off - and peace and mercy, not punishment - is what she deserves.

[chippdhearts]

Sara Sidle in Every Episode [6/265] 1x07 ★ Blood Drops