#Also I saw season 4 special spoliers

[master-of-random-trades]

I made this little figurine in my ceramics class and I'm very proud! :D

[mj1343]

Used to watch Ninjago live on tv back in like 2012. Watched the pilot episodes and season 1 and 2 (and in my not humble opinion the pilot episodes are season 1. it makes no sense not to have them. How did the team meet? where did they get the weapons? whats this about the skeleton warriors? you only know what theyre talking about IF you watch the pilot. its stupid they dont count as season 1) Ive been binging the new seasons over the last week. its been really interesting. Some of the seasons are cool! Some are dumb as hell. 

Its equally as stupid as Day of the Departed isnt just part of season 6 and isnt on netflix where im binging because it means theres no context for Cole deghosting. Im not sure what my favorite ninja suit is. The later seasons are cool but theres so much black and so little of the ninjas color in the outfit its hard to make them feel special. 

I like the show a lot, its nostalgic and fun, and theyve clearly worked hard but i refused to watch the movie before i binged the entire show so i could catch up. so when season 8 started with a different art style it was very jarring. I hate Llyods new voice and i hate Kai’s hair. The art style is eh and the outfits are noting special. Zane having human “skin” again is wierd after getting used to titanium. Ninjago city looks so different and im not sure i like it. Its all just jarring for someone whos watched the entire show in three days. If you have opinions on the “new” (not new anymore i guess) designs or anything else feel free to comment 

I know the seasons after 10 arent on netflix for some reason which is also dumb. I dont want to have to download the cartoon network app of all things to watch the show. But i also know they changed animation teams for those seasons so i guess i just have to get used to it. I went to the tag to see if anyone was talking about the new designs or something and i saw everyone freaking out, i guess the finale to season 15 JUST aired. For context i have 4 minutes left of Season 8 Episode 2. No spoliers please and thank you. But hey hello im officially rejoining the Ninjago fandom after not watching since 5th grade my fav is Jay and i made a ninja oc when i was like 12 

[vanilla--blossom]

***WARNING: SPOLIERS AND A SUPER SUPER LONG COMMENT!***

I loved this episode, it was an emotional roller coaster. Although this post is going to include thoughts on the whole series in general, mainly on Javier’s relationship with Kate and with David and Gabe too. Also just opinions of the characters individually. (It’s going to be a long post, sorry). The ending I got was Javier, Kate, Gabe and Conrad surviving (thank god) and David being bitten so Gabe has to shoot him to prevent him from turning. I chose to save Tripp in episode 4, therefore Ava came along with the group before she died, which was pretty much the only scene I didn’t like in this episode, it was very sudden and I think my game glitched so it cut some dialog or really small scenes so it was over very quickly.

It’s sad because I did like Ava and it was a hard decision on who to choose to be shot (when it came to that scene in ep 4, I didn’t choose either the first time and then ended Javi ended up getting shot lol, I DIDN’T WANT EITHER OF THEM TO BE KILLED AH and I was so shocked when Joan ended up killing the opposite person you wanted to save, such bullshit).

Anyway, on Kate and Javi’s relationship, when I started playing this season I was completely against the intimate/romantic relationship between them, every time some dialogue came up where you could flirt back with Kate, or kiss her or whatever, I didn’t choose those options and when it came to either rejecting her or sharing her feelings, I rejected her. She’s married to David, like you don’t go for your brothers wife? They’re brother and sister in law, bit incest? What about Gabe too? Bit weird for his uncle to start dating his farther’s wife? Plus I knew that David would NOT be happy when he found out, I kept rejecting her so David didn’t have any reason to want to fucking kill Javier and I always saw David’s good side so I wanted to be a good brother to him.

All that changed though when I watched a YouTuber’s Let’s Play of the episode. I don’t know, as soon as I saw them kiss I was just like yes. Instant support. Maybe it was Kate’s awkward confession, and her little excited, “oh my god! Really!?” reaction like she actually couldn’t believed Javi shared her feelings? Ahh it was just too cute. I went back and replayed the season, keeping all other choices the same expect the romance between them. It got me thinking, Javi and Kate have been on the road together for years, they thought David was dead, it was more than hinted that David was an abusive husband as well and Kate was really unhappy with him. They’ve been raising Marianna and Gabe all this time like they were practically their own children and have you seen the way the interact with each other? They have a great dynamic, Javi is so sarcastic, he’s got great banter and Kate can handle it and give it back, they’re always making each other laugh and smile and feel better and clearly they’re just way better suited for each other than Kate is with David. I chose the option for them to kiss after their reunion at the junkyard when I replayed and all Marianna says is “Gross.” Like she’s not at all bothered or angry her step mum is smooching her uncle? Because she can see how much they love and care for each other. Plus it’s a fucking zombie apocalypse, if you love someone, go for it, because you don’t know when your last moment will be with someone, no matter how fucked up the situation is, they were both really really happy in that moment at the junkyard and in the van, plus at the end of the episode too.

This brings me to David and Javi’s relationship. Apart from the Kate thing, I still tried to be a good brother to him, I took his hand after the fight when their dad died, I supported him in his decision to go to the army and promised to watch over Kate and and the kids. I hugged him in the quarantine cell, I stuck by all his plans (not to mention about Marianna & to stay and fight in Richmond, not siding with Kate), I even shot Joan for him. David was a fucking arsehole I admit that, but I did have a little soft spot for him, I always wanted him to redeem himself and for him to show the good person I believed he was inside, I get really attached to the characters, and I think the main way to enjoy the walking dead game is to not focus too much on the lack on character development with a few of the characters or the crappy pacing, even the bad dialogue selections sometimes. I try to put myself in each and everyone of the characters shoes and feel what they are feeling and try and understand.

So when it came to the scene when David found out about Javi and Kate’s relationship and started beating up Javi and was trying to kill him, I chose Javi to say “I love you” 3 times. The final “I love you brother” absolutely broke me. During this fight I was literally crying my eyes out, I could not stop crying, it was so intense and so emotional, it hurt me so much inside because Javi does love his brother and deep down, David loves Javier too. I started crying after the first “I love you”, because of David’s reaction to Javi saying that. He looked so shocked, like he couldn’t believe he heard that from him, which leads me to believe that was the first time Javier ever told David that he loved him. What makes it even more sad is that was the last time he ever said he loved him and also the last thing Javier ever said to David was “I love you brother”.

Other things that made me cry even harder during that scene, when Gabe rushed in to try to get his Dad to stop and David just hits him with the wrench. Like could you imagine your father doing that to you? Especially how much Gabe respected and loved his Dad, Gabe stuck up for David and was on his side throughout the whole season, and then to have everything you thought about your Dad to be proven wrong? After all that, he still chose to go with David because he is his Dad. He is family, he is blood. It’s heartbreaking. Also the little notification that you get if you choose to say I love you three times “you kept your promise to be a good brother”, like holy fuck shit. There I go, I was already broken in half, now I’m broken into quarters. Fuck my life, I was emotionally unstable.

I know a lot of people hate Gabe, just like they hated Duck in season 1 and I just don’t understand why? For both of them. Duck was just a special little boy, he didn’t understand everything was going on, in my opinion I think he had some sort of mental disability, or he was just really dumb who knows. But he was just a little kid, who talked too much and made bad decisions but how was he supposed to know what would happen? Being so young, so naive, he was such an energetic optimistic boy, ignorance is bliss they say right?

Anyway, enough about Duck, back to Gabe. Gabe was 14 years old, he was growing up and going through a really tough time, he has to deal with puberty, hormones, mood swings, testosterone levels are soaring, he wants to grow up. He doesn’t want to a little kid anymore. But the thing is he doesn’t know how. And imagine how hard it would be in a zombie apocalypse to do that. He thinks he’s saying and doing the right thing but he’s not, he wants to prove himself capable, he wants to prove that he’s smart and he can fight and protect himself and protect others, he believes he can. No one else does and so obviously that makes him frustrated that no one will take him seriously. It’s especially hard for him because his role models are Javier and David, two badass, lean mean fighting machines. He wants to be like them and he wants to be like them now but he can’t. Bless Gabe. He was an annoying little shit yeah but he’s a good annoying little shit. It’s all about seeing things from his point of view, imagining if you were him.

Which leads me to Gabe and Clem’s relationship. Disregarding the crush they both have on each other for a second, pretend that doesn’t exist. I love Clem and Gabe’s relationship. Oh my god, how can you not? I’m sorry but how long has Clem gone without a friend her age? Since fucking forever that’s how long. The only kids she’s ever been with is Duck and Sara throughout the entire series. Clem has been through so much shit, she’s been through hell, she’s lost Lee, Kenny, Luke, AJ, all the most important people to her throughout the series, she’s the toughest little girl in the world, she was forced to grow up so much quicker than she had to. Lee taught her to shoot a gun at 8 years old okay. She’s more intelligent and strong and brave and mature than anyone ever has to be at 14 years old, if it weren’t for her appearance you would think Clementine was a fully grown adult. She raised AJ, a toddler, thought of herself as a mother, a real mother to AJ and she’s just still a kid herself.

This is why I fully support her friendship with Gabe, in the van and they were playing euchre together, Clem just got to be a normal teenage girl for a couple of minutes having fun and joking with a teenage boy. Like Kate said it’s just so normal? It’s nice to see, and I can’t remember who said this in the game but “life doesn’t mean much without people you can relate to”, Clem and Gabe relate to each other, they’re in the same boat, Clem understands Gabe and makes him feel better as Gabe does with Clem. I’m sure all of us know how it feels not to be understood and when someone comes a long and shows you that they do understand it’s a relief.

Back to the crushing part between the two, it’s again NORMAL AND FUCKING CUTE! It’s a little harmless crush, of course they’re going to have a crush on each other, it’s the first teen girl Gabe has ever seen since the outbreak, and Clem is really pretty and nice, of course Gabe is going to have a crush on her. It made me smile at the end when Javi was like to Clementine “you know the guy has a crush on you right” and he was all like “oh my gosh you have a crush on him too!!” and then Clem got all embarrassed and flustered and exclaimed “I DO NOT!”, again this is so funny and just adds a bit of lightheartedness and normalcy to the game, yes they’re in the middle of a zombie apocalypse but characters get to be happy once in a while and just pretend that world hasn’t gone to hell. All in all, loved the season, especially loved this episode! Phew what a rant, you have reached the end, props if you read all of it.

[kendrixtermina]

‘Lion 4′ Reactions

SPOLIERS

The meta jokes and fandom self-awareness continue - what other schow would have had him rewind the tape or do fandomesque “reading things into tiny details” stuff, or immediately brought up the chest? This could almost be seen as reacting to some common fandom theories, though I never really aligned with the “masterplan” theories

Though it was not opened yet, the mystery of the chest is at least set up & we can expect it to show up in the season finale

As we see Steven is still hung up/ upset over the whole Rose thing & still kinda sees an imposion on him there/ can’t help but see her as the fearsome general the homeworlders described

Srly there’s been many cases where a woman postponed cancer treatment to bring her fetus to term even though that meant they would die - It’s not really that unusual that some people want babies very badly and we all saw how much Rose envied the lives of humans, at least tried to dothings properly with greg, saw him as special & simply liked babies

It’s worth noting that when he started ut he merely wanted to particpipate with Garnet & the others; When he first saw the tape his reaction was to cry like it didn’t even occur to him that there might be anything else to this than “Rose wanted a baby very badly”

...It’s rather amusing that Rose had a room full of junk tho. Just like Amethyst, or Greg’s garage. She might’ve been more elegant than the average quartz, but there’s limits to that XD She might actually have been the bad influence that led to Amethyst’s messy habits to begin with

Kinda sad to see Steven dissapointed by the “mundane” junk, like, its understandable in this situation but it’s worryingly unlike him and in a different situation he might have been glad about & fascinated by it

I say there’s a 85% chance that the whole “Nora” thing was an Evangelion reference in part because there have been references before - (The main character has a vision of his parents discussing his naming while inside his mecha - the twist being not only that his supposedly tragically deceased mother was actually a cult member’s daughter, a genius scientist, the mastermind behind much of the series’ events, and not even dead but rather ascended to godhood, her soul being housed in the very same mecha that her son pilots. (She also failed to inform her husband of her plan and he proved so completely incapable of childcare he’d make Pearl look good) There’s even a “secret sister” complete with a Luke& Leia esque surprise incest scenario as the afore mentioned usband had created a half-alien homunculus out of his wife’s molten remains whom he named as hewould have a daughter )

I’d heard that the epispde was supposedly inconsequential & people complaining about that - And then it turns out to be a major character developement episode! Is everything that doesn’t contain homeworld or mortal danger considered “filler” now? What is even this hell website