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So, hereâs the thing. The finale is weird. Yes, Iâm hurt by the fact that Tech didnât come back and that a character thatâs very near and dear to my heart was badly handled, and that will never sit right with me. But even apart from that, the finale fundamentally does not function as a piece of storytelling or as the end to this story. Iâm glad that people are enjoying it, and I will never tell anyone not to. But I donât think it works. (I get very negative about the TBB finale under the cut.)
Itâs not just the Tech stuff or the CX-2 stuff (which may very well have been the same stuff) that got dropped. Itâs *everything*. Every theme, Every narrative thread besides retrieving Omega, every character arc except marginally Omegaâs, Echoâs (also marginal), and Emerieâs, which was the shortest and gets wrapped up by her deciding to help Echo rescue the kids. It all stops. It makes everything that came before seem cheap and pointless if you take it into account. And this is so, so frustrating for me, because the entire show was driving towards this incredibly rich payoff, it could have been immaculate, and then it whiffed the ball so bad in the last episode that it didnât just miss, it managed to knock over the bleachers and set the entire court on fire.
Some examples:
1. This season had a really interesting exploration of Crosshairâs PTSD via his hand tremor and how it was something he can learn to manage, but not something that would ever fully go away. Aaaaand then his hand gets chopped off. One, that was stupid. Iâve seen some excellent posts (hereâs one by @the-bi-space-ace) detailing why that was a terrible way to handle Crosshairâs lingering trauma, and others talking about how the idea there was that Crosshair needed to move on and it was severing his last ties with the empire. The former, I agree with; the latter, I donât, because not onlyânot only!âdoes this episode stop dealing with Crosshairâs trauma, it doesnât even deal with having cut off his hand! It just sort of occurs. No one reacts to it, no one says anything about it, thereâs no follow up or commentary, nothing happens as a resultâitâs an event which occurs with no results coming after it. It may as well be an animation error. You can say it was about Crosshair needing to let go and move on, but thatâs something you have to project on to the text, not something thatâs actually offered by it. Itâs empty.
2. Crosshair again: We also have the lingering issue of Crosshairâs guilt and the fact that he never seems to get to a point where itâs resolved. Thereâs set up for a resolution. We have that, âSure you have,â like about Crosshair from Rampart. We also have Crosshair saying he deserves whatever happens to him in Tantiss. And thenâŚno pushback. No resolution. No moment of Crosshair realizing that he doesnât need to carry that burden. Nothing that says he didnât deserve what happened to him. He had all this character development this season, but he needed - last little push to forgive himselfâand we never get any indication that he does. It, like his trauma, gets dropped like a rock.
3. Hey! More Crosshair! A good chunk of Crosshairâs arc this season was about learning that anyone can change, first, and that no one is beyond saving. Eeexcept that goes no where.
4. Which brings me to my next point: There is set up for the CXs to be saved. Even if weâre laboring under the conclusion that CX-2 was never intended to be Tech at any point in the writing process (I have. Doubts. Yes, Iâm calling the creative team liars, here, but with the understanding that they have contracts that may require them to lie), we do have the set up where we learn the electrocyanide zappers can be removed, and with Rex offering forgiveness to CX-1. âWhatever they did to you, whatever youâve done, youâre still one of us.â CX-Tech or no, Crosshairâs arc was tied up with the CX plot, and because heâs the one the CXs tend to react toâor, at least, understands what was done to themâthe set up was there for him to help save and maybe rehab the CXs. At the least, there was an indication that they could be saved. Eeexcept nope! That gets dropped like a rock, too, and theyâre not going to deal with it. Time for maximum carnage.
5. Hunterâs arc actually takes a step backwards. Sure, he gets a technically happy ending, but because the squad is basically in the same place they were in âPabuâ back in season two (down a member but successfully hiding from the Empire in a safe place), it negates Hunterâs development towards actually taking actionâand actually hurts Echoâs arc, too.
Thereâs been this tension all through the show between just sitting things out on the one hand (Hunterâs way) and taking direct action despite the futility on the other (Echoâs way), but instead of finding some kind of middle ground or third road, it sort of comes back around to saying that, actually, Hunter was right, they should have just gone to Idaflor back in episode three and never left even though the Pabu invasion said that no, you canât just hide, and even Hunterâs development was moving in the opposite direction. And this also means that Echo never reaches a point where he feels like he can walk away and that he doesnât have to get himself killed doing this. Despite development otherwise they both end up back at that conversation in âTipping Pointâ without any move in either direction or resolution of that tension.
6. Omega. Okay, Omega probably comes out the best after the finale, and, conceptually, I actually love the idea of Omega becoming a pilot even if the epilogue falls a little flat for me. But stuff with Omega still got dropped, including:
- The force stuff. We have two episodes dealing with m-count (after learning in episode three what Omega was created to do). We also have Ventress telling Omega that she doesnât have a high m-count as far as she can see, Crosshair immediately calling Ventress out for lying, and then Ventress basically saying, âYeah, no shit, but if she has force potential sheâd have to leave you behind, and it doesnât matter what your opinion on that is, so Iâm not dealing with that.â Aaaand then,m. That. Goes nowhere. Despite a bit of set up for Omega connecting to the force as early as episode one, and some more set up in Tribe, and that whole subplot of her learning how to meditate, and so on.
Now, I donât think that it was ever going to turn out that Omega did actually have a high m-count or that she had a particularly powerful natural connection to the force. I think sheâs probably got a low or baseline m-count. What I do think, however, is that we were going to see Omega connect anyway as a refutation of Palpatineâs and Hemlockâs entire scheme. Their goal (based off of the ST) was to create extremely force sensitive clones as a way for Palpatine to jump bodies without having to waste time re-learning how to connect to the force. You knowâdark side, quick and easy path, focus on eugenics and raw power, etc. Had Omega connected anyway because of her big heart and desire to protect, it would have not only paid off that set up, it would have also refuted Palpatineâs and Hemlockâs entire goal. It would have worked so well thematically and the set up was THERE.
- branching off of that, I think the Omega force stuff was probably tied to the Zillo beast. We also had a through-line of Omega being good with animals and taking the time to calm them instead of responding with violence. The first time we see this is in âReplacements,â where she realizes that the ordo moon dragon (also an electrophageâI donât know what to call these thingsâlike the zillo beast) is just scared and hungry. This is all conjectural, but it still fits with what was set up.
- Moving on from the force stuff, we also had a through-line that started way back in episode two of the series, but which was really emphasized this season, about Omega feeling like sheâs the cause of the bad things that happen to the people she loves. This is why she gives herself up during the Pabu invasion in the first place. This is never resolved! We get Omegaâs confidence boost when she realizes she has the force kids to take care of, but we never get a moment where Omega realizes that she has no reason to feel guilty. Sheâs the glue that holds the family together! But nope! Also dropped!
- But wait! Thereâs more! The first two season finales have Omega watching someone she loves fall away while sheâs helpless to do anything to save them. Thatâs perfect set up to put Omega in the same situation, but be able to save them, because sheâs finally come into her own. Instead we just end up with her needing to be rescued again.
- Omega has this big speech in Shadows of Tantiss about spending her life stuck in one place or another against her will, and how she refuses to be confined like that. I donât think Omega would have been happy just staying on Pabu for the entire rest of her childhood and young adult life, even if I think sheâd want to use it on a home base. But! Dropped!
7. I still canât get over the fact that the zillo beast is on screen for about two minutes and then just. Walks away. Itâs a large beastie thatâs been locked in confinement for a while and is probably hungry. And somehow it didnât go straight to the reactors for some delicious energy smoothies. Like. It. Did. The. Last. Time. Someone. Let. It. Out. But no, that would have required it sticking around for something that was probably dropped sooooo ZILLO BEAST EXIT STAGE RIGHT I GUESS. (Edit: I have been reminded that Hemlock does say to turn off the generators once the zillo beast is out, so that at least makes sense. I still think the zillo beast should have stuck around to do something.)
8. You notice how there are a ton of commandos around Tantiss, even up through âFlash Strike?â And how they kind of largely cease to exist? And how Echo says that there are far more clones imprisoned in Tantiss than anyone thought? And then how they rescue, like, a dozen guys? Because we never find our way back to those cells Crosshair was held in during season two? And how Tarkin does mention not wanting to allow clone dissidence to turn into an uprising back in âThe Summit?â Because I did. This show was never going to be about a clone rebellion, that wasnât the point, buuut I do think the set up was there for an uprising at Tantiss itself. Begin the series with clones losing their agency en masse, end the series with some of the most subdued clones taking it back. Except nope, dropped, soooo we gotta pretend the commandos donât exist and murder the hell out of poor Scorch.
9. SPEAKING OF. The batch does kill clones sometimes, that does happen, but they do at least usually make some kind of effort to be non-lethal even when theyâre not using stun, and times when they do resort to lethal tactics are usually born out of extreme circumstances. Not here, though!! NO HESITATION MAXIMUM CARNAGE. For. Reasons I guess.
10. Thereâs one point IN THE FINALE where Echo mentions signaling for Rex. This never comes up again. Rex does not show up. In fact, despite being called, âThe Cavalry Has Arrived,â the cavalry does not in fact arrive. There is no cavalry. Yes, I know itâs a reference to Wreckerâs first line. But Iâm sorry if you call an episode that YOU HAD BETTER HAVE A CAVALRY SHOW UP. Especially when you have a one about calling them in! But that also!! Got dropped like a rock!!
11. One positive: the moment Crosshair and Hunter leaning on each other to make that shot was nice.
12. Sorry, but Hemlockâs death was deeply unsatisfying. Letâs do something more than just shoot him multiple times, okay?
13. Rampartâs death, on the other hand, was incredibly satisfying. That said, the conversation about project necromancer? Iâm dying. Itâs actually hilarious, because it basically goes like:
âTell me about project necromancer.â
âWow! How interesting!â
Iâm.
Are you serious?
Iâm going to become the Joker.
Yes, I know we know what project necromancer is because of a different show. Thatâs not the point, the POINT. Is that any pay off for project necromancer in this show got dropped. And thatâs deeply frustrating from a narrative perspective.
14. Speaking of, we never find out anything more regarding that partially successful m-count transfer from episode three.
15. We also never do anything with those medical records!
16. And Omega has a whole crossbow she never actually shoots despite the fact that her role on the team was as a sharpshooter after Crosshair left, and despite her getting advice from Crosshair on how to be a sniper. The literal chekovâs gun never goes off. Iâm going to go eat gravel.
17. AZI, likewise, got toted around for three seasons for no reason. Probably could have helped with the medical records. Given that he was a Kaminoan medical droid. Oh, and that Omega was Nala Seâs medical assistant. So. Hmm.
18. You can cut everything in the season past episode five and skip straight to the epilogue and end up in the same place. This is not because the other episodes are filler. Far from it! The other episodes are great and deliver some amazing set up. But, because the finale does nothing with that set up, it doesnât go anywhere.
19. And you know what else? From a narrative perspective, thereâs no reason for Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair to be in these episodes at all. They donât accomplish anything and make everyone elseâs job harder. Omega was doing fine, she would have gotten out with the kids with just Echo and Emerie, and Tarkin was coming to cut off Hemlockâs funding and shut everything down once Hemlock lost control of the facility anyway. I can only suppose that the whole reason they were in this episode ended up getting dropped, too.
20. CX-2. Listen, the answer we get about CX-2 isnât that heâs not Tech. Itâs, âMaybe, maybe notâyou donât get to know.â Because. Heâs the only CX whose mask never comes off. After a season and a half worth of buildup of unmasking CXs and people pressing them to learn their names. Itâs not a no, itâs a non-answer, which is far less satisfying.
And finally:
21: CX-Tech. Iâve seen some people speculating that there was a planned CX-Tech reveal that got scrapped at the last minuteâdropped, along with the other points Iâve already laid out. And, honestly? I have to agree. Despite what the creative team says, because even their denials kind of come out weird (like the Kiners saying that the large brass chord in âBattle of the Snipersâ was just a nice sounding brass chord and not a reference to âPlan 99.â They also basically say that the sacrifice theme from âPlan 99â is Techâs leitmotif. Which. Is all over âBattle of the Snipers.â That theme. Not Crosshairâs. In a scene. Where heâs supposed to be fighting a shadow of himself who Totally Isnât Tech but we put Techâs leitmotif here and layered it in Techno music but nooo that was never supposed to be him. Nope. I mean, come on. Iâm not stupid).This post is already long enough, so here are some posts by @apocalyp-tech-a pointing out the reasons why I think this was the case, and one by @eriexplosion pointing out why CX-2 as Crosshairâs shadow and only that doesnât quite work. I donât need to go over the trail that was laid out again. Up to the finale this was a character that had more screen timeâand far more solo screen timeâthan Echo. Some people will not stop yelling that there was no evidence, and. No. Iâm sorry, there was. I canât agree.
And some people might say, well, okay, the show misdirected you guys and pulled off a twist by having CX-2 be no one, and well, I canât agree with that either. Twists only function if the twist is more satisfying than the conclusion to which the story seems to be leading. And Iâm sorry, you canât tell me that a season and a half of CX building and three seasons (because I can find set up all the way back in episode one of the show) for Tech survival culminating in what amounts to a boss fight is more satisfying than getting to see Omega have her big brother back. You canât.
The reason I bring this up last is because, yes, I think CX-Tech was a plot dropped at the last minute, but because I also think that itâs the dropped plot that ripped everything else apart. CX-Tech was an incredibly efficient way to tie up most of the lingering plot threads and dropped character development.
-Crosshairâs guilt? Okay, he faces down the end result of his decision to stay with the empire and possibly something he knew about (Tech would be in this situation because of Crosshair, and were given hints that Crosshair knew) and is finally able to forgive himself because theyâre able to save him.
- Hunterâs decision to finally take action and be proactive rather than reactive is validated, because itâs the thing that finally gets him his entire family back.
- Echo saves someone the same way he was saved, and maybe he realizes that it is enough and that he doesnât have to be a soldier forever.
- Wreckerâs efforts to keep the family together and keep Hunter sane finally pay off.
- Omega is able to protect the people she charges about and finally, finally has all of her brothers.
- Thematically, it rounds off each member of the batch (Omega included) traumatically losing and then taking back their agency in a way that correlates directly to who and how they are as people.
- It also rounds out the OG batchers each being haunted by a failure that has to do with the thing that makes them special.
- You get pushback against âClone Force 99 died with Tech! Weâre not that squad anymore!â because no, it didnât, and theyâre more than a squad, theyâre a family.
- It comes around and closes the wound opened in Aftermath and ripped back open by Return to Kamino: they go in for Omega and lose someone, but here, they go in for Omega and get someone back.
- Would allow Tech to close off his lingering threads and finish his character development BECAUSE THOSE REMAINED UNFINISHED.
- Completely subverts the âbury your disabledâ trope by making sure we know the character whose disability was explored the mostâs life is more important than his death. Seems like an important thing to do in a show that is kind of about disability. Just saying.
- Makes the lack of closure and little mentions of Tech make sense from a storytelling POV because the necessarily catharsis would come from his return.
- And it would actually add some triumph to the ending. Yes, this little family survived. They outlived the war. Theyâre together, despite every effort to rip them apart. They made it, despite the dark times, despite the Empire, despite what they were made to do and be. They defied all of that. That would have been so, so satisfying.
As is, without Tech, without that CX-Tech reveal, we sort of end up in this weird place where all the themes are half-baked. They are more than soldiersâŚexcept Tech, who had to fall out of the story as a soldier (despite us getting the clearest glimpse of what his life outside of soldiering could have been). They get to live how they wantâŚexcept Tech. They donât leave their own behind, except Tech that one time. They should value their own lives a littleâŚexcept Tech. Theyâre more than a squad, theyâre a familyâŚexcept Tech, the only one besides Omega to say thatâs what they are, doesnât get to see it, and they donât get to have him around. We begin the series with a broken family and end it with a family broken differently. Thatâs not dynamic.
So thereâs no really punch to the ending. Itâs sort ofâŚwell, okay, we tortured a family for three seasons I guess. Relieved that the survivors are doing okay, but thatâs kind of it.
22. The finale in general is just sort of a bunch of events which happen, but which donât lead into one other. Itâs weird. Itâs not that too much happens, itâs that almost nothing happens. Nothing of substance, in a way. The finale is, in a word, the only true filler episode in the entire show.
TL;DR: I think a lot of stuff got dropped from the finale. I donât know why. I suspect that it might have to do with the strikesâbasically, the script was done, most everything was recorded and boarded, and then when the finale was in production they got sudden drastic budget cuts (this was during a time when the studios were disappearing entire completed shows and movies as tax write-offs), had to gut what they had planned, and couldnât bring the writers or even showrunners in to smooth over what was gutted or to even pick what got taken out. They wouldnât have gotten to choose or compress things. They were on strike (because the studios wouldnât negotiate), and whoever did choose ended up just ripping out the stuff that would actually take any time or budget to deal with (so, basically everything I laid out), killing it (literally), and using the remains of what they already had recorded. And who knows how they had to fill in gaps.
But I donât know for sure. Maybe it was that. Maybe it was a last minute decision to take certain plot points and put them in a different show. Maybe it was executive mandate. Maybe the creative team just sucked the whole time (thatâs one I have a hard time buyingâwe have four other shows and most of this one that tell me that theyâre better at their jobs than this). Maybe everyone said screw it, who even cares anymore at the same time.
Maybe nothing happened. Who knows? I strongly suspect something bad did happen behind the scenes that was out of the creative teamâs handsâI really do, because thatâs the only way I can make sense of thisâbut until we can get someone talking without six layers of PR and NDAs, we wonât know for sure. All I know is that The Bad Batch is an amazing show with 46 episodes that range from âfine-but-clunkyâ to âIMMACULATE,â with more leaning towards immaculate than not, and some incredible set up, and one episode so nonsensically bad it makes me want to eat drywall.
Itâs just that the one terrible episode comes right at the end.
I love The Bad Batch. I love every single episode and all the things that were set up, butâŚeh, I think Iâll be ignoring the finale until further notice.
#the bad batch#in which I eviscerate the last episode of my favorite show#this is very negative!#you have been warned!#I did not like the finale!#AT ALL#I will continue to love the show#but that episode is getting memory holed#itâs BAD#in an otherwise remarkably solid and well written show
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Sketching while streaming s5...
Jonathan Sims I will learn to draw you (this is my doing. I could draw him however I want and I choose to stick with an image of him in my brain that is difficult for me to draw. Masochism.)
Not s5 Mahtins below I enjoyed drawing cuz hes neat:
(Edit: I yassified Martin in the do not separate cuz I wanted his hair fluffier)
#yes I realize Jon and Martin are in different fucking art styles let me live#do not accuse me of being AI this difficulty drawing hands is all natural I worked hard drawing for years just to fucking suck at it#update I listened to 170 I heard it was devastating but my ass was LAUGHING#poor martin but omg me and my buddy had everywhere at the end of time in the background and shit was so funny#he forgor đđ#it was emotionally devastating at the end tho Jon suggesting he stay there um btich NO?!#Jon the literal Lonely is not worse tham being around you get a fucking grip#helen continues to be the best character her showing up for the juicy gossip is so fucking real#anyagays#tma#tma podcast#the magnus pod#tma fanart#jonathan sims#the magnus archives#my art#martin blackwood#jonmartin#jmart#tma jmart#tma season 5#tma spoilers#i have to make a diagram for my jon and martin designs for s5 SO bad#if only i could draw jon.... >:(#i need u guys to know that my martin loves plaid and jon is wearing a plaid shirt thats too big in s5... inchresting....
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The penisest of tunes.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#lan xichen#When I was listening to this episode I was truly losing my mind when Lan Xichen was giving the pre-amble.#'This is where we keep our unusual music' and 'music with malevent energy.'#If that isn't penis music...I don't know what is. I feel like my goofs have been justified.#I love how JGY's craftiness comes into play here. Of *course* he knows about the secret library - he was a spy for a reason!#His secret skill is finding secret spots!#Like how your cat gets into spots you did not intend for them to get into.#So sad Lan Xichen didn't show JGY the library. I can't say something silly like 'haha secret lan makeout library'#...FOR THEM. This 100% was and continues to be the secret lan makeout chambers. Generations of secret kisses happened in there.#The things those scrolls and books have seen...#Next comic is a bigger one than usual! I might take a short break to get it done so it sticks the landing.#It's House of Gentians time!
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đ couldn't decide on which of jin's hairstyles i liked best so i combined them [id in alt]
#zuko#zuko fanart#atla fanart#avatar the last airbender fanart#avatar the last airbender#avatar fanart#atla#jin avatar#zuko x jin#look yall know i love zukka and i love mai and zuko but jin will always have a soft spot in my heart#i never read the comics and have no intention of doing so but heard that mai broke up with him? and if he can't be with mai i do think it#would be endearing to have him be with jin. and b funny for her to suddenly have the firelord show up at her door step asking for a date#and that he could have a connection to where iroh spends his time and split time between there and the fire nation capital#she continues to call him lee#edit: in the show she wears her hair in braids one time and the a ponytail the second time and i combined them for this
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WOOO we're finally getting some Ride Kamens story content! ...and it's mostly Leon getting REALLY into being a small business owner! this is (unironically) an excellent sign for the future.
(what do you mean the Agent isn't wearing cat ears 24/7 in every outfit) (can't hear you la la laaaaa)
#art#ride kamens#look i need to differentiate between my agent and my yuu somehow and it might as well be the cat ears#anyway leon is precious. i love him already. he's SO excited about running a cafe!#sasuga super shitsuji...#other highlights include: saigo being weird about water and mad guys continuing to be the 'agata and his two horrible children' show#(i mean this affectionately i love these gremlins)#late may release let's GOOOOO#between this and more episode 7 in twst i'm gonna be eating SO well this month#get in the car lads we're getting happy meals with BOTH sides
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LILI REINHART & CAMILA MENDES âthis is our wedding day actually.â â (x)
#cinemapix#dailycelebs#breathtakingqueens#flawlessbeautyqueens#dailywomen#femaledaily#ladiesofcinema#ladiesblr#riverdalecentral#riverdaleladiesdaily#jemmablossom#userbecca#userbru#userelsbeth#usermorgan#riverdaleedit#lilireinhartedit#camilamendesedit#lili reinhart#camila mendes#camili#my stuff#mine: riverdale#i love that they're still close!#the show may be deadâ but the friendships continue to thrive
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overall i really liked the first episode of delico's nursery but. but. as someone who knows nothing. about the theatre plays. i couldnt quite take the plot seriously when. the god of vampires/first vampire ever. has the most unfortunate abriviation of our time.
resulting in lines such as:
#YOU CANNOT EXPECT ME TO TAKE THE PLOT SERIOUSLY LIKE THIS. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024#im so sorry for long standing fans of this franchise (?) but i laughed so fucking hard#i will definitely continue it and will try VERY HARD to ignore but like. you get my struggle im sure#delico's nursery#anyway uhm. theres now only one trump i know and its from the bisexual vampires parenting show đ¤ love and light
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tsunayoshi sawada doodle page commâ¤ď¸âđĽ
#i had so much fun with this one!! i love his character design#and a lot of friends of mine know this show in general - so glad i got to draw this :')!#sawada tsunayoshi#katekyo hitman reborn#also isnt there some exciting news for this series? like a new adaptation or continuation... i should really get into it
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We get it, Disney. We get it.
Star Wars is not for women.
Star Wars is not for Black people.
Star Wars is not for Asian people.
Star Wars is not for Queer people.
Star Wars is not for anyone who is marginalized and has different lived experiences.
Nope. Star Wars is ONLY for cishet white men. We hear you loud and clear. We know you donât care about us at all.
#the acolyte#oshamir#qimir#the stranger#osha aniseya#fuck you disney#fuck you lucasfilm#as someone who is a reylo shipper and a rose tico fan iâve been disappointed by these a$$holes before#so iâm actually not that surprised by this devastating news#words cannot express how sad i am to see more amazing potential go to waste#having said that iâm still really grateful this show was even made and that at least we darkside girlies won at least once#oshamir is canon â¤ď¸#itâs rare for me to have a canon ship that has a hopeful/happy ending#qimir is the best male star wars character ever and he will continue to live on in my wounded heart#we will keep these characters alive through the love and creativity of fans
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Bring back my wife (Eliot's glasses) from the war (tv continuity erasure)
#this is what they stole from you#the day my family's regressive eyesight genes catches up with me I'm putting those little wire-rimmed glasses in the bag IMMEDIATELY#eliot spencer#leverage#leverage 2008#look this show has some of the strongest continuity ever and I love it so bring back my babygirl's specs is all I'm asking
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There are two ways to look at the Kaos cancellation....
And I choose to don the magical yellow sweater!
#kaos#kaos netflix#I love this show so much#I still have so many ideas#They left endless possibilities#I for one am going to continue to love the shit out of it and its characters#I refuse to be beaten down by netlfix
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Not to be a Style apologist, but I feel like some viewers haven't quite picked up that Style's brand of wooing Fadel is quite literally intentionally designed (by both the writers and the character) to be as annoying and frustrating as possible.
Lets consider:
Style thinks his bff is in love for the first time in his life. He thinks Kant is genuinely down bad for Bison: letâs not forget his clear surprise when Kant agreed to give up the car. As far as Style is concerned, Kant is acting really out of character and it's because Kant desperately wants to be with Bison.
He also thinks the only thing standing in the way of True Love⢠is Fadel, who according to Kant is being unreasonably difficult about Kant and Bison dating. He doesn't know that Kant has a secondary motivation, nor does he know about the mind games that Bison is playing with Kant. Worse, he has no frame of reference or context to make any of Fadel's animosity towards Kant reasonable.
Moreover, while I think we all agree that Style made a terrible first impression on Fadel, the same has to be said of Fadel towards Style. Like, yes, absolutely Style was in the wrong, but Fadel came off as not only condescending and impatient, but unreasonable (and very weirdly cagey) when Style tried to immediately offer a resolution. Again, Style has no frame of reference for why Fadel would first demand that he take responsibility for his actions and then immediately after claim to have no time to entertain Style's attempt to take said responsibility.
Also, it doesn't help Style's wounded pride that Fadel keeps 'besting' him at every turn. So at this point I think a significant portion of that initial attraction (in ep 1) has shifted to annoyance when it comes to Fadel. By the time he gets his hands on Fadel's information, I think he's more than a little invested in some payback. While I think Style very much still wants to help Kant (and Bison) out, at least a part of him figures as long as he keeps Fadel busy, he kind of meets his goal. And if he gets to embarrass, frustrate and otherwise harass Fadel along the way, all the better!
You can see him start to have some fun with it. He ramps it up SO much in ep 2. He gets to lean into that wild, brash, playful personality because he doesn't really care if Fadel likes him. Style gets to be dialled up to extremes, and I love that for him because he's honestly kind of justified because he knows so fucking little about what's really going on. I think it's only fair if the other 3 are playing 4D chess while Style only has the Uno game rules in front of him, he gets to be the most Unhinged about it.
So, yeah, while I absolutely agree with all the posts out there that recognises just how reasonable and polite and tired Fadel is, I do think we need to give Style some credit here. He's absolutely SO extra, but he's also the one, arguably, that has been lied to the most and I feel that he deserves some slack for that.
I'm so glad he figures out some things in the next episode because my darling boy deserves to at least somewhat even the playing field.
#listen i love him and i just keep seeing so many posts about how terrible he was to fadel#and all of them are so valid! and i agree!! i want to protect Fadel from the world too!!#but i also think we need to acknowledge that Style is working on so much less information than anyone else#also i hope he calls Kant out on the kind of shitty thing he did to not tell Style about Fadel's whole deal#the balance that this show strikes between Unserious and actually honestly kind of Serious is really impressing me#style sattawat#the heart killers the series#the heart killers#thk meta#fadelstyle#dunk natachai#dunk continues to impress me so much in this episode#he seemed very believable in the frankly insane breadth of variance his character has in both episodes#i'm so excited to see everything he has to show off in this series#rambles about shows i'm watching#<my posts>
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my shining star, when will he come home :(
#gillion tidestrider#jrwi riptide fanart#jrwiblr#just roll with it show#art taggg#jrwiposting#btw lemme go crazy over gillion and edyn in the tags rq#i try to make them look somewhat similar but with key differences bc i hc them as half siblings (not that gil knows oop)#easy one is the way their nose is shaped like edyn has a soft slope and gillion is sharp with lots of points#same with their ear fins. gillion's ends in a point upwards and edyn's continues a gradual curve#i think not only is gillion outwardly made with sharper points becuause yknow. Chosen One but also hnnnng leviathan heritage perchance?#i just want them to come off as Related but not necessarily bio siblings#since finn did like. tell gillion that him and edyn do Not look alike and i think he doesnt even look like finn either?#idk ramble over i just love half sibling tidestriders lol
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Embrace the truth
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#lan jingyi#lan sizhui#lan xichen#lan wangji#wei wuxian#WWX uses NMJ's abs as part of his evidence for identification. LXC is allowed to use his familiar embrace as his evidence.#We are now entering the slow burn arc of 'Lan Xichen continues to lose everything he cared about'.#He has his love of fishing + his good friendship with JGY + his brother. I hope nothing happens to any of those things#Not that its in character for *anyone* present to have the emotional intelligence for it - but man LXC is having a very hard time#Trying to pin his sworn brother as a murderer *right* after identifying the mystery body as his other sworn brother?#of *course* he's defensive! You gave him no time to process!#He's gonna need a lot of time by the pond to cope#The original joke had LXC copping a feel on those glutes and recognizing him that way. Which now looking back *was* funnier#sigh...I need to trust my gut a bit more#Next time on PD-MDZS: They just show up in Jinlin Tai because I want to plot to keep moving
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listening to rhys talk about ofmd's cancellation on that podcast has me like
#OFMD#Our Flag Means Death#OFMD Season 2#Rhys Darby#Edit#making this edit was cathartic really#because man he loves us and our silly little beautiful show so so much#and you can tell it means so so much to him#AND MAN RHYSIE IT MEANS SO SO MUCH TO US TOO#SO I WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT IT SIR#I CAN AND WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE WB/MAX/DAVID ZASLAV HELL FOR THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE#WE ALL DESERVE OUR THIRD SEASON AND OUR PROPER CONCLUSION#BUT YOU //ESPECIALLY// DO
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Destiel Pride - Day 5; Cursed or not
#destiel#dean winchester#castiel#Destiel pride#Destiel art#destiel fanart#spn fanart#spn art#spnfanart#wiggleart#ETA: i jsut realized it's the 5th of a month and it's pride#i'm so sorry lol#the cursed or not line comes in response to cas saying in 7.23 that heâs not good luck#and following the cursed or not line dean asks if he seems like good luck as well#and that got me to thinking about the curses these boys are constantly under be it overarching ones like âdeans boyfriends#always die some howâ or more literal ones like spells and possessions and what not#but no matter what they always find their way back to each other like when Dean was grieving so hard in#season 13 that Jack who barely had consciousness that that point managed to break through the empty and wake cas up#so I wanted to draw 1518 which is the last curse that I know will be fixed in the continuation#donât @ me on that itâs a major plot thread that needs addressing lol#and it can almost seem like love is a curse in this show but theyâd rather have that love than not so#âŚalso black goo lol
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