#It is like Gromit with the railroad tracks.
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shimmywhenyoucantbounce 9 months ago
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Last night I dreamed I was on an actual play show with many other people, including Matthew Mercer and Brennan Lee Mulligan. I was scared, which caused me to rush and dominate conversations in character to ensure that the scenes followed a path and that I knew what that path was going to be. I realized, then, when the focus was on some other part of the show, that if I could trust anyone at all with the other part of an improv scene, it would be Matthew Mercer and Brennan Lee Mulligan. It was good that I realized this, but in realizing it I acknowledged my anxiety, and I forgot to be composed. I may have started spiraling if Matthew Mercer (at my left) and Brennan Lee Mulligan (at my right) hadn鈥檛 noticed my distress. Brennan Lee Mulligan took my hand and smiled very kindly; Matthew Mercer I think told me things like that it was okay, maybe patted my shoulder.
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homebeccer 5 months ago
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People are also mentioning something pertinent in the tags - Horikoshi is tired of this story. He doesn't have it in himself to put energy into the story as it is, let alone craft a grand ending that ties up all the loose ends he left. It's genuinely the opposite problem facing animated shows in the west - he has to keep working on it endlessly with no respite. He doesn't have time to pause, collect, plan, etc. - he's Gromit placing railroad tracks in front of the train as it's barreling along. If he had an ending planned before he bloated the story over the course of all these years, it probably wouldn't fit anymore. If he had been allowed to take a break, like even just a single year, he'd probably regain the spark he had for the story and be able to put his all into it. As upset as I am with the ending, I'm totally not upset that it's ending to begin with. It became pretty apparent he was losing steam and this is the superior alternative to him limping along more and more and potentially compromising his own health. I wish things could've gone in a different way so that the hard work he clearly put into it in the beginning could have been done justice. If he'd been allowed to keep this shorter and punchier the story as a whole could've been great.
Lukewarm take but I'm really not happy w the BNHA ending - and yeah it's easy for me to sit back at my "corporate" nine to five and shake my head and criticize a professional author but I mean. C'mon. People are joking about "Quirk: All for What" and yeah genuinely it was all for what? Deku already had the heart and soul of a hero he just didn't have a quirk to help him compete in the superhero society that existed. At the end of episode one I thought the show was going to be Deku using his knowledge and observations about quirks to find their weaknesses and use them against the villain and fight crime like that, but then he gets a quirk. Paradigm shift. This is the reality of the narrative for the rest of the series. The majority of his journey was training his body and honing his quirk. He didn't learn any lessons about being a hero - Iida learned more about the true attitude of a hero 脿 la Stain and maybe Deku learned about the power of friendship in the vigilante arc (or would, if any of his classmates still had characters to speak of). Deku has everything it takes to be a hero except a power. Then he gets it. Then it's taken away again in the eleventh hour. Then it's given back at 11:30. Like. For why.
Y'know whose narrative would have been made so rich by losing their quirk? Bakugo. He had the quirk of a hero and the heart of Not a Hero to start off the story. He was Deku's narrative foil, and for all the story's faults they really did a decent job with his character. For him to lose his quirk at the end of the story and resign himself to chasing after Deku (who until the events of the story had been chasing him) would have made a powerful bookend. Bakugo was coasting on his power while having a nasty personality, but now that he's grown and learned and matured it would have been a good way to really Show that growth. Have him get the super suit with gauntlets that set off explosions. He does just fine as a pro hero, just not of his own power, and he's okay with that.
I think Horikoshi is a really really really good idea guy, like Moffat or Butch Hartman or any of those other types. It's the follow through that doesn't... Well ... Follow through. There's people who will disagree and think the ending is satisfactory and that's fine, I'm glad you enjoyed it! This has just been turning around in my brain for a bit and I wanted to type it out.
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gunmetal-ring 3 years ago
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This is a vent about my irl job and not at all related to twd or caryl but sometimes I think about running away from my job 5ever specifically so that I don't have to be witness to the profound evils of poverty and capitalism and generational trauma and privatized healthcare and failure to value human life above money in literally every possible circumstance and so that way I can just stick my head in the sand and pretend everything is gr8 and never feel like my daily job is that Wallace and gromit gif of frantically laying railroad tracks as the train is speeding along
Actually nvm this is basically everyone at commonwealth except for team family so I guess it is related. Altho it's unfortunate that we don't have a team family to liberate our society for us. YET.
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