#JON WHYYYY

[imasillygooose]

Just finished The Magnus Archives for the first time

I'm fine 😄👍

[w0rmx0l0tlzzz]

please disregard my past fanart. that is not me anymore. (I figured out how to draw them in a way that doesn't look so weird)

also here's some of the drawings separated for those who are interested :3

i am usually pretty bad with backgrounds but I really like this one!! I think I need to do them line less a lot more

[padmesbox]

— Antonio Gramsci [insp x & x]

[wnightingales]

mox wins the battle for the soul of wheeler yuta…😔

[730spitz]

NOOOO WTF. WHY. WHAT?? THIS ISN'T FUNNY. TAKE IT BACK. NOW RIGHT NOW OMG. I'm unwell. POR YUTAAAA THE BABY NO :((

[chief-girl]

On days like today Shota Umino needs to remember that Mox will always love him!...💔

[spider-jaysart]

Oh my gosh

I just realized something else that's also very terrifying

If the new live action DC universe is gonna be having a young Clark Kent in their soon new upcoming Superman movie now instead and are also gonna be introducing kid!Damian in the same universe at the same time... then that means live action Jon and live action Supersons won't be existing at all because of it!!!😭😭😭😭😭

And if they do decide to make Jon exist, then he would actually just be a literal baby next to Damian when he's born and would become a kid when Damian's a young adult!!!

Oh my gosh DC why do you like hurting me so much like this???!!!

One of the many top things that I have wanted for live action DC movies in the future is to also have a live action Supersons someday!!!!😭😭😭😭

Haven't you ever considered that before DC????!!! Why do you have to always be so cruel????!!!!

[fire-kitty-lol]

JOHN NOOOOO

[magpod-confessions]

Alright, I'll say it. And I mean this as someone who really loves TMA (just started it last month, and nearly finished it, so if anything changes in the last season then, great!) but...

The show has a really bad problem with its female characters. Whyyyy are nearly all of the female characters horrible people?

Even oftentimes the one off characters in statements tend to be written more favorably if they're male. Nearly all moms in the show are some manner of neglectful or cruel (whereas fathers are usually seen as kind and/ or dead with fond memories attached) , ALL of the main female cast past season 1 are extremely hostile for no reason, and just. They really feel like they act in ways people in their position shouldn't or wouldn't just to have them be purposely unlikeable. Like, what do you MEAN you're ok with violent murder to satisfy urges foisted upon someone by an all powerful entity, but draw the line at nightmares that seem like they can be managed after a point?? What do you MEAN you think Jon is working against you intentionally but also mock him for getting kidnapped and tortured?? Why are the staff written as bullies that never get told they're being harsh except by Martin (a male!!!) .

None of this makes sense! The writing for the female characters is inconsistent and seems - oftentimes - hinged on whatever would piss the viewer off the most at the time. With so little logic or reasoning.

The only female characters that aren't written as horrible or excessively annoying people (or dead by the time we even HEAR about them), are like. Sasha. In season 1. Who was killed. And Helen, who unfortunately was forced to be Michael's following act, and therefore always going to be in his shadow. awesome.

Daisy does, admittedly, get a lot better and more complex as a character in season 4. But everyone else's personality seems to be "hate Jon and also herself". Don't even get me started on Basira and how she treats everyone post season 1.

Gertrude is callous and morally grey. I actually think that's awesome, but it's unfortunately symptomatic of a bigger problem when you notice how many female characters do extremely callous and/ or abusive things like she did (without having the 'badass, cunning old woman fighting against all odds' thing going for them). Except Sasha. Who died. Maybe Agnes? From the Desolation? Ah, but she had feelings, and therefore died. Right, sorry.

Does this not rub anyone else the wrong way?

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[willows-escape]

i have OPINIONS

okay so i went to see the show again for the third time today and the main three i saw were eve shanu wilson, dean chisnall and joe griffiths-brown. eve and joe were BEAUTIFUL. eve sounded like an actual disney princess, she was amazing.

the actor playing andre (unsure his name) actually stole the show- his comedic timing was amazing, jokes i’ve heard so many times still managed to make me giggle 😭 and joanna’s carlotta made her feel so REAL. not bitchy, not like she’s malicious, just that she genuinely cares and is affected by the events in the opera populaire. never cried at piangi’s death before this.

dean- i have mixed opinions. i appreciate his approach to the role and his voice was heavenly, definitely had a hauntingly ghoulish quality to it. i also really enjoyed his toddler-esque, frightened young boy who just wants somebody to choose to love him portrayal of the character. definitely a not aggressive phantom.

but… he was singing like he wanted every scene to just be over and done with already. the usual 10 second pause at the end of the final lair turned into more like 5, i was actually shocked with how quickly the rope was cut. and unlike how the actors usually struggle to keep up with the too fast instrumental, it felt like the musicians were struggling to keep up with him 😭 he was amazing, don’t get me wrong. and the speeding up of his lines might’ve been entirely not his decision, but it still took me out of the scene quite a bit. and the phantoms usual ‘NOOOOOs’ and ‘WHYYYYYs’ felt more like ‘noooo don’t do thatttt’ and ‘whyyyy :(.’

but besides his tempo issues and unconvincing cries of anguish, there are definitely quite a few aspects of his performance that i LOVED. his ‘music of the night’ is definitely my favourite rendition; his voice was so deep and gravelly and had such a haunting quality shivers went down my spine. and during the scene at the end where christine leaves with raoul, his breakdown felt REAL. he even sniffed her veil 😭

during the part in the final lair where he says ‘you try my patience, make your choice,’ instead of trying to come across as intimidating and angry, he appeared frustrated and whiney. almost a bit ashamed of his actions, like he couldnt believe the words coming out of his own mouth and how he was treating christine, yet he couldn’t help himself. that was a really interesting approach that i’d never seen before.

adding to this, when christine approaches him to beg and says ‘i gave my mind blindly,’ he panics and flails around until he reaches his chair- as if he can’t bare to be close to her due to his shame. his final lair has to also be one of my favourites, just due to the soft, real and human approach he took. i’ve seen the end of this show so many times it rarely jerks tears anymore, but his humanness shook me a little. its just the too fast rope cut 😭 the candle didn’t even spark and i dont know if that was due to the timing of when he did it, or if that was a technical issue.

but anyways, overall amazing. everybody was so talented and having first row royal circle seats gave me an entirely new perspective of the show, and i caught things i’d never noticed when i saw the show in the stalls. i do slightly miss jon robyns just because i loved how his voice BOOMS, but dean chisnall definitely deserves the role and i can imagine him being many peoples favourites. his phantom is soft and haunting compared to many other’s loud and aggressive ones.

(also noticed quite a few choreography and staging differences, ESPECIALLY in point of no return 👀)

[quinnfebrey]

WICKED PT. 1 REVIEW

(spoiler free*)

*spoiler free is used generously, there are no major or intentional spoilers but i make no promises for smaller things.

casting:

going into it thought the casting would be the weakest point, but i was pleasantly surprised. that said, i think jon chu’s reasoning for not casting unknowns was total bs and he just wanted a star-studded cast. i also wish they were younger. it was kind of giving movie ben platt terrorizing the teenagers of dear evan hansen. it works for the stage, but my belief was not suspended on the big screen. so while i don’t necessarily agree with how we got here, objectively they were great.

production:

honestly it looked amazing, i wish some parts were graded with a little more contrast, but the colors weren’t muted at all and i thought the cinematography was the perfect level of dramatic and interesting. the highlight was the emerald city. nothing else really stuck out to me in particular but the first 30 seconds or so of one short day looked AMAZING.

the singing:

sounded phenomenal, and this is coming from someone who heard the trailers and panicked. i don’t know what they did in post to make them sound so awful and processed in the trailers, but the movie itself sounded great.

the acting:

i wanted… more. jonathan has such an overly expressive face that worked so well, but cynthia was just the smirk emoji for 2.5 hours and ariana looked like this 🙂 the entire time. they had their moments, of course, but with all the added dialogue (and no song to carry the emotion) i wanted more of a performance.

why the fuck was it 2.5 hours?

i don’t know man. i understood (and enjoyed) some of the additions, but there were an equal number that didn’t add anything, and there were so many scenes where i was like whyyyy is this taking so long. it felt like they were trying to (unsuccessfully) justify the runtime instead of it being a natural result.

2-part split:

this is by far my biggest criticism of the movie. the ending was done BEAUTIFULLY, but the year gap will kill the momentum. i 100% believe that splitting it into two parts will take away from the viewing experience. i actually didn’t have a problem with the splitting when it was first announced, but now that i’ve seen part 1 it feels like a forced cash grab.

rewatchability:

even though i actually really liked it, i don’t think i’d ever electively put it on instead of a stage recording.

SONG BREAKDOWNS:

no one mourns the wicked

a fantastic opening. i went into the movie very skeptical, but it managed to win me over on all accounts. it had the richness and fullness you’d expect + beautiful visuals and ariana proves her doubters (me) wrong immediately.

dear old shiz

the song is nearly identical to the musical, but the changed staging was odd (but also insignificant in a way that made it even more odd).

the wizard and i

i blame the directing for why this song fell flat for me. they toned down the physical animation of elphaba but didn’t add anything else so it was sort of just her walking around and singing at us. also didn’t super love cynthia’s take on it until the last verse, which was phenomenal, probably because the directing didn’t let her do anything with it.

what is this feeling?

SOOOO GOOD!! it sounded amazing, looked amazing, the ensemble was amazing. THIS is what a movie musical is supposed to do: take what was great on stage and expand in a way that is only possible on film. it was fun and inviting and probably one of the strongest numbers in the entire movie.

something bad

i liked what they did with this in terms of the pacing, and i also like that it helped bolster the animal side plot instead of it getting swept into the songs on either side. the singing was unmemorable but the scene was very effective.

dancing through life

i have SUCH mixed feelings on this. i absolutely loved it up until the break when glinda gives elphaba the hat. jonathan sounded amazing, the dancing and cinematography was perfect, but the pacing and flow was totally ruined after what should’ve been a brief interlude for plot. the moment between elphaba and glinda is very strong and still made me cry, but the middle section was just so off-putting.

popular

sooooo good. ariana sounded amazing, and the directing was perfectly energetic. it felt like a music video in the best way. the colors, cinematography, and storytelling was great. they did manage to strip all of the homoeroticism out of it, and ariana’s yuh made a few valiant attempts to escape, but neither detracted from the final product.

i’m not that girl

same issue as wizard and i, i didn’t want just another three minutes of elphaba standing around singing to the camera. the last verse was the best because there was actually something happening visually, which i think also made cynthia sound better. the monologue style number works on stage for a variety of reasons, but felt like a waste of screen time in the movie.

one short day

first 30-60 seconds are AMAZING. took the energy of the stage and shot it to the moon. it actually made me tear up and i have no complaints. the added interlude was a little long, but i’m a sucker for nostalgia bait so i’ll allow it.

a sentimental man

ummm i hated it lol. it felt SO out of place due to some poor (in my opinion) script additions, and the singing wasn’t anything special. the jeff goldblum cameo made them give the wizard way too much emphasis at that point and it completely disrupted the flow of the movie

defying gravity

except for (another) unnecessarily long interlude, this was everything i was waiting for and more. ariana and cynthia sounded amazing together and cynthia sounded PHENOMENAL. ariana delivered the “well, where are your wings?” line perfectly, which is usually for me a weak point with a lot of glindas; and the “i hope you’re happy now that you’re choosing this” verse was perfection both visually and vocally. overall, it did what it was supposed to do: it wrapped up the first act beautifully and showcased cynthia’s voice.

[weom000]

SUCH, an old rant, heres idk this ig

at the end of tma, as we know, he dies. he gets killed, by Martin, his lover. this is known by you guys. HOWEVER, what you don't know, is WHYYYY. in the final episodes of tma he finds his friends, Georgie and Melanie (hehe lesbians) who are immune to the fear powers because Gorgie has this thing going for her where she doesn't feel fear (because of an encounter in college will explain later) and Melanie gouged her eyes out to escape the archives. Because neither of them have any ties with the fears anymore they can walk the domains without being affected by them at all. As well as this, underneath the institute there are these old tunnels, designed by the architect Robert Smirk, these tunnels, being right under what used to be the institute during the eyepocalypse means the eye can see it. (eye can't see itself yk?) they also had the ability to take people out of the domains; and bring them to the tunnels and out of their torment. this never lasted long. The watchers would almost always come back and find them and take them back to their hellscape. 

moving on, he and Martin find the two of them with 5 others they've taken from the domains within the tunnels; and since they are underneath the panopticon which is where Jonah is, they begin to try and find a way to turn the world back to normal. John knows it's impossible. he is the embodiment of all the known knowledge in the universe, while there are some things he doesn't know; because NO ONE knows them. he knows everything. he knows there is no real way to put the world back and for him to survive. he has resigned himself to this fate and can't bring it up to Martin because he is too stubborn to accept that Jon will not be making out alive. Jon is the pupil of the eye, he is too connected with it to be so separated from it if the fears went back to their edge of the universe. Georgie and Melanie would accept this if they knew it was the only way. but Martin, Martin would never accept it. and he doesn't! john tries his very best to gently let them know that no matter the options they talk about, he won't make it out. he tries so hard to hide how much he longs to be in his rightful place in the panopticon. He knows it's wrong that he wants that but I really don't think it is, he IS the eye, and he feeds on the terror and the fear of everyone around him, and he loves it! but he has so much guilt that this is what feeds him, and he feels so guilty that he enjoys the others suffering because the archivist was literally MADE to watch and perceive the fear of others.

they have some options on how they can turn the world back to normal, but only one of them would actually work. the options are basically to let Jon take over the hellscape, and monitor the fear domains, try and make them manageable, make them more “fair”; this is the one that Jon wants. he longs to take his place as the pupil, the archive. the rest of them hate that idea. they find it unfair and say it would change nothing. the other option is for Jon to take his place and then just move everyone towards the end. the end is the fear of death, meaning that in that domain people will eventually die, meaning as the world goes on everyone will eventually die, so if he moves everyone to the end domain, and then speed it up, it could be a mercy to let them die, compared to the hell they currently suffer. 

the last option is for them to allow the fears to go into a different world. there are other universes, and one of the avatars of the web has found a rift between them that has been worn and stretched enough to make it a gap. if they kill Jonah, and Jon isn't close enough to take his place, the fears will flood their way into other universes. this isn't a favored one either, because while their world will go back to normal, it means that thousands, maybe millions of other worlds will have the fears within them; still working as normal, but the risk is then added that people will take the same path as those in their world did, leading it to be doomed as well. they end up choosing this path, but no one there will listen to the all-seeing antichrist sitting next to them. he knows that he will not survive this, and Martin's main argument on all of them is that he does not want to lose Jon. he cannot lose Jon, Jon has to make it through with them. he is stubborn. Jon knows that he won't live. any option that means the world goes back to normal means that he dies. he tries to tell them but knows they won't listen to him, and won't accept it.

they have the plan to put the world back to normal, but Jon goes against it, when martin is supposed to go up and kill Jonah, Jon goes instead. he knows he'll die, and he knows that the plan will fail if he is not the one to kill jonah. so he does! and I honestly can't recommend enough listening to the first half of that episode because of the statement he does, it's incredible and it's the reason I relisten to it so much despite the pain it causes me mentally 🥲.

*ahem*

in short, Jon deserved more respect and more understanding, and people didn't value him enough, and hated him too much for decisions that were made out of his hands and happened to fall on his shoulders, and he should have been listened to more.

[noirofhyrule]

I'M ALIVE HEY HELLO THERE!

MAY THE 4TH 5TH 6TH BE WITH YOU

WHY JON FAVREAU WHY DID YOU KILL MY POOR BABY I LOVED PAZ VIZSLA SO MUCH WHYYYY

[margareturtle]

A moment of silence for the Underrated Tragic Shadowhunter Couples 😭

MARISOL AND JON (WHY MALCOLM WHAT DID HIMBO JON EVER DO TO YOU 😭)

THULE!LIVVY AND CAMERON (AFTER ALL THULE!LIVVY HAS BEEN THROUGH YOU COULDN’T EVEN LET HER KEEP CAM???CASSIE WHYYYY😭😭)—also unrelated but I’ve been rereading red queen and farley and shade remind me sm of thule livvy and cam and it ends the same way for both of them and I’m just sad 😔

BARBARA AND OLIVER (LOOK I UNDERSTAND WE LOST A LIGHTWOOD PER SERIES BUT 1) WHAT’S WITH BREAKING THE STATUS QUO?? COULD’VE BEEN BARBARA OR CHRISTOPHER BUT NOT BOTH!!! 2) BARBARA AND OLIVER WERE CUTE AND THOMAS DESERVES BOTH OF THIS SIBLINGS BACK!!!😭😭)

LADY NERISSA AND ANDREW (LOOK ANDREW SEEMS LIKE A SHITTY BROTHER AND FATHER BUT HE DID LOVE NERISSA AND SHE LOVED HIM FOR YEARS BUT THEN SHE HAD TO MAKE HIM FORGET AND MAKE IT SO HER CHILDREN ALWAYS THOUGHT OF HER AS EVIL 😭😭)

[shhhimnothereiswear]

My thoughts on TMA eps 119-123 -by me on the bus to skl (copied from my notes app)

119. THE INTRO CHANGED???? BRO WHAT. I'm actually not sure what's going on uh HE JUST BLEW UP. WHAT THE FLIP???

120. ELIAS BOUCHARD. WHAT THE FLIP ARE YOU DOING. "regarding the dreams of Jonathan Sims, head archivist of the Magnus Institute, pulled directly from subject" WHAT WAIT HES GOING THROUGH THE 14 FEARS. OMG ELIAS JUST GOT ARRESTED?!??!?!?! BAHAHAH HE JUST GOT FUCKING PUNCHED. AND HE CARRIES ON THE CONVERSATION LMAOOO. PETER LUKAS IS IN CHARGE NOW?!?!?! WHAT. he's so nice T-T

121. ANTONIO BLAKE IS BACK???? WHAT THE FLIP. HE IMPERSONATED A GUY BAHAHAHA. "MEMENTO MORI" WW REFERENCE?!?!??! wait am i stupid who did antonio remind georgie of. BRO WHAT WAS THAT AT THE END

122. JONS ALIVE WOOO!!1!1!!!!1!!! NO HE REFERRED TO GIMSELF AS "The Archivist" INSTEAD OF "Head Archivist of The Magnus Institute" WHYYYY

123. MELANIE NO STOPPPPP. "-decided to ignore some of his new directions and wooshhhhh. "Sorry, what's "wooshhhhh"?" "Wooshhhhh." BAHAHAHA

[rise-my-angel]

Who calling Kit a bad actor? Whyyyy? I will fight them

I still see people complain about this. Because they either didn't like that he wasn't just like book Jon, or they don't care for Jon's character in general, they complain his acting is bad or boring. Which to me, is INSANE TO SAY.

Like, is Jon the most charasmatic character in the show? No, he's more quiet and stoic in the show, but that doesn't mean he's bad at the role! Tons of my favourite characters are more quiet and stoic and other people also recognize their acting is great.

Look at Rhys Ifans who plays Otto Hightower. He is more quiet, stoic, and collected and only has outbursts with anger on rare occasion just like Jon, but everyone at least knows he's great at the role. So I don't get why people don't grant someone like Kit the same gratitude.

Playing a stoic character isn't easy. Because you still have to make them likeable and give them personality beyond the stoicism. And Kit has some amazing moments, like my favourite of his speeches is during Hardhome when he pleads to the Free Folk that "No clan can stop them. The free folk can't stop them, the Nights Watch can't stop them, and all the southern kings can't stop them" speech is so passionate and so good it lives rent free in my head.

People think because he doesn't play Jon as very openly expressive that means he's not good at it, but he is so much more of a subtle actor. The small physical movements, the facial ticks, and he acts a LOT with his eyes I've noticed. You can read Jon like a book through his eyes and that is not an easy way to act a character.

It's just crazy I still see this opinion just because people have issues with either Jon as a character or his show adaptation and take it out on Kit, who deserved so much more credit for playing Jon Snow then he ever got.