#Kablooey! (episode)

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Lyman Spong certainly made plenty of callbacks to his time writing and running the programme in ‘Kablooey’:

HieroRelm Corp. from ‘The Fulsome Adult’, the 11th Inspector’s favourite snack (coffee and custard creams), talking to an Associate who’s just died (as in ‘Hell Turned’), and the crusaders from ‘The Space of the Lions’.

[codgod-moved]

jimmy’s empires finale was so boring that i legit forgot it happened. i forgot i watched it

[garciaasfluffypen]

take care of me (like i take care of you) pt. 3

pairing: jemily x reader word count: 2.4k warnings: SURPRISE i finished part three and wanted to post it so i could get this cross posted to ao3 hehe. its time to talk(tm) about everything that happened! y/n's rejection sensitive dysphoria episode is a prominent aspect of this part. poor emily doesn't really know what to do except comfort her girlfriends, jj has some issues she's working through, y/n feels absolutely horrible about everything that conspired

after everything that had happened in the past two hours, you were drained. you barely made it to the bedroom before bursting out into tears. this was it. this was the big kablooey. jj hated you now, there was no doubt about it. considering the way she reacted when you had let the term slip past your lips… you never should have done it. you pushed too hard, and this was the end. you’d have to change your name and move to timbuktu so nobody could find you ever again and you’d never be able to embarrass yourself in front of jj and emily anymore. the harsh what did you just call me? reverberated through your mind as you let the sobs take over your body, practically doubling over with the sheer force of guilt. you couldn’t believe yourself. how could you let it get that bad? it hadn’t even been three months and you already fucked up. but that was just it, wasn’t it? the three month curse you were stuck with. nothing romantic ever lasted past three months. it was only time that this one ended, giving you a chance to reset and find something new. your exes were right, you were never good enough. you always did something wrong. it was bound to happen sooner rather than later, and you needed to expect the worst. 

peeling off the clothes you had worn to the zoo, you blindly felt in what had been dubbed your drawer for your jammies. you had gotten the shirt from an online store and it was the perfect shirt for when you were having bad days or sensory overloads. and a bonus, it was long enough to cover your butt and go halfway down your thighs. you had gotten it big on purpose, and you were glad you did. once you felt the fabric, you pulled it on and stumbled back to the bed, grabbing a pillow and holding it close to your chest as you continued to try and calm yourself down. logically, you knew you were over reacting, but the fact you were tired mixed with the immense guilt you felt for making jj feel bad… everything piled up and you found yourself trying not to spiral more than you already had. 

the door opened and a figure stood there for a second before coming over and pulling you into the biggest hug they could muster. after a second, the scent of emily flew through your senses and slowly but surely you started to calm down as you curled into her arms. 

“oh, lovey…” 

this was one of the downsides to how bad your adhd and rejection sensitive dysphoria was- when you cried, you cried hard. you had gotten good at bottling up your feelings into a little corner of your mind that barely got touched unless you had a whole weekend carved out to mope around. those weekends were far and few between these days, seeing as the budget increase the bau got gave them more opportunities to take cases. it wasn’t too bad, until this happened and you cried so hard you felt like you might throw up. 

you curled into emily’s chest, barely registering the door opening. a red eyed jj stood in the doorframe, hands wringing together as she looked for you. jj looked worse for wear, emily noted. the last time she had seen jj like this was when they were at the fertility doctor earlier in the year, when they talked about the possibility of emily carrying a viable pregnancy. but that wasn’t anything they could talk about right now. the puffiness around her eyes was evident, tear marks showing where she had piled on concealer earlier that morning. she sniffled, gaining your attention. your head perked up and you felt your heart drop when you saw how upset jj was. wordlessly, you shifted on the bed to make room for jj, letting her crawl in, curling herself up between the gap you had created. she wrapped her arms around you, squeezing you tight as she could as a single tear fell down her face. you wiped it away with the pad of your thumb, shooting her a small smile. 

“i’m sorry i reacted that way, baby.” 

her words were muffled into the palm of your hand, her breath dancing across your skin as you put your cheek on top of your head. your logical thinking skills slowly started to poke through the barriers your rejection sensitive dysphoria always put up during these moments, the realization that it also upset jj hitting you like a ton of bricks. you hated seeing her so upset, especially when you knew you caused some of the upset. granted, everything was still so new and you all were getting used to the idea of the three of you being together, but it still hurt you more than you could ever put into words. 

“no, it’s my fault.” you started. “i pushed you too hard. i should have asked before assuming i could just call you mommy and get away with it. do you…?” you trailed off, hoping that jj knew what you were trying to ask.  

“i’m not sure how i feel about the use of mommy.” jj said, quieter than normal. “it didn’t make me feel… i didn’t like it.” 

emily raised her eyebrow, slightly shocked that jj didn’t give you the full truth. while she knew what seemingly the true reason jj didn’t like being called mommy, she knew that it would be something she revealed to you in due time. hell, jj was still figuring it out herself. the dislike of the feminine terms was something that had started within the past year and a half. yes, jj was very feminine presenting and loved dressing up when given the opportunity, yet she had begun to start hating when she was perceived in a feminine matter. it was an interesting late life dilemma to have, and she wasn’t sure how to go about it. she had been so secure in her identity for years, and to start questioning everything? it had started to send jj into a spiral of thoughts she frankly wasn’t ready to think about yet.

the only other person who knew about her dilemma was tara. it had come out one night while the two were having wine after a long case and emily was stuck at the office filling out more paperwork than intended due to her having shot the unsub. the two of them were a bottle and a half deep into pinot gritiot, and jj had blurted out “do you ever just… not want to feel like a girl?” and now here they were, with emily being the second person to know that jj had started to despise the feminine terms of endearment she had been taught to love growing up. it scared her. but not as much as the thought of you thinking you lost her. 

“emmy?” you looked to emily. “do you like being called mommy? because for some reason it felt very natural and i don’t know why.” 

“we can toy around with it.” emily squeezed your hand. “thank you for asking.” 

“i’m sorry i was super bratty earlier, too. i let it go too far.”

“i thought it was hot, actually,” jj started to blush. “i do think we need to play around with different dynamics and what we’re okay and not okay with. nothing has to be set in stone, but if i’m being honest… it was…”

“i liked it when you got all controlling.” you finished jj’s thought. “i really did.” 

“would you want to play around with that more? me being more… in charge sometimes?” 

you nodded. “i’d like that. because i like listening to emmy but…” 

“it’s very easy for you to listen to me, i know.” emily smirked. “and it’s very endearing.”

“is that something you’re okay with?” you looked over to emily. 

“if you’re comfortable with it, then yes.” 

“color system applies to everything we try.” jj stated. “any time, you can tell us to stop and we will. or call yellow and we can talk it out. and it applies to you, too. if there’s anything that we don’t like, we’ll tell you.” 

you nodded. “is there anything else that i’ve done? have i made either of you uncomfortable?” 

emily couldn’t help but clock the nervous look in your eye, seeing the fidgeting start in her peripheral vision. it was sad for her, seeing you like this. she hated when you got sad. you felt certain emotions more than others, and when you did feel them they hit you like a ton of bricks. emily most likely would never know how that truly felt, but she could only imagine the thoughts flowing around in your mind that would make you feel less than. she couldn’t control herself, searching your eyes for any emotion other than guilt. it pained you knowing that you thought you were the reason the conversation was happening. she wanted to grab you by the shoulders and scream at you that it was not your fault and would most likely never be your fault, but she knew that would be counter productive. the three of you were all adults, you could talk about it like adults. 

jj on the other hand, felt horrible. her reaction was the reason you felt as if you were the reason the problem persisted. guilt plagued her as she stared at you, her hand coming up to gently brush back some of the strands that had fallen from your braid. she knew her own insecurities were the reason everything was going the way it was, and the main reason the three of you were sat here in various stages of emotional distress, but it was something she knew taking the blame for would just make you feel worse. she didn’t fully understand how your brain always made you think that you were the problem, but it was something you had been fighting for years. even penelope couldn’t get it through your brain that nothing was ever your fault. and that was saying something, since you and penelope had been friends for ten years leading up to when you joined the bau. both emily and jj knew it would take a while to get past the walls you had put up, but they didn’t realize how tough it would be. but it was a fight they were going to get through together, no matter what it meant. 

“nothing you’ve done could make us uncomfortable, y/n.” jj’s voice softened. “i know this is new, and it’s making you react in ways that you normally wouldn’t react, right?” 

you nodded. “i’m trying to be better, promise. i guess i just want to be taken care of?” you questioned. “but i have a hard time accepting it. like… i just want someone to take care of me like i take care of you. i’m just… i’m getting used to it.”

“is that why you were pushing today?” jj looked at you. “because you wanted to feel taken care of?” 

you sheepishly nodded. “a little bit. i liked it when you told me we were leaving and got all bossy.” 

jj smiled. “i can do that more. do you want to have a certain phrase or word to let me know when you want it?” 

“um… maybe like… a shoulder tap to start? i don’t want to say anything out loud, especially if it happens in front of the team.” 

“how about three taps left shoulder?” you nodded, a small smile forming on your face. “and if there’s anything we do when we’re out that you don’t like?” 

“i’m not sure of that one yet.” you swallowed. “i’m sorry we didn’t have this conversation earlier. we could have avoided this.” 

“lovey, having these conversations is one of the things we need to do to ensure we’re all happy. we can’t necessarily schedule them.”

“i still feel guilty." you sniffled. “i made jj feel bad.”  

“oh baby,” jj pulled you back closer to her as the guilt washed over you again. “i’m not mad at you at all. if anything, i over reacted to that. i promise you i’m not mad. i’m not mad at all.” 

“you promise?”

“i promise.” jj placed a soft kiss to the tip of your nose. “i’m sorry i made you feel like you hurt me.” 

“i’m sorry i didn’t ask you if i could call you mommy and made you upset.” you looked down at your hands, which were fidgeting with your shirt. 

jj lifted your chin up with her finger. “hey hey, none of that now. no more feeling bad.” 

you chuckled. “okay. i’ll try.” 

“how about i draw us a bath?” emily smiled at the two of you. “with the epsom salt for your sore muscles?” 

“that sounds really nice.” you smiled. “can we light the candle i like too?” 

“vanilla swirl or the one that smells like disney?” 

you pursed your lips, thinking. “the one that smells like disney.” 

“i’ll go grab it.” emily placed a kiss to the top of your head. “you feeling better?”

“a little bit.” you nodded. “i’ll be better soon.” 

“good.” she squeezed your hand. “i’ll go get everything and let you know when the bath is ready.” 

emily slipped out of the bed and went to go get your candle, leaving you and jj sitting on the bed together. she placed her forehead against yours, her hand going to cup your cheek as you sat in the silence. 

“i-”

“if you say i’m sorry i’m pushing you off this bed.” 

you chuckled lightly. “i do feel bad.”

“and i’m telling you that you don’t have to. promise. every relationship is going to have it's issues. we’re just able to talk them out because we’re adults.” 

“yeah, you’re right.” you put your head in the crook of jj’s shoulder. “thank you for not being mad.” 

jj smiled. “thank you for listening and not freaking out when i told you i didn’t like it.” 

“i mean i freaked out a little bit.” 

“but not a lot.” jj chuckled. “you’re adorable.” 

“you are too. like, a lot.” 

you snuggled into jj’s arms, curling into her side. it made you feel a lot better knowing that she wasn’t super mad at you like you thought. while you still felt guilty for making her feel bad, it made you feel better knowing that jj didn’t think of you any differently. 

and that she still deeply cared about you. 

taglist: @jayden-prentiss @idkwhatever580 @multifandomlesbianic @softestqueeen

[minimumwage-employee]

alan?? aLAN??? hey!! alan!! uhm WHAT WAS THATTT???? UHM???

im being so genuine no piece of media has ever affected me this much. NOT. A PHIGHTING POST SO EXCUSE MY RAMBLING

this was probably the most well written ANYTHING ive ever consumed in my life like OH MYG OD???

spoilers for the new ava episode duhhh so SCREW OFF AND WATCH IT NOW!!!!

first of all making literally urself, not like a character based off of you but your actual real regular ass human self be victim's canon event takes some fucking balls and i respect the hell out of that

no million dollar studio has ever made me feel so deeply for a character newly introduced, mitsi's introduction was done so well and the ability to display so much of her character with NO WORDS and in such a short amount of time is insane?? like?? holy crap?

when victim is adjusting he goes batshit and sees fucking cursors in the reflections of windows, and throughout the episode we see him moving on and he eventually starts to ignore the reflections LIKE AUUUGHHHH??? THIS IS SO CLEVER? IT SHOWS SO MUCH USING SO LITTLE. LIKE. YOU COULD MISS THIS IF YOU ARENT PAYING ATTENTION??? oh my GOOOOD

victim learns to love and trust and makes new friends and is SUCCESSFUL and then it all gets ripped away and he has NO IDEA WHATS HAPPENING. like during the kablooeying of newground you kind of expect mitsi dying but when she does die its HEARTWRENCHING. she tries so hard to help others and she DOES and she DIEs and its WAAAHHHHH

we also see purple and his family in the background love u guys love love god DAMN IT GUH

and then it turns out fucking tco and that red bastard blew everything to shit and its like WHATT????

ALAN MAKES YOU SYMPATHIZE SOOOO SOSO DEEPLY WITH THE VILLAIN IN A WAY NOTHING IVE EVER SEEN HAS DONE BEFORE. like. youre ON HIS SIDE youre ROOTING FOR HIM you understand what he's gone through and his revenge isnt just understandable its JUSTIFIED! its so amazing and its so HUMAN.

victim hasnt moved on and he thinks alan hasnt either, and he's PISSED and he DESERVES TO BE. like imagine some guy tortures you for YEARS, you escape and get a wife and friends and success and then its all TORN AWAY. you think, holy shit that sucks, that really sucks. and THENNN the information you're given says that the guy who ABUSED YOU YOUR ENTIIIRE LIFE is WORKING with the guy who KILLED YOUR WIFE??? LIKE I'D BE PISSED TOO.

overall. just an insane, insane episode. suuuuuper well written im in awe. i was beginning to fall out of my interest in ava but this rekindled it so much and i think it's here to stay. MAJOR, MAJOR PROPS to alan's whole team and im really excited for where theyre going to take the rest of the story.

[apdreadful]

But enough of that.

Let’s discuss the beautiful perfection of the three other canon couples in this show..(and a shoutout to Amir)

-Athena aka “I’m Mrs Bobby Nash” she was a fierce warrior goddess in this episode.

And dammit if Amir didn’t break my fucking heart with his wisdom and empathy. Seriously that was a powerhouse performance.

- Hen and Karen being so broken hearted, desperate, and broken down they were ready to beg to get Mara out of that group home.

- And Maddy and Chimney stepping up to be Mara’s emergency foster home until they can get that shit sorted out..so, that family - Hen, Karen, Denny and Mara, would not suffer anymore.

I have really loved the focus this season on the deep friendships between Hen/Karen and Maddy/Chimney. That best friends Hen & Chimney are also friends with each other’s spouses, who are also friends with each other. And they’re all like one big extended happy family…Ya’ll, my heart is going kablooey.

[kuzcoskingdom]

i wanna know your opinion on yzma's son from the descendants cartoon

ASDFGKJFDG so i've never really seen the descendants cartoon (in fact, i've only ever watched the first descendants movie, but i do plan on watching at least the second one) but i know about zevon here because i have a friend who's into descendants and she told me about him after i asked her if yzma had any kids. so i also know about her daughter yzla from the book series. and uhh first of all the thought of yzma having high school aged kids makes me go insane 😭 like... i do think that yzma was a beautiful and charming woman in her youth and it's not entirely implausible to me that she could've had kids at one point but i would've thought that if it happened, it happened a loooooooong time ago. one time in emperor's new school kronk ordered her a cake with 200 candles on it which to be fair doesn't necessarily mean she's actually that old but STILL... how is she out there having a teenage son!? who tf is the man that chose to make a baby with her!? does she love zevon and treat him well?? because if she does then i know kuzco would be literally so mad if he found out yzma was actually capable of being a decent parental figure!

anyway i did read this guy's wiki page back when my friend told me about him and just now i watched all the episodes he appears in so i could get a better idea of what he's like. and honestly he's kind of funny. i like that he insists on saying shit like "kablooey" and "ba-bam" every time he throws out a potion, and the way he says things like "condescendinating" instead of condescending or "introducturate" instead of introduce literally reminds me of tigger. like from winnie the pooh. his design, though... look i know yzma is literally grayish-purple but she is also incan so i wish her son (and yzla as well) looked a little less white. i also wish they had done more with him because he has extremely little screentime (i did not realize until looking it up that this show had 3-minute episodes), but of course disney always does the emperor's new groove dirty 😔

[bloodborne-on-pc]

Got roped into watching Centaurworld and the wizard MILF is the funniest character so far. She spends the last episode of Season 1 going "you stupid bastards are going to unleash the Nowhere King and then we will all be doomed". Then she goes to confront him and immediately is like "No...I can't kill the Nowhere King...even though he's just sitting there I can't bring myself do it..." Someone else ended up stabbing him and made things go kablooey.

And then at the very end of the episode she's like "you fools, the Nowhere King isn't dead, you failed to kill him and now everyone ever will die". Ma'am YOU'RE the one who failed to kill him, he was RIGHT THERE and basically egging you on. I don't think you can entirely blame other people for this.

[ageless-aislynn]

Heh, I woke up this morning thinking I was late to record a new Halo game ASMR episode.

What I remember from the dream was that I'd record soft-spoken ASMR commentary over selected bits of my gameplay. The funny part about that is that I TOTALLY used to sit here and talk out loud while I played. Thankfully, I was generally alone in the room at the time, lol. But the idea of me taking that and then recording it as ASMR...?

Well, I guess you haven't lived until you've heard me soft-speaking things like:

Arrrgh, Chief, we're taking it right in the face, aren't we? Yep. Right. In. The. Face.

Kat, you are NOT too good to get in the back of the Troop Transport. Let the guy with the rocket launcher sit in the passenger seat.

What happened to that Revenant? Did it just launch itself into space? Did we know it could launch itself into space?

My dude, I gave you a rocket launcher. Use it. What? Did you have to stop and read the manual? Shoot some Covvies before we get smoked.

Awwwww, yeah, Halo 2 physics when you've got all the fun skulls on mean you can LAUNCH a Scorpion off the bridge to spin away into space, yesssssss.

(If Kat tells me that I'm outstanding) Why yes, I am out standing... in my field. *Noble Six strikes a heroic pose though we're usually not in a field that I am out standing in, sadly* 🤷‍♀️😂

Don't worry, marines, Daddy's here now. You won't get all deadified, I promise.*

*I generally say this to the marines in the Warthog with Chief on Silent Cartographer in CE. If you don't take them alllll the way with you through the level and back out again in that 'hog, you'll find them dead under the Warthog if you bypass being picked up by Foehammer and go looking for them. Yes, UNDER the Warthog, I have no idea why. 🤷‍♀️But I'm not letting that happen to my marines, no way! C'mon, gang, we're cramming this Warthog into buildings and down hallways into places it was never meant to go because I'm KEEPING you alive.

I decided to share this with y'all because I hope the very idea of it will give you at least the same sort of chuckle that it gave me. 😂

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it should be.

*gigglesnort*

Okay, that's it for now.

Six Aislynn out.

[adultswim2021]

Fat Guy Stuck in Internet #5: “Eating with the Goddess” | July 14, 2008 - 12:15AM | S01E05

It’s so fucking hot today. I’m trying to go the whole summer without plugging in my portable air conditioner. It could be worse. But: just know I was going to call this blog off because of the heat. Okay? Okay.

I think I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but I believe this entire show had a series of video commentaries on adultswim.com, which went with every single episode. I turned my nose up at them at the time, but man, would I love to have them now. There is so little about this show online. Even the IMDB page for it is all fucked up. 

This one is about Gemberling and Chains, stranded and on the brink of starvation, telling their life stories to one another. Gemberling’s is basically a parody of Dirty Dancing, with other cast members playing different roles. It’s Dirty Dancing, but instead of dancing it’s computing. Gemberling has a sexually-charged teaching session with Toddler, an obvious parody of Baby. The thing is the name Toddler was so gloriously stupid on it’s own that I laughed really hard at it, then I realized there was an actual reference behind it and it spoiled the humor for me. 

The second story is Chains’, and It’s a parody of Teen Wolf but he’s a dracula instead of a werewolf. Both flashbacks are done in this expressionistic style that’s sorta fun. Liz Cackowski and Neil Casey are the MVPs of the series, they actually manage to commit to the campiness in a good way. Those other two though, yeesh! I mean, they have their moments. Did I mention it’s hot? My computer just said RECORD HIGH, and you gotta respect that.

MAIL BAG

hey you're doing a great job

Hey thank YOU!!!

Yes the kangaroo dressed as space ghost can and will do the monologue from the end of banjo…don’t ask how it will speak English

That's great. To speak with one of those things would be a dream come true, even if he (or she! OR THEY) were mocking me while crane-kicking my jugular vein out of my body. "Death to sick puppies" it would probably say, before making me go kablooey. It's the best way to go out. Much better than dying of extreme heat in your bedroom because you didn't feel like plugging in a portable air conditioner. And setting up the window panel thing and stuff. Yeah.

[fiftymilehighclub]

spoilery fallout ramblings under the cut

ok so if the credits sequence of episode 8 is to be believed new vegas and the securitron army has fallen at some point between 2281 and 2296, possibly due to the resurgence of the zealot brotherhood of steel led by elder maxson, i would assume after the prydwen's maiden voyage to the boston area in 2287. that sorta tracks bc the canon endings of the games have always sort of leaned more toward the BoS becoming more and more radicalized. the only reason they let in new recruits is bc elder lyons proved it was the only way they were going to get more troops (especially seeing as apparently they aren't giving the sex talk to their boys now? pretty sure the boys in boston knew how to swing a sword if you know what i mean)

if you know anything about the BoS you know that Arthur Maxson is just a pawn in a greater game, he spouts the right rhetoric to suit the council's concerns. i appreciated that homeboy knew that if he set foot back in the BoS he was toast for now being a mutant, but i do wish they'd done a bit more with that. had him come back to help in the final confrontation or something. but like, the ongoing conflict with the NCR suddenly coming to an end with shady sands going kablooey now makes it make a lot of sense how the BoS are so powerful at this stage. they haven't had the one major hindrance to their expansion since then. they've built at least one more airship, probably more. they're probably terrorizing more of the wasteland these days.

people do seem to forget the brotherhood are a techo-religious cult. why else do you think maximus recognized the cult behavior in vault 4 lmao

anyway. that's me rambling. feel free to pester me on discord if you would like more certified manda rants XD

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

i apparently got about 5m into ep 28 before firefox went kablooey last night lmao let's continue so i can get into the nonsense that are the next 3 episodes, apparently

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

The Inspector knew from the land mine he stepped on that the weapon was manufactured by HieroRelm

even before the Automated Field Medic appeared to Cleric Friday attempted to draw it away from the him.

[benadryltarantula]

BIAMI DICE EPISODE 5 - NOCTURNAL RELEASE

With our Angels slightly more prepared than they've ever been they were given a very important mission: Pick up a Playmachine 4 Reverend Honey had preordered from Gameslutz at midnight.

Easy enough.

Following real world logic, I gave the nerdiest member of the team foreknowledge that they probably took more preorders than they had actual units, so some haste had to be made. After avoiding a foreshadowing encounter with some ghostly space invaders what can generously be called our heroes arrive at the back of a very long line and begine schmoozing and threatening their way to the front. Of course nothing is actually easy and a gang of dead 90's video game mascots strikes! A bear wearing a backpack mauls some would be console purchasers and a woman with two pistols and triangular breasts makes their intentions to destroy the Playmachine 4's known. Multiple muffled plasma shots and the screams of minimum wage works is heard from within Gameslutz.

With midnight soon approaching the Angels waste no time immediately banishing Bozo without Kablooey to hell for real using a spell Beverly had picked up. Some space invaders flying in a predictable pattern and the Doomed Raider lay some fire down while the angels try to get in the store.

Inside the place is a mess, ashen piles of employees, games everywhere, a banner promising the hot new console lays smoldering on the floor, and a muscular ghost in a tank top toting a plasma gun accompanied by a fast looking rodent block the door to the back of Gameslutz. Things go slightly sideways, the angels become aware of a bomb that's been planted in the back of the store and Duke Spookem is putting up one hell of a fight. With time ticking away they force their way past Duke where they encounter a ghost in a balaclava shooting at them with an ak-47.

Duke punches Ryona out while Meryl and Beverly advance on the bomb. After a bit of bad luck The Strongest Gamer is defeated, Meryl is stuck to the bomb, Demonic the Deadhog is also dead, and Duke is saving for next round by escaping out the back. Despite their best efforts Meryl and Beverly both forgot their defuse kits and are caught in the blast, destroying the Playmachine 4's. Beverly totally could have just picked one up and ran, but didn't want to abandon everyone. How sweet.

Thankfully we operate on cartoon physics so despite failing the mission our soot covered angels decided to relax this ass kicking off at a day spa. Duke was also there, but no one was in the mood to fight.

I got really sleepy and ended session.

[bijoumikhawal]

the thing I'm struggling with in RTD (since a big theme is intergenerational trauma) is less instinctively pulling back from depicting fucked up shit that happens irl (though that happens) and more in Garak's case trying to balance fucked up shit happening to him and not making him fall into a weird position. I can't write him as doing fucked up shit so much- partially because he's had a bit of character development from the occupation, and partially because he's not in a position of power to act in certain ways.

[podcast-stargazer]

There are so many incredible moments in the season 2 premiere of death by dying so go check it out if you havent already! SPOILERS FOR @deathbydyingpod FOLLOW, SERIOUSLY LISTEN BEFORE READING THIS

Without further ado here are some of my favourite moments (in chronological order):

‐ then Bury it, as deep into the earth as we will bury our depression afterwards

(I relate heavily haha)

- Hello, I am the totally fine and emotionally stable Obituary writer

(Ah huh, sure you are)

- Anyway, I was being shot at

(What a beautiful segue back and it always makes me laugh)

- I just love the music that comes in when Gert is found again (also the fact Gert is Gert in the transcript and not Marian makes me laugh)

- pretty man

(He is indeed)

- who doesn't want to be the little spoon

(I feel that on a spiritual level)

- ooooh, kablooey.

Indeed kablooey

Kabloeey

Kablooey

(What an iconic and emotionally intense section of dialogue. The feelings kabloeey introduces are indescribable)

- the entire maggot sequence is just perfection, I've never been so invested in maggots

- I thought you could use a hand

(Giving him a hand was in fact very useful)

- The return of the silent nuns! It was so cool to see these guys brought back because of the emotional depth these guys allow the characters to explore and fight against

- the whole paragraph about the idea that maybe Charlotte was right about the fake happiness being better than living with the grief

(I have very strong opinions on this whole concept but it hit really hard to see how OWs views had been morphed through dealing with grief and the complexities and pain of it while still holding out hope for Charlotte - it hurt so much)

- Gerts sacrifice - plenty of iconic lines in here but im partial to 'two plus two equals four, i don't know what that has to do with this but...'

- the direction in the script of 'Click! Beep! The detonator - oh fuck' is pure beauty

- Kablooey

- I need to know why she's gone (this just hit so hard seeing the parallels in how their grief is similar, yet knowing how different it is at the same time)

- It's okay...write me a good Obituary...won't you? (THESE WILL NEVER NOT KILL ME AS LINES, THEY WERE SUCH IMPACTFUL LAST WORDS AND UGH, PURE PERFECTION)

- The angel of Death not allowing his last words to be Kablooey

- 'Somewhere I could only go if I was dead' which was a beautiful line, but was then followed by the increasingly beautiful 'Being mysterious makes you sound like a schmuck!'

- Why are you doing this?

Charlotte is my friend

Thats it?

Yeah

(Ugh, this show has such a hold on me - I'm a sucker for an amazing friendship like this)

- then I'm just going to have to keep on living then, aren't i

(What an icon this man is)

- the 'snow' that I immediately knew was ash but still found absolutely hilarious when he got hit with an earlobe

- You once said nothing done out of love is a mistake. I don't know if what I'm doing is a mistake. But I'm doing it out of love. I hope that's enough

(I didn't need to be hit so hard in my emotions)

- Martin is an iconic bicycle, I love him

- The beautiful 'Wait I can't publish any of this can I?' As OW realises he broke the law many times

WOO! That's all of them, I hope you enjoyed reading that haha, looking forward to the upcoming episodes!

[dalesramblingsblog]

This is tricky, because when you're talking about Gallifrey in nuWho you're effectively talking about three different production teams working under three wildly different contexts, but there are only two of those where I really think the context makes sense in informing the decision that was made.

Davies' decision to have Gallifrey obliterated in a vast Time War is not really parseable on any level other than as a literalisation of the very real sense of disjunct that is created by the Wilderness Years as a basic phenomenon. Doctor Who's continuity was, for a period of fifteen years, fractured and strange and incomprehensible (even more so than it usually is).

Moffat's innovation with The Day of the Doctor, then, was the realisation that a show that was big enough to get its fiftieth anniversary simulcast probably didn't need to continue angsting about that weird period where the Doctor and Ace wandered off into a hastily ADRed monologue and started doing crazy shit like fighting vampires with William Blake and investigating the links between fairies and the Philadelphia Experiment (neither of which were stories that actually involved Ace but in a way that's a furtherance of my point as to the general fungibility of details wrt the Wilderness Years).

This isn't to say that the Wilderness Years never produced worthy artistic material. Quite the contrary, and I'd be supremely hypocritical to try and claim otherwise as someone who has basically made a meagre career out of treating the Wilderness Years material seriously. (Notably, as far as Doctor Who is concerned at least, Moffat would also fit this broad descriptor of "someone who built their name through the Wilderness Years," albeit obviously much more successfully than my unemployed ass.)

What rankles about Chibnall's destruction of Gallifrey is that it's just so hollow. It's a collection of loose signifiers that denote something relatively familiar to Doctor Who fans at this point - "Time Lords go kablooey" - without actually having anything to say. I wouldn't even mind the sense of "blowing up Gallifrey as a rebuttal to Hell Bent," because what's the use of having a single long-form narrative in a show like Doctor Who if you're not going to allow writers to comment on each other's work. That's the basic principle, after all, that got us The Day of the Doctor and Hell Bent to begin with.

Ah but therein lies the rub, no? What is Spyfall actually saying about Hell Bent, or the Time War, or the Davies and Moffat Eras, or even the basic concept of Gallifrey as a whole? What few possibilities exist, to my mind, are hardly complementary. I mean, "Oh no isn't it sad that the upper crust British establishment types who built their empire off of exploiting racial minorities got slaughtered by the evil Indian man" is, frankly, a depressingly plausible reading from the episode that already saw the Doctor weaponise said Indian man's racial identity against him.

I am broadly in line with Hell Bent's idea that Gallifrey isn't especially interesting for its own sake, and while there are a number of Wilderness Years stories that I think do interesting things with the planet and its society, what works in the Wilderness Years and what works on the television are two very different things. On television, Gallifrey is a decidedly mixed proposition at best. The Deadly Assassin aside, you're looking at stuff like The Invasion of Time, Arc of Infinity, The Trial of a Time Lord (which isn't set on Gallifrey but is recognisably based around the same general iconography so I think it counts).

But even so, cavalierly destroying Gallifrey is such an unimaginative and unnecessary move, especially when it had precisely zero long-term impact on the Chibnall Era beyond about March of 2020 (and that's really quite impressive given Spyfall aired in January) beyond giving Thirteen the most tepid and repetitive "angst" imaginable.

Anyway. That's much more detail than was perhaps necessary, and maybe I came across too mean wrt the Chibnall Era but like... I do not care lol, I spent 2018 through 2022 trying to be nice even when the show rarely managed to rouse me to much more than a "Huh that was a pleasant enough way to spend fifty minutes I suppose, anyway I wonder how Better Call Saul is coming along." Now that the show is actually entertaining me on a semi-reliable basis, it's really put into perspective how meagre the past few years had been, for me personally at least.

in the context of nuwho, i don't think the problem with gallifrey and time lords returning is just the time war: i think part of the problem is that nuwho (rightly or wrongly) (wrongly) has no interest in keeping gallifrey around. like, they brought it back! and then they destroyed it again! they could've, you know... not destroyed it again!

the time war definitely has a part to play in this (at a certain point, dr. who's lonely god shtick just gets melodramatic, and there's only so many stories one can tell about daleks blowing people up), and it almost inevitably led to the destruction of gallifrey. the problem is that nuwho can tolerate bringing back the daleks (who are supposed to be as Gone as a the time lords are), but can't tolerate the idea of bringing back time lords in any capacity less limited than "the master woz ere". we got glimpses at what we could've seen in finale episodes like the end of time and hell bent, but the end of time shows a gallifrey which is doomed and damned to return to the time war (and rassilon is basically the only time lord with any influence), and hell bent (which in theory could've set up the permanent return of gallifrey) became kinda pointless with the master blowing it up (??? must we do this again?). it really sucks, but there was a chance to bring it back, and that chance was completely ignored for Moar Angst. (and when it seems like a new time lord character could be turning up, it's usually either bait (sue-tekh) or... the master again :/.)