#Nick Simons the tech guy you are my only hope it seems

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28 Days Haunted E1: not. going great so far

[startwithbrooklyn]

THE GREAT ND REWATCH OF 2021 / OCTOBER 3, 2019 // the trial

(TW SUICIDE)

it's the reveal!!!! love that for her hope shes thriving (shes not) again w the two minutes of the next episode to sync the dates

-lmaoooo so i honestly wonder why they went for the full pulling-it-out-the-throat thing but idk (an interesting foil to her getting sick for more stereotypical reasons ie s2 "people find out theyre grandparents every day"

-I LOVE THIS GEORGE HAIR

-"i'd do anything for nancy" okay but....why 👀bit of an odd reaction imo

-bess with spilling the truth again 😂and gets shot down. tragic #shetried

-wait sooooo nobody tested the fingerprints on the knife when this shit happened?? or that tech didnt exist in 2000? i mean without a body how could they even call it murder? and who told the police?? like if the drews took the baby, the dress, and said nothing, who tells the cops shes missing or even dead? how did they know to search the bluffs? who told the media/public? it had to have happened that same night because ryan said when he got there later there were already rumors she was killed. after the baby and bloody dress, only her crown, a knife, and tire tracks were left. how did anyone find anything at this remote bluff without some kind of tip off? and why on earth would they think murder and not suicide with so little evidence?? thats gotta be like suicide central, sorry for the trigger

-"a little help, lucy?!" lucy seems unable to disobey a direct request from nancy (ie "lucy, stop" from later in the ep) when nancy speaks directly to her. so maybe if nancy had spoken aloud/engaged more lucy could have appeared more? nancy said she only comes around when she wants to but what if nancy herself could do a bit more, being the last thing lucy touched and all

-so in ep 2 when nancys in jail carson says "great grandma rosalind buried her valuables in the trunk" including the knives shown here. did carson and kates families even know about nancy? how did they explain not announcing a pregnancy or birth?

-"oh." john lmfaoooo

-BESS lmaoooo and ace's looks in the background and then at seeing nick approaching lmfaooo oh no / also why on earth is she apologizing?? he dumped her but she has to be sorry he found out she fucked someone else? someone nicer pls explain to me bc i dont get it. she dont owe him shit

-george is SO CUTE lmfaoooo and so forward and he was so shook but then he was like "oh hell yeah"

-"is he a vampire?!" ik nobody i knew got that reference 😂

-this entire search of the claw is a sham. what are they even looking for. clearly a set up by tamura but why/what does he suspect them of. esp w karen as accomplice, story should be airtight so why are they still investigating?

-john + ace dream team 💙

-god ace is such a yes-man. why is he so fucking loyal?? people like him are insane. how are they real. i suspect they arent. and no matter what you do you are never worthy of their unending loyalty anyway.

-so in the Good Place nancy was the one who had the key but in reality its ryan

-wonder if lucy's listening to ryan here talking about his love and grief for her

-"you were throwing away your future on a nothing girl" - nancy & ryan - their fathers dont want them to see "troubled" kids, want them to focus on school instead --> which they both struggle with and eventually do not achieve (maybe bc they want their kids to leave horseshoe bay?) for nancy its an interesting vice for someone whos really a goody two shoes/for ryan its subverted bc karen actually did worse than him ie committed real crimes

-"stay away from my family" surprise bitch bet you thought youd seen the last of me 😉

-interestingly, ryan probably would have agreed with karen about switching the ballot boxes but he wouldnt have really understood the social consequences. both josh and karen are determined to see ryan as the bad guy when actually he didnt do anything, they did. 🤔

-karen is such a ride or die friend. again w the loyalty. if someone swapped ballot boxes for me i'd be touched. im sure going into active labor made lucy a bit upset but damn. what a friend.

-wonder when nancy starts calling her "Lucy" instead of "dead lucy"

-lucy primarily haunting her own house/love seeing this house overtaken by nature

-the concept of writing things down : starting from the first ep, nancy's journal (then and now), writing out simon cards, similar cemetary cards in the Good Place, "beautiful minding it," culminating in lucy's journal / writing it down to help figure it out/when theres too much going on to keep it inside

-"i'll make a salad" NICK LMAOOO

-wonder what happened to carson's old lawyer?

-"my testimony begins in the summer of 1999" because your story always starts with your mother's story

-lmfaoooooo this shit taking the stand is soooo never allowed but oh well

-"she stole a knife" and carson's face lmfaooooo he knows its not true but what could he fucking say?? no?

-"i love you mom, i hope you never find this." ironic bc nancy didnt want her dad to find her journal either

-lucy never wanted anyone to find out how she died d/t shame- but she didnt want carson to go to jail for it so she finally allowed it (or just couldnt refuse nancy asking)

-"i'm sorry for what you lost"/"i'm never gonna be free from them"

-awww ace/mcginnis goodbye / i wonder if ace is nervous thinking about tamura --> ace's dad since chief mcginnis covered for ace out of respect for his dads sacrifice but tamura would throw both ace and his dad under the bus just to get at nancy (get at her via ace? since he was already used as the blackmail plot device? they kinda touched in this in s2 but not fully)

-okay sooo why are they still doing this forensic analysis thing? like the whole things over so whats the point. i wonder if john had packed up and gone home what coulda happened

-nancy/carson - interrupted moments:

•family dinner interrupted by nancy's accsations

•being home after finding ted interrupted by carson's arrest

•celebration of dropped charges interrupted by nancy discovering the truth about her parentage

-"i cooked your favorite to celebrate" ironic bc shes upset that hes not her "real" dad but he IS because he knows her best. like theyre literally proving it right in front of her. vs ryan whom she doesnt really want anyway AND rejects requests to get to know her. like come on sis. his 20 years of parenting you arent going away, ever. deal w it.

-carson's little smile before he said "'mom never hurt lucy" like he knows this is the end / scott's acting here just kills me

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-why did the drews come back at all? and why did kate really keep the dress? carson says she did it as a link to lucy, but did kate want to keep it to be connected to lucy? or did she bury it to keep lucy repressed? is this a positive or a negative? +keeping in attic - did lucy start to haunt kate, so she unburied the dress?

and lastly:

-why doesnt lucy haunt everett and celia hudson? she kind of does ie painting but only when nancy visits bc shes actually haunting nancy. isnt everything the hudsons' fault?

[navek15]

Comics are Awesome! 4/19 week

More often than not, I have seen people who do nothing but complain about comics. They seem to take one example of a comic they don’t like and then proceed to paint the entire medium with broad strokes, saying stuff like; ‘Comics haven’t been good since this era.” “This comic ruined my childhood!” “I’m going to boycott this company because they printed I comic I don’t like.” Now don’t misinterpret this into me being a blind optimist. I’m well aware that DC and Marvel do make crap. Sometimes they bank on crap. But I like to think that those are the exception rather than the rule. So, from now on, I figured I might as well start a weekly blog explaining some of the most awesome stuff I’ve seen in the comics I pick up each week, why I think they’re awesome, and any comic-related news that has me excited. Let’s start with Secret Empire #0, the first shot fired in Marvel’s newest summer blockbuster event (and if the statement in a previous interview is to be believed, their last big event for at least 18 months after its finished). And I can sum up this issue in two words; HOLY SHIT!!!!! This book shows how much more impactful a big event can be when you actually bother to set stuff up. It’s the accumulation of everything Nick Spencer’s been setting up since Captain America: Sam Wilson #1. To summarize what happens in this book, evil Kobik brain-washed Steve Rogers has cut off the Ultimates, the Guardians of the Galaxy and Alpha Flight from Earth and left them at the mercy of a seemingly endless Chitauri invasion, all of the street-level heroes in Manhattan have been cut off from the world thanks to a mystically-charged Blackout (I love the callback and expansion to one of my favorite Avengers stories of all time), and now he has full-control of SHIELD, the US Military, and all of Hydra! My god, we haven’t seen such an effective takeover of the Earth since the fucking Kang Dynasty! And keep in mind, this was all in Issue 0. Consider me hyped! Speaking of the Chitauri Wave, the heroes of Earth were not the first ones to encounter it. No, the first Earth Heroes to face the wave was the Inhuman cast of Royals in their second issue. Really, this issue exists just to show how awesome the Inhumans and Noh-Vahr are. We got Marvel Boy being usually awesome and cocky self with wicked cool Grant Morrison tech, Crystal, Captain Swain, and Gorgon showing off their own skills in space combat, Medusa leading the team even after dropping the bombshell about her dying condition, and to top it all off, Flint uses PLUTO AS A BATTERING RAM TO WIPE OUT AN ENTIRE SWARM OF CHITAURI!!!! Top it all off with a twist I never saw coming (and resolved my confusion on the premise of the new Black Bolt comic), and we have yet another example of why Al Ewing is my favorite writer in modern comics. Stay the course, you mad englishman! And while we’re on the subject of Al Ewing, U.S.Avengers #5 came out as one of the three Opening Salvo tie-ins to Secret Empire. This issue is light on action aside from two side-missions Cannonball, Red Hulk and Squirrel Girl are taking part in and was more character focused. From a tense conversation between Bobby and Steve Rogers (which made me worried considering the cover for issue 6), Sam contemplating his family’s future, and a nice little moment between Toni and Aikku (these two are adorable). While not the most headlining book, I still enjoy it each month. Now we move from Marvel to DC for Green Lanterns #21 and the conclusion of the three-part Polarity story. If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I’m a fan of Sam Humphries and that Green Lanterns was the DC Rebirth book I was the most excited for back when Rebirth was announced. And it has been my favorite DC Rebirth book! Seeing Jessica Cruz rise past her anxiety to be a hero and her interaction with her partner Simon Baz has been one of the greatest ongoing stories each month. And this week, we got into Simon’s head and how seeing someone you love can make the entire world feel silent, a look into the psyche of Dr. Polaris (who I hope makes more appearances in later issues), and had Simon and Jessica using their rings to stop the Justice League Watchtower from crashing into a city! Superwoman got a new writer in the form of Kate Perkins with Issue 9. I’ve never read anything she’s written, but from what I’ve seen, she’s got a good grasp on Lana Lang. And I’ve been following Lana’s story since her reintroduction in Greg Pak’s Action Comics run, so I’ll continue to follow on as long I can. So good luck, Ms. Perkins. But probably the biggest news coming out of DC this week is something that was just announced this morning. Earlier today, DC has revealed a series of books spinning out of the fall event (since the actually comic starts in August) Dark Nights: Metal. This line, called Dark Matter, will be comics that are fully in-canon with the DCU. But the really cool thing about these books is that (aside from two titles named after a previous DC character and team) these are all brand-new characters and concepts not based on anything ever seen before in the DC Universe with top talented writers and artists behind the wheel. In case anyone is wonder which book I’m adding to my monthly pull list (I’ve budgeted myself for only 10 comics from DC, 10 comics from Marvel and anything that catches my attention at Valiant with events being the exception), The Immortal Men by James Tynion IV and Jim Lee is what I’m picking up, although all of these books sound awesome. That’s all for this week! Until next time, remember the words of Bill & Ted and be excellent to each other. Comics are Awesome and so are you guys!