#TV Rants

[regular-theodore]

opinion: jeff x abed being canon in the community movie would actually sort of make narrative sense?

agree - okay so I LOVE jabed I love it an insane amount and honestly I think it would make sense. I really liked them especially in the last episode where they kinda came full circle.

Abed finally being able to ease off using TV and media as a coping mechanism like he has his whole life because he's moving on from Greendale, but Jeff reverting back to using TV as a coping mechanism because he spent his whole life with no comfort, and now that he's found some he's clinging to Greendale and Abed's "gimmick" because he's afraid of letting go.

I genuinely think it could make sense but I don't think it would be done correctly. they aren't trobed, they aren't meant to be wholesome and childish, if they were together it would be messy and hard and probably sometimes toxic because of how similar they are but how Abed's instinct was always to embrace his "nerdy" side and use it to hide his true feelings but Jeff created a blank canvas of a personality to hide the fact that he's not as cool as he wishes he was.

they're just two insecure teenage boys, but one became the victim and the other became the bully.

[peachy-lemon83]

Topic change from my last posts bc I needed some break from the YouTube madness I sometimes get, so I have been rewatching some Criminal Minds episodes and Reid is my favorite character, and I love angst with my favorite character so of course I decided to watch one of those episodes.

Spoilers for s9 eps 23 “Angels” and 24 “Demons”

Like I watched it bc I remembered the corrupt police, Reid being shot, and then of course them trying to poison Reid and Garcia saving him. And wooooo are those some scenes. I did however very much forget the very end of Demons. The part where Alex is taking Spencer home and he asks about Ethan. And how she explains and then tells Spencer that he’s a lot like how she pictures Ethan to be (which already tears slowly falling down my face) BUT THEN I REMEMBERED THIS IS HER LEAVING

And when she leaves even Spencer seems to know that’ll be his last time saying goodbye like that “bye Alex” that was more to himself than her, him immediately going and checking his bag, him not even surprised her badge was in there. And damn what a time to have someone walk away and leave, right after they tell you, you remind them of their kid. Especially when Spencer’s dad walked away, when his mother loved him but ultimately didn’t take notice of him being late from school when they tied him up on the football field (not that she didn’t care it was during one of her episodes but like damn that added a lot more hit to this when he talks to Morgan about it in Elephant’s Memory) and he kind of had to leave her bc he wasn’t the best thing for her and her schizophrenia

add another tally to Spencers parental figures leaving , idk even know how many its at, at least 3 too many that I can think off the top of my head

[inspectorabed]

The Inspector and Constable Reggie will never be canonically romantically involved. The Inspector will live far longer then Reggie and though on the surface S02E13 looks like it’s about the strength of their bond not wavering despite eons and seperate planetary location, how they were yet able to communicate, theres an underlying theme of mortality. Reggie’s mortality, and his impending death. That moment where the inspector is in the chambre, realizing Reggie is dead here in the future, but that bittersweet realization that Reggie is just a nucleionic fluid replacement in the darsit away, is just so impactful. He’s not happy, and his dialogue to Barbara Clarke reflects it. He’s talking a lot slower, and that moment when he grabs onto Reggies arm, pulling him back in the darsit. When Reggie says he loves the inspector and the inspector says “mate, I missed you.” Not responding with the truthful “i love you too” or acknowledging the romantic undertones of that statement because the inspector knows he simply cannot love Reggie.

[ilikethequiet]

I’ve been watching the new Quantum Leap and it’s...fine but I have some big ol’ issues with it; None of them are Ben, I think he’s great but his girl Addison? I despise her, she and Ben have no chemistry and I can’t see how they were ever a couple before he leaped. The only good thing about her was that her dad was Brandon Routh and in this house we stan Ray Palmer. 

The other annoying thing is the plot that is going on outside of the leaps (the mystery behind why Ben leaped in the first place, who the future jumper is after him now, why is there someone after him? How did Future!Ian leap into someone? ) is painfully slow, we’re sixteen episodes in now, we should know more by this point. 

Okay watching the end of the most current episode shed some light on something that is happening, but not one of those above things! It’s frustrating.

[whatafuckinnerd]

I find it unfathomable and astounding that Tumblr isn't more obsessed with Sam Reich. You're telling me there exists out there a man who was born into the aristocracy of our country—with every privilege of modern society at his fingertips—who didn't complete high school (due to his mental health) and instead chose to devote his life to making strangers laugh and raising awareness on mental health. A full-bearded short king who is so committed to being the change he wants to see in the world that he decided to take the company he worked for into his own hands so that he could make sure all the people who worked under him could keep their livelihoods.

How many other CEOs are out here being as honest and transparent with their target audience/market as Sam Reich is? How many of them acknowledge when they fumble and continuously strive to be better than they were? How many of them actually seem like they respect their talent, both in the cast and crew? Sam Reich is the standard we should be holding other CEOs to.

But forget about all that (I could talk for a long time about the respect I have for Sam Reich)—ignore just how respectable he is as a businessman and a person. Ignore all the wholesome reasons for obsessing over Sam Dalton Reich.

The man is a stone-cold fox.

He's a little chaos gremlin and an absolute evil mastermind all rolled into one classy suit and well-groomed beard. Whenever Sam is on the set, you can guarantee he is going to make you crack a smile. And for someone with such natural authority, he's never afraid to be the butt of a joke and show himself being embarrassed. Go ahead, watch any clip of him trying to improvise in No Laugh Newsroom and just try to resist that blush.

You're sleeping on a goldmine of a man, here, damnit! And I will NOT let this go ignored any longer!

[lostgirl1428]

Morning Pre-Ritalin ADHD Rant

Hot take. I don’t WANT season 3 to be the end of what we see with Din and Grogu BUT I could LIVE with it.

My generation and older gens are so used to like 13 season runs of shows with 25-28 episodes per season. LISTEN GUYS WE DON’T NEED THAT….

Fuck I DON’T want that. I mean look at what they did to Supernatural 🤦🏻‍♀️ I can’t even finish that show I stopped at season 10. I will however, (personally) make an acceptation for The Walking Dead…to be honest you can do A LOT with comic book adaptations.

Industry standard is now 3-5 seasons (typically 5) and 10-13 episodes per season.

I think it’s given elder Gen-Z (or zillenias as I like to call myself), Millennials, and Gen-X some whiplash. Don’t get me wrong though, done right, some episodic shows can go on for mad time, IF DONE RIGHT (i.e Criminal Minds).

However, these Disney shows specifically are so cinematic, each one is like a short film, I’m sure production costs and through the roof. Let’s be honest, despite what you may think of the direction the story line has gone in, it’s still absolutely breathtaking cinematography. Shout out to the SFX teams, puppeteers, both digital and practical effects artists and prop designers. They REALLY do manage to bring you to another world.

ANYWAYS. What I’m trying to say is, I WANT more Din and Grogu, however, I wouldn’t mind the show either ending there, or having a spin off for the other Mandalorians on their quest to retake Mandalore. 🤷🏻‍♀️

If they DO bring them back (and shit I’m sure they will because Grogu is a money maker let’s be real here) I’d like to see it turn into an episodic series. Granted I know some fans got annoyed with the side quest layout. However, if they continue with it, they literally set it up for an episodic run. Besides, I’m annoyed how they fucked up the storyline anyways, what was even the point if getting Grogu to Luke if he was gonna come back in TBOBF (AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THAT SHOW BTW, that’ll be another post)

Anyways, this is getting long, if you made it this far, share you opinions I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

[lenalvthor]

hey i have a fucking bone to pick with sapphic fandoms

like, i get it okay. i've been on tumblr since 2011, i was in the trenches during the bury your gays nightmare, i grew up on buffy, i watched the 100, i've been through the furious and devastating queerbaits, and i've watched helplessly as the boom of proper progress with sapphic rep has burned and disappeared with the faults of the industry as it is rn and the resurgence of bury your gays in the form of tv cancellations

i even did a fucking guest lecture for a film & tv university course a couple years ago on all of this

we joke about the fact that queer (specifically sapphic) fans flock to any show with the barest hint of rep in it because we're so starved for it, and we talk about the fact that if nothing else, that proves that there's a market and an audience and it usually creates a huge wave of viewership and attention for the show

but i need to fucking point out: acting as though a show exists for the sole purpose of the sapphic relationship you've started watching it for is fucking detrimental to how you'll perceive the show, how it'll get talked about in fandom spaces and then beyond that (bc the line between fandom spaces and wider online discussion of media is a lot thinner than it was ten years ago) and isn't actually going to do any good for sapphic rep! like, at all! because guess what! unless you're watching a show where the entire storyline revolves around romance, this couple you're watching for ISN'T going to be the centre of the story! it's a part of it! and there's such a weird fucking entitled toxicity to how fans act around brilliant storytelling and worldbuilding and writing and characters throwing tantrums about not getting more screentime for the relationship they like because they don't actually care about any other part of the story. and the thing about people who watch something solely for a ship rather than the wider story it exists in, is that a lot of the time, you'll fundamentally misinterpret the characters and their dynamic because you're not taking any of the wider context of the world and story into account at all.

and yes, of course i'm talking about agatha all along in the immediacy. because we knew a long, long time ago that billy maximoff was gonna be an integral part of this story, long before we knew anything about what the vibe of this show was gonna be, long before anyone even had the tiniest whisper of rio's existence. the same way wandavision was monica rambeau's origin story even though the show was wanda's, we suspected that agatha all along would be billy's/wiccan's origin story even if the show focused on agatha. and you know fucking what. that's good fucking storytelling. this show is smart, it's funny, it's curious, it's campy, it's queer, and it's ensemble. that's always been the point. agatha and rio were a delightfully unexpected part of it that added such delicious tension and phenomenal sapphic rep, but you know what else! the point of that dynamic is to flesh out agatha's character! this show isn't about agatha and rio! it's about agatha and billy, who they are, how their pasts and their magic are connected, their traumas and their power and how the road shapes their futures! rio is a part of exploring agatha's past, and it's phenomenal, but i am so fucking bewildered by the ridiculousness of people's reactions to billy now having a bigger part in the story and there being less focus on agatha and rio. you do know that you write scenes and characters and stories in a way that makes sense right? that because of the nature of this show, even if we don't get more than a handful agatha and rio scenes for the rest of the episodes, they're both still sapphic characters, this is still wonderful sapphic rep, and this show is still very, very queer?

like, it's obviously not fair that we have to beg for scraps to have queer shows to watch. but that doesn't mean that any of us get to do such a fucking disservice to the people who make amazing shows and fight to put sapphic rep in them within the contexts of the stories they're telling by whining that it's not enough. what we're getting with agatha all along, what kathryn han and aubrey plaza and jac schaeffer have said with such grace and nuance and intrigue and depth about agatha and rio's relationship, is so fucking rare! and it's nestled within a story that's got so much other intricate storytelling that makes agatha and rio richer characters when you actually pay some fucking attention and care about who they are outside of their sexual tension!

and i'm saying this because this is an issue i see with So many other shows, where the worth of a show gets boiled down to fandoms wanting content of their ship and nothing else and then poisoning the conversation and reception around what else it is that show is doing with its story. idk get some fucking media literacy, grow up and respect artists and creatives.

[demigods-posts]

luke fumbling in recruiting percy has to be one of his greatest failures. a beautiful thing the show does regarding luke and percy's relationship is building rapport between them through shared moments like settling into camp, eating meals together, but especially through swordfighting lessons. the swordfighting scene at the beginning of episode 8 not only reveals that percy and luke already share similar beliefs about the fear-based system the gods have cultivated, but it's clear the conversation stays with percy when he fights ares and later calls out zeus on his waning skills as a father and a king. however, luke's plan fell through the moment percy learned that the winged-shoes were meant to drag him to tartarus. not only that, but the shoes nearly killed grover, a friend percy cared for deeply. if nourishing loyalty and trust was the key to ensuring a partnership with percy, then it was luke's faulty planning, arrogance, and impatience that cost him the greatest ally he could ask for.

[isagrimorie]

Rio is affectionately amused by Agatha's shenanigans

Agatha All Along 1x01 | 1x04

[sxturn-to-mxrs]

book!percabeth are my parents but show!percabeth are my babies

[xdevilrushx]

Brennan Lee Mulligan's Minotaur rant is one for the ages.

[anghraine]

It's interesting (if often frustrating) to see the renewed Orc Discourse after the last few episodes of ROP. I've seen arguments that orcs have to be personifications of evil rather than people as such or else the ethics of our heroes' approach to them becomes much more fraught. Tolkien's work, as written, seems an odd choice to me for not wrangling with difficult questions, and of course, more diehard fans are going to immediately bring up Shagrat and Gorbag.

If you haven't read LOTR recently, Shagrat and Gorbag are two orcs who briefly have a conversation about how they're being screwed over by Sauron but have no other real options, about their opinions of mistakes that have been made, that they think Sauron himself has made one, but it's not safe to discuss because Sauron has spies in their own ranks. They reminisce about better times when they had more freedom and fantasize about a future when they can go elsewhere and set up a small-scale banditry operation rather than being involved in this huge-scale war. Eventually, however, they end up turning on each other.

Basically any time that someone brings up the "humanity" of this conversation, someone else will point out that they're still bad people. They're not at all guilty about what they're part of. They just resent the dangers to themselves, the pressure from above, failures of competence, the surveillance they're under, and their lack of realistic alternative options. The dream of another life mentioned in the conversation is still one of preying on innocent people, just on a much smaller and more immediate scale, etc.

I think this misses the reason it keeps getting brought up, though. The point is not that Shagrat and Gorbag are good people. The point is that they are people.

There's something very normal and recognizable about their resentment of their superiors, their fears of reprisal and betrayal that ultimately are realized, their dislike of this kind of industrial war machine that erases their individual work and contributions, the tinge of wistfulness in their hope of escape into a different kind of life. Their dialect is deliberately "common"—and there's a lot more to say about that and the fact that it's another commoner, Sam, who outwits them—but one of the main effects is to make them sound familiar and ordinary. And it's interesting that one of the points they specifically raise is that they're not going to get better treatment from "the good guys" so they can't defect, either.

This is self-interested, yes, but it's not the self-interest of some mystical being or spirit or whatnot, but of people.

Tolkien's later remarks tend to back this up. He said that female orcs do exist, but are rarely seen in the story because the characters only interact with the all-male warrior class of orcs. Whatever female orcs "do," it isn't going to war. Maybe they do a lot of the agricultural work that is apparently happening in distant parts of Mordor, maybe they are chiefly responsible for young orcs, maybe both and/or something else, we don't know. But we know they're out there and we know that they reproduce sexually and we know that they're not part of the orcish warrior class.

Regardless of all the problems with this, the idea that orcs have a gender-restricted warrior class at all and we're just not seeing any of their other classes because of where the story is set doesn't sound like automatons of evil. It sounds like an actual culture of people that we only see along the fringes.

And this whole matter of "but if they're people, we have to think about ethics, so they can't be people" is a weird circular argument that cannot account for what's in LOTR or for much of what Tolkien said afterwards. Yes, he struggled with The Problem of Orcs and how to reconcile it with his world building and his ethical system, but "maybe they're not people" is ultimately not a workable solution as far as LOTR goes and can't even account for much of the later evolution of his ideas, including explicit statements in his letters.

And in the end, the real response that comes to mind to that circular argument is "maybe you should think about ethics more."

[martellspear]

no cause like, the way they've turned gabe into this pathetic excuse of a man really got on my nerves. He's silly, almost idiotic in the show. I'm not saying that Sally should be mistreated but enduring what happened out of love for percy and how she breaks free from that abusive situation are intrinsically linked to gabe being this RAT

can't believe they'll do that to Sally and I hope I'm wrong and he'll eventually be what he's in the books (?) sounds unlikely though

[westanovencleaner]

percy looking off to the side at annabeth right before he's about to sing the consensus song 'cause he's a twelve-year-old trying to see how the girl he likes is going to react to some dumb shit he's about to do yeah I see you man

[locklylemybeloved]

i just KNOW the scene with the minotaur is going to BREAK me like reading it hurts but seeing on screen??? watching an actual child lose his mom????? on screen?????????? yeah its gonna hurt so good.

[nebulaeyedfish]

greatly enjoyed Scar's most recent VOD