#The 100 4x10

[forbescaroline]

TOP 5/10 CHARACTERS PER SHOW (as voted by my followers) ↳ the 100 edition #4. Octavia Blake portrayed by Marie Avgeropoulos

[daniel-bruehl]

"Octavia kom Skaikru... is victorious."

Marie Avgeropoulos as OCTAVIA BLAKE THE 100 4x10 | 'Die All, Die Merrily'

[regicidal-defenestration]

The language part (ie the Main Actual Game) of Chants of Sennaar is very fun don't get me wrong - figuring out when a radical means person, or signifies a verb, etc etc - but the number system is absolutely fascinating

[theodimasbabygirl]

I do have to say I'm a touch disappointed with the killer/reveal in S4. Marshall was the most obvious suspect but him being the only killer (despite the fact that Sazz was snooping around a building conspiracy) feels so...dull? Marshall is easily the most pathetic killer in the entire series (and this is coming from someone who haaaated last season's killers) and I ended the finale going "that's it?".

[okmcintyre]

The Hundred + "See you on the other side"

[winnie-the-monster]

[izloveshorses]

god she KNEW he was gonna be mad

this is the good good angst

[maximilff]

carina playing with maya’s little pony tail i’m sobbing

[winterscaptain]

A Joyful Future Masterlist - Part I

Aaron Hotchner x Female Reader  Aaron Hotchner x Gender Neutral Reader

updated: november 15th, 2021 total finished works: 166 works in progress: 23 planned works: 107

summary: canon-divergent, big family!au

currently working on absence part ii and the mean-it era

beta’d by @ssaic-jareau​, without whom none of this would be possible

resources and links: 

inspo blog + media folder

faq + cheat sheets 

headcanon masterlist 

to-write list 

find upcoming fics here | join my tag list! | submit an idea! 

please read faq and key before asking a question! 

▶ episodes i’m planning to adapt for ajf ✸ smut - explicit sexual content (18+ only, minors dni) ✦ suggestive content - non-explicit suggestions of intimacy, drinking, etc. ☰ fem!reader (all other fics are gender neutral) ◎ graphic/edit ✂ director’s commentary ☎ podfic 

Part I: Cicatrize

Ao3 Link

2007

Advocate Cicatrize ✂ | 3x01 "Doubt" - 3x11 "Birthright" Ambition Aaron Hotchner's Letter of Recommendation ◎

2008

▶ Working Title: Reflections | 3x05 "Seven Seconds" ▶ Working Title: Worser Instincts | 3x16 "Elephant's Memory" ▶ Working Title: Developments | 3x17 "In Heat" Dreaming ✦ Intellectual Guesswork | 3x19 "Tabula Rasa" Familiarity | Crossover: NCIS 5x19 "Judgement Day, Part II" Focused | 3x20 "Lo-Fi" - 4x01 "Mayhem" Constellations | 4x02 "The Angel Maker" Buffer Through and Through | 4x03 "Minimal Loss" ▶ Working Title: Milestone | 4x05 "Catching Out" Players Bedtime ▶ Working Title: Grounded | 4x07 "Memoriam" Pride | 4x08 "Masterpiece" Dead Man's Hand ☰ | 4x09 "52 Pickup" Unfair Midnight ✦

2009

At Risk Part I | 4x10 "Brothers at Arms" - 4x11 "Normal" At Risk Part II | 4x12 "Soul Mates" - 4x13 "Bloodline" A Kindness | 4x16 "Pleasure is My Business"

Part II: Fear Itself

Ao3 Link

2009

No Deal | 4x18 "Omnivore" ▶  Working Title: TBD | 4x21 "A Shade of Grey" Collision | 4x23 "Roadkill" ▶  Working Title: TBD | 4x24 "Amplification" Outnumbered Fear Itself | 5x01 "Faceless, Nameless" Enough ✂ Infirmity | 5x02 "Haunted" Push | 5x04 "Cradle to Grave" 5x05 "The Eyes Have It" Nightmare Realized | 5x09 "100" Hands | 5x09 "100" Nightmare Recalled | 5x09 "100" Stay Arrangements An Unrivaled Force of Nature | 5x10 "The Slave of Duty"

2010

Exceeding Expectations | 5x11 "Retaliation" Three's Company Sunburnt ▶  Working Title: TBD | 5x18 "The Fight" A Horrible First | 5x16 "Right of Passage" Unbecoming | 5x21 "Exit Wounds" ▶  Working Title: Blackout | 5x23-6x01 "Darkest Hour/Longest Night" An Opinion

Part III: Berry Hill

Ao3 Link

2010

A Real Hero | 6x09 "Devil's Night" Short Notice Berry Hill ▶ Working Title: Berry Hill (Aaron's Version) Two Inches Stowaway ✸

2011

No Help A Chance of Snow Waldosia | 6x18 "Lauren" - 6x24 "The Big Sea" Absence | 6x24 "The Big Sea" - 7x01 "It Takes a Village" Mean It ✸ ☰ | 7x01 "It Takes a Village" Mean It (SFW + Gender Neutral) ✦ | 7x01 "It Takes a Village" Firsts ✦ Impression Gossip: A Prelude ✦ ☰ Surreal About Time Second Best Obligated | 7x10 "There's No Place Like Home" Conspiracy The Pleasures of the Elder ✦ ☎ Not Complaining ✸ Mistletoe ✦ ✂ Bring It ✸

2012

Gifts & Notices Symptoms Hide

Masterlist Part II

Masterlist Part III

[where-is-my-whump]

~ MASTERLIST ~

WHUMP 2/2

Already got one but I've reached the link limit so here we go with a second for the next 100 gifsets. You can find the other masterlist here

(updating after every gifset post)

For everyone who wants to read something whumpy....I also write fanfictions: Right now there are 2 fics about Hudson & Rex, 1 about Criminal Minds, 1 about Tatort Saarbrücken and 1 about Chicago PD, Med and Fire here's the link to my Ao3

The Umbrella Academy

4x02 (car crash)

Lost in Fuseta

Part 1 (1x01/02) Part 2 (getting shot)

A Good Girls Guide To Murder

1x06 (drugged)

911 Lone Star

Season 5 whump preview (all kinds of whump)

5x02 (caught in explosion)

5x03 (aftermath of explosion, unconscious, emotional whump)

5x09 promo (shot)

5x12 (caught in explosion, unconscious, bleeding)

Chicago PD

2x15 (bloody head wound, in and out of consciousness, trouble walking and standing up)

3x21/22 (shot, hospital scene)

Chicago Med

10x15 ( burried alive, trapped in tunnel, lack of oxygen)

More links under the cut

Heimkehr mit Hindernissen

movie (head injury, unconscious, rescued)

Die Bergretter

Season 16 whump preview (fallen into ice water, injured face)

16x05 (held at gunpoint, held hostage)

Der Ranger

Vaterliebe (trapped, claustrophobia, panic, unconscious, bruises, rescued)

Outer Banks

4x10 (stabbed, character death)

Mord im Mittsommer

9x06 (drugged, kidnapped)

9x06 (explosion, hospital scene, dying)

10x01 (hit from behind, head injury)

Criminal Minds

15x09 (explosion, unconscious, nosebleed)

2x15 (kidnapped, drugged, head injury)

9x23/24 (shot, unconscious)

Hudson & Rex

Season 7 Trailer

Evil

1x03/05/06 (just watch it, sooo much whump)

Der Bergdoktor

18x01 ( collapsing, trouble breathing, hospital scene)

Deep Water

movie (falling down a cliff, unconscious, hit with rock)

Soko Leipzig

24x19 (knocked unconscious, at gunpoint, kidnapped, shot)

In aller Freundschaft

27x31 (car crash, coma, cpr, in and out of consciousness)

Alarm für Cobra 11

50x02 (knocked out, abducted, punched)

Tatort

Saarbrücken - Das Ende der Nacht (caught in explosion, unconscious)

Saarbrücken (emotional whump)

Saarbrücken (aftermath of explosion, unconscious)

Der Staatsanwalt

13x05 (hit by car, passing out, head injury)

The Night Agent

2x01 (idk what to call it)

Bozen Krimi

Familienehre (hit by car, unconscious, hospital scene, brusies)

MacGyver

1x01 (held at gunpoint, shot, fallen into water)

The Rookie

7x07 (hit over the head, bleeding, in pain)

7x08 (falling through floor, trapped in fire, hospital scene, unconscious)

Wilsberg

5x03 (passing out, unconscious on floor, checking for pulse)

9-1-1

8x09 (hit over the head, wincing, chloroformed, possible kidnapping)

Peaky Blinders

6x06 (explosion)

Die Chefin

12x03 (unconscious after getting thrown out of driving vehicle, bruised face)

Blackout

1x01 (car crash, flipped, headache, head injury)

Prison Break

5x06 (stabbed, weak, collapsing)

Marie fängt Feuer

9x03 (car accident, unconscious, headwound, concussion, dizziness)

[mattscoquette]

what’s your workout routine!! i’ve been going to the gym but i can’t tell if what im doing is affective

my gym routine ! ♡︎☆🎀 ࣪ ˖

i talk a lot about food, diet, exercise, and weight loss under the cut:)

i go to the gym minimum 5 days a week, this is my split:

𝐦𝐨𝐧: full body

𝐭𝐮𝐞𝐬: arms

𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐬: legs

𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬: chest & back

𝐟𝐫𝐢: cardio & abs

𝐬𝐚𝐭 & 𝐬𝐮𝐧: active rest days

these are the exercises i do in order on the designated days! i also walk on the treadmill for thirty minutes at the end of my workout. pls remember to work to your fullest extent, but do not overdo yourself!!!! it's okay if you cannot do all of these the first time u try, do not compare your day 1 to someone's day 100

(most of these exercises are done on the machines - if there is any uncertainty how to perform these exercises pinterest and tik tok are very useful)

𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲

୨୧ lat pull downs 4x12

୨୧ chest press 3x8

୨୧ bicep curls 3x10

୨୧ tricep curls 3x10

୨୧ leg press 3x12

୨୧ leg extension 2x12

୨୧ leg curls 2x12

୨୧ ab side twists 2x12 each

୨୧ ab crunches 3x10

୨୧ treadmill 30 mins

୨୧ stair master 15 mins

𝐛𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐬 & 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭

୨୧ rope pull down 3 mins

୨୧ bicep cable curls 3x10

୨୧ bicep extensions 3x12

୨୧ hammer curls 4x10

୨୧ bicep curls 3x12

୨୧ chest press 3x12

୨୧ butterfly 3x15

୨୧ hammer smith chest press 3x10

୨୧ dumbell incline dumbbell press 5x10

𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐬

୨୧ leg extensions 2x15

୨୧ leg press 4x12

୨୧ leg curls 2x15

୨୧ leg press weights 3x12

୨୧ calf extension 3x10

୨୧ back extension 3x10

୨୧ hip abduction 3x12

୨୧ glute abduction 3x12

୨୧ glue kick back machine 2x15 each

୨୧ bulgarian split squats 2x10 each

୨୧ hip thrusts 3x12

୨୧ rdls 4x10

୨୧ smith machiene squats 3x10

୨୧ stair master until fail (cover w/ sweatshirt)

𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐩 & 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤

୨୧ tri pull down 3x10

୨୧ straight arm pull down 3x12

୨୧ lat pull down 4x12

୨୧ triceps extensions 3x12

୨୧ lateral raise machine 2x15

୨୧ overhead triceps curls 3x10

୨୧ forward dumbbell raises 2x12

୨୧ seated cable row 3x15

୨୧ one arm dumbbell row 4x15

𝐚𝐛𝐬

୨୧ ab twist 4x12 each side

୨୧ ab crunch machine 3x10

୨୧ ab push 3x10

୨୧ ab pull down 3x10

୨୧ hammer strength crunches 3x12

୨୧ hanging crunches 3x10

repeat second half of this section twice

୨୧ plank until failure 2 each

୨୧ dumbbell side twists 2x15

୨୧ straight leg rises 3x12

୨୧ flutter kicks 30 sec each x2

୨୧ side toe taps 3x12

୨୧ bicycle kick 3x20

୨୧ stair master 15 mins

୨୧ treadmill 30 mins

some important things to take into consideration!!:

losing weight / seeing results takes time!! do NOT get discouraged and give up if you do not see immediate results, because it will not happen. u also need to be very aware of what you are eating throughout the day - u cannot outwork a bad diet. if you are not changing your food habits at all, you will most likely not see any results.

for me, i used weightwatchers for about four months last year while following this workout plan, and i lost about 15 lbs in that time! it is a $25/month subscription, but it really worked for me. another app i used to track what i eat is mynetdiary. it helps me keep track of how many calories i eat each day, and helps me stay in a deficit. this one is free and i really recommend it.

weight loss and exercise is different for everyone! the time will pass anyway, so why not just start. you do not need to be in the gym for 3 hours everyday and eating 500 calories a day. even something as small as taking a walk everyday and being aware of what you eat is a start.

just remember to be kind to urself always!! that is whats most important in all this. you can be disciplined and still practice self love.

[petercaths]

Jack and Kate rant 4x10

I’m so obsessed with these two losers and their insane baby-will-you-please-agree-to-set-off-a-nuke-with-me-so-i-know-I’m-doing-the-right-thing type ass dynamic. It’s keeping me up at night.

Today, I wanted to rant about Something Nice Back Home episode, specifically him asking Kate to hold the mirror. I just find it such a great episode to summarize their relationship. I mean— in general, for as annoying as it is that we only really get to see them together in ONE episode out of like 100— it’s at least an episode that really encapsulates every detail of their dynamic up until this point, and after. I think I could write in an analysis of every flash-forward scene because they’re just all so substantial (the writers sure know how to use air time when they need to!).

But, anyways, as I said I very specifically wanna talk about Jack asking Kate to hold the mirror.

S4 is arguably the season in which Jack and Kate are at their most united (after s1, of course). and no scene better demonstrates this theme than Jack asking Kate to hold the mirror. And I just find it so interesting and absolutely insane that we have this guy, whose Achilles heel is his need for control, especially in regard to his life and his own choice. And the person he trusts the most, the person he needs there to actually let someone else cut open his body, is someone who at her very core cannot be controlled. Someone who— by her own admission— would be more likely to drop the mirror and run away in panic, than stick it out to watch Jack in pain.

I also love the way the episode shows that, objectively, they don’t need each other. Juliet is perfectly capable of taking out the appendix, the operation goes smoothly, everyone is fine in the end. But my god do Jack and Kate WANT each other. It’s the fabric threaded into every single one of their episodes. They want each other more than anything. They want to be there for each other. They want to save each other. They want the other to save them. They want to be consumed by each other, and they turn bitter when outside obstacles forbid that from happening (Jack with Skate, and Kate with Jack/juliet).

Jack literally cannot go through with this operation unless he knows Kate will be in the room. His panic at being put to sleep doesn’t even fully start until he realizes that Juliet is asking Kate to get out. It really puts into context how both of their love languages is trust. And jack truly doesn’t trust anyone the way he trusts Kate. He literally can’t do things unless Kate’s essence is somewhere somehow looming over him, giving him the okay. ITS SICKENING.

Okay, I’m done. In conclusion, Jate is the definition of ride-or-die. And Lost could’ve realistically written this scene as Jack asking Kate to pull out his appendix herself, because what is more romantic to a doctor than letting the person you love literally re-arrange your guts?

Okay, now I’m really done.

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

juni's x files liveblog masterpost (s4-s6)

since tumblr only allows for 100 links per post, as i delve deeper and deeper into the x files, i will have to break my masterposts up!

click here for seasons 1 through 3.

click here for seasons 7 and beyond.

this one includes seasons 4 through 6 AND fight the future!

season 4:

4x01 Herrenvolk

4x02 Home

4x03 Teliko

4x04 Unruhe

4x05 The Field Where I Died

4x06 Sanguinarium

4x07 Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man

4x08 Tunguska

4x09 Terma

4x10 Paper Hearts

4x11 El Mundo Gira

4x12 Leonard Betts

4x13 Never Again

4x14 Memento Mori

4x15 Kaddish

4x16 Unrequited

4x17 Tempus Fugit

4x18 Max

4x19 Synchrony

4x20 Small Potatoes

4x21 Zero Sum

4x22 Elegy

4x23 Demons

4x24 Gethsemane

favorite scully moments

favorite mulder moments

favorite duo moments

season 5:

5x01 Redux, Part 1

5x02 Redux, Part 2

5x03 Unusual Suspects

5x04 Detour

5x05 The Post-Modern Prometheus

5x06 Christmas Carol

5x07 Emily (+ More Thoughts Re: Episodes 6 and 7)

5x08 Kitsunegari

5x09 Schizogeny

5x10 Chinga

5x11 Kill Switch

5x12 Bad Blood

5x13 Patient X

5x14 The Red and The Black

5x15 Travelers

5x16 Mind's Eye

5x17 All Souls

5x18 The Pine Bluff Variant

5x19 Folie a Deux

5x20 The End

favorite scully moments

favorite mulder moments

favorite duo moments

fight the future (split into parts!)

part 1

part 2

season 6:

6x01 The Beginning

6x02 Drive

6x03 Triangle

6x04 Dreamland, Part 1

6x05 Dreamland, Part 2

6x06 How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

6x07 Terms of Endearment

6x08 The Rain King

6x09 S.R.819

6x10 Tithonus

6x11 Two Fathers

6x12 One Son

6x13 Agua Mala

6x14 Monday

6x15 Arcadia

6x16 Alpha

6x17 Trevor

6x18 Milagro

6x19 The Unnatural

6x20 Three of a Kind

6x21 Field Trip

6x22 Biogenesis

favorite scully moments

favorite mulder moments

favorite duo moments

[loopnoid]

hey! I'm trying to indoctrinate my girlfriend into enjoying Queap... which episode should I show her first?

oh dear i'm just now seeing this so sorry!!! it depends on your girlfriend's tastes imo. because queap does genre eps so often and covers so many topics i feel like it's easy to be like "hey you like boxing movies? court dramas? noir detectives? vampires? mummies? glam rock? milfs??? let's watch This Episode

other than that though:

my personal favorites to use are private dancer (3x14) and miss deep south (3x06) because i feel like they capture the social justice themes of the show without being too intense as other Issue Episodes can be, plus private dancer is a great sam romance and miss deep south is thee girlsam episode, another two big aspects of the show<3

i've never introduced anyone through honeymoon express (2x01) but i feel like it'd go over wonderfully as well, as the first "okay now we actually know what we're doing with this show" episode it's a very good introduction to the show

good morning peoria (2x06), another mother (2x13) and sea bride (2x21) are some great lighthearted ones to get to know the characters

i wouldn't necessarily recommend starting out with the more dramatic episodes but if you think that'd get them hooked over anything else, unchained (4x10) and good night, dear heart (2x17) are great standouts

and finally "play ball" (4x01) is a good episode with a pretty standard leap but also featuring thee sam thesis statement (i know you! you're terminally good. if it was up to you, you'd save everyone) and the absolutely devastating reveal of sam and al's first meeting and the basis of their whole relationship so i feel like it'd probably work quite well too.

i definitely would not recommend starting with any lore heavy episodes like m.i.a. or shock theater or the leap home because those gain their strength 100% from already knowing the characters through their more goofy masks which is why the tragedy hits you like a freight train. other than that though yeah that's my 2 cents! this ask is like a month old so you've probably already shown your girlfriend some episodes so this reply might be useless BUT i'm still sharing in case it helps anyone else :-)

good luck and happy queaping <3

[maloryghostie]

Super late to the party, because I just waited for the subtitles to come in lol, anyway here's my thoughts:

SPOILERS 4x10

As expected, Hetty is an Irish. I'm just "surprised" as you are. You know it. 🤣

But holy shit, Thorfinn is too sweet, and you could tell how much he cares for her. My heart melts over a certain scene. I hope to see more scenes between them; they give father-daughter vibes. I should draw them if I have time for it :(

It's no secret that Trevor actually stays by her side. I knew that he still cares for her, despite their situation. Man, Trevor and Hetty. I just want them backkkk. Ugh. Someday, they'll be together again, maybe can have actual relationship, filled with 100% real love. ARGHH!

Poor Mark. They really gaslit him. 😂

Alberta? Not her real name? Interesting.

Pete supporting Jay as usual. True friendship right there. ;)

And finally, as for Isaac, he's almost getting there. Almost there. He's slowly changing for the better, so I can't wait to see where his journey goes. I'm so happy that things improve from there. Maybe, this could lead to his realization with what's going on with everything and Nigel and all that, and he couĺd finally accept who he is? Hopefully.

No Sass. :(

Flower is still the same, and she makes the best comments. She's too adorable. :3

More of Jay and Sam, please.

Woohoo. Moving on to next episode. I'm looking forward to that!

[ninthprime]

snowpiercer 4x07 - 4x10 thoughts

despite being mixed on this last season, i think i could make a really good 3 hour youtube video essay about this show. or a real good a more civilized age style podcast about this show. tl;dr: i dislike this season less than a lot of people, but man, it was kind of weird, wasn’t it!

the other night while trying to gather my thoughts i reread much of the wikipedia page for this show, just to remind myself of stuff from previous seasons i may have forgotten. while doing so it occurred to me that, if summarized quickly, this season sounds far from bad. in fact, it sounds much more coherent than season 3, which has to rely a lot on layton’s weird visions. this season in concept sounds pretty appropriate as a final season- it answers questions about CW-7 and the warming of the world, gives us a big final villain with lore importance, and ends with everyone together building a new society. i’m pretty sure i guessed the final scene of this show would be an audrey and oz duet before the season even aired. which means all the flaws are in execution, which is an interesting issue to have.

as someone who’s mostly into this show because i’m attached to the characters, a lot of this is in character arcs, which feel very weird for a final season. this is where the big “they weren’t 100% sure this would be the last one” sign is blaring very brightly and loudly. that’s most clear with wilford’s death, which seems like it was made so that he could come back if they needed him to, probably as a fucked up cold zombie- but since the show’s over, it feels like it gets weirdly little emphasis. i actually think the concept of wilford offing himself before any of the people he abused can get to him could work in an “ain’t that a kick in the teeth” sort of way, but it doesn’t feel like it’s his last scene (even if the scene is pretty cool). but now it has to be! and i’m not even a wilford fan (i know, throw your rocks at me).

this extends to a lot of the other characters too. i am not a layton hater, but it is really striking to me that i can’t figure out what layton’s arc is supposed to be this season. and i don’t mean in the standard “he needs to rescue his kid” way- i mean that i don’t feel like he changes much, despite being one of the main characters and going through a huge loss when the season starts. i really enjoyed wilford pointing out how selfish he’s being in 4x06, but it doesn’t lead to anything in a way that’s bizarre. i can name a few characters where i think i know what their arc is this season- i think part of the reason i enjoyed the javi-sykes-oz stuff is that i can see the bones of all of their arcs, with oz’s being the most obvious and fulfilled. same goes for alex and josie. but none of them really feel 100% resolved, or it feels like you have to infer a lot. with josie, for example, you can tell her arc is about her trauma being revived and finally finding a way to truly come to peace with it, but it fell flat for me to have her final confrontation with headwood resolve offscreen. alex is the same way- having her lose both ben and wilford at the same time she meets nima makes her think about her identity, and the resolution is “she’s herself, and she’s going to prioritize the future and her community in the end.” but the show puts weirdly little emphasis on her saving the world, and i felt it kind of odd that it came down to just one screw. i had been guessing that she’d been planting little traps nima’s plans for the previous couple of episodes, which felt like a very alex thing to do, but i guess she wasn’t?

uh, to make a long story short- good season in concept, lacking in practice. it kind of strikes me as a first draft. in the universe where this was made under better circumstances (ie. 100% knowing this is the last one), maybe with some different voices, and we got the second draft? i think this would’ve been pretty solid. i did still like a lot of it, but this is where it’s lacking to me.

with all of that out of the way, here’s some more positive stuff and more stray thoughts:

i think 4x08 is my favorite of this last stretch of episodes, because it’s a lot of the small character moments that i really enjoy from this show. some of my favorite parts of this season and season 3, otherwise both pretty flawed seasons, involved taking advantage of the increasingly long histories the characters have. i loved roche’s ridiculous little speech to perk everyone up! look, i know he’s making stuff up, but i’m having fun! everyone’s getting a kick out of it! he gets to make a joke about yetis!

other smaller moments i liked here: josie’s conversations on revenge with boki and ruth, till walking around town with audrey, every part of the brakemen reunion but i especially got a huge laugh out of oz and till doing rock paper scissors in the middle of a firefight, ruth in the hospitality room one last time, javi getting revenge for ben via the spring doll, and the delightful bit in the finale where ruth finds sykes and z-wreck in the middle of having broken out of lockup offscreen.

despite how rushed everything is, nima really is a lot of fun. i truly feel absolutely nothing for milius (lol), but nima is often a delight to watch. the build-up during his argument with melanie, cross-cutting with wilford explaining who nima really is, is one of the best-executed scenes this season. i think in an “ideal” version of this show, in like the novel retelling or whatever (hire me amc), we would have had him built up before he actually appears- in a flashback in season 2, or being mentioned by melanie and ben a couple times. that might make it more obvious that alex is his kid, but it was barely a reveal by the time it happened anyway. (the scene where he sees her sketches and says “wow, did you draw this?” had me grinning, truly an absent father.) by the way: i think he and melanie should have legit dated. i think their dynamic is more interesting with that idea in mind.

i imagine there was some sort of real life restriction here, but i think my big change i would make this season, rather than a small tweak for character arc/plot arc purposes, is that i would have audrey be slightly less ill and put her into the javi-sykes-oz storyline. i mentioned in my last post that i think new eden letting layton’s crew take the train can be fixed by having someone argue that it’s as much about saving everyone on snowpiercer as it is saving liana, and that person should probably be audrey, who was there and who has always felt strongly about her community. i think she’d bounce off of oz and sykes in particular in interesting ways, and it allows time to set up that she’s nervous about her scars and potential lung damage, which kind of comes out of nowhere. also it is WILD that we never see her find out wilford died. like, bonkers.

it sucks to me that people were so down on the season by the time we got to the end, because for what it’s worth, the finale was clearly written with such love for the show and it makes me sad we got it in the circumstances we did. storming the train one last time, season one style! melanie on the intercom! martin colvin showing up and z-wreck complimenting his fighting skills! josie talking about pike and the other dead tailies in her part of the intro! astrid and miss gillies at the party! none of this really happens without people who really care about the show writing it, which is what i mean when i say that i think this was a first draft, not a completely bad one.

favorite relationships this season…i’ve already posted what i think about javi/sykes (it’s very good and i’m rotating them a lot). layton telling alex about wilford dying reminded me that i really enjoy their dynamic- in a world where alex has endless dad problems, layton’s a different kind of adult figure in her life. till and ben’s friendship was great. and i really did like melanie and alex together again, and layton and melanie being the center of the story at the end.

and that’s snowpiercer! it actually doesn’t feel like it’s over. in fact, i keep getting haunted by a sort of “do the characters know their problems are over? does that feel wrong to them?” style story…which could either be a fic about grief or a full pathologic style piece of wall-breaking metafiction about being in a story that’s ended. uh…i do plan on rewatching the first three seasons after work travel season ends in a couple weeks. watch this space i guess.