#The Flash 5x04

[macgyver2016-bracket]

Season 5, Episode 3: Eclipse + USMC-1856707 + Step Potential + Chain Lock + Ma

When Russ is kidnapped, Mac and the team must break out a previously murderous psychopath, now pacifist, from prison to help find him. Also, while on the run, Mac and Desi are forced to confront their relationship issues.

Season 5, Episode 4: Banh Bao + Sterno + Drill + Burner + Mason

Mac's meeting with Desi's parents goes sideways when her brother finds himself in trouble and desperately needs their help. Russ and Matty must ask an old nemesis for assistance when their new recruitment candidate is kidnapped.

[imminent-danger-came]

So…Can I know where the flower is???

And hi! :D

Dropped into the void with the s5 special I presume!

And hello!!!

[wyrdsistergoldenhair]

How to Rewatch 9-1-1 Before September 26th

Okay, so if you're like me, you want to rewatch 9-1-1 before season 8 premieres on September 26th - but maybe you don't have the time to sit down and binge-watch. I've come up with a schedule where you can watch at least two episodes a day (starting on August 4th) and finish just in time for season 8.

Aug. 4

1x01 Pilot

1x02 Let Go

Aug. 5

1x03 Next of Kin

1x04 Worst Day Ever

Aug. 6

1x05 Point of Origin

1x06 Heartbreaker

Aug. 7

1x07 Full Moon (Creepy AF)

1x08 Karma’s a Bitch

Aug. 8

1x09 Trapped

1x10 A Whole New You

Aug. 9

2x01 Under Pressure

2x02 7.1

Aug. 10

2x03 Help Is Not Coming

2x04 Stuck

Aug. 11

2x05 Awful People

2x06 Dosed

Aug. 12

2x07 Haunted

2x08 Buck, Actually

Aug. 13

2x09 Hen Begins

2x10 Merry Ex-Mas

Aug. 14

2x11 New Beginnings

2x12 Chimney Begins

Aug. 15

2x13 Fight or Flight

2x14 Broken

Aug. 16

2x15 Ocean’s 9-1-1

2x16 Bobby Begins Again

Aug. 17

2x17 Careful What You Wish For

2x18 This Life We Choose

Aug. 18

3x01 Kids Today

3x02 Sink or Swim

Aug. 19

3x03 The Searchers

3x04 Triggers

Aug. 20

3x05 Rage

3x06 Monsters

Aug. 21

3x07 Athena Begins

3x08 Malfunction

Aug. 22

3x09 Fallout

3x10 Christmas Spirit

Aug. 23

3x11 Seize the Day

3x12 Fools

Aug. 24

3x13 Pinned

3x14 The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1

Aug. 25

3x15 Eddie Begins

3x16 The One That Got Away

Aug. 26

3x17 Powerless

3x18 What’s Next?

Aug. 27

4x01 The New Abnormal

4x02 Alone Together

Aug. 28

4x03 Future Tense

4x04 9-1-1, What’s Your Grievance?

Aug. 29

4x05 Buck Begins

4x06 Jinx

Aug. 30

4x07 There Goes the Neighborhood

4x08 Breaking Point

Aug. 31

4x09 Blindsided

4x10 Parenthood

Sept. 1

4x11 First Responders

4x12 Treasure Hunt

Sept. 2

4x13 Suspicion

4x14 Survivors

Sept. 3

5x01 Panic

5x02 Desperate Times

Sept. 4

5x03 Desperate Measures

5x04 Home and Away

Sept. 5

5x05 Peer Pressure

5x06 Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1

Sept. 6

5x07 Ghost Stories

5x08 Defend in Place

Sept. 7

5x09 Past Is Prologue

5x10 Wrapped in Red

Sept. 8

5x11 Outside Looking In

5x12 Boston

Sept. 9

5x13 Fear-O-Phobia

5x14 Dumb Luck

Sept. 10

5x15 FOMO

5x16 May Day

Sept. 11

5x17 Hero Complex

5x18 Starting Over

Sept. 12

6x01 Let the Games Begin

6x02 Crash & Learn

Sept. 13

6x03 The Devil You Know

6x04 Animal Instincts

Sept. 14

6x05 Home Invasion

6x06 Tomorrow

Sept. 15

6x07 Cursed

6x08 What’s Your Fantasy?

Sept. 16

6x09 Red Flag

6x10 In a Flash

Sept. 17

6x11 In Another Life

6x12 Recovery

Sept. 18

6x13 Mixed Feelings

6x14 Performance Anxiety

Sept. 19

6x15 Death and Taxes

6x16 Lost and Found

Sept. 20

6x17 Love Is in the Air

6x18 Pay It Forward

Sept. 21

7x01 Abandon Ships

7x02 Rock the Boat

Sept. 22

7x03 Capsized

7x04 Buck, Bothered and Bewildered

Sept. 23

7x05 You Don’t Know Me

7x06 There Goes the Groom

Sept. 24

7x07 Ghost of a Second Chance

7x08 Step Nine

Sept. 25

7x09 Ashes, Ashes

7x10 All Fall Down

[raayllum]

considering Rayla has absolutely buggered Aaravos’ plans multiple times in S6 if he were to posses Callum again do you think he’d go straight for killing Rayla?

Yeah she's been the last minute fuck up of Aaravos' plans now twice - which considering her "I am pretty awesome at everything... right up until the moment it really matters" choking at the finish line complex - is so on brand for them as a foils dynamic it actually drives me insane now that it's a parallel that could turn into a pattern. But post for another day

I think that if Runaan coin stuff leaves Ezran and Rayla at odds for a time in S6, wanting to save a brainwashed Callum may be what brings them back together in terms of that initial rift. As much as I want some broyals angst & fluff next season, I do think ultimately Rayla will have the bigger role to play in the possession plot line, simply because it's been set up that way, for a few years:

Aaravos specifically taunts Rayla with being unable to kill in 4x04 only for that to be precisely what Callum asks Rayla to do in 4x07. That's a plot beat / choice and set up that has to be paid off eventually

Furthermore, Rayla is the one emphasized more in said scenario. She's the one catching Callum and stepping toward him at first in 4x04, she's the one interrupting Callum with the mirror in 4x02, and she's the one to explicitly tell him he has another path in 4x07. They also cut to a shot with her directly when Callum says "he'll [...] hurt people I care about" which - Yeah

S5 actually furthered this thread of Aaravos-Rayla tethering. Whereas twice in S4 people think Callum is going to talk about Rayla when he actually talks about Aaravos, S5 switches it up with Callum's research into Aaravos being derailed by his devotion to Rayla (5x01: "Your elf friend is in trouble" / 5x04: "But you can trust me to stay focused" whereas Callum immediately loses focus because of her). 5x08, in which Callum is willing to help someone murder an Archdragon and to do dark magic in order to save her, likewise has the Callum-Aaravos intro.

Callum and Rayla watching a literal falling star together in 5x02, all of Rayla's associations of being light, etc.

This all ties together, then, of Rayla likely being the one to save Callum from the brainwashing (even if she also is, come hell or high water, what leads to him being brainwashed again in the first place - kinda like how Viren's love for his family doomed him at first and then also brought him back from the brink again in S5). This has been foreshadowed in a few ways / would be payoff for a few different ways.

Rayla being associated with light and Callum's agency (even if the light isn't always good and agency isn't always that simple, which is already in line with the flashing white cube in 4x04 and 5x08 as Callum is Aaravos' pawn). Also these lines from the book one novelization, which drive me crazy every time: “So they might kill you or they might save you,” Callum said. “Exactly.” Rayla smiled. “Just like me.” (—Book One: Novelization)

S5 puts Rayla's selflessness on full display, as she doesn't prioritize her parents once and instead Callum is the one who pushes forward on that front, even while acknowledging that "The world needs me. Callum and Ezran need me" still go basically hand-in-hand with her. While the "stronger together" is something she's learning (with practice) and is something that Callum may need to re-learn to a degree, Rayla's tendency to sacrifice hasn't been really dismantled yet. Her refusing to sacrifice something - in this case, a possessed Callum - by refusing to kill him (even if it puts the world at risk) would be a big, meaningful step forward for her, and is I think where they're headed.

On that note: S4 opened up an interesting character aspect for her with "we can't save everyone" regarding the drake in 4x05 that again, S5 has kind of left unaddressed for now, so Rayla and Callum both reconciling their identities - Callum, through reconciling the light and dark inside him and being brought out of possession (moon arcanum time?); and Rayla, being someone who can save people and depend on them without always having to sacrifice herself - could work really well if she's the one who breaks him free. Chains and keys and "That's your name right - Callum?" and "She's not the elf, she's Rayla" and "You're the destiny is a book you write yourself guy" and "That's what makes her a hero. That's what makes her Rayla" etc.

Finnegrin implies that Callum's love for Rayla makes him weak ( "All that talk about how love makes you stronger, but the second you see that elf girl in pain") and foolish. Impulsive, irrational. Opeli implies it to a much lesser degree, but that's still why she cautions Callum in 5x01. If "losing control" is synonymous with Rayla for Callum, it just means that Aaravos losing control of Callum probably will be as well.

Love is good and bad. Strength and weakness. The ocean and dark magic. Light and dark. Control and liberation.

I think we'll see all of that reflected in the possession plot line going ahead in S6.

[goodwhump-temp]

M*A*S*H - Hawkeye Whump

2x05 Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde - Sleep deprived, worried/anxious, worried/cared for, paranoid, cries, maximum confusion, drugged 2x08 The Trial of Henry Blake - Foot squeezed, arrested 2x09 Dear Dad Three - Life flashes before eyes (grenade in patient) 2x11 Carry On Hawkeye - Only doctor during flu pandemic, nauseated, sick, exhausted 4x04 It Happened One Night - Bit by shell-shocked patient 4x19 Hawkeye - Car crash, intense pain & lightheaded the whole episode 5x04 Out of Sight, Out of Mind - Blinded, in pain, depressed about loosing his hawkEYES, angry outburst 5x20 Hepatitis - Insane back pain the whole episode, jealous, annoyed, trauma 6x13 Comrades In Arms Pt.1 - Bombed, scared, hit by chunk of wood, in pain, limping, scared 6x14 Comrades In Arms Pt.2 - Limping, in pain, scared, annoyed, slapped, complicated Houlihan relationship issues 7x01 Commander Pierce - Angry/stressed 7x21 C.A.V.E. - Intense claustrophobia, scared, comforted, Houlihan bonding 8x06 Period of Adjustment - Punched, scared 8x25 April Fools - Paranoid, visibly exhausted, humiliated 9x01 The Best of Enemies - Bad sleep 9x17 Bless You, Hawkeye - Sneezing/itching intensifying, feels like hes dying, trauma, emotional 10x17 Where There's a Will, There's a Way - Scared the whole episode, emotional 11x04 The Joker Is Wild - Paranoid, sleep deprived, humiliated 11x16 Goodbye, Farewell and Amen - Horrible PTSD/hospital, guilt, emotional

[im-on-your-side-always]

Thoughts on Mrs. Maisel 5x04

- no flash forward at the beginning

- I just can’t stand gordon

- tess! thought we would see her there

- that whole sequence about trash was so boring. what even was the point?

- abe’s suit 🔥

- really don’t get why gordon doesn’t let midge perform. that’s dumb.

- sophie!! never thought I would be this happy to see her on screen.

- i’m living for the mike and susie scenes. these are so much fun to watch.

and for that episode I got up at 2am? what even was the point? this one felt like a complete waste of time. it didn’t add anything to the story. it was just plain boring. even worse than episode three.

don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but the last two episodes were so bad. at least we had kelly bishop in the last one. but this one… what even was that? I personally was really annoyed coming online and reading all the negativity towards season 5 in general, and I still don’t think it’s justified because we don’t know the whole season yet. but if the remaining episodes are like episode three and four, it’s gonna be torture to watch.

what did you all think of this episode?

[bsideminibang]

Title: Love From the Other Side

Author: @ladyknightskye

Artist: @dimitirievans

Rating: Teen and Up

Pairings: Lucifer/Dean Winchester

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe; Episode 5x04 The End; Endverse; Timey-Whimey Stuff; Bisexual Dean Winchester;

Posting Date: September 4

Summary: When Zachariah sends Dean forward into the world after the Apocalypse, instead of running into the National Guard, he runs into a person he thinks is Sam. In relief, he hugs “Sam.” This one choice of affection instead of aggression sets off a chain of events that ripples out from both sides of the Apocalypse.

Keep reading for an short excerpt:

His breath punched from his lungs in harsh pants.

Must go faster. Can’t let them get me.

The grunts and snarls from behind him were closing in, and Dean knew that he didn’t have a lot of time. He turned a corner, a flash of white out of the corner of his eye. He looked up, and nearly shouted in joy. He knew nothing except that flash of a familiar face, and he aimed for it.

He had to get to Sammy.

Had to tell him to run.

He flung out his arms, slamming into his big little brother with a breathless laugh. “Sammy!”

Arms, strong arms, wrapped around him. They squeezed him back, the embrace curiously warm yet cold. Cold like the breath that fanned over his cheek. Something within in Dean also froze, realizing that he heard hisses of rage coming from the figures around them, the figures with jet black eyes and the suddenly still Croatoan zombies at the edges of the weird little coterie. “I’m not Sammy,” the man in his arms said, and gentle fingers swiped across his forehead.

Dean knew no more.

[nellie-elizabeth]

What We Do in the Shadows: The Campaign (5x04)

I'm in a bit of a Good Omens coma at the moment so pardon me if this is rather a brief review!

Cons:

I guess I wanted a bit more of an understanding of where Lazlo was coming from with his behavior towards the people of Little Antipaxos. It seems like he's trying to impress them at first, but he belittles them and thinks they're all primitive idiots. Then, when they don't warm to him, he immediately goes hostile and tells them to fuck off. This from the man who refuses to set foot back in his homeland because they insulted his beautiful and perfect wife Nadja. I wish we could have seen this play out more from Lazlo's perspective, so we could see maybe that he's feeling insecure or strange about all the time Nadja is spending with these new friends, or something.

Pros:

That said, Lazlo and Nadja are still hilarious, and I did love the resolution, wherein Nadja's new friends think that Lazlo is a figure from their old folktales, a particularly foolish and mean-spirited oaf who brings good luck to those who are near him. That would be funny to see more stories about!

Nandor is trying to find new friends because Guillermo has been pulling away from him, refusing to hang out as much as they normally would. Nandor makes friends with a Jewish man named Alexander from the gym, but when the friendship progresses slower than he would like, he decides to get circumcised just to be more like him. Of course, what with vampire healing, his foreskin grows back immediately, so he ends up just flashing his dick at this guy he barely knows at the gym as an overture of friendship, which does not go well.

I'm living for the strange codependent bizarre nature of Nandor and Guillermo's relationship; they really seem to be leaning into it this season. Guillermo is avoiding him because he doesn't want Nandor to find out about the vampire thing, and Nandor is openly admitting how insecure this makes him feel, as he seeks out alternate companionship. Guillermo giving Nandor a circumcision? Are you kidding? They are the WEIRDEST people on the planet. I love that they get to go to a movie together in the end, even if Nandor is back to being super rude to Guillermo in the process.

And then in our main story, Colin is running for Comptroller, but only because giving speeches at meetings is a great opportunity for a mass feeding. He enlists the help of his old flame the emotion vampire Evie, who poses as his wife for his campaign. However, things take an interesting turn when a council of Energy Vampires declares that Colin needs to actually win, because his opponent wants to streamline government bureaucracy and do away with all the extra forms, which is the whole lifeblood of energy vampire kind! Colin doesn't want this, so he "accidentally" flashes and moons a bunch of voters on a Zoom call, meaning he has to drop out of the race. Evie takes over and wins on write-in votes, and ends their relationship.

I mean, Colin has one bit, and he does it really well, and it's almost always extremely funny. Meeting a bunch of other energy vampires and seeing them all play off each other was the best kind of comedic torture. The whole bit about going to the home screen and finding settings on the phone to silence alerts... I could feel my brain leaking out of my nose. I also love that Evie's gimmick is a variation. While Colin aims to bore you to death, Evie aims to depress you to death with her sad tales of woe. It's fun to see those two different vibes bounce off each other.

So there you go! A fun installment. I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop with Guillermo's big transformation, but it's a fun ride to get there!

8/10

[avatarskywalker78]

It’s Six Sentence Sunday!!! Just the one this time, from my ‘Angel & Riley’ AU - this part is from just after Buffy 5x01, and Angel and Wesley were asked to help set up some anti-Dracula wards. Angel talks to Riley after the latter’s been glaring at him the whole time and corrected him on his assumptions about vampire bites, but he’s worked out there’s more to it.

“Buffy’s not with you because you’re superhuman, Riley.”

Riley jerked back – bullseye, Angel thought sadly – before visibly collecting himself.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Don’t I? You’ve been a highly skilled commando for years, trained to take on anything,, and then you met Buffy, who’s faced far more powerful creatures than you have and who looks like your average Valley girl while being far more powerful than any other human could hope to be.  And that was before you found out you were being given steroids. Now, you can look me in the eyes and tell me that didn’t unsettle you even a little bit, but I’ll know you’re lying.”

For a moment Angel thought Riley would actually hit him – fury flashed across his features, he straightened up, unfolded his arms, and clenched his fists, and Angel decided that if it came to it he’d let the guy hit him, if it would help. He’d even take the blame for it if anyone came running out, say he provoked the guy.

But the fury was gone as soon as it came, and Riley almost seemed to deflate – he didn’t lean back against the wall, but he heaved a sigh and looked away.

I recently had a writing burst, and the story now stands at over 7k words and we’re not even at the halfway point - turns out there’s a lot to say, especially when Angel also feels guilty about Lindsey and Spike (because I’m planning to have a conversation between Angel and Spike and who knows how that’ll go), so I’m not really sure when this’ll be done, but this is a turning point, and things between Angel and Riley start to really improve after 5x04, as Angel has a direct role in saving Riley’s life.

[anthonybrxdgerton]

Another meme I won’t finish: [33/?] favorite outfits: ↳ Iris West-Allen (part 9)

[da-flash321]

Good luck kiss!

[macgyver2016-bracket]

ROUND 1 RESULTS

1. 1x06 vs 3x11 - TIE, ROUND 2 UNDERDOG*

2. 2x06 vs 4x02

3. 2x10 vs 4x13

4. 1x17 vs 3x22

5. 2x13 vs 3x17

6. 2x14 vs 2x21

7. 2x12 vs 2x19

8. 5x02 vs 5x14

9. 1x19 vs 2x08

10. 3x18 vs 4x08

11. 1x01 vs 3x15

12. 4x01 vs 5x07

13. 1x13 vs 5x05

14. 5x10 vs 5x12

15. 3x19 vs 4x11

16. 1x14 vs 3x21

17. 1x18 vs 3x12

18. 1x10 vs 4x05

19. 3x14 vs 5x09

20. 2x07 vs 2x23

21. 1x15 vs 5x15

22. 1x02 vs 1x12

23. 2x01 vs 2x04

24. 3x06 vs 3x10

25. 1x08 vs 3x08

26. 2x02 vs 3x03

27. 3x05 vs 5x08

28. 5x03 vs 5x04 - TIE, FLASH ROUND RUNOFF VOTE*

29. 2x09 vs 5x06

30. 1x11 vs 1x21

31. 2x22 vs 3x13

32. 3x20 vs 4x03

33. 4x07 vs 5x13

34. 2x15 vs 3x16 - 100% SWEEP

35. 1x07 vs 1x09

36. 3x09 vs 4x06

37. 2x18 vs 4x12

38. 1x03 vs 2x20

39. 1x04 vs 2x11

40. 1x05 vs 4x04

41. 2x03 vs 2x16

42. 1x20 vs 5x01 - 100% SWEEP

43. 3x02 vs 3x07

44. 2x17 vs 4x09

45. 3x04 vs 5x11

46. 1x16 vs 3x01

47. 2x05 vs 4x10

*Quick note on the two ties! Match 1 had double the number of votes as Match 28, therefore, both episodes from Match 1 will be automatically put through to Round 2: One as the Match Contender and the other as the Underdog. Which episode goes where will be determined by the randomizer.

Match 28 will have a 24-hour flash round rematch to determine which one will go on to Round 2.

[booasaur]

The Flash - 5x04 - “It’s a good thing I have enough faith in you for the both of us.”

[killervibe]

They...They really done did that. They really made 5x03 look like Cisco dead, 5x04 Cisco gone and trailer 5x05 Cisco poof. SHENANIGANS.

[theflashcwconfessions]

I find it horrifying that people are looking at Iris implanting Nora with a power dampening chip as a child and never telling Nora that she was a meta was some how an act of love. Or that we shouldn't judge because we don't know if Iris did it to save Nora's life. Keeping knowledge about the nature of your child's existence from your child is psychological abuse. I don't think the writers realized they just made Iris an abuser.

Anonymous

[theflashfashioncloset]

Who: Grant Gustin as Barry Allen What: Topman Green Zip Through Denim Jacket – $95.00. And HERE Where: 5x04 “News Flash” , 5×14 “Cause and XS”