#This is how this episode went right

[lemonemenom]

*whispers* they know we’re still here right?

[avid-mreower]

kockdaily 97

19.11.23

[missunsympathetic]

Omega: But I want to join your search for Fennec too!

Hunter: It's too dangerous. Besides, I have a much harder and more complicated mission for you

Hunter: Try to get Crosshair to take care of himself

[spr1mkle]

twitter got a kick out of this one

[insertsomthinawesome]

Okay I started this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back right after Episode 10 launched. Yeah. Ages ago. I actually finished it around probably 1-2 months ago??? I've just been slow to uploading it ^^;; Back then I was... not necessarily theorizing??? But had fun indulging in an idea like this xD

-NO ROMANCE INCLUDED-

[cephalopod-truther]

Cubfan: hey, Joe! You wouldn't happen to know anything about all those enderpearls I keep finding?

Joe, directly responsible for putting said enderpearls in Cub's base and adding more as they speak: ...nooo

Also Joe: Howdy, Cub! I don't suppose you know why there's skulk turning up all over the place?

Also Cub, covered in skulk, very obviously hiding an unreasonable number of skulk catalysts behind his back: skulk? What skulk? That's crazy! Why would there be skulk?

[owl-in-space]

[confoodles]

Does anyone else feel like Aylinluna was horribly out of character this episode?? I've heard that apparently some things were cut, so that might be the reason but it still felt weird. Like ur telling me Luna, who has literally been so respectful of Aylin's boundaries literally even last episode, is suddenly forcing her to go out of her comfort zone?? Okay, fine, I understand the concept of wanting ur gf to get along with ur friends, but ur telling me Luna wouldn't stand up for Aylin when someone is clearly getting in her face and making her uncomfortable?? That she would call her an ALIEN??!!!

[eddiegettingshot]

the “how do you know” is crazy like are we supposed to read that as unsure because thats all i got from it 😭

this scene is soooo weird to me because i feel like the initial "i know we haven't talked about him" and buck's apprehension there is more about his bisexuality than about tommy himself. but then the thing about "how do you know that?" is not even just about buck being unsure because maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but it is very clearly reassurance-seeking, so at the very least he's still prompting bobby to tell him he's doing the right thing and to give him clarity where they probably could have afforded to give him some more outright confidence. if the scene had gone something like, "going to see tommy?" / "listen i know we haven't really talked about him..." / "what's there to talk about? tommy's good people, he's good for you." / (actually relieved smile) "yeah, cap, he is. i really like him." / "i know, 'cause we haven't had to talk about it." THEN he would have seemed like he knows wtf he's doing!

[sunflowernyx]

I really love Spender and Padgett as antagonists to Scully.

Because the way they project their own vision of Scully onto her is so completely untrue that it contrasts perfectly with her truth.

They are a specific brand of monsters in the x files, a genre, if you will, that try to enforce patriarchal views onto women, and every time, every time the story presents it as completely ridiculous that they can't see what the truth is, that their denial of it becomes their eventual downfall.

Because they don't view Scully or any other woman as anything other than a vessel for their desire, something inhuman, waiting for them to imprint their world view upon her, taking away her voice, her body autonomy, her truth.

And every time the story proves them wrong. Every time Scully proves them wrong.

Rather than just focusing on how she's a strong woman who can fight back, and has agency, they set episodes like En Ami and Milagro up to show how men are capable of creating an incorrect narrative and believing in it so deeply that when Scully fights back and proves herself a full human being with her own opinions, desires, emotions and strengths that have nothing to do with them... they resort to punishing her with violence.

And always, always they stick with the central theme for Scully's character: that the truth is there, and it's Scully's role to make it plain, it is her power to articulate it.

Characters like Spender and Padgett are perfect antagonists to a character like Scully because they construct a truth and try to project it on her, to enforce it upon her, but she always has the last word.

The truth only ever comes from Scully

[camgoloud]

he still has his tonsils. by the way if you even care

[s-wordsmith]

Something I really need Stranger Things fic writers to know is that no one in rural America was locking any doors in the eighties apart from the government and businesses. I remember when there was a big stink about "we gotta start locking our doors now how am I supposed to remember that every time I leave the house." People didn't lock the doors when they were home until at LEAST the mid-aughts, a lot of people STILL don't. "Oh we can't get into so-and-so's house/car because we don't have the keys!" You do not need the keys, just open the door. "I'm alarmed because I went over to so-and-so's house and their front door was unlocked so I instantly knew something was wrong." It would be much weirder if it was locked. If I showed up at my friend's house and the door was locked I would immediately assume something was wrong. If I lived in a town regularly invaded by monsters and patrolled by mobs of government agents/Russian spies/jocks with guns, I would assume my friend was currently being hunted.

[transingthoseformers]

And now I'm thinking about Knockout after the events of the tfp epilogue

I'm thinking about what things must be like for someone who defected after the war but before the Great Unification that happens somewhere between rid15 and RBA

General thoughts about what it must be like to rebuild a world from what we saw in the tfp epilogue into what we saw in rid15 (which was just a few years, right? They accomplished all that in just a few years.)

this is a Very Small Detail and a bit of a spoiler for rid15 S4ish but when the Cybertronian council at the time bans a fuck ton of bots from Cybertron (mostly autobots), Knockout is one of them. Meaning, there was a time period where he either was shortly off world or was kicked off of Cybertron because he was now associated with Team Prime.

That, while he was a decepticon for ALL of the war, now he might as well be an autobot.

You know... Thoughts.

[heyclickadee]

One of the slightly frustrating things about the entire Tech situation is that if Tech comes back, “Plan 99” would immediately skyrocket into being one of my top ten favorite episodes. I thought it was an incredible episode when if first aired, and I still think that now, but thinking that is entirely conditional on it being a fakeout—not a death that gets reversed later, but a fakeout specifically. It doesn’t read as a death to me. As a departure and a separation, sure, but not as a death. And if a temporary separation is what it is then, well, I think it’s pretty remarkable as both a fakeout and an episode.

But only if that’s what it is. That I’m none too keen on this particular character dying and his death being treated like that aside, and not to be a broken record, but it doesn’t really work as a main character death. At all. As a main character death it’s staggeringly bad, and bad in a unique way that never gets better or less weird as we move through season three.

So even though I’m basically ride or die on the Tech Lives train at this point, Tech isn’t back yet, so I can’t really like “Plan 99.” But I don’t hate it yet, either. It’s sort of floating off in this nether space until I know one way or another for sure what I think of it. And that’s frustrating because I’d like do be able to do one or the other.

[xchronicles]

I am so tired of seeing arguments against J/C, saying that Kate never wanted them together on Voyager because it would blah blah blah. Guess what? We are in agreement and we understand why it was necessary, especially when you consider the context of the time when the show was made. We fully support why it had to be done that way back then.

But times change; narratives and characters evolve, and views and perceptions shift. If anything, Voyager's inability to ever have two adult characters discuss their feelings ended up falling into another trap - they had Chakotay go after the 'prettier and younger' girl. You know what kind of message that sent to girls and women? You can have the most profound relationship in the universe with someone, yet he will still pick the prettier girl over you, even if they have nothing in common.

Prodigy had the perfect opportunity to subvert expectations by making them canon because, in retrospect, the 'will they, won't they' dynamic was predictable.

It was stated multiple times that they were afraid it would completely take over the show, but I don’t see almost anyone mentioning that this is exactly what happened with Wesley. Every podcast I listen to spends 50% of the time talking about Wesley, while the main Protostar crew is hardly ever discussed. J/C is also mentioned in passing. It all became about Wesley. In trying so hard to avoid falling into the imaginary J/C trap, they ended up in a much worse one, where all any Trek fan wants to talk about isn’t the Protostar kids or J/C, but Wesley and Wil Wheaton.

 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[whispering-woodlands]

Beck: Personally that’s why I don’t agree with your opinion

Cyrus: Okay I have a counterpoint.

Beck: Valid argument?

Cyrus: No. pipe bomb.

Beck: Oh shi-