#Tua s4

[clownstillwritesfanfic]

Imagine living with Five for the 6 years between season 3 and season 4.

You two aren’t anything more than roommates, although sometimes you wished you were.

Despite your best efforts, you sometimes catch each other in compromising situations.

One time he came home early from work and you had just gotten out of the shower but you didn’t bring any clean clothes in with you and since you thought you were alone, you just wore a towel as you made your way back to your room. But unfortunately Five was also on his way to his room which was near yours. He ended up seeing you, damp, I’m just a towel. Luckily it covered the important bits but it left little to the imagination too. That was a very awkward moment for you two.

You also accidentally stumbled across a private “love session” Five had going on with himself. He left the door ajar and you needed to ask him something but the question left your mind immediately when you caught a glimpse of him through the door.

Things were…tense after that.

[terri-schmerri]

⚠ Spoilers for ALL of Link Click

This post is just me stating the obvious but, I wanted to show my appreciation for Link Click and how it compares to shows like The Umbrella Academy which failed in their sequel seasons.

[Also I am very sleep deprived rn from like 3 days of barely any sleep so my thoughts may not be coherent]

Sometimes with TV shows, they'll have 1 big hit season that was supposed to stand alone or was planned to have more seasons but then the sequel comes out and it's shit. The old plot points are ignored, unnecessary ones are added, and mischaracterisation galore. Sometimes it's due to a layoff of staff, a change of director, a loss of passion in the project, or just a monetary incentive to pump out new content and fast.

I don't exactly know why but this was my expectation for Link Click when I first watched it. I thought that when Yingdu came out, it would be kind of the generic "oh, it's good, but you can tell they didn't think too deeply about this"

*cough cough* TUA s4 *cough cough*

But here we are with the first episode of the Yingdu arc and it's like, things back in season 1 begin to make sense. One I was thinking about earlier being the scene where Cheng Xiaoshi dives into the past and gets in Liu Min's car without Lu Guang and the following scene:

And it's added just so much more meaning to so much of the earlier episodes. The anger in LG's voice has an extra layer of meaning and I just find that neat.

(Obviously a lot of that goes to the voice actor as well, who I recently found out was the same as Vanitas)

Or the foreshadowing from episode 4 that hints at the fact that not only Lu Guang has changed the past, but altered the note, while it was implied that CXS did it and that LG is such a little hypocrite lol.

"As long as the node isn't altered, the future stays the same" (eng dub quote)

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⚠ Before you think I'm just a bit stupid

I know what I've said is obvious but I have just watched so many shows and played so many games recently that have been victims to the decline in quality as the passion has gone. And it's really upsetting to see, especially when I've had hyperfixations on these series :(

Though I would like to add that even when there are good shows with good new seasons, they don't always add meaning to the previous scenes like this. It's made me want to rewatch the entirety of Link Click :D

I love Link Click and in so glad my assumptions were proven wrong when I watched it for the first time. I did have lingering doubts when I got to the S2 ending about if it would retcon things, yet I feel it's turning out well so far.

(fyi, I binge watched it all in like 2 days back in July/August I don't remember)

TLDR: I was very scared that the Yingdu Arc would become like The Umbrella Academy s4 and I mean we're only one episode in and I might eat my words later but I have faith.

[i-upset-to-dead-65]

There's a synth version of Baby Shark playing during all the fight scenes

If the Umbrella Academy writers wrote season 5 of Stranger Things

Lucas is given the magical power to resurrect Max. She wakes up episode 1 and her being dead has no impact on her character development.

The Russians? What Russians? Oh, there was a US-Russia war that took care of that off screen.

Dustin becomes a comic relief character with no depth. Suzie is mentioned once offhandedly in episode 2 as having vaguely ended their relationship. No elaboration.

Will can fly now.

The kids discover they can defeat Vecna with the power of holding hands.

A third parallel universe called the Sideways-Over is introduced, used as a plot device once, then the show ends with no explanation or real relevancy.

Will has a tearful gay confession then he is sucked into super hell and Mike abandons him to go to homophobic heaven because God wants him to be his Special Angel - wait sorry that's Supernatural AND Good Omens.

Robin's role is written down to Steve's sidekick, Vicky is never mentioned, and she has no development or interactions with any one but Steve.

Mike finally gets with Eleven/Will. Then there's a time skip where he cheats on them with Steve. It's okay, we time skipped so its legal now. Why are you booing? They got trapped in the upside-down for four years, of course they'd fall in love.

[sunsickjune]

“i felt that five had to have a love story” okay steve !! fine. i’ll humour you. picture this : lila and five in the subway. they’re travelling to different timelines, loosing hope, trying to find a way home. then they get to a timeline and five sees dolores. but she’s a human, not a mannequin. he falls for her. loves her. wants to stay with her in her timeline. and that’s why lila has to force him to come home. she has kids, a husband, a life. five wants to stay with dolores more than anything. but he goes home, back to his timeline, because he knows he has to save his family. because he loves them more.

[feralnumberfive]

[acearcane]

As I’m trying to come to terms with whatever the fuck that was, I’ve decided that:

Seasons 1 and 2 are peak. Absolute masterpieces. Canon.

Season 3 can be taken or left. Has its moments, but overall not as good as the first two. Canon, but only if you want it to be.

Season 4 is a fucking crack fic written at 2am that the author rereads at a later date and decides to delete. Absolutely not canon.

[twobraincells-art]

The 8th of August, 2024

Two mistakes of the universe go for a walk. Despite this, the universe doesn’t chew them up and spit them out. It lets them be. They deserve it, after all.

It’s a lovely day.

[currentlyonstandbi]

all the Deli Fives: *trying to figure out how to fix the timeline and stop the apocalypse*

Brisket Five in the kitchen:

[moon-trees]

Season 4 of tua is the opposite of fan service. Fan disservice if you will.

[c0ffeeb1ack]

tua in a nutshell ://

[clownstillwritesfanfic]

Im watching TUA again and it has given me yet ANOTHER fic idea. It sorta repurposes an oc of mine into a different story line (or I suppose timeline in this instance lol) (actually I may reuse this oc for a lot of reader inserts because I love their power)

Ok, classic Number Eight situation. Eight stopped physically aging (they actually do age it’s just extremely slowly) around their early teen years. Their power is basically being able to manipulate cells. They can make plants rapidly grow and die then reverse it back to a seed or even make people age or de-age rapidly. It take a lot of energy though and the drawback is that they can’t control their own cells. They’re stuck looking like a 13 year old despite being the same age as their siblings.

In this one, they’re close with Viktor and are a social media influencer. They surprised Viktor by showing up to his practice he had in the beginning of season 1 episode 1 and they both found out about Reginald’s death together from the tv in the window.

Eight has a fiancé but they used to have a massive crush on Five as kids.

When Five comes back, their feelings are reopened and things get complicated between Eight and their fiancé until they find something awful on his computer.

Now they’re single once again and their childhood crush is babbling about an apocalypse at the end of the week.

So…what are we thinking? I would imagine Eight as a more feminine kinda bubbly person (think Luther in later seasons) that gets their bubble popped after their fiancés scandal but I could keep them GN as long as people are ok with the feminity.

[suzieloveships]

Season 4 of The Umbrella Academy got me like

[fictionandescapism]

Me watching season 4 of the umbrella academy:

[very-straight-blog]

Number Five from seasons 1-3, you'll always be famous.

[feralnumberfive]

So let me get this straight: Five hid from Lila that he had found his previous journal that told them how to get home just so that he could deepen his relationship with her and hide from the world? So that he could completely forget about his beloved wife Dolores and go on to steal his brother's wife and the mother of their children? And nonetheless without any of his family members knowing where he and Lila are? Completely abandoning his family? And potentially letting them die in another apocalypse?

Fuck that. To the max

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

it would have been CHEESY as all hell, but- I think I would've liked the group suicide ending a lot better if, instead of standing there slowly waiting to get absorbed, they went out dancing. like they're all upset and scared and as a callback to season 1, Luther puts on some music to try and make them feel better. or, fuck, Viktor starts playing the violin. and they're obviously still upset and crying but they're letting themselves feel a little joy at the end, dancing together with their family. it also would've been a gut-punch bc everyone was waiting for a siblings dance break all season. instead of just standing there going 'I'll miss you guys' until they get absorbed they just...vibe and dance out of existence. I think it would've been more fitting.