#and just think of s7

[isca-rambles]

6x05 aka me screaming into the void as I press play aka you know it's such a shame that season 6 only had 4 episodes but yep I don't see any more episodes here oh well... aka let's get this over with Lucy you liar, gift giving is absolutely his love language. I mean so is terse nods. The man just uses all the languages and then some. God they're so sweet and in love. The looks they have for each other. The smiles. Oh god their last kiss got interrupted. TIM COMMUNICATE. PLEASE. TIM. USE YOUR WORDS. NO DON'T. TIIIIM. It begins. Aaron no, don't. Aaron back away. I'm just going to yell at the screen this entire episode. Tim you pick up the phone right now and call your wife she is worried sick. Tim talk to someone please. Excuse me while I reach into the past and shake some sense into this fictional man and the people who wrote him this way. Is the LAFD the only ambulance service in this show? I'm trying to remember the last time an actual ambulance servic showed up to a scene. But maybe that's actually pretty common. I know they do have FD paramedics and they probably end up at a lot of scenes in a large area. Oh god she's wearing his shirt. TIMOTHY YOU CALL YOUR WIFE I SWEAR TO GOD. She's trying so much to give him space. To let him come to her. To be supportive. God this is going to hurt to watch again and in episode format. Tim please just change the show in this instance and call her back. Please. Go home. Go to your wife and rally your family to help you. Greer don't do this to him. Don't drag him back down. Let him live his new life. You have a family too. Don't do this. Ray really is psychotic. Who cuts a sandwich in half like that? You cut it in triangles. Sandwiches taste better in triangles. Also use a cutting board or a plate. I mean can't they just report that he's alive? Say 'hey, we thought this guy was dead but turns out he's alive, weird' and just not get justice for the rest of it? He'd still get punished for going MIA and faking his own death. They might not be able to get him on the stuff they lied about in the report, but they could still get him put away for a bit? Agggh I want to shake this entire show into a different reality. Wesley, he tries so hard. Wrangling a bunch of toddlers with guns at this point. Lucy and Aaron friendship. My heart. Stop taking these things away from Lucy please for the love of god. Greer, fuck off. Tim's moral compass, my heart. But also fuck you, Greer. You started all this and then you bailed and left Tim to pick up the pieces. You know he wouldn't be able to just leave it. Ugh, Monica. I do not have the energy for you right now. Lucy. TIM PLEASE TELL HER. But honestly yes, I completely 100% stand by Lucy in this response. I know we all wanted her to push him to tell her, to draw him into a hug and cuddle him and tell him it's okay, but what he's doing is not okay. He can't ghost her and lie to her and then come back and expect to curl up on the sofa. Anything less than that would be a discredit to her and insulting to her. He is the one who should be telling Lucy what's going on. Nolan, come on. We all know you're not there if she needs you. I do feel for Bailey so much right now. I know she agreed to it but honestly, yes. I work with kids, I look after kids professionally, I love my nieces but I am petrified of losing a child or being solely responsible for them. Which, given my job at the moment isn't the best but yeah. Luna, ultimate station mum/grandma. Please work your magic on Lucy. She needs a good mother figure. Oh Lucy. Part of me wants her to go searching. To try calling. To find him and push him into telling her. But it's not fair to her to have to do that. Tim please just call her. Please go home to your wife and daughter. Sidenote, Tamara and Lucy are just the cutest. Why would you also take that away from Lucy? Can you not let this woman have anything, show?! I do feel bad for Nolan and Bailey, but they were getting waaay to ahead of themselves with this.

[hiding-under-the-willow]

Cool guys don't look at explosions

[meep-meep-richie]

is buck even listening T_T

[aunmenosheteroenespanol]

2.12 Chimney Begins - 2.09 Hen Begins - 2.16 Bobby Begins Again - 7.04 Buck, Bothered and Bewildered

Tommy's family arc

[m4rs-ex3]

i am so obsessed with the fact that out of everyone, runaan is the one who is so fucking Done

i can literally hear him thinking "yeah i've gathered. the walls in this house are only so thick."

[laddertek]

etho said actually you _don't_ understand the intricacies of how tango is my boyfriend and bdubs is my ex

(and how tango and bdubs kiss too)

Scar: We went on that little adventure, you know! Etho: Yeah, yeah, we had our adventure, that's true, that's true. Scar: You disparaged your teammates. That's it, all right, no more spoilers. Etho: (laughs) Our team has -- our team has some weird dynamics this -- this season. Cleo: (overlapping) Really, Etho? Is there trouble in paradise? (pause) Who's third-wheeling with you, again? I can't remember. Etho: (laughs) Uhh. The -- Cleo: Genuinely can't remember. I know it's you and Bdubs. And...Tango? Tango. Tango. Etho: (loudly) Why -- Why is Tango the third wheel? Why -- why isn't Bdubs the third wheel? Cleo: Because it's you and Bdubs. I'm sorry. I understand how that relationship goes. Etho: (dissatisfied) Hmm.

[mythicalmage]

Season 7 being called “Dark” is very fitting because they are definitely on The Darkest Timeline

[zuppizup]

With the revelation that Rayla likes romantic books, coupled with Callum's love for non-fiction, I am filled with the sudden urge to write a Rayllum bookshop AU.

[bibvck]

Eddie Diaz 9-1-1 | 7x06: There Goes the Groom

[solargeist]

finding out grian was 20ish and keralis was 33ish when this was posted is killing me

[raayllum]

I get that in general a lot of kids shows do utilize the protagonists ('good guys') in ways where they're supposed to be role models, particularly because some do have a "lesson of the week" where the character does bad things, then clearly learns and explains what they should've done instead by the end of the episode.

That has just... never been how TDP has operated, and I don't get how and why people think we're supposed to take what anyone does in the show as being unilaterally good or evil. Particularly in arc 2; any moral simplicity that was hanging on by a thread in arc 1 has been taken out back and shot numerous times by now.

TDP very rarely calls anything Evil or Good, and when it does, it's always filtered through the characters' biases, and rarely does more then 2-3 characters ever have the same opinion on something for the same reasons. Soren and Rayla, who have inverted character arcs, are some of the only characters to ever use the term villain / good guys or bad guys, and are two of the most staunchly black-and-white thinking characters, heavily to their detriment, I might add, in terms of coping with the increasing complexity of their lives. They have cognitive biases. They're not always right, and are frequently wrong. This is true for everyone in the show.

The show refuses to condemn murder, indirectly and directly condemns the expulsion of humans from Xadia routinely (Evrkynd being a city for everyone, Ezran arguing with Karim, who is the most wrong about the most things), and shows a variety of viewpoints on all things.

The show understands that the choices people make—whether the same character trait is a flaw or a strength—as well as 'moral' choices are all circumstantial.

Are you wrong to burn people alive? Mostly yes (2x07, 6x08) but also no (3x09). Are you wrong to kill people? Sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes whether it's 'wrong' or 'right' doesn't even factor in. Are you wrong to use dark magic, or use the dangerous Staff of Ziard, or coin someone and condemn them to a 'fate worse than death'? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Is lying or hiding the truth to protect someone wrong? Sometimes yes (1x06, 2x03, 3x03, 5x01, 7x04, 7x06) sometimes no (1x02, 2x03, 6x06, 5x08, 7x08).

Are you doing the right thing?

Do you have no choice? Is that true, or is that just what you think, or how you rationalize it yourself?

When is it right or cowardly to leave (Viren, Lissa, Rayla, Callum, Ezran, the Cosmic Council, the offer made to Karim's troops)? When should you stay? When do you decide to share resources (2x05) to your potential detriment or withhold them in the name of protecting yourself and your own people (Xadia and magic)? At what point(s) do you prioritize your own pain and grief, or someone else's (i.e. the Keeper vs Callum vs Ezran)? At what point is someone too dangerous or 'too far gone' to keep alive (Runaan about Harrow, Ezran about Aaravos)? At what point do you decide someone cannot change? When do you refuse to change (Karim, Terry) who you are no matter what happens, and when do you decide that you must (Ezran, Soren)? When is it wrong to use illusions to trick someone (3x09 and 7x06) and when is it more reasonable (2x03)? When should you be willing to sacrifice others (Rayla with her family, Runaan and Rayla with Callum, Soren with Viren) and when should you refuse? When should you sacrifice yourself, and when it is wrong to? Did you betray them, or did they betray you, or both (usually both)? When should you betray or stay loyal to your family? What is the right thing to do?

The show, tbh, doesn't know, at least 90% of the time. It's not interested in knowing. It's interested in exploring. That's the whole point. At most, it says you should work towards harm reduction, but what constitutes harm, and what peace looks like, is also something that greatly differs for all the characters.

Rayla is willing to sacrifice the love of her life, Ezran is willing to create weapons of mass destruction and wield one, and Callum used a torture spell on someone when he absolutely did not have to. The idea that any of the protagonists are meant to be paragons of unblemished virtue who are always 100% right, or that any of the antagonists do not canonically have a good point of contention with anything that's happened and are always 100% wrong, is reductive to everything the show is and explores, because it is Quite Literally not what the show does, ever tbh.

They literally spelled it out this past season as a core theme; I don't think they needed to have a character directly point it out every time a main character did something that was Kinda Fucked Up or Complicated But Understandable to know that the show knows it was Canonically Fucked Up or Complicated But Understandable.

There is not a single character or action in TDP that is always right, and there is not a singular character or action in TDP that is always wrong. Hell, even narrowing it down to "this is 'right' or 'wrong'" feels counterintuitive because it's so subjective within the narrative.

Every choice the characters make is often well reasoned, aligns with their values and world views, and fits into how they work through problems. Every choice has benefits and consequences, for them or for others. That doesn't mean it's Right for everyone involved. That doesn't mean it's Wrong for everyone involved. That's what makes the show interesting. Everything has nuance. Everything has Complexity. I'm not interested in a simplified version of TDP. I'm interested in the show as is.

I hope you are, too.

[russell-crowe]

house and wilson seeing each other for the first time in months in s08e02

[luniviravosshipper]

The way these two scenes seem to exemplify Claudia’s emotional immaturity and how she has hardly changed in her outlook on the world over the past few seasons by paralleling each other.

It’s the way she does the eye thing and pushes her hair out of the way in both.

[hotcinnamonsunset]

eldest siblings wine club🍷

[souenkun]

Takashi living the warm, full-of-love life that reiko couldn't have (as far as we know in the current canon) feels very much like the grief that dawns for children when they finally realized how much sacrifice their parents didn't always tell them just to give birth and raise them.

Like, technically speaking, reiko only gave takashi a world of problems by passing down the sight and the book of friends decades after her death, but takashi also grasped the wholesome and the awful parts of interacting with both humans and youkai from the memories she had left behind, scattered among all these eternal monsters she had defeated, leaving in them unintentional, but important life lessons for him to find later on in the future. If it weren't for all those societal rejections that reiko received from humans and the hardships from youkai that led her to start the book of friends, takashi wouldn't be able to avoid repeating her mistakes (and, consequently, could be just as comfortable with isolation like reiko was), let alone make the precious balance we now see him have in the present time, where he can make genuine connections with humans and youkai while also maintaining a balance to them. Do you get what I'm saying 💔

[m4rs-ex3]

the callum / runaan dynamic is so funny bc like. out of nowhere your daughter has a boyfriend who happens to be the most wildcard character you imagine she could find - human (mind you you're currently in the process of unlearning all your racial prejudices), magical, and a government official in addition to all of his other Emo Personal Lore - and they're the most beautifully devoted but also most painfully public affection-displaying couple you've ever seen and the guy also kind of freed your soul from purgatory plus you love and trust your daughter so basically you just kind of have to Deal With It. yet it would seem he's determined to make that as difficult as possible because he is the biggest fucking dork you have ever met in your life and it seems you are the only person who is bothered by this because your husband is amused, your daughter thinks he is the greatest thing to ever happen, and the dumbass himself attempts to show you some respect but also apparently refuses to stop being cringe so now you must continue on with your life while this loser teenager does your daughter in the room next to yours every night and you can't do anything about it because oh yeah you killed his father