#ats s4e10

[doggirlbuffysummers]

This is a super hot take but my personal opinion is that the longest bad stretch in ats s4 is Ground State-Supersymmetry; I actually enjoy the perfect happiness dream.

The thing about Awakening that I like is that when you are rewatching it it is really easy to pick up on the rather large number of clues that this is not real.

The trick is is that since the episodes around it are also written poorly, Awakening suffers. The bad writing in the episode is the point; this isn't a real narrative but Angel's wish fulfillment. But when it is in a string of bad episodes (Habeas Corpses, Long Day's Journey, Soulless, Calvary) it becomes easy to not see the bad writing as intentional.

In general I think ats s4 has reasonably good episodes in a vacuum let down by the overall plot being a train wreck you know is coming. I find I can't enjoy rewatching individual episodes because of the heavy serialization and the horrible overarching plot. The Faith and Angel arc is good but exists in a broader context that is hard to ignore.

[knowlessman]

idfk knowless got a pokemon game and then got pinkeye edition, bhna s4e10-14

oh yeah it's the plague doctor faction, with the tiefling kid

"you need to heal up so I can fight you to the death properly!" okay so this punchy guy wandered in from dbz then

yup. lockdown got redshirted -- so vampire girl can create clothes with her disguises, but because this writer is the way he is, that doesn't mean she can just transform her clothes when she morphs? wheretf did she put them, then? also aizawa fell for that ruse for like 0.5 seconds longer than he should've -- also also I have a feeling deku isn't gonna get the news that she infiltrated a school to whoever needs to know in time (or maybe that was revealed to them ages ago? I forget)

handface: "no, I don't know how to play chess. take your fancy-pants stradgedy and shove it, I do what I want"

"I can only read the future once a day, but luckily I'm also Batman"

"but we don't wanna work for the yakuza!" "we're gonna double-cross 'em." "on it!" he probably coulda just said "deku will be there" and the token protagonist-obsessed knife-licker would've shown up in a plague mask

(twice and vampire girl got hypnotized into saying how their abilities work) …wait, "my clothes transform with me, but they overlap with stuff because I purposefully wear clothes that sabotage my own ability just so I have to take them off?" …the fuck

mr zone of truth keeps holding his gun by the trigger. idjit's gonna shoot his own kidney out any moment -- sidenote, I imagine this confession guy's quirk is very popular in fanfic

"ultimate move: phantom threat!" you can't fool me, subtitles, I know what I heard 'XD it's jojo all over again

maybe don't scream your target's name when making a surprise attack tho? -- running time? you got the girl, I'm pretty sure chisaki's quirk is touch range… run away time?

…togata's not the main character tho. they ain't gonna let him solo this. …probably. -- ayup. hella move on the yakuza's part, tho - oh wait no, the dart probably wouldn't have erased eri's quirk, that's just her own quirk. he just guessed that togata wouldn't realize it wasn't a bullet, I guess. or that he wouldn't realize that it probably (?) wouldn't have any effect on eri.

…ngl, they did have me going for a second. I wasn't sure whether togata had somehow avoided the effects of the dart, or was gonna just Karate Kid it and beat chisaki to a pulp without powers, or what

goddamn after-credits scenes. -- oh wait so the after-credits bit here was just preview or something. well, fucked if I know

I still say Nighteye's future sight shouldn't make him able to dodge perfectly since it doesn't give him the superhuman speed to match his opponent's. -- …and there it is.

oh right, he ate the confession guy. …huh.

"then who was the deku we just saw" I was wondering how he got up there that fast. -- "…how DID we, kronk?" "well, you got me. I guess we copied that other teammate of ours and used his pokeball quirk to dig our way out" - wait a minute holy shit this is a lot of quirk copying going on. both these two can do it, Ditto from Class B can do it, it's a whole subgenre of superpower, huh

…subtitles, tiefling kid has been in the opening and outro for this whole arc. she's the macguffin of the whole thing. I know who Eri is.

"I have to go back…" eri's homura. calling it. we're about to re:zero this whole arc.

nighteye you have rock where most of your torso is sposed to be and an arm off, how in fuck are you still talking

"eri rewinds humans, so I just gotta keep taking damage to balance it out so I don't overheal and turn into a monkey!" …okay??? I guess??? -- I was just thinking how deku's power is kind of like if saitama's body wasn't immune to damage

you, sir, are a resident evil boss

hehe deku's hair kinda makes him look like a Bluper Saiyan here

(chisaki's backstory) "that girl is a person. does that mean nothing to you?" and I'm sure you, a mob boss, would be saying that even if she weren't your granddaughter

"midoriya… he changed the future…" actually I'm pretty sure that was little miss groundhog day who did that. -- altho, I guess it'd be a little much to assume that her ability actually fucks with the time continuum or whatnot, given that it seems that it just reverts bodies to earlier versions of themselves. it is pretty wonky that the first thing it does is healing and the second thing it does is erase quirks tho, rather than de-aging, and we haven't actually seen if it has any middle grounds (like other kinds of de-evolution) between that and complete annihilation.

(seer's gone) huh. …well, he did have a big ol' spike replacing most of his internal organs. maybe eri coulda done something, but tbf she can neither steer nor control what she does, so (according to chisaki) she'd probably have just turned him into a monkey anyway

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Monica Geller’s Attitude Towards Body Image and Food

TRIGGER WARNING!  

UNHEALTHY ATTITUDE TOWARDS FOOD/EATING.

SPOILER ALERT kinda: Friends TV Show (1994-2004)

This is a list that I have made while re-watching Friends from the first season to the tenth season until the eighth episode. I was writing it quickly as I was watching it so there might be some spelling mistakes and the synopsis might be a bit off. Nevertheless, if you go back to the episodes you’ll know exactly what I am talking about. 

I’m just putting this here, because I don’t know what else to do with it and I think this adds depth to Monica’s character and her attitude towards eating, working out and.. perfectionism? 

Listed below are the specific season and episode of any actions or sayings or conversations that highlights Monica’s obesity when she was younger, eating habits when she was obese, eating habits now and/or fear of gaining the weight back. 

- "remember monica, its food not love"- S1E13

- chandler gaining weight, monica helping him out -S2E7

- monicas old bathing suit when she was bigger. chandler said it can cover conneticut when it rains -s2e14

- ross to monica: "cheater, cheater, compulsive eater". everyone yelps. -S3E9

- monica ate a whole box of brown bird -S3E10

- monica: "i can fit in the the frigde, but i mean i'll be cold. but hey i am always cold" -S3E22?? the episode w jon favreau

- monica's highschool and date with chip mathews - “The fat girl inside of me really wants to go,” Monica says. “I owe her this. I never let her eat” -S4E2

- monica: "i have not been picked up this much since kindergarten and they had to bring in someone from junior high to seesaw with me" -S4E10

-monica's nickname: big fat goalie -S4E12

-chandler calls monica "fat sister" to ross in flashback ('92) -S5E8

-(i dont know if this counts, but) in response to rachel's terrible trifle, to get away from it, monica said: "and im going to go to the bathroom, so i can look at it in the mirror as i eat it" -S6E9 

-ross says monica tried to escape from fat camp// monica: “i havent baked this many cookies since the 9th grade.” -S7E3

-ross: “monica was sent to her room without dinner so she ate the mac off a jewelry book she made��� -S7E4

-monica said a guy she was friends with said he wouldnt be her boyfriend when she was in the 5th grade because she was fat and made chandler apologize for doing the same thing to another girl -S7E6

-monica said on her 6th birthday she got on a bike and it got damaged/bent because of how “fat” she was. -S7E9

- monica says will was so overweight, she was considered the thin friend. -- BONUS:  will: 'can you tell them im skinny now''   monica: “oh me too.” -S8E9

-monica: *talking passionately about bread* "oh i really am not high, i just used to be fat." -S8E16

-ross to mon: ''monica couldnt get braces because their dog, chi chi, needed knee surgery. you (monica) were the 200 pound 11 year old who rode her''- S8E18

-monica says she picked out the names of her baby at 14. chandler (sarcastically): ''oh no its gonna be named after a snack or baked good isn’t it'' -S8E24

-monica said ross saw a childhood therapist because he had a recurring dream that she (monica) was going to eat him -S9E3

-ross about monica to rachel: "that little fatso was a terror" -S9E5

-rachel (introducing monica to her sister amy/jill): 'monica is ross's sister' , amy (or jill idk): ''no.. she was really fat.'' , monica: ''that was me.'' S9?E??

-monica says skippy used to push her because he liked her. rachel says honey all those boys were betting to see if he could knock you (monica) -S9E13 OR E12

- ross was telling a story and he mentioned that he had to head over to the store to get a dozen candy for someone... that someone was monica. S9E15

-monica: "thats how it starts I don't need to eat the cake, ill just smell the icing. Why not just a little sliver or a slice or two. next thing you know you’re 210 pounds and you get wedged in going down the tunnel slide'' -S9E17

-chandler to monica when evaluating a guy for sperm donor and monica rejects him: "why? because his great grandmother was obese? our child is gonna get that from you anyway" -S9E22

-monica said she won the pie eating contest when she was younger -S10E8

I want to end this by saying: There is nothing wrong with being fat. I was much happier eating whatever the heck I wanted without having to worry than I ever was starving myself to lose weight... I am glad I know this now, and I hope whoever is reading this and is struggling realizes this too.. Trust me, its not worth it.

Obviously, if you’re obese, there are tons of scientific research stating that you can develop many serious health risks.. So, do your best to exercise and most importantly to eat clean in a healthy way.. and of course, go to a certified nutritionist for help and don’t take advice from the internet. 

Good luck and best wishes to all. -M

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[off-by-one]

Close your eyes. Does anything feel weird? Because that’s what this is; feeling weird is how you know you’re still here. When was the last time you ate? Because all a human needs is food, water, and rest. You’ve got to remind yourself: you’re just 160 pounds of goo in the middle of a very big universe. So whatever’s bumming you out right now, just know that it will fade. Every problem feels big in the moment, but Gordon, you know better. So focus on just being being. And try to look up from your computer every once in a while.

Gordon, Halt and Catch Fire, S4E10