#braindead brigade

[missbaphomet]

I know I said I was done talking about the internet drama Ken has dragged me into, but it's clear he didn't understand anything I said and was deliberately trying to overwhelm me with messages so that I couldn't fully respond. Well, it's over now, and I have all the time in the world to fully respond. Stay tuned for that, but it may take me a while to transcribe his messages from over the course of 53 individual screenshots. I will be preserving self censorship, lack of punctuation, and typos for posterity.

Do I think it will make Ken realize he's being an idiot? No. But I want it off my chest to be done with it.

[fenedhislasa]

ngl all the veilguard discourse is depressing me lol

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

i immediately deleted the ask i got because it's fucking braindead but im gonna post about it anyway.

if you have to start with "you CLEARLY only consume popular/recent media you need to watch unpopular/ancient media instead" and go on to detail why i'm wrong and why i should pry my eyes open like clockwork orange and force myself to watch fictional characters with zero established compatibility lick each other's necks to whatever the current iteration of shape of you is nowadays/was back then? you're actually stupid. like genuinely you're a dipshit full stop.

no the fuck i don't need to watch X Y Z or the sequel prequel spinoff. i dont need to do fucking anything that you insist i 'need' to force me into your blowhard bitch brigade full of self-fellating schmucks.

you ''need'' to sniff a flower and feel the wind on your face. bask in the dappled sunlight under a tree and eat some sliced fruit. jackass.

[wumblr]

still think it was remarkably and unusually shitty for y'all to brigade me because i saw a bomb test. i have, again, said it all before but there's functionally no difference between these dumbasses and a far-right conservative. they're lucky i have bigger problems than arguing with the cartoon obsessed braindead about nuclear policy, i know i'm not getting an apology when i'm proven right yet again, because i have, again, been talking about this since longer ago than when some of y'all were first learning shapes and colors. ain't my first goddamn rodeo, i can tell it is some of y'all's though because you were asking for photos as if there's anything to be proven by that. think for one fucking second. sorry for not talking down and explaining it in easy to digest little animated stories, maybe that would have worked since they're all hopelessly conditioned to expect nothing else.

you think i took a dslr out to visit a decommissioned proving ground in between visits with my dying mom? do you know i stopped out there because i was driving 1200 miles further to pack up the last of a storage unit to move across country for an engagement to marry that fell apart? even aside from the fact i didn't go expecting to see anything, it's fucking personal. i wanted to walk the leviathan ground like some belly of the beast shit and my mom was getting sick of me trying to hold her to account on her deathbed anyway. no, it's not radiation poisoning or cancer, it's octopus-pot heart and i'm pretty sure it's my fault. it's my aunt that's fighting cancer, currently, this year, as opposed to every other person i've known who's fought it. not that it's any of your fucking business but if any one of you took the time to walk a mile in my shoes you'd be dead from sheer stress on the first step. stress is what killed the engagement. little else i can do but laugh at how stupid this is because of course, what else would happen? you can't make me unsee it, so none of your objections matter one half of a shit. i didn't want your attention and i don't care what you think.

the fact that still gets me is like... so we both agree you shouldn't believe me sight unseen -- that was stated outright in the one post you couldn't read -- so... what were you actually disagreeing with? abject lack of context? the precious idea of me you have in your head? it'd be hilarious if it wasn't such pathetic, wilfully malinformed bullshit over such a gravely serious subject. we were disagreeing over whether authorized testing is detectable by unauthorized test detection methods or over whether another country would call our bullshit in the middle of declaring six different wars? i'm sorry, i mean humanitarian proxy conflict interventions. so, we were disagreeing about reactors, huh? as a proxy conflict? i've already said that the braindead model the behavior of the empire interpersonally. we were arguing over whether you knew more about detection than the wing of government designed to evade precisely that? appealing to the authority of a crumbling infrastructure? which part, precisely? we were arguing because i said maybe two kilotons and you pictured castle bravo? stupid.

so hellbent on believing you wouldn't hear about a bomb test on the internet while you fawn over the possibility of covert celebrity migration from twitter. yet more trifling ass bullshit. put it together, dumbass. you didn't hear me any of the other times i talked about it, maybe that's why i have a notebook here while i'm trying to figure out how to detect what's designed to evade detection so i and the other three people in the world who care about this can figure out the appropriate means to make you hear about it in a way you can afford to believe without having to crush yourself under the weight of your own culpability in it while the IAEA is busy debuting drones at COP27. i wish they'd all just die on god but that'd be a mercy they don't deserve.

[itsjustmyunpopularopinion]

Look, I know I came off pretty fucking heated from this initial post, but you gotta understand - Pikamee isn’t just a “talking jpeg”, she’s just another person, like you or me. There are people behind those avatars, y’know.

She had a rough fucking childhood growing up in Japan, mostly due in part to the fact that she was Half American/Half Japanese, so she was bullied RELENTLESSLY. She grows up with this vitriol constantly lobbed her way, and so she escapes into streaming, finding acceptance and love from Westerners who find her charming and fun to watch.

She’s the antithesis to your average Social Media consumer. She’s not without her flaws, sure, and some folks may consider her acceptance of LoliSho art distasteful (but some of y’all got brainworms and dive off the deep end on that topic), and that’s fine. (except for those of you mentioned before. It’s a goddamn drawing. let’s not trivialize actual trauma by pretending cartoons play any part in that)

But y’all went and turned into the exact same people she had to deal with growing up, you put her through those hellish school days all over again. And over what? A video game? Instead of just saying “Hey, maybe don’t.” and leaving it at that (because Japan, believe it or not, tends to ignore the nontroversies occurring in the west, or giving it a glance and an eye-roll), you people brigaded her, dogpiled her, screamed threats and harassment down her throat until she finally fucking hit a breaking point and vanished off the net for three goddamn weeks.

Over. A Video Game, I’d like to reiterate.

I’ve seen the word “Parasocial” tossed at me a few times, and…no? I don’t feel any sort of personal attachment towards Pikamee, Silvervale, or any other streamer you people have basically tried to lynch online. What I see, is a group of bullies trying to push other people around, without actual cause, or even the slightest hint of guilt, or SHRED of self-awareness. I don’t like bullies. I was bullied growing up, see? I can relate to them, yes, but that’s about it. I just don’t like bullies and mob mentality.

And worse yet, you go flying off the handle over rumors, speculation, and allegations. Not proof, no smoking guns, just rumor and hearsay surrounding the game’s plot and development.

Hell, I’m willing to bet a good chunk of you Twitter Freak Apologists liked or shared that shitty Kotaku article that dropped, colorfully rewording “Harassment”, “Doxxing”, and “Sending Death Threats” to “Lightly Criticized”, “Educated”, and “Shared Discomfort”.

Y’all need to learn that there’s a fine line for what’s socially acceptable behavior, even online, and stop crossing that line so fucking liberally.

As a parting note, remember: The fact that Hogwarts Legacy is currently holding the record for Largest Launch Sales Figures for a game? That’s on you. You braindead, terminally online zoomers caused a Streisand Effect so massive, it may as well be renamed to the Rowling Effect at this point.

You People are Fucking Disgusting, Unwashed Fungoids in Desperate Need of a Shower.

All Pikamee wanted to do was play a fucking game. But Nooo, you shitheads had to become “CAPTAIN PROGRESSIVE! HARASSER OF THE EVERYDAY PERSON!”

Her crime? She wanted to play the stupid wizard game…and you fucking brainlets chose to harass and bully her until she cancelled the stream.

You realize, when you pull shit like this, it makes your side look like a big ol’ massive fucking pile of mentally damaged psychopaths, right?

Right?

[salvador-daley]

what do you think klaus and dave’s first big fight was about?

Given that Klaus spent his whole life being immortal and not knowing about it, I imagine that probably made him, um, a little reckless sometimes. I can imagine him doing something foolish on the battlefield and that leading to a fight.

I imagine it probably went something like this…

CW: Vietnam war setting = bloody violence

Words: 1,150

The whole thing was fucked up from the start. They were dropped from the chopper on the other side of the treeline in broad daylight, which meant anyone in a ten mile radius would have known they were planning an ambush.

Fuck knows whose bright idea that was. It wasn’t their place to ask; they took their orders and they carried them out, no matter how suicidal the mission, no matter how braindead the person giving the orders.

No wonder there were rumours from other brigades about commanding officers getting fragged in their tents in the night.

Myths, probably.

Maybe.

For what little good it did, they had crouched in the dirt and crawled their way to the trail, digging a trench behind a small hedge row from which to plan their next move.

There was only one way out in or out of the village - an oasis positioned in the middle of a patchwork quilt of rice paddies - and this was it.

It was agreed. They would wait until dark and pick off the target if and when they decided to leave.

As the sun set, a silence fell on the village. The lights were snuffed out, one by one. The cows in the paddies ceased their mournful lowing.

Even the crickets were still.

The night sky was blank with clouds. No moon or stars to see by.

Just endless, velvet night.

And then, in the darkness, something took to the sky. Something small and light. A moving shadow, the size of a fist. And now falling, falling, finding the earth with a soft thud.

“Oh, shit,” someone whispered, right before the trench lit up with an infernal blast, kicking dirt and body parts into the air. An ear-splitting boom rattled around the valley, followed by the panicked screams to open fire.

But there was nothing to open fire onto. No muzzle flashes, no movement. Just another shadow lifting into the air and then another, and another. Thud… thud, thud.

“Get out of there! Move, move!”

Dave grabbed him, tugging him to his feet by the collar. Together they scrambled out of the trench and towards the trees as more explosions shook the earth, softening the wet dirt under their feet and hands.

Klaus’ ears were ringing, he couldn’t get his bearings. Darkness lay in every direction.

How many of their comrades had survived? They couldn’t know. The voices of those still alive bounced off the trees, the groans of the injured echoed around them.

“Stay down!” a voice called out - whoever was in charge now.

“We’re fucked,” hissed Dave. “We can’t see them, but they can see us. We’re sitting ducks.”

Klaus couldn’t make out Dave’s face, but he could certainly guess his expression, imagine the lines of his forehead coming together, the widened pupils and pale skin. A rabbit in headlights, awaiting the surety of its fate.

And that made Klaus thankful for the dark.

“What we need is a distraction,” he said.

And Dave had agreed. “That’s for sure.”

Thinking back on it, that probably wasn’t Dave’s way of giving him permission to do what he did next. But Klaus was never one to wait for permission anyway.

He rose to his feet and bolted from trees. “Yoo hoo! Over here!”

“Klaus, no!”

But Dave’s voice was already behind him. He darted across the trail, waving his gun high above his head, twirling in circles. “Hey, losers! Look at me!”

Bullets begin to whizz past his ears, pelting the ground by his feet. Klaus tapdanced around them as if starring in a Broadway musical.

“Wassamatter? Can’t kill me?”

From the trees where his comrades lay hidden, Klaus heard someone shout. “Motherfucker has lost his mind!”

“Who cares?” Someone answered back. “It’s working.”

The sound of gunfire exploded from the treeline. The enemy had made themselves known now, which meant his company stood a fighting chance. But it also meant Klaus was being shot at from all sides.

He ducked. Too late. A hard impact sent him flying to the ground. And then the open trench swallowed him whole like a yawning grave.

He woke to Dave shining a torch in his face. A medic slapping him about the cheeks.

“He’s alive,” someone said with an incredulous laugh. “The crazy son of a bitch is alive.”

“Did I miss all the fun?” Klaus groaned, reaching a hand up to the back of his head. His helmet had fallen off and his hair was wet with a warm, viscous substance. His skull was pounding like hell.

“Klaus,” said Dave, leaning in to bring his face closer. “Do you have any idea what you just did?”

Klaus chuckled and tried to sit upright. “I believe I just saved the day with my spectacular dance moves.”

“No, you stupid bastard.” Dave grabbed Klaus’ vest with both hands and lifted him, pulling his face close to his own until they were almost touching and Klaus could feel Dave’s hot breath on his nose, the flecks of spittle landing on his cheeks. Dave’s teeth were gritted and his eyes were blazing with something Klaus had never seen there before: anger. “What the fuck did you think you were doing?”

“Woah, woah, woah…” Klaus attempted to wriggle free from the two hands holding him firm, but Dave wasn’t letting go. “Is that all the thanks I get? For saving your life?”

Dave’s voice pitched higher, the grip tightening in his two fists around Klaus’ clothes. “Don’t you understand. You could have been killed, you fucking asshole!”

And that’s when he saw it. Illuminated by the soft yellow torchlight. The look of fear in Dave’s eyes. The terror.

Klaus stopped struggling to break free and he felt Dave loosen his grip without letting go. The man looked desperate, distraught even.

“If something had happened to you…” he whispered, unable to piece the final jigsaw pieces of that sentence together.

“All right, all right.” Klaus wrapped his hands over Dave’s and brought his voice lower so the others wouldn’t hear it. “I’m sorry, okay? I didn’t mean to scare you.”

Dave let go of Klaus’ vest, allowing Klaus to sink back into the mud, which welcomed him again. He slumped on the opposite side of the trench, broken and defeated, and picked Klaus’ fallen helmet out of the mud. As he turned it in his hand, Klaus could see a hole at the back that wasn’t there before. Dave poked his finger through it and met Klaus’ eyes again.

“Just don’t… don’t fucking do something like that ever again.”

Klaus double checked the back of his head. Blood on his fingertips. But no bulletholes, no entry wounds. The bullet must have grazed him as he fell into the pit.

He let out a long breath and wiped his bloodied hand on his pants. “Okay. I won’t, I promise.”

And for once, he meant it.

If you enjoyed this fic, would you be willing to give it a quick reblog? Thank you! 😘😘

[love-toxin]

ok but I'm thinkin bout steve + dorky angelface again and kickin my feet cause...........you've got those big wire-rimmed glasses that reflect the neon lights off the arcade screens, and those old t-shirts and jeans with holes ripped through them, not for style but because they're well-loved, and that lanyard that you always have around your neck because you like to fiddle with it when you're anxious or focusing or whatever. you're not the type he's gone for before but steve is so fucking whipped because you're just......you're so cute in that nerdy way, so unashamed of enjoying what you like, you match the energy of the kids that you call your best buds, and yet you're kind and careful and exude that aura of comfort that makes him just want to melt into every touch you offer him. whether it's a hand on his shoulder or your fingers brushing his wrist as you guide his hand to the joysticks on your favourite game, or even the tickle of your hair against his cheek as you two stand shoulder-to-shoulder on one of the multiplayer cabinets while dustin and max and mike and lucas all cheer and shriek excitedly as you approach a new high score. you're such a dork but you're so cool cause you've got the keys to the arcade, the holy grail of friday nights, and you single-handedly captain the geek brigade with that big, dumb smile on your lips, and eyes that always glimmer like you've got some big scheme cooking up in that busy brain of yours.

and steve also wants that head empty for once, wants those eyes glittering with tears and those lips parted and wet with spit as he fucks you until you're practically braindead. wants to lift you up on one of the pinball machines, the arcade completely empty of patrons so late into the night, and watch those glasses slip down your face and fall askew as he rocks his hips so hard against you he leaves bruises where he's dragging your waist down to meet him. wants that damn machine to shake and wobble like it's gonna collapse under the weight of his thrusts, each one testing the strength of those legs and yours when you try to get up and walk tomorrow morning. wants you to hear his grunts and groaning and spitting your name into your open mouth as he kisses you, cause you clench up so much when he says your name--even harder when he mutters that he never knew you were such a slut, never pegged you for one, but god if you aren't such a pretty one. and steve's not cumming until you do, not until you lose all sense of dignity and babble out that you're so close, steve you're so close, you're gonna make a huge mess--and he pushes his thumb even harder against your sweet spot, makes you throw your head back in a whine so loud he's relieved there's nobody around, and orders you to make a mess for him cause he knows he's gonna cum so hard when he watches that sweet face twist up in pleasure that you'd never get just from touching yourself while thinking of him. you'll get an apology for letting your glasses fall off and hit the floor, plus a heart attack when you slide off the pinball machine and see the pool of cum and slick that you've both left behind, but steve will help you clean it--and when that fails, he'll help you move it into the back room for "maintenance" that you're gonna have a hell of a time explaining to your boss the next day. although, knowing steve, he'll take advantage of it and use that poor, poor pinball as your designated dogging spot whenever you two find yourselves alone together after hours again.

[missbaphomet]

Imagine posting you yelling at a 16 year old for prioritizing her health and school over playing video games with you and pretending that SHE'S the bad guy for that. That is a fucking child, Emily. This shit you're doing? That is a hallmark of emotional abuse. You have posted how you've been talking to her since she was 11, and then openly display that you're fucking grooming her, and make no mistake, this is grooming.

Misty, if you see this, you deserve better. I was groomed in a manner very similar to this, and you can get out. If you ever need someone, you know where to find me. I'm so sorry Emily is doing this to you.

[randomrealityshift]

Cant wait for the rest of the harbingers show up in game so genshin’s braindead twitter brigade can have meltdowns over character other than childe for a change

[tuseriesdetv]

Guía de series: Estrenos y regresos de febrero 2019

E.

¡Feliz febrero!

Leyenda:

Verde: series nuevas.

Rojo: series de las que haremos reviews semanales.

Negro: regresos de otras series.

Naranja: miniseries o series documentales.

Amarillo: tv movies, documentales, especiales o pilotos.

Morado: season finales.

Púrpura: midseason finales.

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Calendario de series

1 de febrero: 

Russian Doll (1T completa), Velvet Buzzsaw y Siempre bruja en Netflix

Folklore en HBO

4 de febrero: 

Man with a Plan (3T) en CBS

Vis a vis (series finale) en FOX España

5 de febrero: 

American Soul (1T) en BET

American Housewife (cambio de día) en ABC

8 de febrero: 

PEN15 (1T completa) en Hulu

One Day at a Time (3T completa) y High Flying Bird en Netflix

10 de febrero: 

The Walking Dead (9bT) en AMC

Endeavour (6T) en ITV

11 de febrero: American Dad! (16T) en TBS

12 de febrero: 

Miracle Workers (1T) en TBS

Shetland (5T) en BBC One

13 de febrero: Weird City (1T) en YouTube Premium

14 de febrero: Flack (1T) en Pop

15 de febrero: 

The Umbrella Academy (1T completa) en Netflix

Proven Innocent (1T) en FOX

Doom Patrol (1T) en DC Universe

Lorena en Amazon

Kim Possible en Disney Channel

16 de febrero: Ransom (2T) en CBS

18 de febrero: Manifest (1T finale) en NBC

21 de febrero: The Oath (2T completa) en Sony Crackle

22 de febrero: 

Curfew (1T) en Sky One

Mira lo que has hecho (2T) en Movistar+

Go! Vive a tu manera (1T), Paddleton y Paris est á Nous en Netflix

23 de febrero: O.G. en HBO

24 de febrero: 

Whiskey Cavalier (1T) en ABC

True Detective (3T finale) en HBO

25 de febrero: 

The Enemy Within (1T) en NBC

Shadowhunters (3bT y última) en Freeform

28 de febrero: 

Better Things (3T) en FX

Isn't It Romantic? en Netflix

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Estrenos de series

Russian Doll (Netflix)

Nadia (Natasha Lyonne; Orange Is the New Black, American Pie) trata de escapar de una fiesta que se celebra por su 36 cumpleaños. Pero acaba muriendo en cada intento y el día se repite una y otra vez. Con Greta Lee (Girls, Chance), Yul Vazquez (The Looming Tower; Midnight, Texas), Elizabeth Ashley (Treme, Evening Shade) y Charlie Barnett (Chicago Fire, Secrets & Lies) y la participación de Chloë Sevigny (Big Love, American Horror Story) o Dascha Polanco (Orange Is the New Black, American Crime Story) como invitadas. Creada por Lyonne, Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation, Upright Citizens Brigade) y Leslye Headland (Bachelorette, Sleeping with Other People). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 1 de febrero

A favor: Cómo no vamos a ver una serie de Amy Poehler.

En contra: Nosotros ya sabemos cómo va a acabar, ¿y tú?

American Soul (BET)

Cuenta la historia del nacimiento del programa Soul Train en los años 70 centrándose en la vida personal y profesional de Don Cornelius (Sinqua Walls; Once Upon a Time, Power). Con la participación de Kelly Price (Saints & Sinners, Bringing Down the House), Jason Dirden (Greenleaf, House of Payne), Iantha Richardson (This Is Us), Christopher Jefferson (5th Ward), Katlyn Nichol, Jelani Winston, Shannon Kane (The Originals, All My Children) y Perri Camper (The Bobby Brown Story) y los cameos de Kelly Rowland, Bobby Brown, Gabrielle Dennis, McKinley Freeman, K. Michelle y Michelle Williams interpretando a Diana Ross y Tina Turner entre otros. Creada y producida por Devon Greggory (Being Mary Jane, Harry's Law). Diez episodios. Estreno: 5 de febrero

A favor: Historia viva.

En contra: Quizás a muchos nos pille demasiado lejos como para querer conocerla.

PEN15 (Hulu)

Creada, escrita, producida y protagonizada por Maya Erskine (Casual, Insecure) y Anna Konkle (Rosewood, Maron), que interpretan a sus versiones adolescentes, es una comedia sobre la vida en el instituto desde el punto de vista de dos adultas con ganas de contar todo aquello de otra manera. Diez episodios. Estreno: 8 de febrero

A favor: Probablemente más realista que cualquier otra comedia de adolescentes.

En contra: ¿Quizá demasiado centrada en el sexo? Vosotros diréis.

Miracle Workers (TBS)

Craig (Daniel Radcliffe; Harry Potter, Swiss Army Man), Eliza (Geraldine Viswanathan; The Package, Blockers) y Sanjay (Karan Soni; The Goldbergs, Blunt Talk) son tres ángeles del departamento de plegarias escuchadas que deberán ayudar a dos humanos a enamorarse para que Dios (Steve Buscemi; Reservoir Dogs, Boardwalk Empire), que ha decidido pasar página con su viejo proyecto, no aniquile a toda la humanidad. Creada por Simon Rich (Man Seeking Woman, Saturday Night Live). Siete episodios. Estreno: 12 de febrero

A favor: Limited series puede significar que tiene final cerrado y perfecto.

En contra: También puede significar que pretenden renovarla pero la cancelarán si no triunfa.

Weird City (YouTube Premium)

Antología de Jordan Peele (Get Out, Key and Peele) y Charlie Sanders (Key and Peele) que analiza el destino de nuestra sociedad con historias de comedia y ciencia ficción en episodios independientes, pero todos ambientados en la distópica ciudad de Weird en un futuro cercano, donde la clase media ha desaparecido y la gente está por encima o por debajo de la línea y el doctor Negari, científico interpretado por LeVar Burton (Star Trek, Perception), presenta nuevos inventos que mejoran la salud, el transporte, el amor o el sexo de la gente. El reparto está formado por Dylan O'Brien (Teen Wolf, The Maze Runner), Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black), Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Ed O'Neill (Modern Family, Married with Children), Michael Cera (Superbad, Juno), Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians, Ocean's 8), Hannah Simone (New Girl), Rosario Dawson (Daredevil, Seven Pounds), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community, Mom), Auli'i Cravalho (Moana, Rise), Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, Okja), Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love), Sara Gilbert (The Big Bang Theory, Roseanne), Malcolm Barrett (Timeless, Preacher) o Eugene Cordero (The Good Place, Black Monday). Seis episodios. Estreno: 13 de febrero

A favor: Una Black Mirror de otro estilo.

En contra: Eso no tiene por qué ser bueno, mirad Electric Dreams. No, no la miréis.

Flack (Pop)

Robyn (Anna Paquin; Alias Grace, X-Men) es una relaciones públicas que vive en Londres que deja su vida personal de lado para acallar escándalos y tratar con celebridades exigentes. Completan el cast Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda, The Slap), Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, Studio 60), Lydia Wilson (Requiem, Ripper Street), Genevieve Angelson (Good Girls Revolt, House of Lies), Rebecca Benson (The White Princess, Game of Thrones), Arinzé Kene (Crazyhead, Our Girl) y Marc Warren (The Good Wife, Snatch). Creada por Oliver Lansley y dirigida por Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty, The A Word). Seis episodios. Estreno: 14 de febrero

A favor: ¿Tenemos sucesora de Scandal?

En contra: La cadena es lo que nos da esperanzas.

The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)

Adaptación del cómic del mismo nombre, cuenta la historia de seis superhéroes que se reúnen tras el asesinato del multimillonario que los adoptó y crió. Protagonizada por Ellen Page (Juno, Hard Candy), Tom Hopper (Black Sails, Game of Thrones), Emmy Raver-Lampman (Hamilton, Wicked), David Castañeda (Switched at Birth, Jane the Virgin), Robert Sheehan (Misfits, Fortitude), Aidan Gallagher (Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn), Mary J. Blige (Scream, Mudbound), Cameron Britton (Mindhunter, Stitchers), Adam Godley (Powers, Breaking Bad), Colm Feore (House of Cards, The Borgias), John Magaro (Orange Is the New Black, Jack Ryan), Kate Walsh (Grey's Anatomy, 13 Reasons Why) y Ashley Madekwe (Salem, Revenge). Escrita por Steve Blackman (Fargo, Altered Carbon). Diez episodios. Estreno: 15 de febrero

A favor: Les ha tocado salvar el mes.

En contra: El peso que recae sobre ellos.

Proven Innocent (FOX)

Madeline Scott (Rachelle Lefevre; Under the Dome, Mary Kills People) es una abogada que resuelve casos de personas que han sido declaradas culpables injustamente y lucha duramente por ello tras haber pasado ella misma por el banquillo de los acusados por un crimen que no cometió. Le acompañan Kelsey Grammer (Frasier, Boss), Russell Hornsby (Grimm, Seven Seconds), Laurie Holden (The Walking Dead, The Americans), Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men, Angel), Nikki M. James (BrainDead, The Good Wife), Riley Smith (Frequency, Life Sentence), Elaine Hendrix (Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, Joan of Arcadia) o Tembi Locke (Eureka). Creada por David Elliot (Four Brothers, Knightfall). Estreno: 15 de febrero

A favor: Tenemos suerte de que la protagonista sea mujer y no sea Katherine Heigl.

En contra: Destaca entre tanta serie de la cadena que parece de hace veinte años.

Doom Patrol (DC Universe)

Robotman (Brendan Fraser; Trust, The Affair), Negative Man (Matt Bomer; American Horror Story, White Collar), Elasti-Girl (April Bowlby; Drop Dead Diva, Two and a Half Men) y Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero; Orange Is the New Black, Jane the Virgin) son un grupo de superhéroes marginados por la sociedad, cuyas habilidades aparecieron tras horribles accidentes, reunidos y liderados por el científico loco Niles Caulder (Timothy Dalton; Penny Dreadful, James Bond), también conocido como The Chief, que les pide investigar los fenómenos más extraños y proteger la Tierra. Cyborg (Joivan Wade, The First Purge) les llama a la acción tras los acontecimientos ocurridos en Titans. Escrita por Jeremy Carver (Supernatural, Being Human) y producida por Greg Berlanti (Titans, Arrow). Trece episodios. Estreno: 15 de febrero

A favor: Ya sabes perfectamente si esta serie te va a gustar.

En contra: No esperamos nada de ella, aunque eso tal vez sea bueno. Ya nos pasó con Titans.

Curfew (Sky One)

Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings), Adam Brody (The O.C., StartUp), Miranda Richardson (Sleepy Hollow, Harry Potter), Billy Zane (Titanic, Charmed), Adrian Lester (Hustle, Riviera), Phoebe Fox (The Hollow Crown, Close to the Enemy), Malachi Kirby (Roots, Black Mirror), Robert Glenister (Close to the Enemy, Hustle), Michael Biehn (Aliens, Planet Terror), Rose Williams (Reign, Medici: The Magnificent) y Ike Bennett protagonizan este thriller ambientado en un presente alternativo en el que la gente participa en una carrera ilegal a muerte para escapar de un gobierno totalitario. Creada por Matthew Read, guionista de Hammer of the Gods y productor de Happy Valley o Doctor Foster. Ocho episodios. Estreno: 22 de febrero

A favor: Apostaremos cuánto dura vivo Sean Bean, somos muy básicas.

En contra: Madre mía, ¿pero tú has visto el póster? Parece que lo he hecho yo.

Go! Vive a tu manera (Netflix)

Mía (Pilar Pascual), con un talento especial para la música, consigue una beca en una escuela de artes escénicas y también una enemistad automática con la hija del dueño (Renata Toscano) y un interés por su hermano (José Giménez Zapiola). Creada y dirigida por el compositor y productor musical Sebastián Mellino (Violetta) y escrita por Patricia Maldonado (Rebelde Way, Floricienta). Quince episodios. Estreno: 22 de febrero

A favor: Se ve que es un aperitivo del remake de Rebelde Way.

En contra: ¿Cuánto confían es ésta si ya han anunciado la otra?

Whiskey Cavalier (ABC)

Will Chase (Scott Foley; Scandal, Grey's Anatomy) es un agente del FBI, con nombre en clave 'Whiskey Cavalier', que tras una ruptura sentimental comienza a trabajar con la agente de la CIA Francesca 'Frankie' Trowbridge (Lauren Cohan; The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries), con nombre en clave 'Fiery Tribune'. Juntos lideran un equipo de heroicos, divertidos e imperfectos espías que salvan el mundo cada semana mientras testan sus amistades, amoríos y relaciones laborales. Completan el reparto Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty, Devious Maids), Tyler James Williams (Everybody Hates Chris, Dear White People), Josh Hopkins (Quantico, Cougar Town), Bellamy Young (Scandal), Marika Domińczyk (Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters) y el comediante Vir Das. Escrita por Dave Hemingson (Just Shot Me!, Pepper Ann) y producida por Foley. Estreno: 24 de febrero

A favor: Ya era hora de que Lauren Cohan buscase otro camino.

En contra: No estamos seguros de que este sea el correcto, aunque no pasa nada por probar.

The Enemy Within (NBC)

Thriller sobre una antigua agente de la CIA (Jennifer Carpenter; Dexter, The Exorcism of Emily Rose), ahora en prisión por traicionar a su país, y un agente del FBI (Morris Chestnut; Rosewood, Nurse Jackie), que no confía en ella, trabajando juntos para atrapar a un peligroso criminal que ella conoce muy bien. Completan el reparto Raza Jaffrey (Smash, Lost in Space), Cassandra Freeman (Luke Cage), Noah Mills (The Brave, Two Broke Girls), Kelli Garner (Pan Am, The Aviator), Robert Gossett (The Closer, Major Crimes) y Coral Peña (24: Legacy). Creada por Ken Woodruff (The Mentalist, Gotham). Estreno: 25 de febrero

A favor: Nos cuelan otra The Blacklist sin despeinarse. Ya pueden cancelar la primera.

En contra: Tener a Carpenter como policía es desaprovecharla, a menos que se marque un Carrie Mathison.

Traitors (Channel 4)

En 1945, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una ambiciosa veinteañera (Emma Appleton; Clique, Genius) cuya familia no aprecia sus aspiraciones se une al Servicio Civil y, mediante su amante americano (Matt Lauria; Kingdom, Friday Night Lights), acepta espiar a su propio gobierno para los americanos, que quieren asegurarse de que el nuevo socialismo no ayuda a los soviéticos. Cuenta también con Keeley Hawes (Line of Duty, Bodyguard), Michael Stuhlbarg (The Shape of Water, Call Me by Your Name), Brandon P. Bell (Dear White People, Hollywood Heights), Luke Treadaway (Fortitude, Ordeal by Innocence), Stephen Campbell Moore (The Last Post, The Wrong Mans). Creada y escrita por Bash Doran (Masters of Sex, Boardwalk Empire) y dirigida por Alex Winckler (My Mad Fat Diary, The Good Karma Hospital) y Dearbhla Walsh (Penny Dreadful, Fargo). Seis episodios. Estreno: Aún sin fecha

A favor: Mujeres espía en los cuarenta. Qué más queremos.

En contra: ¿Pereza soviética?

MotherFatherSon (BBC Two)

Caden (Billy Howle; Glue, On Chesil Beach) es hijo de un gran empresario americano (Richard Gere; Chicago, Pretty Woman) y una heredera británica (Helen McCrory; Peaky Blinders, Penny Dreadful), dirige el periódico que su padre tiene en Londres y está preparado para seguir sus pasos y convertirse en uno de los hombres más poderosos del mundo, pero su estilo de vida autodestructivo amenaza el futuro de la familia, de su imperio e incluso del país. Completan el cast Elena Anaya (La piel que habito, Wonder Woman), Ciarán Hinds (The Terror, Game of Thrones), Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax), Sinéad Cusack (Marcella, V for Vendetta), Paul Ready (The Terror, Utopia), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Sick Note, Harlots), Danny Sapani (Penny Dreadful, Harlots), Niamh Algar (Pure), Jessica Gunning (Pride, Fortitude) y Joseph Mawle (Game of Thrones, The Tunnel). Creada por Tom Rob Smith (The Assassination of Gianni Versace, American Crime Story, London Spy) y dirigida por James Kent (The White Queen, 11.22.63). Ocho episodios. Estreno: Aún sin fecha

A favor: Otro grande que se pasa a la tele.

En contra: Esperemos que el fichaje famoso no sea para compensar una trama floja.

[defjux]

Favorite 5 films?

sorry this is so long, i couldn’t bring myself to just pick 5.

12 Angry Men (1957)28 Days Later (2002)The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)Akira (1988)Alien/Aliens (1979/1986)Altered States (1980)Amadeus (1984)An American Werewolf in London (1981)Angel’s Egg (1985)Apocalypse Now (1979)A Touch Of Zen  (1971)Back to The Future I & II (1985/1989)Big Trouble In Little China (1986)Blade Runner (1982)Brazil (1985)The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)The Brood (1979)Children of Men (2006)Chinatown (1974)Contempt (1963)Dark City (1998)Dead Alive/Braindead (1992)Die Hard (1988) Dr. Strangelove (1964)Do The Right Thing (1989)Dracula (1958)Drunken Master (1978)Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)Eraserhead (1977)Escape From New York (1981)Evil Dead II (1987)The Exorcist (1973)The Fifth Element (1997) Five Element Ninjas (1982)The Fly (1986)Forrest Gump (1994)Full Metal Jacket (1987)The Godfather 1 & 2 (1972/1974)Ghostbusters  (1984)Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)Ghost In The Shell (1995)Gladiator (2000)Godzilla (1954)Grave of the Fireflies (1988)Gremlins (1984)Haraikiri (1962)Heat (1995)Hellraiser (1987)The Hidden Fortress (1958)Home Alone (1990)House (1977)Inferno (1980)Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)The Iron Giant (1999)Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)Jurassic Park (1993)Kagemusha (1980)Kill Bill 1 & 2 (2003/2004)Lady Snowblood (1973)La Planete SauvageLeon The Professional (1994)The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)The Lion King (1994)Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)Lost In Translation (2003)Mad Max 2: Road Warrior (1981)Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)The Matrix (1999)Memento (2000)Metropolis (1927)The Mist (2007)Mulholland DriveNo Country For Old Men (2007)Oldboy (2003)Once Upon a Time in America (1984)Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)Perfect Blue (1997)Predator (1987)The Prestige (2006)Princess Mononoke (most Ghibli films really)Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)Ran (1985)Rear Window (1954)Reservoir Dogs (1992)Return of the Jedi (1983)Sansho the Bailiff (1954)Se7en (1995)Seven Samurai (1954)The Seventh Seal (1957)The Shining (1980)Shogun Assassin (1980)Solaris (1972)Space Jam (1996)Stalker (1979)Suspiria (1977)The Sword of Doom (1966)Synecdoche, New York (2008)Taxi Driver (1976)Terminator: Judgement Day (1991)There Will Be Blood (2007)Thief (1981)The Thing (1982)Throne of Blood (1957)Touch of Evil (1958)Toy Story (1995)Vertigo (1958)Videodrome (1983)The Warriors (1979)Yojimbo (1961)

I like a lot of what i’ve seen from Cronenberg, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Lynch, Tarkovsky, Miyazaki, Ridley Scott, Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Tarantino, Sergio Leone, Coen brothers, Carpenter, and Del Toro but i’ll basically watch anything lol

some more recent favorites: Blade Runner 2049, Avengers: Infinity War, Blindspotting, The Night Comes For Us, Mandy, Annihilation, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Hereditary, Good Time , The Florida Project, Get Out, Logan, John Wick, Split, The Void, Brigsby Bear, Raw, Don’t Breathe, Terrifier, Mad Max Fury Road, Green Room, The Witch, Upgrade, Whiplash, Ex Machina, Nightcrawler, Birdman, and Grand Budapest Hotel

[metawitches]

This is a recap. My review of Transfers Season 1 is HERE.

Transfers (Transferts) is a French science fiction-thriller series from the Arte network, which aired in November, 2017. The entire 6 episode series, which was created and written by Patrick Benedek and Claude Scasso, is now streaming on Netflix. Transfers won Best French Series and Best Actor (for star Arieh Worthalter) at the 2017 Séries Mania Festival, an international festival. The series was filmed in Belgium.

Transfers follows the story of Florian Bassot, a down to earth cabinetmaker and married father of two. Florian goes into a five year coma after suffering a swimming accident. He’s woken up from his coma by his wife Sophie’s uncle, Dr Vautier, who has transferred his mind into the body of another man, anti-transfer paramilitary officer Sylvain Bernard.

Sylvain was shot in the shoulder, but died from a reaction to the anesthetic used in his surgery to remove the bullet. His doctor kept his death a secret, and brought him to the transfer center for Dr Vautier to use in his experiments. Florian is confused when he awakens and sees his own dead body on the next table.

Since no one knows Sylvain is braindead, and everyone thinks Florian is braindead, Florian/Sylvain must assume Sylvain’s life as a violent officer in the anti-transfer police, the BATI. He’s forced to try to convince the people who were closest to Sylvain that he has amnesia, while navigating the world of illegal underground transfers and organized crime, as well as attempting to secretly rekindle his marriage to Sophie and reconnect with his children.

All while trying to avoid being identified as an illegal transfer, arrested, and interned in the transfer center for life.

Episode one begins with Florian, Sophie, their son, Thomas, and their daughter, Julie, relaxing on a boat. Florian stops to give each family member a hug and kiss, then he jumps into the water for a swim. Something goes wrong in the water, and he drowns.

Five years later, he is resuscitated in a medical setting, covered in blue gel, with two middle-aged male doctors hovering over him. One tries to get Florian’s attention, saying he’s Sophie’s uncle, Michel, Dr Vautier. Florian looks to the side and sees himself lying dead a few feet away, on a table that’s identical to the one he’s on. He panics in confusion.

He’s injected with a sedative, and calms down. The second doctor, Professor Delattre, is nervous, saying that he needs to return Florian to the hospital before his absence is discovered. Dr Vautier wants Florian to stay where he is until he’s had time to adapt to his new body, but under the circumstances, agrees to let Pr Delattre take him. Vautier signs Florian’s death certificate while the other doctor cleans Florian up. Florian stares at his old body in terror.

Florian, in Sylvain Bernard’s body, is transported in an ambulance, strapped to a gurney, while the doctor drives follows the ambulance in his car. Part way there, his assistant calls to tell him that Sylvain’s partner in the BATI, Béatrice, is insisting on being given an update on his condition. Professor Delattre speeds ahead of the ambulance so he can meet with Béatrice.

Pr Delattre tells Béatrice that Sylvain is stable, and he can meet with her for 5 minutes, then brings her into his office. He explains that there were complications with Sylvain’s surgery. The bullet removal went as expected and he should recover full mobility in his shoulder. But he had a severe, unexpected reaction to the anesthetic. They stabilized him, but he’s in intensive care, so Béatrice can’t see him yet.

Béatrice demands to see her partner. Pr Delattre pulls up the video feed of Sylvain in the ICU and tells her that he’ll wake Sylvain in 24 hours, implying that he’s in a medically induced coma. The video itself is actually looped footage from before the transfer, since Florian/Sylvain hasn’t returned to the hospital yet. Delattre tells Béatrice that the anesthesia may have had side effects that will affect Sylvain’s memory, but he’s strong, so he’ll recover.

The sedative has made Florian/Sylvain dozy, but eventually the jolts from his gurney banging on the sides of the ambulance wake him up. He unstraps himself and gets up. He gets his first look at his new reflection and his new hands, which he turns away from. Florian finds a jacket stuffed on a shelf, then opens the back door of the ambulance and jumps out while the ambulance is stopped.

It’s dark out, and Florian is still adjusting to his new body. Everything comes at him too fast and seems unfamiliar. After five years asleep, some of it is unfamiliar. He walks the streets of the city all night long.

In the morning, he passes by Father Luc’s church. A banner, with a giant photo of Father Luc, says, “Un seule corps, Une seule âme.” One body, One soul. This is an anti-transfer church. There are nuns moving around the front who have crosses branded into their foreheads, wear white robes, and have shaved heads. There are also school children in yellow hoodies.

Florian sees a man wearing a t-shirt which says: “Ceci est mon corps.” This is my body. He sees an official “No Transfers” sign and emergency number. Then an alarm sounds and a public service warning suddenly plays:

He took another’s body. He looks like a neighbor, a friend or a family member. You see him everyday, and he seems normal, but he’s dangerous. Each one of us could be hiding a transfer. If you have doubts about someone’s identity, report any abnormal behavior to the BATI. The BATI is the Anti-Illegal-Transfer-Brigade. So that no one can steal your identity.

Obviously in French, the order of the words in the Anti-Illegal-Transfer-Brigade combine to spell BATI, instead of AITB. But everything sounds better in French.

In the PSA video, the evil transfer, who is disguised as a sweet old lady, goes crazy and attacks his innocent neighbors, then runs away. Welcome to the new world, Florian. He keeps moving.

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Béatrice returns to the BATI station, and watches the video recorded by her and Sylvain’s helmet cams during the call when he was shot. They were on a routine call to a house to check on a reported transfer sighting. Sylvain doesn’t take it seriously, and is singing a folk song as he knocks on the door. Béatrice goes around to the back door. But Sylvain doesn’t wait for her and goes inside. The transfer is waiting for him, and shoots him in the shoulder/upper chest, then escapes just as Béatrice comes inside. Sylvain is on the floor in a pool of his own blood.

Captain Mareuil calls Béatrice and their 3rd team member, Gabe, into his office to report on the status of their investigation into Sylvain’s shooter, an unknown illegal transfer wearing the body of Charles Samuelson. They have a good image of him to use in the search and the police are helping, but they have no intel on who the transfer is.

The tip was called in by a neighbor when Samuelson didn’t recognize her. It was the sort of routine call that usually turns out to be a false alarm. Gabe still scolds Béatrice for not taking it seriously and following procedure, when it was Sylvain who didn’t take it seriously. She just glares at him.

Mareuil asks if Samuelson was reverting. Béatrice says that she didn’t see enough of him to tell. They decide that since he’s violent and has been on the run for 24 hours, he’s now considered a dangerous and paranoid transfer in the reversion phase, who should be shot on sight. 

Gabe wants to shoot all transfers. Why bother to wait for them to become violent? Mareuil tells Gabe that he just needs results. He sends Gabe out to make the shoot on sight order official.

He keeps Béatrice behind for a moment to ask if she’d rather wait at the hospital with Sylvain. She says that she’s checked on Sylvain, but he’s in intensive care. Now she’s going to find the transfer that shot him.

Sophie, Florian’s wife, tells their children that their father has died. Her daughter, Julie, cries and crawls in Sophie’s lap. Her son, Thomas, leaves the room to be alone with his thoughts.

Dr Vautier calls Sophie to let her know that Florian is on the loose and doesn’t know what’s going on. She’s promises to keep an eye out for him. When she hangs up the phone and looks outside, he’s hiding behind a support pillar in the backyard. Sophie brings him inside, then hides him in his workshop. 

Florian keeps half hiding his face, as if he can’t stand to have her see him like this. He asks how she knows it’s him and what’s happening to him. She holds him for a long time, then explains about his coma. Before the transfer, his original body had septicemia (sepsis/blood poisoning), a severe blood infection that was killing him. Sophie begged Vautier to save him. She’s been waiting to be with him again for 5 years.

Florian asks if Vautier was the one who did this to him, and why he did it. Sophie explains that it was a big risk for Vautier to transfer him to a new body. Florian asks what she means by “transfer”. Sophie tells him that she’ll call her uncle so that he can explain it all to Florian. A lot has changed in the last 5 years.

She tells Florian that if he’s found, he’ll be arrested. The entire family is in danger. Sophie did this because she loves him and couldn’t bear to lose him, but he must pretend to be Sylvain Bernard. He can’t see his children and they must continue to believe he’s dead. She doesn’t want to lose him again, so he has to go along with this.

But, no pressure. She expects only gratitude and cooperation.

Julie comes toward the workshop, calling for Sophie. Florian tries to go to her, but Sophie stops him. Florian is in emotional agony and more confused than ever. Nothing Sophie just told him sounds like a life he would have chosen.

Béatrice revisits the crime scene to look for clues into the shooter’s true identity. She discovers a book with an inscription made out to someone named Victor, and decides to follow up on it.

The shooter, Victor Novak, has gone to stay with his mother. He tells her that he has to transfer again. He’s in a rough state, emotionally. Mrs Novak never liked his current body anyway. He used to have blond curls and look like his father. She misses that.

Florian changes into his own clothes and uses Sylvain’s high tech Apple watch type thingie to learn more about himself. His son Thomas wanders into the workshop, so Florian hides, but stays where he can watch Thomas. Thomas pulls out a half finished wooden chess piece and begins to work on it using his father’s tools. Florian is happy to see Thomas emulating his father, but notices he’s not using the tools quite right. He stands up to correct Thomas, but Thomas runs away, calling for Sophie.

I think he forgot about his new body for a moment. Sophie really didn’t think the situation through, and how much she’d be asking of Florian.

Frustrated, Florian grabs his jacket and the chess piece, then leaves. He wanders through the city again, passing through a park-like area where people are expressing their views about transfers. One person shouts, “Don’t listen to what you’re told. They’re not dangerous. Only the PDL, the Party of Freedom, tells you the truth.”

A man jumps in front of Florian and hands him a leaflet, saying, “Don’t ignore the fate of the transfers. We can’t treat them like criminals.” The activist begins to walk away, but Florian stops him, asking if there are a lot of transfers. The activist says that there are a few thousand at most, not enough to justify the paranoia about them. “Governments have always done this, used scapegoats. But transfers aren’t our enemies.” As he walks away from Florian again, he calls to the crowd, “Don’t listen to what you’re told. Transfers aren’t dangerous.”

An anti-transfer activist, who takes a religious approach, is telling the crowd, “One body, one life. Verbum caro hic factum est. God wanted it to be thus, for no one but God has the right to give us a body and a soul.”

Florian keeps walking. Next he encounters an anti-transfer activist who combines scientific and religious thinking. “We wanted to understand how the body works, then repair and improve it. But foolish science wanted to go even further, turning the Kingdom of God into a permanent nightmare.”

“Another day, another body. Another chance to kiss one’s child. And a heart, a beating heart. Do you hear that heart? Do you hear its will to live? It’s beating, beating… But it’s Satan that keeps it going! The supreme illusion, a replacement body. But to what end?”

Aw, that last one started out so promising, then it went all Church Lady. Florian has heard enough and walks away.

Béatrice and Gabe pay a hostile visit to the PDL headquarters, a pro-transfer organization led by Damien Volber, who signed the book dedication that Béatrice found in Samuelson’s apartment. Gabe begins checking the staff for horseshoe-shaped transfer brands on their forearms as they argue that the visit and search are unethical.

Béatrice tells Damien that she’s looking for the owner of the book. He signed the dedication to “Victor, militant, in friendship…” Damien argues that he’s signed many books in the same way, so he has no way of remembering this particular one. Béatrice shows Damien a photo of Samuelson and asks if he recognizes him. Damien says no. She waves the photo around, telling the staff that he’s a transfer who’s reverted and lives could be at stake. Damien angrily tells her that they’re not a refuge for transfers.

Béatrice and Gabe are sure that “Victor” is a member of the PDL and want a list of the party members. Damien and his second in command tell them that they protect the privacy of their members. Gabe responds by trashing the place. Damien yells for him to continue while they film it so they can show the press how they’re treated by the BATI.

Béatrice stops Gabe and tells Damien that they’ll just seize the computers. All they need is the list, but they’ll happily use whatever else they find. Damien is disgusted, saying that this is exactly what they’re protesting. The BATI have been given too much power by the transfer ban laws. He storms out, after telling his people to give them the list.

Florian is still walking. He’s on a set of tall concrete stairs when an alarm goes off signaling a surprise spot check for transfers by the BATI and sending out a photo of Samuelson, asking for citizens to turn him in if they see him. The people near him say that transfers are being hunted and rounded up.

Florian gets nervous, because he has no idea if or how they can tell he’s a transfer. The BATI check everyone’s forearm, one by one, until one man runs from them. When they catch him, he yells that he was a legal transfer, for medical reasons. But he’s still on the streets illegally. He’s told: “In application of the law regarding transfer reversion, you are hereby to be quarantined for an unlimited period.” He’s beaten, cuffed and taken away by the BATI.

Everyone feels safer with the scary transfer off the streets. Except for Florian, and everyone who realizes the implications of having a secret police force with broad powers and little accountability.

Florian uses his watch to make his way to Sylvain’s home, but then he has to get past Sylvain’s security system. After a few tries, he gets it to open up. Luckily, Sylvain lives alone in an isolated, modern home. He finally has privacy to sort himself out. The first thing he does is make sure that he doesn’t have a transfer brand. The brands were used to mark legal transfers, so he’s not marked.

Victor/Samuelson gets in a cab with Fausto, cab driver, assassin handler and person who can probably get whatever you need. Fausto is currently not happy with Victor because he was hired to kill Sylvain, not wound him. Victor was going to be paid with a new body, but he feels like he’s going to revert, so he wants it now. Fausto tells Victor that he won’t be reverting until he finishes the job that Fausto’s client hired him for. If he’d done it right the first time, he’d already have the new body.

When a transfer reverts isn’t actually a choice, but Fausto has decided that Victor has to keep going anyway.

Sylvain’s journey into the future continues, as he tries to figure out how to work the faucet in the bathroom sink (been there). Then he gets caught up in examining his new body, which might be more muscular, but is balding, for heaven’s sake! He’s a man whose art and career depended on his fine motor skills, and now he has different hands, with shorter fingers. Everything is just wrong with this body, ok? Plus, it has a bullet hole. He presses into the wound, hard, perhaps to give himself an excuse to cry, and collapses to the floor in a heap.

Mareuil calls Gabe into his office again, this time to yell at him for overstepping when they went to the PDL office. Just as Mareuil is saying that there’s no way Volber would give anything away in a book dedication, Béatrice rushes in to say that she’s found the PDL member who transferred into Samuelson’s body. Victor Novak was a PDL member who was wanted for armed robbery before he was listed as dead 13 months ago, when Samuelson also quit his job. Gabe surmises that he transferred to avoid the police.

Béatrice tells Mareuil that Victor’s mother still lives in town. He sends them to check her house, admonishing them to take a team with them and follow procedure. This arrest is important, because they want to avenge Sylvain and stop Volber and the PDL.

 Victor is flailing around his mother’s house, searching for his gun. He finds it, but now he’s fully in the throes of a reversion. When he looks at his mother, he sees her with Samuelson’s face, mocking him. They are both in an emotional state, between his reversion and her rejection of Samuelson’s body as her son.

When Mrs Novak sees the gun, she panics and demands that Victor hand it over to her, because she doesn’t allow guns in the house. He’s still seeing her face as Samuelson’s face, the face he’s currently wearing, but hates. She tries to grab the gun from Victor. It’s the last straw for him. He uses the butt of the gun to beat her in the head until she’s dead, then he runs away.

Béatrice, Gabe and their BATI team find Mrs Novak’s body on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood. This is why they hate transfers so much. Gabe wonders how someone can do that to their own mother. 

Sadly, you don’t have to be a transfer to kill your mother, Gabe.

Florian wakes up in the morning on Sylvain’s bedroom floor, still naked, and covered by a comforter. Dr Vautier and Pr Delattre are calling on his watch. He’s had his fun, but they need to reel him back into playing Sylvain at the hospital now. Dr Vautier will come pick him up and try again to explain everything.

Victor stumbles into the hospital, still having a reversion. He gets into the elevator, which is already occupied by another man.

The two doctors examine Florian. Vautier explains that Sophie is like his own daughter. She would never give up on Florian coming out of his coma, so Vautier was determined to save him, for her sake.

Florian asks Vautier what, exactly, a transfer is, if it’s a brain transplant? Vautier says that it’s better, more like a total transplant.

Vautier: “We’ve isolated a molecule which can separate the mind from the body. Your mind has been separated into another’s body.” 

Florian: “And where’s the donor?”

Delattre: “Sylvain Bernard died of anesthetic shock. Brain death. We had two hours. I alerted Vautier right away.”

Vautier: “Transfers have saved the lives of lots of people. You’re not the only one.”

Florian: “So why do I have to hide? What’s with all these arrests, the BATI police?”

Delattre: “He’s missed 5 years, Michel.”

Vautier: “Listen, transfers were allowed for two years, then they were stupidly banned, because of an unforseen phenomenon. It doesn’t always happen, but it can be dangerous. A sort of rejection. It’s called transfer reversion.”

Florian: “What’s that? Will it happen to me?”

Vautier; “No It’s very rare. It’s just a small anomaly.”

Florian: “I can’t control my body very well.”

Vautier: “Don’t worry, everything’s ok. Get dressed.”

Victor kills the other man by the time the elevator reaches his floor. He hallucinated that his victim was also wearing Samuelson’s face, thanks to the symptoms of the reversion. Looking like the lunatic he is, Victor searches the hospital floor, calling for Sylvain, waving his gun in the air. Patients and staff scramble to hide. Victor finds a bottleneck at the end of the hall and makes a stand there, with hostages trapped behind him.

As Florian is changing back into his hospital pajamas, he tells Vautier that they should have let Florian die. He says that Vautier had no right to make the decision for him. Vautier says that it’s his duty to save lives, which are all precious. Florian asks to be transferred back into his own body, but Vautier says that there’s no going back to the original body.

Delattre hears the commotion made by Victor, and goes to check on it. When he gets to the hallway, Victor is holding his gun to a hostage’s head. Béatrice and Gabe get the call to go the hospital.

Delattre returns to Vautier and Florian, informing them of the situation. Vautier wants to leave and take Florian with him, but that would tip the BATI off that something is wrong. They decide that after Vautier leaves, Florian will tell everyone that he is Sylvain, and has amnesia from the anesthetic shock. Vautier tells Delatter not to leave Florian alone, then slips out the back way.

Florian is quietly panicking, begging Delattre to stay with him, and to do the talking for him. He’s terrified that the BATI will realize immediately that he’s not Sylvain.

The BATI, including Gabe and Béatrice, burst in to secure the room. They see Florian and rush over, thinking that it’s Sylvain. They are overjoyed to see that he’s awake and okay. After they leave, Florian gives Delattre a betrayed look, and says, “I’m a cop?”

(I really thought he knew already, myself, but I guess no one has mentioned Sylvain’s job to him directly before this, and he didn’t find Sylvain’s uniform or weapon at his home. That’s a pretty huge piece of crucial information for Vautier and Sophie to leave out. Delattre has no idea what he’s doing, so I’ll give him a pass. )

Gabe and Béatrice double back to grab Florian/Sylvain, because of course they want their star detective’s help in this situation. Nevermind that he’s wounded, in pajamas and barefoot. Delattre tries to stop them, but they don’t listen. The doctor follows along in the little parade that creeps toward the crisis.

Gabe gives Florian/Sylvain a bulletproof vest. Delattre and Béatrice argue with him to leave Florian/Sylvain alone, but Gabe ignores them and explains the situation and what he needs to Florian. He’s been told that Sylvain has amnesia, so he explains that Novak is the one who shot him. Now he needs Sylvain to go out and distract Novak long enough for Gabe to get a shot in.

Novak has several hostages at gunpoint. After they hear Novak fire a shot, Florian strides out into the open to be a distraction. Delattre rushes after, to pull him back to safety, but gets shot by Novak. The others pull Florian and Delattre out of the line of fire.

Béatrice tells Florian, “I nearly lost you once. Don’t do it again.”

Novak calls for Sylvain to show himself, saying that he should be dead already. 

Florian: “I know what you’re feeling.”

Novak: “No, you don’t know a thing!” 

Florian: “You were transferred, you no longer know yourself. Your movements are clumsy. Your body is heavy and disgusts you beause it isn’t your own. Even your eyes don’t see right. It’s a nightmare.”

Novak: “You don’t know nothing!”

Florian: “It’s like being in a prison. You’re suffocating. You want to scream, but it’s not even your voice. There’s no one left to listen to you, Novak. You’re alone. You’re alone and it’s like you no longer exist. With each step you sink further, drowning. It’s not worth living, but you don’t want to die either.”

Novak: “If I kill you, I can live.”

Florian: “If I die, you die. If you kill a hostage, you die, too. We’re already dead, anyway.”

Florian gets up and walks into the hall, in full view of Novak, then walks toward him. Novak comes out of hiding with a hostage in front of him, but then pushes the hostage away when he sees that Florian/Sylvain is unarmed. When Novak raises his weapon to shoot Florian/Sylvain, Gabe, who has moved into position in the background, opens fire. He shoots Novak multiple times, shooting down a narrow space in the hall between Florian and the wall. The bullets pass within a few feet of Florian’s head. Florian flinches, but stands his ground.

Once Novak is dead, Gabe runs to Florian to tell him that he’s proud of the way Sylvain messed with Novak’s head. He’s never seen Sylvain do such good work.

Florian walks out of another hospital, barefoot and in pajamas. The press, who are broadcasting from just outside the door, try to get a statement from him, but he ignores them.

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When he reaches Sylvain’s home, Sophie is waiting outside for him. He collapses into her lap for a while, then she takes care of him. He tells her, “I wanted to die today.” He says that the change from being a woodworker to living in Sylvain’s body and his life is too much for him.

Sophie says that she’s sorry, she didn’t want it to be that way. For 5 years, she pretended not to lose hope as she watched his lifeless body. She had to keep going for the kids.

Florian doesn’t think he can convincingly pretend to be a cop. Sophie says that he just has to do it for a while, until the kids accept him as her new boyfriend, and any suspicion dies down at the BATI. Then they can move somewhere else. Florian is appalled at the idea of pretending to be someone else with his own children. Sophie tries to present it as a new beginning for the whole family.

In the morning, Florian goes to work at the BATI station. When he arrives, his coworkers hail him as a returning hero. Béatrice brings him to see Mareuil. Mareuil makes her leave so that he can talk to Florian/Sylvain alone. He asks just how severe the amnesia really is. As they go back and forth, Mareuil gradually figures out that “Sylvain” can’t remember anything.

Florian asks for time off until his memory starts to return, but Mareuil says that “Sylvain” was such a hero in the hospital that he wants him back at the station as an example for everyone else. Mareuil says that “Sylvain” will have to do some counseling with Viviane Metzger, the psychologist he’s seen before, who’s also a religious zealot. But Mareuil is glad to have “Sylvain” back. He’s even going to give “Sylvain” a medal.

Fausto’s taxi has a flat tire and she’s pretty ticked off about it. As she changes the tire, she talks to the assassin who’s replacing Novak on the Sylvain Bernard hit. He’s not terribly interested in her philosophical musings, though. His thoughts are along the line of, “I get paid, I kill, I don’t care about signs.”

No imagination, beyond finding an exciting angle to shoot an assault rifle from.

Fausto colorfully complains that Novak screwed up the hit on Sylvain twice, and now, to top things off, she can’t get the tire off. She gives up and asks the new assassin for help. Thinking she’s finalizing their contract, he tells her that he never misses his target. She tells him that she meant the tire. He chuckles and takes over.

Fausto has the patience of a saint in a world that doesn’t deserve her.

Sophie and the kids attend Florian’s funeral. Florian watches from the doorway in the back of the room. The speaker talks about what a humble, good, straightforward, sincere man he was, and how much he was loved and admired by his friends and family. He was far from ordinary and will be missed.

Then, as Sylvain, he accepts a medal in honor of his courage and dedication in serving the Bati. Mareuil tells everyone that Sylvain was one of the first to join the BATI and has always been willing to risk his life to serve. The risk became real when he was shot. He still stepped up, even when he was in the hospital.

It’s clear that these two men couldn’t have been more different, but they are now fused into one.

During the medal ceremony, the assassin is set up in the distance, ready to shoot Florian with a sniper’s rifle, when his phone rings. It’s Fausto, telling him not to shoot, because the client has called off the hit. They’ve discovered that Sylvain is now a transfer.

A girl named Liza, who’s about 12 years old, arrives home from school and tells her mother she got good grades that day. Then she says she’ll do her homework before she eats. Liza goes to her bedroom, while her mom looks concerned. Liza sits on her bed and pulls out her pad. She looks at side by side photos of Sylvain and Florian, with a very serious look on her face.

We have a new transfer character.

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Béatrice has the coolest hair, and does some cool things with it over the course of the season. Sophie is wearing the most cuddly, fluffy turquoise sweater when she tells the kids that Florian has died. It’s perfect for her daughter Julie to cuddle up into to mourn her lost dad.

Instead of cell phones, everyone wears a wristwatch/phone/internet device which projects a holographic viewscreen. Someone let me know when Apple produces this.

Verbum caro hic factum est.= Latin for “Here the word became flesh.” 

This quote is from the inscription on the altar in the Virgin Mary’s House, in the Church of the Annunciation, in Northern Israel. The Basilica, built in 1969, stands on the site of earlier historical churches, built over what is traditionally believed to be the site of Mary’s childhood home, and the place where the archangel Gabriel announced to her that she would conceive and give birth to Jesus, the Son of God.   

In the Bible,” The Word” is used in reference to Jesus as the Son of God, the spirit sent to join with Mary’s human flesh so that he could live as a human on earth. As far as I can tell, there are a few Latin/Greek words for “Word” used to mean Jesus as the Word, but the Word and Jesus are frequently used synonymously in the New Testament. (*If I’ve got some of this wrong, help me out in the comments!)

The activist who refers to this inscription is pointing out that Jesus hasn’t come back in another body (as far as we know), and using this as evidence that Jesus and God must therefore be against transfers.

However, Jesus did bring people back from the dead, and came back from the dead himself, suggesting there’s a gray area here in biblical terms. He was in favor of healing and reusing bodies and in favor of artificial life extension.

Catholic hospitals use any means possible to keep patients alive, even if the patients will be braindead when resuscitated. The Church interprets God as wanting people to live, no matter what the circumstances, just like Vautier does. He uses the sentiment that all life is precious as his justification for doing transfers, even when he doesn’t have consent from the people involved.

Jesus wouldn’t approve of throwing someone out of their own body so that a wealthier person could reuse it. But in the case of a braindead, but otherwise healthy, body, like Sylvain, and a dead body with a live brain, like Florian? Jesus might not have a problem with a procedure which would keep one of them alive, instead of allowing both to die.

Rough translations of the PDL cards: The transfer would have saved… / Science is my only faith. / Transfers are like us.

Mareuil says that Damien Volber is the BATI”s main political enemy, who’d love to bring them down. It’s clear the BATI are harassing Volber and the PDL legally and illegally at every opportunity.

Kudos to this show for having Béatrice wear her helmet. It’s a huge pet peeve of mine that the stars never wear their helmets, whether it’s the police, soldiers or athletes. Takes me right out of the story, when bombs are exploding, weapons are being fired, or head injuries are imminent in some other way, and everyone is wearing a helmet but the most important people on the team.

Béatrice is clearly the brains of her team, so she needs her head protected more than Sylvain and Gabe 😉. Gabe is the most hardcore and reckless of the three. And he’s super tall. Maybe no one can shoot that high up anyway, so he doesn’t need a helmet.   

Consider this a Fausto appreciation space. She’s one of the best female characters of the year. Probably any year. I need her on my apocalypse team. You know she and her taxi will not let something like an apocalypse get in their way. She’d stare the disaster down until it politely backed away and let her pass. Juliette Plumecocq-Mech is so great and so totally committed in this role. 

The finely tuned motor skills that adults have spent decades developing is something that shows like this rarely deal with, so I love that it’s one of the main themes here. What we do on a regular basis with our hands and our bodies, even our eyes, mouths and voices, determines who we are and how we spend the bulk of our time.

For a sniper or a surgeon to transfer into the body of someone with poor eyesight or shaky hands would be career ending. For someone who speaks several languages, losing the muscle memory to form the correct accents has a huge, if possibly temporary, affect on their speech. For a woodworker, who works with sharp tools that make delicate, tiny cuts, to lose the skill he’s developed in his body over a lifetime, is the same as a musician or a star athlete transferring into a clumsy body.

Not every new body will be able overcome its deficits through the sheer willpower of the mind inside. Transfers will have to face that some of the lifelong habits on which their identities were based are no longer possible. This is what Florian is already sensing in his new body, with the way it moves and feels so differently from his original body. We start to realize this by the end of the episode, with the emphasis on the death of the old and on new beginnings, and on making situations work, even when they aren’t what was expected.

Then there is the question of what happens when the change in the transfer goes in the other direction: What happens when someone with no sense of rhythm or pitch transfers into a body with a beautiful voice? Will they be able to do anything with that voice? Or would rhythm, pitch and all things music related originate in the ear and places outside of the mind, so the transfer would inherit the full talent previously associated with that person? What will Florian discover in Sylvain’s life and his physicality which he can use to his advantage, which never would have worked for him before? 

Altered Carbon has the concept of sleeve memory, akin to muscle memory, but it also acknowledges that bodies become comfortable with each other and have physical chemistry together. We recognize each other subconsciously by smell and pheromones, too. When it comes to the people physically closest to us we’re going to react to the body, not just the mind, even though we might wish we wouldn’t.

Victor Novak’s mother was having this issue. She couldn’t make a strange body be her son. It’s wasn’t just that he didn’t look like himself. He also no longer looked like other members of their family, or like the little boy she raised.

Just becoming a transfer, and making the required lifestyle adjustments, changes a person. It changed Victor, so that he no longer acted like he used to, either. All of this creates a disconnect in the mind of the transfer and the family and friends of the transfer, who thought they were simply getting back the same person in a different body. When the disconnect gets bad enough, transfers’ minds lose the ability to adjust to new situations, and lose their grip on reality.

Mrs Novak reinforced Victor’s hatred of Samuelson’s body, hastening his reversion. His brain became confused about which face was his, because his reflection was always someone else, so it started making everyone that same/other face. Instead of calmly reminding himself of reality or talking to someone trustworthy who could pull him out of his emotional spiral, Victor put all of his hopes on a new transfer. Odds are the new body would have done nothing but restart the same process, unless the new body was a clone of his original body.

Victor was a troubled man before he was ever transferred, having been mixed up in serious criminal activity such as armed robbery, which had nothing to do with transfers (as far as we know). Florian, on the other hand, was well-adjusted, happy and fulfilled, with a strong support system. He’s the best case scenario for a successful transfer, other than a victim of a terminal illness, who’d have time to prepare.

So far, Florian is doing ok. He’s quickly taken in a lot of information, and has been able to fake his way through Sylvain’s life. But both Florian and Sylvain’s relationships are already strained. The plan for him to thoroughly deny who he is, long-term, including with his own children, is taking its toll.

And his conversation with Victor suggests a deep level of depair hiding just beneath the surface. The momentary connection he made with Victor suggests that he already knows that the only ones transfers can trust, and count on to understand them, are other transfers. But how much can other transfers actually be trusted?

 Damien Volber’s book, Mon Combat Pour La Liberté Scientifique (My Fight for Scientific Freedom). The inscription reads: “A Victor, militant actif du PDL, en toute amitié. Damien Volber.” (To Victor, ardent supporter of PDL, in all friendship. Damien Volber.)

 More on Transfers:

Variety.com- Series Mania Winner ‘Transfer’ Adds to French TV Sci-Fi Build

AFCinema.com- “Transferts”: A Sci-Fi Series Made in France- Interview with Cinematographer Pascal Lagriffoul, AFC

sbs.com.au- A New Lease on Life Comes with a High Price in ‘Transfer’

ellymcdonaldwriter.com- Losing My Religion – Two Short TV Reviews (Transferts and Counterpart)

 Images courtesy of Netflix.

   Netflix’s Transfers Season 1 Episode 1 Recap This is a recap. My review of Transfers Season 1 is HERE. Transfers (Transferts) is a French science fiction-thriller series from the Arte network, which aired in November, 2017.

[teeplorable]

We're being brigaded, remind braindead Liberals that they thought this twitching harpy was fit for the job

[sylviaofaureate]

These are my thoughts under the cut. Some speculation and discussion of videos and voice dramas.

Strongly disagree with your take on Shidou. His voice drama and his music videos have made it clearer in round 2.

As a doctor he was asking the families of brain dead or otherwise unrecoverable patients to take them off life support in order to use their organs for patients that had better recovery potential.

He started to feel the weight of this after his son was in an accident and became braindead.

Vote him whichever way you like, but he wasn't trying to make a Frankenstein monster. I think this is a metaphorical take on all of the people he attempted to save, but also all of the lives that he had taken over time.

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Mahiru is somebody who I don't think I have a very good read on, but I don't think stalker is the correct take.

Since she was often shown on the phone with the person she was dating, I think her "crime" was being overbearing. Actually, there is a part in that first music video where she's "over" her date and with a mischievous smile that made me feel on edge. I think she probably pushed and pushed and somebody too much, the kind of relationship that feels suffocating, and whoever she was with felt like they had no way out and would rather die.

This specific scene put me on edge, because this doesn't look like somebody who's on the same page in a relationship with somebody else. If we take the feathers as a metaphor of the partner, then they've been losing their feathers from stress. And it leads right into

Losing all their feathers, a breaking point, but one that Mahiru didn't recognize the signs of. She seems like the type of person who has heavily romanticized love and doesn't know what it really looks like, or what it really entails. We'll have more insight in her next video and drama.

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Yuno. I saw that somebody had already spoken about her abortions, and she does make that clear through the voice dramas.

Though I see nothing wrong with her getting money and sleeping with guys, Japan has very strict laws on abortion. They're only really allowed when it's the result of rape or it's an active endangerment to the pregnant person. I think it's less that she did something wrong, but more of a feeling of guilt that she would like to be abscribed to. Especially because in the comments of the first round of MVs had a lot of talk about how "it's not her fault because she's some poor girl who was taken advantage of" But the second round dramas made it clear she knew what she was doing, and she wasn't coerced into this or anything. But a relationship between a minor and an adult will always have the minor being taken advantage of, just due to the power dynamics.

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Futa, between his first and second pvs, I think the thing he's guilty of is starting online cancelling brigades. The first one has him forcing people to apologize, which is a very familiar thing on the internet these days. People rallying around somebody who's done something wrong, and then absolutely mobbing them until they take their own life. I remember a big name in the youtube creation sphere being attacked so badly they left the platform, Lindsay Ellis. Smaller creators were bullied into the hospital in the Steven Universe fandom. This is a real thing that has happened before.

The first "boss" battles he faces, there's no bloodshed, nothing big happened, he probably just got these people to apologize for what they said. But then he gained a following, and with a following like that it becomes a mob mentality. You can see here, that the "boss" just has those cartoon birds over their head, nobody was really hurt as far as Futa could see.

If you get off now, you're a traitor/Now let's be reasonable. We are the ones that blow the horn for justice

After that first take down, he's probably feeling that he's on the high horse, and feeling like he can't leave. If we take this together with all the eyes on him during Backdraft, we can guess that he felt pressured to continue doing this. (I think part of PRESSURE is also the feeling of being judged by all of us.)

Here he's on a higher level than the rest of the "party". So it's possible that by the second takedown, he's feeling like he's the head of his mob.

But at the same time, we see that he's alone in the real world. This likely means that he has very little power and no friends in his own life, and has found an outlet through bullying people online and flaming them. By flaming people, there are other people who flock to the flame wars, and thus it becomes suffocating for the people who are mobbed this way. But of course, the people who started it have no idea how bad it is for the people on the other end. They'll likely never see that person as a person or know them in real life. That's why all of the "bosses" that have appeared so far were just cartoons, and didn't bleed when they were attacked.

During the third battle, we can see that his graphical user interface has become distorted. Hinting that he either regrets these actions specifically or that he was pressured into doing it.

This is not the expression of a guy who was expecting bloodshed for what he thought was just an internet flame war. I think this is the first time it really set in for him, that there were other people on the other side of the screen.

I think it's very possible that after the girl died from cyber bullying, that this line is actually addressing himself.

Like Futa says in the voice drama, Es is doing the same thing that he's done before. Es is condemning people when they only know a small fraction of the real truth of the matter, and then they go "I didn't know this would happen" when Kotoko is out there and attacking the other prisoners. So to him, he must feel like he's been shifted from being on the side of "justice" to being on the side of "unjust" which is a hard thing to process, when somebody has convinced themselves it's happened before.

Kotoko

She does start her interrogation by saying she was a college student and dropped out. So it's possible that she gave up on her life in order to pursue these killers, that she thinks are killers.

Becoming light-headed again, it all becomes crazy The normalcy sought for, Fading away, Everytime death comes The soul moves forward

To me, this sounds like she's sustaining herself on the murders that she's doing.

Let’s end this! “HARROW HARROW” I can’t forgive the evil hurting the weak It’s unforgivable, I won’t allow it, I swore

And she's justifying the kills that she's doing as being righteous in the same way that Fuda was, but he seemed to have realized his error at the first sign of blood.

It seems like Kotoko wants to play judge jury and executioner.

I think it's also very telling that she ends it in I want to be drowning in the knowledge that I'm right. Like she isn't completely sure that she's correct, but Milgram gets to decide if people are forgiven or not, and since she was forgiven, then now she feels like all of her decisions and actions are correct.

And where Futa ends looking at the destruction he caused with horror, Kotoko isn't looking down at the man she's killed, she isn't looking at the girl she potentially saved, she's looking up with triumph. I think it's plausible this was her first kill and she's savoring it.

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I feel like Haruka is hard to judge because I think he should've been sent to a therapist. He's very hung up on his mother, and can't stand the idea of having to share her attention with anybody or anything at all.

If we look back at his first MV, we can see him with a dog, and when it runs off into the woods, we can also see him killing it with a rock very violently, even if the blood is completely obscured.

So it looks like to Haruka any kind of attention is positive attention to him, even when it's supposed to be a condemnation. So if he kills an animal, he'll get some kind of attention for it right? And it looks like he killed his little brother so his mother would have no choice but to look at him instead.

At the same time, this is not a triumphant posing. This is a kid who knows what he did was wrong, but probably couldn't control himself or his jealousy enough. It does seem plausible that he has a learning disability and his family gave up on him, mental health care isn't very well taken care of in Japan. So he probably never got any of the assistance that he needed, and depending on his family's wealth likely never had the ability to.

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Mu is so interesting to me. Her first video makes her seem like a complete victim, the hourglass rolling off of the table like she had no hand in it. We can see that she's sitting underneath the blackboard of insults directed at her.

We have the visual of her in the hourglass, being slowly drowned, which flickers to this image. And the line My sorry spells must be wearing off. I wonder what she has to be sorry about. And additionally "I guess some of it is my fault".

If we combine this with It's Not My Fault, I think this is a rich, spoiled girl who is used to getting her way all the time and will twist the narrative around in order to be free of being guilty of anything ever. I think that's shown with the last view of her in the 2nd music video.

But I do think there's a part of her that doesn't like this side of herself. It's telling to me that every other music video has the character as human the entire time. Her she views everybody except the purple haired girl as bugs.

It seems like she was a bully, and the purple haired girl wasn't within her clique, was watching what she was doing, and then exposed her somehow? Which lead to everybody beginning to bully Mu in return.

I just gt into Milgram Project and its my new favorite thing. So far here is my line up'

Guilty:

Shidou - So, what I got from his song and vid is that he killed ppl so that he can play Frankenstein. He felt guilty about doing it but he still did it. And then the monster still went and died 🙄 chile anyways 😒

Mahiru - Y'all this woman is textbook crazy. There's no other way to splice it. Like she gives stalker vibes. The 'if you don't love me, you can't love anyone else'

Yuno - I originally that she was on some stalker type shit. So she was like a escort or something? I think she developed feelings for one of her customers and when they didn't reciprocate beyond being a customer she offed them

Innocent:

Futa - What I got from him was he's a gamer and spends a lot of time there bc the real world is filled with trash ppl. He is the shit in his game and kinda wishes he could wipe out the bad guys like in his game. He got the two worlds crossed and ended wiping out someone irl. He is not happy about some of the others being found innocent in the 1st trial. Which lines up with his views about justice. I feel like I may be off here but maybe there was someone he couldn't save or put on danger with his views and actions. I think he fears that he is just like the rest of the prisoners he sees as awful.

Kotoko - Blood for blood is a tale as old as time. Someone killed someone she loved and she went to kill them back. Same sis. 😏👏🏿

Haruka - Yeah, he was deemed guilty in the second round and I can't see how. He was mistreated for being different. That broke him. He just wanted to be loved by the people that should love him unconditionally... but ok 🙄

Mu - So, Mu was bullied something fierce and when she finally got a friend, for whatever reason she turns her back on Mu. 🙄😒 That is what I call a cunt move. But we'll see what happens in this 2nd Trial...

Unsure:

Mikoto - Poor baby def has a 'split personality' (apologies if the term is wrong, feel free to correct me). I think he deserves a mental hospital more than a prison but he definitely shouldn't be walking around in society if he can't keep that other side in check

Kazui: As much as I want to put the love of my life as innocent I don't really understand what went down in his video...? 😵‍💫 Like he and his wife drifted apart. Are the woman at the bar and his wife one in the same? I assumed he met his wife when she was at a low point in her life and they found live in a hopeless place. That or he a goddamn dirty cheat. And I really hope that's not the case 😭

Amane - I have no idea what her video is about. Like not even a vague idea... 🤷🏿‍♀️

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Do let me know what y'all think, whether you have something to add or a different idea entirely. Would love to see everyone else's thoughts on this.

[missbaphomet]

I'm literally not doing anything except when I said it was totally hinged for you to accuse a random person of wanting to have sex with fictional people because they like a video game.

Actually my friends are incredibly based and I'm sorry you can't say the same. So sad for you worstie

Hmmmm how about some evidence on that claim?

Why are you in my notes looking for who interacts? Lmfao

Anyway @gorepill it would be sooooooooo funny if you drew xariya and astarion having gross nasty sex

[missbaphomet]

He is literally playing video games with me RIGHT NOW but ok sure. It's not any of your goddamn business why he deactivated but we're still hanging out and talking. Turns out when you don't fucking suck as a human being people don't randomly abandon you. If you projected any harder you'd be a movie theatre. Leave my friends the fuck alone.