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honeybeesiness · 4 years ago

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an unholy holiday.

word count: 2k.

slight nsfw warning! dw tho, there’s absolutely no smut and it’s 97% fluff. it’s just the reader being a tiny bit of a thottie ;).

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two limited edition sucre frenzy tickets.

The next day was your day with the beloved otaku Leviathan. Based off the kind of person he was, you figured that he would want to watch some anime with you or take you to a convention somewhere in Devildom (or the human world if you’re lucky). Binging the TSL series in the beginning of the year for the quiz against Levi proved beneficial to you (aside from being able to make a pact with him), as after that you became quite invested in the series to the point where you would want to name your pet Henry too. You knew Levi liked how you were fond of the series, because it wasn’t every day where he met someone that shared the same interests as him and didn’t put him down for it. With that being said, you were perfectly content with watching TSL or any other series that Levi chose today.

After breakfast that morning, you had gotten a text from the boy in question, who had not shown up for the meal.

💞weeb husband💞: meet me in my room

💞weeb husband💞: wear ur pajamas

You began to grow excited, as your suspicions were seemingly correct. It seemed like you were quite good at guessing what the boys had planned so far, given how you knew what Beelzebub was planning yesterday as well. Were you a psychic? Maybe you just had really good intuition. Or maybe you just knew the brothers so well that guessing came easy for you. Either way, you were smiling like a madman as you typed out a reply.

You: aight fam, i’ll be there asap

You: want me to wear my tsl jammies

💞weeb husband💞: yes

After his swift reply, you slid your phone into your hoodie and bid the others at the breakfast table a farewell. You headed on back to your room to swap into what you called your “TSL Pajamas”, which was just a worn-looking oversized brown t-shirt with the TSL logo on it along with a pair of comfy grey pajama shorts. After you got dressed, you slid down the hall and knocked on Levi’s door.

“Come in.”

And you did, shutting the door behind you. You grinned giddily at Leviathan (who was situated in his bathtub) before turning your attention to the rest of the room. Surrounding the bathtub that was Leviathan’s bed was a large array of snacks and drinks, most of which were your favorites. You didn’t think Devildom had human food like this, and you wondered if Levi went out of his way to get you these things. You were grateful, and you sent him a cheeky look, also deciding that it would be funny to tease him just a little. Embarrassed Levi was one of your favorite Levis, after all.

“Did you get all of this for me~?” You batted your eyelashes, slowly and sensually bending over to pick up a bottle of banana flavored ramune, which you examined while still being crouched. Out of the corner of your eye, you could see the bluenette’s face flush a scarlet color, and that was enough to satisfy you for the moment. “Thank you.”

“LOL, they’re not all for you, you know!” He squawked, still mildly embarrassed, but soon his face returned to its normal hue. “Believe it or not, there are some foods from the human world that actually taste good!”

You rolled your eyes, picking up a packet of chocolate pocky (a classic) as well as another favorite snack of yours before sauntering over to where Levi was sitting in the bathtub. “What’re we doin’? With all these snacks, I would assume you have something in mind.”

“You and I are going to be having an anime marathon.” He jabbed a finger in the direction of one of his PC monitors whose position he changed so the both of you could watch. “I wanna watch TSL and I don’t listen to normies who say no.”

“No. We literally watch TSL EVERY time I come to hang out here! Let’s try somethin’ new for once.” You said defiantly, earning a huff and a mini pout from the boy in return. You were clearly contradicting what you had thought to yourself earlier, but we don’t talk about that.

“FINE. What do you suggest?” He grumbled, pulling his keyboard closer to his lap so he could bring up his Softbun account. You put one foot into his bathtub and his head immediately shot over to look at you, his expression a little bit wild. “What are you doing?!”

You put another foot in. “Getting comfortable, of course, so scooch over! Your fatass is hogging the tub.”

“Excuse me?!” Levi sounded offended, but he was smiling as he (hesitantly) moved over. You plopped yourself down, hanging your legs over the rim of the tub. It was a small, Levi-sized bathtub, and you eyed the boy as he blushed fervently at your close proximity.

“Hey, have you watched Beast Assassin yet?” You asked, pointing at the series on the monitor in front of you. The show was in Levi’s library, but you couldn’t tell if he watched it or not.

He gave you a look that told you that you had asked a stupid question. “You mean the hit series where the protagonist’s sister gets turned into a beast and the protagonist must go on a journey to find a cure for her? OF COURSE I watched it! What are you, some kind of pleb?”

“NO. Shut the hell your mouth, we’re watching Beast Assassin, but we’re skipping to the part where Airitsu first appears because he’s the best.” You snatched his keyboard off his lap and placed it on yours, reaching your hand over the side of the bathtub to move the mouse (which was placed on the floor next to the bed) over to Beast Assassin.

“What are you saying?! Are you crazy?! We can’t just start on the second episode without watching the first! It’s called “Episode 2“ for a reason!” Levi attempted to take the keyboard away from you, but as soon as he laid his fingers on it, the entire room went pitch black.

You were the first to react. “Eh?? Levi-san, it’s so dark! H-Hold me!” But you, in fact, did not hold onto him. You could hear the boy, scoff, though. “Are we havin’ some sort of blackout? Has this ever happened in Devildom, or—?”

“This is SO unfair,” Levi grumbled to himself, and you felt him move beside you. “Just as I was going to click on the first episode of Beast Assassin!” You aggressively shoved him on the arm for that comment, sending him stumbling out of the bathtub and flat on the floor. Since you couldn’t exactly see him, the only way you could tell that he was on the floor was through the sound of skin hitting the tile that was the floor of Levi’s bedroom. “Hey!”

“What, I didn’t do anything!” You “harumph-ed” and crossed your arms, but you were generally curious as to what Levi was up to. And, as your eyes began to grow used to the dark, you could make out his silhouette approaching his desk where the rest of his monitors sat. “What’cha doin’?”

You watched somewhat blindly as he reached over the screens to the shelves that sat behind the desk, grabbing something that you couldn’t make out. You, too, got out of the bathtub, and you stumbled over to where Leviathan was standing. As he sensed you approaching, he turned away from you and hunched over slightly so you couldn’t see what he was holding. You shoved him again, but much more lightly this time.

“If you don’t stop, I won’t be giving you any of these glowsticks!” Ah, so that was what he was holding.

“Glowsticks? You have glowsticks??” From your spot behind Leviathan, you could spot a faint glow coming from his frontside. He turned around to face you, his face lit up by pink and red glowsticks, but still remaining shrouded by the surrounding darkness. He gave you another incredulous look that told you that you asked a stupid question. “Don’t give me that look! I thought that you used them all at the last concert you went to!”

Leviathan squinted at you. “Bold of you to assume that, since I’ve taken you to all of the concerts I got tickets for in the past year!”

That was something that had completely failed to cross your mind. It’s not that you didn’t remember Levi taking you to all those pop idol concerts before (you did), but you were always more invested in the music and the choreography rather than what the audience was doing or even holding.

“Well, I’m sooooorry that I forgot! It’s just-”

“Enough of your excuses, woman.” Leviathan interrupted you with a flick on your forehead. “An otaku never is without their glowsticks.”

“You can’t say that ‘cause glowsticks aren’t even used for anime! ...Unless it’s of Lyricoids. You like Lyricoids, right? You better. Who’s your favorite?” You reached out your hand to grab at the pink glowstick, hoping to distract the bluenette with your chitchat, but he moved his hands away.

“Of course I do! I like Muka. Her voice is so melodic and graceful, and her songs are so beautiful and meaningful. The settings of her music videos are always so detailed, especially with the backgrounds and how the plot of the song is portrayed through the visuals. Muka also always looks amazing in any outfit since her figure is naturally curvy and mature, and the musicians and animators never fail to make her draw the audience’s eyes. I also really like how—”

“I like the OG queen herself, Riku, thanks for asking.” You interrupted somewhat sarcastically, having another go at trying to acquire one of Levi’s glowsticks. “She’s so bubbly and her voice is so versatile that she can sing and sound nice in literally any genre.”

“I agree, but,” Levi moved the glowsticks out of the way once more. “Muka is—”

There were several knocks on Levi’s door, and both of your heads swiveled in that direction. You also took that moment to swipe up the pink glowstick, and Levi glared at you.

“What if a serial killer busted the lights and is out to kill us.” You mused, scratching your chin. “He’s being awfully polite if he’s knocking on the door, though.”

You were on a roll with your stupid statements today, for Levi gave you another look, this one being much more annoyed. He didn’t bother to correct you, and instead said, “I hope he kills you first because you’re being so annoying.”

Your reply was immediate, and the knocking was heard once more. “Jokes on you, I actually want to die.” Pink glowstick in hand, you marched to the front of the room and opened the door. ��Stab me, daddy.”

“...What?”

You blinked several times and held up the glowstick to the person’s face. It was Satan, and you shuffled awkwardly in your spot. “Oops.”

“I’m going to pretend that I didn’t hear that.” Satan surveyed the room, and his stiff posture relaxed— if only a little. “Good, you two aren’t the only ones whose rooms are affected by the blackout.”

You leaned against the doorframe. “This happened to you too?”

Satan nodded. “And the rest of us as well. It is unusual, is it not? This never happened before.”

“Well, I hope it gets fixed soon, because Levi back here,” You jabbed your free thumb in the man’s direction. “is being the biggest prick. He said he actually WANTED me to die! And for what, being annoying? Sheesh, how harsh.”

Satan smiled a little bit, glancing back at Leviathan, who he was only able to see thanks to the glowstick he was holding. Upon hearing your words, Levi marched up and slammed the door shut.

You held up your hands in front of yourself in mock surrender. “Let’s just agree that we’re both being annoying.”

“But YOU’RE the one who’s being annoying!”

“Agree to disagree?”

“...Fine.” ‎�� ‎‎‎

i have a headcanon where Levi uses crackhead/internet/gen z humor so i decided to incorporate that into the story :”). had a lot of fun writing this!

also, if y’all forgot, Levi legit sleeps in a bathtub 😤.

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and yes that is a Sayaka Maizono/Danganronpa reference in the beginning ;)

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Beast Assassin = Demon Slayer. Airitsu = Zenitsu.

Lyricoid = Vocaloid. Muka = Luka Megurine. Riku = Miku Hatsune.

taglist: @wetleafwrites :: @midnight-moodlet

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marireadshellblazer · 3 years ago

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Constantine TV Series Episode 4 “A Feast of Friends”

Aight, I feel the need to express some feelings about this episode. I’m not sure this is going to be terribly articulate, but I’ll do my best. Let’s do this.

First off, it’s obvious to anyone who has read Hellblazer that this episode is based off of the first two issues of the comic book series. As I wrote in my post about my experience reading it, these issues were the perfect way to start off the series. It’s like “BOOM! This is how it is! Get ready for some serious shit! This is your only warning; this is what you’re in for.” Even though they did change the story for the episode, I still absolutely loved it. The storyline from the comics is a favorite of mine, but even with the changes made in order to adapt it for TV, this was an awesome episode. In fact, it’s my favorite episode of the TV series. Here’s why!

Why is it episode 4?

Unlike the comics this story was adapted to be episode 4, meaning it doesn’t start the TV series. So, why wouldn’t it start the TV series? I think that you have to look at it from a few different perspectives.

Let’s start with the comic: Issues 1 and 2, titled Hunger and A Feast of Friends respectively, make up the first arc of the Hellblazer series. Most fans know, however, that Hellblazer is not John’s first appearance in comics; he got his own series after appearing throughout the American Gothic story arc of Swamp Thing. Consequently, many people came into Hellblazer at the time having some familiarity with the character. While this chapter does expand on John’s character some, this doesn’t serve as a major introduction to him. They just drop the reader into one of his nightmare-inducing everyday situations with little to no preparation. Those who are familiar with his role in Swamp Thing will, odds are, not find these issues to be terribly weird or particularly jarring considering it’s in a series about John; they have a good idea what they are in for.

Here is a quick run-down: John returns to his apartment in Paddington after dealing with the horror show that is the Brujeria in the Swamp Thing comics. Exhausted, he comes back to an unwelcome guest; Gary Lester. Gary is one of the friends who was involved in the Newcastle incident (which is fully explained in issue #11), which left each of them scarred in their own way. Gary dealt with the aftermath via drugs, which have left him wide open for other issues. After foolishly releasing a demon from a sacrificial victim, Gary runs to John for help dealing with the destruction said demon is causing. In this case it’s a hunger demon that causes people to feast upon whatever they greatly desire; food, a crucifix, and even an athlete committing autocannibalism. With help from club owner and Voodoo practitioner Papa Midnight, John betrays his vulnerable and trusting friend in order to stop the demon by instead making him the new sacrifice. Trapping the demon inside of Gary, the literal and figurative ghosts of John’s past haunt and torment him mentally as his friend dies slowly and in agony, ending this arc with a melancholy feeling. John stopped a demon, but at the cost of a friend who truly trusted and cared for him.

Using this story to begin the TV series as is, however, would have been more than a little strange. In the minds of most people outside of the comic book world, John Constantine was first introduced to them via the horrifyingly inaccurate Keanu Reeves film. (I love Keanu, I really do, but that film give me agita). Or, if they were introduced to the show after it had already aired, they are introduced via Matt Ryan’s masterful work portraying him in Legends of Tomorrow. While he does an incredible job in both Constantine and Legends (to the point where I find that I may simply be unable to accept anyone else taking on the role in live action) it depresses me terribly that Legends toned down John’s character so much with all the goofiness. It did not suit John at all! If anything, I find myself feeling sorry for Matt Ryan, who tried so hard to do John’s character justice. Uhg.

Anyway…Already, a lot of the audience is going to be more than a little taken aback by the Constantine series’ portrayal of the character, however comic book accurate he may be. This show is tailored to as wide of an audience as possible, meaning they expect that pretty much no one has read Hellblazer or Swamp Thing before. Consequently, having the series start by just dropping the audience into his crazy world, especially with this particular story arc, might not be the best idea. I’m not saying that his introduction is done super well with the first episode (it’s not a total wreak, but there are issues) but it would have been much harder to start with A Feast of Friends.

Characterization

Now, let’s look at it from another angle: characterization. As the 4th episode this was, odds are, done assuming that there would be a lot more episodes after this (oh, the painful reality), but really the viewers are still just getting to know John. So, these early episodes are supposed to establish his character. They see him as knowledgeable and ready to handle the weird and scary in the first episode, and in 2 and 3 you see that he is serious about his work, a loner, weirdly well prepared, and how he interacts with others. While in some situations he does come off like a douche, his douche-ness is on full display in this episode. Honestly, this is accurate to how he is in the comics; he’s a nasty piece of work, after all. A world class bastard. He gives Gary shit for his drug addiction pretty much the entire episode as well as his choice to mess with a demon and the chaos it made that he now has to fix. He, like in the comics, tricks Gary into helping him and it results in a slow, painful death for the man. Gary really did trust John, and not only did John betray him, but he was callous about it. Now, that’s not to say that the situation and Gary’s death doesn’t bother him, and this is also seen in both the episode and the comic, but John solders through a lot of it with his mask of stoic indifference; he blatantly a deliberately betrays his friend without much hesitation.

John’s characterization in the show is really important. While fans of Hellblazer know what they are in for (John being a dick, betraying people, sacrificing friends, etc) the wide audience the show was meant to appeal to might not respond well to that. How is the audience supposed to relate to a character whose major personality trait in this arc is to basically be a douche (even if it is justified in a way)? Generally speaking, TV shows try to have a lot of characters with redeeming traits and very basic bitch personalities so that as much of the audience as possible can relate to them in some capacity. They can describe the main character as “cool, quirky, sweet, loving, etc” because that is what network television strives for. The point is for the audience to relate to and find a lot of reasons to like the character, especially the main character. The audience is supposed to be able to see the qualities of the character in themselves. An example of a douchy character being changed for network television is the titular character in TV series Lucifer. He can be an asshat at times, but his redeeming qualities shine through in pretty much every episode; he’s helpful, has a strong sense of justice, and cares about Chloe. He often goes out of his way to understand others, although he often misses the mark, and tries to fix problems and issues that he accidentally creates in order to keep relationships with others. These are things people can relate to, and although he can be rather uncouth, it’s played for laughs, and he has more redeeming qualities than not. If the Constantine series started off with John coldly betraying a friend after giving him shit for his addiction the entire episode with not a lot of his positive traits coming through, from the perspective of most people, this might not be a good way to try and connect with the audience. I’m not saying there are people who don’t/won’t, but again, this is network television and they tend to play on the safe side.

Comic book -> TV

Ok so let’s move onto the meat of this; the changes made to the story. People always complain when something isn’t totally accurate to the book down to every last detail (Harry Potter *cough cough*) and making story and character changes to adaptions of comic books is nothing new. However, to be fair, there are some legitimately good reasons for this. Time, money, limits technology wise, and pacing are good examples. The most important thing to consider, in my opinion, is that we are going from a comic book to television. Literally, that is the most important thing. Essentially, what the writers had to do when adapting this story for the show was carry over the plot from one medium to another, which is tricky.

What’s a medium? A medium is a platform that allows a message to be shared or presented. So, using the medium of a comic book is how Jamie Delano was able to share his message; the story of John Constantine. The writers of the television series then had to adapt the story from comics, a visual and written medium, into a different kind of visual medium with different features to it; stage craft, voice, music, etc.

Comic books have features for story telling; the size and placement of the panels, the writing, word bubbles, narration bubbles, colors, art style, etc. The pro’s to this are that you don’t get paragraph after paragraph describing a place or a person; they literally show them to you and the art presents those details. They also allow for the art to take in the reader emotionally through what the images convey; messy art, sudden loss of color, or even a sudden blank page after a tragic event are simple yet effective ways to convey emotion that are, at times, difficult or downright impossible to put into words. And sometimes the writer wants to leave things to interpretation or allude to something without saying it outright. While this can be done in writing, it can be done through the art as well, and depending on how skilled the artist or creative a set up can be just as effective if not more.

In television storytelling can be done with another wide array of features. Close-ups on the actors, the actors and their performance in general, music, background narration, changes in location, lighting, ect. This allows for emotions to come across in different ways; the quality of the acting can make or break the effectiveness of the scene, and music and lighting can alter the message or feel of scene in order to change or heighten the point, pacing, the use of CGI or practical effects, etc. So, keeping this in mind, there are many features that are exclusive to film that are not in comic books, and vice versa. So, as you can imagine, adapting the stories or message from one medium to another is nowhere near as straightforward as people like to think it is. In other words, I tend to give the writers/actors/etc a break when it comes to adaption because, honestly, there is a lot that goes into it and it’s not like I could do better, honestly. I mean, there are piss poor adaptions, I’m not gunna lie, but there are a lot of them that I think don’t get enough credit simply because it’s “different” in some ways.

Aight, let’s first refer back to what I said earlier concerning the comic; these issues aren’t so much an intro to John as they are literally following him from the end of the American Gothic arc in Swamp Thing and to his apartment where he gets involved with more shit (no rest for the wicked, amirite?). So, again, not a good way to start the TV series. In the TV show, they also have to tie in the changes they set up in the previous episodes. Continuity, my friends.

So, what is different? Here are a few things: John having a safe house, being in the US, Chaz being American and also not involved, Zed being involved and being Latina, the new angel character Manny, and the absence of Papa Midnight really change a lot about the story. The heart of it is John’s relationship with Gary and the defeat of the demon, which thankfully remains unchanged at it’s core. This is the central idea that drives this story and I think that idea was actually done a bit better in the film medium than in the comic.

Keeping all of these factors and all of these changes that needed in order to keep things consistent with the TV show’s changes, let’s get into why I think that this episode is good even with the changes, but why I love it.

I love It

After taking some time to consider things, I realize that what really makes this episode great is the actors; specifically, Matt Ryan and Jonjo O'Neill. The chemistry between them is undeniable. The way they look at each other and how they talk to each other really makes you feel like, at one time at least, they were friends. The scene where Gary swipes the ID badge and says “I learned from the best” is a great example of this. The look on his face and John’s; I don’t have a real eloquent way to say it. I just sort of feel it.

The retcon of Gary’s character really helps with this. Being that Gary is introduced and then killed off in two issues, you don’t really get to know his character in the comics. He’s only in one episode of the TV series, yet he feels more fleshed out. Soul was added to the character. Showing his struggles with addiction, as well as what I suspect to be depression and PTSD, really humanized him. In the episode, he was more than just a desperate, annoying junky; he was a flawed and relatable human being. Who hasn’t made a mistake? How many people have made BIG mistakes with consequences difficult to handle? How many people are haunted by their actions from the past? Addiction and the effects is has on people is devastating. I’m glad that they kept the ending true to the comics, but the way he was portrayed in the episode really made me feel for Gary in this case. It almost made me hope that maybe he really would get better, and have the chance at redemption that he was trying so desperately to find. But it wouldn’t be a John Constantine series without an ending like this one; John loses a friend and slowly digs himself deeper into hell.

Of course, it’s the ending of the episode that people really remember best. It’s the scenes that solidified, at least for me, Matt Ryan as John Constantine. It’s what really helped me have faith in the series. Watching it now, and seeing what really could have been, makes the episode somewhat bitter sweet for me. I felt like this is when the series really found it’s footing; the acting, storytelling, and how well arcs from Hellblazer could be adapted. This is where I think Matt Ryan hit his stride and we could see what he was really capable of as an actor if they let him spread his wings. In the earlier episodes I was honestly unsure. He looked the part, but the soul of the character had not really had a chance to shine through.

How John treats Gary at the end really made a difference, too. Holding him while he was in pain, and sitting with him as he died in agony; these simple yet effective changes really drove home John’s humanity in the face of evil and the tough decisions he has to make. The look he gives many at the very end, the anger and sorrow he seems to be struggling to hold back, is haunting.

In this episode, Matt Ryan’s love and dedication to John’s character shine. Seeing the story in live action gave this story a stronger impact. Even without a lot of the social commentary that was present in the comic, the live action element is what really helps drive the story home. I think it’s because it’s real people showing these very real emotions that can be hard to translate into art. Not to say that John Ridgway did a bad job, but it’s different in live action.

I hope I was able to get these thoughts across. I wasn’t sure if I should share this or not, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. I know this is sort of jumbled, but hopefully it’s not a total mess to read.

#Constantine #Constantine TV Series #Hellblazer #Vertigo #Vertigo Comics #DC #DC Comics #Matt Ryan #John Constantine

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clarionglass · 5 years ago

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it’s been three days and i still have a lot of Opinions about the new episode of dw, so i’m posting to get all this spam out. some of these thoughts i haven’t already seen in the dw tag? doesn’t mean they’re not out there, i haven’t checked the tag comprehensively, but i just want to add my 2c worth. obviously MASSIVE spoilers for spyfall part 1, so i’m putting this under the cut so i don’t disturb anyone who a) somehow hasn’t seen it and b) doesn’t have spoilers blacklisted

aight here we are chums we’re back with good old-fashioned nu!who feel--i loved the last series, but this came crashing back with a confident, punchy opening very much with the feel of nu!who, and i am So on board this is all gonna be about The Reveal because as we all know, i am rather obsessed with the master

firstly! the reveal itself was handled so well! for five main reasons: 1. we weren’t expecting to see the master so soon after apparent permadeath, even though we all knew the master was gonna come back, general feeling was that they’d give it a bit more time 2. it was a big reveal at the start of the series, not at the end of an arc with lots of teaser glimpses, where in all the speculation the master’s name is inevitably brought up 3. to scab an idea from a good pal, o wasn’t batshit insane. missy clearly was from day dot, as was razor, but o was this very normal, mild MI6 nerd who seemed plain ol average. 4. the master has changed genders before, but never race, so that may have set up unconscious bias/expectations, which were clearly thwarted 5. they kept such a tight lid on leaks and spoilers (unlike the return of simm!master) so all of these combined for a genuinely blindsiding reveal which i Loved

speaking of! thank you sacha dhawan for that incredible acting, oh my god such a switch-flip moment, he goes from nice background character to chewing the scenery and his delivery! ohhhhh my god j’adore 13 (in mounting dread): ...ohhhh o (excitedly): that--that’s my name! and that is why i chose it! so satisfying satisfying for me too, my boy, me too ”or should i say spy... master” fuck “you can’t be” / “i can be. and i very much am” and then the fuckign ”call me master” chills, genuine chills (lol graham’s quiet, incredulous “call you what?” is amazing) his fuckin nose crinkle??? i think something happens with his hair as well, can’t pinpoint the moment even with several rewatches, but his hair goes from being very off his face to falling in his eyes, and gives him this manic cast which is oh-so-appropriate the return of the tce! so happy to see it in the new series, love me a good shrinky dink and the way he so casually tosses the matchbox aside he’s clearly very evil in this, and i’m hoping that won’t destroy missy’s character arc. current theory is that he’s post-simm, pre-missy (as possibly evidenced by the drumming in the preview? but unsure). definitely some callbacks to harold saxon tho, that trying to drive a subtle wedge between graham and the doctor with the whole “how well do you really know her?” thing is such a saxon move, and you could see it peeping through when he said that “nobody would create such a detailed legend,” yaz replied with “but it’s not impossible,” and his look was just. studiously blank which reminds me, his acting when he goes inside the tardis??? a gift, a treasure i choose to believe that “ridiculous” is his genuine comment on the decor, just as i choose to believe that the doctor’s suit pants started life as normal-length suit pants, but she cut the bottoms off herself to suit her style as has been pointed out in a million other meta posts, 13 is running from her past, and this new master is going to force her to confront it, which is a plot point i am so so keen for also, did anyone else pick up that his first words as the master were “got me. well done.” and his last words were “got you. finally.” he sees it as a constant game of one-upmanship, and as a spectator? bring it on

and not to be That Person but i’m going to be That Person that’s right folks it’s detailed character analysis time because there are two moments in that scene where the master is waiting for the doctor to catch up the first is the reveal, and he’s loving every moment of it. it’s not blood that runs through his veins, it’s dramatic bitch juice. he’s crafted this deception perfectly, he’s maintained it for literal years (”i met o! years ago!” / “i Know!!”), and it wasn’t meant to be seen through until the time he chose to reveal himself, even though he can’t help himself from giving a few little hints, playing games to see how much he can sneak under the radar. and when he reveals himself, he delights in the few moments of confusion before the doctor realises how clever he’s been conversely, the bit with the bomb it’s another switch-flip moment, all his excitement and giddiness and goofiness is drawn aside for a few seconds to reveal this burning core of anger “no! do you really think that i would not make it sonic proof, doctor? come on!” he’s properly angry there, because he didn’t think he had to explain himself, he expected her to have got it already to quote tRoS, they’re a dyad, they’re the only two people in the universe who really understand each other they understand each other, and they expect to be understood, on such a fundamental level and he’s angry because he expected her to know him. she disappointed him in that moment. fuck i just love their dynamic so much??? as friends, as enemies, as some ungodly combination of both

all in all this is just a long way of saying i loved spyfall, i loved the final five minutes in particular, and i’m so so keen for the next ep to see how some of my questions get resolved (also VOR better stand for something otherwise i was sniggering all ep at completely unnecessary vore references and that’s just disappointing)

#clari speaks #doctor who #dw #spyfall #doctor who spoilers #spyfall spoilers #spoilers #the doctor #thirteenth doctor #hoping this isn't too soon in the tags to put #the master #meta #doctor who meta #character analysis

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13unknownmind · 6 years ago

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The Arrowverse is back Arrow S7E3

Aight yes y'all we are back with Arrow... I was supposed to get this up yesterday along with legends but I had a family day instead and I am happy I did. I did however have the opportunity to get my notes down and am fully prepared so let's get to it.

In mate 4587 we gonna talk about this dude.

"I know everything there is to know about Diaz and the Longbow Hunters." Felicity has been #obsessed she wants her husband back and her son to be able to come home and I can't blame her.

Side note: I say this allot but The League of Assassins was even afraid of the Longbow Hunters.

"it was his choice to put on that hood and it was his choice to turn himself in." Amanda Watson, saying this is just her way to direct the blame to Oliver.

"you probably don't even have a liver... Just muscle." this was in my opinion one of the dumbest things said on this show but little dude is the FNG so it's whatever can't be mad.

Just a little thing from last episode when Oliver got that dude removed from slabside he got the last and only clean guard removed from the place... So now we got bigger problems.

I really want to know who this "Demon" is cause he sounds bad but I don't think he is honestly... He could be something Oliver knows personal and this could he easy for real.

Oh my gosh the diggles I love this family and the way they are together, I have finally gotten to see them all together Lyla, John and J.J.

Now this was one of my personal favorite moments from this episode.

Lyla - "It'll be like a second honeymoon." Aww

John - "yay with Curtis." Sarcasm lol

Lyla - "well Deadshot and Cupid came with us on our first." This line was well delivered.

John - "no that is not our first honeymoon. Our first honeymoon was in Hawaii Remember? The Hammocks by the beach." That sounds great.

Lyla - "Hawaii was nice." She said that with such a happy smile.

John - "Hawaii was really nice." He probably remembers that time vividly.

That was a great interaction, the moment was great.

Now this is right after that just finishing the part of that moment when they are talking about "love on the front lines" if you will.

Lyla - "we make a good team."

John - "we make the best team."

This was great and I am loving the diggles more and more. J.J. has grown so much over the time he has been on the show and the Diggle family has grown as a unit of characters, it's great.

I am so sappy lol but married couple moments like that are just adorable.

All right fast forward a little bit now we are in the Europe with the team on a mission. John and Lyla are trying to bust a bank and they brought Curtis lol and this dude right before they close the van door.

"can you get me a free toaster?" ...Good job Curtis *drops head and shakes it dramatically back and forth*

Felicity Smoak the best hacker in the world fixes a way to defeat Diaz and it... almost succeeds. If Oliver was there I can tell you it would have succeeded. But sense it's to get him out of prison that's not a thing.

Aight little dude internal monologue is meant to be just that. I don't know why he's steady talkin' but again FNG lol

I also just wanted to point out that Oliver is ambushed by three dudes and whoops all three of them by himself after having been stabbed by himself.

"you don't summon the demon, the demon summons you." This is sounding almost like a cartelish situation.

"the only way to the demon is through brick, there's a system that's how this place works." "Well looks like I'm going to force brick to make good on his deal." This was good, you can see Oliver is done and ready to get this BS over with.

Amanda Watson FBI agent lady working with the Overwatch.

The team comes in the traps fully set let's see how this goes.

Amanda - "you thought about getting to Cyber Security... Legally?"

Felicity - "I haven't done legally in a very long time."

This part was great cause this is a vigilante and an FBI agent lol

See the system sucks but it is the way it is so all can be treated fairly... Except good people and the bad folk don't get what they deserve.

Now back over to Digs team.

Curtis - "sometimes secrets are good in a marriage you know keeps the spice alive... actually don't quote me on that I'm actually divorced. what are you going to do?" Well done Curtis well done.

Then when Diaz and the Hunters are walking in and through the lad "so inhumane." This coming from a long bow hunter... #Millennial serial killer moment lol

And we also have this jem-

Felicity - "Frac... fracFracFRAC!"

Renee - "better sounds Felicity."

There shortly after we get this which is another of my favorite moments in this episode.

Felicity - "How about I saved the details of acoustic injection cyber-attacks for post Mission happy hour." I loved this so much cause you got the intelligence shining through one of the most smart alec remarks to be on this show yet.

I'm really loving the silencer vs. Canary and Siren battles being a reoccurring thing.

Another side thing: Does anyone actually have a ship name for Dinah and Laurel??? Please let me know, 'cause that is a ship I am on.

Felicity - "I can't hack it but I can track it." Go on girl with your bad self and your rhymes lol #bars

I'm very curious Okay so let's retrace our steps to when they're walking into the actual lab one of the two Hunters that is with Diaz makes a comment about what her darts could do with the stuff in the lap the different chemicals and compounds and I'm over here like girl you're a Longbow Hunter take whatever you want. Are they not known for being the best of the best and doing whatever it takes to get there I'm just saying I'm a little confused on that one.

Going to the next part here we can't get the doors closed and Felicity is trying everything... Watson ready to give her life up... Is that just part of her job 'cause she was ready.

Clearly from what we can all see hear Dinah and Laurel are setup to defeat the silencer together 'cause you know #PowerCouple this is gonna be fun.

Aight Watson I know you've done lot of stuff, probably been on quite a few missions as well but did you really think pulling the FBI thing would work on Diaz and THE LONGBOW HUNTERS???

Another thing and this is just something that I'd like to point out to the masses... The Longbow Hunters are amazing okay I love them I love the characters and I love the concept... That being said they are going 1v1 against team arrow and hardly holding their own like for real give it another 5 minutes and Diaz not intervening and the Longbow Hunters would have been whooped.

"on a scale from 1-unemployment" lol that was good thank you Felicity.

Meanwhile back at slabside

"if I don't try to kill you" meaning he knows that he's not and would not be able to kill Oliver.

Turns out dude might not be the worst guy in the world I mean he did save Lyla.

And over to Europe again we go.

Lyla all she's trying to do is keep Dig and J.J. safe and keep dig out of what he doesn't want to be in.

All right now we're getting to my favorite part of the episode overall...

THE FIGHT! Sampson vs The Green Arrow... Begin lol (if you know what I just referenced congrats your old as well.)

Yo my boy Oliver here took a bit of a disadvantage at the beginning cuz Samson tackled him when he wasn't looking. in all actuality it's all good because after a couple blows to the Torso and one hit to the Head you can clearly see Oliver's done so he comes back with a tackle of his own after looking at his freshly reopened stab wound and starts going whatever it is that is beyond H.A.M. and we can clearly see he is not letting up. one busted arm and probably a busted a hand later all of her flies up to the balcony to deal with brick. Brick thinks that Oliver can't be a worst of the worst guy huh... Ok well as soon as Oliver proves him wrong he gestures with a little unspoken "well played" and Oliver is carted off to his cell by the guards.

Now moving back over to Europe we come back in on the lovers dispute if you will... If that's even called the dispute.

John - "Lyla I'm sorry, I was wrong." Man first we see dig remember the first honeymoon good job, now we're hearin' this man apologize and fully admit to being at fault. Ladies and gentlemen this is a man who has marriage down to a tee. From what I understand that's how a marriage works one of you has to realize that you need to apologize and one of you needs to realize and admit that you were wrong if you actually got in a fight with your spouse. This is a beautiful thing for real.

I also now we moving back over to Felicity and Renee's team in Star City...

Food City in Renee captured silencer (exactly what I figured would happen.) And I assume are going to interrogate... Apparently her name or call sign is Honor.

And now we cut two Diaz who has been po'd for a while, I really cannot blame him you know being siren screamed off of roof and having his bones shattered on the water's surface... He was already a sociopath and now it's even worse greeaaaaat. Oh and now he has super strength¿ We going to see what happens next.

Again back at slabside

Now that Oliver is headed to level 2 we're probably going to see one how he gets out and definitely going to see two who this Demon is... I'm figuring it's somebody Oliver knows from his past and they going to figure out something... I don't know what but something big is probably going to happen.

Now I can only assume like I said that we're going to see an interrogation next episode with Honor/Silencer so that's going to be fun and probably a really angry Dinah... I hope to also see more Diner and Laurel interaction cause we all know that anything to do with the silencer seems to have Dinah or Laurel involved.

(if you couldn't tell I am shipping them so hard)

Now what I always love doing is giving my final thoughts so... Let's do it.

Is Oliver going to stay in prison for the majority of the season and make his way out around crossover time?

I honestly think the demon might be connected to the bratva somehow.

What is Diaz going to do now that he has that strength?

Are they going to make Diaz overpowered enough that he can take on all three Longbow Hunters at once because they're like insubordinate or something and try to overthrow in but he ends up whooping them or whatever?

I have a feeling it's going to be Renee Faison one-on-one against the only dude Longbow Hunter...I want to know what that Shield is what's going on with that cuz there's more than just a shield going on. Yes I'm a nerd get over it.

Will silencer squeal? How are they going to interrogate her/get the information they need?

Please tell me it's not just me shipping Dinah and Laurel.

Who all is in level 2 of slabside cuz I know we're probably going to see some baddies from the last six seasons.

Is it just fictional shows or are all prison guards dirty?

I am so stoked for the rest of this season because I am loving this, they've brought it back from where it was and at really getting Arrow back on track.

Aight y'all so I guess that's it I've got some other stuff to say but nothing that I think is worth the time so if y'all like this please let me know I would love to hear your thoughts if you've read all the way to this point you are awesome and if you haven't you're still awesome I will be working on Legends tonight and probably posting it tomorrow because schedule and life so be looking out for that it will be out before the next episode of Supergirl so will Flash because I have a lot to say about Legends and Flash but anyway as always I hope you all are well feel free to fill me in on any thoughts you have and any information about the shows that I am avoiding or ignoring or whatever it seems that I'm doing. I do apologize for not keeping up on real life stuff but I'm too lazy lol if you did enjoy this like I said let me know like it whatever and check out my other posts under the tag [ #my thought on the arrowverse ] also as always y'all God bless stay chilling and I will catch you on the flippity flop. ✌️

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themanicgalaxy · 4 years ago

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SPN 3X4 Sin City

Vegas? interesting

ooo the stained glass and the “god’s not with us, not anymore”

...is this foreshadowing

and then he just...shoots himself in the head

“can’t there be a demon in palm beach” “sorry not this time”

ooo Bobby’s reverse engineering the colt, that’s gREAT I LOVE THAT

“call me if you see ANYTHING” I love Bobby

“something happened two months ago, everything is different now”

seriously, if the twist is it wasn’t demons? I’m intrigued

Dean looks broken up this guy has like...a girlfriend? sister? what the fuck is happening

Aw Dean tries to keep him away from hunting, that’s sweet

ok, using credence is...a choice, but the vibe fits, so

“devil’s on the loose” is kinda funny here tbh

...Richie and....Dean.....

I...am getting...vibes? am I...?

ok the priest hanging out with people and making references, but not outright saying stuff? I do kinda like that

...is that thomas gibson

...did they just shoot thomas gibson

for maximum hilarity i will not check

it WASN’T DEMON?

“oh yeah they’re gonna take your pics for the paper!” Dean: Oh wow that’s great

and once he leaves Sam: “yep time to go”

that was great I loved that

oh SHE’S(bartender) the demon, ok

awww he killed richie :(

and Dean’s just worried, he’s not eating the stuff he projects he likes, god I love him

Ruby and Bobby? interesting??

I like how she flickers her eyes, it’s quick and to the point

she helps bobby with gun? interesting?

dutch angle, but they use it sparingly, so...i think it works

aw he asks her about richie first that’s nice

Sam: :) misunderstanding

Sam you are actively holding a gun

ooo he scoped out the place and played her

cool chandelier shot

and gets rid of the exorcism book too

lmao they’re both trapped

and he doesn’t remember the exorcism heh

he did pay attention in class heh

“he’s the smarts” ...r u...ok i’m leaving that alone

“not lindsay lohan famous” I like that detail, that’s fun

Sam’s P A I N At calling Dean the Big Hero

~and they were trapped in a dungeon together~

So...it technically wasn’t her

*nudge* I do like that though

these two both look like soap opera stars in this lighting, which is G RE A T

“It’s only a book, Dean”

“it’s god’s book”

ohohohoho

“war, genocide” OH they’re talking about the post 9/11 invasion stuff.

Ah, product of its time, that’s what that meant

Demons believing in Lucifer, that’s pretty neat

“we’re not so different you and I”

“y'all are evil” “and you aren’t”

i do like that whole ideological debate

“what’s it like down there” OH B O Y ARE YOU GONNA FIND OUT

what did dick cheney even do they don’t teach us that

hey what the F U C K

Are they gonna be likely to help demons out after hell? once Dean knows what it’s like? or is that...gonna just....go away

it’s the father isn’t it godDAMMIT

WHY CAN’t WE HAVE A COOL H I P FATHER

“you’re likable” I mean....you are...that’s called charisma Dean, which you have a lot of

“what’s the point of thinking about a future if you don’t have one” D E A N N O

ooo and we get the name

And since it wasn’t sam, they get Consequences!!

Chaos and mayhem instead wheeeee

“looks like you win” felt super pointed

ooo flicker effect

BOBBY GOT YEETED SO QUICKLY LMAO

oh the priest demon and the waitress demon are like a thing

aw she doesn’t want to kill him

Aw he didn’t want to kill her

ooo the shot in the pentagram was cool

And Sam going APeshit

nono, Please, Listen to the Demons, please

“demons lie” is literally SUCH a cop out, there’s STUFF in that fdohaifh

the reflecty ceiling is a cool touch tho

Ruby’s a bad influence isn’t she

“the little fallen angel on your shoulder” SERIOUSLY IF YOU WEREN’T GONNA PARALLEL THEN WHAT WAS THE REASON

ok thoughts:

1. The demon+Dean bonding session was really cool, and Needed! we needed a different perspective, a way to humanize them, and while it was a bit lore dump-y, it was interesting! Like “we’re not so different” but not even done that badly. They still hated each other, but like....respected each other? cool shit

2. More post 9/11 in this episode than others I think? I don’t know much(I Wasn’t alive for most of it), but it’s baked into the show in other ways, so I had to mention it here at least a little bit. (that’s the dick cheney and the demons saying earth is fucked, which makes sense)(And this is even before the collapse and the strike)

3. I wanted to see the Bobby and Ruby scenes. I think those would be interesting. Also, yes I know Kripke’s whole thing was Individualism To The Max, but having a weird pseudo-support structure is just? more interesting, I like that. Like, Bobby, Ellen, Jo, Richie(who Dean was concerned about that was really sweet), it adds to the world! it’s interesting! please keep it!!(I know they won’t but still)

4. Also I get the sense that Dean boiled down Being a Man into like...a few things, and just performs them. Like over and over again, with conscious effort. Because notably, when he was worried about Richie, he just entirely ignored the hamburger, and everything around him, and put on a performance till all was revealed. Maybe I’m grasping at straws here, but I did the same thing about Being a Human Being, so let me project in peace.

aight till next week

#pawswatchesspn #3x4 Sin City #in literally every episode in this season thus far dean has said something VERY concerning #someone please give this motherfucker a hug

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amisbro · 8 years ago

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Breaking down Broccoli’s Messages

(a.k.a. “The Method to the Madness”) Alright SO...since we are less than 2 weeks out for Uta no Prince-Sama’s 7th Anniversary I wanted to go and break down some things that I thought were interesting when it came to both Broccoli (The company that owns the rights to UtaPri) and also Sentai Filmworks who does the distribution here in the US What is going to follow is a rather detailed breakdown of when the series started airing to present and also certain other things that I have found of interest as...it would appear that this “UtaPri detective” might be close to cracking what is Broccoli’s code on June 24th! Ready... Set... GO!

Okay so where do we begin...let’s start on 2011 and 2013...specifically July 2nd of 2011 and then April 3rd of 2013. Now why are we going to use these dates in particular? Here’s why! Have you ever looked up the dates between when the (original) games for the PSP games came out in Japan and the release dates for the Seasons came out? Its really quite fascinating July 2nd, 2011 is when S1 of UtaPri came out and what is interesting about this is that not long after (August 11th of that same year) was the ORIGINAL Repeat that came out on the PSP...a game that I actually own for the system and have to finish at some point but I just haven’t gotten to it yet. At this time also in UtaPri land 3 games had already been released for PSP before the remake of the first one. In order they were The ORIGINAL Uta no Prince-Sama (June 24th, 2010) Amazing Aria (December 23rd, 2010) Sweet Serenade (February 10th, 2011) Now keep this in mind too: These three games released BEFORE S1...what was the reason? The obvious answer (and the very likely one is that they wanted to make sure that they had a lot of stuff to use for STARISH if they wanted to do a series...well they did a Season 1 and then at the “ambiguous” message of “See You Next Time” in the final title card it almost seemed cut and dry after the debut of STARISH in the Anime that they would get to a second series...a second series where the rules changed and we got to start “expansion” of the UtaPri world” BEFORE THAT! Broccoli wanted to make sure that the fans were introduced to new characters outside of the ones they already know (i.e. the STARISH boys, Saotome, Tsukimiya and Hyuuga) so two more games would come out before April 2, 2013 Debut (May 24, 2012...3 days before Maeno’s 30th birthday) All-Star (March 7th, 2013 and became notable for the first game you could date the QN boys) So keep this in mind because its at this point where e get ready also for the second series in April pf 2K13 and NOT ONLY do we meet the QUARTET NIGHT BUT...Shining starts to really show his cunning by subtly introducing a new unit that wanted to take on STARISH but at the time he simply called them “A trio of Amateurs” The Anime comes and we do meet QUARTET NIGHT but during the final 3-4 episodes of ML2K we find out that there is a “rival group” and I seriously hesitate to use that word but others do so let’s go with it for now. The trio, as we find out, is brought on by a competitive and twisted man named Raging Ootori and his son Eiichi is the leader. The group HEAVENS would be the pawns in a twisted match where the loser would be forced to disband. Its at this time you can ask the following question: Is this story going to end after two seasons? OR Do the producers and the people behind the scenes have a “bigger plan” for not just HEAVENS but also STARISH and QN? Well HEAVENS would lose as one would find out and...at the time you might not have been the biggest fan of that trio because Eii came on so strong that contact cement wanted him to chill out and Nagi (at the time) was a brat...I admit this wholeheartedly! The thing was they didn’t end the series with a message like “Thanks for watching” or the “STARISH FOREVER” message that we would see later in this unique setup...no they said “See you next time” which made things rather intriguing! What could broc be planning? Christmas day of 2013 we found out! 12/25/2013 an OVA which has only ever released in Japan called “Shining Star Xmas” was released and it was during the OVA that Reiji convinced the QUARTET NIGHT to work together again because of the inspiration he had gotten from their Juniors (remember that the plot of S2 was SUPPOSED to be that QN and STARISH were Senior/Juniors) and they decided to go and make more music and also take on STARISH. Now let’s pump the brakes because this is where Sentai comes in It was towards the end of 2013 that Sentai announced they had gotten the rights to release S1 and 2 of Uta no Prince-Sama in the US. S1 would release in January and S2 would be in August. I thought it was interesting that they did it this way but then again I am curious if that is a common practice or I’m just losing it! ANYWAYS So S1 and 2 get released here and other songs would come out for the series not Anime related up until about 2015 and during the lead up we would start to get a lot of little hints about the new season that was announced not the least of which would have STARISH doing “cross units” (I fail to see how they were to a degree but I’ll go with it) while the solo idol songs this time around would go TO...my boys of the QN! Fun fact time for this that might not have been in the know: The date of the OR release for season 3 AND the date of this past stage were the EXACT SAME DAY...take a guess which left a better taste in my mouth ANYWHO! So S3 happens with the two groups working to see who would get to appear as the rep for Shining Agency for the Triple S! Wait...what is this and why are they doing this? Alright politic time! So...in 2013 (so this back around S2) the IOC (International Olympic Committee) was selecting the host city for the games of 2020. The three countries that were up for it were Turkey, Spain and the eventual winner which would be Japan to see who would host the games. Japan won and for the past 4 years they have been getting ready for the games and its going to be interesting to see not just how it sets up but also who opens the games as there has been a poll for the public to see which group gets to perform the Opening Ceremony...this is kind of like what would become the storyline between STARISH and QN for at least the 3rd season except...well let’s talk about it During Season 3 a rift would begin to open between STARISH and QN and this was ESPECIALLY the case when they said they would take Haruka if they won (this is the same thing FYI that HEAVENS said or more specifically Eiichi...it was VERY INTERESTING to hear trust me). Now what made this also interesting was towards the end of the season and Reiji made a declaration that they would keep facing STARISH until they surpassed them! Now surely this “moving out of the dorms” couldn’t be game ref right? WRONG See Broc likes to drop things that happen in the GAME WORLD into the Anime...except I think when they leave in the game its under happier terms...I haven’t got that far in the TL yet! we SHOULD mention that the game “All Star After Secret” was released before this series came out. The date of the game was March 12th, 2015 and, to date, is the final PSP game that has been released in the series. the other 2 games on the PSP were both Rhythm Games that were called “Uta no Prince-Sama MUSIC” with (so far) the final game being released on the VITA om January 28th, 2015 NOW we get to have some fun! In the midst of all of this Broccoli DOES announced another Visual Novel game for UtaPri called “Dolce Vita” (Translation: The Sweet Life) which follows the 11 boys after ASAS. Also Broccoli announces a partnership with KLAB who is behind the series “Love Live” and NOW things get interesting because LL: School Idol Festival DOES I believe have an English release...hmm! Back to the Anime At the end of Series 3 HEAVENS reappears as a 7 member group and each member would be a counterpart to a particular member of STARISH (ex: Eiichi/Oto, Masa/Kira, Van/Ren etc.) and they performed HEAVENS GATE again...aight! At the end of the season two things are put up on the screen: “To be continued...” and “SEE YOU NEXT SEASON” Aight...this is interesting! It should also be noted that during the season that Sentai announced licensing S3 (Maji Love Revolutions) but it was interesting that even though they announced licensing it they didn’t release it...why? The answer doesn’t come until after the 2016 season and into this year when they announced that they WOULD release both of them...but about that 2016 season During S3 there were fans that speculated (both on here and facebook) that S3 was it for Utapri...now we forgot that STARISH saved HEAVENS from disbandment for a reason and that became apparent when we got to the end of “R” as the North American license calls it and now that might have come back to bite them. HEAVENS didn’t appear at 5th stage for the announcement but in January of 2016 it was announced that the season would air in October of 2016 which breaks the two year cycle for UtaPri! Up to this point they only did one season every 2 years and now they did this...interesting When Season 4 was announced (called “Legend Star”) what form it would take would be interesting...what we got was a duet season with STARISH and HEAVENS (a proper C-U if i can say that) and then the fun began! for the most part it was an interesting season...especially if you were on the HEAVENS side watching it to see how the boys of HEAVENS were represented. Most of the time they were okay with some genuine sweethearts in ther (hello Eiji, Shion and Van), one that was rough around the edges in Yamato, another that...depends how you want take him in Nagi, Kira was a saint and then Eii...the most controversial of the original trio! What became somewhat clear in HEAVENS is they wanted fans to try and accept them...I already had after a second viewing of S2 but for some it was trickier and I get that! What was interesting was to see if the situation with Eiichi would cause more fans to sympathize...or if they wanted to forever turn against HEAVENS Episodes 9-11 would become one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in an Anime as far as fandoms went. You were either looking for ways to prove (and you had plenty) that Eiichi meant well but he might have just gone a LITTLE TOO FAR and then you had the crew that wanted his head on stick even if there was more evidence that what he did wasn’t completely his fault! Now that not withstanding here is where it gets interesting and this deals in the end cards for the season First off on AniPlus’ facebook page they specifically stated this was the SEASON finale and not SERIES. They actually made that mistake with DRIFTERS when that was getting ready to wrap up and then had to retract it. Crunchyroll also promoted the final episode of YOI as the SERIES finale and who knows...the series MIGHT be over and the Movie is the last you get of it but the way of advertising the final episode towards the end of a few seasons...it was intersting Okay now let’s get really good! So the end cards...let’s recap how they did the end cards for S1-3 1000% - “See You Next Time” 2000% - Same Revolutions - To Be Continued/See You Next Season Legend Star - the “STARISH FOREVER” message and then the Message about the Animation Project Here is what I have found interesting so far For STARISH there have been 4 games where they were the sole focus (remember Debut was only when QN came in but they weren’t playable yet) AS/ASAS were so far the games when QN comes in as playable characters Nothing on HEAVENS...YET! NOW it gets good though After the finale if you went on the twitter for UtaPri they first wished the fans a Merry Christmas from Shining Agency BUT ALSO Raging Agency...I wonder why they also had a message about the new project on their twitter but they used three words that were key I think FROM NOW ON when you read that it almost sounds like both Agencies will be active right? I can jive! Now we get to NOT 5/27 of this year BUT 5/24 which was 3 days before the concert (and the now infamous debacle) It would seem that, when you get to breaking it down so far Broc has been strategic in WHEN they start expanding the UtaPri Universe and HOW they dod it right? There is a reason I bring this up According to the translation of the blog post which was put up three days before the concert it has some interesting wording towards the end “Please watch the development of this work that sets Uta no Prince-Sama Sports and Expansion of this world” Okay...WTF?! THIS POST was brought to my attention by my dear friend @shiningstarish (P.S. Nadie one of these days you have to tell me what that blog title means) and when I read the whole thing which, I will bookmark and if you want the WHOLE translation I will give it to you so you can break it down but I thought it was interesting “Sports”...alright are we getting a sports game in time for the Olympics or... Okay but then there is this “Expansion of this world” THIS...this is interesting Broccoli has NOT introduced a new group into the Game verse since the QN back in May of 2012! Its been over FIVE YEARS since the last “expansion” of the UtaPri universe (so this ends the argument of “milking the franchise” really) so it would stand to reason that the next thing to happen is that HEAVENS would come in to the game world in some way and then a game would come out for them...makes sense right? But hold up...something’s NOT...QUITE...RIGHT! Ahh I think I know what you might be thinking and you would be right See the STARISH and QN characters were given games FIRST and then seasons...HEAVENS went backwards! Here is the theory we can work with Broccoli WANTS to have a game done for HEAVENS...they wouldn’t have made that splash page for June 28th of 2015 with the HEAVENS 7 on a newspaper article if they didn’t AND they wouldn’t do the “White Day” even for them right? So if you read between the lines of the “UtaPri Masters” what can we take from this Broccoli is probably going to be announcing a HEAVENS game in the near future and more than likely it will be either at or around 7th Anniversary thus the “Expansion of this World” line But what about “Sports”? I got to thinking about this and I was thinking that MAYBE they don’t want to announce another rhythm game since they have “Shining Live” to come out BUT what about something in the realm of the “Olympics”? That’s a “Sports” theme right? Maybe part of the “Expansion” could also be that they include all 18 (or 22?) characters in the game and you do different athletic events (which could ALSO explain the episode with Yamato and Syo which was SPORTS THEMED)...am I on to something here?! again EVERYTHING that I just talked about and scoped out is PURE SPECULATION but if I am reading the tea leaves right then June 24th could be a VERY INTERESTING DAY!

#Amisbro #uta no prince sama #7th Anniversay theories #what do you guys think?

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xaeneron · 8 years ago

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On The Head of the Snake

Fourth time’s the charm; another release, another list of rambling bullet points as I chatter a bit and talk out my thoughts on the newest Living World Episode and the trimmings that I’ve encountered so far. Overall, fairly solid episode and a surprisingly expansive new zone, and a lot of quality of life updates and changes to existing content that I can get on board with.

Oh and that brand new raid wing that I cannot wait to jump into. Agh.

As usual, below a cut because it got long (really long, I’m sorry) and there are no bars on the spoilers. So yes, beware many LWS3E4 spoilers. :>

On Lake Doric:

Aight, aight so we did actually end up getting Lake Doric. And it actually ended up being a rather pretty zone. It feels fairly alive, and it has a lot of little nooks and crannies to poke through. I rather enjoyed exploring for several hours because there always seemed to be more to look at.

The centaur watchtower is the most hilariously tuned area ever. A guildie and I spent half an hour trying to sprint up the gauntlet on the hill and dying repeatedly. Then three of us found an alternate route and snuck in for the POI while watching centaurs run by. #leatherfarm

The “meta event” White Mantle attacks run like molasses. I can understand the mob density if there’s maybe 2 or 3 players in the zone, but if there is scaling, it’s incredibly bad. 2-3 mobs attacking one side every minute or so? It gets pretty boring watching the bar move down so slowly.

The miniature tonic is absolutely amazing. We ran fractals as tiny tiny people and proceeded to troll another guildie into thinking we glitched the game. And might’ve followed around a few unsuspecting passerby as a swarm of tiny people.

On random content:

The HMS Divinity is well-designed, well-detailed, and probably could have had a pretty cool legendary journey. But it’s a rifle. It’s niche, and even then it’s not a particularly popular weapon. It’s a great-looking (if not a bit silly) legendary, but it’s still a rifle.

The Thaumanova changes are interesting and not unwelcome. It took us a couple tries to acclimatize to new Subject 6, but still a smooth run overall. I do like that you can now save a platform from falling on the anomaly, but I do think it also makes the fight noticeably easier.

On the story:

Taimi sounds more insane with every passing episode. Tone it down, child. Or get some sleep. Sleep is good.

Queen Jennah’s decision to suspend the ministry is surprising and actually somewhat alarming. We’ll see if it’s the correct decision in the long run, but it’s as ominous as the recent swapping of the White Mantle and Shining Blade taglines (”DISMANTLE!” vs. “OBEY!”)

Also just super relevant considering the day and age we live in. ><

I knew Logan was going to show up this episode given that it’s Kryta and Queen Jennah (and unlike Glenna, Logan is entirely a puppy). I’ve never really liked Logan. I was not particularly excited to see him.

ngl I was kind of disappointed to run into Faren wearing pants. It would have been amazing to have Swordmaster Jungle Lord Faren in Divinity’s Reach.

The White Mantle mesmer who made an...ahem...illusion of a sexy Faren was hilarious. And mildly awkward.

The part in Lake Doric helping Logan scout the area and support the Seraph felt equal parts reasonable and unnecessarily long. I think it does encourage exploration of the zone, but I did end up repeating a couple of hearts on accident because I explored the zone before doing the story. Which is more my fault than anything, but it still felt awkward.

I think the Seraph readiness scale is the most glaring detail here. I think it’s reasonable and the Seraph do need to be ready to hold against the White Mantle, but it felt like a bit of a timegate.

You know, I honestly thought that Laranthir was being hinted at as the next Pact Marshal. Which I was indifferent to. What I did not expect, and completely did not appreciate, was the fact that the next Pact Marshal is going to be Logan Thackeray. I will begrudgingly admit that there are very few equal picks to Logan to succeed the position. I think he will probably be at the very least decent at it. But I am not above admitting that I personally don’t like Logan as marshal, and neither does Ive, who has never been particularly fond of him.

A guildie noted this might mean we’ll see less of him because Almorra wanted marshal to be a desk job. Who knows~

I actually really like how Demmi Beetlestone has developed. For a minor character, she’s gotten more progression than a lot of major characters (in part due to the renewed focus on Caudecus), and in general it’s pretty good progression. Her voice acting was also great. But because Caudecus is a bloodstone-scarfing drama llama, it’s sad to see her go.

It was quite funny running through Caudecus’ Manor backwards. Also the snark about the barn door. And Caudecus’ kinky bedroom mirror. And the giant portrait of Logan.

There is now a giant portrait of Logan and his luscious flowing locks in the SLAM guild hall. The SLAM guild hall is very strange.

The creepy face room. Oh Caudecus. Also easter eggy. xD

I think they kind of went too far off the deep end for Caudecus. It’s quite clear he’s a rather immature leader from the way he acted in Bloodstone Fen, and is getting desperate based on the messages posted around Kryta. But the backstabby thing with his wife seemed like a bit of an over the top way to say “oh look he’s evil.” And not just “bloodstone makes you evil,” but “look guys he was always evil.”

Canach is wonderful, as usual. Ive’s fellow snark salad.

As I said to one of my guildies, “I think this season just confirms that you’re just the guild leader of a guild no one wants to join, and even then no one is going to listen to you.”

Which honestly is okay with me for Ive’s canon, since he had no interest in founding or leading Dragon’s Watch. He also thinks the name is stupid.

The Lazarus aspect reveal is...interesting. And I am intrigued to see where they go with this if it’s true. It’s believable, considering that the historical events that the documents refer to are canonically true. And it would be utterly fascinating if it were true.

My primary hope is that if there is one, then this mastermind impersonator is someone we already know. I would not be particularly impressed if the impersonator is someone completely new /or out of left field who just happens to walk in and be a complete genius who’s been playing everyone all along.

The release felt more subdued than previous ones. The past few had rather literally explosive endings (and a whiny teenage norn), and while giant bloodstone bodybuilder Caudecus and his tiny tiny room of AoEs were eye-searing, the finale and big reveal felt calmer than previous releases. Still alarming with a “dun dun dunnnnn” attached, but less in your face about it. Not a bad thing; more an interesting change of pace.

On Bastion of the Penitent:

We are raiding this evening and it’s going to be a complete shitshow and I’m so excited you guys. Because YES.

Walking into the zone and immediately seeing the Eye of Janthir and OH GOD WE’RE GOING PLACES AREN’T WE.

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #living world season 3 #living world spoilers #head of the snake #seriously though #agh #so excited to poke the next raid wing #I might've read raid spoilers and I just #let me at this wing #wooooo

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vvitchering · 3 years ago

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After ep thoughts:

Alright so we got a pretty solidly mid episode this time which is better than the slop we got last week but still not Good.

HA I called the Fennec backstory ep

Pacing still feels super weird. We’re rushing from plot point to plot point with no pit stops in between to flesh out details or provide more character building moments.

Relying so much on the bacta tank flashbacks is why the show has been so slow to develop imo. We’ve only had one episode (2) that really utilized that format to its fullest. The rest has been one step forward, wait 30 mins, The End. Haven’t these writers ever taken a high school writing class? Passive past-tense voice is dangerous. We’re halfway through its run now and there hasn’t been much headway into the plot of the preset timeline so we run the risk of the show’s pacing getting even worse to make up for lost time.

I get that we need to break up the seriousness of the story from time to time with humor but between last week and this week it feels like they’re resorting to making Boba look inept for comedy and I don’t like it. Did he need to chase that little droid around the kitchen? No. Wasn’t worth making him look like a fool for a half-hearted chuckle at best.

I also felt like it was weird that Boba piloted his ship so carelessly. That ship is one of two things he has left of his Father, he’s been flying it since he was a child, why is he maneuvering it like he’s never flown a day in his life???

I kind of hate that they made him go back to the sarlacc to look for the armor. Ok I don’t hate that it happened, but I hate the execution. I feel like that would be an extremely traumatic experience for him to just jump right back in (even if it’s dead) and he’s so flippant when he climbs back out. Idk felt weird.

Also, IS Boba’s armor pure beskar? I always thought it was an alloy. No idea where specifically I picked that up but I got the feeling from The Mandalorian that pure beskar armor is a rarity. Boba’s does seem to take more of a visible beating than Din’s, which we know is pure beskar.

Fennec’s reasoning for sticking with Boba feels flimsy. She has no reason to believe this crazy dude is going to be successful with his crazy schemes but she’s willing to give up her lucrative and successful career to hang with him? Aight. I was hoping they’d bond more as friends to justify her wanting to stay with him when it’s more logical for her to go back to her independent contracting.

I have beef with how inept the show keeps painting Boba. He’s not an idiot. He’s had to be clever and strong his whole life to survive and he’s been running in crime circles for DECADES at this point. Why is Fennec making his speeches for him when he’s supposed to be earning respect for himself as a competent boss? He knows negotiation and strategy are vital to his plans. I really thought that scene where we watched Garsa talk down a drunk angry Wookie was a setup for Boba to be like “hmm you know what? She’s really good at that. I should see if she’s interested in working for me since my only teammates at this point are one overworked assassin, a gaggle of robo-teens of questionable work ethic, and some old guards. Some business-minded and well spoken smarts might serve me well.”

Nope instead we got furry anger issues mcgee. Great. Love that for us.

I am feeling hopeful that those last lines of dialogue about hiring some more muscle paired with those very noticeable strands of music from The Mandalorian’s theme means Din is incoming. I still feel relatively certain he’s been on Tatooine this whole time, either getting drunk to drown his sorrows in one of the cities or hanging out in Mos Pelgo with Cobb. I would absolutely love to see Boba show up unannounced in Mos Pelgo one day to see about picking Din up for work only to find the poor guy has not been doing well and Cobb is at the end of his rope trying to keep him going. Spending some time with a fellow outsider Mandalorian and having meaningful work to do might be just what the doctor ordered. And we could get that “two men in power, one trying to reclaim it while the other hides from it, learning how to be leaders from each other” story line I’ve been salivating over since Mando s2 ended.

(It’s hard to tell if we’re in for a long Din guest appearance or a short cameo. He’s going to appear either way, but with Pedro’s other acting obligations going on I just don’t know what that means for his work in Star Wars. If somehow Din has reconciled with himself enough to put the helmet back on full time, I guess they could get around Pedro not being physically available but being able to at least voice Din. I hope that’s not how it goes down, and I have many thoughts about that, but this is Boba’s show so I’m willing to table that until Mando s3.

I just really want to see Boba and Din on screen together again hhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHH

New tbobf in the morning and it’s got a lot of pressure on it to do something amazing to redeem the show for the bullshit that happened last week. Would love to see that some of the Tuskens survived and show up to help Boba wipe out the syndicate that attacked them. Would love to see Din, who I am still 9000% sure will make an appearance at least once (but more likely closer to the end of the show booo) Much less likely but I’d like to see Cobb again (although I have a feeling it would be a very minor cameo, like Peli’s, if we see him at all)

It’s unlikely the show will pull something out of its butt that’ll fix the mess it made last week, but I don’t want to give up on it yet.

#the book of boba fett #the book of boba fett spoilers #Star Wars #SIGHS INTO THE VOID #BUT LESS SO THAN LAST WEEK

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throwingideasatthewall · 4 years ago

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The Clone Wars The Zillo Beast Strikes Back

(Season 2 Episode 19)

I really thought the first episode was surprisingly good and I hope the quality con- tin ue s;

Moving on; Cost ly- Recap, getting real deep into the details ...... Good that shows commitment to the story .. And attention to the (good) details

. . [Also how yeah are they going to transport that beast?]

Who said spent a little more time explaining it to the natives [Why they needed a dead beast]

Still good still good,

Pretty

Okay

“Tensions Run high,”

Hey, that’s a reasonable reaction,

(They’re going to put extra security on it?)

How long till it breaks out.

[I mean thing might look tiny]

Look at all those buildings

[also this will be a nice scale

We really didn’t get much of it

On the desert planet

Cause there were no buildings around

After the destruction

(Neat Detail-)

That one trooper’s really excited

You think you want to be a zoo-logist?

Neat

Spiky and big but sleepy

Uhm. (Cute)

(Oh you stop with that death music it’s adorable)

As are most animals

Though that’s likely more so anticipation music . . So it’s Fine

But just look at ‘em,

Ador-able !

(I’m sorry I cannot take this seriously with him sleeping so peacefully)

Good for ‘em

*em

[Oh yeah [just] bring the Chancellor here.

Is he going to get Donkey Kong-ed? i’m sorry but just the idea. .

Of Sidious held hostage By a giant beast, On top of a building..

It’s just so hilarious.

(Not to mention his force lightning powers) Baby [An-imal] Possib ly . Okay, Right, Why would they stop.

Aight —- Okay - Good Ideas - A-ight.

Whelp, Good

Uhm, Right,

Okay ,

Now, Right,

Wh- Elp,

Uhm, Okay,

Right,

Nice

Okay

Chancellor isn’t having it

Look

At him

You ruined his evil diatribe, Windu

He isn’t having that “you should assume some accountability” argument..

Ruining the giant monster plot- - with his logic

Good times

[Palpatine’s going to dismiss him rudely isn’t he?

He’s pissed - Terrible war

Note; how he said nothing about the beast safety

Which is Windu’s main concern

[and his earlier gaslighting of Windu’s conscience

*Put Down * ? .

^ ^

Nice

Sleepy. .

Bean. (Pet Name- Light ly.]

Any way!

[There’s the scientist.]

Seems Nice.

She doesn’t have au-thority

Nor Do You. “Good care,”

Nice

Mace Is Humanitarian towards Ani- mals-

-also can we stop calling at the “beast”?

It’s an animal?

[’Beast’ is for when it’s attacking you And it’s not fully identified]

And it’s adorable

[as well as has an already established name]

[i’ll say call it whatever you want but this is assumed authority, And whoever names it first is king . . . . Seriously ? does no one care for it as a cute fluffy animal? (I know it’s scaly my point stands)

Like seriously everyone’s viewing it as a resource

[Makes me sad]

Starting to think that one clone trooper Should be in charge,

He at least seem-ed to give a -shit

Well treated

As a resource

Windu; i’m calling bullshit but alright

[is he going to spring him?

*em

I want Windu to spring ‘em for environmental justice

Ok, how long does the plotting bullshit goes down and they start tearing the scales off the thing?

Ma-jestic

He’s calling Heavy.. bullshit

Good for Windu..

(I like this character .very much.)

Nope [Death Music .]

Big

Good - Aight

Uhm .. Bu- ld

Obi-Wan shut up

[You are the worst character]

Not in character design

Just in being the absolute .worst.

Great

Neat

Al- right-

I mean- he could be studying it to find which climate would be best for it - I mean you can’t just drop a random Non native- Life Form - Onto a random planet- and Hope for the best-

And this is the closest thing to safe neutral controlled territory . . . that they have

So make sense that they bring him here to figure it out

[The chancellor able to manage who they have treaties with and which planets are inhabited

[and what uninhabited planets could be possibly viable environment . . . . Re-hom-ing locations-

For him *em

*Effort*

Oh yeah not worth the effort to make sure the very rare species doesn’t dare

[this is why you’re the fucking worst.]

In.uni.

Any Way-

Well that was a calm way of saying, He didn’t give me an explanation . . . Which is understandable and A pretty decent response,

. Try

Wait what?

Can we re-wind that again? ... Obi-Wan - no - All he said

“was that he didn’t get an answer,”

He-

Do not escalate the situation.

Do not send Anakin to badger the chancellor.

[If Windu wants to escalate the situation he will,]

You are not the responsible [least Toxic] Adult

Please just let Windu handle it

[I love how they cut away like you know Windu’s rolling his eyes

[Obi-won-

“]

]

Well, not too bad just seems tired

Planet acclim- ation - Or the sed- atives - Will do that to you)

Though admittedly it could be a less in-vasive environment-

With more com-patibility-

What?

Oh No!

[Don’t hold the fluffy bean!]

What is going on exactly?

Like don’t get me wrong I know there’s

slight discomfort

But how bad-

[like is what they inserted into them a sedative?

Enough,

Good-

That’s Good

But seriously

If you’re going to study an animal you shouldn’t do shit like that

Passive observation

Seeing if it sheds

Perhaps, Getting Samples

The only time those things to be taken off - ... them ... is upon death - with respect to the life cycle, And, the decomposition cycle-

Not going-

Toxic excessive-

And causing - pain

Sentient Bean-

Oh No.

Oh it is picking things up relatively quickly,

Surprisingly quickly,

figuring out that this was the one to Yell at ... despite there being Mryaid Of possibilities,

And would usually focus on the,

Pain- ful Ones,

Com

So take a small scrape sample. off the scales

Like you straight up tried to rip off the scales. ... Armor-

And not the Jedi’s?

Just thought -in the pecking order they’d be lower

Under tanks and

shielding

And protection to the higher ups ...

Centurion Armor.

First

Ok how about you don’t..

Or send her to the planet and wait to see if she sheds.

Like,no

Until the bean ... is dead (Un fortunate)

You can’t- be doing- .... Stuff- Like That-

- What the fuck?

Also; mace Windu a thousand miles away; I hope the fuck you do you be a dead son of a bitch,

Lady, just call the Jedi

Mace Windu is clearly an environmental - animalistic focus - Have him insta kick this bitch

(Which he can as his specialty)

Call tox

*Like Medic

And kick the bitch to accountability

* or semi accountability in this case

(’Cause if you get caught with a Spoon- -”

Pr-otest

Good

Mace Windu - Has a teammate-

Intelligent

Oh no-

Oh noo

That could’ve been possibly meant

“I thought that was just an extraneous detail”

👍

Animal

You’ve been calling it a Beast this whole time

Also, damn look at those sad eyes!

That Things 100% Sent.

You can’t do that!

Ok I need to plot this out

This living creature-

Is sentient enough To Un-der Stand

Lan-guage

And feel pain

Let me just play a few scene so I get the morality right

So, dude’s sleeping under ground,

(Those guys apparently just . Got injured by its sleeping movements,)

Then

It finds some guy

Tries to get it off him (Reasonable)

Those two guys flee (After Anakin spent multiple occasions getting in it’s way..

Clearly un-wonton and un-wanted

So clearly going over the “don’t bug others rule,”

Then these guys -definitely heck with it

By throwing bombs, And generally breaking every (rule). The liquid thing is kind of weird

That being the equivalent of pumping planet waste material Poison) So it pretty well fits under the attempt of harm /murder

And the guards clearly attempt to murder it.

So immediate accountability is in play

But they try to kill them

(Note I know the situation is bad but it’s Immediate Accountability

Not immediate death

(However, it’s really weird with non humans)

(Or even just humanoids,)

Because I know what another human could do

Humanoids have the same about structure

With minor ex -cessive- differences?

Like- how

(The standards are really different here)

I’m not sure she could have even picked them up without hurting them.

I really hope we get to see her talk

So we can get more info

Because that’s really fascinating.

Co-mment

Hey it noted that! ... That’s -really neat

[Also geez that must suck, Having to be moved from your planet... Against your will and things that you might not be able prevent. . Because some asshole won’t share the damn planet,

And everyone else is enabling.

(It’s the frozen planet thing All over again .but better.] This time the species might not actually have an option,

But doesn’t negate - it’s sentience,

Kill

Dude, seriously,

Like I’m not a fan of it but you could just sedate them,

Turn the fuel wanted some kind of solid (Point)

And

Argh-

(It brings me no moral pleasure to say this)

Cut the scales from the skin-

Without, too much pain

Assume

(Still should not do it)

Monster

(Also lady just call the Jedi)

You know one who’s against it

You don’t even have to mention the chancellor by name

Just say some crazy orders got brought down the line

And you need -some help

Oof

‘She ain’t having your bullshit’

Right

Okay

Whelp

Good scene setting.

You really feel how out of place Anakin is, -

Oof

The music’s really nice

Really helps set the scene

And the height Just-

Perfect (Sets a beautiful set of risk)

Oof and Obi-Wan questioning Am-idala

(The costume choice works very nicely here- Causing Amidala to stand out, From the variety, But still have the kind of muted sense of the situation,

(Lot of other senators wearing purple (-though more solid)

And the lighting is pretty nice too,

Looking pretty naturally with the setting-

Oh, no,

Aw, that’s kind of nice

A good bit of levity

(Possibly parodying the masters, Amidala and Anakin technically)

(Anakin did build CP3PO though)

Aight, Nice,

Pro B-

You know that actually would make sense

I was actually expecting the more blow it up solution

But just trying bugging the Senator (Chancellor) Palpatine . Is a pretty good (non-escala tory) First step . . . .

That would just let Senator Amidala see it, assuming she wouldn’t have an issue; and wouldn’t notice the smell rift. .. - Male-stare

‘ Mace Windu told you to leave it alone and let him handle it, And you decided fuck that I’mma gonna screw things up, Didn’t You?”

Ch-ancellor

Oh that’s actually a smart plan - Gang up on the chancellor . Never mind A second pair of eyes might be helpful in case he tries that hologram shit again,

(Never mind the fact that Ami-dala- doesn’t go missing under mysterious circumstances,”

It’s a good plan

Kinda

That’s- pretty damn fair- - Voice- - That’s- a little too environmental but I get the point

(As in it’s ignoring the fact that the Zilla beast does have a voice, Just no one‘s listening

Or reading its body language, Like a good sentient would

(The issue is it’s accountability -The ability to hold others accountable-

Which it doesn’t seem to be capable of doing to the fine degree of other humans-

Other humanoids-

“ Be it’s accountability,” Is More accurate a phras- ing

Also geez can you imagine that sit-uation?

Like either force-d to kill another sentient species or be submitted to this?

I give the Zilla beast a lot of damn credit-

For the re-straint

Real shit . .. Sit-

Neither have you,

Seen your -self

In action!

Like yeah dude you pull out a laser sword, When someone threatens you,

(Pretty damn unaccountable)

At least the Zilla beast has a damn good excuse,

Life

Yep-

Warr ant a discussion

No, It warrants the envir-onmental focus- Kicking the offender, Straight to accoun-tability And every one else, Lea-ving the damn thing alone, (Bastards) .... ?

I mean-

That’s kinda fair-

Heck not every- one-

Heck- not every generation- Has an environmental focus

And, animals are damn weird-

But- I’m going to say if you see a puppy kicked- You should tell that dude to fuck off,

And no I do not resent that-

Even if it’s food

(Which no one should be messing with in the first place)

But fair-

Chan-cellor

Still don’t like this-

Stop being a complaining dick and eit ��-her do it or don’t-

Oh does he have a hesitation from his previous experience?

Secrets do not stay secret

Mate you deployed the military, Who have to answer to the council,

Not to mention all of the Internal law and military enforcement On planet That saw this shit go down

(Would probably be defensive of you holding a dead creature)

Also yeah it’s Obi-Wan’s fault

(How he knows about something he didn’t witness. Idk, Guess someone told him.”

Anakin?

What- ever.

Aight

Called out

No the point of democracy is to form a hierarchy of authority And with some people’s decision matters more than others There was very little ability to self determined,

And often times ends up just arguing over basic human decency,

Doesn’t have to involve subterfuge

But things can escalate for the worst with toxic behavior

*enabling espec

Die

Oy!

Any -one paying attention to that?

(Dude, blown cover! )

No, better option just go straight to Windu,

You thought he was being held for a tests ... He wasn’t , Time to get the ass kicking squad in for questioning,

Windu

*Not Obi- Won- -

That was damn threatening

Aight,

(Also yes, you do, Go tell Windu.)

Here’s the conversation;

‘Ok, I’ll just relay that to Master Windu-”

“Wait, no - don’t do that- !”

(Done jokingly)

The conversation’s fine,

War is never going to be won until someone assumes accountability

Both points of “feck you”

Well at least Anakin isn’t hail-ed as the “enabling Savior”,

And does sorta take Amidala ’s Side, , Re- asonable

[call Windu]

Shit ...

Also “your groomer has groomed you well”

To never pick a side . .. Ex- Cuse- Me- - Help ing ... He noticeably switched his body over to your side,

And his “both sides thing,” .... . Was is clearly a ‘feck you,

Appro -priately

No he DOESN’T!

And Anakin isn’t innocent here,

So knock off the tone

No puppy dog was kicked,

Anakin fully knows what he’s advocating is wrong

And appro -priate tone should be applied

‘That was malicious

You can’t hoodwink an adult,

Productives are well aware of common decency Rules,

Selectives know their shit

This is an act of malician . . . And should be framed as such . yeah I have no idea what’s going on with him either

[Doing that unaccountable juice again.)

Oh, hi, , Wait you’re just gonna straight up gas ‘em-

But-

(Does this turn them into a super angry pissed off monster?)

Zilla

Stop enabling this!

[Character Yell,]

Bitch,

Kill em’

‘I will grab the thing , but I’m still asking you to do the thing,”

This is why ‘sorry is bullshit,’

. .

Um Whelp, Time to see the baby get kicked,” - “I’m Sorry,”

We talked about how that doesn’t excuse actions ... I swear if they pull that they said they were sorry, so that means everything’s ok every episode,

[I will strike every episode]

Til the mark

Any way.

Begin procedure . And with that she is undoubtably irredeemable, . ...

(I swear to god if they play happy music of an ending where she is supposedly redeemed

Or enabled)

Calling heavy bullshit,

A puppy killer runn -ing free With No Ch -ance Of even the slightest bit of come uppance, .... Isn’t happy - - - Any Way, Even worse that it’s sentient - Going to switch from “That’s A Puppy!” to “THAT’S A SENTIENT!”

(Both are equally frick-ed up)

De- served-

Yeah-

Turns out when you threaten someone’s life they immediately going to assume accountability mode

(Not)

I’m just really angry

At the characters in the universe

But yeah, Damn,

Poor Zilla,

Got tears in my eyes

[Like imagine that bullshit]

Like either she was restrained her self enough so she didn’t kill people

Or the situation was so bad it literally caused an adrenaline like situation

Free- ing herself

Seeing as she doesn’t seem to be a bad “pers’-

[The accountability scale- still un-established,” [Selective accountability?

Involuntary accountability?

Does her body just flare up into attack mode when stuff like that happens)

Just-

Whoa-

No-

Don’t shoot the baby ! sent ient!

I don’t like the sound of that,

You’re not going to like

what they did to her?

[also wait, what are the properties of that gas?

Like what does exposure do to her?

[I know they said it was poisonous, But that was coming from the assholes that thought stabbing her was a good idea,

*em

Any Way,

Good point

Like how dude’s backing away . Good trooper

I hope he was the Zoologist One . seems to be smart,

Oof

(Dude didn’t even get to see the Zila,)

Oof

It doesn’t even attack anyone!

(It goes away from the tanks)

My Damn heart,

Oof

I hurt

Good

(Oh geez, she probably didn’t even know they were still out there.”

Oof,

Okay, fakers,

Also she took out was the beams screwing with her,

There was like one guy,

(I remember I thought about commenting, “Karma,”. at that moment,

If Lady’s on the ground it’s her own fault,

Zilla, didn’t do anything to her

Dick,

Oy, Bullshit,

She, went the other direction

And seemed very specific about avoiding things

I’m calling very light (Cir-cum stantial-) Bull shit

There must be a fire Oh no

(Yeah the structure-

Must suck

To be sp-

How is he reaching her

after her thing was destroyed?

Damn

Also, wait

it’s night?

How long have they been standing there?

(Also Mace Windu is going to kick your ass.”

Also, look at that

She’s trying to go under the beams!

This is clearly not malicious,

And I mean it makes a lot of sense,

She’s a ground living creature, (Sentient)

She probably thought lower altitude was safe

And not with all this (non sense),

toxin

Oh yeah just gas the city! - with multiple in- habitants of different biological structure-

[Don’t bother turning it into a blade]

Or bullets]

Hurry

[Not try anymore practical solutions,]

Why...

Have you done this?

[Oh yeah don’t bother sounding the alarms for everyone,

Screw them

Only the servants matter,”

“Gen, No, don’t stay with General Kenobi, He will get you killed,

Now, I kno

Fun

- See, she gives them a warning yell!

She’s more-so tripping than malicious,

Also made if you saw a (malicious) beast coming your way and decided to stand near it

-That’s your own fault,

Like, Darwin’s law No Euth,

To be fair dude does give the orders. And that was her way of saying I don’t like that guy

I’m just really sad about her condition.

Tr-

High er Van Ta Ge

Point-

Also yeah that does seem like a smoother safer advantage point where she wouldn’t hurt anyone

Aight,

Okay, seriously how the fuck are there fires?

She hasn’t-

That’s just something completely different,

[Like- I don’t know if I wanna know the story but that is intriguing]

Aw, Small,

See now she’s sticking to sections where she can’t hurt people. .

Whelp

“Also everyone get to your rooms,

These frickers;

Like there was an alarm earlier right?

There was a siren ..

How?

No-pe

Yes you stay on top of that dome

Proud Of This Zilla’

Eva- Cute?

Also wait wasn’t she just in the scene below

Some One-

Dude all she did was yell at him,

Re- Strain T!

Gosh darn, Yoda - you fricking enabler

Also how long until Windu finds out she’s been injured and.. freaks out.

Lost

And, they were all given fair warning and if you’re not smart enough to get out of the way that’s your own fault

* Un accountable

Off

How’s Windu feeling?

Aight

Bullshit, you planned that-

Also why are you including everyone else?

That seems like a security hazard?

Toxin

De-stroyed

Clearly no

You should be glaring daggers at him

being like “bitch no,”

Padme Isn’t innocent

Pr-

[Windu is going to kick a bitch]

Hi,

Hey, want to talk to you

VALID

Good

OH NO

Fuck off Yoda

(Amoral-

You shouldn’t shoot them in the first place-

Also this is just establishing that Mace Windu is literally the only sane person,

Yoda literally only cares about the chancellor . . . and would’ve shot him

Dick, Don’t

(Feckin dammit Anakin,)

The Zilla Just Wants a nice talk.

Bad

Yes just let the Zila talk you irresponsible fuck

Like, seriously Now she’s going to have to try and catch you with her hands,

And if anyone gets hurt it’s their own damn fault.

Som-

Stupid

Damn- Just. Talk

with the damn Zila,

I swear..

I fuck-

She was already paying attention

you damn fuck

Zilla- catch- Whelp,

Dumbest freaking plan ever,

Zilla, Pick up

“ also you have to think about what Zilla- is thinking at them at this moment-

Like-

Oh- shit

They could possibly die! She just yells at them this entire time!

Damn...

Pretty sure that dude tried to shoot her...

Not-

Dick

Oh No,

This-

She gave dude five fucking warnings

De-press ....

I’m Go Write A Fluff Fic

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themanicgalaxy · 4 years ago

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SPN 2X2 Everybody Loves a Clown

Ok the new previously on with rock music? and it’s different every time? that fucking SLAPS

AND IT’S PUT TOGETHER SO WELL IT’S LIKE AN FMV

also I’m technically an hour late, but till I go by the rule that If i don’t go to sleep it’s not tomorrow so Happy Birthday Dean!!

oh no please not a fucking clown episode I’m begging you

aaaaand the kid sees clowns that aren’t there that’s...great

OH NO WHY IS IT FOLLOWING HER HOME

Really does set in the “don’t go anywhere, hunker down and nothing will kill you”

more poignant for corona than I ever thought

oh fUCK It’S IN HER BACKYARD

NO DON’T GO TOWARDS IT

WHY ARE YOU LETTING IT IN THE HOUSE

oh is this a hunter’s funeral for john? the burning of the body and all that?

I appreciate the attention to detail in having them still keep the scars from episode one of this season

“did he say anything” “no” I am begging you both to communicate for christ’s sake

one week later

ah is this the mechanic montage? to get the impala back in shape

Sam: Dean you had an out of body experience, are you ok?

Dean: *aggressively works on his car*

the idea of hyper fixating on the only thing you can fix(car) vs the things you can’t(demon, can’t kill it, etc) yeah ok that fits

the ROADHOUSE?? ROADHOUSEEEEE???

god please oh please don’t kill the female characters I’ve heard they’re cool

Dean: tries to say something vaguely patronizing about rifle technique

Jo: PUNCHES HIM IN THE FACE

oh i love her already

ELLEN!! damn she’s fun

how does....Ellen know Dean and John were close

What the hell happened when Sam left I need to know

Dean is really just gonna be...standoffish...to literally any woman in authority

This guy(mullet guy? Ash?) just knows...so much shit?

I love the roadhouse oh my god home base makes me happy

and Ash just knows really fancy shit, calculates to the hour how long it was gonna take?? YE E MORE WORLD TIME

Dean please stop hitting on jo it feels weird for some reason

ah so it feels weird for him too ok

hahahaha she just lays out his entire schtick and calls it stupid

and Sam’s scared of clowns AHAHAHA

so we have Dean scared of flying and Sam with clowns, that’s perfect

“what dad would have wanted us to do” -Sam Ah so sam does end up being more sympathetic

“don’t be afraid of clowns” clowns are objectively terrifying sir what are you talking about

oh that FUCKING SHOT WHEN THE CLOWN SMILES AND THE MUSIC GOT ME OH MY GOD

Dean’s reaction to when Sam said something vaguely dirty/more like him is priceless

And Dean gets himself in trouble with two circus performers, one blind and one short? idk

Sam just likes watching his brother suffer

freakshow to asylum is a...weird take to have

Sam saying he doesn’t want to go to school feels....just

ah and Dean checks up on that statement

What the hell is the “Dad would have wanted”

and Dean “I don’t have a problem with that?” god please communicate a little better

Sam gets scared by a skeleton

“we’re writing a book about ghosts” there has to be a better option here Dean

i mean maybe, that’s not terrible it’s just kinda a weird excuse

maybe he got the sense that it wouldn’t go to well

The kid just...takes the clown in

and is...hypnotized

god that’s creepy

hey...you guys...if you wanna know why Ellen and John had a thing or not....you can ask

Dean: I’ll repress my feelings and maybe they’ll go away

Sam: no that’s not how this works

nice lighting in the scene they finally decide to yell it out

Dean’s got a point, picking until dead or dying to make it right is too little too late

ah...like John...underlying issues? perhaps?

at least they’re....talking and smiling....with each other.

ah the blind guy, he was weirdly clairvoyant about things

plus the fact that he’s the most likely to have brass knives either as a enemies close or a “force my foes to talk to me” thing is pretty nifty too

HELLA cool lighting shot of Dean in the fun house that makes me happy

OH brass organ pipes THAT’S A NICE TOUCH I LIKE THAT

THE TRICK WITH THE SMOKE TO SEE THE SPECTER? THAT’S ALSO COOL

lmao no one has mentioned Jess in...so long I just realized

Jo and Dean are sweet, the “wrong place wrong time,” Dean not going so hard, fuck it they’re fun whatever they are right now

ASH IS BACK!

he’s an MIT guy that’s so fun

and He’s protective of his keyboard and laptop :)

and “Ash give us a call”

Ellen: Hey if you need a place to stay

ISDAFHSPFI SUPPORT STRUCTURE! FINALLY!! YAYAYAYAY

that early seasons Sam haircut makes him look so young fdfahsofish

“I’m not ok, It’s too little too late” DFAIPSHFS SAM

“I’m not ok and neither are you” hurts me why must you hurt me

AH HERE’S THE SCENE WHERE DEAN JUST TRIES TO KILL THE CARS

and in true Dean Winchester fashion, he’s angry, refuses to let himself cry, and stares vaguely till the emotions go away

boy oh BOY wrap up time:

1. Ok Ellen, Jo, Ash and the Roadhouse, giving bits to the hunter world, adding incredibly compelling characters, holy fuck I AM HERE FOR IT. Like obviously I knew the Roadhouse was a Thing, but I didn’t expect how much I’d love it in concept as well as practice. I love Ellen and Jo, and that they’re gonna come back, I love Ash, just SO GOOD all around

2. the clown lore? The mystery was much better done this time around, there were cool lore elements(and misdirection) AND there were interesting ways to solve the problems(the brass pipes, the smoke, etc). The mystery aspect of this show is really coming into it I’m so excited.

3. Ok so obviously Sam and Dean are grieving in the not grieving ways they’re prone, but I think I can now kinda put something together. Just because we understand John’s motives, that doesn’t excuse his actions. And his actions are that he was a bad father, and it’s a bit too little too late. Especially taking into account the later seasons and how much it seems to have fucked up Dean specifically. I think we understand where he comes from, but he’s not supposed to be the Hero, nor is he, at all. One good action does not redeem a man. Which is funny, because this would generally make him a hero-type in a lot of similar media(notably pirates of the Caribbean, which is what I’m quoting) I feel like everything before and after that moment undo it. Let’s stick with grey for now, that seems safe.

4. I’m very excited to see where these characters go. Although it’s also funny to me that I forgot Jess existed because damn did they not mention her at all

aight till next week and the end of the semester

#pawswatchesspn #the previously on world building and lore are much improved this season #thus far at least #I'm excited #2x2 Everybody Loves a Clown #we're switching up formatting #this looks better

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throwingideasatthewall · 4 years ago

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Clone wars Lightsaber Lost

(Season 2 Episode 11)

Oh, so it’s gonna be a minor episode?

Neat

That’s Cool

Alright; Quote: (Haven’t covered one of these fully in a while)

“Easy isn’t always simple,”

True;

Take a look at the way Un-accountables Screw over the world And you need a flow chart to follow . But it always comes down to screwing over the world for our self- destructive tendencies)

Evil for fun- -zies!

Any- way; So we jump right in.. ]

No!

(Never mi -nd... it’s just the recap..)

This doesn’t have to be a train wreck...

Hey is that Ventress?

[no it’s not I’m a bad noodle-]

[A very hopeful bad noodle]

�� Er-

Is anyone going to weigh about that pink smoke about to encompass everything?

Just Me?

Okay?

Also white one does have any battles episode title for the episode where he actually lost his lightsaber?

Seriously we’ve gone from switching plot and characterization to switching title names.

“Arms Dealer,”

Okay,

It’s not as bad as dragging the child soldier to war

More Approp.

Kinda

Also please no more mercenaries

please no more mercenaries

My head still coming down from the last nonsensical filler arc We Had

With Honda? Was It?

The excessives are damn strong

And this narrative doesn’t know how to use it accountably

“Black market,”

The worst crime that can be comm-

HAHAHA

[But to be fair this is the kind of power I’d expect the Jedi Council to give Anakin as Boomer Bait]

Enemies-

The national healthcare of this fecking-

Either that or pollution

Could be both

[Sign that something is wrong]

No Help..

Great damn peacekeepers

“Ironically”

Also, that’s kind of the reaction I was hoping from Ahsoka

Kinda awkward

And forced-

Needs less emo

Did they drag children into this?

[I mean even more than this]

Arms Dealer-

That’s kind of the reaction, Eyes Down, Scan -ning Emot Ion Less Ly ...

Whose he selling them to?

Never mind

[There’s that tonal rift]

Also who do you think??

It’s either the Sep ar Tists

Or that other guy we don’t talk about

Joint

Not going to skulk out the place or check for any other entrances or exits

Also yet leave the child Padawan alone

With people who will very likely be okay with killing her

👍

Good job

Like if you’re going to be a. authority assumer at least be a less deadly one,

Like...

Nope,

Master Windu!

There’s was an example

Be more like him

Or not

[Assuming authority is bad]

That’s almost the look !

blank faced “yes, order,”

Never mind

Very never mind!

What does she do to screw it up?

Alright, Whelp

She’s Possibly Dead-

Also are you tell me Hondo literally picked, A bodyguard Outside a random club For his party? Weak

(I’m talking about the gangster in case I get his name wrong)

The robot detective one)

Any way...

(Also yes she has the biggest Indicator of Jedi..

(A braid)

On the back of her head...

[Look I don’t care how much respect people have for the police (over here) she would be gone by now,]

[I’m not getting into further details]

Whelp,

Dude he wasn’t even threatening you

Also, Oh yeah they give the child a gun -

Like that’s an adult - A child touching a gun isn’t threatening

Their reactions are too slow due to having no energy or initiative..

[But this is Ahsoka the abomination isn’t it?]

I can’t think of one episode..

They got the tone right

And didn’t put for a whole as much more mature for her age. *Too

Which is kinda of disgusting

And narratively screwy,

Also why did I just hear a lightsaber go off?

[What did she do?]

Her master

Really?

Aight

...

Whelp

Seriously if your adult in just assert your ground

[And preferably don’t make an entertainment sector so.. Screwy,]

My lightsaber

Time for some Looney Tunes esk charades

(Don’t put that much focus on it)

Also, he just stole a cop in training’s gun

Also THIS IS THE ISSUE with going into slums without any disguise

Hey,

You were just following him!

Master going to kill me..

No..

[Child would Be In Tears [Neg ative aff ila tion + “Com Fort-] [Poss-ibly]

What triggers it

Not exact science

But definitely not that reaction.

Nor.

[my mind’s already going blank with anger,]

This is not how a child would react

And I know it’s going to end up with Anakin giving the moral; That’s it not her fault

Or that am object isn’t worth risking her life

Or honesty

But; again,

Screaming at a baby is all I get

The message is un-applicable And Use- Less-

So is the episode...

[And it gives me that disgusting feeling...

Like there’s anything to be learned from this

Children Can’t Lie (Un-less instructed to)

Please Stop

Pro-

Anyway we’re already pretty far into the episode and my brain is going numb-

So Expect-

A lot Of “Uh-huh” s

The holocron episode, At least had the decency to keep her in the background

And even that felt mildly disgusting- when it came to that scene.

[Damn it]

Anyway the general gist of it;

‘A child has lost some thing and has to reclaim it before their abusive over involved parent to find out,’ (well it has been done slightly better not good, with slightly more realistic children, who didn’t have personalities) was dead upon arrival [Stale]

How to make it better?

Have it be Obi-Wan and Anakin

Obi-Wan already shown to be a bit of a control freak and overly scrutinizing of Anakin‘s actions

Causing Anakin to have such an over emotional reaction [obi-Wan still around]

Or (And the story can still work with Ahsoka]

Have Anakin show those tendencies;

Possibly replicating Obi-Wan‘s behavior

just being a dick

And at some point has given us so got a ‘never lose your light saber’ order paired (possibly) with a, ‘find the thing that you lost,’

Leading to Ahsoka emotionlessly searching for the light saber

The tension coming from the audience’s knowledge of what can happen to her

[not the character

That’s cheating]

[oh and now plot stuff is happening]

[Tumblr refresh recap ending [Damn it- Here-]

[Additional details missing]

Any way...

[Light saber-]

Uhm,

That’s nice

So anyway

That doesn’t mean she can’t cry

That does happen

But it has to be done correctly

And Precise ly

[Oh stuff, The door got kicked down]

The Face must remain taunt

Emotion-less

Still-

The Tears Come Only From The Eyes [Literally] [ Not metaphorically] No emotion -

Ahsoka isn’t a person yet she’s a combination of orders,

22:38 minutes Left

In 8:07 (I’m not doing the math)

[It’s too long]

[His eyes are weird]

Dude is 100% lying

He literally just pulled out name out of thin air

You can literally see the look on dude’s face..

Dude

‘His body language’ said liar

I’m not sure you can read that...

But it sounded like lies..

Any way...

Also who said he was a killer?

And ‘exactly’

STRIKE

No I know I didn’t record my exact thoughts on why this deserved a strike

It is so aggressively authority

And basically shouts;

Respect your Elders at every possible moment

To which I respond No!

Not to mention the gull.

You know how I feel about playing happy music over terrible morals, the inclusion of child soldiers, and of generational overstep particularly

It is no surprise this episode earned a strike

[Also it tries to paint profiling And police brutality As a good thing,

Ack!

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