#evil dead liveblog

[agirlinsearchof]

Army of Darkness was so much cheesy, campy fun. I loved it!

Ash was a good character, too! Hot-headed yet at first cowardly, but he can be smart and badass when the situation calls for it, too! I like how the ending showed that he’s quicker to jump into action after the events of the trilogy.

[completeoveranalysis]

[6]

In the most shounen way possible Evil Wolverine SURE DID launch into four pages of evil speeches COMPLETELY UNPROMPTED and for no reason in particular. 

YES EVIL WOLVERINE WE KNOW THIS MOMENT IS CUT OFF FROM TIME. WE KNEW THIS ALREADY. 

Perhaps it’s the translation or just his wording in general but I’m not sure what the four pages to establish “Divine Providence” doesn’t work here actually means? He says at first that it doesn’t work for Space and Time in general any more, both past and future, but then specifies that this moment specifically is also cut off from "Providence", because it’s cut off from the rest of space and time. (But if "Providence" already didn't work in the past and future, why would it NEED to be cut off in order for providence to ALSO not work here?) And yet I’m not sure exactly what Divine Providence really means in this context, or what it has to do with anything at all that we’re doing here. 

I think it might have been more impactful if he was saying that this moment is cut off from Hitsuzen and so anything could happen, or that it’s completely outside Yuuko’s influence so they can’t be saved. Something along those lines would have made more sense to me thematically.

Also... I'm not sure what he means when he says that Yuuko turned back time? I thought Lava Lamp's wish was with Evil Wolverine specifically - he says "I'll fulfill that wish for you", and when Yuuko shows up he claims that's she's interfering.

But here he says that YUUKO turned back time, implying that the wish was through her power. So...?

I think something got lost in the translation somewhere between these two chapters OR Evil Wolverine really will just say whatever the fuck he thinks in the moment.

I think at first I thought he was comparing Lava Lamp to someone else, but on second thought I think he means that Lava Lamp hasn’t changed since he first made the wish. 

Something to do with the fact that this scenario has to end a “different” way than it first did, and yet Lava Lamp still has the same motivation as before. 

I think you could probably make an interesting comparison out of the fact that (from Evil Wolverine’s perspective) the universe broke because Lava Lamp made this wish in the first place, but he’s still here with the same goal in mind, and so he’s never really learnt anything. 

Which isn’t true, but I think I’m still just trying patch Evil Wolverine’s speeches in a way that actually makes sense to me. 

[travalerray]

finished episode 34 and what I am getting is that Shan Gudao is basically going "You be better than shixiong? You be better than shixiong at martial arts and be the favourite of our shifu? SUFFERING FOR SHIDI FOR TEN YEARS, SUFFERING FOR SHIDI FOR TEN YEARS!!!!!"

[eerna]

honestly Noragami deserves some kind of an award for being the most intense downward spiral of "it can't get any worse than THIS, right???" I've ever read. I haven't known peace since Kazuma did that stupid spell on Yukine and it's only gone downwards from there

[forcebookish]

BURN NOTICE SPOILERS I GUESS???? it's a twenty year old show lol

i talk a lot about how great an actor jeffrey donovan is (and he is) and how much of an annoying wiener nate is (and he is), but damn seth peterson really is a good actor too. like, the reason i don't really jive with his character is because he perfectly portrays the fuckup little brother. and when nate dies all he says is "i'm scared," and his delivery is so real and raw that it just reaches into my chest and grabs my heart. that's always the part where i start crying.

[kanerallels]

DANG who ISN'T dead at this point?

[pochapal]

thinking here now about rokkenjima as a haunted house. obviously 30 years isn't enough time to create a haunted house in the traditional gothic sense but is more than enough time to generate a space populated by ghosts.

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Nah I thought he was boutta say he put a bunch of walkers on treadmills or some shit lmao

[flashhwing]

man that guy in evil dead gets covered in just so many fluids. I would give up after the first person exploded all over me

[cashmere-caveman]

queen alicent has not forgotten the love you once had for each other?!.!??..?. and the book page..... baby . baby did u hold on to this for years and years. why is it so creased. can we get a statement from the dowager queen pls can anyone get her on the mic

[agirlinsearchof]

Watching Evil Dead II, and so far, I really like the camera work! I dunno what’s different about it, but there’s something different about the way the camera is utilized!

Ash briefly getting possessed briefly only to be exorcised by sunlight puts me in mind of that scene from JJBA where Dio tests the Stone Mask on a random dude, who gets turned into a vampire, only to die by sunlight before he can kill him.

I wonder if it’s a common thing? “Person gets transformed, only to die to their weakness shortly after to establish what said weakness is.”

[completeoveranalysis]

[4]

AND NOW WE GET PIFFLE CALL BACKS?

Oh Clamp really do love me. This is unreasonably perfect. 

Who else begins the climactic fight of the series with, “Hey, remember this double layered question I posed 135 chapters ago? Let’s revisit that now!”

WHICH IS VERY GENEROUS OF THEM in the way that it signposts an exact conversation for us to think about and realise (without having to reread the whole series yet again) that the whole conversation between Syaoran and Fai in Piffle was REALLY HEAVILY honed in on the secret Lava Lamp crushing guilt and backstory we didn’t know about until now. 

Which is wild in the meta sense knowing that CLAMP planned for that exact sentiment to be the very core of a character we wouldn’t even understand for another 130 chapters, but also on the character level knowing (in hindsight) that Lava Lamp himself was hearing this conversation happen in real time and probably had an absolutely horrible time knowing that they were discussing ethics behind the soul-crushing decision he made that broke the universe and is still suffering AND seeing the consequences of. 

But how absolutely fascinating that after Shara our cloned Syaoran ended up developing such a similar insecurity about messing with timelines and the consequences of doing so completely independently from Lava Lamp. The parallel lives of these parallel people. The hitsuzen of it all. 

AND! Fai gives almost the same advice! 

Last time he said, “You can ponder over that all you want[…] but right now, it won’t do us a bit of good,” and, “If there’s something that you can accomplish if you try, then the thing to do is try. ‘Changing history’ is an idea on too grand a scale for a person to do anything about. It’s also important to accept that there are things you just can’t do.” And he was talking specifically between the Shura/Shara timeline changes at the time, but in relation to Clow? Lava Lamp holds himself accountable for every single thing that happened, but he didn’t do all of that. He was just trying to achieve a goal - which is framed here as a good thing (and is very good advice for dealing with anxiety besides). 

At his core Fai sees this same struggle playing out in each Syaoran and gave them both the same tips - but this time he can reference the previous time and really hammer it home. 

And, deliciously, it echoes even stronger here. The advice is to ignore all the things you can’t control. Just focus on what you want, and do what you can to achieve it.

Lava Lamp might still feel that he ruined the universe, but that won’t help him right now. Like Fai said last time, that’s on too grand a scale for him to ever take on his own. He has one thing he wants to achieve and he should focus on that. The timeline will sort itself out later. 

Which is SUCH a solid Dad moment. Kurogane gets to tell Evil Wolverine to fuck off, Fai and Kurogane get to flirt and insult Evil Wolverine to his face, and now Fai gets to give a touching character moment to Lava Lamp as they all share the final story beat together. It ties the Syaoran experience together (ironically, since the other Syaoran he WAS speaking to is RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM but may or may not have the soul to remember the moment at all), and ties both sides of the plot together into this one big family moment. 

Though I’m slightly suspicious of Fai last time mentioning that It’s also important to accept that there are things you just can’t do. 

[nutzworth]

jrwi riptide ep 43: (for some context this episode is the party's entrance to the big city with the steam and the crime and the money) .......... WHAT IS HAPPENING?

[eerna]

also while I don't mind Yato dying, I absolutely Do Not Want him to reincarnate. either he lives as he is, or he is gone forever. no inbetweens.

[the-acid-pear]

Horrible results. Come watch it right here 👍

[voluptuarian]

I'm assuming the tentacles guy who keeps talking to us is Ross?? It seems noteworthy that he was catatonic but not dead