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#people talking about their dad drama in connection with logan roy but my personal misfortune#is that my dad is an incredibly fun cocktail of ken's manic depression and addiction issues and roman's#emotional volatility/ sensitivity/ edgy and inappropriate and misogynistic jokes#fun to watch! not so much fun to deal with in reality š« #although an interesting study of a man who fails to perform masculinity and hates himself for it/ who was shattered as a child#and never put himself back together. which is mostly the distance i try to look at him from now. with some sympathy but w heavy boundaries#he's in his kendall manic phase currently (went to vietnam. put a down payment on a house? went missing in hong kong for three days?)#(THEN told me and my sister to drop everything and fly with him to party it up in san francisco???)#when he dies i'll try to make that glass castle bank by writing it all down lol but unfortunately i don't have it in me to break his heart#before that. in spite of everything.....
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More ep 7 thoughts, now that Iāve watched it twice and processed š«
Bookending the episode with Liliaās fall but first itās down and then itās up - sick, twisted, beautiful, devastating, Iām crying
The soundtrack really goes hard in this ep
The wildest part about the āex best friendā line is all of those things are equally insane - ex, ex best friend, or best friend. Like maāam what hex were you living in
Babysitter is likely a reference to the comics, but interesting also in terms of WV because we saw Agatha babysit the twins only once I think. Does this mean she actually spent more time with them than we know?
Wow once again Kathryn Hahn is doing so much work in this first scene with Billy, sheās going from snarky to wary to calculating to hurt to i donāt even know. Sheās doing a masterclass in face acting.
When they start to climb toward the castle, Agatha has her hands clasped behind her back and initially I was just like maāam, why are you like this, but then I realized oh. Her hands are tied right now.
Waning moon for the Crone trial babyyyyyy called it
Fun and fast transition to get us into the trial, since we know the deal by now
Sheās based on me you know ā sooooo, tragic, misunderstood, secretly suffering her whole life, constantly judged by others, uh huh uh huh
Prove it - he really doesnāt believe a word she says! And she looks so hurt by it!
The way Agatha sits in the chair omg girl please chill
This is such like an Indiana Jones trap I love it
God I love Liliaās visions, changing the perspective to hers, the blurring around the edges - sometimes you donāt need to do much, but itās hella effective
Actually a lot of good camera tricks in this ep Iām not going to point them all out
Itās about limiting beliefs baybeee - once again the writers showing they know their psych
Iām sorry that tea leaves to the underground transition??? Spectacular
āWell tell me what more I should see when I look at you. No, I mean itā - hey nonviolent communication, howās it going š¤
God can you imagine how scary it would be to have these visions as a CHILD
Did you not see imminent impalement in your future?? Lol why did this get me
I get the fake nose on Agatha but idk maybe I couldāve done without it
Teenager his full name LOLOL underrated joke
Dory OMGGGGG
Jen being the ultimate Lilia champion this ep and I love it. Also seems to contradict her behavior even more in Agathaās trial, but sheās still more snappy with Agatha here too
What are you wearing, I donāt wanna talk about it - bruh every line. EVERY LINE.
Did I mention the transitions are killer
Your task is not to control but to see. - I, I canāt keep writing down every line but
I love that as soon as Jen knows whatās going on, sheās totally on board, just asking Lilia for intel, like yep this is normal now
Ahhh the spell book. Interesting that Lilia finds it.
Ohp - I wish Lilia was here. Ask and you shall receive - see the Billyās Road theory
She calls him baby again š
Is snappy dialogue one of my biggest joys on this earth? I think it is
Proper tarot takes time and care. And leads to large gaping wounds - ā¦. You mean like internal wounds? Like trauma? Like you have to bring up the trauma to heal it? Uh huh uh huh cool cool cool cool you said it Agatha not me.
The Magician, the ability to turn all of your goals into reality - Agatha immediately side eyes him. Bruh.
Iām a forgotten woman. Then remember yourself. š¤š¤š¤
I was falling. I will fall. - CAMERA. MOVEMENT.
What will you do with your remaining time š¤ all we can do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us. Iykyk.
The subway baybeee get that House of R theory
God this tarot spread scene is so epic.
Ok Jen being the path aheadā¦ I gotta come back to that
Agatha is the obstacle yep that makes sense (but the obstacle is the way)
Windfall - Billy, miraculous transformation uh yep ok
Destination - Death. Such a good reveal, even if I already knew it. Once again the power of good writing. In the end all roads lead to me. UGH WTF
NOT THE GREEN VINES SPELLING A BIG OL āRā WHEN THE DOORS OPEN
The original green witchā¦. Ok so she is in the covenā¦ but also Billyās in the coven? Itās a shared black heart? Or it means you can go one direction or the otherā¦ hm.
Ughghghghhh her just giving them each what they need before she sends them onward. Sheās the GOAT.
Did I mention the music????
This whole scene is so EPIC. The tower upright fuck it up queen
Oh my God Lilia took her power back š
We didnāt see a body unlike Alice Iām holding onto that āsee you at the endā lyric with all my might at this point
Time in a bottle was sick and twisted and beautiful I love it
I justā¦ canāt believe this is something I got to witness. Like itās so good Iām mad about it.
A few other quick thoughts:
Jen being the path aheadā¦ if she was birth in the first trial (see my maiden mother crone trial theory), then maybe sheās also REbirth? Itās a circle sewn with fateā¦ weāre going back to the beginning but emerging from the Road this time. Eh??
Pattiā¦. PATTI!! Whereās her Emmy? Whereās the showās Emmy???
Not only was this a better time travel plot than the rest of Marvel as I said in another post but itās also better than time travel in Doctor Who for the last 10 years and that pisses me off low key.
Not to jump ahead but buckle up kids cuz if weāre following the loose structure of WandaVision then ep 8 is our flashback/reliving the trauma episode for Agatha and as much as I was destroyed by this ep I am so not ready for all of that.
Anyway. What a masterpiece. Iām DONE.
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When you were younger and watched Violetta, what was differerent with how you thought compared to today, and what is the exact same in your experience watching today?
Hereās a list of things I thought about the show when I was a kid that I absolutely do not think anymore:
I thought Matias was funny
I also found Jade annoying, even if I could find her funny too
I didnāt like Gregorio
There was a small, dark period of time where I thought Priscila was ok (didnāt last for too long luckily)
I thought the Roxy and Fausta plot was the funniest thing ever (though I still think the concept of the characters are fun, but the actual plot and use for them is š¶)
I thought Tomas was better than Diego š«
Itās hard to remember everything, there were probably a lot of smaller things too, like some scenes or eps I just changed my mind about later.
Now, hereās things that always has been the same for me:
My love for Leonetta. Always big. Always there.
I essentially have the same opinion about every ship, only that I may not feel as strongly about them at all times, or feel more strongly.
Some scenes I always react the same to. Like, the āthe kiss was my kissā scene and the 2x20 non-con kiss always brings me rage. Thereās also a million scenes that brings me just as much serotonin as the first time I watched them.
I always, ALWAYS, dislike Germangie. It felt just as weird when I was 12 that they were endgame as it feels now
My favorite songs have not changed at all. My least favorite songs change every other hour, but my top 10 songs? Always the same. Guess once which song is on top and Iāve been blasting since I was 11 ;)
The way I analyse this show. Of course, as an 11 year old, I couldnāt analyse the show in the same way, but I always had an interest to. Much because, I felt like everyone else who watched ājust watchedā. I had a āno one else understands the depth of this show besides meā moment. Not only because, the loudest V-lovers were like 8 years old, and I felt at times too old to watch. But in reality, this show was really more for preteens, even if they marketed it like a preschool show
My favorite episodes then are still my favorite episodes today
My favorite characters have not changed
While Iāve appreciated the adults more now, I still will take the kids sides a lot. Especially Violettaās. Many people think sheās annoying in early S1, but they fail to remember she hasnāt had the time to become her best self yet, because sheās so stuck and hasnāt been allowed to explore herself with her overprotective father
And here are things I didnāt think about as a kid and I thought about now:
How unbelievavbly on crack the show is. I knew it was chaotic from childhood but at THIS level of insanity?
How fruity the show is. I think itās a universal experience to rewatch the show as youāre older and realize āwow, this is fruitier than I rememberā
And with that, I certainly did not realize likeā¦ how the real love triangle in S3 was between Naty, Ludmi and Cami? Not to mention FRANLETTA????
Franletta is interesting though cause Fran has always been my favorite character. But I never reallyā¦ cared much about her love life. I liked her and Marco a lot. Honestly I always assumed they wouldāve been endgame. I wonder if they were thought to be it, but due to Xavi leaving the show, they had to change it. Or, they were planning on having some love triangle between Marco, Diego and Fran, but had to change it to āDiecesca hiding from Violettaā. Idk, that plot felt like not their first choice. I have however, always loved Francesca around her friends. Especially her relationship with Violetta. So really, Iāve always been ready to ship them without knowing it at first.
Really started to see more perspectives and be able to see some things from different characterās POV.
Also realized the more problematic aspects of the showā¦ of course not only the whole deal with the censored episode and the really uneccessary depiction of the chinese restaurant workers, but also how thereās ableism and at times they just joke about peopleās mental health and donāt take it too seriously. Also how quickly everyone forgets each other for non-consentual actions. Much of this is also problems in other DCLA shows. I feel like with every new show they go one step forward and two steps back with some things.
So yeah, itās not all sunshine and rainbows, but I am glad I can recognize the problems too and call them out.
In the end though, this show will always mean so much to me and I can enjoy it just as much now as I did then, even if I may enjoy it for other aspects now.
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