#ha! foreshadowing; jokes

[lostwcrlds]

@thelightsabcr

Grim ruined Obi-Wan's hair, jail for Grim!! Jail for 100 years!!

[rafyki]

I think something that for me really sets aside Jack & Joker from other Thai dramas is its narrative structure. Thai dramas usually have a very simple narrative structure where things just keeps happening without a proper flow - I mean, something happens, it gets resolved, and then something new happen that keeps the story move; you know, all those little problems that aren't really all connected together (like, the main characters get together and then someone new appears that comes in between them; or it turns out that, idk, the family was homophobic all along, or that one of the characters actually had a complicated relationship with their family - things like these that are disconnected).

Maybe it's because Jack and Joker has a pretty solid and complicated plot, but something that I really love about it is the way everything that happens is connected, everything is a direct consequence of the characters' actions. It's like this since the first episode until the last one - the plot is brought forward by the characters' actions, everything they do has consequences on everything and everyone else. Like, Joke seeks Jack's forgiveness, so he wants to steal the ring for him, and he works with Tattoo and Hoy -> Tattoo steals the necklace which causes problems for everyone -> they need to steal the necklace back -> Jack meets Rose again, which causes everything else to happen, etc etc

Everything is connected. And I think it all comes back to one of the series' themes, which is that everything we do has consequence, that even if out intentions are good we can't predict what our actions will cause; that we live in a community and that we cannot think about ourselves only bc every time we do something that can end up influencing someone else's life. that we can't be selfish in a community.

[hadopelagian]

every day i wake up, brush my teeth, eat breakfast, and spend thirty minutes manifesting that the wedding in alecto the ninth is kirianthe

[lostwcrlds]

@thelightsabcr

Alternatively Grim could do this when Obi-Wan drops his lightsaber

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[goddammiteverythingstaken]

my sisters predictions for stranger things s5: will Byers will be chemically castrated and then get really into botany Vecna will become a giant plant and take over the world

[chycoin]

The Super Mario Stupid Show, timestamp 9:15

Am i insane to think this is foreshadowing

You’re not the only one who thinks that lol

[freakinator]

finished flamefrags' vid and it was awesome but i cant help but see the many similarites it shared with ls post-abyss arc

[whatyoutaughtwasfear]

Started population 11 tonight! It's a show loosely based on a guy that went missing in the northern Territory, Australia, and its got the main dude from superstore :) Mostly enjoying it so far. Just finished I think episode 4 - where you find out who bugged his phone and BRUHHHH! was NOT expecting that

[whoredmode]

enough

[angelsdean]

the thing i love abt smallville is, the costume department went all in on the color symbolism. clark is alwaysss wearing something red or blue (ocassionally yellow) like he is thee primary colors boy. and lex is almost always wearing something purple. and of course black and grey. luthorcorp colors. villain-coded colors. morally grey character on the road to darkness colors.

[gu6chan]

Spending a year translating a novel and am split between the joy of seeing people in the west be able to enjoy something previously only able to be enjoyed by fans in japan and immense regret seeing it used for the worst fucking fan theories you've seen in your life

[lostwcrlds]

*sounds of Grim suffering in the distance*

[diagonal-queen]

every two years or so i re-binge sean's playthrough of undertale, fall in love with the game all over again for a few weeks, then totally forget about it for the next two years when all of a sudden im like 'yooooo i should rewatch jacksepticeye play undertale'

[q-gorgeous]

new profile picture edit for those of you who have watched the finale already

[depizan]

I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.

[rejectedfables]

Shuro being known as "Shuro" when his name is "Toshiro" is a funny haha "white boy misheard his name and told everybody" joke, but it is also a character study of everything going wrong with Toshiro himself. Sure, Laios misheard his name and told everybody, but Laios is a kind person who cares about his impact on his friends. If Toshiro had EVER ONCE corrected him, Laios would have changed his behavior, and told everyone he'd fucked up, and laughed at himself for making the mistake. Shuro being so paralyzed by social etiquette that he can't even correct Laios about HIS OWN NAME (paralysis that comes from his culture, upbringing, and his own autism, as Laios himself has not given him any reason to feel this way) is foreshadowing and commentary on their entire dynamic and conflict.

The fact that, even after resolving the rest of their issues, Shuro STILL doesn't correct him or anyone else on the island, holds implications that perhaps he's grown to appreciate having this other identity that's separate from his upbringing. Yet another trans allegory of slow transitioning of identity being linked to a different name (used first by your friends).

Or maybe he just still hasn't gotten up the courage to broach that particular embarrassing topic.