#i have watched the next few eps

[inconsistentlywrittensoul]

Lie to Me thoughts:

Drusilla: "My dear boy's gone all away, hasn't he? To her... The girl. The slayer." Writers, could you stop foreshadowing things you couldn't possibly know about for five minutes?

Another older romantic interest turns out to be untrustworthy. Writers, could you stop intentionally mirroring the Angel/Angelus arc for five minutes?

Ooh, it's The Most Important Character In The Buffyverse.

It's surprisingly nice to see Willow and Angel have a scene together. It might be the most open Angel's been with anybody so far - he talks to her about the century he spent doing basically nothing, and he manages to not mysteriously disappear for the whole conversation. I think it's that he's not trying to impress her - they're just friendly, and it's nice. (Aside from the moment of 'No, don't invite him in, that's going to be bad later in the season!')

(Honestly, it's always funs to see romantic interests outside their designated pairing. Tara's rare but oddly meaningful interactions with Buffy stand out, as do Spike's friendships with Joyce and Dawn. It's one reason Spike becomes way less fun in the last couple of seasons - he interacts way less with the non-Buffy castmembers.)

And we get an Angel/Xander/Willow teamup at the club. It's fun, though the treatment of The Most Important Character comes across a little weird - kind of hippie-bashing, though it doesn't land when her naivety relates specifically to a evil soulless monsters that doesn't actually exist.

And now Angel's actually communicating with Buffy! Yeah, he lied to her earlier, and what he's communicating about is the time he tortured a girl to insanity and then turned her into a vampire, but still, this is a big step forward for him. This episode is the closest Angel's come to being a functional person so far.

(Which also comes with him being undercut in the club by the vampire poser dressing just like him - it's a very Angel joke, and this feels much more like the Angel of Angel than the old Angel we saw in 'Angel'.)

That said, Angel asking if Buffy loves him, and her saying she does (albeit without trust) feels weird - they're barely in a relationship at this point? Kind of illustrates the immaturity of both characters. (Which, fair enough - she's a teenager, and he's a complete disaster. Though he is becoming less disaster-like by the episode - things are definitely looking up for this guy.)

The last scene with Giles is nice - the speech is iconic for a reason - and kind of mirrors Reptile Boy, with him giving her support that's less paternalistic but more paternal than his past Watcher-y role. With Halloween as last episode and The Dark Age as the next, these four episodes all have an underlying arc about Buffy's developing relationship with Giles; and there's kind of an ABAB structure, where this ep rhymes with Reptile Boy, and Dark Age rhymes with Halloween, in dealing with the Ripper of it all.

[silvermeww]

okay, when was someone going to tell me that

oh, idk, steven started at 19, burgh has a younger sister, clay actually isn't born american, skyla's whole fam thing and ELESA IS 15???? (even younger than skyla like wtf???)

(also the 'alder' at the bottom is supposed to be drayden lol)

and that's not all

say hello to:

viola being 18??? 'black whirlwind' korrina, RAMOS MEETING AZ'S FLOETTE AS A KID, genderfluid and apparently also age-fluid olympia, CLEMONT?? AND HIS WHOLE THING DOWN TO BEING 12 OF ALL AGES???

(you know what, marlon being 30 definitely makes sense with the hippie vibes)

wikstrom SAYING that he only wears that suit in pokemon battles but i've never seen his casual wear, malva being pr for flare lol, drasna selling dragon merch + great family lore if you want to know, siebold having to third-wheel lysandre and sycamore while eating (move aside malva, you're not the only elite 4 dealing with this) and 20?? YEARS OLD?? DIANTHA????????????

(way too many men in kalos are getting ladies, c'mon)

ethan being into history is such a neat detail hmmm, idk much of the frontier brains ngl, and we've finally got the region for looker and it's... hoenn??? you know what, makes sense with his chaotic vibes so i'll take it (throws away unova taped to a rock behind my back). also he's abolsutely cheating we all see that he's just relying on knowing us as protags, should've known smh

(um i think someone said that 'caitlin' should've been anabel but idk)

oh and the last one is charon, if we care about how much of a loser he really is. forget about birch and the poochyena, this guy is the lowest heh. imagine being charon (please don't).

(when the protags of johto are the same age as clemont lol) (yeah i know there are years between those events just let me have this)

and last but not least:

aaron 🤝 valerie: wanting to be pokemon (and ig gotta toss in shauntal with the ao3 writer gift heh, don't know if they would commission her or stay away), bertha's description???? i love flint just saying, cynthia 👀👀 is absolutely doing something illegal 👀👀, roark is WHAT??? (child labour laws in sinnoh must be lax ngl), maylene as well???? fantina watching scary movies is something i'll have to incorporate into my worldview and bryon?? are you okay??

so yeah. credit goes to @/KuroBlitz96 on the twitter/x for having this up, i'm just here to project sheer surprise at this massive dump of ages... my thoughts on pokemon have completely turned on its head once more lol (this is fine)

[threeawfulfruits]

My brain, stirring all my interests around like peeps in a chili pot:

[sarah-yyy]

okay so instead of going out and doing stuff last weekend, jiejie wrapped up a couple of dramas so i could close these goddamn tabs in my browser:

love in contract - cute!! enjoyed it!! not sure why we had to have a whole forced separation arc towards the end, but it ended on a nice note, so that was good!! a rec, 8/10.

kill me love me - actually a v meh storyline. tried for plot but fell quite flat tbh. liked the murong xuan lie/yin luomei arc, but zhao xiaotang was HMMMM. fast-forwarded through at least 70% of the show. DID MY GIRL ZIGU DIRTY. no emotional payoff. probably don't waste your time, 5/10. passing mark only thanks to liu xueyi and baron chen.

are you the one - did not do my girl xueji dirty, immediate +1. has chang huasen in it, another immediate +1. the main couple got a bit meh towards the end, but i loved ziyu/xueji and also zhao quan/he zhen so i managed to watch through the entire show. ending was cute. good show if you (like me) watch it for mistaken identity shenanigans and not really the plot. watch if you have nothing else to watch, 7/10.

[scarecrowofthefields]

HUH?!? KAKASHI RETSUDEN WAS ADAPTED IN BORUTO?? it had 3 scenes over the course of the Sasuke Story arc. BUT HE'S THERE, KAKASHI'S THERE. thought his last appearance was in episode 260- time to update my list

also nanara is so cute :(

[fagandordyke]

this season has really been a rollercoaster for anyone remotely emotionally emotionally invested in zero

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

Pokémon Horizons Episode 24 spoilers under the cut!

HEY AMETHIO BESTIE WHAT DOES THAT MEAN . WHAT DOES THAT MEAN

[bonesandthebees]

man I'm glad I decided to read a game of thrones as a way to take notes for how to write rose... I just read about a huge battle with thousands of soldiers and it was so well done... now am I going to write a battle? no fucking way I don't hate myself that much but I know HOW to execute it in a very easy to visualize way and that's what's important

[elizabeth-mitchells]

KATE WAS ACTUALLY MARRIED?!

[orcelito]

Watching the Obito Reveal in naruto and while I still want to punch this guy in the face, I'm rly enjoying seeing how emotional Kakashi is getting AND how supportive Guy is being to him. Like Fuck You, obito, guy is here and he's better than you in every fucking way. Up to and including giving kakashi the support he deserves ❤️

[blackjack-15]

the love scene lighting is back with marcus glazing the cake XD personal pet peeve with all people glazing cakes but man does it look like it wastes a lot of that glaze...it's cinematic but i'm like...i'll eat the extra choco stuff if no one wants it...don't just pour it all out....

mikey's spaghetti as family is a nice touch. even if carmy does find it underseasoned and gloopy XD

wait the top of the cans says KBL, like KBL from Mikey's notebook??

WHY IS THERE CASH IN THE TOMATOES MIKEY

oh my land is that what the 'payments' to KBL were was he hiding cash in the tomato cans, is that why he took the money from Cicero

wait didn't carmy throw one away in the pilot gosh dangit

my gosh. one last gift from Mikey, huh?

i mean he prolly should have just paid debts with that but like...land sakes

SYD

she came in person huh yeah she was never gonna permanently quit

best meal she ever ate, remember?

tina's joy at seeing her, marcus' lack of surprise,

and carmy staring at her, leaning on the counter for support, money forgotten, breathing in and out deeply

"quit f//kin around, grab a can opener!" oh richie. see, these two don't need any apologies, they're just that combative -- it's a give and take situation, and neither is the type to give or take apologies in the first place

carmy you're still staring baby boy. your mouth is hanging open too

she's staring back, looking a little guilty and afraid (which i'll take what i can get there's not time for a Big Discussion left in the season)

...carmy hon did you just see syd and immediately propose

i mean propose making a new restaurant but still. that's a proposal

and they're back on the same page, speaking their own language, the only two people in the room.

THE BEAR IS COMING. great name for restaurant, from a story perspective...yeah, he's opened the cage, the bear is definitely coming

let's see what happens when it does

[no1ryomafan]

My brain has gone back and forth on between which anime if arma or new is my favorite. Cause even with all its issues Arma means a lot to me, it’s the reason I got into getter and helped me through one of the worst times of my life- But then new is objectively better written and it drives me nuts compared to arma it’s not talked about ENOUGH despite all the stuff you can poke at from it’s plot and I’m trying to pinpoint that reason since the general consensus is “no one hates new and it gets a lot of fanart in the Japanese community yet it’s never deeply acknowledged so it feels unpopular”

So my standpoint is “do I keep investing into the popular iteration despite its issues or do I invested into the less flawed unpopular iteration when it comes to introducing getter to new people?” cause man as much as I’m a critical person of media I still can forgive some messy writing if I have a good time with it and can clearly tell the staff had fun making it, which is definitely armas case. (Though they absolutely had fun with new too)

[fauna-and-floraa]

Honestly watching all the variety shows and music shows the boys go on makes me miss when there was more stuff like that over here

[airenyah]

DAMMIT we finished rehearsals early now i do have to wait for my love mix up to start airing 😭

[spineless-lobster]

Guess who’s FINALLY watching masters of the air?

(Me the answer is me)