So on another re-watch of TUGS I had some thoughts (and questions).
First of all: In Pirate, the captains’ plan has the tugs in pairs. We see three of these pairs (Ten Cents and Sunshine, Zip and Zug, and Top Hat and Warrior. But who are the other pairs?
In the scene where the plan is made there are ten tugs visible, in other words everyone but O.J. and Hercules. Hercules does turn up at the end of the episode, but his dialogue is a little ambiguous as to whether or not he was around to be part of the plan, he might have been out working. As for O.J.? He could have been anywhere I guess?
So unaccounted for in the pairs are Big Mac, Zorran, Zebedee and Zak. One Star and three Z-Stacks. Does this mean Big Mac had to work with one of the Z-Stacks? If so, which one?
Or did Big Mac work with O.J.? But that leaves the three Zero harbour tugs together, or having one pair and one alone? Because when you suspect someone in port is stealing the tugs you’d want on their own is one of the Z-stacks… sure…
So yeah, don’t know how the plan worked outside of pairs we were shown, any ideas???
Second: Quarantine. Why does Zorran try to protest his innocence to avoid quarantine? That’s just… not how that works? Sir, you made yourself a biohazard, and there are consequences to that. Sorry.
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The warm lighting as Luke holds Percy at sword point because Percy trusts Luke. Luke would never hurt him.
Then Luke later betraying Percy in the very same woods and hurting him with the same sword as the lighting shifts to this ominous dark purple
i could write an essay on how the writers use lighting as a method of storytelling
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ugh all the fan theories for the resort are so much cooler than what the show did IM SO MAD
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GOD there’s something so tragic about how all the horrors Ed fleetingly alluded to in s1 were so, so real. They were passive references, even sometimes jokes, when everything was bright and silly and hopeful. But when the lens is shifted everything takes on a new weight.
I mentioned it before but I can’t stop thinking about this line: “these past few weeks have been the most fun I’ve had in ages…years…maybe ever.” Ed meant that with his whole heart!!! His fall is all the harder because he was the highest up he’d literally ever been.
It’s just wild to think of the framing of this show because typically comedy implies that these characters live in a consistently comedic universe but it really is just that one blip in time up until this point. Ed and Stede’s solo stories are inherently tragic and yet when they come together they create a shared comedy universe. The meta use of genre in this show makes me CRAZY
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Okay but does Peri KNOW that Dev has a robotic leg when he shows up? Something about the fact that Peri's wand is a cane and the fact that Dev could have kept his leg and just had a cane for the rest of his life instead tickles my brain.
I mean he doesn't know immediately, he wasn't like briefed or anything, but he basically lives in Dev's house so he definitely finds out. Peri doesn't comment on or react to it all though really, there's no reason for him to think anything of it, plenty of people have missing limbs, a lot of people are born without them, it doesn't necessarily mean anything sinister happened. He had no reason to pry or ask and I think Peri's lack of reaction to it helped Dev feel a bit more comfortable in his skin. (Not by much but.. a little bit.)
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I think one of the most realistic parts about Baby Reindeer (2024) is how much Donny downplays the abuse he faces
I know everyone wants to hate on him for being “stupid” and blame him for everything that happened because yes from an outsiders perspective he made questionable choices but isn’t that what HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE DO?
I know so many people who’ve “played nice” or tried to downplay abusive behavior. You try and tell yourself “It wasn’t that bad”, or that it was just some crazy experience that should be forgotten. It seems so much easier to stay silent and just try to move on.
You don’t wanna start problems
You don’t wanna be mean
You don’t wanna be the bad guy
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I think about my own headcanons so much that i forget they're not real like what do you mean boxman and gar weren't childhood friends who had a big falling out and now hate each others guts
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not to say that ml is uncritcizable/perfect media or anything like that, but i think it's worth acknowledging that romantic media targeting a female audience as a genre is always waayyy disproportionately mocked. I'm just saying that if you've never even seen a single episode of the show and you confidently say that the show is "objectively bad", maybe you should ask yourself why you so confidently think that. and if your answer is the genre itself (mostly-episodic romance) or the target audience (young girls), then maybe. i dunno. take a step back and ask yourself why that's so inherently terrible to you
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