#idk the full story context but teehee

[c-kiddo]

generally not vry interested in ships but something abt fearne/ashton makes me want to put it in my mouth and eat it

[mr-areyoustupid]

Episode 1:

spoilers below kinda

Okay… I’m only a few minutes in, but there is already a strong lack off some of the expositions that was helpful in the og. No establishing shots, show how much disrepair the houses is in, nor is there any scenes of house hunting from Sam and Jay (this version of Allison and Mike), which was helpful for the part of why, in the og, Allison and Mike were so willing to move in.

Also, no suspense on the fact that Sam was getting the house, I know it’s kinda a given but still the convo between the lawyer/solicitor felt serious clunky cause of it.

Gonna be honest, these quips are really 50/50 rn, tbh maybe a worse ratio.

It’s also weird that they instantly jumped to running a b&b instead of like the og (which had a more logical progression of the ghosts growing on Allison, influencing the start of the b&b, plus the failure of selling the house to the one lady in one ep).

Also, I feel there’s a lack of conflict with sam and jay needing to take out a loan feels weird.

Oh god, the intro is not fun and goofy D’:.

They tried the stereotypical headless ghosts, but idk how the hell that is gonna work in the context of the ghosts being a greaser

Also as suspected the choice in the ghosts is a bit weird i feel like to many of the ghosts are 20th century (almost half of them are).

Damn the revolutionary war soldier is kinda cunty (and a lot more obviously gay, they ain’t even trying to be subtle)

I am glad they did change up the plot beats, so it doesn’t feel to repeative but it definitely feels a bit quick

Okay, forget what I said about too little exposition, the story is now explaining some of the ghosts powers and therefore spoiling how robin’s equivalent odin died, there goes some of the mystery to the powers and deaths.

The revolutionary soldier smells like a fart because he died of dysentery lol.

Also, pat’s equivalent, pete is from the 80s and distinctly references ghostbusters, which has me thrown off … idk why, ig because pat technically died before ghostbusters came out in the bbc version bc they mentioned he died in 1984

Also ik most of the ghosts died before tv and movies but why does the show act like the characters wouldn’t understand the concept of story telling at all…

Also I really don’t like trevor (the equivalent to julian) because he feels to young to actually fit the greasy politician stereotype in an actually fun way, plus he can’t stop mentioning he was the last to die, like dawg, I get it, no understands your references

I get this is an old school home but why an american house got tea cups instead of coffee cups fr.

The plague guys are now cholera victims, teehee

The revolutionary soldier, Isaac, is yet again being my fav cunty lil g-

-oh god sam just rolled down a full fucking set of stairs

also this time the knock out seemed a lot less intentional because it was over a vase that wasn’t intended to kill her, unlike julians purposeful push.

the characterization between julian and trevor already feels pretty hella different

Pete already trauma dumping about his marital issues

Voiceover scenes, no way dawg

“what is donut hole” -odin (real af)

I desperately am thankful that they mentioned sam was dead for a second, I genuinely missed that fact while watching the og and was confused for a while.

Oh wait- they actually did takeout a loan, although actually they’re in debt on a maxed out credit card (semantics)

trevors underwear was censored, what up

the ghosts do be trying to scare the ever living sh:t out of sam ig.

BBC Ghosts vs CBS Ghosts

So I just saw a post mentioning the fact that there was an American version of the BBC’s Ghosts (thank you @m1auu for mentioning it in your tags under one post) and as someone looking for any good reason to procrastinate sleeping and school work I decided I’d watch it (at least the first season). I have always loved comparing remakes of show, especially in the case of British shows being turned into American television, especially due to the poor track record. As for why I decided to post about this in the first place, one part me loving the original Ghosts, second part me looking to goof around, third part my love for history (and I genuinely enjoyed how they played with it in the BBC Ghosts so I hope the CBS’s version will try to make similar efforts).

(Also, I’m not sure if this will be at all important for my analysis, but I am a yankee doodle doo)

Before Watching:

I think before even start watching, I have a few a issues I think I can predict before I actually start digging into the show. Firstly, I want to start off with my biggest worry which I hope won’t, but probably will exist, which is that the problem, that almost every American remake I have I watched has seems to have, which is the translation of thematic ideas. I think this problem happens almost every time, where an American remake takes a British IP and makes it either to optimistic or high energy, for example; the inbetweeners or the office (uk) to the office (us). This especially bothers me because a lot of British humor focuses on satire, especially on class issues, which American comedies avoid (despite it being an extremely prominent issue in the States) and a lot American comedies will also often lack subtlety as well (something I really valued form Ghosts (BBC)). Now this could all turn out to be nothing, but even before seeing anything I don’t have to positive of an outlook.

My second issue is something that’ll probably be apparent to anyone who knows about the US history and British history. The cast, while Britain has centuries of distinct historical periods that the average person could make the distinctions between, I believe that’ll be much harder in an American version due to America’s much shorter history (mostly disregarding the indigenous history as it is unlikely there will be more than one indigenous character), as well as the fact the a lot history is hard to have in one condensed area of the states, like a cowboy would not be caught dead in the same place as an 90s metro- politician. Also, when it comes to characters having equivalents, I think there will be an attempt, but I doubt there will be more than Pat, Julian, Kitty, Fanny and maybe Mary, if the setting happens to be placed in a Northeastern state. My other, thought based on a glance at the thumbnail image that comes up when you first look up the show, is that instead of the Captain being a WWII soldier, his equivalent will most likely be an American Revolutionary soldier (which I could see maybe working ….ehhh).

That’s it, now for a kinda of live reporting of the first few episodes

[demento]

what are your. what are your ocs names

THANK YOU OKAY OKAY

okay so…. THERE IS GRAHAM. big man graham right he’s a cool fella yippiee! his full name is graham jonathan child && baisically. BAISICALLY!! the first two names symbolize what he thinks of himself, and how he presents himself to others ;; mature & responsible etc… HOWEVER his last name shows that he is 8n fact just a kid.

NEXT UP ON THE LIST….. clementine “clemmie” delilah illingworth-rudd ! her name absolutely STINKS of rich-ness and the upper class, showing her regal nature, buuut her final surname rudd is just a common fish. she won’t be missed. “clemmie” is her way of rejecting her family! ^_^ ALSO ophelia is a reference to the character from hamlet… showing that if her family had decised to keep her (plot thing) she would have been married off !

NOW!! my little meow meow ! jane annabella rose pickett;; the first three names (all chosen by his family) show the forced feminization of his being and the pressure he feels from being seen, born and raised as a lady (transgenderism) ! his names are overwhelmingly feminine to the point at which pickett is refreshing - and he certainly thinks so too! he’s referred to as pickett the majority of the time by the rest of the cast additionally, the surname pickett would imply that the bearer would live at the bottom of a hill with a sharp point at the top. it’ his shelter !!

SPEAKING OF TRANS PEOPLE. we have brackett anthony-eliza daly! daly means “descendant of dálach” && this puts emphasis on the fact that no one knows who their father is, and their mother (as did all the characters but thats a plot point teehee) died in childbirth with no records to her forename. the contrasting names of anthony & eliza being double-barrelled show not only their struggle with relating to binary gender, but also inernal conflict in various moments in the story . the name brackett means a hound that hunts by scent,, which also represents their genius !! (not me showing favoritism them being a genius + following clues easily is ALSO. aplot point)

theodore “theo” frederick summers and benjamin “benny” jacob summers are up next !! they r twins (irrelevant but i’m just adding context …);; both of their forenames are biblical names, showing their relation to religion - and then their later rejection to god, as the usage of the more childish nicknames prevent any religion from being correlated to them both. however, benny’s middle name is still from the bible - showing HIS later struggle with religion as he grows older, contrasting theo’s, who never had any problems with it. ALSO, the last name summers would mean the bearer worked in the house of someone named somer. that’s all they r to the outer world;; workers !!

finally there is tulip. idk what to say about her………shes like eight

ANYWAY THATS ALL. THANK UOU FOR READING

[lunchador]

so when do we get the long post about your feelings about dragon age inquisition!!! i dunno if u wanna wait until dlc or not! i am i n t e r e s t e d (also its ok if u dont feel up to it im just!!!! again, interested in ur opinions/feelings)

kajsldkjf PLEASE I HAVE SO MANY DA FEELINGS ALL THE TIME and Inquisition was twice as long as the others so might as well do a word vomit now and I can always do another after the dlc (which several people have assured me are worth playing )

SO

Yeah so inquisition is long. I dislike open world games so a lot of the (super repetitive!!) side quests did grate on my nerves and that docks this game a few points but over all the LORE IS SO GOOD, and it tying in so many choices in from 1+2 is the greatest butterfly effect I ever experienced in video games. I thought telltale + Until dawn were fun for that but good LORD bioware has showed up all of those games and I am really stoked to try mass effect when its out later and play more bw games. I only played Anthem before this and that game seemed...idk, gutted against BW’s wishes.

ANYWAY

Yeah, I managed to go into the whole DA series knowing very, very little, despite how many artists I followed did fanart for it. Once I started playing, I added all the words I could think of to my blacklist but a lot of untagged stuff came through (fair, series is 10+ years old and inq is like what 4-5?). I allowed my friends to pressure me into playing an elf mage for the lore and to romance solas cuz they said he was as important to the story as alistair was. A lot of online followers said I should play how I wanted, which I def would recommend to anyone else, but honestly I can see where they came from and while he never would have been my first choice, I think he actually paired REALLY well with my Inq and how I was playing her. I put her as sensitive but trying to put her responsibility above herself, she was definitely the least funny of my 3 characters, but not incredibly serious. A bit reserved? Just more mature. She’s got faith but she didn’t think she was the chosen one but she’ll do her role the best of her ability. She makes hard decisions and then sobs her chest empty over them because how is one to ever feel like its the right one? I really like how the game lets you choose how you wanna approach the responsibility. Like i said, I wasn’t a reluctant chosen one, but she will do what she can. Versus my friend playing at the same time as me said he played as the second coming of jesus essentially lmfao Having so many characters come back for different roles was so GOOD!!! Like everyone told me Varric was in this one but were like ‘teehee you still cant romance him though’ but you how you play drastically changes your relationships with each person. Tons of characters I met I knew would be personal favorites but I ended up interacting way less because others were more fitting to my inquisitor. So i.e while I love Varric and would’ve smooched him a heartbeat with Hawke, I didn’t get that vibe with Clover. They were really good friends, he was a grounded friend with a sense of humor that was a good escape from everyone else and the ~inquisition~. At least, until the Beyond the Abyss quest. That obviously heavily fractured their friendship and hurt them both :( And i felt that for a long time, until the end. He looked tired. Poor guy is gonna be borderline dead in 4 at this point. But so many side characters you talk to coming back like Dagna and Samson??? Speaking of that quest, I got Stroud because, yeah...Alistair was dead for me and APPARENTLY IT COULD ALSO BE LOGHAIN??? If he stays a grey warden??  wish I did that so def would’ve preferred to save Hawke even if I think the wardens are more important as a concept but like.......i wanted to behead him, so....But yes even tiny details like..Varric wrote home to kirkwall to Carver for me because the rest of my family was dead and I never completed a full romance in 2 lkajslkdjf but the fact that changes based on your play through. BUT YEAH THE way this game weaves all your decisions in and how yeah, overall the story is the same but it makes it so personal to YOU and so different from everyone else ;w;

But I could see my Inq genuinely falling for Solas, and I see her best friends as Cassandra and Blackwall/Thom. Really close to Leliana and the Iron Bull as well. I just loved all their interactions. All the characters were so cool to get to know?? Like I thought I would’ve hated Cullen (hes a dick in O) and tbh I just got into the series as the VA was being a complete shit. But I liked him a lot!! I love the work buddies vibes between the Inq and the advisors. I thought I was going to love Sera!! And like, I did, but she hated my Inquisitor and their personalities clashed a lot. Shes the only one i didn’t get a cut scene for in the end :’) I loved coming back from story quests and having to take like 20 minutes to go around skyhold and make sure I talked to /everyone/ for their new dialogue. You genuinely feel connected to all these wonderful npcs ljkasljdf

I wanted to make Cassandra the new divine but I made leliana on accident and kinda dug it so I stuck with it. VARRIC IS THE NEW VISCOUNT??? h i l a r i o u s.

One of the things I loved the most in this game in particular, and while this is something in all of them it just really struck me in this one, was....everyone gave up so so much to devote themselves to the cause, y’know?? Like, it’s almost heartbreaking how much everyone loses and they’re still looking towards you with their belief and willingness to follow you to the end ;-;

The final fight almost felt, Idk, underwhelming? Dude dragons are way tougher than him asdkjhfkhjd. I even went up a difficulty in this game after feeling like I got the hang of the series. But at the same time, we just spend how many hours knocking down each and one of his advantages so fuck him lol.

But yeah there are so many things I wanted to do but I felt so worn out by mindless sidequests and story being level locked in comparison to the previous games. askdjhflkd

One of the things that blows my mind is so so many people were stoked i was playing DA and they couldn’t wait til I got to Inq, and so I find out most people I know only ever played Inquisition? TBH if I didn’t play O+2 I think I would’ve dropped inquisition and never finished it *shrug* all of the build up just means SO MUCH!!! Everyones argument seems to be the older games are ugly and yeah O has rough battle system but its easy to get over imo. Like, you need the chaos of 2 to get the real weight of the mage/templar stuff?? Theres so many characters and story and dialogue that go over your head without Origins?? Like yes inq can stand alone pretty well but, idk, I’m in love with this entire series and the world building and THE!! WAY!!! IT!!! ALL!!! CONNECTS!!!!!!!!!!!

I love how a quest can go differently by whos in your party, I love you can have more dialogue based on lore you’ve managed to pick up around, I love HOW COMPANIONS BICKERRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! The lore of these games are so good. It’s like playing an epic line of novels. It’s so immersive and I don’t think I’ve played too many games to this level.

I didn’t like the skill trees to being a mage in this one, Idk why. It wasn’t nearly as fun for me as 2, but then  again I really fucking liked being a force mage haha. I wanted to be a rogue to complete a diff class per game but everyone said mage brings a lot more interesting story/lore stuff so

but yeah I love having the full context now and seeing other peoples Wardens/Hawkes/Inquisitors and asking people how they played and how their options differed from mine and THERES JUST SO MANY POSSIBLE DECISION TREES!!!!! No wonder the fans play over and over.

but yeah ultimately so much fucking happened?? I’m probably missing a lot of key points.

[softgrungeprophet]

i liked agent venom when i read it, partially because it actually had a discernible plot and a story that wasn’t just half finished and abandoned from constant cancellations, but at the same time i hate it. i hate it so much.

i hate that flash became venom and suddenly, all of his relationships were completely erased except for like, betty and sometimes peter and that was it. mj and harry who? childhood friendship with liz? no she’s just going to... blackmail him for some reason even though they’ve known each other for literally like 15 years

i hate the agent venom origin slott wrote, i hate flash being pissy about peter confiding in MJ, who they are both friends with, because if you’re dan slott you can’t talk to girls unless you plan on fucking them, i hate how gung ho slott is about the military propaganda and the fucking american flag behind flash in superior spider-man, even though superior (a comic i don’t ever plan to read in full) actually had a good moment with flash and “peter” and flash’s tenseness in a domestic argument situation

(i also hate that that one pre-agent venom web of spidey comic could have been good, actually had good assistive devices, but then... the entire villain plot is about some Mysterious Terrorist or whatever who nonetheless congratulates flash for “constructively” letting out his anger on faceless middle-eastern soldiers, and this is played straight--disgusting)

i hate all of it even the things i like because they took a character who actually was fairly complex and flattened him into a football-loving, gun-toting, all-american patriot who loves god and his country, at odds with the previous 30 years of character development, at odds with the flash who when asked if he liked being in the army (after being DRAFTED into fucking vietnam) said that there is no liking the army, only dealing with it, and i hate every bro who thinks agent venom was the coming of the great whatever and acts like flash was completely nothing before then and that only in agent venom did he have any character when the opposite is true and agent venom trampled out every bit of nuance he had to focus on alcohol and football and nothing else (at least bunn finally put him back into a school again, had him working with youth again (andi in this case))

i hate, unrelated to agent venom, the fact that flash the complex character has been further and further stretched and distorted to have been a horribly violent schoolwide bully as a teenager rather than what he actually was--an obnoxious kid with a fucked up home life trying to fuck with one specific kid--to the point that even in the college stuff, even AFTER having “become good,” he’s the only one who gets repeatedly and purposefully excluded from official works and fan works alike because everyone thinks of him as nothing more than a bully, that every movie appearance of flash sucks except TASM (which is still barely a flutter but you can tell thought was actually put into his character by the actor himself), the fact that he’s the only living member of the friend group (because i assume gwen is dead) who doesn’t get more than a single-line mention in the ps4 game (but at least it’s positive, and i like to pretend that MJ was checking on him when she went to the veteran’s center since we know he works with veterans in the game, even if we never see him) (i still want to be able to go to coffee with mj, flash and harry all together)

i don’t like the bullying flashback in the bunn AV run (even though i liked the comic as a whole, especially with andi, and how bunn and shalvey moved away from the military stuff more toward neighborhood protector stuff), i don’t like bunn’s take on high school flash (he also wrote a different spider-man comic with high school flash a little bit before then)

i hate that flash’s growth wrt his disability, which he came to accept as a part of him that he didn’t need to find some miracle cure for, was completely thrown down the toilet so they could do their stupid supersoldier agent venom shit, which flies directly against the SPECIFIC endpoint of the stages of grief comic, which SPECIFICALLY used superserums and bionic military limb testing as the thing he did not need in his life--and then dan slott runs over like teehee here’s some bionic supersoldier military testing shit :3c

hate that he was killed for the stupidest reason by norman fucking osborn, hate that the disabled abuse survivor was killed by the man who killed one of his best friends, who abused another, who manipulated HIM, who drove him into a fucking building after force-feeding him hard alcohol, hate that norman got to “win” against flash one last time, hate that norman is now being treated as this fucking “couldn’t help it” case while harry is Actually Bad, and still, flash is what? a dream symbiote dragon? fucking stupid and i hate it, i don’t want any of it

every new thing i see about new spider-man and venom comics wrt flash makes me wish he would stay dead lmfao

but it’s not like there weren’t already a ton of bad comics about him but at the very least... i would like something that isn’t just about the Patriotic Soldier Boy who never actually fucking existed

the football thing is a really fun one--and i love that the TASM movie made flash play basketball in that movie because if you look at comics from the 60s through to the early-mid 2000s, preceding agent venom... flash stopped playing football after high school and started playing basketball instead. started doing other sports, probably stopped football because, gee i can guess who told him to play football in the first place, but somehow agent venom happened and decided that his entire life was just Football and Guns? when he hadn’t touched a football in literally like... 10 years in-universe

(TASM best live-action spidey adaptation)

there is not purpose to this rant i just needed to get all this shit out of my head

i am very On Edge the past few weeks and idk why, just ADHD brain shit I guess but everything makes me tense lately (probably why i played through 77% of the spidey game in literally four days by virtue of doing absolutely nothing else in my free time) (i’m taking a break for the sake of my hands but maybe i should go keep playing lol)

i know some people like the dragon and i’ve added it to my “flash trans” list but in the context of stories about flash over the past ten years i really am not interested, and this coming from someone who read eragon 9 times in middle school and grew up reading mostly high fantasy and dragon books. i just. don’t want it. not by the writers currently going at least. maybe if it was someone else or if i knew it would be anything more than a future of soldier boy alcohol football crap lmfao