#im putting out every warning i can so folks don't read this anyway and feel bad
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agnesmontague · 4 years ago
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this is going under a cut, i am tagging this tma negative and tma negativity AND tma critical, absolutely do not even look at it if you can’t handle it right now or ever, you have been warned. goes without saying but do not rebl*g. ok last chance to scroll past
i like that there’s this huge discussion (which is valid and fruitful) going on about how the “fear capitalism” metaphor fell flat in s5 bc everyone’s read on the metaphor’s strength and presence is different while im sitting here shrugging bc my biggest gripe with the finale wasn’t even thematic or ethical it was just that jonmartin never hashed out their differences and finally betrayed each others’ trust by going behind each others’ back and everyone treated jon pretty badly including martin who just got pettier and naggier in a way that was difficult to stomach as the season progressed? and spent several eps holding the idiot ball without ever apologizing to jon properly?
the reason im not currently upset rn is bc 1) i spent about two (absolute dogshit) weeks before the finale forcing myself to come to an emotional reckoning that sometimes things don’t go the way i want and i should pull up my pants like a big boy, 2) i recognize that my particular gripes with characterization, while common, aren’t universal and definitely did not land the same for everyone else, and 3) the ending is ambiguous and open-ended enough to allow me to imagine that every conversation that i think should have occurred on-screen actually did occur in a couples therapist’s office somewhere in some other universe. canon is closed now so it’s our city and they mercifully left us a hook so we can continue doing whatever emotional work we feel like doing on the story/characters while still technically remaining within the possible realms of “canon”. i do appreciate that a lot and it was a smart move imo
like there’s a lot more things i feel bleh about including larger thematic elements etc and im famously someone who feels like the last 10 or so eps weren’t very good pacing-wise but after the finale i refuse to dwell on these any more bc a closed canon means we can sculpt it with more ease than when it was still ongoing and not continually getting my expectations down week after week when it didn’t go the precise way i wanted lmao. and im not about to give the cringe culture kiddies the satisfaction of sneering at yet another popular “”bad”” franchise when it was overall still leaps and fucking bounds better than 99% of things mainstream media has ever presented to the world, s5 and all. i also feel like i hold a relatively unique viewpoint within the fandom just by virtue of where im approaching the canon from, so i don’t expect any of my specific grievances to resonate with anyone else either. this is the last post im gonna write about this, hopefully, so i never have to think about any of this again and go back to reblogging jmart fanart and missing the fuck out of the characters i loved for 3 years
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