#it is a narrative cop out

[loversandantiheroes]

Like not to put too fine a point on it or anything but I'm really tired of the post apocalyptic media thing where somehow the edgy, shocking thing is people dying. It's the apocalypse, Steve, of course people are fucking dying. The shocking thing is when they live. Against all odds and reason, against whatever departed god wrote the rules of the universe, against logic and their own wishes, they are alive and now they must contend with that in a world that is as baffled at its own persistence as they are.

[pande-monty-um]

When Jacob is the architect of his own misery.

An Until Dawn style au but Jacob developed a way of making his own little brainwashed wendigo army.

[augustatheghost]

i don’t know what you guys are all complaining about i love that svu has vaporized olivia from woman on the verge to lady cragen

[lildoodlenoodle]

Your reminder that having Peter choose not to kill the Goblin and turn him in to the police in the corrupt justice system only to then have the goblin ambiguously die seconds later so Peter faces no consequences for that choice that would obviously have consequences is such a cop out by the writers.

Because if the goblin hadn’t ‘died’ and had gone to jail he would’ve eventually gotten out. This would be a great way to touch on spider noir’s morality and creates a whole other plot point(and enforcing the fact that the justice system doesn’t work)exploring what will Peter have to do to protect people and how far he is willing to go. Cause remember after his first kill, the vulture, the goblin is the first person he chooses to not kill when he could’ve.

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

JOY IS STORED IN THE HORRID LITTLE COP

[itsnothingofinterest]

While I’m on a Toga kick, it’s interesting to me that this arc for far seemingly sees Toga give up on romance & being like her crushes, yet she’s is acting more like Deku & Ochako than ever now. But specifically at their worst by putting her interests and happiness aside to right a great wrong; paralleling Ochako putting her feelings for Deku aside for a long arse time now, and more pressingly, Deku’s whole self destructive mindset in the Dark Hero arc.

Although what’s interesting with Toga is, it’s ambiguous & debatable if this is really that kind of self-destructive downgrade for her. She hurt the ones she loved & innocent people before, consuming blood and ostracizing her from normal society in the process, and so lived only for herself. But now putting aside love seams to mean putting aside blood. In looking for revenge, she also pursues justice, and now only attacks those complicit...even if that does work out to mean “all of the heroes.”

In the past I joked that it seems like she just can’t win because her behaviour is seen as toxic no matter what; but really, I’m curious which behaviour the story will ultimately say is worse for her.

[divinekangaroo]

I attempted to replay DAII a few weeks back for the pleasure/refresher of the story and the character arcs but just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Have lost lots of capacity to enjoy game mechanics which extend length of time to engage w story and notwithstanding the dialogue is quite excellent (in a game context) it’s clunky for, say, a story, and the physical/visual staging in character interactions is v dated. (Key Settings are pretty decent for symbolism tho)

and that’s when I realised the first time ever why sometimes fans *do* get interested enough to write full novelisations of a thing.

[bongosinferno]

Might only be on episode 3 of True Detective s2, but it's framed like a TTRPG campaign which keeps insisting on individual scenes between PC and dm.

[detritusanddross]

not looking forward to the backlash when agatha dies in the finale and all those folks who keep crying queerbait over a canon relationship change their tune to bury your gays even though the narrative has been carrying us to this place since rio first shattered a door and announced ‘after all these centuries, agatha harkness will finally meet her end’

[nemesisvortex]

imagine an episode of a medical drama, where one of the patients self-diagnoses or otherwise hinders the staff by utilizing information they learned off of tv (medical dramas), thinking they know better than the average patient because of their extensive binging, and the lesson of the episode is the dangers of taking stuff you learn on reality tv, or tv in general seriously

[pickapea]

my absolutely biggest online pet peeve is US centric people projecting their rich sorority girl bully stereotype of nurses onto everyone else, as if nurses aren't working class and mostly immigrants of colour everywhere else. and when did it become cool to hate on underpaid and exploited workers anyway

[heatmiiiiser]

Ggrrr I wish disenchantment was better. I binged it all because I'm sick somebody talk to me about this.

[cacw]

adding onto that one I feel like they put too much emphasis on how bad bucky feels about killing while he was the winter soldier as if he hadn't killed what must have been countless people beforehand

[sinni-ok-sessi]

Can you tell me more about something a bit miserable? Love it when people are having a bad time

ehehehe, yeah me too :D

this one is a post-canon fix-it of sorts which mostly revolves around Mei Changsu figuring out what the hell he's meant to do with more time. He had a Grand Purpose in life! He achieved it! .....what now?

(by Total Coincidence I started writing this in the last few months of my PhD...)

unfortunately I too have not figured out what MCS does with his life if he survives canon, hence why this one has stalled

[starpuncher]

btw i do think everyone and anyone who 100% of the time refuses to engage with the aspect of trimax/tristamp wolfwood's character that is being a teenager forced into the body and life of an adult and in the process denied a childhood is a coward just a little bit

[coffeeworldsasaki]

YES EVERYTHING COMES BACK TO THREE AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO GET TOGETHER ALL THREE OF THEM