#it’s only 6 episodes and this is only the first season

[soni-dragon]

I haven’t seen any of s6 miraculous BUT they are so cute and i adore their new designs

[johanna-swann]

Am I the only one really pissed Tommy will probably not be in 8x18, not because of the ship, but because of the story line? I think the chances of Tommy being in season 9 are still fairly good, we might still get Bucktommy back, but it'll feel like too little too late for me because it just doesn't make sense.

They keep putting the Bucktommy plot on ice like time passes differently for them, like it doesn't matter that weeks or months pass between their interactions. "We can take care of that later, it won't turn bad in the freezer, right?"

First they didn't show us anything relevant about their relationship after 7x06. They flirted a little at the medal ceremony and had dinner in 7x10, that was it. They only really put him in one episode of 8a before the break-up and it was kinda cute, but again we didn't find out much about their relationship. We barely got the confirmation that they are indeed boyfriends and then the next episode the Bucktommy plot was suddenly over - or so we were lead to believe.

Even then Minear could've said something like: "This is going to continue to affect Buck and we will see this thread continue after the midseason hiatus." Instead we got: "Well, it isn't impossible that we'll see Tommy again, he is a character in that universe and a firefighter at that, so they could technically run into each other at work." The first one sounds like: "At least for Buck this story line isn't over, but that doesn't mean we'll see Tommy again soon." The second one sound a lot like: "The story line is pretty much over, we haven't really thought about it much."

Tommy does reappear though about 5-6 months later (in universe). And okay, Tommy initiated the break-up and probably thought Buck wouldn't want to hear from him after that, Buck likely assumed Tommy was sure about the break-up and reaching out wouldn't change anything. Also the show was on hiatus, so they get a pass for this one. But then we get confirmation that they still have feelings for each other and we get confirmation that Buck wants to reach out and apologise.

And then they put the Bucktommy plot on ice again for 3 episodes and (in universe) another month or longer go by and they don't even mention Tommy in the meantime. How does that make sense. Are we supposed to believe that Buck just forgot to reach out to Tommy? They even bothered to confirm in an interview that this doesn't happen off screen. Otherwise we could at least assume that Buck reached out, but Tommy didn't answer because he was still hurt or something like that.

Side note and this is something I noticed very early on in season 7: Either Tommy is in the episode or he ceases to exist. He is barely ever mentioned by anyone, even Buck. Bobby brings him up once in 7x09 and Buck says how he misses Tommy in the two episodes right after the break-up and that's it. There are ways to make characters appear more present than they are by having the other characters talk about them. They never did that with Tommy. Nobody except Bobby ever asks about their relationship or Tommy individually even though Eddie, Hen and Chimney are all friends with Tommy as well. It's strange.

Anyway, then Tommy does come back for the helicopter chase in 8x15, but this doesn't move the Bucktommy plot anywhere at all. They have that very short maybe flirty interaction in the helicopter which sort of indicates that they still have feelings for each other, but the show already told us as much in 8x11.

Since then we haven't seen Buck and Tommy interact and fair enough, we had a main character death. Maybe the romance plot doesn't take priority right now. But are you honestly telling me that Tommy once again came when Buck called, confirmed Buck still matters to him and then witnesses how Buck completely breaks down over Bobby's death and then Tommy just doesn't talk to Buck till September? Buck at some point will start to move on from Bobby's death, will think about the other things in his life and he doesn't check in with Tommy? Even though he's been meaning to talk to him and Tommy also lost Bobby?

Fuck still having a shot at Bucktommy canon (2.0), I want their story line well written. I want their time line to make sense. Them actually going canon again is very low on my list of priorities tbh.

[tippenfunkaport]

For today’s SPOP Appreciation Week prompt: Remember / Memory

My daughter drew this when she was 5 years old, shortly after we watched the first season of SPOP together in November 2018. Getting to watch this show as it aired with her is one of my fondest memories, especially since she didn’t just like it, this was the first thing she was full on OBSESSED with.

And when I say obsessed, understand that one of the baby’s first words was, “Faaaaacinating!” because she was mimicking her sister pretending to be Entrapta.

Background When She-Ra and the Princesses of Power premiered in 2018, my daughter was five years old, a few weeks from turning 6. She and I were already big ND Stevenson fans because we’d read the entire run of Lumberjanes together and, as an old school She-Ra fan, I was incredibly excited to experience the reboot with her. We watched it as it aired together and the main reason I wasn’t in the fandom during airing was because we could only watch one episode a night after her baby sister was asleep so I was trying to avoid spoilers.

I’ve talked before how watching it with her made it hard to hear a lot of the dialog (fast forward to me and my now tween watching Agatha All Along together recently and I’m pummeling her lovingly with a pillow because she still never lets me hear anything) but it was so absolutely worth it and it’s one of my all time favorite things I’ve gotten to share with her. SPOP is such ideal media for kids in general but specifically weird little girls and it means the world to me that she got to have this show.

Some random memories…

Once we finished a season, she would rewatch it over and over by herself. Her obsession was specifically with the Princess Alliance as a team (she’s an ensemble girlie like her mom, hence is why one of her other passions are the Champions from BOTW) so her favorites were No Princess Left Behind, Battle of Bright Moon and then, later, The Coronation and Mermysteries. (And System Failure because of Entrapta, obvs)

No Princess Left Behind was a cornerstone of her entire personality for a while there and whenever they had indoor recess at school, she would spend the entire time drawing up elaborate battle plans for the princess alliance.

Because there were no SPOP plushies in the beginning, she just reassigned her existing dolls as SPOP characters and would hold battle planning sessions with them constantly. (The only two I remember were Rapunzel as Perfuma and Cassandra as Entrapta because once “Entrapta” and “Perfuma” got stranded in a dimension where they were going to die and she had them say, “let’s transform back into Cass and Raps so at least we can die in love.” No one does deranged next level doomed yuri like a kindergartner.)

The show is rated Y7 in the US and when I explained that meant it was for 7 years old and up, she got the absolutely sinister grin of a child that is breaking the rules and said gleefully, “And I’m only five!”

The end of Season 3 was the first time she ever cried at a piece of media ever and I was convinced I was a terrible parent for showing it to her. :-(

After years of Netossa and Spinnerella being obscure toy collector trivia even most vintage She-Ra fans had never heard of, watching my Kindergartner run around playing as them was just a very fun moment for me.

She talked about and played SPOP with us constantly and when I finally got a chance to watch the show with daddy, he was like, “Hold on, do you mean to tell me I have been hearing about Entrapta for two years straight and somehow it never came up that her hair is ALIVE???”

We had a good two year span after the show ended when she was still just as obsessed as I was which really fed my own obsession since she’d suggest fanfics and posts for me to write. Then, as she started to move onto other things, fortunately “the baby” was now old enough to actually watch SPOP with me and I got to experience it all over again through her eyes.

But that’s a post for another time.

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

Related to your previous posts about the Love Square, how long do you think was too long, waiting for a reveal? Because 5, now 6 seasons, over a span of ten years, I think it's reasonable to say that's too long to try and keep the hype train chugging, but was there a specific point you feel the reveal should have happened, or alternatively, a point of no return where you realized it never would?

While I wish the square was revealed by now, the issue with the square reveal is not that they've drawn it out too long. The issue is that they've given the secret identities too much narrative weight for them to still be a thing. Generally speaking, you don't want to make a secret like this a major focus of your long running show if you aren't planning to address the secret until the bitter end. That's not satisfying for your audience.

There are lots of well-loved stories that draw out a reveal for absurdly long periods of time, but those stories make the wait work by keeping the stakes minor. In these stories, the secret is limited to being a source of comedy or minor mishaps. When you do that, you keep the secret from feeling like a ticking time bomb that needs to be addressed.

A great example is the fact that Clark Kent is Superman. In every version of that story, the audience wants someone in the cast to learn the secret, but so long as the secret isn't hurting anyone, there's no sense of urgency to the reveal. It will happen when it happens and, in the meantime, we can enjoy the shenanigans that come with secret identities. Spy X Family is another solid example. That show is full of crazy secrets, but it's told in a way where the secrets aren't hurting anyone so it doesn't feel like reveals need to happen for the story to be satisfying. A reveal might actually be a bad thing there because reveals would either end the show or dramatically alter it since its main focus is on the secrets leading to insane scenarios.

Miraculous has obviously not gone those routes. The secret identities aren't a major focus of most episodes and the lack of an identity reveal has caused some major problems for our characters. That means that the reveal has too much narrative weight for the writers to draw it out for seasons on end. The biggest example of the secrets causing problems was the season four final where Marinette only lost because there hadn't been an identity reveal. Season four also ends with Ladybug promising to trust Chat Noir more and with Adrien fully aware that Ladybug only lost the miraculous because Felix was impersonating him. Those are some bold moves to make if you're not going to follow them up with a reveal in the next season. Way too much narrative weight for a setup with no payoff!

For me, a reasonable time frame for season four's ending to payoff was the first few episodes of season five. By the time we reached Illusion, I was no longer excited for the reveal because we were too far from the setup for the payoff to work. By the time we got the end of Kwami's Choice, I gave up on the reveal being even remotely satisfying. I'm not totally sure when I fully gave up on the reveal being in season five because I stopped caring about anything after Derision. I do remember thinking that it would happen before the final fight because the final fight wouldn't be satisfying if it didn't include Adrien and Gabriel revealing and it's hard to do that while keeping Marinette in the dark.

In other words, if there was a time to do a reveal, season five was it. It's basically the only way to tell a good story while honoring season four's ending. If Ladybug and Chat Noir can go through that and still decide to keep identities a secret, then what needs to happen to make a reveal worth it? I've got no idea and that means that I can't get invested in the story anymore. It's officially jumped the shark.

Another issue is the fact that they keep giving other characters identity reveals, massively cheapening the love square reveal. I've mentioned before that I can justify Ladybug and Chat Noir keeping their identities a secret pretty easily, but that justification only works if the rules are applied to the whole crew and they haven't been. If Alya can know Ladybug's identity even though the supervillains know that Alya was an active hero, then no identity reveal is off the table. The fact that Alya was revealed to the villains three times (Rena Rouge, Rena Furtive, and Scarabella) without serious long-term consequences makes it impossible to see the love square reveal as a bad thing. Two of those reveals happened after she knew Marinette's identity!!!

Of course, it's not just Alya who knows. At this point, half of Paris knows that Marinette is Ladybug and there have been a handful of other reveals that seemed to go fine, so what's holding our heroes back outside of the hand of the author? I can't think of a single thing. The fact that Nathalie, Felix, and Gabriel all got to know before Adrien is insulting especially since none of those reveals were treated as bad things. Gabriel learning was the closest thing to a Ladybug reveal going wrong, but it was just used to add lackluster hype to the final fight so it's hard to view it as meaningfully bad.

[a-vibing-potato]

Got caught up on all the episodes of the Magnus Protocol I was behind on today (there were four) and after listening to the last one:

Heinrich Unheimlich, I love you and will be waiting for you to show up next episode when Alice goes to Berlin. <3 Also, STARKWALL???? GWEN CALLING STARKWALL, SHE'S FINALLY CAVING?!?!?!

[supmaww]

hello jrwi fans who follow me. May I introduce you to the new piece of media that I’ve become not normal about. Heard you like dnd podcasts… may I by chance interest you in the least dnd a dnd podcast could possibly be but combined w the most interesting character writing? Oh, you thought jrwi was bad w the rules? So did I. But it can always be worse.

[vanessakimballs]

RT is currently removing rvb off of youtube btw in case you wanna know how tone deaf they've gotten

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Chandler knows this but I am going to fistfight Samuel Dalton Reich in a Denny's Parking lot if we don't get some kind of Fantasy High: Junior Year promo content soon I am losing my mind please Sam just let me see my favorite losers again I will take a singular screencap to hold me over

[ech0light]

i completely forgot to post this but about a week ago i found seasons 1 and 4 at an op shop!

we weren’t in there for long so i didn’t get a really good look, but i’m fairly certain these were the only seasons on display. my guess is that the other three were in the store, just not on display, because only 1 and 4 is strange.

i’ve been watching the series on my mums dvd box set so that’s not an issue, but it’s cool that i have some of the show for myself now :]

[icomefromthemountains]

You’re expecting me to believe that the first 9 seasons and 5 episodes of m*a*s*h took place over the course rse of <189 days??? Hello?? Did nobody check this?? There had been 203 episodes by that point! HELLO???? Does this take place in an alternate universe where the Korean War started before 1950? HAWKEYE START FUCKING TALKING 🔪🔪🔪

[raggydollsscreenshots]

Posting screenshots from The Raggy Dolls every day until ITV puts it on ITVX: Day 123:

[lunarcigar]

Imagine waking up from a coma to see your ex girlfriend and your cop friend and they instantly have beef with you

[ridiculed-baker]

look at me, actually continuing the show lol

[joshuaalbert]

ok well I did not finish watching the chute because I had to get bewilderingly angry about cw’s the flash, a hobby I have had since roughly 2017. but maybe tomorrow.

[adhdvane]

im dying he r fkcuking face

[lejoursobre]

Can they put back the money in Good Omens before even thinking to announce the next season ?

Where did all great the make up, good editing, fresh character design and nice camera shots go??????

At this point giving us the gay without the quality of s1 is almost homophobic 😭