#legacies 2x08

[forbescaroline]

235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 137. hope mikaelson and landon kirby - legacies

[handonshipper]

"I love you, Hope Mikaelson. I loved you when I couldn't remember you. I love you as I'm standing here right now. Hope, I loved you when I was dead. I think I always will. This is the part where you say-"

"-That I love you too, Landon Kirby. God, I loved you when you didn't even know it."

Legacies 2x08

[bittersweetremains]

[hizzieheadquarters]

[fullmetal-angelgrace]

Anakin, about how the geonosian queen controls people with worms: "I hope the secret dies with her"

me, sees the next episode is called Brain Invaders:

[thoughtfulchaos773]

All About The Vibes

Richie always has a very knowing, keen eye—a sixth sense. Like speaking into existence with a simple don't blow a fuse—this is the start of Richie and his relationship with vibes and lighting.

If Richie didn't turn on the lighting in 1x05 and sent out the vibes, we wouldn't have gotten this Sydcarmy moment:

Richie also has a thing with walls (patching up walls with posters, chalking walls, breaking walls, and ceilings). He wants to keep the walls up from the old restaurant, but they're crashing down.

He's mainly helping sydcarmy with the current- creating the right atmosphere for them. In 2x05- even with Claire there, Richie is desperate to stay to make more amperage- more electrical current to flow through the bear. He's unknowingly looking out for Sydney and Carmy and is even taken aback. He looks at Sydney, rolling her eyes as Carmy wraps up the night.

The fixing up of Claire and Carmy goes to Fak, who's waiting on the roof for his tools and creates the right atmosphere for Claire and Carmy to happen. His vibe is more of an 80s romcom.

Richie roots for Carmy and Claire but it's for the benefit of knowing about Tiffany and Frank- and although Richie is happy to hear that carmy has a girlfriend in 2x08, he asks Carmy to stay a bit longer- to delay the call with Claire and focus on creating the right environment. Had Carmy stayed longer- he probably would have been closing the bear that night and spent more time with Sydney.

Richie is still happy for Carmy and even puts a heavy hand in directing Claire and Carmy at the end of season 2, but it backfires. Now, in season 3, Richie takes a step back, and who does he let take over the direction?

Check out the conversation in 3x05 "Children," where we spend too long on the Faks arguing in the background as Richie talks to the photographer. This is the only time he takes back the director and fixer of vibes this season. The photographer says the light is too hot- the password is iridescent (maybe iridescent lighting for the perfect Bear Vibe?)- and Richie directs Fak to get out of the lighting.

I do wonder Richie's perfect vibes? To get the Faks out of the way, sorta like Sydney and Fak feeding Fak to dismiss him.

I always wondered why 2x07 Forks wasn't so similar to 3x07 Legacy. But it is—they're Richie episodes. Richie is watching Carmy but taking the director's approach of letting the actors do their own work and watching the magic happen.

He can write notes- what he thinks should be the vibe but he's going to let carmy write in his own destiny.

For carmy, his perfect vibe setting with Sydney- natural lighting, flowers, enough bright living so he can stare at Sydney for as long as he needs, because true intimacy for Carmy is just staring at a woman.

My theory is that Sydney will be the vibe setter for season 4. She tells Carmy that her dad being off with her is like a vibe, and she's spot on that Emmanuel wished she was doing something else. In season 3, she asks Shapiro what the vibe is if she takes the position at his restaurant, and he tells her whatever she wants it to be —foreshadowing season 4. Because Carmy's vibe, if he could have it, is Sydney being the ship's captain.

Richie, we appreciate you, but it's Sydneys turn to put out the vibes.

Tagging: @currymanganese @ambeauty @mitocamdria @whenmemorydies @turbulenthandholding @vacationship @brokenwinebox @outmakingmoonshine @fresaton

There's meta on Richie being the director I'll add in the replies

[goodwhump-temp]

Optimus Prime Whump | Transformers: Prime

1x02 Darkness Rising Pt.2 - Heartbroken 1x04 Darkness Rising Pt.4 - Attacked, pinned 1x05 Darkness Rising Pt.5 - Solo fight (Punched x3, uppercutted, thrown) 1x06 Masters & Students - Dissapointed/grief, punched, body slammed, shot, hit with missile 1x07 Scrapheap - Slowly freezing to death, weak/stumbling 1x09 Convoy - Decked with a tree, large fall, unconscious 1x10 Deus Ex Machina - Electrocuted unconscious/incapacitated 1x13 Sick Mind - Infected, (literally dying), very weak, Megatron bromance 1x14 Out of His Head - Hit with fire beam, caught in explosion, pain 1x15 Shadowzone - Caught in explosion 1x19 Rock Bottom - Paralyzed 1x23 One Shall Fall - Worried, solo boss fight, punched multiple times, stabbed, beaten 1x24 One Shall Rise Pt.1 - Weak, exposed to dark energon, limping guilted, electrocuted, weak, knocked down, punched x4, restrained 1x25 One Shall Rise Pt.2 - Buried 1x26 One Shall Rise Pt.3 - Pain, sacrifice, weak, amnesia/innocent

2x01 Orion Pax Pt.1 - Amnesia, heartbroken (news of Cybertron) 2x02 Orion Pax Pt.2 - Amnesia 2x03 Orion Pax Pt.3 - Amnesia, threatened x2, knocked down x2, beaten, gutpunched 2x04 Operation Bumblebee Pt.1 - Guilt 2x05 Operation Bumblebee Pt.2 - Shocked back (shield), cornered 2x08 Nemesis Prime - Framed, knocked back, beaten, gruesomely stabbed 2x11 Flying Mind - Paralyzed mid-air 2x13 Triangulation - Punched, pushed down cliff, knocked down x2, thrown, backhanded 2x18 New Recruit - Thrown 2x20 Legacy - Shot mid-air, hanging 2x21 Alpha / Omega - Exhausted, fight, beaten, heartbroken, knocked down 2x23 Inside Job - Angry 2x26 Darkest Hour - Angry, caught in explosion, buried alive

3x01 Darkmount, NV - Badly injured, passes out 3x02 Scattered - Badly injured/barely alive 3x03 Prey - Barely alive, sacrifice 3x04 Rebellion - Dying, hallucinating 3x05 Project Predacon - Electrocuted mid-air, weak 3x10 Minus One - Loud noise, body slammed, clawed at, tail whipped, unconscious, falls 3x11 Persuasion - Unconscious (waking), uppercut-kicked unconscious 3x13 Deadlock - Jetpack damaged mid-air, shot, body slammed, boss battle, punched multiple times, angry, slashed w/ sword, hanging

[thunderbirds-showdown]

Round 3 came and went and took with it some fan favourites. We're halfway through the tournament now, and there are only a handful of episodes left! It's time to get your bets in as to which one you think will win!

The episodes that have been eliminated this round are:

1x02: Ring of Fire - Part 2

1x09: Slingshot

1x21: Comet Chasers

1x23: Chain of Command

2x02: Ghost Ship

2x06: Up from the Depths - Part 1

2x23: Long Haul

2x25: Hyperspeed

3x24: Firebreak

3x26: The Long Reach - Part 2

Previous eliminated episodes:

1x03: Space Race

1x04: Crosscut

1x05: Fireflash

1x06: Unplugged

1x07: Runaway

1x10: Tunnels of Time

1x11: Skyhook

1x12: Under Pressure

1x13: Heavy Metal

1x14: Falling Skies

1x15: Relic

1x17: Heist Society

1x19: Extraction

1x20: The Hexpert

1x22: Designated Driver

1x24: Touch and Go

1x25: Undercover

1x26: Legacy

2x01: Earthbreaker

2x03: Deep Search

2x04: City Under the Sea

2x07: Up from the Depths - Part 2

2x08: Lost Kingdom

2x09: Impact

2x10: High Strung

2x11: Weather or Not

2x12: Fight or Flight

2x13: Escape Proof

2x14: Volcano!

2x15: Power Play

2x16: Bolt from the Blue

2x17: Attack of the Reptiles

2x18: Grandma Tourismo

2x19: Clean Sweep

2x21: Inferno

2x24: Rigged for Disaster

2x26: Brains vs. Brawn

3x01: Chaos - Part 1

3x02: Chaos - Part 2

3x03: Path of Destruction

3x04: Night and Day

3x05: Growing Pains

3x06: Life Signs

3x07: Rally Raid

3x08: Crash Course

3x09: Flame Out

3x10: Deep Water

3x11: Endgame

3x12: SOS - Part 1

3x14: Signals - Part 1

3x15: Signals - Part 2

3x16: Chain Reaction

3x17: Getaway

3x18: Avalanche

3x19: Upside Down

3x21: Break Out

3x22: Buried Treasure

3x23: Venom

3x25: The Long Reach - Part 1

[what-the-whump]

Febuwhump 2024 Masterlist

All through January I had been going back and watching a lot of the shows that I was obsessed with when I was younger. Power Rangers was something pretty high on that list, had a bit of a record of where my favourite characters had some whump so when I went through the Febuwhump prompts I thought it was be fun to try and do all of them with Power Rangers whump, including as many different series as I could.

All my posts are linked below and the colours of the prompt are referring to which ranger (or rangers) are getting whumped

Happy Febuwhump Everybody!

DAY 1: helpless - Power Rangers Jungle Fury, 1x27, Tigers Fall Lions Rise.

DAY 2: solitary confinement - Power Rangers S.P.D, 1x30, Missing.

DAY 3: ALT "I love you" - Power Rangers Time Force, 1x22, Lovestruck Rangers

DAY 4: obedience - Power Rangers Samurai, 1x09, I've Got a Spell on Blue

DAY 5: rope burns - Power Rangers Ninja Steel, 1x16, Monkey Business

DAY 6: “you lied to me” - Power Rangers Dino Charge, 1x08, Double Ranger Double Danger

DAY 7: suffering in silence - Power Rangers Mystic Force, 1x05, Whispering Voices

DAY 8: “why won’t it stop?” - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, 1x35, The Green Candle Part II & 1x50, Return of an Old Friend Part II & 2x07, The Green Dream & 2x08, The Power Stealer & 2x09, The Beetle Invasion

DAY 9: bees - Power Rangers Megaforce, 1x05, United We Stand

DAY 10: killing in self defence - Power Rangers Super Samurai, 2x18, Evil Reborn.

DAY 11: ALT last man standing - Power Rangers Mystic Force, 1x11, The Hunter.

DAY 12: semi-conscious - Power Rangers Turbo, 1x18, Passing the Torch Part I.

DAY 13: “you weren’t supposed to get hurt” - Power Rangers Dino Thunder, 1x21, Copy That.

DAY 14: ALT human weapon - Power Rangers R.P.M, 1x13, Brothers Keeper.

DAY 15: “who did this to you?” - Power Rangers S.P.D, 1x33, Badge.

DAY 16: came back wrong - Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, 1x31, The Last Ranger.

DAY 17: hostage situation - Power Rangers Jungle Fury, 1x13 and 1x14, Ghost of a Chance Part I & II.

DAY 18: too weak to move - Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, 1x14, Shark Attack.

DAY 19: “please don’t” - Power Rangers Wild Force, 1x08, Soul Searching

DAY 20: ALT human shield - Power Rangers In Space, 1x05, Never Stop Searching.

DAY 21: unresponsive - Power Rangers Ninja Storm, 1x12, Return of Thunder Part III.

DAY 22: “you weren’t meant to be there” - Power Rangers Super Megaforce, 2x20, Legendary Battle.

DAY 23: presumed dead - Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, 1x14, Curse of the Cobra.

DAY 24: “i’m doing this because i care about you” - Power Rangers Dino Fury, 2x13, Love Hate.

DAY 25: ALT Found Footage - Power Rangers Dino Thunder, 1x04, Legacy of Power

DAY 26: “help them” - Power Rangers Time Force, 1x12, Worlds Apart.

DAY 27: left for dead - Power Rangers Beast Morphers, 2x10, Intruder Alert

DAY 28: “no… not like this” - Power Rangers Cosmic Fury, 1x01, Lightning Strikes.

DAY 29: not allowed to die - Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, 1x32, Crown and Punishment.

[nexusvcrti]

TVDU TIMELINE IN MY CANON

This tends to be one of the most controversial topics out there, but since canon has confirmed that season 4 of Legacies takes place 3 years after season 5 of The Originals, I'm going to map out what that means in the timeline of what we see on the show with my personal canon. The timeline on the show (particularly Legacies) is just… super compacted, so if anyone hasn’t watched Legacies or actually cares about spoilers… beware. (note: This is revised based off the original meta I posted here.)

If you pay attention to the words and the dialogue in the show, they actually drop a fair number of hints as to the passage of time during the episodes. In the past, I always assumed that it followed the same timeline as most shows, where each season is roughly equivalent to one year, and with episode air dates matching with what’s happening canonically on the show, but it’s actually not the case in Legacies. Between the pandemic and general wonky primetime airing schedules, the timeline is a little more difficult to follow and not spelled out so neatly. 

Examples of the above include early S1 where the first few episodes are literally happening over the course of several days, maybe two weeks. There’s a few times the characters say things like “yesterday” or “a few days ago” or “last week” in their dialogue which I use to track the timeline.

Starting from the top, S5 tells us that Hope is 15 at the time that all of that plays out, and there’s an unknown time jump between the end of TO and the beginning of Legacies. In my canon, she is 15, almost 16 when the end of TO occurs and she loses her father and uncle. She takes the summer off from the school to grieve, while also learning to control her wolf side, and she is 16 when she rejoins the school, but she also spends half a year being a loner and watching Cutthroat Kitchen in her room. S1 begins while Hope is a few months shy of her 17th birthday on May 2.

Like I mentioned above, the first few episodes of S1 happen very quickly (going to find Raf and Landon, Landon stealing the knife, the dragon, the football game, the discovery of the monsters, the twins’ birthday). These all happen in a matter of days, maybe two weeks at the most. When the Honor Council stuff is happening, Lizzie asks Raf to the twins’ birthday “on Friday”, so we know it’s coming up quick. And the twins’ birthday is the first real date that we have confirmed on the show. So 1x06 is occurring on March 15. The next real “date” we have is in 1x12, where we know the school is on spring break. Now idk about y’all but in the States and when I was in school, the latest spring break ever seemed to be was like early/mid-April? So it sounds like the gap between 1x06 and 1x12 is a handful of weeks at most, which makes sense. During this time is the whole part where Hope goes and gets Landon back, the djinni episode, and the slug debacle. As far as the passage of time goes, there isn’t a lot of it during these plot points. S1 plays out over the course of like... three months, and Hope throws herself into Malivore right before her 17th birthday.

S2 picks back up at the beginning of the next school year and Hope crawls out of Malivore probably in August? Since it's after the Fourth of July but before the school year starts. Unfortunately, events like the Miss Mystic Falls Pageant and Founders Day don’t actually have set dates in canon so it’s difficult to tell what the passage of time is supposed to be like. However, we do know that 2x08 (the Santa episode) occurs in October. So the first half of S2 takes place over the course of a month or so? After that, the next hint of time that we get is the culmination of the season, where Dark Josie intends to push up the Merge timeline and do it on the twins’ birthday of that year. So we’re back to March 15 of the next year, and two seasons have passed in the span of one in-canon year. 

Now this is where the timeline gets even MORE messed up because of the pandemic and the weird airing schedules. But 3x01-3x04 were always supposed to be part of S2, so that’s where I’m putting it. Given the reactions by Alyssa and the rest of the witches in 3x01, not that much time has passed since Dark Josie was banished, there is again urgency with Raf’s problem, the musical, and then the final confrontation with the Necromancer where she loses Landon. 

There is likely another time jump after 3x04, because Kaleb references Sheriff Mac moving to Savannah with Maya, and Josie is working on her transfer over to MFHS. I’m guessing that most public schools aren’t going to handle transfer requests at the end of the school year, so it sounds like we’re back to the end of the summer again by the time 3x05 happens. This also makes sense in context of what’s happening in the A plot, where Hope is losing herself in her search for Landon, which probably would actually take months. However, once she finds the Monkey’s Paw and Cleo enters the picture, things begin to pick up again. Hope has also turned 18 during this period.

Now I’ll be perfectly frank, I only sat through S3 once and I still haven't fully watched the back half of S4 so I’m not as in tune with those episodes as much as I am with the others, but again, it does feel like time moves quickly in S3. With the monsters constantly coming and the appearance of golem Landon to push along the narrative, I can believe that this happens over the course of a few months, taking us to maybe November or December of that year, approximately a year and a half since S1 began. And of course, once Mali-Landon leaves, everything kicks up a notch. Like with S2, 4x01-4x04 were meant to be part of S3, and that’s where it makes sense narratively. 

Hope makes the realization that she needs to become the tribrid in the Star Wars episode, and everything from that point on shoehorns her into that plot. Again, we don’t have direct dates or events to mark the passage of time, but just going off what happens in canon, from the time they wake up from the vision quest to the end of 4x04, I don’t think there are any days where the Squad is just taking a break and lounging around (with the exception of 4x03, but I wouldn’t call that lounging around). 

Now we know that there is no timeskip between 4x04 and 4x05 because Lizzie directly alludes to the night before in her opener, so everything that’s happened since the beginning of the show has now occurred within something like two years (not the four I was assuming up until now). Again, with the urgency of the plot, Hope is not just sitting around and twiddling her fingers once the threat of Triad comes up, and the Squad is not waiting for Hope to come back. Hope’s actions include learning about Triad, having her misadventures with Clarke, Salvatore Idol at the school, her confrontation with actual Triad and Aurora, and her confrontations with Lizzie. Similarly, there is no time jump between 4x09 and 4x10, as the episode tells us. All of this is happening in a span of weeks, not months. 

All that said, by the time she has gone through the events of Legacies and is struggling with her humanity, about three years have passed since Hayley, Klaus and Elijah died, and about two years have passed since S1 starts. Hope was 16 at the time S1 begins (having turned 16 a little while after the S5 finale of TO, and taking the summer off to grieve, and mostly spending the first half of the year in her room watching Cutthroat Kitchen by herself or recruiting with Alaric. She is just about to turn 17 by the time she jumps into Malivore, actually turns 17 while in Malivore, and a few months shy of her 19th, when she has her first death in 4x03. 

This functionally doesn't change much of how I was playing Hope before. I've always played that she is 18 when she fully activates her tribrid side, permanently sealing her at that age. The only real difference is that she doesn't take a gap year between her parents' death / the new school year, just probably the last month of school and summer break. She returns that fall, but remains a recluse until February or March of the following year, which is when S1 of Legacies begins. It does mean she's only had her wolf for a handful of months, so her control is not nearly as stable as what we see in the pilot (aka easily shifting back and forth at will) and will likely play a role in her early characterization.

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

Shadow & Bone 2x08 - “No Funerals" : Alina x Aleksander

"- Extraordinary. Now... you know sacrifice. (Aleksander) - Beyond anything you've ever known. And look what it did. (Alina) - Indeed. (Aleksander) - Look what it did. Mal and I changed the world. We tore down your Shadow Fold. (Alina) - You have my sympathies for what comes next, when you realize that what you've done solves nothing. The world doesn't need a Saint to protect it. It needs a monster. And while I remain... Let me be your monster. (Aleksander) - You think that after everything, I'd still stand by you? (Alina) - There is no light without darkness. Without me, you have no counter, no balance. Let me carry the hatred of this world. (Aleksander) - Hatred. Because of the choices you made. (Alina) - Choices you too will make... in time. (Aleksander) - I will never walk your path. (Alina) - I know you believe that now. But soon... Soon you will have no equal. The years spend alone will grind you down, they will harden you. And who will be there to shield you from it? Who will be there to save you? (Aleksander) - I will save myself. (Alina) - Your legacy is already written. There is no redemption. Leave her alone! No! (Aleksander) - You can't control them, can you? You can't control any of it. (Alina) - I thought I could control it all once. Find peace. And for a moment, I swear I did (remembering their first kiss). Without me, know they will come for you. (Aleksander) - Let them come. (Alina) - Alina, you make sure there is nothing left of me. Please. Please. Blue skies. My Little Saint. (Aleksander)

[makaientjluvdaprince]

I just watched Mortal Kombat: Legacy 2x08 "Scorpion and Sub-Zero II: Part 2"

[queen-of-mandalore]

Em’s Star Wars Rewatch part 18:

The Clone Wars #16 - Geonosian Parasites (2x07, 2x08)

2x07: Legacy of Terror

This episode really reminded me of the second Alien movie.

Zombie bugs and mind control worms!

Anakin and Obi-Wan sassing each other whilst Luminara is hanging prisoner lmao

‘As always I am making observations whilst you think with your lightsaber’ 🙄😂

Obi-Wan being obsessed with how the mind control worms work. He reminds my of how in Star Trek Spock finds things ‘fascinating’ when faced with a deadly situation.

‘Anakin I was going to study that!!!!’ Lmaooo

2x08: Brain Invaders

This episode was straight out of a nightmare

Omg there was so much foreshadowing in this episode! The clones being mind controlled and turning on the Jedi. ‘If there is one thing we clones know, it’s how to stop a Jedi’. Plus Barriss betraying Ahsoka.

Anakin straight up torturing Poggle in order to get the info to save Ahsoka. He really was always on the edge of falling to the dark side, the fear of losing Padme just titled him over the edge.

[bittersweetremains]

[userlaylivia]

legacies + tvd

ILY 💕 (jsyk my fave male/female for tvd will be tied and it's funny because together they make two of my otps lol)

legacies:

favorite male character: landon

favorite female character: hope

least favorite character: alaric

prettiest character: hope and lizzie

funniest character: Kaleb

favorite season: s1&4!

favorite episode: a lotttttttt tbh but I'll narrow it down to.like 5 lol 1x13, 1x14, 2x05, 4x03, 4x15!

favorite romantic ship: hope/landon though I ship hope with everyone pretty much lol

favorite family ship: josie/lizzie, rafael/landon

favorite friendship: hope/lizzie, mg/hope, hope/lizzie/josie

worst ship: josie/landon, hope/josie i.like them but no longer ship them romantically because of their shippers!!

tvd:

favorite male character: damon and tyler

favorite female character: elena and caroline

least favorite character: klaus (love him on TO hate him on tvd lol) and alaric though I actually liked him on tvd lol

prettiest character: elena and caroline!

funniest character: damon ofc lol

favorite season: season 2!

favorite episode: too many but to name some 1x22, 2x08, 2x21, 2x22, 3x05, 3x10, 3x19 and etc!

favorite romantic ship: damon/elena (who's surprised lol)

favorite family ship: jeremy/elena, caroline/liz, damon/stefan

favorite friendship: elena/caroline, bonnie/elena, bonnie/caroline, bonnie/elena/caroline, damon/alaric

worst ship: klaus/caroline, stefan/elena, damon/bonnie (romantically!!), jeremy/bonnie

[youmagnificentbeast]

the mermaids are really near and dear to me, so reading this interpretation made me rethink a little bit!

since yesterday i wondered (again) if the mermaids are stede and izzy! since izzy says in 2x08 "Blackbeard was us", i've been wondering if he's the one holding the spear, holding onto the legacy of blackbeard, moreso than ed himself.

stede holding ed's heart, obviously. both of them revolving around ed (with how the mermaids' hands spell out his name it just didn't sit right with me that one of the mermaids could be ed?), taking care of him in their own ways.

stede's and izzy's different "ideal" versions of ed might've pulled him apart at first, but in the end their goals were aligned and we got the perfect middle.

Ofmd S2 ending thoughts:

I love this show. It was always hold a special place in my heart. I am probably getting the mermaids tattooed on me.

I think the interpretation of who they represent is flipped actually.

Ed and Stede circling each other. Ed with his bleeding heart on his sleeve for all to see, showing through his every hurt-filled action. Stede with the sword, thinking he needs to be tougher and stronger and fight with no weakness in order to deserve Ed.

In the end they only needed each other, and to truly be who they are and accept each other as they are.

And they did.

Nah, Ed wasn't being a dick. Life fucked him around and it messed him up. Natural for him to be messed up by it.

Stede knows this and he loves him.

Stede wasn't being himself when he killed Ned and tried to act like a tough pirate.

Ed knows this and he loves him.

Because the only change you need to make to deserve love, is to believe that you can be yourself and still be worthy.