#light on me episode 10

[rings-of-power-realm]

Thank you Robert Aramayo for being a better person than the entire internet. It was a beautiful scene and you and Morfydd handled it perfectly 💚

[wistfulwatcher]

I asked him that, Nat.

[type-40-nightingales]

ok im sorry im gonna a need a moment w this one fam

theres smth so queer abt this. there's smth so fucking queer abt this yall

[sketchingdemonss]

IM CRAZYYY IM CRAZY I LUVV SOPHIEEE🫶🫶🫶🫶

[musubiki]

love the weird timeskip taffy quirk where everyone slowly learns that hes obsessed with fruit

[tragically-jane-doe]

Ive recently ventured out of my safe zone to watch "newer" seasons of law and order svu and Jesus Christ they're so well lit

Like where my doom and gloom

[vaguelylikeabutt]

10 minute power hour - s2e24 - “you can rent a room just to break stuff inside”

[aq2003]

youtube user haruyasumi616 comes onto the internet to lie

[cina-full-moon-xanadium]

they can't hit me with a new sentai announcement right out of me rewatching a doctor who episode i used to think was meh and forgettable but this time actually got a tear out of me

[psalmsofpsychosis]

Some Batman: Telltale thoughts

[this is a Batman Telltale critical post, ye be warned.]

So. There are perhaps no words in the english language to describe with how stupid i feel right now.

I started Telltale Batman because i thought that it's one of the more distinct unconventional Batman narratives that would let you have a more interesting, complex and nuanced relationship between Bruce and Joker— the game even lets you bring all of Bruce's sincere hypocrisy and sentimental selfishness to the surface and have him admit that yes, he can fight the rogues gallery because it takes a madman to know a madman; to love a madman. For a moment i geniunely thought that i can escape the everpresent shadow of DC hays code in the freakshow funhouse that is Batman comics, i thought Telltale had done something different.

But telltale's approach to The Enemy Within is so flaky and flimsy and timid at best— such noncommittal twist on themes of pain and grief. They take on a hefty plotline, "what does it take to actually fight through evil and be surrounded by it? How long does it take before your resolve and your selfhood cracks? When you lose the mask, which one did you truly lose— The ideal persona, the superhero, the crusader, or the person underneath, the casket that holds all your humanity and your heart and your hopes? How long can you stare onto the abyss before it stares onto you?" It's indeed a very Nietzsche approach to Batman— except that a good Nietzsche narrative takes a lot of intentional plot points and honesty of thought and of heart. And Telltale doesn't commit, not to Bruce's characterization, and not to any other character, and definitely not to Joker's journey in any variation of it. The existence of the Vigilante route is useless on every front; Joker is going to turn into a villain anyway, just with a different hello kitty eyeshadow palette and an extra bland consolation lollipop. No good choice Bruce makes on Joker's behalf affects anything whatsoever, and i particularly love the "community and friendship and sympathy do not help the mentally ill and all that ever works is punishment and shock therapy and confinement and loneliness" message the vigillante route puts on the table, charming charming status quo commandments from DC as always.

Telltale Batman could only be revolutionary if it had dared to break comic convention and let the vigillante route play out like Selina and Bruce's relationship always does; very grey morality, irrational, full of tension and trust, unstable, intriguing, inexcusable, irreversible, unavoidable and heartfelt, human. But we can't have nice things in batmanverse, so both Joker routes run on stuck gears and topple and fall into a predictable narrative hole that neither Bruce nor Joker can claim out of.

And on the predictable front? this story is too lukewarm to be a good time for me personally. When you get 84 Batman comics per minute every other Tuesday, all ending the same way no matter whatever the fickity happens inbetween, you have to pull no punches. This is my 53368532th Batman-with-tragic-batjokes-implications read of the week, say something new or forever hold your blue-balling silence, i dont care.

[heylookliisten]

only joel miller can make torturing people look so sexy <33

[kdramacrybaby]

I’m sorry but what the fuck is this last episode? I genuinely did not realize it would be the last until they suddenly skipped ahead in time and started showing all the happy endings

(Don’t get me wrong, I want the happy endings)

But the big boss fight with the fire bird we have been waiting for all season took what 3 minutes? And that just fixed it all? Are you kidding me?!

So much build-up and drawn-out drama for this to be the ending? Really?

[eoieopda]

i’m trying to figure out if i unknowingly made a deal with the devil because every time i put my phone down for a few hours, it looks like this when i pick it back up:

this wasn’t happening a week ago 🥴 where are all of you coming from???? 😭🥹

[pyrotechnicdarts]

hey btw everyone go listen to hotelpod s2e6 and s2e7 right now

[worldsbiggestnerd101]

hehehehehe i should be in bed but i'm posting this from my school computer