#like im sorry they are trying to force the narrative to make house the villain but tbh he's right

[gilbirda]

watching house md in one go really makes you see when the writing went nosediving huh

[ilynpilled]

im sorry for complaining about this again and im gonna remain frustratingly vague as usual but to me it feels like there are some fundamental misunderstandings when it comes to jaime and some of the things that are being explored in depth in his arc and how, and a lot of that misunderstanding is deflected with the “redemption vs no redemption” discourse where that very concept isnt even meaningfully defined, especially in the context of his story. his character is very often simplified down to an extreme (and also confused) dichotomy that does nothing but force all discussion of complicated characterization, themes, and actual difficult choices being made (and why, and how those choices are restricted by external or internal factors, and what desires of his are selfish or commendable) to a halt by virtue of being frustratingly reductive. like a lot of ppl just dont engage with this character properly because of the “complex asoiaf characters being locked inside of fandom created boxes they dont fit” phenomenon. one of the greyest characters in asoiaf is just not allowed to be grey because of the redemption dichotomy. he either has to be a golden retriever with no agency of his own when it comes to the evil he does or enables who is only making selfless choices since jumping into the pit (as if this kind of simple linear trajectory is a requirement for an arc to be one thats exploring reformation and the struggle with atonement & redemption, among other things) or a morally black villain with all of his redeemable and heroic aspects diminished, whose difficult position of being in the middle of a lot of conflicting oaths that is full of moral grey area (so many vows speech) and cannot be made to compromise — as well as his house (including his 8 year old son) being under existential risk — is just outright ignored, his internal conflicts, guilt/shame, and self reflection misconstrued, his development denied, and everything he decides to do being read in bad faith to neatly fit a specific narrative that actively rejects the questions proposed through his character arc (that the author himself openly talks about in interviews, if you still refuse to believe it is the intention). and please stop acting like george is even trying to give you a straightforward easily digestible and resounding yes/no answer to these questions. like theres an actual allergy to complexity here, and i cant even act shocked when i see some of the most basic aspects of his character being missed. and for me it is especially easy to recognize when certain talking points are being regurgitated rather than actually thought about meaningfully or independently bc ive seen every opinion on him under the sun, and it is really not that hard to spot

[roxannepolice]

But yah rey as a character is just so frustrating you know? Cause like, yeah sure she could be complex with a powerful arc where shes forced to come to terms with the fact she wasted years of her life on self-imposed delusions in a cathartic way, or she could be a flat piece of marketing cardboard which Disney is banking on vagina+superpowers=profit without having to go through that persnicty character flaw overcoming or the like. Because like you said, hearing shes a nobody (which ngl, her assuming she was a somebody wasn’t really ever supported in tfa, just that her family was coming back and she desperately wanted them to) is apparently the worst thing but it changes absolutely nothing, not her approach, not her demeanor , if vaguely sad is the absolute worse a character is gonna experience in a goddamn space opera then yeah, full offense ill take the l on Mary sue discourse but her character will definitely be a boring ass wash. We all make fun of whiny new hope Luke but him being a kinda nuisance to both the audience and those around him is what made is transformation into full blown Jedi knight so powerful. With Rey so far what weve got is badass perfect cinnamon roll finally get her due as such, which is clearly working for some people, but I fail to see how that isn’t spectacularly tone deaf to make a protag in this genre such. Operas about drama, not patting you on the back. Rey (assuming she remains as is) would’ve been fine as a protag s the only piece of Star Wars media we ever got was a new hope. But rn she a chosen one architype (and I know that bunch of ppl are gonna go but the series ‘but shes not the chosen one, Anakin still is, the new series isn’t trying to make her one!’ but lets not beat around the burning bush, if u got a character that walks on water and the reason why is because god said so, ur dealing with a chosen one trope and if a character is star wars is made ultrapowerful in lore breaking ways because force said so? Yeah were dealing with a chosen one.) when we had both the deconstruction and the reconstruction done. Shes a straight hero when the success of the ot rest on hitting the formula near perfect the first time. What exactly is Rey, the individual character, bringing to the table? What makes her story supposedly so important the a perfectly good ending had to be made invalid to tell it? A bunch of ppl will say heroines’ journey! But if that’s the case I gotta say, wheres all the feminine shit? Im serious, if the heroines journey is reintegrating the feminine and realizing ‘oh shit mom had a point’ there where is both the feminine skills/coping mechanism and the mom? I mean I saw some ppl arguing for leia in a ‘reys Persephone!’ meta (she isn’t, you can make a much better case for ben himself as Persephone to be quite frank, yall are focusing so much on the trees ((girl gets abducted by guy)) that u forgot the forest existed, the actually story ((girl winds up queen on the underworld, well gee whiz which character just took control of that after leaving the world of living and a grieving divine mother behind, it’s a mystery apparently) behind, it’s a mystery apparently) ((but seriously though even if we hope for dark rey does anyone assume its gonna be taking control of a dark/dead coded org at least partially at this point, do you, do you really??). but given the fact she had what, one line of screen dialogue that’s breaking ur arm with that stretch. As far as skills go I guess you could make an argument for scavenging, but if that’s the case dlf did a shit job of conveying that as female-coded. Everything about rey in tfa seems deliberately androgynous, and yeah, she had her hair let down/mascara moment, but that’s tied to her ‘failure’ on the supremacy thus something nw.SPEAKIGN OF FAILURES ON THE SUPERAMCY AND LACK THERE OF. I find it kind funny that bunch of reylo bnfs (you know who they are) are all ‘hur dur fanboys/antis are dumb and don’t get story structure.’ And then going, ‘why are yall asking how/assuming rey fucked up in throne room/climax of her story in the second portion/darkest point of her character arc? Why do you hate women/ur own ovaries so much?’ because it like walking into a prefurnished house and being told by the relator ‘HERES THE LIVING ROOM’ and having no damn couch. It’s a living room, I expect a couch here. And in a movie where it’s the low point of a character arc and they drag puppet yoda out to tell me the movie is about failure, I expect a damn failure in whats clearly the climax of the characters arc for this movie. As it stands now there are three possibilities imo. 1st, rey had no failure, she is the pure badass maid o light ppl want and every inch the boring cardboard she is accused of by fanbros, remains static, and is relegated to an also ran to benlo taking the most compelling character trophy this trilogy in 10 yrs2nd possibility and the one im hoping for, failure speech wasn’t just thematic explanation but also foreshadowing, rey fucks up big and dramatic in a way that makes her manage to stand out as unique with both her contemporaries and her predecessors(last part, if its ever to much lemme know pls im sorry i just gotta get it out) 3rd and most likely possibility, rey isn’t the main character, benlo is and that’s why his failure both moral in the throne room and logistic on criat take center stage for the last third or so of the movie. Rey is merely a pov character to tell the dramatic villain protag story they wanted and have their very marketable unproblematic Disney heroine cake too.

Ok, so this discourse kinda died down by now, but thanks to that it’s possible to maybe have a calmer look at it I’m totally not trying to justify my late response.

Anyway, the good result is that quite recently my brother, who’s not overly taken with Rey - or the sequels in general, for that matter - said something which really stuck with me as a possible crux of the problem: 

She’s neither comical nor tragical. Just bland. 

This neither comical nor tragical really struck me. And the more I though about it, the more it was appearing to me that this qualm really applies to the sequels as a whole. The thing is that DLF are essentially telling a straightforward story that they’re trying to make captivatingly convoluted. And not just make, but keep this appearance over four years. And this is... a narrative teeth crasher. Like, when you’re honest about the endgame (in the context of the most structural meanings of comedy and tragedy), you can maintain a decorum, though you can also play with it, of course, whereas when you don’t want to be honest about the endgame, you end up mixing the styles somewhat messily. You can’t break or discuss with the rules without acknowledging them, so to speak. Because the originals were honest about the happy/hopeful endgame (the first episode is title A New Hope ffs), they could allow themselves deeply tragic moments like Larses’ deaths, Han getting frozen, destruction of Alderaan, etc. Because the prequels were open about being a tragedy, they could allow themselves lighthearted comic relief for the sake of lighthearted comic relief. 

The sequels... badly want us to consider the possibility of FO winning and Ben dying unredeemed while simultaneously insisting we root for those things not happening, while appearing conscious we’re definitely not buying the former and the latter only somewhat. And it’s tiresome. Dishonest. And indeed, bland. If the story is a tragedy it will be a bloodcurdlingly real one, if it’s a comedy it will be a borderline grotesque one. 

But yeah, returning to Rey, I guess as the main character she’s a lens which focuses the above problems. A very bitter tragedy of what her parents did t her prevents her from being comfortably comical whereas whoohooos I like thats and prancing like a husky on red bull over idols and visions because it’s for children so it must be hopeful prevents her from being intriguingly tragical. So I guess the intentioned effect was tragicomism but, from pov of an engaged casual fan that is my bro, it’s neither. 

As far as Rey’s heroine’s journey lacking some of the usual elements, I blame it on Disney being... a bit too ambitious, maybe. I think they tried to make a heroine’s journey that isn’t ostentaciously seeped in traditional feminine/masculine traits, maintains the structure without what could be called accidentals. On the one hand, I would point out that hero’s journey has pretty much desexualised itself over time, we are rather accustomed to “shero’s” journeys, but on the other... maybe Disney set out on a too novel a territory and may crack their teeth on it, alongside trying to out-Vader Vader at redemption. To elucidate, “toxic femininity” in which a heroine is supposed to find herself in the beginning of her journey, in Rey’s case is uprooted from any of our usual concepts of feminine-masculine social roles (it’s space, duh). My interpretation is that Rey’s version of toxic femininity kind of exists in contrast with Kylo Ben’s version of toxic masculinity - and since the apparent focus of the story is the attitude towards the past/parent figures, toxic femininity would mean her clutching onto the past. Which is why I predict that some act of IX will find Rey inebriated with apparent success in masculine world, meaning she’ll be the one rejecting the old gods this time - and I would point out that panel in Poe comic where she shows herself more sceptical towards idolisation of past don’t mind me, I’m just expressingmy trash dreams for a proper sith lady Rey.

Then again, Rian Johnson said she already found perfect balance between Luke’s clinginess and Kylo’s rejection of the past, so... idk, maybe I’m giving DLF too much credit again.

As for the Persephone thing, I guess the rub is that this reylo reading focuses less on the traditional reading of the myth (where Demeter is the actual main character and Kore is a Princess Peach MacGuffin) and more of an interpretation of it as one of the eldest (at least in Europe) versions of story depicting a transition of a girl into a woman, making Persephone more of a protagonist. 

Like, y’know, this Persephone (D. G. Rosetti, source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proserpine_(Rossetti_painting))

I’m no expert, but myths can lose their original meanings because of power relations (anyone still remember about Dionysus, the god associated with excessive drinking, going through a very Christ-like death and resurrection?) and I think it’s possible that this is the case with the story of Persephone becoming a pre-scientific explanation of seasons changing over the year. So teah, that’s how I always understood the Persephone theme regarding Rey.

But yes, I must agree that I’m confused about Disney’s handling of the mother figure, which... Look, SW became a legend of a modern myth because of how epically Lucas handled the hero dealing with his very explicit father. So yes, I don’t understand what exactly is their game with Rey Nobody from Nowhere in this regard. It’s one thing that they had a cool idea with giving her no lineage, another that parent figures are an essential element of archetypal journeys and from symbolic viewpoint the case of a female character the biological relationship is even more crucial than in male’s. And I swear to all the ewoks and porgs in the galaxy, I do hope Disney’s idea of Rey healing the mother/daughter divide isn’t through her healing the divide between Leia and Ben. Again, this isn’t the idealistic sphere. Just... no. 

Anyway, I still maintain hope (this whole meta blog is built on hope) that Rey will indeed turn out to have a proper personal mistake which will make her stand out in the saga. I do have to admit, though, that I find your last theory very likely. I mean, even when I read all the reylo metas going oh, Rey is going to have such an exciting arc in IX, she has so much to deal with though of course it’s not going to compromise her morally, it will be sooo exciting, I just... f*ck’s sake, what you’re describing isn’t a dramatic character only a dramatised role model. It’s great if that’s your thing, but don’t claim it is space opera-worthy, in operas people drown themselves because of cursed sailors, kill over a break up, decapitate over a bad dream and get dragged to hell over a dinner, not persuade their fallen lovers to change their ways, let alone patienly wait for them the understand the error of their ways (and if they do it’s doomed to end in someone dying).

[throwingideasatthewall]

The Clone Wars         Duchess of Mandalore

                Season 2 Episode 14

......

You know      I want to believe     this is going to be an episode    focusing     on Duchess’s actual character        . . . .      But the track record     of writing female characters    (Never mind blam   ing trauma for their personality )

Doesn’t     leave     much       Good      Faith      Or     trust       . .          (especially how often their    Characterization gets to     Ret-conned.   to fit the     episode,)

(Padme turned into a nag,               Ahsoka      In     unchildlike     abomination       that goes with a plot needs    her       to)

Duchess;

From     Relat     iv-ely        Reas        On      Able     Leader         .  .   .       Turned        exquisite          and       Ex-      - cess         -ive         (Pe        tty)

Con      trast-      With      Semi-     Constant      Smart   “laziness”       avoidant      Obi-wan       And     “Do      It     Sky   wal   -ker-

 I don’t expect this to     stick

     (Al-ways     the female  characters,”

Any. Way

And war,  truth is the first casualty,

[It’s actually   accountability    but good try]

 Deluding them selves of the     goodness usually comes after the bad action

 Any way.

The     terribly designed ship

(I’m sorry but that thing doesn’t even look even slightly      aerodynamic) 

(The shark    ship at least had that)

   ?

[it was one apparent smoke bomb and she wasn’t allowed to        do anything to try and fix it,]

  But sure...    let’s go with that        .      Allies

[Never got a feel for that and    one dude was always    snarking at her,] No  shit 

everyone can see that

And     it was one dude

  [They haven’t     heard of this yet]

 [This plot-     isn’t very good]

Right     -      ok now they’re   im-portant-

 Sit and and wait 

 As Duchess makes her case that this is just one splinter group that she can handle

Some thing you wouldn’t think would     need a trial

[Only     becoming a problem when it affects other people]

        [suffering from the Luminara               problem, where if she doesn’t meet up to      high unreasonable standards.             In an unreasonable               amount of time                    (Little)                     Instantly lambasted by         her colleagues.                             With the     nar-rative showing no signs of painting this is wrong                                Or the fact of the   male characters can feck around     screw       everything       up,        And that   isn’t considered      serious

    [Narrative’s              a           Cheater. .)

        How long

These are   actual good evil minions    

(No this could actually be good with them becoming something like the clone troopers to the, Darkside

   Making up for a lack        of human faces in the ranks         up to this point,

   Establishing that while they may be the          instigator of tox,          Actions are about   ~now~          Less abhorrent than the     Empire’s            /       Coun-       cil-

‘the       Plot,’

 Completely irrelevant

   (And stupid)

Relying on everyone   being a complete       un-     accountable-       Idiot.

  Great plan you got there      Dooku,

 How’s Duchess’s explaining that’s-not-at-all-what-happened-and-we-don’t need a foot hold and all security,     going?

Like you think he’d be more mad   Considering what seems like the only plot,          Intercepting the        vehicle in transit,         Failed       horribly,

   Unless, the guys didn’t tell     him - And he still thinks they have      Duchess -which would make     sense...because of course they sent troops for the lost     foreign    leader

    (Would’ve been a     good episode for both        of them)

    (Not sure that would cause      a riot though-)

   (-Which would make sense if Obi-Wan was the last         one they saw around here-      Thinking, that a Jedi      captured their leader,

]

 But I’m getting ahead of myself      let’s focus on the       actual plot.    .

Whoa rows

To Coursant

I thought you just said to    . . .sit still and leave.

         What?                ...     

          What

Oh so we’re focusing on another     cliché plot instead of the actual characters

  (*Note;           Cliché             As              in              a           badly        established           already       done plot              . . .           There’s        nothing          wrong           with          doing         repeat          plot           so           long                as         you          do        them         well

    What you bring     into it is the fun part           (Ideally)

     Aight?

      How?

They’re just         there

Also yeah you already know that there there you already know what they’re doing you still haven’t done anything about it

    So?

      [I was about to say where is the courier guy     but he’s dead]

     R.I.P shortly lived villain          Killed off for a shitty       written romance-

 -He deserved         better

    Ok

  Whatever 

    Why

 [i’ve seen that image multiple times        but I never realized the city was in the ball

     [also how is this the palace     where several important officials meet         And the nice forest is supposed to be this            mining hell hole

The environments-           They’re-

  So yeah we know it’s there, but like last time we’re not going to do anything about it

   [like I said Saltine did get back at some point and          everyone’s logic was just ok let’s go complain to the council        for no reason,]

           [I     dislike this logic)

          Why?

           Just...?            Why

             Also yeah who’s in charge     while she’s away?

               I mean we’ve already got like a lot of      senators’ sus

    What?

    Things         Happen          Ing

    Also yeah palace   right back to the way it was,

    I guess it was a smoke       bomb. .

   Right?

    You left     the Boomer in control?

     Also, so yeah I’m surprised he didn’t run out to be a     mastermind either

     Like, yeah        That        can happen

  But given the      “legacy and proud of everything      thing,”

     You’d think he’d be the main target

    [Makes a lot more sense than Random     Sen   ator       #4

   And he was the only one in that     hallway with Obi-Wan-

 -

During their   argu-     ment-

Prime      Minister-      It      Makes      Sense          -

You found     the deathwatch     armies         -    isn’t   hard         -           It   was like five guys last time

Now just like them, you have allowed, the situation       to get worse

Good job     smart guys.

Battle

Really because they seem like the same group of nerds

?

What?

??...

   ?

  Deathwatch will never be strong enough

 Yeah, no shit  

 Guess you      shouldn’t do anything stupid

     [how long until something           stupid happens?]

       Beyond          the normal               . . .

       Here

Seriously how does this   plan make any sense?

Jedi- come here      - everyone-         Loses         their         shit  

  How?                - like      I know it be unpleasant to have some guys     stomp into              Your               House

         But there’s literally no need for     that..

    Considering         the situation            isn’t out of control

     And       Satine should be fully capable of handling the situation

       - And telling the Senate to feck off

       - And don’t tell me he’s doing this because she’s       passive because he’s been everything but passive in defending her passive beliefs,

   [Something        not really      elaborated          on]

  Stop

  NOT BE        AN IDIOT!

  Also,

    [I really don’t like this      plot        it makes no sense,”.     ]

Whelp-

  Fuck-

  That        Got        Dark-

[but possibly make sense if this is how she   sees members of the republic,        As a dark   brooding force that will hurt everyone if     she’s not careful,

Significant deadly threat

How?

They-     smoke bombed one building

[That’s   juvenile]

  [The situation is not out of control]

 In the narrative’s attempt to over blow this isn’t done     ,correctly

   You need to have         self     aware     ness.

Bumper cars

Good

[Also you had to come to the      Senate to say that]

(This could’ve been an email)

  Or a photo       op/        State       -ment-

    ?

  Duchess why did you come here   you knew they were going to pull this shit

Like this helped     nothing

And the narrative,

What was a good     situation that was supposed to come out of this?

You stand before a council of people who decided to fight, saying I don’t fight

   [ and these are toxic people         mind you]

There was   no way this is going to end up good;

And I don’t.. know what the     narrative?

Padme?

Also what is with the weird bumper car      rules?

Because it seems like anyone can come up at any time and ask   any question?

    [Like,      how is that not chaos?]

   Wo rking under           toxic assumed authority.       .

 “People-

   ‘ I call to the stand        Obi-Wan (Kenobi)          and Anakin             Of the Jedi         order, to      provide testament,”

      That’s all    that had to be said..

        On top              of;

“My government will submit to peace keepers   actual peace keepers -      Un-armed-        For        Eval     -uation,’

   That would make sense

 And work off     Satine’s      Ad-       vers         Ion-         To Obi-Wan,    and the Jedi Council,

   True

  Dick,

  -Jedi

Yeah, she didn’t reject, she allowed the Jedi to do a full   investigation,

Also as     brutal as the scene is,    it is a good show of you     reap what you   sow       and enablers  turning on a enablers

 Even though Satine   should’ve known better than     to argue peace     with a war   council...

Obi-won      says   nothing         . . .

  Fuck        You          (Good)

     Bad         Ass

    Lots of politicians            speaking,

     Wait-

     Dick-

   Appro      priate-

   Ser-iously       touching         someone     without         their        consent?

       Dick       entitled         move.

   Spec.    Ifically.

   After        he      stood        by       and    watched      that     happened     -       Senate          -         Yeah cause you were there       and you did nothing

Better;

  Saltine calls Obi-Wan as a witness        (Both Obi-Wan and the others.        (Anakin) standing watch      over her       home planet

    They failed to respond         due to being in the middle of some thing

   Or just distracted

    This makes looks     Satine          Look     extremely        bad,           That           Jedi            are            not     Re-sponding           On         her home planet

     The vote gets passed

    Satine is more than     distressed

    When Obi-Wan     Coms her                  In

       They            argue,           Satine           Sni,pping.               A.                Bro-ken           Promise

        “You said            you’d be there              for me                (This                Time)]

    “You’re never there when I need you,”

   “You’re never there when it         matters          most,”

       With that,        the conversation ends

       Satine possibly getting ready to defend herself against the   republic

     Coming to invade   her home

        Im-bittered               Sweet

Didn’t help at all but    okay,

We’re friends

 Good

[To be fair        the romance was so forced,      that friendship is honestly best,]

Ah,         Lady,           You just got a friendship last   block,

  No need   to act       surprised.

  Nothing        More

    Good because there was no chemistry    between you      up to this point,

   State of mind  

  ....

  What?

  What state of mind?

  ...

 She’s       fine!

  Yeah she      over reacted to the dude

   But - got everything together when it         mattered-

   THANK YOU!

 That was an         asinine statement

    Hysterical

No   they wouldn’t be

That isn’t a   compliment.

That’s      Invalidation.

  Dick   Obi-Wan

  Point!

  So much  

point in this!  

  I am so  

pleased.. 

 (Though

   regular,”    

 I only - 

 Gas-    

lighting

 “I’m-  

 Yes!

  Mhm

This is some  

Bomb ass tea

De-licious

(I just realized       my phrasing           of words             I’m so-)          

     It’s good is the point

(Doesn’t it make up what happened in the   previous episodes,     

   But,           Makes                it           easier            to              forget                        . . .    

 Accoun-           tability                 -                 Is        the     word        you’re        looking         for        (The    character,       not       the     writer,”)        They’re          doing          good                   .    ... You   live with a child       groomer          (Are           One)

Does make sense.  Obi-won closest to the problem       (Groomed       specifically       in benefit of it)            Still sad      that they just gave up

     Even if he does   have a point   That Two generations    have essentially         grown up          Anakin        and   their time   as the present     is over

   Bit too late to have a     regrets

    (Only   when it   screws      you over..

  Not      the     future   generations)

    And...

    My     sympathy        is    officially       gone         (Not       the   storytelling’s      fault,             I         think       they           work      -ed       this   conversation      pretty         well            -          Just         the        facts          to        narcs          arguing              -             Still         made          me           think        about         what       exactly         what         was        wrong             -           That’s       good       (narc)Con   versation,

Any way,

  I love       this song

   Obi-Wan gets roasted for all his bad         behavior 2.0...

  It’s nice

Crusade

This   Convo was good

      (It made me feel better about all the times the   writers used cheating tactics)

        *Not for                      giv-ed

just- better

?

[That expression-   was concerning]

 There

Aight

That-      Was-

  Chilling

[You just spent the whole time getting yelled out      for his deeds, just continued on,    emotion     less]

The       “respectable”          kind       (Approp-riate       for an           adult)

Aight

  [Oh- no are they going to have the Obi-won rescue her and that proves that all her opinions are wrong?

 Not actually; she made some really good   points

  But in the       narrative   treating?

    (I don’t    want to see     that)

Okay,    whelp,

Coursant has the   worst security ever,

  How?

Damn      Frick

  Is a     bad day for her,

  Filed

Some random dude   hijacked your car

Who are you going to     sue?

Bitch

Queenie,     dude’s obviously an asshole

Leave

Also if there was no proof then why aren’t you charging her for vandalism terrorism, etc?

(See his logic is       bullshit,)

also this is a good example of   obstructive   bureaucrat          . . .

    Or avoidant

Because how do three people       nearly dying not constitute as proof?

   [Like if she ��     died.]

   Also, what’s the plan      if she did?

   Like; Oh yeah deathwatch is such a threat that they killed     a senator

     Those     dudes      don’t care

They only pissed at her because she’s a pacifist coming into  a      Offensive summit

  Accident

[she accidentally    drove her car.     [Yelling      at the     villain]

Not     what      she   said

This dude could give     Obi-Wan a run      for his gas lighting,

   Whelp

    Fuck         Off

     Oh yeah the council   of war mongers will really respect the       pa-   cifist

No bias     here

None   whatsoever

Satine 

   Hey    at least this time he had the   common decency not to      grab her-

 dick

  ?

Oh yeah defender of the   gaslight-ing committee  she’ll definitely help

Worry     You

Don’t give into the gaslight-

Also guilt tripping

 “ i’m afraid on that account,”

   No,

 Dick

 Valid     re-ac-     tions

 Shit-

“Victim   blaming”       (Toxic    blaming)

    Pretty sure     they’re all enablers      at this point

        Tox-

Ma’am

Leave the   ball of tox     known as Obi-Wan

Man has turned from a     garbage fire      to a         gas       fire,

Coursant

  Yeah,       you should leave,

  Also,        That       Moment,

    You        are        one         of         them.

    You’re not   backing down

     👉       This       Not,

Con

Don’t listen to     Obi-Wan      He     sucks

Also none of the guards are going to zap him for     touching their queen     unannounced?       - - - Friends

You’re not her   friends

You’ve been   nothing      but a dick

   Gas       lighting

    Nope

    Tox.

   [like listen to that   ag-gressive tone,          How he’s holding     her

        Tox

    [Still   good on the animators who did that scene,          Very good            work,]

     Occ-upation

          Shit

        Happen

Oh     Shit-

Obi-won     distracted         her?

   Aight

 Meeting

   What

    How-

Hm,

Wait-      Huh

[this is some kangaroo Court      logic

   It’s        Good.]

    Before

  “Relying on the Republic is a mistake,”

    Yesssss

      More           Acc-        Toxic      initiative         (Since there’s         no to         little         way         they         end             this)            Based               on       circumstance            only             (No            different          sources)

       Any-way                Um

          Okay

           Right                      Just                Vibin’g

          Aight              Whelp,

           Am                 I?

Oh is that the           Senator             guy?

Death   watch?

Also-      okay

Al-     right.

   ?

  Wait        What?

     Hm?

    Green

      We know       two greens             And one   changeling            That should be in   custody- 

     Wait-           ?

       ?

     What?

      ? ? ?

    EXPLAIN

        ?

      Who-

      What

        ?

       At-

    This was a pretty a’ight episode

     (Trust me I wish      I could give it higher praise)

   However the           unfortunate           clankiness of the introduction

           Keeps it stubbornly between a decent          and good

       With that            being            said;

           That does not        take away from the fact that is           a ____ whatever it is

    -it has good characterization         for Satine

   - it handles heavy morals like enabling, tox,       abuse and        pro-         blems      With        Assumed           Autho rity-     Includ        Ing       Police          Bru-       tality        And        Fram       -ing          Very        Well

   (With the   appro-       priate       dignity it deserves,

 [there’s a small bit of better done romance/      fond-ness, near the           End]

   *Villain was neat

   [More of sidious      and on the [Main] villains

     There           were             few         Moments            that            Made              Me              Go              Wtf            (Obi              Wan’s          Abuse                  Of               The              Word               “Saw                 You,”                  The               Insist              Ence                 That               Death               Watch                Was              In                  Tim                   i-                dating

            As                For                Fix                -ing;

Episode;  Instead of to defend,   Wise        Saltine is called                           To ident       ify a               Death                           Watch                         Member-                             Or                             Re                             New                              Her                              Neu-                             Trality                             Pledge                               In                              Person                             (Due to                              Change     ling    (Over       Lap)                           Attack

                         Episode                               Pro                               Gress                                  Es

Arc     Fixes;

          Obi- won delivers news, that he’s supposed             to escort              her             Pers               On                 Ally,                Saltine expects everything to go over    swimmingly after all she hasn’t done anything wrong,                 Quickly find out otherwise,                Loyalty over her              vs the government  

           Leads to a small                break               (Episode continues as   normally)

            (Death watch-                 if want)

     Fix        Arc       Continue;        (Note no offense to the author meant     I just started some thing and I should finish it as an     accountable      writer)

  Satine          Is        Forced          Into        Either      Defend        Ing        Or     Leaving         Anakin         To        Her         Irate        People,        Soon         After      Obi-won’s        In-       Cid       ent           Pri     med

Hope      Spot        Or      Depres.       Further.     Push          Ing           Ana     -kin’s       Dec-       Ision        To      Snap)     End

[Generally I thought this was a pretty       ____ episode, the animation and set design will really good/      On par and it seems to have made up.      (Corrected)        A majority of flaws      I had with previous       episodes              . . .        Moving               On...