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i really hope i’m wrong, but ofmd s2e8 felt more like a series finale instead of a season finale? did anyone else get those vibes? :(
#Our Flag Means Death#Stede Bonnet#Edward Teach#Izzy Hands#Zheng Yi Sao#Jim Jimenez#Archie ofmd#Oluwande Boodhari#Spanish Jackie#Lucius Spriggs#Black Pete#Frenchie ofmd#Wee John Feeney#so much happened so fast#like they crammed so fucking much into one short episode#ofmd#ofmd spoilers#ofmd s2 spoilers#i have many thoughts on this episode but for now i must sleep
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Someone recommended to me the show Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld, and I figured it looked interesting so I watched it. And I have some thoughts.
It is the most obvious lesson on why not giving stories enough time to play out messes with the pacing so badly. In this day and age of "you'll get about eight episodes per season and there's no guarantee you'll even get renewed, and it's more than likely it'll just get dumped", if creators want their story to be for sure be told onscreen without cancellation cliffhangers, they gotta cram it into as little time onscreen as possible. And the art suffers for it.
In my opinion, Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld is a genuinely good and compelling show. But it's good, not great. And that's because of the pacing. Almost every single glaring flaw (mostly the character arcs and dynamics, and a ton of loose ends), boiled down to an issue of the story not being allowed to play out long enough. It feels rushed and cramped, and it's basically the perfect object lesson on why stories need to be given enough time to play out.
There are many stories I adore that get cut short, that despite having a loving and dedicated fanbase, were left on a cliffhanger with no resolution. A lot of that being because they were Netflix originals. Which Jentry Chau vs the Underworld is. And this is the result of that threat. And that's depressing.
Jentry Chau vs the Underworld is a good story, with many elements to it that I absolutely love. But it's so, so cramped, and the obvious result of trying to get a story told in a little time as possible, in order to try and get it finished at all.
The love for the project is obvious. There's so much there to be expanded upon and allowed to give their aspects of the story so much more weight. But they just don't have the time to make that impact.
:(
(Also I didn't watch the trailer, but after finishing the show I saw it out of curiosity. Now, I'm no expert, but IMO that's Bad Advertising. Honestly, if I had watched that before the show itself, I might've just dismissed it right then and there.)
(Fuck you, Netflix. For many reasons. One of them being this.)
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Anime I've Seen in 2024 (New and Old)
New
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training arc - 5/10: Too short and over too quickly, really wished they could’ve added more.
My Hero Academia season 7 - 6/10: Tiring at this point, I actually don't care anymore.
Date a Live V - 7/10: It didn't shocked me like everyone else, I've seen heavier shit then this. Still, it's an appropriate finale. I've heard there's like two light novels left in the series. Maybe one day for season 6.
Sand Land - 7/10: The main story is fantastic and a great stand alone series. The second arc is okay. It's good but completely unnecessary.
Bocchi the Rock! movie - 8/10: Cramming a whole season into a two part movie is surprisingly good. Saw it in theaters and I had a good time. So... when season 2?
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Conflict - 8/10: So far, it's still great. It's very intense.
Dragon Ball Daima - 8/10: Great story, great characters, great world building, and great animation. The pacing though... cocktease.
Old
Dragon Ball - 10/10: Revisited as myself paying tribute to the late Akira Toriyama, who pass away this year. This series is still amazing and charming. Please watch it and ignore the fandom who hated it for no reason. Your life will change forever.
Dragon Ball Z - 9/10: This was the first time I watched it in the original Japanese version. A completely different experience. I had a ton of fun going through the whole thing again.
Lucky Star - 7/10: At first, I really love how these girls just sit around and talk endlessly. But then... it kept going. Then it got super annoying. And then it got to be not fun anymore. By the time I got to ep. 12, I remember saying to myself," WE GOT 12 MORE EPISODES OF THIS SHIT?" The ending was cringing, I'm sorry, I did not like it. I give it some time and... it wasn't that bad in retrospect, I was just not in the right mood. I'll give it another chance one day.
K-ON! - 10/10: I read the manga a year ago and I greatly enjoy it, so I was looking forward for the adaptation. Unfortunately, an unexpected moment occurred in my life that made me delayed my binge watch. Once I felt better, I finally watched it and... it was what I desperately want: comfort. The characters were great, the music is pretty catchy, and the overall experience was enjoyable. When it was over, I felt sad, sad that it was over. But it did heal my soul.
The Melancholy of Haruchi Suzumiya - 4/10: Surprised I didn't receive hate mail from my opinion of this anime. Why did I really hated it? Haruchi Suzumiya herself. Fuck! That! BITCH! I hated everything about her, she gave me flasbacks to Asuka from Evangalion, who is also GODAWFUL! This anime reminded me why I hated tsunderes, I never felt so much anger in my life. If there's any silver lining, it gave me Yuki Nagato, and Mikuru Asahina is cute. I know there's a movie, but I refuse to watch it.
The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan - 7/10: I got nothing to say about this spin-off, but I like this better then the main one.
Berserk (1997) - 8/10: Finally started watching this classic and, wow, this was not what I expect it to be. I was really into the story and the battle scenes were gory. The ending? Still haven’t recover from that dramatic experience.
Hidamari Sketch - 10/10: You know why I started watching this? I watch the second presidential debate, and it was a total shit show. To get away from politics, I put this on, not expecting what I was going to get. And what did I get? Possibly one of the cutest, comforting, fun shows I've seen in awhile. The girls were great, the animation was abstract, and it was pretty relaxing. I was a bit bother by the ecchi scenes, glad Madoka didn't had that treatment. By the end, you feel like you made friends with them. Or better yet, you became family with them. This is another show that heal my soul.
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - 8/10: This one has been on my watch list for awhile, but I'm glad I saw it. Another relaxing show that just happens to have plenty of scenes that goes TOO HARD! Like whole, was not expecting them to throw at me. Everything else is great too.
Yuru Yuri - 8/10: I thought I wasn't going to like this because of how mean spirited it can be. But... not only was this shit funny, but it's also heartwarming. This was a lot a fun.
What to expect next year?
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Hey, sis.
#also someone remind me to make my Cosmic Horror Toddler theory into something coherent
Whenever you have the time.
Okay. So bear in mind we're only like seven episodes in and I have no evidence and really no thought behind this beyond "would that be fucked up or what?" and "ooh I'd love to see what an eldritch abomination growing up is like."
There are also like, all of the spoilers for the original TMA below so like, if you're just listening to Protocol you might want to skip the rest of this post.
Tenuously connected point 1.
One of the things from what Jonny and Alex have said about Protocol is that it's supposed to involve exploring "what makes a person" right? And we also already know Jonny's answer to this question from his, uh, cannibalism discussion.
Short version: a "person" understands their actions as something that actually does things to the world around them beyond simply fulfilling a want like hunger/capable of choosing to do evil.
Tenuously connected point 2.
In the Archives universe, a point is made that the Fears "don't think. Not like we do." They work off instinct.
Tenuously connected point 3.
While I never looked into the ARG before Protocol's release I have since looked into the summaries of what it revealed. Among other things the ARG revealed Magnus Institute of Protocol was studying children via... psychological experiments of dubious morality. Aside from this being why Sam is snooping into the Magnus Institute (for those who haven't looked into the ARG yet, his name is among the children researched) the experiments are pretty much looking into how children at various stages of development display empathy and whether they conform to orders or choose not to and stuff like that (I'm sure I am not wording this part right someone with a better background in psychology can probably expand further).
Anyway, my point is the idea of choices and such is being studied in relation to psychological development in children.
Tenuously connected point 4.
The way the cases so far have played out in Protocol does seem to show a difference compared to Archives.
Smirke's original categories don't seem to fit quite right anymore as each of the cases seem to have stuff that doesn't cram into the original boxes. As the blurry categories were already a major point in TMA regarding creating the Eyepocalypse and even Sam calls out the categorization the OIAR use in the first episode this isn't surprising. But it does suggest that the Fears have changed from what they were before.
Quite a few people have also suggested that in the cases we've seen sometimes the incidents seem to fulfill a desire (in a monkey's paw way, of course) rather than simply finding a random victim. This might suggest the presence of intent rather than only instinct.
So what?
I'll admit it's just sort of my own "ooh wouldn't that be messed up? let's explore that further" thought process doing the talking here, but The Thing that was Fear has existed since things could feel afraid. It's ancient. But it's also a cosmic horror entity that has been shown to grow from it's initial state to what we saw in Archives (see ep 200).
It's something on a cosmic level. Maybe it wasn't done growing. The Fears don't think "like we do"...
but neither do babies.
What if by Protocol the Fears have developed more after leaving their cradle? To a point where they can at least begin to think or choose.
What if the Fears are eldritch toddlers and they're learning how to play?
#emeraldmew's red string theory of eldritch toddlers#the magnus archives#the magnus protocol#tma#tmagp#tmagp theory#spoilers#i mean i have no evidence beyond the fact that i personally would love to explore a cosmic horror's life cycle#also note that the theory only really touches on the Fears if you came here looking for theories about Chester & Norris you're out of luck#(unless they and Agustus are the nannies in this analogy)
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My Thoughts on Percy Jackson “The Prophecy Comes True” | Season 1, Episode 8
Luke doing the opening monologue of this episode was such a great choice.
A flashback to Percy and Luke being friends is also a great choice, given what goes down this episode.
“That’s what warfare is. Knowing the rules so you know how to use them against your opponent.” OMG.
The fight with Ares was kind of short, but again, that’s what happens when you have to cram so much in one episode (GIVE US MORE EPISODES IN SEASON 2 FFS)
“I expect Hades to do the same…. (begrudgingly) please.”
“You failed.” You can see Percy restraining himself from fighting literal fucking Zeus.
Proceeds to call Zeus weak… Percy, shut the fuck up please
Charlie Bushnell is such a good actor because you can TELL that Luke absolutely believes everything he is saying. He believes he is doing the right thing. He wasn’t born a villain, he doesn’t even see himself as one. And I actually think this is something that gets ignored in PJO spaces a lot.
Percy said , “I met your dad” and Luke said, “It’s time for this bitch to DIE.”
The fact that Percy just finds out that Luke betrayed him, and still apologizes for hurting him makes me want to cry.
Annabeth appearing in the middle of Luke and Percy’s fight.😭
Luke running when Annabeth joins because he refuses to hurt Annabeth…
I like the show trying to show us the similarities between Percy and Luke… like Chiron being concerned that Percy Will side with Luke.
I do kind of wish we got more of the reasoning behind Annabeth going to see her dad.
Percy telling Annabeth to just be a kid…
THIS IS THE DAY HE MEETS TYSON
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20 questions for writers
thank you @triggerlil for the tag!! <3 i'm so late omg but this was FUN, first tag game i've done that's more author than writing snippet/drabble related :-)
tagging @air-exec, @counting0nit, @don-humes-tiny-shorts, @eternallytired17, @hauntingcontradiction
@nicijones, @bucking-mustangs-with-wings, @swifty-fox, @mangokittokatsu, anyone else who wants to! i love reading tag games like these, it's nice to learn more about the ppl behind all the brainrot :')
questions & answers below the cut! x
how many works do you have on ao3?
12!
what's your total ao3 word count? 50,182 wtf i only made my ao3 in january lol
what fandoms do you write for?
i've written for lotssss over the past decade, but my current ao3 is just saltburn and masters of the air fics :-) for the sake of this tag i'm just gonna stick to my mota fics in my answers tho since yk. mota blog lol
top 5 fics by kudos?
i don't wanna be alone tonight – buckbucky breathe me in (exhale slow) – buckbucky you're a dog (i'm your man) – buckbucky you put your arms around me (and i'm home) – buckbucky four–by–four – buckbucky
do you respond to comments?
every single one <33 i take a long while sometimes because i get too lost in the actual writing or i get overwhelmed by the kindness lol but i always always respond eventually :')
what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
definitely i see you in the daytime (i hear you at night), my first fic for masters of the air actually that spawned as a way to vent my feelings after the dreaded third episode lmaoo </3 thought that would get those boys out of my system, and i couldn't be happier to have been more wrong <3
what is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
ruh roh this kinda made me realize all my fics have some sorta melancholy/bittersweet ending even when they're hopeful... yad(iym) is gonna fix me fr (i think). but i guess the fuse to my fire since curt lives and the three of them are curtbuckbuckying indefinitely <3
do you get hate on fics?
i have in past fandoms but not here thankfully bc i am sensitive LOL. i've had weirdo anons that bitch about john bottoming (and i don't think those people realize it makes me inclined to write even more sub and/or bottom john to be petty SJGDK) but i wouldn't consider that hate, just bad fandom etiquette ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
do you write smut?
YEAHHH BABY <3 that's like. 99% of my drabbles/brainrot posts here and it takes serious self control to not just constantly write pwp oneshots, it's too much fun!! finding the balance in my chaptered fic for how much nsfw is too much is such a journey too lol, i wanna cram a spicy scene into every chapter but the part of me that adores slowburn over any other trope reins the gay brain in </3
craziest crossover?
haven't written any as of yet, but i do have my leaving!bikeriders au that i'm hoping to turn into a chaptered fic this summer, and that's exactly what it sounds like– buckbucky, but yank parts of callum's character from the leaving series and parts of austin's character from the bikeriders to create a buckbucky modern au. :-)
have you ever had a fic stolen?
i'm sure back in the wattpad days of the early '10s lol but none that i specifically remember!
have you ever had a fic translated?
in past fandoms!
have you ever co-written a fic before?
perhaps @curtsbigspoon and i cooked up like. 15k words of buckbucky thigh fucking etc months ago that i just need to get around to cutting down/editing >:-)
all time favorite ship?
i mean for me it's always a ship from whatever media i'm fixating on, so right now any variations of curtbuckbucky and cattonquick are everything to me <3 but in terms of ships that'll always have my heart, i can't ever let go of drarry, pricefield, clexa/murphamy, sciles/sterek– any from media i consumed during formative teenage years lol. but i will say i have never created anywhere near as much content for any other fandom as i have for mota :')
what's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
for once i actually have none that i see myself abandoning! i would notoriously abandon wips in past fandoms and probably would still, but guess who finally got on adhd meds last month after years of waiting? this guyyyy. i can start projects... and enjoy them the whole way through... and not get frustrated and trash them... who am i
i mean tbf i have at least a dozen wips that i've gotten either a few paras or few thousand words into lol but then a new shiny idea grabs my attention, but i do think i'll end up finishing most if not all of them off eventually! once i've invested enough time/words into a wip, i feel way more motivated to finish it so i'm not 'wasting' my efforts.
what are your writing strengths?
i feel most confident when i'm writing dialogue over anything else. writing conversation–heavy scenes or just straight up porn is when i overthink the least lmaoo
what are your writing weaknesses?
oh god, definitely having to spell out what's going on in a character's mind. like, i know what they're thinking as i'm writing out scenes; i can feel their emotions and all. i just have such a hard time putting it into words in a way that doesn't feel too obvious/overstated, if that makes sense. i very much prefer to show rather than tell their emotions, but sometimes it's hard to get that right, and i agonize over solo scenes the most, when i can't show what a character is feeling by way of verbal conversation with another character.
thoughts on dialogue in another language?
no specific opinion! sometimes it's cool to read/write, mostly i don't really have an opinion one way or another :-)
first fandom you wrote in?
lmfaooo i'm pretty sure it was either for olddd youtube ships or frerard ngl. not sure which came first bc i wrote so much at once
favorite fic you've written?
you're a dog (i'm your man) has been such a labour of love for me because i care so much about doing it justice :') so maybe that one, but if unfinished fics don't count, i actually wrote breathe me in (exhale slow) in one rushed four–ish hour sitting and was kinda neutral on it until i got a completely unexpected burst of kind and beautifully worded responses, and then i felt a tiny bit proud <3
#tag game#johnslittlespoon yaps#can u tell i'm like. weeks behind on tag games from locking tf in on writing chapter four LMAO i'm fighting demons
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On the new Netflix YYH live action series...
Okay, so cramming two seasons worth of anime (52 episodes) into just 5 hours of live action (5 x 60 minutes) is just WILD. It was obviously possible, but it was wild. They made some bold editing choices on the way to make it happen, but they made an overall good job of it (well, as good as anything can get when you cram 52 episodes into 5 hours...). Anyway. Spoilers ahead.
My overall impression is that I had fun. They made this series a lot more edgy and dark than the anime, but they kept a lot of its goofiness, and managed to find a good balance. The visuals were also fantastic. I honestly did not expect the drawings to translate well into film, but the animation / FX crew did a great job. I have some minor qualms against how everyone looks like (like Kurama's hair or Hiei's turtleneck, who came up with those???), but they did not matter to me that much overall.
What I really missed was something I'm not sure how they could have reproduced in just 5 hours, and this is the sense of accomplishment and stakes. How long does the first two seasons take in the anime? Half a year, maybe? (Yusuke spends the summer break training with Genkai, then there are another 2 months (?) before the Dark Tournament.) So there is a lot more time both for bonding and level-upping.
There are a lot more steps, and those are a lot smaller, progress is a lot more gradual, and each step leads to the next a lot more organically. Here, this is somewhat compensated by the editing choices, like Kuwabara following Yusuke around (I especially liked the "slice the boulder" trope), or by Hiei wanting the dagger in the first place so he can find Yukina. But this way we end up on our very first joint mission fighting Karasu and Bui as well as the Toguros, in Kurama's yokai form and with the Black Dragon. Which is again, WILD, if we consider that as far as we know Kurama has not really used his yokai powers over the last 17 years, and Hiei has just made the Jagan eye for himself (which he did not even end up using that much).
Which is all... not necessarily relevant if someone has not seen the anime and accepts that okay, these boys have a lot more in them than what we were shown at first glance. They are yokai, after all, and we are shown very little of their stories. But I still miss how in the anime we were able to follow how Kurama hones his plant magic to artistic levels and how he learns to combine the strengths of Shuchi and Kurama, or how Hiei very slowly becomes domesticated, or how Kuwabara chills down and becomes a reliable ally.
And then there is Yusuke. They really managed to capture the essence of the character, and I loved them for it. At the wake, his picture was a really nice touch, I loved that face saying "Why do I have to smile for the camera? Please leave me alone?" Or how gentle he can be when he is not ordered around. They got his priorities right, and the steps that make him who he is were all there.
But again, time was VERY short. I mean, he was training for about 3 weeks with Genkai, and for the first two weeks he was mostly slacking. How am I supposed to believe that this is enough to defeat fucking Toguro, who was one of the strongest men to start with, then sold his soul for power, and spent the last 50 years becoming stronger and stronger, to the point when not even the scariest monsters currently available in the human world could satisfy him? Yes, Yusuke got the "orb", but consider that in the anime at that point he had been fighting and training almost constantly for half a year, receiving the orb still almost killed him, and then he had to sleep it off for several days. I am just... not convinced, sorry.
If anything, I think the live action series is a good gateway to the anime. Like, if someone is new or even not yet into the "fight and level-up" anime genre, this can be a great motivation for them to check it out. YYH is almost 30 years old, after all, so there might (might!) be people who have not yet come across it, even though they would probably enjoy it.
TLDR: I think the Netflix YYH Live Action series is fun, it is gorgeous, it has some solid editing choices that help it cram fifty-fucking-two episodes of anime in just five hours of film, and if it helps some newcomers find and enjoy the anime (or even the manga, which I don't know), I'm only happier for it.
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what did you think about the season overall
hit and miss. some real all time highlights (Smoking, Librarian, Mother's Day, Smith Playground, Party) and a lot of episodes I literally have to look at Wikipedia to remember what happened. how do you manage to make a double episode premiere and have it be so unmemorable? I think the district plotline was a mistake and felt too much like a backdoor pilot for a spinoff, but the show gave me no reason to like any of the new characters - they had no depth and barely any jokes - so every time it cut to the district I was annoyed. it's not a matter of the writers not being able to write guest characters - they managed to make Taylor, Ayesha, Vanetta, Kristin Marie and Martin Eddie multi dimensional in sometimes a single appearance! but it's a 22 minute show and regularly 1/3 to 1/2 was away from every character we love apart from janine - and janine's the heart of the main cast, so the glue was missing there too. often the b or c plot of an Abbott episode is the comedy highlight but there was no room to stretch any jokes out because a c plot was being crammed into an already short runtime, and this also limited the capacity for small emotional moments between the characters we already love. I feel like there were hardly any moments for character growth for any of them, except Janine, Gregory, and a couple of Barbara moments where you kind of feel they're fishing for another Emmy but don't hit the same marks. Mr Johnson isn't my favourite character to begin with, but was lucky to get a single line per episode - which is deeply unfair to William Stanford Davis. it's like the whole time they were stalling so they could hit the marks they wanted with Janine/Gregory - which I understand, Janine is the protagonist and this is her story and that's a huge part of that - but it meant the rest of the season felt underdeveloped, like they didn't know what to do with the rest of the characters and they often felt a little bit OOC. Even Janine fell flat in that way, because it really felt like her giving up the District job had very little weight. The best episodes this season were ones where the whole cast were together and just being fucking morons with no brain cells - cause it lets them all shine in their unique weirdness. The show would do better if they stopped trying to do arcs and stuck to self contained stories that stand alone. I don't feel like this season has much longevity in terms of reruns because everything is too anchored to the arc. I didn't dislike S3, but hopefully things can get back on the rails for season 4.
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neil gaiman whyyyyy
i just finished Good Omens season 2 and ughghghghghghhhhhhh. like, the entire rest of the season, it was just fun shit with flashbacks, shipping and shenanigans and my friends and i were giggling our asses off and then fucking episode six rolls around and, hell not even the whole episode it was just the last like 5 mins or so that was such strong angst and frustration that it combats the entire rest of the fucking season which had been nothing but fun adorable shit and its like, wow Neil Gaiman, i never knew it was possible to cram so much pure concentrated angst (WITHOUT ANY CHARACTER DEATH MIGHT I ADD) in such a short amount of time that it basically devalues the rest of such a nice experience. Neil Gaiman, sir, I used to go on and on about all the little things you put in for us in Good Omens that PROVED you love us fandom freaks, and i was screaming it nearly all of this season as well. i now retract everything. you sir were buttering us up with all that nice stuff so we wouldn’t be prepared to immediately find and pillage you for everything your incredible writing abilities have. season 3 (and there WILL be a season 3, i will personally make sure if i must) WILL resolve everything and it WILL pay for all the emotional damages this entire fandom has suffered through. WE TRUSTED YOU. YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE, YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY OUR EMOTIONAL TURMOIL, NOT ADD TO IT
#neil gaiman#good omens#good omens season 2#good omens s2 spoilers#pain#what did we do to deserve this
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exhausted tuesdaypost
short one this week! i'm at baby's first big academic conference and boy howdy i have no idea what the fuck i'm doing! technically posting this a little early by the time zone i'm in (pst) but in my normal time zone (est) it is already tuesday so fuck it amirite
listening: a little more partizan but not much (almost done with episode 19). VERY bold of me to think i could finish partizan before 2024, but also the first two weeks of december were a total wash for me because of conference prep. will very likely blaze through a ton of it when i get back to my apartment at the end of this week.
reading: read a little more of 'the house on vesper sands'. reread some tgcf chapters because they're familiar and soothing.
cait corrain goodreads controversy: the world of twitter/tiktok writers is such a foreign concept to me. the drama even more so. i was fascinated by this. reminds me of the livejournal drama of yore.
diagrammatic writing by johanna drucker: picked this up at a bookshop in san fran. might give it to my brother as a holiday gift? it's very cool and meta and caught my attention, as well as being bite-sized.
drinking, power wheelchairs and dui: got in a conversation with my roommate about how you can get a dui on a horse in arizona (which i think is a little strange because a horse, while under your control, generally wouldn't just go off a cliff or into traffic even if you try to guide it that way?? idk shit about horses though) which morphed into "wait. you can get a dui on a horse. and a bike. what about wheelchairs." i definitely agree with the "wheelchair and its driver together fall under the class of “pedestrian” when using sidewalks and crosswalks" because like. yeah. it's no more a vehicle than my legs are y'know? or something. there's definitely deeper disability theory here that i am ignorant to but i'm remembering stuff from the embodiment-themed art history class that i took my senior year and how technologies can serve as extensions as the self rather than separate entities.
playing: still pokego. yeehaw
watching: episode 6 of tgcf donghua! i'm a little confused about the release schedule but i am obsessed. they're in love your honor
misc: found out the nyt dialect quiz is behind a paywall now when i told my friend about it and she tried to take it >:( met a cool older gentleman on the cable car, he's a retired nat geo photographer originally from paris. just a really cool dude. wish i got his name so i could look up his work.
BONE TIRED at this conference despite it literally being day one. i am so exhausted. partly jetlag partly New Experience partly anticipation for poster session on wednesday partly meeting collaborators and wanting to make a good impression etc etc. i definitely need to plan in more breaks. last week was easily one of The worse weeks of my life so far, combo PMSing plus breakdown over realizing i had to completely re-run a simulation (or two etc) and redo all my plots for my poster. just agonizing cramming of so much stuff. completely draining, basically burned myself out before even leaving for the conference, but it's Fine i'll be Fine i just gotta get through my presentation on wednesday without completely losing the thread.
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Finally saw the season premiere of The Mandalorian.
More first/gut/spoiler reaction thoughts under the cut. I might have more thoughtful thoughts tomorrow (or never) but these are just my initial impressions. My opinions only, don't @ me.
that cannot be how jon dave favloni decided to explain away din's Season 3 goal. YOU DIDN'T THINK PEOPLE WOULD HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT SCENES THEY KNOW NEVER HAPPENED IN SEASON 2?????????????
did no one vet this fucking planet or was the armored gator part of the ritual please someone fucking explain this shit to me like i'm five.
i see them gendered visors and i will never have peace (i understand from a design perspective but it's the 21st century, we should be moving away from this already)
WHERE IS THE "DIN DJARIN GETS A SHARD OF MANDALORE FROM A JAWA" ADVENTURE JON DAVE FAVLONI YOU CAN'T JUST THROW THIS SHIT AT US AND THINK IT'S OKAY
how did the jawa get their hands on it anyway how did it get off mandalore who went to mandalore
i am weak for space whales i am weak for all whales but that's just about it because i never watched Rebels
Nevarro is Disnehyland. Nevarro is Space Renn Faire. Nevarro lost everything that made that city/world so fucking interesting. They fucking gentrified it.
i get genres and i saw a wonderful glimpse of it in the confrontation with the pirates... the pirates fucking ruined the vibes tho. how dare.
actual serious thought: the whole thing with IG-11 is actually fucking grotesque and disgusting and I can't believe Jon Dave Favloni thought this was a good fucking idea. it's so gross. i can't get over it, especially when IG reverted to default programming and went after Grogu like it's Season 1 all over again.
it's fucking gross. it's so gross. what the fuck.
pirate designs were cool. the dialogue was not. who voices that pirate king. i swear i know that VA
Jon Dave Favloni out here fitting 3 whole episodes into 30 fucking minutes by cramming in a short scene with Bo-Katan and explaining why she's sitting around all depressed and alone with a droid standing watch outside
this is not a good look for mandalorians in general. i'm not getting the best impression here. getting strong Monty Python english peasants vibes. they'll follow just about anyone with a crackling black sword.
3 whole episodes into 30 fucking minutes Jon Dave Favloni have you ever heard of pacing. talk to the ghibli people. they know when to let a story take a deep, deep breath.
Episode 2 better slow down a bit and fucking tell a fucking story I swear.
the Volume was really strong in this one. I actually never paid too much attention to what effect Volume was having on these shows but when I started studying the screen caps for my most recent art post, it because pretty obvious what was going on and now I can't fucking unsee this shit
Episode 2 had better be better because omigod I feel like I've been clowned on. how old am i. what the hell even was this episode. who was it made for. what even are the stakes here.
re comparisons to Andor: no, i don't want this show to be exactly like Andor. we don't need every star wars show to be so steeped in politics and social commentary and have such a tense grim tone. what i wish is that every star wars show is handled with the same care and respect Andor's people show both to the star wars and to the fans and watchers. maybe that's why Andor consistently had the smallest audiences but the majority of the tweets, comments, and posts i've seen really appreciated what the show was doing. you can have a fun space western and also have some thoughtful commentary on diaspora and post-war societies! you can eat your cake if you just try!
that's it, that's the first reactions post
#i don't want to throw this into the mando tag#this just feels like... i'm a joke#i'm the joke#i'm the clown#this is the weakest of the 3 season openers by far#season 2 opened so fucking strong#but this is... what is this?#i saw like 2 accounts tweeting about this all of last wednesday#and the only tag i saw trending was grogu#the mandalorian trended quite a few days before but i only saw the grogu tag trending the day of#like what the hell is going on here#this is a caricature of a space western and i'm pretty disappointed
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rambling thoughts on the finale now that I've watched it again (spoilers, of course)
Even as I was watching initially on the discord, I was shocked by how quickly things were going by -- Luz gets murked not even 25 minutes in, for instance. I've been thinking over the series's cancellation -- I've seen it argued Dana should have cut more stuff out, but in fairness, it's hard having to make drastic cuts in a short amount of time, especially when cutting out certain characters would have meant redoing plot elements, not to mention skipping over or rewriting entire characters' backstories.
I think about Luca vs Encanto -- Luca had a lot of ideas pulled out, whereas Encanto very obviously tried to cram an entire mini-series into one movie. I like Luca better than Encanto for a bunch of different reasons, but I have to ask, Should you try to tell a simpler story better or a truncated story as best as you can? The answer seems apparent, but there is something to be said about Dana putting as much as she could on the table and all but outright asking fans to enjoy rebuilding her vision in their own. It's one thing when certain characters and ideas can be taken and made their own standalone stories, but not everything can, and given the state of the animation industry, the chances of that new show happening would've been slim, anyway.
A show like The Owl House -- a queer story cut short by a company that funded homophobic politicians while chasing woke brownie points for good publicity -- feels like the best-use case for Jenkins's idea of fanfic as repairing culture, as fans are now left to take this obviously compromised text and show our love by doing the reparative work of trying to fill in the cracks. Even if you don't engage with the fandom much, your perception of the text is still informed by these cuts, so there really isn't a reason not to think of the show as the sum of its canon and your own reparative fandom experience.
I compare TOH to SU a lot in my head, and the reason I'm willing to be so forgiving towards TOH for having a lot of dropped threads and blank spots is because, unlike SU/SUF, I don't feel like the creators wasted their time. Arguably there are episodes in season one that can be cut, but it's nothing like SU, which spent just so many episodes across every season prioritizing Steven's relationships to the humans in Beach City and neglecting its actual main cast, only for SUF to then stand up and admit it was all for fucking nothing.
Speaking of SU, though, the Collector fucking off back "to the stars" at the end gave me similar vibes to Spinel leaving with the Diamonds, though I will give SU the point here. Literally why is the Collector leaving when they've just NOW found a support system and friends? When their powers would be immensely helpful for rebuilding the Boiling Isles? "to the stars" TO SEE WHAT. WHOM. even on my first watch I thought this was fucking lame.
My main issue is that I felt like there was a big Belos-Luz beat missing, especially when their confrontation in the throne room was just him saying "oh you can't beat me." I would have rewritten that line, at least. I needed just a little extra, especially since he ended TTT with telling Luz he's doing this "for the good of [her] soul." I loved the death scene though (he's so mentally ill <3), as well as Arin Hanson's Titansona responding to Luz asking if they're "just as bad" as Belos with "do you smoke crack?"
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Thoughts on the new episode of the Mandalorian
-S3 E1 Spoilers below-
Overall, I would say I enjoyed this episode. I will say that it felt a little bit short, but what can you do. It was good, but not great-- it fell a bit flat, in my opinion. The helmet ceremony at the beginning of the episode was, in my opinion, a beautiful piece of insight into Mandalorian culture and creed. I know some people have expressed concern about this season not focusing on Din and Grogu enough, or focusing on other Mandalorians too much, but I'm not worried about this. I love world building, I love exploring and fleshing out fictional cultures, settings, etc., and I am excited to see how this season will contribute to our knowledge of Mandalore and the creed.
One problem I did have with the episode, though, was the recap not covering Din's episode from The Book of Boba Fett. For casual viewers or fans who may not have watched the TBOBF, the lack of explanation regarding Din and Grogu's reunion was likely confusing. Personally, I believe that the episode featuring Din in TBOBF should have been the first episode of the new season, rather than being included in the other show. That way, casual fans wouldn't have to do homework in order to understand what's happening and TBOBF would have been forced to focus more on Boba himself, and therefore put more time and thought into the plot (hopefully making it a better show). And if not turning that episode into 3x1, at least including scenes from it in the recap so everyone has a full idea of what's going on.
Other miscellaneous thoughts on this episode:
Nevarro becoming a bustling cultural center is not what I expected, but was a pleasant surprise
Bo Katan calling Din's sect of the creed (literally Deathwatch) a cult is fucking RICH
I enjoyed Din being such a dad and teaching Grogu about The Way TM
Din cramming himself into the tiny Anzellan workshop was very amusing to me
We got a classic asteroid field battle scene in this episode, which was nice and nostalgic in a way that wasn't heavy-handed
The dialogue and settings felt very. Disney? I don't know how to explain it, it just has Disney written all over it
#star wars#the mandalorian#the mandalorian spoilers#the mandalorian season 3#the mandalorian s3#the mandalorian s3 e1#din dijarn#grogu#baby yoda#the book of boba fett#bo katan kryze#this is the way
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My Adventures With Superman Episode 5 Review: You Will Believe a Man Can Be Concerned
Short Thoughts: This episode is the most rushed so far in the series, with a pacing issue of moving slow at the beginning and thus having to cram EVERYTHING into its last five minutes to have the darkest hour it wants. The stuff with Jimmy is too pointed to be funny and only has one real moment of feeling like it pays off, as well as the setup going nowhere like the journalism setup of last episode, and the stuff with Clark and Lois... Well, it’s good, the conclusion of the episode is the conflict their character types should be having and is turning the jokes and growth they’ve had over the past couple episodes into drama but again: Pacing. It all moves so... So very quickly. It frankly reminds me of thoughts I keep having about shows where I love the fluff and the episodic stuff but fear how well the writers can handle angst and plot. This episode shows promise in those things but if they can’t learn to let it breathe... We’ll see.
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I... don’t know how complicated my thoughts are on this episode. I think one of the best ways I can start with this is to mention the description on HBO Max. That while Lois is hunting down a secret in Metropolis, Superman tracks down the stolen tech to find out he’s in the sights of Task Force X.
This... doesn’t mention that Jimmy takes up about a quarter to a third of this episode doing almost nothing. It also name drops Task Force X, something that DOESN’T HAPPEN IN THE EPISODE. How can it? They show up for the pre-title stinger and then don’t show up for like 80% of the episode. Then they fight Supes, show off that Slade has some sick tech and is only going to get stronger, tease the overall plot and then fuck off after a good humanizing moment for their leader.
In like two-three minutes. That’s... Rough. To put it mildly. It’s not even a terrible fight. Not great, kind of lacking character and flavor, but it’s not a bad fight and the resolution is good. That’s the thing that makes talking about this episode rough. The characters are the same, good characters they have been. The animation is still mostly solid. The writing...
Well, that one I go up and down on. I ADORE the comedy of how bad Clark is at hiding who he is. How obvious his strength is once you start looking for it. Clark and Lois’ sequence against the goons is nice and silly and seeing how far Lois has already come from the girl who probably would have wanted the answer for her scoop versus the girl who wants the info because she cares is good.
And... That’s a lot of where my praise ends for the episode. The Steve and Jimmy stuff feels agonizingly drawn out. Jimmy didn’t need a mentor to straight up point shit out to us with. They could have had his three-five minutes in the intro, ended with him trying to remind them about what they were doing, kept showing a clock as a transition and then cut to nine o’ clock and Jimmy all alone at the bus stop before heading out to do this. Instead... They kind of do it like they’re not an animated series.
I’m not really joking here. The emphasis on dialogue pointing out what is going on is more tolerable in books because if you don’t put the words on the page, it can be a bad time for the audience. Of course, there is a breaking point and this goes WAY past that. This is just bad exposition, not helped by the fact that it’s being given by an annoying character we have not spent NEARLY enough time with to even realize his group could have a ‘Steve’. Yes, he’s a part of a trio but they all have their own roles on the paper that do not intersect that much so why should we have assumed their dynamic genuinely was the same?
Worse yet, the only justification for this would have been the stuff about Steve wanting to dunk on Flamebird but that goes nowhere. It’s not part of Jimmy’s motivation to go alone, it has nothing to do with his relationship with Clark or Lois, it’s just... There. Much like how Jimmy seeming like he might get the story because of his friendlier, less confrontational approach went nowhere in the previous episode. There it felt okay because I felt like I was putting my own desires onto the show. This time though? This shit is supposed to be important and it’s not funny and it’s not interesting. And it drags on for TOO. FUCKING. LONG. Cut a minute of Steve and give that to the actual important shit that matters to both plot and character.
Because the whole Task Force X portion? Feels like an extended vision frankly. “Look, we’re here, we’re probably important, you can gleam a couple things from it and PEACE!” It’s better than the visions because we effectively get some real answers and the commander is interesting in keeping to the idea they’re there for humanity but that’s about all the nice things I can say about it. It feels much more like a teaser than the actual resolution of an episode.
And that makes the ending just feel all the worse. Like I said earlier, this conflict between Lois and Clark is befitting for their character types and the friction they’ve had so far but it’s so over the top, so dramatic without entirely earning it or giving it some time to breathe. They both have good points but neither has any interest in listening to the other and so we get the dramatic third act break up...
Which isn’t going to last because saving Jimmy is the next episode and he’ll likely learn the secret then as he yells at the two about being abandoned and left out and keeping secrets, from both of them, and then they’ll be sympatico. And being able to see that coming makes me not that excited for an episode of these characters just being mad at each other. I don’t mind angst, and some angst was always going to happen here, I just wish it didn’t feel... Hollow.
Which frankly comes from the pacing I think. The fact that we’re going to only spend twenty minutes about this angst and that the angst feels in character but not super well written, ESPECIALLY with Jimmy. Frankly, between this episode and last, I’m getting worried about how Jimmy will be written in general. I don’t want him to constantly feel like he’s just taking time away from what the show cares about. I may be a shipper but I want our main supporting member to ACTUALLY SUPPORT. Actually be a main character.
So while there is good stuff here, stuff that makes me wonder if I’m being too harsh just because it decided to make EVERYTHING miserable at the end of the episode... I don’t know. Consider me concerned.
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On Eureka Moments
There is one tiny, tiny plus-side to insomnia: the epiphanies you get when you finally manage to catch a few winks.
So, I finish my shift, clock out, term out of my Linux resources and crash into bed before supper gets going. Sarah's not tired enough to join in, but Walt is definitely leaning on his concern for me and joins in. We spoon in the way I like and soon enough, even though it takes me a while, I'm gone. Poof.
It's not long, mind you - an hour and some change before we have to cook dinner - but it's enough to strip me of that sense of distance I mentioned, earlier. Dots start to connect, and what's really fucking weird for me is that I don't so much start dreaming as I'd say I sandboxed while asleep.
It felt a little like waking up without actually waking up. I was in the same posture I'd fallen asleep in, locked in thanks to Walt's body weight and aware of the fact that I was actually in REM sleep, but the room had this hyper-vivid texture that it only gets when my brain goes hog-wild at the end of an insomnia episode. I couldn't make out anything out of the noises coming from the living room, as speech and sound were as distorted as they usually are in my dreams. What still made sense, however, were my own thoughts.
This is a longboi, folks. Clicky if you dare.
I started going over the root causes of my insomnia, starting with the fact that I had to play IT Goon for six small dealerships staffed with reticent, tech-adverse fuddy duddies and dudebros who really just wanted something to run their CRM resources and the occasional instance of Google Chrome. I have to field everything from keyboards no longer working to printers going on the fritz to login credentials with big dealerships' own Finance portals no longer being valid - all of it while keeping an eye on our Linux-using Call Centre employees, listening in on calls, taking briefs from our Marketing department (basically one gal plus Walt) and occasionally physically schlepping campaign material - albeit with some help - because most manufacturers are a bit averse to the idea of dealerships passing resources around externally.
Simplified, that gives me two large task groups:
Network Admin
The Nuclear Football, as I call my laptop that's intermittently crammed with marketing-level campaign plans that dealerships treat like they're handing us a hydrogen bomb. That mostly involves carrying it to the dealerships involved, giving it network access, transferring the relevant files and walking the staff through their resources.
I only really administer the Call Center stuff, and anything Network Admin might be involved, it doesn't drive me as stir-crazy as reassuring a bunch of Boomers and non-tech-savvy Millennials that we do, indeed, have their parent company's provided resources on-hand.
That part, and everything related to their fucking PC installs, I could do remotely - either with Microsoft Azure or Windows Server Edition 20XX.
I'm sleeping on three of my most important certifications because the people I work for are too risk-averse to realize we could just drop everything on a remote server and walk them through everything with a video call or two. Everything short of physical hardware failure, I can handle or control using a Windows Server hub and the most wonderful tool known to man, which is known as the Fucking Group Policy Editor. Pair that with a few hires we keep in-house at each dealership, and I could set things up so I never need to leave my home office ever again.
Ever. Again.
No scheduling conflicts, no waffling about because my Paratransport ride is late, no depending on Walt or Sarah when the short bus isn't convenient or fast enough.
There's just one hitch - money. I can set up a would-be master server and rope every single of our dealerships and every single of their PC installs under a single server's wing within a week or two, give or take a few days for unplanned events. Even simpler, I could do the same with Azure. Option 1 requires a wee bit more cash on the Infrastructure part but could mostly be one-and-done if we're willing to be smart about it, Option 2 requires tossing money at Microsoft on a monthly basis, at no extra power cost or space management worries for us.
Then, there's the unavoidable warts and blemishes. I'd need to image everyone's workstations across our dealerships, format their entire fleet and then rebuild everything using these images and WSE's Deployment Tools. I can't do this on weekdays, these guys have promos to run - and there's weekends where I can't do it either. Our Mercedes joint is expecting visitors by Canada Day, for instance. It's time-consuming, I'd need to plan it out with them and any time I spend setting up someone's server-based clone of their previous Windows install is time I can't spend doing anything else.
Ergo, that needs to happen during a massive holiday. The only one that fits the bill is Christmas.
Then, there's the fact that I need some leeway now. I need to go back to a decent sleep schedule starting yesterday. I can't just hold on, grit my teeth and expect to hold on for six months of this; I'll keel over before Halloween if nothing changes.
But, the fun thing with luxury dealerships is that they tend to give themselves off-weeks when sales ramp down seasonally. That includes mid-July.
I wake up with a start and, barely lucid, ring up our Mercedes and Audi clients. Confirmed: they're aiming for a ramp-down of their operations in mid-July. I briefly expose my plans, set up a Web meeting, and spend the last twenty minutes of what should've been my nap explaining to two befuddled Sales Directors that I'm about to propose gaining complete control over their infrastructure, with the included benefit of a drag-and-drop common directory where I'd simply organize promo materials as we obtain them. I could even use it to deliver patches that come to us in binaries, as a few do apply. Their on-site guys could handle printer clogs or dying USB ports, I'd take care of and automate most of everything that's software-based.
And, what I didn't tell them, is that I'd even be able to finally restrict Sales reps from unnecessary account privileges, which could make the occasional case of disciplinary action even more occasional. You can't loaf around at work watching PornHub on the job if there's a rule in place that specifically includes it in a list of banned addresses and IP ranges...
I know how it sounds - it's basic fucking barebones IT stuff, it's the fucking bedrock of Network Admin, maybe one or two rungs above CompTIA resources - but you'd be surprised at how many dealerships have exactly zero administration. They don't see the need; they're car guys with maybe one or two Web apps of choice, if any! As to why I didn't think of it earlier, it's mostly because it's not technically my job. Walt, Sarah and I distribute and manage promotional material and help dealerships to keep up with user retention and analytics. We do everything a Sales Director should do, except most Sales Directors are usually tied up with their local Karens complaining about the Service department's mechanics.
So what if we gave them an infrastructure? What if we air-gapped it, made it easily reproducible and deployable, and made it so working with us only means looking at a slightly different Windows login screen, before starting your workday?
If this works, we'll expand our services and solve most of my problems. Salesguy McGee's computer ain't worth shit? No prob, just clone his install, nuke the base, reinstall from the clone and spend a few minutes mothering it to make sure you haven't imported previously-observed bugs.
I mentioned Azure, but I know our guys won't want to contribute to a cloud budget. Again, they're tech-averse and think using the cloud means you're at the mercy of a Redmond or Seattle-based server outage. Psychologically, they'll want the comfort of their own spinning rust and SSDs. If I've got that WSE server I mentioned, it's no skin off my teeth.
So, while Walt was trying to follow along, I tried for my most diplomatic cough imaginable.
"I'd, uh, need another 20K for our IT budget. Six of 'em would go for a WSL license, the rest would go for maybe two extra 2U units over at the office."
I thought Walt would protest, but he just gave me a level look. "Will that help you sleep?"
I shrugged. "At the end of a somewhat lengthy process, sure. Relief's going to count for something, though, and I'm pretty much guaranteed to sleep like a baby tonight if you approve."
Boss Walt reacted first, by giving me a shoulder clasp. "Purchase approved. You've got our card, make it happen starting Monday."
Then followed Boyfriend Walt, who pulled me into a hug. "You're going to have to walk me through this, though - this is black magic to me."
Sarah, who'd caught wind of my WSE for Dummies talk, stopped by before heading into the kitchen. "He means he wants to be Emperor Palpatine, hon," she joked. "Ultimate power, Force lightning, no idiots being so much as able to install unsigned software on their machines, lockable USB ports - the works. You're the only one who'd need to keep visiting our guys in-person. The real challenge is going to involve letting a bunch of unaffiliated dealerships share the same basic server architecture, and even that's not too complicated."
I parted with a frayed, and possibly half-mad little laugh. "Holy shit, I'm gonna sleep tonight!"
Sometimes, one of the perks of insomnia is being able to take a few steps away from your professional bugbears and your clients' weirdo and inefficient methodology - and remembering the skillsets you actually paid for.
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do you think millie is a poorly written character?
I'm gonna be honest... I dreaded this ask but I don't skip over asks so I will answer. And hopefully put some well earned respect on this girl's name. Short answer? No. I don't. Long answer? Well let's get into that. My understanding of the argument is that Millie just doesn't have much going on for her that isn't in relation to Moxxie. But frankly that just isn't true. She doesn't have as much depth as Blitz or Stolas but she still has stuff. She's protective, and not just with Moxxie.
In CHERUB she pulls Blitz behind her when Keenie is ranting at him. Her protectiviness is just an instinct she has with the people she cares about.
In Harvest Moon this notably doesn't show up until the end of the episode, and we also learn her dynamic with her family, something only Stolas has gotten as well. Her getting easilly peeved with her Sister Sallie May, and her parent's very nagging attitude towards her, treating her like she can't defend herself, presumably why she is so docile for the episode until the end where her and Moxxie tell them off. So her relationship with her family isn't perfect.
In Truth Seekers in a detail I see never brought up outside "Oh this duo is cool" Her and Loona team up to save Blitz and Moxxie from the agents. In fact they work really well together as a team. Now I understand the piloit has questionable canonicity but If you remember these two could not stand eachother, but now they are a force to be reckoned with. They settled their difference just like Moxxie and Blitz did. Maybe a little less obvious but still. On screen character development. And if you want more of that, remember how she didn't defend Moxxie from Striker's insults in harvest moon?
Ozzie's has her literally clock Fizzarolli over the head with a guitar, in front of Ozz himself not to mention the crowd. Fuck all to the reactions she is defending her husband, again she has growth, she learned a lesson that just get's mostly ignored by the fandom.
And one last thing. I recently saw something claiming that Millie, along with Loona and Octavia are all terrible characters. I didn't watch it as Helluva critical stuff is often baseless but this I suppose has a crumb of truth to it if they meant they were underdeveloped. But here's the thing, this show has barely ten episodes IF you include the pilot. And there all like ten to twenty minutes, that isn't that long and if you cram a ton of stuff into something that short, it ends up a mess. So that's why an episode only has two to three points. Makes it easier to digest the info presented, The story of this show is still unfolding so maybe wait before claiming everything is awful while ignoring crucial points. Sounds exhausting if you ask me.
So yeah, I like Millie, I said it. Is she perfectly written, no, no character is but she isn't that bad. She's funny, she's enjoyable and her dynamic with the other members of I.M.P is something I like seeing develop. She doesn't need to be THAT deep to be an enjoyable, People like Stella and she has about as much depth as worn out shoes. Just enjoy the show, that is the point after all.
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