#oh my GODDDDDD i need to rewatch this

[ghostbeam]

I fear. I 😞oh god I can’t say it………..

[unidentifiedlyingobject]

WHAT DID U THINK ABOUT DOCTOR WHO??????? I LOVE IT SO MUCH SDFRHGREVFDENTHSEJBNRHXDSFNMDBG

oh god

OH GODDDDDD

AAAAGGGHHHHHHH

massive spoilers DO NOT READ THIS if you don't want spoilerssssssss

ok ok I won't start with the end

so

*breathes*

they're dancing and it's Bridgerton!!!!!!

I loved how much fun Ruby was having

and OH THE FLIRTATIONS BETWEEN ROGUE AND THE DOCTOR

TALL? HANDSOME? THAT JACKET LOOKS GOOD ON YOU?????

THE KYLIE MINOGUE SEQUENCE WAS HILARIOUS THO

and also the fact the magic paper accidentally had hot on it THAT'S SO FUCKING FUNNY

also true

AND WHEN THEY GOT CLOSE IN THE TARDIS

(ok so the homophobia from my family was none :D I was watching it with my parents and my sibling, and also my parents' friends from uni, with their children

and one of my parents' friends was really gently explaining to her child that the doctor was gay

because the child said 'wait what' when they got super close to each other

and her mum was just like really sweet like 'yeah they're gay' but in a really nice way and I was like awwww thank you for not being homophobic

I mean her job is basically human rights so I don't know why I was worried

I was worried tho. in the end the only person who reacted was the kid who is still learning so that's ok)

and OH MY GOD THE DANCING LIKE LET'S CAUSE A ✨SCENE✨ OH IT WAS WONDERFUL!! PROPOSALLLLL!!! DRAMA!!!!

COSPLAY OWLS????? COSPLAY OWLS!?!?!?!

C O S P L A Y

O W L S

10000/10 no notes

ok THEN IT TURNS OUT RUBY IS SUPER COOL AND DEFEATED EMILY

SO WOOOOOO

but NOOOOOO BECAUSE SHE'S TRAPPED AND THE DOCTOR IS CRYING SO MUCH LIKE WHYYYYYYYY

AND THEN ROGUE DISTRACTS HIM BY KISSING HIM AND IT'S SUPER ROMANTIC BUT ALSO WRONG TIME GUYS BUT THEN HE HAS THE REMOTE AND THE DOCTOR'S SO FLUSTERED HE DOESN'T NOTICE BUT SUDDENLY ROGUE IS SACRIFICING HIMSELF

AND THEN HE'S LIKE

✨Find me✨

DEVASTATING

IT WAS DEVASTATING

and oh my goddddd the FLOWERSSSSS

Ruby's like STOP PRETENDING YOU'RE OK COME HERE YOU NEED A HUG

and then the Doctor looks at his ring thoughtfully like OH MY LOVE I WILL FIND YOU

and then dumdeedum dumdeedum dumdeedum dudududuh

(you know how I just typed the theme tune? well turns out as soon as I typed the word 'dum' IT WAS ALL IN MY TEXT PREDICTION!??!?? HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TYPED THE DOCTOR WHO THEME TUNE!?!?!?!?)

*sigh* I will now rewatch it and rewatch it and rewatch it

[star-girl69]

i lied. i’m back earlier than expected bc i’m spiraling about jesse bc i went back and rewatched all the tik toks she’s in and i have no one to talk about it with (it’s actually one of the only things getting me thru my grieving process). my one friend doesn’t want to entertain my crushes anymore 😔 i think she got fed up the past 6 years with all the woso players 🤭 ANYWAYS jesse is sooooo. she’s just soooo. godddddd. she is so cutie patootieeeeee. she’s this small 🤏🏼 actually i want to put her in my pocket

- jesse compher anon

JESSE COMPHER ANON OH HOW I MISSED YOU!!!! WELCOME BACK

I hope your grieving process is going smoothly you’ve been in my thoughts fr 😞🙏🙏 but I’m so glad Jesse has been helping ❤️

LMAO REAL I told my friend about like this actual irl crush i have on a girl and I was like “yeah but I’ve never made eye contact w her so 💔” and then she went “that seems to be a common thread w your crushes” LIKE WTF???? CAN YOU NOT.

We need more supportive friends…… sigh…..

I agrée heavily w the pocket statement 🫡

Anyways here’s to wishing that November 30 will come sooner ❤️

[cricketchaology]

resident alien rewatch 2.03

- babby liv !!!!

- oh harry running around the walls looks so….

- tbh i completely forgot liv & mike saw harry

- it’s crazy that ben doesn’t have like. any guy friends. like what do you mean mike is who he thought to ask to go out for a night

- godddddd there need to be more gay women in this show PLEASE

- “of all the gin joints in the world this one is closest to my house” sounds like my dad

- why is mike giving ben such detailed instructions on how to kill himself 😭😭😭😭😭 also ben literally looks like he’s gonna start weeping

- i am once again on. god harry and asta bpd fp parallels

- me when my wife and all her beautiful friends come to beat me up in the middle of the night

- it’s funny how the alien is no longer interesting come season 2. like harry’s plotlines is kinda nothing tell me more about this freaky women

- it was ur idea for me to pretend to be plastic 🤯🤯

- max flirting with sahar :(

- harry vanderspeigle spreedrunning feminism

- D’ARCYYYYYY LOVE YOUUUU

- i really don’t understand what happened in the middle of this season 😭😭😭 it starts so strong and then falls off so hard like i’m having a great time rn why do i remember this season being bad

[icy-watch]

From @little-nightfury17

#interesting how its two colors now#the Merge had to have done something to it

I know some animation changes were made from Crystalized to this. I would genuinely need to go back and rewatch the first part of s1e1 to see if there's a different. If the Merge did something to his powers or his amnesia did something, this id def something of note.

From @penofwildfire

#godddddd she's devastatedddddddd 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

We're all devastated for her.

From @rainofthetwilight

#HER SLUMP OH MY GOD 😭😭😭😭#she's devastated bruh auagwgqhvehquHahdghqjsh 😭😭😭😭😭

HER SLUMP!

Oh, that look on her face.

[mochitoaster]

WHAT IF I EXPLODDDEDDDDDDDEDEDECJXKSHXBHXUXHHXXHXHDHDHJDHD BEE ADN PUHPPYCAT OH MY GODDD

[ID: Six gifs, five of which are cats committing various acts of violence or otherwise grabbing the camera. The fifth of the six gifs is a gelatinous pompompourin wiggling all about and kicking it’s legs. /end ID.]

[littleholmes]

In honor of s2 + OVA news, I’m making a sequel to my “rewatching sk8 for the 1000 time…” post, so even more moments and quotes I still love every time I watch this series include:

“Just keep in mind you gotta pick out trucks that work with them” “A pickup truck?!” “Ohh my godddddd!”

“Reality’s brutal my dudes.”

“It sounds a little weird to be a cat.” “Who are we to say what sounds cats can and can’t make!”

"Oh, you poor dear, you must be dehydrated!"

Group trip supervisor Shadow trying to gather everyone in an organized way when they first arrive getting burned by everyone as they skate off except Langa who thanks him before leaving

“Where’s that smile? Where is iiiit? Tell meeeee! Blahhhhhh!”

ಠ_ಠ “You jumped over a twig right?”

“SUUUUURRRRE! *baby talk voice* Look how cute these are! Could you just die?”

“So freakin’ scary!!” “So gross and smelly!!” “I’m so freaked out!!!” “I’m so grossed out!!!”

Sketchy the fennec fox being the absolute cutest and 1000% done with the boys’ shenanigans

“He sparked frickin’ joy?! Cool coolcoolcool.”

“Real talk dude, do you brush your teeth?”

“I’ll be at the finish line. Push me.” “Yes, princess. What, did ya fire Carla or something?”

Shadow napping in the car while the under 18 trio practices

“You’re that guy from the love hotel.” “EXCUSE YOU?!” “No! That’s not what I mean!” “What is a love hotel?” “Now you’re pushing it.”

"Do they serve any poutine?" "Grow up! I'm getting pizza!😋"

“Says the four-eyed food snatcher!” “I ordered it!” “Well you’re getting this!”

“He’s charring his chesticles for locals in heat. Such a thirsty gorilla.”

“That’s deep, eh?”

Everyone reminding Reki he should be healing his injuries

"Buuuuut....😊there's no brain damage!"

"Is that a real bento box?!"

"Cherry Blossom only exists on that mountain"

"Oh for the love of—and you brought the kids😒."

"C'mon Oka, play your manager card."

Kaoru’s laugh when Adam slips in the rain

“Fluffy what?” “Whatever you want. I will not be forced to pick a favorite angel.”

“Why are you such an idiot?” “Awww…so sweet.” *Reki’s grandma and three sisters stare at him like 😯😮😧😦*

“No human body should ingest five hamburgers!” *cuts to Langa minding his business eating a burger with nine more in front of him and a super poutine being served*

“Ms. Tokyo University needs a nap.”

“I need an adult!!!”

Reki’s mom burning things when he’s not okay because she’s worried and back to cooking things perfectly when he’s happy again

“I never would’ve guessed Peepaw Shadow would come through with something like this for 3000 yen!” “Guys…we’re over here!”

“I hate to rob you of your tingles but that’s not how this is going down.”

“Well, you can’t give up, you promised you wouldn’t leave us. I’ll forgive you for being a jerk if you come with me. Get up. Let’s go.”

Shadow watching the race in the hospital in the middle of the night and screaming in excitement

"What is it you require to turn a meal into a mouthgasm?" “A what?!”

“Why are you a dumbass?”

“Daddy!!! Mommy’s mad and said if you don’t come back she’ll kill you🥺” “What?! That is NOT your mom!” “Dude’s a dad…”

“We’re both watching the same race, sweetie”

“Oh my god I hope it’s me!”

Reki running off to find Langa and repair their relationship

“Thanks for the senior discount.”

“C’mon, let’s bet on it Kaoru!” “Don’t ever use that name again! *kicks Joe in his ass* Idiot!” *Joe’s little laugh*

Skate Fan/Fun

“I’ll go return the car for you! 😊….*sees teenagers in all the seats* WHAT THE HELL?!!”😠

[littencloud9]

HI I JUST REWATCHED THE ALOLA LEAGUE AND I AM IN MY TRUSTEDPARTNER F E E L S I WILL BE SCREAMING ABOUT THEM RN IGNORE THIS IF U WANT

oh my god oh my god oh my GOD THEY ARE IN LOVE YOUR HONOUR AHJSAHJSHAJSHJASHJASHJHSA

i love?? how they keep impressing each other???? like melmetal's appearance, zoroark acting as lycanroc, night daze, breakneck blitz vs never ending nightmare, using electroweb to bounce back, using stone edge as a stepping stone, fucking counter against counter like UGHHH THEY'RE SO IMPRESSED BY EACH OTHER IT'S SO CUTE I CANNOT HANDLE

AND LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE SO MUCH FUN LIKE !!! they just LAUGHED for a good FIFTEEN SECONDS BECAUSE THEY'RE HAVING SO MUCH FUN AND I ADORE THEM I ADORE THEM SO MUCH,,,

AND EVEN EVERYONE ELSE CAN SENSE IT LIKE!!!!! WICKE !!!!!!!! she straight up called them romantic in the sub AND YEAH. YEAH WICKE UR SO RIGHT AND I AM SO MAD THAT THE DUB REPLACED ROMANTIC TENSION WITH EPIC DRAMA. COWARDS. JUST SAY IT THEY ARE IN LOVEVEVEVEVEVVE

and GODDAMIT even after the battle gladion's like let's do this again and ash is like YES and like THEY ADMIRE EACH OTHER SO MUCH?? LIKE EVEN DURING THE BATTLE THEY WERE STILL YELLING COMPLIMENTS AT EACH OTHER. THATS SO GAY FAM.

and WOWOWOWOOW when ash beat guzma gladion was like :) I WANTED TO CRY HE IS SO PROUD. HE IS SO PROUD OF HIS BOYFRIEND.

how the anime went:

ash: ???

gladion: time to wake up, my friend

how it SHOULDVE went

ash: ???

gladion: time to wake up, my love

HJHFJDHFJDHFJDFHJDHFJHJSDHFJFHSJKDFHSJKDFH THEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY THEY ARE SO CUTE THEY ARE SO FUCKING CUTE

what's gayer? being gay, or whatever the FUCK these two have going on??

and it's so nice that gladion's the rival that ash won against. like they're not just awesome rivals but also AMAZING friends and they never doubt each other ever and they've watched each other grow and WOWOW YALL'S RELATIONSHIP BLOSSOMED SO NICELY I HSHA,JskjadggsgKJASDAHKJ

also! when gladion and kiawe were battling and they were like: one of us will battle ash in the finals. and that will be ME

idk fam,,, that was gay as fuck

I JUST. I JUST LOVE THEM. THEY'RE ALWAYS SO PROUD OF EACH OTHER AND THEY'VE NEVER ONCED PUT THE OTHER DOWN BUT NEITHER HAVE THEY PLACED THE OTHER ON THE PEDESTAL AND WORSHIPPED THEM AND I JUST,,, THEY'RE ALWAYS ON THE SAME LEVEL AND THAT'S SO BEAUTIFUL

LIKE WHY CANT PEOPLE SEE THEM THEY ARE SUCH A GOOD COUPLE BOTH PLATONICALLY AND ROMANTICALLY,, THE POTENTIAL. POKEANI I AM ON MY HANDS AND KNEES PLEASE MAKE THEM CANON

do u know the pain?? of going through fanfic and fanart crying about these two?? bc same

and oh my GOD their league battle just makes me SO HAPPY can u guys tell i really love them yet. CAN YOU.

i'm just. they are the reason i live and it's honestly concerning.

AND THEY ARE BOTH SO PASSIONATE ABOUT BATTLING EACH OTHER LIKE GLADION WAS PROBABLY READY TO TRAIN THE NIGHT AWAY IF LUSAMINE AND LILLIE DIDNT APPROACH HIM. HE WAS ALL LIKE: it's a very important battle i want to be as prepared as possible AND HELL YEAH IT'S IMPORTANT. YALL HAVE COME SO FAR IT IS EVERYTHING

godddddd everytime gladion SMILES just WATCHING ash it makes my heart <3333333 FUCK NOW I WANT TO WRITE A FIC ABOUT HIS THOUGHTS WHEN ASH WAS BATTLING FABA HAU GUZMA AND EVEN PROF KUKUI I JUST... THEY ARE IN LOVE

how many times do i need to reiterate this? THEY ARE IN LOVE IN FUCKING LOVE YOUR HONOUR

ash: *does something cool*

gladion: :)

ash: fuck im gay

THATS HOW IT GOES I TAKE NO CRITICISM

also lillie and wicke highkey ship them together and i will DIE on this hill. AND THEIR POKEMON TOO. i cant decide if i like their lycanrocs being the biggest shippers, pikachu and silvally, or umbreon. bc lets be real they all notice anyway

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

THANK YOU

[thethirdwheel404]

Med Rewatch Series (#16)

S3 E16: An Inconvenient Truth.

Episode description: After taking the lead on a surgery, Dr. Bekker feels the heat after something goes wrong. Dr. Manning and Dr. Charles are faced with a tough decision concerning the gender of a 9-year-old girl.

YOOO okay. Big Ava ep, ig. Also, in the previous breakdown I talked about how Ava seems to be losing her confidence, which leads directly into this ep, the prophesized panic attack/breakdown episode. How exciting. I will say, good lead in, from the previous episode.

Let’s get into it.

- connor will bromance is tops

- maggie waiting for sarah by the elevators, tapping the charge phone anxiously. nice of her. she cares.

- sarah just... watching. from the outside. it’s so interesting. bc most people whose fmaily members are getting worked on are emotional, and sarah is, but she also knows a good deal. just the... little signs of anxiety. the way her eyes just scan the scene

- sarah not going up with them

- sarah doing mental calculations, you can see it. trying to figure out if its worth ‘it’

- personally, no, bc getting close to him means inevitably leaving chicago and ava so

- connor covering for sarah. chef’s kiss. good for him

- noah trying to help sarah is nice, and funny, and a little exhausting.

- sarah in the basic white top. v professional

- noah’s ‘yes sir.’ respect the patient. (especially bc april knows him)

- OOOO AVA WITH ROLLED UP SLEEVES hahaha wowwww

- i just took a very deep breath

- ava smiling and poking fun at connor. you love to see it.

- god their back and forth is just fantastic

- connor: “are you rooting for my success?”

- ava: “not at all, i just hate winning by default.” - the way she enunciated that so deep!

- she’s confident again (that will change)

- why must she suffer. i am so scared

- god, everytime she’s on screen, i’m just like.. . <3<3<3

- ava sits back and lets them talk. let’s them set the details of the case, before she gives her two cents

- oh god she’s gonna mess up i am so fucking scared to see her like that

- like excited too but still

- AVA SUBTLY ROLLING HER EYES AT CONNOR DISAGREEING WITH HER. RAISING AN EYEBROW

- ava being so cocky with connor. it’s what she deserves

- ava immediately accusing connor of messing up? dare I say,,, defense mechanism.

- maggie telling noah to back off. good.

- the tremble in ava’s voice when she realizes it’s her suction cup, and her trying to push forward

- ava lashing out at connor

- the shake in her voice as she pushes herself as far as she can w/o breaking in the surgery

- she cannot get out of there fast enough

- aw no she’s sad

- if they kiss rn i’m gonna jump off a bridge

- GOD SAD AVA HITS SO HARD

- like, just everything. the way she leans against the lockers -

- connor misreading ava so hard. thinking she’s worried about her reputation, when really she just almost killed her patient. she cares about her patient’s well being, not her rep.

- this story where noah pretends to be this patient’s son is actually such a good moment. he’s a good guy.

- sarah being floored by this act of kindness

- sarah and her backpack again!

- sarah and noah talking is nice. know why? bc he is the only person she interacts with regularly that isn’t charles. she actually gets to have a conversation w/o ungodly amounts of stress and weight on her. she gets to smile! thank god for that

- ava, standing in latham’s office, tense, arms held behind her, standing at attention. (you can obviously tell that she’s anxious)

- connor trying to take the fall for ava. come on. (okay, you can make the argument that he knows his rep will carry him through. using his privilege for good?)

- and the annoyance (or confusion, i can’t tell) on her face

- YOOOO WHAT. THAT IS LIKE THE FIFTH TIME SHE’S OPENED THE DOOR FOR HIM. okay come on what is this pattern i’m seeing. honestly. this is insane

- GODDDDDD the adorable little shoulder bump?!?!?! bros to the max. that is adorable holy shit

- her small little smile (at this point i don’t even have to point it out, it’s pedantic)

- this ava/connor interaction and banter is peak

- william is an idiot

Okay. Honestly, not as big of an Ava ep as I thought. What did we get to see? Well, we saw what happens when she messes up at work, when she experiences a lot of stress/anxiety. This was specifically related to the well being of her patient and her not trusting (to an extent) her own abilities. Oddly enough, the anxiety resolved itself, so i don’t think there are any loose threads.

This ep did contribute to Connor’s hero complex, as well so...

We got to see Sarah have a positive conversation with Noah, which means she smiled, which is always good.

Specific to the rewrite, I don’t really see any details that need to be overwritten. All the storylines in this episode were really good, not that messy at all. So...

At the most, this ep gave us Ava under anxiety, panicking. But not so much as to make impulsive decisions. This actually wasn’t really a panic, it was more fear. she was scared of her abilities, of her mistakes. (I argue that under anxiety, high stress, not necessarily fear, she makes impulsive decisions, like sleeping with Connor, which I argued in a previous post). That is what happens under anxiety. Under fear, she starts to panic, breaks down.

So, yeah, if you believe me and think that she only slept with Connor out of anxiety, then now we’ve seen two sides of Ava’s negative thoughts. This has actually been good work

thanks for stickin with it. i am so sorry.

[gaysteviebudd]

holy shit idk how i never noticed but in the mvp stevie was supposed to be on ronnie's team and now i'm imagining her in a baseball uniform and i'm losing my goddamn mind

oh my godddddd i had to rewatch that and i’m dying

i can’t believe we were robbed of stevie in a baseball uniform. i know it’s important that johnny be on the team and i loved that too, and we did get the gift of stevie at cabaret rehearsal, but!! we were ROBBED we deserved to at least see her in her baseball uniform. she’d look so hot my brain’s overloading just picturing it

i can’t believe she plays baseball like did we really need any more proof that she’s a lesbian........season 6 give us a scene of stevie playing baseball with her girlfriend cheering her on, as she plays against patrick, and david and stevie’s girlfriend are up in the stands just rooting for both of them because neither of them know what sports are but they love stevie and patrick

[theabominableblogger]

Rewatching “Gotham” S3E14

On this blog, we stan one kickass butler.  And how much he loves his boy

As said before, the rest of these reaction posts I’ll be uploading are not chronological order.  They’re like that because A) college and B) more college.

My sister watched it with me (as well as the other episodes left in my epic “Gotham” reaction series) so my comments will be in bold, and hers will be in regular font.  Author’s notes courtesy of me will be bolded and italicized.

AN:   I managed to record our reactions to this episode and hopefully I can transcribe what I said into this post. 

*gasps as a grenade gets thrown into the precinct*

Jesus God!

Ohhhhh my gosh!

*both freak out over the opening titles*

Molotov cocktails- bet you can’t have just one.

Meanwhile Jeremiah’s like “Eh.  Bazooka.”  *chuckles*

You are walking straight into a trap, Oswald.

*Ed walks in*  I bet you’re wondering why I’ve brought you all here today...

Oswald has like freaking umbrella cufflinks, did you notice that?

*chuckles*

“Oh, you [Ed] escaped.”  Nooo....

*jaw drops as Ed shoots Oswald’s men*

*shook*

“Just wondering if I [Ed] was gonna have to reload.”  Jesus God.

“...what’s happening...”  ‘What’s happening?’  He’s been playing you for a sap!

...Like the cheap kazoo you are.

*starts pretending to play “Amazing Grace” on the kazoo*

*claps hands for each word*  JUSTICE FOR ISABELLA, I swear!

*claps hands*  Yes!

“Isabella was my everything, and you [Oswald] took her from me.”  [Ed] YOU MET HER [Isabella] LIKE A DAY AGO!

*laughs*  You met her in like a span of a day!

*claps hands*  She still deserves better!

I know!  I still think she’s a useless character though.

I don’t care!  She deserved better!

“You [Oswald] still have your life.  But that ends tonight!”  *starts singing “Tonight” from “West Side Story” without trying to giggle*

*chuckles*  You weren’t kidding about the random songs.

Seriously, I do it all the time!

Court of Owls!

The only thing I will never find plausible about the Court of Owls is this idea of “Oh, they’ve been ruling over Gotham from the shadows this whole time,” bullshit.

*both do rising spooky hands*

OK though, I don’t know her name, they don’t give her a name, but she’s like the best.  You see her in previous episodes, she’s like the secretary.  Girl, you rule!

 *puts hands together*  Well, I’m gonna give her a name.  Because in the 66 series, Gordon’s secretary is named Bonnie.

Bonnie!  Ooh, I like that name.

You never actually see Bonnie, you just hear her on the intercom.

“Meanwhile, Cobblepot’s MIA.  You call down to City Hall, and literally no one’s in charge.  Although that might actually be good news.”  *both laugh*

*giggles*  They capitalized “dumpster” on the [close captioning on Netflix]

*waves hands in air in imaginary rainbow*  DUMPster!

“He’s [Jerome] not one to miss out on the fun, so what does he want?”  “A puppy?!?”  *laughs*

“[Oswald] You saw a man that I [Ed] met in Indian Hill that does killer impersonations [Clayface].”  *both end up nodding in agreement*

That’s one way to put it.

I mean, yeah...

“GHOSTS AREN’T REAL!”  Pfft!

“But my father’s remains... you stole them from his grave?”  WHAT NAH WHAT?!?

When did that happen?

I don’t know....

“I [Ed] gently placed his [Elijahs’] remains inside a dumpster behind a Chinese restaurant.”  Oh that’s just mean!

That’s awfuuulll!

That’s meeeaannn!

“You were angry.  I [Oswald] understand.  I even forgive you.”  I love how Ed’s like “Son of a bitch...” and he adjusts his glasses before he turns back.

“So you [Oswald] admit you killed Isabella?”  “Fine.  Is that what you want?”  “Yes.”  *groans in frustration*

“You [Ed] should thank me [Oswald] because we both know what would have happened if I hadn’t!”  *bug eyes in alarm*

WHAAAATTT?!?

“I [Ed] could have lived a life with the woman I loved!”  *both clap hands and aggressively point fingers at screen in agreement*

See see see see?!?  Yes!  God!  Thank you!

“No, Ed.  You would have killed her!”  *leans back*  NOOOOOOOOO!!!

“Just like you did the other one!”  NOOOOOO!!!

Justice for Kristen Kringle too because I’m still pissed about that.

Yeah, I know, I know!  Yeah, I hated what happened to her.

“I did it for love.”  “What?!?”  What?

“I did it because I love you.”  *laughs in frustration*

“Love is about sacrifice!  It’s about putting someone else’s needs before your own!”  *splays hand towards screen in agreement*

“'Cause the truth is, Oswald, you would sacrifice anyone to save your own neck.”  *silently nods in agreement*

“Even me.”  Uh Ed, you’d do it too.  *laughs*

I was gonna say, how does the guy who literally strangled his last girlfriend to death know more about love than [Oswald]?!?

“Now, if you'll look above us, you will see a cauldron of highly corrosive acid, which is currently being held in place by this chain.  When the ice melts, the chain comes loose, the vat of acid tips... you get the idea.”  This is such a Batman 66 trap.

I was gonna say Professor Ratigan but that works too.

*in unison*  Snap!  Boom!  Twang!  Thunk!  Splat!

I mean, if you look really closely at the 66 Riddler, dude was like freaking Jigsaw.

He wasn’t in a wheelchair though.

*in best Jigsaw voice*  Hello, Oswald.

Suck a dick, Oswald,  Though not his dick- you might get mange.

*buries face in elbow*  OH MY GODDDDDD!!

I’m surprised too.

OH MY GOODDDDDDD!!

“I mentioned that you [Jim] killed my husband on our wedding night,and he [Jerome] thought that was hilarious, so that’s something the two of you can bond over when you find him.”  Lee’s just amazing.

LEEEEEEE!!!

Lee deserves better.

Though later, Lee’s like “Mmm, I’m still like extremely angry about this.  Tetch Virus!”  and I’m like “WHY?!?!?!?”

Tetch Virus AKA Dumb Plot Device.

Dull!

“I’ll’’ [Alfred] nip downstairs and see if there’s any life left in that old generator.”  Does he have like no other- did the Waynes have any other staff besides Alfred?

I don’t know...

I’ve always wondered that.

I don’t know.  They never really bring it up.

“Alfred....”  Don’t do it!

*both freak out when Alfred gets jumped by cult followers*

Ohhhh shit!

*Jerome walks in, pretending to be a ghost*  Pfffttt...

Seriously like, where did he get that outfit?

It’s a straitjacket!  He nicked it out of Arkham, I’m sure.

Or it’s like “Oh I’m sorry, gotta find my old friend Bruce.  Oh SYKE!  Outfit change!”

He’s extra enough to do that.

The Valeska twins are just extra to the core.  They’re from the circus, they’re judgy.

*chuckles*  It comes with the territory.

“Teenagers, am I [Jerome] right?”  You are one!

If I recall, he’s like a couple years older than Bruce.

*shakes head*

I would say he’s about [my sister’s] age.

Ohhh OK.

*The owl statue doesn’t break when Jerome drops it*  It stuck!

*groans in frustration when Jerome ends up breaking the owl statue*

“Right.  Sorry.  The old noodle’s still a little al dente post-thaw.”  *laughs*  Al dente?  Is that a pasta?

Don’t know....  I mean, I imagine, waking up from the dead, your brain would feel a little bit like spaghetti.

AN:  Yeah, al dente describes pasta or rice that’s supposed to firm when you eat it. 

“It’s been nagging at me since I [Jerome] woke up.  The idea of slitting that pretty, pink throat of yours...”  Don’t ever refer to Bruce as pretty pink anything.

*imitates the way Jerome twirls his knife in the air before pointing it at Bruce*

“And you’re [Jerome] just going to kill me here?  That’s kinda disappointing.”  You have got balls of steel, Bruce.

*mouths along with Jerome as he says “Flair?  Hmmm?  Style?  Panache?!?”*

He’s like Alex from “A Clockwork Orange”

“I’m Bruce Wayne.”  “I’m aware.”  *both wheeze in laughter*

“My [Bruce’s] company is the machine that keeps the cogs of Gotham running.”  OH MY GOD, you badass!

“You’re saying I [Jerome] need an audience?”  Took you long enough to get it!

*tries not to laugh when Jerome suddenly dips into a British accent in front of Alfred*

“I [Bruce] will see you [Alfred] again.”  *pats chest*  God, I love their relationship in this shoooow!

That was like straight out of “Arkham Origins,” I swear...

I know....

*Oswald still tries to get out of Ed’s trap*  Couldn’t you just like slide up though?  Just shimmy up?

He can’t go far...

“I happen to be the mayor of Gotham...”  *ends up cracking up at the delivery of that line*

“What did you do?”  *scoffs in hilarity*

*Oswald gets out of the trap just in time*  SHIIIT!!

OH IT ATE STRAIGHT THROUGH THE CAR.

*Jerome’s followers trash the manor in front of Alfred*  Damn!

“And how ‘bout you, Mr. Machete?  Come on in, sunshine. Don’t be shy. Your mother wasn’t. Chop-chop.”  *BOTH JAWS DROP IN SHOCK*

*ends up wheezing*

DAAAAAMMMNNNN!!

GOOOO ALFRED!!!

YEESSSSSS!!!

WHERE THE HELL DID YOU [Jim] COME FROM?!?

He snuck in!  That’s why Alfred was saying all that stuff.  He was letting Jim know where everybody was.

Ohhhhhhh.... OK.

*on verge of losing voice*  HE [Alfred] JUST STABBED HIM [the follower] WITH A MACHETE!

HOLY SHIT!

*reels back*  OH ALFRED, YOU BADASS!

Holy shit!

OH MY GOD!

That was awesome!

Oh my God!

*Bruce arrives at the cult circus*  Amusement Mile... I swear this is Amusement Mile..

I think so.  It’s one of the few permanent landmarks Gotham has across incarnations.

*ends up wincing at half of the games the cult plays*

This is like a mix between “The Purge” and “Hell Fest”

Oh God.

That’s literally what this is.

“What do you say, Bruce?  Wanna have some fun before the main event?”  That’s a cool shot [of Jerome].

Hooo hooo...

*dives across room to put on hat for rest of episode*

Alfred’s like “I don’t care, I’m not police, I’m goin’ in!”

Oh my God...

Yess!  Like the badass you are, Alfred!

*winces when Jerome stabs a follower beside him*

*both groan in horror when Jerome uses the blood to paint a frown on Bruce’s face*

*freezes when Tabitha snags her whip around Oswald’s neck*

Oh shit!

“Now, where’s Nygma?”  “I [Oswald] don’t know.”  If he’d knew, he’d murder his ass.

“[Butch] Stop pretending that you are anything but muscle!  Yes, you used to be someone in Gotham, but those days are in the past!”  You stop pretending that you have any pull in this situation, Oswald.  You’re the one who has a whip around your neck!

“Remember when I [Tabitha] put a knife in your mom’s back?”  Oh yeah, she’s the one that killed the mom.  And it SUCKED!

“You [Oswald] never did anything about it.”  *cups hands with mouth*  S4 finale!

*proceeds to smack laptop with hat*

*bug eyes when Butch knocks out Oswald*

“You [Butch] realize you have to carry him now.”  *both chuckle*

C’mon, he weighs like 120 pounds tops.

Soaking wet.

“A few dozen brainwashed maniacs can’t keep the city hostage forever.”  “Well, duh...”  Pffttt...

“The point is that all these people out here, looting, robbing, killing, they're the people who wash your car, who pour your coffee, who take out your trash.  And what happened the moment the lights went out?  They showed their true faces.  They showed how quickly they want to open up your rich boy veins and bathe in your blue blood.”  *very softly*  Oooh, that’s a good line.

“There are good people in Gotham.”  This is the Killing Joke.  ‘All it takes is one bad day.’

“Face it, kid:  Gotham has no heroes.”  Yeah, but the people who crawl under their beds and lock their doors are the ones that are biding their time.

*Bruce pushes Jerome so that he messes up his shot*  Ooohhh!

“Foul!  He pushed me!  Did you see that?!?”  Genesis of Batman and Joker’s relationship:  a shove!

*softly*  Jesus Christ....

*The “punk” ends up being dropped anyway*  Oh my God...

*both yell in disgust when Jerome has to re-staple part of his face*

“Did that hurt?”  *z-snaps in shock*

*Jerome puts a staple in Bruce’s arm*  Did he [Bruce] just No-Sell-

Ohhh!  Ohhh!  YES!  YES HE DID!  Yes he did!

*both yell when Jerome does it again*

Aaahhh!  Aahh, that was on the wrist too!

“Stop!”  He took two!  He took two of those!

Over the wrist too!  God, that’s a major vein!

Did you see Jerome there?!?  He’s like “Well, wait a minute...”

*imitates the dramatic way Jerome puts his hat back on*

“Where the hell is our back up?”  Still two minutes out.”  Alfred is your back up!

*chuckles*  All you need is Alfred!

“All right, so we [Jim, Harvey, and Alfred] go in, find Bruce, get him to safety, then we go after Jerome.  Ready?”  “Not really.”  *chuckles*

*Jerome comes out in his ringmaster costume* AAAAHHHH THE SUIT!!

Oh, that’s so cool.

YESS!!

*Jerome slaps his butt*  Did he-

Yes he did.

“The show is about toooo...begin!”  He [Jerome] was doing a Mark Hamill voice there for a second!

I know!  He does the Mark Hamill laugh sometimes.

Ohhh that’s badass!

Yeah.

*both try to laugh at the stock crowd gasp when Jerome shoots a rowdy audience member*

Y’know what, he [Jerome] would be the guy that would carry around canned sound effects like that.

“So, how to thank the best darn cult of fanatics a messiah like myself [Jerome] could ask for?”  *chuckles*  Oh my God...

“I give you-”  *does small verbal keyboard smash when the ta-da fanfare stock sound goes off*

“QUEUE!”  *laughs*

*Bruce gets carted out*  Oh my God.

*mouths along with Jerome saying “Or better yet.... a boom?,” dramatic hand gesture included*

*The cannon gets rolled out*  They’re gonna shoot his ass out of a cannon?!?

*laughs*  Yeah, like Jerome’s gonna fly out of a cannon!

NO, Y’KNOW WHAT?!?  I would pay good money to see that though!

*legitimately trying not to cry laughing*  I can just see Cameron Monaghan going *makes flying sound effect*

No, like they’re gonna bada bing bada boom [shoot Bruce with the cannon]

Oh OK.

*laughs*

OK, y’know what, I would have bought it either way!

*keels over laughing*  I’m just imagining Cameron Monaghan.... WHHHEEEEEUUUU!!!

AN:  Please God someone draw this, I’m begging you.

“NAILED IT” AS HE [Jerome] POURS IN NAILS!

*both yell in horror at Jerome pouring various kitchen knifes into the cannon*

“Whatever you do, please, definitely try this at home.  Preferably on a family member.”  *wheezes*

“WHOOO!  DOGGIE!”  Somebody saw “Dr. Strangelove.”

Cameron’s like “Yes, I’m getting PAID!”

“Ready, partner?”  *hits desk with hat*

*Alfred starts beating up cult members*  Go Alfred!

Go Alfred!

*mutters*  You magnificent boss, you...

*both laugh when Jerome’s hat gets shot off*

*Jerome sets off the cannon fuse*  Oooooooooohhhhhhh!!

*yells*

*Bruce starts to pick the handcuffs off*  C’mon, Bruuuuuuucceee.... c’mon, Bruuuuucccceee...

C’mon, last handcuff.  You got this.

*Bruce loses one of the staples*  Oooohhhhhhh!!!

Knock the thing [the stand that Bruce is on] over!  Knock the thing over!  Knock it over so at least you’re out of range!

Well he has one more [staple] though in his wrist.  Or does he?  Yeah, he has one more!

*in unison*  C’mon, c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon!

*jaws drop when Jim and Alfred discover the remnants of the staff that Bruce barely escaped from*

HOLY CRAP!

He broke it?!?

I guess...

Oh no, we gotta back to this [Ed and Oswald drama]!  *hits leg with hat*  Nooooo!!

“I [Oswald] I underestimated you, Barbara.”  *sarcastically*  NAAAHHH, really?!?

I hate that dress [the striped one Barbara wears].  I hate that dress so much.

Holy crap,  ooooohhhh... that’s from Tabitha’s whip [the mark on Oswald’s neck]!

Ooooohhhh... euugghhh...

“So I [Oswald] help you [Barbara] find Ed... things go better for me... I don’t know, you kill me?  That about it?”  That’s just about the sound of it.

“Yeah.”  Yeah.

*Bruce runs into the Mirror Maze*  Oohhhhhhhhh...

Oooohhhhh here we go.

“Bruce, darling.”  *points excitedly at screen*

This is the scene!

This is the one “Dark Knight Returns” homage I will ever accept.

*Jerome in front of the mirrors*  OH MY GOOOOSSSHHH!  Look at that!

That’s awesome.

That is amazing!

That is the coolest damn thing.

Ooooooooooooohhhhh!!

*Bruce comes into the frame*  Whooooo hoo hooo hooooo!!

*shocked*  Oh shit!

“You’re [Jerome] going to pay for what you’ve done.”  *snaps fingers excitedly*

Daaamn, son!

“What’s going on?  [Oswald] You have a weird look on your face.   Like, weirder than normal.”  *scoffs in hilarity*

“Oswald, you loved him, and he [Ed] betrayed you.”  Kill him!  Kill the love you feel!  Prove that death is stronger than love!  And you can have your own life again!

Yes, I quoted “Once on This Island,“ what of it?

“But I killed Isabella... because I wouldn’t share him.”  Yeah, no shit, eh?

“Ed said love is sacrifice.”  *buries face in hat*

“I shoudl have been able to sacrifice my happiness for his.”  It took you this long?!?

*both shook when Ed walks in*

[Oswald] You are so dead now...

“You’re [Ed and Barbara] in this together.”  Yeah, no shit, eh?

“I [Ed] wanted you [Oswald] to die knowing that you were incapable of loving another person.”  “But I can.  I just proved that, right?!?”  No, you didn’t.

You notice that Bruce is like right beside him [Jerome]!

Yep.

“Let’s do this mano y mano.... my little conquistador [Bruce].”  Ahhhhh, don’t call him that.

*gasps when Bruce tackles Jerome from behind*

Shit!

“What kind of hero tackles someone from behind?!?”  *chuckles in shock*

*gasps when Bruce beats Jerome to the ground and starts the beatdown*

Keep going!

*Bruce picks up a piece of glass to stab Jerome with*  Oh shit!

*both too much in the moment to say anything when Bruce decides not to kill Jerome*

*out of breath*  Go Alfred...

C’mon, Alfred!

*both raise our hands and cheer when Bruce runs to hug Alfred*

*Jerome stumbles out toward Bruce and Alfred*  OoOOhhhhh!!  Ohhhh boy...

Take his ass out!  He’s not gonna last much longer!

*yells in shock when Jim runs up and punches Jerome*

*both yell and reel back in horror/disgust when Jerome’s face gets punched off*

*trying not to laugh*  His face is back off!

His face...

*in unison, with fancy hand gesture*  Off!

*giggles*  Had to lighten the mood somehow.

HE [Jim] JUST PUNCHED A DUDE’S FACE OFF!

*laughs*  How often can you literally say that?

I KNOW!

“[Harvey] You wish I [Jim] would’ve shot him [Jerome]?”  “Eh, he’d probably just come back from the dead again.”  “Probably.”  *both stifle a laugh*

“At least you [Jim] get to say you punched a man’s face off.”  Exactly!

EEeeyyyyyyyy!

*grumbles and hits desk with hat*  But Jeremiah dies in the next season.

Jeremiah?

*keels over*  SON OF A-

*evil laugh*

There’s twins!  Shut up!

“Well, got to say the clown makeup was way more terrifying than the damage underneath, Master Bruce.”  Pfft.

“Did I [Alfred] ever tell you that I don’t like clowns?”  *bug eyes in horror*

*whispers*  You’re not gonna like Jeremiah then.

He’s less clownish than [Jerome]

True.

I love this orange lighting

“Shall I [Alfred] tell you [Bruce] what I thought?  I thought how proud I was of you.”  *puts hands to chest*

“Of the man you’ve become.”  *smiles*

“I almost killed him, Alfred.”  But you didn’t.

“But if you [Bruce] keep going, you’re gonna need rules.”  Vengeance blackens the soul, Master Bruce.  You walk the edge of that abyss every night, but you haven’t fallen over, and I thank heaven for that.

*softly*  This is that scene!

“I will not kill.”  *both raise our hands in anticipation*

SAY IT!

“Say it again.”  Say it, c’mon...

C’mon!

“I will not kill.”  *both clap hands toward screen*

YAAAASSSSS!!

My sweet badass bab!

*in dramatic Batman voice*  Sad Boy... is now... Vengeful Boy!

*laughs*

*about falls out of chair reeling back*  OH SNAP THE CLONE!

*bug eyes*

*throws hat at screen*

“I [Five] still don’t understand how I can help save Gotham.”  His voice is different!

Yeah.

That’s the doppleganger theme!

Oh shit, son!

OOOOO-OOOOHHHH!!

*Someone knocks on Jim’s door.”  Have a drink first.  No wait, you’re gonna need that.

*softly*  God damn, this freaking pier...

“Ed...I love you.”  *both so done*

“I... don’t... love you.”  *snaps fingers in agreement*

“You need me, Edward Nygma!”  No he doesn’t!

“When I [Oswald] met you [Ed], you were a nervous, jittery, loser!”  :[

“I created Edward Nygma!”  You’re full of shit

AN:  Oswald kinda has a point though.  Just sayin’...

You see him [Oswald] spitting up foam?!?

“You can’t do this...”  Yes he damn well can.

“Ed, are you listening to me?”  “...I’m listening...“  NO!  Don’t listen to him!

*both raise our eyebrows in shock when Ed shoots Oswald*

*laughs*  AND WE NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN!

Push him in!  Push him in!

*Ed pushes Oswald into the river*  YEEEEEEESSSS...

*sings*  IF YOU LOVE ME, LET ME GOOOO-OOOO-OOOOO!!

*slow jams to Penguin’s theme playing as Oswald sinks to the bottom*

Go to hell, Oswald.  I know he lives but let me have this.

*jams the crap out to the ending theme*

[miketownsends]

it’s time once again for SHEREE AND MEGAN DO A LIVEBLOG

this is for you in particular @almea

Ep. 1

hey look it's my kids again

"Literally Qrow and his sister are the most dramatic. Taking the scenic route." "He's doing it for the Aesthetic."

"I guess time slipped away from me." "Not suspicious AT ALL."

Nora is my CHILD

"I quit teaching for a reason." "Because you were the math teacher with the flask in his desk all the time? ...I had one of those."

"We have one shot at this and it needs to be perfect." "Shit u right."

"It was nice meeting you, professor." "Don't be so polite. He's a dickwad."

dude she gay stop it

"Girl u gay." "She and Beau would get along really well."

"Is there a Ruby Rose here?" "Why?" "They ready to THROW DOWN."

"Qrow is a DISASTER."

"Did Annie cry seeing Blake and Yang next to each other in the little ending song?" "She did."

Ep. 2

"His mustache is unsettling." "He reminds me of the mustache guy in Atlantis." "YES."

"I've found the Spring Maiden." "bitch u thought"

"Is the girl with them?" "Bitch she might be."

"She's looking a little dry." "She's a dusty bitch."

"Lookin' like a Witcher reject."

"WHAT ARE THESE FUCKIN SUICIDE BOMBER BUGS"

"oh my godddddd how do you have that many thorns in your moooooouth"

"We CAN win a war against the humans." "Okay, Kylo. You're better looking... well, the hair isn't great... but you have a stupid mask and red is your primary color."

"BITCH SHE WAS HOTTER THAN YOU WHY'D YOU KILL HER." "The hot ones never live long. Unless they're main characters."

"DAMN YOU DON'T GOTTA CURBSTOMP HER." "RUDE." "Her face is worth millions. Especially to Ruby."

Ep. 3

"That's a very bisexual outfit, Blake."

"That better be faux fur." "STOP."

*CHEST HAIR/FUR DISCOURSE OCCURS* "I have no idea what his whole speech has been about now."

"...I can't stop staring at his fucking chest hair now. I blame you. WHAT ABOUT HIS EYEBROWS?" "STOOOOOP" "He must pluck them, right? They're too sculpted."

"Adam Taurus does not have that goal in mind." "Adam's only goal is being a lil' BITCH."

Ep. 4

"Nah, she gonna fight you." "You gonna die bro."

"YAAAAASSS BITCH"

"I LOVE NORA SO MUCH"

"Mom." "hey bitch what's up"

"I don't care what you think!" "Saaaaaaaaame."

"Well, aren't you stubborn." "I get it from my mom." "OHHHHHHHH! OHHHHHHHHHHHHH! OHHHHHHHHH! Such a good burn."

"Let's go, smol friend. ...Oh. Now he's tol friend."

"What is that?" "It's shaped like a friend."

awwwwwwwwwwww the hug~~~~~~

Ep. 5

"And Yang was 'strength.'" "That's gay."

*Pyrrha mention* "Nooooooooo my wiiiiiiiiiiiiiife"

"And Penny... was killed." "SHUT UP"

"But your relationship with their daughter-" "She WISHES she had a relationship with their daughter."

"oh my god this is such a Kylo Ren speech"

"Look, I'd be so mad if someone got sick-ass bird wings and all I got was like, ears. Like what the fuck."

Ep. 6

"Oh look, it's Qrow being his dramatic-ass self."

"Remember that he also voices Tamaki." "I need to rewatch that." "Why didn't we ever get a season 2?" "Because the universe hates us and wants us to be unhappy."

"So, what's the truth?" *both laughing*

"Britney Spears's 'Toxic' starts playing."

"They gotta go find their girlfriends!"

LOOK I HAVE A LITTLE SISTER AND I GET EMO ABOUT SISTERS ALWAYS

THE GROUP HUG WITH WEISS I'M SO

[evenstevensranked]

#19: Season 3, Episode 15 - “The Big Splash”

Louis surprises everyone by joining the diving team, but then surprises no one by only doing cannonballs. This eventually leads to Louis reevaluating the future he envisions for himself. Should he remain a class clown forever? Or should he start taking life more seriously? Meanwhile, Ren’s on a mission to win “Best Smile” in the yearbook.

We start our episode with Tawny, Twitty and Tom (oh wow I just realized that all of Louis’ friends names start with the letter T lol) sitting in the stands at a school dive meet. Louis told them to go, yet he’s suspiciously nowhere to be found. Until a mysterious hooded guy walks out with LJH’s team, dramatically takes off the hood and… yeah. It’s Louis. Louis is apparently good at diving according to Twitty and Coach Tugnut (“Stevens, you don’t stink so bad!”) but he decides to squander his talent for laughs instead by doing cannonballs. It’s so cringy. Not only because doing cannonballs at a dive meet and soaking the entire audience & judges is beyond immature -- but, because his cannonballs are so fake lol. There’s the initial surface splash, and then an immediate second one that looks like a freaking nuclear bomb. Unless we’re all watching this from the perspective of Shallow Hal and Louis is actually 600 pounds, it makes no sense. I know it’s just for the lulz... but still. The gang gets a kick out of it.

We cut to the subplot where we see Ruby rushing around and tallying people’s votes for yearbook superlatives. Ren finds out that she’s a lock for “The Big Three” -- Most Likely to Succeed, Most Intelligent, and Best Personality. Is it just me, or is Best Personality a little debatable? (No offense, Ren.) Monique asks who’s in the lead for Best Smile and Ren gets salty when she finds out it’s some random chick Kelly Kerwin. Sooo, now Ren is determined to beat Kelly for Best Smile, as if she doesn’t currently hold the title for literally everything else. Seriously, girl. Let some other people get their time to shine. Dang. 

After school, Ren lets the cat out of the bag to Steve and Eileen about Louis joining the diving team. Steve is beyond excited and tells Louis he’ll try to make it to the next meet. Clearly, Louis does not want his family to attend and witness his latest goofball stunt. 

Next, we get a time-lapse of Ren being her own personal dentist in the bathroom before school because god forbid she doesn’t win Best Smile. It then cuts to Ren having a smile showdown at school with Kelly. This is the second time in the series where we get that annoying sepia, cowboy standoff thing. This cliché never works for me, ever. This goes on for 1 minute and 14 seconds which might seem like a short amount of time, but my god does this scene crawl by. Definitely the lowest point.

Steve decides to attend Louis’ next dive meet and brings his boss, Mr. Kupchack, along with him. Oh, boy. Tugnut compliments Kupchack’s fancy blazer and he responds “Thank you. It’s the finest Italian suede” and all Tugnut can say is “.........too bad.” HAHA. Of course, Louis gets up there and does another massive cannonball, completely soaking the audience... Including Mr. Kupchack and his fancy Italian blazer. Steve is livid and rightfully so. 

Louis’ guilt is starting to sink in... 

At home that night, Steve has a serious talk with Louis. He tells him that he was incredibly proud before the meet, (hence why he brought Kupchack along) only to be disappointed yet again. Louis tries to brush off his immature decisions by saying “I’m a kid. That’s what I do. I have fun.” But, Steve poses the question “It may be fun now… But where are you gonna be 10 years from now?” This really resonates with Louis. It cuts to a dramatic shot of him looking at a crap ton of “Class Clown” trophies later that night. Uh… When did Louis get all those trophies?! Where does he keep them? They don’t really let us see lol. It seems like they have their own private display room! Do schools even give out trophies for prestigious accomplishments such as “Seventh Grade Class Clown”? That’s the real question here. Anyway. This fades into a daydream Louis has of a 10 Year Lawrence Jr. High reunion.

As a kid, I always thought 10 years was too small of a time jump. Especially because Louis imagines Tom married with two kids and another on the way. But, 2017 marked the 10 year anniversary of my own middle school graduation. Now I'm 24 and a recent college graduate. Not to mention a lot of my friends are already getting married, having kids and starting their careers of course. So… Looking back at this as an adult, it's actually pretty accurate.

I love how since Twitty is a musician, they had to give him a ponytail down to his freaking butt.

I’d also like to point out that Tawny is a fashion designer, wearing rope lights as part of her outfit, and talks about spending time in Rome. Was Disney Channel under the assumption that clothes featuring rope lights are a high fashion ~Rome~ thing? Exhibit B:

Louis’ daydream is so depressing... but I absolutely love it. He basically imagines himself as a total screwup man-child. He can’t relate to his accomplished adult friends because he never grew out of being his middle school jokester self. It’s too real. You just cringe the entire time because everyone is trying to have a mature conversation and Louis is literally incapable of doing so. One by one, they all become annoyed by Louis’ antics and make up an excuse to leave. Twitty’s the only one left in the end and asks for Louis’ email to keep in touch. We reach the final straw when Louis says: “It’s kommanderpoopypants@laughsat.net..... With a K.” OHHHH GODDDDDD IT’S SO BAAAAADDDDD. I just wanna die of embarrassment. Twitty is fed up at this point too and peaces out. Louis snaps out of the daydream and whispers “No...” to himself -- clearly deciding against a future like that. 

The moment Twitty lost all hope. 

That whole sequence is definitely the standout moment of the episode for me. Not because of how funny it is (like you might imagine a standout Even Stevens moment to be), but because of how not funny it is. It’s something we’ve never really seen on the show before. I think taking a peek into Louis’ potential pathetic future was so great. It’s almost like they expanded on what they started in Uncle Chuck. This profound moment segues back into the pointless Best Smile drama. I think it’s kinda interesting how Louis’ plot is very existential here and Ren’s is very superficial. I wonder if that was intentional or not. 

Since Ren was so desperate to win and forced herself to smile non-stop, her facial muscles end up getting stuck in a rather disturbing grin lol oops. She’s scheduled to sing the school song at the dive meet in 5 minutes. This somehow leads to Ruby giving Ren a makeover to “distract from the mouth.” She also gives Ren the brilliant advice to cut through the steam room on her way to the pool. The end result is the long lost sister of Pennywise. Ren, The Singing Clown: 

Hiya, Georgie!! (No, but really. She looks terrifying.) 

Even though he wishes Louis would take it seriously, Steve still goes to the meet to show support. Kupchack also makes another appearance because his first-grader son (Played by Hayden Panettiere’s little brother) wants to see “The Cannonball Kid!”

Louis has built up a name for himself apparently. There’s a massive crowd there to see him! I would imagine these are the same kind of people who stand right next to the log flume ride at amusement parks just to get soaked while fully clothed for whatever unimaginable reason. 

You can see that Louis is under a lot of pressure to either give in to the weirdos in the crowd and give them the cannonball they want -- or to take the first step towards seriousness and do an actual dive. In the end, his decision to do a real dive is so admirable!!! I love it so much. But, naturally, when he emerges from the pool and declares “You know what? From this day forward... Let it be known: I am not a clown” we see that he’s standing there as naked as the day he was born. 

I was going to ask why Louis is the only team member who wears trunks instead of a speedo... but I guess this is the reason why, haha. He needed to wear something flimsy so it could fly right off of him later I guess? lol. I’d also like to point out Tawny’s freaking FACE: 

Um... okay, gurl. I always thought it was weird how she (along with, like.. 50 other people) saw her future boyfriend naked in public like that.

Anyway, Louis scurries off embarrassed and that’s it! The “final minute” bit is Ren coming home from school with a copy of the yearbook already??? She won The Big Three... and the last minute honor of “Best Class Clown.” It’s like Louis and Ren swapped stories in the end. THAT’S WHAT YOU GET, REN! That’s what you get!!! This is also the second time we see Ren wanting to achieve perfection in the yearbook and having it totally blow up in her face. 

I love this episode. It was actually the one I was most excited to rewatch while I was organizing my list. Since Louis is my favorite character, this one obviously gets a lot of “personal favorite” points for me. As I mentioned, it isn't even necessarily funny. As soon as Louis does his first cannonball, I get kinda depressed actually lol. The reason I'm ranking this one higher is because I just really love the plot-line and this more serious side of Louis which is seldom seen this prominently. In contrast to Uncle Chuck though, this episode spins the depressing factor into a positive and leaves you feeling optimistic about Louis’ future. You get the sense that he’s actually going to finally make an effort moving forward.

This episode would be even more effective if they actually aired it in production order!! “The Big Splash” is #320 in production. “Model Principal” is #319 — Ya know, the episode where Louis acts like an actual clown and singlehandedly turns the entire school into a circus??? Yeah. They decided to place that episode 3 episodes after this one. If “Model Principal” aired the episode before “The Big Splash” — LIKE IT WAS MEANT TO — it would’ve been so much better. We would’ve seen the height of Louis’ ridiculousness followed by the sobering episode where he decides to knock it off. The episodes leading up to “The Big Splash” in production order are all next-level zany Louis stuff. The few episodes that follow don’t include too much over the top stuff from him, so it would all make total sense. Instead, we get a really solid episode for Louis’ character development, later followed by a total regression of that development. Curse Disney’s f’d up schedule! WHYYYY?!?!?!

Thanks for reading!!

Oh, and HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hope you all had a nice holiday. I took a break for Christmas, so yeah. I was actually so mad that the Christmas/Hanukkah episode wasn’t next on the list. It would’ve been perfect timing to review it last week. Oh, well. That episode is really good and deserves even higher than #19 ;) 

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I have a funny story about discovering Robron and a question for you. It was 2015 and my friends had been talking about an epic love story called Robron for months. When I was visiting them, we watched ED on telly. My first Robron scene was the infamous scrapyard scene. It's safe to say that Robert made quite the first impression that has been hard to shake. I was also pretty concerned about my friends idea of great love after that. But then Robert got shot. 1/3

2/3 and I have always loved murder mysteries. So when Robert was in coma, I had to watch his scenes (which included Aaron) on YT to find out who could be the shooter. And I fell in love with the characters and have been watching since then. It took a really long time to believe in their love though. But to my question. What made Robert say such horrible things to Aaron? Because even today I’d say that I have hardly ever heard anyone to be that gross.

3/3 I mean it’s in character for Robert to say something bad but that was so out of line. Robert told his lover that he finds his scars/body disgusting, he’s with him out of pity, he accused Aaron of murdering Jackson which was a really low blow and he basically told Aaron that he should kill himself, and saying something like that to a person who has tried to do that is just… Although it showed how well Robert knows Aaron but still to use that against someone who you ‘love’ is unforgivable.

anon oh my god that’s… possibly the worst possible first impression you could get oh my godddddd.

to be brutally honest, i hate the scrapyard scene more than any other scene in existence and it did its job of making me root for robert to get shot lmao. which is sort of the point, so no one can say it isn’t effective at its job.

it is… possibly the one thing i have no idea how to talk about. it exists, it was written as part of a larger series of scenes that were there to make us believe that all these people would genuinely want to shoot robert and i sort of… ok, you know what, i’m going by memory here more than rewatching this scene in context so heads up i may be remembering this in a way that won’t actually reflect how i feel when i continue my rewatch (which will be soon, in fairness) but… i appreciate this scene in the sense that i think…

robert has pretty much just said fuck it at this point, he’s lost everything and everyone and he’s in full on self destruct mode and as we know, self-destruct mode for robert is that all his jagged edges come out and he basically works on taking everyone in a thirty mile radius down with him. he knows aaron so deeply so he knows how to hurt aaron, knows where aaron’s vulnerable spots are - aaron who he still has all of this pent up frustration over. aaron who ruined robert’s life by being the person who robert never intended or wanted to fall in love with, but fell in love with anyway.

like…. it’s the fucking worst. robert is at one of his worst points. like. rock bottom for robert is ugly, it’s so ugly. it’s also what gets him into the worst fucking situations. we have here, robert taking everyone down and getting himself shot for it (and obviously now more recently, we have rob dealing with rebecca’s pregnancy as a result of him hitting rock bottom and once again blindly trying to hurt aaron because he had no other way to process his feelings at that point.)

i actually appreciate that part of his characterisation. that part you can’t even paint as 'not great but it’s ok’. it’s just ugly. it’s not a good quality to have and it’s not something that people should want to see in their faves. but i like it because human beings are ugly, you know? it’s just that usually characters hit a point where they go from 'not perfect but still a good character’ to 'it’s gone too far, no longer a good person’ and that’s when people stop liking characters, which is fair. robert i think slides across that line a number of times but i hardcore relate to that in a really uncomfortable way, so i like it? this is my opinion anyways.

like. it makes robert that bit less ~likeable~ but makes him so much more interesting and human. does that make sense? i don’t know if everyone will agree with me but… you can love a character who you don’t always like. you don’t need to like a character all the time to want to see more of them or understand them. i don’t need to like everything about who robert is for him to be my fave. a hell of a lot of people do not watch tv in this way though, which is fine. again, this is just me.

idk i am genuinely not the person to come to if you want me to explain how robert can treat someone he loves in that way, because my answer is genuinely that i think the dark sides of his character that canonically exist are not good sides and the morally grey parts of him can slide right into genuine immorality and as much as i enjoy delving into why that happens and when that happens and making him more complex human less evil cartoon character, i still don’t have any desire to pretend that some of the shit he does or has done is in any way ok or acceptable and i think that those particular character flaws are horrible. fascinating, but really horrible. i do also find them sort of perversely comforting, though.

in terms of whether or not what robert did is unforgivable… i mean, in real life, yes, but in a soap? depends on how well they write the redemption? there’s very few things a character can’t come back from in a soap (but there are things and it’s important for writers to know the lines, but that’s… another post entirely lmao).

sigh remember when i said i didn’t know how to talk about this 😂 i hate me. ANYWAY tl;dr i would genuinely dislike robert as a person irl but as a fictional character he’s one of the most interesting and fun and dramatic ones i know and i love him. even if sometimes i really don’t like him. i think it’s probably right that he’s so polarising - it all depends on how much you want or need to like the fictional characters you love 😂 also i don’t think this answered your post properly but i don’t know how to get back on track. i’m sorry for the ridiculous word vomit. also i’m still screaming that the first robron scene you ever saw was this one. literally just… incredibly bad luck 😂

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My GotG thoughts

Also posted on DW.

I did not go in expecting to love it. I actually was lukewarm on the first one (which, by the way, I am totally buying so I can rewatch it now, because Netflix does not have it streaming, the jerks). I DID NOT EXPECT TO LOVE THIS MOVIE. AT ALL. I LOVED THIS MOVIE A WHOLE LOT. I also think the trailer for this movie (the first teaser trailer, the Fox on the Run one) might be one of the best trailers I've ever seen, because it a) took me from "meh" to really wanting to see this movie, and b) did not actually spoil ANYTHING! I went into this completely unspoiled -- in fact, far less spoiled than I thought I was after seeing the trailer -- and I'm really glad. If watching things nonspoiled is your thing, I think you will enjoy having that experience. Which means you will not want to click on the readmore, because ALL THE SPOILERS are here.

Okay, so first of all, the thing about this movie is that it managed to hit a TON of my favorite trope buttons in completely unexpected ways. Obviously the "found family" thing is a gimme (though I was surprised by how sold I was on it by the end of the movie given that I wasn't completely sold on it in the previous one).

But there was a bunch of other stuff too! First of all, I absolutely adore the trope of choosing the imperfect, painful world over the perfect fantasy built on top of a chasm of horror, and everything with Peter's dad nailed that so hard: being offered not just a perfect fantasy of a happy family, but genuine godhood, and noping out hard once he realizes what accepting that godhood actually means for the galaxy and for him personally. And I love the way the movie develops the theme of "everything you wanted was there all along" -- a bickering family that was nothing like he imagined (but he loves these stupid assholes anyway), and a flawed father figure who loves him enough to die for him. ... Everything with Peter and Yondu. OH MY GODDDDDD. THE FEEEEEEELZ. I have to remind myself that Yondu is VERY FAR from "parent of the year", and he knows it, which makes it worse in a way ... and yet, in the end, he was there when Peter needed him, and they got to have their moment, and ... just FEEEEEELS, ENDLESS FEELS, help. I also have way more feels than I was expecting about Peter, in general. I was kind of indifferent to Peter in the first movie, which I guess was one of the main things that made it hard for me to get into it. But I keep thinking about a piece of movie meta that someone (I think it was violent-darts) posted afterwards about how Peter's entire persona is basically "peacemaker" and "caretaker" -- he's basically the team mom, and watching this movie just impressed on me really hard about how much of Peter is wrapped up in loving people, and wanting them to love him, and just trying to make the people that he loves be safe and happy. And now I have about a billion Peter feels (though I think Yondu edged him out as my favorite, because I am such a total sucker for someone who has done terrible things and doesn't think they are a good person but manages to hero it up anyway). So there was that! But I also loved how this movie wasn't JUST Peter's daddy issues (though I enjoyed those) or even Peter and the Guardians' found-family thing. Every character had at least one important platonic relationship that got story development and its own little mini-arc: Yondu and Rocket, Gamora and Nebula, Drax and Mantis. I particularly loved that Drax and Mantis were explicitly platonic (in this movie, anyway - I guess it's possible future movies might go a different direction), because it started off hitting some unpleasant buttons -- childlike female character as potential object of sexual interest (Born Sexy Yesterday), but then it didn't go that way at all! And yet, despite the fact that the movie makes it very obvious he is not sexually into her, he still makes friends with her, and is willing to die to save her at the end. Ultimately, in this movie, the one and only romance (Peter/Gamora - well, if you don't count Ego/Meredith) is actually an incredibly minor part of the movie; the fulcrum on which the movie's emotional heart rests is friendship, found family, and adoptive parenthood. The movie's ultimate message is that your birth family may be total irredeemable dicks and there's nothing you can do about it, but you can still build a whole world with people who love you enough to die for you, and I just spent the last half of the movie wallowing in that so hard. (Extra bit of awesome: that Mantis and the Ravager first-mate guy, whose name apparently is Kraglin -- I had to look it up for the fic I wrote -- and even Yondu, posthumously, ended up becoming part of the Guardians, part of their new ship's crew. I love that it's not just the 5 of them; I love that others can be drawn into their family. Same thing I'm loving in S3 of Flash, actually -- that the "family" metaphor is explicitly drawn wide enough to include the "new" members of the family as well as the founding members.) And then there's all the '80s nostalgia stuff, which the movie cranked up to pure camp AND IT WAS AWESOME. The music! The cameos! (Best David Hasselhoff cameo EVER.) The whole aesthetic of Ego's planet, and Ego himself, which was total '70s/'80s stoner sci-fi (Rodney Matthews/Boston album covers/every paperback fantasy novel of the era) at its most psychedelic. THEY DIGITALLY RECREATED 1980s KURT RUSSELL FOR THE EGO FLASHBACKS. I CAN'T EVEN. Not all of the humor worked for me, but I loved that the movie was funny and entertaining and then it made those sudden left turns into massively serious stuff (the charnel house of dead children's bones; "I won't leave him behind - I won't leave you behind"; "He may be your father, but he wasn't your daddy") punch all the harder because it was such a sharp turn away from the humorous tone. Also, because it was willing to be funny instead of dead serious all the time, it came across feeling more human that a lot of epic sci-fi does -- even stuff like the video game warriors on the planet of the gold people (I don't think I ever caught what they were called), who react to winning and losing in life-and-death space battle just like teenagers playing a game, because that is essentially what they ARE. And this movie even ended up doing better than Marvel movies typically do with female characters, admittedly with an extremely low bar to clear, but out of 8 main characters (as I count them?) 3 of them were female, none of the three were "just" there as a love interest, and all of them got cool plot stuff to do and at least one important platonic relationship, including one lady-lady relationship that was a running thread throughout the movie. Low bar? Sure. But if you'd told me that GotG2 would actually be one of the best movies in the entire MCU franchise for female characters, I would not have believed you. And yet it was! Finally, let me leave you with the one original song on the movie's soundtrack, in all its campy glory ...

WHICH IS PERFORMED BY DAVID HASSELHOFF IN CASE YOU MISSED THAT PART.