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As much as I love the other Speedsters suits, this suit might be my favourite. But I'm not sure who I think it suited better. So you get to pick for me.
#iris west#iris west allen#nora west allen#the flash#I'm leaning more towards Iris but Nora looks so cute in it too#Don't know if I like this the most because I wish to own it to feel badass#candice patton#jessica parker kennedy
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rereading chapters 47-48 of when the chips are down kicking my feet and giggling like a school girl
#whiskey yelling into the void#THIS IS THE PART WHERE THE CHAPTERS I WROTE WERE ACRUALLY GOOD. OK. THIS SLAPS#IM ENJOYING MYSELF IMMENSELY#ohhhh badass patton i love u so<3
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my caregiver figures
Using the list of stuff I draw and picking characters from the list (plus a gif for funsies) also y'all can reblog this with your own caregiver figures
1: Imposter Dan (Dan vs)
He's a papa figure
2: Chris (Dan vs)
Big bro vibes
3: Lucifer (hazbin hotel)
He is duckie dad!
4: Stolas (helluva boss)
Space papa!
5: Blitz (helluva boss)
Fun uncle vibes
6: Ozzie + Fizzy (helluva boss)
They look like they'd protect me all the time
7: Discord (mlp)
Chaos papa >:]
8: Caine (tadc)
I'd love the adventures!
9: Kinger (tadc)
Silly old man
10: Frank (welcome home)
He seems stern but nice
11: Poppy (welcome home)
She would be so gentle and would bake with me!
12: Gideon/Gordon (Scott Pilgrim)
I would watch anime with him
13: Aziraphale (good omens)
I want him to read to me
14: Nanny ashtoreth (good omens)
She is so cool!!!
15: Patton (sander sides)
He's literally called dad!
16: Logan (sander sides)
I wanna learn stuff from him
17: Red guy (dhmis)
Chill dad or big bro
18: Commander peepers (wander over yonder)
Dude is a caregiver for lord hater already
19: David (camp camp)
Forest father
20: Gwen (camp camp)
She's cool aunt vibes
21: King dice (cuphead)
Casino dad
22: Bryce tankthrust (Brandon Rogers)
She is so badass!
23: Bobby worst (Brandon Rogers)
He's fresh out of jail uncle
24: Wilford warfstache (Markiplier)
Silly papa vibes!
25: Engineer Mark (Markiplier)
Overprotective and caring big bro
26: Jackieboyman (jacksepticeye)
Cool big bro!
27: wammawink (centaur would)
A bit of an overprotective mama
28: Simon (adventure time)
Stressed dad that I wanna help
29: Beetlejuice (movie)
Weird dad
30: Beetlejuice (musical)
Just a silly big bro!
#sfw agere#age regressor#age regression#age regression sfw#fictional caregiver#hazbin hotel agere#helluva boss agere#beetlejuice agere#adventure time agere#centaurworld#jacksepticegos#markipler egos#bryce tankthrust#bobby worst#cuphead agere#camp camp agere#wander over yonder#dhmis agere#sander sides agere#good omens agere#scott pilgrim agere#welcome home agere#tadc agere#mlp agere#dan vs agere
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I’m not sure it’s a well known YA series but I think about this one character relationship in the Fablehaven series a lot. I’m gonna skim as much context as possible for brevity here. Caretaker of a mythical creature sanctuary named Patton Burgess falls in love with a Naiad named Lena and he rows his boat out to the middle of the lake every day for months, years to take time to play his violin for her. Talk to her. Ask her to step out of the water for him. If he leans over the edge, she’ll capsize his boat and drown him. If she steps on land, she’ll turn human. And he’s simply polite and persistent and kind and loving while she mocks him, but eventually becomes warm to him. After a long, long time, she finally steps onto the land for him. It’s a really massive deal, like it’s basically utter taboo for her and she can never go back to her sisters in the water. But she does so willingly, and with love in her heart for him because she decides he’s worth it. They marry, they live well and happily together for decades, he passes away and she becomes a maid to future caretakers (and is generally a huge badass in a ton of other ways, led a very exotic life before the events of the books). Literally the sweetest old woman you’ve ever met in your life. Full of love and tenderness and warmth and everything you would associate with a kindly old maid who’s secretly a badass.
Events happen in the books and the misguided benevolence of the fairy queen has her reward the heroes by “setting everything back the way it was” before all the death and destruction, but it goes too far and changes Lena back into a Naiad too, back to the lake where she dwelled, back to her old ways of caring so very little for humans and their company. Our protagonists plead with her to come back. They beg her to remember their time together and the love she felt and expressed towards them. She laughs them off. She even laughs them off when they ask her to think what her husband would’ve wanted. To think about his violin. They try to play it for her. It could never be the same but they try because they love her. She says she doesn’t care anymore and doesn’t seem the slightest like she doesn’t mean it. She’s happy with her sisters again. Happy once more to drown our protagonists if they lean just a little too far forwards, something utterly unthinkable for her character before this. More plot happens and the situation in the sanctuary becomes so dire that a failsafe triggers and a memory of her husband Patton appears as a clone of himself from when he set the failsafe, ready to fix the dire circumstances as best he can. He learns what happened to his wife, what she’s been forcibly changed back into, how her feelings have seemingly irreversibly been changed back the way they were, and doesn’t even think twice before he calmly and confidently strides forth to the lake. He takes up his violin and rows out on the boat to the middle and politely asks her sisters if he can talk to her. When they decline and tell him she doesn’t care about him, he smiles and begins to play.
The air fills with music. The sisters panic and squabble, telling each other to stop her, that he’s not really there. Seconds after he begins playing, despite all the efforts of her sisters, she leaps from the depths and lands in his arms, changing back to the way she was. No hesitation, not the slightest fleeting doubt before tossing away immortality a second time just to be with him again. It took nothing more than the sound of his playing that she never forgot no matter what to bring her back to land. The memory of the love and happiness between them was simply that powerful that it could move her that way. And reader, that destroys me. Oh it tears me asunder I tell you. Can you imagine her in that moment? Peacefully ignoring all the worries and cries of humans she no longer gives a shit about. She’ll outlive all of them. And then music. Her heart begins to hurt and sing with a song it never forgot and she looks up, up at the sunlit shadow of a boat far above her. A heartbeat passes while she listens, it can’t be him. Even as she’s asking herself is it him, is that the music of the man I loved, she’s swimming. All doubts fade away just moments after she draws the slightest bit closer, she knows the timbre of her husband’s bow against the strings. Her sisters are trying to hold her down, to stop her, to drown her in her promised and now returned immortality and she doesn’t want it. She wants to see him again. All of this happening in less than a minute, mind you. That’s how deeply she missed him, long outliving him after he passed away forever ago. They can’t hold her. Nothing could stop her from reaching him in that moment. It DESTROYS me okay, can you imagine love like that? This memory clone of him was only around for 3 days and she gave up immortality just to have him back for even that long.
My favourite relationship trope will always be “no matter what’s happened to me, no matter what I’ve become, I will always return to you. Your scent on the wind, your voice beneath the din, your eyes in the light will call me back to you forever and always. There is nothing that is mine that I wouldn’t give up for you. There is no spell or drug or threat or lie or promise or heaven in all the world that could ever make me turn from you. I could resist you no more than the apple on the branch could resist your hand. Reach for me and I will tumble into your arms again and again.”
Sometimes I imagine my lover being turned into a dryad and what song I might sing to her to bring her back to me. Gods I’m too sappy for things like this, truly.
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you mentioned in the tags of that burnout post that its been 6 years and you still havent gotten to everything you wanted to in laoft, just out of curiosity are there any fics youve had in mind since the beginning/early on that youre still planning on writing but havent yet?
mostly prequels ive referenced but never gotten around to actually writing
the time as young teens/middle schoolers roman fell out of tree, hit his head and lost consciousness and logan had a week-long catastrophic meltdown about it (this is titled 'logan and the terrible horrible no good very bad week' in my documents)
a fic about very early LAMP dealing with/talking out romans habit of agreeing to or initiating things he doesnt actually want to do in order to protect himself from anything he perceives as them being mad at him
midquel during what you choose to put in the ground, were patton and logan discuss roman the day after meeting him and whether or not theyre going to try and be his friend
Virgil misunderstanding a human cultural thing because of movies/tv and assuming its like, Legally Required Of Him to ask permission of LMPs parents to marry them, so he goes to shelley first sweating bullets and shelleys like 'oh sweetheart' and we get a little bonding moment for them
more companions to Wit where i show all of the lamp combos moment of Realization when they fall in love
silly tea leaf reading fic that been languishing 3 sentences long for like 5 years
may and night!roman the first time she teaches him magic
logans flower shop opening
death threat jar.... TWO
gc goes camping
may and roman visiting abby's grave when he's a kid (9-10) and him feeling conflicted about it because he doesnt remember her/worrying he doesnt love her 'enough'
a more bittersweet companion to Requiem with Linda and Remus and their families
i really want to do more guidebook entries but i got a new computer and lost my copy of clipstudio and cant figure out how to get it back XD so i have to wait until i figure that out or buy a new copy
May + virgil hurt/comfort reminiscing about Greta and Trudi.
Dot and Larry romance fic featuring alternating cheerleader and heckler abby
analogical word association games (analogical because logan has a ginormous vocabulay and virgil is hundreds of years old, so the goal winds up being trying to say a word the other doesnt know or doesnt know enough words to play off of)
We've had badass protective LAM but i have one for Patton thats languishing as well
Virgil stumbling up on the Gage's hunting blind, which used to be Greta and Toby's house and is now derelict
fae specific idioms vs wickhills specific idioms
fire poker drama with roman and dot - he finds out about it and is uuuuuh. unhappy, to say the least
roman doing knot/weaving/braiding magic like his mom on his and linda's hair
a day in the life of dr. emile picani the only psychotherapist in a town full of magically traumatized people only he is qualified to treat (AKA So Much Pressure)
Dot and Larry with a very young Logan realizing that they have a child who physically can't lie and that it would therefore be extremely easy for them to violate his boundaries and privacy without even meaning to, and them talking about how to handle that
theres other stuff in the someday file, but these are the once ive had from or almost from the start
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okay my very serious fancast for fablehaven (would never happen because some actors should be ten years younger at least)
Emma Watson as Kendra Sorenson
Okay, I know it's hard to unsee her as Hermione but look at her. Especially with her hair like that: SHE IS KENDRA. Her dubious hair color and texture, even the clothes are like... Kendra definitely dress like that.
Walker Scobell as Seth Sorenson
Well, in my head Seth has brown hair. But Walker would have played him so well PLEASE. Plus Emma and him could pass as brother and sister. Anyway this one is mostly for vibes but I do think taking a random chaotic kid with no peculiar physical traits and dressing him in the most horrendous outfits would work just fine.
Young Colin Ford however does look like Seth too if the movie wants to go for a 2000 vibe:
Henry Collett as Gavin Rose
He looks both sweet and able to swing a sword. He already played a dragon tamer. He could be the worst man alive and no one would blame Kendra for falling for him. And TBH it's EXACTLY like that that I pictured Gavin before seeing It (2017) and starting to merge the two stuttering characters together (brain wasn't braining).
Milly Alcock as Bracken
Okay I think I need to justify myself here. But, look at her. She has a soft face, but we know she can look like a badass too. She has the pretty white hair. With a little imagination, she's totally in love with a girl trying to break her out of prison. They would be a power couple. Female Bracken would make me ship Brakendra.
Jeremys Irons as Coulter Dixon
No director instructions, just let the man plays. I just want Coulter to be the biggest hater ever and then saving Seth's life and everyone just goes Oh. Oh. (Yeah the fanfiction Oh). Like the man actually cares. I feel like Jeremy Irons would do well.
David Tennant/Pedro Pascal as Patton Burgess
Self-explanatory. Patton is a middle age man with an awesome mustache. Only those two could pull the gentleman adventurer that seduced a naiad and went on adventures around the world. I don't know which one I like more tbh!
Jared Padalecki as Warren Burgess
Then you just ask him to play like he's Dean Winchester. Because PHYSICALLY, he looks like Warren but I do believe Warren acts kinda like Dean? So yeah. But same perfect face so...
Josh Hutcherson as Dale Burgess
I swear I'll come up with something better. But like... Yeah well. I have no explanation. He could play the role just fine, especially the big brother side who's like, everyone's favorite side character. But yeah, Dale is supposed to be super tall and Josh is like... WELL not that tall. I also do remember Kendra saying Dale and Warren didn't look alike that much but had a "feeling they were from the same family" (kinda). I think that could work.
I'll do a part two when I'll find a fancast for the others lol
#fablehaven#fablehaven fancast#kendra sorenson#seth sorenson#coulter dixon#bracken#female bracken#gavin rose#patton burgess#warren burgess#dale burgess
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janus disguised as logan like this honestly was so badass, he should have done the whole trial like that. it’s not like they would have listened to the real logan anyway-
like patton with janus’s mannerisms is horrifying, logan with janus’s mannerisms is so cool. logan was nothing but pixels in putting others first so we didn’t really get to fully experience it!!
also imagine janus disguised as roman that’d be so sick
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You want a Good Good Fantasy fic??
Oh, it’s Delightful!
Roman and Remus are princes from a fantasy kingdom in a parallel universe. Remus and Logan get sucked into a book and have to live out the story to escape. Janus and Patton are Super Cool mages. Patton is a big beefy guy with tattoos. Virgil is a bit of a musician and a badass with knives. There’s a Whole Lot of pining that results in polyamory. Logan ends up with the Most Boyfriends cause he’s So Pretty.
I’m trying not to spoil anything, cause this book Deserves to be read! It is woefully under appreciated!
And!!!!! It’s the first of a Trilogy! Reading for Ages!
If you want to be leaving comments and storing up for Cafe orders over at @tsspromptmonth , this is an Excellent fic to read and comment on!
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So I'm actively watching Supernatural and I can't stop thinking about the boys as hunters.
Roman and Remus are like Sam and Dean, brothers and incredibly stupid for each other. Going to Hell, coming back, punching the Devil in the face because why not. They may not have the best lifestyle but they have each other and really, what else do you need? They handle.. everything. Someone give them a nice hunt. Please.
Virgil got into the life accidentally but fully protected himself as quick as possible. I'm talking tattoos of every protective symbol and phrase that you can think of and he knows plenty of them. He doesn't keep many people close and he has the most run-ins with demons.
Logan didn't believe in monsters at first but he had a Bobby incident happen and lost someone close to him. That's what made him get as practical as he could with his defense and his offense. He deals the most often with ghosts and spirits and he's perfectly comfortable with that.
Patton is the type of hunter where you look at him and think he's completely normal, but then you show up expecting him to be useless and he's the most badass person you've ever met. He's the vampire hunter because of course he ends up being one. He's the cheery "what a nice hunt! Who wants some dinner?" guy. I love him.
Janus tracks down more unusual creatures, got into it because it was a family business. He speaks a whole cacophony of different languages and will not hesitate to start speaking German in the middle of nowhere if he doesn't like the person he's talking to. He
They all as a group culminate in a badass "oh my god stop almost dying" "STOP TRYING TO SUMMON THE DEVIL" "can we have one nice day" "thanks for the tip" group ever. And I don't even think they hunt together. I think they're all in different states, occasionally travelling, and then they call each other for tips. Every once in a while, they send out a "might need help with this one" text and everyone shows up because you can't let a hunter go alone like that.
Dukexiety, Logince, and Moceit are my thoughts here. Remus and Virgil have a weird amount of demon knowledge between the two of them and they use it, Logan and Roman are definitely in love but refuse to admit it and it's "just casual" (it's not), Janus and Patton are basically married.
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D E V O U R I N G this I fucking L O V E this S O fucking much oml P E A S E!!! I seriously adore all of their roles they D E S E R V E to be a badass team!!! Also I'm cackling at the thought of part of the group being surrounded by supernatural creatures and one of them sends a text to a groupchat and not even 3 seconds later a van pulls up with everyone else XD
#dukexiety logince and moceit are my fucking beloveds <3#dukexiety#logince#moceit#remus sanders#virgil sanders#roman sanders#logan sanders#patton sanders#janus sanders#ts remus#ts virgil#ts roman#ts logan#ts patton#ts janus#sanders sides#thomas sanders#asks#answers#👑 anon#not a countdown
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Years and years ago, back when I played World of Warcraft (I was a Night Elf Hunter and I rocked at that role), I found a few roleplaying guilds and joined them. It was fun to delve into the rich fantasy of WoW and I came up with my own character.
In the midst of all the roleplaying, which lasted a good few years, one of the players told me Out of Character (OOC) that they thought my character was a tragic badass. I was flattered; that was what I was aiming for!
Then they said that my character reminded them of a line from a Magic the Gathering card. They read me the quote in the card you see posted:
"She represents not hope, but hope's desperate fury."
I had never forgotten it in all these years.
Hope is a... decidedly fragile thing. It shatters so easily, honestly. But what lies beneath hope? Strength. Compassion. Faith. Love.
I'm reminded, absurdly, of a line that I can never quite recall. Google says it was a line by George S. Patton Jr.
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
It was something I held onto during the years I was with my abusive ex-husband. It was something I held onto during my childhood, growing up with an abusive father, an emotionally neglectful mother. Everything I went through.
My therapist once asked me to describe myself with one word. I looked at her for a long moment, and thought: Tenacious.
I will have my low moments. God, will I. My bad weeks. It's life. We go up and down. Life isn't linear. It isn't a smooth path. It's rises and dips.
I had a bad day today. Actually, a bad week. Shit kept happening and I was rapidly approaching the end of my patience, faith, and strength. I fought to stay calm at work, because yeah, don't want to get into a row with a client or a colleague. Then once I was home, I had to deal with the chaos of cats, kids, and just life in general.
I will openly admit I cried after work. Just sat in my car and just wept for a moment. Poured it all out. It was Friday. I could do it. I could go home, get my son, sleep in, and just.... be.
Then the thunderstorms hit, knocked out my power, and all I could think was: "Well... isn't this nice?"
We hang on. We scream and fight and cry and despair....
And we hang on.
For. One. Moment. Longer.
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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 14 Rewatch: “The Reckoning”
The basics: With four dead, including a CIA Officer, NCIS investigates if this has something to do with the DRONA project.
Written and directed by: Frank Military Military wrote "Little Angels", "Deliverance", "Lockup", "The Job", "Greed", "Betrayal", "Crimeleon", "Vengeance", "Out of the Past" Part One, "Rude Awakenings" Part Two, season four’s finale "Descent", season five’s premiere "Ascension", "Allegiance", "Spoils of War" (directed by Military), "Black Budget", "SEAL Hunter", "Rage" (directed by Military), "Unspoken", "Unlocked Mind", "Revenge Deferred", "The Seventh Child" (directed by Military), "Crazy Train", "Uncaged" (directed by Military), "The Silo", "Monster", "Line in the Sand" (directed by Military), season ten opener "To Live and Die in Mexico" (directed by Military), "The Patton Project", "Better Angels", "False Flag" (the season 10 finale), "A Bloody Brilliant Plan", season 11 finale "Code of Conduct" (directed by Military), "Raising the Dead", "Through the Looking Glass" (directed by Military), "Indentured", "Down the Rabbit Hole" (directed by Military) and "The Body Stitchers".
Military directed one episode he did not write, season 11’s holiday episode "Answers".
He also appeared as Donald Kessler in "Raising the Dead" and several other episodes in photos.
Guest stars of note: Jere Burns returns from season 13’s “Genesis” as Howard Pembrook, Duncan Campbell is back from the last episode (“Sensu Lato”) as NCIS Agent Castor, David DeSantos as Anthony Beltran and Milissa Sears as Leah Novack are back from “Sleeping Dogs”, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as CIA Officer Rafael Cortes, Scott Christopher as CIA Officer Chris Behr, Amy Kim Waschke as CIA Officer Avery Lamica, Maurice Hall as AMT Julian Cousins, John Marshall Jones as Jonathan Hunter and Rick Tunell, the series’ longtime producer/director was the Head of Airfield Security
Our heroes: DRONA drama blah blah blah.
What important things did we learn about: Callen: Lone wolfing. Sam: Out of town. Kensi: Tailing Callen. Deeks: Airport trip. Fatima: Figured out early that the CIA was up to no good. Rountree: Tailing Callen with Kensi. Kilbride: Side-eye master.
What not so important things did we learn about: Callen: Wasn’t getting violin lessons as a kid. Sam: Absent. Kensi: Waiting for Deeks to return from the airport. Deeks: Mostly absent. Fatima: Side-eying with the best of them. Rountree: Started the day with Deeks, ended it with Kensi. Kilbride: Friends with the head coach at USC.
Where in the world is Henrietta Lange? Basking in guilt according to Pembrook.
Who's down with OTP: Not a lot of OTP time.
Who's down with BrOTP: Down one part of the BrOTP but Pembrook’s final conversation with Callen was all about the brotherhood of Callen and Sam, the show’s most important relationship.
Fashion review: Callen wore a light blue and white plaid button down shirt before going in the pool and a navy blue hoodie post-pool. Kensi wore a wine colored long-sleeve top. Deeks wore a pale blue henley. Fatima had a fabulous black leather jacket (soft like butter!) and a white sweater with blue piping at the collar. Rountree black long sleeve tee-shirt with a black jacket. Kilbride, as always, dark blue three-piece suit, red tie, pale blue dress shirt.
Music: “Home” by Aron Wright plays at the end of the episode.
Any notable cut scene: Not today.
Quote: Kilbride: “And you are not leaving my office until you tell me everything you know about Pembrook and Beltran.” Cortes: “And you're gonna stop me? With force?” Kilbride: “Don't tease me.”
This is was very solid Kilbride as a badass episode.
Anything else: The previously-s include all the Pembrook nonsense.
In the hospital, a still comatose Leah Novak is being moved to a rehab facility with serious CIA security around her. Callen is there as well. Nobody knows where Leah is going except the head security man – who is driving the ambulance. Novak will be checked in under an alias. The security chief promised to keep Callen advised of her status.
As the security team leaves, the second security team member tells her boss they found one of the Drona subjects, Clayton, dead. If they can find Clayton, the head man tells her, they can find everyone. for some reason, the head of security thinks it is a good idea to meet with the other Drona subjects in Pershing Square. He leaves the ambulance with only a nurse watching Novak. Clayton was tortured before he was killed, according to one of the Drona survivors. The group realizes none of them are safe. And they’re not as a sniper picks off all the Drona subjects except the security chief. He dodges bullets getting back to the ambulance and driving off.
A cranky Admiral is marching from his office to Ops. Deeks and Rountree are just behind him. After a Deeks mindfulness joke falls flat, the Admiral explains that four people, including a CIA Officer named Avery Lamica – she was the number two person moving Novak - were shot dead in Pershing Square. Kensi has already left for Pershing Square to meet with Callen.
In Ops is CIA Officer Raphael Cortes (another person allowed to wander about the super-secret office). After the Admiral does some introductions, Cortes wants to talk to Callen and Sam. Sam is out of town and not available. Cortes does not want Callen running the investigation but the Admiral makes sure Cortes understands that Cortes doesn’t make staffing decisions for NCIS. When the Admiral brings up that Cortes asked for help, Cortes makes sure the Admiral understands that the CIA doesn’t need help, they need information. Since the FBI is investigating the shooting, Cortes wants to question Callen about letting Beltran get away. And Cortes wants the Admiral to do that right now. Knowing Callen wouldn’t return to the office even if Kilbride ordered him to do so, the Admiral won’t – and didn’t plan on anyway.
Deeks asks if the CIA is tracking the ambulance. They can’t find it, according to Cortes. CIA Officer Chris Behr is missing – he’s the head security guy. Cortes thinks Lamica was meeting with other Drona team members. Pembrook ran black ops for the DoD, NSA and the CIA. Rountree mentions Beltran’s plan for a lawsuit against Pembrook for what was done to him and to the others when they were children. Cortes believes Pembrook made monsters – “including Agent Callen.”
At the crime scene, Callen is covering Avery Lamica’s body with a tarp when Kensi arrives. Callen has not heard from Behr. Looking at a high rise building just off Pershing Square, Kensi is going to check the victim’s locations and angle of the gunshot wounds to see if she can backtrack the math to the sniper’s location.
On comms, Callen asks Fatima to check out security cameras. Also on comms, Kilbride tells Callen that Cortes would like to speak to him – the FBI can cover the crime scene. Callen tells Cortes that the FBI isn’t even at the crime scene – though LAPD is all over the crime scene. Deeks talks about Drona and Callen thinks it makes sense – Lamica and Behr were put on the protection team by the CIA and likely Drona. Cortes pushes for Callen to come in but Callen fakes some static and is off comms.
Kensi returns to Callen. Based on the wounds, there is no way the sniper fired from the high rise. The angles of the bullet wounds are too steep. The sniper was likely in a helicopter and one great shot.
Fatima has eight helicopters over that part of Los Angeles at 8:16AM – the time of the shooting. Kensi thinks the shot came from at least 1,400 feet east of Pershing Square. On the big screen in Ops, Deeks finds the helicopter. Deeks traces it to a company called Cypress Park Industries. Rountree asks where did the helicopter come from – Camarillo Airport. Kilbride is sure there are witnesses or video of someone getting on the helicopter. Deeks is going to track that down.
Cortes orders Callen to return to the office or he’ll get the FBI to bring Callen in. Callen says he’s returning but gets a call from an unknown number followed by a text message telling Grisha to pick up. Callen has Kensi take them off comms. It is Pembrook on the phone. Callen has a flashback to his happy times with Pembrook. He wants to meet and Callen does too. Kensi gets back on comms to get Fatima to trace the call. She does this quietly. Pembrook is about a block away inside Pershing Square, watching Callen and Kensi.
Pembrook starts to walk away from the crime scene, saying that Callen won’t miss a chance to face the monster of his childhood. Under a bench near the coffee cart is a discarded water bottle with an address in it. Pembrook wants to meet Callen without any other agents around. Pembrook hangs up and walks away. Even tosses his phone into a half finished glass of water. Callen and Kensi check out the bench – he finds the water bottle. Cortes hears from the FBI – they’re on site and want a sitrep. Callen shows Kensi the address in North Hollywood. With the FBI closing in on Callen, he’s off to deal with Pembrook with Kensi on his tail.
At Camarillo Airport, Deeks confirms that Beltran and three other people were on the helicopter but Pembrook wasn’t one of them. Deeks is getting security video. Cortes demands that it is sent to Langley as soon as it is available. The Admiral does his version of rolling his eyes and says “of course.”
Callen arrives at the address Pembrook provided with Kensi just a few blocks back. No one is at the home but since the bottle had the word “pool” in a circle, Callen check out the backyard. There is a pool with a box at the bottom and lots of cameras all around. Realizing that by going in the water Callen shorts out all his comms, Kensi tells Callen not to let Pembrook control the next move. The Admiral doesn’t want Callen to go offline Callen tosses his earwig and phone into the pool before diving in for the box. Cortes pitches a fit that Kilbride has no control over his agents. Saying they can track Callen through his car – and Kensi can trail him – the Admiral wants Rountree working with Kensi.
A wet Callen finds a key to the house in the box. Inside the house is a change of clothes and a key to a vehicle.
Kilbride wants Kensi to go in and see what Callen is up to.
Callen is up to getting into a van and in the van is an armed Pembrook. Pembrook does the Pembrook stuff – talking about teaching Callen the language of violence. After getting Callen’s gun, the two are off for a drive.
In Ops, Fatima has video from Camarillo Airport. Beltran and three randos – two men and a woman - are walking to the helicopter. Cortes demands Fatima send him the photos to run them through facial rec. She was going to do that but he barks “send them to me.” The Admiral nods and Fatima sends the photos.
Entering the house by picking the lock, Kensi finds Callen’s wet gear. Kensi tells Ops that Callen mentioned a van by the house. Cortes is disgusted they lost Callen “completely.”
Using Kaleidoscope, Fatima traced Callen through Van Nuys to LAX. Cortes disses Kaleidoscope as a tenuous connection and tells Kilbride – who is quiet with a lot of side-eyeing – they better pray they don’t lose Callen. Cortes gets a call – the CIA has ID the three with Beltran. He leaves Ops.
Callen asks Pembrook what are they doing? Pembrook says he’s trying to understand what Callen is feeling but Callen is not “doing that.” Not wanting Pembrook as a therapist, Callen asks what Pembrook wants. Pembrook wants to save Callen’s life, save Leah’s life and by that, maybe save his own. Callen really doesn’t care about Pembrook’s life – “full stop.” Pembrook leads Callen to an underground garage of an office building.
Fatima is still tracking the van on a bit of a delay. The vehicle is near San Pedro. Kilbride thinks that an awful long ride for Pembrook to take Callen on just to kill him. Cortes disagrees – Pembrook could be taking Callen someplace off the grid to torture him. After his phone beeps, Cortes has IDs for the three people with Beltran. The three are Russians but not FSB. The CIA got intel on the three entering the country but nothing else. Fatima is joining the side-eye brigade.
In the parking lot, Pembrook starts by telling Callen he was obsessive and filled with anger. Callen says this isn’t about him but Pembrook keeps pushing. Callen’s anger drives his obsession. Again, Callen really doesn’t care. Pembrook admits he did horrible things – he won’t deny it. And the Drona subject were children. Pembrook says he thought his training methods were justified. He’s consumed with remorse. Callen doesn’t care. Pembrook says he takes solace that Callen has moved on from his trauma. Angry, Callen tells Pembrook he doesn’t know anything about Callen’s life. Pembrook does – he’s been following Callen for 35-years.
Fatima hears from Vance’s assistant. Kilbride is needed on a conference call in three minutes. The Admiral is not pleased as he returns to his office.
Rambling, Pembrook has been following all the Drona children, trying to help those in the most distress. Callen doesn’t believe him. Knowing Callen so well, Pembrook offers to turn over Callen’s paper file – everything about Callen’s past. Pembrook tells Callen he can date test the ink. Pembrook starts talking about his own childhood. If Callen isn’t interested in hearing Pembrook talk about Callen’s childhood, he certainly doesn’t want to hear about Pembrook’s. All Callen cares about is the file and is offended that dangling the file in front of Callen is an apology. Callen starts talking about having a hard time building relationships – he went from the DEA to the CIA to NCIS because Pembrook took from him the most elemental part of being a human – the ability to feel. Pembrook knows this and knows it was a terrible thing to do. He apologizes again and Callen isn’t interested in another apology.
In his office, Kilbride is waiting for Vance. Fatima sends him the NCIS facial rec runs on the “Russians”. They are, of course, Americans. Cortes approaches Fatima, asking that she check the last area where the van was seen – maybe there is a CIA safehouse in the area. Kilbride pops up on the big screen – he wants to see Cortes in his office.
Entering Kilbride’s office, Cortes asks if Kilbride shared what’s going on with Vance. The Admiral did not and asks Cortes to close the door behind him. After bickering about Cortes sitting down, Kilbride brings up an issue of dishonesty, especially with Callen being in such a precarious position. The three with Beltran were Americans, not Russians. Cortes tries to sell it as a good job with backstopping their IDs. No, one of the men played football for USC. Kilbride texted the head coach at USC to confirm it. Cortes is not leaving the office until he tells Kilbride everything. Sneering, Cortes asks if Kilbride thinke he can stop him by force. “Don’t tease me,” the Admiral sneers back.
Rountree meets up with Kensi near the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro. They are sitting tight, waiting for an update on Callen. Kensi asks Fatima about Cortes’s Russians and Fatima is sure they aren’t Russians. She’s watching what’s going on Kilbride’s office via a security camera on the second level over the bullpen.
Callen asks Pembrook why is he killing the other Drona subjects. Pembrook has been running a black ops Drona team for years. Beltran was part of that team but wanted to start doing jobs for the highest bidder. The only way Pembrook could get the rouge Drona subjects to stop doing these jobs was to kill them. Beltran and his team killed a pro-democracy presidential candidate in Ethiopia along with the candidate’s family. Pembrook was outraged that they killed children for a paycheck (as opposed to Pembrook I guess who only tortured children for a paycheck). Since Pembrook was trying to kill Beltran’s team, they are returning the favor. Callen reminds Pembrook that he is responsible for turning these people into psychopaths.
A team of shooters open fire on the van. Callen gets his gun back from Pembrook and the two make their way to a stairwell. From the stairwell, Pembrook shoots into the van and blows it up. Callen and Pembrook start running up the stairs but Pembrook is slow – he’s been shot. Neither Callen or Pembrook have phones – Callen’s went into the pool, Pembrook ditched his burner at Pershing Square. Pembrook has more happy news – he’s out of ammo.
Walking into an office that is being refurbished, Callen and Pembrook have Beltran and a partner in hot pursuit. Hiding in a cubical farm, Callen and Pembrook escape to a stairwell but almost run into Beltran’s other two partners. Callen and Pembrook go up another flight.
In Ops, Fatima downloads some photos of Beltran and his team – Cortes is in one of the photographs.
Kilbride wants full transparency on Pembrook’s Black Ops from Cortes. That is going to happen according to Cortes. The CIA is willing to cooperate in the matter but not everything is going to be shared. With his earwig in, Fatima tells the Admiral that Cortes worked with Beltran. Cortes gets a text message with a list of CIA safe houses near where Callen and the van were last seen. Kilbride starts talking to Fatima with Cortes in the room. Cortes wonders what the Admiral is doing.
Callen and Pembrook get a higher floor. Pembrook is in rough shape. Finding a server room – that is fireproof and locks from the inside – Pembrook wants to stop running and let Callen go. Callen and Pembrook wind up locked in the server room with Beltran and his team now on the floor.
Kilbride accuses Cortes of being part of Beltran’s team. Cortes denies it. The Admiral wants to know what Cortes’s role is in all of this.
Beltran tries to open the server door but it is locked. He is about to move on when he realizes there is blood on his hand. He asks the team to find something that will cut through the steel door.
Saying that Kilbride’s accusations are stupid, Cortes stands to leave. The Admiral warns him not to so Cortes pulls a weapon on him. “Are you insane,” is Kilbride’s reaction. Saying his life is over as he knows it, Cortes is desperate to get out of the building. Looking at the big screen, Fatima sees Cortes with his weapon out.
Fatima walks into Kilbride’s office with her tablet and a pretend update. Cortes orders her to leave – he’s exiting the building with Kilbride as a hostage. Fatima won’t leave, earning a second gun pulled by Cortes. She tells Cortes to look around. There are several NCIS Agents with their guns drawn all over the second floor of the office building, including Agent Castor directly across the second floor.
Cortes wants to leave the office and threatens to shoot Kilbride and Fatima if he can’t get his way. When nobody moves, Cortes fires a shot into the floor by Kilbride and promises the next one is going into Fatima’s face. While Fatima is clutching her tablet, she has her firearm under it. To protect Fatima, Kilbride stands. Cortes wants everyone to lower their weapons and Fatima gives the order to the others. Cortes wants her to move to the left. Causing a distracting, Fatima makes a Beyonce joke, asking if it is her left or his left. When it is her left, the Admiral hits the deck, as does Fatima and the other agents on the floor unload their weapons in what was Kilbride’s office. When Cortes does not go down, Fatima starts shooting and before long, he’s fallen out the window and onto the main floor outside of Hetty’s office.
As Beltran and company work to drill their way through the lock, Callen is looking for a way out of the server room. Pulling down an air vent, he makes enough noise to stop Beltran for a second but only a second. The drilling resumes. The air vent is way too small to fit Callen or Pembrook.
Using Cortes’s facial ID iPhone, Castor is able to open the phone and pass it on to Fatima. She finds evidence that Cortes was sending out everything NCIS was working on while he was there (and alive). She starts tracking Beltran’s phone location. Fatima sends the office building location to Kensi and Rountree who are on their way. They were waiting for Deeks but are going in without him.
As the drill gets closer to opening the door, Pembrook tells Callen that when Hetty found out what he was doing she pulled Callen from the program. He’s to blame for all that happened, not Hetty. Callen wonders why Hetty didn’t tell him. The drill breaks through the lock.
Kensi and Rountree see smoke coming out of the garage. Inside, they find the burnt remains of the van with no bodies. Bringing the big guns, Kensi and Rountree follow the bloody handprints Pembrook left on the stairway walls.
When Beltran gets into the server room, Pembrook looks to be alone. Asked where Callen is, a seemingly struggling Pembrook says he doesn’t know, they split up. Beltran says everyone always thought Pembrook was evil, a monster. But Beltran knew otherwise and that was going to be Pembrook’s downfall. Pembrook doesn’t agree. Living with what he’s done is far more difficult than dying will ever be. Beltran promises to put Pembrook out of his misery.
Hanging from a small ledge over the door, Callen shoots Beltran. Jumping down, he takes out Beltran’s partner. As the other two team member rush back to the floor, Kensi and Roundtree arrive, arresting both. Kensi gets an ambulance for Pembrook.
Outside of the ambulance, Pembrook hears that Officer Behr and Leah are safe. Callen has arranged for NCIS Agents to take Pembrook to the hospital. That’s not happening as Officer Behr shows up with Intelligence Agents from both the DoD and NSA – they’re taking Pembrook somewhere safe. Callen is livid – does Behr know what Pembrook has done? He does, Behr was a Drona subject, “There are a lot of us. He made us, for worse or for better.” As Pembrook drives away, Callen wants to know why Hetty never said anything.
Back in the office, Callen looks at all of Hetty’s things. He gets a phone call from Pembrook. He wants to meet Callen outside.
Outside, Pembrook has a large file. He answers Callen’s question – Hetty never said anything because she was consumed with guilt for getting Callen involved in the Drona program. Callen isn’t really interested in Hetty’s guilt about trying to turn children into super-agents. Pembrook disagrees. Hetty put Callen into the program because he was brilliant and gifted, wanting him to live up to his full potential. Hetty’s world was the arts and Callen wasn’t going to learn how to play the violin. She wasn’t going to make the mistake some parents make of taking child with one set of talents and forcing the child to master a different set.
Callen points out that Hetty isn’t his parents. “You mean everything to her. And you always have.” Callen is as close to a son as Hetty ever had – she told Pembrook that because even Hetty needs someone to talk to sometimes. While Callen may feel he’s been alone in this world, “you’ve been far from an orphan.” Hetty loved him deeply. Both Callen and Pembrook are a little weepy.
Pembrook turns over the file with some advice. “Don’t make your life be just about the past. Let it be about the present and now the future.” Pembrook offers his congratulations on Callen’s engagement and wishes him all the happiness in the world. As he leaves, Pembrook mentions he gave Hetty the dossier on Senior Chief Petty Officer Sam Hanna. “I thought he’d make a great partner. No, that’s not true. I thought he’d make a great friend.” With all he did, Pembrook tried to look out for Callen as a way to make up for it all.
What head canon can be formed from here: “Frank Military, please come to the front desk, clean up on aisle Drona.”
As an independent hour, this was great. There wasn’t a dull moment, there wasn’t a dip in the tension, the dialogue was crisp, the action was top notch and there wasn’t a useless scene or conversation. Frank Military is the king of “competence porn” – everyone on the team was at the top of their game, doing their best work. Sam being “out of town” was a bummer – nobody writes the Sam Hanna competence porn better than Military.
But Drona. For the life of me, I don’t know why in season 13 the program completely retcon’d Callen’s childhood. For years, the backstory was Callen bounced from foster home to foster home, some bad, some really bad and some good. He was found by Hetty, went to a good college, joined the DEA/CIA/NCIS and served his country. Now, it seems Callen was some test subject where beating children was seen as great training and Callen completely forgot that part. He remembered all his foster parents but not the guy who took a hammer to his fingers.
Feh.
And if Drona and Hetty were keeping their eye on Callen from the time he was a little boy, could someone maybe have grabbed Amy Callen out of the orphanage and moved her in with a foster/adopted family before she drowned.
Retconning characters’ past isn’t new to me – Samantha Mulder had multiple middle names and multiple kidnapping scenarios. I have a high crapola tolerance level when it comes to this stuff but 13-seasons in, knowing that every season could be the last, introducing a complicated new storyline just seems like a bad idea. And it was.
Nice touch having Cortes land right outside the Hetty’s office, what Mosley called Hetty’s throne. Glad to see Castor not knocked out, instead being a key part of taking Cortes down.
So what did we learn today – you can abuse children physically and psychologically but if you suggest Sam Hanna as a friend to Callen, all’s good.
Episode number: This is episode 19 of season 14. The 321st episode overall.
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Their Eyes/ Part II /Nancy Turner
"I'm not a writer, or a poet, or really, a sentimental guy. But Nancy Turner is one hell of a woman, I wouldn't want her on my bad side. I don't know what attracted me to her; her personality, her determination, her being a fucking badass, her eyes. Her eyes are beautiful, I've never seen anything so sharp and piercing, her gaze like sharpened emeralds whenever she's glaring at me or Joseph for being reckless or when she's dealing with some asshole who tried telling her that the Army ain't no place for a girl.
But they can get dark fast, like if the seas turned this dark green color, and a huge storm cut off the sun from reflecting any blue hues, nothing but unsettling darkness that even sends shivers down Patton's spine. I've seen that look in Kasserine. And when Joseph died.
Yet they glow so brightly when she's grinning all big and pretty, a rare look that you gotta bathe in because it's like an eclipse, something that occurs once in a lifetime. She got that look twice, when we got Zussman to a hospital and the damn kid jokingly asked for a date, and when I got the damn courage and asked her out on one.
I never knew that a single color could get me weak in my knees and make my heart feel like a trapped hummingbird. But I guess I'm wrong when I say it's a single color, because it's multiple in different stages because that's Nancy Turner. She can be happy one second, but one wrong move and she can beat you down with one finger. She tries hiding her emotions, and she's an expert at it, but there's the moments that she lets them slip and those are the moments I love and cherish.
Hey, maybe I am good at this writing shit."
[William Pierson's Journal]
#call of duty#cod ww2#nancy turner#eye description#william pierson#my oc#cod oc#wov writes#oc description
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Just saw the new Ghostbusters movie!
It was fun, but I definitely have... Notes. I will put them below a Read More so that you can scroll past if you want.
First off, forgive me for forgetting basically everyone's names.
Okay so my main gripe is the plot. The machine that extracted Phoebe's soul to make her a ghost had a huge leap in exposition. For one thing, the only thing close to it that was mentioned had to do with possessions. Not your own native soul. Also, there wasn't any mention of a timer. Not only that, but was that REALLY the actual plan from Ice Dude and Melody? Like... There HAD to have been better ways to accomplish that. Also Melody had a moment where she was like "but does it have to be her?" There was never anything given to show why it did though?? Yeah, why DID it have to be her? If there was anybody who it would have been, specifically, it would have been Firebender.
Also, it felt like it was Phoebe's story with a Ghostbusters backdrop and on top of that, she's reckless, sure, but not like... That?? Even though her actions let out the Ice Dude and she was betrayed by Melody, she didn't really have any consequences for it? Like... There should have been something about her being too young actually coming into play. But no, Phoebe gets a pass I guess.
So here's a SparkNotes version of my ideal version of this, including maybe some minor things that weren't immediately in this rant and wouldn't have been an issue if the rest of it was fine. Also, if I have things slightly out of order or forgotten my memory sucks so that's likely my bad there. Rearrange or insert as necessary. The point is these are basic ideas.
First, opening largely the same, the prologue and the dragon spirit chase. They get chewed out and go on another call and it's to the room the prologue was in and find a lot of ghosts. Opens the mystery into Ice Dude. In researching, they find Firebender trying to sell the thing. The guy brings it into Ray's shop and that stuff is the same. Ray investigates and Winston goes on the same "we're not young anymore thing."
Some of the same family issues happen with Phoebe, she also meets Melody and there's mentions of her family issues and they bond.
Then the ghost containment stuff, the lab stuff, etc. However this also includes Firebender and since he's also hit the reader, he's believed to be possessed and out in the machine and it's on a timer. He gets to talk to his grandma and learns about the fire powers before either time running out or her fading, purpose fulfilled because she passed her duty on. except the first time the lab's power flickers, the ghosts actually escape. They split into pairs.
Phoebe and her mom go after Melody. They work out differences and how she wants to keep her safe etc. Phoebe prolly does something that actually goes wrong or gets her hurt that her mom has to save her from. Through this, they also work through Melody's family issues so she actually moves on by resolve her family issues rather than the ??? In the actual movie.
Teacher and the son go after Slimer, who is much bigger now. For some reason the teacher isn't able to drive the car and they reconcile over that stuff.
Ray and Winston go after the posseser after meeting Patton Oswald about the wax recording. Winston gets excited again and Ray realizes that he IS old.
James Acaster and intern go after the hardy ghost. Also the barfing ectoplasm actually has a possession effect and some good slapstick ensues. The ultimate goal is for this ghost to possess the body to say the magic words.
Melnitz and Podcast fight the Mini Stay Pufft guys maybe they try to wreck the lab or something idk. Podcast gets annoyed he's stuck with her since she didn't do any actual Ghostbusting back in the day, but she ends up showing him she's badass.
Venkman and Firebender team up to train to control the fire while fighting the bigger contained ghost. Since Venkman actually has a psych degree, he helps Firebender unlock his anger at himself and his brother and use that as a way to build and control the fire as it is triggered by anger, etc.
After all these side things are resolved, they team up to defeat Ice Dude. Also ALL their proton packs are modified to have copper so all their combined effort actually contributes. Also, when the original crew work to reverse the containment, they all have something to do or other to make it work so it's not like... Boring pushing down a lever thing, or conveniently designed to reverse from the get-go.
Idk, I think it would be better to make it more an ensemble and would better resolve some of the holes (though I don't have immediate answers for all the holes though).
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soooo sleepy so here's the list of everyone's Zodiac animal that's in this round
Shakira- Fire Snake Sinead O'Connor- Fire Horse Miki Berenyi- Fire Sheep/Ram/Goat Q-Tip: Metal Dog Björk- Wood Snake Dave Grohl- Wood Cock/Rooster Jeff Buckley- Fire Horse Skin- Fire Sheep/Ram/Goat Courtney Love- Wood Dragon Jonny Greenwood + Mike Patton- Metal Pig + Earth Monkey (idk what animal that would be) Kim Gordon- Water Snake Billie Joe Armstrong- Water Rat (we know this one) Nicky Wire- Earth Cock/Rooster Tori Amos- Water Rabbit/Cat Lisa Lopes- Metal Pig Adam Yauch- Wood Dragon
No Oxes or Tigers for anyone keeping tabs. Feel free to use this to determine who's the most likely to hate each other idk. Or draw your fav as their birth assigned fursona. have fun
All these badass sounding "fire horse" "metal dog" "water snake" "wood dragon" and then there's Dave with his "w o o d c o c k"
Now I want to see 90s musician fursonas though
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i used to think patton was the most cisgender side ever because he’s a dad and i was thinking of what my own dad is like
but patton is the coolest dad in the universe cos he’s also a mom. he’s a mom and she’s also a dad. he’s a dichotomy that exists within herself. he is winning at gender. she’s so badass like that <3
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Quantumania thoughts, by character
The Heist Guys
I love and miss them and removing them from this movie was its biggest flaw. Except the one played by TI because TI is a scumbag.
Scott
As much as everyone, especially my dad, loves Paul Rudd, I don’t buy him in this movie as a dramatic actor. Probably has to do with the tropey writing and stuff more than Paul’s actual chops but there’s no small parts etc. this movie just tried so hard to be taken seriously that gave up its pedestrian, relatable humor — the thing that made the first two movies so great, and the thing that attaches Paul Rudd to this character — and replaced it with contrived and tropey drama. It felt sometimes like Paul Rudd was trying to imitate Generic Action Hero, which he isn’t great at and nobody wants. Highlights of his performance include: the end where he’s like “oh shit did I just mess everything up? No I didn’t, denial time!”, the part where all his “possibilities” pile on each other all saying “Cassie” because they work together driven by the purity of a father’s love.
Cassie
why did they recast her. I loved Emma Fuhrmann in Endgame and felt really bad when she only learned she has been replaced through comiccon/d23/etc. From a casting perspective, I get it; Fuhrmann was meant to fill a small role in a huge movie, so they probably recast when the part became much more significant (setting up for a young avengers movie). But Kathryn is just not very good. TBF the only other movie I’ve seen her in was Detective Pikachu in which she was much worse. Not sure if it’s the acting or the writing that hurts Cassie more. But her character in this is basically “I am an activist that cares about people” like that’s great in real life but I want to be invested in her and I’m not
hope
Literally did nothing but effective altruism in the beginning of the movie, what a downgrade
Hank
By far the character with the best upgrade in this movie. From movies 1-3, he’s gone through great character development, learning to respect Scott and Hope in their own right. He’s also gradually gone from dry exposition dumper (1) to once-in-a-while joke-maker (2) to “summoned an ant army to defeat a multiversal conqueror”/nerdy/perhaps even autistic about ants (3). I love when he admitted to reading Scott’s book: “every goddamn word”, said both proudly and teasingly.
Kang
Current legal shit aside, I was not expecting to hate him this much. I didn't like Majors in Loki, but I figured that had to do with the direction, not the acting chops of Majors himself. When I saw the reviews for this movie, which generally sold Majors as the film's only merit, I was expecting something great from his performance. Instead, we got Majors doing what I guess was either his best Morgan Freeman impression or a really bad trans-atlantic/English accent (posh vowels and clipped t's). Whatever he was trying to do simply did not work for me. The Council of Kangs post-credit scene looked to me like a bunch of Party City costumes.
Jentorra
Played by Katy O’Brien, who I know from my brief stint watching Black Lightning and who gave an equally meh performance in The Mandalorian S3. The one thing I like about this character, who is otherwise a pretty basic stoic/traumatized my-entire-species-died-and-now-I-am-a-badass-warrior-woman, is her dynamic with Cassie. Yes, Hope could have been Cassie’s female role model, and she basically did nothing in this movie, so that’s kinda sad. But there’s something nice about the Jentorra and Cassie finding what they need in life from each other: Cassie a strong voice for justice and a girlboss internship, and Jentorra a piece of innocence and hope she was too jaded to hold onto. I wish we explored that a bit more.
MODOK
If I read any comics featuring MODOK, or even watched the Patton Oswalt MODOK show, I’m sure I would hate Darren/MODOK. And in a lot of ways I do. But he works most of the time as comic relief, half-satirizing his own role as the old enemy that "came back better than ever!" It never got old when he would introduce himself, a main character would be like "Darren?" and he'd be like "Not anymore! I've been reborn as a new and improved version of myself! mwahaha!" And the main character would be like "Umm improved, sure." I loved when Scott was comming him and he'd only answer to MODOK.
Re: the redemption arc. Before watching the movie, I saw a leaked screenshot of the death scene where he says “at least I died an avenger.” That spoiled the MODOK=Darren reveal + death scene + redemption arc for me, but I was mostly upset that the movie would do something so blatantly cheesy with the dying scene. When I saw the movie, I was mostly glad that the scene wasn't meant to be taken seriously; that monologue is treated as self-righteous rather than earnest. However the redemption arc still does kind of come out of nowhere and it's lame.
Other Minor Characters
I liked Bill Murray as a sleazebag that reeeeally wants to give Hank the impression that he slept with his wife. I liked the group of weirdos fighting against Kang, and the "drink the ooze" scene was cute. Lowkey wish Scott and Hope ended up trapped in the Quantum Realm and became benevolent rulers for a few years. Overall, meh movie, would not watch again. Hope the fanfic is better.
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