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Season one retrospective part II: Michi
Hightlighting all the relevant Michi characterization in season one!
The basics of Michi.
If there’s one word to describe Michi, it’d be impulsive. Herissmon and Player Character (PC) meet her upon coming out of the station because she loudly approaches them, drawn by the novel sight of Herissmon. For better and for worse, she’s the kind to always wear her heart in her sleeve—and to decide based on her emotions; after all, she does try to argue with Kuwagamon out of genuine offense at its ungratefulness. And to down in a gulp all the cocoa she ordered before having to deal with the Digital Point, she just couldn't leave it behind! And she does form an instant, strong dislike to Takumi due his condescending manners. And so on. No matter the situation, Michi allows her heart to speak and act for her.
Michi is a fun character to follow. Her forwardness and impulsivity make her both goofy and charming. She’s good to keep things from being stagnant— let’s remember the first library incident where the PC and Herissmon end up trapped in the digital point does happen because she wanted to check an urban legend. Her love for the occult adds a fun texture to her character.
Tailmon’s debut.
Speaking of, Michi’s fear of ghost is pretty goofy. She likes weird, novel creatures, but not when they might be the dead. I’m not too fond of her adult evolution act since it can feel underwhelming as a trigger for Tailmon’s debut, especially coming at the tails of her staking her pride in training hard to get Plotmon to evolve and getting the promise it’d come when the time is right in return—just what makes the silliness of act 09 more fitting is beyond me. It’s also not entirely true that training is ineffectual as a path towards evolution, but that’s a topic for later.
Still, Michi not being able to be upfront about her fear of ghosts and not wanting to hunt for them but still tagging along because the others want to do it makes for some funny bits. It’s partly the pride speaking, so even when Plotmon is messing with her, she still doesn’t fess up. Her being prideful is a trait we don’t get to see much in season 1, but the fact it’s properly established makes it fun when it comes back in season two.
Plotmon takes the teasing too far—they both take the banter and the embarrassing each other too far. It’s not entirely unenjoyable since it’s all pretty childish and serves to show how well they mesh together and know each other. At the end of the day, they are each other’s best friend. The fact that they’re pretty alike, despite Plotmon being more often than not Michi’s straight-man, also gets some nice mileage during season two, so I can’t entirely discount this act. I only wish it didn’t spin its wheels so much.
Some other highlights.
Some other stray moments that are Michi hightlights are when, during act 13, she’s the first one to point out SkullGreymon is in pain. It’s such a small moment, it’d almost feel inconsequential to point out, but we do get important moments based on this in season two, so it’s always delightful to see how consistent her characterization is.
Another noteworthy moment is when she gives advice to Takumi in act 19 regarding what partnership is about—“two working as one”. That partnership is about working together is not exactly a shocking revelation, but it’s a fitting insight for her to offer Takumi, who’s often very caught on his ideals of strength and independence to be truly considerate to his partner. Michi knows that, so she offers her little wisdom nugget. She can be genuinely keen and insightful due her focus in emotions as much as she can be a brash clown. This, too, gets expanded later on.
Setting the tone for the future (act 21).
I was initially irritated at this act, to the point of thinking season 2 does pretty much every idea in it better. The emotional core of it is about Michi feeling guilty over running her mouth, with the expected reassurances about how her candid passion and optimism often push the Tamers forward. While it’s true she bats hard for fighting the Spirals as a remedy to Herissmon’s situation, the lack of any real alternative made the guilt ring hollow at first. It is a Digimon story, after all. What other solution is the conflict gonna have other than to punch it out? However, after revisiting it, I felt that more than being the definitive take on Michi’s flaws, it was a nice way to establish more subtle characterization for her.
It’s not a suprise that Michi’s high emotivity and impulsiveness can lead her to be thoughtless. To act 20’s credit, the route the narrative takes has more depth than simply having Michi say something wrong or hurtful in the heat of the moment and then having to apologize. During the Tamers initial reunion at Truffle discussing Herissmon’s situation, the straightforward answer is to simply get rid of the Spirals that are affecting Herissmon’s condition. It’s not really a foolish idea given that’s pretty much all they’ve been doing so far. Michi shows herself enthusiastic about it, since it’s a clear and easy answer to deal with the situation that doesn’t involve sitting too tightly with uncomfortable emotions such as uncertainty, worry and sadness, nor contemplating all the ways it could not work, as Keito does.
You’d be excused to think it’s simply Michi being positive— she is, after all. And there’s nothing wrong to being positive, is there? However, Michi often interrupts Keito’s musings in favor of pushing them to act. When pressed about the possibility of Herissmon rampaging again, she hand waves it by saying the PC can just call out to Herissmon and snap them out of it. How fitting it is that it’s the act when that doesn’t work. It’s fair to say it’s intentional to show she’s trying Very Hard not to engage in any sort of “negativity” present. With Herissmon’s doubts and worries at an all-time high, they don’t want to risk being a burden. If Michi wants to go, then Herissmon will follow. It makes for better character work than I initially gave it credit for. Michi’s forceful positivity being hurtful because she doesn’t like dealing with difficult emotions, which has the unintended effect of pressuring Herissmon into not expressing them, is a good beat. Her brand of avoidance coping making her compelled to prefer things that feel “right” will form the cornerstone by which her arc in season two will unfold.
Naturally, season one doesn’t really dwell on this trait. It solves things neatly with Michi noticing how her thoughtlessness pushed Herissmon too hard. It makes sense she’s able to realize her mistake and apologize since, while she does often get swept in her own selfish impulses, she’s quick to take on external input and is legitimately perceptive, in her own instinctual way. She also loves Herissmon, so there’s no reason for this conflict to last longer than it does. But I still much prefer season two’s willingness to have her hit a wall and really grapple with it without offering an immediate balm. All in, while held back by the basic scenario writing, this act still sets up the material her season-two writing will expand on quite nicely.
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This job will eat you up if you let it. So what do I do? Find a way not to let it.
AARON HOTCHNER SEASON ONE
#o#criminal minds#criminalmindsedit#���#he did notget beat up eough this season#r THREE of these frm 108??? YES#this IS a 108 natural born killer propoganda blog !!!!!#im not tagging all the eps cause i already forgot half of them#but its s1 retrospective post week officially on this blog .... i will reblog my amazing psychotic posts ofthe past#no queue im spamming im free
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okay we’re 4 episodes into season one and highlights of gfs comments so far include:
saying IMMEDIATELY that episode 1 could not be more gay coded what with kara’s desperation to live her truth and be herself etc etc etc
she’s delighted to see maxwell lord bc he is apparently the dad in twilight
kara at catco reminds her slightly of pam from the office of all people which .. absolutely baffles me
#guys i forgot this show is actually good at the beginning#have tried several times to impress how hot supergirl is but its just not taking for her#which is actually very funny because in retrospect s1 kara is decidedly unsexy#she hasnt developed the Fuck You confidence sg has in the later seasons and shes like . cute and dorky and kind of lame#gf likes women who would boss her around so im giggling kicking my feet waiting for lena#sg rewatch with lia
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Babys first go at an Alice design!!
I'm slightly worried I might have made her outfit a bit. Much? But on the other hand I think her fashion sense cannot be silenced
I'm just trying to get the ones out that I had immediately somewhat clear in my head before I get influenced by everyone elses designs,
I think I'll do Gwen next, no promises on how soon that'll be though bc it's me 😬
#its so stressful making character designs for a character i dont know inside out yet#like im manifesting the vast vibes for her but#ig i can retrospectively change her details if im way off#but also im like. what if they drop a lil tidbut that makes the whole thing just. incorrect#aaa im not used to being in active fandoms man#tma#the magnus archives#tmp#the magnus protocol#alice dyer#alice#s1 alice
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I gave Silco a lot of flak last season. I got a few people upset about that. I still stand by what I said, tbh, and what Jinx has said. Silco got a thrill in taking a child and making her into Jinx, but Jinx was driven more by the voice of Vi in her head. That Silco saw himself in her and wanted to take her apart and put her back together like legos to see what he could create. How him overseeing her process went.
I think he loved what he made. I think he loved Jinx, the concept.
But he was Jinx's daddy, and that means the world to her, and now she's killed him. She can't undo that.
#Arcane#Arcane Spoilers#Arc11#Silco#Jinx#Mandar Liveblogs#Rewatching s1 like huh ppl disagreed with my Silco vibes#maybe they'll change on retrospection#nah they just got stronger
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them: why are you so ok with the lgbtq+?
the mfs i was watching from age 8-15
#ohshc haruhi#ohshc#shugo chara#fujisaki nadeshiko#fusjisaki nagihiko#one of the big plot twists of sc s1 being that nadeshiko was a boy was wild as a child#i do love that haruhi was like#i'm whoever it's not that serious#our original non-binary entity#in retrospect these animes really supported my eventual opinions on gender and love#fushigi yuugi#sailor uranus#sailor neptune#sailor moon#the original gay cousins#nuriko#nuriko fushigi yuugi#parakiss#paradise kiss#ai yazawa
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have finished s1 predictably I love it prepare for some Claudia spam.
#didn’t lb the rest of the episodes. was hoping I’d have the restraint to write like a lil retrospective post for s1 then start s2 but I’m#watching 2.01 rn so like#s speaks#s watches iwtv
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"Rest in peace, Kiki. I'll get something done. I don't know how, I don't know when, but I've got you. I couldn't do it in this life, but... I'll make you proud." what the fuck man
#whisp whispers#spoilers for s3 fishie in tags i guess. post is s1 quote though#'i'll make you proud' god yeah. that's it isn't it. i couldnt do it in this life#i don't think she lives by the same philosophy in s3 per se but she does quite obviously feel like she's terribly failed kiwi at all times#and for everything she's ever done#head in hands. fishie beastlife .......#*in retrospect spoiler tag may have been unecessady but reorganizing tags is a pain so i'm gonna leave it
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Hi- I loved your Carlos and Iris story but it made me wonder something-
In the last chapter Carlos mentioned how it was smart for them to separate and it made me think- they never legally separated, did they?
And following that- if Carlos was still listed as her husband, was he at one point a suspect or at least a person of interest in her disappearance?
(Follow up question: how did they ever expect anyone to believe they had been planning this storyline since the beginning- like my only issue with it is they were so insistent they had this plan all along)
Hi and thank you!! I don’t know if there was anything legal or official about their separation … they never really specified that did they. And yea in reality Carlos almost certainly would be the number one suspect 😂 one of many things that do not make sense about this storyline being told in the fourth season with no previous planning.
#911ls asks#I rewatched a S1 ep the other day and was dying over all the plot holes#and how much it makes no sense at all in retrospect
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Season 1 retrospective part I: the most memorable adult evolution, Filmon.
As a way to celebrate ReArise’s Anniversary, I’m starting my retrospective series on season one highlighting its most memorable parts in order to cover season 2 later on.
ReArise’s season one scenario writing is mostly formulaic—it uses the basic format of meeting up with the focus character, having some kind of spiral encounter that’s resolved through fighting and some kind of highlight such as a new character introduction or a new evolution. That’s not to say it doesn’t seed its plot and lore—although the repetitiveness hurts lending the drop feed more interest. From the Tamers’ introductions that involved random digimon as collateral, there’s been hints to Herissmon's true nature and their affinity to Spirals; as well to the Spirals’ plans through them provoking digimon and manipulating both the digital points’ frequency and size (the most pointed case being in act 11, with Keito noting the weird expansion of a particular Digital Point). Which leads us to acts 12-13 being among my favorites in season one, since they take all these hints and escalate the situation in an effective, shocking way.
The end-of-act-11 cliffhanger revealing the spiral expanding the Digital Point is still around, coupled with the fact that the unusual electronic disturbances point at the movement of the Digital Points for their eventual convergence at the center of the city are both rewarding little ideas that sell a sense something bigger than usual is brewing, more so than your typical “Digital Points are increasing in frequency” talking point so far. The event ties the instability of the Digital Point to Tyrannomon, so we get a different main objective than simply destroying the Spirals in order to restore the space back to normal. Previous digimon encounters haven’t necessarily been friendly from start, but none were a serious threat to the Tamers themselves as much as to the digimon’s own safety, so it’s a fun tug-of-war between Spirals and Tamers to get to and pacify/subjugate Tyrannomon first (also, it’s nice to see the once-to-be mascot of the franchise get a lil’ hype as especially strong).
We also get to entertain some kinda strategy from the Tamers, with Takumi dealing with Tyrannomon directly and the others offering support by clearing the Spirals. Agumon’s eventual request for their help in order to talk it out with Tyrannomon also provides a shake-up to the usual course of action. The Tamers clear a path for Greymon to get to Tyrannmon, who at this point is merely a rampaging beast… It’s a bit underwhelming as far confrontations go, but it’s also note-worthy as the first time ReArise puts reaching out to the creature lashing out at the heart of the debacle, something that gets much greater pay-off in season one’s own finale.
Herissmon’s building sense of impotence through act 12 is good to anticipate their eventual evolution during this event, as well as valuable characterization setup for their constant ruminating and guilt through the last stretch of season one as the Spiral possession occurrences keep on troubling them. The Tamers’ initial hesitancy to simply destroy Tyrannomon isn’t too deply explored, but it’s nice to see echoes of it for when the possibility starts creeping as a way to deal with Herissmon themself later on.
The end of act 12 is a great cliffhanger on its own right— just when it looks the tides have changed and the Tamers have successfully weakened and cornered Tyrannomon, the Spirals resonate with it and force a corrupt evolution that successfully integrates Spiral data. This finally puts into perspective all of the Spirals previous experiments and hints at their ultimate goal as well as it foreshadows Herissmon’s own eventual fate. Not to mention it was just cool. This fucked up egg is my friend.
Herissmon’s adult evolution being fueled by a desire to help their friends when they’re in a pinch and literally paralyzed is Digimon at its most classic. It’s not the most shocking of revelations, but it goes quite well with Herissmon’s character— their answers for the Spirals in the season 1 finale hinges on how much they cherish life thanks to their beloved friends, and this will continue being their core source of strength through season two. Herissmon’s deep love for its friends is even baked into the lore of its ultimate evolution, given that it can get a power boost from the emotions of its allies. That the spirals are drawn to Herissmon as well and it looks like they might try to force a corrupt evolution right there and then is the cherry on the cake adding a bit of a twist. All in, it’s the perfect scenario for Herissmon to evolve for the first time.
There’s genuine pathos in the way the Tamers note SkullGreymon’s pain over the forced evolution and MetalGreymon’s desire to keep on reaching their rampaging friend culminating in a bittersweet victory for the Tamers. It’s a bit of a waste this season doesn’t use this event to pivot to a more serious atmosphere, especially as we deal with its shadow looming over Herissmon and how it affects the other Tamers—particularly Takumi, but I still enjoy the tragedy of it as is.
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Hot sunny days, cool breezes at night, never-ending tropical drinks with the little umbrellas, and nothing but young, beautiful adults looking to make vacation memories. Male and female, right? Elle, two weeks of pure heaven.
#o#criminal minds#criminalmindsedit#q#cm 1.22#derek/elle jamaica vacation MASTERPOST !!!!#gjrege#okay no more cm rewatch until i finish the 43893284 books i started last month <3 but perhasp i will work on my s1 Retrospective Posts ....#hmmmmmmmmm#anyway glad they were both like okay we NEED to bring all our sluttiest jewellery
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sometimes i remember the Leap and subsequent rayllum of it, love confession and all, are the plot and emotional climax of arc 1, and i lose my mind
#3x09#rayllum#text post#mine#like in retrospect it seems obvious but if u had told me in s1 or s2 that this would happen i would Not have believed you#the structural foundation is always there bc callum is 1) the central Main character and 2) rayla is the catalyst for the entire arc#but it's still so funny to me#tdp show me the original s3 plans i'd love to know how much or how little was changed#me hedging my bets on 5x09 being similarly insane is just good thematic sense at this point#altho claudia has taken the catalyst point (at least seemingly) soo#who knows#altho her finding the unicorn was what kicked off so much of the show so maybe#rayla for claudia will have a similar reveal#tag ramble#cause they're always circling each other as emo white haired girls with father issues
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Okay this is my second time watching the black rose arc and I still don't know why mamiya looks just like young akio/dios. or is he supposed to resemble anthy? you would think his name being so similar to himemiya would mean something. the metaphor there is so unparsable to me. like what is he there for
#also? i will say it mikage is just some guy#utena tag#?#like is it supposed to be casting doubt on anthy bc mamiya seems to be pulling the strings here#are we supposed to be thinking u know what characters set up to be the innocent victim of circumstance in this show are often the opposite#because if so that's way less complicated than what s1 and s3 were saying about anthy but okay?#idk i just am still finding myself baffled by black rose arc#can't help thinking the extremely sinister in retrospect akio scenes and the bits of dialogue between characters outside of evil therapy#are the most relevant parts of this whole thing
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I didn't think I'd get returns from raising and E2ing Windflit. Even with E2, a high pot bonus on his talent, and a maxed module he still barely keeps up with Warfarin's buff - with no SP charging, a target limitation, and a worse uptime to boot.
However he seems to be pulling his weight in the early stages of IS4 due to having a body and decent group clear with his s1, and in the later parts of runs can still serve as a decent buffer even if his own damage falls off. I don't know because even the midbosses are kicking my teeth in. Plus, supporter recruitments don't have nearly as much competition as other classes like guards - especially when you need more bodies.
Now I just need to find the situation where Roberta thrives as well.
#in retrospect robertas s1 is better than her s2 because she has to compete with the two 4* protector defenders with similar skills#and her edge over them is due to her having much better attack#though then she competes with gummy#im gonna find roberta use cases i promise you this
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I wonder if Mincowski ever found Eiffel's log from 'cigarette candy'.
Wonder if the irony on him figuring it out early then being gaslight into thinking it was all normal got to her.
(spoilers in tags btw)
#wolf 359#relisting to s1 and WOW there is a lot of foreshadowing#like seriously#also sad in retrospect all the things Eiffel says about memorey in s1#wolf 359 spoilers#spoilers
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okay now i get being like 'give me a fucking break' overhearing your teammate talk lovingly about his lovely good luck pinching dad when your own dad would sooner pinch your earlobes because you weren't living up to his expectations
#mhac.txt#lasso.posting#still not condoning it!#just understanding it in retrospect. and generally getting a newer perspective on s1 jamie after everything
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