#s3 e4

[goth-emrys]

arthur: merlin.

merlin: shut. up?

arthur: you guessed it.

[herstotaste]

The Road To The Spear may just be peak WoT

like come to find out everybody ate

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Clyde Bruckman: Hilarious. Tragic. Makes fun of Mulder, won an Emmy for it. "Final Repose" is one of TXF's most acclaimed episodes for good reason. If Clyde wasn't Clyde, this episode wouldn't be nearly as well received.

Clyde Bruckman: You don't get it, do you, kid? Two years from now, while driving down Route 91, coming home to your wife and baby daughter, you're going to be hit head-on by a drunk, driving a blue '87 Mustang. You'll end up looking worse than 60 feet of bad road your body slides across after flying out your front windshield. Young Husband: Mister, you really need to work on your closing technique.

Guy Mann: Cursed with being bri'ish kiwi 😔

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To jog your memory, here are the episodes they're from:

Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose: Skeptical of a famous psychic's predictions regarding the death of several prognosticators, Mulder instead finds someone whom he believes truly can predict the future. Catching the killer could prove difficult, though, particularly if the killer can also see into his future.

Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster: Mulder and Scully investigate mysterious killings seemingly perpetrated by a were-monster. Eventually, Mulder meets said "monster", a lizard-creature, who, after having been bitten by a human, turns into a human during the day.

[carsweirdness]

who here thinks emily prentiss should've gotten a kid after the whole carrie ortiz episode. like she would've been a good mom.

[dailyfloory]

[mayapapaya33]

Just started episode 4 and so far I'm not sure how to feel about Joy. I'm leaning towards cautiously optimistic, but Charles has such a bad track record that I am squinting at her trying to figure out what's wrong with her lol. She seems fine but makes the occasional remark that could be fine but is just off enough to catch my awareness specifically because I'm looking for problems. For instance, she made a slightly derogatory remark about Lucy, but also teenagers are annoying sometimes. No matter how much you like them you're gonna complain about them sometimes, so that could be perfectly innocent.

She seems good for his self-esteem, but she also seems like she could steam roll him easily (not that that would be difficult, this man needs so much therapy, which has nothing to do with her).

[the-golden-dragoness]

Sighting: Mr moseby in btvs

[nic-liveblogs]

mei always saving mk's ass at the best possible times I swear

[tall-dark-and-extremely-handsome]

Source @imthecontingency Tysm for the photos!

Omg he’s such a dork and I love it

Turnabout is fair play. Jim Caviezel took pictures on HIS cell phone of the crowd watching and taking his picture, as well as the beautiful background harbor and yachts behind us.

Behind the scenes from S3, E4, Reasonable Doubt.

Please do not repost without credit.

[asha-mage]

The costuming of each of Rand's ancestors is ALSO insane, each iteration of the cadin'sor a step forward towards the one we recognize on Janduin and the modern Aiel, and each reflecting the moment that ancestor lived in:

Charn has simple but well made work clothes that reflect his upbringing as someone form a culture that still practices agrarian farming in a sci fi utopia. It's simple brown that looks more rough and rustic standing in contrast to Miren's sleek white lab outfit, but still contains the hints of modern amenity: his over the shoulder cape, the buttons on his coat and shirt. This is someone who lives in a society where he could be wearing something more clearly modern, but deliberately choose something humble and simple.

Then you have Rhodric in a much sleeker and darker version: the rustic agrarian element has been traded for a straight lines. Everything is imminently practical, from the thick soled work boots, to the leather vest with it's own clip and zippers, to the trousers that allow for range of motion. Rhodric was living through a time of war and now apocalypse. Even his people, sworn to peace, have been altered by the realities of the world they live in, and what their role as servants to Aes Sedai, leaders in that war, demanded.

Centuries later, the cadin'sor has been entirely lost, and Jonai is in what we can recognize now as Tuatha'an style clothing, which makes sense since this is where the two cultures split. Gone are the sleek uniform lines Rhodric was wearing but the deliberate rustic vibe Charn had has not returned. Instead everything is clearly (and messily) hand made. Threads are hanging off a poncho that is clearly hard used. Everything is ill fitting- on Jonai and every one else in this scene. Adan's shirt hangs askew because it's to large while Sulwin's skirt drags in the skirt because it's to long. Their are all these efforts at bright colors and patterning- but their irregular and imperfect. The breaking is taking it's hold and exacting it's price.

Two generations later, Jonai's great grandson, Lewin and his fellows have something that that is first step towards modern Aiel cadin'sor. Everyone has adopted browns and grey, brighter color has been dramatically scaled back, and while stuff still isn't fitting great, it's fitting better. Practicality is back as the main focus, and we see sharp lines return as well. Lewin is the ancestor that most resembles Rhodric, because like with Rhodric he has had to make concessions in himself for the realities of a violent world. The veil appears for the first time, and the colors are now locked in: brown and grey, to match their desert environment.

Jumping forward centuries again to the pre-Clan Aiel, we get Mandein, a sept chief from right before the Aiel cultural identity starts to codify. He is wearing a leather cuirass over a simple linen shirt- the colors are consistent now. and everything is well fitted. The biggest difference is how his rank as a chief is conveyed: he is slathered status symbols, from his cloak, to his sea shell necklace, to his spear with special inlay- all things that demonstrate his singular importance in a society grappling with scarcity. Their is also no uniformity when we see the other sept chiefs during the meeting- everyone is styled differently, draped in different kinds of status symbols. The modern Aiel as a culture now exists, but a common cultural identity is still in the process of forming and getting locked in.

And then finally Janduin- post that cultural identity being codified for two thousand years. He and all the other Aiel warriors are uniform with a clear vision- and being influenced by aesthetic sensibilities that incorporate every step backwards through time. A curiass that seems heavily based on the vest of Rhodric and the others during the war period but with the clear underpinning of being real armor like what Mandein wore, a metal buckler strapped to his back right where the Aiel work hats used to hang during Charn's day, and of course, Lewin's veil but also his same basic silhouette and linens. The only one not represented here is Jonai- which makes sense since that is the lowest point in the Aiel's history, reduced to refugees being preyed upon without anything but their oath and each other to sustain them. Most strikingly to me is the complete absence of any status symbol- Janduin leads many many more people then Mandein but his spears are the same as his soldiers, and nothing marks him out as their leader even in the thick of combat...because such symbols are unnecessary. His right to lead, we know, is carved into his arm.

[they-call-me-thewildrose]

Also I have to say, seeing the gangs’ Goth Evil Versions in Moiraine’s visions… I am a very normal bisexual and will not be taking questions at this time <3

[eyes-inthe-skies]

So WHAT if i keeo the house awake eith my girlish swueeing i am hsving a MOMENT here!!

Utterly infatuated with every member of sg1. Theyre so unhinged

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Summary: Skeptical of a famous psychic's predictions regarding the death of several prognosticators, Mulder instead finds someone whom he believes truly can predict the future. Catching the killer could prove difficult, though, particularly if the killer can also see into his future.

[angualupin]

I have some thoughts about Latra Sedai

Ok, full disclaimer: I've never read the books, but I have read much of the WoT wiki, so I exist in a liminal space where I am both spoiled and unspoiled. That said, the below is approaching this from a show-only viewpoint. I welcome insights from book knowledge, but please don't @ me with "actually, in the books X happened", because I'm not interrogating this from a book perspective.

The show's choice to have the same person be the one to entrust the sa'angreal (ok, I forgot it's name, there are too many godsdamn names) to the Aiel and to be the one who founds Rhuidean as the place of trials was just fucking brutal. Because it's been hundreds upon hundreds of years at this point: we see Latra argue with Lews in the S1 cold open, where (IIRC) she was the head of the female Aes Sedai?? Indicating she was old enough to be established in her power at that point. So presumably she was alive during the drilling of the Bore. And then she lived through the War, and through the Breaking, and hundreds of years after. She lived through the godsdamn apocalypse, she witnessed the destruction of Utopia -- and through all of that, one of her greatest griefs must have been what the Aiel became. To be there, at the beginning, when she entrusted the future "to peace", and then to be there at the end, when the culture of the "true Aiel", the ones who had kept to their oaths, had withered and died, and the only ones left were their descendants who had chosen violence -- that must have been the cruelest twist of the knife, after everything she had seen.

And yet

AND YET

She must have known she was sending them out to die. She must have known that! It was the middle of the literal apocalypse! Everyone was dying! The world was ending! And she was entrusting these precious objects to people who swore they would never even defend themselves! How did she think this was going to go? She sends ten thousand trees out into the world with the hope that maybe one will survive. Which means she had the expectation that 99.99% of the people she is entrusting this task to are going to die. And then she has the temerity to be furious that some of them decided that that was a raw deal, and that they were going to change the terms of the bargain? What did she think was going to happen.

I understand her grief. She had lost an actual utopia, and by that point, she was the only one who even remembered it ever existed. I even understand her anger -- the Aiel who remained were oathbreakers, and they had spent hundreds of years telling themselves that they were the only ones with honor. How unbelievably painful it must have been, to see how far they had fallen. And yet. She is very, very far from blameless in this matter. She was the one who set upon them this impossible burden. She was the one who sent 9,999 wagons out into the breaking of the world to die for the chance that one would live. She was the one who accepted their oath, knowing what it would mean for their odds of survival. Surely some of her anger must have been directed inward, in recognition that she set them up to fail. Surely some of her grief must have been at her own actions. Surely some of it must have been.

[dailyfloory]

[sugarcube-stillabookworm]

so do we think that any of the jenn aiel the "true" aiel who kept both of their oaths and managed to cross the spine of the world and travel the Waste still remembered the Song of Growing. do we think they sang it together when they planted the chora sapling in the barren ground in rhuidean and that helped it take root and grow into a massive lifeful tree, avendesora, so deep into the desert