#s3e10 spoilers

[adh-d2]

Is it proto-Snoke? A Zillo Beast? A horribly malformed Frankenstein of a creature?

Worse.

[annikasevenshots]

There are 3 things to remember about being a starship captain. (insp.)

[rien-maz]

I'm not really good at drawing kids because I've never drawn them, but they seemed to turn out okay.

In general, I'm glad that this lady was part of the story and not an extra, because she had a lot of contact with the central characters.

I felt sorry for the kids and I don't think I need to tell you how I yelled when I saw them as test subjects. All in all, I was tired, but basically satisfied with the work.

[air--so--sweet]

'You gave me ulcers, and panic attacks and nightmares.'

Calling it now, we will eventually get a confrontation between Syd and Carmy where she says something very similar to this and it will make Carmy realise just how bad he's become.

[mayapapaya33]

Uuuugh Keyleth I love you girl but you're so fucking annoying sometimes. Literally everyone agreed with you about Raishan being a tricky bitch who was eventually going to stab the group in the back. They just also saw the necessary evil in a temporary alliance with her. Geeze Louise.

Everyone was like, "Yeah no this is gonna suck later, she's a dragon, this is totally going to end in death, but we're in a terrible situation with no perfect choices and we need to make hard decisions" and what Keyleth heard was "No Keyleth, you are wrong, trust Raishan, it'll be fine, shut up."

No one listens to me! I told you she was going to betray us!!! Yeah, we know, WE AGREED WITH YOU!!!

[truelove-is-forever]

This is hard.

On one hand, the blatant disregard for law and order Bradley has demonstrated this season warrants punishment. Actions meet consequences. However, at the same time, she is doing the right thing and making it right. So on the other hand, my Laura x Bradley heart wants this to be the first step in them coming back together. Baby steps, of course, but it's the start of something.

It's not out of the realm of possibilities. Laura is all about truth and honesty and doing the right thing. It was a tough decision to begin with. Bradley did make the wrong choice. But like an adult, she's taking steps to make it right. It should somewhat redeem her in Laura's eyes.

I mean, I would also understand if Laura just cuts her out of her heart entirely. It was a serious breach of trust and ethics. Both values Laura holds in the highest regards.

All I'm saying is, I want in my heart of hearts for my gays to be happy (done the right way). But, if that's not possible, then I'm ok with that, too, as long as we get Laura in the divorce.

[hamletisabitch]

I'm actually so for setting up a (potential, unlikely to be fully realized) redemption arc for Rupert. One of the core themes this show started with was forgiveness following accountability! This world has grace for everyone when they're ready to be accountable for the harm they've caused and put in the work to change. We're seeing it with Nate right now and it's beautiful! There's enough forgiveness to go around. It's not too late to become kind.

[givekennyabreak]

I'm in tears but I'm also in shock but I'm also happy but I'm also - Dani?????????

[trentcrimmisgay]

Rebecca to Sam 3x10: Well, I think you’re wonderful.

Sam to Rebecca 2x10: I’m only going to get more wonderful.

[percysaidnever]

i love the random minor plot line in this weeks episode of Ted Lasso because the episode explores the intricacies of footbal organizations and leagues and the complex(now healthier) relationships of Rebecca and Sam’s hurt over national teams and Roy/Keeley and then-

-just Dani beefing with Van Damme for like 3 scenes, we see him from being his reg happy self to swearing their state of enemies so quickly

[acruelerdonut]

TBB spoilers?

Ngl man I like this new season and I want to enjoy it but I felt nothing when everything went down. It's feeling more repetitive and almost like they're prioritising fitting in every aspect of other stories rather than their own. It's hard to really get invested in their struggles anymore. But considering we're at the halfway point I'm hoping they manage to end it as well as they can without resorting to needless tropes. Guess we'll find out next week lmao

[annikasevenshots]

pov seven and raffi convincing starfleet brass that they're totally not romantically involved at all so they get to serve on the same ship

[black-klok-youth-pastor]

These two have still not reunited in Army of the Doomstar!!!! And that makes me eternally sad! 😭

Should’ve confronted Brendon about this /hj

[whump-or-whatever]

Illya Kuryakin Whump - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964)

There are a lot of fights and stuff in this show so I’ve marked episodes I found particularly whumpy with an *.

Spoilers ahead!

*S1E3- drugged, terrified, crying

S1E4- hit in face with a door, seasick, hit with door again, punched in the stomach

S1E5- punched

S1E9- passes out

S1E10- shot in the arm

S1E13- punched, choked, almost falls off balcony

S1E18- shocked

S1E19- thrown by blast, manhandled, smacked

S1E20- coughing, hit in head, knocked down

S1E22- choked, manhandled, hit in the head, knocked out, black eye

S1E23- knocked out, headache

S1E24- tied to chair

S1E25- coughing

S1E26- in a car crash, bandaged and arm in sling

*S1E27- coughing, knocked out, kidnapped, chained up, threatened

*S1E28- gassed, coughing, thrown down a well, knocked out, falls

S1E29- almost sucked out of plane, kicked in the back

S2E1- cut finger, dust in eyes, tied up, hoisted in the air

*S2E2- knocked down, buried in mud, tied to a post, scalded, mummified

S2E3- hit with baton, knocked out, imprisoned, manhandled

*S2E4- knocked down, bound, drugged, interrogated, in a fight

S2E5- hands tied and smashed in bars

*S2E7- in a fight, stabbed in leg, passed out, kicked in bad leg, in a fight, hit, knocked out, another fight

S2E8- hog tied, blindfolded, knocked down, tied up again

S2E9- shot at, two fights, hung by wrists, cold

S2E11- handcuffed, hunted, trips, put in guillotine

*S2E12- punched, smothered unconscious, chained up, scalded, aftermath of belting, thrown by explosion

S2E13- in a fight, dangling off train

S2E14- tied up, knocked out, pretend knee injury, gassed, coughing, in a fight, near explosion, in hospital

S2E15- car crash, knocked out, sore, in a fight

S2E16- in a fight, pretend shot, falls down, tied up, backhanded, another fight

S2E17- punched, falls into water, in a fight, another fight in water

*S2E18- knocked out, bound to chair, tortured with high pitched noise, knocked out again

S2E19- in a fight

S2E20- shot in the arm, knocked out, thrown into compressor

S2E21- cont. of last ep., coughing, thrown to ground, punched

*S2E22- knocked out, bitten, collapses, exhausted, thrown into a wall twice, bitten again, tied upside down

S2E23- knocked out, irradiated, stumbling

S2E24- thrown to ground by explosion

S2E25- in a car crash, shot at, falls off ladder, headache, cold

S2E26- manhandled, knocked out, shaken, bound to chair

S2E27- in a car crash, pinned

*S2E28- nipped by piraña, swarmed by bats, dropped through trap door, manhandled, handcuffed, blood drained by bats, weak

S2E29- shot with a poison dart, passes out, manhandled, in a fight

S2E30- choked, tied up, gagged, tied to chair

S3E1- hit on head, in a fight, knocked out

S3E2- thrown to ground, hands bound, in a fight

S3E3- knocked out, put in a coffin sized cage, in a fight

S3E4- in a fight, bound and hoisted on chains, dropped into liquid which later hardened and trapped him, another fight

S3E5- tied to a post

*S3E6- in a fight, knocked out, tied to a chair, smacked around, hits head off glass, drowning in bubbles, another fight, grazed by bullet

S3E7- bag put over head, manhandled, tied up, hung upside down, in a fight

S3E8- hit on the head, thrown down shaft, strapped to table

*S3E9- hit with chair, hit on head, in hospital, pretend stomach ache, sore, hung by his wrists

S3E10- in a fight, strapped down

*S3E11- injured in a car crash, in a fight, slapped, pinched, hung by wrists, cut up offscreen, tortured with electricity

*S3E12- cont. of last ep., hands bound, led by a belt around his neck, shoved around, arm twisted behind back, in a fight, almost drowns, hand slapped

*S3E13- shot in the hand, falls down cliff, sore, tied up, in a fight, ears hurt by loud noise, burned

S3E14- grabbed by hair, bound by neck, caught in a net trap, tied to a post, tied up, manhandled

S3E15- tied up

S3E16- knocked out, tied up and gagged, hands bound, in a fight

S3E17- near explosion, near another explosion, knocked out, slapped, hit by a door, in a fight

S3E19- punched in the stomach, tied up, hot, weak, manhandled, chained up

S3E20- kneed and hit on head, hit with tranq dart, tied up, arm bent back, hung by wrists, in a fight

S3E21- knocked out with gas, knocked out with a rock, tied up, pushed around, in a fight

S3E22- hit on head with vase

S3E23- tied up and gagged, knocked out, tied up and gagged again, in a fight

S3E24- punched, choked, tied up

S3E25- shoved to ground, knocked out, hung upside down, kicked, in a fight

S3E26- strangled, locked in broom closet, in a car crash, in a fight, in a guillotine, in a fight

*S3E27- whip around neck, tied up by wrists, whipped, cuffed to other guy and chained to post, straining, pain trying to break cuffs, tied up

S3E28- in 3 fights

S3E29- tied up, strangled, knocked out, tied up again, knocked out again, knocked out a third time, in a fight, another fight, hurts elbow breaking glass

S3E30- tied to a chair

S4E1- punched, gassed, coughing, in a fight

S4E2- hit by car, thrown by explosion

S4E4- in a fight, tied up

S4E5- punched, knocked out, in a fight

*S4E6- held captive, aftermath of psychological torture/conditioning, tranquilized, totally out of it

S4E7- strapped to table, brainwashed, in 2 fights

S4E8- in hospital, manhandled, knocked out, strapped to a chair, cut by broken glass

S4E9- in a struggle, backhanded, manhandled, tied up

S4E10- gassed, hit in the stomach, knocked out

S4E13- dropped through trap door, tied up, in a fight

S4E14- gassed, coughing, knocked out, tied up

S4E15- dropped from a height, knocked out

S4E16- knocked out, punched, leg injured by grenade

That’s all folks!

[mayapapaya33]

Damn, they're trying to drown Vex? It's a little early, save that for the Wedding!

[ananke-xiii]

The Identity of the Man in Yellow

These are just my speculations but you still have to have watched S3E10 of FROM to get all the references. So it's not exactly spoiler-y because S3 ended weeks ago, but if you haven't caught up with all the episodes it is, lol.

The first thing I want to say is that I havent't found anybody talking about the significance of the color yellow and it's a bit weird because it's such a glaring thing! I'd like to write about it because the use of colors in general but in American media is always very precise. I mean, yes, color studies and film studies go hand in hand but also I've always been fascinated by how American writers are very intentional with their choice of colors in their works (Poe and Melville with white, Hawthorne and red, Morrison and blue, Perkins Gilman and yellow but also Fitzgerald and yellow/gold etc).

If it wasn't clear enough before, it is now: one of FROM's undercurrent themes is race. This is why I'm baffled by people being confused as to who the monsters are. I mean, guys, please. An eerie town stuck in the fifties, isolated, in the middle of nowhere. Where there's a sign for a motel but no motel (which I take as an unwillingness to welcome foreigners but an interest in luring them in). Where all monsters are white (I have things to say about the Kimono Girl but I won't now) and blood is represented as being infectious and carrier of weird things&death.

I think it's safe to say that one of the meanings of the monsters is to represent the cultural anxities of white people around racial purity. Throw in the Civil War soldiers, the never spoken-about-but-it's-there Vietnam War and the fact that Boyd is black and his wife Abby is white and their son Ellis marries Fatima and that from their union SYMBOLICALLY (I have to highlight this word everytime) a monster is reborn... That the monsters want to BREAK Boyd... There's no escape, the monsters are all about race.

So what does this have to do with the Man in Yellow? (It's a long post)

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the Man in Yellow is Jim's father.

No, not his actual father, rather the reincarnation of Jim's father. I don't know how to technically fit this into the reincarnation aspect, but, I believe, just like Tabitha and Jade are destined to go back to the town to save the children (and fail), the Man in Yellow is destined to go back to the town to continue the abuse (and succeed). Because the thing about the cycle of abuse is not only about victims who keep being sacrificed but also about abusers who keep doing the sacrifice. And since the sacrifice is all about parents and children... the Man in Yellow must be someone's father and my money's on Jim.

If you really think about it, it makes sense because monsters are connected with immortality but they were CLEARLY scammed by someone because, surprise!, they can very much die. Sure, they can be reborn the same as before (not reincarnated) but they need actual people there for them to come back. Which means that someone must send/attract/lure these people to the town.

It's not a coincidence that a lot of screen-time is given to Jasper, the ventriloquist dummy. To me the monsters are like the dummy so there must be a ventriloquist as well.

The facts are these:

in the pilot the little girl opens the window because the monster tells her that she's her grandma. It's established from day 1 that we need to watch out for grandparents or people claiming to be them;

the father of said child MUST die because he failed to protect his child (and wife). In hindsight THAT was a HUGE clue;

right before the Matthews met the tree (lol), Jim says how he wishes things were like they were before and recalls the day he and Tabitha met her parents. Tabitha says that she was terrified that they wouldn't like him. So the theme of fear is very much connected to that of the parents' parents since the very first scenes of the show;

for the love of all that is holy I cannot find this scene but I am SURE that, at one ONE point in season 2, Ethan asks Jim if they will ever see Thomas and his (Ethan's) grandfather again. By linking Thomas with his grandpa I think it's safe to assume that grandpa is dead just like Thomas is. Now it could be Tabitha's father but I think Ethan's talking about Jim's here;

in season 3 when Jim talks with Henry in the bar he mentions that his father was/is (I don't remember but, see above, I think grandpa is dead) an alcoholic. He says this because he recounts the night Julie was born because that night he went to a bar and decided to quit drinking because he didn't want to be like his father;

the link between the Stevens and the Matthews is Julie. Future!Julie saves Boyd by giving him the rope (even if she doesn't know that there's Boyd in that shaft) and Boyd saves Julie in return from whatever happened to her, Randall and Marielle in S2. In a similar fashion, future!Julie will try to save Jim, although she seems to be unsuccessful;

music: Boyd had to destroy the music-box to save Julie and the others and, in so doing, he destroyed his chance to uncover his past (well, this is my hypothesis tbh). On the other hand, music allows Tabitha and Jade to remember and, potentially, to save the children;

Boyd's father, thus Ellis's grandfather had Parkison's and Boyd thinks he has it too;

and now for the meatier part: Jim and the Man in Yellow scene in "Revelations" and Boyd and Smiley scene in "Pas de deux".

The scenes:

In "Pas de Deux" Boyd is faced with a dilemma: his son, Ellis, needs a blood transfusion because he's been wounded by Dale. However, Boyd had been "infected" by Martin ("infected" is such an ugly word but this is the general vibe that I get from the show and I think it's intentional albeit uncomfortable. Sometimes discomfort is important) and doesn't want to "pass it on" to his son. Kenny, Boyd's putative son, steps in and accepts to get whatever Boyd has in his blood "passed on to him" so that Boyd can be free and Ellis can be saved.

Boyd solves the dilemma by going out into the night, slit one of the monsters' throat and pass his blood on to the monster. In a surprising turn of events, the same monster, so-called Smiley, will turn out to be Boyd's SYMBOLICAL nephew. Smiley is what comes out from Fatima's pregnancy and Fatima is Ellis' wife. It's stated in the show multiple times that, before it was revelead that the pregnancy was real/unreal, Boyd would become a grandfather (I mean, of course, but like, mentioning it was meant to focus our attention to Boyd becoming a grandpa, not just an obvious, throwaway line like "oh you'll become a grandpa, you're old haha").

Therefore, when Boyd says to the monster "My blood is your blood now" he wasn't... wrong.

In "Revelations: Part Two" the Man in Yellow appears in the woods, by the RV where Jim and Julie are. He also slits Jim's throat and tells him that "knowledge comes with a cost". Since the previous scene had established that the "monsters" sacrificed their children (the "cost") to gain immortality, I think there's room to see the Man in Yellow as sacrificing his child (the "cost") making Jim the Man in Yellow's son.

My hypothesis is reinforced by all of the above facts but specifically about the scene with Boyd and Smiley in S2 because these two scenes are visually very, very similar. This would be good news because it could mean that Jim can "resurrect" just like Smiley did (hopefully in a different, less gory way).

There's also the element of Future!Julie linking both Boyd and Jim as father-figures to be saved.

Would this make Ethan closer to Ellis/Kenny in terms of narrative function? I don't know, Ethan baffles me because we know from day one that he's a super-key element to "solve" the story but the writers are rightfully doing their best to cover the answers they've disseminated throughout three seasons. So it's not easy to fully understand him but one thing is sure: he's connected to the Man in Yellow by the color yellow.

To sum up: Boyd and Man in Yellow are grandfathers of monsters. They represent the ancestors, if you will. This is the reason why the monsters are so obsessed with Boyd and want to break him. Boyd is the antagonist in the Man in Yellow's immutable, immortal story while he is the protagonist in our story.

Their sons are Ellis/Kenny (whom Boyd didn't want to sacrifice) and Jim (whom the Man in Yellow definitely wants to sacrifice). This also makes Jim and Smiley stand very closely to each other. Julie is Boyd's symbolical daughter and Jim's actual daughter. She managed to save the first at a cost (what happened to her in S2 started because of Boyd) but couldn't save Jim who, in turn, had to bear the weight of the cost of having helped Jade and Tabitha unearth their past.

The show is about reincarnation, generational trauma and children sacrifice. There's an element of "what goes around comes around" that must be stopped or this "cost" will keep be "passed on" from character to character and from parents to children. In other words, the story must be changed,

Mothers are shown to be the ones who are bent on breaking the cycle while fathers seem to keep repeating it because they haven't shared light on their trauma, yet. In this respect, Jim, if he ever makes it out alive, is/was actually closer to Boyd in breaking the cycle. For example, Jim clealry states that he doesn't want to be like his father, while Boyd is shown to believe that he also has Parkison's just like his father had (I insist on the "believe" part because Boyd refuses to be examined by Kristi and says that he "knows he has it" but I think he's being an unreliable narrator here). This makes me think that Boyd is convinced that he will end up just like his father, even if he says that the town won't break him. Perhaps he already feels broken inside. In "spirit" he's much more like the Man in Yellow than Jim is.

In all season finales Boyd is undergound which is a symbol of the unconscious and repressed trauma. A good indicator of whether he's gonna make it to the end alive or not will be to check S4 finale: if Boyd is still shown in an underground, dark place I don't think a happy ending is in for him. Ultra Sad Face.

You might have noticed that my first point (and the show's first introduction of the monsters) is about a grandmother. So how do grandmothers fit in all this?

There are also several grandmothers in the show: Tabitha's mother who we only hear on the phone (just like the Man in Yellow before his appearance); Elgin's grandmother who, I believe, was the person he was supposed to go see when he took that fateful bus; Tillie and her seven grandchildren (just like the number of the angkoohey kids) and, finally, Jim's mother, the piano teacher whose teachings proved to be THE key to solve the numbers' enigma. This brings me to my final point:

Jim's mentioning his mother in "Revelations" reveals that the Man in Yellow is his father (or, rather, his father's reincarnation). Why?

The facts are these II:

the last three scenes of "Revelations" are about remembrance, birth and death. Two parents remember their child, one "child" is born and the grandfather watches his "birth", Jim dies and his child watches him "dying";

the two parents were able to recognize their child because of Jim's mother's teachings;

Boyd watches the birth of his "nephew";

the Man in Yellow kills Jim while Julie watches.

There's a signifier vacuum around Jim in all these scenes: he's a father-figure for sure but right now he's a son, a child. His mother's child. And as one "child" is born... one "child" dies. And this child is Jim. Jim is a sacrificed child. This makes the Man in Yellow his father, because the sacrifice of the town is not about random kids: parents must kill their children. And so the Man in Yellow kills Jim. And so the father sacrifices his child.

In S3 of FROM we got a "I am your child" moment.

In S4 of FROM we'll get a "I am your father" moment.