#s4e24

[remyfire]

[winxwiki]

Aisha vows for revenge in Italian, english subs

Ever wanted to know what the hell was actually going on with Nabu's death? There! Here's the original! Now stop making stuff up based on whatever dub you got!

Translations notes below

You may have noticed I used "Sorcerers" instead of "Wizards". That's because the original name for the Wizards of the Black Circle... was Sorcerers of the Black Circle. And Morgana uses the word "wizard" to refer to Nabu, as "sorcerer" in this case has a derogatory context. "Stregone" is also a stronger sounding word in italian than "mago". Try to say it outloud! Nabu is also described as a "wizard" in english, so it's implied he's a different type from the Black Circle ones.

I think...?

[isthiswhatiam]

every season i think goddamn they're so...and then the next season comes by and i end up thinking goddamn they're so...

[lifewithaview]

Matthew Walker in The X-Files (1993) Gethsemane

S4E24

Crazy credits:At the end of the opening credits,instead of saying "The truth is out there", it says "Believe the lie".

Agent Scully appears before a committee chaired by section chief Blevins to account for her and Mulder's recent activities. A Canadian geodetic survey team has apparently found an alien frozen in the ice in the Yukon. A friend of Mulder's at the Smithsonian lets him know of the find and they set off to join the team and see it firsthand. They're not prepared for what they find. Scully meanwhile arrests Michael Kritschgau, a one-time Department of Defense employee, who has an amazing story to tell her - one that will rock the very foundations of Mulder's beliefs in the existence of extraterrestrials. With her cancer worsening, Scully begins to reexamine her faith.

*During the alien autopsy, they are wearing little more than home decorating dust masks. Something far more substantial would be expected if not full biological isolation garments.

[cucumbermoon]

My favorite thing about Body Parts (s4e24) is that Garak was obviously never going to kill Quark. He just decides to spend an afternoon in the holosuites demonstrating his terrifying skills for kicks. Then he solemnly promises Quark that he will definitely kill him very soon –

And you never see him again in that episode. He just goes to the Replimat and orders a spice pudding and eats it while reading poetry or something.

[tressknight]

HELLO? WHAT DO U MEAN MULDER DIED??? S5 here I come. I can't even begin to think about what might be in store next.

usually when i watch a long series show and something bad happens to the mc, I think, pfft they have plot armour, and there's still 8 more seasons, they're fine...

But with the x files? Well, I never know if they'll be fine or not.

Honestly first time experiencing this and its a nice but scary change of pace.

[thatshadowgastwhore]

Girl I said to myself “I bet Reid gets anthraxed” and WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED???

[devils-lawboy]

thanks for letting me chew your ear father thats what theyre there for

[thatsprettylane]

[gravything]

I’ve been rewatching Elementary over a long period of time so it’s less easy to pick up the themes that aren’t straightforwardly about recovery and the specific relationships that are always on screen, but it’s amazing that in the back half/third of s4 they do:

- an episode on how a lab forensics person has doctored evidence to ‘help’ put away the ‘guys who did it’ in a literally misguided way

- a conversation between Sherlock and Morland about which of them twists facts to fit feelings where the other is concerned

- an episode where Sherlock and Joan, after all that, seriously discuss fabricating evidence to fit their own goals

it’s just interesting. they do plenty of whatever they want all the time, and plenty of cop overreach, but this move is both weird and yet also potentially coherent within their moral universe, for back-half-of-s4-plot reasons.

[lunatic-harness]

not the unintentionally psychosexual geordi sleeper agent episode

[shesgay]

if i saw this ending live i would start behaving like grandpa joe from willy wonka. i’d be doing backflips off my roof

[a-rayneart]

Just finished season 4 of MASH

I know this art blog is quickly becoming a MASH rampage (not intentional, I swear) but I really want to give my thoughts on the season 4 finale and this seems like the best place to do it.

An incomplete list of every moment that struck me in S4E24: The Interview:

Hawkeye's demeanour in this episode is entirely different than in 'Yankee Doodle doctor', particularly his behaviour toward the film crew. This is unsurprising, but still significant to me.

I loved hearing Radar talk about his earthworms. I love whenever the characters engage in genuine hobbies outside of their jobs in the army, but hearing Radar babble about his earthworms was especially lovely.

"War is just killing, that's all." - Klinger

Hawkeye is so honest this episode, and he does it all with this completely checked out look, eyes glazed over.

Hawkeye also sums up his whole entire character. He talks about putting on a 'coat' of morale just to make others stop believing in where they are because it's the only way he can feel present. He also get's asked how he stays sane, which is pretty significant foreshadowing, to which he answer with a list of frankly insane things to do. It reminds me of the S1 episode where he pretended to lose it in order to get time off, but also of all the little times in episodes where he did something that was a bit outlandish, a bit crazy, and somehow also made perfect sense, like when he (briefly) pretended to be a corpse in an attempt to get back to his father.

"There's so much more to care about," and "It just doesn't matter anymore," are two things Hawk says in basically one breath and boy is that relatable.

I've already seen this clip but Mulcahy talking about the steam and the bodies in the cold hurts every time.

Genuine, non-sexual focus and appreciation for the nurses and the jobs they do.

Referencing the episode where Radar get's drunk in Tokyo and him looking so abashed about it.

"If I knew all the answers, I'd run for God." -Klinger again

More on Klinger– Usually he takes advantage of any opportunity to display his insanity to higher ups. He doesn't do that here. He talks entirely sincerely about his joy for home and his hate for the war. You can really see every emotion on his face. He is so real.

Radar's compassion for the local Koreans. There's something special about it coming from him specifically that I can't quite pinpoint but I love it. Maybe because he comes from such a similar background but is now in a position where the people he answers to tell him that he's better than them. I think Radar must feel he has more in common with the local farmers than with his own colleagues.

I've never thought about it before, but it makes so much sense that Potter misses being around people his own age, and I could probably go on about that forever but I probably shouldn't.

Father Mulcahy looks so tired.

BJ smiles when he greets his wife and daughter, but when he looks down he looks devastated. How hard must it be to talk to his family through a TV screen. The acting in this episode it amazing.

I think it was BJ who talked about being torn between his love for the people he worked with and wanting to erase them from his memory, which reminded me of a line from the MASH fanfic I wrote before I even watched this episode; 'Nothing makes me happier than having people to miss, and that they’re far enough away that I can miss them.' (Check out my short fic, it's called After Life - Hawkeye's Poem)

The narrator ends by saying that they're doing what they do best but what they'd rather not do in a place they'd rather not be and I think that's just about the point of the show

All said, amazing episode, perfect acting, did what just about every episode of MASH does and gave me a deep sense of melancholy. I've seen a lot about this episode on here and I totally get why but I think we should also give some appreciation to the episode before it (Deluge) because I genuinely believe that that was just as good.

[evviejo]

SEVEN OF NINE - STAR TREK: VOYAGER S4E24 Demon

[the-blueprint]

‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ S4E24: The speech that cemented Will Smith as an actor.

So much pain in this scene, I’m tearing up as I’m cutting this reel up. This short scene shines a bright light on the hurt that a man can feel in the absence of his father. Shoutout to all the present dads. You may not be perfect, but your absence is felt.

Rest in Power, Uncle Phil. Your life and art continues to touch the lives of so many people.

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[tressknight]

"The same people who buried the truth so astiduouly will be in charge of its authentication." - Mulder

When I mean that scifi, and in this case the x files which is about investigating supernatural entities or aliens, is a reflection of reality and often a cautionary tale, this is what I mean.

Oddly enough, I find scifi/fantasy, although literally out of this world, a better reflection of reality. Because under the guise of fantasy they can speak the whole truth, while shows set in our reality or those which intentionallt try to make a direct political statement is subject to the same thing that Mulder so astutely pointed out: that their ability to produce this narrative will be judged and authenticated and censored by the people trying to bury that same narrative.

I could talk about media theory all day! Especially Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding theory--but that's a bit too academic for tumblr I fear. I wrote a whole essay for a media theory class about how racist homelander show is, and it was the most fun I ever had writing an essay.

I could analyse the x files all day.

Mulder: Although common sense may rule out the possibility of time travel, the laws of quantum physics certainly do not. In case you forgot, that's from your graduate thesis. You were a lot more open minded when you were younger

Scully: I know what I wrote, Mulder. I also know that the laws of physics would permit the theoretical possibility of time travel, but the limits of human endurance would prevent such a trip from ever happening.

I'm slowly but surely getting more and more obsessed with the x files, and this quote just... time travel??? and trying to explain it through science????? They really are including all the things I love to see in media. And this quote encapsulates exactly mudler and scully's dynamic, and the fine line between myth and science. Constantly pushing each other, challenging each others beliefs.

Scifi is honestly the best genre. I turned to anime for a while, because it values the storytelling strategy of letting the characters guide the plot, and not just have the characters exist for the plot, but older media like the x files really reminds me that there is a possibility for me to get invested in live action media. It's just that media these days value the aesthetic over creating a product the writers fell in love with. We can tell you're just creating stuff you think the audience wants to see, and that might work for most people, but it doesn't for me.

Just so wonderful in its pacing, its characterisation, development, its episodic structure of investigating different things each episode but drawing it back to the larger story.