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Love it when the kinda half-formed observations you make about an episode finally come to the forefront.
Watching the start of "Dot and Bubble": Hmm, everyone in this episode is very... white.
Halfway through: The Doctor certainly continues to stand out, especially in that bright red sweater amongst all the pastels
Lindy freaking out about the Doctor and Ruby being in the same room together: I suppose that could be due to some cultural taboo about interacting in-person when everyone is supposed to communicate via bubble, but that doesn't track with what we've seen of her work day...
The "twist" that the chronically online, all white, super rich, entitled to the point of satire, willing to sacrifice others without hesitation, oh so eager to colonize people living in a literal bubble (TWO bubbles) are *gasp!* actually, devastatingly racist...
Yeah, that's not a twist. That's all deliberately interconnected. The episode didn't suddenly move from an argument about social media use to an argument about racism; the two historically go hand-in-hand.
#DW#Doctor Who#DW spoilers#Doctor Who spoilers#Dot and Bubble#Dot and Bubble spoilers#me looking at reviews for how “heavy-handed” the messages are and how “fake” the monsters look:#“You fools that's the soul of DW!”#anyway I'm loving this season#can't wait for next Friday#Edit: me realizing I wrote “Rose” instead of “Ruby”#RTD's return making me think it's 2005 again lol
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Jayce's speech to Viktor was bad.
IMO
So, the final speech Jayce gave to Viktor about finding beauty in imperfection, and how our flaws make us human, that’s a fine sentiment but the specific examples he used ruined it. He used Viktors disease as an example.
Viktor was dying from a disease caused by Piltover mining in the fissures polluting the air. It was a preventable disease forced onto him by a corrupt system. He was slowly and painfully falling apart. “I can feel myself rotting” type stuff. Was he supposed to have appreciated that?
Jayce wants him to have appreciated the simple beauty of dying a slow painful death while your best friend is too busy being a councilman to be with you and your mentor is roadblocking your only possible cure. That was the imperfection that he was misguided to want to solve? The show is really saying Viktor was misguided, or not appreciative enough of being human, to not want to die young. He was giving up his humanity when he fought to live.
Viktor should not have just accepted it, that isn’t just part of being human. It isn’t a beautiful flaw you learn to love. He did nothing wrong by taking his life into his own hands and taking every possible chance to live. Even when no one believed in him.
I’m sure there are more charitable interpretations but that line really rubbed me the wrong way.
#arcane#arcane league of legends#arcane season 2#viktor arcane#jayce talis#arcane spoilers#arcane jayce#arcane discussion#arcane critical#arcane finale#arcane review
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I actually have sooo many issues with 911 lately that haven't even got much to do with any ships.
Like. They wrote out almost all of the side characters. Chris is gone, Linda and Sue are gone, Athena's kids are gone (even though Harry just moved in with her and Bobby again? Seriously, where is Harry?), Ravi is gone, Carla is gone. I know the GA maybe don't care that much, casual viewers might not even have noticed that this many characters have just vanished from the show, but in my opinion this is one of the things that give a show running as long as 911 life. Having a big cast is a good thing. Otherwise things are going to get very monotonous very soon.
Actually, that's my second point. They keep repeating storylines! Every season Hen and Karen have to fight a custody battle over one of their kids.
Every season Eddie ends up realising he has a lot of repressed trauma and issues which keep him from leading a healthy happy and free life.
Every season Bathena realise that they have communication issues and they fight about it, but then something traumatic happens and they forgive each other without ever really talking things out.
Every season we are reminded that Maddie's most prominent character trait is "traumatised", the writers just alternatingly bring up Doug again and sometimes the ppd arc.
Every season we see Buck being somewhat restless, looking and searching for something that will bring him true happiness and cycling through love interests that never stick around and each time when you think "oh, there it is, he's getting somewhere now" the writers go "BEEEP! WRONG!" and we start all over again. [This is not just about recent events aka Tommy, the break-up and Buck potentially going back to his 1.0 ways, this also happened in season 6 when he had his "it doesn't matter what other people see in me, I'm enough" revelation only to suddenly be like "omg, Natalia just sees me".]
And Chimney- he had his moment last season with the wedding episode, Kenneth Choi really ate that episode up, but his most prominent character trait is "Maddie's supportive husband". There's really not that much going on with him otherwise.
Another point I briefly touched upon above is consistency. Like Harry moving back in with Athena and Bobby and then just vanishing. Or Gerrard being more like a slightly unfriendly grandpa than an actual antagonist in season 8 when he was still spouting slurs in season 7.
And the timeline! We talked about this before ("last March", Mara's fostering to adoption timeline, Tommy tranferring to harbour "5 years ago"), but the newest "Tommy was actually Abby's Tommy" twist just adds to that. Tommy was with Abby for over 2 years. They were engaged. This was at a time when he was still at the 118. Tommy dated Abby presumably because he was in denial or maybe because he was hiding. In either case, wouldn't his team at least have heard about his fiancée, Abby the dispatcher? Wouldn't that have rung a bell when Buck eventually brought her around only a year or two later? Tommy did talk about his private life at least a little at work, even under Gerrard. It just doesn't make sense. (Not to mention this seems wildly out of character for Tommy who around the same time also said about himself "being single is easier".)
Then there's the pacing. This was a huge issue in season 7. They jumped from one personal soap opera drama to the next without taking any breathers, had almost no procedural in their drama the whole season, still somehow decided to spend one third of the entire season just on the opening disaster and also squeezed in a "Bobby begins for the third time now" episode. But okay, it was a shortened season, there were strikes, they switched networks, they were under a lot of pressure - I'll cut them some slack. At least they set up a bunch of interesting stuff for the following season.
But we're in season 8 now. The renewal was announced very early, they had a lot of time to plan this time. Also they have almost double the episodes they had last season, there's really no need to rush any of the major plots. I am done cutting them slack.
They wanna do a 3 part opening disaster again? Okay fine, you have the time now. I feel like they could've easily done it in 2 episodes (especially 8x02 felt a little "eh"), but okay. Better than the breakneck speed you were going at befo- Oh, what's that? 8x04 flying in with a steel chair. You resolved 70% percent of the plots you set up last season in one single episode with no build up, no emotional pay off and no lasting consequences? And you also squeezed in multiple unrelated calls at the same time? Damn, okay then. Good-bye potentially interesting storylines. Fuck me for being invested I guess. I thought there would at least maybe be some follow up in 8x05, but no.
Now that Halloween episode wasn't bad, it was actually the best episode of this season imo, but instead of following up on previously established conflicts and developments they just hit us with new Wilson family trauma and conflict that was also immediately fixed again. And now 8x06 has speedrun and dumped another storyline that had potential to go to deeper and interesting places. Not gonna talk too much about that though because this post is about the show as a whole, not ships.
And I am not yet convinced that there will be much more to come on the only thing that's left from last season: Eddie's deep dive into his trauma and repression. It's totally possible at this point that being told "you deserve nice things" by a random stranger actually solved all of his problems, it would be very in tone with 911's new style.
What are they even gonna do with the rest of this season? Revisiting the Hotshots set sounds fun, but ultimately inconsequential. You know what's great about a regular old procedural drama with ~20 episodes per season that comes on weekly? You have time. You can let the viewers sit with their emotions and thoughts for a week and keep them engaged by stretching things out a little.
But why should I bother getting emotionally invested in problems the characters are gonna solve within the same episode anyway? Or rather, even if I wanted to, how am I supposed to care if you don't give me the time to develop any feelings about anything that's happening? "Henren lost in court and are now completely forbidden from seeing Mara at all!" Damn, that must be so har- "JUST KIDDING! Ortiz is exposed and everything is perfect again now." Oh. Okay then, I guess.
Bottom line: The characters are all stuck in their own hamster wheels, they keep cutting side characters that could bring a breeze of fresh air (I'm honestly surprised they even kept Josh until now), they rush through all the storylines a such a ridiculous speed that I don't even have time to feel any sort of way about it, they don't even try to keep a consistency or sensible timeline going and they seem to strongly prioritise random funny bits that'll entertain the very casual viewers right now in this moment (tiger call, Billy Boils, Bee-nado, the 'Stache tm, "wait, it's the same Abby?", Gerrard being a fangirl at heart) instead of playing the long game and catering to people who actually pay a little attention to the show.
[On that last remark: I'm not talking about hardcore fans who analyse every single frame here, I mean casual fans who've watched the show on and off again for a while and who may not be involved in fandom but genuinely care about the show.]
I mean. What am I even still doing here? The show is treading water and I end up disappointed more often than not. I'm still holding out a little hope that they actually will do something interesting with Eddie and his sea-monkeys, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
#911 abc#911 spoilers#911 review#long post#911 season 8#evan buckley#eddie diaz#hen wilson#chimney han#maddie han#bobby nash#athena grant
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various art trades from the past month! had FUN as usual
#my art#furry#anthro#monster#dragon#oc#not my own but nevertheless#these characters are all lots of fun....thank you everyone for giving me cool guys to draw#also BIG things coming (said for the sixth time over the course of the year)#anyway i went apple picking for the last time this year recently which pretty much brings scrumping season to an end#here's a review: blackberries EARLY. annoyingly early but they were okay. greengages amazing. brings a tear to my eye#cherries SUCKED. cherries do better next year. grapes i'm still harvesting actually but doing well. sweet#and apples kind of popped off!!! year of the ugly apple this year - the beautiful red ones were worse than the scabruous pimply brown ones#which were crisp and had thin skin and a beautiful sweet-mellow-nutty taste...wonderful
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charlie
#just a simple redesign#wanted to give charlie a little seasoning. she needs a little smth smth. thought a goat motif would suit her .... because. hell and whateve#shes got cute hooves and big ears#tried to make as minimal changes as possible to stick to her original vibe#this concludes my hazbin posting. thanks for tolerating it#ill have a helluva boss review post in the next couple days when i finish watching it. after that im done#back to your regularly scheduled pony programming#charlie morningstar#hazbin hotel#fanart#my art
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Scary Christmas core
#nightmare before christmas#tim burton#goth girl#goth aesthetic#gothic#goth#alt girl#movies#movie review#fiction#hallaween#halloween#happy halloweeeeeeen#scary#spooky season#spooky aesthetic#spooky month#spooky vibes#night time vibes
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Some forehead kisses and a couple redraws for season four!
#moomins#moominvalley#moomin#the moomins#moomintroll#snufkin#snufkin fanart#moomin fanart#moomin sniff#snorkmaiden#little my#snufmin#does this count as spoilers?? I mean it’s redraws#changed my designs a bit for these drawings to look more like the mv designs#mini review no one is gonna read: it was a fine season really even if I was left disappointed by certain things like the comet storyline#how they handled characters etc etc but#overall I actually did like s4 a lot and will hopefully be posting more fanart for it#maybe I’ll post my full thoughts on s4 but I’m not that good at that lmao#tecoart
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As the clock strikes midnight at the dawn of Halloween, I come bearing spooky books! Check out these cool recs for horror and paranormal novels by transfeminine authors that'll make your day a little darker 🖤
#halloween#spooky season#trans horror#horror#horror recs#book review#book rec#queer book recs#trans book recs#trans fiction#trans literature#transfem#booklr#literature#books
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Good Omens (2019-) + Letterboxd reviews⭐
bonus:
#good omens#good omens 2#good omens season 2#good omens spoilers#goodomensedit#goedit#aziraphale#crowley#inneffable husbands#aziracrow#myedit#did i basically spend an afternoon just reading through letterboxd to find these reviews before they get taken down?#yes i did#gosh i love this show sm
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No it should be illegal to have an episode be as sad and hilarious as this.
Bro the delusion
This whole episode caught me off guard. I'm so excited to learn more about the hashiras.
Tanjiro honey this is a crime. Lol.
Poor giyu he can't sleep.
#kny#kny giyuu#kny sabito#tomioka giyuu#demon slayer kimetsu no yaiba#nezuko kimetsu no yaiba#kimetsu#kimetsu no yaiba#demon slayer#demonslayer kny#demonslayer#tanjirou and nezuko#kamado tanjirō#sabito#anime#anime review#anime recommendation#hashira training arc#hashira#kny season 4
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the rings of power + color palette (season 2)
#ropedit#tropedit#tolkienedit#lotrcolors#ringsofpowerdaily#ringsofpowersource#tolkiensource#rings of power#the rings of power#rop s2#rop colors#rop special#galadriel#sauron#miriel#celebrimbor#cirdan#*#the different kind of season review
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“ I love the juxtaposition of this sex scene with the carriage scene. The carriage scene was all hot, sweaty, lust — finally succumbing to feelings they’ve been trying to bury; it was sexy as hell. This scene is something more intimate and almost awkward at times, but the awkwardness is also somehow romantic. These are two people who have known each other for a long time taking things to the next level — a line you cannot uncross, especially in 1815. Sure, Colin is more experienced, but I love that you can see he’s nervous, too. He wants to make sure Penelope is taken care of — he is repeatedly asking if she’s okay and he warns her that it might hurt; he’s less smooth and more tender. On the flip side, Penelope might be an amateur here, but she also gets moments where she is in control, where she is asking for what she wants. There is confidence there because she knows she is safe with Colin. Similar to the carriage ride, we also get these sweet moments that remind us once again that this relationship is built on friendship. I’ll never get over the cute little giggles these two share. And the whole thing is topped off with a “Do I look a mess?”/ “Yes, but you’re my mess” exchange, which is maybe, definitely just a big ol’ pander to book readers, but I am ready and willing to receive it with open arms. The whole scene, from start to finish, just feels 100 percent true to their characters. ”
#source: bridgerton 3x05 review by vulture#perfectly said!!!#luke newton#nicola coughlan#colin bridgerton#penelope featherington#polin#bridgerton#bridgerton spoilers#bridgerton season 3#posts by me
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"mmm something's missing with this new season of Bridgerton" YEAH, THE OTHER FOUR EPISODES??
#haha so tired of reviews with titles like this#bridgerton s3 spoilers#bridgerton season 3#polin#bridgerton#colin x penelope#penelope featherington#colin bridgerton
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links your click
#may be in my top 5 shows honestly#i will need to review the list#but its SO GOOD#i was constantly screaming ‘WHATS GOING ONNN’#sgdlr#shiguang daili ren#link click#link click spoilers#link click season 2#cheng xiaoshi#qiao ling#lu guang
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I made this remix as soon as I got access to the voice recording files for that episode and then proceeded to play it for any crew I came across. Reception was mostly positive, however our supervising producer heard the first few bars and turned to walk away.
#jurassic world chaos theory#mashup#audio#jwct s2 spoilers#chaos theory#kenji kon#My mom's review: 'where's the music video'#This part was a blast whenever our teammate had to pitch this HAHA#chaos theory season 2#Kenji rap
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