#she doesn't deserve the good place
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one of my facebook friends made a post saying that everyone should watch the good place and that "if you don't want your heart ripped out you can skip the last episode" because "you can figure out what's going to happen" and not to sound pretentious or anything but I've never been more personally offended in my life
why in god's name would you watch 4 seasons of a show about people who are dead and then skip the last episode because it's a little sad??? I've watched this show like 4 times and never once had my "heart ripped out". nothing that sad even happens!!!! it's a show about dead people! the only sad thing is that they leave the good place and each other which is actually a good thing!!! I think if you're watching a show where the entire premise is that all of the main characters are dead and also trapped in hell for eternity you should expect it to be kind of sad sometimes????? not to mention that it's genuinely one of the best tv finales I have ever seen and to skip it would be to do a great disservice to yourself and the people who made it! also!! a lot of fucking story takes place in the last episode and you'd actually be missing some pretty fucking important stuff!
anyway fuck you Skyler I'm glad you and your bitch ex girlfriend suddenly stopped being friends with me with 0 explanation because clearly you have terrible judgement
#this is someone i was friends w im high school lmao#her gf‚ who was my best friend‚ i guess just suddenly decided she didnt want to be my friend#and took the rest of our friend group with her so i suddenly had 0 friends at a highly suicidal time in my life#but it was apparently worth it so i didnt have someone being such a pussy that they were telling me to skip final episodes bc theyre sad#i know no ones going to read this but oh my god#i dont understand why you would recommend a show and then condone skipping the actual best episode of the show#she doesn't deserve the good place#its mine im taking it if she tries to watch it again it will burn her eyes out bc im cursing it#would be so funny if she actually still used her tumblr account from 9th grade and saw this
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some snapshots of boba fett being a socially anxious mess in legacy of the force
facing some of the galaxy's most ruthless and hardened killers in combat? no problem 👌 having a heartfelt conversation in a room with friends and family? RUN!! 🏃🏃
"am i allowed to call my best friend by his first name when we're at his house? if i get the answer wrong, it is equivalent to me stepping on a landmine and exploding btw"
the thought of having anything like a family or social circle is terrifying to him. loneliness is a much more familiar and thus comfortable experience.
this is a sad one. trying to interact with other people in a way that isn't predicated on violence (whether for or to them) feels so alien and daunting to fett that he feels like he's incapable of it. (it's also one of the many moments in which fett is an unreliable narrator of his own character development bc what do you think you've been doing for the past three books, idiot)
and finally, one of the (several) moments in the series that implies he usually relies on beviin and/or medrit to handle daunting social interactions for him :`) he's very lucky to have them!
#boba fett#legacy of the force#sintas vel#goran beviin#medrit vasur#say what you will about karen traviss (she deserves most of it)#the decision to give the baddest bounty hunter in the galaxy crippling social anxiety was 👌#i feel like in earlier stories fett often /does/ come off as uh... lacking in social graces#but he's also generally interacting with people he doesn't care about and often actively dislikes#(and/or is going to kill in due time lol)#so of course he dgaf about how he's perceived#so placing him in a setting where he's surrounded by people he DOES care about and want to make an effort for...#it gives us an opportunity to see that trait in a different light#also: i hope this sheds light on why i couldn't stand the charismatic portrayal of him in BoBF#he's never been good at talking to people#and seeing him struggle with it is much more interesting to me than him suddenly being effortlessly diplomatic when the story calls for it
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So when Darcy went to fix the Lydia/Wickham situation, he first tried to get Lydia to return home, only bribing Wickham into marrying her when she wouldn't. This is sensible by modern standards, but we know from everyone else's reactions Lydia *failing* marrying Wickham would bring the Bennet family shame. Darcy knows this, and doubt he planned to leave the situation as is. So how did he originally plan to fix it?
I think Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy was gonna channel his inner Emma Woodhouse (didn't have to dig far, they're very similar people) and play matchmaker. In my headcannon Darcy checked his "Possible Husbands for Georgie" list against his "People who owe me Gargantuan favours" list and offer whoever came up money to marry Lydia.
Now, he would want to spare the Bennets of as much of the scandal as possible, and wouldn't want to take the merit in front of Lizzie, so all would most likely happen discreetly through Mr. Gardiner, while Lydia was in London, and she would move to her husbands immediatly after.
However, I wanna propose a different scenario: Lydia returns to Meryton. Scandal ensues, the Bennets are disgraced. Then, within two weeks, a random well-off man shows up intent on courting Lydia and *only* Lydia. He heeds nobodys warnings and gives no explanations. Lydia loves it. Every other mum in Meryton is furious. The Bennets are confused and paranoid. Imagine the drama. The intrige. The million questions still unawnsered long after Lydia eventually gets married and leaves. Bingley marries Jane (cause of course Darcy still told him he'd been wrong to pull them apart, and Bingley would) and Darcy's still somewhat around. Maybe him and Lizzie get together, maybe not, but every time the topic comes up he gets all sheepish and awkward and she gets suspicious and it's a thing. It's their new dynamic.
#picture a binder for “people who owe me Gatgantuan favours”#and like a few pages for “Possible husbands for Georgie” in a folder#“why would Darcy waste a good man on (ugh) Lydia?” i fear someone might ask?“#because Darcy's a good considerate person. he was trying to save her for a bad marriage in the first place.#not saying he'd give up the top pick but he wouldn't set her up with anything less than safe and decent#also as annoying as Lydia is she doesn't deserve abuse. Austen makes a point of telling us even with Wickham she's got her family's support.#also also the top pick is probably Charles and he's taken so#jane austen#mr darcy#lydia bennet#mr. gardiner#lizzie bennet#decent guy.#pride and prejudice#classic literature
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I've been thinking a lot about Loki and Frigga these days, I don't think she's an evil, manipulative monster like some people but I do think she's a very flawed mother, from what we see in the movies she's very quick to justify and sugarcoat Odin's actions, Yes there's a deleted scene where she confronts him about Thor's banishment but it was deleted for a reason, in the movie itself we see her telling Loki that "there's always a purpose to everything your father does", she's always defending him, never her sons and that tells us a lot about the kind of mother she is, idk if it's bc she puts her position as queen above her position as a mother but she always stand by Odin's side no matter what.
Ofc we know she asks Odin not to kill Loki in tdw but that's just the bare minimum she could do, she always does everything thinking about pleasing Odin above all, she goes visiting Loki as a illusion, in secret to not anger her husband, when Loki is going through the trauma of finding out the truth about his adoption she never acknowledges any responsability for what she and Odin did, she justifies his lies agian by saying he lied to protect Loki
She doesn't acknowledge Loki's pain or his right to be angry at them, she tells him he's their son as if that's enough to heal his wounds, she doesn't ask for forgiveness and doesn't offer Loki any comfort bc her husband was taking a nap and she had to stay by his side at all seconds, it doesn't matter that her son had his whole sense of identity stripped away from him, holding Odin's hand was way more important than giving Loki a hug or anything else
I think at some moment Loki realized that she cared more about being Odin's queen than being their mother bc she'd never stand up for her sons and defend them from the abuses Odin put them through, she just kept justifying it bc she wouldn't dare going against her king, it must've hurt for Loki, realizing that he was truly all by himself in Asgard, he couldn't count on his own mother to publicly defend him from the humiliations he undoubtedly suffered, she would just sneak into his chambers and whisper some words of encouragement privately but when in public he was entirely on his own and he knew it
That's why I care more about Loki reuniting with his friends/found family than him going to New Asgard or to Asgard in the past, I have no doubts that he loves his family with his whole heart and he wants to see them again but I love the new family he built for himself in the show, he has Mobius who will defend him with everything he has and will be his emotional support, validating his feelings and genuinely listening to him, he NEVER felt like he belonged in Asgard but in the show he finally found his place, he found the people he belonged to (as stated by the crew) and he fought to save them for hundreds of years so there's no way I'd want him to leave his new home for him to go back to the place where he was mistreated, belittled and mocked just for being who he was, I want him to stay in the place where feels free to be his true self thank you very much
(Ofc that doesn't mean I don't want him and Thor to reunite again, I just think it's best for him to stay with the people he chose to be his family)
#loki#loki series#loki meta#Mobius#Frigga#Frigga tries her best as long as she doesn't anger her husband and I think Loki deserves better than this#I don't think this makes her a monster but it does make her VERY flawed#like she's not the perfect mother the fandom paints her to be but she's also not the Most Evil Monster Ever#she's complex and I think she places her place as Odin's queen above all else#a truly good mother would have protected her sons from Odin's abuse instead of enabling it#all this to say that Loki deserves better#tva family#loki build his little found family and i'm so proud of him for it#let him be with the people he chose and who he feels comfortable with#even if he went back to asgard eith his new mentality that wouldn't change the way his people view him#it also wouldn't change how Odin views and treats him and ofc the asgardians would treat Loki in the same way their king does#it has always been like this imo#Odin treats Loki like trash so ofc the asgardians feel free to treat him the same#he needs to be protected from that toxic enviroment#he suffered enough#let him be happy for god's sake#Odin is a trash bag#Odin#anyway just let Loki be with his found family bc he loves them so much#he deserves it
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PUT SALLY ON THE STAIRS TO HEAVEN (OR HE🏒🏒)
Heaven, stairs
#sally starlet#sally welcome home#sally wh#welcome home#welcome home arg#welcome home fandom#welcome home puppet show#welcome home sally#wh sally#putting sally in places#she has been good#she doesn't deserve to go to that other place
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I love TTRPGs. I am very anti-social, but I make exceptions for D&D and other such games!
#Finally got to revive a long-time favorite character of mine whose journey got cut short due to our party dissolving a few years ago.#A Paladin in the midst of a crisis of faith#She wants to devote herself to the servitude of a deserving god#but all the gods are shit#she isn't a good character but she isn't evil either#someone neutral who does not shy away from some questionable and perhaps cruel choices#she doesn't believe in good and evil only that everyone should have the choice to find their own path#she goes really hard in her beliefs#an incredibly (almost obsessively) hard worker with no place in the world#she truly embodies the quote from JJK “the only thing granted equally to all is an unfair reality”#I hope she survives for at least a little while!#Last time she called out into the abyss for help (the party was close to a TPK) promising her servitude to whatever god decides to step in#but she has yet to pull this stunt in this (arguably much shittier) world#sootyrambles#dnd#ttrpg#call of cthulhu#i also love shiny math rocks
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she's talking on a call with her parents about how it was her luck and gods will what got her into this college who's gonna tell her of course no one because you know 🤡🤡
#i can't believe things can get so unfair even in the education system when its literally about someone's career#roommate takes everything so casually she's just the worst person academically i encountered#and i don't have the authority to say who belongs to which place but it really hurt doesn't it#there are kids giving their everything working hard and all praying screaming to get climbed upon my someone#who spent their first year crying about missing home and not studying not even a minute under the name of not being able to adjust#then how did she suddenly adjust now how is she going on group studies now its all a joke to her#and thats why she failed this year yeah it was predictable#there were friends' friends i know who were put out and had to ask how much did she score#well ill tell you A FUCKING 347 in neet#CAN YOU BELIEVE IT#do you think she deserves to come in a medical stream?#and no she's not economically unwell for most i can say she's everything better than me#and god forbid i speak#im not against whatever thenpolitics run around i don't have enough knowledge i don't hate anyone#and im not taking anyone's right out of their platter as if i even have the right#but sometimes i see people like her and it makes me wanna cry#if they aren't at fault neither ae we.right?#but i hope she becomes someone better#does something i hope she turns out a good doctor or whatever she wants#please don't waste this seat
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Looks like I just lost another close friend to guy who isn't worth a pile of dog shit. 😊
#my best friend no less#i cried about this shit practically all afternoon but i'm all out of tears and now i'm just pissed off.#this shit has been going on for a long ass time but i've finally reached my breaking point with it#i love her#but she is delusional#and it kills me to say that#but that whole “relationship” (if you even want to call it that) is fake. all he cares about is money not her#the worst part is that she knows it too#oh but she “loves him” and “wants to give him one last chance” girl what the fuck?#oh but better yet he dumped her once 2 years ago already and i've hated his punk ass since#never should've gotten back tother after that and i told her as much even back then#all he does is make her cry#not do anything arount their town house#and sit on his ass and watch tv or sleep when he's not working#that's the tame stuff too i could say sooo much worse but i'm actually not trying to air her dirty laundry out her#i'm just pissed off#but suddenly IM the bad guy when tell her i won't support her or this “relationship” when she told me they were getting back together today#this is after i helped her and her parents ans brother move all her stuff out of the town house last Monday and back to her parents place#after she told me they were done for good#but IM the bad guy for bringing up all of fhe reasons listed above and all of the REALLY bad things about the relationship#when i tell her i won't be supporting her any longer and that i'll be walking away if she goes back to him#best part is her family agrees with me and they tell her all the things i say about him and then some#but when i go out on the line and put my heart down on the table for her and all i get back is a text saying:#“i don't really like how you're texting right now so we'll talk about this later.”#girl#i don't know whether or not i want to cry harder or strangle her#i think it's both#so yeah i think i just lost my best friend to a guy who doesn't remotly deserve her and everything kicks rocks rn#it's just like my other friend all over again#why do my friend have such dog shit taste in men
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thinking abt her :)
#oc: heidrun#yknow i finished the dragonborn dlc the other day. for the first time in my life lmao#i think the last time i attempted it i finished the path of knowledge quest and then just forgot abt the game for several years again#but this time i managed to finish the dlc! it was alright!!#i enjoyed the fight with miraak. it was different and challenging even#i think i prefer this one over dawnguard. it's been several years since i last touched dawnguard so i dont remember everything#but i do remember that i found it tedious lol#maybe i should revisit it one day tho. the questline would work so well with the character arc of someone like heidrun...#like she would totally join the dawnguard thinking she could redeem herself in stendarr's eyes by dedicating herself to hunting vampires.#but then she befriends a vampire... and eventually Finally comes to the realization that things are not so black and white...#and that she doesn't need stendarr or the vigil to dictate what is good and what is bad... and that sometimes... gods are stupid#i imagine solstheim was very stressful for heidrun tho. i mean not the place but the events that took place there#the horrors of apocrypha. having to work for hermy to stop miraak. no longer knowing if she is truly in control of anything in her life...#but at least she found some werewolf friends to hang out with at frostmoon crag :)#wish there was a questline or quest related to them... i need more werewolf content in my gameeee#anyway!! heidrun returns to her cottage near ivarstead after all this to take a well deserved break from world saving <3
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Voyager Episode where Chakotay and Tuvok are making a fish tank together as a B Plot. It appears in the mess hall after this episode.
#Neelix B'Elanna and Naomi also help with the fish tank#fake voyager episodes my beloved#The fish tank ostensibly provides a method of supplying fresh fish but everyone on board becomes a bit protective of the fish v_v#Headcanon that Tuvok gave his kids fish instead of a sehlat so he knows about fish care#and Chakotay seems like the type of guy who'd just love a good little project#B'Elanna is the first to get protective over the fish....you're ju st gonna EAT them???#also - and this is crucial...this B plot has nothing to do with the main story. It's not important and doesn't become important.#It's just the kind of thing that's happening on Voyager that week#B'Elanna is involved for her engineering skills and I imagine she designs and constructs a device for the mess hall that will keep the tank#affixed in one place so it doesn't shatter or get thrown around when the ship's hit (Tuvok then uses this to reinforce other ship systems)#Naomi helps by naming all the fish and handing people things they need and listing all the fish facts she knows#she starts off thinking fish are pretty boring as far as animals go but Tuvok and Chakotay teach her that fish are interesting and deserving#of a good life in a big well maintained tank (this also makes Naomi not want to eat them)#I think it'd be funny if at the end of the episode like Tom or Janeway was like wow! I guess fish is on the menu and everyone who worked on#the tank glared at them and they were li ke???W hat??? What did I say??
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Song of the Day: May 29
“Evil Like Me” by Kristin Chenoweth & Dove Cameron for Disney's Descendants OS
#song of the day#time is fake! sometimes I'm awake and it's logical to assume that sometimes I'm asleep! and the days must pass but do I ever know?? nope#fuck I spent all day thinking today was the last day of the month and then it turns out it's not even Thursday#sang 'Evil Like Me' with Duncan at the dinner table while I ate the cabbage and I made this cabbage after the work not-a-bbq so#almost definitely that was today!#I fell asleep standing up in the shower again but the drain has been draining very slowly so when I woke up there was water above my ankles#if I flood our house with the water from my shower while I am actively standing in it and I don't notice because it's the only time I sleep#I'm going to shrink myself down and move in with the mice colonizing our neighbor's boat trailer#the mice will never know my shame. Duncan will put cheese sandwiches out in the alley for us and it will be more than I deserve#this is a really good song. very fun lyrical nonsense and also very fun musically to sing. love the idea of Kristin Chenoweth Maleficent#'I have tried my whole life long / to do the worst I can / clawed my way to victory / built my master plan#now the time has come my dear / for you to take your place / promise me you'll try to be / an absolute disgrace'#Nick really doesn't like this song for some unspecified reason--we've asked but he just gets kind of mad? like it should be obvious?#I think maybe he thinks they're making fun of people who sing about like. doing crimes? being bad???????????????#like honestly what could be more punk she's literally Maleficent but go off I guess#I dunno but if I were going to be mad about a Descendants song that I occasionally roam the house over-selling#it wouldn't be a Broadway-star-supported certified banger like 'Evil Like Me'#it'd be goofyass 'Rotten to the Core' where I'm playing four parts simultaneously and pitching my voice up and down like a rollercoaster#love that fucking song it's so dumb and it's so much fun and I get to stomp on the chorus bits
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I think as a very sensitive person who picks up on negative energy easily, one of the best decisions I ever made was to always stay out of discourse and fandom drama. Life is seriously so much better for me when I just enjoy my little songs and my little shows and don't pay attention to what other people think or say about them. Enjoying celebrities and their art is so much more fun when I don't care about their personal lives. Life is so much easier when you just enjoy things blissfully, and don't search for bad things. There's already bad existing in the world, you don't need to search for more, enjoy the good things!
#this isn't about anyone#I'm just getting out some thoughts#that's why I just enjoy this and don't let things sway my enjoyment of it#*things#we deserve good things#we deserve to take our armor off and just let ourselves enjoy things#and have laughs and fun#depriving yourself of enjoyment doesn't make the world a better place#my thoughts#she speaks!
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more in depth explanation ig, i dont feel like i can listen to especially poets without thinking about the whole paternity test analysis thing.
when i first listened i felt really awful and embarrassed and i couldn't quite articulate why
while im still trying to figure it out, a huge part of my feelings was (and still is) that the part of me that wants to theorize about songs and who they're about, and connect it to taylor's life and imagine what she wrote about is at odds with what i hear in the lyrics about creeps who want the best for me and etc
there are some songs im better at just vibing with and some songs that i just actively have to force myself not to be like "oh thats about x person and so they did this and she did this and..."
I'm trying, and if anyone has suggestions or things that work for them please send them to me, im new to this and to online fandoms in general. i feel so shitty but then there's part of me that still doesn't see harm in thinking "x song is about taylor and x person, so using what you know about them both lets picture this in your mind" and "oh [symbol 1] that must mean it's about [person 1], but wait now there's also [symbol 2] so it's about [person 1 and person 2] but wait does that mean person 2 could also be related to symbol 1?" all the while all of these people are real actual people.
#another thing is i caught myself thinking ''god i love you taylor'' and then ''she'll never meet you don't adress her in the second person#she doesn't know you pretend like shes a character from a book so you don't makeup a parasocial relationship''#and i cant get it through my head that she's both a real person deserving of empathy and like an author or a person i really only know#through their work#because im stupid ig#so anyway im trying yo sort all this shit out and being online about taylor swift is really not helping lol#so i blocked every tag i could think of on most of my social medias#i might pop in on here from time to time but not for rebloging things because that feels like a minefield honestly#if anyone has suggestions probably ask box or dms is the best place to put them because i blocked the tags lol#i would really appreciate someone else's input on this and im totally willing to talk more about what my mindset is rn lol#thank you for reading through all this and have a good day#im gonna tag this with (some of) my blocked tags now so other people can see#poets#the tortured poets department#taylor swift#swifie#in shipping recovery#ttpd#tsttpd#taylor nation#taylornation#tortured poetry#tsttpdta#the anthology#the tortured poets department: the anthology
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What Kind Of "Hot" Are You?
drunk girl in the bathroom hot
you're both wasted, she just somehow does it so much better. you're crying, about something your stupid ex did or said. and suddenly she appears, looking like an angel aside from the slight sway in her step. she's helping you our of your slump on the floor when you grow pale and catastrophy strikes. you're the most disgusting you've ever been, and still, this stranger holds your hair and rubs soothing circles in your back. gives you a breath mint and sits you back against the wall, asking what happened. you tell her, and her glittery, perfectly made face turns sour. with her heels in hand, she loops your arm around her shoulders so she can help you walk to an uber she called for you. your ex says something snarky to you in passing on the way out, and for her it's the final straw. she whirls around, fire in her eyes and a set in her brow and she slaps him hard across the face. calls him a jerk or a dick or something like that, you can't remember, you were busy smiling at the stunned look on his face as she drags you both outside. before you get home, she gives you a hug and kind words in a bubbling voice and you're thankful for her. thankful there are people out there who look out for people like you, who stand up for people even when they might have trouble standing themselves.
Tagged by (stolen from): @southern-belle-outcasts Tagging: Anyone who wants to take it <3
#( what if we rewrite the stars ⋆。°✩ ) about#((This actually works pretty well for a few reasons:#1) Cass is absolutely that girl who's drunk too but she'll help you out and talk to you and make sure you're comfortable and safe#even if she doesn't know you.#2) As with most people- her inhibitions are lowered when she's drunk. That also means some of the sweetheart act falls away and she's more#free to let out some of that pent up anger that she's so good at hiding; and#3) Sober Cass will stick up for anyone else even if she can't stick up for herself and she will *fight* if it comes to it.#Sober Cass will not initiate a fight though. She'll just scold someone or chew them out with words unless things get physical.#DRUNK Cass though? Oh you can be SURE if someone was being a jerk she'd SLAP THEM. And it that turned into#full on FIST FIGHTING so be it. Should she do that? Probably not. But she's got some self defense training and she will USE IT.#She's small and she's quick and she knows how to use someone's weight against them if need be. She also has a pretty high pain tolerance tb#So she's in no way *guaranteed* to win. She might end up getting the hell beaten out of her#BUT SHE'S GONNA TRY. She might even put someone in their place by doing so. (She won't use her powers tho. She's smarter than that ^^;)#Keep in mind that she'll (drunk) slap someone for being a jerk but she wouldn't really be thinking about the possibility#that it might turn into an actual fight soooo... she's not technically out here trying to start anything.#Just that drunk Cass would slap someone if they deserved it even if that meant accidentally getting into a fight ^^;))#((Tho even drunk Cass won't usually put up much of a fight for HERSELF. She'll let t most things slide if they happen to her.))#( dancing in the moonlight ⋆。°✩ ) dash games
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𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐁𝐄 𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃?
With Calista.
Knuckles. It feels as though you have fought every day of your life. sometimes, you cannot even tell how much of the blood on your hands is your own... and how much comes from those who've tried to hurt those you defend. you deserve the gentleness of a kiss to your bruised knuckles and broken skin, a reminder that you are not only made of violence.
Tagged by : @rippleofwords
Tagging : @mythvoiced (Sarang my everything) @eclavigne @tvsteoftrvgedy @serpentainted (Beryl) @jeoseungsaja (Saja)
#I.#Listen.#This couldn't be more accurate and I am losing my mind.#Calista is the worst type of criminal you could find I guess - there's something unethical about everything she has done and is about to do#Does she deserve gentleness? Intimacy? Something good for her to hide in? Do monsters deserve love?#Hence why I picture Calista's intimacy as a very sacred - Pure - Secluded - Rare place.#If she herself doesn't believe she does deserve kisses on her bruised knuckles - she would find solace in it.#셋 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀 / headcanons.
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The thing about the fall of the house of usher is that like. I think Mike Flanagan is a great character writer but... somehow maybe not a very good horror writer? Which I know is an insane take given his body of work but like. He's great with suspense, but when that tension finally breaks, at least in Usher, it tends to feel kind of... stupid rather than scary.
Which means you're watching all of these interesting, horrible people play off of one another in excellent ways, portrayed by excellent actors, as they unerringly make their ways towards extremely obviously telegraphed and kind of stupid deaths.
#the whole episode w Camilla where she's obviously about to get chimp attack killed#& you're sitting there watching her be a slimy media personality spinning her brother's death for clout#& like you're mourning already not because she doesn't deserve to die#but because you know something dumb is about to happen to her & the show is about to become a bit less interesting#because she'll be gone#i know mike Flanagan is on here so on the off chance he sees this like. no shade man genuinely big fan of your work#it's alive!#the fall of the house of usher#i guess this blog is just like. the place I'm bitchy about media now#it's like a frustrating viewing experience because the good parts are SO fucking good#& the actors are so good & watching them play off each other is SO good.#and then something really really dumb will happen. and you're like. oh. right.#oh no I wonder if the tanks in the roof of this building that was condemned for being full of dangerous chemicals#will in fact be full of dangerous chemicals that will kill everybody#oh they were? wow!#it's not even a Hitchcock'the audience knows there is a bomb but the characters don't' think it's just like.#you're just kind of waiting for it to be over so you can go back to the interesting stuff.
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