#the greatest moment in television history tbh

[lizardkingeliot]

i will always cherish every frame of lestat utterly surrendering and collapsing against louis after being stabbed and allowing himself to be taken in any way louis wants and louis latching onto the side of lestat's neck that we only just barely get a glimpse of through that filthy window 😌

[allthemidnightmemories]

I’m also slowly going through Adam Scott’s filmography; I'm wondering which of his movies and TV appearances you've watched so far are worth watching.

cracks knuckles let's GO

i'm probably about like....a quarter of the way through his filmography? he has a lot of indie movies and tv appearances that are a little harder to find, but these are some highlights of what I've watched so far!

essential viewing

severance - this is god tier adam scott at his finest and we will GET him an emmy award so help me keir

parks and recreation - ben wyatt sweet nerd angel love of my life i adore you

greatest event in television history - four incredible documentary shorts about a fictionalized version of adam scott filming remakes of 80s title sequences. so much work went into these things and i love them so much

little evil - an unexpected gem that's a fun, unserious parody of old horror movie tropes and was actually quite enjoyable and had some very sweet moments with suprise insights on parenting??

secret life of walter mitty - ngl i hate his character in this and it's not my favorite role of his BUT i absolutely ended up loving this movie quite a lot so i do recommend it in general lol

underrated gems

krampus - lowkey super fun and great for the holidays, and made me kinda want to see him in more horror because he plays the scared shitless everyman quite well

seven and a match - i found this low rent indie very endearing. the plot is meh but i love his subplot and i think he brings a lot of depth to his character (gay writer pining after his presumably straight college friend) especially so early in his career. watch for peak new england fall vibes, Gen X ennui, and a folksy soundtrack

torque - a flawed parody of the fast and furious films. adam scott plays an fbi agent pursuing these vigilante bikers and the scenes with him and his fellow agent (justina machado) are honestly the best part of the whole movie. his hair also looks AMAZING if you're into that

friends with kids - more extensive thoughts here but overall enjoyed this one and i loved what he brings to his more intense scenes (specifically the dinner scene and the ending)

woof (watch at your own peril)

high crimes - SO boring and they did him super dirty with a miltary buzz cut lol

madame web - the concept of him playing uncle ben in the spiderman universe is so fun and i'm so annoyed they wasted him in this mess 😂 tbh he is the best part of this movie, which sits firmly in the so bad it's fun to watch category.

haven't seen but on my list

party down

the good place

the vicious kind

tell me you love me

bachelorette (update: do not recommend, this was a rough watch lol)

he also has a TON of tv guest spots that are fun to hunt down - my favorites include:

law and order (s 16 ep 17)

veronica mars (s 1 ep 14)

also i do need to give a special shoutout to his podcast with scott aukerman called U Talkin' U2 to Me - your mileage may very and it is a VERY specific kind of stupid humor, but I did not care at all about U2 before and this podcast got me into U2. they've also covered other bands (it is currently getting me into REM) and has brought me a lot of joy during Seasonal Depression szn

anyways this is by no means encyclopedic or comprehensive, but these are the ones i've enjoyed so far!

[jasper-unofficial]

archer rewatches nlmg: finale

[episode 11]

🏆 achievement unlocked: place a rewatched series into your top 3 series of all time

‼️tip: rewatch series you liked, if you've seen them live! sometimes, things happen and you just don't get the full objective experience, while watching throughout the months

my boys are teaming up!!!

i'm gonna start tearing my hair out

perhaps i am delusional, but dying with the person you love most does seem like the best option tbh

AND EVERYONE CHEERED

they are everything to me

and what if i died because of this scene...

his bloodied hands and tiny sobs... i think someone tore my heart out of my chest and started jumping on it

and in the midst of all this, nueng remains level-headed and kind and generous. i am very proud of him.

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

yeah, we've got a fucking surprise coming from the other side now...

my favourite boys together!!!

all these words, yet in one ear and out the fucking other

i absolutely hate it when they are on different wavelengths

the worst thing about this conversation is that girlie couldn't even begin to guess how her words are affecting palm. it's just the most unfortunate miscommunication.

*grabs him and shakes him and shakes him and shakes him until all the stupid self-hatred-filled thoughts and insecurities fall out*

*screams of pain and agony and torture and suffering*

brooding during the day, brooding at night: brooding - our new favourite hobby

love the gay chairs btw, six colours so definitely not just a rainbow

i love that there are so many cute domestic moments from their time on the island that we just keep getting them as nice little flashbacks throughout the whole series

me <- totally normal guy who has no problems whatsoever, welcoming the first customers to my bar i named in honour of my ex, while wearing a cap that he gave me which represents our love

the reunion here is my most rewatched scene in the series btw. i've seen it at least fifty times.

i hope one day palm believes that he doesn't need to do anything more to prove himself, alas...

and what signs were you sending? kissing ben? /lh

my boy is remembering ancient transgressions and, frankly, i support him

greatest shot in history of television. thank you jojo, thank you pond, thank you phuwin, thanks everyone. watch never let me go.

[purplesurveys]

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Have you ever disliked someone just because a friend disliked them? Yessssss. That’s my job as a best friend hahahaha half kidding. No but seriously though, I have. I mean I’d still be objective and tell my friend if their enemy is making sense in some aspects, but at the end of the day I’ll give them the extra support by disliking that person anyway. Which would you rather own: A camera or a video camera. Why? Video camera, because I’ve always wanted to start vlogging and my phone’s camera is already quite decent, so I’m not really needing a camera right now. Have you ever won a lot of money in a slot machine? How much? Nah, I’ve never even played in a casino. I’ve been in one but I was only 18 then, so I couldn’t really do anything except to walk through the casino and stare at all the machines and booths that I couldn’t play at haha. Do you watch sports on TV even though you aren't a sporty person yourself? I will sometimes watch a tennis or MMA match if I catch them on, but that’s about it. I wouldn’t know who to root for either, or know who’s the better player; I just watch for the action. Do you eat / drink at your computer? Yes but I try to avoid it more these days because I hate greasing up my trackpad or leaving bits of food on my keyboard. If I really have to eat at my laptop I’ll put on a show or a video to watch so that I don’t have to actually be using my laptop.

How much do you overeat at special occasions? (Birthdays, Christmas, etc) I don’t think I have the capacity to overeat haha. My room for food is small so when I get full I simply stop eating, or I no longer get up to get a second serving. Generally I try to get a piece of every meal though, no matter how little; I always want to have a taste of everything so that I don’t miss out. The music you listen to: Is it mostly sung by female or male vocalists? I think it’s an equal amount but when it comes to frequency I think I’ve been listening to female vocalists more often – Beyoncé, Paramore, The Japanese House, Banks, etc. My playlists generally have both female and male artists though cause I also listen to Hozier, alt-J, Coldplay, Rhye, Joji, and other male dudes. Do you think it's important to enjoy your job or do you just work for money? As much as possible people should always aim to end up somewhere where they love what they do for a living, but given that I’m quite materialistic but mostly grew up in a household with a mom who was very frugal and often reiterated the joys of a simple life (aka a life I hated lmao), I think I’d have no problem having a job that pays handsomely but wasn’t necessarily viewed as fun. I wanna be able to spoil and reward myself after all the work I do. Do you require glasses / contacts to see properly? If so, which do you use? Yeah, I have glasses. Tell me an embarrassing thing that happened to you recently: I shared a serious-toned Facebook post earlier tonight and Gabie’s dad gave it a like. I’ve mostly forgotten he was my Facebook friend and so I started feeling embarrassed because normally I would shitpost and share stupid memes and if he liked my post, it must mean he sees everything I share jkfhjkfhjkf. When you hear your voice back on a recording, do you think it sounds awful? No. I don’t usually cringe when I hear it; I think it sounds okay. When was the last time you got the hiccups? Aaaaaaaaages ago. I can’t even tell you when. If you had to, which record would you go into Guinness World Records for? I saw a video on Facebook of this woman getting into Guinness for finishing the most jars of mayonnaise in a certain amount of time (I wanna say 5 minutes?) and I was so thrilled to see such a record cause I can honestly see myself breaking it HAHAHAHAHA mayonnaise is <3 The last sweet thing you ate: What was it? A chocolate chip cookie, except we don’t have chocolate chips so my dad had to improvise and chopped up Flat Tops instead. If you had to change your name, what would you change it to? I’d toy with my second name and probably go with Belle or Bella. Do you have a middle name? Do you find it embarrassing? Yeah I think all Filipinos come with a legal second name. I don’t find mine embarrassing it all; it’s a source of great pride since I have a lot of relatives etched in Philippine history with that name. I don’t ever want to lose it and I’ll probably continue to keep it even after I’m married. What would you choose to be famous for? It’d be nice to be known for a blog. If I had the time, resources, and tbh the connections it would be amazing to write about anything under the sun for an audience. What is your current occupation? Do you enjoy it? I don’t have any at the moment, but I’m about to start looking for one. Do / Did you enjoy school? Why (not)? There are some parts I enjoy/ed (the friends I made for high school, the overwhelming independence I gained in college) and some parts I hate/d (some classes I was forced to take in high school, my inability to adjust during my first year of college). I don’t regret either periods though, and I can never say I completely hated them. If you have a webcam, are you ever paranoid people can see you? Yes hahaha. I never got around to buying a webcam protector either. Do you find it difficult to sleep at night? Any reason(s) why? Only when there’s something unresolved, like a deadline that’s bugging me or if Gab and I have been arguing. Otherwise I’m knocked out in like 10 minutes. If you had to go on a game show, which would you choose? Family Feud or Jeopardy. What about if you had to go on a reality show? Which would you choose then? QUEER EYE. Talk about wholesome. Tell me about your favourite TV show: Blue meth, New Mexico, lots of chemistry, objectively one of the greatest pieces of television ever. Have you ever wished you were born the opposite gender? Why? I probably wished this a few times when I was a pre-teen and liking girly things was still seen as lame. How the hell did we not question mindsets like that before, damn. If you had dental braces, which colour would you make them? I did have braces and I always picked a different color for every trip to the dentist, so it’s very possible I had tried out the entire rainbow. Does any part of your body hurt right now? Where and why? My back hurts rn, understandably, because my posture is shitty. Why were you last irritated? Slow internet. What time did you get up this morning? I think that was already 11 in the morning. The last city you were in: Where was it and do you like it there? Other than my own it was in Pasig. It’s okay but I definitely prefer other cities. It’s a little too crowded and congested for me and also too expensive to stay at, eugh. If I had the choice I’d rather hang in Makati or QC. Do you like the countryside? They’re nice spots for a short vacation, but I wouldn’t want to live there. I’ve grown used to the hustle and bustle of cities. If you see someone yawn, do you often yawn as well? Sure. Recommend me a good movie: Good Will Hunting, Requiem for a Dream (but sad), Roman Holiday, Gone with the Wind, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Do you think you'd make a good model? Would you ever want to be one? I don’t work out or do anything to maintain a certain figure so I don’t have the the ideal body for modeling; if anything the only factor I have going for me is the fact that I’m quite skinny. I did want to be a model when I was a teenager though; that was around the time VS Angels were extremely popular, so I’m not surprised I used to want to be like them. How often do you change your hairstyle? What does it look like now? I only change it up once a year. Right now I have a bit of a bob with bangs. Truth or Dare? Truth. I never have a problem saying the truth lmao. Do you have a favourite day of the week? Which is it? This semester it was Tuesday, because it had my lightest schedule. Nowadays every week is just a blur to me and I stopped having a favorite day.

[seyaryminamoto]

Who do you think are the most overrated characters in ATLA?

What a controversial question xD Well, probably under the cut, for the best.

DISCLAIMER: if you adore any of the characters on this list, this is NOT an attempt to attack you or your peers, merely criticism on how the fandom behaves regarding certain characters.

Undeniably, the #1 overrated character is Iroh. A lot of people give him much more credit than he’s due, and he’s much more problematic than he seems on first sight. No doubt he has his fair share of good points, but he is far from perfect and he definitely isn’t the soul of the show for me, despite it seems he is for a lot of people. Proof of how overrated he is? His mere reappearance in LOK made people who had dropped the show return to it just because of him. Because SOMEHOW Iroh being there makes it all better.Truth is, no, it doesn’t make LOK all better. But how to argue with people who adore Iroh and refuse to see his faults?Iroh is not all wisdom, and he’s definitely not infallible. He’s also not the strongest firebender ever, sorry not sorry to burst that bubble but it’s a fact. Iroh was very questionable at many points in the show, and his relationship with his family is very complicated to say the least. Assuming he’s the only pure and good person in the Fire Nation Royal Family just because he was nice to Zuko is one of the fandom’s biggest mistakes and one of my biggest gripes with this character’s interpretations. Not because Bryke decided to sanctify him in LOK, and make him the franchise’s most enlightened character of all, does it mean he really was that perfect. A genuine analysis of who he is and what he did during ATLA can prove as much. So… Iroh is very overrated. Very. I’m certainly interested in hearing about his past, as any fan would be, but I do think there are far more important things the show and comics should deal with than expanding on Iroh’s life. People who would rather hear about his past than about the grown-up lives of the Gaang (… or about Azula’s uncertain future) really baffle me as Iroh’s endgame is clearly what the show gave us. Do we really need to know more about his past than we need to know about everyone else’s futures? I’d like to know more about his past, as I said, but it is far from a priority for me compared to every other main character on the show. 

Zuko would be my #2, of course, only because Iroh’s fans tend to be louder and more annoying when you get them going. But the constant praise to Zuko’s development, and ESPECIALLY the praise to his extremely flawed redemption that still leaves a ton of room for him to improve, and that also made him worse in many ways, makes me roll my eyes more often than not. That recent viral tweet about him getting the best redemption arc in the history of TV makes me wonder how much TV did that person watch at all. If Zuko’s the best redemption TV can do, I guess we’re really facing a terrible time for television shows.Mainly, Zuko is overrated because, just as Iroh, he’s credited for a ton of things that aren’t true. There’s a lot of problems with his character that go unaddressed, and a lot of people are happy to describe him with a lot of praising adjectives that I have no idea what relation they could possibly have with his character. Proof of the messed-up understanding fans have of Zuko can be found easily in fanfiction: have you ever wondered why Zuko’s characterization varies so drastically from fic to fic? Whether fics trying to portray him in a good light or in a bad one, more often than not it feels like people are portraying him as who they think he should be, and not who he really is. Having a grasp on his character is difficult, way more difficult than many people believe, but it’s on great measure because of how hard so many people have it to actually see his flaws for what they are.I am not saying loving Zuko is a terrible thing, it isn’t, but some people love and praise the idea of him, and not who he really is. Careful, less biased inspection of his character can reveal he leaves a lot to be desired for a man who changed his ways and became the ruler that would bring peace to a nation he hardly knows or understands. His character development is a rollercoaster, and that’s mainly because of how deeply flawed he is: but you ask the fandom and he’s a cinnamon roll who never did anything wrong, or at least, whose every misdeed can and should be blamed on everyone but him. Because he is perfect, and so is his character arc. So, overrated, or misunderstood character? Hell knows, but the fandom really has turned me off Zuko’s character altogether.

The third most overrated character would be Toph, who, for all her great traits, often gets praised as a fully rounded character when, uh… to put it bluntly, out of the five top-billed Gaang members, Toph is the one who evolved the least. Her growth was exclusively about developing more bending skills, about becoming a stronger fighter, but she has some serious personality flaws that are never explored the way they should be. She barely ever faces consequences for her wrongdoings, which are often framed as funny, and when she’s in the middle of serious conflicts, she is absolutely never in the wrong, just as it is with her every conflict with Katara. In the end… she barely grows in anything but power level. Yet you look around and find a ton of people praising her as the greatest character of the franchise. While I see the appeal, and in her case I like her a lot better as a character than either Iroh or Zuko, I also think she’s not given a chance by the story to actually grow, and that stunted her as a character. Which doesn’t seem to bother anyone because she’s praised for anything and everything to no end. I appreciate her comic relief moments, the message she gives in regards of disabilities, but the show could have made better use of her character and didn’t, and nobody really seems to notice or care.

This one’s going to get me stoned I’m sure (if the first ones didn’t already :’DDDD) but my #4 goes to Kyoshi. Yep. You read that right.Kyoshi is no doubt a hardass, I’ve seen a ton of people praising her as the greatest Avatar of all. There’s a million Chuck Norris-esque memes with her, presenting her as the most unstoppable force in the Avatarverse, and you see people everywhere dissing Avatars like Kuruk, for being so lazy, or Roku, for not being decisive, blah blah blah, and saying she’s awesome for being 100% the opposite of that.What these funny people fail to notice, or maybe they simply don’t know the Avatarverse’s timeline, is that Kyoshi allowed Chin the Conqueror to take over the entire Earth Kingdom and only made a move against him to save HER island. She didn’t act until then, allowing Chin to take over whatever the hell he wanted to take during his rebellion, which, as far as I know, was practically the entire continent, with only Kyoshi Island and Ba Sing Se as exceptions.And the whole thing to help the Earth King to deal with the Earth Kingdom’s problems, by creating the Dai Li for his protection? It happened AFTER Chin died, she didn’t even do this to save Ba Sing Se from him because this is posterior to Chin’s mad quest. She did NOT act to protect the Earth Kingdom from a raving, rising tyrant until it affected herdirectly, and didn’t involve herself with the politics of HER OWN NATION until after they had boiled over and the Earth King had a peasant revolt in his hands. If she couldn’t be bothered to move to save her own people until the last moment, what guarantees that she did anything to help anyone else? How is she that great an Avatar?Sure, people think that, since she actually got involved in worldly events no matter how late she did, she was better than Roku or Kuruk. But in Kuruk’s favor he apparently had no war to deal with, and his wife’s loss is an unexpected tragedy for him. Roku actually kept Sozin at bay for years, and Sozin only dared act openly with his conquest of the world once Roku was out of the way. Kyoshi had a major war brewing in her nation and her best idea to deal with it was to split off her island so she wouldn’t have anything more to do with it. Because a separatist mentality is the best way to handle your Avatar duties (the greatest illusion is the illusion of separation, anyone?). Seriously, if Chin had been standing just a bit futher back? If he hadn’t fallen to his death? He probably would have taken Ba Sing Se later anyways and Kyoshi would’ve been chilling in her village until she noticed that the Earth King was dead. Oops.Long story short, Kyoshi is considered way too great for the reality of her actions and decisions. The fandom’s concept on her duty as an Avatar is absurdly messed up, and as cool as her character design is, as great as her displays of power were, she was actually a pretty bad Avatar if you get objective about what she allowed Chin to do for so long. So in my very humble opinion, the fandom’s circlejerk around her is more than undeserved.

I was planning on making this a top 5, but tbh I don’t think anyone else gets acclaim to the extreme in the way these four do. Everyone else seems to have a more moderate fanbase, or at least enough detractors that the people who praise them don’t come off as loud and annoying as they do for these four. 

I’m not saying loving any of them is wrong, but there’s such abundance of praise for them, often for things they never even did, let alone for values they never represented, and yet they get interpreted by the fandom in whichever way the fans decide they like best. And somehow, the fanon interpretations grow more popular than what’s really there… which is truly annoying because these characters are fine the way the show actually portrayed them. They’re flawed, they make mistakes, their actions can be judged, they’re far from perfect: yet the fandom would have you believe otherwise.

[wildflowersinthewind]

Mr. Carson practicing answering the phone is one of the greatest moments in television history tbh

[fuckyeahrichonne]

Hi, Im still high on this episode...I think the acting was superb by Andy and Danai..But its troubling how Rick was saying it might be him that dies. What do you make of that?

I don’t see Rick dying any time soon so I really don’t think there’s any reason to worry about that yet. Andrew Lincoln has top billing, and whether certain groups of people will ever choose to accept it or not, Rick Grimes is the fucking protagonist. With that said, I don’t think he is immortal. I do believe that he’ll end up dying before the end of the show. TWD is one of the highest rated shows on television so it won’t be ending any time soon (I believe I heard something about them claiming to have an outline up to season 12 a little while ago?); but I think Rick could end up being the final death on the show. It started with him and I have no doubt that it will end with him. This wasn’t really a part of the question, but Michonne and Carl and possibly Judith are going to end up being the final survivors in my mind. 

Rick’s speech to Michonne in the van was written specifically to come back and haunt him in the finale and eventually, make him eat those words. I have no doubt. We know that Rick and Michonne love each other, and although they have yet to say that in such plain terms, they have both vocalized the idea that they can’t bear to lose each other. Rick telling her that they can lose each other, that even if one of them is gone the other has to go on and lead the family was Rick trying to placate Michonne and him trying to look ahead to the future. It wasn’t an easy thing for Rick to say, but he said it, and even though I do believe that his words were true, he’s going to regret them.

Now I might get a little spoilery, so if you don’t want any spoilers then stop reading here. 

I’m sure that most of you guys know by now that Michonne is possibly going to have a near death experience in the finale. Rick has never really had to face the fact that he could lose Michonne. Not to this extent. The lineup, though traumatizing, didn’t result in him having to watch Michonne be brutally murdered right in front of his eyes. But Rick watching the love of his life fall to her death while he sits there, helpless and unable to move? I think that the shock of seeing something that horrific and being made to believe that Michonne is truly dead for however long he does is going to force him to confront the reality of the situation. In that moment, I think Rick will realize just how deep his love runs for this woman. Don’t get me wrong, he is already devoted to her in every way, but being forced to deal with Michonne’s death will make Rick realize that he can’t. And once he finds out that Michonne is actually alive, I’m expecting the greatest reunion scene in walking dead history, tbh. Even better than the Michonne jumping into Rick’s arms in 712. Hell, if I were a betting woman, I would bet that we’ll be getting an “I love you” from Rick and that Michonne will return the favor. It isn’t unlike Gimple and the writers to plan parallels and callbacks far in advance, so there is no doubt in my mind that Rick’s “we can lose each other” speech was written with this exact purpose in mind.