#the expanse season 4

[livesinyesterday]

"We have enough problems already without you agitating the Inners." "Well, they like humiliating us."

-- Klaes Ashford (The Expanse s.4)

[philosopherking1887]

Yes, favorite line! Then Amos says, completely seriously, "It's good advice."

(And then they proceed to put their dicks in it)

I love how foul-mouthed Avasarala is.

[plague-of-insomnia]

Expansion In Black Butler, Public School Arc Anime: Stained Glass

One of the things that absolutely delights me with the new anime is how they’ve used expansion to bring the world to life. I hope to do more posts on this when I am able to get better screenshots, so for now please accept these poor quality ones I took with my phone.

What is “expansion” in this sense?

Essentially, when you adapt something for the screen, you often have to add stuff to fill space, both in the physical sense of what’s on the screen, but also in terms of time. A scene might work fine on one manga page, but if you kept the view fixed like that for an entire scene in an anime or live action, the audience would quickly lose interest.

The anime has done a good job of expanding to fill these spaces in a way that can be charming and clever.

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Something I noticed while rewatching the episode for the twenty millionth time, I realized that the stained glass window that is featured so prominently in the opening scene has been expanded into something with far more symbolism than the original manga page:

The basic design of the room and window is retained, but far more detail has been added, including the fact that the window has two halves, each with a person depicted on them, and they frame Ciel on both sides.

He’s quite literally trapped in shadow between two people, and to me, this is representative of how he is caught between Sebastian and Undertaker/His twin. (Or perhaps one is meant to be RC and one UT, with Seb the shadow in between.)

But there’s more. The top window has a flower motif, but the central flower looks a lot like a star, or perhaps a lily if it were spread out flat?? Additionally, the four flowers of the Weston houses appear in each corner.

Additionally, the window has distinctive doves above and below the saints. While ofc that is a common animal in Christian iconography, the fact that the reapers use pigeons (doves) to communicate, and the fact that UT is a former reaper, could mean this was a very deliberate choice. Perhaps representing how reapers communicate to their superiors (there are images of a man and woman at the top I assume is meant to represent Jesus and Mary)?

The images of the saints feel very familiar to me, but I’m such a lapsed Catholic that I’ve been struggling to identify them.

I thought perhaps that the one on the left could be Frances of Assisi. He’s the patron saint of animals, and is often associated with birds.

The other, I am really unsure about. I thought about things like St. Paul or Augustine, but those don’t fit.

Perhaps St Lazarus? For those of you unfamiliar with Christian mythos, Lazarus died and came back to life, so he’s associated with resurrection. That would certainly fit kuro and Undertaker, wouldn’t it?

A few depictions of stained glass windows featuring St Frances and St Lazarus:

[home-and-having-tea]

I haven't watched a thing of it in years but does anyone else miss how good Umbrella Academy used to be. Does anyone remember actually enjoying the show when Season 2 came out. When they actually built on the plot and fixed things that the audience majorly disliked and built good emotional relationships and cool powers. And then fucked up every cool fun enjoyable emotional thing they did in Season 3 and 4

[thesimsbaddie]

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[always-tilting-at-windmills]

[rainbowangel110]

*playing through the first quest of the Nine Colored Deer season*

Narration: The Child was scared.

Me trying to hide from krill on 0 light: Oh, really?! You don't say??!?? I couldn't imagine why?!?

[petrichor430]

I’m seeing Destiny 2 content on my Twitter dash a lot recently, and I have no idea why. I escaped from that hell years ago and now it’s grasping hands reach out at me from the earth to pull me back down into the flaming pits of a repetitive live-service game past it’s prime but I won’t go back, not now, not ever.

[sheplaysthegames]

[philosopherking1887]

Uh oh... is there A Thing between Amos and Clarissa?

My latest "Expanse" crush is Camina Drummer (played by Cara Gee). I love her accent, I love her eye makeup and tattoos, I love her bitchy attitude.

[the-physicality]

"tomorrow we find out where paige is going" .... .tomorrow we find out which team has a 99% chance of drafting paige

[satanicspeaks]

EEE hit season 4 of the expanse and slow zone crisis has occurred. One of my favourite books of the series. Sad to see such a fast development and not a lot of new characters, but from a TV show perspective it makes sense. They don’t have a whole season to build up this plot and that’s okay.

Slay for drummer being in such a big part of the Behemoth

[natalyelle]

I started watching Beacon 23 and there are technically 2 main characters (+2 AI) and after Dark with their 100500 characters it was nice. So when in episode 2 a bunch of people came to the Beacon I thought that maybe they will be killed somehow haha There are enough characters already

[always-tilting-at-windmills]

Season 1 🆚 Season 4

[largetaytertots]

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