#the last resort series

[natjennie]

i think mostly we as a culture need to stop pretending media is for us and instead recognize that it's for the people making it. "the show didn't do the thing I wanted it to" is so not the point. did it do what the people making it wanted it to do? did it tell the story they were trying to tell? than it was successful. if that doesn't align with what you wanted to happen, don't get up in arms about it. don't badmouth the creators and throw a tantrum. that's what fan works are for. the text is the text, and it told the story it was telling. you wouldn't be like "ugh shakespeare is insane for act v btw like there was no reason for juliet to kill herself she should've just waited and then her and romeo could have been together wtf this ruined the whole play" like no!!! the themes were there the set-up was there the foreshadowing was there shakespeare did what he intended to. just because it wasn't a happy ending and just because you thought it should've went differently doesn't mean it was bad. read a fic where juliet lives and move on.

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

Consider...... Alvin vs Kevin McCalister

[prettythizzeed]

Calling people who are passionate about movies and TV!!!

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[atrxides]

Sylvie Laufeydottir Parallels // Loki S01 requested by anon.

[aerticent]

this is so Maven omg like

[gummybearinthehouseee]

leo: if I’m the brains of this operation, we are in some SERIOUS trouble!

[shoesallinaline]

My main problem with the Christmas special is that I feel like it wasn't really about the ghosts. We were spending all this time with a character we haven't see much of, and I at least wasn't particularly invested (especially since the "overbearing mother-in-law" bit is so played out). And while I didn't want to see all the ghosts move on, it would have been nice if one of them had finally done so, especially Robin. I think it's kind of sad that they're all just stuck there forever apparently, and now they don't even have Alison. I don't know, I see what they were going for, but it just didn't work for me at all.

[dig-jules]

the thing about star trek tos is that it's so good conceptually. it'll set up a really captivating ethical dilemma. it'll have a premise that could be so politically bold. but every single time the episode takes the most revisionist route possible in how it "deals" with the conflict.

i.e. "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield". a fairly good, albeit very simplified, representation of the oppressor touting peace (as a means to stabilize society by instilling submission from the oppressed) vs. the resistance of the oppressed through necessary violence and disruption of the status quo.

but of course star trek decides to denounce the oppressed's methods as the reason their society is completely destroyed. and they have kirk make some grand speech about how great it is to take a moderate approach and always try to compromise. kill yourself

exact same thing happened with "The Cloud Minders" with them setting up a class divide premise but then doubling back and is like "oh no the people forced to live in the mines and do unpaid labor for the rich people in the clouds just have a biological deficiency built up from exposure to minerals that makes them really angry so lets just solve the anger issue and they can be normal functioning citizens in the mines again!" "and maybe we'll ask the people in the cloud castle to maybe give them better wages too and maybe come up to the castle sometimes!" it is LITERALLY THE IVORY TOWER

let's see, similar acts of cowardice happen in

mark of gideon

dagger of the mind

conscience of the king (kind of though this could be justified by kirk's internal struggle)

the omega glory

plato's stepchildren

Patterns of Force (this one gets praised ALL THE TIME about being anti-fascist but literally they punch like one nazi and then the resolution of the episode is them being like 'people can change! let's leave all the existing government officials in place and just tell them to be nice to the people they committed genocide against from now on! they were just mislead it's not their fault!' like i would think kirk would be a little more resistant to just fucking letting them be considering how ready he was to arm the populace in A Private Little War?)

the writers also have this issue where they can't stand to see societies not "progressing" by basing the value of their lives on innovation and capital. so places like the tribe in "The Apple" somehow become things to be fixed by western notions of progress? but yeah just go settler colonialism right?

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

In case anyone needs a refresher:

[james-stark-the-writer]

finally getting around to watching Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort and it's not terrible so far (it actually made me care for the first kills and the kill itself was really gruesome but the filmmaking was so dead and devoid of energy) but you can really tell this came out after the popularization of Game of Thrones (derogatory).

[hopezzy]

Cutie Pie 2 You: Episode 3 — Establishing Shots (3/?)

[kingdomoftyto]

Honestly though what a power move to give the main character of your sci-fi cowboy series a goddamn robot arm and then have him actually shoot with his other arm

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

Do you think Mihawk and shanks will join forces in the end and fight together? Will they become closer than are now? Im assuming they’re some kind of friends rn.

I wonder what do you think of their future, I mean what’s the other reason to inform us how they fought back in the day? Why make it obvious that they party together? Why make shanks successful persuade to actually spend time with the other? Why make Mihawk back off when shanks came to Marineford? Why so many little tiny details about them here and there if they will not be close by the end?

What are your thoughts? I really want them to be around each other and I don’t see other reason to make those events, why else?

i have no idea what they're gonna be like in the end-end, but i have to believe something is gonna happen there before one piece is finished. (as I have discussed previously, when mihawk questions come my way.) like. truly, the "shanks is arriving, so mihawk's leaving" bit is just teasing readers, hanging the potential of their dynamic just out of reach!

…which is weird, because the first time we see shanks in present day is an interaction with mihawk. so why did we need to have their dynamic teased to us? i have to assume it's because there's something more to their dynamic than "former rivals who're friendly enough to sit down for a drink together."

now, i don't feel like we know mihawk or shanks well enough for me to speculate on what that different dynamic could be. i'm just vividly aware of that assumption i've made, hanging over my head like the sword of damocles, whenever one mentions the other.

[fillia]

What if all the winners of the Life Series remember a previous life/world of their after they've won?

Like Grian, Pearl, and Martyn remember Evo smp while Scott remembers Empires (s1 specifically cuz he won before that season was over).

Sure, everyone has bits of memories and familiarity about their lives outside of the life series (ie Jimmy finding the symbol on the secret keeper familiar) but it isn't like full on remembering like the winners have.

Maybe that's why Martyn's lore with the watchers and listeners is stronger this season. Maybe that's why Martyn gravitates to Jimmy this season. He remembers. He remembers everything.

[mushr00m-teeth]

I HAVE A HEADCANON

ok so, since nell's a theater kid and reads shakespeare, she can understand how alastor talks/all the 16th century slang he uses

and by extension, she understands his insults(and the gravity he intends for them to have)

despite this, she cannot take him seriously(bc after all, he's an itty bitty fluffy fox cussing her out in iambic pentameter)

also when nell gets bored she'll make wild ass claims to al in shakespearian english and insist upon their truth just so she can talk all dramatic for about thirty minutes before she dies lauging (al, of course, takes her completely seriously, and is utterly bemused when she does this)

prosper has no clue what either of them are saying

but after the first time he asked nell what they were bickering about and she pauses to reply "he doesn't think i can uncook an egg without magic" before getting right back into character to continue stating her case, he smiles whenever he sees them having their petty debates