#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:

[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.

[toastedsmoreo]

not to be negative on main but jjk is pissing me off, man

[krisperoons]

I’m surprised Lobo hasn’t shown up in the Harley Quinn series as of yet, it makes perfect sense for him to show up in a series where many male characters get their comeuppance in being misogynistic and harassers.

Considering the teaser trailer showed the villains them going to the moon for a convention? Possibly, but perhaps not cause I don’t want to get my hopes up like that lol

[justicebled]

remembered that yuri has an extremely badass title that he gets after the end of part one, involving magistrate ragou's death and vanishing into the river of the bridge at dahngrest. ragou basically is full of triggers and i'm half asleep, but yuri actually gains in the west, the title most familiar ' vigilante ' but actually, in japan, according to @zelotae after yuri puts a stop to that monster of a thing, (ragou), he actually gains another title instead of that, called "conqueror of sin".

i find that one far more fitting, as i feel most people think vigilantes look 'cool' and 'edgy' and are just there to stop things the law can't touch it for 'personal reasons' when it couldn't be further from the truth with yuri.

yuri is not doing this for personal justice, but true justice the world won't give, or more clear: the right thing. yuri is impartial / emotionless and has shown this repeatedly when facing in battle or stopping one of the villains of the story all plastered with triggering topics yes, they're that evil, i'd compare symphon.ia's world and terca lumireis to be equal tbqh. just different horrors but no less equally horrifying, that he is not doing it to break the law.

in actuality, while the empire does have a 'law' in place, it actively time and time again in almost every thirty minutes of the game establishes for you that it is just like putting a poster up, it's empty and it says words but it doesn't actually fulfill anything. it doesn't stop poverty, it doesn't stop the abuse, murdering, and neglect of the lower class, it does not stop using the councils and bureaucracy from using their power from the royal family and fellow nobility to abuse for their own ends and even the first law of the knights in zaphias is not what you'd think.

it isn't, 'i will protect the people' first. the first law basically says 'serve the empire'. rather sickeningly, the second law is 'with this sword i shall protect the people'. yuri, who was a knight for three months and couldn't bear the corruption / evil within it, as the knights like everything else in the empire, is just pretty, gilded toys, they don't actually do anything is the one ironically in halure when people are being threatened, telling his former comrades in the knights:

" with this sword i shall protect the people. " and this should be the first law of the knight's code.

so really, terca lumireis has no real law. and if it does, it is not truly one. so i find the term 'vigilante' really cheap and kinda tacked on when it's MUCH more complicated for yuri's case, as all he does is impersonal and the only person who suffers is him. conqueror of sin fits him far more, and i'll probably go with that, though his tag fits fine as truth is also what yuri embodies as much as true justice / rightdoing.

if anything, yuri is more of an unwitting but unflinching rebel and borderline accidental revolutionary, small town hero to big hero (he'd look either sick or furious if you call him that btw) who just wanted to return the aque blastia (water supply) to the slowly but surely withering people of the lower class / caste system, the lower quarter, and instead is thrust upon with the hero's journey, which he has to by the end of part one, make the choice to follow, with good and bad consequences.

you know that any authoritative system is a fluke when someone you're trying to arrest is reciting to you, the people who should be saving and protecting instead of him, that your role is to protect and serve the people.

instead? the poor are not even given graves, and are burned, cremated, and placed at random locations on the continent where their very ashes are scattered with not a grave to remember them.

this is the kind of evil, horrifying, sickening world that yuri lives in. a lawless one, and one that has lost its heart, light and its hope, and instead the burden of being the heart, light and hope falls upon a single man who only wanted to return something and go home.