#the society 1x09

[forbescaroline]

235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 97. sam eliot and grizz visser - the society

[doctorscoobywho]

What makes Kirk and Spock's relationship so compelling is that they cannot be together. Even in a society that would accept not only two men but two men of different species in a relationship, they cannot be together.

Spock knows that Kirk's first love and responsibility must be to the Enterprise and her crew. Kirk holds everybody's lives in his hands and if he is ever distracted, things could go terribly wrong and Kirk would never be able to live with himself. If the needs of the many out weight the needs of the few, then the needs of the many sure as hell out weight the wants of a few, even if that want is theost powerful thing Spock has ever felt.

And Kirk relies on Spock and his unwavering logic to help him protect the Enterprise and it's crew. Being in a relationship would jeopardize that. As Tuvok points out to Janeway in 1x09, his logic was sound, but his emotions and connection to Janeway clouded his application of the logic. Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the Enterprise crew cannot afford that and Kirk knows that and so he keeps his feelings to himself.

Spock also struggles with the fact that he is half Vulcan, half human. He prides himself in adhering to his Vulcan half when it comes to emotion and logic. If his and Kirk's feelings were added to the mix, that would seriously jeopardize the balance he has found, and Kirk loves Spock so much, he would rather remain silent than cause the love of his life any pain.

And so they both remain silent and love from afar. And you watch as these two men that love each other so deeply and so powerfully that others can recognize that their souls are irrevocably inertwined continue to love each other even when they can't act on it, and it's one of the most compelling relationships you've ever seen.

[thunderbirds-showdown]

Round 3 came and went and took with it some fan favourites. We're halfway through the tournament now, and there are only a handful of episodes left! It's time to get your bets in as to which one you think will win!

The episodes that have been eliminated this round are:

1x02: Ring of Fire - Part 2

1x09: Slingshot

1x21: Comet Chasers

1x23: Chain of Command

2x02: Ghost Ship

2x06: Up from the Depths - Part 1

2x23: Long Haul

2x25: Hyperspeed

3x24: Firebreak

3x26: The Long Reach - Part 2

Previous eliminated episodes:

1x03: Space Race

1x04: Crosscut

1x05: Fireflash

1x06: Unplugged

1x07: Runaway

1x10: Tunnels of Time

1x11: Skyhook

1x12: Under Pressure

1x13: Heavy Metal

1x14: Falling Skies

1x15: Relic

1x17: Heist Society

1x19: Extraction

1x20: The Hexpert

1x22: Designated Driver

1x24: Touch and Go

1x25: Undercover

1x26: Legacy

2x01: Earthbreaker

2x03: Deep Search

2x04: City Under the Sea

2x07: Up from the Depths - Part 2

2x08: Lost Kingdom

2x09: Impact

2x10: High Strung

2x11: Weather or Not

2x12: Fight or Flight

2x13: Escape Proof

2x14: Volcano!

2x15: Power Play

2x16: Bolt from the Blue

2x17: Attack of the Reptiles

2x18: Grandma Tourismo

2x19: Clean Sweep

2x21: Inferno

2x24: Rigged for Disaster

2x26: Brains vs. Brawn

3x01: Chaos - Part 1

3x02: Chaos - Part 2

3x03: Path of Destruction

3x04: Night and Day

3x05: Growing Pains

3x06: Life Signs

3x07: Rally Raid

3x08: Crash Course

3x09: Flame Out

3x10: Deep Water

3x11: Endgame

3x12: SOS - Part 1

3x14: Signals - Part 1

3x15: Signals - Part 2

3x16: Chain Reaction

3x17: Getaway

3x18: Avalanche

3x19: Upside Down

3x21: Break Out

3x22: Buried Treasure

3x23: Venom

3x25: The Long Reach - Part 1

[goodwhump-temp]

Ichigo; Bleach Whump Shinigami Arc and Soul Society Arc

Bount Arc (S4-S5) Arrancar Arc (S6-S8) Zanpakuto - Arrancar Finale Arcs (S9-S14)

Agent of the Shinigami Arc

1x01 The Day I Became a Shinigami - Fighting his dad, sad, freaked out, paralyzed, angry 1x03 The Older Brother's Wish, the Younger Sister's Wish - Blasted out of a window, knocked down, unconscious, bloody forehead 1x04 Cursed Parakeet - Beaten up (flashback) 1x05 Beat the Invisible Enemy! - Ragdoll real body, panic 1x06 Fight to the Death! Ichigo vs. Ichigo - Kicked and punched multiple times, panic 1x07 Greetings from a Stuffed Lion - Shoulder sliced, bleeding, hanging off a building, terrorized by stuffed animal, reliving trauma, depressed, emotional pain 1x08 June 17, Memories in the Rain - Trauma, angry, depressed, emotional collapse 1x09 Unbeatable Enemy - Engulfed by a hollow, stabbed through the chest, badly bruised, impaled, emotional, collapse, unconscious 1x10 Assault on Trip at Sacred Ground - Restrained, forced out of his body, limp body, trapped by Hollow 1x12 A Gentle Right Arm - Panic 1x14 Back to Back, a Fight to the Death! - Kicked, flown to the round, bloody forehead, exhausted, collapse, dying 1x16 Encounter, Renji Abarai! - Stabbed in the shoulder multiple times, pain, bleeding 1x17 Ichigo Dies! - Stabbed multiple times, collapse, unconscious, mass bleeding, weak, heartbroken, held down, dying, bandaged, pain, knocked down 1x18 Reclaim! The Power of the Shinigami! - Knocked out of his body, weak, hard to breathe, punched, kicked, huge fall, restrained 1x19 Ichigo Becomes a Hollow! - Extreme pain, falling from a great height 1x20 Gin Ichimaru's Shadow - Bleeding forehead, exhausted, body collapse

Soul Society: The Sneak Entry Arc

2x01 / Ep 22 The Man Who Hates Shinigami - Knocked back, bloody mouth, knocked to the ground, head pain, kicked 2x02 / Ep 23 14 Days Before Rukia's Execution - Trampled, cat scratch, bleeding, pain, punched/kicked multiple times, tickled???, knocked to the ground by fire, scared, collapse 2x03 / Ep 24 Assemble! The 13 Divisions - Punched to the ground, headlock, exhausted, spirit energy gotten out of control, blows up 2x05 / Ep 25 Penetrate the Center with an Enormous Bombshell? - Passed out (flashback) 2x06 / Ep 26 Formation! The Worst Tag - Head sliced, shoulder and arm sliced, a lot of bleeding 2x07 / Ep 27 Release the Death Blow! - Knocked to the ground, unconscious, bleeding 2x10 / Ep 30 Renji's Confrontation - Knocked into the wall, bleeding forehead 2x11 / Ep 31 The Resolution to Kill - Serious bleeding, slowly passing out, shoulder sliced twice, bleeding worse 2x14 / Ep 34 Yoake no Sangeki - Collapse, passes out, serious bleeding, dying, extreme pain, knocked out, spooky hollow mask appearance 2x15 / Ep 35 Aizen Assassinated! The Darkness Which Appears - Bloody forehead and pain (flashback) 2x16 / Ep 36 Zaraki Kenpachi, semaru! - Overwhelmed, exhausted, impaled, bleeding hand 2x17 / Ep 37 Motive of the Fist - Beaten up (flashback) 2x18 / Ep 38 Desperation! The Broken Zangetsu - Exhausted, impaled, serious bleeding, dies 2x19 / Ep 39 The Immortal Man - Man vs self (5head), face sliced, impaled, bleeding, collapse, unconscious 2x20 / Ep 40 The Shinigami whom Ganju Met - Weak, bleeding out, unconscious 2x21 / Ep 41 Reunion, Ichigo and Rukia - Weak, bandaged, extreme pain, spooky hollow mask appearance, bleeding

Soul Society: The Rescue Arc

3x01 / Ep 42 Yoruichi, Goddess of Flash, Dances! - wounds stabbed, bleeding, knocked out, weak, collapse, pain 3x04 / Ep 45 Overcome Your Limits! - Explosion/knocked back, bleeding forehead, chest sliced, collapse 3x06 / Ep 47 The Avengers- Bitch slapped into a wall, face sliced 3x10 / Ep 51 Morning of the Sentence - Bleeding 3x11 / Ep 52 Renji, Oath of the Soul! Death Match with Byakuya - Sliced in the shoulder, bleeding, exhausted 3x13 / Ep 54 An Accomplished Oath! Get back Rukia! - Bandaged, badass 3x16 / Ep 58 Unseal! The Black Blade, the Miraculous Power - Hit by powerful blast, bleeding all over his body 3x17 / Ep 59 Conclusion of the Death Match! White Pride and Black Desire - Sliced shoulder and cheek, bleeding, stabbed in the foot, blasted through the chest, paralyzed, turns into a hollow, extreme pain, stabbed, bleeding, emotional scream, nausea 3x19 / Ep 61 Aizen Stands! Horrible Ambitions - Being carried, almost sliced in half, unconscious, bleeding out, manipulated 3x21 / Ep 63 Rukia's Resolution, Ichigo's Feelings - Punched in the face, bloody nose

[crimsonxe]

I know I said I wasn't going to regular post for Shogun, but spoilers for 1x09 below the cut:

"But our fathers were enemies. Their misery was ours. Wars raged, even in our castle. But I had Mariko. She was my happiness.

John Blackthorne who? THIS is the tragic romance and no one is going to convince me of two things:

1) Mariko was both/either in denial about and/or not wanting to tell John about the true romantic feelings going between her and Ochiba via "translating" to him the two growing up "like sisters". Rather than deep diving into the clearly romantic feelings they have for each other. And ftr this wouldn't be the first, second, third, or up to like double digits time that she's picked and chosen how to present info to him based on her preferences.

2) Mariko is bi and these two either were or are in love, which the tea house already set up in my mind.

You can't convince me that the "playing games" bit isn't Ochiba moving around stating that Mariko is bi and the two are doing a "she's my enemy" "she's my love" tango. Give me the Ochiba x Mariko spinoff AU, two women stuck in societies that try to tell them how to be and who to be with; that rebel against it to be together w/ some gaynst mixed in = gold. Even the mind trick they have to distance themselves from situations fits in-line with LGBT+ that weren't allowed to be their true selves.

I came into this series with the "okay so MC is totally going to get with translator girl cause 'appeal of different worlds'", which tbf IS the idea but UGH now there's the potential of Mariko and Ochiba.

Also gotta say, going to be really annoyed if Mariko actually dies.

[thepringlesofblood]

Gravity Falls Speedrun

so, you wanna introduce your friend to Gravity Falls but they don't wanna watch all 40 episodes? you wanna do a re-watch but skip the more filler-y ones? I got your back.

here's a guide to which episodes are strictly necessary to watch to understand the overall continuity of the show, and which can be skipped and/or come back to later. I managed to cut it down to 24 episodes (counting the finale as 3 parts, not 4 as it is sometimes divided into).

I also organized the rest of the episodes into tiers based on plot significance and overall quality. reasons for their placement are included under the cut so if you haven't seen the show yet you're not spoiled, and if you have seen the show and are introducing a friend to it, you can modify the list according to your priorities.

disclaimer: personally i think you should watch all the episodes. we're never getting more of them, folks, enjoy while you can. its ur life though. also I consider character development to be important to the show's continuity, so even if an episode doesn't directly further the overall plot, if it contains a significant amount of character development, an important character introduction, or a significant amount of character foreshadowing, I included it.

Absolute Barebones Necessary To Watch

Tourist Trapped 1x01*

Headhunters 1x03

The Hand That Rocks the Mabel 1x04*

The Inconveniencing 1x05

Double Dipper 1x07

The Time Traveler’s Pig 1x09*

Little Dipper 1x11

Carpet Diem 1x16

Dreamscaperers 1x19 (s1 finale pt 1)*

Gideon Rises 1x20 (s1 finale pt 2)*

Scary-oke 2x01*

Into The Bunker 2x02

Sock Opera 2x04*

Society of The Blind Eye 2x07*

Blendin’s Game 2x08

Northwest Mansion Mystery 2x10

Not What He Seems 2x11 (mid-season finale)*

A Tale of Two Stans 2x12 (mid-season finale pt 2)*

Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons 2x13

The Last Mabelcorn 2x15*

Dipper and Mabel vs the Future 2x17 (pre-finale)*

Weirdmageddon pt 1, 2, 3, and potentially 4 depending on where you watch it. sometimes they split pt 3 into two parts (it originally aired as one). 2x18-20/21. The Finale.*

*skipping these is impossible. like some of these are on here because you need to get to know x character before the finale so you actually care about them and understand why they're doing things, but these are ones where if you skip them the whole damn thing falls apart, even if you watched every other episode

HIGHLY recommended (especially on the first watch through)

The Legend of the Gobblewonker 1x02

Note: this is where "but her aim is gettin' better" comes from, if that's important to you

The Deep End 1x15

Boyz Crazy 1x17

Land Before Swine 1x18

The Golf War 2x03

Soos & the Real Girl 2x05

The Stanchurian Candidate 2x14

Recommended (both for the first watch through and to come back to later)

Irrational Treasure 1x08

Note: this contains the scene that the “wow, this is worthless!” “It’s less than worthless, my boy!” meme comes from, if that’s important to you

Summerween 1x12

Boss Mabel 1x13

Bottomless Pit! 1x14

Note: this contains the clip that "Grunkle Stunkle Wins The Funkle Bunkle" comes from, if that's important to you.

Eh (take it or leave it)

Dipper vs Manliness 1x06

Fight Fighters 1x10

The Love God 2x09

Little Gift Shop of Horrors 2x06

Jail (I skip this one too)

Roadside Attraction 2x16

and my reasoning!

Absolute Barebones Necessary to watch

Tourist Trapped 1x01* (it's the pilot)

Headhunters 1x03

if you skip Legend of the Gobblewonker, it’s a half-way decent intro to McGucket, who kinda sucks in The Hand That Rocks the Mabel.

plus it's an intro to The People Of Gravity Falls, e.g. Manly Dan, Blubs & Durland, Toby Determined, Shandra Jimenez, etc. imo "The People Of Gravity Falls" is a character to get to know too, especially considering the large part they play in the finale.

establishes Mabel’s artistic superpowers & that Dipper is decently smart when he’s not overthinking things, & that the cops are funny but useless so we don't wonder why going to them for various crimes throughout the series is never considered an option

“seems like the kind of thing a responsible parent wouldn’t let you do. Good thing I’m your uncle!” honestly does a great job establishing Stan's dynamic with the kids, another thing Legend of the Gobblewonker does that would otherwise be missed by skipping to The Hand That Rocks The Mabel.

has Blendin Blandin in the background of that one shot

Stan genuinely mourning Wax Stan is Ford-shadowing

the S gets knocked off the Mystery Shack sign by Wax Sherlock

is good

The Hand That Rocks the Mabel 1x04*

introduces & establishes Gideon as a character & antagonist

The Inconveniencing 1x05

establishes Wendy as a character beyond 'chill cashier' & Dipper’s crush on her

the existence of ghosts

Wendy's friend group, incl. Robbie

establishes that Dipper is dying to be a teenager and Mabel couldn’t care less, which is important for the finale & general series theme

Double Dipper 1x07

introduces Pacifica Northwest, Candy, and Grenda.

Dipper's birthmark reveal

Wendy content, including the whole "we'll be freaks together" conversation which is important both for their friendship and for themes of the series as a whole tbh.

Dipper repeatedly outsmarting himself by accident will never stop being funny. honestly, this episode is maybe the best "making a bunch of clones of myself" episode I've ever seen, and I've seen a good few.

is good

The Time Traveler’s Pig 1x09*

i mean. do i have to say it.

Waddles is enough on his own tbh, but also introduces Blendin Blandin, time travel as a concept, how it works, and the consequences of it

plus major Dipper character development and a teensy glimpse of Ford? what more could you want?

Little Dipper 1x11

Gideon development & establishes that he wants the deed to the shack and will go way way too far to get it

the growing/shrinking flashlight which comes back several important times, including in the finale

good Mabel & Dipper relationship development, and decent 'Stan is smarter than he seems' development

Carpet Diem 1x16

you know why. The Room. The Foreshadowing. both of Ford's existence and of Dipper initially needing some space from Mabel but ultimately realizing that he still likes spending time with her. the little mini-arc here foreshadows the bigger arc in Dipper & Mabel vs. The Future thru the finale.

also more snippets of The People Of Gravity Falls w Blubs & Durland and Candy & Grenda and various people Soos runs into while out being a pig. McGucket isn't at his best this episode but he is there.

I was trying to get this list down to an even 20 so I could say I cut the series in half, and tbh this, Blendin's Game, & The Inconveniencing were all on the chopping block, but all of them are important and I couldn't bring myself to choose so here we are. I'm also a sucker for Ford as a character though so that might be part of it lol

Dreamscaperers 1x19*

s1 pre-finale. also, Bill, Stan's mindscape, a bajillion other things. you cannot skip this one and have any of the rest of the series make sense.

Gideon Rises 1x20*

s1 finale. also, defeat of Gideon, and we finally see what's in the basement.

has the 'after all these years, finally i have them all' meme, if that's important to you

Scary-oke 2x01*

s2 premiere, but also the reveal that Stan's always known that Gravity Falls is weird, and has been trying to keep the twins away from it by lying is reason enough on its own. the hot zombie-punching & intro to Powers & Trigger is just a bonus.

Into the Bunker 2x02

Wendy content, specifically establishing Wendy's badass wilderness-survival skills which will come back in the finale

euthanizes Dipper’s crush on Wendy in a balanced and realistic way.

teases the author reveal and gives us more info on him both in environmental storytelling and how the shapeshifter acts e.g. "that six-fingered fool hasn’t been himself in 30 years"

is good

Sock Opera 2x04*

Bill. need I say more.

I will though - introduces the concept of Making A Deal with Bill and him needing to take over someone's body to affect the physical world, which is majorly important.

"who would give up everything they've worked for just for their dumb sibling?" "Dipper would." is an excellent synopsis for characterizing Mabel, Dipper, and Bill. What takes Bill down? Someone giving up absolutely everything for their (kinda) dumb sibling, more importantly for their family. Bill doesn't understand that kind of sacrifice, or that kind of love - it's his blind spot, it's what leads to his downfall, and it's foreshadowed expertly here.

Society of The Blind Eye 2x07*

The memory gun

Fiddleford Hadron McGucket, who is not the author but knew the author and deserves love and respect as a person recovering from crippling addiction and homelessness.

The Cult of the Blind Eye, which explains a LOT about The People Of Gravity Falls

Blendin’s Game 2x08

establishes more about who Blendin Blandin actually is (important for the finale)

Introduces Time Baby (important for the finale) & further develops how time travel works

Soos character development, which we haven't had much of thus far

Northwest Mansion Mystery 2x10

Pretty much the only Pacifica character development on this list

The one before Not What He Seems. which is kind of important.

Fr if you want to know anything at all about Pacifica, the Northwests, or ghosts, you gotta. the themes of classism and prejudice also develop The People Of Gravity Falls

Plus shows Dipper character growth & him being more confident and better with cryptids.

Grenda's relationship with Marius shows up in the finale for a hot second as the reason why she's leaving before Dipper & Mabel's birthday

Not What He Seems 2x11*

I don't think I need to explain this one to anyone who's seen it

A Tale of Two Stans 2x12*

See above

Dungeons, Dungeons, & More Dungeons 2x13

The Rift - we finally learn why Ford was so mad about the portal being opened.

Ford character development - he just got here! let's learn more about him before he becomes central to the finale and the dynamic of the Pines family!

Ford & Stan relationship/rivalry/dichotomy development. Their complicated issues affect the course of the apocalypse, we need to understand them.

Establishes Ford’s connection w Dipper, and that while Ford tends to be kind of an asshole, he's not 100% an asshole, and he really tries not to be an asshole to the kids.

personally i think Stan winning at something Ford is good at by cheating/street smarts is extremely important to his character and to show him as a foil to Ford - Ford’s not always right/better/smarter. or, in D&D terms, Ford's got high intelligence & low wisdom *badum tsssh*

Similarly, we already kinda know that Mabel can win at things Dipper is good at, but it's a nice reminder nonetheless.

The Last Mabelcorn 2x15*

Bill & Ford's........history. sets up their relationship for the finale, and fills in some holes in the Fiddleford/Ford department too.

Bill-proofing the Shack (very important to the finale)

more info on what Bill is, and what kinds of things can affect him.

Ford's brain plate can stop the memory gun - the idea that the memory gun can affect Bill.

partial explanation for why Ford is so cagey & hyper-vigilant - the last person he trusted betrayed him in just about every way a person can be betrayed.

Bill can still possess people outside the shack.

is good

Dipper & Mabel vs the Future 2x17*

The penultimate episode leading into the finale. You have to watch it.

Weirdmageddon 2x18-20/21*

it’s the 3-4 part finale (depending on where you watch it - personally I think it should be watched in 3 parts as god intended bc that's the way it aired). You have to watch it.

HIGHLY recommended (especially on the first watch through)

Legend of the Gobblewonker 1x02

establishes McGucket, his son, his deep-seated loneliness, his mechanical genius, & his revenge-robot obsession

establishes more about Stan (specifically that while he’s a weird old man, he's a weird old man who genuinely cares about the kids and wants to spend time with them)

the Stan O’War

her aim is gettin better

tbh I find that this episode is the hurdle to get over with new people. it's a very highs-and-lows kind of episode - the highs are high but the lows are real low. if you can get em to Headhunters it smooths out a bit.

The Deep End 1x07

it’s a fantastic episode, plus Mermando is lowkey the only acceptable Mabel romance in the whole summer, and is referenced a few times in other episodes.

also develops the Stan & Gideon rivalry and Dipper's crush on Wendy

The love god, but just the “I eat kids” scene

It's honestly top 5 gravity falls goofs of all time for me at least.

Boyz Crazy 1x17

It’s hilarious & establishes Mabel’s darker & more selfish side. plus Sev'ral Timez has a cameo in the finale.

Wendy breaks up with Robbie (thank god) and rightfully rips Dipper a new one for messing with her love life, which I personally enjoy bc it's also a smackdown on the various vaguely misogynist views Stan tries to impart to Dipper over the course of the episode.

a rare Dipper & Stan bonding episode, though the bonding itself is questionable.

Land Before Swine 1x18

establishes the existence of dinosaurs underneath Gravity Falls (comes back in the finale)

waddles ^v^

shows that Stan is less good at (and feels worse about) lying to people he cares about than to strangers

decent McGucket content

Soos & Dipper’s relationship development

The Golf War 2x03

If you care more about Pacifica character development than Ford-shadowing & finale-shadowing, you can switch this one out for Carpet Diem in the Absolute Barebones Necessary category. or you could just watch both. you should watch both.

Pacifica character development, and a solid reminder that she is Also A Child.

“Pacifica is rich, Mabel, she’s cheating at life” - top 10 best lines in the series.

the tale of Big Henry is another major highlight of this episode.

is good

Soos & the Real Girl 2x05

introduces Melody

gives much-needed Soos character development

Giffany has a cameo in the finale

this is the one where Abuelita implies Soos' grandpa is in hell. also the one that many claim predicted both Doki-Doki Literature Club and Five Nights at Freddy's.

“sometimes a man has to steal an animatronic badger to stay in this crazy game called life”

Stan gets Vegas-married to a broken statue of a prospector in the credits. idk what else you need me to tell you.

The Stanchurian Candidate 2x14

Ford is only there for 6 episodes before the finale, if you count appearing in the last 10 seconds of Not What He Seems (he doesn’t appear at all in Roadside Attraction), we GOTTA establish as much about him as possible, even if it’s just small scenes like the lightbulb and him giving Dipper the mind-control tie.

further establishes Stan feeling inferior to his brother and the building resentment over not being the Cool Grunkle anymore (important for the finale.)

continues the evil Gideon plotline & updates us on how he's doing in Real Adult Prison, w the end showing him ready to make a deal with Bill.

Tad Strange is here.

Recommended (both for the first watch through and to come back to later)

Irrational Treasure 1x08

I don't think the Northwests not founding Gravity Falls comes back in any major way other than being mentioned in Northwest Mansion Mystery and maybe The Golf War. I could be wrong though. I know for sure the President's Key doesn't come back, they had to cut that scene from Not What He Seems lol

Another one to watch if you want more Pacifica content, though not exactly a good look for her.

Blubs, Durland, and more of The People Of Gravity Falls, including the guy married to a woodpecker.

good for if you're into Mabel solving things Dipper can't solve.

Summerween 1x12

continues the theme of Dipper wanting to grow up and Mabel not.

it’s a just good episode, folks. Not super plot-relevant, but a good episode.

Boss Mabel 1x13

a little bit about why Stan is the way he is and why he doesn’t use real/better attractions.

ok Stan & Mabel character development.

we get the Stan Wrong Song in the credits, which is gold.

also imo it's great characterization of the Stan twins to learn early on that Stan is allergic to saying please and then later learn that Ford is allergic to saying thank you.

is this the first episode we see the "STNLYMBL" license plate in? we do see it I just forget if there was one before this.

Bottomless Pit! 1x14

So it’ll make more sense during Dreamscaperers

McGucket-being-a-genius content

“Because I regularly commit massive tax fraud!” + lots of the stuff Stan says with Truth Teeth on is foreshadowing and/or Ford-shadowing.

source of the "my time has come" meme as well as the "grunkle stunkle wins the funkle bunkle" meme

cw: cultural appropriation/insensitive depiction of Native American-coded clothes and props. idk how else to say it but there's a Western "cowboys-and-indians" themed pinball machine that plays a major part in one of the stories. they do not address it or talk about it in any meaningful way, it's mostly set dressing/costuming, but like. still sucks. good thing to think about when showing your friends this show.

Eh (take it or leave it)

Dipper vs Manliness 1x06

the only big continuity thing is Dipper doing all of that training and thus being stronger and better at running for the rest of the show.

ok Dipper character development

the kind of thing where at the time it aired this take on masculinity would've been daring but watching it now it's just not the same, though it's still good.

The Multi-Bear comes back in the finale, but not in a huge or plot-relevant way, and I think it's the same w the Man-o-Taurs.

a little bit of Dipper & Stan bonding at the end.

Fight Fighters 1x10

the actual video-game parts are fun, it's mostly the casual sexism that makes me skip this.

Rumble McSkirmish has a brief cameo in the finale, other than that I feel like you don't really need a full episode to establish that Dipper and Robbie aren't going to physically attack each other on sight.

if it's important to you to establish that Stan used to be afraid of heights but isn't after this one, then go ahead, but otherwise eh.

The Love God (aside from the “I eat kids” scene) 2x09

only kept from bottom tier by establishing Robbie getting over Wendy & dating Tambry so we don’t wonder why that happened later

Little Gift Shop of Horrors 2x06

note: my mom has a deep-seated fear of disembodied hands and I totally forgot that this is the episode with the Hand Witch. Don't repeat my mistakes kids, if you or a loved one has disembodied-limbs-phobia don't watch this one. you are missing nothing, it's all technically non-canon.

other potential phobias that could be triggered by this episode include stop-motion animation & Neil deGrasse Tyson

Roadside Attraction

Roadside Attraction 2x16

imo the Dolly Parton spider lady is the only redeeming factor about this episode. we have Ford for less than 10 episodes, could he at least appear in all of them??

there's a million reasons why people hate this episode, feel free to look em up.

[jellybeanium124]

like through s1 his antagonist status slowly increases and increases and increases until it boils over in his little speech in 1x10. like in 1x02, I'd say izzy is less of an antagonist than stede's own mental issues. The Antagonist of that episode is "the ghost of nigel," aka, stede's insecurities, with izzy in a minor, external role. izzy is there to fail, which helps stede overcome his internal struggles. through 1x03 and 1x04 he continues to be antagonistic in a very minor way. 1x05 is when the climb really starts to begin, with his treatment of lucius. he's not even the antagonist in the A plot! The Antagonist of that episode, the thing countering our protagonists (stede and ed), is society, personified by the rich partygoers.

1x06 is when izzy stops waiting around for ed to kill him already, and steps into the antagonist role in the A plot. he tries to convince ed to kill him, and manipulates stede into creating the environment he thinks the ship needs to get ed to kill him. when all of that doesn't work, he tries to kill stede himself, and gets booted off the ship to go do arguably the most evil thing he does in the series.

and then he's gone for most of 1x07. The Antagonist of that episode is ed's insecurities. at the end of that episode, we see izzy setting up his big final plan to finally for real kill stede bonnet.

and then he's not in 1x08 at all. one could argue he's still The Antagonist of this episode, because he sent jack (the boots-on-the-ground antagonist) to cause a rift between ed and stede, get the boat to blind man's cove, and then get ed off of it.

and then we have 1x09. where obviously he's done something evil, but for the first half of the story, before ed and stede get sent to the privateering academy, he's portrayed as just kind of sad. like little seeds are being planted at the back of his mind that will grow a plant called Hmm I Think This Was Too Far (but he doesn't quite get there yet). He seems to genuinely think the punch was called for, and his voice is just so emotive in the first half of this episode. This characterization doesn't really jive with how he acts as soon as he gets the Revenge, or in 1x10.

Other people have already discussed how Con imbued Izzy with humanity that the writing didn't. I know some people disagree with me about this, but izzy's always been more human than the badmintons to me, mainly because of the difference in the choices between Rory and Con. Rory played nigel and chauncey as over-the-top disney villains, and it was great! I love how he played them (who doesn't??). but Con was always trying to make izzy a person, which didn't always jive with some of izzy's choices in s1. I wish it had jived better, especially with the route they took with him in s2, because if you're going to redeem a character they do need to have some humanity in them from the start. Anyways, my point is, izzy's just done something terrible, but while ed's still around he doesn't seem very happy with his victory at all. maybe on some level he recognizes that he has lost control of ed by this point, and that makes him sad. oohhhhhh now that's a good thought and makes his emotive choices actually work bang on. because that's a terrible horrible thing to be sad about but izzy is genuinely sad nonetheless. disgusting. ahh! I love figuring shit out in the process of writing meta.

and then he gets the ship. and all his sadness turns into overinflated confidence and happiness of finally getting a ship of his own. and then he gets mutinied, and he he starts begging and bargaining for his life, and ed saves him.

and then we have 1x10. which izzy spends being confused and rather annoyed up until it all comes out and he says "I should've let the english kill you" etc etc. it is incredibly easy, especially with the context of season 2, to see how this is all about restoring control over ed. "his name is blackbeard or captain" during the song bit was trying to do the same thing, trying to get the rest of the crew to call him blackbeard, so ed will see himself as blackbeard. izzy was sad because he lost control. at the end of episode 10, he's happy, but in a shaken and unnerved way, because he's regained control (but those seeds in the back of his mind cannot be shaken).

and in 2x01 he's sad again, because he realizes how out of control things got.

me every goddamn time I watch ofmd s1: wow izzy is so much less there and so much less evil than I thought he was.

[nightshade-moon]

We called ourselves the Seven Soldiers of Victory.

[icekitten]

Pt. I

Pt. II

[dailynewham]

[forbescaroline]

MAKE ME CHOOSE ► anonymous asked: helena (orphan black) or allie (the society) You’re half right about everything, do you know that? And that’s worse than being wrong. That makes you dangerous.

[karmaisacats]

Elle x Helena? I would like to see it

[minthoneycas]

Campbell Eliot: after I win-I mean Harry wins the election we're going to run this town the way it should be run.

Campbell Eliot: *takes a bite of a breakfast sandwich* we're going to-wait this thing is really good. Like it's really fucking good ohmygod. Kelly can you get me the recipe?

[thunderbirds-showdown]

That's the Quarter Finals over, and we're down to just four episodes left! A couple of the polls came down to just a few votes, which just goes to show how tense this is getting!

The episodes remaining are Ring of Fire Part 1, SOS Part 2, EOS & The Man from TB5

Once again, thank you to everyone who is still getting involved in the showdown and for sharing your thoughts! I love reading everyone's opinions on each episode 💛💛💛

Keep your eyes peeled for when the semi finals are posted, and then after that the finals!!

The episodes that have been eliminated this round are:

1x16: Breakdown

1x18: Recharge

2x05: Colony

2x22: Home on the Range

3x20: Icarus

Previous eliminated episodes:

1x02: Ring of Fire - Part 2

1x03: Space Race

1x04: Crosscut

1x05: Fireflash

1x06: Unplugged

1x07: Runaway

1x09: Slingshot

1x10: Tunnels of Time

1x11: Skyhook

1x12: Under Pressure

1x13: Heavy Metal

1x14: Falling Skies

1x15: Relic

1x17: Heist Society

1x19: Extraction

1x20: The Hexpert

1x21: Comet Chasers

1x22: Designated Driver

1x23: Chain of Command

1x24: Touch and Go

1x25: Undercover

1x26: Legacy

2x01: Earthbreaker

2x02: Ghost Ship

2x03: Deep Search

2x04: City Under the Sea

2x06: Up from the Depths - Part 1

2x07: Up from the Depths - Part 2

2x08: Lost Kingdom

2x09: Impact

2x10: High Strung

2x11: Weather or Not

2x12: Fight or Flight

2x13: Escape Proof

2x14: Volcano!

2x15: Power Play

2x16: Bolt from the Blue

2x17: Attack of the Reptiles

2x18: Grandma Tourismo

2x19: Clean Sweep

2x21: Inferno

2x23: Long Haul

2x24: Rigged for Disaster

2x25: Hyperspeed

2x26: Brains vs. Brawn

3x01: Chaos - Part 1

3x02: Chaos - Part 2

3x03: Path of Destruction

3x04: Night and Day

3x05: Growing Pains

3x06: Life Signs

3x07: Rally Raid

3x08: Crash Course

3x09: Flame Out

3x10: Deep Water

3x11: Endgame

3x12: SOS - Part 1

3x14: Signals - Part 1

3x15: Signals - Part 2

3x16: Chain Reaction

3x17: Getaway

3x18: Avalanche

3x19: Upside Down

3x21: Break Out

3x22: Buried Treasure

3x23: Venom

3x24: Firebreak

3x25: The Long Reach - Part 1

3x26: The Long Reach - Part 2

[chuckwon]

Thank you Sally!! 💚 I’ll uncharacteristically pop in since this is such a nice tag.

Hi OP and whoever is lurking in the notes of this post :)

If you’d like to know more about “Chuck won” from pretty much every angle, I’ve got you!

You can find meta on AO3 here

I promise you that all of it is very easy to read. You can read as much or as little as you want to because it has sections.

And yes, that little monkey statue is my nemesis. The finale production details like that are under part 2, “THE BASICS: Foreshadowing and Evidence that Chuck Won.”

Here’s the section/chapter list 👁👁

chuck won truthing cause I can't stop thinking about it:

• all the times dean says this + the one time he said this directly to chucks face + in the future chuck showed sam they got turned during a vamp hunt:

• dean in the "new and perfect" heaven living down the road from john

• "bobby" telling dean how cas is out of the empty and helped rebuild "heaven"

• talking of bobby they put him in a rocking chair...

• dean is once again on the road. alone.

if anyone wants to add stuff it's more than welcome and I'm ready to rage 😌

[hamliet]

What do you make of the brothel scene in 1x09? The one with Aemond and Sir Criston?

Honestly my thoughts are that it hurt to see Gaemon Palehair, knowing what Aegon will then do to his mother and what will happen to that poor child. (Okay, we don't have confirmation that was Gaemon, but the books make it pretty obvious).

Okay, okay, I'll discuss the actual scene. It highlights one of the main themes: of seeing people--loved ones--as objects rather than as people, which is an overall theme in George's entire series.

Criston: every woman is an image of the Mother, to be spoken of with reverence.

Of course, the hypocrisy of this coming from a man who has referred to Rhaenyra as a "spoiled cunt" and hates her for his own decision to have sex with her is... beyond the pale, and obviously intended to make us sideeye. But it also underlies another problem with Criston, and with society:

He doesn't see women as people.

It does not matter if he's speaking of them with reverence or disdain. He sees them as images of something else, as objects, not as human beings who think, feel, want, and lust like himself and like everyone else. Speaking down to them or speaking highly of them is ultimately two sides to the same coin: they aren't people.

It reminds me of modern-day religions who argue that women are equal to men, but just different, you see, and hence their roles are different. They can't preach because they're more spiritual, so it's a good thing that they can't do something, after all! (It's just misogyny.)

Along these lines... Aemond's claims to want to be king are fair. He actually like, wants to do it, but his whole claim rests on Aegon, so. Again, it's seeing Aegon as a thing, a stepping stone. Aegon knows this and has always chafed against ruling because of it. To be fair, they should have listened to Aegon. He's not suited to rule. Like, I really find the whole "Team Green/Team Black" argument in fandom ludicrous and almost a hilarious parody, but the argument that Rhaenyra was unsuited to rule but the king himself sobbing and causing a public brawl while screaming "I'm not fit!" is... is, well, illogical. Let's go with that.

Anyways, patriarchy hurts men too, feudalism and monarchies are institutions of patriarchy, and all attempts to keep the family together because "duty" just wind up hurting all of them.

Throughout this scene, Arryk and Erryk Cargyll, identical twins, are present to actually stand in contrast to the tragedy and flaws of Criston, Aemond, and Aegon. While they will eventually kill each other fighting on opposite sides, they retain their view of each other's humanity--a view they apply to all, as demonstrated with their comments about the children in the brothel. They see them as people. No one else does. Their presence is actually quite a brilliant inclusion to emphasize themes. Please lean more into this in Season 2 :)))