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911: Lone Star | Tarlos Wedding Pt. 2 -> TK's vows
#911 lone star spoilers#911 lone star#911lsedit#tk strand#carlos reyes#tarlos#the tarlos wedding#I am choosing to ignore all of the finale except the final 20 minutes for the sake of my sanity today#the little look they give each other before he starts#the way he acknowledges that in s1 he didnt even think he deserved to have a future š#the quality of these are subpar but there was no download and i'm also running on zero sleep#i would gif carlos' vows but i have work because its the fucking morning now lol wtf#my gifs#episode: s04e18 in sickness and in health
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anyways salty thoughts. dont expect me to be nice
this is the one problem not exclusive to the finale, god ed's character arc just. didnt do it for me at all. I excused it before cuz I thought it would pay off as the season went on but nope. he never had a genuine apology moment, just that youtuber apology like gag and the cat collar joke. like they literally show us how the crew was completely scarred by his actions but theyre later just completely fine with him on board???? and stede keeps being his biggest stan when I think he would have been like hey what the fuck!! im sorry I hurt you but I am not responsible for your actions and you hurt my crew whom I hold very dear!! I love ed but Fuck he really went too far those first episodes and he never makes up for it. they only ever focus on His Own self journey, not how he hurt and traumatized practically every other character.
"well, I think narratively izzy's death made sense butā" no!! no it fucking didnt!! im sorry but it was just lazy writing!! they didnt know what to do with him so whoops he gets shot in the dumbest way possible. like, this aint my first rodeo, it aint the first time ive seen a character start off on their character journey to happiness only for writers to give up on it and kill them off. it's a tiring fucking trope tbh and I really wish they hadnt fallen into this trap. like his death scene wasnt good either, if youre gonna do it at least focus on his relationship with the crew, you know, the people he came to accept as family? not the man Who Shot Off His Fucking Leg And Almost Killed Him? I know they had an important relationship but that shit should have been talked about way beforehand, it deserved closure. they should have acknowledged they werent good for each other and made peace with it. izzy deserved a death with people who actually made him happy. ALSO THEY BURY HIM ON FUCKING LAND?????? he spent his life at sea!!!! he is the most devoted out of everyone to being a pirate and you bury him next to your fucking inn???? fucking twats istg
lastly I swear they forgot stede is the main character. they forgot literally everything about how to write him. he gets No Focus in the finale, and every scene he is in is bullshit. I actually wanted to punch my screen every time there was a joke about him being incompetent or whatever. like, hello??? thought we left that shit in s1??? he had Multiple Episodes about learning to be a pirate and adjusting to his new life and gaining more skills but no. he is just silly old loserboy for his cool war criminal boyfriend now. literally no skills or experience whatsoever. ok sure yea thats totally how he acted the rest of the season. also the fuck is it with him staying behind to run the inn with ed?? wasnt the whole conflict last episode their different desires out of life, with ed wanting to start a normal life and stede wanting to be a pirate?? when the Fuck did he change his mind. who are you and have you done with my boy
honestly I feel bad because jenkins is actually a good writer and the whole fandom really expected a lot from a man making his second show, and I think there were a lot of budget cuts and production issues so I can see why it turned out this way. he is probably mad about this too, I bet the cast also, like even the acting in this episode didnt feel passionate, and thats saying a lot since these actors really love this show. im just frustrated. man. time to write fics ig
#our flag means death#ofmd#ofmd spoilers#ofmd s2#stede bonnet#edward teach#izzy hands#stizzy#gentlehands#gentlebeard#blackbonnet
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to the anon from a few days ago: sorry i'm only just getting back to you on the sam + classism discussion. putting this under a cut because it's rambly
To me the whole Sam classism thing is very much like coming from an immigrant family the people you will meet who complain about "illegals" because they didn't do it "the right way". Like generally, these are not people who hate immigrants or approve of ICE or anything like that, but they still feel a certain moral superiority in having improved their situation "the correct way". I don't think Sam thinks homeless people should all be sent to prison or anything, but I think he still looks at himself as having done something morally correct in getting out of his situation (even though he really didnt in the long run excluding the finale). You see this attitude with other things like when he asks Max why didn't you just leave. I don't think he has no empathy for these situations, but there's like a mental block of not understanding the barriers that other people might face that he didnt.
Oh i extremely know what you mean as a fellow child of immigrants. my mum will make a snide comment while watching the news and iāll be like š¤Ø oh so now weāre pretending that your friend [DATA EXPUNGED] is here totally legally huh. it comes from a small-c conservative belief that there exists a group of people who are less "deserving" than them.
āMorally correctā also happens to be how the fandom sees sam's escape from the family, when itās just Morally neutral? Like itās a good thing. But says nothing about samās moral fibre because it was for self-preservation reasons. that's not a bad thing either! and i obviously don't think fandom is bad for thinking of sam's hard work as an admirable trait but there needs to be some acknowledgement of his perspective is a little skewed.
Max is a great example to use because sam isnāt being spiteful, but he is being thoughtless and most of it is due to him literally being a man in his early 20s but like, itās also because of how he grew up and how he got out.
samās judgy moments are at their most interesting in s1 because thereās so many of them and because theyāre so intentional.Ā Like, intentional on the part of the writers, not sam. his response to max is a reflection of how idk, myopic? samās read of dean and their family situation is. Itās an in-universe character flaw he has to work on in order to repair the bond between them, just as deanās seething resentment over samās departure is something he needs to work on too. s1 is about both of them learning to see other as their dad's victim.
I think in general in the fandom you get these sort of knee jerk reactions like "no they can't be racist/sexist/homophobic/classist/etc, they don't hate xyz people" but really no one is saying they do. Like no one is saying Sam spits on poor people. No one is saying Dean thinks women are beneath him. But they both clearly have some ingrained beliefs that are ultimately prejudiced! These aren't immutable characteristics. In fact, I think for the most part if someone had an actual deep discussion with them about it they'd probably come around fairly easily, but that doesn't mean Sam scoffing at Dean hustling pool or Dean saying "sweetheart this ain't gender studies" aren't bad things to do. Like they're often understandable character flaws based on the characters backgrounds, but they're still there.
Honestly, iād argue that plenty of people ARE saying that dean sees women as beneath him or that sam despises the poor or vice-versa etc. but like. Hmm. this is a tv show for a narrow group of people written by an even narrower group of people and thus the show reflects the views & prejudices of the people writing them. There are moments in which weāre supposed to approve of deanās sexism but there are also moments where weāre supposed to disapprove while simultaneously approve of or at least be okay with samās sexism. There are moments where weāre supposed to think samās being a judgy snob, but there are still others where weāre supposed to wrinkle our noses at how uncouth and lumpenprole dean is in comparison to college boy sam. And that goes for the many other -isms in the show. characters are often used as vectors for the beliefs of the writers, good or bad. Itās up to the individual how they choose to make peace with that, but the problem with this fandom is that discussions about isms get heavily wrapped up with stan wars.Ā
Lemme give an example. Itās incredibly common in samgirl spaces to paint dean as a homophobic neanderthal. they usually do this by taking a shitty comment from season 3 and extrapolating it until theyāre talking about s15 dean as if he canāt so much as look at a gay person without threatening to kill them in that sense theyāre no different to the desticule circa 2020-2023 WHOA WHO SAID THAT anyway they pretend itās just a heehee haha jokeyjoke but like. it is 2024 and they STILL canāt engage with conversations about queer dean without talking about deangirls as if they are personally endorsing homophobia! As a result if someone points out that sam makes just as many homophobic jokes as dean does and heās just slyer about it they flip the fuck out because theyāre lowkey projecting and think youāre judging them as hard as they judge you.Ā This is why the mildest criticisms of sam prompt an insane amount of backlash.Ā
(i talk a little more about this phenomenon here)
and so we come to discussions about sam and classism that feel like people trying to defend him at every turn because they sincerely think we're trying to cancel him and it's pissing me off because if we can't even suggest fictional character sam winchester is maybe a little classist how the hell are we going to address the DERANGED lvls of classism throughout this fandom. i've never been in a fandom where so many people think going to college makes a str8 person better equipped to talk about queerness than actual queer people until i joined spn fandom.
(discussions about racism/racialised misogyny get a lot more complicated and a lot more depressing than anything mentioned above so i'm not approaching that topic for now. "but-" don't care didn't ask plus i probably have more melanin than you. i don't wanna talk about it!!!)
anyway. idk what i'm saying. i think i get where the defensiveness is coming from but it's annoying. what if we just mutually agreed that we're not to blame for spn's bigotry but we also have a responsibility not to reproduce that same bigotry? what if???
EDIT: coming back a day later to say that I do agree with your assertion that a deep conversation could be enough to change them! I just think that a certain part of fandom is allergic to acknowledging ANY flaw at all and that's the biggest hurdle in these discussions.
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mace im sorry i don't have coherent thoughts but i'm so just like,,, what was klaus this season. what was ben. the cult was pointless to klaus' character. the things that matter to klaus' character were ignored. the dave stuff was a lot of nothing. i felt like the possession thing shouldve been huge for ben and klaus' relationship but we're supposed to think klaus feeling violated is funny and inconsequential? ben going to the light was just shoved in at the end? i just---what???? who??
iām on the same page as you, anony, especially in coherency lmfao
klaus this season was.. not totally bad, but i think most of that can be put on robert for his acting and how well he knows his own character bc the writers clearly didnāt know what was up (or maybe they did and playing him off this season as comedic relief, having him tossed to the side and mistreated, is going to play into s3 somehow. idk. iām not writing off any possibility because overall the writers have done really really well with everything else so in my soul i feel like there has to be a reason they did what they did to him this season yknow??) for all the jokes they had him making and stuff, i think robert definitely played klaus the way we as fans know him - suffering constantly but unwilling to let anyone actually see that and if they do heās gonna make it sound like a joke. heās not gonna act serious because that leads to pain and heās had more than enough of that. HOWEVER. i am genuinely so so pissed that he didnāt get to fight or really use his powers this season. and the part before ben sacrifices himself where klaus finally got up the courage to try and help, the fact that he didnāt succeed - that it wasnāt klaus who saved the day - is just... sldflksd GOD I HATE IT. oh and the scene towards the end where everyone gets shot and the one remaining swede kills the handler?? THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN KLAUS. he should have come back to life as he does, as is PART OF HIS POWERS, grabbed a gun that he knows how to use well - thank you vietnam - and he should have shot the bitch. but no. we didnāt even get that. vanya got klausās levitation and diego got klausās telekinesis and klaus got ??? a cowboy hat. which i mean looks good on him and he deserves it but it doesnt make up for *gestures at everything* and tbh even that was tainted because one of the siblings says ā50$ if we leave him hereļæ½ļæ½ when klaus runs to grab the hat. seriously??!! SERIOUSLY??! itās not funny, itās just more of people not caring about klaus and thinking abandoning him is a fun joke to make ANYWAY. onto things you actually mentioned sdlkdsjf;ls i think the cult wasnāt pointless to his character necessarily, i think it did provide something, but it wasnāt used to its fullest extent. we got little things like klaus talking about it making him claustrophobic and making him feel like his skin is on fire, and his followers become something he cant escape even though he desperately wants too - itās like having the ghosts all over again except heās sober and these are live people who can touch him. but the show never actually out loud makes that comparison when they should have. i think it would have helped the cult thing seem less random. as for the dave thing.. i donāt think it was a lot of ānothingā but again i think they could have definitely done more with it. it lets klaus see dave again, in a way, and it shows us more about both of them and the relationship they had. we learn more about dave, who he is, the kind of people he had around him and the environment he grew up in. it shows us that klaus and dave talked about all kinds of things, nothing was too mundane or unimportant. it shows us that three years after daveās death klaus is still grieving and is still 100% in love. and it shows us that klaus isnāt always as selfish as people assume right alongside another hit to the face (oof unintentional wording) of just how much he loved dave. he wanted to save daveās life so badly he made a fool of himself, put up with homophobia, took a hit to the face, and still kept trying to stop him from enlisting even though, per the last timeline, it would mean theyād never meet. klaus is willing to have dave never know him, is willing to handle that pain and heartbreak pretty much forever, as long as dave lives. my heart literally cannot handle it the possession thing. i havenāt stopped being angry and uncomfortable and disgusted by it since i saw it like 2 days ago now. that plot the writers really fucked up on it was a big thing for their relationship but not in any way that lead to growth or understanding or power control or ANYTHING. i love ben but i have so many fucking problems with him after watching s2 that i almost wanna take my love back tbh. the writers tried to make it seem like what ben was doing was okay - because he was angry and frustrated with klaus, because klaus wasnāt doing what he wanted, because klaus couldnāt stay sober, etc. like any of that makes possessing someone without their consent okay... or threatening to possess someone the moment their guard is down (leaving klaus paranoid and afraid to sleep).. or getting permission to possess someone and then refusing to leave (and its double garbage when diego encourages ben to continue possessing klaus. diegoās reason was gross and even if he hadnt given a reason he was still encouraging ben to not give klausās body back to him. which like.. im sure klaus can see and hear whatās going on. so he now is aware that his brother would rather have ben-wearing-klaus than actual klaus. the amount that would fucking hurt. a nyway) klaus never really got to talk about how it made him feel, not in any situation where anyone was listening. he never got to go off on ben for what he did, and what he was about to do, even though he had every right to. ben kind of knew how klaus felt about it but he showed very clearly that he didnt care. ben just did not fucking care about klaus this season. and it wasnt a ātough loveā thing like they tried to do in s1. it was just horrible and it hurt to watch. and i feel like s2 ben wouldnt have apologized to klaus even if he had been seriously confronted. we now know that klaus has this power. and we know that it can easily be abused by someone else. and i feel like that could tie into his ability to make the ghosts corporeal and such. it could definitely work as an interesting lead into exploring more of his many powers. and it could have worked as a way to bring ben and klaus closer without anyone getting hurt or violated. but.. for s2.. it wasnt used that way. it was used as a way to degrade and humiliate klaus. and they clearly wanted us to find it funny. it was one of the least funny things to happen all season. actually probably THE least funny thing. right along with nobody giving a shit when they thought klaus was having a seizure or OD-ing (both during their meeting with reginald and in the alley when they were supposed to meet up to use the briefcase five got from the handler), AND OF COURSE Ā nobody taking klaus seriously, paying attention to him, or caring about him (except for allison at some points) and ben finally going into the light at the end.. Ā was kind of shoved in?? but i think what made it feel that way, for me at least, wasnāt so much the placement or timing of it but that it wasnāt really acknowledged afterwards?? it just.. happened, and we were all heartbroken, and on screen... nothing. it felt like a very sudden end to his storyline and yeah they could have done a little more to make it feel like a natural end for him thanks for the ask and sharing your thoughts on s2 with me~!! <3
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Epic rant ahead. In response to your comment on my post about jlockers in our tag @chinchillanna
Iād say something scathing cause this post was meant for the wankers but if youāve never done it donāt take unnecessary offence. You donāt know how irritating it is from this side of the fandom. As for the rest, Iād say itās a matter of difference in opinion of ships.
Unhealthy?- dont even open that bag of worms i dont even need to answer it.
One sided relationship? - I donāt thinks mutually caring for the other could be called one sided. weāve had gradual growth in their friendship throughout the series please progress as the episodes do
hating himself for lying to her - it was definitely sherlock coming to terms with his feelings for Molly. First one was forced he doesnāt like being manipulated under duress but the second one was genuine he looks torn(he doesnāt look like heās hating himself)that he had to say out loud the words he didnāt want to acknowledge. Though Iād give you this, this scene does depend on the vantage point of the viewer (aka. Shipper in this case) Weāve spent as much time on our ship as youāve done on yours. Our assumptions/hc are just as valid as yours are. So donāt go around disregarding something that has more context than your subtext.
weak-dependent? - Molly? Are you serious?She is probably the sanest and the most level headed person on the show albeit with a soft spot for the detective but please donāt even say she isnāt strong?! Maybe itās just me but Irrevocably loving someone doesnāt make you simpering or weak. Honestly itās a quality Iāve always admired. Sort of like parental affection, Iād say genuine selfless unconditional love is something weāre always shortchanged in life. Its so easy to be selfish and just as difficult to be selfless and giving. And thatās only an inkling of a reason why Iāve always loved Molly. She is so much more than that. You say she deserves better- and yes she does - from you and everyone who claims she deserves better and then look down at her for exhibiting a human frailty which she transformed into an quiet integral strength - a vulnerability too (her boon and bane) that she is so well known for. Do you even realise how rare people like Molly IRL are? The unquestioning pillars of support without the assurance of it being a familial obligation? Hint : Very.
Damn right we will rejoice. Just like jlock did with the hug and adl0ck did with TLD.You know why? Because we love her for what she is,exactly how she is . Without judgement. She deserves the best because she is the best of people. I doubt anyone shipped sherlolly hard in s1 cos letās be honest sherlock was a dick and molly needed to stop being mousey and frankly it always felt like infatuation nothing deeper that it later became. They needed personal growth which they got and you canāt possibly associate the people/relationship that used to be uptil this episode. Theyāve changed. Theyāre interactions have evolved. Sherlockās getting better with people too. And believe me nothing but the best for Molly. She is that sort of character. Unfortunately the writers only ever write her in the script in lieu of her affection of sherlock so if pansyboy is what makes her happy THEN pansyboy it is. take that into consideration too.
So no it wasnāt āfakeā or āforcedā in my opinion. Iām not saying it was the love confession I hoped for(Iād rather have it without the theatrics ) but it was certainly apt considering the shows premise of sentimental entanglement. Just the right amount of angst
So instead of dissing a ship on a post meant to call out people disregarding common courtesy (well hello exhibit A) you should probably- I honestly have nothing nice to say.
My ship is just as awesome as yours. My ship is just as ridiculous as yours. My ship is just as canon as yours(I might be biased but an I Love You does mean a lot more than a hug)(the hug - JL being my BrOtp I always saw that scene as a friend consoling a grieving friendā¦but as a shipper you might have perceived it in an entire different context.) See difference in opinions between different ship shippers. Although bashing and demeaning other ships because you were disappointed it didnt go your way is totally uncalled for.
P.S : Itās pretty obvious in the fandom that MoffTiss canāt write a female char a decent script without a dark/dead undertone to it. So honestly nobody had high hopes for proper female representation on the script. Its certainly better than the previous seasons but only marginally . In their defense they did promise a great crime drama starring SH and JW which they more than just delivered on. Canon Molly and Sherlolly isnāt as superficial and one dimensional as you think they are. They are more than just a CoolBoy/ShyGirl stereotype.Donāt dump your script-al(?) woes on the ship. Its just a fictional show and a fictional ship. Take it with a pinch of salt.Byeee
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