#this episode infuriates me

[sga-mcshep-4ever]

It didn't work! It didn't work!" "It is still unclear." "What's unclear? Either it worked or it didn't." "They are trying to determine—" "Okay. Okay. They're everywhere!" "You are experiencing a hallucination." "Oh, my God."

[theabigailthorn]

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[cowboylikeyouu]

just watched the spn s5 finale i'm gonna jump off a cliff now, everything i own goes to my mutuals, goodbye

[4thehonorofgrayskull]

These idiots and the horrifying ordeal of the DTR

[mangora]

The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean is actually the best episode of season four purely because Mike and Scott are standing next to each other and making faces

[murdererofthumbs]

Seeing reactions after this episode is actually slightly hysterical? It proves that this fandom can be so blind-sighted by characters relations, that they forget what show they are watching. Like, I have always been a self-proclaimed Roman-girl, because I find him compelling and extremely psychologically interesting, and like all of these characters, to a certain extent, I do empathise with him on the level of trauma that he went through. But why the fuck are people surprised that THIS is how he behaved in this episode is beyond me. Oh, suddenly Roman is dead to you because he behaved in the way that was very much consistent with who he is? That’s who all of these people are, like come on, what do we think we are watching here? You didn’t really think he will suddenly become a defender of democracy because it serves a greater good of the country? He was the one to fucking choose Mencken as a president, he cherry-picked him for Logan, because he knew that their views align, that Mencken will be a smart business decision. This whole thing is a transactional procedure - they needed to get someone who will be willing to serve their corrupt interests. Roman doesn’t see a problem in having fascist as a president, because he will never be touched by the consequences of having that kind of man in power. He is very much safe at the top of the mountain, and who the fuck cares what will happen to the peasants at the bottom of the chain? In this way, he imitates Logan the most, because in the end of the day, people are units to him, to all of them really, some of them are just more willing to admit this than others.

Also, like, “uuu, Roman was such a misogynist to Shiv this episode, he just didn’t listen to her at all”. Look, can we stop being delusional here for a second or is it some sort of selective memory situation? Roman is a misogynist. Kendall is a misogynist. Shiv, in fact, has a lot of internalised misogyny going on, and her being a woman never stopped her from pushing other women under the fucking bus, so let’s be real here for a second. And that is not to be said in defence of Roman, frankly nothing what I’m saying here is supposed to justify his behaviour in this or any other episode, but it’s more of like… reality check? I know that Roman’s self-destructive spiral and semi-decent behaviour at the beginning of this season might have clouded certain aspects of who he is, but please, go back to season 3 and count all the instances of him throwing misogynistic and, frequently incestuous jokes and innuendo, at Shiv? How many times he undermines her position on the basis of her being a woman? Or how Kendall, for that matter, uses similar arguments in 03x02? All the siblings use aspects of each other as weapons. Kendall is undermined because he is unstable, because he is a drug-addict, because he has a tendency of flying off on the cloud of mania, and crashing in the heap of depression. Shiv is crossed out because she is a woman, because she frankly has no real experience in the firm (which, although people might be super angry about that, because she is such a “girlboss” apparently, but this is a factual argument), because of her relationship to Tom and tendency to take several sides at the same time (with not much thought put into it). And Roman is frequently undermined because he is a freak and a pervert, because “there is something wrong with him”, because he is the weakest dog that is most easily manipulated, who crumples like a wet tissue if only to receive a bit of affection. They all weaponise their “weak” points against each other, because this dog-eats-dog mindset is focal to who they are as a family, to how they were brought up, to how Logan wanted them to be. So please, let’s not be surprised, when Roman suddenly uses misogyny as an argument against Shiv, because it’s not sudden at all, and it’s always been there.

I think what we have on our hands, is the same situation we had in 03x07 during Kendall’s birthday (and previous episode with Mencken), where some people are so outraged by Roman, and by his ability to shove the knife where it hurts, that they suddenly cross him out completely. Again, all these characters are bad people, there was never any doubt about that. They are compelling because of the complexities of their familial relationships, because of their childhood trauma and the consequences that this trauma has on them as adults. But they are still completely reprehensible as human beings, and I think some viewers forget about that and then get outraged when show about awful people features awful people. And I’m sure, either in next or final episode, something will happen and Roman will become sympathetic again, and he will regain his position as a “poor meow meow”, just as he did in the finale of season 3. Its always a fucking carousel with this character and people get sucked in and have their eye’s covered just to realise that nothing really changed, and nothing will change, because in this show people, at their core, remain the same.

[buckys-arm-and-rios-dagger]

Watching What If's obessession with Captain Carter is kind of hilarious because I've never seen such a blatant example of what Red on Overly Sarcastic Productions talked about in her trope talk on Badasses where she talks about how you need to SHOW your character is a badass instead of just being like "whooooaaaaa look at this character arent they a badass they're so coooooool"

When in reality your audience is kinda *collective eye roll*

[lesbiansanemi]

Officially deciding I shall not be going to work tomorrow because of the snowstorm so…. Yay? Extra day off?

[owlheartt]

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[unrealcosima]

Pam, Mon or Toon doing the idiot sandwich to Wan the next time they see her.

There's going to be a long line to do the idiot sandwich with Wan, starting with me.

But honestly, I don't want to leave Kim off the hook either. Like, I get that you want to make your dying mother happy, but surely you see how getting married to a guy you don't feel attracted to or want to spend time alone with is not the way??? If you're going to go the marriage without feelings way you might as well ask Wan to fake marry you even if you think she doesn't return your feelings.

And don't get me started on Kim's mother. She's dying, ok, but she sees how miserable Kim looks while preparing her wedding and she doesn't say "ok, stop, this isn't worth it." She will go to the grave happy that her daughter is married to someone, who cares if that makes Kim happy or not.

And Mon, the hero of the hour, like I'm glad she's nosy, but did she have to wait til 30 minutes before the wedding? She kept that secret with her for months, and at no point she was like "this is going too far and Wan isn't showing up, maybe I should step in, like shove the letter in Wan's face or something."

Let's not even talk about Marwin, who KNOWS that Kim is a whole lesbian AND in love with her best friend, and still intends to marry her...for what? Like, why are all these third wheels in these shows so intent on destroying their own lives? What happiness does he expect to get from someone who loves someone else and is not even attracted to his gender. What is his game plan here?

Honestly, this episode was so full of idiots that I'm afraid we're gonna run out of bread. Because this episode, as they have chosen to present it, only works if every character momentarily loses all their braincells

[mxalexwhat]

[freeze frame, record scratch sfx] Yep, that's me, screaming at the X-Files again. You're probably wondering how I got here. Well, that's a long story, a story with no plot and no answer to the mystery, because the writers didn't care, but I do. And with my mental illness and a scrappy can-do attitude, I believe that I can write it better.

[dashiellqvverty]

the thing about bbc merlin is that in many ways it is very tragic, in the sense that so much bad shit that happens could have easily been avoided if charcters had made different choices, hadn't been so wrapped up in prophecies, had trusted people and communicated openly literally ever, just generally got their heads out of their asses. like i know thats the point, they are trying so hard to do the right things and protect people but the story is unavoidable. HOWEVER it is all soooo fucking poorly executed that none of it is effective. so instead of thinking "wow what a tragic story about fate/destiny/whatever" you walk away like "well that fucking sucked for no reason. i hate that fuckass dragon" and i sometimes feel very cinemasins in the way i pick apart the logic but the thing is the show is written in a way that makes the characters come off as so stupid and always making terrible choices rather than like. tragic victims of circumstance.

[reitheist]

I really like matakara and I hope that in the end he will be happy for his brother because arajin is a toxic character in my opinion he has no charisma he is selfish he is obsessed with a girl who doesn't give a damn about him I would like the end of the anime to be matakara forgives arajin but doesn't want him in his circle of friendship because he is a person who is not worth it he wouldn't bring anything beneficial to matakara.

Matakara already has best friends who respect and value him, but he hasn't realized it yet.

Sorry about the text, I'd be very happy if you read it.

i don't share quite the same level of disdain for arajin as you do, but I do agree that it'd be nice to have matakara fully acknowledge komao and zabu's place in his life in the finale.

with arajin as a character, your milage may vary quite drastically. in the first 6 episodes he is given none to few redeeming characteristics. but I can very much understand how it must feel to be idolized by matakara when fighting is something he very deliberately cut out of his life years ago. i adore matakara as much as the next guy, but the boy's has some real issues with reconciling the version of ara that exists vs the one he wants to believe in, as shown by recent episodes. the same way ara deludes himself with a perfect image of mahoro, matakara did with him. but I understand not enjoying ara regardless of all this, because it's hard to logic yourself out of disliking a character, but I think he's a very worthwhile part of the show especially now that the plot is moving forward

[lovely-v]

People say Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya had pacing problems because they aired eight of the same episode in a row but what about the tonal whiplash of watching five episodes straight about a girl being forced to wear skimpy outfits for a low budget student movie about a waitress from the future and then in the next episode one of the characters is doing a class play and its Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead???

[louferrignojrofficial]

Hello 💖💖 much love to your amazing Acc, I see you have been upset about reposting and I’m a little confused so I thot I should prolly ask, do you not want any reposting or reblogging at all even with credit to your account? Ok thanks— sorry if it’s written somewhere already and I didn’t see it

all i ask is that people ask me before they repost it to another website like twitter. otherwise it just looks like they made the gif, they get the credit and most of the time, get more interactions on it than my original post does. it’s not nice and it really isn’t that hard to ask before you do it. i’ll most likely never say no, because the simple act of being considerate means a lot to me.

reblogging my post on this website is fine, using the crediting system tumblr has is fine. but saving the gif and reuploading it, either here or somewhere else, even with a ‘gif by sunglassesmish’ isn’t adequate. most of the time i don’t even get that, i get nothing. sometimes i get a ‘credit to the maker’ which is so stupid and means nothing.

[menlove]

rtd writing black characters like. oh sidelining them for david tennant??? don't mind if i do!

and it gets eaten up every single time