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"The Bad Batch" Timeline: Explained
I've had some interesting conversations with folks on Twitter over the last few weeks about the timeline of "The Bad Batch" show: How much time passes between any given episodes? How old is Omega during S1 or S3? etc.
The short answer is that the entire show takes place over 18-24 months*
(*NOTE: All timeline discussion excludes the TBB epilogue at the end of episode 3.15 "The Cavalry Has Arrived.")
EDIT: I’m also calculating time based on Earth weeks/months/years. I recognize that time in the Star Wars universe likely varies from planet to planet, so I just want to clarify we’re going off IRL time calculations: 7 days to a week, ~30 days to a month, 12 months to a year. I’m also not referring to any external sources (except Wookieepedia, but that’s more to confirm the timeline than create it), so I don’t care what some guidebook says. I’m going based on what happens in the show itself.
Wookieepedia lists Hemlock's death as 18 BBY, so 12-24 months pass between 1.01 "Aftermath" in 19 BBY and Hemlock's death in the series finale.
However, the two biggest and clearest indications of how much time passes during the show is Mayday's comments in 2.12 "The Outpost" and Omega's tally marks in 3.01 "Confined."
In 2.12, Mayday says he's been posted on Barton IV for over a year, and based on his comments, he wasn't posted on Barton IV until after The Clone Wars ended. So, it's been at least a year -- but probably more like 14-15 months because Mayday says "over a year" -- since the events of 1.01 "Aftermath."
Then after the time-jump during 3.01, Omega has about 5.5 months of tally marks. Rounding up from when Crosshair was arrested and taken to Tantiss, about 6 months have passed since 2.12.
So, between those two indicators, at least 18 months have passed between 1.01 "Aftermath" and the end of 3.01 "Confined." But, realistically, it's probably been more like 20-21 months.
Then, the rest of S3 takes place over a pretty compressed timeframe, as no more than a few days seem to pass between episodes. I'll get into this more later, but I'm guessing that the end of 3.01 "Confined" to the big showdown on Tantiss in 3.15 "The Cavalry Has Arrived" takes place over the course of 1-2 months.
Again, it's confirmed that 18-24 months pass between the series premiere and the series finale.
But, my best guess is that the entire show takes place over 22-23 months based on in-universe clues.
THE SEASON 1 TIMELINE BREAKDOWN
Overall, I'm guessing that Season 1 takes place over the course of 4-6 months. I think this is much shorter than some people think, but it makes sense to me based on context clues.
1.01 "Aftermath" takes place over the course of a few days, and then 1.02 "Cut & Run" to 1.06 "Decommissioned" all seem to take place in a very compressed timeframe. No more than a day or two seems to pass between episodes, and no more than a day or two passes within each episode.
So, I'm thinking the end of 1.06 takes place about a month after 1.01.
Then we get our first notable time-jump between 1.06 and 1.07.
1.07 "Battle Scars" opens with the Bad Batch having done at least 10 more jobs for Cid since we last saw them in 1.06. (FYI: this is based on Omega and Wrecker's order of 20 cartons of Mantell Mix).
However Cid talks about the Corellia job like it wasn't too long ago, and if we average 2-3 days per job (which seems realistic based on what we see in the show), then about a month has passed between 1.06 and 1.07.
So, at the beginning of 1.07, I'm saying about two months have passed since 1.01 "Aftermath."
Then 1.08 "Reunion" and 1.09 "Bounty Lost" take place immediately after 1.07.
Skipping over 1.10, we get another notable time-jump between 1.09 "Bounty Lost" and 1.11 "Devil's Deal." The biggest indicator is Crosshair's recovery from his injuries on Bracca.
Assuming at least a month for him to recover and be stationed on Ryloth with Rampart & co., that means at least three months have passed between 1.01 "Aftermath" and 1.11 "Devil's Deal."
Even though we don't have any firm timeline, I don't think more than 2 months passed between 1.09 and 1.11, because everyone on Ryloth talks like it hasn't been that long since the Clone Wars ended.
Anyway, then 1.12 "Rescue on Ryloth" takes place immediately after 1.11.
Now, we know that 1.14-1.16 all take place over the course of a few days. So that just leaves us with how much time passes between 1.12 "Rescue on Ryloth" and 1.14 "War-Mantle."
Given that Rampart gave Crosshair permission to hunt down his brothers at the end of 1.12, I'm going to assume he wasn't looking for them that long. Rampart never complains that Crosshair's manhunt is wasting time, or that it's taking so long that they should abandon the effort. Plus, they were also busy decommissioning Tipoca City and the other Kaminoan facilities, so I imagine that took some time.
So, maybe 3-5 weeks (or another month) in all.
To recap, we have:
A month from 1.01 to 1.06
A month between 1.06 and 1.07
A month between 1.07-1.09 and 1.11/1.12
A month between 1.11/1.12 and 1.14-1.16
Overall, 4 months for sure, but 5-6 months seems a good estimate.
This would also account for how much time passes during the Bracca and Ryloth arcs, and gives more wiggle room on how long Crosshair's recovery process was. Maybe it took him two months to recover from Bracca and be assigned to Ryloth. Or maybe Crosshair was searching for his brothers for more than a month after Ryloth. Who knows?
EDIT/ADDITION: 4-6 months also seems to be a reasonable amount of time for the Empire to establish the Daro base with commandos like Gregor and Scorch, and then recruit, supply and train all the TK troopers we see in 1.14 "War-Mantle."
But, overall, I'm estimating the events of 1.16 "Kamino Lost" take place 5-6 months after 1.01 "Aftermath."
THE SEASON 2 TIMELINE BREAKDOWN
I'll tell you now: early Season 2 is where a lot of my guesses go out the window, because we get far fewer clues as to how much time passes between episodes.
Let's start with the time-jump between the end of Season 1 and the beginning of Season 2.
Based on Rampart and Crosshair's conversation in 2.03 "The Solitary Clone," Crosshair was stranded on Kamino for a month.
Given that he didn't have any food or water on him when his brothers left him on the platform, he must've been emaciated and dehydrated AF, even if he found some way to collect rainwater and/or catch fish. And Rampart said he needed to be "medically cleared" for active duty.
At least two months seems a good estimate. One month for Crosshair to be stranded; another month for him to recover. It's possible it was longer, though, I admit.
So, at the beginning of 2.03 "The Solitary Clone," we're at least 7 months removed from 1.01 "Aftermath."
Now, I actually think 2.03 takes place before 2.01/2.02. Story for another time, but it boils down to:
1) The creators would want to kick off Season 2 with a Bad Batch-centric episode not a Crosshair-centric episode, even if Crosshair’s episode takes place first chronologically; and
2) Rampart learns the Bad Batch is alive in 2.02, but never has Crosshair arrested or monitored as a potential spy or anything -- this only makes sense if Rampart finds out TBB is alive after Crosshair is cleared for duty and has proven his loyalty.
But, ultimately it doesn't matter:
Based on Mayday's comments in 2.12 "The Outpost," early Season 2 has to cover at least 7 more months. That means that months are passing between episodes in early S2.
In 2.12, Mayday says he's been stationed at the Outpost for over a year, and that he wasn't stationed there until after the war ended. So, assuming at least a month after the war for him to be reassigned, and then 13 months for him to be on Barton IV ... 2.12 has to take place at least 14 months after 1.01 "Aftermath."
So, ultimately, I think 2.01/2.02 might take place 3-4 months after the Fall of Kamino in 1.16 "Kamino Lost." It would allow enough time for the Bad Batch to get new clothes, repaint their old armor, and for Omega to start all of her studies while the Bad Batch continues to do jobs for Cid.
Then we probably have another month between 2.02 "Ruins of War" and 2.04 "Faster." Then another month to 2.05 "Entombed." And then another month to 2.06 "Tribe." And then another month to the beginning of 2.07 “The Clone Conspiracy.”
Because of how compressed the back-half of Season 2 is, I think 2.07/2.08 takes place about 13 months after the war ends in 1.01 "Aftermath" and, thus, about 7-8 months after the Fall of Kamino in 1.16 "Kamino Lost."
Now, once we get to 2.07, that's when the timeline starts compressing again based on in-universe clues.
We know 2.08 "Truth and Consequences" takes place almost immediately after 2.07. So, no more than a week seems to pass between the beginning of 2.07 and the end of 2.08.
Then, 2.09 "The Crossing" takes place a few days after 2.08, as Omega is still adjusting to Echo's absence. Then 2.10 "Retrieval" is immediately after 2.09, and 2.11 "Metamorphosis" takes place maybe a day after 2.10.
So, from the beginning of 2.07 to the end of 2.11, maybe two weeks have passed in-universe.
Then, at the beginning of 2.13 "Pabu," Cid remarks that it's been 20 rotations since she last talked to the Bad Batch in 2.11.
From 2.13 to 2.14, I'm guessing 1-2 weeks have passed based on how much of Pabu has been rebuilt since the sea surge and other context clues (like Shep and Hunter's conversation about the Bad Batch staying on Pabu).
Now, we're not exactly sure where 2.12 "The Outpost" falls in the S2 timeline. I'm guessing it's simultaneous with 2.13 "Pabu" for thematic and dramatic reasons, but we see all our various plot threads align in 2.14 "Tipping Point." Everything Echo, Crosshair and Hunter & co. do happens within 2-3 days.
Then, based on Echo's comments, we know 2.15 "The Summit" takes place two days after the Bad Batch's conversation at the end of 2.14 "Tipping Point." And then 2.16 "Plan 99" takes place immediately after 2.15.
So, while I can't speculate much on early S2, I can tell you that 2.07-2.16 spans about two months.
To recap:
2 months between 1.16 "Kamino Lost" and 2.03 "The Solitary Clone"
Several months between 2.01/2.02 and 2.07
A week during 2.07 and 2.08
A few days between 2.08 and 2.09
Another week during 2.09 to 2.11
Three weeks between 2.11 and 2.13
Two weeks between 2.13 and 2.14
A week during 2.14 to 2.16
But, overall, I'm estimating the events of 2.16 "Plan 99" take place 15-16 months after 1.01 "Aftermath."
THE SEASON 3 TIMELINE BREAKDOWN
Unlike the previous two seasons, Season 3 is very compressed. Outside of the time-jump within 3.01 "Confined," the entire season takes place over the course of 5-6 weeks. Not months. Weeks.
Now, again, I actually think 3.02 "Paths Unknown" takes place during the five-month time-jump within 3.01. But that doesn't really matter.
As we see from Omega's tally marks, the end of 3.01 takes place about 5.5 months after 2.16 "Plan 99." So, we have our between-seasons time-jump spelled out for us this time.
This means the end of 3.01 "Confined" takes place 21-22 months after 1.01 "Aftermath."
Skipping over 3.02, episode 3.03 "Shadows of Tantiss" seems to take place within a few days of the end of 3.01. We see that Omega is still being monitored closely after her outburst in the lurca kennels; and Hemlock told Nala Se in 3.01 that the Emperor would be arriving soon to check on their progress, which he does in 3.03. Heck, maybe 3.03 takes place the day after 3.01, but I’ll give a little wiggle room and say it’s been a few days.
Then, we know that the beginning of 3.03 to the end of 3.05 all takes place in a very short amount of time. Maybe a week.
3.04 "A Different Approach" takes place immediately after 3.03, and no more than a day or two passes between the end of 3.04 and the beginning of 3.05 "The Return."
So, from the end of 3.01 to the end of 3.05, two weeks have passed at most.
The gap between 3.05 and 3.06 is the only span of time in S3 we don't have any solid indicators about. It clearly wasn't too long, as Howzer talks about Crosshair escaping Tantiss like it happened fairly recently. Overall, I'd guess it's been maybe a week or two since Crosshair and Omega escaped Tantiss.
Then, 3.07 takes place immediately after 3.06.
Excluding 3.10 "Identity Crisis," we know that 3.08-3.11 all take place within a short amount of time. No more than 2-3 days seem to pass between episodes, and no more than 2-3 days passes within each episode. In total, I'd say these three episodes take place over the course of two weeks.
Thus, I'm guessing 4-5 weeks, or about a month, passes from the end of 3.01 "Confined" to the beginning of 3.11 "Point of No Return."
Then, we know the timeline between 3.11 and 3.15 is very short because all the episodes take place almost immediately after each other. The only exception is between 3.12 and 3.13, when maybe 12-24 hours passes based on Omega's movements in the Vault and her brothers' plans to infiltrate the orbital station.
You can round up and say a week, but that almost seems generous to me. Maybe a work week. Like the Empire invaded Pabu Monday night and Omega & co. were back on Pabu Friday morning.
Overall, I think the beginning of 3.11 "Point of No Return" to the end of 3.15 "The Cavalry Has Arrived" spans 3-5 days.
To recap:
5.5 months from the end of 2.16 "Plan 99" to the end of 3.01 "Confined"
A week from the end of 3.01 to the end of 3.05
A week between 3.05 and 3.06/3.07
Three weeks during 3.06/3.07 to 3.11
A week during 3.11 to 3.15
Again, outside of the time-jump within 3.01, the entirety of Season 3 takes place over 1-2 months if we're looking at the larger post-"Aftermath" timeframe.
Overall, I'm estimating the showdown on Tantiss and Hemlock's death in 3.15 "The Cavalry Has Arrived" takes place about 22-23 months after 1.01 "Aftermath."
We know it's not more than 24 months after the war ends, because Wookieepedia would list Hemlock's death in 17 BBY instead of 18 BBY. So no more than 24 calendar months can pass between "The Bad Batch" series premiere and series finale.
But, accounting for things that happen within the show, 22-23 months seems about right. Like, it's been almost two calendar years, but not quite.
So, to give a real-world example, if Palpatine gave his "Revenge of the Sith" speech to reorganize the Republic into the Galactic Empire on Jan. 1, 2022, then the big showdown on Tantiss takes place in October or November 2023.
That means:
If Omega was 12 years old when her brothers met her on Kamino, she was 13-14 during the showdown on Tantiss.
After his inhibitor chip activated, Crosshair was separated from his brothers for more than 18 months before finally reconciling with them in 3.05 "The Return."
The Bad Batch worked for Cid for over a year, and she still betrayed them.
Phee and Tech's ~situationship~ might've lasted half-a-year between their first meeting in 2.01 "Spoils of War" and his death in 2.16 "Plan 99."
Howzer and his men from Ryloth were in prison for almost a year before Echo & co. broke them out in 2.14 "Tipping Point."
When Crosshair sent the Plan 88 message, the Bad Batch hadn't seen or heard from him in ~10 months (since the Fall of Kamino).
Omega only got to spend 15-16 months with Tech before his death in 2.16 “Plan 99.” 😭
Crosshair hadn't seen his brothers for over a year between the Fall of Kamino and escaping Tantiss with Omega.
Omega and Crosshair only spent about 7 months together during the show (5.5 on Tantiss and 1.5 after their escape), and most of that was off-screen. 🙁
Apparently, more time passed between S1 and S2 than during S3 (excluding the time jump and epilogue). Seriously. From the end of 3.01 to the final showdown on Tantiss, the Bad Batch had a very insane and stressful 5-6 weeks. They all looked like they could use a nap in that final group shot under the tree, and I don't blame them!
All the clones (except Omega) aged 3-4 biological years over the course of the show. So, if Hunter & co. were biologically 22 when they met Omega on Kamino, they'd be around 25-26 when they finally settle down on Pabu.
Not sure how this will help people, but I wanted to share it because I've been thinking about how insane this show's timeline — how loosey-goosey it is in some places while being super-rigid in others.
So, enjoy!
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sitting here with my fist on my chin like the statue guy trying to figure out how exactly a time skip to fall of 1987 is going to work without feeling extremely weird
#st5 speculation#the popular theory ive seen is cold open on 1987 with flashbacks detailing the year and a half in between 4 and 5#which like okay kinda makes sense but i disagree with that because#we got our main primary timeline#rest of the NINA timeline to resolve#and ofc our past will in the upside down timeline#thats three separate timelines to mix in - but if we're going cold open on 1987 with flashbacks to the year and a half before that just add#a “pre-main primary timeline” timeline#and like how exactly does a Year and a half go by after the way season 4 ended#and that makes 4 timeslines#and also i just do not believe a YEAR AND A HALF can just Go By after the way season 4 ended no we have to pick up right there#we can do a timeskip early on sure but we need something to warrant that#so many thoughts
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So what's about to get animated:
— where's Mikey?
— Sanzu. No need for more explanations.
— Bonten as a whole.
— Senju <3
— South :]
— Takeomi's chapter which is sooooo important for BD
— Draken at the amusement park.
— Mitsuya's depression
— THOUSAND WINTERS!!!
— The damn concorde.
— Original Timeline, more about Shinichiro
— Train-chan, the sequel
— Mikey crying × 3
— our dear ending
Assuming they'd animate until the end
#tr season 4#tokrev season 4#tokyo revengers season 4#tokyo revengers#tok rev#tr#tokrev#original timeline#shinichiro sano#mikey sano#manjiro sano#akashi senju#senju kawaragi#sanzu haruchiyo#akashi takeomi#bonten#south terano#three deities#kanto manji gang#final timeline#hanagaki takemichi
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Arcane alternate universe drawing based off this fan fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60843010/chapters/155405458
Once I’m done writing Act 1 of the fan fiction, I’m going to draw out a comic (maybe).
#arcane#digital drawing#arcane alternate timeline#arcane season 2#arcane season two#arcane s2#arcane silco#zaundads#arcane zaun#arcane fanart#arcane fanfic#arcane powder#arcane jinx#arcane act 3#arcane act three#arcane act iii#arcane season 2 episode 7#arcane episode 7#arcane ekko#arcane fandom#arcane art#arcane au
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Alt Powder sketches I drew last week cause I’m still crying screaming throwing up in shambles ☹️🥲
(I might draw more arcane art cause it’s still the only thing in my brain but we’ll see ;-;)
Also hi ?? My bad for disappearing off the face of the tumblr earth lmaoo (I’m probably boutta disappear again ngl)
#arcane#arcane powder#not okay#in shambles#arcane alternate timeline#alternate timeline powder#powder#arcane season 2#arcane season two#arcane finale#my art#artists on tumblr#procreate#OH YEAH I GOT AN IPAD BTW#NO MORE TAGGING IBISPAINT#AND WE ALL SCREAM HOORAYY#digital art#arcane sketch#arcane fanart#my bad for adding three million tags#don’t mind me
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Jayce Talis FanFic Concept ?
!! ARCANE SEASON 2 SPOILERS !!
I don't think I fully understood the wild rune thing in season 2, but I still really liked seeing the alternate universes/timelines, especially the one Jayce ends up in. I didn't really resonate with Jayce as a character before season 2, but after his little field trip he became more fleshed out to me (or maybe it's just the beard).
Point is, I'd like to see more of that apocalyptic timeline (and desperate, barely surviving Jayce), cause wouldn't it be cool if he was stuck there just a bit longer?
So imagine Jayce is there, struggling to survive, fighting the white machine thingies and kind of failing miserably because he destroyed his hextech hammer to fix his leg. He's on the verge of giving up, or maybe dying from his injuries when a mysterious saviour (gn! reader) shows up, the first living person he's seen in months. They beat up the machines or ward them off in some way before hauling Jayce's now unconscious body with them. Jayce then wakes up in some sort of safe haven, like a really small village of people (edit: or some sort of nomad clan who constantly travel to avoid being corrupted by the arcane or found by the 'machines') who haven't been touched by the arcane. They could have developed some kind of tech that 'countered' the effects of the arcane (lanterns?), keeping the machines away from them. The base of their protection and the tech is their one and only scientist, the same person who saved Jayce.
The whole thing could basically be about these people surviving the apocalyptic world beside Jayce while he becomes close with the main scientist, eventually resulting in them finding out he technically caused their horrible reality. That causes some conflict or rift between them, until the scientist also realizes this means Jayce can also undo everything if he just goes back to his reality, and so it all turns into a quest to get Jayce back home. The ending is bound to be angsty, since Jayce will need to leave the scientist and never ever see them again.
I obviously don't know much about LOL lore nor do I understand how the arcane and all that science stuff works, but this would be really interesting to read!! :D
#jayce x reader#jayce talis#arcane#wild rune#arcane league of legends#league of legends#arcane jayce#arcane alternate timeline#alternate universe#slow burn#arcane x reader#arcane angst#arcane season 2#arcane act 3#arcane season two act three
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i've never been pregnant before, so maybe my maternity math isn't mathing, but i feel like penelope should've been at the very tail end of her pregnancy and suddenly popped right there in the featherington drawing room cause i'd kill to get the reactions of every single person in that full house after she suddenly grabs her stomach in pain like, "i think it's time".
#*carly catalogs#was i not the only one confused why all three babies were pm the exact same age?????#like... ik couples can have babies momths apart from each other but the timeline in which her sister's got pregnant....#to whenever penelope got pregnant..... it just doesn't add up in my head??????????????#idk 🤷♀️#but i can already envision colin opening and closing his mouth like a blob fish like... 'really... right now?' 😨#he's gonna be one of thos scrambled egg heads when pen goes into labor 😂😂😂#running back and forth to accommodate to her needs#yelling in a panic 'WHERE'S THAT DAMN COLD TOWEL?' after misplacing it in an obvious spot ssdartyfghkjl#only to switch it up when he sees it on the table with a bowl of cold water like 'oh! there it is!' ☺️💕#before running back over to dote on her through the pain#oh bridgerton brainrot how i love you 🥰🥰#bridgerton#bridgerton season 3#bridgerton spoilers#colin bridgerton#penelope featherington#polin#otp: you are special to me
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Alex Rider S3 timeline
Season 1 Timeline | Misc Timeline Notes
Some facts:
For time of year we know s3 takes place in the winter, based on dialogue from Blunt and Smithers
The trees in the background during establishing shots are just as unreliable as in s2 but during actor shots they're a mix of green and barren (most notably the cherry tree in front of the Rider house), implying late winter, probably February.
I don't know anything about the British school system, but Tom mentions having taken his GCSEs in ep1 so they're presumably on holiday from whatever comes after that (sixth form? A levels? it's Maltese to me).
Now we look at the elephant in the room. John Rider:
There are two different timestamps on the recording of the bridge exchange. 06/01/2005 and 2005-05-21. Not sure what the discrepancy means but since the latter has to be May we can assume that the former is formatted for June (as opposed to January). Also, Alex wasn't born yet in January 2005.
Alex's birthday is 13 Feb, 2005 (according to a prop from s2ep8)
Julia says that Alex was six months old, but based on the time stamp he was closer to three months old (easy mistake)
John and Helen Rider's gravestone puts their deaths in 2006 and Julia says it took her six months to track them down after the bridge exchange, so that checks out
Now in the present Mrs Jones says that it's been 17 years since Scorpia was destroyed, which would make s3 take place in early 2023
Alex is about to or just turned 17 years old
And therefore he was 15 in s1 and s2
S3 takes place over the course of nine days, which I think we can all agree is absolutely ridiculous, but that's how it works out.
Day 1: Boat ride; find Julia Rothman's house; Kyra's soup accident
Day 2: Identify and research Julia; Museum art showing
Day 3: Scorpia sends threat to Kellner; Tom and Alex go to Julia's villa; Pritchard gets blown up; Alex sneaks into Consanto and it blows up too; Alex goes to Malagosto
Day 4: Scorpia kills the footballers; Tom and Kyra get arrested; Julia tells Alex about his dad getting killed on the bridge; and Yassen! Is here!
Day 5: The assault course and the water bottle; shooting challenge; getting beat up by the other trainees; Pritchard's funeral; Tom and Kyra trace the call to Malagosto and Nile tries to send them home; the incursion assessment
Day 6: Shinai (Bokken) 5 on 1; Department calls Scorpia back and Scorpia gives them three days; Kyra and Tom find Malagosto; Smithers and Crawley find Julia's litter; Syl graduates; Jack gets a delivery from Tom; Max Grendel gets Yassassinated
Day 7: Everyone gets back to London; Blunt asks the CIA for help; Alex and Yassen surveil Jones' flat; Jack, Kyra, and Tom go to the Department; Navy Seals raid Malagosto; Alex doesn't kill Jones and gets sent back to the Department
Day 8: Nile sets up in the big church; Crawley takes Alex home; Blunt and Julia do storytime for Alex and Yassen
Day 9: Alex goes back into the Department; MI5 try to take Alex; Alex calls Julia for a pickup; a bunch of people in Bath don't die; Blunt retires; Alex comes in and gets John's medals; Nile gets Yassassinated
#Alex Rider TV#Alex Rider Timeline#Alex Rider#Yassen Gregorovich#Kyra Vashenko-Chao#Tom Harris#Julia Rothman#I'll do anything for timelines except figure out how the British school system works#The damn cherry tree in front of the Rider house is in full bloom in all the establishing shots#I want to fistfight the editor(s) about it#According to Ash in Snakehead Helen was already 3mo pregnant with Alex when John joined Scorpia#And he wasn't born yet when John got out#Which means John was only in Scorpia for a maximum of 6mo#The show's decision to have John in for three years was interesting#I'm still not sure how he managed to impregnate his wife if Jones was their only point of contact#Guess there's conjugal visits in deep cover#Ironically in Ash's version John and Helen were still living together so she COULD have gotten pregnant while he was undercover#I'm inclined to ignore Jones' line about being their only point of contact and assume they were living together#Jones could've just meant she was running cover for them#Only 2 Yassassinations this season
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“Not a lot, just forever, intertwined sewn together.”
#mine#arcane spoilers#arcane#arcane season 2#arcane s2#arcane act three#arcane act 3#jayce talis#viktor arcane#jayvik#jayce x viktor#in all timelines ‚ in all possibilities ‚ only you
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the ending of the umbrella academy is frustrating on several levels but primarily bc it feels like the the showrunner was watching an entirely different show than the rest of us and this quote proves it. more under the cut bc the post is a bit long
the show wasn't about them being superheroes, it's literally a metaphor for childhood trauma and how it manifests in adulthood. reginald treated the umbrellas like weapons, never even gave them NAMES, and now they struggle to live as people with their own autonomy. the point was never that they were superheroes, that's quite literally the LEAST important part of the show! all their superheroes days are from when they were children!! the show focuses on the fallout of that!!! it's about how the umbrellas don't have coping mechanisms for what happened in their childhood and they keep ending the world because of their inability to work through their trauma. we've seen time and time again that they're borderline incapable of empathizing with each other, and they blame each other for coping 'wrong' and having different traumas despite having the same parent. and somehow the show ended with them being the problem bc they're inherently evil and their births are wrong rather than, you know, the person that abused them in the first place being the problem
like ?? reginald literally and metaphorically created the umbrellas. he released the marigold, he bought them from their birth parents, he raised them into his weapons. the way he treated them in their childhood/developmental years shaped them into who they are, and the world keeps ending because they blame each other rather than the real villain: the abuser. ending the show with them realizing this, thus breaking the cycle, and killing/erasing their abuser so he can't hurt them or anyone else makes much more sense thematically. if they erase him and he never releases the marigold, they still lose their powers and they technically never exist bc he doesn't create them. those versions of them we've seen for the past 3 seasons don't exist anymore bc they were never traumatized and raised to be soldiers by reginald. ending the show with the timeline restored and the umbrellas living different lives (bc they weren't only born from the marigold, they were also born from their mothers) would've still been the tragedy blackman wants. they're not siblings, they don't have powers, they're not superheroes, everything we saw them go through for 3 seasons technically doesn't matter bc it didn't happen to these versions of them, and they don't exist as famous public figures that'll be remembered for something grand. they're just regular people. this ending works because, again, they're not inherently evil. they don't need to atone for the crime of being born. the problem isn't that their very existence is wrong. the problem is that an egotistical fuckface decided to use them as accesories (he literally BOUGHT THEM from their parents) for his own gain and gave them the tools (powers and/or trauma) to cause harm. if reginald was, like, normal and not a piece of shit, he wouldn't have chosen to raise a bunch of children into weapons, traumatize them, and then release them into the world after years of denying them autonomy and barely even treating them as people and think hm this is fine. and by how the first season's flashbacks played out, it seemed like he never even planned to let them leave the academy, meaning he literally saw them as little soldiers that only existed for him. point is, if reginald hadn't intervened with their lives, if he had never existed, the world wouldn't have ended.
the ending message of the show as of right now doesn't come off as 'are u a superhero if no one knows you exist 🤓☝️' it comes off as 'you were born wrong. your birth destroyed everything and the world would be a safer place if you (the abused child raised to be a weapon by your fucking asshole of a parent) had never existed'. and what kind of a message is that.
#three pics of the same thing bc this way it's tiny and doesn't take up half the post just go with it#the umbrella academy#also this has been said before but there were 46 children born from the marigold. why do only the umbrellas and lila need to die#why are THEIR births the problem if it's supposed to be ALL the births from the marigold?#idk nothing about the ending is compelling to me#season redo when?#meta#my meta#'but if they had powers maybe they would've still ended the world!' and that's a different conversation. every timeline we saw had the#umbrellas or other children with powers being treated like shit by reginald and causing harm and ending the world#what's the common variable i wonder 🤔 bc it seems to me like it's the abuser#also notice how all the other children with powers that reginald didn't abuse never ended the world? yeah#tua s4#tua season 4#anti reginald hargreeves#tua spoilers#the umbrella academy spoilers
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guys for season two of iwtv we got a Lestat sweep. literally 0 episodes with no Lestat content. if rolin for some reason decided not to do the same for Louis sam and jacob would simply hold hands and refuse to be parted they've got this.
#there is going to be more louis in season three than there was lestat in season two i promise the show promises the show runners promised#like he can't be in the flashbacks probably but he'll be all over the modern timeline#and i do think we'll probably at least get a revisit of the murder night which who wants to see delainey in that dress? manifesting#also#manifesting louis at coachella#also also#also can we be excited for the absolutely insane assad content we're about to get#dungeon creeper era extended cut come to meeeeee#press says iwtv#interview with the vampire
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I like that the universal agreement of the umbrella academy's fandom seems to be "season 4 sucked and therefore it's not canon"
(spoilers for S4 in the tags)
#I wanted to watch the whole season before coming to Tumblr but after the fifth episode I couldn't#what the FUCK was that#WHY is there a love triangle between diego‚ lila and five???#what the FUCK happened to Five?#you can't tell me the man who spend three seasons trying to save his family would simply fuck off to a cottagecore timeline#the only thing I liked is that Viktor got the validation he wanted from his dad#but why is no one questioning the wife? like she started to call them by name and talk about the marygold and ????#they just accept it? did I just forget they were introduced to her in previous seasons or smth???#and what happened with Ray? Sloane?? where did they go???#the umbrella academy#tua#tua s4#tua season 4#reblogued stuff#a traveler talks#a traveler rants
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Am I the only one that didn't hate season four?
#i mean#i wasn't jiving with the fivela direction#only because it happened so quickly#which i think was caused by the lack of time between the events#if they had ten episodes that were all an hour long it would have been better#tua was great because of the slow pacing before everything converged at the end#and they lost that here#which i'm guessing is Netflix's fault#we're lucky we got a s4 at all#but#like#i don't hate that they had to be erased for the timelines to converge#it makes sense#they've been leading to it for all three seasons#and a lot of the different characterizations i think came from the comics#like a return to form#since this was gerard writing the last bit of it instead of an adaptation#if that makes sense#tua s4#the umbrella academy#tua
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Penelope: I only have 6 weeks left to live.
Colin: Oh my god, really?!
Penelope: It's just a guesstimate based on the choices I've made.
#bridgerton incorrect quotes#incorrect bridgerton quotes#polin#bridgerton season three#bridgerton#bridgerton netflix#netflix bridgerton#you can only play with people’s lives for so long#girly is a breath away from reaching the ‘find out’ portion of her ‘fuck around’ timeline
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ok YES sparrow ben is the worst. but he's my the worst
#this just in#biggest asshole on earth just wants to be invited to your bachelor party#sometimes babygirl is a 30 year old freak of nature eldirch horror portal from a different timeline#tua season three#tua s3#tua season 3#tua#the umbrella academy#ben hargreeves#sparrow ben#the sparrow academy
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SOFT AZCROW BABIES BECAUSE BEE IS KILLING US ALL WITH THEIR HUMAN AU
growing up together, cuteness, angst, autism, baby gays, richard siken poetry, a wedding, and one well-worn comfort yellow sweater. GO READ IT. GO NOW
#azcrow#ineffable husbands#good omens#aziraphale#crowley#anthony j crowley#gomens#good omens 2#gracie draws#good omens s2#gomens season 2#gomens s2#bee dropped the start of this fic into the server out of NOWHERE and none of us have been normal since#ITS SO SWEET AND EMOTIONAL AND THEM#and boy is it well thought out! we're pooling knowledge on accurate timeline media and haircuts and and and#one of us WENT TO SOHO and sent tour pics and descriptions. three of us have drawn the babies in this sweater#a fourth drew the sweater years later in a very different context dvjggkhgkvndv#anyway we're insane
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