#we watched s4ep1 as well

[variousqueerthings]

well friends... we finished season 3 of MASH

I am sad

[robocracker]

so i ended up looking into the killing eve finale - because there’s only so many times you can see angry tweets describing a particular situation without naming any characters but still being so obviously about that show - even though i’ve only seen the first episode of s4.

and. well.

it’s not looking good.

honestly, i’m wondering if there’s even any point in watching the rest. like, i know s3 had issues with sidelining eve, so if s4 has gone anywhere with repairing that, then that’s good. but if it all comes to that ending... what’s the point?

the thing is, i watched s4ep1 the other day with a couple of family members, and we all agreed after that it just... didn’t feel right? it felt like a different show entirely, and not in a good way. and if the entire season feels that way, then nothing makes up for that ending.

maybe i should just read the books. or pretend it actually ended with s3.

[norgestan]

your tags about alejandro not being a bad boy! it’s like even skam nl, who tried to make their william a softer indie art boy were still aiming for this Elevated Cool Vibe. but alejandro is such a dork in comparison. he said yes i’m a dishwasher and i’m proud to be one. yes i’m a chauffeur for my gf and her friends, what about it? imo it’s one reason norandro work so well because it makes their relationship feel more equal. less of a power imbalance + nothing is really ‘below’ him, there’s no real superiority complex. alejandro IS the malewife to nora’s girlboss and that’s how it should be. ✨

oh this made me realize how much of a fucking loser alejandro is portrayed in the show lmao (but like, with love). besides his iconic introduction (which was more of seeing him through viri’s eyes) he’s never shown as the Cool Bad Boy as the other williams are... he gets rejected by that guest singer/actress in the episode where he makes out with viri, the adaptation of the penetrators sweater is actually alejandro being really fucking irresponsible and causing a herpes flare on the school (also the scene where viri girlboss-walks by him at the cinema??? he looks so DUMB). he was absolutely demolished by nora on the cliché scene to the point that every single one of his friends laughed at him. his pick-up line to get nora to spend time with him is “i’m dumb and failing english <3″ what the fuck dsjfhdskgh

and on later seasons, he doesn’t have the gang fights plotline to keep him some of the bad boy “““““charm”““““, unlike how all the other remakes incorrectly chose to keep. nah, he’s just... chilling, dating one of his friends, getting rejected by nora in front of her friends and a cafeteria full of people... living the best high school life. in a more serious note, i love that the fact that he’s more down-to-earth means that he’s the kind of william that would actually put some effort to befriend nora’s friends and be likable and known for more than his bad boy reputation, and because he’s actually nice to the people around him? which he absolutely does, mind you. the bar is on hell. and of course we can’t forget that his main thing in s3 is that he feels lonely and embarrassed because he failed his senior year and has to take it again while all of his friends are in college, plus him yet again failing the semester and having to move to london because of it. which means that by season 4 he, alejandro, token rich white boy, is scrubbing dishes on some ratty restaurant in london. honorable mention to the scene at the end of s4ep1 where he just doesn’t know how to act around amira lmao

haven’t watched nl yet but i’ve heard that noah gives way more of a loser vibe than william ever did. to me, alejandro’s character achieves that way better without steering too far away from the cool black-cladded standard bad guy trope. as you said, alejandro isn’t really cool: he’s simply a guy who knows he’s hot and uses that to his advantage, but he’s very blunt in a way that no william has ever felt. he doesn’t hold some deep-buried trauma (aka dead mom backstory) to explain why he’s so Coldhearted and a misogynist, he’s simply... dumb and doesn’t understand nora (but really wants to!!!). not to mention that he being academically brain-dead is the running gag of the entire show and nora clearly has the brains on the relationship. he’s the textbook himbo and that’s why norandro is the only good best noorhelm.

[chidoroki]

My Hero Academia S4EP1

aka: smile for the camera

Yeaahhh we’re finally back! Recap ep or not, the excitement is still there!

new OP! How I’ve waited for you!

Kids! Big Three and all the new heroes! Sir, Overhaul and Eri too!

Oooh I don’t know, I think ‘Odd Future’ still might hold the spot for my favorite OP song but this one is close!

United States of Smash still gives me the chills.

Hmm, these reporters are clever.

Aw that running scene with all the kids is similar to the ‘Odd Future’ OP.

I honestly don’t even mind a recap episode.. I missed these kids so much after a year that I’m just happy to see them again.

Thank you Aizawa for putting the grape under wraps.

“You’re amazing, Aoyama.” He sure is.

��This reporter is up to something..” Well obviously. I’m actually surprised they let someone onto campus so easily.

Ah yes, show all the kids having breakfast when I haven’t eaten yet.. hm.

Oh Aoyama, I love you.

They’re really gonna go through all their names and quirks again like we haven’t watched these kids for three seasons already huh..

Kaminari really does charge everyone’s phone, HA!

Ohh look at Shoji and Jiro using their quirks to help them in class!

The same with Sero and Tokoyami using theirs during lunch!

Ahhh my boy! Look at him go! I was wondering where this scene came from when it appeared in the trailers, since the manga didn’t have anything like it, but now we know.

Momo created an umbrella for another student, ahh honey you’re such a sweetheart!

“It’s hard to think he would let his son be All Might’s successor.” Successor no, surpass him yes.

This reporter is sharp.

This store clerk is precious.

Oh, whole-body lens.. that’s a quirk I would’ve never thought of.

Good job Midoriya, now this random dude also knows of your secret.

Aw, that’s a nice picture with the both of them though.

Ochako is adorable.

The reporter lied about figuring the secret out, how nice of him.

Oh cmon, the ending is gonna hit me with feels about Eri..

The song is nice though!

Preview thoughts:

Back to the real stuff next time!

I’m excited to hear more of Overhaul’s va.

Manga expectations:

A certain someone goes.. hmm, splat.

The All Might impression.

New quirk incoming.

[puppetmaster55]

Thoughts on s3 and s4

Okay, this is gonna be long. presented below the cut are my thoughts, such that they are, about how well (or, er, not) s4 plays off of s3 and how well they do (or don’t) connect into what they originally were: a single 13-episode season.

So, s3 and s4. Two short seasons that feel like half seasons, and once existed as a single 13-episode season.

I believe that separating them was a major saving grace, as I don’t think s3 and s4 come together into a single season. There’s a tonal dissonance to them, where the s4 finale doesn’t feel at all like what was being built up toward with everything that happened in s3. Heck, the events of s4 don’t feel like a real continuation of everything that was set up in s3.

Like, imagine if this plan to separate the seasons into shorter seasons had happened earlier in the series. So, for s1, that means that it would have ended with retaking the Castle from Sendak (with Taking Flight being the start of the ‘new season’). And for s2, the split would happen with Space Mall (where it ended) and Blade of Marmora (where the ‘new season’ would begin).

In this scenario, imagining these ‘half-season seasons’ as one long season fits perfectly. The second half of s1 focused on the aftereffects of the first half with the events at the Balmera, Crystal Venom, Taking Flight, even the finale and the galactic hub feel like a culmination of where the story started going in the first half. It all feels like two halves of one clear and whole storyline.

And the same for s2. The second half features a number of elements introduced in the first half, with the teludav and the Blade of Marmora and the gravity engine, that continues the 13-episode through-line. As with s1, the first half is all set-up, and the second half is the payoff and aftereffects of everything that’s happened so far.

You can even look at it from a bigger perspective and say that s1 and s2, as a complete set of 26 episodes (the first episode of s1 being 3 episodes combined together, as multiple sources say) fits and flows wonderfully together. Were there moments in both seasons that felt like bits of storytelling were pushed off-screen? Yes, but it never felt like it detracted from the viewing experience.

And then s3 happens. S3 very much felt like half a season, and was well done. There was set-up all around, even if it felt like we were missing entire scenes (such as new bayard forms, or the new team set-up coming together outside of the Lions, or Shiro’s immediate return to the Castle), but overall it was pretty well done. The timeline set it all happening over the course of at most two weeks, so it was pretty clear to understand the sequence of events. Shiro’s journey from his escape to his rescue is, as he said, taking place over the course of ten days (which started with Thaceryx and concluded as we had seen), and then adding in the several days to recover before tracking the comet to Throk’s base and immediately after getting Voltron’s (and Zarkon and Alfor’s) origin story, during which Zarkon wakes back up. It was all very incredible set-up to play out in s4.

And then s4 came. The first time I watched s4, I felt like I’d skipped something. There was a massive timeskip that happened somewhere between the end of s3 and the start of s4 (Lotor had just come into power and now it’s been months that Shiro has been back? It’s been months since Zarkon opened his eyes? Months.

In s4, I expected it to be an inversion of s2, with Voltron using the tracker Hunk had built to reverse track Lotor while he clashed with Zarkon. I expected it to take place on the heels of s3. I expected Keith’s leadership to start crumbling as Shiro contested his orders and they both learned that Keith’s not made for leading nor does he want to lead.

S4 did feel like half a season, yes, but not the second half of the same season that was s3. It felt like the start of a new season entirely. S4 made me look back at s3 and go “oh, these feel like two complete seasons that were cut down into shorter lengths”. The timeline in s4 is just as compressed, it feels, which is great (Lotor’s meeting with Haggar to his betrayal at the ruins of Daibazaal happens all in less than a week, which frames a good portion of the season as happening over the course of a week).

But the major problem with that whole “months” timeskip? Lotor, in about a week, had turned about 20 percent of the comet into a ship. We’re supposed to believe that he then slowed production down so that it took months for another 20 percent to become another ship?

And I use that amount because in s4ep3, Acxa talks about there being 60 percent of the comet remaining as they finish construction on the second ship, then mentioning using that remaining 60 percent to craft the planned third ship.

So no. Unless we’re to believe that there was a months-long timeskip between Shiro returning to the Castle and his returning to duty the next episode (which I don’t subscribe to, tbh, and I think that encounter counts as “crossing paths with Lotor” which Keith mentions in s4ep1 hasn’t happened in months), the sudden timeskip between s3 and s4 doesn’t make sense. Why act so quickly to build one ship only to take months to build the second one?

Then there’s the complete tonal shift. S3 was focused almost entirely on the fight with Lotor. It was about learning about Lotor and what his motives are, especially concerning the comet. S4, then should have been about working to stop Lotor and continuing the aftereffects of Shiro’s return and his inability to fly Black, and Keith’s own struggles and mistakes in leading (specifically, that he Did Not Want To) as they all navigate this whole “six paladins for five lions” thing.

But s4 didn’t continue that. S4 practically ignored the fight against Lotor (it ignored Lotor as an antagonist entirely, honestly) and spent six episodes building up the Coalition. Which, yeah okay, that continues the start of the Coalition we had in the start of s3, but still. If you combined s3 and s4 into one 13-episode season, they don’t feel like they flow together. S4 doesn’t build off of the events of s3.

If s3 were 13-episodes long, and s4 itself 13-episodes, with more time spent setting up the events of s4, it would flow together. But it doesn’t. The s4 finale doesn’t feel like the culmination of what was set up in s3. The s3 finale, even, doesn’t set up where s4 picks up. It doesn’t set up the importance of building the Coalition that is the central focus of s4. There’s little to nothing in s3 to suggest that the fight (or trap, even) on Naxzela was what it was all building up toward.

Yes, though, there is the steady shift away from Galran technology and toward Altean technology, but in terms of storytelling? S4 isn’t any sort of pay-off from the build-up of s3. S4 is more build-up, with a different focus entirely.

And what about s5? Well it is true that s5 does feature pay-off, I can’t say for certain how well it flows with s3 and s4 until after s6 drops. It doesn’t feel right to discuss the flow and storytelling coherency of a 26-episode storyline when only 19 of those episodes are available. However, it does feel right to discuss the flow of s3 and s4, such as they were once considered a singular 13-episode season.

So s3 and s4 have the feeling of being half-seasons, but they lack the feel of being two halves of the same season.

[inappropriatefangirlneeds]

Gotham s4ep1 “Pax Penguina” Personal Review

“Outlaws have a code.“  

Warning spoilers below

/// Gotham has two new things “crime license” and  because of that after the ruby red TetchVirus a return of the muddy green “Fear Serum” ///

 “You know you can't commit a crime in Gotham now without a license from Penguin, right?” RA'S AL GHUL ominously lurks while BRUCE WAYNE safes some people from getting robbed, they have a license. This license is ridiculous. /// I know, I know that´s basically how mobs work, but still. But at least he´s got “organ donor” checked, which is great, but I´m afraid the way things are his organs will be sold to the highest bidder?  The umbrella stamp though.  /// Omg VICTOR ZSASZ at the wedding.  I love him. I love him so much.  He´s charming, he´s a great shot , he´s still very much evil.  He spreads the word about the new license system, scares MERTON'S gang away, accepts the thanks from the bride but also introduces the new robbers with licenses. Also you all just leave the poor groom alone, there is more important stuff than expensive rings.

 “But now you want to, uh, literally, unionize crime.” So we get to know since the Tetch Virus Chaos OSWALD COBBLEPOT got violent crime to drop down to 57%. He wants more and has a little chat with the new MAYOR and police COMMISSIONER. Oswald hints having hunted down aka killed the criminals. “But this is Gotham City; there will always be crime. What I am offering is crime in the hands of professionals. And held to agreed-upon terms.” “From which you'll profit.” “God bless America.” The press does not concern Oswald but the GCPD has to be in with it, everyone with a license goes free. 

“I'm a cop. I see a crime, I stop it.” JIM GORDON certainly isn´t in with the program. He arrests a robber with license. The GCDP looks at him unamused, like by now Jim should be used to that but he seems to get the notion that his actions are not approved. HARVEY BULLOCK gets lectured about the Penguin & Mayor & Commissioner deal.  He already is on board.  “Cobblepot worries about Detective Gordon. He has a history.” /// Look buddy, honey, pal, Harvey .. Oswald knows Jim better than you do. Also I can´t believe that Harvey and Jim didn´t already have talks and fights over this. Harvey just agreed to it?! Also how does everyone know about that just Jim doesn’t, is that the kind of thing that spreads through friendly gossip and talk with your coworkers?!  /// Harvey & Jim have a late and short talk about the Situation: “And before you get on your high horse, three months ago, this city was in a tailspin. We survived because Penguin took control of the underworld.” “I am not giving the city over to Penguin.” .. “Jim, we will bust Penguin one day, I promise you. But this city has to get back on her feet. Please?” “Harvey, I get that. But every day the citizens of Gotham look to Penguin and not the GCPD to keep them safe, the harder it's gonna be to win them back.” 

“You have to trust me.” BRUCE WAYNE´s reaction to the licenses is not good either. “There must be some way we can turn this against him.” Yet ALFRED PENNYWORTH reminds him that their mission is to prepare for RA'S AL GHUL  “Oh, just-just stop. Stop right there. How does this fit in to what we're doing? What was the initial reason that you popped on that mask and you went out there?”   Bruce feels responsible for the Virus situation despite not pressing the button. Alfred warns him that´s “mission creep” “You're trying to achieve not one but two objectives.” He needs a priority! But Bruce claims he can both prepare and make a difference for Gotham. Just trust me!

 “We just want to give someone a little scare.” GRADY takes MERTON to Arkham. He used to be an orderly there and got to know JONATHAN CRANE. They want the “scare juice”. Warden Reed hands him over for some money and tells him that he is haunted by some boogeyman figure, which he finds useful to control him.   They bring Jonathan back to his old place, he really shouldn´t be there after what´s happened he says. /// Indeed  ///  He states that he wasn´t present with all his father´s experiments. /// Yet it seems five minutes later he got everything figured out .. yay “science” ///   They rob a bank with the Fear Serum. JIM GORDON & HARVEY BULLOCK have an odd conversation about if the police should investigate the crime, but hey they don´t have a licence. “And you're gonna find them before Zsasz just to prove that GCPD still matters? That's not thumbing your nose at Penguin?” Jim recognizes the symptoms and they start the investigation at Arkham. Warden Reed claims Jonathan is fragile, he can´t see anyone especially not the guys who killed his farther.  He covers Merton and Grady but Jim and Harvey aren´t fooled. However police work isn´t quite sufficient so they threaten the Warden with Penguin and Zsasz. Which makes him listen. He didn´t know the fear toxin would be used against Penguin. Now he is scared. Harvey and Jim find Grady and Merton in their lair but get overpowered. And a little insight into Merton & Grady and how they see themselves  “Outlaws have a code”  They are better than criminals like the Penguin. They get away and we see Jonathan working for the gang, more serum is ready.  He begs them to  “please just get rid of it” , it being the scarecrow. But “We all have our fears to face.” they say and even lock him in the same room. /// Wow  I´ve had a moment of sympathy for Merton and Grady, despite them just fighting for their profit, they got a point about Penguin and spared Jim and Harvey but there it´s gone again. How they treat Jonathan is just vile. /// Thanks to that vileness all sympathy is gone when they watch the news and get to know Penguin is after them. Much later the remains of the gang turn to JONATHAN CRANE again but he´s been crafty in the meantime. “Jonathan Crane isn't here anymore. Just the Scarecrow.” /// If you can´t fight what you fear, turn sides. ///

 “Since Penguin´s been cracking down, life´s been good.” BRUCE WAYNE shows up at the GCDP to talk with  JIM GORDON “Apparently, crime is legal now.” “And you're going along with that?” “Not really.” /// I´m not sure if that not really is enough for Bruce .. /// Bruce reasons that the number on the licenses must mean that there is a list. Not only listing criminals but also crime that hasn´t happened yet. Jim points out that the judges are on board and it would not help.  “I see”  /// A moment of grave importance ///  “But you haven´t given up .. “  Bruce says but Jim has to admit the crime he is going after is one without license. Bruce suggests using the Penguin to get the gang. Jim says he would do it if he knew how, apparently a couple seconds later he knows. There is a whole operation going. Not every cop is happy about it a couple cops circling Jim in the locker room.  /// Boy if this were fanfiction .. ///  “What happens when he starts giving out licenses for murders? Huh? What then?”   /// (**) Look, buddy, honey, pal, Jim, Jimmy, JIM GORDON listen he already basically does that. I´m sure hunting the criminals down did not mean putting them in cages, pet their heads and feed them. That is murder too! I know this is hard to stomach and understand for you Jim but the lives of criminals do matter too. I know you got this viewpoint that committing crime just makes you deserve everything bad that comes your way but .. it´s still murder.  Makes me thing, maybe Jim is just pissy because he can´t just do things like that. Penguin basically is living his dream currently. . isn´t he?   Which kind of puts the “Fire me.”  “Hey, don't tempt me.”  line in a spot light, with Harvey as his boss Jim already has a lot of liberties he wouldn´t have otherwise./// The cops don´t care.  Penguin made life “good”.

 “It was called the Pax Romana” There is press at the ICEBERG LOUNGE. No one talks about the club opening though. Poor Penguin. They ask about Barbara Kean, no one has seen her but OSWALD COBBELPOT says her whereabouts aren´t his business. They also want to know more about the licenses. Which makes Oswald point out the low crime rates.   “You know, Augustus Caesar once presided over the longest period of peace and prosperity the world has ever known.  It was called the Pax Romana. Perhaps one day, this will be known as the Pax Penguina.” He further claims EDWARD NYGMA had a very rare brain disease. They froze him to wait for the cure. /// Did they mean to latch a story for a loving but misguides man and his wife who deserved better onto those two ///  Edward  begged him to not hide him away. Alone Oswald is talking to Ice!Edward claiming he banished all his feelings. He isn´t slave to his emotions anymore and has risen! Ivy interrupts and Oswald is not happy about that. /// Os, how about you be nice to actual people not the iceblock .. //// 

Before that JIM GORDON showed up challenging him infront of the press. He´s a fraud, the gang with the fear toxin doesn´t respect him. Oswald acts like he buys into it. It´s the Penguin that keeps Gotham safe.

All boils down to the opening party. Even BRUCE WAYNE and ALFRES PENNYWORTH show up. “We were just admiring your frozen mate. Is he still alive in there?” “I fear we may never know.” “Well, you'll know when you finally thaw him out. When they discover a cure for his disease.”  Bruce also asks OSWALD about the license. “Everybody's talking about it, Alfred. I just want to know how it works.”   /// Saaaaaame.. /// “Anything you say stays between us.” “First, let me ask you would be agreeable to the idea of licensed crime?” “If crime had been licensed and controlled three years ago, my parents would still be alive.” Oswald reveals he only gives the guidelines and Mr. PENN cares for the details. Now they know who has THE LIST!   

The MERTON/GRADY Gang shows up. First Zsasz and Penguin should get the fear serum, then go crazy. Before they can do anything said targets show up behind them “Jim Gordon and his ham fisted manipulation.”  Oswald pulls them up on stage and gives a speech. “For the past three months, I have given this city a tranquility it has never known. Now I would like to ensure that peace for the future. In the weeks to come, you will hear whispers about what's happening in the streets of Gotham. All you need to know is without me this is what you get. Men who want to bring fear back to our city, who promise a return to the old days. So tell your families, tell your friends, it is Oswald Cobblepot who keeps them safe, not the GCPD.” BRUCE WAYNE wants to stop Penguin from killing the men. Alfred won´t have it. “You can make a difference. There is a time for masks, and there is a time for Bruce Wayne.” So Bruce interrupts with words not violence. “I do the dirty work no one else will” Penguin say but Bruce keeps insisting to have him turn them over to the police.

IVY PEPPER pulls the leaver, lights go out. She resents Oswald.   /// He isn´t nice enough, doesn´t give her spotlight ?! pls show tell me something about her motivations ///  Chaos. Penguin gets the fear serum, sees scary Edward /// Is this meant to resemble an underwater aesthetic ? Suggesting that those two almost being dead and drowning moments were traumatic enough to latch onto this fear scenario ?? /// 

Jim Gordon manages to handcuff Merton and makes a point in declaring:  “You're under arrest, by order of the Gotham City Police Department.” “Penguin or chicken” say the papers because scared Oswald hugs and clings to Jim. Jim doesn´t care about that he  just wants to find Jonathan  “I wouldn't expect too much help from these parts, though.”  “There's good cops out there. They just need reminding.”  /// That´s the nicest thing Jim ever said about them .. “ 

HoodieBRUCE shows up for the list and just takes it from PENN, then proceeds to prevent crime. At least he tries.

 “Don't turn your back on a guy unless you're sure he's down. Otherwise, not bad.” SELINA KYLE gets attacked, she wins. TABITHA trains her, they will get pizza. ZSASZ shows up and throws shade on their living conditions. Wasn´t she rich? Only until his boss stole her club. Zsasz points out a couple other things “call it even” he suggests. “Now, he could just kill you, but he figures it's time to let bygones be bygones.” /// look, really, I´m just not even gonna try to think about why, assuming Penguin indeed  just could kill Tabitha, he wouldn´t do it, okay I´m lying, I´m still very much thinking about it, I understand why Theo Galavan would be his prime goal but I don´t understand why he isn´t resenting Tabitha more, like the only explanation I can think of it that he buys into “I was just following orders” rhetoric .. but .. ///   Zsasz offers them an invitation to the Iceberg Lounge opening. “Kiss the ring, get the licence”  /// One would think that´s better than kissing Barbara Kean´s shoes /// Tabitha  wants to run but Selina came to here to move up, they are barely making it so far. Working for Penguin could change that. Tabitha says  “I´m not working for him, now pack” /// I was really worried for a moment that this is just gonna be one of Tabitha´s defining character traits, she could make it on her own she could be boss, like she has the skills but she keep latching herself to other people Theo, Butch (arg) Babs, now Selina and Penguin .. but no she doesn´t phew.. for now./// Later Selina shows up at the Iceberg Lounge alone. Zsasz is not amused but Tabitha is just right there. /// I hope with a hidden agenda. It´s sweet how relieves Selina is though, they really must have bonded off screen /// She was worried about her she states. Zsasz want´s to search them for weapons “Sure, if you want to lose a hand” /// NO! You don´t make that joke without an extension, like anything maybe a .. and I certainly can´t recommend that ///  SELINA KYLE is on top of the roof, with heels. /// WHY? Is the camera acting like we should slightly be worried she would fall ?!! /// BRUCE WAYNE shows up, like she knew he would, like he knew she would and stuff and things. Bruce wants to apologize, and appreciates her kind gesture. He´s sorry but not happy about her choice of a mentor. She doesn’t care. Alfred interrupts.

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 AVE PENGUIN * “We ain't kicking half our take to that little creep.” Wedding robber guy says about OSWALD. Good to see he still does have that reputation. So I ask you Gotham, why, why for the love of god do you keep skipping over the parts showing how he rose up high despite of that resistance. It´s the whole story all over again, Odgen Barker/Morton being a tiny hint of issues he had and has to face yet they just keep ditching the interesting part and just *plop* put the Penguin on the Throne.   * Also, look I like that they established Penguin as the competent one, and the mayor as well as the commissioner to be aware that they aren´t (but to be fair Oswald can operate outside of the law so that´s a huge advantage) but could they just for once show how he actually managed to do that? Just let Freeze, Firefly and F(V)ictor run through the streets just murdering everyone doing crime, or recruit them for the licence program? That´s just all a lot of effort that still needs to be organized well and could just go wrong. I wanna see that. * “I have affidavits from his doctor,  if you would like to see them.” I wonder if he really has them or if it´s part of the lie. It reminds me a bit of when he was claiming Aubrey James was illiterate, which was well documented. I kind of keep admiring his talent and audacity to just keep uttering such obvious lies.

ARKHAM ASYLUM * Hearing the Arkham Warden Reed utter a dutiful mechanic “We mustn't call them "loonies.” while he exploits his patients and worse while this show gives us another oh look at those mad, crazy, funny, dangerous, pathetic  people collage, like we are stuck in Victorian times and is just one inch short of selling us a stick to poke them with feels surreal. * Also that there is a Venn diagram that has an overlap between the “orderlies working with patients” circle and the “criminals” circle is further troubling. If just it were only fiction. 

RANDOM NICE THINGS * Zsasz & Food: No one shares food with Zsasz, he didn´t get the muffins, even after complimenting the cook and saying they smell good, Selina closes the box when he asks about the pizza. He keeps raiding the fridges of victims .. and Jim. Please never change him. * Zsasz and Alfred keeping each other at gunpoint. And exchanging a smile afterwards * “He's dead, remember? Not that that matters much in this town anymore.” * “Exclusive, but welcoming. Urbane and edgy.” * “Probably not a bad thing.” “How's that?” “Guys get to let off steam, resentments don't fester.” “Next time, you can get punched in the face.” “This beautiful mug? No one would dare.” * “What about the alarm?” “Forget it. We got a license, remember?”

 CODES and MISSIONS There are a lot of parallels again this week and self image / identity stuff. With  BRUCE WAYNE it is directly addressed that one needs to be aware of his mission and priorities. There even is talk with Alfred about the best method to reach them. Currently Bruce wants to have it all. They put him in contrast to SELINA who has extent her “Number1” credo to wanting more. She thinks she´ll reach that with siding with Tabitha and Penguin. Bruce only pretends to take that side to gather information to topple Penguin. Not once does Bruce think about if Penguins approach might be helpful. Neither does JIM GORDON who again stands both mirroring and opposing BRUCE this week. Both share the knowledge that Penguin is not the saviour he claims but while Jim pushes against him when confronted with the GCPD/Harvey/Politics his rhetoric changes when he talks to Bruce. He tells him everything that speaks against going after Penguin at this stage. He talks about the judges who are in with the licences. Something a Season1 Jim probably would not just have said without adding something amongst the lines of we  ( I ) have to change that. Despite discrepancies Bruce and Jim´s mission is still the same one. On the other side there is most cops and politics. Who see that crime rates are a historic low, and they as well got a point. That they are completely undermining law and law enforcement, of course is not less true. Surprisingly we got another group who is opposing Oswald´s ambitions. Criminals, pardon I mean Outlaws. MERTON/GRADY claim they are not like Oswald. “I'm an outlaw! Outlaws have a code. Criminals, they'll take everything. They'll take a man's livelihood.” Of course one could claim they only oppose him that they can keep in crime business but apparently it´s also partly personal for them. And they show a vastly different self image. It kind of reminds of JIM GORDON´s knack of splitting people into criminalsTM and not criminals, no matter their actions. It´s hard for Jim to recognize the good a criminal like Oswald does or face his own criminal(ish) actions.  Merton and Grady can´t pretend that they don´t commit crime, or claim they do it “to safe Gotham” but they can separate themselves from another “brand” of criminal. I really wonder if Jim listened to them talking, and if what his thoughts were about that. Another telling detail connected to that in the ongoing JIM&BRUCE parallel is how Jim Gordon does not even bat an eye at the frozen Edward. (Of course Edward tried to kill him so that kind of is a bad example.) Both Bruce and Jim entered the club with a different mission but only one was taken aback that there is a frozen person in the room, probably a murdered frozen person.  It´s as Oswald said “You have a good heart.” It´s a beautiful little nod to the much mentioned  Bruce even cares about the criminals lives thing, which stands in contrast to how Jim Gordon acts (**)

Link FearSerum Edward is not only in water but might be methaper for Oswald fearing himself for being ready to throw his self preservation over board

Link on the danger of the LicenceSystem   Link MoreLicenseSystem and about Jim

[tamsinbeybey-she-no-porcupine]

The Librarians S4Ep1 liveblog

First of all I’m so excited it was the hardest thing to wait all day without spoilering myself!

Spoilers ahead so

-“did you tell anyone?” you know they’re dead

-denethor is being creepy

-and we’re back in the library <3 <3 oh how I missed thee <3 <3

-it looks so frikking beautiful *_* and how they all look at eve *_* and stone is giving her away and *_* <3

-thank god it’s just a rehearsal and not a disaster XD oh and it’s not a wedding :(

-holy f holy f so if only the tethering keeps the library a force of pure good, something has to go wrong! because in that one spoiler they said it wouldn’t be clear anymore if the library itself was good or evil 0.o

-my otp is standing next to each other and I’m like

-oh boy you know he dead as well (if I stop so often I’m gonna need 2 hours for this ep. gonna try and contain myself)

-i always hoped the lions would come to life instead they hide a creepy dungeon

who’s or what’s in it?

-okay well i could have guessed that XD I still gasped

-did she become evil why is she down there? who feeds her and where does she wash and stuff?

-flashback and they reshot it with her how cool

-has she been in there for fivehundred years?? how didn’t she get insane? or did she? okay I mean being stuck must have sucked but shouldn’t she like know that it was impossible for him to rescue her because not having been born yet and stuff?

-Right now I’m with Ezekiel on this one,since when does the library lock people up

-haha jake’s curly hair is totally adorbs

-oh no i don’t know who I should trust I mean Jenkins obviously but maybe nicole somewhere has a point? or she’s really just manipulative I dunno

-well zis is awkward

-yup I believe jenkins

-oh daaaaaaaang poor flynn, poor nicole

-omg omg omg my two ardorable nerds <3 <3 (also daaaaamn Jake)

and Ezekiel is just so done with them XD

and the building really is pretty

-btw I looove cassie’s outfit

-also cameras in her room dafuq

-btw did we ever hear the prophecy?

and omg maybe the llom of fate was also foretold exactly like it was so we finally know the reason how jenkins could send them after the artefacts they needed??? like omg that was in s1 and now we actually have an explanation??!!

-omfg ezekiel XD

-also just noticed that so far always cassie and stone find the solution to things? like maybe would be cool if there’s a moment in which Ezekiel can shine

-I know that opera is German but i never manage to get the text from it

-omfg man down man down via evil catholic ninja priest

-dafuw they captured them 0.o don’t hurt my beybeys

-mama eve get in there and save them!

-stop flirting flynn!

-run eve! and yes thea are an amazing team <3

-oh god no i can’t watch

-ha yes and oh damn no nicole really is evil I think or maybe it’s a trick?

-so she maybe wasn’t evil but got beamed up

-well again zis is awkward

-omg dosa is still around?

-and nicole dissapeared but i have the feeling she will be back

-haha same ezekiel I’m also still confused about that XD

-on to the next ep <3

[breath4soul]

Fix-It Fics: Sherlock S4Ep1 Fanfic

Looking for a fix-it fic for some of the horrible things that happened in Sherlock S4ep1? While I am still reeling from S4ep1 (read: crying and shaking when trying to re-watch, think or read meta about it) I did have a few moments in it where, perhaps like some other fanfic writers, I did a little squee because I saw similarities between a fic I had written and the themes/ideas in the episode. I thought I would note those fics here in case you are looking for a happy ending “fix-it” fic as a light at the end of the Johnlock tunnel:

1) The Crimson Thread: Predestiny as doom and predicting people/the future is like an equation

In S4ep1 predestined/unavoidable death is a major theme with the Merchant in Baghdad story. Sherlock also says to Mycroft that if he holds enough threads of the web he can predict the future and it is also brought up in tracking Mary when Sherlock puts forth (as an excuse) that knowing her character he could narrow down the possibilities of what she would do. In The Crimson Thread there is a similar idea as Moriarty’s method to defeat Sherlock; understanding people are like an equation he is therefore able to predict and manipulate their path.

Also in here is the idea of John as Sherlock’s heart, Moriarty forcing Sherlock to fall to ‘burn the heart out of’ him, John ending up a single parent, John grieving the loss of Mary (fled not dead).

The Crimson Thread ends with a little fluffy Parentlock

2) No More: Guilt, including Mary’s death, as a major obstacle to happily ever Johnlock 

Well, we all saw the terrible way this played out in the episode with John turning on Sherlock at the end because of her death. In this recent fic created through a collaboration with @sherlockssister1, instead of John pushing Sherlock away, Sherlock’s guilt drives him away from John.

 Also in here is emotionally devastated John and John attempting to use empty sex with any woman to escape feelings for Sherlock. A non-integral (hey, we kinda got that right!) moment is the “innocent” hacker that is saved from going to jail and then is called on for a favor. 

No More ends with a sweet, healing bit of tasteful smut. 

So if you, like me, are looking for a way back to Johnlock, here are two kind-of fix-it fics, you can check out.