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[lurkingshan]

I gotta be honest, I am struggling with Absolute Zero right now, which frustrates me because I love the premise and the vibe and I really wanted to love it. @bengiyo noted that I am getting to the point where I’m actually kinda mad about this drama, and it’s true! For me it’s all down to the same core issue: the show needs to get a better handle on its main character.

Similar to last week, throughout most of this episode I had no sense of what adult Suansoon is thinking as he continues to functionally date teen Ongsa. Is he thinking about future Ongsa, his actual partner who he has abandoned in a dire health situation, at all when he touches teen Ongsa, hugs and gropes him, brings him to his apartment and cuddles on the bed with him? Does he actually realize he is an adult and Ongsa is a kid and this is all super inappropriate? I do not know, because there is zero indication on my screen to tell me what’s running through his mind as he continues dating Ongsa while also making vague gestures towards connecting with his own teen self.

We’ve now spent three entire episodes with Soon drifting around in the past with no clear sense of what he’s doing or why. It’s a lot of story time spent just to get back to where we started in episode 1. And it would feel worth it if I felt like I knew what Soon is thinking or planning or had any sense of his motives with teen Ongsa, but I don’t. Throughout this whole episode it felt like I was being kept at arms length from the main character and his thoughts while being forced to watch him do things I don’t understand.

And then, right at the end, we finally hear from Soon about what he wants to do, when he tells Ongsa he is from the future and he came back to “correct the past” so that teen Ongsa and teen Soon will never meet. And that was such a big record scratch for me, because it does not comport with his actual behavior. If his intention is to keep them apart in the hopes that not being together will prevent Ongsa from being in an accident, why did he approach and date Ongsa? He has already made Ongsa fall in love with him, and now he wants to say never mind actually, don’t meet me and I’m just gonna bounce back to the future and hope we’re both alive and not together in the new alternate reality I am creating. Does he know Ongsa at all? Of course he is not going to listen to him. This plan makes no sense. And he only finally told Ongsa anything at all because he was forced to; how was any of this going to work?

And even before I get to dissecting his nonsensical behavior toward teen Ongsa, I don’t have any sense of how or why Soon arrived at this plan in the first place, because the show has not let us into his mind at all. Future Ongsa is not dead, and Soon does not have any idea of how his recovery is going because he’s not there. What makes him think changing their future is necessary? Why is he so convinced it’s their relationship that is the important variable to prevent the accident rather than any number of other things? His motives here just were not set up properly.

This is getting very ranty so let me just cut to the point: I am open to a narrative about a Suansoon so overwhelmed and dazed by trauma that he goes back in time and starts mucking around doing foolish things with no real sensible plan, if this is in fact what the narrative is trying to accomplish here. This is the bread and butter of time travel narratives and can be very compelling when done well. But that requires giving the audience some insight into why he is making these choices, what is driving his decisions, and how he intends to make things happen. And we are just completely missing that insight in this show.

[loveisharderthanitlooks]

Fuck Adam Baldwin. I figured he’d be making an appearance in an episode since Gina posted a picture with him but it’s so disappointing that he’s going to be in the Grace/Carlos team up episode.

[here2bbtstrash]

ugh i gotta change my damn blog title to something that's not from a collab with a racist sdjghfkgjdgf help me pick a new one ??

[iero]

Literally did not have Brian fucking Schechter being an NFT guy on my 2023 BINGO card, but well, here we are…

[ochd-deug]

oh italy...

[rendellstreet]

Hmm why do those guys in behind the Captain look so familiar -

[jewishraypalmer]

Jonah not ordering food and being embarrassed to talk about his family’s bankruptcy: my perfect small son, I love you and you can do no wrong

Jonah sitting on a bench kissing Amber: Jonah? I don’t know him. 

[doctorharleenquinzell]

Making a good Star Trek show shouldn't be that hard and yet....

[dasakuryo]

As much as I appreciate Tony Gilroy's investment into telling Cassian's story, as well as care into it as far as we know so far, defining Cassian Andor as a "seducer" feeds into anti Latine stereotypes rooted in fetishism and sexualisation of Latines. The word choice is unfortunate at best and insidious at worst, particularly when you factor in the way Latine actors and their characters are viewed, and treated, by the majority of fans and the way they engage with them.

If what Gilroy was going for was to imply Cassian excels at persuading and recruiting people to fight against the Empire, he could have simply said "recruiter". There was honestly no need to perpetuate a biased and sexualised perception of Cassian Andor at all.

[figmentof]

not to be That person but i was fully expecting/prepared for trixie to fuck up and say some dumb shit when i started stanning her and katya through unhhhh but nope she’s been nothing but good and respectful like oh my god who knew

[leighwhannell]

sam raimi: yeah the rape scene in the original evil dead was pretty misogynistic and i regret including it a lot someone: oh cool! so now that it's 2012 and we're doing a remake we won't need to include it???? sam raimi: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[fatousbian]

Just cause kiki acting this petty isnt ooc doesn't mean im ok w it. I feel very we were all rooting for you.gif

[iero]

So, no one was gonna tell me that Johnny Simmons (Chip in Jennifer's Body, Young Neil in Scott Pilgrim) was in a Drake music video and I had to find that out myself?

[clownemojies]

when that one artist keeps popping up on your dash. 

[sigerson]

instead of imagining sasuke replying to people with his stoic face and solemn voice let's make him react truly pissed off just like tyra's we were all rooting for you.gif

[kayvsworld]

a-salty-alto replied to your photo: yOU DID W H     A    T,  STEVEN ?

He just wanted to help Steve, how could you?

rendingrosencrantz replied to your post: rendingrosencrantz replied to your post: ...

H O N E S T L Y. and like. such a 180 difference from his previous statements. What the heck Steven. tyra-banks-we-were-all-rooting-for-you.gif

I WAS ROOTING FOR HIM...FEELING SO MANY POSITIVE EMOTIONS TOWARDS THIS GOOD GOOD CAPTAIN AND HIS GOLDEN HEART AND HIS GOOD INTENTIONS....meanwhile little did i know that i was a FOOL!!!!!!! i had been TRICKED!!!!!!!!! he THREW AWAY TONY’S GIFT HE THREW IT AWAY