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Laura Lee is such a novelty to me, because she feel like a subversion of an archetype, but in-name-only.

When I first watched YJ, I thought "Ok bunch of teenage girls turn cannibal in the woods; this one loves Jesus; I've seen a horror movie before; by the end of S1 she's going to be speaking in tongues and proclaiming God demands blood sacrifices based on arbitrary coincidences she's interpreting as holy signs".

So it was pretty funny when instead, she's a perfectly sweet girl, and only a few episodes in, she tries to rescue everyone and immediately fucking dies. Turns out instead, this character existed as a way to signify an end to normalcy and civilization. AND I WOULD CALL THAT CLEVER...!

Except is it even a subversion of a cliché, when Lottie just ends up becoming basically the exact archetype I expected Laura Lee to turn into? And arguably this was caused because Lottie absorbed some part of Laura Lee in the first place? Yellowjackets sets up a Jesus Freak character, kills her, then has another character become the stock religious nut in her stead. And I am perpetually in a state of forgetting Laura was even a character until someone brings her up.

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Incredible. The Texas Republican going after Texas Democrats fled the state himself due to investigations into his personal crimes and corruption.

Ken Paxton should have been impeached, but Republicans can only function with criminals.

Texans know removing criminals from office would end the Republican Party.

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I will always love Shauna Shipman/Sadecki on paper, but her writing - especially in S3 - is just bad sorrynotsorry.

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I have three wishes for Shauna’s death.

1. I want her death to be the only time Callie has TRULY felt loved by her mother, unconditionally adored.

2. We’ve seen Callie become more and more like Shauna throughout the show and I want when Shauna dies to like fully bridge the gap if you get what I’m saying.

3. Something to do with Jackie. It has to be or it will feel SO incomplete. And not only Jackie but if ghost/hallucination appearance I want to be truly be Jackie. Not the mean version of her only existing to torment Shauna. Jackie.

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Side note,if the writers choose to go down the pipeline of Callie becoming a lot more like Shauna I want at some point in the series for her to finally start to understand her mom. Like I wish Lottie got to tell Callie what Shauna said to her before she died. About how she physically and mentally cannot let herself get close to Callie because of her stillbirth + the hallucination/dream afterwards. Not like “oh I was so so so wrong my mom is great amazing and had never done anything wrong” but more or so in a way of understanding.

I feel like I’ve used the words understand and truly way to much and this is also poorly written but I hope you get the gist of it.

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                                   jimmy mcgill | saul goodman ‘the only way that entire car is worth 500 bucks is if there’s a $300 hooker in it!’

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fave brbabcs minor character?

I love Dr. Caldera, the crooked vet. He's so funny to me - like pretty much every other brbabcs character who gets involved in crime is at least partially in it for the thrill as well as the money. Caldera is very much NOT interested in any thrills whatsoever. He is solely in it for the money. But at the same time - he isn't a coward, either. He performs very well under pressure while saving Nacho's life, and he has the balls to tell him to never come to him again because he doesn't want a part of this kind of action. His genuine love and concern for the welfare of animals is very endearing, and I love how sassy he is.

I had an idea for a fic once where Marco Salamanca comes to him with an injury and they have a one night stand - the idea still makes me laugh so maybe I'll write it one day...

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I agree that anyone who can use "proven" and "dumber" in the same sentence without a lick of irony isn't to be trusted.

But I still feel like you're gonna have to explain this one.

"It's been PROVEN that AI makes you dumber" is literally white supremacist rhetoric you people are so fucking stupid

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The thought that Ben Shapiro or Charlie Kirk or Andrew Tate seem like a safety net for your loneliness is such a sad indictment on the character and aspirations of MAGA society.

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I got kicked out of high school U.S. government class for 2 weeks while we covered a unit on Katrina because I called another white kid a “boot sucking bitch boy” for making extremely racist and insensitive comments about looters. I think I’ve always been like this. I don’t think I can change, the rage is not something I can just wash away even in the most controlled circumstances

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Hey man you're the guys who think there's no point to making art if you can't get paid and social credit.

Once again pro-AI folks show their asses by being weirdly misanthropic, anti-social and having the depth of a puddle when it comes to art. Not even remotely shocked at this point. Just admit you hate artists.

i hate artists

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I think for a lot of people “I am completely helpless and powerless” and “I am completely powerful and in control” are both basically comforting fantasies because most of us live our lives in an in between place where we have enough agency to be responsible for our actions but not enough agency to have true control over our lives and the tension between power and powerlessness in the day to day is psychologically wearing and exhausting

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She's just a normal character who has no repressed homicidal tendencies and definitely wasn't based on a throw-away line from Breaking Bad about Saul getting a full-body massage.

rewatching bcs right now kim wexler you rock my world

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Bill and Kim's friendship is quite underexplored IMO.

And if I said Jimmy and Bill Oakley are fun together and maybe they have a love/hate relationship (and maybe something more😏) then what?

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Just to make sure I wasn't talking out my ass, I rewatched all of Penny Dreadful. I'm still on the fence about whether I'm going to write a proper essay on the subject, but in short: Is the ending as bad as I remember? Yes! It's worse, actually! I remember Vanessa's death at least resulting in Dracula being defeated, but instead he just slinks away into the shadows to rise again. It's like they tried to bake the same cake as "Nosferatu"(2024) but they didn't know the recipe and mixed all the ingredients together in the wrong order.

This show is pro-suicide! It just is; that's just an unavoidable aspect of the text. When you show a character who's struggled for happiness and freedom her entire life and conclude that she was doomed from the start and it's best to stop struggling, you are telling depressed people to kill themselves. And I hate the ending for retroactively making the pathos of S1E7 specifically all mean nothing in the grand scheme.

The sexism of this show is nuanced and needs to be gone over with a fine-tooth comb, but can we talk about how this show is just LAUGHABLY racist? I'm not even talking about the way it exoticizes world religions as demonic, or the way it tries to keep framing men who have committed genocides as "flawed antiheroes". I'm just talking about Sembene specifically! This character is written as a glorified butler dispensing wisdom to the white characters for two seasons, and the literal episode we finally get any concrete info on his backstory, he dies "nobly". I'm glad Danny Sapani has been able to get other work, because god bless him he did his best with what was an utterly thankless role. And don't get me started on Kaetenay handing out "honorary Apache" status like it's candy!

Don't get me wrong, Penny Dreadful will always have a place in my heart. There's still a ton of dialogue that just sounds awesome when taken out of context. And I will always love Vanessa for what she could have been, even if the narrative itself failed her. I want to give "City of Angels" a chance before I render a final verdict. But Season 3 had NO IDEA what it wanted to say thematically, and I will fistfight anyone who feels otherwise. You don't have to read Anton LaVey to realize something just doesn't add up here. I need to watch some "Devil's Carnival 2" just to wash the taste out of my mouth!