really love how throughout a lot of smith and jones martha is really skeptical and apprehensive towards ten (+ one of my favorite exchanges between them - "what, people call you 'the doctor'?" "yeah?" "well, i'm not. far as i'm concerned, you've got to earn that title."), not taking everything he says at face value, even doubting the fact he's an alien until over halfway through the episode.. And like. i really truly think the thing that wins her over isn't him kissing her or any of the other insane mixed messages he manages to send, it's this scene here, where he /earns that title/ in her eyes:
(+ david's bit in the commentary, where he says: "[the doctor] has actually sacrificed himself, and - i would say, that that final act of selflessness is what finally, eventually, welds martha to him. [...] and she now returns it. she returns that act of selflessness.")
this is what their relationship is built on. it isn't about martha being the second-best replacement to rose or a rebound or whatever. bc it isn't really about rose. it's about doctor-in-training martha meeting someone (quite literally, "the doctor") whose ideals she aspires to, and doing her best to be the same person to him as he is to everyone else. it's about ten in return admiring her intelligence and inquisitiveness and how she cares for human life, recovering his compassion, letting himself lean on her for support - and then remembering at the most inopportune moments that he's supposed to not need anyone and be on his own forever. And around in their little nightmare loop they go where they save each other over and over until one of them breaks
i've seen ppl look at martha and go "why she does she admire/why is she so in love with ten if he acts like that to her?" or something along those lines and like. it's not just the fact she's in love with him (in fact i'd argue she actively tries to push it aside post-gridlock). it's the fact that she knows he's the kind of person to put everyone else's lives/well-being over his own. she trusts him to save her when she's in trouble even though it's been like two days at most that they've known one another bc she recognizes that same "deep all-encompassing drive to help others" in him. and she also recognizes, much much earlier than him, that he needs someone to save him, especially when he's unwilling to save himself. and yeah for a bit she thinks he returns her feelings and is just playing hard-to-get, but she realizes pretty early on that this probably isn't the case, and i think that realization fully solidifies here:
(this is when she's listening to ten talk abt gallifrey). And idk it might just be me but i think this expression isn't just her empathizing with his loss. it's also guilt, for wanting something from him that he's clearly unable to give when he's wracked with so much grief. (and you see it in the next episode, where tallulah asks if they're together and martha says for certain that they're not, and that he doesn't know about her feelings for him. she keeps everything to herself bc she now knows that when he shut her flirting down at the end of 3x01 it was the genuine reaction of someone who a) isn't interested and b) is scared of getting close with someone else again)
freema described their dynamic as "she's keener than him" and i think about this all the time. martha doesn't really take what ten throws at her. what she does instead is constantly poke holes in his already-failing front of "i will show someone the wonders of the universe so i can ignore what is wrong with me". what she does is stand up and fight him when he tries to go off on his own. what she does is put aside her well-being in favor of helping someone - just like what she saw him do for the people in the hospital when they first met. tldr, that's the doctor and his doctor and rip martha you would've loved who's gonna save u now by rina sawayama
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Okay, thing that just occured to me about Drakengard 1: At the end of Chapter 1 Verse 9, Angelus tells Caim directly:
And, the thing is, she's... right. It's part of the commentary Drakengard 1 makes on the nature of violence, that violence for violence's sake inevitably leads to death. In every Ending except A, Caim remains unchanging right up until the end, obsessed with inflicting as much suffering on the Empire as possible, and in every Ending except A he encounters something infinitely stronger than him and dies because all he can do is kill or be killed. And Furiae also has a part in this as well - the opening cinematic clearly shows that the only thing that can even temporarily draw Caim out of his violence-fueled worldview is Furiae being in danger, and so the fact that she dies in every route is symbolic because it dooms Caim to death, as well - all he is at the start is protector and killer, and now that the thing he protects is gone all that is left is the killing. The only thing that saves Caim in Ending A is that he finds something else aside from hatred to live on - Angelus herself.
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Look who is coming back!!
Gege clearly hates him to the point that he made Gojo say something racist or changing his appearence to make everyone dislike him but there’s no other possibility since Gojo is the only one capable of defeating Sukuna…
For me the picture shows Gojo may loose his left eye or the awakening of a new power (look at the sketch and the lines around his eye, also his eye is bloodshot probably showing that it is glowing with intensity which would be something new and behind Gojo you can appreciate that Gege draw an intense light coming from him), (maybe both), I have talked before of the possibility of it being that “It could be that Gojo developed the eight consciousnesses, he developed the sixth one with Toji, the seven one when he died (from Sukuna) and will develop the eight one, when returning” as I said in another post…
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Hm. Has anyone read regressor instruction manual? I… I feel like ripping up furniture with my teeth. Shits funny. MC is a whore slut idiot I’m putting him in a salad spinner and watching him spin at terminal velocity. Bashing him with hammers.
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Inktober #5: For a hot second I thought I should draw Mara talking sense into Filoniverse!Luke. Then I thought that someone who was groomed and raised from childhood to be Palpatine's personal assassin maaaaaybe has a skewed idea of appropriate teaching for children and probably thinks Luke is going too easy on him.
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It’s not talked about enough that the first two people to save Izuku were both born quirkless.
This scene is kind of crazy when you consider the circumstances. To Aoyama, unlike everyone else, this entrance exam is a true life or death situation. If he fails, both he and his parents would have been killed. Assuming that there were no spies in the staff who leaked information about the rescue points, Aoyama had the most incentive of anyone to ignore anything else outside of getting enough villain points. And yet, he is the first person during the exam shown to rescue someone else.
Aoyama, like Izuku, has the heart of a hero because he knows what it’s like to be in need of saving.
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Fun fact, Nakaya was one of the first people wanting a character to be resurrected and was the first one to come up with a "Nishiki lives" au where he's badly injured but survived. Masayoshi was not amused lol (breaks my Nishiki loving heart honestly we can't stop taking Ls :( )
source: https://yakuzafan.com/dengeki-online-interview-with-takaya-kuroda-kazuma-kiryu-and-kazuhiro-nakaya-nishikiyama-kasuga-ichiban-and-their-15-year-history-with-ryu-ga-gotoku/
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when shadow is given a gun it's like. his whole tragic backstory is that he lost a loved one to gun violence and he's traumatized from watching her get shot so seeing him running around using realistic guns just feels kinda strange even though it does look cool. when tails is given a gun im like YES !!!!!!!!! KILL !!!!!!!
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