there's just... there is no reason to make yet another cop show in this day and age. copaganda is not only bullshit, it is a failure of imagination.
you want to watch brooding characters with dark pasts investigate crimes in an official capacity? just use private detectives (cops have a miserable solve rate anyway). want eccentric geniuses & their sidekicks solving mysteries? i present you with armchair detectives & neighborhood busybodies. oh, you're craving a workplace comedy-drama starring overworked protagonists doing their heartfelt best to resolve community conflicts? social worker office sitcom! bitch this is ACHIEVABLE
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it's amazing how everything is simultaneously overexplained and underexplained. like why didn't they describe the underworld afterlife system? they just namedrop "asphodel" with some vague explanation (and why are they bald trees I'm sorry I could not take that seriously). no jury deciding where you go when you die...they don't introduce the fields of punishment...elysium...isles of the blest...THE RIVER OF STYX...yknow things that are referenced constantly throughout the series. and a fun aspect of the books is the way these elements of greek mythology are written into the modern world/using modern systems (like souls waiting in an EZ line). I always thought the merging of real world/mythological elements was pretty clever in pjo. like where's the fun where's the whimsy
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listen i understand this is my fault for reading stranger things fanfiction in the first place but the amount of times i will see ppl put the most anachronistic shit in there is insane like on a short list of insane things i have seen in stranger things fanfiction
steve harrington using a keurig machine in the 80s
steve got a tattoo and the recommended aftercare was SECONDSKIN.... IN THE 80S
someone mentioned the ring. which came out in 2002.
the amount of fics where they will just be queer walking around holding hands in RURAL INDIANA. IN THE 80S. that shit does not even fly in 2023 in rural indiana.
someone talked about a character's dvd collection. in the 80s.
any singular time someone talks about modern queer identities and explains it to another character. what the fuck do you MEAN this person is a demiboy THAT WORD ISN'T A THING YET. they would call themselves queers and fags and dykes and maybe ftm/mtf or transsexual they aren't calling themselves nonbinary sapphics/achilleans or a nonbinary homoromantic asexual im going to cry it is the 1980s
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