#like a deus ex machina

[musclesandhammering]

Loki deserves to have an active role in the multiversal war. He deserves to fight alongside the Avengers. He deserves to save the day, he deserves to use his new time powers against a big bad, he-

#listen I’ve heard people saying loki is way too OP now to be in anymore battle scenes #but LISTEN #he’s only omniscient and omnipotent while he’s holding the branches #if he leaves his throne yeah he’ll still be able to timeslip and freeze time and do telekinesis and stuff #but he won’t be so overpowered that he can’t still be realistically used in a fight scene #it’s just that the fight needs to be against someone who is also super powerful #I need a scene of kang realising that to take control of the multiverse he has to dethrone loki #so he shows up to where the citadel used to be with an army or a badass weapon or smth #and we get a loki v kang 1v1 fight scene in which loki kicks his ass #but then afterwards he realises that more trouble is brewing so the multiversal avengers have to be assembled #and he’s just like a Nick fury type person appearing via astral projections and stuff for most of the movie/saga/whatever #but then at then end when the big battle is going on and the avengers are losing #he has to get up and actually come to the battlefield to handle shit himself #like a deus ex machina #and then afterwards he goes back to the TVA and lives happily ever after the end #loki series #loki meta #loki finale spoilers #avengers kang dynasty #avengers secret wars

[sheepwithspecs]

i don't normally make posts about things myself but i keep thinking about how the whole point of EW was that the strength you needed didn't come from a god, or a supreme being, or a primal or anything: it all comes from you

your love for this world and your friends and everything that you allow purpose and meaning- that is what gives you the strength to climb to your feet, even when you feel utterly alone at the end of the universe

In Shb we had Ardbert who gave us the strength to take that next step, but in EW we are alone (save for Zenos i guess but this ain't about him). That's why even though I agree that "it was the ancients" is becoming an extremely stale take, I still forgive MotR and the Twelve because it's hammering in EW's theme of being enough to handle what life throws at you without needing to rely on something much larger than yourself

EW's plot- and even the Omicron quests -point to the fact that dynamis alone does nothing. It has to be moved to action by feelings/emotions for it to work. As N-7000 says, "all [dynamis] requires is for us to ask "what if?""

Zodiark did not save the Ancients. Hydaelyn cannot save Her Children. The Twelve do not answer your cries. Primals are bound to the prayers of those that summon them.

The Warrior of Light is an imperfect being. More talented than most, but imperfect yet. EW does not make you a god. It shows that change can be wrought by anyone, at any time. You need not do it alone: there are others willing to come to your aid. But when you are alone, at the end of your rope, facing insurmountable odds: the strength you need can only come from within.

#ffxiv #i've been thinking a lot about this lately #bc i do agree that the ancients are starting to become boring #and this is from someone that loves the idea and enjoyed Elpis immensely #i really hope it's just EW tying up the last few loose ends though and they don't play a big part (if at all) in DT #that being said... i can see where the story is leaning in myths of the realm too? #like when you step back and look at it everything ties together around this central theme of ''don't appeal to a deus ex machina'' #anyway that's just my opinion on it y'know

[blondephenobarbitol]

Deus Ex Matthews

Deus Ex MacNamara

Deus Ex Maxwell

the holy trinity

#deus ex machina #tgwdlm #black friday #npmd #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday musical #nerdy prudes must die #starkid #paul matthews #general john macnamara #max jägerman

[ganondoodle]

even if i didnt love botw as much as i do, totk drives me nuts bc, similarly to pokemon, this series is so SO SO full of potential, they have so many games they can pull from, theres so many themes, characters and worldbuilding thats just left to rot, you dont need to connect anything with a chain to old titles, you dont need to bring back any things that already had their ending, but PLEASE harness at least a fraction of all this!!!! and they just refuse to do it beyond shallow references

totk jsut drives it all home to me, bc this isnt just the next game in the franchise, but a DIRECT SEQUEL no 10 years apart from botw, yet they cant even, they REFUSE to even keep the continuity with its OWN lore it established in botw together, and that, i think, is what truly makes me so insane (derogatory) about totk

it PROVES they do not care, they dont care to build on anything of the lore of old titles beyond references in form of amiibos or whatever, they dont even care to make a sequel to their most successful game in the franchise coherent with its own lore

botw established a captivating detailed world full of potential, while lacking in active storytelling, it had environmental storytelling, characters and ideas that were the perfect ground to build on-

and then they do away with it bc idk .. they want you to build mechs and make videos of it that go viral and thats all they care about or something

shiekah tech? forget that existed character being the character you know? act as if you are seeing them for the first time just like they are lame story? dont think about that just be distracted by the epic presentation of it lore the previous title established? forget that, all that matters is what is here and now beloved character from old games beign brought back? hes a new guy and has no background and no lore and just sits waiting for you at the end to have a flashy fight with references from old titles and their lore? just here for nostalgie bait, dont you remember? you LOVE this series, now give me 70 bucks for a glorified DLC that ruins what you loved about the series and makes you realize that nothign matters and nothing is interesting anymore

you are supposed to take it all at face value, to not think about anything, to see a character say something and just go with it, and forget it the second its over, be distracted by good music and pretty visuals, but dont think about, dont think about anything but what is directly said to you like you have no critical thinking skills, forget there was a game before this one, only the one you play matters, empty your skull and dont let yourself feel anything but what the game tells you to feel

if they dont even care to make the sequel to their most successful game actually build on the previous title, dont even care to keep their continuity of two games supposedly directly happening one after the other in tact- maybe they never cared, and all the meaning we thought we saw them build into their games was all accidental and meaningless

and that is absolutely soul crushing for fans like me to discover

its a game. its not a story, its not a world, its not themes, its not characters, its not lore. its a product made to make you pay money, not to make you think about anything.

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #ganondoodles rants #i know it sounds silly to say this game makes me mad bc its so clearly a game #but do you get what i mean?? #and the worst part is #they dont even keep the lore said in the SAME GAME in line #the people in hateno where links HOUSE used to be that is now ZELDAS not remembering him #the children acting like they dont know him #where has link been? #did zelda put him into the forest and just let him live with the boars? #even so the house is here so link must have been here to buy it- #but no forget that #its somethign that happened in botw and that never actually happened or mattered remember? #to have balloons and rocktes and people with WINGS in this world but none of them going up to the sky islands everyone is obsessed about`? #well its for YOU to play around with with meaningless rewards not for the NPCs living in this world #the godly goat guy and the hylian priestress directly saying zelda is their distant descendant to her and then #not show nor say not even hint at them having any offspring and then both die a stupid meaningless death to try and make you feel something #“doing the dragon transformation robs you of your soul forever and you will never return” #*returns via deus ex machina without even letting the player take any part in it but by -getting to the end tm-* #also i HATE how totk constantly dangles set ups in front of you #only to NOT follow up on them #the intro giving you a taste of what you might expect for- NOPE zelda is gone immediately its jsut botw but worse again lol #zelda getting the hang of her time powers so she might return to her time on her ow- NOPE dragon lol her powers are irrelevant actually #impa being the only one you can tell about zelda being a dragon and her going oh no im gonna search for a way to bring her back- LOL NOPE #its solves itself and you dont even do anything for it and just watch a cutscene #oh no link lost his arm and its beyond repair- LOL NOPE have your arm back like it was freshly made no matter how few of the light things- #you actually got- the things that where supposedly to battle back the thing destroying your arm #also howt he game gives you endless busy work without any good reward #krogs - mayoi signa - poes - scematics - lightroots - sign guy

[karengillanslefteyebrow]

Poseidon pulling a LITERAL Deus Ex Machina in episode 4 is probably the funniest way they could’ve solved the arch issue

#text post #textposts #shit post #why am i like this #percy Jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy Jackson tv #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson tv series #deus ex machina

[crimeronan]

one of my deepest fantasies is that humanity would get infected by some kind of parasitic amoeba that makes people feel uncontrollable rage and want to murder everyone around them. the reason this is a fantasy and not a horror prompt is because this parasite would have little-to-no effect on me & i could just go on living my normal life like i usually do while everyone around me got their whole shrieking pissing shitting tearing rending killing mass murder thing on. and people would finally realize how much credit i should get every day that i don't lose my absolute fucking shit on Literally Everyone, because i have an unpleasant personality and it's harder for me,

#i've drafted and backspaced like seven snide posts in a row today. may have a headache may be hungry may just be a bitch #i just want everyone to want to kill people as bad as i do so they know how impressive and cool it is that i havent torn anyones throat out #is this so much to ask. there can even be a deus ex machina at the end that brings everyone back to life.

[comradekatara]

I don't understand people that claim Aang is weak or a coward because he didn't kill Ozai. In fact, I think I that him deciding not to commit murder would make him the exact opposite. As someone who does consider themselves weak and cowardly, I would have agreed to kill Ozai had I been pressured to do so.

exactly !!! fucking SAY THAT. aang choosing the values of his people over a world that insists that his people were weak and deserved to die, that their values have no place here, in a world that seemingly necessitates a "kill or be killed" mindset, IS his strength. he faces down his closest friends, his past lives (including an air nomad!), and does eventually agree that he has no choice, that he must kill the firelord, there is no other way to end the war. but then, the lion turtle, who rose out of the depths of the ocean, summoned from an ancient time before the avatar even existed, because it heard aang's call to the spirits for guidance, agrees with him, that there is another way, that aang's people were right to value spirits over dangerous, destructive power. and when he faces down ozai, when he sees the man who wants to exterminate him, a child, for his supposed "weakness," he does not let his own infinite power get the better of him. he controls the full force of the avatar, of his past lives who tell him otherwise. "even with all the power in the world, you're still weak," ozai tells him, but that level of self-control is what makes him strong. the fact that he would rather stay true to himself and represent the people who had no place in ozai's world is what true power looks like. he is the purifying light to ozai's cruel destruction. if he had killed ozai, he might have made ozai a martyr to the fire nation, but instead he simply sheds ozai of his weapon of mass destruction, and proves to him, on the hundred year anniversary of the day the fire nation committed genocide against his people, that his cultural values matter, that he still has a place in this world and the spirits have a place in this world. with all the power at his disposal at the avatar, killing ozai would have been the easy thing to do. but he uses meditation and pacifism to come to his own conclusion. he is strong enough to break the cycle of violence.

#catastrophe908 #asks #aang #ozai #analysis #people who think that ending is bad bc the lion turtle is a deus ex machina #are so dumb #first of all it is the entire point of the show #like the literal TITLE #but also how is the lion turtle a deus ex machina when we have already established that spirits will help the avatar in a time of need #like in the siege of the north #is that also a deus ex machina then??? #fucking idiots. #also im sorry to hear that you consider yourself weak and cowardly??????? :((

[novantinuum]

gnawing at the bars of my cage

can we please Stop telling SU blind reactors all the fandom drama and SU crit that came out of every episode so we can allow them to just enjoy the show like a normal person at their own leisure and make their Own opinions thank u

#anyways if i see a SINGLE person comment anywhere from SU s3 to s5 that 'warning the end of s5 is rushed' i will rush right in with #'IN YOUR OPINION' #bc like i know i've beaten this dead horse against the wall a million times but It's Not Rushed Honey it's literally just Fine #it's an Ending #it's Entirely Serviceable #rushed would be if steven pulled a deus ex machina out of his ass at Garnet's wedding and magically healed all corrupted gems by himself #with the power of uwu or whatever #but NO he has to work for his healed corrupted gems #the ones that caused the damage Fix the damage as reparations for the harm they perpetuated #steven learns he is Not His Mom and gains a more stable sense of self #that's all p good and thought out shit to me #i think the ONLY thing that i can remotely point to as potentially 'well damn that was a lot all at once' #was the new fusions one after another. but like come on. why you gonna be mad about that. just enjoy it and have fun brenda #they thought they literally had No More Story and wanted to leave the fans this one last gift #and instead what they get is fans whining that it's 'rushed' #rushed has a shit ass connotation these days #why can't we just say what we mean and call it 'lean storytelling' #it's all the story we needed to get a cohesive ending but without any fat #and like i LOVE me some fat sometimes #but like!! even non fatty meat tastes good! #my god #jen rambles #edited tags to clarify my meaning ahahah

[the-stove-is-on-fire]

GUESS WHO JUST GOT CAUGHT UP TO DATE ON THE BNHA MANGA. HOLY SHIT.

No spoilers but:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#bnha #FUCK #but also 👀👀👀👀 #bnha spoilers #ive been avoiding bnha for so long so much has happened #this last turn of events to undo THE THING feels very deus ex machina and idk how to feel about it #bc like on one hand i enjoy characters facing permanent consequences gor their actions #but on the other: MY BOY #*my other boy

[dynamightmite]

You know what, I'm just gonna go ahead and withhold judgment on Eri healing Deku's arms until we get further to the end because. Damn man maybe Horikoshi can pull it off idk 😭

#bnha 420 #bnha spoilers #listen using eri as a deus ex machina to magically heal everybody was one of the few things I really didn't want to see in the manga #because if it just kinda gets tossed out there it sort of feels like Deku only got his arms cut off to make Eri's continued presence #in the manga have an actual purpose #but you know what since he's made the effect minimal (only working on Deku) and having possible consequences #yeah alright for now I can give him a pass #but honestly I'm uhhhh gonna need some convincing

[eerna]

@ the Zelink anon I admit defeat

#this is the most on-the-nose botw or totk have been. if i find out the og line is ''friendly love woke me up <3'' ill scream #i willl be thinking about that final leap for the next 1000 years #the undragonification was a bit eh as a concept but damn was the payoff great and i am NOT complaining. like i said deus ex machina or not #totk spoilers #totk liveblog #loz liveblog

[glyphknight]

"You were always better at solving problems than I was."

Just turning this moment over in my head:

Caleb -- boy genius, chosen protégé of one of the most powerful evil wizards in all the land, with an incredible memory that puts wizarding on easy mode, who said things "came more easily" to him than the other two -- has just spent "so much time working on this" ancient artifact to stop Trent. Weeks of puzzling and tinkering but it's Caleb so of course he gets it eventually. Yet at the moment of triumph it doesn't work and he's stumped.

Then Astrid just rolls up like, "What's that?" rocks a 24, and immediately fixes a critical issue on this totally-unknown-to-her Arcanum object. LOL

Like, he doesn't even tell her what it actually is! He just does that thing where he's all vague and dramatic, lmao.

(Correction--She got a 24, not 26. Post changed to reflect that. Also "than me" --> "than I was." Caleb is nothing if not grammatically correct.)

#astrid beck #caleb widogast #cr2 #cackling at this #Astrid Beck channeling Elle Woods from Legally Blonde: “What like it's hard?” #It sounds like a hilarious but anticlimactic deus ex machina but ends up being 1000% more satisfying than if Caleb had succeeded on his own #fanfic prompt: There is a problem Astrid can't solve

[carlyraejepsans]

i got annoyed on twitter lol

#inspired by that guy who tried to correct me under my sans post because ''it's impossible for him ti have taken the photo'' so obviously... #asriel used his godlike powers to take the picture instead and put it there himself to tell sans he can move on???? like DUDE #frisk literally sees nothing weird with the pic which means they must be aware of it/remember taking it #if your justification is ''oh well the chronology doesn't line up so obviously it had to be God'' then it's not good evidence lmao #like you're literally forcing a deus ex machina into the story. might as well say it was toby dog. or gaster for all it's worth LMAO #sorry i know that person definitely didn't mean to be rude but there's something about the character limit over there that just #does away with any cordialities the moment you have to write something a bit longer #also it's sans lol. they tried to debate me on SANS. I don't pull any punches there LMFAO #anyway how's y'all morning going

[scintillyyy]

i do have to say, as much as i enjoy jpv, the contagion storyline does not make him look good

shadow of the bat #48

azrael's like, hey batman. here's a video someone sent me of this deadly virus from the order of st dumas that someone sent me. thought you should know, seeing as how it's heading towards gotham.

then it's like.

azrael: agent of the bat #15

azrael's like, hey. i wonder if this virus was originated by the order of st dumas. maybe we should see if they have an antidote. i mean, they've been involved since the beginning and all, right? no? cool, we won't even look into it.

finally it's like.

azrael: agent of the bat #16

hey. hey. doesn't that virus that was in the video i got that involved the order of st dumas at the very start of this all look like that thing i saw on that whiteboard at the order of st dumas last month. hey. hey. do you think that maybe we should check into all our order of st dumas books? should we have spent an hour doing this 3 weeks ago when we first thought they might have been involved instead of being like nah, nevermind? and just traveling the world searching for survivors? oh the recipe for cure was there in this book i had stored in a box this whole time? oh. oh. well, i should get this to gotham where hundreds of thousands have died already.

#listen i love this man and understand they needed a deus ex machina #but also i feel like this makes him look sooo bad for not even looking into the books he had at his house at all

[djsherriff-responses]

If “respawning” is a thing that exists in the Laserhawk universe, I like to imagine it’s more similar to the game Soma where the person doesn’t come back from the dead, but rather a “copy” is made that’s almost near indistinguishable from the original in both appearance and memories

I think this because I think death would have way less impact on the population of Eden if random people could just be brought back to life , but also wouldn’t surprise me if “respawn” was a technological advanced operation that was preserved for a select few of the most valuable and elite members of Eden’s society (like the power ranger knock offs)

#captain laserhawk #captain laserhawk spoilers #Idk if that is the direction a hypothetical season two would take #I just think there’s gotta some draw backs to something that’s seems like a deus ex machina #Probably also risky in case something goes wrong with the copy and all sorts of other nasty side effects

[drusill-a]

RTD is so in love with David Tennant that it makes him look stupid, huh.

#listen friends i dont know what to feel #i love everyone involved #I'm so happy that Donna has her memories back and will spend the rest of her life with her best friend by her side #but that ending felt like it was straight out of a christmas Hallmark movie; my teeth ache from all that saccharine sweetness #I'll be able to justify it if RTD is setting the stage for bringing Tennant and Tate into his UNIT spin-off which seems to be in the works #if that's not the reason it's hard for me to swallow this plot twist with the biregeneration #firstly: RTD did something similar at the end of the fourth season—splitting the Doctor to “give” one version to Rose #it's a bit annoying to see him essentially do the same now by letting another version of the Doctor to stay with Donna #secondly: I missed the emotion in this #I spent a week bracing myself for heartbreak but we went a bit too far in the other direction #we got a cutesy ending where everything resolves through a deus ex machina #yet it’s those bitter and grief-soaked moments are what RTD has always excelled at #when it comes to the Doctor's regeneration and farewells to companions #it's hard to feel much about this plot development #some things should remain final and some goodbyes and endings are unavoidable #the conclusion of Rose’s arc (both from s2 and s4) or Donna's ending in s4 #were among the most emotionally intense moments in the history of television #I missed a bit of that here #perhaps if there were more bitterness in the 14th Doctor's ending if he had to pay some PRICE for this biregeneration #(like not getting his TARDIS #being told that the Fifteenth takes over the regeneration ability #and the Tennant Doctor will die of old age) #emotionally it would have provided viewers with a cool punch #without that it seems like RTD wanted to have his cake and eat it too #have a new Doctor and give his old characters a last-minute happy ending that doesn't make much logical sense #I was hoping to feel more considering how much I love these characters #but my main reaction is an eyeroll #on the positive side I really hope to see Neil Patrick Harris in the show again he was a great villain #and Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor is already so freaking great!!! <3 #doctor who