I haven’t seen a gif of it, but there’s something I noticed while watching 3x05 this time around. So obviously - Bellamy is mad at Clarke, because a) she left at the end of 2x13, and b) at the end of 3x03, she chose to stay in Polis instead of come back home to Arkadia. I’m not going to analyse their argument, that’s been done. Rather, I want to talk about the handcuffing.
Bellamy handcuffs Clarke after their argument and walks away. The next scene with them, he’s dragging her along down a hallway with a guard at his side:
Bellamy: Pike should be in his quarters.
Clarke: Bellamy, you don't have to do this.
Bellamy: Yes, I do.
Clarke: Just let me go.
Bellamy: Believe it or not, I am doing this for your own good.
[Octavia comes around the corner and kicks Gillmer in the knee, then knees him in the chin.]
Octavia: Believe it or not, I'm doing this for yours.
[Gillmer hits the ground, out cold.]
Bellamy: You can't just hit a guard.
Octavia: I just did. Let her go.
Bellamy: I can't do that.
[Sounds down the hallway. Octavia turns to look.]
Octavia: They're coming.
Bellamy: [to Octavia] You should go.
[Clarke grabs Gillmer's shock stick thing off his body and catches Bellamy in the guts who goes down out cold. She gets the handcuff keys off him.]
Now... this is obviously not a good look on Bellamy. It’s terrible, in fact. I think many of us hate seeing his siding with Pike and this part of his arc. I’m definitely not defending his actions in this scene at all.
But what I am saying is... I noticed this kind of... parallels Lexa’s orchestrated kidnapping of Clarke in 3x01. Lexa has Roan kidnap Clarke at the start of the season, because she’s being hunted by others. Lexa kidnapped Clarke “for her own good” - and that’s the exact same thing Bellamy is doing here. He thinks handcuffing her and bringing her to Pike to keep her in Arkadia and not with the grounders is “for her own good”. He’s wrong, of course, and it’s fucked up to do this, but it’s an interesting parallel I noticed on this rewatch.
mob psycho is the greatest show ever made because reigen being cancelled on twitter is one of the most important moments for his character as well as one of the most emotionally heavy episodes of the show but him being trapped in alone in a purgatory dimension slowly starving to death is treated as a gag and never mentioned again
I adore the fact that in so many other stories, Mob Psycho would’ve concluded with the World Domination Arc. After all, it has the big, climatic battle with the ensemble cast versus the overarching villain. They win, and everyone goes home, all’s well that ends well, right?
Except the story doesn’t end there. Because Mob has yet to reckon with this internal, antagonist force that has haunted the narrative since the very beginning: Himself.
When Mob comes face-to-face with ???% at long last, he says: I am Kageyama Shigeo.
This isn’t a conflict with a villain, or another esper, or even a separate entity that resides inside Mob’s body. It is something far more personal, and far more relatable.
???% is the culmination of everything Mob’s held back. Not just emotions like anger or fear. Even his desires, like his crush on Tsubomi. All muted by his efforts not to hurt anybody with his powers. Mob has come such a long way, but he’s still restraining his feelings so tightly that the moment his control wavered, ???% took over.
But the conflict isn’t the destruction ???% is wreaking just by walking through the city. The conflict is Mob refusing to accept this part of himself he’s suppressed for so long.
And ???% is right! Every attempt to stop him thus far has failed. Because he isn’t meant to be stopped. Mob has to reconcile with the parts of himself that he won’t acknowledge.
And it’s the most difficult thing Mob has ever had to do! This is the part of himself that hurt his brother; that hurt his friends and decimated so much of the city. Reconciling with it means accepting that Mob hurt those people, whether he wanted to or not. It means accepting all facets of himself, even ones he’s not proud of or wishes he could change but cannot.
Mob has grown so much in this latest season alone, he hasn’t had any explosions, and he felt confident enough in his own abilities to actually ask Tsubomi out, which was something the Mob of two seasons ago could never imagine.
But what about the advice Reigen gave him for his confession to Tsubomi?
His true self, in its totality. This is what Mob has struggled with the entire story. This is why his confession to Tsubomi is the culmination of his character arc. Expressing his feelings means exposing his true self to someone else, even with the fear of rejection.
And while we’re on that subject. Let’s talk about Reigen. Right after he gives this advice to Mob, he says this about himself:
It is the height of irony (and tragedy) that Mob and Reigen admire each other’s strengths so much, yet have no idea they struggle with the same exact fear: that if the people they cared for found out who they truly were, they would reject them. It is why Reigen relies on lies and why Mob suppresses himself.
It is also why Reigen has never actually witnessed ???% until now. It is why Mob has never heard Reigen admit the truth about himself out loud.
And that’s why the final arc feels like such a gut-punch in the best of ways. What is harder than accepting who you are, and hoping for others to accept you as you are? Even at your most deceitful, or your most destructive? Mob Psycho ends with the Confession Arc because that’s the very heart of the story.
I find it incredibly funny seeing some fans complain that the movie wasn't "lore accurate" as if FNAF has ever been consistent with its lore, like
Wow, the movie changes a lot of stuff and is not accurate to what we thought we knew? *looks at The Silver Eyes trilogy* I can't believe that, how horrible *looks at The Silver Eyes trilogy* Who would've thought they'd change stuff that makes us doubt what we know about the series *looks at the fourth fucking closet*
Arguing with your crush about whether you have a moral obligation to save people or if you should just quit being a Jujutsu sorcerer and make out all the time instead.
hey so do you guys remember how zuko was deemed worthy and blessed with the true nature of fire by the guardians of light themselves and became 100x the firebender he was after, with a newfound understanding and oneness with his element
kind of like how katara handled the moon and ocean spirit with her own hands and was blessed with unmatched waterbending power and oneness with her element and also spirit water but get this, also the healing ability to bring someone back from certain death