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coredrill · 2 years

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okay, snw thots now that i’m no longer (so severely) emotionally compromised LMAO

overall very good and i enjoyed it!!! not as much as disco but FAR MORE THAN picard. more misc thots w spoilers for the whole season:

i love what they’re doing with the gorn idk why it’s such a point of contention 😭 like i get they’ve been modernized but everyone who’s like “did you even SEE arena” like yeah? it makes arena work better actually? like now the gorn have a REP so the eventual conclusion of arena in-universe speaks even MORE to starfleet’s ideals cause kirk’s up against an enemy that’s that much more vicious and unforgiving!!! i’m a big fan!!

somewhat related: i was mixed on la’an at first but by the end i loved her and i hope she comes back asap 😭 her mind meld w spock was a highlight for me but like that is news to no one LMAO. the power of michael burnham parallels!!

on the flip side i LOVED chapel at first and i still love her personality but i really thought they were gonna give her more than just “is into spock” cause by the end of the season that’s pretty much what she is 🥲 lean into weirdo chapel please she was a DELIGHT!!!! also hell yes to bi chapel but i REEEEALLY hope they’re careful w that cause based on what we know of her personality they could lean into some bad stereotypes :-| so i am cautiously excited for s2 chapel lmfao

i hope we get to see more m’benga fishing trips and i also hope his daughter comes back!! i also think the omelas/adai ep would’ve been stronger had it focused more on him and less on pike LMFAO

i do love pike though, anson mount freaking kills it but literally we all been knew that!

number one was alright, she didn’t really get enough screen time for me to feel one way or the other about her? i assume we’ll get more of her in s2 considering the ending but also uh. like i GET what they were going for with the illyrians and her speech abt how she’s worried pike won’t fight for her if she’s not “a credit to her people” was good but like. DISCO DID IT FIRST AND NOT WITH A WEIRD “EUGENICS IS OKAY SOMETIMES” MESSAGE LIKE WHAT. like idk bro i cannot see this playing out in any way nearly as resonant as saru learning dozens of languages to prove himself as a kelpien, as him recording every single moment in his personal logs so that future kelpiens will never feel alone, as that whole arc for him tbh!!! like i’m queer i’m a girl (or enough of one) i’m an engineer and i’m the youngest on my team by a long shot so i GET IT BUT LIKE. eugenics are still bad!

anyways LMFAO. sorry for getting distracted by disco in my snw “review” it will happen again

hemmer was fun! i wasn’t super attached but apparently was enough to be affected by his death lmao. interested to see what they have for the actor coming up but also a bit cautious abt it because. uhhhhh see two points previous!

UHURAAAAAAAAAAA SHE WAS SO GOOD I LOVED HER!!!!! her whole arc was so lovely to watch and i love how she was given more depth beyond the glimpses we’ve seen of her in the past. also i hope she’s not leaving the show either???? also spock uhura friendship REAL! loved their music vibing session 🥲

ortegas was a delight i want more of her!

and last but not least spock. ETHAN PECK PLAYS SPOCK SO GOOD IT KILLS ME. GOD I LOVE HIM. but pls fix his sideburns LMFAO that shit is wack. mostly i enjoyed him n his struggles this season!! LOVED every time there was a michael reference they are so special to me 🥰 and i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again but like. i KNOW they’re taking spock on his journey to who he is and how we see him in tos (as evidenced by the last ep, where spock was closer to his tos version and uhura as well!!!) and i KNOW it’ll be rewarding once we get there but like. do we have to focus so much on his romantic endeavors. don’t get me wrong i DO LOVE seeing the face of concerned panic ethan peck makes ESPECIALLY when t’pring was like “i’ve been researcing human sex” but like. there are other aspects to humanity and the way it contrasts to vulcans!!!!!!! please!!!!!!! and sometimes it was done well and i had fun, like spock amok was pretty funny, but i was so sick of it by serene squall LMAO. like god just let the man grieve michael in peace!!!!

oh also last comment for now is that the episodic is fun and well done but tbh i don’t mind serialized at all either so. two cakes!! i do think the last ep did a GREAT job of showing that there WILL be growth for these characters, like i enjoy that it is aware that it’s a prequel!!

so yeah!! fun times, last episode fucked me up supremely by confirming spock’s importance, cautiously excited for s2, where is disco s5!

#f: star trek #trek: snw #also i talk abt disco alot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#t.txt

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tfw-no-tennis · 3 years

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mtmte liveblog issue 28

catch me completely ignoring dark cybertron lmao

yeahhhh so I'm just gonna skip dark cybertron bc no thanks. I did read the tf wiki articles for the issues tho, which is more than I did in the past, so at least now I kinda know what happened, though I had to suffer thru reading about dark cybertron to learn stuff about it. yikes. reading ABOUT dark cybertron further enforced my decision to not actually read thru it

anyways. the best part of dark cybertron was when chromedome threw prowl off that cliff. that was baller lmfao

a 1 page recap of dark cybertron is about all I can handle. thank you

ooh, the 6 months later smash-cut, I fucking love itttt

nautica’s here!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy I love her. also brainstorm, and I love their friendship sm

hvbjdkhfbshdfj god I love them. they have such a fun dynamic

everyone eavesdropping on a therapy session vhbhdjkhafbhkjsdf. hipaa laws mean nothing as usual

the casual reveal of captain megatron, oh god

the title fucking slaps, as usual. this is one of my favorites - ‘world, shut your mouth.’ great stuff, and a song title/reference to boot! and this being part 1: towards peace...chefs kiss

and then we flash back to 6 months earlier...yknow now that I'm rereading this, mtmte has a LOT of framing devices used - there's story-within-a-story, flashback/flash-forwards, storytelling with narration, etc...I love it

god hbvhjakdfbshjkdf rodimus saying ‘magic’ and then the little *magic = science rodimus doesn't understand HBGKJHSDBFKHJSDF my idiot boy ily

rodimus roasting prowl is my fav hbfjdkafshsbjkf ‘maybe the knights can help us find a cure for your personality’ ily sm

and then prowl agreeing w/rodimus a few panels later about megatron’s guilt...

optimus...don't you think that making yourself chief of justice is...maybe a bad idea...like, maybe there's a conflict of interests here...just a little bit of bias...a bit too much history, perhaps...

the fact that all the big roles in the trial were given to high-ranking autobots who were heavily involved in the war...I see that cybertrons justice system is as much of a farce as their medical ethics and patient confidentiality laws

the ‘you BROKE the MATRIX’ panel is so good bjhkdhfbajskhdf

rodimus: LISTEN dad I just wanna resume my space cruise with my frat bro ship I have no interest in politics

psychiatrists HATE him! local former warlord refuses to recognize the validity of psychological analyzation of people’s actions

ravage casually breaking hipaa laws and chilling in megatron’s therapy session like >:3

I love rung...he’s so good at like, passive-aggressively cutting right to the heart of someone’s issues, and he’s so generally mild that you can’t even really get mad at him

the sudden inclusion of megatron as a major character in mtmte is kinda jarring at first - mostly, for me at least, due in part because I didn't read dark cybertron so this is like, megatron’s introduction as a relevant character in general - but I feel like jro does a great job laying a lot of intrigue down from the very beginning w/his character - like, I already want to know more about what his whole deal is, even though we have, ostensibly, seen pretty much all of his story play out already

rung name-dropping froid...i remember that made me lose my shit bc cmon. FROID....jesus christ

rung and megatron: holy shit! we’re suddenly being drawn in a 90s-esque sci-fi tron-looking retro-futuristic style!

interesting that megatron sought rung out, and not the other way around

RIPTIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my favorite sharkboy is HERE

CREWDITIONS...YES....

‘we’re not allowed to take anyone who might remind rodimus of prowl’ vhbhjdkshfbhaskfd brutal

I love nautica so so much. a perfect autistic scientist after my own heart

I adore that nautica brought chromia along for moral support

hgvbjdakhfbhsj and then swerve saying that rodimus hates ‘trisyllabic names’ and nautica is like....but....‘rodimus’.....

and then nightbeat busts in to get all bbc sherlock on they asses hgbfhjadkfbjaskdf

WHY was perceptor at the crewditions if he was already part of the crew lmao

ooof, and then we have megatron flipping out when chromedome, a mnemosurgeon, shows up

also damn the autobots were rlly like okay so we wanna speed this trial up so lets just like, probe megatrons brain, that seems completely ethical, especially when you consider the history of shadowplay and stuff that our previous government had

I know important stuff is happening but megatron is holding a CUBE and I love CUBES so I'm distracted by that. C U B E

and then right after a scene where we see chromedome willing to perform mnemosurgery again - despite rewind’s like, dying wish for him not to - we hear that he’s been locked up in his room rewatching rewinds goodbye message over and over again :( I'm fucking depressed

I love nightbeat, he’s so funny and kind of an asshole

and then you see more missing letters behind them next panel...clearly nightbeat is right and there’s a mystery afoot...OR somebody is fucking with the ship’s lettering as a prank, which is a plot point I would absolutely buy

yeahhhh skids is right, chromedome is clearly Not dealing

the dramatic graffiti on megatrons door...I wanna know who spray-painted ‘die’ everywhere like they're reaper overwatch

oh god. whirl vs megatron

really cool red lighting tho

GOD its so brutal, all the stuff megatron said about how he told the cons not to kill whirl...and doesn't that end up being false anyways? so he was just saying it to dig at whirl, which is awful

also I'm never over the fact that literally everyone - including megatron and whirl - blames whirl for ‘turning megatron violent,’ as if the entire Point isn't that whirl was a tool for a corrupt system, and if it wasn't whirl it would've just been someone else, and megatron turning away from pacifism was inevitable given the circumstances, AND also a choice on his part, so he really only has himself to blame for his OWN ACTIONS

bye bye whirls right arm, see you in lost light

‘people never stop changing’ that IS something I say all the time...damn you warlord grandpa! how can you steal my philosophies?!

ohhh man and then rewind’s goodbye message being different....oooh

AUGH the fact that whirl was basically trying to goad megatron into killing him, just like he did in issue 1 w/cyclonus...It Hurts Man

also I do love the hint at who he’s talking to w/whirl shooting megatron with the bow and arrow earlier, and we know that atomizer is a fan of those

ok, but here’s where my philosophy diverges - megatron talks about throwing away his past and starting new, but I think that you have to learn from and build on your past...either way, megatron’s arc is one that I enjoy greatly from a character writing standpoint, and I'm excited to get it underway, especially w/how controversial it is lmao

big ole double-page spread...I like how you can pick out individual characters in the background crowd, which is crazy cause that's a LOT of people. also how come cosmos is so HUGE

phewwww 4.6 billion cybertronians died in the war, that’s INSANE. that's like, an incomprehensibly huge number. is there an estimate for their current population? I bet its not a lot. no wonder jro leaned into reproductive themes so much in mtmte/ll - of course the continuation of your species would be a concern for many if your numbers have been that greatly reduced

optimus w/his fancy tyrest-lookin crown

oughdajbfsbdf and the fact that megatron ALSO murdered 100 BILLION non-cybertronians...bruh. I feel like they maybe should've dialed those numbers back a little to allow his ‘redemption arc’ to run a little smoother lmao. but also I admire the commitment either way

and then we end w/megatron doing captain stuff, and seeing The Coffin...and we never did see rodimus in any of the flash-forward parts of this issue, did we???? I love how concerning that is. where's my BOY

also of course we gotta remember the warning from way back at the beginning of mtmte: ‘don't open the coffin’....

and so begins mtmte s2! man I love s2. I love mtmte in general lmao. s2 takes on the impossible w/the whole ‘megatron redemption arc’ thing, and I know that’s like, a divisive plot point and stuff, but from a writing standpoint I enjoyed it a lot...I think it was pretty much as well done as it could've been given the enormity of the task, and I thought it was a really interesting direction for the story to go in

also espec if it’s true that hasbro was like ‘hey jro put megatron in your story and give him a redemption arc’ rather than jro like, planning/asking to do it

anyways. I doubt ill talk much abt the disc horse(tm) here bc this is just for fun and also my own personal opinions and whatever, but I for one am excited to reexperience this stuff

so yeah s2 off to a strong start with some wild shit already happening! cant wait to read more!

#lj rereads mtmte

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