Sorry but am I the only one that thought that episode…sucked? Like it was straight up bad. Horrible pacing, no wrap up of all the random characters and plot lines they’ve thrown around all season (the tuskegee airmen, Westgates spying, literally all the guys beside like the main 4). (Seriously it makes me so mad that the three redtails got all of 5 seconds of screen time, almost no lines. Literally what was the point of introducing them other than to pretend the show was iNcLuSiVe) Even at the end of BoB and the Pacific you get a much better idea of what happened to all the remaining guys. In this they’re like what happened to DeMarco or Hambone or Brady or (insert character here) we don’t know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The concentration camp scene felt shoehorned in compared to how it was done in BoB. Unless that actually happened to Rosie (which i haven’t heard anything about) but it was just like.. ok? It all felt so rushed and emotionless to me. Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with MoTA but it’s been downhill for me since episode 6 or so.
i already made a little (read: long) post-finale write-up here, where i talk about the use of the tuskegee airmen, l'sandra, and overall editing/pacing issues i felt the show had. but i don't agree with the notion that adding the redtails was in any way insincere or trying to halfass being "iNcLuSiVe", i just think they suffer from this show's obvious time constraints. and to summarize what i wrote in my linked post, there's a limit to what white writers/directors/producers can do when creating a story about black people. there are some stories i'd feel uncomfortable with them telling on their own, truth be told. dee rees wasn't the sole nonwhite director, but she Was the only black one. i think she did her job well given the limitations and i appreciate that they let her direct those episodes, rather than leaving it up to a team of white people trying their best to tell a black story.
the worst i can say about the finale is that it didn't feel like That strong of finale, tho i wouldn't go as far to say it "sucked" or call it "straight up bad". i liked it plenty, it's just the weakest of the hbo war finales imo.
as for the concentration camp scene, artistic license was taken with both shows. unlike what's seen in the BoB, easy company wasn't the first to arrive at kaufering, and there's 0 mention of the all-japanese american 552nd who helped them liberate it). similarly, rosie rosenthal did assist in liberating those camps, though it would've been after the events shown this episode. idk if he saw one in that up-close way seen in this episode, but he could've (i should research this when i have time). plus, it would've felt weird Not having him acknowledge them at all. "shoe-horned" is an odd term to use here imo, as both scenes more-or-less center a jewish character (BoB's liebgott and MotA's rosie). the former show has survivors the characters can help, the latter shows no one left to help. the former has all of easy company there, the latter has rosie there all alone. rosie's scene felt deeply personal in that way. at the end of the day, both scenes are communicating different things. that doesn't make one better than the other when they aren't trying to be identical. (disclaimer, i'm not jewish, so i'd be interesting hearing from the perspective of someone who wrt whether or not they felt it was "shoe-horned")
i can understand if you've disliked the show post-episode 6 (and episode 6 was a very strong episode i'm ngl). eps 7 and 8 were weaker in many ways, even to me, so i get it. everyone's entitled to their own opinion (i'd be a hypocrite saying otherwise). just understand that this blog is run by someone who overall enjoys this show despite its flaws! basically, i encourage you to take this energy and make your own posts.
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Time for another AU doodle!!
Cello and Starline are the two chemical scientists of the group. While they may have explosive debates and can sometimes barely tolerate each other’s presence, when they’re in sync, they’re a devastating duo.
Their shared intellectual prowess can easily confuse anyone who dares challenge them on a subject. ..Just so long as they don’t end up getting into their own argument halfway through. 🤣
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I'M BACK, BABY! (jumpscare)
Sorry for the long hiatus, I was suffering from art/writer's block and wanted to take a break for a while to relax my mind, lol. So here's this rare post from me.
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This AU has been stuck in my head and I finally wanna share it with y'all. Basically a zombie apocalypse but with StoryBots and instead of zombies it's a computer virus infecting everyone. (I do plan on making art of what our main Answer Team would look like in this AU so keep your eyes peeled for that. 👀 And maybe a description of the world-building of it if too if anyone is interested :p)
I am making a lil story based on this AU and I already have the first chapter of it done. If this AU does well and more people want to see it then I'll make the second chapter and see how far it'll go. Don't get too hyped as I can't promise I'll be finishing it since coming up with plots is hard ;-;
(Tho if you give me ideas then I'll credit you and make a chapter with your idea sprinkled in, wink wink ;])
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As a multi shipper, but also someone who understands a little bit too much of comic Wally’s history, I think no one like plays enough with like the idea that Wally getting with Linda in the JLU universe despite his heartbreaks is like…sorta the point. Like in canon, Linda wasn’t like designed to be the end of all romance of Wally’s life but it just kind of happened.
Like the first time the two seriously met, Wally was a porcupine monster and they’re love was extremely gradual and like, both were kind of messes and they’re relationship kind of like gave the other insight that helped them expand their horizons, and such. Especially if like in this scenario they still have the longest Slow burn of all time.
And all I’m saying is like, I think Linda deserves to take her place as the best example of the “last girl wins” trope in fiction history. Like, the universe never designed them to be soulmates, but in so many of them they ended up soulmates through sheer spite and the age old verbiage that petty bitches fly together.
Sorry I just love wallylinda with my whole damn heart and JLU is our only canon with her and Wally together and she’s my girl, my mother, my specialist soldier.
Every time I hear about Wally and Linda's first meeting I laugh. Most of the ships I have met each other in a somewhat normal way. But then there's wallinda
And yeah. He should get together with Linda. Like Artemis, he deserves to move on
I don't think he'll ever get over Arty and the rest of the team, but I do think that, someday, he'll be able to move on like the team did with him (except for Dick. That guy was so in love with Wally it's painful)
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