#RUN episode commentary

[emblazons]

So. Now that we're all finally on the "Mike Wheeler has been forced into a parental rather than boyfriend role for El" track...lets talk about THIS damn near direct parallel moment in (wait for it) both S2 and S4's Episode Three.

We start with the parentified male figure putting together an "eggo offering" and going to a moping El in her room in the hopes of getting her to open up after they've made a "mistake" in her eyes, which means she's stonewalling them, which they both comment on.

We then move into a conversation about an adjacent problem that both Hopper and Mike are trying to solve thinking it will get her to talk...which leads into a whole other issue that has been bubbling up (without her communicating it) in El's mind.

That's followed by El latching onto one word they say and then getting upset about how they don't understand her attempts to communicate her feelings...to the point that she moves into an argumentative position, puts them on the defensive, and demands (repeatedly) an answer to something that neither one of them can clearly give her (soon with Hop, love with Mike)—

—and we end with El shutting them out entirely...only to go off on her own to find the answers she wants by herself (her going to find Mama in S2...and (what turns out to be) Papa in S4).

We even get a clear marker that the S4 scene should remind us of something else with this line by Mike...and the fact that El is mirrored...while rebuilding her diorama of Hopper's cabin???

—like? besties. There is "on the nose" and then there's "we need you to notice this because it gives away a idea/framework you need to grasp to understand the wider narrative.” This one is definitely the latter.

Quadruple bonus points for the fact that this is what Hopper says about Mike in the S2 scene, when El says she wants to see him...because its what's most true about the parental role Mike has taken on in Hopper's place come season four.

#can’t even walk one episode in this show without running into a land mine in Mlvn’s relationship. goddamn LMAO #FREE MY SON MICHAEL I FUCKING B E G YOU #byler #< target audience #anti mlvn #el hopper #jim hopper #mike wheeler #st parallels #my st commentary #stranger things #parentified mike

[redflannel]

I mean you’re not wrong tikki but WOW… tough blow

#i mean she does know her owner #if anything this episode tells us that #at this point I really just need a running commentary of tikkis thoughts through every episode and all of Marinettes shit she deals with #cause honestly tikki is just all of us rn 😂😂 #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #ml spoilers #ml passion #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #ladybug #chat noir #ladynoir #adrinette

[dog-forest-spirit]

I know at its core inuyasha is absolutely ridiculous but the fact the tetsusaiga immediately got lighter the moment he had the mental fortitude to fight against his demon blood is so on the nose

#I know it’s over 20 years old but watching current anime to this is 😵‍💫 #whiplash #I really hope inuyasha gets an adaption that it truly deserves #plus I know he struggled with it a lot so it’s earned that he can. wield it again #but it’s such a loud ‘HES DEPENDING ON HIMSELF/TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIMSELF #SO THUS THE WEIGHT OF THIS BURDEN IS LIGHTER NOW’ #or smth #idk I’ve been up all day and I’m running on fumes #I actually need to be studying for my certification exam #episode 54 #commentary

[tippenfunkaport]

Re-watching The Battle of Bright Moon for the zillionth time...

Me: I think the best part of this episode is when Adora thinks her friends will abandon her because she failed, but they just hug her and tell her it's OK.

Kiddo, literally standing upright on the couch because she's too hyped on She-Ra to sit still: Wrong! The best part of this episode is all of it because it's the best thing ever made!

#spop #shera #she ra #lot of hype for that episode from the youth contingent #the little one was so hyped up on princesses she was just running around the room screaming Frosta! Mermista! Perfuma! Glimmer! #the battle of bright moon #i would do a whole liveblog with them but we've watched it so many times they just skip around randomly now #but the older one has watched it enough times that she has legit funny and interesting commentary #while the tiny one has no idea what is going on and just shouts out random things #they are both so valid

[ktinastrikesback]

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#sorry if you sent me an anon and I didn’t answer #tbh I really enjoyed the episode and it sucked getting on here and reading a ton of commentary on why it sucked #like it’s okay if you didn’t like it! #but why do y’all run to people’s inboxes to complain? #i never indicated that I disliked this episode or was upset about xyz thing #so why come into my inbox to be negative? #I’m just saying bc I know this has been an issue with others too #you are more than welcome to respond to an episode how you want but pls don’t come to me with complaints #simply put: I won’t be answering

[creamyforestmushroom]

I would like to thank all of Mappa for this week's jjk episode. They put their whole mapussy into it (I'm in severe mental anguish after the double whammy of chapter 236 and this episode)

#jjk s2 #jjk season 2 #jjk s2 ep9 #jjk ep33 #jjk gojo #jjk #i honestly have never simped so hard in my life #every morcel of feminism and aspecness left my body after that episode #fr tho some actual commentary #the animation was fantastic (as always) #that one rotating shot and the running sequence scratched my brain

[andromeda3116]

had an extremely vivid dream in the ten minutes after hitting the snooze button in which an impeccably-dressed british tutor with white-blond hair in a somewhat unfortunate haircut showed up at my door. he was very open about being transmasc, and joked about charging me 15% extra for it, but was instantly like "wait no i was joking" when i said "sure!" i showed him around campus, because for some reason i was a) back in college, b) studying... boston?, c) at a campus that looked exactly like my alma mater, and yet which d) was somehow still in texas

the clearest memory i have is of showing him an expansive food court (actually i think it was the cafeteria at my workplace) and him making the absolutely scathing comment about "can't imagine a better campus to get shot on"

so apparently in between hitting the snooze button and the alarm going back off, i met a really cool guy who, with the exception of needing a better haircut (it looked like a bowl cut) was instantly my best friend/potential love interest

and now i have to go to work

#honestly someone steal this character #he was great #i feel like he'd had a running dark sarcastic commentary on everything but that's the onmy line i remember #he was attractive and clean shaven and slender #and taller than me (although i'm short so that doesn't say much) #and a tutor in some kind of liberal art although i can't remember which #i wasn't surprised to find him at my apartment #which incidentally wasn't actually my apartment #it looked more like the house the author lives in in the ''calliope'' episode of the sandman #idk why he was *so vivid* in my dream and yet totally unfamiliar #i have no recollection of his face which i think is normal for dreams? #i remember seeing somewhere that you can't make up faces in your dreams; they're all someone you've seen before #i don't believe in premonitions but you know what? #if this means the universe is planning to send me this guy please do so soon

[lenievi]

“Don’t wanna hurt you. ... Doc, I don’t want to hurt you.”

I rewatched The Return of the Archons and at one point, you have Kirk being quite upset that McCoy got mind controlled and doesn’t remember him (and the Enterprise), and then you have this scene.

McCoy attacks him because Kirk and the rest aren’t of the Body and Kirk is forced to render him harmless, but he really doesn’t want to hurt him so he manages to get a sleeper hold on him, and then gently puts him down on the floor with “Aw, Doc.”

And it’s such a contrast to Spock just throwing another crew member on the floor lol

also look at Spock being all distressed, in a few second it makes him punch a guy lol

#tos nonsense #i really like this episode #it raises a nice commentary #also i've never noticed that when the red hour starts a woman runs towards kirk and throws herself at him and kisses him #in catspaw kirk is a bit more rough with mccoy but he also tries to be relatively gentle about it but when mccoy attacks for the second time #he punches him out of desperation lol #(hm they always make mccoy attack kirk never spock) #it's also funny in contrast to him just slapping spock several times because that's obviously the way to act as a commanding officer #when your subordinate is under an influence #this episode always makes me think about mccoy losing his memory and kirk not dealing well with it #(obviously with a better execution than that official novel where mccoy loses his memory) #mckirk #(for archiving purposes)

[ohtobeleah]

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#y’all are gonna get running commentary on this show #holy shit— #episode one!! #RRHHHEEETTTTTT I CANNOT #WHEN SHE PUSHED HIM IN I GASPED! 😱

[hxntresses]

Cue Velvet sobbing happily bc her friends are alive and safe-

#velvet running across the courtyard to tackle hug them when they arrive sdfghjk #she hasn't seen team rwby/jaune since beacon! #// episode commentary #rwby v9 spoilers #🤎 — in character. ( velvet )

[gaysails]

happy Better Break Bad day I hope mike and jesse have a scene together tonight and I hope mike has a nacho flashback in the middle of it 💔

#alternately I hope it's just an episode of breaking bad set in the lab with ghost lalo and howard giving running commentary the whole time

[fat-fem-and-asian]

goodbye snl season 47! u were really solid especially considering the very weird times we are in (remember that paul rudd episode)! i will miss kate, AIDY!!, kyle and pete, and all of the wonderful things they brought to the cast. have a good summer ya'll!!

#snl #snl liveblog #very much liveblogged in spirit but i like seeing the little commentary #cecily strong #all hail queen cecily soon to be longest-running female cast member #and kudos to kate for breaking the record with literally every episode she was in #also the ICONIC aidy bryant ily and all of ur stuff #and kyle...best of the weird dudes...underappreciated !!! #pete..with kim k.....and very funny obviously

[vilixpran]

they really said "we don't have time for slow burn romances, we're already trying to cram too much plot into this dumb show while also adding extra plots just for vibes" and sped up the wesper plot by having them have a one night stand before the show in order to maximize them making out as a treat for us and god bless them for that

#shadow and bone #i watched like #the first six episodes last night but idk when ill actually get to finish the season #but im keeping a running commentary on all the bullshit and ill dump it here after i finish #i just want to go into the tags and see other people's jokes but i cant #gosh why do i have to work full time and have a social life and therefore have no time to binge Netflix trash

[mx-melancholic]

Youtube commentary but for Turkish shows

#The 2 hr episodes #The 4000 episodes run time #the drama #turkish shows #a concept #movie commentary

[anonymous-dentist]

Here’s a scene from episode 8 of Run You Clever Boy (doctor who au) starring all three members of the Wife Haver Crew (Tommy named his stolen TARDIS the Wife Haver because of course he did):

“I’m going with Ranboo,” Tubbo announces, wrapping both of his arms around one of Ranboo’s and squeezing just a bit. No muscle underneath that jumpsuit, but the look on Tommy’s face is worth any and all bony discomfort.

“What?” Tommy squawks. His mouth is wide enough to catch flies, flipping moron. 

“What?” Ranboo flatly asks, gently wiggling his arm in an attempt to set it free. “Let go of me.”

Tubbo shakes his head, goes so far as to press his cheek to Ranboo’s bicep. “I want to see an alien planet. You’re going to take me to see an alien planet, Ranboo.”

“I can take you to an alien planet!” Tommy exclaims. “Tubbo, please.”

“You’re going to get all three of us killed if you don’t let go,” Ranboo says. “The cameras.”

He pointedly looks up at a corner of the room. Tubbo can almost make out a vaguely camera-esque shape, a faint blinking red light. 

“Fuck the cameras,” Tubbo declares. “Tommy, you can come with if you like. If Ranboo’s okay with it.”

“I’m not okay with any of this,” says Ranboo.

Oh, what a joker!

“Of course I’m going with you,” Tommy sniffs. He crosses his arms stiffly. Is he still upset about the height thing? “No more going off alone. We agreed.”

Technically, Tubbo was the only one to agree, and he wouldn’t exactly be going off alone if he was with, say, a tall and large teleporting alien man. But something tells him that he would get smacked for saying that by either party.

#run you clever boy fic #anyway this episode is a commentary on the evils of reality television and is where they pick up ranboo for the first time

[bykalopsia]

hmmmmmmm if i focus i might finish ryuki tomorrow!!

#kalo watches ryuki #this current arc of “shinji considers The Trolley Problem” is very interesting also i think tojo is hilarious #i have A Lot of thoughts about his system of ideals and why he joined the rider war as a proper rider and Especially his feelings about- #killing (him telling shinji “i might cry for you too”... my brain chemistry is changing) but also it's almost 4am (AGAIN) and i cannot #articulate anything whatsoever so good night. #also asakura was in a hastily thrown on suit for approximately 20 seconds worth of footage and i [COMMENTARY HAS BEEN REDACTED] #also i realized i haven't even said anything about goro trying to run asakura over episodes ago i really wanted it to happen