Say what you want about Percy/Nico fans, but they have at least one thing going for them.
When Nico saw Percy at his scariest (decimating his father's army, defeating Hades and pinning Hades down with his leg and sword) Nico was stunned. Speechless. Not scared at all. One could even conclude that it was a massive gay moment for him.
When Annabeth saw Percy at his scariest (defending himself and Annabeth from Akhlys and trying to kill Akhlys) she was terrified of him. She cried. She begged him to promise her not to use that power (that just saved their lives) ever again.
If you don't love Percy at his worst (fighting and attempting to kill gods to protect you), then you don't deserve him at all.
I am BARELY resisting going full red-strings-corkboard on this season. And by barely resisting I mean not resisting at all here is an extremely long list of the events those pins would be marking out.
BigB getting a Task that was a different color than everyone else's. It's not just a randomly assigned Hard Task, bc Scar rerolled for a Hard Task and his was also just a white envelope. It's fundamentally different.
That task taking BigB away from socialization, and seemingly being an incredibly time-consuming and dull request. Of profound disinterest to any watchers.
The phrasing of his Task!!
Dig a big hole. All the way down. At least 3x3. Make it your base if you want.
Everyone else's are direct and formal - the only one with more than one sentence was Skizz's, with the rule clarification of "One attempt only." Bigb's Task is four short abrupt sentences. It is also the only Task to contain extraneous information, 'Make it your base if you want.' The requirements (at least 3x3) feel like an afterthought to mimic the numerical/specific demands of the other tasks.
Evo symbol on the face of the Secret Keeper statue.
The fact that there's a statue at all; the fact that there is a physical representation of what is assigning tasks that everyone must complete, when previously everything was always handled via commands and unseen RNG.
Grian talking to the statue, and (bc of his Actual Role as game organizer) acting as a mediator for the impartial decisions handed down, speaking for it.
Grian making one last bad joke and saying he doesn't know if it counted or not- depends on whether we the audience laughed.
Grian asking for task recommendations from the audience. The watchers are making the tasks. The Watchers are making the tasks.
Again I could be off-base, and I'm not usually even that smitten with bringing in Evo lore. I don't want a Big Bad really...but. It feels like something very unusual and intentional and cool is happening in this series. And I'd guess we'll know if theres something going on once we have more than one data point.
My largely unfounded suspicion is that there is another being (maybe Listeners, maybe something else) trying to reach out to the Players via decoy Tasks, and BigB was the first recipient. Get them alone, make them of disinterest to the watchers, and tell them something we don't get to know.
Because that's the really, really fucking cool part (if my wacky theory is remotely right): We're the bad guys. We're the ones giving out tasks - hell, we're the ones actively brainstorming harder and crueller tasks in Grian's comments!
If they actually made a story where the Players have to keep secrets from us I will be delighted. Bc that is the same genius bullshit that made Evo Watcher lore so fun
ngl he became more suspicious to me after he woke up bc his comments on seongbin were faaar too convenient for the police's narrative, almost as if someone was framing seongbin already (edit: almost as if... he knew the cops would be investigating seongbin) everything relating to juntaek in this case is just so convenient for the police to find seongbin guilty. there's no other word. it's convenient. a little too convenient.
"yujeong and seongbin convinced me to throw the box cutter away"
how convenient to pin the blame on the most vulnerable ones since yujeong was beaten into not talking and seongbin may have been manipulated during his seizures -> doesn't seem to remember much (or at all) so can't truly confirm if he would have said that.
"I saw seongbin smiling when I woke up during the rescue and it looked like he was happy because he thought I was gonna die"
that was... incredibly specific for a person who was starving got knocked out by a rock and fell into a fucking 3 month coma immediately after. I remember thinking something was off with this comment right away, like I'm not sure if I can explain it properly but it was so weirdly specific it seemed fabricated.
he could've said "he was smiling and it kinda freaked me out" , "I think he was smiling?"
["he was smiling but I don't know why"
"do you think he could've been relieved to see you open your eyes?"
"I don't know"]
so many variations of this exact event without pointing to seongbin so incisively (I don't think this is a real word but whatever)
and he said it at such a crucial time like jeongdo only needed to hear that without questioning it bc he's already so fucking obsessed with catching seongbin, of course the statements of a survivor that pin him for sure are gonna be taken seriously but they never stopped to question him???? not one "are you sure this happened? you hurt your head pretty bad..." (edit: also I'd like to add that there's no way juntaek wold know about the timing thing, but if he was already planning on framing seongbin from the beginning, coma or not he would've invented/distorted something and it just so happened that jeongdo was already deep in his seongbin-craze)
ALSO. his head injury . also extremely convenient that the attacker decided to use a full 5cm of paper sheets to "muffle the sound". while sure, muffling the sound would be important since everyone was around them and the sound of cracking a skull with a rock is pretty loud. and in doing this the attacker sacrifices strength/force for stealth. and because of this he conveniently didn't die. and also oh! how grand! he remembers everything!!!
like juntaek is the cops' trump card for arresting seongbin. he can lie as much as he wants and blame his head injury, and if he did get brain damage, that's also great for the cops!!!! like if they manage to do the minimum of investigative work and cross examine juntaeks testimony with hannas and find somethings wrong with juntaeks side, they'll be like "oh well he hit his head the brain is a funny mysterious thing..."
and if he's guilty he basically got himself an innocent card bc there's NO WAY they'll suspect him.
I'm not gonna lie I like the image of juntaek we have so far I like the rough rugged guy who's actually sweet and a little dumb and gets heated easily but hes also really kind and loves his grandma. that's right up my alley fr
but it also makes no sense that he basically has an immunity card. I'm not saying there's some fucking Kira levels of planning ahead all according to keikaku bs. if it IS him, I definitely think he didn't plan on being in a coma.it feels more like he took a gamble and the cops bought it bc they were so focused on seongbin (and THIS may have been planned a little)
I feel like Dr ju is catching up on it. not necessarily to juntaek but to the cops being wrong about seongbin. maybe she'll get that hot boyfriend of hers to represent him in court
i think we need to understand the gravity of how quickly Percy blames himself and his disabilities for the way his world is. how he's been made to believe over years and years that he's weird, that there's something wrong with him. Percy saying he should've been paying attention. Percy saying there's something wrong with his brain. Percy calling himself broken.. he's just a kid man
This is such a cute moment when i was vodwatching <3
context: YD interpreted what Hugo mistranslation was to be a confession of love and said she had a husband and Hugo said no no i actually have a girlfriend so now YD is asking how did they meet
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YD: "How did you get in a relationship with your girlfriend?" (or "where did you meet your girlfriend")
Hugo: umm uhh- We know each other from school
(YD squeals and Hugo laughs at her reaction)
Hugo: where did you meet your husband?
YD: A friend of mine was friends with a friend of my husband, they are best friends so they cupid the two of us, they connected us
Hugo: Do you have a child?
YD: No, I don't have children but I have two puppies
Hugo with a higher pitched voice: Oh doggy!!
YD in english and high pitched voice: Very very cutie! My dog very very cutie!