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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Not to sound all like “I don’t actually like the canon character” however clone wars Obi-Wan is mmmmm not what I expected. I certainly like him, but he doesn’t capture something that movie obi-wan does.
It could just be the uncanny valley-ness of his design and voice, however sometimes I feel like he’s too sassy. His sass is important but I really do think he’s missing those small moments of gentleness and compassion that made Ewan’s Obi-Wan stick out to me so much.
I like how clone wars digs into how Obi-Wan isn’t always a great person, how he’s loyal to the Jedi to a fault, and is actively aware Something Is Wrong with Anakin but can never bring himself to acknowledge it, as well as his fear that he’s loosing grip of Anakin and doesn’t know how to guide him anymore. 
all of that is so good and true to Obi-Wan, but I feel like his calm Jedi composure isn’t there anymore. This could just be a result of the fact that it’s an animated show and the characters are more animated, but I do miss the way he was just always vibing and the calm cadence he spoke in. he really felt like someone you would call a Jedi master, and while Anakin gets all of his recklessness and smack talk from Obi-Wan, those parts of him are just cranked up to 11.
And like idk. I’m torn. I like a lot of what clone wars does with Obi-Wan, the layers it adds to his character, but sometimes when I watch him I’m like “you’re my boy, but also you’re not”
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just watched ep 1 of Love in Contract and yummm excited about what's to come 👀
so happy to see ma boi Go Kyung Pyo back as the male lead, and boy is he serving the sofisticated looks 👌 I'm getting many Jeong hwan vibes from Private Lives and digging to uncover this mysterious backstory (aand relationship development — yesss they have me ship already, their chemistry is yum, even though not nearly close to Duk mi and Ryan, but let's see).
I felt it was a bit too obvious to throw the murder thing in the middle right away for the viewers, feels very much like bait to actually have it be a misunderstanding and later explained by the backstory. But it's cool to have the prospect of a romcom with some murder investigation thrown in. Curious to see how this will develop, hope it's not disappointing!
It's funny though cause I kept thinking about GKP very different and loose role in Chicago Typewriter and I felt myself wanting a sprinkle of that softness, sassiness and fun to come through at some point in the show as Jung Ji Hoo develops as a character. It was cute and funny seeing him trying to make an effort to communicate in his weird way in the phone call.
The whole "I only do words when necessary" and the hard time communicating/dealing with how others perceive his discourse is giving me many many Hwang Si Mok vibes and I'm sooo here for it and the character development alongside Sang Eun.
Ummm and queen Park Min Young is servinggggg as always. The looks, the emotion range, the feels. After the weird rollercoaster that was Forecasting Love and Weather (story-wise I mean; her acting was superb and she held that show), it's really good to see her in her nature in a romcom as Sang Eun but with a twist as she has to act within the acting due to the nature of her job.
Very very enticed about the whole backstory (and hello power drunk school head of Melancholy and Woo Young Woo omma 😅).
Can't wait for more!
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a friend and i very last minute decided we’d try to get tickets to stray kids wednesday and i’m literally unable to sleep bc i’m vibrating with the POSSIBILITY of it. like. it probably won’t even happen so i’m trying to not get my expectations up bc the resale tickets need to go down in price substantially. also i’ve never even gone to a big concert before and dunno how any of this works??? i need to calm down so i can sleep i have work tomorrow.
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