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911 ep 701 first watch reactions
(I don't think I have the energy to write proper Buddie meta, so here's me randomly squealing instead...)
LMAO In case you were wondering whether s7 of 911 will be subtle about their gratitude/debt to ABC for saving the show, the answer is a resounding no.
Also, I have lost a lot of respect for Frank as a shrink, but gained a lot of love for him as a sass king. "Did she win!?" The murderous look Athena gave him was priceless. I love her, too. She doesn't even need words to rule.
Man, nooooo. Don't give me a mutual "I love you" between Bobby and Athena like that.
"Go ahead and cut the green wire."
Everyone and their sister: "Green? You said Red."
9-1-1 is the superior comedy they slipped into our drink, while we were here for our weekly action, suspense, drama and familial love.
Buck broke off with Natalia, and the show really did it like that. XD Every single person who rolled their eyes at this pairing during s6, we were all justified, but wow. The show really is the only forum to respect the pair even less than fandom does. And of course we find out about it in the middle of a scene built around Eddie being half naked, Buck watching him, with the camera specifically turning so we can discover Buck was initially covered by Eddie's body, and the angle change reveals him, when the whole thing wraps up with Eddie welcoming Buck back to the land of the living... Yeah, wonder what made Buck feel alive again. Don't know. 'Tis a mystery. We were given zero clues...
"I want the honeymoon life." *cries* Chimney is just such a good, good man. And okay, expecting your whole life to be a honeymoon's a bit unrealistic, but Madney are living together and they have a child. They know this. Chim knows this, but he still wants to go for it. Aim for the moon, you'll at least land among the stars, right?
Bobby baffled by Athena's reaction to Norman and Lola is hilarious.
I like how Chim has a great idea, but it's still obvious that it's gonna go wrong, because he can't help going overboard with it...
OMG, that scene with Eddie recounting to Buck what Christopher's date was like... If I were to write my Buddie meta, I would serve a three course meal just from that. I mean, the fact that watching Chris hanging out with a girl he likes, makes Eddie compare it to "hanging out with his guy friends" (when there's no lack of interest in this girl... in fact, it turns out that if anything, Christopher's problem is the opposite of a lack of interest) is so telling. There's a reason why that's where Eddie's mind went.
But then also... Eddie's trust in Buck got to me, the way he went to his best friend (not his own gf) for help with Chris. But that was still played with half a smile. But then Buck sort of disses himself jokingly, and Eddie won't have it. "You didn't end up like you." He sees how Buck worked on being a better person, even when Eddie wasn't there for the worst of it, and he appreciates it, and won't let Buck forget it. Meeeep. I love them.
Oh Chim. I was giving you so much credit, and then you went and bought that outdoors jacuzzi. lol Still love him. That's what Maddie's reminding herself of right now, too. ;p
Poor Hen, she was great in this ep, but none of it was really about her, she was comic relief, both with Chim and with the red wire. Then again, she was amazing in this, like she always is with everything.
Eddie and Buck were both so good with Chris this ep, MY HEART. Buck with getting him to talk about what's really bothering him, and Eddie with realizing exactly what his son needs, and how to give it to him. They completed each other. Neither one would be helping Chris without the other one. Tell me again how they're not soulmates?
In conclusion, I love Bobby saying, "Let's go prove one of us wrong," when they're both right. Something WAS going on with Norman and Lola, AND Athena was using them to avoid him.
Argh. That scene of the ship and its passengers being hijacked was rough to watch. </3 I'll still be here to watch the conclusion of this. That's the power of 9-1-1 for you.
It def felt like a great kick to the new season. We had lots of comedy and fun, some great tension, some emotional moments (especially with Christopher), but all in all, it's still clear that the whole thing's a build up to next week. Are you excited?
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hey i saw your post about ao3 house style and i can totally relate to it, so i thought maybe you could share some wincest fic recs? please and thank u 🙏
you know what bud, I will indeed share some wincest fic recs bc you should rec the stuff that is good and leave the crud in the dust, right? Right. So -- here are uhh a number of recs as they occur to me, which actually read like a person wrote them instead of an AO3-trained algorithm of some kind. Plus I only rec stuff if I actually like it so consider these Z Certified or something.
The Fremont Street Experience by @nigeltde-fic -- a quick 1200 words that's a fizzing jolt of champagne right under the heart. New love that's just bursting with all that could be.
Anticipation fizzes in Dean's veins, dances in his fingertips. The sand shimmers, hazes, glitters. There's so much sky. It pours into the road at the horizon. -- see?
Miles Ahead by @egipci -- a fully-formed entirely real paragraph of 750 words in which we see Sam Winchester in all his want and wanting, and I want to crawl inside the narrative presented and live there year-round.
You were pretending to sleep and every once in a while a car would pass by and the headlights would fill up the inside of the car like midday and then I would look at you out the corner of my eye. All the way I thought about Mexico and you there sunburnt. -- I mean my god.
Countdown by @mollyamory-again -- another tight 1200 of just a normally-tense night that dissolves in sweet established-vibes intimacy. Brothers who feel like brothers and also an earned and real -- not hotness exactly but just adults who have sex who act and think like adults, which is not as common as you'd hope!
His fingers skate over Dean's skin in lazy patterns; they find their old places, and Dean shoves up to meet them, asking for more and getting more all at once. Sam missed him, Sam wants him; Sam is here, so they can do this, Dean wants so badly to do this.
Four Winters: I by @lindencypressbirch, who got deleted and so we'll just call her Linden. Stretching all the way up to 4700 words this time, Linden takes us through a godawful piece of shit of a day in which Dean Winchester Is Handling It, until of course he isn't -- but he is, because he has to, because what other choice is there? This one does a great job of showcasing the misery without lingering on it in a maudlin or tedious way. There's just the job, and then the next job after.
After another moment or two he scrubbed a hand over his wet face and went looking for his thermos, and the last of the cold coffee it held. Because they had power now, yes, but there was no telling whether they would have power later, and as they were clearly not going to be going anywhere for a few days, he had work to do before it maybe went.
The Fall Will Probably Kill You by killabeez, which is allll the way up to 7k and retains interest throughout. The big strength in this one is that Sam is competent, steady, believable-from-canon Sam when we get so much over-the-top meathead jerk or simpering babyboy who reads 15 when he's mean to be 40. I'm just blown over by all that SAM. This fic is really about Dean's misery in s7 but it's dealt with pragmatically, almost implacably; more ott than the show went on some details, but the overall vibe is nevertheless: they will get through it because this is who they are. I appreciate that always and forever.
He's the one with the secret, now. He hadn't meant it to be that way. But Sam asked Dean to trust him, and Dean said okay because he was sorry for using the F-word. Sorry for putting that look on Sam's face, for making him feel like a freak, the way he hadn't been for laying him out with his fist. It's ridiculous, how he still folds like a house of cards where Sam's concerned, no matter how many times he's told himself he won't do it again. But now he's stuck with the lie, and has no one to blame but himself.
That's probably enough to be going on with. If you read these, please leave a comment to tell the author that you appreciate their work, because it should be appreciated.
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As someone who grew up on the clone wars, but didn’t watch rebels—I can’t really comment on cohesiveness of continuity of the story—but in general do you think Felony (that cracks me up) could have fleshed stuff out better in terms of characterization if season was given 12 episodes instead of 8?
I think it could have helped, but ultimately, no, I don't think the runtime was the problem--because it's not just 8 episodes, it's 8 full length episodes, which would be the equivalent of 16 animated/half-length episodes.
I think there would have been plenty of room in these episodes to put more content in, because some of those fight scenes were hella long and not always that interesting, and I get that he wanted to write the story of how they found Ezra, but honestly he could have included some flashbacks if he'd wanted to flesh things out more, they wouldn't have had to be more than a few minutes long, and I think he could have spared the time for that.
I'm trying to have sympathy for this, because I know you can't show every little thing--think about the jump between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, that before we ever had The Clone Wars, that was a massive chunk of the story that just didn't get covered beyond showing the start of it and showing the Battle Over Coruscant!
But Felony isn't in the same place as George Lucas was--this is the Disney era of Star Wars, there have been multiple animated series, multiple live action series, and the Ahsoka series seems designed to have always been at least two seasons, so he had the room for it, if the equivalent of 16 episodes wasn't enough time.
Ultimately, though, I just don't get the sense that he was interested in the set-up, that it had been cooking in his brain for too long and he wanted to get to the meat of it without the ramp up for those of us outside his head. I mean, maybe I might be wrong, but I found his writing for TCW s7 to be pretty thin as well, so I think he's just kind of Like That for me these days.
There's plenty that's really good in the Ahsoka series! There's a lot I loved about Ahsoka herself, especially when she's prickly and almost kind of mean to Sabine, I love that she teases Huyang and clearly loves him so much, I love when she sighs and tries not to roll her eyes because everyone just has to make her day harder, the lightsaber fights were a lot of fun, her interactions with Baylan where he was hitting all her sensitive spots were delicious, I'm glad we got the show and I have great affection for Ahsoka's character in it!
But I also stand by my criticisms of how a lot of it was just very, very aggressively less than it could be and I don't think more space would net us anything but more of the same. (But I do enjoy when my dash is excited about the show because it reminds me that my experience is not universal and some people got an absolute charge out of it and I really want to read about exactly what they loved about it. And I hope that I can give that back to, say, someone who found the Obi-Wan Kenobi series kinda disappointing, but I was over the moon for it, it's okay that you don't agree, but let me tell you about my joy for it anyway, just indulge me for a minute--!)
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Okay, I have some thoughts.
If you enjoyed Season 7, that's cool, I'm happy for you. If you intend to play Season 8, that's cool, I hope you find some enjoyment from it.
But holy hell, Fusebox. Maybe S8 will be good - people keep saying it's all the even seasons that are better (although I still maintain S1 is one of the best as far as the writing, though it does lack in other ways - but first try gets a pass), at least as far as enjoyment and good characters.
But here's the thing. Season 6 had its issues for sure, and we loved to complain about certain aspects of it, but the characters were generally great and a lot of us enjoyed it for that.
But no sooner was it over than S7 was announced. We didn't have time to soak in what S6 was, to let the characters live in our heads rent free, to start missing the game and thinking about what we wanted from the next season. I remember between S2 and S3 there was so much hype because people couldn't wait for more content, every day there were memes on the Fusebox sub from people dying for information. Releasing S7 so quickly on the heels of S6 made it less exciting because people didn't have a chance to yearn for it.
And now they're doing the same thing with S8, because with AI they can just pump out content. We all know it's to get as much money as possible (whether from the few suckers paying for gems or from ad revenue), but it's a great way to actually kill people's interest in the game. Hardly anyone talked about S7 after awhile, partly because the season was boring, but partly because of oversaturation of content. Sometimes you can have too much.
It's just like the show. When it's once a year, everyone gets excited for it. The winter seasons? Meh. So then the ratings for the winter season were low, and then the people who watched the winter season were burnt out and didn't watch the summer season. They're diluting their fanbase and killing their own ratings by making too much content while also not finding ways to make it fresh and exciting (being a CA girl was an attempt, but it ultimately fell flat).
Do yourselves a favour and stop rushing to put out new content every few months that's AI-generated, and take your time to create something good written by actual humans. Please.
Personally, I deleted the app the moment I'd finished today's episodes. Unless something at Fusebox changes, I have no intention of downloading it again.
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Random Scar thoughts, but we should just make him as any mob in the game at this point. (Which, i think you've done, actually lol)
Pig/Piglin/Zoblin/Hoglin? He's got the ungligrade legs, he's taking potions to stave off the zombitication in the overworld, he's constantly forgetting them and respawning in the nether, and hes TRYING HIS BEST DANG IT
Cow/Moobloom/Mooshroom? It changes from season to season. in S7 the mycelium resistance kept trying to add mushrooms to him. He's absolutely living his life in the more open planes and centaur friendly setup of S10.
Chicken/Parrot? Avian/elytrian scar. Big wings. Constantly broken and unpreened feathers. Gem has to hunt him down to preen them. Bonus points if scar is 🤏 thiiis big.
Cat/Ocelot? What else is there to say.
Wolf/Dog? Reddog gets a new packmate! We can assign him the new dog types at random. Big tail wags. Very protective of him and his, ya know? Sleeping on his back in front of the fireplace.
Bat? He never lights up his builds because he just cannot tell that they are too dark. he's got great night vision. also bat scar gets to hotguy people upside-down while startling them in caves and I just think thats neat.
Dolphin/axolotl? We just love mermen. He keeps losing limbs as an axolotl and not batting an eye because its gonna grow back anyways.
Sniffer? Big man. fuzzy man. BIG. NOSE. Need I say more.
I can keep going, man. I just don't want to accidentally give you a freaking essay lmao
YES I LOVE ALL OF THESE.
Scar as a piglin brute specifically is so funky to me. I have an au with him and I've drawn him a bunch in the past. I should draw him again. He's so silly.
The cow one is so cute with the mushrooms. The idea of grian and the rest if the mycelium resistance trying to grow mushrooms on him is so funny sivkejgwjg I love that. He should be friends with the moobloom mumbo I drew a while back.
Chicken and parrot are both good options but consider: vulture scar. Or kiwi scar. Kiwis have teeny tiny wings okay. Consider that. No one even knows scar is an avian because his wings are tiny
Cat or ocelot scar is a classic. Silly little cat boy.
Dog or wolf scar would be so cute. He'd be wagging his tail 24/7.
Bat scar... extra hotguy action. That would be so fun.... consider: the reason scar is so clumsy is because his eyesight is worse and he relies mostly on his hearing and echolochation which isn't the best for him since he's still also partially human.
I don't like dolphins but axolotl scar would be so silly.... the whole bit recently on one of his streams where his hand doesn't show uo after grians prank kills him? Scar not even realizing he lost an arm until someone points it out to him.
SNIFFER YES. BIG NOSE. BIG FLUFF. I need to draw the nifflins again... scar is a piglin in that au but shhhh
Anyway I love all of these
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I don't watch beef (yet?)
Give me the propaganda.
Hiii welcome to the unskippable cutscene. Except it is skippable because sometimes I'm nice to the poor poor souls who follow me
This is VintageBeef (season 9 skin on the left, skin from all prior seasons on the right) and he is the most normal and okay completely sane guy on the whole planet.
This season he's dedicated literally hundreds of hours building map upon map to make Hermit TCG. But you know this part already, if you watch literally any hermit other than Hypno and Iskall (love you guys!)
Beef's claim to fame isn't mapmaking (usually) but is instead his storytelling. He's incredibly good at creating subplots and builds where the lore is implied rather than said, think the cloning machine from s7 that birthed Helsknight and Green Eyed/Skinless Beef.
Also think whatever his deal was in s8, because he played it completely straight the entire time and because of Moon's Big we will never get an explanation. This haunts me.
Look at him. Just look at him. Doesn't this intrigue you? It certainly intrigued this lovely author here. I'm never getting over this though. Especially because when he entered s9 it was just gone (with the exception of this little patch, which no one talks about, that I've only seen literally one artist draw, that VintageBeef has never addressed)
s8 he mastered conveying the uniquely helpless experience of even the character himself not knowing what was happening to him while the audience can maybe guess - leaving all parties involved unable to do anything to change the course of the story. Which I am normal about! And next topic!
Also for the sell of actually watching his videos? We all love a bloke who is just some guy. We all love a guy who is completely average at PvP, who isn't the inventor of all redstone (looking at you, Impulse, Etho and Tango!), who doesn't build photorealistic recreations of fantasy worlds as a hobby. We love a man of the people. A real 6/10.
His videos are all very relaxing - he is a very chill youtuber, who prefers to take his videos slow and steady (he built a cabin in the woods! it's the only "house" he's made since episode, like, twenty). Also, consider, kind man with deep voice. Thank you for coming to my TED talk I'll be here all night!
Moral of the story? Please watch VintageBeef he's great.
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ouattober2023 Day 3: Fav Story Arc
I have enjoyed this show for the most part, even including S7. I think the switch to half-season arcs was good to keep it all fresh and not drag out things for too long. S4 being split into Frozen and Heroes & Villains was fun. But there just is no question. The arc I care about most, that I go back to rewatching for funsies, that I have the most (positive) feelings about (and some concerns/criticism) - Season 1: The Original Curse. The intertwined storytelling of everything that led to Storybrooke springing into existence and how Emma gets to know the town, breaking the curse as she was meant to do.
Unlike other arcs this is far broader, I have to acknowledge that. The 22 episodes of S1 allow for far more sidetracking. And later some details get revealed to prop it up (for this I'm thinking about stuff like Welcome to Storybrooke, a long overdue look at what it was like for Regina before).
Personally I still go so far to say, that the first season of Once Upon a Time is simply A+ tv. I absolutely recommend this to anybody who wants to have some fantasy-romance-family-fun. Well, okay, so S1 has some very, very dark moments (Graham's death for example).
They won me over with a thing I didn't expect - the Snowing romance. I'm sorry, but a lot of tv is as sophisticated as the Avril Lavigne song goes "he was a boy, she was a girl". Bang, there, that's it, that's the couple. (And I do believe even this show got super lazy with this.) But here we have Snow White and Prince Charming. Yes, of course they are a couple. They need to be. We all know that. True Love! True Love's Kiss! This is the kind of given couple I do not expect to be shown any type of friendship formed. Or an explanation why they think of the other. It just is. But they give us episode 3 Snow Falls and I am so in. Because yes, okay Snow being a bandit and a badass with a bow, totally capable of fighting and taking no nonsense - definitely checks some boxes for me. But Charming is also fun and smitten with her and I can see why they care. She uses the powder to save him. And they both have other things in their life, they can't spend time with this random person - and then they live rent free in each other's head. I believe in the stupid "I will always find you" concept. It is used again and again and still it's always sweet, throughout the show.
If you watch only the Storybrooke parts it seems so old and tired how the nice mousy lady fell in love with a coma patient, making things up about him in her head probably. And then he's married, she gets called a tramp and omg this cheating storyline. But with the fairytale underneath? Knowing they are in fact very actually cursed? This is their punishment and it is supposed to be terrible and hurt? WONDERFUL! David can't just leave Katherine, the curse won't allow for that. There is no easy solution, this has to be painful. We get something like 7:15am and at the end of the episode Mary Margaret and David try so desperately not to see each other, they are both in the diner at 7:45am. ROMANCE!! I am just rarely sold so solid on the main couple, okay? So this was special to me and I indeed looked forward to the episodes to see how their (EF) romance played out. And omg Heart of Darkness is such a banger of an episode. Evil!Snow is the scariest person on this show. He didn'f take an arrow for her, he took an arrow from her.
Exploring Storybrooke is also fun for the viewer. Henry believes things are weird, Emma has rational explanations, we know the truth. It's a wonderful and quirky set-up. Small town filled with weirdness. With so many episodes there was time to put in Hänsel & Gretel for the non-Disney fairytale feel. Great. We had time to get to know Leroy aka Grumpy aka Dreamy (I always laugh when he and Mary Margaret go door to door with the candles) with his own ep (still think as a whole the seven dwarves didn't get enough recognition). You can look left and right and wonder what's everybody's deal is. The town feeling is so important. People with jobs doing stuff. It's something that is a bit lost in later seasons with the focus on the core group, who are all related to each other. I'm sure Archie was a very busy man in the background dealing with everybody else...
It's also amazing to rewatch those first episodes and be reminded that it takes a long, long while until the Evil Queen's motivation is explained. Daniel who? To see Snow as a girl blabber out Regina's secret to Cora - SHOCKING! To understand that these two could have been friends, ohohohoho. It's clear that Rumple plays a huge part in the whole Dark Curse thing, but I think S2 gets more meaty with him. Yet his presence alone and all the deals he keeps making add a lot of flavor.
The worldbuilding is slow, but in this the out-of-order presentation does work, because S1 is actually well planned. (Yes, OUaT is a show that suffers a bit from later additions and expanding lore, but the original promise doesn't collapse under the weight.) The nice parallel structure makes the episodes interesting and moves everything forward at a comfortable pace. They also know how to throw a curveball. Oh, this town is hidden and no stranger ever walks up? Well, yes, hallo here is this guy on a motorcycle nobody has ever met before and he knows things. And for quite a few episodes August is just there, a well planted mystery box.
In the midst of everything magical suddenly we have the episodes Red-Handed, Heart of Darkness and Hat Trick following each other. A werewolf tearing bodies into pieces (yes, thanks, spilled blood looks best on fresh white snow), a whole murder investigation and aforementioned gonna-kill-Regina-now-Snow, and oh yeah that moment where you start wondering if Emma and Mary Margaret will be killed by a psycho axe murderer and the Mad Hatter might be a slasher now... yep. this show can be a bit dark and S1 knew how to walk that line.
And one last round of applause for the fact that the Storybrooke side of the story works with almost no magic at all. Yes, Regina has a bit in her backpocket, but she's scary enough without it. Her scenes with Gold are so worth a watch. He still knows how to scheme.
Oh, and let me mention something I appreciate a lot. The show starts with Prince Charming waking up Snow White with a kiss. Fairytale! We see the happy ending first. Thrown right into it (without knowing the whole ordeal they went through to get to this point). And then we near the end of the season, ep 21 An Apple Red as Blood. Which is a great episode to me, because I love seeing Snow and her band of misfits storming the castle (group effort, we deserved more of that). This is where we finally see Snow biting that apple, fateful. Hey, it's a Sleeping Curse, cool. She did so willingly though. It was her sacrifice for the promise Charming would be save. Not even trickery (okay, maybe we need to talk about this thing with "it need to be taken willingly to work"). This is such a great bowtie to the whole thing.
This here is what it is all about:
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S7 E1 live reactions! (Except I cram it in one post cause I'm lazy)
Big props to whoever put a big dramatic abc logo in the flashback exactly one minute into the first episode airing on abc XD "abc presents a world television premiere" indeed
Damn I missed this show, I'm cracking up already at the therapist being all 🤨 at her movie trauma
Congrats to the national guard pilot pockets being more secure than the plane itself
NGL I really thought that plane would end up hitting the ship
No one from the national guard was able to match the arrival speed of the firefighters??
Oh hey, another Eddie disarming an explosive scene! Throwback 😊
SGAKFHD I looooove the joke of someone giving bumb disarming instructions badly
Awwww I feel a lil bad for pilot Joe but he's the one who volunteered bomb disarming instructions
SGAKFHD THEY JUST RECLINED THE CHAIR?? GREAT WORK CHIM, MY MAN
And there's the parallel between the crew and the case, which is still one of my favorite elements of this show
CHRISTOPHER FIRST DATE PROUD OF HIM
Honeymoon phase to Athena and Bobby was a good transition
Man, Angela Bassett is gorgeous 😍
THE FREEWAY SIGN COUPLE, THATS SO GOOD DGAKDHSHF
So many callbacks in one episode, this is great
The cruise has assigned seating? Wild
👀 what's up with Julian, why is Lola making faces like that
Rent bicycles? On a cruise ship?
Athena's anxiety is so fair, their life is chaotic, easy to be afraid of the slowdown
NGL, a date spreadsheet would be enjoyable to me
CHRIS DHDFFYTHD WHAT DAMN OKAY IM MAD AT HIM ON BEHALF OF THE GIRLS BUT ALSO IMPRESSED SHFKSHDH
"where does Chris get it from" Buck maybe? 👀
EDDIE DRAGGING BUCK INTO THIS PARENTING MOMENT SHFJSHFJS
Oh Athena has that found a case face XD
Okay I saw posts about the AA scene being funny and y'all weren't lying 🤣
Okay sure Eddie ASMR to make her vagina unclench, why not, this show is so fucking weird sometimes
Not a fan of the womanizer Chris logic being that his mom left. What about his grandma? His aunt? The best babysitter? There have been women in his life who didn't leave him. Idk, it's a weird mix of I can see it And it feels like a stretch
👀 what the fuck is happening on this cruise
Chim 🤝 Bobby: list of dates
BOBBY'S LEGS ARE SO WHITE LMAOOO
I really hate Julian's voice
There's no way that's Lola, not with that hat!!!!
ATHENA ALWAYS RIGHT NEVER WRONG LOVE HER SO MUCH
Chimney helping fish a passed out, penis stuck man out of a hot tub and then getting his own hot tub is wild
HOLY SHIT NOT JUST BAD WEATHER ON THE CRUISE BUT A FUCKING RAID OKAY TRULY CENTER OF CHAOS COUPLE
That's where it ends?? Okay fine guess we'll see how all that goes next time lol
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No liveblog of Grian’s episode because my sister woke up so we watched it together and liveblogged it together. But have some thoughts compiled anyway:
I love the “going through the rift” animation Grian included, and also the fact that he showed every empire at the start before continuing with the episode
The culture shock between the hyper-capitalist hermits, and the emperors for whom diamonds are only good for tools, and otherwise they trade items directly, is going to be super interesting going forward
Grian reading Jimmy’s laws, specifically the one about peace between Empires and saying “that’s why we’re here, we love peace on Hermitcraft”. Reminder that this is the man who has instigated or otherwise played a major role in every war/rebellion/conflict/resistance since he joined the server however many years ago now...
The prank on Pixlriffs!!! Honestly it was getting to the point where I was almost more excited to see what the recap would do with the crossover than the actual crossover itself, and Grian and Impulse’s prank on Pix with the Hermitcraft Recap music and the “this week on Empires” was absolutely brilliant. Especially Pix just... running away from them. Cannot wait to see Pix narrate this in a few days time
Also the fact that this week’s recap also needs to cover the King’s Gauntlet stuff and the end of that storyline... and then also the start of this storyline, in the same week
Also at least we now know why it was such a rush to finish up the King’s storyline, so it wasn’t hanging over their heads while half of them were on Empires
Also the fact that starting a new server with a prank (or otherwise just messing with someone) is now standard for Grain - in S7 he pranked Scar with the zombies, S8 was the Boatem Pole (granted that was also pranking himself as well as the others), S9 was the messing with Scar and throwing him down the hole... yep, definitely on brand for Grian to prank Pixlriffs before doing anything “useful” here
I loved seeing Grian and Impulse genuinely admiring Pix’s redstone contraption - and due to Mumbo’s latest video I now have a 5-10% understanding of comparators so I understood slightly more of what Pix was describing it as haha
I love that Grian told Oli he lived far away and that his base was small so it wouldn’t be that hard to move it, and then Oli told him it took a month for him to build it. Grian was like “okay if you want, I can move it for you in a day. I can rebuild it for you at that hill and we can be neighbours if you like”, and Oli thinks that might be nice. But the thing that stands out is like. Yes Oli welcome to Hermitcraft Insanity. You’re talking to the crazy builders, and Impulse (who was also there in the conversation) is the one who famously moved his entire base in S7 up by one block. Yes something that takes you a month quite literally will only take the Hermits a day or so
If Oli takes Grian up on this and then just opens his next episode with “yeah so a Hermit fairy came in the night and moved our entire base and we’re here now” would be funny
Grian trying to follow along with Empires lore, and make “Hermits” be a species, but struggling to think of what that could be, other than hobbit-ish. He’s like “yeah so we’d be a bit shorter, and Bdubs even smaller”, I love it so much.
“It shouldn’t take us too long, with all the Hermits on the one team, that’s unprecedented” yep you’re usually too busy starting wars Grian lmao
“The Hermitcraft-Empires Invasion - I mean crossover” great save there Grian well done
And then - the Portal broke on both sides. I knew it was glass on the Empires side so they couldn’t go back, but the fact that it also broke on the Hermitcraft side, so no one else can come through later? Interesting....
#hermitcraft#empires smp#my liveblog with my sister had many more paragraphs gushing about the recap prank with pix#but i decided to cut it down here so the post wouldnt get too long with all the rest of my thoughts#im hella excited to see where everything goes from here its all so much fun#so exciting!!!!
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10, 15, 35, 43 for the Trek ask game?
Thank youuuu and sorry for the late answer! Love these questions <3
10. Which alien pet would you most want for your own?
Honestly I have always been very charmed by Worf's childhood pet domesticated targ (portrayed by Russian wild boar Emmy-Lou😂) - but I would happily adopt a Bajoran hara cat, Cardassian vole, or that cute lizard who climbs over Jadzia on the jungle planet
Anyway look at this lil guy!!!
15. Top 3 favorite alien crewmembers?
Oooh, this is tough. Am I choosing my favs overall, or based on how much I like their alien-ness specifically? If it's the former, then Kira, B'Elanna, and Dax - if it's the latter, then Odo, Worf, and Saru (Discovery). (Deanna and Kes leaving you out Hurt Me but they didn't write you alien enough for the latter list!! Still top 5 favs though <3)
35. A minor character you wish had become a main character?
Okay let's talk about the long-form arc potential both Seska and Suder had. Literally my favourite thing about the Suder episodes is the questions about restorative justice they raise- is there any point in locking a man up after he's sincerely reformed and no longer dangerous? Is it possible to be? Is it fair to the victim's loved ones to give him the right to roam around like nothing happened? What sort of thing could count as "reparations" in Voyager's situation? What if they really had been stranded with him for 75 years? Would he ever have been able to move on from what he did? What sort of hobbies might he take up in his new life? What would it take to win Janeway's trust? Would the victim's friends ever forgive him? Would he rather disembark the ship and start anew somewhere, or remain with his own people? Would he have been able to make new friends? Are you reading this string of questions in Jonathan Frakes's voice too? Would our main characters all have been able to get past his actions? Would it cause disagreements? How would his relationship with Tuvok have progressed? What issues would their getting back to Earth early raise for him? ... Aaaaand then the show decided to give us none of that😂 (well. except for Jonathan Frakes in a brief cameo that is :D)
As for Seska I really don't know what they were thinking with her lol. She starts off as such a promising villain- literally the "reveal" in 'State of Flux' gives me chills! And you can actually understand her actions, her unexpected attachments to Chakotay and the crew. Instead of the whole pregnancy subplot (which made no sense) I would've loved to have seen her grow increasingly afraid she'd made a mistake in teaming up with the Kazon, and try to defect back to Voyager - the questions that would raise would be similar to Suder's, though in this case a bit more personal for characters like Chakotay and B'Elanna. Is she for real? Is she just doing this to trick them again? How do the Bajoran crew members feel about this? What would it take for her to win back people's trust? Say she does something messed up again, does she get a third chance? Would she make friends with Seven of Nine; someone she never personally betrayed who is also seeking redemption for past actions? Society if we'd gotten her as a regular character all the way till S7 - like an actually great redemption arc, where she ends up on good terms with a lot of them by the end (sort of like what they did with Garak on DS9) - ahhh the possibilities!!!
43. Order of shows from most to least favorite?
This is hard😅 okay I'm going to tier rank them that's easier!
Fav tier: DS9 (It's the best <3)
Second tier: TNG (I can't not put it here this show literally changed my life) & VOY (has wonderful characters and has also become very important to me)
Third tier: TOS movies (love them), Discovery (I have developed a nostalgia for it by now. Plus Michael is blorbo!)
Fourth tier: TOS, SNW, Enterprise, Lower Decks (shows I've enjoyed but only really seen once so far) and I guess the AOS movies lol (imo 'Beyond' is the best one)
Fifth tier: Picard (if it was just the first season it would've been higher! I actually liked that one) & the TNG movies (ugh)
(I am yet to see TAS and Prodigy)
#thanks again for the ask friend <3#nothing like tier ranking the Starred Trek shows to distract you from feeling sick :)#(nothing serious everyone's just been a bit ill due to water contaminations lol)#also yes. I am aware that we never actually got to see a hara cat on screen#but it is a cat! so#it stands to reason I would like one :)#ask game
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bestie how do you survive a slowburn😭 this is my first time rooting so badly for a ship and i'm swinging so wildly between polar opposite scenarios it's dizzying
i mean part of my mind is like 'this isn't happening, the showrunners have a different direction in mind for buddie and that's fine, because canon or not whatever relationship does exist between them is beautiful'
meanwhile the other part of my mind is cooking up theories like 'okay so the reason why their interactions in 6a were limited is because buck is going through his sperm donor arc and looking for happiness arc, and these will both be beautifully resolved in one go when towards the end of 6b buck realises he already *is* a dad and the things that make him happy (eddie and christopher) have been with him all along and eddie will dip his toe back into the dating pool and maybe realise stuff about his sexuality and then in s7 we'll see a proper romance blossom'
i just really really love them😭
*HUGS* Bestie, for real, there is no surviving a slow burn. If we survive, then it’s not really a slow burn. It might be a mid burn, at best. Slow burns are DESIGNED to kill. And the reason why is how good it is when we finally get revived with eventual canon and our ship being together!
But I feel you, the bouncing back and forth between faith that it will happen and despair that it’s not and might as well cut our losses now, while we still can, it’s real and also an in-built part of the experience! And there is no answer before the roller-coaster ride we’re on is ready to give it to us. So if you’re in a place where you know you can enjoy Buddie even if they will never go canon, that means you’re actually already doing really well for a slow burn shipper! XD Plus, another thing that might help, is that whether Buddie goes canon or not, in s6 or not, I do believe Buck’s storyline from 6a will have a resolution in 6b that will involve Buddie to some extent...
You know what? I really love your take and would be so here for things to unfold that way and for canon Buddie in s7. I really love them, too! And I guess that means I will take them as canon even in just the last 5 minutes of the 13th and final season, if that’s what they give us. I will even take Buddie not going canon, so long as it’s clear the Buckley-Diaz family unit is still in tact and there is no one in the world more important in Buck and Eddie’s life than the other one. I’m that whipped.
Hope you have a great day, and that your vision is the one that comes true for all of us! As always, here’s my ask tag. xoxox
#buddie#911meta#buddie meta#911 meta#9-1-1#evan buckley#eddie diaz#edmundo diaz#evan buck buckley#911#christopher diaz#connor#connor is basically my tag for the sperm donation storyline#ask#anon ask#*hugs for you first time slow burn shipper!*#911onabc#911 on abc#911abc#911 abc
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Thoughts on Faith in BtVS S4/AtS S1, Tara and Anya?
Oh good timing! I was just thinking about how I'm yet to note how much I enjoy Anya's character. So let's start with her. I don't have a ton to say apart form really enjoying her bluntness and the refreshing presence she brings to scenes. It felt a little strange when they started humanizing her and making her part of the group but she's charming, and though I don't think the Xander relationships bodes well for her I want good things for Anya. I vaguely remembered references to her as one of the Scoobies but then she appeared and I was like, surely this isn't the same character? It's an interesting route but I can see why they kept her on. Anya really is a delightful presence and I'm glad she's a series main now and in the opening credits.
Then, Tara. I don't think enough has happened with her so far for me to really have much to say. I like her and look forward to whatever reveal is coming about her backstory, based on the deliberate sabotage of a spell earlier on and whatnot. She might be a tiiiiny bit too bland so far but Oz wasn't the most exciting ch either. I can take or leave shy characters, now that Willow is more assertive than her high school self the balance works out. I do wish she had, just, more, but hopefully we'll get to see more of her before, well, you know. Because it would feel especially cheap if they just buried her without properly flashing her out first. I know she's a fan favourite and I understand, I just hope she gets more in the series, possibly outside of Willow. Her scene with Dawn in s5ep2 was sweet, maybe more of that.
And Faith, oh Faith. The bodyswap episode was great but I have a bit of the same problem with Faith's heel-face turn as I did with her face-heel turn. As in, the spiral there felt a little too fast and too intense with no going back, and here she descends into darkness once again when appearing on Angel before coming right back up. And look, her scene with Angel is great, the breakdown is effective, the following ep good at showing how it's gonna be a process. I do think her, sigh, sexual assault of both Riley and Buffy, coupled with her previous aggression towards Xander is very unfortunate, to say the least. I still like her and want to see her fight on the side of the good guys but it was impossible to support women's wrongs there. Still, she was hot as always and had some great scenes in Buffy s4, and finally peaked and turned back in Angel s1. I guess my main gripe is now she barely has any eps left, as IMDb might have told me, and this is just when we'd need her on Angel. The scene with her and Angel at the end of s2ep1 was very, VERY sweet and it's cruel that they're giving me that only for, what? For Faith not to return until season 4, is it? Or Buffy s7? That's just cruel.
Sigh, okay, I have more thoughts and feelings on Faith than what could be expressed here but I'll try in subsequent posts. Everyone knows I went into Buffy wanting to be obsessed with Faith and I am, I'm just also a little frustrated with how her ch was handled at times. And now that we're at the real juicy bits where she could become who she was meant to be, she'll barely have a few episodes to do so. We need a full season of Angel where Faith is an on and off presence, being sponsored by Angel and all. Goddamn. I guess I'll just have to read the comics.
#i'm frustrated with faith because i love her#and want better for her#bothersome when she'd decentered in what is ostensibly her story or at least substory#buffy asks#btvs#anon#faith lehane#the hell are the other two's surnames i was thinking about this today#anya jenkins#tara maclay#thanks tv tropes
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Ninjago headcanon/theory:
Master Wu is just actually stupid. I mean this with love but like hc he’s actually just not very bright, and other older characters like Garmadon and Misako know that, but the ninja just believe that Wu is wise when he’s actually making everything as he goes along. Like instead of the whole “he has a plan in the end” he really is just as clueless as everyone else. He’s impulsive and reckless and doesn’t think things through a lot of the time. And that’s okay, I just think that the idea of him being a knowledgeable and wise teacher isn’t entirely accurate.
Examples:
Doesn’t know where Kai and Nya lived / whether they existed, despite knowing their parents
Trains Cole, Jay, and Zane before finding Kai despite having known that tje green ninja prophecy included at least four ninja, not three
Tries to get the 4 golden weapons despite the fact that he already placed dragons to protect them: why the dragons if he was just gonna collect them
Unites the weapons despite the goal was to keep them separate
Literally takes the last golden weapon to garmadon??? Like why? If Wu decided to go anywhere else then Garmadon would have had a harder time getting the last weapon
Thought Garmadon was actually gonna try to wield the four golden weapons
Knows that Lloyd is on the streets opening tombs but doesn’t try and pick him up and take him in sooner
Thinks that one of the original 4 ninja is the green ninja when they are depicted on the prophecy alongside the green ninja (how would one of them be in two places?)
Thinks he’s gonna die and then runs off alone to do so (when he was facing pythor and the great devourer). I mean I get that he was trying to save the ninja but like idk, I think the four of them would’ve been able to handle a snake
Is literally the son of God but can’t afford rent somehow?? I thought you had lived for years and are also a war hero why are you broke is this because the tea addiction?
Always gives ninja lessons in riddles which is kinda a weird way to teach, and usually leaves them to fend for themselves (which I get is supposed to make them more independent but like Garmadon was a much better teacher imo, cuz he was a lot more present ig)
Never mentioned that Nya was a water elemental, or that he knew most of the ninja’s parents
Adopts a child but like… trains him to be a warrior. With good intentions sure, but I can just see Wu being like “what should I do with this weird child…. Hmmm…. Ninja…..”
Kicking Morro out, whilst he was pretty unstable. Like ig Wu didn’t have bad intentions again, it’s just another example of him not thinking that through, because he basically disowned Morro
A lot of s7, just the facing Acronix alone, again never working out where Ray and Maya went, pretending to be crazy for reasons I can’t remember
Telling the ninja to get off their butts and start training despite Ninjago literally having zero crime rates (like I get it, it’s good to stay sharp, but they also caused the conflict of the season just because they were rushing to pick a fight), being irritated for the first part of the season and then being kinda not useful for the next part, basically giving up after learning that aspheera stole Kai’s powers, and not telling the ninja that the travellers tea could not return them to Ninjago (I mean i guess his goal was to just live in the never realm with Zane, and by the end of it, the ninja didn’t give him a moment to say, but like, he still fell for it)
He was a kid, but like also him in the aspheera backstory, is shown to be a little less careful than Garmadon
Moping in s13. This is intentional but I think it still counts
All in all I think that these are okay mistakes to make but I like the idea that Wu really isn’t that wise, despite what the ninja think, he’s more of the impulsive loner type (much like Kai actually, or even Lloyd). However, Garmadon is actually much wiser and mature, I mean, Garmadon got bit because he cared about being responsible and Garmadon was the one who warned about Aspheera. It’s actually endearing to Wu as an intellectually weaker character, as we see him turn to Garmadon when things go awry (like when Lloyd got kidnapped), and he can be very unsure of himself. He’s probably trying his best to fulfill his father’s footsteps or even Garmadon’s which makes him act like he knows what he’s doing and that he’s very intentional, when actually he’s just trying his best and has no idea whether it’s gonna work out. Idk I think it’s an interesting characterisation of him that I think isn’t really noticed. But idk, thoughts?
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unironically i kinda hate how sonic feels and acts in newer media (specifically prime and a bit of idw)
rant/tangent time wooo
note: might be a bit unorganized due to this being on my old azz galaxy s7 edge lol
alright. So i just finished reading the idw sonic comics allll the way up to the the most recent side comic, Scrapnik Island #4.
So like, while reading the main idw comic i kinda felt like.. sonic was just kinda a dick near the end for no reason??? Like yeah hes mostly fine in the beginning but once we get to the point where people put these high expectations on him and hes basically under a lot of pressure (which i understand) but i feel like the way they are characterizing him is just :
"haha sonic doesnt care and acts on inpulse like a dick and doesnt recognize the shit hes done and is basically a little shit lmao he also is just kinda and idiot and seems to forget things on the basis of when it most convient for him !!!"
i didnt really feel much of it in idw until the later chapters, but it started to get prevalent when i was reading these in between me watching Sonic Boom. (The Show, which is my favorite outside of AOSTH.)
Now personally, i think Sonic Boom's charactasation of Sonic is probably the best one we have had in a long while. Although its a comedy, i like how sonic is aware of what's going on and takes into account what his friends are suggesting.
Like the episode where he does something that affects a citizen of the town, (minds going blank on what the towns name is lmao) and when his friends (and the other villagers) let him join the whole "talk about our feelings" club thing,
at first, he opposes the idea of apologizing saying that calling people "people" isnt bad, (ik this was played for jokes it still supports my argument.) they encourage him to recognize that what he did was wrong,, and they tell him to go apologize, and he does, albeit with a bit of "ok fine i admit it pls go away" but atleast he doesnt outright deny it or seem stupid for trying to do so and failing.
Thats my issue with prime, sonic just seems like an oblivious idiot who doesnt recogize how to read the damn room and listen to his friends when it matters most. He acts like a tiny child, which doesnt make sense to me, because hes been through adventures and times similar to this and for most of the newer media they dont wanna recognize sonics shortcomings and upbringings as a character at all??????? Like i think frontiers got it right with the story, and sonic who understood what was going on and stopped every once in a while to smell the roses and help his friends!
But in newer media outside of frontiers, it seems like sonic doesnt know how to smell the fucking roses every once in a while and stop thinking on impulse, like they are making him seem like he only acts on impulse, all the damn time, with no regards of what was or is being said to him or even taking it into account???
Like yes, we fucking get it sonic can sometimes act on impulse when hes in a stressful situation thats what makes him seem real, makes him seem human.
But, when you make him into this douche canoe who acts on inpulse all the time, disregards his friends when it matters most, and casually dissapoints them when ever he feels like it, or when it benefits him (cough cough the picnic scene in prime), i dont think most people would want him to have a good time, which im sure is the reason why most people, including myself, thought sonic deserved that punch from shadow. (who is great in prime btw, was okay in boom too but needed more time to flesh him out outside of 3 eps hes supper immature and i love him lmao) He's a dick. And i dont like him.
So, i hope to god they rewrite sonics character in prime s2 because he was unrionically just a giant fuckin dick instead of a snarky but caring 'anti hero' (like in boom) and that makes me really mad grahhhh
[also side tangent i dont hate prime (lemme make this clear) this whole sonic rant was just me nitpicking how sonic is currently in media outside of frontiers
ALSO ALSO SIDE TANGENT 2 HOW DID THEY FUCK UP SONIC SO BAD BUT GOT SHADOW ALL GOOD AND SHIT????? WHATT???? BRO THEY ARE POLAR OPPOSITE CIRCLE GRAPHS WHICH OVERLAP THEY ARE NOT THAT HARD TO MAKE SOBS INTENTLY]
#myst1calrambles#sonic the hedgehog#sonic#sonicidw#sonic prime#sonicboom#sonic rant#sorry for ranting so much grrr#i was tired of this thing#had to get out at some point#prime just made me rly mad#sonic prime spoilers
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Hermit Alignment: Zedaph (Archival AU)
Okay so I've been working on planning, and I just??? Can't stop thinking about this? Because I have Very Strong Opinions about the alignments of a few hermits in this setting and Zedaph is one of them. I think it could technically be considered a spoiler, which is why I'm holding back on a complete alignment list, but gosh I want to talk about this one. Reasoning (potential spoilers and all) beneath the cut.
Okay so. I mostly see Zedaph written as Spiral-aligned, sometimes a version of the Distortion and sometimes not. And this is great! I love this! But my Zedaph is not Spiral-aligned.
My Zedaph is Eye-aligned.
"But why isn't he Spiral? He fits it so well!" And he does! Like I said, I love those interpretations. But he also fits the Eye, in my opinion, because the Eye isn't just dry academics and dusty old books.
The Eye is about discovering and experiencing, and while that may not quite fit s7 Zedaph and the Cave of Contraptions (can't say for sure, I'm a bit fuzzy on that one since it's been a while), I do think it's a good fit for s8's experiment theme. I also think it applies to s9's "bizarre challenges" theme, since when it comes down to it, most of those are about the experience.
Also just. The observation chamber stuff. There is No Way that isn't just the most Eye-coded thing in existence. Sticking your peers behind a glass wall and observing their stress responses while you throw random challenges and questions at them? They are being Known and Perceived and that has Eye written all over it.
This does not mean he would make a good Archivist, however ^^; he just doesn't care enough about the big picture and connecting the dots. He wants to learn and experience as much as he can with no real direction behind it, where an Archivist is meant to be pursuing a specific goal even if they have no idea what it is.
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SaL anon here my friend, saying hi after a long absence!! I don't know why this summer is kicking my ass so much, I've been in a rut of absolute apathy about everything, including putting in the effort to rewatch my comfort shows. But things are getting better and sometimes its the small things that get you back up (for me specifically its the return of Puppet History, an absolute gem I highly recommend).
Anywho hope the summer is going well for you despite the summer and global warming of it all. Don't know about you but I'm still pretty bitter about 911 and really the way so many of the shows we've enjoyed were mishandled so badly. And with the writers and actors (very rightfully) on strike it could be awhile before we get any sort of idea what's going to happen in s7 so I figure we've got time to get some of that bitterness out through some salty competitions. So to start which series finale had the worse ending, RNM or 911 (I know 911 isn't over but its over on fox so it kinda counts)? A lengthy justification of your choice is encouraged!!
Hello friend! I got this while I was out of town at a concert with my mom so I'm just getting around to this today. I also thought this summer was going to be Super Chill and Time To Catch Up On Things but we have been weirdly SO BUSY every weekend and had numerous unexpected Things happen (the fridge went out, thought it was fixed, it went out again, one of the cats had to go to the emergency vet an hour away and is now on new special food forever etc) and it's not slowing down any time soon! Sorry you're in your apathy rut era, I was absolutely there too recently so I know what that's like! I hope you can find some joy again soon! (I know everyone else Hates Summer, but I love not being cold all the time and heat and sunshine are what give me life so I'm currently on a slightly more energized kick which I'm going to try and use to Get Some Shit Done in regards to home improvement and self-care.)
I haven't ever watched Puppet History but it sounds delightful and with the strikes going on (take 'em down WAG/SAG AFTRA!) I'm sure I will be finding time to watch all the things I never got around to. I'm currently nearly finished with Resident Alien which has been a delight, and me and my mom are watching White Collar which has been a lot of fun for us.
Okay, now time for The Salt Mine.
It's funny that you bring up the RNM finale because I JUST saw a post the other day of Malex comparison kisses but the one they used from the finale is a wide shot and LITERALLY the main color focus drawing the eye in the shot is that goddamn fucking red dress under the bright lights of the bar, and only then, second, is the pink light Malex is under while in the darker, shadowed part of the bar. Sooooo I've been feeling salty about that for daaaaays.
It's a tough call to pit these two against each other because 911 literally shoved Buck and Eddie into "endgame" relationships with random characters they have zero chemistry with and that we know next to nothing about (Marisol) or everything we know is Not Great (Natalia). They really thought this was the end of the show and would rather waste time on these side characters and forcing these relationships rather than focus on the firefam and found family of it all and showing the core cast of characters TOGETHER as a FAMILY in the end. They rushed through the emergency and the feels we SHOULD have spent time on with everyone being hurt and seeing the firefam worry about and fight to rescue each other, all so KR could have time to (poorly) wrap up the 7000 plotlines she made for Buck because she apparently doesn't like or care about any of the other characters and only cares about Buck insofar as she can make jokes about his junk and sex life and how she can use his character to insert new ones she wants to have instead of using the characters she already has. However, despite all that mess, there WERE some good moments in the finale for the firefam and the bridge collapse was good, if too short to do what it was intended to do. 911's practical effects have ALWAYS been a highlight of the show and one of the things that makes it great so it was good to see some effort put into that side of the show again.
But, even with all the missteps of the 911 finale, RNM fumbled the ball on literally EVERYTHING in their finale. There was a Malex wedding, but it focused entirely on Michael and we didn't get to see Alex's POV on anything (not even anything about being on death's doorstep and magically being healed which happened entirely off screen and we didn't get to hear from Alex about it at all) except how he was perfectly happy having NONE of his family there for the wedding because god forbid m*ria be uncomfortable for 5 seconds because everything is about HER and how SHE feels 🙄🙄🙄 We got more focus on m*ria than we did Alex at his own goddamn wedding! And aside from that whole mess, the finale also separated Max and Liz, the supposed main couple of the show! The show ended forever with the lead in tears as Max goes to an alien planet for who knows how long! WTF kind of ending is that?! The show really made it hard to root for Max and Liz because the writing for them was just...not what it needed to be, but Jeanine and NDP had great chemistry and when they let them be in love they had some GREAT moments. I just wanted to root for them more but they constantly put them on opposite sides of every little thing they came across so they were never really able to work TOGETHER on anything and it was frustrating. Even so, I wanted a better ending for them after seasons of fighting and being so on again/off again the whole time. Jeanine especially got screwed over in what SHOULD have been Liz's show and I hate that being left behind was her ending. And that's not even going into all the plotholes and storylines the show just half-assed or flat out didn't address, and things that got dropped along the way and never explained. I know I say it A Lot about 911, but good god, the RNM cast, characters, and the base storylines they started the show with deserved SO much better than what they got consistently from the s1 finale through the end of the show.
Despite all of 911s flaws and faults, I still think they can come back from it all if they go back to the formula used in the early seasons for pacing and storyline distribution and focus on the firefam as a unit together, and given that the issues brought up by fans were pretty similar across all platforms and mirrored oftentimes by professional reviews, there's some hope for change moving forward on a new network. If RNM had been given another season I'm sure they still would not have resolved any of the plotholes and would probably have just made them worse while creating new ones 🤷🏻♀️
So I have to go with RNM for having the worst finale but damn if 911 didn't give it a run for it's money!
I was good hearing from you my friend! I had high hopes to work on my Countdowns fic this summer but I just have not had a weekend to myself! My niece will be visiting this whole week and my nephew is due to arrive in August but may come earlier, plus I'm working on getting out of town for some shows (and out of state if I can swing it to see Ed Sheeran), and working on some remodel work in my bedroom so we'll see when things start to slow down if I have any brain power left to write, much less do any of the other craft projects I have pending! I am confident I will get the baby blanket I'm working on done in time but everything else is up in the air. Remember when summer was time to relax? Anyway, I am ALWAYS here for your salty thoughts or anything else you wanna talk about. In the meantime, lets all manifest a good outcome for the striking workers!
#my sweet nonnie friends#sleeping at last anon#911#roswell nm#roswell nm my behated#still and forever salty
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