#being on stargate would be so good for Greg actually

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I’m fully off in fangirl daydream land now, but I am gonna say that of alllll the fictional characters I would love to see Tom interact with my number one is actually Rodney Mckay from Stargate. I think they would hate each other and it would 100% be a case of ‘you hate in others what you hate in yourself’. Both deeply insecure assholes, except Rodney has somehow managed to be beloved by his subordinates despite this and Tom is wracked with jealousy over that. Actually I think Tom would be secretly deeply jealous of everything Rodney has - the friendships, a job that’s actually exciting, being able to save the day and get lauded for it - but pretend not to be. Tom reminds Rodney viscerally of the worst members of the IOA and immediately he’s filled with loathing. They both hurl verbose insults at each other and everyone else is just laughing at the absurdity.

Bonus side effect is that is that I think John Sheppard and Greg would meet and immediately get along fabulously. They both have offices full of toys. Both utterly socially awkward. I think John would see a lot of his past self - isolated and wanting friends but not able to trust and focusing mostly on survival - in Greg. Greg’s not a trust fund baby like John was but he did grow up wealth-adjacent. Greg would thing all John’s war stories are cool as shit. Also John would immediately clock all the similarities between Tom and Rodney and dump a wealth of “here’s everything I’ve ever learned about managing the emotions of a mildly unstable man in high-stress situations” on Greg. I also think John would teach Greg how to golf, probably, which would make Tom exceedingly jealous because golf is a classic Rich People Thing but he’s never actually golfed so he couldn’t teach Greg himself.

#also I think Teyla and Ronon would immediately adopt Greg #being on stargate would be so good for Greg actually #it would be a rough transition but eventually he’d dig it #it would also be good for Tom but he’d be salty about it #you’d have to drag him kicking and screaming #full disclosure I have an au idea that I’ve done some vague outlining for where the wraith do attack earth and obliterate nyc #and the Roy family plus Tom and Greg have to survive the post-apocalyptic landscape #I now kind of want to write an INCREDIBLY self-indulgent fic where Tom is placed in the position of running Atlantis bc of Events #waystar’s involved with the SGC and he becomes a member of the ioa maybe? #anyways. I think he’d hate it so much but he would be good at it actually #this is soooo self-indulgent and if you read all this I commend you

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Reactions to leaked SDCC clip

crosspoast from spacebattles [QUOTE=“Chaos Fantasy, post: 37440677, member: 324148”]True but I’m under the impression Blue D would still loom over Pink’s palanquin even if standing side by side.

Like from what I see,  Blue would at least be almost twice Pink’s probable height.

And from what I can gather, it’d be a funny visual to have Yellow/Blue at their giant size try to fit in the Pink Palanquin.

Edit: oh, yeah also the distance between Blue and the palanquin doesn’t seem so vast as to change up my size estimates.

Em, I think the rule of thumb the Crewniverse use is, “ as long as certain characters are still smaller/taller then others then it’s fine”.

So as long as Garnet stands taller then Pearl, Pearl taller then Greg, etc. It'd  be fairly ok.[/QUOTE]

Ha consistant sizing in Steven Universe? oh you poor Sweet Summer child. No they don’t even keep a relative Heights consistent, something that you figure they would do if only in order to make sure they are conveying the proper impact of the characters influence. They really do just change things up scene-by-scene. they’re consistent within an episode, mostly, but sometimes between scenes it’ll really switch or even btwn shots. this is something that’s been mocked by some of the more eagle-eyed fans

 As for trying to figure out the mystery of Steven Universe? Quite frankly I’m in the cylons had no plan territory period

As so long as they’re telling actual good stories that follow through on their setups thent I’m okay.  the problem is they repeatedly shy away from that or come up with excuses or some of their setups have undermined where the story is headed currently. so it’s going to have to really win me back. And honestly I am a little surprised about my emotions here.

 I can actually point on places where I’m satisfied how things have gone. But I guess that’s it. Everything that I was dissatisfied with got corrected but it’s come to a rather conclusive end. there’s more happening but nothing else is going to seriously change. Whereas the stuff that they’re moving towards is the kind of stuff that I think I never quite liked and I know it’s going to piss me off if only for “Oh now we’re going to do this and treat it as if we’re going to do it seriously.”

I guess mainly I feel put off because I like the end of the third season with Steven confronting some of the difficult truths about his own mother and the Gem conflict.  However a lot of season 4 felt like a lot of circle walking because instead of actively exploring that, despite strong setup in order to get into character motivation, we spent a lot of time saying “we’re going to do stuff” but only starting to do stuff. 

There’s this period of time in Avatar The Last Airbender where everyone’s really waiting on this character to come to this one emotional moment. but the character made a critical decision so we keep seeing them confront the results of this decision but they don’t actually work at through it.  Suddenly by the mid-season climax happens and the character succeeds in deciding to reverse their decision and they’re totally resolved to this and everything’s fine (everyone else fails for not preparing or realizing their flaws and needs this person to win). A key aspect of the character development was actually cut out and then put in a flashback at the end of the season.

When someone pointed out this was problem to me they analogized about how we were seeing a character effectively tread water only the Quantum Leap to a solution at the end. I then noticed that this happens a lot with dramatic and melodramatic storytelling. It’s very notorious in scifi and Cliffhanger shows.  They’ll do everything to act as if there’s going to be this complete crisis at the season finale but come next season almost everything will be reversed if not in that Season Premiere episode but possibly within the first three or four. Stargate Universe literally deus ex machina a lot of its first Seasons finale in the season 2 premiere. Supernatural had the season of The Deanmon last an amazing four episodes during which Dean beat up a bunch of douchebag humans, killed demons, and had sex with random women (but not lovestarved sexpredator Crowley). You know all the stuff that you do when you are high off the cosmic evil of the universe. Well I mean dean started to drink a lot some more which he already did 

 I think Steven Universe has gotten into this votex only in some ways it’s worse. One thing, it keeps on setting up these crises that should lead to Major character development. But then they do a swerve and we’re sort of back where we started. And some of these don’t say a lot of things good. Cuz I suppose things have changed but we’ve just started to become more aware of how bad things are. From the relationship of Greg and the gems to Steven’s mom to Stevens own psychology …it’s a lot of things

 I just feel like so much is done in order to blatantly course-correct in certain places. And frankly I guess since I liked the season 3 finale so much and with characters saying that they’ll commit to truth but then not doing so and then we find out that Rose might not have killed pink diamond or some ridiculous complexity about it and you know what? I just feel as if the show is losing me. 

They’ve done this whole “We’re going to set something up and pay off on it later” thing since episode 1. Well I’ve stuck with you for about five seasons now. I’ve got to be honest you miss a lot of opportunities and go in directions that I just really find obnoxious and disappointing. More importantly the direction that you’re hinting with this sdcc clip indicates that we could have gone in this direction better with more developed characters and a more careful pacing.

Overall I’m curious and kind of want the show to end on a good note but I kind of feel as if we’re going too fast and too weird of Direction. That weare going to get get another disappointing swerve or surprise. Whether it’s like bismuth “we’re totally going to hint that she’s going to come back yo” Or it’s going to be practically every dropped Ronaldo plotline so that instead when he shows up he can be yet another scourging of nerd social foilbles

But that’s just stuff that I prefer. I think stuff you can objectively say that they’ve cheated on. Stuff like lapis or Peridot. Who defect and then join but don’t really join so that that way we can keep the same dynamic.

 Too much of the show is set up just so that we have Mysteries and then they have an episode like Lion4 where it’s like, “no the Mysteries don’t matter it’s all about the Journey of being a human being we swear!”

And it just feels that I don’t know like they want to have their cake and eat it too.

@aj22writes @redstreak489 @projectormom @mellowfilmmaker @ikkinthekitsune @starsintheskysandsontheshore @the-a-j-universe Would love your take on my thoghts, if a difficult read or questions about my meaning feel free to ask

#su critical #season 5 #anticipation #i am serious #want some discusison but feel too much tainted in fans eyes #no concrete-treversy plz