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pensiveant · 11 months

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You could argue that the extra mausoleum spots weren't specifically for the siblings, especially since Logan bought it as it was instead of having it built himself-- and that would be fair. Still, it doesn't change that it's the perfect metaphor for Logan's particular brand of fatherly love. Paying for and arranging his and his children's tombs so they can all be together. Not that he's the authority on Logan Roy, but I believe Brian Cox's advice for Logan ("Don't be so in love with your children.") pertains to this type of thing exactly. He's so in love with them he wants them all trapped in a room together, watching over them even in death, even in their death... but he doesn't love them enough to, ya know, not be an utter piece of shit to them. It's a possessive and encroaching kind of love-- deciding for them, not even asking, expecting them to choose him over their own spouses or children-- and it's so, so very Logan.

#succession #succession spoilers #succession 4x09 #logan roy #i pet thy head foul beast #maybe he meant them for ewan or one of his (ex)wives yeah sure maybe! but consider the Symbolism #but lbr he wants to be in there with his children. they're the most important people in his life

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likeabxrdinflight · 6 months

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I keep seeing more and more information about the netflix live action atla and I'm just so so skeptical of it. apparently the episode titles are out there in the ether and there's only 8 of them?

I'm just really not sure how you mash the incredibly episodic book one into 8 60-min episodes and have that flow smoothly without making very drastic changes. book one was without a doubt the most episodic season of either atla or lok. the stories do not flow into each other all that well and most were designed as relatively stand alone little plots while the characters bounce around from location to location. the only exceptions to this were the first three episodes, the winter solstice arc, arguably the storm/the blue spirit, and of course the final three in the northern water tribe.

I cannot figure out how they're going to either stitch together, stretch out, or cut the other episodes. there are some pretty obvious cuts- no one wants to see the great divide again, and the fortuneteller doesn't add a ton outside of some small development for kataang, which could easily be done elsewhere. and then I could see an argument for cutting bato of the water tribe, although I don't like cutting that one as much because it has some important character beats for aang and sokka, and there's also the introduction of june, which...you could cut if you're also okay with cutting her from the end of season three. everything else though?

obviously you can't cut the kyoshi warriors. you can't cut omashu or bumi (though you could re-write that episode to make it less...children's cartoon-y for lack of a better word). I don't think you should cut imprisoned because it's such an impactful episode for katara and also how she loses her necklace, which comes back for the waterbending scroll, which is also too important to entirely cut because again, very important katara episode and it's also important for aang learning waterbending. I suppose you could try to combine imprisoned and the waterbending scroll somehow? or cut imprisoned and have katara lose her necklace elsewhere? but that's not ideal and I'd hate to see them butcher katara's character arc for the sake of time.

then there's jet and jeong jeong's episodes, again both rather important- jet because he plays a major role in season two, and jeong jeong because his episode is central to aang's character arc and it establishes that there are fire nation citizens who oppose the war- and you could start foreshadowing the white lotus here. finally there's the northern air temple, which...I guess you could cut if you absolutely had to? it wouldn't be terrible to just establish upfront that the fire nation has air power, I don't think audiences would really question that too much or wonder where the idea for airships came from. but the northern air temple is such a meaningful character beat for aang and does a lot to establish sokka's strengths as a member of the group. plus the mechanist plays an important role later for day of black sun, so...I dunno, I think this would be a hard one to justify cutting completely.

but the other problem is how poorly I think these very separate, self-contained stories would flow into eight 60 minutes episodes. I think four of those episodes are already spoken for anyways- one for the first three, one for the last three, one for the storm/blue spirit, and one for the winter solstice. so really that leaves you with four more episodes. four episodes to cover at least episodes 4, 5, 9, 10, 16, and 17 of the original show, and maybe episodes 6, 14, and 15 if they don't cut them. (lbr we all know they're cutting episode 11, RIP great divide).

I jus can't imagine how they're going to do this. even with very significant re-writes I think it's going to be hard for this first season to not feel very frankensteined together. it'll be an easier task with seasons two and three, which were already more serialized, but season one? this is going to be a real challenge for them to get right.

I'm not sure they will.

#and I fully expect live action to suck a lot of the charm out of it #so there's also that issue #atla

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thespineoftherighteous · 3 years

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"uncle matt" headcanons:

when the fox kids are young they absolutely adore him and he's everyone's favorite out of the aunts and uncles, a fact that he is insanely smug of but drives Allison and Nicky insane and has them trying to bribe the poor children into saying "aunt Alli is my favourite" or "i love uncle Nicky the mostest" on camera

he's literally just so fun tho and that's why the kids can't get enough of him, like:

he's easy to make laugh (and boy does he have the best fucking laugh), he'll run around with them for hours, he lets them get away with things that their parents don't allow, he tells the best stories, etc

he frequently nearly gives both Dan and Aaron heart attacks because he's always throwing the kids up in the air and catching them

he and Kevin will also throw the kids back and forth between them.. this is usually the point when Aaron and Dan turn around and pretend they cannot see but the kids are giggling so it's all good

whenever he babysits and there's an exy game on that he wants to watch he'll make an event out of it with the kids so they stay entertained

if it was Neil, Kevin or Andrews game and they win he'll record a video of the kids celebrating and send it to them

when any kids are brought to his games he's always excited to give them the proper vip experience and will show them around while they're sat on his shoulders

(his own kids are already practically considered part of the team and his teammates know to give any of his "nieces and nephews" the same treatment)

Kevin has a daughter that's the same age as matt's girl and they're besties from birth (cousin friendships are the best lbr) which means a lot of playdates

which means a lot of matt/Kevin playdates

which they both appreciate because with schedules and shit the foxes sometimes go longer than they'd like without being able to see each other face to face

anyway during one of these playdates, they each have the other's daughter sat on their laps (kevin's daughter immediately climbed onto matt and Kevin called her a traitor to her own blood even as he scooped up matt's kid) as they watch a movie or one of neils games or something

Kevin gets riled up by the game, squeezing or bouncing his niece accordingly with the rhythm of it and making her giggle

at one point he shouts angrily as neils opponent scores and matt looks at his niece with his mouth exaggeratedly open and says "your dad has a bad mouth" and they turn and wag their fingers at Kevin and both girls are laughing

matts energy usually crashes pretty soon after the kids' and more than once a fox has showed up to pick up their kid and found them knocked out with matt on the couch, his arms wrapped protectively around them (unbeknownst to matt, they take pictures of him like that and send them to Dan and she fonds over every one)

sometimes he'll sit the kids on his lap and "let them" drive around the neighborhood.. Renee and allison's boy LOVES this

as they get older and actually start driving, he's one of the first people they tell when they get their licenses

he teaches some of them how to drive stick.. he keeps the shitty run down manual that Dan is always begging him to get rid of specifically for this purpose

sometimes Andrew partakes in this, claiming he does so just to correct matt's teaching techniques.. matt grins and the kids love it

once they start getting phones and shit, he keeps track of all his nieces and nephews numbers.. the kids always know they can text/call/facetime him and he's proved time and time again that he'll always be there because family is the most important thing in the world to matt boyd and that is exactly what they are

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