#but then there's also that sense of wasted potential

[markantonys]

#very curious to know you guys' thoughts! #wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #mat cauthon #tuon paendrag #wot book spoilers #wot show spoilers #(potentially) #i'm going for 'yes instead of egeanin' #because a) i can't think of a strong reason to transport mat out of the waste plotline and into the tanchico one #unless it's to absorb ebou dar and have him cross paths with tuon #and b) if tuon is our main seanchan in the tanchico plotline then egeanin would become superfluous imo #i also think it'd make sense to get all the major characters introduced by the end of s3 #so that they'll be ready to swing into the endgame no matter how many total seasons they end up getting #not to mention that tuon DESPERATELY needs to be introduced sooner than she was in the books #if she's to get any semblance of a satisfying and well-developed character arc

[weaverofink]

Danny Temple you will always be famous to me. also your unnamed twin brother that showed up in exactly 3 panels

#danny temple #dc robin #robin 1993 #dc #dc comics #did something of a danny redesign :) every character can be improved w an eyebrow slit and slightly longer wavier hair #does anybody remember danny. bc i do. #i really liked him and i loved his dynamic w tim drake #i think he had so much potential that was just wasted #so like any good insane fan i made up an entire story in my head :) #also i fleshed out his unnamed twin brother and included him in the story as a main character bc he also could have been so good #(i named him leo by the way. he's insanely jealous of the attention their 'parents' gave danny & lashes out. #he also becomes an assassin but that comes later in the story don't worry about it.) #art #my art #weaverofink #god this is so old. i did this like a year and a half ago and just never posted it #but a piece i made recently won't make sense w/out the context of this danny redesign so i decided to post it :)

[bandtrees]

i know it’s because serirei as a ship exists in part because people just like reigen and getting someone to ship with him is a way to express that, like the reigen feelings came before the ship, and people like to make their popular favs angsty and sad... 

...but it’s SO funny to me that out of the two of them, reigen gets the “troubled mentally ill guy with baggage who’s comforted by his partner” treatment. as if serizawa isn’t the most traumatized character ever put to animation

#babbles #does this make sense #ship hate #not really? i like serirei but tagging this jic #but yea the like... typical Seme Uke dynamics people ascribe to serirei amuse me to no end #literally people only make serizawa the big burly protective comforting one cuz hes tall. ...and bc they like reigen more than him #like idk how to put it but the meowmeowification of reigen has been devastating to serirei economy #bc it just becomes 'a way to make reigen content' or 'The Reigen Ship(tm)' and not really exploring the chars on their own merits #or any interesting conflicts etc etc or anything past... Reigen And His Plus One #tldr. i like serirei but fanon serirei is so much wasted potential to me<//3 #as someone who loves serizawa but sees serirei make up like 90% of the stuff of him BOOOO #also stole some of this phrasing from fig bc we have this discussion OFTEN LMAO

[noahkirschtein]

thinking of book! teresa and brenda

both of them working for WICKED and acting like they know as little as the others, actively deceiving the boys. it has sm potential..

i’m not the biggest fan of either of their characters in canon, probably cause they were only there for the drama (be it the betrayal or the thomas love triangle no one asked for)

but the POTENTIAL if teresa was with the group more during the scorch trials ?? the friendship (and maybe more, i love me some good ships) teresa and brenda could’ve had ?? hello ?? even if they couldn't grow to like eachother in any capacity, just giving them this mutual understanding of being in the same boat out there would be so GOOD

#not a teresa defender but also kinda #in the sense her character was poorly written if we were meant to like her #wasted potential #the maze runner #the maze runner books #the scorch trials #teresa tmr #tmr teresa #tmr brenda #brenda tmr #tmr thomas

[smol-tired-binch-blog]

It baffles me sometimes how Yakuza 0 is about the weight of taking a life and how death and killing is a big deal and then the rest of the series it's like lol no.

Female character? Kill her off with little fanfare and development. Helpful side character? Dies for the protag. Antagonist? Have them off themselves.

Characters whose deaths could've and probably should've carried more weight but we don't get enough focus or development on their character. Potential is often squandered. And yes, there is something hard hitting about losing a character before they truly had the chance to flourish, but when it keeps happening? We can't build on character bonds, that'd mean cutting down on substories!! What do you mean we've done this one before it's different now!!!

Not to mention when the franchise decides that completely fatal wounds Are Fine Actually They're Alive And Well All Along. And, y'know. The Heat Actions. Akiyama has kicked many men to death and you won't convince me otherwise.

Idk I like the franchise but I feel there's a bit of lack of tonal cohesion here and there. Notably.

#smol speaks #smol plays yakuza #you are free to disagree but i cannot take the idea the franchise treats death with weight seriously #every one so far has ended with an antagonist who's actually really interesting and could have so much more done with them only for them to #fuckin kill themselves whilst taking out the ACTUAL villain who is far less interesting and basically always just 'Bad Man In Suit' #just Dude Who Wants Power. which yeah in a franchise about yakuza makes sense but they're not interesting about it despite being the REAL #mastermind or w/e. and then Yakuza 4 switched things up by not even giving us an interesting secondary antagonist so very brave move there! #and of course wasting Yasuko's potential but that's fine I'm not bitter. and before you go 'but what about Sayama/Makoto' they get shipped #off to the States and Hana-chan got made skinny so shh. There's a greater pattern at play here and we can talk about the #writing for female characters another time. i'm just saying there gets to a point where death in the franchise doesn't shock me #it does often disappoint me though. if it's not Kiryu or Majima or Haruka or some other protag don't get too attached cause even if they #don't die you likely won't see them again. also they likely will die because fuck you actually. or rubber bullets. as a double fuck you

[g3othermal3scapism]

MY BEEF WITH STRANGER THINGS

ok i want it to be known that i like stranger things a lot and im pretty deep in the fandom and its been one of. my biggest hyperfixations…. but this does not mean i think the show ia good!!!!! i see sm people acting like the duffers are god of writing and they js… arent. the shows writing is literal ass, the show sucks pretty much alll around other than being fun sometimes and even those moments are poorly done. the partys group dynamic was so poorly done, every character is handled poorly, they don’t know how to write deaths, (maxs was the only good one, and they brought her back anyways?? like i love max and im very much glad shes alive but stop being a pussy!!!! kill someone people care about for the love of god!!!!!!!) and hot take i really dont like the monster designs but i guess that more just my personal preference. the entire thing is just so full of wasted potential to be great. there are a lot of great ideas, a lot of great character ideas, and a lot of great actors. and the comedy writing for some seasons was pretty ok! but overall its just lackinf and even though i love these characters like theyre my own children, do not be fooled!!!! i am aware that the show sucks!!!!!!!

#i have a lot to say about this show #not alot of good things ☠️ #maxs arc with depression in s4 was pretty well-done in my opinion even if it definitly had its issues #and bylers been well done but they can still absolutely fuck it up in s4 #i love all these byler theories and proof and all of its amazing and i would love for all of it to be true #but i just think some people r overestimating these writers #like with how many plot holes and bits that make sense #i just find it hard to believe they really created this beautiful meticulous queer love story #the way some of u r saying they did #i am a byler truther #and i think if they do it well in s5 it really will have been an amazing queer story that will chang queer cinema history #but with how awfully they handle some of their characters…. #i wouldnt put it past them to completely fuck it up and just make mike seem like an asshole and give will a completely unrelated boyfriend #that no ine cares about or has any reason to like #also the party dynamic. is so wack #the amount of wasted potential……. #i wont get into it #i hate my favorite show!!! who cheered #anyways #stranger things #anti duffers #the duffers are bad writers #the party #mike wheeler #will byers #max mayfield #lucas sinclair #el hopper #dustin henderson #and everyone else i guess

[sysig]

Predator and Prey (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #ZEX #The Captain #Questionably SFW #I have an instrumental I always put on when I want to think about Weird ZEX Vibes haha #I love when he's goofy and salacious and silly and fun and harmless(?) - But #He's still a VUX Admiral he has the potential to be very dangerous #It's also very sad that he was forced to lead a life that was so opposite to his desires - but that doesn't erase his history #Interesting complexity #He has the potential to still do a lot of harm to humanity! #I think it's especially interesting in the Pirate Fic hehe - but his doubts could lead to him dooming those he covets #He's very intelligent so he knows how and when to be tempered but he's also very biased and prideful #His decisions come from logic but aren't always based in the biggest big picture - he still wants to his own ends hehe ♪ #Basically I just like him very much ♥ He's a complex character with a lot of potential in any direction #And I don't mean that in a derogatory way like Oh look at his Wasted potential - just that he's a coiled spring! A held-high object! #Potential in a literal sense hehe #Him interacting with the Captain while being a such a big web of history and desire and flaws is wonderful ♪ #How far is too far? And will he know it before it's upon him? It's fun to think about ♥

[corpsoir]

abbacchio isnt even that much fun of a character really but he still has managed to wriggle his way into my brain like one of dio's fleshbuds

#leone abbacchio #and i mean fun in the sense that i feel like we didnt get to know him super well during vento aureo #kinda wasted potential yknow!! #i think hes super interesting and moody blues is AMAZING and i just wanted more of him i guess #but also its completely fine that we didnt get more because thats a good story too still #idk!!!! #im normal btw #nurse hes rambling online to thousands of people about fictional men again #corp.krax

[persephoneflouwers]

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#me thinks they wasted a loooot of potential with louis stuf #even with larries #maybe it is just my personal experiencebut i remember how wild everyone around him was with pandemic #and now they kinda killed it? #I don’t think it’s just the stupid babygate thing that made many veterans retire lol #But the fact it is happening so fast? like we saw him on tour literally last year #I don’t joke when i say i saw him 4 times and the last one was September 2022… and he’s touring again? #it’s something that doesn’t happen with any other artist except for them #harry schedule is obviously on a other level of embarrassment on this matter actually #but also it’s weird the way they mixed the two ‘eras’ #i know they dont seem to go for eras in the strict meaning of it but #that’s how I see marketing (and that’s why it works so well with pop artists) #but like… the bluegreening things is lowkey cringe at this point because you’re like #bro what planet are you leaving on haha #if that makes sense? anyway it’s just something that I’ve been thinking but I haven’t landed on an answer yet

[happy-emmdings]

on OUAT season 6 finale

One thing that still baffles me to this day is how OUAT’s season 6 finale managed to be so astoundingly nonsensical and just an absolute dumpster fire all around. This is where I complain about bad writing and wasted potential of a dead show🤗

Mostly it’s two things…

1) What really bugs me is that they set up a plotline with Killian and David climbing the beanstalk, that made some sense at first and was actually the most solid plan… only to throw it away and have it come to a ridiculous dead end. The absolute lack of effort to make things make sense this show sometimes exhibited istg. What upsets me the most is how nonsensical it was that they didn’t end up using the bean and how the writers bent over backwards to not let it happen. 

Killian and David climb the beanstalk, Killian gives a little stressed out passionate speech about wanting to go back to his wifey and I love all of that. But then they set things up for the story to continue in an organic way, they set up a possible exciting Captain Swan/Captain Cobra plotline where Killian gets to Storybrooke and… don’t use it? What was the point of having Killian fall dramatically from the beanstalk if he wasn’t going to use the bean at the last moment to survive and go help Henry convince Emma that they were all real? It was the perfect opportunity! How is it possible that that wasn’t how that episode went? How was that obviously, objectively not the best continuation of that plotline? So much Captain Swan and Captain Cobra potential wasted. What they did instead was so unsatisfying. Can someone please explain to me why they had Killian fall down and than he was just… fine. Somehow he fell on his back from skyscraper height but didn’t break his spine or become a greasy stain and a pile of shattered bones? What was the point of that? Were the writers trying to embarrass themselves? They set up a good plot and replaced it with infuriating nonsense instead. It’s like they completely gave up on not only the laws of physics, but also satisfying narratives.

And even then, when Killian miraculously shrugs off that unbelievable fall like it was nothing (why did that happen in the first place if it wasn’t going to mean anything at all?), even then he still doesn’t use the bean! Snow tells him to go to Emma and he walks all the way to Regina’s castle for some reason (there is no reason, it doesn’t make sense), and by then they’re like “oops, actually the bean doesn’t work now. nothing means anything and no character gets to be useful🤷‍♀️” ??? 

What annoys me is not that it didn’t work, but that it had every reason to work and yet the writers shot themselves in the foot and created ridiculous reasons for the bean plan to fail. They made extra effort to make it nonsensical. Ugh.

2) It’s really a problem when the whole premise of the episodes is utter bullshit. Am I the only one that hates what the concept of the “final battle” turned out to be? Again, please explain to me how the sole determinant of the very existence of numerous entire realms was the personal belief of a single person, Savior or not. How was the existence of something so vast and so much older than her dependent on Emma’s belief in it, especially when she had erased memories and was being gaslighted into thinking she was mentally ill? Those realms had existed just fine for probably thousands of years before she was even born. And suddenly her disbelief turns them into nothingness? Even realms of which she is not the Savior (like Agrabah, that had Aladdin, not Emma) and that have nothing to do with her, like Oz for example. I guess somehow the curse made it possible? Because fuck any rules and restrictions, magic can do anything and everything, right? Except when your magic system gets overpowered like that, it can be really hard for the viewer/reader to swallow.  Dare I say half-assed worldbuilding?

It makes me want to rewrite at least the last episode and unfold the wasted, obvious storyline that got thrown out of the window for some stupid reason.

#ouat #ouat season 6 finale #ouat criticism #bad writing on ouat #so little effort #so much wasted potential #give me the version where killian uses the bean as he’s about to hit the ground (WHICH WOULD KILL HIM) and transports to storybrooke #give me the version where killian and henry team up once again #and they hug #give me the version where the charmings also get to do something useful for the plot #give me the version where emma sees the face of a man that appeared to her in a strange vision on a rooftop #and then stared at her from the page of a burning book #she keeps seeing him until he’s actually there and what the hell? #give me the version where emma uses her superpower #give me the version where she starts questioning things because she realizes fiona lied about not having hurt henry #give me a version that makes sense <3

[saltycharacters]

Oogh Lovin Baizel and the species concept! What does their diet consist of? Is there any way for them to avoid what happens to them over time? Do the hearts work like- if 1 stops it's ok bc there's others or if 1 stops they all stop?

SO glad you like my silly n weird ideas :""] Regarding the hearts question, it depends on how long they've grown at the time and which heart gives out, the front one / further back / etc - the reason they have so many hearts in the first place is to help pump blood throughout such a massive body. And the longer they get, the more work has to be put into that. So, if they're around 20-30 ish years old or less, they can probably survive a heart or two dying on them because the other hearts can pick up the slack (although the extra strain can promote further heart failure). But with each added foot, the amount of work/ importance each heart is deligated increases, and that makes it much harder to recover from a failure.

Essentially, at some point each heart has to mantain a body section alone and if that stops, then there's a domino effect that affects every heart preceding it since the blood exchange from section to section halted. If this happens though, there's a chance of survival if the hearts near the front/head are ok, as cutting off blood flow to the brain is definetly fatal. The other sections will die off but, as the hyperfauna weasels are literally predestined to have that happen at some point in their lives, it's not the end of the world. They even have systems that can function indipendently regardless of what happens to the body (cough cough. Waste disposal) so the biggest change just becomes limited movment.

For the question about preventing the fates of hyperfauna weasels, assuming that you mean as they are now and not by manually altering the entire species via selective breeding/ bioengineering, there IS. a theoretical way to manually stunt growth (also via bioengineering) but, it is VERY difficult to control the outcome over time, and without careful planning (like, what parts of the body are suppose to be stunted and what parts need to develop to survive? How to prevent this manual cell death from reaching something vital? At what age should they be stunted? At what age CAN they be stunted, before these alterations become harder to induce? etc) it can result in a load of problems that make their life over time a miserable one (or just kill them straight off).

Also, hyperfauna weasels are notorious for being difficult to work with medically/bio-manipulatively because 1] their skin is VERY thick, needles need to be long but strong enough to pierce them and NOT break on the way down (also few people can find their veins) 2] any effect needs time to travel throughout their entire body, which can take a WHILE (and depending on how long the effects are suppose to last, their former half could've already worn off while the latter is still feeling the effects [this makes anesthesia difficult bc it needs to be powerful enough to hit everywhere while not being so powerful that it causes heart failure]) 3] their cells are super stubborn/hard to change and it's difficult to intruduce new instructions to them, not to mention they're so hellbent on forever-growth that they're super hardy, multiply and die off quicker than any changes can be induced in them, and kill most foreign objects without prejudice.

All this to say they're a nightmare to manually bio-alter and your best bet would be to manipulate them at the embyonic stage, where they're most cellularly vulnerable / suseptable to change, and if all goes well you can artificially cease their growth after a point, but in terms of lore-reasons this hasn't happened yet. It's mostly because those who DO know about this species, at least by the time this kind of technology was available, just. don't really have the (cough. financial) motivation to do this. Bio-engineering companies are mostly about profit, and this kind of job would require bringing back a near extinct species (not impossible, just a chore) that needs a LOT of resources to mantain, monitoring over a LONG time to see if their alterations worked, and they'd end up with a lot of failed experiments that live almost forever before they get one that lives a reasonable, sustainable amount.

For the last question about their diet, they're omnivorous and can eat a lot of what normal weasels eat already :] although their portions have to be HUGE (even standing on all legs they can be over 5 ft tall, plus all that body length means a LOT of) so in a pinch they can eat most any kind of meat, plant-matter, even fungus.

#SORRY I DIDNT ANSWER THESE IN ORDER I JUST GOT EXCITED #long post #lore #baizel #hyperfauna weasels #some people suggested cutting off the parts that die off #and unfortunately apart from the fact its fucking hard as fuck to do that #thick skin + large body + sawing through bone + anesthesia being difficult to administer + at this point theyre feral and will attack #depending on how close the body section is to a still-pumping heart. the blood loss could kill them #and even if theres no blood that still has potential for infection while it heals and also. theres a gaping hole to their organs #even if it heals over they will not lobger have access to yknow. waste disposal #so as gross as this is they would probably die of. build up. after some time #sorry if little of this makes sense i just enjoy speculative biology even if im bending the rules quite a bit #needles tw

[sunshinekarenstarr]

I need by half of season 4 like most of the cast dead or out of the show. also if this show goes over 4 seasons I will lose my mind WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO? WHO ELSE IS THERE TO BRING? just kill that white man already!!

#like I am not delusional I know my favorite characters need to die but like black noirs death in the finale? shit honestly wasted potential #I would be okay with him dying in like mid of season 4 or something #also Ryan I hope you get your senses on lock before if you dont I will be praying on your downfall too #the boys #obviously keep the boys alive plus maeve and Stan but yeah

[cadmuslabs777]

The main thing that I absolutely hate about (Marvel and DC) comics, and I know I talked about this before but it makes me so mad, is how there is literally zero character development. They were made with one personality and morals and they will stay with that one personality and morals forever, you can't even say until they die, which would be okay, some ppl be like that, buy no they simply will stay with the same life forever and ever for generations to come no matter how many life experiences they go through. Even when some writer decide to have some bold new concept about the character it is considered a side universe, like a graphic novel or mini series, never the "Prime" one.

It's like some sort of hell where you are not able to learn with anything, just keep repeating the same story over and over forever.

Also if you love an alternative version of that character but not the Prime one you are going to suffer forever.

And think about all those villains who had really good redemption arcs which where completely erased as soon as the arc ended and never mentioned again.

#loki is literally the only character i know that managed to escape a little but is still pushed to the villain role frequently #even tho it doesn't make sense to his character anymore #and oh my god dont even get me started on lex luthor. so many disappointments so many wasted potential #also baron zemo. that one was insane #personal

[vhvrs]

never not thinking abt arcane haphazardly throwing in love interests for jayce n viktor so they dont look too gay and then still going "hm how can we convey these two men who've spent almost every moment of the last five years together are close but in a platonic way?" "what if one of them was constantly going out of his way to touch the other?" "and during a tense scene he puts his hand on the small of the others back to walk w him?" "yes! genius!"

and it was!

#i think mel is built up more n makes sense for what mels intentions seem to be vs jayces drive for positive attention #but sky really got nothing 😔 wasted potential but not remotely surprising #and also like unfortunate implications of it all for the girls is....

[beearrings]

Claude and also Yuri and also my wife Edie 😈 THREE FOR THE PRICE OF ONE BINCH

i love u

i didnt get bingo for any of them which is so evil cause i genuinely tried. if these charts look too similar to each other NO THEY DON'T i just love them. u sent three characters i love. PS the 'why do they look like that' for yuri is because of his post timeskip outfit where he looks like a ghostly jester turned superhero

#ah yes child soldiers the game !! #veronica tag #ask memes #also yuri and edie have wasted potential bc yuri isnt even part of the main game and you cant side with edie in every route #which doesnt even make sense bc actually her values align with claude's almost completely #i get not being able to in dimitri's. fine. but really???? not even claude???? #sigh #i get why on like. a surface level. but i really think with like 2 storyline tweaks it could have worked FINE #like i said. wasted potential #i dont think claude has wasted potential tho i think he's brill just the way he is. the only emotionally stable person in the game honestly #he could fix me

[stuckyeatscake]

you know its really not that hard to see why the supernatural fan and mcu fan venn diagram intersects soo much we were already used to soo mcuh bad writing

#i looveee lovee love the captain america movies and i will die on this hill #but i gotta admit that sometimes they just suffer from bad writng #like your telling me they flew the winter soldier from russia to america in a few hours??? even hydra cant bend space and time. at least no #at this point. like that doesnt truly make sense #soo many other things i overlooked bcs they truly did rewire my brain in 2014 #also supernatural had soo much fucking potential that was being wasted each fucking episdode #like no wonder i love both and go back to them still