#even if there is like 60 episodes

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the doctor isnt neurodivergent or autistic or adhd or nonbinary or genderqueer or asexual. what the doctor is, is Not From Here

#which necessarily of course says something abt their (non)whiteness #(i had all these words in quotation marks first so mentally add those to whiteness too) #but we've them be black for all of 1.5 episode now so #lets see how that develops you know #also i dont think i understand the politics of that part well enough to say much abt it #not that i probably understand the politics of these parts better but #im annoyed enough abt this Thing happening these years. in these 20s i guess. the 'representation' thing #to complain abt it anyway #the dsm isnt real and it isnt gonna fuck you buddy #maybe i'll read some books and then one day i'll write an essay driven by spite and pettiness #i wonder if i can make the thesis statement about the tension between their status of main character #in a 60 year running family adventure show vs this therapy thing we're doing now #like. you cant do that. in terms of like. what story is and does. what a character is and does. it strains #in an interesting way. like im not saying they Shouldnt have done it. im just observing. that you cant do that really. i think #or maybe you can! but i'll find that out #i also dont know shit abt narratology or whatever so. need to read books first. sigh #always have to pause my thoughts to read myself in first its so annoying. esp bc i rarely really do #bc then new thoughts new things to do you cant do EVERYTHING. you can do almost nothing. bane of my existence really #but like you might even be able to say smth interesting here about whether you can call them traumatised at all #remember that article i saw around on tumblr a few years ago i think that was abt like. some scholar in the middle east maybe #saying that ptsd is a western thing bc it necessitates a Post #all of this is western. psychiatry is western. its all stories. how you conceptualise trauma is a story #whos Other is story #where youre from is a story what you stand for is a story who you are is a story #ah. checked the article. dr samah jabr. palestinian. i'll start with her book maybe

[theotherrichardpapen]

AU where Josh manages to grab onto Nigel’s hand at the last moment that night on the train and both of them fall out. AU where Nigel has been dead the entire time but Alex Forbes doesn’t know that; where the trauma of watching his friend fall to his death combined with the realisation he was complicit in the death of another causes his mind to fracture.

He doesn’t remember making it back to his dorm room that night, only remembers waking up to the news that Josh and Nigel were was dead. All of Nigel’s things have been moved to another room, of course they have, because Nigel was gone, dead, all his fault, his fault trouble.

AU where Alex takes the train one night to the Colbie house because Nigel asks him to, because he feels this innate and intense need to try and better understand this boy he got killed; where he finds the card and the books and Nigel’s red bible, and begins to understand.

AU where the body of Susan turns up one morning, and the police question Alex about it, but there’s no way it was him, because he was late; he was late, and by the time he showed up at the cinema, she was waiting for him still, sweet Susan, with her kind eyes and kinder heart, she had waited for him and she didn’t even suspect anything until the very second before he struck gone.

AU where Alex finds the letter he wrote Nigel wrote, inviting him to his house that night, where Alex sees the Colbies arguing through the window; where he wrestles the gun from John and shoots him to kill him because he read the journals, knows that this man has been hurting Nigel his whole life and he wanted him dead protect Nigel.

AU where Nigel confronts Alex at the train yard that night, where he forces Alex to remember everything he did, everything Alex did; where he forces Alex to pull the trigger and kill off the version of Nigel he’s been carrying around in his mind, where Alex dies that night right along with him and Jack is born instead.

#types out the most incomprehensible batshit thing ever and posts it: haha you get what i mean? #this would've been a fic but i know i don't have the motivation to commit to that right now and it would've ended up abandoned #anyway . blame the crowded room for inspiring this . and then the dynamic between the narrator and tyler from fight club #and joe and rhys from s4 of you for driving it #does this actually even make sense ? to anyone that is not currently sharing the braincell with me ? #who knows #like minds #murderous intent #nigel colbie #alex forbes #doing some serious handwaving as to how this au would work for like . 60% of the movie. youd have to scrap the sally interview basically #also doing some serious handwaving as to whether josh's death is enough of a stressor to trigger a dissociative episode #especially one that results in development of DID #dont look at this post directly . only from a side angle . corner of your eye. thank you

[walkingstackofbooks]

Ohh, I have such a weird mix of feelings about Mudd's Women.

Going into the rewatch, I was like "oh no, it's this one". But actually, I really like it as an episode?

Idk, even though it seems quite sexist, and there's a fair amount of cringe, and I do not like the ending of Eve staying with That Man, I kind of feel like the women are the main characters, and the joke is on the men?

And I really, really do like Eve; she's such a great character. She knows what she wants, mostly, but is also a bit of a mess, understandably - and she very much is her own person? (until the end, which, ugh. why.)

Like, it's not a good episode, but it's not as icky as I thought it was?

(Also, Spock smirking as he introduces "Leo Walsh" to Jim, knowing that Kirk's going to be completely unprepared for the ladies 😅)

#andi watched tos #mudd's women #maybe i am viewing it with too much 60s-leniency #but it does feel like it's on the women's side #and if you're a man then like kirk you should be averting your eyes #bc the women shouldn't be objectified #...even if the episode and camera is very much doing that #gah idk #i was just expecting to suffer through it and yet i didn't #WSB

[thegeminisage]

catherine pointed out today that my turnaround on wesley crusher is an example of the patented liz thegeminisage 180°: a character that i despise or in minor cases strongly dislike will, in a metaphorical or sometimes literal instant, become someone i love or at least strongly like. previous instances of this include: cas theee tiel, cullen dragonage, arthur pendragon. there are almost definitely more but i can't think of them rn

#personal #star trek blogging #tng lb #it's so funny because with wesley it literally did happen in the space of like 60 seconds. incredible #i think that's the fastest time on record #even with arthur from merlin it took half an episode

[technicalthinker]

The thing about Rogue One as a movie that even though I do love it, it's a bit in a unique spot. It's from the era when they made Star Wars spinoff movies, which then shifted into making shows instead. It basically has a movie-unique cast, but a tragic ending, but also leads directly up to episode 4 without being structured like part of a trilogy/series.

I've viewed its role as "prequel to episode 4/original trilogy" or potentially "bridge between prequels and original trilogy" but tbh it leans so much towards the original trilogy and has less to do with the prequels that I most often see it as "prequel to ep 4".

But I feel like, after Andor S1 and the announcement of Andor S2 being the last season + leading up to Rogue One; Now Rogue One as part of the star wars franchise has a completely new and clearer role

I feel like tonally it's going to function as a bridge between Andor and The original trilogy, showing where the fight against the empire will end up and lead into. But it will also be a finale of Andor, in a way.

Like Andor so far have been a story of the many faces of the rebellion, but with Cassian as a focus and his arc as a thread throughout. We have watched him at several occasions team up with a new group of characters to accomplish some type of heist/mission (Aldhani and Narkina-5 both kinda fit this).

So when looking at Rogue One through that same lens, it fits so well? Like the movie's use of instantly iconic characters that you only get to know for a short while, that you only get to know through the rebellion and this mission, feels even more like a consistent narrative choice instead of some flaw when seen in the greater context of what Andor is doing. The way we unfairly lose them to the battle against the empire in a way that feels that even feel unfair to us as an audience. Jyn being a mirror to Cassian becomes even clearer, and him inspiring her to rebel and lead (as he did with Kino) becomes even more of a solid characterization.

A good prequel is supposed to make the original thing even better, and Rogue One was that to A New Hope imo. But now, Andor has even become that to Rogue One.

#andor #andor spoilers #star wars blogging #amanda rambles #cant wait to watch andor s1 andor s2 and rogue one and that to be my star wars forever #i MIGHT change some thoughts on this when rewatching rogue one but we'll see #and obv depends on s2 of andor oBV LIKE #this depends on them following a similiar tone #and reach at least like... 60% of quality #there's even more comparisions one could make to why rogue one is so consistent with andor but i left it with that #god i lOVE rogue one but it is sUCH A BUMMER that i feel like thats why i havent revisited it much #and the short time we get to spend with the characters bums me out #but now with andor in my backbone... i view it as a couple of episodes and it feels RIGHT

[simptasia]

the best reminder that LOST is a masterpiece is to watch any other drama series

#i dunk on lost and it's problems #with love AND frustration #and it can easy to forget how amazing it is if you compare it to itself #watch literally any other multi season drama with an ensemble and its like wow #yeah lost is one of Best Things In Television #and like i'm not even insulting every other drama. obviously there are ones that are good. what i mean is lost is so fucking good #also ya gotta love that 2004+ era of tv where a bunch of these shows were trying their best to have that lost flavour #suddenly a billion of dramas with 20 main characters with trauma and connections happened. twists! twists everywhere! #and suddenly flashback narratives became like 60% more popular #good stuff #i can't even think of an example because its just what television in general has become #that its easy to forget that serialized storytelling weren't always the norm #episodic was the typical way to tell stories in the 90s #thats part of why star trek deep space nine was so unpopular back then but has gotten new life in the modern world #twas a head of its time really

[llycaons]

another difference is that brennan gives much more leeway to his players than matt did. like it feels like he'll let them do anything as long as it's not explicitly against the rules. like emily asked if sofia's burning hair could result in a cute bob and he was like yes, absolutely, sure, and I guarantee matt would have made her roll like, a percentage die or something. but his strictness meant the stakes for the characters and story were higher, so I miss it a bit

#also i zone out during a lot of the fight scenes bc I don't know the characters well enough to be really emotionally invested #and I watched crit role from THE BEGINNING. yes the underdark arc. I watched the entire mirror shopping fiasco. all hour and a half of it #I KNEW those characters. even tho some were less developed than the others or had fewer goals they were still valued #bc they were cherished by their fellow players and characters. and bc I had spent like 60 hours in their presence by the time #the actually good plots rolled around #do you know how hard I cried in the final episode and I didn't even LIKE vax #d20 lb

[foxglovecove]

…ok but how the heck are they gonna wrap up *waves hand* ALL OF THAT in one more episode??

#loki series #loki season 2 #like fr there’s so many loose ends #and I’m gonna wager the last episode isn’t even gonna hit the 60 minute mark #loki thoughts #rambles #and I read there’s no season 3 #rawrrrkgorskfkfos #flips table

[lieutenant-amuel]

Calculating characters’ ages so they fit into the timeline of the fic my beloathed.

#Personal #Was Born To Lead #OKAY #If I calculated everything right Felicia might appear in the flashbacks or at least be mentioned in one of the next chapters of WBTL #I pretend she was Elena’s peer or 1-2 years older/younger than her so she’s around 60 years old in season 3 #I need the period of her life when she still danced aka when Ricardo was still alive #And I pretend he was around 30-35 when it happened because he actually looks pretty young #Anyway if he was older that’s not super bad because I can easily adjust my characters’ ages a little #unless he was older than forty tho #And if he was younger it makes things a lot more complicated #Ugh integrating your own characters and the ideas you have for them into canon and make them interact with the canon characters is hard T_T #(only if you care about canon otherwise you can easily screw everything up and be happy) #Honestly I didn’t even think of including Felicia but I recently rewatched all the Spirit World episodes #because I need to remember more of the Spirit World lore #(for reasons~) #and I realized that she might complement one of my characters’ arcs quite well #Complement not expand #And generally I’d like to have more canon characters in my fic even if they’re minor #Ajshdkkd and about Flower of Light again #You’re gonna hear the story of my stupidness #So I needed to find a Latin American dance that wouldn’t be a partner dance because I needed one of my characters to dance it alone #And oh my goodness I found zapateado!!! I spent so much time for that and felt so so smart and proud then! #And then I rewatched Flower of Light #Ricardo and Felicia danced zapateado the exact same dance that I found #I completely forgot they already had this dance in the show #I could easily save the time I spent for searching by just rewatching the show T_T #I felt SO stupid then really :’D #I just should rewatch the entire show to pay more attention to all the little Latin American things they put there #It will make my writer’s life significantly easier

[elena-of-avalor-polls]

The Dreamcatcher VS King of the Carnaval poll makes me so worried.

#mod rambles #I told myself I’ll be unbiased #but I’ll be so upset if the episode I’m rooting for loses ajshndj #They’re even now #And this is the most voted poll so far #Almost 60 votes #I feel like even the final won’t be as tense as this poll because those are the most loved episodes by the fandom #Well this is how the power of randomness works #I probably should have made a proper bracket and not just make the matchups randomly it’d make more sense #But well we have what we have ajgshdjf #I’ll consider it for the next tournaments

[perenlop]

man. i think drizzile’s episode is like… a good summary of journeys in a way. because i both really really like the episode but i also dislike it.

if you isolate this episode from the rest of the show, it’s phenomenal. it’s an episode that actually kinda personally gets to me as an autistic introvert- the way goh describes his and drizziles feelings as something thats hard to put into words, because “staying away makes me feel better” sounds ridiculous out loud and makes people bother you even more- it gets to me. because i was that kid! hell, i still am that person. withdrawing gets a lot of shame cast on it because “going out will be better in the end”, but this episode has the nuance to go “but forcing it will only make you more miserable”- thats something ive never really seen in a kids show. i think if this episode aired when i was in middle school, it wouldve really helped me. in that regard, its great! its one of my favorite eps in the show!

but……. its so hard to disconnect this episode from the grander picture where this show just…. REALLY doesnt like galar. from a writing and executive standpoint, its hard to not see the writers going “shove drizzile in the hole so we dont have to do anything with it for a while”. and man it just feels so cynical. i feel like this issue couldve been solved if they showed other drizzile in the show for a time- maybe gave it to a rival or something. goh’s drizzile also couldve been shown coming out of its nest from time to time before going back inside to recover. maybe it couldve had one or two battles, even. but no…. the next time drizzile gets a proper episode is when it evolves.

to be completely honest, i dont even like drizzile all that much. but this show did a lot of good for raboot, my favorite galar pokemon. and its sad to see that while i personally got that with goh’s raboot, sobble fans were really let down with this show (and grookey even more)

idk. this is a good example of a jn episode to me because on its own, this is a GREAT episode, but its held back by its own distaste for the region its supposed to be representing.

#like. they really did just shove it in a hole so they could get inteleon faster #this might be considered blasphemy but. compare this to unova rq #two of ashs starters never reached their 2nd form. but we still saw servine and dewott a ton in the show! #two rivals had them and we saw others as well. before tepig evolved we also got pignite rep from bianca #and like bw fucking despised oshawott. we still got plenty of oshawott line rep (barring samurott) #compare all that to this show… #where we very rarely see other galar starters besides the ones goh had #hell. it took grookey 60 fuckung episodes to even show up #echoed voice #jn lb

[obessivedork]

I got so caught up in the euphoria of new Star Trek that I forgot SNW has some of my least favourite writing of the new shows. I think I’m frustrated with it because there are so many aspects I SHOULD like! On paper I SHOULD like this show more than I do! I just do not vibe! :(

#Happy for everyone who loves the show so much god I wish that were me #tagging for my own blog's sorting system not here to be a dick #it is only dethroned by season 3 of PIC for my least favourite writing #but. STOP TALKING ABOUT GENETIC MODIFICATION STAR TREK. IT HAS NEVER BEEN GOOD. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN BAD. ALWAYS. #EVEN THAT ONE BASHIR EPISODE THIS IS A HOT TAKE I WILL TAKE TO MY GRAVE #(but there are other things that are good about that Bashir episode) #It's too nuanced and difficult of a topic to handle in a 45-60 minute episode. It really is #Children should never be blamed for the sins of their parents etc etc but it is SUCH a double edged sword #what they did with La'an was neat I guess. something something facing ancestral ghosts that put guilt on your shoulders #Like at least this guilt and trauma isn't entirely needless like the Gorn shit #It makes sense that a descendant of HIS would have complex thoughts and feelings. Just wish it was a descendant of a DIFFERENT #genegic augment from Earth's history. Makes the universe feel SO SMALL #The La'an episode got me reluctantly back into being willing to see where they're going with everything because it was a decent episode #I mean I'll watch the Lower Decks episode no matter what but I was hoping the show would grow on me more this season #and it still hasn't really #There are fun elements (Funky old engineer lady! Still mad about killing off the season 1 guy but she's fun! I'm so gay for Ortegas) #I want to like this show more so bad! :( #but I'm just overall not vibing :( #star trek #snw

[july-19th-club]

#the option to finish something i'm in the middle of or something i started and left off two episdoes from the end of is NOT an option #those are my emotional support unwatched last two episodes of bones. and elementary. and only murders in the building. and superstore #to be clear starting pjo tonight would not get you past my bedtime. if you were NOT ME. but i dont watch things at the length that they are #and if i'm deeply excited. it takes me even longer #like. the first two less-than-60-minute episodes of an anticipated favorite are . a three hour commitment. AT MINIMUM #have to allow time to stop and go back and rewatch scenes or stop and go pace around my house or stop and kick my feet with glee #you know

[time-like-tears-in-rain]

"he followed you home through the time vortex!"

#literally fuck off #dw rewatch #i KNOW THEY NEEDED TO WRITE ROSE OUT BUT THERE'S NOOOOO REASON SHE HAD TO STAY GONE. #fuck just say she can regenerate new face done #retcon a bit so jack can too #it would be funny #if we're running on vibes then why the hell not #truly just!!! #we could have rose running around in the background someplace not even in every episode maybe she has some Important Thing #to do with earth Torchwood as an excuse but the Doctor (any of them) can randomly #be like ''yeah you should see my Rose'' ''your girlfriend? your wife?'' ''MY ROSE!'' #bc hey he (or she!) has someone! there would be no more romantic drama around! #I will die on that hill #60 years and the Doctor only really loved two women? give us another ten then before introducing any more romantic drama I'm begging I hate #doctor/companion romances soooooo much #more companion/companion!!!!! HOW ABOUT VILLAIN/COMPANION!!!!!! #just keep the doc out of it thank you #Rose is my exception I'm mad that she is because truly my hill is ''no romance on the silly scifi show'' but she won me over

[sweetpastillas]

im getting more into ride the cyclone but idk if i can fully say this but i think the only video game ocean has played is animal crossing new horizons on constance's switch because she likes feeling in charge and in control and needed by tiny animal villagers even though the terraforming and making the town perfect gets her stressed like

she also thinks she's isabelle but justifies tom nook's financial decisions more and when she hears about the lore of him giving bells away to orphanages shes like !!!

#ride the cyclone #i also think ricky is very good at rpg & the choir calls mischa a god at fps games even though he only knows the basics & is the best out #of all of them #noel plays stuff like episode and dating sims and he causes drama on purpose? bitlife as well #constance recommends stardew & he focuses on divorce arcs for the entire town #actually consrance has about 60 tabs open while playing and she splits those between stardew & the kind of indie games with #deep or a little sad messages #penny jane is unnervingly good at trivia #i also think ricky plays huniepop at least or any other 18+ game because you cant tell me the catwomen come from nowhere #this post is ocean focused tho #ocean o'connell rosenberg #rtc musical

[thelawsofdaylight]

watching the bbc series with my mum has really reaffirmed how weird the pacing is. she's about halfway through the brick so i said cool we can watch the first 3 episodes probably! but it's now the end of episode 4 and we're still not up to where she is in the book!!!!!

#i generally kind of like the first few episodes of bbc mis #barring some awful atrocious decisions character wise it kind of stands up as a decent adaptation #then we hit episode 3/4 and... what the fuck #they very clearly start skimping on plotlines and it even *feels* rushed #my mum was saying the same and she doesnt even know whats supposed to happen next #(sidenote: yes my mum has managed to live for 60 years without ever having the plot of les mis spoiled for her. even having ME as a child) #and like!!!!! it didnt have to be this way!!!!! #building on my theory that bbc les mis is an adaptation of the les mis musical and not the book itself #there will be more posts like this btw as i rewatch it #i try so hard not to be a hater but not hating is so difficult when its so easy. to hate #i need a bishop myriel intervention #bbc mis