Overall I'm pleased with Ahsoka
Could things have been better? Surely.
But Overall, it was entertaining! The castings were great! Ahsoka and Anakin moments were making me lose my mind! Thrawn is so freaking cool in every scene. Ezra grew up and maintained his dramatic boyish charms. Sabine fights with every weapon in her arsenal, in hand, at all times, and I love her for it. Hera and Chopper are still hitting it up with the Republic in their own Rebel Brand way.
I'm just happy to see these characters again 🥰
(Honestly I'll watch anything that has Ahsoka or Ezra in it. The two Rockstar padawans of their respective shows. They are very dear to me.)
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hey wait a minute. if Sam is... the way he is at parties, how is his apartment party gonna go?
someone: haha, you know Shepard at parties! other guests, but most especially Kaidan: *looking around nervously*
HA!
So, part of the inspiration of Sam's party trick, which is imagining all the ways he'd take out whoever he's talking to with whatever's in reach, was the elevator conversation with Wrex, where he asks Kaidan who would win in a fight between him and Shepard. Kaidan declares that he would never fight his commanding officer, and Wrex informs him that's why Shepard would win.
SO, at an apartment party, you can bet your ass Sam and Wrex wind up going through the entire party roster, describing their strategies for everyone, and offering constructive criticism on the responses. New people like James and Traynor would probably freak out if they overheard, while the seasoned veterans know that Sam is just Like That. XD
What would be really funny is Joker deciding to play "how well do you know your partner," and begin asking Kaidan how Sam would take someone out. At this point, Kaidan knows Sam so well and has heard so many of his takedown strategies, that he could probably guess quite a few with pretty decent accuracy. After asking Sam the same question and comparing notes, Joker would gleefully point out to Kaidan that he basically now performs the same trick of 'how would I kill this person if I needed to in a pinch?' resulting in Kaidan having a minor existential crisis.
The ultimate question about an apartment party, though, is does Sam get drunk. He doesn't drink heavily at all (until we get to ME2, but that's, uh, different) because this is what happens when he gets shitfaced:
Commander Shepard goes on hiatus, and he is 100% Sam.
Drunk!Sam is an incurable cuddle slut and will tell you anything.
To give even more context for how mortifying this has the potential to be for Kaidan or anyone else, the anything most definitely includes his sex life.
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It really is so fascinating though, because even aside the flashier colors and the whole kink thing (Rhea and Bob please), Saul Goodman becomes a comfort to Kim when she’s imploding. But when she’s willing to shoot an innocent man for all she knows to save her husband’s life, it stops being comforting and Rhea calling a nameless faceless person on the street who could have been big, I just think that she’s gone to Gene long before now-Saul ever got any self awareness back
it took me so long to answer this ask because i wasn't sure how. i haven't quite figured that out yet, but maybe if i just start typing i'll find a point. . .
i think you're absolutely right. i think that it's also important to remember that she fell in love with jimmy mcgill, not saul goodman, because saul goodman is not a real person. whenever kim and jimmy talked about creating the saul goodman persona, it was like they were talking about how to build themselves the perfect suit of armor. jimmy never won chuck's respect? well, good news! saul goodman doesn't care about bullshit like "respectability!" kim was raised by a neglectful parent(s) who shirked all accountability? good news again! as a goodman, kim gets to be the one who doesn't care about consequences for once!
"saul goodman" was supposed to protect them from the very things that have wounded them their whole lives. but of course, it didn't just protect them, it also hurt everyone around them. and now, i think, we're witnessing our final "sunk costs" moments. jimmy still believes in the fallacy. he's sticking with saul goodman because he's already lost so much to create the goodman persona. why stop now? if he just keeps playing for long enough, he could still win. maybe he thinks saul goodman can still protect him against chuck, against lalo, against the voice in his head. maybe he thinks saul goodman will bring kim back.
kim, on the other hand, has seen the sunk-cost fallacy for what it is: a fallacy. she's cut her losses and left the table. i think they'll find their way back to one another, but they won't make it if they keep playing that same game.
at this point in the broadcast, i'm just free-associating, but i'm gonna keep going. talking about the sunk-costs fallacy as a throughline in the mcwexler story has made me realize how pertinent it is to the story as a whole. ("fun and games" did a superb job of connecting the lawyer + cartel storylines). on the one hand, you have characters who subscribe to the "winner takes it all" mentality, characters like jimmy, chuck, mike, and gus who will keep playing and playing and playing, even when there's no end in sight. then on the other hand, you have characters like kim and nacho, who finally realize they don't have to keep playing-- they can just leave the table. (in conclusion: i think i finally understand that stupid fucking poker chip nacho used to fiddle with).
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Alpha-17 and Obi-Wan being friends (derogatory) on 17's part and friends (threatening) on Obi-Wan's part is such an underrated dynamic
They could be so funny and terrifying, like Obi-Wan went through a soul shredding experience with Alpha-17 as his only company. They're friends because what else are you gonna be after you witness each other at absolute rock bottom from torture.
It's like 'dog put in cage of cheetah who's threatening to go crazy', except the dog is a grizzly bear and also threatening to go crazy.
Emotional support trooper except the trooper in question has never done any sort of supporting in his life and is actively an emotional distress trooper to a great number of the CC batch.
I want them texting everyday, I want Obi-Wan mailing handmade BFF bracelets to Alpha and Alpha sending pics back of him flipping off the camera but still wearing them, I want Alpha using Obi-Wan to keep track of and occasionally terrorize his cadets, I want 17 ending problems in the GAR (like Krell) before they begin because Obi-Wan has him shipped out on a personal transport at the first opportunity, decked out with slug-throwers Obi-Wan got him for his decant-day.
Natborn officers think this is all just an odd indulgence of General Kenobi, the Vode, however, correctly identify it as a goddamn threat and their danger assessment of Obi-Wan ticks up significantly.
When Alpha arrives on Kamino, Shaak Ti presses a shiny new comm into his hand. It has the Jedi Order symbol painted onto it alongside a smiley face sticker, and it pings immediately with a new message: Hello! I hope you're settling in well!
Alpha stares at the message, stares at the singular contact named 'OWK' and then stares Shaak Ti in the eye as he pitches the comm straight into the ocean. Shaak Ti's serene smile only grows larger as she calmly reaches into her robes and pulls out an identical comm, only this one has a frowny face sticker, and presses it into his hand. It lights up: I'm afraid we've bonded, Alpha :). Alpha shuts it off and pockets it with resignation.
Cody arrives on Alpha-17's personal recommendation.
A-17: He's the most difficult little bastard I have. You're perfect for each other.
OWK: Thank you, he's very handsome :3
A-17: No. Stop.
The first thing he asks once he gets comfortable is who his general is texting so much that has him swinging his legs and twirling his hair. Cody assumes it's Anakin, given they seem joint at the hip anyway, but little does he know Obi-Wan's ability to consistently have the Weirdest Relationships Ever.
"Oh, it's Alpha-17, I understand you're familiar with each other?" Hmm. OK. Cody.exe is experiencing a processing error, please hold. He exits the room instead of answering. The next day he peeks over the General's shoulder when he's texting and sees walls of rambling messages from Obi-Wan. Alpha-17 replies every hour with a single text: Lose this number. Obi-Wan giggles. "He's so funny." he says.
When Obi-Wan meets the rest of the CC batch, Cody makes sure to stand perfectly angled so that he can record the reactions when his general cuts off their introductions with "Oh, no need, Alpha-17's told me all about you." It's always immediate FEAR.JPG followed by a slow spiral of What The Fuck.
What do you mean by that General. What does that mean Cody. What do you mean they text. No. Cody. What the fuck is happening, Cody. Alpha-17 doesn't have friends he has enemies and enemies he tolerates enough not to shoot on sight.
OWK: Wolffe reached for his vambrace? when I mentioned you
A-17: That's where he keeps his spare knife.
OWK: Hm that does explain the way he eyed me up, ambitious.
A-17: Clearly not enough, he should have followed through. I taught them better.
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