okay finished with season 4, so here are some general thoughts about it.
- Hen and Karen’s plot with fostering was so impactful, and I LOVE that at the end, they got to meet the birth mother. I think Hen needed that.
- Maddie’s struggle with pregnancy, birth, and postpartum depression is SO IMPORTANT. I adore her so much and her crying to Chim at the end of the season broke my heart. Their baby is so beautiful though ❤️
- I was genuinely scared about Bobby & Athena’s secrets and their giant fight. They feel like my parents and I didn’t like that they weren’t communicating 😭 Athena saving Bobby was very badass and made me happy.
- Eddie was…not very straight this season. Not even about Buck (except the part where he literally added Buck to his will. That’s….), but just generally. Him and Ana have very little chemistry, and it was all but confirmed that he’s only really with her because of Christopher. It’s hard for me to see that reasoning as straight? idk, maybe that’s just me being influenced by Buddie.
- I LOVE EVAN BUCKLEY. I love him. I love him. I want him. I need him. I imprinted on him like a baby duck in the first season and it has only gotten worse. If there are no Buck stans, I am dead. (also LOVE Eddie for treating Buck with the love and care HE DESERVES)
- I’ve only known Ravi Panikkar for four episodes (?) and I would already kill for him and die for him. I wish he was a main character. (I would also love to see more Karen 😌)
- The individual storylines of this season hit different. I really loved them
I’m getting close! Starting season 5 now! I know absolutely nothing about this season, so…wish me luck lmao
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"Stede wanted to be a pirate and now he's not going to be one, which is bad."
Did he really want to be a pirate? Stede wanted to be a storybook pirate; he wanted to be the pirate in his games and his imagination, who had swashbuckling adventures. The entire first season deals with him learning what piracy really is. He sees what it has done to Ed, quite literally history's greatest pirate, within the first half hour of their meeting. Most of the fun he has, has nothing to do with actual piracy - it's playing games with his crew, going on treasure hunts with Ed, putting on plays. He likes making up plans, but he doesn't like actual piracy. When he accidentally kills a man, it horrifies him and haunts him, and continues to until the end of the season. He goes to therapy about it.
Into Season 2, the entire point of Stede's piracy is still not piracy. It's to get back to Ed. Stede's fantasy in the beginning is about being the storybook pirate who defeats the villain and runs across the beach to his one true love, who isn't mad at him and never was. It's a fairytale. And even there, reality is creeping in - dream-Izzy tells him, "I didn't make you leave him. You did that yourself." The reality is that Ed has gone into a suicidal spiral, and Stede finds him mostly dead.
The one time that Stede becomes a "real pirate" in the real world, it goes to his head, but it's not even because of his love of piracy. It's because he's suddenly popular. People are buying him drinks and clapping him on the back. No one's calling him "Steve." No one's making fun of him. And still, the only thing he wants to do when he does something cool is go tell Ed about it.
And even then...it's hollow. Everyone around him are sycophants. Ed has left him. His crew are suddenly leaving him. It all ends with him getting his ass kicked by a real pirate. He didn't even like doing the thing that made him popular; he kills Ned Low and runs off to hide. The whole sequence at Jackie'z is a mirror of the sequence at the pub when he goes home - everyone thinks he's cool, but for none of the reasons that are authentic to who he is or what he really wants.
Stede wanted a family who loved him. He wanted friends who liked him for him. He wanted someone to play with. He wanted to marry for love. And he has all those things at the end.
He's not a pirate. He's not having second thoughts.
I'm not sure why this is hard to see.
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i dont care what anyone else says tsats is everyhting ive ever wanted!!!!!! theyre so silly!!!!!
there such cringe boys!!!! and theyre learning how to be people!!! and we get to see how much nico loves and embraces the immortal and the monster parts of their world!! something that we saw in them main series' with hestia and the trogs and hazel and the skeletons and jules-albert!! something that we see in this book with the gray ladies and epiales and the trogs again and amphitemis and menoetes and the cocoa puffs!! hes always been soft and kind and good and silly!!!
we get to see will growing with nico instead of just changing him!! so many fan interpretations are of will being a therapist and just leading nico to the light and fixing him but that didnt happen!! will is set in his ways and headstrong and stubborn and its so so good bcs hes a teenage boy who's had too much responsibility and he's learning to accept other people's truths!!
we got a new look at hades and persephone!!! and of bianca and maria!! and we got canon nico being mr.d's favorite!!!!! we got stupid jokes and nicknames and teasing and hugs and physical contact!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why are u people mad at this (rhetorical)!!!!!!!
also now nico has a pack of fucked up dogs that follow him around and eat pancakes. are u jokeing me. are u kidding?????
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thinking about ahri remembering her past lives... thinking about her being happy to see people she loved happier.... thinking about the fact not having those same bonds again or being close to people but them not remembering their shared past likely contributes to The Melancholia™️ sometimes..
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DUDE, I WASN'T READY FOR IT TO END!!
Everything was amazing! I loved it and kept crying through it!
This was me throughout most of the episode.
~Spoiler~
My real question is Hooty a part of Titan? Cause the other eye of the titan is a small hooty. Has he been keeping an eye on him, not just with the dark squares.
THEY NEVER ANSWERED WHAT HOOTY IS!!
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Now I am 100% sure... Will is definitely not dying next season. There's no way. He's safe.
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