something something the gasp of surprise that falls over the audience when orpheus turns around in hadestown despite the end of this story being passed down in myth for hundreds of years
something something the glimmer of hope during season 4 of black sails when it seems despite it all like this war could happen, like they could win, despite the end of this story having been written in a children's book over a hundred years ago
something something the power of a story that can make you feel hope in what you've known for years to be hopeless, that can give belief in a better world through a story of loss and tragedy, that can shine a light into the future through showing the darkness of the past
something something "to know how it ends, and still begin to sing it again, as if it might turn out this time, i learned that from a friend of mine"
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Listing fucked up shit that happened in BoBoiBoy, purely from memory (so details maybe fuzzy or I'm over-exaggerating):
1. At the start of the series, he literally got his powers at the age of like, 10. HE'S A BABY
2. The Second Tiers manifestations:
2.A. Halilintar got manifested after being seperated from the other elements and getting tortured via balloon poppings.
2.A.1. The fact that Adudu practically brainwashed him into joining his side after the fact.
2.A.2. Additionally, the fact that the massive drawback to BoBoiBoy's elemental split is the fact that he slowly loses his memories and gets amnesia? Fucked. Up.
2.B. Angin got upgraded to Taufan by getting DRUGGED via potion(?) enhanced cookies. Bro literally got into an acid trip and almost destroyed his town as he's promoting those cookies
2.C. Gempa manifested after having watched all of his friends NEARLY DIE and feeling helpless about the situation because he wasn't strong enough. DUDE–
3. The fact that Fire manifested as a STRESS COPING MECHANISM. OMG
4. Getting back to the getting drugged part, yeah, remember that episode when the gang got zapped by an emotion amplifier ray gun? It pretty much works the same way as the potion thing that happened Taufan
5. ONTO THE MOVIE, OH MY GOD THE MOVIE
5.A. Honestly, because of that, if there ever was like, a subplot, where Ochobot asks BoBoiBoy to take a rest and he refuses because of his crippling hero complex. I would get 'Nam flashbacks
6. To be honest I don't remember much about the movie actually, though I do vaguely remember that he got blasted into space and nearly froze to death? Or was that BBB Galaxy? Or both?
7. Fuck, wasn't he forced to fight Fang because of Kaizo and nearly died in the series finale?
8. For BBBG S1, I don't actually remember much aside from the season finale
9. Oh, but that timeloop episode got me tripped up like crazy. That is my NIGHTMARE scenario
10. And fuck, don't get me started on episode 14. Watching Hali show up again after so long was like watching an angel descend from heaven.
11. But the fact that he was flickering from his normal form to Hali in blinks and flashes, seeing him pushing himself to his absolute limit felt heartbreaking
12. Onto, BBB Movie 2
13. AAAAHHHHHH, THEY GOT SUCKED AWAY
14. BRO, WHEN I SAW SOLAR DISINTEGRATING INTO DUST I GOT SO WORRIED. LIKE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THE REST OF THEM, HE'S PART OF BOBOIBOY HIMSELF, WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S NOW GONE????
15. Near death counter gets added several times here, like it isn't high enough already
And this is where I'll stop, since I haven't started on BBB Galaxy S2 yet (the comics or the now animated BBB Sori)
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One thing that is fascinating to me about President Snow as a character is that he is possibly the character we know the most about in the entire franchise. We've been inside this man's head since he was a teenager, we've seen his thoughts, we know his motivations and we know all the people and events that shaped him into the man we know by the 74th hunger games. We've heard the stories of his rise to power, how he poisoned his way to the top, and we even saw the very first example of it, with the murder of Dean Highbottom. For a character that represents everything we are fighting against in the world of the hunger games, Suzanne Collins allowed us to get so close to him that many of the readers, the audience, know almost everything about him.
And the most fascinating thing of all about him, is that he tells us this from the beginning. "I think we'll make this whole situation a lot simpler by agreeing not to lie to each other." He is a character who promises Katniss, and therefore us as the audience, that he will be honest with us, and he is. We know almost every facet of this man's character, and I think that's brilliant.
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