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janiedean · 3 years

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Wait they fucked the SPN ending for Walker? How? And now the show is more conservative than the original, which was headlined by known conservative dumbass Chuck Norris? Ugh

tldr (I can attest in the sense that I did watch the very last episode and with everything I've seen until now...... it holds up)

basically from what it seems like they pushed so that the finale ep was sam focused so it would make ppl idk stick with jared and they didn't give dean time to shine or a basic excuse of a storyline at all before the dumbest death he could have had and jensen's obviously pissed

like... can imagine why he would be

also like nothing happened in that ep is2g I watched it live while it was happening and it was all..... filler? like I swear even the fillerest filler episode for any show I've watched had more stuff happening in it than the spn series finale which... was... bad

and like I remember walker promos airing every ten seconds when the ep was airing sssoooo

anyway apparently the cw got heavy on walker promoting and shit and got both jensen & misha shafted which like... I mean misha was def in vancouver for the finale but he wasn't in the ep and jensen spends 15 years playing dean for that?

and like now idk if the background rumors re jared not opposing any of that and basically screwing them over because it was convenient for his new show are true or not but if he is like... ofc jensen is pissed off

anyway like as stated I'm catching up on the whole thing now and with that in mind the finale looked like 'okay we wanted to do a thing but you execs told us that we couldn't and we had to do this this and that so we're going to do it in a way that sucks ass on purpose but that delivers what you wanted' even moreso than it did in the beginning like... it's not bad in the way any other bad finale I watched is bc AT LEAST SOMETHING HAPPENED IN THE OTHERS LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPENED IN THIS ONE I'm still trying to wrap my head around it tbh

NOW with this in mind I'mma gonna say what I told @emilysnora when the first walker casting stuff came out but basically

the remake has jared being walker blah blah and honestly I'm not even pronouncing myself on the whole 'I got the idea when reading the interview with the ICE policeman who felt conflicted abt putting kids in cages' because it's not my place to but honestly as your resident white european person it's... really... I mean the nicest I can say it's that it's a very privileged way of looking at it and he probably didn't mean it to be a racist thing buuuuuttt thaaat kind of iiiiisssss so there's that and on top of that we have that it's him plus: - hispanic partner in the force - gay brother who's like AN ATTORNEY FOR THE STATE so like... right wing gay dude? okay - his wife was dead before the entire shebang began so hello fridging before the plot even starts - I gave a quick look at the main cast and like there's one biracial dude plus lindsey morgan and they're the only two nonwhite ppl in the entire main cast (idk about the recurring but I'm talking about the MAINS) add to that the... background premise it's really not as progressive as it looks like honestly

now not to be like your resident person who's like BUT THE REP but like if y'all gonna do a show in 2021 about ppl in texas doing that job having to deal with keeping children in cages or latin american immigrants having all white ppl in the main cast except two of them is like.... kind of... not exactly what I'd do in this time and age

now with the premise that as stated I hate chuck norris's politics and I don't thing great of him as a person or anything else so like pls don't take this as chuck norris endorsement or anything

my grandfather used to be obsessed with it same as like apparently 90% of italian grandfathers bc everyone I know had at least one who loved that show so like I've seen my fair share of it back in the day and to my best recollection - basically no one was presuming it was like.... there to make a political statement it was basically chuck norris roundhouse kicking bad dudes coming from whichever background and saving the day the end but - walker himself had native american ancestry bc he was raised after his parents' death by his uncle who was played by floyd westerman who was like a prominent NA actor so like technically you had the lead who had NA ancestry himself plus there was like actual NA actors having a relevant role which like... bros not to be that asshole but last time I saw that in pseudo mainstream tv in the last ten years it was on a netflix show that lasted one season so make of that what you will, also there were at least two other NA supportive chars from the reservation they all came from like one was the sheriff and the other was a spiritual leader or smth but anyway it had three NA chars played by NA actors - walker's police partner/bff was black - he had the ongoing willtheywon'tthey romance with the district attorney or smth but she didn't get fridged actually she lasted the entire show but anyway like... there was no 'ah he had a wife who DIED BEFORE THE SHOW EVEN STARTED' plotline - in the last two seasons they had rookie rangers showing up and like I went to check on wikipedia to be sure but the girl is half filipina which again not a category that gets exactly much rep on american tv - there was a recurring dude who helped them out in cases but was from another police branch who was def latino (don't remember the background sorry but he def was) also like walker was a vietnam vet which imvho would be an improvement over 'I was undercover for eleven months and my wife died :((((' when it comes to give your main like.... a srs background but anyway the point was that new walker in between the mains has like two nonwhite ppl and if I look at the recurrings it looks like there's four ppl who are latin* but three of them are undocumented immigrants so like... bro there's some typecasting going on I see, old walker had NA/black/hispanic/filipino people in the main/supporting cast and none of them was like... typecast in the sense that they were all cops except two of the NA ones so it's not like they went out of their way to typecast and like obv og walker wasn't making the whole thing a political statement but looking at it...... it's still way more progressive than whatever the new one wants to be

yes even if chuck norris was headlining it

and I mean... again when you manage to reboot a show starring chuck norris of all ppl and you manage to make it less progressive than the og while thinking you're being progressive while rebooting it I mean as we say here ask yourself a few questions and give yourself a few answers, also like the entire point of og walker was crack where he kicks ppl and says doing drugs is bad, I honestly don't get why the fuck they had to reboot it instead of like having the guts to say we wanna do an original thing, bc like in order to say hey I wanna do a show about a conflicted cop on the texas border you really can just make it an original thing and own it not go like I'M REBOOTING WALKER TEXAS RANGER ROUNDHOUSE KICK CENTRAL EXTRAORDINAIRE but that's my two cents make of that what you will

#anonymous #ask post #sorry for the infodump i just watched a LOT of wtr back in the day #i'm here to provide the info for everyone who wasn't fortunate enough to experience 90s television #truly something™#i mean idt this was a hill anyone should have died on #esp when then THEY FUCK UP A 15YO RUNNING SERIES FOR THAT

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udurghsigil · 4 years

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13, 11 and 4 for the patho ask game :3

13. What kind of interaction would you want to see between characters who don’t already interact with each other in-game? when/if we get p2 changeling route i wanna see more... meaningful(?) interactions between her and the other healers!! i thought it was pretty fun seeing her just constantly like “AHH DEMON” around them in p1 but like..... come on...... give me more than that...... i think it would be nice if she actually tried to connect with them more, cuz in p1 at least they definitely do try to cooperate and... idk try to understand each other in some way? her being purely antagonistic towards them is. meh.

wait i guess that doesnt count cuz they do interact. i dunno thats th best i got! 11. What is something you would change, writing-wise, about either game? me n my friend were talking about this a while ago regarding artemy’s design... i think if they’re not gonna visibly give him khatange features then i think they should have made it CLEAR that he is white-passing. most characters tend to just IMMEDIATELY recognize him as a ~steppe man~ when its just like .... .................... y’know

it would be a little more interesting if when people are just being casually racist abt artemy’s people it’s because they didn’t recognize him as being khatange so he can call them out on it. imagine them fumbling around like “oh, uh, sorry, i couldn’t tell by looking at you” or something like that. cuz i mean lets be honest rubin’s little rant abt the kin distracting isidor felt real out of pocket. idk i mean the microaggressions constantly being tossed by artemy were ROUGH but they don’t fit.... his appearance. it would make way more sense if ppl were just saying racist shit around him either bc they didn’t know he was khatange or bc since he’s white-passing they think they can get away with it? (im lightskin and you would not believe how many ppl think they can just talk abt how they hate black culture around me just bc i look the way i do) i know alot of folk have issues with him not being visibly... ✨ETHNIC✨ which is valid and salute all the folk drawing nonwhite artemy o7 but i really think it would’ve been okay if they had actually taken his appearance into account when writing his interactions with others? this is a bit of an aside but most media with lightskin black characters they’re portrayed as aracial instead of facing any kind of prejudice, and in my own life we def don’t deal with what darkskin folks do but we have a different set of shit to deal with from others. .. so personally i feel like it would’ve been interesting if they explored that a bit more with artemy, but alas. 4. Which ending? Utopian, Termite, or Humble? Diurnal or Nocturnal? How do you feel about the endings in general? i haven’t finished p1 yet but termite termite termite. fuck da polyhedron. aglaya gets 2 live and the kids inherit the earth. i’ve complained abt p2 endings enough for .... at least this year so i won’t get too deep into it but i personally prefer diurnal. that game took alot out of me so i enjoyed being able to talk to all the characters i met along the way and see where things were going forward. i love the idea of the children ruling the town and the surviving bound rebuilding everything that had been destroyed and changing it into something new.

if ipl had handled writing the kin better than they did then i probably would like nocturnal more, but even then i feel like that ending was really nonsensical with everyone walking out into the steppe and.. blah blah blah you know the rest >_> i know things are being rebuilt in this ending but despite that i feel so disconnected from what’s going on. the kin getting their land back should be a victory but it doesn’t really feel like one and i hate that.

#ask #i underestimated how much i would write about this #thank you thank you tunes and sorry for rambling sm asdmfklamsf #pathologic #clouiis

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