#no good fucking television

[puppyboypatrick]

kiss and tell

#hope u guys like my highly specific pete wentz #also hope my image id is good idk chat #shoutout to the blood brush i used to color and shade this whole thing #no good fucking television #pw2.txt #my art #fob #pete wentz

[p4nishers]

i cant get over the ball being so CLEARLY all for crowley i can't get over aziraphale trying to woo him with a WHOLE FUCKING BALL because that's what he knows that's what romance IS for him because he's been wanting to dance with crowley ever since dancing was invented and he's so stuck in time with the way he dresses and talks and he still thinks a dance is the high of romance AND HE MADE A WHOLE ENTIRE FUCKING BALL FOR CROWLEY JUST SO HE COULD DANCE WITH HIM like now it's so fucking obvious he gave away his BOOKS without a second thought and it was all for crowley he organised a whole JANE AUSTEN THEME BALL just so he could have an excuse to finally dance with the love of his life and i can't get over this i'm shaking my fists and pacing up and down he did not give a single fuck about anything other than dancing with crowley and HE BARELY TOUCHED OTHER PEOPLE'S HANDS WHILE HIS WHOLE FUCKING PALM WAS PRESSED TO CROWLEY'S AND i need to lie down

#im actually not okay im never getting over this #this was actually the most romantic thing to ever happen on television prove me wrong you can't #no because he spent CENTURIES reading about and witnessing and orchestring romances and he's been wanting to living in them WITH CROWLEY al #this fucking time and crowley rescuing his books was the most romantic thing that ever happened to him and in return HE GAVE AWAY THE BOOKS #HE LOVES SO FUCKING MUCH FOR CROWLEY AND OH GOD OH JESUS #how am i still not normal about this show im literally box breathing and my heart is fucking POUNDING from a SHOW i cant i just cant #i need psychiatric help #good omens #good omens s2 #azicrow #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable spouses #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands #go s2

[coldzonkprofessorturtle]

Watching a Netflix show nowadays is like curling up next to a warm fire on a cold winter’s night and reading your new favorite book and just as you get to the good part someone walks past, yanks it out of your hands and throws it into the fire. 

#netflix #they really said fuck having endings #we're only about the beginning and sometimes the middle #a good ending shouldn't be kindle for a business model that's on fire #this is exhausting #too many good shows #warrior nun #1899 #first kill #teenage bounty hunters #and on and on and on #television

[gayspock]

i love it when a tv show has lows that are so low you're so ashamed to ever show it to anyone ever but then highs that melt your brain a bit, like, "good fucking god, this is genuinely such an astounding piece of craftmanship... my perception of the medium, and perhaps of myself, has been challenged/changed in 40 minutes" but you cant even express that to ppl without feeling like youre fucking deranged bc my god the lows .....

#Egg.txt #sorry i saw gar watched Hush recently and like #my god thats such a good episode of television . like sincerely fucking solid. like damn man. #and theres other eps of buffy i'd rank among that i.e a certain s5 episode that just still gives me chills to think about #but this also goes for trek + doctor who + farscape + and any and every lame little campy show out there #that just needs to fuck your head wide open sometimes #maybe that why i have enjoyed bsg but i havent like fucking Melded with it yet because its highs and its lows are both there but it doesnt #ever touch the extremes of either #i need something so so bad and so so good at once that makes mefeel like im insane #god i might go rewatch some tos soon #but yeah ok abt bsg maybe its alsojust #laccking a sincerity to it sometimes #and not just in how its a darker/grittier #but just in general i feel like .........hm. idk.. #let me ponder

[sitzfleischh]

Okay inspired by this post by @irispurpurea and this post by @ouidamforeman (both of which are excellent, please read) I wanted to add some thoughts about the structural weirdness of season 2.

The reason season 2 feels so structurally WEIRD is that it's the second beat what is now a three act story, but that wasn't written as one in the first place.

Season 1 was a complete, self-contained story arc with completed character development, based on a complete, self-contained novel. The story of Good Omens is about an angel and a demon going from opposite sides to their own side, aligned with earth and its humans. And at the end of season one this story has been told! It's done!

If you want to keep the story going, then, you have two options -- either you find a completely new story to tell with these characters, or you do what Neil Gaiman et al have chosen to do and you complicate and unresolve the conclusion from the first story in order to tell the same story but in an even bigger and more nuanced way.

The challenge of season two, then, is to reframe the events of season one not as a completed story but as the first act of a three-act arc.

And genuinely I think this is just not the way that most TV shows tasked with writing their second season go about doing it. Not that this is a bad choice! But the reason it feels weird on first glance is because it's taking its structure from like... half of the sequel to a novel, not a TV show that gets a second season.

This is the point of all of the historical flashbacks in season 2-- to make us understand that Crowley and Aziraphale are not on the same page and haven't been for 6000 years, despite appearing to be by the end of the first season.

The other thing I think season 2 does is make the whole story about Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship in a way it just wasn't in season 1. Taken on its own, season one's A-plot is the apocalypse, and the B-plot is relationship between this angel and demon.

What season two does then is literally FLIP the importance of those two things structurally. Season one's apocalypse and various side characters now occupy the same place as the Gabriel mystery in season 2. Which is also why it feels so weird to be like "wait this thing that felt like The Big Important Thing before is now suddenly the background of something else."

All this to say, this season is SO structurally interesting because it's just straight up not like other TV shows in structure, and because of the way everything now has to be marketed and framed in trailers as one, more typical kind of story, AND because the first season was a complete story that has now been reframed as an incomplete story, Good Omens season two feels very weird but imo much less weird upon rewatching, and will again feel less weird once we have season 3 and the story gets to complete its arc.

#good omens meta #good omens #good omens analysis #good omens s2 #anyway I have been THINKING THOUGHTS lately lmao #and the state of television right now is so fucked but also so interesting to me #if they told the exact same story but as a 12-episode second series instead of two 6-episode series #I think people would feel completely different about it -- myself included! #is Good Omens perfect? no. Do I love it with my whole heart forever? absofuckinglutely #my good omens meta #sitzfleischh.meta

[daily-hanamura]

Aww bancho that's such a sweet sentiment! It's really

Oh.

#p4 #p4g #p4d #persona 4 dancing #persona 4 #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #DONT TOUCH ME IM VULNERABLE RIGHT NOW #everyday i come on to this app to yell at you guys about how important yosuke is to yu #i know we all know this already but still BUT STILL every time i look at the evidence i want to cry #LOOK AT HOW CLOSE TO HIS HEART BANCHO HOLDS YOSUKES WORDS #GUYS THAT WAS THE FUCKING SCENE THAT RISE WAS CONFESSING HER LOVE TO YU IM ACTUALLY YELLING BECAUSE #HERE YU IS. REPEATING YOSUKE'S WORDS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION #he's good with his queue

[jaynovz]

Anyway season 1 of Black Sails is good actually and it's chronically shit talked and criminally under appreciated

#black sails #thoughts #black sails lb #and honestly it gets on my last nerve #breaking my silence lmao #It's not a season that you 'just have to get through so that the show will get good' #It's fucking good television and that's my that on that

[literaphobe]

look. say whatever u want about thomas astruc. im not in the business of defending anything he’s ever done. BUT i wont lie. there is something very euphoric about seeing some crazy tweet about mlb going ‘wow what an idiot’ and then a day later seeing him reply to it w the french white middle aged man equivalent of ‘KYSSSS KYS RNEOWWWWW’

#mlbposting #LIKE #I might be laughing at this #THIRTEEN DAYS #GIRLLLLL if u have a masters degree in writing and you think #you can write a GOOD season of television w 26 episodes 22 minutes long eacu #of a show that’s worldwide…… #IN THIRTEEN DAYSSSS #then a university education means nothing #BE FUCKING SERIOUSSSS #‘I thought it excluded the planning process!’ OKAY THEN ASSUME THAT THE TIME IT TAKES FOR THEM TO WRITE #ALSO INCLUDES THE TIME IT TAKES TO PLAN?? #what are some people ONNNNNN

[sunnibits]

friendly reminder that the ninth doctor and rose tyler literally invented love in 2005 when the doctor said “I could save the world but lose you” in s1ep5 of doctor who. not a joke btw just a statement of fact!

#you may think that love existed before then but you’d be wrong actually sorry #ninerose #ninth doctor #rose tyler #doctor who #dw #brief interruption between nonstop slutty thoughts ab that old man to go insane over dw s1 #god…. it was literally so fucking GOOD #the longer I go on without watching it and like consuming different media I’m like damn. middle school sunny really knew what was up fr. #like it wasn’t just the hyperfixation talking that rlly was just an incredible season of television #it’s so fucking well written… and MR. ECCLESTON’S PERFORMANCE. GOD. #I will literally be demanding his Oscar until the day I die

[blush-and-books]

oh, i get it now. netflix had to cancel jatp because the pjo tv series was starting to film and having both shows on tv at the same time would have just elevated television to unimaginable heights

#julie and the phantoms #jatp #percy jackon and the olympians #it would have been fucking insane to have these shows at the same time. so amazing and so good and GAH #it would have been a utopia of television and they were like no we cant enable this

[puppyboypatrick]

online friends are like. i would trust you with my life. i have never seen your knees

#no good fucking television #lk.txt #pansys biggest hits #i changed this to gay sex but i felt bad so i changed it back. if u saw it in the 5 minutes it was like that hi ur a real one

[natjennie]

they'd never put it in the show but I'd genuinely kill for captain to get like really comfortable calling himself gay esp with slurs in the way we tumblr girlies do like. I'd do anything for him to be giving some more decorating advice and alison be like "wow why are you so good at this" and he goes "well it's simply my untouchable faggot swagger"

#like him being like 'everyone listen to me and my incredible gay ideas' #big 'fuck off janet im not coming to your fucking baby shower' 'move im gay' energy #i need him to be a little more cunty and a little more slay #thank you and good night #they would never write it in but im giving ben willbond a personal pass to say the word fag. #they could even make it a funny british joke because cigarette or w/e. #bbc ghosts #pat: how did you know that would happen? cap: hm. simply the queer power of being right all the time. #'what is this homosexual agenda the people on the television are mentioning- i would very much like a schedule' #anyway i love him.

[crumb]

Damon Herriman as Captain Lucien Gaines The Artful Dodger | 1x01

#damon herriman #finally some good fucking food #the artful dodger #lester sinclair #tvgifs #tvedit #tvfilmsource #filmtv #filmtvdaily #filmtvgifs #filmtvedit #filmtvcentral #filmtvsource #australian tv #australian television #usertelevision #tvandfilm #crumbedit

[a0random0gal]

Watching everyone somehow enjoy the ending while you sulk in the corner, cause you read the last chapter 2 years ago and have been hating it ever since:

#attack on titan #has one of the shittiest ending in television history and i will never shut up about it #honestly it's so bas it rivals the Got one #it's just #the character assassination of the mc #the glorification and martyrdom of a mass murder #the insane plot armour the good guys have #the cringy make out session with a decapitated head #i could go on and on #at least the game of thrones ending was considered awful by everyone #the aot fandom somehow fucking loooves this hot garbage #eren jeager #mikasa ackerman #anti eremika #armin arlert #reiner braun #jean kirschstein #annie leonhart #pieck finger #historia reiss #my girl was completely abandoned by the plot🥲 #my aot watch has ended at last

[shivgirly]

THE WEST WING: 2x22 - “Two Cathedrals” 

#userbbelcher #chewieblog #twwedit #the west wing #thewestwingedit #tuserella #jed bartlet #dolores landingham #mrs landingham #cj cregg #josh lyman #sam seaborn #two cathedrals #nessa007 #cinematv #filmtv #dailycolorfulgifs #i feel like this ep fundamentally altered my brain chemistry i have been able to think of NOTHING else since i watched it #how do you even create an episode of television this brilliant holy fuck my guy #watching the view from halfway down the day before and then this the next day cannot possibly be good for my sanity

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the thing with doctor who i think is that it gets better the more you know. maybe this is true of all writing but i only know doctor who so we'll focus on that. but i think it gets better the more you know this is why my fic is not very good. i dont know many things. i think if you have a background in like, just any field you can use you can make your doctor who stories more interesting. like linguistics maths physics and music are things that come to mind for me that i would like to know to make my doctor who stories more interesting but i think it can work with, like, almost anything. biology stuff also works well adds a lot. sociology stuff history. if you know how to sew really well or youve worked in meat factories. just, if you have deep knowledge about something this will enrich your doctor who stories (again, might be true for literally every writing)

but also things you can know that are just lived and not books. like i said with that post about different countries' doctor whos, every country would bring its own history and values and perspective to the stories. but also like for example the class stuff or the queer stuff you see with rtds stories like anything a writer Knows will make their stories more interesting

and thats why doctor who could literally be so good If They Diversified Their Fucking Staff. in every sense of the word. you need disabled people, trans people, racialised people, people with different religions but you need people who know other things than writing too! which i get is difficult because theyre mostly working in their fields and not writing but like there are writers who are not or have not only ever just been writers. or just get writers with some weird fucking hobbies!

even in the most basic way even if you keep your entire show white christian able-bodied man, if you have more of those you will have better stories. it will still suck! but like, less than if you only have 1 guy writing right? thats not a novel concept artists know this writers know this thats why they work together. and i get that making tv is very complex and theres a lot of interests and a lot of choices being made that arent even to do with the stories but i find it so frustrating to think about how good doctor who could be if they let other people in to put their knowledge and their perspective in the stories

#and not just in the writing but in Every Department Obviously #i just dotn know how television is made so i dont know. like. what those are #the secret good disabled trans decolonialist doctor who that lives in my head man #like you know that feeling when an artist like...........Gets a certain theme or smth #like Knows what to do with it bc they have a certain own experience or knowledge #like when an artist truly fucking knows what theyre doing #you know that feeling? when youre like this SAYS something abt the theme/trope/idea/whatevs #you know? #doctor who is so full of unused potential #i feel like we're spinning our wheels a little bit #and maybe others feel that too bc showrunners keep being like WE NEED NEW SHOCK BIG NEW #but like. youre not gonna get that with the same old perspectives! #for truly new good refreshing you need some new good refreshing people on the mic #anyway. just. frustrates me #10 to the master but it's me to doctor who the show: you could be so much more! #like 13 and 15 are fun right? with the idk new outfit and the rwandan proverb on the sonic. fucks. but #to use rtds own words. ridiculous craven feeble gesture also a little bit. i want like. substantially good stories #i want to feel like the writer knows what theyre talking about you know? #you know that feeling #anyway #you get what im saying #the secret good doctor who that lives in my head man #except. it doesnt live in my head. bc it lives in many otherp eoples head. by definition #but sometimes i read like fic by friends who fucking Know things and im like damn #damn!!!!! doctor who could be so much better!!!!!! #i also think when youre a writer whos only a writer theres the risk of chasing your own tail a bit #in that th elonger youre a writer the more you only start writing about writing bc thats what you Know #i think thats a risk #also not a novel concept pretty sure professional writers are aware of that one gfhkjghgjg theyre not stupid