I’m done ranting for the day, here’s something soft and sweet to lighten my mood
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can you imagine being a hardworking thirty-something bouncing ball corp employee in like idk sales or some shit who spent YEARS before that trying to climb the corporate ladder and succumbing to the 9-5 workhorse race that makes you dead inside but now your boss is a college kid who shows up to important company meetings in sweats and brings his homework to the office so he can get it done on time and haphazardly stuffs paperwork and legal documents into the same binders as his lecture notes and doesn’t give a shit if you don’t properly file for time off bc he can barely be assed to email his professors the same and will still PAY you for it????? can you imagine???? i can’t but it’d be REALLY fucking funnny
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Also ok I need to sleep but deadloch is such a good satire also. Like I’ve watched some cop shows, and holy shit it flips every aspect over.
The obvious one is that it’s women leading and men getting murdered instead of the other way around, but the one I find the most interesting and most important, is that it takes the “few bad apples”, as well as the “ends justify the means” shit, and completely flips it.
Like. Ok. B99 is a cop show. It’s a “progressive” cop show, that sort of tries? To have some messaging about bad policing, but it still falls into the issue of the messages being: “most cops are fine it’s just that some cops are racist! But we can just get them fired so it’s ok” and “it’s necessary for cops to break the law and do morally questionable things to solve a case, and they risk getting fired for it so it’s brave”
Meanwhile even with a progressive show like b99, it still fits into the box of what deadloch is parodying.
Like the core messages of deadloch are the opposite of what I listed above. Like we have: “the system is rotten, corrupt, and the few good cops are getting pushed out because cops are actively discouraged from being good” and “the bravest thing an officer can do is follow the law and treat people with human decency”
Like idk what else to say it’s just really good. It’s a really good satire. I went in with low expectations (bc I didn’t realize it was going to be a satire) but like. Yeah It’s really really well done.
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okay, i’ve held off long enough. time to brag a lil (a lot)
I FREAKING NAILED THAT SCRIPT!!!
sure the words weren’t exactly the same but a) it seems like 911 has a lot of ad-libbing (sentence structure isn’t composed in a way that would fit the script + previous script and scene side-by-sides) and b)  the general conversation was the same
as someone who’s at the (very) beginning of their screenwriting journey it just makes me so happy that i was able to figure it out like AJSHEIWJKAKWNSKDK
DID YOU SEE THAT!!? I KNOW SCRIPT! I KNOW WORDS! I KNOW IT!!! I FIGURE OUT!!! I SCREENWRITE SO I KNOW SCRIPT FROM SCRAP OF SCRIPT!!!!
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Just saw a post slandering KA Applegate for making it a point that sharks don’t jump in the Animorphs series like you do not understand the amount of vitriol this post had for this one factoid and how ‘lazy/sloppy/terrible is was for Applegate to put this in the books how dare you mislead the children you got paid actual money to write this garbage I’ve read better researched fanfiction’ like.
First off, chill out. Second off, I’m sorry you couldn’t suspend your disbelief about the particular behavior of sharks in a series about alien slugs and teenagers committing war crimes; I imagine literally any other childrens’ fiction books were equally if not more painful for you to read. Thirdly, have you considered taking a nap and drinking some water? Maybe eating a granola bar? That’s a lot of hostility to direct at the author of a series that ended years ago. Calm down.
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the relationship between L and the task force is so fascinating to me because L is definitely the focal point of the team, but objectively speaking he isn’t actually calling the shots most of the time. he argues a lot for his ideas, but he almost always defers to the group in the end. they’re often convinced by him, but if they aren’t he doesn’t usually override them. i think that’s the actual explanation for why he doesn’t throw light in prison from the start — it isn’t his investigation, so he can’t or isn’t willing to make that call.
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