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queen-of-my-goofball-army · 3 years

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"Are you watching Katsuki Yuri? I'm going to beat your record someday. If you retire now I'll make you regret it for the rest of your life. Moron!

There you are pork cutlet bowl. You made me look for you. What was that earlier? Stop creeping me out! And what was with that free skate anyway? You can make the excuse that you didn't do your best because Victor wasn't there, but I was in top form and earned a new personal best only to lose to JJ again! You have no right to feel more down than me pork cutlet bowl!

I don't like this piece. This innocence crap makes me want to barf." (Yuri "Yurio" Plisetsky, Yuri On Ice.)

It's anime time once again for comfort characters! We are now in my senior year of high school. I was seventeen when a previous best friend of mine came back into my life and told me all about this "gay skating anime" that had recently come out that she was obsessed with. At her recommendation I watched the first episode. That first episode piqued my interest beyond belief and one character in particular I was instantly intrigued by, it's our baby tsun tsun Yurio Plisetsky's time to shine!

Even though at first Yurio was just seen as an angsty kid I knew that there was something special about him. That there was something deeper about his backstory and how that would tie into his character by the very end. And low and behold I was totally right. Yurio is somebody that had to harden his heart and shut the rest of the world out to only focus on one thing. He knew that he had to be the best. If he wasn't the best then he'd let down the one person that has ever stuck around, his grandfather that loves him. This love becomes his driving force for his character development and helps him to open up to his friends. His agape is something that drives his development and character forward.

Yurio's character is actually one of my favorites in all of anime. Part of it is character interactions. Some of his insults just crack me up. Another big chunk of it is his softer moments. My favorite moment in the entire show is when he shares his pork cutlet piroshki's that his grandfather worked hard to make. His smile when he shared them with Yuuri that's the soft shit right there. It was the moment when I knew that he would be my favorite character instead of just "one of" my favorites.

His determination is backed by hard actual talent. He's worked hard to become the best skater of all time in his mind. Even though he might bitch and complain about how hard the practice actually is, like when he had to do ballet, he works his hardest to be incredible at skating. It's why I cheered so loud when I found that he won the big medal at the end of the show instead of Yuuri. I had been rooting for Yurio since day one because I saw that fire and that drive to be the best.

(Only one completely insane cat boi could be this off and it became my favorite skate in the entire franchise. I love Welcome To The Madness and it broke my heart that it wasn't in the official show. His expressions are another thing that I have a soft spot for and I tried to fit as many into this edit as I could.)

Voice actor appreciation time! Oh boy do I have a *lot* of appreciation to discuss with this one because this was one of those that made me reach my hand into the back of my head in shock. In fact, I watched the show three times before I even knew who his VA even was. I was twelve when I went to my local anime con with my parents for the last time. This was the last time that they went with me anyways. My mom was especially excited for this con because the one voice actor that she knows was there, Micah Soulsod. She watched all of Soul Eater with me where he voiced Soul. He is one of those people that is basically a voice puppet. Like he can do anything and play any role that they need for him to. Which is why Yurio Plisetsky surprised me so much. I was watching Anime America's review of the show on Youtube and they were like "Yurio voiced by Micah Soulsod" BITCH SAY WHAT. Ever since then I've given my mad respect to the man who voiced our tiger of Russia in English.

Yurio to me is what welcomed me back to anime. Of course it was by yelling at me but the sentiment was there. It wasn't what officially brought me back into the medium as a whole ( that's tomorrow) but he was done and I kind of had a really bad day so I wasn't in the mood to make another one. I'm going to call my therapist tomorrow and see when I can schedule an appointment. Don't worry though! The daily edits will keep going all throughout this month. It's just that I need to work on my self love a little bit more than I actually do.

#yuri on ice #yurio plisetsky #favorite anime #favorite characters #best tsundere no I will not take your critics keep them to yourself #day 19: yuri on ice

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coinofstone · 4 years

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2x11 The Witch's Quickening

Hey Arthur, remember last time you were on a manhunt in Camelot and it led you to Morgana's chambers, and she talked you out of searching them and later admitted that she'd been hiding a fugitive in there? Have you learned NOTHING

And Merlin too, he doesn't like, double back and confront Morgana or suggest Arthur do that?

Why is Arthur yelling at Merlin so much in this? Who wrote this episode.

::Coin watch the show instead of playing on her phone challenge::

Morgana being manipulated by a nine year old

Why is Arthur insulting the food as if Merlin cooked it himself? Every other meal he brings up is from the palace kitchens but on this occasion Merlin cooked himself? Ok.

Even the fkin dragon is OOC in this ep

Morgana is so much more intelligent than this.

Gaius needs to bring this to Uther in the throne room like a member of the public? He couldn't get a private audience with the king? Ok.

I really don't remember this episode being so terrible, maybe I'm in a bad mood.

You know, not for nothing, but from Mordred's perspective Merlin is being an absolute dick, not only siding with the oppressor but actively working to sabotage their plans and hurt their people. As we, the audience, are privy to the reasons behind this, WE don't necessarily questions Merlin's actions, WE know he's after the crystal because he's trying to prevent Mordred and Morgana from teaming up and bringing harm to Arthur - that's all good and well but like... Merlin could never bring himself to kill Mordred because he's just a boy, but yet he's allowed the boy to go off and become somewhat radicalized (I say 'somewhat' because honestly, it's not all that radical to plot to overthrow the king that has been waging a genocidal war against your people for twenty fucking years) without ever trying to bring him into the fold. If Merlin had explained his and Arthur's destinies to the boy, made an argument for waiting out Uther's reign in the hope that Arthur's reign will bring peace and magic back to Camelot, but which may not happen if he sees his father killed by sorcerers, and explained his reasons for hiding who he is from Morgana, regardless of Mordred's ultimate destiny to be Arthur's doom, Merlin would've at least had a shot at cultivating an alliance or at very least an understanding between them. Instead, all Mordred sees is this supremely powerful sorcerer who isn't even a druid, serving the very people that would bring an end to their entire race if they could. Although, it seems as tho Mordred has forgotten who exactly snuck him out of the castle and back to the druid camp in three first place. Makes you wonder if Morgana never explained to him that she was believed to have been kidnapped when they found her with the druids last time, and that she went along with that lie for her own safety.

Tl;dr: communication is important kids!

Do I even need to point out how much sense Morgana's little tiff with Uther did not make? Or her sudden distrust of Gwen? If anything she should think Gwen would be an ally considering a) her father was killed by Uther, as an innocent victim of Uther's war on magic, b) Gwen was party to Morgana's previous involvement in aiding and abetting a druid fugitive, c) Gwen L-I-T-E-R-A-L-L-Y sacrificed herself to save Morgana from Hengist's men, the is zero reason to question Guinevere's loyalty to Morgana, and d) Gwen has never said a WORD against sorcery or hinted at any kind of prejudice against druids or anyone with magic.

I looked up the writing credit for this, it's Jake Michie who is also credited with some fantastic episodes like Lancelot, Beauty and the beast, and the Lamia to name a few. It was directed by Alice Troughton who has also done some good eps, including other eps written by Jake Michie, so like I really don't understand what went wrong here.

Oh God there's a commentary track on this episode. I don't wannnnnaaaaaa but maybe I'll learn something, like why it turned out the way it did.

Commentary by Julian Murphy, Alice Troughton, and Katie. I do not have high hopes.

Katie right off the bat explaining shit that's important to note, God I love her on these tracks. Apparently, this was one of the last things to be shot (Merlin films everything out of order and films several episodes concurrently, depending on filming location.) and it was being shot while three other episodes were being wrapped up - so they had FOUR episodes filming concurrently and a lot of THIS episode was directed by Julian Murphy, and Jeremy shot some of it as well. This COULD explain a lot of the inconsistency, but I question how much since Julian seems to be involved in filming lots of scenes in lots of episodes. But I guess it's possible that just that on top of the rush to finish and the pressure of so many spinning plates in the air right at the end. They've just said that for this episode they had the least amount of days to shoot it out of all the episodes they've done, which is partly why they had so much going at once. It's as good a reason as any to explain it being so off, but I don't really see that explaining the wildly off characterization.

Katie going on the whole thing about Alvarr-as-revolutionary and Alice picks up on Morgana's sort of desire to be in that position and they're having a quite meaningful discussion then Julian:I think she just thinks he's hot 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Katie says the script changed a lot even as it was filming, and that things were being changed as it was filmed so I'm kind of thinking for whatever reason this entire thing was a mess and that's why it came across looking so disjointed to me.

At least Julian realize the soup scene was terrible.

Idk why they're ganging up on Katie over the chemistry between her and Alvarr. She says she wasn't playing it that way and that she wasn't feeling it and they're just like "yea uh huh sure."

They're talking about having two units filming like a few feet away from each other in the forest, while there is another two units going in France.

Julian says they had added Alvarr's girlfriend in because they wanted to dramatize his charisma and calculation... but it's not manipulation - ?????????? Someone get the man a dictionary. 'We added a random blonde in four him to kiss so that the audience knows he's got a girl already, who sees him working his charm on Morgana and comments on it 'you played her well', but Alvarr isn't actually manipulative' ??????????

They've just pointed out two entire significant beats within a sequence that was constructed on set and off script. Arthur's confrontation with Alvarr in the forest and Merlin's slow motion tracking the crystal to show its got a powerful draw. The more they describe the specifics of filming the more it sounds like an utter disaster which kind of makes me feel bad for being so harsh on the episode.

I keep having to rewind to focus on what they're saying and I feel like I've been watching this episode for about 4 hours.

Awkward bit of prop-exposure there. Trying to work out what LK could even stand for.

Idk everyone's really happy with this scene between Morgana and Uther and I'm still sitting here thinking the dialogue was utterly ridiculous.

They talked about changing that final scene, where Uther clearly knows/suspects it was Morgana who helped Alvarr escape, so that it doesn't prematurely push the story too far ahead. They cut a look Morgana gives Merlin which, rightfully so, because it would've been too much too soon. The ending to this episode still feels wholly unsatisfying to me. I understand the little tag with the dragon yelling for Merlin to release him, I don't mean that, but the ending to the main story where Alvarr just escapes and Uther not only accepts that but also accepts that Morgana must've helped him. Overall Uther's been entirely sort of neutered throughout this episode, which I understand that partially has to do with it being Morgana, but like, in previous episodes when she's been so defiant against him, he's had her by the throat and locked her in a dungeon overnight. So I just doubt understand him being so subdued here, especially since he directly threatened her when he found pr Mordred escaped, and now another druid's escaped and he essentially knows she was involved given how she spoke to him, yet he doesn't do anything? Just wildly inconsistent behavior.

Anyway apologies for overanalyzing this episode, I realize I tore it apart pretty thoroughly during the commentary and the post became quite long. I wish there was a way to add a cut on mobile but there isn't. I'll have the S2 finale post up in a few hours - I might hold off on posting until I've watched the extras, I didn't do that for S1 but then I felt the extras didn't quite warrant a whole post on their own, so I might just tack on any thoughts I have to the 2x12 post. We'll see.

#bbc merlin #merlin #bbc merlin spoilers #merlin spoilers #merthur #2x11 #bbc merlin 2x11 #merlin 2x11 #the witch's quickening #onceandfuturerewatch

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aosrewatch · 7 years

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#AOSREWATCH WEEK 4 ACTIVITIES -

Week 4 - Mar. 21: 4x12, 4x13

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Welcome to week four!! April 4th is getting closer and closer!!

ACTIVITY A:

Wait, there’s another Koenig? 4x12 was FILLED with all sorts of great Koenig family moments! For this challenge, we encourage you to post about your favorite Koenig moment! Tweet, create, write, share, whatever your heart desires, spread the love for our favorite Koenigs! (And hey, maybe you can decide which Koenig is your favorite!) As a nice nod, be sure to @ mention* Patton Oswalt and remind the entire AoS fandom how awesome the Koenigs are!

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