#there was unbelievable chemistry

[whore-for-chris-evans]

I don't know what you expected but I am still not done talking about the infamous fifth episode of the What If...? show.

Spoiler warnings ahead.

Throughout the episode, while trying to pull Steve out of the mind control, Peggy keeps repeating "Steve, this isn't you, wake up" an abnormal amount of times. It's actually sickening how lacking the scriptwriting is, at least for her character.

Bucky interacts with Steve for barely a minute and even then, his efforts to get Steve back display a wider vocabulary than Peggy's throughout the whole episode.

Furthermore, I'd like to break down and compare Steve's words to Bucky and CATWS, and Peggy's words to Steve in What If...?

Steve: "I'm not gonna fight you," and here he drops the shield into the river below, "you're my friend."

Moments later, as Bucky nearly punches him to death, saying "YOU'RE! MY! MISSION!", Steve's calm, collected response is "then finish it, cause I'm with you till the end of the line."

Yes, tear-jerking, we know. Let's move on.

Peggy, having gone up against Steve in a huge (around the same size as the armour Tony built in the cave) metal suit, made of plutonium or something, and still standing straight up, says:

"I don't want to fight you, I can't fight you anymore. I'm done fighting, I've been fighting for so long, to end the war, to forget what I lost...I'm tired. Steve, I want to be with you. I want you, even if this is the end."

Keeping aside the frustrating repetition of the word "fight" in just a few lines of Peggy's speech, let's look at the motivation behind both the dialogues.

Peggy talks about herself. About how she is tired of the war and of losing people, how she tries to forget how Steve isn't in her life anymore, about how she wants to be with him. Her entire purpose is not to save him, but to save him for herself. Her actions come from a selfish point of view, and by the time she says this, she is far from being as battered and bruised as MCU Steve. In fact, she gets away with just a couple of bruises at the most.

On the other hand, Steve's intention was to free Bucky from Hydra's torture, to protect his childhood best friend and lover. He had been shot multiple times, stabbed at least once, had his skin split open in several areas when he dropped the final bombshell. Steve was nearly dying while he was saying all that; yes he would've loved a second chance at life with Bucky by his side, but it was never his primary focus.

His primary focus was making sure Bucky had a second chance at life, even if he himself died trying. It was as if to say "I may die right here right now, but I love you too much to hurt you any further than I already have. You've always been more dear to me than life itself, so if your mission is truly to kill me, you know I'll support you in it even as you're taking my last breath out of me. All I ask for is your safety and well-being."

And it shows in the consequences too - in CATWS, Bucky not only regains just enough of his memories to stop, but also pulls Steve out of the Potomac before he can drown to death and places him somewhere he knows Sam and Nat and the others will easily spot him.

On the contrary, Hydra Stomper Steve barely shows any affection, shock or remorse towards the woman in front of him, but instead, he flies up to the Red Room and destroys it. It is unclear whether he survives the crash himself.

Like I said before, despite Marvel trying their absolute hardest to push StevePeggy as the superior pairing, they still end up portraying Steve and Bucky's (I say romantic, because Steggy mirroring Stucky proves the latter to be a romance) bond to be far stronger than that of Steve with a woman he only knew for a couple of years at most during a world war.

They dug their own grave and cannot crawl their way out of it. Stucky prevails.

@buckymilf @mainly-marvel @oneofstarkskids @jjmaybanksgun @averageambivert

#steve rogers x bucky barnes #stucky #stevebucky #anti peggy carter #what if #what if season 2 #marvel #forever my top ship #on top of all this #of course there's the fact that chris and seb did something in that scene im not sure even they themselves could recreate #there was unbelievable chemistry #and the emotions were real #compared to the bleak ass scenes in what if

[thepunkmuppet]

↳ BtVS 5x07 “Fool For Love”

#and today on scenes that changed my brain chemistry forever: #seriously though it’s unbelievable he is so!!!!! he’s just so #btvs spike #william the bloody #james marsters #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #buffyverse #btvs gif #btvs gifs #gif #gifs #gifset #my gifs

[freshydip]

everyone always loses their mind over "we dug coal together" "that's right", and rightfully so, but can i please hear some noise for "I know you have never believed a word that has come out of my mouth, though I have harbored the secret hope that you have nevertheless enjoyed hearing them"

#the smiles on their faces. their chemistry. like two snakes doing that weird thing where they wrap around each other when they fuck #simply magnificent #walton goggins' emphasis on those lines is just unbelievable. who let him do that. how is he allowed to do that #justified fx #raylan givens #justified #boyd crowder #they dug coal together #mp

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

sorry for the dogshit quality but. i'm rewatching and they are driving me even more insane than before. do you guys see this. can you believe they don't fuck for like two more seasons

#guys pleaseeeee they have the most unbelievable chemistry #like. i feel like i have to look away #he just got divorced btw. like earlier that day #and even tho she flirts with everyone she reigns herself in around him bc she knows he's a man of honour #BUT HE JUST GOT DIVORCED #and........ they just *almost* fuck for the next two seasons #i'm being so normal about them aren't i #🧃 #miss fisher's murder mysteries

[marshmallowprotection]

I still think about the fact that Seven has a photo of Jumin showering and like 🧍Mr. Bisexual Choi please explain.

What is there to explain? Everybody knows he has chemistry and a crush with and on every member of the RFA. If he could shoot his shot with Yoosung, Zen, Jumin, or Jaehee, he would.

#It's actually kind of unbelievable how great his chemistry is with all of them. #mod kait #ask #anon

[randomminty]

my favourite red heads from the indigo elite four

#Had the fattest crush on these two dont tell anyone #Pokemon #Elite four lorelei #elite four lance #do i tag him as a champion. Does this count #Champion lance #lgpe #pokemon lgpe #Art tag #Indigo elite four in pokespe had an unbelievable impact on teen mes brain chemistry. Just completely rewired #When i got my first phone the first thing i googled was yellow pokespe and found out she had the same birthday as me. I nearly cried #Visit my twitter to see the big ears version. Im joking please dont do that #I only just noticed it and fixed it. Their ears were so big.

[blee-bleep]

How does somebody whose only shipped lesbian ships before become so obsessed with Erehisu?

Y'see, anon, it's a little something called "bisexuality"

#i actually watched aot becuz of yumihisu but then i read the manga and i slapped my head and said #'shit why did they cut off so many scenes of them together' #them being erehisu #and then ymir fritz dropped and THEN i listened to that Linked Horizon song where a baby wailed at the end #then im like yooooooo fcuking hell theyre future parents to this poor girl omggggg #honestly i stumbled into erehisu by my own becuz after reading the uprising arc in the manga i felt like i had to do the ship justice #just cuz how overlooked it was and how i realized that they probably had the better chemistry #the more i looked into their characterizations and parallels to each other #like them being burdened putting up a fake facade just for others and having to come to terms to it #as well as the way their family shaped them (carla frieda and freckled ymir are the goats) #it wasnt much back then BUT THEN i read apple and lamp theory #and its soooooooo fucking beautiful it just seared into my mind forever. #Enemies To Humanity is something so unbelievable yet fascinating to me as a dynamic but it all clicked the moment i put it in its context #i dont support whatever the fuck the alt-right part of the fandom has of it thats another ball game #i ship erehisu in the way i percieve it to be the most fitting to the mature themes of the story #its not the first 'straight' ship i liked but it IS the first ship where i think it's ultimately superior to others including the wlw ships #thats why im so obsessed with them

[absent-o-minded]

The emotional whiplash I am experiencing over YR S3 being wrapped is so nauseating and so joyous and so heartbreaking and so exciting

#I'll be sat there like 'I love endings!' #and then when the end actually happens I feel numb #a three chapter conclusion was always the vision #but no amount of emotional training could have prepared me to confront it being over #I genuinely find the whole situation bizarre #because what do you mean that me aimlessly scrolling on Tumblr in 2021 has found me here in 2023 #what do you mean that starting a lil' Netflix show back in partial Lockdown altered my brain chemistry for years to come? #I am so grateful to have been a part of this community from the beginning #the experience has been so unbelievably lovely and fulfilling #AND i am so excited to write some essays abt S3 to conclude this story #young royals #young royals netflix #lisa ambjörn #writing #yr s3

[stephantom]

From Richard Burton’s diary, September 23, 1980:

I only knew by chance that [Peter O’Toole] had taken such a terrible hammering – a front-page hammering – from the British critics for his performance in Macbeth. I knew only because Onllwyn Brace came to supervise my narration in the documentary film about Welsh rugby football. ‘Your pal O'Toole,’ he said, ‘has been murdered by the English critics.’ ‘For what?’ asked I. ‘For Macbeth,’ said he. I phoned Peter that night as soon as the hours were right and managed to catch him before he'd left the Old Vic. I said, ‘a couple of boys from the BBC were over today to record my voice and they told me you've had a bit of stick from the critics.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘How are the houses?’ I asked. ‘Packed.’ ‘Then remember this my boy,’ I said (he is 4 years younger), ‘you are the most original actor to come out of Britain since the war and fuck the critics.’ ‘Thank you.’ ‘Think of every four letter obscenity, six, eight ten and twelve letter expletives and ram it right up their envious arses in which,’ I said, paraphrasing Robert Atkins, ‘I'm sure there is ample room.‘ ‘Thank you.’ ‘Good night Peter. Don't give in and I love you.’ ‘I won't and it's mutual.’ ‘Good night again.’ ‘Good night Richard and thank you.’

That was the extent of our conversation but my fury at the critics took me through the night – another sleepless one – and I thought of all the things I should have said to Peter and didn't and thought I should write him a letter and didn't and prayed to God I hadn't sounded like a false sympathizer secretly rejoicing in his critical debacle. But no, I comforted myself, he knows I too have been through the fire and understand.

#richard burton #peter o'toole #richard burton’s diary #it’s just so sweet?? lmao #I have now perused a good chunk of Burton’s diary (it’s online) and this is one of only 3 days he talks about o’toole but it’s so kind #also: richard was almost 8 years older not 4 lol #maybe it’s a typo or a misprint or maybe richard forgot or never knew peter’s actual age lol #as someone who become invested in their friendship for no reason except their on screen chemistry in one movie… #this was almost like an unbelievable thing to read #and I know #they were very much just two guys. who were in many ways assholes. but I like their stories. so. what can I say. #peter and richard

[hellboys]

joel fighting back his laughter at the end of the ep really had me tearing up huh

#the chemistry of these actors is unbelievable #if yall need me ill be dead in my room #the last of us hbo #tw leo

[mediocrefruitlover]

rewatching daredevil because I need some comfort and the matt-claire kiss is even hotter than I remember

#literally everything about that scene is so unbelievably sexy what the hell #how do you get actors with that much chemistry and not make them endgame what's wrong with you! #daredevil #netflix daredevil #when will it be my turn to be kissed softly by matt murdock while his hand rests on my neck??? when???

[ath-heart]

Still can't believe Avatrice is actually canon

#avatrice #warrior nun #Can't wrap my head around the fact that they're actually in love and that it's not just in my head #I didn't have to reach #Because they had so much chemistry #and it feels so unbelievable #renew warrior nun

[aslibekroglu]

GELSİN HAYAT BİLDİĞİ GİBİ ERTAN SABAN AND DEVRİM ÖZKAN

#gelsin hayat bildiği gibi #sadgül #ertan saban #devrim özkan #sadi payaslı #songül payaslı #ghbgedit #turkishedit #the chokehold this scene had on me for weeks #literally could not breathe while watching it #like baby girl the CHEMISTRY #unbelievable

[marisatomay]

bill hader and tom cruise should do another movie together

#this is the ultimate babyboss post but i will not be silenced #their chemistry in tropic thunder is Unbelievable #and tommy and shifting back to more dramatic stuff and bill is killing it with barry i think i would be neat

[90stvqueen]

do the abbott elementary ppl know that barbara and melissa should kiss? i don't think they did it on purpose, but like, it's there

#theyre both so unbelievably attractive and their chemistry is beautiful and the foundation is there

[petrichoraline]

i know everyones holding their breath to know my opinions so - kimi ni wa todokanai is sm fun in a slightly frustrating way, kimi to nara koi o shite mite mo is amazing and beautiful and the characters are so refreshing and lovely andd last twilight is an exciting watch so far. you should check all of these out if you haven't

#dangerous romance is so cheesy and makes some unbelievable choices but the chemistry and cute scenes make it all worth it