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hadtochangemyurlquick · 3 years

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you have said that you know how s2 will end and i would like the spoilers please

okay so i wrote the post you're referring to awhile ago and i don't really stand by it entirely but i'm gonna give you some thoughts.

thought one: the wilds is saying something. it is making a statement. it is not just a show about teenage girls making out and being on a deserted island. there's more to it.

thought two: figuring out what the show is saying is key to understanding what will happen

thought three: the show is definitely saying more than one thing but there is an overall message we can use as a lens to predict where the show will go in general. no specifics, but at least to figure out the arcs of each character

my biggest question since starting the show, literally since the first episode has been: so. what?

like, what is the point of this show. why. what are they saying?

if they're trying to be an anti-feminist, "feminism is going too far, sjws suck" kinda thing, they're not doing very well. one of the top reviews is literally: "More Social injustice propaganda thrown in our faces."

so their theoretical target conservative audience doesn't seem to be biting. i'm not saying a liberal show Can't have a message that feminism has gone too far these days, but i Am saying a smart good liberal show can't have a message that feminism has gone too far these days.

And the wilds is probably some of the best writing i've come across in a long time, especially with the accuracy they depict teenagers.

so it's not anti-feminist. but maybe it's more specific than that. maybe it's anti-white feminist. after all, gretchen is white, she abuses children of color, and she's a feminist. doesn't that make for a perfect white feminist?

except that doesn't make a huge amount of sense either, huh? bc gretchen's staff, just running the numbers, is half white people and half poc.

Gretchen, Thom, Alex, Faber

Audrey, Susan, Lihn, Young

even looking at her supporters: alice and leonard, we have a white guy and a black woman.

and would it be less racist if gretchen didn't have any poc on her island? she would argue it'd be more racist. i'm sure in her mind she was trying to be diverse, not to abuse children. bc she doesn't think it's abuse bc she's got the lights on but no one's home.

so white feminism as the critique this show is making just doesn't. it doesn't make a lot of sense to me either.

so then it's like. what. terfism? maybe? and like, that tracks a little closer. but it'd be weird if a show's entire critique was terfism and there was literally not a single trans person on the entire cast. like maybe dot or nora will have an arc coming to terms with a sexy new gender but. idk bro. it just feels off to me, you know? it's still like, you made an entire show on a major platform criticizing a specific aspect of feminism that's not even that widely known? that's the point of the wilds?

maybe i have good place brain rot, or she ra brain rot, or some other type of brainrot and just expect my morals to be handed to me on a silver platter.

but it's still like. what was the fucking point. why make gretchen an evil feminist villain who abuses children?

this show is too smart and well written to just be that dumb. there's gotta be some justification, some deeper reason why they'd make a show just to point out that lord of the flies wasn't just about british rich boys, it is about all of society and feminism is wrong.

like take black panther for example. as much as i enjoyed it way more than any other marvel movie i've seen, it was still--essentially--dumb. this is an ice cold take but obviously killmonger was a good guy. the rich execs made him a bad guy like every rich person makes every radical revolutionary a bad guy so the good guy can create change but only in a way that encourages people to create change within the corrupt system we all live in.

but marvel is not particularly known for its writing. it's a superhero franchise, it hasn't taken itself very seriously since guardians of the galaxy. its goal is to get you to spend 15$ in a theater watching billionaires blow each other up while wise cracking with some of the prettiest visuals money can buy. it's not supposed to make you think and that's okay.

but the wilds feels like a show that wants you to think. with the careful way they handle eating disorders to the complexities of the sibling relationships, the characters are more than just wise cracking billionaires taking off their shirts the first chance they get.

so why. why. i'd understand evil feminist gretchen if it was the latter but why put so much energy into writing this complex well done show if their villain and thus their message was just gonna be: haha feminism too far these days.

here's the only thing i can come up with, my friend.

class.

yeah i fucking know, there's nothing in the show, but bear with me. all of the people working for gretch are rich, or present as rich. or at least of a higher class.

except for one.

lihn might be getting a fancy education but she works at a bar while she's doing it, and it doesn't seem like she's that close with her parents anymore. her trauma would likely cause some major health problem so i'm not having an issue with thinking that maybe, financially, our lihn wasn't doing excellently.

and to have lihn be straddling these two worlds, as she effectively straddles girlhood and adulthood working as the confederate, makes a large amount of sense.

gretchen doesn't want to upend the actual system, which is capitalism, she wants to upend the patriarchy--which is a product of capitalism. lord of the flies was, in a large part, about class. so looking at that we might see a boys island act similarly to a girls island, especially if they keep the class diversification the same for the boys.

what's also interesting is that young is not really of the same class as faber. gretchen talked about him being on that "gin soaked sofa" or something like that, and that could track if we continue to see him help the girls.

idk i'm just. i'm definitely grasping at straws here. but i have no idea what this show is saying and it drives me crazy.

why is gretchen their villain? why is she a feminist doing this for feminist reasons? it's so dumb, i can't believe they wrote it. so why did they write it. why. what am i missing here.

maybe it's something about parenthood? gretchen's a bad parent and it's a critique of the nuclear family? but couldn't they have done that without the evil feminist aspect?

like that's what gets me. what's the point of the evil feminist aspect. why include that when it was so unnecessary and honestly shoe horned in. i could've written something in ten minutes without the weird antifeminism aspect, and definitely they're better writers than me so what's the point of gretchen's motivations

what. is. the. point.

#so like clearly we'll learn more as the series progresses #i have no doubt the experiment isn't over yet #and i'm sure that will reveal things #but like #what is the point #there is no way i can see it going that isn't still #haha feminism gone too far these days #like why does gretchen as a character exist and what are her motivations #how do they write this in such a way that it isn't relentleslly dumb #i don't get it #misuser-of-the-speaking-weight #gus answers #gus analyzes #the wilds

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iscariotsdeputy · 4 years

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Staci Pratt’s Lines From The FC5 Script

THE SCRIPT IS FOUND HERE ON THIS POST GIVE THAT POST THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES

now to our regular scheduled staci content under the read more!

[Surprise reactions, yes I’m naming these]

Good Lord!

What the-

Jesus!

God almighty!

Christ almighty!

Whoa!

What was that?

I heard something.

You hear that?

What?

What's that?

[FUN BATTLE CRIES]

Enough!

No more!

I'm done with this!

Goin' in!

Cover me!

You're dead!

You're mine!

Kill them! Let them die for the Father! (ZOINKS)

Kill them all! They don't deserve to live!

The weak must be culled!

We've got this!

Mercy is for the weak!

Show them no weakness!

Cull the herd!

You don't deserve to live!

You'll pay! You're all gonna pay!

You're all gonna die!

You don't deserve to live!

Is that it?

You started it!

I didn't want this!

We don't forgive unbelievers!

This didn't have to happen!

[That feel when the grenades hit]

Move, move, move!

Move, go!

Grenade!

Grenade, move!

[This boy is on fire!]

Oh God, the fire's gettin' bigger!

Fire's growing!

The fire! It's out of control!

Good Lord that fire's getting big!

The fire's spreading!

[Lad on the run]

Moving, cover me!

Runnin' for it!

Hey, cover me!

Movin' positions!

Gonna try to get higher up.

Gonna climb higher.

Cover me, I'm heading down.

Moving down, cover me!

For sure!

Better go fast!

Got it!

Okay!

Got ya!

[When he wants to run but he’s like me trying not to infodump: suppressed]

I can't move!

They've got me pinned!

I'm pinned down!

I'm taking fire over here!

They've got me pinned down!

[Staci hearing threats]

Jesus! Where was that?! Damn!

Lord! Jesus, what was that? What the hell!

[Staci underfire]

Damn!

Dammit, dammit!

Lord Jesus Christ!

This is bad!

God, no!

Ah shit!

[Staci when he sees them enemies]

Look, over there!

Over there!

There they are!

There! I see them!

Gonna do some Cullin'... (staci excuse me?)

Don't move!

Dammit, watch out!

Hey, watch out!

[Wounded Staci]

Ah.

Ow.

Ah!

God!

Jesus!

I'm hit!

They shot me!

They got me!

[HE’S RELOADIN’]

Reloading!

I'm reloading!

Reloading! Cover me!

Gotta reload!

[SALUTATIONS FELLOW NORMAL NOT BRAINWASHED PEOPLE]

Hey.

Hi there.

What's up.

Hey, man.

Hey sister.

Hey there.

Hey!

Hey Brother.

Brother, how are you?

Miss. Nice to see you.

Hey there Miss.

[Sights on Staci, a sniper with the same values as me]

Sniper!

Sniper's got me in his sights!

Got a sniper on me!

[Funky Fresh Idle Filler]

Gotta look after your gear, keep it clean. Out here your weapon is your life.

The Father keeps all the best stuff for his Chosen. Leaves us the scraps.

No one is going to take anything from me again. Ever.

The night hides many sins.

It gets cold at night.

Even in the dark, they can see ya.

[Sneeze] [Clear Throat] [Sigh]

[Happy sigh. Like the Blue Jays won another world series recently.] (I shit you not this is how it’s in the script)

I'm not weak. I'm not weak.

They're gonna pay.

No mercy. Show no mercy.

Some say the sun is life. In the cages it brings only death.

I wasn't sure I'd ever see the sun again.

[Deep breath] Just smell that fresh air.

Jacob took me on one of his hunts, only we weren't huntin' any animals. A couple of prisoners had escaped... they didn't get far. I had to help round up the wolves.. you know... to be made into Judges. They were so scared... so scared. I had a dream once that Jacob took me on a hunt. We shot some deer and he asked me to skin them. As I was cutting them open they changed... it wasn't deer. I... I don't think it was a dream.

Good idea to be ready for anythin'. From what I saw Eden's Gate isn't foolin' around.

I was locked down in Jacob's Gate for days. I can't imagine living down there for years.

Jacob had one thing right. Things are only goin' to get worse and you gotta be ready for it.

[Friendly Fire]

Watch it!

We're on the same side!

Watch where you point that!

Do you mind?

Don't test me!

You trying to kill me?!

You tryin' to make me angry?

I wouldn't do that, if I were you.

You doing that on purpose?

Trying to get me killed?!

Watch it!

Be more careful!

Careful!

Hey! Watch it!

[DON’T LET HIM USE THE MOUNTED GUN]

Goin' for the machine gun!

Gonna take the machine gun!

Cover me I'm going for the machine gun!

I'm taking the machine gun, cover me!

Leave the machine gun to me!

[If a friend is down I think, or maybe you, who knows?]

Good lord!

Jesus!

God, no!

Father save us!

[SO IF STACI KILLS YOU???]

Now who's weak?

I'm sorry. I really am.

[Staci death pleas]

Father! Forgive me!

Oh God oh God!

[Filler after Staci kills someone AKA post-combat]

Culling the herd. It's just culling the herd.

Did you see that Jacob? Who's weak now?

For sure.

You okay over there?

You can't let it get to you.

It.. It'll be okay. (i love him,,,,,,,,,,)

[Battle Filler!]

They deserve what they get!

Show no weakness!

Kill them all!

Death is too good for them!

[Reviving]

Going to help! I got 'em! I'll get 'em! I got this!

Hold on, I got you! Be right there! Don't die on me!

[You Revive Him! Gold Star!]

It just wasn't my time. Thanks, friend.

You are a God-send. Thank you.

You're like my guardian angel.

[Battle Taunts]

Whatta you gonna do? What, having trouble standing? What's wrong? How do you like it?

[Staci asking for help]

Oh God! Save me, please!

Oh god, it hurts! Make it stop!

Please, Father. No more!

[If you aim your gun at Stace oh n o]

You don't want to test me.

That's enough.

You wanna see what happens?

You're not gonna like what comes next...

You think that scares me after what I've been through?

Don't be testin' me, Brother.

Don't push me. Not now.

I'm warning you.

I'm not goin' to put up with this, Miss.

[Staci and Boomer]

You got that dog under control, right?

Yeah, I'm not sure I'm good with dogs.

Dogs remind me too much of those damned Judge wolves.

I don't like the way that dog is looking at me.

Just keep that dog away from me.

[Staci and Cheeseburger]

I don't trust bears.

Keep that thing away from me.

Bears are dangerous.

Bears should be in the wild.

Bears are killers.

[Staci and Peaches]

Now that's a cat.

Big cat.

Big claws on that sucker.

Nice kitty.

Beauty coat on that cougar.

[More Filler, But Longer And Contextual!]

Sometimes it's all just too much...then I remember my purpose. Our purpose.

Jacob, he's knows everything that I'm thinking. He's got the key to my mind and he twists... and twists... and twists.

Jacob... he's in control. He controls everything.

I don't know how much more of this I can take.

I would've rotted in Jacob's Gate if it wasn't for you.

Good to see things gettin' back to normal.

Jacob has got eyes everywhere. He knows your thoughts, before you think 'em. He's inside your head right now.

Jacob's plan worked. I tried to warn them. I told them not to go back.

I don't know how much more I can take of this.

If Jacob gets his way, we're all dead.

I... I don't know what to think anymore. It's.. it's so hard to keep it straight.

That goddamn cage, it's like my wires are crossed.

I can't believe he's really dead.

No more sacrifices. No more.

No one can take Jacob on. It's just not possible.

Jacob's going to win. He always wins.

Whitetails are honest, decent people. They're fightin' the good fight, and they deserve any success that comes their way. No place is safe, but the Wolf's Den gives you a good chance at livin'.

Empires fall. The weak.. the world is full of them. They're going to to cull the weak.

I... maybe we shouldn't waste time talking right now.

There's no time. No time!

Jacob... his experiments... he takes us... owns us, speaks to us. He hears us.

They'll find us. They always find people. We gotta leave... before they find us! Before they punish us!

No... keep goin! We move or we die!

Jacob knows. He knows!

You're strong. You're not weak. That's good... good.

I'm alive but I'm weak.. weak. Need to be strong. We are meat. We are all meat.

We could have died. And maybe... maybe I deserved... no, stop, stop! The weak... must be culled!

I... I don't know what we're supposed to do now. Protect and serve? Out here? There's no law anymore, Rook. Look around. Someone should have been here by now. Nobody gives a shit about what's happening here. We're on our own. Survival of the fittest. The weak and strong...

Maybe we didn't survive that crash. Maybe all this is purgatory. We have to atone for all the shit we've done before we can leave this place... we have to suffer before God will grant us salvation.

The whole time I was locked in that room I just kept thinking about how I got here. You know why I became a cop? To get laid. That was it. It was a whim. And then... after awhile, I tried to convince myself that I did it for the greater good. To help people. But I can't. I know that now. Jacob taught me that... I don't know what I'm supposed to do anymore... I don't even know who I am.

[STACI DIALOGUE WITH PHIL, THE PEGGIE, IDK]

Stace: I.. I was told to feed the Judges but I didn't know where their food was.

Phil: Jesus, Pratt. Does nothing stick in that brain of yours? Over there, where it's always kept.

Stace: Right! Th..thanks Phil! It won't happen again!

Phil: It better not.

[Also there’s no confirmation this is Staci, but it was right under the above dialogue]

Stace: Hey... I need to get in.

Peggie: Seriously? Didn't I just let you out?

Stace: There's a new prisoner. I got to go get him. For Jacob.

Peggie: Fine. Get goin'. Just leave me the fuck alone.

#Out of Crashes: OOC #ALL OF STACI'S LINES NOT IN CUTSCENES I THINK #I'll do a post of everyone talking ABOUT Staci lines tomorrow probably

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izzy-b-hands · 7 years

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get to know your author: 9, 16, 22

Thank you so much for asking!!! I’m so excited to answer these, and I promise to try not to go on too long with my answers (but lbr I probably will ramble a bit since that tends to be a habit.)

Also quick trigger warning for some mentions of weird creepy monsters (a little bit body horror) and death/coffins/dead bodies--let me know if you guys want me to tag this post for any of this stuff, and I certainly will, as I know this warning here might not be enough and I don’t want to make anyone upset/feel gross/trigger a panic attack because I know how much that sucks when a post comes along with not enough warning as to triggering stuff in it!

9: what (if anything) do you do for inspiration?

-Lately there hasn’t been anything in particular, but only because I’ve had to do a lot of my writing at work between patients or phone calls, so when an idea comes I just get it on paper as best I can and hope it is something interesting and inspired when I go to edit it (or that I can search and find a stronger version of that inspiration later on.)

If I’m trying to write elsewhere though, I do like to have music on--usually a playlist emerges as I figure out what genre I want to write in that moment, then characters and plot and the other details, and I choose songs that ‘fit the mood’ so to speak (like maybe a character would listen to it in the story, or if I turned the story into a movie they would be on the soundtrack) as I write , and that helps keep me feeling inspired in what I’m working on.

16: Are there any characters who haunt you?

-Honestly, a couple of the monsters I’ve created for my short horror stories have gotten stuck in my head. Like, I know the faceless, crooked, bent over creature that screeches in unknown tongues as it stumbles on long broken legs at the end of the hall in one of my last stories isn’t real. I just had a nightmare about that creature and turned that into a story. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been running like hell the last few nights if I have to go get a drink or use the bathroom and need to traverse the hallway in my home.

Other than that one recently, some of the others include The Thing Outside, which was a monster I came up with for a poem in which someone learns why you shouldn’t look outside at three a.m. (to quote another short story I wrote recently: “that’s the witching hour, three a.m., and who knows what might be out there.”) That one I accidentally made too scary even for me because it could come in the house in the poem, so...yeah. Another one I just came up with today--the Red Lady, so named after a patient in my waiting area kept saying she saw ‘a red scary lady’ walking around the clinic after she was dilated (and no, that is not a normal reaction to dilation), and gave me my scary being for this new story. I’m not even done with that story yet, but you can bet your ass I won’t be walking around the clinic alone at opening or closing for awhile. I mean....she probably isn’t real, and the patient’s eyes were just freaking out or something but...still feel like I’m being followed as I map the story out.

(also think this question was supposed to include morally or ethically haunting characters, but tbh those don’t stick in my head and haunt me like these things do. Idk exactly why, but I’m gonna go ahead and blame watching Beetlejuice for the first time at 4 yrs old for scaring the shit out of me with the prosthetics on the actors and awesome but freaky make-ups and setting a standard for what sticks in my brain as spooky/haunting.)

22: Are there any subjects that make you uncomfortable to write?

-I think there are, I just haven’t run into many of them yet in the pieces I’ve written so far from elementary school on to now. For the most part, everything I’ve written I’ve been able to get through (not saying that I condone everything every character I’ve created has done, of course, that would be madness and utterly irresponsible as some of them have done very strange things--from putting pineapple on pizza to starting a cult on a dare.)

I can’t write or read to edit my works about/involving dead bodies when I’m eating is probably the closest thing I’ve got that fits this question. I can handle writing/reading about them fine otherwise, but when I’m eating...suddenly I can smell the formaldehyde from my great-grandmother’s funeral that hung on my clothes as we tried to eat after her burial, and can see her waxen face in the coffin knowing it was slowly going to rot on the soft satin ( fun fact: I still can’t look in coffins w/pillows or satin in them without feeling like I wanna scratch my face off) and I feel sick. There’s probably an actual reason why that connection lingers that I should look into, but for now I’m just going to keep turning it into art instead.

The last example of this is actually kind of funny--I recently wrote a short story about a morgue worker who has a night working overtime that goes very wrong, and in it I have to describe a corpse rather...squishily, is the best not-real but functional word I feel sums it up right. I accidentally opened the file to edit it during dinner a few nights ago (I mean to open up the file next to it on my desktop to edit that one) and the first paragraph my eyes hit was that descriptive paragraph and...I wasn’t quite sick, but according to my mother she’s never seen anyone drop a piece of pizza faster than I did. I was happy it killed my appetite though, because as weird a thing as it is for that subject to squick me out for as often as I write about that stuff (life of a mainly horror writer I suppose) I feel it is a good sign--after all, if I sicken myself, then surely it will have that same intended effect on a reader, perhaps even more strongly than it does me. Not that I’m trying to make people sick in every horror story, but there are some where that goal has come up (I do warn people who are doing beta reading for me though, since it seems rude not too as they’re helping me out.)

Thank you again for asking, and if anyone else wants to ask a question (and let me gush horribly on about my writing) here is a link to the post w/all the questions on my blog: http://itsalwaysprettiestafterthefall.tumblr.com/post/159307260336/send-an-ask-get-to-know-your-author

I really appreciate every ask I get like this--it is invigorating as an author to have people be curious and want to know about characters and my (to sound unfortunately pretentious) process.

#text post #ask box things #writing stuff #let me know if any of you want me to tag this post w/anything else in particular #I wasn't sure if the warning at the top of the post would be enough or not #so if it isn't please just let me know and I will add tags!!#Anonymous

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