#this is what s5 should have been

[guinevereslancelot]

what was with cameron house md she spends 90% of the episode saying she wants their patient to die bc he's a genocidal dictator and her colleague husband says "babe it bothers me for ethical reasons that you want our patient to die :(" and she said "hm maybe you're right :/" but when it comes down to it the genocidal dictator lays a finger on her in an aggressive manner and chase instantly commits medical malpractice to murder the guy and then when he tells her she LEAVES HIM bc boo hoo he's a murderer now like GIRL he killed a man for you!!! he's wracked with catholic guilt!!! he's being crushed beneath the weight of his sins because he chose his devotion to you over his devotion to god!!! he literally could not get any sexier at this moment in time!!!

#girl what are you doing...... #also just in general she did not deserve him honestly he was so good to her and for WHAT #just to be abandoned at peak devotion and guilt and hotness 🙄 #girl get OUT of my way i'm stronger than you #if she cared she could fix him or make him worse but i could love and support him no matter what 😌 #his muder is a part of him and its SEXY #robert chase #house md #malpractice md #i know the actors broke up irl or whatever but wtf..... #i should have ended my rewatch w their happy lil wedding at the end of s5 #s6 everything instantly goes to shit #and stays shitty #chase should be happy fr #he's supposed to turn into house basically but they should have made him the well adjusted version of house #like how nightwing is the well adjusted version of batman #anyway i have no real point here i just lowkey dont like cameron bc of this arc #also her obsession w house is so weird i wish they hadn't made that a thing #this has been a shitpost #anyway she left chase at the absolute peak of his sexiness wtf....... #anyway since this apparently needs to be said its not that deep this is a silly post if you send me hate messages i wont answer #i block and ignore anon hate bc i am too busy touching grass to be rude to strangers over a tv show

[quietwingsinthesky]

i do love canon amy & rory but god, does some part of me wish they really had gone with the idea of the doctor picking up a child as a companion (and then later, that child’s best friend with a huge crush on her.) with the rest of the season really not changing at all, except now it’s amelia pond with an angel in her head killing her and lost alone in the woods. it’s little rory who dies and is forgotten and becomes a toy soldier. if this is going to be a fairy tale, then let it be one. children have never been safe in fairy tales.

#it wouldn’t have to change any of the actual plot of the season. except MAYBE amy’s choice but even then i think amy’s choice would be the #one episode where they should be adults. if only for the half where they live in a village in that dream. #because that’s the kind of future that children would dream up. they live in a little cottage and nothing ever goes wrong and their best #friend visits them all the time even though they’ve grown up. #they aren’t actually adults there just children with an idea of what they should be as adults and acting accordingly #and it would still end the same way. #but idk its just. rory’s 2000 years waiting for amy inside the pandorica is already tragic. yes. #now imagine its a kid. a kid in a little roman soldier helmet who will never grow up. who will not leave his best friend. #he loves her and she’s more important than the whole universe and that sort of love is supposed to MEAN something in a fairy tale! #its supposed to melt the ice out of hearts and transform people from stone. #and what that love means here. is that he will have to wait 2000 years. a child and a box. #little rory and the amelia who followed the doctor’s letters to the pandorica. and she doesn’t recognize him again. #and amelia in the pandorica… 2000 years a child trapped in a small box waiting to be rescued. #s5 is already fucked for them but it could be worse. it could be so much worse. #and it would make the doctor choosing to take her place in the pandorica to save the universe later even better. #because who else but the doctor would put the fate of the universe on the shoulders of two children and realize much too late what a #monstrous thing he’d done. and still have to hope. have to hope. that amelia would remember him fondly enough to bring him back to reality. #the logistics of all of this would have been a pain lmao. child labor laws in acting and all that. #BUT. hypothetically. it would have slapped. #doctor who #amy pond #rory williams #<- also this entire time ive been referring to him in my head as rory pond so much that i fuckin. forgot his actual last name. #and then like if you want them to be adults in s6 or whatever you can just timeskip to them getting married and still have amelia remember #the doctor there. it would work. it would. #amelia pond au

[skythanlmao]

so y'all just forgot about how they robbed us by not showing will presenting his alan turning project or is it just me?

#common #it would have been a heaven for me istg #kskaianakanaoanaoanaoanaoakaoanakak #he's the best i could never 😭🛐🛐🛐💕💕💕💕 #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #duffers know what they are doing but they are too afraid to be show itt please do it atleast in sext season as a flashback or smth #with 12 year michael wheeler sobbing while pedalling scene??? #they robbed so much from uss bruh #give us #they should we deserve #i have ssoooo many expectations for S5 it's not even healthy

[aemiron-main]

Henry- why so many candles? Like seriously, there’s already a lightbulb in there but he’s got a metric fuckton of candles…. henry… were you afraid of the dark??? was it cold in the attic so you used the candles for warmth?? especially since every time we see him in the attic, he’s wearing a sweater or a sweatervest:

#stranger things #byler #henry creel analysis #st set design #the duality of man: I want to kill older Henry with my own two hands for what he did to will etc #but Henry as a kid? that’s my son. the creels should have let me raise him. so much suffering could have been avoided if they weren’t such #shit parents (ESPECIALLY staring at you virginia). #older Henry/Vecna era Henry? i feel a primal rage towards him and cannot wait to see him explode in s5 #but kid henry?? that’s my little guy. I’m giving him a blanket & some new art supplies. and some emotional support #me when dart canonically has had more loving words spoken to him on screen than henry has as a kid #dart. canonically had. more friends than Henry did as a kid. Dustin was dart’s friend. that’s 1 which is still more than henry #and will tells dart that he’s not gonna hurt him and Dustin feeds him nougat and smiles at him like THATS MORE AFFECTIOM THAN HENRY GOT IN #HIS WHOLE CHILDHOOD. ARGH. giving him some nougat as we speak #st costuming #henry creel costuming

[robbyykeene]

Something something the warring emotions of wanting to love the wish fulfillment of seeing Daniel Larusso beat the shit out of his childhood abuser (even if it was corny and dumb because the karate kid has always been corny and dumb) vs absolutely loathing the way this season shit all over the themes of the original movies and went all in on the idea all conflict should, actually, be resolved through violence.

#i would say as a whole my feeling are overwhelmingly (if not wholly ) negative towards this season #but like. daniels arc specifically. i just have so MANY mixed emotions there #i think if as a whole the season had been drastically different #if chozen and johnny (and barnes i guess) hadnt technically won that house fight #if miguel and robby hadnt duked it out instead of like. having an actual conversation #if daniel vs silver had been the ONLY fight where the good guys were narratively rewarded for senseless acts of violence #then i would have liked it #because sometimes yeah. you should get to beat the shit out of your abuser #but i guess because of the rest of the season it just. it didn’t feel as emotionally cathartic as it should have #and ive seen people complain that it was a cheesy way to end the giant dojo brawl with like. yes it definitely was #but i dont MIND cheesy #s1 was the cheesiest this show has ever been #and the movies are some of the corniest ive seen in my life #thats part of what makes them endearing #what did bother me was like. literally everything else lol #s5 spoilers #cobra kai #ck negativity #sort of #being more negative in the tags honestly

[thegirlwholied]

Charmed (1998) rewatch but only seasons 1-3 and then treating the season 4 premiere as an open-ended finale 🤷🏻‍♀️

#charmed #charmed 1998 #charmed wb #i remember what comes next all too well #honestly I am sorry to miss out on some of the phoebe/cole scenes of early s4 when they were still fun #but i don't think i can take the s4 plotlines again let alone the reminder of s5 looming #going back as an adult is fascinating though #1 - so much of the fashion is back in #season one especially #also wow preteen/early teen me was really oblivious to fashion though i did wind up thinking leather pants = cool from what i absorbed then #2 - i can absolutely see the change from the original showrunner and really wish i knew what constance m burge intended next #3 - the inconsistencies. the inconsistencies #not just the mythology they were making up on the fly #(how long are you a ghost v moving on to next life since past lives are a thing but also visitors from the afterlife etc etc) #but the timeline #how old was phoebe when victor left (thank god they recast victor absolute glow-up) #why did leo have a past life in the 20s when he should have been already growing up #cole refers to 'mornings waking up next to you' about his ADA apartment when it's very pointed that he & phoebe only hook up there once #4- fascinating how sex is treated in the early seasons v the latter #(it went over my head back in the day but) they very much make clear which boyfriends they're sleeping with v which they *aren't* #(i.e. they spell out that prue only sleeps with andy once & never with jack & that piper never sleeps with Josh etc) #5 - biggest mistake the reboot made was doing the half-sister storyline in episode 1 #it gave them no wiggle room when a sister DID leave the show but #more importantly you lose the original grew-up-together-push-each-others-buttons dynamic that is so good #not many siblings shows on that level (supernatural is the only comparison coming to mind) #6 - I'm so Team Cole still #talk about dropping the ball on character - his half-demon backstory motivated by saving his father's soul is great actually AND DROPPED #still about phoebe/cole but the prue and cole dynamic makes more sense knowing they were dating IRL #and shoehorning in paige out of the blue distrusting cole mid s4 as replacement for that dynamic just will never work for me #anyway as my sister is now my roommate in the old house we rent Charmed (early seasons) hits different and holds up better than i expected!

[hayscodings]

the revenue from the rub and tug being the only reason that kev was able to pay alan the $1,000 he owed him for the last two months…svetlana was really keeping the alibi afloat from the beginning

#s4? her services are what generate the income that allows kev to pay alan #s5? v gets the idea to sell breast milk bc of svetlana #s6? svet is the one who comes up with all the creative ways to capitalize on the new hipster clientele #and arranges for v to talk to a successful bussineswoman #s7? she looks over all of the financials and oversees the bookeeping #as well as takes over managerial duties and gets them caught up on their taxes #s8? the bar is full when she’s the only one running it and when they’re back to individual shifts it’s her shifts that bring in three times #more money than kev and v’s combined #she SHOULD have been the one running that bar #like peace and love but kev and v were terrible business managers #without svetlana they would have lost the bar several times over #shameless #svetlana yevgenivna #shameless text

[danishsweetheartmp3]

i’m seeing a lot of posts from mostly white people who identify with mailin in some way justifying this season by saying that it’ll be useful to the general audience (young white girls) which is just getting so exhausting like…i’m glad you guys are getting something out of the season but truly, can people of colour not have one thing??? there were 5 (five!!!) non-white characters in the cast who could’ve been contenders for main but apparently white people can’t empathise with us, so instead we have to suffer through 8 more weeks of mailin’s performative activism shenanigans

#i do find parts of mailin as a character relatable but good god the way she’s presented is so insufferable #that it just ruins any sympathy i could have for her #it really just feels like them saying to poc ‘oh this one isn’t for you <3 better luck next time’ #when there were so many potential storylines for the others #trisha talks #druck #and before someone tries to tell me to just stop watching #why should i have to!! i’ve loved this show since 2019 #i tried throughout s7 to just have fun with whatever nonsense happened but it’s been so long i’m tired of pretending this is good #compared to what we had with s5 and 6 #i’m fr only in it for all of the characters beside mailin it’s insane

[ncmcrcy]

my biggest gripe with s5 is the show wants me to think j.ohnny is suddenly ready to be a dad after NOT dealing with his shit properly and that having a new kid suddenly means that not being there for r.obby for the first 17 years of his life doesn't matter anymore and I say fuck that

#❖ muse ⊱ ── 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 #and I love s5 actually it's probably my second favorite season #I think as a whole it's great #but you can tell they tried to band-aid a lot of the conflicts instead of *actually* writing fleshed out solutions #they did that with most of the rivalries #and j.ohnny having a new kid on the way doesn't suddenly make him a good dad #doing better for the new kid doesn't make up for how he treated r.obby. if anything it makes it worse #that he will step up for a baby that isn't even born yet but not the son he already had and the woman he left to raise him alone #I looooooove j.ohnny but this is just not a fair representation of his character and goes against his arc #which is about finally recognizing his past for what it was and trying to fix his mistakes. FINALLY breaking the cycle of abuse and neglect #it's regressive that they keep doing this to him #he spent four seasons learning that doing right by m.iguel doesn't make up for not doing right by r.obby #and that his son needs him too and he can't just keep ignoring the consequences of his own actions #only to then in s5 say hey actually here's another kid for him to focus on instead. and this is all he will care about now. #how dare???? #s5 should have been him and r.obby working on their shit for the whole season not like ... two episodes lmao #I'm not against the baby plot I think the idea is interesting it's just . . . it wasn't handled well on the show. #it should have been treated like a source of conflict and a reason to confront some inner trauma. not baby ex machina.

[thetimelordbatgirl]

The Sarah Jane Companion magazines arrived and...yeah, I got thoughts on some of the unmade episodes/the ideas, but its cool to see the info we get in the magazines. 

#i am gonna be clear: knew about the unmade episodes prior at least #aka the S5 ones #just not the full details of them #and...yeah still dont really like the ideas for battle for bannerman road #sky being trickster's child is still such a 180 idea #let alone wanting to blow up bannerman road??? #granted they do say in magazine they were uncertain where to take the ending of S5 #aka if sarah should stay or go to the countryside #and one reason they would have kept sarah in bannerman road would have been if luke came back full time #but like why blow up bannerman road what #and still not a huge fan of nightmare man episode not sorry lol #like S4 is just a mixed bag for me #tho finding out they intended to make clani canon #but now you got the audio books doing THIS shit with clani is just #why

[quietwingsinthesky]

About Casifer, I actually liked Misha's acting in the vessel and was exited about what was next only to be disappointed in the following episodes.

Misha had the ability to have an interesting character but for some reason didn't delivered.

Yeah, that’s why I’m saying it’s probably a combination of the writing, directing, and the acting. I’m not too sure how Misha would have done if the Lucifer we got in s11 was more. Lucifer. And less ‘evil guy with no real goals except be evil’. Considering how well he was able to pull off Castiel’s inhumanity in s4, I think he might have made for a decent Lucifer (classic edition).

Like I said, he’s not a bad actor! It’s just that in this specific role, what he was given to work with apparently made him decide it was a great idea to lean into a kind of acting that reminds me way too much of guys from my high school doing their Joker impressions. I can’t unsee it when I’m watching him.

(And then there’s the fact that s11 did not know what the hell it wanted to do with Lucifer once they broke him out of the Cage, or what the fuck his motivations were regarding the Darkness, or even THAT HE IS NOT THE FIRSTBORN SON. (im sorry i can’t ever let that go, how do you mess up your own show’s lore that badly. the only conceivable way I can think of is that they Needed Lucifer to be a Dean-Cain-Amara parallel and didn’t stop to remember that he was the younger sibling in his version of this same old story.))

#that last bit. again. not misha’s fault. #but indicative of the casifer arc as a whole. it did not know what it was. it did not know who this character was. #which ends up fucking up lucifer for the rest of the show too. #like yes the seeds of this are planted in the hallucifer arc but that was still. a hallucination. could’ve come back from that. #s11 sets the standard for Lucifer from then on and it. annoys me. #I do find it more bearable when he is being played by mp though. you may make of that what you will. #either it’s because he’s legitimately good at bringing depth to bad writing. or he’s just got the benefit of having been this guy IN s5. #or I just want to get him pregnant. also a possibility alsjfkfjfk. #anyway. casifer arc. bad. and supremely unsexy which should not be allowed for the season lucifer touches Sam’s soul. #ask

[tvxcue]

but it is kind of annoying that death stops mattering bc jared and jensen are good at showing that it does! like red meat is so good bc it depends on that! like this is just a regular hunt for them and sam is dying and dean is losing his fucking mind. dean literally kills himself because of it. and then, bc hes insane, he tells sam that he knew he wasn’t dead. normal people things. and the finale of s11! dean is going to die to solve the big plot and sam is standing there saying goodbye to his brother and at first it’s like they’re not going to do anything but then dean says “come here” and he pulls sam in for a hug and sam folds himself in against deans shoulder and they’re saying goodbye and this isn’t nothing to them!!!!! it was never nothing, it’s always heartbreaking and gut wrenching and it’s the worst thing you could think of, it’s your worst nightmare come to life, it’s the thing you would give anything to stop!!! dean went to hell just so he wouldn’t have to live without sam. this never stops. they never stop being willing to die for each other, they never stop grieving, it doesn’t matter how many deaths it’s been, they grieve every single time.

#like it stopped mattering after s5 bc of the metanarrative of the show coming back from the dead like the show just kept going #even after it should have died so if spn comes back so do the winchesters bc it's abt the feeling. #you can die twenty times and it'll be a death every single time every single one of those deaths means something #and the thing abt spn is that it stops meaning smth in terms of the narrative. there aren't any consequences for it so it's a nonthing #a nonevent. another thursday night. bc it won't matter for next week's episode it won't matter for next season or the season after #but! it still does matter to sam and dean! and it works for them and it works to show just how fucking messed up they are #bc it's been nine years since ahbl and sam died and dean is killing himself to bring him back. bc thats still his pain in the ass little #brother. its his job to watch out for his little brother. he says he'll be back for sam he cant just leave him there he'll come back. #did dean take his body back to that little house himself. did bobby help. what was deans plan before he decided to make that deal. #he could never bury his brother he could never burn his body he could never leave him there. #and like the au world when dean does have to leave sams body behind hes haunted he can barely talk like!!!!!!!!!!!! #sorry. #speaking

[eugeniedanglars]

listen the running up that hill moment at the end of dear billy is obviously very beautiful and powerful but also every time i rewatch it i get distracted by how funny it is that max’s positive memories are almost all of lucas, el, and dustin because she and mike have fought in literally every interaction they’ve ever had and she and will have only spoken to each other twice onscreen

#much like chandler and phoebe max and will are supposedly friends but never really have storylines together #meanwhile max has exactly one positive memory of mike and even that was from a scene where they were fighting #i know the whole coma thing will make this challenging but PLEASE could i get some max and will friendship in s5 #they've both survived being possessed by vecna! they've both been victims of the upside down who the plot revolves around saving! #they both had abusive older male family members who they wanted a better relationship with but who is no longer in the picture! #they both in some way transgress/fail to fulfill the gender expectations placed on them by 1980s society! #(max by being a tomboy and will by being gay and also sensitive/emotional/delicate) #(also i'm a bi max truther but i don't think she figures that out until college) #will actually understands what max is going through better than anyone else and they should bond over that #if nothing else i'd love to see will give max some advice on how to trust your own mind again after being possessed #stranger things #st spoilers

[firebirdsdaughter]

While I’m thinking about it…

… You know what I think would’ve been a better s5 arc? Dealing w/ Keller’s whole ‘we hurt everyone around us’ thing. You have the perfect set up for it. Instead of trying to force Neal and Peter into being at odds, just… Have Neal realise that Peter’s fighting a losing battle for him and is taking most of the hits? He starts trying to take matters into his own hands not to be a brat bc Peter can’t just do what he wants, but bc he realises he can’t. I’d rather see a plot about Neal falling back into old habits to protect people he cares about bc he realises his actions have far reaching consequences, Neal being more self aware and considerate, in a Neal kinda way. Not Neal being whiny and waxing on about how he just wants to take stuff. Neal’s idea of taking responsibility, bc he sees how his actions have effected the lives of everyone around him, and between Hagen and the Bureau itself and everything, he’s not registering that these people are willing to deal w/ the trouble out of love for him. Feels like it’d make sense from the s4 plot, honestly, w/ Pratt targeting the people around him and then James leaving Peter to be charged w/ murder. Follow that up w/ Hagen blackmailing him and getting played by Rachel (but nix the icky love plot) etc etc. You have a set up for Neal starting to feel like he’s contaminating and harming the lives of the people around him, that he’d absolutely fall for Keller’s spiel and not realise that those people are willing to weather through things bc they’d rather have him around—but not quite totally falling for it. Just feels  like it’d make more sense.

And we still get moments like Peter shoving Neal to safety when a shot goes off (the way he held onto him after Hagen was shot, plus reacted to Neal getting shot gives me life).

#White Collar #the more I think the more I hated most of s5 #but yeah this would've been better #Neal coming to feel like he's a danger to the people around him who live normal lives #Warren Kole I mean whatever his name was gets murdered #starts to wonder what it'd be like if that happened to Peter #additionally El and Peter are dragging their feet about DC bc of him #Mozzie gets poisoned #Diana has to risk her life after having a baby #sees how conflicted Peter is about the tampered evidence #combined w/ Keller's pressuring disappearing starts to sound like what's best for everyone #but in the end he can't cut completely loose #bc he loves his family and has too much faith in them #I don't think Neal should get more bratty and self centred after everything #but I can see him convincing himself that loving him is hurting the people he loves #Adopt a Felon 101

[felixfathom]

is it the nostalgia speaking or is S2 agreste lore better than S5 agreste lore

#outside of the ... you know. #i don't like how felix's arc involves so many characters at once when it should have always been exclusive to him and adrien #i have mixed feelings on the tsurugis in general bc of how half-assed the introduction of them was in S2 #although that goes for felix and zoe too . adrien and chloe were there from the start #but idk i wonder what was it about gorizilla that can't be found in S5 now

[terrainofheartfelt]

Yes DB was written for each other. Truly believe that’s the route safran wanted. It’s not a coincidence the show became very OOC when he stopped writing and left.

insane that they were literally narrative foils from the beginning and when they got to the end of the show they were like "lol nvm."

I do not know mr safran personally so I cannot speak to his preferences but I think the show went off the rails with its characterizations long before he departed the show, Dan and Blair were just the last ones to fall to prop up Chip Wiskers.

#like they did nate and serena and vanessa and jenny and rufus and lily so WRONG in s5 and s4 and before that #they all deserved better #(I don't really know much of the behind the scenes stuff) #(but i think the fandom academics who know more than I have said #that safran's gone on the record saying that derena and bluck were always supposed to be endgame) #(which obviously like...sure jan....whatever you say) #(but I'm not gonna like. wait around for safran to fix it. that's what me and the dair mutuals are here for) #(counterpoint: he did share those vows though. mayhaps he's got some cognitive dissonance going on) #(but whatever he thinks or feels or believes about the show and what the story should have been #ultimately doesn't matter. what matters is what *I* think about it as a viewer and fan and creator) #death to the author etc etc #gg meta #asks #anon