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greencarnation · 5 months

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eleven is fascinating to me because he came right off the back of tens horrible traumatic breakdown after he lost everything and he immediately tried to establish himself as the opposite of that. he is funny and goofy and almost childlike, and he bulldozes on in his adventures with amy like nothing happened at all. but then something happens and his masks slips and it's like oh! the core of this man is still anger. he is so so angry all of the time and this façade is the only thing stopping him from being consumed by it. he isn't over any of it and he hasn't moved on. he is wearing a fez and laughing but under that all that exists is age old anger and grief and it is going to consume him

#i do think that this pit of anger was eventually covered and soothed by the ponds #but he didn't adress it and he couldn't even look at it until he was twelve #when he stopped pushing back and repressing everything and finally allowed himself to exist as he was #but ok listen #its all layed out in the first 3 episodes of season 5 and in the way amy sees him #episode 1. here is the new doctor he is energetic and reeling and fun #episode 2. the space whale comparison. here is the new doctor. he is unthinkably ancient and almost godlike but he is so so kind #and patient and good. he is ancient and lonely but he can't stand to see children cry. so the doctor helps people #episode 3. daleks. the doctor is a soldier. these are his age old enemies. he wants them dead and he will stop at nothing #all logic and reason vanish. he is hitting the dalek with a pipe and yelling his head off while amy watches in horror #like obviously we know why but amy didnt #this is not a sane or rational man he is unstable and angry #and in that episode he was stripped back to what he largely is: hate #you would make a good dalek ect ect ect #anyway 3 episodes with 3 very distinct and equally definitely traits layed out like: here you go #i don't like elevens era much but those first 3 episodes were great #doctor who #eleven #amy #eleventh doctor #matt smith #dr who #dw #i mean idk this is what river literally had to spell out for him #eleven was careening completely out of control #how long til doctor means warrior indeed?#mine

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dang-dood · 1 month

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i completely forgot that house md was canon in torchwood

#OWEN OF ALL PEOPLE BEING THE ONE TO MENTION IT 😭#house md #torchwood #owen harper #jack harkness #ianto jones #toshiko sato #gwen cooper #gregory house #james wilson #also if i’m remembering correct there is a mention of doctor who in house #paradox #walk with me #house is canon in torchwood #which makes it canon in doctor who #AND house is canon in psych #so my big three tv shows at least have one connection to each other in some way #sorry i have issues #mine #rewatching torchwood #just finished season 1 #that fucking creature looked like it was ripped right out of ps2 I REMEMBER IT LOOKING SO REAL WHEN I FIRST WATCHED IT #tbh same with the mannequins in doctor who #can’t act like it wouldn’t be in character for owen to be the one to like house btw #it just caught me off guard to see my favorite toxic alien workplace mention my favorite toxic medical workplace #and star wars is canon LMAOO

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marley-manson · 28 days

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Well I succumbed and watched the Pilot and first ep of Due South last night.

Really struck me how central the theme of Fraser's estrangement from his father is in the Pilot. Fraser mentioning that the last time they spoke was Christmas, essentially saying that the only times they speak are presumably brief calls at holidays. Gerard responding with a platitude - "I guess the more you know someone, the less needs to be said" - but it becomes quite clear that Fraser feels he doesn't know Bob at all, and has to learn about him through his journals.

And yet they're cut from the same cloth: "I always thought your father was the last of a kind. I was wrong - you are." And this is tied to the mountie stereotype lol.

Bob and Fraser both repeat the lines, "You're going to shoot a mountie? They'll hunt you to the ends of the earth," and they're both wrong. No one wants to pursue Bob Fraser's death except Fraser, and no one's happy with Fraser for solving the case because it uncovered corruption. He gets exiled for it. Bob and Fraser are the only mounties who "always get their man," lol, and it's because of Bob's neglect in the course of duty that Fraser follows in his footsteps and becomes so similar to Bob. He idealizes his father and wanted to grow up to be just like him - we can see that admiration in the drawing of him he finds in Bob's things that he made when he was a child eg, or in the song Superman that plays while Fraser reads his journal in the diner. But he doesn't know him. And he pursues duty above all else because he has nothing else of his father.

And then you have Ray, who seems to exist as the opposite of Bob. If there's one thing Ray is, it's there. He is there for Fraser to hunt down suspects, to invite him to a loud family dinner, to save him from an explosion, he tracks him down to apologize for being dismissive, to invite him to dinner, and he flies to the Yukon when he can't reach him by phone. In the diner scene in particular he's directly positioned as a contrast to Bob's absence both in life and death. Fraser is alone trying to understand his father through his journals (looking for something "he missed" ie his dad), and Ray joins him, ending the thematically significant song montage, and eases his solitude. Fraser says he doesn't have family, and Ray shares his own with him.

And after the pilot case, there's nothing drawing them together except friendship. They're not a mismatched pair of cops assigned together who have to learn to get along, they work together unofficially because they can't help but spend every waking moment together.

Bob represents absence and Ray represents presence, distant admiration vs actually knowing someone.

And I'll probably have more to say on that as like, poles Fraser is caught between, if/as I rewatch more of the show. Ray's position is a little muddy especially because pre VS he buys into Fraser's image to an extent, as pointedly examined in Heaven and Earth. But again, more on that another time.

#due south #boy do i have thoughts on heaven and earth that have been percolating for twenty years #i won't know for sure unless i rewatch it all but i feel like the first season is very thematically coherent and then it kinda #falls apart and gets muddy and contradictory. i last watched season 1 in 2014 and that was how i felt then at least #actually i'd say pilot -> vault is a cohesive thematic narrative and everything after that is extra. maaaaybe bird in the hand #marley on due south #text post #i don't think this will subsume my mash thing - it's an old nostalgia run and those never really become main fandoms - but i do think #it'll make a great side thing for a little bit #i never got the chance to talk much about this show back when i was first into it because i was a lurker then

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dylanconrique · 1 month

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if anybody on this goddamn show deserves to have a completely stress free wedding, where not one! single thing!! goes wrong!!!! it's tim and lucy.

#*carly catalogs #i'm gonna say it with my full chest 'NO SHENANIGANS'#ABSOLUTELY NONE OKAYYYYY???????????#i don't need to watch anymore of lucy spiraling (we're only 3eps into s6 and i have had enough)#if she didn't get first on the detectives exam then she at least deserved to land in the top 5 #they treated her so unfairly and were so short with her i wanted to leap through my tv screen #if i have to witness her spiraling like that OVER OR ON HER WEDDING DAY???????????#i'll start a riot I AM LUCY CHEN'S N. 1 DEFENDER (behind tim of course)#she deserves nothing but the most lovely peaceful wedding day filled with joy #the rookie #tim bradford #lucy chen #chenford #otp: you know me so well #this also goes for when she gets pregnant too #s3 was the most stressful season of the show just for the sheer amount of times angela had a gun pointed at her and was shot at #and even harper had to deal with a home invasion from a violent criminal while she was in labor #the only hiccup lucy should have is being forced to have her baby on the breakroom couch at the precinct to parallel ep 1x19

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lollytea · 2 months

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I do love the netflix avatar in my own way because it provides me with enrichment in the same way brain puzzles do for chimps. Like something is WRONG here and it's your very special job to figure out why! And then you will get juice reward!!

#its been making me think about the cartoon a lot lately for the sake of comparing and contrasting #so thats great #it was a very good cartoon #i do actually think that its stupid to complain about how its objectively bad when an adaption makes changes to the original #because that SHOULD be the point of an adaption. to try things in a new way and somehow improve on the story #but i think its funny how this show is constantly like ''we're gonna take a DIFFERENT route with this character''#and then the DIFFERENT ROUTE leads to them driving the car off a cliff #we will not get to our destination this way bestie #out of all the changes theyve made to the original i think the most misguided and overall dogshit is how theyre portraying Azula #it annoying when people say ''theyre ACTUALLY writing her as a victim of her father's abuse this this''#''shes ACTUALLY sympathetic this time''#girl i hate it here #netflix show is a COWARD for showing Azula this way in season 1 #not that its not somewhat in character. if ozai started playing mindgames with her she probably would start spiraling like this #the problem is that we shouldnt be SEEING IT!!#avatar is regarded as Baby's First Media Analysis for a lot of people #and boy oh boy there was a lot of analytic meat to Azula's character #but the netflix version? this is a skeleton!! bones!!!#like obviously if you were watching the cartoon as an adult it would be immediately apparent #that this 14 yo girl acting not only like a grown woman but a calm calculated genocidal tyrant is very concerning #and it makes her sympathetic by defualt on the grounds of being a child #but a kid isnt going to realize that!! Azula is supposed to be polarizing!!#youre meant to buy into the narrative that everything is easy for her. that no effort troubles her mind #her unflappable nature is meant to unsettle you. intimidate you. she has no weaknesses shes unstoppable and shes pure evil #as a kid who is still learning how to think deeply about things thats how youre to perceive her #and then. AND THEN!! then the show pulls the rug out from under you and makes you question everything #Azula's gradually unraveling sanity in book 3 is jarring and unnatural and it forces you to challenge your own opinion of her #you become uncomfortably aware that shes a victim too. after all this time youve spent hating her #just like zuko. just like the fire family child that you had already come to realize was ''actually good''#after that first watch its hard to decide how you feel about her. as a kid anyway. but its sad. its all so very sad

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houseswife · 3 months

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watching an episode of house with my sister and by the 3rd time that wilson shows up she just goes “what does this guy even do. why is he here”

#I Too Am In This Episode #truly what it feels like #I remember googling ‘what is wilson’s job’ when I watched the show for the first time #because he did so little for the medical plots and even less for his own patients #he was just there to vibe #and by vibe I mean have extremely heated exchanges with house #which are complimented by a montage of them being Soft at the end of the episode #but like plot-wise he was so pointless #I love that for him #I’m referring to early season 1 btw

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evankinard · 4 months

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was inactive yesterday but i did make my friend stay over and watch seven episodes of 9-1-1 with me and she told me she's gonna keep watching so I was contributing to our community anyway

#season 1 is such a gem. if only i didn't have two eddie diaz and maddie buckley shaped holes in my heart #also i dont know why we dont talk about it more but they're ALL such assholes in season 1 #like im sorry i always loved them even when i was watching for the first time but none of them are super likeable at first #but theyre also all incredibly messy which is infinitely better

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radioves · 1 year

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its quite shrimple actually

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aretheyyknow · 9 months

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Season one pardison will always be famous to me

#I love them in every season #But there's something so special about the way they communicate and understand each other in the first season esp #Like later it seems like there's a level of miscommunication and misunderstanding which is normal if #But in season 1 hardison really just Got her? In a way that no one on the team really did?#Like I think about juror no. 12 and stork job and David pt 2 a lot #And like how he spends a lot of time observing her and learning how she works so by the finale he knows exactly what she's saying #Even when it's not a clear or complete thought #And that easy understanding just doesn't happen in the same way post season one #**no 6 #Idk how to explain it exactly but the vibe is different #leverage #pardison #And she's watching him back?? She knows about Nana. She cries in front of him??

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uproariousscarecrow · 4 months

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yaaaay finally caught up on sonic prime :-]

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic prime #sth #OUGHHH so good i had so much fun watching s2 #i watched all of season 1 in a day when it first came out!!#also fun fact: i had a class taught by one of the guys at man of action (REALLY COOL GUY!!!) and he has a picture of shadow i drew for him #need to draw chaos sonic and some of the different shatterverse designs.....

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somesmartsmarties · 2 months

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MCD fans, how the hell does Zane’s mask work please this is a cry for help PLEASE

#save me mcd fans #genuinely it confuses me to no end #masks in general confuse me tbh #BUT THIS ONE ESPECIALLY #anyways erm I guess I should mention I’m finally more than halfway through season 1 #(first time watching it btw I didn’t grow up with this content)#it’s been fun :]#I wish Zane’s character had more of a buildup tho #if I ever make a rewrite he will definitely be more mysterious when it comes to his true personality and intentions #minecraft diaries #aphmau mcd #mcd zane #smartie speaks

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sskk-manifesto · 5 months

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Akutagawa more like AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhaaAAAAAaaaaaaaa

#AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH #Okay. I'm normal #To say I didn't like the episodes at all when I watched bsd for the first time #I was just like... Wow... That's the most stereotypical villain I've ever seen. Congrats ig?#Fool me 😔 Although in my defense in the first episode he kinda is the most stereotypical villain ever. That's kind of the whole point #But watching the episode again through ss/kk lenses sure was lots of fun ahah. I loved it <3 #And I still say the season 1 animation compared to the other bsd seasons is really good!!!!!#random rambles

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skitskatdacat63 · 5 months

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Please save me, I'm reading a reddit thread about Seb vs Max(bcs Tost said he thought Seb would win out), and none of these people know how good Seb was in his prime

#the fucking ignorance in this thread im gonna shoot myself #theyre like:oh he barely won 2010 and 2012 #uhhhhh you mean two of the most competitive seasons in history?????????#2010: literally had 5 championship contenders for a while and then still 4 for the closer #^ also tbh its super impressive to me that he was never leading the wdc and still managed to pull it off at the last moment #and 2012 which is regarded as one of if not the best seasons of all time in which there were six different winners in the first six races #i cannot fucking believe i jsut saw a comment basically seb is not as aggressive as max #saying he doesnt have the samw 'step on their neck' mentality as Max does #uh what??????????? im sorry but seb was one of the most ruthless drivers ever and was way more of an asshole abt it. multi-21??????#but fuck. these people dont know him and his wdc years at all 😭😭#still has the record for most poles in a season. is still the youngest wdc and polesitter #got pole and won a race in his 1 ½ season IN AN STR before rbr could even try pulling that off #it just really sucks to me how his flop years have ruined his reputation for some people #yeah ofc he kinda fell off in the latter years of ferrari and amr but that doesnt erase all of his incredible performance in the prior yrs??#like please i beg of you go watch the rbr era years and you will be impressed istg #another stupid argument was saying 'oh he made too many mistakes in 2009 and lost a wdc he couldve won'#first of all that was only his 2½ season and his first season in a top team #and also not all of his dnfs and crashes in that ssn were his fault :/ the car wasnt the most reliable :/#i love max and i think hes probably one of the goats but my god the regency bias is insane #^ and alongside that. oh you point out all Seb's mistakes but completely ignore when max was called the crash kid?? 😭😭#like saying seb lost 2009 due to rookie mistakes...YEAH CAUSE HE WAS ONLY IN HIS 2½ YEAR AS A 21/22 YR OLD #also I think its impossible anyways to say who would win that matchup bcs theyre in completely different eras #seb dominated that v8 era and max dominates this current era. its truly impossible to say bcs they mastered completely dif cars #like whu cant we just say both of them are pretty damn fantastic as rbr golden boys??#anyways. fuck im so irritated right now. this is an affront to my spirit!!!#its really just: say you dont know seb without saying you dont know seb #catie.rambling.txt

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stuck-in-the-ghost-zone · 5 days

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what if i watch tokyo ghoul again . would you guys still love me

#i watched season 1 when i was in middle school and it had a profound effect on me. one of my first animes #and using unravel as the wiwi dramatic moment song unlocked something within me. i never finished it i wanna watch it again

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helpmyinterestsareverywhere · 2 months

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Didn't have "crying over The Sarah Jane Adventures" on my 2024 bingo card but here we are

#like???#what #I sat here and re-watched the first episode of season 1 #and afterwards?#tears rolling down my face #tbh Sarah jane's words of like “when i was younger i used to think that I'd know what i want when i'm older but you never really do” hit me #a lot harder that i think they were meant to?#but ouch anyway #<- person who is 2 months away from becoming 18 and terrified for becoming an adult because she has no idea what to do with life #ANYWAY YEAh #having fun re-watching this show - just should have expected to cry more i suppose #the sarah jane adventures #sarah jane smith #sarah jane adventures #hmiae rambles

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yunyin · 1 year

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Reasons why I want to make a thing for each episode of Miraculous Ladybug

I want to practice some fundamentals and doing it for a fandom makes it more fun!

It gives me an excuse to rewatch the whole series

Making it every episode means that it's a built in challenge! It might mean finding the things I like in an episode that isn't my favorite (which I mentally tend to do already,) or focusing on something new in an old favorite.

I don't have a specific career goal right now but I have a secret dream of making a thing for Zag, like merch or something, and so this feels like a decent direction for me atm

I get to share it all with people and if someone likes it and leaves me some nice comment tags or something it's a lovely bonus

IDK I just wanna make cool stuff and this is a good framework for it imo

It's a flexible challenge that can be commentary or illustrations or comics or whatever!

It gives me the chance to experiment without it being on my game work or commissions

#yunmusings #miraculous ladybug #bonus: I can drop stuff on patreon first so it can be updated a little more often #cuz I either need to do more with it or unpublish it #anyway this list is for me and for anyone curious #cuz when I made that poll I was like wait why did I want to do this again?#from season 1 is winning btw #It's my preference as well #I think I'll go w/ that suggestion of doing Origins first even though that's not how I watched it the first time #I love Origins

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