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I know that the dialogue style was, like, the Buffyverse’s Signature Thing, and it was considered really fresh and unique at the time, and all that, and while watching it 25 years or so on definitely lessens that impact, it is still good. Some great lines in these shows, not denying that. But GOD is it starting to drive me nuts that they ALL talk like that. Like, Buffy and friends doing the quirky talky talk? Totally works. Characters like Giles or Angel or Anya doing the same thing? Doesn’t feel as good, but hey, maybe they’ve just picked it up from spending a bunch of time with the Sunnydalers.

But fucking ANGELUS? I’m onto Angel season 4 now and he’s back and god damnit WHY does the hundreds year old evil vampire man keep talking like a hip noughties teen, it’s actually driving me up the walls

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Really enjoying the mental image of grown adult man Jason Bell, in broad daylight, scaling a garden frame, climbing through a teenage girl’s (fairly small) window, tumbling on to the bed, grabbing said teenage girl’s apparently inexplicably non-password protected laptop, opening Google Docs, sitting and copy-pasting ‘who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears’ over and over again for several minutes, and then climbing back out the way he came.

Efficient menacing.

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It's like. Basically the same thing as what happened to Destiel, right?

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It's been quite a while since I read something so Absurdly Romantic that I had an actual, physical reaction, but when I got to this page in Witch Hat Atelier tonight, I literally had to stop reading and remind myself how to breathe

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You know what I really want to see but no one’s ever going to make because it would be really, really hard?

One of those ‘Sherlock Holmes in the modern day’ things, except it actually explores the full implications of its concept - i.e. that this is a 21st century setting in which Arthur Conan Doyle never invented the world’s most famous detective and his loyal Doctor Watson.

Because, like - sure, it’s not quite a dramatic a change as most alternate history things (‘what if the Nazis won’ or such like), but all the same, Sherlock Holmes is one the most influential literary characters of all time. Thousands, maybe millions of writers will have be influenced by him over the years - what does that mean for popular fiction in a world where he never existed? Are crime procedurals as enduringly successful? Do they look different? What does fandom look like without arguably its first big example? What random little dominoes get pushed without Sherlock Holmes because it means this person was never inspired to write that, which means these two never met, so he was never born and couldn’t do this-

As I say, it would be so hard to write well, but a Sherlock Holmes adaptation where there’s an unspoken overarching mystery for the audience that’s just, observing how their world is different and having to trace things back and make deductions as to why? If you could actually pull that off, it feels like the most Sherlock Holmes adaption you could ever make

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I’ve been reading all the ACD Sherlock Holmes stories on and off for about a year now, and I finally went back and read A Study In Scarlet this week. Three key things I think anyone who’s never read it should know:

Five entire chapters - genuinely a third of the book - do not include Sherlock at all, and are instead dedicated to exhaustively chronicling the back story of the murderer. This seems to mainly be a diatribe on Arthur Conan Doyle’s part on why Mormonism is an evil misogynistic cult

Sherlock straight up kills a dog

The very first mystery of the novel is not the eponymous study in scarlet. The very first mystery of the novel is one that you definitely already know the solution to, even if you’ve never touched any Sherlock Holmes media in your life. This is because the very first mystery of the very first Sherlock Holmes novel is actually one that is investigated by Dr John Watson, and it is: What Is Sherlock Holmes’s job?

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Have I ever admitted that the first time I played Virtue’s Last Reward, I was genuinely convinced for like, 80% of the game that the reason for the downgrade from gorgeous 2D sprites and hand drawn CGs to blocky, clunky 3D models was going to be a major plot reveal

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Was not aware that it is accepted scientific fact that the virgin Mary was biologically identical to a giant monitor lizard

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Any plans for the weekend?

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Voting ended onApr 27

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Doctor Who Christmas special where the Doctor takes an aging tv actor back to the 1960s to see an episode of tv that’s been lost forever because the BBC junked it (he can’t prevent the junking, it’s a fixed point) and ends up fighting alien baddies and in the struggle the Doctor accidentally knocks a whole shelf of film reel into a fire because oh no! Turns out he was responsible for the destruction of the BBC archives the entire time! And then he turns to the camera to wish the viewers a happy Christmas

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Bless 1960s Doctor Who and its multiple episodes in which the Daleks are defeated by coats

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have you ever seen somebody fully naked irl (but not in a sexual encounter)? I’m wondering if people are including shirtlessness/toplessness and it’s skewing the results.

Cause I see people saying beaches, and I doubt everyone’s going to nude beaches… I also see a lot of people saying locker rooms too, but are y’all just stripping in your locker rooms?

Have you ever seen somebody fully naked irl (but not in a sexual encounter)?

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Voting ended onFeb 22

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Oh no, I have learnt the basics of how Welsh pronunciation works, and now it is impossible for me to enjoy JRPGs

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I really enjoy that in any given episode of Only Murders in the Building when a beloved actor suddenly appears, it is always a fifty-fifty toss up whether this is going to be an Ace Attorney character or Actual Human Celebrity Matthew Broderick

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I really do enjoy thinking about how this specific character came to be.

I like to imagine that it went like this:

One day, the writers for Fairly Odd Parents are chilling in their writers’ room, tossing about concepts and episode names, when all of a sudden the door comes crashing open. Standing in the doorway, panting heavily and doubled over, is a woman from international distribution.

(In my head, everyone at Nickelodeon Cartoon HQ works in one huge, orange building)

“STOP EVERYTHING,” she yells.

The writers jump, and all turn to her in a panic.

“What’s going on?” one asks. “What have we done!?”

The woman from international distribution is still doubled over. She looks up.

“You’re bringing back the baby character from the original series, right?” she says. She points at a piece of character art on the wall. “And that’s his new design?”

“Yeah,” says the writer. “We thought it would be fun to see him all grown up, maybe it gets the nostalgic adults on board- ”

“Yeah, yeah, that’s great,” says international distribution. “But you get that this show goes out in the UK, right? And also Australia, and New Zealand?”

“Yes? I mean, it’s great, and we’re all so happy to have the opportunity to work on an internationally beloved franchise like this- ”

“Yeah, yeah, you’ve already got the job, it’s okay. Look. You guys are American, none of you knew, no one’s in trouble. But, for the love of god - you cannot under any circumstances on a children’s cartoon that airs in the UK name the little sparkly twinky purple fairy man POOF.”

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Oh shit, good for them

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a show I am primarily finding interesting on a meta level, seeing all the things it did that influenced culture, rather than because of its actual plot. But I’ve got to say that I am always deeply charmed every time Buffy does an entirely unnecessary backflip

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