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y’all — I’m so thrilled? our girl!!! killing it!!!

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i miss dirk gently…. that wonderful holistic boy…….. they cancelled him because he was too good for this world….

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I miss these beautiful humans and this beautiful show. ☹️

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and the thrilling sequel

and last, but not least

I’m not salty at all

*here, have Gru as Dirk in one of the weirdest memes yet*

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I made some crappy DGHDA aesthetics cause I have no life. Yay!

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The fact Dirk desperately need to change clothes to get colorful outfits because he can’t stand grey anymore since Blackwing got him trauma

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The universe is broken.

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it’s sad to realize, but one of my favorite TV series was cancelled :C (in the flesh, hannibal, now dirk, whyyy) well, let’s remember how exciting it was to watch Dirk and his adventures! and remember, everything is connected!

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I’ve not been on my laptop until now but I’ve been having many and varied thoughts about the supposed season three spoilers that M*x posted this morning and honestly? My gut feeling is that even if these are true, they’re still potentially a huge exaggeration because he’s always been a bit of a tease on social media.

Big Bad Universe Destroying Amanda: In theory? Yes. I’m fully here for the stream of creation’s chosen one being a young woman with complicated family relationships and a chronic illness. On the other hand, “destroying” is a very particular choice of word and I dislike the implication that Amanda is expected to use her new strength and powers for nefarious purposes rather than for saving people. Watki Wapnasi told her to gather the tools because the universe is broken and only she can fix it, which could potentially involve pruning away the broken elements of the universe or even eliminating entire broken universes so that growth can ensue. I want to believe that Max is using “big bad” to indicate that she’s a force to be reckoned with, rather than an actual antagonist, but I honestly can’t tell at this point and I’d hate for her three-season journey to be going from housebound recluse to punk witch to… some sort of evil world-destroying beast. That feels wrong.

Dirk/Assistent romance: I’m not against it, but also I have some pretty major caveats. Assistent had little to no character development (even if their few scenes together were hilarious) and we know almost nothing about him beyond he’s nervous and wants to meet aliens, so I’m finding it difficult to have strong feelings other than I’m glad that Dirk is canonically queer but surely he can do better than someone who watched him get electrocuted for three months. No indication that they were meant to be “endgame” (and I’m having Glee flashbacks just writing the word) so there’s a chance that this was Dirk’s opportunity to explore his sexuality with someone aware of his powers, but who ultimately couldn’t/woudn’t give him the understanding and support he needed. Dirk ending up with Todd would mean something different if we’d seen them both have other options and still choose each other. There’s a lot of angst potential if it turns out that Assistent was only using Dirk because it was the easiest way to meet aliens and have adventures, or if he was just a plant by the CIA to lull Dirk into a false sense of security (with a dramatic betrayal scene set to ominous music). It could be a compelling and different way to explore Dirk’s residual mental health issues as a result of his time at Blackwing. But this is also one of the “spoilers” that I’d just as easily believe was a joke at our expense.

Todd reforming the Mexican Funeral: I’d be interested in what it meant for Todd’s character development. Is he trying to recapture his youth? Harking back to a simpler time? Wanting to make amends for past mistakes? Trying to seduce Dirk Farah someone special? Do they need his particular brand of punk music to fight aliens? Was it going to be a manufactured conflict point where Dirk feels threatened or replaced or intimidated by Todd’s old friendships? Were we going to have Todd teaching Dirk to play guitar? Enquiring minds want to know.

Ken and Bart villain team: I cannot describe how pissed off I’d be if we had an entire season of Bart “I’m a pirahna in the stream of creation” Curlish being gaslit by the one person who should be acting in her best interests at heart. I’d like to believe that Ken has read something in the files that’s forcing him to play the long game, and that his whole “in my world there are no ‘good guys’“ spiel is just an act to get Priest on his side (Ken the Holistic Murderer Whisperer strikes again) because I was so damn angry at his bloody awful character development in season two. But Bart feels like she needs to kill him and that’s a sign that the stream of creation is out for blood. The universe has looked at him and decided that everyone will be better off if he’s no longer in it. I wouldn’t have minded seeing how they wrote the whole Ken-Bart-Priest dynamic though.

Omnipotent Friedkin: Sign me the fuck up. I still don’t buy the whole “redemption arc” argument but he was honestly a delight to watch (even if I’ll never forgive him for murdering Estevez) and he has the potential to be genuinely chaotic aligned character with murky motivations.

Farah joining Blackwing: Fucking okay. This is the one that got me the most curious and the most concerned, because killing one POC character (Estevez) and having the other two (Farah and Ken) join forces with an evil government organization is a craptastic creative choice no matter which way you spin it (though I’m here for her shooting Wilson because of protective reasons). I don’t think Farah joining Blackwing would be for overtly evil reasons because literally nothing about her character development up until this point suggests that this is a course of action she’d choose but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything, because nothing in Ken’s character development suggested that he’d deadname Dirk Gently and then shoot him in the leg and yet he bloody well did. I was thinking that perhaps she could secretly infiltrate Blackwing in order to bring it down from the inside, but Ken knows what she looks like so that’s unikely to work. She could pretend to join for real (”it’s always been my dream to work for the CIA and I’m so sick of being dragged around by Project Icarus”) but that feels like a stretch. Ken could lie to her about trying to bring Blackwing down from the inside even though he’s trying to turn them all into weapons, or she (and Assistent) could be key to exposing them for the murderous, child experimenting assholes that they are. Blackwing was always meant to be the primary multi-season antagonist and there’s no way they could convince us that Farah would sell out her found family for military recognition. It’s the spoiler I’m the most curious and the most cynical about.