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I think it’s incredibly fucked how capitalism discourages learning for learning’s sake. People will have interests they’ve spent years researching then say it’s “useless knowledge” bc it didn’t go towards a college degree and isn’t part of their job. Learning is never useless! Your brain is growing and developing throughout your whole life! People would never have epiphanies or sudden lightening strikes of creativity if they weren’t learning new things! That goes double for topics like science, politics, and history, which inform your understanding of the world you live in!
I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot
“Is the writing bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot”
I feel like that should be the canned response to anyone who complains in your fic’s AO3 comments about the [thing] when the [thing] is clearly tagged.
Do you know if anyone has gone through and analyzed when kanthony’s theme is played? Like I know I hear it in the ring scene and the love declaration scene, but there has to be more. Did the Duke and Daphne have a theme!?
I don't know about Duke and Daphne but I truly do know that Kate and Anthony's theme is played in a lot of their scenes. Also there are like 9 recorded versions of that theme in the original soundtrack. Let's break it down episode x episode.
EP1
when they race each other in the park
when she says: 'i have a victory lap to enjoy' and he looks at her leaving with the biggest smile on his face
when he looks at both sisters and says: 'she who I shall marry'
EP2
when he goes to Danbury's to court Edwina and they banter
when he sits down between her and Edwina at Ascot
when they bicker over the horses
during the horse's race
when she discovers the Dorset's sheanigan
and now we have the first recorded version that you can find in the soundtrack, and you can hear it when Anthony gifts Edwina with the horse and Kate looks at him with satisfaction because Edwina doesn't like it: A Gift for Edwina. As you can hear it, the tone of their theme here is lighter and funny, because well...that was the tone of their relationship in the first two episodes.
funnily enough we can also hear it during Benedict telling his poetry to Anthony, probably because well, Anthony at the end truly did find insipiration in a woman enough to become a poet himself
we can also hear a little bit of their theme when they look at each other intensely after him being honest during the soiree
EP3
okay funny enough their theme isn't present much in their scenes in this episode, probably because they wanted to emphatize the family and Kate being able to fit right in so they used mostly the family's theme with them
you can hear a little bit of their theme during the failed proposal to Edwina
during the bee sting scene you can hear the same theme used during the death of Edmund (understandably so), but also a little bit of their theme mixed with it.
EP4
the most interesting thing in this episode is that their theme builds here, at first you can hear it only a little bit in their scenes, but then it builds to the library almost kiss scene. Also the tone begins to change from lighter and funny to full angst and intensity.
the first time you hear it a little bit is when they are thinking about each other at the beginning of the episode
then you can hear it again during the heavy breathing hunting scene
of course you can hear it during the library scene at night when they look intensely at each other (and it's a little bit longer)
and of course in the almost kiss scene and even if it's not a complete theme yet, it's building
EP5
after the proposal to Edwina, we have entered full angst territory, and their theme begins to reflect that. And so we have the second version of their theme published on the soundtrack: Nothing Could Keep Me Away. You can hear it during the pinkie almost touch scene at the beginning of the episode.
you can hear it a little bit when Kate is thinking about their almost kiss during the arrangements of the wedding with the Queen
you can hear it again during the scene where he caresses the ring on her finger
during the conversation between Kate and Lady Danbury about Edwina and Anthony, and how only a scandal could prevent the wedding to happen we can hear the third version published of their theme: They are Betrothed. This version is even angstier and full of pain.
you can hear it again when Anthony is jealous and also when he helps her off the boat
now we have the fourth version of their theme, the one you can hear in ‘the bane of my existence’ scene, Not Far Enough. This version is intense, it’s sensual but also full of angst.
you can hear their theme again when Edwina confesses to Kate that she loves Anthony (probably because at that point Kate decided to put her feelings aside for her sister’s happiness)
EP6
the first time we hear their theme in this episode is when Anthony helps Kate with the bangle during the wedding
we can hear it again after Kate has the first show off with her family, sees Anthony with his family and then searches refuge in the closet, taking off her bangles angrily
it’s even there a little bit when Anthony says the ‘thorne’ line to Edwina and then adds the ‘this is what i know’
and of course we can hear it loud and clear when they are alone in the closet and Anthony touches her hand and says ‘wait’
and then at the end of the episode, when they kiss, we have the fifth version of their theme, To Wait. You can hear the anticipation at the beginning of the theme, the yearning, and then finally the explosion of the music when they kiss. It’s still full of angst but also full of love. They are done lying to themselves about their feelings.
EP7
we can hear it during Kate’s dream about the kiss
it’s also there when they look at each other from a distance during the promenade
then we have the sixth version of their theme, Happy Endings Don’t Exist. It starts when Edwina says that line to Kate and continues to Anthony approaching her and wanting to discuss their kiss. It’s a sad version this one, because despite wanting to be together they feel with the scandal, Edwina’s broken heart and so on, they can’t. No happy ending indeed.
Then we reach the end of the episode and we have the seventh version of their theme, It’s My Fault. It starts when Anthony wakes up the morning after, follow by Kate remembering their night together, follow by Anthony wanting to propose and then continues with them racing in the park under the rain. This version is chaotic, full of feelings, angst, and action. Because well the end of ep7 is chaotic, a lot of things happen.
EP8
at the beginning we have a continuation of It’s My Fault’s theme. Then something shifts this episode because we begin to have a building of another theme between them. Very similar to the other one, but also arranged in a different way
we can hear it when Anthony and Violet discuss why he didn’t go to see her
we can hear it when Kate wakes up and asks about Anthony
also during the first proposal
we can also hear it when Kate confesses to Mary that Anthony proposed and she said no
and THEN we have the full on theme who seems different, but really the base is the same, just arranged in a different way. It’s the I love you theme. It’s full of love, passion and feelings. They are free to love each other, and to be together. And this theme expresses all of that in a truly beautiful way.
And here we are to the last version of their theme that is basically an ensemble of all the precedent versions, just with an happier tone, Newlyweds. It’s happy, it’s full of love, it’s truly the perfect happily ever after.
In conclusion: it’s like their theme went to a full journey too this season. And just like them it found its balance and perfection at the end.
This is one of my favorite scenes from the book. Colin entered the Featherington household and immediately decided to put Portia in her place. What a king 👑 Also, the fact that he defended her to her own mother, when she's been wanting to do that herself for years 😭🥰
Penelope Featherington was not the same woman he used to know. Or maybe she was, and he had changed. Which made him feel even worse, because if that was the case, then Penelope had been interesting and lovely and kissable years ago, and he hadn’t the maturity to notice.
Your meta on direwolves future is spot on. Arya seems more darker than her siblings both in terms of her actions and her direwolves action. Sansa is a grey character but she isn't going to be that darker. That's why I don't understand why people want Sansa to be dark and suffer just because her siblings dwell into shady things even though she is still hasn't doing things like them. Despite sad at lady death, I think it's good Sansa don't involve in magic.
Yeah, I think Lady's death is going to be one of those things that in hindsight signal her being "ahead of the curve". It forcibly renders Sansa ordinary (in a magical sense), and whether or not Lady's soul resides in Sansa, she can not derrive any physical advantage from either magic or the sheer violence of a massive predator companion. Sansa has to muddle through without supernatural help. And, as it turns out, that is very possible.
Arya has help from magical and non-magical sources. For your Jaqen and your Nymeria, there's your Syrio and your Yoren, and while the iron coin buys her passage to the HOBAW, they demand she relinquish Needle. Jaqen leads her down a path to the loss of her identity, Nymeria embodies uninhibited violence. There's a clear theme that the magical kind of help is a call to darkness. Same with Bran and Robb.
Ghost is a serious exception there, as he hasn't represented a dark temptation for Jon at all, rather the opposite. He preserves rather than obfuscates Jon's identity. He will be instrumental in his survival. Incidentally, he was the wolf set apart from his grey siblings. The mute albino.
Hmm. There is something very particular about the gift Jon has been given there.
Ghost is Jon anchor to his Stark side. Back from Bran I when he tells Ned he is not a Stark to that moment when he is pondering Stannis offer and he has his answer when Ghost appears.
And between his murder and the parentage reveal that will shake his identity Ghost will be at his side as a reminder that despite even Westeros patriarchy he is a Stark as Lyanna's son.
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