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funniest possible move Simon Strong could pull at this point in the show is, if Daemon asks about Alys, gaslight that man into the fucking ground. "Alys Rivers? But she's been dead for fifty years!"

wandas-darling

happy pride month to my beloved gender questioning bisexual and my favourite homophobic repressed lesbian

freshpronce

Weapons (2025) with no context:

ghidragon

Weapons (2025) was an absolute blast. Not gonna get into spoilers, but I found it to be thematically rich and a lot of fun. The ways in which we have systems and social niceties but no community. How all of these "safety measures" like the cops, the Ring cameras, and the school rules on professionalism all failed, barely contributed, or actively got in the way of solving things. The idea of the children and their safety being weaponized to form a mob. How people can manipulate the social expectations of family, professionalism, and even our empathy to abuse us. How children are an oppressed class.

It was also subtle, funny, tense, and all of the acting was top notch. Amazingly done by the guy who jerked off a ghost in WKUK

mycupofstars

Post credits scene of Weapons should have been James in a wheelchair in like six different body casts, rolling up to the police station with the reward poster in his hand

babybluebanshee

I keep seeing the take that Weapons is about a school shooting and having just seen it last night, I don’t get that vibe at all. Like, to me, the themes of children being an oppressed class - the narcissism of the older generation not viewing children as living, thinking, feeling human beings but as either props for them to use when they’re fighting a pointless battle or as tools to enrich themselves somehow - and how that hurts everyone in a community in the long term is far more prevalent. The children are taken from their homes, in full view of their parents’ security cameras, and still no one was alerted. Rather than come together as a community and try to work together to find their children, the parents seem to isolate, to the point where the mother Archer approaches doesn’t seem to recognize him. The angry parents, Archer especially, all focus their rage on Justine even though the evidence against her is incredibly flimsy, simply because she is one of the only factors that ties them together and she is an easy target - she’s not a parent, she can’t TRULY care about the children, not like their FAMILIES do. Meanwhile, Archer didn’t realize until it was far, far too late that his emotional distance from Matthew was turning the kid into a horrible little shit. None of the parents or even the police ever gave even a thought to Alex - the OTHER thing that ties all the missing children together - who suffered for months IN HIS OWN HOME. Justine has to point out that the paths the children took as they left didn’t intersect at the radio tower, but at the Lilly home, because the thought never even crossed Archer’s mind. The danger was never the outside threat of the school, it was in a single family home on a quiet suburban street. But because Alex is a child, and not their child, the other parents pay exactly zero attention to him in the grand scheme of things, even though it should have been obvious to multiple people that something was seriously WRONG in Alex’s life. And this isn’t even bringing Gladys into things, when she herself is basically the personification of an abusive and/or neglectful home life. The police, the other parents, the school - they failed Alex miserably because they didn’t view him as a person, but as window dressing for their own grief.

happybirthdaydarling

Something about how tragedy brings communities together but only superficially, a scapegoat is needed (particularly a woman), how the inherent trust of familial bonds can lead to abuse, a child who is clearly being groomed and neglected being ignored by the community who oh so suddenly is claiming to care about the children can lead to more tragedy, and a lack of communication even in a world filled with surveillance allows awful things to occur

justanapparatus

sometimes a horror film is a very clear metaphor for the way the white suburban nuclear family facilitates violence. sometimes a horror film is an excuse to watch children tear someone limb from limb. sometimes it's both.

kingofthepitt

my only take from Weapons - the commentary on how community doesn't exist in america unless tragedy knocks at their doorstep. hard. even then what people form - it's not a community, more like a mob. and no one wants to work together (that mom who didn't want to share cctv footage). no one listens (911 operator didn't inform the police right away about the call from the drug addict; no matter how ridiculous that call sounded, they had to check it out bc it's been a month! and they had no leads! and yet...). no one talks (that teacher who saw Alex at the parking lot waiting alone). the system affects us all. it doesn't differentiate between big cities and small towns. it doesn't care and it will never care.

hellboundhorrormovielover

weapons (2025)

srdcovka

a-fellow-animaniac

I won't lie, as much as I wish someone like Annie or even Butcher to be the one to do Firecracker in, I think I like way the show handled it better. Mainly for the symbolic reasons.

We have the supposedly devout Christian literally and metaphorically throwing her faith away so that she can prop up Homelander as a false idol. Only for her to meet her end at the hands of the devil she sold her soul to.

Then there's the extra symbolism of having a character who is obsessed with all things America bleeding out on a symbol of America.

But it's also a great contrast with how A-Train died at the start of the season. One died bravely laughing at the face of death to sacrifice himself for the greater good. While the latter died pitifully and timidly, begging for her life while she stood for nothing but her own gain. One figuratively saw the light, the other embraced darkness and died alone. It's not at all subtle, but it is fitting.