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I need my weird alone time or I will explode

okay, countdown absolutely sucks and I tried to watch it with an open mind after episode 2…but it sucks. this show is definitely a show that I would LOVE: action, drama and characters from different backgrounds coming together.. but unfortunately there is a lot of stuff that isn’t working.

here’s what i’ll say i love: jensen’s acting, mark meachum is the only character with actual substance and personality

what i don’t love? pretty much everything else. there’s no personality or any complexity to any of the characters! everyone is flat, there’s like no chemistry with anyone (i will say amber and mark have like 50% of chemistry, most of it is jensen/mark tho)

the plot? I know what the surface level plot is but there seems to not be any good connections between what the tasks force is doing versus the villian.. like the flashbacks are useless, the back and forth seem weirdly placed.

the pace? the pacing of the show gives like so much action but then everything is so abruptly slow, boring and just becomes flat.

the dialogue? i love cliche things sometimes, and idk if i can call this dialogue on the show that cliche but its flat, boring, has been done before and doesn’t seem that original?

I gave this show a try, and im on the recent episode! I now will be real: the only reason why im still watching is for Mark’s storyline, character and jensen ackles.

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the killer

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okay fine let's start over from the top

lesson 1: you have to respect women

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lesson 2: yes, even the ones you don't want to fuck

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lesson 3: also you have to respect the ones you do want to fuck. even if you don't get to fuck them at the end.

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lesson 4: sometimes (not always but often enough) respecting women means shutting the fuck up. whether you like this or not is immaterial. you will likely find that this is something of a cheat code for respecting women because so few people do it. this is because we live in hell.

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lesson 5: the fact that you say you respect women does not automatically mean that you do. there is no incantation that makes the cultural effects of misogyny disappear.

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lesson 6: your position relative to misogyny is a political concept and not a moral one. whether you are a "good person" is irrelevant. if you do not actively seek to understand and account for your position of relative privilege then you will exploit it without even noticing. this is harmful to women.

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lesson 7: whatever objections you currently have to the previous 6 lessons are definitely not new and there are entire academic libraries going over them. this is part of lesson 4.

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lesson 8: in some ways privilege, be it gendered or racialised or otherwise, is like walking through life with a hammer duct-taped to your hand. you didn't ask for the hammer, there are few (if any) personal consequences for using it and when you're pissed off, it can be really really tempting to swing it. you must never do this, even if you have one million ways to justify it to yourself. even if you hate a particular woman, you must resist the urge to weaponise misogyny against her. there are no exceptions to this.

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Lesson 9: respecting women includes trans and intersex women

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Just a silly crossover that wouldn't leave my mind

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T-shirt that says "I'M SORRY FOR THE PERSON I BECOME WHEN I'M OVERHEATED"

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the human body when you use it and exist in it

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i love the idea of will telling his college friends or coworkers about his bf mike who is so sweet and gentle and loving and all his friends have this image in their heads of the nicest boy ever until they meet Mike Bitch Wheeler and are floored that he pulled will

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I commented this on someone else's tiktok video but I need to elaborate on my thoughts here so bear with me.

I really really like the idea of Adrian being the one to find Simon like, a decent chunk of time before Grace and Rocky return, and him and Adrian having their own deep and complex relationship outside of Grace and Rocky. Then by that point when Grace arrives sick and starving, Simon has to be the one to act as caregiver and learning to be gentle in that way, not Grace babying a PTSD riddled Cult-raised Soldier.

Because yeah, all the fics seem to have the same mentality of, Grace has finished his journey/character arc, so all he needs to do now is nurse this sweet owo baby back to health and show him the stars and everything will be alright.

Give Simon some agency! Let him be the one to care for Grace for once, especially when there's nothing immediately benefiting him to do so, (EI, he's not already in love with Grace, or feels he owes Grace anything for caring him before, or because he worships him as an Angel) he's simply doing it out of good faith.

This starved to the point of looking skeletal man named Grace apparently helped save Adrian's husband, and the whole planet of Erid? That's all well and good but its not like the Eridians have an unlimited supply of human food or oxygen. This man might not get better and even then, until he does, he's a drain of resources. All of his life experiences and training tell him its better just to end the poor man's suffering now and lay him to rot.

But he won't do that.

He'd begged Adrian to end his own suffering months ago, back when the worst of his wounds where still in the new stages healing and he couldn't see the end of his pain.

It was thanks to Adrian kind stone-like claw that Simon had healed as well and he had. It was thanks to Adrian that Simon had some place to call home, something he hadn't had since his Mother had been culled all those years ago.

Adrian of course had told him all about their mate, a brave and smart engineer who'd gone to space decades ago on a mission to try and save the stars.

Rocky had returned, not only with a solution to save the star, but a Human man of his own that needed caring for immediately. Though not nearly in the same ways Simon had needed help when he'd first arrived. There had been a lot of trail of error with his treatment early on.

This man, Grace, was on deaths doorstep, and it was up to Simon, Adrian and the small team of Eridians who'd helped Simon live comfortably on Erid to save him.

Of course it was mostly Simon who had to do the bulk of the manual work, seeing as the Eridians couldn't comfortably enter their oxygenated spaces, specifically made for Simon, but quickly being adapted and modified based on what Rocky could share about Graces preferences. He couldn't say he LOVED the idea of a large body of water, some would call an ocean, being added to his not-so-little-anymore biosome, but apparently Rocky had been adamant about it though. So Simon only asked that Adrian expand the green house area and add a crop field on the opposite side of the dome for him as compensation.

Adrian agreed, but reminded him that if he needed anything else he just needed to ask, no compensation required.

That was still a hard lesson for Simon to unlearn from Eden and the COI, but Adrian hadn't lied to him yet so he was doing his best to believe them.

He's really pretty sure he's not gonna like this Grace guy once he regains consciousness though, if only because every human aside from his mom has lied to him or manipulated him at some point in his life, but he's starting to get the impression Eridians can't lie at all.

So basically even when Grace wakes up and is super excited to have a human friend on Erid, Simon is basically ignoring him in favour of either working with the Eridians to test more human food varieties/develop botanical life in the dome, hanging out with Adrian, or any other eridian at that point.

Simon be like 😒😠 rocks over jocks! Fuck off! 🖕

And Grace is like 😢 even 50 light years away from earth im socially award and can't make friends 😭