Swamp Potato

Generally confused.

[msandss]

Season 3 ruined the tone down the road for the rest of the show and people isn’t ready to accept that because is a fun season.

Which is sad because it IS a fun and good season as a hole separate entity who would have been fine if the show had ended there. It even could have been a great final season if focused as one. But, from the moment it wasn’t, it became a turning point from visuals to tone that carried into season 4 (even if it almost came back for a second) and ended with the mess of season 5.

Rewatching season 1 and 2 after the final season is truly mourning what could have been a generational show like HP was in the 2000’s that might end up as GoT.

[tryingssss]

haymitch didn't have to eat so hard after every character he cares about died... like what do you mean "who will sing your songs now?" "wyatt callow who's luck just ran out. i can't believe how hard it hits me" "whoever lou lou was she's gone now" "buddy? somewhere beetee's heart breaks into fragments so small it can never be repaired" "goodbye maysilee donner, who i loathed, then grudgingly respected, then loved. not as a sweetheart or even a friend. a sister, i'd said." like alright

[tenaciousmoneymuffinzine]

Comparing Haymitch and Katniss' narrative styles is so funny to me because he's a yapper and she's a gatekeeper. He drops more lore on D12 in the first two chapters of SOTR than she does in the entire trilogy.

Haymitch is like "Yeah, so this person is related to this person who's related to this person and things are this way because of this and this thing actually came from here and this person is actually my best friend and also here's this extra tidbit of random info cause all my lore dropping comes with it's own additional bonus content and all my unnecessary commentary."

And Katniss is over here like "Tf do I care for if y'all know all the lore of District 12? I'm talking about my beautiful husband's beautiful eyelashes."

[ilikebooksanstuff]

i love how suzanne just gives us a little treat by mentioning the katniss plant every book. like here u go. ik u miss our girl. she's fine. enjoy lowercase katniss

[eaglerayys]

Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

[pastel-goose]

do yall think there is a universe where Jason was given to one direction instead of the wolves

[agentoffangirling]

Another thing I'll always love Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for is how they expand the roles of minor characters

Think Gideon Malick. You ask most Marvel fans who the hell he is and they'll probably say they don't know. You ask them if they remember the guy from the first Avengers film who sent a nuke at New York, and they'll be like "oh! That bitch!"

Malick is a character everyone knows but they don't know his name, the guy the fandom pokes fun at (for good reason), and yet this guy who was so willing to blow up millions of people is never expanded upon in the movies

But AoS does. They take this minor character and create a story for him. A story that not only fits perfectly with what he wanted to do in "Avengers", but also fits with the lore they've created. It all works so so well

They do this with their own characters, too. Piper and Davis were mere background characters in s3 with a line or two, but by s6, you have an absolutely gut wrenching scene where (SPOILERS) Piper is forced to watch as Izel kills Davis

The writers are just so smart with all of this. They know how to take existing characters and expand their roles in the show (Marvel Disney+ shows could NEVER) as well as make original ones who start out small and make them into a big deal by the end

Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancheroen, my heart to you <3

[diaruchann]

One of my favourite things in Heroes of Olympus is just how serious the ancient gods and people take the bullshit demigods say or do. Like Percy yells "Die, Romans!" and throws a butter popcorn scented grenade and Nike's reaction isn't "Stop fooling around!!! You can't trick me!!" or "Be more serious about killing each other!!" but instead just "That popcorn was not fatal!". Peak humor.

[msandss]

This is the kind of humor I wish the series had

[msandss]

Silverwing is a golden retriever trapped on a dragon body

[maggieithink-06]

i have spoken a *lot* about how important Luke’s relationship to his siblings is to his character. How much Luke really does love them. And as much as i believe that he loves them

He still abandoned them

He let them down, broke promises, scarred them and then left them with two kids who are both canonically Percy’s age and younger in charge.

And as much as we love Conner and Travis they shouldn’t have had to be running the largest cabin by themselves especially when that cabin—who is family—just went through a massive trauma because of Luke.

Not to mention what Luke did to their reputations. He made the cabin that welcomes in the unclaimed and the minor demigods untrustworthy, even 4 years after he left Travis and Conner and the rest of Hermes cabin are still being accused of being traitors.

Luke loved Annabeth, he loved Thalia, he loved the kids he took care of in Hermes. He loved them enough to leave to make what he thought would be a better life for them. But he didn’t love them enough to stay.

He had to choose between Family and Glory. And Glory wins everytime

[swimmingthestrait]

One of my favorite things about the soc fandom is that everyone draws Matthias with long hair. He may have a buzzcut throughout the whole two books, but we all collectivelly decided to ignore it. Great job everyone.

[msandss]

The buzz cut was the biggest crime on those books and even Nina agrees

[generousgardenstarlight]

My BIGGEST complaint about jegulus (besides the whole james would not fuck with regulus cause he's a death eater AND LILY IS HIS SOULMATE) is that they just push lily away, Like yes gay people are fine im not saying gay ships can't exist! Im just tired of women being torn down for gay men, Its annoying, Its like we are progressing forward and making gay people acceptable but at the same we are ten steps back with the way this fandom treats women.

The whole lily just being a surrogate BOILS my blood bc she was a mother not some pawn for two gay men and im tired of people just seeing her as just a way to get regulus to be a parent. Lets be honest he would NOT be a good dad idc the same for sirius tbh they both have shit they need to work through.

Don't even bring the whole jegulus + lily ship i hate it just as much, Lily wouldn't go near someone who would call her slurs.

The point is yes regulus COULD be gay, But he can be gay with literally anyone else AND give the women more content thats outside of ships, I need more headcanons about Marlene, Dorcas, Mary and everyone else (in the Marauders era and Golden trio and after/before both) I'm tired of trying to find content for them and it either smut or _____ surrogate.

IT KILLS ME WHERE IS THE FLUFF OR ANGST WHERE IS THE COMPLEX SIBLINGS??? WHERE IS THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT?? WHERE IS ANYTHING??? PLEASE GIVE ME MORE I'M BEGGING WE DONT NEED MORE GAY MEN GIVE US GOOD LESBIAN REP FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!

[msandss]

The underrepresentation of women is a serious problem on the Marauders fandom

[msandss]

I know people in general doesn’t want Disney to make anything related to the Original Trilogy of Star Wars but I seriously would love to see a Clone Wars kind of animation series of the Rebellion between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.

We could see Luke becoming this important hero for the rebels as he learns in the force, Han turning into the General Solo that he is on Empire Strikes Back and Leia leading the Rebellion. I don’t know, I feel like there is potential there to do something genuinely good and explore relationships and characters that the films could had done better justice and had to be developed in book and novels.

We already have Rebels (which is the my favourite Star Wars series) but, if you’re going to bring back the original trio, that’s the my favourite way to do it without using CGI faces or creating new storylines after Return of the Jedi.

It could be awesome… or terrible, no in between I fear

[gherkinlizard]

Yes!! ive also thought about this, and i think there was a post discussing a similar thing a while back (i think?? if im remembering correctly). i think it would be a great idea and if done well it could really be something.

i think the exploration of Luke, Leia and Han's friendship would be really cool to see develop since you're kinda only told that they are and become really good friends between ANH and ESB but don't actually see them interact in such a way for all that long in the films. So it'd be nice to see them go from strangers to 'you're my closest friends and I will face down Darth Vader himself to save you from harm'.

Disney needs to stop relying on cgi and cameos ie just using the face of the characters to bait you into watching their shit and removing all life and personality from said characters (cough cough I'm looking at you cgi Luke in book of boba fett) and they end up just loosing all the things that make that character lovable.

If they want to use lovable characters then actually explore something new and different with their character and their story. Disney has shown they can put time and effort into making a show actually enjoyable (eg Andor, Rebels, Mandalorian (although only seasons 1&2 (for me at least)), they just need to stop making shit for the sake of making it.

Sorry that was a slight tangent but yes i absolutely agree with this and an animated show would probably be the ultimate way to go about it.

[msandss]

I don’t know about a post here but I saw a someone on Twitter saying that the only time they didn’t want Disney to make content about was the Original Trilogy. And no, it’s all I want to see!

The potencial is right there, everyone already loves the characters and we could forget about the CGI faces that should just be recasted if they want to keep using the characters (but that’s a hole different discussion).

Also, making a show that explores Luke, Han and Leia relationship could add much deep to the Sequel Trilogy and its something that Disney desperately needs

[gherkinlizard]

I think I know what posts you're talking about and I do definitely understand peoples reservations behind Disney touching those original trilogy characters because they haven't made a very good name for themselves recently in regards to Star Wars content but if they found people who really cared about the project and not just the money behind it, it could be really great.

Theres so much potential!! it would add so much more value to their friendships by the beginning of ESB or even if they did some episodes in between ESB and ROTJ would add some weight to Han's capture and the emotions behind that. I know they explore it in some of the comics but it'd be great to see it in the hypothetical show situation.

It's really interesting though, I was watching some behind the scenes footage of The Book of Boba Fett and the body double they used for Luke looked so much like him!! I mean the CGI was great and all but at that point I was like why don't you just cast this guy?? or someone new?? because you loose a lot of subtle emotion of expression through CGI and of course its really expensive so they cut down on character screen time and so its ultimately not very satisfying.

That aside I'd really want to think about what would actually happen in the show and they style they could potentially use. I love the clone wars and rebels art styles individually but maybe something different could work for it. It could be interesting if they used a more retro animation style (could even be 2D like some of the Star wars vision stuff) or used techniques to make it blend with the style of film making from the 70s and 80s.

[msandss]

Omg, a retro animation of animation would look insane! It may be a little risky and grow to be very criticised because… well the fandom guy I would absolutely love it (and so would many people).

The actor that plays Luke with the CGI looks so much like Mark Hamill on ANH he could perfectly be Luke on the new series and Carrie Fisher’s daughter already played young Leia on the sequels, maybe she doesn’t look exactly like her but, if she wants to, feels like the perfect person to play her. And they recasted Han, so it makes total sense to recast everyone if they want to keep using them on live-action.

I still would love and animatic retrospective series much more. It could be cocky and have deep without the need of any super big menace; maybe some Inquisitors and imperials and some Force to invent. We could see them being friends and having fun trolling the Empire like in Rebels. It will be lovely and fun and would explore a conflict that hasn’t been explored since the original films were filmed

[msandss]

I know people in general doesn’t want Disney to make anything related to the Original Trilogy of Star Wars but I seriously would love to see a Clone Wars kind of animation series of the Rebellion between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.

We could see Luke becoming this important hero for the rebels as he learns in the force, Han turning into the General Solo that he is on Empire Strikes Back and Leia leading the Rebellion. I don’t know, I feel like there is potential there to do something genuinely good and explore relationships and characters that the films could had done better justice and had to be developed in book and novels.

We already have Rebels (which is the my favourite Star Wars series) but, if you’re going to bring back the original trio, that’s the my favourite way to do it without using CGI faces or creating new storylines after Return of the Jedi.

It could be awesome… or terrible, no in between I fear

[gherkinlizard]

Yes!! ive also thought about this, and i think there was a post discussing a similar thing a while back (i think?? if im remembering correctly). i think it would be a great idea and if done well it could really be something.

i think the exploration of Luke, Leia and Han's friendship would be really cool to see develop since you're kinda only told that they are and become really good friends between ANH and ESB but don't actually see them interact in such a way for all that long in the films. So it'd be nice to see them go from strangers to 'you're my closest friends and I will face down Darth Vader himself to save you from harm'.

Disney needs to stop relying on cgi and cameos ie just using the face of the characters to bait you into watching their shit and removing all life and personality from said characters (cough cough I'm looking at you cgi Luke in book of boba fett) and they end up just loosing all the things that make that character lovable.

If they want to use lovable characters then actually explore something new and different with their character and their story. Disney has shown they can put time and effort into making a show actually enjoyable (eg Andor, Rebels, Mandalorian (although only seasons 1&2 (for me at least)), they just need to stop making shit for the sake of making it.

Sorry that was a slight tangent but yes i absolutely agree with this and an animated show would probably be the ultimate way to go about it.

[msandss]

I don’t know about a post here but I saw a someone on Twitter saying that the only time they didn’t want Disney to make content about was the Original Trilogy. And no, it’s all I want to see!

The potencial is right there, everyone already loves the characters and we could forget about the CGI faces that should just be recasted if they want to keep using the characters (but that’s a hole different discussion).

Also, making a show that explores Luke, Han and Leia relationship could add much deep to the Sequel Trilogy and its something that Disney desperately needs

[msandss]

I know people in general doesn’t want Disney to make anything related to the Original Trilogy of Star Wars but I seriously would love to see a Clone Wars kind of animation series of the Rebellion between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.

We could see Luke becoming this important hero for the rebels as he learns in the force, Han turning into the General Solo that he is on Empire Strikes Back and Leia leading the Rebellion. I don’t know, I feel like there is potential there to do something genuinely good and explore relationships and characters that the films could had done better justice and had to be developed in book and novels.

We already have Rebels (which is the my favourite Star Wars series) but, if you’re going to bring back the original trio, that’s the my favourite way to do it without using CGI faces or creating new storylines after Return of the Jedi.

It could be awesome… or terrible, no in between I fear

[msandss]

Do you all think Percy carries an old cellphone in case something goes wrong in a mission so he can say goodbye to his mom?

[msandss]

I’m convinced that if Rhaenys had lived, not only Aenys would had been a better king but him and Maegor would be much closer.

I have no proof but also no doubts