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Has anyone ever thought about the fact that Amy had to contend with Rory’s death 8 (!) times before she was 1000000% sure she would pick him over the Doctor lmao

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‘I will draw her eyes with the pigment of my mind’

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I get that stripping Peeta of everything that made him Peeta was meant to be the final nail in the coffin solidifying the Capitol’s evil but I just. Really don’t think it actually added anything to the story. If anything, I think taking away the one character that embodied hope and good and refused to be made into a ruthless, killing machine actually took away hope (and, by extension, a reason for fighting) from the story. Killing Prim was all we needed to show how war strips all innocence from the world. But taking Peeta’s humanity away was just overtly cruel and very nearly took away the why in their attempts to overthrow the Capitol. Idk I always got the feeling Collins just didn’t know how to handle their separation in the third book

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So I’ve finally initiated a Penny Dreadful rewatch and I think something that goes so underrated in general in this show is the scriptwriting. There are some exquisite mediations on loneliness, beauty and faith but even the specific characterisation is stunning. For example, Caliban’s dialogue is always slightly ornate for conversation to mirror the prose through which he learnt language. Idk I just think the attention to detail not just in the aesthetic but in the actual storytelling is neat

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Rewatching The Pandorica Opens as you do and I’ve just realised the seeds for series 6 are already being sown what with the big deal that is made out of the Pandorica being reserved for the most feared being in the cosmos. Like word about the Doctor is getting around so much so that people are teaming up to put him in an impossible to escape prison - it’s really no wonder that The Silence are beginning to plot against him at the same time. What I love though is how he remains so naive about it, still wanting to believe he is a good person just trying to do his best

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“your love will be safe with me”

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John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 [originally published 1667]

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Foggy Nelson is the Samwise Gamgee of the Daredevil Universe

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There’s just something so goddamn TRAGIC in Achilles’ beloved’s death being the thing to finally break the scales of pride that had been covering his eyes. He goes from thinking all he cares about is his reputation to literally being desperate to die - not just because Patroclus is gone but because he finally realised he prioritised the wrong thing and it’s too late to change it now. He also knows it shouldn’t have taken Patroclus’ death for him to realise this - a death that is, ultimately, his fault. How was Achilles ever meant to navigate those layers of grief and devastation?

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I get that Elektra loves Daredevil / Karen loves Matt was the parallel they were going for in S2 but I actually think there’s a lot more to the dynamic between Karen and Matt.

I really didn’t like Karen throughout the latter half of S2; as has been pointed out by many, the way she treats Matt for being Daredevil is extremely hypocritical considering how obsessed she is with Frank. I also thought her treatment of Matt as a person was unfair, especially considering she knew he was hiding something personal that he was struggling with and she had never been forthcoming about her own past/demons.

Now, Karen’s past is obviously highly traumatic and I’m not saying that she owes her truth to anyone - but neither does Matt. Karen knows that he not only experienced and lived through his father’s murder but was literally blinded in a car accident when he was seven. I was frustrated by the level of access she demanded and believed she deserved from Matt in pursuing a relationship with him, when she wasn’t willing to give him the same.

Ultimately, they both keep secrets from each other - the ‘darker’ side of themselves, per say. Thus, I think they fall in love with each other’s light, ‘good’ side. This placed an unrealistic expectation on each other and the relationship and was not sustainable.

But by the end of S3 all the cards are on the table. No more secrets, nothing to hide. I was interested in beyond S3 (if they’d ever gotten that far) how they would’ve developed that relationship. As Charlie has mentioned and the comics have shown, Karen is Matt’s main love interest. Would they have continued in that vein? Could this romance survive with the full awareness of each other’s darkness?

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To add to this, minus the poor writing around Karen’s vigilante hypocrisy, I do love her and think that her and Matt would work really great together. (Especially considering Deborah and Charlie’s clear chemistry!)

I think this quote from Deborah sums it up really nicely -

“I think that, especially now that we’re exploring some of the romance and the feelings between Matt and Karen...the idea is that they really are so similar and could be a true comfort to one another, but they’re both too scared to show who they really are because these are dark things. I mean, how do you go to someone that you’re falling in love with and say, ‘So, I kind of killed a guy, and I covered it up.’ It’s just...you immediately lose that person. And especially if you think that he is this incredible lawyer who’s gonna save the world through legal means, and here you are going off, you know, sneaking in dark alleys and breaking into people’s houses. You know, as far as Karen knows, she’s the worst that there is of the three of them. And I think, similarly, Matt feels the same. So...I...you know, this is gonna be a journey about the two of them reaching a point where they can be honest with each other.” 

This is why they are so frustrating to watch together in S2, they’re too unsure of themselves and won’t allow themselves to fully trust in this other person because they don’t think they deserve it. But having moved past that in S3, I think beyond they would’ve really helped heal parts of each other and made a lovely couple.

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I get that Elektra loves Daredevil / Karen loves Matt was the parallel they were going for in S2 but I actually think there’s a lot more to the dynamic between Karen and Matt.

I really didn’t like Karen throughout the latter half of S2; as has been pointed out by many, the way she treats Matt for being Daredevil is extremely hypocritical considering how obsessed she is with Frank. I also thought her treatment of Matt as a person was unfair, especially considering she knew he was hiding something personal that he was struggling with and she had never been forthcoming about her own past/demons.

Now, Karen’s past is obviously highly traumatic and I’m not saying that she owes her truth to anyone - but neither does Matt. Karen knows that he not only experienced and lived through his father’s murder but was literally blinded in a car accident when he was seven. I was frustrated by the level of access she demanded and believed she deserved from Matt in pursuing a relationship with him, when she wasn’t willing to give him the same.

Ultimately, they both keep secrets from each other - the ‘darker’ side of themselves, per say. Thus, I think they fall in love with each other’s light, ‘good’ side. This placed an unrealistic expectation on each other and the relationship and was not sustainable.

But by the end of S3 all the cards are on the table. No more secrets, nothing to hide. I was interested in beyond S3 (if they’d ever gotten that far) how they would’ve developed that relationship. As Charlie has mentioned and the comics have shown, Karen is Matt’s main love interest. Would they have continued in that vein? Could this romance survive with the full awareness of each other’s darkness, without the ability to make each other feel ‘good’?

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Just found this

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The bit in Angels Take Manhattan where the Doctor begs Amy to come back into the TARDIS after the angel takes Rory is perhaps his most selfish moment. In utter desperation to keep his best friend in his life he, deep down knowing the truth, lies to her that she has a chance of seeing the love of her life again. River, Amy and Rory’s literal daughter, doesn’t even do this, instead sacrificing her parents so they can live their life out together. But the Doctor is so devastated by the very thought of losing Amy, the girl who waited for him, that he risks their friendship and her happiness just to try and keep her with him.

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In Season 4 of Hannibal I would’ve loved to have seen Alana and Will have a final, proper, honest stand-off. Like Alana trying to persuade Will that he is not what Hannibal made him and Will just being like, “how would you know? I’m not what you want me to be. I never was.” And then reminding her that she too has been changed by Hannibal and Alana just having to reckon with the fact that

A) he’s right, she oversaw Hannibal’s killings on Muskrat farm and ended up becoming a murderer herself (Mason)

B) finally acknowledge + accept that she was one of the ultimate enablers for Will being driven into Hannibal’s arms.

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No because we’ve got to assume that the only reason the Doctor entertained River before he knew the truth about who she was is because:

a) he felt a crippling sense of obligation knowing how her life ends and that she was willing to sacrifice herself for him (and others)

b) she asked him to respect their time together

c) he was curious about why this relationship began in the first place - she knows his name. He must have trusted her, but why?

But as time goes on he grows to love her for her UNTIL she doesn’t show up for him in A Good Man Goes To War. In his eyes, she’s abandoned him and their ‘friends’ in their time of need, her love is suddenly meaningless and he’s tired of her avoidance. He demands to know who she is.

But then, oh but then, when he finds out the truth his love for her takes on a whole new meaning. This is the daughter of his very best friend, the child he swore to protect, and in attempting to do so nearly ruined every moral and broke every promise he’d ever made to himself. It’s now his responsibility to ensure she has as wonderful a life as he can offer her.

In her, he now sees Rory’s kindness and unblinking willingness to sacrifice himself for those he loves. Amy’s loyalty, sass and flirt but also quiet rage. This woman embodies everything he so loves about his two favourite, complex humans.

How could he not give everything he had to her?

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I think the world would implode if Captain Jack Harkness and Professor River Song ever crossed paths. Like the bisexual energy would be too much

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“She didn’t need to be saved. She needed to be found and appreciated for exactly who she was.”

— j. iron word