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Cannibalism as an act of love; specifically, requesting that your loved ones sustain themselves through your body:

The Terror, season one, episode nine, "The C, the C, the Open C" (2018, wrt. Soo Hugh, dir. Tim Mielants) / Bones and All (2022, wrt. David Kajganich, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

(These lines in Bones and All do not all come one right after the other -- I did not screenshot those which were repetitions of the first or otherwise irrelevant to the theme.)

#the terror #the terror amc #bones and all #bones and all 2022 #television #film #akh.txt

Different, roundabout ways of saying “I love you”:

Sweet Smell of Success (1957, wrt. Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman, and Alexander Mackendrick, dir. Alexander Mackendrick) / Succession, episode three, season four, “The Lion in the Meadow” (2021, wrt. Jon Brown, dir. Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman)

#sweet smell of success #sidney falco #jj hunsecker #succession #succession hbo #tom wambsgans #greg hirsch #tomgreg #film #television #(i have been waiting for someone on succession to call someone else a cookie full of arsenic)#(and this seems like the closest i'll get to it)#(both remarks are these strange almost backhanded compliments)#(that are full of love at the same time)#akh.txt

Some Thoughts on ‘Cobra Kai’ (So Far) (SPOILERS)

I’ve seen the entire first season, the first episode of the second season, and most of the second episode of the second season. I need to put my thoughts somewhere, so here they are.

- Daniel and Johnny cannot let go of their high school rivalry and it just kills me. The show’s whole title should be Cobra Kai; or, The Pettiest Men in the San Fernando Valley. And they’re causing so much collateral damage because of it. I think they just need to have one good karate face-off and maybe some hate sex. Or therapy. Or anything that isn’t training children to fight each other for the sake of said rivalry.

- Speaking of those children, I think they’re all going to end this series very traumatized, and Johnny and Daniel better be paying for their therapy.

- Eli/Hawk’s combination of a cleft palate scar, animal nickname/persona, and increasing viciousness keeps making me think of Francis Dolarhyde from the Hannibal Lecter franchise.

- This show is not even trying to hide how many plot points they lift from The Karate Kid and I honestly love it. Sure, it’s derivative, but it’s honest about being derivative.

- The second episode of season two begins with an extremely cheesy montage using “Back in Black” by AC/DC. I sort of grew up on “Back in Black” and now I’ll never hear it again without thinking of that montage.

- Ralph Macchio and William Zabka are great scene partners, and I kind of want to see them in a modernized film adaptation of a Jane Austen novel (not sure which one) or a road trip movie.

- It’s batshit. The whole thing is just batshit and I love every second.

#cobra kai #television #akh.txt

Manon, Jules Massenet, Henri Meilhac, and Philippe Gille / Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino

(Screenshots of the Manon libretto are from the Internet Archive. Screenshots of Reservoir Dogs are from Peacock.)

#reservoir dogs #mr white #mr orange #larry dimmick #freddy newandyke #creamsicle #reservoir gays #film #i was watching this last week #saw this scene and thought 'wait. I KNOW THIS.'#and remembered the end of massenet's 'manon'#this is how i started shipping mr white and mr orange #they echo your classic doomed tenor-and-soprano couple in operas such as the above one #(and on that note 'reservoir dogs' would make for an excellent opera)#(also i couldn't find the translator for the 'manon' libretto)#akh.txt

Sir please, that’s my emotional support sad man in a period television show played by Jared Harris.

#(i have had this in my head for DAYS)#(and i don't know if someone else has done it but i wanted to put it out there anyway)#(this post is me clinging to crozier for all he's worth)#jared harris #francis crozier #valery legasov #the terror #the terror amc #chernobyl #chernobyl hbo #the terror crack #akh.txt

The Terror Rarepair Week 2021, Day V: “The Walk Out / A missed opportunity / ‘Don’t pretend...’”

Summary: As the walk out begins, Blanky mentally composes a letter to his wife, Esther.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29295633/chapters/72194376

#the terror #the terror amc #trpw2021 #thomas blanky #esther blanky #(she doesn't appear but is mentioned quite a bit)#akh's writing #akh.txt

The Terror Rarepair Week 2021, Day III: “Frozen in / Stolen moments / ‘We’re not so different.’”

Summary: Irving and Little chance across each other in the orlop, and existential dread proves to be one hell of a drug.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29295633/chapters/72066549

#the terror #the terror amc #trpw2021 #john irving #edward little #my sad lieutenant son #hot mess lieutenants #akh's writing #akh.txt

The Terror Rarepair Week 2021, Day II: “Beechey Island / Duty owing / ‘Where did you get that?’”

Summary: During the first winter at Beechey Island, Jopson and Hartnell check in (or attempt to check in) with each other.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29295633/chapters/72001125#workskin

#the terror #the terror amc #trpw2021 #thomas jopson #thomas hartnell #akh's writing #akh.txt