#da commentary

[thomasbarrowlesbian]

Michael Engler on Rob James-Collier and Max Brown - Downton Abbey (2019) commentary

[laerugo]

so i want to talk about how like………. the city of kirkwall is a gigantic human transmutation glyph that was built for the sole purpose of sacrificing thousands of slaves PER YEAR in mysterious ritualistic blood magic rites for CENTURIES.

hmm SOUNDS FAMILIAR

[thomasbarrowlesbian]

“And then again, I love this whole sequence. I mean, this part of the film where we’re going back and forth between sort of the most royal, ceremonial, expensive, beautiful, lush part of the world, and then this underworld of a kind...”

[thomasbarrowlesbian]

“And I think everybody in the production did a very good job of portraying it accurately and sensitively.”

[thomasbarrowlesbian]

[thomasbarrowlesbian]

👀

[thomasbarrowlesbian]

Thomas is “running things” in “Carson’s office” ? No... that’s Thomas’ office

And Carson wasn’t “aging and ready to retire” he physically couldn’t do the work any more - it seems they just completely forgot about his palsy considering it’s never even mentioned

[laerugo]

for meme: Dragon Age 2

send me a tv show/book/fandom and i’ll say the top 5 things i’d change about it

i’d rework some of the pacing of act 3, i think that was the act that “felt” the strangest because you only meet meredith and orsino in the finale of act 2 and suddenly they’re both the villains. i think the plot could be smoothened out on the whole: it feels weird that for acts 1 and 2 the “baddies” are qunari, and after the arishok is dealt with, suddenly the real villains were two people we met who helped us deal with him?

i’m a hypocrite bc i rme every time other people criticize the maps, but knowing their dev schedule was apparently shorter than normal, i wish they’d had more time to make each map unique, or at least the kirkwall map more complex. it’s described as a maze or labyrinth……

there are some red hawke options that i think are so…… they cross the line of being blunt/rude to plain cruel imo, like giving fenris to danarius/letting meredith kill bethany. for the sake of rpg, i understand why they’re there – player choice – but i can’t help but feel they’re wildly ooc for hawke no matter how much you may not have liked the companion

i always wondered why the templars let mage!hawke wander around in act 2, bc act1 made sense if they’re trying to keep a low profile and by act 3 they’re champion. but in act 2 if hawke has been red/reckless enough, maybe a sub-plot where they’re taken to the gallows, meet meredith, blah blah, then break out – they could see the kirkwall circle up close so that way anders’ warnings of how bad things are in the circle would come with proof even the most anti-mage people couldn’t deny.

the rivalry romances always kinda weirded me out, especially fenris’s, merrill’s, and anders’s. with anders and fenris in particular, it’s like you’re saying “i don’t care if you hate mages/templars for good reason and i’ll argue with u every time u bring it up buuuuut can you also be available for boody call whenever i want” idk it just rubs me the wrong way. it gets to the point where if you rival fenris he loses faith in his own ability to make decisions for himself and ends up relying on hawke for everything – that’s like, super concerning esp if you’re in a romance w him. i don’t hate the idea of rivalry romances, i think it’s a realistic idea to not agree with someone 100% and still love them, but i’d rework their… depth to hopefully be healthier than “disagree with your LI about everything from their politics to the color of their armor”