#dispatch episode 8

[emuririri]

the state shroud found sonar in

[homoflexapod]

YOU'RE SO HELPFUL BBYGURL

[fruitytrollroll]

(I'm not the best at articulating my words so please bear with me) Have you seen what happens when you give Shroud both Pulses on the roof? When Robert is talking, there's a point where the camera cuts over to Blazer/Mandy and Flambae, who are both looking up at Robert. And I might just be bad at reading facial expressions, but I SWEAR Flambae is smiling at him. It's a little smile, but I swear it's there.

no you're right, flambae is TOTALLY smiling alongside blazer in that scene!!

LOOK at that subtle little curl to his lip... that damned smile... he's sooo proud of his dispatcher and relieved for beef 🥺🥹

[antistellars]

SOME OF YALL OWE MY GIRL AN APOLOGY‼️

my genuine, pure-hearted, beautiful dork i love u forever. can’t believe people swore u were evil 💔❤️‍🩹

[mossy-rossy]

God I have so many thoughts on Shroud but I know for a fact that a lot of my disappointment is on ME for overhyping his intro. Because LOOK at this shit. It’s so menacing.

(Plus “non slip mats” is so funny. I wish he and Robert had a lil sass off.)

this line below especially made me think his motivations were gonna be something more interesting.

My guy literally has so many villains under his thumb.The ones who aren’t loyal are terrified of the red ring. Thought he was gonna be more of a clearly evil but kinda understandable villain. A sort of “I’m doing this to save people, good people like you Robert!” thing but wrapped up in very selfish power hungry motivations.

Bc All these villains are scrambling for his enhancements like rats around a feeder. Every single one of them dependent on him.

And just like Visis’ lung situation — the second they sign off on biomechanical enhancements they don’t fully understand, boom, Shroud owns their entire body. He can flip a switch and shut them off. Essentially ending the need for superheroes, especially the very much so black mirror episode of a monetized subscription based, surveillance nightmare corporation that is SDN. I really thiught there was gonna be a big morality questioning speech from ol Elliot , big rip to me

Ouuughhh and I could write an entire essay about the similarities between him and Robert (two non-powered guys in a world that straight up monetized superheroes), and the differences (Robert genuinely loving his team, believing villains can be reformed VS Shroud’s absolute disdain for his own underlings), but I shan’t. I’m simply biting my arm about it.

Btw: im well aware this is just me being fandomy tbh. Shrouds simple motivations were perfectly suitable to the plot since the devs clearly wanted to focus more on Robert n his other relationships (mainly Visi tbh) I just kinda wish shroud had a more interesting part to play.

[wildpokemon]

"Someone's attracted to Robert—and you lock that down Robert, because it's never going to happen again."

Dispatch + Kisses 5/?

[magical-kid-red]

"We need more complex and/or evil female characters!"

Invisigal: *turns invisible to sexually harass Robert due to insecurity & selfishness*

"The writers fumbled this so hard. This could've been a great character if she was a bad person without doing bad things. Why does her need for affection manifest as her seeking affection? :/ This could've been great if she was an insecure character, but instead they made her character revolve around trying to get approval for some reason :/"

ok y'all.

[yuletidesgay]

literally all visi needed was to know that robert wasn’t going to run away and back out at every opportunity where something bad happened. at any moment im sure she was ready to go back to shroud and villain life. but the continued support up until the end literally makes the difference of her choosing to be heroic. and you have to consciously make the decisions that show you care, that things haven’t changed for the worse but in fact in visi’s favor (whether she actually is recognizing of it or not).

invisigal lovers we are loyal if nothing else !!