I saw the Rick & Morty s8 finale yesterday, and got really emotional at the end of it. This is a show that shields itself in frivolity, yet has a shockingly intense sincerity and forethought always swimming around at its core. However, it also has so many complicated threads that when I was asked about the finale by someone who doesn't watch the show, I realized I could not explain any of it without explaining at least a dozen other things first. When aware of the intricacies, the payoff was so, so good. When unaware of any of them? There's almost no quick way to put someone into the headspace of why it mattered.
I gave up on explaining because it would've taken too long to be understood. I do believe certain kinds of profundity are only possible inside the context of a long and winding story, and yet our media seems to be shortening to bite-sized concepts instead, which is mostly the fault of short seasons and less episodes allowed for overall. Something that's existed for eight seasons has more opportunities to hit the mind than something that's existed for two, but also, people are used to things being quick, and so the tolerance for longer is fading.
Alongside this, I always feel a bit disoriented around the concept of Rick & Morty, for all its crude insanity, also being surprisingly profound. It is a show that seems to recognize its space as a longer-running thing, which gives it character development opportunities that can be gradual in a way far more true to life. Changes don't happen in a flash. Change happens as a slow, yet inevitable force of nature. At the center of it all, the things we give meaning to in a universe that seems functionally bereft of any clear direction or purpose beyond simply existing in the chaos of it all. Who we love is who we love, and how we treat the ones we love is another thing entirely, and it all combines in a steady pulse that shifts and moves continuously in the orbit of our influence. We get to decide what matters to us most. We get to decide what we keep, and what we let go. We get to decide what to treasure, and how to treasure it, and why we do. In a neutral universe that doesn't assign meaning to anything inherently, the role of meaning-making then falls to us. At the center of our worst cynicism and despair, there is often, in fact, our deepest care, our hopes, and the meaning we can't help but assign to everything that matters to us most.
And it all matters. It all means something. We love because loving makes it matter, makes it all mean something, in the chaos of it all.
I'm ashamed of my Vampire Diaries fan background but actors that appeared there keep showing up on new shows @dustlines and I watch, and it makes her curious about TVD (she's never watched it), so we started watching season 1 tonight, and oh boy, I live for her commentary. I have to share, because her brain is brilliant and she makes me laugh so much.
S1E1+E2:
- HE DOESN'T NEED THIS HE NEEDS TO BE D*CKED DOWN, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, ALENA
- is Uncle a euphemism for gay lover
- "cute becomes dumb in an instant" ARE YOU ALLOWED TO SAY THAT TO A STUDENT, SIR
- He looks like he m*sturbates to yearbook photos
- I don't have the stomach to be a vampire
- I'm sitting here like "STEFAN, HOW OLD ARE YOU, AND HOW OLD IS SHE"
- he rolls so much on his feet I'm surprised his ankles are okay
- So basically he became a "vegan' vampire and now the other vampires are like "YOU SOY BOY"
- Elena realizes she's not the only girl in the world and feels like pop music has failed her
- I would've just been like eh tv violence whatever but now I'm like WOMANLY RAGE
- SHE'S VULNERABLE - YOU DESERVE TO BE SHOT, MISTER
- i was like WHOA BUDDY LESS TEETH WITH ORAL
- to me, this feels like a tragedy about a r*pist who's cute moving into town and treating it like a buffet
- Using his perceived "cute" as a way to be monstrous without getting blamed for it
- they know "bad fish" shouldn't be eaten, but not "bad boys"?? Girl, that d*ck is as rancid as the fish.
Sorry for the long wait! I’ve been busy with theories in the back of my hard drive, but they will be worth the wait! I assure! Spoilers for Season 2 below the “Keep Reading” line, as well as plenty of strange and eccentricly hilarious commentary:
So with that out of the way...HAWKMOTH YOU GOT PRANKT HARD
Let’s review.
Details in Episode 7:
It all begins with Marinette inviting the femme squad over...and they all look at Marinette like "darling why" cuz everyone, EVERYONE KNOWS MARINETTE HAS A CRUSH ON ADRIEN. Pretty much the only people who DON'T know this are probably Adrien. And/or boys, boys seem pretty oblivious in this series imo.
Marinette also has yet again, another MAP! Maptime, maptime, it's always time for maptime! Where's the PARIS IN MIRACULOUS LADYBUG blog I will reping you lass @paris-in-miraculous-ladybug
The comedic device of Rose being a person's name and a person's codename is used...ah great. It should be noted that because of all of this, messups happen, but the Gorilla is somehow STILL kicked out.
Adrien is doing a photo shoot again, and for some reason the photographer thinks "nah not enough pizazz we need a girl" logic, except now he gets a lollipop.
A frickin' lollipop. COUSCOUSSSSSS Do you realise the broken logic of this?
And because of this, Adrien causes the strangest akuma to emerge. Pauvre bebe
The small child cries and be like "succ succ milk bottle succ" but more crying. Marinette goes to be all "good person and why I was chosen for the Miraculous", and I want to make a pickup line pun rn cuz milk bottle
Gorilla gets angered because it's the SECOND TIME HE GET EJECTED FROM HIS PARKING SPACE and he be like "do you not recognise that is a fake sign"
Hawkmoth monologues and sends akuma
Immediately, for better or worse for Ladynoir (but definitely worse for Hawkmoth), several things go not as planned.
The akuma approaches Gorilla...and the Gorilla suddenly smiles? Why is he amused??? This is SO plot convenient I can't explain anything. And here I was thinking "oh gabe you're possessing your own chauffeur bitch pls" but apparently NOPE
CUZ AKUMA BE LIKE "OH SHIT HAPPINESS IM ALLERGIC TO THAT SHIT"
And then the baby chooses THAT moment to abandon the milcc bottle and be like "WAHHHH NEGATIVITY"
AND THEN BABY IS AKUMATISED
OH NO POOR “PAILLON”
Papillion immediately regrets his decision for not having properly taken care of Adrien "just a friend" Agreste, due to the following events:
He tries to explain "MIRACULOUS OF LADYBUG ET CHAT NOIR"
Baby: LE FOUFOU
Hawkmoth gets annoyed and starts saying "the earrings of the coccinelle" (This is a weird detail, we'll go further in depth on this detail in a follow-up theory)
Baby: LE FOUFOU
Hawkmoth be like "fuck it it's an akuma victim" go uh GIGANTITAN WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GORILLA BUT I SCREWED UP
So this is great. Big baby, and Adrien Agreste "transforme-moi"es into Chat Noir...Ladybug follows suit
Chat Noir makes a pun
And Ladybug doesn't chastise him. She giggles. GIGGLING
LADYNOIR CONFIRMED Y'ALL
Girl squad leads supervillain away from Ladybug (who got clawed)
Demonstration: Ladybug is starting to fail to hold her own weight???
OBJECTION! Look at reflekta! (I contradict myself a lot)
Yadadada, save the day, MIRACULOUS LADYBUG
Marinette meets Adrien (for the umpteenth time)
Fails to French
Stumbles over words, but still acts FAIRLY confident tbh
Adrien gives her a weird look
But somehow still invites her to his limo
Marinette being the "dream love live life" girl be like "nah bitch I will fantasise but I will not live" which is ironic because she DID live it when she and Chat Noir in the car BUT HEY SUPERHERO/CIVILIAN IRONY ISN’T UNSEEN AT THIS POINT
GIRL MOMENT
Episode: FIN
There are a few points I definitely want to theorise about, but right now I’m just busy laughing my ass off and trying to make an original post that isn’t just reblogging net neutrality (which is very much real)
That feeling of sudden realization when you’re enjoying a show from childhood, then you look down at yourself and see a common fashion thing you do, then you look up and see that fashion thing on the show, then you look back down at yourself again in dawning comprehension, and you’re like, “Ohhhhhhhhhhh, that’s why I’m like this.”
Man, can you imagine being Dib Membrane, though? An alien lands on earth, and you're terrified for months that he's there to kill everything and that you, a literal child, are the only one who can stop him, and then (after a few admittedly traumatic fights with the alien) you end up developing a routine with the alien so familiar that it becomes common for him to interrupt you while you're brushing your teeth at night, and when you go outside to see what he's screaming about this time, at least once you see him hovering mid-air and very visibly in an otherwise invisible, gigantic robot that's covered in tree branches, and then the robot explodes before the alien can even threaten anybody, and the last thing that happened before the robot exploded was the alien screaming in rage about someone having the nerve to agree with something he'd said and then slapping the eject button to narrowly avoid blowing himself up with the robot that was supposed to be threatening, but was instead self-destructed in flailing panic by the hands of an alien who gets scared in the presence of Chihuahuas and enraged in the presence of muffins.
Where did the phrase “anyone worth their salt” come from? Who in history started looking at humans and judging them based on how deserving they are of their estimated salt content and/or salt ownership?
I love the clothes tags that are like “KEEP AWAY FROM FIRE” because it’s like, “thanks i did not know already to avoid hurling myself into nearby flames”
