#frankietalk

[whiteviolinlesbian]

diego, smugly: my body is a temple

also diego, in bed with his sixth case of salmonella this year: i dont know how this keeps happening

[lecterly]

anyway my hot theory is that oswald had hugo strange Science Magic the “dumb ed” personality into edward the dog. edward the dog is literally ed. the riddler doesn’t have multiples anymore he’s just a really adventurous sleepwalker

[lecterly]

i might have taken a break from this show for a hot minute but UNDERSTAND that not a week went by where i did not think about a nygmobblepot hannibal au

[whiteviolinlesbian]

umbrella academy twitter account

okay i know this might be a controversial take, but i wanted to put a spotlight on some of the manipulative marketing the umbrella social team has been doing with a focus on a tweet from today that got the old blood a boilin'.

today (friday, 2/22) the umbrella academy account posted this "imagine living a whole lifetime with the one you love only to have it stripped away by the consequences of time travel. I MEAN COME ON. KLAUS AND DAVE FOREVER. WE’RE NOT CRYING. YOU ARE"

first of all . as a lesbian woman who is sick and tired of queer people in media dying/being used as trauma magnets so the audience feels sorry for them, i do NOT find klaus to be positive representation. i think hes an interesting character with a lot of potential, but the way they treated his relationship with dave/referenced relationships with other men almost screamed that it was a) for points and b) for us to feel bad for him. had a "long term" relationship? because he needed somewhere to sleep. found real love? the first thing we know about him is that he's dead! we get MAYBE five lines of dave dialogue at most - robbing his character of its agency and essentially using him as a prop for klaus' story and a catalyst for klaus to commit to being sober. if we could have an entire scene - a LITERAL song and dance - for 'its not technically incest because we romanticized it' allison and luther (ugh maybe more on that later) we can have like. a fuller picture of the TEN MONTHS that klaus was spending in the war.

i'm getting carried away. my point is, the show chose to make these decisions - to make klaus and dave's relationship purposefully vague. maybe they have plans for it later, maybe they thought it'd bog the story down - but they chose to do that.

and then the manipulative marketing strikes.

the first thing i noticed when i saw this tweet was its punctuation. all lowercase, followed by all caps - the kind of thing you'd see on someone's liveblog of the show. the tone is distinctly infantilising - i almost expected the next tweet on the timeline to be something about their 'gay babies uwu'. klaus and dave forever...youre litcherally the ones who buried them! youre profiting off of the pain of a community by using familiar language. and looking in the replies it continues - all lower or upper case. no punctuation, one even had asterisks enclosing an action (i.e. *looks at ground*) but this show is not a person. it is actively tricking you into thinking theyre a) somehow not responsible for the death of yet another queer character and b) are mourning him alongside fans instead of profiting off of our misery and trauma as a community.

i dont even know if this post has a point anymore. im just really disappointed in netflix's consistent use of humanizing memes/language and sad about missed opportunities.

[lecterly]

okay, overall. compliment/critique sandwich time for the first episode. 

criticism: this was one that would’ve benefitted cutting a couple of characters out completely. ed has a few distinct scenes, and two of them are identical. exactly the same, except in one he wakes up in rooftop trash and sees a dog, and in the other he wakes up in alley trash and sees a homeless guy. and then he yells into a mirror, which we’ve seen him do since season 1. just really unnecessary and boring. 2 minutes goes a long way in these episodes, and it would’ve been better spent on something else.

compliment: like selina! her arc was pretty compelling this ep. cameron did a stellar job selling her hopelessness, and honestly if not for the “~~~find the WITCH~~~” business i would’ve sympathized with it even more. the way the staff there treated her when she had that break was insane, but. gotham is falling apart. whatever. 

criticism: jim and bruce and the general GCPD thing... nah. i feel like this show has had a growing time management problem over the last couple seasons. with this final one being cut in less than half, i can kind of understand why they’re struggling, but oof. i could barely bring myself to pay attention to any of the scenes in the GCPD. they dragged, and a lot of the time was spent rehashing jim gordon’s righteousness or plot points that they could’ve just told us through context. (i mean, the /long/ scene where jim info dumps everything about their situation to the government over the radio? dude.)

compliment: they mentioned mr. freeze. hallefuckinglujah. and he’s skirmishing with firefly! that’s cute, even though we didn’t get to see any of it.

criticism: The Tabitha Problem. i don’t think i could properly express all my feelings about this right now, because i’m still thinking about everything, and after all this time i find myself genuinely wanting to give this show every benefit of the doubt i can possibly muster. but. mark me down as sad.

compliment: seeing robin have so much fun with oswald was super refreshing. he knocked it out of the park, as usual. expressive to the point of being goofy, but i found it less grating than i did in certain parts of s4.

criticism: not enough edward the dog

[lecterly]

happy pride month to everyone in gotham city except for edward nygma

[lecterly]

damn like... nygmobblepot is actually the most fascinating & entertaining dynamic gotham’s ever had they’re really gonna just toss that in the garbage huh?

[lecterly]

the problem with writing ed nygma, a canon genius, is that you have to at least be smart enough to make his decisions believably intelligent. unfortunately the gotham writers all share the same 5 brain cells which makes this difficult for them