'Semi' Incoherent Basketball Tangent Crossposted From Twitter Dot Com (Directors Cut)
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Umm anyways last night i was thinking really hard about basketball and robot flower's arc (mainly basketball's part in it. Unfortunatley) and basketballs run in tpot (Unfortunatley)
I just thought itd be fun to put here (under cut) and do some more thinking Because .. its a Little incoherent and im kind of Negative (i err cant provide alt text at the moment for the screenshots, will edit later Dont Worry)
although i still Agree with my points i feel a little bad for Not going into the problems with rf's perspective (and how she was Handled as a whole) (which.. i Wont be doing rn 🙁 DEFINITLEY LATER . TRUST ME I HAVE WORDS . just. This is very obviously about that ball)
one (get it) thing i have to bring up is One (get it) - I can see why they used basketball to get that Part across, she was easy to grab. problems with her team, not being listened to, stress over robot flower. Yeah Yeah.
My biggest problem is how it feels like it just. Wasn't elaborated on, most of this has to do with tpot 13-14, where basketball's whole Deal with one is basically.. Over (ESPECIALLY TPOT 14) but even during the time the two were together.. it felt a lot like.. Basketball was just getting exposition dumped? Besides when rf was coming into Play, none of it really.. corresponded to her character. (I mean.. I can understand Why. You gotta get exposition out SOMEHOW.. Lol)
She's considered important for things she Didn't Do, just things she happened to be There to witness.
and, this is something brought up when i was talking on Here, actually!! - It's implied one had seen herself in basketball, I mean. She compares herself to her. Bringing back my Earlier gripes with Bball and One, how most of the exposition dump doesn't seem to have anything to Do with basketball, I wish more of that needed elaboration could've been in tpot 14.
Girl literally had just encountered a Scary Cryptid alien who made her sign a Mysterious Contract, she can at the very least express some concern. It doesn't even have to be scenes of her doing full on explanations.. maybe a retread of tpot 12? She's desperatley Trying to explain to the others about where she was and What happened.. and if they aren't going to do any "big expansive plot moments" with her anymore, maybe.. just Maybe.. make her a little more on edge than just.. Standing there . LOL
Unfortunatley, alot of my suggestions feel like they'd be discredited just because of the fact that . She's already Taken up so much screentime.. (this is where my mind kind of fogs! I need to rewatch tpot Sorry, some things may be Wrong ;_; ) so much of the basketbot arc is built up upon basketball doing.. Nothing. It took until Tpot 10 for her to actually get a Plan. (which.. as much as i like to interpret it as part of her character of being. Really bad at working things on her own, i Don't think was the intention.. Said plan ends up going nowhere anyways) She gets focus on scenes that don't lead up to anything, really. It's a slow burnt plot that just Wasn't working in the show.. and the way it was solved with the contract is Such a dissapointing ending when you take into account that it went Nowhere. (especially on rf's end, outside of the one stuff, Dont Get Me Started)
From my perspective, if you've given a character so much screentime already, you're going to have to deduct some for the sake of the rest of the team.. which is Understandable!!! I get why 100%. I dont want to look at basketball's Ugly Mug any longer then normal. But it leads to having more to be desired when things actually.. Get Going later on.
But, i guess in our Perfect Bball Centric World- If she had survived her elimination (Please No. Im sorry she HAD to go.. its so funny to Make Fun of her, her vote count is humiliating Ok...) it would've been fun to see her work with fanny and ice cube regarding One.. I dunno, whenever i see tennis ball mystery solving i just think My Ball Couldve Been Here.. but i digress . She's Dead
Now that she IS eliminated though, i really Did think her and robot flower would Continue to be important, given they WERE on fanny and ice cube's whiteboard, and their rather unconventional way of getting Eliminated, they could've gone missing... A Number Couldve Been.. AFOOT.. But nope. Next time we see both of them, they're part of the Masses trying to escape 😭 'Course, tpot isnt Done.. so we COULD get more of them (i really think rf couldve been involved ok... again A Talk For Later (eye twitch))-
Maybe they told the others about one? That's why they all want out? I'm trying to not Focus on speculation though, rather then looking back on how she was this season. Eitherway, her relevancy seems Unlikely 😞
Now, looking back at her characterization .. it's definitley. Done. (Im progressivley losing my train of thought SOS I HAVE MORE TO SAY I SWEAR. Times catching up to me, too.. I Got Things 2 Do)
I like the idea of them branching away from her dependancy issues, i like it A Lot. but in execution (though this may be a fault Of the writer change) it tends to fall flat. Tstoe defintley suffered from the writing change, if i remember correctly they got a Little .. Santized? The team felt a lot less Dysfunctional. (WHICH I CAN HANDLE! it just felt a little sudden.. no real Bonding Time, Yaknow..)
Basketball is ABSOLUTELY not a leader type character, I think the idea of her Dilly Dallying away in challenges to focus on what She deems as more important, much to her teammates dismay, is a fun idea.. I wish she had time to be more selfish and get reprimanded for it (She literally didn't do shit about grassy being Burnt Alive 😭 and then.. No one cared?? Not even robot flower.. girl you knew her the longest you Know how much she cared for the little guy)
I wish her relationships with her other teammates on strongest team were given more importance (Outside of rf, LOL) especially her relationship with Grassy 🙁 grassy immediatley moved on from her and it stinks because.. they had such a fun dynamic (hoping for more of them in idfb.. its Interesting how they're established friends in bfb beforehand.. Please 😢)
Another relationship of hers that was slowly forgotten about was with golf ball, it's just as dissapointing. Basketball's dependancy on 8-ball Immediatley shifting to her wanting that with GB despite not liking her beforehand is really funny, her 'switch up' in Tpot im a big fan of because. You kinda see it coming, she really does Not see Gb as someone she'd want to stick with, but her follower mindset directs her to it anyways. But now she's given the chance to prove herself as 'better'? She takes it and just acts like a Prick. (Okay i May be getting a little headcannony here.. a Rewatch is imminent.)
Alas, basketball's reign of terror is Hopefully done. It's sad to see her go, despite her being Kind Of Ass . I do miss her presence.. it's not the same without her aura farming..
Uhh Uhh.. i may do a Follow Follow up to this if i get to rewatching/think of something at work .. Very sorry if this was the Worst Shit youve read and I am 10000% Wrong . Oops 😓
Ok wait i thought of another good closer . Sigh. Despite basketball of bfdi not winning tpot.. she did win one thing.. being the Biggest Bum on the show...