Pollo loco sucks so much booty if you’ve ever had real food made by your grandmother. Pollo Loco is an infinitely worse “Mexican restaurant” than Taco Bell because at least Taco Bell stays in its lane and does stupid shit like nacho fries and Doritos tacos or whatever.
If I wanted to taste shit, I’d go to an orgy and convince everyone to try out being part of human centipede.
Anyways Taco Bell is low-key a guilty pleasure, like is it as good as normal tacos ? Not really but in some rare (gluttonous) cases yes, in my moments of weakness I know Taco Bell will be there to comfort me with its slop I don’t really trust.
Jezebel (@typicalopposite) reacts [with occasional asides by Wench (@scripted-downfall)]
The pre-episode conversation:
Wench: Here it is. You ready? ARE YOU READY???
Jezebel: YUSSSSS
Wench: I CAN'T HEAR YOU: ARE YOU READY??!?!?!
Jezebel: YUSSSSSSSSSSS
Wench: Okay. OKAY. Here. We. Go.
Jezebel: AHHHHHHHHHH! READYYYY????
Wench: YESSS
Jezebel: 3! 2! 3! 4! 5!
Wench: alsdkfjladskjf Gooooo
Jezebel: 4! 3! 2! 1! GOOOOO
– – –
GOD DAMN NOW A LIVE CHICKEN… Ma’am!
Foreshadowing
I FEEL YA OC
I FEEEL YAAAA OC! ☠️☠️
It’s Ben [Ben ded] Oh? [That's what they just said; they found a dead body with a barcode, and it's Ben] Well now I’m confused
Bby Ben [He was a storyteller :(] 😭😭😭
Wot? [Was this about the Nomlies?] I think yeah lol [Nomlies are, essentially, Manticore rejects. Flawed genetics, personalities, etc, to the point that they've been moved to the basement for reprogramming or permanent retirement]
…. Wait. Wait. 🤔🤔🤔🤔 WAIT. Isn’t that how she… Is this 🤔🤔🤔 [SPEAK] Is this the future and the episode is leading up to the death? [*whistles*]
[Nope. I just lied to you] You. My friend. Are a *redacted OFMD!Izzy cursing*
[Ma'am didn't say the nickname :(] LINTLICKERRR [There we go] 🙂
OOOOHHHH AHHHHH [This is a thing now :)] LIKE FUCKING NAILLSSSSS ON A CHALKBOARD
Bruh [Ma'am didn't even wait for a response] WHY NOT TELL HIM [Max is being Max again, what can I say] *sigh*
[I'm actually starting to recognize the kids this go-round]
Holy hell deep voice
[I don't know if that kid's dealing with the tryptophan thing btw]
When he said the blue lady was he referring to the Virgin Mary? [Yup. Ben storytelling again]
ACKLESSSSS HAS ARRIVEDDDD [He has indeed]
BUDDY WHATCHA DOING 👀👀👀 [Being homicidal. As one does.]
👀👀👀
Well damn
[Okay, look. I know we know that she was lying. But to be fair. It's kinda ridiculous that they act like the kids would all be recognizable. It's been. 11. Years.] Yeah that’s fair… But I mean I think I look like me from 11 years ago ☠️ [You didn't go through puberty in that time tho. I think they were like. 9]
["Closest thing to a brother" Bitch, ZACH IS SUPPOSED TO FILL THAT SPOT] Excuse you Zach doesn’t need to be filling no spots 👀😮💨🤢 [MA'AM WATCH THE SHOW]
‘Cause I’m an angsty bitchhhhhhh *sigh*
[Church] Time to repent. Then kill the priest. Then repent again. ["There's things, there's…people… feelings that I want to experience differently than I have before"] 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Awww man… Teef. That’s brutal. Blech [“Summer teef. Sum 're teef, sum 'ren't”] ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
☠️☠️☠️☠️ Noooo
Priest is like… ma’am you gud [No, she ain't]
I had stuff to say but Ackles has reappeared instead (like an Angel)
Oooh jumpscare
The smileee
The smile is gone 🙁
Uhhh no… I don’t
Speed run ["Blurring," in the in-universe speak]
☠️☠️☠️ I swear he comes in so randomly WITH GROCERIES like
– – –
Wench: What were you saying when Ackles showed up? alskdjf
Jezebel: 😮💨😮💨 It was a joke and I don’t fully remember it enough to retype ☠️ Ackles just rewired my brain and it erased. Irrelevant. Non existent.
Wench: :))) Fair
Jezebel: But noooo the smile at Max 😮💨😮💨 I- I swoo— I’m married sir how dare you
Wench: Nooo
Jezebel: I- I have forgotten how to midpoint! All I wanna do is fangirl rn ☠️ and he’s only been in two scenes
Wench: I almost spilled my cereal at that one alksdjflaksdjf But I understand completely
Jezebel: Will be a better endpoint
Wench: Aight… on we go?
Jezebel: YESSSS
– – –
The priest is gonna get ded
“Faith in the lady” That’s… ok 🤣🤣🤣
Priest is like… shit. Time to find another line of work
[The eagerness with which he seized on the soldier explanation 😭] 😭😭😭
“The lady” I’m dying
Oh noooo
I fucking jumped
["I'm not a liar"... murder = okay, lying = not. This says something]
Ok I see what he’s doing I think
I’d be ded. “Slide the wot IN WHERE!?! Pretty boy help!”
“Click”? Oh, or maybe it was loaded after all
Poor priest
A lot, lady. A lot
[Poor Ben having a crisis of faith :(] 💔💔💔 Damn. It be like that kid
Oooop [He invaded her perch] He gonna start talking in circles now [He already did... Devour-coded] ☠️☠️☠️☠️
[THIS IS THE "SHE"! (The one I said to be concerned about)] Ohhhh… That wants the kids killed? [Yup]
Ohhhhh military Karen [She calls him Deck] Milataren… Lintlicker and Militaren.
[Oop- Ben is back. Important scene!]
Bruh he looked back like oh shit [She annoys me here too btw. Like. bro, your brother is clearly losing himself. And you're more interested in being bitchy about it than being caring. “Bet he’d love to figure out what the hell went wrong with you.” Whyyyy did that need to be said?]
Lintlicker is like a fucking dog fighter with his little gaggle of pit bulls
Oh shit, crazy kids [Azazel-coded] Ooooof, trueee [I heard it in his voice alksdj]
[he wears fine blood well] ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ [Sorry, kinda had to]
Logan whatchu doin [He sneak]
Lintlicker whatchu doin [He protecc his kid]
Oooop- Logan you been had
["You think because she's so pretty, she isn't as dangerous?" Bruh, there was a whole unit designed to use attraction as a weapon asldkfj *cough cough* Alec] ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
[I'd be concerned about Ben too, tbh]
Ooooop [“Do you hate yourself that much?” Yes He does. Have you not been watching?]
[This woman sees her brother losing himself and is like. Aight. I got this. Let me make it worse!] ☠️☠️☠️
AHHHH
NOOOOO
THE SAD
OMG HIS HEIGHTTT. It’s visible here
YOU COULDN’T HAVE DONE THAT THE WHOLE TIME??? [Her physical acting there was so weird]
Ooooop
Oh. The forest. THE forest. Ack. ACKKKK. [:)]
[This man playing the actual original comic book villain: "It seems his faith wasn't strong enough."] RIGHT
OH CRAZY SMILE
BRUH
HOLY SHIT
Oh. Oh that’s broken. Ack
OH SHIT
ACK
AAAAAAACK ["Ben, I can't carry you; we'll both get caught" Bitch, tell that to your pilot-episode self]
ACKKKKKKK
HIS VOICE [I KNOW]
ACHKKS
Nooooooo
Why couldn’t you just do it
Why
We don’t need a story
Ack
Ooooof
Ack [Coherency has gone bye-bye]
Welp… Ack
Mood, Max
I’m
Um
Ack
Also tho. The thing back then isn’t entirely fair they were kids
The priest is gonna be like…. Nope
[Priest survived, but he also has a weirdo barcode tattooed on his neck, and that's gonna make his life hella tricky in s2] Ohhhh, he comes back? [Nope. They forget about it. But everyone learns about the Manticore barcodes. And that's the main way of IDing transgenics. So like… Buddy boutta get slammed.] ☠️☠️☠️☠️ Fair
– – –
Jezebel: So, like, endpoint…. What even is an endpoint?
Wench: "Ack,” perhaps?
Jezebel: What even is life? I’m not ok
Wench: I broke you alskdjf
Jezebel: … Ack. Which is like ack…les. So even more ack. I hope you and the minions are satisfied. Evil. Evillllll! ACKKKK!!!!! I AINT EVEN GET ANY JAM PONY TO MAKE IT BETTER
Wench: Okay, but s2 is better! Alec is only three episodes away!
Jezebel: I got two seconds of OC- THAT’S A WHOLE THREE HOURS AWAY! 😭 180 minutes
Wench: Do you see what I mean about it being the best episode of season 1 though?
Jezebel: Yes! It very much so was!
Wench: HAH!
Jezebel: Also noooooo the titleeee makessss sense nowwwwww!!! Ackkkkkkkkk What am I doing with this pain???? It’s like a reverse gift
Wench: You just kinda acked your way through the emotional scenes; I sent the script so you can compose your thoughts :)
Jezebel: Ohhhh. Well… That was a lot of 😦 Like, I get him going crazy. Also, I think I missed a part of Logan saying he had been doing this for a while (How long is the part I missed)
Wench: I don't think they said how long it was. But, regardless, Lydecker's been covering for Ben. Shutting down the investigations and all.
Jezebel: And, about that… On one hand I could go the anti Lintlicker route and say he’s only covering his ass because the woman wants to put them down and he doesn’t want to. And it’s nothing about him caring about them or anything. But I could also go the pro Lydecker route and say he was trying to cover it up to get to him so they could in his eyes fix the problem and he would have another “kid” home.
Wench: I think it's probably a mix of both, tbh. He does care about them, but, like we've discussed, in a twisted kinda way? So it might have been a "bring him home if we can" kinda thing. And… thoughts on Max?
Jezebel: She was meh at best this episode but the end, with the story, I really felt for her.
Wench: Yeah, I get that. I don't fully agree --- I think her handling of the Ben situation was pretty atrocious, tbh, even if it did end up working for a bit --- but otherwise... yeah, not bad. And the end was kinda hard to fully hold against her. (Also, talk about a picturesque death scene alsdkfj)
Jezebel: Right?! Like, oh, let’s have this lovely scenery, and plop a dead kid in his sister’s arms… oh, and sister is the murderer… Like… Wot? Ack
Wench: Also, the childishness of the way he was speaking tho 😭
Jezebel: I KNOWWW 😭😭😭😭 Budddyyyyy
Wench: Honestly, the character as a whole has that quality. He's so... beseeching. Legitimately, all he wants is someone to understand 😭 He tries to get that with the priest in the confessional --- "I'm a soldier"--- and with Max at the tower --- "Don’t tell me you don’t wake up with the sound of your heart pounding in your ears." --- and then again with Max at the end. Even the goading-Max-into-hitting-him bit. He wanted her to understand the violence and she didn't even give him that 😭
Jezebel: 🥺🥺🥺 I just 😭😭😭😭 He’s such a good actorrrrr 😭😭😭
Wench: Agreed... *sigh* But there ya go! Ben episode!
