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How can it be possible that no one loves this ship?

This is really something that drives me mad. When I finished seeing season 5 for the very first time (bingewatching it in only two days aka late nights) , I rushed to ao3 with the absolute certainty I would have found dozen of fics about them. Instead not only was there none, but on reddit I even figured out that people hated her, the cruelest ones also dared to call her ugly (WHAT?? Oh c'mon, Madeline is stunning!!) and her character stupid and meaningless. Excuse me?! From now, since this could be a spoiler for someone who still has to see season 5 I'll put my considerations under

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some things i thought about when finishing season 2 of interview with the vampire

CLAUDIA AND LOUIS have such a fucking unique dynamic and i think the tv show explored it so excellently. their relationship is so unique you cant really put a word to besides some twisted, vampiric father-daughter, brother-sister bond. claudia's character is explored in this context so much more beautifully then how the movie did. the movie made her seem so.. unnatural, even in this supernatural context that is the vampire chronicles. the tv show excellently showed her evolution of character: from her creation (still being truly a child, mentally and physically), showing the depression she got realizing her body would never match the maturity of her mind and the mania that came with those feelings, the resentment of her guardians, knowing they knew she would forever be a confused woman in the body of a teenage girl, to her running away, becoming independent and becoming far more mature than she would have been in those seven years if she had spent them with louis and lestat, returning to take louis off to europe with her, finalizing the development of louis in her mind, who she once saw as a father, she now sees as a brother. i love her dearly and she deserved a life with madeleine, if not just voiding her experience with the dark gift altogether. im not sure if her never becoming a vampire at all would be a better path for her, but im sure it would be less grieving

the show basically sets you up to appreciate armand and hate lestat, but as louis recalls the story, with the help of molloy, brings the truth to light and kind of flips the point of the rest of the story told in that season at the last second

there is no single character in this show that is either completely good or bad (morally grey?) (scratch that, this mainly applies to the vampires, as i can see molloy being an ultimately good-natured character). maybe its just the way the story's told, but theres a time you will hate every character, at least once. you love armand then learn to hate him. and vice versa with lestat! (at least, this is how i felt)

this show has broken and built me back up in a single episode

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Ok, so new things we learned about Bumblebee's mysteries under the cut.

Ghost knew he wasn't dead and probably just hiding.

Agent Schloder said he was an Autobot deserter, which we know isn't true since Optimus and other Autobots are acting normal around him. (pretty sus if you ask me)

Also, now that I think about it, no Autobot nor Decepticons seems to be suprise to see him in any of the two part of the season. So watherver Bumblebee did to anger G.H.O.S.T his something that only humans know or are affected by.

We finally saw the final battle for the AllSpark. Bumblebee was the one chosen to carry it to the battlefield but was never shown after he passed it to Optimus….mmmmm

this was also the battle we were told he disappear after. And we weren't shown the reason why.

( For me, it's pretty clear he must have do something to the AllSpark before the bridge was destroy. It doesn't make sence for Optimus to destroy it oterwise. It's also a good explanation to why Bee is still hiding, since he have precious informations to keep safe.)

Something is strange about BBB first ALT mode. It may be more emotions related then plot related, but I still think it's interesting.

He seem really sad/nostalgic when the kids talks about it in episode 12

And he also didn't take well when Jawbreaker said he choose it wrong in episode 13. Could have being just him being mad about being insulted, but I can't imagine there is not something more to this.

Also, we learned Bee must have change vehicule mode several time since he start hiding

And it was confirm that he was still going on missions (undercover ones) on his exile. That could be an explanation to why the Autobots never seem to be suprise to see him. He just keep showing up once in a while to say hello!

Lastly, not something we learn, but I just want to point out that Bumblebee is really just that guy that know everybody by first name, even decepticons. I found it pretty cute.

I think that's all! let me know if I missed something!

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A Comprehensive List of Spideyfist Interactions (pt.6)

hello and welcome back to: reasons Spideyfist is canon. a series where i take you through each episode of The Ultimate Spiderman and show you why i believe that Peter Parker and Danny Rand are dating in canon, or at least that they are each other’s favorites. and also give you commentary on the show itself as i do

warnings for: episode spoilers, season spoilers, action/injury description, unsolicited commentary, probable cussing, violence, caps lock

this part features episodes 7 through 13 of season 2

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Series Two of The Great Pretender is Incredible

I can’t believe how good this particular series is at just about everything.

It really was excellent from top to bottom but before I get into this article, this will contain spoilers about the ending as well as reader discretion being advised about some heavy subject matter.

Unlike the first series, this is just one arc that’s dubbed The Wizard of the Far East and it is only nine episodes long. That doesn’t sound terribly good on paper but it’s probably one of the best told stories that I’ve ever seen. As a viewer, you are wrapped around The Great Pretender’s proverbial finger in such a profound and clever way that you are constantly guessing all the way through to the very end. Tension is created so well that you fully buy in to the idea that any character at any point might reveal something that they’ve been hiding. Most of the first series was spent creating a fundamental trust in the fish-out-of-water protagonist as a viewer yet The Great Pretender still manages to pull the rug from under you.

You get a huge amount of backstory about Makoto Edamura and his father as well as Laurent’s life before he became a con artist but it doesn’t come off as shoved-in lore. It’s told very well and woven expertly into the narrative and this is coming from somebody who absolutely detests backstory in animé to force through character development. The Great Pretender tells the story of Laurent and Edamura’s father and how they were involved in the child-trafficking business as well as further honing in on Makoto’s abandonment issues and his identity crisis. Positions in society up and down the class system are analyzed and problems with discrimination in Asia are faced fairly head-on and quite honestly.

But truly, I could list off everything in this show and why it was brilliant but the overarching reason for my loving this series so much was that the show didn’t really behave like an animé. Well, not like any animé that I’ve ever seen - especially compared to the first series. It was incredibly mature in it’s approach to it’s themes and had barely any jokes in it at all. Truthfully, it’s a gritty heist drama that would rival Ocean’s Eleven or Uncut Gems and you can’t say that about a lot of animé.

I love the feeling like a kid again when I’m watching a film or a TV show that wraps it’s claws around my chest and tightens the grip with believable tension and real danger that you can buy into. It is as though The Great Pretender has blossomed from a precocious teenager into a hardened cynical adult akin to Okabe in Steins;Gate 0. I don’t want to talk too much about the plot or anything like that because I urge you to watch it for yourself if you haven’t already and trust me when I say that it absolutely is unmissable. What I’m going to do now is talk a bit about the ending and how I feel about it so if you haven’t seen it or don’t really care about someone else’s thoughts, do a hard scroll now.

For the most part, I did like the ending for the reasons I already said. Right until the very last minute, you feel like it could go either way and there are so many twists and turns and secrets to be revealed. You can’t take your eyes off the screen and the same goes for the big reveal on the long con because, like a magic trick, you want to know what’s going on behind the curtain. It’s all very good in terms of structure in how the sting is unravelled before your eyes.

For a long time, it looks like Makoto Edamura is sabotaging their con to get one over Laurent and all his previous meddling. The fake police come in and it’s obviously all of Laurent’s NPC pals but Makoto whistles for the cavalry and Cassano turns up from the first series. Makoto then outs all of his pals as con artists, he acts like he’s fallen for the chairman as a parental figure and he turns on his father before getting a big slash in his stomach for his trouble.

But of course, it turns out to be one big act and it’s presented as Edamura’s idea. My question is: why? I don’t understand what the point was of any of this because it seems to serve no real greater purpose other than trying to fool the audience. They live by the principle that if any of them fuck up, the group won’t stick up for each other. It is on the individual responsibility to carry their own weight. It’s bothers me because it’s used as a sort of fake plot device to carry the mystery and tension of the scene even though it’s a performance for nobody. All these Yakuza aren’t going to have a clue about what they’re talking about. As Edamura announces that he’s finally going beat Laurent at his own game when he hasn’t really.

(A/E: I just realized as I’m writing this that the point of the con artist code talk was in reference to earlier when they pulled the fake execution on Abigail and Cynthia so I guess the reference to it does make sense on some level. I still think that it’s a bit of a cheat on the audience because the presentation of the story is unreliable for the sake of it.)

It just strikes me as a massive cheat for fake tension to the audience. Especially considering that, believably, Makoto isn’t exactly warming up to his Father who seems to be fucking him over at every turn but was actually on his side the whole time. The other thing that bothers me is that, for some reason, they decided to involve the prior scam victims from the first series (Cassano, Ibrahim and Coleman). It’s presented as though they are in cahoots with Edamura to execute the big betrayal. But they are in it the whole time which means that they are perfectly fine with Laurent and Edamura fucking them out of nearly every last coin to their name. Ibrahim even tried to kill them all in cold blood.

I just thought it was a little much and extravagant for the sake of the excitement in the face of logic. Bizarrely, I’m saying this and I’m completely comfortable with them building a fake headquarters on a remote island and rigging it with explosives and a mechanical elevator, stranding the gangsters forever. But that isn’t anything that odd for the genre.

Dorothy, the woman whom Laurent was doing all of this for and was killed by the organized crime syndicate, is actually alive in Taiwan and appears to have lost of all her memories. So if the show does get renewed, I assume Dorothy is going to be a sort of Casca figure (If Abigail wasn’t already by virtue of looking exactly like her). But if the series wasn’t renewed, I wouldn’t really mind. It would be difficult to top what this was and how this particular series was finalized which is a bit of a shame but we’ll have to see. It being a Netflix show that is “animé-only”, I find it hard to see how it wouldn’t be renewed and if it is, I’ll be right there.

None of my complaints really change the fact that this was one of the best shows that I’ve ever seen. It lived up to the hype and beyond. A truly stellar animé that does just about everything right and what I do admire is how it actually improved on the first series (in my eyes) because it shows that the engine room behind the animé is willing to make changes and take risks.

Stop reading now and go and watch it again. Recommend it to your friends. It is on Netflix so... y’know...

I’m not advocating anything but do what you have to.

now i may not have been in the rvb fandom for very long but i’ve picked up on a few things and i got something i gotta say

i don’t know how people can hate on the shisno paradox arc

yes i understand it may deviate from what the previous few seasons were all about, they were more serious while this concept is just. kinda silly. but in the end you have to remember, rvb is a comedy. it’s not going to be serious all the time and that statement isn’t just confined to the jokes. it’s gonna have funny scenarios that are wacky and seemingly out-of-place. bc that’s how comedy works.

also it really gives us some very good insight into the characters. why they are the way that they are, what drives them toward their goals, how they view themselves and those around them. s17 episodes 11 and 12 are just. *chef’s kiss*. they make me stim so hard because you really get to see what they’re all afraid of, and how they go about comforting one another really tells a lot. the interaction between grif and kai specifically hits the specific part of my brain that makes me lose my shit /pos. ALSO ARE WE LITERALLY JUST GOING TO IGNORE DONUT GETTING MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT??? LIKE????????

and from a storyline standpoint, at least another season after 15 was necessary. 15 ended on a cliffhanger, we were never given a resolution knowing that everyone was going to be okay because we never saw that wash would be. the ending of singularity/s17 is one of the reasons why i refuse to watch rvb zero: it wraps the entire story up so nicely. everyone’s alive and well, the world isn’t in any imminent danger, and the villains are taken care of. the reds and blues can finally rest.

so yeah, s16/17 are good if you ask me. i do understand why people might not like them, and they’re entitled to their own opinions. but like... you can’t ignore the fact that we were really given some very good things in those seasons.

#the other reason why i wont watch zero is bc i havent exactly heard the best things about it lawl #rvb #red vs blue #rvb 17 #rvb 16 #rvb shisno #season analysis #rvb analysis #analysis #freeman.best #spaghetti wall

Supergirl's Sophomore Slump

Now that we’re well into summer, we’re at that point where we can look back at the recent television season with a bit of distance. One show that’s received a fair bit of attention both around here and in fandom spaces, is Supergirl. We were never quiet about how hopeful we found it initially, or how emotionally poignant some of its episodes proved to be.

Yet as it kept going, we didn’t quite know what to do with it. Some weeks were serviceable, others cringeworthy, and it was impossible not to notice a certain introduced character getting the lion’s share of attention.

Well, after dissecting Mon-El’s narrative inclusion during Season 2, Gretchen and Kylie are back again, this time to dissect everything. EVERYTHING. What was this season? Why was there a measurable drop in quality? What did work well?

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A Comrehensive List of SpideyFist Interactions (pt.5)

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warnings for: episode spoilers, season spoilers, action/injury description, unsolicited commentary, probable cussing, violence, caps lock

this part features episodes 1 through 6 of season 2