#shan rambles

[shewaslight]

alright I started m3gan 2.0 despite the mixed reviews, due to the element of weaponized ai, a very real concept the world is now facing

reminds me of Fallout season 2, where the big monopoly corporation caused a fallout intentionally for profit and power. sound familiar?

[ddepressedbookworm]

so i’m watching bungou stray dogs

and

how is this not a comedy

(edit: check the notes there’s an entire reaction chain)

[umbrella-warriors]

me watching neverafter, when ally’s character is given a weird ass fucking book: this is just like death note

[nemesisvariant]

So it's been a million years since I've watched Person of Interest but I've been thinking about it lately and boy was it good

okay so there's a lot to like about the show but let's talk about relevancy today. The show's two main characters (to start, more get added later) both were misguided enough to put their trust in a corrupt institution, both cases being the US Government at different levels. Reese is someone who fell for the initial campaign against terror after 9/11, like a lot of people. But he slowly becomes disenfranchised. They had him commit further atrocities in the name of "patriotism", betray and try to kill him, and so fully strip him of his identity that we don't have any inkling of his true last name until the end of the final season. The show opens on him being *homeless* and facing many layers of mental illness such as ptsd and depression, and is alluded to be suicidal.

Enter the next main character, Finch. He's a savant with, if I recall correctly, pretty humble origins. When he gets the notion to do something good with his mind, he teams up with a dear friend, gather their resources, and go to the government. This leads them to create the Machine, which is an AI that is constantly attached to all facets of the internet, databases, etc. The issue of privacy is dealt with a lot, especially later in the show, how the Machine's backdoor only allows the social security number of someone to be revealed when they may be involved in a crime, based on statistical prediction. Finch himself is betrayed by the government when they ignore the signs of tragedy and allow for his partner, along with many civilians, to die. They put aside that tragedy because the numbers weren't high enough to care about

The entire show is about how two people (then four, with Carter and Fusco, and later six with the addition of Shaw and Root) being betrayed by the institution that was supposed to protect them, whether directly or through indirect circumstance, and decide to exploit that institution's own weakness to fight back in ways small and big

I feel like a lot of people dismissed the show since Reese can come off as a typical action hero sometimes, but I honestly feel like it's a lot more nuanced

This probably isn't all correct since it's been so long but oh well

[whatadaze]

anyways, the thing that makes this slowburn worth all the pain is the fact that anne and gilbert WILL get married in the future

LIKE I NEVER SHIP COUPLES WHO R ENDGAME

ITS SO RARE

so yeah i cant believe anne and gilbert are going to get married and have little shirbert babies

[sufferyetstandfirm]

why does no one else seem obsessed with moment at eighteen. like i am loving it LOVING IT. i’m watching (binging) on other kdramas just to last me the week till my next episode???

[shannwin]

So I’m pretty sure Octavia is going to die this season UNLESS the show is completely upended and they all go to space or something, which I can see, but WHATEVER (and even then, I could still see her dying).

Basically, when Bellamy held her and claimed “When you’re awake, we’ll all be in the valley.” I was suddenly reminded of how I felt when Jasper discussed how Maya would survive outside of Mount Weather. 

The moment Maya died, I realized it was inevitable. In what world was she going to be able to just walk around in a full on hazmat suit and live in a chamber for the rest of her time on the show? It wasn’t plausible.

That’s how it feels with Octavia. In what world would Octavia wake up in the valley and agree to live peacefully? If the conclusion is to stay in the valley and rebuild, Octavia cannot be there. She cannot thrive in peace time. Not surrounded by her perceived enemies. Not even when isolated, as we saw with Ilian. 

From the start of the show, I always saw Octavia paralleled with Jasper. They both start from a place of innocence, both reacting the most harshly to Bellamy and Clarke’s immoral decisions. Octavia blamed Lincoln’s death on Bellamy. Jasper blamed Maya’s on Clarke. There’s obviously much more to this, but I would need a rewatch and notes to tackle it fully. Regardless:

Jasper had to die because he couldn’t survive in a world of war.

But maybe Octavia needs to die because she can’t survive in a world of peace.

[m0rdork]

A conversation I overheard while walking back to my dorm

Girl 1 to girl 2: You forgot how to breathe? How are you in college 

Girl 3: Sometimes I wish I could forget how to breathe