@sleepymick I agree. I think sometimes the writers did things for comedic affect without thinking the fans would be clocking their canon mistakes. Like him not spelling Gallagher right in the tattoo. He spelled it right when he spraypainted it on the wall in season 1.
So even if we take season 11's word on it and he didn't know what a social security number was, it's not because he's dumb. It's because his entire life he's not needed it. They've never had bank accounts or jobs so he would have no use of it. It's not like good ole' Terry had a file folder with his kids birth certificates and ss cards safe at home.
Mickey was surprised when Ian said he had a bank account because it's so rare for the people in his life to save responsibly or to have anything that was legitimate or on the grid. It's all about now and surviving through today. Cash. Goods he can sell for cash.
It's part of why he doesn't think long term about consequences, either. When Ian talks to him about having a gun and possibly going back to jail, he doesn't flinch. Those are tomorrow problems. His whole life was pretty much just trying to figure out the day to day living. Hustling. Those are the skills he learned. And he's exceptional at them. If he'd actually had the opportunity to do other types of learning, I have no doubt he'd be above average. No, I don't think he's smarter than Lip. I don't think he's a super genius. But I think he's exceptional at the world he's grown up in and, if redirected, it could have taken him far in either the business world or in a trade. Especially if it had to do with numbers.
He'd have been a great carpenter or architect. He's shown a propensity for drawing and being creative. He'd do what he wanted without answering to anyone. He'd be bored working in an office making other people money. But if he was a carpenter or architect, he'd be able to do the geometry in his head to make cuts and put together furniture or home building. He'd also be a good negotiator for his own contracts.
re previous post (again slightly ranty but normal service will resume here soon!!)
come to think of it I remember when Rings of Power was coming out in 2022 and a Star Wars blog a big one here on Tumblr kept posting their terrible hate in the actual show tag (I mean a lot of people were sadly) and I sent them an ask poiltely asking them could they tag their hate with #negativity or#critical or something so I could enjoy the TROP tag. They responded very bluntly and laughing. Nope. Like the least courtesy that can happen on this hellsite is correct tagging.
But it gets better lmao because this person put all in their bio how stressed and sad it made them to see hate and stuff for Star Wars...um yeah, so maybe don't do that sort of behaviour for other fandoms then, even for things you don't like! These people are such hypocrites.
On a positive note, even though I only use x briefly each day I have noticed a decline in bad comments, so many are now excited ones and praising how awesome the armour looks or generally being positive and looking forward to S2 so guys I really do hope we can drown out the haters, not that they matter, like at all, but it would be nice to have a little peace from them and feel safe talking about TROP without fearing a troll will come out of its cave to ruin our party.
both understandable but also kinda pisses me off when "DNI minors" interact with my posts [like I'm aware most people don't look at the accounts of the posts they're favoriting] but like hey girlypop guess what I am 😃
BUT, at the end of the day it doesn’t change facts.
And the facts are (in no particular order):
Jensen owns padamoose nothing. A company, a third party, happened to cast them for the same show that became popular and had huge success. This does not mean they need to be tethered for eternity.
The show would still be on the air if padamoose did not want to leave and go do his copaganda show.
Due to this, he is locked into CBS productions bc he sold his soul (lol) to CBS for his copaganda show.
Since the ending was announced, Jensen has been very vocal that it was not the end. He planned on coming back. Even padamoose mentioned this at Comic-Con 2019.
Jensen and Misha are friends, at a bare minimum. Just as he and padamoose supposedly is. Yet Misha has grace and decorum and didn’t have a public meltdown over not being included. Despite the fact that his character had an unsatisfactory ending and could canonically be there in John and Mary’s time because he’s a millennia old angel… Even Jensen is just narrating (as far as we can tell, a la Young Sheldon style).
And let’s not forget, Jensen said the news was leaked literally right after the contract was signed for the episodes. He didn’t have time to tell anyone.
And once again, I come back to he owes no one anything. These are his business decisions. It’s his company.
He talked about coming back as Dean and has a production company under WB.
a fic: has a fun title, tags look good, ratings are all in my vibe area
me: ooohhhh
the summary: i’m so bad at summaries but i promise it’ll be good!!! :D
me: dammit
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as a writer myself, i understand fully that writing can be hard, and summaries are the bane of my existence. but!!! you can just take a fun line from your fic! maybe it’s your favorite, maybe it’s really funny, maybe it’s really sad, whatever. take that sentence or two or three and smack them in that lil summary place on AO3. BOOM. a summary that makes me want to read your fic, not rip my eyeballs out.
you’ve totally got this. write beautiful things and don’t let summaries slow you down, you fantastic humans.
(if you need help making a summary, hit me up!! i know this post makes me seem like a bitchy son of a gun, but i promise i am actually very nice and totally willing to help you out!! i would hate for a beautiful, well-written fic to not get the recognition it deserves because of something as simple (and tricky) as a summary)
I’ve ranted about this before, but I still have no idea what they were thinking with the writing in Season 5.
(This got long, so I put it under a cut)
They had 10 episodes. They knew that going in. Fox may have jerked them around with renewal, but they knew they had a short season before pre-production started, they knew it before filming started. It’s been said again and again that the show had a seven year plan, that they had to fit 3 seasons worth of story into 10 and then 12 episodes. But actually, no they didn’t. They didn’t have to fit it all in and they shouldn’t have tried. When they got their episode number, they should have cut off the excess and focused in on the most important bits, the stories and development they could tell in the number of episodes they had, in the scenario of No Man’s Land, and give the show and characters the send off they deserved.
The focus, the limited screen time they had should have been spent on their main characters, Bruce in particular. Things that would have been fine, even interesting and enjoyable spread over 3 seasons, or even a full length one, were wastes of precious time that should have been cut. And by trying to do everything, they muddled or dropped the few good story threads for the main characters they had. They had time to craft a really tight story that would carry the show and the characters into the finale, into the Batman years, but they didn’t. They tried to do everything and it brought the whole season down. We should have seen Bruce take those final steps to become the young man who would take up the cowl, who would realise why Gotham needed that - instead Bruce was relegated to all but a minor character who was given very little to do, with minimal growth, and in some cases, they actively retconned the big character moments from previous seasons (eg, Bruce putting Gotham above his own feelings, vowing to stay behind, letting Selina go so he can protect Gotham/hunt for Jeremiah.)
Jeremiah, and his relationship with Bruce, and the threat he posed to Gotham, should have been explored, built on, utilised in order to develop both him and Bruce. In my opinion he should have been the final Big Bad but instead they had him do nothing for the first six episodes, wasted valuable screen time with a death fake-out, and then stuck him in a coma after only one full episode.
Oswald, admittedly, started out strong, but then I guess the writers didn’t know what to do with him, and Ed was even worse. The two of them spend most of the season faffing around, building a submarine, with a brief interlude of Oswald stirring shit with Barbara and trying to convince her that Jim was going to steal the baby (which had no basis in fact and went absolutely nowhere) when they should have been establishing themselves as the dangerous, competent Rogues we know. They should have been doing villainous things, maybe working with Jim and the heroes reluctantly on occasion, because it was beneficial to them, or because Gotham was their city, but really, just doing anything.
They introduced quite a few interesting developments to Selina’s character, but dropped them almost immediately every time. The seed, which was supposed to change Selina, make her darker, which it did, for about 5 minutes, but after killing Jeremiah, it’s never brought up again and Selina seems fine. The potential of Selina’s murder of Jeremiah and her viciousness pulling Bruce and Selina apart, and Selina actively trying to push him away, was also dropped after a few episodes, and they’re suddenly all fine again. Selina wanting to leave town without telling anyone (not for any deep character reasons like not liking what she’s becoming, or wanting freedom or a change, but because she’s sick of people trying to kill her because she killed Jeremiah) but then it’s never mentioned again after that one episode, and she’s very mad at Bruce for considering doing the same and telling her about it. This season really had the potential to develop Selina into Catwoman, develop the traits that were there into something more, put her and Bruce on opposite sides even - two people who love and care about each but who keep butting heads, going up against each other, who can’t make it really work because ultimately they are too significantly morally incomparable.
The show introduced so many excellent villains over the years, including many well-known Rogues, like Freeze and Scarecrow and Firefly, who also played significant roles in the No Man’s Land and Year Zero storylines. But instead of using any of them, instead of even showing most of them, they introduced minor villain after minor villain, and killed most of them off within the same episode.They spent a whole episode bringing back an OC character they had killed a handful of episodes earlier as a kind of proto-Ventriloquist and then killed him again. And instead of using one of their established villains, like Ed or Scarecrow or Ivy or Jeremiah, they introduced two new ones as the final Big Bads, and gave them barely any development.
Even little things like having Bruce go up against Bane, and Jim up against Nyssa in 5x11 when that’s not where the tension and emotion was between the characters; the introduction of the mind control chips, and the interest and weight that’s taken away by having people just be mind controlled, rather than actual League agents; dropping the date cards after the first episode, so there's no indication of how much time has passed (besides as indicated by Barbara’s stomach), and the pacing of the entire season feels off; having there be a 10 year time jump, when that makes Bruce far older than he traditionally is when he becomes Batman in the comics, doesn’t let them use the actors who had been playing the characters for years, and forces the audience into buying the both Ed and Oz stayed incarcerated for 10 years without escaping.
They didn’t really push or develop anyone in season 5, which is a god awful shame because it was the final season, and it’s where that growth would have been the most important. Jim was pretty consistent, and has been where he needs to be, character-wise for a while, and we did get some nice character-focused moments for him, but Barbara was the only one who really changed, and while I don’t entirely hate where she ended up (successful, happy, ambitious, adores her daughter) it was fairly unnecessary to introduce the pregnancy storyline - Lee was there, her and Jim were happy together, and the whole thing was just surrounded by weird drama that didn’t go anywhere. There are other core characters that really could have better used the attention.
There are a lot of things I like about the final season, and all the actors killed it, but for the most part they are in isolation - moments or scenes that stood out, that told us something about the characters or allowed them to grow, or that were just really cool or interesting. For the most part though, the final season felt disjointed, too much going on, but slow, with a feeling like nothing was going anywhere and nothing was changing.
valid critiques anon - i loved all the bits you did and others. my main issues have been said 10x over but people want to boil it down to "you didn't get dark dany, your fave wasn't the savior, no jonsa scene." no. i was proud of daenerys for staying and saving jon. my fave is sansa, not jon, and not only did she pull a dagger out, she was nudging tyrion away from daenerys. queen! i also didn't expect a jonsa scene so i was just glad arya and sansa were speaking! there were lots of things 1/2
that i liked - braime side by side throughout the fight, arya hurling herself over wights, sandor coming back to himself to help her, melisandre’s parts (although where did she come from and how wasn’t she attacked?) but ep 3 was a mess. it’s the truth and people should be able to say it without being attacked or called arrogant because “so many people worked hard.” they did! i knew they worked their asses off, so i expected better. i expected the battle they promised in every interview. 2/2
Dear nonny,
Preach!
You know, I am rather generous with plot holes if I am emotionally involved, but I snapped out of the stream of the story so often during these 80 minutes! And this seriously sucks. I know they all did an effort, but so did Peter Jackson for Helm’s Deep (I just have to come back to that) and the pay off was so much greater!
I mean this does not devalidate the nice scenes we had, but I will probably go on a rewatch of Braime scenes or Theon dies, but I think I will never watch the whole episode again, just like the Wight Hunt. Because it just did not click and work for me.
Of course, I was a tad disappointed that we didn’t get DarkDany, but I was able to enjoy episodes before, even if they did not play into my expectations. I thoroughly enjoyed the “Battle on the Goldroad” last season for example, even thoug it had Dany on a winning path.
After the episode has set in, I have made my peace with the fact that we didn’t get DarkDany in this episode. I hate that to and fro for DarkDany, mostly because I want that the GA finally sees Dany for what she is (I mean I’ve waited since book 2 for readers to come around to that interpretation!), but on the other hand I know that GRRM wants to go for the Hector/Achilles angle and therefore he probably wants his readers to be divided in their loyalty. The story has to make sense from Dany’s PoV as well, and she will see herself as a saviour now.
Anyway, I am afraid I might get up hyped for the next episode again.... I try to keep my expectations low. I fully expect DarkDany, Political Jon and Jonsa, but I think the execution probably will suck. Because episode 3 did one thing for me. It completely and utterly destroyed my faith in D&D as writers, more than the Wight Hunt to be honest. The Wight Hunt had a very bad director, and I expected so much more from Miguel Sapochnik. But I guess even the best director cannot do anything if there is no or only cheesy dialogue to work with, plot holes galore, in-world stupidity etc.
I am not mad that my theories were not proven right (at least not yet). I am mad because these people are supposed to be professionals and about every 10 seconds my brain snapped me out of the story to complain (why are the people who planned this battle so stupid, why did they choose to write it this way...) Arya sneeking into the Godswood could have been a suspense wonderful footage of many scenes leading up to the final kill.
I dont want to go to work at all but I dont work any other day of the week and I need money, so id have to go in late if anything. At that point I might as well just go in on time because ill spend all the time before going in late stressing about going anyway. Also I hate phone calls. Id rather die than go, and id rather go than call out.
