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Janaina Medeiros
we're not kids anymore.
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so fucking stoked that we are hitting loquatius seelie levels of sam reigel pc right now. never let them know your next move. never underestimate a guy doing bits. character development hitting you round the back of the head at full speed when you least expect it. wicander halovar they will actually kill you
ah doctor who cancellation, i didn't think you were actually going to stick, but here we are!
I'm truly not surprised, but the thing about doctor who is that no matter what happens next, whether they find a way to carry on or just shelve the show indefinitely, it is absolutely going to hang on in the same way it did in the 90s; its going to be kept alive by people writing fanfiction and new pilots and spin-offs and books and constantly talking about it. it's so engrained in the consciousness at this point that I don't see it ever disappearing entirely.
putting it on tender does feel like a last ditch effort. the other thing about doctor who is that it is so messy and convoluted that wrangling it into a coherent story is next to impossible, but if it is going to happen it will only ever be in the hands of people who actually care about it, who know it inside and out, who can do the unexpected and the interesting whilst still keeping the show true to its core. giving it to a massive company won't do that, but realistically that's a blow the show is simply going to have to take, assuming any of them actually see any money it in right now.
I've been saying it for years and i absolutely believe that doctor who the show, in the state its in right now, just needs to be put on ice for a bit. it needs to simmer, and they need to find people with the passion and drive to go back to square one and commit to it. the fans can keep it alive for as long as it takes for that to happen, and then we will inevitably go through all of this revival fuckery again in about ten years time. we could even put paul mcgann in another bad movie. who knows?
anyway, I'm very much looking forward to a potential wilderness years part 2: 2 wild 2 years, and everyone should go listen to the audios in the mean time, especially the eight and six stories. there's still plenty of good doctor who out there
kattigan vale i love you, never stop being confused legolas in the background of the shot
Rating All The Dalek Stories By How Much The Titles Have To Do With The Actual Content
"The Daleks" 10/10 Yep that's them.
"The Dalek Invasion of Earth" 8/10 Just a little marked down because the story isn't about the Invasion per se. That already happened. "The Dalek Occupation of Earth" would be more precise.
"The Chase" 9/10 It is about that but that is also a game show.
"The Daleks' Master Plan" 7/10 They're doing a bunch of stuff in this. The title implies only one plan. Need more clarification.
"Power of the Daleks" 10/10 great double meaning
"The Evil of the Daleks" 7/10 not wrong but also any Dalek story could be called this.
"Day of the Daleks" 5/10 There are at least two different days in play in this story.
"Planet of the Daleks" 3/10 That would be Skaro actually, whereas this takes place on Spiridon
"Death to the Daleks" 6/10 I like the imperative voice here but the story fails to deliver on this intention.
"Genesis of the Daleks" 10/10 That is exactly what happens.
"Destiny of the Daleks" 2/10 bears very little relation to anything going on here. Fundamentally a backward-looking story, and these sleepy ramshackle Daleks don't seem destined for much of anything, frankly.
"Resurrection of the Daleks" 2/10 Really misses the mark. There is a resurrection in this story but it's pretty unambiguously not of the Daleks. "Resurrection of Davros" would be a more accurate title. Or even better "The Resurrection of Davros by the Coward Eric Saward"
"Revelation of the Daleks" 2/10 Once again the verb in the title is fulfilled by Davros, not the Daleks! Sure hope someone got fired for that blunder!
"Remembrance of the Daleks" 4/10 Not much better I'm afraid. It is a nostalgic story so Remembrance is at least vaguely relevant, but it's not really the Daleks either being remembered or doing the remembering.
"Dalek" 10/10. Clean, simple, right on the money. That's a Dalek alright.
"Bad Wolf". 3/10 And we whiff it again. While the phrase "Bad Wolf" is indeed central to the cliffhanger reveal, it's not related to the Daleks, or to anything at all. It's a self-fulfilling tautology. The actual words are irrelevant. Could have been anything.
"The Parting of the Ways" 9/10 now this is more like it. Not only are there multiple partings of ways between multiple characters, every atom in every Dalek parts ways from every other! That's so much parting!
"Doomsday" 6/10 Again points off for vagueness. This could be about anything.
"Daleks in Manhattan" 10/10 There they are!
"Evolution of the Daleks" 8/10 doesn't succeed but that is what they're going for
"The Stolen Earth" 9/10 Yep that happens!
"Journey's End" 4/10 Come on. Literally the only person whose "Journey" Ends is Donna and that of course gets reversed. Vague and inaccurate.
"Victory of the Daleks" 5/10 sure they achieve their stayed goal in this one episode but thats pretty well undermined by the fact that nobody likes these Daleks and they get retconned out of existence within a couple years
"Asylum of the Daleks" 9/10 Straightforward. Only knocking a point off because there doesn't seem to be much mental health care going on here
"Into the Dalek" 10/10 that is what happens!
The Magician's Apprentice 4/10 We're stretching here. Name based on a one-time gag and not related to the Daleks anyway
The Witch's Familiar 6/10 this one is set up better but still isn't about Daleks
"Resolution" 7/10 A New Year's Resolution is made! But it's something the Doctor would have done anyway
"Revolution of the Daleks" 0/10 This is complete nonsense. The Daleks are cops and then the other Daleks come in to be cops to the cop Daleks. Nothing is revolutionary about this. Nothing
"Eve of the Daleks" 9/10 Yeah this one works. It's New Year's Eve and there's Daleks.
Holy shit the last Dalek story is from 2022?
(clutching arthur lester arkham pi in one hand and ben reilly private detective in the other) if you think about it john is kinda like arthur's spidey-sense
picture "raimond davinos' genes never stood a chance"
i once again come to you hat in hand to offer old man music for your character playlists. today: walk between worlds by simple minds and occtis tachonis. tomorrow? who knows
putting my dead cousins head on the table not to imply anything but just to change the vibe a little
truly and genuinely the spider-noir show feels like they genetically engineered the spider-man spin-off equivalent of crack cocaine in a lab for me personally. It's the 1930s. nicolas cage is 60 years old. he's a private investigator. He's a weird little freak. He's cracking bones you didn't even know existed. He watches movies to figure out how to be more normal. He is always getting knocked on his ass. it gets actually freaky and nasty with the spider bite symptoms. The suit is So Many Textures. It's the closest we've ever been to body horror. It's live action and in black and white AND the black and white looks good. this is doing the same shit to me the tom hardy venom films did
So the thing you have to understand about doctor who the movie 1996 is that it isn't good. But it is the best film ever made. It has little to no outstanding qualities as a narrative and is such a wild read of doctor who that if you replaced a few proper nouns throughout it would just be a regular bad sci-fi movie. The fact the series survived it is the reason i'm not worried about canon or the shows future in the slightest. The pitch for it consists of some of the most insane lore retcons i've ever seen in my life, and the only major one to make it into the movie is generally considered so out of left field that people refuse to acknowledge it to this day. Literally nothing matters. The master is goo and also a lizard, seven gets gunned down in the street, paul mcgann is the first doctor to canonically get bitches. There's a motorcycle chase. Bad 90s cgi. the regeneration is a frankenstein reference. its camp. eight has his dogs out. it is somehow more american than you would expect. it features by far the best rendition of the main theme in the shows history. Who fucking cares man. 11/10
and another thing about aloy horizon. i absolutely love the way forbidden west shows her discomfort around community with its gameplay, even if it wasn't an intended effect. the way the fov shrinks whenever you enter settlements, the much louder ambience and tighter corners, sounds you hear nowhere else in the world, the fact you can't run anywhere too fast without hitting things, the constant chattering. and then the way it all fades behind you the moment you leave, the camera zooming back out, the sigh of relief you experience because of it. all of this was present in zero dawn, but it feels so much more prominent here. the claustrophobia of it all makes you so much more single-minded whenever you're there, in the same way aloy probably is; just get in, get what you need, and get out. back into the wilds, where it's quiet and you can think. even the home base feels tight. you go there to check in on everyone, to make sure all your equipment is up to scratch, and then you leave. from a gameplay perspective you're really only ever there to tick off quest markers, and that disconnect feels very much like how i imagine aloy interpreting it. It's just very cool to have a narrative about learning to be closer to people when all the main character and the player wants to do is be alone in the wilderness.
they finally published the soundtrack for the wizard witch and the wild one oh we are so UNBELIEVEABLY back
OFFICIAL SCHEMERS ART IS HERE!!
Thinking about aloy and sylens' relationship again and both how funny it is and what a good representation of the whole series it is.
Both of them are these weird hermits who view most social interaction as transactional, and are quite brash as a result; the main difference being one of them is doing it on purpose and the other is doing it because she hasn't quite figured out the whole social cues thing yet.
Aloy can be genuinely asshole-ish at times; more so at the very beginning, and it comes with a lot of extra confusion about how organised society works, having really only seen it from the outside, as well as a general distaste for pleasantries; she simply won't do or say something if she thinks it's stupid, and has no interest in softening any blows she might be dishing out. Sylens, on the other hand, has had much longer to learn how to act and has simply chosen the path of significant resistance. He knows exactly how he wants to live his life and has no interest in sharing it with others outside of what he can use them for.
And then they both spend the entire time yelling at each other over how they act and how stupid they're both being, as if they're not employing essentially identical social interaction methods with varying levels of success. Aloy's calling sylens out for being a prick and he's just standing there wondering if she's hearing herself speak or not.
It's the two ends of the spectrum of being isolated from community, sylens not giving a shit and aloy wanting to but not knowing how, one of them convinced that working with or even being around other people is a complete waste of time, and the other visibly stumbling at almost every hurdle whilst simultaneously refusing to give any grace to anyone else also struggling.
Aloy has such a strong moral compass and internal focus despite her general lack of experience with the rest of the world. She is almost never embarrassed, only ever uncomfortable, and something about other people not having the same drive and commitment she does clearly annoys her a lot. She doesn't like giving people the benefit of the doubt and often refuses to allow nuisance in any of her relationships, which makes a lot of sense for a hunter, someone who has spent their whole life in the wilderness where there is no place for second guessing or mixed signals. She tries to apply the mindset of machines to people; binary actions, clear signals and nothing hidden under the surface, and it trips her up when she's forced to put more thought into her interactions than she perhaps wants to.
Forbidden West takes a really interesting approach by actually making aloy more like sylens for the most part, and having that be her arc. Zero Dawn focuses on the big picture; aloy caring about people on principle and the objective 'good of humanity' angle, but Forbidden West sits down and says 'ok so in order to care about people you actually have to. You know. Care about them'. It makes it personal. You can designate yourself 'saviour of the world' and deal with the baggage and emotional toil that comes with that, and you can feel beholden to the past and the people in it, which aloy spends a lot of time doing in Forbidden West, but you do still have to be an active part of the community you're trying to save. Aloy spends so much time on people in the abstract and basically none on people in the real world unless actively forced and Forbidden West is full of people and plot points designed specifically to change that.
She is time and time again confronted by people whose narrative purpose is to show her that you can work alone, but you don't have to, and so much of the game involves that idea just refusing to stick. These people continuously give her a level of patience and grace that she rarely returns, some of them even confronting her about it (erend in particular doesn't put up with her shit as much as the others) but doing so in a way that shows her that they aren't going anywhere, because that is what having a supportive community is about. Having people around you who want to be there and want to help, not because they want things from you but because they care about you as a person. Its a feeling aloy still doesn't quite understand, because so much of who she is involves shouldering these huge burdens by herself and being the one people go to for help.
I think sylens could be a very interesting side character in the third game (assuming they bring him back), beyond elaborating on his decision to stay on earth rather than leave it. Seeing what the culmination of his and aloy's back and forth would be, how they differ from each other, and seeing where they grow beyond or stay the same in their respective stances on community would be such a good through line for the series. I think it would be very interesting and make a lot more sense for aloy's character for them to remain clearly similar in some respects, to continue sharing the same flaws. Despite their hostility towards each other, they are far more similar than I think they both realise, and the version of events where sylens represents what aloy could have become is a fascinating one to me.
I’m really happy that Ryland Grace is seen by so many people as aroace because he’s not the stereotype that normally gets headcannoned as areoace. He’s not robotic and instead he’s allowed to feel emotions in their fullest spectrum. He’s allowed to have passions and deep friendships with others without there being a push for romance. He’s not lesser for not having a partner or considered innocent or naive. He’s allowed to be himself in its fullest form and that is accepted without question. Ryland Grace is a great person who is whole.
@drowninginmytbr he loves his dog
zygarde technically doesn't have to bring L with it every single time it checks in on the protagonist to convey approval after defeating a rouge mega but it does so anyway because it thinks L needs enrichment and so it's always like "look! i found you random teenagers to monologue to, you used to love monologuing to random teenagers!"
