the people cheered, the captain cried

girl. the horrors!!

[ctrsdoesart]

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[androidtrashfire]

Pulling back further... what is the actual theme of s2, btw? "Memory is a monster?"

I mean, that's what they say. And they certainly hit on plenty of common unreliable narrator tropes along the way.

Which is weird, though, because... none of those things seem to remotely matter.

Unreliable narrator =/= memory is unreliable, as an across-the-board truth. Either irl, or in particular types of genre storytelling like this.

In fact, Louis or Claudia or Daniel or even Armand's memory being unreliable... functionally has nothing remotely to do with the major plot twist of the story, the climax that everything hinges on. The big twist! The epic reveal!

Because the reveal is just basically that Armand was a little more involved in this one thing one time than he'd said he was.

It had nothing to do with any stories about unreliability based on memory. And the twist doesn't even recontextualize Louis' own unreliability, whether it has to do with memory or not. Because like 95% of the ways he's unreliable have nothing to do with memory or with Armand. Or even anything remotely to do with the one ugly truth Armand was holding back.

It's just... a random hodgepodge of unreliability.

It's not even a red herring, because the story doesn't actually set up from the beginning that there's something Louis doesn't know/doesn't remember right, or anything like that. It's just... here's a bunch of unrelated times Louis didn't remember, or times he didn't reveal something. For a wide variety of unrelated reasons. Ranging from someone removing a memory of his, to a possible (problematic!) implication that he's mentally ill (which had nothing to do with anything and went nowhere), to retconning his relationship with Lestat because he wanted to look more innocent, both to himself and in the interview. To just forgetting little details that weren't important because that's how memory works for everyone. To forgetting why he might have done something or not being able to remember something small he missed at the time because he wasn't listening.

Oh, also TWIST!!1! Armand underplayed his role in the trial. Surprise!

It all goes nowhere, and says nothing meaningful. About how memory works, or doesn't. About how and why people can be unreliable. There's no deeper, like... central theme there. About human nature, or the stories we tell ourselves. It's just. Here's some stuff that happened. Oh, wait. Here's some stuff that actually happened instead. What does that mean? What does that imply? What does that say? Nothing! Or some things sometimes, and some unrelated other things at other times. Whatever, who cares! Leave us alone and stop asking basic critical analysis questions of this high brow cable show we very much want everyone everyone to get obsessed with and tune in and watch forever!

But that's not... good unreliable narrator writing. Because it's not consistent, it doesn't build on itself, it doesn't say anything. It doesn't even mechanically support the twist ending climax reveal!

It's nothing!

It's just a whole mess

[official-german-gaming]

tumblr-Nutzer an den Iden des März

[easternblocrelics]

Somewhere in Czechoslovakia Color slide 1970s

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

Das Leben besteht daraus, wichtige Papiere zu erhalten, abzuheften und abzugeben.

Manchmal hat man Rückenschmerzen oder sieht ein Eichhörnchen.

[christ-with-a-why]

Thinking about Tenet again, and I'm actually so unwell about it

Like we don't even know the Protagonist's name but the story is all about him, and none of this could happen without him, and no one even knows his name.

And his 2 most important relationships are 2 people he's destined to lose.

He's never going to see Kat face to face ever again. He loves her. Is it romantic, is it platonic, is it just the act of two people who are treated like nobody seeing each other and feeling seen, idk, but the love is there. And they're never going to see each other again because they can't, because it's what's for the best. He's got too many potential enemies and she has to move on with her life, the safety of her son is her priority, and she can't sustain that if she's hanging around the Protagonist.

Don't even get me started on Neil. Neil, who recruits him. Neil, who is fated to die in order for the mission to be successful, Neil, who has to die to save the world. Neil, who is later/earlier on, recruited by the Protagonist. He has to know that when he sees Neil in the future, when he introduces himself again to a man who doesn't know him but who he knows so well he's haunted by him, that as soon as he recruits him, he's signing his death warrant. And he has no choice because the only options are the fate of the world and Neil, but I'm sure he still hesitates because it's Neil. How many hours do you think he wasted trying to find another solution, trying to find a way for Neil to live, only to fail and have to send him off to death anyway because Neil was right all along and, "What's happened's happened." And their timeline is all out of whack, they've each had their first meetings at different times in different orders. And Neil probably figures it out sometime that he's going to die and the Protagonist has lived through it once, because that's just the dangers of the field they're in. Meanwhile, the Protagonist must be counting down the days until Neil's final mission, until his past self meets Kat and Neil and learns about all of this.

Because it's not bad enough that he has to lose both of them once, he knows that in a way, he's going to lose them both again. At least one more time.

Anyway, I have to go lie down and scream don't mind me

[kuttithevangu]

When maids and concubines do murders in historical dramas I don’t think that’s a crime. They should be allowed to do that

[faggot-rat]

Aborted Descartes voice: I would've thought...if I was.

[mutantenfisch]

[shotgunsins]

(at a party, leaning into someone’s ear and speaking loudly over the music) SO BASICALLY HE HAS TO GO BACK AND KILL A THOUSAND EVIL MEN TO REUNITE WITH HER

[hotboyproblems]

does it scare you that in less than 3 months it’ll be 2014

[paper-stars-still-glow]

im gonna be real with you hotboyproblems it scares me somuch

[toddsolondz]

STOP BEING HONEST STOP BARING YOUR HEART 2026 IS THE YEAR OF RIDDLES AND ELABORATE LIES

[skyrigel]

[sapphling]

does anyone know if we've epically defeated fascism by ironically emasculating its figureheads yet

[turnways]

Actually, yes, at some point as an adult iIt is your responsibility to learn about history and politics outside of what you were taught in traditional k-12 education

[theguiltinessisyours]

I need to watch succession

[gaysie]

thank god they made black sails before everyone who knew how to do lighting and composition for television shows committed ritual suicide