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i enjoyed (for lack of a better way) the way terror's death was done in the boys for the same reason i like the death of pa kent in superman. now let me be clear i am not happy these characters die. in fact terror's passing had me full on wailing. but as a viewer and a lover of storytelling i enjoyed the way their deaths where done.

let's begin with pa kent. his death varies across the 90 year span of superman's run but the most common (in my experience) is his death by heart attack. it's awful and tragic but it's so incredibly human. clark kent is superman. he can fly, shoot lasers out of his eyes and survive having buildings dropped on him but he cannot save his father from dying. because jonathan kent is a human. humans get old, get sick, or die suddenly because of medical complications. clark, for all his power, can't stop this.

then we have terror. the beloved dog of billy butcher. i was so worried the boys would kill terror in some god awful way and i'm thankful they didn't. terror passes away peacefully because he is an old dog and old dogs die. butcher can survive being shot at, heal his wounds and has literal cancerous tentacles but he cannot stop his dog from dying.

it's so painfully mortal and from a storytelling perspective i really enjoy that.

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I don't mind that they gave john logan a non-binary sibling. i don't mind that jules is a dickhead to most people. i mind that their inclusion was so poorly done ? why are they sitting in his truck after practice? like where you just hanging out in your brother's truck waiting for him to finish practice? why are they always at the house ? why are they kinda just THERE in so many scenes but not actually serving much of a function in the plot? there was a way to do this that would have made the character dynamic and interesting but instead they're kinda just there.

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it is not lost on me and it should not be lost on you either that it was a wealthy, seemingly normal man who likes to go golfing with his buddies that assaulted emma when digby, an unhoused man who society often views as inherently inhumane, has treated everyone (including emma) with kindness.

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isa briones and patrick ball: these characters are so similar that they're mirrors of each other and that's why they are constantly on the attack because they each remind the other so much of themselves. neither is wrong in their own mind and that puts them at odds with each other but truly the situation is more complicated than who is right and who is wrong

langdon stans: SANTOS IS A BITCH WHO RUINED LANGDON'S LIFE

santos stans: LANGDON IS AN ASSHOLE WHO DESERVES TO LOSE HIS JOB AND SUFFER

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listen i understand that santos and langdon are both adults responsible for their own emotions and actions but at least some of the blame has to go to robby. he is the attending. sure it's not exactly the same as being a manager but he is the senior most doctor they have. he is effectively the leader of the team. he should have been doing work on himself and dealing with his own feelings about langdon but instead he shoved everything down and allowed it to fester and because of that he is basically helping to foster the hostility between langdon and santos. if he had dealt with his feelings, if he had done anything to help santos deal with hers (simply asking if she has seen a counselor is not enough), if he had in any way prepared langdon for returning to work rather than ignoring the issue. this entire situation could have gone differently. and i understand that part of what makes this situation fascinating is the very human reactions to it but still robby is the leader and he is failing (more than just santos and langdon tbh but we'll focus on them) to not only support his residents and students in any proper emotional manner but he is so blinded by his own feelings that he has created a tense work environment that everyone is feeling the repercussions of.

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'you can't ship characters in the pitt it's not that kinda show'

BESTIE WAIT UNTIL I TELL YOU ABOUT THE BIBLE

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i know i'm an icon watch me with the lights on but she got a hold on me like a python

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wow i can't believe nothing bad happened to baelor targaryen.

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imagine you are ponyboy curtis. you're dirt poor and live in a rough neighborhood. less than a year ago both of your parents died horrifically when their car was hit by a train. you feel this is your fault since they were running an errand you forgot to do. last week your best friend was savagely beaten by a bunch of rich jerks and now is going to walk with a permanent limp. yesterday you yourself where attacked simply for wanting to go see a movie. your oldest brother is so overworked and stressed that his frustration often gets misplaced on you. your middle brother is work long shifts at a gas station and struggling to deal with the abandonment of his pregnant girlfriend. you just want to go to the movies with your friends only to get into another altercation with the same rich jerks then when you get home you get into a fight with your brother because neither of you understand the other and then he strikes you. then you get attacked AGAIN by the same rich jerks and your best friends stabs and kills the leader in self defense. you have to abandon everything you know and then the church you're hiding out in catches fire with a bunch if kids in it. your best friend is paralyzed and severely burned. when he passes away from his injuries, your other friend is overcome with anger and grief that he jumps in front of a train, dying in a tragically similar way to your parents when you are already convinced that death follows the people you love.

oh, and did i mention? you are fourteen.

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saw the outsiders tour tonight and during tulsa '67 one of the boards that lean up against the scaffolding fell and the kid who plays johnny picked it up and then flipped off the socs who were standing on the scaffolding and the snort that left me was so loud.

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are you okay?

no bitch i miss madtown and boys republic and boyfriend and knk and bigstar and myname and snuper and a.cian and bigflo and toppdogg and greatguys and seven o'clock and beatwin and imfact and 1team and 100% and about a hundred other groups

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robin is awoken in the middle of the night to a phone call from nancy, who professes to being in love with her. it is 1993 and melissa etheridge has just released come to my window.

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something something darrel saying 'every night i worry myself to sleep while you're watching cartoons.' implying darrel doesn't think soda sees the toll ponyboy's absence is taking on him.

something something soda saying 'darrel stays up all night long till he finally falls asleep by the telephone.' implying that all soda has done is worry about the toll ponyboy's absence is taking on darrel.

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you'll have to pry lesbian nancy wheeler from my cold, dead hands.

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also was i the only one kind of annoyed with how robin was styled at the end? robin has always been kind of a tomboy (i saw someone call her butch which no she isn't) and had a pretty cool style. the tan pants with the suspenders? the high waisted pants with the blazer and the tie? but then in the end she has long flowy hair, a pink shirt and overalls? i know i know i know peoples styles can change but having the one kinda masc lesbian go from having such cool 80s masc style to looking more traditionally 'girly' just doesn't sit right with my soul.

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the stranger things finale was bad. not because of byler though. because of everything else. my name is vee and i have a degree in media studies and anthropology. basically, i spent four years of college studying media, how it affects our culture, how we consume media and what makes a piece of media good or not.

and the stranger things finale was bad. here's why.

-building up to a big battle and then it being over in less than ten minutes is bad pacing

-killing your heroine is almost never a good movie. there are times where it CAN work but it has to be done in a very specific way. eleven's death was not done in a good way. and frankly i don't know anyone who enjoys a fake out 'they may or may not be dead' trope.

-making hopper lose his daughter twice is next level fucked up. no one liked it on the walking dead that they kept killing carol's kids, why would you think this is a good idea?

-in regards to eleven, for a show that had such good found family tropes in the first few season to have the girl who grew up isolated in a lab willingly choose to leave behind her friends and family is terrible messaging

-mike was in no way the only one who ever really knew el. that undercuts so many of her relationships with the other characters. especially hopper, will and max.

-sometimes it's okay to leave questions open to interpretation. what's not okay is to abandon story lines with no real conclusions.

-i am a byler truther but i never expected the duffer bros to make them cannon. for some abysmal reason i did expect the conclusion of will and mike to be less cringey.

-i don't think will NEEDED to end up with anyone especially mike (because while i am a byler truth will, honey, you can do so much better) however frankly i think both will's coming out and will having powers took way too long. i assumed will would have powers back in season 2. they waited until the last season to do anything concrete with it and it's clearly left a sour taste in people's mouth.

-the writing was just bad. clunky dialogue, plots of convenience, letting things go unsaid or unacknowledged (where is max's mom, how did none of this make national news, the government really just let everyone go ???? )

BUT BUT BUT i will say there are a few things i did enjoy

-nancy not ending up with either jonathan or steve (and showing up with that gay ass haircut)

-dustin keeping eddie's memories alive (though an explanation of why people no long think the hellfire club is demonic would have been nice)

-the actual end with a new generation of kids playing dnd was a fun touch

-steve didn't die so that's nice

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for years ive been trying to figure out who jason schmidt makes me think of and today i realized he looks like a much less insane onision and now my entire night is ruined.