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So Miss Scarlet & The Duke is trying to pull a Sanditon (ie replace the main male lead with someone new). But just because it worked once, it doesn't mean it will again. See, there are four reasons why I think it worked for Sanditon but won't for MSTD.

Sidney Parker was only in one season of Sanditon before Theo James decided not to turn. Whereas, Inspector Wellington was in four of MSTD.

The writers of Sanditon wrote Sidney out of the story by killing him off. Wellington, however, (as I understand it) is still alive in the story. So why would the audience be rooting for Miss Scarlet to find happiness with someone else after rooting for her and William for four years?

A good number of fans didn't even like Sidney in the first place. We found him to be a jerk who treated Charlotte terribly. William, on the other hand, is likeable and we love seeing his interactions with Eliza.

Sidney Parker's name wasn't in the show's title. Yes, I know they're changing Miss Scarlet & the Duke to just Miss Scarlet, but William's name (nickname, whatever) was in the title of the show for 4 seasons! The show wasn't just about Eliza! It was about him too!

#sanditon #miss scarlet and the duke #i refuse to just call it miss scarlet

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I truly believe one of the most important things you can teach a person in school is how to analyze literature and art and movies so you know how to look at a work of art and place it both in its time and ours. To empathize with the artists behind it as they were and not as we are now. To recognize the ways in which humanity has grown or the connective tissue between us and the past. But mostly so I never have to see someone call a movie or its dialogue “cliche” or “stereotypical” when the cliche to which they’re referring was either quite literally invented or at least popularized by the movie they just watched.

#yep #analysis

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If there is a true villain in this story, I'd say it's the Bene Gesserit as a whole. After all, they were the ones who planted this prophecy and have been manipulating people and blood lines for centuries purely for their own selfish gain.

As for Paul, he told Stilgar he wasn't the Maudi. And Stilgar's response was, "He's so humble, he must be the Maudi!" Paul did try to convince the Fremen of the truth, but they believed so deeply that everything Paul said or did only encouraged them more. It didn't help that Jessica was still pushing the prophecy (even though I think that even if she were to say it was a lie, the Fremen still wouldn't listen).

I think it just go to the point for Paul where he realized that there was nothing he could say or do to convince them that he wasn't the Maudi and that they would start a holy war in his name with or without him and that it would be better for him to take charge so that he could at least have some measure of control instead of being left in the dark.

Was it the morally correct choice? Probably not, but it was the only choice he felt like he could make.

I believe it's also the same reason he choose to become emperor and marry Irulan, not because he loved her or he wanted the power but because he believed the alternative would be too costly. The movie never comes right out and says it, but the emperor didn't have any sons, only daughters and Irulan was the oldest, so whoever married her would inherit the throne. I think it's safe to say that if Paul hadn't made a play for the throne, the Harkonnens certainly would have. The Harkonnen rule of Arrakis was bad enough, imagine them ruling the entire galaxy. Paul was allowing bad things to happen to prevent worse things from happening. At least, that's what he believed.

I'm really tired of seeing lots of people loudly proclaiming that Paul Atreide is the real villain of the story, when clearly he's not.

First of all, there is no fundamentally bad guy and good guy in this story (even if the Arkonnen are the ones who can most be considered as such, and who are clearly bad people). It's a world with a rotten system where everyone ends up fighting for power.

Paul in all this is a tragic hero. Not a villain.

It follows the classic pattern of tragedy with the system of prophecy. But he's definitely not a hero or / and even less a villain.

Paul is above all a tragic hero, that all.

A lot of people compare him to Anakin, but for me it's more of a surface level comparison, as Paul doesn't really succumb to the outright dark side.

Many people will disagree, but that's what I think.

#dune #dune part 2 #paul atreides

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Charlotte & Colbourne (Heybourne) → kisses

#sanditon #alexander colbourne #charlotte heywood #heybourne

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See, this something I really hope they change and improve on in the next movie. I don't expect their marriage to be a love match, but I would at least like to be a friendly one. At the end of Dune Part 2 when he says he'll take Irulan as his wife he also says, "And we will rule together." This line (correct me if I'm wrong) is not in the book. So by adding it, I'm hoping Denis is intending for Paul to treat Irulan more like an equal partner in Dune Messiah. Not just because poor Irulan deserves better treatment, but because I honestly think it makes sense from a political stand point as well. Paul already has plenty of enemies in the Imperium, the last thing he needs is an enemy of his own wife. Sure she may not has a much power as he does, but she is still the daughter of the previous emperor and may have plenty of supporters. It just makes sense to me for Paul to at least try and make an alley of her, which is I feel like something he completely neglects to do in the books, which is, I feel, in no small part due to Chani's presence, but since Chani isn't even going to be there at the being of Dune Messiah, I think it could work for Paul to at least be friendly toward Irulan, even if he won't be intimate with her due to his love for Chani.

I get the marriage to Irulan is a political thing and she might even be glad that Paul leaves her alone but I kinda feel bad for her. Irulan has be deprived of a lot of parental love and it even states clearly in the books that she's had to guard herself from her father's schemes and plots at times and avoid assassination from her own family members.

Now she expects to be Paul's wife in their political marriage and as such, the mother to his children only to be let down to understand that Chani is his true love and she'll be his exclusive partner. She might have even expected to finally find the love she's been deprived of all her life.

It just seems cruel to me that Irulan has been, in some ways, alone emotionally all her life and now is trapped in a marriage to a man who won't show her an ounce of love and perhaps hostile to her at times.

Now, since she's empress she'll have her own freedom and do whatever she wants within her power but I just feel bad for her for her loss of affection from the man she's bound to in marriage. I feel like Paul could at least be kind to her and idk, give her gifts and do something to make her a bit happy.

Who knows how Denis(the director of Dune) will write her in Dune: Messiah and I'm very curious to see how her story line goes along with Chani's change from the books as she isn't just another fanatical follower anymore but that's just what's been on my mind after three trips to the cinema.

#dune #dune part 2 #dune spoilers #dune messiah #paul atreides #princess irulan

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#artemis fowl #harry potter #fanfic #crossover #chapter 3

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Thinking again about how Suzanne esentially subverted the "beloved famous man that is actually a horrible person in real life" with Finnick, who is the complete opposite of that.

Finnick has this whole image costructed around him by the people that abused him for years: the Capitol's darling, their golden boy, the sex symbol of Panem, the man that has countless lovers but leaves them constantly and doesn't look back etc. And you would expect, initially, to meet a man that retains at least a part of that persona in his day to day life. But Finnick doesn't, not even one bit.

You see instead a man that is deeply in love and completely devoted to the one woman he quite literally adores, a man that protects Mags, his old mentor and his mother figure, as much as he can, a man that wouldn't leave Johanna behind, a man that gathers whatever strenght he has left to speak publicly about the abuse inflicted upon him at the government's hands; the opposite of what the Capitol's media and reputation made him out to be.

#all of this #this is why i wish #his abuse was talked about more #the movie did a poor job with it #even the book doesn't do enough #imo #if finnick had been a woman #it would be talked about more

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They actually did win. Twice, in fact! I can't remember in which book, but it was said that the American Revolution and Civil War were actually fights between Camp Half-Blood and Camp Junipter. CHB were the patriots and Jupiter the royalists in the American Revolution. CHB were the Union soldiers and Jupiter the Conferdate in the CW. Which means that CHB won both times. The CW was so bloody, though, that's when the gods decided to make each camp forget the other existed as not to have a repeat.

If Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter were to fight CHB would win. This is based solely on the fact that they actually know how to think outside the box.

They’re also crazy.

#i guess the greeks are just better fighters #percy jackson & the olympians #the heroes of olympus #camp half blood #camp jupiter

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zeus: ok, you broke the pact. what’s done is done. just tell me which abilities you gave him, so at least i know what we’re dealing with

poseidon: ...all of them

zeus: ok but from which of your roles? sea god, stormbringer, or earthshaker?

poseidon: ...all of them

zeus:

zeus: you’re not serisouly telling me he has domain over air and land and the sea?

poseidon: er, actually, it’s not just the sea. any water, really. lakes, rivers, ice, plumbing,...potentially bodily fluids...

zeus: you- WHY DID- WHAT WERE YOU-

zeus: *takes a deep breath*

zeus: anything else?

poseidon: *looks at list*

poseidon: er, yes. he immediately heals when he touches water.

zeus: what?

poseidon: well, you know, i figured with all the danger he’ll face, potential child of the prophecy and all, he should be able to automatically regenerate

zeus: that- that’s not even a thing!

poseidon: well...it is now!

zeus:

poseidon:

zeus:

poseidon: he can also speak to horses

zeus: *throws lightning bolt at the wall*

#love this because it is so true #percy jackson #percy jackson & the olympians

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To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

#tolkien

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#artemis fowl #harry potter #fanfic #crossover #chapter 2

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Because I’m curious-

Reblog so this breaks containment and reaches people near the equator

#i live in colorado #of course I've seen snow

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That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass

#love this #tolkien rocks

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I think one thing about Much Ado About Nothing that I don't see talked about that I appreciate is Benedict and Beatrice's reactions to the planted conversations that they unknowingly were meant to hear. Both conversations basically go "Beatrice/Benedict is in love with Benedict/Beatrice and is wonderful person worthy of being loved, but Beatrice/Benedict is too flawed to notice or care." This is great because a) most people, while perfectly willing to criticize their friends behind their backs, would not dare do it in a conversation that they intend to be overheard. So Benedict and Beatrice have some brave friends. b) Most people overhearing themselves being "badmouthed" by friends behind their backs would simply go, "That's it! The friendship is over!" But neither Benedict nor Beatrice do that. Instead they both go, "You know what? They're right. I do have this flaw and I do need to work on that. And Beatrice/Benedict is totally worthy of my love and affection and I will give them that." And I think that is great that both of these characters are not afraid to take criticism, even if not give directly to their faces, and decide they need to work on their flaws. Beautiful.

#much ado about nothing #benedict #beatrice #shakespeare

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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Stanley Donen + Gene Kelly 

#singing in the rain

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#same #doctor who #dw #billie piper #rose tyler

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not “oh my god it’s just a tv show” as in you are not allowed to find genuine joy and form a true connection to fiction, but “oh my god it’s just a tv show” as in, if it legitimately stresses you out and impacts your mood when things don’t happen exactly the way you want them to, and it causes you to lash out at other - real - people, maybe you need to take a massive step back.

#yes #this