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House Party

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Thank you Season 2 for giving us these babies

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I know we’re all freaking out right now about episode 4 but am I the only one who thinks that the Sylvie and Loki thing is not so much about self-love as it is about self-acceptance?

Because during their scene on Lamentis-1 they are talking about Lokis being destined to lose, and Loki denies that. He calls them survivors and then goes on to talk about all the things Sylvie has achieved, as a child even, and makes it very clear that he admires her for that. He literally tells her that she is amazing - a word I’m sure neither of them would ever use to describe themselves, at least not seriously. Yet here Loki is, validating her, telling her that she did good, no matter if she still lost in the end.

She then touches his arm and the nexus event starts, and I feel like Sylvie, for the first time in her life perhaps, feels seen. This is the moment they truly form a connection and start to understand each other. There are no more lies, no more masks, no more games - it’s just the two of them at the end of the world accepting their fate, and each other, and realizing they are no longer alone - a theme that gets picked up again later in the scenes with Lady Sif and Mobius.

There’s nothing romantic about this scene to me. When Sylvie touches Loki’s arm, she simply reaches out to him, silently telling him that she sees him too. And when they hold hands after that, there is fear in their eyes and so much regret because they just found something good and know it won’t last. It’s their only way to offer each other comfort and support before they die.

And then there is their final scene. They have just lost, again. Their big triumphant moment turned out to be just another lie, and Sylvie is crushed. “Not another pep talk, please.”

But it’s not a pep talk that Loki wants to offer her. Mobius told him that their connection created a nexus event, that their love for each other (something he has seen no prove of, by the way - he’s simply goading Loki in the interrogation scene when he brings it up) is strong enough to take down the TVA. And I believe that’s what Loki was going to tell Sylvie. Him saying, “We’ll figure this out,” is immediately followed by her asking him how he knows that. And he starts to explain but can’t find the words, so he says instead, “This is new for me.”

And I don’t think he’s talking about romantic feelings here.

There’s something terrifying in being known, in believing in yourself, in making yourself vulnerable and deliberately giving other people the power to hurt you. Loki’s MO has always been to stab others first; betray them before they can betray you. But with Sylvie (and Mobius, to an extent) it’s different. The walls have come down until the only thing left is the bare truth, and that’s what’s new.

The lighting in this scene also reflects that. Look how blue he looks in the screenshot. The glamour’s gone, all his masks have been stripped away. He almost looks Jotun here - his truest form, a part of him he’s always rejected. This whole scene, this whole episode, is not about love, not in the romantic sense. It’s about accepting yourself, and about letting others in and hoping they will stay even after they’ve seen the real you.

In the end, it’s about learning how to love the person you have always been, and realizing that a good person doesn’t always need to be a hero.

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Ivan: Someone will die

Fedyor: Of fun!

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NICHEVO’YA

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Genesis Lyena as Natcha in Shadow and Bone

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Ok, yes Kaz and Inej are much softer in the show, its a little disorienting for fans of the book, but their differences are due to 2 things,

1) They’re younger, they’ve got less experience, they’re still finding their footing around each other and learning how to read each other. SaB takes place way before SoC, and though the show has brought the timelines a lot closer, the kiddo’s still need time to become the people they are in SoC. Kaz needs to build his reputation as the ruthless, whip-smart, unpredictable Dirtyhands. Inej is only now out from Tante Heleen’s thumb, and while they’ve been working together a while, she isn’t Dirtyhands’ Wraith just yet. They’re growing, they’re building, and they’re becoming the people we know and love from the books. We’ve already seen it with Inej’s first kill, We’ve already seen Kaz’s schemes and we’ve seen how they could fall through. We’re going to see them build themselves up and its only through this that their later heists will become believable. We’re going to be shown they can, so we know they can.

And 2) Its a TV show, not a book, and we dont get the same look into Kaz OR Inej’s head. The reason they’re acting a bit stupid, acting a bit soft, acting a bit too reckless when compared to their more cautious counterparts, is because you cant see what they’re thinking when they’re on screen. A look into Kaz’s head means we can see contingency plan after contingency after contingency plan. His most reckless moves are calculated. We cant see in his head in the show, so we just see him be reckless, the calculation reveals itself later, or maybe not at all. A look into Inej’s head shows how she trusts Kaz already, how much the Saints mean to her, how confident she is in her skills as both an acrobat and kaz’s Wraith. We cant see in her head in the show, so we have to see her challenge Kaz, her facial expressions when she sees Sankta Alina for the first time, her hesitance to kill, and her skills as an acrobat. The change in time and the change in Medium wont give us the same characters or the same view of them, but the show does its damn best to keep the heart of the characters. I really do believe we’re going to see Kaz and Inej become Dirtyhands and his Wraith in season two, and I’m very, very excited for it.

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I’m rewatching Episode 2 (We’re All Someone’s Monster) and I don’t know how to make GIFs, but at 10:47 when Kaz slightly glares after asking Pekka if they’ve made a deal before and he replies “Nah. Otherwise you’d know better, or you’d be dead.” you cAN TELL THAT HES THINKING OF JORDIE AND HOW MUCH HE WANTS TO DESTORY PEKKA

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