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Not sure if unintentional or intentional Fridge Brilliance on the part of the Warehouse 13 writers but Fridge Brilliance nonetheless

Sure, Warehouse 13 may have had two different episodes pre-crossover-with-Eureka where Eureka actors appear as different characters (Zane and Jo's actors in the Vegas-set episode with the future vision poker chip and Henry's in the following episode (idr what it was about but it was set in a prison)) but those specific snags were both Pete-and-Myka missions and it was only Claudia who went to Eureka so whatever may Watsonianly explain all that (like I saw a fanfic where Zane and Jo's actors' W13 characters were actually Zane and Jo undercover as the chip somehow wound up in Eureka first so they had to attract attention with it to bait out the Warehouse, and another where Saul Rubinek's Eureka character Carl Carlson (who was just a one-off character early on so I didn't mention him earlier) was a distant relative of Artie's), sure there may have been all these resemblances across that universe (as I don't think it was the timeline shift that brought both shows' universes into one as I don't see how it could) but nobody noticed

#eureka #warehouse 13

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Remember how before Ezekiel's real backstory was revealed (albeit somewhat not jiving with how he's talked about in season commentary but that's another issue) there was this whole big theory among the The Librarians fandom that he was Jenkins's kid. Well, if you watch So Help Me Todd (and if you do you should help save it), you'd know that (albeit half-genderbent and with a couple siblings) the relationship between Margaret and Todd Wright is essentially that (that kind of dynamic but they are indeed parent-child)

#the librarians #ezekiel jones #jenkins #so help me todd #margaret wright #todd wright #savesohelpmetodd #renewsohelpmetodd

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If I had a nickel for every time the older female lead of a nerdy Oregon-set show had a rival of sorts named Beverly who was not to be trusted, I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

#so help me todd #a town called eureka #beverly barlowe #beverly crest #savesohelpmetodd #renewsohelpmetodd

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There's a non-zero chance that the type-centric-ness of ScVi (not just with Terapagos and Terastalization but even how if you count one of the professors and Larry doing double-duty alongside the other gym leaders, other elite four and the Team Star bosses ScVi has a type specialist for every type) means we're never going to get a new Pokemon type either at all or until, say, "Pokemon Ancient Scarlet and Futuristic Violet" (or something to that effect) decades down the line. However, if we do get a new type, the fact that we currently have an even number and 20 would be easier to deal with than 19 suggests we'd get two new types not one

#pokemon #pokemon types

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Maybe people wouldn't have such a hard time abandoning or even criticizing Harry Potter if there was a similar sort of book series they could love with a hyperflexible mythology they could "make their entire personality" (doesn't matter if it doesn't have movies/enough merch, they could make that happen) that didn't get run through the problematicness wringer to any degree like how e.g. people are now criticizing Rick Riordan for not setting his Egyptian mythology series in Egypt with Egyptian protagonists or people are saying a bunch of other fantasy or sci-fi series for that age demographic from that era queerbaited when it was really just those books coming out in the 2000s when queer couples would have been basically unthinkable in kid lit but Tumblr fans shipping same-sex characters anyway

#harry potter #ya lit #hyperflexible mythology

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I don't know if this was an intentional parallel but Claudia and Steve from Warehouse 13 very much have Mulder/Scully energy; personalities are somewhat genderswapped from their counterparts but the girls are still both supersmart redheads (and also the quasi-potential-canon about immortal!Scully parallels Caretaker!Claudia) and the guys are both motivated to action by the tragic fate of their sister.

Hmm...I know Warehouse 13 doesn't take place at the same time as X-Files but if you could fudge the timeline to make them line up a crossover would be cool anyway but I wonder if parallels and connections and soulmate-y shenanigans (as even before the metronome crap Clinks are still basically platonic soulmates) might imply some kind of cosmic connection between those four in particular as a unit

#warehouse 13 #the x-files

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Realization regarding Inside Out 2

Esp. since Disney doesn't like showing heroes basically stooping to the villains' level, the new emotions being technically-antagonistic-figures isn't the Watsonian reason why we didn't see any character with them in the first movie because that would imply they got a similar thing done to them that it seems like they're going to do to our heroes and it can't even be karmic because they're technically antagonists but not villains (like Elsa in Frozen)

#inside out 2 #inside out 2 spoilers

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If Anna got powers in Frozen 3 somehow like has been speculated (and could do so while still being queen instead of leaving like Elsa did) many people think she'd have fire powers to complement/counter Elsa's ice but I actually think her potential hypothetical powers would be similar to that yet still different; I think she'd have power over light.

Reasons I think that makes sense are A. then it wouldn't repeat an element from the characters introduced in Frozen 2, B. it'd fit her personality more than fire just like Elsa's got her "icy" exterior and C. if you truly want the sisters to be some kind of symbolic counterbalance if they both had powers this still makes them that in a slightly less obvious way than fire and ice; the winter chill and the summer sunlight

#frozen fan theory

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The worst thing I've ever seen on Tumblr regarding Overwatch isn't any criticism of the game itself or its supposed fall or any negative change to the game technically counting if the devs have a Tumblr updates get posted about on, it's these two stupid shipping rules I've seen that came about when fans were debating which heroes you could and couldn't ship but could apply to characters outside that fandom

It's an unhealthy power dynamic if somebody dates their doctor

Any mentor-student relationship with an age gap over 5 years between two consenting adults turning romantic is just as unhealthy a teacher-student relationship as if an actual K-12 teacher fell in love with someone in their class

#overwatch #fandom frollos #purity culture

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Meme on Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hermes in the PJO show all you want but proof he's perfect casting is that most of his other characters (though the ones with two canon parents would require some explaining) would fit as Hermes kids in a demigod!AU from Alexander Hamilton to Jack the lamplighter to Lee Scoresby to even Usnavi

#demigod au

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Much has been said by people about how the happy coincidence (as in this isn't the reason obviously) that courage/encouragement have "rage" in them proving Rage the Homestuck aspect isn't entirely negative but you know what thematically-related-to-the-aspect-despite-being-linguistically-unrelated-to-the-word word also has "rage" in it more positively...

Leverage

#homestuck #rage aspect #hero of rage #leverage #leverage: redemption

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Other than whatever we can do to try and save Our Flag Means Death, the next step to that "holy trinity" of that certain sort of queer rep show ending (as What We Do In The Shadows and Good Omens are both ending after their next season and even if OFMD could somehow get/have-gotten a S3 it would have ended after that season anyway) would be to make similar shows with the lesbian equivalent of those kinds of pairings as all three of the main LGBTQ+ pairings on those shows are mlm (yeah I know, angel demon gender weirdness but they're both male-presenting)

#queer representation

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Mean Girls is metaphorically (as in more than just general concept of that kind of shenanigans and power dynamics but I don't think I could correspond each of the teens to an adult character) the high school version of Scandal

#mean girls #scandal

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Just listening to Assassins and remembering a thing a reactor I watched react to the revival cast album on YouTube said about The Balladeer being some sort of personification/representative/whatever of American media. Then since this was the cast with NPH as the Balladeer I thought about that and the showmanship and just the general vibe as well as the title-name and, well, gears started turning in my brain.

I'm not quite saying Assassins might take place in the America of the Doctor Who universe and that those two NPH characters are the same, I'm saying there's a lot of common thematic ground going on here and looking at this Doylistically maybe part of the reason he landed the part

#assassins musical #doctor who #the toymaker

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the Eureka Christmas episode "Do You See What I See" feels like (if you're willing to grant it any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-magic because that's how the false reality was created or w/e) a Christmas-y precursor to (and perhaps it inspired) the The Librarians episode "The Librarians And The Fables Of Doom". It's not just got the broad-strokes like a little girl and magic (loosely in Eureka's case) book transforming the people of her small town into archetypal characters thematically representative of them in ways that kinda lead to some introspection on the heroes' parts but it's even got specifics the same like the ensemble's Tough Action Girl becoming a princess and them all getting "upgrades" for the final fight to get a fighting chance against an enemy the book also conjured up (with Eureka it was the "style" taking a turn for the Saturday-Morning-Cartoon anime and with The Librarians Cassandra's magical potential got woken up, Eve became a ninja princess and Stone became a robot huntsman)

#a town called eureka #the librarians #do you see what i see #the librarians and the fables of doom

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Is it just me or did Doctor Who just suddenly decide to take a turn for the The Librarians between the whole myth-into-reality ripple effect thing and basically everything about The Celestial Toymaker. While I'm not expecting any obvious ripoff/homages, this bodes well for Gatwa's run.

#doctor who #the librarians

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The proper way to make a Hunger Games musical would either be not at all or as a Harry-Potter-And-The-Cursed-Child-esque 6-ish-hour two-parter where the first part is a musical adaptation of The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes

#the hunger games