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#tv #got #this is lovely

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Alia Atreides in Dune (1984) // Lady Jessica in Dune: Part Two (2024)

#movies #dune #wild how almost all new dune conversations i'm having inevitably go back to lynch #and I love the new dune lol #but yeah I guess I don't care anymore ? #dune part two brought a lot of the meat of the book but now that we have both #they're so shockingly bare

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tylerhoechlin: Back to work at the Daily Planet with @ bitsietulloch. Hard to believe we only have five weeks left.

#tv #Superman and Lois #Superman #I'm over this show but wow is James Gunn a fucking asshole for cancelling this #his insecurity is gonna crash DC #I can't wait to see it

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) dir. Peter Jackson

#movies #LOTR #fuck yeah let's hunt some orc

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.01 ― “The Heirs of the Dragon”

#tv #hotd #got #wow this hurts a lot thanks

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SMALLVILLE (2001 - 2010)  Season 6, Episode 11: Justice

#tv #Smallville #Superman #here i am having a normal night hit with gd I fucking love Clark Kent feelings

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3x19 Tapestry

#sir arthur Conan doyle's the lost world #the lost world #THE ABSOLUTE SWAG

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3x20 Legacy

#the lost world #sir arthur Conan doyle's the lost world #the last four episodes are superb actually the most perfect things #they surprise me every time I get to them #all the mythology coming together #how absolutely everything was connected #lost before lost

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Heart of the Storm

#the lost world #the shared lost world dread that's everlasting #IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW

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If Roxton, Marguerite, Veronica and Ned all ever get drunk and end up in bed together it's after the chaos of The Outlaw.

#mystuff #sir arthur Conan doyle's the lost world #the lost world #the episodes where it's all four of them being swashbuckling romantic heroes are so satisfying #the outlaw is such a great episode

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Doozy twist: accidentally creating an atomic bomb supersedes all slut plots, but technically still applies to the last above

Love the amount of "the boys are being sluts and put us all in danger" plots that get solved with "the girls know the boys are being sluts and tell them for the full episode until they have to jump in and save everyone" resolution. BC there are A LOT. Like, waaaay too many women come out of the jungle half naked and waaaay too many times the boys just go, yeah totally no problem let's make out.

Silly plot tempered by the number of "the girls are being sluts and put us all in danger" that also happen where the boys have to fix everything.

The Lost World is equal opportunity slutville.

#my stuff #sir arthur Conan doyle's the lost world #the lost world

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Challenger's greatest ally and pseudo-adversary has always been Marguerite. Her ambition and recklessness has always matched his, and she is arguably the next smartest person in the expedition. She's a geologist, and bc of Summerlee and himself, an amateur botanist.

The mythology of the show is that Marguerite is a nihilistic wild card. She can choose to destroy the plateau and then the world. A lot of her luck, intelligence and guile seems to come from being protected by this dark force that encourages her darkness. This has been with her always, with the counterpoint to her destiny being the moments of interference. Sure, her destiny is to destroy the world, but that's simplifying it a bit. Her destiny is to choose to destroy the world, with the implication within the entire show being that she constantly has to choose to do good. Marguerite is the most overt manifestation of this theme, and they often get to overlap it with Challenger's perpetual megalomania (lol). It's strong writers who recognize that these greater than life characters become greater when they confront each other, and isn't afraid to put them in these situations.

So it works out that they are similar types, but also, we're watching Marguerite witness someone like herself choose good over evil. Choose everyone's lives over his passion and power in the future. SHE GETS TO BE THE BIGGER PERSON AND IT'S A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, which is a grander more sustainable kind of power that benefits all.

#my stuff #sir arthur Conan Doyle's the lost world #the lost world #me: LOOK ALL THE SILLY ROMANCE #me two seconds later: THE CAPACITY OF HUMAN KIND TO EXPOUND ON THE CONTRADICTORY HEART OF ITS OWN ExiSTENCE WITHIN THIS PULP SHOW IS #*sighs* brilliance just brilliance

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We've had enough time with the characters by this point that Marguerite asking everyone their limit IS not just exposition to remind everyone where we are. It's a great moral question for the audience, who might still not be sure if Challenger is sincere or not.

Challenger is a good person, sure, he has to try a little harder than most, but I honestly think he never goes full evil bc of the sheer number of other psychotic London explorer/inventors who ended up on the plateau and the plateau just fucked all their plans up. Not that Challenger is free of examples of his own fuck up and alternate universes where he's a vicious dictator lol.

#my stuff #sir arthur Conan doyle's the lost world #the lost world #the silliness of the plots is always countered with such solid great character moment #s where everyone is involved in the question game #everyone is part of the journey #this dialogue feels so natural even though it's another way to remind the audience what everyone's archetype is #just so good

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Challenger is a good person, sure, he has to try a little harder than most, but I honestly think he never goes full evil bc of the sheer number of other psychotic London explorer/inventors who ended up on the plateau and the plateau just fucked all their plans up. Not that Challenger is free of examples of his own fuck up and alternate universes where he's a vicious dictator lol.

#my stuff #the lost world #sir arthur Conan doyle's the lost world #the number of plots that are just CHALLENGER NO NO NO PUT THAT ATOMIC WEAPON DOWN GEORGE

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Roxton and Veronica, the underrated dynamic. There's always push back with the other combos bc they all wanna bang, but Roxton and Veronica are both hot and smart and they know it and are too busy wanting to bang Marguerite and Ned, respectively, they just move on? When one says something the other just believes 'em and they keep going. We love a competent righteous violence team.

#the lost world #also their teasing is not so charged #so they get to be even more relaxed with it #I just love them #Ned/marguerite is the opposite #where roxton and Veronica are too serious and sweet to even do harm emotionally #Ned and Marguerite is just pure fuckery #with Marguerite winning every single time bc Ned tries too hard to be noble #anyway have I ever mentioned how much i love this show and its ensemble #sir arthur Conan doyle's the lost world

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episode: one of the boys is being a slut and everyone almost dies

next episode: psycho cannibal cult kids kidnap challenger, rescue mission ensues

episode after that: the girls are being sluts and everyone almost dies

Love the amount of "the boys are being sluts and put us all in danger" plots that get solved with "the girls know the boys are being sluts and tell them for the full episode until they have to jump in and save everyone" resolution. BC there are A LOT. Like, waaaay too many women come out of the jungle half naked and waaaay too many times the boys just go, yeah totally no problem let's make out.

Silly plot tempered by the number of "the girls are being sluts and put us all in danger" that also happen where the boys have to fix everything.

The Lost World is equal opportunity slutville.

#the lost world #sir arthur Conan doyle's the lost world #mystuff

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3x07 Dead Man’s Hill

#tv #the lost world #sir arthur Conan doyle's the lost world #I will never get over the pure romance this show indulged in #it just loved all the swashbuckling romantic tropes and I have yet to find a show #that embraces it without irony #and let's two people have so much romance it's sustained me for AHH 25 YEARSSS