I’m thinking so many thoughts after that episode, which was wonderful and hilarious, but something I’m very much thinking about is where someone on twitter pointed out the contrast between Rupert going to the club every single day for six weeks to wear Rebecca down vs Ted coming to her office every day for biscuits and genuinely wanting to get to know her. I’m especially thinking about how this adds some more context to Rebecca’s point of view on that as well. We see her disparagingly calling him ‘relentless, and nice’, and her desire for her love of the biscuits to not make her dependent on him providing her with something.
The moment I’m thinking about most is the one at the end of episode 5, where Ted storms in after finding out she sent Jamie away. The biscuit reveal at the end has always felt crucial in this way, but even more so in this context. Her experience has been with the relentless interest and charm until the other person pulled back the layer of charm and showed that this charming nature wasn’t genuine, and in a way I think here, as Ted yells at her, it lets her feel a bit vindicated, or at least secure, in her belief, or lack of belief, in the nature of other people. But then Ted continues the biscuits, and the extension of kindness they represent, no matter how angry he is, and not only that but reveals he has been (without having told her) baking the biscuits himself. His only deceit was hiding an extra kindness he didn't even seek self serving credit for, despite knowing how much she liked the biscuits. Obviously this works so interestingly as another anti-Rupert parallel in a Ted/Rebecca sense, but I love it even just generally in the context of how it’s visible that this is what shakes Rebecca in that scene, because it shakes the view she has of how people treat people after her abusive marriage and isolation, which is allowing her to go on with the plan that will hurt so many of them. It disarms her because even when she has done something bad, and Ted is expressing legitimate annoyance about it, he will not stop extending this relentless kindness and generosity to her, even when he has not got what he wanted, the way she experienced Rupert doing once he had got what he wanted. Ted’s not only relentless, not only nice, he’s also sincere.
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Okay what the heck is gearloose and why are haters in your Dni list?
Ah. Suppose I got carried away in my vast amount of marvelous trivia regarding the film...
And by the way, what in Suitopia is a "Human"???
Oh, and here's a high quality scan of my poster. I wouldn't expect any of you to appreciate it with as much sophistication and nuance as I do.
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Soul Eater needs to become a slice of life anime immediately. I’m tired of the world almost ending, I wanna see Spirit character development and I wanna see the kids hang out and play games and.. idk I don’t watch slice of life shows BUT. I wanna see it with soul eater
My favorite episodes are Ep41 and then the one with the test that they all fuck up on except Maka. That episode is fucking hilarious and silly as hell and I need more episodes that don’t do anything to the story, the characters are just having Another Day and I love to see it it’s so cute
Biggest complain about the show: not enough. There’s SOOO MUCH to touch on and they DIDN’T. SO many goofy antics we can see with the characters and we didn’t get it it kills me!!!!!!!
Also the episode after medusa possessed Rachel and went to make a deal with Death and Death and Spirit just started talking about her bloomers like for REAL GUYS. They are so unserious it fucking kills me.
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Teenage Garashir is really something special. You know Julian was a crazy son of a bitch as a teen and Garak was a sarcastic stuffy little shit with his nose glued in a book. Julian obsessing over tennis and racquetball with a perpetual middle finger pointed towards his parents and Garak weeping over Cardassian Stephanie Meyer alone in his tiny bedroom while Tain throws knives at his door and Mila shouts at him to do the dishes. Julian's drooling over five different people at once and Garak's thinking hauntedly about that cute guy he had to kill last week while he mows the lawn. They both crave death, but sparks fly the second they lay eyes on each other. Garak's trying to figure out the logistics of balancing a secret agent career and an alien husband while Julian's just daydreaming about stuffing his face in his chest and suffocating. It's a shitshow and it's magnificent.
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I think it's fair to say that Crowley used to be more carefree. He seemed to smile a little more readily back in Eden, there seemed to be less of a mask at the Flood, and our beloved Bildad seemed a little sillier and softer than present day Crowley. So I've been thinking about how this gradual transformation might have happened.
I wonder he started off having fun with humans, spreading mischief when he had to and lending a hand when he could be subtle about it. I wonder if at the start it was a break from the loneliness of 'his side', befriending all these lovely little humans, the shortness of their lifespans giving their lives a sort of beautiful intensity in stark contrast to the millennia of stagnancy in Hell. I wonder if, at the start, Crowley spent much of his time laughing, connecting, happy.
Maybe it started to get heavier as the number of connections severed by human mortality mounted. Maybe he was dragged down to Hell too many times after too many not-quite-subtle-enough acts of kindness. Maybe as the generations went by, the cost of loving this brilliant, painful, beautiful world started to tip the scales in the wrong direction.
Crowley loves the world. He loved all of creation so deeply right from The Beginning and never stopped. But the world can only love him back in the briefest of stints before adding another pound to the unfathomable weight of grief he now bears. Grief that no being could possibly prepare for, let alone one who is unlikely to have encountered death save for the long past Great War.
It's not hard to understand that someone would be less carefree after 6000 years of that.
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Nanon Korapat as Pran is really the Thai BL equivalent of Martin Freeman as John Watson, taking one look at the script and saying, "Yeah, we don't need all those words, I can just do that with a look."
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