#What an excellent show!

[canadachronicles]

Congratulations!!!

#Wonderful news!!! #I'm so happy for them #and it's well-deserved #What an excellent show! #This Hour Has 22 Minutes #22 Minutes #THH22M #Trent McClellan #Stacey McGunnigle #Mark Critch #Aba Amuquandoh #Canadian Screen Awards #Canadian Screen Awards 2023 #Candys #Candys 2023 #Canadian Television #Canadian TV #Canadian Humour #Canadian Instagram #Canada Chronicles

[tealfruit]

finished the good place.....waow

#nerd alert #what an excellent show!

[novelconcepts]

The defintion of hell is knowing a show is incredibly well-received in its first season, but if people don’t become machines churning out tweets, content, and rewatching 24/7, there’s no likelihood it’ll get a chance to tell its whole story. This shit is madness. Shows in different genres shouldn’t have to pit-battle for dominance. First seasons are MEANT to be baselines establishing worlds and characters, not complete storylines. The idea that this golden age of television has turned into “get it done in one or get out” is revolting.

#the sandman #paper girls #some of the hot takes on Twitter are breaking me #‘why don’t we know the whole story? it’s bad writing if you don’t have a complete story in the first season’ girl WHAT since WHEN #how many excellent shows were weak as fuck in S1?? and here we’re getting shows with incredible first seasons fighting for their lives #like fuckin Christ dude the idea of long form storytelling is allowing your story time and space to spread out #otherwise we would only make movies #i am so sick of this edge of my seat fear that any new show I fall in love with will get axed because the higher powers don’t care about art #this has to be a bubble right? this has to pop at some point and go back to shows valued on what they are #and don’t even get me started on creators having to beg for good reviews to balance out review-bombing from shitheads #if every one star review is clearly bigoted from the comments? why is anyone taking them into account?? #why is there no way to manage this shit aside from creators being like ‘please help us”’

[brother-emperors]

DO NOT BE AFRAID

this is combining Ovid's Heroides and the Excidium Troie because I can't stop thinking of Hermes telling him not to be afraid. what the fuck!! Ares is wearing the crown that Paris gave him.

I have. thoughts. about Paris. he's almost got this Troilos parallel in my mind, that the event that defines him in detail exists in a lost narrative that we don't have (the Cypria), but everyone else knew. the event that defines Troilos is his death (murdered, butchered by Achilles, the violence of which haunts everything after. Achilles, child killer, you can't escape that!), and the event that defines Paris is the Judgement. what's a lost text but a kind of grave!!

idk I don't think that Paris before the Judgement would recognize himself after bc when you become god touched, it rearranges your guts. you become transformed in the worst way possible! how could you recognize yourself! but I also think that all the Parises after the Judgement would recognize each other because that event is so locked into the trauma of war and the scar it leaves on the land, it's like a scar on the narrative too. it exists like this forever, over and over again, so you exist like that forever too. Troy collects grief and despairs.

Troy as trauma: Reflections on intergenerational transmission and the locus of trauma, Andromache Karanika

and Paris is like. a miserable little god/corpse-puppet or something, like a match for the gods to throw onto gasoline.

The Excidium Troie + Ovid's Heroides:

Excidium Troie, trans. Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman

Ovid, Heroides 16 (trans. Harold Isbell)

a collection of things regarding Paris that made me go 😬 but under a cut bc this is getting. very long.

The Divine Twins in Early Greek Poetry, Corolla Torontonensis

Iliad 24 and the Judgement of Paris, C.J. Mackie

Elegy and Epic and the Recognition of Paris: Ovid "Heroides" 16, Elizabeth Forbis Mazurek

Ennian Influence in "Heroides" 16 and 17, Howard Jacobson

Paris/Alexandros in the "Iliad", I. J. F. de Jong

#long post #paris of troy #komiks tag #it's all greek to me #like. DISTANTLY. its #the iliad #drawing tag #listen i know it's fun to dunk on paris. but im a chronic killjoy. i know its cringe. mea culpa etc #i would love. I WOULD LOVE. to draw a comic and not have the commentary notes be longer than the comic itself #unfortunately i like to read and i cannot stop talking about things that i read. so this will not be changing. #ngl i keep hearing the last line 'my brother says you are a just judge' as 'and brutus says he is an honorable man' and that's smth for sur #god i wish this was shorter but then i remember it could've been longer bc i started drawing this while watching #some excellent korean horror but then i looked at myself in the mirror and said 'no. get your shit together.' #but that show is what sparked this. the themes. god i love shows. a round of applause for tv shows. #in a different world theres a version of me that didn't exercise self restraint and there's 30 screen caps from a horror show here too

[mikimeiko]

The Expanse | Season 1 (2015-16), Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby

#the expanse #theexpanseedit #aaaah i missed my space babies so much! #excellent first season #so much foreshadowing is unreal! #knowing what comes next most of this season felt like an introduction #also i realized how much i forgot and how far apart the season were from one another #and i can't wait to have a coherent idea of the whole show watching them back to back #tv 2024 #i made this #i just want a tag for the things i personally put out into the world

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #hi i'm READY to write a thesis about murderbot i am having way too much fun with this #i created a pretty excel spreadsheet and everything #i don't know why i did this but now i can look at them while i think about this more! so i figured i'd share them haha #i didn't count uses of 'friendly' but special shoutout to when MB is all alone in its cold cubicle missing 20% of its body mass #and starts putting on a show because 'the friendly noise would keep it company' 😭😭 #i feel sick thinking about murderbot all alone on its own not knowing what its like to have friends watching media for 'the friendly noise' #also YES okay i wanted to make a point about miki there but i just #couldn't bring myself to talk about that more so... yeah #also uhhh this data is very subjective #i didn't count particularly ironic uses of 'friend' and generally did not count every instance of friend and sometimes it was a hard call #also i probably shouldn't have counted the times murderbot refered to drones or secsystems as its friends (often after hacking them) #but murderbot does seem to care about them and shows kindness and respect and sometimes points out that a system is friendly #so while i don't think MB means “friend” in the same way referring to them as when it refers to ART for instance #i still think its CUTE and also kinda funny how many times that happened so i decided to keep those!!! #but yeah take my data with a grain of salt lol

[lasarcasticpanda]

the last of us constantly, over and over and over, picking apart what love can do to and for a person is devastating and fulfilling. like you will love something so much you continue fighting and you love something so much you will start wars and you love something so much you will cease when it's gone and you love something so much you will lay with it peacefully as you say goodbye. you love something so much you will commit atrocities and not expect to be forgiven because what use is forgiveness when that love is gone? my love matters more than your love, says everyone to each other in an echo chamber. and no one is wrong and no one is right, it's just love.

#tlou spoilers #idk might have more coherent thoughts later but fuck #these games and this show fucking eviscerating me every time #kathleen loved her brother! she hunted down two young boys in the nuclear aftermath of that love! #henry loved sam! he sold his hero to the enemy for that love! he thought himself the guy and did it anyway! #he genuinely thought he was a bad guy and would rather handle that guilt than lose sam because he loved him so much #what beauty to love something so much! what devastation when its gone! #excellent way to parallel the end #ive played this game too many times and henry and sam always get me #and this was no exception im dying #the last of us

[hawthornsword]

"I like seeing Hayden Christensen play Anakin Skywalker a perfectly normal amount," I say, like a liar.

#srsly what IS IT about him coming back to this character that gives me such strong feelings when I honestly didn't give a shit 20 years ago #he's just so excellent #anakin skywalker #hayden christensen #kenobi show #ahsoka show #ahsoka spoilers #ahsoka series

[brittlebutch]

btw Still thinking about the moment where Tula first realizes she's literally, mechanically unable to keep up with / catch Jaysohn when he bolts and runs his full speed. That revelation that she's not fast enough to stop him, or get alongside him, much less get in front of him to protect him if he needed it. The dread terror of it. :(

#N posts stuff #dimension 20 #d20: stupendous stoats #burrow's end #Siobhan said it almost like a joke but then Aabria put Weight behind it and oh boy. oh boy. there's Terror there babey!!!!!! #sure hope that doesn't come back in any significant way in any significant scene. ........... #It's like the moment in ep 2 when Tula's initiative fell behind Both Lila and Jaysohn and the only thing she could do was Watch #as they both jumped into the battle ahead of her. because she couldn't keep up with them... #look Sometimes catching a recurring theme in an actual play show doesn't necessarily Mean anything bc of the improv nature of it #but Obviously the dice also tell stories. and Aabria is a Fantastic GM. and the players are Excellent at role play. so it's..... 👀 #certainly not off the table. G-D i'm so invested in this season i'm fully gonna lose my mind no matter what happens lmao #i'm on the edge of my SEAT

[stonecoldsilly]

i genuinely had to pause at this moment and pace around my room. he's a soldier he's the soldier he could never shirk his duty he wouldn't just be called up he'd be leading the charge of the light brigade he told the goblin king 'it is my fondest hope to die doing as you have ordered me to do' he'd die bravely and foolishly and thinking rue was affronted by his affections and rue would wait for his return. and wait. and wait.

#starting to realise i am abnormal about this show #but what excellent company to keep #a court of fey and flowers #acofaf #dimension20 #dimension 20 spoilers #captain k.p. hob #delloso de la rue #battlemaster of ceremonies #wuvvy my beloved

[tobiasissilly]

what is up lgbtq community

#excellent entities #hfjone #object shows #object show community #what other tags do i add uhhh uhhhh

[ctl-yuejie]

Onions & Two Chicken Thighs

#kinou nani tabeta #what did you eat yesterday #wdyey 2.5 #kinou nani tabeta 2 #what did you eat yesterday 2 #きのう何食べた #きのう何食べた 2 #had the opportunity to gif this scene and couldn'tbelieve it already happened in ep 5 #have one of the most well acted heart-warming scenes in a show full of excellent acting and heart-warming moments

[guardian-angle22]

Brian Michael Smith (with Ronen Rubinstein & Rafael Silva) receiving the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2023 for 911: Lone Star

#911 lone star cast #brian michael smith #ronen rubinstein #rafael silva #glaad awards 2023 #representation matters #trans representation matters especially rn #this feels incredibly important and relevant as we all freak out about the tarlos wedding about to happen #'we're gonna use our ART' is exactly what the tarlos wedding is #using art and representation in media to show that people just like tk carlos and paul are out there and we exist and we matter #also i just fucking love these dudes #this entire speech was excellent. brian knocked it out of the park. #rafael and ronen cheering him on the whole time. rafael clapping. ronen multiple times saying 'that's right baby' #LGBTQIA+ solidarity baby - i love to see it #my gifs

[bethanyactually]

an incomplete list of clues in the Black Door episodes pointing to the fact that something was wrong 🚩🔎🚨

Ace flatly refusing to look at or engage with Nancy

Ace not wanting to help Nancy

Ace not caring if a mystery got solved

after an argument, Nancy being the one who walks away first

#nancydrewedit #naceedit #nancy x ace #the heartbreak of truth #nancy drew cw #this post has been in my drafts for ages waiting for me to come up with a brilliant caption but that's not happening so here we go #just--this stuff is what stood out to me MOST in 409-412 even before we knew exactly what was wrong #and on rewatch it feels even wrong-er with the context #the more I watch s4 the more I like it and the more impressed I am with the writing #this show got the short end of the stick cancellation-wise and they gave us the best possible series finale they could bless them #I do really wish we could have seen their original plan I suspect it would have been as excellent as the other season finales #but they did their level best and the s4 we got was PRETTY GREAT imo #bethanyactuallyedit #queue of themyscira

[autism-corner]

an ode to what could have been o7

#rip rootin tootin guy.... you will be missed in canon but not in my heart <3 #ikik it still COULD be blade but... cmon. thats fucking dante if ive ever seen him. #also. thank you enstars cowboy man madara for the excelent pose/base o77 could not have done it without you =w=b #dude its just..... he deserves cowboy boots i think. and a gun. #and many ear piercings. but thats a given. #also sorry for not showing his gem :( #googling 'cowboy drawing references' gave boring results so i had to stick to what i knew.... #im actually really proud of this he looks so happy <3 #rootin tootin guy...... #sillyposting #my work #nu carnival #nu: carnival #nu carnival blade #blade nu carnival #YIPPEEE #augh its been a bit since i drew something. like a month or so. #its nice to be back #augh #btw yes i gave the cowboy jorts. i fucking love jorts.

[novelconcepts]

Man, to have this story be about a girls’ soccer team in particular. Girls, who are taught to play by clean rules of society that must be actively unlearned in the wilderness. Athletes, who famously operate on superstition, rituals so easily transformed in crisis to matters of life and death. A team, which fundamentally cannot succeed if all parties aren’t working in tandem for the good of the whole. It’s so smart, and so simple, and goddamn, I love Yellowjackets.

#yellowjackets #it’s! so! excellent! it feels like early seasons of orphan black #where I just trust the show runners to know what they’re about #because everything from casting to music choice to symbolism is deliberate #and while there are a few elements of season 2 I’m not as crazy about I overall really really dig what they’re putting out there #I want to talk about this show to EVERYONE while knowing full well it will so not be half of people’s cup of tea #I’m like ‘it’s weird and fucked up and tragic PLEASE OBSESS WITH ME I’M BEGGING’