#but did they have to canonise it in the most homophobic way possible??????

[stephenrea]

just finished watching downton abbey 2......... lmao

#the way.... this completely undermines thomas's entire character arc over the past few seasons #i mean. i hated that arc and have been hoping that he'd get exactly this since the first episode #but did they have to canonise it in the most homophobic way possible?????? #like they brought back that disgusting richard ellis has a wife actually plotline #and then made thomas fall for a man with absolutely no depth who is literally called 'guy' (revealing!!) #like they didn't even get to kiss and thomas is just gonna fuckin marry him???????? lmaooooo #ok alright whatever idc anymore idc #best bit hands down was when the slotmachine.com logo that was emblazoned on the pirated version of the movie i watched #finally faded in neatly and largely just bellow maggie smiths memorial portrait as the movie finally ended <3 #downton abbey #my nonsense

[improbablevow]

okay, so this is why show creators need to plan out the ENTIRE plot BEFORE they start filming the show — that way they can use effective parallels,, and have an ending that makes sense and isn’t just “yo guys, hot take but what if we did this thing spontaneously” as they go along with the story.

because obviously that never ends well. you know how many shows i’ve watched that have a bad ending because the writers didn’t plan out the entire story before writing the actual scripts? too many to count. for a contrasting example, think of harry potter or the good place. those series’ plots were clearly planned out before the show started airing. the creators knew what they were going to do. they started from the end, and had all the big plot points planned out, and THEN they created the minor points of the story. and you can tell that they did this, because that’s what good writing looks like. it’s easy to recognise, they had a plan from the beginning and they saw it through.

now for a contrasting example, think of sherlock and more relevantly, supernatural — which is what this post is about lmao. those shows were written as “this is the concept, and we’ll just reference said concept as we go along”. this is, pretty clearly imo, bad writing.

they didn’t know what they wanted to do. unlike the other two series, the writers of spn and bbc sherlock didnt know when they were going to end the show, or how they were going to end the show. these caused them to create random plot points which weren’t planned out properly because they weren’t written in a way that would progress the show and lead them to the end. in the case of sherlock, mofftiss could’ve followed along with ACD’s (the author of the original books) version of the story which made a bit of sense. to be fair, ACD didn’t care about his sherlock holmes series but at least he was somewhat consistent with his characters’ backstories :|

mofftiss created this idea that there was a big secret about sherlock’s trauma from the very beginning. however, we finally got to the point of learning the truth behind this big childhood trauma of sherlock’s, and in turn we expected the canonisation of johnlock, but when season 4 came around we got things that made no sense when considering the rest of the story.

now i’m not gonna lie, i haven’t watched supernatural yet, but i’ve got a pretty solid idea of how it works and what happened in the end. the fans were given a show about supernatural creatures, that’s pretty clear. however, this show had no timeline; no predetermined plot points and no predetermined end. this led to the show lasting for 15 seasons,,, 15 long years of waiting for a finale and the canonisation of a queerbaited ship. because there was no planning for the show, characters came and went, drama took place, but nothing was effectively leading towards the end. so now the writers decided to end the show. but how? alright, let’s give the fans what they’ve been asking for over the course of these 15 years. so they spontaneously write in a love confession. the keyword here is ‘spontaneous’. now what? homophobic writers have left themselves with a gay main character. okay, let’s kill him off. but he’s a big character, so let’s make it a big deal — let’s send him to superhell. NOW now what? we’ve killed off one of our main characters, so we can end the show. but how do we complete the stories of the other two (2) main characters? ehhh idk, let’s just give the one tetanus so that he dies, and the other can have a generic picket fence trophy wife happy ending. oh and the first dude can have his car in heaven, ✨ cuz he liked the car ✨, and also we don’t know how else to transition into the montage of the second dude’s happy life.

so what do the loyal fans of 15 years get out of this?

the writers are so homophobic that they’d rather send a car to heaven than a gay angel

the show ended the same way it would’ve ended if s1e1 didn’t take place

the most random ending i’ve ever heard of in my entire life,,, wtf tetanus?? WHERE DID TETANUS COME FROM?? that’s so random i hate it here 😻

their comfort characters are all dead and only 1 of them got a happy ending, and it wasn’t even satisfying because he wasn’t with his brother and/or his friend

for some, this show was one of the only things that gave them comfort and happiness. the real world loves to kick people in the ass, and now the fictional world doesn’t even have a happy ending.

this show has quite possibly turned into a trigger for a lot of people. a trigger that will now be discussed until the end of time as one of the worst endings in existence.

so in conclusion:

plan out the main plots of your story before you start writing it,

and plan out how these plots will lead to an ending that will be thoughtful and satisfying.

it doesn’t have to be happy if you don’t want it to be, but it has to be satisfying. that’s good writing.

#supernatural spoilers #supernatural #deancas #destiel #bbc sherlock #sherlock #johnlock #superwholock #doctor who #sorry for tagging doctor who but i feel like i can’t leave it out of superwholock lmao 😽 #superwholock was a contest and doctor who won #sherlock series 4 #supernatural ending #idk what else to tag so i think i’ll just stop now JAJJFJS 🤡🤡 clown shit istg xx #oh wait i left out harry potter and the good place #harry potter #the good place #i’d just like to point out that i don’t support JK Rowling in any way #emma watson and daniel radcliffe wrote harry potter #but damn is that series good