Rewatching episode 3 and 4 and thinking about the fact that in ep3 impulse was talking about enderpearls and sky net and said “if you did fall you can throw it towards the ground” to save yourself, and then he proceeds to do exactly that in the next episode when grian and Joel were trying to kill him.
maybe it’s just a coincidence but even if it it, it seems impulse has some sort of foresight into the future
I will absolutely never be normal about the fact that Jensen had to literally fight for Dean to die standing. Like, he had to FIGHT for it. The man wasn't allowed to have any say in the ending of the character he played for 15 years!!! He had to accept Dean dying. He had to accept the rusty rebar. "Take it or leave it" they told him. And he literally had to fight for Dean to at least die standing, head up high.
it means SO MUCH to me that nadja actually called out to guillermo for help when she was struggling against that doctor. like. it's one (already huge!) thing for her to be protective of him and wanting to get him away from that place and back home. but it still sort of lies within the usual vampire/familiar dynamic where the the familiar "belongs" to the vampire and so is theirs for them to do as they please, ykwim? nadja wanting to take guillermo home can be read as a more extreme form of that possessiveness (we know it isn't, but it could be). she even tried to pass it as exactly that when she said guillermo was nandor's (/theirs) to kill. but when she called for him for help? that was something else, entirely and undeniably. it proves that she sees him as someone she can rely on for help and protection when needed, someone on her same level. it takes trust and vulnerability for a vampire to rely on someone like that, especially on a human. and she did it. and guillermo, despite being incapacitated (between the bindings and the drugs in his system), came through for her and protected her like she protected him!! found family at its finest, i'm so happy!!
Mhmm I sure love thinking of the reality where we did get more time to really know Karai and her dynamics with the bros. Losing her hit hard in the finale, but it would’ve hit much, much harder had we known Karai longer and really saw her relationships develop with everyone.
I especially would have been interested in her dynamic with Leo, as past iterations often have the two of them clash in ideals and the like while still sharing many characteristics. Two sides of the same coin, and all that. Her specifically being the bros’ Gram-Gram also adds a whole new dynamic as well.
Imagine how interesting it would be, to have Karai start off on Leo’s side for once, showing wholly just how alike the two are at their cores and bonding as family without the worry of betrayal or animosity that other iterations suffer through, only to have Karai die anyway. Their parting hug and the desperate look of horror Leo wears later on would have hit that much harder, I feel.
I love this panel because it's such a huge picture of how far Tails has come since he met Sonic.
The poor kid used to have bullies pull at his tails and hurt him, and he couldn't do anything to stop them. He was scared, he was little.
But since meeting Sonic, he's grown, he's become more confident, and he's much more independent. So when a creep like Starline literally grabs one of his tails -- which you know HAD to stir a lot of bad memories for him -- he doesn't flinch, stares directly at Starline, stands up straight, tells him "I don't think so," and easily snatches back control in the situation. (By pulling on Belle's tail and making her involuntarily kick Starline in the mouth. 🤣)
also sam is way more nuanced about lestat than ppl give him credit for on here 😭 like of course someone else writing about you is always going to engender an element of interpretation and we all read what we wanna read when it’s so disconnected from the person saying it but he’s not some mindless lestat apologist he’s actually very thoughtful and saying relevant things and thinking about this on a level that once you get there you’re like fuck. that’s literally so true and it’s so obvious that you’re kinda like blindsided not to have realized this already. he’s not like downplaying louis’ story or acting like louis is lying, him and jacob are actually quite similar in thinking on this i think? i just think jacob is more articulate 😭 anyway all this to say he doesn’t talk over Jacob lol theyre having a conversation. like they’re pushing e/o to think more deeply about it even though they end up with the same answer basically. in MY opinion. they’re literally just having a conversation
What I'm learning is that most of the executives in the entertainment industry want the ability to buy people as slaves to perform for them or die, and that puppeteering stolen corpses around on stage is an acceptable second choice
He's an amalgamation of Thancred and Ran'jit, his face, his voice and his weapon is Thancred's, but his body, his fighting style and his words are Ran'jit's.
Throughout the fight Fatebreaker constantly makes comments about how only he can protect Ryne, only he can provide for her, only he has even the right to so much as stand beside her, to be in her general presence. He's possessive and obsessive, repeatedly asserting that she is HIS and his only. Which is exactly what Ran'jit says basically every time we encounter him.
But this time it's in Thancred's voice. This time it's with the voice and face of a man she actually cares about.
Ryne isn't scared of Thancred, she never has been. Even when she first met him she was barely even nervous (as clearly shown in Thancred's short story). There's a lot of different feelings happening between those two, but fear has never been one of them.
But now, after things have gotten so much better, she is scared of Thancred becoming like Ran'jit. Because if Thancred was just a little further gone, if he was just a little less compassionate, he would've. It wouldn't be hard for him to go down the same path as Ran'jit did, to be incapable of letting go of the ghost of that girl he loved so so much to the point he'd stubbornly grip anything close to her he could. He didn't, but the fact he could've is terrifying.
It makes his final words, words that are Thancred's, so very important. This is her deepest fears made manifest, but he still says he wants her to be happy. Her happiness not only matters, but is important to him.