#is this also maybe the best gifset i've ever made? also yes

[sophsun1]

I really wish that Michael and Justin’s friendship came sooner and that it would’ve been maybe a bit more than just Justin being almost jealous that he doesn’t have what Michael and Ben have. It’s so weird, i hate it so much. And the thing about the bet that rubs me off the wrong way besides that it’s a dumb storyline, is that Brian wouldn’t be chasing some guy to compete. He’d have the ‘fuck you, im better either way’ attitude that he always has. I wonder how Randy and Gale made it through this season or how they felt about it because I would go insane if I had to film it. And yes, i am so close to the finale and I absolutely hate it. I already know it’s going to destroy me just because my expectations are very low.

Also, i hope you’re having a good day or at least a bit better than yesterday. It’s none of my business but I did see that you had a bad day and I’m really sorry about that. I hope it turns out better :) sending you bunch of hugs!

Hey anon!

Ty, that's kind of you to say. Well what's that quote about how whatever happens time goes on.. you just gotta keep going whatever life throws at you. Sending you lots of positivity too 💛

Yeah, Justin and Michael's friendship does have it's sweet moments and it would have been nice to explore that a bit more outside of their connection to Brian.

Exactly Brian doesn't chase anyone except Justin ;) he doesn't need anyone's validation he knows he's the best and if you don't think so fuck off!

From what I've read Gale and Randy weren't exactly thrilled with these plots and Randy did air his concerns about it, which the writers actually punished him for. So it wasn't exactly surprising when the show ended after this season as most of the cast were ready to move on. Gale wouldn't have continued had there been a sixth and Randy had left.

I will say as much as I loathe this season from a britin pov their final moments are very bittersweet but loving and I do have a lot of attachment to them. For all it's issues the show is still an iconic piece of ground-breaking television with one of the best casts ever.

Also your comment about that scene with Brian and Michael arguing about Justin in his home triggered a parallel gifset in my head I don't think I've made before so ty!

If you ever have any suggestions for gifs or requests feel free to ask!

#britin #queer as folk #soph asks #qaf breaking hearts in 2023 #who knew

[sansadaynes]

Hey, so I've been watching dsor for a very long time and I'm really curious. Why do you like Catarina so much? Don't get me wrong, I do agree that she has an amazingly interesting story thoughtout the novela and her character in general is interesting to watch; but how can you genuinely like her and root for her to have a happy ending? Perhaps it's just my Brazilian heart speaking, since our novela's villains are expected to make the audience hate them by, at least, the second chapter.

this is going to be long as fuck, sorry about it

to start off i’m going to talk about active versus passive characters. as someone studying screenwriting we’re told that our protagonist doesn’t have to be nice to be someone the audience cares about, they just have to be active characters. an active character is one that makes decisions, that (duh) takes action and does things. they can be bad things or good things but if your character is taking action and making decisions that drive the plot, the audience will care about them because they’re not just sitting around, letting the plot happen to them, they’re doing something to achieve their goals whether their goals or actions be morally good or bad. 

passive characters, characters that don’t take action and don’t make decisions that drive the plot rather the plot just happens to them, tend to be boring to watch because they really aren’t doing anything and they’re not really doing anything to deserve a happy ending. also the more organic way to present to the audience a character and develop them is by having them make actions and choices. when you have a passive character that doesn’t take action/make choices you resort to inorganic methods of characterisation like having other characters describe the character, telling us instead of showing us. for example, another character may describe your protagonist as, “the nicest most generous person they’ve ever met!” but if we don’t see your protagonist make any specific actions/choices that shows that they are nice and generous, it’s not believable to us because as a visual medium, we don’t see any evidence that they are nice.

so back to dsor. i started this show because i saw people describing it as “brazil’s game of thrones” and saw gifsets of catarina and tbh i thought she was super beautiful. then i started it and even though amalia was “nicer” (more on that later) catarina was the one who really intrigued me because of her schemes and her political nature. also her initial storylines didn’t translate to villain to me, rather a character that was complex but had understandable and reasonable goals and motivations. she didn’t want to marry lute dude and disagreed with her father on how best to rule artena. she didn’t want to marry him because not only did she not love him nor feel any attraction or interest in him, but he wasn’t politically advantageous for her or artena, her dad literally admits he wants cat to marry him cus he thinks his daughter is mean and needs a man to “tame” her. and she disagrees with her dad on how to rule artena and how to negotiate with other kingdoms because she justifiably points out that while montemors queen is a kind and just ruler, her grandkids alfonso and especially rodolfo might not be the same so they should take advantage of montemors struggles to find water in order to demand more iron to better arm their military. augusto acts like this is a despicable thing but it’s actually the smart thing and look what happens later: rodolfo becomes king of montemor and decides to invade artena and due to montemor’s superior military strength, is able to defeat artena’s army and invades artena. had augusto listened to cat earlier, demanded/requested more iron in exchange for water and armed their troops, maybe artena wouldn’t have been invaded. cat’s actions and decisions show that she a cunning, intelligent, and political character. and some of her crueler more unreasonable actions like tricking her cousin in order to get rid of lute dude, trying to stop lute dude recovering, and trashing her room when he didn’t die made me look forward to her storylines because i couldn’t predict what choices she might make and how far she might go. catarina drove forward most of the plots/storyline of the show for the most part even though halfway through i felt that the writer changed her from occasionally hot headed yet cold and politically cunning whose ambitions meant she would always have artena’s best interests in mind to a character that was evil for the sake of it and yet obsessed with afonso even when her obsession led her to make decisions that directly contradicted her previous characterisation/motivations. unlike cersei these decisions didn’t seem to come organically as a result of continuous struggles and traumas, but rather in order to make sure the audience didn’t like her and to give amalia a villain to look like a good person in comparison to. you could say that i love cat in spite of what the writer chose because her initial storylines were good and bruna’s acting was the best. even when cat was making choices that were dumb but EVIL because she’s a “bad guy” bruna always made cat human and understandable and her emotional scenes were captivating; her speech to artena’s army gave me goosebumps.

on the other hand i found amalia to be a passive character who we’re told is super kind but aside from her healing afonso, we don’t really see her make decisions that show she’s a good person. in addition, the plot seems to just happen to her, rather than her drive the plot. afonso just shows up in a field in front of her. yes she chooses to heal him but since then she rarely makes choices of her own volition, and most of her “choices” are simply reactions to other characters choices. even amalia vs cat is just cat taking action against amalia and something in her plan going wrong or another character coming to save amalia. when amalia got angry at the people of montemor for not liking her and even printing pamphlets spreading rumours about her, instead of trying to get the people on her side by being kind to them she found the person making the pamphlets and played good cop to afonso’s bad cop threatening to imprison them. you know who did try (and succeeded) to change the people’s perception of them by treating them kindly? catarina. amalia just expects that people will think she’s nice because?? their king chose her?? there’s no reason or them to trust or like amalia because afonso choosing to marry her and no one else is actually costing the people dearly.

also it’s a medieval style fantasy tv show that deals with the politics of these various fictional kingdoms that is obviously inspired by game of thrones. whilst i have MANY gripes with game of thrones, what it consistently has done is show that a good man doesn’t necessarily make a good king. afonso may be a good man by amalia for refusing to put her aside and marry someone else but he’s a bad king for putting his feelings ahead of his nations security/wellbeing. i think afonso was meant to be a sort of jon snow type character but instead he’s more robb. and robb’s decision to put aside his betrothal in order to marry jeyne westerling cost him and the north. catarina on the other hand has shown herself to be a politically shrewd and cunning character. maybe she doesn’t deserve to be queen because of her good heart like afonso, but she’s shown she deserves to be queen because she’s the best person for the job. but yeah like you said telenovela’s typically have the bad guy get their just deserts but i think that for a show that’s specifically described itself as being inspired by game of thrones it never made any shocking and surprising choices that got/asoiaf became known for. i think the show started out really good when catarina wasn’t so much an antagonist rather an antagonistic character in an ensemble cast, but when cat changed from a character in her own right to amalia’s antagonist, i think the show’s quality went down.

tl;dr: cat is an active character who drives the plot and is a complex character and even at her cruelest bruna’s acting humanised cat and elevated the writing and she was the most interesting character by far

#princess catarina #catarina #deus salve o rei #gif warning #natashabucks #sorry this is so long #its legit over 1k words #i just really love cat #and think she and bruna deserved way more #and honestly i rarely have villain faves #most of my faves are heroes #so this shows how much i love cat #gall-e-xy