STAR TREK: PICARD - Recensione 3x10 “The Last Generation” (SERIES FINALE)
Star Trek: Picard si conclude con un finale emozionante, che chiude il ciclo di Picard e soci e guarda verso il futuro... qualcuno ha detto #StarTrekLegacy?
RECENSIONE SERIES FINALE
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confronting his confronting her
demons good side
nightmare dean trying to convince him he's not worth saving and dean telling him it's not true // hope turning away from her humanity because she doesn't want to be saved
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Round 3 came and went and took with it some fan favourites. We're halfway through the tournament now, and there are only a handful of episodes left! It's time to get your bets in as to which one you think will win!
The episodes that have been eliminated this round are:
1x02: Ring of Fire - Part 2
1x09: Slingshot
1x21: Comet Chasers
1x23: Chain of Command
2x02: Ghost Ship
2x06: Up from the Depths - Part 1
2x23: Long Haul
2x25: Hyperspeed
3x24: Firebreak
3x26: The Long Reach - Part 2
Previous eliminated episodes:
1x03: Space Race
1x04: Crosscut
1x05: Fireflash
1x06: Unplugged
1x07: Runaway
1x10: Tunnels of Time
1x11: Skyhook
1x12: Under Pressure
1x13: Heavy Metal
1x14: Falling Skies
1x15: Relic
1x17: Heist Society
1x19: Extraction
1x20: The Hexpert
1x22: Designated Driver
1x24: Touch and Go
1x25: Undercover
1x26: Legacy
2x01: Earthbreaker
2x03: Deep Search
2x04: City Under the Sea
2x07: Up from the Depths - Part 2
2x08: Lost Kingdom
2x09: Impact
2x10: High Strung
2x11: Weather or Not
2x12: Fight or Flight
2x13: Escape Proof
2x14: Volcano!
2x15: Power Play
2x16: Bolt from the Blue
2x17: Attack of the Reptiles
2x18: Grandma Tourismo
2x19: Clean Sweep
2x21: Inferno
2x24: Rigged for Disaster
2x26: Brains vs. Brawn
3x01: Chaos - Part 1
3x02: Chaos - Part 2
3x03: Path of Destruction
3x04: Night and Day
3x05: Growing Pains
3x06: Life Signs
3x07: Rally Raid
3x08: Crash Course
3x09: Flame Out
3x10: Deep Water
3x11: Endgame
3x12: SOS - Part 1
3x14: Signals - Part 1
3x15: Signals - Part 2
3x16: Chain Reaction
3x17: Getaway
3x18: Avalanche
3x19: Upside Down
3x21: Break Out
3x22: Buried Treasure
3x23: Venom
3x25: The Long Reach - Part 1
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A Fight Taken To Heart: How Edward Teach Became a Queer Ally in Honor of Charles Vane
This piece was originally written for the fantastic @blacksailszine, which unfathomably came out over a year ago (and you should check it out if you haven't!). Somehow, I managed to procrastinate posting this here for that long, which is asinine. Especially because I'm actually very proud of it!!!
The news about Ray Stevenson today has me emotional (of course) and thinking again about how his performance as Blackbeard had a great impact on me. In his honor, it feels like a fitting day to finally share my tribute to his character on this blog.
Without further ado... please enjoy my meta below 🖤
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The first time we see Edward Teach’s eyes, they’re framed in a mirror with a heart carved above it. Within the context of a scene designed to convey that Teach is a figure who commands fear and respect, this seems to be a curious choice for an introductory shot. Yet, much like many details placed throughout Black Sails’ meticulous narrative, the mirror’s design is poetic in hindsight because Teach’s heart was his ultimate motivation.
Over the course of multiple scenes, the first half of season 3 introduces us to both the pillars of who Teach is as a character and the primary characteristics of his relationship with Charles Vane. Taken as a whole, the picture painted of Teach’s presence in the story is that he acts as a metaphor for heterosexuality, toxic masculinity, and tradition. We learn that Teach had nine wives over the course of eight years, at least partially because he is motivated by the desire for a son. He glorifies strength above weakness, and he defines strength as superior physicality, independence, and sufficient leadership. He reminisces about the original state of Nassau in his youth, in which the standard was an enforced masculinity, powered by the notion that “one had to prove his worth.” And as he says to Vane and Jack in 3x02, in his view,
“You have taken away the one thing that made Nassau what it was. You have given her prosperity. Strife is good. Strife makes a man strong.”
Upon his introduction, Teach sees only the small picture of Nassau, not its place in the bigger picture of the world. He looks upon a Nassau rich in monetary plunder, preparing to come to its own defense or go to war, and he sees the ease in which men can typically join any crew as a marker of a lack of conflict. What he fails to take into account is that the primary strife now originates externally rather than internally because it is the strife of oppression, and that the solidarity that results from that strife creates its own version of strength.
”Why are you so determined to defend Nassau?” he asks Vane in 3x02, because the island is no longer anything special to him. “A lion keeps no den,” he tells Vane in 3x05, “Because the savanna, all the space within it. . . belongs to him.” Teach is not beholden to Nassau for haven or home, because he was able to assimilate into civilization whenever he had cause or desire. He married multiple women, flew under the British flag, and even spoke their “language” of flag codes (3x10). While Teach is certainly a pirate, it is by choice rather than survival.
As a result, he cannot understand the importance of true solidarity amongst the oppressed–and thus, Nassau’s defense–because he’s never needed it, as a straight white man who’s never been limited by oppression. And because this is a narrative where piracy is arguably a metaphor for queerness, filled with characters who do not have the luxury or desire to play by civilization’s rules, Teach sticks out upon his entrance. It’s also partially why he’s initially framed in an antagonistic light; he is not “with them,” and therefore, he is “against them” by default in some capacity.
The exception, of course, is his bond with Vane. Teach is one of many characters motivated by the desire to leave a legacy; as he says in 3x03, “There is an instinct to leave behind something made in one’s own image.” In his case, this manifests as his desire for a son–but he saw parenthood as an opportunity to mold and form another man to be his reflection. Teach wanted Vane to be a copy of him, but Vane never was, and it’s the primary source of the conflicts between them.
Teach had no love lost for Nassau, and so he calls it a “burden” on Vane, while Vane insists that he is “committed to it” and Jack by extension (3x03). Teach scoffs at the idea of such loyalty, deriding and discounting Vane and Jack’s relationship, casting aspersions on Jack’s character in the process–even as Teach demands to receive such loyalty from Vane himself. It’s evident that Teach doesn’t understand core aspects of Vane’s personality and motivations, but Vane is unequipped to explain himself to him.
This is partially because Vane initially doesn’t understand his own motivations either, especially in the face of his father figure’s disapproval. His inner struggle is exemplified in how he’s torn between allegiance to Teach, or allegiance to the rebellion for Nassau’s independence and his people caught in the fight. Flint summarizes Vane’s internal conflict by bringing it to light for him in 3x06:
“They took my home. I can’t walk away from that. Can you? Forget me, forget Teach, forget loyalty, compacts, honor, debts, all of it. The only question that matters is this: Who are you?”
It is not insignificant that a gay man says this to Vane. The struggle of finding oneself is inherently queer as a framing device, especially in the context of a narrative where piracy and freedom are pursued by the marginalized. The fact that wrestling with identity is the defining point in Vane’s arc implies that the answer exists beyond the bounds of what others would ascribe to him. Straight people–particularly in regards to Black Sails’ main cast of characters–are not faced with this question.
And various players do try to ascribe an identity to him. Teach tells Vane that he’s a lion, while the Spanish soldier calls Vane a fellow sheep (3x05); Eleanor lists Vane as the antithesis to civilization (3x01) and calls him an “animal” to his face (3x09). Yet even up to his end, though civilization and history would paint him differently, Vane’s motivations were always painfully human. Vane was driven by emotions on a deeper level than most recognized, and by desire for two primary things: freedom and honest loyalty.
Vane felt empathy for the unfree, and he was defined by wanting to avoid living in chains again at all costs–literally or metaphorically. He explicitly compared the fear that slaves face to the wider struggle of the pirates on Nassau (3x01), and the fear they feel as they sit on “Spain’s gold on England’s island,” expecting a retaliatory response. Vane feared subjugation or submission at the hands of any person or power, considering it a fate worse than death; to him, “no measure of comfort [was] worth that price” (3x08). His manifesto was “side with me. . . and we’ll keep our freedom,” and he said he was “[a man] who would die before being another man’s slave again” (2x06), which became his ultimate fate.
Pursuing freedom defined both Vane’s life and death, but it was not an abstract concept. It was freedom to a purpose: freedom from expectation; to make his own choices; to define home as he saw fit; and, crucially, to surround himself with honest people who provided mutual loyalty and respect without subterfuge or manipulation. This is why Jack, who knew him best and cared for him most, called Vane a “good man” and summarized him this way in 4x07:
“He was the bravest man I ever knew. Not without fear, just unwilling to let it diminish him. And loyal to a fault. And in a world where honesty is so regularly and casually disregarded…”
Vane exhibited and sought both honesty and loyalty. It was also how he expressed his love, and the way he wanted love to be expressed to him in return. That is partially why Eleanor so effectively acted as his downfall: he repeatedly trusted her, but she could not or would not be loyal to him. By contrast, as he told Teach in 3x02, Vane found loyalty and commitment in Jack–and in Anne by extension.
So while “a lion keeps no den,” as Teach said, what a lion does keep is a pride. A lion may be free to roam, but it does so with a family. Teach did not begin to understand the significance of that to Vane until after Vane gave his life not only in the name of freedom, but also in defense of his family and home.
This turns Teach’s earlier question of “Why are you determined to defend Nassau?” into the unspoken question of Why did Charles Vane willingly die to defend Nassau and those who are fighting for it?
When Teach called Nassau–and, to some extent, Vane’s partnership with Jack–a “burden,” Vane tried to explain to him that wasn’t the case. At the time, Teach didn’t listen. He gave Vane an ultimatum: I’ll help protect these people, but you have to leave them, their cause, and your “commitment” behind.
Teach thought leaving all of that behind was freedom, and it was a definition of freedom he thought that he and Vane shared, referring to the two of them as being “of the same mind” (3x05). But Vane was unable to leave his people or their fight behind, because that’s not what freedom meant to him. For Teach, freedom meant solitary independence; for Vane, freedom came to mean solidarity (3x09):
“Because they know that my voice, a voice that refuses to be enslaved, once lived in you. And may yet still. They brought me here today to show you death and use it to frighten you into ignoring that voice. But know this. We are many. They are few. To fear death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.”
After Vane’s death, Teach listens. In the absence of being able to listen to Vane directly, he does the next best thing: he goes to the people Vane valued most and died to protect. In the name of the mutual interest of revenge, he listens to Vane’s family.
At first, Teach obviously thinks Jack and Anne are both weird–to use a different word, he thinks they’re both queer–and he makes that clear in underhanded comments. Neither Jack nor Anne fit into the boxes of “man” or “woman” in the traditional senses that Teach is most accustomed to valuing. He doesn’t understand why Vane would align with them and their cause above all else, or why Vane would be loyal to them and value their unconditional loyalty in return. But Teach seemingly knows that if he can get to know them, then perhaps he can understand what Vane saw in them, and–in turn–learn more about Vane as well. Vane lives on in pieces of them, and so it is upon listening to them that Teach ends up indirectly listening to Vane one last time.
In a discussion spurred by Anne’s concerns, Jack and Teach debate the merits of murdering Eleanor Guthrie or chasing Woodes Rogers, and they bond over their shared understanding and memory of Vane’s “distrust of sentimentality” (4x02). They can chase an empty version of revenge in the name of justice, fueled by emotion... or they can fight to win the war of resistance that Vane gave his life to incite. Between the two of them and their shared grief, and in an echo of Vane’s internalized arc, they find that the only question that matters is this: Who was Vane, and what mattered to him most? They both discover they already know the answer.
For Teach, acknowledging that answer involves fully accepting that Jack and Anne were the family that Vane chose, that the rebellion for Nassau’s freedom was personal enough to Vane that he died for it, and that this is a fight which holds value and necessity that Teach initially misunderstood.
Teach is straight, and his views on masculinity are not fully incompatible with the ones civilization enforces. Oppressive powers hold no true threat for him, because he is capable of assimilation; he could leave Nassau and thus the rebellion for its freedom behind. He always planned to. But after the sacrifice of the man he considered a son, he chooses to become an ally in the fight against white supremacy, and an explicit supporter of Jack and Anne–the queer found family that Vane prioritized, and died to protect.
Teach always thought he was molding Vane into his own image, but the reverse became oddly true instead: Teach allies with the cause, gives his life for it, and indirectly protects Jack and Anne with his final moments, echoing and honoring Vane’s sacrifice.
Woodes Rogers expected to keelhaul Teach into submission by default, through torture no man should have been able to repeatedly survive. But to fear death–to submit to death on anything other than one’s own terms–is a choice. A pirate’s fear is an opponent’s victory; Vane and Teach both knew that, and embodied it. Teach’s unwillingness to let fear diminish him or to be broken by Rogers was largely the result of his own principles and hard-won defiance, but it was also the only reason Jack and Anne narrowly avoided the same fate.
It aligns poetically: in the final months of his life, Teach’s actions were motivated by old shifting shrapnel lodged in his chest and the beating of his heart, which he referred to as “a grim little timepiece” (3x06). And “the louder that clock [ticked]”–the more the shrapnel moved, and the closer his end became–the more inclined he was to pursue happiness and purpose (3x01).
Ultimately, he was keelhauled 3 times, and then he was shot.
For Charles–tick.
For Jack–tick.
For Anne–tick.
And for Nassau–
Boom.
How fitting.
After all, Edward Teach always expected that his heart would bring about his end.
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If you'd like to read more of my meta about this show, here are the other pieces I've written:
• Black Sails, Queer Representation, and the Valid Canonicity of Subtext
(I should crosspost that to tumblr at some point ^)
• The Flinthamilton Reunion Is Definitely Real
• James Flint Is Gay
And my pinned post on Twitter @/gaypiracy has a collection of the shorter posts / writing I inadvisably did on there.
Don't forget to check out the Black Sails Zine for a variety of incredible work :)
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SG1 Whump - Daniel Jackson
1x01 Children of the Gods - Knocked out
1x04 Emancipation - Regressed to primitive state
1x07 Cold Lazarus - Killed
1x13 Fire and Water - "Dead"
1x17 Enigma - Thrown out of gate high velocity, concussion, weak
1x18 Solitudes - Mind controlled, raped, catatonic
1x19 Tin Man -Consciousness & body duplicated
1x20 There But For The Grace of God - Quantum mirror, shot
1x21 Politics - Shot, blinded
2x01 The Serpent's Lair - Shot, badly wounded
2x02 In the Line of Duty - Zatted/hostage
2x03 Prisoners - Strangled unconscious
2x05 Need - Captured, almost dies/unconscious, addiction, extreme withdrawals, passes out, mental breakdown
2x13 Spirits - Tranquilized
2x17 Holiday - Mind transferred, in pain, coma, almost dies
2x19 One False Step - Induced anger, headache
2x22 Out of Mind - Captured, fake memory simulation device, manipulated
3x01 Into the Fire - Caught in explosion / shrapnel
3x02 Seth - Hit by ribbon device, mind controlled
3x04 Legacy - Schizophrenia, mental institution, drugged
3x06 Point of View - Shot
3x07 Deadman Switch - Runs into forcefield
3x08 Demons - Struck by lightning
3x09 Rules of Engagement - Shot by an intar
3x10 Forever in a Day - Ribbon device injury
3x13 The Devil You Know - Drugged/tortured
3x14 Foothold - Drugged/doubled
3x19 New Ground - Tortured, unconscious
3x21 Crystal Skull - Invisible, shocked
3x22 Nemesis - Appendicitis
4x03 Upgrades - Strength virus, fever, passes out
4x10 Beneath the Surface - Amnesia, enslaved
4x11 Point of No Return - Drugged
4x13 The Curse - Ribbon device injury
4x17 Absolute Power - Unconscious, learns consequences of knowledge
4x18 The Light - Addiction to the light, extreme depression, flatlines
5x04 The Fifth Man - Zatted
5x07 Beast of Burden - Zatted, tortured
5x09 Between Two Fires - Knocked down
5x13 Proving Ground - Shot by an intar
5x16 Last Stand - Crash landing; knocked unconscious
5x19 Menace - Thrown, head/wrist injury
5x21 Meridian - Radiation poisoning, dies, emotional
7x06 Lifeboat - Mind overwhelmed, headaches, life at risk
7x12 Evolution pt 2 - Beaten, tortured, shot
7x15 Chimera - Dreams manipulated, shot
8x03 Lockdown - Zatted twice, shot, passes out
8x06 Avatar - Dies in video game, shocked multiple times
8x07 Affinity - Zatted
8x10 Endgame - Zatted
8x12 Prometheus Unbound - (zatted + shot + kicked) by Vala
8x17 Reckoning pt 2 - Pierced with sword
8x18 Threads - Captured
9x01 Avalon pt. 1 - Passes out from Jaffa bracelets
9x02 Avalon pt. 2 - Passes out + restrained
9x03 Origin - Almost dies in fire with Vala (of course)
9x04 The Ties That Bind - Passes out x2
9x06 Beachhead - Almost passes out/adjusting
9x16 Off the Grid - Captured, beaten
9x19 Crusade - Body controlled by Vala
10x02 Morpheus - Sleep virus
10x07 Counterstrike - Choked
10x09 Company of Thieves - Zatted by a smuggler
10x11 The Quest pt. 2 - Merlin powers, extreme knowledge (pain)
10x14 The Shroud - Zatted, exhausted
10x16 Bad Guys - Stunned
10x17 Talion - Unconscious
10x19 Dominion - Suffocating
10x20 Unending - Emotional (same)
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What do you think are some of LMKs most prevalent themes are? besides the power of friendship of course
I'll just throw 'em into a list!
Fate VS Freewill / Destiny (2x05, 2x10, 3x10, EYD, 4x07-4x10 ; characters love to run from destiny/the narrative in lmk)
Identity ("You are not the Monkey King" "You're right—I'm the Monkey Kid!" ; "This thing, whatever you are, embrace it. Embrace your destiny." ; etc.)
(Bonus post where I point out how Destiny and Identity get a little too closely linked for my comfort)
Self-worth/Self-Reflection [Kind of a subset of Identity] ("Just believe in yourself! Even a smidge makes all the difference")
Companionship as Salvation ("As long as we stand together, there will always be hope!" ; "You're the one always running off! [...] You're the one who wouldn't quit while we were ahead!")
Exchange ("You don't know, we'd risk it for sure! I won't abandon them when they need us." ; "I'd do anything for my friends! But at the cost of the world?" ; "This is Azure's utopia, and this barren wasteland is the price he paid to build it.")
Not knowing what to do and how to move forward with that.
Pain being inevitable ("Don't you realize you're hurting the people who care about you the most?" ; "All my lady ever desired was a world no longer plagued by pain" ; "No matter what I do, it’s going to lead to pain.")
Perfection being unachievable (1x05, "You can't judge things by their worst quality!" ; "A perfect world is what you make it. So as long as I have my friends by my side...this world, is, perfect!" ; "Look around brother! This is not the change we dreamt of.") But there also being beauty in imperfection. The imperfect being worth fighting for.
Heroism (Perception VS Reality) ("Sometimes the path of the hero may seem chaotic and directionless" ; Heroes "inevitably bring darkness to those they hold dear" rip. ; "But it took me far too long to learn what real heroes look like.")
Trust ("That Monkey is not to be trusted!" ; "We trusted you! All of us!" ; "He's a villain MK! We never should have trusted him.")
Power and the point of having it ("Now do you understand? From the start you never had what it took to defeat me. All your power could do was make me stronger." ; "I needed something so powerful even she wouldn't be able to win—a weapon." ; "Only we decide who we are and what we do with the power we have!" ; "But it wasn't in my power—it was in yours.")
Change ("Forever's a long time bud." ; "But we can't! Not after all we've seen—all we know and all we don't?" ; honestly just look at s1 vs s4)
Legacy (*gestures at pilgrims* ; "MK, from the moment you picked up the staff their stories became our stories—it's our responsibility to write the final chapter, no matter the outcome." ; "Why would our legacy be any different? Actually no no—the chaos and destruction we'll bring upon the world will make Wukong's past look like nothing.")
Leaving the world a little better than you found it (even and especially in spite of your mistakes and shortcomings)
and of course the Power of Friendship (plus the themes Tang literally lists in 3x14 "We're comforted by familiar tales of friendship, courage, redemption.").
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SVU Cast Before Main Roles in the Wolf Universe
Ice-T - 1 Role before Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
Kelli Giddish - 2 Roles before Amanda Rollins
SVU: 8x12 'Outsider'
Criminal Intent: 7x05 'Depths'
Peter Scanavino - 4 Roles before Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi
Trial By Jury: 1x12 'Boys Will Be Boys'
Criminal Intent: 5x02 'Diamond Dogs'
Law & Order: 20x02 'Just a Girl in the World'
SVU: 14x13 'Monster's Legacy'
Raúl Esparza - 2 Roles before Rafael Barba
Criminal Intent: 8x11 'Lady's Man'
Law & Order: 20x12 'Blackmail'
Tamara Tunie - 1 Role before Melinda Warner
Law & Order: 7x07 'Deadbeat'
Diane Neal - 1 Role before Casey Novak
SVU: 3x10 'Ridicule'
Jamie Gray Hyder - 1 Role before Katriona 'Kat' Tamin
Chicago Med: 3x10 'Down by Law'
Demore Barnes - 1 Role before Christian Garland
Chicago Justice: 1x07 'Double Helix'
Chicago Med: 3x01 'Speak Your Truth'
Molly Burnett - 2 Roles before Grace Muncy
FBI Most Wanted: 3x12 'El Pincho'
Chicago PD: 9x19 'Fool's Gold'
Michelle Hurd - 1 Role before Monique Jeffries
Law & Order: 7x09 'Entrapment'
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Under the Dome (2013-2015) +female directors
1x4 Outbreak (2013)
1x6 The Endless Thirst (2013) Written by Soo Hugh
1x9 the Fourth Hand (2013)
2x4 Revelation (2014) Written by Alexandra McNally
3x10 Legacy (2015) co-written by Alexandra McNally
3x11 Love Is a Battlefield (2015)
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What is your top 5 favorite WestAllen heart to hearts?
Mine
3x07- I told you I couldn't do this without you
3x02- You'll always be Barry I'll always be Iris
2x23- I've never felt so broken and hallowed out
5x22- She was my legacy all along
9x03- I want you to have everything
We love all those too but we’d also there conversation in 3x10 when he tells her about her future. And also 2x20 when she told him she had feelings for him.
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I’m so mad at the writers for putting Ace AND Nancy with new slowburn love interests! Especially after the crap of the last two seasons. This is a mess and I fear by the time the show ends I won’t feel satisfied with Nace. They literally aren’t together yet and they’re going to be rushed now when the writers had 4 seasons to actually put them together. They just strung us along for hype and views to the detriment of Nace’s development and pacing. It truly feels like they waited too long 😕
Unfortunately, it was always going to be rushed. This may be a controversial opinion, but I don’t think the writers really value Nace as much as the fans do. They probably resent them for consuming so much attention and that’s why they like baiting us to watch knowing there's no follow through. Plus, they were never going to let them be in a relationship anyway because they need Nancy to be unhappy in order to drive the drama. They also use her love life in general as a plot device (every season her current man is tied to the current mystery plot). If she was happily dating Ace, they wouldn’t be able to use her misery and her love life as a main story engine anymore.
Initially, when I first heard that TPTB were in discussions to end the show for months, I was thinking (against my better judgement), maybe there’s a chance they’ll end this ridiculous curse nonsense early and put Nancy and Ace together by 4x08 or 4x09 since it was the final season. However, then stuff started leaking that there’s probably more unnecessary randoms being thrown in the middle of their love story again and changed my mind. I would not be surprised if they’re doing this to dilute Nace, so fans will lose interest. I mean these are the same people who gave us the nonsensical mess known as 3x10 and who tried to gaslight the fans into thinking dull Park was on equal footing with soulmate Ace. I will never trust them again (and I sure as hell don’t trust any attempts at damage control. They were probably pretty peeved their “amazing” storyline was leaked months before it aired).
Personally, I always thought nothing would happen until 4x12 anyway (because it was always going to dragged out)…but now I think it’s probably all in the series finale thanks to a last minute re-write…and I’m guessing it will only be one lousy kiss. I think they originally devised this curse not as a Nace storyline, but as a way to keep them apart, so they WOULDN’T have to do them until the last possible minute. It was essentially kicking the can down the road by cleverly disguising their disinterest as a “slowburn”.
If the writers think I want to watch Nace dating other people for the third season in a row, then they are sadly mistaken. I would understand the concept of short-lived rebounds before Ace found out about the curse (even though they are NOT NEEDED), but these randoms seem to be a bigger deal (at least Nancy’s does...). I have zero interest in watching that transpire when the time for romantic third parties is over. It’s incredibly tedious, uncreative, and insulting to the fans who stuck around this long and through an incredibly long hiatus. (Right now, my viewership is up in the air and if I do watch, it will be time-shifted with ALOT of fast-forwarding. It’ll be like the randoms don’t exist to me even at the expense of the main characters).
When I started watching this show, I envisioned Nace would get together by Season 2 or 3 and would just be an awesome power couple solving mysteries together. I never pictured them with all of this ~drama. Now, the sad thing is…we’re never going to get the meaningful payoff other couples do when a slow burn finally plays out. We’re not going to see those domestic, loving, and quiet moments of them just being together in the context of the larger show. And it just breaks my heart because I feel like I wasted my time and energy on nothing.
Long story short, they waited too long, and now the fans (and Nace's legacy) will ultimately pay the price.
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I was watching Rush Hour when the little girl gets kidnapped and it made me go to silverusso for reasons. How would Terry and Daniel react to Sam being kidnapped? I think Daniel would be a crying wreck at first and then go full murder machine like in 3x10. ["You sent them to MY HOUSE?!"]
I was just thinking about this moment tbh.
I've never seen that movie tbh.
Under a cut because this got longer than I anticipated.
For as much as Daniel is a kind and forgiving person he has his limits and one thing he will not tolerate or forgive is putting his children in danger.
Terry doesn't have any kids but he is loyal and possessive. An attack on his children would be like an attack on himself.
I kind of think the opposite actually. I think Daniel would be so focused on getting his kids back safe that he would compartmentalize. People with trauma are often very good at this. Shutting down their fear and other emotions to just get through a situation. The kind of person who will gladly complain about minor inconveniences for fun but when an actual crisis comes at him he gets deadly quiet and still.
The only thing important to him is finding his kid. First and foremost. Everything else , even his own health and well being, his own moral code, etc, comes a distant second.
All of those are problems for later.
I think that's something that comes with age for him though, because in the original trilogy he's rather reactive. Bless him, but he's a bit of a spaz.
Daniel would be level headed, angry, but in that eerie calm way. In the show when he's saying that to Kreese he knows Sam is out of danger at the moment, so he can let himself feel his rage.
After he makes sure his kids are safe , after he spends the next three days cuddling them close to him, making them breakfast, kissing their hair. After the shock and adrenaline and relief wears off is when the breakdown comes.
That's when he hides himself somewhere he thinks no one will find him and goes into near hysterics playing out all of the "what if" scenarios in his mind. What if he hadn't been on time? His entire life would've been shaken and upturned and ended. How would he find a way to live in that other world?
He doesn't let anyone else see this though,he doesn't want to worry them. The exception is Terry. And even then he doesn't come to it naturally.
He needs to have his hours of nasty, snotty, hiccuping sobs. His anger that's still hanging around that makes him a little scared of even himself.
That's when Terry finds him. Half way through. It's not that he doesn't think Terry will understand, or that he will think he's weak. He's not in the mental space to be coddled. It's that this is so much. It's something he has to process for himself before he processes it with someone else.
Terry wouldn't coddle him anyways. He'd stand by silently. Just letting Daniel know he was there. Maybe hold his hand or throw an arm around him. He'll let Daniel come to him.
Besides, the family already had their cuddle time when she was first brought back home in their arms.
Terry, I'm not so sure about. He's good with kids but he doesn't have any. He wants a legacy.
He is both a logical thinker and ruled by his emotions.
He would be overprotective to begin with to keep something like this from happening. Maybe a bit controlling. But he would also want their kids to have fun. (Think what he does for Robby and Tory for the prom.)
As always he is a character made of contradictions. I think his parenting style would change depending on his mood and the circumstances.
If Sam went missing though? Someone's dead. He doesn't have the same qualms of violence that Daniel has. He can be efficient but also creative. He can tear through men. I think it's possible that once he finds the perpetrator he punishes both them and their loved ones. He's not afraid to tear families apart as we see in canon.
So between the both of them a trail of wreckage is left.
I do wonder though, if Terry would give in to ransom requests to keep his family safe, or if he wouldn't because he knows he could keep themselves safe anyways. Again. I think it depends on the situation.
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Blindspot Season 3 Re-watch OC (original creations)
Making another little post for this season that I can pin to keep track of my creations. :) Ususally I tag them all as “#nachos blindspot oc” but, well, you know how this website goes. Things go missing.
My season 2 re-watch creations can be found here. :)
3x01 - Back to the Grind
Fics - Selfless Disregard | Miss Green-Eyes (fluff, angst, childhood friends) | The Family (fluff through and through)
Gifsets - Jane’s a little different | The new recruit | Jane Leaves (Part 1) (Part 2) | A Tank! A freaking tank! | New Ink
Music
Parallels - Weapon of Choice (2x17/3x01)
A stupid meme (Driving a Tank)
Another stupid meme (Courtship displays)
Unspoken Dialogue 1
3x02 - Enemy Bag of Tricks
Gifset - The Occupational Hazard
3x03 - Upside Down Craft
Gifset - Jane is Done
A stupid meme (Judge Janey)
3x04 - Gunplay Ricochet
Gifsets - Jane & Kurt’s Wedding (Tasha and Reade) | Jane & Kurt’s Wedding (Patterson) | The bombshell from the past
Parallels - Roman solved a tattoo... kind of (2x12/3x04)
3x05 - This Profound Legacy
Fic - It didn’t exactly fit into her plans
3x06 -
Unspoken Dialogue
Parallels - Faith & Change
3x07 -
3x08
3x09
Ficlet, sort of
Unspoken Dialogue
3x10
Gifsets - This is for Paris | You got a name? | Missing a team - the team | You really love him?
Thoughts: mfw
3x11
3x12
3x13
3x14
3x15
An extremely niche meme for an already small fandom
3x16
3x17
3x18
3x19
3x20
3x21
3x22
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Round 2 is over and some big contenders are already gone! It's starting to get real now! I hope you're ready for even more difficult decisions coming up because it will just get harder and harder
Once again, thank you to everyone who took part this round and shared their opinions! It's interesting to see the different ways people lean and what everyone takes away from each episode.
The episodes that have been eliminated this round are:
1x05: Fireflash
1x06: Unplugged
1x07: Runaway
1x10: Tunnels of Time
1x11: Skyhook
1x13: Heavy Metal
1x14: Falling Skies
1x15: Relic
1x17: Heist Society
1x26: Legacy
2x17: Attack of the Reptiles
2x19: Clean Sweep
3x06: Life Signs
3x08: Crash Course
3x09: Flame Out
3x10: Deep Water
3x12: SOS - Part 1
3x14: Signals - Part 1
3x18: Avalanche
3x23: Venom
Previous eliminated episodes:
1x03: Space Race
1x04: Crosscut
1x12: Under Pressure
1x19: Extraction
1x20: The Hexpert
1x22: Designated Driver
1x24: Touch and Go
1x25: Undercover
2x01: Earthbreaker
2x03: Deep Search
2x04: City Under the Sea
2x07: Up from the Depths - Part 2
2x08: Lost Kingdom
2x09: Impact
2x10: High Strung
2x11: Weather or Not
2x12: Fight or Flight
2x13: Escape Proof
2x14: Volcano!
2x15: Power Play
2x16: Bolt from the Blue
2x18: Grandma Tourismo
2x21: Inferno
2x24: Rigged for Disaster
2x26: Brains vs. Brawn
3x01: Chaos - Part 1
3x02: Chaos - Part 2
3x03: Path of Destruction
3x04: Night and Day
3x05: Growing Pains
3x07: Rally Raid
3x11: Endgame
3x15: Signals - Part 2
3x16: Chain Reaction
3x17: Getaway
3x19: Upside Down
3x21: Break Out
3x22: Buried Treasure
3x25: The Long Reach - Part 1
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spoiler ridden reaction to picard 3x10
well
i loved it, i loved it, i loved it.
nobody died
everybody is happy
including me
we will probably get star trek: legacy (seven and Raffi better be married mind)...i loved it
my crew i shall miss them...
also someone needs to get Data a kitten
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Optimus Prime Whump | Transformers: Prime
1x02 Darkness Rising Pt.2 - Heartbroken
1x04 Darkness Rising Pt.4 - Attacked, pinned
1x05 Darkness Rising Pt.5 - Solo fight (Punched x3, uppercutted, thrown)
1x06 Masters & Students - Dissapointed/grief, punched, body slammed, shot, hit with missile
1x07 Scrapheap - Slowly freezing to death, weak/stumbling
1x09 Convoy - Decked with a tree, large fall, unconscious
1x10 Deus Ex Machina - Electrocuted unconscious/incapacitated
1x13 Sick Mind - Infected, (literally dying), very weak, Megatron bromance
1x14 Out of His Head - Hit with fire beam, caught in explosion, pain
1x15 Shadowzone - Caught in explosion
1x19 Rock Bottom - Paralyzed
1x23 One Shall Fall - Worried, solo boss fight, punched multiple times, stabbed, beaten
1x24 One Shall Rise Pt.1 - Weak, exposed to dark energon, limping guilted, electrocuted, weak, knocked down, punched x4, restrained
1x25 One Shall Rise Pt.2 - Buried
1x26 One Shall Rise Pt.3 - Pain, sacrifice, weak, amnesia/innocent
2x01 Orion Pax Pt.1 - Amnesia, heartbroken (news of Cybertron)
2x02 Orion Pax Pt.2 - Amnesia
2x03 Orion Pax Pt.3 - Amnesia, threatened x2, knocked down x2, beaten, gutpunched
2x04 Operation Bumblebee Pt.1 - Guilt
2x05 Operation Bumblebee Pt.2 - Shocked back (shield), cornered
2x08 Nemesis Prime - Framed, knocked back, beaten, gruesomely stabbed
2x11 Flying Mind - Paralyzed mid-air
2x13 Triangulation - Punched, pushed down cliff, knocked down x2, thrown, backhanded
2x18 New Recruit - Thrown
2x20 Legacy - Shot mid-air, hanging
2x21 Alpha / Omega - Exhausted, fight, beaten, heartbroken, knocked down
2x23 Inside Job - Angry
2x26 Darkest Hour - Angry, caught in explosion, buried alive
3x01 Darkmount, NV - Badly injured, passes out
3x02 Scattered - Badly injured/barely alive
3x03 Prey - Barely alive, sacrifice
3x04 Rebellion - Dying, hallucinating
3x05 Project Predacon - Electrocuted mid-air, weak
3x10 Minus One - Loud noise, body slammed, clawed at, tail whipped, unconscious, falls
3x11 Persuasion - Unconscious (waking), uppercut-kicked unconscious
3x13 Deadlock - Jetpack damaged mid-air, shot, body slammed, boss battle, punched multiple times, angry, slashed w/ sword, hanging
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