#me watching s1: i miss kira

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it's time for a star trek update: finale edition. wednesday we watched ds9's "in the hands of the prophets" and tng's "descent part i."

in the hands of the prophets (ds9):

ok first of all it's fucking wack how relevant this shit still is like more than 20 yeasrs later. miss politician literally just pulled a r*n des*ntis trying to rile up her base about religious panic to get votes that she lacked

secondly they BOMBED a SCHOOL??? actually it works as a nice reminder of how the bajorans made their pleasure known under cardassian rule...for awhile there, federation was no different

LOVED o'brien being willing to beat a guy senseless for making his wife sad. good for him.

DID NOT LIKE kira and sisko fighting...........i liked that kira had that wake-up call at the end but i feel like ds9 has been a little unclear on whether or not she was a true believer til now, and i was a little surprised she thought the curriculum needed changin at first - then i was like well yeah i guess she was really upset when kai opaka died but then at the end she was like guess i'm not as much of a believer as i'd like to be! so a little hazy. but that might be a me problem

i liked that sisko took the time to sit down w jake and be like. people have a right to religion. lest this episode seem one-sided or unfair. it was a nice touch

the assassin being obriens little shadow was SUCH a nice touch but once they let you in on the joke she's like always suspiciously in the back and it kept cracking us up

the flirting scene was really good also. "on your toes o'brien" he read the room and headed immediately for the exit and good for him i love him sm. probably my favorite part of the entire ep i laughed really hard

overall felt like a weird choice for a finale, but not necessarily a BAD episode, just one of their weaker ones. i would have picked duet for sure but i guess it just doesn't involve as many characters, let alone Sisko, The Main Character

though side bar ther ehas been a disappointing lack of sisko-centric content in s1...........all he really got was the pilot and the plot with jake sneaking out to teach nog to read. fingers crossed for more of him in s2

descent part i (tng):

DATA....................................

the reason i was banned from reading the summary of this ep prior to watching was that it spoiled literally all 3 major plot twists 1. data gets an emotion 2. the borg 3. lore

i felt geordi was a little dismissive of data having an emotion here ("how would you know it's really anger") but i liked that deanna treated him really niceys. i thought his brainwashing at the end was a little scary but ULTIMATEL not his fault!!! somebody save my boy

i looooove seeing the borg again. even though these guys aren't the real borg i love the borg in any form <3

shoutout to hugh and that time picard DIDN'T experiment on a sentient being like a lab rat! and then this whole episode he was like damn i should have experimented on his ass. never change ig.

back to geordi, i think he should have helped data with the experiment. i don't know that it could have changed anything but it might have given them a clue...like yeah data is taking his life into his hands or whatever but geordi surely has a phaser. like he could say END PROGRAM at any time. furthermore, surely he culd ask data to step out and then tell the computer to PRETEND it was putting data's life in danger without actually doing it? it's wack that the holodeck can and nearly has killed people by the way. unethical horrific technology.

oh and i almost forgot how cool was it that the REAL LIFE STEPHEN HAWKING was in this episode, playing himself...and gambling :') i bet he was so stoked that was literally so fucking cool. i hope he had a great time

TONIGHT: tng's "descent part ii" and ds9's "the homecoming."

#personal #star trek blogging #ds9 lb #tng lb

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given the antagonistic interaction between lydia’s parents during the student teacher conference, i find that it’s safe to say that prior to the divorce, the two of them fought in the house. it’s fair to say that the two have a contentious relationship, and natalie does very little to hide her disdain of lydia’s father from her teacher ( who will eventually be one of her colleagues if not already?? i don’t remember if natalie is always the counselor or not / i know she filled in as a teacher in s3?? ). there’s an animosity that is palpable, and they are unable to be cordial even for the sake of the meeting. on top of that, their perception of lydia is so off base; now...lydia really is brilliant in more ways than one, and one of them is her ability to fool people, but we also frequently see cracks in the façade that people like allison were able to see through. she doesn’t try and hide her intelligence when completing a math problem in front of the class, while conversing with scott, showing the ease in which she’s able to do this. she also corrects jackson on what a mountain lion is before remembering to play it off. she’s good at fooling people, but it’s more because people don’t push her on it than because she’s a brilliant actress. 

i think this really did start at home. lydia wouldn’t respond well to an ultimatum, so her dad forcing her to choose which parent to live with would automatically result in her choosing natalie. tbh i think she also likes the freedom that comes with that because natalie is more absent than dismissive. while lydia’s dad expects the worse, natalie just doesn’t care. lydia takes medication to ease her nerves after the wolf attack at the video store, and natalie just shrugs it off as normal behavior.

while she easily could have given up because her family didn’t care or think she would amount to anything, lydia really does like being the best. she hides her intelligence for a number of reasons, one of which is the oodles of internalized misogyny she has to work through, but she doesn’t back up the act in her schoolwork. if anyone took a glance at a test or a paper, they’d know; later on in their academic careers a teacher actually tells her to do less work because her own theories won’t get her extra credit. she’s a genius; she knows it and eventually she owns it for everyone to see not just the school. 

the downside is that lydia is really bad at being bad at something. those negative comments her dad makes that she could just let slide because they couldn’t be further from the truth come to play then. she can pretend to suck or decide to show off and it gives her a level of control, but when her powers start to come in, nothing is in control. nothing had been for a while before that either, with her friends lying about the true nature of the attacks. she felt out of the loop and like things were happening without her consent, and then she has these powers that she can’t control and that she’s actually bad at deciphering. people keep dying because she shows up too late, and that has a physical and emotional toll on her because she’s not used to failing and now the failures have a body count. this coupled with the fact that she has little control over her own actions because she keeps sleepwalking to crime scenes does little for her mental health. she’s extremely tough on herself and she’s never had a genuine support system until scott’s pack. 

#domestic abuse tw #emotional abuse tw #abuse tw #to be safe #yes i am rewatching tw don't @ me #me watching s1: i miss kira #anti natalie martin #drug abuse tw #i need to stop writing metas at 4am nothing makes sense #muse: lydia martin #meta: lydia martin

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February 23: Orphan Black 4x03

Took a nap after work but then DID rouse myself to make a real dinner and watch Orphan Black. This was a very good, but very BUSY episode. So far S4 is keeping up the quality for sure.

It seemed like just about every character had at least a scene or reference in the episode. I’ll try to go through them story line by story line as I remember them:

Rachel: I’m not the biggest Rachel fan but I enjoyed her today. Big 2020 feels: the isolation, the confusion...the online classes. I think her bionic eye or whatever is very cool. I don’t really care so much about Susan, or Charlotte, or Ira, but I don’t have anything against them either, and I enjoy seeing Rachel trying to troll everyone around her like an animal pacing around in a cage.

Sarah: Big horror vibes. I don’t remember what this implanted bot story line ultimately comes to but the ingredients are certainly all there: the vaguely sci-fi nature of it, the mystery, the grotesquerie of the placement of the implant, the body horror of it all. The scene where she’s trying to get it taken out at the dentist had me so tense I couldn’t move. I realized just how much I really do have a grossed-out feeling about mouth stuff in particular sdfasfjadsfjj. I absolutely didn’t trust that lady BUT I understood Sarah’s desperation, plus the casting was great: she looked trustworthy and innocent and sweet. Also, what must she have thought of Beth’s journey over the last months if that’s how she’s dressing and styling herself lol?

I’m glad we’re seeing more of Art. He’s the sidekick Felix doesn’t want to be! But in a good way. The series as a whole is really missing Art. And Beth is still haunting the narrative, though we didn’t get anything really new on her today.

Felix: I have vague bad feelings about this ‘finding his birth family’ story. The sister (”sister”) sure is annoying, and she brings out the worst of him. I’m not really compelled by the story but I appreciate that they tried it because I do think this is where Felix is in his personal story at this point: he’s been the sidekick and the “clone brother” for too long, and he needs to practice some self-care.

Kira: They’re really going all in on this Kira-has-powers thing, huh? Not gonna lie, I like it.

Cosima: As often happens, Cosima was more a side character today, just kind of showing up to prop up other people--Kira, Alison--but I’m looking forward to her getting to play with Leekie’s severed head next time.

Alison, Helena, and Donnie: Obviously my favorite story line. I loooooove the Hendrixes being their insane, unapologetic selves. Like I don’t even have anything to say about it other than it’s always fun and it never gets old. I waited so long for them to be on the same page but now they always are; they are the Ideal Marriage. The scene in which they explain their ‘find’ to Cosima is probably the best thing to ever be filmed. “An occurrence...occurred.” “Anyway one thing led to another and I did shoot Dr. Leekie and bury him in the garage.” (It’s that “did” that really gets to me, like he’s already anticipating someone arguing or disbelieving) “You killed Aldous Leeikie?” / “Boy did I ever!” And Cosima’s fish-eye-lens, grainy face staring at them over Skype the whole time, mouth open, staring in an unfocused way because of the nature of video calls.

It’s only because of this scene that Helena wasn’t the humor MVP of the episode because she was especially on point today. It’s so bizarre to me to get a reminder, through the shot of the wing pattern scars on her back, of her character in S1. Even though they did the transition well, if you think about just that season and then just this... off the wall. Anyway, I especially liked “Doorbellings,” “Husband Donald,” “I will continue to be hostess,” “Did you meet them?” / “No, they died,” and in particular “Can I offer you some breads?” She’s trying so hard. Also, her short conversation with Sarah about the twins was adorable.

I know I’ve talked before about what exactly is the horror of Neolution, like why they are compelling victims, if they are, and... again, it really could all fall apart at any moment, but I do think there’s something disturbing in a primal, visceral way (versus like...the evil of corporate greed) about eugenics, human experimentation, body modification. The ambition of a “perfect” or even better human is understandable, I mean people have a penchant for self-improvement, and they also like power, which a perfect human could get you, and it’s also less abstract than “money.” But at the same time, there’s really nothing more invasive and viscerally horrible than the idea of someone altering or changing or invading your very body, as they’re dong. It’s also less abstract than cloning; it takes the bodily-autonomy horror that was hinted at before and brings it home, while also taking it to 11. Basically my way of saying that I’m really digging the creative choices the show made this season--at least, dun dun dun, so far.

#the year 2022 #2022: fandom thoughts #2022: orphan black

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S3A - E4

Alrighty, here we go. Maybe I’ll get a little less fired up this time.

Be Kind, Read More’s (I’m bad at puns or jokes.)

Thoughts:

So, I get that they’re trying to amp up Scott becoming an Alpha or whatever, but I just really hate the concept of dogs needing to know “who the alpha is.” It’s a really harmful myth that leads to a lot of frustration for owners and a lot of fear for their dogs. I actually recommend anyone with a dog, or thinking of getting a dog to look at this video to understand how huge a myth that whole Dominance thing is. He explains it better than I ever could. That also doesn’t work in the show, since we know that all werewolves have sway over dogs. Derek does it like a fucking pro in S1 (Yeah, he scares the dogs, but it’s entirely controlled. The dog didn’t freak until he wanted it to.)

Woooow, Scott actually working at his job? That’s new!

Deaton, mistletoe is poisonous to anyone. Wtf are you on about “to the dog, and you too.” literally everyone is poisoned by mistletoe.

Is this a reference to a movie or something? IT’s so fucking creepy and gross, him sticking his hand under the dumpster and getting bit. And what’s with the whispering??? JENNIFER did you bite someone? WTF? Also, he literally can’t get any closer, dumbass. He’s on his knees right up against the dumpster.

I hate this woman. This show I think has a lot of issues with actual foreshadowing and making villains appear earlier in the show. Like, they knew Jennifer was going to be the villain. So what was all this extra shit? All the random clips of her grading papers and getting spooked walking down the halls of the school. She’s literally committing murder every single night and is far scarier than even werewolves, even without the extra powers. Showing us this stuff directly contradicts her being the villain. I can’t tell if they thought we as an audience were too smart and we’d figure out she was the villain, so they had to cover their tracks extra hard bc we all know that plot twists should only ever happen when it makes no sense, or if they thought we were too dumb to notice that they didn’t put any effort into her character until she starts being actively creepy.

I hate this. I hate all of it. I’m disgusted and nauseous just fucking watching this, knowing that Derek isn’t fucking choosing to do any of this. He’s literally under a spell that’s making him worry about her, because she wants an Alpha guard dog.

I’m also gonna point out that since the show hadn’t told us that Derek was being controlled yet, they were trying to show Derek being interested in Jennifer and trying to make Jennifer someone Derek would be interested in. In order to do that, they made her jumpy, suspicious, anxious, and over-talkative. And crazy smart. With brown hair. Just saying.

The Crucible? Dude, you started the class on The Heart of Darkness literally last Wednesday. Chapters 1-3 weren’t due till last Friday. Why can’t this show fucking make up its mind?

Aannnnd here we go. Love watching Scott laugh about something that he knows Stiles is absolutely terrified by, seeing as Heather DIED. God, if you want Scott to look funny, can you not make him make jokes about something that’s getting people killed and traumatizing his best friend? Jesus.

I...I feel the need to point out that Stiles jumped exactly the same way Jennifer did like two seconds ago....just saying.

Honestly, I like that this Danny did this, not just to fuck with Stiles (in a non-sexy way) but also to try and subtly point out that he can hear them talking about virgin sacrifices. Maybe keep it down boys?

As much as I hate this shaky camera, slow-mo to fast-mo stuff, it’s still so much better than the CGI/Green Screen. Just, so much.

Boys, stop sticking your tongues out while running, you’re gonna bite them off and that shit doesn’t grow back. Also, I wanna give Isaac props here for managing to keep up with Alphas. Speedy Boi. AND, did you notice the look on his face before he ran after them? TOTALLY different from the look on his face before he attacked Cora in the woods. Not play time, kill time.

Those are...those are also not wolf sounds. At least I know Cora wasn’t a sexist thing? Seriously, wolves sound terrifying enough on their own, no need to add in the lion--wait didn’t I read that they don’t use lions roars most of the time, they use tigers instead? Whatever. NO need for the cat noises. I get it for the actual roaring stuff, but the snarls can be wolfy, can’t they?

How long did they have to stand there waiting for the cops to arrive? THe whole class is just standing around in a crowd? You know, I’d believe it, honestly I don’t think Finstock would think to make them go back to the school. He’s not great at the adulting thing.

How--How did Kyle’s girlfriend know? She’s not on the track team, is she?

I hate this whole “He’s got a point” thing. Stiles admitted that he agreed the Alphas were connected somehow but his reasoning is perfectly sound. Are you seriously telling me that Scott didn’t talk to Deaton about this? We can assume he did, because it’s Scott and he tells Deaton Everything. But that means Deaton DIDN’T tell him what he knew, openly lying to him. And none of that should matter anyway, because Stiles is Scott’s best friend. It is not too much to ask for him to just believe Stiles. In fact, it’s pretty fucking basic friendship stuff.

ALSO I hate that Isaac appears to give zero fucks about Erica. “They killed that kid, they killed the girl that saved me” But no mention of Erica? Or of how they imprisoned erica and boyd for four months? No mention of his own pack members? Seriously?

Hi cora. Hi derek. I really really wish you were going to be a reprieve from the bullshit of the rest of the episode so far, but instead you’re going to break my heart by refusing to give me even the slightest hint at Derek and Cora giving any kind of fucks about each other and finding out that the sibling they thought was dead is not dead. Nothing. We get absolutely Nothing. I don’t even get to see where the FUCK Cora got the exercise clothes from? Did they go shopping? did they go find her bag of clothes that got left in a building somewhere when she was taken? Huh? SOMETHING?

I’m just so...disappointed, and it’s definitely not directed at Derek.

Also, Derek, your alarm sucks ass if it only tells you that someone’s at your place once they’re outside the door.

I’m gonna be honest, Derek does need to work on his ranged combat. He’s all about the up close and personal, our boy needs a quarterstaff or something. Maybe a bat?

Sup duke? I hate your guts.

Sup Harris? I hate your guts too.

I don’t--I don’t even wanna talk about this scene with the twins. I just...what the absolute fuck? Those kids need so much therapy. I just feel ill. Also stop with the making werewolves masochists for some reason! Stop it! It’s boring and dumb!

I literally refuse to believe any of that had plot relevance. I think the twins are just being assholes for the fun of it. That is so convoluted in so many ways.

Other than the really really overdone British villain trope thing, I literally have nothing to say about this scene. Other than, you know, the part where Derek outright refuses to kill his pack even with a fucking PIPE through his CHEST, yet somehow we’re meant to believe that he wanted to kill them on the full moon even when he had no proof that they’d hurt anyone? Love that logic. Yah. Uh huh. Side note: why do I even like this show? Side Side note: It’s cus’ Derek and Stiles and Cora and Isaac and Boyd and Erica and Lydia are all fucking awesome. Honestly, Allison too. And Danny. And Jackson. And Kira when she comes in. Even Malia has potential

Isaac, honey, you have claustrophobia and that’s a legitimate medical concern that Harris would need to make adjustments for.

HI BOYD. I MISSED YOU SO MUCH OH MY GOD. Thanks for stabbing me in the heart with that friend comment. My everything hurts now. I love you. Also, bye, cus’ you don’t come back for the entire rest of the episode. awesome.

Is it even remotely okay for the school to make students handle chemicals and fuck with the janitor’s stuff/do custodial work? Like, detention is detention and the school/Harris has no business using the students for free labor.

Fucking pathetic. I hate this stupid Alpha command thing. I hate this whole plotline and no I’m NOT going to stop complaining about it any time soon. It’s stupid as fuck.

Stiles how do you expect Lydia to know about this shit when no one fucking talks to her except you??? SEE? YOU SEE? THAT is how you use humor in a tense situation!

Lydia, Stiles is human.

Please stop with the sexual tension, it’s pissing me off. Allison fired over a dozen arrows into Erica and Boyd, then help her grandfather kidnap and torture them and sliced Isaac to ribbons. I’m not done being mad at her, and Isaac Damn Well shouldn’t be either.

Okay WHAT? Since when is English the last class of the day? It was their first class an episode ago! What the fuck are you talking about? and WHY are you writing “Great Expectations” on the board!!???? Even if The Crucible was for a different class you’re STILL ON HEART OF DARKNESS.

I just-I get that they’re teenagers, but that’s seriously the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen and even though Allison’s still pretty high on my shit list at the mo, she’s way too smart not to know that this is stupid as fuck. Just because the Alphas are being stupid doesn’t mean you PISS THEM OFF. Nothing you just did HELPED at ALL. You didn’t Hinder them or Weaken them or ANYTHING. You just played a stupid ass prank???

So...Stiles has a free period in the last period of the day? When no one else does? Yet somehow he’s in all their classes AND we SAW him AND LYDIA in Scott and Allison’s English class? ALSO the twins are Miraculously now in the English class as well, even though they weren’t there on the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL??? WHat the FUCK This is a show about HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS and you can’t be fucked to actually get their stupid fucking Schedule right? The same with the full moon. The two things that should always be consistent are the FULL MOONS for the WEREWOLVES and the SCHOOL SCHEDULE for the STUDENTS. You spend hours of episode planning time on making outfits and references to horror movies, but you can’t get A SIMPLE FUCKING TIMELINE right?

I know Stiles hasn’t talked to Deaton all that much so far in the show, but this is a really weirdly long introduction to him asking Deaton for info, when I honestly expected him to just push in and say, “HEY, so how about those human sacrifices, huh? You keeping something from us again?”

I hate them cutting up these scenes so much. Derek’s effectively been pinned to the ground for an entire school day at this point.

Actually, this little speech of Duke’s is where I got a huge headcanon for the show about how truly monstrous Duke and the rest of the Alphas are. He says he didn’t know that killing your own Beta adds their power to yours. But, shouldn’t that be like a really well known thing in this werewolf world of horrific murders and “Rite of passage, into his pack” mentality that the show seems insistent on showing us? Instead, I think that Duke is actually like he says he is. The Demon Wolf. He’s a fucking demon and all werewolves know it, because he and his pack are disgusting and twisted enough to kill their own pack. I firmly believe, beyond all reason because fuck this show, that Alphas have a biological imperative to protect their pack, to keep them safe and happy and provide for them. That the reason no Alphas really knew about what happens when you kill your own Beta is because no one ever would. It’s the most taboo, horrific thing a werewolf can do, harming their own pack. Their own family.

STOP TOUCHING PEOPLE’s FACES. ESPECIALLY DEREK’S.

I love Derek’s line so much. “You’re a fanatic.” Like. Yes. Completely shutting him down. That was so good.

Also, Duke. you literally just said “You’ll get to know me.” and now you’re mad because “Know me? You’ve never seen anything like me.” I wish someone would just pick him up by the scruff and toss him out a window.

What’s with the sudden lightning? and why is the thunder happening at the same time?

I have literally had the fifteen minute rule held over my head so many times. We once got locked outside our orchestra room for fifteen-minutes and one of the secretaries from the front office had to let us in, and then they had to send us a sub teacher because ours was sick but even though she called in, they’d hadn’t bothered to call the sub yet. the fifteen minute rule doesn’t exist, and I wish so fucking badly that it did. PLUS. I thought School was OVER????

Stiles, you should know better. The Celts were accused of human sacrifice by the Romans, who were trying to demonize them and take over their land. (which is pointless, since the Romans participated in tons of human sacrifice, even if they didn’t explicitly call it that. Anybody heard of the fucking Colosseum?) Plus, there isn’t any actual evidence that isn’t from extremely biased Latin texts that indicates the Celts performing human sacrifices as religious rites. You’re right though, cus’ the show does pull a lot from the concept of Celtic Druids. It just does it horrifically badly and completely misconstrues them by using the modern myth of the druids rather than the historical reality of them. I was a classics major, with an obsession on Druidic practices. Fight me about it.

Thank you Stiles, for calling Deaton out. Also, what does Deaton mean ten years? He was the Hale emissary six years ago. Jesus christ, this isn’t hard.

I hate to say it, but that is correct, Deaton. Druids were philosphers and scholars. That’s because Druid was a SOCIAL CLASS not a JOB. They didn’t believe they were “keeping the world in balance’ but they believed the world was MADE UP of balances. The Celts didn’t believe in letting people die for the sake of “maintaining the balance.” Their social structure was based on equality between the sexes and community ownership (a bit like socialism, it’s actually why the Romans hated them so much, they represented the exact opposite of Roman Ideals of hierarchy and private ownership with the male head of family in charge) But I digress. My bad.

Cue the dropbox ad

So what’s with the chanting? There wasn’t chanting when Heather was taken? Or Emily? Is the method of abduction supposed to be different for every group?

Ooooh, Dell school computers. Did they lose their Mac contract?

Oh Look! It’s the consequences of your actions!

They have so much time to react and do something to keep the boys from merging while they’re busy taking their dumb shirts off.

For the record, Druid is not the gaelic word for “wise oak”. It’s generally accepted to mean “oaken knowledge” or, less literally, “the one whose knowledge is great” (since oak was considered to signify greatness). But those are just semantics and I’m not as bothered by it. I’m MORE bothered by the use of the word “Darach” which does NOT mean Dark oak. “ach” is an Irish suffix meaning “Belonging to” and Darach is an NAME, as in like Emily or Janice, it’s a Name not a title. One that means “belonging to the oak” (actually, it’s masculine, so it would mean “Son of oak”). Scottish Gaelic and Irish are still real languages and you mistranslating things and taking words from their already incredibly oppressed and abused culture is really fucking annoying. So, uh. yeah. Listen, this is one of my few areas where I know anything so I had to complain about it. I get that it’s just a show. I really do. But it’s my post, so meh. Also, you bet your ass I have opinions on the concept of a Nemeton as well. But that’s not for now.

I find it kinda hilarious that none of the names on those papers had last names. Tom. Terry. Tim P. almost has a last name.

and now we break my fucking heart. Actually, first I wanna give this show some props for once. The music they use for this season is very drum based, very repetitive, and it really helps with the ritualistic vibe they seem to be going for. The chanting, etc. I worry about what they pulled that stuff from, cus’ if it’s from actual religions that’s fucking dicey, but the atmosphere is good.

NOW we break my fucking heart. Fucking fuck. It hurts, especially knowing that Isaac already had one flashback today. And then they have to go and add anger to my turmoil by having him go to SCOTT. Fuck scott. I fucking hate this.

Bye Harris. No, wait, I have questions. So Harris helped Jennifer somehow. By...what, helping her fake her identity? Was he her reference for getting the job at the school? Or did he help her with the killings, by finding her students/teachers who fit the bill? When he says “They’ll figure you out” is he talking about the cops or the wolves? Does he know about the supernatural? If he does, does that mean that he knew who Kate was when she found him in that bar? Bye Harris.

Last Thoughts: I’ll give this episode props. It had sunlight in it. Uh...I honestly can’t think of anything else I enjoyed. This shit, this shit is why people write fanfiction. These mistakes with the timeline and the schedule and the character’s whose personalities flip back and forth at random? The refusal to acknowledge trauma and deal with it appropriately? I honestly don’t even know how to feel about the show selling this Derek/Jennifer romance to us and then revealing at the end that he was under a literal spell the whole time. That he had sex with her while under the influence of her magic. That these oh so brief moments where we actually get to see Derek smiling and joking and see a hint at his personality and his intelligence and maybe even his past, they’re all forced on him. It’s all a trick. He has sex with her while he’s incapable of giving consent. It’s fucking rape, shown on-screen. And the show portrayed this as romantic, for the sake of their stupid fucking plot twist. We were encouraged to like this relationship because we didn’t know he was being Controlled. Ugh. Bleh. Plus there’s the whole thing where once again Stiles is being ignored and Lydia has no clue what’s going on, and Deaton is hiding things from everyone and Boyd is barely a character. And Allison’s behavior is never dealt with, and Scott is just...Scott. This is why I make changes.

#personal #rape: tw #anti-scott mccall #TeenWolf-Rewatch

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balder12 replied to your post

“me, watching DS9 when I was 13-14: I like Kira, she’s angry and tired...”

Kira somehow manages to make all her casual space elf looks seem hot. You didn’t say much about the s1 finale so I have to ask - any thoughts on Vedek Winn?

Honestly the finale was kind of rough going for me?  Like, not as much as the labor camp filing clerk one (which hit way too close to home in a few ways, not least of which is that growing up, I had a neighbor who grew up in a Nazi labor camp and man I was so fucking pissed at the character who helped run the Cardassian labor camp) but there was a lot going on and I was having trouble saying anything, really?

Anyway this got long; sort of a ramble under the cut about religion and politics and metaphors.

Basically they brought up so many real life issues in that episode (offhand I can name evolution vs. creationism in schools, school segregation, a whole lot of different aspects of colonialism, orthodox vs reform religious teachings, and terrorism) and through it all -- well, obviously I wasn’t supposed to like Vedek Winn but I could not separate my distaste for her from my actual very squidgy embarrassed awful feelings in real life when people I want to be on good terms with assume I’m Christian, and then I have to decide whether to say I’m not and what kind of a conversation about Judaism and Jewishness I’m comfortable with, and then I run the risk of them trying to convert me; even if not, they might still try and fit me into the idea they have of Judaism as Diet Christianity, Now With Less Jesus.  (And the thing is, these people are almost always much better-intentioned than Vedek Winn, and they’re never extremists or anything.  They just want to get along with me, and they just want to think that I’m a good person, and that’s what they think good people are.  But they still make me very uncomfortable and they’ll never realize it.)

On the other hand I wonder a little bit if people who don’t have those feelings normally experienced them while watching that episode?  I kind of hope so, but also I feel like a lot of people who are culturally Christian and relatively socially liberal will be reading the Bajoran religion primarily as a stand-in for Islam in that episode, and secondarily as a stand-in for (specifically) Creationism and other aspects of fundamentalist Christianity.  (To be VERY CLEAR, I don’t want to equate this fictional alien sci fi religion with any real religions, I’m just thinking about how people might have interpreted it.)  They’re in a place where they can say, “what a strange backwards planet, glad I don’t live there, they remind me of this group I don’t understand at all, hopefully Sisko can show them the error of their ways by the end.”

And I feel more like, “Wow, this is where I have always lived, surrounded by people who can’t imagine I don’t share their culture and philosophy,” and then I have to ask, but wait, why are the Federation officers so surprised, why do they argue and get mad?  Can’t they just say “yeah, sure, the prophets, actually that’s not my thing but it’s totally okay if it’s yours but just, it’s not mine, I must have missed the prophets memo, ha ha, that’s on me, I really don’t want confrontation here, anyway, gosh, lovely weather on the promenade today, hope we don’t get rain, how ‘bout them holographic baseball teams.”  Because that’s what I do!  (Man, you don’t even know how many awkward conversations I’ve had about the Cubs trying to avoid making someone feel bad about my lack of their religion.  I don’t even like the Cubs.)

And then I realize, well, of course that’s what I do, I’m not part of a massive, well-armed empire that’s trying to absorb the people who talk to me like this into my culture.  They’re the ones trying to absorb my culture, in fact.  

And then Sisko makes his big rousing speech that assumes that, really, deep down, everyone kind of wants to be like the Federation, that the Federation being good is self-evident, and I’m like, “oh no, they ALSO can’t imagine people don’t think like them!  That is going to alienate the Bajorans as much as Vedek Winn is alienating the O’Briens and Sisko, and it’s all going to be a big mess, you can really only have one group of smug everyone’s-like-me-deep-down-assumers or it all breaks down because no one knows when to change the subject and talk about the space weather.”  And then it was fine?  I don’t know.  It was off-putting.

(I realize “it was fine” is a funny way to say “there was an explosion and an assassination attempt but fortunately no one died.”  In the end O’Brien was betrayed by a non-regular and Kira was sad but like, none of the main cast’s relationship was really in peril in the end, so... it was fine.)

I think also I was a bit taken aback that Kira identified so much with Vedek Winn’s interpretation and cause initially?  I think that would sit better with me if I understood more about Winn’s ideas than “wormhole science bad, it’s a celestial temple.”  Like, is there some kind of philosophy Winn puts forward that Kira found a lot of strength in?  Did she write beautiful religious poetry?  Was she willing to stand up to the Cardassians when most of Bajor’s religious leaders capitulated too easily for Kira’s taste?  I don’t know!  We don’t get any discussion of that, she’s just Misguided for siding with Winn, and then she changes her mind because she has eyes and Winn is obviously evil.

Also, actually, on a worldbuilding note I’m very skeptical about the sheer... organizedness and unity of Bajor’s religion.  You can’t tell me there wouldn’t be sects and splinter groups and a rival religion that decries the orbs and the so-called Prophets as some sort of evil force, and at least a few religions that don’t have orbs in them at all, and well-known temples with orbs that turned out to be like, quartz with LEDs and part of the very important temple ritual experience is eating shrooms so you still have weird hallucinations.

Anyway, back to Vedek Winn.  In the end, she was awful and I didn’t like her and I’m sure she’ll be back to be an asshole but, yeah, it was hard for me to parse my reaction to S1 as a separate thing from my own feelings about religion and politics, and it’s difficult to talk about some of that stuff for me anyway.  I have a lot of feelings and I’m not good at them.  I don’t really know if any of this was coherent but you did ask.

#balder12 #kaesa watches ds9 #religion #jewishness #judaism #christianity #text #meta #genuinely I hope I haven't offended anyone in this long rant #but also I feel like a terrible jew for admitting my fear of confrontation about this stuff #(well I *am* a terrible jew so that's fine) #aNYWAY I'm genuinely not trying to say 'this episode was bad' bc I did enjoy it #like it's star trek I expect a lot of current-for-the-era politics? #just it was an odd and uncomfortable thing to watch in places #and didn't entirely jive with my experiences in conversation as a religious minority

[littlespoonevan]

i made my gf watch the entire show w me and i forgot a) how many new characters they bring in after s3 like why and b) how absolutely goddamn awful the sfx are it's delightful

asjdhfas there were SO many new characters after s3 but i also don’t get it bc there are Full episodes in s4 without malia, kira or liam yet scott and stiles also barely interact with lydia and derek throughout the season so wtf is taking up all the scenes?????? like out of all the seasons, 3a had the most characters at one time, i think (when you include the alpha pack/jennifer) and yet there was never a single episode that didn’t include all of the main 6 at the very least. make it make sense lmao

and yES! i forgot derek’s eyebrows disappear when he wolfs out and i honestly cackled the first time it happened. also. i miss the stupid werewolf running they used to do in s1 and 2 #iconic

#also i will absolutely answer your other message but it might just take a while bc my explanation will probably get long lmao #also i'm just having my dinner rn so give me like 20 mins and i'll get on it!! #Anon #asks

[sparkwhorunswithwolves]

Canon Scott McCall is a true bigoted, hypocritical coward with a black and white mentality who’s more than willing to kill innocent victims and commit premeditated murder behind everyone’s back – as long as it benefits him & only him and he doesn’t get his own hands dirty and lose his precious ‘true alpha’ title in the process, that is. // But don’t you know? Scott McCall actively trying (and failing miserably) to assassinate Gerard Argent doesn’t count because “Gerard didn’t die”, and him conspiring with Deucalion to assassinate innocent victims Josh & Tracy is not premeditated murder because “Scott didn’t do it with his own hands” but just made Deucalion do his dirty work for him like the virtuous, decent human being and morally superior tWuE aLpAhA that he is https://princeescaluswords.tumblr.com/post/625841499137048577/scotts-first-choice-is-to-not-kill-lol-what#notes

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Can anyone who actually knows this stuff tell me how much of an effect a few missed days of cancer meds have?

Okay. Okay. So we're ignoring the fact, once again, that Scott spent the latter half of s1 actively working to kill Peter? Or that, even if not murder directly, his entire plan relied on using Derek's body to stop Gerard; be that through death or "even just" poisoning and I'm going to call it torture because of the chronic pain/other side effects? That Deuc did actually tell Theo how and why he should kill his pack? Though we don't know that Scott hadn't agreed to this, we're conveniently only told that they "worked together" and correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Scott ever cared about/scolded Deuc for his methods.

Feel that, Theo? That's the secret to taking power. Pain. Take their pain, take their life, take their power. It's all or nothing. You take until there's nothing more to give. (BONE SNAPS) (GRUNTS) That's where you find the spark of power. And then, you take that as well. Pain. Life. Power. In that order and only that order.

If A tells B to kill C, who is guilty? The issue isn't that Scott didn't pull the metaphorical trigger, but that just because he didn't doesn't mean he's not at least partially responsible.

Derek killed Peter. Stiles, Allison, Jackson set him on fire with the intention to stop if not kill him.

Scott's molotov cocktails and arrows are just inconveniently always people.

That was you and yours, who just can’t seem to get over fhe fact that he achieved the status by being a decent human being.

So, I might be slightly concerned about the definition of a decent human being is. Anyone else?

Because did you even watch this show? Also not a rhetorical question. :)

Or are we ignoring the whole Corey/Hayden as bait/lying to Allison and Kira and his mom/just... Stiles in s5/lying about masterplan thing?

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Unrelated and only speculation: what would have happened if masterplan had turned out differently? If Scott hadn't been there for his "You're not my real dad alpha" moment?

You want to make your point that Scott was just as much a victim here? Okay. Remove him. Have Gerard go after Derek alone and still get the bite. For that he would still have to paralyze/incapacitate him, most likely with the kanima's help.

The mountain ash didn't kill him, and he still had enough mobility to get out of the warehouse. Do you really think Derek would have survived that? That Gerard wouldn't have shot him anyways?

What about the kanima? Was Derek supposed to control him? Kill him? Just let him run free for controlled by murderer part 3?

What was Scott's masterplan if not exactly what had happened in canon or to actually kill him?

#teen wolf #anti scott mccall #You all know my opinion on Scott Stiles in s5 so I won't get into that again unless I'm given specific scenes #(which you're always welcome to do btw) #Also @ Derek/Theo's pack I already talked about their casual dehumanization yesterday #I still don't think that's a word but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #Can't we just accept that all our faves are garbage in canon and move on to creating our ideal fanon? #submission

[rayitastic]

Andi Mack Finale rambling

I literally don’t know where to talk about this, because no one I know watches Andi Mack, so I’m just gonna put all my emtional rambling on tumblr and be done with it. This is also mostly gonna be about Tyrus. HEAVY spoilers under the cut.

CAN YOU BELIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEV uashfuahfuhaifhasfh

WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE THE WAY I AM FEELING RIGHT NOW.

About a KIDS/TEEN SHOW OF ALL THINGS. Andi Mack is truly special in many many way and man do I wish I had a show like this when I was growing up. There are many great things worth mentioning, but as a LGBTQ+ person myself OF COURSE Cyrus’ storyline always has been extra special to me. And I just wanna point out how absolutely amazing his and TJ’s development were to me. Could there have been more??? Absolutely, but honestly the way their story was told was amazing to me.

I mean they’re such unlikely friends at the beginning and while TJ is a bit of an ass at the beginning he’s always kind to Cyrus from the start. Cyrus slowly brings out TJs vulnerable and nice sides and helps him with his accepting his learning disabilities and patching up things with Buffy. They become real friends and then there’s the LOOKBACK. Which in Andi Mack speak basically means that a person likes someone. And while we didn’t know then (in S2), if he liked Buffy or Cyrus, we DO KNOW NOW. And I just love this parallel to Cyrus looking back at Jonah in S1 before it was confirmed he was gay. fsuahsuifh And then we see TJ and Cyrus grow closer over the seasons 2 and 3, having their ups and downs. They looks they give each other and the way they get so comfortable with each other is wonderful. There’s the gun drama, there’s the Kira drama and through it all you can see how important they are to each other as friends.  TJ’s sexuality is never mentioned and I think that’s perfectly fine, because this way we just get to friends growing closer and closer and eventually falling in love WITHOUT establishing them both as “the two gay characters that fall in love because they’re the only two characters”. I think this way it’s more special. Because righ until the end we could never be COMPLETELY sure if TJ liked Cyrus. Like we could all see it but I’ve learned not to hope for confirmation of such things in shows. And just.... the whole Kira thing. It’s so clearly about TJ not being completely comfortable with liking a boy now. And nothing explicit about that it said, but the subtle way it’s portrayed when Kira sways him to ditch Cyrus etc.  Cyrus seeing them together was also heartbreaking.

AND THEN THE FINALE. Like HOLY SHIT. Cyrus thinking he just deluded himself about TJ liking him and then TJ FINALLY STANDING UP TO KIRA because she made fun of Cyrus. I’M A PROUD MAMA. Like that is some great stuff right there like holy shit. He finally shows that Cyrus will always be more important than her or what she thinks of him.  AND THEN HE GOES AND SINGS BORN THIS WAY WITH CYRUS AND THEN THE WHOLE GANG AND I SERIOUSLY SCREAMED AT MY SCREEN CAUSE HOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW PERFECT WAS THIS.

TJ was clearly scared of his feelings. The same way it was 100% clear how scares Cyrus was when he first told Buffy so long ago. BUT THEN HE SINGS THIS SONG BASICALLY EXCEPTING HIMSELF THE WAY HE IS I’M SO EMOTIONAL Y’ALL. iudhfishdgi And then the bench scene. I cannot explain how perfect this was. Like literally the moment I heard we’re gonna get a bench scene in the finale THIS WAS THE IDEAL SCENARIO I pictured. The dialogue was so simple but effective and the acting was amazing. The way TJ was so nervous and then EXHALED IN RELIEF and SMILED SO WIDE when he grabbed Cyrus hand. LIKE DUDE I CANNOT TELL YOU. Cyrus SMILE ALSO AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Even before when TJ told Cyrus his name which NO ONE knows. THAT LEVEL OF TRUST. And Cyrus that dork LOVING THAT DUMB NAME. GOD I love them so much. “Is there anything else you wanna tell me?” “Yeah. Is there anyting you wanna tell me?” “Yes.” AND THEN THEY HOLD HANDS AND LOOK SO FONDLY AT EACH OTHER I’M DEAD. I think it was perfect. Also just the whole setting in front of this fire, it’s so romantic and EVEN THE SONG THAT PLAYS BEFORE CYRUS SITS NEXT TO TJ (lyrics “I hope this feelings lasts forever. Because this crazy love I feel for you”) like honestly!!! And I cannot repeat enought how much their expressions did here. They were so SCARED and when they realised they like each other and it was all gonna be ok THEY WERE SO RELIEVED AND HAPPY. I’M GONNA CRY AGAIN.  YOU GET TO EXHALE NOW.

No one can tell me this is not “clear” enough, because they don’t kiss or don’t say “I like you”. It’s very much clear.

And I get why some people might’ve wanted the “I like you” or even a kiss, but I feel like those two haven’t always needed words. And TJ is not always great with words. So this seemed right for them and to me the way it was handled was infinitely more powerful. Especially if you consider that this is a Disney show about teenagers. The “I like you” and kiss was nice for Buffy and Marty, which I would also gush over, but this is getting LONG so all I’m gonna say is: YES!!!!! But these are two boys that for the first time in their life are gonna be in a relationship with another boy and just taking each others hands takes so much courage. So to me this was perfect. I’ve never seen a friendship between two male characters just develop into a romance like this without both characters being established as gay earlier. So to me this is truly special.

Everything about the finale was amazing to me and I will truly miss this show for a lot more than only Tyrus (but those two especially). And I first felt weird about watching a kids show about teenagers, not beeing a teenager myself anymore. But damn, I grew to love this show a lot and I cried a lot. (Bex and Bowie also have a VERY special place in my heart). I really wish I had a show like this when I grew up and I’m so glad kids growing up right now have a show like this. And I can only hope that this show opens the gate for many more shows tackling all the important topics this show has dealt with, especially LGBTQ+ representation.

Thank you, Andi Mack. (yes, I ended up basically just rambling a recap, but I just got so emotional about the way their story was told suifhiahf) P.S.: Obviously I also wish we got a S4 with Tyrus and Buffy being cute. But for now I’m very much content with was we got.

#andi mack #andi mack spoilers #andi mack finale #cyrus #I'M SORRY THIS IS SO LONG BUT I JUST NEEDED TO GET THIS OUT SOMEWHERE #I don't know if anyone is actually gonna read this #and that's fine #i needed to put this somewhere #sorry not sorry #thank you andi mack

[octaviadblake]

2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47

oh my god alkjdfh this is so many ok BEAR WITH ME (ily btw) 

ok so all of these are in no particular order unless otherwise stated!

2- Top 5 overrated TV shows

parks and rec

arrow (s1-3)

the office

the 100 (lol)

???? i dont watch a lot of rly popular shows aklsjdfh

3- Top 5 underrated TV shows

izombie

red band society

in the dark

narcos

the tomorrow people

5- Top 5 overrated movies

harry potter

the hunger games (the 1st one specifically)

devil wears prada

shrek

pineapple express

7- Top 5 fandoms

teen wolf

the 100 (blarke fandom specifically)

pjo

thg (i miss my thg friend 😭 )

izombie (unproblematic faves)

11- Top 5 female characters

annabeth chase (pjo)

cassie sandsmark (dc)

kate bishop (marvel)

octavia blake

cora hale (teen wolf)

13- Top 5 dead characters

allison argent (teen wolf)

lowell tracey (izombie)

luke castellan (pjo)

monty green

kate argent

17- Top 5 “deserved better” characters my grudge against jeff davis is rly showin here

allison argent

erica reyes & vernon boyd (they’re tied) (teen wolf)

JOHN YOUNG (the tomorrow people)

kira yukimura (teen wolf)

anya (the 100)

19- Top 5 underrated characters

bill potts (doctor who)

monroe

thea queen (arrow)

peyton charles (izombie)

john young

23- Top 5 actors

LUKE. FUCKIN. MITCHELL.

bob morley

jason segel

tyler posey

tyler hoechlin

29- Top 5 family relationships

the mccalls (teen wolf)

the blakes

percy & sally jackson (pjo)

clone sisters (orphan black)

the delinquents (found family ftw)

31- Top 5 notps

i.......dont wanna start a fight so imma skip this one

37- Top 5 funniest moments

“first of all, my parents live in ohio. i live in the moment.” - himym

“i do a backflip every goddamn day of my life” - iasip

“i WISH it was porn!” - himym (aka robin sparkles ep number1)

“my mom does all the grocery shopping” - teen wolf

“NEWSFLASH ASSHOLE! IVE BEEN HEARING IT THE ENTIRE GODDAMN TIME!!” “then why wouldn’t you say anything?” “BECAUSE I HATE YOU” - iasip

41- Top 5 trailers

uhhhh idk what this means so im skipping it sorry

43- Top 5 theories

my anomaly lotus-eater theory lol

i like the theory that jordan is the mystery dude in the anomaly

um

idk

47- Top 5 horrors

happy death day

get out

the shining

us

a quiet place

#blarke wine club #I DID IT #hostagetakerandhistraitor #asks for ts

[weerd1]

Star Trek DS9 Rewatch Log, Stardate 1906.13: Missions Reviewed, “Crossover,” “The Collaborator,” “Tribunal,” and “The Jem’Hadar.”

Kira and Bashir are coming back through the wormhole when their runabout’s warp engine malfunctions. After a harrowing passage, they emerge into the Alpha Quadrant to find DS9 is still in orbit around Bajor. 

They are immediately captured by a Klingon ship, but those warriors take one look at Kira and fumble over themselves trying to please her. Bashir has studied century old logs however and has an inkling as to what has happened. They have crossed into what a century before James Kirk called the “Mirror Universe.” His influence on mirror Spock was initially good and the Terran Empire became benign…only to be conquered by an alliance between the Klingons and Cardassians. Now Terrans are slaves or somehow beholden to the alliance. Kira finds her counterpart—The Intendant—is basically in charge of DS9 and Bajor…and may be insane with power.

 She employs Mirror Sisko as a boytoy and pirate, but he resents it. Bashir gets mirror O’Brien to help them and a little human slave revolt provides enough of a distraction for Kira and Bashir to make it back into the wormhole to find their way back to their own universe.

Nana Visitor is eating this one up.  Not only does she get to sport a rubber outfit, she is definitely at TOS levels of villainy as The Intendant. Though, at some point, some director had her walk away in that outfit just to have a character call her back…so she could walk away again. Gulp. This episode is really the best of the DS9 MU episodes, as they get a little less credible with each one. Of course, “Enterprise” will go to that well (though they do it rather exceptionally well managing a sequel to both “Mirror, Mirror” and “The Tholian Web) and the MU plays a huge role in the first season of “Discovery,” which I will try not to spoil, but trust me it’s worth your time. Although Orci and Kurtzman who wrote the first two Kelvin Timeline movies cite the TNG episode “Parallels” as the basis for their alternate timeline, let’s look at the MU. Whatever differences happened in the past the separated it from Prime, there is still a Starship Enterprise commanded by Kirk; still an NX-01 with an Archer. Still a Terok Nor with Kira. History WANTS to happen a certain way in the Star Trek multiverse, and yes “Parallels” gives us 180,000 examples of how similar but different those timelines can be, it all goes back for me to the MU. One day though I will have to share my theory that “The Prime Timeline” is at least five different alternate realities.

“The Collaborator” has Bajor finally preparing to elect a new Kai since Opaka stayed in the Gamma Quadrant back in S1. Vedek Bareil, Kira’s boyfriend now, is about a shoe in, but Kai Winn arranges for a Bajoran collaborator to return from Cardassian exile. 

He brings evidence that during the Occupation, Bareil provided information to the Cardassians as to the location of a resistance cell of which Kai Opaka’s son was part; they were massacred. Winn gets Kira to investigate, and she indeed finds that Bareil erased the data. When he finds out she knows, he pulls his name out of the running for Kai, and indeed Winn is elected. Afterward, Kira discovers more evidence proving Bareil couldn’t have been the collaborator. Indeed, he was not. He covered up the fact Opaka herself had provided the information, including the location of her son, to save the 1000 people who lived in the area the Cardassians were going to exterminate to stop this cell. Winn is now Kai, but Bareil could not let Opaka’s memory be tarnished.

This is a solid episode that does what one would not expect- allows Louise Fletcher’s Winn to become the Bajoran Pope. Setting up years of follow on conflict, it’s a hard story to take, but dramatically wonderful. Along with all that, there is a scene where Kira admits to Odo that she loves Bareil. Odo is visibly hurt by this, but quickly covers it up. Apparently this was improvisation on Rene Auberjonois’ part, which the writers immediately set upon. Good for them; Kira/Odo is my OTP (look it up, old folks).

This season has TWO “let’s screw with O’Brien” episodes apparently, as “The Tribunal” has O’Brien trying to take a vacation, only to be detained by the Cardassians and put on a public trial. 

Of course in Cardassian court, the trial is just to demonstrate the State’s case, as you have already been convicted and sentenced, and you are ALWAYS guilty. O’Brien is given a lawyer, whose only job as the defense is to get O’Brien to confess faster and show remorse so “the people” can take pride in justice done when the execution happens. Odo manages to use his old status as an officer of the Cardassian courts to intervene, but it is when Sisko finds O’Brien was framed by a Cardassian deep cover spy the Chief is publically granted clemency, the Cardassian plot uncovered.

Poor Miles. He goes through so much crap.  Apparently at one point Ira Steven Behr as showrunner had a card up reading “O’Brien must suffer.” The Kafka-esque trial setting is effective here, and Fritz Weaver as the Defense Attorney who really isn’t is pretty good.

 Some nice call backs to the Maquis episodes as well as the crime O’Brien’s accused of is stealing photon warheads to pass to the terrorists…who have no idea what’s going on. Also nice to see Odo is just as cranky in the courtroom as he is on the Promenade.

Season two comes to an end with “The Jem’Hadar.” Sisko is planning a wilderness planet getaway with Jake in the Gamma Quadrant when Jake talks him into bringing Nog.  Quark uses that as an opportunity to tag along to try to convince Sisko to let him use the stations comm screens to play commercials (you know, like all the gas pumps do now). While on the planet they find an alien woman on the run from vicious soldiers called the Jem’Hadar.

 They are the military force for The Dominion who keep coming up all season.  When they go missing, the Jem’Hadar deliver a message to their friends at DS9 to stay out of the Gamma Quadrant…and they have destroyed the colony of New Bajor already. The Federation sends a Galaxy class starship, the Odyssey, to flex its muscle and rescue Sisko and Quark (Nog and Jake have made it back to the Runabout and are trying to fly it when the cavalry arrive). Sisko and Quark escape with the alien Eris, but Quark reveals she could have escaped anytime. 

As they are getting away though, the Jem’Hadar destroy the Odyssey with all aboard. Back on DS9, Sisko accuses Eris of being what the soldiers called “The Founders,” but she is a Vorta, the middle management of the Dominion. She does escape, leaving DS9 to realize that there is an advanced, ruthless enemy on the other side of the wormhole, and when they come through, DS9 will be their first target.

Besides finally showing us the Jem’Hadar, Vortas, and letting something happen with The Dominion, this episode has some great interaction between Sisko and Quark. The Ferengi points out how accepting the Federation is, until some race like the Ferengi have values that don’t fall in line. It’s an interesting argument on tolerance, and how accepting the Federation as a liberal democracy really is across the galaxy. I would normally complain that a concept like that deserves its own episode, but DS9 handles this sort of thing regularly enough not to mind the question getting sidelined too much. I tried to remember back to when I first watched this episode, if I had any inkling just what the Dominion would become on this show, or if I had any clue who the Founders were just yet.  Though not precisely a cliffhanger, the wolf is at the door by the end of this episode, promising that the foreboding feeling we are left with will only get worse in Season 3.

NEXT VOYAGE: Season 3 kicks off with “The Search” and we get to see just how Defiant the DS9 crew can get!

#star trek #Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #ds9 rewatch

[maulthots]

teen wolf season ranking

so, i’ve been watching teen wolf repeatedly for, uh, months. below is catherine dellesayah’s Official Season Ranking from best season to the goddamn worst.

3B – look. teen wolf is at its best when it’s intensely personal for the main characters and, therefore, for us. 3B was intensely personal. intensely. you got one of the core group possessed and murderin everyone, delivering unto us some primo angst and suffering. nice. good content. remember that time stiles straight up stabbed scott and twisted? christ. how scary. anyway, i strongly believe that they fucked up by killing allison because they lost something with her death…no season after 3B hits these kind of emotional beats, but you can’t deny that her presence haunts the entire show. 

1 – classic teen wolf. these kiddos are at their floppy-haired peak (i mean scott, mostly, how cute, what a good boy who’s growing up to be a good young man). episode plots about bowling and playing hooky to take your young teenage crush out for a walk in the woods–charming. the most charming. the most adorable.

6A – i’m a little, how u say….fucking biased. i love those stilinskis, and this season really hits that family hard. what a nice little family drama we have here in between whatever other monsters plague this town. also like, not to be weird, but i’m full throttle about that stiles/lydia ship after this season. it was weird and creepy in s1-2, mostly just weird in 3, but in 4 when they almost got murdered together i said, quietly, hesitantly, alright alright alright, which jsut increased in pitch and volume during 6A until i’m shrieking at my tv so. that’s where i’m at perpetually. i do feel obliged to mention that i hate theo and i’m real mad they couldn’t even manage to bring back kira for a plot that would make logical sense!

4 – this season is like. i’m torn. my friend lizothy wrote a stellar teen wolf fic for her rarepair immediately following the events of this season, which i’m going to very subtly rec HERE!!!!. the scott content at the end of this season hits hard–again, it’s very personal that he’s forced to fight his friends, and they’re forced to fight him, and that’s what pulls this season up higher than it might be otherwise. honestly i initially ranked this below s2 but then i wrote all that garbage about how i hated s2, so maybe….s4 does belong in this spot. i don’t love the benefactor plot but i do very much love watching derek and braeden and scott and kira falling in love because it’s CUTE goddamn.

2 – everyone says teen wolf peaked with this season but…it didn’t. jackson should have had a better arc wherein he somehow manages to be less of a dick, but he never gets there. he’s just mean, to everyone, the whole season, so i don’t have it in me to feel too bad for him. not to be hardhearted but, wahtever dude, what goes around comes around. also, miss me with that matt shit, he’s terrible and i resent Tragic Backstories that try to manipulate me into feeling emotions. leave me alone? all this aside, however, the real reason i don’t love this season is that gerard dragged his sword on the ground one time, and it flashed me back to King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) dir. Guy Ritchie but NOT in a good way! in a bad way! very bad! unwelcome, frankly! if you’ve read this far, i’m deeply sorry for even mentioning it.

3A – weird that this messy season is immediately followed by The Best Season Ever but it’s fine. whatever. it’s fine. i find the alpha pack and the darach to be boring plot-wise, which is why this season is ranked so low. it has some nice moments, like the three-part sacrifice at the end and possibly the single best teen wolf episode ever–the motel episode. good content. mostly though, i resent the fact that boyd and erica both died and that the thumb twins got to stick around for way too long. those two? out of everyone? bye.

5B – i may have been harsh on a couple seasons up there but this…this is where it starts. the hate. the pure unbridled disgust i feel. let me just list my least favorite villains in this entire show: 1. dread doctors. 2. theo. 3. gerard. and here we have them all, together, in the space of like ten eps. it’s too much for any one woman to bear. i hate that they wrote out kira, the WAY they wrote out kira, all that fucking medical experimentation with both lydia and mason, and the fact that they never acknowledge lydia’s multiepisode trauma in the same way they did with stiles’. i’m also particularly bitter about the allison doppelganger. why must we. honestly. why. as a counterpoint to an otherwise shitty season, i do love the concept of damnatio memoriae as applied to this show, especially considering the memory stuff that happens in 6A.

6B – as a disclaimer, this and the last bullet point switch places on a daily basis. i’m not sure about this ranking at all because i feel a specific kind of vitriol about 6B’s wasted potential. this season is so fucking boring. the concept is cool, that the big bad is fear, that we could see the protags all facing their fears but alas, we don’t. we just don’t. the idea is that the fear in this season is so bad that people would rather die than live with it a moment longer, and yet we see the entire town of beacon hills, without exception, mass into a hierarchy to hunt down supernatural creatures. beacon hills! a town that, till now, has been nudge nudge aware of the supernatural and has demonstrated multiple times that they aren’t afraid. i’m not about the execution of this season at all, and i’m also not about the fact that again they are borrowing an idea from native american mythology without ever having native characters unless they’re racist caricatures (see: 5B! what a shitshow!). i’m extremely bitter about this season, and the only thing that’s saving it is the fact that we get to see derek again, and scott has a good final episode, my strong young leader man whomst i love. god. after typing all this, i’m real wound up and inclined to just switch it with 5A right now. fuck this season.

5A – the first time i watched this season, i watched the first four episodes and then took a month-long break because i was. so. bored. we spent two entire episodes with tracy without learning one single thing about her, and then she just fucking died anyway! why did we bother! the dread doctors are gross but not in a fun way, and i hate theo. god. let me just repeat myself. i hate theo!! i hate him. i hate the writing around him even more. the idea is that he’s super manipulative, so manipulative that he tears apart the group, but we never see him genuinely manipulate the people around him until the end of the season. the rest is just bad writing. scott gets a three minute monologue at the start of an episode to talk about how the group is falling apart despite any previous evidence that this is happening. that monologue exists because teen wolf didn’t bother to show us that the group’s interpersonal dynamics were fucked. anyway. i’m half inclined to move this above 6B because, hey, stiles straight up murdered a dude and freaks the fuck out for twenty minutes, which sure is some Content that i appreciate, but. it’s a bad season. it’s just a real bad season.

#cathy watches teen wolf

[baddyxangel]

Hey sorry for reviving this so late buuuuut let me just put in a few points.Ok, so when I watched 5a, I was having a hell of a time, considering i adore stiles and his personality, and seeing stiles do bad things makes me so happy. After the Donovan situation and then when he was in a car with Theo, saying he felt good about killing him, I really believed they could have developed so much from that story, but after 5b, it's almost like they forgot about it. He had one heartfelt conversation with his father about losing something and never being able to get it back, but that's it. I was wondering, did this annoy you as much as me? Considering they never developed the fact that Stiles LIKED killing Donovan?

It's really complex, I did a lot of talking about this on tumblr, so I learned my way around it like a pro Stiles was glad in that instant because the threat was gone, he was safe, but it was quickly replaced by guilt. People overlook it, but he tried to help Donovan when he was on the spear. And it wore down on him because he couldn't tell anyone but in 5b something very interesting happens, he gets very good at pretending to be s1 stiles, he's suddenly clumsy, his brain to mouth filter is gone again, he goes from sleeping in a foetal position (in s4 with malia) to sprawled out on the couch in the sheriff's office which presents a few options

he bangs his head A LOT in s5a and a lot of the things that are obvious do fit concussion symptoms, clumsiness, sleeping at irregular times etc

he has gotten over it (hahahahaha)

he's faking it

being knee deep in the meta on tumblr (same username) I've been through a lot of the eps 2 or 3 times looking for hints, clues etc, and it's come down to brain damage which is cured medically with trepanning (opening him up to magic and revealing his otherness) OR he's faking because he wants to fit in again my own gut says b, he's faking it because he wants everything to run smoothly. There are hints that he and Scott are still broken up, but Stiles is pretending because BH needs it, and he's biding his time until he leaves. I'm going with this until further knowledge but with the suggestions in 6 that he's missing it will be interesting that with Kira gone if Scott cares.

tumblr user sublimeglass (or was it cupidsbower, definitely one of the two) pointed out there is often a huge difference between what characters on teen wolf SAY and what they DO look at Stiles, he spends five seasons advocating violence and death, to the point he suggested "chloroforming the little bastard and throwing him in the lake" [about Liam] but he's actually the least violent member of the pack. He is known as the liar but he's a terrible liar and very rarely breaks the truth. Peter is seen as being hideously lying and he uses the truth cleverly but it is the truth. It uses a specific narrative viewpoint and that viewpoint is often wrong, characters (and us) assume and when we assume we're usually, 99 times out of a hundred, wrong. Go through season 5b and ask yourself when does Stiles turn to Scott, he confides in Lydia and his dad, he goes to Scott in regards the attack because he needs power in his corner. Scott didn't talk to him about Duke (that wasn't new for Scott) but Stiles wasn't wounded like he's been before. We have Stiles who broke up with Malia, Lydia is in Eichen, Scott broke up with him - and he wants to help, he wants to be useful which Scott implied (accidentally or not) that if Stiles had killed (remember it was an accident and Scott still doesn't know the details, he still thinks Stiles smashed Theo's head in) he was cast out of the pack - which means he can't help. So why not suppress who he is and act like they expect him to be so they don't drive him away. It certainly fits his character. It's that it was SO obvious that makes me question it. Combined with his line at the end of season 5, about everyone falling where they need to be (I can't remember the quote off hand) instead of his plan to keep everyone together at the start - that's a huge shift and it certainly fits 5a stiles better than 5b but the foetal thing - he couldn't sleep until he was the little spoon, which is the foetal thing, but people like being the little spoon because it makes them feel safe. The same reason they sleep in the foetal position, which makes them small. "This stance, favoured by worriers, is said to show the sleeper is seeking to return to their comfort zone after a stressful day. Foetal sleepers are conscientious, ordered and like things in their place, according to the study, but are also in danger of over-thinking problems and worrying unnecessarily." from a study done by Premier Inn he can't "sleep without his pillow" which suggests (from the same study) ften clutching their pillow, they can appearing to be “holding on for dear life” in what is thought to be the most uncomfortable sleeping position for adults. Those who adopt it can feel as if life “happens around them” and they are just “hanging on for the ride”, believing they lack control over what will happen the next day. now before he seemed to be either a starfish or a frog, the frog is lying on their stomach with their ass in the air (often because placed on their front as a baby, the frog was recommended for a while) but the starfish Starfish The Starfish Position was the least popular amongst those with a preference, with only five per cent of those surveyed choosing it as their favourite. Starfish sleepers lie on their backs with legs sprawled and arms stretched up near the head, and were reported to make friendship a priority. They dislike being the centre of attention, instead offering to listen to the problems of others and go out of their way to offer assistance to those in need. which sounds very like s1 stiles the details in teen wolf are amazing! sometimes the big story details are a huge mess, but the tiny details - spot on every time. so him swapping from sleeping on his side curled up (if not full foetal) to sprawled on the sofa with one leg over the back is odd. His body language seems a lot tighter as well, which is why I think he's faking it. Even you questioned how far he'd gone.

I'm kinda "eh" about it. The situation was really dubious from the beginning. A fool would know the difference between murder and accidental killing, of all things. I felt Stiles acted out of character when initially dealing with it, by not telling anyone...yet at the same time, it's totally understandable why he feels the way he does about it. Maybe it was in the right vein, but much too extreme. It would've been so much better if he had actually struck the killing blow on purpose, establishing to Scott that sometimes killing is necessary, due to the simple fact that Stiles is human and isn't given a choice. If that had happened, so much of what happened later would have felt more natural and believable. There would've been some good moments between the two. As for how it was dealt with, I agree it was interesting. It was like when he was talking to Malia on the full moon, about how he liked the power and control from the Nogitsune. That was a surprise, yet it makes complete sense why he'd feel that way, and it's understandable why he'd never bring it up that much. Same goes for feeling good about Donovan's death. Stiles is pragmatic. He serves as a small foil to Scott, who is stuck being an idealist. I believe Scott will eventually have to kill someone. But, he would never admit to liking it. Stiles ultimately follows Scott's ideals, but as we've seen, if it came down to it, he would be glad they were dead. He felt pretty shitty about it, too, but still. The talk with his father felt like tying up loose ends. The sheriff gave him a little perspective, and it was nice. Scott missed the point entirely. As a character Scott is selfish and a bit self centred, but he's not narcissistic. He has a tendency to assume he knows what he's doing and that everyone agrees with him. In his apology he never once said sorry. He said I thought it was going to be either me or Malia, but as the sheriff pointed out Stiles didn't kill him. He talked to the Sheriff honestly. but he felt he couldn't go to them, his dad because he was the sheriff and he thought he'd covered up a crime and his dad would drive him away - because in our heads the voices of our loved ones are much meaner than they are in real life. And he believed he couldn't tell Scott because Scott would reject him, and at that point it was likely he would have, but Theo stirred the pot and made it much worse, much more likely. The show tells us Scott's a great guy, but if you get past that to actually look at him he's really not. He's fantastically written, but he's not a good guy, he's judgemental, and actually displays a lot of really dangerous behaviours. In a meta on tumblr actually I found he fit 15 of 17 key behaviours recognised in cult leaders. And that phrase "the cult of Scott McCall" coined by Superhappygenki (on tumblr) is spot on, the characters, Deaton leading them to a large extent, sell Scott as the wunderkid, and because Scott is good at saying the right things and appearing at the right time (often not to do much) we believe him, right up until he does something that makes you go - ummm no and then like an onion the layers fall away. In his paranoia over what happened Stiles believed the worst of Scott so he shut down what happened, stuffed it down and tried to make amends, and when Scott faced him down he did exactly what Stiles feared, he not only drove him away but in such a way that he seemed to throw him out of the pack. Had Stiles not been shut down when he tried to tell Scott outside Eichen House - he could have tried to be objective, by the time he was able to talk about it - on the drive to Mexico, it had it's claws in him.

Hey sorry for reviving this so late buuuuut let me just put in a few points. Stiles loves to be in control. He likes to feel powerful, and he's always had an inkling of that. He really, I mean really, cements that fact after his possession. He tells Malia he likes feeling powerful - and he gets it. And, putting aside the fact that he never implied he liked killing Donovan. He just likes that Donovan has died - which is totally different in the whole "murder scale" I qualified for this post. But putting all that aside, I mean, who wouldn't feel good that a threat to them and the people they care about is gone? Even if it was accidental. I love dark!Stiles too. I mean, he's got so much potential to be an anti-hero. He reminds me of deadpool a lot. Not the point though. I guess, what I'm trying to say... Stiles might finally be coming back round to himself? You know? He (and the writers) just pushed aside the whole Nogitsune possession thing. So, it would make a lot of sense that the first death he actually caused while he was in full capacity mentally would hit him extremely hard. And there's the whole extreme emotional distance between him and literally every other person on the show - the fact that instead of talking about his problems, he talks around them and just lets his friends infer what he might mean. He's kind of really fucked up & secretive about it! I'd love to see him (them/thewriters/whatever) explore this shit more explicitly in canon.

[kinetic-elaboration]

September 28: Orphan Black 2x06

Fell over the ground today on my way home from work and scraped my knee up pretty badly but other than that, not a terrible day.

Somehow already on episode 6 of S2 of Orphan Black.

This was an excellent episode. I enjoyed all of the story lines without exception and the only thing missing was Cal, tbqh. I especially enjoyed all of the unusual pairings and relationships.

What I most remembered of this ep was the sestras road trip, and in particular the shot of them curled up on opposite sides of each other like twins in the womb. But as I was watching, I also remembered the bonding over singing in the car. I was actually surprised by how little Helena and Sarah there was, because I thought that was most of the episode, but it’s really mostly just the beginning scenes. Still cute, though.

Again, I’m trying not to let Helena grow on me but her transition from serial killer to sestra/protagonist is just too compelling. They never changed her characterization, is the thing, they just put her in a better environment. What a redemption arc should be. She’s still violent; she’s still feral; but she’s no longer being used and abused for others’ ends. When she’s left to herself, she wants a sister, she wants a boyfriend, she wants babies, she wants to go on vacation--normal wants, in a wild mind. It’s endearing and touching and funny and sweet.

Her romance was Jesse was adorable, also. I know they knew each other for 0.05 seconds but it’s true love and I believe in them. She can call him boyfriend. He watched her end a guy and try to take his eyeballs out with her thumbs and he was STILL like “She has done nothing wrong in her entire life you Honor,” I am not even exaggerating.

The sestra road trip ended a lot faster than I remembered but I guess Helena does have to get back to her “babies.” I can already see her and Gracie bonding. I think Helena respects her for the murder attempt and sympathizes with her because of their similar histories of abuse. But there’s another twist coming I assume, because Gracie ends up pregnant with Helena’s babies at some point, I seem to recall.

Sarah’s adventure in the archives was prime spooky season material. What you see will stay with you.... macabre images and weird noises in the basement...

I’m not sure I entirely get the whole Duncan & Mrs. S history tbqh. I suspect it doesn’t matter as it will be retconned a few more times. As of now I think it’s something like: the clones were a military experiment that got shut down (or did it?),then the Duncans moved to Dyad; they weren't the masterminds, just one of the teams working on it; they lost their original daughter bc Amelia ran away and then got Rachel instead; then they started feeling weird I guess and were going to tattle, so Leekie killed them and burned their stuff and took Rachel, but then Ethan got away, and he joined up with Mrs. S's group, who already had one of the clones themselves and were looking for more info I guess?

My mom and I were also talking about what exactly Mrs. S and her friends do and we decided they’re ad hoc vigilantes whose work is entirely about improving conditions for individuals on the ground, not, like... protests or demonstrations or whatever. Like, they hear about something fucked up and they’re like ‘how can we disrupt this?’ There are experiments on children going on? Let’s get those children! They’re very organized in their use of people and resources and hiding spots, but not in their overall ideology. I like this chaotic energy for them but I ALSO suspect it comes from their organization being more Vibe than Story. Like, could the show have fleshed them out more? Yeah, it would have had the time if it hadn’t gone down like 20 different alternating layers of conspiracy.

I do enjoy Leekie returning as a Villainous Figure. I just... I really like Leekie.  like him as a potential ally. I like him as the ultimate mastermind. I like him as the ideologue who turned the benevolent (lol) Dyad Corporation into his own little philosophical playground. I just like him.

A few other quick notes:

Scott was a little annoying in S1 but now I’m remembering why I liked him so much overall. He’s so smart! And rather cute. “I figured out it’s clones... now can I see one?” Lol.

How did Leekie get Kira’s baby teeth stem cells anyway?

I don’t know exactly what Art and Felix were doing today but they ARE the BroTP I didn’t know I needed. Art just making himself at home, like everyone else. “Oh he’s moved in.” “Then why is your hand on my ass?” Etc.

Similarly, Alison and Vic are a BroTP I kinda did know I needed. I hate liking Vic because he absolutely was terrible when he was introduced and now he’s like... comic relief? But he’s entertaining. I feel like this whole working with DiAngelo thing is going to contribute a lot to Alison’s paranoid feelings.

Also I continue to love Alison The Most. Today’s highlights included her threats to Donnie’s balls, every time she told Vic not to say Namaste, and the little way she hit Donnie when he tried bowing to Vic.

“Science is what scientists do” is a great line.

I’m also a fan of “anger is a tool and we use it on problems, not people.” Good advice.

Next is an Alison-centric episode with some Siobhan and Leekie action (not like that), which sounds fun!

#the year 2021 #2021: fandom thoughts #2021: orphan black

[koriginaladdict]

im just wondering but why do u only stan white characters??? in arrow, spn, tvd, teen wolf u go ham for the whites o_0

first off i don’t owe anyone anything, much less justify myself but i want to discuss this because tumblr is a messy place and little sanity won’t hurt

You know i really don’t pay attention to race, gender or orientation when i watch tv? i’m watching tv to have fun not turn into a wannabe sjw or use sjw arguments to force everyone else to like characters they don’t or better yet? fake liking them

that said, all I care about is the story and character development, i don’t like ALL white character some i even hate like elijah mikaelson, peter hale, theo, savitar was annoying af, elena gilbert, kate argent (omg that’s the worst) gerard argent,  shall i continue? it’ll take me forever and trust me, ii have more white characters I dislike than poc ones, so the point is invalid 

it’s not my fault the tv industry is mostly with white people, that’s why we need representation, it’s all about proportion, i’ll give a little example, there are 100 white characters, 15 poc, if i happen to like 20 white characters ad 5 poc does that make me racist? No because there isn’t as many poc characters as there are white ones it’s not fan’s fault it’s the industry itself

also let’s add in that poc are in much less episodes and seasons than white ones, the writers neglect them, let me tell you, i’d trade the twins, theo, gerard, peter hale, even liam and hayden if it meant i’d have a full season of braeden and kira back, they had more potential, were more interesting, badass and fun to watch in the little time they had than all of the ones i mentioned had in seasons

it’s not my fault poc characters aren’t given good material some times (like some white characters) or are neglected by the writers

and fans instead of wanting better for them (side eyeing iris and james) they  act like they’re pure perfection who don’t need improving and anyone pointing it out is attacked for being “racist” which makes it only worse for the character who can have amazing potential

every single character needs criticism, we all criticize white characters to no end, but if we do poc we’re racist or biased? you’re being more harmful and creating more conflict, if someone insults a poc character, over their race and hate them for it THAT’S RACISM, and i saw that and it’s disgusting, target those people instead of the ones who genuinely care about the show and want what’s best or are just enjoying other characters in their little corner

i’m sorry how is it racist to point out that on s1 james had nothing but being kara’s love interest and also lucy’s ? it’s true, while yeah the break up was sh/t the guardian storyline made me love him and see the potential in him

i loved iris on s1, back when her work as a reporter was actually there and she wasn’t just a half of westall/en, if i dare point it out i’m the racist one? sure

since we’re here, let me fix the misconception, you said “i only like white characters” 

but how about nyssa? she’s my 2nd favorite after laurel, mc kenna was so amazing back on 1 that’s a character i miss, diggle was awesome on s1-2 ish till the WRITERS reduced him to being an olicity prop, 

I love bonnie, lucas had potential, lucy bennet too, but again WRITERS chose not to explore them

i love kira (who and arden deserved so much better) and braeden (oh that woman is so badass i can’t), BOYD !!!!! i was so sad for boyd he didn’t deserve to die like that !!!!  i wanted so much more of him, more interactions especially with derek, i wanted more !!!

trashnatural? that sh*/hole is mostly white straight guys and only worships the winchesters so ? whatever little representation we had I sure as hell enjoyed it (do you even follow me? the only character i don’t like on spn is post s5 dean)

lucifer? that’s a show with good rep, that a perfect show, maze is my favrorite, she’s badass af, in all episodes, had big character development, tied good friendships with pretty much everyone, that’s a character to love, and i think personally she’s the best character of the late 2010′s new shows hands down

amenediel is good too, ella is fun af (even tho she isn’t there as much) but point is, when a character is 

so there your point is completely invalidated

if you actually knew me, I’m algerian, kabyle and my people fought and died to have our identity recognized and our language to be allowed to be spoken publicly (i mean conferences, tv radio ect), some people weren’t allowed to name their kids amazigh names like massinissa, aghiles, tawes, feta, ect…  so i know damn fucking well about how important racism, discrimination is it’s really insulting to me to be accused of such things just because of fictional characters 

here educate yourself 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_Spring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Spring_(Algeria)

to finish this off, i see people as people, I see characters for their personality, i don’t see them as labels, i didn’t love derek hale and castiel because “white guy” but because over the course of 5 and 8 seasons (almost a decade) respectively, they had amazing stories, amazing characteristics, always saving people and rarely get credit for anything

i think tumblr should stop obsessing so much over lables and solely judge characters over their personality and actions and DEMAND WRITERS to treat AND WRITE them better and longer

#fandom #racism in fandom #you are blaming the fans when it's mostly the writers

[stileshale]

What are your thoughts on teen wolf? especially writing wise? I have stopped watching regularly around 3b and I wasn't too convinced by what I've seen here on tumblr about the rest of the episodes, in particular 6x10...

i will always have a special place in my heart for the characters i love that the show gave me. i still blog about teen wolf, i write fic, and i enjoyed s1-3a. saying that, i don’t particular enjoy what the show became, or look back on the experience i had as a fan with much nostalgia (i think we were v much used and abused as a fandom online, for sure). i love my part of fandom, though.

short answer about the writing... it was terrible because

1) there was a complete lack of planning and follow through

2) we love this idea/actor/theme for 30 seconds but oops now we don’t

3) they completely misused their social media as a way to a) explain away/correct plot holes in their own writing and b) encourage viewers to watch a show they implied to be many things that it turned out to... not be any of

long answer

as a disclaimer here, i watch a lot of tv, i watch stuff on cbs, abc, fox, cw, bbc, tbs, p much something from every network, and i’ve seen the highs and lows of writing through comedy, drama, medical, supernatural, and everything inbetween. i’m not a professional writer, i am only a consumer. i have, however, over the nearly 20 years of watching shows as a fangirl (where i’ve been into something i follow religiously, and then later became involved in online forums) honed my tastes and opinions. on average i watch 15 shows a week, last year it would have been 21 around february time, but i’ve cut six shows including 3 i started this fall and dropped because of writing issues similar to that of teen wolf, or it just got terrible, either way). i have totally tried to rationalise what teen wolf did and i just... can’t. 

to elongate

1. the whole “let’s throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach is terrible. the best thing about breaking bad was that everything was planned to the very minute details. lost only picked up again when they were given an end date and suddenly had to come up with a plausible endgame. every season teen wolf has started off with a new plan, a new theme, and then it’s fallen apart because they’ve quite clearly changed their minds about something and either dropped it completely (they’re especially bad about dropping characters and never speaking of them again, or even acknowledging they were there in the first place), or made up new stuff to fit their new plan (scott is the true alpha so he can move mountain ash, kate is a werejaguar

not to mention they’ve joked about not being able to keep up with their own timelines, unsure how old any of the characters are, forgetting the characters have school/work/should be in prison, introducing siblings, changing history, forgetting actual canon...

2. kinda leads on from 1. where they would introduce an idea or a character and then totally lose interest and instead of trying hard to give them depth or something to do or going somewhere with the concept, they’d just drop it? see, parrish as a hellhound, kira as a kitsune, even way back when with stiles as a spark, a cool idea for thirty seconds to fit in with the plot and then... whoops it never happened, what are you talking about there was never a whole season about japanese culture, that season was about stiles conquering his internal battle with his own psyche telling him he’s never going to be good enough because we always make his dad out to be a total dick to him (surprise, his dad’s called noah, which we know you’ll hate because we dragged it out like some sort of magical plot twist, and also HIS dad is a dick so it’s okay he’s always told stiles he’d rather have had scott as a son) WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT FOXES FOR? THERE WAS NO FOX. THERE WAS NO TREE TRUNK. BANSHEES? THE FUCK? LYDIA JUST SCREAMS EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE AND SOMETIMES HAS MAGIC POWERS. but then doesn’t. pfft it doesn’t actually matter.

 or worse conveniently fix it/disappear it. it was tiring to watch and be confused and wonder why they were treating you like an idiot as a viewer. like the show is on mtv sure, but at least awkward stuck to a clear timeline. awkward covered where characters vanished to. we never actually even got clarification on basics like... why did deaton never want to help derek in season one... even though he was the hale emissary? what did emissaries have to do with anything by the next episode as nothing ever happened with that whole theme... why did stiles have a magic spark... where did cora go... how did she come back and how did the alphas find her before derek... why did the alphas originally start a war with derek, kill off his pack but then decide they didn’t want derek and just wanted scott... why did scott let deucalion walk off into the sunset? WHY IS PETER STILL NOT IN PRISON FOR THE MURDER OF HIS NIECE? these questions are all like three seasons old but that’s all i have and they still bug me. i can’t believe the show has never covered any of these huge issues. it’s lazy. everyone likes consistency, nobody likes writing leaving this big wink like “you don’t really care about this do you???”

again, with the big deaths, the characters they did kill off all had opportunities not to die, they could have had different endings, but each time their death was used to create man pain, probably one of the many reasons i’m not as big on male characters (they always need something to prop them up and make them more heroic and tragic in the long run), and that writing? erica, boyd, allison, was cruel and unnecessary. it did nothing for the show, and it lessened the writing. it actually made it worse when they tried to defend it, because they’d been going on about it for so long before hand as if it was a new and exciting toothpaste they’d all just gotten “now even whiter than before/now with even more death!!!”

the fact they hadn’t planned out a season without stiles (despite knowing dylan was out) and so instead of giving all of the other characters a chance to grow and learn and develop they literally wrote a whole season about stiles (after all of 3b, and from what i can tell most of s4 and s5 was about stiles). every character seemed to be focused on this missing person. the whole season was based around a character that wasn’t even on screen. and all because std fans were promised a big beautiful season of std??? gutted.

3. leading to point three! teasing your internet fanbase with ~thrilling and huge deaths to look forward to all season! using tumblr to answer questions about the plot holes/characters/encourage you to watch for the return of characters and not actually ever going through with it on screen. the teasing. the baiting. the flat out refusal to learn from your own viewership (when more than happy to use their gifs, use their images, their fanfics and their ideas) and then act as if the fanbase are the ungrateful ones. to try and join in with memes and tbt and a bunch of other infuriating actions that made even the actors uncomfortable. the tweets, the writers creating more drama even now, six seasons in, jeff saying “oh yeah if hoechlin had stayed on we’d have tortured derek some more with a fake julia (????? dick) haha i hope the internet doesn’t kill me for that one” as if we’re a bunch of deranged lunatics instead of just fans of a character that deserved better? like he knows what’s up. he’s a grown man. he knows they fucked up, in so many areas, and yet he’s just not willing to learn from it, or acknowledge it, he’s just always said “well if they don’t like it, they shouldn’t watch”... 

i guess we didn’t.

#Anonymous #asks for ts

[nomi-dandekar]

Your statement about lydia not giving a fuck about stiles for 5 seasons is incorrect. You don't understand the concept of foreshadowing nor can you understand how to follow the narrative. You basically want Lydia to be with that jackass Jackson who was an asshole to her

“okay so you’re one of those people who cannot follow the narrative of the story and the concept of foreshadowing.” Let’s see. 

3x11 - Lydia kissed Stiles for a panic attack and then proceed to date Aiden and it was stated that “Lydia likes him”. Lydia basically chose to date a guy that killed Boyd over Stiles and she did so for the rest of season 3 (until he was killed because the actor left my I add).

3x15 - I guess you refer to the scene that started the whole “red strings of fate” where Lydia said she’s guilty for getting him into trouble and it’s doubting her powers. What a dedication of love. Too bad she continues messing around with big bad wolf over there. 

season 4 Lydia being “jealous” is funny to me because literally the only confirmation of that is supposely “random stares” but completely ignore Lydia and the fact she said she doesn’t date teenage boys OR that she was busy about Jordan the whole time, but sure. And also how character regressive is that for Lydia, but not that character matters to yall. And since you guys claim Will Wallace, he said Lydia was never jealous. 

“season 5 she literally smiled through her pain to tell stiles everything was fine” - because that’s what she does? tell her friends she’s fine when she isn’t. Like she has done 1000 times with Scott? 

5x16 -  meaning the most fan servise scene of all times??? a scene that only made stydias happy even thought it ignored canon? and the fact Stiles did absolutely nothing while the other members almost die and he somehow managed to get the whole claim? not that is weird with tw and the fact their kiss his ass 24/7 and ignore Scott’s attempts to save his pack. 

Listen. Sty*dia had the possibility to be good following a rightful narrative that didn’t involve a guy obssesed with his childhood crush. No only is the idea of Sty*dia absolutelly weird and male-driven that gives the illusion a man can beg, idiolize and wait as long as he can because the girl will eventually fall for him at the end. That’s probably the most boring romantive narrative but okay I guess. 

The fandom itself invalidate Lydia’s wishes and links everything as romantic while also ignoring her interactions with Scott that are just as valid (I mean, she kissed him too does that mean she loves him??) but they would rather romantizice how Stiles saw Lydia on s1-2. But that’s another story. You want me to talk about canon? As I have said before if Jeff wanted to make Stdia romantic it would have been more belivable after the “kiss” on 3x11 but he decided to drop it. After the kiss Lydia and Aiden became official and Stiles never talked about the kiss again which is odd if we mention Stiles’ obssesive behavior. If anything after the kiss i believe a friendship was formed. Sty*dia grow up - he went from idiolizing her to actually see her as a real human being. The thing is just as Sty*dia grow up so did Scott+Lydia so the idea that Stiles is merely the only person to go crazy over Lydia is not accurate. 

The thing is, it wasn’t only on late 3A and 3B that they became real friends instated of just a guy pinning after a girl. On 3A Stiles decided he was going to move on. Everything a couple needs to experience to be canon already happened with them. He told her he loved her, he saved her multiple times, they have been in relationships, they kissed, but, still, Lydia choose someone else but Stiles to be romantically involved. If you want to continue with canon, on 3B where Lydia was worried about Stiles well being and also experiencing her strong banshee powers - and still, commited in a relationship. Stiles found confort in another girl, a girl he fought for. A girl that wake him up from the kitsune. A girl he cared for even after she broke up with him, and send texts too. A girl he was scare of telling the truth about his heritage in case he would lose her (actually canon). After everything, after he decided that he wouldn’t be leaving her alone that action alone completely changed Stiles character that is often annoying and rude to vulnerability and compassion for someone who obviously didn’t experience it since her childhood. Season 4 Stiles was somehow less annoying when he isn’t pinning for a girl. That just shows that his feeings for Lydia changed (as stated for Scott in her weird conversation with Kira, because what else does Scira, the main couple, needed to do in their last scenes before they ditched Kira? talk about the white boring ship). 

Dylan even said it. He said Stiles is comfortable with just being friends with Lydia, and he will always love Lydia but there’s so much more than just waiting for a love to be reciprocate and he found that with Malia. Say what you want but there was not indication of Sty+dia canon on S4 only if you want to add the typical “Lydia is jealous and she will realize she loves him” because Lydia stealing her friends’ bf is so Lydia s1 that it hurts. In fact, season 4 actually made sty*dia likable because for once their writing wasn’t based on the typical unrecriprocate feelings but solid ground and partnership. While Lydia becomes friends with Malia and Kira, but also developing a supernatural connection with Jordan that was so casually dropped this season to push a romantic narrative. 

There’s so many reasons why Sty*dia doesn’t make sense at this point on time (unless they continue with the forced fanservice). If they make it canon 3 seasons ago, I would still have believe it. But not now, because Malia existed. Because she changed every dynamic. She made Stiles care and show a side of him he almost never shows. Stiles watched Lydia chose guys over him (and it’s okay because Lydia didn’t need to recriprocate just because he liked her), The whole “slow burn” “foreshawding” whatever you want to call it thing is bullshit because the fans keep ignoring Lydia’s wishes over and over and focusing on just one side of the ship and they think time determinates something when it doesn’t. Malia is in love with Stiles (and I do believe he loved her too) and Lydia Martin is not the same girl she used to be on season one that made out with Scott (her best friend’s boyfriend).

Now going to the current story line, you can’t even deny because it would make you look dumb that Sty*dia isn’t fan service for the last season, you just can’t. Casually since they knew they fave white boy (aka Dylan) was going to leave they needed to gain their ratings so you want to tell me they wasted 3 seasons and a half building romantic Stalia and possible Jordan+Lydia  to have such a terrible writing that didn’t even made sense in the canon world? Since you love “canon” so much explain to me how Stiles’ reaction towards Malia on 5B made ANY SENSE, but the fact they just wanted to throw that away as fast as possible to built whatever they are trying to do here. Let’s not ignore the obvious here, erasing everyones memory was a perfect scenario to just don’t bring Stalia in the picture because it makes it easier to just put Lydia with Stiles without making it less obvious that she did a bitchy move that only season 1 Lydia would ever made. 

Let’s not ignore that Lydia’s reactions to everything that is happening with Stiles is a HUGE character regression. Lydia would’ve find a way to bring Stiles back while also protecting her friends because what they are doing now (actually doing shit instated of sitting in a bed crying) is dangerous. To this point, Malia and Scott are the ones actually doing something. Hell, they even brough Theo back. Where’s Lydia from s5 that even when she couldn’t move she fought for her friends? If it was Malia ya’ll be screaming “Let her be independent!” but you only scream canon when it suits you. 

Lydia’s relationships were also bring to the side and ignored canon once again to fullfill the sad love narrative with ur faves. You want to make me believe Malia, Stilinski and Scott didn’t remember Stiles but Lydia did out of the power of her heart? Her relationship with the pack is broken because all she does is cry over a guy. And we all know actual Lydia knows better. They throw her canon (again) connection with Jordan because Sty*dias would be mad with such interaction, when also the only person who could prevent Jordan for going insane is Lydia’s banshee? But surprise, they suddenly can’t remember. 

You want to cry about canon but after s5 you would think Lydia would be stronger instated of crying her eyes out for a missing kid while the pack does all the work. Less throw all the traumatic experiences Lydia had to face in the past. Season 6 fucks with canon, not even over analized scenes to twist romantic feelings would change that. They needed to eliminate Lydia’s other relationships to make the audience believe her intense feelings for Stiles didn’t happen this season. 

LASTLY, “You basically want Lydia to be with that jackass Jackson who was an asshole to her” TELL ME WHERE I SAID THAT. Because as far as I am concern I didn’t state any particular liking or appreciation towards that ship. Please don’t tell me you twist canon in reality too. I couldn’t give a fuck about Jackson, I only stated the word “ironic” which probably means you need a dictionary. 

#stalia #tw #anti stydia #scott mccall #scolia #marrish #malia tate