I love depressed angry divorcee Crowley as much as anyone, but have you considered this?
[The Scene: Somewhere Not in the UK. Aziraphale stands with a group of Rather Dubious Sorts, who he has come across by accident while attempting to…well, that’s a long story. They’re detaining him not-quite-forcibly and saying he’ll need to speak to The Boss before they can let him go. He’s clearly nearing the end of his patience.
A moment of silence. Then, music starts to play in the background.]
Stomp stomp clap. Stomp stomp clap.
[Aziraphale looks up, frowning slightly.]
Stomp stomp clap. Stomp stomp clap.
[The camera focuses on the wheels of a car, dark and menacing and taking a curve at a controlled but much too fast speed.]
Stomp stomp clap. Stomp stomp clap.
[The car screeches to a halt. The door opens. We see a dark, snake-skin boot, black with a single line of red circling above the sole like an inverted halo.]
Stomp stomp clap. Stomp stomp clap.
[As the chorus of “We Will Rock You” plays we slowly pan up from the boot to dark slim trousers, the edge of a black Burberry trench coat, a familiar oversized snake-head belt buckle. Above that is a Tom Ford-style shirt open to the abdomen, a slender V of skin revealed up to the neck, bracketed by lapels with a subtle paisley design in black thread. A throat, decorated by a silver chain. Jaw, thin lips, a prominent nose. Sunglasses.
The Serpent of Eden grins like the snake he is.]
Crowley: All right, lads. Ready to cause some trouble?
...all right, I just want a dramatic re-entrance with "We Will Rock You" playing in the background, but really can you blame me?
(1) A nice domestic Upstead scene. Maybe them out on a date, or having dinner with Will, just a little more of a glimpse into their day-to-day really, even if it's small.
(2) Kevin to have love as well as a storyline that doesn't revolve around his race and/or his race in conjunction with being a cop. Don't get me wrong, it's obviously very relevant, but it's literally all they've done with him for years. Even in storylines that didn't have to go there.
(3) Musical Partners. I want them to switch it up. I want more Burgwater, more Upwater, more Ruzstead, all of it. I'd like a glimpse into the interpersonal as friends between all these guys, show us what girls night out looks like for Hailey and Kim, do they pass the Bechdel test? Show us a team night at a Hawks game. Or celebrating a birthday or another milestone on the job (Adam's ten year would be this season, maybe Kim's too). Just show me more of the team interacting both on the job and off.
i don't think the spike girlies talk enough about how he was an upper-class posh dude who reverse my fair ladied himself so that he would sound cooler. like do you think he sat around practicing "the rain in spain" to make himself more cockney?
I'll never understand the choice to have the bread scene acted out by Hutcherson and Lawrence. Like... It's audacious enough that you expect me to think they're both sixteen years old, but then they act out a scene where they should be eleven??? Like, come on man be for real for a minute.
i understand (and share) the need for emotionally charged angsty moments, and will very much enjoy it if the manga diverges from the last ep at some points in order to give us some of that, but i think we also need to understand that most of the angst we were making up during the months of waiting was not soukoku-typical and that, despite all the arts and fics and theories (which i also loved), this is how they actually act
pulling off the whole mersault ordeal through coordination, improv and trust while, for all we know, having insufficient information and then showing it off by saying how it was all an act is just like them. it's only disappointing compared to what we wanted from them, not compared to their actual dynamic, and the only thing that makes it anticlimactic is how long we had to wait for it with our minds roaming free. in fact, i don't think that most people reading through the entire arc after it was finished would find it unsatisfying, and i also don't think the characters in a story should be expected to behave as if their actions will be read one tiny bit at a time
i'd still prefer the timing of the manga to be different, taking some time for things to have impact instead of constant action, but the major events in themselves were in character for all the characters involved, and i'm waiting to see how asagiri and harukawa go about it. if they have something very different in mind, i bet they can handle their own characters better than we can
Something that would fix me: see on my screen Cas or Dean hug the other from behind in the bunker's kitchen, arms wrapped around the waist and head resting on the shoulder. You get it. You get the visual.
au where jedi healers take a vow not unlike jedi temple guards, but instead of wearing a mask and becoming anonymous, they give up their sight and wear blindfolds to allow the Force to guide their every action. it’s also supposed to blind them to their patients’ differences, which used to be symbolic but since the war between the jedi and the sith broke out, has become much less so
because jedi healers are supposed to heal regardless of if their patient is a jedi or a sith, when they’re deployed on battlefields after the fighting is over, they use the Force to heal every injured person they come upon.
anakin skywalker, who was chosen from the creche and agreed to follow the Healing path at the age of 9, thinks it’s sort of stupid that they have to wait until after the fighting is over to begin to help because he can feel people dying in the Force, he can feel their pain--
young general kenobi, who remembers his old creche-mate anakin skywalker and how blue his eyes once were, thinks it’s beyond foolhardy that this healer is stealing out across an active battlefield, blindfold over his eyes and bending down to heal karking darth maul and single-handedly diverting all of obi-wan’s attention away from the droids and sith legion because now he has to make sure he’s ok he can’t just leave him to the whims of the Force, he’s unprotected and he’s going to get himself killed----
it’s a headache and a half for everyone involved because general kenobi keeps abandoning his battle strategy and sometimes even position to ensure healer skywalker’s safety and healer skywalker keeps dropping everything and everyone the moment he feels obi-wan kenobi get hurt in the Force to rush to his side, Force Vow of Healing Equality be damned.
but......the Council keeps deploying them to the same battlefield because healer skywalker is never more effective as when he knows he must heal fifty mortal wounds before he can rid general kenobi of a headache, and general kenobi is never as ruthless as when skywalker is on the field close to him, in potential harm’s way
I doubt I'll live to see it, but I was just thinking of how interesting it would be to have an adaptation of LOTR with largely diegetic music. Not ironically, either! There's so much music in LOTR, and Middle-earth's world-building is so deeply interwoven with literal music—and it's not that I don't really enjoy a lot of the non-diegetic Middle-earth music that exists, but a version in which you really feel how deeply musical the world is for the characters would be so cool.