So I just finished young royals and Oof, what a show. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it because it’s great BUT ALSO can I please just take a minute to say I love how much all the characters just hug? There’s so many hugs? I love it. Of course it’s Wille and Simon the most, but I adore how much a normal gesture of intimacy it is for them all. It’s so sweet to see.
I actually also think this show kind of perfectly strikes the balance of Teenager™️ wherein you can’t focus for the following two scenes after kissing someone you like (shout out to that one post) but you can also do drugs and drink and fuck around and somehow these things are not mutually exclusive. Just honestly 10/10
AND the writers and director(s) give the characters so much SPACE. It is so unbelievably refreshing to not be rushing from scene to scene all the time like most American media does (and sadly UK media is heading the same way). Truly reflect for a moment and consider when was the last time you watched something that had so much silence in it, so many pauses, so much room to breathe? And by god do you need it, because all the characters are such forces coupled with the intensity of the plot that you’d be buggered if the characters (read: actors) were barrelling on a mile a minute too
I think it’s a really well written, INCREDIBLY well shot show and that more people should watch it
i've read a lot of incredible posts about the intricacies of andor but the one thing that rly fucks me up personally, from a character perspective, is how everything cassian does, every little thing, is driven by his emotions, his actions are steeped in them, dripping with feeling
and yet we know rogue one opens with him shooting someone in cold blood, and one of his central conflicts with jyn is him constantly pushing back against her instincts, bc she, just like he used to be, is nothing if not governed by her emotions
and it makes you realize that this is where this is going, that to survive as long as he did, and to be as effective as he was, he had to shut that emotional part of himself off, and that that last shot where he looks at luthen with tears in his eyes is his first step of doing just that, his first step into making his mind too, a sunless place
I don't think some of you understand how much I LOVE being in this era, this century, where a show can have the two main 'men' kiss and that's not what everyone is talking about. Good Omens has completely changed my life in so many ways but I think the biggest thing I love about it is the queer representation and the lack of making it the butt of the joke or really acknowledging that it's representation, and purely making it the normal. ESPECIALLY the two leads. They had the the two main men kiss and instead of it being "omg guys they actually made it queer, they actually had two men kiss", the discussions are about the emotions portrayed and the storytelling and the utter heartbreak that it's brought us. To be in a day-in-age where two men kissing on television is hardly the main point and nobody treats it as such is one of the most beautiful things I've ever experienced and Ill forever be grateful to be apart of it.
This week on Palisade, the undead history teacher turned revolutionary plays HORSE (which is called DUCK, named after a horse) with a guy who is the reincarnation of the Machine God that is the planet they’re all on, kind of. The history teacher throws down a nasty slam dunk.
And that’s just the last 25 minutes of the episode
thinking about midnight mass again and the expendability of humanity by religious zealotism and the social sacrificial nature of blind religious loyalty and how yet, in spite of all that,,,, the beauty of community and love and forgiveness and peace,, god……….
Fuck, all the things I do... it's already fucking broken. [giggles] Fucking bra. It's really great. What's the cup size, BC, AD? ABDC-- Fucking tight, they don't even fit me. Everything's in the tummy. Sized by inch... Fuck, these are sturdy, HUH?!
Feeling bit weird now. Thank you for coming to Käärijä's show, everyone.