#when for me it's s3/s4

[imminent-danger-came]

I've been seeing a lot of people saying it was a problem that Mei didn't save Red Son from the scroll of memory in TEW as a callback to when he talked to her in EYD. I personally don't like the idea and think it's a kind of silly complaint, it wouldn't fit in the already quickly paced special or really add anything to the story/Mei's S4 arc.

To me, it just seems like another case of the LMK fandom not being able to think of Mei outside of Red Son, but I'm not sure if that's just me being a hater (lesbian) so I'd like to know what you think? Your analysis is always interesting and fun to read!

Aw, thanks anon! <3

I think a majority of the LMK fandom would sacrifice Mei in a blood ritual if it meant Red Son would have more screen time. Which is uh, not an opinion I share (<- Mei is their second favorite character).

Look, I love parallels. I post a lot of 'em on my blog, and I've made a few parallel predictions myself. But, and here's my hot take: A Red Son and Mei convo in the scroll just wouldn't have fit in the special.

Logistically, the only time this conversation could have happened was post-battle, after everything had settled down and they were able to get everyone out of their scroll pieces. The 3x11 convo between Mei and Red Son only happens because Red Son is desperate—he needs a hero, he needs Mei to save his parents, and Mei is worried she'll lose control. A convo at the end of 3x14 wouldn't have stakes for Mei to urge Red Son back into the outside world with, making the parallel fall kind of flat. There's just not that same weight or urgency.

If exploring Red Son's (or any of the Demon Bull Family's) time in the scroll were to happen, it would be at some point in s5 when it would be the most significant and impactful. You don't just...waste something with so much narrative potential for the end of an already jam packed special. Now, this isn't me saying we're guaranteed to get anything like this in the show, but it is me saying that the special wasn't the place for it.

Plus like, a 3x11 parallel would have to have Character A comforting Character B about some fear, with Character A assuring Character B that they're needed and that they can help—they're not going to make the situation worse.

If anything, I'd argue that we do get a parallel to Mei and Red Son's 3x11 conversation, it's just that it's between Wukong and MK—which, BASED Mei and Wukong parallels moment:

((This is also all assuming that going into the scroll is even necessary for a non-broken scroll piece lol.))

It really does feel like a lot of people just can't see Mei as her own character. If it's any consolation, I don't think you're being a hater anon! I think you're just picking up on what was most important to show in the s4 special.

#like what in the special are we cutting out to make time for a non-relevant Mei and Red Son convo you know? #the only thing a Mei and Red Son convo would really add to Mei's arc is her goal to protect the people she cares about (including Red boy) #(and maybe also the fact that she doesn't want to be a failure) #But we got that with her interaction with Peng #So *shrugs* #(though I think people just want Red Son angst asfdadsf) #And it's okay I am a lesbian too #Like I love Red Son. I do. But I don't think I have the same affinity for him that a lot of people have #I think plenty of folk are REALLY attached to s1 of the show #when for me it's s3/s4 #s1 is the monster of the week—the place we can't return to #Which I think is part of what the DBK family kinda represents but that's a whole other topic #But idk #asks #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk Mei #lmk Red Son #lmk analysis #imp's a little feisty

[aardvaark]

the long way down job is such an important turning point in eliot & parker’s relationship bc they’d both been viewing the things they have in common as fairly negative: they’ve both been told that they’re cold and ruthless and dangerous and they know those things are true. so when they’ve recognised themselves in each other, it’s been a sense of "the thing that’s wrong with me is a lot like the thing that’s wrong with you". and there’s comfort in that, in a way. but now eliot gets parker to see that maybe those aren’t all negative traits, they’re just… traits. neutral. it doesn’t make them bad or good, it makes them who they are. and now when they see themselves reflected in each other, it’s not a reminder that they’re wrong and bad - it’s kinship, it’s familiarity, it’s belonging.

#leverage #eliot spencer #parker #parker leverage #the long way down job #leverageposting #wren speaks #they’ve bonded over being different (shameful) but now they’re bonding over being different (neutral) #and eliot has clearly had to come a long way btwn s3 and s4 to make that realisation & we see parker have that realisation… #listening to episode commentary makes me Have Emotions like oh parker has felt like she wasn’t good enough to have a family until now. oh. #oh they recognise similar traits in each other and act different when it’s just them bc they don’t bother w the facade of humanity #and she hasn’t been able to talk to anyone about morality until now but eliot Understands in a way the others can’t #and she’s just now finally realising that she is worthy of hardison & she’s capable of a relationship which she was worried she wouldn’t be #okay. alright. ow my heart

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when Wilson says House's name

#house md #james wilson #prince's talk tag #finally!!! it's done! this and the house version took almost two weeks to do #first off thank you to the clinic-duty team on livejournal for making the transcripts for these episodes #because this video would be near impossible to make without their clear transcripts. I hope y'all are doing well #ive been reading a lot of fics with these two and i see how the authors have the characters refer to each other in their fics #and that got me wondering how much do they say each other's name in the show and how do they refer to each other #since this is the wilson video ill put his stats here #s1 was 11 times s2 was 18 s3 was 45 s4 was 32 s5 was 41 s6 was 60 s7 was 47 and s8 was 48 #in total he says his name 302 times. Mostly refers to him just by House #the only time I've heard him say his first name its when he's being professional or when he's really angry (and that one time he proposed) #and even then it's always the full name not just the first name #the only instance I've seen him use just his first name was on that note he put on House's xmas gift that we see in season 5 #and as much as I wanted to put that moment in here he never actually says the contents of the note out loud so i had to leave it out #but what surprised me was he says House's name more than House says his name #especially when the earlier seasons didn't have him say his name as much

[riemmetric]

S4E02 || S4E14

#911 #911 abc #911edit #911 fox #athena grant #bobby nash #the way i GASPED when this happened #compositional symmetry my beloved!!!! #i'm watching 911 in a very unhinged way btw. technically i'm watching the episodes in order #and i made it to s2 episode 16 this way #but i also constantly read the synopses of the episodes on imdb and watch the ones that intrigue me #s4 e14 is the first 911 episode i watched because i wanted to see the eddie gets shot scene play out. after seeing it in gifs #then i watched the bits in s3 where athena gets assaulted and kept skimming through the beginning of s4 to see how the trauma plays out #and when she said that line i was like. man hold on a second. HOLD ON. A FUCKING SECOND. is that. yes. yes it was #i love them so much 🥺🥺🥺 #mine:edits #sorry if this has been made before but making gifs is also my hobby...

[chirpsythismorning]

This is everything

cr: @hellfiresbyers

#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #analysis #Will growing up with Jonathan encouraging him that being is freak the best #and that it’s way better to like the things you like and embrace it #than to pretend to be someone you’re not #whereas mike doesn’t have someone close to him encouraging him to be himself #which is why they clash so much in s3 #followed by Eddie sort of being that influence on mike to be more true to himself and what he likes #they’re arcs go so well together #i was thinking about this the other day in regards to their s3 vs s4 funkos #wills s3 funko is connected to dnd #mikes s4 funko is connected to dnd #they’re also the only characters with dnd related funkos #and that just speaks volumes #specifically when it comes to mike pretending he didn’t want to play in s3 #only to do a 180 in s4 with it being pretty much his main focus in Hawkins in s4 #like that’s gotta be the biggest byler evidence to me #Mike loving dnd arguably more than all of them #only to drop it #then pick it back up again #it’s so weird even now still seeing Redditors claim will was childish for wanting to play in s3 #tho they have nothing to say about Mike switching up in s4 #does that make him childish then?? #or is there more to it…? #he’s also the one who put the no gfs and dnd for the rest of their lives together #in our heads in the first place #he voiced it as not something that he hated the idea of but that he saw as not being an option #he saw it as something he had to let go of almost and just jump into the life he’s expected to live…

[love-songs-for-emma]

are u the "insane meta mutual" or "guy who's just along for the ride"?

#breaking into your mutual's dms and holding them at gunpoint to hear your media conspiracy theories when they hit u with this #skjckehx #cat the human #i am losing my fuckinf MIND #.png #hannibal.png #hannibal.txt #.txt #this killed me ok. i had to meme it. i had to #thank u tumblr user lesbian-crowley #nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannibal s3 #hannibal s4 #hannibal meta

[amys-books27]

I'm not ready for the time Ezran grows and gets taller than Rayla.

Soren has always been taller than her so whatever. BUT Callum just now surpassed her, and there's nothing wrong with it, it's just nostalgic 'cause it shows how much they've grown up. How much he has grown up since she left. And Ezran still has much growing up to do, so when he gets to 17-20, would he be taller than Rayla?

I'm gonna cry if they show us this. It would be so, so nostalgic 'cause Rayla used to be the taller one, and then she would be the smallest one. And I just can't-

#im sentimental dont mind me #rayllum #the dragang #the dragon prince #tdp ezran #callum tdp #tdp rayla #tdp soren #tdp s4 #tdp s5 #tdp s6 #tdp s1 #tdp s3 #I mean when I'm writing and is a fanfic where they're all grown up #part of me still wants to refer to Ez as a kid #when he isnt #in one of my fanfics he's 26

[furoruisa]

Is so unfair that I'm so obsessed with them, and I'm never getting them back like I will never have my favorite nerd couple again

#benvi #ben x devi #s1 s2 s3 and s4 is them being vulnerable just when they're together #like the material #nhie #never have i ever #they're everything to me #ben gross #devi vishwakumar #i love them #i need to watch it again #currently watching other things but they're just my otp like you don't get it

[ohhiplumbob]

Babies first time trying to build and decorate a house in TS3 please don’t cyber bully me.

#ts3 #the sims #the sims3 #sims 3 interior #simblr #i downloaded some CC #sorry s3 girlies but building and decorating in s4 is so much easier #though cast is cool #when I go into tab mode my game zooms in ssoooo close so these were difficult to take #and my screenshots come out incredibly dark #so I had to edit them #and I don't know how to turn off the notifications on the picture either #and I had to download OMSP which is frustrating to use but I needed it for clutter #but I did have fun #I can't stop just making everything wood though #and I'm trying to not download too much S4 conversions cause I've been playing with the same stuff for years so I want something new to me

[stardustinthesky]

Clark + kissing Lois's hand

#lois and clark: the new adventures of superman #clois #clark x lois #clark kent #lois lane #lnc: tnaos #m: lnc #mine: edits #otp: you are way out of your league #clark lovingly kissing lois's hand makes me absolutely feral #also: #i've probably forgotten some but that's what you get when you rewatch and you don't take notes #i had to fast forward through the whole of s3 and s4 to make this

[literallycarrie]

do you guys remember when 'big red' rednovich the third came out as bisexual on international tv in the trailer for a documentary he wasn't even in before he told any of his friends (including his best friend and girlfriend) for seemingly no reason other than that he thought it'd be funny? because i do.

#everyone remembers where they were the day big red said 'i'm big red i'm ashlyn's boyfriend and i'm bi' #can't believe they brought back fake-french andrew barth feldman in s4 to be his boyfriend like the iconicness... #i used to post about how much i hated hsmtmts and how cringe it was #but maybe the real cringe was me not recognising camp when it was right in front of my face #lova's terrible posts #hot takes from east high #hsmtmts #high school musical the musical the series #high school musical: the musical: the series #hsm the series #big red #big red hsmtmts #hsmtmts s3

[pcktknife]

thinking about how I wasted months of my life watching spop when I could've done anything else

#spop ended when kipo started i sropped that show IMMEDIATELY like idek what was keepin me watching it #i think they got to hordaks planet and he lost his memory or smth and then there was a bigger bad and i was already putting up w alot from #the show okay #i didnt like catradora and my favorite character was a colonizers boo thang idk how i got to s4..s3 idk #kae.txt

[aq2003]

there comes a beautiful time in life where i have to ask myselg th question, "did i accidentally project too hard onto the character that i only relate to a little bit and in doing so hugely missed this one entire aspect/interpretation of the characters . am i stupid"

#ARE THEY STUPID! #dr who #this is about ten specifically his relationship w martha lmao #m being so serious i genuinely did not. see the 'ten was on purpose leading martha on to make her think her feelings were requited' angle #until going out into the wild and reading the tumblr posts. like i genuinely did not. at ALLLLLL. its like a brick hitting my head #bc the ENTIRE time s3 ten came off to me as 'doing stuff w no romantic intent behind it but would consistently get misinterpreted as such' #cuz IIIIIIIII have done this. IIIIIIII have run into this problem before. and it sucks so incredibly bad. #i actually do want to think my og interpretation still holds water cuz like. well i could gather all the evidence but #first one that comes 2 mind would be him going 'it's like when you fancy someone + they dont know you exist' to martha. in episode TWELVE #two routes; either ten is needlessly cruel and callous even after a season's worth of building up trust and friendship w her #or he is on super 'i dont think she has feelings for me and this is a very unhappy coincidence of a line' cocaine #Or the 'she fancied me' line in s4 to donna. either he is disregarding all the good and positive impact she did him. or the fact that this #went over his head the whole time made him look back on that time w discomfort <- I DID THIS. I MIGHT HAVE BEEN PROJECTING #THIS ONTO HIM. AM I STUPID.?.????? #you know how mikage rgu can either be read as an incel or a gay man lost so completely in the sauce #ten is like in this same ballpark. i think. of 'emotionally manipulative and disrespects women' or 'aroacespec and missed the cues' #funniest possible options to pick from. ten my brother how did you set yourself up like this #absolutely not denying that he was toxic and unhealthy during s3 in like 500 ways btw. but well. ths is the one concwpt that #flew over my head. so completely. and i can kind of see it now but i also still find it hard to incorporate into my belief system #bc its like. brother I'M aroace and missed the cues too lol #tangential note we can trace many problems down to a writer's room filled w white people not giving #martha's character the respect/agency she deserves for the existing narrative she has. bc they pulled this w mickey too both in series 1+2 #if they wanted to portray ten as manipulative then him and martha should've been given more screentime #together where martha (or anyone else) calls him the FUCK out on this. and ten would need to suffer narrative consequences of doing smth #as fucked up as that rather than his happy stable dynamic he has w donna. if they wanted to portray him as oblivious then marthas character #shouldn't have constantly been boiled down to an unrequited crush (particularly her dialogue in the s3 finale - there's a LOT more reasons #why she would choose to leave/why their dynamic was unhealthy besides ten not returning her feelings) #if you read all these tags you may be entitled 2 financial compensation #ten and martha #aspec doc tag

[nyxi-pixie]

'omg mikes character used to be so important and now hes barely relevant to the plot :('

i hate to tell you this but.. its a byler thing again

in s1 and 2, mike is one of the most important characters because his motivations rely entirely on his care for will. like s1, everything mike does is to help find will. the reason he meets el. the reason he keeps her around instead of sending her back to 'pennhurst or wherever shes from', the reason hes around for plot happenings. Literally everything is bc of will.

s2, again mike is a main character bc he flat out Refuses to be apart from will for more than like 2 seconds. this man is down bad. hes like 'oh nooo will hasnt been in school and i am for some inexplicable (gay) reason so much more worried than my other friends so im gonna show up to his house and refuse to leave.' and this means hes around for plot stuff (also earlier s2 mike relevant to plot stuff is bc him and will are just the bestiest of bropals so will tells him more stuff than he tells anyone else, Including His Own Mother)

the reason mike is a main character in early seasons. the reason hes relevant to plot. the reason he actively Does Shit is because his main motivator is will. his character motivations are literally 'will is in trouble i will immediately drop everything and put my whole wheelussy into helping this man'

then we see the drop off of relevance in s3 and 4. Why?? because will isnt the driving force of plot anymore. will is also now more of a side character. mike is less involved bc will is less involved u literally cant prove me wrong im so correct and right about everything all the time.

#byler #mike wheeler i know what you are #literally his motivation is will #which is why he immediately becomes involved more in plot in s3 AFTER will tells him his spidertingle is back #s4 the guy is honestly mostly irrelevant throughout the entire thing bc the el plot she honestly could have done everything herself #caligang are literally just there to be her uber #anyway mike only cares abt plot when its about will and yk what ME TOO #hes so correct for that honestly #mike understands that stranger things is actually The Will Show so he takes a backseat whenever its not focused on will LMAOOOO #wait ive just realised mikes only moment of relevance of s4 which wasnt even that relevant but yk was his monlogue. and guess what #he only does it bc WILL tells him to #im going to kms hes so stupid he LITERALLY ONLY DOES ANYTHING EVER BC OF WILL ASHDJKLSHDJKA

[judasisgayriot]

strange attractors. kind of like we could be?

#heroesedit #claire bennet #gretchen berg #primatech #nbc heroes #heroes nbc #claire x gretchen #heroes #anni edits #ok heroes... keep your rights #heroes is really not a show where i care about any of the canon 'romances' it throws at you #i'm much more inclined to go be a complete degenerate in the corner #but then s4 gave me claire discovering liking girls is a thing and it gave me weird girl gretchen and they were ADORABLE #so like. best best best. literally no context for best 'canon' ship in the show. at all #i love how claire bluescreens when gretch kisses her like she only just realised you could in fact kiss other girls #and then gretchen tries to give her an easy out like 'its ok if u dont like me' #and claire is so indignant like UH NO I DIDNT SAY THAT #shes still figuring out but uhhh she liiiikes her. when she smiles to herself when gretchen jokes about kiss attacking her lol. anyway #i love them tbh. claire's baby lesbian arc actually gave s4 ALL its rights back after s3 #also genuinely uh. shout out to heroes for this in 2010 i guess????? #like it's for real a sweet and well handled and believable little teenage romance and its just. a thing! and it's cute! #sorry i love claire and gretchen lol #i meant no CONTEST for best canon ship lol. btw #i can be wholesome SOMETIMES believe it or not #heroes season 4

[feralnumberfive]

TUA S4 is coming out in 2024

#which I fucking called that this was all Netflix would give us for TUA lmao. Wow gee whiz who'd a thunk #and yet again I'm disappointed BUT I completely understand they have to keep quiet like they did for S3!! In other words don't expect much #but remember it's because they want secrecy again (though the secrecy seemed sudden for S3 & S4) #maybe we'll get more stuff today! #I do find it concerning that they say that S4 will be the best season yet AGAIN when they said the same thing about S3 #and S3 was disappointing to not only me but to other people too. We shall see though and I'm sad to see tv TUA end #tua #the umbrella academy #umbrella academy #tua s4