I Have No Idea How to Use This Thing

Anything that contradicts the notion that she can do no wrong will be pushed back against, but it IS book canon and they’re DOING THE BOOKS.

Texts From Superheroes

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

a friend and I got to thinking why Hartnells lip was cut in episode 4 and so I drew my interpretation. He was double dog dared by Hickey and Manson to lick the ice, got his tongue stuck like a cartoon, and ripped the skin off his lip trying to free himself (not pictured here is Armitage scratching his butt off to the side).

extra hartnell and pilkingtons below the cut

Texts From Superheroes

that's their daughter fr

Edward Little is, well, little, but he's above/larger than others in terms of rank and status and thus have to project this into his appearance. He puts on layers to pad his silouette and conceal his rather triangular frame, because he needs to have Authority. If you think of him as genuinely being taller and broader than Jopson... you fell for the ruse! You took his posturing and efforts to physically conform to victorian masculinity at face value! As the show continues, he even physically shrinks- see him in episode 7 vs 9. That's him with and without the big coat. He gets his his layers peeled away from him like an onion, haha. And, uh, here's mcnulty.

Jopson, on the other hand, is quite the opposite. He's very much Built. Broad shoulders, snatched waist. But also I'm not surprised that people get the misconception that he's leaner and smaller than he is, because that's how he postures himself. He too, has to physically conform to the role that he plays, except he goes in the *other* direction from Edward. His steward's uniform downplays his masculinity. He is meant to go unseen, blend into the background. Socially, he is expected to be unsassuming- and so that's how he is, until the field promotion puffs him up. Look at how broad he is! Look at him! He's built like a dorito and I want to eat him. (Ignore peglar, this isn't about him.)

Even with the actors themselves, you can see the body language- mcnulty with his arms spread further out, garrigan curled in. Also, despite google telling you that they're 5'10 and 5'9 respectively, a deeper dive reveals that Garrigan is actually taller by 5 cm, which... yeah. I'll believe that.