I’m soooooo embarrassed. My lord told me “good night,” but I thought he was calling me a good knight, and, well, you could hear it clink against my codpiece.
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It's time to start brainstorming themes for the event of the year, that's right, Benthan Week 2026!!
This year’s event will take place August 24-30. Feel free to check out the Info & Rules if you’re new to the event or have questions. Whether you’ve been here since the event’s beginning or just stumbled onto this ship from the latest Mission movie, welcome!!
First up, let’s get brainstorming! Each day of Benthan week needs a primary and secondary theme to inspire creators. You can check out past themes and works by scrolling the blog or checking past years’ AO3 collections to get the inspo flowing! The more ideas, the merrier :)
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The brainstorming document will close on June 22nd. Then, the blog mod will circulate a google form so we can all vote on our favorite themes and get creating!
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There are two examples of cut scenes from Fallout and DR that I wish they’d kept in/incorporated somehow, because they both offer a glimpse into how Ethan behaves between missions. The first one is him going into hiding after Kashmir to avoid Sloane. He does this as a negotiation tactic to force her to hand over Lane to MI6 in order to free Ilsa. The second one is at the beginning of Dead Reckoning, where he’s offered multiple missions by Kittridge and refuses all of them, evading the IMF and staying under the radar. You watch him walk through public streets alone, off-balance and separate from the rest of the world, until eventually the movie opens with Kittridge placing a bounty on Ilsa’s head to flush Ethan out of hiding.
And I think what’s interesting is that in both of these instances, Ethan isn’t forced into hiding (like he is in Rogue Nation or Ghost Protocol), he is choosing to hide as a form of leverage. It shows a much more calculated and angry version of Ethan, one that is actively hostile to the IMF, working for his own interests as opposed to “the greater good.” We usually see him in high-pressure situations where he’s not in control and trying desperately to solve a series of increasingly insane and dangerous problems. But these two examples show the opposite - he is very calculated and slow moving. This is how Ethan behaves when he is in control, and it’s an inversion of the panicked, rushed, lightning-fast way he behaves during missions.
It also offers additional texture to the lonesome and empty way we see him act between missions, where he’s literally sleeping in abandoned buildings and isolating himself from the world lol. It gives those at-rest periods more of an edge. In those moments, he is still working, but in a “selfish” way, using his own skills and reputation to get what he wants (eg protecting Ilsa). And imo it gives Ethan more agency in his life and helps inform how he relates to his own desires. His self-isolation acts as both a passive and active form of protection - he hides because he knows that getting close to people puts them in harms way, and he also hides as a bargaining chip for his friends’ lives. It gives you the impression that Ethan is aware of his own value as an agent, and deploys that value for political/strategic means. And for me at least it demonstrates a more cold and shrewd side of Ethan, where he can exert his will and behave in ways that are more hidden or subtle. People often joke about him being dog-coded, being a sad wet puppy, etc etc, and while all of those are definitely true lol, I like this much more deliberate and calculated side of him, where he has more control over his own actions when he isn’t being forced to just gut-react to everything. He’s great in a crisis, but when he’s not in a crisis, he is very, very still
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Rogue Nation is such a special movie for me, especially because of the Vienna Opera scene. It was really fun to check out all the locations in the film 12 years after it came out(I feel old.
Ok words at the front: there are guides of mi filming locations everywhere on the internet so this is more about my particular interest instead of a very detailed guide. Also it's gonna be very benthan biased. You have been warned.
I think I'm gonna cover this by the order they showed up in the film, so for the start we have: opera tickets.
(The nerd me would say that probably it would never be "Vienna Opera" on the flyer, if it had to be in English it should be Vienna State Opera. I wondered if it's because of license problems, but on the ticket there's clearly the logo and name. Who knows, maybe it looks nicer)
I did find a picture of a 2019 ticket that looks fairly the same.
And then the subway station! Here, it was actually a movie trickery because there are actually 2 subway stations involved here.
The first one is the Schottenring station, where the underground part of this sequence is filmed
It was really weird to go to this subway station and. not get on any train but just taking pictures everywhere.
I only realized this was the wrong side of the tunnel as I'm checking the photos now. Very sad but you get the idea
But the most iconic part of this station is probably these stunning X-shaped frames
Judging from the angle I think I was at the exact location where the camera rolls
Schottenring is an exchange station where Benji went from the purple-colored U2 line to the green-colored U4 line
This was also the wrong side of the platform. I am stupid
Which is actually very funny because he should be going the other way around! I mean, the trickery here is trying to make it look like he exited from this exact station, but if he'd just gone the other way around (from U4 to U2), it would actually be the correct way to go to the opera.
The station where Benji actually exited was the Karlsplatz station, you can see the reflection of the signs on the wall
Which is why I said if he'd gone the other way around, it would've made total sense because you can literally see he got out of the train that was actually heading for Karlsplatz XD
The actual underground part of Karlsplatz is a very cozy market sort of thing, so they probably want something more in line with the vibe of the film (like the super cool X frames
There was also a funny guide that roasted Benji for going straight across this very busy main road instead of taking the pedestrian crossing right next to this exit
And now... we are in(hacker voice
(If you are not a super spy, then there are two ways to get into the opera: either by having an opera ticket, or you can take a guided tour. You have more freedom to wander around in the building if you just get an opera ticket, and they have standing tickets every day for less than 20 euros. But the off-season is in the summer, so during that time only the guided tours are available)
And then the first thing I did was. Get to the Nice Tux™️corner.
There is one thing that isn't really obvious in the picture, and that is these two spots are SO CLOSE. The camera lenses make it look very far away but I think the direct distance can't be more than 10m. I'm pretty sure if Ethan just jumped from that place he could have landed on Benji
Also I've been telling my friends via this diagram that there's no way Ethan could escape Benji's notice unless he just hid behind this column. This will be my mental picture of this scene from now on
Another thing if you haven't noticed already... after 12 years it's still the same carpet
This staircase is slightly harder to find because it was not directly accessible from the ground floor. But very luckily, there was no trickery in filming the interior structure of the opera building (excluding everything involving the backstage), which means I was able to find this place by locating Ethan's booth first and walking backwards
This door actually leads to this booth which is not something often happens in movies
But I'm 80% sure this door Ethan went in later is actually the door to the toilet.
The lighting booth is supposed to be one floor higher; in the film it took over all of the best, most expensive central seats, where in real life the chancellor should be (which is also slightly funny if you think about it
The Ilsa corner, as I call it, is on the top floor
Which kind of explains why Ethan could find her so quick as his booth was also on the top of the building. And only now did I realize that there is some sense to the roof escape route; since his booth is on higher floors then it makes a lot of sense to go even higher up.
But as I've been there myself, I think the staircases are really a labyrinth. I think it's totally possible to escape by switching different stairs on different floors but what are you talking about this is mission impossible we are not using stairs unless we are in a car chase
I've exceeded the 30 pic limit, but another funny thing is that there's a cafe right next to the place where Ethan and Ilsa slide down. Imagine you are just having a lovely piece of Sachertorte and these two people just dropped in front of you Mary Poppins style then calmly walks away
And that's all! It was really like a dream to go to Vienna and visit all of these places that I've seen in movies for hundreds of times :'D
Thinking about The Knife being used to save Benji, because yes it is the knife that changed the course of Donloe’s life and paved the way for this all to happen, but more than that it’s the knife that KILLED Sarah, one of Ethan’s doomed teammates that first night of tragedy that so deeply scarred Ethan into the profoundly traumatized man he is today who is terrified of losing people
That knife killed one of Ethan’s team, and then thirty years later it saved the life of another
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Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that
Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated
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