quoth the raven, "swag galore"

if you are in the Now You See Me fandom and want to appreciate those of us who make gifs for the fandom, could you block and not reblog content posted by the blog @nysmedit. all of their gifsets are reposts, taken from gifsets made by other people, reuploaded and posted without permission and with no indication who has made the original gifs. the theft is even more blatant than usual since they’ve taken several gifs from the same gifsets, reposting entire gifsets with other gifs added from other posts to make it look different, but it’s clear that they’re stolen (most gifs are different sizes, 500+px wide gifs put side by side, the gifs are edited very differently from each other).

Parallels: Dylan and Walter

the scene where dylan gets his dad’s trick watch alright? li says lionel wanted dylan to have it. now, regardless of if that speech was thaddeus’s invention or not (tho bu bu’s expression on that scene makes it p convincing), it does mean that at some point, lionel left one of his watches to bloody macao for safekeeping, more than likely with instructions to give it to his son if he never comes back. he didn’t give it directly to dylan, no, he left it somewhere where dylan would be given it once he was old enough to go explore his dad’s magic footsteps

also, as the ‘everything wrong with nysm2′ video pointed out, dylan was not saved a seat on his dad’s safe trick. he had to get past the crowd to get there, which is... kind of weird considering how close we’re to interpret his relationship with his dad. if he had a school bag and it was 4pm, it would be understandable, but that’s clearly not the case. worth mentioning, dylan also comes alone, without his mother there --- at least the mum wasn’t invited to the riverbank to see the trick, and the way dylan comes makes ya wonder if he was either: it’s entirely possible lionel is just really, really good at handling surprises

combine these two together, take into account how impossible the trick is even on paper with an endless number of variables and how difficult it would be to make a living with no other tricks left after thaddeus’s show even if it did work out, and the fact that lionel’s life insurance was large enough for dylan’s mother to be able to rely on that if lionel could not bring in the money anymore

guys

i don’t think lionel ever planned to come back up

at this point, i am almost hoping that it was because he had a fake death planned out that may or may have not worked, because if not...