Average JRWI enjoyer

i can finally word vomit my thoughts but make them unbearably vague YIPPEE.

oh gillion tidestrider your first act of self-preservation being to end the life of your abuser. but oh, gillion tidestrider, handing the hilt to your friend because you think it's a favour. you think it'll help him. you think it's just what he needs to do. your first act of self-preservation is to make the call rather than the action. your first act of self-preservation is to offer the killing blow to your friend, because that's what love is. isn't it? that's love. you want to be more than an attack dog. violence is love.

oh gillion tidestrider you know now you can't save everyone, that's what it is. odaleth couldn't be saved. he has done too much. he has hurt too much. he was too far gone. even with his fight drained and his back turned, even with his mind half-shattered, he had to die. chip had to kill him.

chip, you have to kill him, this'll change you, chip, there is no other way.

written version under cut

how it felt when Gillion was absolutely SHITTING on odelath

GILLION TIDESTRIDER!!!!!! 💥 💥 💥 💦💦💦💦🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊💧💧💧💧💧🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🪼🪼🪼🪼🪼🪼🪼🪼🪼🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊

the concept of star-eating microbes causing a crisis and the solution being the introduction of space wolves to space yellowstone to control the space elk population. i love a good trophic cascade

dr ryland grace immediately pitching "turn the spaceship into a giant centrifuge to generate gravity" and then not balancing his actual centrifuge later on

the entire "life is reason" scene really

grace forgetting to open the mystery alien container in a fume hood AND immediately sticking his nose in it. if we did this in chemistry lab we were executed on the spot

academia drama being one of the cornerstones of grace's character

grace switching through every spectrum setting on the microscope to try to see into the astrophages and not being able to (relatable)

also: the astrophage dying and grace going "ohhh it died..." (very relatable)

grace having his not-scientist buddy Carl to give him frank solutions when he's overthinking. yes, often the solution is just to put the box in another box

copious duct tape usage

just sticking a filter into the path of the petrova line to collect astrophage goop

eva going "so it's alive" when grace tells them the astrophage are moving, and him being like "WELL ok that could be for a lot of reasons" in the tone of someone who doesn't even know where to start explaining why that's a hasty assumption

grace referring to the first new astrophage as his and carl's baby multiple times (HIGHLY relatable)

everyone has worked so hard on it and they are doing a phenomenal job

i DO however miss the character cold opens. i love how some of them had canon relevance for the characters or were just utter nonsense

they were a nice way to get into the episode and the vibe of the group