this ones for the gays

defending andrew garfield's spiderman on the internet isn't enough. i need a gun

i actually find it really fascinating that there seems to be a subset of people who watch television shows and seemingly can't handle an ounce of conflict or narrative tension or flawed people handling difficult situations imperfectly. how do you guys live like this

there's this ridiculously soulmatey line in the phm book when grace is just kinda idly wondering aloud about why human and eridian technology are at such similar phases of development, and without thinking about it much rocky responds "has to be, or you and I would not meet." which he goes on to explain as (paraphrasing here) "if either planet were less advanced then we couldn't have built interstellar ships, but if either were more advanced then we could have dealt with the astrophage problem from home, so we'd have to be at around the same level to both be here, that's the only way it would make sense." what it sounds like though is "oh, that's easy: the two of us had to meet so the history of both of our entire species lined up in preparation to make it possible." what kind of tau-ceti-crossed red-petrova-line-of-fate nonsense is this.

free my girl she did all that and that’s what makes her such a compellingly complex character. that’s her essence

Choosing to believe the funny option that the only video diaries Grace recorded was the ones we saw on screen, so when they crack open the beetles they get, in order, a three second shot of Grace stumbling past the camera having just woken up, the “soooo I met an alien” video, the roommate video, the fishing plan, the fishing incident, then the final video Grace films right before turning back for rocky.

I feel we bloodymaries overlook one key detail when depicting the boys and it’s that Simon has the Softest most Wettest eyes in the universe and that needs to be exploited more