stationary obsessions

…so what was the point of June/Bosco/Charlie involving the Four Horseman in their plan?

Seems like the two things June/Bosco/Charloe needed for their revenge plot were:

1. For Veronika to meet Charlie, with the haute diamond

2. For her to confess to the murder

3. To film her murder confession in a public place, so she could be arrested

Involving the Horsemen did literally nothing to further this plan, right? If you take away the Horsemen’s ‘contributions’ in the movie, nothing really changes, right?

- They didn’t need to steal the diamond with Atlas in the first place, because Veronika had to bring it to Charlie anyway so he could give his whole ‘you killed my mom’ spiel. So that eliminates the need for Atlas there

- They also had no reason to go to the French mansion, because everyone already knew Veronika was ‘evil’. Finding some papers connecting her dad to Nazi’s was redundant that way. Plus, if they never went to the French magic mansion, Thaddeus would still be alive

- Charlie was the one who made those fake Tarot cards to give to the Horsemen, so it’s not like The Eye wanted them back together

Without the Horsemen, June/Bosco/Charlie could still have scared Veronika with their creepy phone calls. If they were smart enough to pull of this complex and probably pointless trickery, I’m assuming could have figured out a way to get Veronika alone and replicate her underground diamond dungeon, film her and Charlie, and get the murder confession out to the public.

For example, I wanna click on this random ao3 x tumblr post:

If I click on the actual tag, the second post that appears is this (aka not the post from trending I wanted to see lol):

AND if I scroll down through the tag in either the ‘top’ or ‘latest’ sections, I still don’t see that image in the feed there

I just got some ~vibes~ between them, like when they first meet:

And that moment when they lock eyes while Miles is in the ‘go home machine’, and Margo doesn’t actually stop him:

- Delirium as a character. Her outfits. Her voice. Her realm of train cars. Yes to it all

- The sibling dynamics between all of The Endless

- Especially that bit near episode 5 where Delirium is all like “I know more than you” to Destiny

- Literally anytime Dream interacts with Delirium, you can see Dream fighting back an actual smile. He’s such a moody character which makes any sort of positive micro expression so cool to see

- That episode where Dream was deciding what to do with Hell’s key. Seeing all the different characters (Norse Gods, faeries, whoever the fuck the god of order and his pedo-looking sidekicks were) interacting in the same universe was super sick.

- Adding onto that, especially the interpretations of Thor, Odin, Loki. They’re so different compared to the more popular Marvel movie adaptations, it was fun to compare

- I liked all the lore we got on Dream. His relationship with Nada (where he was a total ass), then Titania (implied?), then Calliope…

- Especially all the references to how much Dream has ‘changed’ at present in s2. I like that Dream seems kinder, cares more about humans, his family, etc… good growth. (Except for Nada, idk why he keeps fucking that up)

- Orpheus singing in the underworld

- number one thing I loathe is the convenient way tua got their powers back. We get this brief vignette of them without their powers in episode 1, and then by the end of the episode they conveniently find the marigold and *voila* have powers. Where were the stakes? The consequences? Show me TUA struggling to adjust to powerless life. Five annoyed that he has to use the stairs to climb a four story building. Diego failing to chop expertly w knives. Luther struggling to open jars idk give me something. Don’t just do a six year time skip and ignore the mundane!

- Adding onto ^ that I feel like it would make more sense to me if we saw TUA without their powers for maybe 3 eps in s4, and they go through a mini Journey to get them back. Instead it’s like the entire hook of the s3 finale is immediately resolved in episode 1, it annoys me to no end

- Five working for the CIA I sorta get… cuz it’s sorta what he did with The Commission. So now unmoored and powerless he’d probably go back to that lifestyle. But Five, paranoid violent genius-in-the-room Five, not noticing the completely obvious umbrella tattoo on his boss’ wrist?

- Jennifer being introduced, immediately shrugging off the fact that her entire town was murdered/a Truman Show sham, and joining Ben with basically zero questions

- Jennifer getting no character arc beyond she was born in a squid and she loves Ben

- Getting zero recognition that Reginald is an alien. Like. Hello?? You just found out your pos father is AN ALIEN! Are the siblings seriously not going to talk about this

- Also what year is s4 set in. Why do they always dial rotary phones but mention cryptocurrency? What is this universe where everybody knows Reginald and he’s colloquially referred to as “the elite?” Are Reginald and Abigail the… President and Vice President? King and Queen? Just some people who started a massive corporation and got rich?

- No mention of Grace is criminal. It would have made waaaaay more sense if the lady who played Abigail was actually played by Grace. And it would add some heart to Reginald as a character too. Otherwise, instead of secretly loving Grace his alien wife, Grace is just some woman who was alive in the 1960s and Reginald made a replica robot mom of her in 2019. For some reason. Idk I feel like the puzzle pieces were all laid out and for some reason TUA writers did not assemble them

- No mention of Pogo or Ray is also incredibly disappointing. Allison betrayed her siblings in order to be with Claire AND with Ray in one universe, but he’s not even in s4. Why even include him in the end of s3 then

- Okay maybe I’m pulling a blank but who tf is Quinn? How does he know Klaus? Why does he hate Klaus so much?

- Why does Claire know Klaus is immortal? Why is she all of sudden cool with her mom having eye glowy powers? You have no questions about that Claire huh…

- It also made sense to me that Lila and Diego would hate domestic life… and to me it seemed like even introducing their kids (not one, but three) was sort of silly. We only really saw Grace at the birthday party and then it seemed like Lila and Diego would forget and then remember their kids existed at weird parts

- Five and Lila giving up searching for a way out of the subway stations six years in seemed sus. Yes, take a break/eat strawberries or whatever but why would you stop searching for a way back? You’re supposed to be the best agents The Commission has ever seen so like… where did that grit/determination go