“Why are you watching it again? You already know what happens.” Because The Character is in there, bro. THE CHARACTER

Look I don't think Supergirl (2026) is secretly a perfect masterpiece or anything (I personally thought it was like. a 6/10 fun time) but I do think it's wild that Tumblr isn't going crazy for it because this Kara is one coattailed suit away from being a Tumblr sexyman. she is the flawed messy female character people have supposedly been clamouring for. she's the popular archetype of a gruff self-destructive alcoholic middle-aged man begrudgingly having to look after a kid and growing fond of them but genderswapped and also 23. she's allowed to be visibly messy and kind of gross and her hair is constantly all over the place and she literally cries, screams, throws up, and pisses onscreen. she's caustic and mean and puts up an act of carelessness but has a heart of gold. she's heavily traumatised and coping with it terribly. if anything happens to her dog she will kill everyone in this room and then herself. she spends most of the movie in a trench coat and baggy band T-shirt. she gets into bar brawls and breaks a guy's hand. she is Going Through It 24/7 and looks the part. she stabs a guy in the throat. how is everyone else not obsessed with her.

arrival (2016) is such a good movie because it turns the typical alien invasion story on its head. at the beginning, ian quotes louise, saying, "words are always the first weapon drawn in war" and it reinforces the idea that this is a war story, an invasion. and then the aliens insist that they are giving the humans a weapon. only, it's not a weapon. it's a gift. and we think that louise's daughter is already dead. she's not. they gave her the gift of knowing her future. and we don't see hannah die, because it's already happened even before she is born. and louise knows. she knows how it ends. and still, "despite knowing the journey and where it leads, i embrace it. and i welcome every moment of it."