#captainimfangirling

I mean listen, if I was still a young kiddo, yeah I would, absolutely…

 But when someone gives you a $88M budget & you churn out a story that’s a Mercury Rising (1998) rip off, mixed with Fanfic one would write when they’re about 12 & starting out, and OF COURSE Shane’s brand of mostly off-key raunchy humor… Adult brain says WTF I paid $10 for this schlock.

Predators in Camo Pants?

It just comes across as gimmicky & let’s be honest: A stupid way to write an Emissary. Emissaries are NOT defector beings from another planet you basically keep as pets & give tommy guns to. Emissaries are diplomatic representatives. And I think that’s one of the huge things that irks me about them. Because a Yautja Emissary would be a brilliant idea… But general audiences don’t go to see a Predator movie for diplomacy & Pulp/Trek style Sci-Fi. They go for action, suspense, and flavors of horror in their Sci-Fi.

Now THIS CONCEPT ART Looks like a proper Emissary, I would have LOVED THIS:

But as it stood in the original script (been awhile since I read it, but), they’re defector Predators. And they kept them in essentially a preserve/pen and gave them fucking camo pants. Listen, it’s cute to draw Preds in human clothes, but in a full motion picture? WTF. Also Predators riding around with humans in a tank? Hooooo Boyyyyy… Super small me would’ve made a fortune playing with action figures if that’s what passes for cinematic green lights.

There’s a TON of content they could have drawn from: comics, novels, games, etc. IDK why they ended up with dreck. And it especially stings when fans can, have, and will write better stories than The Predator (2018) gave us.

There are ways to do stuff like this ‘right’, and by that I mainly mean a logical in ‘canon’ way that’s compelling, and has some bulk to it’s story. Not ‘Hey guys look at this he has human clothes & a human gun & he’s fighting & making jokes with the one-traits/stereotypes!’

Aaa thank you–I’m glad you enjoyed it!! (I’m assuming you’re referring to the prince/princess post–I’m honestly very proud of it even if it’s nearly incomprehensible, considering I hadn’t eaten anything other than popcorn in the past 24 hours or so).

Honestly I know I literally just said this but: the Jonathan Stan Experience™ is just ignoring everything except what sparks joy–and considering how he’s Like That, what remains is pretty much like this

I wonder if that’s part of the reason Lilith burned Jonathan. To burn off his runes.

I was thinking it was stress or a nervous tick where he puts both hands on he back of his head.

I thought that too but there’s really only one instance where he does that but his hands are on the top of his head:

It may be a thing that Soft Nerd™ Sane!Jeremiah did or something because I honestly can’t see THIS Jeremiah doing that.  I think the only time he would fiddle with his hair is when he’s combing it back or something.  He’s a vain mothereffer who cares very much about his appearance.  I think the idea of him being caught fiddling with his appearance would be insulting to him.  He only allows very particular people the privilege to witness that; he’s a very private person.

And in his last episode in S5, his hair pretty goes to Funky Town on that one side only:

And if you look really closely, it’s like... almost dented.  Yeah, like as if someone grabbed his hair...