#charkie

...Putting aside how the 1935 arc already has enough going on, let’s face facts: involving a bear in the story is, in itself, just a teensy bit silly. Just a tiny bit ridiculous, and in this case I think embracing the inherent silliness by making Cookie a sweetheart was the right call. 

A bear in New York is already a problem, as is said bear being a mafia housepet on the loose in New York. Making Cookie have wild nighttime hunts would have come off as “trying too hard,” “excessive,” etc., I think partly because it implies just having a bear isn’t good enough (i.e. already ‘a lot’). “A bear on it’s own? Boring. Bear preying on the mob at night? now we’re talking!”

Nah, forget that! It’s a bear! It causes a ruckus just by existing, as Narita himself proves. Cookie running around NY w/o killing anyone still leads to multiple calls to the police; him falling asleep at the clinic is enough to draw a crowd of rubberneckers and the response of law enforcement. And isn’t that in the spirit of Baccano!--individuals causing a ruckus just by being themselves? 

--Wouldn’t Cookie wilding out at night also serve to undermine the circus incident in 1920? For context: Cookie was a danger when the circus first acquired him; he grew more and more ferocious by the day and eventually tried to attack his trainers. The circus would’ve likely put him down had it not been for Claire ‘taming’ him.

Now of course Cookie is a wild animal and not truly tamable, but this is fiction (and this is Baccano!) we’re talking about; we can afford to be a little unrealistic. Having Cookie ‘go feral’ at night would mean a better chance of people siding with the circus adults--and Narita wants us to like Cookie, yeah?

Okay. I’m hell tired because I read the words you associate as “You asshole!”

And I was like WHO THE FUCK IS THIS RUDE PERSON!

But then my brain reread it.

So maybe by brain broke in anticipation of Lindsey Shaw. It knew!

I have to say Paige McCullers screentime because how the hell do you get GLAAD shoutouts and keep breaking up the lesbian’s relationships.  Like thanks for making us so starved for reputation and setting the bar so low that as long as the character doesn’t DIE or is EVIL, it’s a plus. 

Maybe I’m biased because to me Paige McCullers is the greatest fictional character of all time and that should have been a spin off yo. Paige McCullers.

Like you know how Chloe Sullivan was dope as hell. And then we got an almost similar character in the form of Veronica Mars? Someone was like but what if the coolest character got their own show but not their own show because Copyright infringement. I mean TWOP joked about it in the recap of the Pilot more than once.

Like give Lindsey Shaw her own show pretty much. DO that. And definitely probably let her character date ladies. And have JD as head writer and Norman Buckley direct most episodes. 

Because the only way Chlark could have happened is if Chloe was secretly Lois Lane (like that should have pulled that off) or if Lex Luthor married Lana Lang or whatever happened in that  alternate universe episode.  Or they should have just been like FUCK IT! Because yo even in the New 52 universe Superman isn’t with Lois Lane so they could have done anything. Like they could have had Chlark happen and then not do it endgame styles. UGH. Fuck those guys. 

Yeah. I was afraid she was going to die. I was like NO! 

But I hope they do a call back where Emily is like standing somewhere with the other girls and Aria is like “Turn around.”