#jdslaj

I LOVE how cheeky they both are

I love how she’s like: hello? pour me tea (!???) dont be an impolite asshole

I love how he’s like *secret smile* after she says she’ll give his enemy a blow if he dares attack him haha

I LOVE THE CLASSIC FUCKING BACKSTORY OF HIM HAVING FALLEN INTO THE RIVER AND HER HAVING SAVED HIM

his mum locked him into the house for 13 years. that really does explain his desire to go out and have FUN

awwwwww this is so sad hahahaha she had a crush on him from when they were little and she THINKS he remembers her but noooo

everybody keeps saying how she’s violent, simple-minded, a brute, not very beautiful, not filial, not kindhearted etc etc. NONE OF THAT IS TRUE

it’s interesting how constructed ‘woman’ and ‘man’ are, so clearly from this. “you must(n’t) be like a woman”, “I never knew how to be a girl”, meaning being not overbearing, pleasing to men, elegant, taking small steps and possessing a certain posture, expressing oneself through certain arts i.e. flower arrangement, putting on a performance of weakness - as a wife, being caring and nourishing and obedient and submissive. none of that  comes naturally, it is something that is learned and taught.

more interestingly, whenever the prince imagines or sees the General affect such a facade, it frightens him because it is so incongruous hahaha. I LOVE how she uses this to tease him, kind of ‘taking it back’ AND HER GRIN IS SO AMAZING OMFG

he designed and made clothes for her in her deep royal blue that are elastic because she likes to fight!! AAAAAAAAAAAAA

hahahahahaha he’s getting jealous. she is a brilliant tactician herself, being so self-deprecating, it makes her less intimidating, it brings out his nurturing side,

his little smile when he gets his way XD

i love the myth of enlightened royalty, which is why i love the emperor in this

Yujin just fainted from the very thought of responsibility. then he’s upset that his concubines are fawning over his wife lolololol. he’s such a spoiled child.

it’s hard to follow their convo’s now. but yujin reveals an inferiority complex about being a local scoundrel. then the general is like lol, i was a killer and a total bastard (and i teased beautiful women (?)) and the only thing i haven’t done is hit women and children. what? haha

oh DAMN, she means it. she really was a quick-angered brute. she would have beaten him to death??? what the fuck

lol. she does the thing back about him not being allowed to take what he said back. so much banter.

i hadn’t realised she was supposed to be so young...she doesn’t seem that young at all :/

honestly i DO think it’s no good to cast people who are so much older for teens. it’s just....it’s just obviously not true. and it skews my perception of the character entirely. Ryan reads WAYYY younger than Yaz does. 19 seems like a possible reading for Ryan at least.

im not saying that a 19-year-old couldn’t shout at two ladies in the street for being ridiculous, but

Well Rose was definitely plausibly 19. While Yaz.... hm. she just DOESN’T seem plausibly 19. her face, her manner, her balance. can’t sense that inexperience or overcompensation. that instability.

and she’s ‘absolutely in awe of the Doctor’ hmmhm. this would be good if the 19 bit didn’t shock me

ok this needs some reconfiguring in my head esp for the shipping bit

not that i had any problem with Rose and the Doctor’s romance (i was a teenager) but

love vanya’s style

don’t really like golden boy luther even though he’s clearly just trying his best

the implication is that five could travel in time to before this time and an agency is on his trail

i love officer patch for putting diego in his place

so vanya shot five’s trust in her

so he uses klaus

so they’re torturing the wrong guy - he’s just gonna tell em whatever they wanna hear

allison you asshole. is there literally no one in vanya’s life that’s worth her? nope

“you’re an adult now vanya, you don’t get to blame your problems on anyone but yourself’ FUCK OFF ALLISON. she went to a goddamn therapist, she exposed what horrors you were put through, she made something of herself by mastering a damn instrument - no thanks to ANYONE ever believing in her.

she was trying to be fucking NICE. she literally was the only one who got NOTHING but shit out of the family - GREAT

im thinking that vanya is gonna explode in six days and take the whole of humanity with her. that’s what makes her special - at last

my question is why pogo is so convinced of their dad being a good man and a loving father - in his own way

‘she’s your sister, she knows you didn’t mean it’ that’s as unlikely in that family as a talking walking chimp. CLEARLY there’s zero trust between vanya or anyone. zero trust between any of them

i know they’re trying to present pogo as the real dad in the family - but like - his whole character and insistence on the above is an insult to the trauma they’ve all suffered

‘you were a child miss allison’ ‘but i’m not anymore’ she mirrors her projection back at herself. at least she can do that

of COURSE they’re going to keep allison’s discovery from the audience ugh. im really annoyed with the pacing?? xD it’s because the premise is so straightforward. i don’t normally mind a slow pace but this is like - superhero kids x abusive household. alright. TELL ME MORE

yeah i knew five went pretty mad and started talking to an inanimate object. you’d think he’d have more symptoms of solitary confinement

i thought he killed her but it didn’t work....he hit her in the neck, blood splattered, she went down, and she was back up again the next shot. some time shit? (edit: it was just her arm? those masks do some serious protecc tho)

ok but vanya is not amongst the dead

hey

the problem with these kids is that they don’t have the fortitude to look beyond themselves. they never even realised that their mother is a shell of a human being due to some sort of brainwashing (yeah she’s a robot?)

Diego doesn’t realise that his come-ons (defensive manoeuvres?) are the way to instantly rebuff his only ally

wow why is everyone so shitty to vanya

oh allison, having that power must be a curse on your relationships. but why hasn’t it ruined (obviously) her relationships with her siblings?

i know leonard is awkward but he’s just so friendly. and damn, finally somebody who appreciates her for her?

i love vanya though.

how did allison and luther find five and vanya in the middle of the streets though

these shitters ignore their ‘mom’ in everything - should we turn her off or not? why is that the first thing they go to? why don’t they talk with her together?

vanya has the shittiest and smallest room....

now diego lashes out at vanya. EVERYBODY lashes out at her - because there are no consequences - and there never were

it almost seems like their dad was a robot himself malfunctioning

hypocrisy. everybody bottling shit up. luther suddenly waking up and being a ‘monster’ instead of golden boy. ironic

‘i really need it for my nerves i’ve been taking it since i was kid’ OOHHHH have ya? might it be to repress your fucking powers? seeing as, your dad just kept insisting nothing was special about you?

Leonard!!!! i am really really starting to like this dude. i think they are trying to do a double rug pull. trying to make him look shady (’family right?’), trying to make him look good, trying to make him look shady again.... but really there’s nothing wrong with him

pogo is such a weird character. i really enjoy luther’s and diego’s conflict though.

luther really is still clinging to his privileged little ‘leader’ role, his ‘one’ role and he can’t fathom why the others WOULDN’T stay - just. like. him.

so yeah the agents are time travelers - but they THINK that Five is gonna be the cause ey? bc who would act to CAUSE the end of time? stupid

broken contract? ‘we’re also going to end the world’ so they already know it’s gonna happen - they just didn’t know five was gonna try and change it and they were gonna be involved in stopping him. sounds like the time travel agency camps out in time before the end

personally think it’s weird they’re spinning a romance between two people who’ve been raised as siblings but---- uh weird circumstances i guess

ok so it was a straight rug pull. unless - he’s being a creep throwing her pills away ‘for her own good’. that would still make him not good but not organised evil.

DETECTIVE PATCH RUN!!! DON”T DIE!!!! she’s gonna die isn’t she. fuck

god fucking dammit. it’s gonna give diego a complex bc he wasn’t there for backup. i dont give a fuck about diego i give a fuck about fucking detective patch fucking DYING. god fucking dammit

klaus fucking timetravelled oh my god

what the fuck tho like, this does not bode well for me at all. if they dare kill detective fuckin patch. for what. for a fuckin sad song

I LOVED THAT WOMAN

five grew super old before he ever left the wasteland?? all he gained was a bike

is that grace with a timetravelling suitcase?

did he not kill kennedy?  you can retire to the time and place of your choosing - lol fucking bullshit. and i was right - time agency camps out before the end...

oh klaus has had an experience. sky soldiers? 1968. what was going on then? what war? right vietnam

Helen stopped showing up for first chair? hmmmmMMMMMM it’s like they’re gonna try and build Vanya up. Vanya is DEFINITELY the key

let’s give klaus even MORE ptsd

butterfly effect: just kill a dude and time changes. maybe...try NOT killing someone, saving someone, changing someone ? to ? change time?

‘you’re not my mother. worry about your own daughter’

‘that’s not fair’ hmmmm it’s pretty fair. i mean you barge back into somebody’s life after 12 years and then finally when she’s got a bf you’re like: actually! i bet he’s a creep. lol

i mean she’s probably right but does she not HEAR herself? no bc these kids have never thought about anything else but themselves and their own perspectives

why the FUCK would allison walk in heels if she’s been trained in combat

vanya’s power surfaces....

no one’s ever believed in me like this - hmmm. seems more and more deliberate. Leonard seems very enthusiastic about ‘out of body experience’?? ‘this is your time’ HMMM

LITERALLY an invisible force

the actress for grace is incredible. going from so animated as to seem human to so robotic as to seem not human at all to all these microexpressions mixing the two.

‘do you remember what happened?’ hmmmm

is this book so good. i am also recalling some details

gonna say again: that SHITHEAD journalist

that SHITHEAD ‘psychic’!!!!!

AGFDLKJDSLJFJ so now she’s gonna INSIST on knowing what exonerates Mark (quite rightfully)

MARKS IS SUCH A SHITHEAD. didn’t fuckin learn his lesson. what idiotic adulterers kiss in the middle of a town like that. jup exactly

can i just say, Beth is a very sympathetic character so far. but please don’t listen to this psychic!!!

i feel like possibly the psychic is somebody who knows more, but tries to dress it up as something supernatural to stay outside of suspicion.

that manipulative shithead reporter. i am so saddened by how this family is being preyed upon. but she almost falls for the psychic, then falls for the reporter! ughghghgg

alec is so extremely socially awkward makes me think he’s got a condition related to that stuff. or. it’s because of trauma

YIKES why are the walls in this house so SHIT. this typical British construction man the houses are so SHIT!

i was like - it’s good they’re talking this out but holy sshit their kid can hear them. THEIR KID CAN HEAR THEM??????? have they never realised that their voices can be heard if they just talk at a normal or slightly raised level? I complain about not being able to scream anywhere in a 50 km range in or around the house without alarming someone but at least i can talk and even shout.

anyway them hashing it out got very uncomfortable once they started talking about sex while their kid could HEAR THEM

understand tho why he did it very understandable. i mean AWFUL. i understand it and it was fucking stupid and selfishly extremely hurtful

who the FUCK says: ya have to keep it. to their pregnant wife who they’ve cheated on. DAMN

lol Olly getting hella played by Karen. jfc. ‘we’ll run it under my byline’ hello? she’s taking your work?

ahhh. things only get worse and worse ey

i’d say that becca had that anger coming

i don’t think for a second that Jack did it. this series sure seems to go into the topical subject of pedo lynching.

Tom is a most ominous boy.

wow Mark is so in the wrong here to chloe all he can do is shout.

Ellie and Alec were just bonding! and so she felt a little safe to ask the question. and kinda destroy that again? maybe

there’s a LOT of atmospheric shots. good at the start but now it’s allowed to speed up chibs, cmon.

LOL. ‘how do you relax’ somehow that seemed extremely BLATANT

fuckin hell nobody in that village saw him suiciding coming? fuckin hell, police, church. fuckin fuck journalists. seems accurate of teh british press eh

i take it back. Tom seems guileless. Don’t really know what Susan is planning. WHY would she incriminate herself?

Nige is a total maniac alright. psychopath alarm.

lots of lost people fled to the coast ey.

WOAH

jodeh is doing the ACTING. what a LINE chibs

more like monologue

it’s......Ellie’s husband. that’s why Tom is destroying evidence because he knows it was his dad. this is pure speculation.

hm Nige. but there were these interactions between em before. did Nige know she’d seen him? 

not as much a psychopath as we thought he couldn’t kill the dog. it’s not Nige, i think Susan was just trying to get her dog back. oh wow didnt see that coming, very good!

OHHH they’re ....REALLY setting it up for Ellie ‘back then in your own house, how could you not know?’ YIKES

Nige looks like Ellie’s husband in the dark.... but he seems pretty guileless about the computer...hm.

ya see the moment the journalists are like: oh shit, he’s a good man.

(Also realised that it proves that the psychic was just a shithead)

that was.........crazy. like. why. end it like that.... he was trying to get caught wasn’t he...ok it was foreshadowed but still. and they’re gonna do it in flashback? oh YIKES ...they Are going to go the pedophile road??? i guess that was also foreshadowed

this interaction between them is truly - TRULY implies all the ways this dynamic is completely terrible

i find this really hard to watch. have to pause it every 20 seconds. literally. in the middle of that rant. can you REALLY kill a kid by strangling them for 15 seconds?? did he crush the windpipe?? no. blood flow to brains? 15 seconds??? ok anecdotal evidence suggests that it’s indeed possible to strangle somebody as quickly as that - though generally it takes skill. so had to scroll down the dash for a bit after that.

don’t think Mark is attractive at all and am BAFFLED by Becca’s interest in him

i find it fascinating that these people who sleep in the same bed don’t notice the other getting up. i wake up at the slightest shift

shithead jjournalist karen redeems herself slightly

anyway those fires were incredible

- i would have gone with the taskers/grudge gang

- WHERE IS MY FANART OF BEAU AND CALEB REACHING OUT TO EACH OTHER WHENEVER CALEB GOES INTO FRUMPKIN

- I LOVE TALIESIN’S NEW VOICE

- I LIKE CADEUCEUS AND BEAU’S INTERACTIONS ALREADY

- taliesin and marisha have such good roleplay chemistry hahaaha ‘you have a lot of anger and aggression’ ‘oh man you’re seeing me at a relatively calm moment actualy’

- i love cadeuceus because i feel like all of taliesin’s .....things that he says actually work??

- love nott’s paranoia sam is a comedic genius

- ‘we don’t even knowwhat he does!?!’ LKFJLKDFLKDSFKL nott kfjsdlfjal

- and then sam does something CRAZY like shoot a crit bolt at beau, holy fucksajflka it’s a good thing she caught that first one

- THEY JUST LOST MOLLY. get some goddamn extra muscle guys!!

- all this amazing stupid art does make me feel hella sad again about molly. mostly for the potential of him more than the execution tbh i instantly feel cadeuceus has a vibe that tal is much more comfortable at portraying?

- NATURAL TWENTY ON SAM’S ROLLLLL

- frumpkin is so much more useful as an owl....but less cuddly. ALSO. they forgot frumpkin is actually a spider now!

- NOOOOOOO. dwarf blur must hit!!

- awww so cute marisha ghosting a hand over liam’s shoulder waiting for Matt’s judgement HOW DO YOU WANNA DO THIS

- awww ‘NO im putting it in the haversack! it’s yasha’s sword!’ aww beau

- ‘oh no no im just gonna turn him into mulch that’s okay’ lkdjsfkladsfklajklf

i am making notes for a red helen/bob and black helen/evelyn fic in which helen contributes heavily to evelyn’s recovery despite herself and evelyn’s tech actually does get stolen by capitalists the exact people she despises so now she gotta help

and helen just keeps poking holes through her trauma inspired ideals and violet is around calling her out on being a rich little shit which is a perspective she’s NEVER even considered

anyway maybe evelyn will be their tech gadget person but i feel likeeee,

evelyn definitely needs to stay a goddamn villain in a way or she won’t stay a black romance

it can’t ACTUALLY be a full ‘recovery’ in the sense that her whole identity is wiped out. so i gotta like, pick a part of her ideology that she absolutely does not do away with and that she can combine with her recovery and new insight and inspire her to a new

Neutral chaotic mindset

probably her anti-authoritarianism and self-sufficiency ideals, she’s gonna be redistributing tech like crazy

learns to respect the masses and empower them (gasp so syndrome’s dreams become real?)

new conflict with helen: these people do shit things and become villains sometimes and thats not great

teasing: ‘isn’t that what you’re for?’

so i guess she goes from: remove fake fake fake superheroes that make us defenseless (destructive impulse) to giving people the means to defend themselves - against propaganda and consumerism and also violence (constructive impulse)

i.e. needs to work through trauma (U responded just as much like a child - winston is gonna tell her that)

I KNEW IT!!! I KNEW GLINDA HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH FIYERO, IF ONLY VIA HER HUSBAND!!!

damn but i can’t imagine that Elphaba was or is at all a good mother to Liir. ok that’s just been confirmed about five times over.

edit: now 7 times

but on the other hand, she did bring Liir back to life, and avenged his almost death. but i don’t think she has ever afforded him any attachment

and like, she is finally reminded, that hey, this boy is the son of the man i loved. hmmm. and then has the AUDACITY to feel rebuffed after making ONE gesture of slight interest

so she hasn’t known her son as a son but she seems pretty damn sure he is her son

and she has no power as mother because she has nothing she can take away from Liir, no approval, no kindness, no closeness, or warmth - for she never granted it to him before