#jp rambles

ok just when i thought i was settling into a shiny new hyperfixation while SF6 was simmering away on the back burner, our lovely director Nakayama-san has graced us with some lore morsels to devour

i will do my best to translate them from Japanese to Korean to English, and i hate that so many translators probably use artificial-idiocy which is getting harder and harder to avoid, that's a different rant, anyway:

had a really fun time watching it; always love me some people in 19th century fashion! Especially when the cast has a fair amount of Black and brown people. we deserve to wear cravats and crowns and Regency gowns on TV (and irl for that matter)

did anyone else get like... second-wave feminism vibes? like yes to #girlpower, but also pls complicate these women’s straightness and whiteness some more. needed more gay in it too! we got, like, a teeny smidge- a couple frames, literally.

spoilers ahead -

re: the scene in episode 6 - this piece in Vox got to the heart of it. the way that scene was handled plotwise was just... a mess. I kept waiting for Daphne to realize and grapple with the moral gravity of her actions, and for the show to underscore that gravity... but it never did.

on other notes: 

i ship Penelope and Colin. even if the latter is a fucking dumbass, she is her dumbass

Pen <> Eloise, if you know you know

the reveal of Lady Whistledown seemed so unearned? but also I’m happy for her! but also, how?