#polvado

@polvado || sentence memes.

“That was -- Oh. I see, now. You’re not a bandit.” Their optic narrows to a slit as they heft the length of their rifle against their shoulder. How intriguing, that this isn’t entirely a unique situation. “I have heard of these ghosts before. Another human informed me they were attempting to commandeer a vessel to space.”

A pause.

if tony can just get his heels touching the ground while squatting, i'm sold

tbf.  you know he’s from sofia, bulgaria in actuality.

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Hands down, my biggest gripe with the show, which brings the overall quality of the show objectively

Learn to pace your god damn seasons

Season one and even two (for the most part) had a really solid pace to it where the story progressed naturally and built up to an explosive finale

But starting season 3 (which is the season Todd Helbing became the sole showrunner, a fact that I’m sure is not at all relevant to this) the show’s biggest sin has been taking what could be a great 8-10 episode story, and stretching it across 22 episodes, and being so obvious about the fact that they’re stretching it 

Season 3, good up to episode 9, then until episode twenty fucking one you are deaing with the Mystery of who Savitar is and not much is happening and by the time you learn it’s an Evil Future Barry, there are only TWO episodes left in the season and you can’t really explore the notion of Evil Barry, which could create a bunch of interesting story points.

Also wasting a great villain in Doctor Alchemy who could have been a season long villain on his own like that? Shame. 

Season 4, great until episode 8, interesting throughout the Prison Arc, but then episodes 13 through 20 are the exact same thing. The plot is spinning its wheels until DeVoe can get the last body he needs and be Neil Sandilands again. 

Season 5. Oh boy oh fucking boy where do we start. Season 5, starts off great, Cicada gets a strong introduction, there is a nice sense of urgency until episode 8, where all signs point to the fact that ‘we are taking Cicada DOWN’ 

Until they don’t. 

Until they lose in the single most idiotic way possible.

 And then rest of the season, until the finale, is literally ‘We need to defeat Cicada but we can’t because his / her Plot Armor is thicker than Nora’s ass in that XS outfit. It examplifies perfectly the whole ‘we have a great 8 episode arc but we need to stretch it until the season finale’ thing. 

And by a by product of this, you cannot explore other villains in smaller arcs. You could have EASILY had several arcs with The Rogues terrorizing the city, you could have several arcs with a B-list villain becoming a major threat. There is so much possibility.

@polvado ||  twitter memes.

There’s a split second’s delay, as if she’s weighing her options -- deciding on taking the joke at face value to deflate the situation, or taking it in stride. The decision is charted with the slow curve of her mouth; cheeks dimpling as she offers an indifferent shrug. 

send me a “ 🔥 ” for an unpopular opinion.

    if an independent courier can be marked as good or neutral on the karma scale (which is not perfect but nonetheless, it’s a canon mechanic so that’s our reference here) then so can benny, and he shouldn’t be marked down as evil. benny and an independent ending courier are quite literally the same—unaffiliated outsiders who take over an organization through violent means (yes, even a good karma courier has to do bad for the independent ending) + who kill for the sake of their goals. even killing is not automatically bad within the game, and many good characters kill. benny even says it: “ what i did to you was rotten, but if you think house, the ncr or caesar won’t kill to put vegas in their pocket, i really did blow out your brains. ” 

    therefore, unless all independent couriers are evil karma by default, benny isn’t evil. good? certainly not. i’d stick him somewhere on the neutral spectrum. but evil? let me list off some evil karma characters: vulpes inculta (a mass murdering member of the legion), phillipe (a cannibal abusive chef), mortimer (another cannibal), duke and cook-cook (fiend and a r*pist), etc etc. what does benny do? he reluctantly shoots a stranger in the head for the sake of his goals (something the courier does a thousand times over), plans to enact a scheme and get power from a capitalist (something the independent courier does), and……escapes the fort if you set him free instead of helping you fight what is potentially a hopeless fight. he also gives you his plan if you meet him at the fort and is perfectly ready to die for his actions, which implies an awareness of bad and good. i’m not counting his side comic in this analysis because that would go on too long.

   that said, benny does bad karma things too—so he’s not qualifying for any morality awards any time soon and is definitely a stinky rat of a person. but i think his perception by fandom has been skewed by what i call main-character-itis—where if an npc does something to the player character, they are judged much more harshly than if the player character had done it to them. hell, even the game lets you know hey, this guy was just a pseudo-villain who’s a bit useless, the real villain is this political plot you’ve been suckered into by house. again this is all working off the karma system, not real morality which is much more elaborate and less flawed, but even within the game mechanic, slamming benny into an evil category is just … a real disservice to a character that mirrors the player quite accurately.

Man and he thought Pandora was bad! Okay well Pandora was still bad and worse than this, but y’know whatever state Earth was in right now? Pretty fucking bad. Most of the idiots were walking around without shields! … but also looked to a lot better armed than him. Jack found himself constantly checking his ammunition as he walked the Strip, feeling just a tad bit overdressed. No one here seemed like the mugging type, but if you had to put a bullet in someone’s head? Oh well.