maybe they should’ve had Katara also feeling uncomfortable with the play portraying her and Aang as just friends/having a sibling/maternal relationship, and then she and Suki could’ve gone and had some girl talk on the balcony where Katara vents to Suki and we actually get to hear, from Katara herself, beyond a blush and instead actual words, how she is feeling about Aang and how the kiss before the invasion made her feel, and gotten actual insight into her thoughts and feelings about Aang

I'm on s17 (one of my favourite ever seasons) and I'm really loving watching rollisi fall in love all over again and for that reason and the fact I just wanted to watch everything again anyway casually is why I want to continue but man if I haaate s18 and the subsequent impacts that followed which is why I don't generally do a full rewatch which is why I also want to just quit and end on my happy feels.

Of course I could always do what I always do and just do a incomplete rewatch, only watching my Favourite parts which I have the timestamps practically imprinted into my brain but I so desperately didn't want to do that this time. I was multi tasking while watching and having it on as background noise in a lot of ways so the idea was that I'd be able to get through it via that way but my hyperfixation feels have been Activated now which means it's pretty hard for my brain to do that.

In contrast to Orpheus and Riddy, and then Riddy and Caenus.

Riddy figures death did them part which is why she has no qualms being with Caenus in death. She was faithful until the end, and even then she was going to come clean. And emotionally, she was no longer in love with him. She held out despite her own feelings. And Orpheus held on because of his.

The Gods like Hades, Persephone and Dionysus I think, are the only ones who probably actually understand or come close to experiencing emotions like the human cast.

For Zeus and Hera and Poseidon, it's a status quo thing. It's what they want, what they feel, and damn if it has consequences. Because who cares, they're God's.

So yah Hera here isn't what I assume hard core myth people would be looking for but it's a spin. She's more interested in the fact that thru the contract of their marriage, she has power. If Zeus strays, it means there's a disrupt to what could potentially be hers. Which is why she dismisses Poseidon, too. He's not the king of the gods. A fling is one thing but it doesn't give her position outside of his lover. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

HBO was willing to give them as much time as they needed, they were willing to do 10+ seasons but D&D were the ones that said no, and set an arbitrary limit of 13 episodes for the last two seasons and the show has clearly suffered for it.

I just don’t get why if they were bored or wanted to move on to Star Wars or whatever else why they wouldn’t just leave and gracefully pass on the torch. HBO was game, GRRM was game, and judging by the reactions of the cast this season they probably would have at least been fine with having S7&S8 at their previous lengths considering that they all care about their characters a lot.

Like this just clearly shows that characters and storylines prevail over cinematics. In a different season the battle of winter fell or the attack on kings landing would have been a crowning highlight like battle of the bastards or Blackwater. Instead, that’s all ignored because the actions behind the movements are chunky or don’t make sense.