The Genre Is Platonic Soulmates Your Honour

I think the thing that’s really striking about the got books as opposed to the show is the way Martin never shies away from how physically damaged everyone is left. In the show Tyrion gets a badass scar but in the books he looses half his nose, Briennes teeth are broken and a chunk of her face is literally bitten out. Theon looks like an old man, his body is completely wrecked -

But they’re still not beyond hope. Their stories don’t finish with the horrible things that happen to them, their scars and deformities, they go on, and it’s not pretty and tragic and romantic like a story

And that’s the whole point.

Every single book in the series makes a point about how violence and war is romanticised in literature and history and Martin makes his character a living testament to the reality of war, the ugliness, the trauma, and that depth is just another thing that got glossed over in the show where people stay pretty and everything that made the books special is watered down.

Let your characters be ugly. Let them get hurt. Let them be scarred, and watch them get up anyway.

The thing I find actually quite disturbing about Netflix is that they know that the only people who really have the time for the binge model are just actual children. Their main market is teenagers which is why shows like Wednesday and Ginny and Georgia do so well and television made for adults and people with full formed brains keeps getting cancelled. It’s pathetic

Not seeing nearly enough appreciation for the pure excellence that was 24/7

I mean the entire cast was just incredible and it basically stands on its own as a short film.

You get so invested in these peoples stories and the atmosphere is so tense and chaotic, and John Dee is just chilling

Even if he is just a smol guy in the corner eating his ice cream whilst everyone else is getting laid😂

Love the darth plagueis reveal because it’s 100% giving the energy of your roommate has a date over and you’re peeking out of your room to see if it’s safe to use the kitchen yet

Yellowjackets Prediction:

Antler Queen/Final Boss is Tai

I feel like this makes perfect sense and is not talked about at all. Tai’s dark persona taking over is really being hinted at this season and it makes sense that the girls will go for that after Shauna (inevitably) goes off the rails and ruins their chance to go home.

It’s even hinted at in the final image of the title sequence plus the wilderness is always giving her stuff (Van getting better, Tai is the most successful of all the girls to come home). I feel like the creepy man she sees everywhere is this dark persona that takes over her and the show is building up to her finally giving in to it.

Some of you are too afraid to admit this but we all know Star Wars works best when it goes full soap opera

Barbie being an eldritch terror wasn’t on my bingo card for 2023 but let’s fucking gooo

She was born to play Judy Poovey if you even care

Just learnt that the cast of mamma Mia were literally all drunk like the whole time they filmed and everything suddenly makes sense

Don’t know if I trust the way Christopher Nolan writes women for him to be allowed to tackle anything Greek mythology related