Kwiktripdisaster - Fandomness + Randomness

i'm both dumber and smarter than you think so don't underestimate me because i'm actually smart about a lot of stuff but also don't be surprised if i'm dumb about some other stuff hope that helps

do you want me. have you wanted me. will you want me. when will you want me

NOT reading the new book unless it ends with percy showing up to the new rome uni with one letter of recommendation by his mother and when they ask where the ones written by the gods are he's just like "my mom is worth more than a thousand gods" in an extremely disney channel protagonist type of way.

tis the season

i love my men pathetic, in need of therapy and with a long list of crimes

hate when someone asks how are you and you say good how are you and they say "oh not so great" or something. it's always like ohh okay i see we're being honest i thought we were playing pretend. can i have a do-over

The thing is, I can forgive a lot of it. The scene where Kaz tries to help Inej with her wounds? I guess it was a nice nod to the CK scene, if slightly too soon. The "I will have you without Armour?" Fine. We all wanted to see that anyway. Rushing Wesper into a relationship rather than keeping as the slow-burn from the books? Okay. I really loved them on screen despite that. Kaz beating up the dregs? Definitely could have done without it for obvious reasons, but whatever. I can brush it off.

But the two things that are really grating on me are Kaz's face-off with Pekka Rollins and Inej leaving to hunt slavers. Because the POINT of these things happening towards the end of the second book is that there's a build up.

These characters go through so much. We learn everything about them, we see their struggles and we root for them. We spend SO much time learning about Kaz's thirst for revenge. We see moments where he starts to lose it when it comes to Pekka, and slowly start to learn why. And at the climax of Crooked Kingdom, there's so much on the line. We finally see him snap. There's a build up there of something that he's spent his entire life and two whole books working towards.

The first season of Shadow and Bone consisted of 8 episodes. So we can estimate that the crows had probably less than 4 hours of screen time. And we learned nothing about them, really. They were the mysterious trio that were hired to steal something. And then suddenly S2E1's "Brick by brick" turns into the peak of Kaz's character arc. It takes away the impact and the reasoning behind it.

And the same for Inej. Where is the journey? Where's the trauma that was inflicted by a woman who was truly evil? When we see Inej running into Tante Heleen for the first time in the duology, she freezes. She can't do anything. Are you telling me that the same girl who is so terrified of this woman can face her without a problem?

Again, there's so much of a development here as well. Inej has this realisation and this epiphany about what she wants to do. She wants to hunt down these slavers. She wants to make sure that nobody goes through the same stuff that she did. And when she sees Heleen after that, it's when she slowly starts to lose power over Inej. I mean, she steals the necklace straight from her neck, for crying out loud. Erasing Inej's trauma from S1 was a problem but they dug themselves in a deeper hole by killing off Heleen. She can't go through the journey that she's supposed to. Her entire character arc was just completely erased.

And the thing is, in the duology, Inej still goes through even more hell before she can get free from her indenture. The Ice Court Heist, Van Eck's torture, Dunyasha, etc. And yet... she's free before the start of the heist?

The heist is an important job for each crow. They all have a reason for being there, and they all have something on the line. None of them really think they're going to survive it, but they're trying anyway because, at this point, what do they really have to lose? And for Inej, this is her chance to get the money to leave the barrel. So... are you telling me that she's going to willingly come back to help on a life-threatening job for freedom that she no longer needs? What's going to happen with Kaz now that he's already had that stand-off?

Would love to know because right now I'm as lost as the rest of the book fans.

Okay- so I watched Spider-Man no way home last night and THOUGHTS!!

(obvious spoiler warning so scram if you haven’t seen it lol)

-this movie single handedly fixed any issues I’ve had with the character writing from all three franchises, and I’m honestly amazed???

-THE VILLAINS!!!!

-So are we just not going to talk about the Peter vs. Strange show down? Because I feel like this needs to be talked about. He used geometry-

-The scene is Happy’s apartment where Peter used his spider-sense?? Filmed beautifully. I’ve never seen it perceived like that before and it perfectly showed the raw panic Peter felt in the moment. I loved it.

-May’s death- It hurt so much, yet felt kind of right at the same time? I hadn’t expected it, and the fact that we had two movies to get to know her character made it that much more painful. Don’t even get me starting on the “with great power…”

-The scene after her death in the rain was breathtaking. One of my favorites. Just the way it perfectly represented the battles he was facing as both Peter and Spider-Man with only a few shots.

-I feel like the Green Goblin has rightfully taken back his place as Spider-Man’s archenemy. Willem Dafoe was outstanding and honestly terrifying. How he was able to out due his last performance amazes me.

-My favorite adaptation of Mj and Peter by far. Loved every moment with them.

-Wow…Tom Holland played Peter Parker perfectly. He truly was Spider-Man. Every decision he made felt so in character and I’m truly blown away. Phenomenal in every aspect of the word.

-The last scene, when he was swinging through New York with his new suit, is without a doubt my favorite Spider-Man moment from all franchises. It was perfect. It was just him, left with nothing but the city he loved, and something about that felt so right to me.

In conclusion I can’t wait to see what Marvel has in store for this Spider-Man. It will, without a doubt, be something amazing.

Today's Verse - Psalm 94:18-19 https://www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/todaysverse.cgi?day=20220823&amp%3Bver=niv&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=tv&utm_term=en

The club? No I'm meant to be with my criminal found family whose plot armor means we will never go to prison and always defeat the bad guys