what if you were GAY and your girlfriend was the personification of DEATH and then your SON died and she had to reap his SOUL or whatever because it was her JOB and then you never forgave her but she still LOVED you and then you projected your GRIEF onto a random teenager while battling through DEATH trials with PATTI LUPONE
Yessss girl go get your wife back
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I’m starting to get the feeling that Kevin Feige is hearing all the criticisms going towards the MCU and, although he’s not acknowledging it in interviews, he’s silently addressing them as the franchise moves forward. What I mean by that is:
1) “MCU villains are lame and one-dimensional” -> Phase 3 and 4 villains are now widely praised, especially Killmonger, Thanos, Wenwu, and Zemo
2) “MCU is not cinema” -> hires Academy Award-winning director Chloe Zhao to take on Eternals. Also, he allows her to make this slow-burn, epic high fantasy that goes against typical superhero fare. Clearly, Marvel is aiming for the side of film circles that heap praise on “Dune” and Christopher Nolan movies.
3) “Avengers: Age of Ultron was not good in hindsight” -> WandaVision and What If…? are made to improve on AOU’s plot points
4) “I don’t understand the time travel mechanics in Endgame” -> Loki and What If…? are made to provide a better understanding of time in the MCU (don’t even start with me, the time travel stuff is understandable based on what I’ve seen)
5) “MCU hates Asian people, look what they did with Ancient One and Mandarin” -> corrects the Mandarin plot point by fixing Ben Kingsley’s version and introducing a proper version of the character, makes a whole movie dedicated to Asians/Asian-American, creates Eternals with multiple Asian leads
6) “Hawkeye is not funny and chaotic like how he is in the comics” -> literally makes a whole series that’s based primarily on the Matt Fraction run, the one that everyone praises
7) “MCU is not diverse” -> just all of Phase 4 (and most of Phase 3)
There are other criticisms, but those are the ones that came to mind.
I will need to watch this episode again (and again and again) to wrap my head around it and process everything before I write something more coherent... But for now:
Can it be any more obvious that Rio is Death? She needs bodies, she didn't heal Teen (so she's not a green witch - as they are supposed to be the healers - unless Rio didn't WANT to heal him?), she "had to do her job".
Noone can convince me otherwise.
Especially that Agatha KNEW Rio was coming - she panicked at the word "Death" in last episode (wanted to run straight away) and she knew Sharon's death will bring Rio back to her. That's why she seemed insensitive and wanted to walk on and get away from Sharon's body as quickly as possible. When she realised it wasn't going to work, she came up with a rouse that the coven needed to summon a new green witch, just to cover up who Rio really was.
I think she didn't want the coven to realise Rio was there for Agatha, but why?
And... why then expose Rio in the sound booth? Was she playing protective over the coven and wanted to let them know not to trust Rio, without actually telling them? Or, was that simply another way to distance herself from Rio - show her that she still hated her?
I think in the end she falls apart at the words "She is my scar". The whole episode Agatha was trying to just get away from Rio and was frustrated how much hold she still has on her. As much as Rio plays a lost puppy, trying to follow her everywhere, we see that the feeling is mutual. That last scene was SOOOOO SOOOFT and you can tell how much Agatha reacted at her slight touch and how much she needed this. If Rio didn't speak, who knows how far they'd take it...
But is Rio's job just being Death? Or, more specifically, is she to follow Agatha everywhere she goes? Is this a result of some pact (marriage?) or did Agatha bind Rio to herself?
The witches talk about their scars and it sounds like the Road is targeting just that. I bet there will be a vampire in Lilia's tarot trial!
So what if the Road taps into Rio's "scar" as well? What if, instead of getting Agatha back, Rio's wish is actually to break that connection between them because it feels too painful? I hope not!
if i was mercymorn i would’ve been writing hatemail regina george style. imagine her going to her room every night and opening her secret journal to write “john gaius is the nastiest skank bitch i have EVER met. do NOT trust him. he is a fugly slut.”
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They are so much worse… and I love it
Why is no one talking about how Rio exits by literally cutting through the set like when I tell you I had to pause and walk away because she can break the 4th wall as she’s not a player in the story she’s just death
That is the coolest fucking way to use a practical set get outta here
I love that in the ten years I've been on tumblr, tumblr users' attitude towards tumblr has come full circle, now we're back where we started at "tumblr is our beloved home, no other social media can compare, no other website has what we have, do not trust other websites, do not tell the outsiders about us", only this time we're like. Really exhausted and with a sense of irony about it.