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I would just like to point out that Cas absolutely did not need to cup Dean's face like that to heal him.

How the heck did I only now realize it’s Mark Hamill who plays the Replicator in Criminal Minds season 8????????

GoT Season 8 Spoilery

This is technically spoiler-free if you watched the trailer, becuse the scene is in it.

Everybody still keeps talking about Cersei, but you can see her in the trailer and in Episode 1 (same scene from the trailer) drinking wine.

She is not pregnant anymore, otherwise she wouldn’t. That was noticed by Tyrion last season. Cersei doesn’t drink when she is pregnant, if she drinks it only means she already lost the child.

i have finally figured out my personal problem with GoT Season 8.

And yes, it’s the writing.

For the last 5 episodes I though it was not even in any way GRRM plan, like nothing of it.

And then I startet noticing the overall plotpoints itself.

So:

The others/Night King kill Viserion. Dany notices she is not as welcome in Westeros as she had hoped. Dany finds out, that Jon has better claim to the Iron Throne. Ser Jorah dies in battle, protecting Dany. Dany notices the people love Jon, but not her. Euron kills Rhegal (most likely with dragonbinder in the books). Cersei kills Missandei. Jon turns Dany down, because she is his aunt. Dany slowly decends to madness and succumbs to her “with fire and blood - I will take it” -part, ignoring everything else out of pure rage and despair. Like all of that makes sense. But stuffing all of that in 5 episodes doesn’t. Aerys madness took years before he started burning people. And Danys just took a couple of weeks. The pacing is off. That is the issue.

And that all characters are getting more and more supperficial instead of more complex every season. I can see Jamie wanting to be with Cersei when she dies, there is so much of “we came into this world together and we are going to leave it together” going on with them, that I can see him going back to her, when he knows she is going to die. What I can’t see is him saying he didn’t care for King’s Landing. Because he didn’t kill Aerys for Cersei. He did it because it was the necessairy thing to do.

And taking that away undermines his redemption ark completly.

And I still don’t know why Sansa would be so indiplomatic in Danys face. When they gave her Jeyne Poole’s storyline in Season 5 she smiled in Roose Boltons face. You can’t tell me that she couldn’t be nice enough to Dany and voice her concern later to Jon in private. She lied in Joffreys face all the time, acting as if she loved him for years. She can fake being okay with Dany.

Sansa in the books is smart enough to lie to Tyrion at 13 in the books and he doesn’t realise it. And then show Sansa goes on and is so open about not liking Dany, while she still needs her help. Afterwards maybe, but not before, not while she still needs Dany.

And I can’t see any foreshaddowing in the books about Arya killing the Night King. I can see some in the show. (What do we say to the god of death? and blue eyes) both of of those instences were show only. And the forshaddowing at the show was minimum at best. 

I am also not sure if book Theon would ever be able to fight again. Because his condition of both his mind and his body are way worse in the books. But I can absolutly see him going back to Winterfell to die like he since Rmsay and the Red Wedding thought he should have. Fighting for a Stark.

I could go on with this, but my point is, that the pacing this season is way to fast and the bad writing (seriously, most of the dialog this season was really bad, not just that everybody has plot armor during the battle - I love Sam, but in the books he would haven been dead) and that makes the actual plot feel like it can’t be GRRM intention. But I think the overall plot points could work really well in the books, just that they would be way better written.

Its was fine. Could have been better

Okay I binged watched Voltron season 8 the day it came out and I came away enjoying it. But it was one of those highs that made you delirious to the fact… it wasn't great.

I did enjoy it, I respect the creators behind it and honestly I think this fandom put far too much pressure on the Voltron creators with all these shipping wars.However, here are some changes I would have made.

1) LANCE, ATLANTEAN, WHY?

Out off all the fanfic AUs to choose from… why this one? Huh? It leaves more questions then it ever answers. Is he actually Atlantean? Can he shape shift like other Atlanteans? Or does he just have markings? I’m so confused and honestly this was one of the top five moments I was like… WHAT? What an unnecessary thing to do. It added nothing to the story and just left us all wondering what it meant.

2) ALLURANCE, WAS IT WORTH IT?

Okay, cool they committed to a ship. Lance becoming Atlantean was only worth while in the regard that when Allura left to save the universe it meant they had a more ‘meaningful’ goodbye.  

But like… it added nothing. Sorry Allurance fans but was that the relationship you wanted? Their first date, alright that was cute. Can’t deny that. But wow, what a rushed romantic relationship. It was ignored pretty much for seven seasons and then suddenly its front and centre in the last season? It was way too intense and didn't get me invested so when Allura ‘died’ I didn't care about their goodbye, cause there was no tension or build up before hand.

Don’t get me wrong I actually like them as a couple. They contrast each other nicely. Allura actually makes Lance think about others, makes him think deeply about the world and I definitely think Lance became a better leader because of her. Lance makes Allura relax and have fun, live in the moment and makes her smile. I like the idea of their relationship, I think it had potential, I thought their was some cute moments between them. Their relationship banter would have been great.

Does this justify giving us an over rushed relationship when you didn't feel anything at their goodbye? No. It would have been better to do no ships at all and left with ‘what if’. Leave the last conversation between Lance and Allura be her saying: ‘Lance, I quite like your ears now, but maybe its just you’. At least that would have some circularity with their relationship and mirrored their first convo.

3) UMMMM…. MORE PALADIN BONDING MOMENTS PLEASE

I just felt like there was a lack of paladin moments. There was no further growth between them. I think the main problem that caused this was that this season was serialised instead of episodic. What I mean by this was that there were not any stand alone episodes that just focused on a side quest or mission, like when Hunk and Keith when to the space Weblum; When Shiro and Pidge found the green lion; When all the team got stuck in the game show reality.

Shiro and Keith who are apparently brothers and mean a lot to each other and had good exploration of their past relationship last season but then had like 4 seconds of alone time. Why not introduce Shiro’s parents to Keith’s parents? Also more of Hunk’s family please! He was so worried about them last season and we got like… no pay off.

Instead, this whole season just focused on the lead up to the final battle, so this season was not character driven but plot driven and I think thats the main sin of this season, IT WASN’T CHARACTER DRIVEN.

4) HUMANS ARE OKAY WITH ALIENS?

Come on, humans can’t stand other humans but there is peace between aliens and humans? Don't buy it. Also the human race just got destroyed by aliens. So show these conflicts. Show that tension. Show the human race trying to get back on its feet.

Maybe merge Acxa's storyline with this prejudice. Have her say she’s used to it, get attacked and abused cause of her half breed status. Then have her attacked by some humans cause she's the only obviously Alien. But then have the other’s, like Griffin and Keith, protect her. Have a whole speech about unity and that at this moment all they have and can rely on is each other. That would have had a powerful message. Also it would have shown Acxa she is not alone. And it’s not cause she’s found a race of people that are similar to her and therefore except her, its cause people care about her and want to treat her as a friend and family.  

5) KEITH

Short and simple. In Keith’s fight with Shiro’s clone he got pointy teeth and yellow eyes. PLEASE EXPAND! I thought we were gonna get it again when Zethrid was fighting Keith. Maybe have the features permanent this time. But no…

It would have been cool a nod to Keith half breed status. If he learned to control his Galra features so he could use them in a fight. Also I love the idea of Keith being able to see better in the dark and utilising that skill to sneak into the kitchen at night.

6) HUNK SHOULD BE AN AMBASSADOR

Hunk finishes as a chief. Okay. Fine. Not great. You know what this season did show. He is great at building bridges between opposing people. He wants peace and has a pretty unbiased opinion as long as it all ends happy for everyone. Pidge says in the game show episode he’s the only to bring people together, lets show that outside of his kitchen skills.

So take his character development further! Have him be an Ambassador of Earth! and King of Peace Treaties! Shiro, Keith, Allura are all leaders in war. Hunk is a leader needed in peace.

7) SHIRO AND THE ALTAS

Okay, they should have taken an episode to explain why on earth Shiro was able to control and transform the Atlas. They said no one could pilot it but Shiro could. So take the time to explain why?

And there’s a pretty obvious answer. It’s cause he spent so much time in the Black Lion’s void. But what are the consequence of this? Can he interact with quintessence more? Can he manipulate it? Does he have a bond with the Atlas like he did with the Black Lion? (In my heart of hearts I wish there was a White Lion like there was theorised) Is he an alchemist like Allura?

Come on, Shiro understanding his new powers and maybe being the first ever human Alchemist/Druid is a cool story line.

Also, while he’s freaking out over this. why not introduce his future husband ! The guy who becomes his rock. His stability. The one that just sees Shiro as Shiro, who doesn’t have any past perceptions of him. Instead of idealising Shiro as their childhood hero, like the rest of the paladins did, let this new guy just like Shiro for himself. Then progress the relationship.

This would have made the last scene more meaningful rather then just throwing a meaningless LGBTQ moment to ‘appease the fans’. Its more offending when they do throw aways like that then actually taking the time to explore and build a relationship.

…I have other points but I’m gonna do that in a second post cause honestly its gonna be a long one. So stay tuned of my therapeutic rant of Voltron Season 8. It was fine but it could have been great!

Been a long time since I’ve posted actual content so I drew jay-man

Also guess which season he’s from in this

The bit at the end of Doc’s episode where he talks about how fond he is of Grian’s storytelling and how much he enjoys their rivalry was actually so sweet

He was basically like The server would be destroyed if we ever teamed up? What are you talking about, we’re already an amazing team!

And he’s correct

If looks could kill...

*Not my photo, found on web

freakin' simple. <3

BITCH, I KNEW MORALES WOULD COME BACK AT SOME POINT.

Just wanted to say that.

Okay then.

Well Morales didn’t last very long.

When Dean first met Benny he was leery about befriending a Vampire. It was just the residue of living life as a hunter and seeing all monsters as forever evil. But in the search for Castiel, Dean and Benny became friends and Dean soon trusted Benny with his very life. When they finally found Cass, Dean's life was calm again. He had a kick-ass vampire friend, his angel, and the ability to fight all the monsters he wanted to with zero consequences. But all that changed one day when Benny saved Cass from a Leviathan and something changed between the angel and vampire. Dean noticed it right away…some spark. And when they started sneaking away together, Dean started to feel the fingers of jealousy grip his gut. That was his angel…his!  (Mhmmm how I love all things Purgatory! Especially Vocal Sex Benny Lafitte)

Taking advantage of the fact that #voltron is becoming popular lately, I feel compelled to say that I personally liked season 8. Maybe the first time I saw it I didn't like it at all, but I saw it again in a more calm and neutral way (to give it a second chance) and I ended up liking it, I'm not happy with what they did to Lance (not happy at all) but in general I liked it.

Never wanted to leave.

Arya reaching for a kiss ‖  Gendry reaching for a kiss

First time doing Gendrya’s gifs, but this tag needs less salt an more shipping, so…

Then suddenly King of Westeros

A Voltron Rant

In Voltron season 8 episodes 9 & 10.

The old Paladins meet their predecessors and each talk to them.

Battle skills, entities inside them, kindness, their relationship with their daughter, their leadership skills because of their lineage.

Lance wasn’t the only one thrown under the bus, Keith was to.

Keith: “no we won’t give up!”

Zarkon: “that’s your galra lineage. It’s what makes you a great leader of Voltron. You and I share that trait...”

I just sat there like “so your putting all of Keith’s leadership abilities on his heritage, so what about Shiro?” Where’d the character go? Oh wait with season 4.

Like yes Galrans are good leaders (Lotor, Sendak, Ranveig, Zarkon -before the quintessence poisoning-, Kolivan) but still it kinda just sucks that he got all his leadership skills stuffed into the fact of being Galra.

I would have loved it if it was something like ....

Zarkon: that’s what makes you a good leader your undying love for your family, friends and fellow Paladins.

I would have cried if that was said because it was probably true for Zarkon just as much as it is for Keith.

Dunno maybe I lost my mind but I'm so pissed off finale episode. Argh I almost cried when Rick cut Negan's throat. I have so many thoughts.

I don't talk about that Maggie-Jesus-Daryl's revenge triangle (what's fuckin' wrong with your pacifist principles Paul??) and Morgan's hallucination shit, but I feel myself badly and I don't know why or did I? I admit that 8x16 has left me with a very unpleasant after-taste. I wanna see more details.

In first place I'm content with Rick's decision about Negan's fate because it's pretty similar to comics plotline but at first I was horrified.

I'm not person who judge Negan of his shitty business, maybe a little, but some part of me is asking about causes and reasons. Maybe — I repeat it — I lost my mind but we don't know his whole story (I wanna some prehistory of TV version of Saviors group) and it's like I can't fully sympathize with him because of he's done to everything and everyone. Negan isn't nice and pleasant man. He makes up his own harsh and life-threatening rules and always follows them. He is full of charisma to make his people do the same thing. He likes to hurt people, he likes to take things and faith away from them. I think it was some kind of self change for him to meet such wise and brave kid as Carl was.

Carl's death made something similar to him and destroyed him more than he thought. Negan liked this boy, this little future serial killer. There was something that reminded Negan of himself.

I mean he literally almost cried because of Carl's death every time Rick talked about him and it's made him sick and he fucked up everything he had. Negan lost many because of it.

Carl left many unfinished things behind. He was fighter for peace and justice for everyone including Negan but except himself. He died because of it and wanted the end of this cruel war. Carl's readiness to sacrifice himself for others was incredible.

Something like that... I can't just let it go. Rick's or Negan's death, another peaceful or terrible solution... Whatever. It's like no win situation. I hate it. Rick and Negan they both lost someone who made things better for them and they both blame each other. Now Negan is in home-made prison and Rick is kinda winner but I don't think so. They will carry the stone in their heart for the rest of life.

Maybe they both are losers maybe not I know truly one thing. It isn't the end. Something going to happen inside the group and Negan can be the person who knows what to do.

Voltron Season 8

There are spoilers for season 8 so proceed with caution.

I want to start off by saying I love Voltron and there is something I love about each season of Voltron. I have been seeing quite a bit of negativity towards this season, so I want to start off talking about what I liked about this season before getting into what I didn’t. I will recommend Voltron to other people because I believe over all there were a lot of good things that it did with its characters and stories.

I liked Allura’s arc throughout this season. We got to see her struggling with the lengths she would go to to end the war and come out better because of it. She also comes to understand that not every choice in war can be without sacrifice which is something the paladins seem to struggle to understand up until this point. Allura has been consistently developed throughout the seasons and has grown into her own in this season. She has had to overcome so much and is a character I felt was developed well and will be a character I look back on fondly.

I also liked that they clarified Lotor’s character within the show. Before this season there were multiple ways that lotor’s character could be interpreted and now they have a definitive version of him. The clarification also accentuated the tragedy of the character. His eventual downfall is tragic because he did deserve better. He fell victim to his upbringing after trying to be better and being punished severely for his efforts. This is a character that while I may not be the biggest fan of the execution of Lotor’s story I liked the idea behind it. I liked how they did redeem Lotor in the eyes of Allura and it was acknowledged how his childhood and upbringing affected him, his choices, and his downfall all without erasing the mistakes he made. It also acknowledges that he wasn’t given a fair shot by anybody and despite his attempts to be better he was always thwarted or shunned at every turn. There is only so much someone can take before they break.

Haggar was a great villain and her arc was somewhat of a Greek tragic hero and was almost Shakespearean. Her unquenchable thirst for knowledge led to the destruction of both her old and new homes, the creation of the galaxy’s most infamous tyrant, and her son living through a neglected and abusive life that meets a terrible end. She realizes too late what she missed out on and works to undo her mistakes without care for the destruction she causes because she believes that with the end of her quest everything will be perfect. It’s only once she gets to her desired outcome and her son and husband recognize the monster that she has become that she reaches her lowest point and is able to be convinced by Allura of the error of her ways. That Haggar herself is to blame for how her life turned out not the universe or anyone else. That this outcome isn’t what Lotor would have wanted despite what Haggar kept telling herself and that while she can’t get back what she lost, but she can give back what she took from the universe in her desperate bid. This season wrote its villains really well with Lotor, Haggar, and Zarkon and while I didn’t agree with all the choices made with the characters I do believe the writing was well done and Haggar is the pinnacle of this statement.

I appreciated that all the character’s that lived got their happy endings. Keith has found his purpose and continues to help people. Shiro finally leaves the battle after years of nonstop fighting and suffering and gets to settle down with his husband. Pidge and Hunk both get to follow their dreams and Lance surrounds himself with what he loves and lives a quiet peaceful life. I honestly just wanted to see these characters be happy. They have all been through so much so seeing them get to be happy in the future made me happy.

I was sad that my two favorite Voltron characters, Lotor and Allura, ended up dying. Allura had been through so much loss, suffering, and pain on her quest to bring about peace and grown so much only to finally be able to bring about the peace she strove for and not even be able to see the it. Allura had lost so much and when she finally has a means to restore peace the only way to bring about peace is through sacrificing herself. I know I was upset with the season in the past for the lack of true sacrifice or lasting death, but I’m sad that this was the sacrifice that ended up happening because Allura deserved to see the peace she helped create. We finally got to see Lotor’s past and have his character in hindsight be redeemed, in showing he did truly care about others and Allura but was misguided in his methods, and bring him back from the rift only to have him be dead the entire time. This means he ended up having arguably the worst and most painful ends of anyone on the show. He died after the only real trusting relationship he had was destroyed and believing that no one cared for him while his mental stability eroded and his body was overloaded with quintessence. I would have liked to see him be alive and have him carry on doing the best he could instead of everyone admitting that he wasn’t given a fair shot, that he deserved better, and really did care and wasn’t a monster. The second colony is completely forgotten and is never explained. The second colony honestly just feels like a plot device to trigger the paladins turning on Lotor and Lotor’s subsequent descent into quintessence poisoning instead of an actual thing that happened because the reasoning behind it was never explained so it feels as though it was unnecessary.

I’m sorry to every Allurance shipper, but I didn’t like how it played out within the series. They made Allura uncomfortable with Lance until season 5, had her look upset when she found out he liked her in the same season, made her suddenly romantically interested in Lance at the very end of season 7, and then in season 8 showed hints that Allura still wasn’t completely over Lotor (the most prominent examples are when Lotor emerges from the rift and she panics saying she can’t do this and when Lotor is the vision she sees to convince her to use the rift creature). I honestly think this ship could have played out really well if they hadn’t had Lotura and had Allura a lot less visibly uncomfortable with Lance in earlier seasons. I am happy for whoever shipped Allurance and got to see their ship sail in cannon. Allurance just wasn’t my cup of tea with the way it was written. I personally would have preferred if Lance hadn’t gotten Allura and could have continued with his journey of self discovery and learned who he was without a girl because his character the last few seasons had a lot of him pining for Allura instead of focusing on his growing self-confidence and worth. With him ending up a farmer and probably sad over Allura for the rest of his life. Lance was a character I wish had gotten an arc of episodes to himself that didn’t involve a girl because he was set up as incredibly relatable with problems that everyone faces.

I may have been disappointed with this season, but I still like voltron and hope to see more of it in the future. I can understand the issues people are having with the season and can empathize with the disappointment, but I hope that people don’t attack the creators and cast. They’ve worked for years to bring us this series and they don’t deserve to be harassed. I hope that others can find the enjoyment I found out of the series and I hope there are many great fanfics to read. It was an honor to see this series to completion.