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love watching daredevil 🥰 would love to see what's happening on the screen sometime <3

I think what really makes The Patriot such a great movie for Jason Isaacs in spite of being such a shitty movie for just about everyone else involved just comes down to laziness in the writing. Robert Rodat wrote a protagonist who is allegedly, somehow, a badass Rambo-style war hero and haunted by his past AND a good father, and the filmmakers planned from the beginning to rely on Mel Gibson's charisma to sell him. Roland Emmerich admits they never really considered anyone else for the role. Meanwhile, Tavington on paper is a cardboard cutout Evil English Snob. The original plan was to cast Jude Law, a solid Evil English Snob choice, but when he took too long to officially accept, they offered the part to an actor with little experience in American film who had not played a major antagonist before. And they let him implement some of his own ideas because his character wasn't the one they really cared about.

And he stole their movie!

I would argue that the main reason for this, the reason all the others stem from, is Issacs' idea for Tavington's backstory. Not only does it explain why he is in the Army and so desperate for a British victory, but also, in part, why he has such particular beef with a father.

The backstory itself is certainly more tragic than Martin's. For all the movie's criticism of "gentlemen," growing up in the expectation of a certain kind of life and having that torn away through someone else's irresponsibility would traumatize anyone. While the movie tells us nothing about Tavington's age when his father died or what happened to him in the immediate aftermath, it is abundantly clear that he has not gotten over it. Martin has not gotten over Fort Wilderness, but by every other account we hear it was 1, Martin's accomplishment and 2, an absolute Roman triumph from the British Colonial perspective. It did nothing to hurt Martin's fortune or prospects, quite the opposite. The only drawback for Martin is that when you commit war crimes, it has an unfortunate way of making you feel like you might be a war criminal. Annoying that.

That Tavington has a saber to grind with fathers is also far more consistent than Martin's approach to fathering, as we see in Tavington's first scene. He points his pistol at Martin's children to get the rise out of him that pointing it at him failed to stir. He never speaks to Gabriel or even looks at him upon discovering the dispatches he carried, but when Gabriel calls Martin "father," suddenly Tavington is invested: "Oh, I see. He's your son. Well, perhaps you should have taught him something of loyalty." Every problem Tavington sees in this scene of performed neutrality he lays at Martin's door, even Gabriel's service in the Continental Army. Could it be projection? If there is one outcome that is not Martin's fault, it is Gabriel joining up against his explicit wishes. Meanwhile, Martin's concern for Gabriel shifts from his endangering five of his remaining children's lives to save him to paying so little attention to him immediately after his new wife's murder that he is able to ride for revenge with no inconsequential number of Martin's men behind him. And he is at least as shocked by Gabriel's death as he was by Thomas's.

The first exchange between Tavington and Martin is mostly unchanged from the script to the theatrical release, but the two following it are dramatically different thanks to Isaacs. He argued successfully that not only would Tavington not be afraid of Martin after the prisoner exchange but that he would do well in the final fight between them (a fight that does not exist in the original screenplay). That fight in particular creates problems for the filmmakers' vision of Martin. In the unaltered first scene, Tavington has all of the power, sitting on his horse while Martin is on foot. In the second, Tavington draws his sword to kill Martin while he is unarmed. Both of these are classic dastardly villain moves. In the last exchange, though, it is Martin who has the advantage of having wounded Tavington twice before they get in sword's reach of each other, and Tavington still kicks his ass. On Tavington's side, this is not representative of a one-dimensional villain but of a man who has clawed his way to being a colonel in the British Army after losing everything with his father's death. The only reason Tavington does not kill Martin, either after the punch Martin does not take like a champ or after he has literally beaten Martin to his knees, is that he is still seeking a connection with a father.

The problem with the changes Jason Isaacs brought about is that they make Tavington a badass fighter with a sad backstory, which also happen to be the only aspects of Martin that get any real development. His onscreen violence evokes Fort Wilderness from first to last, but the third aspect of Martin's character, that he is a good father, is told rather than shown. Had changes been made to Martin that corresponded to Isaacs' for Tavington, then he could have had a stronger ending, perhaps saving Gabriel as he failed to save Thomas. But, no. Instead he just gets out-badassed in his own movie and then handed a giftwrapped victory anyway.

thinking about aus for ocs is so funny. like i already put this guy in a situation but what if i put them in another totally different one

Honestly looking the Miguel x Hiro tag, I realize that every time Hiro and Miguel are aged up it like very racist designs. Like they always make Miguel more muscular and taller, while Hiro is shorter and has very twig like arms. Both are Mexican and Japanese.

Hiro is literally a superhero, fights crime everyday and at least has to know hand to hand combat since he can’t relay on Baymax every time. When he grows up he would be very strong and have an at least a good amount of muscles, and with how tall his brother is canonically 6’0, Hiro would be tall in future.

Miguel who is a musician and two years younger than Hiro, he isn’t even a hero or anything. I get if you give him muscles but making him more muscular than Hiro who once again is a literal superhero is weird. Also most of his family isn’t even that tall, the tallest Miguel might end up being when he is older is like 5’7.

But what I’m trying to say is that, the older designs of Miguel and Hiro are racist and not accurate at all to what they do for a living, and i feel like the fan art should be a little bit more accurate. I don’t care if make them the same height, or one a bit more taller than the other but like atleast try to make them accurate and not racist. Just because Miguel is Mexican doesn’t mean he is going to be tall af and super muscular, and same with Hiro just because he is Japanese doesn’t mean he is going to shorter than Miguel and less muscular, he is a superhero.

Me right now, I love her so much. This also includes Baby Luke too btw

I think the dark corrupting secrets of the abyss that drives men to madness and the bright overwhelming knowledge of the divine that burns the very soul should kiss

shoutout to the earth kingdom girl zuko went on one date with. i truly believe she made the choice not to snitch on his firebending

i was thinking of when amren proposed that rhys become High King. cassian was on board, he was all like “there’s no better male than rhys” blah blah blah. now imagine nesta gets dusk court and becomes high lady of it and cassian being her mate gets the honors of high lord. as soon as a mention of high king rhys becomes a topic of conversation nationwide, you know that mf be the first one of the “high lords” to bend the knee. he’d disregard nesta’s position and opinions like that

istg he needs to grow a spine before I find him