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5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 0 replies · +16 points

There's a lot to be said about Spinel, abandonment, toxic behavior and borderline personality disorder, and I was gonna write a whole big thing because people were grossly misunderstanding it all but thankfully this person did a very good job of it first- https://gooseweasel.tumblr.com/post/187784101047/...

There is absolutely something deeply uncomfortable about Spinel's abandonment and subsequent behavior. A lot of people were rushing to criticize the writing/Steven for not being more sympathetic to her when she had clearly been abused, especially people who identified with her because they have Borderline Personality Disorder. As someone with Borderline Personality Disorder I think it's important to remember that we can be extremely toxic people, villains, when we're at our worst, and that there is a limit as to the responsibility other people have towards easing that fear of abandonment. Accepting that is an important part of the coping process, and I'm glad the show dealt with that.

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Sense8':... · 0 replies · +6 points

Hey remember when we thought this was gonna be the last episode because Netflix canceled the show and we all just... rioted? Because that was THE WORST.

Seriously though, the fact that we got another special after this episode is a BIG deal, and it came after a huge outpouring of support from fans, the actors, producers, and LGBT community around the world. Rioted isn't actually the right word, of course, people basically pleaded with Netflix very eloquently about it, and it was actually really nice watching all these groups of people coming together to save Sense8 and give it the ending it deserved. If it had ended like this, it would have gone down as another wonderful show ruined by the ending, and thankfully, we were able to avoid that.

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Sense8':... · 0 replies · +3 points

Mun is freaking adorable, and there is literally nothing sexier than the fight-turned-makeout session. More of them together always.

Lito and Wolfgang are the ultimate BroTP and any second they're doing their thing together makes me so happy.

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Sense8':... · 0 replies · +3 points

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found the whole this with Kabaka weird! Like we have zero evidence that he stopped being a murderous crime lord so it's just... awkward as hell.

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Sense8':... · 0 replies · +4 points

I really loved the way 9/11 and the way it changed the world, not for the better, was discussed briefly in this episode. It's not something we see discussed in a lot of media, and I think it should be. A lot of the younger Gen Z kids truly don't understand just how much everything flipped upside down because of 9/11, and how much it completely reshaped the way we interact with the world at large, and I think if we don't start discussing it more often, they're never going to know. It makes perfect sense to me that a well-intentioned organization like BPO would have been completely rerouted after 9/11, because so much of our entire political and social landscape, especially Americans, was completely altered by it.

Also, the solidarity between women in Sun's storyline has been amazing, and this episode really brings it to peak- these are women who know exactly what it is to be treated as disposable, victims of the worst sexism has to offer, and it culminating in thwarting an attempted murder by the guards just feels right from a story-telling perspective.

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Doctor W... · 0 replies · +6 points

This is actually bumped up to my favorite episode of Doctor Who, just slightly, barely nudging Vincent and the Doctor out of first place by way of better overall storytelling and scifi aspects. The emotional impact of it just blows me away. The way it takes the concept witnessing history and deals with it BOTH as something so deeply personal and yet so profoundly HUGE in scale, having ramifications beyond what we ourselves can fathom just had a hug impact on me, and I feel like it's very relevant to the world we live in now, especially for those of us who feel sort of helpless in the face of what seems to be an almost insurmountable amount of suffering and grief.

There is a... not a power, per say, but a purpose, a meaningfulness, to simply being there for people who have no one else. To say "I see you, and you are not alone." And sometimes, that's all you can do. It's a small comfort, but not an unimportant one.

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Doctor W... · 0 replies · +7 points

I can't be the only one who saw the Pting and immediately saw Stitch, right? Especially when he's still acting like the "monster" escaping the spaceship in the beginning of the movie.

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Doctor W... · 0 replies · +4 points

Same! I had a visceral, physical reaction to the episode in the way the sy-fi monsters never affected me. It was so real world that it set off all kind of panic responses.

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Doctor W... · 2 replies · +6 points

How much does it say that this is probably the episode in which I felt the most fear for the companions since... well, ever? Even though I knew, rationally, that they were going to be okay, watching Ryan (and Yaz, to a slightly lesser extent) be forced to navigate the American South scared me more than the Vashta Nerata, the Silence, the Weeping Angels, all of it, because of the gut reaction of how REAL it felt. When Ryan goes to separate from the group, my brain was screaming at him not to, because I was so concerned with what could potentially happen.

5 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 0 replies · +7 points

I know a lot of people theorized that the statue at the temple was all four of them fused together, and I think this tumblr post really sums up the difference between fan expectations and reality- https://gooseweasel.tumblr.com/post/182334691492/...

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