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Luke Wilson in BOTTLE ROCKET (1996) dir. Wes Anderson

Lord Jesus 🙌🏼

I'm never gonna recover from this. They share something so special and intriguing. There barely was anyone around, no reason for her to put on the happy wife show. And yet there she is, stealing her husband's tea and sipping it with that look. I need to think about what this represents. That and followed by Perrin's "joy" speech... I think they did have feelings for each other. I don't think it was ever love, but they've known each other for so long now, they know very well how to make each other happy and each other miserable. And how they just dance around each other with that knowledge. I know a lot of people hate Perrin and frankly he's not my usual type of character but idk there's just something beautiful and tragic about them.

one of the hundred things I love about Andor is that in the end, all the villains were destroyed not in an epic showdown with the rebels or whoever but by the machine that they worked for. syril was a faceless casualty of the genocide he helped create. dedra was done in for putting ambition over conformity to the machine, and she took down partagaz, who essentially created her, along with her. even heert was quite literally killed by his own droid and his own men. all of them were crushed by the wheel they dedicated their lives to keep turning. it's just so deeply deeply satisfying.

I love how s2 of Andor shows us how all the sacrifices the Imperial characters make for the Empire are ultimately worthless. Syril, Dedra, and Partagaz all have different variations on the same ending. and to them Krennic is the big bad guy who represents the Empire but then in Rogue One we learn that essentially he’s in the same situation: giving everything to the Empire and it amounting to nothing in the end.

Law & Order: SVU | 1x10: Closure (Part I)

The Percy Jackson tv show: Audience treatment

First and foremost I like the show, and I’m well aware that I’m not the target audience anymore but it really feels like the creator’s don't trust their audience at all. 

They don’t seem to trust that the audience can understand what’s happening unless they are spoon fed everything. And yes the show is for kids, but I was 12 when I first read the book and I had no problem understanding what was happening despite not being told outright at times. 

Have kids today completely lost the ability to understand any media unless they are told what's happening? Just because it’s a kids show doesn’t mean there can’t be any tension. But for some reason they have entirely removed all the tension, and I have no idea if it’s because of Disney’s involvement or just because of Rick Riordan. But there is no tension in the show, everything is just being told to the audience. The trio aren’t allowed to be kids and fall into traps anymore, instead they immediately know everything, and it just makes it so boring. It’s like creators had a bullet list of things to add and just took the bare minimum and went that’s good enough.

One of the first you learn both in school as a writer, is the quote “ show not tell”. And yet the show is only doing the tell part. It was the most obvious at first during episode 2, for example when Chris says Luke is the greatest sword fighter in 100 years at camp, and yet we barely see him fight, except for a few seconds in Capture the Flag. I’m still disappointed they took away Percy’s first sword lesson because I just think that’s an important scene to have, in order to show why Percy can fight so well later in Capture the flag. 

I just wish they would show more things. For example Lotus hotel in the book, Percy notes how Annabeth plays an architect game, you could easily show something like that in the show, and make people understand oh Annabeth likes to build things.

You go on ahead. I'm gonna be here a while.