"she Drew Alicent Into Her Intoxicating Web" Yeah In More Ways Than You Will Ever Know Crispy Cole

watched conclave with friends yesterday and now the pope is dead. anyway completely unrelatedly next weekend i’m gonna watch the hit disney+ show andor where they bomb a fascist government.

"It's hard, with fathers."

JACAERYS VELARYON becoming one of my favorite characters. A bastard conflicted with the absence of his dad & the death of his father. Having tried to be a stable, noble, and strong example for his younger brother, he still couldn’t protect him. And even in his wake, he still seeks to please his mother and play the dutiful diplomatic son. -No matter how stubborn he must be to achieve it.

⌲ gif credits: @gameofthronesdaily

(wanted to reblog just these two lines)

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.

Lewis Pullman as “Bob” in Top Gun: Maverick

There's just something about how the ISB never found Andor.

Syril found Andor, too late.

Dedra found Axis without him.

But they never found Cassian Andor - and they'll never know what that specific failure cost them, will they?

The Rebels don't know who was on Aldhani; the Empire will never know who did the job on Scarif.

Where is Andor? They don't know. But he has friends everywhere.

His nose is so–GRAHH I need to take a seat.

A young girl rejected him 20 years ago and he's still mad and calling her a spider, a true representation of a pathetic loser.

Ohh Crispin Cole you would have a podcast bashing women in this century.

I NEED THIS

just occurred to me that eventually I get to watch Percy reject immortality for Annabeth

ANDOR | 2.07 - 2.09 + TEXT POSTS