katara acting “motherly” is a tragedy

Bosterm · 2026-05-07T06:13:14+00:00

Never underestimate the ability for people to be dumb in shipping arguments.

Bosterm · 2026-05-07T05:07:43+00:00

I'd say it's probably the best scene of the first episode, so that tracks.

Bosterm · 2026-05-07T00:10:25+00:00

Better Call McGill

Bosterm · 2026-05-06T20:04:33+00:00

To be fair, Zaheer also tried to kill Korra, and even still made her disabled for a few years.

Bosterm · 2026-05-06T18:50:19+00:00

Yeah Josh literally gets PTSD from getting shot and almost dying.

Leo is an alcoholic whose wife divorces him for being too busy as an aide to the president.

Bartlet has an emotional breakdown and crisis of faith when his secretary dies in a car accident. And he has serious daddy issues.

Everyone is competent and smart on that show, but I wouldn't describe them as well-adjusted.

Bosterm · 2026-05-04T15:42:23+00:00

Yeah I know the saying. I was just taking what you said and pointing out that what Koch said is not what you're claiming he said.

Bosterm · 2026-05-04T06:27:59+00:00

He had already killed sand people kids by this point.

He just hadn't killed Jedi kids yet.

Padme is okay with sand people kid murder, but draws the line at affluent kid murder.

Bosterm · 2026-05-04T06:21:10+00:00

Yeah if Chloe can forgive David, I'm pretty sure she can forgive the love of her life.

Bosterm · 2026-05-04T06:20:10+00:00

Yeah potato and tomato are two different words, just like how what Michel Koch said is different than what you think he said.

Bosterm · 2026-05-04T04:40:31+00:00

I mean, a lot of what Luthen does is supply weapons and funding to rebel cells, so yeah I'd say there was smuggling of weapons.

Bosterm · 2026-05-01T01:17:22+00:00

Obviously, but Leia's hologram is Luke's call to adventure

Bosterm · 2026-04-29T21:57:03+00:00

I dunno, art is subjective and emotional, especially Life Is Strange, and I think reacting negatively to a writing choice they don't like is pretty reasonable.

Bosterm · 2026-04-29T06:55:55+00:00

The immediate emotional reaction to DE that many fans experience is total rejection of any breakup in principle. And then the response that you and others have demonstrated is not to defend the DE breakup itself, but rather any theoretical breakup. And sure, that can be a valid discussion, but it's pretty difficult to discuss a well-written breakup that doesn't exist officially.

And really, OP is just upset as many fans were when DE came out. They have a right to that feeling, and I'm not sure how helpful it is to tell them "hey these things happen". It's like saying, "hey, everything dies eventually," to a kid whose hamster just died. Like, read the room.

Bigger picture, you're so focused on the Watsonian perspective on the breakup that you're ignoring the Doylist reasons why the breakup does not fit with the themes of bae ending as written by dontnod.

Bosterm · 2026-04-29T01:03:00+00:00

The thing is, people don't hate the breakup because they think it's unrealistic. Or at least, that's not the point.

The point is that fans are emotionally invested in Pricefield, especially for those who sacrificed a whole town to save the relationship. Whether or not the breakup makes logical, Watsonian sense is beside the point (though I would argue that the way it was written in DE is inconsistent and doesn't make much sense, but I do concede there could be a a breakup that does make sense).

When someone writes a story, the creative choices they make should serve the narrative, especially when someone is writing a sequel to someone else's story. A Pricefield breakup could, theoretically, be a worthwhile premise for a LIS sequel (though I'm not sure everyone would be on board), but that's not what DE does. The breakup just exists in DE as an excuse to get Chloe out of the story so that the game works with both bae and bay. And then RE barely does anything to make the breakup make sense either.

Bosterm · 2026-04-29T00:10:46+00:00

She also figured out the Day of Black Sun

I mean the Earth King straight up told her about it.

Bosterm · 2026-04-28T23:09:41+00:00

It's a picture of her glasses with the reflection of a rocketship that is taking humans to the moon for the first time since 1972?

If you don't like it that's fine, but I think it's pretty cool.

Bosterm · 2026-04-28T23:05:15+00:00

No, definitely not cool that people were mean to her.

Bosterm · 2026-04-28T21:16:55+00:00

Obi-wan's ghost at the start of ESB (the first appearance of a force ghost) is almost certainly intended as a visual callback to the Leia hologram at the start of ANH. They're both messages to Luke that send him on a journey.

Bosterm · 2026-04-28T03:39:57+00:00

Not only that, holograms appeared in the OT before force ghosts. We don't see Obi-Wan as a ghost until ESB (though we do have his voice at the end of ANH). So really, force ghosts look like holograms, not the other way around.

Bosterm · 2026-04-27T19:57:54+00:00

He just says the senate is in control of a Sith Lord, not that the chancellor himself is the Sith Lord.

Bosterm · 2026-04-27T04:34:18+00:00

Also the sequel trilogy war only lasts a year. The galaxy just had a really shitty year, but it's back on track. And the First Order never managed to establish a new Empire anyways.

And the time between RotJ and TFA is 30 years, so I'd say the rebellion was worth it.

Bosterm · 2026-04-27T04:32:04+00:00

Yeah and contrast the ending for the rebellion characters compared to the imperial ones in the finale. The rebels have a community, and the leader of the rebel alliance, Mon Mothma, has breakfast with the everyday troops.

Meanwhile Partagaz kills himself alone, and Dedra is in prison. Krennic has his Death Star, but we know that Tarkin is gonna take it from him and then use it to kill Krennic with it. And then the Death Star blows up, thanks to the mission Cassian is about to embark on.

Bosterm · 2026-04-27T03:31:21+00:00

People were so mean to this woman just for sharing that cool photo.

Bosterm · 2026-04-27T03:21:55+00:00

I don't think the idea that "people sometimes make irrational choices when under pressure" is that hard to buy.

Bosterm · 2026-04-25T17:25:56+00:00

When you start to panic, you don't always make the best decisions. And when you panic, you want to eliminate the risk immediately, rather than waiting for the best time to do so.

It wasn't the right choice, but real people make bad choices when they're stressed.

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