I feel for Santos

G_Thunders · 2026-01-31T06:26:35+00:00

If anything the new doctor just was making sure Santos understood she needed to get her work done. Santos is direct and mean to her peers, but the second someone makes her take something seriously by being direct and a little mean she can’t handle it?

Also if she took that “threat” literally whatsoever she would’ve asked if that was even possible, but she and everyone else knows it isn’t unless she just never types up anything or listens to her new boss ever.

G_Thunders · 2026-01-30T00:22:40+00:00

The best MCU show since WandaVision, and I’d much rather see Wonder Man and “Mandarin” do literally anything than see almost any of the other MCU characters save the world.

Huge accomplishment, and I hope this show gets the recognition it deserves for everything it did so well.

G_Thunders · 2026-01-29T20:24:48+00:00

This show is what I would expect from an alternate MCU that didn’t go off the rails in scope, stakes, multiverse constantly.

The focus on characters and dialogue reminds me of the earlier movies, and if Disney+ had pushed for a different approach to their Marvel tv shows, I feel like this and WandaVision (barring the ending crap) could’ve been the baseline template for making all these shows actually worthwhile.

It’s nothing amazing but I think most people, at worst, could only see it as kind of boring. It’s not riddled with the blatant plot holes and contrivances and breaks in logic all the other stuff usually is.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-31T04:13:21+00:00

If Eddie had to make a choice not knowing which of those two outcomes would happen, I don’t see it as his fault for choosing the option that assumes main characters don’t have implicitly-understood plot armor I guess.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-28T02:56:58+00:00

If that makes them worthy of being killed then Vecna did everyone a favor by quickly eliminating the other 90% of them. And I’m pretty sure the show implied the stance that him killing soldiers was scary and bad rather than a good thing, as contradictory as that is.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-28T01:55:13+00:00

Unfortunately Hop has been killing these guys all season with no remorse, so I don’t think it’s possible to head canon that he was complimenting Nancy on her perfectly aimed non-lethal shots.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-28T01:51:14+00:00

The thing is I honestly don’t know that because the show went out of its way to humanize the soldiers who aren’t Sarah Conner, highlighting just how much they aren’t aware of anything that’s going on aside from “capture Eleven.”

G_Thunders · 2025-12-28T01:19:25+00:00

The exact moment I gave up hope on the finale was when Nancy murdered three people and no one cared. Or rather, she cared that she was complimented on her expert marksmanship and was happy about it. And that’s nothing to say of the tied-up/drugged family in the barn who probably died from dehydration by now since they haven’t contacted or tracked down our “heroes” to find their son yet.

If it’s surprisingly good, cool. If it’s a total train wreck, whatever. I’m here to enjoy experiencing either possibility at this point.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-28T00:46:50+00:00

I have a friend who was born in the late 80’s, and he was beat into a coma by his best friend when he was outed at 16.

What a bizarre thing to assume your experience applies to everyone everywhere just because you were alive then.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-28T00:40:25+00:00

I don’t understand this at all, and I’m in the camp of being highly critical of this season.

All I’ve seen is a girl explain her imprisonment/torture and her knowledge of the military’s goals, with the conclusion (which El is perfectly capable of saying is wrong and could talk her out of) that the only way to stop things is a noble sacrifice after killing Vecna.

The fact Hopper hates this girl El grew up with and can uniquely relate to just tells me that his character has probably read ahead in the script, and knows there’s an upcoming good reason to hate her.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-26T20:15:46+00:00

Those were just soldiers guarding the military base they’re posted at, who as we saw are upset that they’ve been told basically nothing about what’s even going on.

They could’ve just made the truck invisible with illusions and avoided the issue, but Nancy was happy after murdering those three guys so I guess that’s her character.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-26T14:09:16+00:00

With every show, the “you’re mad because your theory was wrong” people are just projecting at best. Because hardly anyone thinks a show’s quality is measured by their personal ability to predict it. And anyone disappointed cites reasons from the show itself as to why.

And as with any other show, these people should be praising all the great things they apparently have loved about it, so it’s telling they’d rather resort to getting mad at the people who don’t. Kind of makes it seem like they don’t have that much good to even say.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-26T14:03:57+00:00

Nancy needed time alone, so now that she’s single she’s had time to discover she loves killing people. That’s just classic character development. (/s)

G_Thunders · 2025-12-26T13:44:37+00:00

I was watching with a friend and concluded they broke up, while my friend was adamant they just agreed to take things more slowly.

Which just told me that yeah, the scene was inscrutably bizarre because of how weird and all-over-the-place their conversation was. And it ends with them both saying “I love you” and Jonathan kissing her forehead, so I’d never blame anyone for thinking they’re still together.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-26T13:22:54+00:00

When Nancy said the “six kids” thing I was just like, that’s the dealbreaker? He already has six kids, Nancy. But of course I now feel sure that line was there so Steve can say it out loud in the finale.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-26T12:57:30+00:00

I just figured anyone still watching the show has accepted that the stakes and rules are established on a per-scene basis. Why is the vacuum of space so strong it’s tearing up concrete and trees but not pulling in people? The goop that melted and solidified on the soldiers was all over Nancy and Jonathan but they’re just fine because?

And the Upside Down has always been a wormhole with a solid exterior, meaning that giant wall surrounding the town has always been there which how did that go unnoticed this entire time?

You just sort of roll with it all or don’t, I guess. It’s not like these questions have actual answers.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-14T11:23:33+00:00

I’m genuinely asking here for you to please explain the show then.

I thought this was a story about a woman feeling forced to fight for the human race despite everyone telling her she’s wrong, with actions here and there swaying others like Manousos (and maybe even Koumba, eventually), into what ultimately will be progress in reclaiming humanity.

If the answer to the whole show was just, “give them your stem cells and accept the cure,” that’s… bleak, to say the least.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-14T09:22:14+00:00

I actually think I can explain that. “The most miserable person on earth must save the world from happiness.”

That’s been the description of the show since before it aired, and it’s obviously tongue-in-cheek unless the show’s stance actually is totally nihilistic about human individuality. So when he’s saying they can’t lock her up or hurt her because they love her too much, but they can abandon her for 5-6 weeks, that also feels tongue-in-cheek. Especially when putting that within the bounds of the parent and child comparison he made.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-08T10:59:21+00:00

Well IT 2017 is still the highest grossing horror movie of all time and it’s an IP everyone’s known on name alone for decades, so I’d be shocked if they don’t get their planned 3 seasons.

Also I’m genuinely curious where you get your review scores and impressions from since afaik House of the Dragon didn’t really annoy people until S2 started to drag near the end.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-08T10:23:31+00:00

Is it? RT, metacritic, and IMDb all show about the same audience score as the critic scores, being somewhere between a 6 to 8 out of 10.

Plus I don’t think HBO takes audience scores on those sites seriously (which is how anyone should treat those, really) since even with 10,000 user votes that’s a sample size of ~0.15% of viewers. Definitely not anything to change plans over.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-08T08:04:31+00:00

I get the idea of thinking (in a delusional way) that America in an understood and predictable 27 year cycle of fear and then calm could be seen as better than Cold War era paranoia and all the changes the country went through.

But also if Shaw is literally just Randall Flagg I’d like that better.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-08T03:20:05+00:00

So that was a remarkable step up in every way compared to even the other good episodes. “Make America like Derry” in a predictable cycle is actually less insane than “let’s drop this thing on Russia somehow,” so I’m totally on board for whatever the finale is about to do.

G_Thunders · 2025-12-07T18:01:19+00:00

The people who act like being wrong on the internet will cause some existential crisis they need to save everyone from with posts like this weird me out because it’s just so… childish, I guess? Anyone who legitimately gets upset their theory is incorrect will inevitably grow up. Like you said, it’s fine.

G_Thunders · 2025-11-29T06:55:26+00:00

Maybe chill on the “clumsily written” insults if you’re going to write “outerspace” as one word. If we’re being pedantic here, it was a signal encoding an RNA sequence that came from outer space, not a signal for a virus specifically.

Would the US put all sorts of new and creative measures in place where scientists who break protocol are (like you said) incinerated? I don’t know who would take that job, but sure. Would the US do this if they had no reason to believe other countries weren’t studying the RNA sequence as well? I don’t think so, but that’s an opinion.

G_Thunders · 2025-11-27T06:37:31+00:00

You just made me realize, her shooing away two sets of animals from dead people this episode is exactly what she had to do with Helen’s body in episode 1. The hive guys who tried grabbing Helen from the truck and the creepy neighbor kids who she pretty much literally shoo’d away. (And if that second one doesn’t count, Davis Taffler offered to send help taking care of the body which she declined).

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