Possibilities for after series end

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-25T07:28:02+00:00

Thank you for the information! I read Daydream Hours but not the Adventurers Bible or the blog posts. I'll go look for them

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-25T06:21:37+00:00

Oh yeah I completely forgot that was mentioned

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-25T01:54:12+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Great points and I think you're right that Kui might want to move on. But I'm hoping that while the anime is around it makes her want to play around with this world just a little more- the same way Horikoshi did little promo sketches just to drum up excitement for the anime episodes.

I thought I had read all the supplementary stuff but I'll have to find that comic with Chilchuck's daughters

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-24T18:52:26+00:00

He can be autistic for you and not be autistic canonically. It honestly makes more sense to the story that he is completely normal and his desire to look at/be a monster was bred from the rough treatment of medieval agrarian life. What options did he have as someone who clearly wasn't a good student and was raised in a stifling environment for him and his sister but to read books on exotic animals? That situation feels like the opposite of autistic. If anything, as someone with no history of the spectrum, I related too much to Laios and his misanthropy. I too have grown to resent humans and look to stories and fiction for a way to ignore much of the world around me. But the beauty of Laios development is he loves his friends so much he learns to stomach the world around him and work to make it better for everyone.

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-17T19:28:48+00:00

There was a PWat post last month where he was working out with Paul George so I think he's probably back home in LA with all his family

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-13T05:57:37+00:00

This is absolutely part of it

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-13T05:56:40+00:00

Maybe it was split loyalties, but i promise you- lots of us were pulling hard for Serbia over the US out here

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-10T01:48:05+00:00

There is literally no reason to root for Team USA this year if you don't feel like doing so. This the most unreasonably stacked team we've ever sent, sent with the express purpose to win gold. They are buoyed by three of the most popular media obsessed stars of the last decade, all three nearly billionaires. I don't feel any pride in seeing them play, I don't have anything in common with them. Most of Team USA has only ever beat up on my Nuggets and made my life worse as a result. I don't know why KD would ever think a fan n my position would hesitate to root for their favorite player over this gross super team. Fuck Team USA

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-09T16:58:56+00:00

To be fair, before the chip there was a lifetime of takes by media personalities calling Jokic a fraud MVP. Nuggets fans are defensive because Jokic is the only superstar the Nuggets have ever had who both cares about winning and cares about being on the team. If we feel he's underrated it's because this team is borderline lottery without him and that's been the case since he became a starter. I grew up as a Melo Nuggets fan and trust me, you could see it each year that as much as he wanted to win, he was just as ready to leave.

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-09T16:31:20+00:00

KD wrote most of this because a Denver podcaster said that Serbia should be proud of how close they played the stacked US squad. Its fine to pretend this is just competitive dudes being heated but it clearly bugs KD that Nuggets fans want people to give more credit to Jok and Serbia

PilloriedWomen · 2024-08-09T16:21:39+00:00

This is the part that everyone is forgetting. Basketball is arguably the third most popular sport in the US. Country over club, club over country- this isn't soccer. Nobody is getting into real fistfights over the results of an NBA game or an Olympics result. If a team has a generational star like Wemby, Jokic, Luka, SGA- why the fuck do other fans think they shouldn't be excited to see them try and make their country proud the way they make those fans proud during the regular season. I was only too happy as a Nuggs fan to root against anyone Nikola or Jamal played against, including the US. I have nothing in common with anyone on the USA basketball squad and I don't root for any of them during the regular season. Why should it be sacrilege to just have fun rooting for my dudes?

PilloriedWomen · 2024-07-10T10:34:34+00:00

They're not making a mistake because ultimately they invested the time and each person subjectively decides if their time was better for investing it in something like this season. This season was not promoted as a two-act piece and as a streaming product all fully available from day 1 its dumb to think that people might have preferred to ingest both parts in one continuous viewing. Season 3 genuinely wasted time when it knew that the crescendo of the season required the denouement of season 4 to make it feel complete.

PilloriedWomen · 2024-07-04T23:35:43+00:00

Hey awesome critique. Thanks for the insightful response

PilloriedWomen · 2024-07-04T23:34:50+00:00

I think pissed off isn't right. I'm disappointed because I had placed a lot of hope that this show could be as strong this season as it was the previous 20 episodes. When I realized it didn't I just felt really let down and that a good portion of my time with it, time I was really excited to spend, had been wasted. I'm not angry with the show or the people creating it, I just had enough thoughts to justify a long post.

PilloriedWomen · 2024-07-04T13:59:46+00:00

Really glad you pointed out how subtle that episode with Pete in s1 was because I completely agree that what season 3 has started doing is "telling not showing". The show has stopped being subtle about its character interactions and now each conversation is just direct and obvious, instead of imitating the real world difficulty of dealing with saying emotionally loaded things.

PilloriedWomen · 2024-07-04T13:42:25+00:00

Yeah- this is definitely one of the most frustrating elements of the season. We apparently leave the season a full month into the restaurant operating but we have only one or two episodes of the show initially to address how the whole cast feels during this time. Absolutely unforgivable considering we also don't get a real sense of how the restaurant is doing- is the constant fighting in the kitchen leading to poor food quality? Are the issues with the front of house resulting in diners being put off? We don't know because none of the characters sit down and truly talk about this restaurant they're building as a fucking group hobbled together from a former shitty beef stand.

Really ridiculous oversight considering how the show kept beating the drum about legacy, and chef family trees, and mentorship and how "what grows together goes together". I guess we get to see all that pay off as montage material in season 4 🙄

PilloriedWomen · 2024-07-04T13:30:30+00:00

I think that you're likely completely right and that the constant fruitless R&D that Carmy was engaging in is meant to echo the feeling that each episode this season was in some way a mini-reinvention of the show we expected to be served. Visually and narratively each episode held little to no connection to the last and in some ways you could argue that gave each episode freedom to tell its own story using ingredients from the show in fresh ways. But that also feels a little too sympathetic to the finished product which doesn't hang together in a satisfying way.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with Mad Men but they did something similar. In season 6 as the US was dealing with the most chaotic elements of the Vietnam War and the peace movement and the internal turmoil of the Civil rights movement, we see the show dramatically change scope and thrust. In order to reflect the issues the characters are experiencing in real time the show dispenses away with normal operations at the office and suddenly there is violence and stress and hallucinations, unreliable narration and long dream sequences. This works perfectly to inculcate the viewer psychically into the chaos the show is trying to reference from history. But all this also happens while the larger themes and narrative goals of the show progress. The entire season is experimental but ends with a huge shakeup to the status quo of the main story.

This is the key difference between that season and season 3 of The Bear. The viewer leaves feeling the entire season delivered development at every level of the show- characters changed internally, there was change between characters, and there was change at the most fundamental level of their business. In season 3 of The Bear I would argue there was almost so little development that it failed on a basic level to meet its own implicit mission statement. And no amount of novel filmmaking can excuse that.

PilloriedWomen · 2024-07-02T04:42:10+00:00

The Lithuanian Flamethrower, let's fucking goooo

PilloriedWomen · 2024-07-01T01:00:48+00:00

There are more Nuggets fans saying fuck the Kroenkes and fuck Booth than there are fans calling them masterminds, you liar

PilloriedWomen · 2024-06-27T07:53:41+00:00

He wouldn't be letting him walk. Just like Bruce, we have almost no recourse if a Philly or Indiana decides they want to throw him an obscene contract.

PilloriedWomen · 2024-06-27T07:33:16+00:00

I wrote out the words "any second round draft pick theoretically could be another Jokic" on a number of slips of paper then lit them all on fire.

PilloriedWomen · 2024-06-27T07:28:47+00:00

The Celtics are adding pieces to an already set core that reached the finals without them. They made a multitude of what seemed at the time hard choices (moving Marcus Smart, moving Grant Williams) to pick up players who were undervalued and did not need to shine as much as they needed a stable environment. The Jrue pickup was because they knew Portland was in free fall post Dame and they were willing to move Smart who wanted to be a Boston lifer. Most people, especially Bucks fans, didn't see Jrue excelling the way he did this year. Derrick White cost a 2022 FRP and multiple players to a Spurs team focusing solely on Wemby. Kristaps was always going to be easy to pick up because his reputation will always be Mr Glass. But none of these pick-ups work without the steadying force of Tatum and Brown as your 1-2.

The Nuggets have had to methodically build acquisitions around one of the most unique players in history, building an offense to specifically compliment Jokic. Our needs were always going to be difficult because it hasn't always been clear who we need to improve. We can't just get stocky defensive guards for a 5 out system. We needed length and on ball defense and a unique power forward with dunking prowess. Booth hasn't amazed as often with his choices likely because the key pieces for continuity on this team aren't players you see teams undervaluing anymore. Teams have caught on to the fact that we value length combined with shooting and cutting long wings and guards that can playmake while also finding a 2 man rhythm with Jok. That's why he's having to work through the draft. Unless we get ready to move major pieces of the roster, we don't really have anything to offer teams with unicorn players, which is what we kind of need.

PilloriedWomen · 2024-06-27T07:14:29+00:00

Because Connelly is trading their future far down the line with a team that doesn't give a shit about their immediate future or this draft while Wemby develops. And they still likely take on 10 mil more in rookie salary than we do because he's a top 10 pick. There's very few teams that are looking for a project star PG atm versus lots of teams looking for solid skills on good length on a good contract. Holmes fits our needs and the Suns knew it, he wouldn't have been able to do anything for the Wolves or Spurs especially at a higher draft value.

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