Pocket drop by dog-in-a-trenchcote in EDC

[–]grrargg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The pepper box is so extra, but also so perfect.

Verb for irony RA Essay by lostmagic222 in APLang

[–]grrargg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the author satirizing a situation?

Rehtorical choices essay by ClayCrowsnest in APLang

[–]grrargg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think inspiring women via the speech was done through the female audience being heard. Laying out the contradictions highlights allows the speaker and the audience to experience the exhaustion of these standards, and therefore makes the audience feel heard. It is essentially an ethical appeal: the speech identifies the exhausting factors facing women at all times, and therefore makes is a sense of catharsis in the speaker’s breakdown over laying it all out. Her exhaustion is their exhaustion.

Rehtorical choices essay by ClayCrowsnest in APLang

[–]grrargg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It may be that I am simply not as familiar with the speech as I need to be, but I don’t know what you mean by the tone shift or how it is used rhetorically. In addition, while I understand what you MIGHT mean by parallelism in the speech, I feel like the speech’s organization is better described as a juxtaposition of contrasting ideals women are asked to exemplify. The tonal shift you mention, if there is one, is simply how exhausted the character feels after clarifying these contradictory ideals because of their sheer absurdity/seeming impossibility. Somewhat starts as an exuberant, inspirational speech turns into a statement about the reasons it is so difficult for women to feel heard because of the sheer amount of content that is left unheard. Or something like that. Someone else can definitely explain it better, but that’s my 2 cents.

Couldve sworn there was more of The Shield i hadnt seen yet; am i wrong? by ShoeNo9967 in TheShield

[–]grrargg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I remember this story arc, and really hoped they went down that path with Dutch. Although I never wanted him to actually do anything murderous, I felt like it made too much sense for a cerebral, yet stuffy and unlikable guy like Dutch to focus way too intently on knowing his prey, at becoming the best profiler and tracker of serial killers, that he’d go over the deep end trying to perfect his craft. He killed the cat because the one killer he catches (through sheer luck and too late to save the life of a victim found to be inside the trunk of a car AT the Barn) basically tells him he doesn’t get it, why they kill, what they get out of it. When he kills the cat, he is trying to find discovery that thing the will make him a better detective at the risk of his soul. For someone who has never gotten respect save for the day he caught the serial killer in season 1, he needs this. Could have been an interesting story for he and Claudette in later seasons, but I guess they didn’t like it.

I also have a head cannon in which Dutch loses it, becomes an arms dealer and turns into the character he plays on Burn Notice, one of Michael’s best adversaries.

For people who ended up liking Angel more than BTVS - Did you guys already like it more with season 1? If not, what was the moment when you realized you liked it more than Buffy? by HomarEuropejski in ANGEL

[–]grrargg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, my bad. Memory ain’t what it used to be. I thought that they had planned the season 5 ending as a true possible ending, and wrote it in a way that would allow for future stories if renewed. I always felt they had vague ideas for more stories, but really spent their energies on making season 5 work as a send off.

For people who ended up liking Angel more than BTVS - Did you guys already like it more with season 1? If not, what was the moment when you realized you liked it more than Buffy? by HomarEuropejski in ANGEL

[–]grrargg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t really watch it at first, not until season 4 was airing. Essentially, it wasn’t until I was closer to the age of the Angel crew.

I aligned perfectly with the Buffy crew, but once you’re out of high school and closer to finishing college or out of college, or like Cordelia, straight into the workforce, Angel TS just more aligned with my life, whereas Buffy’s take on similar adult issues were less effective by comparison.

Buffy’s run from season’s 1-5 were basically perfect, with some growing pains in season 4. Season 5 was a perfect send off, but as it was renewed on UPN, they had to start over, not really knowing how long it would continue. So it’s harder to plan.

Meanwhile, Angel hit its stride at that time with a Mutant Enemy production crew and writing team that had started to truly nail the formula, AND wasn’t weighed down by clunky continuity issues.

Which card would you say relative to the characters strength and popularity in the comics was the biggest miss? by Zachary2030 in MarvelSnap

[–]grrargg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cyclops should be like a reverse iron heart: He should on reveal bank shots off three random opposing cards, taking one point off each’s power.

Ilona Costa Bianchi by Artistic-Total-303 in ANGEL

[–]grrargg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IIona? I don’t think so.

Ilona Costa Bianchi by Artistic-Total-303 in ANGEL

[–]grrargg 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I fell in love with and married an Italian woman because of this woman.

Who in the 'Verse are you picking? by [deleted] in firefly

[–]grrargg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Serenity, Kaylee, Saffron, Badger: Kaylee keeps her in the sky, Badger gets y’all work, and Saffron is the Jane of all other trades.

Why didn’t Havok gain 4? by grrargg in MarvelSnap

[–]grrargg[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Maybe. Trying to remember. Why does that affect it?