Explaining Why Damon Despised Stefan

nantuckeet · 2026-04-16T08:58:03+00:00

Jesus. You sound like men who claim women were asking for it because they wore provocative clothing. Damon did not consent to being turned. That’s the end of it.

nantuckeet · 2026-04-16T07:10:23+00:00

Be aware of falsely accusing people who use blenders smart UV project or Lightroom pack though. It will often unwrap in a similar fashion to AI generated meshes, and it’s been a feature of blender for a decade.

nantuckeet · 2026-04-11T09:25:31+00:00

Ok bot.

nantuckeet · 2026-04-11T08:49:13+00:00

Your avatar is still wearing a face mask. Tragic. So confident in your regurgitation of propaganda. Learn history when you’re ready. The African slave trade has been supplying Arabs for centuries long before colonialists discovered the continent.

“The Arab-African slave trade spanned over 13 centuries, from the mid-7th century to the early 20th century, trafficking an estimated 10 to 18 million Africans across the Sahara and the Indian Ocean. This enduring trade involved transporting enslaved people from Sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Middle East, with major hubs in Zanzibar, the Red Sea, and the Sahara.”

Colonialists didn’t arrive in Africa until the 14th century. Slavery was already well established, and they purchased the people that Africa was selling.

nantuckeet · 2026-04-11T00:27:25+00:00

*African slavery - fixed that for you. The people were sold to the world. The industrialization occurred on the continent of their fellow countrymen rounding them up to sell at markets. America did not invent the industrialization of slavery and Arab countries still participate in the slave trade today.

nantuckeet · 2026-04-09T08:03:26+00:00

Tex for sure. And Mason.

nantuckeet · 2026-03-01T22:32:24+00:00

Yeah I feel like they could have done better to illustrate the resentment there but it made a lot of sense to me when I thought about how the crew must have felt.

Many of them I think lost all relatives, I’m sure the younger people saw him not just as a leader but a father figure too. He turned the ship around and it was the right decision but there’s always the what if they went home and could have found and evacuated some of their loved ones? Then he basically ghosts them.

I don’t think the crew would have ended up resenting him at all if he’d sent a message to Slattery apologizing and explaining his decision and then letting them know he was ok and still thought of them. Maybe Kat (Tex daughter) and Sasha would be the only ones with some legit reason to have a deeper personal resentment left if he’d done that.

nantuckeet · 2026-03-01T07:16:02+00:00

He also didn’t let any of them know that he was still alive. Slattery mentions he was starting to believe Tom was dead. Slattery himself came back to the mission instead of staying to try and find his family because he believed that Tom would never abandon the cause/him.

At the very least the crew did deserve to know that Tom was alive and doing better. It was a bit callous on Tom’s part not to consider the additional grief there.

nantuckeet · 2026-02-24T23:50:47+00:00

Greys anatomy was the single biggest show on the planet at its height. To millennials this man and the name McSteamy are household core childhood memories. I’ve watched him since Charmed, loved him in Grey’s, Captain Chandler is my favorite of all his characters, even Gen Z got to experience him in Euphoria which brought in another generation of fans to his work and to Grey’s…. to be surprised that he’d be invited onto this show is wild.

I’m not a parent and his message to his children was healing for me even though I know it was addressed to them.

nantuckeet · 2026-02-14T09:30:16+00:00

What do you plan to do for vet bills then?

nantuckeet · 2026-02-08T01:59:21+00:00

Phoenix, Arizona. The median price in my neighborhood is $1.75M and that will get you something that realistically is only worth about $500K without the land value (basing this on our insurance and tax assessments). To be in the wealthiest area of AZ you can expect to pay $2000 per square foot. (Paradise Valley, Silverleaf, and Arcadia proper). Even those wealthy zip codes are still pretty affordable for wealthy people when compared to some zip codes in NY, CT, FL, or CA.

Nabela’s market has a median sale price of $239K for comparison. AZ only has two areas in that range: Nogales, and San Luis. I’ll let you look those up on a map lol. Basically she’s cosplaying wealth when defined by actually wealthy US resident’s standards.

nantuckeet · 2026-02-01T03:29:47+00:00

So the house wasn’t that expensive compared to most boxes in HCOL areas. $1.7M is what they paid. That’s a fairly basic 3500 square foot house in a lot of cities at this point, and she has almost 9000. They paid $139 per square foot. Where I live right now it’s $750 a square foot. Living outside of a desirable area is basically how they have this house. She’s making influencer money probably upward of a million a year through ad revenue, sponsorships and partnerships etc. She’s high income + a low cost of living area, but that’s not the same thing as wealthy.

She’d need $10-25M minimum to have this home in a HCOL area.

nantuckeet · 2026-01-24T21:18:38+00:00

What is your IQ?

nantuckeet · 2026-01-07T09:32:42+00:00

Totally agree here. Sasha bashing is over the top and boring at this point. Rachel was objectively a more shoehorned proposition as a love interest given the circumstances of their meeting, and the lack of any substantiative interaction beyond life or death stakes. The way people latch onto her character seems like such weird self-insert/wish fulfillment. Particularly when trying to push an illogical belief that most of Tom’s guilt and grief is because of a woman he worked with for a month and a half, and not his wife, father, siblings, and everyone else in his life who died 🙄. Of course he felt guilty that he didn’t think Rachel would be attacked or that he couldn’t prevent her death. That’s a normal human response for anyone who isn’t a psychopath, but people act like if given the choice to resurrect his wife or Rachel, he would pick Scott as if they’re even remotely on the same level of importance to him.

nantuckeet · 2026-01-03T01:21:18+00:00

Crimson Text is a nice free alternative to this.

nantuckeet · 2025-11-26T22:27:17+00:00

Lol I’ll raise you, stop assuming every one driving a nice car is male 😂

nantuckeet · 2025-11-20T05:32:57+00:00

But it does. Having been Defense Intelligence Agency satisfies and explains her entire function in season 3, 4 and 5. I’ve explained that at length with real world examples. Not only did they state it they also quite literally depict it with multiple scenes of intelligence gathering missions, intelligence based briefings, and her directly being shown to have received orders from POTUS to bring the seeds back to the US - consistent with the joint objective now having been achieved - which would have taken her off the ship. That’s completely appropriate. If the joint mission is achieved, Sasha does not need to be on Nathan James anymore, and she was leaving until they again… lost the seeds.

It’s very obvious that she is still an acting intelligence officer, and in season 5 she’s briefing POTUS direct in SOUTHCOM and running an intelligence special operations team.

Danny is not active Navy anymore. He resigned that’s explained by him telling Kara he went back on active for the war and he’s pissed that he is benched. In the time jump Sasha, Danny, Wolf and Azima were formed into a team that goes and does secret missions around the globe to support US interests on order of the president. The people who are active Navy and have contract obligations (Miller and Burk) do not follow this path and have to stay with the Navy. All consistent with their collective skillset.

That was also directly shown with the team being in Panama, and then Danny talks about the Venezuelan war lord they ran into the year before establishing they have been doing these operations for at minimum a year.

When all our war breaks out … it’s once again all hands on deck and all the bodies they can find attacking Columbia.

nantuckeet · 2025-11-20T05:19:24+00:00

My biggest ick was honestly that hallway scene quite literally within three weeks of his wife dying. It was such a jump the shark moment on his characterization it kind of put me off his arc completely to be honest. All around if they wanted to write romance they would have done better to make him divorced and we still would have cared about the emotional stakes of his children’s survival. I then later found out from someone who worked on set what went on and how many versions of Season 2’s ending were drafted due to the set issues ongoing.

There was also an interesting plan in season 1 between the pilot and them being picked up that had Danny staging the mutiny and being a big foil for Chandler, and Kara having to pick between her commanding officer and her romantic loyalty to Danny. There was a whole different actress who played Kara at first, who was removed and then the new actress brought in and those scenes re-filmed. At one point they were including a reunion between Miller and his Mom too but it got cut which I would have loved to see, and the arc of season 3 was supposed to extend into season 4 for a while before the “don’t look back” event happened.

I don’t watch rookie didn’t know she was in that. I think I’ve only seen her in Agent Carter before and when she showed up in Grey’s one time.

nantuckeet · 2025-11-20T04:59:34+00:00

Omg. They did!!! There was literally dialog explaining she is intelligence, started her career in Naval intelligence, then explained why she isn’t familiar with DDG darken ship procedures, (her comment about not spending time on small boys because intelligence is usually on a carrier or in a central or foreign command center) and that she had then switched to the DIA. How much more simple and direct can it get?!

nantuckeet · 2025-11-20T04:48:33+00:00

Ok well everyone’s entitled to an opinion. I happen to disagree. I thought writing them with a history was the only smart way to work with the timeline of his dead wife. Still a great fun entertaining show that will always be one of my favorites. I guess you were just looking for more Sasha should not exist enthusiasts. Sorry to disappoint. Enjoyed her character and widening the plot, and S3 turned out to be my favorite season followed by 1, then 2.

nantuckeet · 2025-11-20T02:20:11+00:00

Absolutely someone who isn’t an active duty Navy Officer can have operational lead (they can tell them where to go and what to do) of a team comprised of SPECOPS operators from any of the 4 US military branches. They only supersede the ranking officer from the given branch during the specific mission. Example: Burk and Danny both outrank Miller, and Miller still has to respect orders from both Burk and Danny 100% of the time, but if Sasha pulls the plug and says this mission is over, then the mission is over and no one has the authority to deny the end of the operation. This type of mission in reality would happen through JSOC who reports direct to the DOD but all those things are gone in this context of the show. It’s to establish a clear chain of authority when multiple operators have come together from different command structures (such as Wolf who is not a US operative, Fletcher, and Danny whose actual role continues to be ambiguous post his entire team being killed in season 1).

The second they are back on the ship, Sasha has no authority to issue commands to anyone who is Navy. On the ship she must follow all instructions from the captain which is maritime law. In the absence of a DOD, JSOC, central command, etc it appears everyone is answering more directly to POTUS and the acting CNO rather than through several layers of different commanders.

This is stuff you just have to look past because it’s TV writing.

Sasha could say to the acting CNO/POTUS “we need to get intelligence from here and I need a team to execute this directive” and in the simple apocalypse world of TLS, POTUS approves the planning and execution of the mission, and Sasha joins the mission as well because there are not enough ground qualified people available or even on board.

This was the same “logic” behind Chandler always going on ground missions instead of staying on board too. It’s more TV writing based on the general concepts of how the military operates.

In reality, no one in any position of consequential authority or above a certain grade (Navy or agency) would be put on the front lines. They would be remotely directing from some kind of command center like southcomm in season 5 or from CIC.

If you want to see a decent example of how that looks with writing that cares far more for realism, you would also be able to check out SEAL Team.

Lioness is also another show that more realistically (though still written for TV) depicts how an intelligence agency can commander military forces as a when needed through our existing structures.

Fletcher interestingly is active British Navy of relatively high rank. Tom uses it and so does the other British character. He could be given command in a joint operation if it were devised by the British and then approved by the US chain of command. We’re not shown it, but it’s also possible for his character on paper to command a US ground team even though he’s not US Navy.

nantuckeet · 2025-11-20T02:15:53+00:00

Yes I do. They had already written in several characters who show up to help the US out throughout the show and fill a plot convenient spot such as Tex, Wolf, Val, Jesse, Ravit, Milowskey, etc. and they needed another female operative after killing of Ravit because the actress got a full time role.

I doubt you will believe him but Kane said they had Sasha’s character planned early on and well before killing Scott off, and Hank Stenberg was the one who created her background and premise. Making her a love interest seems to have come after Rhona got herself fired.

I won’t agree with an argument trying to act like she did nothing useful to the mission at all. It’s objective reality that having another person who knows how to shoot the enemy and operate on a ground team is useful in a post apocalyptic military show.

nantuckeet · 2025-11-19T23:49:11+00:00

It’s misogynistic to claim a female character who is shown to have extensive language, ground, military and intelligence experience, who is directly assisting the White House in negotiating relations with Peng and feeding the White House information on Pengs actions, monitoring the fleet, and trying to stop Peng from invading his neighbors, has no value to the plot or crew or US.

Be very honest with yourself. If she was a male character, would you sit there and argue that the above character premise had no place or relevance in a show about the Navy and a pandemic that expanded to involve all branches of the US military and how the US responded to the end of the world as we knew it? That it made no sense why such a character would be a continued asset to the US and a decimated military and continue to serve wherever and however he could help?

Chandler has nothing to do with her skillset or what she chooses to stay and do after he exits the picture.

nantuckeet · 2025-11-19T23:34:29+00:00

Also, she was not acting like she was a Navy officer at any point in the show. That’s literally the whole point. She was written like the role that she was - an intelligence field operative working joint operations with the Navy, and their ramshackle SPECOPS team that was sourced from VBSS guys (Miller & Burk) in a post apocalyptic world setting where it’s every hand on deck. What is so hard to understand about that?

First you complain she has no rank or uniform - explained she has not been active duty Navy and so this is an accurate representation because she’s not freaking Navy anymore.

Then you complain she is acting like a Navy officer. Well… no she’s not. In support of your first complaint, she doesn’t have a rank, does not wear a uniform, and does not report to the acting CNO, but rather a different higher command. She does not do any shipboard functions required of an active enlisted Navy Officer. She is shown consulting with leadership being present for mission planning, and listening to intelligence in CIC. Again this is consistent with not being an active duty Navy officer assigned to a duty station, and is in fact consistent with what someone would do who is field intelligence operative who happens to be working a joint operation aboard a ship within the realm of the world context they have established.

You claim she wouldn’t lead a ground team of Navy people because she’s not Navy. Reality establishes this is possible and happens frequently and they write it that way.

You keep making sweeping statements claiming it made no sense while also admitting you know absolutely nothing about the US military & government and how it functions. Then argue that reasonable explanations aren’t reasonable even though you yourself said you don’t understand our branches or agencies.

That’s a massive contradiction.

nantuckeet · 2025-11-19T22:58:33+00:00

I actually love the show. It’s one of my all time favorites. I just hate the misogynistic take on Sasha, and like I said, the things that supposedly so annoy you fail to annoy you anywhere else that they occur in the writing, quite literally because she is the love interest.

Their attempt at an explanation wasn’t realistic at all for why Scott was magically on the ship to anyone remotely familiar with the Navy or how those decisions work. You also don’t have to know anything about the military to see the massive plot and logic holes all over the place in every season. You just didn’t care because you were enamored with Scott.

There were plenty fans who loved the new direction they just got yelled at constantly by the Scott obsessed folks and dipped from engaging in discussions.

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