“Slytherins didn’t participate in the battle of Hogwarts bc they’d be fighting family” Do you have ANY idea of how much I’d fucking LOVE to fight some ppl in my own goddamn fucking family forget the goddamn wand I’m gonna punch my homophobic racist uncles in the throat à la muggle
I like this extended version SOOOO much better than the one they used.
Steve gets to ask the two most likely questions:
1) Did we win the war??
2) HOW TF am I still alive???
Also Fury offer him a welcome and some reassurance.
WHY WHY WHY would they cut this scene down to what they did?? It makes NO SENSE.
I seriously can’t get over the fact that they cut out Fury telling Steve that the world still needs him. Like when I watch the movie ending it just feels so hopeless and cruel to Steve. He’s waken up and is being told that everything he’s known has changed forever. That’s it. He lost everything. There’s no silver lining, just the pain of loosing everyone and everything.
But like feliciates said, in this deleted scene Steve is actually given some reassurance by Fury and is being told that he can still have a purpose if he wants. Not all is lost. He wasn’t just alive at the end for fate to be cruel to him, but to do what he does best, save people and fight for good. Now Steve isn’t sentenced to just solely dwell on the past for who knows how long, he can be motivated to help the people of this time.
IKR? It’s like they looked at it and said, “No, that ending is too hopeful. We need more pain and despair for Steve. Cut it down.”
I honestly can’t tell if this ending is more or less bleak than the one they used. On the one hand, we learn more, but Fury is still pretty cavalier to a man who just lost everything, even if it’s clear he’s trying to soften the blow as best as he can based on a dossier that says Steve was an amazing soldier (and likely would be comforted with a new assignment rather than crushed by it).
But I just can’t get over how absurdly young Steve looks at the 1:30 mark when he’s told there’s more work to be done. Young and hopeless and exhausted, he looks more strikingly like pre-serum Steve than I think he does at any other point in the whole movie. That look in his eyes broke my heart.
I’m really tired of hearing that bards get outclassed easily at high levels. It’s like people expect them to be able to cast spells as well as a 20th level wizard *and* fight as well as a fighter or barbarian. Like, of course they’re not going to outperform specialized classes, otherwise the game wouldn’t be balanced.
No one seems to understand that bards are meant to be a powerful jack-of-all-trades. In fact, there’s a class feature that bards get at level **2** that spells that out for the player. Bard’s aren’t supposed to be able to cast incredible spells like Wish or attack five times in one turn, they’re supposed to be able to fill every role in the party to some extent so that they can make up for any weaknesses that the party might have. That’s why they get both powerful healing and attack spells, like the literal one-shot instant kill Power Word: Kill. Bard’s are also one of only two classes that can bring characters back to life.
I honestly have no idea why anyone thinks that bards are useless or outclassed because they are EASILY the most versatile class in the game. The fact that they are both capable fighters and healers make them really good, and the bard colleges of valor and lore make them really good support characters too. The new College of Swords from the unearthed arcana also makes bards *incredible* melee fighters, and I would almost argue that a college of swords bard could replace your melee fighter or DPS while still being a good support class on top of that.
Bards get a lot of flack for being a “jack of all trades, master of none”, but everyone seems to forget that the saying goes “Jack of all trades, master of none,
But often better than a master of one.”
“they are EASILY the most versatile class”
*record scratch*
Writes down in headcanon bible; All… bards… are… versatile… confirmed.
Bard’s not need to use their instruments to cast spells, as is implied by the fact that a College of Valor bard can wield a sword and shield and still use spellcasting and bardic inspiration.
Burning their instrument would only leave you victim to a very pissed off bard
Man, the acting work on Leverage is just so superb at all times??. I just rewatched some of Kane’s scenes in “The Big Bang Job” and he knocks it out of the park there.
Like, just as an example, when he and Moreau meet again for the first time, he looks him straight in the eye, clearly knowing that he can’t give an inch, can’t show weakness. And it almost works, he almost seems unaffected, except for one second right in the middle where his eyes flick away
Like he can’t help himself, like it’s too hard for him to look, remembering who he was with that man, who he has to be in that moment.
And it’s such a small thing, it’s nothing in that scene and still we get an understanding from it – that this is hard for Eliot, that he’s unsure and fucking terrified.
Kane managed to get that vulnerability across in nothing but an eye movement and honestly I’m just fucking blown away sometimes from the acting abilities in Leverage.
Everyone always wants to talk about Hook or Pan. Everyone always wants to debate which one is good and which is evil – who we’re supposed to follow and who we aren’t. The Peter Pan mythos has pretty much shrunk down to nothing but Hook and Pan (Hook, SyFy’s Neverland, Pan, OUAT, etc). Occasionally Tinkerbell factors in (Hook, Disney’s Tinkerbell, OUAT, etc). There’s one character, however, that always gets sidelined – which is puzzling since they are the main character of both the play and the book. That character is, of course, Wendy Darling.
Peter Pan is Wendy’s coming of age story. Wendy who decides to run away from home. Wendy who realizes that she must grow up – and that there’s no shame in that. Wendy who sees Peter as deficient and sees Hook as empty and decides that, no, she doesn’t want to be a part of that. Wendy gets the adventure she’s always wanted and she turns away because she realizes that it’s lacking. She’s the only one who truly sees the hollowness of being young forever. Barrie even says “You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls.”
People always debate on who the hero is. When they learn that Peter could be horrid they assume it has to be Hook. Of course, the answer is that neither of them are the hero. Wendy is the hero of the story. You’re not supposed to be like Peter, who kept every good and bad aspects of being a child and can’t tell right from wrong. You’re not supposed to be Hook, either. He let go of everything childish and loving about him and became bitter and evil. They’re both the extreme ends of the scale. You’re supposed to fall in the middle, to hold onto the things about childhood that make it beautiful – the wonder, the imagination, the innocence – while still growing up and learning morality and responsibility. You’re not supposed to be Hook. You’re not supposed to be Peter Pan.
Inspired by this post, I wanted to a separate post about the destruction of the Jedi Order.
Their destruction wasn’t an event, it was a process. A long process that
started generations before Anakin was even born. Yes, Anakin made his terrible
life choices (no one is denying that) but he’s not the one thing that went wrong with Order
or why they fell apart. So I made a list of terrible things the Jedi
Order did that are not Anakin Skywalker’s fault:
The Order’s decision to take little kids from their parents.
The Order’s indoctrination of said kids;
The Order’s decision to keep Yoda in charge for 900 years;
The Order’s lack of action to end slavery;
Their turning a blind to the corruption in the Senate.
Their decision to follow the Senate even when they knew they shouldn’t.
The Order’s growing arrogance;
The Council’s nepotism;
The Council’s decision to not send extra help along with Qui-Gon and Obi-wan right after they were told the Sith was back.
Their decision to hide the truth about Qui-Gon’s death.
Their decision to personally aid the leaders of a planet but not its citizens.
Their decision to help slaver Jabba the Hutt but not his slaves.
The order’s diminishing popularity.
The Council’s decision to fight in the Clone Wars.
Turning children and teenagers into soldiers
Hiding prisoners in secret prisons (without trial).
Their plan to overthrown the Chancellor before they even knew he was a Sith.
Using a slave army.
Hiding the truth about the slave army’s creation.
The Council lying to their own members.
Turning their back on a teenager they raised (and used) to avoid “political complications”
Allowing an older man to have unrestrained access to a little boy.
Sending a little boy to an adult prison.
* Acting like they had All The Answers To Everything when they couldn’t even handle a scared kid who missed his mommy.
* Making the scared kid feel like he was a bad, dangerous person for being scared, despite the fact that he’d just helped their asses out bigtime.
* Wait, so Anakin’s Dangerous, but a fucknut like Pong Krell flies below the radar? Yeah, no.
* Giving Anakin shit about his arm when he lost it in battle against a Sith Lord…who used to be a Jedi himself and left the Order because he finally got fed up with the Jedi and their shit.
* Having a fucked up system that involved sending aspiring Jedi kids off to be farmers if they didn’t get chosen by a master. Wow, glad you guys took them away from their families and fucked up their lives so they could go grow beans for you or some shit, good job.
* Being hypocritical assholes. There is no ignorance…but only Masters can access certain parts of the archives and we’re gonna lie out our asses on a regular basis about pretty much everything we can think of. There is no fear…but we’re afraid of literally everything, including being unpopular, so let’s throw Ahsoka to the wolves so we can keep sitting at the cool kids’ table at lunch.
* Failure to have a basic fucking freshman level psychology textbook in the goddamn archives because then so much of this royal goddamn clusterfuck could have been prevented in the first place!
does anyone else think about iron man 2 and get emotional because tony stark is so obviously depressed, withdrawn, and falling apart but no one notices and just passes off all his reckless behavior as just The Norm (including a lot of fans??) and only when Fury finally brings to light that Tony’s DYING and giving away all his things, making plans for the future of his company, etc does anyone pay even the slightest attention and eVEN THEN no one really does anything about it??
Once he’s replaced the palladium everyone’s like “great everything’s back to normal again” as if that changes the fact that tony withstood a CRAZY AMOUNT of trauma?? He’s always just getting beat around and because he outwardly laughs it off everyone assumes he’s fine I’m so mad someone needs to give him a hug and say it’s okay not to be fine
Fuck your entire couch. These Wookieepedia entries have changed since I last saw them, and not for the better.
I mean.
Master of the Order was a title held by the elected leader of the Jedi Order. He or she was appointed by a unanimous vote of all the Jedi High Council members. Yoda and Mace Windu held that office during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. The office of Master of the Order was distinct from that of Grand Master, the holder of which chaired the Council.[
Ok, fine. I thought that used to be head of the Order, which is a lot less creepy and far less confusing, but ok. Fine. Whatevs. Well, aside from the whole “unanimous vote“ bit which is unlikely at best and unreasonable at worst because ye gods, I can’t even get twelve people to agree on what to have for dinner.
But this. This monstrosity.
Grand Master was a title given to the oldest and wisest member of the Jedi Order. The Grand Master led the Order’s High Council. During the final years of the Clone Wars, Yoda fulfilled that function.
….The Grand Master oversaw the High Council,[1] a body of twelve Jedi Masters that oversaw and governed the activities of the Jedi Order.[3]The function was fulfilled by the oldest and wisest living Jedi Master.
WHAT THE ENTIRE BLEEDING FUCK?
No. JUST FUCKING NO! First off, you’re landing an instant bias towards the longer lived species, which is fuckin’ grand for an organization that needs to keep the peace between planets/peoples currently at odds – yes, I am big on organizational memory, but you’ve already got literally fuckin’ thousands of years of precedent, you cannot be that mired in history without it BITING YOU ON THE ASS.
SECONDLY, “wisest?” HOOOOOW? GIVEN THE WATSON FIASCO KNOWN AS THE JEDI APPRENTICE SERIES, PADAWANS ARE ROUTINELY PICKED BASED ON PROWESS WITH A LIGHTSABER. WHAT FARCE OF AN EXCUSE ARE YOU GOING TO USE TO DETERMINE THIS? HIGHEST SPACE-SCRABBLE SCORES? OH OH OH, IS THERE SOME KIND OF GENERAL ELECTION AMONGST THE ORDER AS A WHOLE? BECAUSE IT’S BAD ENOUGH THAT THERE’S NO HINT OF WHO GETS A COUNCIL SEAT AND WHY, AND I CRINGE EVERY TIME I TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TWELVE IDIOTS ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE BEST INTERESTS OF 10,000 JEDI SCATTERED ACROSS THE GALAXY, BUT NOW THERE’S THE MYSTERY OF HOW DO THEY DETERMINE THE WISEST???
And honestly. Congratulations, [Oldest and Wisest], you have survived longer than any other poor sod, congrats you now have an honorary seat on the council of twelve, regardless of inclination, interest, past understanding of Order matters, or current ability to stay awake during absurd meetings where your poor supplicants don’t even get fuckin’ chairs.
Selected as wisest and most representative from the Council? Sure, I can go for that.
Grand Master was a title used in both the Old and New Jedi Orders to describe the recognized head of the Order. While separate from the title Master of the Order, which was used to describe the elected leader of the Jedi High Council, the positions were often filled by the same person.
OH HAI THERE, LOGICAL AND SENSIBLE DEFINITIONS! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE IN CANON?
Star Wars canon is just a whole lotta people coming along trying to patch Lucas’s toothpicks-and-chewing-gum structure with wet sand and calling it cement.
Yeah, a large part of this is sheer unmitigated frustration at how they had something that was understandable, made sense, and was simple – and now it’s this mess.
Jonathan, like Phryne Fisher, clearly hasn’t taken anything seriously since 1918.
And, I would suspect, for similar reasons.
^^^This. Jonathan being in World War I makes total sense. It’s
almost impossible for him not to have been. Given his age and background, he probably
volunteered in 1914.
Of course he’s going to not take anything seriously. Of
course he can shoot. The drinking, the skittishness, the recklessness, the
sense of ‘keeping your head down’, the scepticism about traditional heroism….
The one with more actual experience of death, carnage and
fighting is Jonathan. Not Rick. Not Ardeth Bey. Jonathan.
When Rick says ‘I’ve had worse (situation/odds)’ and Jonathan replies “ Me too”. That’s probably true.
Drop The Mummy
into the real world context and that’s a character who’s going to have seen a
lot of his school friends die, along with the myths and tales of heroism they
were raised on. Sort of makes the line where Evie’s scolding him for drinking/messing
about a lot darker…
Evie: Have you no respect for the dead? Jonathan: Of course I do, but sometimes I’d rather like
to join them.
I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW
*record scratch*
Wait a minute. Why is it being assumed that Rick and Ardeth wouldn’t have fought in WWI, as well? Johnathan isn’t that much older than any of them–in fact, there is a good chance that he, Rick, and Ardeth are all of an age. Just because Johnathan’s hair is thinning doesn’t mean he’s a decade older.
It was a LOT easier to lie about your age back in the day. So much easier.
Johnathan is the soldier who fought in WWI and became disillusionsed with pretty much everything except wanting to live (most of the time) and live well–and where is the shame in that? He would have seen some of the darkest shit humanity has to offer, and he kept going. And the thing is, though, archaeological digs at that time were DANGEROUS. Not from curses (usually) but from assholes who would turn up with guns to try and steal anything you discovered. Johnathan never really STOPPED having to deal with dangerous pricks, it was just less dangerous than death raining down from the sky in bomb, bullet, and mustard gas form all the time.
Rick grew up in Egypt as an orphan. What paperwork? He joined the French Foreign Legion, which fought in World War I in some seriously critical battles on the Western Front in Europe. Rick is the soldier who quickly grew disillusioned with everything, but he didn’t know how to stop being a soldier. Johnathan had a career and schooling to fall back on. Rick had guns, the talent of not dying easily, and not much else. When the army finally left him behind because he was literally the only survivor of his last FFL battle, he literally didn’t know what to do. At all. “Looking for a good time” was code for “Please someone give me a fucking purpose.”
Ardeth grew up in the desert. He probably never enlisted…but if you think his people didn’t fight against invading forces during WWI, think again: that region of North Africa was swarming with soldiers on both sides, and they alll tried to claim everything they stumbled over even while in the midst of fighting each other. Ardeth spent his entire life fighting to protect what belonged to him, what belonged to his people, and trying to keep assholes from stealing things that didn’t belong to anyone (for good reason). By the time the war was over, Ardeth was disillisioned in everyone except his own people, and seriously fucking done with stupid idiots who stole in the name of archaeology. He is completely (justifiably) resigned to the worst when Rick the Magic Survivalist returns to Hamunaptra.
War, yes, War suits Gryffindor well. Fighting and dying for beliefs; fighting and dying for nothing; drafted into bloodshed and fire by bravery or chivalry or neither. Some take joy in this; some are burdened beyond repair. There was a cause, somewhere; there was good, somewhere; there was a reason for all this, somewhere. Oh, you’d have to be brave to live through this. Red and gold. Gold like armor and glory; red like blood and reality.
But Famine and Hufflepuff? No. Famine is Ravenclaw, ever-hungry for knowledge, constantly starving for more and more and more, almost feral for fulfillment. Where is the wisdom in the world? The truth? Nothing is true; nothing is enough; all there is to devour is worthless scraps. Blue and bronze. Bronze like a set of scales tipping and found wanting; blue like the infinite that never satisfies… never gives the answers.
Thus Pestilence is not Ravenclaw. Pestilence is Slytherin, sick with clever plans and cunning potential and corrupting desire. Ambition spreads like a sickness, a plague of greed and an illness to the soul. Maybe some might call it cruel, but here among friends it’s simple cunning at work. Green and silver. Silver like the sheen of glazed eyes; green like the complexion of infection.
And so Death is not Slytherin. Death is Hufflepuff. It is a hard work; it is a work that is never done. But someone must do it, and do it fairly – do it justly – do it well… perhaps even kindly. Everyone is equal here – in the end – a bunch of duffers. Said Hufflepuff, “I’ll teach the lot… And treat them just the same.” Yellow and black. Black like loss of sight as the air leaves your lungs; yellow like the flowers that’ll grow over your grave.
There's a Mirror on the Wall 