like 4.02 left off in such a way where I was like "im not excited about this plot involving the new innocent character" so it took me forever to start it

and 4.03 is like "what if we just went full tvd in all the worst possible ways"

less than a minute in I was messaging shikki like "oh I hate this" and every scene makes it worse

I know spoilers and that it makes the choice to go more tvd

and I'm just like.

this was the fun one! the happy one!

but I guess when you set up a bad guy and don't have an exit plan you're bound to write yourself into a corner

i feel like they fucked themselves when they started focusing on malivore instead of the INFINNITELY MORE ENTERTAINING necromancer

man RIGHT

after dark Josie, the necromancer had enough power to be a real threat

and this "ancient evil speaks through different faces" thing is just giving young actors the opportunity to chew scenery. which is over the top in the bad way

yyyyyep

I guess at this point I hope it just doesn't go all Originals

like it seems to be hyperconscious about fixing the mistake of only using women for suffering? but uts also unlearned shit really quickly

and I'm not here for "every positive force loses her innocence and dies horribly"

vague gestures to Davina and Hayley

wait seriously and we're doing evil Kaleb?

/huffy, dissatisfied noises

Lol my students asked me about my predictions for season 4 of RNM, and I was like “it’s being made by the ppl who did TVD & The Originals. I predict things are going to get...very fucked up and insane and my faves will die horribly right after having a moment where you think they’re turning it around.”

I just want to love it and it refuses to be loved

i wanted mg and ethan to date and now there's a terrible love triangle

the answer is thruple

be progressive, kids

honestly yeah

ethan reads comics

but do the writers read new comics

or are they basing all their references over 90s xmen

i can pray they've at least heard aabout the thruple

tbf i don't feel like kaleb was being evil, he was prioritizing cleo over hope which meant making a deal with malivore but i don't essentially see that as evil so much as him making a bad choice to save someone he cares about and

tbh i was glad someone was prioritizing cleo because i was beginning to feel like she was going to end up in a bonnie bennett situation

oh yeah I said that back when it was like "and now he has wings"

oh, sorry, plurk hid that pqrt!

I'm on yesterday's episode now and it's. fine.

I can learn to enjoy kitty pryde ethan

i feel so bad for cleo and have such messy feelings about this storyline

but tihs does make me want to get off my ass once im out of art hell and play mg

mg not ethan i was too busy thinking about ethaan being kitty to use words

you will give me the ship thread I demanded like a year ago

I'm not sure what the new dynamic is though. mg's been feeling a lot of feelings

ill put the first season for background noise when i wake up to finish my art stuff

oh wait no ethan just signaled he'd be down for a thruple

WAIT ACTUALLY

the narrative is not going in that direction

but ethan is just incredibly chill

yeah mg was like "hey I like lizzie and one day I'm gonna tell her that" and Ethan was like "we can deal with the fallout when that happens but we can still be friends until then "

he'd be down for smooching both of them I'm sure

i'll take what i can get

and now all three of them are hugging together it is the only solution

so we dont get any more of this contrived love triangle nonsense PLEASE LET LIZZIE GET BEYOND THIS PLOTLINE

she does have bigger issues

its just like

and now the plot is like "let's talk about hope" and I'm like "do we have to"

ok I'm caught up and I still hate it

might be switching this over to "hatewatching" for a while

the will they won't they stops being fun when it starts verging on this dude continuing to not act on his feelings but having a vested interest in dating this girl. like at some point you have to admit that you're verging on some weird nice guy stuff bc it sort of colors his motivaations and i thought he was finally over that and beyond it.

yeah i wish they would let mg/lizzie die because it has brought out the worst in both of them

and has always hinged on the trope of the girl finally comes around to the guy who has liked her always which is just not my jam

(hi i play lizzie, i have thoughts, and they're mostly ethan and mg should date each other and lizzie should get a love interest she seems....actually interested in.....)

yes i agree w all of this intensely

theyve overlapped in liking each other i think but it always hits as this intensely codependent and unhealthy thing

yep

Katie if you want in on this healthy thruple rp the door is open

i think a thruple is the only way i could be down for it, so yes.

nice welcome

Ethan and lizzie are shoehorned af but at least there are some fun threads to pull

like when he was all "hey we're both closet nerds let's speak only in comic references today"