just noticed something in hobies intro...
before he enters the scene, this is the messaging broadcast all across his london:
OBEY. DO NOT QUESTION. CONSUME.
on every screen and surface and outlet, thats the message ordered by the government and the media and the system. to conform. to follow orders. to submit. to live and die by the establishment.
then after Hobie enters the scene with his unauthorized political action art pieces and, figuratively and literally, disrupts the narrative, the message, his message, rewrites it all and changes it all to
FREEDOM. JOY. LIVE FREE. LOVE EACH OTHER.
KINDNESS AND FREEDOM is the battlecry and message Hobie brings to his world as Spider-Man.
Kindness is Punk.
kindness and freedom despite everything IS punk. and Hobie destroying the system with that is so fucking powerful and beautiful. he is the embodiment of punk, and its not just an aesthetic. even if he wasnt aesthetically punk, he would still be punk because punk IS his character, it is his values, his morals, his message.
gods i just keep finding more reasons to love Hobie so deeply. he's genuinely one of, if not, the most inspiring character i have ever witnessed in media.
you know there's something so poetic about the premier being announced on percy's birthday, but not actually beginning until it's just about thalia's. because it's percy telling the story. but the story didn't begin with him. it began with three runaway demigods who considered each other family
Adult Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase are the most surreal power couple in the mortal world.
Annabeth Chase, world renowned architect who was entrusted with repairs and renovation on the Empire State Building…
…and her husband, this guy who was wanted by the FBI for blowing up the St Louis Arch seventeen years ago
Percy: That's ridiculous. Annabeth doesn't have a crush on me!
Charlie: Yes she does.
Grover: Yes she does.
Annabeth: Yes I do.
what if instead of tuffnut its hiccup who gets the bite in bad moon rising
everyone except hiccup is convinced he's a lycanwing except the twins who have decided that the reason he hasnt changed is because he was always a lycanwing
the rumour spreads everywhere like viggo meats hiccup in maces and talons and his introduction is "ah so i finally get to meat the half dragon, befkre i heard of u i always thought the lycan wing was a myth"
heather comes back and her first question is "do i have to worry about hiccup going full feral dragon in the night?"
hiccup has no idea who actually belives it and who's just fucking with him
broke: batfam finds out about tim’s missing spleen
woke: batfam finds out about how many assassins tim blew up while bruce was dead
it wasn't until i watched the third episode that i realized how essential grover is as a character. he knew both percy and annabeth as individuals, before and during their journey into the godly world. he understands percy's devotion to his humanity and his inexperience with his godly side. notably, he also understands annabeth's devotion to her godly side and her inexperience with her humanity. so when these two inevitably get into arguments because of their opposing worldviews, he is the perfect mediator because he understands both of them. and no other character could have balanced these two out as well as he does. not even the books explicity address this significant detail, but the tv series does this in the third episode. gods, this show just gets better and better every week.
Does Batman have special training to knock out that urge to correct someone when they say incorrect stuff?
The Bats are paranoid and keep secrets. They can keep a secret identity and avoid people's questions. When the person outright believes something wrong, though? That's when it gets tricky. Is there just a few months of training where Bruce claims incorrect things about the Robin and they have to not correct him? He'll just randomly state it midpatrol to try to catch them off guard while they struggle.
Possible phrases Bruce has used.
Dick- "You're an excellent acrobat, but you couldn't land a quadruple backflip on the first try."
Jason - "Jane Austen isn't your favorite writer, right?"
Tim - "Zesti sucks."
Steph - "You don't know how to play piano."
Damian - "Animals suck."
Duke - "You tend to follow the law."
Dick, everytime he accidentally breaks something: Jason! What have you done!?
(kid)Jason, on the other room: What!?
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Dick, after breaking a cup: JASON!
(adult)Jason: *pounces on him* YOU ALWAYS DO THIS
Bruce, knowing full well what's going on: *sipping coffee noises*