The thing about war, boy, is while it happens, you’ve no idea what's going on–and when it’s over, everyone spends the rest of your life telling you what you did. - Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup
Kathryn Hahn and Joe Locke for British GQ
AGENT CARTER 1.01 “Now is Not the End”
We shall need an archer, two swordsman. I trust you can recommend a set. Trust? Me? Are you certain that's wise, commander?
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022 - ): 2.04: Eldest
KATHRYN HAHN — UK special screening of "Agatha All Along" (Sept 10, 2024)
Each day, I look in the mirror for God and still see my own scrambled image. — Lauren Camp, Upon Taking the Universe One Thing at a Time
DOCTOR WHO - ‘Rogue’, 1.06
At this point, I doubt anything would surprise me. Ten bucks says you're wrong.
ANDREW GARFIELD — US Open 2024 (Sept 08, 2024)
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope dir. George Lucas | 1977
And last of all the mounting wave took to its bosom Tar-Míriel the Queen, fairer than silver or ivory or pearls.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson as TAR-MÍRIEL The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — 2.03: The Eagle and the Sceptre
pre-serum steve ♥
BRIE LARSON • Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2024
But if a character deserved better and they don't get it, then that's unsatisfying bad fiction and I deserve better than being left annoyed/upset by a story's ending.
not really. if it is thematically coherent with the rest of the story and how it approaches finding meaning in actions and it works as a tragedy as well then it is not a writing issue. i only take “deserved better” seriously if they deserved better execution/the story left glaring untapped potential. otherwise i dont buy into “good people are entitled to rewards, because that is satisfying” bc i like when art proposes that that is not how it works and also it should not be what motivates us to be “good”. true heroism lies in the desire to try even despite of this reality, so it works if the reality is actually presented in the text. a character arc being incoherent and thematically unfulfilling is a different thing, and that is not about intradiegetic “deserving”