If Chibnall Ever Wants To Throw In Some Major Darkness To Thirteen's Storyline, There Is A Loophole To

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(Previously: The best of Tumblr: Star Wars, The best responses)

My sister, my niece, and I are watching LotR. Conversation between my sister and niece:

Niece: What’s his name?

Sister: Elrond.

Niece: What’s his name?

Sister: Elrond.

Niece: But what’s his name?

Sister: Elrond.

Niece: What’s his name?

Sister: Call him Ellie!

Just once, when the Master is revealed to be The Master, I don’t want the Doctor to be all horrified and taken aback and be all like ‘oh my gosh it can’t be’. 

I just want an exasperated eye roll and a ‘fuck’s sake, you again, huh?’

I refuse to believe that Jedi younglings, before they learned proper shielding, didn't accidentally broadcast an earworm song to the rest of the class and then get it stuck in their heads too.

‘I never wanted that day to end.’

Aziraphale’s and Crowley’s discussions are interesting in Good Omens simply because their such utterly different approaches to them. Now I really enjoy Crowley’s points but right now I’m focusing on Aziraphale’s side because despite the several years he’s lived on Earth and the books upon books he’s read he falls back on one simple reason for everything that happens.

Ineffability,

And maybe that reason works sometimes. And it certainly does; it leaves just enough wriggle room, just enough doubt, that his opponent can’t definitely say that he’s wrong. After all, in Good Omens God is real even if He hasn’t been seen or heard from in a few millennia. Crowley can’t say that there isn’t a Higher Plan.

But what he does do is learn how to counter-argue the Ineffability reason.

It seems to me that at this point Aziraphale is using the Ineffable Plan as an excuse. It’s like hearing all the churchgoers out there when questioned about God’s existence or why bad things happen to good people they simply reply, ‘You have to take it by faith, that’s all.’ Take it be faith, take it for Ineffability.

Which of course leads to Crowley’s logical rebuttals. That’s the key difference, I think, when looking at their conversations. Aziraphale relies on the possibility of the Ineffable Plan, while Crowley has taken the time to learn how to perceive an argument on all sides and come up with a counter argument for everything the angel says. His reasons make sense, which only highlights how desperate Aziraphale’s Ineffable argument sounds sometimes.

Which just makes it all the more brilliant when he uses the Ineffable argument to run circles around Metatron and Beelzabub later on in the story.

Wriggle room always wins an argument. He must have learned it from Crowley.

Honestly, one of the only things I have to complain about about Spielberg’s Lincoln is minuscule and people will probably roll their eyes but I’m a Civil War nerd, and it BUGS ME:

Ulysses S Grant’s uniform is entirely TOO CLEAN. 

Just look at him. This is a commander who literally came from the battlefield, and all accounts remember him to be wearing a private’s borrowed jacket and splattered with mud. Does anything about that uniform/costume look remotely dirty?

(I mean, kudos to Lee’s clean crisp uniform. Historically he showed up looking like the commander he was, thinking he may become Grant’s prisoner.

Spoiler alert: he wasn’t.)

It’s a small detail, I know, but the more I learn about Grant, the more little missed details like this bothers me. Grant’s untidy, messy appearance showed just what sort of a soldier he truly was, and why he was, ultimately, the general who won the war: he didn’t care about personal appearances or advancements, he was there to get the job done.

That little detail aside, I truly loved Lincoln a lot, Daniel Day-Lewis is absolute PERFECTION playing our titular President, Sally Fields is fantastic as Mary Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones was brilliant as always, and Jared Harris is my favorite Ulysses S Grant so far depicted in either television or film.

ok so Leia was heading to Obi-wan before the Battle of Scarif, and before she ever knew she or anyone would have the plans. It wasn’t just a last resort, “vader’s bout to get us we gotta go somewhere” decision. the fact that she was going to Obi-wan is probably the reason she was with the rebels and not on Alderaan.

so think in the context that a) Bail was knowingly sending his daughter, who has the genes of one of the most powerful force users ever, to go get a Jedi, b) Bail knew that he was sending the biological child of Anakin to Anakin’s former master and friend, c) Obi-wan definitely would knows who Leia is, d) Bail knows that Obi-wan is keeping an eye on Luke.

I’m not saying Bail Organa knowingly sent his force sensitive daughter to the only fully trained Jedi he knew how to get in touch with and also her force sensitive brother, but Bail Organa knowingly sent his force sensitive daughter to the only fully trained Jedi he knew how to get in touch with and also her force sensitive brother. Because he and Mon Mothma decided things had gotten to this point.

I was looking through my old artwork and stumbled across this. I drew it over ten years ago now. God, her story makes my heart hurt.