@pirategirljack LiveTweet roundup for Week 12 2015

In my ever-ongoing (yes, I know that's redundant) search to make this easier, here's this week's attempt--instead of doing this by episode, which takes forever and makes a million similar posts, lets try doing it by week, and getting it all in one place!

I wish there was a way I could make all this post automatically without it being as, like, individual tweets or some shit. I might have to start learning code so I can invent my own webapp or something. If anyone knows of a thing that will take my own tweets and hashtags and post one post with just those collected tweets from just that one day, let me know what it is!

MONDAY 3-16

Gotham - Rerun this week, so we didn't watch it

Castle - 7x17 "Hong Kong Hustle"

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Lets talk about: How I had a really hard time paying attention to this episode and how, I made, like, three tweets that aren't even showing up on this feed? I don't know if the episode was just not catching me or if it was how gross I've been feeling, but with almost all my monday shows in reruns, I just couldn't even. Poor Castle. I apologize, Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic!

NCIS:LA - Rerun

Scorpion - Rerun because it's apparently making itself in realtime or something and we can't have weekly episodes

TUESDAY 3-17

The Flash - 1x16 "Out of Time"

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Let's talk about: How Barry now knows how to RUN BACK THROUGH TIME. Like, this next ep is probably going to be where he fixes, like, one thing and it dominoes across the rest of the plot and makes it better--or worse, depending if it's leading directly to the finale or not, but we're still a ways off from that. What I really want, though, is just a whole episode where Barry, as @geejayeff said on Tumblr, "plays whack-a-mole with everything that came up this episode". Seriously, like a time-loop ep, but he's powering the loop. He saves the cops but Cisco still dies because he doesn't know about Welles. He saves them both, but the wave hits the city and washes Iris away. He saves all three, but no one stops whatver next thing.

Let's also talk about Iris: She knows! I really really hate that outdated idea that otherwise useful and competent people cant connect these singular two points even when they're following leads all over the rest of the plot that should make it obvious. I hated that it took three years to tell Thea on Arrow, and I love that Iris got it now--AND THEN TIME LOOP. Dammnit. But! Barry knows that she actually does love him back, so maybe now he can do something about it and be a responsible otherwise-committed boyfriend and break it off like an adult with whats-her-other-face.

iZombie - 1x1 "Pilot"

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Let's talk about: Everything ever about this show! That classic Rob Thomas sassy-sarcasm mix, the voice overs, the crime solving by being psychic that's made cooler by it actually being a Warm-Bodies-esque memory-flashback! Babineaux, who is so sassy and sharp and cute! Ravi, who is probably the best friend an undercover zombie could ever have! The way she picks up random quirks and skills from the brains as well as memories! Everything in this pilot was practically designed to win me over, and it totally did.

Agents of Shield - 2x13 "One Of Us"

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Let's talk about: SHIELD 2 what??? From the teeny tiny bit we saw, I thinking a) Hydra remains set up as another Shield, b) All those millions who don't know Coulson is still alive set up their own revival, not knowing that he's there or that Fury handed him the keys, or c) there was always two shields, and only one fell because they're secret from each other. Personally, I think I'd be happiest with that last one, because I've been getting the feeling that the world of Agents of SHIELD is just too small--which led me to the idea that Fury said he was giving the whole thing over, but maybe he was just keeping Coulson busy, or he was setting him and his team up for some other purpose than actually rebuilding shield. Also? Two Shields totally means an army of secret agents for both sides of Civil War, and I don't know why I didn't think of that sooner! Good job, story-dudes at the MCU!

Let's also talk about: How great it is that Fitz and Simmons sort of came together again because of gossip, how that gossip was about May and her hunky ex husband, and how May is totally Skye's mom, regardless of genetics. And how Coulson is totally her dad and uses his tender-disbelief voice for her more than for anyone else. And how Mac is cracking up. And how Skye's actual dad is not the top dude in this storyline anymore--that Nightcrawler-powered mofo is!

There is so much stuff going on in this show. I can't wait to see how it pans out--because this season will be wrapping up right around when Ultron comes out, and it's had a whole season to work on its tie-ins, rather than an awkwardly-constructed thing like with Thor2.

Forever - Rerun and a sadface

WEDNESDAY 3-18

Arrow - 3x16 "The Offer"

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Let's talk about: How Ollie is FINALLY getting that he's been acting like an idiot all season and how upset everyone is about it and how bad it makes him feel??? Like, you all know I'm a shipper-supreme. You all know I want Oliver and Felicity to be Olicity for all time. But right now? Right now she's trying to do right by herself and he's seeing how that hurts and she's making sure he's very clear that it's because of HIM AND HIS DUMB CHOICES, and I'm LOVING IT. I'm so loving it. I want him to really, really feel it, because I'm so sick of this current emotional tone where he just goes around pissing everyone off and pushing them away and they just have to take it. Consequences! Yay!

Let's also talk about: How happy I am that he's decided NOT to take up Ra's on that offer, and how it's given him the purpose he should have had and lost since the beginning of the season. I'm not pleased that Ra's is all "nope, daughter, you don't get it" and I hope that means she goes after him herself--especially since he's now decided to defame Ollie and she's sort of moving onto Ollie's side. That whole plot development, I'm like "why?" I've been like that since a major Batman villain showed up instead of one of Ollie's own, and made everyone make really stupid circular choices about everything for EPISODES, but now it's shifted from a feeling of "why this dude?' to "is he, like, annoyed that Ollie has friends and he doesn't?"

But! They FINALLY admitted that the Lazarus Pit is a thing, and maybe that's how they get Sara back for that spinoff they're building, and if Nyssa goes off the deep end with revenge, maybe that's how we can get Talia?


THURSDAY 3-19

Elementary - Rerun, and I'm getting sick of it

Backstrom - Rerunnnnnsssssss

And because they're all reruns...

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Lets talk about: All the Bucky Feels! It's a very exciting movie, but it's also a really sad movie--Steve sees his Peggy failing, then Bucky comes back and doesn't know him, and the cute girl nextdoor isn't what she seems, and then Shield wasn't what it seems. It's a lot of change and sadness and conflict and crumbling reality.

FRIDAY 3-20

12 Monkeys - 1x10 "Divine Move"

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Let's talk about: EVERYONE BEING AT ODDS and how much that hurts me (which is actually proof of how invested I am / how good the drama is). Cole and Cassie together again--but only for a minute, really, and not long enough for them to get their groove back after they each witnessed the others' death. Cole went straight from Cassie dying in his arms to Cassie alive before him, but when he got there, it had been long enough since she sent him to his death that she'd resumed that interrupted relationship with Aaron, so he was there, pointing out how much she died because of him and missing that she also lived entirely because of him. As for Cassie, she mourned him for a week before she even sent him off to die, and then for more weeks before going to verify that he did, and you could tell she missed him, but missing him also meant that they did right, so having him back, that joy comes with the weight of knowing that the worst thing that ever happened to her is still going on--so that must be rough and conflict-making. She's acting happy with Aaron, planning a future they didn't think they'd have, but in the same episode, she's drinking heavily again like she did when Cole was missing for two years in the pilot; this is a bad few weeks for Cassie. And she knows he's dying and seems to be taking it personally. As she probably should. What with him saying a few episodes ago that he'd tell her anything, but not telling her that.

Ack, my heart.

Meanwhile, Ramse is totally off the Rez, and he desperately wants to save his kid, but desperation only gets him a whole lot of crazy, and he winds up being the Evil Leaper--because, I mean, he's entirely untested, he's only had one dose of that serum and no preparation, and timetravel tears you apart from the inside out when he was already close to nuts, so...basically he's probably totally off his rocker now.

And then there's Aaron, probably making deals with who is probably the devil--unless the 12 Monkeys or the Druzhe (or however) turn out to not actually be the villains in this story, which they could since everyone knows next to nothing about what everyone else is doing...And there's Cassie still having red-forest-flashbacks framed so that it looks like Cole hadn't told her about how he has to find said red forest, and so she looks like she thinks she's going off her nut.

I just really want everyone to get back on one page and to unify against the baddies, but there are no clear baddies, and we're very close to a final battle, and I just feel like everything is going to get worse. My solace is that we definitely have a second season (whoo!), and maybe the first or second episode out of the gate will have a pause for emotional healing--for those characters, but also for us!

Right now, everyone is fighting to save one person--Cole is saving Cassie, Aaron is saving Cassie, Ramse is saving his kid, Jones is saving hers--and Future!Jennifer says there are no straight lines. I think they need to be willing to sacrifice their one thing to make other things work, which is why Cassie, who wants to save the world even if she dies again, is the one who seems to be the key. I'm hoping it doesn't mean that she HAS to die to make things work, since her getting killed made it all worse, but that her insistence that they have to let her risk that is what opens up new options. Because really, I think they're all going to have to work together to jump the groove and break out of the predestination paradox. Like, they need to stop doing that whole "I can't tell you because you haven't gotten there yet" thing, because KNOWING about those things would let them avoid previous-future failures in their plans! If Cassie had said something more before sending Cole to Chechnya, how differently could it have gone? If Older!Cassie had told Cole about what happened in those two years, what could he be saving time and lives on now?

SATURDAY 3-21

SNL - Rerunnnnnn

SUNDAY 3-22

The Walking Dead - 5x15 "Try"

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Let's talk about: How everything is going to hell in a slow and quiet way instead of all at once this time? Like, Alexandria could be a great place, but we still know very little about the people there other than that they have no idea what they're doing, and even less about their actual history as a community. So far, they're so messed up: the kids patrolling the wall who play games with Walkers and get each other killed. The boss lady who says it's okay that one of the very few people that exist in that community is an abusive drunk because he also happens to be their only doctor. The still-creepy normalness of Alexandria when they're all severely traumatized, and there are more and more Walkers coming up on them every day, and all those severed limbs and carved-headed torsos all over, that no one seems particularly alarmed about. Who tied up that lady? Who's messing with the Walkers?

And then, of course, we have Rick who seems about to go right off the rails. I loved that Michonne was just like "STFU, Rick" and clocked him across the back of the head before he did something that started a war or got them all thrown out in the wilds again. She's the only one who seems to really be handling this the right way--Alexandria could be safe, if they make it safe and keep it safe and aren't the danger themselves.

And Carl! He has a crush on Enid, who has been out in the world like he has and sees, too, at least a little, how pampered these people are. And who the internet seems to think is a spy for a rival faction. We'll see next week, I guess!

The Talking Dead - 4x15

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Let's talk about: How much I love when Yvette Nicole Brown is on with her notes and her very astute observations! Good points she made this time:

• Rick seems to be trying to rebuild a family that he lost, and seems to be unaware that that's what he's doing
• Gabriel is "not made for this world" and is not at all acting like a man of faith, and it's gonna get him dead
• Carol is playing it close to the chest (which seems to pay off next week), while Rick is just waving all his cards all over the place--and has too many of them for it to be a clean draw

This show is the best thing to happen to The Walking Dead--it literally lets us talk through the trauma and outrage and brief moments of happiness, and to get through the plot tangles and try to understand what is sometimes a brutal and confusing show, and it's amazing.

So there are entirely too many reruns in March, which is annoying, since I feel like we only just got our TV back. Note to networks, esp our local: NOT EVERYONE LIKES SPORTS! Like, schedule it better, networks! But I think some of my shows are coming back on next week, so maybe it won't have so many gaps in next post!

Captain America: The Winter Spoilers!

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This is so not a spoiler free blog, so if you haven't seen the movie yet 1) what the heck are you waiting for, 2) stop reading right now, and 3) if you're still reading, you've been warned and any spoileration is totes on you. And there's SO MUCH I want to talk about.

So! In whatever order it occurs to me!

They mentioned Steven Strange by name!
I'm one of the ones rooting SO HARD for a Doctor Strange movie. I haven't read a huge number of his comics, but I have loved the ones I have read, and I feel like he's off the wall enough that he'd be awesome on screen. Also, he wears the most ridiculous outfit in the comics, and I have a burning need to see how they make it less dumb but still look like him.

He's on the list, too, which means he could become of threat to evil-Shield, and that's already making his super-interesting. Also on that list? The Hulk. Which gives awesome nods toward the idea that sooner or later the avengers are gonna have to take Hulk down--and with Tony and Bruce being Science Bros, that's gonna be HARD.

SHEILD IS DOWN!
And it is spectacular! Coulson and Co have been chasing the edges of this thing all season, and they really know more than Cap does at this point, even though Cap is the one who brought it down with his bare hands in one day. Or did he? Because he took out the main building, he exposed the leadership and the conspiracy, the destroyed the three deadly new weapons...but Shield is global, and Hydra has held out for ages, so who knows what's still around and how they'll react?

I smell a Cap 3 in the works already, even though it'll literally be, like, three or four years before there's a gap in the schedule for it.

Cap is so cute.
Through the whole thing. Not as awkward and naive as he was before, but still sweet and a little unsure and adorable whenever he doesn't have to destroy something large with his bare hands because he's been hanging out with Hulk and picked up some destructo-power. I mean, that plane? Pure Hulk Smash. But he maintains his integrity, and he has cool one-liners, and he wrestles with the weight of who and what he is and where he finds himself--and he still won't ask a girl out because maybe she'll say yes, and he jokes with the other old soldiers, and he remembers things without getting mopey over them.

I just want to squish his face. That notebook of stuff to get to know alone qualifies for a face-squishing.

Bucky!
I mean, I knew who the Winter Soldier was about the moment they told us the name of this story, but still. There wasn't a lot of non-mind-controlled stuff with him, but the dude played what he had really well--the fierce brainstorming, the conflict, the resistance when it started coming back. And in the meantime, he was about the most badass single villain we've seen (who wasn't Loki, who is only mostly a villain anyway).

Speaking of, he's sort of in a Loki-adjacent relationship--brother/brother-like that went bad and now needs to be redeemed. Though, not being a god of chaos and mischief, I bet it'll go better in the end for him. I'm SO looking forward for Cap 3 and seeing how he does as a free agent in search of meaning and memories, while also sort of being where Cap was in Avengers, time-wise, since he was active through the last 70 years, but wasn't aware of it and so has to adapt now.

Maria Hill continues to kick ass!
She is such a great example of a woman in a man's world who can hold her own without being exactly the same as a dude. She's still a lady. She cares about things in a womanly way. But she will totally kill you if you get in her way while she's busy being loyal as a second in command to someone who went rogue and no one knows why. Beautiful.

Fury is so much more badass than we even thought.
Action!Fury is something I wanted to see before, not just BehindTheScenesInCharge!Fury. This time, we got it in spades, and it was great. Also, I'm pretty sure that zappy-carvy thing was actually a lightsabre. Just saying.

We also got emotions other than annoyance and anger, we got compromise, we got real human interaction (he had a grandpa? he didn't just appear whole and angry?). And we got him facing down the one person who he thought he could trust the most, and finding out that the one he thought he was in control of was actually the one he needed to trust. That's a lot of emotional stuff going on for our Fury.

Agent 13!
Her name is Sharon! Maybe Sharon Carter, relative of Peggy, cannon girlfriend (at some point) of Cap? Even if she's someone else entirely, she was believable as a guarded but friendly neighbor, as a badass chick in the ranks, and as a brave rebel when things went south. She survived the climax, she moved on, and she's still there when the movie ends, so I'm hoping for Big Things in Cap 3 for her!

Falcon is so neat.
Saucy, irreverent, super-capable, brave, caring, very human, and still also very much a super hero in his own right. I hope he gets his wings back. I hope he is there in Cap 3. I hope he gets a movie of his own! I hope he gets to meet Rhodey and they can talk about how annoying it can be, being the sidekick when you're super capable on your own.

Someone write that fic for me.

The tag! The Twins! Loki's staff!

Holy crapballs, that was an awesome tag! Not only did we get straight-up Nazis still doing whatever stuff they do, telling us that we still have Hydra, that it didn't entirely merge with Shield, but we got nefarious studies done on Loki's staff, and THEN we got QUICKSILVER AND SCARLET WITCH! They're supers who were apparently made, rather than born, and so far they're as separate from the quandary that is Magneto-belongs-to-another-studio-that-is-currently-using-him--but they're there! And they're nuts. And they're likely to be villains.

The second tag, while informative, really could have been Coulson showing up and telling Cap "I'm alive, I'm doing what you're doing, and I'm with you", but I guess that was too much to ask, what with the fact of his show and all.

Will Loki want his staff back? Is it Asgardian or Chitauri or Other or a merge, and what will the mean old Nazis do with it? What have they already done with it? How much of what they did with it was involved with the whole Insight thing? Does it have anything to do with The Twins?

Super-spy-ness x 1000000!
Which is exactly what a movie set in Shield that finds out no one can be trusted should be! It's also what I wanted Agents of Shield to be all along, so maybe now that can happen--what with the last ep happening concurrently, as far as I could tell*, and Coulson basically doing the same thing Cap is doing, though from the other direction.

Weird targeting system ready to take out twenty million potentially awesome new characters!
This was amazing! A dead Nazi scientist who survived his own collapse by duplicating his mind on fifty thousand reel-to-reel computers, came up with an algorithm that used modern documented and surveillance technology to study people's pasts and predict and manipulate their futures**, to identify people who will later be a problem for Hydra, and take them out now! It's a stunningly complex and super-techy-cool idea to be the heart of the conspiracy (as far as we know), and I really hope that Zola had backups of himself. Because he was totally not worried about that bunker-buster that took him out, and he isn't yet a screen in a big thug-belly yet.

And now there's a list! A list orders of magnitude bigger than the one that Coulson was working off of, though potentially from the same place, or working on the same ideas. A list of people who could become heroes and villains and mega hackers and whatever else might mess up Hydra's plans, and that is so evocative.

Natasha and Steve flirting!
So cute. Mostly because Steve was like "um, what?" and Nat was like "I'mma just gonna mess with you some more". Also because I read a lot of Steve-tasha fanfic after the Avengers and all of it was not at all like the actuality of them flirting. It was adorable, without ever really becoming a thing, and her trying to set him up with someone while simultaneously flirting with him, while also saving the world? So much fun.

Wonder where Clint was?
My bro read an article that says he was missing for a reason and that we'll find out what that reason is eventually***, but what made me think of it was that when they were in the middle of Questioning All The Loyalties, he wasn't even mentioned. Not even by Nat, who is his closest friend, as far as I can tell, who wouldn't question him, and certainly not in any way that she'd have to defend him.

And now I'm super curious about that.

Nat just in general.
I really like the idea that he trusts her, that he can see through the layers of snark and artifice and know that she's trustworthy, and that it's surprising to her, since she basically just has Clint and Fury and not much else in her life, when the Avengers aren't around.

AND! She got to use her zappy things, she got to be a total badass, she got a little sliver of backstory, and a whole lot of exposure that hasn't fallen out yet, and she was loyal even when no one else was. She was open and sweet and killer and dangerous and hackerific and self-sacrificing and basically just wonderful through the whole movie.

Not all the avengers were on that lost tho.
I don't remember exactly, but it was just Hulk, I think. Tony has been helping Shield with their tech****, Cap, Widow and Hawkeye work for them, Thor is off the grid because he's off world most of the time, which means that the one with the most power in the team is the one that's most exposed if this List goes wonky and someone starts tracking down those people for some reason.

And now I want that to happen. And I want Bruce to have to find and team up with other people who WERE on that List, and form his own team to survive the fallout of Shield being torn up and exposed--because you know the various pockets of crazy there are now going to go off on their own, trying to do whatever they were meant to do, but in their own way.

Poor old Peggy!
She was a heartbreaker--and then she broke my heart. I love that Steve found her. I love that he visited her and held her hand and treated her like she was still the young lady he knew, that he could have loved. I love that he stayed with Shield because she helped found it.

What if when they reassemble the Avengers, they just all bring all these new people with them, and they're like "what, he's cool."
I mean, Tony has Rhodey, who is a hero in his own right, and Pepper who may or may not have an adapted form of Extremis***** and who has worn the suit and could use it (and did, in the comic, at some point); Cap has Falcon and maybe Bucky if he can get him back; Clint and Nat have each other, and maybe Agent 13, and almost definitely Hill; Thor has Selvig and Jane and Darcy and Ian-the-intern; Hulk has Betty, maybe, and probably someone else. Who knows what the connection with Guardians will be, but Antman was actually a member in the comics and comes with his own team and allies.

So what if they just all join up in, like, Avengers 3? What if what we're headed for is the mega-team the comics has, with dozens of people who can answer any call, even several at a time?

That'd be awesome, that's what.


So what do you want to talk about from Cap 2? I'm up for any and all discussions!


NOTES:
*Jemma went to the Triskellion without Fitz and was cut off because something was happening, and they don't know about all this yet because they were dealing with their own something, which hasn't fallen out yet. Which means maybe Simmons can have something to do with the recovery and some first hand info about what happened there to bring back to Coulson and Co, and they can start lacing all the disconnected facts they've been chasing together.
**Imma call it that The Clairvoyant is part of the Algorithm or reads it, and that's how he Knows Stuff and also how no one ever sees him. Also that Coulson was right about Pusher From X-Files not being the actual one.
***I hope in a short. If not, I hope it means he's getting his own movie set up and they just haven't announced it yet.
****And he is going to be so pissed when he finds out they were The Enemy All Along, and that they've been using his tech for Evil when he specifically and explicitly stopped doing that himself.
*****I'm going to keep saying she does, and that she's living with it and learning to use it so she's not a helpless bystander to Tony's adventures anymore, and that she just hasn't been called on to save the world yet, until such time as cannon proves me wrong. And maybe even after that, depending.
Also, speaking of that, the wrap-up stuff at the ends of the movies isn't instant; it takes a while to take a widget out of your chest, scavenge your old collapsed mansion and fix your girlfriend; it takes a while for Hill and 13 to get new jobs; it takes a while for Thor to clean up the mess and come back to Jane. So those parts could be concurrent, and that's why they don't mention each other--they might not know about each other yet, since they're all working it out for themselves, still. I think I'm very interested in seeing how the Official Timeline***** is going to look by the time Ultron happens...
******Also this one: http://www.slashfilm.com/infographic-marvel-movie-universe-timeline/