Have we considered that Thor speaks Groot well enough that Rocket comments on it. Is it possible that Groot’s name in Groot means “tree”? Possibly the guardians constantly calling him Groot made it a name - like if my cat became sentient, I’d start answering to Hooman as my name.

(Says the NyQuil)

I suspect that’s very likely, because I’m 99% sure Thor doesn’t actually “speak Groot” and was absolutely fucking with them. I know the Allspeak hasn’t ever been specifically mentioned in the movies, but it makes way more sense than Thor randomly knowing that. 

So if Groot actually means tree, then Thor with the Allspeak would just be hearing/saying the same word. Because everything translates for him. Further evidence, Eitri also called Groot Tree. 

avengers: infinity war + last words

An underrated scene I don’t see a lot of people talking about is the Thor and Gamora scene when he’s told Gamora is Thanos’ daughter. The Guardians are worried Thor is about to release some misdirected blame on Gamora. We know better that Thor gets families. When he pats her shoulder and says, “Families are complicated,” we know he’s being 100% sincere.

He doesn’t know her story. He doesn’t know Thanos murdered half of her people, mother included, and indoctrinated her onto his side. He gets she probably didn’t ask to have a genocidal conquerer for a father. Yeah, Thor is the big guy of the Avengers, but he’s also an intelligent and empathic person and I live for scenes like that.

Oscar Isaac - Fare Thee Well [ Inside Llewyn Davis ] 

Stephanie Beatriz on Rosa coming out (x)

This is so so important and beautiful. And important. And beautiful.

Rogue One

I was all hyped up and ready to absolutely love Rogue One, with what a great response it got on Tumblr and in general, which is I think why I’m so mad at it.

Spoilers are in here, if you haven’t seen Rogue One this is not the post for you.

I will preface this by saying that I enjoyed a solid 80% of what was in the film, it had good continuity and I saw the lengths that they went to in order to make this film tie in with the other Star Wars movies. The plot was actually pretty decent, not too much and not too little, and while I thought that they certainly could have used a lot more character development and ‘quiet’ scenes like we get in the Original Trilogy (one of the factors that I think make them such strong films) it was leaps and bounds better than the prequels. The acting was good, and outside of the palm trees it visually looked like a Star Wars movie (something that the prequels really lacked and they’ve worked hard to recover)

But that said.

What is the freaking point if every one dies.

Like, I get it- I get that it’s supposed to be about a ‘greater purpose’ and something ‘bigger than you’, I understand the thought process in a critical sense, but to me as a storyteller it just seems cruel, and mean spirited.

When I look at a story and pick it apart I’m not trying to be mean, I’m trying to make it better. Make it the best that it CAN be. And best is going to be subjective, so I understand some people will even enjoy that they all died because to them it might prove the point more strongly, that you should believe in your cause enough to give up your life etc. 

My counterpoint to that would be that this is not supposed to be a lesson in that sense; we already have seen the sacrifice as the characters we’ve walked through begin to die, K9 first and then Bohdi and the other two fellas I can’t remember the names of; we see many of the rebels dying to get this cause through, her father dies, we’ve ALREADY SEEN and felt the sacrifice. 

Outside of just making the viewers feel even more sad and demoralized at the end of your story, what purpose does it really serve to kill your main character? It didn’t improve the story in any way and I’ve already seen these people give up everything to be at this point, and I don’t even really mind if they die five minutes after they leave the planet; but to end your story with “Rocks fall and everyone dies” just feels really like you don’t care about the viewer’s emotional experience at all at the end of the film. That you’re OK with people being incredibly disheartened and sad even though the whole message of your film is trying to portray hope. It’s like… Yeah, you can paint a painting about the rainbow with black and white if you really want, but is that the best way to actually convey a rainbow? To make someone FEEL a rainbow? 

You’re telling me to hope against all odds, but leaving me feeling hopeless.

And to me that’s a failure of storytelling.

Huh, it’s interesting to see this reaction because there is nothing I hate more than an “everyone dies” ending 99.9% of the time, but I really felt this was an exception. In most cases where writers choose that ending, it does seem pointless and hopeless, but this didn’t feel that way to me. It’s an emotional thing, so I won’t even try to pretend I have an argument for why this ending “should” feel hopeful. People feel how they feel. But it felt that way to me. 

It also left me emotionally destroyed and I’m not sure when I’ll be ready to see it again. But I didn’t feel ... cheated? I guess? I didn’t feel like the ending took away from what the rest of the movie was doing. Which is how I often feel with a choice like that. 

That said I would have been REAL MAD AT an ending where everyone dies except Jyn and Cassian. That I think would feel cheap to me. Like “we’re going to kill enough characters that it hurts, but we’ll throw you a bone and let the ‘real heroes’ get out alive.” That would have made me feel like the other main characters that we got to know and love didn’t matter, but somehow these two did. 

I pretty much knew everyone was going to die when they killed more than one of our main group because of how wrong it would feel to leave a token survivor or two after that. 

I think a key distinction for me here is that nobody died pointlessly. Nobody got caught by stray blaster fire. There was no gotcha moment where you think someone’s going to live at the end and then they get suddenly killed for shock value. Every single one of them died doing something to help complete their mission. Every action was vital. Without any one of them choosing to place the mission over their own safety, the plan would have failed. Maybe that’s what makes it feel more hopeful to me. 

And of course those are all storytelling choices. They could easily have written a plot where everyone was able to get out alive. So I guess it’s just about how you feel about those choices. 

Anyway, whatever whatever, fiction is subjective etc. Just wanted to ramble a bit as someone who HATES HATES HATES everyone dies stories but absolutely loved this. 

…liar.

Someone probably beat me to the punch and made a post like this already, but honestly, I just had talk about this scene.

I’m sure all of you remember the infamous bathroom scene. This new flashback from episode 12 puts things into a different perspective. 

Here Yuri is, watching Yuuri’s past GPF performance. He’s trying his best to look disinterested yet you can tell he’s clearly interested. He even goes as far to admit that Yuuri’s step sequence grabbed his attention. And when he mentions the failed jumps he sounds almost…disappointed.

He isn’t making fun of him for messing up his jumps. He wants to see Yuuri be able to succeed and successfully complete a program.

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OKAY BUT THIS

IS SO IMPORTANT. LOOK AT YURIO’S FACE. HE IS SCARED. HE IS UPSET THAT YUURI IS RETIRING. HE IS SO WORRIED AND THAT IS BECAUSE YURIO

HAS ALWAYS

BEEN A FAN

OF KATSUKI YUURI. AND THIS

WAS HIS TWISTED TEEN WAY OF TELLING HIM TO NOT GIVE UP AND TO JUST KEEP SKATING

BUT THAT WAY DOESNT WORK FOR YUURI SO YURIO TRIES A NEW APPROACH. THE LOOK AT ME, DON’T YOU WANT TO BEAT ME? WAY

YURIO WANTS YUURI TO KEEP SKATING AND TO KEEP INSPIRING HIMSELF AND OTHERS

YURIO WANTS TO KEEP WATCHING YUURI SKATE AND IMPROVE AND I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

Yuri and Victor’s pair skate at the end of Yuri!!! On Ice Season 1 was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen…ENJOY~

“I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me..”

Victor jumping together with Yuuri is the cutest thing