Adam Driver talking about Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi on NBC’s Sunday Today

The little smile in his eyes and on his face when he says “i hope they will” <3

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | The Redemption of Ben Solo

there is nothing worse than killing off a highly traumatised character right when they have found their happy ending they had spent so long trying to reach. especially when their death was pointless and out of their control. the cruelest most evil thing i think

Celeborn, finding out his wife is having an emotional affair with the Witch King of Angmar:

Celeborn, finding out his wife is having an emotional affair with SAURON:

remember to do your part by giving Amazon’s Rings of Power show the Morbius treatment

this is one post i actually wouldn’t be mad about it blowing up. i want as many people in on this Morb as possible. i’ll suffer the notes.

in response to your tags, basically, a while back, Amazon the soulless megacorp acquired the rights to some portion of Tolkien’s Middle Earth lore. As someone more heavily in the LotR online fan circles, we all immediately knew it would be terrible and hold no respect for the source material, by dint of it being Amazon.

And true tof form, they decided to do the worst possible low effort job of making a show out of it. Grave mistakes include adding sexual content (very not-Tolkien), rewriting characters just cause they feel like it (turning an elegant, powerful sorceress into a warrior and a wise leader into an “ambitious” go getter), none of the male elves have long hair (and hair is a HUGE part of Elvish culture), party city looking costumes, general low effort all around, and egregious inaccuracies a la Amazon the Soulless Corporation essentially just trying to make Tolkien’s work more palatable for Game of Thrones fans rather than putting effort into just letting it be what LotR fans actually like about it.

Each new promo material makes it worse and worse, and more obvious that no one making it cares at all, hence why we want the Morb treatment to make it flop and show Amazon the fans won’t stand for them trying to just GoT-ify other beloved properties and stray so far from the source material when they could make something original instead

Holy crap, that sounds awful! Also just like something Amazon would do. I’m so sorry. I will happily spread your message to my followers. 

There’s also the part about how they started filming it in New Zealand because, you know, Middle Earth is kinda a cottage industry there thanks to the films? A major driver of jobs, tourism, and popular culture which New Zealanders have proudly embraced as a little piece of their national identity?

But then extremely seasoned stunt actors kept complaining about unsafe work practices during the filming of Rings, which they considered particularly egregious on that kind of budget. Their complaints were ignored. There were multiple serious injuries, some requiring surgery. Amazon failed to report these incidents to New Zealand’s WorkSafe program as required by law.

Finally, it pulled out of filming in New Zealand altogether, a costly move for both Amazon and New Zealand, and relocated the production to the UK where worker safety rules are far more lax.

If you ever thought they were taking it seriously as Tolkien work, the fact they punted their Tolkien consultant and specialist says a great deal. They want to have a new GoT. They don’t care what that means.

Not only did they dump Tom Shippey when he pointed out major inaccuracies and contradictions of the core principles Tolkien founded his work on, they reached out to Peter Jackson to ask if he would help and when he requested to see some scripts before he agreed, they ghosted him and never sent him anything.

It’s cheap and generic and fundamentally contrary to everything that made Tolkien‘s work so beloved. They paid $1 billion for the rights and a built-in fanbase and they are actively working not to be faithful to the property they purchased or to the fans that would have supported them endlessly if it had been a good adaptation.

The Jackson trilogy isn’t a 100% faithful adaptation of everything in the books, but Jackson consciously made efforts not to inject his own opinions, world views, or agenda into the films. He worked really hard to try to do justice to Tolkien‘s vision and intent. That is clearly not even remotely what Amazon is trying to do and it deserves to fail because it’s an abomination.

Entire franchises have been retroactively damaged by careless, incompetent, or deliberately malicious writers. Entertainment driven by agenda isn't entertainment because it's not meant to entertain; it's meant to make people agree. Stop doing this! You can send a message and still do justice to your characters and the worlds they live in, but this takes subtlety and redrafting, care and time. 

Please care about the stories you have stewardship over! Write your own story if what you want to put on screen isn’t faithful to what you are supposedly adapting. Stop taking stories and characters we love and trying to squish them into whatever mold you want them to fit into. Stop spitting on fans and creators; if you don’t intend to do a story justice‚ don’t touch it!

Tl;dr - it’s Morbin’ time!

That's where that goes.

Hayden Christensen and Ewan Mcgregor realizing their trilogy isn’t the worst star wars trilogy anymore

The sequel trilogy sucks.

character development in 200 episodes

this will never not be funny

except this isn’t character development. this is the writers being extremely callous about one of the most tragic events in the Winchesters’ lives. this is the writers forgetting that they are writing up beat songs in a musical about a woman burning on the ceiling and having that woman’s son nod along to it. tbh, I think that’s pretty messed up. that ain’t character development. that’s carelessness on the writers’ part.

Ben Browder as the Sovereign Admiral, in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2 

i know we have said this 1 million times before but how does a character as psychologically complex as dean winchester exist on a cw show…how does a character like that exist anywhere besides a dostoevsky novel. his delicacy literally makes me feel like i’m shattering into pieces

#he was an accident #a freak of nature #i’ll give some credit to kripke but most of the credit should go to jensen #he’s the one who fell in love with dean and wanted to give him the world - @laurelwinchester

That’s not even a lie, Kripke gave an interview where he specifically said it was what Jensen Ackles brought out in his potrayal of Dean Winchester that started to inspire their writing of the character.  He specially mentioned how he brought to life the “screwed to hell psyche” that would inform that kind of character.  It was something they didn’t expect at all. This isn’t the original one, which was done about  mid-way through Season 1, but he saying something similar here in this 2008 interview.(Shame the current writers decided to make sure they erased that and do their damnedest to bring Dean back the stereotype he never really ended up being in the first place)

“For Dean, we were looking for Han Solo. We were looking for devil-may-care, charismatic, a little rough around the edges, a little edgy, says things that are not always the kindest thing, as long as they’re funny. And that was really what we started out with……

….For Jensen, the level of emotion and totally flawed, screwed-to-hell psyche that he brings to Dean, we really are enamored with. This idea that on the surface here’s this Han Solo devil-may-care persona, but when you really scratch beneath the surface, you see that anyone who has that persona has it because they are just so messed up, and that you would have to be so screwed up and damaged to be the person who always jumps first off a cliff.

So, he really brought Dean to life in a really three-dimensional way…

What I love is the way Jensen brought so much truth and importance to the role, I mean it’s in the writing that Dean has been through hell since childhood, but with Jensen he made sure all of that was put under the microscope.  Everything that Dean goes through matters, becomes important, because Jensen makes it so through his acting, it’s in Dean’s body language, in this facial expressions, as well as the way he expresses himself. Nothing is throw away, nothing is brushed off, instead everything Dean does via Jensen is laced with meaning, and it’s been like that right from the start. 

In the pilot episode, when Sam tells Dean he can go hunting alone, and Dean says back “yeah well, I don’t want to” that right there is when Dean is immediately more than just the cocky older brother. It’s a throw away line, and yet it’s quoted in posts all across tumblr and is a defining Dean moment thanks to Jensen’s delivery. It contains all these layers that were yet to be pulled back, it forces you to ask questions and want to know him more, what did he mean by that? What’s beneath the surface? 

It’s also why often the show was so frustrating, because all of this extra meaning was not always picked up by the writers, sp we were often left hanging, wanting more. 

For all his good looks and leading man qualities, Jensen didn’t just turn up and look pretty, instead he plays/played Dean as a character actor would, focusing heavily on the character inside and out, his mentality, his likes, dislikes, dress sense, everything and made him real. 

Dean Winchester ought to be a joy to write, if you are a capable writer, and in the early days you had the likes of Ben Edlund and Raelle Tucker just relishing the opportunity to explore the character, it’s a shame the current set of writers don’t see it that way at all.  

#there’s really just something About dean that elevates him    #he’s beyond all other characters on spn and most on other shows too and like. it makes no sense and it’s not intuitive but it Is    #and that’s why a show like spn is treating him so badly. they don’t know what the hell to do with a character like that    #the reason the writers hate him is that they dont understand him. and probably bc theyre all classist    #same goes for fandom    #and theyre doing their hardest to stomp out that Spark but they can’t really. they can try but they can’t erase the seasons    #that cemented him. made him. that made him so important to me and so many people    #the dean they created semi by accident and by jensen’s influence can’t be taken from us no matter how badly they’re writing now    #because we know him. because he’s touched us    #and yes this is turning sappy but i mean it    #this whole thing is depressing as hell but the comfort is that as the audience we can do what we like with what we’ve been given    #and what we’ve been Given is one of the most wonderful heart-wrenching and evocative characters IMHO of all time    #for all that he was intended to be kind of the opposite of that    #it’s poetic really    #i don’t think they could have created dean winchester if they had tried to    #text    #meta: dean    #(sort of. as usual) - @tenderdean

excellent tags! 

So much all of this. Even the “been through hell since childhood”, a lot of what they ended up writing in those early seasons I think was inspired by Jensen’s performance first. I don’t think they’d actually given that much thought to the details besides John Winchester was a kind of abusive hardass.  I think a lot of the Dean the caretaker they got from Jensen’s performance itself, even in the pilot you get a sense of it, at least I did, from the scene on the bridge.  he’s angry, he pushes Sam against the bridge, but then he’s very quiet and almost kind of sad when he talks and immediately I was hit with the idea that Dean is used to taking care of Sam and he understands and is sad that Sam didn’t know their mother, even though he is angry to hear her seemingly dismissed.  

The way Jensen would play some of those scenes about being Dad’s golden boy(as Sam called him I think in Bugs) or his response to Sam’s comment in uh…the one with Max, was it Nightmare?…Max’s father is abusive and at the end Sam says maybe there dad wasn’t so bad afterall, a little more tequila and a little less hunting they might have had Jack’s childhood and Dean gives this meaningful pause before he says “All things considered” and these things really gave the idea that it actually wasn’t a GOOD thing to be Dad’s “right hand man” so to speak and that maybe there were things that happened that Sam didn’t know about, because Dean protected him from them. That was just season one of course as things got more fleshed out there was even more of that.  

I don’t know if Jensen was actually thinking specifically of what may have happened but he obviously instinctively knew that these are the sort of experiences that made Dean, Dean.  Jensen knew how to give a lot of weight to what was NOT written and to fill silences with meaning.

Ben Browder

Stargate - The Ark of Truth