screamting reblogged
Watching the three body problem on Netflix finally and I keep tripping over just
>this is the most realistic thing ever! It's like I'm actually there! You can taste the dirt! You can smell people!!!
>cgi ass horse
on one hand I don't dislike clarence. on the other hand I cannot believe they made Big Shi a soft spoken "this job is about protecting people" kim possible ass middle aged wade.
Where is my bad cop! Where is jerkass with a point!!!
watching 3 body problem again
- i take it back. part of what was really poignant about Da Shi was that he was employed by the same government that imprisoned, tortured, and ruled Ye Wenjie's life, and his awareness of his complicity, his open willingness to threaten and disrepect even his own superiors gave him a strange position of being a 'bad' cop (the system itself also doesn't like him but he's made himself valuable) while also having the implicit threat of still being in and ultimately backed by a system we've already been told of the potential abuses of, and even though things are better than they were, the cloud of those actions hangs heavily throughout interactions. When you change the modern setting to England, the British government is not the same government that tormented Ye Wenjie, and Clarence is suddenly a good cop-- it becomes just another 'oh, but it was the chinese government that did all those things-- we, the british government/special forces, are simply doing our best to serve The Greater Good with a stiff upper lip.' Clarence does not occupy the same uncertain space as Da Shi, who is (and knows he is) a mechanism in a bigger, more dangerous machine: but he is also not necessarily trying to crush you. He may even warn you to get out of the way.
- they did not even let ye wenjie kill her husband she did NOT fuck that old man
- if they handwave a cure for pancreatic cancer i'm going to lose my shit