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[a reader @davedevadave]

i guess you can say that i hate women (who can't properly articulate meanings and intentions and who are a hypocrite)

cth: baru kemarin2 dirilis fitur "edit image" di twitter, dinasehatin org utk berhati2, eh, cewe2 malah kepanasan. org ngomong A, yg didengar Z

LOL

[a reader @davedevadave]

"lock the ending first, then build all episodes to reach it" should be accompanied with "contain it within 1 season or however long you're certainly allowed" because otherwise you'll have 1899

it unfortunately ends up in a permanent limbo

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Before they filmed a single scene of Dark, the two people who made it already knew how the whole story ended, three seasons away. They wrote the ending first and spent 26 episodes building back to it. Nothing feels like filler because almost nothing was invented along the way.

The show even runs on a single number: 33. Every time it jumps to a new year, it jumps exactly 33, from 1953 to 1986 to 2019 to 2052. The writers set that clock in the first hour and never broke it.

One man, Baran bo Odar, directed all 26 episodes, and his partner Jantje Friese has a writing credit on every one. A single director and one lead writer across a whole show is rare at this scale, and a big reason it never loses its grip. The story follows 72 characters across six different time periods. The same character is often played by three different actors at three different ages, picked to look like one face aging over a lifetime. Names get passed down the family tree on purpose, so you are never quite sure who is whose parent. The creators always knew where it had to end. They just kept moving the pieces until it got there.

The same care went into the look. The crew spent six months in the forests near Berlin through winter, in real cold and near-constant rain, so the cast stayed wet and shivering for most of it. They shot on the Alexa 65, a top-end movie camera usually saved for big films, because it can capture near-total darkness and still hold detail in the shadows, so the picture stays pitch black without becoming a muddy smear. The cave scenes were filmed in an actual cave in central Germany. In a town painted almost entirely grey, a single yellow raincoat became the one spot of real color your eye could lock onto in any era.

The final season went further still. To build a mirror version of the world, the crew flipped every set, so staircases curved the other way and doors moved to the opposite wall, and they reprinted the books on the shelves so the spines read backward. Then they had the actors do it all left-handed, reaching for handles with the wrong hand, which the director admitted was strange and clumsy to shoot.

They wrapped just before the pandemic and dropped the finale on June 27, 2020, the exact day the world ends inside the story. The reviews matched the ambition. Season two sits at a perfect 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, the first and third at 90 and 97, and the series holds an 8.7 out of 10 on IMDb from more than half a million people. That unbroken wall of green in the screenshot comes from one choice made before filming began: lock the ending first, then build all 26 episodes to reach it.

[a reader @davedevadave]

@formidkurara 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[a reader @davedevadave]

you can't assume everyone would always think of loss, especially when you're celebrating your brother's birthday lol

[𝖎𝖘𝖔𝖑 ᜆᜓᜃᜓ🫀🦎 @ArtukoLatte]

Does no one realize the loss reference did i arrange the chicken wrong

[西春っ！Girls @nishi_haru02]

『春夏秋冬代行者』、今期アニメも終盤だが無限にテロリストが現れるので「テロリストの危険性を改めて認識させるアニメーション」「全ての描写に挟まるテロリスト」と襲撃アニメという新ジャンルをアニメ界に残そうしている。

[a reader @davedevadave]

time for watching "agents of four seasons" episode — oh.. wrong episode. wrong anime, in fact

this is quite embarrassing, isn't it?
@Crunchyroll

[a reader @davedevadave]

@beetlemoses seriously? 🤣

[a reader @davedevadave]

@AllThings_Ichi filth majik

["Guru Larry" Bundy Jr @LarryBundyJr]

One of life's eternal questions...

[a reader @davedevadave]

and as some replies and QTs say, some (or a lot of?) people may unironically think and believe that "they surely enjoy being raped. look at their reactions. they're not rejecting at all" so, yeah

[a reader @davedevadave]

he was talking to a demon who UNIRONICALLY believes that rape brings pleasure. whether it's pleasure for the rapist or the raped is unclear, and it's not like she cares about that at all, bc it's ultimately a corruption attempt

hence, "captain obvious"

[DFJ👟 | Manga Arc @DemFakeJayz]

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[a reader @davedevadave]

if it's too hard for you to understand, you can think of it like "he was reprimanding a moron about something so blatantly obviously"

[a reader @davedevadave]

on second thought, maybe i ought to rephrase it

* none of it indicates "misogyny" or "patriarchy" or "gender dynamics" or anything related to it, much less a warrant of any relation to stuff like "COCSA"

[a reader @davedevadave]

the things are

1. his character arc has been basically about "lack of accommodation" and "distrust towards adults." none of it indicates "sexual assault" whatsoever. that'd make this a stretch

afaik this is the only scene about how society would shape him.

[tutu 🩷💜💙🌈 @tu_tubola]

and so, when coco goes against him, he responds the way other witch men responded to similar defiance from women: using power. he doesn't understand why coco is upset bc, to him, this is j how female/male relationships work. and i think it's absolutely an allegory for cocsa+

[a reader @davedevadave]

even more so in tartah's plotline. there are rather some, in personal interpretations

that's kinda like pulling out luluci's character arc and applying it on and as tartah's character arc, when he already has his own

[a reader @davedevadave]

i actually wondered about "what will happen with the audience who think of/buy the allegory, if/when coco decides to trust in tartah in the future (since that'd essentially undermine the COCSA allegory)?" but, well, never mind

[a reader @davedevadave]

"she cannot trust him anymore" okay, this does make me wonder, what will happen if, in the future chapters, when she meets tartah, she decides to trust him again anyway?

considering that the violation here was forced reveal of qifrey's "secret," not coco's own

[a reader @davedevadave]

see, this makes it even less likely that he adopts patriarchal view whatsoever in witch society

[a reader @davedevadave]

this is more to "ableist" than "patriarchal." the chances of him learning that kind of relationship with women, in that kind of society (who rather talk about "poor kid. he can't be a witch that way"), is honestly low. granted, we hardly knew to be exact how he grew up