Can we have an ADHD character with the ability to freeze time because that would be literally the funniest and most epic thing like can you imagine??
“Need more time to finish my assignment? Not to worry!”*time freeze*
“oh no! I can’t find my car keys and I have to be at work in 2 minutes!” *Time freeze*
I mean like they would be unstoppable like I’m sorry ADHD who’s that?
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oh my god but imagine forgetting you froze time asdklfjd
or freezing time and the forgetting why
freezing time, forgetting why, unfreezing it, freezing it again because you thought you remembered, forgetting to unfreeze while you think about what you forgot,
Forgetting you have the ability to freeze time until after you miss your opportunity to freeze time
i think she made peace with the fact that she would never see them again, and that they didn’t treat her very well. i don’t think she’s obligated to make amends with them, even if steven later wanted to. and i think that’s fine.
i think it’s a good parallel to greg’s family situation – he had no plans to make amends with them, either. the main reason he does so with andy is because steven feels cut off from his own humanity. not for his own sake.
so i don’t think they wanted to – they were both happy with their found family.
rose wanted to confess her past to greg, to address her own guilt and finally be honest with someone. as he put it himself – she wanted to confess everything to him, and the word “confession” carries a strong connotation of guilt.
but that wasn’t because she felt bad for leaving the other diamonds behind. her guilt was focused on her own culpability – lying to the crystal gems, forging a new identity, and the horrible things she once tried to do to the earth. her moral compass was currently aligned with the other CGs – hurting earth, humans, and fellow crystal gems is bad, because you’re all on the same team.
“do you miss your home planet?” “no, never”.
there are two common ways to read this line: as honesty, or as denial.
and there are certainly things that point to her genuinely caring for the other diamonds – such as how strongly she reacted to bismuth’s plan, how they clearly used to be a family of sorts, how she drew them all smiling together, how quickly she answers in this scene, or how steven deduced that part of pink felt she deserved it when they locked her up.
but here’s the thing – caring for them in some form doesn’t necessarily mean she wants to make amends. she still hates homeworld, and the life she left behind, and she’s not willing to compromise on that.
hence becoming rose in the first place.
so i read the line above not as a lie or the truth, but as a spoken promise and resolution to the self – to never go back to that life again.
there are reasons to feel bad for rose. but running away from a broken home and finding a new family and identity… is what she chose. it helped her grow, and find hope and appreciation in all the beautiful and unique life around her.
moreover, rose never aspired for everyone to understand each other. not the way steven does. pink probably knew that the other diamonds had a reason for acting this way, and internalized that she had to set an example (hence making rose so “perfect”), but she rejects her role in their family. and she couldn’t uncouple that from who the diamonds were.
this didn’t make the other diamonds irredeemable, of course, and it certainly didn’t fix everything… but she didn’t want to see them again. and considering how they treated her, i don’t think i can really say she was wrong to feel that. even if they did love her.
and yknow, i think that’s a good consequence for the other diamonds to deal with – she left, because she wanted to. she’s gone, because she wanted to be.
i don’t think rose ultimately hated them as these one-dimensional villains in her life. they weren’t, and she didn’t. otherwise, i think she’d have an easier time stomaching bismuth’s plan (she could have still faked her own shattering, and then let bismuth go ham with the others if she truly hated them).
i don’t think she truly hated anyone, in the end. hence her spoken thesis in “lion 3″ on what she learned being that every life has its own unique experience, and that she can’t wait for steven to join them… but ultimately, making amends with the other diamonds wasn’t for her. even if it would be for him.
God that second article says that a mother of two was sentenced to prison for crossing the border with the intention of seaking asylum you know, something that isn’t fucking illegal????
We should go destroy some nazi scum AKA the rich fucks doing this whit
honestly tho that scene in the incredibles where mr. incredible sees the names of all the old super heroes that used to be his friends / that he knew from Back in the Day and how every one of them has been killed by syndrome is such a chilling scene for so many reasons
like for one, everyone he knew is dead at this point and has been killed on the same island he’s at now and two, its heartbreaking bc that means that almost every hero wanted to try out being a hero again despite the laws against it and wanted to try and help someone out and relive their glory days, only to be straight up murdered like fuck that scene is just so fuckin intense
I think the core of that scene for me is, when you’re insane like me and you go through it frame by frame, you can work out that Gazerbeam defeated the omnidroid twice – the only super we have enough information to confirm did so. I always wondered about his body in the cave, how and why he got the password… But it makes sense. This thing goes haywire, gets an upgrade, and goes haywire again? He must have been hella suspicious! So he does what any good superhero would do – tries to get to the bottom of what’s really happening on Nomanisan Island. During the process he’s clearly caught and wounded but has just enough time to get himself somewhere he can leave a final message, just praying that the next super to come along will find it and break the cycle.
Gazerbeam is my hero.
Incredibles 2 has a lot to live up to
All of this and…
I’m just realizing that the name is No Man Is An Island???? As in, everyone needs someone to depend on and connect with, no one is ever completely alone or should act all on their own.
Also Gazerbeam probably has X-ray vision–so he not only survived long enough to defeat the Omnidroid, he had the ability to see Syndrome entering the password.
Holy guacamole! I should pay more attention, I don’t think I got any of that stuff!
does anyone think about the fact that now mr. incredibles has to live w/ the fact that all his friends getting killed by syndrome could have been avoided if he had just been nicer to syndrome from the beginning
^I was thinking that from the beginning reading this and was shocked it went through so many comments before anyone pointed that out.
Syndrome waited until his machine was almost ready to go before asking Bob to come to Nomanisan. He also was surprised to find out that he was married to “Elastigirl”, which means he likely built his list and went through everyone else before finally deciding it was time to kill Bob.
Also, Syndrome literally didn’t find Bob until the start of the movie. He found Frozone and was stalking him. If Lucius hadn’t hung out with Bob, then Frozone was going to be the next one lured. There’s literally a scene of Mirage realizing that the guy in the car with her target is Mr. Incredible. He wasn’t going through the list, he was stalking and finding every former Super he could, luring them to the island, and then killing them, for the sake of improving his robot. Finding Bob was just a happy accident, and Syndromes obsession with him meant that upon finding a bot that could beat Bob, he figured he’d hit perfection and was ready.
and like, let’s be real here in the intro Buddy was crossing the line the second he showed up, Mr. Incredible mentioned he’d been very nice to Buddy, via signing a ridiculous amount of autographs and doing pictures and stuff, and that he was not going to risk a childs life as a sidekick (albeit in less words). Buddy literally showed up by breaking into his car, and then stalked him all evening until he was arrested. That’s disturbingly obsessive behavior, there’s no amount of niceness that would stop Syndrome, it was an impossible situation. No amount of nice was going to appease Syndrome, the second he faced any sort of rejection from Mr. Incredible he was going to lose it and go supervillain. After his arrest he should have gotten put into therapy, but yknow, set in like. the 50′s. so it makes sense he fell through the cracks when the cracks were a goddamn canyon. Don’t victim blame Mr. Incredible.
reblogging for the last comment because blaming mr incredible for the deaths of his comrades is honestly such a weird take and i dislike how it’s framed as “fact” when it’s not. it’s syndrome’s fault and syndrome’s fault alone. full stop. he murdered them because he was selfish, entitled, and obsessed with mr incredible to a fanatical degree.
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