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A few episodes later:

It just hit me that Buttons actually got his chance to take a bite out of Lucius!

There’s something so heartwarming about waking up to LITERALLY thousands of people screaming in the notes ‘happy pride!’ and 'best cast I love them!’ and 'Finally I’m so happy!’ We’re all celebrating together <3

A life hack for everyone who hates getting emails: leave comments on every fic you read and like. A decent amount of fic writers will answer with something ranging between a delighted ‘thank you!’ and a full blown discussion.

This way, you will highly improve your serotonin-inducing mail to cortisol-inducing mail ratio!

I am amazed at how Boy (2010) is such an extremely personal story that’s focused on a VERY specific place, culture and time period, but still manages to tell such a universal story.

I had this scenario stuck in my head for about a week, and I need to get it out:

Stede comes back to the Revenge. He finds Ed alone on the deck, maybe it’s night. Ed is of course angry and sad, Stede is both apologetic and angry, they’re trying to talk, emotions are high.

And then Izzy comes, sees Stede, thinks ‘no way I’m doing this again’ pulls his gun out and just shoots Stede.

Now, Ed is too slow to stop Izzy, so he does the only thing he could think of and jumps in front of Stede, so that he’s the one who ends up being shot.

Izzy is in absolute shock about shooting Ed, which gives the crew, who heard the noise, time to restrain him.

This scenario gives us the mirror of Stede taking care of Ed while he recovers from his wound, it will force Ed to stay with Stede for an extended period of time so they could talk. It will show both of them that the other still cares. And it can also start Izzy on a redemption arc, when he realizes that no, actually he doesn’t prefer Ed dead, never.

Thanks to @twocarsonenight (seriously, thank you!) I watched the commentary for Boy (2010) and that was the most fascinating bonus feature I’ve ever watched.

First of all, wow, that is the most unhinged way to do a commentary. The whole thing is one long conversation between Taika and Alamein, the character he plays in the movie. And it’s amazing. There were actually times when I forgot it was just Taika talking to himself, it felt so much like two people.

Anyways, not to get too analytical about a commentary, but he uses this in such a wonderful way: it’s clear he has a lot to say about so many aspects of the movie, and that way he can talk about Alamein’s perspective of events without sounding too pretentious (because he’s speaking as Alamein), and also it’s a way to cut a joke whenever he mentions something that he clearly put a lot of thought into but is obviously feeling self conscious about putting into words.

Also, you can see how very conscious he is about everything he knows people might find offensive - stuff like working with children near marijuana, not putting on a seat belt, the fact that the kids were left alone for a long period of time, stuff like that - and he tries to give some of it the appropriate cultural context.

There are a lot of interesting things about Maori culture, and although this is a very ‘small’ and personal story, when you hear the commentary it’s very obvious how much the political and social issues are important to it.

I usually don’t say things like that, but if you loved this movie, I very much recommend watching the commentary.

Another thing I love about Boy (2010), is that boy actually starts the movie relatively mature: he’s obviously a kid, but he takes care of his family and friends in a way we never see Alamein do.

Then Alamein shows up, and he’s like a reverse role model: he acts like a child, he’s irresponsible, he doesn’t treat his family or friends very well. And since boy idolizes him, he starts imitating him.

I feel that it’s an important point that boy take the adult role before Alamein. When he gets disillusioned, he also reverts back to being responsible and kind to the people around him. It’s only after that we see Alamein in the graveyard, seemingly ready to try and accept the role of an adult.

Sometimes I think about the fact that in episode 4, after showing Ed the auxiliary wardrobe, Stede had to get dressed, presumably with a great deal of pain, and not 5 min later Ed looked at him and said: You know what, you’re going to change again.