I have this thing where Cylconis and the Storm Hawks encounter a common enemy in the Far Side because Cyclonis is out of her league and they have to like… team up C:
Hot take: good writing is where you can see a story beat or “plot twist” coming from a mile off, but you’re sitting there just wondering how exactly it’s going to happen
case in point: this scene from Into the Spiderverse:
I also saw the twist at the end of Detective Pikachu nearly an hour before the ending, yet I was sitting there for the rest of the movie like “OH SHIT I GET IT” with a bigass goofy grin on my face. The point is: unseeable twists don’t inherently make a story better. You can know the spoilers to something and still enjoy it! A good piece of media won’t be ruined by you knowing what’s coming. The most important part is that it keeps the tension going.
Nine rings were made for men. Seven for the dwarves, three for the elves, and one for the big guy himself. One, three, seven, nine. There is but a set of five missing to complete the sequence of odd numbers. I propose that this missing set of rings of power was gifted to a mysterious someone by their true love, along with a partridge in a pear tree (among other things). In this essay I will-
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