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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 4h

I loved that scene between the two of them

Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 4h

I just think it all would’ve been fine if more of the Salvation & Flag heel turn had been sprinkled throughout the season—which there was plenty of room to do with those half hour episodes

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 4h

That’s 100% what he was hired to do for DC, though.

I think it could’ve been done more smoothly, but I don’t think he could choose not to do it

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 4h

I love that. B adores their teachers!

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Be Jay, Boo Crimes 👻 @templinjay.bsky.social · 4h

@catvalente.bsky.social spitting facts for generations!

Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 4h

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 8h

I think if all that had come earlier in the season I would have thought it was great, horror as you say

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 8h

I just wish we’d actually seen that happen, Fleury especially.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 8h

I also felt like Economos was a little stuck in place after so much evolution last season.

Really, after that butterfly fight, everyone’s still gonna call him a coward & he’s still gonna meekly agree?

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 8h

I kept waiting for the insane verbal abuse of his super-loving mother to have a point or a reason or a reveal but no…he’s just horrible to this poor woman whose husband left but she pushes through & tries to take an interest in her cruel weird kid’s interests & take care of him jesus what

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, that I get. When you’re in love that’s what your authentic inner voice tells you to go for.

That voice is very often an idiot, but it’s authentically idiotic

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 8h

I’m not sure that’s true, all the pieces minus the pet shop bit were there after S1 & they’d been split already for months in show-time.

What did you think on the whole though?

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

I mean really, how do you make a concentration camp planet storyline and not have Nazi Keith come for revenge so the parallels & “ha ha this is different/ you must live in a utopia” play out in real time?

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

But the character stuff had all been done before—half the episode was a flashback. Ads left her wife ages back. Chris was depressed & wanting to quit after S1. Everything else was a montage

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

But that emotional beat was there in S1 too with “did I kill the planet”

And Keith didn’t die again but I guess that doesn’t matter? When they bagged him I thought it was Nazi Keith Gang for a minute

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

And “will he get out because they’re all kind of acting like there’s no more show”

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

You don’t have to watch them for the finale, however, my disappointment comes from genuinely coming to love the rest of the season and wanting that story resolved because tbh I don’t care that much about Superman (which the finale is a clear lead-in to)

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

Also I have a feeling people just liked Adrian/Vigilante too much & they wanted to nip that because I have no other explanation for his character suddenly being restricted to “I abuse my mom and am stupid now for some reason.”

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

The more I think about it the more this is my real problem with it—did they even verbally reference anything that happened all season? Those big traumas? Felt like it was going somewhere with Keith & Nazi world?

It feels like it was filmed & takes place *before* S2. Nothing required S2 to occur.

Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

I…did not really like the Peacemaker finale. Mainly because the whole season felt totally unnecessary to this episode. It could’ve followed on directly from the S1 finale. Almost every actual S2 plot/set-up was dropped.

Kind of feels like an elaborate ruse by James Gunn to become Mankind’s DJ.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

I…did not really like the Peacemaker finale. Mainly because the whole season felt totally unnecessary to this episode. It could’ve followed on directly from the S1 finale. Almost every actual S2 plot/set-up was dropped.

Kind of feels like an elaborate ruse by James Gunn to become Mankind’s DJ.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h

Look up who taught Mick Jagger to dance ;)

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 10h

They have been adamantly so since age 4. I don’t make a big thing of it because it’s no one’s business but theirs and also people are getting very weird about such things & I want to protect them

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22h

Ma’am some of us still read print books

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Jon @phyrkrakr.bsky.social · 23h

Nope, they got wiped out after their entry in the Metagalactic Grand Prix

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 1d

A bookmark sticks out of the book tho

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god

I have like 16 pairs and can’t ever find one

Pure genius

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