im not saying it was a perfect film BUT women talking's conversation around the importance of education for young boys, the importance of recognising they are not predestined to cruelty and violence, that they can be good if they're raised away from the toxicity of patriarchy PLUS the fact that the women are inconsistent in their decisions and trauma responses, and some of them are downright unlikeable without ever being the antagonist or villain, the scenes of joy and love between the women and children who've suffered unspeakably, the scenes of the younger boys and girls playing together, 'sometimes forgiveness can be confused with permission' ???? beautiful
god that karen backstory ep introduced so many more layers to kastle and frank wasn't even mentioned my goddddd
karen deferring college so she can stay and take care of her dead mother's failing diner for her father. karen losing her father to grief after her brother dies. karen never getting close to frank like she wants to because of his grief. "you can't keep loving people in your dreams" karen as the second choice. do you understand what im sayingggggg
also not to still Accountant 2 post BUT the scene where Jon Bernthal/Braxton is rehearsing in the mirror and swearing and running around holding his gun hyping himself up and it’s all, the audience finds out, just to be more assertive with a dog breeder on the phone because he wanted to pick up his corgi puppy two weeks early…when I say I cried real tears in the theater I was laughing so hard…Jason Todd is that you??
also more hilarious moments: Braxton asking a woman why she’d say “don’t hurt me” and blustering out the door offended she’d think that and he’s literally stepping over dead bodies of random men as he leaves….iconic.
Two massive guys (Braxton and Christian) sleeping in one tiny airstream bed and it wasn’t played for laughs?? They’re brothers???
Braxton’s “is it me?” speech actually crushed me a little.
Christian gaming the dating app algorithm and then getting in trouble with the event organizers had me DYING.
i know what this situation needs…explicit fanfiction
I believe in kastle endgame (or at least leaving things open to that possibility) because for frank, there is no one else. there's only karen.
thinking back to jon saying to deborah: "like what is he doing there? it's like if it's not you, everyone else is gone."
matt has a zillion love interests, and karen is one of them, but they're not going to introduce another love interest for frank. they're just not. so either he dies, or he lives the rest of his life alone, or he and karen get together.
mutual pining simply never misses. the yearning. the stupidity. the desperation while also thinking themselves alone with it. the rattling relief at the revelation. the way it works in so many scenarios— friends to lovers? a banger every time. casual hook-ups/friends with benefits while they both want more? show-stopping, spectacular, incredible. enemies who are so deep in denial it just makes them madder at each other? utterly unmatched every single time. slow burn, fast burn, burning while already fucking. mutual pining really just is that girl like truly who does it like her
s2 of the punisher should have just been sarah and david parent trapping frank and karen
I want Deborah Ann Woll to body slam me.
Wait, did I say that out loud?
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