Also Gomez knows he's not "in charge." They have an equal partnership, but if, for some reason, Morticia said "I want to be in charge, what I say goes," he'd literally say "anything, cara mia" and that'd be the end of it. He doesn't need to be "in charge." He's not that kind of man.

I'm so annoyed with that series because I do like some aspects of it but MY GOD they get so much shit wrong.

I'm almost finished with the second season and I kept wrinkling my nose at it. They're equals and always have been.

Everything I've heard about the mischaracterization of the original characters is why I won't watch it.

If you don't like the characters as they were originally written and don't plan to stay true to who they are, take their names off of the project. Stop pretending they're the Addams family.

If you don't think your show will do well without the franchise connection, then I think you understand why we wouldn't want the franchise connected to it.

The whole point of The Addams Family is that it took shitty sexist sitcom jokes like this, about domineering wives and submissive husbands, and it threw out all of the derision and deception and sexism. Instead it just fully embraced these concepts with wide open arms and a gloriously ecstatic love. It's first and foremost premise was that this is a loving and healthy relationship, not in spite of but precisely because it is totally antithetical to every normative suburban stereotype.

This ain't that.

the funny thing is. I originally typed out "fifth rule of fandom is everything goes back to gilgamesh & enkidu" but then I thought 'no, I can't trust that people will be familiar with the epic of gilgamesh'

I should have known. nerd ass website.

I appreciate that people also liked this one

I think this might be the best post of yours I’ve ever read

insulting on behalf of the MANY clown husbandry posts i have gifted to you over the years

The seeds were all dead (burned, fake, etc.).  The other kids cheated and got different seeds and planted them.  The little girl didn’t cheat and was not able to grow anything because the seed was dead.  She was the only one who didn’t cheat.

damn

Nothing like original fairy tales! 

i get the moral it’s trying to convey but that king is an idiot and the kingdom’s doomed. you don’t appoint an honest kid who will forthrightly admit a failure like that to leadership of a country, you put that kid in charge of like… the army, or something. the department of agriculture. 

i’d send out dead seeds, then appoint the kid with the biggest and most beautiful plant anyway. ideally the same kind of plant as the dead seeds were from. and ideally a kid with a really good pokerface. that kid knows:

a) how to perceive failure early (a well developed second plant means they knew how soon the first seeds should sprout and didn’t fuck around when they didn’t) 

b) how to fix the situation (a second plant of the same species means they got someone to help them identify the seeds and plant more, or are observant enough to do it themselves)

c) how to get the best people for a job in to do it (kids aren’t great gardeners. a beautiful science project probably means mom did all the work— just what you want from a child ruler and their regent)

all around, that kid (or their mom) is the kind of devious results-oriented bald-faced liar you want to go toe-to-toe with the lords of your country and the rulers of your neighbors. not a little kid who admits defeat so early and in a situation with such high stakes. ‘whoops i didn’t grow a plant’ sounds a lot less sweet when you phrase it like ‘i give up on ruling my country’. 

you know, i think i’d also send agents out to encourage the kids to destroy each other’s plants. let’s see who’s good at seige warfare, too.

Did Lord Vetinari write that post?