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So this happened a while ago. On Rakshabandhan.

Well me and my sister had some pics clicked on that occasion. But I am conventionally ugly. So, my sister used AI to "fix" me so that it would be aesthetic enough for her story.

I saw her story and called out on how she edited the photo through AI changing my hair and skin and if she doesn't want to put my real face then don't bother putting me on social media.

She got angry saying it's just a photo and it doesn't really matter. And she edits the photo's brightness, saturation and sometimes few facial features on editing apps all the time. Using AI is just the same.

I am not insecure about my looks at all, but I don't want these morphs of me out there.

The original The Devil wears prada is one of my favorite movies ever. Despite knowing nothing about fashion, I found it deeply relatable as I started working in similar conditions as Andy and I had exact same boss as Miranda.

The original movie established it very well that Miranda is a bad person to work with and her idgaf nature doesn't excuses her rudeness and unrealistic expectations. Asking flights to be booked by a 20 something intern when national airlines are down, asking to somehow retrieve Harry Potter's unpublished editions is inhuman. Now, I enjoyed the character, but it's very clear of how toxic she is. Forget a thank you, she won't even acknowledge you.

The message I took from the original movie is, how Miranda tried to justified her own vile nature by saying Andy did the same and how she would end up exactly like her. And Andy proved she's wrong by leaving the firm.

Now, comes the part 2. Part 2 was as much focused on Miranda as it was on Andy. Part 1 was mostly from Andy POV.

Now, I expected from the movie to have a moment, where Miranda genuinely realizes that she's wrong and her actions bite her in the back. But that never happened, the first crisis happened because of mistakes of other people, the second because Irv's son was selling the company because his father died. Although these moments were down for Miranda, none of them happened due to her own mistake. These moments just made her powerless, but not quite enough to make her realize her smug nature.

Ultimately what does the movie potrray? Andy (rightfully) deciding to depict Miranda's action in the book. But no, then she feels it would be "wrong" for Miranda. Why the hell? She has made lives of so many people traumatic, promoted toxicity and set unrealistic standards, why exactly plot decides to give her sympathy. Simply because she's failing?

And the movie ends by Miranda ultimately winning, and the short convo she had with Andy in her car was also just more of his narcissism. Throughout the conversation, the writers conveyed, how Miranda's behaviour was okay because she had to sacrifice a lot to be in that position. Miranda doesn't truly feels regret. She rather feels, whatever she did she had to do, and there was no other option.

And I hate that message from my heart. No, you don't need to be inhuman, torture interns and steal opportunities from your colleagues to succeed in your career.

And funnily, they managed to make Emily, the villain out of it all, the poor girl who probably suffered a lot under Miranda (she's also a b too, just a bad person who was done bad)

I have lately seen a lot of subs specially on platforms like cough free cough folk cough which humongous likes on posts saying how good Milly's performance was and Emma is bad.

I mean no matter what you feel about the show and this season ( I personally think it's trash and they have butchered dance), but you CAN'T deny Emma has never missed a single scene. They have acted brilliantly.

Also, I loved Milly's performance. The tint of a rebellious teenager in her made me fall in love with her. But her performance can't be compared to her adult version simply because she was there for 5 episodes only and Emma has been for 19. Now that is not to downplay Milly. She was amazing in the part she was. But Emma clearly has a greater impact and a much more experienced actor. Their reaction at Jace's death is one of the best tv performances of all times.

Now this may be controversial but I feel like a major reason is Emma is not the "eye candy" some of these guys are looking for. If you know what I mean.

Of course, I am not generalizing that thinking Milly Rhae better than Emma Rhae means you have an incel mindset but most of criticism of Emma (like she's always crying all the time) just seems senseless and born out of spite.

I saw this idea on one of the comments and I feel it's quite interesting. At this point, most serious watchers know the fate of Rhaenyra and some plot points are already spoiled by Haelena herself at end of Season 2. So, what do you think of S4 showing of different timelines simultaneously.

One of them could be regency of Aegon III. And how he's dealing with everything. Second can be Aegon's II short rule. Third can be everything which will happen to Rhaenyra till end of her arc.

Now this would benefit in many ways, firstly audience is not aware of Aegon III as a proper character, and with only 8 episodes, it would be difficult to set him up properly. Non linear storytelling would allow to flesh his character.

Also with this, in the final episode, we can see both Aegon's and Rhaenyra's end in the same episode making the story much more impactful as it was never about who won. And this way the makers can stretch the popular actors right up to the end without any compromise.

This episode was a fresh breath of air after the previous boring monotonous episodes. Although imo this should have been like 6th episode or sm and the season should have ended with God's eye.

But never mind that, the absence of Viserys and Aegon has completely destroyed how the last episode of Season 4 should hit. And it can't be mended.

Aegon is the end of dance of dragons. A new beginning. Now, first of all in season 4 it would take several episodes to logically make him near Rhaenyra and even if he would become the king, general audience would feel they just brought a rando to sit on the throne. No better than Bran in the end of S8.

People don't realize how important the event of Aegon's guilt and how important him watching his mother die is, not just for the story but I would say it's one of the core events of ASOIAF. Daenerys in her first few chapters mentions that the little histories she know about her family, this was one of the prominent how one of his ancestor saw his mother dying. And mind you, George wrote very little about histories of Targs till then, so you can just imagine how important this event is.

And for that, seeing the relationship between Aegon and Rhaenyra becomes very necessary. In fact, I would say it should have been the focus of this whole season. Not irrelevant plots with Gwayne and Ormund, as much I love them.

Now, I would wager they are going to make Joffrey be the one who will see Rhaenyra dying, but it's their fanfiction as this point. Nothing we can complain about.

Like obviously, not talking about how this movie literally casted a te**orist. Everything for this movie was doomed since the beginning. And the whole thing on the set, explosion and all. Maybe that was the sign from God to not make this movie.

I loved the 80's wonder man because how grounded and realistic it felt. And see I am all about inclusion and everything but Simon Williams's take on character didn't work for me personally.

Don't why it's earning so much critical appraise. Instead can we create biopic about Steve Rogers instead??