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Anyways

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POV you're at their presentation

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Ready Jet Go fans:

The upcoming Ready Jet Go Movie has a title and a pbs kids air date

It's called Ready Jet Go: Space Camp and it premieres on Monday July 24th

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Is Mitchell interested in space?

This is literally just me over analyzing a show aimed at children but that’s what this entire blog is for

With the Space Camp movie coming out soon, and Mitchell having a very likely chance to appear in the movie, I wonder how they will incorporate him into the narrative. The synopsis of the movie hasn’t been released yet, but we can assume that it’s about Jet, Sean, Sydney, and Mindy going to space camp. How would Mitchell fit into the plot? Will he be at space camp too? And does Mitchell have an interest in space in the first place?

Short answer: A little

Long answer: Mitchell is mainly fixated on being a detective. And in “Our Sun is a Star,” he says that the sun is not a star. I know he’s a little kid, but come on. Mindy already knew the sun is a star (although she forgot it in the episode and had to relearn it) and she’s five years old. Mindy’s parents are scientists (as confirmed by when her mom was called Dr. Melendez in “Jet’s First Halloween”), but so is Mitchell’s dad, Mr. Peterson, though we don’t really see him doing science work within the show.

These are some good arguments for Mitchell not being into space, but there’s also some evidence that he DOES like space. He entered the baking context in “Solar System Bake Off” and made an exact cake replica of Saturn V, noting that it was the rocket that got us to the moon in 1969. In “Eye in the Sky,” Sean tells Mitchell that he could be a Space Scout one day. Mitchell gets excited over this and salutes, then gets embarrassed and stops.

So this does confirm that Mitchell does like space a little, and seemed excited at the prospect of being a Space Scout, but judging by his embarrassed reaction, he might be ashamed about it. Mitchell has a reputation that he likes to uphold. He’s the kid-kart derby winner. He’s the detective kid. And nothing else.

If Mitchell is in the movie at all, and they make him spy on Jet and the others again, I’m gonna be upset. I want to see it expand on his space interest.

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The plot of the movie

PBS is purposefully withholding major information about Space Camp, as they did not feature any footage of the movie aside from a brief clip of the show’s intro in their “Summer of Adventure” promo. I’ve been told it is because they want to surprise us. The most they have told us is “Jet and his friends take their skills to Space Camp and go on an intergalactic adventure” and that it is timed to the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 - it comes out July 20.

A “space camp” is a six day program where kids train to become astronauts. There, you do things such as wear a spacesuit, engage in STEM-related activities, and sleep overnight. The US Space and Rocket Center in Alabama has a Space Camp program, but there is also one in Florida.

After the title of the movie was revealed, I thought it would just be about Jet, Sean, Sydney, and Mindy going to the camp and going in those simulators and all that, without actually going to space. In other words, the movie would be entirely on Earth. But since the synopsis involves an “intergalactic adventure,” that means they ARE going to space.

Upon closer inspection, I have a theory that the movie will be a whole-plot reference to the 1986 movie, SpaceCamp. The movie is about five kids attending a space camp, who accidentally get shot into space. They must work together to return home. The movie got bad reviews and performed poorly at the box office, but it inspired many people to become astronauts, so there’s that.

The premise of a space camp, combined with the intergalactic adventure, makes the parallels with the 1986 film obvious. It helps that Craig Bartlett’s other PBS Kids movie, Adventure Island, was a thinly-veiled reference to Jurassic Park.

Ready Jet Go! is no stranger to movie parodies; “My Fair Jet” is a reference to My Fair Lady and “Endless Summer” has the same basic premise as the 1966 documentary, The Endless Summer.

If my theory is correct, the movie will be a hoot, to quote Jet in the episode “Zerk Visits Earth.”

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References to films in Ready Jet Go (part 1, because of the image limit on mobile)

King Kong (1933) dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack

The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz

Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder

From Russia with Love (1963) dir. Terence Young

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ANIMATED SHOW TOURNAMENT

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Magical Girls → Then & Now

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CCS x Q-Pot Cafe collaboration menu items ౨ৎ

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Today’s Gender of the Day doesn’t matter, really

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Cardcaptor Anya ⭐️

This will be sold as prints at Dojinma in May!

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Changed the colour of the frame since brown didn’t convince me, and I do like it better like this. So here’s the variant ^^

DO NOT REPOST!!

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I'm still in awe that not even a decade ago (2014, a year before same-sex marriage was legalized in the US), queer representation in children's animation was at the point where The Legend of Korra ended with Korra and Asami holding hands in the very last seconds and the creator having to come onto tumblr to plead with us all to understand that these two characters are canonically queer, the crew just couldn't show anything more (and were heavily implied to face restrictions) and now, in April 2023, The Owl House ended with multiple episodes highlighting how the main character is openly bi, her love interest is a lesbian with whom multiple on-screen kisses were shared, her mother proudly wears a rainbow pin and has read multiple books on sexuality and gender, her mentor is openly bi, the mentor's love interest is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, the mentor's adopted son has a genderqueer 'dad', the mentor's sister is confirmed to be aro/ace, the main character's best friend has two dads who share an on-screen kiss, the main character's pseudo-sister blushes around a nonbinary teenager who also uses they/them pronouns, minor characters blush and react to others in ways that suggest that they are also queer, there are different flags everywhere, and the child-god of the cosmos who comes to visit them all from time to time uses he/they pronouns. That's on top of the Afro-Latina representation, the neurodivergence and disability representation, and so much more. Let's see how far we've come, indeed!

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Closeups!!

Couldn’t decide which version I like best so have them all!!

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Compilation