#Hugh and Fiona are still the oldest

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New au im calling “Miss Peregrines Home for (Very Young) Peculiar Children”

It’s just everyone aged down (physically) ten years lol

I wasn’t sure what to do with Claire and olive, so either they’re babies and they’re just a lot closer in age with Enoch, or they don’t exist yet

I think Jacob would still end up here, but instead of it being because Abe died, it’s because Jacob’s parents didn’t care if Abe took him to Wales over the summer.

I put their ages next to them ofc

[marygih]

Little details that I love

Hugh's glasses just look like something he really likes to wear, but they're actually so the bees don't end up getting into his eyes. They prevent the swarm of bees from hurting Hugh's eyes. Everything was minimally thought out for Hugh's comfort.

Fiona's patched clothes. She spends a lot of time in the middle of the forest, messing with plants, wearing new, good clothes would be stupid, the clothes would get caught on the branches and tear. She prefers to wear worn-out clothes rather than ruining her other clothes.

Miss Peregrine never tried to change the children's appearance. I love that, each child has their own individuality. Your own style.

As different as Alma, Bentham and Caul are, they all dress the same way, extremely elegant.

Even though children are centuries old, they still preserve their youthful minds. Enoch is my favorite example, he is one of the oldest children, and even so, when he went shopping for clothes alone he chose the most pre-teen look possible.

Alma does not interfere in the children's games, even if she does not fully agree with them, such as the attack on the village, or Enoch spending several hearts to teach a skeleton to play the piano.

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MPHFPC Kids Headcanons

~ My headcanons for each of Miss Peregrine's wards, I've read the trilogy and am soon to read A Map of Days so please bear in mind I might write something that's disproven in AMOD, in which case, please tell me and I'll change my mind, I'm flexible (if you do this, please refrain from spoiling the book for me) ~

Jacob - Has black hair and blue eyes, stands 5'10" tall, right-handed, heterosexual, probably has arachnophobia, the type of kid who bruised easily when he was little, Disney Classics kid, hates parties and doesn't know why, favours chicken and sweetcorn pizza, his favourite colour is navy blue, went through an astronomy phase and knows a freak amount about space, A* in Geography, speaks a few useful (and a few useless) Polish phrases taught to him by Abe.

Emma - Has blonde hair and green eyes, 5'6" tall, right-handed, heterosexual, refuses to be stereotyped, abandonment issues, knows how to sew but hates it, her favourite animal is a butterfly, used to be a hopeless romantic, once unintentionally set fire to Millard's hair when he accidentally startled her, prefers to sit on the floor under her widow and bask in the sunlight rather than sunbathe outside.

Bronwyn - Has brown hair and brown eyes, 5'11" tall and it's scary, right-handed, asexual, Welsh accent which diluted over time, always wanted kids and loves babysitting the little ones, cuts her hair short because it gets in the way otherwise, doesn't mind chores and will help with anything from dirty dishes to moving furniture, has a phonograph in her bedroom and likes to dance, would've been a Beatles fan without a doubt, the oldest of all the kids.

Fiona - Has dark brown hair which sometimes shines red in the sun and hazel eyes, 5'7" tall, right-handed, pansexual, Irish accent thicker than Greek yogurt which few people can understand, has selective mutism, likely agoraphobic, one of the only people who has no problem with Enoch, forgets her own birthday, her face is impossible to read so even if she's raging inside you'd never know, pro at Irish dancing (not that you'd know it), loves worms with a passion.

Hugh - Has dark blonde hair and grey eyes, 6'0" tall, left-handed, heterosexual, boyfriend material™, no stranger to broken bones, has broken his nose, wrist, ankle and two ribs because he's reckless, favourite colours are yellow and brown, looks like a fuckboy but is super decent, Claire's favourite "big brother", the second oldest of the kids, hates hugs but gives them anyway.

Olive - Has light brown hair and blue eyes, 4'4" tall, right-handed, too young to know her sexuality so gtfo, very passionate about her opinions, doesn't understand any discrimination and just wants everyone to get along, once forced Abe to wear a flower crown and did the same to Jacob when he came along, has the most high-pitched scream ever, still believes in Santa but not the Easter Bunny because that one's silly, mocks Hitler.

Horace - Has blonde hair and amethyst eyes, 5'5" tall, ambidextrous, homosexual, speaks French fluently and it's actually the language he thinks in, hates dogs because they slobber and jump up on people, his signature is constantly getting more intricate, has the best smile of all the kids, very strict about personal hygiene, pities anyone who doesn't know what the word "epiphany" means, hates milk and refuses to use it in his tea.

Millard - Has auburn hair and hazel eyes (not that you can see them), 6'2" tall, right-handed, bisexual, sometimes says things aloud from conversations he's having in his head, literal grammar police, addicted to tea, Wikipedia personified, plays chess and has never lost to anyone except Miss P, can and will cut a bitch, over-competitive and cheats but you'd never catch him at it, lowkey a hopeless romantic, Emma's shoulder to cry on.

Enoch - Has blonde hair and green eyes, 5'4" tall, left-handed, pansexual, Edgy Teenager™, genuinely scared of his own thoughts sometimes, is confused by social norms, unashamed of his darker side, sarcasm king, secretly loves hugs, occasionally needs reminding the other kids are his friends and on his side, his bite is just as bad as his bark, would sleep all day if allowed, wants an army just so he can be in charge of something.

Claire - Has blonde hair and brown eyes, 3'10" tall, right-handed, another one too young to know her sexuality, pink freak with a strawberry addiction, Horace is teaching her French, she's the owner of the dollhouse and only Olive is allowed to touch it, can't pronounce the word "spaghetti" and hates it, always with either Hugh or Bronwyn because she needs looking after, the youngest of all the kids and everyone's baby, nobody would dare argue with her.

BONUS

Victor - Had dark brown hair and brown eyes, 6'0" tall, right-handed, heterosexual, had a Welsh accent like his sister, used to tease Horace about his slightly OCD tendencies but would always help him when he got anxious, everyone's big brother, previously the oldest of the kids, always played the peacemaker, hated fighting, stood up for Enoch when Abe bullied him, knew how to bake but never did.

[dollarstoreartspam]

Bro can I get some Victor the Dad friend hc’s?

HECK YES YOU CANoml Victor my BOY ok so I'll preface this with some age info- I'm p sure he's oldest, I picture him as like 18 (and then Millard at 17, then Emma at 16, etc....)HERE WE GO!!!BEST BAKED GOODS, he literally makes the best brownies known to manHe's exceedingly observant, so he's very good at picking up context clues for when Mill is stressed or tired and physically PICKS THIS BOI UP and takes him to the kitchen and teaches him how to bake (and make hot chocolate the first few times after Millard burns whatever they're baking so intensely its inedible, but he gets better after the first few lessons)The FIRST to sign up to attend Claire's tea parties, catch this boy in a tu-tu with hair bows on him suspenders because his hair was to short to braid every weekend. He brings cookies and is super convincing when he pretends Claire's tea is goodThe second person Fiona is able to open up to and talk toThe best shoulder to cry on, After Abe left Emma he let her sleep in his room and rant and cry and cuddle for as long as she needed to kind of get over him The original "Olive Rope Holder", and he used to do cool tricks and let her spin in the air and stuff but one time he got too into it and let go of the rope (it was inside and she was fine) but he got so nervous that the duty was passed to Bronwyn BEST HAIR BRAIDERHe'd sneak Hugh honey even when Miss P confiscated it or grounded him from his Honey PrivilegesThe BEST at handling Horace's nightmares and seeing right through his "drama queen everything is fine I'm a rich gentleman" facade and sort of helping him through his current and past trauma via cuddles and bad jokes just to make this sleepy crying boi laughMOST PROTECTIVE DAD FRIEND, Enoch has built up a shit ton of walls and he very carefully breaks them down and gets ridiculously defensive of Enoch whenever one of kids says something insensitive towards him, because if anyone understands depression it's Victor BEST OLDER BROTHER honestly I could make a WHOLE post about the Bruntley siblings but Victor practically needed to raise his sister because of their step father and he makes sure she knows he doesn't blame her for killing their step father and is the super protective and sweet with her (I mean he's still an older brother so there's still all the teasing and things that come with being an older brother but he's a VERY GOOD ONE)DADJOKESDADJOKESDADJOKESDADJOKESDADJOKESDADJOKES

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Daleks vs Fire Engines

(This interview with Ian Fraser was conducted during the same call as the one I had with Fiona Cumming, for the Tartan TARDIS supplement in the Daily Record. Ian was so lovely - he passed away in 2016)

FIRE engines, Iraqi security guards and Daleks causing a security alert in London ensured that that Scot Ian Fraser enjoyed working on Doctor Who in the eighties.

Ian, originally from Dunfermline, was involved behind the scenes in ensuring that Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy made it to screen.

He worked as production manager on Doctor Who stories between 1986 and 1989, after being hired by the show's producer John Nathan-Turner. His wife, Fiona Cumming, was a a veteran of the show, having been involved since the 60s.

He said: "I had just finished working with the children's department on Moon Stallion with Sarah Sutton and then went back to London, because we had been filming away, and I wasn't part of the BBC, I was freelance.

"I got a phone call from John (Nathan-Turner), asking me to go and see him. I went and he asked if I would like to do a Who - that's how it started.

"As production manager you make sure that everything works - that's making sure that people are there on time, that the crews know exactly what they are doing, that the props are there on time - things like that. Making sure that the scheduling works It's the equivalent of the first assistant director in film."

His first work on the series was on the Terror of the Vervoids segment of the 1986 story The Trial of a Time Lord, starring Colin Baker. The adventure featured the Vervoids, some villainous, as well as marking Bonnie Langford's debut in the series.

Ian recalled:"The Vervoids were amazing, because within the costume, the guys got so hot that at some points, they couldn't actually breathe properly. When they took the heads off from time to time, it gave them a chance to breathe. If I remember correctly we had Honor Blackman in that show.

"And we also had Bonnie - the best screamer in the business!"

Ian also worked on the final two episodes of that season, The Ultimate Foe, which was partly recorded on location at the Potteries in Stoke.

He said: "We had a wonderful time when we went to the Potteries. We had Geoffrey Hughes, who was a lovely man, and Michael Jayston, plus the absolutely wonderful Colin. It was like a huge, happy family - everybody got on and enjoyed their work.

"One of the cameramen got stuck up on a high camera, and was there for a couple of hours before we could get him back down.

"But we did cause some alarms to go off and the fire brigade to come out, but we got through it all.

"There was a real joy when working on Doctor Who - people didn't get upset or upright about it all - it was just a joy to be working.

"Colin and Michael Jayston and Geoffrey had a wonderful rapport, and the conversations they had were just incredible. Michael Jayston is one of the best mimics going, and he can impersonate so many people."

"Colin is just so straight - there are no sides to Colin. Colin is Colin - that's what you get, he was always like that an always will be."

When fellow Scot Sylvester McCoy took over the TARDIS the following year, Ian was back on Doctor Who, in a story named Paradise Towers.

He said: "For Paradise Towers, we were shooting at a swimming pool, and it was freezing cold. We couldn't get any heating put on for it, but poor old Bonnie just got on with it.

"We were recording it at the home of an Iraqi diplomat, and everywhere we went, there were always bodyguards about!  You couldn't go into the house without an armed bodyguard being there. There was a special kind of feeling to it all."

Ian worked on Doctor Who in its 25th anniversary season, and he was delighted to work with the Doctor's oldest foes in 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks. He recalled: "I loved Remembrance, as the whole thing was absolutely superb.

"I just adored working with the Daleks. I remember the first time I saw them going up the stairs, the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end!

"I just wonder what difference it would have made to our Doctor Who if we had had the same kind of money as they have nowadays. There were all sorts of things we had to put up with because there was just no money to do it - you just worked out a cheap way to make it happen, and did it! That was all part of the joy of doing it.

"We had some interesting moments with the Daleks. We were filming under Waterloo railway bridge where we having a battle with a big explosion with a load of smoke and the police woman who was with us had a call on her walking talkie saying that a bomb had gone off at Waterloo she was trying to tell the HQ that it was not a bomb but Doctor Who filming!

"The message did not reach the emergency services and the London fire service came roaring through the smoke the look on the faces of the firemen as they came face to face with the Daleks was something to see."

Ian's final credit on Doctor Who was 1989's The Curse of Fenric, regarded by fans as a classic adventure of the show.

Now retired and living near Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway, Ian said: "Fenric is a wonderful programme. We did all that on OB (outside broadcast).

"The director Nick Mallett and myself went to John Nathan-Turner and said, 'How much money have we got?' John told us and we asked if we could do it all on OB, but John said we just didn't have the money. But we managed it.

"It just looked so different on the screen, nothing like a studio, and the army camp we were in was a strange place - even though it wasn't supposed to be. There were a lot of people still turning up for training when we were there. Sylvester was absolutely marvellous in this episode."

He added: "Any of the Whos which Fiona and I have been involved in have been Whos that really mattered. I'm not saying that new Who isn't good, because it is, it's very good, but somehow it's just not quite the same.

"All the special effects are brilliantly done, but we had to do the same kind of effects with not even half the money.

"The other thing was you always had time to read the closing titles.

"I just wonder what difference it would have made to our Doctor Who if we had had the same kind of money as they have nowadays. There were all sorts of things we had to put up with because there was just no money to do it - you just worked out a cheap way to make it happen, and did it! That was all part of the joy of doing it."

Ian added: "My outstanding memory of Who was working with John. John cared so much for that programme, he really did.

"He loved that programme, and he liked having people who understood what it was about working with him.

"He cared for his programme, and if anyone didn't care  His attitude was, 'If you don't like it, you don't have to be involved.' He was a clever producer, and managed to make the programme for the money but the BBC just didn't appreciate him."

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My MPHFPC Movie Notes

Love the opening credits, fits spirit and theme of the book

(music in general is good)

Hate the different opening line – rather generic imo.

Asa please I know you’re a good actor. Please stop being so flat.

“Jake”

This all feels rushed.

Grandpa has lost his marbles and his acting ability.

“That guy gave me the heebie-jeebies” is all you have to say after nearly hitting a man?

“Jake” was in the house for only 10 seconds, didn’t even bother checking the whole house.

This opening is so boring that my foot fell asleep.

Was this the first take? There’s little to no emotion.

Grandpa Portman doesn’t sound like he’s dying. At all.

1943?! What’s the point of changing the date?!

Also, what’s the point of changing his last words which were a lot more mysterious?

C’mon dude, your grandpa just died! Show some emotion!!

Why do the hollows look like Slenderman rip-offs?

Dr. Golan’s a woman? I’m fine with this – but I won’t be later.

“A month ago,”? Wasn’t it more than a few months until he finally sought help? (I haven’t read the book in a while)

Asa is still a bit flat but he’s doing better in these scenes.

Tiny Jacob is super cute!

His acting is bad, though. This is a given for child actors.

The dad is an ornithologist. He wouldn’t change a bird documentary to a football game (although that was a bit funny.)

Why does Miss Peregrine look so young? In the book, she looks more like a mother waiting for her children to give her some goddamn grandkids.

Bronwyn is 9 now I guess.

Hugh is 11 now I guess.

“Where’s Emma? She could float.” SHE COULD NOT.

Grandpa Portman sounds more English than Polish. Throwing in a Polish nickname doesn’t convince me that he’s Polish.

“Little tiger”? He called him “Yakob.”

“No eyes,” in the book, Jacob tells a sketch artist that they have 2 like a normal mammal. This may be personal taste, but for me, monsters are scarier when they look more human.

Kids this age wouldn’t laugh! They’d see the picture of Millard and go “Holy shit! He’s invisible!” Kids are gullible, dammit. (I had this problem with the book as well.)

Funny how younger!Jacob dresses exactly like Asa.

Damn, kid, he said he didn’t want to talk about it! Chill!

Still 0 emotion, I guess.

“He was a wonderful grandpa, but not… such a great dad, you know?” Damn, that hits home for me – but doesn’t this talk happen later in the book? Like, this talk happens at the island.

Wait, the scene just ends there? No argument? Damn, Jake just doesn’t care that his dad is smack talking his idol.

JESUS fuckin’ twins.

Jacob’s cousins were brats and I believe teenagers as well, so why are they perfect lil’ angel twins that look 10 at the oldest?

Also, why is Jacob’s house so small? His mom is an heiress to a Wal-Mart type store-chain.

Cairnholm is apparently popular enough to warrant postcards.

And popular enough to warrant a spot in a travel book, wtf? It’s not even big enough to be seen on a map.

The dad looking at Jake like he’s crazy gives me life lmfao.

Cairnholm is 100% my aesthetic.

Where’s Kev???

What? But… Uncle Oggie is a relative of Martin?

Didn’t imagine Kev looking like that but okay.

Franklin is me trying to make friends tbh.

I’m so glad Worm and M.C. Dirty D made it in.

Aren’t the residents like… a bit afraid of the home themselves?

Aesthetic™

Wait, what? Oggie can see? He looks blind.

1943? At that point, Germany was taking a more defensive stance, doing lots of evacuating.

“And they were lovely, too.” In the book, Uncle Oggie claims they were strange and rarely spoke.

“3 months later”? He left the day after the loop was created!

Is that the dart competition I keep seeing on Vine?

Wait, why is Enoch there? I know they fucked with his character a lot but he probably joined after the loop was created since he’s from an older loop, otherwise he’d age forward ~30-40 years – so why is he next to (who I presume is) Abe, who left after the loop was made? (or in this case, before!)

Enoch’s little laboratory was in the basement, not upstairs.

The twins might’ve been in the loop at some point, but they certainly aren’t there when Jacob arrives.

Wait, so instead of chasing after them, he runs away? Jake’s a pussy.

And he trips and gets knocked unconscious by a rock. Wow.

Bronwyn, despite being the wrong age and having no personality, is at least cute and it’s fun to watch her carry Jake.

Why is Millard so tiny? You can say that his age is ambiguous, but in the book Jacob clearly states that his voice sounds like that of a young man’s, not a young child’s.

“You’re Emma!” (John Cena voice) Are you sure about that?

Why is Olive, like, 16? She’s supposed to be 7-9 years old (and ofc she has Emma’s powers instead.)

“She sent us to get you”? Why, though?

Standing there all creepy ain’t gonna make him want to follow you.

Jake doesn’t seem to see the change in the weather.

“I am the manager” reminds me of that one Tumblr comic.

Ngl, Millard would do this – if just for fun. He’s a little shit like that.

What’s the point of lighting the place on fire? They’re distracted enough.

Did they just steal someone’s horse?

Millard no longer has any personality out of “Yeah” and “Yep.”

Emma is not nearly bitchy enough. Or at all.

The house is gorgeous! It looks just like I imagined it!

What the fuck, why is Miss Peregrine so young? I know I mentioned this before but what the fuck.

“Right on time”?

“I had to kill them twice this month” WHAT. MISS PEREGRINE DOESN’T KILL UNLESS NECESSARY

Miss Peregrine is not nearly this creepy in the book.

THAT’S NOT ENOCH.

Why does he sound mildly Scottish? He’s from London and has a slight cockney accent.

From now own, every time I see Enoch, 5 years are taken off my life.

Why is Fiona 11 and English? She’s supposed to be in her late teens and Irish – not to mention, SHE DOESN’T TALK!

I don’t think Fiona’s powers make things huge.

“Imm-breen” it’s “imm-brinn”

Do the twins have names?

Claire looks cute!

I don’t think Millard, no matter his age, would be very interested in physical activity. He’s a brains over brawn kind of type, you know?

Kind of uncharacteristic of Hugh to send his bees after a friend.

I’m gonna cry. At least one of my babies looks right.

Horace feels… off. All the components of his personality are certainly there, but in different degrees than in the book.

I’m sorry, what? A daily chore that’s reset by the loop? Miss P, these are kids and teenagers! They’ll get bored of doing that every day! I know because I am a teenager!

That squirrel would be going crazy and scratching her up. I know this is a nitpick but squirrels are vicious, man.

Was this scene the only reason they swapped Emma and Olive’s peculiarities?

Why are her shoes so hard to take off? What if she has to get away in an emergency? She’s fucked!

Why’s it so hard to pull her down?

Emma doesn’t seem to heartbroken over Abe’s death. In the book, she bawled upon overhearing that he died.

This dialogue barely hints at Emma and Abe having a romantic relationship, making only people who read the book know this information. Non-book readers might just assume they were close friends.

Of course, instead of borrowing Victor’s clothes he has to borrow Abe’s.

God, am I the only one that hates looking at Finlay? He’s not ugly – a bit handsome actually! -- he’s just… kind of weird looking.

So… Olive is good friends with Enoch? Don’t get how they got that out of the book when they have no interactions in the first book.

His dolls are meant to be made of clay! Now he just looks like an older Sid.

The stop motion is terrible.

So, they care enough about Enoch’s character to remember that his parents ran a funeral parlor, but not enough to make him his actual character.

Did he not see Millard’s silverware moving? Did no one see it?

So, Enoch is clearly mad at the statement Horace made, so why hold back your retort by whispering? Was he sick on this day of filming?

No one needs that much carrot.

Hugh’s been living there for 70 years; pretty sure he’d never forget to put his net on.

Wait, so he remembered to bring it with him, but not to put it on?

S L U R M P

“She’s embarrassed in front of Jake.” Uh, Hugh, I think you flubbed your line, it’s “Claire don’t eat with the rest of us.”

Oh, thank god, she has the same peculiarity.

I’m crying, Claire is so adorable!

Enoch’s a bigger asshole than I remember him being in the books.

Although it wasn’t in the book, I do like the inclusion of the call from Abe. It makes no sense whatsoever, but I still like it.

Would Horace really be comfortable sharing his dreams – especially via projector?

“Some of his dreams are prophetic,” shouldn’t ‘some’ be ‘most’? Everyone’s dreams can hold some form of future-telling, albeit in an abstract way. If only some of his dreams are prophetic, that barely makes him peculiar.

I don’t get why Horace’s dreams are at all symbolic. They should be literal.

Why did he see Ms. Avocet get kidnapped when she, in fact, didn’t?

“Horace must’ve just had a bad dream, that’s all.” HIS DREAMS ARE PROPHETIC.

Wait, so they have a phonograph outside? And it works?

Why make Miss P creepier, but tone down the creepiness of the reset scene? Think of it: 9 children you barely know wearing gasmasks are singing an old song you don’t know to the tune of bombs falling. That’s a lot scarier than listening to the song on a phonograph.

I just remembered: they never offered the reason why Cairnholm gets bombed. In the book, it’s stated that the island had a sort of anti-aircraft gun which made it a target, but here the Germans simply bomb it to be seen as more evil than they already are.

I do admit, the reset scene does look beautiful.

Jake doesn’t seem as terrified, though.

Emma learning about cellphones is pretty cute.

And we’re back to talking about Abe.

“More than a few minutes,” it’s closer to hours, days even if we’re going by Library of Souls.

Already with Ms. Avocet?

(Cinema Sins voice) Jake’s dad reminds me too much of my own father in this scene.

Okay, so I’m assuming “Mr. Barron” is some wight higher-up? I know he’s not, but for the sake of the notes let’s pretend I don’t know.

Man, he really is my dad. He acts all weird and pretends like nothing happened later.

Who dresses like that in the 21st century!? I like the aesthetic too, but you don’t see me walking around in a Rococo period dress.

No one talks like this either.

That fuckin’ dart competition’s going to get me every time.

Who the fuck rests on their bed with their shoes on?

Bronwyn is cute but… I can’t get over the fact they made her younger and erased her character.

Would it kill someone to say, “Can we try that take again?”

WHY did they make Miss Peregrine so creepy? She was never this creepy!

Yeah, and he’s trying to warn you of potential danger. Also, can I ask where the fuck he got that letter?

Every time I see Finlay’s face a deep hatred resurfaces from the darkest corners of my heart.

All the kids in that room together just chilling is cute.

OKAY THIS IS WHAT PISSES ME OFF. I know for a damn fact that Enoch would never be mean to someone who was kind to him.

In the book, Bronwyn wanted nothing more than for Enoch to wake up Victor but go off I guess.

According to the timeline, HE SHOULD BARELY KNOW ABE.

That’s not how he brings them back to life, though? It’s not like he’s doing heart surgery, it’s more like he’s just gonna smell like death (literally) for most of the day.

Enoch being there as Jake realizes Victor’s dead really takes out a lot of the punch from the scene. Having him show up afterwards (like in the book) is better since it’s more like ‘Realization -> Confrontation’ instead of just… explaining and scaring.

I don’t know if Tim’s ever been around a normal human being before but usually you don’t see their heartbeat.

Okay, so… he can’t bring people back to life, only use them as puppets. First off, that’s gross, and second, that’s a nearly useless peculiarity.

How can tears roll down Victor’s cheek if he’s never conscious anymore? Dead people are known to shed tears, but it’s after they die and are decomposing, and Victor can’t decompose because he’s in a loop!

Does Miss P just do that on a regular basis?

Wasn’t that a rowboat?

That’s carbon dioxide, you can’t breathe that.

How is she swimming? Wouldn’t she just walk? She has lead shoes on!

I don’t think skeletons keep their hair.

Well how the hell does that work?

“Air, it’s my peculiarity.” No, it is not.

I’d rather trust a bunch of information I don’t want the people I love knowing with an adult, but okay.

Wait, so Emma has the Map of Days now?! It was stressed countless times in the trilogy how much Millard loves that damn thing and you give it to EMMA?!

Okay, WHAT? Barron is the leader now!? I guess Miss Peregrine’s brothers just don’t exist now!

“Bad peculiars”? They’re ex-peculiars, because they don’t have powers anymore!

They took the kids, too, you know.

Wait, while they’re at it, didn’t this conversation take place at night?

Just tell him how Abe could see monsters, then he’ll believe. No need to be dramatic.

Hollowgasts sure as fuck would not loop along with the townspeople, they’d be free to roam around or they’d get left behind. Also, Victor died AFTER the loop was made! He got tired of living there and tried to leave and died THIS IS SUCH A SIMPLE STORY TIM.

Did I mention that I hate how the hollowgasts look?

You could have told him earlier but okay.

I don’t remember any of this from the book.

“Tired of living in loops.” Caul was tired of peculiardom being a ‘matriarchy.’ Yes, there were some problems with how peculiar boys who could turn into birds were treated but overall Caul was crazy and narcissistic.

I guess there are only 13 wights, opposed to hundreds or even thousands.

Also, why are they all upper-class? I’d assume a lot would be lower.

Didn’t they also blow up half of Siberia?

EYEBALLS? It’s from consuming their souls! I guess Tim just wanted to put in some ugly ass imagery.

Wait, why are they still eating? They’re fine now!

Almost forgot Millard was in this fucking movie.

But they weren’t even going to try it again! It was a ploy! And why hold it where a normal person could find it!?

This ‘leaving’ bullshit pisses me off because it’s breaking so many fucking rules. Hollows can’t enter loops so leaving is more dangerous than staying, which is what she chose to do in the book!

Claire is so cute.

Makes a bit more sense that an old blind man on his own died than a healthy, (I’m assuming) mid-age museum curator but okay.

This is probably the dumbest thing Jake has ever done. Surely, he knows that normal people can go in, but that they can’t enter through the loop, right? And he could potentially also be a danger, so why call out to him?

This reveal isn’t nearly as powerful as the one in the book. By doing his other voices from previous identities he’d taken before to watch over Jacob, he intimidated him and by finally revealing himself as Dr. Golan, he immediately made the one normal person that Jacob felt a bit safe around a danger and in that moment, he realizes what he had done by telling him everything.

Okay, here’s why I’m pissed they made Dr. Golan a woman. Reason 1 is because it shows that Tim wanted to make the wights really overpowered by letting them keep their peculiarites, and reason 2 (separate of reason 1) is because they didn’t make the rest of their identities women. Like just make a lady ornithologist and have her be a peculiar who can turn into a bird but can’t control time, making her feel self-worth incredibly low and hate ymbrynes. It took me a minute to think this up, Tim.

That’s not how you take off contacts.

Did this fucker really think he could take on an adult?

Hollowgasts can’t enter loops but okay.

This is a bit of a nitpick but the fact that Jake was used as a hostage instead of Hugh just shows how much they didn’t give a shit about the other kids unless they had a relationship cookin’ for them.

So, she has a crossbow, but she’ll just go down without a fight? That’s not like her at all!

This is NOT the time to be petty, Wal-Mart brand Enoch.

I just realized that Horace has like 4 lines and now I’m sad.

I would be so happy that instead of turning into a bird and leaving that Miss Peregrine just fucking decked him. It’s a lot more in character than just letting them take her.

I don’t remember Miss Peregrine trusting a 16-year-old with the lives of 9 kids but okay.

One of the few good things this movie brought me was a peregrine falcon sound so I could look it up and see if it was accurate. I then found a video of a sweet old man filming a peregrine falcon’s call and providing quiet commentary. Just felt that was worth mentioning.

Since when did Jacob become good at strategy?

Cute scene, but it means nothing to me.

Okay I guess Miss Avocet never mattered.

Just destroy Wal-Mart brand Enoch, please.

Why does Fiona have the most lines out of the neglected kids? She only had 2 lines in the whole book!

That bomb would be enough to take care of it, but okay go ahead and shoot it.

Olive seems pretty in-control of her peculiarity, so why give her gloves?

“It’s only 6 months old.” What?

Time travel is bullshit. Also, I don’t think it works like that?

“I know you’ll choose Abe.” Well, duh, I’d rather see my grandfather again than some cute girl I met a few days ago that barely even seems to like me that well.

Okay, so the movie I’m watching is really choppy and cuts at random parts and it just cut in the middle of a sentence Wal-Mart brand Enoch was saying and I couldn’t be happier.

Yeah, but the loop entrances are usually in places normal people won’t go. (ex. Miss P’s loop entrance, Miss Thrush’s loop entrance, etc.) Seems dumb to put it on a ride. Imagine sending your kids on there and when the cart comes back one of them is missing?

Okay, so there’s only 4 hollows and 6 wights left according to the movie. Why are they all so afraid of them then?!

In the book, a lot of them were trained to handle guns, and in the movie they still have their peculiarities – so WHY are they not attacking Emma as soon as they see her!?

I’m pretty sure that in the book Jacob had been seeing Dr. Golan much longer than 3 weeks.

Yeah, Florida’s a hellhole, to be quite honest.

I guess no one cares about a floating girl in the sky. I don’t see any iPhone’s out recording.

Never mind, I see one (1). I should see much more, though.

How would the hearts stay in the skeletons? There’s nothing for them to hold onto.

Is there no staff at this place?

How are these skeletons in general staying together?

This fight is pretty dangerous. They’re exposing normal people to peculiardom.

Okay, so now the wights use their peculiarities to fight.

Horace saved lives at least 3 times but I guess he’s just useless now according to the movie.

Man, Tim, you sure did a good job of creating strong female characters! /s

How is Mr. Barron not dead? She lifted the boat out of water and the closer you get to the bottom of the ocean the more pressure you’ve gotta deal with.

3 cheers for this forced romance! Hip-hip! (Boo)

This 16-year-old doesn’t need to tell these women what to do.

Why is Miss Peregrine in a different cage?

I guess Barron just had some blue eye contacts on him.

How did the hollow get down there?

I guess Jake’s a perfect shot now, since it’s convenient.

(vomit noises)

Again, time travel is bullshit. Wouldn’t there be another Jake walking around?

Wait, they’re still there?

Hurray for more terrible loop entrances!

In the book, this would be the second time they had kissed but okay.

Never knew that birds could just be stationary while in the sky.

Wait, so she just… keeps her clothes? Trust me, I don’t want to see a naked woman in something other than an art piece or otherwise but that was a rule that they had in the book.

Well that was a load of shit. At least with the ending there can’t be a sequel.

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It’s Beer Day in Britain. Where are your children? Likely with you at the pub.

By William Booth, Washington Post, June 15, 2018

ST. ALBANS, England--Cheers, it’s “Beer Day Britain!” Not that anyone here really needs a marketing ploy as an excuse, mind you. It could be National Jellied Eels Day, and the pubs would be packed in Britain on a sunny Friday afternoon in June.

This ancient Cathedral city, about an hour’s drive north of London, harbors the oldest continuous site of Christian worship in Britain--and boasts more pubs per capita than any town in England, and that’s saying something.

But these are anxious days for the British pub and its fans.

The number of pubs has been in decline for years, as the traditional taverns fall victim to myriad forces, from corporatized “global beer” conglomeration to steep business tax rates to the more moderate drinking habits of Generation X--versus their thirsty coal-mining, steel-smelting, shipbuilding forebears.

About 18 pubs close every week in Britain, reports Katie Wiles of the Campaign for Real Ale, which champions traditional beers and pubs. The group commissioned a 2016 study by the University of Oxford’s department of experimental psychology that found Brits who have a “local,” a neighborhood pub they frequent enough to get a nod when they walk through the door, are “happier,” more “connected” and “more trusting of others” (especially after they’ve had a pint or two; it’s in the study).

There are about 25,000 fewer pubs in Britain now than there were in the 1970s.

But there’s still 50,000 of them left.

“A pub closing is big drama for the people involved, no doubt, but this is Britain, and there will always be thousands and thousands of pubs,” said Fiona Stapley, editor of the “Good Pub Guide ,” which reviews 5,000 drinking establishments each year.

“You could say that before, there were probably too many pubs,” Stapley added. “And many were not run as well as they could have been.”

There’s other goodish news, too, for beer people.

There are more breweries operating in Britain today--about 2,000--than in any time since the 1930s. There’s a revival in “real ales” fermented in casks and pumped by hand into a pint glass. And there are more craft beers--thanks to the influence of the United States, which kicked off the movement of hoppy, zingy brews.

In the past, many postwar pubs served pickled eggs, if you were lucky. Today, they’ve gone “gastro,” serving pedigreed burgers on brioche buns and locally sourced hake in artisan beer batter. A few gastropubs have earned Michelin stars.

The decline in pub numbers draws headlines, but Sean Hughes, landlord of The Boot in St. Albans, promised, “It’s all going to be okay.”

“These are challenging times, to be sure,” said Hughes, who was happy to spend an hour discussing those challenges. For example, he said, two-thirds of the price of a pint goes to pay taxes--business, beer and value-added.

And supermarkets? Don’t get Hughes started on how grocery chains in Britain sell the discounted lager and $6 bottles of French plonk that are killing convivial, community-minded public drinking in pubs and encouraging imbibers to huddle at home alone, grimly sucking down their cups while watching “Love Island.”

“But the British pub, especially the independent British pub? Never been better,” Hughes said. “Better beer, better food, better atmosphere.”

Before his family took over The Boot 15 years ago, “this was a hellhole,” Hughes said. The pub served a single brand of low-market beer, vodka and gin--and that was it. Dining options? Peanuts, Hughes said.

Now there are 15 beers and pâté, plus fish & chips & etc.

A fellow publican named Christo Tofalli walked a Washington Post reporter down the block past the Cathedral and toward the ruins of the old Roman city. He pointed at a row of little brick Victorians with flower boxes, now selling as homes, shops and offices for close to $750,000 each.

“That was a pub. That was a pub. That was a pub.” He turned. “This was a pub. This was a pub ...”

Maybe six pubs on one short street were a couple too many?

Tofalli agreed.

Near the River Ver, we came upon his pub, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, which dates to the 11th century and is a heavily beamed, octagonal structure with a blackened fireplace.

Before? “It was a dump,” he said. “It stank.” Shuttered for nine months before he bought it in 2012, the Fighting Cocks now represents the modern, traditional British tavern that survives in the 2018 pub culture.

Gone are the mostly male patrons who came in for a couple of beers at lunch and a couple more after work. Tofalli has provided “pram parking” for his customers and a kids menu.

The Good Pub Guide finds that kids and Muzak are the top complaints these days. But “the landlords are welcoming because they have to be... because these are the pub crawlers of the future,” guide editor Stapley said.

“The financial people go to the gym at lunch, not the pub,” Tofalli said.

“Then eat sushi,” Hughes said.

“In the old days, any fool could go into a pub and afford a drink. Now? In an affluent area?” Tofalli asked. “It’s a luxury. A treat.”

Asked about the future, Tofalli said he’s thinking of opening another pub soon.