#Matt Genius

[high-queen-of-the-court]

[suaimhneas-gairid]

when the table reacts like this

[not-so-plus-ultra]

Its more Pulp art time because I have listened to to the new ep and I ! Have feelings ! :") Spoilers ahead if you haven't listened to The Searcher in the Shadows already (which you should do. Now. I am threatening you with buttons), continue at you own risk !

Thank Gravity for Episode 4 introducing my new favorite character Dakkar, he's a little creature to me and I adore him endlessly. Jesse did an AMAZING performance for him !!

I have never GASPED harder than I did while listening to this episode !! The whole Mags fam reveal was crazy, nobody hit me up until Ep 5 drops, maybe my jaw will have closed by then. Probably not

Anyway I have never seen two ugly siblings in pulp musicals fr 👇🏼

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

The difference between amphibia and the owl house is that amphibia is like if luz wasn't the protagonist but some kind of twist villain-adjacent morally grey chessmaster type of character who gets put in the electric chair as punishment for getting too distracted by the fantasy of it all

[missholloween]

The only characters that sing (and in a way, twist) the Great Astronomical Discoveries motif during TGMH apart from the Stratfords are Benjamin and John. And let me tell you, I love what they do with it.

Benjamin's take comes first, during Benjamin's Appartment/The Radiance. After days of listening to the Stratfords talk about their hoax, of seeing how they meticulously crafted their stories and the world clamor them, Benjamin has finally given up and is ready to betray the Stratfords. So, he invites Margaret to his appartment to reveal their hoax. Benjamin uses the same language he's learned from the Stratfords, and so, the great astronomical discoveries motif starts playing.

For the first time in the album, it's not a victorious melody: it doesn't sound grandious anymore, it doesn't have any build up, it's just Benjamin and a piano. Curt Mega's performance is really sober, as he's trying to cover up his own emotions. He only fails to do so in "to advance their own career", where he bitterly laughs, losing the beat for a second. Although a bass and another string section join for the climax they quickly go away, as Margaret also joins the sad melody. Even if Great Astronomical Discoveries brought the Stratfords fame and renown, it has also deceived and hurt many. It is satisfying to hear two of its victims sing it then.

That's also why, in John's Choice, it's Herschel's time to speak, we are expecting something similar to happen. The music stops, all the characters await, and Herschel starts to talk... And the melody is More Than This. It's subtle, and one may not notice it on their first listening or if they're not that familiar with the soundtrack. But then there's a crescendo, and John starts singing Great Astronomical Discoveries.

The passion, the energy, the love that comes from John's voice (in another amazing performance by Curt) blows away both the audience and the characters that were there. He has the same accompaniment as Rose and Samuel did, but there's a key difference: there's no harmonies. And it doesn't matter, because really, what a chilling performance. There's also something very poetic about John taking the Stratford's position and being in control of his story after all the hoax.

TL;DR I love the Great Astronomical Discoveries and everything Matt does with it in part 3 of TGMH. Curt totally kills it every time he sings it in any way <3

[escapismqueen]

Matt Berry should’ve won that Emmy and that’s just a fact

[annie-in-the-real-world]

PLEASE make “nah-uh honey” a thing I am begging

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

EWAN MITCHELL TALKS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COIN AND HOW IT WAS HIS IDEA TO INTRODUCE IT INTO THE PLOT.

"The coin was actually my idea. It was something that I kind of presented to David Hancock. I was like, this might be cool if one of the coins that was used for the map in episode one during the shadow council between Cole and Aemond. What if i could use one of those coins in episode three?."

[littlemodernbabe]

I’m a strong supporter of men’s chest hair! May it be there and may it be plentiful!!!!

[shewolfofvilnius]

oh my god

someone managed to extract that powerful but haunting music cue from dot and bubble from when the space racists refuse to go with the doctor

it's essentially a key-changed reprise of the main melody of The Long Song (made to sound more grim due to the plot) dating all the way back to Matt Smith's era.

[livingd3adqpid]

Matt with long hair; Mello with short hair.

[finndoesntwantthis]

Okay so the first time the Elite threatened to get a divorce was back in 2018 and let me tell you! If you didn’t live in the fandom at that time you may not know that we legit did not know if the group was going to break up for real or not.

They were all in bullet club, and it was Pre-All In, AEW not even on the cards at all. In story line, Cody was in the throws of trying to finish the job Adam Cole started in trying to draw a wedge between the Bucks and Ken and essentially steal the Young Bucks from Kenny and oust him entirely from being Bullet Club’s leader. At the same time Ibushi was back in NJPW, and Cody was trying to convince the Bucks that Ken cared more about him then he did about them, and he was the one who was going to leave them (also cody’s sexual obsession of Kenny era don’t get me started).

IN REAL LIFE, Bullet Club was at the most popular it had EVER been (thank you Elite) and WWE was pushing hard to hire them. Fans were split on whether they wanted them to sign cause that was like the dark ages of Vince buying up any indie talent that was good and throwing them to NXT (where at least they had good storylines and Matches like Adam Cole) or simply not using them well at all. The tag division also started not being used well so it was like, why would the Bucks sign to that. Basically nobody was sure that the Elite were going to get the respect/status/storylines that they deserved, so a lot of fans wanted them to stay in NJPW and ROH where they could continue to do whatever they wanted.

Knowing all of that, the Elite like the little monsters that they are, used the fact that nobody was sure what any of them were going to do, to hint at a possible break up forever because half would sign and half would stay. Like. We genuinely did not know if they were going to continue working together. So when the divorce story was put forth, emotions amongst fans were so high because we truly didn’t know if the outcome was going to be a permanent separation literally due to being at different companies.

Thankfully they never planned on signing, and the Golden Elite was formed, and All In happened, and that lead to AEW and now here we are.

So when I say this Divorce Era is more fun, I mean it’s purely entertainment and we don’t have to sit here and think this might be the last time we ever see them all work together lol this is genuinely just a fun story about the world’s messiest and most toxic polycule going through one of their phases, but the band isn’t gonna break up and be locked behind different walls at the end lol

[sundayiminlove]

yeah man i'm from

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Also totally just realized that Kim’s Nibbly wig having PIGTAILS was likely a direct reference to all the pig imagery both spread throughout Honey Queen and generally associated with Nibbly, and my mind is BLOWN.

[automatictrashwolf]

I love that Dariax's takeaway is that darkness hurts

[citizenerased77]

speeding up the infamous nme awards interview to make it 5x more chaotic than it already is