#S3 ep 44

[the-chessboard-is-personal]

people have hyped this up so much I'm scared (ii s2 post-s3 liveblog)

(/silly)

ahem. hi. post-watch Knight here, with a big tw: there is a suicide mention and intense death wishing at the end of this post. you can guess who it's directed towards but if you've already seen the episodes I don't think you'll get it wrong.

since there's only 3 episodes this one is going to work slightly differently, I'll have Big Text separating each of them and timestamp each different part of the liveblog. there will also be screenshots.

15:

(intro) wait Taco's trying to steal the win without even being a contestant? (4:48) "Don't Mention That Again" I've said it before it just feels like he speaks in capitalized words sometimes

(5:08) song?? THE SONG FUCKING SLAPS???

(8:02) hold on a moment I need to do someth[finds the song in isolation and adds it to the playlist Good Music]

(10:19) taco!! come on, bringing up beef at the show!

(12:48) "yes :)" oh what a bitch /affectionate

(15:49) tbh I agree with Knife here, if everyone respawns anyway, why is murder so bad? (<- building a death game in Minecraft)

(18:01) DAMNN holy shit, to think this isn't even canonically a scripted game, for Taco to say that?! aough

(19:45) HUH?? TACO CRACKED??? oh. OH she- she fucking died from stress- literally. oh shit. I- tbh I...can relate. I did that once. long story and I can't explain it here but.... holy shit.

(22:46) he's on a platform! MePad teleported him onto a platform!

(27:44) MePhone giving the "next time is the finale" speech rneanwhile there's two episode lef- oh shit

- after episode -

well that was a fucking cliffhanger. OH. MY. what!! WHAT!! COBS?? oh yeah also I don't hate Taco anymore. and the outro music slaps sdgkjhf

oh fuck I'm scared, onto the next episode!

16:

(1:00) HOKAY WELP RIGHT INTO ACTION. that was the same MePhone 3 from 4's memories wasn't it? were those other ones MePhone 2s??

(1:39) hough the parallels, I love this episode so far

(2:38) [his literal worst enemy is repeatedly trying to contact him directly] MePhone 4: [treats it like a minor annoyance]

oh also YIPPEE YINYANG IS THERE!!

(4:17) "are you offering?" lmao I wouldn't have even asked-

uhh

..? why is s3 so bad for Suitcase to hear about..?

(5:30) WHy is he HERE??

(7:28) what HEY IS PICKLE GONE FROM THE INTRO

(15:22) OH IT'S THE GUY. OH IT'S THE GUY o h OJ!! oagh but like. imagine that with humans. your friend starts panicking at something you can't hear or see, screams and then sUDDENLY THEIR FUCKING FACE IS GONE. that would be a neat analog horror actually

(18:32) he's just like me. he's just like me for real,, (<- also has trigger words)

(21:30) OH FUCK HE GOT NICKEL TOO

(23:42) wait- first Pickle then OJ, Nickel- no but OJ never got eliminated in s1. hm.

(25:30) wait- doesn't quite know what a frown looks like? d- does that rnean- wait wait nonono that was Cherry that yeeted Marshmallow-

(27:17) wait WAIT THIS HAPPENED WITH CABBY TOO DO NONE OF THEM HAVE PARENTS?? 27:27 no. nonon NO DON'T SAY IT DON'T YOU DARE DON';T YOU FCUKING DARE TELL ME [unpauses] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAKDSGJFK AGDFJKHAT'S WHY FAN GHLITCHEDD ADJKGF JAHLOUIAHF OSJHLKF HLA

- after episode -

OH MY HOUSEMATE WAS RIGH T I'M GONNA BR EA K OHH WHAT THE HELLfuck

hokay. okay. okayokayokaoyuayojoaykokoykaoykaokaoauuauhghhh

I am sane. I am normal. that's how he knows things. I need a break- okay so after like an hour, onto the next ep! wait is this the finale-

17:

(1:39) WHA- oh I misheard Knife as Knight.

(2:10) NO NOT TEST TUBE! (3:50) oh they're all going to-

(5:14) NO DON'T YOU DARE

,..,,.,why them,.., b.. but,theyre my favorites,,.

(11:34) wait they need to get that wire out of MePhone. that would stop MePhone X, right? but he doesn't know that..shit

(13:08) yeaAHHWHAT- oh. oh what

(15:14) let me guess Paintbrush got X'd while Fan was rambling. oh nvm. OH THE OTHER EGG IS PART OF MEPHONE 4?? oh that almost made me cry too- welp there goes lightbulb

(17:47) HUH??????????????? TOILET?????? wh a t .the fuck

(21:17) "cause that was pretty reductive!" oh they addressed it!

(22:48) o h. wh- what the HELL IS COBS'S PROBLEM?? LIKE WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM DOES HE NOT THINK MEPHONE4 IS ACTUALLY SENTIENT OR SOMETHING? DOES HE LIKE TORTURING HIM? EVERYONE'S FUCKING DEAD

(25:40) ohh no.. Bow probably can't be X'd anyway, does she really have to do. that. to someone .....sighhh. if Apple's okay with that happening (somehow) I guess it's not as scary. I won't understand the opinion but I don't really need to tbh.

(sorry no more timestamps I watched the whole rest of it speechless)

- after episode -

I- wh-

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but- he-

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he- but he just- there was no- winner- Cobs- what about MePhone 3GS?? what abou-

h. hold on

hold on I need to. make an editr ealquick. just

relworld cursor editor almost crashed trying to save this

[just-slightly-chayotic]

call me by fire ep. 0

(youtube link)

i watched it so you don't have to. and also because i like trashy reality tv sometimes.

the premise of the entire show: 31 contestans, 5 competitions, double trials. they "compete for the third-generation family seats" (i think it's like the top 5 places or something?). they focus on "singing, dancing, composing and performing".

ep. 0: introductions and picking opponents for the preliminary competition.

the preliminary competition: 31 members divided into 10 groups for 1 vs 1 battle, with a total of 5 battles. the opponents were picked by chance (mostly. it's complicated. don't worry about it).

they have 100 minutes to prepare the performances. the five winning teams will be challenged by one other artist they invited (if he surpasses any of the teams he joins cmbf s3, if not he leaves).

the member ranked first in the winning group becomes the MVP and gets priority in choosing songs.

Jeff's appearances:

he appears for a bit at 20:44

32:22 - the interview (he was really cute)

35:25

38:18

a glimpse at 39:10

41:10 he talks to some of the others in english

41:46

another glimpse at 45:34 (he looks confused because the guy they're all greeting was in an accident where he got severely injured and he's still recovering so they're all impressed to see him)

47:14 a shot of everyone, he's in the front left

55:13 Jeff's team gets matched with their opponents (the "i'm hungry" line. as a kimchay fan i'm biting him)

56:23 another glimpse

i don't know why Jeff is in the vocal-dance group but his "special moves" are vocal, phin and thai. they each get their most famous work listed under their name - that's why "Fade" is there.

Jeff is in the "young ones" group (as one of the other contestants called them), most of the other participants are much older. and the participants range from actors to singers to models to dancers.

Jeff's team got matched with the dancers as their opponents.

overall opinion:

the contestants seem charismatic and likeable (no surprise there, with all of them having 10 years and more of experience in the industry). but i don't get the reason why most of them are participating? i think it's mainly to either have a break-through or because their careers are slowing down and they want advertising? this is my opinion, i don't know enough about any of them to really guess.

the english subtitles are surprisingly good.

i was continuously reminding myself that this is not the Jeff show because i kept pouting that he's not appearing on screen very often :(

would i watch this if Jeff wasn't in it? probably not. but Jeff is in it and my clownery knows no bounds so here we are.

[kaythefloppa]

EoA Timeline Headcanon:

I am pretty sure I burnt a few brain cells putting everything together, but thesis: Elena of Avalor's birthday/coronation is in June.

According to Elena in The Magic Within, Shuriki's takeover happened during Carnaval season, which is February-March.

I originally assumed that this meant Elena's birthday was before Carnaval, as she was already 16 when the assassination of Raul and Lucia around that time had taken place.

But then Season 3 proved me wrong... twice. Because after The Magic Within, we immediately jump to Flower of Life, Dia De Los Muertos... in fucking November. That leaves only 2-4 months for the rest of the season to take place.

The second think that denies Elena being born before Carnaval is Dia De Las Madres, Mother's Day, which occurs in May, after Carnaval season. Yet her coronation is after Mother's Day.

Meaning that Elena's birthday cannot be in the first half of the year. Carnaval and Dia De Las Madres have to come before, no matter what.

It then hit me. They say Elena was 16 when she was trapped in the Amulet, but perhaps it was her 17th year, but not officially her birthday. So her birthday could be after Carnaval season. It would also still make sense of Ash's "44 years" comment, since it's been 44 years since Shuriki took over (i.e. 3 years since Elena returned) whilst not necessarily Elena's birthday (in which she'd be 19 by that special but I digress).

So to recap:

Carnaval season happens, shortly before Elena's 17th birthday. Elena never biologically turns 17 due to Shuriki imprisoning her in the Amulet of Avalor.

Elena returns to Avalor, still 16. This is during the summertime, according to James, Amber and Sofia, so either not long before, or not long after, what would've been her 57th birthday. Her actual 17th birthday would not occur until sometime after King of the Carnaval. And since her birthday takes place after Mother's Day, we can assume she was born in June, as we start preparing for her coronation right after S3's Mother's Day ep.

Season 1 takes place over the course of a year, ending at Realm of the Jaquins, which takes place one year after Elena was freed from the Amulet and became Crown Princess. So either way, we're in Elena's 17th year (non-chronologically). Though I like to think her birthday has passed, probably by a few weeks or so. It would most definitely have to come after King of the Carnaval anyway you slice it.

Season 2 begins with Dia De Los Muertos: I.e. November. So we're like, almost half a year's away from her birthday, (and in her song she does indeed confirm she's 17.

From Royal Rivalry to A Lava Story, we are now in her 18th year. since there's no way all that shit happens in under one month.

Then comes Song of the Sirenas, which takes place during the summertime, i.e. after Carnaval. I make the assumption that we are exactly 2 years out since Secret of Avalor since everyone celebrates Elena besting Shuriki, and the Flores are on summer vacation, but regardless, both Carnaval, Dia De Las Madres, and Elena's 18th birthday.

The Nueva Vista arc maxes out for over 5 months. We arrive there in the summertime, then in the second-to-last episode of the vacation arc, we're at the 3rd Dia De Los Muertos episode, once again in November. Two episodes later, Snow Place Like Home, Noche Buenos, one month later in December.

The following episodes, from Two Left Fins to Flower of Life, take place in Elena's 19th year.

The Magic Within occurs during Carnaval. Ash states that Esteban served as chancellor for 44 years. The show began 41 years since Shuriki's rule, so we've added an additional 3 years here. Meaning Elena is 18 but in her 19th year.

Flower of Life takes place in November of that year, roughly 8-9 months after Carnaval. Both Dia De Las Madres and Elena's 19th birthday have passed, and we're at the end of her 19th year. And seeing as we later see Hannukah being celebrated, I think that Festival of Lights would take place one month later, (in spite of the episode ordering) as that is when the holiday is celebrated (correct me if I am wrong).

The following episodes after that are in Elena's 20th year.

We get Dia De Las Madres in May. This means we've passed Carnaval season (the fourth one in Elena's reign).

From Heart of the Jaguar to To Queen or Not to Queen, we get heavy emphasis on Elena's coronation being an event that is coming soon. So we can infer that those episodes take place during the early summertime after May. The last 3 episodes are in the same week, so we can assume that they all take place in June, when Elena's 20th birthday arrives. It's also safe to assume her coronation is during the summertime since the Enchancian royal family are able to visit Avalor during that time again.

To sum it up

Elena's birthday is most likely during the summertime: You could frankly chalk it up however you want, June, July, August, or even early September. I go with June because it's somewhat fitting that her birthday is smack dab in the middle of the year, but you could also say it's in August, especially as a meta-reference to how the finale aired in August.

Conclusion #2: Shuriki is SO going to hell for making Elena wait 42 years before she could turn 17.

Season 1 takes place over the course of one full year, including the Sofia crossover.

The Shuriki arc in Season 2 takes place over the course of 7 months: (if you're counting Realm of the Jaquins in S1, as part of the arc, then over the course of another full year).

The Ash Delgado/Takaina arc lasts over the course of 6-9 months (I'm counting the episodes before Ash herself appears in Season 2).

The Esteban story arc lasts for over a year and a half.

I did the math. All of this would add up to roughly 52 months. Four years. Which is canonically said in the show, but this is my interpretation of how those four years went down in terms of a events on a calendar.

Feel free to debate me with this because it is 1 A.M. and I am tired.

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Dragon Prince Soundtrack Timestamps (Season 1)

I was curious ab when each song in the Dragon Prince soundtrack played soooooo here's a masterlist ig???

also shoutout to Frederik Wiedmann for being incredible

Season 1:

The Dragon Prince- Main Title: literally before every ep S1-S3

End Credits- The Power to Change Everything: after every ep

Ep 1; Echoes of Thunder:

Long Ago, in Xadia (0:17)

Brothers (3:51)

Mercy (5:36)

The Jelly Tart Heist (10:30)

My Heart for Xadia (17:17)

Ep 2; What Is Done:

Sheer Courage (8:32)

Not That Simple (10:54)

Ep 3; Moonrise:

Last Sunset (1:34)

Smoky Seekers (7:40)

Moonlight Battle (15:50)

Up to Us Now (19:33)

A Message of Death (22:05)

Ep 4; Bloodthirsty:

Valley of Graves (2:24)

Pyre (4:06)

Ep 5; An Empty Throne:

Hello, Sister (10:39)

All the Bad Feelings (12:20)

Doubtful Intentions (15:18)

Ep 6; Through the Ice:

Snow-nami (16:43)

Through the Ice (21:51)

Ep 7; The Dagger and the Wolf:

Miracle on the Cursed Caldera (17:28)

It's a Fun Spell (20:52)

The Other Bad News (23:02)

Ep 8; Cursed Caldera:

A Huger, Scarier Monster (10:44)

Flash, Woof, Zap, Slash! (19:01)

Worse Than Death (21:46)

Ep 9; Wonderstorm:

Turn Back (6:30)

Do Not Touch Those Webs (9:01)

The Jerk Face Dance (13:24)

Guardian of the Moon Nexus (14:41)

Fading Quickly (17:26)

Azymondias (21:35)

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Let me see if I have this right

I leave Tumblr alone for ~9 hours to have a fun day with my friend and partner

I log back onto the hell site to discover that 

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MC

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ME????????

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#4

BABY STOLAS’ LITTLE LAUGH COOS

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#2

hey ya’ll hold up

ok so in S1 we see Five in the post apocalyptic city wandering around right. He then comes across the rubble of the auditorium that his siblings are buried under. Cool ok

so its revealed in S3 that Klaus can revive himself correct?

so was Five wandering the Earth alone ALONG with Klaus???

both thinking that they are the only one left???

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Hi did any one else do the math in the new Helluva Boss ep?

Like Stolas is ~36 and Octavia is 17. Which means me as n i n e t e e n when he had a kid. Like WTF Paimon!

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[mammalsofaction]

Even just from a world building and meta textual perspective, AT2D kicks absolute ass. You have VERY good taste my friend. If you're curious as to some good subtextual dark angst in the series though, (present possibilities, we exclude Heinz's tragic backstories for now), here's some good rewatch recommendations in a new light:

Cranius Maximus, S3, EP45: Is an entertaining twist on the A-plot C-plot routine. Here, the kids design a brain stimulator for Baljeet bc he thinks he got dumb over the summer. Long story short, he essentially became a mad scientist who tried to shift earth's atmosphere to the moon so he could analyse the stars better. It would have left the earth with NO atmosphere, and the whole episode was a tongue in cheek secret agent vs evil scientist roleplay....down to the trapping, decoys and monologuing. If Baljeet had won, we could've severely endangered the earth in general, and Phineas and Ferb would've been trapped and suffered knowing that THEY were indirectly responsible for that harm.

Undercover Carl, S2, EP42: Francis Monogram accused Carl of not being pro-active enough in his work performance review, and in a state of panic to prove him otherwise, Carl doctors a bunch of statements by Phineas to make him sound like he and his friends planned to help Dr Doofenshmirtz take over Tri State Area. Knowing Perry would be enraged if he found out they suspected his host family of wrong doing, they sent Agent P on a wild goose chase while Carl is sent undercover to find out what the kids were planning. The kids were VERY sweet and welcoming of this suspicious stranger, and he had so much fun with the invention of the day (an anti-gravity device) he forgets to check in with a VERY convinced and concerned Francis at an appropriate time. Francis reacts by dropping by the Flynn Fletcher house personally to check, and Carl hurriedly assures him he'd miscalculated in his earlier assumptions. Just at the nick of time....because Francis had summoned the SWAT army to apprehend the backyard gang. Carl had almost sent a bunch of innocent 10-year olds into OWCAtraz (a high security level detaining facility for the state's worst prisoners)...and Perry would have been none the wiser.

Where's Perry (1) and (2), S3, EPS 55 and 56 ; WP is definitely a gem not talked about enough in sheer angst potential. From an A plot, the backyard gang nearly falls to their death down a steep ravine at one point and their families wouldnt have figured it out, bc even Candace had embraced the jungle and left civilised society (she couldnt find signal for her phone). From a C plot perspective, Carl accidentally gets shot with the Make Everything Evil Inator, taking down OWCA from the inside and jailing all the agents, including Francis. He needed Perry's paw print for something, i think to access all of OWCA's tech all through the state as part of his plan to take over the Tri State Area. He had Perry hunted down with robot lookalikes of his own family, who had instructions to either capture him alive if possible, but cutting off his arm would do in a pinch.

Night of the Living Pharmacists, S4, EP 44: if you're part of the fandom, you'd know we have sung PRAISES about the angst potential of NOTLP. Where do i start. Its basically the dawn of a zombie apocalypse AU. There's no where to begin: the backyard gang get separated from the Fireside Girls and Isabella early on, and they quest to find each other while they lose survivors, one by one. The backyard gang loses Baljeet first, then Buford, Ferb, and finally Phineas. Candace finds out about Perry being a secret agent, before she goes, then Vanessa, then finally Perry himself, and Heinz bore witness to all of it, since he was immune. The three surviving witnesses by the end was Isabella, Doof and Stacy before they figured out the cure. They save the day....but the plague had spread beyond Danville. The entire world, in that case, had been zombified. In that timeline, Danville remains as the only Sanctuary. 10/10, give it a looksie.

Phineas and Ferb, Star Wars Special, S4, EP41: Ferb gets hit with the Sith Inator, which is the Star Wars-ified take on the Make Everything Evil Inator. Theres a scene where he tries to convince Phineas to join him on the dark side, and when he refuses, there is a fight to the death. Not actual death, its a happy ending (duh), but the angsty subtextual layers of the brainwashing is insane 🫡🫡🫡👍

Cheer Up, Candace, S2, EP29: The A plot is light and silly. Perry was fighting for his life tho, literally. Heinz had made a bunch of robotic Perry clones and sent them all to wreck havoc all over town to frame Perry for evil. OWCA attempts to apprehend Perry and send him to jail, and basically Perry had to hide from the agency AND his family while he finds Heinz to figure what was up and clear his own name. At DEI, he was forced up against DOZENS of extremely violent personal clones who were each beating him into submission. The angsty subtext is insane, bc what do you mean he was on the run from his own AGENCY, and he couldnt go home to spare his family, the two things he'd ever known, betrayed by a man he'd thought of as friend. If he'd lost at any point, his options were jail, death or indentured servitude to evil. And not to mention he would never see his family again.

The Remains of the Platypus, S3, EP34: This one's a bit unsettling, due to the non-linear storytelling, but its VERY fascinating and i beg you to give it a chance. Perry's shot with a Butler Inator, making him Heinz's evil minion and indentured servant. Again, Love some good brainwashing ethics.

Some more Honorable mentions for angst/potential angst because I could honestly be here all day:

Phineas and Ferb Save Summer

Primal Perry

No More Bunny Business

Return of the Rogue Rabbit

Meapless in Seattle (less angst, but there IS a brewing intergalactic war)

Phineas and Ferb and the temple of Juatchadoon (also less angst, though some betrayal happens)

Does anyone else think about how Phineas and Ferb basically doomed the universe to slowly loose all air in that episode with the tower or just me?

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Yugioh S3 Ep 44-45: Bakura‘s Back for More of This Nonsense

Man, I can’t believe we’re closing in on the 4th season of this show (still in shock I’m still able to make these.) Seems like just yesterday I felt like I had no idea what was happening, and now I’m like “they put in freakin Sans into Smash but not Bakura???” I’ve become one of those people now.

It’s been interesting how, because I have slowed down to watch these, I think I’ve been able to have a much more positive experience with the show. People have been talking about how binging has kind of changed TV from a place where fandoms could chat to a place where...you just watch it all in a weekend and hope no one spoils it and then wait for the next big thing to consume a week later.

But, when you’re watching a 15 year old anime you don’t have to worry about any of that. So it’s like a kind of nostalgic experience of a pre-streaming era despite the fact I’m totally streaming this.

But back to the show, now that the deep and reflective moments for Marik are over, my favorite storyboarder went home and left the rest of this to the night team who are clearly in a real rush to get this all finished. Again, the Yugioh whiplash is going from that high of “damn this is so goo-” then to the reality that the rest of the art direction in this show is “-acceptable. I meant to say acceptable. It’s perfectly acceptable”

Yugi Muto is still strung up by weird shadow magic restraints that must also be around his legs for some reason. I mean...it wouldn’t be so kinky if it wasn't also around his feet. More bits and pieces of Our Boy have been removed over the course of this endless card game, and he’s doing pretty good considering.

Joey has decided he’s had Enough Of These Damn Ghosts.

And so Marik decided that he’s been shamed by Joey Wheeler enough that he will just go away like Joey asks. This may be the only person who was actually bothered enough by Joey Wheeler to walk away in all of Yugioh.

(read more under the cut)

They....

Legit no one told her what had just happened.

They........

Just want to note that while Yugi’s leg burst out a stream of weird purple gas and Yugi screamed in pain, when his crotch disappeared, he did nothing but patiently look over at Pharaoh, who awkwardly winced. I guess the animation team knew better than to animate gas exploding out of that one particular spot, but it is still a rather funny contrast.

Marik has achieved his final form of so many veins, and it is a still frame every time it’s on screen. You cannot animate this. You cannot.

On the other end of the field, Odion has somehow made it down these extremely steep stairs, only to look up and see so many more stairs.

And back on the field is so many cards. So many cards, including the Card Poem. This awful Card Poem I tried so hard to forget.

Bro brings up that maybe this poem sounds way cooler in Japanese but like...I doubt it, right? Like this was a poem that the writers threw together in 5 minutes and were like “we’re never going to actually say the shame poem, right?”

But anyway more cards things happen but why talk about cards when this eventually happens.

I feel like Pharaoh was attempting to use Shadow Magic on Marik like just a few episodes ago so he could have done something now but...maybe he forgot? I dunno. Pharaoh didn’t feel like participating in this particular fight, maybe because his alter ego is holding on to life solely by having extra long emo bangs to count as lifepoints.

and so, Odion gives Marik a pep talk--and I kid you not, this is all Marik needed the entire time.

Yeah.

That was it.

Like maybe Odion had to be awake since Odion has a spell or whatever on Marik but still it’s like...all you had to do was say “This guy is not even a person, Marik--you are the person, just nix him and we’re good”

And so the two alter ego’s fight with eachother in the same body and that must have been a treat for everyone watching.

Man, it’s a good thing Mokuba already has so many PTSD situations under his several belts up to this point, because otherwise I’d be somewhat concerned about this very young kid who is privy to all this type of magical abominations every time his brother just wants to play cards.

and then...Yugi plays a bunch of cards and...um......

......don’t ask me what happened........

After the big group hug, Marik and Marik switch places.

This was because bad Marik was fused with a monster card--which turned bad-Marik into...the definition of a Monster.

So, if you kill the monster card then you can...

...switch places with your alternate half...

...yes...

Basically it’s a more complicated version of what Pharaoh did to Ryou and Bakura in S1, except in S1, Bakura played Ryou as a card and Pharaoh just slammed his hands on the table and was like “Screw it, Bakura! I’m so tired of this! We’re all so individually tired of this! I’m just going to use my Shadow Magic and switch you with Ryou and then we’re all going the HELL BACK TO BED!”

This time it just had to be so much more complicated although we have seen Pharaoh willy nilly switch souls before just two seasons ago.

So, just like Bakura did to his evil side in S1, Marik banishes his evil side to the shadow realm in a card game.

Which worked super good last time, amiright?

I guess we’re all just going to assume that this works now? Even though this absolutely did not work in season 1? Like Bakura went right back to a life of murder immediately?

Then again, Bakura’s an actual dude, and Marik’s alter Ego was a figment of his anger or something?????? Maybe that’s the difference? Maybe that’s why we can be rest assured that this works now?

Maybe they’re just tired of the Marik plot line and are like “listen, he’s kind of hard to draw and we don’t want to do it anymore. He’s dead now.”

For realsies though, from what I’ve been told, Marik never goes cray again and gracefully exits the show. But, if they ever want to continue Yugioh back in this direction, you can just have him snap at any time you feel like, we all know this type of exorcism is wholly reversible.

Anyway, the clouds are lifted and we are reminded that it is still hardly even lunch time.

It is at this point that Marik turns to his Brother and his Sister, who all three have no world skills outside of scamming museums and filtering sewer water, and waxes long about all the great times they’re about to have in the future.

Like what future though? You have to go to 20 years of actual real deal school, Marik, you can only read one Egyptian text. Hell knows how many people you possessed in order to get that motorcycle permit. You for sure aren’t ever allowed to play cards ever again. Like what are you going to do, Marik?

...dude what if he just goes back on the boat and just sails away for the rest of his life with his cultists who are equally unqualified to live in the real modern world. OMG what if that’s the real Marik’s Boat Time all along?

Ah. 

I almost forgot about you, Bakura.

Just in time for the British Bake Off to start updating episodes on Netflix, just in time, Bakura.

And following this is actual real thing that happened which, if you told me about, I would have just assumed was a joke or an edit to make it appear like this is happening. But no, it’s strip time.

the hell?

Yo can you believe that like a week ago I was like quoting “One Week” for kicks in these recaps and then this week Marik is, indeed, “in the history of taking off his shirt” ?

Anyway, Marik reminds us that his only purpose in life is to uh...be a book. A book that no one can read because Pharaoh didn’t have the foresight 5000 years ago that no one would be speaking Egyptian anymore and also that his reincarnation would be a 14-16 yo Japanese boy who’s entire brain power is used for selecting cards and selecting matching belts.

I just...Pharaoh’s mind must have been in a real place 5000 years ago and that was before he ever became a ghost.

Also, it is kind of amazing how many times it has come up how illiterate Pharaoh is over the past season and he still hasn’t decided to do anything about it. Like, he’s just kind of hoping that someone else (probably Kaiba) will feed the answer to him like a baby because that’s just how this show has been up to now.

In this case he has a one-ness moment with the tablet and gets the sense of “It’s fine, we’ll figure this out later” which um...

I’m really happy that in this scene, Pharaoh is still tripping balls but everyone else is so used to him doing stuff like this, they just completely ignore it.

So glad I had 2 seasons to build up this back tatt in order to figure out that Marik’s back didn’t help Pharaoh at all. The tablet yes, the back tattoo--no, completely unnecessary. Congrats, Pharaoh’s mole people servants, you screwed up and did this weird ass ceremony on 12 yo’s for 5000 years trapped underground for NO REASON.

Anyways, preteens rejoice, Marik without a shirt is randomly 10 lbs more buffed now, which I’m pretty sure was never a thing when he was wearing that itty bitty pink hoodie. Like maybe the animators are just used to really buffed anime and this is them toning it the hell down, but uh...no actual 16 year olds will ever look like this, sorry to break it to you, preteens.

Man, the horny line running through this show lol.

Letsee, Yugi now has the puzzle, Ishizu’s necklace, the Ring, the Rod, the...

...where’s the freakin eyeball?

Did...where is it? Where is the nastiest of the golden objects?

Did Bakura never bring the eye with him to this trip? Like...is it just hanging out in his desk at home near his secret stash he super hopes that his Mom doesn’t find?

Guys, where’s the eyeball?

Anyway, now that Mokuba has decided Seto can feel joy and smile again, he gives Seto the A-OK to blow the hell out of this moneypit island that has already been violently blown up just a few years previously.

Like this begs the question, why even build this tower if you wanted to blow it up? But then again, that is the equivalent to a small child that builds block towers just to knocks them over, right? Like that part of Seto just never grew up?

So........

My bro, while looking this over, gave me the best spicy bro headcanon I’ve ever heard, and it’s absolutely too ridiculous for this blog that is mostly about what actually happens in the course of this show, but I’mma gonna share it with you anyway. I’m pretty sure this isn’t a common headcanon, but if my bro got it from some random fic he read off Ao3, I don’t know any better. So bro kinda squints at Roland, Seto Kaiba’s most incompetent bodyguard (if “bodyguard” is even an accurate description for the weird fake not-a-job that this guy has to do) and is like “do you feel like Roland has Noah’s hair color?”

and I was like “Bro, if you are suggesting that Roland is the illegitimate son of Gozobura because his hair is the same shade as the darker parts of Noah’s hair, that is one wild headcanon and I love it”

So--using Bro’s logic, lets say Gozaboro had a really stupid illegitimate son he had to hide from his wife. So he just...gives him a fake job. Considers “maybe I can use this son on A.I. Noah?” but Roland ends up being too much of a dumbass to intimidate Noah, so instead, he keeps Roland around on low-tier jobs so he gets keep an eye on him, torture him, etc.

And as the company falls out around him, Roland gets slowly promoted, as Seto and Mokuba fire basically everyone who worked with Pegasus and the Big 5. And Roland, who is just so bad at everything, forgot to attend the Pegasus coup (and would have no idea what is ever happening), so when the Kaibas returned from Pegasus’ island they still have Roland...sitting there at that long table covered in 4 identical idiot salads and orange juice he laid out for them in his patchy green moustache and his huge Gozaburo shoulders, they’re like “well.....I guess we have to take care of him now.”

And that’s the story my brother has in his head now every time Roland is on screen. It’s not canon at all that Roland is the secret 4th Kaiba brother but damn. What if he’s just the 4th Kaiba brother but has no idea, and Mokuba and Seto do, and that’s why they drag him all over the world with them? Hilarious.

I mean...Seto and Mokuba fire everyone. But they don’t fire Roland, their biggest dumbass. What a headcanon. (and if this joke ends up being real I’ll be very happy)

ALSO, new thing, the necklaces around their necks with the cute picture of eachother that they had up till now to remind eachother of their forever brotherly love--also keys used to blow up things very violently.

I should have expected this.

Anyway, lets check up on Mai---oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Y’all this was WEIRD.

WHAT. THE. HELL.

So after that extremely insensitive joke that made us doubt if bringing back Mai was a good thing, lets have a reminder that we brought back someone else even worse, who, like a parasite, was devouring everything that they love.

(Bakura’s font color has been changed to blue stripes because before he was just too similar to Joey’s yellow and my white. Eventually I will find the right system for coloring everyone’s font legibly, although I know that the patterns are sometimes harder to read for people that aren’t colorblind.)

Ah, local nasty boy is back. I’d love if they had shown more of the food he ate, but they wisely decided to crop that huge spread out of frame. Bakura eating all of the donuts is canon though. Somehow every donut aboard this blimp fit inside of that small boy’s endless stomach.

PS Kaiba Corp makes their own milk. At some point, Seto Kaiba was just leaning back into his work chair, Mokuba on the couch watching TV, Roland completely unable to reload the Keurig, and Seto was like “But what if...I made CHEESE.” (BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THESE KIDS LOVE CHEESE) and Mokuba was like “OMG you could sell the company back to them at 2 times the price for each share” and he was like “I KNOW.”

and so he marched down to the nearest cheese fields to buy some cows, only to find out that the agriculture market is so strained you can’t sell the shares at a times-two profit now and he‘s like “Ah dammit! I have to do real business! This freakin blows!”

Makes you think.

Anyway, then Ryou throws some shade at us about “PS, I was in Hell! I love you, too!”

Anyway, so it’s about time we ended this season, so how about it? How about we take off, watch it all blow up as a symbolic representation of all the hopes and dreams Kaiba had at the beginning of this tourney, and end this crazy ass season?

Oh wait, that relies on Roland being able to do even one thing competently.

So, that’s where we leave off.

Really truly, honestly, we need to get everyone on this show matching cuff radios because the number of times they’ve needed to call Kaiba is insurmountable. Could have solved so many problems. Really surprised that Roland can’t like...call the Kaibas right now, but now that I think about it, we clarified several episodes ago that Mokuba forcibly kicked Roland off of the radio because he was unable to work it properly.

Good job Roland, the best Kaiba son.

Anyway if you just got here this is a link to read just the Yugioh recaps in chrono order

[shirosaa]

[kindasortaameyzing]

anyone else hear what sounded like The Rains of Castamere the background of Charles Dance’s speech as Lord Mountbatten in the Crown?? 

[okamiwolven]

ppl were saying he didnt react to hange gettin hurt in the ep n i havent seen anyone show this but he actually did so here it is lads, 

[thebuttsmcgee]

fhaBFBSBSABDBWBD

[liesoverthec]

I don't know if you've paid any attention to this but do you know the official ages of the main characters? You've always paid attention to little details so i feel like you'd be the right person to ask this to.

Hi anon! ❤️ I’m SO SO sorry this took so long!

I appreciate you thinking of me for this - I have in fact paid attention to this 😂 I know about the general age of some characters, and I know within a year of others (depending on when their birthday is they may have aged up already!)

Bobby - 54. He says in the pilot that he’s 50 years old, and so you figure he’s at least 54 by now, if not 55 if his birthday was between January (when the pilot aired) and now!

Athena - mid 50s. In Athena Begins, I feel like it’s safe to assume she’s around 22 or 23, since she’s in law school but not close to finishing (and I really don’t think she took a gap year), and that was 1989, so she was *probably* born around 1966-67. Which would put her around 54-55 right now, which fits with how old Bobby is!

Hen - 41. She says in Future Tense that she joined med school at 40 (if she’s not rounding for dramatics). Since she got into med school last year in the s3 finale, I’d say 41 now. If she did just say 40 bc it was easy, I’d still say she’s between 39-42 now, bc she’d have to be close in age to 40 to round so automatically like that imo. But at this point I’m going with a simple 41.

Chim - Late 30s to early, early 40s. Chim is one of the two I really don’t have a good idea on. Chimney Begins is set in 2005, and he’s at least 21, since we see him drinking beer in that episode. So he was born sometime before 1984, which would make him 36 right now if he was exactly 21 then, but I think he’s a little older than that, since he’s been working in the bar for a while before the fire. I can’t remember any other details that would give him a more specific age, so if someone does and can provide them I would love to add them! Personally I’d say 39-40, bc I think he’s a little older than Maddie but not by much. I can say however that he has a March birthday! EDIT - thanks to the wonderful @shannon-diaz who remembered that we see Chim’s birthday on his license in 2x10 (you can see the pic provided in the notes!) HOWEVER! I want to make a disclaimer (which I would like to emphasize is not me trying to argue against the lovely Ann at all, she’s absolutely right about this, I just wanna say this) - they have already been changing Chim’s birthday since then, since the license says 10/20/1977 and they’ve since moved his birthday to March. So it’s absolutely possible that they’ve decided to change his age as well. BUT! At the point this was shown, they’d already committed to Madney becoming a thing, so it’s likely they thought about how old Maddie and Chim were in relation to one another. What I don’t know is if they thought about Maddie’s age before then, or if they put it off until they had to during the Daniel arc. All of this is to say - right now, as of end of s4, the best info we have says Chim is 44. But I could also absolutely see the writers pulling a switcharoo on the poor props crew and changing his age, since they’ve already discarded the birth date. So I say, go forth and know that Chim is 44! But also please don’t get mad at me if that information changes in the future 😂

Buck - 29. During the entire Buck Begins arc, they say multiple times that the family has been hiding a secret from him for 29 years, etc etc. In the Valentine’s Day ep in s1, Abby says Buck is 26. And in Kids Today (the opener to s3) Maddie specifically mentions he’s 28. So I’m most sure about Buck, out of everyone, esp since Oliver himself is 29. I think he’s the character where they’re sticking closest to the actor’s actual age.

Maddie - around 37. We know Maddie was 9 when Daniel died (Chim says she made the promise to not talk about Daniel when she was 9). Since Daniel died a little over a year after Buck was born, that puts Maddie around 8 at the time Buck was born, making her 37 to Buck’s 29 as of right now. Also, in ep 4 of s4, her mom mentions her being a “high risk pregnancy” since she’s over 35, but specifically does not say she’s over 40. So 37 or 38 for her. (Side note - Maddie is older than Daniel by between 1.5 to 2 years, since she says Daniel died when he was 7.) like I said, I’m most positive about Buck’s age but Maddie’s is a close second.

Eddie - early 30s? I also have no idea about him. My personal best guess would be 33, since that’s how old Ryan Guzman is now, and they’ve never in my recollection said anything to indicate a different age for him! (Same thing here as goes for Chim - if anyone can remember something let me know!) Note - I’ve been thinking on this a while and I actually feel pretty good about 31-33. We know Chris was born in 2011, so he’s turning 10 sometime soon, and that would make Eddie somewhere between 21-23 when he was born, which I feel fits with a timeline of him taking time to work with his dad after high school, and then joining the army, doing basic, and getting deployed all in time to get leave for Christopher’s birth.

And there’s all 7 mains! I’m going to link this in a bullet point in the next character details post, so if anyone wants to add information for Chim or Eddie (preferably with an episode number and/or scene so that I can verify it), I’ll edit this post and give you credit, so that way when I link this post, people will be able to see it all in one place, and the edits w credit will be in the tag for everyone to see!

Also all of these ages are as of right now, end of s4. If you want to write future fic or fic for a past season you’ll want to add or subtract years accordingly!

Thanks for the question, anon - putting together the “age puzzle” is like my favorite kind of challenge!

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*dripping snot* th-there's o-only one more episode until hiatus of god knows how long and then s3 is only 3 44-minute ep (that's 6 normal episodes) what am i gonna doooooo....

[multimetaverse]

thoughts on the doafp season 2 trailer?

It looks like S2 will be great. I was impressed by how little evidence of covid restrictions there were; that will definitely help the series age well. I thought it was likely that Sam would move in and I’m excited to see how that plays out. The mother-daughter growing apart angst is going to be brutal to watch but there's a lot the writers can do with it. Interesting that they’re focusing so much on Melissa’s redemption right off the bat and that they’re also introducing a school play story line. I’m withholding judgement on the use of Gina Rodriguez as Elena’s conscience but it does make sense to increase her role since she’s by far the most famous cast member.

I was very pleasantly surprised that the trailer focused so much on Bobby’s story line. The biggest shock was that they included a brief shot of Bobby and CJ smiling at each other in the high school hallway. I’ve thought that CJ is a likely choice to be Bobby’s real love interest ever since it became clear last fall that Donovin Miller had joined the cast. He’s the right age, non-white, and only shows up in 2x06 which is very late but makes sense if CJ and his role in Bobby’s story line is subject to Disney restrictions that straight characters don’t have to worry about. It’s interesting that CJ is featured in the part of the trailer where Elena talks about being there for others and lifting them up, it strongly suggests that CJ will be a positive influence on Bobby. A lot of the Bobby clips look pretty angsty and with CJ only first appearing in 2x06 I’ve speculated that there could be a shift in Bobby’s story line then or an old one wraps up and CJ helps launch a new one. 

That scene of Bobby walking at night with Liam is almost certainly Bobby coming out to Liam in 2x10, a scene which Brandon has been hyping up for a while. Nathan was also on set that night but perhaps he leaves earlier or joins later. There’s also the possibility that Bobby comes out to Danny earlier but it’s hard to tell which ep that could be since Danny is in every ep except 2x09 this season. Of course, it could also be a misdirect and Bobby decides he’s not ready to tell him yet. I’m shocked that Danny somehow found out that Bobby had a crush, on what he thinks was a girl, back in 7th grade. I can’t wait to see how that comes up, did Bobby let something slip or were they talking about Monyca? Also I think that Bobby on the blue couch is him talking to Cami about struggling to come out which I’m sure will be well done. I’d love to see Cami coming out to her own parents but I really don’t know if Disney will allow that when it looks like the writers already have quite a bit packed in to Bobby’s coming out arc. 

We’ll also go a long way to finding out whether Brandon has been hyping Cartero because he has been explicitly told that Liam is meant to be bisexual regardless of whether Disney ever allows it or whether he’s been projecting his own bisexuality onto Liam without any basis in reality. That being said, I don’t think we’ll actually get canon Cobby or Cartero this season and any canon relationship for Bobby would only come in the 3rd season if they’re lucky enough to get one. Back in the fall Ilana liked a tweet that said writers should normalize interracial relationships that don’t involve a white person and I think she’s applying that to Bobby’s story line and that we can rule out his love interest being white. It’s a bold move for a Disney show since even most of their straight interracial relationships involve one white person. Not to mention Disney has a poor track record of how they treat their black male characters, something Doafp seems determined to improve on. 

There’s also the unfortunate fact that there will be limits on what Disney allows but I’m confident that the show will make history with Bobby coming out to his family and friends by season’s end. There will be a price to pay for all this lgbtq rep and I think the show being released all at once which will likely doom any hopes of S3 is part of that. Disney did something similar with The Owl House which is the only Disney show to surpass Doafp’s level of lgbtq rep, the show was cancelled and the 3rd season will consist of only three 44 minutes eps (if you haven’t watched The Owl House yet you should, it’s a hoot). 

The trailer seems to confirm what was evident from the cast’s social media posts while filming, that Ziggy only has a very small role and is largely absent. Presumably he goes to another high school but it’s gonna be hard to reintegrate him back into the show if they get a S3 and he’s the only one who wasn’t around for Bobby’s coming out arc. We saw Tony Espinoza’s character on stage with Elena during the student rep speeches so he’s connected to that story in some fashion. Brogan Hall’s character Tripp is absent from the trailer but we know he’s in 5 eps, most in the first 6 eps of the season and he seems to be Elena’s main opponent in the student rep race. Also not much of Jessica and nothing of Joey. 

I’m curious to see how all these story lines fit into only 10 eps especially when so many of the recurring characters are in so many of the eps: Liam and Sasha are both in all 10 eps, Danny in 9, even Melissa is in 7 eps this season. Some story lines and characters will probably fall through the cracks. We know Ilana directed 2x09 so we’ll see if that’s a special ep. Fwiw Charlie on twitter said that his favourite eps were 2x03, 2x05, 2x07, and 2x09, presumably some of those eps focus on Bobby coming out to Cami and his family at least. 

I really hope that we get a miracle and Doafp gets a 3rd season but with the news that the Doogie Howser reboot is getting the standard weekly release starting in September it makes it more and more likely that Disney is airing all the eps at once just to burn them off. On the plus side the trailer on the official Disney twitter account has over 811 000 views as of me writing this so perhaps a proper advertising campaign could draw a larger audience if Disney is willing to put the effort in.