#i found a bunch of the episodes on youtube a few days ago and i watched like. three episodes
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knightsofrohan Ā· 2 months ago
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I NEED TO KNOW WHO ALSO WATCHED PINGU AS A KID because this show defined my childhood
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my five year old self thought this was the funniest shit ever
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holmesxwatson Ā· 1 year ago
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes dir: Billy Wilder, 1970
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I only watched The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes for the first time a few days ago but it lights my brain up in that special way that I know Iā€™ll revisit it a lot. Donā€™t get me wrong, itā€™s far from perfect, for one thing Colin Blakelyā€™s Watson is a little too shouty for me, but itā€™s very worthwhile to check out despite its shortcomings, which I think mostly come from the fact that so much was cut from the intended script.
I absolutely love Robert Stephens as Holmes. His face is so good, he has a way of looking at Watson when he doesnā€™t know heā€™s being observed that is very soft. I thought I was hallucinating the beginning of this movie with Holmes telling the ballet dancer heā€™s gay and in a relationship with Watson. I thought it was going to be played for a joke, and it was a bit, but it didnā€™t just end there. Holmes and Watson have a conversation about the repercussions in a lengthy scene that turns very serious by the end. I canā€™t believe this was 1970 and no one has since tried to build on this specific dynamic in a more meaningful way. Someone needs to remake this into a mini-series exactly how Billy Wilder intended it to be, hereā€™s hoping public domain can make it so.
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[above: script page from the cut story The Curious Case of the Upside Down Room, where Watson creates a fake case to make Holmes feel better]
Also, the backstory of the making of this film is so out of control: Robert Stephensā€™s nervous breakdown and suicide attempt during the production, the amount of years Billy Wilder was trying to write it and get it made, the interference of ACDā€™s son, the Loch Ness monster prop that the crew lost in actual Loch Ness, the immense scope of the episodic story they were going for, the way it got cut down from its original 3 hour 45 minute runtime and how that cut footage was lost forever! (this is crazy! everyone go check your attics and storage lockers right now).
In one of the interviews I found, Robert Stephens says ā€œif something is boring ā€” if itā€™s three minutes long itā€™s too long, but if itā€™s interesting itā€™s never long enoughā€¦you donā€™t want it to end.ā€ Big same Toby Stephensā€™ dad, big SAME. I didnā€™t want it to end. I read the uncut script and I am just floored at what we missed out on. Thankfully some footage and audio remain of some of the cut scenes (but still! check your basements too).
Just fully let it settle into your brain that they filmed all of these stories in the script, and then cut most of it away. Like that is mind-blowing to me, it existed at one point as it was fully intended to be. If this was made now during home entertainment times, they would have no problem releasing an almost four-hour movie, but at the very least there would be a big directorā€™s cut dvd release and we would be enjoying all the small Holmes x Watson moments we deserve.
Anyway, in pretty short order I found a bunch of interesting links to stuff, details below. I also consulted my very well-thumbed Conversations with Wilder book by Cameron Crowe, but there wasnā€™t that much more information in there. I have Robert Stephensā€™ memoir Knight Errant and the TPLOSH blu-ray on order so Iā€™ll add to this post if I find any more good resources. Let me know if Iā€™m missing anything, and enjoy!
Full movie on YouTube (x) <-update: this link went private, but it's also streaming for free on Tubi and Freevee, and available to rent on YouTube, Google Play, and Apple TV
Original roadshow draft of script on Internet Archive (x)
Missing footage: Prologue [sound only plus stills] (x), The Curious Case of the Upside Down Room [sound only plus stills] (x), The Dreadful Business of the Naked Honeymooners [footage and soundtrack only, no sound dialogue] (x), alternate ending [sound only] (x)
Making of documentary that includes behind-the-scenes snippets of some of the cut scenes [this doc is in German, but you can turn on the auto-translate to English in the YouTube settings] (x)
Interview with Ernst Walter, film editor of TPLOSH (x)
Interview with Christopher Lee ā€œMr. Holmes, Mr. Wilderā€ 2003 (x)
My YouTube playlist with all of the above links in one place plus an excellent fan vid by Just Bee that I added to the list because itā€™s just so good (x)
Missing Movies: A Case for Sherlock Holmes from 1994 BBC Radio 2 on Soundcloud [includes interview with Robert Stephens and folks involved in the production] (x)
Articles about the lost Loch Ness monster prop (x) (x)
The soundtrack by MiklĆ³s RĆ³zsa (x)
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shepscapades Ā· 1 year ago
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I have two minds to answer this, because part of me is going 'WE GOT EM!!! WE GOT EM!!' While the other part of me is like 'oh god how do I tell them. Whoā€™s going to tell them.' The easiest way I can explain: Tom, Ben, and Harry are not in a minecraft series together, and the lore that I have for them is not based in any actual series. HOWEVER. DONā€™T LET THE TRAGIC TRUTH MAKE YOU CLICK AWAY /silly so I can explain properly LMAO
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Hereā€™s a TLDR for anyone who likes these guys and is a lil interested in them!!
Most of the lore for these three is based on an amalgamation of inside jokes, non-minecraft character trends, and general yogs minecraft world lore!
Tom was an editor (now has a YouTube channel, AngoryTom) and did behind-the-scenes minecraft prep for the Yogscast for so long that he was never really interested in any actual "main channel" series besides [Dig Site - 10 episodes] with Simon, Lewis, and Ben, and [Skyblock - 2 episodes] with Ben! Although heā€™s also played several npcs throughout various main channel series since he was helping run the show lol. My take on his character is that heā€™s a former yoglabs employee due to [YOGLABS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION] and now lives his laziest life ever in an undisclosed remote location. Heā€™s also the demigod of death but heā€™ll never tell
Ben started doing main series mc content a few years ago, but hasnā€™t done anything mc with Tom and Harry until recently (see below)! His character is a Shark Hybrid due to [YOGLABS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION] who now lives with Tom at the same undisclosed remote location.
Harry has been an insane speedrunning minecraft legend for ages, but was never in any main series content bc heā€™s actually a graphic designer for the yogs. But he was part of Iskallā€™s twitch vault hunter event back in November, and heā€™s now in the [Vault Hunter Series - Ongoing] with Ben and Duncan on YouTube! <3 so thereā€™s plenty of mc content of Harry and Ben, but not so much Tom. c!Harry has lived remote for as long as he can remember, locked in Hardcore, untilā€¦?
But again, I base their backstories on a bunch of kinda loosely connected lore dots that are half based on jokes <3
Below the read more includes: links to clips, compilations, and very brief lore explanations (though you can check my other lore drawings in Tomā€™s tag (#Angory Tom), Benā€™s tag (#bedgar), Harryā€™s tag (#brryhrry) or posts that have any of them, which should be under the (#the outcast trio) tag)!
BEN AND TOM
Iā€™ve been in love with Ben and Tom as a duo forever, since the TTT (modded Trouble in Terrorist Town) days, where Benā€™s player model was Left Shark, and Tomā€™s model was Emperor Palpatine (yes from Star Wars. I canā€™t stand them). But Ben and Tom have been yogs editors and Behind The Scenes guys forever, so it wasnā€™t until more recently that they became known personalities in the main yogscast circle (4-5 years is pretty recent in the 10+ years of yogs content timeline LMAO).
Through Warhammer streams and behind the scenes stuff, I kinda fell in love with their chemistry and idiocy, and they worked so well with the ā€œmain castā€ that I just had to put them in the yogs minecraft universe, somewhere. Turns out, Tom had actually done a majority of the "behind the scenes" work for the Yoglabs series (he built a majority of the main building, did mod research and testing, was present during recordings to make sure things went well, stuff like that) so it only made sense to have his character be the Right Hand Man/ Behind The Scenes Assistant to Xephos (Lewis), the Morally Questionable Head of Yoglabs.
For anyone whoā€™s unfamiliar with Yoglabs, itā€™s one of the yogsā€™ more famous series featuring Simon (Honeydew) and Lewis (Xephos) where they tested mods! more info can be found here!
c!Tom also ended up as a Lumian (the fanon alien space species for the yogs fandom, vaguely inspired by Star Trek Vulcans) because of a one-off joke where one of the Yogs artists drew him as a star trek commander, and I really didnā€™t need any further reason to make him a weird little guy LDKFJG
As far as the ā€œdemigod of deathā€ thing goes, it felt right to give him a lore thing that vaguely coordinated with the whole ā€œEmporer Palpatineā€ vibe, since thatā€™s kinda the mc skin heā€™s used most recently. Thereā€™s another reason there that I donā€™t think Iā€™ve properly explained, so Iā€™ll leave the rest of that be for now ;]
Ben, on the other hand, plays a shark character in pretty much every video game he ever participates in, so shark hybrid was a pretty obvious way to go. And of course, since the duo had to be in the same placeā€¦ involving Benā€™s shark Hybrid-ness with yoglabs experimentation made good sense and good angst. What can I say :]
Here are the bigger lore posts Iā€™ve made so far (in the order i posted them i believe!), explaining in a little more detail plus art to go with! :] [x] [x] [x]
HARRY
Harry is kinda known as the yogscastā€™s token memelord? But in the ironic way. He somehow makes it genuinely hilarious idk man. His humor is very dry, witty, and sarcastic, but heā€™s a sweetheart and kind of a god at minecraft. Iā€™ve been arguing since day one that this man should be in mcc but we wonā€™t go there
There aren't many solo harry compilations, so here's a link to a Harry and Ben compilation hehe
Regarding his minecraft lore, pretty much all of it is based around the idea that heā€™s a god at speedrunning and hardcore Minecraft. A common consensus in yogscast minecraft lore is that respawning is actually a Yoglabs-based mechanic tied to clones and clone making. I thought it would be interesting if Harry could be tied to a hardcore element in the yogs lore purely by having Somehow slid under yoglabsā€™ radar. And since he was never in any main channel (aka modded) series, i usually associate him with Vanilla mechanics, and since i also view mods as a Yoglabs-related lore element, it made sense! So basicallyā€” no clones, no respawns, no mods!
except that heā€™s in a main channel series now. So Iā€™ll need to find a new lore reason around that DTBJDFGHK
And his design, wellā€¦ this manā€™s skin is straight up Mr Mime, and thereā€™s only so much I can do with that /silly But heā€™s a HUGE PokĆ©mon fan! Heā€™s played a couple of Disaster Nuzlockes with Lydia from the yogs a year or so ago, if thatā€™s something youā€™re interested in! Was a huge comfort series for me for the longest time and rly good background noise, theyre soooo good at PokĆ©mon I promise <3
Harry does more twitch stuff (hrry on twitch) than youtube stuff, so twitch is the best place to check him out if you're interested in his solo content!
Last thing I'll say about him is that he designed and ran an original minecraft minigame called "Capture the Wool" and he and Martyn are the hosts for a few episodes i think! i dont think there's any way to explain how entertaining it is to listen to him announce the chaos of yogs members trying to play competitive minecraft LOL
Um, so. TLDRā€¦2, These guys are basically my ocs and now I get Actual minecraft content from them which is crazy. I love them as content creators and cool guys so so much though, so! Definitely recommend listening to these idiots (affectionate) babble and ramble to each other, mc or not <3
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amailboxlemur Ā· 5 months ago
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Three years ago today I watched Young Royals for the first time.
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Story time/long post incoming. I wasnā€™t in a great headspace at the time, but let me try to set the scene.
Spring of 2021 was still pretty deep in the pandemic. My province had been on lockdown (number 3) since the beginning of April and I hated working from home. Partly because teaching online piano lessons sucks. But also I live alone, and lockdown is too much alone time no matter how introverted you are. I think that spring I went about 6 weeks without speaking to someone in person who wasnā€™t like a grocery store cashier.
I decided to go stay with my parents for a few weeks so I could get some human interaction. At the time, I was mooching off my former roommateā€™s Netflix that was still signed in to our living room TV, so I didnā€™t have Netflix access.
I also love Red White and Royal Blue, and all of a sudden in early July the fandom got flooded. There were gifs of two unfamiliar teenage boys all over my dash. Fanart of two boys who looked like Alex and Henry captioned ā€œWilhelm and Simonā€. There were a bunch of crossover fics popping up on AO3. I was curious, but mostly I just wanted to get a feel for the characters so I could read said crossover fics.
July 12th was my first day back teaching in person. (Side note: the health precautions we had in place for those lessons were WILD). I came back from my parents place in the morning, taught in the late afternoon/evening and returned home around 8 pm. I made supper and figured Iā€™d try watching an episode of this ā€œYoung Royalsā€ thing. I started it and remember groaning when I realized it was in Swedish so Iā€™d have to focus and read subtitles instead of watching mindlessly (Iā€™m too pretentious to watch the dubbed version, but it had been a long day)
ā€œOh thatā€™s a beautiful boy with a beautiful voice singingā€¦ I can keep goingā€¦ā€
ā€œOhhh theyā€™re about to kissā€¦ wait what? How does episode 1 just end there??? I have to watch another episode!ā€
ā€œYay they finally kissed!! But how will Wilhelm react?? Itā€™s not even 11 yet, I think I can watch one moreā€
ā€œErik is dead. I knew this was coming because I saw the ā€œbeta read but Erikā€™s still deadā€ tag on AO3 but totally forgot! How will this affect my boys?? One more episode, just to see if wilhelm pushes Simon away againā€
ā€œOk good, theyā€™re together. August sucks though, I can see where this is going and why there seem to be so many comparisons to rwrb. But itā€™s past midnight so Iā€™ll have to keep watching tomorrowā€¦ wait thereā€™s only two more episodes?? Might as well finishā€
Before I knew it, it was 2 am and I was crying on my living room couch. I NEVER get into new shows, I have tons of things I watched 1-3 episodes of and then quit, so I couldnā€™t believe I binged the entire thing. It was late so I went to sleep.
In the morning I woke up and the rabbit hole began. I read all the fics on AO3, I started following young royals stuff on tumblr. I googled the actor who played Simon and found out heā€™s an actual Swedish pop star? I think he was among the first artists I followed using my then brand new Spotify account. I followed both Omar and Edvin on instagram, along with Lisa (other actors followed later). I watched all the young royals promo videos on YouTube, including the Hillerska choir performance. That entire summer was spent diving down Omarā€™s back catalog of Foo vlogs. Some of them are in Swedish, but I remember watching them intensely, as if I would magically understand if I tried hard enough. I started learning Swedish on duolingo.
When season 2 was released, I fully quit all social media for WEEKS to avoid spoilers. I spent 3 days carefully messing up my sleep schedule so I could wake up and watch it at 3 am. When season 3 was released I was such an excited puppy dog that I didnā€™t sleep at all. I watched it at 3 am and spent the whole rest of the day amped up and on tumblr.
I remember all kinds of fun and significant days in the fandom: Rockbjƶrnen 2021, musikhjƤlpan 2021. The lead up and release of Mi Casa Su Casa. The release of OMR. Omar gave me a birthday present in 2022 when he performed ā€œbreatheā€ on Nyhetsmorgon on my birthday. Gay gala 2022 but especially 2023. Both boys have done incredible sommarpratar. So many other galas and performances and photoshoots Iā€™d be here all day listing them all out.
Becoming an Omar fangirl was also surprising. I donā€™t listen to or follow pop music (my definition of which is incredibly broad so yes, Omarā€™s music qualifies). Like, Iā€™ve never had a favourite artist before? One whoā€™s work I actively follow and whose releases I know about in advance and look forward to?
Omar announced his concert at Cirkus in November of 2023 and it fell at the end of a semester break from work. I could go without needing to refund or makeup any missed lessons. It felt like a sign. That week was genuinely one of the best in my life, words canā€™t even describe it. A transatlantic flight, a week in Europe. I got to see Kaggeholm. I met Omar at Lyko. I stood in general admission 3 rows back from the stage and heard Omar sing live and sang along with other fans. It was surreal. Shout out to @yrblogbaby @the-words-we-sung @crownedwille and @omarsimp, wow youā€™re all amazing. There was a queer joy to hanging out with yā€™all that weekend that I donā€™t get too often irl.
Since then, Iā€™ve tried to internalize a little bit more the idea of community in fandom. Iā€™m still not super out there, but I try to interact more. I lurked in this fandom (and so many others) for years. I made this account in something like 2011 and until recently I probably had less than 50 posts.
So yeahā€¦ saying this show changed my life feels dramatic but also accurate. Hopefully hereā€™s to more years to come, and more good memories when I head to New York this fall!
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the-fandom-crossroads Ā· 8 months ago
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Hoyofair Spring 2024 Creator Links!
Like last Hoyofair I'm making a post linking to the youtube channels of each project shared at hoyofair! Be sure to follow the creators and support their main channels so they can keep making amazing projects like these!
Galactic Abyss Chronicles - ē„žĀ·ę½œč”Œēž¬ę€ and others
I actually found the director, head animator, and head modeler on Bilibili! Here Real proud of myself because he has no accounts on the western internet. He hasn't posted the full short on his account yet but he does have a fananimation for the Apex Legends X FFVII Rebirth collab.
From what I can tell this is also the first Genshin related animation he's done which is cool. The rest of the creators seem to be from the CN fandom as well although I could not find their Bilibili's from a quick search
Ranked DayCare - by No_Tables
Their first Hoyo short was at Hoyofair 2023. So it's great to see them back with a new bit. Now with Klee!
Moonlit Bamboo Forest - Passion Paris
So this is apparently an Academy Award winning Animation studio!? Passion Pictures is the studios name and the Paris branch animated this short. We have legit 2D animation studios submitting Shorts to Hoyofair now. Wow!
Needless to say this was the short with the most unique animation style. And one of my top favorites this year.
Trial by Combat - ???
So this one seems to be just a collab of a bunch of animators. Like I can't find the project manager online (too generic a name for google). The head animator has a twitter but Twitter changed at somepoint where it won't let me view a direct link to someones profile without being logged in. I ain't creating a twitter for this rabbit hole. his username is rabbitoldman if you want to look him up. But he hasn't made any tweets with the word genshin as far as google's concerned.
I just can't find one sorry.
Progenitor: The Surface - dillongoo
Ex- RWBY animator returns with episode 3 of his "if genshin was a cyberpunk anime" series. The first two episodes hit so hard and the 3rd episode does not disappoint!
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Realm of Faith: Live Actually - Type Zero Inc
Another legit animation studio for the animation. They don't have a youtube so i don't know if they'll ever upload the full version anywhere other than hoyofair.
But! The two songs have been posted on the singers youtubes with longer versions!
majiko(Furina), 4s4ki(Lumine), Wolpis Carter(Venti)
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Chogakusei (Wriothesley), Amatsuki (Childe), 96Neko (Arlecchino)
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Domain 404 - LucHD
Their first and only other Hoyofair short was shown over a year ago at hoyofair 2022. But Luc has returned with a full 4 minute short filled with Spiral Abyss and other meta in jokes. Diluc out here maining a C6 Bennett lol.
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TitanSlayers: Edge of Oblivion - Kieru
Kieru once again turns in an amazing action packed animation. The last one was the Persona spoof with Lyney and Lynette. But my favorite of theirs is Cyno vs Anubis and the Gods
Shenhe Awaken - Rhinocore
They made a previous short for Hoyofair but that one was never posted to a youtube channel other than hoyofair. So I'm going to assume they don't have a youtube and this one is just going to say on Hoyofair as well.
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And that's all the Creators from this Hoyofair! It was less creators than the winter one but I feel like that might be because multiple shorts are nearly 10 minutes.
But which one was your favorite? Do you like the change to less but longer shorts? Or do you wish they went back to more shorts 2-5 minutes long? Let me know in the tags! And be sure to follow all these guys on their youtube's so you can see the teaser trailers they post a few days before each Hoyofair.
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popculturebuffet Ā· 2 years ago
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Why You Should Watch Final Space: A Memorial for one of The Best Shows in Adult Swim's History
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Saturday.. it felt like I emotoinally got hit by a truck. And I want you to keep in mind the kind of good day I was having: I went out with one of my best friends, Cory, found amazing presents for my Mom and Brother's christmas , ON SALE no less, and saw the trancendent David Bowie Documentary/Immersive David Bowie Experince/Trip Moonage Daydream, a film i'd been wanting to see since finding out it existed months ago and it did not disapoint. And I capped it off by binging a bunch of quantum leap, which I have been lately at my mom's suggestion (yes i'm a 30 year old man who still listens to my Mom), and loving.
So during this I get a message from @weirdkev27. Olan Rogers Final Space, which wasn't already in the best straits having been canceled last year and with Olan Rogers struggling so hard against corprate dumbassery to continue it somehow he took the step of making a spirtual succesor, Goodspeed, via kickstarter to drum up intrest.
So the nightmare entity that is WBD rewarded this work by.. taking Final Space off EVERY platform. And that's not hyperbole. In addition to the usual stripping from HBO Max they've scrubbed it from every digital platform with only scant episodes remaining at BEST. It makes me fearful enough to make plans to get at least a few episodes of close enough off youtube before THAT'S gone too.
It's a move that somehow goes BEYOND previous dickishness. Deplatforming it from HBO Max was bad enough, WBD COULD make money simply selling them to other streamers and their stock isn't remotely going up. They are not in bad finacial straits. There is ZERO need to keep doing this. But making it ENTIRLEY unpurchasable both makes no sense and is just making things WORSE. Removing tons of shows and films already made them look bad.
It's a decision that rightfully angered Rogers who again, has been working his ass off to SOMEHOW continue this only to be hit with this (And who I dunno MIGHT OF FOUND SOME WAY TO BUY THE SERIES FROM YOU IF YOU ASKED), and for me as a fan and someone whose been following this situation... it drove me to dispair.
Now granted I get it, not everyone would go into despair over not being able to watch a cartoon, espcailly when there are .. other means and WBD just made said means entirely valid by cutting off all standard avenues of watching something. It's not like I can't watch the show.
No what made me despair was EVERYTHING it meant. It meant WBD despite MASSIVELY bad, continuing press, dropping stocks and no one BUT wall street being on their side, REFUSES to listen. It meant that my worst fears of any show not caught in the initial purge being removed no matter how succesful or unsuccesful are frighteningly true. WBD cares for NOTHING but what they can sell for parts. It has me BEGGING for a comcast buyout which I acknowledge is not a great thing: Comcast is only a marginally better company and their subsidary universal's treatment of Dead Meat and other content creators has been legendarily awful this month, and monopoly's are bad. But at this point we have people's life's works getting thrown in the shredder every other week, no teling what will go and stay in no saftey. It's getting me to watch Primal and Harley Quinn soon simply because I DON'T know how much longer either has left on the platform after sitting on them for far too long. There's no telling if something will last a week or 5 minutes, and no way to get them once it's gone.
As someone who reviews animation for a living, got a patreon to prove it , this is horrifying and if Netflix's removal of Hemlock Grove is an indicator and not just a fluke, this might get worse. I could easily see a one season wonders like I Love Arlo or Twelve Forever getting removed. It'd probably mean the end of the Will Arnett Vehicle that wasted having will arnett Flake, but one good does not make up for the bad and even not liking the show people should have the option to make the mistake of watching Flake because they like Will Arnett.
It felt like what I do.. didn't matter for a second. That no matter how hard I love something it'll just go away. It wasn' tjust this either: Owl House is ending (With Disney cheekily deciding to spread out the finale movies to promote it as if they realized it's worth montiarily but still not enough creatively to try making more (or Dana turned them down which yeah, if so fair enough), Ducktales is gone, Amphibia ended, and a lot of the best shows left are on Amazon (Which is thankfully safe but has a small pool) or in WBD's clutches like Craig of the Creek. Which is probably safe for now but we don't know it'l lbe forever. I felt like giving up. I mean depression and a manic episode will do that to you, but it didn't mean part of me truly didn't feel that it was over. That no matter what i did it'd just die and nothing I dose matters. Thankfully my cry for help was heard by my good friend Marco who you can find here on twitter (and you can find yours truly HERE if your at all curious and he reminded me of something: That talking about these works, both in the past with all the hope that there was a bright future and no idea what laid in store and now keeps them alive. That my work, for it's highs and lows, keeps a light on these fine works and might get people to check them out
Hence this article. Instead of just raging against WBD for being monsters I should eulogize the work and get those on the fence about it, espically since it DOES end on a massive cliffhanger or who may of not liked the first episode or so to dive deep into final space. And for those who loved it it not only gives you a tool to spread it to your friends, but something to remember it by while we wait for it to turn up somewhere else in the future like Sym-Bionic Titan, or to somehow luck into one of the few remaning blu ray sets (Seriously if you have one I will make an offer. A low offer but an offer). And yes this is in addition to other planned works for the week but when the inspiration strikes sometimes you gotta go with it. So to start us out
What Even Is Final Space?
Final Space is an animated series by Olan Rogers, an animator who started out on youtube (even publishing FS' pilot there) before the show's pickup by TBS. If that sounds like a bad omen it indeed was as TBS' attempted animatoin lineup fell apart: Tarantula only lasted a season, The Cops never got made because Louis CK is a piece of shit and Close Enough struggled in limbo till it got picked up by HBO Max, a blessing and a curse.
Final Space is the story of Gary Goodspeed (Played by Rogers himself) , the son of the legendary John Goodspeed who as part of the Infinity Guard (Think Starfleet), was a great hero who tragically died sealing a rift in space. After being abandoned by his mom Gary wandered around, became a petty crook and in trying to impress one of the Infnity Guards best and brightest, Quinn Argone (Tika Sumpter) .. and ends up accidently destroying a bunch of ships and a taco stand, instead earning him a 5 year prison sentence.
Naturally his sentence, being stuck aboard the Galaxy 1 with his only companions being HUE (Played by The Legendary Tom Kenny), a seemingly emotionless AI who punishes him for the slightest wrong due to his rigid programming and K.V.N., a cyclopic orb played by Fred Armisen whose INTENDED to keep Gary sane but does the oppsite by being just that damn annoying. As a result Gary tries sending Quinn tons of mildly creepy vlogs (though hte fact he's sending them at all is questionable), and is barely holding on by a thread when adventure calls and a tiny green orb of a creatue (with two more orbs for maxiumum adorable) wonders near them and is rescued by Gary, who quickly dubs the lil guy Mooncake (Rogers again)
Naturally things can't be THAT easy or we wouldn't have a series and it turns out Mooncake is sought after by the Lord Commander (David Tennant), an utterly terrfiying tyrant with empires at his beck and call who wants Mooncake as the key to get into "Final Space" as part of a plan to become a godlike entity known as a titan. He sends his former right hand Avacato (Coty Galloway, a friend of rogers), and uses Cato's son , Little Cato (the always amazing Steven Yuen in the first roll I saw him in and his breakout voice acting roll) as a barganing chip. Avacato quickly forms an incredibly homoerotic (as in once psychically contacting each other by saying "Feel me" and appearing in a majestic wheat field with Gary suddenly shirtless, their pratically together levels of homoerotic), but incredibly sweet and genuine bond with Gary.
The two quickly get a fifth to the group with Quinn, whose investigating a hole in space near earth that the Infinity Guard is refusing to investigate for reasons you can probably guess, and soon teams up with our heroes are her only option of closing it. Together they must try to save little cato, close up the hole, and hopefully bond as a crew with Avacato learning to trust his new friend/love of his life and Quinn learning to do the same and realize the importance in saving little cato. KVN sadly dosen't learn to stop being annoying.
Naturally as the series goes on things get complicated. I wont spoil how as the series is heavily serialized, but needless to say things only get worse before they get better and along the way our heroes pick up more crew: Little Cato, who turns out to be an adorably hyperactive ball of energy who takes to Gary as a second dad, Nightfall(Sumpter Again) , a hardened older alternate quinn trying to badly prevent her own history from repeating itself, Bolo, a badass entity voiced by keith david who soon proves crucial to the series myth arcs and their success, Ash Grayven, an adorable teen cyclops voiced by Ashly Burch with a mysterious and terrible dark power who quickly became one of my faviorites, her brother Fox, voiced by Ron Funches before his career REALLY took off in the rol ltha tmade me love him, a tender giant with a gattling arm hand, a hatred for violence and for ventrexians, the Catos species, which give shim and LC a rivarly, Clarence, played by Conan O'Brian (Yes you read that correct), a skeezy little man who isn't at all fond of gary but is fond of half brained scheems and who adopted Ash and Fox, and Biskit, a tiny white cat again played by Rogers whose a technical wiz with no social skills or politness in his tiny body.
Together they try to survive out there in the void dealing with the Lord Commander and eventually other baddies: Todd H Watson (Played by Alan Tudyk) a forgetable villlian in a muppet suit despite again being played by Alan Tudyk, Cheryl, Claudia Black, Gary's fanservicey serial criminal mom who abandoned him and blames him for her marriage failing, and Invictus, the mysterious nightmarish entity behind everything.
Tone wise Final Space admitely starts off slightly rocky: Gary is a bit shouty (something that would get toned down as the series progressed , especially in Season 2 as Rogers, being a great dude, actually took fan feedback seriously), some of the jokes don't land and it takes a bit for the characters who aren't gary or Avacato to grow on you with HUE and Quinn not being the most likeable to start, HUE being Gary's warden and not shutting up about it and Quinn having to learn to both get help from others and that the mission to rescue LIttle Cato IS important. Understandably keeping one of the main characters imprisoned and not shutting up about it and refusing to rescue a child being used as a baragning chip, arne't great but both grow on you as they do: Quinn learns to stop being as regimented and let Gary in, and HUE is incredibly likeable once i'ts clear he actually does like gary and his previous behavior was him being literally programmed to do his job. Once the sentence is up he not only gladly keeps being Gary's AI, but admits too that KVN sucks.
It's worth sticking with though; The voice peformances are phenomoinal with rogers doing FOUR rolls, sometimes all in the same scene, and probably more i've forgotten, and easily being the standout in a cast full of actors I love in anything (Tennant, Burch, Yuen, David and Funches) and actors I love because of this series (galloway, black and sumpter). If Rogers needs something to help get him by while he tries to revivie this series or find a new project, he'd make a killing with voice work, as would Galloway.
Animatoin wise while the art style seems simple, it's incredibly gorgeous, with space depicted with shocking accuracey, and some truly gorgeous and haunting shots. It really makes everything feel as epic as the scopes says.
The writing once it gets to buisness really hit's it's stride ballancing comedy with the characters tragic pasts and loveable personalitiess; In the same episode we have the gang bet the ship on a game of the calvinball esque thimbles, a game with visors, laser bats, comblicated rules and dismemberment equalling points (which gary gladly abuses once he finds out to shoot clarence).. and then sequges into Ash's tragic backstory of her sister being sacrificed to a serpent god, her killing everyone present except said god, and her having to learn to let go of her pain in the belly of said beast. The show can be goofy as hell while still having a deep mythology, characters you love and cry over and some truly horrifying moments. And again a literal pissing match which you have to see for yourself.
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I both wanted to show it off.. and to also prove that this did in fact happen and was indeed fun depsite having absolutely no right to be.
The show ballanced that with true moments of heartache, epic grandeaur and heart. Most of which I CAN'T share as while i've dropped some spoilers here, there's only so much I can spoil without just telling you about it beat for beat.
So please find a way and check out Final Space, Talk about it, tell your friends. Keep this series alive... both to show all this effort Olan, his writers, his animators, and his voice crew all put in didn't go to waste, and to show that people care. That this mattered. And that this show won't go away no matter how badly they try to write it off. It's back to back for life. Thanks for reading, consider joining my patreon, have a good evening.
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bex-la-get Ā· 3 years ago
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What is Critical Role?
Oh Nonny. My dear, sweet Nonny. I hope you're buckled in 'cause I'm about to take you on one hell of a nerd ride. You ready? Let's go!
Critical Role is a show streamed on Twitch where a bunch of voice actors (Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Liam O'Brien, Laura Bailey, Travis Willingham, Ashley Johnson, and Taliesin Jaffe) get together to play Dungeons and Dragons. The show itself started in 2015 but the [first] campaign had been going since two years prior, starting as a single session home game for Liam's birthday. Campaign 1 ran from March 2015 to Oct. 2017 and Campaign 2 ran from Jan 2018 to June 2021. Campaign 3 started this past Thursday (10/21).
Critical Role has since blown up, popularizing DnD in the process, and they're now on their third campaign (Campaign 2 ended in June of this year). They started a Kickstarter a few years ago to have an animated special of their first campaign, the Legend of Vox Machina with a 45-day length to reach their goal of $750,000. They reached over $1,000,000 within an hour. Critters go hard, dude.
I don't remember the details but, somehow, Amazon Prime Video got involved and picked up the show for two seasons (just to start). They've been working on it for easily over 2 years at this point and it premieres in February and I am PUMPED. I will be talking about it nonstop when the time comes, I'm warning you now. Sorry, not sorry.
In case you're curious, Campaign 1 is 115 episodes (roughly 373 hours) and Campaign 2 is 141 episodes (I can't find the run time but you can get the idea). There's a lot of lore and background but you don't necessarily need to watch either Campaigns 1 or 2 if you wanted to start C3 or if you wanted to watch the animated series. Most everything can be found on their Youtube channel, including additional background videos and all of their streamed content.
Apologies for the word vomit, Nonny. I'm sure this way more than you needed but I just really love CR and I tend to get wordy when I'm excited. If you've read this far, I hope I answered your question. And thanks for sticking around. Now, if you need me, I'll be finishing the C3 premiere. Thanks for stopping by, Nonny! šŸ’™
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cyberdva Ā· 4 years ago
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The Haunting Of Queen Mary's Castle-Ā  C.BĀ  ~P.1ā˜†
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Summary: Sam and Colby had the bright idea to drag their friends to Scotland, and where would the perfect video location be? How about Queen Maryā€™s haunted castle? It didnā€™t help that aspiring physic, Y/N wasnā€™t too happy to head out of the country, but Colby was there to help. And maybe he wanted something more than being there to help her. Could the spirits be on his side for once?
Word Count: 4k
Date Uploaded:Ā  8/31/20
Warnings: Cursing
A/N: This fic is from the vault. I wrote this around January of this year, I start school again in two days and the work and stress load is going to be horrible, especially with it being half in person, half online. I hope to get some more creativity back when more pressure is put on me. I have plenty of ideas with just not enough passion and time. Itā€™ll trickle back one day.
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ā€œHoly Shitā€¦ā€ Colby held his camera closer to his chest as he walked closer towards the breathtaking Neidpath Castle. Itā€™s aura seemed to engulf the curiosity of the young man. His friends splurged on a ten hour trip to Scotland for a quick Youtube video series, he knew near the end, half of them would be begging to go home. The comical routine played its key role in every single episode, no matter what the occasion was. It did make good money to be completely honest. Although, that wasnā€™t the main focus of their careers. He found himself under a tall bridge-like banister connecting its way to the entire estate. Next to him was his long time roommate, Corey. He sported a bright yellow hoodie in large contrast with Colbyā€™s black one. It was sort of funny, each of his friends had a unique personality, yet connected so well. Of course, they were wearing their own merch. It helped the sales go up, not to mention it was awfully comfortable. A perk to the business if you say.
ā€œAnd we thought the church was coolā€¦ā€ Sam, Colbyā€™s best friend and other handler of the videography series on their channel, gaped in front of him. This place was bigger than any other private plot theyā€™ve ever visited! It was a couple thousand dollars to rent out for the night, but with the palaceā€™s history it was born to make a hefty income.
ā€œWe have this all to ourselves!ā€ Colby nudged Sam, he handed the camera off to his friend Jake, who was talking a mile a minute to the other attendees. A new face poked out of the regular bunch.
ā€œAre you gonna catch me when I get scared, Y/N?ā€ Jake stuck his face in the view of the content woman. Her persona seemed quite drained due to the long trip. She was partially new to the Youtube platform, especially with ghost hunting. Not like Y/N was easily frightened, unlike her friends, it just wasnā€™t her go to for a cheap thrill. Nerves were indefinitely strained, since it was the first time out with the entire group. Nothing Jake couldnā€™t fix.
Her laugh trickled out blissfully, ā€Wouldnā€™t Tara get jealous? You don't want to get on her bad side? Do you?ā€ He quickly shook his head and gave a hesitant reply with his sheepish smile.
ā€œWe get this all to ourselves?ā€ Colby queried. This place was double the size of the Trap House by far, they had to be scared shitless by the time they left. There had to be some sort of restrictions or a down sided catch to it all.
ā€œDid you do any research on this place?ā€ Y/NĀ  slid up behind the unfocused main man, a small quirk to her. Colby jumped a smidge in light shock. He wasnā€™t expecting anyone to be genuinely interested with the property. Colby mentally cursed for being so jumpy.
ā€œJesus Y/N, you scared the shit out me.ā€ He replied, not answering the girlā€™s question. Y/N met Sam and Colby way back in highschool. Each of them slithered their way into the otherā€™s channels and have made frequent appearances. They definitely werenā€™t strangers, even though it seemed that way with fans. Y/N had more paranormal encounters out of all of the boys, despite a bit of distaste towards the topic. She was lugged around on long adventures to help them with videos. Some of her videos ranged from ā€˜ā€˜accidentallyā€™ joining a cult to ā€œselling her soulā€. She was the wicca-pedia they needed to not get possessed each trip.
ā€œOk pussy.ā€ She walked off to talk to Corey, the pair oddly all had a strong connection from somewhere, and Colby sighed as to quickly put on his cheery online persona once more.
Sam waved up at a vacant window as the group, ā€œHello!ā€ The woman replied unknowingly and aroused quite a shock of embarrassment. A faint giggling came from the couple in the back, ā€œNo,no, I do it better.ā€ Corey got a hold of herself, ā€œA Ra-Ta-Ta-tah.ā€ The two burst back into their ceremonial laughs and briefed on about some TikToks they watched on the remotely silent ride from the airport.Ā 
Sam turned back around to see the shorter woman. Notwithstanding her first place in line, ā€œHow is he gonna get a kiss kiss? Very ugly to me!ā€ The duo rounded up to each other and laughed on their way up the trail, leaving the others confused and focused on talking to the groundskeeper.
ā€œIā€™m assuming you are the caretaker of this?ā€ The blonde one waved more at the older woman. She seemed more on the reserved side and peeled her eyes at the sight of a camera. A lovely addition to the already uncomfortable scene.
The woman gracefully approached Sam, ā€œYes, Yes I am. My name is Katrina.ā€ Sam went on with the lady into a dark back door. The young adults glanced on in uncertainty.Ā 
ā€œYo, why are they going off by themselves?ā€ Colby asked Jake. The first rule of all of their videos was not to go off by yourself. Bad shit always follows. ā€œHe literally was like-ā€
ā€œHeā€™s been looking at her ass like all day.ā€ Jake joked back, Corey attentively diverted himself from Y/N to get a jump in on whatever that conversation had morphed to.
ā€œThatā€™s whatever the fuck he was doing.ā€ They all snickered and continued on with the inappropriate jokes. Editing this would be like a field day to Reggie.
ā€œIs Kat gonna thinkā€¦ā€ Colby looked around jokingly, getting another round of laughter from the friends.
ā€œI donā€™t know..ā€ Colby softly replied. He pressed on to dumbfoundedly impersonate Samā€™s girlfriend, ā€œOh itā€™s not cheating if heā€™s not in the same country.ā€
ā€œItā€™s sexual relations Jake.ā€ Y/N whispered at him. They continued to poke fun out of the cougar-lady, but her and Sam rushed back soon enough. Just in time to ask questions.Ā 
ā€œUh, that was pretty much the coolest thing Iā€™ve ever seen in my life.ā€ Sam pulled everyone aside with a smug look on his face. He honestly always had one of those. The blank stares that were thrown back at him werenā€™t what he expected.Ā 
ā€œUh Sam what does that mean.ā€ Jake chuckled. He looked around at everyone not able to catch on. The seriousness of the situation began to settle as everyone genuinely thought Sam could have done some weird shit with that groundskeeper.
ā€œAll I have say is that was quick manā€¦ā€ Colby scraped some gunk off of her nails while waiting for following instructions.
Sam obviously didnā€™t understand, ā€œTo fill you guys in I had to learn, kind of, where all the specific light switches were. I didnā€™t even look around. I just kinda looked at the ground until she saw.ā€
ā€œYou were like thatā€™s the coolest thing Iā€™ve ever seen in my entire life.ā€ Colby turned the camera to focus on him and Jake mocking Samā€™s slight happiness by seeing fancy rocks.
ā€œIt was only the stairs!ā€ Sam said defeatedly, he didnā€™t want to spoil the real first looks.ā€Thatā€™s just giving you a little hint, but um, I asked her if she could you know fill us in on some of the information of, likewise castles here, the hauntings or any deaths and she said she knows some information.ā€
ā€œOh coolā€¦ā€ Colby was already quite unenthusiastic about this idea anyways. Katrina retreated out of the building quickly with keys in her hand. She sprinted over to all of them.
ā€œLook itā€™s Samā€™s new girlfriend!ā€ Y/N cheered. Sam spun his head around, probably pulling a muscle in the process. The pure look of utter horror could not be more hysterical. Sam became flustered with a loss for words, his face tinted with a light shade of pink. Before he could muster up any sort of retort Katrina, the groundlady, came jogging back to the group.
ā€œWhatā€™s some of the backstory about this castle?ā€ Jake asked, he spun some rings around in his hand. Paying no mind to the other plot line adhering to his right.
ā€œThis castle was built in the second half of the 14th-Century, but there was another castle built before that in here. That was built in 110,so uh.ā€ Few ā€˜Wowsā€™ and ā€˜Oohsā€™ cut her off. ā€œThat was quite a while ago, but the Neidpath was built by the Family Of Fraserā€™s and they built a Buddha made castle. This one was burned down by the English army. After a guy named Simon Fraser, whoā€™s the cousin of Braveheart, was captured and executed and thatā€™s why the Buddha made the castle was burned to the ground. Another family built this castle, which was besieged in 1650 by the Cromwellian army. Legend says that this was the only stronghold of the Scottish borders which actually withstanded the siege. Whether itā€™s true or not, we donā€™t know, but what we do want you to know is that one-third of the castle collapsed, non-existing anymore.ā€ She spoke with absolute passion. The place had so much rich history, the surrounding observers listened with extreme intent, not to miss one sentence in case it may help their investigation.
Colby raised his eyebrows at this question, ā€œOne-third of it?ā€
Katrina continued on, ā€œBecause of the siege. We do have a dungeon in the castle as well.ā€ Everyone went silent.
ā€œA dungeon?!ā€ Jake nearly dropped a silver band he was picking on by the mention of this. His personality perked up and suddenly the whole crowd was uplifted. Finding weird places in ā€œabandonedā€ areas is always a plus side, but this tops all of it.
ā€œGuys shut up!ā€ Y/N whacked Jake with her phone, he stuck his tongue out while rubbing his shoulder. She didnā€™t want to leave too bad of a first impression. It would be mortifying if something went wrong and the owner already hates you.
ā€œIs there a dragon?ā€ Corey brought everyone back to the topic of the castle, he didnā€™t want to be there a minute longer, but in this group you just do what youā€™re told and shut your mouth.
ā€œWe do have quite a big colony of bats under the roof, so Iā€™m not sure if you really want to go down there Mister.ā€ The group laughed and groaned at Katrinaā€™s statement. Running into bats could be the worst thing to encounter.
Corey nodded in response, ā€œSo there are dragons.ā€
The history went on, ā€œIt was quite widely used during the 14th and 15th century because that was the only reason for the whole county.ā€ The darker side of it all became slowly prevalent. It wasnā€™t just a posh place the others expected it to be.Ā 
ā€œPrison?ā€ Sam posed. This just got a lot weirder than they all expected.
ā€œYes. Youā€™ll be able to get into it because there is this rough opening through, which was made in the 17th century, but before that the only entrance to the dungeon was through the trap door from the guards. I should have shown you that, but Iā€™m not going to. Youā€™ll find it by yourself.
ā€œOh godā€¦ā€ Colby rubbed the bridge between his nose, an inevitableĀ  headache was beginning to form.
Sam tittered, ā€œAre we just going to fall through? Is that ok?ā€ He got no proper answer, which set his worries on the run.
ā€œSo, the last prisoner was there in 1594, I think. We know there was a teenage boy like a 14 year old boy who was just pick pocketing people and he ended up here. The note didnā€™t say that he actually came out of there again.ā€
ā€œLike meaning itā€™s haunted?ā€ Colby preyed on.
ā€œUh, it is haunted!ā€ Katrina stated blandly.
ā€œFun for us!ā€ Y/N shrugged to hide her panic. Colby glanced at her. He sensed her anxiousness, he didnā€™t want her to be upset. Definitely not in the shitty environment. Of course, he cared for her, he just didnā€™t know how to open up and tell her. Would this really be the place?
ā€œWe do have our own one. Her name is Jean Douglas. She died in 1750, she was the daughter of one of the owners of the castle and she died of a broken heart.ā€ The mood fell, a breeze pulled through and messed with the mics. Leaving just a sprinkle of static in the footage. Just in time.
ā€œShe was engaged to a young man, but he wasn't wealthy enough to win her family over, so he went abroad to win his fortune and fame and because he was away for far too long she went really sickly and pale and she didnā€™t eat. She didnā€™t sleep, so she was really frail when he finally came. When he was riding his horse through the archway she was at the window and he failed to recognize her because she was so altered and broke her heart and she died on the spot.ā€
The group had a silent reaction to the news, not knowing how to react.
ā€œEver since then she is walking through the castle being very tall, very gray, very pale looking, weeping.ā€
ā€œWhatā€™s her name again?ā€
ā€œJean.ā€ A tiny shiver racked through Samā€™s body. He didnā€™t tell anyone. Just not to set anyone off. Now he really didnā€™t want to face this spirit.
ā€œHave you ever seen Jean?ā€ Y/N asked, trying her best not to be insensitive with the approach. These things are held really close to some people. Their experiences could be life changing, for others it could most certainly be a lot different.
ā€œNo, but I do have ghostbusters coming in several times a year and I asked what was the best recording ever and they were like ā€˜We got brilliant ones of screams.ā€Ā 
ā€œAh..ā€
ā€œAnd I was like inside of the castle. Iā€™m here sometimes on my own in the middle of the night at midnight, one, two, three oā€™clock. When I have to lock up after the events and such. Do I really want to do that with screams in my head? No I donā€™t, I said no.ā€
ā€œAlright sounds like itā€™s a nice haunted Scottish castle.ā€ Sam tried his best to play off his uncomfortable feelings with humor. It did not work.
ā€œIā€™m going to do the dungeon now. Iā€™m not telling you what Iā€™m going to do now and then the place will be yoursā€ Katrina headed back into the castle with an odd vibe.Ā 
ā€œSo, sheā€™s gonna make us fall down the trap door, wow.ā€ Jake leaned in for slight commentary.
ā€œHow much do you want to bet that weā€™re going to die?ā€ Y/N grabbed her backpack to locate her wallet and pulled out a twenty.
ā€œI bet 15.ā€ Corey grabbed his wallet too.
ā€œGuy, that is so sad thoughā€¦ā€ Colby came into the center of all of them, ā€œOk, that story. Imagine your husband comes home on a little horse and you're in this window, literally right there and then you die on the spot because he's like ā€˜Whoā€™s that?ā€™ Itā€™s a tall, frail old lady thatā€™s crying everywhere.ā€ Colby clung to his sweatshirt, ā€œOh thatā€™s so creepy!ā€
ā€œColby if you ever do that to me youā€™ll have to go back to VidCon alone again.ā€ Y/N was putting in her best bet and threw a five at him. ā€œYou can use that for your ticket.ā€ He blushed, just like Sam moments before.
Sam added more commentary from behind the camera, ā€œTheyā€™ve heard screams within the castle.ā€ Katrina came right back out with her deafening personality, handed the keys to Sam and hopped right back in her small, blue car, and left with no exchange of words.
ā€œShe creeps me out.ā€ Jake in discomfort. To be fair, she is a creepy ass old lady who owns a castle in the middle of nowhere.
Corey turned away from the groundskeeper's car and shrugged off his jitters, "So we have a castle to ourselves...ā€
ā€œThis is amazing!ā€ Sam couldnā€™t contain his excitement.
ā€œNo Shit. I still canā€™t grasp why you all buyout expensive stuff like a castle.ā€ Y/N gripped the abundance of bet money and slid it all bad into her bag.
Colby inspected the property more in depth, as if he was waiting for a ghoul to poke out at any given time, ā€œThis is where weā€™re staying tonight.ā€ With a grand motion upwards Sam panned the camera up and down.
ā€œAnd you guys...ā€ Sam pulled the camera away from the stronghold and directed the frame to the rest of his friends,ā€..have not even seen the inside at all.ā€
ā€œI know, I know.ā€ Colby pulled his beanie down his head, the enlightened sun seemed to cascade into the clouds with a faint breeze.
ā€œLetā€™s go find our cottage, get ourselves completely set up and ready for the night. Take some pictures before sun down and then go into the castle, because like we canā€™t lose this sunset and we got to figure this out.ā€ Sam did some weird hand movements in front of the camera and handed it off to the otherā€™s opinions.
Colby nodded his head up and down in agreement,ā€ Yeah definitely.ā€ Jake wandered around with a rock and for the most part everyone said eye to eye.
ā€œUnfair treatment. I wanted to go in now.ā€ Y/N gave a side glance to Sam and Corey brushed his hand over her playfully. She walked back into frame,ā€œAll I gotta say is, Colby Brock Hot Edits.ā€ Colby walked up next to her with a shit-eating grin in approval. Who doesnā€™t love Colby Brock edits?ā€
ā€œShut up, youā€™re just jealous that thereā€™s no Y/N L/N hot edits for you.ā€ He playfully jabbed back at her with a growing flutter in his stomach. He fucking hated that feeling to no end, but it was such a drug. Only when she was around.
ā€œAlright letā€™s go, Iā€™m bored as shit.ā€ Jake came back with his new pet rock and put his arm around Corey. Sam cut the camera and went down the forked path. Right down the road was a cottage for visitors.
ā€œHey Y/N,ā€ Colby came jogging up to the colleen, ā€œDid you see any weird stuff yet?ā€ He shoved his hands in his pockets, a symptom of his bashfulness, he began to rethink his uncolorful wording in his sentence. He just had the sudden urge to go up to her and she wasnā€™t complaining one bit.
She looked over at him, ā€œNo, not yet. I just got really put-off by that lady. She just was soā€¦ā€ Her eyes connected with his and a glistening highlight overcame the peaking iris. The words werenā€™t verbally there, but he understood what was there.
Sam cut her off, ā€œDude. Look how big this place is.ā€ It was rationally smaller than their house back in LA, but it was sizable for an ancient brick living space.
Jake made the most commotion out of the seven, ā€œWhoever is first picks where they sleep!ā€ He dashed ahead of the group and everyone picked up speed, almost dropping the rock he just adopted.
ā€œI think thereā€™s only like three beds.ā€ Sam panted. No one paid much mind to him and kept running. They all toppled into the door and Corey unlocked it, which left the rest to run up to a room. Jake took the first one to the left, Sam tumbled into the one across. A room had a small couch for Corey and last, but not leastā€¦
ā€œLooks like weā€™re bunking L/N.ā€
ā€œFuck you Brock.ā€
Sam peaked his head in, ā€œGuys, we have film some shots of the place. Come on.ā€ The three made it to the living room where all and sundry were. Sam grabbed his camera and got everyone in shot.
ā€œWhat?!ā€ With grand motions each person stood up in their acts of shock. Even though it had been there for a solid five minutes the audience always has to be entertained.
Colby turned around, ā€œYo! We got a TV too!ā€ A small Toshiba was put on a step stool. It would probably gain no use tonight anyways. It looked like a piece of crap too, thank god for Youtube.
They all got up from their seats and went to uncover the rest of the place, ā€œThis is nice, very cool.ā€ Colby led them into Coreyā€™s room. A huge bed frame was around a pink canopy bed. Old photos and paintings of the fortress were hung evenly around the perimeter. Sam went through the rest of the rooms and told everyone to head off and get ready.
The guys took cold showers and Y/N soaked in a muddled bath in the basement. She didnā€™t like it here. Her mind couldnā€™t unravel much. Sam was stationed upstairs doing a camera touch up with Jake by his side talking about the new Harry Styles album. A half an hour later everyone was wearing at least one faction of Sam and Colby merch, phones were charged and beams from flashlights slid across the floor like a jumping snake.
The group divided into pairs as they walked to the castle. The sky grew much darker than expected and it felt like a looming spirit chipped away at the warm function of friends. The camera was whipped right back out.
ā€œAlright, we are all showered, changed, and ready to explore the castle before sunset.ā€ All went under the arch while the audio was whacked around by the wind.
Colby turned from his conversation to the viewers, "Iā€™m still like flipping out that weā€™re staying here tonight. Thatā€™s crazy!ā€ His lantern swung below him and the towering castle was engulfed by the purple skies. ā€œLook at this place! Look at that beautiful sunset!ā€ He yelled.
Y/N raised her eyebrows, ā€œSince when were you PG-13?ā€
He blandly stared at her,ā€Shut up I need to make money,ā€ He looked back at the camera, ā€œWhen I was like blow-drying my hair and stuff after my shower, my hair dryer was insanely powerful. Thereā€™s obviously a lot of energy in it, like the voltage.ā€Ā 
ā€œI thought he said blow-j-.ā€ Corey chimed in. He shut himself up so they wouldnā€™t get demonetized, it would be a funny way to go down though. Y/N and Colby giggled along with him. It wasnā€™t a rare occasion that they all were out laughing and joking, just the side chick with the haunted castle.Ā 
Corey swung his flashlight up and down, ā€œHis blow dryer started smoking and like almost blew up.ā€
ā€œSo, what Iā€™m saying is the spirits could use all of this energy to talk to us.ā€
They all made it to the castle and it was around five-thirty. There wasnā€™t much to do at this time, but she was always watching. There was something about to happen they could all feel it and that thing, it wasnā€™t going to be good.
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Part 2? Send me an ask if you want it!!
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derivativealigner Ā· 4 years ago
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I rewatched the second season of South Park and took so many notes that I had to split them into two parts. Like seriously, I took so. many. notes. And pictures this time. I started rewatching just in case Iā€™d find some cool little facts to sprinkle into my fanfic but I went way too far and now thereā€™s a million facts under this cut (including gay stan, a domestic violence psa, and craig fucking dying)
Stan doesnā€™t like hospitals, he finds them gross and he gets sick šŸ¤®. Also the hospital in South Park is called Hellā€™s Pass hospital. Early seasons have the name as Hells Pass but it gets fixed later
Cartman has to sing all of Come Sailing Away by Styx if he hears a part of it. After he says this, Kyle sings the first part and Cartman has to sing the rest. Kyle does it again later, which is kinda mean
Cartmanā€™s mom tries to abort Cartman, who is an eight-year-old child and thus cannot be legally aborted. Later, after she slept with Bill Clinton to change the law and make 40th trimester abortions legal, it turns out she meant adoption
Kenny sacrifices himself to turn on the generator to the hospital and save Dr. Mephestoā€™s life along with others. He says ā€œIā€™ll fucking do itā€ then does it and dies, absolute legend
Cartman gets way too into his deputy role. He goes undercover, pretends to be a prostitute, says ā€œRespect my authoritah!ā€ a lot and beats people up with his police stick
Kennyā€™s brother first appears when Cartman responds to a call about a disturbance at Kennyā€™s house. Apparently there are like 10 adult family members in the house at that time. Kennyā€™s dad has a black eye because Kennyā€™s mom punched him. She says he canā€™t hold a job
Token sits in the classroom in season 2
Cartman starts hating hippies in this season, like a lot
Chef tells the boys that the right time to do drugs is in college
Ikeā€™s name is Ike Moisha Broflovski and he was born in 1996, making him 2 years old in 1998 when this season aired
This is probably obvious but yeah Kyle and Ike are circumcised
Kyle says family isnā€™t just blood, itā€™s who you care about, and he says ā€œThatā€™s why you guys are more than just friends, youā€™re my family. Except for Cartman.ā€
Craigā€™s finally sitting in the classroom in S02E04
None of the boys like dodgeball
Clyde gets a dodgeball to the face and he cries :( and heā€™s the only one who cries by the way
Pip throws a dodgeball in Kyleā€™s face and breaks Kyleā€™s nose
When Kyleā€™s mom tells the boys about conjoined twin myslexia (which isnā€™t a real term) and says anyone mightā€™ve absorbed their dead twin in the womb, Stan and Cartman run away screaming but Kenny and Kyle stay to listen. Kenny even leans in to look at the book ā€œFreaks A-Z!ā€ that Mrs. Broflovski is reading from, and when she leaves, Kyle grimaces and Kenny laughs
Stanā€™s mom (Sharon) calls Kyleā€™s mom (Sheila) when Stan is all freaked out and trying to put an icepick through his brain, and Sharon tells Sheila to get run over by a truck. Sharon is pretty mean in these early episodes
Mr. Broflovski doesnā€™t really listen to what Mrs. Broflovski is saying, bad husband >:(
South Parkā€™s team is always called South Park Cows no matter the sport
The school nurse, Nurse Gollum, went to Colorado State University
I just realized Butters exists. I think he appeared before S02E05 but I didnā€™t notice but yeah heā€™s there with the dodgeball team, injured
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Kennyā€™s dodgeball uniform number is 69 obviously. Kyle is 7, Stan is 4, Cartman is 325
Sheila smacks Gerald in the face so hard he falls off his chair, lots of violence perpetrated by women in this show. Remember, donā€™t do domestic violence no matter your gender, itā€™s not cool
I realized after this whole Butters thing that I shouldā€™ve made more notes about Pip, so Iā€™ll make a note about his anger issues now. When people call him French, he gets angry and throws dodgeballs at them
The boys launch a jelly roll at Ms. Crabtree and make her crash the bus. They do it just for fun
The kids somehow go to China in the school bus
Cartman references Moby Dick, but he probably doesnā€™t know what heā€™s talking about
Kevin Stoley gets named in S02E05 and has his first speaking role when he says he has Chinese parents and after Cartman hears it he immediately says something racist. smh cartman, what a problematic fave
Cartman says ā€œI love you guys šŸ˜Šā€ but Stan and Kyle just stare at him and he goes šŸ˜ ā€œEh, screw you guys šŸ˜ ā€
If Jimbo and Ned really fought in Vietnam, they youngest they couldā€™ve been in 1998 is early forties, which means in the latest seasons they would be early sixties. Btw they met in Vietman
Jesus and Pals is a recurring TV show in seasons 1 and 2. Jesus just kind of lives in South Park
I just remembered that Terrance and Phillip are really old in canon, itā€™s so weird, like how can South Park canon still be changing, itā€™s been 20 years
Also the early seasons are casually racist who knew
Kenny flashes his ass on a tape the boys send to Jimbo and Nedā€™s TV show, which airs and at least 12 people see Kennyā€™s bare naked ass
Cartman really doesnā€™t like hippies in these early seasons. He throws a chair at Ned and yells, ā€œTake that, hippie!ā€ (Ned is in a catatonic state and did nothing to provoke this)
Jimbo and Ned live together I guess. Jimboā€™s gonna take Ned home and show him some hardcore porn to snap him out of his catatonic state, good husband unlike Gerald Broflovski
Saddam Hussein is in hell and has a Canadian accent and is Satanā€™s lover in S02E06, I guess he died in Canada in the first episode this season but I wasnā€™t paying much attention since thatā€™s the Terrance and Phillip episode that pissed a bunch of people off in 1998 because the audience wanted to know who Cartmanā€™s dad is instead. It was kind of a boring episode so I understand why everyone was pissed, but it is funny that Matt and Trey did that so Iā€™m not mad about it
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Aww look at them!!! Weā€™ve got background Style, the vaguest inkling of Crenny, and Cartman/Cake
Iā€™d take more screenshots but itā€™s a pain since Iā€™m watching legally and stupid legal websites block screenshots so I have to find youtube videos instead ughhhh piracy is the answer kids
Apparently thereā€™s a huge waterfall and canyon somewhere close to South Park, maybe? At least in Stanā€™s dream
Mary Kay Bergman was an incredible voice actor. How the hell did she voice all the moms, Wendy, Shelly, principle Victoria, the mayor, Nurse Gollum, and fucking Ms. Crabtree??? Holy shit what a queen
Kenny has some feelings about death. He reimagines the episode where death boops him to death and in his version, he beats death the fuck up, then has ice cream and is happy šŸ˜Š But again, this is in Stanā€™s dream
S02E07 kind of establishes that nobody remembers Kenny dying because when Cartman tells a story where Kenny dies, Kyle questions how Kenny couldā€™ve died then when he also died just a few hours ago when a giant monster took him
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rip craig, he falls out the bus and into a canyon
But itā€™s okay because it was all Stanā€™s dream so everything in the episode is questionable. Everything after this is no longer a dream
Pipā€™s parents are dead and he has to go to summer school while everyone else is having a nice summer break
Officer Barbrady and the mayor are having sexual relations, Iā€™m sure this is the most interesting note Iā€™ve made so far. Idk Iā€™m just writing everything down, this is how I enjoy things, I have no off switch
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Ew summer bus stop, cursed
Kyle casually sings little tunes every once in a while, how cute
This is pretty obvious but Kenny likes dirty jokes, he laughs when Cartman innocently says he loves Chefā€™s salty chocolate balls (which are chocolate candy). Nobody else laughs
Cartman says ā€œScrew you guys, Iā€™m going homeā€ or variations of it a lot in this season
So Stan throws up when he likes someone, right? Well, heā€™s watching an indie movie about two gay cowboys who start making out and he throws up, which is either a terrible homophobic joke or confirmation that Stanā€™s a little gay. I know which one I prefer
Kyle says Mr. Hankey is his best friend after Stan. Like I know itā€™s definitely canon that Stan and Kyle are best friends but itā€™s still nice to see confirmation, itā€™s very precious. Also Kyle is best friends with literal shit, so cute šŸ˜Š
Kenny deaths:
S02E02 Kenny sacrifices himself by connecting a generator wire, which electrocutes him but brings power back to a hospital
S02E03 A tree falls on Kenny and crushes him
S02E04 Kenny falls in a grave and the gravestone falls on him
S02E05 The Chinese dodgeball team throws a ball at Kenny and he gets splattered against a wall
S02E06 Two guys pull on Kenny and tear him in half, as in one has the head and one has the legs
S02E07 A big scary monster plucks Kenny out of the school bus and carries him away. Also in Cartmanā€™s fake memory of Fonzi jumping over cars, the motorcycle hits Kenny and crushes him against a brick wall. Kenny gets smashed against walls a lot, doesnā€™t he?
S02E08 Flashback: Baby Kenny has a firecracker and it explodes, sprinkling little baby Kenny parts everywhere. Later in the episode, current day Kenny dies when a giant firework snake bumps him off a stage and under a fence, which then crushes him.
S02E09 Kenny is playing with a yoyo outside a movie theatre when a bunch of people come outside and trample him to death. They say ā€œOh my God, I found a penny!ā€ and ā€œYou bastard!ā€
Iā€™ll post part 2 of season 2 in a couple days. Iā€™m having way more fun writing these stupid notes than I thought I would (also gnomes is coming up soon and i am fucking ready for tweek)
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babyboy-bangtan Ā· 5 years ago
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By Chance Chapters 9-10
A misunderstanding gone viral puts you on BTSā€™s radar, which leads to a series of events that finally culminate with you meeting them for the first time.
āœš Pairing: Sub!BTS/Female Reader āœš Word Count:Ā 2.8K āœš Rating: M āœš Warnings: None. āœš A/N: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of my imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Read on AO3 / Chapters 1-4Ā /Ā  Chapters 5-8
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Chapter 9: The Guests
"Do you already know which artist is performing that day?" Your friend asks over the phone while you eat your toast with one hand and hold a script with the other. Reading it doesn't need your full attention, and based on what this movie seems to be about it doesn't look like it deserves it anyway.
"No, not yet." You reply absentmindedly, taking another bite of your toast while seriously contemplating just giving up on this script halfway through reading it. You doubt it's redeemable at this point. "It's in like a month anyway. They said they would tell me first before announcing it, though."
"This is so exciting!" She almost squeals, and you close the script before throwing it in the trash. You lost count of how many times it was written that the male protagonist couldn't keep his eyes from your cleavage. "I can't believe you're hosting again. I've been waiting for this to happen for years!" You can't help but laugh at her dramatics.
"It feels as surreal as the first time, honestly." You eat the last bite of your toast and pour yourself another glass of orange juice. You did enough freaking out to last a lifetime when you hosted the show for the first time a couple years ago, so this time you're excited but definitely not on the verge of a nervous breakdown like last time.
"Who do you think will be performing?" She asks, and you realize that you hadn't thought about that at all. "Oh my god what if it's BEYONCƉ?" She damn near screams that last part, and your brain immediately screams NO at that. You're still embarrassed at what happened last year, and you don't know when you'll be able to face her again without feeling mortified.Ā 
"Who knows?" You quickly reply. "Maybe it'll be like Ed Sheeran or something."
"Maybe." She responds, way less excited than when she thought BeyoncƩ was a possibility. "Anyways, tell me when you know, okay? My break is almost done so I gotta go."
"Will do. Bye, love you!"
"Love you too, bye!" You hang up and stretch your arms over your head, already feeling stressed.
What if it wasĀ BeyoncĆ©? It would be the third time you see her and even though she was incredibly lovely when you apologized and explained what happened the first time you met, that did nothing to erase the embarrassment you still feel today. You don't really think she would perform in a regular episode with you as the guest either, but now you can't help but feel anxious about it.
They said they were going to tell you who the artist was in the next few days, so for now all you can do is wait and try to not overthink too much.
Easier said than done.
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Three hours ago, taking a nap because it was raining and the temperature had dropped just enough for it to be perfect for sleeping had seemed like a great idea. It's not the first time you do it, the day called for it, and since you didn't have to work today it was okay to relax and rest for a bit considering that in a couple days you'll start shooting again.
Completely harmless.
Except it wasn't.
You wake up thanks to some very loud thunder, and you snuggle deeper into your covers to continue sleeping. Another thunder disrupts you again, so you decide to look at the time and see if it's even worth it to try and sleep some more. But instead of being greeted with the time once you turn your phone on, you're greeted with 50 missed calls and texts from over 30 conversations.
"What the fuck?" You mumble to yourself, rubbing your eyes to try and see a little better.
Around 30 of the missed calls are from friends, and the rest are from your publicist and agent. You scroll down the conversations until you reach the message you got first, and the name makes you think you might understand what happened.
SNL Producer.
2 hours ago.
Hello [Y/N]! I'm just writing you to let you know before we post it on social media, that the musical guest on your episode will be BTS. See you soon!
Well, now you have no doubt that's definitely it.
You read through the messages as fast as you can and manage to reply to several before you're interrupted by your publicist calling.
"Hi, sorry. I was taking a nap." You quickly say.
"Don't worry, I just wanted to let you know that the internet exploded two hours ago."
"Because of BTS?" You ask, pulling the covers off of you and sitting on the edge of your bed. "That's not news, it happens every other week."
"Well, yes, trueā€”" She agrees. "ā€”but we don't care about those times, we care about this now because it involves you." She pauses for a second. "Check what I just sent you." You remove your phone from your ear and put her on speaker before opening the message notification.
It's the screenshot of an Entertainment Weekly tweet.
Exclusive: @BTS_twt and [Y/N] will finally meet and we couldn't be more excited
4,5K replies, 190K retweets, 380K likes.
"How the fuck did that get so many likes?" You blurt out, eyes wide. Your hear your publicist laugh heartily.
"It's more now, actually. The screenshot is from 10 minutes ago. And it's because BTS retweeted it."
"Oh, right." You say, shaking your head at yourself. You should've known. "That makes sense."
"It would be even better if you had a twitter account yourself so you could retweet and even send them somethā€”"
"My mental health." You interrupt her, rolling your eyes as you fall back again on the bed. You've lost count of how many times she's tried to have you make new accounts already. "Remember how I had to start taking antidepressants because of social media?"
"Right, yeah. The mental health thing." She sighs. "You could always have someone manage them instead of yourself, you know."
"Yeah, and then I'd be constantly checking what's been posted and what people have replied to every post." You hate talking to her about this, because even though she's great at her job and mostly understanding, she still complains about what a loss it is that you're not on Instagram and Twitter.
"Fine. I'll drop it." She pauses for a second. "Anyway, the reason why I called is to know how much do you know about these guys."
"I know a bunch of their songs. I've been listening to that song they did with Nicki, Idolā€” it's so catchy and the video is so random but so great." You conveniently leave out the detail that the reason you like the video so much is because they look beautifulĀ in those suits while simultaneously looking like the cutest human beings on Earth with their other colorful outfitsā€” especially in those sweaters with cartoon characters and the ripped jeans. "I actually watched a bunch of their music videos back when the whole behind the scenes stuff happened." Moments from their Blood, Sweat and Tears music video pop into your mind, but you immediately redirect your thoughts elsewhere. That video makes you feel way too many things that you should not be feeling while talking to your publicist. "They're so talented." You quickly add, sincerely. "I was thinking about watching some interviews soon to see what they're like. I haven't really watched any of that."
"Good! I was going to tell you to do that. These guys are like a publicity machine. If they approve of you, their fans will like you."
"Weeell..." You say, grimacing a little. You're not so sure about that. "Either that happens or they see me as a threat to them and decide I'm not good enough to be near them, and get a hashtag calling me a demon trending first worldwide."
"Well, based on the replies to that tweet I think many of them are excited. The international fans at least, I don't know about their Korean fanbase."
"And also, do not call them a publicity machine. They're actual people, you know." You sigh. "And that's not the reason why I will try to know more about them. It would be disrespectful to meet them without knowing anything about them. And please, stop seeing artists as only publicity opportunities. I told you I hate that!"
"That's literally my job, love. And whatever your good person reasoning is, I don't care. Just do that." She pauses. "And now I have to leave you, because unlike you I actually have to work today. See ya." She hangs up before you can say anything, and you take a deep breath.
She can be a goddamn handful, but even when she acts without emotions she always does things the way you want them and is very accommodating. She's good at her job.
You finally get out of bed and walk to the kitchen, where you left your laptop. But before you can do anything, you have an incoming FaceTime call from your best friend. She must've just read your reply to her 50 angry texts because you didn't tell her who the guest artist was going to be on your Saturday Night Live episode before the rest of the world found out.
"Heeeeeeey." You say innocently once her face appears on screen.
"Why didn't you tell me?! I had to find out on Twitter!"
"Okay, to be fair, you found out before I did. I was dead asleep when the producer texted me." You leave the phone standing against a glass of water and open your laptop. "So I had no chance to tell you before they announced it."
"Ugh, fine." She groans, rolling her eyes. "Anyways, are you excited?"
"I haven't had a chance to feel anything. I woke up to a thousand texts and calls and then my publicist called me." You open Youtube and start typing BTS to see what suggestions pop up first.
"Oh right, cause you went viral again. People on Twitter lost their shit over it."
"Yeah but they always do when BTS does something so it's not like it's new." You reply, a bit distracted.
BTS on crack?
"Okay, yeah. That's true." She agrees. "What are you doing?"
"Homework." You reply, scrolling through the endless results you got after clicking BTS on crack.
"Alright then, keep your secrets." She jokes, shaking her head. "I have to go anyway, I'm going out tonight." You blow a kiss in her direction.
"Have fun!"
"I always do! Bye!" She hangs up as you open a video titled "bts being crackheads for 5 mins straight".
You only need to watch a couple minutes to realize what type of videos these are. You have seen a couple of yourself that are edited similarly, but they were titled "[Y/N] being chaotic in interviews" and another one about you being extraā€” and you'd thought they were very funny.
A recommended video catches your eye, because it has hundreds of thousands of views.
RUNBTS 1-23 Best Moments
You have no idea what it is, but judging by the amount of views and the tiny amount of dislikes, it must be something good.
Time to start watching.
Chapter 10: The Surprise
"Do you think he will be angry at us for keeping it as a secret?" Hoseok asks, ear pointed at the bathroom door. He's doing his best to listen if the shower is still running, which means that Jungkook is not coming out just yet.
"No, he'll be too excited to be angry." Namjoon replies, waving his hand dismissively. "Jimin, don't blurt it out as soon as he comes here." He warns him, and Jimin looks completely shocked, not to mention offended. He searches for the support of the other guys with his eyes, but he finds that they're all looking at him the same way Namjoon is.
"What? Me?" He asks, pointing at himself. "Why me?"
"You're a terrible liar when you're excited about something." Taehyung says, and Jimin just stares at him with an angry pout.Ā 
"I'm not." He says, crossing his arms.
"You are." Namjoon, Yoongi, Hoseok and Jin say at the same time. Jimin refuses to dignify that with an answer, so he just stays silent with his angry pout still in place.
"The shower stopped." Hoseok says suddenly, craning his neck to listen betterā€” and everyone goes silent. Not too long after, they hear it opening and Jungkook comes out drying his hair already dressed for bed.
"What's going on?" He asks, stopping suddenly when he sees them all standing there in the most suspicious way possible.
"Nothing!" Jimin suddenly says, way more excited than they had told him he was allowed to look.
"Jungkook, when did you say [Y/N] was going to be on SNL?" Hoseok asks, trying to not give himself away with the tone of his voice.
"April 13, why?" He continues to dry his hair, looking at the boys with narrowed eyes. He doesn't know what they're trying to do, but based on that question it seems like it has something to do with you. Maybe they want to watch the episode with him, since they're going to be in America by the time it airs anyway.
"So, we didn't tell you this before it was truly confirmed because we wanted it to be a surprise..." Namjoon starts, and Jungkook stops his movements.
They can't be telling him what he thinks they're telling him, right?
There's no way.
"But we'll be performing on SNL on April 13." He finishes. The towel drops from Jungkook's hands, and he just stares at them with no clear expression in his face.
"I thought he'd be more excited." Taehyung whispers in a confused tone to Namjoon, who lifts up a finger in response, signaling for him to wait.
"Give him a secā€”"
"WHAT?!"
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After a lot of happy screaming, a half an hour long videocall to his parents and a big glass of warm milk to calm him down, Jungkook is finallyĀ sitting down on the couch with the rest of the boys so they can explain how things went down.
"Jimin-Hyung, I can't believe you didn't tell me." Jungkook says, shaking his head with a surprised smile.
"We wanted to keep it from him, too." Yoongi says. "But he listened to us talking about it and we had to let him in."
"It was really hard to keep it a secret!" Jimin complains. "Because I was so excited. But I did so well, didn't I?" The rest don't really pay attention to him, except for Namjoon, who nods and gives him a thumbs up. Jimin isn't pleased with so little praise, but he takes it anyway. It's better than nothing.
"Ah, I'm so nervous." Jungkook says, unable to stop himself from grinning even though his face already hurts from smiling so much. He brings his knees up to his chest so he can hide his face in them, suddenly blushing. Even after he explicitly heard you talking about them, you still feel so far away from them that it almost doesn't feel real that they're going to meet you in a month.
"She already said she wanted to meet usā€”" Jin adds casually, and Namjoon has to hold back a sigh of relief because he's finally talking about you without getting nervous two seconds later. "ā€”so you've got nothing to worry about."
He's come a long way since his confession a few months agoā€” even if Namjoon and Yoongi are still the only ones who know about his secretā€” and that lifts a huge weight from Namjoon's shoulders. It means that it's less likely he'll become instantly flustered the moment they see you for the first time, because if Jin gets nervous because of you in front of the cameras, everyone will notice and then talk about itā€” and Namjoon is sure that is the last thing Jin wants.
It doesn't take them long to realize it's futile to try and talk about the logistics of their performance with Jungkook right now, because he's barely paying attention to them. His grin has remained steady and unmoving from the moment they told him they would perform on the same day you're hosting, and they know it's going to continue that way for the next few days.
He'll be able to focus again once the initial shock passes and he finally realizes that yes, this is actually happening.
They are going to finally meet you.
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Long after everyone has gone to bed, Jungkook lies still awake in bed, fully aware that he's not sleeping any time soon. He's still feeling giddy with happiness; he can't believe that they're going to actually meet you, and in a place where they will actually get to spend time with you, at that.Ā He will get to talk to you, to actually be close to you and maybe, if he's lucky and brave enough, he might even get to hug you.
He'd fantasized about maybe seeing you in an awards show one day, but this is so much better than anything he could've imagined.
April 13 can't come soon enough.
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Thank you so much for reading! Comments, asks, whatever you like is more than welcomed!
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miniwolfsbane Ā· 4 years ago
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JWCC Sammy Gutierrez and body positivity
THIS IS VERY LONG! (I just have a lot of feelings!) Also, this is personal and doesnā€™t talk a lot about Sammy and is just one big rant.Ā 
Comment I wrote on the S2 preview ā€œAlso, shout out to the creators for making Sammy heavy, but it not effecting or having anything to do with her character. OR have her be obsessed with food. I'm sure other 90s kids remember the fat kid trope. Not doing fat logic, but we've come so far from the old days! As a woman who had that kind of body type growing up (had skinny friends, developed early, etc. it all was uncomfortable for many reasons. Long story.), it's amazing to see this kind of...semi-body positivity that's quiet and unspoken in a show aimed at everyone, including girls. Ā If I had seen this character at 13, my mind would've been blown. Kudos!!ā€
Iā€™m reeeally tired and getting to that point where I get emotional about stupid stuff. However, this isnā€™t that stupid...maybe?Ā 
Weā€™ve reached a milestone, a kind of apex in American society, where being fat is no longer a running gag and itā€™s celebrated to be thick and/or a healthy weight. (Not to say skinny isnā€™t cool and itā€™s sure as heck better than carry 90+ pounds if it can be helped, but, as I said on Youtube, lots of 90s fat tropes were had, were they not? Every body type has their problems, blessings, and issues.) But, health is also a big issue and losing weight is too. Iā€™m all for losing weight, but I also know what it was like growing up a fat kid, then a fat teenager in the 90s and 2000s when we didnā€™t have representation and people like Tocorra Jones, Melissa McCarthy,Ā  Ashley Graham and Rebel Wilson around to promote different body shapes and/or being a little heavy or curvy while still being healthy. (Melissa and Rebel have lost weight and I applaud them full circle!)
Anyway, It is downright uplifting to see Sammy in JWCC like this! BeingĀ ā€œthickerā€ than her two female friends doesnā€™t slow her down or hinder her in anyway. She is not obsessed with food. She is not constantly eating. Likewise, she has an actual personality and an interesting secret and backstory. The fans seem to love her. She is not dressed immodestly and she doesnā€™t seem to have ANY negative opinions of her body type, for now. Likewise, in a fast paced show like this, no one is talking behind her back about her weight or eating habits (again, for now. This could change in upcoming seasons, we donā€™t know.) Come to that, sheā€™s fairly intelligent and isnā€™t dumb. Like, how many times have we seen a fat, dumb person in a show. (Iā€™m looking at you Chris Griffin and Cleveland Jr!) This couldā€™ve gone SO SIDEWAYS in her character creation any number of ways and Iā€™m just amazed it didnā€™t. However, this maybe is attributed to the show being an action show and not a comedy? In any case, Iā€™m so glad girls of this generation can see it. I wish Iā€™d had it at their age. (Itā€™s probably because her VA is heavy, but heavier than how Sammy is portrayed, to my knowledge. Iā€™ve only seen her years ago on Disney channel.Ā  Who cares why? It happened and Iā€™m glad.) Please be assured, Iā€™m NOT trying promote fat acceptance, just inclusivity, relatability, and representation.Ā 
Like I say all the time, Iā€™m not super heavy. I never was. As I said in the comment, I developed early and had mostly skinny friends growing up. I remember being about 11 and hosting my first sleepover and someone pointing to my arms at my stretch marks, asking what they were. I wasnā€™t traumatized and they didnā€™t tease me, but I was a little (a lot?) self-conscious. Like, can we please get the idea out of our head that ONLY pregnant women get stretch marks?? (Cocoa butter companies, hello?!) They can happen to girls that grow tall fast or, like me, you can have them all freaking over because the puberty button in your brain got stuck. (LOL?) And calling them cute things like skin lightning doesnā€™t really help. My limbs and body still look weird.
I donā€™t remember seeing many characters shaped like me in shows as a kid or teenager.Ā  Unless maybe Simpsons characters with their pudgy bellies who may be some of the most average, realistic bodies in all of fiction, really. We canā€™t all be supermodels and body builders. Sailor Moon girls were all thin and leggy. None of the Magic School Bus kids were pudgy, all average and healthy (which is probably a good thing in a way. IDK. Representation is great, but so is promoting healthy eating and healthy shapes. Everything has their place.)Ā  Disney characters were mostly animals at the time, and I didnā€™t see Recess until Highschool or something at 3 am, and even then, there was only Mikey. Mikey was progressive, but he wasnā€™t female. Closest I got was Arielā€™s (Little Mermaid) sister, Adella (Ā https://littlemermaid.fandom.com/wiki/Adella) and even then, she had no belly and never animated the same outside of the series with not much character development or anything.
Cassie from Animorphs mightā€™ve been a close second, but, though she was my favorite female character as a kid (not anymore), it was hard to sayĀ ā€œOMG, sheā€™s shaped like me!ā€ as it was a book series with few visual aides outside of covers, posters and some toys.Ā 
I remember seeing the singing group Cherish for a few seconds on TV once. A bunch of thick, busty, heavy black girls and I was SO EXCITED because for those few seconds on TV, there were girls that looked like me! Then some years later I found out a few of them lost weight and I was like bleh. (I didnā€™t follow their music or anything, not even sure how I saw them again.) Not that disapprove, health is essential, and I encourage people to lose weight for themselves, but it was nice having some representation. Except health needs to come first. Itā€™s a two-edged sword if I ever saw one.
Donā€™t get me started on the sheer amount of girls with small/flat chests on TV. (No offense! See above about body types. Again, itā€™s about representation and seeing someone that looks like you that was not common in the 90s and early 2000s) Iā€™m picky though. I wanted to see more representation, but the minute I saw it, I was not impressed or annoyed. To my better judgement, I saw a few episodes of something I wonā€™t name with a curvy lead. I found her times dressing up as a man unconvincing and confusing because of her body shape. Other times I was, for lack of a better word, slightly appalled at her own size, even though she somewhat looked like me. I know, it makes no sense. Other times, I was mad at Lizzy Mcguire or another show for having skinny characters with A-cups while I was, er, way past training bras and smaller bras by 14/15 when the show was new.
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Swearz, I developed (pun not intended!) this weird conspiracy theory that Disney execs have to look at the Starā€™s mom and other women in their family before casting a girl to make sure she stays thin/average chested for the shows entire run. Outside of one show, all shows in that era had the same thin girl body type. (And not much representation for different races for Disney back then, but thatā€™s another debate for someone to better handle, not me.)Ā 
All that said, my shape was attributed to four things: Diet, genetics, lack of exercise and my momā€™s cooking. Not sure how much I subscribe to theĀ ā€œgenetics effect body fat theoryā€, but theĀ ā€œgenetics effect body shapeā€ is definitely a thing! And hormones in chicken. My family said all I ever wanted when I was little was McDonaldā€™s chicken nuggets all the time, so I think that had some play in how I turned out. Itā€™s probably too much to get into here, and no one cares about my sob story, so letā€™s move on.
Sammy is awesome and I hope to see more characters like her from other studios in the future. Every body type needs representation, but every body also deserves to be healthy and nourished.
EDIT: WARNING: THE VIDEO ANDĀ  THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS TALK ABOUT ED AND CALORIE RESTRICTION!!
OMAHGAWWWD! I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE INDUSTRY, Yā€™ALL!! (Okay, thatā€™s obvious, but you donā€™t really give it thought in your day to day life.)
The video gives a summary of Jenette McCurdyā€™s time on iCarly and the horrors sheā€™d been going through in her younger years, which included an eating disorder and restricting calories to an (alleged) 900. Dear lord, that is sickening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCE1x_chT34
Granted, I would take this with a small grain of salt as itā€™s from the internet, and undoubtedly, many actresses, probably more than we realize, have EDā€™s. If they would start encouraging them to be at healthy weights, things like this wouldnā€™t happen. Frick Nickelodeon and frick the acting industry!!Ā 
So, this was what I was trying to convey. Casting and producers need to find that middle ground. Donā€™t promote fact acceptance, but do not force your actors/actresses to be stick thin either.Ā  I could go on a huge tangent, but I donā€™t have the brain power right now. If you have an ED or know someone that does, I strongly encourage you to get help. Iā€™ve been in tight spots like that (I knew of people or knew people), but getting REAL help from a doctor, professional, or someone with a good head on their shoulders is better than hiding it or keeping it secret. Ten years down the line, youā€™ll be thankful you did and not have regret. No one is perfect, but sometimes you have to fight harder to find a solution and someone that will actually listen to you and take your concerns to heart.Ā 
If I get negative comments, Iā€™ll be deleting this and no one will be able to enjoy it. Think before you type and donā€™t be a jerk.
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jodiiewhittaker Ā· 4 years ago
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get to know karo!
Iā€™m jumping into @archivefullofyoutubersā€‹ā€˜ get to know me idea, cause why not?
Name: Karo
Pronouns: they/them
Country: Poland
How you started watching JSE: (how long ago isnā€™t important, weā€™re all equal here): It all started with this awful (and i meanĀ ā€˜i wanna ran away, and end my existenceā€™ awful) anxiety attack i got one day in may 2019. i came home, opened youtube to find something thatā€™d help me calm down, and by the most random chance you can possibly imagine i clicked on SeĆ”nā€˜s Papers, Please video. i started watching and a few episodes later i knew i found a place i donā€™t wanna leave
How you found the community: i posted a shortĀ ā€˜hello iā€™m new hereā€™ message on JSE reddit, and trust me when i say i NEVER expected a welcome as warm as i got ever in my entire life
Your fave thing about the community: the fact weā€™re a bunch of wholesome, huge hearted people that can achieve anything if weā€™ll get together
Has the channel/community or SeĆ”n helped or changed you? (Please trigger warn if necessary): oh, donā€™t even let me start on this one. let this tweet be an answer. plus, i kicked THE HECK out of my anxiety.
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Fave in-jokes/memes: i donā€™t think i have specific ones? i like SeĆ”nā€˜s sense of humour in general
Things outside the channel that you love: the fact i found a group of people who i love and want to put my energy into. the people who will have my back when i need them, but also wonā€™t be afraid to call me out on my bs when needs be. iā€™m incredibly thankful for that
Have you made friends here yet?: yes! i found people iā€™d fight wars for, and theyā€™ll always have the warmest place inside my heart
Are you open to messages or new friends?: of course! if you feel like it, message away!
Anything to add?: i love you all to bits!
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entireoranges Ā· 3 years ago
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My So Weird 2.1 Project
Here is my idea for a So Weird revival show. I tried my best to keep in the spirit of the original show while also making itā€™s own show that can stand on itā€™s own. I will say I am really bad supernatural elements so in some the episode summaries are pretty lacking, but in your mind just assume something weird/unexplainable in fact did happen.
I picked out the actors before writing this up and Iā€™ll be honest some no longerĀ ā€œfitā€ how I imagine the characters to be for various reasons, still I shall include it. Finally I tried to think of original actors that might be willing to do it again, though who really knows LOL. Regardless itā€™s all a bit of fun!
With all that said I hope you guys like it.
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Characters / Cast Jack Phillips (Patrick Levis) Age: 38 Annie Thelen (Alexz Johnson) Age: 36 Kevin Thelen-Phillips (Jacob Ballinger) Age: 13 Kathleen/Quinn Thelen-Phillips (Ella Allan) Age: 11 Kennedy Thelen-Phillips (Mia Allan) Age: 11 Gregory White (Aaron Jennings) Age: 35 Isabella White (Zoe Kravitz) Age: 34 Jackson White (Evan Alex) Age: 14 Olive White (McKenna Roberts) Age: 13 Carey Bell (Eric Lively) Age: 40 Molly Phillips (Mackenzie Phillips) Age: 62 Emily Bell (Mackenzie Foy) Age: 19 Ned Bell (Dave Squatch Ward) Age: 65
Recurring/Special Cast Clu Bell (Erik Von Detten) Age: 39 Irene Bell (Belinda Metz) Age: 64 Gabe Crawford (Jane McGregor) Age: 38 James McDonald (Lachlan Murdoch) Age: 33 Phillip McDonald (TBD) Age: 3 Tad Raxall (Garwin Sanford)
Summary
Photographer Jack Phillips with his wife pop singer Annie Thelen live in Los Angeles California. The couple has a 13 year old son named Kevin and twins Kathleen and Kennedy aged 11. Because of the nature of both their jobs the couple has to travel fairly frequently. Jack tries to book photography assignments that align with Annie's various tours. When they can the children are brought along, in the instances in which it is not possible the children stay with his mother Molly Phillips, her boyfriend Carey Bell, and their 19 year old daughter Emily. Jack along with Annie often visit or are visited by his best friend Clu Bell, his wife Scarlet and their five children. Though with Clu and his family living in Australia where he runs a surfing company its difficult to find time for the visits. Annie is best friends with Isabella White who works as her personal assistant. Her husband Gregory is good friends with Jack as well. Gregory and Isabella have Jackson 14 and Olive who is 11. Its a hectic but fulfilling life.
Then everything turns on it's head when Jack receives a panicked phone call from his younger sister's,(Fiona) boyfriend James McDonald saying she is gone. Jack soon learns that Fiona, after investigating a so-called paranormal occurrence, has gone missing. James pleads with Jack to look for her, saying it is his destiny and fate to find her, protect her. Having washed his hands of her fantasies and almost her, with the exception of holidays Jack at first refuses.
Annie who herself for a few years in her teenage years had a passing interest in the paranormal herself tells Jack that they have to find Fiona. It'll be difficult road with many mysteries and things Jack has always been unwilling to see, but to save his sister it's time to open his eyes. Jack questions Annie how she knows this, but like many things she can't explain and to just trust her.
Though her management team at first is angry at the decision Annie tells them she is doing a small intimate tour across the United States and and will be traveling in a bus. They don't preplan the venues, only give a few days' warning and often playing in small, almost hole in the wall locations. The stops are decided by Annie's gut reactions and more often than not there are signs Fiona had just been there or has something connected to her.
Jack and Annie bring their three children along with them and hire Gregory to drive the tour bus. Isabella and the kids come as well. Its a crowded environment but somehow they make it work.
After a few weeks of not finding Fiona, Molly decides she too wants to be out there looking for her, having also lost her husband years ago to mysterious circumstances. Annie arranges for Molly to be the opening act on her tour, even though Molly at this point was pretty much retired. Carey and Emily come along as well, with him serving as lead guitarist to Molly as he did years ago.
Jack and Annie also ask for Ned Bell to come along and serve as a tutor for the children, wanting a hands on approach for their education and not strictly computer based. Ned, Molly, Carey, and Emily travel and stay on a second bus throughout the tour, that Ned drives. They told him they'd hire someone but he insisted and refused to take payment for it.
Fiona and James also have a 3 year old son named Phillip. James stays at home, along with Phillip, in case Fiona returns and does what he can from his end.
---- Character personality traits / notes
Jack: Serious. Stubborn. Willing to listen to others. Dedicated husband and father. Logical. Very similar to the Jack seen in the 1999-200 iteration but a bit more forthright on not believing the weird occurrences.
Annie: Hard working. Outgoing. Embraces the world around her. Finds beauty/joy in everything. Very attuned to things, often unexplained. Loving wife and mother.
Kevin: Hockey fan. Loves to pester the twins. Talented guitarist, interested in becoming a musician one day like his mom (and grandparents). Embraces the weird stuff but doesn't care to dive into the deeper meanings of why or how.
Kathleen: Enjoys photography like their dad. Excels in school and loves learning. Gets frustrated at others, especially their twin, when they discuss or point out weird occurrences. Has had a few strange things happen to them, but stubbornly ignores.
Kennedy: Very close to her aunt Fiona. Full blown believer in the weird. Has a dedicated social media accounts to share her beliefs and have others share theirs. Which includes a YouTube channel that does fairly well. Constantly worries the adults around her.
Gregory: Very outgoing. Loves to cook, especially bbq.
Isabella: A bit shy. Very dedicated to her job and client/best friend.
Jackson: Best friends with Kevin. Talented at sports. Bit of a jokester and likes to play pranks on people.
Olive: Wants to be a pop singer and idolizes Annie. Has a habit of stretching the truth. Gets along equally with both of the twins.
Carey: Very much go with the flow type. Played with a few bands after Molly stopped touring/performing but none of them ever had any mentionable success. Took up woodworking and diy projects.
Molly: Dedicated and protective towards her children, grandchildren, and boyfriend. Doesn't take crap from anyone especially when it comes to her relationship with Carey. She grew tired of being the well behaved don't make the record executives angry type of client and started following her heart. Now twenty years into the relationship hardly anyone cares anymore though. With the help of her daughters she slowly started opening up to perhaps there is something special about her and her connection to the unseen, much to Jack's frustration.
Emily: Loves things like tarot, zodiacs, psychic readings, and similar things. Very entuned to nature and animals, is a vegan. However doesn't believe in aliens or mythical supernatural creatures like bigfoot. Does freelance writing time to time. Is also a very talented painter.
Ned: Outgoing. A bit lonely after his divorce with Irene. He accepted and supported Carey's relationship with Molly, while she refused and it created a wedge between them. Works as a substitute teacher from time to time. Bought a boat and can be found out on the water nearly every weekend.
Episode Summaries
EP1: Pilot There is tension between Jack and Annie because he thinks this road trip/tour is a waste of time. At a fuel stop Jack sees a deer standing in a nearby field and takes a picture of it in his digital camera, when he views the image in the preview window the deer is not there, but instead Fiona of when she was about three years old. Gregory and Isabella have to deal with Jackson flooding the bathroom on the bus. Meanwhile Kendall live streams while her mom is doing her show and gets into an argument with a viewer about aliens.
EP2: Welcome To Our Memories They make a stop in Hope Springs to visit for a day. Emily insists on giving all the children a tarot reading. Kathleen is told a big change is coming for them, finding all this rubbish they ignore it. The gang looks through photo albums and home videos. Kevin asks if he can have his grandfatherā€™s old guitar. Four new people join the road trip/tour when Molly expresses being tired of sitting around while her daughter is missing.
EP3: Journey Down A Path Unseen Jack has an awkward and tense encounter with his former girlfriend Gabe who promised Fiona ten years ago to come to this certain hotel at this time and date. She gives him a sealed envelope containing a note of bunch of seemingly random symbols. Olive and Kennedy sneak into a local party after Kennedy learned via social media the location is haunted. While at the party Olive gets drunk. EP4: My Sister's Guardian Kevin witness Kathleen getting harassed for the way they dress and style their hair and he gets into a fight with the teenagers doing the harassment, in the scuffle he breaks his wrist. Annie and Isabella have a night out on the town.
EP5: Gemini Storms The twins celebrate their 12th birthday. And end up getting into a huge fight. Emily gets mad at Carey after he finds out she's been chatting with an older guy, she questions why he was allowed (and still has) a relationship with someone who is older and she can't. Tad surprises the gang with a visit.
EP6: Tangled Threads Ā James calls in a panic saying now Phillip is missing too. Molly and Jack take a flight to help in the search. Kathleen has a dream in which they are standing in a white room with their grandfather Rick who whispers follow me and walks seemingly through a wall. Kennedy get jealous when some girls flirt with Jackson. Carey helps Kevin practice his guitar playing after having his brace removed.
EP7: 2:39 AM Ā Phillip is located in a park at 2:39 am. When asked how he got there or for details he states he can't remember anything. Elsewhere at the same time Gregory is rushed to the ER with appendicitis. Leaving the group stuck in this small town for a while, Kennedy soon figures out its famous for UFO sightings and abductions. Emily decides to give a few psychic readings and do some memory regression sessions on a few of the local residents to figure out what's really happening. Almost all of them mention seeing a door with 239 marked on it. Molly and Jack return to the group. Molly mentions that she received the knock on the door informing her of Rick's death at 2:39.
EP10: Shadow Melodies Ā Annie wakes up with a melody stuck in her head that almost becomes deafening and nothing she tries can get it out. Kathleen doesn't know what to do when the boys arrange a fishing trip while the girls all get together for an all day spa excursion. Clu video chats with the gang. They receive sad news when they learn Mollyā€™s father Collin has died.
EP11: One Moment After Ā At Collin's funeral Jack is nearly blinded with hatred towards his sister for not being present at such a crucial event. He announces after the service that he's done and he's flying back home. He lets the kids decide what they want to do. Kathleen is the only one who asks to come with him. Annie tries to get Jack to stay going back to her reasonings as to why it's his destiny to find Fiona. He refuses to listen and still boards the flight. During the flight there is severe turbulence and the plane loses power. When the power comes back Kathleen is missing.
EP12: Brave Ruler Friend Of Horses Kathleen finds themselves in the same white dream from a few months ago. They find both their grandfather's and great grandfather sitting at a table with an empty chair. Nervous Kathleen decides to take a seat with them. Grandfather Rick tells them their the one. Grandfather Kevin tells them not to be scared and they are never alone. While Collin tells them about not to hide from the truth the same way as he has when it came to what their family has been for generations. Still confused, Kathleen questions what exactly they mean and states perhaps all this is meant for Kennedy. The men tell them no. Rick gives one last piece of information 'to follow their heart on all things' and suddenly finds themselves back on the plane where Jack and the flight attendants are very confused but relived. Kathleen announces they are changing their name to Quinn. And tells their dad that once the plane lands they are going back.
Other notes and head canons. Jack and Fiona had a falling out because she got into the paranormal after promising to leave it alone. This time harder than ever. He felt she was obsessed, almost addicted to it. And watching her on this path became too much for him; so he started distancing himself from her.
Jack and Molly were distant for a while as well, him not being accepting of her relationship with Carey, it wasnā€™t until he became a father himself did he start to heal their relationship.
James is the same James from the original run of the show Tulpa/PK.
When it comes to the differences of Kennedy and Kathleen/Quinn; Kennedy thinks/wants to have the connection to the paranormal, even the scary elements while in reality nothing ever noteworthy happens to her. While Kathleen/Quinn doesnā€™t care, almost hates it but yet everything odd happens to them the paranormal is connected to them. As I told my husband ā€¦ itā€™s like your parents being famous and talented oil painters and you desperately want to have the same talent so you study for years but are just ok; then your sibling has never expressed interest one day picks up a brush and is a prodigy at it.
Though in the episode summaries I donā€™t mention the White family a lot they are important to the show, much like how the Bells were important in the original So Weird.
As seen in the summary of episode 12 Annieā€™s father has passed away at the point and her and Jack do name their son after him.
--- I know itā€™s not the best and has a lot of holes, but I did try!
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popculturebuffet Ā· 4 years ago
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One Year Anniversary: Top 12 Ducktales Episodes!
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Happy anniversary all you happy people! Yes it was one year ago today I started reviewing animation and itā€™s been a ride to be sure. Iā€™d always WANTED to be a reviewer: I love going on and on about stuff I love, really digging into it and picking it apart... but I could never get started. I tried youtube but I didnā€™t have the money for the equipment nor a proper shooting space to record, so my efforts.. were not great. And while I TRIED text reviews, my own looming pile of self hatred meant every attempt I made was shot down when it got hard as me not being good enough.Ā 
But one year ago I finally got past that. Iā€™d already been reviewing a bit, doing invididual issues of comics... but got way in over my head trying to do the current line of X-Men comics as it came out, and wisely bowed out of that. But that left a gap: I had nothing to cover week to week and with a demanding new job, I drifted into just doing in charcter chats, little fan fictions script styles. Not bad work, I should do some more at some point and I even got a comissoin once in a while, but nothing I could really live on and not what I wanted to do with my life.Ā 
Enter Ducktales. Iā€™d always WANTED to review the show.. and when the double premire happened, I decided fuck it, and put up my thoughts. And then decided.. hey maybe I can do this every week.. and slowly.. my work evolved, getting better and better, getting more and more likes. I picked up Amphibia when that came by week to week.
And eventually.. this went from a hobby, if one I was passionate about to a career. Not a largely paying one, as only one person was really intrested in paying me for it, friend of the blog and our fincial backer @weirdkev27, but .. itā€™s money and iā€™m now making about 30 dollars a month due to a comination of comissions and patreon. Other contributers are always welcome mind you, my patreon is here if your curious and comissions are 5 dollars an episode, but iā€™ts just nice to have money coming in. To have gone from simply WANTING to review things and make a living off it.. to simply doing it.Ā 
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And itā€™s been one hell of a year.. and not just because 2020 felt like hell or 2021 began with a full on insurrection. I feel like iā€™ve acomplished a lot in the year iā€™ve been doing this: I finished what I started with Ducktales season 3, getting better and better as I went. And I didnā€™t stop there with ducks: I started covering what brought me to Ducks in the first place, the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, and while that retrospective has slid a bit on the schedule, I intend to get it back on track this month. I reviewed a bunch of Darkwing Duck episodes leading up to the Just Us Justice Ducks.. chronologically anyway. The actual airing order reads like someone took 50 issues of a comic, made it rain with them, then just started reading whatever ones they picked up randomly. I also covered some of Duck Master Carl Barks work with the classics Night on Bear Mountain, A Christmas for Shacktown and Back to the Klondike, with more to come.Ā 
And the Duck didnā€™t stop at just reviews I did on my own: Kev comissioned two MASSIVE retrospectives from me: My first for him was Ride of the Three Caballleros where in just a few short months I covered the boys entire televisied careers together from the movie, to house of mouse, to mickey and the roadster racers, to ducktales (again) and finishing with the wonderful Legend of the Three Caballeros. It has probably the worst Daisy imaginable, but otherwise is really excellent and iā€™m glad I finally watched it. I also covered Don Rosaā€™s two stories with the boys as part of it. It was a fun ride and I enjoyed every minute of it... okay most of them again Three Cabs Daisy is the worst. And once that finished Kev started up another idea: Shadow Into Light: a look at Lenaā€™s character arc from start to finish that has gone on to be my most popular series on this blog, and that finishes next week. And thereā€™s more to come as after that thereā€™s a short breather with a look at Lilo and Stitchā€™s crossover episodes.. folllowed by me looking at all three of season 2ā€²s ducktales arcs. And I fully intend to have covered every episode of the series by this time next year, so stay tuned.Ā 
Outside of ducks though I didnā€™t slow down. I restarted my Tom Lucitor retrospective, covering what i feel to be one of Star Vsā€™ two best characters, tied with eclipsa, and my personal faviorite as he redeemeed himself, found love and I bitched a lot about the horrible directions the series took and probabably will more as thatā€™s still not done yet. I did what I always wanted to do and started looks at some of my faviorite comics ever, starting with Life and Times and adding in New X-Men and Scott PIlgrim. I also threw in the awesome comic Blacksad. I did pride month for the first time and not only came out publicly, but also did two whole arcs iā€™m proud of with The Saluna episodes of Loud house and the rednid episodes of OK KO, and generally just had myself a good old fashioned time as an out bi man reviewing childrens cartoons.Ā 
I started Season 2 of amphibia with itā€™s lows of an endlesss road trip and highs of adding Marcy to the cast and giving us more of the silky voiced keith david. And finally Patreon wise Kevā€™s taken me on a hell o fa journey: In addition to the restrospectives iā€™ve covered some additional darkwing duck, and a simpsons homage to the duck comics... but also got a bit weird and obscure with detours like the lost animnaics sucessor Histeria, the apocalyptic comedy where Santa dosenā€™t know how doors work Whoops! and the adventures of Santaā€™s bratty teen daughter jingle belle. In short.. itā€™s been a long year but damn has it been fun and thereā€™s more to come. Iā€™d like to thank all of you for reading, thank my Patreons Kev and Emma for supporting me, and thank my family for doing the same.Ā  So with that out of the way, I figured the best way to celebrate was to do something iā€™ve been wanting to do for a long time, something honoring the show that gave me this calling in the first place. And with Season 3 sadly being the last, and enough weeks having passed for me to digest it between the finale and today, I could think of nothing better than my top 12 episodes of Ducktales.
Ducktales is one of the best cartoons of the 2010ā€²s. Brilliantly taking EVERYTHING that had come before, the comics, the original cartoon and every bit of duck media period to craft a masterful, unique and wonderful reboot. It was funny, it was insane, and it had damn good character arcs. By the end every member of the main cast along with major supporting cast members like Fenton, Drake and especially Lena, had changed and signifigantly at that. The show was everything I couldā€™ve dreamed of and more and I miss it terribly, hoping DIsney will do a revivial movie at some point. For now though, Frank and Mattā€™s run on ducktales, as they called it and I do too since iā€™m a massive comic book nerd, itā€™s time to look back on my favorite tales of ducks. So grab your sharks, your number one dimes and your friendship cakes with clear gay undertones and join me under the cut as I celebrate one of my faviorite shows and my anniversary in the best way possible.Ā 
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12. House of the Lucky Gander!Ā 
Ā So as iā€™ve gone on about before and no doubt will again, Donald kinda got the short end of the stick in season 1. While Frank and Matt had good story intentions, keeping Donald away from adventure since he had no interest in it, in practice it meant a beloved Disney Icon who they and disney HEAVILY promoted as part of the series and whose being here this go round was a big draw for fans of the comics.... was only in a quarter of the season and only got TWO plots centered around him in 23 episodes, with only one being the main plot of the episode. The PIlot and Finale both centered around the family more as a whole if your curious how I counted those so while he got plenty of focus in both, itā€™s still not a day in the limelight sort of thing.Ā 
But unusually for Donald, he lucked out as his one big starring role for Season 1 was both one of my faviorites and one of Season 1ā€²s most inventive outings.Ā  A lot of the episodes enegy comes from a one two punch of a great guest star and one of the series best settings. The guest star is of course everyoneā€™s faviorite overly lucky himbo Gladstone Gander. The show adapted the prick perfectly: The original Gladstone from the comics.. was the worst asshole imaginable, utterly insufferable. And for a villian, and Donaldā€™s rival, thatā€™s all well and good.. but his super luck meant he RARELY , if ever, suffered any consequences for being just...
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The 87 series simply made him nicer, while Going Quackers simply removed his luck. No adaptation really got how to make this fucker work.. until this one. Here Frank split the diffrence: Gladstone is still smug.. but heā€™s no longer actively malicious. While he is an insensitive prick to Donald in this one, unlike the comics heā€™s not constantly bragging about his luck or how great he is or actively BAITING Donald to fight with him or trying to ruin his relationship or a million other reasons he sucks and I hate him.
This version by contrast... is generous. Heā€™s not the most empathetic, because he doesnā€™t get how life works, but he does share the riches of the casnio with everyone and in a cameo appearance inĀ ā€œTreasure of the Found Lampā€ gladly offers his nephews some diamonds. Heā€™s got a nice surface level charm to him that makes you understand why people like him.. but itā€™s also clear therā€™es nothing UNDER that of value, making you equally understand why Scrooge and Donald hate him. Gladstone in this reboot is a perfect example of why we need reboots or new adaptations in the first place: Because sometimes the original got something wrong or something can be done much better by the new writers.Ā 
Heā€™s perfectly paired with the setting: The House of Lucky Fortune, a mystical casino with an East Asian astatic based in the country of Macaw and provides two great plots. Donaldā€™s really highlights his character: His understandable jealousy at gladstone earning the boys love through nothing while he struggles to make a living for them, and how he feels like a looser and like Gladstone is simply showing that off instead of just not knowing what empathy is. Having Louie be the one to bond with Gladstone was also just pitch pefefct, as is showing some depth for the boy by having himr ealize his hero is an asshole and be the one to help donald in the end.Ā 
The other plot is just pure joy though and is where the setting REALLY shines: Scrooge and the rest of the kids try to leave.. but canā€™t find the exit. This is where the creative part comes in: The Casino simply morphs to keep people trapped, and caters to them, giving them whatever they want to keep them trapped. In the cases of the kids itā€™s all hilarious and adorably in character: Huey becomes entranced by a fancy water show, in one of his best bits of the season, Dewey gets a pet tiger who sadly did not come home with him and Webby gets to live the dream weā€™ve all had of stuffing her face directly in a choclate fountain. Scroogeā€™s escape is likewise clever: He simply prepares to get a room.. then books it as the check in desk is ALWAYS near the front.Ā 
We then find out Gladstonā€™es trapped get the whole mystical contest with absolutely gorgeous animation, iā€™ll talk about it in full some time but this episode is just a treat to watch, has a great arc for donald and had some memorable gags. I canā€™t help but smile when I watch it.Ā 
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11. The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee!Ā  As I mentioned before iā€™m a superhero nerd so naturally Fenton was one of my faviorite parts of the show. Frank and Matt were just damn good at crafting superhero stories, and like gladstone improved fenton turning him from an awkward donald stand in to an awkward peter parker-esque science nerd who just wants to be a good person and the best hero he can be. He got into science not just because he thinks itā€™s neat, but because he honestly wants to help people and you canā€™t help but foot for him whenever he pops up. Lin Manuel Miranda is a large reason for that, bringing his incomparable a-game to the character. While we sadly didnā€™t get a ton of gizmoduck focused episodes, the fatct we got AS MANY as we did and that Lin didnā€™t drop out for a minute even with his busy schedule was a miracle and Iā€™m acknowledging that.Ā 
As for why this one, I feel it builds brilliantly on the previous Fentoncentric episode Who Is Gizmoduck?! which just BARELY didnā€™t make this list and uses the fact we havenā€™t seen fenton in a while as both a plot point and to move some things forward without having to spend screentime they clearly didnā€™t have. By having Fenton be just burnt out on superheroics it finds a way to both explain where heā€™s been, heā€™s been busy with his new job, and give us an interesting angle to the oldĀ ā€œsuperhero is tired of the lifeā€ thing. He never once complains about saving people or stuff... itā€™s just like any job it gets tiring after a while. As someone who has his dream job but has struggled with it from time to time, I vastly relate.Ā 
Though while I love my boy and Lin is game as always, the episodes real MVP is my other boy Huey. The episode has moved Huey up from being simply Fentonā€™s fanboy to being his best friend, and adorable as hell relationship. The two clearly respect and appricate each other and Huey is looking out for his buddy the whole episode. His love of love is also just really cute. Added in the mix is Webby, who in one of my faviorite gags of the series, finds out Fenton isĀ  Gizmoduck because Huey is incredibly and insanely blatant with his unecessary coverup. But she of course is game to help while Fenton is trying to play it casual. We also just get a waterfall of great gags as everyone overdoes it wingmanning for fenton: Huey sets up an itallian bistro and tries to purposfully create a lady and the tramp situation, and sings opera (With Manny on acordian), the wonderfully 80ā€²s suit from Fentonā€™s dad his mom gives him to wear, and Launchpad, who gives us a tremendous list of his exes, and plays my favorite song of the series: Itā€™s a Date, a micheal mcdonnel riff.Ā 
This episode also wisely ups Markā€™s Beaks game as Fentonā€™s arch enemy, still keeping him hilaroius, with the guy acting like a bored teenager and guzzling so much nanite jucie he turns into a hulk, as well as said hulk mode leading to a ton of great gags from kidnapping the children (ā€I got your kids.. are they your kids? I donā€™t know how this family works), toĀ ā€œtake that coach dadā€ to eating a pie with tins and all and wondering about said tins. But heā€™s an actual threat now, taking on fenton in one hell of a fight, and having an utterly transcendent scene where he hacks his way past gyroā€™s security while dancing.. and dabbing because of course he does. Itā€™s a fun, well done character piece thatā€™s mostly here for iā€™ts laugh but Fentonā€™s struggle with Gizmo overtaking his life, and finding out someone he truly hit it off iwth only wanted him for that.. itā€™s really good stuff and Linā€™s delivery after Fenton finds out, the pure pain and betryal in his voice, is just excellent. Also that opera scene is poetry.Ā 
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10. Quack Pack!
One of the episodes that started my career naturally landed here. Not for that reason though: Quack Pack is a fun riff on sitcoms, specifically the tgif ones of the 90ā€²s that Disney Afternoon Kids no doubt also watched, the kinds Disney Channel still makes today, and most importanly the kind the Disney Afternoon itself made like Goof Troop and well... Quack Pack.Ā 
Riffs on sitcoms are nothing new and the last year has been FULL of them. 2020 gave us this episode, Beef House and the wonderfulĀ ā€œThe Perfect Houseā€ episode of Close Enough, and this year gave us WandaVision, my second favorite MCU project so far, right behind Black Panther, which used the sitcom deconstruction to create one hell of a character study.Ā 
So youā€™d think with a year having passed and this concept happening as an entire mini series would dull this one.. but no. itā€™s still damn funny, having fun at the cliches while, again like WandaVision, having one of the main cast be responsible by accident but go along with it. The episode pivots from glorious affectionate parody of cheesy sitcoms, to that plus horrifyingĀ ā€œHumansā€, and a character piece for Donald. This brings Donaldā€™s hatred and fed up ness with adventure to a head revealing his fondest wish is just to have a normal life and not loose anyone again.Ā 
It takes one of his best friends to snap him out of it. Look Goofy is my second faviorite of the sensational seven, an episode with him was already an easy sell for me.. but the episode uses him really well. First for laughs as heā€™s gentically dispositioned to be a perfect sitcom neighbor.. but also for heart. With his family preoccupied and a bit hurt, iā€™ts Goofy who cuts to the heart of the issue, pointing out NO ONE is normal and even his normal domestic life raising Max, who we see go to prom with roxanne eeeeee, has all sorts of chaos. Normal is what you make of it and pining for some ideal that will never happen was just tearing donald apart piece by piece and by letting go of that.. he finally begins to grow as a person throughout the season. Itā€™s also a great thematic tie in to the seasonā€™s overall plot with Bradford and what Makes donald, despite also disliking the chaos his family gets into, different. Donald accepted it and grew as a person.. Bradford clung to his hate and it ate him alive. Or turned him into a non-sapient kind of vulture. Before I close this part out Jaleel White is also excellent and I wish ehā€™d get back into voice acting. Heā€™s so freaking good at it. Seriously man iā€™d love to see him and ben in a sonic property together as a mythology gag. Same with Jims cummings and carey. Just think about it whoever owns the sonic movies.. think about it.Ā 
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9. The Last Adventure!
Look I knew this was coming, you knew this was coming. But it had to be on here. The Last Adventure is not perfect: The lack of a build up episode like the previous two finales had really hurt this one: even at about 70 minutes, it still feels rushed in places and Huey, one of hte main characters of the season, dosenā€™t feel like he has a full payoff to his character like Dewey and Louie got.Ā 
But despite those flaws.. this episode is just a damn good ending. Almost everyone gets a big moment paying off their character arc, everyone in the party that comes to rescue webby and huey, along with the two themselves, gets a moment to show off, and everything comes together to give us one last epic sendoff. Thereā€™s just moment stacked on moment stacked on moment from Launchpads heroic second wind and donning of the gizmoduck armor, to Webbyā€™s tearful confrontation with Beakley, to Huey using the greatest adventure of all line to foil bradford in one of the most deligfhully nuts moments of the series, I could go on for days with just how triumphant this finale felt. While it left a lot of doors open.. that feels like part of the design. Itā€™s the end of the fight with FOWL.. but our heroes will never stop adventuring, never stop going and never stop being in our hearts and the curtain call at the end is now my faviorite bit of end credits ever, perfectly giving the main cast and friends one last chance to take a bow in their own unique ways. I will always miss this show but I will never be disapointed by the note it went out on.Ā 
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8. The 87 Cent Solution!
Look some episodes are show stoppers, some are heartfelt tearjerkers, some are all this and more.. and some episodes are just clever and hilarious. The 87 Solution is the second funniest episode of Ducktales with me and my go to episode when watching the show. Itā€™s just pure fun and with a clever premise: Scrooge notices 87 cents have gone missing, and already coming down with a cold, goes mad with paranoia as the kids slowly don face masks, something that has become even eeerier given everything, one by one realizing he needs to stop.Ā 
While David Tennant is an EXCELLENT dramatic actor, his comedy timing is really something that shoudlnā€™t be ignored and iā€™ts on full display here as his performance gets more and more deranged, to thep oint he thinks an 8th dimensional imp is repsonsible. He nicely balances the disturbing side of Scroogeā€™s paranoia, his distancing from his family, with plenty of great gags about it too, the standout being when he offers 2 million dollars to whoever took the money like heā€™s publicly appeasing kidnappers. Itā€™s fucking brilliant.Ā 
But while David is awesome as ever what really, truly makes the episode is my boy, one of my faviorite characters on the show if not my single faviriote FLINTHEART GLOMGOLD. Keith Ferguson is ALWAYS a dream as the character but this is his best performance by far. Part of this is the addition of Zan Owlson, Kev who I mentioned earlierā€™s faviorite Ducktales character. Sheā€™s not only throughly likeable in her own right, but provides the one thing Flinty was missing; a straight man.. or woman in this case. Scrooge wasnā€™t TERRIBLE in the roll, but can easily step away from his shit or foil it. Owlson has to put up with Glomgoldā€™s nonsense while desperatly trying to stop him from undoing all her hard work with sheer force of jackass. The two jut play off each other brilliantly, Glomgold not getting shā€™es not his employee but his equal and Owlson constnatly snarking at him.Ā 
And of course both things hit their peak in the climax with the family staging a fake funeral (Though no one told donald it was fake), and we get the funniest scene in the entire fucking show as Glomgold burts in in a white suit, money shades and full dance number toĀ ā€œAll I Do Is Winā€™, which when first watching this I was convinced the song was somehow accidnetly on in the background but nope. They got it after using it in the test phase and the scene is better for it. Glomgold twerking on Scroogeā€™s casket, trying to get on it to dance, and having to be placated like ac hild is the icing on this very rich cake
And the reveal scene is also gold as Glomgold gets into a YEARLONG staring contest with a baby, fails to steal more than the 87 cents and, in my faviorite touch, put on an imp costume just to make scrooge seem crazier... then keeps the damn thing on the rest of the time for no explicable reason. The episode is the show at itā€™s comedic peak while giving Glomgold a chance to be a genuine threat and thatā€™s Glomgood.Ā 
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7. Letā€™s Get Dangerous!
Frankā€™s Rebooted Version of Darkwing Duck is probably his greatest achivment with the show. While this show is a team effort, something I slowly realized as I reviewed the show, itā€™s very clear from the way he talks, how well he knows the show and how much effort was put into porting Darkwing into the reboot that this was his baby. While redefining ducktales for the 2010ā€²s was clearly a huge dream of his... doing the same for the master of suprise was an even bigger goal. And as a huge fan of superheroes iā€™ve seen my fair share of half assed takes on laired and complex characters. The XCU alone is one giant grab bag of missed opportunities for me.Ā 
So iā€™ts no exageration when I tell you Frank.. nailed it. In one of the most brilliant moves iā€™ve seen for a superhero work Frank worked his love of the show into the reboot.. by having Darkwing have been a show, one Launchpad loved.. and so did Drake, who was inspried by the show to become an inspriation himself and while his attempt to do that through a zack snydery reboot failed, Launchpad encouraged him to do it for real. Drake was still himself, but the meta aspect and the toning down of some of darkwingā€™s more obnoxious traits that didnā€™t work in a universe that, while patently rediciulous still took itā€™s characters seriously, he made a BETTER version of the character.
This is where all that comes to itā€™s peak, and hoppefully convinced Disney to let Frank , and possibly matt, run the reboot. And no, even if Point Grey is producing that dosenā€™t stop that: Thanks to Invincible iā€™ve now realized that Seth and his friend Evan producing the show dosenā€™t mean itā€™ll be RAN by them, nor unrelated to this. It just means their helping make it and if anything given how lush and gorgeous invincibleā€™s animation is, itā€™s a VERY good sign their helping out with it if itā€™s true.Ā 
But wether this versoin continues or not, Frank gave it his best shot. Part of his diffrent angle is having Drake as a rookie here and as such here we see him truly struggle: heā€™s had his origin, he ahs the cape, he has the gadgets (in a brilliant turn thanks to fenton, who he actually likes... but is so far the ONLY person to not get heā€™s Gizmoduck), and the city.. but no crime to fight and no real idea how to go about his lifelong dream. The events of the episode slowly shape him: WHile he already had the spirit for darkwing, never giving up, looking good in a cape etc, this episode gives him the heart the same way it gave his original it: With Gosalyn. Dimantopolis and Beatriz just play off each other perfectly, as the two go from neimies to slowly bonding as Drake realizes this kid needs him and that he needs to fight for more than just filing the ohle inside, and goes to hell and back to help her get her grandpa back, with one of the best moments of the episode to me being when Launchpad helps her realize how hard heā€™s been working at it, an exausted drake refusing to acccept that he canā€™t get her grandpa back because he promised. He grows from simply trying to live the dream.. to surpassing the original.Ā We also see more from Launchpad, who grows into his new family and helps push his boyfriend and newa dopted daughter in the right directions. The episode really evolves these characters from the simple disney afternoon versions, who while awesome were made into fully fleshed out characters. Gosalyn still has her edge but now has a hard lesson to learn about doing the right thing, forced to give up someone she loves for the greater good but finding a new family in the process.Ā 
Part of what makes the episode work though as while it is funcitonally one big darkwing duck reboot pilot thatā€™s awesome, heartrending and a joy to watch... itā€™s still a ducktales episode in parts without either part hurting each other. Huey plays a vital role, figuring the ramrod is too good to be true.. and discovering just how it is, then when captured, slowly unravling why Bradfordā€™s there and being at least in part responsible for outing him as a FOWL agent. While this is largely Drakes story the rest of the cast is still vital to it: Scrooge trusting in huey, Louie serving as his logical counter and Dewey meanwhile bonding with team darkwing and helping Gosalyn, knowing exactly where sheā€™s been and providing a nice foil. The episode is just one long and impressive love letter to the original show while creating itā€™s own thing and thatā€™s really this reboot in a nutshell. It also has some of the best fights of the series, with the first fight between darkwing and bulba, where our hero, unlike his original counterpart, easily troucnes bulba using his speed and skill, is the standout.Ā 
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6. Woo-Ooo!
I covered this one recently so I wonā€™t go on for too long.. but I will say I hold this one up as the gold standard for first episodes. In one hour, hell even in jus the first half we get a sense of the whole cast, the tone of the show, and the world weā€™ve been thrust into. It gets all the table setting out of the way by weaving it into a compelling story of Scrooge getting back in the game, finding a reason to get back to what he does best in those he loves most and setting up the season long arc effortlessly in the process. The worst I can say about the episode is it sets the bar a bit high for Season 1 and a lot of the first half really struggled to reach these heights. This episode is a masterwork and the perfect showcase for what the series would be at itā€™s height.Ā 
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5. Moonvasion!
Speaking of Golden Standards, Moonvasion is one of the best season finaleā€™s iā€™ve seen. itā€™s not THE best.. but thatā€™s a really high bar to clear and that spots currently taken in my heart byĀ ā€œThe Crossroads of Destinyā€ from Avatar the Last Airbender. But while not the best of itā€™s kind, itā€™s sitll the best the series put out and is an utterly satisfying epic that ties up season 2.Ā 
While I love the Last Adventure, it had a LOT to tie up and was really hampered by having to do all of that with no direct lead in. Moonvasion by contrast hits the ground running with the Moonlanders arriving on earth and all hell breaking loose, and the episode itself breaking into two stellar plots. Scrooge leading an army of every ally he has against the invaders, and Della seemingly going for reinforcements.. but really just trying to keep the kids safe from it, to their anger once they find out.Ā 
Both sides end up going badly: Scrooge looses most of his army as Lunaris was one step ahead of him and is left iwth Beakly and Launchpad, while Della ends up marooned.. and finds Donald. The reunion between the two is the highlight of the special, as the two argue as youā€™d expect (And Dewey cutting in seemingly to stop it.. only to rant at Donald for costing himĀ ā€œten years of turboā€ is the best gag of the episode), before embracing.Ā 
Our heroes naturally find ways to bounce back though. Louie, capping off his growth for the season, convinces his mom they canā€™t just hide.. and in the second best scene of the episode sings the lullabye she wrote.. one Donald sung them every night
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And no sooner than Della gets her step back and realizes that dangerous or not she and her newly reunited family have to get back in there, do the cousins show up on Fethryā€™s giant shrimp/girlfriend Mitzi, and our heroes head back.Ā 
Scroogeā€™s plot hits iā€™ts peak though as heā€™s forced to accept the help of an unlikely and unwelcome ally: Glomgold, who turns out to be exactly what they need: While his plan is as stupid, short sighted and insane as youā€™d expect, complete with forcing Scrooge to dress up as santa just to piss him off and dressing his sharks in parkas (ā€I call them sharkasā€), the sheer lonacy throws Lunaris off as he dosenā€™t know how to deal with this and Glomgold not only gets the better of him but gets his company back as part of his scheme.Ā  ā€œYou were prepared for our best but not our dumbest!ā€ ā€œAnd iā€™m the dumbest theirs ever been! Muahahahaha! Wait...ā€
And of course our other heroes arrive just in time to save things.. and the episode still manages to pull off what many works struggle to, something thaā€™ts very hard to: a SECOND climax. Lunaris decides to just say fuck it and blow up the earth and iā€™ts up to our core family to kick his ass in space. Epic space battles, Dellaā€™s girlfriend meeting the family and more insues and an emotoinal, action packed and fully satisfying finale is had by all... and itā€™s all topped with one of the best sequel hooks iā€™ve ever seen as FOWL makes themselves known to us.. and prepares to strike.Ā 
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4. How Santa Stole Christmas! This one will also be short as iā€™ve talked about this one.. a lottttt. The initial review, my best christmas specials list and my best of 2020 list. I stand by all of that: this is a unique and wonderful christmas special, iā€™ll be watching it every year, and iā€™ts full of charm, humor and gay subtext. In short itā€™s this series but on christmas footing.Ā 
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3. Last Crash of the Sunchaser!Ā 
Another one I covered very recently, this episode is a master piece of suspense, slowly building tension as our heroes get closer and closer to the truth about Della.. and to death, the simple but deadly stakes making this an absolute nailbiter from start to finish. This is some of the series best pacing bar none... but what seals it is the ending: the masterful flashback finally explaning whatever happened to Della duck, our heroes lashing out at each other.. all cumilating in the best Scene of the show. I said it might be in the review but no I can confirm: Scrooge bitterly ruminating over things while we find out just how much heā€™s lost... ending with him tearfully and angrily sitting once again alone in one hell of a powerful shot echoing Scroogeā€™s first apperance. Damn fine stuff.Ā 
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2. Escape from The Impossbin Only one episode not only matches Last Crash in mounting tension and atmosphere but suprasses it. With FOWL and Bradfordā€™s true nature now out in the wind, this episode uses that to create tension and rattles itā€™s two most unshakable characters: SCroogeā€™s normal boundless confidence is shot, not sure he can win this time against an opponent who knows him as well as he knows himself while Beakly slowly unravels, pitting Webby against the boys.. and pitting herself against Webby when Webby sees her terroizing them is only dividing them. Both plots start out funny enough but slowly escalate in tension and stakes until by the end your on the edge of your seat. The Beakly plot is the standout of the two, giving Bentina the starring role she badly needed, having gotten even better in light of the finale. Everyone is at the top of their game and everything builds up to one hell of a twist ending and one hell of a badass boast from our heroes: Their down.. but their far from out and this is far from over.Ā 
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1. Nightmare On Kimotor Hill!
Iā€ll be reviewing this episode in full later this week as part of my Lena retrospective, but I stand by putting it up top. This episode is ducktales in itā€™s purest form and focuses on itā€™s best original character as Lena grapples with her self hatred and her past. That core helps anchor an amazing concept: going into the Kidā€™s dreams and finding out their greatest desires. The results.. are all gloriously rediclous and are easily the best gags of hte series as a whole: Deweyā€™s high school musical santa claus is going ot high school nonsense from getting aā€™s in Dewology to running away from the abstract concept of a love intrest, to not getting the sybolism of himself crying a moon made of his own tears. Louie quite literally becoming garfield, and my faviorite scene of the show: Huey, wanting to be the tall older brother..g iving himself horrifcly long leg. While everyone else is just understandably baffled, what makes the scene is the banter between Dewey and Huey, with Schwartz and Pudi at their best as Dewey first freaks out and then asks what the hell man, while Huey defends his weird decision (ā€Iā€m not good at imagination stuff okay!ā€), and then tries to get a jar of pickles. Each dream is just so oddly and wonderfully specific to each kid and each one of the triplests dreams, as well as violets being color coded down tot he backgrounds is a very nice touch. The visuals here are just peak ducktales, using the setting for all itā€™s worth and the climax is utterly emotoinal and heartbreaking... and Lenaā€™s break from her abuser, finally realizing she has the power now is not only a wonderful metaphor... but also just so damn cathartic. And thatā€™s why this oneā€™s the best to me personally: it just packs so much into 20 minutes: some of the series best and most creative jokes, a gripping emtoinal arc, and so much more. Itā€™s just that damn good and thaā€™ts why itā€™s the best... that and starting Huelet for me. Seriously that LIbrary scene is so fucking cute.Ā 
Thank you all for reading. If you liked this artcle, join my patreon and help me get to my stretch goal for monthly darkwing duck reviews, a review of super ducktales and more after! Until the next rainbow... itā€™s been a pleasure.Ā 
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weedle-testaburger Ā· 4 years ago
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i mentioned a few days ago iā€™ve never seen that animorphs tv show, and since i found out someoneā€™s put a bunch of episodes on youtube thatā€™s about to change
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Holiday MoviesšŸŽ„šŸŽ¬ : Festive AF or Bah Humbug?
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Hi! First up, I hope you are doing okay and are staying safe. It has been a weird Christmas season, and since The Netherlands is now in their second lockdown period for 2020, it is even weirder. However, that is not messing up my festive spirit. Christmas is my favorite time of the year, and not even 2020 will mess that up for me. Something I have been doing since lockdown is watching movies (even more than usual). Including a bunch of new Christmas movies. I watch the classics as always and made a blog post for that a couple of years ago. Which you can readĀ here. So, I decided to make a post with all the ā€˜newā€™ Christmas movies I have watched this year! So keep reading to find out if these movies will make you say Ho-Ho-Ho or No-No-No...Ā 
No worries, all the reviews are spoiler-free!
The Holiday Calendar (2018): Festive AF
Where to watch: Netflix
I watched this movie back in 2018 because I love Quincy! So, I was curious about this movie. I adored it. Now it has become an annual Christmas watch. Kat Graham and Quincy have great chemistry and the plot is quite original, which I can always appreciate. It is a fun movie and very cozy!
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Anastasia (1997): festive AF
Where to watch: Disney+
I have been watching this movie since I was little, and I feel it so underrated! This is not a Christmas movie. However, with the winter scenery, I think it is great for the Holiday season! Itā€™s the story of Anastasia, who may or may not be a long-lost Russian princess... The animation is fantastic, the locations are so pretty to look at, the characters and cast are amazing, and the soundtrack and musical numbers are just incredible. Yeah, there is a lot to love about this movie! Highly recommend.
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The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (2020): festive AF
Where to watch: Disney+ (if you do not have Disney+, it is on YouTube in two parts, but you did not hear that from me ;))
I have never watched the Lego Star Wars stuff but when I saw that this was coming out, I thought: yes, sign me up! I had so much fun watching this. I highly recommend it for any Star Wars fan! Does not matter if you like the prequels, original trilogy, or the sequels, this has something for everyone! It has some great humor and some GREAT character moments. Ā I LOVE one moment so much that I downloaded it on my phone to watch whenever I want. This will get you in the Christmas (or as they say in the SW universe Life Day) spirit for sure!
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Holidate (2020): festive AF
Where to watch: Netflix
I watched this one with my friends through a virtual watch party and enjoyed it. It was way better than I expected after seeing the trailer. Emma Roberts is great as always and it was quite funny. However, with Christmas just 5 days away (yeah!!!!!), I recommend putting this one on your list for November/early December. Since the movie is not all Christmas.
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The Princess Switch 2: bah humbug
Where to watch: Netflix
I hate to say it because I liked the first one and love Vanessa Hudgens, but this was not good. The plot got so ridiculous at some point and besides Vanessa and some others, most of the cast were quite mediocre. The outfits were fantastic though!
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Operation Christmas Drop (2020): festive AF
Where to watch: Netflix
I enjoyed this movie. However, I do not feel the need to watch it again. Kat Graham and Alexander Ludwigā€™s performances are wonderful and it has a great message. The movie takes place on the island of Guam and it was so beautiful! Even though the plot can be quite predictable, it is still quite an original story for a Christmas movie!
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My Christmas Inn (2018): bah humbug
Where to watch: Netflix
Predictable and cheesy. It has all the basic beats of your regular Christmas movie. A woman with a very busy and successful job goes to a small town, usually does not like Christmas or is too busy to celebrate it. Then they usually meet the townā€™s most eligible bachelor, and well... You can fill in the rest. Tia Mowry does a fine job for what she has been given and the town and inn are charming.
Noelle (2019): festive AF
Where to watch: Disney+
I was not sure about this one after the trailer, but I LOVED this! Anna Kendrick and Billie Eichner are so great here and the movie has so many Christmas puns... Oh my garland, right up my alley. I loved the look of the North Pole, soooo magical. Plus, Snowcone is absolutely adorable! SO SO SO festive!
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Dash & Lily (2020): festive AF
Where to watch: Netflix
Okay, this is not a movie, but a series. However, it is just 8 episodes that are around 20-27 minutes each and it is very binge-able! This show is based on a book. I donā€™t want to give anything away, but the basic plot is that this boy who hates Christmas comes into contact with a girl who loves Christmas through a notebook, which might sound really vague, but it will become clear when you watch it! It takes place in New York during the Christmas season (obviously), which drew me to the show in the first place. Call me basic, but NYC looks so festive and magical. This is what this show is too! I loved it and hope there will be a second season next year!
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Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020): festive AF
Where to watch: Netflix
This movie is... INCREDIBLE. Everything about it is just magical. The cast, set design, characters, costume design, musical numbers and choreography, the story. Everything is just wonderful! You can tell this movie had a big budget which it deserves. I even forget for a minute that I was watching a Netflix movie?! You have to watch this one, you will not regret it. My favorite songs were This Day and Make It Work Again. The Usher and Kiana LedƩ version of This Day is fantastic too and has been on repeat! Someone on Twitter said that this movie would make an amazing Broadway musical which I agree wholeheartedly with and someone should get on that and make it happen!
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Godmothered (2020): festive AF
Where to watch: Disney+
I liked Godmothered. The plot was nice, the characters were fun and overall enjoyable. I do not know why, but I just always enjoy stories where someone who is not from our world, comes here and discovers everything in funny ways. It just cracks me up, and Godmothered has those aspects as well. I was also impressed by the special effects and CGI in this movie.
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Christmas in Evergreen (2017): bah humbug
Where to watch: I watched this one on TV and it is not on Netflix here in The Netherlands, but maybe you will be in luck... or not (since the movie is not very good)
The town of Evergreen has become a running gag now in my house. There is not 1, not 2, but 3 movies that take place in this town. I-... I do not know what to say haha. I mean, just like My Christmas Inn, a very basic plot. Evergreen does have a charming, festive feel to it, so the movie has that going for it. Other than that, not a lot. One thing I found ridiculous was when the main character had a flight to catch. You would think that she has to get to the airport, yet she goes on all these side quests and I was just so annoyed by it.
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Christmas Wonderland (2018): festive AF
Where to watch: Netflix
Is it cheesy? Yes. Is it predictable? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Heck yeah. I do not know why, but Christmas Wonderland is not as cringe as some of these Hallmark Christmas movies can be. It stars Emily Osment (you might know her from Hannah Montana) and she is an artist here. Overall, not a waste of time and it was fun to watch.
So that was it for this post! I hope you enjoyed it and maybe gave you a few new Christmas movies to watch! What are some of your favorite Christmas movies?
I will be back with more posts after Christmas! Maybe some of my favorite things from 2020, to end this year on a positive note!
There are just 3 days left until Christmas. 2020 has been the longest, yet the fastest year ever. I know this Christmas will be different and there will be lots of people spending it without their loved ones. If you are one of them, I am so sorry. I hope you can enjoy the day regardless. Watch a few movies, eat all your favorite Christmas treats, call up your loved ones, treat yourself with a nice face mask, or do absolutely nothing. Itā€™s up to you.
I truly hope you have a wonderful Christmas and I am sending lots of virtual hugs your way! I wish you a very merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!Ā XO
Yenai
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