Okay more analyses because I'm doing a police check rn for work and I'm bored and Vincenzo is running through my mind.
Okay so this is just a random thing but I love how Han-seok's haircut symbolises a change in the tone of the show. Shit gets real from that moment on. No one is safe, including Han-seok. I could cry it's so genius.
Now on we go:
Again with the immersive communication, a lot of time we'll get shots on conversation from angles similar to the character being spoken to, in normal scenes, which keeps you in the scene with the character. That's a small thing that's really cool to me.
Notice when someone yells (not always, but often when the yell is meant to be something of an impact, like han-seok yelling at Vincenzo over the phone after almost drowning in the bathtub like a LOSER except he looked really pretty in that scene so oop-) the shot is taken back, usually hidden behind something, be it a staircase or roof rafters, to showcase the seriousness of tone and if you listen there'll be an echo effect added to emphasise that even more. Han seok is an energetic person but that yell was from a place of pure unfiltered hatred.
And the kisses.
Oh god, the kisses.
There have been a lot of analyses about the ep 20 kiss so I'm doing the other one, and then a comparison of colour composition.
Hot damn here we go.
So the first one is sweet, beautiful. We have that GOREGOUS SHOT of cha-youngs heels that tells us she's leaning in and that this isn't a fake kiss. You don't even need to see their faces to read that. And the confetti, the angle, god. Stunning.
You can see from the way the light is captured behind them, the way the confetti falls to a floor that holds only them, from the way there's a sublet focus on Vincenzo's hands when he takes her face in his hands like it's the end of the world and he's drowning (y'all Imma start crying here jfkahdkajs). The angle over sjks shoulder so that we can see what she would look like to him if he opened his eyes, and the same in reverse from her lower angle.
And now, colour. I had to take a whole course on colour composition it was boring as hell but I did learn a lot. Or at least I learned some stuff hahdkshd.
So first of all, think of the insane importance of blue and yellow/orange being complimentary colours. And then think of the brightness of the first kiss and the darkness of the second.
Cue me reading into a scene probably to a ridiculous amount:
The first kiss: yellow and orange, bright, a dark vingette at the edges of each frame. Vincenzo is wearing a light coloured suit and turtleneck, his hair is soft. Cha-young is wearing a suit. ITS AN ART EXHIBIT. ITS AN ART EXHIBIT. IM SCREAMING. This scene says 'the world around us is bleak and dark, let me hold on to you for a little while. Even if it's fake, this is everything to me.'
The second kiss: blue, dark, Vincenzo is wearing his dark mafia boi suit, with his angery boi hair slicked back like the hottie he is. THEYRE AT AN ART EXHIBITION. AN. ART. EXHIBITION. IM LOSING IT. Cha-young is in a dress, she's exposing dem shoulders. A LIGHT VINGETTE on most frames. We STAN THE DIRECTING DECISIONS. This scene is like coming home, like doing something you're meant to do your whole life. The shots are close, but not quite as close as the first kiss. It's telling us that this isn't a memory he has to hold on to forever, but one that he'll be happy to loose in all the other memories of her kisses to come in the future (listen THEY WILL HAVE MORE SJK STOP SAYING WORDS RN. Mr. "they don't know if they'll see eachother ever again". Yeah go back to Malta and Han-seo will make you come back and get your girl so you can rule the Mafia together.
That is all I can say before I combust.
Wait no one last thing. Notice how blue scenes are normally cool and distant, but they made it somehow work, and it's blue and WARM AKHDLAJDLSNSKS IMPRESSIVE AS HECK
More when my brain works again fjdjakdj.
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Birfday Gorl UwU
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“A little to the left.”
“Like this?”
“A bit more.”
“Uh… here?”
“Slime does that look even a little bit symmetrical to you?”
“You’re literally impossible right now,” said Slime, tacking the banner in place regardless of Lorel’s immediate shrieking complaint. “Since when have you become so nit-picky about decoration placement and stuff? Your room looks like an atomic bomb went off in it.”
“Well good thing it’s not my room!” Lorel replied, clapping her hands together in agitation. She rocked on her heals at a very brisk pace, her eyes darting around the room. “Listen, at least just TRY to set this up right?? Also maybe stand on a chair instead of Andrew’s shoulders because if you fall it will not only kill you but them too.”
Andrew blinked at Lorel like she was stupid, their hands on Slime’s legs as the redhead wobbled to tack everything to the wooden banister, tongue sticking out in concentration. Slime exclaimed triumphantly once they successfully had it in place, throwing their hands back in glee. Unfortunately, that also offset their center of gravity.
Lorel turned her back as both of them shrieked and collapsed to the floor, already tuning out their incessant squabbling. The decorations were all set, for the most part. Light blue balloons were floating around the room, with the tablecloth, streamers, banners and confetti to match. The confetti was assumed to be blue, but they didn’t know for sure because it was compressed into cardboard cones, and planned to pop out when the guest of honor arrived. Various other creators scurried to and fro, adding to the ever-growing gift pile, setting up the potluck and adding a multitude of dishes, as well as making small talk amongst themselves before the event started. Lorel recognized the majority of them, and waved to a few of them as she made her way into the main kitchen, ducking under a tray carried by Nobody, with tons of little confectionaries.
But before she could get there, she ran into-
“Chai! How’s everything going?”
Chai laughed in return, giving Lorel a hug. “It’s going great. I’m so excited.”
“SAME,” Lorel said, accompanied with a slouch. “I’ve ben planning this for so long, especially these things.”
She stuck a thumb behind her, motioning to the massive yellow feathered wings that started at her shoulder blades and draped all the way to the floor, the gradient becoming lighter towards the end feathers. Chai raised an eyebrow.
“Yeah, I was going to comment on that,” she began. “Those don’t look like your usual, uh… pointy wings.”
“That’s because they aren’t,” Lorel said, running a hand through her hair to clear her eyes. “It took me two full months of studying anatomy and transmogrification with every book on the subject in the entirety of the Council’s Library to get these to form. The number of times I attempted to summon these properly only to result in an explosion of feathers is unreal. Synthia and the others got really tired coming back to find our quarters covered in yellow fluff.”
“Well I like them, they’re soft. But, why exactly???”
Lorel smiled softly. “I don’t know, I just thought it would be kind of sweet because… She always gives the fluffiest and softest hugs. I thought it would be nice if I was able to return the favor for once, to show her how great her trademarked “Floofy Hugs” are. Give her a taste of her own wonderful medicine, haha!”
Chai laughed. “Well, I’D like a floofy hug from you.”
“Once I even figure out how to get these things to fold and move properly? Sure. You can get floofy hugs too,” Lorel replied, smiling. “But we all know that I’m not as good at it.”
“HEY WHY ARE THOSE WINGS SO DISPROPORTIONATELY LARGE?” Someone across the room screamed. Without missing a beat, Lorel whipped around, almost smacking Chai in the face with the limbs she did not quite have the hang of yet.
“I DON’T KNOW, WHY IS YOUR BRAIN SO DISPROPORTIONATELY SMALL, LO??”
“HOW BAD CAN IT BE, LOREL?”
“IT’LL GET PRETTY BAD PRETTY QUICK IF YOU DON’T SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE.”
Chai was busy trying not to laugh herself into combustion, a hand over her mouth. Lorel looked at her, exasperated. “Excuse me for one moment. I need to go check up on the cake. If I stand still for long enough Lo starts trying to play paper-wad basketball with my halos.”
She and Chai gave each other a quick hug, before parting ways with “I love you!!!”’s on both sides.
Peeping her head in through the kitchen doorway, Lorel narrowly avoided a massive jawbreaker being flung across the room. Ly had been in charge of the cake, and it seemed to be going well. The ponkey girl was having a blast, a tube of icing in each hand, and letting out her more wild artistic side. Her tail curled happily in the air as she drew gravity defying shapes around the cake out of vanilla frosting. Lorel smiled and left. At least that was taken care of. But there was still a lot of other things to do. There were two many bodies in too small of a room. It was chaos, and she had signed up to oversee it all.
Lorel sighed. Why did she ever agree to running anything? The only mature thing about her was her physical age. Time to be the adult, I guess.
Climbing up a few steps to gain a slight leverage and trying not to trip over her new way-too-large wings, she clapped her hands to quell the silence. She soon had the attention of the room.
“OKAY,” she began. “HERE’S HOW THIS IS GONNA GO BEFORE MY WIFE ARRIVES—”
A single, large breath in.
“Lyn and Lynn, take watch outside for her. Blossom, make sure everyone’s got a party hat, and help Shadow and Template with the paintings if they need any. Lucky and Achro keep the streets secure, we don’t want any blockheads ruining our big day. Dey, Launch, Template, Poggers, Lily, both Alexes, Rawlyx and Zen are on exterior decoration duty. I want every corner of the roof tied with decorations. Ly’s finishing the cake, and she’ll need a handful of people to aid her in setting everything up. Smartie can attend to that, as well as Diamond. Slime and Andrew, I know I’m asking the impossible, but your job is to not be stupid for like - at least 2 minutes. AT LEAST. Everyone else find a good hiding spot and no shoving or pushing or summoning ancient celestial daggers or transforming into a five headed demons. Or you’re getting kicked out of the party. Scrub, be my monitor, would you? And Otter’s job is to keep being absolutely adorable and precious. Are we all clear?”
The whole building cheered, and Lorel finally sighed. Right next to her was Otter, who she promptly scooped up in her arms and kissed on the forehead with a very loud “mwah” to follow. Otter happily closed their eyes – a pseudo-smile.
“OKAY THEN. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL STILL STANDING AROUND FOR??? LET’S MOVE IT, LOSERS! GO GO GO GO GO!”
Everyone quickly bustled about, and Lorel set Otter back on the floor once again. Creators of every shape and size scrambled about, trying to find places to hide, and all the lights were shut off when the two Lyn(n)s gave the cue
“She’s coming she’s coming!”
The house went completely silent, save for the sound of footsteps approaching the door.
The handle turned-
And all the light’s clicked on. Everyone jumped up from behind the couch, and light blue confetti flew everywhere as everyone screamed in unison.
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHANDY!!!!!!!!!”
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“So Happy Together” Analysis
i don’t sleep
tl;dr: tbh not much to go off on about. i think we see a new skin for Iron Bear, one with some stripes. amara smiles, i do talk a little bit about little sisters in bioshock but tbh i think this was all just a stylistic choice lol. oh and handsome jack’s masks- probably Mount Jackmore. i don’t want to get to freaked out over jack returning, but damn gearbox lol u had me there for a second. im pretty sure it’s just a reused cut quest from bl2 that they never got to implement.
EDIT: here’s all the cut content in bl2 (plus all the non-cut content as well for funsies). you can go to the cut quests and see the audio files for claptrap’s jackmore quest
holy shit can i just vomit all my emotions rn, they’re all good so imma do that so im rational when i start analyzing stuff okay? okay!
holy shit that was fucking great and im really glad i tempered my expectations to something smaller than i thought because i feel bad for people expecting something huge, i was under the assumption we’d be getting a new mechanic that was like ‘choose ur +1 and they’ll be able to play the game with you if you’re both online even if they don’t have the game’ which was what someone said on reddit. altho im sure the poor company is gonna get spammed now with hate like ‘WTF YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE BUILT THIS UP AAAA’. not to lie, i was slightly disappointed it wasn’t a longer stream, but i mean if they’ve got nothing to announce, they’ve got nothing to announce and HEY! new trailer!!! gonna be combing thru on the assumption this has some easter eggs like the MoM trailer did, just in case. i thought it was a cute trailer, gearbox never explicitly said what it was gonna be, a lot people all just assumed what was gonna happen was a demo/beta which sucks so i hope this doesn’t negatively impact people’s perspective of the game. im staying off reddit for now bc when i first checked it people were pretty pissed and i dun need that negativity lmao
okay! emotions are LOCKED behind closed doors. i am shifting into study mode. here we go boys/girls/those of us who know better. haven’t done one of these in a while, let’s see if im rusty at all.
claptrap! and the skull on the chair which reminds me of tyreen’s “favorite skull”.
tv says “we are under attack, please stand by”
and afaik claptrap is near the beginning of the game, you can see part of the recruitment center behind him when the camera pans.
im thinking there might be something in the roses, specifically the hand-drawn roses later on in the trailer. will be keeping an eye open for that.
this is specifically a jakobs brand chest. i really like the see-through aesthetic of it
intro area of the game again. possible hint to the opening cutscene? tbh i was worried that’s what we were about to get because i haven’t finished the roughs of my mock up lol
so what i didn’t notice my first time through is that you can then see claptrap, also being shown in the chest
waving up at the camera. that’s not trippy at all or anything lol
this car in the foreground (with no one driving it, mind you)
randomly combusts, looking quite like elpis in that one shot of the claptrap presents pandora trailer. wonder if that means it’s gonna ‘splode.
ohhh it spins. please no spin imma get motion sick blech
shot of some cultists. one appears to have a jetpack near the bottom right there
another explosion to the beat
the shock wave!!!! that’s awesome
shock nomads cultists are back. f in chat for our shields
another cultist seconds before he gets blown to bits
it cuts to black for a secco as it moves thru said explosion
another cultist, i assume a psycho
finally some good fucking angles
heh.
idk what i expected from someone who’s first action skill line i ever heard was them shouting MAGIC WALL!!! TAAAADAAAAAAAAH
as a side note
who is shooting those lasers
we see them coming from behind the VHs, but
there’s nothing there
SPOOKY~
they’re coming from... the wall???
tfw u shot urself in the foot on accident
amara is not amused
`is this some human custom i don’t understand yet`
also i hate that i’ve done this exact dance before when i took dance classes as a kid
with less style of course, i was like 7
moze is into it, hell yeah
this reminds me a lot of Kingsman. where all the blood is like fireworks and stuff. i wonder if that has anything to do with the psycho brainwashing. like little sisters in bioshock. they see roses instead of blood, right? maybe there’s something like that going on with the psychos
i’d certainly hope our vault hunters aren’t brainwashed, anyway.
this dude looking SHOCKED to see that tho, lmfao
i relate to this man on a spiritual level i stg
man he looks pissed
omfg lol
“um”
“i guess this is okay”
the body language in this is gold i am just having the time of my life
adsfdgfhgjhgfk
this is so cute
also in retrospect, i think this is one of the turrets we see on promethea. i wonder what it’s doing here!
moze u ok?
oh nvm she’s into it, look at her! she’s dancing! She’s Dancin’!
oooo one of the robots from the we are mayhem trailer! okay you can totally see why i think they’re jakobs, RIGHT???
iirc this is a maliwan soldier
man this is a crossover event, isn’t it?
i get it now. togetherness. i gotchu gearbox.
some maliwan ships in the sky. possibly sanc-iii on the right? or a ship of the same model as sanc-iii!
this is a magitek dropship, change my mind
eh, they both start with M, fuck it.
no idea what fl4k is doing here
mayyyybe shielding themselves from the ‘firework’/confetti shower
i like that the confetti explosions are backed up by purple, you know like eridium/slag/siren powers. seriously, maybe this is just how to cultists see us Vault Hunters and the mass murder.
at the very least, the psychos.
fl4k’s into it. i wish we knew the name of their skag, if it has one. i hope it does.
well now the lasers are coming from the other side! what the hell
moving on
i think this is the HBC from the speakers, plus im pretty sure that skull and the stained glass are the entrance to mouthpiece’s arena
we also get a different colored explosion. im paranoid jack is somehow making a return (please god no), so i’ll just note it’s the same color as his eyes.
AND the chests are vomiting out gold guns, which i think, gold-plated gear, is the cult’s way of signifying standing. which im sure is a tongue-in-cheek commentary as gearbox gives out a gold weapon pack as a pre-order bonus. no, like, it even shows up as an ad on the video
smh gearbox lmao
oh, also, the cultists are doing fuckin flying impressions
im not saying its a reference to the cultist with rakk wings on the cover, buuuut
bitch it might be lol
it’s an upside-down vault symbol! ive been trying to figure out what that is in those screens for the longest time!
back on promethea and we get to see fl4k’s spiderant in action
their skag, too, of course
the jabbermon in the back there, too! i wonder if they’re going to be shock or cryo. i would imagine shock given how they’re glowing
also i love the way the flowers look in contrast to the character models
moze is so happy aw
i love the way fl4k’s skag comes flying in and slides to a stop. such a good doggo ;-;
this is beautiful, i want it as a wallpaper
moze skipping? holy shit
100% verified the best thing i’ve ever seen
i lied. this is.
is this the fast travel station effect?
also! IB is looking a bit different
i wonder if this is a redesign or if IB is wearing a new skin moze picked out
pan over to zane who clearly doesn’t notice the being of darkness and horror in the doorway
oh also, we’re on eden-6 now. which would explain the fast travel effect
psychos dancing on the rooftops lol
oh god my eyes
nothing to really say here, i just like this screenshot
pink shields booyah
this is so fucking cute
we also get a better look at that one facility on eden-6
is that... red i see? >w> i won’t say it i won’t i won’t say it i swear i just- ATLAS
fuck
i like that zane’s clone spawns with his melee attachment
not AS excited as the real life version though
GB pls let this be a zane emote
is that a varkid? on eden-6?
wtf is a varkid doing on eden-6???
more shots of the facility btw. reminds me a lot of sanc-iii so maybe this actually is the supamax mfg construction facility like i originally thought. hmmmmmmm
ah yes, of course
holy shit what is this a reference to?
im told it’s the sex pistols
the back of the bullet turns into Athenas
pans in
amara!
enemy with a top hat on. some variation of/upgraded gravedigger? it’s like a psycho but recolored with blue pants and a top hat. you can see it fall off when amara shoots him
y’know, these guys
some rakk in the background
i am hoping bc this is a celebration of togetherness we’re seeing all enemies everywhere, not that the planets don’t have their own unique fauna.
she’s so happy omfg
oh, you want some?
Uhhh then there’s THIS sequence
they’re doing the flying thing again lmao
there’s also whatever that black blob is on the left. a spaceship maybe?
car wheel
all their eyes started glowing red. uh oh gamers
also another fast travel effect
hmmmm... zarpedon is that you??
back on pandora.
“super 87 racetrack”, maybe this is near that motorcade fast travel we saw?
huzzah! rainbows!
i do believe that’s sanctuary-iii
another ship. drop ship?
elpis is looking nice this time of year. definitely not explode-y. yet.
pret-ty sure that’s iron bear. moze is standing atop the tower lmao
also! back to it’s old paint scheme. looks like moze was using a skin or smth
we also have this. are my eyes failing me or is that a big cross on the left? could be where jack was buried.
also i know there was cut content in bl2 about Mount Jackmore! and this looks like a Mount Jackmore to me. it’s a cut quest where claptrap asks you to basically ruin the thing. but since the quest was cut, it’s still here in bl3. maybe they’ll reintegrate the quest lol
i can’t imagine it being roland’s gravesite. because it looks like the below.
i do know we’re going to roland’s grave in bl3, but the statues don’t really match up. maybe it is and the statues were broken, or ruined or something and replaced by a cross. could be then that the gravesite was defaced with, well, the guy that killed him.
im really hoping jack doesn’t make a return. im fine with dealing with what he set in motion, and his influence, and probably even some ECHO logs and movie trailers, but please, for the love of god, don’t actually bring him back, AI or otherwise. im really excited for the calypso twins, i’d really hate to see the focus shift back to that guy. he’s had his fingers in every borderlands game. it’s time to let him go.
idk what this is exactly. it looks like maybe that weird eye bot troy stands next to in the intro for the behind closed doors panel?
goodbye mr magical jakobs chest, it’s been real
the RC now has red drapes going down it. have those always been there? i don’t remember those
hmmmmmmmmm maybe we’re looking at it from the back 🤔
anyway, that’s all she wrote. i haven’t see any hidden morse code messages or anything yet, but if something surfaces, i’ll be sure to add it here.
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