#in the aftermath

[spacevixenmusic]

Ever heard of In The Aftermath? It's a bizarre Americanization of Angel's Egg. Has a classic piano scene tho.

I didn't recognize it by name, but I looked it up and I have DEFINITELY seen this cover art before, probably when searching to see if Angel's Egg was available on DVD back during my heavy DVD collecting days.

I was gonna talk about how nearly all Americanizations of foreign films pretty much suck ass, but briefly reading into the history of this one, it actually seems kind of interesting. From what I surmise, American distributors were interested in releasing Angel's Egg here in the US, but decided it was too short (most anime movies run about 60-70~ mins, vs the average American movie running at least 90-120~ mins), and that they would need to bulk up the movie to make it worth releasing. So they hired a second director to add an entire B-plot to the movie, shot in live-action, of a similarly-themed story about a soldier carrying a radioactive "egg" through a wasteland, who occasionally falls asleep and dreams of the animated world, splicing the two films together to create a bizarre crossover type thing.

This sort of thing kind of annoys me on one hand, because it feels so unnecessary. We have to re-shape everything so that it fits into an American box, completely skewing the shape of the original art. And yet, despite that, there is also a certain charm to our weird remixes and our extremely specific localization changes. Something tells me I would probably prefer to just watch the original Tamago no Tenshi (Angel's Egg) version, but I guess this could be interesting too?

Maybe I'll give it a watch some day.

[l-ultimo-squalo]

In The Aftermath (1988). An independent film that infamously used footage from (and was very loosely based on) the Angel's Egg OVA

[trevisos]

the thing is magpie doesn’t feel Guilty at all about choosing treviso. she’s sad about the state of minrathous after and determined to help however she can but guilt? not really. she knows no one in that city would have chosen treviso if the choice had been up to them. why should she feel guilty when these people wouldn’t have helped her either? the crows are the only defense antiva has and She Is A Crow. she went home. there was never a choice.

she’s also deeply still on her bullshit about believing her choices affect Her Only. and this doesn’t really help bc in the end what happens in minrathous truly isn’t her fault like she split the team 50/50 and things happened how they were going to happen. it is Not her fault. so she will continue to think the consequences of her bad decisions are hers alone to bear until the world teaches her some very cruel lessons LMAO

[wanderingibon]

anya deserved so much better

[toastyyjams]

they took my right to tell you myself. [mizu5]

[owilder]

Now I want to see RiffTrax take the piss out of In the Aftermath. Come on, boys. Let's go.

[blackkatdraws2]

The highlights of the movie (for me lol)

[profounddestinyrebel]

What would be the worst, is if the JL rescued phantom from vivisection but they believed either the GIW or the Fenton's about the sentience of ghosts. They think, maybe, that they're on the level of animals.

When Danny is rescued, he's stuck as Phantom. Anything he says is dismissed as him either lying or mimicking words depending on the view of his intelligence. On top of that he's very injured, and was close to fading before being rescued (I've fading used as a term for a ghost no longer existing). The only reason he stayed with the GIW, was because they had caught Dani first. She needs regular injections of ecto or she melts and the GIW captured her at one of the meetings. They threatened to withhold any ecto from her if he didn't turn himself over. They keep him by feeding Dani just enough for her to live but not enough to keep her healthy. They still experiment on her but! only whatever Danny can't handle. He's so close to fading as he's protecting her, but she's still in danger so he's not really protecting her.

The JL treat them like animals. Any medical procedures are done with them knocked out. Meds are hidden in their food and pictures are taken without their consent. The JL assume that they are both the best to take care of them and to keep them contained. They view the two of them as dangerous injured animals that need to be caged. They treat their injuries but don't treat with either respect or really acknowledge their boundaries.

Meanwhile Dani is starting to melt. She isn't getting the right amount or kind of ecto. Danny tries to tell the JL what she needs and they ignore him. The JL start looking through the research they gathered from the GIW. They start experimenting with the drugs they made. And it hurts her. Danny begs them to stop. He tries to explain what she needs. Batman or Wonder Woman (let's stop making ww the good cop and start using her as a bad guy) start sedating him. "To calm him down."

It goes on for at least a month. Until Danny overhears that "the girls getting put down" and he's Furious. And they haven't bound him, or starved him and he's strong enough, to Absolutely Destroy Them. He tears open a portal the Infinite Realms, and promises the JL that there will be a Reckoning. That the King will retaliate. That at least the GIW was an enemy, but now they were too.

This is the JL thinking less on the 'enrichment' scale and more on the 'dangerous animal' scale. But I was horrified when I thought of this and therefore had to share it with you all!

This could even be in the same universe! They captured all the other ghosts in their theme cages and starting looking for Phantom after his umpteenth escape. They find him in the GIW labs and the rest is as follows.

Au where the Justice League discovered Amity Park and actually believed some of what the Fentons were saying. The JL believed that the "beings" on the other side of the portal were animalistic in nature and incapable of higher thought and understanding. Only living out an obsession or a echo of a person long past.

Seeing as they morally couldn't just wipe out an entire race of semi-sentient beings they decided to instead relocate the ones who trespassed i to the living realm to areas better suited to fulfill thier obsessions without harming the people around them.

In the beginning Danny was skeptical, but as weeks passed and more and more of his Rouges Gallery disappeared and stayed happily in thier new homes (he checked) he became more comfortable with the idea.

He knew he would have to be more careful as Phantom, but he always made sure to book it when he felt the JL getting near to his territory. He loved being able to live his life and actually do his school work, he nearly cried when he saw the strait A's on his newest report card.

The problem occurs when Phantom had just caught some blob ghosts his parents had been chasing when he felt the sting of a tranquilizer dart hitting him in the back. Then everything went dark.

When he woke up he was greeted with the the sight of glowing bars. One of his parents cages, great. He was also tied up with the Fenton fishing line, extra great. And there was a blond woman with a clipboard-Black Canary- asking him all sorts of questions that ghosts find invasive. Questions like, "What is your Obsession? Where do you live? What is your lair like? Do you have one? What is your real name?" Phantom nearly scoffed at that. There's plenty of reasons ghosts don't share theyre real names, one being that it gives a person power over that ghost.

The lady kept going on, taking pauses between each question, hoping that the child she had caged would answer her.

Phantom just stayed uncharacteristically quiet, not wanting anything he said to be used against him incase this session was recorded.

They tried to relocate him after a week despite his continued lack of cooperation. It doesn't matter what or where they try, Phantom always escapes back to Amity and the Justice League can't figure out how or why.

[soracities]

How Samuel Beckett Sought Salvation in the Midst of Suffering, by Andy Wimbush, pub. Aeon [ID'd]

[chumett]

Sorry, excuse me, just imaging Spite taking over a romanced Lucanis' body when Rook is pulled into the regret prison, kicking Ghilan'nain's dead body over and over again, screaming to give Rook back until Davrin and Bellara have to drag him away as he slowly fades back into a sobbing Lucanis...

[poorlydrawnmcyt]

hes trying to reduce ur prison sentence man

[mournfulroses]

Gregory Orr, from The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write; Poems; "Song of Aftermath,"

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

probably will be FORCED by Pomp And Circumstance to go to the CLOWN HOSPITAL, for a CLOWN INJURY (may or may not be An ALLEGEDLY Fractured Foot...a MOURNFUL MALADY incurred in the most PATHETIC and LAPSIDAISICAL Fashion of TRAGICALLY UNFASHIONABLY Events......

Anyway. Forgot what I was saying. Buy me 1/25th of an x-ray or whatnot I guess

[ckret2]

i think he could've used a friend then

[whumporama]

Whumpee who is recovering after the whumpTM, but it's not going great. They're so frustrated with themselves, with their caretakers, just with everything. Everyone is so soft and understanding and it bothers them and they want to scream, but they know they should be grateful.

Until Caretaker comes along. Caretaker isn't 'nice' like the others, they don't take bullshit. They're good for Whumpee, but they don't baby them. They treat them like an adult with anatomy, and it's so refreshing for Whumpee.

"You want to stay up, fine. But you will tell me when you can't anymore, because if I have to drag you off the floor we're both in trouble. Understand?"

"Stop whining. What do you need?" (And then they get or do whatever it is without issues or judgement.)

"Want to tell me why you're doing worse today?" -- "No..." -- "Okay."

"Where does it hurt?" -- "It doesn-" -- "Don't give me that, I can see it hurts. Now tell me where."

Caretaker trusts Whumpee to know what they need, and lets them know again and again they won't take this nonsense of hiding their pain. They're practical, and kind, and Whumpee needed that.