#olm town road

[amphibia-a-day]

Day 1169 of Amphibia Screenshots

Episode: Olm Town Road

[echo-does-art]

This probably doesn't make sense without context but the idea popped into my head and I couldn't shake it :)

[mysteriesofmarcy]

And here I was thinking that olms kept prophecies and built glowing underground cities and ate quarreling siblings

Tell me about the olm?

olms are blind translucent salamanders that spend their entire lives in caves. they're about a foot long and can go literally years without twitching a single muscle. they only breed something like once a decade, and they can live for over 70 years.

aaaand they're also one of the biggest organisms to be totally cave-bound!

see, the thing about caves is that there's... not a whole lot going on. once you go pass through the Bat Zone and enter the parts of the cave where the only residents spend their entire lives there, you discover this:

yeah. these chambers have spent literally thousands of years away from the sun in unchanging darkness, so there's really not many nutrients passing through the food web here.

pretty much only the tiniest mere dribblings of nutrients are occasionally washed through underground rivers that pass through the cave, sustaining tiny cave fish and invertebrates. and also the olm, giant among its cave siblings.

so because there is so very little food and nutrimants around, olms have adapted to just. not use energy. at all.

they don't expend ANY energy at all unless it's to sip up a passing particle in the water. they are as still as statues otherwise, biding their time.

oh, I do NOT like looking at it head on.

and once they've built up enough reserves, they'll go find a similarly motivated partner to go create some little olms with! but then it's back to a decade of stillness in the dark for Olm.

it's okay, though. they've got time.

[writesailingdreams]

Thinking about it now, I think an issue with Olm Town Road is that it focuses so much on Sasha that Anne is just sidelined, and it feels like there are moments where Anne should be doing something right along Sasha’s side as an equal but is instead left in the background. I also think Lysil and Angwin’s extended screen time was unnecessary, and that any doubts Sasha had about herself would be better used talking with Anne about it which would show their more healthy bond/communication.

I can't say I saw it that way or saw much issue with anything in Olm Town Road at my first watching or rewatch. (I think I am too fascinated by Proteus to really mind the extended screen time.) But it feels like a perfectly solid opinion to have.

I'm actually really curious if you have any ideas of what "talking with Anne" about Sasha's doubts would look like as an episode? Or was it just the general sense that Sasha would express those feelings to Anne to show the two's growth in communication?

[tooningin]

Amphibia season 3 rewrite

New Normal: Mostly the same, just replace the quarantine song with a scene that involve Anne and Sprig reflecting on True Colors

Turning Point (22 min): Don’t hammer it in our faces every 30 seconds that Sasha feels remorse, we can clearly see she does. Also make Wartwood more distrusting

Adventures In Catsitting/Croak of Duty (Im not sorry): Sasha and the Wartwood resistance bond building and trust gaining lets goooo

Fight at the Museum/Temple Frogs: Integrate Dr. Jan telling Anne and the plantars about the vase into the ending of the former episode 

Sprigs Birthday/Below Battle Grounds

Below Battle Grounds: Sasha and Grime discover the Plantars’ basement and try to convince Wartwood to go through with this  change

Fixing Frobo/Anne-Sterminator: Nothing changes in Fixing Frobo. Anne Sterminator, simply have her opening up to her parents about everything (The opening or Mr. X mentioned she did, but I would’ve liked to see it)

Confronting Old Warts/Olivia and Yunnan: 

Confronting Old Warts: Sasha backstory, we cry, and this is when she gets her new look

Toad out of the Bag/If You Give A Frog a Cookie:

Toad out of the Bag: News has spread of Anne’s return to her friends’ parents and they got questions

Froggy Little Christmas: Andrias sends Darcy out for a test drive on Earth, messing up Anne’s Christmas plans for her mom. Towards the end, they send out that Anne, The Plantars, and her parents defeat. They then go home happily, but then see Darcy lounging on a chair in the kitchen. They give a sinister “Hi Aaaaaaaaaannnnneee”, the screen cuts to everyone’s’ horrified faces and the screen goes black 

Escape to Amphibia: Anne and the Plantars prepare to return to Amphibia, qnd in the process Anne and Darcy duke it out (Darcy unfortunately gets away). The rest of the episode is essentially just a more abridged version of ETA

Commander Anne/Sasha’s Angels:

Commander Anne: Anne is conflicted: she’s very happy Sasha’s alive and has been able to manage, but remains very suspicious. They both also express far more concern over Marcy.

Sasha’s Angels: Their argument gets more focus, and throughout the episode, Darcy (With a slightly weakened connection due to the fight. Here there’s no wire BS) lurks, planning their next move. Anne and Sasha have the conversation they had in the actual episode, but then a drone with a large trap swoops in and grabs the 2 girls. Mrs. Croaker, Maddie, Toadie, and Loggle try to save them but to no avail. 

The drone lands at Andrias’s throne room, and Darcy comes out. 

Darcy Strikes Back!: Anne vs Darcy Electric Boogaloo, this time with Sasha.

Marcy is saved, yaaaayyyy-

The Core, with the remains of stone power it got through possessing Marcy, is able to take on a new shadow form.

Olm Town Road/Mother of Olms:

Olm Town Road: Things are AWKWAAAARRD between the girls

The themes of second chances in this episode are primarily used for Sasha and Marcy. The latter is wracked with guilt over what she did, and the former emphasized and wants to help, but has her own feelings of bitterness and lingering resentment. In the end the 2 manage to help each other.

Mission: Cloak!/Down by the Bog

Mission Cloak: Resistance mission involving Cloak Bots. We explore more of S and M’s dynamic without Anne, M&M, plus flesh out the newt wives.

Down by the Bog: Grime is emo and not happi. Sprig’s like “Suck it up man” and we get a backstory of how Grime lost his eye. 

The Core and The King: Expand on what the actual episode showed us.

The Beginning of the End: The girls begin to wonder if their friendship can truly be saved, but Saving the world’s far more important

All In: Mostly the same, Marcy just has much more of a role

Hardest Thing: Mostly the same

[adorawasright]

I've read some asks that talked to you about Amphibia, specifically Sasha, and I know you have some reservations about the show because of some controversial stuff the crew has done; however, if you ever want to explore about Sashanne as I've read that you're interested in the ship these are the episodes that focus on it: Reunion, Toadcatcher, The Third Temple, some in The Dinner, The Battle of the Bands, True Colors, Turning Point, Commander Anne, Sasha’s Angels.

Then about Sasha’s characterization, those episodes are pretty great: Prison Break, Reunion, Toadcatcher, The War Hammer, The Third Temple, The Beginning of the End, All In, The Hardest Thing, Olm Town Road, and the others above.

You can read the summary in the Amphibia fandom wiki as a replacement for watching the episodes but if you ever change your mind about watching the show, those are the eps that can give you a better understanding of Sasha’s character and Sashanne. Still, that's your choice.

Thanks for this great blog, by the way. The more people notice the important flaws of She-Ra, especially how Catradora was portrayed, the better.

Oh, thank you for the resources! And thanks for the support, too <3

[heart-wit-strength]

What’s wrong with 3b?

Well. Not to be nitpicking on main but like...

So much? It's the part of the show I least desire to rewatch. I might put under cut because this is mostly rant and criticism.

The Plantars were handled wierdly and reduced to comedic relief (All In did them good tho), lack of Darcy as a villain is sad, Marcy going unmentioned by sashanne after her death literally being overlooked in 3A is more tragic than the deed itself

For me when it came to the final act of the story I felt like it was time for plot to work on the conflicts previously set up. Grime's Pupil could've explored Sprig can lift the Warhammer, The Three Armies could've explored the trio's influence on the caste system (maybe Marcy's prior influence on the newts that encourage them to put aside social difference and work with the toads to rescue her)

Call me a buzzkill but I really don't see why we needed a Toadie going apeshit episode, or the two forgettable olms, or mushroom Gary (in place of a 22-minutes Core and the King) When it comes to "fillers" amphibia is known for prioritising character development. These, however, served little to no purpose for anyone.

The army they spent more than half a season building did little if not nothing in the conclusion. It's kind of disappointing how well it killed its own the hype in general (Olm Town Road had a cool cliffhanger which was followed by the nasty nightmare that was Mother of Olms)

I'm not gonna start on the Hardest Thing being my least fave season finale, I understand True Colors is a hella hard act to follow, I'll summarise by saying the entirety of the moon felt random and forced and All In could've already served as the perfect finale.

Aside from like the only 3 good episodes, 3b seem like the kind that never took itself seriously to begin with, despite having all the potential and all the time they needed to make a good season. As the finishing act of the journey it was supposed to do better,

[glacymash45]

Hey, everyone! So, I just wanna say that I’ll be doing a crossover between Kingdom Hearts and Amphibia since I managed to binge watch it and it’s really great! It takes place post KH3 and it’s gonna be about 50 chapters, but that may change in the future. It’s called Hearts of Amphibia.

Here’s the list:

Chapter 1: Meeting New Faces. Chapter 2: The King Chapter 3: The Lights and The Plantars Part 1 Chapter 4: The Lights and The Plantars Part 2 Chapter 5: Road to Newtopia Chapter 6: Handy Kairi and Anne/Fort in the Road Chapter 7: The Ballad of Lea and Hopediah/Anne and Aqua Hunter Chapter 8: Truck Stop Ven ‘n Polly/A Caravan Named Destiny Chapter 9: Quarreler’s Pass/Toadcatcher. Chapter 10: Swamp and Sensibility/Wax Museum Chapter 11: Marcy and Sora at The Gates Chapter 12: Scavenger Hunt/The Plantars and Lights Check In Chapter 13: Lost in Newtopia/Sprig and Roxas Get Schooled Chapter 14: Little Frogtown/Hopping Mall Chapter 15: The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers/A Day at The Aquarium Chapter 16: The Shut-In! Chapter 17: Night Drivers/Return to Wartwood Chapter 18: Ivy on the Run/After the Rain Chapter 19: The First Temple Chapter 20: New Wartwood/Friend or Frobo? Chapter 21: Toad to Redemption/Maddie, Marcy and Namine Chapter 22: The Second Temple/Barrel’s Warhammer Chapter 23: Bessie and Micro-Angelo/The Third Temple Chapter 24: The Dinner/Battle of The Bands Chapter 25: Maleficent and Pete Chapter 26: True Colors Chapter 27: The New Normal Chapter 28: Pop ‘Til You Drop/Turning Point Chapter 29: Thai Feud/Adventures in Catsitting Chapter 30: Fight at the Museum/Temple Frogs and Lights Chapter 31: Fixing Frobo/Riku and Anne-Sterminator Chapter 32: Mr. X/Sprig’s Birthday Chapter 33: Confrontation with Old Foes Chapter 34: Spider-Sprig and Bat-Ven/Olivia, Yunan, Riku, and Kairi Chapter 35: Hollywood Hop Pop and Lea/If you give a Frog or Light a Cookie… Chapter 36: The Great Christmas Chapter 37: Heartless Invasion Chapter 38: Escape to Amphibia Chapter 39: Commander Anne and Riku/Sprivy Chapter 40: Sasha and Terra’s Angels/Olm Town Road Chapter 41: Mother of Olms/Grime and Aqua’s Pupil Chapter 42: The New Body Chapter 43: The Master and The King Chapter 44: The Core and The King/The Root of Evil Chapter 45: Newts in Tights Chapter 46: Fight or Flight Chapter 47: The Three Armies/The Beginning of the End Chapter 48: All In Chapter 49: The Hardest Thing Chapter 50: Epilogue

I’ve already finished chapters 1 and 2, and will start chapter 3 this Friday. If you have any questions or suggestions for the chapters, please let me know. This is my first big fanfic, so it will really mean a lot if you support it.

[dorothydalmati1]

Amphibia Season 3 Episode 12: Sasha's Angels/Olm Town Road

Animated by Rough Draft Korea

Sasha's Angels:

Written by Jenava Mie

Storyboard by Eleisiya Arocha & Danny Ducker

Directed by Jenn Strickland

Olm Town Road:

Written by Gloria Shen

Storyboard by Inbal Breda & Cassie Zwart

Directed by Roxann Cole

[cartoonspeedruns]

Amphibia Speedrun

Welcome to Cartoon Speedruns™ , for those who only care about the main plot!! or are simply tired of friends nagging you to watch it!! Amphibia (2019) Edition 

Option A: Pure Speedrun

Gets straight to the point, only covers episodes that directly correlate with the plot, you’ll definitely be confused if you don’t watch. You might miss out on bits of lore and introductions to new characters, but you’ll still know what’s going on. (Estimated watch time: 8 hrs)

Option B: Speedrun + Recommended Episodes

Includes episodes with heavy character development and lore without necessarily progressing the main plot, plus episodes that are just fun, based on my personal bias (Estimated watch time: 11 hrs.)

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Pure Speedrun Watchlist

Season 1

Ep. 1a: Anne or Beast

Ep. 10b: Prison Break

Ep. 13b: Trip to the Archives

Ep. 20: Reunion

Season 2

Ep. 6: Marcy at the Gates

Ep. 10b: Day at the Aquarium

Ep. 13b: After the rain

Ep. 14: The First Temple

Ep. 17a: The Second Temple

Ep. 18b: The Third Temple

Ep. 20: True Colors

Season 3

Ep. 1: The New Normal

Ep. 2b: Turning Point

Ep. 4a: Fight at the Museum

Ep. 6a: Mr. X

Ep. 7b: Olivia and Yunan

Ep. 8b: If You Give a Frog a Cookie

Ep. 10: Escape to Amphibia

Ep. 11a: Commander Anne

Ep 14b: The Core and the King

Ep. 16b: The Beginning of the End

Ep. 17: All In

Ep. 18: The Hardest Thing

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Speedrun + Recommended 

Season 1

Ep. 1: Anne or beast/best fronds

Ep. 7a: Dating season

Ep. 8a:  Family Shrub

Ep. 10: Toad Tax/Prison Break

Ep. 13b: Trip to the archives

Ep. 16b:  Bizzare Bazaar

Ep. 19b:  Anne of the year

20. Reunion

Season 2

Ep. 4: Quareler’s Pass/Toadcatcher

Ep. 5: Swamp and Sensibility/Wax Museum

Ep. 6a.  Marcy at the gates

Ep. 7: Scavenger hunt/the planters check in

Ep. 10:  The sleepover to end all sleepovers/day at the aquarium

Ep. 13b:  After the rain

Ep. 14: The First Temple

Ep. 15. New Wartwood/Friend or Frobo

Ep. 17. The Second Temple/Barrel’s Warhammer

Ep. 18b. The Third Temple

Ep. 19. The dinner/Battle of the Bands

Ep. 20. True colors

Season 3

Ep. 1: The new normal

Ep. 2b: Turning point

Ep. 4: Fight at the museum/temple frogs

Ep. 5:  Fixing Frobo/Anne-sterminator

Ep 6:  Mr. X/Sprig’s birthday

Ep. 7b: Spider sprig/Olivia and Yunan

Ep. 8b. Hollywood Hop Pop/ If You Give a Frog a Cookie

Ep. 9. Froggy little Christmas

Ep. 10. Escape to Amphibia

Ep. 11a. Commander Anne/Sprivy

Ep. 12. Sasha’s Angels/Olm Town Road

Ep. 13. Mother of Olms/Grime’s pupil

Ep. 14b: The root of all evil / the core and the king

Ep. 15:  Newts in Tights/Flight or Fight

Ep. 16: The three armies / the beginning of the end

Ep. 17:  All in

Ep. 18: The Hardest Thing

*Disclaimer: this is targeted towards those who struggle to get into new shows or catch up on major events but don’t really care about getting emotionally invested, if you are upset that certain episodes aren’t listed then this watchlist isn’t for you 

[amphibia-a-day]

Day 679 of Amphibia Screenshots

Episode: Olm Town Road

[ordinaryschmuck]

What I saw today, in order:

The Shut-In!

New Wartwood

Watching and Dreaming

Really Small Problems

For the Future

Olm Town Road

Reunion

Hollow Mind

I Was A Teenage Abomination

Contagi-Anne

Reaching Out

Young Blood, Old Souls

Thanks to Them (Why does this randomizer like making my heart hurt?!)

I had to stop here because, like...That's a lot of emotions to feel in a short amount of time. A lot more Owl House than Amphibia than I wanted, but this was a lot of fun. Might do it again one day, hopefully with less...feelings. Being felt.

Randomized Amphibia/Owl House marathon begins now. Wish me luck.

[casefatalityrate]

i’m a linguistics nerd so of course i had to figure out what all the signs in proteus say (although it’s not really a language, more of a cipher, but i digress). “steve is a jerk” (given in the episode, pictured below) was super handy, this stuff wasn’t hard to figure out, but i did it so y’all don’t have to :)

ANYWAYS… here’s what i’ve gotten so far!

the symbol for the letter y did appear in the episode, but it was too obscured to get a good look at it. now! some ‘translations,’ in chronological order of appearance:

(bottom left) “Proteus —>”

(right) “Steve is a jerk”

“Farewell”

(left) “North Gate”

(right) “Proteus”

(on the bottom right of the image) “Welcome”

something something “now leaving proteus”

(starting at the dot on the top left-ish of the carving, reading in a clockwise direction) “only the righteous should enter”

aaand, finally, “home of our mother olm” !

[pyroclastic727]

DISNEY THIS IS GETTING EXCESSIVE

[impact801]

I really like that idea, I think it also adds a lot to Sasha’s motivation for wanting to establish a plan. In Olm Town Road it sorta feels like Sasha just thinks of needing a plan all sudden because the plot demands it, it doesn’t feel like she gets to that conclusion based upon the events of the other episode, it makes feel she thinks of a plan out of the blue.  However I do have a few points:

Anne would have just been Anne making an incredibly rash run at rescuing Marcy

I think Anne going off by herself does contradict her arc in 3A specifically the 2nd half of it. If this was the 1st half of 3A she would totally do this, Anne is extremely impatient and is trying to handle all the problems of Amphibia by herself without letting her parents and Dr.Jan know anything about it.   But slowly she’s accepting there help knowing she can’t do this alone eventually learning that lesson by bringing together all the characters in EtA.  

It’s one of the reasons why Anne lets Sasha take control of the resistance, Anne has humility to know her own strengths and limits at this point, that she knows she can’t lead a whole army(by herself), and lets Sasha handle it. 

Heck In Sasha’s Angels Anne is pretty much in the exact same scenario of being able to save her friends but she doesn’t run off by herself, she still follows Sasha’s orders and waits even if she doesn’t want to, because she knows it’s suicide if she tries. 

I think if Anne was going to go solo she would also want to go for the box too. Remember, one of Anne’s major goals isn’t just to save her friends but also stop the invasion and get them home. Her going only for Marcy, is like going to the grocery store and only getting one of many things on her list, why not just get everything and end the show?  

They get restrained again but Anne uses her powers to release them

Also with Anne’s use of her powers, to me I always saw the Anne’s powers as the best version of herself(It’s why Sasha and Marcy only get these at the end of there arcs). Anne only activates the power, when she’s at her most self-assured and usually represents a major change in her character.  

Anne’s powers are like a narrative throughline for her arc in the season. So I don’t think the show would use the powers like said here. Though if this is fanfic and not a rewrite, everything I said about the powers doesn’t mean shit. The writers can choose however they want the powers to represent in their own stories since they use Amphibia to create their own themes they wish for the story. 

I think what Anne would do was to advocate A TON for a plan to save Marcy as soon as she gets back to Amphibia, but Sasha disagrees with it because of how heavily guarded the castle is, so they think of an idea of going to the Olms for help,  that could be the conflict Anne has with Sasha in Sasha’s Angels(though I do like how the conflict in that episode callbacks to Sasha in Reunion not giving a damn about the lives of the Amphibians).   

Or maybe Sasha unwillingly agrees with how much Anne has been pressuring her and the mission has Anne, Sasha, and the Wartwood resistance(Maybe the squad in Sasha’s Angels, with Maddie agreeing with Anne to save Marcy) do a stealth mission to save Marcy and get the box and goes with what you suggested. 

“it really feels like the writers room went, ‘Wouldn’t it be fucked up if Marcy got possessed?’ and just really have much else for them to do until the finale.”

Ironically you’re kind of right. Matt wanted a three way fight between the girls, but realized that Marcy would never intentionally hurt Anne and Sasha. So that’s where the possession idea came from.

Yeah that sounds about right. Man how cool would a Darcy vs. Anne and Sasha fight could have been.

This is just tangentially related, but I really think a lot of my beef with season 3b could have been solved if instead of Sprivy the episode after commander Anne would have just been Anne making an incredibly rash run at rescuing Marcy. Just take Jo in the middle of the night and b-line it for Andrias' headquarters. Sasha catches her at it and tries to get her to stop, that it was suicidal, but Anne won't listen insisting her super powers would be enough to carry her through. Instead Sasha insists on coming with her saying while she still doesn't think it will work, they have been scouting out the best way to approach the castle.

They manage to get to the castle stealthily somehow and after each get a chance to show their new skills separately they are led into an ambush with Darcy eating up the screen. They get restrained again but Anne uses her powers to release them and we get a badass fight scene with Anne and Sasha kind of interfering with each other and clearly not on the same wavelength yet. Mid way through the fight Darcy is just toying with them, knocking them around and generally being a little shit. Anne tries to make an appeal to Marcy inside but Darcy just laughs and taunts them.

They ultimately manage to get away, (though Jo gets injured to give some stakes to the lose) and resolve to build up their resources before saving Marcy for real.

This would fix a lot of my gripes without too much screen time since

Establishes Darcy as a threat early enough to make their eventual defeat feel cathartic along with cluing Anne and Sasha in to whats happened to their friend.

Imply that Anne was thinking of Marcy during 3a and was just pushing it down until she had a chance to do something about it

Imply that Sasha has been thinking about ways to save Marcy, even if she wasn't confident they could pull it off yet.

Establishes a narrative precedent for gather forces for a proper face off as Anne is not able to solo an army by herself and narrowly gets away.

Like it wouldn't fix everything but Man it would have gone a long way to making those middle episodes feel better.

[dashintrash]

long lady