#the mystery of the third planet

[heliphantie]

«League of Redheads»-2, completed. (2023-2024.)

First batch is here.

[mice-rats-daily]

Today's rat is the Tiger-Rat from The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981)!

[l-ultimo-squalo]

The Secret of the Third Planet (1981)

[walterkov]

Склисс на выставке "Алиса и другие гости из будущего" в Зарядье

[drjohannn]

[kriskes-ris]

Капитан Ким и Говоруша

[zewarudo]

[mastomysowner]

Tigerat from the planet Penelope

[makserera]

some images from "The mystery of the third planet" aka my favourite thing ever

and the soundtrack is a B O P

[idohistorysometimes]

me coming out of my house to get my doordash order after working on programming for several days and not seeing the sun once during that time:

[jeysecretive]

I adored this cartoon as a kid and still love it today

[heliphantie]

«League of Redheads»-2: №4 – Captain Zelyony

«If cows begin to fly, there is nothing to do for me in the cosmos.»

Melancholic spaceship mechanic (a captain in the movie) Zelyony and the skliss from “The Mystery of the Third Planet” (1981) sci-fi animated movie based on the book “Alice’s Travel” by Kir Bulychev.

[balzabul]

On this day (June 12th) in 2181 Professor Seleznyev, Alisa and Zelyonyy left Earth to find rare animals

[ce-heich-ce]

I’m watching a soviet era cartoon and Harry Du Bois and Kim Kitsuragi are in there 

[cyberspacenine]

what's your favourite music video with sci-fi vibes (or, if that's too specific, your favourite sci-fi movie)? and also what's your favourite character dynamic on lower decks? feel free to elaborate and/or pick more than one if you can't decide 😌

!!tysm for the ask:))

i don't have a favorite per se, but i'll link two sci fi productions that i think are really worth a watch, Mystery Of The Third Planet & Kin-Dza-Dza. Both are fully on youtube with english subtitles:)

this one is a comedy, but there is also some interesting social commentary going on, with how the protags are a Russian and a Georgian man. I've watched the first part, going to watch the second one soon, alltogether it's like 2 hours.

here i absolutely love the art and the soundtrack, it's a fun and short watch!

lower decks character dynamics

the dynamic between captain freeman and mariner. the complexity of their mother-daughter dynamic is sooooo

also rly love shax's and rutherford's interactions with basically everyone lmao!

thank youuu again

[thankskenpenders]

The mystery of that random magenta-haired Sonic woman: solved?

For almost three years now, there's been a little mystery in the Sonic franchise: who the hell is this lady?

Well, it seems like fans have collectively pieced together the answer. And it's more interesting than I expected.

For those who don't keep up with Sonic lore minutia like I do, this is a screenshot from the very first episode of TailsTube, released on YouTube back in March 2022. When Sonic and Tails were explaining the basics of their Earth and the fact that humans and anthropomorphic animals coexist, Tails showed a slide of some human NPCs from Sonic Unleashed. But the slide also included this never-before-seen character design, drawn in a conspicuously different, more anime-influenced art style from the Pixar-esque Unleashed characters. So... where's she from?

At the time, it was assumed that she was probably from an upcoming project. She looks like she could be an explorer of some sort, so maybe she's just an NPC from Frontiers, I thought. And then she wasn't in Frontiers. Sonic Prime, maybe? Nope, no humans in Prime. Okay, well maybe the IDW comics are going to start incorporating humans, now that the "two worlds" thing has been undone and humans once again canonically exist on the same planet as Sonic and friends. Well, if she's gonna show up in the comics, it's been almost three years and we still haven't seen her. That'd be a hell of a lead time for comics, where production cycles are typically a matter of months, not years. Time continued to pass, and we still hadn't seen her. We just had Ian Flynn teasing us with a #KnowingSmile, assuring us that she existed for some reason, just one that he couldn't talk about yet.

Fast forward to late 2024, and she suddenly makes an appearance in the last place anyone would have expected: the third live action movie, via an electronic billboard in Shibuya.

At this point it almost felt like the lore team was trolling us. Is this just a scrapped character design that's become fodder for inside joke cameos or something? Surely all of this teasing couldn't have been for a throwaway character design on a billboard in the background of a movie.

But actually, this billboard gives us an important piece of information: her name! She's labeled here as "Professor Tori." This is important because it connects her to a previous release. In Shadow Generations, Gerald's journal is prefaced with a note from the person who recovered it, addressed to the GUN Commander. In the English version, it's simply signed "T," but in the Japanese version... it's signed "Tori"!

This gives us some actual info about Professor Tori. For one, she seems to work for GUN in their Archival and Requisitions Department. She's apparently also interested in learning about Gerald and Maria's lives, like their old friend Abe is.

Jump forward again to the New Year's episode of TailsTube, and this appears in the background.

Her full name is officially given as Professor Victoria, and she's a historian. So, that seems to confirm everything we've pieced together so far.

As far as things we can reasonably assume to be correct go, this is everything we know for certain about Victoria. She's a historian working for GUN. Cool! But that's not what really fascinates me about her. For that, we have to do a little more speculation based on conjecture.

See, Shadow Generations also establishes information about the Robotnik family tree. Gerald had two sons. One of them took after Gerald's love of technology and became an expert in the field of robotics, and would go on to be Eggman's father. The other son took after Gerald's love of archaeology. This man would go on to be Maria's father. But, as Maria mentions in Shadow Generations... she also happens to have a little sister we've never met before.

So now, the question is: is this Maria's sister, Victoria Robotnik?!

We can't be 100% certain right now, but honestly, until proven otherwise I'm assuming that Victoria is Maria's little sister, now all grown up and working for GUN. It all lines up too neatly. The conspicuous reveal that Maria has an unseen and unnamed little sister, in the same game that establishes her dad was a history guy and also that there's this new historian working for GUN who just so happens to be really interested in her life. And also their names both end in "-ria." Come on!! Putting her in the Robotnik family would also explain all these cryptic clues about her identity. If she was just some random GUN agent, why be so coy and make fans piece it together?

I guess the most odd part here would be, y'know, Victoria working for the organization that killed her sister and grandpa. But Sega's been pushing the idea that GUN is trying to do better for 20 years now, ever since they established that the GUN Commander was Maria's childhood friend on the ARK and had him make amends with Shadow. Hearing that Maria's sister had joined GUN to try and gain access to information about her family history and undo the elaborate coverup of the previous administration would make sense to me, personally. And lest we forget, this would also make Victoria Eggman's cousin, giving him a family member in GUN. And that's a pretty cool storytelling tool to have on hand!

So, that's where we're at now. We have no idea where Victoria will pop up next, whether it's a game or a comic or another TailsTube episode or something else entirely. But it seems like she's fairly important, even if this speculation about her being a Robotnik somehow ends up being wrong. (But I'm pretty damn sold on this theory, personally.) Either way, it's exciting to see the human cast get fleshed out in fun ways again. If we're gonna have humans in Sonic stories, I'd rather they have anime-style designs and interesting connections to the narrative, rather than just being generic humans for the sake of having humans. I'm looking forward to seeing whatever the lore team's been cooking up here.