#this was a very brief overview that touched what I think are the core aspects of their personalites

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What do you think about the slavic siblings? Their personalities and relations to each other?

Wow, that’s one loaded question! 😅 I’ll try to answer, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to in a satisfactory way.

First of all, a premise: like I have said in regard to other characters, the Slavic siblings aren’t among my favourite characters so I don’t have such a solid and well-analysed characterization for them as I do for others (chiefly, the FACE family members). Moreover, they’re quite complex characters and they appear a lot in canon which means that, without focusing specifically on them, it’s easy for me to have missed something. Nevertheless, I can try to give a brief answer (just touching what I think are some core aspects of their personalities) to the best of my abilities.

Ukraine

I’m starting with her because she sounds like the easiest one to pin down. She’s stabler than her siblings, at least. I see her as a woman who witnessed a lot of suffering during her childhood and had to mature quite fast because of it – but, instead of becoming jaded, she turned her suffering into empathy and compassion. Knowing so well what suffering means and how it can damage people, she does her best to always treat others with kindness and patience, to give them a chance to get better before writing them off as ‘bad people’. She has seen what violence does and she wants to break the cycle.

Her compassion makes her very motherly, too. Once she gets fond of people, she actively looks after them and their well-being. She’s the kind of person who is at her happiest when she sees the people around her happy. She thinks more about others than about herself – but not because she values herself little or because she has low self-esteem, it’s because she thrives in helping other people. She’s mostly happy with herself and wants to externalize this happiness, to see other people reach this level of satisfaction as well.

People can see her as weak because she isn’t loud, she has a tendency of being quite emotional, and she doesn’t assert herself unless it’s truly needed. She’s the kind of person who prefers to smooth things down instead of being stubborn. Yet, she can also be very firm when she wants to. In particular, I can see her being very protective of her family members.

Russia

Oh, where do I even start about him... he’s such a complex character that I really am not sure of how I see his characterization. I’ve seen many different takes and I found myself agreeing with and enjoying wildly different ones.

The thing about Russia is that I see him as a living, walking contradiction. The fandom is past the days when he was simply dismissed as ‘cruel’ or ‘evil’ and now tends to acknowledge his loneliness, the suffering he had to endure during childhood, and the wish he often expresses to get closer to other people. However, he also undeniably shows a cruel side at times. I can fully acknowledge that this may come from the fact he was subjected to so much violence that he ended up internalizing it as an acceptable way to behave, but this doesn’t change the facts. He doesn’t seem to care too much about hurting other people as long as he reaches his goal. I think both aspects of his character needs to be acknowledged. This duality is part of him.

The impression I ultimately got from Russia is that he’s an extremely self-serving person. He does care about other people, but only in relation to himself. If he’s nice to someone, it isn’t because he genuinely wants the well-being of that person but because he wants what that gesture brings to him: that person’s gratitude and potential friendship. I also think he can get to genuinely care about people (his family, for example) and, in this case, be upset if something happens to them because they are suffering and, conversely, try to make them happy not only because it would make them more well-disposed towards him but also because he just wants them to be. However, this is limited to a small circle of people. When anybody else is involved, I have the impression he just doesn’t care. Not that he would hurt them out of nowhere, but he wouldn’t see it as a problem if he needed to in order to get something he wanted. I don’t think he would enjoy it – but he wouldn’t regret it too much, either. Likewise, he wouldn’t stop to help them unless there was something in for him as well. It’s almost as if he didn’t actually have a sense of morality and of what’s wrong or right. He just takes what he wants and cares when he wants to. Almost like the way a child reasons.

Belarus

Belarus is another mystery, as far as I’m concerned. Like Russia, she seems to carry the scars of a harsh childhood. She’s determined and strong-willed, always working hard and doing her best to get what she wants, but also pessimistic and carrying frankness to the point of rudeness; she doesn’t seem to care at all about people outside from a few selected ones. Personally, I see this as the sign of a person who has suffered much and is trying to protect herself from further suffering by distancing herself from anything that could become a weakness. Moreover, I read her as one of those people who use the strength of will they developed to overcome their trials as a way to scorn people who didn’t manage to find the same strength. In other words, Belarus feels justified to hold in contempt ‘weaker’ people because by enduring what she did, she proved it’s possible to do so. Those who don’t manage just don’t try hard enough, in her opinion. They don’t deserve compassion. Just like her, they must bear their suffering alone. (This is why she’s always so blunt, too. She doesn’t see the point in softening the blow. If people can’t take the truth, they’re weaklings. They need to learn to do so.)

At the same time, Belarus isn’t a loner – from her interactions with Russia and briefly America, it almost looks like she needs to attach herself to somebody. And once she has found this person, her attachment and devotion reach unhealthy levels. Once again, this may be a result of her trauma. Maybe, having witnessed so much suffering makes her fear the same could happen to those few she cares about and she goes overboard trying to protect them. Or maybe, she feels lost without somebody ‘leading’ her. She spends so much energy building a wall around herself (to protect herself) that she has never had the time to figure out who she wants to be. She ends up dedicating herself fully to somebody because without that, she’d be nothing. She needs external validation and inputs to thrive. It may also be something else, or a mixture of things. As I said, Belarus is a character I have an extremely hard time pinning down.

The Three Siblings

Regarding the interactions of those three siblings as family, instead, I have to say that their familial unit looks almost healthier than the single individuals as it’s somehow adjusted around their flaws.

The one who brings everybody together is Ukraine. As I have already said, her big heart and maternal tendencies mean that she cares immensely for her siblings. She’s able to excuse their flaws because she sees where they come from and at the same time, she genuinely loves them. She wants the best for them; to see them thrive and at the same time, to be part of their lives. She’s the one who constantly checks on everybody and keeps suggesting they hang out together. She’s extremely protective if somebody hurts them, too.

Russia loves Ukraine deeply, of course. How could he not, when she offers him exactly what he yearns the most, affection and warmth? But it isn’t only this. I think Ukraine belongs to those few people Russia genuinely cares about. He mostly lets her do her own thing because he knows she’s capable enough, but he’s also very protective of her. Hurt Ukraine, and you’re dead. No questions asked.

Belarus cares for Ukraine just as much. She also often criticizes her sister, though. Ukraine is one of those people Belarus would consider ‘too weak’ due to her soft-hearted nature. However, Belarus also knows Ukraine too well to dismiss the strength her sister hides behind her kind nature. Belarus begrudgingly respects Ukraine. Moreover, for how much she doesn’t like to admit it, even Belarus is touched by how much Ukraine cares for her and treasures it deeply. Belarus is also very protective of Ukraine and may even be willing to behave a bit better if her sister is present.

In regard to the relationship between Russia and Belarus, instead... Two people with such baggage aren’t a good starting point for a healthy relationship. If we look at canon, the one between them isn’t.

Now, I want to spend a few words on Belarus’s ‘obsession’ towards Russia. I think her attachment stems from both the familial bond they have and her admiration for Russia’s strength; with her bleak outlook, she wants to associate with strong people. And, as I’ve said before, completely devote herself to him. About the ‘marriage’ thing, though – personally, I don’t think there’s a romantic feeling involved. The way I see it, what nations call ‘marriage’ isn’t actually a wedding but a mere political union, a contract. One that grants a personification some rights over another one, basically. There’s nothing about it that is like a human wedding, it’s mutually understood that no kind of feelings (or romantic/sexual relationship between the two parts) is involved. This is why even blood-related siblings can ‘marry’. So, Belarus wants to ‘marry’ Russia because this would be the best way to serve and protect him – both by being always by his side and by ‘rescuing’ him from other unions that could not be as favourable for Russia. Of course, she goes about it completely the wrong way, but all Belarus wants is to protect Russia and to be acknowledged by him as his ally and useful subject.

We know from canon, however, that Russia doesn’t answer well to Belarus’s obsession. He’s creeped out and annoyed by her. Still, I don’t think he hates her. He’s almost like an older sibling who doesn’t have patience for the younger ones. But deep down, he still cares for Belarus because she’s his – his sister and his family. He probably doesn’t enjoy Belarus’s company as much as he enjoys Ukraine’s, but that’s because of the way she behaves. If Belarus were a bit less obsessive, Russia would tolerate her better. He also isn’t so overtly protective of Belarus as he is of Ukraine, but this is because Belarus is more than capable of defending herself (and unlike Ukraine, she doesn’t let anything slide). I think that if somebody ended up actually hurting Belarus, Russia would react just as bad.

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All these are just my impressions, though. And they might not even be all canon-compliant as I may have missed something. I still hope they make sense! But if you want to explore the slavic siblings, I’d recommend you to have a look at @chessna2, she’s certainly more expert about them than I am!

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Total Drama: Refilming Action ; Episodes 1-6

I will say right now, that because this is a 9 hour long season, I’m not going to address the entire season in one go. Instead, I’ll be splitting this rewrite up to four separate parts. This is because I’m NOT just going to address what I would change and what I would not change, but rather retrospect this rewrite from as much detail as I can, that’s how I usually do things. Plus I think it’ll flow better. 

I won’t go into as much detail with stuff that I didn’t change, but still address them for the story’s sake.

And if you’re wondering about the context with Island, I’m keeping the canon story of Island the same, and applying it to this rewrite. What logic from Island was carried over to Action, will apply, the same elimination order mentioned in Island, the same logic as to why some characters are in certain relationships with each other, everything. Not saying I wouldn’t tweak some things with Island, but overall that season was pretty great. There’s only one thing about Island that I’m changing to carry over to Action, and I’ll get to it later. 

For Action, I am going to keep the core aspect and rules of the challenges in each episode, unless it really REALLY doesn’t make sense, and I’ll address that. But the core themes of each will be the same, is what I’m trying to say. 

Like, episode 1 is a monster theme, episode 7 is a prison theme, episode 17 is a superhero theme, etc, just like in the canon, so that everyone KNOWS what episodes I’m talking about, even if they’re not familiar with the titles of each episode. 

The only major thing I’m going to change with this, and might as well say it now: Episode 25 will NOT be the finalist challenge, but rather the semi-final challenge with the final three, and the finalists will be put to the test in episode 26 in Aftermath before the voting for the winner takes place. 

That’s another thing I’m going to address. The elimination order in this rewrite is NOT the same. In this first half, there’s not a lot of change to that, but as the season progresses it’ll become more blatant that this elimination order is not the same as in the canon. So really, this is anyone’s game, and who the finalists are will be a mystery!

This is going to be a VERY rough overview, and I’m going to be going in as much detail as I can to the changes I made to the original canon. 

However, there will be some brief lines or background details from canon that I won’t touch on, because it would be pointless, and unless I say it’s cut out, or if I don’t mention the scene it’s in at all, it’s probably still in this version. 

(For example: “Nope. Call 911” won’t be mentioned) 

A lot of those kinds of details could be fleshed out in the episode script. But if I go into THAT much detail, this rewrite will be WAY too long, and take like, 5 years to produce!! So please cut me some slack if I don’t mention some of your favorite details of the season!

If you don’t think something quite adds up, or if there’s any important stuff you think I missed, please, PLEASE, reply down below, I’d love to hear it! (Friendly notes, constructive criticism, and speculations for the rewrite are all welcomed!) 

So, with all of this out of the way, there’s one last important detail I want to mention:

While the original contestants in the season: Owen, Gwen, Heather, Duncan, Leshawna, Geoff, Izzy, DJ, Lindsey, Bridgette, Trent, Harold, Beth, Justin, and later Courtney, are all in this rewrite as well, I’m going to ADD two characters to this cast.

Tyler.

And Noah.

Why do this? Why these guys? 

Well with some certain plotlines of the season, I genuinely think these two will be the best of aid to spice them up. Plus with how many non-elimination episodes there are this season, I think adding eliminations for them won’t be so hard.

So, in a 16 way tie, campers are taken to the film sets for a whole new season of Total Drama, in a fight for $1,000,000. Who will come out as the finalists?

Well, let’s dive in!

Episode 1: Monster Cash

The season begins with a recap of the finale of season one. Not much to change with this aside from a goof where Chris said Gwen won instead of Owen (like, the alternate version of Island was lost until recently, so this makes no sense either way) and it’s a sixteen way tie instead of fourteen for this rewrite, of course.

And then the original intro itself is actually quite good, so much so that the only tweaks I have to make are the additions of Noah and Tyler. Noah is sneaking out the door the sasquatch walks by to steal a bottle of sorts, and Justin in the make up shot is about to pick up a perfume but finds it missing, prompting the powder coming in and getting in his face. This is one of those small details people can probably be able to pick up on after multiple viewings to figure out these character’s dynamic being portrayed in this intro. 

Tyler meanwhile is in the camera room with Lindsey, eyeing her, playing with a yo-yo to try and get her attention, but as the screen shows the explosion, the yo-yo hits him in the head and knocks him out, making Lindsey’s eyes meet him just as it cuts to Izzy and the bear. 

The rest of this intro is pretty much untouched, as these additions I feel will make the awkward shot of Chris and Chef on the stage with the awards shorter, because… that shot just feels held way too long and it’s always bothered me.

The episode opens like in the original with the bus arriving at the lot, and the interactions with the people getting off the bus, Duncan, Leshawna, Harold, Gwen and Heather, are all completely untouched. 

However, instead of the bus just leaving and preventing reintroductions of the others for some reason, we keep going with the other characters getting off the bus. 

First is Trent offering Gwen a hand after she crashed due to Heather, where she blushes and agrees to it. He asks if she’s ready for this, and Gwen says no, adding that she’s glad that he’s stuck here with her. 

Gwen then snarkily replies to him “Hey, at least we’re not awkward creeps like the surfer chicks over there.” 

And as she points a thumb out by the bus door, Geoff and Bridgette walk out already making out without a care in the world. 

DJ gets off to ask if this is the actual stop, prompting Noah to lean on the bus door and ask “What other stop did you think there was?” 

It prompts Heather to agree with Noah on that by saying she’s not staying here, and also prompts the hair weaves exchange with her and Leshawna.

Owen is then seen trying to get out of the door, but due to Noah in the way he gets stuck, and as Owen is able to suck it in and get out with a grin on his face and remark how great it is to be doing this again, Noah is seen on the ground crumbled. And then gets stepped on the groin by Izzy jumping out as well to hug Owen’s back, where the two exchange excitement about them both being in such an awesome looking place. (And yes for this whole rewrite I’m calling her Izzy, but the E-Scope thing is still here, so that no ones confused) 

Next up is Beth coming out grinning in an agreement on the new season, prompting Leshawna to notice her braces removed, and making her compliment about it. Justin comes out as well to compliment her at it, and his looks already charm Beth enough that she openly expresses how good this feels. Lindsey trips over the door, but still compliments Beth as well and they make their Paris BFF exchange.

Tyler comes out of the bus from behind them as the last one out, but notices Lindsey and Beth are so excited with the whole Paris thing that he simply tries to make a cool pose to have her notice him again, but it’s cut off by Chris coming with the trailer. (And Lindsey doesn’t even look in Tyler’s direction.)

The bus leaves, and Chris comes in to escort everyone. Izzy’s boarding, the tour around the sets, the introduction to the Lame-O-Sine, are all untouched. The only tweak I’m adding is a bit with Noah commenting on the Lame-O-Sine itself, just as the campers get blown with the limo gas, he asks if this film set has any regards to sanitary, with Chris shutting him up, commenting that he doesn’t know how that would be of any importance. (I mean, this IS Chris Mcclean.)

Lindsey’s confessional is also untouched for the most part, but one tweak here is that before the lipstick part she expresses how with luxury like this, this might as well be her season.

The next part of this tour is untouched, as well as Gwen’s confessional because… well A, Chris is an egotist, clearly, and B, who wouldn’t want one?

I’m going to cut out the Geoff and Chris exchange about the eject seats though, not because it’s not in character for Chris, but because of basic logic. The trailer has a roof. Where would they be launched to? Plus there’s never a demonstration of this in the episode so… what’s the point? The Harold and Lindsey comments are fine though, I’ll keep those. 

And overall the monster movie explanation and the legend of the animatronic monster is untouched, as well as Gwen’s confessional about how she shouldn’t have asked what happened to it. (Worst mistake of her life)

Just like in the original, that confessional cuts just as a roar from the distance is heard. From there, the scene is mostly untouched, DJ faints, Chris explains the challenge with Chef controlling the monster, and everyone tries to shove each other off the trailer with Harold getting thrown out entirely. Only a few tweaks are needed like Tyler being a part of the shoving, with him being the one to shove away Trent with overexaggerated jogging, only for Harold to karate chop him. Another thing is that the challenge is not to get to the trailers first, but rather to be the last one standing and not getting caught by the monster. (Because seriously, if the monster is supposed to PREVENT them from getting to the trailers, why would they park the bouncy castle prison RIGHT NEXT TO THE TRAILERS?!)

Instead of cutting to the campers running away on the beach set, Owen commenting how cool the monster is, and awkwardly cutting to DJ, we just start with DJ after Chris makes his comment about how it’s going to be a long season, where he rolls his eyes at the fainted DJ before petting the guy’s head calmly to wake him up, making DJ latch onto Chris’s legs to whimper. 

THEN we cut to the campers running away on the beach set, Owen commenting on how cool the monster is, and Izzy getting ‘captured'. Owen calling out for Izzy to dodge the hand doesn’t get through to her, for obvious reasons, but she still sees the hand and is swatted to the crane. However as she asks them to do it again, Owen runs over to try and help her, but instead of her being taken to the bouncy house, Izzy bites into the monster’s grip and manages to pull out part of the skin and reveal wires, prompting it to drop her. Owen is eyeing her in awe just as she grabs his hand for them to continue running, saying she knows where they can hide. 

However, we don’t cut to Owen hiding in the confessional, because what Owen says in that confessional makes absolutely no sense, like… what part of her crazily wanting a monster to step on her is implied that she’s cheating on Owen? I mean Owen and Izzy are both crazy, but they’re not lustful. So yeah, I’m cutting this confessional altogether. 

Instead we instantly go over to the next group, where it’s untouched. Bridgette and Geoff are making out, Gwen and Trent question where to go, they get the suggestion from Justin to follow him, and Duncan’s comment on how this wasn’t the sort of action Chris had in mind.

And yes I’m also keeping the Bridgette and Geoff confessionals, because what they say there is going to play a factor later in the season.

We don’t cut to Gwen Trent and Duncan’s next part just yet, so instead we immediately follow the confessional up with Bridgette and Geoff getting captured. The way Bridgette and Geoff get captured is pretty okay, as well as Leshawna and Harold’s capture. 

But there is a tweak here with the Bridgette and Geoff capture being seen from Harold’s point of view as he’s hiding under the umbrella, where the two appear as shadows to him and he as well as the audience are unable to see the bouncy castle yet. 

Leshawna then comes in to expose his hiding place to get them both to start running, with Harold admiring her and smiling before she grabs his arm to get him running behind her. And just like in canon, the monster catches them both. Although we still don’t see the bouncy castle yet, to add momentum to the scene and a mystery as to the fate of the captured campers. So instead of doing it when they hit the castle, Harold says it while they’re still in the monster’s grip, trying to replicate Geoff’s words and confessing love for Leshawna, who just like in canon, exclaims “Say what now?!”

We then cut to Gwen, Trent, and Duncan running down the streets of the city set, along with Gwen jinxing the mention of explosions, bears, and fires, which is untouched. Justin is also with them, but as the monster appears amongst one of the flaming buildings, all but Justin are able to dodge just in time, leading Justin to get captured and Chef’s comment on how hot he is.

Justin’s confessional is untouched, but I am cutting out the scene with him getting in the bouncy house and everyone staring at him admirably, not because it’s bad, but again, the audience doesn’t know about the bouncy house yet in this rewrite.

We then cut to Tyler sprinting about among the streets of the city set, eyeing one fake building and attempting to climb on top of it after eyeing a certain lamppost with tan arms and a cartoonishly large bust poking out. 

Unfortunately because it’s Tyler, the pipe he tries to climb up on turns out to be cardboard and snaps, causing him to crash to the ground.

The post, well I’m pretty sure we all know it’s Lindsey. 

So Lindsey peeks out curiously and eyes Tyler laying on his back, where she runs over to ask if he’s okay. She helps him up as Tyler expresses he’s mighty fine, saying it’s all good as long as she’s here. With that, the two stare into each other’s eyes admirably…

Until the moment is ruined by Lindsey asking “Who are you again?”

They don’t get a chance to say anything else as a roar in the distance prompts them to start running, but they’re both pushed aside by Heather, demanding them to get out of her way. As she’s grasping onto her wig from another roar, she attempts to run into the building set and hide. Unfortunately for her, she’s shoved out by Noah demanding her to back off, and as he peeks out of the fake door he proclaims that this… well, this was his hiding spot. 

Heather angrily tries to get inside anyway, scolding Noah “Sorry know-it-all, but in case you haven’t noticed, I, a far more valuable being, needs this spot more!”

“Mm… I’m not sure about that,” Lindsey comments in the back, which makes Heather snap at her to shut up. This causes Tyler to put a hand on Lindsey’s shoulder in comfort. 

“Seems like you got no votes,” Noah replies, “And I’d rather keep my hair in one piece, thank you.”

He tries to slam the door shut, but because it’s made of cardboard, it makes the whole building collapse behind them, exposing them all. 

Noah exclaims in frustration “Were these sets made for a school play?!” Just as the monster shows up behind them, capturing all four of them.

We then cut to Gwen, Trent, and Duncan continuing their run down the town. As the monster is chasing them, Duncan gives them the idea to hurtle behind a fake car, which they all oblige. There they find DJ scared as ever, hugging his legs and chattering teeth. Trent asks what he’s doing here, but before he can answer, the monster rips off the fake car and prompts all four of them to start running again. 

Amongst the sidewalk they run by is Beth, who is holding up a cardboard bush to hide, where she peeks out to see the others running. Unfortunately the other four get cornered by an advertisement board of Chris and the Total Drama Yum Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails, (which of course is foreshadowing to that part in World Tour) 

The monster gangs up on them, and it seems like they’re going to get captured. That is until Beth, in a cute character development from Island, calls out from the back of the monster holding up the cardboard bush to try and lure it away. As they see the distraction, Trent prompts the others to follow him to sneak past the monster. As the monster grasps onto Beth, the four begin to run to a building, prompting to hide in it only to realize it’s fake. 

(I am not including one of Gwen’s confessionals, and cutting out the second one entirely, about Trent being a great boyfriend, because like, NOW IS NOT THE TIME!)

Because of this, the monster catches Gwen, Trent, and DJ, with Duncan mysteriously not being shown in the monster’s grip.

Thinking it’s the end, DJ prays to his mama and how much he loves her, while Trent ensures Gwen that he’s here for her, and he always will be. From this, Gwen has her confessional about how great of a boyfriend Trent is, saying that he’s a guy who understands her, and is willing to do everything for her. (Which of course would be a double edge sword)

That’s when the monster suddenly lets go of them, and they all crash to the ground.

As the screen fades out and comes back on, we focus on the sky for a second…

and suddenly see Gwen, Trent, and DJ bouncing into the air, which makes them all look down in shock, as it’s revealed after zooming out the camera that they’re being imprisoned in a bouncy castle. 

As the three of them crash inside officially, they look over at everyone else who's been captured (Bridgette, Geoff, Leshawna, Harold, Justin, Tyler, Lindsey, Heather, Noah, and Beth) as they all casually but dead-pannedly greet the new prisoners. DJ is simply grateful that he’s alive, while Gwen remarks in shock “Wait, so Chris had the decency to not have the monster eat us alive, and instead gave us a cozy place to rest and be imprisoned inside for the rest of our lives?!”

Which gets a reply from Noah, saying “I know, it’s absurd, isn’t it?!” Who is reading a book without a care in the world. 

As Gwen looks around, we get a few frames of Lindsey and Beth admiring Justin’s looks, with Tyler behind them with Lindsey in his arms, Heather fixing her wig, Bridgette and Geoff making out, and Harold gazing starry eyed at Leshawna, who scoots away from him. Seeing people missing, Gwen is about to say it, but Trent asks first “Where’s Duncan?”

We cut back to Duncan, who escaped the clutch of the monster, and is hiding behind the cardboard car. Ss Duncan comes out and cheekily remarks what lunatics the others were, the monster comes out to try and capture him. Duncan tries to back away, only for an arm to reach out for him…

But it doesn’t quite grab him, as the monster malfunctions, and is drawn back from an excessive amount of weight. As Duncan looks up, Owen is revealed on the monster’s back, barely hanging on to a spike, with his weight being enough to break the system. Izzy also reveals herself with a grin, revealing with only her laughter that their hiding place was on the monster’s back. She remarks how nobody has eyes on the back of their heads, but rambles on about how she wished she did and how she might have known somebody that does-

And her rambling is cut off by Owen having a confessional where he expresses how genius Izzy is. Sure, she’s a nut job and sometimes he can’t catch up, but she’s a mad genius, and an absolute magician. If he could kiss her, he would, “Wait-” he realizes just as it cuts back to the action… (yes pun intended)

Chef tries to get them off his back, but fails, and the monster malfunctions, prompting Owen and Izzy to be survivors alongside Duncan. Duncan exclaims in shock and confusion how this is possible, and Izzy gleefully responds how they went on a romantic date with it’s system while they were at their hiding, and it was absurdly beautiful… (god this show has a lot of fetish)

We then cut to the campers asleep at the bouncy castle, (no time change though) just as Duncan and Izzy come up to them, finding them all stranded by the trailers. Owen is behind them, but just like in the original he’s left dragging himself exhausted, but is still able to use the needle to pop the castle and free everyone. 

Chris welcomes them all to the trailers, and proclaims that this next challenge will be a reward between the three survivors as a tiebreaker, winner will be able to pick the trailer for their respective gender of contestants, inviting everyone to the crafts tent. So that NOW the purpose of the plastic food bit actually makes sense!

The feast itself is untouched. Owen eats everything without hesitation, Chris reveals all the food was fake, and Owen wins the challenge for the guys, prompting all the confessionals about the entire situation. 

All of these are untouched, however I am adding a last one with Noah. 

In this one, Noah smirks at the camera with his arms crossed, stating “So… this is the guy who won the last season, and THIS is why…? I’m sure there’s more to it than just eating plastic, but I gotta say, I like what I see.” His tone becomes malicious at the last part.

The rest of the scene is okay as it is, as well as the comedic bit where Owen chooses the squashed trailer, and the girls get excited, only for monster Chef to squash the other trailer as well… because it’s Chris and Chef. They get paid to torture teenagers.

After Izzy’s confessional, the campers prepare themselves for sleep. For the guys, it’s untouched except for the additions of Noah and Tyler. Tyler calls a top bunk, and tries to jump on top (only to slip and crash) and as Noah is trying to decide, the moment Owen calls a bunk next to Justin, Noah glares at Justin in disgust, and turns to decide to take the bottom of Tyler’s bunk, stepping over the crashed jock. 

The girls are completely untouched. There really isn’t anything else to add with them. No one wants to sleep with Heather because of her actions last season, they draw brushes, and they accidentally give Heather two beds all to herself… This isn’t too complicated.

The episode ends with Chris messing with the campers at 5 in the morning with the speaker, like the sociopath he is. (cutting out the Owen bit though, it ain't necessary) And Chris wonders to the audience what will happen next to his victims… I mean campers, before ending the episode with Chris demanding to put wrap on the monster.

Episode 2: Alien Resurr eggtion

Episode 2 opens with the contestants at the cafeteria getting breakfast. It’s untouched until Trent shows up to join in on Gwen and Duncan’s conversation. When Trent offers Gwen his toast, Gwen happily accepts it, with a kiss on his cheek as she tries to rip the toast in half for them both, finding it stale. Duncan glares at them raising an eyebrow, smirking that they’ll BE toast if they play favorites like this. Trent openly says that he’s cool with that if it’s Gwen, causing Duncan to ask playfully “Oh, so I’m not important enough for her to take toast from me?”

Which prompts Gwen to playfully shoot back, biting into her half of the toast “No. You just can’t be trusted with sharing.”

“Well don’t blame me for that,” Duncan replies, “We’re all enemies in this game.”

The rest of this conversation isn’t touched. Trent says he’ll always have Gwen’s back, Gwen says right back at him, and Duncan remarks that they’ll see if that's accurate once the money comes into play.

Instead of Owen having his confessional here, Leshawna is receiving her own plate as the others are glaring at Owen in confusion. Among her plate, she notices a paper of sorts behind her toast. Curious, she picks it up, her eyes immediately turning blank as she reads it.

The audience can’t see what the card says, and she doesn’t read it aloud, but on the front of the card, there’s a noticeable heart with an H + L written in it.

“Harold…” Leshawna groans to herself, looking up to see Harold glancing at her with a blush and a grin, awkwardly waving to her just before he coughs up a hair from the eggs. 

This is followed up by the confessionals from Leshawna and Harold (that in canon was later in this episode) about how she already told Harold that things between them weren’t meant to be. But maybe he just couldn’t get over her lusciousness. And Harold saying that Leshawna isn’t over him yet, and that he sees the way she looks at him…

(I mean, we all wanted to bang Leshawna at one point, so fair enough)

From there, Chris goes on to explain the challenge, where this whole scene, the challenge directions itself, Chef asking for payment, Gwen and Duncan’s exchange on their love of alien movies, and Gwen’s confessional, are all completely untouched. 

We then transition to the group with their tracking devices. This is all untouched, except for when Harold jumps into Leshawna’s arms, we don’t cut to any confessionals, because well, I moved them to earlier. Instead their awkwardness is countered by Noah walking past them, demanding “Let’s go lovebirds.” With Harold saying with a smile “Thanks.” Just as Leshawna puts him down. 

We cut to the people in the back, with Lindsey having the device. Because it’s Lindsey, she asks what the dots are supposed to mean, where Tyler offers to tell her that they mean… actually what do they mean again? 

“I know, right? It never makes sense!” Lindsey agrees, where the two share a chuckle. Lindsey asks if she ever got his name, to which Tyler plays along with that and gives her the name. 

“Tyler…” Lindsey tries to process that, smiling and giving a thumbs up at him, saying she’ll try to remember that. (Emphasis on ‘try’) 

There’s also a Tyler confessional here, where he remarks that Lindsey rocks his world, and he hopes that she’ll be able to remember him fondly. “I mean, who wouldn’t remember the most skilled player in this unit?”

Heather snatches the device from them, claiming that they don’t know what they’re doing, and her answer to why they’re in the group, plus Lindsey and Beth’s confessional about Heather are untouched. 

However, the campers aren’t thrown off by Geoff and Bridgette’s kissing, because… they’ve all smooched before, they should already know it’s them. Instead Bridgette and Geoff are making out in the back without a care in the world, and they don’t pay attention to the rest of the group trying to formulate a plan with the idea that Chef could be guarding the eggs, suggested by Beth. With this in mind, Gwen and Duncan lead the way before they make the next corner, making their ‘lets kick some alien butt’ exchange in the process. (We don’t cut to Chris for a split second here, so you know)

Just like in the original, everyone questions who should lead the way, and Beth ends up volunteering to go first. She makes the first mark to go, and everyone follows her, but Noah and Owen are in the back, leaning on the corner to find that Bridgette and Geoff aren’t coming. Noah makes the “do you ever stop sucking faces?” comment, with Owen replying in response “I wouldn’t.” 

Which makes Noah look up at him like he’s crazy, before leaving to join the others and Owen stammering “What?! You wouldn’t either, I-I mean, whatever you think, I mean-”

It’s cut off by a confessional from Noah, who makes a comment “On movie settings like this, I wish romance side plots were illegal.”

Then it cuts to Gwen’s confessional about her placing second last season, which is untouched.

From there, we cut back to the group and Beth leading them to a spiral room of sorts, where they get the warning signs on the devices, prompting everyone to split up. And Duncan shuns out Geoff and Bridgette just like in canon. Because… well he put it in the confessional, their love will very likely get them caught, especially with how little efficiency they’ve pulled off before. That makes sense. (Trust me, I’m shocked I kept this in) 

Instead of giving into this though, Bridgette, being the more straightforward of the two, prompts the idea that they should go south and look on their own. After all, love makes someone stronger, Duncan’s just delusional about that. 

Geoff agrees and compliments her on how smart she is, and she gives in, where the two make out as they run through the doors.

We cut to Owen, Heather, Izzy, Harold, and Noah, where Heather snaps them out of it in an attempt to band them together, but just like in canon no one trusts her and thinks this is just manipulation. Noah says “Well who cares if it’s manipulation as long as it means we don’t die?” Prompting Owen and Izzy to agree with him. Heather is about to thank him for the support, but Noah cuts her off and claims that he doesn’t do teaming up.

The rest of this scene is untouched, Harold and Owen get shot by Chef, they both have their confessionals, Heather (and Noah) steps back, and Izzy pulls out her own gun and has her battle with Chef, which results in her losing. The only tweak needed is that Geoff and Bridgette are not in this scene.

After the Chris cut, we go to Heather and Noah getting caught by Chef, and it’s untouched as she loses her wig, and the confessional that follows. The only tweak needed is that Noah is shot just as Heather starts running. 

Geoff and Bridgette are creeping their ways through their own hallways grasping each other's hands. From there, Bridgette nervously remarks “So… all this for a million bucks, huh?” 

“I mean, it sounds reasonable to me,” Geoff replies, deciding to ask Bridgette what she would do for a million bucks. Bridgette hesitates to answer, as she doesn’t know that herself. She asks what he would do, and Geoff hesitates as well, coming to the decision that if he had the privilege, he’d host his own show. When she asks him to clarify, he explains that it would be about discovering more of those who barely have the screen time to shine, finding out the drama of their lives, and being a part of aiding their situations through his parties. (I mean, this is Geoff, a guy who loves his parties)

Bridgette claims that he could make a great host, and Geoff admirably stares at her, flirting that THEY would make great hosts. “You and me,” he claims, “We’re like apples and oranges.”

“Wait, we’re opposites?” Bridgette asks, which makes Geoff stammer in embarrassment “What? No! No, I didn’t-that was the wrong phrase to use, I thought, you know, apples are great, and oranges are great too, but-”

He’s stopped by Bridgette kissing him, and they start making out once more. This is where Chef catches them just like in canon.

We then cut to Lindsey, Justin, Beth, Leshawna, and Tyler, where they get caught, and it’s completely untouched. The only tweak needed is Tyler encouraging Lindsey that she knows what she’s doing, right before they get locked in, which prompts him to chuckle at himself and remark “Maybe that’s a good thing?” And immediately after he says that, they get rained on.

We then cut to Gwen, Trent, Duncan, and DJ finding the boiler room, and the eggs. As Gwen is being lowered down into the boiler room, Chef barges in with the gun, and in the panic, Gwen is barely able to latch onto eggs in time. Chef is about to shoot at them, but DJ gets in front to sacrifice himself in an over dramatic fashion. As he hits the ground, he demands that the others save themselves, and the other three start running with the eggs. 

Chris then shows up with the nukes, and it gets Duncan out. And yes I’m keeping Trent’s confessional about Duncan despite my original intention to cut it, because ultimately, in this one at least, he does take into consideration how good this is for Gwen. 

However, we do NOT have the scene where Trent has to choose between the egg and the necklace. It’s pointless. If Duncan’s egg cracked on impact of the nuke, then either Gwen and Trent are still holding their eggs, or they’re busted. That’s just basic logic. Same goes for Gwen’s confessional, we’re not doing that. 

Trent and Gwen already have their eggs in their arms after Trent’s confessional, where they both tease Duncan as they begin running to home base with them. 

So just like in canon, Gwen and Trent are crowned as the winners of the challenge, only for the reveal that they’ll be team captains on opposite teams, and that it’ll be a double elimination.

So now we reach the voting sessions, where the votes have been casted, and losers have been selected…

Trent and Gwen are safe.

The awards go to Harold…

Duncan…

Izzy…

Tyler…

Lindsey…

Justin…

Beth…

Noah…

Owen…

DJ…

Leshawna…

And lastly…

Heather.

Which means that just like in canon, Geoff and Bridgette are eliminated first.

I’m cutting out all the confessionals about it, but these two still accept their loss and make out as they catch the limo of losers. (I don’t know if that’s actually what it’s called, but I like it)

And before any of you Bridgette and Geoff fans yell at me for keeping this elimination, I want to make it clear. Their story is NOT in the show. Their story is in the Aftermath Shows, THAT’S where their development is, and if they stayed in the show like this, they wouldn’t have anything to do. I do not have anything against Geoff or Bridgette, but I do think that this canon elimination was a good call.

Okay, back to the show.

Episode 3: Riot On Set

Episode 3, we start off immediately by cutting out the long sleeping shots of the campers, as that’s not necessary and goes on way too long. The only shot shown is Gwen, because she’s the only one shown reacting to Chris waking them up. Beth still has her confessional though, as well as everyone’s reactions to the wake up. 

From there, Chris goes on to explain how it’s time to form teams, where that and the Gwen and Trent exchange before, is untouched. 

So we start picking teams. Only here, no, we’re not doing the boy girl boy girl thing, because with Tyler and Noah here, there’s more guys than girls. 

Gwen goes first, and immediately chooses Duncan for her team.

Trent DOES have a confessional here, but it’s not about him in spite of Gwen’s choice. Instead, he remarks how she and Duncan would obviously get along, however, with the influence Duncan has, he’s going to spoil Gwen beyond repair, and he thought Gwen would be smart enough to see that. “You think you know a person”

Trent then chooses the BEAUTIFUL Lindsey for his team.

And again, Gwen has a confessional, but it’s not about her in spite of Trent’s choice. Instead, she claims that she thought Trent was going to think strategically with his choice, but ‘the beautiful?’ She doesn’t know what he plans on doing with a dim witted princess on his team. “You think you know a person.” 

Gwen chooses Leshawna, just like in canon.

But instead of Lindsey suggesting Tyler (because she doesn’t remember him) Trent goes on to choose Justin right away, which prompts Gwen’s snarky comment about how choosing the good looking contestants will totally make him go far.

And in case you’re wondering why Trent IS only choosing teammates by looks, it’s because he KNOWS they won’t do well, aiding in Gwen getting a good chance to win. It’s not said here, but that’s the intention.

Gwen chooses DJ

Trent chooses Beth

Gwen chooses Tyler

Trent chooses Noah

Gwen then is given the suggestion from Leshawna to ‘keep her enemies closer.’ (Why Leshawna would do this strategy will be explained later in this rewrite) In spite of Heather, Gwen chooses her, which shocks her. 

Trent is then left deciding between Owen or Harold, where in a confessional he remarks how they’re both flaky lunatics, but when it comes to who made it further in the last game…

Trent chooses Owen.

This prompts Harold to rant about how no one is putting his skills in consideration-

Which prompts Gwen to choose him just to shut him up.

Leaving Izzy for Trent’s team.

So with this in mind:

Screaming Gaffers: Gwen, Duncan, Leshawna, DJ, Tyler, Heather, and Harold

Killer Grips: Trent, Lindsey, Justin, Beth, Noah, Owen, and Izzy

With that, Chris explains the challenge, which is untouched, and everyone prepares to start their sets. On the way to the hill, Beth is seen trying to carry a light post, but due to her size she nearly tumbles, only for Justin to catch her and hold her in his arms, his looks charming her. 

“Oh look, it’s a mannequin,” Noah says as he’s walking along them. Beth wonders why Noah isn’t carrying anything, to which he scolds that he’s got nerd arms over here, do they honestly think he’s trying to be useless again?

Unfortunately Tyler, who is above them, is trying to carry a box, but fails horribly and drops it, where it nearly crashes on top of Noah. Justin pulls Noah out of the way just in time and just like with Beth, carries him bridal style, trying to charm him with his looks. Justin claims that he would never say that to Noah, only for Noah to instead snarl at him and shove himself off of the man, scolding that YES, HE WOULD, and he’s seen him do it. Beth questions this, only for Noah to grab the box and try to lift it himself, telling Beth that she can have Justin, he doesn’t care.

We then go to Duncan helping Gwen when she nearly trips, and Trent, who is near them, asks why Duncan would bother. 

“Uh… we’re on the same team?” Gwen says in confusion to that, where Trent remarks that he hopes it’s the only reason, and if that is, he thanks the delinquent. 

“Relax, cool guy, I’m not gonna steal your girlfriend,” Duncan ensures him, where Trent’s eyes narrow down on him. He decides to take Duncan’s word, but is still weary. Gwen asks Trent if everything’s okay, catching up to him, and instead of being secretive to his OWN GIRLFRIEND, FOR NO REASON, he’s actually honest with her, and puts it simply that he doesn’t like seeing her getting close with a criminal. Gwen assures him that Duncan isn’t a bad guy, but they’re cut off by Lindsey tripping and Trent helping her, ending their conversation. 

Heather, dragging a heavy box, scolds how this is unfair, and just like in canon no one listens to her ideas, and Harold is the only one backing her up, even if she pushes him away.

Also NO, Trent is not getting the necklace moment or his exchange with Izzy. Because in context of this rewrite, he doesn’t have this necklace, and he isn’t even trying to help his team win, which the latter isn’t even what he’s doing in canon, so the line just makes Trent look like a jerk.

With the heavy stuff, Lindsey has her same confessional about it, and instead, she suggests that they carry the cart to the mountain. That only gains blank stares at her team, and Noah remarks “Good job, miss obvious.” But just like in canon, the Grips get the idea to use Owen as their carrier.

Instead of Trent being a jerk and making fun of the other team and his own girlfriend, he actually calls out to Gwen that she should ‘try and keep up.’ 

Misinterpreting his words, the Gaffers are offended by that, and Gwen and Duncan agree that the Grips are going down, (without Gwen targeting Trent specifically) They suggest DJ carry the trailer, but just like in canon, he refuses.

Owen is near the top of the mountain, but is barely able to have the stamina to climb in time. Beth’s cheer is untouched, but after such, Noah is walking up by her, snarkily mocking “Owen, Owen, he’s our man, if he can’t do it, we’re freaking hopeless!” 

Justin scolds Noah that he should at least try to help, but since he’s looking at himself in a hand mirror while saying so, Noah shoots back “Like what you’re doing?”

With that roast in mind, Justin shoves Noah out of the way, getting in front of Owen and taking off his shirt to charm Owen and get him to push further. Gazing at the situation transitions into a confessional from Noah, where he openly states “Justin is a piece of work. He doesn’t even look that great, and how even guys are falling for him, I don’t get at all. The thing about Owen is that he won last season in ways I don’t get how… I can tell Justin is trying to form something with that guy. Not if I can’t trick him first.”

From there, Noah decides to take a book in his hand and chug it at Justin’s face, deciding to take a handle of the cart himself to assist Owen. 

“I didn’t know you cared,” Owen happily expresses, where Noah only says, in an unrealistic tone to what he usually sounds, that of course he would help a fellow teammate! Why wouldn’t he unless he was Heather?

From that line, we cut down to the Gaffers, and Heather scolds DJ that the trailer is NOT going to break! He’s being absolutely pathetic! Despite Harold kindly trying to encourage DJ like in canon, DJ refuses. Tyler offers to do it himself, but he isn’t even able to move the trailer when he’s continuously trying to pull it in the background for the rest of the scene. Gwen tries to encourage DJ that if anything bad happens to the trailer, they’ll help him out, only for DJ to claim that it’ll be on him if something bad happens to any member of his team. It’s because of this that the Grips end up getting to the mountain first and winning the challenge, everyone in that team exhausted. 

The teams are explained that their objective is to make a movie, where this is untouched, as well as Heather’s confessional. The only change needed is that instead of Trent saying “Boring,” it’s Noah. Just like in canon, Izzy is selected to be the Grip’s actor, and the Gaffers suggest Duncan to do their role, but he lingers. Chef mocks DJ that he would never be able to do it, which catches DJ’s attention, only in this version Chef scolds DJ’s whimpering at his words, claiming that behavior won’t get him anywhere, trust him, he knows. DJ asks what he means by that, but we’re cut off by Gwen convincing Duncan to be the actor. It’s mostly the same dialogue, but Gwen also encourages Duncan that she knows what he can do, and sure he may want to be stubborn about it for reasons she doesn’t get, but the truth is that he’s truly a criminal if he’s willing to sabotage his team. Duncan asks why he should help her, and Gwen remarks that it’s because they’re all friends here. 

This is meant to be a contrast of season 1s episode 4 where Duncan asked the same thing to Courtney, and she threatened him, which will come into play later this season.

The Grips preparing for the audition are mostly untouched, the only change being that Justin assists as well with Izzy, encouraging her that the best thing she can do when acting is to simply be herself and look pretty. Izzy says she already takes the former of what he said to heart, just as Owen asks for the lines.

The Gaffers are untouched. Not much else to add here. The only thing is that I’m cutting out Harold’s confessional after he helps out Heather. Because NO, in this rewrite, Harold is NOT crushing on Heather for no reason. The only explanation of such is that he saw her bare breast one time by accident, which is fair, but considering Leshawna is already a focus for him, and that he and Heather are friends…ish… that’s just unnecessary. Heather’s confessional is fine though.

As such, after DJ nearly scoffs Duncan but catches himself, Chef throws him aside to try and toughen the guy up. Chef also has his confessional explaining his actions into helping DJ toughen up and win the whole game as long as he gets the money share. This is one credit to the canon, especially from the episode before where here, and his brief lines before, make Chef trying to ally himself with DJ actually make sense. 

After this, it’s time for the show, ACTION!

And overall… yeah these are untouched for the most part. The only thing is that Trent says nothing in the middle of this, instead only smiles for an unknown reason. Just like in the original, Duncan’s emotional heart throbbing performance is enough to make Chef cry, thus making the Gaffers the winners…

Like d**n Duncan, you should stop hiding your talent!

After the challenge, we have the Gwen and Trent scene, which is mostly untouched. The only tweak needed is that Trent doesn’t apologize for calling her a wannabe, because in this rewrite, he didn’t. 

We then cut to the Grips slouching near their trailer, none of them sure of what to do. Tyler comes over to join in on Lindsey, greeting her. “Hey… Trevor, is it?” Lindsey greets, where Tyler corrects her briefly before apologizing about the loss, asking if there’s anything he can do to help her. Lindsey tries to think, only to not come up with anything and say “Well there’s one thing… and I don’t know what that is.” 

Justin then comes over to ask if Tyler is on the opposite team, which makes Lindsey remark “Wait, are you?” Just as Tyler asks “So? I can still talk to her.” “Oh no, I’m not taking that from you,” Justin assures him, “I’m just saying-”

“That you’re taking that from her,” Noah remarks when walking by with two soda glasses in his hands. He walks past them and eyes Owen and Izzy by a tree, Izzy playfully pressing on Owen’s stomach with the two laughing. 

Noah then has a confessional where basically addresses his plan to the audience. “Okay, so these guys hated me last season for whatever reason. Trust me when I say that being on a team with Justin, I KNOW I need to be one step ahead of him to get rid of this guy and win this entire thing. And when it comes to scheming like this, what better chances can I get than from the very goof who won last season. He might have some hints I can get from him.”

After the confessional, Izzy remarks how her legs are still cracked from playing the grandma, even remarking that maybe she actually broke her knee caps once, in a rambling story. Owen claims that she’d make a beautiful old lady, and the two smile at each other. 

Noah comes in to join them, asking Owen if he had a minute. Izzy crazily asks if it’s top secret scheming going on, but Noah only remarks that with her brain, she could never tell. “Isn’t it great?” Owen takes that as a compliment, just as Izzy decides to jump in a tree to catch a squirrel. For the rest of the scene, Izzy occasionally is shown in the background of the trees catching the squirrel.

From there, Noah hands Owen one of the soda glasses, and as the latter is gulping down his, Noah tries to talk to him. He claims that he knows they barely know each other, and probably will never get along well. But the thing is, the Gaffers have a really good team on their hands, an evil strategist, a strongman, a nerd who won’t shut up, a self proclaimed jock, a runner up from the last season, a delinquent with insane acting skills, and Leshawna. 

“What exactly do we have?” Noah asks him, where Owen suggests innocently “Justin?” “No, not Justin, we don’t talk about Justin,” Noah claims, trying to continue. 

They need to step up their game before they lose again, and Noah believes that Owen has the best strategies for this game, given he won last season. “Those were my veteran days mate,” Owen replies as his bottle is emptied, seeing that Noah isn’t touching his glass and he decides to take his. 

“What I’m trying to say here…” Noah claims, “We need to work together. You know… the code.”

“The code?” Owen asks, not getting it, and innocently assumes with a smile on his face “Wait, we’re friends?!”

“Wait, what?” Noah doesn’t get where he’s going, almost as if he’s unfamiliar with the concept. But before Noah can correct him, Owen draws the small boy in for a tight hug that visibly crushes Noah. Owen is cheering happily that they’re buddies, that he has a little buddy on his side.

“Yeah, sure…” Noah doesn’t buy the concept, trying to ask what his secret to winning is, only for Owen to burp in his face, shutting him up and blowing Noah’s hair in a spiky position. Izzy also shows up gleefully, the squirrel in her mouth as she asks how things are going, and that she caught a live one. 

Said hair position is in the next confessional with a makeup artist hand trying to put a brush through it, where Noah can only mutter “I am going to regret this…”

There’s also a confessional from Owen where he cheerfully remarks that he and Noah are going to be besties. Though he wonders what Noah meant about a code.

We then cut to the elimination ceremony.

So now we reach the voting sessions, where the votes have been casted, and losers have been selected…

The awards go to Trent…

Owen…

Beth…

Noah…

Justin…

And Lindsey.

Izzy however does not want to go anywhere, claiming she’s not getting any recognition. Regardless, Izzy is eliminated just like in canon, with the claim that she can NEVER come back… EVER…

I mean, she’ll obviously obey. Right?

Episode 4: Beach Blanket Bogus

Episode 4 opens just like in the original with breakfast, with one tweak being that DJ is in the line, receiving a healthier looking piece of toast and bowl of fruit to everyone else, where he stares at it nervously. Other than that, this is untouched. Heather scoffs at her plate, Harold tries to brag, and Heather pushes him away and tries to wave over to Lindsey and Beth, who ignore her and instead gush over Justin. I am gonna cut out Beth’s confessional because it’s not necessary, we get the picture, and instead use the time to focus on something else. 

That being Heather’s role in this moment as an outcast, where she bitterly picks on her food from the rejection. She rants how she doesn’t get it, she doesn’t understand how everyone isn’t listening to her ideas. Harold then sits next to her, agreeing that she can write them down on a napkin he hands her, and he can see what they can do. Heather scolds him for this when she touches the napkin, disgusted as she asks if his snot was in this thing, where Harold makes the excuse that “It’s a condition.” 

Heather then asks in annoyance why he’s bothering, and Harold puts it simply that no one wants to sit with him either, his head leaning out of the way just in time to avoid food getting thrown at his face. Duncan is seen by the table with Gwen and Duncan, and as he’s smirking at Heather and Harold, that’s a transition to their moment. 

Trent scolds Duncan for being immature about that, and not paying attention, he spills salt on his eggs. Duncan gets a good laugh at that, saying that Trent’s clearly much better, which makes the latter bitterly toss a piece of egg in his mouth. Gwen scolds that Trent has a point, but Duncan only brushes that off, that it’s not like he’s ever followed rules. Trent leans over to Gwen’s ear to ask how she can stand this guy, and Gwen, actually knowing about Trent’s beef in this rewrite, puts it simply that they just… click. 

“Kind of like how I clicked with you,” Gwen adds as a flirt as she’s helping clean the salt, but little does she know that Trent took that the wrong way. 

From there, Chris explains the challenges and prompts everyone to go, and DJ is held back by Chef. There’s actually a little more to this exchange, as DJ asks what exactly Chef’s plan IS, to which Chef puts it that there’s payment in loyalty. 

With that, everyone is taken to the freezing studio where the one who stays on the surfing board the longest wins an advantage for the next part. Just as Chris makes the Justin abs comment, Noah looks over to see Owen admiring Justin at that moment. He tries to snap his asset out of it by asking the big guy what his strategy is to make it through something like this, but Owen doesn’t answer and continues to admire Justin as much as Lindsey and Beth are. 

“Stare at the male model for a good hour?” Noah wonders sarcastically, rolling his eyes to add “What a joke.”

This catches Justin’s attention, and his eyes narrow at his teammate looking away from him.

In a confessional, Justin states that he has no idea what sort of facial or physical trauma Noah has that makes him resist his hotness. “But what I do know is that he’s probably never seen a magazine in his life.”

Which cuts to another confessional with Noah, who remarks “I’ve seen plenty of magazines in my days. Mostly so I can cut them apart and make brochures.” As he’s doing so, he’s cutting apart one magazine, then shows a paper to the camera, a picture of Justin made of magazine papers. Only in that picture, the dude’s lips look like cartoonish smooching, he has a black eye, his hair looks like an afro, and he’s wearing newspaper rags.

 To this picture, Noah says “If you ask me, this is very accurate.”

After those, just like in canon, Harold tries to impress Leshawna with his nonexistent muscles, only for an ice shard to make him be mistaken for volunteering to go first.

His surfing test is mostly untouched, only for one thing. While I AM keeping his confessional, I feel like the timing of it was… off? Like the camera focuses on Chris and then Harold is suddenly in the booth making an ass joke? Instead, the shark nearly bites Harold, and after a few dodges he retreats to the post like he did in canon, Leshawna makes her comment, and THEN we cut to that confessional, so that the audience has a better understanding of what he’s talking about, and why he’s even making said ass joke.

Other than that, Harold’s test, and everyone’s comments, are completely untouched.

After he crashes, we DON’T have Trent receive a bracelet and awkwardly count, nor Beth’s exchange with Lindsey. 

So in other words, NO, Trent is NOT obsessed with the number 9 in this version. It’s stupid. This trait is stupid, and NOT funny. It comes completely out of nowhere. It makes no sense. Which is saying something when this character in both canon seasons is as compelling and diverse AS A ROCK.

(Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system.)

Instead, Tyler is giving a thumbs up to Harold, cheering that he did great. “Can you do better?” Lindsey wonders, as she’s next to him, and Tyler assures her that yes, he’s excellent at surfing, and he’ll be proud to show her how to do it. “How?” Lindesy asks, where Tyler gives his advice off screen. 

We then cut to Tyler’s test, where he tries to do flips on the board, and yeah, it doesn’t work at all. 

We then cut to Lindsey’s test, which turns out to not go well either. (Thanks Tyler) DJ has his, Owen breaks it, (which earns a face palm from Noah), then Gwen thinks it’ll be good until Chris pulls out a seagull gun, Justin then has it, and it’s all completely untouched. Yes, even the shark saving his life and shoving away Beth, that’s funny. There’s then a quick one second each montage of the others going, Leshawna, Trent, Beth, Heather, and Noah, all of them failing instantly. Just like in canon, Duncan is last and secures the victory for the Gaffers.

Owen says that the Gaffers seem unstoppable, which makes Noah remark “Gee, it’s almost like they selected competent teammates!” 

He glares at Trent specifically, who tries to make the excuse that he knows what he’s doing, they just… they just need to be patient with him. After making that excuse he glances over to see Gwen and Duncan hugging, where Trent ends up having a confessional. “If Duncan’s hot, competent, capable, and willing to help out Gwen, how am I supposed to do the same for her? I know they’re just ‘friends’ or whatever, but…” he begins to freak out at his own words, realizing “I’m losing trust in my own girlfriend!! Someone help me!”

We’re cutting out the bus stop scene entirely, as no one has changed out of their bathing suits, nor are there any confessionals about it, or the Beth friendship bracelet moment, as cute as that is, it’s cut. 

Instead we go right away to the sand castle building challenge, starting with Chris’s explanation of it. The Gaffers proceed to make an impressive castle with Harold’s guidance. The tweaks needed are that Tyler is part of Harold’s orders to fill the buckets, and Leshawna is more visibly amazed by what Harold can do than she was in canon. Other than that, this scene is untouched.

When Harold asks where Gwen and Duncan are, we cut over to those two sabotaging the bus. As they’re doing so Gwen is laughing as she scolds that this isn’t a good idea, where Duncan only remarks that at least if they’re stuck, they get to sleep in cabins again. Instead of Duncan triggering the bus horn, we actually get a more quiet moment where Gwen actually talks to him confidently. She expresses how she used to hate school buses as a kid, always with the loud children, jumping in seats, being obnoxious. She still hates them to be honest. Duncan expresses how prison had buses everywhere, where Gwen suddenly asks sincerely “You ever had any friends in Juvie?” 

As Duncan is tampering with the bus, he remarks “Had a roomie named Mal once. He was weird, had like… SIX different voices every single hour, and I think I lost a few brain cells from being stuck with him.” He chuckles at himself, before being honest and saying “Overall though, I’d say I’m a lone wolf sweetheart.”

“I have a boyfriend,” Gwen scolds with the nickname, where Duncan counters that with “And you have friends. Not a lot of friends, but one guy shouldn’t hog you.”

“Courtney hogs you!” Gwen counters back, where Duncan argues back, smirking at his own words “Courtney is the kind of gal you don’t wanna mess with. She’ll probably watch this and cringe cause it’s true, but hey, she still kissed me.”

Gwen playfully argues, “Oh and I’m just some pushover, eh?!” And it seems like they’re going to have a petty fight, only for Duncan to bust the bus alarm and make it sound, which stops them and they playfully laugh off the error.

Back with the rest of the team, the Grips get started with their build, and Trent leads the way just like in canon. NO, there is NO nine thing going on, but Justin does question Trent’s orders with the castle, as everything looks uneven. Trent says that it’s fine, which cuts to Lindsey using the crab shell for the flag. 

“See? Lindsey gets it!” Trent says in response to this, soon ordering Lindsey kindly to find some more shells as decorations. 

Noah and Owen are on water duty, and Noah has a hard time carrying his bucket, nearly spilling it. Owen’s holding three on his own, and offers to help out Noah carry his. Noah actually thanks him, immediately stopping himself to ask about his skill with water jumping, (referring to Owen giving the Gophers the wheelbarrows last season by jumping off the cliff) 

“Oh that?” Owen wonders, laughing to himself as he remarks “I’m not a good swimmer, pal. I just did.”

“You ‘just did,’ huh?” Noah wonders, not believing it, “You ‘just did,’ to win 100K?”

“Haven’t you?” Owen asks, and Noah only scoffs at that, stepping away from him to say “I’m clearly not a winner then, I’m just sad.” 

Taking this literally, Owen tries to put his arm around Noah to assure him it’s okay, but not only does he nearly choke Noah, but one of the buckets falls and spills. 

“You don’t know sarcasm when you hear it, do you?” Noah tries to say under his breath, barely sliding out, to bitterly make it clear to him “I chose you to be in an alliance with me! Okay? I started this, I get to make the charges with our contacts, and I need you to work with me on this.”

Owen apologizes as Noah picks up the bucket again, filling it up with water and still weak enough that he can only drag it across the sand.

As they make it back, Trent is trying to apply a massive shell on top, where Justin warns him that it won’t work, but Trent says that it’s fine…

Only for the entire castle to crumble. 

Beth makes her suggestion to use paper mache to make a castle, only here, Trent doesn’t make any comments or names the castle. (So in other words this Gwen and Duncan exchange doesn’t happen) 

Regardless, the Gaffers don’t lose their castle to random seagulls, instead Noah gets lost in the sand, and accidentally spills the bucket when he trips, making the castle collapse. (A tragedy to be held.)

The Grips win, meaning there will be a tiebreaker.

Hearing this news, Trent smiles over to Gwen, who looks away distraught due to her previous discussion with Duncan, instead going with Leshawna in a friendly exchange on the tidal waves. Trent then wonders what he’s doing wrong with her, as it feels like he’s not good enough for her anymore. Because he said this aloud, Justin stays behind to try to talk to him, giving him the suggestion that girls simply like to win. (You know, make Justin actually do something other than sit still and look pretty)

So no, the campers don’t have to collect sticks, and we instantly go to the next part of the challenge, a dance off.

TYLER and Trent volunteer, (without the ‘say my name nine times’ exchange of course) And the dance off begins with these two. The moves themselves aren’t too bad, but Tyler is clearly far more of a daredevil with his moves, being so absurd with failing stunts that it’s kind of a guilty pleasure to the others. I am cutting out the confessionals, like, come on, don’t ruin this dance party! And so Trent throws the challenge by tripping over a stick, Duncan and Gwen have an exchange, and Gwen’s confessional, which is… surprisingly untouched. (Don’t worry, this will make sense later)

The Gwen and Trent moment after is okay as well, only here Owen is NOT in this scene, instead it’s Justin, smirking at them from behind the bushes.

Chris offers the Grips to head to the bus during the party, only to realize the bus is… well… BUS-TED. 

Tyler comes over while still doing his awful dances, and grasps Lindsey to join him, where the two share a short but cute and quirky dance before Chef grabs Lindsey to get her away from the other team. The Harold, Duncan, and Leshawna bit in the party is untouched, but on board with Leshawna showing off her dances, Harold offers to back her up. Though Leshawna is hesitant for his inclusion and his support of her despite everyone else laughing, she does smile at Harold genuinely.

Gwen and Duncan are by the poi bowl laughing at the two, Duncan cheekily asking if Gwen wants to make up some quirky dance of their own. Gwen smirks and claims “You can do better than that.” 

Regardless, the two still grasp hands and dance away into the flames of the torches, Duncan and Gwen locking eyes as the two laugh off the night.

Cutting out the Owen and Lindsey bit, we then cut to Justin and Beth by the beachside, Justin talking Beth into an alliance. Beth however never gave anyone friendship bracelets in this rewrite, so that part is unfortunately cut out. Other than that though, this is untouched, as Justin has claimed his first victim.

Episode 5: 3:10 to Crazytown

Episode 5 opens with the boiling sun, where it’s completely untouched until the part where Owen is fanning Justin. As Owen faints, we get a camera angle of his blinking, where Noah is standing on top of his view, looking down to ask what he’s doing. Without hearing Owen’s answer, Noah decides to pull Owen away from Justin, trying and failing to drag him along. 

“You need some moisture for that tone kid?” Justin asks in response to this, where Noah, despite sweating, only shoots back “I never heard of such a possibility.” 

Justin decides to move and head inside to get away from Noah, and the latter looks back at the collapsed Owen. He makes it clear to him that part of this alliance is that talking to Justin is against the law. He then gazes at Justin by the trailer complementing Beth handing him a comb, the former giving a smirk at her naive generosity.

Gwen is by a tree trying to cool off, and Leshawna comes over to help her with the shade. “You lost pins to your hair?” Gwen asks curiously, remarking how Leshawna’s ponytail is much looser and way curlier than what the audience is used to. “Unfortunately,” Leshawna remarks, frustrated herself with it as she mutters “Mama aint gonna like seeing this on TV…”

Trent then barges in to ask if there’s anything he can do for Gwen, offering a bottle of water. She thanks him, and as she drinks it, Trent expresses how he’d do anything to get her what she wants. Gwen however gulps her swallow of the water when hearing this, weary of the idea. We don’t get their confessionals, instead Leshawna barges in on this when trying to fix her hair back in a ponytail, that Trent is just jealous of her team and how well they’re doing. Trent then kindly shoots back that “Hey, Gwen was robbed last season because of some brownies and a stupid bet, least I can do for my own girl is to give her what she deserves.”

DJ is in the pool just as Chef comes over to pop it, claiming that tough guys don’t need to swim to survive. DJ hopes he has something else in mind, and that’s where Chef hands him a spare lasso, and knowledge of one of the challenges, granting DJ the unfair advantage of that knowledge. Before DJ can leave, Chef grabs him by the shirt and threatens that he can’t tell anyone about this, and as DJ nervously nods yes, we get the gunshots from Chris, and the western theme introduction.

We also get the confessional with Leshawna, but before the canon part of it, Leshawna mutters while trying to fix her hair “Mama’s always said ya gotta look good on TV to win a million bucks from TV, and let me tell you, the amount of pins needed to actually achieve that for my kind of locks is insane…” Right as she trails off, the ponytail holder snaps and her hair turns into that afro, causing a groan. This is a brief slightly comedic characterization for Leshawna that will play part later in this rewrite, as an indication that this afro IS her actual hair style without her accessories, and not just a bad hair day.

The introduction to the set is pretty much untouched, though changes start to come with Harold’s reaction, which seemed a little out of nowhere given what prompted it was a mention of a Salon, so… this is a little weird. (And this is HAROLD we’re talking about!) So instead Chris further explains the challenge with the steed scolding, though that’s kind of cut shorter cause that shot was WAY too long. After the Beth, Harold, and Trent confessionals, we then cut back to Leshawna snarling at a still laughing Heather, where she scolds that at least she HAS hair, which shuts her up. Harold then comes up behind them trying to look cool, with his own cowboy hat on and using a floss to make a guitar strum. He greets himself to the beautiful Leshawna, complimenting on how great she looks. Leshawana asks if he’s being sarcastic, to which Harold wholeheartedly denies, and offers to be her knight in the Salon, only for Duncan to walk by when prompted to the horse, muttering “Let’s get this over with,” and he purposefully trips Harold in the water bin, cheekily scolding that’s EXACTLY how cowboys greet a lady. Leshawna then has her confessional about having her eye on Duncan, which is untouched.

Just like in canon, it’s revealed they’re gonna jump off a platform way in the sky, and Chris assures them it’s TOTALLY SAFE, only for a flashback to show a crewmember getting killed from this, and Chris cheekily deciding that it’s safe enough. 

Even though Gwen doesn’t have allergies in this version, (because it’s pointless) she still shows concern about how they’re going to do this. Duncan makes the offer, Trent tries to back up Gwen on how dangerous it is, only for miscommunication to have both Gwen and Trent have confessionals about it… surprisingly these Trent making awkward comments things are ALL untouched. (I think what saved it was that Trent called himself out every single time and rightfully slaps himself)

Just like in canon, Gwen goes first, and we don’t cut to Harold calling bs on the jump in a confessional until after the shot of the horse’s face, to not break the flow of the fall itself. Regardless of that tweak, Gwen’s results are the same. As well as Trent’s fall itself with him jinxing himself to have a fence strip his right to have kids with Gwen… frankly he did that to himself.

Harolds and Duncan’s are also untouched, and before Owen takes his turn, Noah is calling up to him with a notepad in his hands, telling the big guy to show them what he’s got. However, Owen’s jump and crash are the same. Just as Chris calls Owen’s jump to count, Noah erases everything in the book, saying “Great, I’ll study that fondly,” just as he throws it in the water bin.

After DJ takes his turn (which is untouched) Justin makes his excuse, and Beth and Lindsey oblige, to which Noah proclaims that this is an absolute bc excuse, and he gets up at Justin’s face to do it. Justin refuses, instead making Noah do it instead, where he proclaims that if he’s going to be lazy, then the rest of them are as well. That is until Lindsey and Beth volunteer to jump in his place, where it’s untouched for them. Upon seeing Lindsey succeed, Tyler then makes his turn to try and do a swim dive and impress her, only for him to crash on the ground and miss the horse entirely. Noah also is forced to go, and he misses entirely, falling into the water bin instead with his soggy notebook on his face. 

Leshawna and Heather are then forced to try and break the 3-3 tie, and this is completely untouched. (Yeah I’m shocked too, but the exposure here is kind of something you can’t write out in order for the logic and laws of physics to work, so…)

With the next challenge, we don’t have this filler fakeout challenge scene AT ALL, instead we go right to the cowboys and cattle challenge, without Trent asking “who's who?” Because… he literally just said who’s who, are you THAT dense Trent?! All the confessionals about this are fine though. 

In this challenge, Beth captures Heather the same way… but with DJ, he manages to use the spare lasso to cut off Justin’s rope and get away, which is triggered by Chef giving a death glare at him. Other than that this is completely untouched, Trent throws the challenge, the Gaffers get their hands on the ropes, and they win by roping up the cowboys. The Gaffers win, and their reward is a cider party back at the trailers, where a brief cut shows the cans of cider looking disgusting. On top of this, the Grips are gonna be sending someone home.

(I’m cutting out the Trent bit with the branding thing though, cause I think we already get the message at this point.)

Trent gives a smile and a wink at Gwen, who upon realizing what he’s doing, her eyes dart to the side and away from him, unable to believe what’s happening. She looks over at Leshawna and Duncan walking out of the fence ring, and she sighs to herself, unsure whose side to take. Gwen then has a confessional where she wholeheartedly admits “Trent’s been throwing challenges for me… I know he’s trying to help, but this has to stop! Next thing I know, they’re gonna catch on too, they’re gonna blame me, and everyone will hate me! I can’t afford that, I just can’t! Trent’s…” she mutters under her breath, realizing as she asks herself “Who is Trent to me?” Where the question lingers as we cut back to the others leaving the sets.

Instead of the shower scene, we get DJ giving Chef back the spare lasso, with clear guilt on his face. Chef laughs at what’s occurred with the challenge, congratulating DJ, where he gives a fake laugh despite looking over at the rest of his team walking off and chatting away. 

Leshawna is finishing putting on a different pair of shorts (remember, her old ones got ripped) and Harold is seen hopping by and tripping over due to being tied up by Duncan. Leshawna helps him out and frees him, where Harold bashfully thanks her. She asks if Duncan did this, to which he nods yes, but shrugs it off, instead claiming that Leshawna shouldn’t worry about her savior cowboy. Leshawna is only weirded out by that and tries to step away, making the excuse that she needs to fix her hair. Harold is confused by this, claiming he doesn’t have issues with her hair, but though Leshawna hesitates, she still leaves, claiming that They. Are Not. A Thing.

As she leaves, Harold gazes over at her lovingly, wiping away sweat on his face and remarking on how great the heat is. 

“Let me help you with that!” Duncan suddenly exclaims in the back, where he dumps a whole bucket of water all over Harold, slipping him over in the sand, leaving the latter to complain about sand in his eyes. 

We then get Leshawna and Duncan’s confessionals about why Harold is getting picked on so much, which are untouched. There really isn’t any better explanation than this. Harold rigged the votes against Courtney, Duncan’s girlfriend, last season, and Duncan wants revenge from how crazy Courtney went about it and thus wants Harold to be miserable… This isn’t too complicated.

And then we cut to…

Oh god, do I have to fix the Trent and Gwen breakup scene NOW?! Can’t I just… skip this, go back to it later? No? I gotta go in chronological order, don’t I?

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH…

Fine.

So, we then cut to Gwen and Trent.

They’re both sitting behind the washrooms away from everyone, where Trent glances over at Gwen, who's looking away, and after a few seconds of awkward silence, he asks “So… what did you want to talk about?”

Gwen hesitates to answer, and Trent tries to assume “If it’s because of those comments about the horse and the other stuff… I’m sorry. It was a bad choice of words on my part. It was hot and… I’m sorry.”

“Trent…” Gwen mutters, finally turning her head to him to say clearly “This isn’t working.”

Trent blinks, unable to believe her words, suddenly whispering under his breath “...what?”

“You’ve been throwing the game,” Gwen puts it, “For me. I know.”

“I thought you wanted to win,” Trent makes the excuse, where Gwen puts it that she DOES, she does, it’s just…

“What fairness is that to just make you my slave?” Gwen asks him, making him think about that as she remarks “Trent, you’re a great guy. You’ve helped me back at the island in more ways than you realize, and you know I would help you if you let me…”

As she trails off, there’s a brief cut of Noah and Justin getting out of the washrooms and only wearing towels, arguing over soap and trying to snatch it from each other. 

We then cut back to the couple. 

“But you have Duncan now, is that it?” Trent asks with a bit of edge in his voice, where Gwen clarifies that he and Duncan are her friends. “You were my only friend on the island,” Gwen tells him, “You were the only person I wanted to talk to, that I could connect with outside of my own pathetic crowd, and trust me I’ve never had a man to connect with outside of my brother, so it meant EVERYTHING to me… but there’s also other people I care about now, these guys, Duncan, Leshawna, heck, even party obsessed people like Geoff and Owen… and now that I’m this open, I kind of can’t choose to be with one particular guy just because he’s the only one I can talk to.”

Trent lingers on his words when she says all of this, hugging his knees and realizing “Wow… we really DON’T know each other well… and this whole time I thought you wanted to be given what you were robbed back from last season.”

“What I need, Trent,” Gwen clarifies, “Is for the people I care about to listen to me. That includes you.”

Trent realizes this and sighs, where little do these two know is that Justin and Noah are both overhearing the whole thing from the other side of the washroom. 

“...okay,” Trent agrees, “So you don’t want me to keep throwing challenges.” “Nope,” Gwen clarifies, where Trent makes it clear, “You know, day one, I picked my team so they would always lose.” He laughs at himself, where Gwen rolls her eyes and playfully says, “Well, don’t tell them that.”

Trent then asks with sincerity, “So you want to break up and continue this game as friends?” 

“You’re invited on my list,” Gwen agrees with a smile, where the two embrace in a hug, accepting this choice, knowing it’s for the best. 

As they part, Gwen then promises, “And I promise that after the overly dramatic elimination, I’ll talk to the others and invite you to our reward night. Chef’s making ‘cider,’ for us.” Trent agrees that this sounds great, and that he hears her loud and clear.

And Justin and Noah both heard this loud and clear as well. 

(See, writers, it’s possible for couples to break up WITHOUT turning one of them into a jerk)

We cut to Justin and Noah in front of the trailer grounds, having exposed this information to the other Grips, who are all in towels after getting cleaned up. 

“So Trent recruited us because he KNEW we were failures?!” Lindsey exclaims, where Noah scoffs “I mean, I can believe that.” 

Justin cuts things off that regardless of why they were chosen, Gwen’s a part of this deal, and if they hope to survive this game, they have to get rid of them both. Meaning they have to agree on their choice to go through with this plan.

Noah then argues back, “Whoa whoa pretty boy, you mean MY plan! We should vote off Trent. If he’s throwing challenges, he’s gonna be a burden to us.” 

Justin snaps, “Excuse me short stuff, who found out about this first? We need to use Gwen, we need HER help to get ourselves a win.” 

Noah corrects, “I found out first, actually! And a loner goth like her isn’t going to be persuaded by looks! What idiot would fall for that?”

This gets them both to glance at Lindsey, Beth, and Owen staring off into space, which makes Justin smile and Noah frown. Noah snaps their focus onto him, demanding that the Grips need to strategize wisely here. Owen then is snapped back into reality, going “What Justin?”

Which makes Noah ask harshly “Whose side are you on?”

“I go with Justin,” Lindsey raises her hand to decide, “Gwen’s going down!” 

Beth also raises her hand, commenting “I second that! Besides, Justin’s the better looking of the two.”

Noah scoffs at the roast, going “Okay, clearly I’m the stupid one. Ignoring how I found out about this first and called this meeting!”

“No, I called it!” Justin scoffs back, where Noah then goes, “Technically, by sixty eight tenths of a second, I called it first!” 

Their argument fades to the background as the other three stare at each other blankly. “How do you keep a glass half full when a glass keeps tipping over?” Beth asks, where Lindsey answers “Pick up the cup again and fill it halfway-”

Which is cut off by Justin and Noah shoving each other on the ground pathetically. Seeing this, Beth decides “Let’s vote out Trent.” To which Lindsey and Owen agree.

We then cut to the elimination ceremony.

So now we reach the voting sessions, where the votes have been casted, and losers have been selected…

The awards go to Lindsey…

Beth…

Noah…

Justin…

And Owen.

And just like in the original, Trent is eliminated. He tries to protest, saying he should at least say goodbye to Gwen, but Chef grabs him and throws him away in the Limo of Losers before they can get the chance.

In this version, Gwen is walking over to the ceremony, ready to bring Trent over to the party, only for her to overhear Trent screaming out her name, prompting Gwen to start running towards him, realizing that Trent has been eliminated. 

She runs along the limo as it’s leaving, barely able to keep up, she tries to get words out but fails, and Trent is only able to grasp the tip of her fingers, apologizing sincerely for everything he’s done… they lose contact, and the vehicle drives off with him in it. 

Gwen is barely able to believe this, unsure how to react other than be devastated as she stops running and tries to catch her breath, standing on the road in the dark night. For all she knows now, she just ended their relationship for good. Now the Grips are against her, all because she didn’t tell them the truth. Trent’s gone… because of her. And all she can mutter in a weary voice is “...I’m sorry Trent…”

Before Gwen can start crying, she feels a soft hand caress her shoulder, and soon her face. She shivers, and soon looks up, seeing Justin behind her, trying to comfort her. He apologizes for the loss of Trent, and Gwen assures him that it’s not his fault…

“You’re right Gwen,” Justin assures her, silently gripping both her shoulders to keep her in place “It’s NOT his fault.”

Gwen’s eyes shrink as she realizes what he’s trying to say, and we fade to black, tensely ending the episode on Justin telling Gwen “...we need to talk about what you owe us.”

Episode 6: The 1st Aftermath

Episode 6 marks our first Aftermath show of the season. The first thing we’re doing is cutting out the recap with Trent and Gwen, especially with the constant sighs that… really sound annoying. 

Instead, this recap remarks the previously eliminated contestants, Geoff, Bridgette, Izzy, and Trent, with the vague question of what are their perspectives of this story?

After the intro, we cut to Geoff and Bridgette introducing the aftermath show, where everything they say here is untouched until we get around to introducing the campers left out. Obviously, Tyler and Noah are not here in this version, so there’s no mention of them at all in this role call. 

After such, we are then given the knowledge of Izzy and Trent’s arrival, as well as the webcams, and… what they say about Trent is surprisingly untouched, with the only tweak needed is to cut out the Katie and Sadie part of it. Remember, they’re not demonizing Gwen with THIS dialogue, only stating how they feel bad for him, which does still apply to this rewrite. 

Izzy’s recap is untouched, as well as her introduction to the Aftermath shows. I don’t have anything to touch with anything Izzy Geoff or Bridgette says here, it’s all pretty solid. The changes start to come when we get to the Truth or Hammer bit, where Geoff is clearly reading a paper that says the event, not made on his own terms. He’s a little weary of it, but he still goes along with it when he sees how cool Izzy is with it. The alliance with Chef question is surprisingly untouched, because to be fair, Chef has seen Izzy in action, trying to recruit her isn’t uncalled for, especially with their history and dynamic. Just like in canon, Izzy also exposes the idea that Chef rigged the game for DJ, which due to the additions I added here, this makes a lot more sense.

We then move on to Trent�� 

(Oh boy, this is gonna be fun to fix)

And right off the bat when hearing the audience cheer for Trent, Bridgette remarks that Trent really did deserve better. Geoff comforts her that couples do break up, and NOWHERE do they blame Gwen for what happened BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE ONE SIDED. Geoff tries to imply “Maybe things between them would have been alright if it weren’t for Justin and Noah snooping on them-” which makes the audience realize what happened, and Trent to realize why the Grips voted him off, and instantly, he blames himself and that he should have been more careful, or better yet, listened to Gwen before any of this even happened.

Instead of laughing, Geoff tries to assure everyone that the Grips would have voted Trent off anyway, and that Gwen had nothing to do with the situation. Eva comments that she was still the very reason for all the havoc, and she should pay, only for Geoff to scold that Trent’s not a victim in the break up, it’s THEIR choice. Also, no, we’re not mentioning the Heather kissing Trent last season bit AT ALL, cause it’s unnecessary drama. (pun intended) Instead, Geoff tries to defend Gwen with the mention that she’s one of the most introverted people ever, and if she’s trying to figure out herself, then a relationship isn’t what she should be in, that’s simple logic. (Remember, Geoff and Gwen were tri-armed partners in Island, so Geoff defending her makes sense) Bridgette then makes the statement that shouldn’t be the case, if anything it just proves that Gwen is a pain, after all, THEY have things easy, why can’t they? Why can’t they help them? 

Geoff makes it clear that it’s not that they shouldn’t help them, it’s that they volunteered for this show for a reason, and their paperwork and their job is to follow the script and also stop here for an ad segment-

Cutting to the Chef ad.

After the break, Izzy takes over as to introduce the havoc between Gwen and Trent, where Geoff and Bridgette are forced on opposite sides reading scripts. Izzy asks what teams they’re on, and Geoff reads the script to say ‘team Gwen’ and Bridgette reads it and says “Team Trent-wait hold on, when was this a war?”

“Now… quarrel for dramatic effect…” Geoff reads aloud, unsure what to do, other than play along haphazardly and try to say “Uh… Bridgette, you’re uh, you’re on team Trent, huh? What is wrong with you, Trent’s clearly uh…” he reads the script to say “‘A two faced, nine obsessed, rock-’who wrote this in the script and got away with it?!”

He glances over at a cameraman, who only shrugs at them.

After a face palm from Bridgette, she mutters “Let’s just see if Trent’s ready to come out…”

Only to cut to him on the TV, still mourning the loss of his relationship, where he remarks how he never even got to say goodbye to her, or warn her about the schemers in the team… “I’m such an idiot.”

Geoff then decides to simply do a recap video about Gwen and Trent’s relationship. They reminisce on how Gwen was a lone wolf whose heart was melted by a guitar playing friendly face that was Trent, and the many times where Trent was there for her to help the goth break out of her shell, where not even Heather’s plans could stop them from loving each other. And THEN Gwen decided to move onto other people, and on opposite teams, Trent tried to give her all the money and chance to win in the world, only for Gwen to throw that all away and dump him. 

After the recap, Izzy moves to the panel, where just like in canon, Katie and Sadie are on Gwen’s side after seeing the Heather bit, Cody is on Gwen’s side (of course he is), and Courtney claims Trent is a loser by choice.

Trent then comes on, and when Bridgette asks what happened between them, Trent remarks that everything went fine until Gwen started to express herself and venge out further, hang out with Duncan more (which gets that Courtney comment) and he simply puts it that he didn’t obey the competition, and he didn’t listen to her. “So Gwen dumped you for another guy?” Bridgette reads in the script, which shocks her and causes an audience gasp.

“What?!” Trent realizes, “They’re just friends! She said they were just friends! Who wrote that?!”

That question gives a brief cut of Chris maniacally laughing behind camera, where he simply puts it “Boy do we love some juicy drama here.”

Geoff then asks about Trent’s point of view, and how crazy he got, with a brief reminder “Oh, and please be careful about the hammer.”

“What?” Trent realizes, where Geoff puts his hands up to make it clear “I’m just doing my job, this was NOT my choice!”

Trent makes it clear that Gwen meant more to him than the money, and seeing the hammer not go down, Geoff is confused as it was a million bucks, prompting Bridgette to scold “WE gave up a million bucks!” 

Trent makes it clear that he’s not innocent, he screwed over the people on the Grips, and he gives a public apology to them. Geoff asks what he would do if he had gotten to go to that cider party, and Trent simply puts it “Whatever she wanted. She wanted me to meet her new friend group and join in, and… to be honest, I don’t know how that would have gone. Leshawna may be a great gal, but Duncan’s… I don’t know how I feel about him. I just can’t shake off the feeling that he’s eyeing her and…” he face palms himself, groaning that it might be Duncan’s fault.

“Why don’t you trust Duncan?” Courtney asks in disgust, where Trent tells the story that soon after his grandpa died, his ma told him the story of a criminal that his parents knew, who’d bully a girl to no end. He dressed all edgy, had a mohawk… and ma told him that “Son, if you love a girl, you support them. And you keep them safe from punks like them.” It was kind of a thing that got his grandpa together with his wife.

After hearing this story, Katie and Sadie come to the conclusion that Gwen didn’t listen to him. Courtney makes it clear “Duncan is NOT a punk, okay! He won’t be on my watch, I can fix him.”

The email on what girl Trent likes is untouched from canon, and after such we move on to video essays. All of these are untouched. As well as the recap events from unseen footage of the campers getting hurt… honestly it’s a tradition.

Trent then has his farewell song to Gwen, which is sweet enough in it’s own right and I’m fine with keeping it in.

With that, Bridgette and Geoff tear up at it, and they both express how happy they are that they did this show together, and they start making out, closing the Aftermath show, with them outstaying at the stage and quite possibly f***ed each other in the process. Good for them.

And that’s where we’re going to leave things for today. As you can probably tell, there’s no set schedule for these parts to come out, and I want to thank you all for the support given to this project. And trust me, this was ONLY the first six episodes, and this might actually be the MOST accurate part to the original canon, so… prepare yourselves. So feel free to tune in next time on TOTAL. DRAMA. REFILMING ACTION!!

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Can you do Kai ideal type post? I've recently got into exo after this dating thing and I have the biggest crushes on Kai and chanyeol

Hey there! 💕 Aaaah I haven’t even done his outline yet!! I hope you don’t mind if we take some time to talk about them (individually) first?? 💕💕I usually can’t go straight into ‘ideal’  placements until I look at their charts ksdjnfksn so this makes sense to me ;; 💕💕 (and also Im glad u got into them after the dating thing!! 💕 They’ll need support now more than ever!! 💕💕 Im happy for u AND them!! 💕💕)

[Below Cut: Brief Outlook for Kim Jongin (Kai) and Park Chanyeol ]

Note: Since this is an ‘outlook’ this is just my first impression, some things can be flushed out but we’ll save those for an actual ‘overview’! 

I’m going to start with Jongin first before we go into Chanyeol ok?

For those who are curious he’s a Capricorn Sun | Aquarius Moon + Mercury (0′) | Capricorn Venus + Mars  | Aries Lilith + Chiron | Virgo Chiron |  Scorpio Juno 

Phew, having so many placement in Capricorn and Aquarius makes it easier for me since they can be conjunctions to each other (and he has plenty!)

First of all— With Capricorn/Aquarius there’s a lot of stubbornness, but also argumentative energy there. High moral and collective consciousness, often someone who isn’t afraid to counter-back at others (regardless of age/difference) if they think they are ‘close-minded’ or ‘hurting’ others (they protecctive)

These people learn from experience, or ‘exposure’ to such things. Aquarius Moon makes the person likes to explore many different culture/types of people to keep themselves being ‘open-minded’— they like to have the bigger perspective first, before they make a direction on something

They also have great intuition like ‘this isn’t right’ – usually it has to do with moral/ethical stuff, it’s like they can ‘feel’ if other people are going to be hurt by it. These people are incredibly in-tuned to the others/collective and thus– they can be great representative in the world (like a spokesperson/ambassador for something humanitarian is great for them)

This humanitarian aspect is especially prominent especially since he has his Sun-Venus/Sun-Mercury conjunct to each other. 

This makes for a person who is in control of himself (his Mercury/Venus is before his Sun – going by the angles for the unknown time anyways*can be inaccurate, his Venus/Mercury may be ‘Burned’ and therefore– his Mind/Heart are usually put forward in an objective way in order to manifest his ‘Sun’)

He may however, have a hard time expressing his emotions/affection in a way that’s truly heart-felt and sincere (the kind of ‘feeling’ emotions and not ones he’s already familiar with) – with Capricorn/Aquarius people, they often ‘get better’ at expressing their emotions more openly as they ‘familiarize’ themselves with the intimacy/how they should express it outward.

*Doesn’t mean it’s not honest when they do, it’s just that they’d like to have control and time to prepare. So it’s like, he can get easily embarrassed when he’s not used to heart-felt intimacy/something from the heart of others. He can listen sincerely, but giving back (feed back) is a lil bit awkward and hard if it’s not automated/he hasn’t had time to prepare. 

I hope this makes sense? Like having Capricorn/Aquarius doesn’t make you ‘detached’ or ‘controlling’ or all that hard ish, it just means they’re a lil bit more cautious and may need more time/stability before they engage/function.

Another thing that points to him being a lil more proactive is definitely his Capricorn Mars and aspects to it (conjunct Sun/Venus/Uranus/Neptune) — this talks about his tolerance, patience and stability. Especially with Moon-conjunct-Saturn, he may have more maturity for his age (emotionally) and be more ‘in-control’ than others around him

It’s just– interesting with Jongin because he has so many personal aspects with Uranus/Neptune (Sun/Mercury/Venus/Mars/Pluto) which points to an imaginative, creative and ‘under-dog’ type of character. 

Like he stands up for people, can’t control his mouth about it but also has social grace, the vitality (genuinity) and do things for charity. His mind, mouth, heart and body aligns with make changes for people. It’s largely a part of his driving force. 

**Given that it may be pretty common for people who are born during his birthday period to have conjunctions like this too (since Uranus/Neptune moves suuuuper slowly)– it’s just interesting to see it in an idol’s chart so prominently. Like how they function/their main driving force y know? 

It also it makes his Moon stuff a lil more prominent. Jongin has his Moon-square-Pluto (as well as Saturn squaring his Pluto) – making him resistance to change, stubborn/confrontational if he’s not careful, a lil more narrow-hearted than he realized he is. Often these people can lead themselves to close themselves off from others even when they acknowledge that the change is necessary and good for them. A lil huffy. 

And with Saturn-square-Pluto, anything that is seen as ‘threatening’ his stability/foundation (sometimes his narrow-mindedness/egoistic part sometimes) –he can close himself off from it. This is like– not a very good ‘stubbornness’ for him since it makes him take less chances/open-up to others. It can make him ‘selective’ or ‘hypocritical’ when he tries to help others, because he won’t accept help/constructive criticism back on his belief/methods sometimes. 

Most of his chart is in sextile or conjunction, which bode for someone who may have a lil problem ‘breaking out’ of themselves or breaking away from themselves a lil. 

With Capricorn/Aquarius it has to do with point of view, a lil more about perspective and changing habits (bc of their strong moral principality/belief in themselves). 

Since these people can be very traditional despite also being unconventional. They may – unnecessarily impose their ideas/views or judge others because they may feel uncomfortable around more ‘flexible’ changes around them. It’ll take time, and open-minded-ness from others to make their ‘pessimist’ into a lil more optimistic attitude.

And then we have Park Chanyeol! 

With Chanyeol, we have a Sagittarius Sun | Capricorn moon | Scorpio Mercury rx | Capricorn Venus and Cancer Mars | Pisces Lilith | Leo Chiron | Aquarius Ceres | Cancer Juno 

First of all Chanyeol— has his Sagittarius Sun sextile Libra Jupiter. 

Jupiter makes everything big, and in aspect to his Sun it makes his personality/core-self big as well. He has a big heart, a big love/thirst for learning for travelling for experience. Sagittarius Sun likes the Libra’s analytical nature, likes it’s diplomacy and fairness. This becomes an integral part of his personality and although he may seem joking/jokester– he’s actually a rather fair and mediating presence within the team. 

HIs Moon/Venus however is square to Jupiter (Capricorn-Libra) – thus, sometimes he may overspill his emotions into his relationships with others. Overshare or disregard other people’s perspective/point of view when he’s ‘too much’ into his own problems (can be dismissive, caring one moment uncaring the next)

But this is generally appeased by his Moon/Venus conjunct— loves people, but may have a harder time showing it unless he’s going about it ‘officially’ (like courting them, step by step) 

He can sometimes be shy– as most Capricorn Venus people are, his own emotions may be oblivious to him. Often ‘knowing’ isn’t the same as ‘feeling’ what emotions are. And his Cancer Mars only makes him aware of it when it’s built up, when it’s been there for a while which is why he makes ‘emotional releases’ from it (has to learn a lil more self-control maybe to work with this Capricorn) 

His Mercury/Venus is conjunct to his Uranus/Neptune – making for someone who is intuitively creative, day-dreams, can pull his thoughts into vision and is good at talking/thinking -> applying it to real life (physicality – Mercury-trine-Mars) and sharing his product with others (Venus- social relationships, so music that touches others or has ‘feedback’ in them is crucial to him especially since he’d want recognition/admiration for it)

He thrives with challenges, especially one to do with blockage of the mind. To him, mental blockage are better because he can confront/work through it and ‘get’ what he needs from it (transform himself mentally) Mercury-Pluto conjunct and then Mars-trine-Pluto – making him thrive when its time to take action

In a way with Chanyeol— he may be more prepared for hardship/challenges than good thing to him to him. His conjunct/aspects to Pluto makes for a personality that does best/feels most alive when they are progressing, when they are moving forward in life (Scorpio Mercury/Capricorn Venus - aspects to Pluto) rather than be ‘stuck’ and stagnant analyzing their own self.

This is why even though he has a ‘big’ personality because of the Sun-Jupiter graces, he may often have a humble view of Jupiter. He doesn’t rely on it’s graces to shower on him all the time, for everyone to understand his Moon/Venus (the inner parts of him)– thus, he may focus more on manifestation of his work, to prove himself instead (Mars aspect) 

Anyways this is my short brief take on it! 💕💕💕

Thanks for being interested and sending the ask in!! ;; 💕💕 I hope this is just as good as an ‘ideal type’ skdjnfksdjn 💕

[codydcampbell1]

“She woke up, and there was a glow.”

This is the first line in Brian Lee O’Malley’s 2014 graphic novel, “Seconds.” The protagonist, Katie, groggily opens her eyes and stares at the ceiling for a moment, disoriented, before realizing that something strange is going on. You can see the first sparks of awareness slowly building into curiosity and alarm, as both she and the reader realize that something out of the ordinary is happening. Then you turn the page, and find a small, unusual looking girl squatting on her dresser. There is no dialogue, only the exchange of panicked expressions as these two notice each other for the first time.

As the author of the Scott Pilgrim series, this isn’t the first time that O’Malley has played with disorientation, confusion and distraction in the perspectives of his characters. He likes the unreliable narrator because he can use them to show us how we lie to ourselves and how our perspectives are often distorted when we are tired, drunk, ashamed or simply not paying attention. We all see ourselves as the narrators of our own stories and many of us “self edit,” either choosing to look at the choices we’ve made from a perspective that makes us look good, or else punishing ourselves by blowing mistakes out of proportion.

Check out these two scenes from Scott Pilgrim. The first is from Volume 2, “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.”

This depicts the way Scott remembers battling Simon Lee, a villainous boy from a rival school who had kidnapped Scott’s then friend, Kim Pine, and held her hostage. Now compare it to the way Kim tells the same story in Volume 6, “Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour.”

Simon wasn’t the villain Scott wanted him to be. He was actually Kim’s boyfriend at the time and hadn’t done anything wrong. Scott was the aggressor. He then rewrote the story in his mind in order to cast himself as the hero. He needed to be able to think in these terms in order to cope with the guilt because at his core, Scott doesn’t want to be a bad person.

“Seconds” takes this kind of narrative introspection in a slightly different direction however. Instead of focusing on guilt as the main aspect of Katie’s “self editing,” it focuses on regret. That might seem like splitting hairs since guilt can be considered a form of regret, but it’s kind of like how all pinkies are fingers, but not all fingers are pinkies. Katie’s life is a tangled web of missed opportunities, mistakes, and a general sense that she doesn’t feel like she’s living up to her own potential.

Then she’s confronted with something that we’ve all wished for at one point or another, the opportunity for a “re-do.”

At this point I’m going to stop and let everyone know that there are going to be some spoilers ahead. I’m going to try my best to avoid anything that I feel would ruin the story, but you should stop reading now if you haven’t read “Seconds” and want to go into it with a completely blank slate.

OK, everyone want to keep reading? Good!

So here’s a brief overview of the premise.

Katie and a group of friends opened a restaurant called “Seconds” a few years before the story begins. She was the Chef and her food put Seconds on the map, but she wasn’t one of the owners, so it was never really hers. Now she’s finally purchased her dream location, an old rundown building that she plans to convert into a new restaurant and rebrand “Katie’s.”  She’s very excited about her new place, but the renovations keep taking longer and costing more than she’d originally anticipated. This leaves Katie in an awkward sort of limbo between major career shifts. On the one hand, her new place isn’t open yet and so she can’t start working on her new menu or serving customers. On the other, she’s already trained the new Chef to replace her at Seconds, so she doesn’t really have a place in the world.

This is also reflected in how Katie feels about her age.

For a lot of Millennials, our 20s are viewed as a sort of proto-adulthood. It’s a time of experimentation, where it’s OK to not feel like you know you’re life-path. It’s OK to rent a tiny apartment, stay in bed streaming television on your days off and dress like you’re in high school. It’s ok to still call your parents for help with simple things every once in a while, like not knowing how to fix a clogged sink or pay an electric bill. It’s OK to be working a job that pays your rent with a little left over to buy video games or to break up with a long term romantic partner and see what else is out there. You don’t need to have everything together yet. You have time.

30 is a different animal.

I’m not saying this is true at all. Lord knows everyone’s circumstances are different. It takes some of us a lot longer than others to discover our purpose in the world, and still others never do. Arbitrary age limits like this don’t really mean anything, but there is a social pressure that says when you hit the big 3-0, this is where you’re supposed to be a real, honest-to-god, adult now.

Katie denies it, but this sort of terminal anxiety is at the heart of her character. She’s terrified of the incoming change, terrified of the passage of time and fixated on her regrets of everything that brought her to this point.

Enter Lis.

Lis is a house spirit, the embodiment of Seconds, and everything that has ever happened there. (Think Ghost of Christmas Past meets Fairy Godmother.)  When an accident happens in the kitchen, Lis offers Katie a mushroom that will allow her to re-write one of her past mistakes, giving her a second chance. (Seconds! Get it?) This works out well enough, with only some mild side effects, but then Katie uncovers a whole bunch of the mushrooms growing in Seconds’ basement. Despite Lis’s warnings, Katie proceeds to go back and rewrite bigger and bigger events in her own past, trying to perfect her present, but the more she goes back, the more things start to change in unexpected ways.

I won’t go into the details, but the story illustrates brilliantly how doing things differently will still result in just as many unexpected consequences as the way we did them the first time, sometimes causing new problems and new mistakes that you couldn’t have anticipated. It shows us how spending too much time and energy reflecting on how we got to where we are can be detrimental to crafting our future.

You can learn from your past and grow,  but only if you accept your mistakes for what they are… a part of you.

None of this even touches on the adorable and energetically drawn panels, the thoughtfully crafted and deeply expressive characters or the hilariously written dialogue. I could honestly write three or four more blogs just as long as this one on all the other things that make this book great.

In case you couldn’t guess by now, I heartily recommend you give this story a try. It’s cute, funny, smart, thoughtful and nearly every other positive adjective that I’m not clever enough to list without a thesaurus. It’s also considerably shorter than the Scott Pilgrim series at only one volume, so it’s a great way for you to dip your toe into O’Malley’s work if you’re looking to give it a shot, but aren’t sure if you want to commit to starting a six volume series.

But I’m curious to hear what you think. I hope those of you who’ve already read it will leave a comment and let me know your opinions… and I hope those of you who haven’t will let me know if this is the sort of thing that you’d be willing to give a shot.

This is also a new format for my blog, so I’d appreciate any feedback on whether you’d like to see more of these kinds of reviews in the future.

Thanks for reading everyone,

-Cody For other reviews like this one, check out my website at: codydcampbell.com

[speakfriendaandenter]

Hey Arnold!, and why it’s still important today

Less than a year ago my fiancee and I took to rewatching Hey Arnold! for the first time in YEARS to prep for The Jungle Movie. Having been obsessed with it when I was a kid, I knew the show like the back of my hand, so I went through and made a “best of” list of episodes, and we watched those.

Aaaand immediately went back to the beginning and watched ALL of them.

AAAAND went back AGAIN because revisiting this show has been so fun for me, and it just puts me in a good, good place. Since this (eternal) marathon began, I’ve wanted to do a big ol’ overview of the show itself, and why it’s important. It’s very diverse, and from a time when that really wasn’t what kids’ shows were striving for like they are today. There are tons of characters of color, different religions, sexualities, social classes, etc, and I kind of need this show to get the love and attention it so deserves. It’s really kinda gone unloved for a long while now (which is understandable, it’s been off the air since 2002), and I just know it’d be a huge deal if more people knew/remembered how inclusive it was. I’m kicking myself for not writing this sooner, but I’m holding out hope for Nick to greenlight a new series, and my dearest wish is that I can remind people of this wonderful, thoughtful show, and get it the attention it deserves.

Hey Arnold! is FULL of amazing characters and stories, so BUCKLE UP BUTTERCUP, THIS GON’ BE A LONG ONE.

| City life, poverty, & crime |

At it’s core, Hey Arnold! is a show about inner city kids, their school, and how they go about their daily lives. I did some research for this (believe it or not lmao), and besides Sesame Street, there is no other media geared toward kids that touch on this. That’s insane to me. And while Sesame Street is fantastic, it tends to steer on the positive side of city life. Which is great!! However, Hey Arnold!, being written for an older audience, isn’t afraid to show the not-so-pretty side of things as well. Violence, crime, theft, pollution, and poverty are ALL covered in more than just a few episodes. We saw a lot of this right off the bat in the first episode, “Downtown as Fruits”.

As for violence, in the episode “Mugged”, Arnold is jumped on his way home one evening, and takes self defense lessons from his Grandma.

And it’s not the last time Arnold, or other characters are mugged. It’s just something they deal with, something they have to learn to protect themselves from. And sometimes, they can’t.

They don’t shy away from poverty within the city, either. Multiple characters are shown to be very poor, and with the exception of two episodes in the whole series (Lila in her debut episode, “Ms. Perfect”, and Sid when he wants to impress a rich classmate and is too embarrassed to have him over at his own home, “Arnold’s Room”), it’s never really shown as a bad thing, or even as a defining character trait. It just is.

Even our title character lives in a boarding house run by his grandparents, inhabited by tenants of very little means. The building itself is always needing repairs, the tenants almost never have their rent on time, and they really don’t shy away from how dingy some of the rooms are there (pictured above, bottom left).

But again, all of this just is. It’s never portrayed as a bad thing, and none of the kids care much about it. Of course there’s Rhonda, the snooty, rich girl stereotype, but even she has a handful of episodes where she grows as a character and is repeatedly called out for having a classist attitude. In the end, all of these kids care about each other and never give a second’s thought to each others’ social class.

| Diversity & inclusiveness |

I’m putting the rest under a read more cut so no one murders me for clogging up their dashboards :’)

One of the most wonderful things about this show is how diverse the cast of characters is. Especially being that in the 90′s, it wasn’t something shows were expected to have, but they did it here anyway.

Our primary character of color is, of course, Gerald Johanssen, Arnold’s best friend and all-around cool dude. He’s the star of a good amount of episodes, and even when one focuses on Arnold, he’s almost always right there next to him. With Gerald comes his family as well, consisting of a little sister, older brother, his mom who cashiers at a corner store, and his father who’s a businessman and Vietnam veteran, ALL OF WHOM have distinct personalities and stories, and the lot of them are portrayed just like any other family on tv.

Next would be Phoebe Heyerdahl, the soft-spoken smartest girl in class, and Helga’s best friend. She’s half Japanese on her father’s side, and if you pay attention, her and Gerald have a thing going on, which is sO freaking cute.

Phoebe is also super important because she’s the only person in the show who really knows and understands Helga. She’s always there to support her, listen to her, and guide her when she can. However, Phoebe does have a handful of episodes to herself, and we even touch on how being the over-achiever in class isn’t always a good thing, and can be damaging to children if they feel like they need to be the best. It’s a super important lesson for kids to learn.

If I gave a paragraph to EVERY single character of color in this show we’d literally be here all day, so I’m gonna finish off with my personal favorite, Mr. Hyunh. A middle-aged Vietnamese man who resides in Arnold’s boarding house, Mr. Hyunh is one of the best adult characters in the show. In fact, one of the. single. best. episodes of the entire show, “Arnold’s Christmas” revolves entirely around him, and how he was separated from his only daughter during the Vietnam War. Holy shit, right? I could go on and on about that episode on its own (there’s a reason why it’s one of the most well known episodes), but I’ll put a cap on it there. Mr. Hyunh has the starring role in a number of other episodes, and he’s always great. He’s funny, cares deeply about Arnold and the other boarders, and is genuinely happy where he is.

But do we stop at diversity where race is concerned? NOPE. This is a show for literally everyone. Gosh, it’s hard just to even figure out where to start.

How about Harold? He’s not only Jewish, but there’s an entire episode it,  (”Harold’s Bar Mitzvah”), and he’s shown to be very close with his mentor, Rabbi Goldberg.

We have three characters with dwarfism. Ernie Potts, a boarder at the Sunset Arms, and Big Patty’s mother and father. How freaking cool, right? Patty’s parents are scarce in the show, unfortunately, but are extremely caring and supportive of their daughter. And yet again, it’s never brought up, it’s not a defining trait, it’s not a big deal. They’re just regular people.

As far as LGBTQ representation, a little while after the show was cancelled, show creator Craig Bartlett revealed that the kids’ school teacher, Mr. Simmons, is gay. In “Arnold’s Thanksgiving”, we see his partner, Peter, and we see the two of them together in “The Jungle Movie” as well. And, though not explicitly shown onscreen, Craig has said that Eugene Horowitz, an overly optimistic classmate of Arnold’s, is gay as well.

| Helga Pataki, abusive households & mental health |

You may have noticed that I’ve gone this entire thing without breaking down sobbing about Helga. Ohh, don’t you worry, we’re almost there!

I could be wrong, but I think one of the most well remembered aspects of this show, even by people who haven’t seen it in years, is that Helga’s family is really messed up. Her mother, Miriam, is always passed out drunk on the kitchen counter or behind the sofa, and her father, Big Bob, is always calling her by the wrong name and forgets she even exists most of the time. Then of course there’s Olga, her “perfect” older sister who means well, and cares about Helga more than their parents do, but ultimately cares more about her self image.

Sure, each of them get a few episodes where they get called out on their behavior and they (kinda) redeem themselves, but at the end of the day, they’re always right back at it. If I had a talent for it, I could SERIOUSLY write an entire thesis on Helga’s family’s dynamic in this show, but I’m going to (try to) keep it brief.

The Pataki household is a very real, very poignant depiction of emotional and mental abuse that we just do not see in cartoons, or anything geared towards a younger audience. Like I said, we have the odd episode or two where Helga will bond with one or both of her parents or her sister, but things never truly “get better”. Given the significant age gap between her and Olga (who’s in college while Helga is in the 4th grade), it’s suggested that Helga was probably an accident, and the catalyst of her parents’ unhappiness. In “Magic Show”, Helga goes through an “It’s A Wonderful Life”-type dream sequence, but backwards. Arnold makes her disappear forever in a magic trick, and the entire world is better off without her, including her parents, who are happy, fulfilled, and affectionate with each other. IT’S REALLY MESSED UP, GUYS.

And this, ALL of this, is one of two reasons why her crush on Arnold works. In a lesser show, Helga’s obsession with Arnold would be creepy, and her dependence on him would be a weakness to her character. However, we eventually find out that where her family failed her at every turn, Arnold was the first one to not only notice her, but show her kindness.

And in the end, no matter how much she teases him and bugs the shit out of him (which are just defense mechanisms to begin with), she always, always puts him first. Every single chance she gets, she does the right thing for him.  Helga’s feelings for Arnold work so well because she truly cares for him. Of course her closet shrine and dozens of books of poetry are over the top, but so is Helga. She’s loud, abrasive, crude, but above all else, she’s fiercely loyal, passionate, and intelligent. And, more than anything, she just wants Arnold to be happy. That’s real love, folks.

My personal favorite episode of the entire show is “Helga On the Couch”, where Helga goes to see a psychologist due to her abrasive behavior. This episode is so so so important, you guys. It was really the first piece of media I saw as a kid that not only explained what therapy even was, but painted it in an extremely positive light. At first, Helga is mortified to have to go, and her parents don’t help the situation at all. Not only do they disapprove, but Big Bob is angry with her for being selected for therapy. He says that it’s embarrassing, and actually warns Helga not to tell the psychologist anything that might out them as abusive.

However, Phoebe assures Helga that therapy is not only good, but perfectly normal, even for kids their age.

And throughout the session, Helga opens up about her family, why she’s so defensive, how she feels about Arnold and why, and feels so much better at the end of the episode. I hate that the show had to end after this season because I would die for more episodes about Helga and her sessions with Dr. Bliss.

Not to mention we get one of the best bits of dialogue in the entire series omfg:

Again, this is SUPER IMPORTANT for kids to see. This episode told us that mental health is JUST as crucial as physical health, and took every bad opinion about therapy and stuck a boot in its ass. It’s GOOD, it’s NORMAL. I can’t say enough about how much this episode meant to me as a kid, and still means to me today.

I seriously have to stop myself from going on for 500 years about Helga and why she’s not only the best character on the show by a fuckin’ landslide, but one of the THE best female characters in anything. Ever. I think I’m going to put a pin in that, and hopefully get to writing a post just about her. The point is, she is an exceptionally written character, and super important for kids to see, to be able to relate to. She’s heavily flawed, but is infinitely loyal for those she cares about. She’s extremely complex, hilarious, interesting, and deeply sympathetic. I LOVE HELGA PATAKI SO MUCH DON’T TOUCH ME, GOD. 

| Criticisms & wrap-up |

I’m gonna try and end this here before it turns into a novel, but there is still SO MUCH going on in this show that I could talk about. If anyone wants to add to this post, please do!! I honestly just need to end this sometime lmaoo.

Now, the show isn’t perfect. Rewatching it in our current social climate turned up a (notedly small) few problematic things. Mostly fat jokes about Harold, and some of the boys will tease the girls, saying they can’t do certain things bc they’re girls, etc. Normally these are small, throwaway lines, but they’re still there, and stand out nowadays. Just a warning! 

The only other criticism I have for the show as a whole is actually the entire plot line with Arnold’s parents, “The Journal”, and most of “The Jungle Movie”. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy it, I think there’s enough heart and depth to make up for, well, how fuckin’ silly it is, but it’s still just that. Silly. This show that spent five full seasons in an urban setting, dealing with very real characters and situations, suddenly veered off into heavy fantasy. It’s jarring, and a little weird. We find out not only that Arnold’s parents were basically Indiana Jones and Lara Croft, but also Arnold was a miracle baby whos birth silenced an erupting volcano, and now he’s seen as some “chosen one” to entire tribe of people living in the jungles of South America.

LMAO WHAT.

No, it’s kind of insane. I think I personally don’t mind it so much because I have a lasting fondness for it from when I was a kid, and like I said, it does have a lot of heart behind it, but it’s very apparent as an adult how ridiculous it is. However, in the show’s defense, its always had episodes about ghosts and all matter of supernatural creatures that just exist and are real in this universe, so it’s not totally out of left field. It’s just odd to have it at the forefront, and I can understand if people don’t care for it.

BUT! The show, at its heart, has always been about kids, their families, and the city they live in. I know if the show was brought back, that’s what they’d get back to.

Also, it’s kind of hilarious if you think about it this way; Arnold is BASICALLY a magical girl who’s super power is solving everyone else’s problems. That’s the show.

And holy cow, speaking of Arnold, I haven’t talked about him at all. SHIT. UH, real quick. Arnold is a good, good, good, gOOD, GOOD BOY. To be extremely honest, Arnold would be boring as hell in a lesser show. He really doesn’t have many flaws, he’s always doing The Right Thing(TM), he’s always optimistic... you get it. But somehow, miraculously, he’s still interesting and fun to watch. He’s just so goddamn good. Like, cinnamon roll levels of good. And he does fuck up once in a great while, but of course, learns from it. He’s definitely your standard male, pre-teen, main character in a world where we have way too many of those, but he’s just so pure that you can’t help but love him.

He honestly works best as a counterpart to Helga, which we tragically get so little of in the show (and why we need a new series dear god Nickelodeon PLEASE), but that’s a whoooole other post for me to write. 

Goddamn okay, I’m wrapping it up. If you haven’t noticed by now, this show means a lot to me. It really touched me as a kid, it was my first fandom before I even knew what fandom was, and revisiting it has been so fun. It’s honestly been helping me get through an extremely rough patch in my life right now. The show more holds up after all these years, and I think it’s even more important now than it ever was. We need more shows like this. 

If you’re interested, the entire series is on Hulu! 

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Use Brand Storytelling to Develop a Personal Connection With Your Audience

What is a brand? When we are introduced to someone in real life, we seek to learn more about them. We ask questions that give us a brief overview of their lives and the type of person they are. We listen to their stories, ideas, and opinions. It’s a part of getting to know someone and becoming a part of their personal brand as we perceive it in our personal lives and business.

Brands go through the same steps when customers evaluate and get to know them. A prospect might find your website and become intrigued. Maybe your messaging really hit home with them. They check out your product, verify that it covers their most pressing needs, and then they begin the process of getting to know your brand- just like they would a person. The goal is to get to know the brand, its promise, value, and benefits on a deeper level.

We try to unearth the story of a brand. We prefer to shop with brands that share our values, beliefs, and concerns. We check out what people say on social media about those brands, their products, and maybe even their employees. We read reviews that other customers have left about a product or service. We read the brand’s blog posts and learn about its founders and executives. When you’re looking for a B2B partner, it pays to really do your homework before committing to an expensive solution, and individuals, as well as businesses, want to make sure they’re in good company and don’t end up with questionable acquaintances.

The secret weapon for building a brand that your customers relate to is brand storytelling. By sharing stories and anecdotes about your business, industry, product, and employees, you give your customers a window into your operations, your inner workings, and what makes you unique. By giving them a peek behind the ‘green curtain,’ customers and prospects get to know your business more intimately and get to understand the “why” behind what you do.

Your brand isn’t just what you tell people. It’s what everyone believes about your brand based on the signals that you send, both negative and positive. Brand storytelling is our tool for taking hold of these narratives and helping our customers see through the noise to see the qualities that make us love a company. We are all hard-wired to love stories.

What is Brand Storytelling?

Brand storytelling is any piece of content that shares a story about your brand in the broadest sense. Any story that you tell that relates to your brand in some way is brand storytelling. It gives your customers and followers insights into your company and creates more opportunities for them to connect with your brand personally.

Brand storytelling comes in many different forms. It could be a video case study that details how you helped a prominent client. When you describe your interactions with that client, you are telling a story about your brand. Sharing a story about your company’s early days, doing an interview with one of your employees, or giving your followers a video walk-through of your office — all examples of powerful brand storytelling.

Too many people try to put brand storytelling in a box, where you are expected to tell stories about actual events, without examining how they can creatively make those stories more impactful by packaging them in different ways. In the examples at the end of this post, you’ll see some high-level examples of brand storytelling that are a bit more creative.

Brand storytelling is channel-neutral. You can tell your stories through a blog post, social media updates, video, podcast, live speech – or even a comic strip. The medium you use to tell your story is less important than the story itself. Ensuring that you tell stories your core customers will connect with is important for building brand awareness and loyalty. Effective brand storytelling can turn happy customers into true advocates and promoters.

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How to Make Your Audience Love Your Brand StoriesWhile, you can use no formula to create your brand stories. That said, reading up on proper narrative structures in your chosen medium helps you improve the effectiveness of your stories. In particular, I’m a huge fan of The Hero’s Journey. And once you start recognizing the various stages, it becomes addictive to discover them. Especially in Movies. In the meantime, here are a few tips you can follow to ensure that your content connects with your audience and hits all of the beats of a good story.

Say Something Unique

Think about the movies you love. A big part of why you love them is that they do something that you like that helps them stand out from the competition. Maybe it’s an unexpected plot twist, a quirk that they give the character, or how the relationships play out throughout the story. While most movies follow similar narrative formulas, no one wants to watch a movie that is a complete copy of another popular movie. The same is true for the content and stories that brands share.

Make sure your brand story has something unique to say in each campaign. If you are talking personally about something that happened to you, your company, or your employees, filling in the details should be enough to make your story unique. Nobody else can tell these stories, and you should lean on those personal anecdotes as a resource to make your content personally unique to you.

Design Stories for Your Audience

It may seem like common sense, but a quick look at the types of stories many brands tell might leave you asking — who is this for? If you aren’t designing stories for a specific customer persona, you are missing the mark. Don’t tell stories for your own benefit or the benefit of your employees. Ensure that you are telling stories your audience actually wants to hear because the story conveys some insight or guidance. Or maybe it’s just entertainment value. Either way – know your audience.

Mostly this means that your audience should be able to relate to your stories. Maybe your story centers around a particular business problem your key customers can relate to. Maybe it touches on a personal story on the sacrifices that you make as a dedicated professional. Your story can take any shape. But take a moment to consider what your audience and you have in common and try to touch on those points throughout your story.

Show, Don’t Tell

This is perhaps the most common advice given in creative writing classes across the world. In some ways, it’s over-recommended. Sometimes we do want to tell. Still, as it applies to brand storytelling, far too many creators get caught up in telling when they should be doing more showing.

If you were telling a story about how your brand helped a client, you wouldn’t end the story simply saying that your recommendations “performed well.” Instead, you’d want to provide data and statistics that back up your assertions. How did specific changes result in measurable outcomes for your client? Don’t just talk about your work. Show the results of the work you did in an illustrative and practical way whenever possible.

Consistency in Storytelling

Stories themselves should be self-contained and tell a complete story for your audience. But that doesn’t mean that each story shouldn’t be building toward a larger narrative. Before creating your first brand storytelling campaign, you should outline some of the main points that you would like your stories to make when taken together.

For instance, if you are running a company that offered several lines of all-natural and green skincare products and you really wanted to push the green angle — some brand themes that you might want to push in your stories might include:

Responsibility

Transparency

Mindfulness

Low environmental impact

Sustainability

These could be the overarching themes you could leverage to represent your brand. Then, you convey these themes with the actual stories you tell. For instance, responsibility and transparency would be well-conveyed in a story about how your founder traveled to the locations where your ingredients are sourced to ensure they meet your very stringent standards.

Character-Driven & Personal

You wouldn’t want to read a story that was a bulleted list of the events that took place. That’s not even a story. That’s just a laundry list. Effective stories are character-driven. They draw on our emotions and help us relate to those characters. Brand stories should contain the same ingredients any great story does — a protagonist that overcomes challenges on their way to success (or failure), an antagonist (business problem), and secondary characters. Make sure that when you tell brand stories, you are telling them in full.

Tell your stories from the perspective of a single person to improve their impact. Speaking from the first person can help make stories seem more personal. First-person stories are generally easier to write, making them a good introduction to brand storytelling for first-time storytellers.

2 Real-World Examples of Effective Brand Storytelling

In this section, I want to share some high-level examples of brand storytelling. One of the aspects you will notice throughout these examples is that effective brand storytellers don’t just view the stories they tell as individual articles. Instead, they are chapters in a book – part of a larger strategy that helps dictate the way consumers perceive their brand. Ultimately, brand storytelling helps define their target market and position their brand within that market. Dannijo Uses Personal Storytelling to Drive Their Lifestyle BrandLifestyle brands are, more than most, in a position to benefit from brand storytelling. Customers want to see themselves living a specific idealistic life when they use products from lifestyle brands. Telling stories of how other customers have integrated their products into their lives can help show customers what their life could be like with those same products.

This fact isn’t lost on Dannijo, a brand founded by sisters Danielle and Jodie Snyder in 2008. From the very beginning, they embraced storytelling as part of their broader marketing strategy. In an interview with Fast Company, Danielle Snyder explained their focus on “creating narratives that are so compelling to consumers, they want to build your products into their lives.” That’s a perfect representation of the power of storytelling. Amazing stories make your customers want to make your company and products a part of their lives.

Dannijo’s brand storytelling has been immensely successful for the company. Today they have more than 176,000 followers on Instagram. That social platform plays a key role in their strategy. Here, Dannijo showcases snapshots of their team, their business, the lives of the people that wear their product, and the brand draws attention to its products by highlighting when celebrities use them.

They also take things a bit further as far as follower engagement goes. They often hold inspirational #ConversationPieces.Great hashtag. On that topic, check out our article on hashtag marketing for more examples. In these #ConversationPieces, one of the sisters interviews another influential person. Danielle and Jodie (and the other guests) use these chats often to share personal anecdotes and tell stories about their rise to business success as much as hardships in their personal lives. This content isn’t directly connected to their products, but it doesn’t need to be. It speaks directly to their target audience.

Zillow Uses Their Internal Data to Create Narratives

For the second example, we want to call out Zillow, a U.S.-based online real estate marketplace. In recent years, the company has become the frontrunner in online home sales. Today, their database contains data for more than 110 million homes, including data for value estimations, the square footage of each home, nearby attractions and amenities, location data, and aerial photographs. Zillow doesn’t let that data go to waste. The company has made it a priority to leverage the data it collects to help customers better understand their brand, the housing market and develop personal connections. Take a look at this post that shows where millennials can find affordable homes. Here, Zillow combined publicly available data about average millennial- wages with their own internal data on home prices in cities across the U.S.

Check out their findings:

In another example, Zillow used their data to determine the 20 Best cities for Halloween Trick or Treating leading up to the 2017 Halloween holiday. They determined these cities based on home values, how close the houses are located to one another, the city’s crime rate, and the size of the population under 10 years old. They then created an infographic that illustrated their results.

These are both great examples of Zillow taking what would otherwise be extremely dry user data and turning it into something interesting that still points back to their main product — a comprehensive real estate database. Zillow does an excellent job bringing data to life through real-world examples, featuring millennials, parents with trick-and-treating kids (and many more), and combining boring data and making it relatable, relevant, and interesting.

Brand Storytelling Drives Awareness, Interest, and Loyalty

Brand storytelling will help your business throughout all phases of the customer life cycle. Showing your customers that you are a brand that can solve their problems and share their beliefs can help facilitate your company’s initial awareness and products. As they learn more, that awareness develops into a genuine interest. Later, after they’ve become satisfied customers, those same traits that made them interested in you in the first place will also make them some of your most loyal customers.

Have you ever done any brand storytelling? How’d that work out for your business? Comment below!

This article was previously published on SocialSellinator’s Blog.

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In other news, Dell also announced two new Interactive Touch 4K displays, a 55-inch and 86-inch model. They follow in the footsteps of the company’s 70-inch 1080p touch show, and they’re meant to offer you much more choices for educators who want to have a massive collaborative screen for their classes and meetings. They pack in DisplayPort and VGA connections for plugging in computers, as nicely as the anticipated HDMI ports (3 for the 55-inch and four for the 86-inch). They’ll be accessible on March 30th below $five,000 and $11,000, respectively (we still do not have an exact cost).

The desktop to laptop transformation saw the scientific and technological neighborhood develop new path breaking advancements. Laptops were needed to match in all the components that formed a part of the Desktop pc and also remain lightweight sufficient to be carried around comfortably. The constraints were overcome by adopting revolutionary approach and creative restructuring of the Elements. The elements appropriate from the motherboard to the ports, add on cards and the DVD drives had been compressed to an optimum level and installed on the Laptop. The Dell Laptop also created similar series of Laptops which have been at par with the Laptops offered in the industry.

What exactly is regarded a factory refurbished computer? A lot of gadgets can be labeled as factory refurbished nowadays. But not all of these are actually refurbished. A refurbished personal computer is basically those that are off-leased. These computer systems didn’t pass the high quality handle simply because of some minor fault located in the internal or external components. These computers are sent back directly to the manufacturing organization where the problem can be corrected. Soon after removing the errors, these units pass via a technical test which ensures that the method is operating perfectly and up to the mark to meet the company’s regular. Customer laws prevent companies from promoting anything regarded factory refurbished as new, so they have to sell them with as 80% shaved off the original price.

Since I’ve in no way gone to school for computers, most of my information has been amassed by possessing to read Computer books, asking assist of other pc savvy buddies or in some instances, resorting to an outside supply to support me.Throughout the years it became clear to me that there had been some items worth trying to repair myself, and other things I needed to get in touch with in an professional for. Soon after all, we cannot all be good at all issues, and fixing computer systems is absolutely not my bag. With the invention of recovery disks and the (often) much better assistance you can acquire for your computer systems and printers, obtaining assist has turn into a small easier more than the years, but it can nevertheless be nerve racking sitting on the phone talking, and holding, and talking and holding- with tech help on the phone trying to figure out what is incorrect with your method.

Searching on-line, I saw more reports of individuals being scammed by telemarketers claiming to be calling from Microsoft with, “Your computer has been infected with a virus.” I’m positive the real IT Options isn’t connected with this scam: my telemarketer just borrowed a respectable company’s name to sound more convincing. Obviously, the screen on this laptop is bigger at 15.4 inches than the other models that have the 13 inch screens that I have written about. While I genuinely liked the 13 inch screen, specifically for watching brief news clips and surfing the internet, I uncover that the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 series 2-in-1 personal computer is a excellent sized laptop.

The Dell XPS 8900 series of business computer systems has 1 of the ideal processors obtainable, the Intel Core i7-6700 3.3-GHz processor. This processor has four cores. With hyper-threading, this processor has eight total threads of execution, which signifies that it’s nearly like possessing eight cores. The difference among a quad-core processor with hyper-threading and one particular without having is like the difference amongst an eight-lane highway versus a four-lane highway – a lot more data can pass by way of it. This is why the i7-6700 has a PassMark score of 11,000, which is the highest in our assessment. It’s effortlessly capable of multitasking with no experiencing a dip in efficiency.

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