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ryvswb · 4 years

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@snowflake1488 Asked: Did Church remember to bring Yang back?

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Church, at the foot of a hill near Blue base:...

Church, crouching down and screaming: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

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*Jumpcut to Red base*

Yang, walking out of Red base with Donut: Man that was a fun jamming session!

Donut, his voice slightly raspy: My throat hurt.

Grif, sitting on the ground: My EARS hurt.

Yang: Hey what do you guys do for fun around here anyway?

Simmons and Grif, simultaneously: Stand around and talk?

Yang, sarcastically: You guys sound very fun to be around.

Grif: Oh just wait for the bounty hunters and evil AIs to start showing up.

Yang:...

Yang: Sounds boring! Lets go hit the city! I think I saw one nearby while Ruby and I where falling from the sky.

Grif: I don't really wan-

Yang, walking away with Donut: I'm kinda hungry. Who wants some pizza?

Grif, standing up in excitement: PIZZA!? You now have my attention. Lets go Simmons.

Simmons, as Grif walks away: But we need to guard the base and...and...ummmmm...oh fuck it.

Lopez, in spanish , watching Simmons run after Grif:.....Finally some peace and quiet...

Lopez:...

Lopez, in spanish, walking inside Red base: I'm going to go make a back up of myself now. Knowing them they'll come back with a new batch of evil maniacs to deal with.

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Church, briskly walking towards Red base: Gotta hurry gotta hurry, gotta hurry and send these fucking brats home before some new secret organization or whatever thats after them shows up here to fuck our shit up.

Lopez, in spanish: Oh hey. I was wondering how long it would take for you to realize you forgot blondie.

Church, impatiently: Yeah yeah where is she?

Lopez, in spanish: She left.

Church, softly:.......what?

Lopez, in spanish: She left with the other idiots to get pizza.

Church: Oh...no....I'm too late.......THE WACKY HIGHJINKS HAVE BEGUN.

Church, dropping to his knees and shouting towards the sky: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Lopez, in spanish: Drama queen.

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Tucker, on the roof of Blue base with Weiss, watching Yang and the Reds leave the canyon: Oh jesus what are the reds up to this time. Hey Weiss. Why don't you go with them? This party of idiots desperately needs a straight man to babysit them.

Weiss, offended: But I'm neither straight nor a man!

Tucker: No I mean't- oh whatever just go with them and make sure they don't get in trouble okay?

Weiss, crossing her arms: Why me? Most of these people are YOUR friends and I already know Yang can handle herself. Why should I have to play babysitter?

Tucker: Alright look, you can either go the the city with them and maybe have a nice time...or you can stay here and help me convince Caboose that those tubes of weird colored powder you put in your sword aren't pixie sticks.

*Both turn towards Caboose*

Caboose, trying to pry open a tube of ice dust: Hey Weiss is this one blueberry or raspberry?

*The dust tube explodes in Caboose's face, freezing over his helmet*

Caboose, his voice muffled: OH. ITS PEPPER MINT.

Weiss, starring at Caboose unamused:...You know what? I'm going to get some coffee.

Tucker, as Weiss walks away: Bye! Have fun!

Tucker, waiting for Weiss to be gone before walking back into Blue base: Now its just me and the cute cat babe. Oooooohhh yeaaaaaah.

Caboose, his helmet still covered in ice: HELLO? ANYBODY HERE? MY NOSE IS ITCHY!

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Church, running back to Blue base: TUCKER! Yang and the reds left! We have to find them so we can send these four girls back to wherever the fuck they came from before some bullshit happens- WERE THE FUCK IS WEISS.

Tucker, casually: Oh she left to get coffee.

Church:......you know what? Fuck this. I'm just gonna go make a back up of myself before these morons come back with more trouble.

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Writers note: This is Epsilon Church so he can understand Lopez by translating him into english.

#rwby #red vs blue #ryvswb!au #leonard l. church #lavernius tucker #yang xiao long #lopez #michael j. caboose #weiss schnee #dick simmons #frankly delano donut #dexter grif

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rorykillmore · 7 years

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okay let’s talk about JIGSAW

i hated it.

no i’m kidding, but i honestly had a lot of different things i wanted to say so i’m not sure where to begin

first of all i know people were pretty hopeful about the new director/writer team and i do think those definitely had their strong points. the direction maybe was as stylistic as it could have been but on the other hand... they removed the weird color filters and jumpcuts (some people would argue that those things are quintessentially saw, but i think it worked to make the movie feel like something fresh -- and also those things always tended to give me a bit of a headache, so,) AND it brought some pretty decent acting out of the cast (some of the credit is owed to the actors themselves, ofc)

some of the dialogue in the script i also found to be particularly strong, like... i’m useless bc i can’t think of any examples but there were some lines and exchanges that were just great (especially in contrast to the really hammy dialogue in like, saw 3D, for instance)

the traps were a little weird in that like... it’s not that they weren’t... gory enough, it’s just that i didn’t find a lot of them to be particularly memorable? and also not especially personal, though i did like the return of emphasis on like... moral choices and the actual possibility of escape if they were adhered to.

the thing with jigsaw himself was SO GOOD and the perfect use of like. well it was just the perfect way to incorporate him into a modern day saw movie tbh. when i saw him i got really excited and it was such a perfect moment even though it also like... basically was the final nail in the coffin of my guessing the twist.

speaking of... this is where one major complaint comes in

conceptually the twist is awesome, if kind of predictable if you’re paying attention and know the saw movies, BUT. i didn’t like. the villain. he was just so... the entire movie he was the character i like, cared least about? and i kind of got the feeling it was gonna be him, especially when they showed the scars on his back, but christ i was so disinterested in him even when i was pretty sure it was gonna be him

like he’s basically just another hoffman??? more or less??? maybe a little less trashy but LITERALLY just another jigsaw apprentice who gets carried away with the concept of Vengeance and if they were gonna reboot this franchise it would have been wonderful if the villain could be like.... not another white guy........... like we had hoffman and gordon can we please do something Different

what i’m saying here is, anna should have been the villain

while i was still trying to guess who it was i was like “i bet it’s one of the people in the trap and this is all displaced in time” and, well, i was half right, but god anna would have had the perfect motivation not only to turn killer after all of that but to be an apprentice that actually?? followed jigsaw’s rules a lot more closely?? like her last scene where she’s talking about turning everything around or w/e seemed like the perfect springboard for that

(also a mother who’d been suffering from postpartum depression is in a way like... the perfect parallel for jigsaw being fucked up by jill’s miscarriage, and that scene where she and ryan were chained in the room together was such an echo of the first movie, IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOD YOU GUYS)

fuckin. was his name logan? i remember because i was like “of course the guy named logan would be evil, that’s just a terrible name no matter what” (behold my lingering gilmore girls grudges) but anyway. he went on about how he’d done everything to see if he could be as good as jigsaw AND THEN HE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE THE DECENCY TO SAY GAME OVER. WHAT THE FU CK. “I SPEAK FOR THE DEAD” IS NOT A GOOD ENOUGH SUBSTITUTE.

do you guys KNOW how much everyone would have gotten a kick out of getting one of those final “game over” moments in 2017?

no but anyway, that major beef aside, i still had a lot of fun like... fuck i love these movies and i can’t even really articulate why because they’re not even my usual brand of horror but they’re just? idk watching the psychological aspect of them is always really fun

and like i said tobin bell was wonderful, and like, jigsaw is just one of those villains who i really genuinely just..... love, like fuck it i’m a jigsaw apologist,

and the flashback where he saves logan because he realizes he was acting out of his own anger and not a desire to see logan change is actually something i did really appreciate

and the two main girls were excellent, like. anna still would have been better if she’d been the VILLAIN but she was still so great to watch and had some excellent kickass moments (like when she stalled the motorcycle trap) and elle was... well, she was a mood in general. like they made her out to be suspicious af but like? who among us would not buy a bunch of saw traps and just keep them in a room if we could???

anyways it really was just nice to see the return to the series after so long and... everyone involved seemed to really have fun with it, so i’m glad this movie exists

#jigsaw #obviously like.... spoilers and stuff #but im just so mad about that /one/ particular plot point that im almost....#tempted to try and fix it.....#if you know what i mean.

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drink-n-watch · 5 years

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BoogiePop’s messy release schedule was driving me just a little nuts so I did the most reasonable thing possible and drove Shania a little nuts too. The results! We are almost caught up! Here’s everything that happened before this Friday! There Shall Be Spoilers!

go us! we wrote posts! YAY!

Boogiepop at Dawn – Episodes 12 & 13

The BoogiePop at Dawn 4 episode arc has been quite the rollercoaster. It started with what I believe is the best episode of the season then plunged right into the worst only to settle somewhere in the middle for these last two.

I definitely agree with you there Irina. But on the flipside, we finally get what I’ve been hoping we would get for a long time. More info on Nagi! Starting with her illusive father no less.

First we get a flashback episode to Nagi’s past and we finally get to meet her mysterious father. I gotta say, I was sort of disappointed with how ordinary he is. BoogiePop (the series not the phantom) has made a habit of creating these weird, disjointed, drastically underdeveloped characters and Mr. Kirima just didn’t stand out in any way. The only notable thing about him is that evolved humans liked his books. In principal, that notion is actually very cool, but it came off rather dull in presentation.

He was a bit dull, but I did like how much his books were basically the driving force for most of the situations in this series. Especially since they are referenced to so much.

we just thought he was a little boring…there’s no need to take it this far! huh soilers

Was the little girl in the park a little BoogiePop?

Wait…there was a little girl in the park that looked like a little Boogiepop? How in the world did I miss that…

There was some throwbacks to earlier episodes, we got the sentence sometimes it snows in April again, proving that this wasn’t some odd mantra of the Imaginators. By the way, t is currently mid March and there’s a good 6 inches of snow on the ground right now. It was snowing quite generously all weekend as well. I really wouldn’t be surprised if this weather held up for another two weeks. I don’t get this expression at all. Is it suppose to mean something rather common but not guaranteed. Like sometimes it rains on a Tuesday?

I think what they are trying to get at is more psychological and metaphorical. Like sometimes unique experiences can happen whether we plan for them or not. It just matters how we deal with them when they come.

But it’s not unique at all. That’s my point.

this little girl…. not the same body but the same entity?

Besides the book thing, we found out the Nagi’s dad is divorced and that’s actually it. Next thing we know he gets murdered by synthetic megane same as scarecrow and his daughter takes it rather well, all things considered.

I think she just has a rather large capability to internalize things but I could be wrong.

The narrative has gone back to the nonlinear format which I liked. The sudden jump forward brought us back to a little after Scarecrow’s death which is still a flashback when compared to other episodes.

Synthetic megane teams up we now esper Nagi to hunt down whoever’s been murdering left and right. Let’s keep in mind that this particular synthetic already killed Nag’s dad when she was little, and her friend Scarecrow just recently. There’s a little sleuthing, nothing too impressive. They talk to one girl and Nai magically figures everything out so they go confront shrink lady who’s name I still don’t know. (Synthetic megane is called Sasaki, and hilariously Mo Murder!).

well um, I guess that’s an important distinction?

At this point we see an unrecognizable Pigeon bait and distract Sasaki so that he can get promptly murdered by psycho shrink while he simultaneously killed Pigeon. It took my awhile to figure out what was going on but apparently Pigeon was sacrificing herself to avenge Scarecrow nd n her last moments BoogiePop came to her in a scene paralleling her friend’s death. It would have been touching if I knew the first thing about Pigeon. I honestly thought that she had ordered Scarecrow’s death in the first place. Anywho, she dead now.

In a way it was rather poetic though. Especially with Pidgeon’s last line after Boogiepop told her instead of Heaven shes go to hell: “Heh, you’re right. Just like you.”

I did love Pidgeon aesthetic though. She might be a cool cosplay in the future.

I like her better with her blonde and pink hair. It helps sets her apart I find

see, it’s cool

Then Nagi and Shrinki face off in a swamp, after Nagi’s done all the work, BoogiePop appears and finishes her.

Again, this could have been exciting or at least cathartic if this shrink wasn’t the worst villain so far. Just plain uninteresting even when considered a madman evil with no viable motive. She didn’t even hurt anyone we care about so it’s not like we felt any sense of justice or retribution here.

It’s unfortunate that Nagi went from being a bedridden sick girl straight into being a superhero without BoogiePop bothering to show us that evolution. A training montage, an indication that she suddenly wants to solve crimes because of her father’s murder all batman style…something would have been nice. Nope, just jumpcut and apparently we’re a firewitch now.

True. A little explanation would have been nice.

don’t make that face

Nagi makes it back to have Sasaki die in her arms. Two synthetic humans have now sacrificed themselves for her, for no real reason. I assume that just like her dad attracted espers, she’s catnip to synthetics.

This would have been such a sad scene if Sasaki had any sort of personality or developpement other that “follow the plot”, well you get the idea.

At this point there’s a conversation between Nagi and BoogiePop. It’s one of those cryptic small talks at an inappropriate time, what with all the murdered bodies all around. We didn’t get any information or anything. What I got from it mostly is that at this point and time, Nagi and BoogiePop are on rather friendly terms. BoogiePop is impressed and interested by Nagi and has helped her out in a difficult situation. From what I can tell the feeling is mutual. So something must have happened to make their future encounters so frosty. Knowing this show, there’s almost no chance they’ll tell us what that was.

Which is a shame. Its really good for character development. Then again, that’s exactly what Boogiepop lacks.

And this is when I realized that I had forgotten that the entire arc was a story being told by BoogiePop to Echoes. We still don’t know where that weird red place is or why Echoes is alive but you know, I’m just going to let that one go.

oh yeah….you guys….

The King of Distortion – Episodes 14 & 15

The King of Distortion open with a familiar face. We catch up with Takeda some time after the Maticora arc and he’s reading an architecture magazine. I grew up around architects, several members of my family were architects including my mom who use to say that every time there was an architect in a work of fiction they were evil. It was a weird sort of mini persecution complex. I don’t think she was right at all but it always stuck with me. So yeah, I’m saying akeda is evil now!

There’s this new swoopy monument building and it’s the place to be apparently. It’s one of those decorative buildings that cost a fortune in taxes to upkeep but the government hopes it will encourage tourism so they brand it as a national treasure and source of pride. It looked pretty cool.

I like it….cause I don’t have to pay for it

So a crowd of people are there for the opening inclusion an assortment of Shinyo Academy students. We learn that the man whose building it is (I’m assuming the man who designed it) was some type of multi talented super genius who just recently passed away. It wasn’t specified by I’m going to assume it was under odd or mysterious circumstances. And yet, ironically he’s seen talking to little boy at the beginning of the episode. And leaves him with the ominous phrase of saying he was just reborn.

Takeda is also meeting Miyashita there for date s we’re setting up all our big players. However, when she gets there Boogiepop takes over and she ips away into the crowd. We’re quickly introduced to this arc’s baddie, The King of Distortion.

We are told that this entity wants to turn the world to gold. I should be annoyed by the cryptic nonsense of it all but I actually like that motivation. I dunno. It’s completely ridiculous yet so concrete that for some reason, it speaks to me.

oh…I was just talking to a supernatural entity that wants to turn the world to gold. Tuesdays! Am I right?

The King of Distortion seems to be able to trap people within their own minds and make them confront unresolved issues in their past. I’m not entirely sure why yet but as clichéd as it is, it’ also a mechanic I generally enjoy.

True. It is a quite overused trope, but I think the King of Distortion could actually be a decent villain this time. I hope.

Between the shrink lady last arc and this trauma facing/closure seeking character, I’m starting to think that the main thesis of BoogiePop is that psychiatry is evil!

Or straight up freaking confusing heh.

BoogiePop and I are freaked out by mannequins

Not that we have much of a moral judgement on the King of Distortion yet. So far they haven’t hurt anyone in any way. If anything they do really seem to be helping people. But BoogiePop considers them an enemy of the world so you know how that goes…

After a brief setup, both episodes mostly consisted of set pieces where the Kin of Distortion has conversations with various characters and makes them confront traumatic past experiences by taking the appearance of people from their past. These dreamscapes are very abstract and at times the narrative felt more than non-linear but downright non-sequitur.

This is a level of weirdness I like. It’s not pretending that everything is supposed to make sense. There is a surreal element. Heck the second episode turns into a kaiju movie at some point. But you can still follow along easily.

Heh, so true but I gotta admit it was a bit entertaining to see it go that way.

entertaining is a good thing!

We catch up again with Kentarou which we had seen briefly in the past. At this point, I’m starting to blur the manga and anime together so I’m not sure how much we’re supposed to know about the character but I always liked him. I’m happy to see him again.

I do remember that manticore killed his girlfriend, so there’s that.

I’m not sure he had a girlfriend?

Conversations with dead people is my favourite Buffy episode. Now I’m not trying to imply that BoogiePop comes anywhere close to it but there is something comparable in the mood and pacing of his arc. A bittersweet melancholy. Rather than having people turn into monster or cause their own doom through fear or greed, The King of Distortion is creating a hollow longing and cold guilt and offering up salvation. There something particularly disturbing about that.

I don’t want to call it a strong start or the most promising arc yet. I do that everytime and every time I get stung. BoogiePop knows how to start stories, it’s everything else that falls apart. But it’s a really strong star and seems very promising….

I’m scared to get my hopes up…

Since we didn’t write much today, cough, here’s a bunch of pics to tell the story instead. This is 4 episodes worth!

BoogiePop and Others Ep. 12-15 with Shania BoogiePop's messy release schedule was driving me just a little nuts so I did the most reasonable thing possible and drove Shania a little nuts too.

#anime #Boogiepop #Collab #drama #episodic #huh #supernatural

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