saw ur post about Danny from escape room and omg agreed I need more people to talk about him with he's so underrated
NO LIKE ACTUALLY THOUGH!!!!
I genuinely love him, he's so harmless and genuinely excited to be there, it's like textbook-first-death-you-care-about-to-get-you-invested, but I think it would be fascinating to see how the story would progress if he had lived longer. He doesn't get much of a chance to realize this isn't just a super fucking good escape room and I'd love to see how he'd react to another person's death, or the more morally-questionable puzzles.
Would he step up to the plate in a Zoe sort of way? I feel like theres even a possibility he'd cling to the concept of it just being a normal escape room for WAY longer than he should as a way to cope with all the fucked up shit happening.
Because if you think about it even his personal tragedy/survival event (while also being SO FUCKING SAD OHHH MY GOD??? how old was he??? was he a kid??? when did this happen?? if someone remembers if it's says how long ago HIS ENTIRE FAMILY DIED let me know) is incredibly passive.
He definitely saw his family post-death but unlike a plane crash or a mine cave or any of the other tragedies in he has never actually seen anyone else in the process of dying, and I think that would be SO interesting to explore.
Like is that why he likes escape rooms so much? Because it's a way to solve 'impossible' puzzles and clever-your-way out of problems in a way he never got a chance to because he was probably asleep when it happened?
(I also wish we got a slightly closer look at how Ben feels about his death. Because it's really no one but Minos' fault but if the blame had to be pointed to another player it's on him. And he's already got a complex about that shit. Danny is a significantly more sympathetic/guilt complex kind of murder than Jason.)
He's just SO interesting as a character, especially because his death is the only non-preventable one. Theres no way to out-think being dragged under ice in a freezing current. I know the whole game is about luck but it's entirely unfair in a way that I can't even imagine would be particularly entertaining for the people watching at home and I WANNA KNOW WHY! Was he always going to die first? Did they underestimate how good at escape rooms he was? Was it a shock value death to keep all the rich viewers who bet on the safest-winner invested? Was it just because he brought a phone when he wasn't supposed to?
Like (second movie spoilers) but especially with the Amanda reveal in the second movie I'm shocked more people aren't talking about the possibility that he's not actually dead at all!
Because why would Minos kill him? If they want to force people to make escape rooms for them wouldn't Danny be their first choice? He's smart, he loves escape rooms, it would be perfect!
The only real explanation is just that it has to do with personalities and who would be most likely to actually go along with them, but we don't know nearly enough about Danny to think that he wouldn't.
Like?? He kind of seems like the easiest of the first movies cast to manipulate in this situation!! He's the youngest, he's naive, and I don't think he's got the kind of Zoe-backbone that would rather die then spend his time building escape rooms which is what he's passionate about.
If I'm being entirely honest I am not going to believe anyone is dead unless we see the body.
Like, in the first movie who are the only two we don't see the actual body of?
Amanda and Danny.
Amanda is clearly a good person to have on your evil-escape-room-murder-game team as it's shown in the sequel, and like I said DANNY KAHN IS LITERALLY THE PERFECT PERSON TO HAVE ON YOUR TEAM. WHY WOULDN'T THEY KEEP HIM IN THEIR BACK POCKET?
((It also makes sense with the sequel, where we don't see a lot of the bodies. The ONLY person's body we actually see is Theo; Nathan falls into the sand, so does Ben, and we know how that worked out. We kind of hear Brianna and Rachel but we don't SEE them. And the might mean nothing, but if you think about it- it tracks, in a tournament of champions, best of the best, you'd want to hold on to as many as you can.))
I'm veryyyy interested to see if this comes up in the next one, I honestly do not think it will, but I definitely think it's a plot line that could be INCREDIBLY interesting to go down.
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Thank you so much for considering doing a ben Miller escape room x reader the lack of fics for him hurts 💕
as someone who always loves exactly those characters that aren’t really popular for fics, i see you!! and i’m going to get to it as soon as possible!! 💕💕
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2023 Horror Challenge: [11/?]
↳“So what is this? Like a tournament of champions?” Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2023) dir. Adam Robitel
Plot: Zoey & Ben unwillingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms with four new strangers, all of them soon discovering that they've all played the game before.
Starring: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, (Deborah Ann Woll), Indya Moore, Holland Roden, Thomas Cocquere, Carlito Olivero, Isabelle Fuhrman & James Frain
Oh man, that title. lol They really didn't do themselves any favors for this movie by going with that. Anyway, if you notice how I put the cast, you may be able to tell which version of the movie I ended up watching. So, I figured I'd check this out when I noticed that they did indeed bring Taylor Russell & Logan Miller back after the cliffhanger in the first one. To at least see how this played out. And there's even more familiar faces this time. Except I watched the alternate version, which spoiler alert: means no Deborah Ann Woll this time. But honestly, from what I've heard, I'm glad tbh. Because in this version, you get scream queen Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan) giving another knockout performance. I actually digged this ending kinda. The theatrical one sounds like way too much. Now I did NOT like all the recapping at the beginning of the movie. It felt incredibly lazy for the filmmakers to edit it that way. BUT, once it got going, it held my attention the whole way through. Is the concept completely ludicrous? Very much so. But it was fun and the puzzles were even bigger and brutal so there's that. If you liked the first one, I do think it's worth a watch but I'd recc the alternate version because something tells me the canon version will piss some people off, to say the least. heh But then, they were really trying to build a franchise I guess, but I don't think that's happening at this rate. I'm fine either way but since I consider the alternate version to be canon for me, the story is esstentially over so there's no need.
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