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Win asks a lot of questions. In twelve episodes of the show, Win asks a grand total of 162 questions. And, because I don’t have a life, here are all 162 questions in one place, plus what episode each was in, what part of the episode, and a time stamp. Enjoy.
EP 1, 1/4, 4:16, “right?”
EP 1, 1/4, 12:28, “when will you stop?”
EP 1, 1/4, 21:21, “who did this?”
EP 1, 1/4, 21:44, “do you think that’s easy?”
EP 1, 1/4, 22:17, “what is it now, man?”
EP 1, 1/4, 23.21, “happy?”
EP 1, 1/4, 23:24, “why are you so problematic?”
EP 1, 2/4, 1:45, “waiter, can we have one (two, three) shaved ices please?”
EP 1, 3/4, 6:27, “tinn, how did you become a judge here?”
EP 2, 3/4, 2:56, “we have a fan?”
EP 2, 3/4, 4:38, “you think we’re your slaves?”
EP 2, 3/4, 4:40, “you think you’re the school president and you can do anything?”
EP 2, 4/4, 0:25, “gun, are you sure?”
EP 3, 1/4, 4:49, “why did you even agree to that, gun?”
EP 3, 1/4, 4:55, “what’s that freaking smile?”
EP 3, 1/4, 6:47, “how does he know that?”
EP 3, 1/4, 6:48, “is he watching us?”
EP 3, 1/4, 7:27, “who would have time to tutor us?”
EP 4, 1/4, 1:11, “right? they are”
EP 4, 1/4, 3:51, “see? I knew it.”
EP 4, 1/4, 5:06, “what the heck are you doing?”
EP 4, 1/4, 12:34, “why are you here?”
EP 4, 2/4, 1:40, “what?”
EP 4, 2/4, 1:41, “I couldn’t help it, could I?”
EP 4, 2/4, 4:31, “do you think we will accept him?”
EP 4, 2/4, 5:17, “why the heck would we want that?”
EP 4, 2/4, 9:57, “what?”
EP 4, 2/4, 10:35, “what the heck are you guys doing?”
EP 4, 4/4, 4:40, “what the hell is wrong with you?”
EP 4, 4/4, 4:41, “what do you want?”
EP 4, 4/4, 12:01, “gun, why did you come back?”
EP 5, 1/4, 1:59, “how’s your band now, sir?”
EP 5, 2/4, 0:33, “what the hell are you doing here?”
EP 5, 2/4, 1:13, “you think i’m slacking off, don’t you?”
EP 5, 3/4, 5:27, “why are you here, Sound?”
EP 5, 3/4, 5:38, “what?”
EP 5, 3/4, 5:39, “do you think i’m running home?”
EP 5, 3/4, 5:44, “are you picking a fight?”
EP 5, 3/4, 5:46, “huh?”
EP 5, 3/4, 11:14, “are you trying to get on my nerves?”
EP 5, 4/4, 7:35, “what is love?”
EP 6, 1/4, 6:46, “the heck are you talking about?”
EP 6, 1/4, 13:34, “why?”
EP 6, 1/4, 13:35, “are you bullying me?”
EP 6, 1/4, 13:51, “are you happy now?”
EP 6, 1/4, 13:57, “how about i shut your mouth with my feet?”
EP 6, 2/4, 3:39, “was that a warm-up, too?”
EP 6, 2/4, 3:52, “want me to coach you?”
EP 6, 2/4, 4:37, “how many times have i told you?”
EP 6, 2/4, 4:45, “don’t you get what I said?”
EP 6, 3/4, 1:04, “why looking confused?”
EP 6, 3/4, 3:53, “there’s more?”
EP 6, 3/4, 3:59, “HUH?”
EP 6, 3/4, 4:06, “have you decided who has a secret crush?:
EP 6, 3/4, 5:34, “can i try it again?”
EP 6, 4/4, 3:38, “that was off-script, wasn’t it?”
EP 6, 4/4, 7:01, “should i just work in this industry?”
EP 6, 4/4, 7:11, “your tier?”
EP 6, 4/4, 7:12, “what tier, exactly?”
EP 7, 1/4, 1:39, “when will he stop rambling?”
EP 7, 1/4, 5:00, “why do you always ruin your friends’ mood?”
EP 7, 2/4, 6:20, “you know people send me flirty messages every day?”
EP 7, 3/4, 2:26, “four, do you like to eat?”
EP 7, 3/4, 2:40, “do we need to?:
EP 7, 3/4, 3:08, “what?”
EP 7, 3/4, 3:42, “why on earth do i have to be attached to you?”
EP 7, 3/4, 3:57, “can you hurry up?”
EP 7, 3/4, 3:59, “see?”
EP 7, 3/4, 4:32, “what?”
EP 7, 3/4, 4:37, “why would i lie?”
EP 7, 4/4, 2:27, “what are you waiting for?”
EP 8, 1/4, 10:08, “are you sure?”
EP 8, 1/4, 13:31, “what?”
EP 8, 1/4, 17:26, “what did you do?”
EP 8, 1/4, 17:31, “why did you drink that?
EP 8, 2/4, 4:33, “can’t you see the situation?”
EP 8, 2/4, 4:34, “how dare you leave now?”
EP 8, 2/4, 4:38, “what?”
EP 8, 2/4, 4:40, “gun, how can you let him leave?”
EP 8, 2/4, 9:37, “are you the last one who saw him?”
EP 8, 2/4, 14:30, “how about we practice all night tonight?”
EP 8, 2/4, 14:36, “how does practice all night sound?”
EP 8, 3/4, 2:39, “so this is your workshop, huh?”
EP 8, 3/4, 3:00, “what’s wrong with your wrist?”
EP 8, 3/4, 3:05, “why didn’t you tell us?”
EP 8, 3/4, 3:08, “why acting cool?”
EP 8, 3/4, 3:30, “want to go back with me?”
EP 8, 3/4, 4:14, “does it fit?”
EP 8, 4/4, 1:52, “why are you telling me?”
EP 8, 4/4, 1:55, “you want me to take you?”
EP 8, 4/4, 2:03, “how is your wrist?”
EP 8, 4/4, 2:05, “is it better now?”
EP 8, 4/4, 2:12, “what?”
EP 8, 4/4, 8:01, “am i dreaming right now?”
EP 9, 2/4, 4:08, did you come and set these up for us beforehand?”
EP 9, 2/4, 9:25, “can anyone please tell me why he wanted us to do this cover dance?”
EP 9, 3/4, 0:26, “how can that help with playing music?”
EP 9, 3/4, 3:10, “what’s up with you recently?”
EP 9, 3/4, 3:24, “what are you mad at me about?”
EP 9, 3/4, 3:38, “what song are you writing?”
EP 9, 3/4, 3:52, “why did it turn into a sweet love song?”
EP 9, 4/4, 9:53, “why do i feel like you just yelled at me through that song?”
EP 9, 4/4, 10:13, “seriously, since when?”
EP 9, 4/4, 10:45, “hey, can i go with you?”
EP 9, 4/4, 10:54, “are you leaving me here?”
EP 9, 4/4, 10:58, “what if i get home soaking wet?”
EP 9, 4/4, 11:00, “don’t you feel pity for me?”
EP 9, 4/4, 11:02, “what if i have to walk home through the rain and get sick?”
EP 9, 4/4, 11:05, “can i go with you?”
EP 9, 4/4, 11:34, “you are?”
EP 9, 4/4, 11:42, “the umbrella is small, right?”
EP 9, 4/4, 12:00, “what is it?”
EP 9, 4/4, 12:01, “are you blushing?”
EP 9, 4/4, 12:07, “why is your heart beating so fast then?”
EP 9, 4/4, 12:33, “what if i say my heart never beats fast for you?”
EP 9, 4/4, 13:34, “can you coach me?”
EP 9, 4/4, 13:48: “do you think you can do it?”
EP 9, 4/4, 14:00, “so this is your way of hitting on me?”
EP 10, 2/4, 5:40, “so what if we have no audience?”
EP 10, 3/4, 8:19, “tinn, where’s gun?”
EP 10, 3/4, 8:20, “didn’t he come with you?”
EP 10, 4/4, 0:29, “what should we do now?”
EP 10, 4/4, “where on earth is gun?”
EP 11, 1/4, 7:30, “what?”
EP 11, 1/4, 7:32, “are you guys giving in to this small defeat?”
EP 11, 2/4, 6:08, “what do you want me to do?”
EP 11, 2/4, 6:17, “don’t you get it?”
EP 11, 2/4, 6:18, “what do you expect me to do?”
EP 11, 2/4, 6:23, “what do you want me to do?”
EP 11, 2/4, 6:28, “what do you want me to do?”
EP 11, 2/4, 6:46, “what can i do now?”
EP 11, 2/4, 17:56, “why didn’t you help him carry?”
EP 11, 3/4, 7:13, “like it?”
EP 11, 3/4, 10:14, “how can you even walk?”
EP 11, 3/4, 10:53, “gun, do you want to take my place?”
EP 11, 3/4, 10:57, “hey, gun, what’s wrong?”
EP 11, 3/4, 11:01, “why are you two hugging?”
EP 11, 3/4, 11:04, “if nothing, then why are you guys hugging?”
EP 11, 3/4, 11:09, “gun, are you dizzy?”
EP 11, 3/4, 11:11, “are you having a fever?”
EP 11, 3/4, 11:20, “can i have some?”
EP 11, 3/4, 13:23, “why would we walk all the way here just to let you drink it?”
EP 11, 3/4, 13:37, “why would we walk all the way here then?”
EP 11, 3/4, 13:41, “and you think we’re not?”
EP 11, 3/4, 13:54, “he should go so he can stop being so self-centred?” (there was a question mark in the subtitles so im going with it)
EP 11, 3/4, 13:58, “when was i being like that?”
EP 11, 3/4, 14:04, “and you didn’t make mistakes at all, right?”
EP 11, 3/4, 14:06, “was i the only one wrong?”
EP 11, 3/4, 14:21, “why can’t you become a world-class musician if you’re so great?”
EP 11, 3/4, 14:26, “so what?”
EP 11, 3/4, 14:54, “what do you do every day aside from stopping fights?”
EP 11, 3/4, 15:24, “you just realised that, a-hole?”
EP 11, 4/4, 3:39, “did i miss something?”
EP 11, 4/4, 3:40, “what is happening?”
EP 11, 4/4, 3:45, “what did you two talk about?”
EP 12, 1/4, 16:41, “have you seen this?”
EP 12, 1/4, 16:43, “have you guys seen this?”
EP 12, 2/4, 1:18, “have you seen the student council help other people like they did with us?”
EP 12, 2/4, 8:15, “right, pumpkin?”
EP 12, 3/4, 0:20, “what’s the situation?”
EP 12, 3/4, 11:52, “what?”
EP 12, 4/4, 5:57, “what should i write down?”
conclusion: win asks a lot of questions
#there goes six hours of my life im never getting back#it was worth it tho#i got a nice little recap of each episode#my school president#my school president the series#what the flip do i tag this#a lot of the times when he asks questions hes arguing#and a lot of the time when hes arguing hes arguing with sound#so this can go under the soundwin tag i decided#soundwin#winsound#satangwinny#winnysatang#winny thanawin#tinngun#tiwpor#msp win#win msp#this show has literally taken over my life
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Murph: And then of course we've got Caldwell Tanner!
Caldwell: Oh! Got more bros than he even knows, it's Sol Bufo, this episode brought to you by Miracle Gro!
Emily: What?!
[Jake laughs. Everyone starts talking over each other.]
Caldwell: Yeah I-- I sold a sponsorship deal.
Emily: No (laughs)
Jake: Cool! Yeah!
Caldwell: Is that okay?
Murph: (baffled) What is Miracle Gro?
Emily: It's--
Caldwell: It's for all your planting and potting needs.
Murph: Oh is it a real product?!
Emily: It's this fertilizer.
Caldwell: It's a real product, yeah!
Murph: (laughing) Oh, you can't do that! [Emily and Caldwell laugh.] This episode is not brought to you by that!
Emily: Okay--
Jake: I want-- I'm gonna sell a sponsorship to Monsanto.
Murph: Parody! Parody!
Emily: (yelling) What?! (laughs)
Caldwell: No!
Murph: Asterisk, parody!
Jake: Brought to you by pesticide, everybody!
Murph: Asterisk, parody!
Caldwell: What, no?! I was trying to do something good for us.
Murph: Parody. Parody. Parody. Parody. Parody.
Jake: So am I! They have a lot of cash!
Murph: (laughing) Parody! Parody! Parody, parody, parody! Not real! Not real, everyone!
[The others laugh as he talks.]
Caldwell: Great sword, great ad.
Murph: (laughing) Yeah. Not an ad! Parody!
[The others laugh. A dice clatters.]
Murph: Alright everybody, let's go ahead and do a little recap-- Emily, stop rolling! Why are you rolling!
Emily (Callie voice): I rolled a one.
Murph: You gotta-- (laughs) Okay. You gotta find out if they're rolling hot or interesting before we hit record.
Caldwell: This is the Miracle Gro roll of the game!
Murph: Okay. You're all--
Jake: Nice!
Murph: You're all out of control, and I need you all to stop. Alright, ready?
Emily (Callie voice): I had a root canal yesterday.
Murph: Oh--
Caldwell: (laughs) That is true!
Jake: How did it go?
Emily (Callie voice): Bad.
Murph: She did. She did.
Jake: Not good?
Emily: (laughing) Go on.
Murph: (laughing) I was worried. Very worried she wasn't gonna be able to record. She was in rough shape. Okay everybody.
Caldwell: Yeah.
Jake: Oh dear. Short rest material.
Murph: Alright (laughing) S-- so last time-- [clip fades out]
#naddpod#ba2mia#emily axford#brian murphy#caldwell tanner#jake hurwitz#the energy of this is insane#parody plus emily’s root canal#naddclips
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That Discussion | Kyle Gaz Garrick x m!reader
@mockerycrow asked: “you shouldn’t talk like that” gaz x male!reader 🙏🏻🙏🏻 will forever be eating your works bestie!!!
summary: it's nice to have Gaz back, but all the same, there's just some conversations that you're not ready for at all.
tws: swearing, mild angst
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The bedroom was dark, illuminated only by the soft colours on the television, giving everything a slightly blue hue; settled at last, Gaz was half asleep as he aimlessly scrolled through his social media feed, leaning slightly into you while you focused on the programme on the television.
It was so quiet, his breath was just a soft hum and you could feel your body betraying you. Struggling to keep your eyes open as you yawned. Eyes watering.
You couldn't help it, leaning into him and humming under your breath, wrapping your arms around one of his as you sighed softly. Ever so slightly, Gaz's lips gently and slowly turned into a small smile.
He tried to hide it by licking his lips.
It had been a surprise to come home from work and find him sitting in the living room, watching The One Show with almost no concentration; he had made himself tea, probably using random food that he had found in the freezer.
You never had proper meals when he was away, only whatever was edible at the time. That was hours ago, and now the initial shock and excitement had worn off, he was finally settled.
You were finally content, and slowly approaching dozing off. You missed him terribly when he was deployed, you couldn't deny it, you never did. Sure, Gaz would call and he would text whenever he possibly could, and late night video chats were a constant - but it just wasn't the same.
You both knew that.
Gaz hummed, turning onto his side so that he could feel you against him that little bit more; propping his phone up on your chest as he yawned softly and threw his leg over you.
"Fuck me. I've missed you."
You dared to smile, letting your hand rest at the base of his neck as you sighed heavily. "I've missed you, too… I recorded EastEnders for you, though. Every episode since you went away."
"Even the live one?"
"Especially the live one," you hummed as you nodded. "I haven't seen any of it, either, so I can't even give you spoilers."
"Brilliant," he breathed out happily, a soft grumble coming from the back of his neck as he pressed the top of his head to just under your neck, sighing heavily with content. "What about that thing we were watching on ITV? The one about the shop?"
"Mister Selfridge?" You asked quietly, and when he nodded, you dared to smile. "Paused it right before the recap so it's ready when we are."
Gaz couldn't help but to smile as he relaxed, putting his phone down next to you and holding onto you gently, moving his shoulders slightly so that he could get more comfortable.
He started to chew at the inside of his lip. Anxiety creeping in as he realised that he would not have been there in that moment if Ghost hadn't stepped in; he got lucky, but how much luck could one man have?
Was it so easy to avoid death?
He didn't want to tell you, didn't want you to worry about him, but he knew that his luck would not last forever; soldiers were never fortunate enough for things like that.
He swallowed thickly.
Knowing.
Gaz knew better than anyone that if he were to leave, you would be so, so fucking devasted that it would be beyond repair; you had grown up together, spent every moment together from the moment that you were both born. His mother was your father's best friend. You were Gaz's best friend, and even when romance had gotten involved, it had not changed anything between you.
You and Gaz were always so close. The same as it would destroy him if anything were to happen to you, if anything were to happen to him, you would surely fall apart.
Life without each other was something that you had never experienced; Gaz shook his head, chewing even more at his lip. He could feel it bleed as the flesh slowly pulled away and snapped.
Slowly, Gaz stopped chewing at his lip, and let out a soft huff.
"If anything happens to me, promise me you'll go and live with Krueger, or Hesh?"
You thought about it for a moment, furrowing your brows. "What do you mean if anything happens?"
"I just… I got lucky once," Gaz admitted. "I don't think it'll happen again."
"Kyle," you spoke softly as you shook your head, "please, you shouldn't talk like that… we've always been together, nothing… nothing is gonna happen."
"I just wanna know you're safe if it does," he told you. "I don't give a fuck if you decide to, I dunno, be Krueger's husband or, or be Hesh's bodyguard - I just wanna know, if anything happens to me, you'll be safe."
"I'm not having this discussion," you muttered. "You've just got home, I'm not… I'm not talking about that shit right now. Can't we just, fuck, can't we just be a fucking couple for once?"
"Sure we can," Gaz said softly, daring to smile again. "We can, uh, we can talk when you're ready, yeah?"
"Yeah…"
"Now," he beamed, resting his arms either side of your head as he held himself up. Licking his lips and slightly quirking his brow. "Can I say hello to my boyfriend properly? Or do you wanna stick to cuddling?"
"Well," you hummed, resting your hands on his shoulders. "That all depends, now, doesn't it?"
"What's it depend on?"
"Are you gonna pay the fee?" You asked. "You've known this since day one, a proper hello means you have to pay the fee."
"How could I forget?" He chuckled, shaking his head fondly. "I'm gonna guess because of the cozzy livs, the price has gone up?"
"It's three now."
"Three?" Gaz whistled as he raised his brows. "Price of everything has gone up, huh?"
You couldn't even answer as he leaned down, gently kissing you once, twice, three times. A more than content smile on your lips as you tugged him a little closer.
"Thank you for paying, Mister Garrick."
#mlem writes#kyle gaz garrick x reader#gaz garrick#gaz garrick imagine#gaz garrick x reader#gaz garrick x you#kyle gaz garrick#kyle garrick imagine#kyle garrick#kyle garrick x you#kyle garrick x reader#gaz mw2#gaz modern warfare#cod gaz#gaz call of duty#gaz cod#call of duty x y/n#call of duty x reader#call of duty x you#call of duty imagine#call of duty fic#call of duty fanfic#call of duty#cod x yn#cod x y/n#cod x reader#cod x you#cod imagines#cod imagine#cod fanfiction
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Total Drama Island (2023) S2 "Rewrited" au
A possibly cringe Fan Fic that I'll hate on the future
So, this is a fan fic of an Rewrited au of mine... """""Rewrited""""" because I'll change alot of things and I am just making this fan fic for fun while showing you guys what I would change.
Okay, let I start this modern tragedy already.
First part:
Episode 01, The kids will (not) be okay:
-The episode starts with Chris, Chef and the entire cast from the Total Drama island (2023) on a plane, going to a new season in a "new" place. Chris was talking to someone by a Walkie Talkie.
*Biiz*
???: Mr. McLean, seriously that you're lying to them saying that they're going to some kind of "total drama: World Tour" 2?
Chris: umm... Maybe--?
???: McLean! That's pratically clickbai-
Chris: Hey! Don't you dare use this "modern generation" language on me! Anyways, be ready because we're almost getting to there.
???: ah, ok-
- Chris ends the transmission
Chris: wow! That boy still annoying...
Chef: Chris, we're recording!
Chris: Ah, don't worry! After this introduction we will be finally free! ... I mean, just me, not you!
Chef: grr...
Chris: ah, calm down! Anyways, it's been a year 'total drama fans'! Since we don't see Each other THAT long, I'll give y'all a quick recap.
Last season on Total Drama Island:
16 new contestants showed up with the dream of taking that 1 million dollars price.
And the eliminations we're surprising!
Caleb was just there. until he even had the chance of doing something, Bowie made everyone eliminate him! Poor boy...
Nichelle humiliated herself Infront of everyone.
Emma HAD a chance of showing to everyone on live tv that Chase is (or was) a horrible person, but Chase was luckier than her.
Julia was boring, the way she talked, the "spiritual, love and peace" things that she normally talks about was annoying enough to her team.
Wayne would do anything and everything for his best friend Raj, and he was more than happy when he found out about his buddy's secret!
Scary Girl was Creepy, but not for Axel and Ripper! They we're her Unic friends that she had in a while, and the Unic ones that think that her actions are more annoying than scary.
Priya was pathetic! Seriously that she think her parents are so great that she easily go insane when someone criticizes them? Pff, surely the most well deserved elimination of that season.
Mk was smart, a little too much. And because of that, she went from being Bowie's Allie, to be a traitor! Well, it was that, that Bowie made everyone believe.
Raj has a secret, he loves Bowie! And because of that, he made our fandom go wild for them! The fandom loves them! Especially that people from that one Social Media that has "Tum" on the start...
And Chase knowed About that! The fact that Bowie and Raj we're dating, of course. Not the fact that the fandom is crazy for them. So, as a indirect revenge for MK, he was double eliminated with Raj!
Ripper and Damien have a... Interesting friendship. A "nerd hater" and a nerd!
Ripper was... Adorable? Yeah, he went from being a pathetic alpha male wannabe, from being a even nicer version of Owen, and because of that "adorable" personality that he gained he made Damien, Zee and especially Chase be his best friends! (Axel and scary girl too) Good for him, I guess.
Damien screamed a lot until His friends convinced him that being public humiliated in live television isn't that bad!
And Millie was nice, she tried to write a book about how much this generation is potentially bad, but after Priya's elimination, she learned that it was just a exception! There IS good people from this generation, you just need to find the right ones! (Priya not included)
And let's go to the final 3...
Axel, she had everything to win! The strength, the power, the personality... But, Ripper and Scary Girl missed her, so they finded a way to make her go back to them! That's what you gain when you are friends with a fake emo and ex-bad boy.
Zee, how did he got in there?! He could easily be eliminated until the merge but no one wanted to! And if wasn't for the "milk" part of the last challenge, he would have won! But he didn't.
And Bowie won! He used and eliminated half of the cast not counting with Wayne and Raj, of course.
Chris: So yeah, EVERYONE that I mentioned is back!
-Then it cuts to Chris in the passagers cabin with the 16 participants.
All the 16 participants are in here
The one that went out first:
Caleb: I'll make YOU guys regret voting me off...
-Caleb said in anger, while pointing at Bowie
Bowie: geez...
Ripper: you got a bit 'edgy' after 1 year, huh?
Caleb: what?
The most misunderstood one:
Ripper: huh?
Chase: wait, since when Ripper is misunderstood?
And the worse one:
Chase: excuse me?!
Emma: pff...
And of course, the winner:
Bowie: yeah, exactly, me!
Chris: well, I don't know if you guys noticed but Bowie was the Unic villain after a long time that won a season, the Unic one that did that was heather.
Bowie: wait, reall-
Chris: okay, this is slowly getting boring! So let's make the things end quickly!
-the ground below all the participants opened up, making all the participants fall into The water.
Chris: Ahaha... I'll miss that, and Chef already leaved without even saying "bye"!!
-Chris quickly ran to the drivers cabin, grabbing the plane's volant and taking control of it.
Chris: arg! Okay, I'll be quick! This surely the last time you all will see me hosting this program! Yeah, this is Sooo sad! But listen up! The future is bullet proof and the aftermath WILL be secundary! And time to them do it now and do it loud! I am Chris McLean, and I'll never, EVER see y'all again! Bye, losers!!
-after Chris leaved everyone behind, the scene cuts to the brand new hosts
...
Topher: Yeah, we're finally hosting our favorite reality show ever!
Sierra: But it's just so sad that Chris is gone for like... Forever?
Topher: nah, judging by the way he is he'll surely randomly appear when we Least expect it or something. But anyways, yeah, Chris finally gave his role as host for someone else!
Sierra: two to be exact.
Topher: yeah, right! Anyways, I am Topher! I was a participant of Pahkitew island!
Sierra: and I'm Sierra--!! I was a participant of World Tour!
Topher: and if you haven't noticed yet...
*Both Sierra and Topher say together*
We are the brand new hosts of total drama island
...
Topher: season 2.
Sierra: you don't need to explain it to the Audience-
Topher: okay, now pull the opening already.
#deimos post#gay loser post#total drama#total drama island 2023#total drama 2023#tdi 2023#total drama island#tdi 2023 “rewrited” au#td caleb#td axel#td Nichelle#td scary girl#td damien#td mk#td wayne#td raj#td ripper#td zee#td chase#td emma#td julia#td millie#td bowie#td priya#td sierra#td topher#td chris#td chef
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A Shitty Recap of An Unearthly Child
For convoluted legal reasons, the very first episode of Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child, is unavailable for the public to screen (they cover the details here: https://www.ign.com/articles/why-the-first-four-doctor-who-episodes-ever-made-wont-be-on-bbc-iplayer ). So I’ll be recapping it with some screenshots here!
[Image ID: The words “An Unearthly Child” superimposed over an image of a 1960s police box]
We open with a scene of a police officer walking through the mist, opening the gates to the Foreman Junkyard and passing by a Perfectly Average Police Box.
Cut to Coal Hill High School, where the bell has rung to signal the end of the day and we see our leads, BARBARA the history teacher and IAN the chemistry teacher.
[Image ID: a man and a woman talking in a high school chemistry classroom. There is a chalkboard in the background]
BARBARA: We need to talk about Susan.
IAN: Susan?
BARBARA: You know, the fucking weirdo.
IAN: I do know, though when you put it like that-
BARBARA: Look, her grades are really high but her homework is shit, and when I went to go see where her home address is I ended up in a random junkyard.
IAN: Well, that could’ve been a typo in the school system.
BARBARA: Maybe, but when I went to go ask her about talking to her grandfather, she said that it would be absolutely impossible. For her only living relative, don’t you think that sounds a little-
IAN: Don’t!
BARBARA: Sus?
IAN: *sighs* Well, there’s probably some perfectly reasonable explanation for it.
BARBARA: I promised to go lend her a book, want to help me get to the bottom of it?
IAN: Sure.
Cut to SUSAN in another classroom, stimming!
[Image ID: Susan standing in the foreground, holding a radio with one hand and drumming her fingers on her wrist with the other. Barbara and Ian are in the background]
BARBARA: I have that book about the French Revolution you wanted, Susan.
SUSAN: Oh, thanks! I’ll return it tomorrow.
BARBARA: You can return it when you’ve finished it.
SUSAN: I will have finished it by tomorrow :3
IAN: Nice Beatles tunes you’re listening to there.
SUSAN: Wow, I didn’t think you were young enough to know about the Beatles.
IAN: Listen, student of mine, I was just about to give Barbara a ride home, and I’ve got extra room in my car if you want a lift.
SUSAN: Umm, you know what, I think I’d rather walk home in the dark. That has spookier vibes. Yeah.
BARBARA and IAN exit the room. We hold on SUSAN, who starts flipping through her book.
[Image ID: Susan flipping through a book]
SUSAN: The fuck is this bullshit?
Cut back to BARBARA and IAN
IAN: Well, that settles it. Something is definitely off about that situation. We should stake out her home address and see what’s up with that.
BARBARA: Now you’re talking!
[Image ID: BARBARA and IAN standing in a classroom, looking at each other lovingly]
Cut to BARBARA and IAN in IAN’S CAR, parked outside the Foreman Junkyard eating Taco Bell.
[Image ID: the blurriest photo ever of Ian and Barbara sitting in the front of Ian’s car]
BARBARA: Did you know Susan doesn’t know how English currency works?
Flashback to the classroom, where all of Susan’s classmates are laughing at her.
[Image ID: Susan standing in the classroom, looking very upset]
SUSAN: Shit, you mean you haven’t converted to the decimal system yet? Now I’ll have to learn what sixpence and a shilling is!
[Image ID: Barbara and Ian sitting in Ian’s car again, with Ian looking slightly annoyed]
IAN: You know people from other countries exist, right?
BARBARA: Don’t chicken out on me, this whole operation was your idea.
IAN: I think you’re just really curious about this whole situation and that there’s a simple explanation for it all.
BARBARA: Her homework lately’s been shit! It’s the right thing to do!
IAN: Barbara, we’re staking out a junkyard in my car eating Taco Bell. There’s been shittier homework. Bad social skills, good schoolwork, and reading books in improbably short periods of time, you know what that sounds like to me? Autism.
BARBARA: It’s the 1960s, you’re not supposed to know that exists yet.
Then they notice Susan stepping into the junkyard and get out to follow her.
[Image ID: BARBARA and IAN standing in front of a police box, placing their hands on it]
IAN: A police box? In a junkyard? Who’s going to have an emergency in here?
BARBARA: Forget that, where’d Susan go?
Just then, the DOCTOR steps into the screen!
[Image ID: the First Doctor standing in a junkyard]
DOCTOR: Rassilon’s toenails, the only thing this planet has is weed and racism!
IAN: Hey you, have you seen a young woman wandering around here?
DOCTOR: No, I can’t say I have. And who are you again?
BARBARA: We’re Susan’s high school teachers. We’re here to check on her because we suspect that she might be hiding her grandfather’s corpse around here while the rats eat her homework.
DOCTOR: Uh huh… perhaps you have the wrong junkyard.
Suddenly they hear Susan’s voice coming from inside the police box!
SUSAN: Grandfather, you left the bong on the stack of scrap metal again!
BARBARA: Susan!
DOCTOR: Shit.
IAN: Are you her grandfather? Is she being locked inside that box? What the hell? Susan, try to dial the police from inside there!
[Image ID: the Doctor looking at Ian smugly in the foreground while Barbara looks on in the background]
DOCTOR: I think the two of you are just hearing things. You know how it is with junkyards and their junkyard echolocation. Common knowledge. This is just an ordinary, empty box.
IAN: If it’s just an ordinary box, then you wouldn’t mind stepping aside so we can look inside, would you?
DOCTOR: Oh, fuck off already!
IAN: Not in a million years. Susan, we’re coming for you!
The two of them tussle while BARBARA runs around them and opens the door to the police box.
[Image ID: some blurry shit that looks like an old man throwing hands with a guy in his 30s if you squint]
Barbara steps into the police box, and all three of them end up on the inside!
[Image ID: Barbara, Ian, the Doctor, and Susan all standing around the interior of the police box]
SUSAN: Grandfather, did you grab the bo- oh.
BARBARA: O_O
IAN: How is it bigger on the inside? That defies the laws of physics?
[Image ID: the Doctor holding up one hand as he lectures Susan. Ian watches them in the foreground]
DOCTOR: You’d better get used to it, because you’re my prisoners now. Susan, I told you something like this would happen if you tried to attend high school. Now we’ll have to get a litter box or something for them. I think Koschei left some collars and a leash somewhere around here last time he visited…
IAN: You can’t keep us prisoners in here, that’s inhumane! Besides, someone else is going to stumble onto this box eventually.
DOCTOR: Well then, it’s a good thing that neither I nor Susan are human, then? And I’ll just have to pilot the box elsewhere.
IAN: Pilot a box? But physics-
SUSAN: No, it’s true. Grandfather and I are both Time Lords from the planet Gallifrey, although those names won’t be established for another couple of seasons. The box is actually a time traveling ship called the TARDIS, which is an acronym that I came up with that’ll give a headache to anyone trying to understand the lore. We’re exiles, actually.
[Image ID: Barbara looking at Susan sweetly but sternly]
BARBARA: Susan, sweetheart, have you ever heard of brainwashing?
SUSAN: You’re inside the ship! How do you want proof more definitive than that?
IAN: That’s it, I’m out of here.
Both Barbara and Ian attempt to leave the ship, but find themselves being held back.
[Image ID: Barbara and Ian try to open the doors of the TARDIS but are unable to. Their faces are in distress]
BARBARA: Damn, that old bastard must’ve locked the doors somehow.
DOCTOR: Did you not hear the part where I said you’re my prisoners now?
IAN: I saw him pushing one of those buttons on the console!
DOCTOR: You’ll never find out which button that was! It takes decades to learn the controls to the TARDIS. Even I haven’t learned them all yet!
SUSAN: You threw away the instruction manual, grandfather.
Ian rushes at the control panel and presses a button, but the Doctor presses another button and he gets fucking tasered.
[Image ID: Susan watches as Ian gets electrocuted]
DOCTOR: Bad human! Down!
SUSAN: Grandfather, no!
DOCTOR: Let’s get out of here, we’ve stayed in one place too long already. They wouldn’t let me join the Coal Hill PTA, anyways.
SUSAN: I won’t let you!
The Doctor starts operating the controls to the TARDIS, but Susan jumps at him from behind and knocks him off balance.
[Image ID: a couple of smudges that look like Susan and the Doctor tussling behind the TARDIS console]
SUSAN: They have the Beatles and free love and people my own age here!
DOCTOR: My child, you’re several decades older than every other human at that high school.
SUSAN: I don’t care, you can’t tell me what to do anymore!
They knock over several levers and press multiple buttons in the process, and a few seconds later, the wheezing noise of the TARDIS taking off is heard. Everyone inexplicably passes out, and we fade to black. Then, the TARDIS reappears in an ancient landscape, where we see a strange face looking upon it…
TO BE CONTINUED
#doctor who#first doctor#ian chesterton#barbara wright#susan foreman#tardis#an unearthly child#recap#screenshots#that took me an hour#and oh look the rest of the arc is illegal to watch as well#deep sigh#lemme know if you want me to cover that too#classic who
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Disventure Camp All Stars Power Ranking (Round 9)
Time to shoot my shot at nailing a perfect score for the next elimination. Something tells me that the power rankings game is about to change, though...
In case you haven't seen my previous power rankings ( 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 ), the Power Ranking Format is essentially a way of ranking how well each player is doing in the game. So, in essence, this is a long form way of predicting who I think will be eliminated from the competition in the next episode. There will be spoilers for last week's episode (obviously) and its power ranking, so make sure to read that first if you don't want to be spoiled on how I ranked our last boot. If you want more clarification on the rules, that first post will help you out as well. Furthermore, I'm going to be spoiling the preview for next episode, so if you want to go in TOTALLY blind, save this for later. Let's go!
Recap - Tess' Elimination
Current Point Total: 34 acquired/53 total
Um. Oops.
Needless to say, Tess wasn't the only one blindsided this episode. I guess putting Tess in the direct middle point of my rankings wasn't that bad in the grand scheme of things, but I'm pretty sure it is my worst call of the season thus far. I had the right idea about Gabby being able to somehow eliminate one of the Cyan heroes, even if the "advantage" I was picturing was entirely different from the team-combining that wound up happening. Thanks a lot for throwing that one on me out of nowhere, Kristal.
Like I said in my initial thoughts, I do sort of wish that Aiden would have been the one to go home instead of Tess. However, I also feel like some opinions I've seen around have been... overestimating the extent to which Tess was a good character this season, in my opinion. I do think Tess' portrayal in All Stars is probably superior to S2, just because her arc wasn't solely hinging on Hunter. However, her portrayal this season was getting a little boring, at least to me. She was kind, patient, a good friend, super strong, great at claw games... what are her flaws supposed to be, again?
It was definitely supposed to be her indecisive nature; she needed to choose whether she should stick with her friends or do what's best for her game. Then again, that decision was kind of made for her by Ellie acting more villainously, such that Tess never needed to make a judgment call. (She got to stand by her friends and do what was better for her game.) I was starting to worry that she would just coast to the finale as a very likeable yet fairly bland hero-- sort of like what the show makes fun of S2 Aiden for being, but at least he wasn't solely solving others' problems as he went.
I don't want to make this sound like I'm some huge Tess anti. I like Tess! I'm sad she had to go! I found her indecision and commitment to kindness relatable, and I enjoyed her interactions with Ally and Ellie especially. I just don't fully understand all of the people bemoaning the fact that the DC writers sent some phenomenal, lynchpin character home ahead of her time when I think she served her purpose as a mid-game exit nicely. Even if you disagree, I hope you can respect me sharing my thoughts.
Trailer Analysis
Here's the big one out of the way-- it's finally the merge! Between the shared tent and everyone being present at tribal, there's really no way to argue around that. Finally, I don't have to try to anticipate when the merge is going to happen to predict where characters might go. Of course, this opens up the new can of worms that is trying to predict how everyone will act now that they're at the same camp. I feel like it should be easier, but... we'll see...?
Here's Gabby following after the villain's alliance. The fact that she's trailing behind them could imply that they aren't fully including Gabby in their proceedings, but... I genuinely don't know why they would do that? With 10 people at the merge, six votes is a majority, so it's super important for the villains to work with Gabby to have at least five in numbers. This is probably more that the former Yellow Team goes off to do something and Gabby follows behind them, making it obvious where her allegiances lie.
Tom and Jake are having a chat... again. Now that these two are on the same team again, this is gonna happen a lot, isn't it?
Looks like the merge color might be black, which makes sense as the K to their CMYK. Yul has some purple paint on his chin, which may be the result of Kristal demonstrating the paint gun on him. Or, the ammo might not be paint, but instead the blueberries we see throughout the trailer-- same point either way. Also, Ashley (and maybe Grett) is the only morning person. Tracks.
The challenge is something involving paint guns, not sure what. We don't see any footage of people covered in paint, which possibly means that shooting other people isn't part of the challenge? Or, maybe they're just trying to hide who doesn't win immunity. I imagine that, whatever it is, Ashley will be pretty good at it. Ally too. All of the guns and gear are the same color, so it seems like there aren't any inherent teams, but it is a challenge in which allies seem to be working together to some capacity.
Everyone at tribal! Very fun. Unlike Survivor, there's no immunity necklace, so we can't tell who may be immune at this vote. People are still sitting with their tribes, but I don't think that has any meaning beyond people sitting by those they're aligned with.
"Once the votes are read, the decision is final. The person voted out will have to leave for the Bus of Losers immediately!"
The dialogue is the standard thing that Kristal says before every vote reading, so nothing particularly special there. However, what I want to look at is who was shown reacting in the flashes before the votes are read. Can they give us hints as to who is in danger? Here's who was shown in every All Stars episode prior to this one:
(no votes)
Fiore + Hunter + Ashley/Jake
Gabby/Tom/Aiden + Tess/Lake/Ellie*
Riya/Grett/Alec + Miriam/Connor/Yul*
Ashley + Hunter/Ally + Fiore
Yul/Grett + Connor/Alec/Riya*
Fiore/Ally + Jake/Ashley*
Ellie + Tom + Gabby
Tess/Aiden/Tom + Riya/Yul/Alec/Grett + Gabby*
Okay, that wasn't actually as helpful as I thought, just because 5/8 rounds showed every person on the team, which guarantees 100% chance of showing the boot. Still, in the three cases that they didn't show everyone, 2/3 showed the boot, and 3/3 of them showed people who received votes. This could imply that some of Ally, Yul, Alec, and Jake could be major vote-getters, or the eliminated person, in the tribal council.
I hoped it would help me out more, because, with unofficial lines drawn between five heroes (Ashley, Ally, Jake, Tom, Aiden) and five villains (Alec, Riya, Yul, Grett, Gabby), I think this tribal could be fairly unpredictable. Will a villain ascend to heroism, or will a hero fall into villainy? Here are my thoughts.
Power Ranking
#1: Gabby
(I guess if the merge team's color is black, I just have to leave the name black.)
She finally did it! Gabby is #1 in my power rankings!!! What could be behind much a major shift in position?
Well, the merge, basically. Not from an edit position, though: this is a direct result of her swing-voting her way to safety. Gabby was the most recent addition to the decently tight villains alliance, so it stands to reason that, if the heroes are looking for a sixth to bring to their side, they would want to work with Gabby, not vote her out. Not to mention, the villains have no reason to target Gabby at the moment, because they desperately need her vote. Sounds like no votes will be cast in Gabby's name, eh?
As the cherry on top, Gabby was the merge boot in S1, and I would imagine that they wouldn't want to give her that exact same placement again. In my mind, there's basically no way that this episode will result in Gabby's elimination.
#2: Grett
My highest placed choices this time were chosen based on the logic, "which of the heroes would be the least likely for the villains to target, and which of the villains would be the least likely for the heroes to target?" Out of all the potential threats in the villains alliance, I see very little reason why the heroes would view Grett as the biggest.
While last challenge did prove that she is a baller, Grett isn't exactly known as being a huge challenge threat. (The one individual immunity she won in S1 was basically handed to her by Alec and Fiore.) She's not a strategic mastermind or leader, and most of the relationships she had coming out of S1 lean negative. The heroes would only target her to diminish the villains' numbers, but if you have the chance to diminish the villains' numbers, why wouldn't you target someone scarier?
Grett appears to still be in the middle of her character arc, and, at this point, I see her arc ending with Yul exiting the game before she does. That hasn't happened yet, so I imagine that Grett will be camping for a little while longer yet.
#3: Jake
Listen up, 'cause this next piece of reasoning is going to be important for the rest of my power rankings this week. I think that, if the villains are looking for a sixth vote to recruit, they're going to be looking to Jake as their most likely addition. Alec already manipulated Jake once this season to vote out James and save Fiore, so Jake would probably be at the forefront of Alec's mind when coming up with plans to eliminate heroes and save villains again. Jake is also... teetering on the edge of hero and villain this season, narratively speaking, so it would make sense if he had to face that music at some point.
Whether Jake flips on the heroes or not, if the villains want to work with him, he won't be their target. And, even if he isn't their object of recruitment, why Jake? The man is a hot mess! His mere presence causes conflict between the heroes, both on the Ashley/Ally end and the Tom/Aiden end. The villains should be trying to keep him around for as long as possible.
Despite my glowing(?) words, there is one way that I could see Jake going home. If Ally, Aiden, or whoever was so sick of Jake that they were willing to work with the villains just to take him out, the villains could exploit that and eliminate him on an "at least it's not me" basis. However, I don't think that would be the plan, because I don't think Ally or Aiden would really want to agree to it, and I don't think it makes much sense narratively. I don't think Jake will be eliminated. That's why he's #3.
#4: Alec
I believe that, if the heroes could somehow magically eliminate the villain of their choosing, Alec would be the smartest option for them to shoot for. He's their leader, and without them, the alliance might crumble (such as, if Yul and Riya start going for each other's throats again).
He's also proven to be pretty good at immunity challenges. Yes, he only actually won 1/5 individual immunity challenges in S1, which was the scorpions in the cave challenge. But, let's look at a breakdown of what actually happened. Alec had mastery of both the questions and cages challenge and the zombie apocalypse challenge, handing off the win to his teammates (Grett and Fiore) for strategic reasons. While it's not a guarantee, it's definitely possible he could have won the medals in the rain challenge if he didn't forfeit the win to Ellie. And, it took active sabotage on Ellie's part to prevent him from winning the final four paired challenge. Add all that together, and... there's a possibility that Alec could have won every individual immunity challenge based on pure skill if no strategy was involved. He's scary!
However, that's only what the heroes would do ideally. In reality, I have no idea how they would bring the votes together to land on Alec. I don't know if all five heroes could count on all five of their votes to coalesce on Alec, much less pulling in one of the villains, who all seem to respect him.
For these reasons, maybe I should have put Alec even higher up on the list. I don't think it would make much narrative sense for him to go home at this point, either. However, I do understand why people would want to attempt to vote him out, which I can't say for Gabby, Grett, or (for the most part) Jake. Thus, Alec lands in spot #4... just like in S1. Smh.
#5: Yul
Kind of similarly to Jake, I think that the main reason why Yul would be voted out would be if the heroes were able to convince the villains (Alec and Riya at least) to flip Yul because he's just that annoying. However, this would be an incredibly bold move to make when the heroes have very little information as to the inner workings of the former Yellow team. As far as they know, Yul and Grett are still a happy couple. I also see Alec willing to give up one of his numbers at this point even less than Ally or Ashley, so the whole plan seems unlikely. Not impossible, but unlikely.
Anyways, Yul is still obviously involved in a plotline with Grett and the rest of Yellow, but that could be resolved in one episode at any point now, imo. I just think that's probably still coming a few episodes down the line, to break up the villains then instead of now. Yul should be thanking his lucky stars that Yellow never went to tribal again after voting out Connor. I guess he probably thinks that he is his own lucky star. Yul should be thanking himself. Yeah, that tracks with Yul's thought process.
#6: Riya
With Riya being placed here, I think you can pretty clearly tell that I think the villains are going to win this round, sending a hero home. I just think it makes more sense with my projected arc for the rest of the season. The villains will stick with their alliance and kick out a hero or two, but just when all hope seems lost for the heroes (for instance, when there are three of them left) the villains will turn on each other and start cannibalizing themselves. Therefore, at the end, we can have a mix of surviving heroes and villains for the finale. That's what makes most sense to me at this point, although I acknowledge that I'm not factoring in the status quo shakeup of a returning player. Mostly because I don't know when they're coming back. Oops.
Anyways, in the case that I'm wrong, I think Riya would be the most likely villain to be eliminated. This is mostly because of Aiden's vendetta against her. I'm not saying that Aiden would necessarily be the hero alliance's leader or anything, but in the case that no one else has any strong opinions on who to take out, we know that Aiden has a strong preference for taking out Riya. Tom would probably back him up, too.
Riya is in a weird spot narratively because what she has right now is, "friends with Alec, enemies with Aiden, friends and enemies with Yul." She clearly has some important relationships, but... she isn't really undergoing any kind of character development, as far as I can tell? Like, they aren't delving as deep into her character as they are with Gabby, Grett, Ally, etc. It's possible that could spell mid-game boot for her? Still, I don't think that will be now, because the villains seem far less shakable than the fractured heroes at this point. I was pretty wrong about Tess last time though, so, there's certainly a possibility that I'll be cashing in 6 points for Riya at the end of this episode.
#7: Ashley
Now that we've reached the merge, Ashley doesn't have that same sort of shield that I felt she had pre-merge. It's definitely possible that the villains would choose to snipe Ashley for the same reasons that the heroes would love to snipe Alec: she's strong and tough, as well as a calming/uniting factor between Jake and Ally. She's the most heroic hero. Take Ashley away, and the prospects of the heroes mustering any kind of alliance grow even dimmer.
However, because Ashley is so well liked, it would be really hard for the villains to convince one of the heroes to vote with them to take her out. Like, no shot Ally takes that deal, and Aiden and Tom would have to realize that it'd be a bad move for their games to do so. There's a small chance that they could manipulate Jake's jealousy to convince him to do it, but 9 times out of 10 that manipulation would result in an Ally boot instead.
Furthermore, there's a high chance that Ashley will win immunity in this country-ass shooting challenge, rendering this entire train of thought pointless. Ashley is probably still fine, but I could see her role in the narrative no longer being necessary at this point as well. It's that that landed her down here, instead of higher on the list.
#8: Tom
These next three are the ones who I believe are seriously at risk of going home. Like I said, I think that Jake is going to (temporarily) continue his chain of character degradation by letting his jealousy land him on the villains team, taking out one of the players he's been complaining about these past few episodes. And, boy, has he been complaining about Tom...!
Tom is a decently big physical threat, so I see no reason why the villains wouldn't agree to take him out if that's what they managed to get Jake on board for. If Tom, say, decided to tell Jake that he was lying about having a boyfriend in their chat on that rock, Jake could grow so fed up with Tom that he just wants Tom out. That could lead to a Tom elimination, as a result of his lies.
However, part of me still believes that it's still too early to pull the trigger on sending Tom home. Both Tom and Jake have still privately admitted that they really care about the other, and if that's how Jake really feels, he might have a hard time actually putting pen to paper. They haven't been on the same team all season thus far. Couldn't Jake still feel guilty about idoling Tom out with his own totem last time, and not be able to write Tom's name down...? I feel like there are still other characters more expendable than Tom, but I wouldn't be shocked if Tom went here.
#9: Ally
Ally is one of the people that Jake could wind up targeting, for sure. Voting Aiden out might make Tom dislike him even more, whereas, theoretically, if Ally were gone, Ashley would have no choice but to make Jake her closest partner. That could be appealing for Jake.
Whether or not Ally would stick around in a narrative sense is... difficult. Now that Tess has been eliminated, I feel like the writers would want to keep Ally around as a representative of that relationship/plot point of S2. However, without Hunter or Tess still in the game, the potential for future Ally-centric plotlines has also been slightly kneecapped.
For whatever reasons, it seems to me like the writers didn't really like the HunTessAlly relationship in general? All three of them had pretty radical personality changes since S2, and Hunter and Tess were both eliminated somewhat randomly in favor of characters who made it further the first time (Fiore and Aiden). Out of the three, I think that changed-Ally both had the most care put into her and emanates the most potential. But, it could be that all three of them were brought back into the season with minor "improvements" (subject to viewer interpretation whether they are improvements-- I think Ally is better, Hunter is worse, and Tess is a draw) mostly as plot devices/stepping stools for other, more important characters.
(I don't hate Ally, either. I like Ally. I just think that the way the HunTessAlly relationship has been handled this season has been less than ideal. I get it, because the writers wanted to prioritize other relationships, all of which I've been enjoying, but I still wish they could have gotten more focus time for themselves and not just as props to other characters. Maybe I'm explaining too much. I don't like being negative :( )
However, I also think Ally could win this challenge with her pro gamer skillz. So, there's that. Besides, I can't help but feel like there's someone Jake wants out of the game even more than Ally or Tom...
#10: Aiden
Aiden makes the most sense as the next elimination for a lot of reasons. Or, namely, the lots of people who want him out may all come together to make him the next elimination. It's striking.
The villains alliance wants a sixth vote to establish the majority, for which they will probably turn to Jake. Jake wants Aiden out of the game because he kissed Tom and they now have a rivalry. That's one person pitching Aiden's name.
The villains alliance also wants to ensure that they keep Gabby on their side-- even if they can pull in Jake, it doesn't matter so much if Gabby flips back to the heroes because she, like, doesn't want to vote out Ally or whatever. Well, no matter. Gabby wants revenge on her former Cyan tribemates, Tom and Aiden. Gabby wants to vote Aiden out. That's a second person pitching Aiden's name.
But, what if the villains themselves don't actually want to vote Aiden out...? Haha, no. Riya very clearly wants to establish dominance over Aiden once again, and even already threw out his name last episode. And, even though Yul insisted that Aiden wasn't a threat last time, it's not like he likes Aiden, either. It was James' refusal to poison the man that got Yul eliminated and really sick in S2. I'm sure he'd be happy with Aiden leaving from a karma standpoint, if not a strategic one. That could be people three and four pitching Aiden's name.
If the villains want to remain united, throwing all their votes on Aiden makes the most sense. I don't think he would win this challenge, and, still, no totem has been announced, so if he gets six votes, I think he's just toast. This is my guess as to the dominant strategy of the episode, so we'll see if I'm on the mark.
Also, I want to acknowledge that I'm aware that it doesn't have to be a 6-4 (or even 5-5) vote at Tribal council. The villains could, for example, scheme to get Ashley, Ally, and Jake to vote out Aiden, and Aiden and Tom to vote out Ally, while the villains put four votes on Ashley (4-3-2 vote). However, due to the difficulty of executing that plan, I find it unlikely that that's what's going to happen. I feel like Disventure Camp usually sticks to pretty standard voting schemes (like a four person vote going 3-1 instead of 2-1-1 or whatever), so I'm working off of that assumption. I think they did some fancier stuff with Fiore in S1, though, so it's not totally off the table.
Anyways! Those are my power rankings for this week. This episode is going to be really important for establishing the key characters and plotlines moving forward in the post-merge, so I'll surely be keeping my eyes out.
Also, this week is the season finale of the actual Survivor 46! Not really related to DC, but I'm really excited about it, so I'm mentioning it here. I'm gonna be swimming in exciting game show content this week >:) I hope you all have a nice week, too! Bye!
#disventure camp#disventure camp spoilers#dcas#dcas power rankings#sorry i didn't manage to get this one out before the episode dropped for patrons guys :(#it is not my fault that the preview comes out at the beginning of my work week and the patron drop is at the end of it#such that if i want to publish before tuesday i have to write it all during my full time work week#still. with these getting shorter every time hopefully i can start publishing them earlier#i promise that I'M not a patron though so all my takes are totally spoiler-free#... which you could probably already tell from how hard i beefed it last time. sigh.#gabby disventure camp#grett disventure camp#jake disventure camp#alec disventure camp#yul disventure camp#riya disventure camp#ashley disventure camp#tom disventure camp#ally disventure camp#aiden disventure camp
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It’s been a bit! But I suppose that’s normal for these. I did have a good reason for it taking so long this time. In the first episode recap or whatever you’d like to call these posts I said that I started doing them to get back into writing Unbreakable. Well! I’m done chapter 6!!! 🥳 Woo! Well… mostly done it. I have to like, write at least a couple verses for a song Stormer wrote and do my usual week of proofreading before I post it. But! I’m 99% done it!!!
Let’s celebrate my new spare time with an episode of Jem.
I had literally no idea what this episode’s title was. It completely escaped me for some reason. Why am I so confused by that?
Kimber’s my favourite character! How did I forget the episode with her name in it? I think the actual answer is that there are a couple episodes where Kimber’s rebelled and those ones were a little more of a meaningful rebellion. Especially the one that really kicked off my favourite Jem ship.
Oh by the way. I actually forgot that the last episode ended on the yacht being on a crash course with an oil tanker. I think part of why I don’t feel too bad about how densely packed my Jem fanfics tend to be is because the show itself covers a lot in each episode.
Let's get to it.
So the yacht almost crashes into the taker ship, Danielle’s crew manages to save the ship. Although the party guests get a little thrown around.
Jem included!
So… Is this how boats work? I grew up in a landlocked province; I didn’t even see the ocean until I was in my mid-20s. My family would go to a lake but it was small, probably too small for a speeding yacht. I don���t know boat physics.
Anyway, Rio pulls Jem back onboard.
And here is our first kiss between Jem and Rio. Jerrica got caught up in the moment and gave her boyfriend a kiss on the lips. But of course she’s Jem right now and Rio to his credit, pulled away and said that it’s wrong to cheat on Jerrica with Jem.
He’s not bad in these first few episodes!
With the crisis averted everybody makes sure Jem and Rio are okay, then they see the Misfits taunting them from their little speed boat. And Stormer does a Flim Flam as hell laugh. Sorry Sue Blu I love The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo so I associate this style of laugh with the lovable scam artist. Now that everybody’s nice and frustrated with the uninvited guests they decide that they need to start filming Jem’s first music video as soon as possible. Anthony says he’ll direct it, and the countess offers to fund the whole thing and fly everybody to Paris.
Kimber wanted to do the whole thing the very next day. But Jem being Jerrica is like, “Sounds great, but we need to actually record our album first.”
Now we cut to Starlight Mansion and the girls. Krissie says that Jem and The Holograms will be leaving in two days. Deirdre is pretty into the idea of Paris but Ashley sure isn’t. She’s pretty darn bitter about how everybody is talking so much about Jem.
Lela asks Ashley how much money she’s made for the Honor Jar (We’re almost done with this thing. So far I haven’t spelled it Honour Jar once.) and Ashley presents the $30 she got off of Stormer. But Lela explains the rules of the jar, you must say how you earned the money because the work is as important as the cash.
Ashley has a pretty understandable reaction. She’s new and feeling unwelcome. She’s been getting criticized a lot lately and reached her breaking point. Ashley throws the money to the floor and storms out.
Yeah she didn’t earn the money in a way that would be seen as “acceptable” but I feel like at this point Ashley feels like nothing she’ll do will be good enough for the people in this foster home. And who knows what her previous one was like. This could be something she’s been dealing with for years for all we know.
Time to watch Jem and The Holograms record their first album. The song playing is Twilight in Paris, I’ll say more about it after the actual music video.
Rio asks the band to tighten up the song and asks them if they can keep going. Jem tells him that they’ll keep at it until they nail the song.
Then we get an immediate comparison to The Misfits who are recording their album. Eric tells them to pick up the tempo, Stormer enthusiastically agrees to work at it. But Pizzazz and Roxy have very little interest in honing their craft.
Then Pizzazz complains to Eric that he’s not flying her group to a place like Paris. And Eric tells her that he can only embezzle so much money from Starlight Music before he owns it.
But he does fly Zipper to Paris in order to sabotage Jem’s music video.
After a quick pan over Paris we see Anthony going over the steps for the music video with Jem. Kimber gets jealous of Jem and storms off.
She starts heading towards Zipper and her first kidnapping of the show. But Rio catches her in time. And well
is pretty rough with Kimber.
Kimber’s frustrated and tells Rio to not play big brother with her. And then after a little fight she goes to tell Rio that Jem’s not so great because she’s actually Jerrica. Shana and Aja stop Kimber right in time.
Kimber points out that Rio has the right to know. And she’s right! And Shana agrees with her! But also points out that this is Jerrica’s love life so she should be the one to tell Rio.
After that scene Zipper looks up at the top of a skyscraper and sees the gargoyles and he hatches a plan.
I’m fond of the song Twilight in Paris. Not because it’s a great song. It’s really not, the music video is kinda neat. No. I’m fond of this song because the lyrics feel like Kimber was scrambling to think of stuff that has to do with Paris, and France in general. And I just love the mental image of that. Kimber scribbling in a notebook everything she knows about Paris and coming up with only four things, the Eiffel Tower, City of Lights, a location Jem sings that I can’t understand, and France being a romantic country. And that’s it. That’s all Kimber could come up with in a day. It’s wonderful.
After the music video we see Zipper’s plan in action. What is this plan?
Why crush Jem of course! Literally!
The gargoyle misses the mark though. Zipper is very good at his job.
Rio gives Jem a tight hug after her close call and she asks him to never let go.
Kimber’s not dumb and knows exactly who sent Zipper.
Time to get an update on the Ashley subplot. She runs away from home and to a bar frequented by the Misfits.
Stormer likes kids. I did a post about it. She sees Ashley at the bar, leans down to get closer to eye level and asks Ashley for her name, and if she’s in trouble.
Pizzazz leads Ashley into the bar and I highly doubt it’s because she likes kids. She probably just saw an opportunity to get at Jem. Or Jerrica. At this point she probably dislikes them equally.
Now we see the Misfits giving Ashley some life lessons. These lessons are the opposite of what Jerrica’s been teaching her girls. Be rude, be pushy, never thank people.
Back to the stars of the show, intended stars anyway, and they’re discussing things with Danielle. Kimber’s still jealous of Jem. I do like how Danielle calls Kimber “my petite.” It’s pretty cute. I think the countess likes Kimber.
After getting into the airport, whatever section this is, I’ve never been on a plane, Jem runs off to change. And we get our first instance of Rio’s pissiness. Aja reminds him that Jerrica is supposed to meet them at the airport and he blows past her to be all mopey. Jerrica’s disappointed that Rio took off.
Aja promises her that taking a look around town will cheer her up. However...
*laughs hysterically*
Oh, sorry. I just forgot how shitty this poster looks.
Um.
Okay, so while Jem and The Holograms were in Paris The Misfits were busy putting up posters advertising them. Or maybe Eric hired a bunch of people because Pizzazz and Roxy couldn’t be bothered. Either way, their faces are plastered all over town.
Song time! This is a pretty nice song complete with convenient hole for Pizzazz to climb out of. We see Jem and The Holograms along with some Starlight Girls running around town trying to hang up all their posters and just advertise their band in general. But they’re being sabotaged the entire time. And one of the saboteurs is Ashley.
Kimber sees this and she is not happy.
She confronts Eric in his office where he is writing directly onto his desk.
And Eric starts being creepy as hell! Stop it! Jesus. If Jerrica’s 18 then Kimber’s only 15.
Eric tries to butter up Kimber by saying that as the songwriter she deserves far more credit than she’s getting, that she should be star instead of Jem. And even offers to sign Kimber on without Jem. She doesn’t outright say no to the offer but she does leave.
Now to Starlight Mansion where we see Aja and Shana reading magazines, Kimber playing guitar, and Jerrica being bushed from all the work they’re been doing. Then the phones rings.
It’s Lindsey Pierce! She asks to speak to Jem and after filling her sisters in Jerrica speaks to Lindsey in the exact same tone of voice she normally speaks in and says, “This is Jem.” I can excuse Lindsey for not really caring because Jerrica is currently a nobody. But it’s just very funny.
Lindsey says that she only wants to interview Jem and she’ll do something with the Holograms at a later date. But when Jerrica tells Kimber that only Jem is invited to this interview Kimber yells and storms out declaring that she’s going to go solo.
Hey look, Kimber’s first cry of the show. Not counting the funeral. *adds this to the Kimber rarely cries around others pile* Don't worry I won't call attention to every time a character cries. I'm just putting these into my crying folder. That is a totally normal sentence I just typed.
After Aja and Shana try to comfort Jerrica she decided to make a phone call to Lindsey to insist that the entire band be on her show. And Lindsey doesn’t mind one bit.
With that mess sorted out it’s now time to sort out a different mess. Getting Kimber back. Jerrica knows her baby sister well and figures that Kimber’s driving aimlessly while listening to her favourite radio station. And heads there in the Starlight Express to ask the DJ to broadcast a message to Kimber. Jerrica figures she’d be too unknown to get any air time but Jem definitely would be allowed on the air.
They deliver their message and Kimber hears it and returns home saying that with no Jem there is no Holograms.
Rio pulls up and calls out to the group that they’ve got 15 minutes until air time. Jerrica tells her sisters to take the roadster while she rids with Rio in his van.
There’s a lot of vans in this show.
During the drive Rio tells Jerrica that he can’t be Jem’s manager anymore. That he’s afraid he’ll hurt Jerrica. And she insists that Rio keeps working for them because they all need him and he’s irreplaceable. Rio does give in because it does mean a lot to Jerrica that he stays a part of the team.
He did not appreciate Jerrica being pulled off to do more work for Jem, as shown by him shaking his head. Part of the problem probably was the fact that Jerrica got yanked out of their hug.
Live interview time! The Misfits see this and are not happy. They run out of whatever building they're in to put a stop to it.
So, before I started this episode summary I tried very hard to remember which Misfits song played in this episode. There’s a reason I couldn’t remember! There wasn’t one!
I like this song a lot. I find myself singing it on occasion. To be honest I generally prefer Misfits music and those are the songs that tend to get stuck in my head. But there are some Holograms ones I find myself humming and singing.
Boop.
What was I doing? Oh yeah, the interview!
At some point the Misfits picked Ashley up before arriving at the TV station. Last time we saw them they were hanging out in one of their houses. I think. It's unclear where they were.
Well, trying to get in with the Misfits name didn’t work so Pizzazz sent Ashley in. And Ashley distracts the guard by kicking him really hard in the shin.
Lindsey asks Jem and a really good question. Where did the name Jem and The Holograms come from?
I suppose an easy answer would be to say that it sounds cool and futuristic.
But before Jem can think of that explanation the interview gets interrupted by The Misfits. They’re their usual pushy selves and Jem stands up to them and insults them. Good for her! I like how this show isn’t afraid to have the protagonist be rude right back.
A quick tangent because my brain is funny. I listened to the Jem audiobooks a while back and was amazed by how completely rude Jem is in some of them. Not because she was being rude to Pizzazz, but because she was being rude to everybody. The show strikes a nice balance. Jerrica does get more patient with Pizzazz post-syndication but not a lot more patient, and in season 3 all that patience is gone. With good reason!
Back to the show, Lindsey sensing a brawl on her hands asks the station to cut to commercial. She informs the Misfits that she was planning to invite them onto the show for an interview too, but now she doesn’t want to.
The Misfits demand equal time and that they get to play a song so they take the instruments on stage. But Jem isn’t having any of this and pulls Aja’s guitar out of Stormer’s hands.
Lindsey’s had it. She asks the men on the set to escort these ladies off of the set.
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And we get our first slap of show. Pizzazz tells Lindsey that her show isn’t classy enough for The Misfits.
Rio is one of the people dragging the Misfits away. He grabs Pizzazz and she makes an offer to Rio, that he should work for her. And Rio turns her down. So Pizzazz elbows Rio in the gut sending him careening off into some equipment which causes a domino effect putting Jem’s life at risk.
A fire breaks out and that is where the episode ends.
A lot of fire in this show.
And well, now you see what I mean when I say that Jem is a densely packed show. A lot happens in it. Part of why these first five episodes are like this is likely the nature of the original release of them. But wow, this is a lot to take in. Imagine being a kidling trying to keep up, watching the shorts once a week. What if you missed one? You’d be so lost!
The next one of these should get done a lot sooner than my current pace. I'd like to finish the opening five episodes before I finish writing that dreaded wedding I promised.
#Jem and the Holograms#Kujo Watches Jem#I was originally not going to put these in the main tag but they seem to be pretty well received so I'll keep doing it
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ANDOR SPOILERS
Andor is the best Disney+ show, hands down. It shows they actually have the capability to create complex story lines and complex characters, without the childish storytelling we keep seeing in media nowadays (one-liner after one-line, all action no substance, etc.).
It has a clear, strong message that is not only relevant to modern society, but its heart achingly realistic—we see it everyday (“The Empire has been choking us so slowly, we’re starting to not notice.”). Cassian getting profiled and arrested for walking and sentenced to jail because of a black-and-white system who couldn’t care less about the people. A man getting shot and hung for standing in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was just trying to help. Lands seized under an invading government’s control after the first “legitimate” excuse the government got. Showing rebellion isn’t being all nicey-nice and patient and good, but it’s dirty and brutal and grim.
And, I mean, the way they convey the Empire—not just some big, scary, obvious enemy like Darth Vader or the Emperor. It’s a little man who wants to feel big. It’s a woman who wants respect and power. It’s a room full of politicians who think of people as paperwork and pawns. It’s stormtroopers and security guards who feel protected behind their helmets and badges to act anyway they want and abuse anyone they want. It’s so nuanced and realistic, it hurts.
And that’s why it’s effective media. It’s real. There’s no room for misinterpretation. It’s a clear message of “This isn’t fiction. This is real. This is happening. This has been happening. The Empire is real and it’s here, NOW, and we need to do something or it’s going to get worse.”
No flashy lightsabers (yet). No big scary Darth Vader (yet). It’s real people vs. real people. It’s a rebellion.
It’s a masterpiece.
I could go into much more detail about why this show is so amazing (and I will; maybe and episode by episode recap pointing out all the amazing detail, because each episode is just so complex and important), but I want to watch the whole season first before diving in. But so far, it’s incredible. It’s art. And I hope we get more Star Wars content like this.
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*deep sigh*
Okay, I'm ready.
What order to watch Lego Ninjago media in?
—CRONOLOGICALLY
Khm.. Sorry, the little gremlin living inside my head and eating up my brain said that...
I will give you my toughts and to summarise them:
Imo this is totally up to what you enjoy and have the patience to endure. I watched from start to finish - almost, i will get to that - and just finished Dragon's Rising. But you don't have to do that of course. I will describe each "etap" of seasons, so you can choose and decide what is best for your viewing experience.
The older seasons AKA pre-movie:
This is from S1 to S7, before they got rebooted. These seasons lay down the basics, in lore and about the characters. You get info on elemental powers, FSM, the multive- i mean the different verses. They vary in quality, but i can say my fav ninjago episodes and seasons come from this era. But if you dont want to look at the crusty ass animation and just wanna get to the later seasons (for some reason, idk i can't look into your head), then watch:
S1 - Rise of the Snakes
S2 - Legacy of the Green Ninja
S3 - Rebooted
S5 - Possession
BONUS : S6 - Skybound
Although a lot of people shit on Hands of Time, personally i love it, but the story got cut in half and basicly never gets reference, you can cut that from the watchlist. (also guys. lets be real, the Chen season is way too overrated and was not half as good as yall make it out to be)
Or just watch a lore video and skip the juicy stuff
Post-movie , visual reboot, Lloyd begins puberty and finally gets a haircut:
From S8 to S13. Okay . the post-movie has a lot of misses. The simplified a lot of the characters, changed up stuff, overall very eh meh. I recomment you watch
S8 - Sons of Garmadon
S9 - Hunted
S11 - Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu (the first part is eh but it has some fun lore stuff later)
S12 - Prime Empire
S13 - Master of the Mountain
I will warn you that this is where they did the "10 minute episodes" for a while, and that wasn't a very nice viewing experience. Also the Oni season could have been really good, they just had some writing issues, so imo its overall skippable.
The "miniseries" or "why do you keep abandoning your cool storylines":
so we got to The Island and Skybound, the are interconnected and really good seasons, Nya focused and have cool sets and figures. Go watch them.
Then theres ...ugh...Crystalized.. the one season i half watched-half skipped. Why must they drag my girl Harumi's corpse up from the grave and cut in half a nicely written thing that could have given us a possible Morro comeback? Doc, why. so, Imo its skippable and doesent really get brought up later either. It does some fun stuff with Lloyd, but the way they took his dad's characterisation is icky. To me.
NEW GEN! Dragons, references, and being confusing about key lore again:
I am of course yapping about Dragon's Rising. We have two seasons so far, and the writng, the cast and the designs are peak. I would recommend watching it fully, very enjoyable.
OVERALL SUMMARY:
If you are picky about your content and want to limit what you wathc, the abobe is my recommendation. But really, you only get the good thing if you watch it from start to finish. (but really, just skip Crystalised-)
If you do wanna eat it whole, you should watch the first two seasons to get lore and characters down, then watch the movie - that actually has little to do with the plot, but it will only such you in further. Also a lot of people write early seasons ninjago with the movie crossovers. Then watch the rest of the seasons, and then the movie again, pre-S8. Then finish the og series and watch the movie again.
Oh yeah, there's shorts! I recommend that you either watch them as they follow the series, or do a recap of them every few seasons, OR! watch them after you finish the main series to get recapped on old stuff, then plunge into Dragon's Rising.
DR could be enjoyed without previous ninjago knowledge, bit in my opinion , its best consumed with prior and intimate knowledge of the characters!
To close this unstoppable wordshitting ive been up to: Ninjago has lots and lots of content and if you get bored watching something, feel free to skip the hell away. I know the fandom loves deep lore theories, but even we dont understand half the shit we yap about.
Remember, the first rule of Fight Club Ninjago is #1 - Have fun and be yourself :)
ALSO READ FANFICTON ITS RLY GOOD -
#eddie talks#yepps#rambles on#szófosás if you will#lego ninjago#ninjago#recommendation#eddie's asks#asks#feel free to send me asks i love yapping
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supernatural s11e10 the devil in the details (w. andrew dabb)
oh god. a funko pop?? of sam?? this is how we start an episode while sam is in the cage again with lucifer, thin plot to cover product placement. hokay.
SAM
Yeah. You’ll taunt me and you’ll, ah, torture me, and I’ll say no. And eventually, sooner than you think, my brother’s gonna walk through that door and kick your ass.
LUCIFER
Dean? You’re betting on Dean?
SAM
I always have.
i didn't see rowena colluding with lucifer coming, but it makes sense, which is nice.
LUCIFER
We’re in a memory Sam, one of the few good ones from your childhood. By the way, I thought I had Daddy issues, but you, wow! Anyway, I think you recognize the dashing young bean-pole over there.
hey young sam's colin ford grew up! actor is 20 now. haven't seen him since 7x03 with the jewel staite mess
ROWENA
Not yours! His! Hell is his! I’m his. So hurt me and what do you think he’ll do to you?
CROWLEY
Lucifer will never get out of that cell.
ROWENA
You’re willing to stake your life on that? On Sam Winchester?
that rowena was (bad) dreaming about crowley getting a funko of sam is hurting my brain just a little bit.
CROWLEY
And, he’s the devil.
ROWENA
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
CROWLEY
Oh, I’m a bad thing. He’s a worse thing. Last time Lucifer went topside you know what he wanted? Death. For you. For me. And every human. And every demon.
ROWENA
He’s changed.
CROWLEY
Oh yes, of course. All he needed was the love of a horrible woman.
good one, crowley
...smiting sickness, okay. sure, why not
CASTIEL
That explains it. You’re suffering from smiting sickness.
DEAN
That... that’s a thing?
CASTIEL
Yeah. The angels... what they did... it released a tremendous amount of energy and there’s fallout, so this whole area is poisoned.
i'll be honest, i forgot about the smiting. that i watched literally 24 hours ago. this is why i need the pre-ep recaps. if i don't write about it, woosh in one ear out the other (which also is an indicator i don't care too much :S)
didn't really wanna relive swan song but here we are.
what, MUSHY MUSIC. i had to go pull up actual 5x22 and it in fact, does NOT have the mushy music in this scene LOL. no score at all until they fall in the hole, and it's not the mushy music melody. iiinteresting. i wondered if the mushy music melody was something i just failed to notice before, now i wonder if i did happen to notice its first appearance.
they also definitely changed the levels on the screams and stuff falling in the hole haha. weird. that all was very strange. like the same scene but different production aesthetics
nice to be able to actually see billie. is that it for her? how about for young sam too? just little pop-in cameo. even got to see adam briefly in the flashback, see guys, we didn't forget him!
i feel like we're in heaven again, this tour of sam's memories with an agenda
LUCIFER
This is the worst thing you’ve ever done.
SAM
Really?
LUCIFER
After the Leviathans, when your brother was trapped in Purgatory, you were here... with a girl and a dog. You didn’t even bother trying to find him.
SAM
You know what? Not that I have to defend myself to you, but Dean and I promised we wouldn’t look for each other.
LUCIFER
Right... and if he never came back you’d be fine. But he did. So you’re not.
we're gonna gloss over the logic on that one. i'm still on the fence, i can defend either position (that it was an in-character choice or not) but i was definitely leaning towards defending sam when it happened
LUCIFER
And... so why did you let Dean talk you out of closing the gates of Hell? ‘Cos the old Sam never would’ve done that. Not ever.
SAM
I didn’t...
LUCIFER
No wait, here’s my personal favorite, is you doing every stupid thing you could to cure the Mark, even after you knew it would go bad.
SAM
My brother was dying!
LUCIFER
Yes! And you’d do anything to save him. And he’d do anything to save you. And that is the problem. Because of this [Lucifer points to Past Sam and Amelia]... you’re so overcome by guilt that you can’t stand to lose Dean again and he could never lose you, and so instead of choosing the world you choose each other, no matter how many innocent people die.
didn't know that was a direct quote from the show, definitely heard that line before though. is that the reason though? guilt from what went down with amelia when dean was in purgatory? i know lucifer is gonna be saying whatever will get sam all messed up but. feels like a weird pressure point
SAM
You’re going to lecture me about hurting people? You?
tell him, sam
LUCIFER
You know I’m right Sam. You know it! And I know if you’re going to beat the Darkness you have to be ready to die. You have to be ready to watch the people you love die. A long time ago you could have fought the good fight kid, but not anymore. You can’t win this one Sam. You’re just not strong enough.
SAM
And you are?
LUCIFER
Hey, snappin' necks and cashin' checks is what I do.
LOL okay. lucifer obviously has an agenda, is he really supposed to what. make sam doubt himself enough that he says yes?
AMBRIEL
Well, that's why we're here, right? I'm a number cruncher and you… like I said, I've heard the stories. You help. But Sam and Dean Winchester are the real heroes.
wow, sick burn.
DEAN
Where’s Sam?
CROWLEY
Don’t worry about Sam.
DEAN
I’m sorry. Have you met me?
very cute, thank you
during this last push lucifer is all up close and brought his voice down to almost a whisper, reminds me of this particular bit that really hit me in 7x02 where hallucifer's voice is trying to wake up sam and it's all soft and sweet and quiet and agh. i really do appreciate mark pellegrino in this role very much, he brings a lot to it and it's all the more threatening and awful because of it
SAM
Well, let’s say you gank her... then what?
LUCIFER
I move to LA... solve crimes?
was lucifer the show airing at this point? LOL apparently the first episode aired 5 days after this spn episode (i watched it when it was airing-ish, but that was a 'will they won't they' that pushed so hard i lost interest after it got picked by whoever because i didn't really care about the procedural aspects lol)
SAM
Wrong. Then you go about starting the Apocalypse, again, because you're an old dog and that's your old trick.
LUCIFER
Okay, first off, you don't know that. Second, even if I did that's better than what she has planned.
SAM
Is it? Really? 'Cause this is what I think, I think that whoever wins, you or the Darkness, everyone else loses. So, no. My answer is no. This isn't because of Dean, or the past, this is about me having faith in my friends, having faith in my family. We will find a way. I'm ready to die and I'm ready to watch people I love die, but I'm not ready to be your bitch.
haha what a line. little over the top but okay i'll take it
well that little cagematch had some good sam and dean moments, and really like the lighting on that top right one of dean half in red and blue. blah blah fun to paint
castiel sure actin shifty, what's up. oh did someone hitch a ride in cas
LUCIFER
Last words?
CASTIEL
Can you really beat her?
LUCIFER
I can.
CASTIEL
Then, yes.
oh for FUCK'S SAKE, CASTIEL. why do they do this. misha trying to act like pellegrino!lucifer, hard pass, too. good grief.
surely rowena doesn't stay dead...?
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Build Up, Ep 4 Recap: Kick It v The Little Prince
Welcome back to the project nobody minds waiting two weeks for -- my MNET Build Up Recaps! In the previous one, we finally finished episode 3, seeing that match up between Jay and Wumuti. In this one, we’ll see WEi’s Seokhwa and AB6IX’s Woong take on two trainees. Will the sunbaes beat the hoobaes? Will the hoobaes rebel? Only one way to find out!
After a super brief recap, the episode dives in to the first match of the episode: idols versus trainees. People comment on the flashy outfits idols Seokhwa and Woong are wearing, and wonder if they’ll dance.
“Idol beauty radiates -- Kang Seokhwa (left) x Jeon Woong team”
They introduce themselves as “fate,” and I think it’s a pun/meme that would make sense to Korean viewers because it makes everyone else laugh.
Both Woong and Seokhwa were on team Ditto, and Woong ended up with a low tier ranking even though I think his voice sounded quite nice.
In comparison to Seokhwa and Woong’s punky idol styling, the trainees Ji Yeonwoo and Jeong Yunseo are dressed simply and cutely.
Yeonwoo, left, was low tier in Decalcomanie for forgetting the words, poor kid.
You might remember Yunseo most for his red outfit in the first episode that made him look like he drove racecars for a living. (It was cute, don’t get me wrong.) You might also remember his bold confidence in his team performance of Beautiful, where unlike his fellow trainee Minseo, he seemed to be completely sure that he’d succeed. I really love his attitude!
The judges start off by asking the trainees if they’re nervous, and Jaehwan reminds Yeonwoo about his mistake. Yeonwoo says that he’s been having nightmares every night reliving that moment and that it was the worst moment of his life. Poor kid, god, can you imagine? I just want to hug him. Anyway, he promises not to make a mistake again. The other judges yell at Jaehwan for bringing it up.
The two teams trash talk a little -- the trainees say that they have nothing to lose, essentially. The idols say that the trainees are cute, and that they think beating the trainees would be a good story for MNET. Eunkwang rightfully points out, however, that a better story for MNET would be if the idols lose!
Time for a flashback.
It’s the duet-forming portion of the day, and we see Seokhwa go straight for Woong. Since Woong was in the Low Tier and probably was scared no one would pick him, you can tell he’s really glad to see Seokhwa!
“This is the narrative,” reality-savvy Woong interviews. “If you fall and go back up? That’s the narrative.” Yes, but unfortunately, MNET also likes it if you fall and keep falling. They’re sociopaths that way.
This pair up may not have been the best idea, as we’ll see, but it makes a lot of intuitive sense that these two would want to work together. For one thing, they have had similar careers so far. Both WEi and Ab6ix could be considered post-ProduceX101 groups, and they debuted 15 months apart (first AB6IX, then WEi). They would have friends in common, for starters, and given that both groups put out three singles each in 2021 and 2022, they had to be promoting at the same time at least a few times. Woong is Seokhwa’s sunbae since Woong debuted first, but Seokhwa is older, making their relationship a bit more balanced. Also, they obviously solidified their friendship during their preparations for Ditto. Plus, Seokhwa wanted to work with another idol so they could do an idol-style performance, something more dynamic than Ditto. As I said, it all makes sense, especially if you remember that often times the winning group on Boys Planet would be the group that got along better.
Ok, in this next portion I need to talk about Ji Yeonwoo and Jeong Yunseo. I think that if I were reading these recaps, I’d find those names similar enough that I wouldn’t be able to remember who is who and I might have to scroll up and down a lot. So, I’m going to call Yunseo “driver Yunseo.” This is for two reasons: (1) He looked like a racecar driver on the first day.
And (2) because he really is a “driver” in this storyline!
The flashback also shows us poor Yeonwoo, waiting for a duo partner. He voice-overs that after he messed up the lyrics, he felt like he wanted to “hide in a rat hole.” It looks like no one wants to work with him… until driver Yunseo comes over to rescue him, saying, “Let’s go, ‘04s.” Aww, they’re chingoos! (A “chingoo” is someone the same age as you, which makes you feel like you’re friends -- it’s a Korean cultural thing I don’t totally get.)
Driver Yunseo thought they’d be a good match, and I think it was smart on his part to pick Yeonwoo too. The two maknae on a show will always get a kind reception, even if they don’t always get the highest scores.
Driver Yunseo either genuinely wants to cheer up his chingoo or he knows that he has to get Yeonwoo’s confidence up if they are going to have any chance of winning, or both, because he puts his arm around his chingoo’s shoulders, he gives him complicated high-5s, and just generally does everything in his power to pump Yeonwoo up. It’s cute.
Driver Yunseo says: “Ji Yeonwoo, Nekkoya (you’re mine!)”
With Driver Yunseo’s infectious confidence beginning to spread to him, Yeonwoo vows to “rebel” and win this time. Driver Yunseo says, “I promise you, I’ll make you a narrative.” Yunseo GETS IT, you guys. I really like this kid.
Anyway, so, all the guys are sitting on the floor whispering to each other about which duos they want to challenge. Driver Yunseo says, “the team I think we can beat no matter what is Kang Seokhwa’s team.” I hate to say it, but that was pretty smart.
Ok, hear me out, because I really like all four of these guys and wouldn’t want any of them to be sad or anything, but I have noticed that Seokhwa’s voice is a bit weak. It’s a very pretty, sweet, light voice; he has a lot of potential, and a lot of current charm, seeing as he did get a judge’s vote. But he often strains on higher notes, and his belts sound like he’s tensing up his throat a lot. He’s super stable as a performer in WEi and is really well suited for the idol life. I’m just not sure that his vocals are quite to the level this show expects. Sorry, RUi!
I also think that as outwardly cheerful as Woong is, I think he’s really feeling low. I actually really like the texture of his singing voice, and think the judges were unnecessarily rough on him. Being put in the low tier when he’s a main vocal was probably pretty distressing for him. Even though *I* know his voice is really nice, it doesn’t seem like anyone on the show really seems to think so. No one is telling him his voice is nice. Only 14 people voted that they’d want to work with him. So with Woong’s confidence and reputation both kind of in the dumpster, he’s also an easy target.
The trainees correctly deduce that the idols are going to want to do something bouncy and higher energy, maybe with the some dancing, and think that they themselves can win by using their vocal skills and youth to charm the judges. “It’s not a bad picture for us if we try to beat the seniors. Not a bad picture at all,” Driver Yunseo whispers to his chingoo. I’m telling you, Yunseo GETS IT.
So up until now, I’ve been unclear as to how the whole situation with the Rival Choosing Platform Area (RCPA) worked. This time, we actually hear Solar announcing Seokwa and Woong’s names, so they were somehow selected to go down to the RCPA. You’d think that maybe the show could have told us how this all works at any point, but that would have eaten into their instant replay time, so I guess not.
Seokhwa and Woong invite a challenger.
And then a few other teams head down to the RCPA, which kind of hurts the idols’ feelings. Do they look like pushovers? They’re challenged by our two trainees, as well as by Team Geonu x Soomin and Team Hong Seongjun x Kim Seohyung.
Left to right: Woong, Seokhwa; Kim Seohyung, Hong Seongjun, Geonu, Soomin, Driver Yunseo (hidden), Yeonwoo.
Interesting, those two other teams end up each others’ rivals and are up third in this episode! So we’ll see them in the post after the next one.
The trainees make their case.
“I thought it would be an interesting scene, you know, for the viewers, you know, if the idols and trainees go against each other.”
“Ahh!”
“Especially if we win!”
“What?”
“Nothing!”
Seokhwa chooses the trainees, reasoning that they’d be easy to beat. And only later do we find out that Woong had told Seokhwa that the trainees were the one team he wanted to avoid, because it would be disastrous to lose to them! But more on that shortly.
The trainees decide that to show off their singing skills and youthful appeal, they’ll sing “The Little Prince,” originally performed by Ryeowook from SuperJunior. The song was released in 2016, when Ryeowook was almost 30, but it’s a sweet and youthful-feeling little song about love and friendship inspired by the classic story The Little Prince.
Sample lyrics:
Making a heart that is like the wind stay with me
Is such a hard thing I know
But I won’t say anything, I’m just waiting for you
The Little Prince told me
That gaining someone’s heart
Is the hardest thing to do, come to me
The Little Prince said to me
It might be sad right now
But we’re never gonna be apart
That you’re going to want to laugh with me
As they head into the performance, poor Yeonwoo talks more about how miserable he was after he made his mistake. The stakes are high! He vows to do better this time.
Watching the trainees getting ready, Baekho and Seungkwan -- who are signed to the same agency -- talk about how their monthly evaluations as trainees made them more nervous than performing ever did. Boy, do I get that! I’d rather perform 100 times than audition once.
Before they perform, the trainees do some squats, for some reason (I guess maybe to shake off the nervous energy?) and then steel themselves. It’s time!
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My thoughts:
Yeonwoo, left, in the s w e a t e r over a collared shirt, and Yunseo, right.
Aww, this was cute.
Have you ever been watching a competition reality show that involve a creative element, like Top Chef or Project Runway or Glow Up or Bake Off, and a contestant says “I’ve never done this before, but you don’t win by playing it safe!” And you, watching at home, are like, “omg, why are you doing that? If you’ve never worked with leather, if you’ve never cooked lamb, if you’ve never used prosthetics, if you’ve never made caramel, or whatever the hell durned foolish thing you’re going to do for the first time on international TV, why are you doing it now?” And most of the time they end up going home, while someone who made sure to safely land the plane is the one who wins.
These two landed the plane.
This song isn’t necessarily easy to sing; it has a lot of high notes and requires a lot of vocal agility to make it through the melody and the rhythm, both of which get tricky at times. However, the “concept” or idea behind the song is relatively straight forward and easy for these two to deliver -- a sort of youthful view on love as something that you can hope for if you’re patient. Also, though Ryeowook is a main vocal of SuJu and has a great voice, he’s not someone supernatural like Chen that would be a really, really hard act to follow.
Yeonwoo and Driver Yunseo both have good, young voices with tons of potential. I think they both could use a bit more training and experience, but they really do both deserve to be on this stage. Both sounded more than a bit nervous, which may have contributed to their breath control issues, but both held strong to the end and I didn’t notice any pitchiness or major tempo mistakes, which is big.
Of the two voices, I think I like Driver Yunseo’s a little more, as a Yeonwoo is still a bit nasal at times. Yeonwoo also went a tiny bit fast at a few points, and his high notes were a little bit strained. Driver Yunseo’s lower register is really gorgeous, while Yeonwoo’s higher notes are a bit stronger. They made a great duo! I don’t think they’re going to win this show, but I’m glad they’re on it.
The MNET edit is very retrained. Mostly it’s just the two trainees singing, with occasional shots of the guys backstage looking both proud and hopeful, like this:
Hyukjin, left, and Jeong Inseong from KNK, who will be going third in episode 5.
And the judges smiling indulgently and/or uncertainly, like this:
When they’re done, everyone applauds for the maknae.
The judges say things like, “aww, they must have practiced a lot!”
Backstage, the guys joke about how well the trainees’ did -- “are they our sons? Did we raise them?” -- and also joke a bit about how old they feel in comparison to them.
“If we sang The Little Prince, it wouldn’t come out like that!” Hwanhee from Up10tion says. “Old princes would come out if we sang.” Hwanji is like, “hey man, stop talking like that.” They’re only 24/25 years old, so he has a point.
Seokhwa and Woong, waiting in the wings, say, “They did a great job. Much better than in rehearsal.” You can see the worry on their faces.
The judges vote, and we get the high and low score -- a high of 92 from Seungkwan from Seventeen and a low of 70 from Jaehwan. That’s the lowest “high score” and the lowest “low score” we’ve seen thus far, but it’s not embarrassing or anything. They look pretty happy!
Seungkwan is like, wow, Jaehwan, what’s up with the 70?
And a glowing light comes out of Jaehwan’s eyes and his body begins to slowly levitate as he says, “In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the earth! ALL SHALL LOVE ME, AND DESPAIR!”
I mean, maybe not literally.
Seungkwan mentions Yunseo’s early lines, which were in fact quite sweet and lovely. “I think it started off well and went along steadily until the end without bumps.”
Jaehwan says, “Actually I really liked it. Maybe it was the purity that comes form the vocal tone…? I felt like I was listening to angels’ songs.”
Everyone is like, wtf? You cheered for them and loved them and gave these “angels” a 70? Backstage, one of the guys mutters, “He’s going to hell.”
Jaehwan continues: “I still thought about it calmly. When I heard the song, I felt endlless possibilities, but when considering the average level of singing ability, I thought that 70 was the appropriate score. It wasn’t bad, though!”
Eunkwang says, “it was so good, but….” and he points out that Driver Yunseo sort of bounces in a bowlegged way as he sings. That’s exactly the kind of helpful feedback that a good sunbae should point out, says I, and the other judges agree.
Backstage, Seokhwa and Woong are really nervous now. I think the trainees had had a really bad rehearsal and so the idols were pretty sure they’d have an easy time of it. But now the idea that a pair of debuted idols would lose to trainees who did a kind of straight-forward performance is just really sinking into their heads.
Woong is worried that maybe people will lose interest in AB6IX if he doesn’t do well on the show. Oh, I doubt that, Woong-ah. It’s a parasocial thing -- people might even like you better if you lose.
We see a flashback to the rival choosing moment, and this is when we learn that Woong really didn’t want to go up against the trainees, because the optics of losing to them would be awful and the optics of beating them wouldn’t be much better. He had told Seokhwa as much, which Woong finds perplexing.
Seokhwa either didn’t hear or didn’t think it really mattered, and chose the trainees because he thought it would make them stand out. I think I’m with Woong on this one! Woong interviews, “I can’t get any lower than I am right now. We better win.”
The idols have a nice cozy rehearsal studio to work in, but no sweaters.
Seokhwa reveals that he overheard the trainees talking ant that they’re planning to do a bright, youthful ballad. Seokhwa wants to show that ballad vocals aren’t the only kind of vocals, and maybe doing something more hip, with an R&B vibe, would give them their own lane to drive in. The judges liked their performance skills in Ditto, so they should capitalize on that. That sounds great to me, Seokhwa!
What about maybe Butter by BTS? That song is catchy af. Or what about Blooming Day or Hey Mama by EXO-CBX? I think both of those songs would sound good as a duet, and both would get the judges on their feet! Ok, sure, with the EXO-CBX songs you’d be following in some amazing vocal footsteps, but I think it would be fine! There’s also a bit of rap to show off here.
But nope. They want to do “Kick it” by Blackpink. I don’t know why on earth they chose this song! This is one of those songs where Teddy Park had a lunch date he really wanted to keep, so he just sort of threw some notes in a random order and had Jennie sing with as much swag as humanly possible so that it sounded almost like a melody.
Also, there's another problem here. See, Woong is a very derivative singer. I really like his voice, as I’ve said before, but if you listen to his vocal check performance and compare it to the original singers’ version, it’s nearly identical, to the smallest detail. I think Woong needs to hear an example of really good singing in order to match it, and he’s not going to get it on this song. Do not get me wrong; the members of Blackpink are all fantastic performers and I always enjoy their vocals. But none of them sings in a way that is likely to draw positive attention on a show like this. Rosé in particular worries me -- she has a gorgeous natural instrument, and the YG singing style is teaching her really bad habits that might hurt her vocal cords long term. In any case, there’s nothing for Woong to appropriately mimic here to pull out an outstanding performance.
I really get the feeling that they were overwhelmed by the possibility of choosing any song in the whole world. They wanted to do a girls’ song because it would be cool and attention grabbing, and then wanted to do a Blackpink song because Blackpink is so popular, and once they’d made that choice, they sort of randomly chose this song. The choosing was stressful and they wanted to get to the part where they’d already chosen. That happened to me with my fella when we were trying to pick out curtains. Now we have curtains that don’t really match the room. Sigh.
If they had really wanted to do a girls’ song, I think Impurities by Le Sserafim would have been cool -- it has a beat and you can definitely dance to it, but it’s also kind of smooth and sexy. It has a real tune and real chords and they could have done something cool with it. Or maybe Eleven by IVE. It could have sounded really cool! (For both of those links, go to speed and set it to 1.25, or if you know how to do custom, 1.15 is perfect. That way it’s at normal speed, just a lower pitch.)
Anyway, Seokhwa wants to show how cool they can be.
They rehearse at Woong’s agency, Brandnew Music (I mean, blur it all you want, MNET, the logo is pretty obvious), practicing as hard as they did when they were trainees.
Before they start, the judges talk about how with the song they’re doing, they’ll have to really light up the stage and have fun. The judges are hoping for a good performance showcasing singing, dancing, and rap. As the lights go down, Wendy says, “This is what they’re best at. They shouldn’t be so nervous.”
Here is the full version without reactions.
My thoughts:
Overall, it’s just sort of curiously lacking something. I watched this on an airplane on my tablet, and wondered if maybe it just felt “off” because of my environment, but then I remembered that I was really impressed by Jay and Bitsaeon in the same circumstance.
They both seem so nervous, especially Seokhwa, who runs out of air in the middle of lines, and keeps brushing his hair back anxiously. Woong remembers to smile and connect with the camera, but you can almost see him trying to remember the dance steps. Woong is obviously doing a Jennie impression a lot of time, as I expected him to do, and it just doesn’t sound as good as it does when he just sings as himself.
As they sort of settle in, it seems like maybe they can relax and pull it out at the end, but then a Terrible Thing happens: Seokhwa’s voice cracks on a high note.
Oh no.
It’s pretty noticeable, and I already know that it will be a lot more noticeable when MNET does a few instant replays. Seokhwa!! Oh no!!! Baby!!
I really think both of these guys are sweet and lovable, and both have nice singing voices that are well suited to being a main vocalist of an idol group. I think a combination of nerves and bad song choice really brought them down in this case, but they haven’t lost me as a fan. Fighting!
I almost don’t want to watch the MNET edit. It starts off with lots of appreciative reactions from the judges and other guys, but as the song wears on, we start to see more looks like this from the judges:
Backstage, sympathetic Bitsaeon mutters, “They worked so hard for this,” and you know he’s thinking, “... and it turned out like this.”
Look how miserable Woong looks even *before* Seokhwa’s crack.
And then the crack happens.
We only have to hear it twice, thankfully, and Woong never gives up, to his credit, but there’s no coming back.
When they’re done, the judges applaud politely, if a bit sadly. They’re all vocalists too and they know that cracks can happen, that we’re all just fragile meat bags when you get down to it and are subject to our human failings, but…. Still. This performance wasn’t great, crack or no crack.
Backstage, the other guys try to be positive, focusing on how much time and effort went into the performance, and how hard they must have practiced.
Driver Yunseo says, “It was like watching M-Countdown”...
… but his smile tells us that he thinks that maybe, just maybe, his team has just won.
“You did a good job,” Woong murmurs to Seokhwa, who can’t bear to hear praise right now.
Dahee asks, “Are you happy with your performance?” and of course Seokhwa says no, he made a mistake and is very disappointed with himself. He seems to be barely, barely, barely holding back tears, but he is holding them back. Fighting, Seokhwa, fighting!
The judges give their scores. Jaehwan seems especially unsure how to vote, but finally he locks it in.
Wendy has given them a sympathetic 80, but Jaehwan has given a 60. (As a reminder, the trainees’ high and low scores were 92 and 70 respectively.)
Jaehwan looks genuinely sad about it, but seems to view this judging thing as a responsibility. Backstage, the other trainees say that Jaehwan is so stingy with his points!
Wendy says her favorite part was the rap in verse 2. She asks if they came up with the choreography, and says it’s not easy to do all that, so she gives them credit. Wendy kind of famously has had trouble with dancing in the past, so it makes sense she’d be impressed by dancing. She adds that it would have been better if they had enjoyed it more, which is exactly what I think. She notes that it was probably really tough for them to go up against trainees, and she felt like they deserved the score she gave based on their attempt to show all the elements.
Jaehwan says he’s “heartbroken” about it because “they’re active singers just like me, and we all perform together on music shows. They’re my colleagues who cheer me up. To be honest it’s very hard for me to rate them. Yet I rated them because I’m sitting here. I expected you to have fun on stage because I know how good you are at performance. I expected you to go crazy on stage, and I just didn’t see that today. So I gave this score because I want to see more confidence from you next time. Fighting!”
VCG chimes in with a good point: because the song was originally intended for women’s voices, changing the pitch made it less exciting. He says, “No matter how excitedly you sing with mens’ voices, it’s never exciting. You need to change your voice or something, but you didn’t. Your tone was the same when you scratched your voice, or for the low tone, or the rap. So it didn’t sound fun.” I think he is right on target with that, and it seems that all the guys listening backstage agree. It didn’t even occur to me before that this could be specifically an issue for when guys sing women’s songs, but it makes so much sense.
The idols bow 90 degrees and say thank you for the helpful feedback. I wish they could have met with the judges or a mentor in advance of the performance!
Now it’s time for the winner to be revealed.
And of course, the trainees took it, 591 to 505. Ouch -- it wasn't even close.
If you subtract out the highest and lowest scores, and take the average of the point value remaining, the average score of the other five judges for the trainees is 85 -- and the average score for the idols is 73. Aww!
With Woong’s encouragement, Seokhwa holds it together.
Yeonwoo says, “I wanted to win, but now that I did, I feel bad.”
I think that makes Seokhwa and Woong feel ever worse, though I think they’re also a bit touched by the trainee’s kindness.
Woong vows that even though they’re on the elimination list, they’re going to “build up and show their best.” But backstage, Seokhwa feels awful. He says that he thinks that he ruined round one as well and keep dragging Woong down.
Woong interviews later that he was really upset, but just didn’t want to show it in front of Seokhwa, because he’s Seokhwa’s hyung, and it’s a hyung’s job to be strong. Aww! Woong, fighting!
The judges talk about how difficult competition is. Wendy says that it’s hard to show your skills when you’re nervous, and Jaehwan points out that that’s part of your skills, to stay calm under pressure.
And on that sad note, this segment draws to a close.
In the next one, we’ll see Bain and Minseo take on Gwangsuk and Sungjung! Should be a good battle. I’ll see you then!
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Outsiders, Owen POV, episode 44 - last one for the night, i'll write some theories to post tomorrow as well as hopefully the rest of his POV
recap of episode 43
flashback - Owen succeeded at a test I believe, his dad seems very proud. So Owen actually shot something that was alive, his father called it a 'thing' and since Owen is meant to be a protector I'm not hopeful it was livestock. Owen doesn't seem like he wanted to be a soldier but was forced into it by his dad.
A death hallucination now?- Ash is here. She's here, so his subconscious can latch onto a stranger, but she's the only one he has a face for, her voice isn't even her own it's someone he found comforting. Owen is slowly dying as nobody has had the courage to enter his house to check up on him. Owen would rather die than go back to the maze.
Ash is calling him out hard. She seems to be taking him through everyone he knows and making him acknowledge something from each one.
Another flashback - Owen is pushing a target, I believe, he says his mum will listen and understand. A village is on fire. His mum and dads dead. Wow.
He's alive! And crying. Soup is with him, she's healing him. Soup has been able to give him water, but not food. Soup found him, no one else knew. Soup spent a week dedicated to caring for Owen.
It's snowing! That's nice. Puddy is okay, he got into the chests and fed himself, the cute little bastard.
It is really bad that everyone else felt too scared to enter Owen's house without permission that without Soup, he would have died.
Oh, wow, this is so emotional.
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Honestly my expectations for episode one of v9 were below sea level and I was pleasantly surprised. Was it good? Not sure I’d say that. But it wasn’t worst case scenario bad. The mice are lame and dumb imo I honestly hate Little and all the comedic moments involving them fall flat for me. But Blake and Weiss get to talk about not Yang. Weiss is emotionally scarred from what happened and Ruby has a dramatic emotional response to learning about Penny. I wish it was more serious and less comedic as a whole and I’m really sick of these outfits. I hope Neo dies and I hope Jaune dies I’m so tired of them and I don’t know how I feel about this mystery girl we see in the intro. But by and large it wasn’t worst case scenario
Yeah you've basically listed all the moments I enjoyed. For me personally, the problem lies in Volume 9's messy tone being the worst case scenario. In a vacuum, absolutely, I love Weiss grappling with this trauma, Ruby fainting, Yang thinking she might have died... but these moments don't exist on their own and what surrounds them actively undermines the impact of each emotional beat.
Yang: "Yup I thought I was dead. No, you don't get to see me coming to that realization, or grappling with it, or trying to recover from learning differently. Why would any of that be important?"
Ruby: "I've fainted at the horror of my friend dying again. And now we're pretending I'm fine. No one has offered me any physical comfort, or pressed the 'Are you okay?' question, or waited until I'm conscious to have a key conversation about our survival here. The writing did the work of having me faint. Why would the details surrounding that matter?"
Weiss: "I'm traumatized by our fight and cannot discuss it. Wooooo go, Blake! Yeah! Awesome! You get your weapon! 👏🏻📣🎉🤸🏼♀️🎊Yup. Still traumatized. Why? Can't you tell? Omg lol an army of mice has captured us. How wacky IS this place??🤪 I am crying. So traumatized. This is an incredibly difficult time for me. [Next episode] Wait, Yang, you got your arm stolen by a purple racoon? Hilarious!"
I've got an example I want to give in my recap of how to do humor in an otherwise dark story, but tl;dr this is not it. The absurdity of so much of the episode -- the mice, the dodo bird, vine traps, Weiss acting as cheerleader, etc.--messes with the work the rest of the episode is trying accomplish. None of which even considers larger, series long questions like, "Why should I buy into Ruby's devastation at Penny's second death when she never reacted to her resurrection?" What surrounds these moments is just as, if not more important than the moments themselves and RWBY failed tonally in its premiere. Pretty spectacularly imo, which is precisely what I was afraid would happen.
To continue with the ever present baking comparisons: we're all eating a cake that, yeah, has some really nice pockets here and there. It's a good cake! ... provided you ignore the cloying, gummy, overly sweet icing that's covering the entire thing and slathered between every layer. Some fans are going to carefully dissect their slice, peeling off the inedible parts, nibbling the remains and praising the bake. Me? I'm looking at the slice as a whole and going, "I can't eat that."
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I just listened to the latest episode of and that's what you really missed on Glee. Finally the first recap of season 4.
Jenna said that after the season 4 premiere a few of them went to Darren's little hideaway (?) and he played drums and they hung out and they played music. It was so much fun.
The actors from the Ohio storyline and the actors of the New York storyline were on different schedules and they never saw each other. (That's what I suspected. We won't get bts stories about the New York storyline.)
Jenna and Becca are both friends with Dante. And Dante told Jenna that Becca got Glee and she should say hi to her. So Jenna very nicely went to the trailer and said hi to her and that they are both friends with Dante. And Becca was like, 'oh cool.' And that was it. Jenna was shocked and was like 'I went out of my way to be nice to somebody.'
Jenna said that Darren's songs in the courtyard always are really good. Kevin: Here's what's interesting. After hearing him talk about how the sun in the courtyard is and it's awful to film it. If you notice they put – he's in the shade. They put up these big filters above us.
Cringe moments: All the jokes about Marley's mom and all of them telling Unique to take of her face.
Best dance move: Americano
best song: New York State of Mind
performance mvp: all the newbies
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Episode 01, The kids will (not) be okay:
-The episode starts with Chris, Chef and the entire cast from the Total Drama island (2023) on a plane, going to a new season in a "new" place. Chris was talking to someone by a Walkie Talkie.
*Biiz*
???: Mr. McLean, seriously that you're lying to them saying that they're going to some kind of "total drama: World Tour" 2?
Chris: umm... Maybe--?
???: McLean! That's pratically clickbai-
Chris: Hey! Don't you dare use this "modern generation" language on me! Anyways, be ready because we're almost getting to there.
???: ah, ok-
- Chris ends the transmission
Chris: wow! That boy still annoying...
Chef: Chris, we're recording!
Chris: Ah, don't worry! After this introduction we will be finally free! ... I mean, just me, not you!
Chef: grr...
Chris: ah, calm down! Anyways, it's been a year 'total drama fans'! Since we don't see Each other THAT long, I'll give y'all a quick recap.
Last season on Total Drama Island:
16 new contestants showed up with the dream of taking that 1 million dollars price.
And the eliminations we're surprising!
Caleb was just there. until he even had the chance of doing something, Bowie made everyone eliminate him! Poor boy...
Nichelle humiliated herself Infront of everyone.
Emma HAD a chance of showing to everyone on live tv that Chase is (or was) a horrible person, but Chase was luckier than her.
Julia was boring, the way she talked, the "spiritual, love and peace" things that she normally talks about was annoying enough to her team.
Wayne would do anything and everything for his best friend Raj, and he was more than happy when he found out about his buddy's secret!
Scary Girl was Creepy, but not for Axel and Ripper! They we're her Unic friends that she had in a while, and the Unic ones that think that her actions are more annoying than scary.
Priya was pathetic! Seriously that she think her parents are so great that she easily go insane when someone criticizes them? Pff, surely the most well deserved elimination of that season.
Mk was smart, a little too much. And because of that, she went from being Bowie's Allie, to be a traitor! Well, it was that, that Bowie made everyone believe.
Raj has a secret, he loves Bowie! And because of that, he made our fandom go wild for them! The fandom loves them! Especially that people from that one Social Media that has "Tum" on the start...
And Chase knowed About that! The fact that Bowie and Raj we're dating, of course. Not the fact that the fandom is crazy for them. So, as a indirect revenge for MK, he was double eliminated with Raj!
Ripper and Damien have a... Interesting friendship. A "nerd hater" and a nerd!
Ripper was... Adorable? Yeah, he went from being a pathetic alpha male wannabe, from being a even nicer version of Owen, and because of that "adorable" personality that he gained he made Damien, Zee and especially Chase be his best friends! (Axel and scary girl too) Good for him, I guess.
Damien screamed a lot until His friends convinced him that being public humiliated in live television isn't that bad!
And Millie was nice, she tried to write a book about how much this generation is potentially bad, but after Priya's elimination, she learned that it was just a exception! There IS good people from this generation, you just need to find the right ones! (Priya not included)
And let's go to the final 3...
Axel, she had everything to win! The strength, the power, the personality... But, Ripper and Scary Girl missed her, so they finded a way to make her go back to them! That's what you gain when you are friends with a fake emo and ex-bad boy.
Zee, how did he got in there?! He could easily be eliminated until the merge but no one wanted to! And if wasn't for the "milk" part of the last challenge, he would have won! But he didn't.
And Bowie won! He used and eliminated half of the cast not counting with Wayne and Raj, of course.
Chris: So yeah, EVERYONE that I mentioned is back!
-Then it cuts to Chris in the passagers cabin with the 16 participants.
All the 16 participants are in here
The one that went out first:
Caleb: I'll make YOU guys regret voting me off...
-Caleb said in anger, while pointing at Bowie
Bowie: geez...
Ripper: you got a bit 'edgy' after 1 year, huh?
Caleb: what?
The most misunderstood one:
Ripper: huh?
Chase: wait, since when Ripper is misunderstood?
And the worse one:
Chase: excuse me?!
Emma: pff...
And of course, the winner:
Bowie: yeah, exactly, me!
Chris: well, I don't know if you guys noticed but Bowie was the Unic villain after a long time that won a season, the Unic one that did that was heather.
Bowie: wait, reall-
Chris: okay, this is slowly getting boring! So let's make the things end quickly!
-the ground below all the participants opened up, making all the participants fall into The water.
Chris: Ahaha... I'll miss that, and Chef already leaved without even saying "bye"!!
-Chris quickly ran to the drivers cabin, grabbing the plane's volant and taking control of it.
Chris: arg! Okay, I'll be quick! This surely the last time you all will see hosting this program! Yeah, this is Sooo sad! But listen up! The future is bullet proof and the aftermath WILL be secundary! And time to them do it now and do it loud! I am Chris McLean, and I'll see never, EVER see y'all again! Bye, losers!!
-after Chris leaved everyone behind, the scene cuts to the brand new hosts
...
Topher: Yeah, we're finally hosting our favorite reality show ever!
Sierra: But it's just so sad that Chris is gone for like... Forever?
Topher: nah, judging by the way he is he'll surely randomly appear when we Least expect it or something. But anyways, yeah, Chris finally gave his role as host for someone else!
Sierra: two to be exact.
oooo this is interesting.. also loving the topher and Sierra interactions I think they’d be besties
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Spoilers for Hirogaru Sky's Christmas episode. Time to share my thoughts.
So first off it's a very wholesome episode, definitely a pallet cleanser from Otona's finale. I really enjoyed it like always. Seeing each character get a chance to see their families was touching although saddening that Mashiro and Ageha couldn't see theirs in person.
Everyone moved into the main city of Skyland, Precure at the ready to defend them from Empress Undergu. It was nice seeing Tsubasa be in charge of the barrier and I'm assuming this is a part of his new job as sage using the mirror pad in this way?
To lift the spirits of the people the Precure do what they do best, hold a Christmas (Or Strichmas as it is called in Skyland) party. It was fun watching the antics and the interactions with other characters as they set this up. I like Sora's friendly rivalry with Beryberie although I wish we got to see more of it throughout the season.
Transforming was so unnecessary in this episode, there were no Ranborgs to fight so instead they used their stock animation to fight tornadoes that were trying to hurt Tasan (Skyland's version of Santa). Ageha also used her move once to make it snow which I think was fine. I understand wanting to use the stock animation though.
Sora and Mashiro are the cutest, I already posted the screenshots I took but here they are again.
They are the best ship this season totally rooting for them. Basically, Sora's hero book was on its last page so Mashiro got her a new one but to her surprise, Sora had bought her the same gift. After this scene in the last second, something happened. Elle grew? Or was it Elleelain? It was so fast and no explanation will be given until next week.
So if the rumors are correct and we have 50 episodes this season that means like 4 more...? I'm not ready to say goodbye yet, I love everyone in this cast so much! I'm having a lot of fun making these little recap/thoughts type of thing so definitely will do them for Wonderful and Mahoutsukai 2 as well.
#hirogaru sky precure#hirogaru sky spoilers#spoilers#precure spoilers#precure#pretty cure#my thoughts#precure weekly#anime#mahou shoujo#magical girls#merry christmas#merry strichmas#happy holidays
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