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mafufuu · 2 months

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i compare childrens literature to pd pcs

!! spoiler for like, so many episodes of prime defenders god knows how many, but def s2 finale, if youre not done scroll away at rapid speeds !!

Childhood

Peter Pan is a tale of growing up. Dakota Cole is someone who might have done that too fast. The story follows the Darling children, primarily Wendy and their adventures into Neverland. Wendy seemingly wants to stay a child forever, though when faced with Peter Pan, the embodiment of childishness, her mind is changed. Dakota can be considered childish, with his intellect, black and white sense of good and evil, and extremely kind heart. Yet, it might be that, as opposed to Wendy, he is clinging to whatever remains of his childhood.

As a kid, Dakota was quite reckless, skipping school, climbing roofs, and whatnot. He’s like Peter Pan, filled with childish whimsy and a lack of care. He befriends a girl, who joins him in the shenanigans. It’s like the early bond of Wendy and Peter. But soon, the consequences of this immaturity become evident. Like how Wendy comes to see Neverland’s flaws. One day, when climbing a roof, the girl falls. Dakota tries to pull her back up, but soon his grip gives out and he goes down too.

Couple this with the death of his parents, and likely other factors, Dakota has gone through the kind of stuff that would kill off a childhood. But this is “his” fault, he wasn’t able to save her. Dakota wakes up after the fall, and he runs from wherever he was. He holds this notion that a hero, like the ones he sees in the media, saves everyone. A lofty childish ideal, but one worth admiring. Dakota has grown from where he started, he no longer sees good and evil as two separate entities, holding the idea that the ‘villains’ deserve to be saved too, and that they can be met with forgiveness as opposed to punishment.

Peter & Wendy says in the end childishness must be let go of. I reckon that it’s okay to have maturity, yet still hold the whimsy and joy of a child.

Belonging

Pinocchio is a story that has been warped over time. In this case, I will base this off of the basic sanitized version most people know. It focuses on a wooden boy, the titular Pinocchio, who desires to become a boy of flesh and bone. Vyncent is someone who (as of the beginning) felt a lack of belonging in the world of Prime, and wanted to be accepted. What lies in both is a desire to change.

Pinocchio starts out as a wooden boy crafted in a woodcarver’s shop, a fit for what he is made of, surrounded by similar things. Vyncent starts out in the world of Fauna, where magic is something everyone has, where people can just have pointy ears and no one questions it, where adventuring parties slaying dragons are usual, where he is normal. Where they belong and are accepted.

Though, they both leave those places of comfort, intentionally or not. Pinocchio ventures out to become a ‘real’ boy, and Vyncent falls through a portal. Soon after, he somehow ends up in jail, then gets recruited to join the Prime Defenders. He does not know the customs of Prime, but he goes with how things are, while using some of his knowledge from Fauna, to attempt to fit in. The heroes are beloved by many, they belong.

Vyncent embarks on his journey with William and Dakota, forging friends and foes, and maybe, a home, along the way. He finds a place where he can belong. Vyncent goes to visit Fauna, and he is beckoned to stay, in the place where he is from. Yet, with how he would be separated from the Prime Defenders, and how The Greats’ power remains in his sword, he chooses to leave. The Blue Fairy fulfills her promise of acceptance to Pinocchio.

Interpretations say Pinocchio holds the message of ‘disobedience is bad and being good will be rewarded’ which in some scenarios isn’t untrue. But, to me (and Guillermo Del Toro), it is an anecdote saying if you stay true to yourself, you can be loved, you were always what you wanted to be, realizing it or not.

Curiosity

Alice in Wonderland is about a girl falling into a strange and foreign world. William Wisp is a boy that got thrown into a hectic journey nonconsensually. For Alice, it is Wonderland she journeys into, for William it is the side effects of dying and getting revived.

It begins with being out in nature, seeing something strange, and deciding to follow it, then falling, be it being out on the river bank, seeing a white rabbit running late diving into its rabbit hole, or going on a late night hike in the woods, and spotting a will-o-wisp, and chasing it off a cliff. Then, Alice is in Wonderland, and William is falling with strange sights surrounding him. He looks around, seeing bright colorful lights, floating islands, be they holding fountains, a field of greenery with a mother and child walking together, a man on a throne of paperwork, you name it, all things to write home about.

Both William and Alice leave their places of wonder, though they do return. (Admittedly I’m not sure how well the events of the sequel lines up with William’s character development.) William’s adventures outside of the spirit world do not halt, however I am not focusing on those. When the base burns down, Mallard Conway whisks William away to show him his domain, being an endless graveyard housing everyone he cares for, and himself. Wonderland is certainly described to be a weird place, meaning it is also likely not devoid of horrors.

Both of the two are out of knowledge, attempting to solve the mysteries of these strange places they wound up in. They both can be mean at times, though are generally decent people, and they want a way out.

William’s journey through the spirit world and as the Wisperer continues. Ranging from forcing Dakota to fight a smoke samurai, then being forced to eat the soul of aforementioned samurai, to dying again, to learning he is decaying and bloodless after punching a wall and seeing strange imagery, a lot of things, and not necessarily good ones. Like how Alice continues traversing Wonderland.

Eventually, he dies a third time. He is faced with his final challenge, his trial. He stays with his old ways and runs, and runs, though eventually faces the fight head on, with all the growth he's gone through. The battle is simply happening when Clarence retrieves William to give the latter a second chance at being alive, though more in between alive and dead, as would Alice’s sister wake her up from the dream, and she leaves Wonderland.

There isn’t really a clear moral to this one, though it may have various themes and interpretations. This is but a tale made up to amuse youth. Though Wonderland may be fun, it has its downsides and things can go south, but the only constant is change, so things will be okay.

Home

The Wizard of Oz explores the narrative of Dorothy, a girl who lives in Kansas who’s life is turned upside down in a cyclone, Ashe Winters is someone who was just living in suburban New Haven, who’s life was turned upside down by the metaphorical cyclone that is the Prime Defenders (and eventually becomes one himself).

Dorothy soon becomes part of a group, making a quartet, one with three others who doubt their possession of certain characteristics. A tinman who treats all life with the greatest of care. A scarecrow who doubts his wit and overanalyzes. A lion, one who houses bravery but chooses to run, until told otherwise. Though Dakota, Vyncent, and William might not be the best embodiment of their trait I assigned among the group, they all have it for certain. Then there’s Ashe, who desires the comfort of family, in these scenarios, not necessarily blood relation, more companionship, familiarity, and support.

After many trials and tribulations, the Prime Defenders make it where they need to be, fighting Overlord. They won, however their victory came with a sacrifice, Ashe gave himself up to the Trickster so they’d win. Despite how little time they spent together, Vycnent, Dakota, and William are determined to get their friend back. They fight, and they fight, and they fight, until they’ve won.

All Dorothy desired was to go home, and Ashe wanted connection. These two things are quite similar, Dorothy was not seeking a building, but her aunt and uncle, and home is people, the kind you can connect with. That is what the Prime Defenders are to Ashe. He is one of them. Dorothy and Ashe return to their places of comfort, Kansas, and the Prime Defenders. After all, at the end of the day, there’s no place like home.

#i bring a kind of milgrammie analysis brain to the jrwiblr im unsure is good or bad or #know i proofread this the day after i wrote it on five hours of sleep and eight espresso beans #hope its coherent #ive had them for one or two months im not okay #saw this post talking abt how vynce isnt necesarily stupid #he can be competent but isnt given the tools to do so man im not saying hes like a five year old but man i remember when i was younger i fe #--t the same #i use he/him for ashe in this but just know i hc ashe as genderfluid #just roll with it prime defenders #jrwi pd #jrwi show #prime defenders #jrwi prime defenders #jrwi #dakota cole #jrwi dakota #dakota jrwi #vyncent sol #jrwi vyncent #vyncent jrwi #william wisp #jrwi william #william jrwi #ashe winters #jrwi ashe #jrwi ashe winters #ashe jrwi #jrwi pd spoilers #prime defenders spoilers

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jeppyposting · 3 months

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I FEEL THE ASOUE BRAINROT BEGINNING IN A VERY SERIOUS WAY. im in my notes app analyzing these characters i hate it here. and I CANT STOP WATCHING DANIEL HANDLER INTERVIEWS, i adore him!!! i love listening to him speak so much i wish i could have a conversation with this man grrrrrr

#my 5th grade self would be proud #my brother and i r gonna rewatch the show within this next week >:3 #well i’m rewatching it’s his first watch #IM GONNA BE SOOO ANNOYINGGG but oh well #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #lemony snicket #daniel handler #baudelaires #i do wish there was more for me to bite and chew and gnaw on in terms of character analysis but i mean there’s a good amount #i feel like that’s the side of the novels i didn’t really get into as a kid i was too little i think #i was more concerned with what the fuck the vfd was #may post some tingz soon:3 #but i want them to be well written first i just be steam of consciencing #as you can see

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smithsparker · 8 months

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can we agree that katara gets way too much hate even today

youre so fucking right... that girl was just doing her best she was 14!!! fighting in a war!!! she trained herself (mostly) to become one of the most powerful waterbenders in existence . she cared so much for her friends and her brother and felt responsible for all of the gaang but was also again. a 14 year old girl . she was a teenager. whose mother died. whose dad was away. during a WAR. id like to see you doing better than her, i couldnt even do better as a 14 year old in my own boring life tbh

#id have to rewatch the entire show again to make a full analysis post abt this . and i WOULD because katara is one of my fav characters ever #but i dont have the time so here is this rambly answer instead #but now im motivated to rewatch because she! deserves! so! much! better!#ask #arinoes #atla #katara #if u have more comments on this PLEASE add on i am so not good with words today #avatar the last airbender #sas.txt

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bluegarners · 9 months

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so so so interesting to me how ppl gauge alternate worlds and its reflections on a character on that scale of morally good versus evil...

#saw a post that was like 'tim and dick are more likely to be evil than jason is' and their list of evidence was all the alternate worlds #where those two dont end up as they are #and although im not super familiar with tim's alternate selves (all ik is it doesnt turn out good for him lol) i dont love their analysis o #dick's alternate selves as evidence of him being that much closer to being 'evil' than jason is #1) i dont like that term of evil for any of the vigilante's #and 2) almost every single version of dick they mentioned was not dick actively choosing to be this darker version of himself #they were ones where he was forced/actively raised/manipulated into doing things not so good #i dont care to actively seek out the post again but they listed dick having been turned into a talon as solid evidence #of his leaning toward evilness compared with a version of jason being a priest in another world #idk it just seemed so strange to me that forced actions from an alternate world weigh on that scale of capableness of morality in a charact #esp when a current canon character like jason actively chooses to do bad stuff that can be considered downright evil #<- this isnt me condemning him as a character btw thats part of what i love about jason is that he intentionally chooses #to present himself in this violent and dramatic way as a show of his split from batman #i digress but still its just intriguing how ppl weigh that kind of stuff together

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br1ghtestlight · 2 months

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apparently that james somerton plagerism guy returned to youtube/patreon and he posted a video about how queer identity is protrayed in bob's burgers...... and i really really hope he stole of my stupid analysis posts about this exact topic for his vid bcuz it would be hilarious. i want my bob burger analysis posts to be stolen for profit. its always been a dream of mine

#my bobs burgers analysis posts are Not Good so i think a professional youtuber stealing them would be so funny #unfortunately i will never know bcuz im not paying ten dollars for a half-assed stolen analysis of a show i know more about than him <3 #txt #bob's burgers

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4giorno · 3 months

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uhhhhhhh any tv moments that match up to cas running for his life carrying jacks body transitioning into THAT new intro card? no? i didnt think so

#SORRY ill try not to post so much but this season 14 to 15 transition i have just liked a lot. like its rlly completely swept me along #and i would go as far as to say this is good television which is surprising #(but also i know nothing abt what good media is so dont take my word with any kind of weight lmao)#and i think the going against the author idea is literally the perfect end for this show and im eternally amazed and grateful #that they actually did that it rlly gives a satisfying road to the end after all these seasons of nonsense #(but bc its so perfect its also extra annoying how bad they fucked up at the end 🙃)#gfkfhdjd this post started bc i rlly had to say something abt how much i liked the s15 intro card #but yeah again im not good at media analysis and i havent actually read anything abt the technical and storytelling quality of these seasons #so if ive misinterpreted everything then im sorry

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note-boom · 2 years

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Okay, I just read Volume 20 of the manga and I have a lot of thoughts...but one that I really want to spit out is about Akutagawa's death.

During the fight, he CONTINUOUSLY brings up Dazai. How he wants Dazai's approval. How he's going to LIVE and make it back to Dazai. How he doesn't have much time left so he really needs that approval before he expires. Basically, him (ironically) associating living and Dazai together. To get Dazai's acknowledgement is to live.

And yet.

And YET.

His death wasn't an accident, at least not entirely.

Even Fukuchi acknowledged that from the beginning, taking into account the space-time sword, Akutagawa's plan was to let ONLY Atsushi escape.

Did Akutagawa know he would be instakilled? I think he strongly suspected it considering how Fukuchi was doing his best to kill them.

Essentially, what I'm saying is that provided all that context, Akutagawa basically CHOSE to die when throughout the whole fight his only thought was to live, live, live (for Dazai). The arc isn't over yet (and I honestly have little faith this will happen) but I'm gonna hope anyway that this is symbolic of Akutagawa finally letting go of his deep desire to live for Dazai's approval and maybe starting to build something new...a new reason to live?

As in, him choosing death - choosing ATSUSHI - was his way of saying, "Okay. I see only one of us can make it out...I can't fight this man and beat him (which he did say). I won't live for Dazai's approval now. I can't. So I'll instead choose to die so that there is a chance Atsushi can save the world and clear the Agency's name."

Basically, I'm playing on the age old death and rebirth motif to say Akutagawa dying for Atsushi rather than living for Dazai's approval is his way of growing from his past obsessions and perhaps beginning to build a new reason to live (by dying for it heh...).

#look...i know im reaching #but all i can say is that this death didnt feel like the whole redemption by death trope...#and i think akutagawa will come back or something #and yeah i suppose we could also interpret this as aku realising the only way TO get dazai's approval was to die #but i much prefer the more dramatic death to an old view...new life to another? maybe that's just me being influenced by fantasy tropes #and i also want good things for aku #and you got to admit the way he kept on associating him living with dazai and then choosing death at the end was something #his whole reason revolves around dazai so let him pull a yosano @ mori and say 'nope. taking back control of my life bye'#idk what im saying i just know i really want the progression of this fight from aku wanting to live to choosing to die to mean something #that isn't specifically dazai related ya know? except for letting dazai go (this isnt me hating dazai btw. its loving aku)#also yes i only bought volume 20 cause that and vol 1 was the only ones they had. of course i bought the emotionally devastating one #maybe I'll post some of my reacts and show y'all how much i overthink things xD #anyway akutagawa and atsushi in vol 20 broke me bye....#bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd musings #character analysis #bsd akutagawa #bsd atsushi #bsd fukuchi #spitting nonsense #bsd dazai #bsd spoilers #bsd manga spoilers #manga spoilers

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tlanwen · 2 years

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lines, lines it’s all lines. but what if you cross it over into a loop. and now you’re stuck.

meta dump on sideblog, sorry, but im still not over the phone-ringing-as-psychological-torture bit in episode 6. Like its been So long since i’ve watched a show that’s been so narratively compact and well put-together.

>here we are, In laying himself bare in front of Wang telling him about the time his father confessed to him, and how following that key point in his life he decidedly put an end to their communication- he let his phone ring incessantly into the night but would not pick up (because of course, we can’t have In doing anything that might benefit himself and no one else in a situation. he has to be the martyr).

and here we are again! 20 years later- wang confessing to him (while adopting his own father’s voice in order to speak to in, to //get// to him in at his most vulnerable ((this child is a victim but a victim that loooves to play with fire. oh my god is he ever culpable in the All of it at this very moment. the double take i did when he referred to himself as siam. fuck me till next tuesday that was Hard to swallow)), in shuts down, and on cue- the phone rings. and it rings, and just like two decades ago, In just lets it ring.

such a good way to cut to one of the main points of this show- these people have been stuck in a time loop for the past 20 years and they’ve dragged wang into it as well. It is decidedly difficult (if not impossible) to move on from something you never talk about.

Mol won’t talk about siam and sees too much of him in her son (remember the talk in episode 1/2? her frustration at seeing something in wang, just beneath the surface, the same thing she never fully understood in siam??), ergo Wang can’t hear about his father, leaving him effectively parentless because let’s face it mol is more of a “friend” to wang than a parent (ooh the pent up resentment he has towards mol. i haven’t seen this in a show like. ever, maybe. the low-key & at times unexplainable outbursts of frustration with his mother that she can’t understand. this child is angry that you are only his friend. kids don’t need a friend, they need a parent.), and now that Inthawut is in the picture Wang has once again kind of taken on the role of his father in this weird off way. with neither of them, he isn’t allowed to be himself, he’s ended up being this fuzzy disfigured shadow of his dad (that he didn’t even know! none of these people truly knew the man whose absence stopped their lives dead in its tracks! mol certainly didn’t because siam hid it from her, in ran away when siam chose to show himself for who he really was, and wang didn’t even get the chance! im going insane.)

i love it i love it so much when showrunners trust their audience and their show-watching abilities. it’s like, hey, we know you’re watching a show and maybe you’re invested in these characters as if they’re real people- but here’s an element/callback to something we’ve fit underneath the surface of this piece of media; this thing that you are watching, it is a story after all- do you remember?

n it’s like yes yes i Do remember!! i See!

i dont know how to finish this off in a cohesive way but- i may have been spoiled by many recent dramas having happy and satisfying endings but it hit me when i finished ep. 6 that this one very much. might not have what one might call a happy ending. it’s still too early for me to call it. That being said, honestly all i can hope for in terms of a //happy ending// for 180d is both in and mol recognizing and wanting wang, as he is, not the idea of siam in his place. he deserves that at least, and all three of these people deserve to exit the loop they’ve been walking for far too long, even if it means some lines uncrossing

#180 degree longitude passes through us #180 degrees longitude between us #meta #also so glad to open this tag and see that most posts are Also meta writing/analysis. like im glad that most of us watching this show #are just Like That #i mean ig u kind of have to be with a show that is mostly people sitting down and Talking #please yell with me about this i am truly going out of my mind!! sunday can't come soon enough #also i dont have enough space/brainpower to fit it in this post but my god. the visual language in this show. PHEW #there's a shot in episode 5? 4? i dont remember but it's In sitting on his bed and the divider in his room #is set up in a way that shows a wooden panel dividing him Right in the middle. literally tearing him in two as he works through his emotions #like its not just me right im not the only one going crazy here? this is so good! who expected this!#mine

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ourflagmeansgayrights · 2 years

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idk how ppl came up with long-ass meta posts like a week after ofmd came out i seriously didnt have anything insightful to say abt this show until, like, the end of may. i know im out here making post after post these days but it's basically just bc ive been fermenting in ofmd since March 29th, 2022. like im not smart enough to analyze media without having other people's opinions as a starting point so for the first like two months after i watched this show all i did on here was reblog stuff and ramble incoherently in the tags sometimes

#mine #not gay pirates #my analysis of the show is good NOW #but ppl who watched the show Once and immediately posted a goddamn college essay on it are on another level #season 2 is gonna come out and im not gonna say anything about it until my mutuals (literal and spiritual) have all given their takes

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neurotypical-karen · 2 years

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Having thoughts about The Boys that makes me want to become a videoessayist because the run-on paragraphs upon paragraphs of opinions I have about this show would make for an absolutely deranged post

#this post solely exists for me to empty my head in the tags #no one in the boys fandom that i've seen is doing any in-depth critical analysis of the things im Thinking about #and the only ppl i've heard Critical Analysis from at all either 1) hatewatched it with a group of friends #which is fair but definitely not the best analysis situation yk #or 2) did not watch it at all #and i dont want to dive into the realm of watching youtube videoessays specifically about how The Boys was good #bc i feel like it's gonna be comicbros who misinterpreted watchmen #and the little crit analysis videos i've seen have been like 'here's why the boys (tv show) is better than the boys (comic book)#and it's like Is That It #but yeah i watched Overly Sarcastic Productions video on satirizing superman and it's given me Many Thoughts #specifically about the weird combination of almost-grimdark-but-also-slapstick elements with protagonists w paragon ideals that bear fruit #but also about the fact that there is like. almost no sense of overt authorial intent when you watch it??#shit just Happens #and yet there is so much you can still analyze #Like I would Like To Talk About That With Someone

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sheepinthebigcity · 2 years

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man remember when i thought jake and the neverland pirates was gonna be good it wasn’t even the good pirates dont steal thing that got me it just felt very... capitalist...

#i think im getting back into the groove of making blog posts so they'll be good again soon #i have a lot of analysis on pizza guy to make #and a LOT of things to say about various monkey show villains

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whomst-the-hell · 2 months

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i was thinking about it and i realised that i had sort of subconsciously been under the impression that atla was one of those star wars situations that tells you anyone can be magic but in actuality every major plotpoint just ties back to one single family every time (some of you may be saying “but rey wasnt a skywalker!” to which i respond “who was the primary antagonist then wiseguy” but this post isnt actually about star wars so fuck me ig) anyway what im getting at is, other than zuko, whose major theme is his relationship with his family and therefore with his nation as a whole (and also he was actual royalty so it was inevitable tbh), every single other main character’s parents were not explicitly benders, or were nonbenders. aangs parents arent ever even shown! i mean for a show where its canon that magic is genetic, they do a waaaayyyyyy better job at delivering the “anyone can be a hero” storyline than media that actually textually tells that story lmao

not only is the show about children, its also about lots of marginalised groups. all the characters are POC, toph is blind, katara is a girl (toph is obviously also a girl but her character doesnt really explore misogyny like katara ykwim?), sokka is just some guy even in the context of the magic system, even aang — the literal chosen one!!!! — is just a random kid who also happens to be the reincarnation of the most powerful spirit in the galaxy or whatever (thats a recurring theme of the show actually), and zuko ,who is the most nepo baby protagonist, isnt actually the prodigy of his family and is instead frequently upstaged by his little sister lol

like it would have been so easy to do a “and guess what the reason toph is such a great bender is because she’s secretly king bumi’s great niece!!!!!!” reveal, which is such a classic plot twist that tbh its barely a twist these days, but instead toph was a badass specifically because of the unique perspective she gained by being disabled and the way that allowed her to connect with the world around her ie the badgermoles — thats a way stronger story! the only relationship reveal we get (other than i guess aang learning he’s the avatar which kind of maybe counts??) is zuko learning he’s related to roku which. i mean he was already a nepo baby so it doesnt detract from his agency really and in fact reinforces his recurring “there are two wolves” conflict, which up to that point was mostly shown through azula and iroh (think his ba sing se fever dream wherein there were two dragons inside him voiced by azula and iroh respectively one advocating good the other evil, foreshadowing the final conflict of the season where he must choose between azula and iroh and he backslides in his moral arc by choosing azula which is a really cool narrative choice that tbh now that im thinking about it i probably should have made this tangent its own post but we’re here now ig)

also i was thinking about how bending is genetic but also skips generations (neither kya nor hakoda is a bender, and we dont know of any grandparent other than gran gran, who is a nonbender, and i think its a dominant gene bc ursa wasnt a bender to my knowledge but zuko and azula are, so probably neither kya nor hakoda had bender parents, but obviously katara is a bender, but sokka isnt, plus there were identical twins in the volcano episode where only one was a bender which does confuse me scientifically but i dropped science so whatever) and bending is shown as common enough that probably everyone has atleast one ancestor who is a bender so tbh it sort of circles back to being random lol

this post is really just me thinking out loud (well not. out loud. bc its written. you get it) so it might not be coherent but idk its another way that atla is very clever and has effective storytelling and creates themes subtextually etc etc ok thanks

#christ this ended up a bit long #atla #analysis #? tbh i dont think this counts as analysis but tags r hard idk #look i had to think about punnet squares for a tmblr post about a 20 year old nick jr show cut me some slack #im good at maths and english so science had to be my dump stat it is what it is #also semi related writing this post made me realise i dont pronounce the a in and which. its always weird to analyse your own accent idk

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