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coolest tainted laz greedier run i've had. got all the cool items
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#gryphon chatter#niro plays games#tboi#i am watching that whole cutscene btw#it's the entire spongebob movie. it's so low quality
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OK, I know this will probably be painful, and I may be a bad mutual for asking but...would you be willing to identify what, in your opinion are the bottom five worst Shadow adaptations, and give a detailed breakdown of why they were so lousy?
Oh christ, okay. I don't think you're gonna get as much of a detailed breakdown for these compared to some of the others, because I take more issue with adaptations that do have good qualities but also big or deep problems to talk about.
For example, I can't include Garth Ennis's Shadow in this list because the comic has a lot of strong points to it, despite a deeply, deeply detestable take on The Shadow's character, where as the rest of the Dynamite run doesn't reach neither the lows or highs of his run. Likewise, Andy Helfer's run has a couple or a couple dozen moments every issue that make me want to tear something to shreds in frustration, but it's also at many points a really good comic with great art and some occasionally very inspired writing. Really, I'd just be repeating myself talking about what I hate in those.
But, fine, let's list some of the others.
I think I'm just gonna have to get the elephant in the room out of the way here, and address that I won't be including Si Spurrier's 2017 Dynamite mini in this list, and I think at least some of you might be angry it's not Number 1 by default. I'm doing this because I intend to one day really revisit it, think about it and it's reception and what it was trying to do, and talk about it on it's own, now that it's been 5 years and everyone has moved on and we can maybe talk about it without kneejerk hatred driving everyone nuts (your mileage may vary on how warranted it was).
I'm also not going to be talking about James Patterson's new novel, because I haven't read it. It seems to be considered a forgettable potboiler by mainstream critics and a resounding failure by everyone who likes the character whether they've read the book or not, and frankly I don't have it in me to learn what the fuzz was about anytime soon, I got my hands way too full as is.
And I won't be including the Batman x Shadow crossovers here, because again, they do have a lot of virtues that put them far ahead of some of the really worst Shadow media, and I've talked enough about how badly I think they mangled The Shadow, which is really the big problem I have with them (well, that and Tim Sale blatantly copying a Michael Kaluta cover, that was really shitty). I don't really hate them anymore, I just get tired and frustrated thinking about parts of them, I said my piece as is. Really, my frustration over this comic is what inspired me to start writing about The Shadow here, so I guess in a way I do owe it at least that much.
5: Archie Comics's Shadow
I think some of you might be wondering why this isn't ranked higher, but to be honest, I don't actually harbor any hatred towards this. I mean, I have to include it, but I find it kinda silly that some people even today actually care about the existence of this comic enough to hate it.
For fans back then? Oh yeah, obviously, but this dropped to such instantaneous backlash that it never really got to live past 6 issues. Really, everything wrong about it can be understood immediately from the covers, and I've actually read the comic in it's entirety to see if there was anything worth taking. I found only a couple of things of note but, no, this really is just a painfully mediocre superhero comic that happens to have a couple of Shadow names in it. If anything, it gets too much credit.
The actual contents of what it is are never going to justify it's reputation, but the existence of it and the disproportionate response to it is the funniest and most enduring legacy it could ever ask for. This whole comic is The Shadow's version of Spongebob's embarassing Christmas photo.
4: David Liss's The Shadow Now
This is another "The Shadow as an immortal in modern times" comic and I think you may have noticed the pattern with those by now. I may revisit this eventually and I do have some moments from it saved for reference, but overall: It sucks, and it doesn't even suck in a way that lets me talk much about it, it's a diet version of Chaykin's Shadow. If Archie's Shadow is a generic mediocre superhero comic wearing The Shadow's name, this is a generic crime story playing beats from movie. The Shadow is an asshole and not even a grandiose or sinister one, he just feels like a sleazy douche in a costume. The art is a 50/50 coin toss between appropriately moody and "Google images with a filter on them", I don't remember anything about the plot other than Khan had a bomb again and he had a daughter, and there were new versions of the agents and the Harry stand-in turned evil and Lamont shacked up with Margo's descendant which, uh, no. I don't really hate this but I really have nothing nice to say about this comic other than Colton Worley's art is nice sometimes. I can't really muster anything else to say here.
3: Invisible Avenger
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Yeah, I remember nothing about this one other than it's painfully boring and nothing about it, nothing at all, works in the slightest and I drift off to sleep even now trying to give this a rewatch. To be honest pretty much every other Shadow serial not starred by Victor Jory sucks and I don't really have anything to say about them, this one is just the worst of the lot. I dearly wish there was a good Shadow tv series but, if it was going to be like this pilot? Good riddance.
2: Harlan Ellison's The New York Review of Bird
This isn't really a Shadow story as much as it's a Harlan Ellison story that happens to feature The Shadow, but man am I glad that Ellison's "Dragon Shadows" was canned, because holy shit what a goddamn nightmare Harlan Ellison writing The Shadow for real could have been, going purely by the one time he ever touched the character. New York Review of Bird is a purely farcical parody story that wears real, real thin even before "Uncle Kent" shows up, and we get to see in it what is by far the most detestable and irredeemable take on The Shadow ever put on print, and not even in a critique or deconstructive way or anything that could be remotely worth discussing.
I don't hold any particular affection for Harlan Ellison and his writing (despite liking some of it) and I've come to notice the major red flag that is finding someone who looks up to Harlan Ellison in any capacity as a person, and this story in particular really feels like Ellison aggressively trying to channel his jackass tendencies through every line, just him being nasty because he built a personal brand on being nasty. The only reason this isn't Number One is because it's a very short story that saw zero influence or reputation, and thus it only exists as a brief mention in The Shadow wiki, and a brief mention is all it really calls for.
1: Howard Chaykin's Blood & Judgment
I'm guessing most of you already knew this one was in the top spot before I started writing.
I would actually rather not write a big piece on Blood & Judgment, because I think (or at least I hope) it's influence on The Shadow has waned a lot over the years and I would prefer to draw it the least amount of attention possible, but if I HAVE to talk about this, I guess I'd rather just vomit this out of my circuits now instead of giving it it's own post.
I would prefer to use a less unpleasant image on my blog, but if I'm going to talk about this comic, there's no image to better convey it than this drawing of macho asshole Cranston holding a sexualized mannequin at gunpoint. By leaps and bounds, Blood & Judgment is the most misogynistic Shadow story I've ever read. It's ironic that Chaykin justified the rampant misogyny he gave The Shadow with the idea that this is just a man from the 30s would act like, when he admits in the same breath that he never even touched the stories, and he wrote a story more sexist and demeaning to it's female characters than anything, literally anything, written in the Shadow pulps. It's almost impressive even.
I'll paste some segments from Randy Raynaldo's review
In Flagg, he intended to present his own point of view on American society while keeping his work tongue in cheek and acessible. But this vision dimmed, and Flagg had become a vehicle by which Chaykin could play out fetishes and portray gratuitous and stylish violence.
In The Shadow, stripped of the political and social veneer which was supposed to make Flagg unique, Chaykin's sensibilities and excesses become disturbingly apparent. For all of his liberal posturing, Chaykin's work demonstrates zero difference from the same kind of mentality exploited and made popular by similarly violent popular culture icons like Dirty Harry and Death Wish.
More than half a dozen individuals are indiscriminately and violently murdered in the first issue. Although the victims are characters who played major roles in the myth of The Shadow, we feel little sympathy for them, even for those of us who knew these characters at the outset. Who dies is unimportant, it's how they die that is the fascination.
Chaykin uses sexual decadence as a means by which to establish villains, and undercuts this device by making the protagonists as promiscuous as the villains. For all of Chaykin's seemingly liberal leanings, he demonstrates very little sensitivity in his portrayal of women.
Because everything works on rules of three, this comic also follows the pattern with other works mentioned here, as this isn't Howard Chaykin writing The Shadow: it's The Shadow reimagined as a Howard Chaykin character. He looks and acts exactly like Reuben Flagg and the typical macho protagonist of Chaykin's other works, he's a cynical sleaze with an entirely new origin who half-assedly dons a garb to machine gun people, and I already wrote a separate piece on why the machineguns are kind of emblematic of everything wrong with this take.
I understand that Chaykin has, or used to have, a big following of sorts, and I've tried to wrap my head around this for years, but I genuinely still don't get why Shadow fans stomach this comic unless they happen to be Chaykin fans first and foremost, I really don't. Everything, fucking everything Shadow fans hate about modern depictions of the character can be traced right back to this. The parts that stuck and changed the character for the worse, like him being defined as an immortal, bloodthirsty warmonger who got all his skills and powers from a magic city in Tibet, or Lamont Cranston being a coward who fears and hates the Shadow, or his agents being expendable slaves, stuff that has been ingrained into the mythos through this and the Alec Baldwin movie and other comics, to the point that people now think of it as the norm, that it's the baseline of what The Shadow is, and I hate it, I genuinely fucking hate it,
I hate it so much that it's a big part of the reason why I created this blog and why I want so badly to get to write The Shadow, because I plainly couldn't stand not having ways to tell people that this is all wrong, that this is actively shooting down the character's odds for success, and that they are missing out on something really great, because the well has been tainted with garbage that won't go away and everytime I read the words Shambala in a Shadow comic, even an otherwise good or great one, I get just a wee bit cross.
The only semi-redeeming aspects I can think of for this comic is one or two cool moments, like when The Shadow hijacks a concert using his Devil's Whisper or when he tames dogs with a stare. Just breadcrumbs of "not garbage" amidst an ocean of anything but. I hate that talking about why I hate this comic in-length can almost feel like I'm still enticing people to check it out of curiosity, but if you wanna do that, fine, just know this: The worst part of Blood & Judgment, even if you don't care at all about what it did to The Shadow, is that it's boring.
It is a deeply boring comic. If you like Howard Chaykin to begin with, you'll probably like this okay (although even Chaykin fans told me that this is his weakest work and that even he seems to agree). If you don't, I plain don't see what you could get out of this.
The comic itself is just nothing. It's the comic book equivalent of a pre-schooler trying to get a reaction by swearing. It has nothing whatsoever other than half-assed attempts at shock value. The plot isn't there, the ideas are stale, the dialogue is needlessly oblique and comprised entirely of unfinished sentences, interrupted conversations and one-liners without build-up. The characters are all unlikable and uninteresting stooges with no personality, or joyless cartoons. There's no heart or emotion or logic, and it isn't even funny enough to succeed as just an outrageous exercise in 80s excess. There's nothing in here.
I get "why" it was popular enough at the time, a rising star creator penning a modern revival of an old character based on controversy that pissed off the old fans, it's an old story that still gets repeated today. But manufactured controversy is not a replacement for storytelling and it rarely ever exists to benefit the people who actually want to enjoy the stories, it only benefits those for the crude benefit of those who want to sell you something out of the controversy.
I guess they got their money's worth back then.
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Phew, okay, I did it, I finally vomited out a piece on Blood & Judgment and some others, allright, let's put this piece of negativity behind us now.
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Friday Special #9
January 30th, 2021
So I was digging through my bag of DS and GBA titles, and noted that one of them was a Game Boy Advance VIDEO cartridge that contained the first two episodes of Sonic X. Popped it into my DS to relive some nostalgia and it occurred to me that there isn’t anything like this anymore besides those PSP UMD VIDEO disks that had whole movies on them.
So where did they come from and how did they come to be?
For this week’s Friday Special, we’re gonna find out.
For a little backstory, the Game Boy Advance handheld console was released back in 2001 and it was marketed as the successor of the Game Boy Color. With its resolution of 240 x 160 pixels (which was a lot at the time), 15-bit RGB Color Support (it was capable of producing 512 colors in character mode and 32,768 simultaneous colors in bitmap mode), and Dual 8-bit DAC for stereo sound, it was a fascinating machine and a work of technical art. It was super successful world-wide and garnered millions in sales.
So what exactly were the Game Boy Advance Video titles?
The Game Boy Advance Video cartridges were a special class of cartridges where based on the amount of memory, it featured one to four episodes of popular shows of the time like those from Cartoon Network and Nicktoons.
Here is the complete list of games:
GBA Video Movie Pak vol. 1
Shrek
GBA Video Movie Pak vol. 2
Shrek 2
GBA Video Movie Pak vol. 3
Shark Tale
GBA Video Movie Pak 2-Movies-In-1!
Shrek
Shark Tale
GBA Video Movie Pak 2-Movies-In-1! Vol. 2
Shrek
Shrek 2
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron vol. 1
"Brobot"
"The Big Pinch"
"Granny Baby"
"Time is Money"
All Grown Up! vol. 1
"Susie Sings the Blues"
"Coup de Ville"
Cartoon Network Collection vol. 1
Ed, Edd 'n Eddy: "Stop, Look and Ed"
Courage the Cowardly Dog: "Magic Tree of Nowhere"
Johnny Bravo: "The Perfect Gift"
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: "Crawling Niceness"
Cartoon Network Collection vol. 2
Codename: Kids Next Door: "Operation T.U.R.N.I.P."
Courage the Cowardly Dog: "Courage the Fly"
Johnny Bravo: "Balloon Platoon"
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: "Mandy the Merciless"
Cartoon Network Collection Limited Edition
Ed, Edd 'n Eddy: "Key to My Ed"
Courage the Cowardly Dog: "The Queen of the Black Puddle"
Codename: Kids Next Door: "Operation M.I.N.I.G.O.L.F."
Dexter's Laboratory: "Big Sister"
Cartoon Network Collection Platinum Edition
Codename: Kids Next Door: "Operation T.O.M.M.Y."
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: "A Grim Surprise"
Courage the Cowardly Dog: "Cowboy Courage"
Ed, Edd 'n Eddy: "The Luck of the Ed"
Cartoon Network Collection Premium Edition
Dexter's Laboratory: "Double Trouble"
Courage the Cowardly Dog: "The Shadow of Courage"
Johnny Bravo: "Cookie Crisis"
Ed, Edd 'n Eddy: "A Glass of Warm Ed"
Cartoon Network Collection Special Edition
Ed, Edd 'n Eddy: "Oath to an Ed"
Johnny Bravo: "Beach Blanket Bravo"
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: "Billy and the Bully"
Dexter's Laboratory: "Dexter's Rival"
Codename: Kids Next Door vol. 1
"Operation R.E.P.O.R.T."
"Operation N.O.-P.O.W.U.H."
"Operation B.R.I.E.F."
"Operation D.O.G.F.I.G.H.T."
Disney Channel Collection vol. 1
Lilo & Stitch: "Slushy"
Kim Possible: "Ron the Man"
Disney Channel Collection vol. 2
Lilo & Stitch: "Poxy"
Kim Possible: "Rufus in Show"
Brandy & Mr. Whiskers: "To The Moon Mr. Whiskers"
Dora the Explorer vol. 1
"3 Little Piggies"
"The Big River"
Dragon Ball GT vol. 1
"A Grand Problem"
"Pan's Gambit"
The Fairly OddParents vol. 1
"Foul Balled"
"The Boy Who Would Be Queen"
"The Information Stupor Highway"
The Fairly OddParents vol. 2
"Father Time"
"Apartnership"
"Ruled Out"
"That's Life"
Nicktoons Collection vol. 1
SpongeBob SquarePants: "Pizza Delivery"
The Fairly OddParents: "The Big Problem"
All Grown Up!: "Chuckie's In Love"
Nicktoons Collection vol. 2
SpongeBob SquarePants: "Nature Pants"
SpongeBob SquarePants: "Opposite Day"
Rocket Power: "The Big Air Dare"
The Fairly OddParents: "Odd Ball"
Nicktoons Collection vol. 3
SpongeBob SquarePants: "Squeaky Boots"
The Fairly OddParents: "Tim Visible"
Danny Phantom: "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale"
Pokémon vol. 1
"For Ho Oh The Bells Toll"
"A Hot Water Battle"
Pokémon vol. 2
"Playing with Fire"
"Johto Photo Finish"
Pokémon vol. 3
"Pokémon, I Choose You!"
"Here Comes the Squirtle Squad"
Pokémon vol. 4
"Beach Blank-Out Blastoise"
"Go West Young Meowth"
The Proud Family vol. 1
"Twins to Teens"
"Tween Town"
Sonic X vol. 1
"Chaos Control Freaks"
"Sonic to the Rescue"
SpongeBob SquarePants vol. 1
"Bubblestand"
"Ripped Pants"
"Jellyfishing"
"Plankton"
SpongeBob SquarePants vol. 2
"Mermaidman & Barnacleboy"
"Pickles"
"Hall Monitor"
"Jellyfish Jam"
SpongeBob SquarePants vol. 3
"Walking Small"
"Texas"
"Hooky"
"Mermaidman & Barnacleboy II"
Strawberry Shortcake vol. 1
"Meet Strawberry Shortcake"
"Spring for Strawberry Shortcake"
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! vol. 1
"Depths of Fear"
"Planetoid Q"
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vol. 1
"Things Change"
"A Better Mousetrap"
Yu-Gi-Oh! vol. 1
"Friends Until the End Part 3"
"Friends Until the End Part 4"
Although the first of the GamePaks (the other name that they went by) started to appear in 2004, the original name was GBA-TV a year earlier. The first cartridges to be released in May of 2004 were when Majesco was able to acquire rights for 4Kids properties such as Sonic X and Yu-Gi-Oh! for the earliest released titles. Later in June, select shows from Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Nick Jr., and Funimation were added to the line-up when Majesco acquired the rights. The Disney Channel soon was added as well late in November of that year, creating even more cartridges for the roster. That next November in 2005 was the time for when Majesco was able to acquire the rights for Shrek, Shrek 2, and Shark Tale from Dreamworks, where for the first time, the Game Boy Advance Video series would now feature full-length movies, which was a marvel at the time due to the Game Boy Advance’s limited memory.
In total, 36 cartridges were made in the entire line-up with more slated for released but were cancelled for various reasons, whether they be because of low sales of previous cartridges or copyright issues.
Here is the complete list of cancelled games:
Drake & Josh vol. 1
"Pilot"
"Dune Buggy"
Even Stevens vol. 1
"Swap.com"
"Stevens Genes"
Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
Ugly Betty vol. 1
"Pilot
"The Box and the Bunny
Sonic X vol. 2
"Missile Wrist Rampage"
"Chaos Emerald Chaos"
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vol. 2
Yu-Gi-Oh! vol. 2
Speaking of copyright, there is a reason that the GamePaks were only viewable on Game Boy Advance systems as well as the first two DS systems but not the GameCube's Game Boy Player accessory. It was because the owners asked Majesco to make it so that making the games incompatible with the GameCube’s GBA Player would protect their properties from getting ripped onto VHS tapes and DVDs, which was what the Player was capable of doing. It would not have mattered however, because the low quality would have shown on the TV, making the ripping process useless.
The low quality of the cartridges were due to the heavy compression of files in order for them to fit on a GBA cartridge, causing noticeable artifacts on the screen, even more visibly on a later system like a DS console. The low quality was the biggest disadvantage for the Game Boy Video cartridges as they eventually became obsolete by the late 2000s/ early 2010s when the DSi was released with no backward capabilities.
Despite them being obsolete by today’s standards, they can still be found online on shopping sites like eBay and depending on the condition can go for a pretty penny. The rarest one in the entire roster is the cartridge for Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! vol. 1 as only a limited number of copies were made and are now so rare that they can fetch almost $200 on eBay, where that is the only shopping site to even have them for listings.
It should be mentioned that around the same time, Sony was releasing PSP UMD (Universal Media Disc) Video disks for their PSP systems that were capable of playing whole movies, but that’s an article for another time.
Thoughts From the Head
As stated above, I actually do have one of the Game Boy Advance Video cartridges in the form of Sonic X Vol. 1 that I had bought years ago at a local video game store. It still works, and although you can definitely see the age on a DS screen, it’s still super impressive how much they had to compress in order for the data to fit.
It’s still a really neat piece of history and it’s something that would’ve never happened in today’s age of gaming with everyone being as tight-lipped about copyright to the point of it being detrimental to creativity. That being said, if you have a GBA, its succeeding systems or the first two DS systems, I’d say to track them down while you can, especially if your favorite show is on the list (unfortunately, I have no hope of getting the Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! vol. 1 cartridge as that is like trying to find an ant in a haystack but I have the Sonic X one and that’s good enough for me).
Here’s some photos of mine!
So do y’all think about all of this? Share your thoughts in the comments!
Thank you for reading!
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I'm bored and at this point nocturnal so let's talk about stuff!
I was watching reviews and thought pieces about media because idk I like to. Slowly they became spongebob related. Eventually I stumbled upon a review for the second spongebob movie and how it sucks.
I was curious to watch since I watched this particular person's reviews and they have interesting and nuanced opinions about media in general so I thought maybe it wouldn't be as one sided as the title suggests.
Yeah I was wrong. I really sat and watched a whole video about him saying nothing but "its nothing like classic Spongebob" "its garbage and you're stupid for liking it and not a true spongebob fan" only reasons why he thinks so is because he spends most of the time putting the first movie on such a high pedestal expecting the second movie to achieve when they are no way the same things. His points are contradictory and luke warm with the ideas "classic spongebob is good because you can't explain the jokes" while giving us a joke that can easily be explained. Or "pirates in spongebob should never play an essential role to the plot" while excluding the outlier to his case which is the flying dutchman.
Overall a very spongeboomer take. Can basically be summed up as "not classic spongebob therefore bad". That's common place on the internet especially surrounding Spongebob but I thought for fun I could explain the importance of the second movie and why it isn't trash and why liking it makes you a true spongebob fan. Not the latter.
He ignored the significance of the movie itself. This was when the cartoon reviwer was getting popular on youtube and a way to build your platform was talking about popular cartoons and often one that most reviewers went for is Spongebob. The popular ideas was "why spongebob isn't good anymore" it was a popular thing to tear down spongebob. Create a scapegoat for why the show isn't good anymore whether it be a change of writers, pressure from executives to squeeze the show dry, the creator left, and much more.
While there is no denying the show had decline in quality especially after the first movie. The people who at the time took these points to heart and wanted something to blame became a ruthless crowd. Even so where they took to social media to even harass the current writers until some might have quit the show (we've had Casey Alexander who quit the show and it is speculated he left due to classic spongebob harassment because they thought he was the one to blame for ruining their beloved classic show)
Its funny to think now Spongebob of all things having an aggressive fan base? But it did. Maybe not as large as something like Steven Universe but it happened. People lost hope for the show feeling like its leading to nowhere and how it should have been canceled after the first movie. How everything after the first movie was garbage. Which would that include the 3rd season? The production of the 3rd season was halted due to the production of the movie so technically it's a post movie season but we don't complain about that. Also it's painting a large brush over the show. There are a lot of episodes after the movie that are funny and have a classic charm that we often ignore. The show's decline wasn't from suddenly after the movie. It was over time, a slow change. Experimentation with personality of the characters to keep the show fresh to pressure from executives to keep up with demands for new episodes. There are episodes from season 4 and 5 that are split up into shorts because you can tell there are times where they don't know what to fill in for whole episodes because they've been pumped dry of ideas.
We can't blame one singular force but rather a multiple problems coming together. With people's hopes low the movie was a bit of hope for the series. To be something new. To be something fresh. It didn't have to be perfect. We knew most of the classic staff was coming back but we couldn't expect it to be the same show. The people who wrote for the shoe before. They all grew and changed. They won't produce the same things they made 15 years ago. They won't find the same things funny as they did 15 years ago.
This movie was meant to be it's own thing. It's canoncally before the first movie. It has no relations to it. We wanted to see if it can be something we could watch on it's own. Not to fulfill our fantasies of classic Spongebob coming back. I would even argue that our concept of classic Spongebob doesn't even exist. His personality, the art style of the show, his voice was ever changing from season to season. The tone of season 1 is not nearly the same as the tone of season 3 are complete different. Heck, even spongebob's art style was changing episode to episode. His art style in scaredy pants compared to mermaid man and Barnacle boy, both from season 1 but are almost like two different shows in terms of art style. The only thing they really had in common is that they were funny and that we watched them as kids, we had no point of reference to compare to a "classic" we absorbed and enjoyed them genuinely.
It's no where near fair to compare this movie to the first. The first movie was meant to be the end of an era. End of the series. The second was meant to be a revival of the series. A rebirth. Something brand new. Something unusual and experimental and it achieved that. Artistically was stunning, the experimentation of character interactions, comedy that you could genuinely laugh at. These don't seem big but for the series it was something it long lost and it was reborn. It wasn't perfect but it was something the series needed.
Because of the sponge out of water movie. It managed to revive a part of the fan base curious to see this new era of spongebob. It wasn't the classic but it was new. It revived interest in the show. The classic writers were back and though that brought interest to the series wasn't a crutch anymore.
I feel like what the show suffered the most was teying to live up to the formulas of the classic episodes without understanding what made it so great in the first place. We have had hundreds of episodes of Spongebob going to make krabby patties, loving his job, annoying squidward, being dumb with Patrick and we've had this all done on repeat. The same way done over and over with some variation but basically the same. In theory it should have succeeded right? That's what the classic episodes did so why doesn't it work here? It's missing what made all those little activities and stuff fun. The experimentation. The development of the small interactions between the characters, the experimentation of events and how characters would interact with them, how we could relate to the feelings and behaviors of the characters and how does it reflect us? How does it surprise us? Make us feel? Make us laugh?
The show for the longest time was using formulas in hopes of spitting out a good episode without understanding what made it all great.
The modern episodes finally learned to let go of that. It doesn't have to follow the same formulas to be funny. It doesn't have to do what the classic episodes did to have a good episode. It does it's own thing and so we get episodes like mermaid pants, mind the gap, squid noir, chef bob, and more.
Yeah they might occasionally follow some elements of the classic episodes like spongebob pretending to be mermaid man but in its own original way. With it's own unique gags without throwing nonsense in and hoping it sticks. It doesn't use those elements as a crutch and that's what important and so much forgotten.
We get classic Spongebob and Squidward interactions without following a classic formula in mind the gap or Squid noir. We get some development on Spongebob himself in the episode Chef Bob in an entirely new way while displaying an old problem he had that was often overlooked in the classic seasons.
Being a true spongebob fan is recognizing the show will not be the same for 21 years. Some us was born, grew up watching the animation and now pursuing animation as adults. There are even some people who grew up watching the show who are now hired to work on it.
The series grows and change. You won't be able to define a modern episode the same as a classic and its okay to recognize the difference and even not like it at times but putting down anyone who likes it is wrong. Saying they aren't true fans for liking it is wrong. It's an art form. Art is subjective. What you might feel is trash might be another person's treasure. They might see something in it that you don't. You might see something in it that they don't. That's how it works.
A true spongebob fan is recognizing that and accepting it. Not putting people down for it.
#i cant sleeeeeep#Hope my thoughts aren't too scrambled here#spongebob#spongebob squarepants#sb#spongebon squarepants#spongebob meme#the spongebob connoisseur#about the spongebob connoisseur#spongebob movie#Spongebob sponge out of water#Sponge out of water#Thoughts#Review
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Michael After Midnight: Doug Walker’s The Wall
You know, I thought that nothing could harm the Nostalgia Critic’s career after he survived the whole #ChangeTheChannel fiasco. I thought Doug Walker would be able to survive anything. I thought the Nostalgia Critic could never sink that low again.
I was wrong.
The latest review by Doug Walker is, in fact, not a review – it is a full-on parody musical that lampoons Pink Floyd’s The Wall. But lampooning is probably a bit too kind; this lampoons its subject matter in a way that would make Seltzer and Friedberg blush. This is pretty much the nadir of parody right here, there’s no getting around it.
In short: This fucking sucks. But leaving it short isn’t any fun, now is it? Why does this suck?
Well, for one, Doug seems to have absolutely no understanding of the subject matter, despite claiming to love it. He makes the most third-grade observations, like “It’s BORING!” or “It’s PRETENTIOUS!” but literally none of these criticisms hold any sort of water or weight because everything is being sung in piss-poor parodies of Pink Floyd songs. Despite Doug’s claims that this is all meant to be a loving tribute, it comes off more as what someone who just utterly hates Pink Floyd’s music would say the music sounds like. I think perhaps the worst ‘criticism’ of all is when he calls one of the songs “Oscar-bait”… you know, despite the movie being based on an album, not the other way around. The song wasn’t made for the movie, the movie was made for the song.
The music is just downrtight awful as well. The reinterpretations of the original instrumentals are soulless and disgusting, Doug and everyone else in this can’t sing for shit, and the lyrics are just vapid non-criticisms or observations a grade schooler would make. Then there’s getting Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor to star. He can’t act for shit, and despite being a famous musician with demonstrable talent in his field… he never once sings. Well, he does sing once, but it’s the SpongeBob theme for some reason. Maybe this is a sly allusion to the widely-hated SpongeBob special “Atlantis Squarepantis,” where they got David Bowie to play the king of Atlantis and, despite the episode being a musical, never have him sing. Of course, I think that’s a bit too cerebral for Doug, so probably not; it’s just an accidental comparison to a vastly superior piece of media I can make. And yes, “Atlantis Squarepantis” is a piece of shit, but it’s still better than this.
Another big flaw is the absolutely shitty production value. One of the reasons The Wall is so great is because it has incredible production value, incredible animation… and all of that is absent here. This has some of the most mind-numbingly awful animation on the internet, with crappy CGI and stock video effects coexisting and congealing into a fetid pool of garbage. And that’s not even getting into the god-awful animation for the freaky monster that is existing as a tribute to the wonderfully deranged animation from the beloved trial sequence; in fact, I’m pretty sure that the entire trial segment in this video is nothing but an excuse to show off a bunch of furry OCs, because there is no other discernible rhyme or reason to anything being shown onscreen.
There’s also the way this whole thing where he seems to be… modernizing the whole album? Like aside from adding his insults to the work of Pink Floyd to the songs, a lot of the imagery he’s throwing into this is just really bad, shallow, and nonsensical. And of course, there’s something really tacky and tasteless about trying to update a very personal, slightly biographical work that is filled with cultural context that Doug just constantly ignores. Perhaps the worst such moment is the chants of “HASHTAG” in one of the songs, but then it just hits you with the goose-stepping phones right after and frankly that takes the cake.
I think the worst part of all of this is Doug’s sheer delusions of grandeur. Look at the way he talks about the album during the commercial break, blatantly lying and calling it a “love-letter” as well as saying it’s “great stuff” when it just so clearly ISN’T. The music is awful and lifeless, Doug just can’t sing for shit, the whole thing is so bitter and meanspirited… And then there’s just the sheer audacity of this man who is standing in front of framed pictures of his own movies, his big YouTube subscriber count award thing on the wall behind him, calling this movie pretentious, egocentric, and up its own ass. This movie is like the physical embodiment of a lack of self awareness.
And you know what? Maybe all of this wouldn’t be so bad if there was any actual reviewing in this. The entire review is like two lines at the end of the video. Two lines that are preceded by a shitty stock video effect. This is a monument to Doug’s sins. This is his egomania in its purest, most unadulterated form. The fact he actually wrote Corey Taylor pointing out that he needs to review a movie in a movie review and then proceeds to not do that and just lead into a nonsensical reference is just… insulting. Doug wastes nearly forty minutes of your life, insulted you, and refused to give any insightful or valid criticisms. And this is a guy you are ostensibly watching for his opinions and critiques of films in between the comedy, and he can give good insight, especially in his more down-to-earth reviews, so it baffles me even more why he would think it is a good idea to eschew analysis of one of the most symbolic films ever made just to do a shitty Disaster Movie-quality parody album.
I think what’s so strange is how I have no idea who this video is supposed to be appealing to. Pink Floyd fans will hate it, people who like music will hate it, people who like Doug’s reviews will hate it… there’s literally no one I can see enjoying this video in any sense, not even an ironic one. Maybe if you’re a hardcore furry who wanted more fursonas in The Wall you’ll enjoy it, but you have to get through half an hour of Doug’s shitty singing to hear it and then you have to sit through the worst animation this side of Doogal. It’s not worth it. Just go to e621 and beat off, it’s a better and less shameful time than watching through this fucking trainwreck.
Fuck you for this, Doug. If this was your passion project, it’s pretty clear to me your passion is best focused elsewhere, because if you really did put your all into this your all is worth absolutely nothing. This is insulting, embarrassing, and downright pathetic. I have never felt so much secondhand embarrassment for another human being in my life than I did watching this. I’m a man who can find something to love in some really crappy movies, but god fucking dammit, this is beyond me. Doug Walker deserves every ounce of hatred and scorn he gets for this video. It is, without a doubt in my mind, the single worst piece of film of this entire year, and perhaps the single worst video on YouTube’s website. It certainly deserves that “honor” more than some goofy pop song by a teenager ever did.
Oh hey, maybe I should end this review on an ambiguous, nonsensical, open ended note like Doug did, because apparently that’s what GOOD reviewers do! Here’s the baby from Eraserhead.
Fuck you Doug.
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here are the pros and cons of the biggest brands.
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Welcome to the era of the Streaming Wars.
Hollywood is getting more crowded than ever as two new online streaming services, Apple TV+ and Disney+, join the digital fight for your eyeballs and money in November. And there’s still more to come: Next spring, WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and Comcast’s Peacock join the mix.
With Netflix, Hulu and Amazon already dominating the streaming world, and smaller players like CBS All Access, Shudder and Acorn TV fighting for their place in the mix, the new TV landscape can be a daunting avalanche of choices, and subscribing to every new service can easily end up costing more than that cable bill you already cut.
But not all streaming services are created equal. Before you subscribe to the latest, consider our list of the major services, ranked from best to worst. We’ve included only services not available as a cable channel (sorry, HBO Now), and those streaming in 2019 (we’ll get back to HBO Max and Peacock later).
The Handmaid’s Tale was Hulu’s first breakout hit. (Photo: Hulu)
1. Hulu
Cost: $5.99/month with ads; $11.99/month commercial-free
Originals: A mix of award-winning high profile dramas (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Act”), tiny, quirky and acclaimed comedies (“PEN15,” “Shrill”) and occasional theatrical or streaming-only films (“Little Monsters,” “Fyre Fraud”).
Library: Includes currently airing TV shows on ABC, NBC and Fox (“The Masked Singer,” “Stumptown”) paired with archival series (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Designing Women,” “Seinfeld”) and films (“Boyz n the Hood”).
Kid-friendly? A robust kids’ section has mostly older shows (“Sailor Moon,” “Doug”) but a few originals like “The Bravest Knight.”
Hulu tops our list because it’s a broadly appealing service that offers plenty of genres and styles without scraping the bottom of the barrel for new content. The ability to watch current broadcast shows in-season is a huge advantage. And Hulu has the best selection of archival TV series with a solid showing of films, too. Its originals could be better, but the service has wisely chosen not to overload us with shoddy new programming, a mistake its biggest competitor, Netflix, has unfortunately made. Hulu’s value is likely to grow in the next few years, now that Disney effectively owns the service. Adult Marvel content will likely gravitate here, along with a trove of FX series.
Sadie Sink, Noah Schnapp, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, and Caleb McLaughlin in Stranger Things 3 . (Photo: Netflix.)
2. Netflix
Cost: $8.99/month to watch on one screen at once, $12.99/month to watch on two screens or $15.99/month to watch on four screens in Ultra HD.
Originals: Has the largest crop of originals, which means the biggest mix in quality as well. Notables include “Stranger Things,” “Queer Eye” and “The Crown,” in addition to Oscar-bait movies like Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman.”
Library: Shrinking every year. Although some stalwarts remain on the service (“Breaking Bad,” “Dexter,” “Supernatural”), Netflix is investing in originals, not in holding onto the rights for legacy series and films. (“Friends,” “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation” are among those shifting elsewhere by 2021 for U.S. subscribers).
Kid-friendly? Netflix’s kids’ section is massive, populated mostly with dozens of originals (A “Boss Baby” series, an upcoming “Green Eggs and Ham” adaptation) and some library content (“Pokemon”).
Netflix may be synonymous with the idea of streaming content, but while it pioneered the format, it hasn’t perfected it. The service has a huge number of films and TV shows to choose from, but that library isn’t as good as it once was. Netflix’s biggest flaw is that it is abandoning its archival content in favor of an ever-more-mediocre slate of originals across all genres of TV and film. Some of these series are brilliant (“The Crown,” “BoJack Horseman”), others are decent (“Queer Eye”), but most are poor facsimiles of better TV (“Ozark,” “Fuller House”). The movies that premiere on the service without a theatrical run (and thus, aren’t vying for Oscars) have a distinct “TV movie” vibe. Still, Netflix is a really valuable service and the biggest name in the game, only slightly edged out by Hulu.
Pedro Pascal stars as the title character in the new Disney+ series, “The Mandalorian.” (Photo: Francois Duhamel, Lucasfilm Ltd.)
3. Disney+
Cost: $6.99/month or $69.99/year (available Nov. 12)
Originals: The first Star Wars live-action series (“The Mandalorian”), teen comedy “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” “Toy Story” spinoff “Forky Asks a Question” and a slew of nonfiction series. More Star Wars and Marvel series are promised over the next few years.
Library: The Disney Vault has opened, and classics (“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”) and duds (“The Shaggy D.A.”) alike will flood the service, along with recent blockbusters (“Avengers: Endgame”) from the studio. Some titles inherited from the merger with 20th Century Fox (“The Simpsons”) also are available.
Kid-friendly? Extremely. All content on the service is family friendly to some degree, to fit with the Disney brand.
The biggest threat to existing services comes from the biggest conglomerate in Hollywood. Disney is flexing its considerable muscle by offering its classic films paired with original series from its biggest brands: Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel. Its huge library is its biggest advantage, as is the ability to reboot and revive (“Lizzie McGuire,” here we come). But the biggest disadvantage is the lack of diversity in programming. Everything here will be very Disney in tone and style, and the service has no plans for mature programming and mindless reality TV, which has its time and place. If you have kids, the value of the service goes up exponentially, but for those of us not trying to entertain tykes, other streamers have more to choose from.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge takes a smoking break as the titular character in Amazon’s “Fleabag.” (Photo: STEVE SCHOFIELD/AMAZON)
4. Amazon Prime Video
Cost: $12.99/month, but comes with free two-day shipping
Originals: “Jack Ryan,” “Bosch,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and lots of small, awards-friendly fare, a lineup that’s changing rapidly as the company embraces genre shows like an upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series.
Library: A wide assortment that most notably includes Masterpiece dramas(“Downton Abbey”), mid-2000s procedurals (“The Closer,” “Bones”), USA Network shows (“Mr. Robot,” “Suits”) and some older HBO programming.
Kid-friendly? Yes, Amazon includes originals like “Kung Fu Panda” and Nickelodeon series like “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Dora the Explorer.”
Amazon’s TV output is perfectly acceptable, especially if you like quaint British television and series your grandparents will enjoy. The streamer excels at comedies (Emmy-winning “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Fleabag”) and has an impressive selection of British TV (“Doctor Who,” “Broadchurch”). Its library of old series and originals is not as big as Hulu and Netflix, but it does have Oscar-nominated films (“The Big Sick” and “Manchester by the Sea”) acquired from festivals. Your money goes further, because it pays for two-day shipping with TV as a bonus, but it still offers a higher proportion of niche programming than its rivals. Unlike Netflix or Hulu, it can’t replace your cable subscription all on its own, but its lineup will expand to include a fashion series from Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum and an expensive “Rings” adaptation.
Sonequa Martin-Green returns as Michael Burnham for a third season of “Star Trek: Discovery.” (Photo: JOHN MEDLAND/CBS)
5. CBS All Access
Cost: $5.99/month with commercials, $9.99/month without
Originals: “Star Trek: Discovery,” “The Good Fight,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Why Women Kill”
Library: Current (and recent) CBS series, classics (“I Love Lucy”) and movies (“Rocky”).
Kid-friendly? Some library content like “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and “Everybody Hates Chris,” but nothing for preschoolers and no originals.
Don’t knock the Eye’s streaming service until you’ve tried it. It’s a little on the expensive side for the number of originals, but its streaming shows have a better batting average when it comes to quality (“The Good Fight” is one of the best shows on TV). In addition to CBS shows, its library includes a treasure trove of classic films and TV, such as “Happy Days” and “The Brady Bunch.” However, it’s still limited in scope, so seeing some episodes of “Star Trek: Picard” a few times a year may not be worth the expense.
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon star in the new Apple TV+ series “The Morning Show.” (Photo: Apple)
6. Apple TV+
Cost: $4.99/month; free for one year with purchase of an Apple product (available Nov. 1)
Originals: “The Morning Show,” “See,” “For All Mankind,” “Dickinson,” “The Elephant Queen,” “Oprah’s Book Club,” and other new shows from M. Night Shyamalan and Steven Spielberg.
Library: None
Kid friendly? Nope
Despite its low price tag, Apple has a distinct disadvantage in value because it has no back library of classic shows or films. You could burn through their entire new catalog in a few weeks. And you wouldn’t get much from binge-watching the new series, which include “The Morning Show,” a mediocre soap starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. The best of the bunch is alternate history drama “For All Mankind,” from the creator of “Battlestar Galactica,” but is it worth the money to see just one maybe-good show? Probably not.
Three decades after “The Karate Kid,” Johnny (left, William Zabka) and Daniel (Ralph Macchio) face off again in “Cobra Kai.” (Photo: YOUTUBE RED)
Honorable mentions: AcornTV, Britbox, Shudder, YouTube and Facebook Watch
A few other, much smaller streaming services are vying for your wallet. AcornTV and BritBox are for serious Anglophiles (Acorn has more mysteries, Britbox has all of classic “Doctor Who”). Shudder is devoted to horror. Facebook Watch and YouTube are a mix of user-created and professional content. Facebook Watch has one good original series (“Sorry for Your Loss” starring Elisabeth Olsen); so does YouTube (“Karate Kid” sequel “Cobra Kai”). Facebook Watch is free if you have time for it, and YouTube also has a free tier, with ads.
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Episode 92: Atlantis SquarePantis
“♪~ Good-bye, Atlantis. We're Bikini Bottom bound. There's no place like home! ~♪”
Synopsis: SpongeBob and friends take a trip to Atlantis, a lost city with all of their desires, but encounter some trouble when they destroy their most prized possession. Meanwhile, Patchy gets lost in the desert when his home town goes missing.
Well, everybody, here we are: review number one-hundred. When I first created this blog, I decided I’d tackle one of the movies every hundred episodes or so, including the two TV movies. Since TV movies are considerably smaller than regular movies, I figured this would be the first one I’d take on. Now before we dive in, I must say something about this episode: it is notoriously known as being one of the worst SpongeBob episodes of all time. Frequently criticized for its several musical numbers, meandering plot line, and so on and so forth. When watching this episode, I ultimately had to take into account a neutral perspective when reviewing this episode. Listen, in the past, I feel as though something I’ve done wrong is expecting an episode to be good or bad before viewing, and ultimately I feel that might make my reviews of said episodes a bit more biased. “Atlantis SquarePantis” is an episode I haven’t seen in ages, and really, I couldn’t really trust past judgement of the episode from myself. I am aware that this episode is widely considered to be bad, yes, but ultimately, I have had a few unpopular opinions in the past; might review “Stanley S. SquarePants” in the near future as an example. But nonetheless, let’s discuss my opinions on “Atlantis SquarePantis.”
SUMMARY:
While I did go into this episode with a neutral perspective, the honest truth is simply... yeah, it isn’t very good. I could just end the review there, but listen, is that really what you want to see out of a one-hundredth review? Nah. However, before I go on and give actual opinions, let’s get all the little nitpicks that people blow up way too much out of the way.
“This episode is a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ripoff!” Listen, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of those stock plots that so many cartoons rely on from time to time. This episode is no less a rip-off of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory than say, “Squidtastic Voyage” is to Fantastic Voyage. I might take off a few points for using a stock-plot for the show’s first TV movie, but frankly trying to consider it a rip-off is a pretty lame argument about this episode.
“Why doesn’t David Bowie get a musical number?” Listen, I’m gonna get it out of the way: David Bowie was a pretty terrible person, if my memory serves right. However, once again, while I will take points off for hiring a famous musician in a musical episode and not having him sing, it’s frankly the least of my concerns. When watching this episode, really I wasn’t wondering so much “When will LRH get a musical number?” because the musical numbers aren’t really what I’m watching this episode for. Of course, musical numbers can help episodes go from being good to great, like “Band Geeks” and the recent “Mimic Madness,” but as a whole, they aren’t anything that concerns me much in an episode.
And while there are far too many songs, I mostly had a neutral opinion on them. They’re nothing I’d seek down and listen to, but it wasn’t like “Oh dear Neptune just let it end” whenever I heard one. They’re pretty middle-of-the-road SpongeBob songs that ultimately don’t really bother me all that much.
While all those things are kinda bad, they ultimately don’t contribute much to my overall opinion of the episode. If there’s really a big issue I have with this episode, it’s how little really happens for the time it’s worth. Many of the issues this episode has can be seen in my reviews for an episode like “The Cent of Money” or “The Clash of Triton.” However, I do feel “Atlantis SquarePantis” is a little above those episodes.
For reference, in “Atlantis SquarePantis,” SpongeBob and Patrick are enjoying a nice day blowing bubbles, when they are disappointed with how briefly they last. SpongeBob decides to attempt blowing a long-lasting bubble, but it ends up carrying him and Patrick to a cave, where they find half of the Amulet of Atlantis. They go to the museum, where they find Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and Sandy, who all talk about their dreams in the lost city. Seeing the lost half of the Amulet of Atlantis, they manage to re-join it, and fly through a song-filled bus to the lost city, where everyone gets lost in their desires. SpongeBob and Patrick find the oldest-living bubble and get freaked out when they accidentally pop it, but ultimately it doesn’t mean much because it’s not even the real bubble; but then they do pop the real bubble and kinda piss off the Atlantian guards, and Plankton has a kinda shoehorned in plot about getting Atlantian weapons for unknown purposes. They fly home, missing Atlantis, and yadda-yadda. This plot would be fine for an episode anywhere between eleven and twenty minutes; probably working best as one of those half-specials, along the lines of “Back to the Past” and “Shanghaied.” And ultimately, that’s really the episode’s biggest fault: it just feels... padded out. It feels like an episode that was intended to be much shorter, but was extended just so the show could have a TV movie or get higher ratings or something.
Patchy also gets a subplot that’s equally as uninteresting. Patchy gets stuck in traffic waiting for the new SpongeBob, but ends up realizing his home town of Encino, California has disappeared somehow. Patchy gets stranded in the desert, looking for Encino, only to have weird hallucinations, feed a sandwich to a vulture, and eventually discover the town was shrunken by Space Aliens. Part of me wants to give the highlight of the episode to the weird live-action SpongeBob costumes, but it’s more funny in a “what-the-heck” kind of way than in an actually, legitimately funny way.
What puts “Atlantis SquarePantis” above other similarly boring episodes is that while, yes, the plot is pretty meandering and pointless, it at least enjoys a bit of fun with the medium. A few different animation styles appear in this episode, and while the one in Mr. Krabs’s song feels kinda cheap, and the one in Squidward’s doesn’t make nearly the use of the different paintings it should, it still is a nice change of pace for the series. I actually do really like the art style in Sandy’s song, which kind of takes an ol’ 16-bit SNES look to it, with some surprisingly fluid animation. Might just be personal tastes, though.
The biggest issue with the episode is that it really goes nowhere. Everything ultimately just leads to another anticlimax, but not even really a funny one. So SpongeBob and Patrick popped the bubble, but surprise it wasn’t the real one. Plankton gets advanced weaponry but nope it just fires ice cream. Ultimately, each time it feels a conflict is about to build up, it just kinda ends with some dull anticlimax. An episode with low stakes can occasionally work on, perhaps, an eleven minute-or-shorter level, like “Patrick! The Game.” However, when aiming to create a TV movie, ultimately, having an episode with as little climax as this one ultimately just feels boring. I do not recommend “Atlantis SquarePantis,” no, but admittedly, I don’t really feel that that mad at it. It feels like just a generic kinda dull SpongeBob episode with a lot of padding. None of the padding is really grating or obnoxious, just dull. “Atlantis SquarePantis” is an episode that I can’t really think of much reason to hate with all my heart. Yeah, it’s bad, and pretty dang bad at that, but it doesn’t give much reason for seething hatred. Once it’s over, it’s over, and well, there’s nothing you’re really feeling aside from “did I really just spend forty minutes on that?”
RECAP:
THE GOOD:
“Atlantis SquarePantis’s” biggest strength is that it does manage to have some interesting formats that wouldn’t be shown in your average episode. It’s one of the few things that could make this episode feel “special” when compared to others.
I’ll hand this episode that it did get a handful of laughs out of me, particularly the “I Hate Mondays” gag, but nothing too fantastic.
THE BAD:
The songs, while nothing abominable, are pretty forgettable, and definitely have those rhymes which just feel... forced. You know, the melons with edible rinds, the looking great on the side of a van, etc.
The plot really just meanders a lot. For a 40-minute long episode, it ultimately did nothing that a 22 or even 11-minute long episode couldn’t cover.
Plankton’s side-plot is entirely unnecessary.
This episode hardly has any climax. There’s a kinda neat fight sequence with Sandy and the Atlantians, but it’s so brief that in the grand scheme of things, it may as well be just a little more filler, since even it hardly leads anywhere in the end.
VERDICT:
I’m sorry to say, but this one-hundredth review is probably going to be as anti-climactic as the episode it is for. I was expecting something I could tear to shreds, or really just despise with every inch of my being, but ultimately... I couldn’t think of too much to say. There are many small things that are wrong here, but none of them are really wrong enough to fill my heart with rage or anything of that sort. It’s just dull, and forgettable. Really, the only question I should be asking is why watch this when there are multitudes of eleven minute episodes that tell better stories with more humor? Throw together “Married to Money,” “Life Insurance,” “Kracked Krabs,” and “Krusty Krushers” and you’d probably have a more worth-while forty minutes than watching this episode. Really, this is one that is difficult to give a final score to. It’s bad? Yeah. And frankly, it doesn’t really have major redeeming qualities. Ultimately, though I just can’t gather up the anger to rate it anything lower than...
FINAL SCORE: 3/10
Worse than the average 3/10 episode, but ultimately, it was just another boring, inoffensive episode of SpongeBob. A 3/10 is what I’d rate another episode of that sort, and TV movies aren’t held to any other standards. I’d definitely avoid this episode, it hardly does anything in the forty minutes it lasts, but that “hardly anything” can be said for both the good and bad.
THE SIDE-NOTES:
While it did get the same score as “What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?,” how it got the score was in a very different way. While “What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?” had a somewhat compelling story, the humor was lacking, and the episode just felt a tad too depressing to really enjoy. “Atlantis SquarePantis” achieves the score on sheer account of just doing nothing that I can really appreciate, while having nothing loathesome to really rant against.
I guess this still lines up with my “every ten episodes review something infamous” rule.
Time to count down to my review of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie! Only 100 more reviews to go!
So Atlantis has outgrown the needs for currency and warfare? Heck, they just need to ditch the monarchy and I’d be packing my bags and heading straight for that town.
Just getting back to reviewing run-of-the-mill episodes will feel so weird now. It’s like, “Hey! Here’s a review of a TV movie! And now here’s a review of uh... ‘Wishing You Well.’”
Yeah I’m gonna review “Wishing You Well” next. I got a request for it a couple months back so... yeah let’s do that.
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The Hear app makes trippy sounds, but it probably won't help you concentrate
Anyone who's ever attempted to write for a living (or for fun) knows there's essentially no such thing as a distraction-free environment. Coffee shops are busy and bustling, offices are full of noisy co-workers, and personal living spaces are packed with potential procrastination options.
Like many people who are easily distracted, I often find myself struggling to give that task at hand my undivided attention. So when I learned about the advanced listening app Hear, created by RjDj, I was intrigued.
Billed as something that can "harmonize your listening experience" and "help you to be less distracted and stressed," Hear sounded very promising. I've never been one for white noise machines or soothing spa playlists, so the augmented sound aspect of Hear initially had me a bit skeptical. But I hoped the app would help me focus when writing, make noisy public settings more pleasant to be in, and allow me to filter some of the sounds in my office when I felt I needed an extra level of introspection.
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Hear is free and simply designed. It offers seven free sound filters (Super Hearing, Auto Volume, Relax, Happy, Talk, Office, and Sleep,) and two additional filters (Trippy and Upbeat) available for $1.99 each. The individual filters each have their pros and cons, so to give you the most complete understanding of the Hear experience I thought it would be best to break the app down by its different listening components.
Getting set up
To start, you can download Hear from the app store. (It's currently only available on iOS.) Be aware that only wired headphones are supported at the moment "because bluetooth audio does not support high quality microphone realtime audio." But Hear audio technicians are reportedly looking into expanding the app's headphone capabilities in the future.
After downloading, you see the app's main deep red and orange color theme, and you're guided through a simple setup. You'll be asked to enable your mic so incoming audio can be processed through the app, plug in your headphones, and then you're free to swipe between the various filters just like you would on Instagram.
Super Hearing
After setup, Hear launches right into its Super Hearing filter, which, I must say I was not entirely prepared for.
Super Hearing lets you hear the world "with superhuman detail and quality," which means every keystroke you make or breath you take is extremely amplified. At first, the heightened hearing felt incredibly strange — like I'd been transported into a seashell. But once you adjust the bass, presence, brilliance, and volume to your liking, it can be pretty damn soothing.
I first tried the filter while I was working from home, and in my secluded environment I really liked the results. It made me feel like a superhero with otherworldly powers, and transformed the clicks of my MacBook Air into an old fashioned typewriter. But when I tried it back in the office — as was the case with essentially every filter — I found the amplified sounds of co-workers talking and laughing to be far more pronounced, and therefore, more distracting.
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While I was at my desk, Super Hearing allowed me to pick up on the faintest background noises, some of which I wouldn't have otherwise paid much attention to, such as the unzipping of jackets, popping open of soda cans, beeping of car horns outside, and hushed conversations between co-workers around me.
To test the app's range out I turned up the volume and slacked my co-worker who sits three rows away from me. I bizarrely requested that he cough to himself. After a bit of convincing he lightly cleared his throat, and it weirdly sounded as though he was seated right beside me.
The verdict: Overall, Super Hearing is a great and even somewhat comforting option if you're using it alone. I imagine it'd be helpful to use when meditating or deep breathing, since it allows you to look deep within yourself and hear each breath and movement so clearly. But in a noisy environment, it made me much more conscious of each individual sound more — essentially, the opposite of what I wanted.
Auto Volume
The app's second filter, described as a way to "turn off the background noise, but still hear when people talk around you," seemed promising. But honestly, it didn't wow me.
The Auto Volume filter starts off silent and only picks up select noise, resulting in sudden bursts of sound and occasionally choppy feedback. This particular filter didn't always pick up the sounds I wanted it to, and would occasionally cut out while someone was speaking to me, which got to be pretty frustrating.
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The verdict: While I'm not passionately against this filter, I honestly just didn't see the point in using it. Turning it on in a room alone doesn't add much to your work experience, and though you can change the volume, suppress noise, and remove hiss, I couldn't seem to find a settings adjustment that convinced me otherwise. Overall, I found the harsh distinctions between absolute quiet and sound distracting.
Relax
Hear told me its third filter, Relax, would make me "lose myself in harmonic waves of bliss," and while I was incredibly hopeful at the thought of finally getting a taste of app-induced relaxation, I can assure you I experienced no such thing.
Have you ever seen the episode of SpongeBob SquarePants where Squidward screams "alone" in that white room over and over again? Or in Finding Nemo when Dory tries to speak whale? That's the vibe the Relax filter gave me.
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It's great if you want to hear sneezes, coughs, and other sounds echo through your mind for far longer than they should. But I didn't find it to be especially helpful when trying to relax. The filter might not be so bad if you're in the presence of waves crashing on a shore or another soothing sound you'd like repeated. But in an office? No thanks.
The verdict: This filter was fine and the bright side is that there are ways to adjust the settings to make it more tolerable. I highly suggest turning off the echo to get rid of the creep factor.
Happy
The Happy filter is by far the single most trippy experience I have ever had with a piece of technology. The app describes the filter as "turning sounds around you into cascades of happiness," but to paint you a far more accurate picture, imagine the Relax filter just downed some shrooms.
The filter repeats sounds back to you in different octaves more than 20 times, to the point where you feel like you have voices in your head. It was low key traumatizing and honestly felt like I was in a living nightmare. Pharell Williams is quoted saying the app is "like legal drugs with no side effects," and this was the first time I really understood how much he wasn't exaggerating.
You can adjust the settings on density, spread, space, and volume to make the filter less dramatic, but all using this in my office did was allow me to hear everything my coworkers were saying on what felt like a never-ending loop.
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The verdict: Absolutely NOT. I can't imagine one single scenario, aside from prepping to star in a straight up horror movie, in which anyone would willingly want to use this filter. It's a nightmare. I experienced a roller coaster of emotions while trying the Happy filter out, but let me tell you, happiness was not one of them. I was petrified, uneasy, and honestly think a tear rolled down my cheek at one point. So, um, the hardest of passes here, folks.
Talk
The Talk filter is for anyone who's "fed up with boring voices" around them. Essentially, the app auto-tunes incoming sounds and voices so they sound more musical, which again, is fun as hell, but also super distracting.
With the ability to adjust echo, space, harmony, and volume, you can really manipulate the sounds around you in an impressively cool way, though. Seriously, T-Pain would be proud of this thing.
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The verdict: This filter was one of my favorites, partly because it was one of the few I felt produced semi-pleasant sounds, as opposed to cursed ones. I will, however, admit that I got very little done while using it. I spent the majority of my time with Talk singing Daft Punk and Imogen Heap songs, but hey, I had a great time, and it helped me recover from the traumatizing Happy filter.
Office
The Office filter — you know, the one I'd been waiting for — had finally arrived. It's suggested use is when you can't concentrate and want to "detach yourself and focus," but all I could focus on was how artificially extra it was.
The best way I could describe the filter is as a menacing spa soundtrack. It does keep out the harshness of direct voices, which might be helpful for some, but it replaces them with muffled, distant, creepier noises.
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The verdict: I unfortunately was not a fan of the Office filter. In "unhumanizing" sounds, it sort of makes other people sound robotic, which is not something I personally felt my life was lacking. While using the filter I felt like a character in the movies who's just coming to after having passed out, and that was not exceptionally pleasant.
Sleep
Remember when I said nothing could be worse than the Happy filter? I spoke too soon because the sleep filter is here to literally haunt your dreams.
I don't know how exactly to describe it, but some words that come to mind are evil haunted clown dementors, if that helps at all.
The settings on this filter make all the difference, and while they could thankfully be adjusted to stop me from having a full-blown anxiety attack, they can also be turned up to make the filter far more frightening.
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The verdict: The Sleep filter is said to "induce the most deep and surreal dreams of your life," and sadly I will never know if that's true because I can barely tolerate the sounds it produces when I'm awake. It's a bold statement, but I think this filter wins the Most Cursed award.
What's with the paid filters?
While most of Hear's filters are free, there are two in-app purchases you can make at $1.99 each.
The Trippy filter is said to "distort the world around you" with a "fantastically unusual auditory experience." But after experiencing how trippy the first seven filters were, I can't even imagine what this one sounds like. Hear warned it "includes hallucinations without side effects," so honestly, download at your own risk.
The second paid filter, Upbeat, is said to take the sounds around you and "loop them into a one-off audio experience like no other." I think the echo in several of the other apps gave me more than enough looping, so I wasn't really compelled to download this extra, either.
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To download or not to download?
Hear is marketed as "a listening experience like no other," and I can confidently say that is accurate. Hear is, quite frankly, like nothing I've ever heard in my life. The only thing that's even come close to the Hear experience for me is the sound-centric John Krasinski film Nobody Walks.
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Though my experience with the app wasn't always positive, I can certainly say it is the most unusual app I've ever used. But outside of the fact that it's impossibly distracting and some of the filters are terrifying, the app does have a few other cons.
For starters, if you have a mic on your headphones it picks up all the sound that gets augmented. So any sounds you yourself make, such as speaking, coughing, etc., can be uncomfortably loud. (If you're using headphones without a mic, this isn't an issue.) Another downside is the fact that the settings bars overlap with the pause feature, so if you try to pause the filter when settings are opened you'll unintentionally raise the volume scale to its max. Ouch.
It's also worth noting the app does drain your battery if you keep it enabled throughout the day.
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But it's not all bad. I enjoyed the minimalist design — a colorful screen with a circle in the middle that changed size in response to sound waves — and it is nice that each filter can be adjusted for maximum customization.
Several of the filters (like Super Hearing and Talk) were genuinely pleasant and helpful in a solo setting, and while others were more distracting, there's no denying it was cool as hell to distort sound like that.
Would I recommend downloading the app for a fun and interesting listening experience? Absolutely. Pull the app out at parties, share some laughs with your friends, and use it to take a break from reality every once in a while.
But overall, Hear didn't help me cut down on distractions or focus on anything other than the app. So if you're solely wanting to increase your productivity, look elsewhere.
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1. Do you sleep in your bra? NO
2. Does your dad know you like boys yet?
3. Do you enjoy drama? NO
4. Are you a girly girl? IN THE MIDDLE
5. Small or large purses? MEDIUM
6. Are you short? YES
7. Do you like somebody? . YES
8. Do you like Halloween? NO
9. Where is the weirdest place you have slept? BATHTUB
10. Is there any type of rumor going around about you? NO
11. Do you call anybody by their last name? TEACHERS
12. What color is the bra that you're wearing?WHITE
13. Do you prefer light or dark haired guys? DARK
14. Are you currently frustrated with a boy? NO
15. Do you have a best friend? NO
16. Have you ever had your heart broken?
17. Have you ever thought of having plastic surgery? NO
18. Have you ever jumped in the pool with your clothes on? ONCE
19. How long have you had a Tumblr?
20. Have you ever slapped a boy in the face? YES
21. What are your biggest fears? SPIDERS
22. Have you ever cried yourself to sleep? YES
23. Do you believe in the saying "once a cheater, always a cheater"?YES
24. Do you ever wish you were famous? NO
25. Are you currently missing someone? NO
26. Who are you texting right now? NO
1. What’s been the best day of your life so far and why?
THE DAY I GOT MY DOG
2. Describe your first kiss, who was it with, what was it like, where was it etc?
NOPE NOT SAYING
3. What’s your biggest regret? I know we all say we don’t regret things but obviously it’s how we learn, from our mistakes. So what’s something from your past you wished you could have changed? NO SAYING
4. When was the last time you laughed so hard that tears fell from your face and what was it at? NOT SAYING
5. What is the craziest thing that you have ever done?
DYED MY HAIR BLACK
6. What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you?
IDK
7. Do you have any scars and if so, how did you get them?
EYEBROW I FELL AS A BABY AND STOMACH FROM SURGERY
8. Where would you like to be in 10 years?
LIVING ON MY OWN
9. What are your views on drugs and alcohol?
IDC
10. What are your views on religion?
IDC
11. Have you ever thought about ending your own life? If so, why?
NO
12. Write 5 facts people might not know about you.
13. What’s your zodiac sign and do you think it fits your personality?
VERGO N SURE
14. Pinpoint a moment you felt the most satisfied with your life.
15. Discuss your first love.
16. Put your ipod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up. Explain why each song is on there.
17. Name somewhere you’d like to move or visit.
CALI
18. What’s your earliest memory?
IDC
19. What are your views on mainstream music?
20. What are your highs and lows of this past year?
21. What are your strongest beliefs?
22. Who are you closest to in your family?
MY MOMS SIDE
23. How important do you think education is?
PRETTY
24. What’s one of your favorite shows?
BLACKLIST, CSI, CRIMINAL MINDS, LAW N ORDER
25. How have you changed in the past 2 years?
STRONGER
26. Name 5 people who are famous who you find attractive.
RYAN RENOLADS.
27. Name your favorite movie and what it’s about.
28. Who is someone who fascinates you and why?
29. What kind of person attracts you?
STORNG N SELFLESS
30. What’s a problem that you have recently had or are currently having?
WEIGHT
31. Name something that you miss.
MY GRANDMA
32. Share 5 goals you want completed in the next 30 days.
WEIGHT, NEW THOUGHTS, LESS NEGATIVE
33. What’s been the highlight of your month and the lowest point?
NEW JOB LOST A GREAT PERSON
34. What’s something that you’ve done in the past that you would never do again? SMOKE
35. What is you’re biggest insecurity & why?
WEIGHT AND IDK Y
36. What were the last 3 songs you listened to and what did they mean to you?
WEEKEND THE HILLS, AND STARBOY
37. Do you have a toy that’s really special to you and if so what is it, how did you get it etc?MY GOLDEN STUFFED ANIMAL HONEY
38. Have you lost anyone close to you to death?
YES
39. What is your purpose in life?
TO LIVE
40. When was the last time you cried and what was it over?
MONTH AGO I LOST SOMEONE
41. If you got to spend an entire day with your favourite celebrity what would you guys do? HOLD HANDS
42. If you could only listen to one artist for the rest of your life, who would you choose and why? WEEKEND
43. What are 3 traits that you like about yourself and what are three that you dislike about yourself? Personality wise.
44. Can you cook? If so what are your favorite dishes to make?
YES I CAN
45. What was the last decision you regretted making?
46. Who’s opinion of yourself do you value the most?
47. What’s the nastiest thing you’ve ever said to another human being and what drove you to say it?
FUCK U
48. What’s the nastiest thing anyone has ever said to YOU? Or something that’s hurt you above anything else and why?
49. You can ask your favourite celebrity 3 questions and she’s taken a magical truth pill so she will 100% answer honestly, what do you ask?
50. What mark would you want to leave on this world after you are gone?
NO MORE ANIMAL CRULITY
51. What makes you most angry?
PEOPLE WHO ARE MEAN TO ANIMALS
52. Who do you think is a really underrated celebrity and what do you love about them?
53. What are the main qualities you look for when thinking about a significant other?
54. What’s the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for you?
FLOWERS
55. What is one of your favorite memories?
GETTING MY OLD DOG
56. What do you do when you really want to impress someone?
BE NICE I TRY OK
57. What are your 3 favourite animals and why?
DOG, CATS, WOLVES
58. What’s the nicest present you’ve ever received?
DOG. CAR, AND PHONE IDK
59. People always go around saying ‘oh I’m their biggest fan’, but what does being a truly big fan of someone mean to you? I LIKE YOU R ASS
60. Have you ever wanted to change anything about your life? If so, what?
YES IDK CANT SAY
61. What is something you feel like you are really good at?
ART
62. What are your top 5 favourite all time songs by your favourite artist?
WEEKEND HIS WHOLE NEW ALBUM
63. What are your top 5 favourite all time videos by your favourite artist?
THE HILLS
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65. What’s one thing someone has done for you that was really small but made a huge impact?
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67. What’s something that’s on your bucket list? GET A JEEP
68. If you could change 3 things within your government, what would they be and why?
69. What’s your favourite holiday and why?
XMAS I LIKE THE FOOD
70. What’s the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for you? Even if it’s TINY like holding a door open for you, something that you rememer even though they were a complete stranger.
71. Who’s your favorite cartoon character?
SCOOBY DOO
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73. Put the 7 deadly sins in order of the one you commit the most to the least.
74. What would you like to be the first dance song at your wedding?
75. Have you ever been told you look like a famous person, if so, who?
YES AVIRL LAVIGNE
76. What’s one thing you can not live without?
PHONE NN DOG
77. What is the most selfless thing you have ever done for someone?
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80. What comes first to you out of friendships and relationships, and why?
TRUST
81. What’s your favourite children’s tv show/movie?
SPONGEBOB
82. What song makes you cry the most?
JAR OF HEARTA
83. What’s the funniest film you’ve ever seen?
SUPERBAD
84. What’s something crazy that you’ve always wanted to do?
SKYDIVE
85. Has anything ever happened to you that you just can’t forgive?
86. What’s your biggest fear?
WEIGHT
87. What is your favorite food?
PIZZA
88. Least favorite food? Why?
FISH EWW
89. Have you ever felt ashamed about something? If so what was it & why?
90. Do you keep a journal? If so what mostly goes in it? Random thoughts, feelings, stories?
91. When was the last time you said something nice to someone & what made you do it?
92. How do you feel when someone says something mean/disrespectful towards your fave celeb?
93. What’s the saddest story/one that’s touched you the most that you’ve ever heard on the news?
94. If you were told you were going to have 3 daughters, what would you want to name them?
95. Do you have a middle name and if so, what is it? NICOLE
96. How did your name get chosen? What’s the story behind it?
97. What’s the craziest thing you’ve done for each of your faves e.g. waiting in line for hours, getting up early to see them on tv etc?
98. Are you a virgin?NO
99. What are the stories behind your tattoos/piercings and if you don’t have any, would you like any?
100. Do you have siblings? If so, what are their names and how old are they?
NO
1: What do you put on hotdogs? KETCHUP
2: Do you say "anticlimatic" or "anticlimactic"? NONE
3: Do you check flyers before grocery shopping? NO
4: Blue, black, or some other colour pen ink? PINK
5: Do you use your parking brake? YES
6: Look to your left. How many framed pictures are on the wall?0
7: Do you know how to play chess? NO
8: How often do you clean the interior of your car? ONCE A YR
9: Do you ever read the last few pages first? NO
10: Ever fallen in the shower? YES
11: On a scale of 1-10, how likely are you to swear at other drivers?10
12: What's the worst thing you've ever called someone you care about?
13: Do you have a Snuggie? USE TO
14: Are you allergic to anything? NO
15: Do you have any TV shows on DVD? CSI
16: How many times do you hit the snooze button before finally getting out of bed?3
17: Ever driven away in anger? YES
18: What's your favourite freezie colour?BLUE
19: Are you a vegetarian?
20: Do you have a garbage receptacle beside you? What's on top?
21: Do you cross out your mistakes or erase/whiteout them?
22: Ever torn something up that you instantly knew was too important for such treatment?
23: Do you think that things will get better?
24: Do you have an unpopular opinion? What is it?
25: What's your favourite quote?
26: Did you/are you going to go to prom?
27: What's the most physically painful thing you've ever experienced?
28: What's the most emotionally/mentally painful thing you've ever experienced?
29: Have you ever legitimately saved a person's life?
30: What's your favourite book genre?
31: Did you like "Gigli"? Be honest.
32: Have you ever walked out of a movie at the theatre?YES
33: Do you peek between your fingers during the scary scenes?YES
34: What was your reaction to Tatum getting killed whilst stuck in the pet door in Scream?AHH
35: Do dogs like you? YES
36: Would you say that you project an air of authority?
37: Do people listen when you speak?
38: How are your elbows? Are they okay?
39: What is one thing that you do exceptionally well? Be honest.
40: Do you use torrents?
41: When was the last time you paid for music?
42: Are you addicted to technology?
43: Pick a person (you don't need to give their name). How do you feel about them? Be as honest as you can get yourself to be.
44: Do you check your computer's dictionary for the definition of words you'd otherwise feel confident about using during in-person interactions? Just to be sure?
45: How heavily to you rely on spellcheck and autocorrect?
46: Have you ever gotten into an argument on the internet? Did you win?
47: Do you pause movies/TV shows if you have to go to the bathroom or the kitchen, or do you just let them keep playing?
48: If you use a regular alarm clock, do you have it set to music or that obnoxious beeping?
49: Peter Pan?SURE
50: How often do you fall up the stairs?
51: Do you pronounce "anti" as ant-eye or ant-ee? (Example: "That scene was very anticlimactic.")
52: Do you pronounce "via" as vee-uh or vie-uh? (Example: "We can get there via Tremont Street.")
53: How often do you forget to close your parentheses?
Belle
[X] You’ve kissed someone your friends didn’t like.
[X] You’ve been lost in the forest.
[] You love to read.
[] You are not shy at all.
[X] One of your family members is a bit weird.
[X] You have done volunteer work.
[X] You have a wild imagination.
[X] You love to take care of people in need.
[]X You’ve had guys like you only because they think you’re pretty.
[X] You’ve rejected at least one person when they’ve asked you out.
Total:
Rapunzel
[] You’re an orphaned child or have an evil mother.
X[] You have many different hobbies to keep you busy.
X[] You can get really bored.
[X] You have very long hair.
[]X Your hair is/was bright blonde.
X[] You’re an artsy person.
[] You’re childish.
[]X You can’t wait to stop the same routine each day and start living.
[X] You care about others and their feelings.
[] You like to follow the rules.
Total:
Alice
[] You have/had a pet rabbit.
[X] You love to play cards.
[X] You constantly know the time.
[X] You get yourself in sticky situations.
[X] You have been to a court.
[X] You have fallen asleep while doing your homework.
[] You have had a tea party.
[] You like hats.
[] You’re late.
[] You know how to play croquet.
Total:
Jasmine
[] Your dad is rich.
[] You are very clever.
[] You’ve been with someone way different from you.
[X] You’d never marry someone just because they were rich.
[]X You have set a lot of goals for yourself.
[X] You don’t have a lot of (good) friends.
[X] You’re independent.
[] You are wealthy.
[] Your parents try to control your life.
Total:
Megara
[] Your boyfriend/crush is strong.
X[] You have gotten involved with the wrong people before.
[X] You are very convincing.
[X] You have fallen in love before.
[X] You have had your heart broken.
[] You find an interest in Greek mythology.
[X] You lie sometimes.
[] You pretend to be someone you’re not.
[X] You have been used.
[] Purple is one of your favorite colors.
Total:
Ariel
[X] Your parents expect a lot from you.
[X] You really try to follow the rules, but it’s hard for you.
[]X You’re a bit of a trouble maker.
[X] You love to swim.
[X] Your favorite animal is some sort of sea creature.
[X] You collect something.
[X] You have/had long hair.
[X] You are adventurous.
[X] You’re extremely curious.
[X] You believe everything people tell you/you’re a bit gullible.
Total:
Aurora
[] You live/have lived with someone other than your parents.
[X] You almost died at a very young age.
[X] You are gentle, loving, and/or thoughtful.
[] You have a decent singing voice.
[X] You like to sleep in late on the weekend.
[X] You spend most of your time outside.
[XXXX] You’re adopted.
[X] You’re very romantic.
[] Pink is one of your favorite colors.
Total:
Cinderella
[] One of your parents is dead.
[] You are expected to do a lot of chores.
[X] You love to dress up.
[X] You love animals.
[] You are waiting patiently for your Prince Charming.
[] Your mom is really strict.
[] You have sisters who seem kind of jealous of you.
XX[] You’re afraid to speak your mind sometimes.
[]X You have left your shoes at a friend’s house before.
[]X You have/had blonde hair.
Total:
Snow White
[] Sometimes it seems like your mom is jealous of you.
[X] You’ve almost been killed.
[] You have at least seven good friends.
[]X You’ve had food poisoning.
[X] You have/had short hair.
[] You get along with almost everyone.
[] All of your friends are different.
[X] You love to have a good time.
[] You’re happier when you’re out of the house than in.
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Tinkerbell
[X] You get jealous easily.
[X] You loved your childhood.
[] You like to fly.
[] You believe in magic.
[X] You’re 5’2” or under.
[] You hate pirates.
[X] You love sparkles.
[X] People underestimate you.|
[X] You get angry easily.
[] You have/had a treehouse.
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Pocahontas
[] You love to walk around and explore big cities.
[X] You are more spiritual than religious.
[] You’ve been in an interracial relationship.
[X] One of your family members is dead.
[X] Your parents are very protective of you.
[]X Someone you know has been in the war.
[X] You love nature.
[]X You have/had black hair.
[] XYou would love to move somewhere exotic and beautiful.
[]X You’re very adventurous.
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Mulan
[]X You can be a tomboy sometimes.
[] People wish you could be a bit more girly.
[] You’ve pretended to be someone you’re not.
[X] You’ve had a physical fight with someone.
[X] You have/had considered running away from home.
[X] Your parents try to plan your life out.
[]X A lot of your friends are boys.
[]X You sometimes find yourself in bad situations.
[] XYou love your family so much that you’d do anything to protect them
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