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shipwreckedcomedy · 1 year

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Ichabod's story, from beginning to end.

HEADLESS: A SLEEPY HOLLOW STORY A new 10-part series by Shipwrecked Comedy inspired by The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Written & Created by Sean Persaud & Sinéad Persaud Directed by William J. Stribling

CAST (in order of appearance) Rip Van Winkle - James Tolbert Diedrich Knickerbocker - Jon Cozart Ichabod Crane - Sean Persaud Douffe Martling - Joanna Sotomura Matilda Bishop - Sinead Persaud Kat Van Tassel - Mary Kate Wiles Judy Gardenier - Krystina Arielle Eugene Trousers - Curt Mega Ramona Trousers - Kim Whalen Geoffrey Crayon - Parvesh Cheena Trevor Trinkets - Christopher Higgins Lucretia Lazenby - Sarah Grace Hart Brom Bones - Gabe Greenspan Tripp - Joey Richter Cal - Corey Lubowich Blair - Brian Rosenthal The Headless Horseman - Tom DeTrinis Christa Pierson - Audrey Grace Marshall Verla Wolfson - Ginny Di Henri - Jason Huber Officer Baader Meinhof - Corey Dorris Captain "Gravy" Davy Crowbones - Matthew Mercer Max Lee - Jimmy Wong Devlyn Versace - Lee Newton Judge Pringle - Julia Cho Anne Tarry - Lauren Lopez Bruce McConnell - Dan Mintz Paulie Tahoe - Ryan Garcia Jonathan Oldstyle - Tom Lenk with Felicia Day as Henrietta Hudson And featuring John Rubinstein as Baltus Van Tassel

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kitkat-the-muffin · 1 year

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Ok what if I fused my Dracula Muppets idea with my Dracula Musical idea

I think I’m gonna call my song-writer friend about this

#forget a modern adaptation wouldn’t it be fun to make it a period piece as well?!#tho if ur making a modern adapation have fun with it however the muppets are MINE #dracula daily #dracula #muppets dracula

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90s-html-lesbians · 1 year

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one of my top agendas is that beatrice & lilith generally need to be nerdier in more stuff from the fandom

like lilith wears butterfly shirts and sits around on cars waiting just to be dramatic and goes “are we bonding now” as a dumb callback

and beatrice loves puns and gets jealous of someone ava’s shown 0 interest in, and chose to not just become a nun, but a fighting nun, and just *waves generally at her*, she just exudes nerd

#and i don’t mean nerd in the ‘sophisticated educated scholar’ way (though they are definitely that) i mean like nerd nerds #like they have petty ass opinions over dumb lil stuff like how to set a chess board (do you start placing the pawns or the important pieces-#-first) or idk slightly modernizing adapations vs keeping it 100% faithful to the og #and they have dorky ass taste in things (see: lilith’s butterfly shirt #ik beatrice probably secretly has a bunch of stuff w nerdy puns on em

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sonofshin · 2 years

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@ahri-thefoxylady continued from here

Upon hearing Ahri’s confession, the singer’s expression changes. His formerly confident stance deflates.

Oh...

She really put in a lot of effort today to be free. That is something he had not considered until now. He had thought that she just had a day off and decided to invite him for something trivial like making food. But this seems to be much more important to her.

Not knowing what to say, he watches her leave, phone in hand. Moments later, Leng Yun finally shakes him out of a thoughtless stare. Quickly typing a message, he hurries after her. Or, rather, he hurries to the kitchen and takes out all the ingredients as quietly as he possibly can. He did promise to make food, so he did buy everything.

After contemplating in the kitchen for a few moments, he turns to look at Ahri, slowly making his way over to her to sit next to her on the couch.

“Hey... uhm... we can, you know, also just watch a movie. And hang out that way. If making food turns out to be too bothersome, after all.”

...

“I’m sorry.”

#ahri thefoxylady #adap verse #modern au

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brokehorrorfan · 8 months

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 12 via The Criterion Channel. James Jean designed the cover art for Netflix's 2022 stop motion animated adapation of Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel.

Guillermo del Toro co-directs with Mark Gustafson from a script by del Toro and Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall). Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Burn Gorman, Ron Perlman, John Turturro, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Christoph Waltz, and Tilda Swinton star.

Pinocchio has been digitally mastered in 4K, supervised by del Toro and Gustafson, with Dolby Atmos sound. It's presented in 4K with Dolby Vision HDR.

Special features are listed below, where you can also see the full packaging.

Special features:

Handcarved Cinema - Making-of documentary with co-directors Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson and cast and crew (new)

Directing Stop-Motion - Featurette with Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson (new)

Interview with Guillermo del Toro by film critic Farran Smith Nehme (new)

Interview with curator Ron Magliozzi on The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition devoted to the film (new)

Featurette on the 8 rules of animation that informed the production (new)

Panel discussion with Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, production designer Guy Davis, composer Alexandre Desplat, and sound designer Scott Martin Gershin, moderated by filmmaker James Cameron

Conversation with Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, and author Neil Gaiman

Booklet with essays by film critic Matt Zoller Seitz and author Cornelia Funke

A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means to be human through his experiences of war, death, and sacrifice. This Pinocchio imbues the oft-told tale with a bold new resonance about living with courage and compassion.

Pre-order Pinocchio.

#pinocchio #guillermo del toro #ewan mcgregor #david bradley #tilda swinton #criterion #criterion collection #the criterion collection #dvd #gift #james jean #burn gorman #cate blanchett #tim blake nelson #christoph waltz

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ryin-silverfish · 13 days

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You said that the execution of S4 failed, so how should it have been or what were the steps that should be followed? Genuine interest. Might help anyone who is writing about Jttw.

Basically: Extraordinary twist requires extraordinarily good explanations, and the big honcho of the Celestial Realm getting killed by a Bodhisattva's cat is one such twists. Yet it isn't explained properly other than JE's vague statement that "his time is up".

(Is this an attempt at alluding to the concept of "Peril" (劫), something even immortals and celestials must endure in order to continue existing, and the Buddhist idea that beings of the Path of Heaven are still not free from the cycle of life and death, however near-infinite their lifespan is?)

(If so, then SAY IT.)

But my biggest issue is the huge Show-not-Tell problem regarding the corruption of the Celestial Realm.

Like, due to the influence of 1961 Havoc in Heaven and the "SWK as peasant rebel" reading that became the dominant narrative during the Maoist era, the Celestial Realm ("feudal" regime), as well as the Buddha and the Buddhist pantheon (religion), get demonized a lot in Chinese JTTW media.

Through that lens, Havoc in Heaven is the story of a grassroot hero fighting against a huge, ancient, corrupt institution, and either winning or losing, and even when he loses, it's the crushing of a revolutionary martyr by the old reactionaries: tragic, but the nobleness and righetousness of his goal is never in doubt.

(I dislike the "class warfare" reading too. A lot, in fact. But that's a story for another day.)

Which is what LMK S4 seems to be going for…and where it flounders.

Like, a Chinese viewer has that context, because most of our popular JTTW adapations dial up the Celestial Realm's prejudice against SWK and its corruption to some extent, as a justification for Havoc in Heaven.

A western viewer who hasn't watched the '61 film, or the '86 TV show, or the '99 cartoon, doesn't have that context, and LMK's oddly empty Celestial Realm that seemed to be populated entirely by Nezha, JE and nameless NPC soldiers doesn't help in the slighest.

(As a JTTW novel liker, my personal opinion is that book!Celestial Realm, even though it is not cartoonishly evil, still sucks ass, and the JE is a typical, mediocre dynastic ruler who's good at upholding the status quo, but extremely petty and vicious to subjects who have personally offended him, like Sha Wujing or the governor of Fengxian Prefecture.)

(They did show more leniency to SWK pre-Havoc in the book than in most modern adaptations, however, despite their fuck-ups.)

And that's how you get fans claiming "SWK never wants the Havoc in Heaven!"

After all, we haven't seen the Celestial Realm being assholes, or, y'know, subjecting a prefecture to an eternal-in-all-but-name drought until people sold their children for three bushels of grains and were driven to cannibalism, because the governor spilled JE's offerings and fed them to the dogs (novel canon, btw), and Nezha seems like a nice guy! How bad could the regime be, really?

Like, you can absolutely show a rebellion falling apart, becoming corrupted from the inside, causing just as much damage to the commoners as the regime they are fighting, and rebels who are far from heroic.

Or how popular rebellions like these were against the corrupt officials and laws, but seldom the emperor himself, and even those that did aim at deposing an emperor were about putting their guy of choice on the dragon chair, instead of dealing away with the dynastic system itself.

Yet the grievances behind those rebellions were also 100% real. The corruption, the abuse of power, the massive human sufferings that led to armed uprisings thoroughout Chinese history, many of which failed while others became the last straw that toppled a dynasty.

And that part, I feel, is neither shown well nor explored properly.

#lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid s4 #journey to the west #jttw #lmk critical

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author-main · 8 months

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I’m afraid I missed that theory (assuming you like, made a post that I didn’t see) but it sounds incredibly interesting and I’d be interested in knowing more

I can NOT sting my thoughts together I'm sorry, I was gonna write a whole thing but holy crap I'm terrible at talking

I didn't write this idea as a whole theory. I just made a post a couple weeks back saying "Zonai are moon people to me"

If I recall, Zonai are not Gods, they're considered godlike. I think they're called godlike only because they're not from Earth and their magic was not easily understood. Their technology could hypothetically be recreated by ancient Sheikah or modern Sheikah tech. The only the only thing that probably can't be recreated is the secret stones? Which is a mystery to me still.

I'm already aware of several other Japanese modern media that deal with people from the moon (some of them Moon people are like this advanced civilization). Okami, Houseki No Kuni, and The Tale of Princess Kaguya are all that come to mind. And the moon people all have a Shinto, Buddhist, or maybe even Taoist (? I don't know much about Taoism but Waka is etched into my brain) depiction, probably because that's where it comes from. That and the Princess Kaguya is an adapation from the tale of the Bamboo Cutter, which is also parrt of Okami.

Idk Something something.... Shinto, Buddhist, MAYBE Taoist imagery in Tears of the Kingdom + Inspiration from Ghibli or older monogataris is apparent

Zonai descended from the heavens, but that could me Ozone layer, that could mean literal heavens, it could be moon. The fact that there are no other Zonai, and the Zonai architecture we do see is abandoned... idk I just think they left. Went home or something.

Also this just looks like Moon People Shit to me

Uh tell me if there's something you need explained in even worse detail

#author's ask box

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 6 months

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Fossil Novembirb 14: Lost in the Woods

Eurotrochilus by @iguanodont

Even though parts of the landscape were opening up, the forests of Europe weren't done yet - in fact, many began transitioning to the drier temperate forests we know from Europe today! This transition through the Oligocene would have major consequences for bird evolution - I mean, why else would I bring it up? The formation of the first permanent ice sheets in Antarctica made the world drier, and in turn lead to many of the European Islands of the Eocene connecting with one another, forming an actual continent. Well, sub-continent.

So we saw h ow birds were adapting to the plains - how did they adapt to the temperate forests? Well, by more modern groups appearing, too! In fact, this was a busy period of evolution for most animals, as early forms gave way to modern clades and the early adapations that make those clades unique begin to pop up.

Aviraptor by @otussketching

Eurotrochilus, known from Germany during the Oligocene, is a prime example of this phenomenon: it looks almost identical to living hummingbirds, but - unlike living hummingbirds - it was in Europe, not the Americas! Though it wasn't quite a modern hummingbird, having long finger bones like ancestral forms, it had the adaptations needed for feeding on nectar and hovering while foraging for food. As a pollinator, it would have been a key component of the forest ecosystem, helping to pollinate flowering plants and keeping the forest growing. It was also exceptionally common, and may have lead to many plants co-evolving with hummingbirds in the Eastern Hemisphere - so that when hummingbirds disappeared from the region, the niche was left open for the passerine Sunbirds to one day fill it.

We also start to see more and more flighted birds of prey, like Aviraptor. Though small in size, it had long slender legs and sharp talons, and was thus the first raptor adapted for eating other birds as prey - to capture them in the air mid-flight. Sure, it mainly ate small ones, but we all have to start somewhere! And, with all of those lovely hummingbirds and early passerines and barbets around, it certainly had enough food to eat.

Rupelramphastoides by @drawingwithdinosaurs

Yep, I said barbets - the earliest known barbet-like bird comes from the Oligocene European Forests, Rupelramphastoides. One of the smallest members of the Toucan-Barbet group, it had a lot of very modern traits from the group for its early evolution - including long and slender foot bones like living Toucans! It had a small beak, like barbets, and squat wings for flitting about between the trees. Like its living relatives, it probably ate fruit - which would have been plentiful - as well as insects.

Wieslochia, which I discussed on Passerine day, was also present in these forests - it was just a great place for modern tree-dwelling birds to really get their start! Relatives of hoopoes and hornbills, like Laurillardia, were also present - and had long wings and tails, probably for display in addition to movement. Palaeotodus was present in these forests as well as in the savannah, indicating that it was flexible in its preferred habitat - like the living todies of the Caribbean today. Why todies today are only limited to the Caribbean islands, however, remains a mystery.

Oligocolius by @quetzalpali-art

Mousebirds haven't been limited to their modern range yet, either! Though not a Sandcoelid, Oligocolius was a weird Mousebird with the hooked bill of a modern parrot! So, clearly, Mousebirds were experimenting with lots of different niches prior to the modern day - and this is a neat example of convergent evolution to boot! It had a crop, unlike its living relatives, which allowed it to digest tougher plant material. It was common in its environment, found both in the forests and in more lacustrine and coastal areas, indicating it was flexible in this changing world - an extremely helpful adaptation as the ecosystems evolved!

Primotrogon, an early relative of trogons, breaks the pattern of "Like Modern Relatives but Slightly Off" that we've been seeing with these birds - unlike living trogons, it had long wings, a short tail, and small eyes! In addition to it's weirdness, we actually know the color of this bird - it had green secondary coverts, with grey secondaries and primary coverts, though the color of the primaries is not known. Given the rareness of green in animal colors, but how commonly it comes up in birds, this is another example of that phenomenon!

Primotrogon by @albertonykus

Tree dwelling birds aren't the only birds that live in forests, and they aren't the only ones that underwent radiation during this period of environmental change. A weird group of "shorebirds", the Buttonquails, first appears in this ecosystem in the form of Turnipax. Like quails, they are small round ground dwelling birds, but weirdly, their closest relatives are gulls and sandpipers! Turnipax seems to have already been much like its modern relatives, and its possible that the lower diversity of landfowl allowed other avian groups to fill these niches. Rupelornis, a relative of albatross, also lived in the forests of this time - and probably was an ocean going bird, living like modern storm petrels and plucking food carefully from the surface of the water. Like other sea birds, it may have been in forest habitats for the protection - for nesting, rearing young, or other activities. It's a lot easier to hide in the trees than it is to hide at the beach!

This time of environmental turmoil gave dinosaurs new opportunities to diversify - and required flexibility to do so, as the landscape ebbed and flowed between savannah and forest much as it does today. Alas, the climate would not remain stable, and as we continue through the Cenozoic, more and more ecological turmoil will continue to have lasting effects on the evolution of living dinosaurs.

Sources:

Mayr, 2022. Paleogene Fossil Birds, 2nd Edition. Springer Cham.

Mayr, 2017. Avian Evolution: The Fossil Record of Birds and its Paleobiological Significance (TOPA Topics in Paleobiology). Wiley Blackwell.

#Fossil Novembirb #Novembirb #Dinovember #dinosaurs #birds

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beatrixacs · 1 month

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My final thoughts on Shogun

Overall rating: 9/10.

The show has its ups and downs - the downs mainly being the way they handled the romance in the show that could have been much better and much more impactful for a casual viewer, and the ups everything else.

I have never read the book - actually, I'm reading a copy I was lent by my colleague right now - but I have seen the 80s version many, many years ago and fell in love with it. By 'fell in love' I mean that I was up to 4:30 AM on Saturday because for some reason, the airing time was in the middle of the night.

I've always wanted to read the book (in my native language which is not English) but it was one of those that is rarely re-printed or found in second-hand bookshops. When they finally re-printed it in 2009, I preferred a different book with the money I could afford to spend, thinking that I would buy Shogun later when I save enough money.

Well, it was a mistake I regretted for long 15 years because the copies were quickly sold out and begging for re-print went unheard. It has a good ending, though. I can buy a new brand copy in May.

And I have FX Shogun to thank for that because they revived the interest.

When the news about the show broke out in 2018, I was excited but of course that my second thought was 'please, don't suck'. But then it seemed that the project was called off or something because I heard no news about it. You can imagine by happiness when the airing date was finally announced.

From the cast and photos to the trailers, podcasts, making of videos and the episodes themselves, the whole ride was amazing. The attention to detail was exceptional. The cast was superb. The whole feel of the show and the story was magnetic. Shogun Tuesdays rightfully became a concept people were looking forward to.

As I described above, I can't really comment on the changes as opposed to the book since I'm in the process of reading it for the first time but from my understanding, some of the changes were actually pretty good some of them less.

While I am the fan of "don't take too much liberties with the source material", one has to keep in mind that the source material might not be always as perfect or as easy to translate on the screen. That is why I am open to changes if they make sense. Since I haven't seen much outrage from the book fans (aside the romance), I suppose most of the changes were okay. At this point, I expect the book to give me better insight on the characters I saw on the screen because that is something only book can do.

As for the 80s show that has a special place in my heart, I actually want to avoid comparing them. You can feel that FX Shogun has a great respect for the legendary adaptation but they were bold enough to go their own way in some points and I'm glad for that. I don't want to watch a modern copy of something that has been already filmed, I want to watch a new, fresh adaptation of the book that shares some similarities but it's not the same.

Boths adaptations deserve praise. Both adapations are excellent in their own right. Those who haven't seen it yet, I say - do it.

All in all, I want to thank FX for bringing Shogun back on the screen (and on my bookshelf) and giving us one of the best series of 2024. I hope gets a lot of awards so the creators get the appreciation they deserve.

Arigato gozaimasu.

#shogun #shogun fx #fx shogun #2024 shogun #shogun 2024 #personal #my opinion

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wot-tidbits · 10 months

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The Darkfriend Social

It is not like we haven't seen the previous 8 episodes but this is new content and new reminder for us of how adaptation works on that production.

I would like to describe one very quick example of how you can do both - make good storytelling and satisfy your pretentious audience. You want to show the girl and the indoctrination of the Shadow (because oh my god, you whiny babies, dont you know how all this is in the books?!?!) - get her out of the Darkfriend Social and use the girl as our introduction scene to Mesaana. The proper Chosen One for the association you want to create. I would be the first to applause and praise this kind of solutions in the adapation process. This is good example of how to do adaptation that satisfies every point of expectations.

There is no such scene in the books between any girl and Mesaana and yet this kind of approach to adaptation's process shows us: respectful nod to the source material, clever use of the limits of the visual medium which cannot present the actual line from the books, creating distinctive character through distinctive trait which the audience will immediatdly remember for the rest of the series, and showng how people can be manipulated and indoctrinated into following the Shadow. We have only heard glimpses of what Mesaana was doing in the Age of Legends, so yeah, show us now through that special visual medium of television even that it is not the Age of Legends anymore. So much stuff in just one scene. One example.

Why anyone would be against such example which is definetely not 1 to 1 adaptation from the books?

The whole process of the production boils down to get this stick from here and get that stick from there and match them together with tape. And pray that no one notices the tape.

The same thing with Ishamael for whom they want to show the audience his stick - his edge lord's views of intellectual philosopher. Ok.

But what the other stick is doing taped to the first? Ishamael revealing his view of the world to unknown little girl? Ishamael has very specific mantra of thoughts which are very different than the school of indoctrination the Shadow would create and which people try to quote from the books. Ishamael is unique on that point of view from any other Chosen One. This is why Mesaana is the teacher in those schools, not Ishamael.

Why Ishamael behaves in such manner to that girl? Ishamael acts respectful only to other Chosen Ones and Lews Therin/Rand. His actual equals. When we see Ishamael in the presence of subordinates he never acts that way. We have plenty of evidence and not only at the Darkfriend Social. He doesn't care for subordinates. They are nothing but mindless zomara. And at the end Ishamael is sitting on the table with his subordinates as his equals...

So what is that second stick doing in the match again? Because it is not what you think is from the books. It is just a random stick taped to another well known stick and expecting people to not notice the incompetent work on that tape.

Again, Exhibit A above, Mesaana - use one stick, the indoctrination of the child, to match it effortlessly with another stick, the teacher.

Even if we leave the scene untouched as it is presented, the decision Ishamael to sit on that table is enough evidence, again, that these people do not know what they are doing with the scene. Oh, yeah, focus on all these other details and try to identify all these other figures while we totally forgot the most important detail from that very specific scene which we are supposed to adapt. Ooops.

How you can forget how Ishamael behaves?

Oh, you want to create different kind of evil guy that subvert expectations of 21st century modern audience who is tired of old kind of evil. You are doing it better than some boring insane guy. Now look he has class, kindness, humanity, he is so much more than Baal-Zamon. Ok. Do you know why this "intellectual philosopher" stick was successful in the first place? Because we have seen his other face of insanity first. Ishamael is so good at getting our attention the whole time because of his duality. You do not show any duality of him in that scene. Ishamael is not just a boring evil guy or just an intellectual philosopher. But this is getting too long to go on another tangent. Wrap up. You don't get it. Ok.

About that humanization of the trollocs, of the monsters. This would be nice touch and "subverting expectations", I guess. If there wasn't a catch later. We ain't gonna humanize the Seanchan, are we? My bet is that they won't do the same approach for Seanchan. Because Slavery Bad! The Seanchan are the real monsters! But literal manifestation of The Evil... is not so. On that note we wait and watch.

Let the Light keep you safe.

LightOne

P.S. Well, I lied yesterday. That one post, one glimpse of sanity in the tag, inspired me to get further today.

#wheel of time #season 2 #wheel of time tv series #wot on prime

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dragontamer05 · 1 year

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Petshop of Horrors really deserves a proper anime, outside of the 4 episodes it got - I can only assume it didn’t have good ratings hence why it ended/wasn’t continued but idk

And there’s so much you could do.

There’s the obvious of just straight adapting the first manga series and actually following it not just pulling stories wily nilly and doing them (mostly) in order - a lot of them are pretty animal/monster of the week so you could get away with shuffling them around but yeh

Beyond that are other manga following D’s Grandfather and another following his father I believe

You could write something all new with a New Count D character- obviously descendant of the original character perhaps even pick it up where the first manga left off- which leaves off with a 20 year time skip and the new owner of the pet shop

- The mangaka is still creating so it’s not like it’s some dead in the water series either

And while it’d make sense if making the og series to maybe update it to be a bit more modern at the same time ngl if they were to make an anime again honestly I ‘d be totally on board for them to keep it within the time it was written

Or hell as much as I’d love to see the full manga story adapated I’d be equally okay with like a 12 episode single season that just kinda takes the episodic monster/animal of the week formula that the majority of the series follows- there’s a lot of really good one off stories that would work so well (Including those covered by the 4 episodes that it got)

#petshop of horrors

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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booktomoviebrawl · 10 months

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The Dark Materials series is, imo, a fine adaptation, unlike the movie.

Clueless is a movie from the 90s that kind of takes the premise of Jane Austen's Emma but sets it in modern high school. It is an adapation, but it doesn't even give itself the same name for a reason - I think these modernized adaptations (10 Things I Hate About You for Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, She's The Man for Twelfth Night) are so far from the original text that by default they're not faithful adaptations, but since they're not trying to be, I probably wouldn't vote for them being in this poll

Glad to know I got that right, at least

Noted 👍

#if i get any submissions for things like that ill run a poll #midnight speaks

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misakialter · 1 year

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It's been a while since Sonic Frontiers came out and I feel a random urge. I would like to rant a little bit about what I think about Cyberspace Levels conceptually, there's GOOD but there's BAD too so we're gonna be here a while.

The Goob :)

Let's sing it's praises a little bit because the idea of using familiar level designs as bite sized little distractions in an Open World Zone is pretty damn inspired. It better compliments the game vs how Forces made them short and sweet, but at the same time the main focus, therefore far less interesting and lacking to the Player.

Why, of course I would like to run across the Greatest Hits of the series for like a minute or two since that isn't the main attraction and YES, I would love to replay those since they have multiple missions. It's thought as an obstacle course that still rewards me with progression and presumably a pleasent one in terms of level design at that, in a way it doesn't bother you that much going back.

Then there's what these uniquely offer and let me tell you right away, the Adventure and Unleashed levels are exactly what the Boost Level Design has been lacking for a while. The corridor mentality can only get you so far when it comes to creating a stage, but when the 3D space is better utilized by these stages the Boost Gameplay shines a lot more and enhances the experience a lot.

There's also the usage of Nostalgia: Through the levels structure, little gimmicks and mechanics it generates a sense of familiarity that plays into the idea of "Sonic's memories" but the assets and odd ambience, plus the incredible DnB soundtrack, makes it feel alien enough to feel absolutely odd.

Yes, I just cited the reusage of assets as a positive, because in truth, that was enhances the Nostalgia that these levels create through every other mean.

HOWEVER this is what leads me to...

The Smelly :(

Oh, you know.

We never really fucking left Green Hill since Generations.

As much as the reusal of assets enhance the experience I'm not gonna deny the implementation of Zones that have been used a ton through the Modern Era have been a torn on the side of the series for Nostalgia pandering's sake. This is like the fourth or third time we've seen iconic locales so it really doesn't fully evoke what it sets out to do and it hurts the overral experience at the same time, to the point of going wholesale with the homages is completely valid in spite of it not being the point — People want to see something different.

There's also the fact that the game's variety shuffles across some 2D segments and some of these are stages designed for Classic Sonic wholesale. And these are not enhanced in the slightest by Modern Sonic's gameplay, which is just not adapated to it, or playing to it's strengths.

And while the idea is genius in a way and the implementation is pretty great overral, there's one tiny little thing that defeats the purpouse of one's investment on the Open World Zone to compliment these little detours, uh, THE FACT THAT YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR ABILITIES FROM THAT SIDE OF THE GAME, you know? It's a damn shame because a lot of the fun of that section of the game, the main focus of it all, is lost as soon as you enter the Cyberspace Levels. Don't get me wrong, they may still be a blast to play through, but there's a lot of merit and potential to enhance the experience with this aspect in mind.

Wrapping It Up

I love to gush about this idea because it was a really good one which overral compliments the game and it's central focus in a positive manner, but I won't deny there's certain stink to the way it's executed regardless of what one thinks of the core gameplay.

It is also a really interesting case study in regards what Sonic Team has thought of the Boost Gameplay since it's inception in Unleashed. From day 1 they've stated that on it's own, it would be unable to hold it's ground, needing support of a second type of gameplay much like what we've seen in the aforementioned Unleashed, Generations and even Forces. Lo and behold, it once again is supported, but for the first time in history the Boost Levels are not the star of the show, therefore instead it is supporting something else.

In the end, I'm hoping they learnt quite a bit of things from this, the dimensionality of the 3D stages that could enrich what could've been a "corridor" type of stage, what works from the best of the series in order to create original content, how to implement these cool new features from the Open World Zone and if they so insist, how to properly make the 2D sections as good as the 3D ones.

But also, I would like them to adopt these Cyberspace Levels mentality of "short and sweet detours" as a spice to a larger game rather than the main course. Not that they wouldn't work that way, but because it's time to let them evolve and the games we will be getting in the future.

I sure as hell hope so.

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic frontiers #cyberspace #sonic team #level design #green hill is looking a lot like glitch hill #i talk a lot

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Not to talk about Dracula Untold and Persuasion again, but...

I think one reason why many modern adaptations of classic books are bad is due to the fact that today authors a) assume to audience is dumb and b) that they have not read the original book... and maybe c) that classic books can not be cool today. The author of persuasion 2022 even confirmed that 1:1 in her interviews.

And I am currently watching a lot of modern classic monster adapations. Mostly Dracula and Frankestein. And the reason why only Dracula Untold worked for me (so far) and none of the other adaptations (count in Robin Hood 2018, if you want to) is that Dracula Untold is the only movie where I had the feeling that the authors a) love the original book and b) trust their audience that they like to think while watching a movie AND maybe even have read the book.

While I, Frankenstein has a super weird scene where Frankensteins monster literally gives the viewers a summary of the book. I am watching an adaptation of the book, I do not want a summary of it! I want to see how you adapted it.

And I want you to have some trust in the audience!

#jane austen #persuasion #dracula untold #i Frankenstein #robin hood 2018 #netflix persuasion

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