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I love the comic book writing sensibility that Frequency has, like how Three and Five's ending is great for the story being told but if it were a published comic it would still leave them on the table for if a future writer wanted to use them.

whats funny is that despite doing my best to keep in line with dc comics/comic writing sensibilities throughout the fic (staying as comics-accurate as possible in terms of continuity/tone/characterization/story elements etc) that particular comic writing reality was one that was like. kind of a genuine anxiety that i didn't know i had until i started writing this thing.

ive said before that in the original concept for Frequency all of the clones (besides Thad) were going to end up dead. whether it was via killing each other or unintentionally being the instrument of their own demise (disney villain style). obviously it changed because creating an entire narrative about this one character's redemption arc and then not allowing any of the other villains to have a shot at redemption felt hypocritical and like. mean. not to mention antithetical to the whole ethos of the story.

but the reason why killing off all the other clones was my first instinct is partially because i had this kinda subconscious recoil to the idea that any of them would actually continue on after the story was over.

like, because i was trying to stick to canon so much, while figuring out the story a thought came up a couple times that basically went like, "okay, well, if this was a real comic, then...". and inevitably i had a realization that if this WAS a real comic, my original clone characters would be canonized, and therefore available to any future writer who wanted to yank them out of their respective endgames and inject them into other stories. which i Did Not Like the Idea Of.

classic "making up a guy to get mad at" except it was more "making up a reality to get anxious about". because obviously no matter how much it sticks to canon, Frequency still exists in a fan-created space.

but! i'd never made up original characters to put in my own fanmade stuff before and was definitely feeling protective. because all those original clones i made had yknow: a story purpose and narrative function to facilitate the actual key characters, Thad and Bart. the idea of them being removed from that context in any capacity, even if it was in the hands of a good writer, made me have this gut "no STOP you're ruining it!!!!" reaction.

they were all made for Frequency, and to foil Thad as a character, i didnt like the idea of Three being brought back as a one-note villain or Jude and Nathaniel getting folded into the wider Flash cast of allies. and none of them were made to be main character material. plus the character roster at DC is already uhh Extremely Stacked i genuinely did not want the takeaway to be "and here's the nEW ADDITIONS TO THE FLASH FAMILY!" because that wasnt the intention

anyway i got over it lol. i still did my best not to leave any loose ends, and have each ending be wholly satisfying on its own, and ideally the oc clones basically continue on offscreen while the true adventures are based around Thad and Bart. but yeah it felt right to leave off on that note (and served the story much better than killing everybody off)

#duke-nitro #asks #realizing that i felt kinda defensive about Literally The Hypothetical Nonexistent Possibility of other ppl writing my characters... wild #like genuinely very surprising i did not think i was that precious about original characters #especially OCs created for an existing universe that i did not also make up #what probably helped was all the cool fanart i kept seeing of frequency #and seeing other people make their own AUs either based directly off of Frequency “lore” or based on the Multiple Clone AU #u gotta realize when you're taking your fun machine too seriously #like chill its fun dude we're just playing in the space #otherwise u end up committing to stuff that would ruin the story ie killing all your original characters #to safeguard against the hypothetical nonexistent possibility of other people writing those characters #''oh you'd rather smother your baby than see it raised by someone else?#well my name is solomon and i have a sword with an innovative solution to your paternity problem''#anyway thank you yeah i think it worked out

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infini-tree · 5 years

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Top 5 moments in the Kung Fu Panda movies

ask me unconventional/random “TOP 3/5/10″ end of the year lists!

seeing as that’s a little bit broad, even for me, im going to narrow it down with the scenes that are more action based

the main reason for this is mostly bc if i left it that broad (or even just based this countdown on Emotional Gut Punch-based scenes) Everyone can see from a mile away that i’d put the po finds the truth sequence in first, with the soothsayer’s and shen’s final scene as a close second and thats no fun if y’all Know

this got Super Long bc i wanted to YELL

honorable mentions:

oogway v kai: if kfp3 had anything going for it, it was the spectacle of the spirit realm. seeing oogway fight?? cool. the banter?? quality. on top of that, the spirit realm is an interesting place to fight in w the zero g thing going on… in concept. here’s the thing about the shift to qi blast-based fighting– you lose the physicality of the blows. like, for instance, when kai is hit with the first qi blast that literally spells out qi, his body language says that he at least felt that but with the way the qi dissipates like loose snow particle effects it… idk, left me wanting more??? then again, that could just be a case of oogway proverbially pulling his punches, but that’s too much filling in the blanks on my partas much as i nitpick, it was a fun fight

shen v. the master’s council: the only reason why this is in the honorable mentions is that a) that was barely a fight and was cut off by yknow. blasting t. rhino to smithereens and b) its still the best display of shen’s fighting stylei just. ITS SO GOOD???? just the way shen’s almost dance-like movements contrast with the council’s overall brute force, headstrong way of attacking. the bit where he distracts croc w the fan of his train to stop his attack for a sec so he has enough time to dispatch ox???? Cinematic Poetry

5. musician’s village

this bit is here mostly for the interactions between po and the five, as well as the ways they tag team against the wolves. it makes me do an emotion ok!! hes fighting w his heroes, and the techniques they employ in tandem like rescuing that one pig lmao

also the setting of a mountainside village was real novel at the time. also, there was real tension when the wolves broke thru the fog, and again when they get the metal and that shot where you see the gorillas on a neighboring peak, slightly obscured by fog?? thats just a nice bit of atmosphere

4. prison break

look, i don’t care for tai lung, but it just so happens hes part of two (2) scenes i like lmao

first thing’s first-- the color in this scene is impressive; despite how dark it is, the action is still v readable. im a sucker for kfp’s color symbolism, limiting the palette with the Negative (blue) and Power (red) color, with the exception of his eyes is just a nice touch. like. he sees himself as the hero of his own story and that hes just doing what he believes is his right and hes ascending past these terrible trials and tribulations

there is also the fact that this first Big Impressive kung fu feat you see and just. the bit where theres a rain of arrows and the only thing between him and getting shot at is this tiny elevator. thats a goode moment that just stands out to me, in terms of visuals

3. tower fall

while this isnt exactly an action scene in the sense of them fighting, its just a really good scene in regards of the scope, as well as the Emotional Gut Punch to po. in this moment, the synchronicity he’s had with the five has been shaken up slightly, and he’s left in an emotional state that’s less than ideal if you want to fight a megalomaniac warlord

the overpowering red as they try to figure out how to escape really adds to the tension of the situation as the tower they’re in is being gunned down by a barrage of cannonballs and just the moment where they run on the outside of the tower as the wolves shoot at them with flaming arrows is just a really fun setpiece

2. bridge fight

according to the directors’ commentary at the time, it was a pretty hard scene to actually make and DAMN did it pay off

admittedly, in theory there isn’t a lot of things to play with, fight-wise, in regards to a long bridge with a whole bunch of nothing on all sides. but at the time when i first watched it, i never considered “the bridge itself” to be an option

with the way the Extremely Limited ground plane of the bridge shifts, it adds an extra challenge for the ground-bound fighters (which is basically almost all of them except like. crane), as well as a point of tension-- the bridge needs to be held up, after all

as the prison break showed tai lung’s prowess, the bridge fight is the same for the five, giving them Something important and substantial to do, whether trading blows or trying to incapacitate tl

1. zen ball master

AW HELL YEA. every time i see zen ball master my heart swells with pride irt po-- my boye!! he did it!!! just the scene played out, the music, the color, it was all so good!!!!

like in the musician’s village scene, you get to see some po/five tag team moves which is always nice. but the fact that the council and shifu somehow make it there really makes it a Big Thing Yknow???

for instance, the way they used color to show which side was overpowering who. for most of the sequence, it’s set at night and is offset with Shen’s Red to show that he has Absolute Control of the scene. the desolate greys in that harbor scene where all hope is lost. the gradual shift from night/red to daybreak/gold as po finally achieves inner peace and redirects the cannonball

then there’s also the music?? ill talk abt the way the leitmotifs were used in a separate post but. the bit where po redirects the cannonball for the first time, almost blindly, the way the orchestra kinda quiets for a moment, as if they’re also processing what happened with the rest of the characters is just a good bit

#escarlatafox #ask #kfp analysis #except not really i just yell a lot

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