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sappynapper · 3 years

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Couples costumes you’d go as for Halloween x crew boys

Featured CCs: Dream, Sapnap, George, Karl, Quackity

cws: fem!reader, suggestive, alcohol mention in george’s

it was chilly today and now I am so fucking jazzed for halloween LETS GOOOO

Dream:

Percy and Annabeth - Percy Jackson

Nerd alert. He’s a percy kinnie and he wants to go as percy and annabeth and that’s that. you agree when he gives you those puppy eyes and calls you his “wise girl” (i’m going to scream). You spend the evening basically in character bc he keeps knocking things over with his sword and you keep wondering how you got here. you look cute in your matching orange shirts tho, makes it the most obvious-that-you’re-a-couple couple costume which dream is a fan of bc he’s clingy :3

Anakin and Padme - Star Wars

I repeat: NERD ALERT. He needs an excuse to buy a lightsaber and carry it around for the evening quoting that frickin “if you’re not with me, then you’re my enemy” thing. also he gets high key flustered seeing you dressed as his childhood crush, especially in that white outfit 😳 ((padme amidala supremacy🧎)) side note, this is actually not a couples costume because it also includes sapnap as obi-wan lmao. he is only slightly less nonplussed than you are

bonus: mans has the nerve to joke about going as shrek and fiona and then refuse to follow through smh

Sapnap:

I don’t know shit about anime so now neither does y/n even tho realistically sapnap would insist on anime costumes but anyway

Snorlax and Charmander - Pokemon

It was your idea, and admittedly sort of a cop out. you were busy ok??? but when you brought home the pokemon onesies, Sap was 100% on board. A fun halloween costume and he got to be cosy all evening?? how could he say no. Plus he thought you looked unfairly adorable with your lil flame tail and and literal sweater paws. can’t stop putting his arms round you all evening :))) 🔥

Fred and Daphne - Scooby Doo

mans agrees to go as fred and daphne so he can see you in a mini skirt send tweet

but fr it’d be cute as heck and i can see some of your friends going as the rest of the scooby gang (karl and tina as shaggy and velma? iconic??) dream might even let you put a scooby doo collar on patches for photos 🐾

George:

Flint Lockwood and Sam Sparks - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Basically i think George isn’t super into costumes so the idea has to be reasonably low-key if you want to convince him. this one was perfect bc it really only involved wrestling the boy into a lab coat and attacking his hair with some extra strength hold gel (win win bc you get to have your hands in his hair and he gets to have your hands in his hair 😌) but the effect was still very much there. meanwhile you’re stuck hot glueing pipe cleaners and pom-poms to an umbrella to make a spaghetti and meatballs twister reference prop so your costume isn’t just a blue cardigan lol. george is very nice about the ugly ass homemade prop that you end up throwing in a skip after three drinks :3

Karl:

Ashitaka and San - Princess Mononoke

Karl would basically be down for any Ghibli duo but this is the one i can see him pulling off (as much as i would die to see him in a howl pendragon wig). You guys would put together the costumes yourself (couples crafts 😍) and they come out so cuuuute. I don’t normally include photos but these are the exact vibes i’m envisioning:

Cosmo and Wanda - Fairly OddParents

Iconic and easy to pull off with some simple colour coding. you get those spray cans of non-permanent hair dye from like claire’s and get it all over your dang hands help each other apply it. you also paint each other’s nails and you make little gold crowns and wands with stars on the end. actually adorable vibes by the time you’re done. highly instagrammable and you keep a polaroid of the two of you in costume in your phone case 🥺

also i think he’d wanna go as sword art online characters maybe? but i haven’t played it so

Quackity:

Lightning McQueen and Sally Carrera - Cars

ffsjfkdlfhb somehow he convinced you. i don’t know how. but now your face is smeared with blue face paint and Q has lightning bolts on his cheeks and the whole thing is so unbelievably cursed. it’s smudged before you even leave the house from the tears of laughter streaming down your faces, and you’re both just collapsed on the bathroom floor struggling to catch your breath and starting back up laughing every time you look at the other’s face

Gomez and Morticia Addams - The Addams Family

Last year he made you go as a blue cartoon car so now you can force him to don an outrageous fake moustache and pinstripe suit for the evening :) low-key he actually looked handsome asl though (you were mad your revenge plot kinda backfired tbh). if it helps you’ve got the sauce as morticia and mans is overwhelmed to say the least 😌

#mcyt x reader #dreamwastaken x reader #sapnap x reader #georgenotfound x reader #karl jacobs x reader #quackity x reader #dream x reader #mcyt x y/n #mcyt hcs #mcyt x you

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scrappydefensesquad · 4 years

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Scooby Doo Mystery Begins & Curse of the Lake Monster came out like 10 years ago and I am still pissed that they gave us this

Who the hell are these people????? They vaguely remembered what Shaggy looks like which. Isn't really difficult his outfit is incredibly simple and also he and Scooby are predominantly placed on the cover of every movie, but if I took away the (poorly done) Scooby in the front, would any know who these "teens" are???? I'll concede that they gave Daphne some purple but where is Velma's orange???? WHY IS FRED A BRUNETTE??? Setting aside the writing and plot of these 2 films because I saw them each once and have zero interest in watching them again, the costumes were Terrible and Scooby just. Does NOT fit in At All. There was *just enough* effort made that it doesn't feel like the looney toons live action movies, in the sense that Scooby wasn't animated deliberately to not look realistic, but also wasn't animated well enough to look anything But cartoony. To me its made worse because before these 2 films we had this Wonderful Cast here

Which in my opinion nailed it on all accounts costume and Scooby wise. There's no real way to use a real dog in place of Scooby with how central a character he is and how much his facial expressions and actions move. HOWEVER this film did an excellent job making Scooby look realistic enough that he stands well with the rest of the gang and doesn't look out of place. Plus the rest of the gang is all rocking their signature looks in nice updated ways. (Fred tying on that ascot before fighting the Black Knight though was a Great Touch) NOT TO MENTION FRED BEING BLOND THANK YOU. Its even more ridiculous that the second two live actions ended up the way they did when Monsters Unleashed gave us this wonderful flashback gang

These kids here are adorable!! They Genuinely Look like believable young versions of Fred Daphne Scooby Velma and Shaggy. So what the HELL happened with Mystery Begins and Curse of the Lake Monster.

?????????????

#im still just #really ANGRY and PASSIONATE about this #scooby doo #daphne blake #fred jones #velma dinkley #shaggy rogers #scooby doo the mystery begins #scooby doo monsters unleased

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likea-black-widow-baby · 3 years

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Marvel Women as Shit Said on My GC With @yves-garden and @bee-thegoodguys Part 2

Natasha: You don’t get to call yourself my mother until you consist of less than 60% [peanut butter sandwiches]

Pepper: - “I think I am losing my marbles.”

“You never had marbles.”

Wanda: AND THESE ARE GOOD JEWISH BOOBS

Shuri: What’s that word again? Listenground? Ear vision. Hear sight? EARSHOT THATS IT

Okoye: I’m telling my dragons you write smut

Nakia: HE JUST STOOD THERE STARING AT HER

Peggy: It’s vintage lesbian themed

Angie: You bet when we move into the apartment it’s gonna be nothing but gay waffles made with my gay little hands

Dottie: I am a gay and sockless travesty, feel free to arrest me now.

Carol: I’m weighing my paranoia issues versus,,, pretyt ladie

Hope: My mom is currently taking a business call lying face down in our hallway because our cat has decided to sit on her back

Frigga: I accidentally became an ordained minister last night

Valkyrie: Did I almost stick my hand into a lit candle reaching for my sparkling water? Maybe, who’s to say

Yelena: Rip Putin this is a gays only event

Sharon: Sister just wants a boss ass thigh holster holding this gorgeous ornate dagger

Helen Cho: Miss Rona not in this house 🥰✌️

Doc Ock: Why is Doc Ock from Spiderverse so attractive

Hela: Welcome home, mother hoe

Ava: Damn it sucks when scooby doo villains are hot

Gamora and Nebula: One of my babies has a sugar daddy, the other shaved her eyebrows

Mantis: She ends up opting out and they don’t go through with it but I’m gonna call that realistic murder development

May: Supportive straights for their disaster gay children

Daisy: I’m in the mood to go annoy pro-lifers in front of an abortion clinic anybody with me

Jemma: no thanks I’m good living my life on Earth for now watching YouTube and coming up with my marriage vows to my dog

Bobbi: At some point we need to get matching cursed booty shorts

And in honor of Ms. Marvel coming up

Kamala: Sucks that I can’t use the word ‘ass-hattery’ in this fanfic :/

#marvel memes #things said on my gc with bee and geeodes series

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kindred-is-obsessed · 5 years

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Reasons you should be watching Craig of the Creek

Not enough people are watching this wonderful show, so I thought I’d do my best to introduce people to it. It’s made by former Steven Universe crew Ben Levin and Matt Burnett, so if you’re missing Steven Universe while it’s on hiatus this is a great way to keep away the hiatus blues, or if you just enjoy in cartoons. It’s great for a whole list of reasons, which broadly fall into the two categories of great representation and great storytelling:

Canonical queer representation

- The witches premiere in the episode The Curse. If you aren’t sure if you want to watch this whole show definitely watch this one at least! It’s my absolute favourite not least of all because it’s about teen goth girls in love. It has a sequel The Last Kid in The Creek which is also wonderful, and the witches cameo throughout the series. I don’t want to spoil too much but The Curse is essentially about the two not wanting to be separated and struggling to admit their feelings for each other. (Spoilers: they do and walk off alone, blushing, staring at each other lovingly, while the kids aww at them)

- Bernard and his girlfriend watch a cooking show hosted by a gay couple.

- Other cameos, hints and coded queer kids such as JP’s sister (who has fancy dinner reservations with Kat, a woman with a shaved head who compliments Kelsey’s fake sword). There’s also Raj and Shaun (two very close friends), as well as several very boyish tomboys, including Handlebarb and Turner.

- All public bathrooms I’ve spotted in the show have gender neutral signs on them which is nice.

POC representation

- Craig, the main character, is black and has a loving family explored in depth, including an activist grandmother working for the council, a wise and fun grandfather, a supportive fun dad who loves his amazing wife, an adorable assertive little sister, and an angsty overachieving older brother who just wants to be a good grownup who loves his family and girlfriend.

- There are MANY characters of colour. There are black and brown characters, Raj is Indian, Stacks is Hispanic (and it’s implied she is an immigrant), there are several Asian characters, Kelsey is Hungarian and Jewish, a persistent background character wears a hijab (I’m pretty sure she was named at some point but I can’t find her name anywhere. She definitely has lines at one point). I’m sure there are others I have missed. No one is a stereotype as far as I am aware.

Subtle neurodivergent representation

- JP is possibly on the autism spectrum. I’d love neurodivergent people’s opinions on this, but while the representation isn’t canonical or obvious I think it’s good that while JP is represented as having different thought processes from his friends, he isn’t made fun of for it, at least not by them. It’s noteworthy I think that he’s the eldest of the core trio, probably because he finds it easier to relate to younger people who still share his imagination and care less about his unique way of thinking. His neurodivergence is explored most explicitly in the episode Jextra Perrestrial, so if you’re interested in this kind of representation definitely check that episode out.

Non-nuclear family representation

- While the main character is a member of the typical nuclear family you see on TV (except black, and actually interesting) most of the other families we see are not.

- JP is raised by his mother and older sister. His father is never mentioned and their house is definitely in worse condition than the others we see. His family works hard to take care of each other. His sister is a nurse and both her and her mother are away a lot of the time, but they both love JP very much. JP’s sister also happens to be really openly body positive. I love them a lot.

- Kelsey’s father is an only parent. There’s still a lot of mystery surrounding how Kelsey’s mother passed away. It’s a very subtle but important part of Kelsey’s character and comes through in really bittersweet adorable ways (not limited to Kelsey using her “half-orphan”ness to guilt trip a man into giving her money)

- Other kinds of families are scattered throughout the show, including families that move around a lot, a home-school kid with a strict mother, and more.

Unique approach to fantasy and sci-fi

- You know how most kids show will take a kid’s fantasy and bring it to reality? Well Craig of the Creek keeps the fantastical and nostalgic element of that line of thinking but never confirms or denies whether the kids fantasies are real or in their heads. And not in a Scooby Doo way where the fantastical elements are explained away, but are hinted as a possibility right at the very end. Instead, two perspectives (the fantastical perspective and the realistic perspective) are woven into every episode.

- This means there are two ways to interpret every episode. You can view the witches as real witches, or as goth teenagers. You can view Helen as a kid from another dimension, or a home-school kid who is never at the creek at the same time as the other kids. You can view Deltron as a cyborg from the future, or as an imaginative kid from a big city.

- This is super unique and fun to watch. They come up with so many new ideas and its always fun to figure out what’s actually happening, while still getting to relive childhood fantastical nostalgia.

- Almost all of these episodes use this to talk about an issue, but these issues can get quite complex and are definitely not shoved down your throat.

Overarching mystery plot about a colonialist kingdom / cult

- Love the slow burn storytelling of Steven Universe’s Diamond Authority? Love putting together the mysteries of Gravity Falls? Then you’ll love this plot about colonialism, classism, bullying, peer pressure and more and its mysterious build up including cryptic graffiti art and flower symbolism.

- Even before this arc properly begins, Craig of The Creek primarily centers around the microcosm of the Creek. Many of the episodes have a lot of commentary on society, politics and how different factions of people form and interact.

- The show is over 50 episodes in and this arc is only just starting to kick off so now is the time to catch up and watch.

- Fun complex villain(s)

Complex relatable characters

- Want commentary and nostalgia about horse girls, children’s tea parties, weird kids, angsty teens, young weebs, dweebs and more!? Every childhood obsession is represented in this show.

- Adults! All the parents and older teens in this show are just as rich and complex as the kids. They are all so interesting and fun.

- Want characters with arcs, aims, fun relationships and complexity!? Look no further! Redemption arcs! Revelations! Found family! It’s all here!

Great art and soundtrack

- Cute background and character designs that make you nostalgic as hell and are also beautiful and well thought out.

- Sometimes the art design is changed up for a particular episode to portray a certain fantastical / sci fi element. It’s very fun and engaging.

- An opening song that’s fun to sing along to, bittersweet ending song that makes me want to cry, a couple of musical episodes including a super fun rap musical episode, and a great OST

Queer headcanons

- There are tons of ways to interpret the show but here’s some of my head canons just to get an idea.

- (Note that despite my headcanons I use the pronouns for the kids that they use in the show cause I’m not certain about any of it and they’re kids who haven’t come out yet and also for clarity and consistency’s sake – I’m not saying trans people are not their genders. Don’t worry I’m nonbinary)

- I headcanon that all the main trio grow up to realise they are queer. They strike me as that weird group of friends that doesn’t fit in with the other kids and aren’t quite sure how they all came to be friends, only to later realise they all showed early signs of breaking gender roles and that’s why they stuck together.

- Craig definitely grows up to realise he’s gay, bisexual or queer. His admiration for characters like Deltron and Green Poncho are definitely crushes that he mistakes for a strong sudden and eager desire for friendship.

- Kelsey probably grows up to realise she is nonbinary, a trans boy or a WLW. I mostly headcanon this because I relate to her a lot and I’m nonbinary and queer so I said so. She reminds me a lot of myself as a kid. She throws herself into books, mostly fantasy for escapism. She fantasises and writes a lot for the same reasons. She dresses like a tomboy (She always wears her hair up in the same bun which strongly reminds me of my own childhood hair dysphoria) and she hangs out solely with male friends.

- JP gives me strong trans lesbian vibes, or to a lesser extent nonbinary vibes. (I know his sister is WLW coded but take it from me there can be more than one queer in a family). He is interested in girls, specifically Maney the horse girl (he even joined the horse girls for one episode). He wears a long V-neck shirt that is essentially a dress ALL the time. He’s aware that he’s different and while self conscious sometimes, mostly just wants to express himself the way he wants to. He also chooses to go by initials JP over his very gendered name Johnathan Paul (In a recent episode he names a ship after himself, calling it “The SS Johnathon Paulina”).

- (Sidenote if you do start watching this show and I see any nasty shipping of these characters in non puppy-love fashion so help me god)

Other reasons

- The show is at times very intertextual and references Princess Mononoke, Super Smash Brothers, Sailor Moon, Lord of the Rings, and a billion other things. It also has some fun cameos, including background images of the Tres Horny Boys from The Adventure Zone, a TARDIS from Doctor Who, and a Cookie Cat from Steven Universe.

- Honestly, this post hasn’t done the best job explaining why I love this show so much. You honestly just have to watch an episode to understand fully what I’m talking about, so give it a go! Watch The Curse at least, it only goes for 10 minutes.

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ben-the-hyena · 3 years

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I saw some of the Scooby Doo films as a kid, never knew they had such a following around. Some of the animations in the ones I passed up looks quite interesting.

Which ones would you recommend?

Personally I always liked the 2 first live action movies. The CGI may have aged badly, some jokes are cheesy and the humor is more adult-oriented but I always liked them and found them funny, definetely guilty pleasures

Animation wise, I really love like I said Scooby Doo and the Witch's ghost. Great animation, first appearance of the Hex Girls and a badass creepy atmosphere (just as creepy as a movie of the same series Scooby Doo and Zombie Island but for some reason it didn't mark me as much). Either equally or second but very close is Scooby Doo Music of the Vampire. Nice animation and colors, nice designs and characters, fun mystery and SUPER GOOD SONGS I listen to some some time to time. Then not as good but just for nostalgia favtor I am fond for Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire for nostalgia factor (it was one of the only Scooby DVDs I had) but still had a fun mystery too and fun monster designs and humor, and same for nostalgia Scooby Doo and the Samurai Sword since I watched it as a preteen and the plot was fun but just would have been better as an independant movie with other characters. And then I must say I never really watched shows with Shaggy being with Daphne and/or Scoob and Scrappy alone because I was not a fan and YET I loved for all the nostalgia tributes and Easter Eggs Scooby Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost. Vincent Van Ghoul and Flim Flam are back, and (even if a lot of fans hated it) I loved how they made all the magic of the previous show to have been fake the whole time but the trio was just being naive, a nice fun realistic and REALLY Scooby-like touch to me !

Then of course it is your choice to make, there are 2 (I think) live movies and LOTS of animated movies so make your choice ! 2 most recent came out this year (one in CGI, Scoob!, sucks ass but MADE ME REALLY LOVE THE WACKY RACES FANDOM BECAUSE DICK WAS GREAT) so see by yourself !

#ask #anon #movie #moi #scooby doo

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phynali · 4 years

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SPN 15x10 Heroes’ Journey

So I kind of thought people were maybe overreacting with the hate for SPN episode 15x10 but no - it was That Bad.

I really, really, wanted to like this episode. The actors talked about how fun it was in the pre-season press tour. There was excitement about it. I was kind of expecting another The French Mistake or Scooby-Doo type episode - canon but mostly taking the piss, not consequential to the overall plot, incredibly self-aware.

And I think it tried to be a lot of those things, but failed so utterly. And I want to a) unpack a bit of why, and b) write some fix-it interpretation that you can take or leave but that I’m gonna headcanon for my own sanity.

First, here are so many problems with this episode in what it implies about the canon and the characters.

It says that they haven’t ever been normal. Okay, sure, I’m there. God gave them a bit of Plot Armour because they’re his favourites. They’ve come back from the dead like a dozen times, I’ll buy that.

But then -

Then it says that they’ve never got parking tickets, that they don’t get colds, cavities? Okaaaaay, so God gave them some extra luck and fortitude. Alright.

But then they can’t pick locks? Fight monsters? The engine fails when we know Dean has built it from the ground up, loves it obsessively, and obsesses over its maintenance? Sam can’t fucking boil pasta? Things they’ve done their entire lives are suddenly beyond them, as if they never learned nor developed a skill nor have common sense.

What the fuck?

It is absolute bullshit if taken at face-value but okay IF you set aside the canon hand-fed interpretation of what’s going on. Garth tells them that they’re suddenly experiencing ‘normal person problems’ because they are no longer the ‘heroes’.

Suddenly losing a bit of fortitude and luck doesn’t make you lose skills you’ve developed over decades or make you suddenly unable to boil water. So either we have to reject the episode, or reject the false interpretation sent our way. I choose the latter.

Think about it (let me convince you to appease my own frustration) - Chuck is a liar. We know this. Chuck is also our narrator, in canon and meta-textually.

We know we have an unreliable narrator.

Is it not reasonable to suggest that Chuck didn’t “make them normal” or “take away their special Hero Status” and have Dean suddenly lactose-intolerant, ridden with cavities (okay that part is realistic but to suddenly feel them now?), have it so Sam, who got a full ride to Stanford University - cannot boil water and grabs hot pots with his bare hands.

Actually for that last bit - if you’ve worked in kitchen for a long time or done a large amount of cooking, the sensitivity in your hands decreases a lot. Sam might actually be able to grab things straight out of the oven for short periods of time, or grab pots by the handles off the stove without feeling the burn the way someone like me might. My partner can do shit like that, though normally at least uses a tea towel for things straight out of the oven, but i’ve seen him do it. So Sam might do that typically and that just lends itself to my theory that -

Chuck is fucking with them.

Chuck didn’t “make them normal” - he sent a bunch of annoying inconveniences their way to slow them down, and to undermine their confidence in their skills. Just enough that they think it’s them and not Him. That they think it’s their shine worn off, their luck run dry, their skills as never being as good as they thought - just enough hits to keep coming and uncomfortable facts that fit close enough to their lives to make them Doubt.

He is God, what does he do but deal in Faith and Doubt?

(He doesn’t like to be questioned. He knows them inside and out, knows everything about everything - including how to sew discord).

He took away their credit card that Charlie had hacked for them so they can’t move around as quick and easy, switched the flip on some of their biology (lactose intolerance, clumsiness, a head cold) to slow them down, fucked them up a bit in terms of the Impala (parking tickets, spark plugs) to stall them up.

Not bad luck, not a loss of Plot Armour - Chuck is playing with the narrative. He wanted Sam to give up hope in the previous episode, and now he wants to weedle at that weakness. He wants them inconvenienced and down on themselves, knows that they excel when they’re faced with violence and a Big Bad but it’s like Lilith and her ‘death by a thousand cuts’. He knows it will be easier to get under their skin with a series of minor vexations that has them questioning themselves.

They are cursed. Dean is right. Cursed with God’s Wrath - which in this case looks a bit more like God’s No Good, Super Annoying Goddamn Day(s), but y’know. Whatever.

And then there’s the skills - the inability to pick locks, to fight monsters. As if a lifetime of practice and training disappears when Plot Armour does. I cannot suspend my disbelief to accept that being Normal means having no learned skills.

So although the narrative (the narrator, Chuck, God Who Art Unreliable) is telling us that they only have these skills because He wanted them to.

We must reject that interpretation of the canon.

(Just like I wish Sam and Dean had rejected that misinterpretation of their lives.)

God waved his hand and took away skills they’d need in a pinch. He didn’t fuck with their personalities because he likes to watch too much, but he wanted to see what they’d do if he (re)set their skills to zero: if they would learn again, if they would realize how fucked they were, make bad decisions to regain those abilities, drink blood or take on Angels or anything else vile so they might kill each other. He’s trying to get his story back on track, and lying to the audience (which now, oddly, includes the protagonists) is small change next to forcing the plot the way he wants to go.

Literally, Chuck is retconning the canon because he’s written himself into a corner, and he’s jealous of his own protagonists.

(Oddly - I think he’s kind of lying to himself too. Taking all this away and convincing himself that he gave it to them all in the first place, fucking with coincidence because these things do happen and messing with their biology because other people do have these sorts of issues. He takes all the credit for their success and therefore convinces himself it’s okay to change and take away whatever he wants, to manipulate luck and chance because hey - he’s God. They are his Creation, and therefore this is All Him, really.)

Only bad writers force the plot to go where they want irrespective of what it means about the characterization and being hard left-turn OOC. Chuck is a bad writer. We know this. Without Metatron as his editor he kind of writes complete crap? Even Becky and her purple prose had multiple critiques of his writing throughout the seasons.

So tl;dr -

The Heroes’ Journey isn’t about Sam and Dean losing the ‘plot armour’ and bonus to skills that Chuck had given them to make them badasses with no Normal Person Problems.

Instead, it’s an (undoubtedly unintentional from the writers and therefore ironic) exercise in unreliable narration where the audience is told the heroes are only special because someone else made them so. The creator of the in-canon narrative is retconning his own canon and trying to tell the reader it was this way all along, underneath plot armour.

He’s also doing this because as a self-insert OC into his own story, and now the antagonist of the story who fails to realize he’s made himself the bad guy, he’s buying time, aiming to slow them down and trying to cut away at their confidence and hope.

And he succeeds - and backfires. He chips away at them only enough to frustrate, to convince them that they Are and Must Be special in order to do what needs doing. They know that they have ever lacked in heroism, and the narrator fails to convince the audience that normalcy and heroism do not go hand in hand - in part because God’s favourite or not, they aren’t the only heroes in this story.

(Thanks Garth)

PS - Building from here into 15x11, if we accept this explanation but also know they do get their “mojo” (luck) back thanks to a Goddess, we can extrapolate that although she maybe can’t undo the changes that Chuck’s thrown their way, some of what he’s doing is based on coincidence (luck), and they should be ‘lucky’ enough to be able to access their skills despite having Chuck’s bullshit placed on them (or be lucky enough to have it removed entirely?). Luck seems a shorthand term here for so much more, something more like the suppressor/bullshit Chuck’s using on them, so I take it to mean that she basically reset the balance.

#spn #supernatural #supernatural meta #the heroes' journey #spn 15x10 #supernatural critical #i guess #oh god i wrote spn meta i'm in too deep #tooooo deeeeeeep #i was not supposed to end up part of this fandom here at the end of it #fucking whoops #but anyway i try not to wank because this show is ridiculous #unreliable narrator #and i haven't let myself be emotionally invested in it for years but #here i am #ffs #anyway #phyn rambles #phyn writes meta

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reviewsinfilm · 5 years

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Ready or Not

Fair warning: I write with a lot of spoilers. So…spoiler alert.

Ready or Not (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, 2019) is a mystery/thriller that follows Grace (Samara Weaving) on the day of her wedding. She is about to marry into a family “richer than God,” and all she must do to be accepted into this family is play a randomly chosen game. Easy enough. However, when she unluckily draws the Hide and Seek card, the only bad card in the game, things take a turn for the homicidal. Basically, the family gets to hunt her. She spends her wedding night running and hiding from this group of maniacs that claim they need to kill her before dawn or else they will all die themselves.

If you’re a fan of The Purge films, this movie might be worth a watch. But even more so, as soon as I saw the trailer, I immediately got Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) vibes. In no way am I saying that Ready or Not even comes close to being as masterful as Get Out, but it definitely drew some inspiration from there. A young girl goes to her rich boyfriend’s family home, the family is creepy as hell and has some pretty dark secrets, they end up trying to kill her, she escapes a few times and is caught a few times, and her boyfriend eventually turns out to be a bad guy. I don’t know, you tell me.

This film had no problem with gore. Bullet to the face, arrow through the throat, or a skull being cracked, it wasn’t afraid to show the aftermath of a gruesome and fatal injury. I appreciate that. Most of the time they leave you wanting more when it comes to the gory stuff. Here, I almost wanted less. Almost.

Now this is more of a comment on the whole horror/thriller genre in general, but HEY. MAKE SURE THEY’RE DEAD. This film had no shortage of screaming-at-the-screen anger when it came to this. Multiple times Grace had the chance to kill several of the people trying to kill her and she just didn’t follow through. Mainly the scene when she strangles Stevens (John Ralston) in the field. GIRL. He dropped a gun right next to you. Shoot him.

My absolute favorite part about this movie was Samara Weaving. This is the first role I’ve seen her play and I thought she was brilliant. This part called for lots of hyperventilating, and one thing Samara is clearly quite good at is hyperventilating. She was the perfect amount of sassy and badass without ever coming off as annoying. Her reactions seemed really realistic given the situation. I was entirely convinced and enthralled by her performance and she gained a new fan in me. And watching her punch an eight-year-old in the face was fantastic.

Side note: Daniel’s character (Adam Brody) was another one I loved throughout this film. He was so dimensional and interesting and I was rooting for him.

And since I can’t seem to get through a movie these days without one jarring complaint, here it is: that awful ending. It literally felt like an episode of Scooby-Doo (no disrespect to Scooby-Doo). The film wasn’t perfect, it had its faults, but up until the last five minutes, I was very impressed by it. More than I thought I would be. But then they ruined it. The curse ends up being real and, no joke, the family members just start exploding. I literally thought to myself, “oh fuck off.” I was so disappointed I couldn’t even find the words. AND, to top it all off, there was a ghost. It felt so cheap to me and so poorly written that I was genuinely disappointed.

I will give them this, the final shot of the film was beautiful, with Grace exiting the burning house in her now black and bloodied wedding dress and sitting down on the steps. That was well done.

Here’s my suggestion for an alternate ending, in case anyone anywhere cares:

The family kept saying that anyone who objected to playing the game ended up mysteriously dying the next morning. So, instead of having them literally explode, add a character here. Introduce a last-minute addition to the family. A bastard cousin that no one knows about that has been the game master all along, maybe following in his father’s footsteps before him, as this game has been going on for years. Explain that he goes to each wedding and makes sure the game is being played correctly, and if not, he kills the cheaters the next morning, making it seem like there is a curse. This scene could have been incredible. Cue the creepy music on the record player – which here is apparently put on by the ghost. Sigh. He walks in, tells them who he is and that he is here for them because they failed, gives them 100 seconds to hide, and then hunts them down one by one, eventually prevailing with ease because he is clearly a badass, leaving only Grace alive to see the aftermath. Now that is an ending I would’ve been proud of.

Lastly, here’s some of my questions/observations:

Aunt Helene (Nicky Guadagni) says that Alex (Mark O’Brien) is the only one that had actually seen this game creator in person, sitting in the chair. This is never explained. When did he see him? Was it the ghost? Last time there was a Hide and Seek game, Alex was locked in a closet. So why was this randomly brought up?

Alex’s betrayal of Grace really seemed to come out of nowhere for me. He was willing to do just about anything for her, including betraying his entire family even though he knew about the curse. Sure, watching her beat his mother’s skull in may be a game changer, but the last thing I expected was for him to completely turn on her. Maybe leave the house or call the family in to come grab her, but he was literally going to be the one to stab her in the heart. Guess he didn’t love her that much.

Where the hell did the “Hail Satan” chant come from...?

5 September 2019

#ready or not #samara weaving #adam brody #thriller #mystery #Film Review #film #films #movie review #movies #movie

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scooby-doo and the curse of the 13th ghost review

WARNING: contains spoilers, as well as my unsolicited opinion. read at you own risk folks.

i’ll start off by saying, i really liked curse of the 13th ghost. it certainly wasn’t groundbreaking, but i had a great time watching it and i’m happy it exists. that being said, there were a few things that made me scratch my head a little bit.

the movie starts with a sepia filtered flashback of vincent van ghoul and his lover mortifer (not really but,,,,, we know how to read between the lines WB) capturing ghosts in the chest of demons. the scene ends with mortifer having his fucking soul devoured by ghosts and dying right there in front of my seven year old eyes. i literally screamed.

the title sequence absolutely sent me. it was really good on its own, but i love how it actually explains the whole plot of 13 ghosts, because i never actually saw it.

next we get a classic mall chase scene. there’s a hilarious moment when they’re chasing the suspect up an escalator, and fred tells the gang that they can’t run because it’s too dangerous, so they all have to stand on this escalator while tacky elevator music plays before continuing the chase. fred’s being an asshole to daphne in this scene to emphasise how attached he is to his leadership position, and daphne (like the bad bitch she is) ignores him and catches the guy they’re chasing herself, to emphasise that she’s much smarter than fred. not that much smarter, however, because it turns out they caught the wrong guy. they interact with the sheriff, who tells them that they’re too sloppy, and that once they turn eighteen (which is coming up quickly) they might end up serving jail time for harassment charges. with their best interests in mind, he tells them they have to quit solving mysteries. the scene worked, but it wasn’t very realistic. legally speaking, you can’t arrest someone for driving in their van (as this guy threatened to do).

next we see the three minute long scene that was released as a promotional clip on youtube of the garage sale at what i assume was daphne’s house, despite being tiny. a man named bernie alan tries to buy some stuff off them, but his check bounces (a reoccurring joke throughout the rest of the movie). vincent calls, tells them he needs help- blah blah blah.

daphne introduces the gang to her own van- which nearly sends fred over the fucking moon. especially when he can’t drive it because it’s a stick shift and, as we all know, FRED JONES CAN’T DRIVE STICK. honestly, that boy is adorable.

so daphne drives as fred sleeps on her shoulder like the angel he is- but things go awry when a car surrounded by green smoke tries to run them off the road. we find out why this is later, but it doesn’t.... really make much sense.

they get to vincent’s house, daphne and fred bicker some more, and shaggy decides to head off with scooby in search of snack-shaped clues. daphne asks velma to keep an eye on “lewis and bark” leaving her alone with fred. her crystal ball starts glowing, and they follow it throughout the mansion. velma, shaggy, and scooby have some classic mishaps, while fred and daphne do some classic fraphne things, such as forgetting that two people can walk next to eachother, and entrapment, and undermining each other’s intelligence. they all meet back up when velma and the boys fall through the ceiling and land on top of them. (shaggy jokes, “mind if we drop in?”) they find vincent, as well as the demon asmodeus, and this is where things start to kick off. vincent tells shaggy and daphne to trap asmodeus in the chest of demons, but shaggy says that he mailed it to vincent’s place in the himalayas when school started. vincent explains that it wasn’t his home, but rather an air b&b he’d rented at the time, and that he never got it- so they have to fly to the himalayas to track down the chest in the mail.

you know how movies and tv shows that can’t afford the rights to certain brands will use cute little puns- to tell the audience what they’re talking about without saying the real trademark? it’s done multiple times in the movie, but in a way that’s very self aware. vincent refers to his air b&b as an “air boo & boo,” his iphone as a “die phone,” and countless others that i forget. but everyone around him is like “oh my fucking god can you talk normally please-” telling the audience that they were staying at an actual air b&b without having to use the name- but still being normal about it. it was a nice touch. as was “captain rogers, not for vanity reasons, but because when you have the lives of so many people in your hands, it’s better to think of yourself as the office and not the man- and also a little bit for vanity.” that’s right, folks, shaggy flies the plain. and it’s golden.

when they land in the himalayas, the first thing they notice is bernie alan, the check bouncing fiend. they decide to split up- shaggy, scooby, daphne and vincent follow him to the temple, while fred and velma go searching for the lost package. the next bit of the movie cuts between the two storylines, but i’ll just tell them separatley.

fred and velma show up at a deserted post office, and naturally go rummaging through the back to find shaggy’s lost package. instead, flim flam catches fred in a net. i don’t think we ever learn why he was in the post office. flim flam takes them to the novelty store he works at and shows them his various chest of demons memorabilia (mostly coolers, which he’s only ever sold one of) but when fred says they’re looking for the real thing, he brings them to his ghost-hunting store instead. fred finds a cool scooter and asks to drive it- to which flim flam replies “sure! you can drive stick shift, right?” luckily he’s only kidding and fred get’s to destroy the scooter in the background while velma and flim flam argue over the existence of ghosts. fred and velma leave, and fred admits to velma that he feels useless now that daphne’s stolen his job as the leader. he even laments that he “can’t even do background shenanigans right!!!!!” before the scene has the oppurtunity to become cute and uplifting, the two of them get snatched into the air by an unknown force.

daphne’s crew are following bernie alan, but he manages to lose them. before they know it, they’re being stalked by the same car that tried to run them off the road earlier. the car’s loud engine starts an avalanche, resulting in the world’s longest “oh no!! we’re falling down a mountain!!” bit- which is then followed by a second identical bit as the car causes another avalanche immediately after the first. they wind up trapped in the temple with asmodeus and the chest of demons. there’s a cute little musical chase scene to a super catchy disco song, and a slightly uncomfortable bit where shaggy and scooby dress as monks. asmodeus tries to kill them, but vincent uses his magic to beam daphne, shaggy and scooby out.

daphne is about to break down sobbing because she thinks vincent is dead- when suddenly velma and fred fall from the sky. fred, being the little fucking legend he is, says “mind if we drop in?” they’re all down in the dumps for various reasons, and daphne says that it’s time to go home, and that there’s nothing more they can do. seeing his gang about top give up, fred reveals his darkest secret: while daphne and shaggy were catching the ghosts, he wasn’t just at any camp- he was at CHEER CAMP. THE ONLY KIND OF LEADER FRED IS IS A CHEERLEADER. it’s funny at first- hysterical in fact- but he does a cheer that lasts just long enough for everyone (characters and audience alike) to start feeling sad for him. but freddy jones is flippin away, doing back tucks over daphne’s head and throwing her in the air, and his enthusiasm encourages daphne to make a plan to catch asmodeus.

fred and velma head back to flim flam’s shop to ask for his help (but mostly his gear) and fred realises that the reason he can’t drive stick is because he’s been trying to use the parking break instead of the clutch. now he’s hell on wheels, and manages to run the random car that’s been following them off the road and into the abyss below.

meanwhile, daphne, shaggy and scooby skydive down into the temple from above (”i can’t jump out of a plane!” “that’s okay, i’m going to push you!”) and find vincent. they link up with fred, velma and flim flam, and the latter jokes that all they need now is scrappy, to which velma asks “what’s a scrappy???” and there’s nothing better than the idea of a timeline in which daphne and shaggy just kept scrappy’s existence a secret all these years.

vincent reveals that asmodeus is actually his dead relative, which is cool, but everything goes downhill when they realise that asmodeus is a fake, and that he’s actually mortifer, vincent’s supposed dead lover, wearing a suit. then bernie alan the check bouncer is actually an interpol officer slash figure skater, and the swat team shows up.... they really lost me there. it was a disappointing resolution to say the least.

the final scene was probably my favorite. the gang are loading up the plane, and fred and daphne stare off into the sunset, and fred tells daphne that he’s been wrong about her all along, and that she’s such a capable leader, and that she’s the engine that makes the gang run. daphne replies “i might be the engine, but you’ll always be the driver” which is equally as adorable as it is true. they give eachother MAJOR HEART EYES, but fred- physically unable to let a heartfelt moment last more than three seconds- pulls away and asks if captain rogers will let him try flying the plain. daphne says sure, but only if he promises to stay away from the parking break. fred shakes his fist at god and curses velma’s name.

velma explains to everyone that ghosts aren’t real and that the 13 ghosts were all a hallucination, which..... fuck everyone involved in that decision. we realise that the chest shaggy mailed was actually the one cooler sold by flim flam (a nice touch). to prove her point, velma almost opens the actual chest of demons for funsies but thinks better of it, and then the gang hits the skies, where they’re all flabbergasted to find that scooby doo is the one flying the plane. the end.

it’s a good movie, no doubt- and was almost a perfect one. everything seemed to crash and burn as the demon turned out to be fake, and then everything else was fake, and then bernie alan was a figure skater in a fat suit... for some reason. had they gone with literally any other ending, it would have been great.

the fraphne subpot felt a little underwhelming... maybe it’s just that i’m a hardcore shipper, but i felt like the resolution to their plot wasn’t big enough. they spent the whole movie building tension- i was sort of picturing that they’d have a big fight. but... nope. he just did a few backflips and everything was peachy.

again, i loved the movie. i don’t know if i’d put it in the top five, but definitely in the top ten. it had a lot of fun aspects and great character building. i’m really excited for return to zombie island, but also kind of scared. first of all, how do you make a sequel to something that happens when they’re 30 when they’re only 17?? also... pls don’t make the cat creatures fake. also... *slides writers a 20*.... fraphne kiss. just sayin.

#scooby doo #curse of the 13th ghost #fred jones #shaggy rogers #daphne blake #velma dinkley #fraphne #vincent van ghoul #flim flam #not an incorrect quote

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Scoobynatural Commentary

I know nothing about Supernatural but grew up on Scooby and the gifsets make this seem not-awful, so...let’s see how this goes

I am four seconds in and very confused.

...yeah, their facial expressions um up my thoughts

“You just destroyed an evil demon trying to kill me, we’re all good” That honestly should be a more standard reaction

Long-haired Winchester does not care

“And we wound up...” “Killing Barney?” Is the humor always like this? Because I kinda like it

Oh look, a Frozen joke. Long-hair does not approve—is he the older one? Is he Dean?

Oh, Short-hair is Dean and Long-hair is Sam...then why is Sam acting like the older one? I thought Dean was?

Sam is so done...

That doesn’t look cursed at all

Yay, animation!

My gods that is a hard slap

“He’s dead” I thought that didn’t matter with you two

So now Dean is suddenly acting like the older one and I’m honestly too lazy to open up a Wikipedia page be lucky I figured out the names

This is the part where I would freak out from mild excitement

“Dibs on Daphne” Well I’m gonna go gag

Did you just compare a fallen angel to a talking dog?

Sam, how can you be so scowly when sitting next to Scooby?

Oh I forgot Mindy is no longer Velma’s voice actress and I’m not used to Kate doing it...

That newspaper looks really fake

This has happened to you guys before?

...I get they’re trying to use the original sound effects for nostalgia factor, but it’s not working

...Admit it, you would try it, too

Well, at least he was kind enough to warn them

Mindy please come back

Admittedly it is kinda obvious

...for some reason I’m reminded of that time they put Daphne and Velma in one house and Shaggy, Scooby, and Fred in another to get rid of the implication of Fred and Daphne sleeping together in the Valentine’s Day episode of What’s New, Scooby-Doo?

How do they all have pajamas?

I really don’t wanna deal with this show shipping the girls with Sam and Dean. I really don’t.

Could those skirts get any shorter?

“Why I would be kicked out of the Scooby-Doo gang”

How are they suddenly dressed?

They’re so unfazed

Alright, Sherlock Dinkley

How did he get there?

Are we shipteasing Castiel/Shaggy?

I’m kinda more interested in that story than our current plot

You guys are really bad at lying.

I love how Sam and Dean have flashlights while Velma’s using a lantern

Shaggy what did your face just do??

I repeat my question with the Castiel/Shaggy thing

Body is in three pieces, and all Fred can say is “Well, that’s not good”?

They don’t normally find dead bodies

Please stop the shipping

Please, for the love of everything, stop

You’re gonna break Velma’s brain—remember the Goblin King movie?

Doesn’t it get destroyed every season finale?

Does this ghost have a thing against childhoods?

...Don’t.

I’m loving the joke with the bookshelf

It moved

Was that...Scrappy?? Well, we all know who’s behind this now, right?

Stop checking out her ass

...in retrospect, that was to be expected

Oh my gosh, Fred’s unconscious

Someone please explain to me how that worked

Whoa, blood!

...Genuinely surprised Cas jumped to save them

That is a disturbingly realistic break...

Daphne looks weirder without her scarf than Fred does without his ascot—wait, how was her scarf not long enough?

So I am definitely not showing this to my younger sister...

What’s funny is they have faced real ghosts in stuff...

That’s kinda badass

Thank you, Sam, for asking my question before I could

“You think the phantom decided to leave?” “No it’s still here, don’t worry” Okay I kinda like this bantering

“Yeah, Fred’s plans never work. Daph! Plan B!” Best joke with Fred’s traps ever

It’s a little kid? Well this just got depressing

I rewound the episode and still missed it—what did Jay do?

I don’t know what’s funnier: him realizing how inappropriate that was, or his reaction to realizing it

Well that was nice of Cas

Dean, please stop.

Seriously, Cas/Shaggy was the most organic out of the forced pairings

...And that was not. I was hoping to get through this without a kiss...

Did you really have to destroy the TV to get that knife out?

Why does Dean look like he’s about to cry?

Please take it off.

“Good enough for Capone, good enough for you” I love it

That was slightly painful

...Well, not the worst thing I’ve ever seen... Not sure if I’ll be going to look for other episodes, though

#supernatural #scooby-doo #scoobynatural

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Another thing I love about Scooby Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost is that they put Scooby in an actual realistic dog sweater and not, like, normal human clothing that is somehow perfectly dog-sized

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Do you by chance know if the scooby doo crossover will be for the spn viewers or also adapted to a younger audience (regarding cursing etc)? I also had another thought: what if the destiel kiss will be in that one episode (I know this isn't quite realistic) what would you think about that?

Im 99.9999999% sure the Destiel reveal isn't going to be in the scooby doo episode lol.

I don’t think they will adapt the episode for younger viewers and SPN doesn't really curse anyway so... I think it will be for SPN viewers using scooby doo rather than a scooby doo episode with SPN involved.

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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) Movie Review

By Alex Skrapits (Wantagh)

Pokémon continues to be a growing franchise where it appeals to generations old and new. It also had a history of animated movies based on the longest-running anime. That is until, a U.S. live-action Pokémon film, based on a spin-off Nintendo 3DS game, was announced. As always, people were hyped yet worried and skeptical and always had the same reaction: “Oh, no. This is going to be one of THOSE movies where the filmmakers take artistic liberties and change a lot from the original source material.” Video game movies are commonly a bad trend of a curse in Hollywood since the Super Mario Bros. movie…with occasional exceptions.

However, when the trailer for Detective Pikachu was released, people were more hyped than ever for many reasons and admittedly, I was on the bandwagon.

To kick things off, the movie is based on the Detective Pikachu game that was released last Spring. It was a serviceable game with a neat concept, solid voice acting and simply decent gameplay that educate and entertain children on problem-solving. It is almost like describing Scooby-Doo. But, in comparison between the game and the movie, the movie is a vast improvement.

While the story may have its predictable moments, it maintains the story of finding Tim’s missing father in a more straight-forward and action-driven pace. The movie also provides an emotional weight and a message that fans would relate to about growing up and remembering the love they had for Pokémon during childhood. Not to mention some winks and nods from the games and anime throughout. As for newcomers that have little history with Pokémon, I wouldn’t recommend it as a strong introduction to the franchise…for obvious reasons. However, its creative world and atmosphere will make them feel welcome and entertained throughout.

The main highlight of the movie that is definitely worth praising since the trailer: the visual effects on the Pokémon. This is a prime example on visually crafting a character from game to film done right. Animated by the same studios that worked Guardians of the Galaxy and The Jungle Book (2016), the animators preserve the original Pokémon designs while giving them photo-realistic fur, feathers, skin and scales. The results make the Pokémon look more alive with NO sense of the uncanny valley. As for the environments, the aesthetics of Rhyme City and the natural landscapes combine and capture the feel of film noir and the Japanese cultural setting. At times, it felt like watching a Studio Ghibli film.

Without spoiling, most of the characters are basic and relatable while a couple of characters provide interesting depth and commentary on the world around them. The acting from the human cast is solid. But, the crowning-achieving performance goes to Ryan Reynolds as the titular character. With his quick, witty delivery and subtle motion capture, his portrayal of a coffee-drinking, talking Pikachu provides a lot of charm and heart to the film.

There are NO other words to describe this movie, but generally speaking, it is the best video game movie of all time! Here’s to hoping to aspiring filmmakers to look at this movie for reference on how to make a video game movie done right. If you’re a hardcore Pokémon fan, you’ll have a great time! If you’re new to Pokémon, it’s an entertaining flick to watch with family, kids and or friends.

FAN RATING: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED GENERAL RATING: RECOMMENDED

Rating: 4/5

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Genre

Teen Drama

History

1944 - The word teenager is coined. Advertisers can sell to teenagers. Teen dramas became a marketing force.

1950’s Rebel teenagers; Rebel Without a Cause, The Wild Ones.

1960’s not really

1970’s Loads of films about teenagers. Horror (Carrie) Musicals (Greece) Love Stories (Love story)

1980’s The era of the teen movie (Breakfast club) (St Elmo’s Fire) (Pretty in Pink) (Risky Business)

1980’s in Britain. First teen drama’s (Bykes grove)(Garage Hill)(Press Gang)

1990’s TV teen drama’s hit the box. (90210) (Buffy) (My so called life)

Ever since - A commercial staple.

Why do we watch teen drama?

Morals, style, pump up, fun,

Types of Teen Drama. (sub-genres)

Mystery drama (Riverdale, pretty little liars, 13 reasons why)

Supernatural drama (buffy, vampire diaries, shadow hunters)

High school dramas (90210, gossip girl. It’s either rich high school, or small town.

Sci Fi Drama

History

Frankenstein 1818

H.G. Wells (Time machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth)

A trip to the moon 1902 first sci fi film

Carries on as literary genre. Huge in the 1920’s. Lot’s of Pulp ‘sci fi' Fiction (Asamov)

First British TV Sci Fi. R.U.R 1938. About a robot uprising.

Adaptation of The Time Machine 1949.

Lot’s of sci fi activity in the 1950’s. Because of the space race. (Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, The Quartermasters experiment)

Doctor Who 1963. Very powerful money maker. Star Trek 1966.

Golden age of British Sci Fi. Blake 7, the Tomorrow People. Doomwatch.

1980’s/90’s in America Star Trek, Babylon 5, Quantum Leap, Red Dwarf in Britain

2000’s Doctor Who came back in 2005. Rejuvenates sci fi in Britain: Primeval, Torchwood.

Why do we watch sci fi?

Interesting and new

Bold ideas (black mirror)

Escapism

Sub genres of sci fi

dystopias (handmaid’s tale, the walking dead, the 100)

Space Discovery (Star Trek, Deep Space 9)

Alternate History (Man in the high castle)

Robots/clones (humans, opha black)

Animated comedy (Rick and Morty)

Superheroes

Crime Drama

Edipous

Edgar Allen Po in 1840’s + Wilkie Collins in 1860’s

1887 Sherlock Homes. Reaction to the first police detectives in Britain.

Agatha Christie. 1920 —> 1976 (75 novels)

Thrillers in America become huge from the 1920’s. Prohibition, lawless, hardboiled style.

1930’s first sherlock homes film.

Mystery film huge in 20’s 30’s 40’s 50’s 60’s. Hitchcock, Big Sleep, Maltese Falcon.

Early 50’s Britain crime documentaries. First cop show in 1953-1976 (Dickson of Dock Green)

1970’s and 1980’s Realistic style. The sweeney, Begwar, Prime Suspect, Silent Witness, Crashes.

1990’s crime becomes a bit lighter. Hetty Wainthropp investigates.

2000’s explodes in America. CSI, Bones, The closer, The Mentalist.

Why do we watch crime drama.

To solve a puzzle.

Admire method of the kill and the catch.

To be surprised.

Dark underside of human nature.

Sub genres

Spy thriller, alias, homeland, killing eve, 24,

Police procedural (a department who’s work we’re following). Luther, Happy Valley, The Killing

Gangster. Peaky Blinders, The Wire, Narcos, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad

Forensic. CSI, Silent Witness. Bones.

Fantasy

Epic of Gilgamesh (2100 BC)

Folk tales, fair tales, chjivalrics stories

1920, cabinet di cellarage

1922 - nosforatu

1930 king kong.

1954 - Lord of the Rings published.

1960 first fantasy tv. bewitched, ocean of seive, increbile hulk, wonder woman, (all cheesy)

1980’s knight rider, fragile cock, beauty and the beast. (still cheesy)

1990’s sabrina, buffy, herecles, xena (still cheesy)

2000 merlin, true blood, lost, dolls house, being human. (darker)

2010’s game of thrones.

Why do we watch fantasy?

Escapism

Replace true meaningful experience with simulation

Experiencing fantastical worlds and creatures.

Deep lore.

Sub genres

Childrens 9wolf blood, meslia, scooby doo)

Fantasy/horror (buffy, penny dreadful, the terror

Superheroes (smallville, jessica jones

Anthology (twilight, creeped ant)

Tropes

Tropes are securing elements which help the audience to understand where they are.

In Teen Drama:

Lockers; pranks, framing somebody.

Mean girls; beautiful, popular, clique and fashionable.

Romantic relationships. Love triangle.

Becoming popular, status. Duckling to swan.

Cliques, jocks, nerds/geek

Prom.

Getting laid.

Drugs

Peer pressure

Competitions

Relationships with teachers

Music, the latest hits.

Teenage pregnancy.

In Sci Fi:

New person arrives who doesn’t know the world. Older character who knows everything.

Monsters internal and external. Killer robots rise up.

Categorize: Classes of people. Races of people. AI.

Gadgets.

Conspiracy

Clash of civilizations. Are aliens good or bad.

Space.

Time travel. Were we better in the past.

Rogue.

Good leader.

Angsty teen e.g Wesley Presher Star Trek Next Generation

Immortality

Ancient Civilizations.

Countdown to impact of explosion.

In Crime Drama:

Informant/rat. Nervous, slimy.

Detective. Off the rails. Alcoholic. Wavering moral code. Troubled homelife. Single minded.

Sleuth. Sherlock Homes, professionals who aren’t in a police department. Quirky. Intelligent.

Corrupt officers.

Dead Innocents.

Beautiful young female victim.

Police chief under pressure from above. Shit flows downhill.

Femme Fatale.

Nemesis. Just as smart as the detective but has had more sleep.

Conspiracy to unravel.

Suspect who is innocent (or not)

Gangster/underworld friend

Sarcastic receptionist.

Wild card bad guy.

Detective sidekick.

In Fantasy:

A dark lord

cursed objects

god vs evil

hero has a quest

races and beings

magic swords and rings

medieval settings

damsel in distress

bloodline

overthrowing of tradition

fighting for power

prophecies

You can subvert genre, you can subvert anything you want as long as you keep in mind why people watch the genre in the first place.

Don’t fall back on your genre tropes because it will be cliqué but still use them otherwise it will be confusing.

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