One thing I loved about Lockwood and Co. is just. The girls are pro brute force and the guys are all about proper technique. (Not all girls and not all guys but like, yeah).
Like it's Lockwood and Kipps that are finicky about proper stances and rapier technique (and iirc they both fenced (and Flo kicked their butts cause she's a legend)) and then there's Lucy and Kat who are just like "Look at that conveniently placed heavy object. Imma hit someone with that."
And it's great to me because I feel like in most works of fiction girls have to have exceptional technique and training to be on par with guys in fights, and then Stroud just flips the script. It's great. As a girl I appreciate other brute force girls.
When Lockwood and Co get de-aged, Barnes gives them to Kipps and his crew to care for and Kipps pretty quickly realises you can get little Lockwood to do pretty much anything if you offer him something you are pretending to be valuable. Like he needs Lockwood to brush his teeth so he starts talking about how cool this pen he found in his pocket is and then tells Lockwood to go and brush his teeth and Lockwood is like 'I will brush my teeth if you give me the super cool pen' and Kipps agrees. Only Kipps realises he never sees the stuff he gives Lockwood again so he starts following Lockwood around because he is running out of pocket junk to give the little boy only to find out that every super cool thing Lockwood earns is given straight to little Lucy.
I've seen a lot of praise for the Netflix Lockwood and co. adaptation. I haven't read the books, enjoyed the show. Lots of people already said a lot of positive things about this series concerning plot, characters, and so on that I largely agree with
You know what hasn't really been talked about?
How BRIGHT and WELL LIT everything is. Like, this show mostly happens at night, with characters running around with torches to see anything, because their job has to be done during the night.
But I can still SEE EVERYTHING.
I noticed that in the graveyard scenes especially. The sky is pitch black, we know it's the middle of the night. But the grass in green and I can SEE IT.
Love them for not going down the path of GOT, DC, and so many more. Of saying "well, it's the middle of the night, so nobody can see anything, and neither can the audience".
Instead they went "we told our audience it's the middle of the night, we're showing it to them, but we're also giving them the opportunity to see what actually happens on screen".
HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY GROCERY STORE INCIDENT YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER I AM NOT THE SAME PERSON I WAS A YEAR AGO TODAY
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also thank you so much to everyone in this incredible fandom for loving the grocery store incident as much as mayra and i do and showing your love for it 🫶🫶 genuinely the gsi means so much to me it was at first just a silly little hc i came up w while in class after obsessively watching and rewatching the show and getting the first couple of books and to have it receive so much love is genuinely so heartwarming. it’s given me mayra, one of my favorite people in the entire world, and it’s given me such an amazing array of fandom members who love and support my ideas <3 to see the way some of yall adopt the gsi into your perception of canon, to see yall add it into your fan works, TO HAVE KING JONATHAN HIMSELF SEE IT?????? you all have genuinely changed my life i could not be more thankful every time i see someone reblog or comment on the gsi post i get all giddy i love you all so much mwah mwah mwah 🩷🩷🩷