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review #1 - a cinderella story

overall karkat grade: 10/10

multiple areas he’d extremely enjoy─main one being that, even as a romcom, it plays into moiraillegiance with sam and carter, our two main characters. honestly would very easily translate into an alternian movie without needing to be tweaked too much!

mod strider grade: 9/10 (good movie just painfully 2004)

mod harley grade: 9/10 (kept my attention but yeah, v 2004)

further in depth explanation of our karkat grading below:

mod strider: i know this movie is in the song as a traditional romcom and it definitely is dont get me wrong, but after watching this through the lens of karkat i dont think that he would like it for that. not that he wouldnt enjoy that aspect, especially the high/lowblood dynamic between sam & austin. but i think he would like this movie as a pale one. even though the driving plot is sam and austin’s romance, so much more of the movie is depicting the incredibly solid moiraillegiance between sam & carter. not only is their relationship clearly pale to begin with, but its an incredibly stable and balanced moiraillegiance. at absolute worst, sam could be a little more helpful when it comes to his crush on shelby & the inevitable downfall once he tries to seriously pursue her. their ‘relationship’ has a very.. tavris-ian vibe to it and sam could have done more — but she does tell him it’s a bad idea and discourage him, so even that is nitpicky. point blank, this is a paledate movie. the flushed etc. romances are B plot.

beyond that, if this were an alternian movie it would absolutely be a commentary on the hemospectrum. every interaction is steeped in the socioeconomic dichotomy of the characters; sam is a highblood who’s been forced to live as a lowblood due to the greed of her incompetent lusus and she makes it her mission to confront highblood prejudice. austin is a mid-highblood, probably around indigo, who wants nothing to do with the path laid out for him by design; the list goes on. the movie manages to tie everything up into a satisfying lowblood-fantasy ending after being an hour-and-a-half-long pale romp, and it doesn’t even feel too cheesy doing it.

mod harley: a lot of my thoughts have already been said! quick personal opinions: i thought it was cute, had a relatively satisfying ending, and i’m glad it didn’t rely on a lot of the early-2000s generic second-hand embarrassment humor.

 now, for the crab himself: yeah, this is something he would’ve loved. throughout the movie there were multiple points where i was like “yeah, karkat would be yelling at the screen right now” but it would never be from a place of genuine anger or frustration–just him getting way too into it. i think karkat would’ve had a field day about the two romances going on, that each had their own plot flow. and on top of the paleness between sam and carter at that! lots and lots of little bits that he would absolutely pick up on and obsess over…

sorry this is so short i am sick atm. have these karkat doodles i did when watching the movie

#homestuck #karkat vantas #broadway karkat #karkalicious #413 #4/13 #reviews #and with this we are officially under way <:) #dont hesitate to send in asks if theres any questions or followups anyone wants!