Quotes from my favorite Odd Squad character!
In no particular order...
"And I was starting to think we didn't have anything in common!"
"Pencil room."
"I ate a lot of garlic bread! 😀 So. Much. Garlic bread... 😦"
"Argh! Too slow!"
"I've never been more sure of anything in my life. Well, there was this one time in Paris- never mind. Just zap us."
"aaaaAAAAAHHHHH-"
The rest is under a read more because this is long
"I don't use them! I just make 'em! GO WOLF PACK-"
"I like you." "I like me too :)"
"Oh. So you're that guy..." (NOT romantic!)
"Whoops. I've been working out a ton."
"First of all, I don't think you're fixing that desk..."
"No no no, you see, I said the opposite-"
"I'm starting a dirt farm in New Mexico."
"...too slow again."
"I have an idea." (Stares off into space w/o elaborating) "Are you going to tell me what it is?" "Oh, uh, yes, follow me."
"I made a wax figure of myself!"
"What are you doing?" "Destroying a gadget. I need the parts to build other gadgets, and destroying this one will be good fun. aaAAAHH-"
"I'm so bad at goodbyes. I always talk too much. See, I'm doing it right now!"
"But what happens when your Oonabot becomes smarter you, takes over your life while the actual, real Oona is out getting lunch?" "Uh, what's going on?" *RUNS*
"It's like my hands are covered in butter! Nervous butter, not tasty..."
"I CAN'T STOP DROPPING THINGS!!!"
"Help... me..."
"Take a look at my calculator-inator!" "That's a regular calculator." "Just--just LET ME HAVE THIS ONE!!"
This girl is not sane seriously
"Therefore, while destroying this gadget is likely a mistake, it'll probably be the best decision of my life, so if everyone will please stand back, this sound is likely to be loud! AAAAAHHHH-" (crash)
"Well uh, see you later!" "What? No!" (drags her backwards)
"All I know is that I can't see color anymore. But that was okay, cause I just bonk the back of my head and bam! I can see color again!"
"I also programmed her to laugh at all my jokes." "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" "She doesn't really know what jokes are!" "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" "I'll... turn that feature off now." "Ha-ha-ha-ha-"
"I made this one if I want a healthy snack. I just reach into her ear, a carrot, and I can make ranch dressing come out of her nose!"
"Wait..." (hits her head) "Color went out again."
"Ohlm, please leave my lab."
"And now that I control all scientists, I shall be the one to rule the world! MWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Joking. Joking. So joking. I'm gonna smash these!"
"🎵 Everything's cooool..."
"🎶 Everything's gonna be fiiine!" "Please stop singing."
"I thought I might record this if I'm doing... less well... but yeah, like she said, I'm coo-"
"🎶 Everything's not coool..."
"Let the unboxing begin! I love the sound when you rip open tape! Sounds so good. Ooh, crinkly! Box inside a box, pretty cool..."
"Let the unboxing begin again! I love the sound when you rip open tape! Sounds so good. Ooh, crinkly! Box inside a box, pretty cool..."
"You can destroy that thing." "Crush it." "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH-" (thump)
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VORTEX - An Analysis
Season 1/Start of Season 2 Analysis:
❗Season 1 Spoilers Ahead❗
Disclaimer: All thoughts are my own personal interpretation and contain my own theories.
Additionally, this post will be of a significant length.
Starting with the Opening Chorus:
Let it unfold
Will howling tides give me something to hold?
On to my life when I've sunken so low
Over the end of the vortex we took every breath to follow
Where do we go
Where do we end up when we save the world
Truth in the shadows so brightened in gold
Place our fate into the ones aren't in control
Starting out the season, Cheng Xiaoshi's life has been completely flipped upside down. From Qiao Ling being possessed by the other power user to Lu Guang bleeding out on their living room sofa, CXS is utterly at a loss as his life has "sunken so low." In fact, it's almost assumed that CXS blames himself for much - if not all - of what's happened as he knows the mistakes he made in the past likely led to change what has unfolded in the present.
At the beginning of the season, the line that seemed to stand out the most was, "Place our fate into the ones aren't in control." This is said and fades out as CXS is falling, falling, falling and being thrown around through the chaos and void of everything around him. It fades out before hearing the word "control" very clearly and almost sets this tune of "slipping away," as if what little control he did have previously is sliding right through his fingers.
Verse 1:
Stop
A couple things undue
Drop the fight and let it follow through
Freeze just for a sec or two
Breathe again in the world anew
I guess that there was never such a thing
Like everything's meant to be
But I'mma win this silly game
Until then I will never leave
Take back all my regrets
And camouflage it like your silhouette
Time is like music
Play it 'til the end and then reset
Knowing it all am I destined to fall?
Like once you did for me
This verse at the beginning of the season very much felt like a promise from CXS to LG. Especially with the lines, "Take back all my regrets," "But I'mma win this silly game," and "Knowing it all am I destined to fall? Like once you did for me." Each one of them seemed to double down time and time again on CXS's resolve to fix the problem he likely believes to have created. Throughout the verse, he's falling and the audience sees glimpses of him being tossed around once again and LG falling as well - like a mirror to CXS. It's like CXS is watching both of them plummet due to his own wrong doings.
However, while these lyrics paint one picture, the actual animation seems to paint another. During this verse, it's shown that LG is the one falling alongside our antagonist and QL while she's possessed. By showing the audience this image alongside the lyrics it can be inferred that there's something else going on with LG regarding these characters. At the beginning of the season, it was likely heavily believed that it had to do with LG's life hanging in the balance. However, there always seemed to be a sinister undertone that the audience seemed to clue in on and want to understand.
Backwards Portion:
In the intro, everything goes forward and during this portion, it all goes backwards. As the song rolls into the distorted backward melody, the audience watches as CXS falls over and over again; back to the beginning. After the smallest touch from LG's hand, CXS is dropped back into the chaos the same way he might be when he enters a photo after a shared high-five. The audience watches as everything slips away from CXS, completely unable to grab or hold onto anything to stop him from falling all over again.
I'll go into more of the full song in the next section as I didn't actually listen to it until the end of Season 2.
Overall, I believed that we were about to see a season where CXS would desperately try anything and everything to save LG, but that it might all have slipped away from him at the last second. However, just as I discussed in my "Dive Back in Time - Analysis," I was severely mistaken by what was hidden underneath in both of these openers.
❗Season 2 Spoilers & More In-Depth Analysis Below❗
Season 2 Analysis: ❗Season 2 Spoilers❗
Once we received the knowledge that LG had dove back in time to save CXS, the way this opener was interpreted changed quite a bit as well. I don't believe it was as drastic as Season 1's "Dive Back in Time," but it certainly did change.
Verse 1:
Stop
A couple things undue
Drop the fight and let it follow through
Freeze just for a sec or two
Breathe again in the world anew
I guess that there was never such a thing
Like everything's meant to be
But I'mma win this silly game
Until then I will never leave
Take back all my regrets
And camouflage it like your silhouette
Time is like music
Play it 'til the end and then reset
Knowing it all am I destined to fall?
Like once you did for me
Where, in the beginning, this verse seemed like a promise from CXS to LG, its script is nearly flipped as the audience discovers LG's secret. Once assumed to be CXS's words, it's almost certain that these are likely LG's instead or as well as CXS's. The word that really seems to prominently stick out is "undue."
Why use that word?
When first listening to the song, it's almost assumed that it's "undo" as in undoing the present or the past, unraveling something that was once almost certain. However, with the change of word, it changes this intention entirely. The way the word is used could imply 2 different things:
1. "A couple things undue" - Maybe a couple things that are excessive, inappropriate, or extreme that they have to deal with.
Or...
2. "A couple things undue" - as in "not paid" or "not yet paid." This would be a good nod to the fact that LG had gone back in time to save CXS and his "death" is currently "unpaid."
Additionally, the lyrics following: "Freeze just for a sec or two, Breathe again in the world anew," really seem to double down on that idea of CXS coming back and LG asking him to pause, wait, stay in the new world he created by going back in order to save CXS. However, once all of this starts unraveling again, LG seems to start questioning the world he created.
"I guess that there was never such a thing,
Like everything's meant to be."
Reading the rest of the verse, it becomes increasingly more clear that this is more likely from LG's perspective and reflecting back on what is currently happening in their lives along with the decision that he made to go back and try it all over again.
"Like once you did for me," really seems to seal the idea and theory that LG wanted to sacrifice himself in place of CXS at the top of Season 2.
Verse 2:
Back to me
I know that you can track it back to me
No matter who and what and when intertwined dive back in time
The truth will remember our legacy
Wasn't it hard to follow?
I'd do it again tomorrow
It drag me down and drag me down
Maybe we'll never leave
Like trying to bend water
Why would you even bother
Time is like music
Now you know I've got to kill it
Wanting it all
And the whole world will crumble and fall
"Back to me, I know that you can track it back to me," immediately tips off that this entire verse desperately has to be from LG's POV.
As it might have been assumed early in the season that "I know that you can track it back to me," could point towards CXS's mistakes from the previous season, knowing what LG did, this has to be about that. At the end of the day, LG knows that the choice he made to save CXS is the main node in this current timeline; and therefore, all of this can be tracked back to him and that one decision he made to go back.
The next two lines heavily imply that LG knows that despite what happens in this timeline, the truth remembers their legacy (assumed LG & CXS). It's almost as if he's recognizing that this timeline might not be the truth, but that outside of this one lived experience, the galaxy, stars, truth will always remember what he and CXS were always meant to be and the true lives they were meant to carry. By stating this, it leads the audience to believe that there is in fact a true or correct timeline and that it's possible LG knows what it is.
The following four lines, starting with: "Wasn't it hard to follow?" and ending with "Maybe we'll never leave," really reiterates that LG does not, under any circumstance, regret the decision that he made to go back. He may have broken his rule, but there's no remorse in doing so. LG also recognizes that the choice he made is nearly fruitless.
"Like trying to bed water,
Why would you even bother?"
LG knows that it makes no sense that he even tried, but he talks about "Wanting it all" even though he knows that it would make "...the whole world will crumble and fall."
Overall, this whole verse feels like LG basically saying a huge "fuck you" to the universe and expressing that he will do anything to ensure that a timeline where CXS is alive and well will exist.
Chorus:
Let it unfold
Will howling tides give me something to hold?
On to my life when I've sunken so low
Over the end of the vortex we took every breath to follow
Where do we go
Where do we end up when we save the world
Truth in the shadows so brightened in gold
Place our fate into the ones aren't in control
By the end of the season, this chorus could easily be seen from LG's POV as well. "Let it unfold," - is this about the timeline/future that he's trying to see play out?
The howling tides could be a nod towards all of the hard times they're going through as it might not be the best, but at least it's something - a timeline where CXS is alive, at least giving LG something to hold. Then, noting that his life has "sunken so low," likely because of how LG's life has dwindled to a place that he's just so desperately trying to save CXS that nothing else matters anymore.
There's questions he seems to have for when they manage to set everything right and are allowed to move on. Where do they go from there? Everything LG will have fought for will have petered out and he sounds as if he might feel a little lost. Is he worried that CXS won't need him when they've managed to make everything right?
"Truth in the shadows so brightened in gold."
This line really feels like it's about CXS. The audience knows that CXS's eyes change to "gold" when he jumps in a picture. So, this line could possibly be LG pointing out that all of the "truth" that can be found is hidden, but may be found via CXS. As if he might be the key to "setting the truth right." Which leads to the final line of the chorus:
"Place our fate into the ones aren't in control."
Hearing this and knowing what place LG is in during the entire season, it could be inferred that he's placing their fate in CXS's hands and while he appeared to be the one "in control" during the season, he truly wasn't. Thus, placing their fate into the hands of someone not in control.
Closing Stanza:
I've held promises unbroken
Even when the night has fallen
Shattered mirrors our reflection
Should you keep the light on reason
I've held promises unbroken
Shattered mirrors our reflection
It would be hard to believe that this could be anyone's POV except LG's after the end of Season 2.
He's held many, many promises, rules, ideals- unbroken even in the hardest of situations. LG is presented time and time again throughout both seasons as a stickler for the rules. By doing this, it created a narrative for something like this:
"I've held promises unbroken,
Even when the night has fallen."
While simultaneously creating a human aspect about him and allowing him to make a "human" mistake and become a "hypocrite" by breaking his own ideals to go back and save CXS. Thus, potentially leading to the next 2 lines:
"Shattered mirrors our reflection,
Should you keep the light on reason"
LG recognizes that the shift and changes in the timeline has, in fact, "shattered" their reflection. It's almost alluded to that he's aware of the changes and multiple timeline parallels; and its even hinted at that this timeline might not even be the second or third one that he's lived through to try and save CXS. Additionally, when first listening to the line, it's curious that it's not written/sang in such a way that it sounds like "Shattered mirrors. Our reflection," as if indicating shattered mirrors being their reflection, but that "shattered" is what mirrors their reflection. Thus, giving a slightly different idea/feel to the line.
It really helps drive home the idea/theory that there are multiple timelines and LG has potentially gone back and experienced a handful of them in order to bring them to the current present time. It helps the audience gauge that there's likely more information that LG knows that has been unrevealed and that the time-traveling theories are much wilder and more vast than originally imagined from Season 1.
After notating the shattered reflection, the next line could be a question LG asks himself. Is it worth it to hold onto the ideals and rules when everything has shattered beyond a point he might believe to be irreparable? Is it worth it when CXS's life is on the line? How much longer should he hold onto reason while he's actively committed and continues to commit hubris in regard to their fate?
Final Thoughts:
A couple of things to note before I officially close.
1. The final "Let it unfold" feels like a call LG is making to the void/timeline. Asking for it all to show itself. To be the way it should be/he wants it to be. He's desperate to see the final outcome to the onslaught of choices and hard decisions he made to get there.
2. The line, "Over the end of the vortex we took every step to follow," really intrigued me. Looking it up, "the end of a vortex" is an actual space that exists. It's:
- The phenomenon when under some conditions the vortex core deviates from the axis of the cyclone separator and attaches to the wall, where it rotates at some level above the bottom of the separator. & A flow instability that plays a crucial role in cyclone design and operation.
By reading this, it's incredibly interesting to think of the fact that LG potentially believes that they've been existing and following this "experimental" space within the vortex of time. They're following this phenomenon that's still being experimented on, studied, and understood in regards to water vortexes - let alone, time-travel. It's not something that is concrete or has sound science backing it, yet, LG seems to be experimenting on his own.
I believe it's interesting that this phrase was chosen potentially for this very reason. LG has likely been "experimenting" with the timeline in order to come to the end of his intended conclusion regarding CXS's life in this [time] space that is entirely unknown and untested. He's been taking them down this route and keeping them in a space that is not only unstudied but also unknown and completely unstable.
Overall, I think this song really doubles down on a lot of the theories going around regarding LG and CXS, but also gives us hints and insight into information that we might not know yet as the audience. There are certain words and keyphrases used in these lyrics that really seem to tip the audience off to deeper and more profound theories that I cannot wait to see unravel in later seasons!
For those of you who made it to the end, thank you for listening to my ramblings. I love this show so much and was really excited to do a deep dive analysis on both VORTEX and Dive Back in Time!
I think this show is beautifully well done and I cannot wait to see more!📸💙
& if you haven't read the Dive Back in Time Analysis and liked this one, you should check it out!
That's all for now!
Thanks again for reading!😊💙
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If in imprisoned sapnap got sick and didn't tell dream and it Got to the point he passes out would dream get worried and take him out? Would he feel guilty or let him stay out until he recovered? Does sapnap maybe say same things while delirius that he wanted to get of his chest?
Ooooh that's a good one. Hm, lemme think.
I think Sapnap wouldn't tell dream bc the principle of the matter, and just cause he's too prideful to really ask for help. Plus spite.
If Sapnap did pass out, it would take Dream a while to notice. Even on the good days, they don't really...talk. the best Dream can get out of Sanpan (fuck xD but I'm leaving that typo omg I love it xD) Anyway the best Dream can get out of Sapnap is maybe a string of curses, a critisization, or, rarely, a genuine question about what Dream's doing, but it's not very often. (Most of the time, Sap just ignores him.) Dream would only get really concerned if Sapnap doesn't say or respond to anything after a couple of days.
He might let him out for a bit...it would depend on when Sapnap got sick. If it was like, right after dream ate him, then no. Remember, Sapnap is suffering multiple injuries in that moment, like cracked bones and severe bruises, and even a large cut. If he drank a healing pot for sap, he'd be fine, but he won't.
If it were later in the timeline, maybe possibly, if Dream is feeling guilty enough. He'd probably just let sap out long enough for him to be stable and no longer 'passing out' sick, and then eat him again. (and maybe drink a regen pot for sap but you don't know that)
Sapnap, when delirious, would probably just cuss dream out. Even horribly sick, the anger and spite will prevail, I think
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O taglist ig??? Idk
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