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joeyclaire · 1 year

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some highlights from inside black mirror

the forward ends with brooker telling the reader to stop reading the forward and to “get the fuck off my page”

brooker thinks fact that the national anthem makes it hard for people to recommend black mirror is funny

the national anthem was inspired by i’m a celebrity get me out of here

the pig’s name was madge

the national anthem’s name comes from the obvious source AND the radiohead song, which came up randomly on spotify

when brooker found out about piggate his immediate reaction was to question his reality

fifteen million merits is an intentional critique of capitalism

daniel kaluuya sleeps a lot on set

the real white bear plush is hidden in the garden of the house where the protagonist wakes up

“and i always take from it that victoria’s incredibly remorseful about what she’s done. being constantly shown the evil things she’s done to that little girl, it’s obviously destroying her, and there’s real remorse there” aka this character will always break my heart

the concept art for waldo of moment fame is actually extremely cute

waldo was partially inspired by gorillaz and had at least three puppeteers working on making him move at all times

bryce dallas howard had an emotional breakdown over fifteen million merits

nosedive was originally about a celebrity fighting for his life to get his rating down to a 0

brooker thinks he might be autistic

the setting aesthetics of nosedive were inspired by the truman show

the scene where lacie falls into the muddy swamp was filmed on bryce’s birthday and they immediately sang happy birthday to her afterwards

bryce and wyatt russell don’t hide the fact that they’re nepo babies <3

shut up and dance was originally set in america ONLY because it’d be easier for the main characters to get a gun

the twist was added a bit later because kenny doing All That just to avoid leaking a video of him jacking off was objectively unrealistic

kenny’s clothes are all too big on purpose to make them look sad and lonely and like someone hiding his body without screaming “that’s a man in a pedophile coat”

it was really hard to find anyone who’d let their kid play the little girl for obvious reasons so jones got her own daughter to do it, and lawther was creeped out just playing the scene

lawther and brooker both found kenny smelling his fingers after jacking off “fucking weird” and then half the production team passed around the blame as to who put that in the scene

this is getting very long i should save the rest for reblogs

#black mirror #chit chats #skipped over episodes i haven’t seen bc i don’t care about them <33 #not yet at least #the national anthem #fifteen million merits #white bear #the waldo moment #nosedive #playtest #shut up and dance #long post

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foryouthegays · 2 months

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things i have said about zoro in the last 20 minutes:

i want to...

- turn him into an ant colony and watch him decimate a compost bin

- put him in a wheres waldo

- turn him into a mole

- raise him with puppets like a baby animal a zoo is planning on releasing

- put him in a maze

i have...

- imprinted on him like a baby duck

- replaced my blood with him

#i need to throw him against concrete i love him so much. desperate to get him executed <3 #i am two (2) episodes into the live action

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downatfraggleblog · 1 year

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Riley’s Fraggle Rock Reviews!

Season One, Episode One- Beginnings

Beginnings are always hard, aren’t they? Even if you have a vision for what you want your project to be, it can be hard to get to that point from nothing. You have to start *somewhere*, while making sure everything makes sense for your audience and keeping them entertained and promising that “This will be great! Really!!”

...Admittedly, this is more for me than for Jim, Jerry, and the incredible team of performers, puppet builders, crew members, songwriters, and gorg wranglers who worked their baloobiuses off to get Fraggle Rock made (because *surely* the work of one woman typing reviews about a decades old show is harder than actually making the show was). I’m not sure how to start things here myself, so I feel a little better seeing the crew of Fraggle Rock is in the same spot that I am on this one... more or less.

So! Without further ado, I want to welcome you to the review series! (If you’re looking for more information on the series, check the ‘about’ page.) If for some reason anybody reading this does not know anything about Fraggle Rock, I will be highlighting the names of all the major characters and groups in this episode. There are a lot of elements at play here, but I’m sure you’ll do just fine. Now, I know what you’re here for- let’s start the episode! How does Beginnings begin?

We begin with a dark workshop. *The* workshop, actually, as we see old handyman Doc and his loyal dog Sprocket begin settling into this old, dusty room. I always assumed the workshop was the front room of the house, as we often see Doc bringing in groceries and talking to neighbors, but he explicitly says he is converting an “unused room” into his workshop. Did they always live here? My personal theory is that Doc inherited the house from an old friend or relative, who simply used some other entrance to the house, as I simply can’t believe Doc just had a whole room lying around for who knows how long. He doesn’t strike me as a man to make waste of a whole room like that. Besides, I find more whimsy in him settling in here just as things begin stirring in the world just below his feet.

Speaking of which, just about five feet down and ten feet to the viewer’s right is fraggle explorer Matt, who is lamenting the end of his journeys charting out the caves of Fraggle Rock.

(I can see where Gobo gets his sense of style from!)

His wish for more adventure is quickly granted when a magical force (Doc) penetrates the cave wall (moves a box out of the way), opening a portal to the mythic “Outer Space,” a legend to fragglekind. The exposition from Doc in this scene is kind of flat, but I quite enjoy Matt’s antics here. He quickly rushes home to prepare for this new adventure.

Here we meet Matt’s nephew Gobo, who suffers from protagonist syndrome but has a healthy dose of eccentricity to balance the mixture. Matt trusts Gobo with his papers as he begins to pack (along with one of my favorite bits of physical humor in the episode).

“I am leaving my books and maps with you for safe keeping!” he says as they thud on the cave floor. (Look at his arms— he’s rod handed. I wonder how many takes it took to get this shot perfect…)

Gobo pages his uncle’s (presumably now damaged) tomes and here comes our first song of the series, “Hip Hip Hooray!” Despite the name, I’m not quite fond of this sequence. I feel like it’s mostly here to showcase some of the new puppetry tricks still being toyed with for the series, but we will see just about all these tricks honed much better in later episodes (swimming fraggles, waldos, fraggles “balancing” things on their nose). Admittedly, I am quite a fan of the one fraggle just before the song balancing on one foot atop another’s head, but I’ll let you find that one for yourself ;) Otherwise, the song is boring and so is the staging. Anyways, let’s meet some more fraggles!

(I find it adorable that Wembley comes out following Boober in their very first shot onscreen together. Just something I appreciate!)

Enter gloomy Boober, silly Wembley, and daredevil Red. After an endearing slapstick sequence, the trio all find themselves tripping over one another in Gobo’s room. This scene doesn’t really forward the plot in any way besides establishing these three as characters, and I honestly don’t mind too much.

After the brief visit from his friends, Gobo sees his uncle off on his newest adventure in what is probably my favorite sequence of the episode, and our second musical number, “Follow Me”. Not only am I getting a wave of nostalgic pathos, but the interactions between uncle and nephew are very charming to watch. Gobo’s interactions with Matt in this song and the sequence that shortly follows are endearing because of how natural they feel. There’s genuine chemistry between these performers, having worked together on the Muppet Show and first few Muppet Movies, but beyond that the relationship between Matt and Gobo feels like a real family. They are by no means perfect, but there is clearly a lot of love for one another. It’s a shame that a lot of relationships highlighted in Season One fall to the wayside as the writers figure out their footing.

Matt tasks Gobo with receiving messages he will send back home as he explores Outer Space, and while Gobo says he could never, his uncle doesn’t quite hear that last part. Gobo, feeling a sense of obligation to his elder, sees no way out of it, and wishes Matt goodbye. “Think of me as Uncle Travelin’ Matt,” he replies, and a music cue tells the audience (and, seemingly, the fraggles onscreen) that this name will be important. With that, he’s gone out the door, and Doc is none the wiser. Sprocket, on the other hand, is freaking out at the discovery of these strange little creatures coming out of the mysterious hole in the wall.

We catch up with Gobo a little later, when the nurturing and dreamy Mokey asks him why he’s been so down. Gobo doesn’t know how to talk about his feelings, which Mokey interprets as needing space to process things. Gobo announces to nobody in particular that no, he needs *help*, and Wembley (unaware of his friends anguish?) eagerly calls Gobo to look at a musical construction made by the diminutive, formic Doozers. We get an instrumental sequence here as Doozers build a new bridge with tiny construction tools. (Sequences like these are quite common in the earliest episodes of Fraggle Rock, and while they often can be fun, they can really stop an episode in its tracks...)

By the time Wembley finishes his song, the Doozers have trapped him in with the new bridge they just assembled, as Gobo glumly comments. “It’s a good thing I’m hungry,” Wembley proclaims, as he begins devouring the highway before him.

(If you’re new here, no this isn’t just a Wembley thing. All fraggles do it.)

Wembley asks Gobo what’s wrong, and Gobo again cannot elaborate, so he heads out to go get some wisdom from Marjory the Trash Heap (Again, if you’re new here, she’s their oracle. And yes, she is a talking pile of compost.)

In order to get to her, however, he must cross the Gorg’s Garden, guarded by the titanic Junior Gorg. His blundering mammoth size proves no match for a fraggles’ speed, however, and he misses Gobo as the latter makes his way to the oracle in question.

Her heralds (sons?), the murine Philo and Gunge announce her presence and the pile of compost awakens. She declares that Gobo has “Troubles,” and breaks into the highest energy segment of the episode, our last new song, “I Seen Troubles”. I adore this sequence, especially with how much fun everybody seems to be having and how high energy it is. It’s a spectacular contrast to the rest of the episode, in the best possible way.

Gobo explains that he doesn’t know how to do what he promised his uncle, and that he feels alone and scared of the terrible monster (Sprocket) that he will have to contend with. “Alone? Then don’t be alone!” Bring some friends, Marjory says, friends help. Philo and Gunge declare that to be all, and Gobo goes back to recruit his friends to tag along and help him out. Boober finds the request terrifying, and Red doesn’t believe a word of it, but the group agrees to go.

The sequence where they enter the tunnel to Outer Space has great scoring, and establishes a few running jokes, such as Wembley here bumping his head on a pipe. Everybody is subsequently stopped by a ‘Hideous, Round Thing’ (a red ball Sprocket lost down the hole) blocking up the doorway to Doc’s Workshop.

I hope this wasn’t bothering any of you before, but I just can’t help but be irritated by the fact the Hideous Round Thing is floating about six inches off the ground. Come on! Couldn’t they just have one of the Fraggle Five bend offscreen and pick it up? Couldn’t be bothered to do that?

Regardless, Gobo bravely ventures out of the Fraggle Hole and into Outer Space, past a sleeping Sprocket, only to find his uncle’s message when Doc comes in with the mail, various magazines and… a postcard for one Gobo Fraggle? Doc puts the errand card in the trash (...instead of checking with his neighbors? Perhaps more proof Doc just moved in.) and Gobo makes for the safety of Fraggle Rock. Only problem is the commotion woke up Sprocket, who now has Gobo by the collar of his cardigan, and everybody is freaking out. Mokey finally decides to throw the Hideous Round Thing at the monster to get it to let Gobo go.

This of course works, as dogs love their balls, and Gobo zips back into the tunnel with a “whoosh” sound- another running gag in the making. Red apologizes for not believing Gobo, and they head back home, singing a reprise of Hip Hip Hooray. That night, Gobo reads the message proclaiming his uncle is okay, and finally the young fraggle can rest easily.

(In actuality, Matt almost got hit by a car, ran into a fire hydrant, and mistook a bunch of children playing baseball for horrible warriors. He simply thought Gobo would find Outer Space too preposterous to put all that in his letter back home.)

We end the episode back on Doc and Sprocket, who have just finished setting up shop (literally). Sprocket barks down the hole at his new ‘friends’, and Doc declares that one of these days he’ll get around to boarding up that revolting crack in the wood paneling.

Final Rating- 6/10

Song Score- 3.5 radishes out of five “I Seen Troubles” and “Follow Me” are both spectacular songs, and I like them both in very opposite directions. I Seen Troubles provides a great energy boost to an otherwise meandering episode, and the fun everybody had during it is infectious. Follow Me is a wonderful lullaby for the soul, and one of the series’ classics for a reason (Oh yea, it’s coming back!). “Hip Hip Hooray,” however, brings the score down for its mediocrity, both times it comes about. It’s not horrible, but it’s weak as cardboard.

Story Score- 3 radishes out of five I admire the determination of the writing crew, getting every main character and group on screen with ample time to shine. However, the episode feels both very busy and very hollow at the same time, and the actual plot of the episode is kind of short compared to all the little side bits we run into (Gobo’s friends visiting his room, Wembley playing his song on the Doozer construction, etc.). None of these little bits really push the episode forwards either, but I do think all of this can be forgiven by a writing team that is still figuring themselves out.

Performance Score- 3.5 radishes out of 5 Everybody seems to be having fun! The quick establishing moments of Mokey, Wembley, Boober, and Red all do a good job giving the audience a nice feel for each character, and the physical comedy in this episode is very good, better than I remembered. The puppetry stunts are mostly standard for the series going forward, with many of them improving greatly beyond this episode, but there are a few novel ones as well, such as Matt dropping his books. Score is also a little low for this episode due to it being in what I like to call the “Glum Gobo” era, before Jerry really figured out the light inside Gobo’s character. Don’t worry, it’ll come with time.

That was Beginnings! It’s not perfect, but that doesn’t surprise me. The show is still getting its footing. This is by no means an episode I’d skip in future watchathons, but it’s not one I’ll go out of my way to see when I’m thinking about the Rock. Part of me fears I rated it so middle of the road because I don’t have much to review it on other than memories of other episodes, but I think it is still a fair rating. I apologize if this one was a little wordy too, there was a lot to cover! Next episode up to bat is “Wembley and the Gorgs”. I’ll see you there!

#reviews #fraggle rock

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bookalooza · 8 days

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Engaging ideas for the World Book Celebration

World Book Celebration: Spark a Love of Reading with Fun Ideas!

World Book Day is a fantastic time to celebrate the magic of books and reading! Whether you're a teacher, librarian, parent, or just a bookworm yourself, there are tons of ways to make this celebration fun and engaging for everyone.

This blog is bursting with ideas to bring the joy of reading to life. So grab a bookmark, settle in, and get ready to be inspired!

Dress Up and Book Character Parade:

- Let your imagination soar! World Book Day is the perfect excuse to dress up as your favorite literary character. Think Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, or even Where's Waldo?

- Organize a book character parade: This is a great way to encourage participation and spark conversation about different books.

- Bonus points for creativity! Did you go all out with a DIY costume? Did your group come as a team, representing a whole scene from a book?

Book Scavenger Hunt:

- Turn your library or classroom into an adventure zone! Hide clues related to different books throughout the space.

- Clues can be riddles, quotes, or even pictures. The first team to decipher all the clues and find the hidden treasure (a book prize, perhaps?) wins!

- Make it age-appropriate: For younger children, use simpler clues and focus on picture books. For older kids, you can get more creative with the difficulty.

Book Exchange or Book Swap Party:

- Declutter your shelves and discover new favorites! Organize a book exchange where people bring their gently used books and swap them with others.

- This is a fantastic way to promote reading on a budget. Plus, it's a great way to meet fellow book lovers and discover hidden gems.

- Theme it up! You could have a mystery swap, where people bring wrapped books so the surprise is part of the fun!

Storytelling Extravaganza:

- Unleash the inner storyteller! Host a storytelling session where people of all ages can share their favorite stories, be it a personal anecdote, a poem, or a reading from a book.

- Invite a guest storyteller: If you know someone who's great with capturing an audience's attention, invite them to share their talents.

- Make it interactive! Encourage the audience to participate with sound effects, or even act out parts of the story.

Creative Book Crafts:

- Books inspire all sorts of creative activities! Organize a craft session where people can make bookmarks, book covers, or even miniature books out of paper.

- For younger children, finger puppets of their favorite characters are a fun option.

- Get inspiration online! There are tons of amazing book-themed craft ideas readily available with a quick search.

Author Spotlight and Book Discussions:

- Invite a local author to your celebration! Having an author share their writing journey and answer questions can be incredibly inspiring for aspiring writers or simply for book lovers in general.

- Host a book discussion group: Choose a book in advance and have a lively discussion about its plot, characters, and themes.

This is a great way to gain different perspectives and appreciate the book in a new light.

Reading Challenges and Activities:

Put those reading skills to the test! Organize a reading challenge where participants aim to read a certain number of books within a set timeframe.

- You can have different categories for the challenge, like reading a book in a different genre or by a new author.

- For younger kids, create a reading bingo card with squares like "Read a book with pictures" or "Read a book to a friend."

Beyond the Celebration:

- Spread the book love! Donate gently used books to local libraries, schools, or shelters.

- Volunteer your time to read to children or elderly people.

- Talk about the importance of reading with friends and family. Encourage them to visit their local library or bookstore.

- Make reading a regular habit at home! Set aside some time each day for everyone to curl up with a good book.

Remember, the most important thing is to have fun and celebrate the joy of reading! With these engaging ideas, you can create a World Book Celebration that will spark a lifelong love of books in everyone who participates.

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