#r&b sisters | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

nellynee · 2 years

Text

Trollstopia Blindblogging: episode 8a: Rhythm & the Blues

(a quick note, I am only tagging the focal most Trolls in my opinion for my own reasons. But, if you feel other characters need tagging please let me know it would not be hard to do. I don’t bite)

Not the most elegant episode. But I do give it my respect. It does something the Trolls franchise doesn’t typically do. It tries. Trolls has a very bad habit of writing emotional checks it has no interest in being able to cash. It cobbles together all these really interesting ideas, tells you to look at them, then puts it back down and never touches it again. It implies a lot of really deep, dark, emotional stuff then refuses to let it exist. Mostly because a lot of stuff it talks about doesn’t really have answers beyond philosophy or would get a pretty steep rating tank. They just can’t afford to talk about it. It’s really frustrating to read the artbook and watch cut content and see some really comprehensive story telling and character development get shredded on the cutting room floor. There’s real love in the production and I want to have very stern words with whoever keep stabbing ideas in a back alley to make it more “child friendly”

But, I digress. This episode chose to talk about something negative. It chose to do so very, very unsubtly to the point near cringe. But it chose to do it, fallowed through, and did so in a way that wasn’t patronizing to it’s target audience. So while it wasn’t my favorite, I do respect this episode.

While not necessarily what I would call superb quality, the cute song (R&B finally sing for those interested), some good jokes, and decently delivered message makes it like... a solid 3.8 in my books. 3 and a half and a half for respects sake. R&B episode if you are into that. Otherwise, I’d say put on the “watch it if you have time” end of the must watch list.

Funk me UP baby!

That butchered Cinderella Rhyme fucked me up so badly I had to go look up the original to make my brain ok again. But this is the kind of thing that gets me thinking about stuff. Cause like, now I’m going to be thinking for hours about the Pop or Country Trolls having a Cinderella mythos in the Troll’s meta….I’ve already inserted little mermaid so why the hell not?

There’s something very charming about the phrase “I got four legs, gimmie four dutches!”

Country Trolls are just wooo girls confirmed

“I’d swear it one my Daddy’s grave-” gasp “-y” is actually really funny why are the writers so freaking funny?

It’s a little weird, but we seem to have transitioned in full from laser to bubble beams confirmed as I had postulated in “the snugalug situation”

Also noting that either Poppy knows the side of the ship R&B’s lab is on, or R&B have their own ship like I made note of in “Across the Fashionverse”

Still pretty meh on Funk tech as compared to the movie. Not a fan of the wormhole entrance. Like, the 10 or so seconds of Vibe City we saw in the movie had oodles of personality comparatively and I’m really missing it. I’m a little sad that that’s R&B’s whole schtick cause I love their designs and attitude but I don’t love them nearly as much as I could?

Totally expected them to stick together with that little spin would have been hilarious

T-R-O-Double hockey sticks

That oath was minced to a paste

Lay-trolls terms (jesus christ I shouldn’t be surprised when it happens but I always am)

See what I mean? “Make a real big marshmallooooow” Was absolutly adorable. Every time they speak I am charmed. And then magic science with no rules happens and I’m bored again. I want to love them soooo badly

On that note why don’t Trolls singspeak more?

Cool. I suspected they were sisters based on the little bits I saw, I mean the main tag is “r&b sisters”, but confirmation is cool

on that note I left for a full 24 hours to debate with several groups of people on the viability of the term “Twins” when taking into account my headcanons for them and still haven’t settled on one side or the other.

Why do we even have that button Kronk?

wait was that recorded voice Lownote?

Welp now I understand why Hollys here

For real though I wish there was a bit more of a continuity line between the movies and the shows because this sort of topic seems tailor made for Cooper. He seems to have settled pretty firmly in both universes so far in Pop Village, probably to give him Trolls 3 relevance, but I’ll be not surprised but disappointed if they don’t have him weigh in on this.

in fact, I wonder if that’s who this storyline belongs to afterall. They seem to be ignoring the very obvious solution of.... going for a visit? Or having someone come visit them? Cooper’s potential worries of “Having to figure out where he’ll live in the long term and splitting his time between his old and new family” is a lot more indicative of a long term issue that can’t be solved quickly. Not that regular visits are a permanent or viable solution for everyone but it is absent. But I'm probably overthinking things. This is, afterall, a show for kids, and “Just go and visit” is almost never a viable option after big moves for children. Money on Holly’s solution of “let yourself feel sad about it for a while” being the end game.... oh my god it’s just Inside Out isn’t it?

Jesus Christ I was having fun until “Cloud gazing” and you know what I wasn’t expecting that but I should have been. I don’t know how I feel now

pffft da pinwheel broke

Is R&B really the only two dealing with this?

Pretty healthy showing of Trolls from every tribe and they haven’t encountered this yet in enough numbers that either the specific tribes, or the overall community, or a combination of both, haven’t built some kind of transitional or community outreach program for those feeling uprooted?

like I know it’s a kids show but the governing, political, and cultural implications of these things are the very kinds of things I’m interested in. it’s the stuff I think about

Disco-ball-ogram

did I mention that puns are objectively the peak of hilarity and there’s no way to prove otherwise?

“I can’t find the words” “fantastafleekaboomboom?” “yeah that’s it”

on that note Big Jay, medium Jay, Little Jay wth

I kinda had an inkling when they called Rhythm and Blues “R” and “B”, and my mind connected that with “D” and “Q” from the movies but hadn’t really settles on or thought on it to much but had made a note of “if Funk trolls habitually use initials as address for whatever reasons how do you distinguish between different Trolls when it gets repetitive and I guess the answer is adjectives

It’s trying SO HARD to be sad but it’s also trying to be very transparent about what's happening to the children and I can respect that it does one of those things very well

Holly shush soothing confused Biggie as he attempts the thumb trick again is legit funny AF best joke of the episode

I just wanna take the time to again make appreciating noises at the animation team. I keep catching moments through episodes where it would have been very easy to make very simple reactions or cuts that could cut some more intricate work out and probably would have been cheaper depending on the puppets. Making Blues do a whole rotation when she sits on the button to look at it instead of mimicking a slightly different version of her sister’s reaction is one such instance.

On that note this is now a Troll’s side profile appreciation blog

There’s being distracted, and then there’s having to wonder if R&B straight up stole this ship because they are not familiar with it at all

I have so many questions about that very confusing bathing Techno Troll I’m gonna just block it out of my memory entirely

Cooper got a chuckle, but Branch got a full ass laugh. That was a legit funny example of him not catching a break. Just.. defeat, then aggravation

uh first off, I knew it, this is just inside out! but second... this is a crisis!

It’s always hard to tell until they actually start singing but Holy shit R&B! Thems some pipes you got.

I am having trouble pinning down a genre though. That acoustic guitar is messing me up. I mean this hits most home for me as some really soft rock? Which while sounding good and keeping with tone, is a shame. I feel like a composer could have had a field day with this show if they wanted to, specifically using genre’s and blending to tell bigger subtle stories about emotions being used. But I don’t think that’s what we got here. We just don’t know anything about what kind of stories the genre's tell to make those connections. Having made a statement as a Country Troll about singing sad songs, they could have had something more Country leaning to show where R&B’s feelings were musically. Or had them sing something distinctly in the Blues style but to subtle I guess. It’s possible it’s trying to be Blues, but if it is my ear isn’t good enough to catch it for sure and I’ll admit that. It is a pretty good melody none the less.

Ok that completely mellow delivery of “There is still a massive wormhole that’s about to eat our friends”.... like you can see it coming from a hundred miles away, and it’s still hilarious.

Biggie no stop rule of 3 does not apply here now it’s just embarrassing

I mean yeah, it’s definitely just the message of Inside Out. Let yourself feel bad. Not everything can be fixed. But that’s not a bad thing. Its a great message for kids and adults. To many people look at negative emotions and think “what can I do to get rid of those right now” instead of facing the situation, handling what you can, and accepting what you can’t. More variations in more places gets that message across more and it’s desperately needed.

#Trollstopia #dreamworks trolls #r&b sisters #queen poppy #Holly Darling #liveblogging

4 notes · View notes

nellynee · 2 years

Text

Trollstopia Blindblogging: episode 4b - Across the Fashionverse

There were some small things I personally weren't a fan of world building wise, but a very decent episode overall. Satin and Chenille fans, or R&B fans watch, but otherwise perfectly skipable

FUNK FUNK FUNK

Seriously I don’t know what it is about those groovy ass Trolls but they took me by the horns and shook me silly I am freaking obsessed bring it oooooooon

I'm sure there's other cases in TBGO but this so far we’ve seen someone's specific pod other than Poppy’s which I wouldn’t find noteworthy other than that hideous orange

Chenille Satin Chenille Satiiiiin

ok but serious talk the idea of dreaming you a giant balloon animal that pops from the outside in is freaking terrifying

Also that dress was a firm 7 at best

“By all that’s in vouge!” is my new catchphrase

WHo’S IDEA WAS THE FOOTIE PAJAMAS?!

Ok I legit hope that’s the lesson of this episode “It might not be exactly what you envisioned, but it is really good” needs to be heard more these days

Ah the infamous R&B. I’ve been spoiled for their designs for a while and find them easily to be some of the best of the bunch. I absolutly love their looks.

Their names have also gotten me thinking on subgenre’s in Trolls. Was Blues named after the blues and her beat thumps closer to country than the R&B crowd? Are they named after an already established sub genre or will they be the inspiration for it?

Twelve words and I’m in love I knew I would be but I am suddenly like 5 times more jazzed

I can totally respect a “Where’s the fun in that?” One of the best traits people can have in my opinion is the ability to take total, ridiculous, unrestrained joy in the things they love. There’s something infinitely endearing about someone finding something genuinely interesting and fun

To be fair if Scotty could beam me up I’d strike adorable poses too

“Oh right, we got a Spaceship now...” Is just so funny to me and I don’t know why.

Lynch me if you like but I’m kinda... meh about the first glimpse into a funk ship. The movie Funk ship had a very distinct aesthetic. The glimpse we got looked like an actual town that was actually lived in and partied in. The rooms we saw were fantastic but not fantastical in design. I’m not a big fan of unrestrained scifi, science that might as well be magic. There needs to be rules and limitations for there to be interest otherwise it’s just a Chekov machine. I have a very similar problem with the wormholes, besides how different they are than as presented in the first holiday special. But for now I’m gonna just smear out some of this and blame the rest on R&B being some kind of prodigies and they can’t even live in Vibe town because the rest of them can not live like this

So those are very much a predator designed to eat trolls that wear clothes....

Kinda digging this jam. I am not the biggest Satin or Chenille fans but the beat on this really vibes

Ok but that is really cute. Teaching not only is the ability to compromise on ones vision in the face of impossible perfection is important, but also that we shouldn’t sacrifice the comfort or wellbeing of others to obtain your perfection is a really good place to settle.

That being said I totally expected Satin to make a run for it with the cloth. It would have been really, really funny. But I also need to stop expecting this show to be as meanspirited as that. Because it really isn't

“That was amaaaaaze, but bonkaaaas” I love whoever this VA is (Kat Graham apparently)

And ok yea that dress does look way better with the belt, even I have no idea why Troll fashion would develop a trend to emphasize a nonexistent waistline

PFFFT ok they gonna fix the wall at least

#dreamworks trolls #trollstopia #r&b sisters #satin and chenille #Liveblogging

1 note · View note