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corruptimles · 8 months

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I'd love that actually, hearing other people's takes is fun !! (most of the time anyway)

Yeee okay so again I haven't watched the last 2 3 eps yet so who knows if any of these points would change but I'll expand on my last answer below

For some more context, here's which KR shows I've watched to compare to: Kuuga, Blade, Hibiki*, W, OOO, Fourze, Gaim, Ghost*, Ex-aid, Build,. Zero-One, Revice, Geats*, Amazons*, Black Sun*

* means I'm still in the middle of them. Everything else I've at least watched the first two episodes for. I've not seen any of Showa yet.

Spoiler warnings ahead for: Geats up to ep 46, some of Kuuga, Fourze, Ex-Aid, and Gaim

Warning this is a LONG answer

It's done some things that I wasn't expecting from KR, at least from a Reiwa/Heisei 2 style. Heisei 1 had its serious/scary moments since those leaned more into the J-Drama side but those were yearsss ago so seeing it in Geats was an interesting whiplash (SPOILER: referring to some scenes/revelations that surrounded child death and existentialism)

Neon Neon Neon Neon the girl ever

She was unknowingly wished into the world to replace a murdered daughter. Her dream to have real genuine love because of her unkind parents suddenly feels further out of her reach. She was created at the suffering of others, clearly it's almost selfish to want something for herself, right?

We are originally introduced with version of her backstory where she was in a hostage situation. A saved 8yr old Neon is returned to her family.

And then the scene gets re-contextualized with Beroba revealing that it was all fabricated, and the flashback replays anew, where Akari in a body bag is brought out instead. This is the most explicit visual an focus of a child death they've had in a main series lately. The scene of her running to her mom's arms is replaced with the dead silence of a mother in grief. Everything up to this point with Neon and her parent's actions are in a new horrifically understandable light. This leads into so so so much for Neon as she struggles w the meaning of her own existence, desires, and relation to the child she replaced.

(again I say lately because some v-cinemas can get violent, Amazons and Black Sun are violent, and Kuuga is a main series that had a horrific serial killer type situation and suicides but that was 20+ years ago. Closest thing for Heisei 2/Reiwa of a human death was Gentarou dying in Fourze because you watch as his heart stops beating. Other human deaths have like. a character fading into sparkles, going off screen, or turning into the monster and then exploding)

Her relationship with her parents? Complicated. Fascinating. Riveting. Really compelling. A suffocating mother that wants her daughter to stay at home, follow the rules, never stray from her, later revealed to be fuelled from nearly losing her daughter in that hostage situation. When she gets her memory back, realizing her memory of Akari was rewritten with this stranger, that's not her daughter because her daughter died 11 years ago. She yells at her, pushes her away, only to struggle again because isn't she just losing a daughter again? but that's not her daughter except she is but.,, and it's hard! She's not a good person, she's controlling, her grief doesn't justify that, but she's so complex. Her father? losing the ability to love the day he lost his daughter. He fabricates a new one, one for him and his wife to raise but for him, as a successor to the business, not as a daughter. To secure his position. But he was still mourning, really. He focuses on Neon as a means to an end because he's still mourning Akari.

And it's not simply that the Kurama family reunites after realizing their wrongs! It took time! It took discussion and breathing room. When Neon left, it's not that she fully cuts ties, because that's not that easy. Eleven years is still eleven years. She sees her mother one last time, her father in prison, laments how he is unable to love.They're all deeply traumatized and going through revelation after revelation. Neon doesn't hate them, she understands the situation. It's alien. It's not fair. The parents don't hate her. They sit and talk to each other about this! She's still a kid they brought into this world. A child that grew up with them for eleven years. That's eleven years they couldn't truly love her because of the loss of Akari, whether intentional or subconsciously. They explicitly discuss with each other that they owe love to Neon. They acknowledge Neon's desire for true love is because they've been depriving her of that. They could do better and they want to do better.

The Kurama family had a premise that was grave and emotional and the resolution was handled with a maturity that could've easily been done hand-waved in a lighter, shallower beat. It's not new for characters that'd done awful things to be forgiven rather easily in these kinda shows which like, I get it, but,, But no, the Kurama parents still remain complicated people that did wrong and know they did wrong and it's not an easy fix, especially for the mother's controlling behaviour because that's trauma, but they're given the chance to start that I like a whole lot

[deletes my even further paragraphs about why Neon is my favourite rider girl]

I do have nitpicks but not enough to really ruin the experience for me. To be vague, it's about an arc's relevance/writing,

The Among Us Dezastar arc feels the weakest by far. It just felt so strange to me. I know it was important to introduce new cast (Daichi) and I think challenge how much characters are willing to do to win (Neon) but it could've been less awkward?

There's whiplash from the reveal that everything was in fact, a show, that their actions are broadcast as entertainment, not to really save anyone to whatever this arc was They were just kinda, hanging around? Compared to how other revelations were treated in the future, this just felt so jarring to follow up with. I thought they were gonna lean into the reality show aspect more to get into even more characterization but...

After everything Ace, Keiwa, and Neon went through, especially the last episode's scene defeating Girori, into the introduction to the new DPG where they not just ignore Keiwa as a funnee, have the weird Girls vs Boys thing, or Girls vs Boys vs Keiwa because we bully Keiwa now, that was all just kinda weird

I know Neon kinda had to throw someone under the bus because she was the culprit but there were so many scenes that just shoved Keiwa around just cuz. The revelation he had about the Jyamato acting like dead participants was serious but they're like noooo sorry you're sus loser :/ At least Ace was neutral on the matter cuz he been-knew, but man...

a specific character's writing,

Keiwa again :( I love Keiwa! But out of our main 3 (Ace, Neon, Keiwa) he has the strangest writing by the last half

He has such a strong start but then gets pushed down when the other characters are the story focus. You can have the other characters in the spotlight without needing to belittle and make fun of another. From Dezastar Arc onwards, he got fairly side-lined until the my next few points

Him getting mad at Ace for his mother being the Goddess was just, so unprecedented? Again he's been with Ace for a long while now but the 180 to 'HOW COULD YOU?' when even Ace just learned this. Ace just learned his mother was suffering as the Goddess and Keiwa, notably empathetic and world peace Keiwa, immediately went to blame rather than any sort of consolation or attempt to understand the situation.

I won't say Keiwa is not allowed to be angry or complex but they had set him up for like 70% of the series as the good hearted one, to the point that his devil in the crossover movie was still him wanting peace for others

on a related note, he did it again with Michinaga! Michinaga blaming himself for killing Keiwa's sister despite not knowing is interesting, but Keiwa once again goes over the fact the other guy is feeling just as terrible. I'm not saying Keiwa would be okay with his sister dying but he immediately treats Michinaga as if he actively, knowingly, killed his sister If this wasn't after having the exact same level of reaction to Ace's mother, it probably wouldn't feel as bad, but it did, so it felt like a 'here we go again'

Which leads to his Bad Guy arc which is not inherently bad as a concept. It's might as well after the stress they've already added to him. A character that's full of fairly naive hope losing the last family he has, learning that the system he's in has taken away his loved ones again, getting devastated and desperate when he has to listen to them die again just when he thought he had his life back I love the idea that "i want everyone to be happy but that means me too, what's the point if it's not mine and my family's too'. It's a neat take on that type of desire! But the execution was not a descent or even escalation, it was just another flip like the last two - Clothing change. Not the worst. It happened to Mitsuzane, who went from good kid to delusional fratricide. It happened to Jin, it happened to Hiiro w/ Masamune, it's just cheesy wardrobe change. (I'm going to personally believe Kekera had a part in this because he was shaping Keiwa into the rider he wanted him to be) I do wish Keiwa kept the new hair actually, it was cute lol - New edgy af henshin. Stop cracking ya knuckles. Goofy. Not the worst again, but in combination w the clothes kinda takes me out of it -overall edgy af mannerisms and movements -treatment of Tsumuri Everything escalated, he became desperate, was being manipulated, so capturing Tsumuri and making her use her new creation powers is understandable. The idea of him actively taking advantage of her empathy to his pleas and tears (which were probably real tbh) to get a new item? That's sick of him but in both a cool and awful way. What I cannot handle as an active choice from Keiwa? The god. The freakign. The classic creepy face caress when Tsumuri was imprisoned. Why did he do that!? Literally no reason!! It was just weird!! He's depressed and angry, not automatically a creep???!?! It can't really be justified as him like, mentally breaking, because it doesn't add up w literally anything else he's done. Especially when he looks normal again. We're just gonna ignore that happened? He went so close to her face so much. It felt unnecessary. Who told him to do that. Whaddahell.

I firmly believe are other ways to portray a character being threatening and aside from the overdone touchy creep(tm) style.

So just all of that in combination and in such a short amount of time was over the top. If we had to do the bad guy arc, I think we could've had more of the crocodile tears thing he had. Sad, pathetic but manipulating/guilt-tripping. We don't have much bad guys like that.

and a more inconsequential thing like lack of some specific character designs.

where are Kamen Rider Lancer and Kamen Rider Garun's designs!!! where are they!!

It has a consistent belt/power-up gimmick and is surprisingly versatile despite people only using the same one or two belt type

Realized how often I use the word 'consistent' lol. It's just one of my pet peeves if rider/power systems are just, thrown away, and people start getting belts and forms up the wazoo w no decent explanation. [deletes a bunch of typing here] That's another few paragraphs worth of explanation so I'll shorten it to this: it makes it less tv show and more toy commercial, if that makes sense.

After discussing this further w a friend I realized these points ^ only exist because I was watching this fresh outta Revice and unfortunately Revice had frustrated me quite a lot so that's something I'll spare you of for now

So those are the ups and criticisms I can recall for now. I still would probably have Geats up there on my personal favourites though. Despite how much I love Fuwa and Aruto, I like the overall story for Geats over Zero-One out of the Takahashi stuffs. Ex-aid is still higher overall. I'll need to finish those last few episodes and movie before deciding where I'll place Geats in my overall KR list.

#talk to me tag #the-one-shadowfox258 #0 days since writing an essay in response to an ask #this actually isn't as long as my mob psycho pokemon crossover essay because it has less pictures lmaooo

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esonetwork · 7 months

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The Earth Station DCU Episode 350 – Project Starfire

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The Earth Station DCU Episode 350 – Project Starfire

This Week on Earth Station DCU! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs watch the Titans as they use Project Starfire in an attempt to stop Brother Blood. Long Lost sidekicks are re-introduced into the DC Universe thanks to the efforts of Stargirl in Justice Society of America #6. Fire and Ice settle into their new place and are welcomed by Martha Kent but not before the hi-jinks begin in Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1. John Henry attempts to stop a heist of his zero-point energy reactor in Steelworks #4. Black Canary puts together a team to rescue her sister in Birds of Prey #1. Jaime must deal with prejudice against the Horizon and also deal with some villains from Ted Kord’s past in Blue Beetle #1. Ivy investigates the death of a construction worker in Poison Ivy #14. The Captain takes on the Psycho Pirate who he believes has been manipulating his emotions in Shazam #2. Freddy discovers the real reason The Captain’s emotions have been going crazy, while The Captain saves some gorillas and goes to the moon in Shazam #3. The Batfamily chooses sides as things escalate between Batman and Catwoman in Batman #137. All this plus, DC News, Shout Outs, and much, much more!

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Table of Contents

0:00:00 Show Open

0:01:05 DC News

0:06:04 Justice Society of America #6

0:10:48 Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1

0:17:24 Steelworks #4

0:21:35 Birds of Prey #1

0:26:52 Blue Beetle #1

0:30:38 Poison Ivy #14

0:34:40 Shazam #2

0:37:09 Shazam #3

0:42:20 Batman #137

0:50:28 Titans S4 Ep11 – Project Starfire

1:00:02 Show Close

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Batman #137

DC Comics Presents (1978-1986) #46 (Cletus’s Read More Comics Pick)

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legion1227 · 1 year

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74 shows I watched this year: Ranked from least favorite to Most

74. Resident Evil (2/5) (Lance Reddick Wesker is only good thing)

73. Mike (2.5/5) (Poorly paced)

72. Shenmue (3/5) (Decent animation, middling plot)

71. Murderville (3/5) (Peaked with Conan o Brien episode)

70. Wednesday (3/5) (All the guys in the show suck)

69. Haikyu!! (Seasons 1-2) (3/5) (Cute, but not for me)

68. Ms. Marvel (3/5) (Liked first half more)

67. The Walking Dead (Season 11: Parts 2 & 3) (3/5) (Decent final ep)

66. Doom Patrol (Seasons 1-3) (3/5) (Great cast)

65. Assassination Classroom (Season 2) (3/5) (Season 1 was better)

64. Bel-Air (3.5/5) (started fine, lost steam)

63. Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight (3.5/5) (great to have Jack Black back)

62. Euphoria (Season 2) (3.5/5) (Enjoyable schlock)

61. Violet Evergarden (3.5/5) ( Amazing animation, likable main lead)

60. The Orville (Seasons 1-3) (3.5/5) (season 3 elevated the show)

59. The Righteous Gemstones (Seasons 1-2) (3.5/5) (chaotically endearing)

58. Book of Boba Fett (3.5/5) (Should’ve focused more on Boba)

57. Tekken: Bloodline (3.5/5) (other characters needed more screentime)

56. The Proud Family (Seasons 1-2) (3.5/5) (Penny is my favorite character)

55. Schitt's Creek (Seasons 5-6) (3.5/5) (Not the funniest, but I love the family)

54. Reacher (3.5/5) (Strong first half, kinda falls apart 2nd half)

53. Insecure (Season 1-3) (Issa and her friends are an intriguing bunch)

52. Disenchantment (Season 4) (3.5/5) (luci, bean, and elfo, fun trio)

51. Handmaid's Tale (Season 5) (3.5/5) (its very good, almost great)

50. South Park (Season 25) (3.5/5) (wayyyyyy too short for a season)

49. The Last Kingdom (Season 1-2) (Dreymon as Uhtred is a good main lead)

48. Moon Knight (3.5/5) (oscar isaac is amazing in the role as moon knight)

47. Re: Zero (Season 1-2) (3.5/5) (fun cast and action sets)

46. Baki (Season 1-3) (3.5/5) (over the top action fest thats a roaring time)

45. Black Mirror (Season 1-5) (3.5/5) (mixed bag but mostly good episodes)

44. Code Geass (Season 1-2) (3.5/5) (lelouch is a good anti-hero)

43. Whose line is it anyway (CW seasons 1-7) (3.5/5) (bit predictable but still hilarious)

42. Love, Death, and Robots (Season 3) (4/5) (best season they had yet)

41. Archer (Season 13) (4/5) (RIP Jessica Walter, still managed a solid season w/o her)

40. Zootopia+ (4/5) (episodes that are as gratifying as the movie)

39. Baymax (4/5) (Baymax helping others is just so cute)

38. Baki Hanma (4/5) (more focused than other seasons)

37. Rick and Morty (Season 6) (4/5) (Big step up from season 5)

36. Avenue 5 (Season 1) (4/5) (Uproariously funny)

35. Legend of Korra (Seasons 1-4) (4/5) (besides season 2, its incredible)

34. Scrubs (seasons 1-4) (4/5) (carried by great character work)

33. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Seasons 1-6) (4/5) (last 2 seasons weak, iconic tho)

32. Jeen-yuhs (4/5) (the kanye fall of is so damn depressing)

31. Stranger Things (Season 4) (4/5) (another solid season for the show)

30. Vikings: Valhalla (4/5) (savagery at its finest)

29. She-Hulk: Attorney At Law (4/5) (Jen Walters and cameos are dope)

28. What We Do in the Shadows (Season 4) (4/5) (season 3 was better)

27. The Witcher (Season 2) (4/5) (better than season 1)

26. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Stone Ocean) (4/5) (beautiful ending)

25. One Piece (Whole Cake Island & Wano Arcs) (4/5) (peak storytelling)

24. Tales of The Jedi (4/5) (love what they did with Ahsoka and Dooku)

23. Atlanta (Seasons 1-3) (4/5) (Prefer seasons 1 & 2 over 3 just a bit

22. House of the Dragon (4/5) (confusing names, but compelling family drama)

21. Dexter (Seasons 1-4) (4/5) (Serial killer drama at its finest)

20. Blindspotting (4/5) (4/5) (lack of Diggs and Casal is felt, still great tho)

19. Obi-Wan Kenobi (4/5) (return of mcgregor and Christensen was lovely)

18. The Sandman (4/5) (Excellent cast with clever ways of dealing w/ enemies)

17. Umbrella Academy (Season 3) (4/5) (great but hate what they did with Allison)

16. Big Nate (4/5) (loved reading the books growing up, cute show)

15. Arcane (4/5) (one of the best video game adaptations)

14. Demon Slayer (Season 2) (4/5) (love way more season 1)

13. Chainsaw Man (4/5) (animation and characters are fascinating)

12. Cuphead (Season 1-3) (4/5) (an even BETTER video game adaptiation)

11. Regular Show (Season 1-8) (4/5) (wild, ride of a show from start to end)

10. The Boys Presents: Diabolical (4.5/5) (superb snack to quell Boys hunger)

9. Mob Psycho 100 (Season 3) (4.5/5) (beautiful sendoff to amazing people)

8. Smiling Friends (4.5/5) (funniest show I’ve watched in a long time)

7. Peacemaker (4.5/5) (funny, but has better action and drama)

6. Harley Quinn (Season 3) (4.5/5) (top tier character arcs

5. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (4.5/5) (wayyyy funnier than I thought it would be)

4. Barry (Season 3) (4.5/5) (balance of comedy and drama is masterful)

3. Attack on Titan (Season 4 part 2) (4.5/5) (only 1 subpar episode)

2. The Boys (Season 3) (4.5/5) (the best season with the best episode)

1. Better Call Saul (Season 6) (5/5) (literal PERFECTION)

#2022 #year in review #year in tv #tv show review #tv shows #wednesday #euphoria #book of boba fett #moon knight #rick and morty #house of the dragon #chainsaw man #better call saul #anime

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mghiggins · 1 year

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My Favorite Myon Volume 5

Volume 5 of randomly selected tracks from my favorite producer/DJ Myon, mixed by me. Catch me every Friday night at twitch.tv/djbigdirty at 11pm Eastern time, 8 Pacific, 0400 GMT for a couple of hours mix more tunes like this for a couple of hours. As always, turn this baby up.

1. [00:00] Intro 2.

[00:33] Late Night Alumni, Boom Jinx & Maor Levi ft Ashley Tomberlin- When You Loved Empty Streets (Myon & Shane 54 Mashup DJ BigdirtyReconstruction) {White} 2013

3. [07:15] Shakira- Me Enamore (Myon Miami South Beach Mix) {Patreon} 2017

4. [11:29] Myon & Shane 54 & Natalie Peris- Outshine (Myon & Shane 54 In Search of Sunrise Mix) {Ride} 2013

5. [16:54] Stafford Brothers & Christina Milian- Hello (Myon & Shane 54 Monster Mix) {CHM} 2013

6. [20:22] Seven Lions & Myon & Shane 54 ft Tove Lo- Strangers {Casablanca} 2014

7. [25:00] Myon Ft Icon- Cold Summer (Dash Berlin Remix) {Thrive} 2019

8. [28:03] Above & Beyond vs Seven Lions & Jason Ross Ft Paul Meany- Higher Crash Love (Myon Mashup) {Patreon} 2020

9. [33:28] Above & Beyond ft Zoë Johnston- Alchemy (Myon & Shane 54 Redemption Mix) {Anjunabeats} 2016

10. [40:00] Andain- Promises (Myon & Shane 54 Summer of Love Mix) {Black Hole} 2011

11. [45:20] Aruna & Mark Eteson- Let Go (Nic Chagall [Myon & Shane 54 Refill]) {Anjunabeats} 2010

12. [50:46] Norin & Rad vs Coldplay- Clock Bloom (hAdes Myon & Shane 54 Rework) {White} 2012

13. [55:51] Myon & Shane 54 feat Aruna- Helpless (Alexander Popov Remix) {Armada} 2013

14. [01:01:49] Armin Van Buuren feat Laura V- Drowning (Myon & Shane 54 Classic Mix) {Armada} 2011

15. [01:06:55] Nadia Ali- Triangle (Myon & Shane 54 Classic Mix) {Smile In Bed} 2010

16. [01:12:10] Aruna- Save The Day (Myon & Shane 54 Summer of Love Remix) {Black Hole} 2012

17. [01:16:57] Juventa va Shog- Feel Me Through The Radio (Myon Mashup) {Patreon}

18. [01:22:26] Signum feat Julie Thompson- Never Be The Same (Myon & Shane 54 Monster Mix) {Armada} 2011

19. [01:28:13] Signum feat Anita Kelsey- Come Around Again (Myon & Shane 54 Monster Mix) {Armada} 2010

20. [01:32:52] Andy Moor & Carrie Skipper- So Much More (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) {Armada} 2010

21. [01:38:07] First State feat Sarah Howells- Brave (Myon & Shane 54 Monster Mix) {Armada} 2010

22. [01:42:54] Markus Schulz & Gabriel & Dresden vs Danilo Ercore- Without Your Same Song Again (Myon Mashup) {Patreon} 2021

23. [01:47:57] Lange feat Sarah Howells- Out of the Sky (Myon & Shane 54 Black Army Remix) {Maelstrom} 2008

24. [01:52:21] DNS Project feat Madelin Zero- Another Day (Myon & Shane 54 Re-Edit) {Armada} 2012

25. [01:57:23] Faruk Sabanci & Nurettin Colak- Anatolian Emotions (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) {Armada} 2009

26. [02:00:05] LTN- One Night in Ibiza (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) {Alter Ego} 2010

27. [02:04:16] Cole Plante & Myon & Shane 54 feat Koko Laroo- Lie to Me {Teknicole} 2012

28. [02:09:10] Paul Van Dyk & Roger Shah feat Daphne Khoo- Louder (Myon & Shane 54 Summer of Love Remix) {Vandit} 2015

Check out this episode of dj bigdirty's night club musical

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remzero · 3 years

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I shouldn’t even be able to call myself a re zero fan. My dumbass thought that episode 45 was the end of season two 🤦🏻‍♂️

I was really confused because I really thought that was a anticlimactic ending. My personal life has been really busy so I didn’t even realize episode 46 had aired. If anything I’m more excited that embarrassed lmao

#re zero #subaru #anime #emilia tan #re zero starting life in another world #rem #ram #re zero episode 46

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dudadragneel · 2 years

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UPDATE. 2.17 (In purple : requests guidelines - Masterlist updated 2)

MASTERLIST

I will update this list as I find more whump scenes.

The new additions will always be at the end of the list.

So, here's the whump list I said I'd share.

This is a mess, there's manga, webtoon, kdrama, jdrama, animes, tv series...

Not all of them are whump, some might be just my favorite episodes (probably because the animation was good.

ChaoS Child - 10 (vomit)

Tales of Zestiria - 4 (nausea)

Argevollen - 15 (vomit)

M3 - 3 (vomit)

Mob psycho 2 - 6 (vomit)

Persona 5 - 2,4,5, 15 (pain, injury)

Dororo - 5, 12 (faint, fever)

Fukigen na mononokean tsuzuki - 6 (faint)

Donten ni warau - 3 (nausea)

Darling in the franxxx - 5,6,11,12, 13,15,17, 18,21 (fever, faint, pain)

Duel ep 8 (vomit)

Wolf's rain ep 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14

God's Quiz - season 2 ep 12 (vomit)

God eater - 5, 6❤, 9,10 (injury)

Re: zero - 5,8 (vomit)

Sign language - 68 (fever)

Aldnoah zero - 5 (vomit)

Battery chapter 10 (vomit)

Forever mine - 43,44,45,46, 63, 64,65, 69 (collapse)

Kakao 79 - 113-115 (fever)

Plastic memories - 07, 12 ( faint)

Doukyonin - 08 (faint)

Miira - 3,07 (fever faint)

Goboutan - 12 (fever faint)

Plastic Memories - 07 (faint)

Hyouka - 07 (nausea)

Black Lagoon - 1 (vomit)

Full metal Panic Fumoffu - 2, 8 (fever faint)

Knights of sidonia - 2 (vomit, faint)

Fruits basket - 23

Ai yori aoshi - 4

Guardian - 8

My love from another star - 9, 16 (fever, faint)

Guardian - 8,9,10,12, 19, 20,21, 23, 28

Love shuttle - 2,3,4,5,6,9,10, 11,12 (fever, vomit)

Riverdale - 4season ep 1 (emotional whump)

GRAND HOTEL - 1Temp - 7 3 TEMP - 2,3, 19,20 (injury)

Tokyo ghoul movie (emeto)

TEEN WOLF- Season 6 ep 6, season 1 - 1,2,6,8,11, season 2 - 6,7,9,10, season 3 - 5,6,11, season 5 - 6,9 , season 6 - 13

RIVERDALE- 1- 10,11,12

Love stage - 9 (fever)

Skip beat - 15 (fever)

Miira no kaikata - 07 (fever)

DETECTIVE CONAN - 49,188,191,193,522,927,928,219, 118,126 (pain - faint)

Bleach - 9

Code breaker - 6

Tada kun - 9 (fever)

Mayonaka no ocult komuin - 1

Omiai (hentai) - 5,6 (fever)

Naruto - 140

DIVE!!- 12 (faint)

Katsute - 09

Beelzebub Ojou - 04

Cagaster -3,4,5

Pinocchio - 5,12,13

Itaewon class - 10 (emeto)

Richard - 10

Kakafukaka - 5 (emeto)

Uzaki - chan - 3 (fever)

Titan's bride - 4

Grisaia - ep 1 & 3 (vomit)

The God of Highschool - ep 5 (vomit)

Run with the wind - 8 (fainting), 18 ,19,20 (fever)

Kanojo okarishimasu - 73 (emotional breakdown/vomit)

Inuyasha - 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 32, 42,45, 46, 51, 57,58, 70, 78, 82, 87, 90, 89, 107, 113, 117, 122, 125, 126, 132, 137, 138, 140, 146, 155, 156, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167

Umibe no etranger - 7 (nausea)

Kkondae intern - 8

One piece 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83

Kekkai sensen - ep 4, 5, 8 (injury)

Kekkao sensen and beyond - 9 (injury)

Tensei shitara slime datta ken - 10,11,13

Persona 5 - 2,4,5, 15

Dororo - 5, 12

Fukigen na mononokean tsuzuki - 6

Donten ni warau - 3

Darling in the franxxx - 5,6,11,12, 13,15,17, 18,21 (fainting, fever, injury)

Naruto shippuden - 9,11,17,18,19,20,23,24,25,26,29,30,31, 39,40,41,42,43,44,45,49,50,52,56,68,70,71,73,74,75,79 ❤,80 😢,81,82😢, 84 ,85 🤯,86, 87 🤯🤯, 88🤯,89

Fruits bqsket ep 12j

13 reasons why - 4×02

WHUMP

ChaoS child - 10 (emeto)

Tales of Zestiria - 4 (nausea)

Argevollen - 15 (emeto)

Kimetsu no yaiba - 12

The K2 - 4 (panic attack)

Healer - 6,12, 13,14 (fever, fainting, panic attack)

Train 2020 - 2 (emeto)

Pinocchio 4, 12, 18 (emeto, injury, faint)

One piece - 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 597(Law) 598, 599,600,601,602

Jujutsu kaisen - 23 (megumi vomit)

Taishou otome - ep 2 (emeto)

One piece - nebulandia, 3d2y

True beauty - 5 (panic attack)

Casualty - series31 ep 34 (vomit)

Love and leashes - slight gag

Attack on titan - season 1 ep 3 (eren gags)

Tokyo ghoul movie - emeto

And here a special SLAM DUNK list:

Slam dunk - 8,9,10,11,15,16(whump),23,24💜,25,28,29,30,33,38,39,40,42,43,44😭,45,46,48,49(whump),51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58(w),59😭,60,61,62,63,65,66,67,70,72,73,74,75,76,77,79,81,82,84😭

My strange friend (c-drama) - ep 14 (emeto)

Miss Hammurabi (K-drama) - ep 12 (emeto)

Lucky Romance (k-drama) - ep 9 (emeto/panick attack)

Goodbye Mr. Black (kdrama) - 18 (emeto)

Your honor - 19+20 (emeto)

Outlander - season 3 ep 9 (emeto

UPDATE

- Time (kdrama) - ep 4 and 6 on dramacool (emeto)

- my strange friend (c drama -youtube) - ep 16 (emeto)

- stranger things - s1ep8 (not really emeto but the scene gave me whumperflies)

- Kinnporsche - 02,04 (emeto)

- Banana Fish - 5 (nausea - I know but like, the scene gave me whumperflies)

- Chainsaw Man - 1 (blood), 6 (blood)

- Romantic Killer - 6 (slight panic attack) 11 (emeto)

- Aku No Hana - 8, 11 (emeto)

- Kimetsu no Yaiba - Mugen Train movie and season 2 episode 1

(Again, some whump, some emotional and some of my favorite episodes)

Since a lot of people found this list I would like to say something: if anyone that sees this list has any scenes that include emeto of a male character, please tell me. I am searching for more! Anime, series whatever you find. As you can clearly see, it's my favorite type of whump.

You can either send an ask or answer below the post!

Another Update: Requests

My ask is open for sickfic related requests! I really wanna write sickfics at the moment but my mind alone is giving me a hard time, so I thought it would be nice to have requests!

What I'll write:

- mainly emeto

- fever and fainting (it will be included, but I'm not that good with it 😅)

- male characters only!

Fandoms:

Anime/Games/Animated series

- One Piece (Luffy, Law, Sanji)

- Boku no Hero Academia (Bakugou, Midoriya, Todoroki)

- Spy x Family (Loid)

- LOZ - BOTW, TP & SS (Link)

- Voltron (Keith)

- Trigun Stampede (Vash)

Kpop (notice: I will not be doing any shipping between the members)

- Stray Kids (Hyunjin, Felix, Chan and Lee Know)

- Enhypen (Jake)

Important: Please detail your idea as much as you'd like!

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REWATCH 101: “THE MORTAL CUP”

Written by Ed Decter | Directed by McG

Here are my thoughts on the very first episode of Shadowhunters. I think I might keep this format for the following episodes.

Also, this rewatch will be random and sporadic. So, there’s that. Enjoy!

GENERAL NOTES

Jace bumps into Clary – not very professional, Jace: you’re invisible, not intangible. More importantly, though, Clary has the sight!

Clary introduces herself to examiners who are almost as unwelcome to her as the audience is. We learn about her drawing skills and that she sees weird symbols and demons around. Again, Clary has the sight!

Oh, yeah. Dot runs an antique shop. Also, hello there, Mortal Cup.

Are Clary and Maureen friends? Or is Maureen friends with Simon, who is friends with Clary? I need to know to evaluate how gratuitous this exposition conversation about Clary’s family history is.

Clary unintentionally draws an angelic rune. Because Clary has the sight! I cannot stress this enough.

Too bad Jace didn’t notice the angelic rune on the van. That could’ve been interesting. But, guys, Jace says it! Clary has the sight!!

Jace has a rather intimate approach to interrogating a Shax Demon. Weird take, but okay, Ed Decter. I guess Alec is… jealous? Mildly bored? Uncomfortable? I’m uncomfortable.

Why does Izzy refer to Alec as “my” brother and not “our” brother, I’ll never know. She refers to Jace as her “brother in every way” in the next episode, so there’s that.

Great scene where Izzy is forcing Alec’s suspicion to be based on jealousy while Alec corrects her and says it’s caution. We know he won the argument because he got the last word.

First “all the legends are true”!! Immediately followed by “we’re shadowhunters”, which is not a legend, but okay.

we learn she’s been out for two days when Simon calls. This is important because it will be the longest episode timeline wise in this entire show.

Oh, this is the first time I notice the shadow passing behind Simon at 34:46. Cool.

Clary has been drawing runes without knowing about them because, you got it, Clary has the sight!

Is this “choose your path” scene with Jace and Simon pulling Clary to literal opposite directions a lot on the nose? Yes. Do I like it? Kind of. Also, here is the theme of the episode, kids. Clary’s two conflicting halves pulling her apart. She has to choose one or she’ll break.

THE GOOD

That whole teaser is great. A nice and functional introduction to the shadowhunters, the existence of demons, and to the fact that Clary is different than your regular mundane girl. Zero exposition is done by dialogue. Effective and compelling.

Clary and Simon's friendship is the sweetest.

Luke’s terse response about Jocelyn creates some believability later on when he tells the Circle members he doesn’t care about the Frays. Same thing with Luke’s running out of patience with Jocelyn’s lies to Clary.

The dynamic between Clary and Dot is endearing. I’m buying their affection to one another and Dot being worried about what is waiting for Clary now that Jocelyn finally decided to stop gaslighting her own daughter.

“Mom, we’ve had the Talk. I’m good.” Even in the pilot, Clary is shown to be in charge of her own sexuality. Well done, show.

Good for Magnus for pointing out that erasing Clary’s memories won’t protect her. Also, good for the character of Magnus for going along with it anyway. Let’s hope this exchange between Magnus and Jocelyn gets referenced later on.

The entire re-introduction dynamic between Alec and Izzy, Izzy and Jace, Alec and Jace is absolute gold. It humanizes these three suspicious-looking superpowered people we saw in the teaser. Too bad we don’t get a little reaction from Jace to Alec’s snarky “platinum”. But we do get amazing characterization through their dialogue: Alec doesn’t care for mundanes and is the cynical one, Izzy has something to do with science and is the fun one, Jace doesn’t care about the rules and is the soldier-minded one.

Clary checking out Simon when he’s shirtless is there for a reason and I’ll never stop pointing it out.

Clary is a feminist icon and so she tries to help the “girl’ about to be attacked by the crazy dude with the glowing sword. After that, we get a great fight sequence where we infer that the Lightwoods are expert fighters, Alec and Jace act like Parabatai, Izzy kicks ass, and Clary yells and freaks out like the untrained eighteen-year-old she is.

Valentine mercilessly killing that mouthy Circle Member for insulting Jocelyn both works to establish how dangerous Valentine is and to show that his experiments are crazy.

THE BAD

Clary’ unawareness about Simon’s crush on her would be less annoying if she didn’t use such a flirty tone when praising his intelligence. Same thing with “That’s how I know it’s cool” and “You do not tattoo my neck. That creepy.” Whoever told Kat McNamara to use this pretentious sexy tone of voice was wrong. Clary sounds much better when she’s being sassy instead of flirty.

Honestly, “demonic murders” isn’t subtle at all. But aren’t the demons draining mundane blood artistically inclined? Who’d thought they would leave their dead mundane victims looking like a perfume ad?

No, Maureen. A single mother raising her only daughter by herself isn’t suspicious. It’s 2016, get on with the- Oh, wait. Jocelyn just took out a seraph blade and activated it for no reason at all besides being an act break. This level of needless drama requires a sensible third party. I take it back.

So, why exactly can’t Simon hear Jace? People will hear Clary’s phone ringing in a couple of episodes, so why is Jace’s voice inaudible now?

There is no in-context reason for the Circle Members not to mention Jocelyn’s marriage to Valentine as they try to recruit her back. Other than keeping that information hidden from the viewers, that is. But I guess it’s convenient that they don’t mention that in this private conversation.

Why would Valentine’s base be in Chernobyl? I get that they force warlocks to work for them. But still, why? Because it’s evil?

THE INTERESTING

The focus on the missing biscotti is a little heavy-handed, but it consists mostly in a visual-only plot point, so that’s good.

It’s curious that Jocelyn introduces the Shadow World to Clary using a stele. That will eventually be Clary’s greatest weapon as a shadowhunter. She even uses it to stab a demon, her greatest move as a shadowhunter.

Simon singing “Forever Young” will always be a good foreshadowing. Also, this is the start of the show’s good use of Alberto’s musical talents.

The Circle Members recognize Jocelyn in Clary. Too bad they didn’t have Kat McNamara playing young-Jocelyn in the flashbacks. Give her some bangs and maybe a different tone of red. Kat can do a very good badass and it would highlight the differences between Clary and her mother at her age.

Clary spills out her MO in the first episode. “I’m not interested in being a part of your supernatural fight club. I just want to find my mom. The rest of it – whatever it is – all that I care about is finding my mother.” The warnings were all there and we missed it.

#ketz rewatches shadowhunters #sh 101 #sh meta

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The five members of LUXE worked hard for their first comeback and proved they were not impacted by their old members' departures. However, as the second week of promotion starts without sight of a first win, Royal quickly starts their second round of plans. As good as their sales were, it could always be better.

On March 4th, exactly a week and a day after LUXE’s first comeback, they’re notified by their manager that there’s been a change of plans to their schedules. The news is delivered during lunch break after their 11AM camera rehearsal, and soon after they’re done, the members return to the Royal building. Once they arrive, Yoo Jaekyung is there to greet them.

“Hello.” She waits for the girls to get themselves comfortable on the practice room sofa before she continues to speak. “Your comeback results have been better than expected after all that drama, but we’d like to capitalize more on it. We’ve been working on this album for long now, after all, and we wouldn’t want it to go to waste. That’s why we’ll be using one of your B-sides as a follow-up song. This means you’ll keep promoting the same album, but with a new title song. Of course, you’ll conclude your ‘Confused’ promotions as planned, and then we’ll jump into the next promotions soon after.”

From this point on, LUXE will promote their current title song while preparing for their next at the same time. With the help of Jaekyung, the members will learn the choreography for ‘Every Night’, one of the B-sides of their mini-album ‘Fantasy’, so that it may be properly promoted on music shows. For this to happen, their updated schedule will look like this:

06:20AM: at broadcasting station: basic first rehearsal on stage; no makeup, casual clothes.

06:45AM: get basic makeup and hair done.

07:45AM: eat breakfast, nap in dressing room/space.

09:00AM: dress rehearsal on stage; stage outfits, makeup on.

09:20AM: return to dressing room/space: rest, eat, nap, practice.

11:00AM: final camera rehearsal on stage; stage outfits, makeup on.

11:15AM: lunch break

12:00PM: return to royal building: practicing for every night

04:00PM: head to salon: get makeup and hair done.

05:00PM: return to broadcast station: preparations to go on stage; outfits, warming up

07:00PM: live broadcast; when not performing, must stay in dressing room/space until the ending stage of the show.

08:00PM: line up in waiting room area to formally greet producers, director, and senior staff.

09:00PM: meeting time with fans who attended the recordings.

10:00PM: return to dressing rooms to clean up, change back into casual clothes.

11:00PM: arrive back at dorms.

On March 11th, their supposed free day, the members of LUXE will actually head towards a special photoshoot and interview. The girls will arrive at an indoor set with only a solid background, but what’s truly important is who’ll be their companions for this shoot. LUXE will promote a dog shelter campaign to help with adoptions, and to do so, each girl will pose with a different dog brought from the partnered shelter. The interview will involve personal questions about pets and dogs, but also about their career. The girls are advised to say they are preparing for a follow-up song since the article will only go out a couple of weeks later along with the finalized photographs.

With their last ‘Confused’ stage being on the 16th, and the girl’s intense hard work, Jaekyung promises to take them out for dinner with her usual serious expression — but only if they get their first win. It should serve as motivation, and having a feast before their music video filming probably wouldn’t be too great of an idea.

To promote their new title song properly, the girls of LUXE will start filming for their ‘Every Night’ music video on the 18th of March, following the schedule seen below. For reference: Cheri will play Solji; Zoe will play Jeonghwa; Ella will play Hyerin; Yena will play Hani; Xayah will play LE.

DAY ZERO — MARCH 17TH

9AM: Wardrobe fittings at the Royal building.

DAY ONE — MARCH 18TH

6AM: Head to salon and get hair and makeup done. Hairstyles: Cheri (1); Zoe (1); Ella (1); Yena (3); Xayah (4)

7AM: Go to fist filming location

8AM: Visit and thank actor Kim Jongsoo on his private room for participating in the MV

8:10AM: Change into outfits

8:30AM: Filming for the final storyline scene ( 2:28-3:38 )

11:30AM: Lunch break

12:30PM: Filming for the set dance scenes ( 0:07; 0:18; 3:42; 3:58 )

2:30PM: Thank actor Kim Jongsoo for his hard work; prepare to leave

2:45PM: Arrive in second location; makeup and hair re-touch

3PM: Filming of beauty shots ( 0:45; 0:47; 0:56; 1:17; 1:25 )

4PM: Recording on the first set for storyline scenes ( 0:00; 0:14; 0:21; 0:41; 0:51; 1:02; 1:39; 2:09; 2:18 )

7:30PM: Thank staff and prepare to leave

9PM: Arrive at dorms; eat, shower, rest.

DAY TWO — MARCH 19TH

8AM: Head to salon and get hair and makeup done. Hairstyles: Cheri (1; 2); Zoe (1); Ella (1); Yena (1); Xayah (1; 2)

9AM: Go to third filming location

10AM: Change into outfits

10:30AM: Filming beauty shots ( 0:25; 2:13 )

11:30AM: Lunch break

12:30PM: Makeup and hair retouch

1PM: Filming dance scenes ( 0:24; 0:26; 0:52; 0:59; 1:08; 1:30; 1:48; 2:05; 2:12; 2:14; 2:25; 2:46; 3:39; 3:55 )

4:30PM: Thank staff and prepare for leaving.

5:30PM: Arrive at dorms; rest.

All throughout the filming process, staff members will be recording the girls backstage. They are free to interact with it however they’d like while the staff may also ask them some questions to help the girls ease up with the camera. These scenes will be later compiled and edited to be uploaded to a sub-channel under Royal named after LUXE with each episode carrying the name of ‘LUXE TV’. These will be inspired by TWICE TV, which you can watch here, and will continue to be recorded throughout their promotion periods or for special events.

The LUXE girls will have the rest of the 19th to rest but are expected to follow their regular training on the next day. The members will go to a photoshoot location on March 21st to get their teaser pictures taken. This will be faster than a photoshoot for their album, which means the rest of their day will be used, once again, for practicing.

On March 24th, the girls will go to their usual hair salon to touch up on colors and length, except for Xayah who will change her hair color to red. She will not be allowed to post on social media or go out with her hair visible, so the first time the public will get to see it will be on their first follow-up stage. The music video will come out on March 28th, and the first stage will be on the 29th for Music Bank.

Before their stage, all of the members of LUXE will take part in a short interview for Music Bank with the member Cheri acting as a special MC (video reference here) along with Dowon from the boy group ME8 (an IC stand-in for Rowoon from SF9). Xayah will prepare a poem using the syllables of ‘LUXE’, and Yena will be in charge of introducing their newest title track, ‘Every Night’. In the end, Cheri, Ella, and Zoe will ask for the audience to look forward to their performance, in order.

The following is the music show promotion schedule for Luxe’s ‘Every Night’ activities:

3/29, 4/05, 4/12: KBS Music Bank

3/30, 4/06, 4/13: MBC Music Core

3/31, 4/07, 4/14: SBS Inkigayo

4/01, 4/08: Arirang Simply K-pop

4/02, 4/09, 4/16: MTV The Show

4/03, 4/10, 4/17: MBC Show Champion

4/04, 4/11, 4/18: Mnet M!Countdown

You will gain +5 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE AS YOU WISH, +3 DEBUT POINTS and +2 ACHIEVEMENTS for completing the written requirements explained on the idol tier page. As this is a song promotion month, one of your chosen achievements must be relevant to the above schedule and all required content should be written about activities listed on the above schedule for the month of March. Posting about April activities will not account for March points (more information for their April promotions will come on their April schedule). There is a capped maximum of five solos, sets of starters and/or partnered threads you may write to collect this month’s points.

To clarify, the only form that needs to be submitted at the end of the month is a verification form for your debut points and achievements. Any SP points earned can be collected as soon as you finish the requirement for them. At the end of the month, as you did with your previous evaluation forms, you will submit the following form to the Points Verification blog:

IDOL’S NAME - ROYAL ENT - MARCH SCHEDULE (for the April 3 verification form)

PROOF OF ACTIVITY: [ x ]

POINTS: +00 SP [ distribute these however you like ]

TOTAL POINTS EARNED: +00 SP +00 DBT

+1 WK ACHIEVEMENT #1 [ NUMBER OF TIMES TAKEN + CURRENT LEVEL ]

+1 WK ACHIEVEMENT #2 [ NUMBER OF TIMES TAKEN + CURRENT LEVEL ]

NEW DEBUT POINTS TOTAL:

**** For participating in total of 20 music show performances during this promotion period, Luxe will earned 20 EXP for their overall group experience. Cheri’s solo activity as a special MC will award them 1 EXP and their group interview will give them an extra 1 EXP, making it a total of 22 EXP. For more information regarding GROUP EXP, refer to the idol tier page!

* Rookie and trainee characters are allowed to attend pre-recordings and fan meetings to interact with idol muses if they choose to do so. Just be realistic about the scheduling; trainees who skip too many lessons to support idol muses will be noticed by their company staff!

#luxe:march19 #rkluxe

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WFS 306 - Fly Fur, 5D Brushes and Fair Flies with Jeff Coffey - Zag Fish

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/306

Presented By: Reyr Gear, Dette Flies, Anglers Coffee, Togens Fly Shop

Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors

Jeff Coffey, founder of Fair Flies is here to share the story of how he created a company around fly fur or fly brush and at the same time making positive impact on the world. Jeff tells us how the Zoe Angling Group gives employment opportunities for the survivors of human trafficking and for young men who just got out of prison. Find out how these fly brushes get 90% of your tying done within 2 minutes and how they are also made out of 90% recycled materials. Jeff gives us a peek at their new fly tying vise that is 5 years in the making, plus a new tackle box.

Jeff's goal is to employ at least 10,000 victims of human trafficking before he retires and he tells us how we can help them achieve that.

Fly Fur Show Notes with Jeff Coffey

03:52 - Jeff started fly angling at 14 years old and at 26 he was already guiding in Bend Oregon

04:42 - Jeff became passionate about what's going on in human trafficking around the world - he wanted to help those victims/survivors by giving them jobs, teaching them how to tie flies, and paying them double wage

05:19 - They started in the 2nd largest slum in the world - Kibera, Kenya. Since that time, they also have projects in Nepal, India, and Tunisia

05:40 - Jeff tells us which products are assigned for each country

10:10 - Nick Pionessa was on the podcast at WFS 288 where we also talked about commercial fly tying

10:40 - Jeff talks about how the complex flies that usually take 15 mins to tie now takes just 2 mins to get 90% done

13:05 - They took their first 5 patterns of brushes to ICAST in 2017 and they won Best to Show

14:02 - The Mind Bender brush has caught all the sport species in the world

Sparse Mind Bender Red/Black 5D Brush

14:41 - About 90% of the mylars they use are recycled plastic

17:07 - If you're going for some big browns, the Spey Cream/Copper and Bleeding Leech works great

17:39 - Fair Flies developed fly fur

18:30 - Faux means fake fur or synthetic fur

20:47 - Jeff talks about how you actually use these fur for better results

24:19 - Scott Wilday was on the podcast at WFS 250 where we talked about Lid Rig products

27:15 - 3 years ago, they took over Wasatch Tools - Wasatch had 54 different fly tying tools before Jeff bought the company

28:49 - Wasatch is the only lifetime guaranteed tool - just give them a call and they'll send you another one

29:10 - Wasatch is coming up with a new vise - Jeff describes what it would look like and says we have not seen anything like this before - price is going to range from $225 to $750

33:08 - Jeff's goal is to create 10,000 jobs for exploited individuals

33:40 - Zoe in Greek means "a full life"

34:00 - Wasatch is going to start selling tube flies soon

37:56 - ZAG is partnering up with a group from Birmingham - they create employment opportunities for young men coming out of prison

39:57 - About 200 women have been brought out of human trafficking situation and were given decent jobs by ZAG

40:22 - Bucky Buchstaber was on the podcast at WFS 226 where we talked about human trafficking. Bucky is Jeff's good friend

48:29 - The average angler gets to fish 2 days a year - avid angler, it's a different game

51:10 - Their new vise has been in development for five years

58:33 - Jeff tells the story of when Steve Abel gave him an Abel vise for being good at selling it

59:24 - Jay Nicholas was on the podcast way back at WFS 003 - he's friends with Jeff

1:00:25 - We re-released Frank Moore's episode as a tribute for his very special life - WFS 300

1:01:51 - Each of their factories has a zero-waste policy

1:03:11 - Go to AnglerTradingPost.Com to check out their products - Orvis sell their stuff but check your local fly shop if they have those brushes

1:03:46 - Jeff gives us a peek at the tackle box that they're working on

1:05:21 - If Jeff was dropped on an island and can only take 1 beverage with him, it would be the Redbreast Cask Strength whiskey

Fly Fur Conclusion with Jeff Coffey

Jeff Coffey shared the story of how he created a company around fly brushes. We learned how the Zoe Angling Group gives employment opportunities for the survivors of human trafficking and young men who just got out of prison. We found out how these fly brushes get 90% of your tying done within 2 minutes and how they are also made out of 90% recycled materials. Jeff gave us a peek at their new fly tying vise that is 5 years in the making. Jeff's goal is to employ at least 10,000 victims of human trafficking before he retires and he tells us how we can help them achieve that.

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/306

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Direct from the Insomniac HQ in Los Angeles, Night Owl Radio is a weekly show presented by the Night Owl himself aka Pasquale Rotella. With special guest mixes, exclusive info on Insomniac Events and lots of interaction with you, the Headliners.

This week, Wax Motif selects his Up All Night tracks and Claptone delivers the exclusive Guest Mix.

[0:43] Seb Zito – Miss Me Piano [DO NOT SLEEP] [5:49] Krystal Klear – Piano Banana [RUNNING BACK] [10:53] Adelphi Music Factory – Sample Seduction [SHALL NOT FADE] [13:25] Badjokes – Oui [GOLD DIGGER] [16:28] Tchami – Shine On (Justin Martin Remix) [CONFESSION] [20:32] Franky Wah & Lee Foss ft. Spencer Nezey – Name Of Love (Torren Foot Remix) [CLUB SWEAT] [23:50] MARTEN HØRGER & DONKONG – Believe In Me [A GOOD ONE] [25:52] Good Times Ahead – La Fiesta [GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES] [27:54] Vush & Giant – Nothing Left To Say [SINK OR SWIM] [30:11] Jonathan Ulysses – Buffalo (Filip Grönlund Remix) [ULYBUG] [35:39] T.A.F.K.A.T. & Mr. Maro – El Matador [1980] [38:34] Cloonee – Sun Goes Down (Wade Acid Remix) [BIG BEAT] [41:37] Maceo Plex & Faithless – Insomnia 2021 (Epic Mix) [MINISTRY OF SOUND] [46:19] No Mana & Tommy Trash – Can’t Say No [MAU5TRAP] [49:44] Andrea Morricone & Cristian Viviano ft. Kidbess – Never Give Up [DESCENDING ORDER] [54:30] JT Company – Don’t Deal With Us (Dusky Edit) [17 STEPS] [59:40] EJECA – Flatline [21NHG] [1:03:16] Kevin Saunderson pres. Inner City – Good Life (Kid Massive Re-Edit) [VIRGIN] [1:06:38] Kadenza – Nineties [AUTOMATION NATION] [1:10:11] Noizu – Middle [TECHNE] Up All Night [1:13:45] Skrillex & Starrah & Four Tet – Butterflies [OWSLA] [1:17:53] Wax Motif ft. Jaxon Rose – Thrills [DIVIDED SOULS] [1:20:55] Detlef & Cloonee – Scratchin [MOON HARBOUR]

Claptone played: [1:25:41] Claptone ft. Apre – My Night [DIFFERENT] [1:29:01] Dave Spoon – Steels [TOOLROOM] [1:32:21] Chambray – Higher [SELF RELEASED] [1:34:55] Mihalis Safras – Love Away (Joeski Remix) [RELIEF] [1:39:00] Fallon – Lose Control [ANOTHER RHYTHM] [1:42:05] Claptone – Zero (Gene Farris Remix) [DIFFERENT] [1:45:30] Storm Queen – For A Fool (Claptone Remix) [FFRR] [1:49:35] Norman Doray & CAVI & Emzy – Higher [TOO MANY RULES] [1:53:30] Sol Brothers & Damon C Scott – Turn Around (Illyus & Barrientos Remix) [FLIPSIDE]

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REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 29/05/2021 (Eurovision, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, Galantis/David Guetta/Little Mix, Anne-Marie & Niall Horan)

What better way to celebrate the end of a week in which I have been consistently ill and surprisingly busy? Sixteen new arrivals, of course! Shoot me, but first, congratulate Olivia Rodrigo for her second #1 as “good 4 u” gets the album boost to overthrow “Body” this week. I can safely say I think it’ll be there for a while. Let’s just start REVIEWING THE CHARTS.

Rundown

Sixteen new arrivals and therefore, kind of a bloodbath. Why are there sixteen new arrivals? We’ll get to it. Other than six new arrivals from last week, we have a couple other drop-outs, the notable of which being those that spent five or more weeks in the UK Top 75 – which I cover – or those that peaked in the top 40. Therefore, those include, rather ironically on Olivia Rodrigo’s album week, former #1 “drivers license” (only dropping out because of a silly UK chart rule that only allows three songs per lead artist on the chart), as well as “Don’t Play” by Anne-Marie, KSI and Digital Farm Animals, “Another Love” by Tom Odell, “Calling My Phone” by Lil Tjay and 6LACK, “Heartbreak Anniversary” by Giveon, “Tonight” by Ghost Killer Track and D-Block Europe featuring OBOY and “Miss the Rage” by Trippie Redd and Playboi Carti. I’m not complaining about most of this, sorry, Giveon.

We have no returning entries – thankfully – so instead we can just focus on notable falls and climbers. I guess we’ll start with notable losses, songs that dropped five or more spots from their placement last week, and of course we do have a few of them at least as a result of, say it with me, sixteen new arrivals. The first few of these are all harsh drops because of ACR, which happened to coincide with the rest of the chaos, including “Little Bit of Love” by Tom Grennan at #24, “BED” by Joel Corry, David Guetta and RAYE at #25, “Friday” (Dopamine Re-Edit) by Riton and Nightcrawlers featuring Musafa & Hypeman at #26, “Peaches” by Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon at #29 and “Let’s Go Home Together” by Ella Henderson and Tom Grennan at #33. We also have the losses for J. Cole staying surprisingly slim with “My Life” featuring 21 Savage and Morray at #27, “Pride is the Devil” featuring Lil Baby at #28 and “Amari” at #35. The rest are mostly just expected continuous fallers, like “Wellerman” by Nathan Evans and remixed by 220 KID and Billen Ted at #44, “Nice to Meet Ya” by Wes Nelson and Yxng Bane at #46, “Your Love (9PM)” by ATB, Topic and A7S at #50, “Marea (We’ve Lost Dancing)” by Fred again.. and the Blessed Madonna at #51, “Ferrari Horses” by D-Block Europe featuring RAYE at #53, “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals at #57, “Seeing Green” by Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Wayne at #58 off of the debut, “All You Ever Wanted” by Rag’n’Bone Man at #61, “Martin & Gina” by Polo G at #63, “Leave the Door Open” by Silk Sonic at #64, “My Head & My Heart” by Ava Max at #65, Travis Scott’s remix of HVME’s remix of Travis Scott’s “Goosebumps” at #67, “Addicted” by Jorja Smith at #68, “Beautiful Mistakes” by Maroon 5 and Megan Thee Stallion at #70, “Sunshine (The Light)” by Fat Joe, DJ Khaled and Amorphous at #73, “Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi at #74 and finally “Believe Me” by Navos at #75. Phew.

Now what’s interesting is that we have nearly just as many gains, and they’re pretty unique, big surges in most cases, starting with “Cover Me in Sunshine” by P!nk and Willow Sage Heart at #52 thanks to the album boost that also prompted P!nk’s “All I Know So Far” to creep into the top 40 at #39, “Build a Bitch” by Bella Poarch at #32 off of the debut, “Starstruck” by Years & Years at #31 thanks to a bizarrely uncredited Kylie Minogue remix, “Little More Love” by AJ Tracey at #21, “Didn’t Know” by Tom Zanetti at #20, “Higher Power” by Coldplay at #19, “Black Hole” by Griff at #18, Majestic’s remix of Boney M.’s “Rasputin” at #16, “Good Without” by Mimi Webb soaring into the top 10 and hence becoming her first at #10, and Olivia Rodrigo getting her third thanks to the album boost as “deja vu” is at #4. I think that’s more than enough that needs to be said about music that was already on the chart last week, so welcome back to the part of this series where I get either increasingly frustrated or exhausted every time I have to list another song.

NEW ARRIVALS

#72 – “Life Goes On” – PS1 featuring Alex Hosking

Produced by PS1 and Mark Alston

So, what better way to start sixteen new arrivals? A generic piano-house club track, of course. PS1 is a New York DJ and for this track with a 90s-esque piano and synth melody, bassy drop and tight, bland percussion as well as oddly-mixed anonymous female vocals made to sound robotic regardless of genuine emotive performance, he’s enlisted Australian singer Alex Hosking as well as co-songwriting from hit-makers GOODBOYS, both of which make remarkably little difference to the fact that despite being a faux-inspirational club track, this song is incredibly joyless and flailing in as pathetic and one-note of a fashion as possible. Yes, that is one exhaustive sentence chugging on as long as possible, but there’s no better way to parallel this disposable garbage than that.

#71 – “What a Time” – Julia Michaels featuring Niall Horan

Produced by Ian Kirkpatrick and RKCB

Niall Horan coincidentally has two unrelated female-male duets debuting with him in this week. Thankfully, Julia Michaels only has the one track debuting, and for the love of God, I can’t even figure out why she has the one, as this is a track from a 2019 EP that flew massively under every radar except seemingly mine as whilst I have listened to this EP, I cannot remember for the life of me liking any of it besides “Anxiety”, which makes sense since Michaels is at best an uninteresting songwriter and at worst an insufferable vocal presence. Regardless, I’m going to assume the surge is due to TikTok or some kind of residual Niall Horan hype, whatever there is of that, and look at this song two years after the fact. Well, for what it’s worth, I appreciate the vaguely folkish guitar riff, even if it’s going to be drowned out immensely by Michaels’ approach to vocal takes, which is to put as little effort into that first take and then multi-track enough for it to sound listenable, particularly on that bizarrely unfitting chorus in which reminiscing on a wonderful, intimate time with your partner is demonstrated by rote piano chords, an awkward string swell and distant, reverb-drenched incoherency on the vocals. I guess I do like the switch in the final chorus as she changes “what a time” to “what a lie” to emphasise the bitterness of that break-up, but I don’t think that bitterness has to soak the entire master because this song is dripping in apathy that I just don’t have any time for personally in my pop power ballads. Wait, Niall Horan was on this song?

Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Whilst I may not do a special episode on this blog for the Eurovision Song Contest, I’d be lying if I didn’t confess to watching and enjoying it every year. This year’s, the first since 2019 for obvious reasons, was hosted in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and was won by an Italian rock band, with the United Kingdom infamously receiving zero points yet somehow more applause than Israel’s performance. Telling. It’s not all politics though, obviously: the reason songs win is not just the lighting, stage presence, vocal performance or grandiosity, but rather the songs themselves, or at least ostensibly so. The winner this year didn’t have the best of any of those factors in my opinion – no, not even the politics – so it’s clearly about a mixture of this success criteria. This year had some particularly good songs and the most consistency out of Eurovision in a while, naturally leading to quite a few new arrivals, also factored in by the charts being weak, so we essentially get an album bomb. Let’s pile up every new arrival related to Eurovision and talk somewhat more briefly about each song, starting with...

#66 – “Dark Side” – Blind Channel

Representing: FINLAND

The Finnish entry this year is one of two heavy rock entries, both of which charted, and this is a genre represented by about one country annually. There’s always a Gothic-influenced or industrial-esque band in the shortlist or national finals if not the semis and international final, but it doesn’t stop them from being some of the most interesting Eurovision contesters. It’s in English and came sixth with 301 points. Is it any good? Well, it’s far from bad with that pumping electronic groove before it’s crushed by metallic, distorted and rather ugly guitars that remind me of, if anything, scene-era nu metal and crunkcore, especially due to the clean and growling vocal dynamic. The song is still anthemic as all hell and if we ignore the dog barking and stuttering vocals, as well as the fact that these vocalists don’t have that much grit to their performance, we can appreciate the clamouring rock track this is, and I’d be lying if I said that final chorus isn’t pretty epic. Next!

#62 – “Voilá” – Barbara Pravi

Representing: FRANCE

The French entry this year is one my staunchly Italian nationalist online friend immediately had a distaste for, and as someone with British citizenship, I am also legally obliged to give this Worst of the Week. Sorry, Barbara but traditions are traditions. It’s in her native French and came second overall with 499 points. Is it any good? Well, like many French entries and French pop songs in general, it’s in a chanson style that adapts very well to the modern western art-pop sound, as Pravi’s cooing vocals are at full focus in the mix as they skate around more subtle pianos, wonderfully elegant strings and this wistful tone that may or may not make sense for the content. What? I’m not learning a word of French past what was grained into me during primary school. Overall, I think this is a pretty great song with a lot of that almost Bjork-esque swell especially in Pravi’s vocal performance that I think makes for a pretty excellent listen, especially by the time that abrupt finish hits. I’d probably prefer it being a bit less minimal and scattered so the hook hits harder but overall this is one of the best Eurovision entries this year. However, she is French so, next!

#59 – “SHUM” – Go_A

Representing: UKRAINE

The Ukrainian entry, always successful enough to get to the finals, was particularly hyped up prior due to its... eccentricity and ended up in fifth place with 364 points. It’s in their native Ukrainian so they might as well be garbling acid both verbally and as a written text, so I guess I have to judge it on the fact that this is pretty bonkers, with a charismatic and energetic vocal performance that yells over triumphant bassy horns perfectly blended with the 80s bass synths but not so much with those chirping flutes that, whilst cool on paper, kind of just give me a headache when faced against this thumping dance beat that remains decidedly strained for most of its runtime, and annoyingly so as it means the song never has that cathartic of a release, at least to me, but what drop it has ends up deconstructed and janky in something that might fit on PC Music but I’m not sure it does on Ukrainian Eurovision. This has something there, but I’m not into it. Sorry.

#47 – “Embers” – James Newman

REPRESENTING: United Kingdom

A catastrophic loss is British culture at Eurovision, and it’s not the first time in this century that we’ve gotten the infamous null points. James happens to be related to the more noteworthy John Newman, but that didn’t avoid a “nil points catastrophe”, coined by Jochan Embley, who reviewed the song for the Evening Standard and is now set in stone as an utter fool as his quote predicting that not to be the case this year is now forever preserved on the Wikipedia page for this very song. Nice one, Embley. We finished at twenty-sixth and Newman should honestly be glad this embarrassment is charting. The worst part of this whole ordeal is that the song’s actually fine and definitely representative of British pop music with its 90s-esque piano, bassy drop and anonymous vocal performance – if any of that sounds familiar – and I do love the plastic brass added here for the sake of bombast. It’s nothing interesting, and a tad too long considering how little it does with its musical premise, but it’s not worse than half of any given Eurovision. Maybe next year we submit a UK drill song, I’m sure that’ll get the people going. Tion Wayne, do you want to take a flight to Italy in 2022? Maybe bring Young Adz here while you’re at it; that could truly be a fascinatingly out of place Eurovision entry but at least one of these countries – probably Russia – would vote for it. As for now, at least this was funny to see absolutely bomb, and Graham Norton become increasingly hopeless for its success as the night went on.

#43 – “10 Years” – Daoi Freyr

REPRESENTING: Iceland

One part of this guy’s backing band tested positive for COVID-19 so they had to isolate and just show the dress rehearsal again but it didn’t stop them from charting and delivering a pretty damn unique entry, as Iceland is known for doing nowadays. It’s all in English and finished in fourth place with 378 points, and is it any good? Well, for one of the whitest concepts in television, this is the whitest song of this year’s entries, starting with some gentle violins before abruptly careening straight into this Daoi Freyr guy monotonously droning over bass-heavy nu-disco straight out of the 2000s with a level of irony balancing out whatever sincerity there is in the quasi-R&B breakdown, and, you know, it’s fun, at least? I do think the stage performance is remarkably more interesting than this funktronica mess in the studio, but this is catchy and inoffensive, two good ways to get people to care about your song in Eurovision, so it makes sense. Also, that chiptune synth-solo borderline saves this song, even in all its brevity.

#17 – “ZITTI E BUONI” – Maneskin

REPRESENTING: Italy

So third place didn’t chart – sorry, Switzerland – but we do obviously get the winner charting as high as the top 20. The chart’s weak and the lead singer’s hot and probably does cocaine – it’s a recipe for success, especially when they probably have mafia connections and can threaten or buy their way into the charts. Unrealistic and possibly xenophobic stereotypes aside, this is the Italian entry and whilst I was personally gunning for Portugal, who came twelfth, I can see how this gathered 524 points, even if they had to censor the lyrics for the sake of the contest, not that I can tell because I do not know a lick of Italian. Sorry, Ignacio. Anyway, this song kicks ass and rather disrespectfully at that, as the lead singer breathily sings over garage rock-esque guitar licks and some pretty manic drumming that delivers not only a catchy hook but an undeniable groove, assisted by some slick rapping that comes out of the blue in the second verse and honestly fits the song – and the singer – a lot better than it has any right to. Congratulations, Italy – you’ll be paying out the ass for the next contest. Ciao!

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Well, that got a lot out of the way. Not all of it, though.

#60 – “Topshottas Freestyle” – Potter Payper

Produced by Chucks

Potter Payper is basically some guy from Barking, East London, and that’s all you need to sign a record deal with the same label that has Stormzy on payroll so that’s why he’s here. With that said, there’s something deeper here, or at least in the first few lines of this singular verse – without a chorus – in which Potter Payper narrates a street lifestyle, far too common for young working-class British men, retelling what is probably his truth about the consequences of ignoring motherly advices and finding yourself in a situation surrounded by gang violence, drug trafficking and all the paranoia that comes with it. Of course, he then brags about his wordplay, gunplay and fashion, and the rest of the verse just feels aimless with nothing exactly restraining the meandering checklist of clichés, and zilch returning it back to what I thought was going to be the point of the song. I guess this trap beat is okay but this same acoustic guitar and oddly-mastered bass is so common and uninteresting that I find it hard to care. I don’t have an issue with British music being Americanised as that’s just the result of musical evolution and the sharing of culture, but when the only way you can tell this isn’t from the States is the accent does make me question why this is charting amongst Dave and AJ Tracey instead of Lil Baby and Gunna.

#56 – “GANG GANG” – Polo G and Lil Wayne

Produced by Angelo Ferraro

Polo G, after just having the biggest hit of his career with the US #1 hit “RAPSTAR”, follows it up with a Lil Wayne collaboration and thanks to a busy and just misguided release date and timing, it makes a lot less noise than it should. It absolutely deserves that level of attention too, with its chopped-up borderline ambient melody that creates a perfect foundation for this high-energy bass-heavy trap beat as well as Polo G delivering a lot more energy than on “RAPSTAR” (to the point where I think that’s the reason why his actually interesting songs don’t do as well). The chorus has a pretty great melodic switch-up by the end and whilst the flows are pretty rote, it’s hard to say they aren’t smoothly delivering all of the flexing and gunplay pretty typical of Polo G, and if anything that’s what it’s missing: an extra layer of depth, not that I care of course, because Lil Wayne’s on it. Wayne has been astonishingly great on features recently and this is one of his most impressive features to the point where I could barely write about it on first listen, with some of his slickest flow switches ever and whilst the content doesn’t get any more interesting than pouring his heart out for his lean, his pure charisma outshines anyone who could have been on this track and this means this ends up pretty excellent in terms of 2020s trap-rap. I don’t know when that Polo G album is coming but I hope it has more of this. Also, for the love of God, Wayne, keep this energy up for the next album. I’m begging you.

#42 – “SUN GOES DOWN” – Lil Nas X

Produced by Roy Lenzo, Omar Fedi and Take a Daytrip

As his follow up to “MONTERO”, we have a new, decidedly less sexual Lil Nas X hit debuting again surprisingly low on the chart considering the last single’s success, finally delivering in the musical department as for me, there’s a constant conflict between wanting to like Lil Nas as a character, performer and personality rather than actually enjoying any of the guy’s music. Last time I talked about Lil Nas, I did bring up the Pitchfork album review that questioned if he really liked music and whilst it’s funny, I do see how Lil Nas could have perhaps taken Pitchfork to heart as a result as he practically explains his love of popular music as a way for him to feel like he belonged in a community, which is especially meaningful for a man constantly left alienated because of his own mental health issues as a teenager and struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality, to the point of suicidal thoughts. I just love how the verse ends on a happy note where makes the leap of faith to come out and how now he’s proud of himself, he wants to make sure his fans are proud of him since they’re the people who got him there. For me, those last lines recontextualise the chorus as becoming less about contemplating death but more about ascending to a happier place and rejecting all your struggles that you’ve overcome. It helps that this is all sang pretty soulfully over an almost emo guitar melody with some basic flows but gorgeous multi-tracked vocal melodies accentuated by strings that elevate this song even higher, even if it seems underdeveloped. Sure, it doesn’t have that second verse, but does a victory lap need a re-over?

#38 – “Mask” – Dream

Produced by Perish Beats and Banrisk

Nope.

#22 – “Our Song” – Anne-Marie and Niall Horan

Produced by TMS

Okay, so this is a duet where two ex-lovers – only in the song – attempt to get over each other but end up hearing a song they held special to their relationship and all of the memories and pain comes flooding back. Without the youthful exuberance of Taylor Swift’s song of the same name, this duet should carry some bitterness and resentment but mostly capture a hesitant nostalgia... and despite being oddly Niall Horan-dominated, I guess it does that pretty effectively, or at least would if Niall wasn’t crushed by a misshapen trap beat that drowns this pathetically fluttering guitar loop into a mush that not even Anne-Marie can over-sell. Everything here is so utterly basic that it kind of screws itself over by trying for any energy or passion, and therefore kind of just doesn’t. I’m glad.

#9 – “Heartbreak Anthem” – Galantis, David Guetta and Little Mix

Produced by Bloodshy, Henrik Jonback, David Saint Fleur, Thom Bridges, David Guetta, Mike Hawkins, SONDR and Johnny Goldstein

It really speaks to the power of Little Mix that even with only three members and only one of them not expecting a child, they can bring Galantis back of all people. Although given that Galantis is already a duo, I fail to see why David Guetta needs to be here, and the same can go for any of the other seven credited producers of this song, which actually only includes one half of Galantis! I question if a song ever needs that many, despite the fact that in reality they probably contributed zilch to the song each, just enough to get a pay check. None of that should matter, however, if the song isn’t good and I’ll admit this is far from the worst that any of these guys have delivered, with a string melody and swell not unlike 2015-era house Galantis themselves made, and vocal deliveries from the girls that sound like they were located in vastly different locations from each other (to the point where anyone harmonising with Perrie sounds really awkward regardless of how many vocal manipulation effects you can put on them). For seven producers, that’s inexcusable, but as a song, it’s just a shallow post-break-up song that kind of feels like a dig towards Jesy if anything (although I hope it isn’t). I’m not a fan – I never was going to be – but it works for what it is as this colourful house jam, and not much else. This is Galantis’ first top 10 since 2016, by the way. Yeah, Little Mix are that big.

#7 – “traitor” – Olivia Rodrigo

Produced by Dan Nigro

It couldn’t have been “brutal”? Or “hope ur ok”? Okay, well, if we’re going to have the dullest track on the album bar one I guess we’ll go with the one that follows the “drivers license” formula to a T but without as much passion in the vocals, without as much interesting songwriting quirks and with a whole lot of rote fluff removed far from any indie-girl influence that undercuts what is essentially a teen-pop product. I’m not going to pretend I cannot get caught up in melodrama and embrace that, but this is a slog of a ballad with an almost sing-song, condescending vocal melody in that chorus, multi-tracked and studio-produced to rid her of any of that natural rasp she has when singing live. The song is about being annoyed by an ex finding someone new and the more toxic thoughts that come with being the ex-girlfriend in that situation, but with decidedly low stakes this time around that just make her more unlikeable than relatable. I’m sorry, I didn’t think that album was half-bad at all, but please don’t make this the post-release hit.

#3 – “Butter” – BTS

Produced by Ron Perry, Rob Grimaldi and Stephen Kirk

See, I value my personal information, and I don’t know about you but I’m as scared of these guys as I am Nicki Minaj stans, or Minecraft YouTuber stans, or serial killers, so whilst I doubt my platform is extensive enough to reach that level, I also know that these people are so online that they could easily find me somehow somewhere. With that said, just to clarify, when I say I wish I could “Nope” myself out of this one like I did with Dream because I have consistently little to say about this band, it’s not because I in any way dislike BTS or the band members within, or their record label that manages them and many other K-pop bands which I also do not dislike, or, because I’ve seen this happen, East Asians in general. Is that enough stalling to just say I don’t care about this basic pop fluff? When BTS are in Korean, their lyrics aren’t embarrassing and their production tends to be more experimental or at least catchier, more interesting. I like a fair few Korean BTS songs as a result but I just do not see the appeal in making another stiff, cleanly-produced 80s-esque funk-pop song with some chiptune synths that are admittedly kinda cool other than getting on US radio. There’s some interplay between the boys here but it just leads to a pretty homogenised track where none of them have enough personality to shine through, not even SUGA and RM on the tacked-on rap verse that so awkwardly ends. The synth solo sounds perfectly out of an era of dated 80s synths that I’m not sure anyone other than Bruno Mars actually had nostalgia for, and not even some pretty vocoder can save it. The writing is too clumsy, the production’s not equipped to handle it and there’s not much to speak of in terms of performance. I fear for my life when I say it but I think this is actually pretty bad.

Conclusion

Okay, so, we’re finally finished with this week and God, I’m glad, as there’s not that much quality here to speak of, although what is here is here in droves, so Best of the Week gladly goes to Polo G and Lil Wayne for “GANG GANG”, with “Sun Goes Down” by Lil Nas X following closely behind as an Honourable Mention. In terms of Worst of the Week, it doesn’t actually go to they who shall not or he who should not be named, instead going to the pathetic “Your Song” by Anne-Marie and Niall Horan, with a Dishonourable Mention going to BTS for “Butter”. It’s just “Dynamite” again but with considerably less reason to exist. Here’s this week’s top 10:

If I make it to next week, who knows what’s coming? This is a slower week – hopefully – and I don’t think black midi will chart, though it’d be comical, so I’ll hold off on predictions and just thank you for reading. See you next week!

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Re: Zero – 46 – What a Half-Elf Girl Wants, What a Half-Elf Girl Needs

Whereas last week felt at times dilatory and even inessential, it finished the careful cleaning and polishing of the table, allowing this episode to set that table with all the sundry flatware, silverware, and stemware. Subaru and Garfiel (who all along had beast blood thin enough to pass through the barrier) head to the mansion to stop Elsa. Before that, Subaru tosses the jewel containing Puck to Ram, saying she can “do as she likes” from here on.

Upon her emergence from the Graveyard, Ram is at the entrance to greet her and bends the knee and apologizes for not believing she’d get back on her feet. All Ram needs to see is Emilia’s straight posture, forward gaze, and steady hands to see she’s already become so much stronger. Emilia thanks her for supporting Subaru, but Ram sees it as having helped Emilia, since she was the one who convinced her that helping would be worthwhile.

Ram also has a request—the first she’s ever made of Emilia: to save her master, Roswaal-sama, who has been possessed by delusions and strayed from the proper path. To save him, Ram asks Emilia to win and assume the royal throne of Lugunica, thus fulfilling his wish. Emilia, wanting to pay Ram back for her help agrees to her request.

But who should suddenly emerge from the shadows but the very subject of their discussion: Roswaal! He’s arrived to offer his congratulations to Emilia for passing the first trial, but also to express his pity and sympathy for what he deems to be Emilia’s own curse: that of only knowing how to be loved by doing and saying what others expect of her.

When Emilia counters, Roswaal accuses her of using borrowed words and occupying places prepared for her by the will of others, forcing her to fit an ideal by being convinced she could do it. Roswaal says this is what Subaru did to get her to pass the trial, because he and Subaru are “two of a kind”, forcing their ideals on the women they love, and loving an ideal of her that doesn’t exist.

The old Emilia might have withered before such harsh words, but not the present one. Steadying Ram’s quivering hand with her own and taking a deep breath, Emilia responds with an excellent comeback: “Are you done?” She tells Roswaal how Subie said she was a pain in the ass, causing trouble for him when he’s done so much for her, and making it clear she was “weak, all talk, and insufficient in every way”.

But then Subie took her hand and helped her. If Roswaal calls what he said and did to be nothing but lies and deceptions, then she’ll turn them into truths, into wishes. That’s what she needs to do, and that’s what she wants to do.

Roswaal is impressed with Emilia’s growth, but still pities her, because he deems both the Sanctuary and the Royal Selection to be piddling concerns compared to the much larger matter: that the world is proceeding toward the “wrong destination”, and towards its end.

Emilia ignores this threat and proceeds into the Graveyard to face the second trial, but Roswaal maintains his pity and pessimism are justified; after all, he and Echidna “began” this; it stands to reason he’d be able to reckon when its end is near.

Roswaal then speaks to Ram, who be believes to still be fully “on his side”, having only been “putting on an act” with Emilia earlier about her request to her. He doesn’t mind that she assisted Subaru and Otto with Garfiel, as he’s glad she did what she felt was right. For now, he orders her to remain at the entrance for Emilia’s return.

This leads us to the one and only look backwards in time in this episode, when we’re shown the particulars of the bet Ram made with Otto, and why: because it was the best chance of getting her wish. She asks that Garfiel be taken down a peg, for Barusu do something about Emilia, and for Otto not to tell Barusu about their bet.

As a result of winning that bet—which she felt she would win due to Subie’s notoriously excellent timing—she finds herself where she wants to be: not at the Graveyard entrance as her master instructed, but in Ryuzu Meyer’s crystal chamber, confronting Roswaal with her wand in hand while he holds the Tome of Wisdom. She’s come to free him of the witch’s delusions.

Combined with Emilia eventual winning of the Selection, he shouldn’t have any complaints, and indeed he adopts an “I should have known” attitude towards Ram’s actions. After all, he assumes the long years in which she’s had to yield to him must have been “humiliating”, especially when her master was one of the men who destroyed her homeland.

Roswaal is in the chamber to use Meyer’s Crystal to focus and amplify his mana so he can make it snow in the Sanctuary. But because he once taught a younger Ram that “whatever on relies upon should be the thing that brings about their death”, whether it’s the sword, magic, or a demon.

But Roswaal asserts that Ram showed her hand a little too early, as she would have had a much easier time dealing with him once he’d already started setting up his snow day in accordance with his precious tome. But Ram didn’t want to face him as an empty husk, or in any kind of weakened state. That would have interfered with her wish for him to live for the future.

When Roswaal asks if Ram thinks she can win against him, she tells him she know she can’t, as her knowledge of his power is second only to Echidna’s. The thing is…she doesn’t have to face off against him alone, nor did she ever intend to. She produces the blue crystal and out pops Puck, a stray spirit who “happened to be passing by” and is all too willing to help Ram release the man she loves from his delusions.

Having seen what Puck is capable of, I like Ram’s chances, and I salute the expert maneuvering she did in order to end up in this position. But we’ll have to learn the result of their faceoff another time, as the episode’s final act shift’s to Roswaal’s mansion, where Petra is running and afraid. She wants to retrieve Ram and get her to safety, but she is cornered by Elsa.

There’s a heightened sense of danger and finality to this entire last act because if Subie is to believed there will be no more resets until this is all resolved. Whatever happens in these halls is going to stick. So yeah, I was relieved when lil’ Petra is rescued by Frederica, and warns her that she’ll be punished for disobeying her order to run away by herself.

This time, Petra does run away, and we only hear loud bangs from the battle between Petra and Frederica. Then Petra tries to locate Beatrice, hoping she’ll be able to help, but cannot locate her library among all the doors. That’s when Petra tears up and prays for Subaru come save them…and Subaru, who had just arrived, obliges, cheering a flabberghasted Petra up with his bright smile.

Elsa’s charge towards Frederica is suddenly arrested—by Frederica’s little brother Garfiel, parrying Elsa’s blade with the stout arm guards they used to play with. They have a frankly adorable little reunion where they express their wonder that they’re both so big now. Elsa lets them have some time together without attacking, probably because a.) she’s confident in her ability to beat them both, and b.) she’s got an ally in Meili running around somewhere nearby.

I hope Subie doesn’t forget about her, especially as he seems to be focused on the assassin duo’s third target: Beatrice. He’s there to “drag her out into the sunlight”, whether her precious tome told her he would or not. Things on any of the various fronts could go sideways in the blink of an eye, but it’s so far, so good with Subaru (and Ram)’s grand schemes.

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Episode 01: We Only See Each Other At Weddings And Funerals - Transcription

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[Intro Music]

Mia [0:09] Hello, and welcome to Brolly Buddies

Josh [0:11] a podcast about umbrellas and academies.

Mia [0:13] Yeah, specifically The Umbrella Academy, the Netflix adaptation, of er.

Josh [0:19] Yes,

Mia [0:20] the wonderful comics.

Josh [0:22] I’m Josh

Mia [0:23] I’m Mia

Josh [0:24] and we are in no way qualified to talk about this other than the fact that we enjoy the comics. We’ve enjoyed the comics thus far.

Mia [0:33] Enjoy a good comic, enjoy a good TV show.

Josh [0:35] We are not specialists in comics, or TV shows really.

Mia [0:40] Or trivia or anything really-

Josh [0:43] everything you will hear-

Mia [0:43] -podcasting…

Josh [0:45] probably could be googled, more efficiently.

Mia [0:48] Probably will be googled, whilst

Josh [0:50] Well, yeah

Mia [0:51] We are making the sounds

Josh [0:54] Making the sounds?

Mia [0:54] (laughter) I was gonna say whilst you hear it, but that’s not how time works, so…

Josh [1:01] Oh, yeah-

Mia [1:02] ‘Cause it’s not live

Josh [1:02] True. No, it’s not unless you’ve traveled back in time, Number Five… spoilies!

Mia [1:11] Oooh

Josh [1:13] So I would assume that if you’re listening to this, you know what Umbrella Academy is, unless you are a bumbershoot enthusiast.

Mia [1:20] Please explain what a bumbershoot is

Josh [1:21] A bumbershoot is an old word for an umbrella, which I think should have been the decided term. Like, like when, when, as a society we decided what to call an umbrella. And they went, do you wanna call it an umbrella, or do you wanna call it a bumbershoot? Bumbershoot please.

Mia [1:35] (laughter)

Josh [1:36] It sounds like steampunk weapon.

Mia [1:39] It does actually.

Josh [1:40] I’m gonna bumbershoot you!

Mia [1:43] So why- why is this something that you wanted to talk about and are excited about? And (laughter)

Josh [1:49] We said we wanted to do a podcast. We said we wanted to do a podcast, and sadly, we went through should we do a Riverdale podcast? Oh wait no it’s on Season Three now. Should we do a Star Trek podcast? Wait we don’t know enough about Star Trek and it’s on Season Two now. So, we are actually - so the rule is that we’re not allowed to watch the next episode of Umbrella Academy, despite already knowing the story, because we’ve read the comics, but to make sure that we get proper like, viewing experience. We’re not going to watch the next episode until we’ve done the podcast.

Mia [2:19] Yes, we’ll see how that goes…

Josh [2:20] Which has meant that it’s been two weeks, roughly, since we watched the first episode, well we’ve re-watched it. But since our first like watching of it, it’s been two weeks. And I’m desperate at this point to watch the next episodes.

Mia [2:33] Yeah, also everyone else has definitely seen it all. But that’s fine.

Josh [2:35] Yeah, so this is probably a useless podcast

Mia [2:37] You know, art for art’s sake. That’s all I’ve got to say. We had thought about doing an umbrella Academy one for a while because we were Thought Bubble in Leeds

Josh [2:48] We were, when, so this is in 2017 when Gerard Way was there for the kind of opening ish time period of Young Animal, which is the DC imprint he kind of heads up, which is great, by the way, it introduced me to Doom patrol, which is such a clear influence on Umbrella Academy. Like it really is. But regardless of that, and it was there that he was like, “oh, by the way” - I don’t know if that was where he first announced it but it was where we first heard that they were doing the Netflix version of Umbrella Academy so we were like, “Oh, we should do a podcast on this!” And so this is theoretically taken like two, two and a half years to actually, no a year and a half? Two years, something like that, for us to actually do it. And yet we’re still under prepared.

Mia [3:34] What you’re saying is this, this podcast is two years in the making, and you would never know.

Josh [3:39] No.

Mia [3:40] So let’s go back to what The Umbrella Academy is. It is a comic by Gerard Way and

Josh [3:46] Gabriel… Bá?

Mia [3:49] Yeah we’ve been having conversations about whether it’s Gabriel, Gabriel,

Josh [3:54] Gabriel Ba

Mia [3:56] “Bar”, “Bah”, don’t know, apologies

Josh [3:57] We might get this wrong - but Gabriel Bá is how we will say it for now.

Mia [4:03] Yeah. He’s the fantastic artist of the series. And Greard Way of course was

Josh [4:12] the writer

Mia [4:12] originally known to me as to probably most people as the frontman of My Chemical Romance

Josh [4:19] Though, you say that, since Umbrella Academy came out it was like “Gerard Way: who is the Umbrella Academy creator?” and I’m, I’m in like shock that pe- because obviously it must be, when was the last

Mia [4:33] because the past, because children were born in like the 2000s now

Josh [4:36] and basically there’s probably children watching it which were born after My Chemical Romance’s first albums

Mia [4:41] Tragic to me.

Josh [4:42] which also highlights our age. Let’s let’s move on to the Netflix side of things.

Mia [4:47] Yes.

Josh [4:48] So Netflix, have made this, so maybe it’s better but like, especially when you look back over older shows, Netflix synopses are bad. In fact, just today we saw an article or whatever that was in the Radio Times, which was a Netflix description of Doctor Who. This is an example. “Evil aliens. A wacky but brilliant tour guide. Flying through space in a tiny blue box is the trip of a lifetime.” Not really describing Doctor Who in theme, content necessarily, I’m not really sure - it feels a very, very bad synopsis. So in the spirit of that we’re going to look at the Netflix synopsis of the episode. And then like actually talk about it,

Mia [5:30] Also because it might be helpful just to sort of ground you know what actually happens in it.

Josh [5:36] I actually think this is a reasonable one.

Mia [5:37] I do too!

Josh [5:37] Shall I read it out?

Mia [5:38] Go on. Do it in a voice.

Josh [5:39] No. “Years after they rose to fame as young crime-fighting superheroes, the estranged Hargreeves siblings come together to mark their father’s death.”

Mia [5:48] Pretty accurate.

Josh [5:49] Very accurate. It doesn’t actually give away much, I quite like it. I think it’s a reasonable one. So Netflix synopsis: I give it I give it a solid 9 out of 10.

Mia [5:57] It’s quite exciting.

Josh [5:58] It doesn’t give you a hint of how weird it could potentially be.

Mia [6:01] No, it doesn’t. I think there’s a lot of-

Josh [6:05] Hold on, what is this episode called?

Mia [6:07] Ah, this episode is called “We only see each other at weddings and funerals”.

Josh [6:14] Is that from this episode?

Mia [6:16] They don’t say in this episode, b ut it’s kind of hinted at.

Josh [6:21] I don’t know how much I want to give the plot away during this because now we’re actually, even if people have watched it I feel like it’s a bit f a ruiner to kind of just- But, in fact let’s, let’s begin with impressions.

Mia [6:33] Yeah, um, I loved it. When we when we watched it, the first thing that caught my attention was the content warnings, because it was literally like this contains all of the things that you do not want to see.

Josh [6:46] Or you do want to see

Mia [6:48] Well, yeah, or you do want to see. That you don’t want your your child to see

Josh [6:51] yes. That’s why it’s an 18 I believe?

Mia [6:55] Is it an 18? I think it was a 15

Josh [6:57] I think it’s an 18.

Mia [6:59] Okay we’re gonna check.

Josh [7:01] It’s a 15! Does it have the content warnings on the, on the details? Strong violence, injury details, sex references, drug misuse and self harm. I suppose it’s bad. I’ve recently become a little bit interested in fonts. And I have to say the font is great. That Netflix original series font is like slightly Gothic. And I love how like over the top it almost is with that kind of aspect of the serif on it and everything is is it’s wonderful.

Mia [7:31] It’s interesting, because it’s not, it’s well, I don’t know, you’re more versed in comics than I am. But I wouldn’t have thought I would have like

Josh [7:41] No it feels like very much a title.

Mia [7:42] Yeah

Josh [7:43] A title font. Like, I feel like horror, weird things, you need the serif. You need the kind of like, the, and the varying thickness from thin to thick. I think it adds to it. It needs to look Gothic. And that does, the font is very Gothic.

Mia [7:59] So it’s nice it introduces like that kind of side of things, like really quickly, like that’s a clear sort of signifier from it even though like, you know, the way we open, it’s like, oh, it’s Russia, it’s people swimming, cool. You’d just be like, this is normal, fine.

Josh [8:12] And then it gets very weird very quickly.

Mia [8:14] It does.

Josh [8:15] I think the key thing here is obviously like in that opening sequence. You have this bit where it introduces the idea, this key idea that a number of women around the world all got pregnant at the same time. And come back to this actually, slightly when we talk about the differences with the comics, there is a difference in how that is set up. Because the comics definitely have a weirder opening, I think where I think this very quickly establishes kind of the slightly surreal, weird nature of the world by having this woman become pregnant and give birth and everyone’s shocked. But then she gives birth and no one is like,

Mia [8:51] they’re all like, yay, baby!

Josh [8:52] Yeah, they’re not like panicking. If I was to see somebody go from zero to nine months in the space of jumping into a pool, and then a baby to emerge from that that seems to be alive and well

Mia [9:04] I think I’d’ve run away screaming

Josh [9:05] And then a man turns up and offers to, like a British aristocratic man turns up. The, I mean this is communist Russia, let’s not forget, he turns up and he buys your baby, and everyone’s like, “yeah cool”

Mia [9:14] Yeah I mean, it’s terrifying. So we learn and then it kind of goes

Josh [9:19] We learn there’s seven, right, he gets, he manages to get seven of these. There’s many babies, but he manages to get seven of them. And we see them - the other thing here is obviously we’ve got this very grim opening and then the music is 'Picture Book’ by The Kinks, which is a very upbeat song.

Mia [9:31] Yeah.

Josh [9:32] Which weirdly contrasts. It adds to that sense of like, Oh, this isn’t like it’s dark, but it’s kind of got this weird lightness to it.

Mia [9:38] Some might call it contrapuntal music. Ooh, fancy word.

Josh [9:43] But you see the seven prams all numbered, and it cuts to today, so it’s cut in from 1989 to like, today.

Mia [9:49] Yeah

Josh [9:49] We see someone pick up a violin and they play it. Again, adding to the kind of Gothic esque nature, they play the Phantom of the Opera medley. The key key point here, something you pointed out when we were watching it, person playing the violin?

Mia [10:03] Don’t know who she is!

Josh [10:04] Don’t know who she is, like

Mia [10:06] we can imagine

Josh [10:07] We see it’s Ellen Page, right?

Mia [10:08] Oh, yeah.

Josh [10:09] So we know, it’s like somebody who’s gonna be important from that kind of aspect. But she isn’t named whereas what it does is it goes through each of these seven, or rather it goes through

Mia [10:20] five

Josh [10:20] very important the fact that we don’t have Vanya named until, she’s named at the very end I believe.

Mia [10:27] It is the end, yeah

Josh [10:28] Another key thing I noticed on re watching it was that their names are in quotation marks but their numbers are not.

Mia [10:34] Yeah as we as we find out later, like, you know, he, they were not given names by Hargreeves. He had “Mom” do it. They’re - they’re literally just numbers. The other thing that I thought in this opening, especially when I was re-watching it, I was like, hang on a minute. Does Ellen Page play the violin? Is this her? So I had to do a little Google and apparently she did actually do some lessons. She had a couple of lessons in it. But actually, it was like a young violinist, a young Canadian musician, who’s great - Imogen Sloss. Even before it kind of starts introducing everyone we can, I guess we’re like, oh, so these must be the kids but like, we still don’t know anything about them. We don’t know like, what’s-

Josh [11:07] We get a sense of something from their situations.

Mia [11:10] They’re all also on their, like none of them are together.

Josh [11:12] None of them are together. We’ve got Luther, who’s Number One, like, massive dude, living on the moon. And then you notice he’s taking the rubbish out? It’s not been collected. Now, is that normal or not? I don’t know. But it’s important in the context, one of the themes that does come through the episode and it become, it emerges more, is a sense of loneliness, and being forgotten and things I think

Mia [11:33] The other thing as well is obviously like in the comics, I can’t really remember exactly actually how they do it, but like their names, before even really I think we know their, their sort of normal first names, they’re like “Spaceboy” But yeah, which we haven’t had any of yet, but I expect we will in the future. So we get Luther, we get Diego.

Josh [11:45] We get their superhero names Who is the only one who’s doing anything remotely actually superhero-y?

Mia [11:57] Yes, exactly. He’s kind of in this like family’s house saving them from some robbers or

Josh [12:02] Gangsters or something, it’s not made clear

Mia [12:04] Don’t really know

Josh [12:05] Number Three.

Mia [12:06] Allison

Josh [12:06] She’s like famous on the red carpet for some reason. We have like, we see an umbrella tattoo on her wrist. Then Number Four, Klaus, who is like in a rehab or what, we don’t really, yeah, he’s in a rehab I think it kind of becomes clear, we see him getting out of a top bunk. He’s very chipper. The music actually changes to something that seems a bit calmer, cheekier.

Mia [12:12] Number Four, Klaus, played by Robert Sheehan, who you may know from Misfits, immediately, basically, through this just made me think of the character of Cassidy in Preacher, just because you know, another Misfits actor who’s

Josh [12:39] In fact he took over from him!

Mia [12:41] Oh god yeah he did, didn’t he? Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it’s that that kind of like very reckless behavior and being very like, Oh, it’s all good, like, whatever.

Josh [12:50] So we’re introduced to these four and then it goes between them as they kind of see some sort of news, shocking news of some kind, so we see all these things, we see, you know, go through all of them and then we see what is you know the person playing the violin is Ellen Pages, it’s Vanya, who I think is then named?

Mia [13:07] Yes, she is. The lights go off on her. Yeah. And then it’s like

Josh [13:10] So we don’t find out her name until the other characters have all had, like their moment in the spotlight, so to speak.

Mia [13:15] The other thing is that the vigilant amongst us will notice that actually we’ve gone 1 2 3 4 7

Josh [13:20] Yes.

Mia [13:21] There’s no Number Five, there’s no Number Six.

Josh [13:23] Yeah. Which does actually become a thing because after this point, there’s kind of, the shots cut between like Vanya and the house. The reason I mention it (because I don’t want to go over like the plot too much) is that one of the things it cuts between is the painting? We see a painting of six children. One that’s missing is Vanya.

Mia [13:36] Yeah. Yeah.

Josh [13:40] There’s only one girl in the picture and it is clearly Allison. And then it transitions to show Five as we lose one near the corner. And then it transitions to them as teenagers where we only see four, which are the four that we receive names for.

Mia [13:53] In the first one that disappears, we then go from that to the portrait of Number Five on the wall. Yeah. And then afterwards, it’s when it gets. Well, actually, I think we see the statue of Ben who is Number Six, yeah, but we don’t know that yet. Also, though, really quickly, that was one thing that really made me laugh when I was re-watching it. When Diego’s like, doing his little crime-fighting bit in this family’s house, and then he like, kills all the bad guys or whatever. And he goes to the family, looks at them, like proper Daredevil, and is like “you’re safe now”. It just really made me laugh. And also, I then realized later, the Director of this episode, is Peter Hall, who is known for Doctor Who, Altered Carbon and in fact, Daredevil.

Josh [14:33] Oh!

Mia [14:35] So anyway

Josh [14:36] We meet Pogo who’s like a monkey who can talk? Again, it’s a sign of how weird it is, there’s just a monkey who can talk.

Mia [14:41] Yeah they’re just like yeah it’s chill.

Josh [14:42] And they’re talking about Number Five and how he went missing. It’s been 16 years. Yeah, important one is obviously there’s a point where they talk about having a ceremony then it cuts to 17 years ago, where they first stop a bank robbery, I think it’s their first thing. And in that we see, in fact the only one we don’t see, we don’t see Vanya but we also don’t see Klaus.

Mia [15:02] Yeah no, he’s not doing anything there.

Josh [15:05] But we learn their skills. So Allison is able to alter reality so-to-speak, or make people do things by saying she heard a rumor. So in this she says “I heard a rumor that you shot your friend in the foot”. And then he shoots him in the foot. Luther comes through the roof and has super strength. Diego throws knives and they like bend in the air, like it goes at a right angle. Then we see Number Five

Mia [15:27] Aw Number Five is great.

Josh [15:28] Well we don’t know, I don’t think we’ve actually got his number yet, but we see somebody who can jump through space and looks like the first one to disappear from the painting, which when you’ve read the comics, you know is Number Five, but still

Mia [15:39] I love that bit, it’s so good, and it introduces like such a fun, like, I think in all, in this whole thing. Like it’s very much like, they’re kids! They’re like having fun with it. And it’s quite like, perverse?

Josh [15:43] Yeah. And that’s highlighted by then, Number six who is Ben, which we never get given the name, like it never comes up on the screen as a name but we know it’s Ben from the way they talk about things. He’s like I don’t, like he’s very reluctant to go in.

Mia [16:07] He’s like, do I have to have to do this

Josh [16:08] and basically he goes into this final room and they show these tentacles appear everywhere, like throwing people around, there’s screams,

Mia [16:15] blood on the window

Josh [16:16] and he comes back out just coated in blood and clearly traumatized.

Mia [16:20] What I was going to say though, as well with Number Five, you know, it’s so playful like he’s like, “Oh, yeah, just replace the gun with a stapler, hahaha, great,” you know, and then I think again, it’s also highlighted more like when it cuts away back to Vanya, who’s on the roof with Hargreeves and they’re kind of watching from afar. He’s observing them and it’s weird, and she’s like, “Can I play with the others?” And it’s like, they’re not playing

Josh [16:42] I think he says like, you’re not special or something doesn’t he as well? Or is that later on?

Mia [16:46] No that’s then.

Josh [16:47] Is it then?

Mia [16:48] Yeah.

Josh [16:49] Ah, yes. And then there’s a press conference where he says he’s adopted six gifted children. Yeah, he’s adopted Vanya and just put her to one side basically, he ignores her

Mia [16:56] Poor Vanya. She’s kind of almost, acts as like his assistant.

Josh [16:58] Yeah, then, so we go back and you know, Klaus who has the ability to connect with people in the afterlife is trying to connect to Hargreeves and things - doesn’t seem to be working but it goes to one of my favorite scenes which is that they’re all in the different rooms like clearly not getting on with each other. And Luther puts on “I Think We’re Alone Now”.

Mia [16:58] Yeah, it’s so great.

Josh [17:16] And they all dance separately and it zooms out and there’s this like cut through like, like someone’s taken a slice out of the house and you see them all in their respective rooms dancing on their own. Again, the theme of loneliness and things and being separate

Mia [17:28] I love it, it’s so great.

Josh [17:31] And that’s when the thunder rumbles, which is when we see Number Five come back, which is when we get his name and stuff on the screen, and he’s just-

Mia [17:38] You’ve missed out something really important which I think we really need to talk about, which is Vanya’s dancing. Ellen Page being, like I love the way that they really embody all their characters in this, it’s so brilliant like they’re all clearly like very different. I love the Kra- what’s his name? Diego. He does like all his like nerdy like old-school disco moves, Allison is sort of doing her like fun stereotypical girl dancing in the bedroom like she’s got like a feather boa and stuff but it’s just like all of this it’s such, it’s a nice way of like giving them that extra bit of personality whilst also showing their, you know, the separateness between them

Josh [18:23] But yeah, then we see this thunder thing, this like sort of temporal anomaly they call it and what basically happens is you see like an old man through it who then falls through this hole and it is Number Five as a young boy again, and you know, without going into it too much it transpires that he’s basically like travelled through time, he’s lived this long period of time etc. and onwards

Mia [18:43] Yeah, he’s just super super offhandedly being like “yeah, I’ve been in the future, it’s shit by the way”

Josh [18:47] Yeah, and by the end of episode we find out that the world’s ended and he, but he knows the day it ends on and it’s

Mia [18:53] Eight days from now

Josh [18:54] Eight days from now, whatever, so he’s managed to get back. Um, a couple of key points to bring up I think: one, when Diego and Luther have a fight, obviously there’s a rip in the sleeve and we see a hairy arm, which is interesting because they almost hide this aspect of the character

Mia [19:08] Yeah, whereas in the comic it’s a feature

Josh [19:09] In the comic it’s very early on, yeah it’s a feature thing. We get, we get the mom recharges again like they unveil that she’s a robot, but I think it’s very, well it is revealed but it’s very quickly revealed I feel in the comics, I think when they’re fighting they rip her dress or something and it reveals she hasn’t got any legs underneath, she’s basically on wheels or something. But the other bit - so I loved that bit - the last bit I want to mention, because of this loneliness theme in the episode, the bit where they show them training and getting their tattoos, where Vanya draws her own tattoo, which is kind of heartbreaking

Mia [19:39] So heartbreaking

Josh [19:40] But the voiceover emphasizes them working as a team rather than alone. Which is obviously this idea of them coming back together to potentially stop the end of the world. Very important I think. Then obviously the bit I think a lot of people have spoken about is the scene where Number Five kills like a bunch of people with guns basically to the song “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)”, which is

Mia [20:01] Oh it’s so great. They Might Be Giants.

Josh [20:03] Yeah it’s such a, such a good scene, like the way it’s done is brilliant. Again, that sense of like he’s very cheeky with how he like fights them. He’s also incre- like it is this really interesting contrast still that he’s very cheeky, almost childlike with it, but he is adult in that he’s like murdering them.

Mia [20:19] Yes

Josh [20:19] Very, very happily murdering them without any worries or thought. Also that he’s dressed in his old uniform, because the only clothes he has left are the ones from him, as a, as what like a seven year old or whatever

Mia [20:29] Yeah, he opens his wardrobe he’s like, ahhh, fucking shit. It’s also I really love that they haven’t seen him, all the rest of, all his siblings haven’t seen him for what was it? 16 years or whatever?

Josh [20:39] Yeah yeah

Mia [20:40] And um, and so they’re like, trying to adjust to it. You know, they’re seeing him now as he was then. But he’s actually like, 58 years old. He’s older than all of them in consciousness. And they’re like, my favorite bit, like they’re trying to sort of adjust to this, my favorite bit is when Luther and Diego are fighting and Klaus is kind of like trying to shield him being like, “Oh, that’s like, the kid can’t get hurt in the fight”. And he’s just like, what? Again though it’s just that weirdness, like, they accept it very quickly, but also he’s like, “Oh, I’m going to drive to this diner” and they’re like, “Can you drive? Can you-” So it’s, that’s going to be an interesting, fun dynamic, I think between them.

Josh [21:15] So I guess now’s a good time, like the differences between comic and - it’s kind of hard, it’s really hard for me to actually figure out the differences in some sense, in terms of what we’ve been revealed and haven’t been revealed. Partly because we, I read the comics as one book because I’m trying to remember what was in each bit, I think, some key differences that I noticed, at least. In fact one of the main differences, I think, is that we don’t have their superhero names, as you mentioned. So in the comics, it’s “Spaceboy” for Luther, “The Kraken” for Diego, “The Rumour” for Allison

Mia [21:48] “Seance” for Number Four, for Klaus

Josh [21:51] Yeah, Number Five is Number Five, I think.

Mia [21:51] Yeah and it’s the same in his caption in this, he doesn’t have a name either way. 'Cause like I- I guess also, does that mean that they were named after that point?

Josh [22:00] Potentially after that point, yes, maybe.

Mia [22:02] Like so they went 16 years of their lives just being numbers

Josh [22:05] No no, no they weren’t 16 years, he disappeared at the age he is there. They haven’t seen him in 16 years.

Mia [22:10] Oh, yeah. He’s 13 years old.

Josh [22:12] Ah he’s 13 years old. So he’s, up until the age of 13 they probably weren’t named.

Mia [22:15] Yeah. Which is so sad

Josh [22:17] Or, or he rejected his name

Mia [22:19] Possibly also that

Josh [22:19] Because he does seem to be the one that’s most comfortable with not being part of society. The other ones kind of like, they’re weird and they don’t fit in, obviously like Spaceboy lives on the moon, so to speak, all these different things, but it’s very clear that Number Five just, like he travelled in the future, he had no respect for time or normality

Mia [22:37] Yeah. Seems like Hargreeves as well, like from a line he says, Hargreeves you know told him not to travel in time, like space is one thing, time’s another, but he did it

Josh [22:47] But the other big difference is that The Seance, (which is what, in my head they’re still the chara-, their comic book names) talks to The Horror, Ben, in the backseat of the thing, of the car, which is definitely not a thing I remember at all from the comics.

Mia [23:00] No. And also that’s when Ben finally gets his caption as well, like he’s there in the car, we don’t- the viewer, you know, if you don’t know who he is or can’t guess, you don’t- it’s not clear, also he doesn’t speak at all. He doesn’t say anything. Klaus is just talking to him, he’s just sat there. He keeps saying we Yeah, it’s like “we, we, we” and we think there’s someone there but then you see Diego’s view there’s no one there and then we get Number, Number Six then. It’s so sad! What happened to him? We don’t know! Also I found interesting I don’t know if this- I can’t remember if this was in the comic or not, on his statue, so the, the little sort of engraving on it, it says “May the darkness within you find - rest-” Hang on a minute I wrote it down

Josh [23:41] It’s definitely clear that whatever his power is, it’s- it’s not pleasant.

Mia [23:46] Yeah. Oh, okay, so his- the engraving on the statue, on Ben’s statue, said “May the darkness within you find peace in the light”. Very very dark. Like I don’t know how much they’re going to kind of reveal in the TV show because, well up to where we’ve read in the comics I don’t think we learn what happens to him.

Josh [24:04] No. No, there is a few, I’m trying to remember, there’s a few bits in the back. We definitely get- we definitely get more of him outside of the plot, if that makes sense, there’s like a couple of like bonus feature type bits, but I don’t think we find out what happens to him.

Mia [24:18] No, you see him in all the kind of flashbacks

Josh [24:20] You see him with the tentacles and stuff early on. But he disappears, he’s, it’s less obvious that he’s disappeared in the comics, I feel

Mia [24:27] Yeah, I didn’t realize

Josh [24:28] Oh, that was the other key difference! In the comics, it opens, it’s what I alluded to earlier, it opens with, they’re all born, the moment of, oh what’s it called now. There’s a phrase… is it an intergalactic wrestling match? Which is how weird like the thing, like, how weird that comic is, it opens with an intergalactic wrestling match. It’s not clear whether humanity’s even aware that that is happening or not. It is described as, “in the mid 20th century at the instant of the finishing blow in a cosmic wrestling match forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy”. And Hargreeves is called The Monocle.

Mia [25:10] Yes. Which - and of course it’s one of the big things - I say big things - but one of the things in it is the missing monocle. The monocle’s missing, Luther is all like

Josh [25:20] Yeah, someone’s done this. We see Diego with it, right?

Mia [25:22] Yeah, Diego had it. Diego had it all along. And also like, I think all of that reveals a lot more around their relationships, I think particularly between Luther and Diego. Luther was always the kind of, you know, he was Number One, but he was also always the leader.

Josh [25:35] He was al- he was the leader and he always seemed to have a closer relationship with Hargreeves than some of the others.

Mia [25:38] Exactly. You know, he talks about like, “Oh, you know, Dad’s favorite spot” and they’re like, “what d'you mean?” and he’s like, “you know, under the tree, we used to sit there, didn’t you guys do that?”

Josh [25:47] It’s also interesting, you see an element as well of a difference between Luther symbolizing almost like order, or like, if I was thinking in terms of D&D kind of alignments, he’s definitely more towards a lawful, lawful, potentially lawful good. I mean they’re all vigilantes, so none of them are technically lawful, lawful good. But definitely closer to that, whislt Diego is happy, you know, he’s like running around in a dark outfit. Even the music represented a difference. He was definitely an angrier character. He was less maybe- maybe in relation to each other, maybe not in relation to society, but in relation to each other, and Hargreeves, Luther is the lawful good kind of like, I do what, but I, you know I’m lawful, like a soldier, like very much a soldier who is doing what he’s told by his captain, whereas Diego is very much more like, I’m going to do I want, makes noises

Mia [26:43] (Laughter)

Josh [26:43] Like an angry chaos, whereas then obviously Klaus feels definitely more like a happy chaos. Like he’s a drugged up… whatever. Like, I did love that, I think they show, did they show him without his shoes on?

Mia [26:54] Possibly, I can’t remember

Josh [26:55] It was a key bit with him with his shoes because that is a key part of his thing that he can’t use powers with shoes on.

Mia [27:00] Yeah, he has to have- he can’t have his shoes on. Also, clearly his powers don’t work when he’s high as a kite.

Josh [27:05] Yeah.

Mia [27:06] Oh my god, I love the bit

Josh [27:07] Or they do but Hargreeves isn’t responding to it.

Mia [27:09] I love the bit where he knocks over the ashes. But yeah, it’s another key thing. And that, he’s also got his tattoo hands. His “hello, goodbye” hands, which is in the comics too.

Josh [27:23] Yeah. So that’s Umbrella Academy Episode One. A chaotic, sprawling exploration of it, at least.

Mia [27:31] Any thoughts about, before we finish, any last thoughts?

Josh [27:35] So the only thing I would note is, and I am terrified of getting this wrong. But the, there is a cast member who is listed in that first episode, yeah, Mary J. Blige, who we never see. And based only on the trailer so far, I’m pretty certain she’s playing a character from the second volume of the comics. Which is interesting, because, so one thing, because I read Umbrella Academy 1 a long time ago, and it was this year when I read Umbrella Academy Volume Two, I’d actually forgotten some of the plot lines a little bit. I’d forgotten how closely tied in they were to each other. They felt, I was- in my head, they felt like they were going to be two separate things that happened to share characters. But actually, I went back and re-read them both in different ways ready for this and I did notice that they do overlap, they interlink with each other more than I remembered. So it’s interesting, they’re bringing in Mary J. Blige because she’s a character from the second volume who they’re then gonna incorporate into this first one, which makes sense when you realize that they are meant to be linked. I guess it’s to bring that together more.

Mia [28:39] Yeah, it does. Last other notes, which I guess kind of relates but, so, there’s like this whole- this whole mystery which hopefully we’re going to find out about at some point soon, about Number Five being in the future but also like, who these people were who came to kill him, and like this tracking chip he had in his arm which he cut out, and then also when he goes to Vanya and again is like, “I’ve come to you because you’re the only one I can trust because you’re ordinary and you’ll listen” - there’s this whole thing all the way through of Vanya being like the caring one, like she’s, she, she always used to go and leave the lights on and make a snack for Number Five in case he came home, and she’s there to like, you know, she, she will happily then again like bandage up Number ive and listen to him, and she just wants to

Josh [28:56] She wants to be part of the team

Mia [29:09] She wants to be part of it. She fell out with them all then because she wrote a book about it, but there’s, there doesn’t seem to be very much sympathy from anyone, apart from maybe Allison, for her. But yeah, so it’s all, it’s very interesting. I love the, that whole presentation of her character and like even just the way she dresses she’s just, she’s very like, just gonna blend in the background, just going to try and get on now.

Josh [29:51] So, thought on the episode? What was your, how, what would you give it out of 10?

Mia [29:56] I don’t know. I don’t have any future episodes to compare it to yet. In terms of my enjoyment, my excitement level’s pushed up by it being a fun new show that I’m really excited about as well. I think it was really well done, well cast, love the style and aesthetic of it all. Love the music. Some of it, I guess, you know, a lot of the expositional stuff was maybe like a little bit heavy handed but it kind of has to be, because the nature of it and also, you know, it’s based on a comic. Also another note about the comics is, God, I found them so confu- you know, it’s only when you get to the end of a volume are you like, “I get it!”

Josh [30:32] Almost every Gerard Way comic I’ve read, I, it- I’m always like I don’t know what’s happening. You have to just knuckle down and let it just Yeah, you have to just let it kind of happen and then you get to the end of it and it suddenly all ties together and you look back and go, “oh, of course, and now that makes sense now, and this and that”

Mia [30:38] I always think I’ve missed something “What a wonderful piece of art! I get it!” Yeah

Josh [30:49] Which I love. I guess the final note is what would you say your favourite, one of your favourite lines is from the, from the episode?

Mia [30:57] “Rapists can climb.”

Josh [30:58] Yeah

Mia [30:59] Would be uh, one of mine.

Josh [31:00] Which was…

Mia [31:01] Just a weird, weird line.

Josh [31:02] But it’s great though, right? Because he’s like, what is it she says, it’s something like

Mia [31:07] She’s, it’s because he’s like, “Oh, you you need a lock on your windows.” And she’s like, “I live on the-

Josh [31:12] first floor.

Mia [31:13] Yeah, like whatever it is.

Josh [31:15] He’s like, "rapists can climb!”

Mia [31:16] Which is just so weird, especially coming from the mouth of a 13 year old.

Josh [31:20] Yeah, which is great. Okay, so

Mia [31:23] What would you, what would - I didn’t give it an out of 10 rating

Josh [31:26] Ah, I don’t think we need one. I think out of 10 ratings don’t give you enough. I feel like this entire podcast is an out of 10 rating.

Mia [31:32] Ha, okay.

Josh [31:34] So with that in mind, we’re going to go watch Episode Two.

Mia [31:36] Yeah, baby. Can’t wait. Thanks for listening. If you got through to the end, maybe you skipped some of it. I don’t know. But I mean, thanks, I hope that it was enjoyable. Let us know what you think.

Josh [31:48] Byeee

Mia [31:48] Byeeee!

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