you wanna see how far down i can sink? / let me go, fuck - this is how i disappear, my chemical romance
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Nimoma has good emotional payoff and animation but nothing else to really write home about TBH
It's very SPOP in that way, where the arcs and scenes are solid when viewed outside of the media in gifset or clip form but don't work as well when actually watching what they're from
For sure! I think that's a problem she-ra and toh both share with Nimona—they struggle with setup but then go ham on the payoff, which leaves everything feeling somewhat unearned.
The end of the movie bugged me in particular—Ballister's 180 with calling Nimona a monster (something he KNOWS pushes her to the brink) after one conversation with his ex-boyfriend was...I think out of place?
Normally if you have a character make a wrong choice like that you, as the audience, would be questioning the whole movie if they had ever REALLY changed. Was Ballister's loyalty truly to Nimona or to the Institute/Goldenloin? But, by that point in the movie they had really sold me on Ballister's complete acceptance of Nimona and disregard of the institute, so....why would he turn on Nimona then? I'm surprised they didn't do this plot the other way, which would instead have only made it seem like Ballister betrayed Nimona, you know? Like they did in Tangled. That way you don't undo Ballister's movie long arc with one scene, but you can still have Nimona go berserk and make her way into the heart of the city.
There were also a couple of other things that felt kinda dropped by the end. Ballister being the first commoner to become a knight? The Queen's important role in this society? This kingdom's prejudice going SO deep that not even a child would give Nimona a chance after saving their life, yet blowing up the wall changed everyone's minds in the end?
There were a lot of good pieces, but they weren't quite put together in the right ways.
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So now that we're here, I think I should talk about how I found The Owl House in the first place. Like, I suspect, quite a few people, it started with me seeing gifs of this scene on Tumblr. I think I already had the vaguest idea that there was a new cartoon about witches, presumably from the same person posting about it, but it was barely a blip on my radar. But the Grom dance gifsets showed a scene that looked so great (the animation in this scene is absolutely stunning), so unique, and so openly, joyfully queer, that I knew I had to watch it at some point. So I made a mental note and checked the tags for the show's name. And well, the tags on it said Lumity, so I figured that was the name of the show. So, mental note: download and watch Lumity at some point.
Anyway then ADHD happened so I didn't. That november, Desert Bus for Hope happened, and this being 2020, it was done entirely remote. This meant several people, including Bengineering, were in front of a greenscreen and would put their own backgrounds on it. And the reason I mention Ben is because during dance parties, he would put the Grom dance on his background, reminding me I really needed to watch that Lumity show. He actually talked about the show and how fantastic it is at some point too, so after Desert Bus I decided to download it and have a look.
Well, turns out if you try to find a show titled Lumity on RARBG, you don't get torrents for The Owl House. So, a little annoyed, I decided to search for the new She-Ra instead, since it too had been on my radar for a while. But while it was downloading, I tried my hand at searching the internet for something along the lines of 'cartoon where there's two witches dancing and fighting a monster and one of them wears a suit and dress and the other has green hair'. Which, somehow, did give a list of cool recent cartoons that included screencaps I could recognise the characters from. Ohh, it's name is The Owl House!
So, having downloaded SPOP and The Owl House at basically the same time, I had to pick what to watch first. Having already put on the first two episodes of She-Ra, you'd think I'd keep going with that, but I wanted to sample both. Once I'd seen The Owl House's pilot as well, my plan was to sort of go back and forth, but at the time, The Owl House had only a single season, while She-Ra already had all five. So it felt like I could just keep watching Owl House and get done with it before committing to the full five season SPOP. That did have the unfortunate side-effect of me forgetting some stuff from The Sword when I did get back to watching She-Ra, but that's a different story.
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I remember the minute
It was like a switch was flipped—
I was just a kid who grew up strong enough
To pick this armor up
And suddenly, it fit
God, that was so long ago, long ago, long ago...
I was little, I was weak and perfectly naive
And I grew up too quick
Now you won’t see all that I have to lose
And all I've lost in the fight to protect it
I won’t let you in, I swore never again—
I can't afford, no, I refuse to be rejected
[...]
Here I am, pry me open
What do you want to know?
I’m just a kid who grew up scared enough
To hold the door shut
And bury my innocence
But here's a map, here's a shovel
Here’s my Achilles' heel
I’m all in, palms out, I’m at your mercy now and I'm ready to begin
I am strong, I am strong, I am strong enough to let you in.
Sleeping at Last - “Eight”
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