Something something talkbox and vocoders
I love the switch up between the two the Sung has been doing. Especially seeing it live.
Talkbox is good, but it covers the annunciation and vocal infliction with a sort of chewiness, likely due to the set embouchure you need for the tube
With a vocoder, you can still hear that it’s Sung. But there’s also a soft roundness that it adds.
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I love flustered and uncertain Steve as much as the next person but Steve Harrington has game and he’s going to lay it on THICK to get his man.
Steve starts by consulting with Robin and Dustin on Eddie’s various interests and how best to make it clear he wants to kiss him on the mouth
Dustin is initially horrified at the thought of something going wrong and make his life harder because then he’d have to deal with two moping dads instead of two pining dads. He knows they both suck at being rational so he needs this to not blow up
Steve starts buying little things for Eddie to begin the ‘courting process’ as he’s calling it (hey he’s going to get in character and woo his damsel and druids master or whatever)
These gifts include: a set of dice, a big heavy duty safety pin, blank tapes (yes he’s hoping to get a mix tape out of that one), sewing thread (because Steve pays attention dammit) and a hair tie ‘you can’t hide away that pretty face all the time Munson’
Steve is on fire, he’s inviting eddie out to dinner, movies, even asking about the local gig scene
The thing is, Eddie has no game. Negative game in fact, the guy punches trees, rolls around in the dirt and can’t even look at Steve without blushing or saying the most out of pocket thing that he agonises over later when he’s lying in bed and trying to sleep
Eventually, eventually, after Steve has played all his cards and Eddie is suitably flustered once again, Steve is leaving Eddie’s (he was getting an education on Judas Priest). Steve is dedicated to his chivalrous approach to just as he’s at the door, he leans in a press a kiss to Eddie’s cheek murmuring ‘thanks for the enlightening experience Eddie, maybe I could return the favour next time’
Before Steve gets fully out of the door Eddie has pulled him in by the collar, thrown caution to the wind and kisses Steve breathless. He leaves the trailer walking backwards and still in conversation with Eddie, bumping into his car and waving as he drives away
The next day he goes into work Dustin happens to be there, conspiring with Robin on Steve’s next Eddie related movie. Steve pushes both doors open, sunglasses on and announces to a very busy family video ‘Harrington still has it baby’
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Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.
Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.
Long-winded interpretation under the cut!
Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.
You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)
The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.
Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.
And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.
For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.
“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)
So, where does this leave us?
It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!
Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.
To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.
And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.
Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.
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Just watched the direct ‘cos I missed it live
Things that caught my eye
Pik min puppy??
Fashion game??!
Tron game??!?
Slaptoon dlc??!??
A FANTASY LIFE GAME FOR SWITCH?!?!?!?!
And of course the new zeld game
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