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acenancy · 3 years

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The Ace x Nancy x Tamura of It All

I’m here as a hardcore Nace shipper (see the URL) to throw my two cents into the Ace x Nancy x Tamura discussion.

Some of you straight up hate Tamura and that’s cool, I get it, no judgement, but I personally like him a lot as a character. And I LOVE the connection he and Nancy have. Their repartee is entertaining, they share a passion for solving mysteries which is key to being Nancy’s friend, and their very different life experiences help balance each other out.

You know, since one of them is grounded in reality and the other is navigating through life in a supernaturally charged hellmouth.

That being said, I hope they grow closer during S3 WITHOUT becoming explicitly romantic. And I think that may be exactly what happens! At most, I think that while solving magical mysteries, Nancy and Tamura will engage in a fun little flirtationship that will lead to genuine friendship. His partnership with Nancy would be solidified this way as well as his honorary membership to the Drew Crew. This could serve three purposes:

Forcing Tamura to accept the supernatural elements of Horseshoe Bay, thus weaving him more intricately into the plot.

Creating tension between Nancy and Ace 😏

Exploring and adding depth to whatever sort of relationship they’re trying to establish between Tamura and Ace.

I see all of this playing out fairly simply: while Nick and George are busy juggling real life and a wedding, while Bess devotes her time and energy into researching her family history and finding love, and while Ace prioritizes Amanda, Nancy finds herself without proper backup. So! Perhaps unintentionally, Nancy gravitates to Tamura. There's crimes and mysteries to be solved and since her friends are not fully available to her, who better to turn to than the guy who’s job it is to investigate these things? And so begins the Nancy and Tamura buddy cop comedy that is both dreaded and highly anticipated depending on what social media outlet you’re using.

Though let me repeat: BUDDY COP.

I really don’t think we’re going to have an Ed and Lorraine Warren situation on our hands with these two. Truly, if the S2 finale is anything to go by, I think S3 will allow Nancy to grow into herself outside of a romantic or sexual relationship. She’s not running from herself and into someone else’s bed anymore. She’s embracing and learning to love herself. I’d even go so far as to say Nancy’s love interest next season will be...Nancy lmao.

As for Tamura, if they decide to give him a romantic interest, I think they would either have his ex-fiancée reenter the picture or maybe even do him dirty and stick him with Temperance for plot reasons. A doomed Tamura x Temperance romance would actually be fun to see, in my opinion, and would be a great way to open Tamura’s eyes to the supernatural. That’s just me spit-balling, though. Whether it’s because of Temperance or not, I think Tamura is finally going to have to accept ghosts and witches and magic are real this season. It’s just a requirement for working with Nancy Drew.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, we have to address the Nace of it all. Sorry to Tamura but I do believe you’re being used as an obstacle in True Love’s way next season. I think fandom’s general consensus is that the more time Nancy and Tamura spend together, romantic or not, the more jealous Ace will become. While I agree, I think Ace’s jealousy will stem from somewhere a little deeper than just seeing Nancy with another guy.

Take Gil, for example. Ace was sort of jealous of Gil, but more than anything he was wary of him and concerned for Nancy’s wellbeing when she was with him. Unlike Ace, Gil never had anything to offer Nancy except for sex and a getaway car. He sure as hell was never her number one person. In fact, he wasn’t even Nancy’s number five person. There was never a reason for Ace to be envious of him.

Tamura, on the other hand, can prove to be just as much of an equal to Nancy as Ace is. As chief/lead detective, he also has power and influence that Ace and Nancy do not, and access to people and resources that Ace does not have (unless he can hack into them). Tamura can help Nancy bend and break the law without consequence if need be, too. And, although naive in regards to the mystics of Horseshoe Bay, he is just as smart as Nancy and has, on the rare occasion, even been one step ahead of her. Tamura is an asset, to say the least. Together, he and Nancy make a formidable duo.

That’s what will make Ace jealous. More than the prospect of romance between Nancy and Tamura, I think that Nancy finding another intellectual match is what will rub Ace the wrong way. They’ll find themselves at a brief moment in time where Nancy will turn to Tamura for assistance before anyone, including Ace, and Ace will realize he absolutely hates that someone who is not him is Nancy’s partner in crime now.

Maybe Nancy won’t notice, but Ace will probably realize his love for her is not of the philia sort. I’m sure Amanda also will. And? Maybe Tamura will see it too.

Which brings me to one of my favorite dynamics of the show: Ace and Tamura’s.

I’m not gonna sit here and spin my crazy conspiracy theory that they’re brothers. Though that idea will always hold a special place in my heart, slowly but surely I am accepting that Ace’s long lost brother really is Grant. I’m being a total grownup about it. I swear.

Nevertheless, I do think they’ve been trying to build some kind of relationship between Ace and Tamura since before Tamura even met Nancy. What sort of relationship? God, I wish I knew.

They meet each other first, which doesn’t necessarily mean a lot, but it’s worth noting that they’re on each other’s funny little shit lists before Nancy even enters Tamura’s picture. It’s also Ace and Ace alone that hears from McGuinness that Tamura will be replacing him in the same episode. Then, of course, we have that crazy Shabbat dinner in 2x03 that exacerbates their antagonistic relationship further. Then there’s their snarky banter and all of those totally unnecessary side-by-side shots of them saving Noah in 2x10. Apart from Nancy, Ace is the only member of the Drew Crew that we’ve seen Tamura develop a real connection with, even if it is an unfriendly one. And, as of now, their relationship doesn’t even have anything to do with Nancy.

So where are the writers going with this hilarious and hostile bond between Ace and Tamura? Has all of this really just been buildup for a romantic rivalry? Hey, maybe! I really can’t figure out another reason why the writers have gone out of their way to create their dynamic since the Brother Theory has been disproven. But something tells me this may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

And when I say “this”, I mean Tamura taking a step back from Nancy once he realizes he may just be filling in the love of her life’s shoes. Because that’s where I think all of this is going. Not necessarily anywhere romantic between Nancy and Tamura, but somewhere more friendly between Tamura and everyone.

At the end of it all, Tamura is going to finally embrace the supernatural, he’s going to become an ally to Nancy, Ace, and the rest of the Drew Crew, and, when the timing is right, he’s going to hop onboard the Nace ship with the rest of us.

I HOPE.

Side note: this is just where my head is at. I truly respect all of your opinions and ask that you respect mine too. If you agree with what I’ve said and want to talk, let’s talk! If you disagree and want to talk, we can talk too! Please, just don’t get nasty with me. This is a television show about fictional characters at the end of the day, and I am a real person. Much love to you all. ❤️

#nancy drew cw #nace #namura #abe tamura

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blookmallow · 3 years

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ok FINALLY heres the last. pile of stuff from deltarune sdgjgfg

sad

YES

oh my GOD im so glad they’re ok and apparently got back into my pocket again somehow

rouxls thou art an absoluteth liar

god i wish that were me

thanks ralsei for your wisdom

MAYBE NOT

i hate this thing but also the fact that i was given no say in whether to take it or not and it’s Here Now And There’s Not A Goddamn Thing I Can Do About It probably means kris either wanted it or wanted it to spite me or both and either way, well played, good for them lmfao

ive been waiting the entire chapter for this

gaslight gatekeep girldad

anyway i cant BELIEVE she isn’t actually lancer’s mom. maybe she is and is just being a brat about it but it doesn’t seem like it. why does she look SO MUCH like him and his dad. lancer acts like he takes after her already. like why would she NOT be his mom, toby, answer me this

though i did see someone’s theory somewhere that queen divorced lancer’s dad before lancer was. born. or. made. or whatever he is and wherever he came from. and she keeps, to this day, taking things in the divorce, long after the divorce. she took the kid in the divorce years after said divorce and it’s not even her kid sdgsdg

i definitely love that her immediate response to seeing lancer was just “alright ive just decided: im your mother now”

what the fuck is this about i need to KNOW

noelle’s dad just delivering an absolute one hit KO on his daughter here

MOM HOLY FUCK

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

THERE THEY ARE!!!!!!!! THERE THEY A R E

i was so fucking hype about napstablook i didnt even notice all the prisoners are the dogs from the walk up to snowdin fsdjgdsg

imprisoned for dog crimes

i dont remember what happened here that caused them all to get loose but i didnt get a chance to interact with them. oops. next time

i wont. for you, my beloved

i really like that somehow in this bizarre alternate world where even bratty and catty aren’t friends... somehow... napstablook still inexplicably became besties with undyne anyway

mixed messages here

deputy napstablook...................

napstablook and undyne buddy cop comedy when

i missed the shots of it apparently but thank you toby for allowing us a small scrap of alphyne as well

well, well, WELL, if it isn’t sans undertale

he won’t sell you anything unless you put it in a basket and the baskets are stacked so high its impossible to get them. this is a terrible store. i missed you so much

napstablook back... alphyne hints... sans running a ridiculous store again... soriel flirting... nature is healing

asgore oh my fucking god NO

i wonder why they divorced in this universe though since the whole. thing with the. y’know. human sacrifice. didn’t happen, presumably

i guess that probably means they were fundamentally noncompatible in some other respect even outside of that context/were never meant to be even in an alternate life

proud of you buddy but also deeply terrified of whatever’s going on behind the counter there

[slumps sadly against the door] please, i know you’re in there

I’m right out here for you, just let me iiiinnnnnn

my heart hurts im so worried about mettaton

like. presumably if he never met alphys. and. won’t come out. he’s probably still a ghost and never got his dream body. so he’s just hiding in there. please... honey darling sweetie gravy let me help you let me hold you

he said something like “show me something entertaining tomorrow” so im hoping with my entire heart that means we’ll be able to do something for him in the next chapter

im still really scared but toriel is still an icon

o K A Y

does this mean the next dark world is going to be made from toriel’s house. chariel is going to be a character now im calling it right here

anyway uh i have no fucking idea what’s going on still but this chapter was really good and even better than the last one and im finally like, proper invested in this

what is HAPPENING though like. its becoming pretty clear that the player is the Soul and is controlling kris, a separate being entirely, against their will. that’s why when they rip it out we can no longer control them or see where they go or what they do. but it clearly hurts them severely to tear it out and they can barely survive without it. and if we can assume kris was the one who slashed toriel’s tires... why?? that doesn’t make sense as something they would break our control over them to do

#lucy plays deltarune

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witcherislovewitcherislife · 2 years

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Rereading The Last Wish: The Edge of the World

(read on 12/24/2021)

This story is the first official introduction we have to Dandelion apart from his inclusion in The Voice of Reason excerpts in-between chapters. We all know it by now but they have an excellent dynamic together. You have the less-than-talkative Geralt and Dandelion who can't shut up.

Not much happens early on. They are in Posada and Geralt is looking for work. The villagers indulge him with tales of various monsters. Geralt listens but rides on once they finish because none of what they speak actually exists. This is where we get another infamous Witcher quote about people liking to make up monsters so they themselves seem less monstrous.

It takes awhile but the story does being to ramp up a bit. Villagers, Nettly and Dhun, want to employ Geralt to rid them of a "doevel" but not to kill him which immediately sparks Geralt's interest. This makes for a nice little mystery about why they don't want to kill this creature what is harming them. We get our answer soon after, that the priestess in their village, Lille, forbade it as not to bring misfortune. But that mystery is instantly replaced with another one. The devil, now known to be a sylvan, is stealing grain but he only eats very little of it and they want to know why.

Geralt's battle with the sylvan is a real joy to read. They exchange insults and attacks back and forth. Geralt also spits in the sylvans fucking ear lmao.

Geralt and Dandelion are captured by Filavandrel, Toruviel, and some other elves. This is the first time that we have met full-blooded elves in the series. It is revealed that the sylvan has been stealing resources and knowledge for the elves to help them in their survival. It's a quick turning point that takes you from being annoyed with the sylvan to having a deep respect for him

Geralt and Filavandrel have quite a long conversation about the humans and elves and what the humans have done to them. The tone shifts quickly in this scene. The story was by far the most comedic yet up to this point and got very serious very quickly.

Geralt and Dandelion are about to be killed by the elves when Lille, revealed to be the Lady of the Fields, saves them, after the sylvan had also risked his life for them. The Lady of the Fields plotline is a bit difficult to explain, I would recommend everyone reading this story for themselves to understand it fully as it would take a bit for me to explain and it is already 3:30 AM lmao. I really liked how the sylvan, named Torque, was also willing to give his life trying to protect Geralt. I think he knew that Geralt was different as well and that no harm would come from him being freed.

This was definitely the story I enjoyed least from The Last Wish. It is still very entertaining but I feel it drags in the beginning and ends abruptly. Also, a shit ton of the dialogue is difficult to read because it's written in an accent. I do like this because it gives the characters in the story a clear dialect apart from their Northern neighbors but there are sentences that are almost completely imperceptible at times.

8.5/10

Sidenote: Torque and Dandelion are the buddy-cop comedy this world needs now more than ever.

Another sidenote: This story was adapted in episode three of the Netflix series. Like most of the other stories adapted, this was one simplified for time, cutting out a bunch of characters and the entire Lady of the Fields plotline. I think leaving out the Lady of the Fields does this story a bit of a disservice. It gives Geralt all the credit for talking Filavandrel down and convincing him to relocate the elves when in reality he was still going to kill Geralt until she stepped in.

I will say that the battle was done quite well. When I initially watched it I was cringing from the barbs exchanged between Geralt and Torque but after rereading this story their insults were pretty on brand lol. Geralt in notes to himself in the story how he is glad no one is around to hear him.

#the witcher #the last wish #the edge of the world #geralt of rivia #jaskier #filavandrel #toruviel #my thoughts

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sammysdewysensitiveeyes · 2 years

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For the ship thing: Pyro/Bishop

Ship It

What made you ship it?

This scene right here is all it took:

I mean, Pyro didn't have to put his arm around Bishop to make his points, but he certainly chose to do so, didn't he?

Also, just like with Iceman, Pyro seems to be buddies with Bishop, and we see them hanging out together in background shots. And of course, we finally got that wonderful undercover adventure in Marauders 27, which left me wishing the whole series could have been like this.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

Much like Gambit/Bishop, we have the appeal of the serious “cop” character paired up with the obnoxious, barely-reformed criminal. That right there is a great set-up for a buddy comedy, and we may as well add some kissing on top of that. I would absolutely read a mini-series of Pyro and Bishop just having wacky, stupid adventures (Pyro being mostly responsible for the “stupid” part), and wish Duggan had given us more than one side adventure with the two of them.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

This is another ship where I think just the existence of the ship is an unpopular opinion.

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nellie-elizabeth · 3 years

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: PB&J (8x05)

Okay... is anyone else just over it all?

Cons:

Somehow the whole Doug and Jake friendship thing is rubbing me the wrong way when you have a black criminal and a white cop and they're such good buddies but like... Jake is still taking him to prison for five years, and then he has to stop him from escaping... does anyone else get like, weird vibes from it? It's not that I hate Doug, but I kind of hate the whole cat and mouse thing when it's a comedy parody of a black man with a family desperately, frantically, trying not to get locked away for five years. I don't know.

Then there's the whole "Jake might lose his job" thing. Are they trying to set this up like that's the outcome at the end of the season? Jake and Amy and the others all quitting their jobs because being a police officer is bad? I just wish this sitcom wasn't trying to take on the whole weight of police corruption in hits final ten episode season. I want to say it's... admirable that they're addressing it? But honestly it's messy as fuck to try and do this, and I'm not convinced it's working. There's no nuance being added to the conversation, here. Do I think Doug should go to prison? Well, no, but then I'm a fan of abolishing prisons altogether for nonviolent crimes. But should he escape and just be a fugitive? Seems like an unsustainable system, to me. But in setting up these two options as a dichotomy we ignore the fact that Doug is a nice person but undeniably a thief who keeps going back to his life of crime, despite saying he's left the life. They've circled the drain with this character so many times that I don't even know what I'm supposed to think anymore.

Also, I oddly felt like Charles was out of character in this episode? I thought his whole thing was that he's jealous of Jake as his best friend, so the fact that he was eager to do a game and celebrate all the ways Jake and Doug know each other just rang a little false to me. The fact that it was all part of a bigger plan does make it better, but there could have been a few moments where Charles was grumbling about it, or maybe just insisting loudly that he knew Jake better than Doug ever could. Felt like a missed opportunity.

Pros:

Within an episode that kind of disturbed me on its face, I did find the individual jokes within it pretty funny. The "slurp slurp" thing was hilarious, the various questions and answers in the game that Charles created, the silly outfits and foot slapping and all these little routines... if I think about it for more than a second, I am disturbed by the implications of these two being close friends and having become close friends through Jake constantly trying to catch and imprison Doug. But if I ignore that rather weighty context, I do think they have a funny and even sweet friendship, underneath it all.

And I guess I'm... glad that Jake broke the law and helped Doug to escape in this really sneaky way? Again, it just feels messy. I guess I'm meant to applaud this decision of Jake's as if it's not a super serious big, big deal that he did something like that. As if he wouldn't be fired at once if anyone found out. It's just not clear to me what outcome I'm meant to hope for, this season.

Sorry, that's all I got. I like Doug, I'm glad we got to see him, but I'm definitely a little conflicted here.

6/10

#review #brooklyn nine nine review #brooklyn nine nine #brooklyn 99 #brooklyn 99 review

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gizkasparadise · 4 years

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kdrama rec/review: mystic pop up bar

KDRAMA AND CDRAMA MASTER LIST OF REVIEWS

Series: mystic pop up bar Episodes: NOT ENOUGH 12 Genres: urban fantasy, urban horror lite, found family!!!, friendship, mystery, comedy, supernatural, warm fuzzies despite an alarming amount of death Spoilers in the Rec: minor ones/for the set-up If You Like, You’ll Like: hotel del luna (although it has a very different feel), early bleach (manga), found families, being human (uk & us versions), those moments in shows where you’re like OH MAN HOW ARE THEY GETTING OUT OF THIS and then they do. because friendship.

Rank: 10/10

I went into this with low expectations. it sounded like it was trying to bank on hotel del luna, but i was still down to watch a ghost version of leverage or whatever this turned out to be. figured it’d be decent to watch but not AMAZING.

the first ep gave me that impression. by the second ep i was hooked. and by the third ep this was one of my favorite shows of all time

PREMISE

during the joseon era, a shaman named weol ju went and fucked up a perfectly good sacred tree. as punishment, she now has to resolve the grudges of 100,000 humans or go to hell. as a shaman, she can accomplish this by plying them with alcohol and entering their dreams (well the alcohol part might just be her artistic signature).

time to start a bar!

in the current day, 500 years later, weol ju owns and runs mystic pop up bar, where she learns about her customers’ grudges. and apparently has sound business strategy, as she serves like 4 people a day but still has enough overhead to craft these 4 people bespoke meals that speak to their inner tragedy. and also sandwiches.

helping her is chief gwi, a ghost cop who’s been reassigned to her bar to help weol ju accomplish her quota. because time’s running out--weol ju now has less than a month to solve her 10 remaining grudges.

enter bambi kang bae. a regular human who works a regular customer service job, kang bae has one terrible power: anytime someone touches him (or he touches them), they want to confess their deepest, darkest secrets. kang bae is understandably not comfortable around people (but desperately wants to be around people. my poor fucking heart) and incredibly lonely.

when his and weol ju’s paths cross, she makes him an offer: he helps her out with her remaining grudges, and in return she’ll remove his powers.

deal!

MAIN CHARACTERS

weol ju

a 500+ year old shaman who is paying for her sins on earth because she went out on a limb :| . begins the series angry and ends the series angry, because it turns out angry people can still be kind, which is great to see with a female protagonist. how close she’s cutting it to the deadline on her quota speaks strongly to sixth-year senior vibes. wears modern versions of hanboks which are all v. cool and on moments of aching realization wednesdays she wears pink.

will steal your shit and look you straight in the eyes as she walks backwards into hell.

gwi/gui

a former ghost cop who’s been reassigned to help weol ju run the mystic pop up bar. he’s a lot more chill than weol ju and has the vibe of someone who forgets keys at home. while at the bar, he does a lot of the prep work, and is sometimes asked by yeom to help catch nearby, evil spirits.

he’s actually like a hardcore warrior, but you forget it because he wears goggles to cut onions and dresses like someone who would be the spokesperson for microwaveable fish sticks. team dad. fanboy of romantic serial e-novels.

han kang bae

a baby.

in a truly amazing narrative move, kang bae works customer service at a market by day and solves grudges at a bar by night. is a sweet, simple boy who just wants to help people and is SO EXCITED to have new friends in weol ju and gwi. you want to give him a hug BUT YOU CAN’T. human carebear

even the yellow collar of his customer service uniform makes a heart:

SOME SUPPORT CHARACTERS SELECTED BY HOW MUCH THEY ARE MY FAVORITES

kang yeo ri

lmao you know it’s going to be good when a character is introduced dropping a dude straight to the ground. yeo rin is a bodyguard mild spoiler turned security guard for the market where kang bae works. she could beat the shit out of you and you’d thank her. has no luck in dating. rocks a suit. sobs at movies about gout

yeom, the grim reaper

your friendly neighborhood grim reaper. yeom very much screams middle management, and works in the same “district” that weol ju and gwi have their pop up bar in. sometimes they’re at odds with one another (because weol ju has about the same amount of respect for the rules that an untrained puppy has for new carpet), but they’re still friends. gwi sometimes works with him to catch evil spirits, buddy-cop style. loves noodles.

yeomra-daewang

god of the underworld. in charge of handing out punishments and determining the fates of those sent to the afterlife. forgets who she’s texting. appreciates true love but is also aggressively annoyed by it. take your fucking scroll and go

samsin

probably the character with the most name recognition. samsin (or samsin granny) is the goddess of mothers and children, and in the show the focus is more on children. loves karaoke, basic bitch coffee, and claw games. gives out too many sexy tiger dreams.

kim wong hyun

he gave them the heebie jeebies. he had nothing else to give

ringtones.

they’re their own character. check out those motifs.

Drawbacks

if i had any, it’s that the first episode undersells the rest of the series. and even the first ep isn’t bad

12 episodes is not enough :(

Reasons to Watch.

i love the little details: that the supernatural characters have ring tones that correspond to their role (ex: the god of the underworld’s are screams; i believe the grim reaper’s are a shaman’s bells?, gwi has SPOILERS), or that the food special of the day connects or reflects with the person they’re helping. themes/significant moments are represented by the colors characters are wearing. im a nerd for this stuff

there are some dramatic reveals about who characters are and how they relate to one another, but like. dynamics barely (or don’t at all) change, and that’s due to how strong/familial they are already? and the show’s built up to it and it all feels really earned A+

i HATE monster of the week formats, but the ones in this show are integrated with the main characters’ backstories and also propel the major arcs forward. and it’s wholesome when the grudges are solved

i like that you think you saw a full scene in the flashbacks, but then a few eps later the flashback gets extended. idk it’s a cool narrative device

the romance is wonderful all-around

the pacing was great. i wish one of the Reveals was introduced earlier just so we could have more moments with it, but everything was cohesive/wrapped up nicely

all the characters have their own unique relationships to one another. kang bae + weol ju have their own dynamic, weol ju +gwi, gwi + kang bae, and so on. it was nice to see that none of the main trio were satellite characters

Final Thoughts.

they’re a team, god damn it ;;;;;;

#mystic pop up bar #hwang jung eum #yook sungjae #choi won young #kdrama #gizka does kdrama #!my post #i love it and them :(

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wonderfulworldofmichaelford · 4 years

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Psycho Analysis: Thrax

(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)

So I made a poll, a poll to determine who you all wanted to see get the Psycho Analysis treatment for Black History Month. I picked a few myself, but I also put in choices so my fans could pick four villains portrayed by black actors that I would review. I had some truly legendary performances on there, there was Blacula, Dr. Facilier, Audrey II! And yet, somehow, despite all of these fantastic characters… y’all wanted to hear about the dude from Osmosis Jones.

Don’t mistake this for bashing Thrax, the absolute best part of the half incredible work of animation, half miserably dated grossout comedy that is Osmosis Jones; I’m just more baffled people wanted to hear what I thought of this guy, of all characters.

Motivation/Goals: Thrax has one desire, and one desire only: recognition. Specifically, he wishes to be put down in the medical books as an unstoppable, deadly disease, and he goes about this by killing each of his victims faster than the last. He proudly states how he has previously killed a child, as well as killing an old man in 72 hours, so he has quite the impressive resume behind him to the point how it’s amazing he hasn’t been put in the books yet. Still, it’s hard to deny he wouldn’t deserve some fame for ridding the world of a toxic slob like Frank.

Performance: Thrax has pretty much got it all set in terms of personality, animation, and voice acting; he’s scoring tens across the board in all three departments. He’s just so charming, affable, and in the eyes of some very strange individuals, sexy. I mean, I guess it doesn’t hurt that his voice is supplied by Laurence Fishburne, a man who is most definitely a sex god If I’ve ever seen one. Ladies love Cowboy Curtis, or so I’ve been told. Still, for all his outward charm, there’s still nothing that hides the fact he is a brazen, remorseless serial killer who relishes in the suffering he causes his victims before they expire. He’s literally a sick bastard.

Final Fate: Thrax falls into a beaker of alcohol while fighting Osmosis Jones. Befitting a character who is relentlessly dark and jarring in an otherwise goofy buddy cop grossout comedy hybrid, we get to witness him dying in excruciating, agonizing detail that is sure to scar a few children whose parents thought it was a good idea to let them watch this film.

Best Scene: Literally every scene with him is one of the best in the movie. But if you want to know how to perfectly and easily establish a villain, look no further than his introduction scene, where he cooly murders two sanitation workers and then destroys their ship like it’s just another Tuesday for him… and let’s be honest, it probably is.

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Best Quote: Again, look no further than his introduction scene. “Careful, I’m contagious,” delivered perfectly by Laurence Fishburne as Thrax murders an innocent white blood cell, is pretty much the entire character wrapped up into a single line dripping with faux affability. I honestly envy that line, it’s just so damn good.

Final Thoughts & Score: Thrax is a villain who is legitimately way too good for the film he’s in. He’s just so wonderfully jarring in tone and personality; while you obviously need a villain in a buddy cop movie, this is a buddy cop movie that is not only animated, by juxtaposed with early 2000s live-action grossout comedy being performed by Bill Murray. Hell, Thrax enters Frank’s body after Frank consumes an egg that fell on the ground at the zoo after being in a monkey’s mouth, and then we are expected to care about what happens to Frank when Thrax starts causing problems.

Honestly, much like the case with Hexxus, this movie makes it way too easy to want to root for the villain here. Let’s look at the facts – Thrax is played by Laurence Fishburne, who we have already established is a sexy hunk of man. He is clearly a walking reference to “The Mask of the Red Death,” and who isn’t a sucker for homages to Edgar Allen Poe? He is dark, terrifying, and far more impressive than the movie around him. He brings comedy to a halt and makes every scene with him in it feel terrifying. And, most importantly, the people he’s going up against are a lot less engaging and impressive than he is. Jones and Drix are fun, sure, but are they as cool as Thrax? And Frank is so utterly worthless Thrax killing him would likely be a mercy, or it would be if he didn’t openly state he was going to kill Frank’s daughter next.

Thrax gets a nice 8/10, sitting alongside fellow “Sexy-voiced and strangely dark villains in cult classic animated films” Joe the fish and Hexxus. He really is a villain way too cool for at least half of the movie he’s in. He really feels like a leftover from when the movie was supposed to be PG-13, and they just totally forgot to tone him down at all when they retooled it into what is ostensibly supposed to be a family comedy. And you know what? That just makes me love him all the more.

#Psycho Analysis #Thrax #Osmosis Jones #Laurence Fishburne

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@lizamezzo asked for Javert sooo here we go, I guess!!

How I feel about this character:

Incredibly depressed that he continues to be relevant!

Also he’s one of the best fictional creations ever! His actual role in the police may be deeply confusing, but his psychology is amazingly well realized and he is a spot-on critique of the mindset and behavior that a society powered by hierarchical inequality demands of its supporters! Which is why his continued relevance is so depressing!

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character:

Eeesh it’s hard to imagine Javert with anyone we see-- he’s just so completely Not About That?

...Crackship Javert and Victurnien, maybe? They have the same view of the social order and who Deserves respect and basic humanity.

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character:

It’s almost purely Potential, but: Javert and Simplice. I would be interested in seeing more of Javert interacting with someone who he respects without complication, and who shares some of his binary absolutism, but is coming at it from a place of love instead of fear and anger.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

I am often horrified by how eager some people are to minimize or even completely excuse Javert’s awfulness, his bigotry and cruelty and its long-tail fallout, just because he’s... not doing it for funsies , I guess?? or sometimes explicitly because they think blind obedience to authority is admirable ? I am always going to be adamant that Javert’s genuine awfulness-his bigotry and prejudice, his cruelty-- needs to be recognized and accepted as part of his character and part of the story and faced without trying to soften it.

He’s spent decades proudly upholding violent , unjust laws, and specifically looking to hit the lowest-ranking people with the harshest possible punishment. He’s gotten his criminal IDs wrong at least once that we know of, and it apparently never made him pause for a moment to consider if maybe , even with his “ if they broke the law they deserve what they get,also Criminal is an Inherent Trait and not just a description of a thing someone may have done once” attitude , some of the people in prison might be genuinely innocent of the crime they got convicted for. We know he arrests Fantine for self- defense because the man who attacked her was wealthier; how many worse assaults has he waved off or punished the victim for because after all, that one’s a Respectable Sort and that one is not ? All of the little cruelties and irregularities in that letter at the end? He watched those happen without protest for a good decade just in Paris.He doesn’t commit actual police brutality , but would he interfere in any way with another police officer who did, provided it was against the Wrong Sort of people? He has done and condoned horrible things for decades.

And he’s a Good Cop! That’s important! He doesn’t physically assault people who have been arrested (even when they assault him!) , he doesn’t take bribes, he doesn’t sexually exploit prostitutes. But this is what a “ good cop” in a bad system looks like! If the system is abusive and cruel then the people who choose to enforce it, or are chosen to enforce it, are also going to be abusive and cruel! Javert is the face of The System Working As Designed and he is horrible and softening him into a Stern But Fair type or trying to pretend he didn’t really know what he was doing takes away from this !! And it’s important!

None of this means Javert isn’t capable or deserving of a chance to change his ways and find his own redemption! It’s why I wish he actually did get that arc, this is a hard life mode to move away from and we need more examples of it in fiction! But pretending he’s not thaaaat bad REALLY is pretending that the entire damn setup is Not That Bad Really and that’s not okay. But people keep doing it! From 1862 to now!! I want!! To Yell!!

....also more people should remember: he canonically has Emo Bangs. Give Javert Fringe.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

It would have been interesting to see him actually do a Redemption Arc, of course (without involving Valjean beyond the initial Epiphany Stage, if I could choose); there are so many directions that could go. And I really think that might have been in the cards for him if he’d just. Gone home and Had A Nap and a Snack. Always Have a Nap When Possible.

Favorite friendship for this character:

Marius. I want my Buddy Cop comedy where Everyone Learns a Valuable Lesson About Friendship and Firing Two Guns Simultaneously Whilst Leaning Sideways Out of An Omnibus.

My crossover ship:

...i have a REAL hard time thinking of Javert in any shippy context whatsoever, and absolutely no incentive to do so,so no.

BUT Crossover Interaction: Sam Vimes, absolutely. Let’s stick Javert in the A-M watch under Vimes from the Jingo era on and let him have a few books of Character Development in Pratchett’s moral cosmos, I think it’d do everyone some good.

#long post #sorry #Javert talk #I always dread talking about Javert #but also: he's incredibly important #so here we are

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Drug Dealer!AU Blanc & Oliver: Mitigation

...hey, it’s been a while ghrodktergrdg. I’ve been sitting on this idea for a bit wondering how to bring it to life and...I may have...accidentally planned out the entire direction I want this story to go?? WOO!

As always, the rundown of this AU can be found here if you’re unfamiliar or need a quick recap. Otherwise, enjoy~

There were few things that could rattle the esteemed heir to the Lapin family name - their history of unshakable tenacity dating back to its earliest records. But none of them had ever faced an obstacle of this magnitude, thus the sole successor allowed himself some self-pity in these moments of dread.

“Mr Lapin! Mr Lapin!! The drug cartel in this city has gotten even more out of hand. Some people are suggesting that the dealers for Magic Crystals have doubled this month alone! How are you planning to fix this?”

He flashes a grin that would pacify most, his rose-gold eyes narrowing amiably - just shy of irritation - as he turns back to the reporter hot on his heels.

“There has been no such confirmation, so they are baseless rumours made to stir up trouble as far as that goes. The police are working day and night to hunt down the smaller dealers as well as the one behind all of this. I’m afraid all I can ask of you is to wait patiently.”

“But there has been talk of corruption among authorities, many being bribed to stay silent or taking Crystals themselves. And those aren’t just ‘baseless rumours’, Mr Lapin.”

(I have to give this young man credit for his dedication to the job. I only wish his attack was not directed at me.)

He walks briskly as the sun creeps eerily behind the surrounding buildings, lamp posts bursting to life to provide illumination for the rabbit being chased by his news-hungry predator.

“That I am aware of. We are making preparations with the police - with officers we are certain are clean - to begin dealing with those corrupt officers. Unfortunately, I don’t have as much power as you think I do, so my reach can only go so far.”

“As the man in charge here, don’t you think it’s callous of you to deter blame for this? The Clemences are under suspicion for dealing Crystals to the high-class public, the Godspeeds are remaining neutral in this entire fiasco, and no one has trusted the Kingsleys in years. You’re the only pillar of stability we have left in this city, so how about you start standing on it and helping us out?!”

“You--!”

(You don’t think I’m trying to do that?!)

The unbecoming retort on the tip of his tongue is cut short by another voice, harsh and cutting like a winter’s gale, especially in contrast to Blanc’s warm and honeyed tone.

“Don’t you think you’re being unfair to the only man in this city actually trying to combat this? And don’t you dare try to say you’re helping this city out by ‘doing your job’. A reporter is about as useful as a lead balloon.”

Dressed down in a casual white long-sleeved button-up shirt and black pants, yet still sporting his recognisable silk hat, he steps out from the shadows of a nearby building, the lamp post’s light cutting through him and shining its light on only half of his frame.

“A-and who are you?” The reporter retorts, the shakiness in his voice unable to be quelled.

“Just someone who also wants this city to be free of pests. But believe me when I say that antagonising the only viable option left is the worst possible thing you can do. Go back to the papers and scream about the ‘youth ruining the economy’ or whatever the hell has your knickers in a twist this month.”

The venom laced in his words is potent - far from subtle - and makes the young man quiver as he turns to run with his tail between his legs. Blanc lets out a soft sigh of relief before he feels those metallic eyes turn their daggers onto him.

“I thought I said to be back before dusk to avoid this very issue, you mangy rabbit.”

He lets a laugh escape him, though he doesn’t try to mask the clear fatigue in the gesture; he was comfortable enough letting his long-time friend see him weak when the public couldn’t, for the sake of his image as a figurehead for the city.

“My apologies, Oliver. It won’t happen again. Although, I honestly can’t deny how pertinent this chance meeting with that reporter was.”

Oliver raises a brow, his intrigue disguised by aggravation to all except Blanc. “And just what do you mean by that?”

The click of Blanc’s oxfords seems to reverberate through the empty street as he steps past Oliver.

“Perhaps this information will be better relayed in private?”

With a throaty grumble through pursed lips, Oliver catches up to Blanc in a few long strides, the two men walking in silence. Yet somehow, they fail to notice the hooded figure lurking a few buildings back, the Crystal’s potent effect letting him hear every word of their conversation, eyes of blood and gold resolved to deliver this information.

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Behind the closed doors of the Lapin estate, the two retreat even further into the house’s infrastructure to enter through a simple wooden door that’s so remarkably out of place amidst the ornate decor. Flicking on the light, Blanc sighs as he removes his coat and places it neatly over the back of a chair, Oliver following in behind and shutting the door to their ‘workshop’.

Paper is scattered loosely across the table’s surface, the oak brown replaced by sheer white. On the far wall is a pinboard, various faces stuck onto its surface alongside meticulously detailed notes of each profile. It’s a scene ripped straight from a buddy cop scenario, the only missing element being the comedy.

Blanc and Oliver stand before the table littered with sheets of paper, both sets of eyes roaming over their sporadic evidence, notes scribbled down with the sole purpose of documentation over organisation. Oliver pulls free a cigarette and a lighter from his pants pocket. He coaxes the stick of nicotine to life and inhales a long drag, his expulsion of the smoke seeming to linger around him. Eyes unmoving from the table, he passes the cigarette to Blanc, himself taking a puff whilst Oliver sorts through the papers to attain some semblance of order.

“So? Why was that kid so important when all it seemed like he was doing was trying to drive you up the wall?”

Letting the smoke rise naturally from his lips, its distinctive scent burning his nostrils, Blanc taps the ashes at the tip of the cigarette into the ashtray - the only non-paper object on the table - with skilled fingers.

“It only made me realise that our risky decision is the right course of action to take.”

“Explain.”

Inhaling another drag of smoke into his lungs, Blanc breathes it out through puckered lips, admiring the thin, wispy trail it makes before elaborating.

“That young man from earlier did bring up an interesting point that only reaffirmed our plan. No one has trusted the Kingsley family in this city in years...which means that even without a sound lead, focusing the public’s attention on a single source will give us more time to discover the truth. Who knows? Maybe they’re the ones who have been behind this all along.”

A bitter laugh, “That, I don’t doubt. If Lancelot admitted to the whole thing, I don’t think a single soul in this city would be surprised.”

“That is exactly my point,” Blanc pushes the cigarette into the ashtray to extinguish its light, the heavy clawing scent of nicotine permeating the small room, “In these trying times, a common enemy to scapegoat our frustrations onto is dutifully needed. Especially if that scapegoat has a high chance of being as guilty as we expect him to be.”

As Blanc grabs a blank piece of paper and pulls a pen from his waistcoat pocket to write out a note, Oliver looks over at him from stacking the papers.

“You sure this will give us enough time to actually get a proper lead? All we’ve been able to find is that the Godspeed kid is in on this, but everyone with a functioning brain knows that. We’ve got leads and plenty of them; we’re just lacking evidence and proof.”

Finishing his note with a satisfying tap of pen to paper, Blanc draws his eyes up to Oliver and flashes him a smile, “Relax, my old friend. You underestimate how up-in-arms the public can get over issues like this. This will cause enough of a stir to mitigate our immediate problems.”

“If you say so.”

Oliver huffs, fishing around for another cigarette as Blanc promptly grabs his coat and exits the workshop. And in his hand, a neatly written letter:

[ To the tabloids desperate for a news story,

Here’s a headline for you:

The Beautiful Beast Embezzles Government Money, But For What Cause? ]

#ikerev #ikerev fanfic #drug dealer AU #blanc lapin #oliver knight #hmmm I wonder who else made a tiny guest appearance???? :3 #I'm so excited to share what I've got cooking up with this AU #it's nice to have a project that I can keep coming back to and that I'm this invested in #feels good uwu

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vienna-salvatori · 4 years

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For the character thing: Narvin, Ace, Dhawan!Master, and Ruth!Doctor

Narvin How I feel about this character: I want to wrap him in blankets and put him somewhere safe. In all seriousness, he is a FANTASTIC character and has the best redemption arc of anyone in any piece of media, ever. Romantic ships: Narvin/Leela, Narvin/Leela/Romana, Narvin/Leela/Romana/Braxiatel... yeah, it’s the OT4. I am also ashamed to admit that, as much as Narvin/Torvald started out as a crack ship, it’s grown on me far too much. Same for Narvin/Amnesiac 8th Doctor. Thanks, Gallifrey fandom. non-romantic OTP: Narvin and Ace, possibly Narvin and Brax as long as they’re both being suitably slimy towards each other. unpopular opinion: I don’t know if I have any unpopular opinions? I think the whole fandom is united in love for him, tbh Thing I wish would happen in canon: Office comedy of Narvin trying to run a Very Serious Organisation while Ace runs around blowing things up.

Ace How I feel about this character: She is utterly delightful. One of my favourite companions. Romantic ships: Nothing specific, although I would like for her to get a girlfriend at some point non-romantic OTP: As above, Narvin and Ace. Ace and Benny is fun too. unpopular opinion: Of all her possible endings, the ones I’m least happy with is the happy one where she ends up back on Earth, running a charity. Even the ones where she dies work better for me, I just can’t see her settling down. (Sophie Aldred’s recent book was okay, but didn’t convince me that the whole A Charitable Earth thing is actually deserving of that much attention.) Thing I wish would happen in canon: As above, her driving Narvin completely insane.

Dhawan!Master How I feel about this character: Conflicted. Dhawan did a fantastic job really selling the character, but I still wish we’d gotten a 13 and Missy showdown instead. Romantic ships: Doctor/Master, as always. non-romantic OTP: When he was hanging out on Earth as O, he got seconded to UNIT for a while. Somehow ended up transcending genres and finds himself as one half of a buddy cop duo with Harry Sullivan. (I don’t really have any serious ones, sorry.) unpopular opinion: I don’t know what the popular opinions are for him??? I like to think that he’s actually a pre-Missy incarnation but I’m not that attached to the idea Thing I wish would happen in canon: He actually got a chance to show Graham all his information on the Doctor, and forced her and the fam into conflict over her shady history.

Ruth!Doctor How I feel about this character: I love her. If we had gotten more of her, she may well have ended up as my favourite Doctor. Romantic ships: None. non-romantic OTP: Her taking 13 as her companion would’ve been hilarious. Can you even imagine??? 13 could have just denied her shitty past completely and she’d probably have ended up being so much happier. unpopular opinion: I think she’s a season 6B Doctor, not a pre-Hartnell incarnation. Thing I wish would happen in canon: More. Of. Her. Make her the 14th Doctor, please.

#mine #asks #onthebirdroads #thanks Cas!

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Movie Review Of Angrezi Medium By Manoj Paul

Synopsis

There are some fantastic moments in the film, and sharply written scenes between the characters, too, which in turn, prove to be the highlights of this drama.

Cast & Crew

Homi Adajania

Irrfan Khan

Kareena Kapoor

Pankaj Tripathi

Deepak Dobriya

Radhika Madan

Dimple Kapadia

Ranvir Shorey

Angrezi Medium Story: Champak Bansal (Irrfan) is a simple, small-town businessman – one of the owner's of Ghasitaram sweet shop chain – who’s leading a comfortable life with his teenage daughter, Tarika (Radhika Madan). But, Tarika has big dreams – of graduating from a recognised university in London. With little means to fulfil his daughter’s ambition, how far will the father go to ensure Tarika realises her 'videshi aspirations'?

Angrezi Medium Review: Born and raised in Udaipur (Rajasthan), Champak’s world pretty much revolves around his daily bickering with his other Ghasitaram brother, Gopi (Deepak Dobriyal), and caring for his only daughter, Tarika, who’s all set to graduate high school and embark on another academic journey. But, unlike her father, she doesn’t want to limit her dreams to the place she has grown up in; instead, she wants to explore what lies outside of her small world. Unaware of what's ahead, Champak gives in to his daughter's wishes, but things start to spiral out of control when it comes down to paying the hefty fee. A dedicated father, Champak vows to do whatever it takes to send his daughter to study abroad, and treads on a path that not only proves his unconditional love for his 'betiya', but also redefines their relationship. Homi Adajania's ‘Angrezi Medium’ touches upon the pulse of the young generation's obsession with pursuing further studies in foreign countries, and their family's determination to embrace every Himalayan hurdle for their loved ones. There are other underlying themes, too, but this remains the primary subject of the film. It is a well-known fact that in reality, Irrfan shot this movie while undergoing treatment. But, while watching this film, you can put that thought aside. What you witness on screen is the actor in his element – in every frame. He just takes you along... you laugh with him, cry with him and every time he overcomes an obstacle, you rejoice with him. Irrfan breathes life into Champak in a way that nobody else can. And walking shoulder to shoulder with him is yet another fine actor, Deepak Dobriyal. His camaraderie with Irrfan is a testament to the fact that both of them are such polished, well-prepared actors. Radhika Madan, as this mildly rebellious and often clueless teenager, pulls off a fine performance, especially in the scenes where her movingly beautiful relationship with her father unfolds. Their chemistry is organic, and the portrayal of their respective characters seem so real that their dilemmas and inner conflicts start to resonate. Kiku Sharda, as the childhood buddy of the two brothers, is his usual funny self. Ranvir Shorey, as Balakrishna 'Bobby' Tripathy, living the seemingly perfect NRI dream, acts as a catalyst in moving the plot ahead. His depiction of Bobby comes as a refreshing twist in the plot and Shorey does complete justice to his part. Kareena Kapoor Khan does well in her brief appearance as tough cop Naina and adds to the chaos in the second half of the film. However, her relationship with her mother, Mrs. Kohli (played by Dimple Kapadia), is underexplored. It would have been interesting to watch the dynamics of their relationship play out in the movie. The look and feel of this comedy-drama is all things sweet and small-town – the actors consistently carry a thick local accent (Radhika's sounds a bit forced though) and close attention has been paid to what we call a 'small-town traits' that beautifully plays out in multiple scenes and sequences as the story progresses. With one foot in homeland and the other in London, the music and the background score have been chalked out keeping the two different scenarios in mind; works out fine and differentiates the mood well. The first half of the screenplay is more engaging then the second, but, while trying to fit in too many subplots, the story goes quite haywire. There are some fantastic moments in the film, and sharply written scenes between the characters, too, which in turn, prove to be the highlights of this drama. However, the story is far too convenient and has inconsistencies that are hard to overlook, but Irrfan's exceptional performance makes it worth the watch. 'Angrezi Medium' does lose its grip on several occasions, what it does not lose is its hold on the emotion that it is trying to bring out, and the message it leaves you with.

#MAR MAKAUT MOVIE_REVIEW ACTIVITY_POINTS

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Notes from Robert McKee’s “Story” 09: Genre and Expectations

The majority of this section defines genres and sub-genres of story. I’ll provide a summary of them at the end of the post. I think that we all as writers know what genre our works tend to lean toward, so I instead want to focus on what McKee has to say about what is expected of writers as dictated by genre and by the audience.

Mastery of Genre

As life-long consumers of media, we have ingrained expectations of a story once we hear the genre. A rom-com? Well then, we’re in for a light-hearted comedy with a happy ending for the love interests. High fantasy? There’s gonna be lore and magic and elves and dwarfs, and a massive conflict that will probably span multiple novels or films.

“The genre sophistication of filmgoers presents the writer with this critical challenge: He must not only fulfill audience anticipations, or risk their confusion and disappointment, but he must lead their expectations to fresh, unexpected moments, or risk boring them. This two-handed trick is impossible without a knowledge of genre that surpasses the audience’s.”

As writers, it is our job to identify our genre and research it thoroughly. In the previous section about setting, McKee explains how the setting of the story gives the writer both limitations and inspiration.

Genre is, in a certain way, the frame in which the setting and story sit. Depending on the genre, the frame can be pliable or it can be rather fixed. Here you need to study your own genre deeply to find out exactly how flexible it is. For example, the genre of “Comedy” is much more pliable than that of the “Crime” genre. There are sub-genres, of course. But under the vast umbrella of “Comedy” almost anything goes as long as we can get a laugh out of it. “Crime” on the other hand, generally involves a struggle between a criminal and a justice-seeker (with the justice-seeker most commonly being the protagonist) and culminates in one triumphing over the other.

How to Master Your Genre

“Never assume that because you’ve seen films in your genre you know it. This is like assuming you could compose a symphony because you have heard all nine of Beethoven’s.”

McKee states that genre study is best done in the following way:

List all the works that feel similar to yours, both successes and failures. Studying works that are similar to yours but were failures can lead to great insights.

Study each of these works from page to page, breaking each one down into elements of setting, role, event, and value.

Stack these analyses on top of each other and look down through them all and ask yourself, “What do the stories in my genre always do? What are its conventions of time, place, character, and action?

Until you find these answers, the audience will always be one step ahead of you.

Personally, that sounds like a lot of work lol. But doing case studies like he describes would certainly help me to better understand my genre. Idk when I’ll have time for it, but...well. I’ll work on it.

Creative Limitations

This section really echoes what McKee had to say about setting, in that both setting and genre create boundaries for you to work within, but having boundaries pushes you to be more creative.

Until now, I’ve always started writing a story on a whim, based on a single scene in my head that grows into some 300 page monstrosity. I resisted plotting and just wrote what I wanted to write that day. I enjoyed the freedom that came with having no specific plans and not thinking much about my genre.

However, McKee uses a brilliant example to illustrate the beneficial aspects of understanding and working within the bounds of your genre:

“Robert Frost said that writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down, for it’s the self-imposed, indeed artificial demands of poetic conventions that stir the imagination. Let’s say a poet arbitrarily imposes this limit: He decides to write in six-line stanzas, rhyming every other line. After rhyming the fourth line with the second line he reaches the end of a stanza. Backed into this corner, his struggle to rhyme the sixth line with the fourth and second may inspire him to imagine a word that has no relationship to his poem whatsoever--it just happens to rhyme--but this random word then springs loose a phrase that in turn brings an imagine to mind, an image that in turn resonates back through the first five lines, triggering a whole new sense of feeling, twisting and driving the poem to a richer meaning and emotion.

Thanks to the poet’s Creative Limitation of this rhyme scheme, the poem achieves an intensity it would have lacked had the poet allowed himself the freedom to choose any word he wished.

The principle of Creative Limitation calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies.”

So one of our first steps as writers is to identify our genre or combination of genres, and then learn the genre conventions.

Genre conventions are the expected aspects of a certain genre. In a “Boy Meets Girl” romance genre, an obvious convention is that a boy and a girl must meet. It isn’t a cliche--it’s a necessary part of the equation. These conventions force us to use our imagination to reinvent the paradigms our genres and audiences demand, and if we can do it right, we fulfill their expectations while giving them something they had never dreamed of before.

Mixing and Reinventing Genres

What better way to sum up this section than Run DMC’s “Walk This Way,” which was the first hip hop hybrid video every played in heavy rotation on MTV?

Generally, a work tends to be a mix of two or more genres. For example, there is a Love Story subplot in just about EVERYTHING nowadays, for better or for worse. By mixing genres we as writers have a chance to give the world something that has never been seen before.

Something that McKee stresses is that genres are not static. He says:

“Genres are simply windows on reality, various ways for the writer to look at life. When the reality outside the window undergoes change, the genres alter with it.”

Social attitudes change. This means that what may have been a compelling story 50 years ago may not be as compelling when looked at once again today. The example McKee uses is the 1950′s film FALLING IN LOVE, which was about a man and woman who fell in love with each other but were already married and in unhappy relationships. Nowadays, in mainstream America, divorce isn’t a big deal. If an audience in 2020 watched this film, they’d just say, “You’re married to people you hate--just get a divorce already!”

“The audience wants to know how it feels to be alive on the knife edge of the now. What does it mean to be a human being today?

Innovative writers are not only contemporary, they are visionary. They have their ear to the wall of history, and as things change, they can sense the way society is leaning toward the future. They then produce works that break convention and take the genres into the next generation.

The finest writers are not only visionary, they create classics.”

McKee’s List of Genres

McKee states that there are many different ways to break genres down, and his is neither the best nor the most complete. Also, keep in mind that this book is actually focused around storytelling through film, so the references he uses are not books, but films.

LOVE STORY. It’s sub-genre, Buddy Salvation, substitutes friendship for romantic love.

HORROR FILM. This genre devices into three sub-genres: the Uncanny, in which the source of horror is astounding but subject to “rational” explanation, such as beings from outer space, science-made monsters, or a maniac; the Supernatural, in which the source of horror is an “irrational” phenomenon from the spirit realm; and the Super-Uncanny, in which the audience is kept guessing between the other two possibilities.

MODERN EPIC (the individual versus the state).

WESTERN.

WAR GENRE. Although war is often the setting for another genre, such as the Love Story, the WAR GENRE is specifically about combat. Pro-war versus Antiwar are its primary sub-genres.

MATURATION PLOT or the coming of age story

REDEMPTION PLOT. Here the film arcs on a moral change within the protagonist from bad to good.

PUNITIVE PLOT. In these, the good guy turns bad and is punished.

TESTING PLOT. Stories of willpower versus temptation to surrender.

EDUCATION PLOT. This genre arcs on a deep change within the protagonist’s view of life, people, or self from the negative (naive, distrustful, fatalistic, self-hating) to the positive (wise, trusting, optimistic, self-possessed)

DISILLUSIONMENT PLOT. A deep change of worldview from the positive to the negative.

COMEDY. Subgenres range from Parody to Satire to Sitcom to Romantic to Screwball to Farce to Black Comedy, all differing by the focus of comic attack (bureaucratic folly, upper-class manners, teenage courtship. etc.) and the degree of ridicule (casual, caustic, lethal).

CRIME. Subgenres vary chiefly by the answer to this question: From whose point of view do we regard the crime? Murder Mystery (master detective’s POV); Caper (master criminal’s POV), Detective (cop’s POV), Gangster (crook’s POV), Thriller or Revenge Tale (victim’s POV); Courtroom (lawyer’s POV); Newspaper (reporter’s POV); Espionage (spy’s POV), Prison Drama (inmate’s POV); Film Noir (POV of a protagnoist who may be part criminal, part detective, part victime of a femme fatale).

SOCIAL DRAMA. This genre identifies problems in society--poverty, the education system, communicable diseases, the disadvantaged, antisocial rebellion, and the like--then constructs a story demonstrating a cure. It has a number of sharply focused sub-genres: Domestic Drama (problems within the family), the Women’s Film (dilemmas such as career versus family, lover versus children), Political Drama (corruption in politics), Eco-Drama (battles to save the environment), Medical Drama (struggles with physical illness), and Psycho-Drama (struggles with mental illness).

ACTION/ADVENTURE. This often borrows aspects from other genres such as War or Political Drama to use as motivation for explosive action and derring-do. If ACTION/ADVENTURE incorporates ideas such as destiny, hubris, or the spirtual, it becomes the sub-genre High Adventure. If Mother Nature is the source of the antagonism, it’s a Disaster/Survival work.

HISTORICAL DRAMA. The treasure chest of history is sealed with this warning: What is past must be present. He must find an audience today. Therefore, the best use of history, and the only legitimate excuse to set a film in the past and thereby add untold millions to a budget, is anachronism--to use the past as a clear glass through which you show us the present.

BIOGRAPHY. This cousin to Historical Drama focuses on a person rather than an era. BIOGRAPHY, however, must never become a simple chronicle. That someone lived, died, and did interesting things in between is of scholarly interest and no more. The biographer must interpret facts as if they were fiction, find the meaning of the subject’s life, and then cast him as the protagonist of his life’s genre. These caveats also apply to the sub-genre Autobiography.

DOCU-DRAMA. A second cousin to Historical Drama, DOCU-DRAMA centers on recent rather than past events.

MOCKUMENTARY. This genre pretends to be rooted in actuality or memory, behaves like documentary or autobiography, but is utter fiction. It subverts fact-based filmmaking to satirize hypocritical institutions.

MUSICAL. I would love to see a musical novel lol.

SCIENCE FICTION. In hypothetical futures that are typically technological dystopias of tyranny and chaos, the SCIENCE FICTION writer often marries the man-against-state Modern Epic with Action/Adventure. But, like history, the future is a setting in which any genre may play.

SPORTS GENRE. Sport is a crucible for character change. This genre is a natural home for the Maturation Plot, the Redemption Plot, the Education Plot, the Punitive Plot, the Testing Plot, the Disillusionment Plot, Buddy Salvation, and Social Drama.

FANTASY. Here the writer plays with time, space, and the physical, bending and mixing the laws of nature and the supernatural. The extra-realties of FANTASY attract the Action genres but also welcome others such as the Love Story, Political Drama/Allegory, Social Drama, and/or Maturation Plot.

ANIMATION. I guess you could equate this to graphic novels, comics, and manga.

Source: McKee, Robert. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting. York: Methuen, 1998. Print

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my-funky-little-cowboy · 4 years

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🎥 and 📺 for the ask thing

I saw this last night, but I was on my phone and it hurts me to try and answer asks on my phone, because they NEVER post >> (yay functioning website)

🎥 - Top 5 favorite movies?

Alrighty! I absolutely love movies, I have a huge problem because I’ve not reached a point where I can try and replace my 500+ DVD collection with Blu-rays or just live with what I have. (spoilers: I’m probs just gonna live with it)

1. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

I absolutely love most things that Shane Black does, but this is my all time favorite movie. The snark, the ridiculous murder mystery, Val Kilmer and RDJ with Michelle Monaghan? YES All these boxes. If you haven’t seen it, CHECK IT OUT.

I am also doing a shout for The Nice Guys another Shane Black mystery buddy cop movie...but I’m not gonna put them both here.

2. The Fifth Element

Since seeing this movie in theaters I have just been in awe of it, everything about it was amazing. The use of practical effects (granted I didn’t know what they were when I was a kid) and the story was just amazing. It had everything from humor to tragedy. Plus, Bruce and Mila? (not together just each collectively.)

3. Jurassic Park

Another I saw in theaters, listen...my parents let me pretty much do what I wanted after they learned my favorite thing to do as a young child was to watch Species alone at night. I scared them more than once in our house late at night.

Jurassic Park to this day still checks all the boxes for me and was the reason that I spent a long time in college trying to become a paleontologist, before I realized that they didn’t make much money and digs were few and far between now.

4. Shaun of the Dead

I’m weak for Simon Pegg and Nick Frost movies. They may not always be the best, but they have a certain comedy about them I absolutely love.

5. Baby Driver

This film is such a masterpiece, built entirely around the soundtrack, and legit even if you’ve seen the movie, I beg you to watch it again while wearing headphones. It’s a surreal experiences, it makes it so much better. The energy is so different somehow, I mean it.

God this post is getting long, but NOW WE ARE ONTO TV!

📺 - Top 5 favorite TV shows?

1. Bob’s Burgers

Its such a real take on family, like the whole family is fucking weird and they embrace it. They love each other despite their flaws, and they support each other through it all.

2. Dead Like Me

I miss this damn show, it was a treasure. The humor was so peak for its time and I really wish they had given it more of a chance. I never related to someone more than I related to George.

3. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

This is a show that learned from it’s mistakes and grew, like at the time it was that kind of raunchy, unapologetic comedy, but as it grew so did it’s messaging. These vile humans ALWAYS get their just desserts, even if it seems it all works out. They also tackle a lot of issues in society and poke fun at how white people deal with them.

4. Peaky Blinders

This last season was kind of a disappointment, because they set us up for a cliffhanger that isn’t gonna end well, but this show has been a ride from start to finish. I love me some Alfie and Tommy bullshit.

5. Bojack Horseman

I like Bojack because it deals with a lot of those mental health issues that most shows gloss over. It shows us that even people who seemingly have everything in life may be struggling to like themselves. I feel like I can relate a lot to Bojack and Diane in some of the shit they are dealing with and knowing that others have this problem too helps.

This ask got out of hand for length, I am so sorry ya’ll.

Send me Emojis

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withallthingslove · 5 years

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Captain Marvel Spoiler Filled Review

A completely chaotic “review” that is just my random thoughts

spoilers under the cut

- i saw this movie with three of my close friends (one who is a dude and lifelong comic fan, and then two girls who are hella feminist) so I will include some of their reactions as well just to give an idea of what it was like for different people

- right out of the gate the Marvel intro montage is all Stan Lee. It was very heartfelt and the entire theater clapped. That pretty much set the mood for the entire movie

- I know a lot of critics found the beginning to be slow, and while I agree I didn’t mind it. One of my friends said she thought the beginning was a little too jumbled and she described it as “it’s like the directors learned how to direct as the movie went on”.

- The movie opens with Carol (at this point called Vers) having a confusing nightmare and trying to decipher it afterwards with little help from those around her. Because Carol has amnesia, the audience is left to feel what she feels which is confusion. I get what the directors were going for, but it was a little jumbled.

- I did find the dream sequence effective and did feel Carol’s confusion and fear when she woke up.

- She goes to her mentor yon-rogg and asks if he wants to practice fighting. They banter, and it becomes immediately clear to the audience that although Carol is confused they have a rapport with each other and she trusts him. Although he teases her, he *appears* to care for her. During the fighting scene there is more banter, but yon-rogg also tells Carol to control her emotions better. I know there were a lot of complaints from fuckboys about brie larson being stoned faced, but it makes sense for the character. She has emotions, and then is told to suppress them.

- it was satisfying to see her zap him with her powers anyway, and the whole “don’t show emotion” garbage he was telling her reminded me of like every female experience ever and first clued me in on yon-rogg’s shadiness

- On the train ride back from fighting, carol and yon-rogg have very flirty banter and eye contact and i was like ohhhhhhhh and interpreted it that they were a thing. I’m not sure if this was on purpose, but jude law and brie larson had great chemistry (brie had chemistry with everyone though tbh) and it was very hard to ignore. Plus they’re both hot. I leaned over to my friends and asked “they’re a thing right?” and they said “yes I thought so too” and “i think it’s implied”

- When Carol gets sent to the artificial intelligence place to be approved for her first mission I did find that scene pretty confusing and jumbled

- The mission itself was very dimly lit which made it a little confusing to understand/see what exactly was happening

- But it was cool to see Korath from GOTG. One thing this movie did really well was tying into other MCU movies and connecting everything. This movie definitely feels fresh compared to other origin stories but also fits in the the universe and makes it feel more complete

- When Carol was captured and her memories explored, ben mendolsohn’s voice came on as a voice over for talos and I leaned over to my guy friend and went “i fucking love ben mendolsohn” because ITS TRUE. His voice is so recognizable and then even underneath the skrull make up his acting was so distinct

- The memory exploration scene was jumbled like the nightmare, and it made me wish that we got more of carol’s human life backstory. I got the vibe that those scenes would have been better if they were fleshed out more instead of just little tidbits for the audience. that was one of my biggest complaints for the movie is the order the flashbacks appear and how little there were

- Carol screaming at one of the skrulls as she escapes was super funny and showed a lot of her personality. I think it separates her from a lot of heroes because most are nervous as they are trying to escape but she seemed confident in her powers and her ability and therefore could joke around a bit more

- The story definitely picked up once she crash landed on earth, and the 90s nostalgia was very funny and all of those jokes landed with the audience

-Samuel l jackson did a great job as a young fury. This fury is different. He’s much more idealistic and optimistic about the world, and functions more as a good cop than the fury we see in other mcu movies. It was also cool to see coulson again

- I really really enjoyed the scene when carol is able to make contact with the rest of the kree warriors the first time from the phone booth. Even though I got a bad vibe from yon-rogg I did get the feeling that he genuinely cared for carol’s safety. By the end of the movie my opinion about that was conflicted but I think that scene did a good job of showing that she was with them for 6 years which is a long time and why it took her so long to process everything that happened later because it countered everything she knew. It also did a really good job of showing that when she first landed on earth, she still was more kree than human. Her report back was very matter of fact compared to her later contact with them.

- Brie larson and samuel l jackson had GREATTT buddy cop comedy chemistry

- The train chase was very fun to watch, and like the trailer it was very satisfying to see Carol punch the “old lady”

- the scene where fury and talos (disguised as a SHIELD agent) look to see if the dead skrull has a penis got A LOT of laughs

- There’s a scene where Carol is standing outside trying to figure out her next move and this motorcycle dude pulls up and revs the motorcycle and tells her to smile. She just glared at him and then stole his motorcycle and it was ICONIC

- Again I really really really love the dynamic between Carol and Fury

- the second phone call when Carol makes contact with the Krees shows her more human side coming out. Brie Larson is great at showing emotion and as she was starting to put the pieces together everything was making more sense and less sense at the same time and you could feel her confusion and panic that something was off.

- Ben Mendolsohn is a gem and needs to be protected pass it on

- I LOVEDDDDD the moment when Coulson let Carol and Fury go without ratting them out just proving once again that he is one of the best and while i love loki i also hate him for killing him because coulson is too good for this world

- Things got really good when Fury and Carol went to Maria because I STAN FEMALE FRIENDSHIP SO HARD. From the first look they had so much depth and Maria played a huge part of helping Carol understand who she was.

- Also go Maria for being a badass pilot and single mom and amazing best friend

- MONICA IS THE BEST OMG. Her line to her mom about setting an example for her was A++++++

- Goose the cat was also great the only thing I’ll say about this is that Goose is a scene stealer. I don’t want to give the spoilers for Goose away because while predictable they are things I wouldn’t want to spoil for anyone

- I loved the subtle nods at gender inequality

- While the “twist” of Talos and the skrulls being good was predictable it was still very enjoyable. The predictability of it did not take anything away from it. There were references to how other planets treat refugees and Ben Mendolsohn did a great job with the pathos required for the role

- He also did an A+ job with the humor which I won’t give away because those lines are worth hearing fresh

- I think yon-rogg ‘s shadiness at the beginning is what tipped me off to the twist that he is the true villain of the story.

- Again, the movie’s flashback scenes felt like they should be my favorite part and filled with drama and be the emotional backbone, but they just didn’t get there. It took so much effort to decipher them that you didn’t really get to sit back and process the emotional weight of them. So when Carol ran out crying once her memories returned while I thought the acting between her and Maria was great, the meaning of the conversation and hug did not have the full weight because the audience (or me) was still processing what we just learned

- Annette Bening is my mom. Also if there was ever a biopic on elizabeth warren she should play her. Also I don’t like that we didn’t get as much Mar-Vell and the reveal that she was helping the skrulls was very rushed and I feel should have had more of an emotional impact. Plus more about her relationship with carol

- Talos reuniting with his family was incredibly sweet

- It’s cool to see where exactly the tesseract ended up between CA: TFA and Avengers

- Okay.why.do.yon-rogg.and.carol.have.so.much.sexual.tension. I was worried it was just me and I looked at my friends and was just like wtf is this are they about to fuck? and we basically agreed that their sexual tension kept building throughout the final act of the movie and that they wanted to hate fuck. After one moment during the fighting it kept building my friend went “yep THIS IS CANON” because you guys I am not kidding like I don’t ship them because yon-rogg SUCKS but they had the best accidental chemistry of any co stars ever

- The scene where Carol breaks out of the restraints and realizes her full power was BADASS. I loved the flashback montage of her always getting back up again and embracing who she it. POETIC CINEMA

- Though I personally did not like the scene where she is fighting off the Kree on the ship.. . I just wasn’t a fan of the song choice and some of the lines were just cliche. It was nice to watch Carol smile with each hit as her power increased because she was enjoying it which is something we dont see a lot i feel like but the scene did not reach its full potential for me

- It was cool to see ronan and have the space marvel movie characters be tied in. And interesting that we saw ronan before he went “rogue” Again this movie did a great job connecting the dots to other marvel movies

- CAROL IS SO POWERFUL OH MY GOD THANOS IS GOING TO GET HIS ASS KICKED AND IT WAS SO SATISFYING TO SEE HER JOURNEY

- speaking of satisfying watching her tell yon-rogg she doesn’t need to prove him anything and then blasting him into a rock cured my depression

- again i dont really understand their relationship because there’s the sexual tension, the seemingly genuine caring on his side that is conflicted with his utter manipulation and lying (a very good example of how abusive/manipulative people often don’t come across that way)... the fact that she doesnt kill him? like girl kill him and be done. It was funny when she grabbed his hand and then just dragged him to his ship, but then when he told her he couldnt go back empty handed the way jude law delivered the line made it seem like he was confiding in her and there was this intimacy. And then she was just like “boy bye im ending this war and idgaf what happens to you” because shes a queen and is done with his lies

- The ending with Carol and Talos was cute

- The ending with Coulson and Fury made me want to cry and scream because the avengers theme song began to play and we see the beginning stages of the avengers initiative which just made me think about how we have one month till all the characters we love die and this franchise has meant so much to me over the years

- the mid credit scene continued that excitement and dread.

If I was ranking the movie as a critic, I would probably give it 65%. It was good, I was never bored, the performances were great. But it definitely should have been better. There were just some parts of it that were underwhelming or didn’t deliver the way they should. My guy friend said it was just okay and that it felt more like a tie in to endgame and less about captain marvel herself. My other friends agreed on the 65% from an objective opinion, but we all want to see it again.

As a hardcore marvel fan, I give the movie 75%. I loved the characters, the easter eggs, the acting, the way the movie felt like a new beginning for marvel while still tying into past movies. It was everything I love about this franchise

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