#rewatch master post

[arttsuka]

I wanted to talk about Toothless and how his design and personality changed for the worst throughout the 3 animated movies (I won't be tackling any of the shows because I haven't watched them)

In the first movie he's at his best. His design is actually amazing, from the overall model structure to the patterns on his skin (which are visible in every shot, especially the ones taking place during the day, without ruining the 'illusion' of his black skin. It actually feels like it's resembling a panther aka black leopard in which the fur patterns are still visible). His face has a more aerodynamic shape, more sharp, a big curve.

His snarky but intelligent personality was really fitting for him. And we got to see more of it as the movie was progressing and he was getting more comfortable with humans.

In the second movie the patterns on his skin are still mostly there, way less prominent but still visible. His face got squashed down (a problem which only because stronger in the 3rd movie) but as a whole he still looks presentable, kinda. His posture changed too (but I'm too lazy to find evidence, you'll have to take my word for it).

I remember not having a problem with his personality in the second movie which is why I was surprised to see that this was only half true. He acts more domesticated, that's to be expected, but only around humans? When he interacts with other dragons it's like he's a completely different character, closer to what he became in httyd 3 than 1. He's still quite intelligent and more used to human equipment and people in general. In the first part of the film (especially this scene with Hiccup) he acts like how I'd imagine he should be in the 3rd movie, here it should have been a 'middle' ground, not 100% domesticated but not movie 1 feral either.

In the third movie he suffered the worst. Gone are the patterns on his skin, he's solid black now. His face got weirder too.

His personality got reduced to this stupid, slobbering 'dog'. His pupils are always dilated and his tongue almost constantly out. He acts unintelligent and he doesn't have that snarky personality he had in the first and even the second movie. He's basically a different character altogether. (That scene where he tries to 'woo' the light fury is embarrassing at best and shows exactly what's wrong with his character now).

They did it to make him more 'likable' to younger audiences + to make a good visual contrast to the light fury (who has an undercooked personality AND awful design as well), which is weird because they gave the light fury patterns on her wings?

The light fury looks like a beluga whale in the worst way possible. She has almost nothing going on visually to the point it doesn't even make sense. Her skin looks fragile, she's so weirdly smooth for no reason. It would legit be better if they took a night fury model and painted it white.

They gave her a 'cat' personality and took it away from Toothless (why couldn't both be 'cats'?). Also she's the 'girl' character, her only purpose is to be the romantic interest. She adds nothing to the film.

No comment in the live action design. Just ugly. Atrocious even.

Also something else that's been bothering me from the live action remake is this scene.

They've basically recreated every scene exactly as it was in the original so far (which is a bad thing) but the slight hesitation Toothless showed before touching Hiccups hand was the one thing they chose not to include? (I know the scene wasn't meant to have that in the beginning and it was an error in animation which they decided to keep because it gave the scene more personality so, why not include it in the live action?)

[shield-and-saber]

stuck in my mind palace thinking thoughts about how qimir and sol were always meant to be reflections of each other

i mean obviously "what master hides his face from his pupil?" "you tell me"

b u t a l s o

a fallen jedi who doesn't realize (or want to admit) that he's already fallen vs the sith who knows he's fallen and doesn't care

longing for an apprentice to the point of projecting his desires onto others & killing other force users for it vs manipulating traumatized orphans & massacring jedi so he can continue training his acolyte(s)

two masterful saber duelists who both fight fucking dirty (attacking when qimir's back is turned, turning his saber off mid combat to gain the upper hand vs qimir's use of cortosis, generally breaking every rule of combat)

each pardoning himself for his own actions ('i did this bc i thought i was doing the right thing', 'i love you' vs 'jecki is dead bc you brought her here', 'i deserve freedom from the jedi')

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[holdmymetaphor]

okay when i started rewatching house, it took me until 3x15 but i started to notice a pattern in house's wardrobe. the scene where foreman was trying to express sadness(?) at house's (fake) brain cancer they were both wearing pink.

After that I noticed that any time house was wearing pink, they were particularly vulnerable moments. Moments that he's feeling tender or open. Moments where he is being pretty earnest.

Then I started to notice that other colored shirts came up at different times. Light blue was his most neutral state, it represents logic and reason imo. Maybe a little bit of humor. There's a lightness or surface-ness to it.

Purple represents something like consequences or grief or guilt. any time there is purple someone is bearing the weight of a decision that was made, or a complex situation.

Black represents, as you can imagine, death. the darkest moments we see house in black.

The other colors aren't as prominent, but I have theories. Red is sex, power, life, excitement, ego. tan is neutrality. white is almost naive. green is rare and house never wears it. Dark blue is still logic but more solemn, more deep. its also interesting to note the times when he doesn't wear a t-shirt under his dress shirt and leaves like 3 buttons open (hubba hubba) and when he /only/ wears a t-shirt. I think his dress shirt is almost like his armor.

[granfalloontje]

the autistic urge to hobble across an island with your one-armed child assistant putting critters in little wicker cages until you succumb to your unhealed bullet wound and have to get a piggie back ride home

[medusas-rockin-tits]

Hey idk if anyone else on this website is like, a Pokémon person but like

Do you ever think about how in Zoroark Master of Illusion, that Zorua and Zoroark were probably the first to step foot in Sinnoh since their ancestors had been hunted to extinction in ancient times?

Do you ever think about how Zoroark are capable of human speech? Do you think the Zoroark in Hisui begged for the humans not to kill them and their babies?

Do you ever think about how if a Hisuian Zoroark has an egg, it’s a regular living Zorua, which means all the Hisuian Zorua are…

Damn Game Freak

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

FINALLY finished the MDZS donghua and ohhhhhh. Ohh my god. Censorship fears them that was INCREDIBLE

[ofashenwaste]

i started thinking this early on in rubys season but this episode only confirmed more for me that this has got to be some kind of simulation or truman show type thing. theres waaayyy too many signs pointing towards it now

[bronx-bomber87]

The Rookie Reviews Master List Part 2. Can only do 100 links per post. So this will be linked in my OG master-list for easy access. S6 will be stored here and eventually S7. 1-5 is in the OG post pinned to top of my blog.

Season 6

6x01 Strike Back

6x02 The Hammer

6x03 Trouble In Paradise.

6x04 Training Day

6x05 The Vow

6x06 Secrets and Lies

6x07 Crushed

6x08 Punch Card

6x09 The Squeeze

6x10 Escape Plan

[exanuz]

idk

[raccoonnutella13]

craig is an excellent protagonist for several reasons and recently ive been thinking a lot specifically about what makes him so realistic- it's the fact that he's not the sort of cartoon mc to just trust anyone who's done wrong and immediately try to fix them. he's the type of mc that knows that trust has to be earned, and that he cant forcibly redeem a person.

maya, xavier, etc didnt become friends with craig because he tried to redeem them himself. he let it happen naturally; let them show that theyre worthy of trust, and then he becomes friends with them in his own time. and it's really amazing writing because the kids just feel more realistically written, like, they actually act like kids, and the friendships arent forced.

it's just really refreshing to see a young protagonist that isnt all "i can befriend everyone" (not that theres anything wrong with that type of mc; they can definitely be done well if not overdone) and instead just acts like a normal child would. and i love it

[butchtwelfthdoctor]

anyone ever think about this.

[leafatlaw]

I know I said this alot with parkciv but, it continually fucks me up how in the Evboverse these systems are treated as natural and unchangable. I’m sure like how in parkour once Evbo saves the day he’ll do something to make things better- but still. “In this world you have to kill to survive/level up”. It’s sad to just accept that that’s the way things are there really is no possible way to change it. And because I’m rambling, I’m parkour it was possible for Evbo to change the system, while parkour master and then as god, but he couldn’t conceptualize a society where people didn’t have to jump to live. But in pvp civilization, unless there’s some magic control panel that changes the way the world is run, or once Evbo gets all the netherite weapons he can fix things( which could happen), this world is just less changeable due to its nature. And also pvp evbo is alot more, hmm nihilist (?) than parkour evbo. He’s had to kill people to survive, innocent people and people who are trying to kill him. He less wants to change the world and more just wants to save his friends and himself. He’s more jaded, would he even change the world for the better if given the option ?

[msue0027]

Martha Jones - Jesus Christ parallels (never thought i'd write a sentence like this)

there's the other one who has sent me

For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say. (John 12:49-50)

Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. (John 5:24)

I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me. (John 5:30b)

I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is trustworthy, and what I have heard from him I tell the world. They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him. (John 8:26-29)

[...] for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. (John 8:42b)

etc., and so on...

[inquisitor-apologist]

The guy at the beginning of Wings of the Master sounds like a high schooler trying to do Shakespeare

[variousqueerthings]

also interesting because I just watched a video doing a rundown on the history of queerness in doctor who, which naturally had a lot dedicated to aro and/or ace reads of the doctor, which at one point discussed that ofc reading the alien character specifically as such can be alienating (not... that as an aroace person my own reads would be attempting to alienate... myself... although also here insert other discussion about how the aliens often are just the blank slate upon which non-normative behaviours are placed, so it makes sense to see the neurodivergent/disabled/queer/otherwise othered body reflected from them, while also understanding that this means the world views you as inherently alien, while also being like "sure, yeah, I always have done," while also knowing that's dehumanisation, while also...)

but, when it's consciously done, when does this alien being (whatever narrative we're looking at) resonate through the lens of xyz because we're interested in how social structures built Not on today's earth human constructs could end up in wildly interesting different spaces in which what is non-normative to us is presented as normative to them (thus making an argument of stop being such freaks against trans kids, for example), and also when do we read those characters as incongruent with their own societies (I think also here of star trek's the outcast and rejoined, which blend queerness as we recognise it in our societies with characters who break alien normative structures as expressions of an alien queerness, and then there's ofc left hand of darkness in which gender-and-sexuality is at the centre of the political narrative and it's queer on multiple in-universe and out-of-universe levels)

for example, the doctor isn't really an outsider timelord if we look at them through the lens of genderbending regeneration -- that's normalised in that society in canon, and the interesting thing there is usually how that interacts with human social constructs and politics of gender and as a scifi way of deconstructing and dissembling real life consturcts... but they are clearly an outsider in terms of many other things they do, for example seeming neurodivergent if looked at through a human lens and a timelord lens

so where do aromantic and asexual reads fit in there?

well to start with aro!doctor -- I am into the science-fiction ability to create societies with completely different expressions of "connection" that eschew simple human monogamous ideas and histories, but if we were to take that second lens as well of "what if the doctor is aromantic as an identity and not simply as an alien," the doctor continuously (with the exception of romana and the master) creates deep connections with beings that don't have a particularly long lifespan/aren't timelords, especially considering they're near-immortal. and with romana and the master there seems to be a different set of rules happening there than anything one might describe as uncomplicatedly romantic, bitter exes vibe of the doctor/the master acknowledged

the doctor interests me from the lens of "aromantic as non-normative/queer from the pov from both our and timelord society" because they seem to continuously struggle with people not accepting the connections that they're offering them. the doctor's way of having a relationship is often not "enough", isn't easy to describe/vague, and people get jealous or angry or feel betrayed for reasons that isn't the doctor's fault, because there simply seems to be a lack of language to properly describe it in easy digestible terms

that is... a very aromantic experience

and then sometimes the doctor will just have little non-romantic connections that work, like donna -- and, despite not being my favourite seasons, the bits where the doctor simply lives with/drops in on the ponds is very sweet. and the tardis of course. am a "doctor-and-the-tardis are a matching pair and one without the other is wrong, but it's not romantic" person at heart, beyond anything else

(I am interested in how this will play once my rewatch gets me back to 13 and I can watch until the end, because I know yaz confesses that she's in love with the doctor near the end, and the doctor has an interesting reaction from what I understand)

(I guess at this point asexuality is another post)

but yeah. I think I'm not saying anything new with regards to the writing of aliens (and android and otherwise non-human characters), in that obviously one would like to imagine some interest in exploring these forms of non-normativity outside of "well that's an alien" (she's an alien and he's gay) but also there's reasons we're all so into aliens

genderbending genderfluid regenerating aliens is all well and good, but it only becomes really interesting in this case when we see trans/non-binary/genderfluid/genderbending humans (as is coming up soon! and I hope we see many more actors of the trans and gender non-conforming persuasion on this show!) similarly -- while I do think we have had more than a taste (donna my heart and soul honestly) of that non-alloromantic queerplatonic vibes doctor-companion dynamic -- I'd be fascinated in what a consciously aro (and maybe ace also) companion opposite the doctor would be like, how that would restructure their relationship with the doctor, compared to others who had expectations that the doctor couldn't ever hope to fulfill, like rose, martha (although they did let down martha in many ways that had nothing to do with romance), amy, possibly yaz, (here the confession that I never did get much of what was going on with clara but maybe this watch will clarify for me), possibly sarah-jane, possibly river song although she seems to have just kind of gone with it I guess, possibly romana... heck, possibly the master (I guess possibly that american woman from the movie, I forget her name... I cannot remember rn if other companions ever expressed an interest like that in them, but if so, then them too)

also I just want to rub moffat's face in it if I'm being honest. writing snide commentary about what was described as "asexual" doctor pre-nu!who, in a way that very much encompassed aroness (because romance-and-sex has so often been and still is put under one header), and totally misunderstanding why fans were into it or why it's interesting, and then being obsessed ever since with his weird little crusade of making doctor who "sexier" and alloromantic and imo utterly failing, despite it all