#Movies vs tv shows

[slim-shady-42]

“A book itself is a little machine; what is the relation (also measurable) of this literary machine to a war machine, love machine, revolutionary machine, etc.—and an abstract machine that sweeps them along? We have been criticized for overquoting literary authors. But when one writes, the only question is which other machine the literary machine can be plugged into, must be plugged into in order to work..”

[spacecravat]

the thing with good omens is that ultimately it doesn’t even matter to me if it’s kinda bad sometimes. these are my good friends aziraphale and crowley and i WOULD watch them do silly pointless nonsense for hours

[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Bruce Campbell

[aroaceleovaldez]

i am having A Time looking through some old blogs and stuff because I found some Ye Olde Gifsets of the Sea of Monsters movie and. okay. I know it's not fair to compare a movie and a TV show. Howeverrrrr, the PJO TV show allegedly had a HUUUGE budget. Cause it's Disney. (Actually, I did the math - low estimate budget for all of s1 was $96 million USD - allegedly $12-15mil per episode, compared to SoM's $90mil total budget) So why does the Sea of Monsters movie from ten years ago over half the time look better than the show? Like. A lot better.

Like I've complained about the CGI in the show before. Quite a bit. They can't consistently scale Chiron's horse half so he's changing size/proportions in every scene, they can't properly scale the stationary trident floating above Percy's head (you can TELL the asset is elongated improperly like someone stretched it and didn't fix it), they're actively avoiding animating Percy's hydrokinesis as much as possible, and the majority of monster or general CGI scenes are as hands-off as possible.

And as an animator I get it, if you don't have to animate something don't animate it. But. if your series is ENTIRELY CENTERED AROUND A CHARACTER WHO'S BIG MAIN THING IS CONTROLLING WATER. but you REFUSE TO SHOW HIM CONTROLLING WATER AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. Then maybe you SHOULDN'T HAVE CHOSEN THAT SERIES. And I get most scenes with monster fights are difficult to CGI interaction with. CGI interaction is not easy to make look good. But also. You cannot get through the entire series without the characters physically interacting with monsters that are going to have to be CGI'd. And there are ways to do it where the avoidance of interacting with the CGI things is less noticeable, but the show very much does not do that. They did it for the minotaur fight! Everything is really dark with strategic lighting so stuff gets obscured. That one looked fine! But in like every other CGI fight Percy just. Does not touch. It very clear the show is doing very cheap CGI wherever possible and then having the nicer monsters and things that carefully do not touch moving things as much as possible. Walker sits completely stationary when Percy's turning to gold cause they had to CGI over him and it looks bad anyways. PJO TV has the budget for it to not be bad. Disney has the means. But they're not doing that. Even fully stationary CGI scenery like Olympus is clearly super lazy and is skipped over as quickly as possible and is just sad.

Anyways I'm gonna go reblog some old Sea of Monsters gifsets.

[writeouswriter]

People need to start understanding the difference between actually harmful or "bad rep" vs just rough around the edges but still complex and nuanced rep that doesn't quite line up with your own personal experiences or the over-sanitized ideal of what you think "good rep" should be

[weaponizedducks]

i'm going to say something controversial. i enjoyed the pjo movies more than the show. while they were incredibly innacurate to the source material, they were at least FUN and i think got the vibes of the book better than the show did. I actually enjoyed watching them whereas with the show i felt like i was just watching it out of obligation and sort of just waiting for it to be over.

[this-vs-that]

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[shesmore-shoebill]

will it be too fucked up of me to think of a fic/scenario where gracie gets turned and in her devotion/codependence savannah instead decides to lock gracie up in a room instead of killing her. because. –baflegacy

OOOH. WHAT a concept ... I mean I think its an excellent level of fucked up 👀 like hey listen fun characters are the things you are supposed to put into fucked up fiction/fictional scenarios!! And its just so juicy conceptually.... Like obviously we probably need to see more of these characters to really get the depth of Whatever The Fuck is going on there. But this idea alone has SO much potential. Devotion and codependence twisted beyond recognition and persisting anyway (just. like gracie). Love, or some poor imitation of it that is deeply passionate and all-encompassing and also steadily rotting.

Gracie as an ambling husk of herself, all of that power and poise gone. She tries to hurt Savannah anytime she gets too close or makes the slightest misstep but Savannah keeps tending to her anyway, because how different is that from their regular dynamic? (Or maybe its worse, that Gracie is almost easier to handle this way?) Gracie dead but how much of Savannah's treatment and view of her was her, aa a person, anyway? Not just a figure or a symbol, or something that Savannah's whole life and purpose was structured around. She's dead but in some ways its the same. She's dead and Savannah is still taking care of her because whats left for her if she doesn't. Gracie is dead but you can't expect Savannah to kill her. Or to leave her. So instead she locks her in a room and even though she's the one with the key and the world has ended and Gracie is. literally. a zombie. some things still havent changed. anyway. sorry i got lost in the sauce a little bit there. delicious concept. fucked up. delighted to see if you write something about this @baflegacy 👀

[riddle-of-the-model]

kieran culkin looks like someone who is just ITCHING to play a vampire

[thatsrightice]

Top Gun References in Songs

Overwhelming - Jon Bellion

Yeah, she call me Goose, I call her Maverick 'cause of Top Gun

You write checks that my ass can't cash

Rowdy - Yelawolf

Top Gun, never run, b!tch, I'm Maverick on the bike

The Kids Aren't Alright - Fall Out Boy

Stuck in the jet wash

Need to Know - Doja Cat

We could do it to your favorite song, take a ride into the danger zone

Homemade Dynamite - Lorde

A couple rebel top gun pilots flying with nowhere to be

Top Gun - bbno$

I might be short like Tom, but I'm the Top Gun

[parttimesarah]

My friend said a thing that made me think to make these…

So you guys can have them too!

[bobbydagen24]

who would you say are some of your favourite Headcannon autistic characters in fiction?

so its only characters who you HC as autistic no actual confirmed autistic characters can be included such as Abed from Community.

mine would be 1. Donnie from ROTTMNT

2. Aaron from Mitchells vs the Machines

3. Captain Holt from Brooklyn Nine Nine

4. Craig from South Park

5. Near from Death Note

so yeah those are my personal fav autistic Headcannon characters I'd love to Hear yours Down Below.

sorry I didn't explain my Reasonings I just didn't want this to be a super duper long post of me having entire essays Dedicated to each character 😂😂😂😂

but since I love writing analysis posts I'll probably go in Depth as to why I view each of these characters as autistic at some point in the future.

[fanofspooky]

Shoot First. Think Never.

[botlabyrinth]

highly recommend watching the behind the scenes documentary for the making of pjo if you haven’t already! it’s crazy to see how much passion and love and thought went into every little part of the show, and how much care everybody involved has for telling this story. i don’t know how any book fan could watch that and not appreciate the show at least a little. like i get that everyone has their critiques and some of them are super valid too. but seeing that, just made me realize that they really did try so hard to get the story right. and i think in future seasons it would only improve and get better as they get their footing and rhythm down. but it’s so special that we have people who care so deeply about the books working on every single part of this show.