#prophecy of doom

[animusrox]

Prophecy of Doom Directed by: Frank Paur Story by: Dennis Marks Teleplay by: Sean Catherine Derek Airdate: October 6, 1992 Batman: The Animated Series (1992 - 1995)

[urbaneturtle]

DCAU Rewatch: BTAS 19: Prophecy of Doom

A self-proclaimed psychic is preying upon the wealthy of Gotham City. The con man will find more than he bargains for when he tries to target hapless playboy Bruce Wayne.

Credits

Story by Dennis Marks

Teleplay by Sean Catherine Derek

Directed by Frank Paur

Music by Shirley Walker

Animation Services by Akom Production Co.

Layout Services by NOA Animation

In the last few years when I’ve felt like watching Batman, I’ve picked a few old favorites. I don’t remember having anything particularly against this one but I catalogued it to the part of my mind where I store some of the weakest episodes of the show. That’s not completely fair to this particular episode which is mostly fine if unremarkable.

The first thing that grabbed me in this show was the opening swing music that led into the raucous dance scene and casino on board the cruise ship. It’s an effective sixty second story that perfectly sets a mood—and then introduces drama and tragedy. There are quite a few sweeping camera pans throughout this episode, an assured confidence in the art and visuals. It's surprising this was Akom, as at least this part of the episode is definitely a bit higher in quality than their previous work. But that Akom quality does pop up as the episode unfolds.

As the series goes on we get less and less Bruce Wayne, so it is really nice here to get so much of the hapless facade as Batman uses his identity to investigate Nostromos’ cult. Not only does Conroy deliver the foppish dialogue with incredible comedic sensibility, but the dialogue itself perfectly captures the obnoxious and affable aura this Bruce presents. Even the animators have some fun with the way the character moves. It’s a nice wrinkle of dramatic storytelling to have Bruce lose his love interest as a consequence of his investigation into Nostromos.

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[thethcministry]

[zgold]

there is the prophecy in quran about israel distraction(in sorahAl isra4_8) and main reason is their tyranny

We revealed to the Children of Israel in the Book: ‘Twice you will cause corruption on the earth, and you will perpetrate great tyranny.’

So when the first occasion of the two [prophecies] came, We aroused against you Our servants possessing great might, and they ransacked [your] habitations, and the promise was bound to be fulfilled.

Then We gave you back the turn [to prevail] over them, and We aided you with children and wealth, and made you greater in number,

[saying,] ‘If you do good, you will do good to your [own] souls, and if you do evil, it will be [evil] for them.’ So when the occasion for the other [prophecy] comes, they will make your faces wretched, and enter the Temple just as they entered it the first time, and destroy utterly whatever they come upon.

[lemonsharkgirlfriend]

so rhaenyra starts s3 with a god complex, believing herself to be the prince that was promised from aegon the conqueror's dream... but hugh and ulf will betray her, mysaria will misunderstand her, coryls will undermine her, bartimos will underestimate her, daemon will abandon her, her people will turn against her and burn her castle and kill her dragon. and when everyone who accepted rhaenyra as queen rejects her, the only person left to love rhaenyra will be alicent, who never loved rhaenyra as queen but rhaenyra as a person ("she was the vision that sustained him [...] it was his love for her that kept him resolute in his choice of heir."). alicent, who abandoned her gods and duty to go to rhaenyra on dragonstone and appeal to the person beneath the crown ("i cast myself on the mercy of a friend who once loved me."). alicent, who's made a god of rhaenyra, not as queen, but as the girl she read with beneath the godswood ("come with me.").

[classyclips]

Shocking to discover this video clip today and see it was made two years before the full scale war started. They literally saw things coming.

[columboscreens]

[justaz]

arthur (prince of camelot) still has to study under a tutor bc yknow uther wants him to be very intelligent before becoming king or something bc its super important idk idc anyways merlin is doing chores in his chambers while arthur is squinting at a book and merlin eventually caves and asks him what he’s reading and arthur gruffly explains that its a collection of stories from greece that make absolutely no sense so merlin asks him to read them outloud to him. arthur of course teases him and calls him an idiot and asks how he could possibly help but does as he’s asked and reads the stories to merlin as he does his chores. merlin (being crushed under the weight of destiny and tormented by the prophecies that kilgharrah spews) understands the stories almost immediately and gets all excited and starts rambling about them with arthur. arthur is glad to have someone who understands so he can give something that reflects a hint of understanding to his tutor who accepts it and moves onto the next unit of education.

the thing is, arthur finds more stories in camelot’s library and brings them up to his room to read them aloud to merlin under the guise of completing his studies but really he just wants to watch as merlin’s eyes gleam when he understands whats happening and listen to him ramble on and on about them bc he’s gay. the stories stick with merlin though and he realizes that they’re cautionary tales, that the heroes who were told too much of their future doomed themself to fulfill them - that them fighting the prophecies led to their completion. merlin takes it to heart and gives a big “fuck you” to kilgharrah before forging his own fate and helping morgana with her magic and handing out an olive branch to mordred and now everyone can live happily and peacefully in an albion teeming with magic.

[sallytwo]

AND I WANT TO BUILD A TOWER TO ALL THE NICER THINGS YOU COULD’VE BEEN.

[nana-glass-chillhop-radio-hour]

'My Song Cries Prophecy and Doom'

Not emotionally prepared for the TSV season 3 break? Neither are we! Procrastinate on consecrating yourself to a god of sleeping through the month of December by checking out the 28-minute long fan episode of the Silt Verses that @nana-glass-chillhop-radio-hour and @transfaulkner wrote, recorded and sound-edited! (Music written by @sealsapocalypticmusic, beta-listened by @mirrorbird)

We are so grateful that @thesiltverses has placed their work under a Creative Commons license and that the production team has such a generous attitude towards transformative media of all kinds based on their creative works. We love the show and had a blast playing in their world.

This fan episode is canon-compliant and takes place in Season 1, between Chapter 12 and Chapter 13 (after Paige parts ways with Carpenter and Faulkner, but before they reach Bellwethers). It is part 1 of 2. The script is also available as a part of the Ao3 work for those who prefer to read along.

Check it out on Archive of Our Own, or listen below. (For best listening experience, we recommend you wear headphones.)

Let us know what you think! We hope you like it!!

[bonefall]

ever think about how in tnp bramble is suspicious of hawk until the /moment/ they visit tiger together? and then gets mad at squilf for expressing an opinion he used to agree with?

Actually! The moment Bramble stops being suspicious of Hawkfrost is when he's jealous of Squilf's magical telepathic bond to her sister. It's like spite. It fascinates me that you can read it as though Brambleclaw is being consumed by jealousy, trying to have everything that Squilf does, as though his "hatred" of her is coming from envy.

[ruegarding]

it's the fates cutting the string from across the highway while looking at percy and only percy. and percy feeling like a failure while looking up at thalia's tree, wondering if he could've been a hero like her. and poseidon apologizing for bringing percy a hero's fate. and percy choosing to step back and let sally kill the monster and save herself bc he's aware now that being a hero means being a tragedy. and annabeth talking abt hubris and percy saying being in charge of the world sounds like a nightmare. and percy figuring out that the prophecy means he will die at sixteen. and thalia joining the hunters to avoid making a choice she'll regret. it's all of this and percy knowing exactly what it means to choose this fate and this prophecy and choosing it anyway to protect a kid no one asked him to protect.

[birder-of-remnant]

4 years later, Volume 9.

World of RWBY: The Official Companion (2019)

[eri-pl]

So, the Doom of the Noldor

Isn't very strict, to put it politely.

Tears unnumbered ye shall shed; and the Valar will fence Valinor against you, and shut you out, so that not even the echo of your lamentation shall pass over the mountains.

...except that one time when Manwe sends an eagle to Fingon to save Maedhros (both kinslayers) precisely because of Fingon's lamentations prayer...

On the House of Fëanor the wrath of the Valar lieth from the West unto the uttermost East, and upon all that will follow them it shall be laid also. Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.

...except that one time M&M actually get the Silmarils. Yes, it's kind of ambiguous with this wording, because they do lose them eventually. But still, this 'prophecy' seems a little misleading here.

To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well; and by treason of kin unto kin, and the fear of treason, shall this come to pass.

...except Galadriel's woodland realm, which, sure, fades but doesn't end up evil. Also, Celebrimbor technically wasn't betrayed by his kin, and definitely in was not fear of treason what killed him...

The rest is ok, but even three mistakes— Even one mistake would prove that it wasn't Namo speaking those words. Namo makes no mistakes, doesn't lie, doesn't joke and doesn't use hyperboles. (Yes, that's headcanon.)

Namo is too omniscient to not be literal.

Many of you will say I'm being picky, and the eagle doesn't count or the words meant something else, and Galadriel wasn't with the Noldor but went separately (per later writings) or something.

Anyway, I'm pretty strict-minded when it comes to prophecies and I really don't think Namo would be that imprecise. Must have been one of his Maiar or whatever.

[brucie-baby]

anyways steph is doomed by the narrative, jason is haunting the narrative and bruce is narrating the narrative. does this make sense.

[thirdtimed]

someone left a really good set of tags on the life series winner post but in essence i agree that while i like the watchers in theory as window dressing to the entire tragedy fueling this endless cycle of blood sports i think its a million times more intriguing and engaging for the truth of the matter to be that the lifers themselves are the reason for their own suffering. the watchers are just kind of there as an excuse for their own faults