So, when my brother and I was watching episode 3 of Loki (series 2) on Friday, we had a really weird discussion.
Slight spoilers if you haven’t seen it yet.
When Ms Minutes and Victor were talking in his workshop, and it’s so obviously clear she’s in love, a very, very, old memory popped up.
You guys remember her? Weebo from Flubber! My brother didn’t know what I was talking about, but as soon as he googled it and saw a picture, he remembered. Immediately he went; “You had that as a McDonald’s toy!”, and yes! Yes, I did! We then proceeded to talk about Flubber for a few minutes before getting back to our Marvel Friday!
I absolutely loved Flubber growing up, but I can’t say that I think about it very often. Love it when random childhood memories resurfaces.
It's kinda mess up that I am the only adult over 30 that is alive with borderline personality disorder, non gay, edgy, live with my mom and a weebo lol
Watching Flubber as an adult is a whole other experience entirely! 🧪
Half the humor is a bit, stupid lol Enjoyable, but stupid.
And can we talk about how fudging WEIRD it is that Weebo made a hologram of "herself", and tried to um... do things with the professor while he slept (more or less)? Creepy! Their "daughter" later didn't help the creep factor much, either lol
I still love it, though! It's just weirder now that I'm older and can see things in the plot differently.
Weebo was a standout part of Flubber. She was such a unique robot character and I don't think she gets enough attention. My favorite lonely robot girl.
Just saying, Miss Minutes and HWR/Kang/Timely's dynamic reminds me of Weebo from Flubber but creepier and more yandere-ish, because Miss Minutes is the biggest yandere ever.
The horse is six feet under at this point I know but I still can't get over the gall of James Somerton correctly! arguing that Disney's lack of queer representation should be blamed solely on the company and not on the Chinese market, only to immediately fuck up any sort of logic he had in saying that by concluding that this is because China should be completely written off as a viable market because the government only lets people watch shows about communism and censors everything else 🤪 source: I shit you not, a right wing conspiracy theorist !! Since he doesn't actually know anything about the subject he's talking about, he's not actually making any arguments. He only mentions Chinese BL because the article he plagiarized did, and even then he has to punctuate it with a "audience of mostly STRAIGHT WOMEN! " of course, even though the article also acknowledges and has multiple interviews with queer Asian people who found comfort in the genre right below all the stuff he copied. There's no mention of queer Chinese artists or lesbian works or any sort of empowerment, probably because he didn't care to learn about any of them, and so rather than ending with what could have been a strong message about the persistence of queer identity even under political oppression, the video fizzles out into nothing with an aftertaste of "so Disney should just say fuck the Chinese and make whatever they want" (because yeah James sure that's the reason why Disney doesn't make gay stuff there's definitely no biases within the company itself or American culture) and "well at least we still have the Japanese and the Thai are making bl now!" Just the epitome of self-centered white saviorism. No real sympathy or respect for queer Asian struggles, just a reframing of a unique struggle with representation into "well I got mine so go get yours somewhere else" while he waits for them to spit out a work that he can regurgitate into a profit on his channel