#whoever designed this Casey he is the best Casey design I love him so much

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Some doodles from my 6th read of MMPR X TMNT II

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WELCOME TO COLORCODED !

There’s a lot of lore and things about this version of the turtles you can find under the cut ! And of course more art

IF YOU WANT TO SEE EVERYTHING COLORCODED RELATED WITHOUT GOING THROUGH EVERY POST HERE : Here is the Colorcoded Tag on my blog with everything about it :)

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Colorcoded!leo by @calista-222​ :)

Colorcoded!leo lore : -Leo is SUPER tactile with his family and loved ones (including casey and april) -Whenever he can he touches them, especially when talking to them. He does a lot of surprise hugs for no reason other than :)!!!! love!!!! -Leo is tactile to show affection but doesn't say it much, if not ever. -So about the tactile thing, imagine in an important discussion, he would touch the shoulder or get close to whoever he's talking to, without even thinking it -if he can't get to whoever he's talking to for whatever reason, he fidgets a bit instead -Leo is still the leader, and is supposed to be responsible and keeps the others in order but herd mind does wonder and if they get the Silly™️ then he usually goes with them to do something stupid. -Except when they get the Silly™️ he still is pretty good at what he does, and in battle is pretty much 2012 Leo. However unlike 2012 Leo he sucks at strategizing, it's more Donnie's field. -He's super into Japanese's culture, because he feels like it's his roots and he wants to respect that as much as possible (hence why his ouftit is the most classic), and he often talks to Splinter about it to get to learn more. He really hopes he'll be able to go to Japan one day, and eventually meet the rest of the Hamato clan. -Leo is also extremely supportive of his brothers, and tries his best to pull them up. -He listens to Donnie's ranting about science or fantastical books, even if he usually truly understands like half of it, sometimes he link 2+2 and goes "oh, like when you told me about [thing]" and donnie gets really happy and like :D!!!!! YEAH!!!!! Exactly !!! -He oftens hang out in Mikey's room when his brother is painting, reading a book or playing on his phone, because Mikey likes to have commentary on his work as it progresses. -If Raph comes to him to spar, he usually drops whatever he's doing and goes with him and they train for a bit. Of course Leo does not let him win UwU but it means that whenever Raph DOES win, he knows it's for real and he always gets a big boost of confidence -I can't believe I deadass forgot that but remember Mikey's embroidery on the bois' stuff ? Donnie was like "sure do the mask" Raph was also like "sure do the mask" and then like most of his mask got ripped off and there was no more place to embroidery there so mikey did the belt Leo was like "sure do the mask" so Mikey did the mask and assumed that was it and then leo went :) and gave him his belt and Mikey was like :D!!!!!!! -Leo and Raph are twins so they tend to fight for stuffs, but they have a strong bond and they often go to eachother if they need to talk about stuff (and not let Splinter know) -Leo and Donnie get along great and have tons of talks about everything and nothing. -Leo just gets along with everyone - Leo is very invested in Japanese's culture and tries to learn as much from it as possible, and that includes japanese tv shows. Leo is ESPECIALLY excited about this universe's sailor moon equivalent. Mikey and Raph doesn't get it, Mikey because he feels like it doesn't make sense and it's badly written and HE COULD DO BETTER- and Raph because. Raph. However DONNIE didn't expect to get as invested as he is. But he is. Somehow. -Leo only has 1 sword -Leo and Mikey together are disaster children. Do not leave them alone in a room. Seriously. -Leo is a TERRIBLE liar and cannot act for shit either -If there’s has to be ONE moment where he lies good, it would be if anyone from his family is in instant danger of death. And even then it would be a small lie. -Leo is the eldest brother with Raph, his technically-twin -Leo LOVES the show Tanako no Ichi and loves to rant about it with Donnie

Colorcoded!mikey by @calista-222​ (seriously go check out their art)

Colorcoded!Mikey lore : -This Mikey loves to paint and has been doing so since he was 7 -Ice cream kitty is there and it's literally a copy-paste of 2012 because she's perfect -i would also like to precise that the bag you can see in the ref holds a sketchbook and a pencil and an eraser and literally 0 ninja stuff the ninja stuff is in another bag -mikey stands his ground a lot against raph so they just argue a lot more than in most versions (they still love eachother, still bro) -ninja is a hobby artist is his job -He has done all the embroidery present on everyone’s design. He just takes their stuff and sew. -Mikey and Raph fight more than the others, because Raph often goes to far with the teasing, but they still would die for eachother :) -Leo and Mikey are disaster children. Don't leave them alone in the same room. Mikey activates Leo's "dumb braincells". However if Leo is with Mikey and at LEAST another person, he has big bro energy -Mikey and Donnie often fight about eachother's space and the need to get out. Donnie wants mikey out because well he has big 2012 mikey energy in the lab, and mikey wants donnie out because Donnie keeps doing the "that arm doesn't look proportionate" and that kind of comments -As a group they tease Mikey more, and in a non-threatning situation, have 1 braincell -Mikey has a burning hatred for the japanese show “Tanako no Ichi”, who has been going on for too many years and nothing makes any sense, and it intensely bothers him. Leo and Donnie love to annoy him with it. - He has a shit ton of stickers on his back and front shell and a lot represent his family, including splinter I need to draw the back shell of the boisvehzvs There's 3 types of stickers on mikey's shell : ----He drew his family ----He drew other than his family (usually food) ----He found some Good Shape ™️ stickers -He’s Aroace -Mikey is the middle child ! He gets to tease Donnie a bit, altough he doesn’t do it often. -Mikey is a terrible cook and takes cooking lesson from Casey (mostly because his family pushed him to) - I find the idea hilarious that Mikey is unironically attractive and every person their age they meet get a crush on him and every time he's like N o Not again.... Because Colorcoded Mikey is aroace - He's horrible at turning people down because he feels bad and doesn't want to hurt the person's feelings

Colorcoded!Raph lore : -Raph has a pet named Buckle, and she’s a mouser mutated with a dog. -Raph is still angry boi but he is way more contained than in 2012, and if he feels rage and wants to blow up to his brothers, he brutally leaves the room and go play a video game to let out some steam. He uses training and night patrol to let his anger run free, while still being kinda controlled so he doesn't do anything stupid (at first it wasn't contained and mikey got hurt. he felt very guilty and didn't go to training or patrol for a while after that, staying with Splinter to try and control his anger better. once he felt like he was in control enough, he went back with his bros) -Since he plays video games whenever he's angry, and he's angry very very often, he's REALLY good at it. any games in the lair ? played 'em, beat 'em, next. When he was smaller, he used to rage and break the game/console if he failed at any point in the game. He later realized that it wasn't super smart and it mostly just ruined any chances he had of doing better. So he got a punching ball in his room and everytime he rages he gets up and go hit that instead. -More often than not, when Leo does his surprise hug, Raph pushes him away. -He likes to hang out in Donnie's lab while he's working, talking to him about stuff unless Donnie REALLY needs to focus and he gets kicked out. -He loves to tease Mikey, and if he goes to far, he gets scolded by the latter anyway, so since he can stand his ground, he doesn't see a problem with it and keeps doing it. -When the team gets down and desesperate, Raph is usually the one to get them back up and get the team running again. -He's usually super tough and ):< Except when there's an animal (non-mutated) nearby, and then he gets <3   which his brothers never hesitate to tease him for. Jokingly, of course, since they don't want to shame his soft side into hiding. -he's super nice and soft and gentle with animals, researching what they need to doing his best to take care of them, eventually scolding the others if they do it wrong. -With Donnie, he's the most stubborn out of all of them, and he's difficult to reason with. He doesn't like to be proven wrong and has difficulty accepting it. -Donnie and Raph get along great as long as Raph doesn't get angry™️ and Donnie doesn't go on a rant -Raph and Donnie are used to monitoring their bros when they’re alone together so they don’t accidentally take down a building or kill themselves -Raph loves gossip and does not hide it. He likes to hear about the shenanigans going on in Casey’s and April’s highschool.

Colorcoded!Donnie lore : -Donnie loves to read both science books and fantastical books. -Donnie likes the complete unhinge style of it, and it really allows him a break from science, like these two can NOT cross. -Shelldon is there in this version, but he's different first, he's non-verbal second his design is based on a dragon with a turtle shell it's like shell-dragon but shellgon sounds terrible so he put a d in there. of course you completely lose the aspect of shell-dragon, and he refuses to admit it because he's extremely stubborn, but his brothers tease him a lot about it -so it's a tiny robot dragon with a shell on his back boom, shelldon also he can fly but not by using his wings traditionally. it's like he open the wings and he has propellers inside of them and boom like a drone, like rise!shelldon - Okay so unlike most of the fucking donnies who are "scIeNtIsT" and suddenly they can do everything- Can you tell this pissed me off.-- it's like he's an "arRisTE" and bitch can play any instruments, paint, draw, sculpt, and all at like college levelthAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS FFS- So unlike most of the donnies, Colorcoded!Donnie is an Engineer, which means he can build stuff That's his FIELD. If he has to do some bioscience he has to LEARN IT AND ASK FOR HELPbecause GUESS WHAT ?! HE CAN'T BE A GENIUS IN EVERY FIELD EVER THAT'S NOT A THING NO SIR- -Metalhead is also here -The turtletank is also here -Donnie’s tech is more realistic than Rise, until he gets his hands on some sweet sweet Kraang tech and then he goes buck wild. -Donnie is the youngest brother - Donnie does get teased more, and by mikey as well, unlike other versions where it was mostly raph and a bit of leo -Donnie absolutely LOVES the show Tanako no Ichi and loves to rant about it with Leo. I’ll do April and Casey in another post, but if you can’t wait, you can read about them and a lot more infos on the AU

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[incarnateirony]

Hi! I’m still not really over the last episode (and that happy montage in the end i-) and I’m feel confused about what’s part of the episode was fake. I mean the end totally is. But all Chuck scene was superweird too. And sometimes i think that it should be Cas instead of Lucifer and Jack felt him. I mean... confused! How do you feel about that?

Okay so here’s the thing -- this is a multifaceted episode--

BuckLeming, while often herded efficiently by Dabb, can muddy up the textual waters, leave gaps, and things unexplained.

However, that doesn’t account for Showalter’s choices in direction. Dutch shots out the ASS which are typically used to evoke that something is "wrong." Lots of panoramas, tracking shots, zooms and blurs in ways that simply are-not-standard for SPN. Extreme aerial shots.

One might even think “maybe it’s Chuck looking in on them!” but then you realize the same overhead view zoomed out on *Chuck* even and panned out to the horizon again.

One of the early mega-zooms literally zoomed out to The World, even. I’m just gonna gesture people to my tag on that and let them think on that, much less the empty world orbiting on the news or whatever the hell else.

There were *several* Cas-baits, yes. Yes, that was intentional from our actual authors. 

But when it comes down to “fake episode”, here’s where we were at.

15.17-19 run immediately concurrently. At the end of 17, Chuck says this was his ending.

Now, the Winchesters largely derailed that ending, so Chuck was writing new material.

But Chuck is also seeking death. 

He wrote a suicide note in 11. He wrote the story that would end in him and Amara being eradicated. And whatever influence he was exerting forcefully with Michael and Lucifer to bop the story around was all in the interest of seeing his book. One might think “to keep the Winchesters from killing him”, but he was desperate to see what his ending WAS, to know it and experience it and scream after them.

The dour taking of “no one cares” right after “I care(d)” about humanity is its own highlight going on.  But wait, there’s MORE.

When Dabb dropped his pre-episode thing, we started talking before the episode.

So I mean, I think what we were *mostly* witnessing is the pen being ripped away.

But this is that emptiness that lingers even with Chuck generally resolved. They’re still kinda on the pages. The book is presented as shut, and the next steps are not taken. Development stops, if not drops.

This entire thing is so meta my damn head hurts.

Summarily: Is it just like, some weird AU that’s gonna go away? Not so much. Is it an incomplete portion of the story told from a skew? Absolutely. And is there still someone watching over them? T’would seem so. The whole World, even. Beyond Chuck. 

Now the point at which we start blocking off issues of “eugenie writes like she’s 3″ is where we ask about things like “god power” or whatever else being thrown in the mix along with eugenie’s ki ball special effects that are literally always unique to her episodes, even if other people have to add the SFX.

So while it was a good bit of masterful work to do it via buckleming for this style of bump, it still inevitably has its flaws because... buckleming. But... Showalter was there. And one thing to note is almost every single scene entrance had some sort of major pan or zoom effect. That’s not typical for him.

The entire thing is designed to evoke, directorially: 

One style: crooked shots, unlevel, unbalanced, uneasy feeling.

Second style: Over-under; some force is watching them on high, while others have a sort of brechtian absurdity, which seats it like a play on an elevated stage.

We are the audience, looking up at figures half the episode; but a second audience is looking in from “on high” and out over the world. As if perhaps even from the heavens. 

Third style: CSI Miami, basically? Parts of this episode were sectioned off to be like a procedural crime drama in its cinematography and flashbacks. Which is ironic, because Dean loathes procedural dramas, but at the same time some of this fandom demands a procedural monster show instead of a family drama show. 

Sam and Dean barely have any lines in the episode *until* we hit Crime Drama Time. Then suddenly, they reveal all of their case work. Despite Dean’s hatred of crime dramas, this is honestly when I feel like the brothers kicked in their own pen. 

Let’s play a game-- the winchesters are aware they can write their own story. So they start telling the story they think people want to hear, or maybe just fill in the gaps from when Chuck gets dropped on his ass. Maybe Dean’s the one writing about how many times god punched them in the face whereas Sam is breaking down the crime scene investigation front. Another, where it feels like we’re loosely circling the war table as others lightly wander too.

But everything before that is the first and second style, and even after that, the overview-angle remains. The uneasiness is gone but there is an emptiness otherwise. But we are no longer spectators from beneath the stage, but staring into them.

I still very much expect everyone to “die” one more time and several specifics to choose to walk back into life at the end of it.

Is it a *complete* false narrative? No. We’re not just gonna turn around and be like “oh that whole ep didn’t happen.” But the writer lost his pen and got jacked at one point, while we also observed the stage from a series of angles as different audiences.

Riddle me this: Why show the World? “Because it’s empty and just them!” okay but there’s a lot of ways to show that which actually gets that point a whole lot better across than “here, here’s a planet that still looks lit up”--yes I know electricity is still running until stuff runs out but essentially speaking, the end of the episode shows us the kind of dramatic shots that could be used for that.

CASey just poofed in the World in the TV, seems legit.

Let’s see these overhead angles again, knowing it isn’t just Chuck.

This sort of overview is known for causing a “dollhouse effect” that derealizes the episode and makes them seem, well, like toys. Which is interesting. Because Chuck isn’t the only one watching them on high.

Cool, this is fine.

Either way, the entire episode is DESIGNED to cause some major uncanny valley. There’s a lot of parts that simply *haven’t been told or filled in.*  It’s almost like evasive maneuvering, half the content just never made it to print, and what did wasn’t in its best draft. There may be battling authors, or a transition of authorship. But the thing is: this is not the complete story.

There is an entire missing section about Sam and Dean even finding out that Jack is a power siphon which they hadn’t witnessed yet much less arranged an entire plan.

Even Chuck’s episodes are generally told from the general POVs of the Winchesters, but this was absolutely not. 

Matthew 28: 18: And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Put a pin in that one.

Unless CHUCK IS WRITING HIS OWN FAKE DRAMATIC END, the overhead view, however, IS NOT CHUCK PERSPECTIVE.

-- Regardless, the metaness of “fish in a toilet bowl BRL plot” stacked into this makes it very difficult to accurately decipher the lines, especially with only one watch so far--just skimming back through right now to grab a few things I remember.

Some parts are plot salad buckleming.

Some parts are us as forced spectators of a stage play.

some parts are shifting authorship

Some parts are the heavens looking out over the earth it loves.

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It almost feels as if, within enclosed spaces, unsteadiness and stageplay, we have Chuck’s POV.

But by the end it ceases to have any relevance, as he is no longer the author, and instead, we have the Presence of Being overseeing them, letting the Winchesters argue for their own proverbial pen in their own storytellings between here and there.

ALTERNATE PROPOSAL:

 it is all one point of view. All of it. Pretend you’re someone’s eyes on a situation, you just happen to be in the sky half the time, and the uncanny valley is pulling forward the concept of being a presence that simply isn’t *there.*  For example we're looking extremely closely at passed out dean but the camera turns and raises to level with Sam before Dean gets up. Our viewership lens is rising to meet Sam.

The camera stays in motion to fill a role or slot of a viewer. At first it’s haunting and ominous, but at other times, it’s simply part of the room, when it isn’t hovering from on high. Rather than speaking of empty space, we are viewing The World through that empty space, as if it were a Being.

Just a few more eye catching shots.

But whoever or whatever frames the end, even without Chuck--like the story is still turning on the pages, roughly. 

The montage at the end feels like the Swan Song one, more or less, but there’s no narrator, no chuck.

The writer, the writer we know at least, is Absent.

Men are writing their own Stories.

But they aren’t alone.

I know how you see yourself. Angry and dark like your father. You think that’s what you are. But you are the most loving man in the whole world. That is who you are.

Someone does care. Even if right now, Sam and Dean don’t feel like anyone does.

...Because of you. I cared. For you, for Sam, for Jack, for the Whole World.

I cared.

“That’s not who I am.”

I am.

I speak therefore I am.

[plush-anon]

plush reviews: pirates ahoy! (collected)

for my own personal reference, decided to collect the singular posts into one, w/ breaks between each original post below the cut

I will say this, the opening credits for this one are pretty dang good - nice visuals flow together with some wonderful music to create a compelling overview of the Bermuda Triangle and some of the wild theories commonly associated with it, as well as how far back these myths go. Kudos 🤗

also, I did not realize how short this movie is - paused it for a second and it’s only 70 minutes long apparently. huh

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oh man, good times - I forgot how stilted and choppy the WNSD animation could get in some shots.

annnnnd there’s the cotton candy fog. it moves like it’s on a skateboard being pulled across the screen XD

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finally cut to the gang - i honestly like this shot of everyone in the car. daphne paints her nails like my sister used to when we were young - on the dashboard on long car rides 😅 the nausea from the smell led to some “fun” trips, lemme tell ya 

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oh Casey Kasem, even in old age your Shaggy was memorably good

also the joke on Fred’s age never gets old XD like, you guys grew up together as kids in this continuity, how could you not know his age, much less that he’s obvs not in his 40s? still a fun one tho

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another thing i forgot about WNSD continuity - Shaggy’s character model being like 2 feet taller than Fred in some shots

also the gang being legitimate friends and liking each other and getting along, unlike some portrayals *side-eyes sdmi*

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i think this is my fave version of fred’s parents, although i do love Professor Huh from be cool scooby doo. they are EXACTLY how i picture the people who raised the sdway/wnsd version of Fred to be 

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holy crap, i forgot Kathy Najimy was in this 

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actually, here’s a thought: why haven’t they graduated Frank Welker to playing Fred’s dad in a show, and hired someone else to play Fred?

granted, the man still (uncannily I might add) sounds exactly like he did in the 60s (hOW?!?) but it’s strange they haven’t tried to do that yet apart from maybe pup named sd, where he played fred’s… uncle, i think and i guess kind of with the new scoob 2020 movie, where he only plays scooby

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…i think the captain of the ship just got beamed aboard the Enterprise o_O 

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the alien has the general head shape of the ones from Alien Invaders and the claw hands of dr claw from inspector gadget

also, whoever designs fred’s facial expressions in this movie is having waaaay too much fun (although kudos for actually… you know… making them. some characters have very minimal face movement and it’s rather unsettling, especially when the voice acting is actually pretty decent)

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i gotta say, good on fred’s parents for encouraging their son’s interests and talents, as well as getting him a birthday gift that he can not only enjoy, but also inviting his friends along for.

…unlike SOME incarnations *glares at sdmi*

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holy fcuk shaggy just brought back the ghost of captain cutler, glow-in-the-dark diving suit and all O_O 

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dang, velma’s lounge wear looks cozy. i’m glad they haven’t tried to force her into something weird

camp scare put her in a white bathing suit, which was… really odd for her, color scheme wise. altho the storyboard artists reaaaaaally wanted to do a drawn out, slo-mo play-in-the-water thing with velma and daphne in that one, so maybe that contributed to it? idk

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i do like that the gang inadvertently solves every mystery on a mystery cruise - that cracks me up 

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cripes, they keep cutting back and forth between a decently animated shot of the gang on a polished background, and this almost MS Paint looking rough animation of the castaway being guided on the deck, which is all flat colors and rough black lines. it looks terrible

the animation quality is all over the place here

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and suddenly man in a jetpack

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RON PERLMAN?!?!?

how the FRICK did they get him on this movie cast?! this is post-hellboy!

( also apparently arsenio hall voices the captain. who the heck had all these high rollers on speed-dial at the studio that day)

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actually, here’s a thought: given the voice cast we have, and how i’m actually able to follow this without having to look at the screen all the time (i’m folding laundry rn), this could make for a really decent comedy mystery radio show.

think about it! get a decent voice cast and writing team, and there’s a lot you can do with Scooby on the radio. you may not be able to do the chase scenes as well, but those can be worked around pretty easily with a solid writing team. i’d be interested in seeing that come to reality in all honesty - it could be fun!

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another thing i just noticed: Scooby hasn’t talked NEARLY as much in this one as he does in later shows/movies. I forgot how much I missed that from him 

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wait a tic that’s Dan Castellaneta as the hypnotist

seriously, who was able to get all these people on board for a Scooby Doo DTV about pirates

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now here’s an interesting moment/snafu: Shaggy and Scooby canNOT be hypnotized, according to this movie, but the clown in SDWAY was able to hypnotize them both using the exact same method - a gold circular object on a chain swung back and forth.

then there was Legend of the Phantasaur much much later able to hypnotize Shaggy so successfully he overcame his panic disorder

was it because they weren’t allowed to eat prior? their meal was continuously interrupted before they were dragged onstage. maybe being actively hungry and denied food when it’s right in front of them blocks them from being hypnotized properly…?, idk but it’s food for thought, for sure 😁

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ehehe, one of the background guests is wearing a Tin Man costume from the Wizard of Oz

alas, this is prolly as close to a crossover as I’ll ever get between my first two fandoms ever and maybe that’s for the best

(honestly kind of surprised there's never been a scooby themed oz-related adventure tbh public domain and recognizeable)

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it took about half an hour into the movie for the title villains to actually encounter the gang, or almost exactly halfway through the movie. that’s actually pretty odd for a scooby movie, isn’t it?   especially when they haven’t encountered any other mystery except the fake-y ones (a lot start off with an in-progress mystery to finish up before being introduced to the main)

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welp, villain’s been spoiled, it’s ron perlman’s character as the pirate captain…

*sighs* Pirate Captain Skunkbeard

like… you get freaking Slade from the teen titans, Hellboy Himself, to voice your baddy… and you give him a name like Skunkbeard.

could have been something cool like Capt Barnaby Bones, or Cuthbert Butcher the Red Pirate, or SteelHook Slater, or Morgan “Moonscar” McWright (okay, that one’s been used before, but the point stands dammit!)

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holy moly, one of the pirates just tried to cut scooby and shaggy’s head off with an actual blade

it cut clean through their costume heads with one swipe

jesus christ on a bike, what is WRONG with you?!?!

(sometimes these scooby dtvs have moments like this. moments that explain how it is shag and scoob have what is likely ptsd for days)

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*gang follows trail of oozy green liquid sheen to the pirate ship*

now see, i thought those wooden ships weren’t supposed to pollute the oceans back in the day

(tho it does work as a solid clue i’ll grant em that)

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shaggy, why aren’t you more excited to go into the cotton candy fog? it’s clearly grape and green apple flavored! 

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…i think one pirate just killed another one during that sea shanty there

brutal

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so i didn’t mention earlier, but tim conway is fred’s dad, and i think he’s the only voice star in this i’m not surprised at - he’s been on the new scooby doo mysteries as their celebrity guest of the week, so him coming back is more like a belated reunion

that being said, his voice work here varies wildly between ‘what the heck take was that’ and ‘hysterical’ - it’s quite odd

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and suddenly the cruise ship is sunk, and the gang is on an island

alrighty then

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the captions are cracking me up right now - not a single one has spelled “bananas” right

it only spells it as “banas” 🤣🤣🤣

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“Prepare to suffer the wrath of Capt Skunkbeard!”

…nope, that’s still not intimidating. try again sir.

(truly i am made to sail the seas, for i am salty af on this name)

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‘Seize them!’

fade to black

come back in on gang tied to the pirate ship mast

…really? the gang has escaped far worse than a group of pirates before (and usually to some funky tunes), and you’re saying they were captured just like that?

fred, please tell me this is a plan of yours, otherwise this is just dumb

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sooo the pirates want to find a place that matches a painting of stars from 200 years ago… without ever stopping to consider that the painting could just be a pretty picture?

it’s a small painting, and i don’t think that star maps were really used like that back in the 1800s when it was purportedly made (at least not from what they look like on wikipedia… none of them look like pretty wall paintings)

these pirates are kinda dumb, methinks

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the ghosts of the bermuda triangle, including world war fighter places, old exploration ships, and a sea monster are apparently trying to stop the pirates

because the pirates want to time travel and rule the sea throughout time

and they needed the pretty pretty picture to lead them to the time travel macguffin they want to retrieve… which is also the sole reason the Bermuda Triangle is all bermuda triangly to begin with, when it fell to earth from space itself.

…say what now?

...that has to be one of the dumbest time travel plots i've ever heard and i sat through endgame twice

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the macguffin is a solid gold meteor

a giant hunk of gold literally as larger as twenty of the pirates put together, and you want to use it to time travel instead of selling that shit and being made for life

why are none of you smart

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yet again i see scooby shoot someone with an item that should have killed them outright and ended the mystery right there

moon monster madness had scooby shoot the alien with a missile on the moon, and pirates ahoy has him shoot a cannon at someone point blank with only a wooden door immediately between them

shrapnel should have shredded that pirate to bits, if even that much was left after that

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okay, the time travel thing turns out to be a hoax the hypnotist uses to convince the billionaire to finance his search for the literal meteor of solid gold located in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle

that’s a relief at least - Scooby Doo has done some weird shit in its days, but time travel does not need to be one of them

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well, at least we finally have the answer to who would win in a fight - homer simpson or scooby doo?

(obvs scooby, of course :D)

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according to velma, everyone on the cruise was hypnotized into believing they were pirates (including fred’s mom), but doesn’t hypnotism only work if the person actually subconsciously agrees with/goes along with the suggestions?

does that mean that at least one person on the cruise ship wanted to behead someone, since they nearly succeeded with Shag and Scoob? does that mean the fred’s mom secretly wants to kill her husband, since she tried to have him thrown overboard the ship while she was hypnotized?

the questions this raises, they are unsettling thoughts indeed 😨

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“Wouldn’t you like a nice ski trip to the Himalayas?”

“And risk a run in with the Abominable Snowman?! Forget it!”

exactly one year later (no joke, it came out exactly one year later):

“Join Scooby and Shaggy as they run in terror from the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas, in Chill Out Scooby Doo!”

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And that was Scooby Doo Pirates Ahoy!

That was a relatively fun, if dumb, done-in-one mystery. What really saves this one (especially given the REALLY inconsistent animation quality, from acceptable to ‘someone used MS Paint didn’t they?’ levels) was the voice cast. I don’t know what blackmail they had on these guys, but the voice acting was really dang good.

Probably too good - the bad guys’ voices are so memorable you know immediately who they are when you hear them.

The time travel spiel was unbelievably dumb, only saved by the fact it was a hypnotic ruse, and some of the stuff doesn’t quite mesh that well? Like the padding on the desert island, and some of the really weird plot contrivances like the painting being the exact map to a giant ass solid gold meteor :/

Still, a solid set-up (mystery cruise in the Bermuda Triangle) with some new elements (Fred’s parents, an absolute delight) make it a fun film for the wee ones. I’d call this a keeper at the end of the day.

Then again, I really have forgotten how nice it is to see the gang as actual supporting friends and have it feel sincere. Be Cool Scooby Doo was mostly for humor, but the kids still felt like they liked each other well enough.

WNSD on the other hand really made them feel like actual friends, based on body language around each other, general closeness, and a warm comradery that’s hard to replicate. For the flaws this show has, this is certainly not one of them.

That’s all for tonight folks. Sleep well, me hardies yo ho!

[davidcarner]

The Kiss Ch 14, The Talk, Part II

A/N: In a shocking upset that I didn't see coming this was voted the fic to post on the Chuck fanfiction Facebook site. Do you want to tell Ellie? I don't want to tell Ellie. Someone has to tell Ellie. I give you The Kiss Ch 14, The Talk, Part II

Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, and we fanfic writers had kinda made Ellie a force to be reckoned with….I'm good with that.

Chuck was about to bite the nail off of his finger. Ellie was signing documents, along with Devon. Chuck had forgotten how many NDAs had to be signed each time someone became a part of this mission….well, he was the only one so far that he had watched do paperwork and he was a little numb at that point about becoming the Intersect.

"This is so exciting," Ellie said finishing her stack and grinning at them. "You must have a lot of government contracts to need this much paperwork."

"You'd be surprised," Sarah said. Chuck let out a nervous laugh and she gave him a look to hush him. Maybe Chuck was right. Maybe she wasn't ready for this like she thought she was. "So let's go show you some things." She led them to the back room, put her hand on the scanner, and it opened to Castle. They went in, Casey lagging behind.

"Awesome," Devon muttered.

"That's one," she heard Chuck say under his breath. She elbowed him in the gut. He hadn't forgotten that last night she said Awesome would say awesome about forty-five times. Chuck cleared his throat. "So, Ellie we have this computer program that has been created by the government and put in someone's head. It must have frequent updates but we're not sure of the material in it, or if it's even safe. We have reason to believe different agencies might try to sabotage this project to get sole access to it." Chuck hit the clicker and the Intersect schematics popped up on the screen.

Ellie studied them, her eyes wide. "Chuck, this is so wild. This is like something out of your and dad's sci-fi movies."

"Awesome," Devon muttered. Chuck held up two fingers and Sarah, trying to look mad, but grinning, grabbed those two fingers.

"You need to stop," she said softly. She turned to Ellie. "We think you can help us figure out the neurological part of the Intersect. Chuck is probably best suited for the software part."

"I mean this would take a lot of work," Ellie said pouring through the schematics. "I just wouldn't have the time."

Chuck grabbed two folders slid one to her and one to Devon. "Sis, we'd like you to come work with us. Please, just take a look." She opened the file, glanced at it, and her eyes widened. "You'd be working with us, it would be family." Ellie closed the folder and looked at Chuck. Chuck gulped.

"What aren't you telling me?" She glanced at the schematics. "Who made this, and whose head is it in?"

"Chuck me," Casey muttered and fled.

Ellie pinched the bridge of her nose. She hadn't yelled yet, but that hadn't stopped Chuck from hiding behind Sarah. Several times she told him to get out from behind her, but he reminded her he was under her protection.

"You don't know who created this program?" Ellie asked again muttering.

"Not awesome," Devon agreed. Sarah felt Chuck's fingers in her back trying to count and she had to fight off the simultaneous grin and grimace. Her head shook a little and Chuck's fingers quickly pulled away. "Do you know where he is? How to find out?" Sarah stared at Devon, if they could find the creator, they could get it out of Chuck's head. Make sure the Intersect was safe and not hurting him. That needed to be the lead mission. Find the creator of Intersect.

"No, but it is going to become our main priority." She turned to Ellie. "Ellie, we need you, this project needs you."

"This program could do damage to someone's head, are you going to let me fix it? Do I get full control over the Intersect?"

Sarah sighed. She started to speak when she heard the words behind her.

"I'm the Intersect, Ellie." Ellie's eyes got wide, as she walked toward him. Sarah stepped in front of her. "Sarah, she's not gonna hurt me."

Sarah nodded. "Sorry," she murmured.

Ellie stared at Sarah. A slight grin played on Ellie's lips. "So you protect him."

"Always," she replied, her voice low but confident.

"Because…it's your job?"

"If you mean my job as his fiance, then yes. If you mean my actual job, yes to that to, but I'd quit my job with the government tomorrow if he'd ask me." Chuck was stunned at that. "I have a lot to explain, I get it. But I love your brother and no one gets to hurt him."

"Good," Ellie replied, her eyes dancing. She turned to Chuck. "Why?"

"It kinda wasn't my fault." Ellie tilted her head to the side and crossed her arms.

Sarah winced and decided to save him. "Bryce Larkin sent it to him. He's a spy in the CIA."

Ellie's eyes got wide, again and turned to Sarah. "Bryce Larkin was a spy?"

"Is," Chuck said softly. Ellie turned toward him. He cleared his throat. "Bryce Larkin is a spy, and he's currently running around the world making the bad guys think he has the Intersect in his head." He watched Ellie's reaction. "Listen, he's a jerk, but, he didn't trust the government with the Intersect, so he sent it to me."

"So it's in your head?" Ellie asked for clarification. Chuck nodded. Ellie grabbed the paperwork and began to sign. Chuck saw Awesome give him a thumbs up and mouth, "awesome!" Chuck turned to Sarah who gave him a glare and grin all at the same time. Ellie finished signing, and smacked down the pen. "Now," she said, pointing at the two of them. "What exactly is going on, and don't tell me it's complicated."

Sarah took a deep breath. "It all started when I was supposed to approach Chuck at the Buy More after Bryce had sent him the program." She stopped and looked at him, a warm smile on her face. "As I was hitting on him, trying to get him to ask me out, a dad came up and had screwed up his daughter's dance recital. He looked at the dad and little girl, and then he looked at me, and mouthed, 'sorry.' He went and had his crew setup a stage, so this girl could dance. He told her real ballerinas were tall, and I was in freaking love and didn't know what to do about." Ellie smiled at them as Sarah continued their story.

"Ellie," Chuck began, looking around at how he was strapped into a machine.

"Hush, Chuck. I need some scans and you need to be quiet or we have to do it again, and if I have to do it again I'll tape your mouth shut." Ellie waved for Sarah to follow her and the two left the room.

"Tape his mouth shut?"

Ellie shook her head grinning. "No, but I needed him to be quiet. I need to ask you something and it may upset you."

"Anything," Sarah replied.

"Are you really that good of a spy?" Sarah's mouth dropped. "I mean I've known you've been in love with my brother for a while now." There was a grin on Ellie's face. "Sarah," her voice was softer, and she took Sarah's hand. "You promise you'll keep him safe." Sarah nodded. "Good, because if you don't you'll have me to answer to."

"You know I'm trained in all…" the look on Ellie's face stopped her cold. "You know what. You're his defacto mom and sister, and I'm not trained in that, so point and threat taken, not necessary, but taken."

"Which makes you soon to be my sister." Sarah grinned. "Sarah, do you want it out of his head?"

"Only if it's unsafe and you can't fix it. We've effectively taken him out of the field, but he does manage to do things now and again."

"What if we gave him some physical move sets?"

Sarah grinned. "I like the way you think."

"So, I'm an emergency doctor for CIA or NSA agents, but I am basically here for you guys?" Devon and Casey had slipped away from everyone. Casey and Devon had a weird kinship. They were both part of the family, but they knew sometimes, Chuck and Ellie just had to work things out by themselves.

"And other medical tests or any tests you can run. You'd be surprised how often we could use your knowledge."

"John, thank you for keeping him safe." Casey studied the doctor. "I know you probably have a military background and Chuck, while I love him to death, must try your patience with how he acts sometimes."

Casey was silent for a second. "I've seen a lot of brave men, but Chuck Bartowski takes the cake. He's had all of this thrown on him and he's done the best he can with it. He drives me crazy but I'm proud to be on his team."

"What about the other two employees?"

Casey grunted. "They were codenamed Gretta, but Chuck decided to give them names so he quit confusing himself saying Gretta all the time." Casey shrugged. "All he did was treat them like human beings and they've basically sworn their loyalty to him."

"Chuck does that," Devon agreed nodding. "He's unlike anyone I've ever met." Casey could only nod in agreement.

"It's made too much like a computer program," Ellie said to the group. "I can tweak it, but we need to find the designer of the program. We need whoever created it, because we need to get it out. It's going to eventually drive him crazy." Sarah glanced over at Chuck, concern covering her face. "Sarah, he's okay, we've got time, but we need to figure this out."

"Well, if we don't at least dad won't be the only crazy person in this family." Ellie stared at Chuck. "I know, bad joke." Ellie looked at the schematics again. "Ellie?"

"Nothing, just thinking. Sarah do you think you can begin looking into the creator of the Intersect?"

"As of right now, it's our main mission."

That night found Ellie digging in the top of her closet for a box. She pulled it out, dug around and found the old notebook she was looking for. She studied the drawing, read the notes, and then closed the notebook. She chewed on her thumbnail for a moment, before she grabbed the notebook and took off across the courtyard. She looked at the door in front of her, took a deep breath and knocked. Sarah opened the door.

"Ellie, come on in, Chuck's in the shower."

"Actually I want to talk to you, can we sit at the fountain?"

"Sure," Sarah chirped, shut the door and followed Ellie. Ellie didn't say anything, but thrust the notebook into Sarah's hands. Sarah opened it, flipped through it, looking at parts, and then saw notes on subliminal imagery. Sarah looked at Ellie. "This was the class at Stanford." Ellie nodded. "These drawings…"

Ellie cleared her throat. "They're part of the schematics that I found in the Intersect. I think my dad may have worked on the Intersect, Sarah. I think my dad might have made the Intersect."

Sarah looked over at the door to her apartment. "We can't tell him yet." Ellie gave her a look. "Ellie, we find your dad and we find out if he is the creator of the Intersect. If we tell Chuck what we think then he'll think he's going crazy just like your dad. We know nothing right now."

"Sarah, this is a bad idea."

"You are exactly right, it's a terrible idea, but a worse idea is to tell Chuck that his dad, who you both think is a little crazy, might be the creator. You know what Chuck will do with that information. He'll go worse case scenario. When we get some facts we'll tell him. All we currently have is speculation. I hope to tell him tomorrow, and if we see this may take some time then, we'll tell him." Ellie nodded.

"I don't like this, but you're right, he'll think up something ridiculous, or worse." Sarah took Ellie's hand. "God, Sarah what if dad did make it and what if he can't fix it?"

Sarah gave Ellie a reassuring smile. "Ellie, there are two other Bartowskis that I know and love, and if anyone can figure this thing out, they can. Now go, I'll get to work in the morning figuring this thing out." Ellie nodded, gave Sarah a hug, and went back to her apartment. Sarah slumped over, her elbows on her knees and her hands on her face. They had to figure this out, because there was no way in hell she was losing Chuck Bartowski.

A/N: Uh, David, dude…..wha? Hoped you liked it, reviews are always welcomed…til next time.

DC