imagine you’re just going about your business trying to grieve your dead mom and then out of nowhere three twinks just. appear in your garage like “we live here now and you’re in our band” huh ??
JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS: Ok, look, you guys know I don’t handle change well. All right? Death? That was a change. Ok? Then we became ghosts. All right? Another change. And now we can be seen whenever we play with Julie. Big freaking change!
So I watched this show the day it came out, I didn’t have any prior knowledge to it at all. When I had opened Netflix it was the show on the main screen, the trailer played. I thought “Eh it looks good, I’ll give it a try.” And I’m glad I did. That show was a masterpiece.
Spoilers Ahead
Every character has great development at the beginning.Not only Julie but we get an understanding of Carlos,Ray,Flynn,etc.
The way they died is hilarious to me. Albeit there are theories that Bobby poisoned them, I don’t think he would do that.
Rose! Is she Julie’s mom?
The posters behind the boys when they eat the hot dogs; An unfinished business flyer and a missing persons flyer with Luke’s face on it.
Flynn! She is such an amazing best friend! She was honestly Julie’s rock throughout the loss of her mom.
Luke! His character development throughout the season was great.Unsaid Emily is such a great song and I had to pause cause I was crying so much.
Reggie! He is so cute, he just wants to be friends with Ray and prove to Julie’s Tia ghosts are real so that adults will listen to kids for once. Also Bi Reggie
Alex! I love that it’s already established he’s gay. He didn’t have a coming out scene. His friends accept him 100%and tease him about Willie,his new crush.
Nick! I thought I wouldn’t like him because he was Carrie’s boyf but I did. He was a genuinely good guy. A sweetheart, as Julie put it. I like that Julie didn’t need to change for him to notice her, he already noticed her before everything.
Carrie! She felt like a stereotypical popular girl at first, but when I though about it I get her perspective. Sure she had no right to be that mean to Julie but her though process was kinda ok. She worked hard for what she got,albeit her father may have helped her along the way. Julie didn’t do anything for 1 year yet she was still allowed to stay in the music program, to Carrie this was unfair, and maybe it was, but Julie’s mom dies. I think she was a great human villain for this show tbh.
Julie’s family! They were so supporting to Julie and her passions. Ray was willing to see his house so she’d be happy. He was willing to send her to Australia if it meant she could have music in her life. Carlos was such a cute little brother, his ghost hunting brought a smile to my face. Tia Victoria just wants whats best for them, she has good intentions. She wants Ray to be able to punish Julie, because I’m assuming that’s what her mom did.
Willie! I love Booboo Stewart so much and Willie was such a great character. I could feel his pain through the screen when he saw the boys after they got stamped, especially Alex.He was a cute skater boy with amazing hair.
I was a little disappointed that there was no kiss scene but I like that there wasn’t any at all. There was just long hugs, they didn’t have the straight couple kiss and just give the gay couple a hug.
It took me 12 years to go frame by frame and realize that weird lag I had always noticed was Tulio pausing to kiss Miguel before pushing him off the cliff in a desperate attempt to save their lives…
“The Road to El Dorado: Miguel & Tulio: The original script had them be lovers, calling each other ‘darling’ and such. Although the idea was shot down, they left in scenes where you can kind of tell what they were pushing for.”
You’re forgetting the scene in the beginning where they’re prisoners in the ship. Tulio is lifting Miguel so Miguel and look out, and Tulio briefly rubs his face against Miguel’s ass. Best. ever.
Don’t
fucking get me started
on my gay analysis
of El fucking Dorado
^This part is subtle and often missed. At the end, when Tulio and Miguel are reunited, they run to hug each other and Altivo interrupts just as Tulio has his hand on his pal’s waist.
All gifs here made by me because SACRIFICES! I actually have hundreds more to make but who knows if I’ll ever finish—especially since my hard drive kaboomed and I lost my perfectly organized clips.
Edit: AHH IMAGES FIXED. SO SORRY ABOUT THAT. Some of you have been asking for further analysis. I direct you to a fic study I did on their relationship in the movie: The Magnificent.
Every time I see posts bring this up I laugh because I remember when I first watched this in my Spanish class, one of my first thoughts were “They’re pretty damn friendly…”
If this movie ever does get brought back into the spotlight, I want to see how that original plan would have went.
I just finished YYY ep. 2, what in the world was that episode. I cried laughing but nothing even remotely make sense. I have no idea what I want to gifs because everything was gifs worthy. Every scene with Porpla was #ICONIC. She is so over the top and extra, I love her.
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