I always love Orson whatever his design is, especially any artists who drew him in their style, hehe <3. For sure Eléa is gonna be so confused if there's so many Orsons lol.
I've never really thought to post about this before but because it's like, one of the only few real consistencies of this show, I wanted to point it out.
this is gonna be a long post. imminent yapping ahead.
So, if you didn't know, @/ell-arts and I posted some really interesting stuff from PMatGA's development, including pre-render images, animation reels, storyboards, and model showcases.
I actually wanted to show ONE thing that not many people talk about because not even pmatga shows it at all:
ages.
yes. i know. that's almost always a freaking issue.
Especially since for some reason the show is absolutely allergic to even age estimations of any character. It's genuinely hard to create a timeline because none of the character's ages are made clear. Sure, we could guesstimate based off of Pac and his friends' classes since certain courses are available for certain grade levels, and certain grade levels have a certain age gap for students.
I did try to take a shot at it using my country's correlating grade/age categories in reference to the courses that Pac and his friends take, but. uh.
yyyeeeahhhh so I posted this image here on this blog before but Algebra 1 is pretty much a "beginning high-school" mathematics course. Ignoring the random trigonometry/geometry graphic with weird pre-calc questions, the equivalency would be that Pac would be in Grade 9. which means he'd be between 14-15 years old. okay, standard. Similar to his Science and History courses, there's some consistencies there.
so then why is Cylindria here. she's taking biology which is at MINIMUM a Grade 11 course. atleast thats when I was able to take it when I was still in school. Is Biology in this universe for grade 9s? Or is Cylindria potentially ahead in that course in particular? okay fine, let's say either of those were true.
what the fuck is this then.
this is. BASIC multiplication and financial literacy. from grades FOUR to SIX.
WHAT.
WHY is this HERE?
and don't tell me it's because this show's audience is for nine-year olds, these are teenagers. something's up with their curriculum. but that only further makes me scratch my head around how old these kids exactly are. These inconsistencies pile up and lead up to these kids being between ages 9 and 11.
...almost like this show's age rating. sigh. not even gonna get into that.
So, guesstimating ages based on their courses doesn't work consistently (atleast in my country). I've even tried to estimate how far Pac and his friends went back in time in Pac to the Future on the counter, but it's all just nonsense! And I would've assumed that maybe they're all 16 years old because of the episode Drivers Pac (since to get your license you have to be 16 years old) but then I remembered that in some provinces and I believe in some states it varies between them. I'd even try and use the US as reference since they use a learning permit system and the show is. pretty American, if I wanna be real honest. But nope, same issue.
So I can't use a drivers license minimum to try and make an assumption, especially since some states/provinces also imply that every single one of Pac's friends and Pac himself have failed atleast once in their courses and have to retake it, which is just really annoying to work around.
So at that point I just! gave up for a while! None of the characters' ages either make sense or are consistent enough to rely on! And the tells that could very well be used for that purpose of giving an answer to how old everyone or even ANYONE is is either shoved aside (coughcoughepisode2coughcough) or it just never exists.
and then i looked at the damned storyboards.
yeah this is where that part of the post is relevant.
On Episode 5, Season 2; Scene 59; Shot 12; on Page 97; on the official David Earl portfolio storyboard entry for "That Smarts", there's this panel.
This.
SINGLE.
Panel.
is the ONLY ONE THAT EXISTS that gives ANY indication of how old ANYONE IS EVER.
And it's NOT even the trio, it's for Sir Cumference and Spheria. They are octogenarians, which means that they are between the ages of 80 to 89. Still a stupidly big range, but it's the first time EVER that anyone's ever stated any character's age with a range. And it's NOT even directly in the show. This freaking sucks.
also it implies that Sir Cumference in "Rip Van Packle" is between 150-159 years old. a supercentenarian. Come on now, not even the oldest person in the world is close to that.
And then this is supposedly never mentioned again. Kill me. (/nsrs)
HEEEEEEY! For anyone who didn’t know I’m the author of that silly Pac-Man rewrite fic that you can find riiiiiiiiiight here! https://archiveofourown.org/works/52106380
I’ve been thinking of making one of these for a while cuz what you may not have known is that I’m also an illustrator and have lots of art for this silly au of mine! Granted most of it is old so I may need to be prodded a bit to give up those goods but take these for now!
Im excited to hang with you guys! The fandom may be small but we are mighty!
which mario villain do you wish you got to see more of?
Im in between Madam Grape from Princess Peach Showtime and the Broodals, because we didn’t get to know much about them despite being well known villains in their games
I don’t recall it ever being explained why Madam Grape wanted to take over the theater, and it’s hinted that she may return if Nintendo wants to bring her back.
On the other hand The Broodals are very forgettable despite appearing several times in the game. I only remembered them because of this question
Thinking about the fact that the Bros acted so normal when they met Bowser Jr. despite never knowing beforehand that Bowser was a father at all. So, what if just minutes before meeting Jr. they learn from Bowser himself that he has a kid, that way their unshocked expression when finding out that Jr. is here to pick up his dad understandable
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