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Review on Mega Glimmora?

I barely hear anyone talk about Mega Glimmora, which is a shame as I think it's pretty awesome. You have to keep in mind that Glimmora is not a plant; it's crystalized poison, and it's based around copper(II) sulfate (which is also blue). On a plant, having a mega where the petals disconnect and float around it would be odd; on Glimmora, it just feels natural in the sense that it doesn't feel natural at all. It's odd and sort of alien and that really works for Glimmora.

There's a bunch of other stuff I like about the design as well. First, the extremely long "nose" (head") is funny. Secondly, it, like many other mega evolutions, references its pre-evo by having a very Glimmet-like body tucked away behind it. I also like that you can see the inner petals here; they've always been there but usually aren't visible, so it's nice to see them on full display.

GameFreak also didn't just make the petals float and call it a day; the entire body is a bit different, with there now being a lot more inner petals (the original only had four cyan petals and six purple petals, whereas the mega has six cyan petals and like twelve purple petals—see above as a reference). Its entire body has also flipped, so the head is now at what used to be the back of the flower. Also, its attack animations are very fluid and do a lot with the rotating petals. Really cool stuff all around.

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Just noticed that Crafty's work is still out there. If it's a good idea for me to ask; What did you think of the old show and its characters, if you don't mind me asking?

I talked about it before, especially when I still had a Twitter and me and a good chunk of the old production team shared our thoughts and experiences with the project and Crafty himself.

I am torn. For one, I can not pull a "seperate the art from the artist" thing here, on so many levels. This project was both the work of MANY, as the production team was pretty big despite what he wante people to believe, but it also is Crafty's brainchild through and through. And he hurt a lot of people in many different ways that they are still healing from. I know I am too, to some degree.

Know that many of the characters on Crafty's shows were OCs of other people from the production team - basically all of the women were. And I do like many of them on their own, away from the setting the got put into for the show. I am especially fond of Pepper!

But also, Crafty had a habit of not crediting people. In general, but also for ideas for plots, side-shows and characters.

Thinking about it, there were elements of the project that I am still fond of, but that's maybe because I was involved in creating aspects of them - especially the Infinia (the eldritch gods that were turned into objects) and also the "final boss" of the series, since I designed her - which would've been the creator of the Infinia and an eldritch goddess in her own right. Even if the viewers only ever got a small glimpse of her before the show got canceled.

I think I personally will take the work I did and rework it for my own creative endeavors. I am not letting Crafty take something that I poured my heart and time into.

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Would you ever cover the monsters from My Singing Monsters?

(Also, favorite monster from that series too?)

I don't know what that is, so no.

[newtafterdark]

A bit nervous to ask, given how others asked about the topic about Crafty at hand, but what do you think about Sasha?

Ah, it's alright. Folks are curious, I understand that.

I hope I won't repeat too much from what I said about her in the past, but it is what it is - I liked Sasha as a character a lot. For one her eldritch nature, but also her strive to learn how to healthily love a human being. I know Crafty saw her and his scientist as his one OTP… but honestly, I don't think it would've made for a very healthy relationship.

What's sad to me though, aside from a few glimpses at her life (becoming a movie director), we don't know much about Sasha as a person. To me, she existed to be Crafty's (the character) love interest and savior… and not much else.

But that's honestly just the thing with a lot of the characters on his show. They exist to only function with Crafty in the picture and as the main focus.

I understand that "Dr Crafty" was a harem show at its core, I should not expect more. But I can still despair at the wasted potential.

But back to Sasha - I loved thinking about her side of it all. How did she deal with thousands of years after escaping her "mother" and being the sole survivor of it all, seeing her siblings turned into powerful artifacts, their lives snuffed out? How would she eventually react to a joke character being revealed to be her "mother", unaware of her true nature? How does she see humanity these days? Does she look at the scientist and still see the man she fell in love with or were the years apart too much? How and did she change during that time?

All of those are questions we'll never get the answers to. But you can see that there's a lot to think about still. And for that I still like her.