#reactionblogging

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Dragon Prince 3.03

Wow this was an amazing episode.

I love Amaya she is absolutely one of my favorite characters ever.

{*some edits here after googling stuff*} And ahh I love Janai! And the Sunfire elves have a Queen! (Also aw the translator!)

I literally jumped up and down around the room when they said ‘husband’. And then they kiss on screen! And have that picture in the credits, so anyone who wants to cut it out will have to either *replace* it or leave it obviously blank or cut out part of the credits. (...Also once I thought about this I realized it would be - actually pretty hard to cut it out in general, actually, how they did it. Which, yes, that is the way to do it.)

eta: oh, and on a less bright but also incredibly well done note - depiction of gaslighting, *damn*.

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...they just completely dropped the whole thing.

The arc is over, without Extremis ever affecting anything.

Perfectly good mindfuck wasted.

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(probably qualifies as a sequel to this post)

(I might be missing something here, but I’m pretty sure this is at the very least mostly correct:)

Every problem Team TARDIS is currently facing can be traced back, directly or indirectly (sometimes both), to failure to bring their own spacesuits. To assuming that clean, breathable air would be available when they had zero reason to think that (in the case of Chasm Forge) or less than zero reason to think that (in the case of an apocalyptically-fatal-biohazard lab with a known internal breach).

I think they’re teaching a very valuable lesson here: remember, kids, protective gear is not a joke, wear your fucking hazard suits, just fucking do it already.

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Reached “When Darkness Falls” in my Red Panda Adventures re-listen.

*gently lowers head onto table*

oh god

he’s so tiny

and he has no idea

(and that police officer that blows him off

was that

the same police officer who talks approvingly to the Black Eagle near the end)

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I’m beginning to wonder if Team TARDIS’s complete lack of concern for air breathability is a deliberate running gag.

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Well, I suppose that makes sense, really. Half a normal episode length; half a brilliant plan.

(Namely, the first half of a brilliant plan, followed by the second half of a completely-off-the-rails plan. Poor thing.)

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(Also, the Red Panda can loom remarkably well from inside a pneumatic tube.)

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This is weirding me out even more than I expected.

(oh god he’s blond too

whyyyyy)

(And yet Steven Burley isn’t blond. Truly, there is no justice.)

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Tonight's episode of Red Panda video will be "Monkey See, Monkey Do".

It occurs to me this almost certainly means that the Mad Monkey has a canonical appearance. And he's almost certainly not going to look how I was imagining him. This is going to be weird.

(Not that this'll be the first time that's happened, even within this series. What do you mean, Andy Parker is blond?)

Between prosopagnosia (which tends to cause impairments in imagining faces along with recognising them) and a generally low-detail visual imagination, I don't tend to imagine characters' appearances all that much. They'll usually have a skin colour, often hair to some level, and sometimes a build and/or general facial structure. For some reason, I have an unusually clear sense of what the Mad Monkey's hair looks like: light brown, somewhat curly, balding, sideburns, thick eyebrows. (He's pretty short, too.)

(I didn't have much sense of what Professor Zombie looked like, so seeing her appearance in the previous episode didn't really weird me out: there wasn't much of anything for it to clash with.)