“You three, stay here. I’m going to get the keys. Don’t open that door for anyone. Those two chimeras are dangerous.”
“Right,” Edward drawled. When the door closed behind the Lance Corporal, Edward snickered. “Like chimeras will knock.”
chimeras are not known for their courtesy (chp. 5)
Find the Moon by Sol1056 (FF.net)
Fullmetal Alchemist/Gundam Wing – Teen
#Crossover #Fandom Fusion #Adventure #Drama #Violence #Pre-Series FMA
Duiren’s alchemist is dead, and his basement’s filled with vicious chimera, and a…homunculus? Edward and Alphonse investigate.
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To my followers: this is a salt post, below the cut
The more I think about it, the more I wonder how the behind-the-scenes stuff timelines together.
Like, it’s known from a leak that there was ADR for up to at least early s5 back in March 2017, and from the EPs comments (and that of one of the directors talking about having finished his time with vld, whose last directed episode was the penultimate one of s6), we know that work on s6 was coming to a close shortly afterward.
We also know that the crew works on the story in 26-episode groupings, considering them not as two seasons but as one long season (as learned in interviews following s2).
It’s also been repeatedly said that the writing is “years ahead” of what we see.
So. Fast forward to early summer 2017. It’s been announced when s3 will drop, and that the seasons will be shorter. The EPs admit a little later that this was news to them as well, and changed how they had to do things.
This tracks with s3-s6 being finished and the entire thing being shown to the DW execs. Likely this was shortly before the story for s7-s8 was finalized and presented to the execs to begin work. You present the finished product to get the executive okay before moving forward with the next one (in this instance, the second production set getting the final okay before moving on to the third production set)
Which means.... s7 was written with the intention of being two shorter seasons. One that was the road trip back to Earth, and then one that was the Earth arc.
Now, on the DW side of things seeing s3-s6 and deciding that was largely a moment of “oh. oh, this isn’t nearly as good as any of us were expecting, we can’t have this all come out in 13-episode groups, the story barely connects well enough for that” (as evidenced by the disparity between s3 and s4, s4 and s5, and the direction of the story in s5 to s6). The shorter seasons might’ve been damage control, and the changes from the execs as a result lending heavily to the talk of having had to do a complete rewrite of one of these last seasons (possibly—and probably—both). And, well, @sol1056 and @ptw30 both can speak better on the stats and marketing aspects of how those seasons were received.
But I would go to them for input on the reception of s3-s6 in having s7-s8 be the “regular” 13-episode length. Possibly this happened as early as the reception of s4, when they entered the holidays. The rewrite, then, could be attributed to the wake of s5 audience reception.
Which all means... whatever s8 might be, whether crafted from scratch at the eleventh hour as the execs attempts to salvage this mess or otherwise cobbled back together from all the pieces cut away to turn it into two smaller seasons, it is definitely the end of this iteration of voltron. At least under the current showrunners.
Yeah, Friday was a bit of a hellstorm so I didn’t get to sit down and type out what I planned , so it’s another two-for-one.
Day 5 of Voltron Writer Appreciation Week goes to @bosstoaster. I’ve had the good fortune to meet her in person and chat, and whether it’s face-to-face or through fanfic, her love for the show and its characters shines through. It doesn’t matter what ship or characters you enjoy, there’s almost certainly something in her massive volume of work for you. Her writing is smart and she has great range: platonic or romantic, humor to adventure to suspense, canon-based to AU. Plus she can get you thinking about your favorite characters in brand-new ways.
Day 6 is for @sol1056 . I first got to know Sol through “Slip the Surly Bonds”, which would be yet another pre-Kerberos Sheith story, except it’s utterly brilliant. Fourteen-year-old Keith has been sent to the Garrison by court order and Iverson, having told a newly-assigned Shiro he’s got to find fifty pilots and bring them up to his level, sends Shiro to evaluate the kid. The result is a rich and satisfying exploration as they become mentor and protégé, then friends. Sol is one of the best at detailed characters with solid motivations, even the minor ones. And then she wrote a sequel, “The Uncertain Hour”, which is a massive and sprawling post-S4 epic that raises a huge amount of good questions about the Voltron universe, its ethics/economics/history, and manages to answer most of them. Most of her stories are long and meaty, so if you enjoy reading that kind of thing, check her out.
Shiro having no family in canon was sad. Like he already lost so much and you telling me that no one would have been relieved to learn he was alive?! Shiro's family could have been interesting. Like maybe his parents died when he was young and was raised by an uncle/grandparent so he further understood Keith because he experienced that lose when he was young and wanted to give Keith the support he got from his extended family.
If you haven’t read Sol’s “Slip the Surly Bonds,” I highly recommend it.
You and @sol1056 are a godsend at this time. I got into Voltron during a dark time and found solace in it and thus found both your blogs, and now I'm learning a lot about writing, how the animation industry works, and the importance of diversity in every facet of entertainment. Thank you guys and keep up the great work!
*blushes* OMG! You are so sweet!
Thanks for reading! I really appreciate your kindness, support, and eyeballs.
What if they moved the she-ra's release date bc a)vld s8 trailer will be released on next thursday and there's smth that would rub us the wrong way so netflix is releasing in a few days later a show that already has lgbt rep and badass women to calm a bit the storm or b)the trailer is being released 2 days after she-ra so the audience can go "oh man this doesn't look good... BUT WE HAVE SHE-RA NOW"(1/2)
Either way I don’t think this has anything to do with other franchises releases, netflix didn’t care when they released s6 the day of incredibles 2 premiere. Not saying that your theory is wrong, it’s plausible, they may care now. But I think this has more to do with dw franchises and not others. They should have noticed that at least a half of vld’s audience is moving on to she-ra so that’s why i think they schedule stuff in regards to what the audience wants to see. Makes sense? (2/2)
No. Sorry, but it doesn’t. First, most of VLD’s audience isn’t moving to She-Ra. Second, Tuesdays are not good days to premiere shows, especially when DreamWorks has never premiered a show on Tuesday before - only Fridays. Third, She-Ra doesn’t have much of an audience, actually.
Below the cut - lovely graphics and research from @sol1056.
Internet traffic regarding She-Ra over the last thirty days.
Voltron is blue. TDP is red. Castlevania is green. You can see the uphill tick when it was released last week. And She-Ra? Yellow.
Please take in account. This includes NYCC.
Here’s another graphic to give you a better assessment of page views.
She-Ra is green here. It’s getting its ass kicked. Sorry, but She-Ra isn’t the big draw that DW wants you to believe, and it’s floundering in a time when it should be LOUD with hype. After all, VLD Season 1 was a HUGE win for DreamWorks.
You know what? Let’s go a bit farther back to prove my point -
(Castlevania green, Voltron blue, She-Ra yellow, and The Dragon Prince red.)
The news of Castlevania’s second season got as much buzz as the Voltron Season 7 premiere. You see where The Dragon Prince premiered.
She-Ra’s first look? Still yellow - and still relatively quiet.
Moving a release date is an attempt to make sure She-Ra is not lost in the FB2 hype and give its own day - or three - to hopefully shine - because it’s not doing so just yet.
Moreover, you’re putting a lot of faith in a show that hasn’t even proven itself yet, a show that DreamWorks literally just said they don’t believe will do well on a Friday. Even if it’s not due to the FB2, DreamWorks still moved the release day to a Tuesday.
To clarify - moving up a release date now, less than two weeks out, is not good news. It’s not “because fans wanted it.” You know how I know?
Because anyone who asked for Friday, November 16th off to binge-watch She-Ra just got screwed.
Seriously.
I asked for December 14th the day it was announced. I asked for Season 5 premiere date off the day it was announced, and I almost did not get it. It was a month out, and my boss had the same date off.
Moving a date up three days, giving fans less than two-weeks notice, is terrible treatment to your fans, especially when the release date is a Tuesday. Anyone with a full-time job is going to have a hard time getting up on a Tuesday and then working the rest of the week.
(And btw - I’m from the time of original She-Ra fans. I was two when it premiered. If not for the horrible story that Voltron became, I’d be head over heels for a new She-Ra show.)
Fridays are great for binge-watching, especially children’s shows. In fact, DreamWorks doesn't premiere shows on Tuesdays - only Fridays - which tells you something in and of itself. She-Ra is different and from the numbers above, not in a good way.
Two - or five - I haven’t heard anything about VLD Season 8 getting a new trailer next Thursday, so if you have - then your sources are better than mine.
And finally, it’s already been speculated because Voltron Season 6 was on the Incredibles 2 premiere date AND Season 8 is on the new Spider-Man premiere date, that DreamWorks is burying Voltron, especially since 3Below is premiering a week after Voltron Season 8.
Any good production company looks at what is premiering and when, and makes their own release schedule accordingly. A company would be foolish not to because if one doesn’t, then it ends up dropping a series the same day a multi-billion-dollar franchise drops its highly-anticipated sequel.
Say what you want about She-Ra, but it’s not the Harry Potter franchise. It’s just not.
So everything good about voltron was an accident/stuff the writers were forced to do and everything they wanted to do we all hated? God it’s like I’m watching rwby. Perhaps all the bullshit can all be fixed if the executives who told them to expand on shiro and other stuff they didn’t want to do just write the show themselves? Just throwing it out there.
I’m not sure how it works when writing a TV show. I know May Chan had to be credited for “A Little Adventure,” even though she hadn’t had a writing credit for VLD since Season 3. So she must have written part of the episode, prior to her leaving the show. (Come back, Ms. Chan!)
And according to my conversations with @sol1056, people are paid by the title they hold on a show - staff writer, head editor, etc. So I can’t say for sure how the season we got came to fruition.
However, @headspacedad had this idea from an earlier conversation.
…if [the EPs] couldn’t write the story - someone did and handed it to them. [The EPs] then took the scissors to it and cut and pasted the ‘better’ story they now want back pats for, mangling it beyond repair. That’s infuriating on an entirely different level…
This chocolate pie is all ready to go - but you know what would make it better?! Mayonnaise! Let’s pull out most of the chocolate and replace it with mayo without bothering do anything with the crust or getting rid of all the chocolate - see? It’s still a chocolate pie BUT BETTER!
