#speaker tnm

[skythealmighty]

hey so i was rewatching tnm with friends and

what the fuck? North Creek national law.

this is seriously messed up. all objects with code (or maybe even all mechanical objects) must have a self-destruct sequence set in place if there are "previously recorded actions and presence of malicious software".

if they get a virus, the NATIONAL LAW is set to KILL THEM instead of CURING IT. it doesn't once even mention trying to!

a commenter pointed out the possible discrimination against mechanical objects and the more i rewatch the more they're right. Mouse, despite being integral to the team, is let go without a second glance once she speaks up. Speaker is looked down upon by his colleagues (not just Pan Flute!) and there's not any respect given by them when he's dead. Key immediately just assumes that the most reasonable explanation for GPS was that he was always planning to kill them and self-destructed to escape consequences, despite the presence of the chip. (and we KNOW that one's not true.)

and of course, Ring took advantage of one of the people she disliked being electronic and used him to kill everyone else. if she'd survived, she probably would've used the explanation Key came up with. and i mean... she's rich. she probably wouldn't have faced any consequences with the lawyers she could buy.

this shit is systemic, and it's been hiding under our noses the whole time. it's disturbingly realistic, too. if our world was inhabited by objects, i could see this being something that would happen.

i am so very not okay.

[bucketofbugz]

if there's one thing that stops me from sobbing every 5 minutes since TNM 6 it's remembering that this happened

[dartpm]

[sofidragonheart]

finished rewatching the nightly manor again. Lets just Say things went well

I forgot how much Speaker and Sketchpad’s dynamic made me emotional. Father and son creature dynamics 😭😭😭😭😭 waaa waaaaa

side note: jej makes me angry. like not angry angry just angry in a silly way. I still do Not like him FHEKGSF

[ghost-y-toast-y]

Over and over

[quill-n]

I wrote up a little analysis on how The Nightly Manor uses irony. It's enrichment for me

Spoilers!! for, like, the whole series btw

below the cut

So there's obviously the dramatic irony of us, the audience, getting to know the full story (or most of it) while the characters never will, since the case was closed. But there's also a lot of other instances that I think played into the irony in a really nice way.

For example, Ring being the first one to die. She was the one who set up the whole murder plot, but it backfired on her... pretty much immediately. To have built up such an elaborate plan, some kind of act of vengeance I suppose, only for it to fall back on her. She was already on the tail end of such a long string of bad luck, too. She intrigues me.

For Speaker and Sketchpad, they clearly weren't the most favored detectives in the agency—Sketchpad especially, but Speaker wasn't that well-liked either. Yet despite that, it took Speaker's death to finally give them the excuse they needed to get rid of Sketchpad. And, just stepping back a bit, the buildup that these two weren't the most successful detective duo is really fun to roll into after them being the ones to literally walk us into the show.

There's also the whole thing with Sketchpad trying to build a recovery center. There's the irony in that the very thing that was meant to bring back their friends' lives burned itself to the ground, but it's also that that failure brought him close to someone he can heal with. Something, something, the loss is what made them find each other...

And then there's Spray Paint's line: "We'll be sleeping in nice, big beds eventually." It's already been said, but that line was a direct reference to where they both ended up at the end of the story— in a hospital bed and a grave. That's clearly not what he intended when he said it, that's the irony of it. There's something to be said about that, I think—that everything he says (and does) just doesn't work out the way he hopes it will. He's such a tragic character, makes my heart ache </3

I'm also really fascinated (and heartbroken) at the storytelling decision to have so few "real" interactions between GPS and Tophat. We see them chatting at the very beginning of the series, right before they discover that they're trapped in the mansion. But that's the only time we see them truly interact. The next time we see them on screen together is when Tophat hallucinates GPS, after they've already died. And then, the whole sequence with the flashbacks in GPS's memories is just that—memories. We didn't have a true, current interaction between these two, until right at the end of the series, where GPS makes eye contact with Tophat right before he explodes. I'm not quite eloquent enough to describe it, but that. that's poetic.

I digress. As of writing this, it's late and I just got home from a really long day, so this might or might not be all that coherent. If you decided to read my ramblings, thank you :) hope you enjoyed my brainrot lmao

tldr; This show uses irony really well and I enjoy it quite a bit

[hjhhnffjdiwohd]

objectober day???? 8 I think

I had a lot of fun drawing Speaker he's one of my favorites :)

I should rewatch tmn its one of my favorite shows 😔

[lobster-eyesss]

Watched The Nightly Manor.. not ok/j

drew some spoiler free doodles while I recover from that/hj

Probs pretty hard to guess who my fav was/j (also Sacri spraypaint cameo) And since I got another fav character I drew a line of fav object show characters

Don't mind how the majority of them are Sacri characters.. there's gonna be a lot of character tags