Odysseus is the audience surrogate for the first time watch, and Athena is the one for subsequent runs
First time,you are totally on boat with mercy on Polyphemus, shouting ody's name is epic, you are angry at Athena for being an asshole after polities just died. You're angry at Athena for leaving. When ody's stranded, you too beg for any way for ody to make it..
Second time? You understand Athena's DON'T. you understand why she must leave. You understand why she's so soft with Telemachus after being so rough on ody. You understand her sacarfice
The final lines tho
Athena serves as the audience surrogate one last time. Crying out for the tragedy of the Odyssey, knowing how many more things could have gone right, how much less bloodshed was necessary:
"I can't help but wonder what this world could be
If we all held each other with a bit more empathy
I can't help but feel like I led you astray
What if there's a world where we don't have to live this way?"
But ody? He's serving as the writer surrogate, answering these oh so reassuring lines:
If that world exists, it's far away from here
It's one I'll have to miss, for it's far beyond my years
You might live forever, so you can make it be
But I've got one endeavor, there's a girl I have to see
Ergo, I don't live in this world, I must have ruthlessness, but maybe we can build a world where that can be
Interesting analysis I've made through the seasons is that ever since Vander and Silco's dynamic was established the word brother came up a lot of times between them. like, very much. And it was always very...emphasized.
Sentences like You were my brother or Oh it all makes sense now, brother happened all the time and I could get behind the idea of oh yeah, they could actually be brothers considering i was never sure in Season 1 if they are related and stuff. they clearly shared one deep bond that even after Silco "killed" Vander, he still valued him in his memories and thought about him like a younger brother still looking for guidance in the older one. there were also a lot of parallels between them and Vi and Jinx of course. With Vi being Vanders successor and Jinx being Silcos successor. The sibling rivalry started with Vander and Silco and got carried over to the next generation in some way. Like. I get poeple shipping them, i do think you could read more into it, but i don't actually think we were meant to look into it? does that make sense?
Viktor and Jayce are kinda different. I don't want to put the Zaundads down here or anything cause my lord they do possess chemistry and had a lot of potential but they really were hammered down multiple times with the word brother.
I want to add that the labels in which Jayce and Viktor always call themselves vary and it depends on who says what.
Like, Jayce called Viktor his brother. He did this once. In Episode 6 of Season 1. He said He's like my brother., after Mel stated that she never realised that Jayce was close to Viktor. But...that was it. Like, really?
The rest of the whole series, the most common term that was used is partner. And that is...so fucking interesting. Poeple think it's a downgrade but it really isn't. Because the word is VERY ambigous. Your partner. Like yeah, science bros, but also. Partners. Like a couple.
The second term that is used for their relationship is (best) friend.
I don't remember that many times it was used, only the one time in s2 when Viktor left Jayce and he was like: "My best friend bled out in my arms"
Interesting.
This was the first time their relationship was labled in Season 2. And it somewhat ignored the "brother" thing from Season 1, making it feel less platonic and phrased it more openly. A brother is like the ultimate platonic thing you can be called as.
Being a friend leaves much more open.
For the rest of the series, they just call themselves partners.
And it would have been SO EASY for the writers in the final scene to make Jayce say "I want my brother back" or "I want my friend back"
No. He wants his partner back. Such an ambigous little word.
FUNFACT:
Viktor never actually labled their relationship AT ALL.
He was always like "Yeah, Jayce, Jayce will understand, Jayce I feared I would never have the chance to speak with you again, You must go Jayce", there was never a time Viktor said friends or brothers or anything.
He only called Jayce his partner once.
And that was in that gay as fuck scene where he leaned over him and stuff.
Of course, we all know that in Lair Games, it's stated that he's been drawing them for 9 years
In Lair Games, Donnie would have been 15 or soon-to-be 15. Meaning he started to draw his eyebrows when he was like 5-6 years old (poor child, already oppressed by beauty standards).
But at the start of the episode, Raph says "(The Lair Games) started six years ago". Donnie would have been 9-10. We can also see him in this gif
6 years ago, they did not wear any masks/bandana (we can even see Mikey not wearing one on the gif above)
MEANING
Meaning that Donnie started to draw eyebrows BEFORE having a mask and also, not really, because we don't see it on the gif prior
thanks to my friend @supersleepyslowpoke for the random discussion about that
Lessons I've learned while hardcore gaming RDO for > 1week in a posse.
Here... have some unrequited ramblings...
A red-headed female avatar stands out pretty much...like literally I had random people taking pictures of me with the in-game camera, even during free roam events. I felt weird since I never saw that happening to other users.
Fashion is basically an statement and using strong color( red, black, gray) is quite noticed, people really notice your outfit.
A female character is prone to be attacked and picked randomly by other users. I had to change sessions due the aggressive attacks, I was attacked by whole groups of people.
There's also very polite and kind people who waves at you and send kisses emotes(?) for no reason.
Being in a posse or a group, involves drama to some degree ( or full drama) , even if the group says they're drama free.We Gamers are such a unstable beings that even small silly things can start a full conflict.
Never lasso someone if you're not familiar enough with that person, things can get nasty.Also, It can be view as flirting ( heeelpp!!)
Being involved in a persistent, even involves flirting ( I fell for that, I have flirted with someone and got reciprocated,things are getting complicated ...help). The day other someone said they were courting me...I was like Ok... 👀 and ignore the advances.
Staying with someone with an upper level is the best way to advance as they teach you the best way to be more efficient (hunting, grinding, etc etc).
The griefers take joy on destroying your wagons and ruining your deliveries. They don't even steal the valuables, they just want to ruin whatever you were doing.
And the griefers love to wait near Madam Nazar to attack other people for no reason
There are free loaders, too. That kind of people from your group that joins your posse when you're selling your moonshine or trader wagon and basically don't help guarding the wagons and they leave when the deeds are done.
People don't read the instructions of the game. LMAO
Hunting is boring but some people are happy to provide you with tons of perfect carcasses for your trader role.
The ones that never played the story and go straight to the online, are at disadvantage in every point of view.
I don't remember anything else.
Everything related to other gamers is really interesting to me. 🤭
some thoughts on the official subs for the revue starlight movie (woooo!!!!!!!!) (wrt my own)
overall: IT WAS GOOD. there were some questionable things but it was good. i do think a lot of it was better than mine (i mean i would hope so bc they are paid and qualified to do this and i am not) this is a very lighthearted post about small inconsistencies and things i just burned into my brain
first of all i was like. actively trying not to fixate on the translations so I didn't really look too closely at the lyrics, but i will say some of them blended together lines that in my opinion were not meant to be connected and so it distorted the meaning (what i understood it as at least), it was only in like 3 or 4 cases though i think (i honestly cant remember which) and there were many lines i liked more than my own (i cannot remember) some were also exactly or almost exactly the same
aside from lyrics:
on the train when they listed the starira schools. it was like:
Seisho Music Academy
Siegfeld
Rinmeikan
Frontier School of Arts
i died laughing at this. i wonder if like. whoever was doing this is a frontier fan and was like Oh yeah i for sure know it's Frontier School of Arts but im not sure about siegfeld or rmk im gonna check and get back to that and then they just didn't. it's just so funny. It's like they said you know the rest anyways just fill it in with your brain. i'm like so glad they did this genuinely
For some reason they kept putting seisho as Seisho Music School in dialogue. this was baffling because at one point (the first time i noticed, maybe the first time it happened) Karen was reading the letter she wrote to hikari and her application info books were on screen and it said in big letters SEISHO MUSIC ACADEMY on the seisho book and then below it it said Seisho Music School in the dialogue. i noticed this more after this.. i don't really get why they did that. nbd, my friend didnt even notice it at all, but funny
also they put Actress Training Class, which is like, a combination of starira's Actor Training Department and the text in the movie that says Stage Actress Class? kind of hilarious... we have three official translations for this now
the official revue names are
Annihilation Revue
Resentment Revue
Co-star Revue
Hunting Revue
Soul Revue
The Last Line
ngl this whole __ Revue thing is kind of growing on me. i like it. co-star is just wrong because 競 means to compete they just. kind of fully got that wrong and i hope it is right for the starira card(s?) 😭 also they put Super Star Spectacle as Superstar Spectacle which is fair but there is a space between super and star in the katakana and Super Star Spectacle is the spotify title
they misheard Masai as Sasai due to overlapping audio w the background conversation about a new cyclorama. this made me go ??????? because. did they not have a script?? or was it just a mistake from not checking the script... or did they just not have a script???
the sign when hikari appears says Stage Right Entrance. i put it as Lower Stage Entrance and that was once again me fucking up i have no excuse for this. i actually realized i messed that up a few days before watching this, i will update it in the files in a day or two. i am aware i look like an idiot
they translated 腐れ縁 in futaba's revue intro as inseparable (bond, or something), this made me go D: and doubt mine (rotten relationship). 腐れ縁 is basically like inseparable but negative, like you're stuck together even though you don't want to be. so i guess i was leaning more to the negative (and more literal) side, for better or for worse. i think it has some sort of weight in the context of futakao's relationship though since inseparable can be positive by itself.
give a hero trials, give a saint temptations, give me a devil, GIVE ME YOU. slay. (i dont remember if its singular or plural for the first 2 dont quote me on that)
ah this is one. Pierce through me, with your brilliance. to be honest i was like, a little bit unsure of if hikari really meant through HER, i had intuited that but didn't like. I didn't want to commit to it i was scared... i might change this in the files.
the Claudine Saijo... Beautiful you are. was imo kind of unnecessary....... i get it is supposed to be like archaic speech but you can just say You are beautiful but its not a big deal
at the beginning, i wasn't a huge fan of... This is a stage(/play? cant remember) for goodbye. this kind of sounds awkward to me... also the giraffe then said something like Starlight is a tragedy of inevitable goodbye. i am just not a huge fan of the use of goodbye here...
they missed AIJO KAWAN 😭 its ok so did I.
rip nana's Thou Shalt Not Die by Yosano Akiko reference 😭
nana: I made her cry / junna: I made you cry i wish they made junna say I made her cry so it would be a 1:1 mirror and also bc Nana isn't within earshot of junna when she says this..
New National First Theater Troupe (starira) -> New National Opera Company
Anemone Troupe -> Anemone Theater Troupe
The Distant El Dorado -> El Dorado, Far Away (why not Far Away El Dorado..), Beyond the Blue Skies -> Sky singular (just a stylistic thing i guess)
i will edit this post if i think of something else that isn't completely and utterly trivial. i can think of a lot of lines that were nearly or fully Exactly the same as mine but I don't want to bore you with that.
anyway it was fun 🎉 love the three starira schools Siegfeld, Rinmeikan, and Frontier School of Arts
Stupid "analysis" of the second trailer for animated film «Suvorov»!
Well, the strange dude Petya is rehearses a meeting with Suvorov with birb, who knows that instead of documents Petya has a love letter and that he is an idiot. Why exactly a love letter? Just-, oh, just look at him. He just: «Today my gay essence will not show up!» *Romantic music with the sound of sparkles in the background* So, okay, he blew it all. He already fantasizes about Suvorov-senpai: «Ah shit, here we go again. I’m so tired of it. Ahh, am I gay? I am offended. I want to challenge myself to a duel»
Woah, he was so upset that he decided to smell cocaine. So much cocaine, where did he get it? Mmm, I suppose that was the norm for teenagers in the 18th century, let's not blame the mores of that time.
Yes, of course, when you have cocaine on your face, you can flirt with God and Satan at the same time. Keep it up, kid (oh, this duck lips, he looks like a club bitch)
The birb that showed the middle feather is nothing unusual. It's like: «Fuck you, it’s impossible to work with you»
Hey, our old friend! He has a different hairstyle! Plasticine hair has become more realistic. And from the back he looks like Fran Bow. Or like Bruno Buccellati
«Top 10 Anime Battles». Seriously, dude seems to want to slap this friendly tree that reaches for him with its branches. I hope the tree will send mad squirrels to him and he will die. You can’t offend trees!
The reaction of the birb to Petya’s dullness when he meeting senpai is magnificent. Angry-birb-mom-friend
Oh wow. oH WoW. Oh wOw. OH WOW. oh. wow. what the hell? Is he ripe? He used to look like an innocent child with sky blue eyes, but now??? He went from «I'll have her home by 9pm, sir» to «she calls me daddy too», I guess? Oof, he's too hot, help me.
Senpai and kohai stare at each other. There is clearly not enough pink background, sparkles and blooming roses. All of these things would give me emotional support
Shit, Suvorov rejected the love letter without even reading it! Poor Petya, his heart is broken..! Wait, Suvorov gave him the medal.
«For what?»
«For being a son»
*DADDY KINK*(Ahh, Suvorov's little lips are so cute)
Another son came. This dialogue immediately pops up in my head:
«Dad, what are you doing here?»
«You ... Came at the wrong time, dear. I'm trying to make for you a new brother»
«So that's where the babies come from!» «Do not be silly and do not distract me, go poke with a bayonet the corpses of the French with brothers. And lunch will be ready soon»
In fact, Suvorov really loved his soldiers as sons, taught them to read and write, educated, cared for and treated them. So a little Family!AU is quite acceptable
These two just: «We will help you, guys. We will command»(It's me during any team work. And the tree hater is still alive)
That was second trailer for «Suvorov The Soldier Dad»! And I'm so sorry for it! It was necessary to send me to the guillotine...
Stupid "analysis" of the first trailer for the animated film «Suvorov»!
«Shampoo-girl» mode is on
mhmhmh the stereotype «the French always eat frogs» has reached a new level: «the French always eat LIVE frogs»! Fresh and smelly frogs straight from the swamp! We reached comedy
OMG these two look like husbands who quarreled, but one of them still does not want his love to starve to death, so he just cooked him lunch and sat down to play a sad melody, remaining offended, and there was just an awkward pause. I ship them
*tense gay silence* *gay panic*
This chilling frog laid out onion pieces the name of its future saviour and just like: «Omae wa mou shindeiru». Poetic cinema
And yeah Suvorov burst like a boss ass bitch in this frogs discrimination lair(poor dude in the corner). So majestic
In the background is Kalinka-Malinka, which appeared in 1860(I'm surprised why Suvorov did not come riding a bear with vodka in his right hand and a balalaika in his left hand). But this film doesn't care. Suvorov looks at you like at shit but -oh!- he noticed a little frog and his heart melted! Get you a man who can do both
Oh my, oh no. He's- oh no. So creepy. Ancient evil has awakened. He felt his mighty power. Suvorov will gather a strong army of devoted frogs and take over the whole world. No one will stop him!
He just pulled out his fucking sword and the tent crumbled into pieces. Thanos, suck his ass and put your glove in your ass, please
Oh, here really is Suvorov’s ass in the lights of the sun at the end ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
It was the first trailer of «Suvorov The Frog Saviour», dorks! And we will die! From frogs!
