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I Am Fowl posted:Hooty definitely leaves big rear end gross owl pellets all around, right? Yeah it's how they get their mail.
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I don't think the current set up in The Boiling Isles necessitates that the Savage Ages be some kind of lawless hellscape. As long as Belos is able to back his claims about talking to The Titan up with some kind of exceptional power or magical ability (Or the illusion thereof) that would be enough to gather a following that could eventually be turned into universal authority.
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Everyone posted:
Sure, it's not like authoritarian leaders have ever manipulated the public's perception of an imagined threat to consolidate popularity and power right
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Jul 26, 2021 23:48
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I have a feeling that the peoples' attitude towards Belos is kind of a "well he keeps the trains running on time" deal. No one seems particularly fond of him but considering the pre-him era is known as the Savage Ages and the few characters we know that are older than his reign (which is only 50 years mind you) like Principal Bump or Eda's mom don't seem to contradict this by going "eh it wasn't that bad" or anything, it seems that he at least brought order to a more chaotic place.
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Gnome de plume posted:Sure, it's not like authoritarian leaders have ever manipulated the public's perception of an imagined threat to consolidate popularity and power right Belos manipulated the public's perception of an imagined threat to consolidate popularity and power still counts as a reason the Boiling Isles people went along with him and made him emperor. TwoPair posted:I have a feeling that the peoples' attitude towards Belos is kind of a "well he keeps the trains running on time" deal. No one seems particularly fond of him but considering the pre-him era is known as the Savage Ages and the few characters we know that are older than his reign (which is only 50 years mind you) like Principal Bump or Eda's mom don't seem to contradict this by going "eh it wasn't that bad" or anything, it seems that he at least brought order to a more chaotic place. That's my take on it. Belos is a high-handed authoritarian rear end in a top hat and most folks put up with it because they don't want to go back to living every day like this except with powerful magic instead of guns. Everyone fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Jul 27, 2021 |
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I find it weird that goons of all people are finding it hard to believe that a nice and likeable kid who happens to act weird and have a lot of energy with no satisfying output can be a friendless social pariah and branded a troublemaker by disinterested authorities. On top of her race and her family circumstances, being implicitly lesbian/bisexual (and possibly not entirely gender conforming, for that matter) probably contributes. On another note, I didn't find the bard dude too much of an asspull if only because Eda's mentioned her ex-boyfriends enough times to be a running gag. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Jul 27, 2021 |
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Jul 27, 2021 10:09
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Raine actually made a cameo back in season one when Eda is looking through her old pictures from when she was a kid, granted their face is covered but it's clearly them. And Raine has been confirmed as nonbinary. Ghost Leviathan posted:I find it weird that goons of all people are finding it hard to believe that a nice and likeable kid who happens to act weird and have a lot of energy with no satisfying output can be a friendless social pariah and branded a troublemaker by disinterested authorities. I mean the "nice and likeable" part is beyond all goons' experience so.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I find it weird that goons of all people are finding it hard to believe that a nice and likeable kid who happens to act weird and have a lot of energy with no satisfying output can be a friendless social pariah and branded a troublemaker by disinterested authorities. On top of her race and her family circumstances, being implicitly lesbian/bisexual (and possibly not entirely gender conforming, for that matter) probably contributes. I'm willing to buy Luz being isolated. Still, 12-16 year old me would have crushed hard on Luz. Cute friendly energetic tomboy(not meant as a slur but that was a term for "non completely gender conforming" 35ish years ago) with that accent who's into fantasy and once traumatized a classroom by putting live spiders in griffin models? That would have been a possible soulmate there.
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Also pretty wild to see what high level Abomination magic looks like, and how crude even the Blights are in comparison.
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Jul 27, 2021 19:38
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Alador fights Darius' genie form with a giant Abomination mech.
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I'm just happy we got to see food shipping girl again. She even has a name now!
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Cattail Prophet posted:I'm just happy we got to see food shipping girl again. She even has a name now! Katya--another Russian/Slavic breadcrumb Dana Terrace has snuck into the series, along with Kikimora, and the secret runic alphabet which is essentially Cyrillic.
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I like to think that (latest episode) King's father is subscribed to Eda's account, maybe since seeing a thumbnail years before featuring his son and wanting to keep tabs on how he was doing. Or maybe he was subbed from way before King hatched for her Human Junk Unboxing videos and then had a bit of a shock when he first appeared. 
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sliami posted:eda could get into berghain Eda probably used her magic door to come to Earth to help found Berghain.
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My favorite reaction to this new episode that I've seen is "yes it's finally canon!" wrt Luz and Amity, like motherfucker it's been canon since goddamn episode 10 or some poo poo. Anyway good ep.
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kidcoelacanth posted:My favorite reaction to this new episode that I've seen is "yes it's finally canon!" wrt Luz and Amity, like motherfucker it's been canon since goddamn episode 10 or some poo poo. Anyway good ep. I haven't seen the episode yet (still 35 minutes out) but maybe the commenter meant that both of them were acknowledging and accepting their relationship together instead of continuing to do the *BLUSH* "OH god! I hope Luz (and/or) Amity doesn't know I like them!" And now that I've seen it... SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSQQQQQQQQQUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously though, no specific spoilers, but that was quite a lot of plot movement on multiple fronts. Hooty is the best (and the worst). Everyone fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Jul 31, 2021 |
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Everyone posted:Seriously though, no specific spoilers, but that was quite a lot of plot movement on multiple fronts. Hooty is the best (and the worst). He accomplished everything he set out to do, just nowhere near how he planned it 
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DarklyDreaming posted:He accomplished everything he set out to do, just nowhere near how he planned it Hey now, the Tunnel of Love would have worked exactly as intended if Luz had actually gone along with it and not wound up sending Amity the mother of all mixed messages!
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Yvonmukluk posted:Hey now, the Tunnel of Love would have worked exactly as intended if Luz had actually gone along with it and not wound up sending Amity the mother of all mixed messages! To be fair, I probably would have had the exact same reaction as Luz.
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DarklyDreaming posted:He accomplished everything he set out to do, just nowhere near how he planned it Precisely everything he set out to do. And not one bit more, like delivering King's dad's message. Truly the best/worst. (I really expected the stinger scene to be that Lilith's letters were actually going to Belos/one of Belos' guys as a way to spy on Eda & co.)
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Henker posted:Is this the first time Hooty has been acknowledged as a demon? I think so? Lilith might have said something back in season 1 after her and the Emperor's Coven's failed attempt to arrest Eda but I cannot remember.
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Henker posted:Is this the first time Hooty has been acknowledged as a demon? He's been called a house demon but this episode is the closest we've gotten to an explanation of what that actually means.
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You know, I was just asking, in this very thread, if Hooty makes disgusting owl pellets and this episode delivers in spades. Also, this.  And this hand thing that I've seen and done myself but never seen on tv before, so it kind of drew my attention the whole scene--a gesture that I was probably doing just moments before during the awkward bits of the tunnel of love scene.  Very good episode.
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This is some good cartoons. "Don't you talk about my MOTHER!" is such an obvious line, yet the delivery still carried it. I Am Fowl posted:
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Madurai posted:Yes, definitely this. I like how both Eda and Luz are like "Nice."
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Between the options of Bug, Beast and Biped I like that Hooty is a bug.
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I like Lilith's custom stationary and that she breaks it out to be pen pals with Hootsifer.
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Man, can you imagine how much the tunnel of love ride must have sucked for Amity? "oh. so Luz is so opposed to us being a couple that she's destroying this romantic thing that Hooty set up for us. cool. that's cool." TwoPair posted:Precisely everything he set out to do. And not one bit more, like delivering King's dad's message. Hey, they made him promise never to help anyone ever again! That's on them!
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Funky Valentine posted:I like Lilith's custom stationary and that she breaks it out to be pen pals with Hootsifer. There is absolutely no reason for Lilith to have matching levels of "Bird aesthetic" but she chose to do it anyway and we love her for it
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paradoxGentleman posted:Man, can you imagine how much the tunnel of love ride must have sucked for Amity? Well, sure, but think about it - especially from Luz's modern Earth perspective. Setting up an elaborate "Tunnel of Love" thing for somebody you haven't even asked out comes across less as "lovely romantic gesture" and more "crazy stalker person who will eventually cut my heart out and put it in a jar in the fridge next to those of her other victims." Plus we know that on Earth Luz was "not quite a social butterfly." Given the snakes and spiders, there's every chance that when Luz did crush on somebody she'd do some big dramatic, cheesy thing that scared them off, or, worse, ended with them mocking her humiliation. Luz really likes Amity and she pretty sure that Amity like her, so she's just desperate for things to not blow up in her face and spoil things.
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Everyone posted:Well, sure, but think about it - especially from Luz's modern Earth perspective. Setting up an elaborate "Tunnel of Love" thing for somebody you haven't even asked out comes across less as "lovely romantic gesture" and more "crazy stalker person who will eventually cut my heart out and put it in a jar in the fridge next to those of her other victims." Her "I'm gonna be made fun of again" response definitely makes it sound like Luz has done at least one over the top ask-out (or something similar) in the past. That coupled with Amity's very recent history as "smart, rich, popular girl at school" and little things her insistence on their Azura Book Club being secret - it's easy to see why Luz would be cautious in how she'd ask her out. She hasn't really gotten to experience much of the Amity who keeps a grom photo of them in her sleeve while pretend-fighting abomatons.
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xeria posted:Her "I'm gonna be made fun of again" response definitely makes it sound like Luz has done at least one over the top ask-out (or something similar) in the past. That coupled with Amity's very recent history as "smart, rich, popular girl at school" and little things her insistence on their Azura Book Club being secret - it's easy to see why Luz would be cautious in how she'd ask her out. She hasn't really gotten to experience much of the Amity who keeps a grom photo of them in her sleeve while pretend-fighting abomatons. I'm looking forward to August 18, which is when these next five episodes are supposed to drop on Disney+. I'm want to be able to really re-watch them in-depth. It'll probably have to wait until the back half of the season, but I'll bet that Amity's mom will be less than pleased at Amity's choice of love interest. Figure the twins will think it's great, though. Everyone fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Aug 1, 2021 |
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Funky Valentine posted:I like Lilith's custom stationary and that she breaks it out to be pen pals with Hootsifer. Lilith absolutely writes letters like she draws glyphs, with her nose right on the paper.
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Everyone posted:It'll probably have to wait until the back half of the season, but I'll bet that Amity's mom will be less than pleased at Amity's choice of love interest. Figure the twins will think it's great, though. Yeah, was just thinking today that surely Odalia and Alador are going to make a reappearance in S2's second half, especially considering they're clearly in favor of Belos' coven system and supplying him abomatons. Amity's romance with ~The Human~ is one of many things that put her squarely in opposition to them but it's probably a pretty big one, enough to where I wonder how much she'll try to keep everything on the down-low (not just romance but also helping Luz figure out the portal, etc.) even if only to keep her family situation from boiling over. My other thought today: boy we're 8 eps in and Willow's been almost nonexistent aside from ep2.
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