[Sad Trope] Good Scenes in Bad Media (Diamond in the Rough)

Making any kind of media is hard. It's easy to mess up. But sometimes, even the worst films or shows have a shining moment that shows what could have been.

Han and Ben (Rise of Skywalker): Last Jedi is divisive. Many people, myself included, liked it but many people didn't. However I think most people can agree that Rise of Skywalker is just bad. However, amidst this nonsense, Sidelining every character who isn't Rey and Kylo, butchering Palestine, there is one shining moment: when Han's ghost comforts Ben and gets him to let go of his anger. It's legitimately a great scene and perfect cap on Kylo killing Han in Force Awakens.

Cartman crapping Treasure (South Park): Manbearpig has gone from one of South Park's most beloved episodes to one of its most infamous. Even Parker and Stone have admitted that they were wrong to portray Al Gore and more importantly the plight of Global Warming as inconsequential and made up for attention. But despite all that, it has a joke that still makes me wheeze with laughter 20 years later. Cartman smuggles treasure out of a cave by eating it and once they finally escape, starts pooping it out very painfully, only to find out it was fake. I like the Wile E Coyote nature of it. No one is harmed by this except Cartman and the imagery alone is just insane.

Warehouse Fight (BVS): I am very picky when it comes to Batman and Batfleck/the Snyderverse may be the worst Batman movies ever. Yes, including George Clooney (I actually like Batman and Robin). But in spite of all of that, even I can admit the warehouse fight is very well done being ostensibly an Arkham stealth segment as Bruce saves Ma Kent from Luthor's goons. If only it hadn't been preceded by "save Martha".

Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat (Cats 2019): In this kafka esque nightmare of uncanny valley CGI cats and eating sentient cockroaches, there is one single decent moment: turning Skimbleshanks into a tap dancing number. There is no shoehorned celebrity cameo, no side comments from the peanut gallery, just an actual tap-dancer showing off his talent and a jaunty number being played.

Riddles in the Dark (The Hobbit): There's not a ton of nice things to say about the Hobbit. The over reliance on bad CGI, the shoe horned love triangle, and how it basically fucked over the film unions in New Zealand. But it still has Bilbo and Gollum interacting and that's delightful. Also Smaug and Bilbo... Honestly, most of Bilbo is just really good in the films.

Loki (Son of the Mask): Speaking of Kafka esque nightmares, Son of the Mask is dog dookie. But it has Alan Cumming as a trickster who dresses like a tumbler sexy man and that is awesome.

u/Doodles_n_Scribbles — 10 days ago

RIP Tom Kane (1962-2026), Favorite Voice Role of his?

Professor Utonium and Him (Power Puff Girls)

Yoda (Clone Wars)

Monkey Fist (Kim Possible)- probably my personal favorite

Darwin (Wild Thornberries)

Warden Sharp (Arkham Asylum)- weirdly who I think of when I think of him

u/Doodles_n_Scribbles — 23 days ago
▲ 848 r/smosh

I hope this isn't too mean.

I think Tommy is hilarious and one of the best cast members on Smosh, but I had this in my soul and had to get it out of my body.

If it's too mean-spirited, I will remove. I know it feels weird to have someone intruding on your in-joke.

u/Doodles_n_Scribbles — 27 days ago

Average Hircine Interaction

I don't use mounts that much and Shadowmere is cooler, but it does suck that Hircine wants you to kill a rare, ridable critter.

u/Doodles_n_Scribbles — 1 month ago

In my manuscript, the fantasy races live on a planet connected to earth through magic gateways, and the story takes place during the Roman empire.

Alien elves who wouldn't know what the heck English even is.

So why do they speak modern English, even knowing words like Okay and Hell?

Quite simple *deep breath*... A demon made of infernal magic and corrupted computer data was sent back in time by a wizard because demons are basically sin elementals, he was unable to kill the demon as the demon was connected to the bigotry of the Internet. So he sent the demon back to the big bang. The demon then spent billions of years floating through space, going insane many times over, until he eventually crash landed on Luveria. He couldn't speak any of the languages, so he decided to cast a powerful hex over the entire planet to force them all to speak the same language as him. Snatches of Latin and German also poke through, with Dwarves being Germanic leaning and the Titan Born (descendants of titans and their human servants from Mount Orthys) leaning Latin. The demon then became associated with ignorance for robbing them of their language in what is now called the Necrologia, and was worshipped as a demon god of ignorance and prophecy, because he vaguely knew what was going to happen to the planet.

And this is definitely necessary world building and not me being unwilling to commit to making a whole language for Dwarves and Elves.

u/Doodles_n_Scribbles — 1 month ago
▲ 1.1k r/lotrmemes

Was talking about Vegemite on YouTube, using a LOTR reference, and someone replied with this. I had to share it.

u/Doodles_n_Scribbles — 1 month ago