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4/6ths of Angel Investigations are done! :)

It is very IMPORTANT to know your audience. AVATAR: The Last Airbender (2005) really raised the bar by being an animated series with such fantastic writing and fantastic themes

But it set such a high bar by being very well written and scripted and acted as a cartoon on Nickelodeon of all places. The live action nails the presentation (because money) and falls short by neutering the source material writing wise & character wise and some to the quality of what you would see on Disney Channel or another young adult series that has melodrama tacked on top. Which mocks what the creators set out to do and accomplish with their original work.

Meanwhile something like “Zombies” IS a Disney Channel thing, that as a supernatural movie-musical also tackles several broad themes as well about humanity and human rights that are done well enough in a fictional way FOR the audience. Its shortcomings are there but they are largely moot because it doesn’t have to be exceptional FOR its audience.

I’d rather someone create something new that still has something to say despite it being Disney Channel esque (since some of the whimsy and hope and life is still there) than take something that is established and studied past its expectation and make it as if it made all of the juvenile mistakes it didn’t make.

“A silly movie ‘for 8 year olds’ that has values and themes (with some music) is better than “What said 8 year old thinks an Adult would watch”. Zombies reaches the bar it already set, and the other thing can’t possibly reach the bar because the kids thing set the bar too high.

I’ve already been emulating the game but I wanted to own it to play on the Xbox 360 I have that won’t sell 🤩

‘GUYS WHO LIE’ is a future-telling of the events of Pretty Little Liars, where it’s revealed that the “King” puppeteering parts the story and the initial outcome was Ezra 🤭. The future-telling adheres to changes to things in the original series that would now be told as “several plot Ideas from Ezra’s drafts” for his fictional story (that would follow up whatever documentary about Alison DiLaurentis he was to publish first). Thus bringing the name full circle.

EzriA, along with several other events were both real, fake, convoluted and glamorized from the mind of the Original Liar, the guy who was amidst Alison’s dissapearance and in the middle of her friends and their families and connected to them, being nAt and then on The A Team.

Maya’s death, Nate not existing and being Lyndon, etc etc did not happen distinctly, alongside many of the things that did (The Jenna thing or Ms. Fields getting Maya sent away). Which could make sense 100% when you factor in the plot armor given to Ezra and the ending of the show. Ezra was the “king” of that universe: a biased, sometimes delusional, an unreliable narrator who never did anything wrong in his version of the story 🤭

It would kind of Retcon the show’s events, fluff and Out of Universe-engineered fan service moments but it could solve a lot of problems and keep what matters.

The “whoa!” 😂

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Did anybody buy any of the merchandise in these magazines and did you happen to keep any of them?

lol I’m just kidding. But I’m surprised nobody has tried to make them or the other Quadratum characters in Inzoi yet. We technically have KH4 at home 😂

I still have this theory that BTR’s fictional universe exists inside and outside of the Nickelodeon universe, same with the real group existing in our real life. But that there’s also several fictional versions based off the test group names where several real stars (like Victoria Justice, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift, etc) still also exist.

The idea is that “BTR can be supplemental to a Teen Idol Radio Pop/Dance-Pop version of Demi Lovato similar to say, what The Jo Bros were, supplemental to Demi’s sensibilities as a Pure Pop Rocker in our reality”.

ex. BTR centering a female artist, like Jordin Sparks or Victoria Justice, etc.

BTR isn’t pure bubblegum and employ several genres that overlap with pop-rock but this idea is mostly relative to or lead by it’s not that deep, and then Gustavo Rocque’s 90s / y2k pop band sensibility overlapping with those sounds already.

“Do you want to talk about….stealing someone’s identity?” 🤭

I’m thinking about saying that “he is small enough to crawl into small spaces?”

Highly recommend mixing universe lore 😂 London Tipton started talking about loving Vengeance Rituals from the Buffyverse when she was talking to Raven Baxter 😂

Made The First as “Blunt Bangs Buffy” (which is Riley’s nickname for her in the game) and I’m just having
First!Buffy give everyone a silly nickname 😭

I think it would’ve been genius if Tucker was a figurative big bad following after The Mayor and Glory (provided Walsh was actually the big bad instead as well, and Adam’s shtick was used in hindsight to tie into this season as well).

He was a leader of the Trio originally, but divested upon the introduction of Warren, who he meaningfully critiques as “squandering his own potential” by chasing after or heralding obsessively, or trying to compensate for their inferiority. Tucker would reek of hypocrisy but he still would have “evolved” since Season 3, setting his exploits higher than Warren’s comic book villainy and antics.

Of course their antics would still lead into the dreaded incident concerning Katrina’s death, Tara’s death, and then the Skinning of Warren. Tucker would be the only formidable opponent against Willow because he would be now seriously adept at the dark magicks because of his sense of focus/detachment and the two of them would mirror.

Tucker would imply that the hellmouth is objective, not subjective, and that they all fail to engage and fulfill their subjective problems with objective solutions. Though it’s not that easy. This would hint further at The First being season 7’s big bad and the themes in episodes like Conversations With Dead People.

Also, since Tucker’s actor is the singing voice of Aladdin it would’ve been hilarious to hear him sing and perform as a villian in OMWF.

My retroactive headcanon is that Joyce isn’t an idiot or clueless and that the issue of how she is expands past the show being written for dramatic purposes when you consider Dawn still “being there”, after the fact.

Stay with me lol

I think the Hellmouth works its will on everybody who lives there. Most Adults are “mostly” practical in the general sense, so they may not be privy to believing it if they don’t have the lived experience. Even if they see it.

Add the post-introduction of Dawn on top of this and not only does it validate Joyce’s struggles as a mother even more in the real world, but it also validates more deception being entered into the story because of The Monks.

I could see that in post Season 5’s same version of Seasons 1-4 that Dawn doesn’t live with Buffy and Joyce because Joyce is dealing with Buffy like she’s become a bad seed. The girl who burns down the school gyms and brings weird older men into their home, etc.

She’s barely keeping her family together and maybe keeping Dawn out of it, to the point that it also works perfectly for the monks to craft the scenario Dawn is a suspended variable that no one mentions until much later, despite knowing her “being real” and things happening. She exists but she doesn’t, and the weight of her existence is felt through what The Monks crafted when altering their collection of the past.

Dawn could easily be a motive or a consequence for several past events by the power of that magic alone, and it doesn’t require her physical presence because the “story” is still there.

The downside to this theory is that it sort of taints Dawn. The college book / aneurysm joke nudging At Joyce’s later death could be a joke-as-truth: a result of both of these supernatural forces constantly weighing down upon Joyce and making her sick.

This could hit a crescendo once Joyce is in the hospital, fighting with herself and her illness and trying to accept whether or not Dawn is her real daughter or not to further contend with other Magics.

Then there’s The Body, then the incident where Dawn is trying to revive Joyce. That scene where they wait for “Joyce” to appear is so powerful. I used to see it for face value: Buffy letting it all out after struggling to keep her home and life together after Joyce’s passing,

but now I sort of see it also as Buffy becoming Joyce figuratively, speaking to Dawn, while the disease itself is coming up to the door in the form of black magic. Then we get into Dark Willow and it’s more direct lessons about trying to alter our perception of reality using magicks.

The point is: I feel like Whether it’s W&H or Monks casting spells to change reality or to save the world, I feel like there are consequences to any and all magic. Joyce is someone who didn’t really ask to be thrust into that world either. Joyce is responsible for her actions but the world still could influence her real motivations and even put her in harm’s way.

It makes the final shot of Buffy at the end of the series as she leaves very much more emotional for me. Nobody should live over the hellmouth to begin with.