catalysts, protectors

In your "could be worse" au, how did Betty and Simon found Marcy and Marshall?

They were still found among some rubble, but it was a little harder to get them to trust Simon and Betty. It took some convincing, for sure, but after the four of them all had a run-in with some oozers Marshall and Marcy pretty quickly saw them as protectors.

thinking about Finn and Fern and how The Death of Legacy was essential to their story's resolution

Legacy is a repeated theme throughout the series—legacy, destiny, our ability to change and/or uphold those, whether or not it is our responsibility to do so, even when that legacy or destiny directly conflicts with our morality.

Each character confronts (and usually kills) the legacy assigned to them in one way or another throughout the series: Marceline rebels against Abadeer, PB relinquishes her place of power, King of Ooo has his own fall from grace, BMO confronts and kills AMO, NEPTR refuses to succumb to evil, Cinnamon Bun escapes the "dumb clutz" persona he held in the Candy Kingdom, Flame Princess subverts every expectation held for her and shows an immense capacity for kindness and forgiveness when expected to lash out or become evil, Ice King goes from "evil freak" to "irritable weird old man who cares about people a lot" even in spite of the fact that the Crown was imposing aggression onto him, Gunther/Orgalorg throws away another chance at unfathomable intergalactic power for a chance at the love Ice King was always searching for, Betty became a chaos god rather than accepting the fate of Simon's death because of her own summoning ritual, Jake sacrificed his role as an active father to continue raising Finn when he realized who needed him more immediately, and perhaps the biggest example of this is Sweet P, who is the Lich reborn.

And all of this is not even touching Finn or Fern.

Finn and Fern actually share a legacy of a well-known and generally respected hero (though some of that trust was damaged after the episode, "The Tower," when said tower collapsed onto the Candy Kingdom and, "lotsa folks got squished"). They share the legacy of "The last human in all of Ooo," and as "Son of Martin Mertins and Minerva Campbell," and as "Son of Margaret and Joshua," and as "Little brother to Jake the Dog and Jermaine," and as "Father of NEPTR," and as "Flame Princess' ex boyfriend," and as so much more.

but Fern has this additional legacy attached to him, this separate history where his timeline and Finn's diverge. He has the legacy of "The Sacrifice that brought back Prismo"—a sacrifice that he did not consent to making, by the way. He's got the legacy of "Finn Sword," protecting the version of himself who sacrificed him and separated him from his own Jake, who was also sacrificed for Prismo's sake. And then he has the legacy of the Grass Wizard forcefully imposed on him, this legacy of the Grass Sword's curse, of evil.

And then Finn imposes the legacy of "brother" onto him. forces him back into the old shoes of "Finn the Human, Hero of Ooo," when he's still trying to figure out what he even is now. What all of it means. It's like with the Jiggler all over again, where Finn refuses to address the underlying issue of the fact that there is no space for Fern here.

And Finn never realizes, the self-sacrificial guy that he is, that Fern is seeing all of this for the first time, is finally realizing how Jermaine must feel, because when it comes to Finn and Jake and the bond that they share, there's not really any room for anyone else. but Fern is also only a sixteen-year-old boy—why does Finn deserve to be loved and cared for by his big brother, but Fern doesn't anymore? Why is Finn the only one offering him comfort? Oh. Right. Because he feels like Fern is "his responsibility."

So Fern already feels out of place, and he recognizes that, unless Finn is gone, he will never have Jake again. And he decides that, in order to step into "Finn the Human, brother of Jake the Dog," maybe the legacy of "Finn the Human, Hero to All in Need," may have to fall.

And then we have Finn, who embodies kindness and compassion, who refuses to kill Fern, but ends up doing it, anyway. Who, because he couldn't save this version of himself, feels he has lost the legacy, "Protector," has failed to uphold the legacy of, "Brother," has maybe even lost "Hero," in the scramble.

Tell me, what remains?

Here is my first ever Adventure Time OC Hex!

Hex is the reincarnation of Betty Grof 1000 years after the end of Adventure Time who now hails as the protector of the skies. Her entire existence is to keep evil from controlling the sky, and she does that by sending any threat into the Nightosphere via her mask. She isn't very fluent in English and can only read it, but is learning how to speak with the help of her boyfriend, Lenny, who is the reincarnation of Simon Petrikov.

Protector - Dragon Simon AU

Read on Ao3 Warnings on Ao3

Simon felt his body change the minute he put in on. Something visceral and freezing shot through his veins and burrowed into his bones. Visions assaulted him with technicolor creatures dancing over his eyes. He shouted at them, barely aware of himself, and he had no idea what he’d said. Once it was off Betty looked at him with this look, it was… contempt, fear, something more he couldn’t identify. 

Then she was gone. No amount of calling out for her would bring her back.

His head and nose and teeth itched, his feet were squashed, there was a twinging annoyance in his lower back. Simon sat down and winced in pain. His feet weren’t working right. What was happening? Simon was shocked to see his eyes had turned white.

He tried to lock away the crown, he did. Kept it far away at a display for other artifacts. But it didn’t help. Simon would find himself holding it, coming to after fitful sleep to find he’d sleepwalked to it. It never stopped whispering.

He started to record what was happening to him.

Simon felt crazy, fighting against his own mind to stay away from the artifact’s cursed pull. The crown found its way to his head over and over, and the changes kept coming. He inspected himself in the bathroom–his hair was fading, his body cold. He had claws sprouting from his hands and toes and his ears were growing pointy and long. His teeth and bones ached. A nub was growing from his tailbone. 

What had he done?

Simon felt stronger, too, yet weaker in his heart. He could feel his feeble attempts at resistance being chipped away, buried under the blinding snow of nothingness the crown granted him. His shoes soon became too tight to wear and his beard grew in chunks of white he couldn’t keep shaved. White hair stared back at him from the mirror.

The world became blanketed in white. His mind changed, he felt… unmoored from reality.  The nub became a tail, tipped in white hair, his ears were long, hair inside them long and bushy. Simon’s nose was pointy and long. His beard came out in force and his long white hair was untameable. His old, weak teeth fell out and new sharklike strong ones took their place. 

Instincts changed too. Sleeping became easier curled up and he felt the need to protect, protect… something, he didn’t know what, now that Betty was gone, he just guarded his apartment fervently, growling and pacing. His carpets and bedding became shredded from his claws when he needed to just scratch something. He slept on a pile of his belongings sometimes. Still he struggled to keep the crown off.

Then the bombs fell.

He had to leave his apartment. Simon would be just another monster to other survivors (if they even existed), so he went it alone. Never was he so grateful for his outdoorsman skills. He held on to what he could, books and memories. He couldn’t leave the crown now. It saved him. It protected him. It made him strong.

The first time he was attacked by oozers he had the crown on before he realized what was happening. 

He remembered magic, growling, biting, kicking and scratching and then he’d shaken the crown off and came to to a street full of snow and oozers torn apart, some frozen in place with chunks of ice. 

Simon was very careful to keep the crown in reach after that, equally comforted and afraid. 

He ate an animal raw once, after his instincts took over and he became too hungry to care. Everything had been through a haze of hunger, the stalking, the pounce, the bite into sweet flesh– later he nearly vomited, shamefully cleaning himself of the poor creature’s blood. It wasn’t the last time he hunted, but he was careful after that to not get so hungry it took over again. He was still human, and humans needed their meat cooked.

…He was still human…right?

One day he met her. The lost girl among the concrete corpse of the city. She was strange like him, and allowed his comfort and his help. As he got to know her he felt his heart, half-frozen over, start to melt. Marcy was an amazing kid, so brave and kind and creative. Simon quickly knew he would do anything to protect her. Even the crown whispered it late at night, causing him to stay up keeping watch some nights like a faithful gargoyle. Sometimes it whispered that if he froze her, it would save her forever. He didn’t like those ones.

At this point his feet were long and wolflike, his pants ripped to scraggly shorts and he stood on the balls of his feet. His tail was longer and fluffier by the day. His long ears twitched with his emotions. Marcy feared what he was becoming, and he did too. She hated when he put on the crown. According to her he became wild, crazed, and fought like a wild animal when they were threatened. But he’d always protected her, he knew that inherently, like he knew the crown’s power was irresistible. 

Sometimes they had fun, too, though. He’d sing songs for her, and it’d turn into howling and she would laugh and laugh and tease him as he cleared his throat and quietly hid his own smiles. 

He was getting taller, he realized once after reaching for cans on a tall shelf once. His bones were sore so often now it became a buzzing background hum to everything. He had trouble focusing. The mental changes he was going through scared him. But he had to keep it together, for her.

He was turning into a monster.

After a particularly nasty time of getting cornered by a large mutant in a building, Simon came back to himself on all fours and with blood in his teeth. The mutant was dead underneath him. He whipped around and nearly bowled Marcy over in his panic. She looked so scared . He murmured soft assurances while she slowly teared up. It must have been terrifying for her. Simon slowly inched towards her, stepping over the crown on the ground, and didn’t realize until he tried to reach out that he was still on all fours. 

Marcy ran forward suddenly and buried her face in his fur.

Wait, fur? He checked. 

Indeed, fur.

Simon ignored it for now and reached to hug and comfort the girl. She sniffled and confessed her worries and fears to him, and he just soothed her and made sure she was unhurt. A strange sound rumbled from his chest, like a growl but comforting. Marcy looked up at him at it in surprise before bursting out into tearful little giggles. 

Eventually he stopped being able to wear clothes. His old ones were done for, not that they would fit him any more anyway. Luckily he was covered in fur. 

He found it harder and harder to remember things before the war, and easier and easier to embrace walking on all fours, hunting for food and guarding Marcy around the clock. She grew more comfortable with him as well, though she tried to get him to stay walking on two legs, and reassured him many times that he never hurt her when he lost his mind. Still, the growing fear inside of him wouldn’t leave. The crown whispered always. Marcy stopped him from putting it on a lot.

The size he put on with the crown on never shrunk away completely, and he grew and grew. 

Sometimes he forgot his own name, but it didn’t matter. He knew hers. 

Things came to a head when he no longer remembered to take the crown off. It was just easier to keep it on. What was the problem? He could protect her easier with it on. He could fly with it on. She protested, but he thought it was silly. The crown was his! Why shouldn’t he wear it? 

He took to traveling with Marcy on his back, carrying their supplies tied onto him. No matter how much she was growing, he could always carry her easily. They flew from place to place, when she allowed him to keep the crown on, until she reached a point where she realized she could no longer stop him from donning it. He needed it. Without it on, they could get trapped on the ground, and that was dangerous. It had happened once, and that was enough.

He saw her in tears much more often. He was confused a lot more. Who was Simon again? Why can’t he eat his kill raw? Slowly over time, he could see her lose hope. It broke Simon’s heart, but he didn’t know what to do. The beast was what he was now. He counted himself lucky he could still speak. Lucky he remembered her.

If he didn’t… what if he didn’t? What if he forgot? If he had one of his mindless periods, and didn’t remember her… He had to protect her. He had to. Silently he made plans for her to be cared for. Just in case.

One night, Simon fell asleep on watch. He awoke to the terrible sound of Marcy’s scream, and the world became a blur of fury and blood and gnashing of teeth. 

He heard her calling. Who was calling? Someone was calling him. But there was danger, danger danger, he had to fight– something came too close and he turned and snapped and–

The world drained of adrenaline haze and he came back to find himself baring his teeth, growling, over a prone Marcy. Blessedly he didn’t smell any blood on her. 

The look in her eyes was one he swore to never cause. She looked scared of him. He withdrew, ears pulled back, head and tail down. He tried to call for him but he was wide-eyed and shaking. 

He ran that night, driving further and further away from her desperate calls, into the falling snow.

Simon didn’t see her again. One of the last things he did before giving in was summon Abadeer to care for her.

Years passed in a fog of lost identity.

Then the Ice King remembered one day that he had someone he was supposed to be protecting. Why was he so far away from her? Surely he could protect her better if he was near? It took a long time to find her.

She seemed in shock to see him, but he was overjoyed, and wagged his enormous tail and made it snow in happiness. Marcy! It’d been so long! But he was back, he was finally back! 

Marcy burst out into tears, and she smelled like blood now, always, and her neck had scars on it that never faded. He mourned not being there to protect her. 

Marcy was so much smaller than he remembered, he thought as he hugged her.

She called him Simon, and that was nice, though he had no idea who that was.

He was just happy she was happy. 

Even if she smelled very sad, deep down.

He’d be there for her.

Second part of my AT Roleswap AUs, after the Bonnieverse, it’s the Marcyverse! Finn-Marceline IK-Peebles roleswap!

Details under the cut:

Marcy Abadeer: The young half-human daughter of the Lord of the Nightosphere. Marceline "Marcy" Abadeer ended up stranded in Ooo. The idea of being a “hero” started as a goof, something she thought would annoy off her dad if he heard about it. But she ended up having to commit to it after the nerdy wizard she rescued turned out to be the King of the Ice Kingdom - who told basically everyone that there’s a new hero in town and is also generally like really nice to her. And eventually she became genuinely invented in helping people. Generally a very laid back person with a bit of a jerk streak she grows out of, prefers to use axes in battle. Coming back to the Nightosphere starts as her first priority, but it keeps shifting up and down as a priority depending on her current emotional state - eventually, when faced with the choice to leave Ooo forever, she decides to stay.

Hambo the Doll: Marcy’s favorite childhood toy, granted freaky magic powers (which basically match with Marceline's powers in the mainverse) and sapience by the dark magics of the Nightosphere to give Marcy a protector and companion. Her only real friend before coming to Ooo. A bit of a nervous stick-in-the-mud to serve as a foil to Marcy’s chill, rebellious streak. And seeing how he is literally a mess of demonic energy dressed in the body of an adorable doll, he can be kinda Evil at times. But he is a good, loyal friend to Marceline.

King Simon of the Ice Kingdom: Immortal founder and ruler of the Ice Kingdom, a winter wonderland of sapient penguins and friendly ice monsters. King Simon is an intelligent, fatherly man with a talent with both magic and science. Despite his long life and many experiences, he has not lost his optimistic and idealized view of the world. However, he is not handling the grief of losing his wife, Queen Betty, very well at all. Nor does he have much success in the dating scene. Sometimes those antics are just goofy and embarrassing in a middle-aged-single-dad sort of way. Sometimes the combination of bad luck, social awkwardness and the fact that most potential romantic interests in Simon’s age group are terrifying ancient monsters means his bad dates can snowball into actual threats to himself or even the whole Ice Kingdom - necessitating a rescue from Marcy or some other hero.

Bubblegum Princess: A semi-solid mass of sapient gum-blob who rules over a vast sugary wasteland known as the Candy Kingdom. Once a pre-War human scientist, Bonnibel Rosazucker was infected by a mysterious gum-blob creature and was slowly transformed into a candy monster. Now she is a sugary mad scientist interested mostly creating various freaky candy monsters, Bubblegum Princess has been also known to kidnap wizards in order to dissect them in her mad experiments (for SCIENCE and also out of a powerful obsessive hatred for Wizards in general) with King Simon being an especially favorite target (he secretly thinks she's kinda attractive in a weird way, although he'd never admit to that sober.)

Finn the Cyborg Lord: The once-human son of Dr. Minerva Martens, an old colleague of Bonnibel Rosazucker. Finn was put in her care after his mother’s apparent death - only surviving the post-Mushroom War landscape thanks to Bonnibel's cybernetic modifications. After parting ways with her, he tried to make a name for himself as a hero of the wasteland - but as the years went by, he became more and more jaded with heroism. He became known as a great warrior - but not necessarily the most principled one. In the Ice Kingdom, he is mostly known as the bothersome prankster King Simon is always demanding will get off his lawn. Marcy being around and doing good kinda gave him a new, more optimistic lease on life and he’s been getting back to adventuring and actual heroics. After all the various cybernetic mods Bonnibel and his overprotective A.I mom and various others gave him so he could survive a 1000 years in Ooo, basically the only human organic part oh him is (most of) his brain

wrote part two of the betty/winter king/simon petplay fic i guess!! maybe this shit is going on ao3 next what is happening

briefly gets kind of dark with some mentions of spooky skeletons and possible omnicide but maybe not

 Betty took special care to make the days that bookended her in-home visits relaxing for her Simon. This gave him time to rest and build emotional resilience. The afternoon before Winter King was set to arrive, she took him for a supervised walk along the riverbed in the forest, pointing out the little water sprites and magically active plants and reassuring him when he got skittish. It always made her a little sad to take him out into nature; before the war (and before he spent all that time tied up in the dark while she teased the sticky tendrils of the ice crown out of his brain…) he’d enjoyed hiking and exploring nature so much, but Ooo felt alien to him, too loud and bright, too dangerous. He clung to her and wouldn’t even entertain the idea of leaving the house without his leash.

  She trusted Marceline enough to let her take him on occasional outings. It was difficult to wrap her head around sometimes, since she hadn’t even existed in the timeline while it happened, but she understood that Simon had been her childhood protector during the time he spent as a stray. Her and her partner Bonnibel also owned a little hyperactive blonde man who had been close with Simon when he was effectively living feral, and they still liked to play together, even though Finn had recently taken a female forest wizard as a mate and was showing interest in building a den. Even though she’d seen him herself, his teeth sharp and eyes wild, hair long and matted, now that her sweet little Simon was back to being himself the idea of him being so aggressive seemed distant and impossible.

  In the evening she put shepherd’s stew with barley in his bowl and hand-fed him her homemade banana bread for dessert while petting his hair and upper back. He was very proud of being able to feed himself, but things always tasted better when she did it. She cleaned him up and brushed his teeth, helped him change into soft sleep clothes and placed his favorite penguin and Kiwi bird in the crook of his body. Simon knew he needed to sleep alone the night before a new patient came so Betty could prepare the house, and so he would already be used to it when he needed to be separated from her during work nights. He was brave when she said goodnight and locked his door, but as soon as he heard her walk down the hall, he curled up tight with his plushies and quietly recited the names of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics from memory to soothe himself into unconsciousness.

  In her office, she opened one of the many non-Euclidean drawers in her massive wooden desk and pulled out a thin pile of vellum paper marked in faintly glowing red letters. This Simon, the so-called Winter King, belonged to a very… advanced Betty. Physically modified, genetically hybridized, hyper-adapted to spacefolding and transuniversal travel. Her blood was probably more magic than plasma. Apparently she liked a challenge, because she said she’d found her Simon in a seemingly dead universe, barely lucid and talking to ice sculptures and frozen skeletons. It wasn’t clear whether he’d anything to do with the mass destruction or was simply coping poorly with it, and this Betty, in her words, had “immediately captured him despite his violent reaction”. Captured. Simons didn’t need to be captured; even Ice Kings could easily be “negotiated with” if you weren’t too squeamish to kiss a crazy old hermit who eats floor sandwiches. They were entangled with Bettys on a quantum level. Theoretically, the scent of their sweat should be enough incentive to lure any version of Simon Petrikov.

  Her gaze turned to a selection of what she called training aids, locked inside a metal and glass cabinet originally intended to be used in a wizard’s supply shop. Enchanted jewelry, mildly cursed serums and candies, the odd ominous medical-looking tool. Even if this Simon was anomalous somehow, his basic mental programming had to be the same. She always remembered from her studies on religious cults that humans had two intrinsic, opposing drives that could be tapped into: the desire to control and cause pain, and the desire to give up control and worship, have choices made for you. It was the reason some people ended up as pets and others as owners, some physical manifestation of that dichotomy that altered the physical state of the brain. 

  And in her long and strange life thus far, she had never met a Simon whose desire to give up control couldn’t be accessed.

BEST MOVIES OF 2020

10)          BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

It’s a miracle Sacha Baron Cohen could pull off his guerilla comedy style considering how iconic his character is (especially during the COVID-19 Pandemic). Just as surprising is how uncompromising it is with its political commentary and how it never backs away from its deliciously inappropriate humour.

As everyone’s favourite anti-Semitic, misogynist dim bulb reporter (Sacha Baron Cohen) becomes a pariah in his home country, Borat tries to sell his daughter Tutar (Maria Bakalova) to Michael Pence (then later Rudy Giuliani). The result is an endless array of side splitting, cringy moments from convincing a baker to write an anti-Semitic slogan on a cake to Borat attempted disguises to avoid detection.

Not since Buster Keaton has a comic actor pulled such dangerous stunts for a laugh. Cohen puts himself in such risky situations for the sake of his comedy when he hangs around with Qanon nutjobs or barges into a Republican convention dressed as “McDonald Trump.” [1] Well, it’s not just for laughs. As with his earlier works, Cohen uses his guerilla comedy style to expose the ugly side of humanity and America’s complicity in said ugly behavior. A notable theme is the consequences of misinformation. Borat is an instigator and willful idiot for his home country’s propaganda, which makes him an easy target for conspiracy theories. It all comes to a hilarious head when his daughter becomes a rightwing pundit and breaks his heart with holocaust denial.

Maria Bakalova is the film’s breakout star. An unknown actress from Bulgaria, Bakalova matches him every step of the way as the gullible, degraded young woman. She shines in her own hilarious moments when she’s ballroom dancing with a bloody dress or cheering about the joys of masturbating in front of a Republican Meeting.  She also gives the movie a heart as Borat bonds with his daughter and forces him to reevaluate his beliefs.

It’s impossible for the film to reach the same level of impact as the first Borat considering what a surprise phenomenon the original was. But it’s still surprising the sequel was as good as it was without sacrificing its inappropriate humour.

9)            HIS HOUSE

Writer/Director Remi Weekes brings another great addition to the metaphorror genre with His House; a creepy horror flick about a Sudanese refugee couple who find their lives in Britain threatened by the literal demons of their past.

Dilapidated rooms with peeling wallpaper, decaying floors, and malfunctioning lights are a perfect atmosphere for horror, Weekes and his cinematographer Jo Willems takes full advantage of this environment to unsettle the audience. Bol Majur (Sope Dirisu) and his wife Rial Majur (Wunmi Mosaku) find themselves tormented by voices in the walls, and mysterious figures peaking through the crawl spaces. It’s clear these supernatural figures are the manifestations of their trauma.

Weeks contrast the supernatural horror with the real horror they face, which takes the form of an uncaring bureaucracy that sticks them in a dilapidated home in a crumbling neighbourhood with some hostile, indifferent neighbours. It shows how finding a doctor’s office in an unfamiliar land can be as scary as facing ghosts.

You care a lot about these two thanks to Dirisu and Mosaku, who bring a lot of quiet humanity and heart to their characters. You pray for them as they fight for their right to live with dignity after what they’ve been put through.

8)            WOLFWALKERS

British girl/wannabee warrior) Robyn (voiced by Honor Kneafsey) joins her father (Sean Bean) on a trip to a remote Irish village where she encounters Mebh (Evan Whittaker), a wild red-haired girl with the ability to control a pack of wolves. With her father tasked with killing Mebh’s pack, Robyn must find Mebh’s mother and protect the pack from the tyrannical religious fanatic Lord Protector (Simon McBurney) in Tomm Moore’s conclusion to his Irish Folklore trilogy.

The animation is just as gorgeous as Moore’s earlier films The Secret of Kells and The Song of the Sea with his trademark storybook-like animation style. A noticeable difference between the earlier is how deliberately rough the animation looks. There are moments you can see lines and circles that are usually erased when drawing characters. It fits with the wild energy of the characters.

There’re the clear environmental themes of humans encroaching on animal lives and the need to respect nature. Lord Protector believes he needs to dominate the wilderness and the wolves. The villagers in contrast have more respect for the environment but can’t do much under Protector’s rule. So, the wolves are forced to find a new home.

Another theme of this film is the importance of questioning authority and not blindly conforming to social norms. Robyn’s father expects her to train to be a chambermaid while he’s blindly follows Lord Protector’s orders. They keep saying it’s “for the greater good,” but that “greater good” involves the destruction of a wilderness and a denial of one’s true self. It just leaves everyone miserable. And all for a religious fanatic.

It’s a shame Moore’s films don’t get more attention because they have that rare sense of wonder.

7)            NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS & UNPREGNANT (tie)

I’m putting these two films together on the list because they have the same premise of two teen girls travelling across state lines so one of them can get an abortion. What sets them apart is how different they are in styles.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a grounded drama about Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) a teenage girl from Pennsylvania who secretly travels with her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder) to New York to get an abortion without their parents knowing. Writer/director Eliza Hittman avoids melodrama in favour of grounded realism. Flanigan and Ryder keep their performances at a lowkey level to reinforce the realism. Hittman also avoids political moralizing in favour of just presenting a slice of life showcase as the cousins travel to New York, try to find the appropriate procedure for her circumstance, then tries to find the money to get back home. In a way, it makes the little moments more meaningful when Autumn is forced to watch anti-abortion propaganda or when she and Skylar plays at an arcade.

While the former goes for grounded drama, Haley Lu Richardson’s Unpregnant bears a closer resemblance to comedic road movies like National Lampoon’s Vacation and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. This time, popular teen Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson) enlists the help (and the car) of social outcast/former friend Bailey (Barbie Ferreira) to drive from Missouri to Albuquerque to get the procedure without her parents knowing. The result is a chaotic road trip with the two crashing a few cars and meeting a few colourful characters along the way. This film has quite a set of cameos including Breckin Meyer, Betty Who and Giancarlo Esposito. This film has the John Hughes blend of broad humour and recognizable heart. This film gets its point across by showcasing the absurdity of how teen girls are treated. One notable example is Veronica’s boyfriend; a stage 5 clinger who lives under the “nice guy” mindset.

Both films celebrate teen girls helping each other out.

6)            THE VAST OF NIGHT

Switchboard operator (Sierra McCormick) and DJ Everett Sloan (Jake Horowitz) search for the source of a mysterious sound in The Vast of Night; a gripping and visual dazzling sci fi flick that captures the feel of the Twilight Zone.

Director Andrew Patterson and co-writer Craig W. Sanger wrote a tightly knit story the follows our heroes over the course of a night as they play detective in a 1950s New Mexico town. Never does a second feel wasted. Plus, it’s fun to see stereotypical 1950s nerds being the heroes in a story like this.

What truly makes this film stand out is its visual styles. From the Twilight Zone-esque opens plays on an old tv, cinematographer M.I. Littin-Menz has you under his spell. His camerawork is always gorgeous in both the way he is zooming into a 1950s high school basketball game and shining omniscient light from the night sky. There are also some unusual moments when the film will suddenly play on 1950s tv. This may either further the intrigue or take some viewers out of the movie.

The result is a unique experience for sci-fi fans.

5)            KAJILLIONNAIRE

Emotionally distant young woman Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood) and her small-time con artist parents (Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins) find their lives turned upside down when a perky stranger named Melanie (Gina Rodriguez) joins in their schemes.

Some audiences may be put off by July’s stylized approach to filmmaking, especially Wood’s unusual deep voice. But for those into lighthearted, quirky comedies will be enchanted by the little visual oddities of the family stooping (or in Old Dolio’s case, leaning back) to avoid their landlord or the pink suds always flowing down their apartment walls.

Kajillionnaire fits into July’s celebration of the timid and the outsiders. But July surprises us with a dark side to the outsider. The parents reject the unfulfilling, debt filled conventional life, but they aren’t particularly good at their cons and struggle to make ends meet. It has also made their daughter emotionally distant and with severe trust issues. It takes Melanie to give Old Dolio the human connection she never had.

I can’t say much beyond that because it takes many unexpected twists and turns. What I can say is this colourful dramedy offers an assurance of human connection.

4)             SMALL AXE

Ok, I may be cheating on this one since it’s five films (two of them just barely over an hour), but director Steve McQueen’s anthology complement each other perfectly with their unflinching examinations of systemic racism inflicted on lives of West Indie Brits during 1960s and the 1980s. The films are also connected by their celebration of people who celebrate life despite overwhelming odds stacked against them.

MANGROVE centers on the title Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill. Owner Frank Crichlow (Shaun Parkes) just wants to serve customers and be left alone, but his business is a constant target of harassment by racist cops. It all comes to a head with a 1970 protest, which leads to Frank and 8 others falsely accused of inciting a riot.

The trial demonstrates how Police can brutalize protesters, then turn around and accuse the protesters of inciting violence. It also shows how the justice system is complicity by blindly taking the word of the police over civilians. Not helping is a prosecuting attorney who peddles in racist dog whistles, a defense attorney naïve about the justice system’s treatment of black people and an indifferent judge. But the defendants stand strong as they use the trial as a platform to expose racial profiling while poking holes in cop’s testimony.

The two standouts in the film are Parkes and Letitia Wright as British Black Panther Co-Founder Altheia Jones. Parkes brings a lot of sympathy as a desperate man who just wants to live his life but grows to become an activist due to circumstances outside of his control. In contrast, Wright is a powerhouse of righteous anger as she fights for dignity.

LOVERS ROCK takes us through a night at a house party, where two strangers (Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn and Micheal Ward) fall in love. There’s isn’t much plot in this one, its mostly just people dancing and playing music. But as the camera lingers on the DJ playing records and the guests dancing and enjoying each other’s company, this film enchants you with its celebration of music, dancing, and the joy of company. It feels like a much-needed break from the uncomfortable racism we see in the other movies.

RED, WHITE, AND BLUE Is probably the most heartbreaking. John Boyega portrays Leroy Logan, a young man who enrolls in the Metropolitan Police in hopes of reforming it from the inside. He underestimates the racism he’ll face during training or how the system enables the racism. What makes it worst is how his own community would turn against him, especially his father (Steve Toussaint).

Boyega gives a powerful performance as a determined and smart guy who fails to understand how in over his head he is. You feel his fury when Leroy berates his fellow officers for putting his life in danger by not answering his call for backup. Toussaint is just as powerful as a man who feels betrayed when his son joins the very people who have brutalized him for years.

ALEX WHEATIE tells the true-life story of a young man (Sheyi Cole) who would go on to become an award-winning writer after being jailed during the Brixton Uprising of 1981. We follow him from his childhood growing up in uncaring white institutional care homes to finding a sense of community in Brixton, where he develops a passion for music. Through his attempts to pursue a DJing career and his run ins with the law that he confronts his past and begins a journey to healing.

We conclude with Education, a coming-of-age story of Kingsley (Kenyah Sandy), a 12-year-old boy who was singled out as “disruptive” and sent to special classes for the “subnormal”. This film looks at an unofficial segregated system that dismissed black kids and discarded them in classes for people with mental disability. It’s clear Kingsley is a smart kid with interest in rockets and space, but he shows signs of dyslexia. But neither his headmaster nor are the special classes helpful, especially when the teacher cares more about play his guitar and teaching the kids anything useful. His parents are even less helpful when they dismiss his concerns (when they’re not working two jobs.) It leads to a sad moment when Kingsley hides inside a bus to avoid seeing his friends.

This film also shows the power of black women. You see it through Kingsley’s sister Stephanie (Tamara Lawrence) whose empathy makes her realize somethings up. You see through Lydia Thomas (Josette Simon) activism as she investigates these school conditions. You especially see it through Kingsley’s mom (Sharlene Whyte), not just from working to jobs to provide for her family but her ability to grow and learn. She goes through a journey as Lydia teaches her about the systemic racism in the education system, forcing her to realize how she’s dismissed her son’s concerns. Near the end, we see how children like Kingsley can be helped by those willing to understand his problem.

3)            FIRST COW

Timid forager Cookie (John Magaro) feels out of place among the hunters and fur traders in the Oregon Territory. Then along comes King-Lu (Orion Lee), a Chinese immigrant with big dreams. Together, they swipe milk from the only cow in the area to cook and sell pastries to the locals in the area. As their little business grows, so does the bond between these outsiders. But their success comes under threat when they attract the attention of a wealthy landowner (Toby Jones) who owns the cow.

A premise like this does not sound like the type of film that attracts major audience attention, especially with Co-writer/Director Kelly Reichart’s minimalist style. But when it comes to Reichart, less is more. Reichart takes her time to take in the muted colours and natural beauty of Christopher Blauvelt’s cinematography and allow the relationships to develop naturally. It’s helped by the low-key yet engaging performances. Lee showcased the enthusiastic determination of a born entrepreneur. But it’s Magaro who shines brightest with the most nuanced performance of the year, revealing Cookie’s humanity through the subtlest gestures.

Reichart’s subtle, patient storytelling isn’t for everyone, but through her gentlest touch she enchants the audience with a haunting tale of unlikely friendships and the achievements of outsiders.

2)            UNCUT GEMS

I know this is a film was released in 2019, but It didn’t come to our theatre until 2020 and It’s too damn good not to talk about.

This film is a cinematic panic attack. Never once do the Safdie brothers give you a moment to relax as fast-talking Jeweler Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) dodges pissed off debt collectors while plotting for the biggest bet he can get. The result is an experience that keeps you on edge from opening credits to end credits. In lesser hands this would be an unpleasant experience, but the Safdie brothers uses this to create a compelling, intense portrayal of a man who gets off on standing on the edge of a cliff.

One reason it works is because beauty and ugliness make strange bedfellows in their movies. Nowhere is this more perfectly summed up than in the opening scenes where cinematographer Darius Khondji travels through an inside of a gem. The colours and lights make you feel like you’ve ascended to a magical world, but this scene happens in between scenes of African Miners being exploited and the inside of Howard’s colon. Just as beautiful is Daniel Lopatin’s new wave musical score. On its own, the music lulls you into a beautiful sense of peace. But this music often plays over uncomfortable scenes of characters screaming over each other. Somehow these two elevate the cinematic experience.

But the true strength of the film is Howard himself, which is astounding considering how unlikeable the character is. Throughout the film, he keeps digging himself into a deeper hole as he gambles even more recklessly, which makes it worst when he starts putting other’s people lives at risk. But he’s too complicated to hate. He shares a close bond with his kids and his coworkers. The film makes it clear he’s excellent at predicting Basketball games with near perfect accuracy, which gives you hope he will win. But then again, you don’t end up with over a hundred thousand dollars in debt without making terrible life decisions. He would be impossible to watch without Adam Sandler’s performance. He blends a smooth-talking charm and panic desperation to his character every time he tries to fast talk his way out of his circumstance. You can see why people like having him around.

When the credits roll, you’re relieved it’s over and were glad to experience the thrill.

1)            THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO SEVEN

The real-life trial of seven protesters and Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale feels more like an SNL skit than a courtroom drama. From the Merry Prankster duo Abby Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong)’s tweaking the nose at the buffoon judge Hoffman (Frank Langella) to the Judge bounding and gagging Seale, this trial was so contrived it can only come from real life. And writer/director Aaron Sorkin exposes the absurdity of this story in The Trial of the Chicago Seven.

It’s funny how a film about a trial from the late 60s can capture the mood of 2020. But with brutal images of Police attacking protesters and Judge Hoffman’s horrific treatment of Seale, this film feels like it came at the perfect time.[2] The trial itself showcases how the Justice system works to silence discourse and smears protestors. Sorkin further emphasizes how the system attacks anyone by showcasing the contrasting beliefs of the protestors from the radical anarchism of Hoffman and quiet dignity of Seale to the moderate ideals of student protestor Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne) and the unapologetic pacifism of suburban dad David Dellinger (John Carroll Lynch).

Sorkin does all this while keeping the film gripping and entertaining from start to finish. He brings his sharp wit to his dialogue whether it’s Hoffman’s political speeches or the Marx-brother’s esque exchanges between the Judge and the increasingly frustrated defense attorney William Kunstler. Matching his writing are the endless great performances from the actors including Joseph Gordon-Levitt as reluctant prosecuting attorney Richard Schultz and Strong bringing out his inner Tommy Chong. But it’s Cohen who steals the whole film bringing out the uncompromising radicalism of Hoffman, who seems to have a better understanding of the situation than most of the protestors.

The result is a film that perfectly captures the political feel of 2020.

[1] At one point, he was almost attacked by protesters.

[2] Which is ironic considering it took Sorkin over a decade to get the film made.

What’s Out This Week? 8/7

Where did Summer go? How is it already August?! WHY ARE THERE SO MANY AMAZING NEW TITLES OUT THIS WEEK AAAAAHHHHH

Absolute Carnage #1 (of 5) - Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman

After turning Venom's world upside down a year ago, DONNY CATES and RYAN STEGMAN are about to put the Sinister Symbiote through hell again, only this time CARNAGE has come calling, and everyone who's ever worn a symbiote is dead in his sights! He's skirted the periphery of the Marvel Universe for months, but Cletus Kasady at last stands poised to make his grand return to New York in a blistering 60-PAGE story... and he wants to paint the town red!

Death-Defying Devil #1 - Gail Simone and Walter Geovani

The Winslow House is in shambles, but people call it home. It is a place for people who have almost nothing but are trying to make a life for themselves. It is also in a bad neighborhood, and no one will stop criminals from tormenting the residents...until The Death-Defying Devil shows up! But when the Devil tries to step in and protect the innocent, things take a turn for the worse and he finds himself trapped inside the house, being taken care of by the same people he was trying to save. Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman) and Walter Geovani (Red Sonja, Clean Room) present the story of The Death-Defying Devil and a group of neighbors who will do what it takes to keep their home, and each other, safe!

Future Foundation #1 - Jeremy Whitley and Will Robson

When the Richards family is called back to Earth to be the Fantastic Four again, they left behind the Future Foundation - a think tank of the most brilliant young minds in the universe - with one mission: to find the pieces of and rebuild their friend Molecule Man. But that's proved harder than imagined as this crew of young geniuses, Atlanteans, Mutants, Moloids and androids have run into every problem in the Multiverse. Now, with the leadership of Alex and Julie Power and a little extra firepower from guest professor Yondu Udonta, the team will undergo their most dangerous mission yet - a PRISON BREAK!

The Dark Age #1 -  Don Handfield and Leonardo Rodrigues

In the near future, all metal on earth suddenly turns to worthless piles of rust and dust. With no technology, no guns, no computers, humanity reverts to a violent feudal system. Each pocket of civilization is ruled by knights of wood & glass & concrete. This is the new Dark Age.

Archie Married Life: Ten Years Later #1 -  Michael Uslan and Dan Parent

10 years later, a landmark moment in Archie Comics history is being revisited! ARCHIE: THE MARRIED LIFE 10th ANNIVERSARY, is a sequel to the headline-making 2009 'Archie Wedding' storyline. The original storyline written by Michael Uslan answered Riverdale's longest-running question: will Archie marry Betty or Veronica? Fans were treated to two alternate worlds that explored each possibility and Uslan's sequel picks up both stories ten years later. See how much life has changed for Archie, his family, and the rest of Riverdale in this new and exciting mini-series.

Dead End Kids #1 - Frank Gogol

It's 1999. Ben, Murphy, Tank, and Amanda are four screwed-up kids from broken homes... but they have had each other. When Ben is murdered, Murphy and his friends set out to find who killed him and find themselves in the cross-hairs! Dead End Kids is a dark coming-of-age murder mystery set in the '90s, from the creative team behind 2018's critically acclaimed Grief.

Coffin Bound #1 - Dan Watters and DANI

Cars! Guns! Entropy! Chased by an unstoppable killer, Izzy Tyburn has decided that if the world won't have her in it, it can have nothing of her at all. She's re-treading her life, leaving nothing but burned rubber, ash, and the sun-scorched bones of those who get in her way. Join writer DAN WATTERS (Sandman Universe: Lucifer, LIMBO), artist DANI (2000AD, Girl with No Name), and colorist BRAD SIMPSON (JESUSFREAK, MCMLXXV) on a road trip through a blood-splattered life.

Agents Of Atlas #1 - Greg Pak, Jeff Parker, Carlo Pagulayan, and Nico Leon

By popular demand, ATLAS debut in their own series as AMADEUS CHO, SILK, SHANG-CHI, WAVE, JIMMY WOO and all your favorites defend the cross-Asian portal city of Pan against the science-magic threat of one of Marvel's classic villains! Classic science-magic super hero fun combined with young and old heroes from multiple lands clashing with one another, fighting monsters and maybe saving the world along the way! And who is ISAAC IKEDA, the Protector of Pan? PLUS: Where are the original AGENTS OF ATLAS? Namora, M-11, Gorilla Man and Marvel Boy in an all-new top-secret mission!

Berserker Unbound #1 (of 4) - Jeff Lemire and Mike Deodato

A merciless sword and sorcery warrior finds himself blasted through a wormhole to a modern-day metropolis where he must protect those around him from an evil wizard determined to send him to hell. From the Eisner Award-winning team of Jeff Lemire, Mike Deodato Jr., and Frank Martin comes this urban warrior fantasy series!

Whatcha scooping up this week, Fantomites?

“Where do you come from, where do you go?  What is your scene, baby, we just gotta know!”

I said I was gonna make an appreciation post for Yvonne Craig’s ’66 Batgirl, so… here she is, Barbara Gordon, that Dominoed Dare-Doll out to strike at the heart of crime!

The network wanted to introduce Barbara Gordon to the show almost immediately after her “Million-Dollar Debut” in the comics, and being renewed for a third season gave them the perfect opportunity.  After airing a short presentation to introduce the character, featuring Babs in a much pointier mask fighting off Killer Moth and his goons, they were given the green light to properly usher her into the show.  The rest, of course, is network television history; and while a lot of people can agree that the third season of the show was largely a series of missteps, Batgirl was definitely not one of them.

What makes Babs so interesting in this show is that she’s the perfect demonstration of how femininity and badassery don’t have to be mutually exclusive.  She’s naturally a very warm, charming, and eminently helpful person who goes out of her way to look after her family and her community. She’s a bookworm who works at the Gotham City library and studied almost every subject.  She’s very much a daddy’s girl who almost never fights with her father and regularly invites him over to watch TV with her.  She loves to cook and entertain guests.  She loves classical music and museums of all kinds.  She dresses like Jackie Kennedy at a thrift shop.  She loves to surf and swim and has a thing for charming jocks.  She keeps a gorgeous apartment full of trinkets and vintage furniture with a little parakeet named Charlie to keep her company.  And she visibly wears striking eye makeup even under her Batgirl cowl.

For God’s sake, her Batgirl motorcycle has ruffles on it!

But absolutely none of that takes away from what a devastatingly competent crimefighter she is.  In fact, she uses her reputation as an underestimated Girly-Girl ™ to her best advantage, similar to the way Babs does in Batgirl: Year One.  People tend to not pay her any mind because she’s a girl who can’t possibly do anything interesting in her spare time?  Gives her plenty of time to build her own Batgirl Cave in the back room of her apartment, complete with a revolving wall for ease of access to her costume station, an early computer and switchboard with a Lucite screen, a forensic chemistry set, and an elevator lift for her motorcycle!

People expect her to be soft and meek?  Perfect opportunity to take people by surprise by scaring them out of her apartment, even out of costume, and fully turn the tables on them as Batgirl, the fierce bruiser who loves nothing more than a sharp verbal takedown followed by a good scrap!  Punching isn’t a ladylike thing to do?  No rule saying you can’t ballet-kick their noses up into their brains and grab the nearest blunt object to use as an improvised weapon!

Woman crimefighters aren’t expected to be as clever as the Dynamic Duo?  Time to surprise everyone by using common sense and book smarts to solve cases instead of Bat-Deduction and breaking out of deathtraps by being genuinely resourceful rather than relying on deus ex machina (she does get the occasional assist, but this girl freed herself from self-tightening garotte wire.  That counts for something.)! 

Every time someone on the show tries to sell her short, she gets around to proving them wrong within seconds, and it’s the most satisfying thing to see.  Her biggest flaws as Batgirl were that she could be a little too rough and sometimes unintentionally cruel (such as the time she sprayed Louie the Lilac with sentient rot because she thought he was just bluffing).  But with time and experience she learned better and continued to improve as Gotham’s newest protector—a job she took very seriously, but still had a sense of humor about.

Interestingly, in her first couple of appearances, Babs seemed to be very aware of the fact that people were going to end up comparing her to Batman and Robin, and it manifested in a rather competitive spirit.  She constantly kept secrets from them, even ones that pertained to the case they were working on, and she would even hide evidence from them so she could have the satisfaction of busting the bad guy first.  They didn’t seem to trust her on principle at first, especially Batman, who believed that it was in women’s nature to try to outdo men in everything (holy sexism, ya douchecanoe); and she apparently decided that it wasn’t worth the effort to change their minds.  When they asked her about where she got her information, she would be deliberately vague and mention things like tarot cards and tea leaves—“all part of a woman crimefighter’s arsenal”—as a sort of Take That against them.  And at the end of almost every episode, she would disappear without a trace while their backs were turned, making them wonder where the hell she could have gone.  Eventually the three came to trust each other much more and fall into an easier and more cheerful rapport, but she would still disappear on them when the job was done.

One of the biggest shakeups on the show was that the member of the original “Batfamily” she was closest to was none other than Alfred!  He was the first to stumble upon her secret identity, and she made him swear to secrecy “as a gentleman’s gentleman.”  And he kept his word and continued to serve as her confidante, meeting with her in secret when she didn’t know if she could trust Batman. Every opportunity there was to help Babs, Alfred took it, no matter what, whether it was freeing her from a particularly tricky trap or helping her track a criminal across Gotham.  The two of them quickly developed a really adorable familial relationship based on mutual trust and affection, and you could tell how fond of each other Yvonne Craig and Alan Napier must have been.

The one vastly different addition you could possibly quibble with about this Babs is that there’s this rather aggressive effort to try to pair her up with Bruce.  Her father is very in favor of the idea of the two settling down together (even though Babs is fresh out of college and Bruce is at least in his late thirties).  And while Babs thinks Bruce is a nice enough guy, all of their “dates” end up being rather awkward since Bruce is a colossal dork out of costume, and she honestly just finds him a bit boring.  Besides, “he’s no Batman.”  She has a rather thinly disguised hero-crush on Batman and often wonders who he is under the mask—one can only imagine her reaction to finding out it’s the same guy who would rather watch the news in the back of his limo than talk to her. The attempt at shipping is there, but it never really goes anywhere, so… dodged a bullet there.

And in case anyone is wondering about her and Dick, while they aren’t romantically interested in each other at all, they do make a fantastic team and seem to view each other as brother and sister or at least good friends.  There are entire subplots of episodes where the two team up to save Batman’s bacon, and it’s glorious.

All in all, Yvonne Craig—once a dancer for the Ballet Russe and then a character actress who’d performed opposite Perry Mason and Elvis Presley—gave the world one of the defining heroines of the 1960s.  One who never stayed a damsel in distress for long and was spunky, witty, rebellious, kindhearted, determined, free-spirited, and more than capable of holding her own with the boys.  If anyone remembers anything about the third season of Batman, it’s Batgirl in all her purple glory, and her legacy has endured for so long that even Gail Simone has gone on record saying that when she writes Barbara Gordon, it’s Craig’s voice she imagines.

Unfortunately, Batman’s third season would be its last; even with hopes for a fourth season on the horizon, the destruction of the sets meant that the Terrific Trio would never set forth again on the small screen.  Fortunately, though, this wouldn’t be the end of this Batgirl—she was given another chance in cartoon and comic book form!

In The New Adventures of Batman, she takes on Catwoman to clear her own name from the taint of crime, singlehandedly rescues Robin from both the Joker’s and the Riddler’s henchmen with nothing but brute force, and adds a whole new passel of gadgets to her utility belt, including her own grappling hook gun and a makeup compact that conceals pocket sand she can use to blind her assailants.

In the recent Batman ’66 standalone comics, she gets to help Batman face off against Lord Death Man in Japan, takes on the Joker and Catwoman multiple times, helps free her father from Bane’s clutches, outwits all of the Big Four through simple office politics out of costume, and singlehandedly fends off the Bookworm and Queen Cleopatra with ingenuity and a good pimp slap respectively.

In Batman ’66 Meets the Man From U.N.C.L.E., she battles Poison Ivy’s plant goons (accidentally decapitating one of them with a single kick) travels with the Dynamic Duo, Napolean, and Illya to Monte Carlo to face off against Hugo Strange and his new international crime syndicate, and almost throws hands with Strange all by herself.

In Batman ’66 Meets Wonder Woman ’77, she graduates from Batgirl to Batwoman (Kate Kane’s initial appearance never caught on, it would seem) and takes her place as the new police commissioner of Gotham City after her father retires.

And most recently, in Archie Meets Batman ’66, she and Dick Grayson go undercover as transfer students to help flush out the new supervillain threat plaguing Riverdale and its students, facing off against the Joker and Catwoman in particular so far while dealing with the rabid crushes Archie and Betty have on them.

And as long as people still show an interest in this iteration of Babs, there will probably be more content still to come.  Not gonna lie, this is my favorite version of Barbara Gordon in any medium—I love her personality, her approach to challenges, her fighting style, her relationships with the rest of the cast, and even her costume.  Maybe one day, in a new Batman ’66 comic, we’ll get to see more of a supporting cast for her—bring in Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Frankie Charles, Jason Bard, and all of the characters we’ve come to know and love from the greater DC canon!  Hell, even better, give her a chance to become Oracle and pave the way for new Batgirls inspired by the good she’s done for Gotham!  But for now, we should all take the opportunity to appreciate the most iconic Barbara Gordon and the legacy she left behind.

Before I go, I thought I’d leave you guys with a snippet from the Man From U.N.C.L.E. crossover comic that I think best encapsulates this Batgirl and why she does what she does.  If ever Barbara Gordon had a mission statement, this is it, and I can never commend the comics enough for recognizing what makes her so special.

I just finished watching Adventure Time. I don't even know what to say. I think some of the things that got me were how much Betty gave up to save Simon. With Finn helping Fern finding peace right before he died. Bmo still being there to tell their story to generations after them. How Sweat Pea (or maybe someone of his decent) walks around Ooo as it protector (probably). When all the humans finally came back. With one of my all time ships being brought to life. Ice King got married (yay). And Jake's kids take up their grandparents place to be investigators as well.

I feel like I need to rewatch the show because that future world, that was in a previous season. I don't remember much, but I do remember that the world isn't perfect. The show ended with leaving you to feel satisfied and not. The rest of the story is up to your imagination.

I just realized something heartbreaking.. Im betting the curse on the new AT bomb will return Simon and Betty to some level of sanity. And Finn will have to make the choice of saving their sanity or saving all of Ooo. Of course in the end the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. And Simon himself will probably even agree that Finn should save everyone else over him and Betty. But somewhere Finn knows that this is the last chance to save them. If he doesn't here and now Simon and Betty will be lost. And it breaks his heart because Marceline probably isn't even there to say goodbye to someone who seems to mean so much to her. But he knows he has to do it because this is his home and he is it's protector.

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AFTERSHOCK COMICS Bad Reception #3, $3.99 Horde HC, $19.99 You Are Obsolete #2, $3.99

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS Archie And Me Jumbo Comics Digest #22, $7.99 Archie Milestones Digest #5, $7.99 Archie Varsity Edition Volume 2 HC, $29.99 Archie Vs Predator II #3 (Of 5)(Cover A Robert Hack), $3.99 Archie Vs Predator II #3 (Of 5)(Cover B Laura Braga), $3.99 Archie Vs Predator II #3 (Of 5)(Cover C Phil Hester), $3.99 Archie Vs Predator II #3 (Of 5)(Cover D Jamal Igle), $3.99 Archie Vs Predator II #3 (Of 5)(Cover E Sandy Jarrell), $3.99 Archie vs Predator II #3 (Of 5)(Cover F Pat Kennedy & Tim Kennedy), $3.99 Betty And Veronica Friends Forever Supernatural Stories #1, $2.99

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Second part of my AT Roleswap AUs, after the Bonnieverse, it’s the Marcyverse! (Like with that, I feel like I have to mention @fridjitzu‘s ReverseWorld and it’s influance on my work. 

Again, explantions under the cut:

Marcy Abadeer: The young daughter of the Lord of the Nightosphere, who ended up stuck on Ooo. The idea of being a "hero" started as a goof, something she thought would tick off her dad - but she ended up having to commit to it when she was rescued the King of the Ice Kingdom, who told basically everyone that there's a new hero in town and is also generally like really nice to her, and eventually she became genuinely invented in helping people. Generally a very laid back person with a bit of a jerk streak she grows out of, prefers to use axes in battle. Coming back to the Nightosphere starts as her first priority, but it keeps shifting up and down as a priority depending on her current emotional state - eventually, when faced with the choice to leave Ooo forever, she decides to stay.

 Hambo: Marcy's favorite toy, enchanted by the dark magics of the Nightosphere into being intelligent and having freaky magical powers (basically Marceline’s vampire powers in the Mainverse), to give Marcy a protector and companion. A bit of a nervous stick-in-the-mud to serve as a foil to Marcy's chill, rebellious streak, but he is a good, loyal friend with truly fearsome powers. 

King Simon: Ruler of the Ice Kingdom, a large, developed, winter wonderland of sapient penguins and friendly ice monsters - King Simon is an intelligent, fatherly man with a talent with both magic and science. However, he is not handling the grief of losing his wife, Queen Betty, very well - nor does he have much success in the dating scene . Sometimes those antics are just goofy and embarrassing, sometimes the combination of bad luck, social awkwardness and the fact that most people in Simon's age group are terrifying immortal monsters means his bad dates can snowball into actual threats to the Ice Kingdom. Tends to view the world through an optimistic, romantic viewpoint. 

Bubblegum Princess: a semi-solid mass of sapient mad scientist gum-blob - rules over a vast sugary wasteland known as the Candy Kingdom. Once a human scientist, Bonnibel Rosazucker was infected by a mysterious gum-blob creature and was slowly transformed into a candy monster. Mostly interested in her own experiment creating various candy monsters, Bubblegum Princess has been known to kidnap wizards in order to dissect them in her mad experiments (and she has, in general, a strong dislike for wizards and magic, due to her powerful beliefs in science) with King Simon being an especially favorite target (he thinks she's kinda attractive, though he'll never admit that)

Finn the Lord of the Cyborgs: son of Dr. Minerva Martens, an old colleague of Bonnibel, Finn was put in Bonniebel's care after his mother's apparent death - only surviving the post-Mushroom War landscape by cybernetic modifications by Bonnibel. After parting ways with her, he tried to make a name for himself as a hero of the wasteland - but as the years went by, he became more and more jaded with heroism and mostly made a name for himself by annoying and pranking King Simon. Marcy being around kinda gave him a new, more optimistic lease on life and he’s been getting back to adventuring. After all the various cybernatic mods Bonnibel and his overprotective A.I mom and various others gave him so he could survive a 1000 years in Ooo, basically the only human organic part oh him is (most of) his brain

CC Blogger - New Arrivals @ Collectors Corner : Wednesday - 5/15/19

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Noticias de series de la semana: Récord con 'Law & Order: SVU'

Renovaciones

Hulu ha renovado Runaways por una tercera temporada

FOX ha renovado The Resident por una tercera temporada

FOX ha renovado 9-1-1 por una tercera temporada

CBC ha renovado Burden of Truth por una tercera temporada

Netflix ha renovado The Order por una segunda temporada

NBC ha renovado Law & Order: SVU por una vigésima primera temporada

Cancelaciones

YouTube Premium ha cancelado Origin tras su primera temporada

Pop ha cancelado Let's Get Physical tras su primera temporada

Audience Network ha cancelado Hit the Road tras su primera temporada

Audience Network ha cancelado Ice tras su segunda temporada

Epix ha cancelado Berlin Station tras su tercera temporada

Noticias cortas

Diggy Simmons (Doug) será regular en la tercera temporada de Grown-ish.

Philip Winchester (Peter Stone) no estará en la 21ª temporada de Law & Order: SVU.

Emily Bett Rickards (Felicity Smoak) no estar�� en la octava y última temporada de Arrow.

Mozhan Marnò (Samar Navabi) abandonará The Blacklist en su sexta temporada.

HBO emitirá el 26 de mayo un documental sobre Game of Thrones.

Con la renovación, Law & Order: SVU se convierte en la serie de acción real en prime time más longeva de la historia estadounidense.

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Hugh Dancy (Hannibal, The Path) participará en varios episodios de la octava y última temporada de Homeland. Será John Zabel, consultor de Washington que se une al equipo de la Casa Blanca.

Judith Light (Ugly Betty, Transparent) y Bette Midler (The First Wives Club, Hocus Pocus) estarán en The Politician.

Edgar Ramirez (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, The Girl on the Train), Lily Rabe (American Horror Story, Vice), Ismael Cruz Cordova (The Good Wife, Berlin Station) y Matilda De Angelis (Tutto può succedere) se unen a The Undoing. Serán el detective Joe Mendoza, Sylvia Steinetz y Fernando y Elena Alves.

Patti LuPone (Penny Dreadful, American Horror Story) estará en la segunda temporada de Pose.

Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll, Chicago Fire) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de You como Gabe, amigo y confidente de Love (Victoria Pedretti).

Alicia Coppola (Jericho, Shameless) y Leo Howard (Wasabi Warriors, Santa Clarita Diet) serán recurrentes en Why Women Kill como Sheila, vecina de Beth Ann (Ginnifer Goodwin); y Tommy, un adolescente que trabaja como camarero en una fiesta de Simone (Lucy Liu).

Rowan Blanchard (Girl Meets World, The Goldbergs) será una adolescente muy sabia para su edad y con una misteriosa conexión con el tren en Snowpiercer.

David James Elliott retomará su papel de JAG (Harmon Rabb Jr.) en varios episodios de la novena y la décima temporada de NCIS: LA.

Marquis Rodriguez (Iron Fist, When They See Us), John Simm (Life on Mars, The Catch), Richard McCabe (Harlots, Poldark), John Heffernan (Dickensian, Collateral) y Dixie Egerickx se unen a la precuela de Game of Thrones.

Birgundi Baker (The Chi, Empire) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Station 19 como Yemi, hermana de Dean (Okieriete Onaodowan).

Pat Healy (Hap and Leonard, Blunt Talk), Melinda McGraw (Outcast, The Crossing) y Michael Harney (Orange Is the New Black, Weeds) se unen como recurrentes a Interrogation.

Hugo Speer (The Musketeers, Britannia) y Amanda Burton (Silent Witness, Waterloo Road) se unen a la tercera temporada de Marcella. Serán Frank Young, contacto encubierto de Marcella (Anna Friel); y Katherine, matriarca de los Maguire, la familia de criminales en la que se ha infiltrado Marcella.

Vinny Chhibber (No Tomorrow, The Red Line) se une como recurrente a la cuarta temporada de Animal Kingdom. Será Rahul, un multimillonario arrogante acostumbrado a conseguir lo que quiere.

Michela De Rossi (The Rats) será la protagonista de The Many Saints of Newark, la película precuela de The Sopranos.

Javon 'Wanna' Walton (Euphoria) será Grant en Utopia.

Marquise C. Brown será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Strange Angel. Será Betty, cantante de jazz en los años 40 que busca amor y libertad en la secta de Parsons (Jack Reynor).

Ashley Nicole Williams se une a Motherland: Fort Salem. Será Abigail Bellweather, una bruja encantada de entrar en el ejército.

Pósters

       Nuevas series

Netflix encarga ocho episodios de The Gift, su segunda serie turca, sobre una joven artista de Estambul (Beren Saat, Fatmagul) cuya vida cambia cuando conoce a un arqueólogo que descubre secretos de su pasado en un templo antiguo. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada.

BBC encarga seis episodios de Life, drama sobre un edificio de apartamentos en Manchester que explora qué ocurre cuando los residentes abandonan su propio espacio personal y se fijan en la vida de otras personas para conectar, cuidar, amar y cambiar. Escrita por Mike Bartlett (Doctor Foster, Trauma).

Amazon ha encargado ocho episodios de El Presidente, inspirada en el escándalo de corrupción de la FIFA en 2015. Se centra en Jadue (Andrés Parra; Pablo Escobar: El patrón del mal, Sitiados), el presidente de un pequeño equipo chileno que se convierte en pieza clave de la conspiración de Julio Grondona. Dirigida por Armando Bó, guionista de Birdman. Protagonizada también por Karla Souza (How to Get Away with Murder) y Paulina Gaitán (Diablo Guardián). Producida por Pablo Larraín (El Club, Una mujer fantástica).

History desarrolla The Tenderloin, drama policial ambientado en Nueva York a principios del siglo XX y centrado en Charles Becker, policía corrupto que acabó siendo el primer y único oficial condenado a muerte por asesinato. Producida y dirigida por Sylvester Stallone (Rambo, Rocky).

Paramount desarrolla una adaptación de Is There Still Sex and the City, próxima novela de Candace Bushnell, escritora de la saga Sex and the City. La serie, al igual que el libro, no es una continuación directa de la original, sino que retrata las citas de otras personas de mediana edad del Upper East Side de Manhattan.

Fechas

La cuarta y última temporada de The Durrells se estrena en ITV el 7 de abril

Don't Forget the Driver se estrena en BBC Two el 9 de abril

La segunda temporada de Lee & Dean se estrena en Channel 4 el 11 de abril

La segunda temporada de The Protector llega a Netflix el 26 de abril

Chambers llega a Netflix el 26 de abril

State of the Union se estrena en SundanceTV el 6 de mayo

La tercera y última temporada de Easy llega a Netflix el 10 de mayo

La sexta temporada de Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. se estrena en ABC el 10 de mayo

Blood & Treasure se estrena en CBS el 21 de mayo

La segunda temporada de Vida llega a Starz el 23 de mayo

La séptima y última temporada de Elementary se estrena en CBS el 23 de mayo

La cuarta temporada de Animal Kingdom se estrena en TNT el 28 de mayo

Swamp Thing se estrena en DC Universe el 31 de mayo

La quinta temporada de Fear The Walking Dead se estrena en AMC el 2 de junio

NOS4A2 se estrena en AMC el 2 de junio

La segunda parte de la segunda temporada de Grown-ish se estrena en Freeform el 5 de junio

La segunda temporada de Instinct se estrena en CBS el 16 de junio

La segunda temporada de Good Trouble se estrena en Freeform el 18 de junio

La segunda parte de la segunda temporada de Siren se estrena en Freeform el 11 de julio

Tráilers y promos

Special

The Victim

Animal Kingdom - Temporada 4

Chimerica

Archer - Temporada 10

The 100 - Temporada 6

Chernobyl

Euphoria

Pennyworth

The Protector - Temporada 2

Ghosts