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"ZIWE" (2022) - Season 2, ep. 06

DREAMWORKS TROLLS: SUPER UNPOPULAR AND CONTROVERSIAL OPINION!!!

DreamWorks Trolls Opinion #1:

Branch's dynamic with Cloud Guy could have been great, if not for how they severely mishandled it for the sake of making Branch the punchline in the show.

Now hear me out!

Cloud Guy is an absolute menace to Branch who loves to prank and humiliate him, but in the end somehow makes Branch overcome something. This is putting a very toxic relationship on screen and making it seem like it's fine when it 100% is not. Now, I've never been a fan of Cloud Guy, but I do know the turning point of where Cloud Guy went from being a character that mildly annoyed me to a character I genuinely hate, and that was Apple Of My Ire. To understand this, let me give you a rundown of my feelings every time Cloud Guy is in an episode.

Laugh Out Cloud: This wasn't too terrible, seeing as how Branch was sort of intense in that episode, but that whole flood thing was really unnecessary.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Hugs: This was just funny. Only thing was Keith in the end. I love Keith, but Branch worked really hard, and Cloud Guy may have been the most annoying wingman ever, but he still got the job done. Although, he really needs to not break into Branch's house and respect his personal space.

Rainbowmageddon: This was just Cloud Guy unnecessarily humiliating and undermining Branch, but honestly I'm more upset with the Trolls because THEY'RE the ones the rainbow is affecting the most, and they're the ones who aren't taking anything seriously. Also, they were fine with just leaving Branch up there? Laugh Out Cloud was fine because I do think Branch was way too uptight about the drought, but here he was rightfully worried about the rainbow, and Cloud Guy and the gang were just goofing off. What's worst was the whole deathbed confession that proved unnecessary. In Laugh Out Cloud, it wasn't exactly a deathbed confession (and it would have been way better if Cloud Guy wasn't faking being scared) and Branch really didn't suffer all that much over it. But here, that was just mean. But honestly, it was the Trolls (Snack Pack in particular) that were the most frustrating.

Two's A Cloud: Now, this episode had potential. It was SUPREMELY irritating when Cloud Guy just moved in. It was also equally horrible when he was being an inconsiderate roommate, purposeful or not IDK but IDC. But them working together to get Cloud Guy's parents to leave was great. And even if Cloud Guy decided to ultimately not move in the bunker, it was still a pretty sweet episode. The Trolls just randomly bursting in his home, though, was awful.

Apple Of My Ire: This episode had me just screaming, and not in the good way. I don't know what in the world Poppy was thinking in finding someone new for Cloud Guy to harass, when she should’ve talked to him about reevaluating and changing their dynamic into something better. You know, something more healthy, or borderline brotherly. Because Branch is so little brother coded, and Cloud Guy honestly seems like a guy who would definitely mess with his siblings out of love. Not to mention, the last time they interacted was to team up to fend off Cloud Guy's parents. That's basically a brotherhood right there! But no. This episode ruined it. Because Branch was emotionally growing, and Cloud Guy pulled him right back to his old ways. And Poppy did NOTHING!!! What's worse is that the other Trolls were also in on this! Like why??? Do Trolls not understand harassment? They have a holiday dedicated to pranking one another, but constantly being bombarded by pranks seems like that would be terrible. Like, in Prank Day, POPPY was getting fed up with the pranks. And sure, she may have planned the prank she pulled on Branch, but she really wasn't taking being pranked constantly well, so why would she be okay subjecting anyone else to that treatment on a day that isn't a day dedicated to pranks? Better yet, if she cared so much about finding Cloud Guy a troll he could annoy, why didn't she volunteer herself? There have been multiple instances where Poppy has proven to be just as temperamental and easy to annoy as Branch, so why couldn't she be that Troll? She already had some practice when she was trying to help DJ with wrangling CJ's wooferbug. But what really took the cake was when Cloud Guy just openly admitted to planting a tracker INSIDE Branch, and no one did anything. Also, was that bit really necessary? When has Cloud Guy ever had to use the tracker? Rainbowmageddon aside, he always first interacts with Branch near or in his bunker. This episode turned their dynamic from frienemies-that-can-be-potential-brothers who annoy each other, to outright bully-victim where the victim gets shamed constantly for defending themselves. This episode made me hate Cloud Guy, and gave me such an ick, I can't even watch any of the previous episodes with Cloud Guy in them without feeling rage.

I have not seen Trollstopia. I do not have access to it. But I have seen people discuss the show online. More specifically, they discuss the episode Cloud Control. And what they discuss... I thought Apple Of My Ire was bad, this episode was infinitely worse, and I haven't even seen it yet.

The takeaway here is Branch's and Cloud Guy's dynamic had so much potential, but then Apple Of My Ire came along and every episode with Cloud Guy after that just cemented Cloud Guy as an antagonistic bully who gets away with it due to victim blaming and finding ways to make it seem that he was "helping" his victims all along, as well as a large dose of full on guilt tripping.

It all comes down to DreamWorks and their love of making Branch the punchline to everything. Even his trauma isn't taken seriously, as evidenced by Trolls: Band Together. Branch deserves better. Cloud Guy's character arc was brutally murdered so I guess he deserves better, too. Poppy and the Trolls need more character development and a crash course in healthy character dynamics. And DreamWorks needs to stop making Branch needlessly suffer for the sake of a joke.

[taps microphone and gets in way too close] I actually like S17+ Project Runway more than S1-10.

(S11-15 is... decent. But imo saying that the Siriano seasons are worse than 1-10 is just the nostalgia talking lmao.)

please don't argue with me I'm just here to complain about Popular Opinions I Disagree With

Shining Vale (2022-) | Season 2, Episode 5, Chapter 13 – The Miracle

Classic Meegan #keyandpeele #comedy #funny #comedycentral #jordanpeele #keeganmichaelkey

This is random but thinking about Veronica Wasboiski from Boy Meets World. You were more than a random alias for a school newspaper

at the robin hood themed drag show: come on, girls! make like a friar and tuck!

Alan’s whole thing being leaving—he always leaves first, it makes him feel safe to know he doesn’t have to be tied down. There’s a risk that the better people know him, the less they’ll like him. The less he’ll like himself. So when he becomes someone he doesn’t like anymore, he can walk out of any job or room or relationship and start over fresh somewhere else, as someone new.

He knows all of those bonds are temporary in some way—he also knows having a child wouldn’t be. That’s why he freaks out when Gloria asks him to have a baby with her (and has an affair behind her back, as far as I can remember that’s the only time we see Alan being unfaithful in a relationship? It’s pathetic and mean in a way that doesn’t suit him… but I digress—). He says all the men in his family were bad fathers, getting worse with each generation—which means his father was the worst, and he fears he’d be next.

Alan tells Gloria he’s always been able to leave—to stop loving the people he once loved; he sees transience as part of who he is—but with a child, he would try his hardest to stay. Unable to walk out, he’s worried he’d become trapped as someone he doesn’t like. “With each ensuing day, I would become less and less myself.”

That’s part of his tragedy: Alan does like himself, but he’s never stayed in one place long enough to be fully known. His first thought is that if he does stick around, he (and others) will discover that he really is a bad person—like his father, or worse. To be loved, he thinks, will make him less Alan Shore.

That being temporary is his natural state, and staying is antithesis to who he is—maybe the permanency of family will strip him of his identity, or he doesn’t deserve the unconditional love that comes with it. He just can’t fathom it working for him—after all, it didn’t as a child.

He’s so worried about feeling trapped and resentful, of being like the other men in his family, he doesn’t even allow himself the possibility that he would be a loving, present, good father. “I would become less and less myself,” he says, totally oblivious to his own compassion, kindness, the tenderness he’s displayed for years—especially for children, over and over again. He doesn’t know he could become more himself—that Alan Shore is already a good friend and lawyer and partner and person and he could be a good father, too. That he can stay, he doesn’t have to stop loving, ever, and it would be okay.

[after everything that happened during the kraken era (both the amputation and how Ed treated him equally), Izzy develops C-PTSD. He avoids thinking about it other than blaming himself for losing his leg (and negative self-image in general), he is drinking too much, he has nightmares he startles easily, and most of all he tries so much to pretend that it wasn't Ed that did it, because he loves him so much, still, and he was the one to push Ed into that 'darkness' and they've spent years together and it was good. that is probably going to be present in post kraken threads. whether Izzy stays with Ed (not as a couple necessary, as a partner/first mate/friend) could depend on your muse tbh!

and of course, if you are not comfortable with this, let me know and we will avoid that topic!]

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I wish Vic had not just been considered but actually been cast in the role of Aurick Goldfinger in James Bond. Not because it is a character I would particularly have liked to see his take on but because I would have liked to see him in this little athleisure outfit

Having seen Sweeney Todd again for the longest time, I gotta say it’s impossible not to notice how inspired Wildhorn & co. were by it when they were first writing Jekyll & Hyde.

Where the two differ, though, is that the humour in Sweeney Todd is 100% intentional and meant to balance out the darkness, whereas whatever humour you manage to find in J&H is, sadly, mostly unintentional.