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lemonsourcrisis · 9 months

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Heartstopper — Tao & Elle "Then the third kiss was, like, amazing."

#lemongifs #heartstopper #heartstopper 2 #heartstopper season 2 #english tv show #dailynetflix #william gao #yasmin finney #tao xu #elle argent #heartstopper netflix #netflix heartstopper #heartstopper tao #heartstopper elle #elle x tao #tao x elle #I'm honestly so happy to see them develop more in s2!!!#heartstopper spoilers

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cowboylikebee · 4 months

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watching book adaptations and realizing you've been pronouncing something wrong this whole time is so humbling

#esp if english isn't your first language #idk what i thought it was but it definitely wasn't “coriolanus” in my head #so is it minotaur of minotaur??#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #coriolanus snow #the hunger games #lucy gray baird #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #books #movies #films #book adaptation #reading #percy jackon #percy jackson show #pjo tv show #rick riordan

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midnightcerealblog · 4 months

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I LOVE adaptations like what do you mean that the stories we love and value can adapt, change, and grow with us??? Like how is it possible that we can continuously reinvent and shed light on new perspectives and ideas through a previously established canon??? Adaptations are how we keep stories alive and relevant in an ever changing world and if nothing is new under the sun then why shouldn’t we find meaning and pleasure in the old???

#literature #classic literature #english major #books & libraries #jane austen #pjo tv show #percy jackson #william shakespere #shakespeare #much ado about nothing #pride and prejudice

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lynx-224 · 3 months

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men don’t think abt the roman empire as much as i think abt percy jackson

#let it be known #i have such bad hyperfixation #i was doing my english hw and my annotations were all pjo references #i can’t eat breathe sleep without thinking of percy #it’s a problem tbh #percy jackson #pjo tv show #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #lynx talks

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thethiefandtheairbender · 1 month

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I think the biggest difference for me between projects (like to be clear I think NATLA is not good as an adaptation or a show, and I think the PJO tv show works as an adaptation and a show) is something that feels so basic, but shocked me when it clicked, which is that

NATLA has no actual visual storytelling going on

Which sounds ridiculous, but let me explain what I mean. "Visual storytelling" is how you communicate aspects of character or relationship through visual framing, parallels, that kind of thing, usually to indicate progression or a character's viewpoint. Many people have noticed that NATLA's cinematography leaves much to be desired, there are some shots that are good particularly in episode 6 (the Zuko transition shots between past and present, and one of the ending shots between him and Aang) but that's by and large the exception.

What I mean when I say "visual storytelling" is that NATLA doesn't have visual motifs. It doesn't really have parallels happening that much in the text or in the visuals. And this is something that ATLA did really, really well, all the time, particularly with Zuko's scar. Just take this framing of Zuko and Aang, in particular, from The Storm and The Blue Spirit.

They even have consistent colour tones of Aang having a warmer, lighter yellow (Air Nomad) and Zuko having a darker, deeper red (Fire Nation).

And this is something I think Percy Jackson does pretty well. They have consistent motifs / descriptions if it were, particularly when it comes to Percy and Annabeth's relationship and her character.

Percy: [Choosing Annabeth] And if the mission required someone to push me down a flight of stairs for it to succeed, you want someone who won't hesitate when they do it.

Percy: [literally pushes her down the stairs but to save her life]

Ares: You're new to the family, young one, so let me fill you in on how we work. [...] Olympians fight. We betray. We backstab. We will push anyone down a flight of stairs to get ahead. Annabeth: This isn't the Arch, Seaweed Brain. You're not pushing me into the stairwell aagain. Percy: Yes I am! [...] It's why you're here. When I was choosing my team, I told Chiron I needed someone who wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice me if the quest required it. He agreed. That was you. [...] You're better at this than me. You just are.

Annabeth: [Refusing to get back in Athena's good graces] It isn't how it should be! It isn't. Eat or be eaten [referencing the Kronos story Ares said earlier]. Power and glory and nothing else matters. Ares is that way. Zeus is that way. My mother is that way. He isn't that way. He's better than that. Maybe I was that way once. But I don't wanna be that way anymore. I won't be like all of you. I just won't.

But we also see this visually.

And to be clear I think it's well done, I'm not saying this kind of thing is a Masterpiece™ but what I am saying is that if you do these things, it's a great way to convey information to your audience visually and a sense of progress both in individual characterization and relationship development. And it just makes sense to lean on things visually if you're a visual medium, because prose can't do framing like this to the same degree.

And NATLA just... never does it. There's almost no real parallels, there's very little framing happening, and the even more intense overload of exposition does not help matters in this way either. The original series had a lot of parallels steadily built up (i.e. Aang's presence in the SWT and Sokka's plotline in Jet -- hell, even some of the lines he gets at Roku's Fire Sage temple -- were to show how Sokka was moving away from a more xenophobic worldview even if it was still a work in progress). There were also more overt ones, such as Sokka dressing himself for battle versus Zuko having guards/servants do it for him, but both ultimately tether the two together into having to put on a performance of confidence, manhood, and war more so than being the children they actually are.

And NATLA just has... no real visual parallels. The closest we get is the parallels between Sokka-Yue, Tui and La, and Kataang in the finale, but that's about it.

There's not a lot of scenes where a character is presented the chance to make a similar choice only to then make a different one. Even Aang wanting to go to the NWT to make a difference is muted because he never actually ran away in the first place; when you rip away character flaws or mistakes, you also gut their room for growth. When you strip away visual storytelling, it means that what you see on screen is a 1:1 of exactly what you're getting, and that is just a lot more Boring to watch as well as gutting your chances to show more character exposition. And it's just - it's just not good

#natla critical #natla #pjo tv show #the one that kills me the most is when hahn is like 'you have something the rest of us don't [in fighting the FN]: experience'#and it's like. sokka has not fought zuko or barely any firebenders since the pilot #the only other time his fighting skills got developed was with suki. also at the beginning #he has not done basically anything since then warrior wise. nvm with the fire nation directly #analysis series #analysis #sincerely a very tired nb english major #pjo

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cinematic-literature · 10 months

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L'amica geniale S03E07 (Ancora tu)

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Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert

Anna Karenina (1877) by Lev Tolstoj

Moll Flanders (1722) by Daniel Defoe

#l'amica geniale season 3 #books in tv shows #english literature #french literature #russian literature #my brilliant friend #my brilliant friend season 3 #l'amica geniale #ancora tu #moll flanders #daniel defoe #madame bovary #gustave flaubert #anna karenina #lev tolstoj

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arojenniferwalters · 6 months

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Canon AroAces 262/?: Lilith Clawthorne (Cissy Jones) in The Owl House (2020-2023)

#ace week #lilith clawthorne #the owl house #caps from owl house wiki #nocticola art #canon aspec list #aromantic #aroace #asexual #i remembered this is a disney plus show #so i finally watched her s1 episodes #i love her and i will probs go back and watch it all #it's a very enjoyable show #idk how to manage dplus settings on tv #so i watch it with finnish dub and english subs #it works really well #karolina blom #cissy jones

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formerprincewille · 1 year

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I know people hate comparisons with yr and hs, but one thing I really appreciate about yr and what I think sets it apart from most other shows (including hs), is that none of the characters feel overly groomed or stylized. Except maybe August but that fits with his personality. All tv shows have a makeup , hair, and costume crew. A lot of thought of course goes into that. But something that is SO common in tv now are characters looking very “polished”. Even in hs, other than Darcy, it is common to see this. Hair and makeup done perfectly, outfits that are never worn more than once, etc. Young Royals isn’t like that. Outfits repeat. Hair looks natural and not overdone. The characters look like people you could see in your daily life. Like REAL people. The irony is that most of the characters in yr are rich as hell. You could actually excuse them walking around looking perfect. But you don’t see it. It’s very much a skamverse vibe. I wish more shows did this.

#young royals #this is NOT anti hs btw I love the show #but I would be lying if I said the characters don’t look like tv characters cuz they do #maybe it’s bc the show isn’t American or English but I for one really appreciate it #it really adds to the realism #yr is about the literal crown Prince of Sweden falling in love with a commoner boy #and yet it feels less like fantasy than a show about ‘regular’ high school kids

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ninacarstairss · 3 months

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honestly hearing percy utter the name kronos added ten thousand years to my lifespan because WHAT DO YOU MEAN I AM REALLY WATCHING PERCY JACKSON REALIZE THAT KRONOS IS RISING ON MY SCREEN IN 2024 HOW IS THIS EVEN REAL LIFE???

#yes it’s been a month of weekly episodes and i’m still here #it’s unreal #my mind can’t cope with the fact that we are seeing this that this is happening #like he said kronos and i got chills #he said tartarus (in a way that kinda horrified me as a non english speaker who’s always read the books in english but kept pronouncing it #wrong for years on end) and it blew my mind #he said charon and i was like FUCKING HELL WE ARE REALLY DOING THIS #it’s hitting me. hand. in the face. with a brick or two #pjo #pjo tv #pjotv #percy series #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #rick riordan #riordanverse #pjo tv show

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pherre · 3 months

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no bc most of the people i know who speak really good english learned it by growing up chronically online

#and english language tv shows also #english is the only language i've been able to brute force learn like that #which is i'm sure due to a combination of it being literally everywhere + me learning it at a formative age + getting the very basics of it #when i was very very young #half of my inner monologue is in english now. the internet is an evil beast

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lemonsourcrisis · 9 months

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Heartstopper — Tao Xu

#lemongifs #tao xu #tao xu heartstopper #heartstopper #heartstopper 2 #english tv show #dailynetflix #william gao #heartstopper netflix #heartstopper tao #netflix heartstopper

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ucannotkillmeinawaythatmatters · 16 days

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why are Eddie and buck perfect parallels?? you mean to tell me that they BOTH had women move in with them, only to kick them back out almost immediately bc of not being ready (Eddie) or cheating and not being in love (Buck)?? hello??

#911 abc #911 tv show #911 #weewoo show #evan buck buckley #eddie diaz #im an English student damnit ill look as deeply into it as i want #i am loving the buck x tommy content tho #what can i say im multifaceted #anyways that episode was crazy

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thefiresofpompeii · 13 days

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just gotta wait 16 years, hang in there 🤞🤞

#incredible just HOW meta this story is. in a bitter cynical pissed-off ‘just cancel the show already let it die’ sort of way #the giggle said … bet👀#nothing i love more than media about media. tv about how evil tv is. theatre where the characters look up into the audience and say #you’re keeping us dancing against our will for your own entertainment. let us go. it’s cinematic sado-masochism #love all the side characters. captain cook with his ‘specimen’ as an obvious doctor foil (the pith hat and RP and general #demeanour of an imperialist ‘explorer’ is a surprisingly lucid deconstruction of the #colonialist underpinnings of the explorer archetype in british media; the doctor included. he’s not a #god of ragnarok or a creepy clown; he’s a perfectly amiable english gentleman with stories to tell of his travels and tea to sip; but he’s #arguably more evil than any other side character in this serial)#jamie catches up #dw #doctor who #the greatest show in the galaxy #doctor who meta #seven #seventh doctor #sylvester mccoy #ace mcshane #sophie aldred #jamie.txt

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fiendfifofum · 17 days

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Hey I just finished Blue Eye Samurai. It is ,without a doubt, one of the best shows I have watched in recent memory. Everything from the beautiful animation, to the breathtaking art direction to the way it handles its themes of disability, gender, guilt, revenge and imperialism, to its frankly incredible, nuanced and tragic characters... it's all there folks, and it's all so SO good. I am BEGGING you to watch this show and tell me what you thought about it.

#ps I am an English major #story telling is my whole jam #when I say this one rules through and through I mean it #blue eye samurai #animation #tv shows #tv animation #discuss

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nocinovae · 10 months

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I really love the 2nd translator that Baghera uses. It’s in the corner to supplement for the language the in game translation isn’t covering. (It seems like a better translator too ;-;)

I hope more streamers start using this bc it stays on outside of QSMP too! I’d love to be able to understand more of their non-mc streams that don’t usually have the translator!!

And I don’t mean the live caption some of the QSMP streamers have added bc it’s really clunky especially on mobile :/

Also Baghs’ isn’t just a live thing and is part of the stream for both the streamer and audience so it’s up for vods too. She can switch it when everyone is in English so it translates for her too.

#qsmp #qsmp baghera #qsmp translations #qsmp captions #disabled rights #accessibility #language barrier #hard of hearing #I wish captions/translations were more popular on any streams #when there’s a lot of ppl talking it’s difficult to understand even in English #and like my mom is HOH #even tho she doesn’t watch streams and more shows or tv #common lack of captions make it so hard for her #and so she watches stuff so loud which I have noise sensitivity #so it ouchie

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hauntingyouwithpjo · 2 months

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Bitches be saying some big ass words and I’m just agreeing (trying to understand what the heck is “i seldom cahoot”)

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