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Thoughts/Background Prisoner of Azkaban

First all, let me state that without Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban that we would not have had a franchise. We would have had three movies then done. One hundred percent. This movie changed everything from the sharpness that was lacking in the first two, to the creative that stayed pretty true throughout the rest of the series. This made it less wholesome and sweet like One and Two, and channeled just everything into a solid direction that was edgy and new.

No magic outside of school. No wonder the ministry is watching his ass.

I’ve heard that this scene is supposed to represent Harry masturbating, and if that is true, then we sure have gone in a new direction.

No wonder he can’t sleep Vernon, you keep busting into his room every night.

The first two movies, I felt like Harry was rather young looking, but in this one, Harry and all of the others really grow up, and may I say, “Glowed up” as well.

Just look at the sharpness and clarity in this movie. It was filmed wwith a different camera entirely.

Marge is a bitch. I hate her guts. Umbridge is the number one villain, then her, then Voldemort.

Harry thinks he wins, and then he can spell some shit about to pop off.

And since Harry is a Gryffindor, he cannot keep his mouth shut when this horrible woman is insulting his parents.

And Harry has probably heard even at school that his mother just because of her blood wasn’t as good as anyone else, and to have that compounded when this horrible turnip comes to stay was probably way too much for him.

Dudley couldn’t care less. Petunia is very concerned that this is going to ruin her dinner.

See how Harry runs!!! He’s like, “Time to go.”

I love that we get this shot of Lily and James dancing in nearly every movie.

Try me, bitch.

Marge is floating away into the night sky. I would hate to be the person who had to fly up and get her down to be obliviated.

It looks like he is near a park, is the park that is adjacent to the one that Harry is in at the beginning of Ootp?

SIRIUS!!!!!!

Stan is amazing. He just states the obvious in the funniest of ways. If there wasn’t such an age difference with the suspected death eater activity, him and Luna would have been cute.

What does that red sign say above Stan’s head on the bus? It looks like it says, Black Pepper Impi???? I’m sure about the Black Pepper, but I’m not sure about the last or the first word.

Stan says the most iconic thing her, “Don’t you tell me that you’ve never been hearin’ of Sirius Black.” Stan’s incredulity is amazing here because every knows about Sirius. And everyone should, dang beautiful man.

Tom sure transformed for this movie.

I love that he would have a car out front. You could activate the alarm to keep Muggles who got to close to run off.

It looks like that quill is dictating what the minister is saying. He is most likely making a formal decree as he is telling Harry that everything is all well and good and he is getting off with a little slap on the wrist.

Sirius Black. This is one of the best names in literature. It is just perfect. It could be corny and ordinary but it is perfect.

I love that from the windows of the Leaky you can see both Diagon and also the Muggle world. It is a nice meeting point.

You know the shopkeeper was selling what, a hundred of these monster books, and no one thought to tell any of them how to open them without getting ripped up?

I love all the details in this movie. The guy stirring his drink with his hand, the maid here. I love it all. This movie is very detailed oriented.

The only known shot of who is probably the hottest Weasley brother, if not figuratively then definitely literally.

There is art on the walls of the Leaky, but none of them seem to be moving.

The person in the background is carring like 70 plates as they wobble above their head.

The tea is pouring itself.

Let me just tell you that perhaps you may actually get murdered this year, but no big deal, just keep your nose down. This seems to be such a British sort of thing, like keep your head down, and nothing bad will happen.

I hate those wanted posters because they look like they were taken upon intake, and Sirius has just lost everything, and the loss and angry and desperation portrayed here really messes me up. Like I know that they aren’t real people, but dang, those emotions are real.

Percy in the background here. I never noticed him before.

They all look so grown up. My gosh.

Lupin!

You can always count on Ron to tell the truth.

That bottle of water right there by Lupin’s head. I take it two ways. One, that’s legit all Lupin could probably afford on this trip. And two, it would be a good way for him to keep his face hidden, but see inside of it to see whose reflections are present so he can know who took the compartment with him. I also headcanon, that this is after a full moon night which is why he is a bit lethargic.

The reason that Harry passed out, and no others did was because the dementors were feeding off of him. They took at least three pulls from Harry, but not anyone else.

If you have any questions about whether Hogwarts curriculum is up to snuff just look at any movie. These kids should get a crash course in all the crap that could kill them immediately so that they are aware. I wonder what the accidental death rate is at Hogwarts?

The chorus!!! I know that this was an add in from the director, but I love it, and it should remain canon. I also like they copied it, though with a more nefarious sound during Half Blood Prince.

“Something wicked this way comes!”

Snape claps like three times.

Why would they seat him next to Snape in the first place? Dumbledore is a shit stirrer, and completely planned that.

Draco is a punk bitch. But at this point, you can just see that it is teasing more than anything nefarious. He’s a little bully.

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light. This is one of the most iconic quotes of the series.

Everyone is watching the Fat Lady perform. I love that they brought her to life more, but kept that sassy attitude.

This scene is pure gold. It brought a lot of needed MAGIC to this movie about magic.

I love that Hogwarts is this super prestigious campus with bridges and fountains.

The way that the Womping Wilow is used to portray time is amazing.

She has all of the tea cups stacked behind her. Are those from an earlier class that need to be washed?

This whole film was shot using VIVID from Iphone.

Everyone behind her just leans into see what new stuff Harry Potter is going to get up to this year.

Ron, get some glasses, that clearly looks like a fucking dog. Dang.

Ron is keeping track of his girl. It took them too long to get together.

I don’t care what anyone says about Hagrid as a teacher this lesson was amazing.

Some things are just so second nature to Hagrid. It is proof that different types of intelligence are ral.

When your friends are that choreographed to mock your enemies, like that is some commitment. I stan the Slytherins a bit for this.

In the books, Harry actually steps up for Hagrid instead of being volunteered by everyone else.

Drapple, part one.

That girl behind Ron and Hermione looks to be about twenty seven years old. Someone got into Hogwarts from this reality, and I am pissed that it wasn’t me.

Just the scope and grandeur of Hogwarts, and the grounds really just gets me.

Malfoy is such a whiner. But I assume that he isn’t quite used to pain, any pain really.

The ghosts, also, in this movie are way more dynamic then the ghosts in the previous films.

You really get a sense, a subtle one, of blossoming emotions between members of the opposite sex.

I never noticed that there are hands holding Sirius for this mug shot. It looks to be at least two people that are physically restraining him for this shot.

Lupin calls on Neville of all people, and I am obsessed with him forever because of this. It is popular fanon that the Marauders knew Frank and Alice. It would make sense that Lupin had heard something about Neville from the rest of the teachers, and decided to help bolster this child of his friends.

That image is seared into Neville’s mind.

Can a boggart touch people? I made a headcanon about that, but it would be nice to see what you all think.

I would have really liked to have sseen Hermione’s boggart. I know that the boggart scene in Fantastic Beasts left a few people underwhelmed, but I wonder if Hermione��s would have been just as tame.

McGonagall is authoritative. The perfect teacher balance.

I wonder how hard it was for Remus to stand on this bridge with Harry. I wonder what instance he is talking about here. Lily was there for him when no one else was? When? What instance? This is why we need more information about the Marauders era, and why I did a thing. If you want the thing, message me.

Is it weird that I’m a bit thirsty for head boy Percy’s voice?

She said the same thing to Sirius when he was a student. “Eyes like the devil.” But she probably didn’t mind as much then. We all know Sirius is smoking hot. Have you seen that Tumblr posts where Harry Potter series is ranked based on how attractive Sirius is described?

This might be the most beautiful that the ceiling of the Great Hall gets.

Snape knows how to assert dominance even as a substitute.

That projector is amazing looking.

I love that their school books in DADA are separated by creatures who sleep at night verses the day.

Malfoy isn’t even using that sling.

Hogwart’s professors do not give extra time on assignments okay, unless you are litearlly dead. If Harry had rolled up in there as a ghost, Snape would still be like, “Where is my essay?”

Is that supposed to be Cedric?

Why is Harry actually seeing the Grim though? Who is sending him these signs? How? Why?

That was a long way to fall.

We only see Dumbledore use his wand on a handful of occasions. Harry, the boy who will save them all, is literally falling out of the sky, and he still doesn’t use it.

You can see the Hufflepuffs in the background. I wonder who they were visiting. Madam Pomfrey probably can’t go one match without having a room full of patients afterward.

Fred Weasley looking fine.

The music here is amazing and soothing.

I imagine that kids swim out to that little island all the time during the warmer months.

Another reason Harry is not in Ravenclaw: It took him at least three Hogsmeade weekends to figure out that he could use his cloak to get there unseen.

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs = My boys

I love when Fred and George speak in unison.

It looks like they make their own candy at the bottom of the shop.

Harry just took Neville’s lollipop though he can’t eat it as he walks down the street because it is on the outside of the cloak.

Hermione who grew up in the Muggle world instantly knows that it is Harry. Ron, who grew up in the wizarding world legit thought that it could have been ghosts from the Shrieking Shack.

Harry is someone who values loyalty above all else. It is why he eventually stands up for Neville and Luna because they were there for him at one point in time. To know that Sirius, the person who was his father’s best friend betrayed him is something that would have made Harry feel physically ill. It would be something that he wouldn’t entirely be able to process, and as a teenage boy, his feelings resulted in this show of anger and frustration.

Everything in this movie is visually stunning, and really sets the tone for the other films.

I wonder what Remus is thinking about in this situation. Is he wondering just why Harry doesn’t have many memories that he can draw on? Is he wondering what his life has been like? What his life would have been like if Lily and James had lived and thinking that he would have had all the happy memories in the world if they had?

You can see the instruments tracking the heavenly patterns.

So, does a Boggart take on all of the traits that the creature it is mimicking? If it takes the shape of a lethifold can it kill you? If it takes the shape of a dementor can it suck out your soul for real? What are the limitations?

And a train set? Does Remus have a thing for trains?

I wish that we would have got some more emotion here from Remus. Harry is giving all of himself here, and Remus is just quietly taking it all in.

Crookshanks in the house.

I love Hagrid’s outfit here.

Best Ron/Harry interaction. You kick those tape dance wearing spiders arses, Ronald Weasley.

In the previous two films we have those lights that blaze with fire like motion activated flames, but this hallway is dark and dank for dramatic effect.

At this point, Harry doesn’t believe in the maps infallibility so it would make sense that he doesn’t really go to anyone and explain what he say on the map. Also, how would he know that someone wouldn’t take it from him? He would have seen this as his only way to get to Hogsmeade with his friends, and he wouldn’t have wanted to give that up for anything.

The Marauders were some of the most intelligent students that have ever walked the halls of Hogwarts. They charmed this piece of parchment in what fifth year? They mapped almost the entire school, found several secret passageways, and helped out their friend in one of the most epic ways possible. I love them. (Peter found most of the passageways in his animagus form)

Read: Charming James Potter was one charming mother f-er. BET.

One of the only times Harry was pleased to read in front of a teacher.

Lupin to the rescue.

Snape is not subtle. It’s no wonder Hermione figured it out. Legit half of the Slytherins know, but they are so tired of having subpar defense teachers that they just go on with their business as usual.

I really wanted to see some more emotion on Lupin’s face. I want to see some subtly in the way that he looks at Harry or the way that he plays a scene. I want to see some longing for his lost friends or his friends son. I wanted to see more. I love this character, but I think it could have had more nuance.

Even the amazement at hearing Peter’s name is sort of dulled here. Idk.

Hermione is one hundred percent the person who cheats at board games, and who wrecked the board when she lost as a little girl. Only child syndrome.

This is the most visually pleasing classroom. You can see Sirius’ face in the crystal ball.

And does Harry tell anyone about this prophecy? Nope. No. Not anyone important.

Draco is instantly afraid because he knows that Hermione is a bad bitch. Also, he might be terrified because he knows how easy it is for people to lose control of their wands.

The Stonehenge like structures here are so interesting to me. They reach to the Heavens, they are in a circular pattern. If you’ll notice in movie 5, the chamber that the trial is in looks like it was built on top of an older chamber. It just makes everything feel as if the new is breeding from these old ancestral power lines or something of that nature, and I just love that idea.

Hagrid is the most responsible adult in this movie. Dumbledore and McGonagall are like, “Yeah, go ahead and meddle with time, no worries.” Hagrid is like, “Don’t worry about me and my feelings about Buckbeak, just get out of here, and be safe heading back to the castle.”

You have to think that even though Sirius spent 12 years in Azkaban that Peter’s time as a rat was never really all that perfect either. Being covered in bugs, constantly on the floor, people don’t really care for you, people who forget to feed you, 7 children all wanting your attention and pulling at you being the only pet that can’t fly in a house full of kids.

I always thought that was a very distinctive stone for Hermione to find and throw.

The time loop here always confused me.

The most awkward hug ever captured on film…no, wait....lol

When you are as blind as Harry James and I, losing your glasses means that you can’t see shit. You can’t see anything but swatches of color.

The Womping Willow has not forgotten that Harry and Ron threw a car into her. And she ain’t going to forget anytime soon.

“If you want to kill Harry, you’ll have to kill us too.” Loyalty, my friends. Absolutely crazy, we’re going to get sliced up by an escaped criminal loyalty, but loyalty none the less.

Sirius has spent twelve years in Azkaban, but is still a ten. I just read that Buzzfeed list about which HP characters had the most BDE, and I was not surprised to see Sirius Black on the list. Also, Professor McGonagall, who honestly should have held the top spot.

Lupin flirting from the word, “Go.”

Lupin has dealt with manic Sirius before. Several times.

“I did my waiting twelve years of it… in Azkaban!!!” Is one of the most iconic lines ever.

I had not yet read the books when this movie came out, and I remember be literally so surprised. “The rat is a man?? WTF?”

Snape, here, believes up to this point that Sirius is the reason that Voldemort was able to find Lily in the first place. He believes that Sirius is the reason that the only person Snape ever really cared about is dead. If Snape was a Gryffindor he would have went for the immediate gratification of AK’ing Sirius, but instead, Snape is a true Slytherin and that means that he is vicious, he wants to make sure the revenge is as bad as it can be. In that vein, he wants to let the dementors suck out Sirius’ soul. He wants Sirius to feel like he has felt all the years, like a body with no soul. Lifeless. Death, Snape would think, would be too easy for someone who had taken so much away from him.

Remus is like, “Okay, no, no negotiating or touching Severus at all, gotcha.”

Sirius is goading Snape even at wand point. You want to think that this is the Black family madness or Azkaban insanity, but it is just Sirius being a cocky bastard, overestimating himself and underestimating his opponents.

Sirius and Remus argued like this all the time. Snape gets the old married couple vibe, and honestly, me too.

This is how the Marauders argued. All standing, pacing the room is various shades of annoyance with one another, wishing the other would shut up, shouting “reason”, casting spells, Peter crawling under furniture to avoid said spells, aggressive politeness, “We do not say, “Shut up!””

I would kill Pettigrew for the insipid voice of his.

Why would Dumbledore put a piano in the shrieking shack in the first place.

This is one place where Remus shows some nuance. He wants to kill Peter, intensely. He only stalls and reluctantly at that, because Harry says something.

Sirius looking at the castle and saying that one day he wishes that one day he could walk inside as a free man fucks me up. Hogwarts to Sirius must represent the reverse of everything that Azkaban did. The two places that Sirius spent most of his life. The happiest and the unhappiest memories that he has. The place where he had his friends and then the place where he only had their memories.

I hate this. They all just gradually glance at the moon like something has gone wrong. Like they are calling attention to some fun little oddity.

I wonder how many times Sirius tried to talk to Remus in the form of a wolf. Did he really think that it was possible to call back Remus from the wolf? Had they tried that before? Did it work?

Snape still tries to protect the kids even after they stunned him. Snape has a pathological fear of werewolves, and yet, he stands in its way.

I feel like if Remus was honest with everyone, Dumbledore and Harry that he could have told Harry that meeting up with Sirius and James and Peter in their animagus form while he was the wolf and that they kept him from hurting people would have given Harry more confidence in Sirius’ ability to handle Remus and he wouldn’t have run off with him in the first place. Sirius might never have gotten caught. They all might have made it back to the castle. I don’t know. Honesty is the best policy.

What is that little ball of light that floats out and then in of Harry’s mouth? What is that? Is that supposed to represent his soul? Because Sirius’s soul would be blazing red, yellow, and orange.

The way Dumbledore says, “Scabbers”, like he legit thinks that Ron’s rat could have had a hand in the trouble.

Me and Ron are the same. Dumbledore is just so cheery about the prospect of these two kids going back in time to SAVE LIVES. They aren’t going to the store to get milk, Dumbledore, this is serious business.

Buckbeak is living his best life.

Harry really wants to believe that his dad conjured this Patronus. He has just seen Sirius who isn’t a mass murderer at all, but someone who loves him intensely. He thinks that he is going to get away from the Dursleys. He just blasted the teacher that he hates. He has literally just gone back in time to help save his friends and catch the real bad guy. I mean, why wouldn’t he even consider the possibility that his dad could have somehow cast the Patronus? For Harry, it would seem at least possible if not probable.

I hate when Harry says, “He will come.” Harry is someone who has always only been able to depend upon himself, but in this moment, he thinks that he can depend on someone else to come to his rescue. I know that he finds his own empowerment here, and is able to cast a super strong charm to help get himself and Sirius out of trouble, but he, once again, had to stand up and take care of things himself.

The explanation that he gives on how he casts the patronus doesn’t make sense to me either, Hermione, don’t worry. Time loops are tricky business.

Sirius is down for this ride. Don’t tell me he never played Quidditch. I will fight you. He mocked James for it at first, but then was just as fanatical.

The way that Sirius holds Harry’s face just messes me up. It is like he is trying to memorize every detail in his face.

Remus moved so many small personal objects into this office. It gives you the feel that he really thought that he might be able to stay, and I hate that he was forced out. He is using a cane the night after the full because it was so rough.

The twins are beautiful mischief makers and I love them. I wish we had more of them in these films, but they are sprinkled in wonderfully.

Even Percy has to see this broom in action.

This was the best end for this film because while Harry didn’t get freedom from the Dursley’s he did get some fun which is what godfather’s are for, right?

The art for this film is out of its mind. It is creative and wonderful, and really takes you inside of the theme for this movie. I love it, and even the credits draw you further in to this universe. This is one film that makes all the others better just because it exists.

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violetosprey · 6 years

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TDDUP My thoughts on Ellen

Doing one of these for each of the 5 stars in TDDUP (yes, even the ladies). This is incredibly subjective, so I decided not to call this a review. Rant sounds too negative to me, it’s more a mix of gushing and analysis here. Anyways, MAJOR SPOILERS ahead because I may talk about stuff not revealed until the very end of a play through. In fact I’m probably going to talk in a way that just assumes the person reading this has completed TDDUP. Kinda like, “Oh I won’t give the whole story of this scene because you know what I’m talking about.” Now for the final character, Ellen!

This may end up being a long post again. Depends on if more thoughts start coming as I write. Ellen makes me think :P

But before I get into anything here, I need to point out that Ellen is actually not owned by ElectricPuke, but instead by rotworld. I believe Puke did the coding, backgrounds, sprites, cgs, and I think picked the music if I’m not mistaken (and it’s one of my favorite soundtracks in TDDUP). So I thank him for that, but otherwise the character herself and the script was crafted by rotworld. So they’re the ones I’m really going to be thanking here for this character (Puke got enough love in the last posts anyway, haha).

Ellen pretty much went from being the character I thought I was just going to skim over in TDDUP, to being one of my absolute favorites. In fact, I’d say out of all the TDDUP cast, she’s the one who’s the most complex. When you look at the characters, you can pretty sum up their personalities right away and say what’s wrong with them:

Chris: Good husband who finally snaps under years of abuse.

Jack: Sociopathic killer and necrophiliac (who still loves you)

Marcus: Good cop with a really really bad case of obsessive love

Aria: Sister-in-law with a brother complex who has it out for you

Ellen: An intelligent college student who’s taken an interest in someone she should probably be keeping her distance from…

Yeah when I look at all of them, I feel like the ones with the most layers are Jack and Ellen. Jack’s complex because he’s a serial killer with a weird sex fetish who…still does not want to murder his wife (even though he’s likely a sociopath). Ellen is complex because she’s an otherwise “normal” college school student who knows Jack’s a serial killer and instead wants to get closer to him. You play through Ellen’s route and it’s pretty easy to get an idea of her character, quirks, and thinking. We learn a whole lot about her, but at the same time there’s also a lot of things we still don’t understand about Ellen.

Let’s start with what we know: Ellen is a college student studying at the university Jack works at. Jack is one of her professors and admires his intelligence and strict way of teaching. She’s an intelligent young woman who speaks in a polite and proper manner. She’s aware Jack is married. She mostly shows Jack respect, but there are small hints of slight romantic feelings towards Jack. I believe she does state that she’s inexperienced in physical relationships, but she does show an interest in them. She is curious what it would be like to have sex with Jack.

Ellen has somehow found out that not only has Jack been murdering people, but he has been having sex with their corpses. This appears to be something that, while she logically concludes to be unusual, intrigues her instead of repels her. She shows a desire to want to participate in Jack’s “work.” She even admits to Jack that she knows what he’s doing in an attempt to pressure him to let her participate. Based on the actions in her route, she even shows that she has considered the thought of actively participating in killing people and defiling their corpses if Jack wishes. She does not appear to have any actual experience killing a human being though (I think). She also does not believe herself to be a sadist, but will go as far as to cause harm to others when she is feeling stressed herself in order to calm down (even pretending she’s done nothing wrong in the process).

Ellen doesn’t actually appear to have any malice towards Jack’s spouse. She only gets antagonistic if the MC becomes too mean/defiant or a “bad dog.” She kidnaps the MC with the intent to learn more about Jack and the MC’s relationship with Jack. Ellen shows that she has this very strange habit of… referring to you as her dog (yet acknowledges that you can speak, and that you are, again, married to Jack). Unlike Aria, Ellen’s endings vary widely.

I know I say in the beginnings of these posts that I wasn’t really going to elaborate on every scene in the path, but with Ellen I HAD to write down everything I knew I about her. That’s three paragraphs worth there of trying to piece together Ellen’s character, behavior, and motives. Like I said, we learn a ton about Ellen, but there’s also a lot left unanswered. Where to start…

First off, we know that while Ellen appears sane, there’s something not right about that girl. The whole “catharsis through other’s pain” is either her being in denial that she is actually a sadist, or she really does only cause harm to others at times of stress. Regardless, the things she does (putting glass in your food or a cricket in your ear) are too creative and bizarre for a “normal” person. As for the dog thing, the more I think about it, the stranger it gets. This may be going more into personal opinion territory here because this is the one concept in Ellen’s path where I CANNOT seem to grasp her thinking.

From my viewpoint, Ellen doesn’t actually hate the MC. Heck, two of the death endings are just accidents by Ellen (you have to really tick her off or force her into a corner for a deliberate kill). Ellen isn’t even anywhere on the same level of Aria when it comes to envy (yes Aria is mostly mad because of the abuse, but there’s no denying she’s like envious of you being married to Chris too). Like I said, Ellen is for the most part polite and proper. She doesn’t appear to be doing the whole “you’re my dog” thing for any sexual fetish either. I suppose maybe it could be a form of control by humiliating you. She may just not be pointing it out and just stating more matter-o-factly that you’re her dog similar in a similar way to how she makes you believe at first you were crazy about the food being deadly. But the thing here is she did have a dog in the past, and she does seem to like dogs. So part of me wants to say that this isn’t something she’s doing out of spite, for dominance, or a sexual fetish. She...knows who you are but also wants another dog?

For once I’m actually stumped XD I’ve been able to think carefully and kind of get the actions of most of these characters, but the dog thing I can’t connect the dots. Please don’t make mistake this for me saying that this is a bad character because she makes no sense. Far from it! I think basically I just don’t know Ellen’s past, so I can’t connect the dots here very well. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s suffered some kind of abuse or trauma beforehand. And that actually makes her a lot more fun and interesting. Maybe she’s trying to connect with the MC in some strange way. She likes dogs, so she’s trying to like you right away too? I don’t know, someone else would have to give a crack at this XD But yeah I actually liked the whole dog treatment in this path because it made the story even more different from the others and did a good job at emphasizing that Ellen is not quite normal. Gives the path more of an identity.

Another thing I like about Ellen is the fact that she’s actually kind of relatable for a lot of the audience that TDDUP is targeting. No, don’t worry. I’m not saying that everyone who plays TDDUP is secretly kidnapping spouses, treating them like dogs and feeding them glass :P No it occurred to me when I was talking about Marcus and why people like yanderes. Something along the lines of “I want to be the exception in a bad boy/bad guy’s life.” I mean you want to be the person who doesn’t get hurt or even helps the person who does bad things become a better person. It’s a pretty common romantic idea. The key here is you have to pay attention to whether it’s a bad boy or a bad guy (because there’s a huge difference).

What Ellen wants, is to be that exception towards Jack. In fact, I think she believes herself capable of that because she accepts Jack despite what he does. She wants to get closer to him and volunteers to work alongside him. A lot of people who play TDDUP (and probably the BTD games) likely will want to aim for the survival endings if there are any. I’m sure there’s a lot of people like me who were wondering just how “good” a survival ending would be exactly. These games have have both survival endings that genuinely make you feel good...and ones that make you realize you were better off dead. Ellen’s like a player character aiming for a survival ending with hopefully some romance blossoming.

The funny thing is, Jack already has an exception...the MC (and apparently anyone else who’s family). If you don’t spy on Jack, we learn rather quickly that Jack had no intention of having Ellen work with him, despite any respect or sympathy he may have had for her as his student. He ultimately saw her as no different from any of his other victims. So lesson learned: Just because you think you can tame a mad man, doesn’t mean you can. Going for the bad boy is cute, going for the bad guy is dangerous.

Finally, I think what I REALLY like about Ellen most was the survival ending where she lets you go. I really wasn’t expecting an ending where you get off completely free like that. In fact both Ellen’s survival endings are probably more appealing than Aria’s one survival ending to be honest (how well Ellen treats you as a dog is debatable, but I digress). The ending where she lets you go is almost surreal. There’s no communication between the player and Ellen for the most part, no threats by Ellen to not tell anyone about this, and no declaration by the MC that you’re going to tell. In fact I’m curious if the MC WOULD tell anyone about what happened. If you did, would you inevitably have to bring up how you were told your husband is a serial killer and necrophiliac? Do you want to investigate that on your own at first? Do you believe Ellen? How will you greet a likely worried Jack when you get home? How will you sleep in the same bed as him? The MC is safe but nothing will be the same now.

I also REALLY love the CG for this ending. Looking at Ellen, you can tell she seems to have now taken an even greater interest in you than ever before. She’s almost become as obsessed with you know and she did with Jack (and you know how I feel about “obsession” if you read my Marcus post :P). You two have had a very intimate experience now (not a good one, but I mean unique really). And if the serial killer was fascinating to her, why wouldn’t the spouse who accepts said serial killer still after learning the truth be? Ellen’s probably just stumbled upon the jackpot of interesting couples. Wouldn’t really be surprised if it’s not the last you see of Ellen, and that’s actually pretty scary.

Wow yeah, Ellen’s awesome. I liked interacting with her character and seeing how unpredictable or eerily calm she’d be. That’s why I don’t know if I like Jack or her more. The killer or the one obsessed with him. They’re both not sane people, but I guess it’s more of which side is more to your tastes. They’d win for me if Marcus didn’t exist. I don’t know if rotworld’s written much more on Ellen, but I do know they’re a pretty good writer. So go check out their stories and see what other characters they have. I think Ellen gets an “A+” in character design and story for me.

That’s it! I did all 5 and it was nice to finally get all my thoughts out. Hope the I got all the typos, but I have a feeling I’ll have to comb through these again later to edit. This was fun. Hopefully more people give their opinions on these characters. I’d love to read how everyone else reacted to each one.

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gushingaboutgames · 6 years

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Favorite Game Over Screens (Part 2)

Continued from Part 1

(Spoiler Warning)

Capcom Beat-em-ups: Continue or Die!

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For most games, a Game Over implies your death. You saw your character fall for the last time, and they aren’t getting back up. They could if you have a continue, but few show the consequences of not persevering quite like Capcom’s beat-em-up games from the 80s and 90s.

Final Fight is a pioneer in this. If you lose your last life, you see your hero strapped to a chair, trying desperately to blow out the fuse on some dynamite. Choose to continue, and a knife will drop in from above and cut the fuse. Call it quits, and...well, let’s say that Metro City is probably gonna need a new mayor. Sequels in the series also have you contend with flooding chambers and crushing beds of spikes.

It wasn’t just Final Fight, either: other brawlers Capcom made had their own takes on this theme, including trying to revive Frank Castle before he flatlines in The Punisher, your mech getting shot to pieces in Armored Warriors, or being threatened at gunpoint in Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. No matter the game, Capcom was keen on motivating you to put just one more quarter into the machine.

Road Rash series: Busted and Wrecked

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The Road Rash series of motorcycle racing/fighting games is one near-and-dear to my heart, being one of the first Genesis games I played that wasn’t a Sonic game. When I first played it as a wee 4-year-old, I was terrible at it, so I quickly became familiar with its failure cutscenes.

Just from the second game alone, the many ways in which you are shown your failures makes the sting of failing to finish a race a little less painful, whether its having the EMTs abscond with your wrecked ride, or trying to hijack the paddy-wagon and getting stopped by a police cruiser only a few feet away.

The inclusion of these cutscenes is pretty impressive for early 90s Genesis games, and helped to make these failure screens memorable.

Mass Effect 2: Death by the Kirk Maneuver

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Mass Effect got a lot of negative press attention for the inclusion of sex scenes, some of which even featured people who were...dare I even say it...of the same gender! GASP! I’d clutch my pearls if I wore them to start with!

In truth, despite what Fox News would have you believe, these sex scenes were fairly tame and brief, no different than a PG-13 movie. For the purpose of this article, they were also safe. One possible romance option in the sequel, much less so.

In Mass Effect 2, one of the people you can recruit to your team is Samara, an almost millennium-old asari warrior. Shortly after she joins you, you learn that she is hunting a particular serial killer: her own daughter, Morinth, who suffers from a genetic defect wherein anyone she tries to mate with via sexy mind meld has their brains scrambled like an egg.

If you fulfill certain conditions, you can turn on Samara and have Morinth join you in her stead. Then, after you beat the final mission of the game’s story, you can consummate with Morinth, but...well...what part of “scrambled like an egg” did you not understand?

They don’t make brain trojans in space, it seems.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Bon appetit!

Final bosses don’t get much more memorable than Galactus, the planet-eating nemesis of the Fantastic 4 from Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Mostly because he was a big pain in the ass: while not nearly as cheap as bosses from SNK fighters, Galactus will make you work hard for your victory, and will make the consequences of your failure painfully obvious.

When you lose to Galactus, you’re treated to a brief cutscene of him glowering over the Earth, now red and cracked, before crushing it and feeding off of its life force. At this point, you can still continue and take another whack at the big lug, but if you decide to stop, you’ll be treated to a special ending where Galactus is eating not one, but two Earths, one for Marvel and one for Capcom.

On the other hand, if you’re playing Galactus Mode in Ultimate MvC3, this counts as a good ending!

NieR Automata: A flavor to die for.

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NieR Automata (Which I’ve already written about and described as one of the most important games I’ve ever played) has twenty-six endings, but only the first five are actual endings. The rest can technically be considered endings since you see the credits scroll (really fast and for only a second), but are more like Game Overs in function, and are earned by doing things you really ought not do, like kill plot-important characters, run from key battles, or uninstall your character’s own OS chip.

One that stands out for me is also the first one I wound up getting. At one point, you get a fish from a character named Jackass, which she says is a mackerel. She wants you to eat it, so she can see how it affects androids.

You’re not actually supposed to eat the mackerel, because they cause the fluids in an android’s body to congeal and essentially kill them in a similar manner to pufferfish for humans. This is but one of a handful of ways the game dangles out little temptations to get you to die in an embarrassing manner and end the game.

At least the mackerel was tasty.

S.O.S.: Going down with the ship

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There weren’t many games like S.O.S., but its influence helped to pave the way for games like Dead Rising, taking the player with rescuing as many people as possible in a short time limit and getting to the end alive.

A full game of S.O.S. only lasts about one hour in real-time. That how long you have to escape from a capsized and sinking ship, rescuing people you meet along the way. You don’t die from taking bad falls or hitting dangers, but you do lose time.

If you run out of time and are still conscious, you get to watch in horror as the ship finally goes under and the interior becomes flooded. No escape, no hope, all there is left for you to do is wait until you drown and are greeted by a very eerie Game Over screen.

It is haunting in its simplicity, and the feeling of helplessness you suffer as you are left to control your character in the last few minutes of their life.

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Sapphy’s Spoilerific Review

Game of Thrones: Season 7 Episode 3

As with the last two weeks, this is a review of the latest episode with spoilers, as indicated with the title. Ye have been warned.

Welcome back to As Westeros Turns, where plot lines are moving along at breakneck speed, and people are moving about the country as if thousand of miles didn’t separate certain points. Sure, it’s nice to be spared the countless and pointless hours of travel, but it’s a bit jarring nonetheless.

Anyways, Jon, who was just in the North has already made it to White Harbor, and now to Dragonstone. A slightly terse reunion between Jon and Tyrion happens, where they exchange basic insults for how they are viewed by others. Missandei requests that they turn over their weapons, and of course, Jon agrees. It makes sense, but with as small of an entourage that arrived from the North, it seems slightly foolish to walk into a dragon’s mouth with no weapons. Davos tries to make polite conversation with Missandei, and it gives us a glimpse of the Isle of Nath (which sounds quite lovely with butterflies).

As they walk the long battlement, Tyrion asks about Sansa, but then hurriedly rushes to assure Jon that the marriage was never consummated. Apparently, word has reached Tyrion on what Jon did to Littlefinger in the crypts, in addition to what happened to Ramsey. Jon distances himself from the conversation, and Tyrion talks about how bad things tend to happen to Starks that travel South. Jon replies that he’s no Stark, which is perfect timing from a drive by dragoning. In case people are still confused on who Jon’s true father is...

Varys and Mellisandre watch as the North makes it way to Dany. Varys finds it curious that she’s hiding, and she intimates that she may not be well liked by the visitors for reasons she would rather not disclose. She did what she needed to do though; she brought together Ice and Fire. (Does she get points for bringing in the name of the series?) She’s now off to Volantis, and Varys says she probably shouldn’t return to Westeros. Mellisandre says that she’ll be back. After all, they both have to die in this strange country. That’s not ominous at all.

The North entourage enters the throne room to find Dany dwarfed by the throne at Dragonstone. Missandei then lists off all 101 titles that Dany has collected, and Davos does a great job at the contrasting the two with the sparse introduction of Jon, King of the North. Dany feigns ignorance on having a good education, but then goes into the exact history lesson of how the North bent the knee to Aegon the Conqueror. Jon reminds her that his family was butchered by her father. She apologizes and asks him to not judge her by the sins of her father. She wants Jon to be her Warden in the North, and she reminds him how things could be. After all, she’s last of the Targs. Well, not really, but she doesn’t know that yet.

Jon agrees that she shouldn’t be held accountable for her father’s actions, and he shouldn’t be held to his ancestors oaths. He then starts to paint a picture about the plight of the North with the army of the Dead that is on the move. Of course, no one really believes him in that threat. Dany feels that Jon doesn’t give her the right and due respect she is owed, so she attempts to rub his nose in all the things that she has survived. Jon will have none of that still, and tells her that she will be Queen over graves. Davos steps in and tries to be the herald of Jon’s deeds, and why people choose him even though he has no true birthright (that he knows of). Davos even lets slip that Jon took a dagger to the heart for what he believed in, which earns him an unhappy look from Jon.

Jon tells Dany that he doesn’t know her. He can’t and won’t abandon her people just because she claims certain things. Dany takes his words better than I’d expect, but maybe it’s only because Varys interrupts them, whispering in her ear like he has whispered in so many others. She has Jon and Davos taken to some private rooms for a bath and supper, like they are little kids. Jon asks if they are prisoners, and she tells him not yet. Then she learns the fate of her Dornish and Ironborn allies, and how they were captured by Euron.

We get a brief cut to Theon brought aboard Ironborn ship. I’m fairly certain that these were friendly Ironborn, but we don’t know for certain. He tries to fib that he only barely got away after trying to save his sister. They tell him that he’s only alive because he didn’t try to save her. Hopefully this scene will have some eventual importance, but right now, I could deal with less Theon. Give me a reason to want to root for him again.

Euron parades Yara, Ellaria and a Sand Snake through the streets of King's Landing. (Apparently, this is the Most Beautiful Woman in the world from what I’ve read. Her hair is much different, and she’s kept her clothes on.) The people throw things at the prisoners and shout whore and other tame profanity at them before Euron leads them, horse and all, into the throne room. He hands over the Dornish prisoners to Cersei, which is to be the justice for her murdered daughter. Cersei lavishes Eurone with praise, and even says that she will give Euron his reward of choice once the war is over. As the crowd applause so their first victory, Euron taunts pod-Jaime with questions about how Cersei likes to be pleased in bed. (Psst, Jaime, let the crazy pirate guy have your sister. You’ve got better prospects North.)

Cersei, with her suddenly very pink and shiny lips, then goes to the dungeons with her new prisoners. She reminds Ellaria about the day Oberyn died and how he could have lived had he had less bravado. A truth, but let’s not rub salt in that wound. She then changes the conversation to mothers and daughters, talking about Myrcella and how much she loved her. She compares her love for Myrcella to Ellaria’s for the Most Beautiful Woman, talking about the ways she thought about killing her daughter. She finally kisses her, and everyone realizes that Cersei poisoned the girl just as Myrcella was poisoned. She then wipes off the poison lipstick (and her lips return to her normal pink and non-super-shiny luster), and drinks the antidote. She then tells Ellaria that she will watch as her daughter dies, and then rots.

And then it’s time for icky Cersei and pod-Jaime sex. I get that Jaime loves her, but it’s all icky. And not just because of the incest. She literally goes straight to Jaime after basically murdering a girl, and seduces him with no words. So she’s aroused by the death of her enemies? Again… Yuck! And she doesn’t even care if the servants gossip, as the next morning she answers the door and let’s a servant see Jaime in her bed. But she’s the Queen, so it doesn’t matter any longer. She then scurries off to speak with Iron Bank, and basically tells them that she will secure payment for the debts. She’s also lauded for being Tywin’s daughter. (Which yes, show-Cersei has glimpses of being very Tywin-esque, but that’s not how book-Cersei would be.)

Back in Dragonstone, Jon is brooding, and Tyrion starts to speak about how he can’t compare to brooding next to Jon. They bicker over who has more need, and Tyrion tells him that he’d be happy to solve his problem if Jon could solve theirs. Tyrion points out that the two rulers are actually quite similar, and he also points out that Jon is being unreasonable in his requests. He says to think smaller and maybe they can help the North.

Tyrion goes to Dany and tells her that Jon wants Dragon Glass if she can’t ride North. He makes a strong case to her about how it could be useful in helping to secure the North as an ally, and it would cost them nothing. He also spouts off some words of wisdom that Dany calls him out on, since he claims it’s ancient wisdom, but it’s really his own words. Dany asks before she leaves about the “knife to the heart statement” but Tyrion says something about flights of fancy in the North. She seems unconvinced. That doesn’t stop her from agreeing to let Jon have the dragon glass, where she talks to Jon also about her dragons. There seems to be some begrudging respect between the two monarchs too, as she sends him off to mine that glass.

Meanwhile, back in the North, Sansa is going over the stock and supply of Winterfell since she’s in charge. She feels that they don’t have enough food to feed everyone once the armies return to Winterfell. So everyone is to start sending wagons of grain to Winterfell to prepare for Winter. She is very astute even about how the armorers should be manufacturing the armor. Littlefinger points out she is very good at this, and he continues his coaching of her and how to win all her battles.

He’s interrupted by the sudden return of Bran and Meera who seem to have lost part of their souls when they returned to Winterfell, given their wooden expressions and comments. Sansa tries to learn more from Bran, but he’s rather withdrawn. He also turns down his own birthright as he tells Sansa that he’s the Three-Eyed Raven, and has a difficult time explaining that to her. I’m guessing that the Weirwood Wifi Net has fried part of his brain, or he’s still in such an information overload. He does freak out his sister by saying that he saw her marry Ramsey in the snow in their Godswood. She nopes the fuck out of the scene pretty fast.

Which then leads us to Oldtown where Ser Friendzone has been cured it seems. Slughorn seems nonchalant and points out how it happened, even though Ser Friendzone denies it to him. He gets discharged from his room, being cured, and Ser Friendzone gets dressed. Boy, I hope that is a new shirt that wasn’t resting on all that grayscale! Sam and Ser Friendzone say goodbye and shake hands. Cross your fingers that Ser Friendzone is truly cured. I like Sam too much to see him become a stone man. Later, Slughorn calls Sam out for curing Ser Friendzone, and he both lauds him for his success and punishes him for not minding his orders. He’s told he should be thankful that he’s not tossed out of the program.

Back in Dragonstone, Dany wants to sink Euron’s fleet with her dragons. She wants to go so far as to ride Drogon, leading her other two dragons to burn the fleet. Which isn’t a bad idea really - even if we know he could have Cersei’s hidden weapon. Instead though, she’s cautioned against this notion over worry to her own safety. What if she got hit by an arrow? I mean, if it’s in the knee, her adventuring career is over! Instead, they focus back on taking Casterly Rock.

We’re given the first glimpse of Casterly Rock after seven seasons, after hearing about it almost all the time. The Unsullied lay siege to the castle, in a jarring scene that looks choppy and laden with poor CGI. Maybe there wasn’t CGI, but it just didn’t have that polished look like other battle scenes. The true attack comes from underneath thanks to Tyrion’s expertise about the sewers of Casterly Rock, which lets the Unsullied army within the walls. The battle is quick on the screen, but it is brutal from the appearance of bodies along the battlements from both sides. Grey Worm notices that there isn’t as many men as they were told would be there. Also, why they were capturing the Keep, Euron destroyed their ships. He really seems to get around!

The rest of the Lannister army has marched south to Highgarden under the leadership of pod-Jaime with Sternly Tarly and our first Bronn sighting of the season. The Rains of Castamere play as pod-Jaime takes the castle and marches straight to Lady Olenna, who is awaiting her execution as it would seem. Jaime tells her why they left Casterly Rock, having emptied the food stores and with it having no more gold. He tells her that the play was something he learned from Robb Stark. Olenna wants to know how she is to die, and gets a jab in about how much a cunt Joffrey was. Cersei wanted Jaime to flay her or chop off her head. Jaime hasn’t lost all his honor, and pours some poison into a glass of wine for her. She guzzles it down, and as she awaits her death, she tells Jaime one last thing for Cersei. She was the one who was behind the death of Joffrey.

It’s a such a poignant end to the Queen of Thorns, and a wonderful last jab at her enemies. Always a joy to have another twisted bittersweet death on the show. Even if the show kind of moved around at a fast pace over Westeros, and it’s hard to judge how much actual time has passed. Maybe next week we’ll have Ser Friendzone already reunited with his Khaleesi at Dragonstone. Tune in to find out!

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