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Celebrating 10 Years of NMTD 🦩🥭
Join the Much Ado About Nothing crew as they navigate high school in New Zealand at the height of superwholock. It's 2014 and you've got nothing much to do...
#nmtd#NMTDaily#nothing much to do#much ado about nothing#pedro donaldson#vote for pedro#dracula daily#misha collins#substack#shakespeare#shakespeare adaptation#webseries#vlogseries#youtube#maan#muchado#superwholock#new zealand#aotearoa#i miss 2014#2014 nostalgia#2014 revival#2014 tumblr#poll#lolilo#lovely little losers#the candle wasters#all round great guy#all round great bi#poll didn't work on the og post so that's being rb'd tomorrow
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nothing takes you back to 2014 as hard as hearing the Sherlock theme played on a kazoo
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There's something so real about a lot of these early NMTD videos that even the best of other webseries never quite captured. Maybe it's the range of styles between 4-5 different vloggers (so far we've had Beatrice, Ursula, Benedick, Hero, and Dogberry/Verges). Bea is engaging, snarky, and direct, confidently ready to film herself. Hero is cheerfully sweet and feels wonderfully tuned to the camera and her own style. Ben is a bit awkward and strange and so ready to have a relationship with viewers, without much experience to back it up. Ursula is predominantly behind the camera and seeks to film art as she sees it. Dogberry and Verges have a crappy camera and no sense for filming or vlogging, but so much passion.
The episodes leading up to PROJECT II - ONE SHOT all feel remarkably distinct and unrelated. Yes, these characters are clearly interconnected (seen in VOX POPS through Ursula's storytelling, but also with the linked scenes in "Football Antics" and the Watch's video), but their vlogs are just... different and unrelated. And best of all, they have such different filming, editing, and storytelling styles. They really feel like they're coming from different characters. And there's no clear narrative! What's the story? Is it just a bunch of vlogs from some high school kids circa 2014?
I love ONE SHOT partly because of how it's shot and all (it's great!!), but also... it's just such a COOL way to show off how so many of these threads do fit together. There's an almost-effortless naturalness to how ONE SHOT shows these teens being silly, arguing, and having fun. It's lovely. It's different. It feels so real, so unscripted, so natural.
At this stage, it's so easy to question what Nothing Much to Do is even about. If you don't know the plot of Much Ado About Nothing, I don't think there's any easy way to guess how this story is playing out. And I love that the naturalness of the different filming styles can really make it seem like, no, there's no overarching narrative, there are just a bunch of kids making silly Youtube videos (as was decently common at the time) and having fun online and sharing about their lives. Drama? What drama? (We're in a Shakespeare comedy, aren't we??)
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"This is what I'm fucking talking about, Claudio. You need to be ready for anything!"
--benedick hobbes, from the ground, after both he and claudio collapsed when his running tackle piggyback ride went south
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i'm a day late but i cannot express the JOY i felt at hearing the kazoo sherlock theme again. any time i've ever thought of sherlock holmes in any capacity over the years my mind immediately goes to it!
#yet again this show just so captures what it was like to be an online teenage nerd in 2014#nmtdaily#nmtd#widge.txt
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NMTDaily: Football Antics Part One
- I’m just cracking up at how nervous Beatrice is! The nervous babbling! And it is definitely because, since she hasn’t started school yet, this football game is the first time she’s seen Benedick since moving to Auckland- since they were 14, really. (I don’t think she was there when Ursula filmed his part of Vox Pops, or at least she was better able to avoid him then. No avoiding being seen here though!)
- Bea may be in denial, but her “holy shit my crush-that-got-away is Right Over There In Person” energy is radiating! Which is perfect adaptation work for Miss Starts The Play By Oh-So-Casually Asking About Benedick And Playing It Off With Insults.
- “We’re here to support Leo, we’re here to Support The Boys, we’re here to see Pedro, and Definitely No One Else, At All, Promise” 👀 I see you Beatrice
- “I’m sure he’ll be wonderful, and so will-“ *Extremely Long, Pointed Pause* “-everyone, really.” Hero knows what’s up!!! And Bea just assumes she’s talking about Claudio, which, yeah, but the way Hero looks really intently at Bea on this line and says it with such intention- she is teasing Bea about Ben here for sure.
- Bea and Hero are having a sass-off complete with impressions of each other and Ursula is all “just keep taking pictures, they’ll get tired eventually”. Ursula is a treasure.
- The sass-off is also great! I love that Hero, as nice as she is, can still hold her own against Beatrice here. It’s a good thing, because making fun of people is kind of a love language for Beatrice.
- Starting in on Meg again (poor Meg), as a way to seed some backstory that will matter later! (Robbie got kicked off the team, hmmmm.)
- And Bea immediately pivots to bring up Claudio. The fast forward through Hero’s gushing is so funny and cute. She was definitely trying to say Robert Pattinson reminds her of Claudio, which, I can see it. 2014 is calling again though, right at the end of the Twilight era. If this series were set much earlier we would definitely have heard Bea hating on Twilight, lol.
- “He’s nice!” being the only thing she can say, says a lot. And Ursula being the one who gets Hero to admit she thinks he’s cute, awww. The hiding behind the hair! The oohing over Hero’s crush is majorly bringing me back to what it was like to be a teenager, it’s adorable. Poor Hero lol
- Ah yes, “Leo says we can’t film the match” AKA the in-world explanation for not being able to make an actual football scene realistic. I say that with zero judgement. The workaround of Leo saying no is cleverly done, and makes sense since the only plot-relevant stuff goes on on the sidelines anyway.
- The little moment of Hero narrating the game! I love that. She’s so into it that she forgets she’s not supposed to mention Ben in front of Bea, and then she starts worrying about Claudio which is also very cute.
- (My brain instinctively: Ooh! Ben mention! First Ben mention by name in a Hero and Bea vlog!!!! Milestone!)
- Enter Meg! (and Robbie). “I’m going to be the real star, you just don’t know it yet!” An icon.
- Robbie throwing out a Game of Thrones reference, it’s like a signal that he’s sort of part of the group for now, but his energy is Off. Dark colors, never really looking at anyone but Meg. Bad vibes.
- And Meg and Robbie as a visual sign of Bea’s discomfort with relationships, her idea that they’re all PDA and no boundaries. That in Bea’s and to some degree Hero’s eyes, Meg chooses Robbie over their friendships, over homework, almost over her own self, and Bea does not want that imbalance for herself at all. But she doesn’t know how to express her discomfort and concern in any other way but scorn for Meg. So much character work for so many different characters in one episode at once, I love it.
- I love Ursula sticking up for Meg, even if it’s never particularly fun watching other people make out. This is an Ursula Appreciation Liveblog, and I’m also still loving her tumblr, btw.
- Part Two next and it’s time for the I Know You Of Old scene! Ahhh!
- BUT FIRST: another video I didn’t know was posted so early, and get ready, because I’m about to be insufferable in this next one. I will not be able to help myself. My boy is about to enter the scene! My beautiful cringe-y boy! How I’ve missed him!!! Next liveblog post coming soon, I hope. 😊
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#nmtd#nothing much to do#nmtdaily#violivs nmtdaily liveblog#football antics part one#I’m having such a good time with this rewatch
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anyone else revisiting nothing much to do in nmtdaily?
I can't believe it's been this long since my favorite webseries aired
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did you see that the candle wasters have dracula daily-ified NMTD to celebrate the 10 year anniversary?! can't believe it's been a decade since these losers
Yes I did! I’m live-blogging as I rewatch on my sideblog @violivs ! Truly, where did the time go?! I’m so excited to experience the story in real-time again!
(I may or may not also have some fics in the pipeline for this rewatch including the lost continuation of Some Things Change! Which I’m going to post during the NMTDaily Radio Silence- and oh my god do you all realize we’re going to have to re-live the Radio Silence?
If anyone else was here for that, do you remember the Radio Silence? Learning the NZ time zone difference with your own time zone so you’d know when videos were likely to drop? Having only the tiniest scraps of information on what happened at Hero’s party because they’d stopped uploading and posting and even TCW and the actors went silent? The original NMTD fanfiction writers coming in clutch to give us speculation fics about how they’d adapt the rest of the story? I definitely wrote a few of those myself. It was electric. So many memories!) 😊💖
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where was that candlewasters behind the scenes snippet where they were like “oh no we need to be sure not to accidentally queerbait here” after they saw the Pedro/Balth vox pops footage
because wow yea
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saw some nmtd playlists being shared on instagram so thought i would share these here in the spirit of getting hyped about NMTDaily (@thecandlewasters <3 <3)
#ignore the fact these are lolilo playlists lol#same universe right???#i will make nmtd ones now though ive been inspired#nmtd#lolilo#Spotify
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Set in a New Zealand High School, told by teenage vloggers at the height of superwholock.
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I never realised the project I video is the dramatis personae, in spite of my copy of much ado (which I sadly don't have atm) being full of notes on NMTD (particularly the dramatis personae page in fact), but I do find it a very fun way of adapting a play as a kind of intermedial text rather than purely an instruction for staging something
#in hindsight i feel a little silly#like its a fun thing but its also Obvious help me#nmtdaily#nmtd#candlewasters
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NMTDaily rewatch rules
I've been thinking a lot about how to approach recapping or discussing the NMTDaily, given that this is rather obviously right up my alley. I won't be rewatching the videos immediately upon their release and I want to be careful about not overly obsessing, but obviously there's something so joyful about rewatching shows I love (see: The Great Webseries Rewatch) and the fact that there is a shared opportunity to do this for one of my favorite shows and in real-time is too good an opportunity to miss.
But! It occurs to me that there are two important points.
Posting "daily" is a little much for a rewatch project, conceptually.
There may be viewers who are watching Nothing Much to Do for the first time thanks to the NMTDaily. At least, I certainly hope there are! In which case... posting nonstop spoilers might be a bit of a bummer.
I'm reminded of the little tricks fans came up with to draw a line between fictional Tumblr accounts and realities, the need to separate between "reality" and reality, one accepting a sort of truth to the fictional world that was coming right up against our own, and the other speaking entirely external to the story. In NMTD, there are a few small hints of that in-story as well, particularly through music.
On my end, I think there will be two different categories of posts and two different tags. There will be more recap-style posts, that view NMTD through a lens similar to that which I've been using for my general webseries project. These will be tagged as "NMTD", alongside respective rewatching tags.
The other set of posts will be "naive", written with only the knowledge of the episodes that have aired and the source text. These will be tagged as both "NMTD" and "NMTDaily". Anyone who wishes to avoid my spoilery thoughts can simply go through the "NMTDaily" tag. I'll try to keep it clear.
Anyways. 10 years! 10 years. Wild.
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"i will fight it. i will defeat it. and i will become its master."
-Benedick Hobbes, about a horse-sized duck
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the best thing about mmtdaily for me is the sheer delight of trying to work out if I speak like these characters because I was obsessed with them ten years ago and they’re still my roman empire, or if they speak like me because this show was written by tumblrinas. and the best thing is, the answer is both
#ANYWAY I still love Ben and each video of his is going to make me cackle like it did the first several times around#nmtd#nmtdaily#widge.txt
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NMTDaily: VOX POPS
- Hi all! I’m going to be rewatching along with TCWs NMTDaily and making posts about each episode, or as many as I can (I might miss some, but I hope not!)
- I want to start by saying thank you again to The Candle Wasters for making my favorite thing. Just, the amount of joy and creative fulfillment and friendship and delight I’ve gotten from this show and this fandom is still unmatched. Thank you so much for making it and sharing it. The love and care and skill with which NMTD was made still shines through and I’m still so awed by it. I think I was probably somewhat overdramatic about my reactions to Lolilo in places where you, TCW, could see, on my main blog, and you didn’t deserve that. I really hope I didn’t send you any aggressive asks about it, or make you uncomfortable in any way. I’m a little afraid I did, but I don’t know for sure. If I did, I apologize. I’m older and more mature now, I promise. I hope you’re all doing so very well now!
- I didn’t realize until today that Project I: VOX POPS was posted first, before any other video in the series. I didn’t start watching NMTD until right around the time Benedick’s first Q&A video was posted, so I binged the first chunk of episodes around that time. It will be interesting to watch them at a slower pace this time!
- I am immediately overwhelmed with warm fuzzies at seeing these characters again. They’re such babies! I love them!
- I never made a post about this, but Ben’s first line being about how he shares a (differently spelled) name with a Pope is both a great first line for him on a character level since he starts as kind of a cocky overconfident asshole (a cover for his soft sensitive insides) AND it’s evidence for my theory that he’s probably Catholic, but lapsed/non-practicing/maybe agnostic or atheist solely because I WILL keep projecting parts of me onto this character, it’s just what I do at this point. Other evidence: he has a confirmation name. We don’t get his full name til Lolilo, but still. And he’s partly Scottish, which can account for the fact that English people usually are not Catholic.
- “you need to imitate an eagle, that’ll scare them away!” That’s Ben’s second line and first bird reference! Already! Wow.
- The favorite band question! Mumford and Sons! Fife and the Drums! Sheep Dog and Wolf! The LORE! The REFERENCES! We’re already off to the races.
- “I don’t need chat-up lines” Beatrice I love you , and you have no idea what’s coming.
- I forgot about Beatrice’s Favorite T-Shirts Ranking System lol
- Extremely funny that Ben says bananas are his favorite food and then he goes on to become synonymous with mangoes instead. Sorry, buddy, you will always be Mango Skin Boy to us. xD
- I forgot how delightful Dogberry and Verges are in this episode
- “that you would leave me” oh Meg. Oh honey. Oh no.
- I’ve seen nine seasons of Doctor Who and only five episodes of Game of Thrones since 2014. Sorry Bea, I side with Ben on this one. And I’ve seen one season of Community. I’m slowly hacking away at the list of media referenced in nmtd that I need to watch!
- love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free! ❤️
- Balthazar plays every instrument, of course.
- Bea must not have an ear for music if she hated that question enough to force Ursula on-camera so she doesn’t have to answer it… Unless Ursula asked her something else she didn’t want to answer! Lol
- Ben makes me cringe so hard a couple times this episode. And yet I still love him. To be fair, that’s just every Benedick at the start of Much Ado, though. The cringy lines are completely in character.
- I decided to save the full story of how I discovered NMTD for whenever the NMTDaily email for Ben’s first Q&A episode goes out, because then it will actually be ten years almost to the day since I started watching. But I’m so impatient and excited to tell the story!
- It’s amazing how back then, these kids were my contemporaries and the Lizzie Bennet Diaries cast felt impossibly old compared to me. Now the NMTD kids are babies and I’m older than Lizzie Bennet! Trippy. It sure has been a nice ten years.
Until the next one! Happy NMTD Day, fellow flamangoes!
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