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lamontskaarup2-blog · 5 years

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Rutger Hauer = Van Helsing In Dario Argento's Dracula

'Nine' may not one of your worst movies of the season on a technical level (it has far an excessive amount talent involved for that) but this examiner really, really, really didn't substantially at every one of the. It's one of those musicals that is flashy, bright and loud, but don't have anything knowledge. You could say that the inspiration for this film was lacking a lot to the narrative either, but I dare anyone to go view '8 1/2' and say with a straight face that can it whatever justice.

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What makes this particular "Friday The 13th" different to the other brands? Not too much. It has the requisite killings and naked breasts amongst other things. Sean S. Cunningham, the director on the original, is along for your ride here as a producer, and herrrs intent on giving the viewers actually what they expect for a movie because of this. The only thing brings about this reboot of the franchise more different does it include is additional bleak and unrelenting than some of this previous sequels. When we last saw Jason, he was fighting a long awaited fight with Freddy Krueger. Even then, it was hard to take the character honestly. But here, Jason is more frightening than he has developed in the longest time, so the fear quotient been recently upped to some extent. However, this movie has none of these. There is almost no blood at nearly. There is one very, very brief dream sequence with particular grossness thereafter an ending that is shocking because of the blood, however it's certainly genuinely splatter blockbuster movie. No, this is a movie that can take place entirely in mental performance and it occurs within your brain of twin gynecologists named Elliot and Beverly Mantle. They are world-renowned for being able to make women who are unable to conceive, have babies. These twin brothers share everything. Elliot is the shark, calm and collected, who is have no ability to plug in to people while Beverly is the emotional single. They have a connected with sharing everything, including a lot of women. Elliot seduces them then Beverly arrives in and connects to them emotionally until they tend to be bored and then they grow. However, things not work when they seduce the actress, and prescription drug addict, Claire Niveau, played by Genevieve Bujold. And of course, allow us to not remove the "cool" (as Dario himself put it) techno score by Goblin. Goblin has done great along with Argento, and in addition created just one of the most memorable horror scores with "suspiria." Their work we have found excellent and stands itself. It succeeds in contributing to the atmosphere of ease that Argento creates. I dig these 80's techno scores significantly. It makes me desire to buy more Goblin soundtracks. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. The evening festivities began with a showing of Michael Powell's controversial 1960 film Peeping Tom, around a psychotic man who loves to film women as he kills them thus recording the moment of their death. He meets a lady who lives in his building and falls fond of her while using to resist the urge to ever "film" her. Powell, a respected British filmmaker for the 40's and 50's was ruined coming from the controversial nature of this film that's considered shocking at period. Today it is less shocking but no less intense once we watch this psychotic man fighting his urges to kill. This film deserves comparison to Hitchcock and needs to be treated. Never (laughing).all the instant. The most common thing I hear is, "I possess a great idea if may potentially write it for me" or "I'll give you the idea in order to write it for me". That's does not really have people don't understand, great ideas are a dime several. That's why you can't copyright a concept. It's an idea and also actually need to write a script. They don't understand the work involved. Web sites . happen to my opinion a ton; it happens a lot on Facebook. watch suspiria original online free will friend me and can then be a month later they're like, "Hey, I've got this concept."but luckily since I'm your past Writer's Guild, I can't read anything unless it appears through an agent, so that's a few things i tell people and that kind of negates a regarding that. This is actually a great movie. Each of the characters are compelling. While Clint Eastwood is extremely person remembered from you will also movie the performance of Gian Maria Volonte as Ramon Rojo nearly steals the suggest. This is a villain who almost literally chews the scenery up. When he rages you wonder who survive against him. He does truly horrible things individuals and never has going to a character get his comeuppance at the end been quite so satisfying.

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lettherebemonsters · 6 years

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Right? It’s like when the argument of censorship comes up and everybody is like, “Fuck that noise!” And it’s then you see the release of films or writings consisting of child porn, beastiality, rape/incest, or just really really gross stuff like the Drawn Together movie or the Garbage Pale Kids… Still fuck censorship, but at the same time… I can’t help but understand where people are coming from when bringing it up. Same can be said for video games.

@nanasamantha

Garbage Pail Kids are angels compared to stuff like....bestiality. URGH. I’ll admit, I was one of those girls who thought the werewolves in Van Helsing were gorgeous, but that’s because the designers intentionally made them sexy.

I’m not above bringing up hot topics in my writings, but I ALWAYS use them to invoke the disgust they deserve. Hell, one of my favorite things to do is give Tales from the Crypt-style justice to rapists, racists, scum in general.

Like......imagine a pedophile being torn apart by the kids in Wicked Little Things. A cockfighting peddler getting sliced to pieces by his own birds. That kind of stuff.

Video games you can argue are an art, and they’re extremely regulated already. I say leave them alone UNLESS they explicitly are designed to, let’s say, recruit new ISIS members. Then you should censor that.

#nanasamantha

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otomesruinedmylife · 6 years

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Comparable characters and routes in otomes to Mystic Messenger

Apologies, as this is going to be a VERY LONG POST AND CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!!!

So you liked Mystic Messenger but have no idea where to go as far as future otomes. That’s okay! Cheritz did a great job with mysme and if you enjoyed it, you’ll no doubt find someone else in an otome you probably enjoy as well, even if it doesn’t have exactly the same mechanics as mysme. For people new to the otome scene, I highly recommend Cheritz previous games if mysme was your intro to otomes, especially Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ since a lot of the characters are similar counterparts to characters you know.

For this post I’ll be using characters from:

Amnesia: Memories (PC, mobile, PS vita in Japan)

Code: Realize ~guardian of rebirth~ (PS vita, PS4)

Collar x Malice (PS vita)

Dandelion ~wishes brought to you~ (PC)

Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ (PC)

Norn9: Var Commons (PS vita)

Ozmafia! (PC)

while trying to spoil the least amount of the actual story as possible (aside from the yanderes/yangires).

Now before we do this we have to analyze why you liked the character(s) you did. To do this, bringing up some terminology you might have seen or see later that's used in the community to describe tropes/archetypes characters fit under.

The shota is the cute one, the little one. The one you want to protecc at all costs. Shotas come in many flavors (tsundere, yandere, or just plain sweet) but are always the token mini-moe of the game. Yoosung fits this to a tee. If you liked Yoosung, you may enjoy:

Yeon-ho from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ He’s honestly the spiritual predecessor of Yoosung.

Jieun from Dandelion ~wishes brought to you~ More of a kuudere version of this trope, another example of Cheritz heavily leaning on this trope.

Scarlet from Ozmafia! A bit of an inversion of the trope as he’s more than capable of taking care of himself. I’d file him under kuudere shota.

Jiyeon from Dandelion ~wishes brought to you~ Initially upon meeting. His route gives you a better idea of where he should fall in this list, but I won’t spoil it.

Senri Ichinose from Norn9: Var commons. This boy needs all the love in the world, he’s had it rough aka. You fucked up a perfectly good esper, you gave him anxiety.

Soh from Ozmafia! initially upon meeting. His route gives you a better idea of where he should fall in this list, but I won’t spoil it.

Nameless from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ though you might find him more of a Saeran predecessor.

The casanova or Bishonen... you know this type. They’re all about telling you how much they want to protect you and sometimes have an overinflated idea of their self-worth (though usually this is hiding insecurities you find out in their own routes). Mostly a harmless bunch who are surprisingly wholesome once you get past their innuendoes. If you liked Zen, you’ll probably enjoy:

Yuri from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ again a spiritual predecessor from Cheritz. Yuri is flirtatious and rather lewd but might actually be the most harmless of the Nameless bunch.

Ikki from Amnesia: Memories. Like Zen, this dude has his own fanclub. Need I say more?

Itsuki Kagami from Norn9: Var Commons. And how.

Impey Barbicane from Code: Realize ~guardian of rebirth~Though not completely like Zen, he shares similarities enough. Also similar hairstyle lol.

Mineo Enomoto from Collar x Malice. Probably the biggest stretch here, but he leans heavily on the “all men are animals trope” while being both too old looking to be a shota and usually the butt monkey of the cast.

Megane are technically defined by their glasses, but many share the same no-nonsense attitude and often adroit behaviors, though more due to not being good at socializing than anything else. Like shotas, meganes come in many flavors (most often tsundere or kuudere though). This is usually a male-oriented term, but I find this trope to be the closest to Jaehee. Also because of the lack of female love interests in otomes, this group will be primarily male. If you enjoyed Jahee’s route, you might like:

Kent from Amnesia: Memories. Neither dangerous or as kinkiy as he may look, Kent is just a wholesome megane who doesn’t understand how to human and just really loves math. A good boy and a breath of fresh air from the wild ride that is Amnesia: Memories.

Axel from Ozmafia! Basically the Kent of this game. He’s just a good guy who deserves all the love and sweets in the world. I’d say he’s less of a tsundere due to not being able to emotion, though he has moments.

Pashet from Ozmafia! Finally a female LI! Pashet has striking similarities to Jaehee actually, though not a megane. You might think neko-chan, but she’s actually super competent and kicks ass frequently for her famiglia Boots.

Victor from Code: Realize ~guardian of rebirth~ A good boy, a wholesome boy. I wouldn’t call him a shota, though he’s the closest to a romanceable one in this game. You might also like him if you liked Yoosung.

Lance from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ Though not a megane and more of a tsundere, he shows some of the emotional adroitness meganes tend to have, as well as being super competent.

Jihae from Dandelion ~wishes brought to you~ Again, not a megane, but has the politeness and adroitness of a megane as well as showing similar aspects of Jaehee’s personality.

Now here’s where the tropes begin to break down when we look at (arguably) more complex nature of the tropes that make up the stories and personalities of Jumin, Seven, V and Saeran. There will definitely be spoilers from here on out because we have to talk about what happens in their routes and how we see their character progression from our initial idea of them to after their routes. **Extra note: I can’t really find someone quite like V, though there is a special section for tragic backstory further down in this post.

You should already know what a tsundere is, baka! ~ Though no one initially quite fits this bill as classic tsundere in Mystic Messenger, you definitely see it later from Seven. Traditional tsunderes doth protest too much they don’t like the heroine, and usually call you and others ‘baka” (idiot) while hiding behind a chilly exterior. At some point they usually push you away in their route, often because underneath the insults is a cutie who might have already been broken in the past.

Kuuderes are the cool ones. Like tsundere, they use a frosty exterior to hide a deliciously squishy inner romantic but are less vocal about everyone else being idiots or don’t freeze people out because of intelligence/maturity level. Jumin has traits of being a gap moe kuudere. I’d definitely call him this if I was trying to not spoil the yandere parts of his route for someone. I'm lumping these together, but if you liked Seven because he pushed you away and then got over it (tsundere) or Jumin’s frosty initial demeanor (kuudere), you will probably like:

Shin from Amnesia: Memories. A classic, upfront tsundere. Get ready for the baka.

Takeru Sasazuka from Collar x Malice. Another classic, upfront tsundere. Many much baka.

Jiwoo from Dandelion ~wishes brought to you~ Another classic, upfront tsundere. Baka but now in Korean.

Van Helsing from Code: Realize ~guardian of rebirth~ Ah our megane tsundere combo. Van is a little bit of a combination of tropes, but ultimately I’d file him under very mature kuudere/tsundere. Also, call him master in a non-kinky context, he likes it.

Lance from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ Kind of an off-type tsundere/kuudere. He’s called the ice prince for a reason.

Caesar from Ozmafia! Classic tsundere. Also immediately apparent he’s a bit ax-crazy for Fuka.

Akito Shukuri from Norn 9: Var commons. Another classic tsundere. All your baka needs.

Kyrie from Ozmafia! is an atypical tsundere but shares traits of one. He definitely thinks you and everyone else are idiots, but doesn’t so much push you away as wonder why you even like him in the first place.

Normally a term used for girls, a genki boy is full of energy to an almost hyperactive degree. If the people around a genki boy are exhausted, astonished, or even creeped out by their chronic outbursts of vitality, then they probably fit the criteria. Often genki boys are in touch with their feminine side, not hetero and/or found cross-dressing either for fun or plot reasons. If you liked Seven because of his initial spunky defender of justice attitude but didn’t like that he went tsundere on you, you will probably enjoy:

Red from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ A non-tsundere version of Seven and just all around wholesome boy who actually thinks he’s a hero. Also brought to you by Cheritz.

Heishi Otomaru from Norn9: Var commons. Just for the love of god, don’t break the cutie.

Impey Barbicane from Code: Realize ~guardian of rebirth~ sometimes is also this, though he also shares traits with bishonen/casanovas.

Lupin from Code: Realize ~guardian of rebirth~ Another defender of justice and all around good boy. More mature. Calls himself a gentleman thief and will sweep you off your feet 10/10 times.

Kei Okazaki from Collar x Malice. Also more mature version and less energetic, but shares traits with when you meet Seven initially. He’s quirky and he protecc. He likes weird snacks too.

Dark and troubled past is a pretty obvious trope. Stepford smilers are obsessed with projecting an image of wholesome happiness in order to either be accepted by peers or left alone. The crafted facades of stepford smilers hide a deeply flawed person, usually breaking under the strain of keeping up their deception. They almost always have a Dark and Troubled past, though not everyone with a dark and troubled past ends up being a stepford smiler. If you liked Seven or V because of their tragic backstories and stepford smiling, you might like:

Saint-Germain from Code: Realize ~guardian of rebirth~ Oof, and how. The tragedy cranked up to 11 for this guy. I’d recommend playing his route last of the four because it contains the most spoilers aside from Lupin. And bring the tissues while you’re at it.

Kageyuki Shiraishi from Collar x Malice. Another cranked up to 11, similar to Saint-Germain, just different details. I’d recommend playing his route last of the four because it contains the most spoilers aside from Yanagi’s. And keep those tissues handy while you’re at it.

Actually everyone in Collar x Malice to a degree, it’s just that much worse with Shiraishi.

Ukyo from Amnesia: Memories. Arguably the most tragic of all the characters on this list, Ukyo is without a doubt a tear-jerking finale to the game. Not to be confused with Ura Ukyo also having the classic slasher smile.

All of the dolls in Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ have emotional baggage, but both Yeon-ho and Tei have more due to being secondhand, as well as Nameless, but Tei might be the most since he’s also clearly experiencing reset theory.

Both Robin Hood and Hamlin from Ozmafia! are pretty tragic. You find out why on their routes.

It's never hinted during his route or others, but Kyrie from Ozmafia! is probably the most tragic of all, you just don’t find out why until fully completing the game. Also, you are a monster if you end up preferring Kyrie’s normal end.

Senri Ichinose from Norn9: Var commons fits this, though lacking the stepford smiling. You get to find out in his route how they broke the cutie.

Jisoo from Dandelion ~wishes brought to you~ has a pretty sad story, but Jihae’s is equally if not more tragic.

If your fav is the guy with the best lines in the game, you probably like the deadpan snarker and might want to look at the tsundere options, as they usually have the most cutting wit and tongues. But if you liked Vanderwood’s cameos or Jumin for his lack of tsundere, you might enjoy:

Kyrie from Ozmafia! And how. The crowned king of deadpan snarking on this list.

Tei from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ It’s mostly Yuri on the receiving end of his snark, though others do find themselves victim at times. And yet he’s still called Prince Sunshine...

OKAY BIG HUGE MAJOR SPOILERS AND TRIGGERS HERE!!!! IF YOU DONT WANT SPOILERS OR TRIGGERS HERES A SIMPLIFIED LIST: Non-spoiler list if you liked Jumin’s route (YMMV):

Tei from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~.

Toma from Amnesia: Memories.

Kageyuki Shiraishi from Collar x Malice.

Non-spoiler list if you liked Ray’s route (YMMV) because of break the cutie and/or dating the enemy tropes:

Yeon-ho from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~

Ukyo from Amnesia: Memories.

Nameless from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~

Caesar and Hamlin from Ozmafia!

Natsuhiko Azuma from Norn 9: Var commons.

Kakeru Yuiga from Norn9: Var commons.

NOW ONWARD TO THE YANDERES!!! YOU’VE BEEN WARNED :)

Yanderes are people who will kill for the one they “love” and are obsessed with, going even so far as to stalking, drugging, trapping, raping or even killing the MC so no one else can have them. People tend to either love them or hate them, as they are usually the more complex characters of the games, but it can be hard to see the good aspects of them when they’re busy well... doing yandere things like locking you up, drugging your drinks for your own good or trying to kill your friends because of their obsession with you.

Yangires are often mistakenly lumped in with yanderes and to add ot the confusion, some yanderes can seem more yangire or even vice-versa if they were already a bit ax-crazy to begin with. The main defining feature is that yangires lack the love aspect behind their killing to be a real yandere. These characters are ax-crazy and ready to snap at a moment's notice (or already have) and start killing the cast. Up until his route, Saeran would have been considered a yangire, though now with his route that’s obviously changed.

I’ve divided these into two catagories: minor yanderes (one bad end or situation) or major yanderes (a pervasive running theme in their route, particularly violent ones and/or yangire-like ones, sadists, etc). I will also list the minor yanderes bad ends so anyone who wishes to avoid them can! Stay safe and don’t get triggered!!!

Minor Yanderes:

You (to Yeon-ho in Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~). You can become the yandere in his Bad end 1: Unforgiven doll.

Ikki in Amnesia: Memories. Bad end 2: “I’ll get rid of those who hurt you.” Situational. Ikki shows his yandere really only once in this end, shadowed eyes and all.

Yuri in Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ Bad end 2: Triangle. I’d still argue this is more Tei’s fault than Yuri being an actual yandere.

Heishi Otomaru from Norn 9: Var Commons. Bad end only. Situational yandere. Oof, and here I thought he was just a good boy.

Sakuya Nijou from Norn 9: Var Commons. There’s a minor unavoidable yandere moment in his route but he’s mostly just obsessed with Mikoto as some kind of savior for him. The obsession is apparent, but he’s a relatively non-dangerous version and barely deserves to be on this list.

Major Yanderes & Yangires:

Tei from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~. Jesus Christ, this guy so much. He’s probably the biggest yandere I’ve ever seen played to the trope and makes Jumin Han look like a vanilla amateur version. Completely wonderful wholesome exterior with darkness lurking below that only Yuri seems to notice. This guy gate crashes all the other LI’s in Nameless besides Lance’s bad endings at least once and makes them worse. Major trigger warning: Most of the bad ends involving him contain violence due to him. Honestly, so many a detailed list is silly, but the worst probably being the implied non-consensual sex in his Bad end 3: My owner.

Toma from Amnesia: Memories. Toma is probably the male yandere trope holder as most people know about the cage, which he did years before Jumin Han. A classic yandere, he’s obsessed with the MC so much he completely overlooks that she likes him. Expect all the classic yandere elements: childhood friend, drugging, caging, violence and rape-y comments but he just really loves you, okay??? Major trigger warning: A few of the bad ends in Amnesia: memories involving him contain violence due to him, especially his route and the unavoidable violence in Shin’s route. He stretches over into other people’s routes via bad ends a few times too, but the worst probably being the implied non-consensual sex in his Bad end 2: “We’ll be together forever.”

Yeon-ho from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ is a good example of when a shota gets obsessed. He’s upgraded from minor yandere because he’s pretty goddamn obviously obsessed with you and while seemingly not particularly violent, he shows he is capable of it in Bad end 2: Competitor. To be fair to Yeon-ho though, you really need to watch out for Tei more.

Saint-Germain from Code: Realize ~guardian of rebirth~. Unfortunately, you can’t avoid the yandere in his route, though I’d mostly consider him a situational yandere depending on how you look at it since he’s following orders. However, he does make a few offhand comments in other routes that firmly put him in the major yandere category regardless.

Jisoo from Dandelion ~wishes brought to you~. Classic yandere in his bad end. Shows yandere traits throughout his route, though maybe less extreme than most on this list.

Kageyuki Shiraishi from Collar x Malice. Again more situational than anything else and technically a yangire stepford smiler in other routes. Once this aloof boy likes you he’s pretty stuck on you for reasons that make sense. You can’t avoid the yandere in his route (it’s both good and bad ends) but it’s waaaaaay less creepy in the good one. Also his later bad ends are BAD. Hell, his good end is bad. Dear god, please just give this poor guy a break already.

Robin Hood from Ozmafia! Is a low-key example of this, but not for Fuka. I’ll let you figure out why. Major trigger warning: It’s debatable his route contains non-consensual sex.

Nameless from Nameless ~the one thing you must recall~ Think precursor to Saeran. Got it? Okay now play his route again to find out why.

The Wizard from Dandelion ~wishes brought to you~. Though not a playable character, it's obvious once you play through at least one route of Dandelion he’s obsessed with Heejung. It all comes to a tragic culmination in the final end of Dandelion you get from finishing all routes in the game.

Ukyo from Amnesia: Memories. Ax-crazy Ura Ukyo unfortunately puts Ukyo’s route firmly in the yangire category rather than yandere, as Ukyo himself is pretty wholesome. He kind of reminds me of V, honestly. And not just because of the photography thing. He gets a bad rap from anyone who doesn’t properly finish the game because of his ura side, but boy the explanation for why he kills you over and over again is one of the saddest routes I’ve ever played. Major trigger warning: Most of the bad ends in the entire game not involving Toma being yandere involve Ura Ukyo pretty much flat out killing you. Honestly, so many a detailed list is silly, since there’s multiple for each guys route iirc.

Ron Muraboshi from Norn 9: Var commons. Jesus lord have mercy I was not expecting this one. For all of his nonchalant attitude about everything, Ron might be the worst offender on this list. Not presented as a classic yandere as I am firmly convinced no one in the game or playing it actually likes Ron, his route devolves into some extremely problematic shit with yandere elements. His route is a relationship is based on obsession, abuse, and Stockholm Syndrome and even I felt icky after playing it, but his alternate bad ending (purple) is the worst IMO on this list because it's arguable he still sees you as disposable, while at least real yanderes cherish their object of affection. Also that 9 year age gap between him and Nanami… yikes.

Anyway, that's my list and character analysis of the otomes I’ve played so far! Hope you enjoyed it and feel free to leave me any asks or comments.

Also if you’d like to know who my personal favorites are, they are: Jumin Han, Seven, Ukyo, Tei, Saint-Germain, Kyrie and Kageyuki Shiraishi. And after reading this I bet you now know why. Just don’t make me pick favorites among my husbandos, they might kill me if they find out ;)

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pubtheatres1 · 6 years

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DRACULA by Bram Stoker Adapted and directed by Ross McGregor For Arrows and Traps Company Brockley Jack Theatre 9 -27 October 2018 “...my testicles are tingling” ★★★★★ For reasons, probably best lost in the mists of time, I spent one very happy summer in the ‘90s with Peter Ustinov. I don’t think it at all fanciful to mention Ross McGregor, the adapter and director of this masterful production of Dracula, in the same breath as the latter. Both have a superb grasp of linguistics. Both have an enormous facility with humour and both understand the vagaries of the human heart. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula in 1897. Since then it has become exponentially popular. The Universal film company gave us Dracula’s daughter’, amongst many others. Hammer Films came up with ‘The Brides of Dracula’ and ‘Dracula has risen from the Grave’ and introduced us to the actors Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. And of course who can forget the recent version entitled ‘Dracula’s Dog’? In total there have been more than two hundred adaptations involving Count Dracula. Count Dracula can only remain immortal if he is able to drink the blood of the living. He embarks on a journey from his castle in Transylvania to London. There he gets his teeth into firstly Lucy Westenra and then Mina Murray. Mina’s fiancé, Jonathan Harker, ably assisted by Professor Van Helsing, race to avert Dracula’s most overt intentions. In a way you would have expected McGregor to handle the big set pieces superbly - and he does so. Where he scores so heavily is in his attention to the tiniest details. There is a most marvelously intimate scene in a Whitby graveyard with Lucy and Mina (superb performances from Lucy Ioannou and Beatrice Vincent). For a moment in time everything is domesticated and ordinary but not for a moment is the tension of the piece lost. There is striking humour, playfulness and a sense ‘of the open road’. Yet we are only too aware of the fact that Count Dracula is on his way. The acting throughout the company is top notch. It seems very harsh of me to highlight any one performance. Cornelia Baumann is terrific as Renfield. She moves gracefully from arch comedy to demonic possession. (I remember her being terribly assured as Olivia in Arrows and Traps ‘Twelfth Night’.) Conor Moss gives us a terrific turn as Jonathan Harker. He has that wonderful ability of being able to do humour and horror virtually at the same time. Yet it is to Christopher Tester as Count Dracula that must take the acting honours. This is a very fine performance. His voice and intonation pitch perfect. His movement graceful, fluid and threatening. He deserves every piece of praise he will undoubtedly get. The movement and choreography (I’m not sure who to credit here of Roman Berry and Will Pinchin) is delicious. McGregor is enormously lucky to have them both. The lighting design of Ben Jacobs is without reproach. His work-as I have observed in the past- is scintillating. Likewise the soundscape of Alistair Lax is a joy. What he does is never intrusive but adds constantly and enormously to the action. My only criticism is the pieces length. I would have taken out fifteen minutes and I don’t think it would have lessened the production. Having said that the length of a play was a criticism leveled at Trevor Nunn and he hasn’t had a bad career. All in all a wonderful night in the theatre. I urge you to see this production. And if Ross McGregor isn’t running one of the big theatrical venues in the next ten years then there really is no justice in the theatrical firmament. Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH Box office: www.brockleyjack.co.uk or 0333 666 3366 (£1.50 fee for phone bookings only) Dates: Tuesday 9 to Saturday 27 October 2018 at 7.30pm. Tickets: £16, £13 conc. (This production contains violence, horror and scenes of a sexual nature. 16+) Company website: https://www.arrowsandtraps.com/ Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kown6yVv7eQ&feature=youtu.be Reviewer Richard Braine is actor, director and playwright. As an Actor he has worked extensively throughout the country including Chichester Festival Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep, and Stephen Joseph Theatre in Yorkshire. His Television and Film credits include: “Calendar Girls”, “Pride, Prejudice and Zombies”, “Finding Neverland”, “Bridget Jones”, “Suspicions of Mr Whicher”, “Mr Selfridge” and many years ago Gussie Fink-Nottle in “Jeeves and Wooster”. He has also filmed over 150 Commercials all over the world. He has directed the European premiere of Sternheim/Martin “The Underpants” at The Old Red Lion Theatre and written three plays: “Being There with Sellers”, “Bedding Clay Jones” and “Sexing Alan Titchmarsh”.

#Dracula Arrows and Traps Ross McGregor Bram Stoker Christopher Tester Brockley Jack Studio theatre Review

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wazafam · 3 years

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The Sims franchise has become a huge hit over the years and it continues to captivate the attention of new players. That's largely due to the fact that people have the option to create their own characters and control their destinies. However, the pre-made characters are just as important and intriguing, sometimes even more.

RELATED: Van Helsing: Which Character Are You, Based On Your Zodiac Sign?

Not all of the Sims are humans but that doesn't change the fact that they all have a lot to offer. And since they all have different characters, they would also naturally have different Zodiac signs.

12 Aries: Judith Ward

Arieses are known for being courageous and determined people. Once they envision a goal they would like to achieve, nothing will stop them. They're confident in their abilities and the fact that they will get what they want. But they can also be moody and short-tempered. As a global superstar, Judith Ward had worked hard to achieve her position as a legendary actress. Judith is an ambitious person who now gets to enjoy the result of her work. At the same time, she's not the friendliest person out there. She's more of a loner and doesn't mince her words.

11 Taurus: Yuki Behr

Tauruses are known for being persistent and stubborn. They can come across as strange to others but once people get to know them, they often discover Tauruses are good people. Yuki shares the typical determination of Tauruses as she slowly but surely builds her career for herself. What's typical for Tauruses as well is their intelligence and aptitude for unusual activities. In Yuki's case, this includes hacking.

10 Gemini: Caleb Vatore

Geminis are gentle and affectionate people who are also curious and easily manage to adapt to new things. Even though Caleb Vatore is a vampire, he's far from frightening. Since he doesn't feed on humans, he usually quickly befriends any newcomers who move to his city. Caleb's natural curiosity to meet and get to know new people as well as his ability to make friends means he would fit well with Geminis.

9 Cancer: Nalani Mahi'ai

Nalani first showed up in The Sims 4 and she instantly became one of the fan favorites. She's a mermaid but likes to hide the fact. Nalani's kind and sunny disposition make her similar to Cancers who are sympathetic, loyal, and emotional people by nature. However, they can also be insecure and suspicious of others.

RELATED: Infinity Train: Which Character Are You, Based On Your Zodiac Sign?

Nalani doesn't trust new people with her secret identity but once she gets to know them, she opens up to them and becomes a loyal and supportive friend.

8 Leo: Don Lothario

Leos are larger than life, and Don Lothario fits the bill. People born in this Zodiac sign have strong charisma, are charming and funny. However, they can also be self-centered at times, arrogant even. Don Lothario is charming enough to be able to strike a romance with two sisters at the same time. And since he's self-centered, he doesn't see there's anything wrong with this type of behavior.

7 Virgo: Bob Pancakes

Virgos are among the hardest working people out there. They're smart, kind, loyal, and practical people who can be sometimes overly shy, though, and also don't like to openly confront other people. That means that they can let others take advantage of them if they're not careful enough. Bob Pancakes fits the bill as he dreams of being a chef but works as a caterer for now. Bob is a calm, sympathetic guy. His relationship with Nora is more complicated as it feels like she's the dominant one and sometimes stamps over Bob. That makes the fans like him even more as they feel for him and often come up with creative ways how to help Bob get rid of his wife.

6 Libra: Morgyn Ember

Libras are known for their strong sense of balance and justice. A Libra is ultimately a people person and believes that other individuals deserve a shot at happiness or whatever they want. They're social, capable of easily making friends, and easily cooperate with others. As the sage of the Untamed magic, Morgyn Ember is an open and friendly person who seems to like to make new friends and it doesn't take them long to open up to others. They're also willing to share their extensive magic knowledge with the people they get to know better.

5 Scorpio: Bella Goth

The ever-so-mysterious Bella Goth fits the bill of a Scorpio to the last letter. People born in this Zodiac sign are known for being brave, resourceful, and passionate, but they can also be secretive and distrusting.

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Bella is definitely one of the most secretive Sims in the games and there are a lot of things about her the fans like to discuss to this day. And as for bravery, she has it set as one of her major traits in The Sims 3 which means that Bella doesn't panic in the face of dangers.

4 Sagittarius: Lilith Pleasant

Nobody is ever bored with a Sagittarius since people born in this Zodiac sign tend to have a great sense of humor. They also have the tendency to do whatever they want at times. Lilith Pleasant has been in the franchise for a while and she grew with it. She's studying Villainy in the Sims 4 at a university and likes to live her life to the fullest. Lilith's unique sense of humor and lively character means she would fit among Sagittariuses.

3 Capricorn: Nancy Landgraab

Nancy Landgraab is one of the few pre-made Sims who might very well be described as villains by some. However, just like in multiple cases, it's a bit more complicated with Nancy. She works as a crime lord and rules her household with an iron hand. Capricorns are often career-oriented, ambitious people with strong discipline. They excel at work but sometimes not so much at personal life since they can come across as a know-it-all.

2 Aquarius: Vladislaus Straud

Vlad Straud is the founder of the vampire city Forgotten Hallow. He's a lonely vampire who doesn't build relationships with people easily since he feels distant from emotional expression. Aquariuses are among the most original people out there. Like Vlad, who founded an entire city, they're independent thinkers who have the potential to achieve many great things. However, if they let their work consume them, they can run away from people and emotions which makes them seem aloof. Vlad rarely interacts with the citizens of his city, unless they're vampires as well or he decides to drink their blood.

1 Pisces: Salim Benali

Pisces are often known for having an artistic streak. They're sensitive people who view the world around them in a different way from most people. Salim Benali certainly belongs among people who find art important as he's a writer. What's typical as well for Pisces is that they sometimes have the desire to escape reality. Salim loves gaming, so it's safe to assume that escaping reality is something he enjoys.

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hello dear! It's so good to see you back! I hope things turn better for you from now onwards

This is Mod S! ^.^

Don’t worry about anything at all; I apologize for taking so long to answer this headcanon. The original one got lost a while ago because I accidentally deleted the inbox. And Mod Cheshire and I were both attempting to do this request justice but we struggled for a bit. Finally, I think I’m able to answer this in the best of my ability, so I hope it lives up to your expectations… orz

I’ll call this Code: Realize Guys Seducing Cardia at a Masquerade. As always, let us know if there’s anything else you’d want with this, and we’ll fix it. Thanks so much for being patient.

Some Info: All of these take place post good end. Cardia’s reactions are, for the most part, similar because I think regardless of who she was with, having a stranger try and flirt with her when she was with someone else would solicit the same result.

Arséne Lupin: Lupin would put on his mask and sneak up to Cardia, showering her with compliments: “My lady, your beauty is the envy of this ball. Would you care to dance with someone such as I?”. Cardia would look at him for a second, struggle to recognize him, but she would shake her head and politely tell the “stranger” that she was married and waiting to dance with her husband. This would make Lupin smile and laugh, and Cardia would feel incredibly confused. In a hushed whisper, Lupin would say: “Won’t you play along with me, madamoiselle?”. Cardia would furrow her brow in confusion, and Lupin would lift his mask to reveal his face. He’d wink at her, and she would feel silly for not recognizing him or his voice. But go along with Lupin’s game, pretending like they are meeting for the first time.

Abraham Van Helsing: Van would disguise himself just to tease Cardia a bit. He would sneak up behind her and whisper in her ear, “I’ve never seen anyone as beautiful as you”. Cardia would jump and turn around, seeing a man she did not recognize. It would take Van a minute to realize that she didn’t recognize him, but he would find it so fun that he wouldn’t tell her who he was. He’d chat her up, talking about how he was jealous of her lover, and Cardia would just nervously wave him off. Van would ask her to dance, but Cardia would decline, saying she was saving her first dance for her boyfriend. Van would just murmur about how cute she was, and would reveal himself. Cardia would feel a bit silly, but immediately start dancing with him. Van would say, “What did I do to deserve such a stunning and wonderful woman?"

Impey Barbicane: Impey would don his mask and forcibly pull Cardia onto the dance floor, saying he could not resist dancing with such a pretty lady. "You’re eyes are as blue as deepest ocean, and your voice is a beautiful symphony!”; Cardia would just frown and thank him, but strongly say that she is not available and would rather not dance with him. Impey would slyly ask Cardia to describe the person she loves, and Cardia would slowly talk about how sweet Impey is and how talented he is, and how he makes her feel. Though they would keep dancing as they both would get lost in the conversation. Impey would eventually be so touched by Cardia’s affection that he would burst into tears and hug her, saying “MY SWEET CARDIA, YOU ARE A GODDESS!”; Cardia would then realize it was Impey and just roll her eyes.

Victor Frankenstein: While wearing a mask, it would be Victor this time who would act like he didn’t know Cardia in order to tease her. She would recognize him at first, but he would say, “Oh, I’m sorry, have we met? I’m glad we have now though; you’re such a beautiful young lady…”; Cardia would apologize and feel a bit shy, but Victor would attempt to coax her into staying by his side. Cardia would politely refuse and explain that she mistook him for her lover, and that she needs to find him. When Cardia starts walking away, Victor grabs her arm and takes his mask off, telling her he was just teasing. She gets a little frustrated at first, but Victor just says, “I’m sorry, I couldn’t help it! You were so cute…I wanted to hear you praise me more”. Cardia would soften and then force Victor to dance with her as an apology.

Saint Germain: Saint Germain would walk up beside Cardia and start chatting with her about the evening and how it was. Her formal replies would confuse him, and eventually she would say she was hoping her partner would show up soon. Saint G would realize that Cardia had no clue who he was, and he would decide to just go along with it. He would offer to be her partner, and then offer to marry her since he was wealthy. Cardia would immediately decline, saying she was in love with someone else. Saint G would pout and say that he would use magic to turn into her lover, and then he’d take off his mask. Cardia would look scared and confused, but Saint G would explain that he was him the whole time. Cardia would feel a bit silly, but Saint G would say, “To hear you acting so devoted to me makes me love you even more, Miss Cardia.”

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one video game site describing the game's premise:

"In the trailer, Harker was perceived as a much more efficient and courageous vampire hunter, as opposed to the classic portrayal of Jonathan Harker in Bram Stoker’s books and films, including Dracula."

sir... sir... he literally killed dracula in the book...

You know.

I think this broke me just a little more. My camel back was already broken under so many straws, but I think this one made me collapse back in on myself.

So.

There's a lot to be said about the inspirational power of great works of media. Stories and masterpieces that spur wonder, love, and awe. The ones that give you a goal to aspire to in your own creative endeavors. The strive to match up to something great can do a lot.

But I'll tell you, friend. There is nothing quite as empowering as pure, unbridled spite. Just full-on loathing for every piece of half-assed, fan fictionified, self insert-riddled, character-botching, absolute shrug of a creative work that tries to hide under the disguise of a public domain title to cover for its inadequacies, and not only getting away with it because so much of the audience hasn't read the book, not only profiting off of it, but leaving a nigh irremovable stain on the entire pop cultural mind that is so hugely, categorically, monstrously Wrong, that the 'understanding' of the book and its characters is treated as offhand. Because 'everyone knows' it.

"Sure! Everyone knows Jonathan Harker doesn't have any real vampire hunting experience! That's all Van Helsing's shtick, what with him being the very definite for-real nemesis of Dracula, ha ha! Nice of these video game people to give the little guy a shot, eh?"

Just. Wow.

I am ready to make so, so much Jonathan Harker shit. Barking Harker? Sure. Absolutely. Doc's open right now. But maybe I'll do more. Love is my kindling, but bile is the fuel on the fire.

I can do Jonathan Harker as the Superior Dracula, complete with ripping Coppola's reincarnation love interest gimmick out his asshole and doing the Romantic Dracula Trope real justice. Why? BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY JONATHAN AND JONATHAN CAN PULL OFF THE WHITE-HAIRED PINING UNDEAD ROLE BETTER. How about that?

How about I make a whole ass script and screenplay for a Dracula series actually in line with the book? No creative license! No Dracula-wolf sex scenes or cheating fiancees or jealous suitors or dodging the el gee bee tee edges or turning Van Helsing into an anime man who saves the day! Just actual events that actually happened in the 125-year-old book that every modern adaptation is too cis-straight-scared to do! How about that?

How about I eat the heart out of every single Van Helsing-centric Monster Hunter series and anime and make it all about the Harkers, their friends, and/or their descendants? How about that?

How about the Harkers getting an eternal vampiric honeymoon after the Transylvanian trip goes bloodily south and they just go about their undead business forever and Dracula is nothing but a footnote in their story which he always was anyway? How about that?

HOW ABOUT I FLOOD THE WORLD WITH DRACULA CONTENT WHERE DRACULA IS NO MORE OR LESS THAN THE SADISTIC VILLAIN HE'S ALWAYS BEEN AND GETS HIS ASS KICKED AND HEAD CHOPPED LIKE THE LOSER BASTARD DESERVES???

HOW ABOUT THAT????

I WILL LIVE TO SEE A WORLD THAT REGISTERS EXACTLY HOW BADASS JONATHAN HARKER AND ALL OF THE HUMAN CAST IS, A WORLD THAT SEES DRACULA FOR THE UNDEAD UNDERWEAR STAIN HE ALWAYS WAS,

FOR I WILL CRAFT THAT WORLD MYSELF UPON THE BONES AND BLOOD OF THE INFINITE BASTARDIZATIONS THAT CAME BEFORE THEM!

I SHALL NOT SUFFER THESE ICE-COLD 'lol no I never touched the book but I kinda remember the wiki for the Coppola movie' TAKES FOR ALL ETERNITY. I WILL REWRITE THE PUBLIC OSMOSIS UNTIL ALL THEY KNOW OF DRACULA IS THAT JONATHAN HARKER KILLED HIM IN HIS DIRT BOX.

Anyway.

To all my Dracula Dailiers out there. I say again. Join me. While our little book club did wonders, the fact is, not a ton of people are going to ever bother with the dusty old novel. Spinoffs and sequels? Sure. But not (what they assume is) a dry old classic. Which leaves audiences and filmmakers caught in a perpetual profit and expectation-based loop.

People assume Dracula is Sexy-Suave Count Fuckula and that Mina hooks up with him while Van Helsing and [INSERT HUMAN NOBODIES HERE] are pushed to the sidelines. So that's what directors will keep churning out. Ditto for makers of books, comics, shows, and video games. It will just keep going in the same rut.

Unless we put some new blood out there. There are so many possibilities. So much that can be made to finally drag the spotlight away from the Count and give it back to the characters who deserve it.

So please. Please. Make that Dracula-derived thing you're unsure about. Even at its most indulgent and outlandish, you have read the book. And you know more about what you're doing than literally any so-called professional who's churned out their tired knockoffs of knockoffs. (Or the folks who take their opinions from the same.)

#sorry about all that Anon #had a rant building up for a while #dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #barking harker #my writing #inspiration

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Secrets

It’s been a while since I did one of my rewatch posts, and what better episode to hop back into the swing of things than Secrets? I remember the morning after this episode aired, I got my mom to sit down and watch it with me over breakfast because Artemis and Zee kicked so much ass and I figured she’d appreciate that (as well as the Marvin the Martian reference, hehe).

Nothing bad ever happens on Halloween, amiright?

I like how that museum curator guy just happens to decide that he REALLY needs to say the Beowulf sword incantation for that cop, you know, just in case some wacko in a cut up trench coat is crouching up in the rafters nearby and might need it or something. How considerate! (dude, you could have prevented this ENTIRE episode from happening if you had not said that. YOU HAD ONE JOB.)

“Mediocrity such as this is never far from Harm.” Is Harm insinuating that he attracts mediocrity? I know he means that as a compliment to himself but I just can’t help but see it as he’s a loser so he attracts other losers.

Harm reminds me of a guy that I went to high school with, that always had really long hair and wore all black and a trench coat like all the fucking time. I shit you not I think of that guy every time I watch this episode, the resemblance is uncanny.

In fact now I’m just imagining that Harm was some fucking edgelord that was like obsessed with old legends and creepy shit and then somehow got stuck on the Beowulf legend and the sword and started taking things too far.

LOL, Museum Curator is like okay see you guys, we’re fucked.

“The legends say the heart must be pure, they never said pure good.” You know, he really does have a point.

“Really, you’re not going to join in? What kind of wolf are you?” The kind that doesn’t respond to what arguably sounds like an actual dying dog, Wally.

Leave it to Conner to get Megan to wrap some toilet paper all over him and call himself a mummy. (I’m just kidding it’s probably not toilet paper but still)

Wally please stop with your face

Awww, poor Billy! He wants to hang out with the Team! He’s so precious <3

AW YEAH AND HERE ARE THE LADIES OF THE HOUR. (well actually of the half hour but)

Okay, I really do not fucking have a clue as to why, but for some reason whenever I see Artemis in that vampire get-up my brain likens her to one of those uh... ugh, that Scooby-Doo movie with the three sisters that sang in it? Were they humans or vampires? I don’t remember but for some odd ass reason I get vibes of one of those chicks (or all of them?) from Artemis the vampire. IT’S WEIRD.

Also why didn’t they give Artemis fangs. LOST. OPPORTUNITY.

On a shippers note I find it interesting that Wally is a werewolf and Artemis is a vampire. Obviously those two creatures of the night are often heavily entwined, be it as star-crossed lovers a la Underworld, or something more like Van Helsing. I wonder if the choice was intentional, or perhaps coincidental... considering there is 0 Wally and Artemis interaction in this episode. (kind of a shame, tbh, I feel there might have been some funny potential in at least having them comment on each other’s costumes or something at the beginning) Not to mention the fact that Artemis’s angry attitude in this episode has a whole lot to do with Wally, despite no interaction.

The Justice League didn’t have a Halloween Party!? WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS.

You know, I don’t believe that Wally or Artemis were really 100% oblivious to Conner and M’gann being a thing. I think for both of their parts it was something more along the lines of wishful thinking, or perhaps shrugging off certain blatant signs of affection as nothing more than friendship. Considering that Greg said neither Wally nor Artemis took the revelation as hard as they appear to (moreso in Artemis’s case, as Wally gets over it pretty much immediately compared to her) I think that deep down they were both kidding themselves. As has been said many times before, Conner and M’gann were merely distractions for both of them, somewhere to focus their affections when they were too scared to admit they liked the other, or when the other seemed unobtainable to them. Crutch crushes, if you will. For Artemis, Wally seemed out of reach, so she went back to hot, beefy Conner; for Wally, his intense and undeniable feelings for Artemis began to scare him, so he went back to safe, sweet Megan instead of confronting those feelings.

“You are so making this up to me later.” I think we all know what that means...

“Girl’s night out.”

Artemis is like AW YEAH MISPLACED AGGRESSION TIME.

“I know Artemis isn’t shooting straight. For starter’s she isn’t Green Arrow’s niece.” “What?” “Well, yeah, in fact she’s related to--” Awww, Dick was just so unconcerned about it and I love that. Like, he KNOWS and he doesn’t even consider for two seconds that Artemis is the Team mole. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: DICK AND ARTEMIS’S FRIENDSHIP IS SO IMPORTANT. (if you don’t think that Dick hacked into the Bat-computer and looked up info on Artemis pretty much the night she joined then you’re wrong)

Four for you, YJ Bats, sticking up for Artemis’s right to have a secret identity! See, this is the kind of times that I like Batman.

Why does Dick almost seem sad about there not being a traitor? I never could quite figure out what that expression of his is supposed to mean, unless it’s just a kind of like “I’m stumped” kind of sad/deflated thing. IDK

I was sooooo glad we got an episode of Zee and Artemis being badasses on motorcycles, considering those two were absent for the brief motorcycle fun times in Schooled.

I also liked the headcanon that Zatanna was borrowing Robin’s motorcycle in this episode, huehue. (too bad it uh... blew up)

I fucking love that Artemis has this kind of... like, attitude of being pissed off and just wanting to pummel the shit out of something instead of actually talk about it, especially considering it’s a matter of the heart. I don’t think Artemis follows the closed off trope per se, but she’s just so convinced that Wally doesn’t want her and that the Team would shun her if they found out about her family that she’s closing herself off where she normally wouldn’t. Like, I love that Zatanna tries to be a good friend and let her talk it out, but Artemis is only interested and venting some of her pent up anger on some hapless bastards. Her feelings and her secrets are eating her up from the inside out at this point.

“What I need is something to beat up.”

God Artemis is such a badass, can we just appreciate the fact that she’s a badass enough archer to fucking nail very precise targets from a moving vehicle? And then like, punches some guy as she’s driving past and finishes him off?

Harm is a fucking creeper.

“You know, there were easier ways to take them.” “Pfft, they had it coming, no harm done.” THAT’S RIGHT ARTEMIS YOU KICK BITCHES IN THE FACE. (especially considering the implications of what they were going to do when circling that blonde girl... they definitely deserved the punishment Artemis dished out)

“We get it, your name is Harm!”

“Their ridiculous garb--” Excuse me? Coming from the guy with no shirt on and a ripped up trench coat thing? Come on brah, who’s really ridiculous here? My ladies have style!

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate Zatanna’s awesome flip thing while saving Artemis, shall we?

Oh my god I forever love that Zatanna changes her fucking boots mid chase sequence because they’re impractical. XD

I’m always just a little bit disappointed that the dagger that slices Artemis’s mask didn’t leave a bloody scratch. Like, they could have gotten away with a red line on her cheek to represent it being a scratch. Idk, I’ve seen fics where she does have one and Wally asks about it and stuff like that, I choose to headcanon it nicked her skin.

I also kind of like that Zatanna lasts about two seconds against Harm but Artemis holds her own for a good minute or so. My point being that there’s an obvious contrast in each of their training, that Zatanna probably doesn’t physically fight very much due to her spells, where as Artemis is quite proficiently trained in melee as well as her bow and arrows. It’s also an interesting contrast in that they’re both technically “ranged” heroes if you will, but one of them is still more melee inclined than the other. This is in no way saying Zatanna is weak, I’m sure she at least knows some basic fighting/defense, I’m sure Zatara would’ve taught her something, but Artemis is clearly the winner here, especially with her upbringing (god knows all the shit Lawrence taught her). And in general I greatly appreciate that Artemis could have very easily just been the stereotypical “girl’s are ranged” trope with no combat prowess at all, but instead she’s inclined to both ways of fighting and in fact spends the majority of season 2 fighting melee with a sword.

Appreciation time for the rooftop fight, as the choreography for it is particularly top-notch!

Also, Artemis is fierce!

“You wanna play without the toys?”

Artemis, please, stop, you can’t just unleash that much of your badassery at once, it’s bad for my health!

Shipper goggles: When Harm hits Artemis in the face I’m always just like wondering how Wally would have reacted to that. For no other reason than shipper reasons. I would’ve just loved to see him be all like AW HELL NAW and just rush Harm recklessly and probably get his ass whooped.

“The martians are coming, the martians are coming!” Oh my fucking GOD this part cracks me the fuck up every time.

“Watch out! They have disintegration rays!” Conner, honey, I can tell you that you’re not getting an Oscar for that line delivery anytime soon.

THE CORNY ASS MUSIC I CANT

Wally is so silent this whole episode, though, tbh. He has like two lines at the beginning and then yells about martians, but other than that he’s completely silent, it’s weird.

SUDDENLY IT’S SAW UP IN HERE.

ARTEMIS AND ZEE USING STOVE GAS TO BLOW HIM THE FUCK UP, A++.

Oh, man, Artemis getting so... just absolutely fucking livid when she finds out that Harm murdered his sister. “You did this! To your own sister! And you had the gall to write beloved!” Like, she can’t even imagine doing that to Jade, or Jade doing that to her. They are very obviously on the opposite sides of the law, but when it comes down to it Jade nor Artemis would ever do anything that would kill the other, they love each other, and the idea that someone could do that to their own sibling just fucking appalls her.

“It can’t fight us while it fights itself!” FUCK HIM UP, ART!

How does that boot taste, mother fucker?!

“I still can’t believe someone could do that to his own sister... I mean if my...”

:((( Artemis you hurt me.

#ranty rewatches young justice

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Blockbusters assemble: can the mega movie live the digital era?

From Star Wars sequels to superhero dealerships, blockbusters still rule the film industry. But with Amazon and Netflix tearing up the freeing planneds, are they on shaky sand?

Is the blockbuster in hassle? On the surface, to hint such a thing might seem as absurd as handing out the wrong envelope at the biggest phenomenon of the movie docket because you were busy tweeting pictures of Emma Stone. This is the blockbuster were talking about. Its Luke Skywalker, Jurassic World, Disney, The Avengers, Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Pixar. Its the Rock piercing his fist through a structure. Its the effects-driven culture juggernaut that powers the entire film industry. Does it look as if its in trouble?

A glance at the balance sheet for its first year to year would cement the view that the blockbuster is in insulting health. Total gross are higher at the present stage than any of the past five years. Logan, the Lego Batman Movie and Kong: Skull Island have all drew in big-hearted gatherings globally. And then theres Beauty and the Beast, a true-blue cultural phenomenon, currently racing its method up the all-time higher-rankings. All this and theres still a new Star Wars instalment, another Spider-Man reboot, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Alien: Covenant, Blade Runner 2049, plus sequels of (* deep breath *) Guardians of the Galaxy, Cars, World War Z, Kingsman, Transformers, Fast and the Furious, Planet of the Apes, Despicable Me, Thor and Pirates of the Caribbean still to come. Hardly the signs of a crisis, it would be fair to say.

Dig a bit deeper though and the foundations that blockbusters are built on start to look precariou. Last-place month, Variety produced a fib that painted a picture of an manufacture scared stiff by its own future, as customer flavors accommodate with changes in technology. Increased pres from Netflix and Amazon, those digital-disruption barbarians, has caused the big studios to consider changing the behavior they exhaust movies. The theatrical space, the 90 -day cushion between a cinemas introduction in cinema and its exhaust on DVD or streaming, is set to be reduced to as little as three weeks in an attempt to bolster dwindle dwelling amusement sales. Its a move that service industries sees as necessary, as younger onlookers develop more adaptable, portable viewing procedures, and certainly numerous smaller productions have begun to liberate their cinemas on-demand on the same day as in cinemas it was one of the reasons that Shia LaBeoufs Man Down grossed a much-mocked 7 in cinema.

Ana De Armas and Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049. Photograph: Allstar/ WARNER BROS.

At the same time, investors from China long thought to be Hollywoods saviour have suddenly chilled the best interest, cancelling major studio slews as the Chinese box office abides growing hurtings( with domestic ticket auctions merely increasing 2.4% in 2016 against a 49% rise the year before)and the governmental forces crackdown on overseas investment starts to burn. Contribute to that a couple of high-profile recent busts Scarlett Johanssons Ghost in the Shell, Matt Damons The Great Wall, the unintentionally creepy Chris Pratt/ Jennifer Lawerence sci-fi Passengers, Jake Gyllenhaals Alien knock-off Life and you have an manufacture thats not as expanding as the blockbuster bluster might suggest.

Hollywoods response to this instability has been to double down, focusing on blockbusters to the exclusion of just about everything else. In the past decade the summer blockbuster season has mission-crept its lane well into spring, a phenomenon that has been period cultural global warming; this year, Logan was liberated a merely three days after the Oscars intent. The ensuing consequence is of a full calendar year of blockbusters, with a small drop-off for Oscars season in January and February and even in that span this year we still visualized the liberations of The Lego Batman Movie, The Great Wall, John Wick 2 and the regrettable Monster Trucks.

Meanwhile, the mid-budget film that hardy perennial that used to help prop up service industries by expenditure relatively little and often deserving plenties( belief Sophies Choice or LA Confidential) has largely been abandoned by the major studios, its potential profit margins seen as insufficiently high when the cost of things such as commerce is factored in. Which isnt to say that mid-budget movies dont prevail, its merely that theyre being make use of smaller, independent studios ensure Arrival and Get Out for recent successful specimen or most commonly as TV series.( Theres that Netflix, disrupting situations again .)

In essence, what this all means for service industries is the fact that it blockbuster or failure. Studios have looked at the altering scenery and decided to react by replenishing it with superheroes, war wizards and CGI mortals, acquiring more blockbusters than they used to, but fewer films in total. The old-fashioned tentpole formula, where a few large-scale films would shelter the mid-range and low-budget nonsense, has significantly been abandoned. The blockbusters are about reducing the films these studios produce down to a minimum, reply Steven Gaydos, vice-president and executive editor at Variety. They clear nothing but large-scale bets. You have to keep improving a bigger and more efficient spaceship.

Its a high-risk strategy and one that, in the form of Disney and their Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar dealerships, has brought big rewards. But this abrupt ratcheting up of the stakes means that the cost of default has already become far more pronounced. Last-place time Viacom was forced to take a $ 115 m( 92 m) writedown on Monster Trucks, while Sony took a writedown of roughly$ 1bn on their entire cinema disagreement after a faltering couple of years.

Hugh Jackman in Logan. Photo: Allstar/ 20 TH CENTURY FOX

While those losses might be explained away as the outcomes of bad stakes on bad films Monster Trucks was infamously based on an idea by an executives five-year-old son they hint at the holocaust who are able to ensue if a broader, industry-wide difficulty were to present itself. Namely, what if the public loses its appetite for the blockbuster?

Its not entirely without instance: in the late 1950 s, as television would be in danger of steal a march on cinema, studios responded by travelling large-scale. Spectacle was seen as the key: westerns, musicals and sword-and-sandal epics predominated. But gatherings soon thrived tired of these hackneyed genres and ticket auctions continued to shrink. That era the industry survived, thanks first to the infusion of vitality provided for under the jumpy, arty New Hollywood films, then later with the early blockbusters such as Jaws and Star Wars.

Could such a mass tuning-out happen again? Surely, theres an spooky resemble in the way that Hollywood has reacted to changing durations with width and spectacle, but also in their narrow focus. Once an sexual thriller such as Fatal Attraction or a musical drama such as Footloose might have reasonably been considered a blockbuster. Nowadays the blockbuster almost exclusively is still in the action, fantasize, boys cinema or superhero genres.

The superhero film including with regard to towers huge over the industry, as every studio tries to replicate the formula set by Marvel. Ever-more niche caped crusaders are being given their own cinemas Batgirl, Aquaman, the Gotham City Sirens in an attempt to unearth a new Deadpool. Spider-Man and Batman have once again been rebooted in an attempt to freshen up the respective franchises. And, of course, everyone wants their own cinematic macrocosm a immense galaxy of characters that together can generate a apparently infinite number of spin-offs, sequels and prequels. At this very minute, the creators of Call of Duty are actively seeking to turn their shocking shoot-em-ups into a series of interlocking films, while James Cameron a director whose preferred approach of cracking a seed is with a sledgehammer, you suspect is creating a universe around his smash-hit Avatar, replete with five sequels, graphic novels, actual fictions and, most bewilderingly, a Cirque du Soleil show.

These shared natures actively tribunal the sort of gatherings who will turn up to every movie, buy the action fleshes, don the cosplay outfits and ingest the branded breakfast cereal in other words, teenage sons. The dominant ideology is fanboy culture, says Gaydos. It is adolescent. It is the conflicts by violence. It is wish-fulfillment, spectacle and diversion phone and delirium, if we are seeking to get Shakespearean.

Truly, the geeks have inherited the earth. But what about the rest of us? How many people have the time, force or inclination to sit through, say, all the cinemas in the forthcoming Universal Monsters shared universe, which begins this year with a reboot of The Mummy and has resuscitations of Wolf Man, Van Helsing and the Invisible Human in pre-production? Greenlighting this serial of movies without be seen whether anyone is going to bother to watch even the first of them looks like a risky struggle, and the most recent plight of the Divergent YA movie franchise, whose recent movie is being exhausted as a Tv movie due to lack of interest, offers up a cautionary tale that studios should perhaps be paying attention to.

Cars 3. Photo: Allstar/ WALT DISNEY PICTURES

But whats impressing about all these blockbusters is how youth-skewed they find themselves, at a time when a one-third of cinemagoers in the US are over the age of 50. Older gatherings can experience The Avengers as much as everyone else, of course, but sloping your sell primarily towards young people is a risky strategy. Young parties tend to be the most fickle audience, one whose attention is split in thousands and thousands of regions, mentions Gaydos. Theyre too the gathering least able to splash out on cinema tickets. And of course theyre an audience who are becoming increasingly accustomed to watching material on their phones, laptops and smart TVs.

In other terms, theyre the ones likely to action through the seismic change service industries is currently fretting over. If they lose interest in the modern blockbuster in the way that younger audiences turned away from the westerns, musicals and historic epics in the 1960 s, the studios will have to find something glistening and brand-new to wave in their faces and this time they wont have something akin to the New Hollywood to court them with, as that kind of transgressive, edgy, groundbreaking fare is increasingly revolving up on the small screen.

Perhaps the best thing the studios can do in the face of this new world is to show some imagery in how they develop and present their blockbusters and there are signs that this is already happening. Producer Stephen Woolley, who has worked on cinemas such as The Crying Game and the forthcoming adjustment of On Chesil Beach, quotes Deadpool as a film that has subtly managed to shift the feeling of the superhero movie. Its taking a much more sophisticated viewpoint of that world-wide and ridiculing it, while at the same reinforcing it. It was a clever have-your-cake-and-eat-it from the people who made it.

Meanwhile, Disneys successful live-action reimaginings of their animated pieces most notably Beauty and the Beast and The Jungle Book suggests that its possible to play the sequels and remakings activity without it seeming like a retread over old floor. Most outstandingly of all, the musical think this is making a comeback with the success of La La Land, that rare mid-budget movie to have spanned over into blockbuster status, grossing more than $400 m at a budget of $37 m.

Woolley is aware of the risks twirling all over the blockbuster, but considered it important that mass extinguishing is still some road away, if it ever comes. The chance you have is that audiences are fickle, and they could abruptly turn off, he says. Something occurs for them to say: Actually, we dont such as those movies any more. And theres always this inkling that it might materialize. But every time it seems to happen on the blockbuster front, another movie comes out to prove you wrong.

Ultimately, though, what might keep the blockbuster safe for the time being is not the films themselves but all the stuff around them. The thing that the studios are doing is something akin to a hypermovie or a supermovie, mentions Gaydos. Its a whole other thing. Its a toy-delivery arrangement. A Cars movie will gross $500 m or $600 m but the Cars commodities will exchange$ 4bn. Ultimately the movie is designed to be a monster sell implement for merchandise and theme parks that produce billions and billions.

As Hollywood agonises over its own future, it might be that the best direction for the blockbuster to survive is to subsume itself into bigger, most secure revenue streams: playthings, recreations, merchandise, live attractions. So if you want to keep the blockbuster around for a while longer, you should get your Superman outfit on and run yourself a container of that branded cereal.

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If you ask most people, they would likely tell you that the crown jewel in the entertainment industry is to be a big movie star. Sure, television is more respected than ever before, video games are an art form that is being recognized more and more, and music is the soundtrack of our lives; but movies still reign supreme. That is probably why there are more people trying to play even small roles in major movies today than could easily be counted. As a result of that, the competition to gain the attention of casting agents is extremely fierce and only the pick of the litter manage to rise above. While acting skill is a very important trait if you want to make it to the tip top of the acting world, there is no doubt that looks also play a massive role. If you question that at all, then you need look no further than the posters at your local theater as they will inevitably feature some of the most attractive people in the world. As such, it is more evident today than ever before that being a hottie is of huge importance to the career of an actress that wants to be a big movie star. Realizing that and how much we enjoy the female form is what inspired us to put together this list of the fifteen hottest actresses in Hollywood today. In order for an actress to be considered for inclusion here, they first off need to have played a notable role in at least one major movie production. For our purposes, Hollywood is a grab-all for the American movie industry so that means that the actress also needs to have made a notable appearance in a movie produced by an American studio. Aside from that, our only priority was bringing to you a list of the hottest actresses around.

#1 Amber Heard From the first moment you see Amber Heard on the movie screen, it seems abundantly clear that she has the looks and the “it” factor to be one of the most famous actors of her generation. While she has yet to reach heights like that, she has managed to play parts in movies like All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Never Back Down, Pineapple Express, Zombieland, The Rum Diary, and more. Set to appear in the upcoming film, Justice League, if the movie does half as much for her as playing Harley did for Margot Robbie, it could easily be the role that punches her career through. A stunning woman with a body that doesn’t seem to have a single extra pound on it, she seems to be the very definition of a hot woman.

#2 Gal Gadot Only a few years ago, Gal Gadot was mostly known in North America for playing Gisele Yashar in the Fast and Furious franchise. But then, she was cast as Wonder Woman and everything changed for her. Initially, her casting was met with a great deal of skepticism and even anger. But once Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice came out, the response from fans was markedly different. Nearly universally hailed as one of the best elements of the movies, fans couldn’t wait to see more of her and thankfully, they didn’t have to wait any longer. Set to return as the character in two films in 2017, Wonder Woman and Justice League, the DC Extended Universe is betting on her big time and from where we’re sitting, it seems like a great move. Also cast in the movie Keeping Up with the Joneses, she played a secret agent who appears in lingerie in one scene and in a second, she proved exactly why she deserves to appear on any list like this.

#3 Kate Beckinsale A British actress that is best known these days for her work in action movies, including the Underworld franchise of films as well as Total Recall and Van Helsing, Kate Beckinsale has been in a variety of films. For instance, she was in a comedy like Click, dramas like Brokedown Palace and The Last Days of Disco, and romances like Serendipity and Love & Friendship. Forty-three years old at the time of this writing, she has a body that women half her age would love to have and about as beautiful a face as we have ever seen. On top of that, whenever she is interviewed she comes off as poised and kindhearted which makes her far more attractive in our eyes.

#4 Blake Lively Made a star overnight when she was cast as Serena van der Woodsen in the teen drama series Gossip Girl, Blake Lively brought some serious s*x appeal to the series. A show that never shied away from courting controversy, it featured several sensual moments that few have seen on TV in the past and gave fans even more of a reason to fall for her feminine wiles. Also a movie star in her own right, she has appeared in movies like Accepted, The Town, Green Lantern, Savages, and several others. On top of those films, Blake received a level of critical praise she had never known for her work in the shark movie The Shallows. A tense film, fortunately, viewers could take a small amount of solace in the opportunity to see her in a bikini which is something that we always enjoy. A blonde bombshell that seems as though she would have been entirely at home in the Hollywood of the past, she has “s*x symbol” written all over her due to her buxom body.

#5 Scarlett Johansson Probably the most in-demand actress in all of Hollywood today, it seems as though there isn’t a single role for a woman in her age range that Scarlett Johansson isn’t the top pick for. Starring in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as The Black Widow, she has yet to get her own standalone movie but has played a pivotal part in many of the most important movies in the franchise. Also the star of movies like The Prestige, Her, Lucy, The Jungle Book, Ghost in the Shell, Under the Skin, and many more, she has undoubtedly made a mark on the film world that will never be forgotten. Named the sexiest woman alive by Esquire Magazine in 2013, this blonde with a bountiful chest looks amazing in either a dress or everyday clothes.

#6 Eva Mendes First coming to the attention of many people with her appearance in Training Day, Eva Mendes has already appeared in movies like Urban Legends: Final Cut by then. With her newfound fame and popularity, however, she was able to land far more meaty roles and became a movie star as a result. Appearing in movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch, Ghost Rider, We Own the Night, The Other Guys, The Place Beyond the Pines, and many more, she spent years as part of major movies each year. While she has taken a bit of a backseat over the last few years, due to giving birth to two children fathered by her partner, Ryan Gosling, there is no doubt she could make a comeback at any moment, so we’re counting her. An exquisite beauty who has proven in the past that she takes great pride in her body, based on every glimpse we’ve ever received, there is good reason for that and we had to include her here.

#7 Nina Dobrev Nina Dobrev has yet to become a household name but she has been able to garner a massive following by starring in the show The Vampire Diaries, which lasted an impressive eight seasons. Cast in one of the series’ most important roles, it was the romance she shared onscreen and in real life with Ian Somerhalder that made so many people fall for her. Going on to appear in movies like Let’s Be Cops, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Final Girls, and xXx: Return of Xander Cage, she is also set to star in a remake of the film Flatliners later this year. A beautiful brunette with a glowing personality that comes across onscreen, she has shown herself to have a real presence on the screen. Also blessed with a mind-blowing body, if you have ever seen images of her in a bikini, then you will know that she is an incredibly fit woman.

#8 Mary Elizabeth Winstead Starting out her career as a scream queen of sorts, Mary Elizabeth Winstead appeared in movies like Final Destination 3, Black Christmas, Death Proof, The Thing, and several other horror films. Also known for her parts in the Die Hard franchise as John McClane’s daughter, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Sky High, and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, among others, she is radiant in virtually every role. Currently playing a role in the third season of Fargo, one of the best series on all of television, in our opinion, she brings a great deal of beauty to a show that goes for realism and style. One of the most charming and elegant actresses in the acting world as we see it, she carries herself like someone who knows she is the hottest person in any room she walks into but doesn’t depend on that.

#9 Alexandra Daddario Formerly a guest star in a number of shows and a supporting actor in movies like The Squid and the Whale, Alexandra Daddario made a major leap forward when she was cast in the Percy Jackson movies. Still, despite receiving some fans that took note of her work in those movies and a few others, she didn’t become a true star yet. Then, she was cast in the first season of True Detective and when she appeared in the nude during a memorable moment, the world stood up and took note. Now set to appear in four films in 2017, including Baywatch, alongside The Rock, and another that is already announced for 2018, it is clear that her career has reached another level. Possessing one of the sexiest figures we’ve ever seen captured on film, there is a good reason why audiences want to see as much of her as possible going forward.

#10 Margot Robbie One of the fastest rising stars we’ve ever seen in the movie world, Margot Robbie is an Australian actress who started out in television and the criminally underrated movie About Time. Then, she was cast in the 2013 Martin Scorsese movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, and she seemed to become a star overnight, due in part to a memorable nude scene of her own. Proving herself capable of holding her own with the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio with her breakout role, clearly, Hollywood took note as she has since starred alongside the likes of Will Smith, Tina Fey, and Samuel L. Jackson. Now most synonymous with her role as Harley Quinn, one of the most universally loved elements of the DCEU, she seems poised to become an even bigger star still going forward. A blonde beauty that has charisma oozing from her pores, she is also able to portray insanity to the hottest level but still make you wish you could spend just one night with her despite the danger to yourself.

#11 Charlize Theron The second actress on this list that was named the sexiest woman alive by Esquire Magazine. That came in 2007 for Charlize Theron. And if you ask us, she has managed to become sexier in the intervening decade. Proving herself to not only be a marvelous actress in movies like Monster and The Cider House Rules, she has also become one of the biggest action stars around after Mad Max: Fury Road. A statuesque blonde with a slender and sexy figure, she isn’t the curviest woman on this list but she has proven time and time again that she is at the top of the Hollywood hottie heap.

#12 Ana De Armas For those of you that are not aware of the Cuban actress, Ana De Armas, yet, don’t worry because you are likely to become more aware of her as time goes on. First making waves in North America when she was cast as one-half of a pair of young women that terrorize a character played by Keanu Reeves in Knock Knock, the movie relied heavily on her looks. Since she has appeared in several major movies, including Hand of Stone and War Dogs, she has her biggest role yet on the horizon. Set to play Joi in Blade Runner 2049, her performance in one of the most anticipated movies of the year, in a very major role no less, is likely to make her a well-known entity. A sultry woman that looks as though she is supremely confident and knows exactly what she wants in bed, there is little in this world that is sexier than that.

#13 Morena Baccarin If there is one thing that we know in the world of pop culture, it is this: one of the most beloved sci-fi series of all time is Firefly and starring in it was a sure fire way of gaining fans that are intensely loyal. Morena Baccarin has enjoyed the fruits of that labor ever since she played Inara Serra on that series. But if she hadn’t, we believe that she would have become a star anyhow. Memorable for other television roles, Jessica Brody in Homeland and Leslie Thompkins in Gotham, these days, it is a movie role, however, that she is best known for. Cast as Vanessa in the film Deadpool, she likely had no idea how big of a movie that would turn out to be for her. Playing a woman that is capable of holding her own with a mercenary like Wade Wilson in the movie, she brings a level of swagger to her performance that made audiences swoon with delight.

#14 Gemma Arterton Ever since the 1990’s, the James Bond franchise has made a big comeback, so are is the tradition of beautiful women who have played major parts in it. But during that decade, they relied on people that were stars. When Gemma Arterton was cast as a Bond girl in the movie Quantum of Solace, however, her performance was eye-grabbing enough to turn her into a star instead of the other way around. Capitalizing on that opportunity, she would receive roles in movies like Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and several others that took full advantage of her looks. A woman that is absolutely alluring and rather very ethereal even when dressed in clothing that could make someone else look innocent, she is skilled in the art of seduction onscreen.

#15 Eva Green From one Bond girl to another. We touched on the fact that two of the actresses on this list have been named the Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire Magazine, but the fact that Eva Green hasn’t yet been hailed as one of the sexiest is a miscarriage of justice in our view. Known for movies like Casino Royale, 300: Rise of an Empire, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, as well as the show Penny Dreadful, it is abundantly clear that she makes everything she appears in more provocative. Gorgeous in every photo she appears in, they still pale in comparison to how she looks onscreen as they can’t show the sultry energy she brings to every movement, even when overcome with rage. Someone that oozes with s*x appeal from every pore, she seems to have been born to make the world a more seductive place and it feels like mortal people like you or me might wilt under her gaze.

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Code: Realize Anime Episode 3 + 4 Review!

Here’s the mod’s review of the third episode of the Code: Realize anime! We are actually quite pleased with this past episode, so we had much more positive things to say. We hope you enjoy reading our comments as well as the anime as a whole. <3

We’re also going to be meshing together our review for episode 3 and episode 4, since this review is really late. Sorry!

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Episode 3: I was really bitter about the second episode of the Code: Realize anime, but I have walked away with a more positive outlook because of Episode 3. While there were many changes to how this arch was handled, I actually found that I enjoyed how the episode was presented to us. That doesn't mean that everything was perfect. It was just more to my liking than not, I guess.

The setup at the beginning of the episode for the train heist really got me excited, and I felt like it was appropriate to include instead of just doing it all in one episode. It really helps for the audience to look forward to something, and it makes the anime as a whole feel a bit less episodic.

Of course, the bulk episode was obviously tackling Van's backstory as well as how Cardia becomes an amazing and capable character. I really appreciated how they condensed Cardia's training sessions into short clips, though I do miss the more detailed interactions with each character. Van's agreeing to help Cardia after everything goes down with Delly I felt actually made more sense than just forcing it in the visual novel. I always felt that Van was doing it because he didn't have a choice, but having him warm up to Cardia after she helps Delly just feels so much more natural.

At the end of the day, I guess I should say I’m glad they kept in Cardia’s lessons as a whole. Seeing Cardia grow is something I'm greatly interested in, and I'm hoping that they do her justice. She is an amazing heroine who deserves to have her story told right. Now I’m just waiting for her to get her day clothes finally. I’m not sure why they’ve waited so long to give them to her.

I wasn't really surprised that they dipped into Van's backstory in this episode, as I felt that they were going to do that from the beginning. I think that they presented it to the audience quite well, and I also enjoyed getting to see shots of Van's family. Yet again, Junichi Suwabe absolutely nails Van's grief over his family's death, the naive youth of past Van and the unbridled anger Van holds for Finis.

I'm just a little disappointed that we will likely not see some of the more amazing scenes from Van's route like Jack the Ripper. I'm also uncertain if Aleister or Hidden Strength will even be a thing because of this past episode, but I'm holding back judgments for now.

I think that Delly's animation was superb; they showed off the physical prowess that Vampires have quite well. The interactions between Delly and Van were very reminiscent of the visual novel, and I greatly approve of that. The animation that Van and Delly had while sword fighting wasn't the most spectacular I've ever seen, but it was much better than I thought it would be. So far, I'd say I'm really surprised and thankful that the animation has been this good for a 12-13 episode otome anime.

However, I'm still disappointed by how the anime has handled Saint Germain. They greatly changed the auction scene and altered the plot point of their dwindling finances, which really didn't do too much but pull some of Saint G's screentime out. I'm a bit frustrated by how they are presenting him. It's more like he's never around then just a strangle count who tags along to watch the fun (what he was in the visual novel). I'm hoping that, as the anime progresses, they will try and include Saint Germain in the action. Until then, I'm very unsatisfied with that.

The credits teased the train heist as well as the introduction of Sholmes, so I'm very invested in the next episode; the train heist was one of my favorite parts of the common route (next to the airship race of course), so I am afraid I will be a bit more critical of episode 4. Also, I stand by what I said in the episode 2 review; I think that the anime will definitely rush some things to try and keep all of the important moments. But if they are able to keep the spirit of Code: Realize alive like they did with this episode, I might be able to accept it.

Episode 4: Yet again, my faith has been renewed for the C:R anime. While I have a few gripes with some of the more intricate details in the episode, I can honestly say that episode 4 has also been given my seal of approval.

First thing’s first: CARDIA GOT HER CASUAL CLOTHES THANK GOD

Despite the anime’s rumored length, I absolutely feel like Train Heist was handled incredibly well. The majority of the scenes even outside of Cardia’s sphere were kept quite the same, and I actually enjoyed some of the changes to help bring all of the character’s together instead of splitting them up too badly.

Van Helsing and Lupin were absolutely on point in this episode. If people who haven’t gotten the chance to play the game don’t love the both of them by now, then I don’t know what to say. You’re just not going to I guess? lol

I also appreciated that Victor and Saint Germian (mostly Saint G) were actually a bit more active this time around! Saint Germain actually got to do something, which has sorely depressed me for the first 3 episodes. As the show goes on, I’m hoping he gets to gradually show how badass he really is.

The highlight of this episode for me was the appearance of Herlock Sholmes. I enjoyed actually getting to see how he got onto the train in the first place; even when Sholmes said he was just curious and followed them in, I felt like that was just a bluff. And having something like that confirmed in the show really makes his character just seem that more awesome. I’m hoping he shows up again at some point in the anime to have more quips with Lupin.

I think they did a good job showing Finis’ madness and desperation to have Cardia by him. And Yuki Kaji is doing a brilliant job portraying him like always. Personally, I think showing Finis earlier on in the story really helped make him seem even more foreboding, so I actually praise that change as well.

Now on to the stuff I didn’t like about Episode 4: the fact that Van and Aleister had no interaction during train sequence (Not even like a quick frame of a glare) really disappoints me. I’m afraid they’re just going to turn him into Finis’ lackey, which is not what I want. Also, I really would like to see Cardia fight more. I appreciated that she actually did some fighting on top of the train, but I kind of wish that they had added in more of that instead. I just everyone to know how amazing Cardia really is.

Next episode seemed to tease Victor’s backstory, so here’s hoping that they do as good of a job with that as they can. I can officially say that I’ve got a bit more hope for the show, but since we’re not even halfway through, I still can’t pass judgement on it yet.

Until next time!

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Let me just say...I LOVED LOVED LOVED episode 3. It really improved my outlook of the anime and actually brought a tear to my eyes. Delly’s animations are flawless and beautiful, Van’s fencing was amazing, and good god those grief-filled screams sent shivers down my back.

I’ve decided to treat the anime as a completely separate medium from the game. That being said, the anime is really picking up now! I do kinda wish that Cardia’s training montage was an episode of its own so that we can see Cardia interact with the other guys, not just Lupin or Van. I’m really upset that Saint-G still isn’t getting the screen time he deserves (Mod S and I are jokingly calling him Saint Ghost SINCE HE’S NEVER AROUND).

As for episode 4, we actually got to see more of Herlock than we did in the game. (Also Lupin jumping out of the train window is reminded way too much of that GIF of Prince Charming from Cinderella 3 jumping out of the castle window). I liked the train heist and it actually BLEW my expectations. Saint-G actually did something this episode! He’s not a ghost anymore!

Also, Delly’s animations still continue to amaze me and holy shit I would totally die for my tiny vampire son.

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