yotomoe asked:
Do the all Shortpacked characters have favorate fandoms? I know a few, but others seem to be more ambiguous or just unstated
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If you mean pop culture they like, then here:
Ethan – Transformers, Batman (of course)
Amber – Ninja Turtles, MLP pre-Bronies
Jacob – Marvel stuff
Mike – Darth Vader, pre-petulant teenager retcons
Robin – Probably Batman and Transformers, which she picked up from Ethan
Ken – Star Wars, all of it
Leslie – sci fi, most of it
Ninja Rick – guess
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Back in the car parked outside George’s house, Doc warns Marty that George could think it’s all a dream, introducing a plot thread that maybe this won’t work after all!
“My knowledge of human psychology tells me that with George McFly it will be touch-and-go all the way.” [Doc said.]
Marty sighed.
Nearly twelve hours later, he was still sighing - and alternately cursing George.
Amazing. I love how it suggests Marty sighed nonstop for a full half day, taking breaks only for cusses. Emotions can be SO DEEP!!!!
Marty is sighing because TURNS OUT her never got a copy of George’s schedule, so he spent the whole morning at school trying to find him in classes before realizing he’s not there. Then he spent the whole afternoon sitting around hoping he’d show up. Then finally the school day is over and classes are dismissed and George is running to class super late and meets Marty only now. This is where the movie brings us too, skipping over all this sitting around action. I guess that’s why they call it “effective filmmaking”??
George tells Marty that he overslept and Marty realizes he almost killed his dad with that chloroform, and this realization sends “a shiver of terror racing through his system” which, you know, is fair. You did almost kill your dad while trying to prank him, MARTIN. George is all “I had some strange dreams” that were “fantastic stuff” and oh no maybe he thinks it was all a dream! Even the narrator tells us this is bad news!
It would not do to have George dismiss the careful scenario he had executed as “fantastic stuff”, of course.
Of course! So Marty lies and asks George if he saw the flying saucer that hovered above his house last night, and that the dozen kids in class who saw it were talking about it today. They all agreed it was in your neighbourhood, George! And this puts “a glint of energy” into George’s eyes and he asks Marty for help asking Lorraine out. Finally! Progress! And that “maybe this won’t work” plot thread introduced at the start of this writeup has now been concluded, and what a wild, pointless ride it’s been.
I’ve always thought the “George McFly seriously thought aliens wanted him to mack on a lady” element of the movie was a little goofy, especially since he’d recognize those SF franchises down the road (“Oh hey, it’s Darth Vader again”), but adding flying saucers on top of that is not a good choice, I think. It elevates the goofiness, makes what George believes even more implausible, and reduces him more to a clown. We want to like George and empathize with him, but the more you show him as being stupid the harder that’s going to be.
George and Marty head towards “the local teen hangout” (let’s go to the local teen hangout, fellows!) and we are going to see some George/Lorraine ACTION tomorrow, so we should all steel ourselves for that. Go ahead, go get yourself a glass of milk. Chocolate.
In addition to the wooden Ultra Car and Danny, my mom also brought me this baggie of Star Wars “legos.”
Yes, I know what they really are.
I can’t understand why anyone would ever want to live in the Star Wars universe
I really can’t
your life is uprooted every 20 years in galactic-scale wars caused by a neverending blood feud between two tribes of space wizards
choose your preferred form of government:
a) laughably ineffectual and corrupt bureaucracy
b) fascist dictatorship controlled by space warlocks
c) exploitation by evil crime gangster who is probably also a slug
there are no other choices, sorry
“Hey have you heard from Gary? He hasn’t answered my emails for weeks”
“Oh yeah, his whole planet got blown up by the genocidal cyborg sorcerer who controls our entire military”
“But Samuel, what if I am one of the space wizards???” Let’s examine your options:
- abducted as a baby and raised by monks, then die a 35-year-old virgin at the hands of a goddamn robot with tuberculosis
- hunted down and shot to death by grunts in stupid helmets because space wizards are illegal right now (again)
- go through a goth phase, then your eyes get all yucky and one of the monks finds you and cuts your head off
- end up in a cult led by some evil wrinkled assface in a bathrobe who shoots lightning at you when he’s mad
Also most of the wildlife seems to be ravenous carnivores with tentacles and/or 6-inch teeth and every urban area has roughly 6,942 assassins per square kilometer
strejdaking asked:
Regardless of any actual quality of the movie, how is 1986 movie "Star Wars rip-off"? I guess Unicron looks kinda like the Death Star but not seeing it besides that.
Here’s Princess Leia and Han Solo. Princess Leia has her hair-buns, and Han Solo plagiarizes his own lines such as “if you get space sick, you walk home.”
The cast is split up and are stranded on various single-biome planets: water and junk, respectively.
Luke Skywalker watches his older respected father figure/mentor die while fighting his nemesis, and later as Luke Skywalker blows up the Death Star, he hears Obi-Wan speak to him from beyond the grave.
And in the early promo material they straight-up just fuckin’ say “it’s Star Wars”: https://youtu.be/1c3sY1EKkTA?t=16m53s
dreaming of an r-rated star wars
star wars characters as john mulaney quotes
anakin: when my wife walks down the street, she does not give a shit what anyone thinks of her in any situation. she’s my hero. when i walk down the street, i need everybody, all day long, to like me so much. it’s exhausting.
padme: you have the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair.
obi wan: i’ll keep all my emotions right here. and then one day, i’ll die.
palpatine: and then i said “no.” you know, like a liar.
leia: some people give off a vibe of, right away, they’re like, “do not fuck with me.”
luke: my vibe is more like “hey, you could pour soup in my lap and i’d probably apologize to you.”
han: they’re like, “does that work?” i’m like, “it didn’t NOT work.”
lando: hi, i’m very gay and i’d like a few dollars.
rey: i have had a very long day. i am very small and i have no money. so you can imagine the kind of stress i’m under.
finn: you know those days where you’re like, “this might as well happen”?
poe: i don’t care for these new nazis and you may quote me on that.
kylo: when i’m walking down the street, no one’s ever like, “hey! look at that man!” i think they’re just like, “whoa, that tall child looks terrible! get some rest, tall child!”
rose: i try to stay optimistic, even though i must admit, things are getting pretty sticky.
Joyce in 24 years
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