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Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse

This is one amazing movie. Everything was done right, the animation was used to full advatage, the music, the characters, the plot and the storytelling - everything was great, if not completly original, but done in a fresh, dynamic and sincere way. 

Once again it gets proven that the main character doesn’t have to be ordinary to be relatable or interesting. Miles Morales is not another plain, socially awkward guy. No, quite the opposite, he is cool, carefree and confident, has friends, good grades and always a smart joke to offer. He has some quarrels with his parents - but nothing extreme, they love each other very much - just that natural little disparaty between parents pushing thier child to make something of himself and the child just trying to find who he wants to be. It’s relatable to youngsters, but not so overdone yet to be preachy. 

The movie makes an intersting point by showing how parents don’t have to be absent or outright extreme abusers to still make for an engaging influence for their children and how even the best intensions and love don’t make relationships without conflict or strain. Miles’s parents have an actual role in the movie and actually have some meanigful and moving moments.

The characters are plastic, likeable and well-written, acting logical and with understandable motives, flaws and charisma. Mainly Miles is a smart kid doing his best, coming off free and easy, trying to find his way. 

There is uncle Aaron, who without the immediate concern and responsibily of a parent takes the role of a relaxing, charismatic and casual confidant to Miles and later gets and interesing shady plot twist. 

Then we have Peter B. Parker an older version of the typical Spiderman, with a future that took a surprisingly realistic bleak turn. But don’t be fooled, despite the rugged and a bit neglected appearence, he is still the capable hero we know, with experience and abilities you can count on. His start as a teacher is a bit ruff, but he learns step by step, not only winning the sympathy of the audience but also a rewarding development of his student. 

Next we have Gwen, a pretty action girl, taking her superhero role with style and spark. This is not a love story by any stretch, but her presence is powerful and makes for a nice dynamic with Miles. 

All Spidermans have their own distinguished tone and make for a solid, funny and powerful group. Their protectivness towards Miles as the latest Spidey, who still has lots to learn, without derogating his importance is sweet. Their respective fashion, fighting style, personalities and quirks prove great attention to detail and make the ride that much more lively. 

It’s also a great origin story for our main hero, since he has the abilities and the brains, but still needs to belive in himself. This doesn’t sound as a very original conflict, but it’s conveyed very emotionally. Miles faces his challanges with realistic fear and beginner’s incompetence, but still comes off as a strong, determined and moral boy. He struggles, he falls, but he cares and learns - this process is portrayed masterfully in the movie and the final, where Miles accepts all the lessons and finds his inner balance and belief in himself, is that much more satisfying. 

Miles is an incredibly well written character. It’s gratifying to see him not being a meek weakling just to have a bigger contrast for his growth at the end. Miles is cheeky and smart, obviously talented and intelligent with a loving family, but still has enough room to grow, enough obstacles to overcome and enough of the world’s and society’s as well as personal problems to face. Yet he manages to be very approachable, representing modern teenagers and circumstances in a playful and compellig way, making the movie a fantastic experience. 

I will never stop thinking about how Zoe has a crush on Marinette but she’s also supposed to be Chloe’s replacement.

I don’t think this just meant as the bee holder. I think this meant for a lot of things.

Being Andre’s new daughter, being the star for that movie.

The only thing Zoe hasn’t completely replaced Chloe in is being Adrien’s childhood bf.

So….with all of this being said…

DOES THIS IMPLY THAT CHLOE ACTUALLY MIGHT HAVE HAD A CRUSH ON MARINETTE AND IF CHLOE GOT HER REDEMPTION, WE COULD HAVE SEEN A CONFESSION FROM HER??? I-

This means that Thomas knew about the popular headcanon that Chloe was sapphic and was secretly in love with Marinette/Ladybug. HE TOOK THAT ISH AWAY FROM CHLOE AND GAVE IT TO ZOE-

GINA’S SELF WORTH JOURNEY (requested by anon)

a child,

LOOK AT THESE SMITTEN BOYS!!!!!!

you know sometimes I listen to the jatp soundtrack and I'm okay. like yeah I will forever be bitter but at least I can rewatch s1 and listen to the soundtrack whenever I want and I still love to jam out to it

BUT THEN

the grief and anger crawl back up with a vengeance and I get PISSED that we didn't get more seasons which meant also no more music and I get filled with a fiery rage at Netflix all over again

Do you guys ever think about how when the band’s performances get posted online how like popular they would become like fan base wise rapidly? Edge of Great is already posted but then someone probably would have posted Finally Free as well and that performance blows up too. The boys are so astonished that they can become so popular so fast now since in their day it took a bit more to get like that.

There’s comments on the videos, it’s mostly complimentary about all of them, their fanbase has their own little nicknames for the boys being just drummer, guitarist and bassist. The boys ask Julie why people keep talking about boats when it comes to their Edge of Great performance.

“There’s not a ship anywhere in there.”

“Maybe it was the colors of decorations it looks like ship colors?”

“Why is everyone into talking about ships on a video about our performance?”

Julie is just like sweating that people keep pointing out the piano bench moment from Luke and her, she just distracts the boys to look at a new comment anytime they ask about it 💀

They ask her why people keep saying they are thirsty in the comments instead of just going to get a drink on their own time without bringing it up. It’s a lot of them asking why people are saying certain comments that make no sense to them but we obviously understand 💀

Do you think that some of their fans would notice Alex’s like rainbow pride bracelet and then be like “did anyone else see the pride bracelet on the drummer 🥺” and there’s just comments talking about that and how happy it makes them and then Alex would see those comments and feel so many ways

Bc I sUrE DoN’t think about that stuff more than an unreasonable amount of time 💀

Pedantic nitpickery of the day: “death of the author” and “fuck canon I do what I want” are not the same thing.

Which is not a critique of the “fuck canon” approach to fandom, that’s just not what Death of the Author means.

Been burnt too many times (has their favorite shows cancelled by netflix)

A few reasons why Jonathan Crombie will always be The Definitive Gilbert Blythe

1-His Birthday is in October- enough said!

2-His Mom’s name is Shirley Ann (yes, no ‘E’- but- its still cool!)

3-Jonathan chose to do The Continuing Story instead of going back to do plays at the Stratford Festival

“Megan was already attached when they approached me.  I was set to go back to Stratford, but decided if they were going ahead, and Megan was a part of it, I should be as well.”

4-He never tried to give the Definitive portrayal- it just happened

“But ultimately, the script served as my main source—and I tried to remain faithful to that.  If I had worried about trying to portray the “definitive” Gilbert from the books, I think it would have really messed me up.”

5- Unlike a majority actors who have portrayed Gilbert on screen, Jonathan is Canadian.