Why Did It Take 4 Rewatches Of S1 To Realize Eli Says "if Blakk Has Buisness W The Deep Caverns We Don't

its such an undertaking, plus there like no canonical info to go off of. legit alot of what i know is from one-off lines about "it took 3 days to get to futuria cavern!" and such, how often the gang goes somewhere, and other bits of inferenced info. the most pressing problem, though, is sluterra's geography.

some cavers are UNDERNEATH others. this is the underground. It's hard to decide whether a cavern is next to another, or under/over it.

theres CONFLICTING INFO. the mobile games have a few maps, and from what little map graphs we get from the show, those ALSO don't line up. it seems like going from scratch and deciding geography based on what the characters/plot tells us of the caverns is our best bet, and from there, we decide which mapping is most accurate.

so much work. I'll do it...after i finish shanes get hurt on ao3 tho, everyones been waiting for that lol

memes are fun and relatable and all that, but don't let them discourage you. all of that stuff that doesn't make it into the final product is part of how the final product gets made

Time for a Barbecue!

Personally, Latino Eli's food would be too spicy for my white ass; old man Trixie would be gossiping about me as I served the cheeseburgers; Kord is my man, knows cpr and can make friends quickly. Who would you choose?

the mark vientos celebration scream face is something so important to me personally

this is my first reblog on tumblr and I don't regret it :) this is canon now lol

I wish we had an episode just about Mall Cavern Shenanigans

The Mall Cavern is like the best place for a four-way(or five-way) story.

Just think about it.

The gang walks in, and they all have their own plans.

Trixie is in a video camera store because she needs to get her camera lens fixed but the clerk keeps trying to get her to by a new one.

Kord is looking at new mecha and blaster mods gets into a minor disagreement with another grearhead.

Pronto is window shopping for fancy stuff and probably haggling for cheaper prices.

Eli is just walking around, seeing whatever catches his eye. Probably gets recognized by a few people, like other customers and staff. People keep trying to get him to buy their favorite product or buy from their store(because having a Shane buy from you is such a big deal), and he just politely refuses.

And the Slugs just get into slug shenanigans. (Obligatory something gets blown up with them)

The episode ends with Eli being called over the Malls intercom to come collect the rest of his team from Mall jail.

This is because;

Trixie punched the clerk trying to up sell her.

Kord 'accidentally' broke the blaster of the guy he was having a disagreement with during a little impromptu competition to see who could best mod a balster(he put a glitter bomb in the main accelerator)

Pronto got busted for being a cheapskate when one of the cashiers got fed up with him

And the Slugs, the Slugs, just fall through a vent conveniently just as Trixie, Kord, and Pronto are being let out.

Alternatively, the gang gets called to Mall jail to pick up Eli because in an attempt to hide from people, he accidentally ends up stealing a minor trinket he forgot to put back on the shelf/pay for.

Edit to add: when Eli is sent to Mall jail, he learns his dad got arrested for very similar reasons, the security guard straight up show him a photo of Will Shane behind bars. Eli is allowed to keep a copy

Team as family and domestic stuff is all I'm saying.

In the future where Eli and Trixie get married:

[Trixie puts her wedding ring on Junjie’s finger]

Junjie: Wait, does that mean I’m married to Eli?

Eli: Yeah.

Trixie: Sisterhusbands!

Junjie: Sisterwives.

Eli: Okay, I can get down with that.

it's actually confuzzling me rn, what that average slugterran knows.

Eli knew the deep caverns, but not dark bane specifically, or that dark water exists. Kord talks about dark water like it's something trolls have stories about, but not much experience with. and the Shane's have a drop for the chasm that leads to the portal from what lies beneath, which feels overkill in terms of hiding their stuff. Unless:

maybe they know of the deep caverns, but it's more of a legend that's considered probably true to people, like dark water. Like they know there's a hell down there, but till...recent history...no one went down there, so who knows what was down there? And the Shane's were fine with that very shallow understanding.

this assumption is also helped by the common misconception of the shadow clan. Slugterra society's view of them is based on legend, even though they are easier to see, and definitely believed to be real. Maybe slugterrans know it very basically as "the evil ppl in hell and the evil shadow clan fought like a trillion years ago, ooo scary", and only a few experts know the truth (blakk reading the sacred texts possibly depicting this history comes to mind).

...I'm sure I'm missing a line in some early episode that clears things up, but the show actually does a decent job of giving us the smallest possible clues ever and keeping this fandom alive on 40% "WAIT I JUST REALIZED" moments, so I'd love to hear any scenes you all remember that can help this discussion

Why did it take 4 rewatches of s1 to realize Eli says "if blakk has buisness w the deep caverns we don't know what else can can do" at the end of the deadweed episode?

meaning, will ACTUALLY told him about the deep caverns?!?!? And knew the whole time?!?

@temperance-sunlight, I agree! Locke and loade were used way too much, but I can also see the advantage of shallow villains - to actually spend time on them would mean to take time away from the other parts of the episode.

as for twist and Dana - YES. Mario and the gentleman and stocker and many others, when not on screen, still feel alive, and it's a good feeling. Those 2, tho? There kids who are directly involved in Shane buisness and would not stop after Blakk fell - I would same the same for Maurice, too. Those three hurt the most, since they should have come back a little. There's MANG arguments to them trying to avoid the Shane's, tho - Dana laying low and being self-sufficient, and probs still sore from what happened to Tom, Maurice being an underground villain who doesn't like the spotlight, and twist suddenly needing to make a living w no blakk backing and being known as a bad guy, probably making him live day by day again...but I wish t where names were brought up more. I mean, twist and sans were both brought up once post-movies. But they could have easily intertwined their dealings in the chill scenes.

I kinda wish they could've been in rote at least, or slug fu showdown.

I kinda wish Dana was more included. A lot of cool characters just show up for a tiny amount of time and dip forever which is a shame. It’d be cool to see a side plot where she slowly unravels the secrets will refused to tell her dad by snooping on Eli or something

Dana

Twist

Mario

Vance

And like a bunch of other ppl I can't name rn

Are all individuals that should have been seen more.

Honestly yeah, getting to see Dana more would have been awesome, especially if she happened to run into the Gang while they were Secret hunting leading to fun shenanigans

Side plot regarding any of the side characters would have been amazing i wish they pulled a Storm Hawks, and by that I mean have an episode just decided to the Villains/side characters and what they get up too while the Heros are off doing who knows what.

But with such a large cast of characters, it's inevitable some get lost or underutilized, unfortunately.

Especially those who were created to just fill a serten role like Vance or Mario.

Not everyone can be a C.C. fitting whatever role the narrative demands.

Pick Your Table - Chapter 1 - Mister Rose (MrRose) - Slugterra [Archive of Our Own]

I wrote this in about 24 hours.

i scare myself sometimes.

ch1 is Twist x Eli, ch2 will be Junjie x Eli. Eli is very aspec. Twist is very morally fragile. i cried twice writing this. i forgot to eat. i couldn't sleep.

so yeah chapter 2 will come out...at some point. Enjoy!

the more will shane discourse the better!

Chat if you know what SlugTerra is,, I FW YOU SO HARD DUDE..

I'm gonna smooch yah if you also adore this fandom, literally my childhood.. This and NINJANGO,, and a bunch of other cartoons

blehh,,

I also made a slug oc sooooooo yippee!!

the Slugterra alphabet, apparently

this was hidden in the pictures section of one of the random Slugterra fandom wiki pages and I adore it. Kinda a crime we don't talk about it more!