Y'all can ask me stuff in this thread if y'all want.
Other than that, I guess this thread will be used for ramblings/blogging about dumb stuff I'm doing/watching/buying because of my weird refusal to get an actual blog or something. Mostly stuff I enjoy like Pretty Cure, Doctor Who, and Thomas & Friends (don't judge me).
So uh, I might as well ramble or whatever about those three things, starting with the longest topic, Doctor Who:
I've been watching some of the Loose Cannon reconstructions of missing/incomplete Doctor Who serials recently and, so far, I've seen their reconstructions of The Massacre, The Highlanders, and The Wheel in Space and they're all pretty good for different reasons.
The Massacre, which is about the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France, is genuinely a goddamn masterpiece of a serial and feels more like it's a standard historical drama about the event than a Doctor Who story. The reconstruction is also amazingly impressive too, especially because The Massacre is one of only three Doctor Who stories (along with The Myth Makers and the single episode Mission to the Unknown) to have literally nothing surviving of its original broadcast outside of the audio (and a few brief 8mm clips someone took of their TV screen for The Myth Makers). All that exists of The Massacre besides the audio is promotional photographs. So Loose Cannon pretty much had to photoshop everything in the serial so you could, you know, see what the hell is going on and it's genuinely impressive because you pretty much can't tell that these are photoshops and other edits and not actual images of the story.
The Highlanders is honestly the most middling of the three reconstructions I watched. It's not a bad story, just a pretty average one (the Doctor, Ben, and Polly end up in the Scottish Highlands after the Battle of Culloden), but at least the acting of the cast is really well-done and it introduces the series longest-lasting companion, Jamie. This story at least has tele-snaps and some footage from episode 1 exists (thank you Aussie/Kiwi censorship requirements), but (at least the recon I found) is a pretty basic one that is just the tele-snaps (and surviving footage when appropriate) with occasional scrolling text to detail what's happening that isn't relayed in the snaps. (So it's still better than the official reconstruction of The Underwater Menace, that's just awful)
The Wheel in Space is...an interesting one It's the worst of the three serials (it's a pretty slow and overlong base under siege story [in a season that was mostly full of them] that's really only worth watching for introducing one of my top 5 companions to the series, Zoe), but the reconstruction is actually really good. Loose Cannon used tele-snaps for the most but sometimes edited them to add things like animation for certain scenes. Sure, sometimes you can tell that these images were edited (like several shots of a sliding door opening where you can tell where they cut out the door on the image and can see that the characters behind the door were edited in), but who cares? This was made by fans. There was also CGI scenes of the Cybermen attacking which was just *chef's kiss*. Oh and two episodes of The Wheel in Space actually survive (episodes 3 and 6), so you can at least see some of what the original broadcast would've been like.
Now onto Precure:
Tropical Rogue is still just 'OK' to me. This week's episode was pretty damn good (although I'm not sold on the power up designs) though and seems to be hinting at a greater scope (there having been a Precure in the past and implying that the Witch of Delays wasn't always evil with the past Precure telling the Tropical Rouge Precure to save the witch who became the Witch of Delays) Villains (and Kururun) remain the best characters and I still want Numeri to ******* squish me under her gotdamn sea slug lower half on god.. I should get a Kururun plush to go with my other plushies tbh, they have like two different big Kururun plushies that look really nice.
Thomas & Friends:
WOODEN RAILWAY IS BACK BAYBEE (even tho it hasn't been officially announced yet and it's all people finding Amazon listings) hell yes it's something good considering everything else in this goddamn franchise right now. (I am non-ironically 100% excited for Wooden Railway's return considering that Wooden Railway was basically my childhood and how god awful the replacement for Wooden Railway was and I never even bought any of those except one)
Other than that, I guess this thread will be used for ramblings/blogging about dumb stuff I'm doing/watching/buying because of my weird refusal to get an actual blog or something. Mostly stuff I enjoy like Pretty Cure, Doctor Who, and Thomas & Friends (don't judge me).
So uh, I might as well ramble or whatever about those three things, starting with the longest topic, Doctor Who:
I've been watching some of the Loose Cannon reconstructions of missing/incomplete Doctor Who serials recently and, so far, I've seen their reconstructions of The Massacre, The Highlanders, and The Wheel in Space and they're all pretty good for different reasons.
The Massacre, which is about the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France, is genuinely a goddamn masterpiece of a serial and feels more like it's a standard historical drama about the event than a Doctor Who story. The reconstruction is also amazingly impressive too, especially because The Massacre is one of only three Doctor Who stories (along with The Myth Makers and the single episode Mission to the Unknown) to have literally nothing surviving of its original broadcast outside of the audio (and a few brief 8mm clips someone took of their TV screen for The Myth Makers). All that exists of The Massacre besides the audio is promotional photographs. So Loose Cannon pretty much had to photoshop everything in the serial so you could, you know, see what the hell is going on and it's genuinely impressive because you pretty much can't tell that these are photoshops and other edits and not actual images of the story.
The Highlanders is honestly the most middling of the three reconstructions I watched. It's not a bad story, just a pretty average one (the Doctor, Ben, and Polly end up in the Scottish Highlands after the Battle of Culloden), but at least the acting of the cast is really well-done and it introduces the series longest-lasting companion, Jamie. This story at least has tele-snaps and some footage from episode 1 exists (thank you Aussie/Kiwi censorship requirements), but (at least the recon I found) is a pretty basic one that is just the tele-snaps (and surviving footage when appropriate) with occasional scrolling text to detail what's happening that isn't relayed in the snaps. (So it's still better than the official reconstruction of The Underwater Menace, that's just awful)
The Wheel in Space is...an interesting one It's the worst of the three serials (it's a pretty slow and overlong base under siege story [in a season that was mostly full of them] that's really only worth watching for introducing one of my top 5 companions to the series, Zoe), but the reconstruction is actually really good. Loose Cannon used tele-snaps for the most but sometimes edited them to add things like animation for certain scenes. Sure, sometimes you can tell that these images were edited (like several shots of a sliding door opening where you can tell where they cut out the door on the image and can see that the characters behind the door were edited in), but who cares? This was made by fans. There was also CGI scenes of the Cybermen attacking which was just *chef's kiss*. Oh and two episodes of The Wheel in Space actually survive (episodes 3 and 6), so you can at least see some of what the original broadcast would've been like.
Now onto Precure:
Tropical Rogue is still just 'OK' to me. This week's episode was pretty damn good (although I'm not sold on the power up designs) though and seems to be hinting at a greater scope (there having been a Precure in the past and implying that the Witch of Delays wasn't always evil with the past Precure telling the Tropical Rouge Precure to save the witch who became the Witch of Delays) Villains (and Kururun) remain the best characters and I still want Numeri to ******* squish me under her gotdamn sea slug lower half on god.. I should get a Kururun plush to go with my other plushies tbh, they have like two different big Kururun plushies that look really nice.
Thomas & Friends:
WOODEN RAILWAY IS BACK BAYBEE (even tho it hasn't been officially announced yet and it's all people finding Amazon listings) hell yes it's something good considering everything else in this goddamn franchise right now. (I am non-ironically 100% excited for Wooden Railway's return considering that Wooden Railway was basically my childhood and how god awful the replacement for Wooden Railway was and I never even bought any of those except one)
She's at least somewhat of a unique bootleg because they took the design of the electronic talking Fuwa plush, removed the electronics, and made it smaller. Also her tag identifies her as being a My Melody plush. She's still really good quality, even for a bootleg, and (ignoring the goddamn tag) the only thing that really says 'she might be fake' is her wings being a little wonky (and even then I've seen actual pictures of this plush with wings that are a little wonky too, so it might just be a manufacturing thing). And hey, she was only $10. (Of course now I'm wondering if my My Melody plush I got from the same stall is a bootleg too, but I'm going to say she isn't because she's also really high quality and looks exactly like the pics I've found online, so she's either legit or a nigh-identical bootleg)
