![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Nov. 2nd, 2010 01:57 pmSince the Widge does not have school today, last night we watched a movie together. Well, mostly I watched and he listened while he played Legos. I have a low tolerance for Scooby Doo cartoons and I was pretty sure he wanted something longer than an episode of animated Batman... and then I found Carebears II on Netflix.
I had to talk him into it. "Batman! Scooby! Spiderman!" "Just try it. If you hate it, we'll watch one of those, okay?" and so it began. I asked, maybe fifteen minutes in, if he wanted to switch movies but he wanted to find out what would happen to Dark Heart. Plus, I think the allure of baby Carebears and Cousins is universal.
Rewatching it, I was struck again by how dark you could choose to take it. (I'd seen it a couple of times after I was *little* so... not as surprised as some. I'd already had my "DUDE. o_O" moment.)
It explains a lot about the way my brain works. First of all, the end credits song still remains a song that I love. Second, Christy/Dark Heart is probably the earliest pairing I can remember loving in anything fiction-y. Lemme tell you, I shipped it. Shipped it hard. Still do. It would also explain why I never bought Kristy Thomas as in a relationship with anyone. I was waiting for a redheaded devil boy to come along and ask for her to repay the favor she obviously owed him. And we won't even point out the fact that human!Dark Heart and Sue from Glee share the same outfit. (Like I said. Explains. So. Much.) Oh, wait. Just did. Oops.
Okay, it's been a few days since the Monster High special. Can we take a moment and discuss how incredibly confusing and somewhat stupid it is to have
1) Book Cannon
2) Doll Cannon (diaries)
3) Webisode Cannon
4) TV Cannon
?
I would understand the variations if this were a line that had been out for ages and people just kept tweaking things. But it's, as far as these things go, brand-spankin'-new. At most there should be two. I'm willing to accept that book!cannon is it's own thing and that, for whatever reason, this was mostly on purpose. I get that. And technically, I don't think webisode and diary cannon really contradict one another (do they?) except for Jackson/Hyde/The Hot Guy... well, and Ghoulia's diary pretty much says zombies never move fast. So they kind of do.
But the special managed to just... confuse me. Clawdeen as a fearleader would make sense if she didn't explicitly state in her diary that she would NEVER. And Clawdeen and Cleo weren't attacking one another, which was a nice change of pace, but still, a bit odd.
If one ignores the fact that there's no real reason for all the continuity things in such a new franchise, we'll move on.
I liked that the voices were the same, or at least not the commercial voices. I liked the nods to the webisodes, and a babbling Ulla D would probably drive me batty (oh the puns) but she's adorable, so we let it slide. I wish there'd been more Lagoona, and no, I cannot state this enough. I liked that Ghoulia got more face time than I would have thought, but I don't like how Cleo treated her. Thing is, this is one of those things that actually does tie into the webisodes. Ghoulia gets treated weird in any form (is she in the book? The library still hasn't shared their copy with me, bastards) and it's been brought up before.
I liked that Cleo seemingly went to Lagoona/the pool to get her head together, and I also like Cleo's breakdown. I don't particularly care for the C/D thing needing Frankie to fix it because, really. You'd think Deuce would have been able to clear it up, but I'll allow it.
Frankie. Frankie. Frankie. They took a lot of what I did like about Frankie and traded it in for the stereotypical new girl in school sells herself short to fit it, it blows up in her face, and then PARTY. I don't like the new girl crushing on most popular guy in school (what, he could be, I dunno. Go with it.) because I really liked that they avoided that particular cliche in the other forms.
My thoughts are falling apart at the seams, but I'm sleepy so that's my excuse. I may pretty this up tomorrow. Anyway. I would love for a TV show or a series of specials. But I wish they'd figure out their continuity.
Also: Needs more Lagoona.
I had to talk him into it. "Batman! Scooby! Spiderman!" "Just try it. If you hate it, we'll watch one of those, okay?" and so it began. I asked, maybe fifteen minutes in, if he wanted to switch movies but he wanted to find out what would happen to Dark Heart. Plus, I think the allure of baby Carebears and Cousins is universal.
Rewatching it, I was struck again by how dark you could choose to take it. (I'd seen it a couple of times after I was *little* so... not as surprised as some. I'd already had my "DUDE. o_O" moment.)
It explains a lot about the way my brain works. First of all, the end credits song still remains a song that I love. Second, Christy/Dark Heart is probably the earliest pairing I can remember loving in anything fiction-y. Lemme tell you, I shipped it. Shipped it hard. Still do. It would also explain why I never bought Kristy Thomas as in a relationship with anyone. I was waiting for a redheaded devil boy to come along and ask for her to repay the favor she obviously owed him. And we won't even point out the fact that human!Dark Heart and Sue from Glee share the same outfit. (Like I said. Explains. So. Much.) Oh, wait. Just did. Oops.
Okay, it's been a few days since the Monster High special. Can we take a moment and discuss how incredibly confusing and somewhat stupid it is to have
1) Book Cannon
2) Doll Cannon (diaries)
3) Webisode Cannon
4) TV Cannon
?
I would understand the variations if this were a line that had been out for ages and people just kept tweaking things. But it's, as far as these things go, brand-spankin'-new. At most there should be two. I'm willing to accept that book!cannon is it's own thing and that, for whatever reason, this was mostly on purpose. I get that. And technically, I don't think webisode and diary cannon really contradict one another (do they?) except for Jackson/Hyde/The Hot Guy... well, and Ghoulia's diary pretty much says zombies never move fast. So they kind of do.
But the special managed to just... confuse me. Clawdeen as a fearleader would make sense if she didn't explicitly state in her diary that she would NEVER. And Clawdeen and Cleo weren't attacking one another, which was a nice change of pace, but still, a bit odd.
If one ignores the fact that there's no real reason for all the continuity things in such a new franchise, we'll move on.
I liked that the voices were the same, or at least not the commercial voices. I liked the nods to the webisodes, and a babbling Ulla D would probably drive me batty (oh the puns) but she's adorable, so we let it slide. I wish there'd been more Lagoona, and no, I cannot state this enough. I liked that Ghoulia got more face time than I would have thought, but I don't like how Cleo treated her. Thing is, this is one of those things that actually does tie into the webisodes. Ghoulia gets treated weird in any form (is she in the book? The library still hasn't shared their copy with me, bastards) and it's been brought up before.
I liked that Cleo seemingly went to Lagoona/the pool to get her head together, and I also like Cleo's breakdown. I don't particularly care for the C/D thing needing Frankie to fix it because, really. You'd think Deuce would have been able to clear it up, but I'll allow it.
Frankie. Frankie. Frankie. They took a lot of what I did like about Frankie and traded it in for the stereotypical new girl in school sells herself short to fit it, it blows up in her face, and then PARTY. I don't like the new girl crushing on most popular guy in school (what, he could be, I dunno. Go with it.) because I really liked that they avoided that particular cliche in the other forms.
My thoughts are falling apart at the seams, but I'm sleepy so that's my excuse. I may pretty this up tomorrow. Anyway. I would love for a TV show or a series of specials. But I wish they'd figure out their continuity.
Also: Needs more Lagoona.