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Post by christhecynic on Mar 15, 2016 17:33:38 GMT -5
Questions?
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Post by Sharper The Writer on Mar 15, 2016 18:03:06 GMT -5
Okay, what is your favorite KP moment?
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Post by christhecynic on Mar 15, 2016 19:56:51 GMT -5
I've never really thought about it before. At first it feels like it should be something with Shego since her snark is in many ways what initially sold the show for me and something I've always loved, but if I have to pick just one favorite moment what ends up on top is nothing like that. It's when Ron realizes in Emotion Sickness that he cares too much about his friendship with Kim to risk it on a romantic relationship with Kim. It's against type, usually the overlooked best friend is pining after the beautiful/Handsome main character and wants nothing more than to switch into romance mode, and it's also something that feels very real and it drives home that Ron really is Kim's friend and is thus happy being just-a-friend. Given that some real life people pretend to be a friend in hopes of converting it to romance (these are creepy, creepy people) it was really good to see Ron exemplifying the exact opposite of that. He rejects what the creepy people* see as the end goal (romantic relationship) and embraces what they see as the annoying thing you have to slog through (friendship) because unlike with the creepy people for Ron the friendship is real, not a front, and it is thus something that is highly valued in itself. Also I don't think that it's something we see enough of. There's a sort of assumption that best friends would make good romantic partners when that isn't always true and just charging into a romance without thinking about it can ruin the preexisting friendship. - * The usual term is Internet Nice Guy(TM) because they tend to be self proclaimed "nice guys" who end up finishing last. They're not nice. They're people who try to use deception and emotional manipulation to get into a romantic relationship instead of just asking, "Would you like to go out with me?" Reading one of their screeds is like falling into a very, very wrongsick alternate reality where there's no such thing as honest friendship between men and women/boys and girls and instead every apparent friendship between people of opposite genders is an attempt at manipulation into romance.
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Post by christhecynic on Mar 19, 2016 7:28:44 GMT -5
Was my answer seriously so bad that no one is interested in me anymore?
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Post by batesy on Mar 20, 2016 20:52:44 GMT -5
I'm sure that everyone's just been too busy to check the asks. I know I have. :/ So what's your favorite episode?
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Post by Sharper The Writer on Mar 20, 2016 21:20:20 GMT -5
Very interesting insight! What about least favorite?
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Post by christhecynic on Mar 21, 2016 7:58:20 GMT -5
So what's your favorite episode? So... I usually don't rank things and just have vague amorphous feelings about them and thus favorite / least favorite questions are things I haven't really thought about. This one was another that kind of surprised me. It wasn't hard to figure out but I had sort of a, "No, that couldn't be," and then looked at a list of all the episodes and realized that, yup, there's none I like more. Sink or Swim was the second episode I saw and I loved that it was the non-hero who saved the day and he did it not with fighting or genius or superpowers ( Graduation you disappoint me) but with a combination of arts and crafts and targeted deception. Even after every episode I've seen since, and even though Gill is far from my favorite villain and "mutate people to get revenge for becoming mutant" isn't the most inspired plot, Sink or Swim is still my favorite. Non-hero saving the day has lost some of it's sheen after realizing how many times Ron actually saved things instead of Kim in other episodes, and Ron as hero is less impressive after Graduation had him go full on chosen one of immense magical mystical mojo, but first impressions and all that.
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Post by christhecynic on Mar 21, 2016 8:41:53 GMT -5
Very interesting insight! What about least favorite [moment]? I never liked how flippantly the show treated mind control. When it first showed up we got Kim, who is supposed to be good, using it on her brothers because she didn't want to go through the effort of getting them to go to bed on time in an ethical manner. Which, yeah, I get it's a joke. But for me it's not something to laugh about. Also, if all it takes for Kim to cross those moral lines is, "Bedtime will be easier," --if that's how little it takes-- the whole world should tremble in fear at the idea of what might happen if she thought she needed to resort to mind control to save the world. The show never really improved on that. Granted we didn't see Kim using it for ... actually we did, never mind. But that's not the point. My least favorite moment was another episode ending joke that had mind control. At the end of The Cupid Effect we find out that that character-we've-never-met-before has built her own cupid ray and is using it on Wade. Episode ends. Could be considered poetic justice given what Wade did to Monique, but that kind of poetic justice is really, really bad. Wrongsick, in fact. So Wade's left under a rather unique form of mind control (it doesn't force him to obey, it makes him so infatuated that he wants to obey) and the only person who might help (Ron) is too worried about himself to even put thought in the direction of freeing Wade. And that's it. Hated that moment. *Channels Madeline Khan* I hated it so much... it-it-the feel-- it-- flame-- flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing--breathl-- heaving breaths. Heaving breaths...
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