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insaneladybugThe plushies are done! Yay! I finished the coat last week. Pictures can either be viewed on dA or on my Turtles site: https://sites.google.com/site/exittheflytmnt1987/baxter-plushie/barney-and-z
I also watched the DuckTales pilot, which Disney put up on their official XD YouTube channel. My feelings are mixed.
The good:
- Family is still a central theme. It feels closer to the old series than it does to the comics.
- It's the present-day! YES! YESSSS! They had Smartphones!
- Cape Suzette is randomly mentioned! Is there a present-day Talespin in this verse? I wanna see!
- David Tennant does a good job as Scrooge and usually I could forget that it was a different voice. He sounded pretty similar to Alan Young on a lot of lines.
- Donald and the stapler was so funny. And with my current frustrations with getting my stapler to work right, I could relate.
- The ending hook left me wanting more.
The bad:
- Launchpad was definitely dumbed down.
- Worse, they made fun of being bit by poisonous snakes. He got bit by a bunch of them and it was treated like a joke. Huey showed genuine concern, but no one else did, and nobody thought to actually treat him for snake bites! WTH. The original series would have treated it in a serious, respectful manner.
- Glomgold is childish. "I am more Scottish than Scrooge! I'm wearing a kilt! A KIIIIIILT!" Typical simplistic modern humor.
- Also, Glomgold is randomly fat. Why? (And does this mean Doofus will be slim?)
There are probably other complaints, and other things I liked, but at the moment those are main things I can think of. I am so, so ecstatic and thrilled that it's the present-day. I really worried it would be a period piece if it was drawing more from the comics. Conversely, I am not that happy with how Glomgold was handled. He was my favorite villain in the original series. But I did like him deciding to hire Donald, although I'm still not clear on whether he did it knowing all along that Donald was Scrooge's nephew. I just don't like them making him ridiculously childish to fit in with modern stupid humor and I'm not that happy about making him fat. I am happy that family is still a central theme, but if Launchpad isn't treated better later on, that is just going to leave me feeling cold. He's part of the family too!
Finished a fic I've been working on for close to a week and I'm thrilled with it! Probably will do a slice-of-life follow-up next and then hopefully the class reunion fic.
And I have an odd problem that I've had for many years. I don't know how to solve it. I get hooked on friendships that aren't actually in the shows and I fall in love with them so hard that I am way more invested in them than in most, if not all, canon relationships.
YGO: Marik and Mokuba. I read someone's fic that they'd written while Battle Ship was running. Marik learned the truth of everything and how he had been hurting innocent people and ended up trying to kill himself out of horror and guilt. Seto saved his life and while he was recovering, Mokuba made friends with him. I fell in love with the idea of the friendship and incorporated it into my fics.
Princess Tutu: Autor and Ahiru. Ahiru doesn't like him in the series and there's no indication she ever feels differently. In a cute sequel that most voice-actors participated in, Autor is friendly towards her but she doesn't reciprocate. I felt, however, that if she really saw that Autor was a good person behind his obnoxious behavior she would come to like him after all. That happened in my fics and their friendship really took off.
TMNT 87: Baxter and Michelangelo. I never intended that to happen, especially since Michelangelo was my least favorite Turtle. But I soon realized that he would be the most forgiving and the most willing to make friends. That developed naturally without me trying to force it and they are very close now. (Also, I think Michelangelo is my second favorite Turtle in the 1987 series now, behind Leonardo. How did that happen?!)
With all of these, the problem is the same: I love these relationships so much that there is a very real danger of crowding out actual, canon relationships in my desire to focus on them. Like Seto and Mokuba, for instance. I'd get so caught up in Marik having adventures with Mokuba and trying to help him that he would probably overstep his bounds and Seto would get crowded out, especially in role-plays. I think I was a little better with fics. With Autor and Ahiru, sometimes it was a little hard to get Fakir in there. But I really tried hard not to make the same mistakes as I did with Marik and Mokuba.
Same with Baxter and Michelangelo, I really try to have a balance between them and the other Turtles' interaction with Michelangelo. But it is hard. And I worry I don't always succeed and lean more towards Baxter and Michelangelo interaction/it looking like Michelangelo is closer to Baxter instead. It doesn't help that I see the 87 group more as friends than brothers, since they seem to see themselves as such, and that I have trouble getting into the Turtles' minds, usually, except for Michelangelo. Baxter is so much easier to write for and I have accepted that he's my favorite character. Writing for him and Michelangelo thrills me. It's just so cute and squeeful. An improbable and unlikely friendship to be sure, and yet somehow it seems to work.
With the Turtles, I think Donatello is the one I like writing with Michelangelo the most. I always had the impression that they were particularly close in other media, like the old movies and the Archie comics. I originally thought the 87 series didn't focus on them much, but I've been noticing nuggets of interaction on re-watches that make me really happy. But I still like writing Michelangelo interacting with Baxter the most. I don't know how to not feel that way.
I know a lot of people have similar problems with their fanon romantic ships, so I suppose I shouldn't feel too bad/guilty. But I don't want to crowd out important canon relationships, so the struggle to achieve a good balance will go on. Maybe part of me feels bad because I like something I made up with the characters more than the actual canon and I usually find it easier/more squeeful to write.
I also watched the DuckTales pilot, which Disney put up on their official XD YouTube channel. My feelings are mixed.
The good:
- Family is still a central theme. It feels closer to the old series than it does to the comics.
- It's the present-day! YES! YESSSS! They had Smartphones!
- Cape Suzette is randomly mentioned! Is there a present-day Talespin in this verse? I wanna see!
- David Tennant does a good job as Scrooge and usually I could forget that it was a different voice. He sounded pretty similar to Alan Young on a lot of lines.
- Donald and the stapler was so funny. And with my current frustrations with getting my stapler to work right, I could relate.
- The ending hook left me wanting more.
The bad:
- Launchpad was definitely dumbed down.
- Worse, they made fun of being bit by poisonous snakes. He got bit by a bunch of them and it was treated like a joke. Huey showed genuine concern, but no one else did, and nobody thought to actually treat him for snake bites! WTH. The original series would have treated it in a serious, respectful manner.
- Glomgold is childish. "I am more Scottish than Scrooge! I'm wearing a kilt! A KIIIIIILT!" Typical simplistic modern humor.
- Also, Glomgold is randomly fat. Why? (And does this mean Doofus will be slim?)
There are probably other complaints, and other things I liked, but at the moment those are main things I can think of. I am so, so ecstatic and thrilled that it's the present-day. I really worried it would be a period piece if it was drawing more from the comics. Conversely, I am not that happy with how Glomgold was handled. He was my favorite villain in the original series. But I did like him deciding to hire Donald, although I'm still not clear on whether he did it knowing all along that Donald was Scrooge's nephew. I just don't like them making him ridiculously childish to fit in with modern stupid humor and I'm not that happy about making him fat. I am happy that family is still a central theme, but if Launchpad isn't treated better later on, that is just going to leave me feeling cold. He's part of the family too!
Finished a fic I've been working on for close to a week and I'm thrilled with it! Probably will do a slice-of-life follow-up next and then hopefully the class reunion fic.
And I have an odd problem that I've had for many years. I don't know how to solve it. I get hooked on friendships that aren't actually in the shows and I fall in love with them so hard that I am way more invested in them than in most, if not all, canon relationships.
YGO: Marik and Mokuba. I read someone's fic that they'd written while Battle Ship was running. Marik learned the truth of everything and how he had been hurting innocent people and ended up trying to kill himself out of horror and guilt. Seto saved his life and while he was recovering, Mokuba made friends with him. I fell in love with the idea of the friendship and incorporated it into my fics.
Princess Tutu: Autor and Ahiru. Ahiru doesn't like him in the series and there's no indication she ever feels differently. In a cute sequel that most voice-actors participated in, Autor is friendly towards her but she doesn't reciprocate. I felt, however, that if she really saw that Autor was a good person behind his obnoxious behavior she would come to like him after all. That happened in my fics and their friendship really took off.
TMNT 87: Baxter and Michelangelo. I never intended that to happen, especially since Michelangelo was my least favorite Turtle. But I soon realized that he would be the most forgiving and the most willing to make friends. That developed naturally without me trying to force it and they are very close now. (Also, I think Michelangelo is my second favorite Turtle in the 1987 series now, behind Leonardo. How did that happen?!)
With all of these, the problem is the same: I love these relationships so much that there is a very real danger of crowding out actual, canon relationships in my desire to focus on them. Like Seto and Mokuba, for instance. I'd get so caught up in Marik having adventures with Mokuba and trying to help him that he would probably overstep his bounds and Seto would get crowded out, especially in role-plays. I think I was a little better with fics. With Autor and Ahiru, sometimes it was a little hard to get Fakir in there. But I really tried hard not to make the same mistakes as I did with Marik and Mokuba.
Same with Baxter and Michelangelo, I really try to have a balance between them and the other Turtles' interaction with Michelangelo. But it is hard. And I worry I don't always succeed and lean more towards Baxter and Michelangelo interaction/it looking like Michelangelo is closer to Baxter instead. It doesn't help that I see the 87 group more as friends than brothers, since they seem to see themselves as such, and that I have trouble getting into the Turtles' minds, usually, except for Michelangelo. Baxter is so much easier to write for and I have accepted that he's my favorite character. Writing for him and Michelangelo thrills me. It's just so cute and squeeful. An improbable and unlikely friendship to be sure, and yet somehow it seems to work.
With the Turtles, I think Donatello is the one I like writing with Michelangelo the most. I always had the impression that they were particularly close in other media, like the old movies and the Archie comics. I originally thought the 87 series didn't focus on them much, but I've been noticing nuggets of interaction on re-watches that make me really happy. But I still like writing Michelangelo interacting with Baxter the most. I don't know how to not feel that way.
I know a lot of people have similar problems with their fanon romantic ships, so I suppose I shouldn't feel too bad/guilty. But I don't want to crowd out important canon relationships, so the struggle to achieve a good balance will go on. Maybe part of me feels bad because I like something I made up with the characters more than the actual canon and I usually find it easier/more squeeful to write.
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Date: 2017-08-28 08:22 pm (UTC)I always loved your depiction of Marik and Mokuba's friendship! I can't say I ever noticed them edging Seto out; of course, I never saw the RPs, so I can't judge those, but the fics seemed fine, and I'm sure the TMNT 87 fics are the same!
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Date: 2017-08-28 09:52 pm (UTC)Thanks! Good to know. I've certainly been making a conscious effort.