Sighinide

Not writing here much lately since I’ve moved downstairs for the time being, but I felt the need to leave a note tonight.

I finished Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland again tonight. Wow, what a perfect masterpiece. I don’t know if it’s the best novel ever, but if it isn’t, it’s close enough to be in the running.

It’s just… awe- inspiring. Does the book have a mistake? Maybe it does, but I’ve not found one.

Goddamn, that ending. So beautiful it’s actually painful to read.

The animated movie is a masterpiece in and of itself, but one that doesn’t buck the trend of movie adaptations being generally worse then their sources.

Every read through I notice new things, both in the novel itself and in it’s influence on our culture. It’s wonderful.

Has anyone noticed yet the reference to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Disney’s Moana movie? Specifically, in the “How Far I’ll Go?” song? Quite interesting, at least to me.

I’m going to be reading more. Next up is another read through of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I need to read all of the Oz books at some point, for sure.

Maybe that point is now, IDK. We’ll see.

Well, that’s all I have time for tonight.

Alright, so I’ve been sick now for like… a month and a half.

Holy Jeebus, this thing is a Goddamn nightmare.

To recap this living hell for myself, and I guess to scare the shit out of everyone else on Earth, I’ve decided to document every detail of the unfolding horror and my response to it here.

Alright, here we go.

So basically, I got “Covid”. Or rather, Ur- Covid. I’m patient zero, so I guess that I have the variety that others will be getting in the future (?). Well… truth be told, I have no clue how this stuff works.

I think it’s like… Covid is an artificial life-form. Its a quasi AI, a sentient semi-organic entity that chooses it’s targets based on it’s own mysterious criteria. It may not entirely be of this Earth, or this plane of existence, owing to it’s apparent quantic properties.

Some thoughts, here.

Covid IS REAL. IT IS NOT FAKE. Some, mostly Trump supporters, think it is fake. They are horribly horribly mistaken. Secondly, it is indeed transmitted by a virus, amongst other avenues. Viruses ARE REAL. THEY ARE NOT IMAGINARY. Again, some people on the Trump- supporting side of things have taken to believing that viruses are fantastical; these people are very misguided. Perhaps viruses are, like Covid may be, artificial in part if not wholly, but they do indeed exist.

It’s been weird, scary, and surreal. I’ve brought out the full bore of my archwizard powers against this thing and it just kinda… I don’t know, doesn’t respond. The pain of this is un-fucking-real. The paralysis, the reality that your body is falling apart, your melting tissue, it’s a circus of body horror. Yikes!

At the onset of this… monstrous, inhuman… “disease” … I shocked my body with one of my… de-parasitization attacks. I killed, I guess, a small human liver fluke and some kind of two inch long orangish red weird segmented worm thing about a millimeter in diameter. That’s it. Nothing, really. Covid was unaffected by all of this.

I pulled out all the tricks in my archwizard handbook. I raised by vibrational rate to it’s highest, hoping to shake it off. That failed. I lowered it to it’s lowest, then ping-ponged it between both. That did nothing. Everything did nothing. I pooled my chakra and attacked it head on. No effect. Blond powers did nothing, demonic powers did nothing, quantum powers did nothing, even necromancer powers could not touch this shit.

Now, maybe I’m not being fair… all of these powers did something. Help with this, alleviate this pain, guide me through this maze, give me this answer, etc.

But I’m saying that they couldn’t fix the underlying issue. The problem fundamentally is that this “disease” is not organic. It’s cyborg-ish. Not natural.

Let me put it succinctly: Covid is a fucking horror show. I don’t know how else to describe this. Here, let me run down the symptoms I’ve experienced.

1. Crippling, debilitating internal wounds that do not heal. My arms and legs are badly swollen with internal injuries that refuse to heal. And this is significant, since due to my superhuman chi reserves and enhanced immune system I typically heal at a rate 2 or 3 times faster than a normal person. Seriously though- these injuries COME ON SUDDENLY, APPEAR IN MULTIPLE PLACES AT ONCE AND DO NOT HEAL.
2. Bleeding all over inside the mouth. The gums, the tongue, the cheeks, the lips, literally everywhere. This… is horrible, and it came on suddenly, all at once. To fix this nightmare I had to spend an hour a day (!) on mouth care. I had an horrible infection of some kind underneath my gumline, all over my mouth! We’re talking upper and lower jaw, front and back. Jesus Christ!
3. Eye infections, bladder infection, colon infections, etc. My eyes got infected, I got a bladder infection (apparently almost impossible for a middle aged male), and I got a horrible infection or something in my intestines, the less talked about the better. Holy God!
4. Nausea/ vomiting, insomnia/ extreme fatigue, many other symptoms, too many to list. The insomnia may be due to my body becoming intoxicated with… unnatural/unusual substances from Covid.

Alright, look… this thing, or at least, the version of this thing that I get personally, is bad, very very bad indeed. Maybe this is just for me, I don’t know. It might be, since I don’t hear of many people who have these symptoms (although maybe they’re the dead ones, IDK), but… IDK.

I’ve kept my body together because of my enormous chi reserves, my vast pool of occult knowledge, and a few specific spells, like my youth spell. This spell is so powerful it affects even those around me, like my parents. My parents have definitely benefitted from this spell even if they don’t know it, that’s for sure.

Since I get this thing frequently I’ve leaned very hard on my blond powers to unlock the secrets and benefits of the allopathic medical system, and that’s also helped tremendously. It’s given me over a million dollars worth of tests and doctor visits- for free. Quite impressive. Thank you, blond superpowers!

The necromancer powers as always guide me to where I need to be. An army of undead servants is a valuable thing.

Well… I’m kinda babbling, but the point here is basically this:

People are fucked if my experience with Covid becomes “normal”. Many many people will die. Millions. Billions, maybe. Please do not make my experience normal! I mean, if choice is even an option, here.

I wonder if I’m being punished, somehow. IDK. Maybe that’s another essay. But it’s hard to not wonder, since this thing is so painful and unnatural.

Even my quantum powers seem stifled by this disease, since it seems to have quantic powers of it’s own, of some other variety. Seriously. It’s just… this is just… nuts.

It’s scary.

Well… that does it for this one, I guess.

*Whew*

Ugh, still sick, majorly. Ugh, ick. Gross. This is going to take awhile.

Still have a disney sub. Ugh, gods, IDK. Yesterday I resolved to going into the archives and watching the old movies, since everything new on the platform looks really, really bad.

I watched Babes in Toyland. Very fun, very good movie. Bright, cheerful, well acted, imaginative, beautiful to look at. It looked prettier than a lot of movies that cost… gods, hundreds of millions of dollars.

Speaking of which, I saw on youtube a trailer for the new Zack Snyder movie, Rebel Moon. Holy shit, lol.

Yeah, I think it’s a good idea at this point to just… nope out of pop culture. I saw that thing, and my reaction was just… what the fuck is this? Seriously.

I looked it up online and apparently it’s based on a rejected Star Wars script. And not old Star Wars- we’re talking Disney– Star Wars. Seriously. As in, the guys that made The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. As in- the people who made those movies read the script for Rebel Moon and were like “Yuck, this script is far below our standards. Reject!”

And apparently, this fact is a selling point. Holy shit. LOL!

This movie… is not for me, and at this point I’m wondering what out there actually is that’s even remotely new.

I could list what I thought problematic about the trailer, but let’s just say “everything” and leave it at that. Everything, yes. Every frame in the thing seemed way, way too over the top. No subtlety. And you know what happens then? It becomes a giant smudge.

Even the plain-ness of the apparent heroine seemed way, way too plain, in contrast to the clownishness of everyone else around her. It just looked weird all around.

WTF is there to watch?

IDK, but the plan is to watch Bedknobs and Broomsticks next. Should be fun. Haven’t seen it in years.

Do humans actually like any of this new stuff? I ask this legitimately. The Star Trek fans I knew growing up don’t have anything to do with the franchise anymore, and the same with the SW fans, the LOTR fans, etc.

My father is a massive LOTR fan, having gifted me with tickets to the original trilogy, and then the extended DVD sets as Christmas presents, and then tickets to the hobbit trilogy during it’s theatrical run (which he liked!), and he just… can’t watch that Amazon thing. Too boring. Fifteen minutes into the first ep is as far as he got and then… gods, so boring, lol.

I haven’t dared try watching any of… whatever that thing is.

Do people actually like this stuff? Do they actually watch this stuff? Real humans?

IDK.

Well, I’m not feeling well, need to go.

Need new theme. Will wait for mental cognizance first, tho.

Just checked Laura Marano’s Tik-Tok.

Gosh, she is cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

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* cough cough, HACK *

uuute.

* ahem *

Well, at least, that’s what I hear, IMO. Just relaying what others have said IRL, TBH, IIRC.

* ahem *

cute.

I was going to talk about other stuff, I swear, lol.

The problem is this intractable illness / flareup. It’s awful, just awful. Swollen ankles, headaches, hearing problems, vision problems, elbow stiffness and swelling, pain in the knees, lethargy, insomnia, etc. It’s a fucking nightmare.

I’m working through it, but Jeebus Christ.

So here I am again, binging more stuff on Disney+.

Finished season 2 of Gargoyles. Holy shit, what an incredible show! Mind blowing. Started strong and finished strong. I hated to watch the last ep of season 2. Not that it was bad, but… you know.

Many, many properties took/copied key ideas straight out of Gargoyles episodes. God knows how many anime properties were inspired by this show, at least in part. The Matrix, Dark City, Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel and DC properties, dozens of future Disney properties, holy moly. Gargoyles is without a doubt one of the key Sci-Fi shows, although I’ve never heard it referred to as such. I mean, holy shit, they have an episode about “The Matrix”, a nanotech AI who threatens to consume the world, who eventually merges with a martial artist type character!

This show may have inspired cop shows and crime shows and movies as well, IDK. Not too familiar with those.

Hugely underrated show. 10/10.

I also saw Home on the Range and liked it. Not a great movie, but it was fun, and the cast did well in their roles. I can see the kids loving it. I liked the corn-pone, redneck type comedy bits. Those were really enjoyable, since I know that mentality and even indulge in it myself sometimes. Likeable flick that was short enough to not overstay it’s welcome. 3.5/5. Will watch again, someday.

I saw Isle of Dogs. For awhile I was confused by it since it just didn’t look… uhm, “Disney”. I thought…. well, maybe they branched out, lol.

It turns out it was a Wes Anderson movie!

Wut?

And it was stop-fucking-motion!

Holy shitfuck! Ok, stop motion automatically means 3 out of 5, literally. Has there ever been a bad stop-motion movie? Sure, there have been a few formulaic holiday specials and such, but are those truly bad? No, they are just average-ish, at worst.

This is was a well made, interesting, challenging, refreshing movie. It wasn’t perhaps a crowd-pleaser type flick but I’m defo glad I watched it. 4.5/5.

Stop motion is awesome, and I wish we saw more of it.

There are lots of pulpy sci-fi flicks that used stop motion effects back in the 20’s and 30’s and TBH they look pretty nice when viewed today. Maybe that’s just because of the low resolution of the cameras or something but… IDK. I think the effects in a lot of these films look fine.

Maybe it’s because stop motion is real, and CGI just… isn’t. The promise of CGI has not as of yet been fulfilled. It still just looks too cartoonish. Maybe that’s on purpose, IDK. But it still looks like a 2D superimposition on a 3D world. It looks, too often, like it’s… missing something.

Another flick I saw was Melody Time, one of uncle Walt’s pre-Fantasia attempts to blend pure audio and vision together.

This… is an absolutely outstanding movie, easily the best of the three. It’s old Disney, and it has that old Disney magic, which I’m becoming convinced was a real thing. Not one part of this movie is less than stellar.

The reason this film gets a perfect 5/5 and Isle of Dogs doesn’t is because this movie had every quality that made Isle of Dogs great, plus it was highly enjoyable from start to finish.

Also, it’s got the Disney magic. Meaning, the movie is simultaneously super-efficient and whimsical, which is a very difficult trick to pull off.

It’s not quite as potent here as it is in something like Dumbo, which is probably like a 6/5 movie, but Melody Time traverses so much space in it’s 1 hour 17 minute runtime that it feels like it does more than most movies that last two hours or more.

I can see by RT reviews that this is an unpopular opinion, but I sincerely think that old Disney is underrated. People dock a star off of everything old Disney because it’s “kid’s stuff” in their minds, and they do it without noticing.

The animation in Melody Time is absolutely beautiful. Not one frame of this movie looks bad. The music is outstanding and flows well with the visuals, and there is real heart on display. This is art, not product.

It’s from movies like this and Fantasia that we get music videos as an art form. Seriously- Disney invented the music video as we know it today. Does he get credit? Nope.

This is a 5/5 movie for sure.

I noticed that nu-Disney slapped one of their dumb “advisories” on this movie. I have never not cringed when seeing these. Not at the movie, but at the poor numbskull who put it there.

Reading these “helpful messages” in akin to watching some pink haired sociology undergrad scrawl some incoherent screed decrying racial “microaggressions” on a post-it note affixed to the door of the Sistine Chapel. It makes me feel sorry- for the undergrad.

Messages like this made me think that the people running the show over there now aren’t really, IDK, worthy, of their jobs. It’s an odd feeling, but there you go.

Man, I really need to get over this sickness, lol.

But srsly.

In a way these… I don’t know, advisories? Are a good way to understand how Disney has so horribly lost it’s way as a company.

Look at box office receipts, I mean. True, Disney had financial successes lately- notably, Avatar II, and GOTG III. But neither of these was “Disney” and neither was representative of the kind of product Disney makes today. Avatar II is a James Cameron film, not a Disney flick. People saw it because of Aliens, True Lies, Terminator 2, Titanic, The Abyss, and Avatar, not because of Mickey Mouse. And GOTG is the “non-woke” Marvel property.

Disney stuff these days is way way too strongly identified with woke-ism. This was a massive problem 6 years ago, but now it’s gotten so out of control even the MSM has been forced to talk about it.

The canary in the coal mine here definitely was the race-swapped Little Mermaid adaptation. And I know what Disney was thinking with that one- they wanted to “spark a conversation”. Well, boy oh boy, did they ever, lol. I liken it myself as the Last Jedi moment to the Disney brand. It was the moment in which the common man took a look around himself and actually started to think about what they were consuming for the first time. And nu-Disney hasn’t recovered since.

I’ve already dissected wokeness ad nauseum on here, so I won’t say too much more about it, but I will say that it’s overstayed it’s welcome for sure. I remember those news articles about the completely empty theaters in China showing The Little Mermaid. The movie did negative business in China, I think taking home some odd millions in hatewatch revenue for tens of millions spent in advertising. This stuff is never ever going to fly in the Chinese market, ever. Not in our lifetimes at least.

It’s an impossible problem to solve. Hollywood needs Asian dollars, but Asia doesn’t like “woke”, and really doesn’t like race-swapping, ever. It’s like they have an in-built allergy to it. Their markets are much much more resistant to race-swapping characters than Western ones.

The new Captain America movie with the black Captain America is going to bomb, nuclear style, in the Asian market. It will not go over at all. I’m calling it now. The Chinese are not going to show up. And, possibly, nobody else will, either.

Disney could lose a LOT of money with this movie. Like epic, historical amounts. Company destroying amounts, perhaps.

Found that article…

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-the-little-mermaid-gets-doused-in-china-south-korea-after-racist-backlash-1235505682/

I’ll put the first five paragraphs here…

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The Little Mermaid is getting doused in select foreign markets amid a racist backlash over the casting of Black actress Halle Bailey in the role of Ariel.

The movie has grossed a mere $3.6 million in its first 10 days of release in China, by far the worst showing among Disney’s live-action adaptations. It is also struggling badly in South Korea, where it has earned $4.4 million through June 4. Sources close to the movie, as well as box office analysts, say Disney knew Little Mermaid could face challenges, but is surprised by the extent of the backlash and its impact.

The social media outcry over Bailey’s casting has been particularly vociferous in both markets. Sources believe this has resulted in unverified audience reviews bashing the movie. In South Korea, such reviews have even made headlines.

Negative audience reviews have also populated social media in China. And just before the film opened in that country, the government-affiliated The Global Times ran an editorial lambasting Disney’s motives.

“The controversy surrounding Disney’s forced inclusion of minorities in classic films is not about racism, but its lazy and irresponsible storytelling strategy,” stated the op-ed. “Many Chinese netizens said that like Snow White, the image of the mermaid princess in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales has long been rooted in their hearts and it takes a leap of imagination to accept the new cast.”

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Yeah, they’re going to be in trouble, lol. I can see the Disney execs now, sweating in their sleep, praying to God, Vishnu, Satan, The Flying Spaghetti Monster and maybe even J. R. “Bob” Dobbs from the Church of the SubGenius to help them break even with the new Captain America movie, lmao.

The risks they’ve been taking with the wokeisms and the race swapping were much greater than they understood, that’s for sure. And that probably goes for all studios, not just Disney.

Well, this was fun, but I need to turn in.

In my case, I’m not watching anything made post 2016, excepting in very rare circumstances. That way I avoid much of this foolishness, lol.

Well, Christmas has come and gone… wasn’t feeling too good so I stopped blogging and stuff. I think I’m on the mend tho, however slow that might be in coming. I’ll probably be sick for awhile TBH. Yuck.

Episode 7 of KP season 4 is Ariana Grande, obviously. It’s in the name. The interesting question here isn’t that, but whether it’s also Victoria and Elizabeth. I think it is. So it’s really more “Victorious” than only Ariana.

Ep 8 is defo Bridgit Mendler. No doubt, this one was easy peasy lemonade mouth squeezy.

Ep 9 is Miley Cyrus with a side of Miranda May. And… Emma Stone? Is that even possible?

Ep 10 is obviously Sierra McCormick.

For the longest time I was wondering where Olivia Holt would show up. Then it hit me- Kim Possible is Olivia! Really- the parallels between Kim Possible and Kim Crawford (Holt’s character in Kickin’ It) are as plain as the back of my hand. The names, obvs. But also other stuff.

But- I’m also Kim. Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable, Kim Crawford, Tom Jacobsen. So interesting.

It is just me, or did Kim Possible the series borrow some visual style from an old Christmas cartoon, The Candlemaker? Because I think it did. Actually I’m 99% sure of it, and if I’m right, that would confirm again my Ron Stoppable = Tom Jacobsen hypothesis, since there is a child character in that cartoon named “Tom” that has his own Rufus. Fascinating.

Well, it’s at this point where I kinda wish I had another streaming service, lol. I mean I have Minnie Mouse coming out of my fucking ears here. But honestly tho- it’s just so damn interesting.

I guess I’ll continue to pick apart this stuff. One day I might get into an in depth discussion of all the symbolism, references, and hidden messages in Laura Marano’s stuff- her movies, music etc. That might be one hell of a journey.

Well, I’m off to rest now.

Fifth episode is Debby Ryan. I caught this before the title song came on.

Sixth? IDK, haven’t seen it. But, based on the title- Mad Dogs and Aliens– I’m going with… Meg Donnelly. I guess we’ll see.

Other stuff… I watched an episode of Recess yesterday. Recess is… a hard show to watch, sometimes. It’s just… too accurate. The other shows on Disney+ that I watch have tended to be stylized extrapolations of things I’ve done and seen. Recess isn’t so much that. There is style and fantasy to it, but there is a ton of reality, too, much more in fact than in any other show I’ve even seen about me.

It’s just… very real. It’s uncanny. The details are so precise, and so true to life in so many aspects. The school faculty, the students, the school itself, the playground behind it, the situations the characters get into… it’s too accurate, too true to life. Even the names are accurate. That school in Recess was Gurnee Grade School, there is absolutely no doubt about it.

It was so perfectly recreated that I don’t get mere flashbacks watching Recess. Watching it, I can actually feel the feeling on my hands of the metal on the old monkeybars. I can smell the wood flooring- something I haven’t done since, well, I left. It’s incredible.

I’m taking that series very slowly, one episode at a time, working through it and digesting everything. It’s an amazing experience. Something like this is probably unique. Honestly, I doubt anyone in history has ever felt the feeling that I feel watching this show. It’s just… I don’t even know. It’s like there literally aren’t words to express this situation properly.

Well, it’s interesting on more levels than just that, too. The experiences depicted in Recess were things I lived back in the 80’s. That is a long time ago, and I think we can assume that the surveillance technology that allowed all of this to come to life has been expanded and refined very considerably since then. Perhaps that would be the disturbing aspect to all of this.

But as for the show itself, I like it. That it’s a hard watch does not mean it’s a bad one. It’s a good show, when judged objectively. It really is.

It’s just… different, I guess. For me, if for no one else.

As for the school itself- it no longer exists. It was torn down 10 years ago for financial reasons. It’s a real shame. There was history there. Real history, far far more than what people realized. Really- that school should have been declared a historical site. Many places have been for far less.

Well… time moves on, I suppose.

Even for me.

Fourth episode of season 4?

Zendaya, easily. I caught this one… oh, I don’t know, somewhere in the first 1 or 2 minutes.

This one was really easy, really obvious.

About halfway in they graciously confirmed my suspicions for me by obtusely namechecking Zendaya’s Disney flick Zapped.

Ok, well, that was easy.

What was really interesting about this episode was a scary-ish throwaway bit during the last thirty seconds.

It was during the credits. I heard the name “Olivia” and then I went “A-HA!” because I was sure, absolutely sure, I was going to see something about Olivia Holt. Or, at least, Dove Cameron (middle name – Olivia).

Nope. The girl I saw as “Olivia” was, scarily enough, Olivia fucking Rodrigo.

Yes, the Driver’s License chick. Vampirella. That chick that was on SNL a few days ago.

I was floored. Or, at least, as floored as I could be, since I was watching on my bed at the time. But, Goddamn.

I went back and checked two, three times. Yup, there is no doubt, no doubt about who they are referring to there with “Olivia”.

People, Olivia Rodrigo was three years old when this episode aired.

Seriously. This was a Valentine’s Day episode that aired Feb. 10, 2007. Rodrigo was born Feb. 20, 2003.

I do like how they worked her in there, though. During the Laura Marano episode they also worked in Camilla Belle edgewise.

Interesting stuff, this.

IDK, some casual watching has given me some new weird, um, facts, I guess, to think about.

IDK, this might be a short one.

Some random stuff… I kinda thought this before but a rewatch of The Goddess of Spring has confirmed it- Elle Fanning’s Princess Aurora was based on this character, at least in looks (If not Elle Fanning herself, TBH. But we won’t go there, at least not yet).

What I didn’t expect upon a rewatch was to see Liv Rooney’s bed poster! Ah, lol. The Disney-verse. Will you ever be not surprising?

Also- upon finishing The Goddess of Spring, I noticed that it was one of Disney’s Silly Symphony line of cartoons. To let that sink in, I said the name a few times out loud- Silly Symphony, Silly Symphony. What does that sound like?

Stefanie Scott, of course! Disney Princess, Stefanie Scott- the one I mentioned on here before that they used to parade around in the middle of Disney World in a Cinderella-type Pumpkin chariot. Silly Symphony… Stefanie Scott. Silly Symphony Stefanie Scott. Silly-Scott, Symphony-Stefanie. Not only do the names share initials, they share the same number of syllables in each word, and even number of characters in the words.

To me, this is absolutely fascinating as hell, if not a little eerie. Yet another in the long long list of one-in-a-million coincidences I’ve noticed while browsing Disney+.

All other things considered I find it mindblowing in and of itself that I’ve been dating Stefanie for over a dozen years now and am still dredging up stuff in her past that throws me off balance. Holy moly, lol. Uh… Good job, Stefanie? Is that the appropriate reaction to this?

IDK.

Speaking of Steffy being paraded around DW, I think I mentioned that fact in a middle of a fentanyl induced haze a couple of years ago, which reminds me of the movie Ben is Back (feel free to search archives on that title) starring another GF, Kathryn Newton.

Uh, well, I just finished watching The Liberty Story and could not help but notice that the animated short Ben and Me in The Liberty Story seems to have some odd parallels with Ben is Back, bizarrely. The similarities are well hidden but they are there in fact are striking if you look hard enough. Kinda… wut?

Is this stuff all some weird fever dream I cooked up on allergy meds when I was a kid or something?

I saw all of these old Disney cartoons when I was a kidlet. I saw them all on Disney channel and on VHS. Did I just… imagine all of this stuff, all of these people, everything, into being? You know, during my many many childhood daydreams?

Stuff to think about, I guess.

Ok um… I think that episode 3 of season 4 is about Britt Robertson. I wasn’t expecting that but… it makes sense. I’m like 95% sure on this one.

Very interesting for sure.

Whaaaaaat, lol.

Well, I think that the spy stuff in KP is somehow triggering me, lol. It’s like… I need to look for clues after I watch an ep. I mean, who wouldn’t?

You know- I was thinking earlier today that I’ve been brooding a lot these last few years. Of course I’ve needed to, since I was recovering from a horrible illness, an equally horrible injury, and a lot of other stuff, but, I’ll be honest, it’s becoming somewhat… tiresome. It’s getting boring TBH.

I think that next year I’ll make some needed changes to my daily routine. Like, change it up a little. Or maybe a lot. IDK; we’ll see I guess.

Uhm, in other Disney+ news, I’ve been rewatching Gargoyles, Disney’s mid 90’s gothic masterpiece. I haven’t seen it since I was in high school. My God, what an awesome show! I liked it when it first aired but I believe I like it more now. I think that now I understand it.

And of course, seeing anything like this with the benefit of hindsight is always mindblowing.

This is a very, very important series. I can’t count how many things I’ve seen on this show that were later repeated in other properties- Batman movies, Naruto episodes, video games and sooo many other things.

The influence that this series had on anime is blatant. I’ve seen so many things on Gargoyles that inspired parts of Dragonball, Naruto, Bleach etc. that it’s kind of surreal. I swear that even franchises like Ghost in the Shell took inspiration from Gargoyles. It’s really incredible.

I just finished a three-parter in the middle of the second season, about a hidden mystical land called Avalon and the resurrection of King Arthur, and Goddamn, what a masterpiece!

Not one bit of this show is off. It all just flows together, so very well.

Just this little miniseries within a series seems to have inspired a whole truckload of other stuff, including obviously Avalon High, the, um, Britt Robertson movie about the resurrection of Kind Arthur, and, believe it or not, The Last Jedi. I know, I was stunned myself. But I swear to God this three ep series and the one following it gave me serious TLJ flashbacks.

I think it was the “magical ghost lightning hitting the old tree and destroying it” scene that really drove it home to me. I mean, I don’t remember much of TLJ TBH, but man if that didn’t ring a bell. And the old cave and a few other things.

Regardless, this miniseries had it’s share of interesting relationship foreshadowing moments as well. Princess Finella, a dead ringer for Elle Fanning (Finella… Elle Fanning), and Princess Katherine, who reminded me of Katherine McNamara on many occasions.

Seriously, though. I swear that you could swap out Elle Fanning’s Catherine with Princess Finella and nobody would have noticed. And Princess Katherine (McNamara, not Elle’s Catherine) had her scenes in this show re-interpreted by Katherine McNamara, decades later!

Absolutely amazing! This stuff just keeps getting more and more interesting the more I see it.

Avalon also featured a warrior named “Tom” who as fate would have it, falls in love with and marries Katherine! Not McNamara, the show Katherine. The Gargoyles one, not the McNamara ones. Need I say that this miniseries also contained Shadowhunters foreshadowing as well? I swear to God it did, more that once. I think I caught about a half dozen references, myself.

There is also more than one great wizard, and, my gosh, there is just so much here. So much that I can’t list it all. But again, I get the feeling that the people who made this series as well expected me to re-watch it decades later, since 1) This is alluded to several times in the episodes, and 2) it seems to contain advice for current-day great wizard me in the form of dialogue about the wizards!

You could even see this, very blatantly, in the characters of Tom and Katherine. Tom enters the series in the first episodes as a young boy- about the age I was when Gargoyles was created- and re-enters it midway through as a middle aged man, married to Katherine.

On the show, not in real life.

Or maybe both.

Is there even a separation, anymore?

Wowsers. IDK what to even say about this stuff sometimes.

Well, the show aside, even as far back as the early to mid 90’s I think people had my relationships and marriages planned out and organized, literally before I had even stepped into high school. These really are arranged marriages, with all of them seemingly organized by The Walt Disney Company. Or, at least, by the people who control it.

Incredible stuff, this is. Absolutely incredible. The amount of work that must have gone into planning and executing all of this is must have been beyond staggering. Honestly. I’m in awe.

Well… I think I’ve done my part well, thus far, in all of this. At least I would hope so, lol.

Wow, though.

Incredible.