if the truman show came out in 2020 trumans life would be livestreamed 24/7 and the twitch chat would be absolutely wildin. poggers
whenever truman was preoccupied like sitting at the bus stop checking fake reddit on his phone or whatever it would be like that live stream of jackson hole wyoming before they took the chat away
pros: improves a lot of weak points in the manga (removes jokes in bad taste and fixes scenes that could’ve been handled better) and is overall a better experience
cons:
roystache
So funny story about this
FMAB began airing at the same time as the manga was playing out its final act, and despite the large initial time gap, theanime still caught up and came dangerously close to overtaking the manga. How close? The final chapter of the manga was released a mere two weeks before the finale episode of FMAB aired.Of course, FMAB was made for the express purpose of portraying the manga start to finish, so there was no danger of it diverging its plot course, but this meant that for the sake of making sure the manga was finished before the anime AND that the anime kept airing faithful content without breaks in its schedule, two things happened:
1) Hiromu Arakawa started churning out chapters that were about twice as long as normal (the final chapter, chapter 108, was over 100 pages long)
2) the animators had to work from Arakawa’sdraftsof the last few chapters to produce the last few episodes.
They worked from her drafts. Which not only can partly explain some of the differences between the two finales, but also implies that Moustache Roy might have originally been in those drafts.
Please imagine Hiromu Arakawa hemming and hawing over giving Roy a moustache… and then ultimately deciding last minute NO SCREW THAT ITS UGLY after the animators had already put it into the anime version of the epilogue.
Or alternatively, imagine it having supposed to be a joke of hers all along, that was unfortunately taken seriously by the animators. whoops.
Also how can Arthur Conan Doyle write a character like Irene Adler 1891 and have her 1. Outsmart Sherlock Holmes and get away with it and 2. Be in no way a damsel or love interest to Sherlock.. But every modern retelling not only has her be a sexual /love interest character but she is posed as being very very smart… But never smart enough to just outwit him, get away with it and move on? Women can be smart, sure, but no one is allowed to be smarter than Sherlock.
It’s been over 120 years and Irene is, at her best, never as decently treated as the original.
Arthur Conan Doyle: Here’s a story about male insecurity where the police underestimate her for being a woman and feel the need to get her because she’s a woman and Sherlock is ultimately beaten by a woman and in a bit of character development accepts it and acknowledges her intellect.
Sherlock fans: Uh no way Sherlock is smart Sherlock is so so smart she must have used her feminine wiles or her sexy things or her love to undermine him but he gets her in the end i feel a strange catharsis at changing this ending but I’m sure Doyle always meant to be this way, it just feels right.
Half of the reason that Adler was able to out-wit Holmes was because Holmes was too narrow-minded. Holmes is smart and has knowledge of many subjects, but he also strongly relies on social order and norms to solve crimes. He’s even says in A Scandal in Bohemia that:
“When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to thing which she values most. It is a
perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it
… A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box.”
Holmes uses this social norm and order to stage an attack and find out where Adler hid the photo in her house. He drops his guard and is so proud of himself because he knew that this would work, he knew that if he created disorder, “natural” order would attempt to counteract that disorder.
Adler defies those social orders and norms: she is an untitled American woman who earned her own money through a career as an opera star, instead of relying on a husband or family to have financial security; she outwitted Holmes because she cross-dressed and indicated that she frequently did so, allowing her to have a lot more freedom roaming around London on her own terms, and her stage career aided that so that she could act like a man easily; and she didn’t care one bit about her reputation or being a “pure” woman, had several boyfriends, and was known for being an “adventuress”. More importantly, she had the ability to defy those social norms while simultaneously being able to present herself as the ideal respectable and under-estimable Victorian-era woman.
Adler literally defeats Holmes by dressing in drag then happily goes off with her new husband whom she loves very much. And Holmes respects that and is thoroughly impressed. Not only does he respect that, he realizes that he was on the wrong side of things, that he shouldn’t have agreed to take on the case for the King of Bohemia. This is the exchange that follows after Holmes, Watson and the King read Adler’s letter.
“Would she not have made an admirable queen?
Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?”
“From what I have seen of the
lady she seems indeed to be on a very different level to your Majesty,” said
Holmes coldly
Holmes takes Adler’s side and realizes that the photograph is her protection from the King, not something she intended to use as a weapon against him. Adler never exploited the King to get what she wanted, only kept it as a safeguard of her own happiness. She made sure she had a way of ensuring that she alone guided her future.
Irene Adler is “the woman” to Sherlock Holmes, not because she was sexy or he was in love with her. She was a reminder that real life doesn’t always follow what social norms and order are to be expected, that people shouldn’t be taken on face value or respected just because of their title or apparent respectability and ability to follow social order and norms, and that there are two sides to every story.
Take a lesson from Sherlock Holmes, people. Doyle knew what he was doing. If we’re going to keep making him roll over in his grave from creating Sherlock Holmes media, please, at least respect him and Irene Adler.
Nothing gives me a lot of a thrill than seeing this on my dash with people adding to it.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories are fucking epic and everyone should read a Scandal in Bohemia.
IMO nobody has done Irene Adler a greater disservice than Moffat and Gatiss. Not only did they portray her as outwitted by Sherlock, she also needed to be rescued by him in the end. The sheer effrontery of it all.
she was ALSO from New Jersey, which not enough adaptations keep in mind
Once when the gaang visits the Fire Nation, they’re all just on the side of too tipsy when Zuko leans in with the most grave expression imaginable.
“Aang,” Zuko says, “This has been… haunting me…. Why did your friends need to suck on those frogs?”
And Aang just gasps, and does not explain the frogs, because he has suddenly remembered that Miyuki is still wanted by the Fire Nation and that just won’t do. So Aang demands that Zuko pardon Miyuki for her crimes, which then gets the rest of the gaang to dogpile on and also demand justice for Miyuki.
Zuko is willing to hear him out.
…Zuko is significantly less willing to hear him out when Aang mentions that Miyuki is a cat.
(Zuko finds it difficult to believe that a cat is legitimately wanted by the Fire Nation)
But because they are all the worst, he relents and they all drunkenly stumble down to go find the records of Miyuki’s crimes and write her up a pardon, much to the chagrin of the night-shift archivist.
Zuko, staring blankly at Miyuki’s rap sheet:
The gaang:
Zuko:
Zuko: I don’t …. I don’t think I can pardon this…
Sokka: It can’t be that bad! Let me see-
Sokka:
Zuko: You see what I mean?
Toph: Is anyone going to tell me what it says or am I just going to have to wait in suspense?
toph is a talented enough earthbender to invent braille and the ink to make it, but she doesn’t want to learn how to read
Once when the gaang visits the Fire Nation, they’re all just on the side of too tipsy when Zuko leans in with the most grave expression imaginable.
“Aang,” Zuko says, “This has been… haunting me…. Why did your friends need to suck on those frogs?”
And Aang just gasps, and does not explain the frogs, because he has suddenly remembered that Miyuki is still wanted by the Fire Nation and that just won’t do. So Aang demands that Zuko pardon Miyuki for her crimes, which then gets the rest of the gaang to dogpile on and also demand justice for Miyuki.
Zuko is willing to hear him out.
…Zuko is significantly less willing to hear him out when Aang mentions that Miyuki is a cat.
(Zuko finds it difficult to believe that a cat is legitimately wanted by the Fire Nation)
But because they are all the worst, he relents and they all drunkenly stumble down to go find the records of Miyuki’s crimes and write her up a pardon, much to the chagrin of the night-shift archivist.
Zuko, staring blankly at Miyuki’s rap sheet:
The gaang:
Zuko:
Zuko: I don’t …. I don’t think I can pardon this…
Sokka: It can’t be that bad! Let me see-
Sokka:
Zuko: You see what I mean?
Toph: Is anyone going to tell me what it says or am I just going to have to wait in suspense?
toph is a talented enough earthbender to invent braille and the ink to make it, but she doesn’t want to learn how to read
