Happiness will prevail
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shadowhiveSo Sunday was the next episode of Doctor Who season 25, the new special edition of The Happiness Patrol.
The premise is that the Doctor lands on a planet, only something is wrong. Unhappiness is criminalised enforced, resulting in cruel punishments. The Doctor being the Doctor decides that this needs to end, tonight.
Almost immediately we see what’s been added to this new version. New effects have been added to elevate the sets, making the locations feel bigger so it feels more like an actual city. There’s also new establishing shots of certainly locations and deleted scenes added back in (I’m less sure which those are since I’ve only seen the ep once before a long time back).
What I find interesting is that this world has a rebel movement, called killjoys (I wonder if it inspired those killjoys) and yet unlike some episodes that are similar, they don’t become the focus. Sure the doctor meets a few and riles up a crowd of demonstrators, but that’s about it.
What’s also interesting are the villains of the piece. Leading them is Helen A, the colony’s leader and she’s a pretty unique villain. She’s always almost softly spoken, but her words are laced with malice (even as she sentences people to a ‘fondant surprise’). Then there’s the patrol themselves which have the wildest hair (a big of pink and purple) and almost all of them are women who are gloriously sarcastic.
And finally there’s the Kandyman who is a man made of sweets (no I’m not kidding) and hike he looks a little ridiculous he oddly fits in with the world and clearly has a sadistic glee in what he does. (And also there’s Helen A’s animal fifi which is a gloriously well made puppet)
What works less well is the pipe people, who are natives of the planet before the colonists arrive. They kinda feel almost tacked on and don’t look too great either.
But overall I think it’s a really good, fun episode. And I love that the mantra of Happiness will prevail, instead of being something positive, is twisted into something almost malicious and threatening. Like the doctor says happiness and sadness are two sides of the same coin, one can’t exist without the other.
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Other things now.
My Chemical Romance have made an insta post teasing… something. Is it a new song? A new album? A tour? No one sees to know, but Mikey at least posted it to his story last night too. What do I think it means? I’m not sure. But it means something.
The other day I had the Odeon code come for 40% of a selected film on Amazon, so I used it yesterday. The choice I narrowed it down to was between Thanksgiving and Tarot and I went for the latter. Do I know much about it? Not really, but I know it has creatures designed by the guy that made sire head which made me instantly curious. I’ll have to watch it (and Spree) soon.
Also yesterday I went back on Echoes of wisdom to chip away at it though I’ve not done too much, just a bit more on Eldin (namely helping the goron elders) but not much more. The new goron leader is so cute though I wanna give him a hug.
After watching the Who ray special features I watched the next J-Horror Rising film (thoughts late!) which was carved the slit mouthed woman which was pretty good.
Annoyingly the past few days my head has been feeling hazy. I can’t exactly put into words what that means (hazy feels the closest I can get) but it’s not helped that it’s been joined by headaches and a lack of being able to settle to sleep, which… ugh.
It’s really annoying and is starting to make my focus feel off as well as rile up MNy anxiety which isn’t exactly great. Bleh.
Today’s plan is wait for the food shop to come this afternoon, then it’s new Multiversus and Magic Arena stuff, plus Squidcraft 3 starts (with a lot of people including Seapeekay, woo!) and then I wanna watch the other j-horror on disc 3, Persona. Maybe I’ll get some writing in too if my focus comes back.
The premise is that the Doctor lands on a planet, only something is wrong. Unhappiness is criminalised enforced, resulting in cruel punishments. The Doctor being the Doctor decides that this needs to end, tonight.
Almost immediately we see what’s been added to this new version. New effects have been added to elevate the sets, making the locations feel bigger so it feels more like an actual city. There’s also new establishing shots of certainly locations and deleted scenes added back in (I’m less sure which those are since I’ve only seen the ep once before a long time back).
What I find interesting is that this world has a rebel movement, called killjoys (I wonder if it inspired those killjoys) and yet unlike some episodes that are similar, they don’t become the focus. Sure the doctor meets a few and riles up a crowd of demonstrators, but that’s about it.
What’s also interesting are the villains of the piece. Leading them is Helen A, the colony’s leader and she’s a pretty unique villain. She’s always almost softly spoken, but her words are laced with malice (even as she sentences people to a ‘fondant surprise’). Then there’s the patrol themselves which have the wildest hair (a big of pink and purple) and almost all of them are women who are gloriously sarcastic.
And finally there’s the Kandyman who is a man made of sweets (no I’m not kidding) and hike he looks a little ridiculous he oddly fits in with the world and clearly has a sadistic glee in what he does. (And also there’s Helen A’s animal fifi which is a gloriously well made puppet)
What works less well is the pipe people, who are natives of the planet before the colonists arrive. They kinda feel almost tacked on and don’t look too great either.
But overall I think it’s a really good, fun episode. And I love that the mantra of Happiness will prevail, instead of being something positive, is twisted into something almost malicious and threatening. Like the doctor says happiness and sadness are two sides of the same coin, one can’t exist without the other.
***
Other things now.
My Chemical Romance have made an insta post teasing… something. Is it a new song? A new album? A tour? No one sees to know, but Mikey at least posted it to his story last night too. What do I think it means? I’m not sure. But it means something.
The other day I had the Odeon code come for 40% of a selected film on Amazon, so I used it yesterday. The choice I narrowed it down to was between Thanksgiving and Tarot and I went for the latter. Do I know much about it? Not really, but I know it has creatures designed by the guy that made sire head which made me instantly curious. I’ll have to watch it (and Spree) soon.
Also yesterday I went back on Echoes of wisdom to chip away at it though I’ve not done too much, just a bit more on Eldin (namely helping the goron elders) but not much more. The new goron leader is so cute though I wanna give him a hug.
After watching the Who ray special features I watched the next J-Horror Rising film (thoughts late!) which was carved the slit mouthed woman which was pretty good.
Annoyingly the past few days my head has been feeling hazy. I can’t exactly put into words what that means (hazy feels the closest I can get) but it’s not helped that it’s been joined by headaches and a lack of being able to settle to sleep, which… ugh.
It’s really annoying and is starting to make my focus feel off as well as rile up MNy anxiety which isn’t exactly great. Bleh.
Today’s plan is wait for the food shop to come this afternoon, then it’s new Multiversus and Magic Arena stuff, plus Squidcraft 3 starts (with a lot of people including Seapeekay, woo!) and then I wanna watch the other j-horror on disc 3, Persona. Maybe I’ll get some writing in too if my focus comes back.
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Date: 2024-11-12 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-11-12 05:05 pm (UTC)i mean this with all of the love in my heart but i am absolutely appauled that you chose tarot over thanksgiving, you should go directly to jail for that. /j tarot is typical blumhouse but it IS entertaining and kinda fun in a silly type of way imo, i hope u enjoy it! but u really passed up on a diamond with my girl thanksgiving 😔 especially since tis the season and all (although u guys don't have thanksgiving and ur not from [MY LOCATION REDACTED SINCE THIS IS PUBLIC] so ig it wouldn't hit the same lmao).
i hope ur head feels better :c idk what exactly u mean by hazy but it sounds like it could be a depression kind of brainfog, or maybe ur dissociating. whatever it is, i hope it leaves u alone soon!
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Date: 2024-11-12 06:24 pm (UTC)I think I went for it over Thanksgiving cause Tarot seems to be so hard to find compared to Thanksgiving😭 so I hope to get it soon! (The blu ray is on offer so I might pick it up👀) entertaining and silly is good! I dunno much about Tarot so… that does make sense though🖤
Yeah I guess it’s kinda brain fog,it’s so annoying when it comes like that😔I hope so too!
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Date: 2024-11-14 12:56 pm (UTC)Also: IT'S A TOUR!! I found out on my lunch break yesterday! No European dates yet, but yeah, they're booked all over the continental US for next year. I HOPE this also means there's new music coming--I remember a song got leaked a few months ago--but they haven't announced one as of yet.
Keep an eye on Gerard though. If you see Gerard's hair change color, a new album is coming. I don't know how many other fans have figured this out, but they can't resist cosplaying at least one character from whatever comic series/concept album they're working on.
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Date: 2024-11-14 01:34 pm (UTC)Yeah I saw that too! I hope Europe dates get added (and with more warning than you guys have!) though I’m not sold on the poster imagery. I hope it means new music too
Oh you’re right! They’re like Awsten like that! I hope his hair changes and he gets a new outfit too
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Date: 2024-11-14 03:03 pm (UTC)(And yeah, I can't wait to see the outfits!)
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Date: 2024-11-16 05:55 pm (UTC)Yeah!
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Date: 2024-11-14 07:20 pm (UTC)I see from the comments that it's apparently a tour which is a bit of a pity. It would have been more interesting with new music.
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Date: 2024-11-16 07:44 pm (UTC)Yeah it’s just a US tour (at least for now) but hopefully it leads to more.