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A clean shaven white guy goody two-shoes who speaks perfect english, bulletproof and have literal superpower and save the planet on regular basis against other illegal aliens apparently still just a stinky illegal alien in the eyes of chuds
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Note that you need a Hexbear account to use Blorptube. You may wish to use a VPN as well. Also, don't use a cartoon from the 1980s as medical advice, not that I was expecting you to.
Also, if you use an anime tracker like Anilist or MAL: Once Upon a Time... Life is listed in a number of anime databases due to being a Japanese co-production.
- https://myanimelist.net/anime/3624/Seimei_no_Kagaku__Micro_Patrol
- https://anilist.co/anime/3624/Once-Upon-a-Time-Life/
What are we watching?
Episode titles: "The Tiny Platelets" — "The Heart" — "Breathing" — "The Brain" — "The Neurons"
Series description: Once Upon a Time... Life teaches about the human body and its various systems using the same characters from the other Once Upon a Time... seasons. The "good guys" (such as Pierrot and Mercedes from Space) represent the cells of the body's defense mechanisms, and the "bad guys" (including the "red-nose guys" as one of our regulars calls them) represent the viruses and bacteria.
We'll be watching the English dub, which this time around has pretty decent audio mixing, though we curiously can't figure out who the heck actually did the voices. They've got British accents if nothing else.
Content warnings
If you've got like trypophobia or don't like looking at landscapes made of cartoon human flesh, then this show might be a problem for you. Children get serious illnesses; a character dies of old age at some point I believe; there is some nudity in the opening; the immune system is presented as cops; and some cells are very occasionally presented as caricatures of e.g. "cowboys and Indians".
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Tuesday night visual cuisine Twin Peaks s2e19-20 & Venture Bros S7e3-6 8pm est
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The visual cuisine for tonight is two more Twin Peak episodes followed by more Venture Bros. Special thanks to DrMonarch for uploading the entirety of Venture Bros, uncensored. We will be finishing up season 6 and starting season 7 tonight.
Twin Peaks
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12451?index1=-1&index2=-1
- Domestic violence
- Stalking
- Drugs & alcohol
- Addiction
- An animal dies
- A pet dies
- Shaving/cutting
- Kidnapping
- Cheating
- Abusive parents
- Abused becomes the abuser
- A woman is brutalized for spectacle
- Gaslighting
- A character is abused with a belt
- Child abuse
- Bugs
- A character is drugged
- References to pedophilia
- References to and implied sexual assault
- A bully beats someone up
- A character is restrained
- A character's mouth is covered
- A character struggles to breathe
- A character gets choked
- A character has undergone amputation in the past
- A character dies by hanging
- Unconsciousness
- Bone breaking
- Finger mutilation
- Corpses
- Torture
- References to a child dying
- Sexualization of minors
- A character sacrifices themself
- Death
- A disabled character is played by an able bodied actor
- A child's toy is destroyed
- Ghosts
- Jump scares & loud noises
- Natural bodies of water in the opening credits
- Characters are possessed
- Trypophobic content
- Vomit & spit
- Copaganda
- Incarceration
- Anti LGBT+ slur
- An LGBT+ character dies
- Deadnaming
- Hospital scenes
- Depictions of mental illness
- Self harm
- Misrepresentation of autism
- A mentally ill person is violent
- Dissociation
- Characters implied to be autistic are mistreated
- Suicide attempt and a character declares they will attempt it
- Unstable reality
- A character has a meltdown
- Misophonia
- Anxiety attacks
- Body dysmorphia
- Claustrophobic
- Depictions of ptsd
- Shakey cam
- Screaming
- Profanity
- Flashing lights & images
- Ableism and ableist language
- "Man in dress" jokes
- A trans character is misgendered
- Fat jokes
- Misrepresentation of a minority
- Religion
- Large age gap
- A character loses their virginity
- Incest
- Kissing
- Jokes about men crying
- Mentions of existentialism
- Sad endings
- Car crash and someone is hit by a car
- Blood & gore
- Guns & gun violence
- Nuclear explosion
The Venture Bros
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/50010?index1=-1&index2=-1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417373/parentalguide/
- Profanity & slurs
- The r-slur is used both as a slur and to describe a character with an intellectual disability
- A homophobic slur is used multiple times as well
- Violence
- Guns & gun violence
- Blood & gore
- A dog does die
- Abusive parents
- Stalking
- The abused becomes an abuser
- Gaslighting
- Child abuse
- Body dysphoria involving a prominent side character that appears in multiple seasons
- Transphobia: in addition to the above being played off as a joke for a while, a prominent side character is insinuated to be a transwoman a few times because she has a deep voice
- Sexual content
- Sexual objectification of characters
- Incest
- Suicide & suicide attempts
- Depictions of PTSD
- Vomit, spit, shit, & piss
- Drugs, alcohol, and addiction
- Scene with a dog fighting ring
- Dead animals
- Depictions of bugs
- Depictions and mentions of SA
- Characters are restrained
- Shaving and cutting
- Characters are crushed to death
- Characters choke to death
- Body horror
- Amputation
- A character is buried alive
- A character hangs themself
- A character undergoes a medical procedure to alleviate pain in their genitals
- Unconsciousness
- A character has a seizure
- Teeth are damaged
- Depictions of torture
- A character's eye is mutilated
- Death of children
- A minor is sexualized: Dean is frequently depicted as a horny teenager and multiple jokes revolve around this
- Death of a family member
- A child's toy is destroyed
- Cheating
- Ghosts
- Clowns
- Shower scene
- A character is possessed
- Needles & syringes
- Hospital and mental instituion scenes
- A character has cancer and another dies from cancer off screen
- Anxiety attacks
- Mentions of an eating disorder
- Flashing lights & images
- Ableism
- An LGBT character dies
- Age gap: an underage character lies to an adult to get the adult to sleep with them
- Nudity that is generally censored
- A scene with implied bestiality
- Car crashing and honking
- Someone is hit by a car
- Plane crash
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It's taken a few sittings. It is a 1961 fictionalization of a Nurenberg trial, of German judges, which had taken place less than 15 years prior.
Interesting to think of this turning point of history, after the ostensible crushing of fascism, when choices were being made about its future. Communism is mentioned a couple of times, by an American, then by a Nazi defendant, as a potential consequence of being overly zealous.
The equivocation of liberalism is displayed. The main American judge character, Heywood, seems to have his sympathies pulled to the "humanity" of everyday nazi collaborators. During his time in Germany he is provided to live in the former home of a wealthy German woman who's husband had already been hung in a prior trial for his leading role in the military. She attempts to charm him into believing that trial had been unjust and that they, like most Germans, had been oblivious to the now-revealed horrors of concentration camps. Heywood also spends a bit of time with the servants who worked in the house under this wealthy Nazi and remain there to care for him. Me personally I feel that there was too much time to allowing this argument to be made in plain language, while the counter to it was rather subtle, being made substantially by facial expressions and other quiet means.
There is a fairly lengthy scene where actual footage from the liberation of concentration camps was played with explanatory narration from one of the prosecution. This is by way of evidence of what happened to the people who were sentenced by the judges. Showing ovens, bodies, children with tattooed arms, shoes, glasses, teeth, more bodies, leather and other artifacts made of human remains, Zyclon-B showers. Later, the 4 defendant judges are eating in the prison mess, and 1 of them is saying how horrible it was to play that video which had nothing to do with them. And it was impossible all those horrible things happened, how could so many people have been killed like that? Impossible. At another table, there is a prisoner who was in charge of one of the camps. The upset judge gets his attention and asks him, that couldn't have happened right? And the man responds, "Oh, It's possible" and mirrors the language used by the prosecution in his description. Ends by explaining the hard part is disposing of the bodies. Dinner goes on.
In the conclusion, all defendants are found guilty and sentenced to Life. But as described in wikipedia:
[Nazi] German defense attorney Hans Rolfe meets Haywood after the trial to inform him on his estimation that no defendant will probably stay in prison for more than 5 years. Haywood replies that Rolfe's position may be logical but without reverence for justice.
The film closes:
The 1985 Soviet theatrical adaptation, Процесс, which sounds overall more spirited, underlines this:
On the screen footage of newsreels: former war criminals walk through the streets, exercises of NATO troops, American missiles on the territory of Germany, the nuclear mushroom of Hiroshima, the police disperse an anti-war demonstration.
very 1961 trailer: https://archive.org/details/judgment-at-nuremberg-1961-720p-trailer
full 3hr movie: https://archive.org/details/movie-judgment-at-nuremberg-1961
RU-to-EN machine-translated Plot section of wikipedia page for Процесс
The American tribunal, led by Judge Heywood, is listening to the four-day-old perpetrators of Hitler’s “justice” Ernst Yanning, Emile Hann, Friedrich Hoffestter and Werner Lampe. Judges are judged - those who in the days of the fascist Reich were called guardians of the law. It was their turn to sit on the dock according to the laws of a different time. Prosecutor Colonel Lawson proves their guilt not only to those they subjected to violent sterilization, innocently condemned and shot for “relations with the lower race”, but also in front of all living on earth.
Chief accused Ernst Yanning (formerly the Minister of Justice of the Third Reich) did not fight, did not work in concentration camps, wrote books on the right. But, confirming the policy of Hitlerite Germany by court orders, made the crimes of the authorities committed on behalf of the law. Without being a villainous by nature, he nevertheless served the most inhuman regime as the world knew. Rolfe’s lawyer stubbornly and persistently argues that the defendants acted in accordance with the laws of the country in which they were born and the historical time in which they lived. But the representative of the prosecution, Colonel Lawson, stands at his own: thanks to such non-resistance to violence, fascism became possible. And almost first of all they, the judges, are guilty of the death of an estimated number of people.
The defendant’s compatriot, the lawyer Rolfe is not alone – he is only a clear part of the dark forces behind him, not only those who are in the dock, but also ordinary people, like the Halbestadtov, and refined aristocrats like Frau Berthold. The fight between fascism and humanism forces everyone to make a choice: to indulge (at least not by interference) evil or fight.[[4]
His account of fascism is presented by his miraculously surviving victims witnesses: Irene Goffmann and Rudolf Petersen. Violently paid for convictions and reluctance to lie, they are now at war with those who would like to reverse the story. Viewers have the opportunity and time to seriously think about each argument of the prosecution and the defense, seriously solve the question for themselves: what is the responsibility of each of those who lived then, for the tragedy that happened on the planet, what is the responsibility of each of us for what is happening in the world today.
During the trial, the accused Yanning understands that his acquittal, which Rolfe’s lawyer is so stubbornly seeking, will inevitably lead to the revival of the terrible ghost of fascism. Yanning stands up and condemns himself and all those who justify the ideology of fascism. Lawyer Ralfe understands that it is no longer possible to defend Yanning, but it is very important how the Yanning case will sound for the Germans. The goal of Rolfer’s lawyer is to psychologically prepare Germany for rehabilitation. After all, Rolfe is running for the Bundestag of a new formation. Rolfi's aggressive hatred of peace and humanity lies in fascism and leads to реваншизму[revanchism.[5]]
The tragedy of irresponsibility led, in due time, to the flowering of fascism, and this should not happen again. This idea is gradually coming to this American, Judge Heywood, under whose chairmanship the tribunal must pass off his sentence. Step by step, Judge Heywood penetrates into the nature of Nazism, slowly but irrevocably comes to condemn not only the four executioners in the mantles now in the dock, but also fascism as such. Each such step acquires a generalizing meaning in the performance, showing how much a “small” can do, but an honest person in the common struggle for peace. If at first Judge Heywood was still doubting, then by the time of the end of the meetings I was convinced: it is necessary to judge from the position of all mankind, all living and alive. The defendants must answer on the highest account.
The other way goes to the prosecutor Colonel Lawson: the accusing fascism passionately and sincerely at the beginning of the performance, he is under pressure from those who are no longer afraid of fascism, but “dangeries from the East”, at the last moment he refuses to fight. Prosecutor Lawson has subdued himself to a new political situation. He is deeply vigilantly experiencing his inner conflict. Time broke the hero. The pre-prepared accusatory speech for the final session of the court, Lawson postponed. Too sorry. Too principled. Not by time. And this climax, the hero of the play becomes Judge Heywood.
The trial ended as if rightly: all the defendants, as Judge Heywood demanded, were sentenced to life imprisonment, as were their predecessors in 1946. But after the end of the trial, Rolfe’s lawyer offers Judge Heywood Levy “all those he was sentenced to life imprisonment, will be at large in five years.”
The actor, who played the role of Judge Heywood, goes to the forefront and utters into the auditorium: “Of the 99 people sentenced by the tribunal to prison, none is serving more punishment.” On the screen footage of newsreels: former war criminals walk through the streets, exercises of NATO troops, American missiles on the territory of Germany, the nuclear mushroom of Hiroshima, the police disperse an anti-war demonstration. In the finale of the performance, with tightly close the elbows, the cramped rank with a friendly line is the artist to meet the auditorium - all the participants of the play.
And when in the final all the participants of the play, no longer the defendants and judges, not witnesses and defenders, and the artists of the Lenin Komsomol Theater will firmly bring the elbows and amicably go to meet the auditorium, all in this hall - as one - will stand in response to these steps [6[6]].
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Pinocchio has always led a cruel life in any adaptation but this might be the most inhumane world he's inhabited. This movie made me laugh of joy and equally at it's absurdity while also making me feel sorry for this abused sex cyborg with ammnesia
ONN-CHAN is super creepy and cute as well, which is in line with the whole movie. It's equal parts euphoric and human and joyful as well as disgusting, nauseating and cynical. Which is why I love this, if it were an American movie they would make the visuals more in line of stylized horror than anything else but this low-budget Japanese film effectively really goes deep into the weird territory that gives it it's own style but is far too weird to be conventional.
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Monday night visual Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine 29-32 & Puss in Boots 1 8 pm est
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The visual cuisine for tonight is more Poitrine and Puss in Boots 1 due to popular demand after rewatching Shrek.
Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine is a comedy series in the same vein as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon that was also an inspiration for Sailor Moon: a girl visits a shrine and is given the power to become a superheroine to protect her neighborhood.
Puss in Boots 1 is the first movie about Puss in Boots, a character from the Shrek franchise voiced by Antonio Banderas.
8 pm est
content warnings:
Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine
unfortunately there isn't a dogdie or imdb page for Poitrine, however it looks relatively tame.
- Domestic violence
- Parents arguing
- Cartoonish violence
- Violence and threats towards children
- Homophobia
- An episode's antagonist is a pedophile
- Alcohol
- Crossdressing
- Depictions and mistreatment of mentally ill people
- Self harm with cutting
- Running gag of the protagonist being sexually harassed
- Demons
- Misogyny
- The protagonist is a child who is almost mistakenly kissed by her father
- Bullying
- Depictions of nazi imagery
- A character is brainwashed/possessed by an antagonist
- A character's makeup is effectively blackface
- Mentions of stereotypes
- Nudity: a monster with a fan blows off a child's clothes
- Child abuse
- A character receives an enema as a punishment but the camera cuts a few seconds before depiction
Puss in Boots 1
- Cartoon violence
- Children abandoned by parents
- Stalking
- Domestic violence
- Gaslighting
- Jokes about SA on men
- Shaving cutting
- Achilles tendon injury
- Unconsciousness
- Bone breaking
- A character's tooth is knocked out
- A character falls to their death
- A baby is abducted/kidnapping
- A character sacrifices themself
- Brief hospital scene in the end credits
- Light ableist language
- Guns & gun violence
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Description: Arthur Dent and his friend, Ford Prefect, narrowly escape the destruction of Earth, only to face incredible trials, tribulations and adventures across space and time. Based on the 1978 radio series of the same name. Known for the distinctive, creative and surreal humor of its creator, Douglas Adams.
Runtime: Each episode is 30~36 minutes in length. Episode 1 is 33 minutes, and episode 2 is 35 minutes, altogether that's 68 minutes for tonight. If you'd like to put something on after the show, go ahead.
Content warnings: See attached links
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Our third reboot just three years after the previous film, who's going to keep up with all this?
Spider-Man Homecoming follows a teen Peter Parker trying to navigate life and also trying to be "recognized" as a superhero. I love how the film deals with Peter's inner fear of being alone and a nobody without ever telling us about it, we can feel his excited and desperation at times because of Tom Holland's great acting both physical and emotional. He really brings this teenager who's probably very conflicted about life and responsibilities, to life.
And man, this time (be cause I have seen these movies before and thought not much of them) I was kinda surprised that at their school everyone was young. This is not adults pretending to be teens, these are teens. They make stupid jokes, they go to parties, they have crushes and I think the movie does a better job of building Peter Parker's school life then it does building up his home life and struggles. So the highlights for me were internal struggle of not accepting himself as he is and his school drama, not so much compelling sides were his house life with his aunt and their lame larby jokes that try too hard to be cute.
Another thing this movie really does well is that it really brings a lot of city sound and visual language, atleast in the first half. One of the first shots is the camera panning down on the Avengers tower as it descends into a collapse building and you can see and hear pigeons flying off. The noises of trains and people everywhere of different cultures in New York is really great too, I don't remember seeing this detailed look at it before.
Visuals are most of the time pretty good, the Vulture design and his overall character is superbly played by Michael Keaton. His suit, the menacing wings, the helmet and leather jacket, green eyes, it's such a well-realized look. Keaton plays him with such an empathetic but dangerous air too, you know this guy is crazy and that he's too deep into it to give up but the movie makes him relatable and likable from the first scene.
Action scenes are a hit and miss, the Washington D.C monumental scene is held with a buildup of intensity and Spider-Man's getting inside the monument flying swing is beautifully intense and shot but the ferry scene has some awkward editing. I remember Vulture just flying here and there looking at a seemingly cardboard cutout of six Feds shooting at him and it looked meh
I think the first-half is actually better than the latter, it flows much better even with it's own weird pacing issues. I don't know why Disney keeps moving Spider-Man from New York with these movies but atleast the scene in Washington was exciting.
Overall: 7.5/10 A lot of marvel comedy still felt stupid to me and the movie sort of ends inconclusively, but atleast Peter's character has a real character development by the end.
Also the references to Ferris Bueller's Day Off were pretty fun to watch
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And so we finally finish season 4, wrapping up both the Equestria Games arc which started near the end of season 3, and book-ending the Chest of Harmony arc which started in the season premiere.
The rest of this post may contain spoilers.
What's the chef cookin' tonight?
"Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3"
...Is an episode I remember really enjoying, about Rainbow Dash trying various methods to study for a Wonderbolts Reserves entrance exam, because she just isn't good at studying. I don't think I have ADHD or anything like that, but I have still always despised standardized tests, so this episode really spoke to me when I first watched it as a teenager. So it'll be neat to see if this episode holds up and has an ending as heartwarming as I remember.
This episode also features Pinkie Pie rapping, by the way.
"Trade Ya!"
...Is an episode about barter going badly, and when I say "badly" I mean that Fluttershy almost becomes a stranger's indentured servant at the Rainbow Falls Traders' Exchange in this episode... Yup, this episode is the second and last major appearance of the town of Rainbow Falls, and literally the last memory we make in this town is about Fluttershy almost getting enslaved! Ain't that something!
More notable than that, though, is that this episode features the one-off character Stellar Eclipse — the wheelchair-bound ponysona of one Sylvain-Nicholas LeVasseur-Portelance, a then-teenager with type III spinal muscular atrophy. He got his character on the show through Make-A-Wish, and he even voices his own character in this episode — I believe I remember hearing that his lines were recorded through his phone.
Stellar Eclipse is the first of the four fan-made ponies to appear in MLP G4 through Make-A-Wish.
"Inspiration Manifestation"
...Is an episode in which Rarity is driven to madness by a special magical artifact which was Supposed to cure her creative slump. This episode is also I believe the only My Little Pony episode that sounds like it could've been a Big Bang Theory episode — I'm serious, TBBT had both an episode called "The Inspiration Deprivation" and another episode called "The Meteorite Manifestation", right? Stick those two titles in a particle accelerator and yeah. You get the picture.
(Do we want to semi-hatewatch TBBT some time? Hmmmh.....)
...But anyways, this episode also mentions but doesn't actually feature an event known as the Foal and Filly Fair. Which is a very strangely named event, it's like saying a Children and Girls' Fair, but whatever. Part of this event is evidently pony puppeteering, which I kinda wish we got to see more of, but that's how it goes. It won't be the last time we see puppets in this show.
"Equestria Games"
...Is the conclusion of the Equestria Games arc, and it is, of course, a Spike episode. Did you know Equestrian cities have their own anthems? You will certainly be aware of this fact by the end of this episode.
...I evidently don't have much to say about this one.
"Twilight's Kingdom"
...Concludes the "Chest of Harmony" arc. Remember the five episodes this season where one of the Mane Six got rainbow eyes while looking at some object related to that day's friendship lesson? Well, the relevance of that is gonna be revealed in this two-parter!
This two-parter also considerably changes MLP's status quo — it ruined a fanfic I was writing before I watched it! — though the exact extent of the status quo change in question won't be revealed until the season 5 premiere, which we'll watch next week. And of course, the status quo change in question, which I call "the other pony 9/11", was also derided by fans as another hastily-written attempt to sell toys. But such is life!
Many fans compared the fight scene between Twilight Sparkle and this two-parter's Bad Guy to DBZ I think, which I can only assume is accurate. And may those bees rest in peace, of course.
...You ever think about how the only difference between "bees" and "peace" is voicing? I hadn't thought about that until now.
But yeah, this is a fun two-parter.
Content warnings
- A character in melancholic self-loathing calls herself an ableist term ("Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3")
- A character nearly becomes an indentured servant ("Trade Ya!")
- Harassment of a child ("Trade Ya!")
- Emotional eating ("Inspiration Manifestation")
- A character loses her mind ("Inspiration Manifestation")
- A child fails to live up to unreasonably high expectations in front of a large crowd ("Equestria Games")
- Child and large crowd in peril ("Equestria Games")
- A character's home is destroyed ("Twilight's Kingdom")
♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫
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