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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head)
~ From "Mad Girl's Love Song"
When I get a hedgehog, I might get a girl. If I do, I'm naming her Sylvie. There's two reasons for this.
1. It's the same name as our old family hedgehog, Sylvie, which my parents gave away because they didn't like each other at all. XD She was named for a favorite folk song about a man in jail who falls in love with his caretaker (or was it nurse?) named Sylvie, dreaming that one day she'd leave him the keys in his cell so he could escape... which she does at the end of the song.
2. Sylvia Plath, one of my favorite poets. I think of the original hedgehog Sylvie and what an adorable name it is for her, partly because of this.
Apparently, I was so tired I went to bed at 11 (interrupted once at 1 by Mom's stupid cell phone) and woke up at 2 today. A disturbing dream of mine just finished, and oddly enough, it had nothing to do with the Slender Man even though he was starting to freak me out from remembering the photos of him. It's about an awful sequel to The Incredibles, but not the kind of "awful" that you usually expect from sequels. It's more like... passive-aggressive awful. You'll see.
It's Pixar. They can't make bad sequels, right? Here's how the one in my dream worked. Basically, it was like a mix between your usual superhero movie sequel and the Simpsons. You know how serious Spiderman 3 tried to be about TEH DARK SIDE OF SPIDAMAAAN!!11!1 and the sadder bits with Homer and Marge in the Simpsons Movie? That's how the sequel is, but worse. There's barely any action sequences at all. The only people of the original cast are the Parrs. Frozone makes a flanderized cameo and disappears. Edna Mode doesn't exist. For some reason, Jack-Jack is never mentioned, so it's just Dash and Violet. Helen and Bob are having marriage problems, but not what you'd think was resolved from the first movie.
Basically, Helen is accusing Bob of always wanting to save the world and being a self-centered slob. But when you watch the movie, it's more disturbing than that. Bob actually works really hard every day and clearly expresses his concern about the children, but everytime he tries to have a conversation with Helen, Pixar goes out of their way to flanderize him and makes him sound as selfish and lazy as possible. Helen is dating a guy and he's a lot like Syndrome (or he IS Syndrome, possibly to add to the squick) And it's shown he's psychotic and that he's abusive to the kids when Helen isn't watching. Violet is scared, trying to dig her Pokemon stuff out of a suitcase and run away. Syndrome catches her, holds her hostage and possibly threatens to strangle/slit her throat while forcing her to call her mother and tell her everything's fine. Aside from his conversations with Helen, Bob wasn't doing anything wrong at all, basically he's working hard doing what he does. But Helen was nothing like she was in the original film, it's like the transformation of SatAM!Sally to the worst of Archie!Sally's years. Helen is selfish, manipulative and controlling, henpecking Bob and telling him he's all the things she's becoming herself. All she thinks about is her boyfriend, gives no thought to her kids, and how dare Bob not conform to her "needs."
Then it happens. Helen divorces Bob and tells him she's marrying Syndrome to his face with the worst of smiles. There's the "waaaah I've been dumped" musical score, Dash & Violet have no identity and become more and more miserable, and despite Pixar warping him to a Homer clone every time he tries to make up with Helen, Bob still loves her and tries to get her back. There's even a little scene where Helen meets up with an old pet of hers (and for some reason, she and the pet are played by Esmeralda and Djali. Don't ask how my dreams work). The goat is excited to see her, and she tosses a Frisbee. She hurls it REALLY far, as far as she can. Then when the goat comes back with it, she completely ignores him, hanging out smugly with her two body guards. The goat whimpers. She shoos at him to go away, possibly yelling, to go away in the most digusting and conceited manner possible. I was even yelling at her what a fucking bitch she was. Her body guards raised their spears, threatening to slice me if anything else came out of my mouth. All three laughed slyly and went back up the building.
Bob learns his kids and even his wife are in trouble. So he hurries to the new building she and her boyfriend live in. Since they've been divorced and remarried, Helen snidely tells him to call her by her new last name (something like Madderly), proud of the new business she shares with her boyfriend. Cue another conversation in which it seems Bob turns it toward himself again, except this time there's no music, it's the climax, and Pixar wanted to shed some light at "redeem" him somewhat. In barges Syndrome. It turns out Helen is unhappy with her job (something about book publishing and how shallow it's been for her doing the same thing over and over as her boyfriend drains her without her knowing it) Then it goes video game mode with SNES!Clock Tower-styled graphics in which you have to unscramble a code which is supposed to be Helen's final sendoff to Syndrome. Except you gain no hints or clues whatsover and if you don't figure it out in time, she faints and dies as if Syndrome's been draining her energy or emaciating her all this time. I think it was trying again to solve the code for the third time when the programmer or player realized it was pointless, so it just... ended there.
There was a torn base over the movie for sure, a lot of people hating it. They hated the flanderization and how it was nothing like the Incredibles at all and how they victimized Bob and warped Helen. It's like the more Pixar tried to get us to hate Bob and pity Helen, the more it went the opposite way. There were even a few people who thought the sequel was "deep and underrated" and how heroes can "change for the worst and that's reality" and they were "saddened that it's so hard to find on DVD. It's truly worthy as part of the Pixar lexington." The whole thing was subtle too, so it's not like the whole thing was blaring OOC from the start... it's more like OOC taking the "guise" of being IC and Pixar slowly turning the heat up until we're so submerged we don't know exactly how fucked up it's all become anymore. I'm flipped between, "Wait a minute, there's no sequel to the Incredibles. Yet it's real. It's right here. But there's no sequel to the Incredibles, is there?" Then I woke up and I'm glad of the truth. :P
Huh. After typing all that, I had the slowing-down version of the Lavender Town theme from Pokemon CreepyBlack in my head, as if this dream was a sort of movie creepypasta. Weird. Doesn't make the dream any less disturbing though. D: If Pixar DOES make a sequel to the Incredibles, I can thank my lucky stars this'll be nothing like it was in my nightmare. I hope.
I wish Mom didn't call me so much, then I would've finished typing this much sooner like she'd have hoped.
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head)
~ From "Mad Girl's Love Song"
When I get a hedgehog, I might get a girl. If I do, I'm naming her Sylvie. There's two reasons for this.
1. It's the same name as our old family hedgehog, Sylvie, which my parents gave away because they didn't like each other at all. XD She was named for a favorite folk song about a man in jail who falls in love with his caretaker (or was it nurse?) named Sylvie, dreaming that one day she'd leave him the keys in his cell so he could escape... which she does at the end of the song.
2. Sylvia Plath, one of my favorite poets. I think of the original hedgehog Sylvie and what an adorable name it is for her, partly because of this.
Apparently, I was so tired I went to bed at 11 (interrupted once at 1 by Mom's stupid cell phone) and woke up at 2 today. A disturbing dream of mine just finished, and oddly enough, it had nothing to do with the Slender Man even though he was starting to freak me out from remembering the photos of him. It's about an awful sequel to The Incredibles, but not the kind of "awful" that you usually expect from sequels. It's more like... passive-aggressive awful. You'll see.
It's Pixar. They can't make bad sequels, right? Here's how the one in my dream worked. Basically, it was like a mix between your usual superhero movie sequel and the Simpsons. You know how serious Spiderman 3 tried to be about TEH DARK SIDE OF SPIDAMAAAN!!11!1 and the sadder bits with Homer and Marge in the Simpsons Movie? That's how the sequel is, but worse. There's barely any action sequences at all. The only people of the original cast are the Parrs. Frozone makes a flanderized cameo and disappears. Edna Mode doesn't exist. For some reason, Jack-Jack is never mentioned, so it's just Dash and Violet. Helen and Bob are having marriage problems, but not what you'd think was resolved from the first movie.
Basically, Helen is accusing Bob of always wanting to save the world and being a self-centered slob. But when you watch the movie, it's more disturbing than that. Bob actually works really hard every day and clearly expresses his concern about the children, but everytime he tries to have a conversation with Helen, Pixar goes out of their way to flanderize him and makes him sound as selfish and lazy as possible. Helen is dating a guy and he's a lot like Syndrome (or he IS Syndrome, possibly to add to the squick) And it's shown he's psychotic and that he's abusive to the kids when Helen isn't watching. Violet is scared, trying to dig her Pokemon stuff out of a suitcase and run away. Syndrome catches her, holds her hostage and possibly threatens to strangle/slit her throat while forcing her to call her mother and tell her everything's fine. Aside from his conversations with Helen, Bob wasn't doing anything wrong at all, basically he's working hard doing what he does. But Helen was nothing like she was in the original film, it's like the transformation of SatAM!Sally to the worst of Archie!Sally's years. Helen is selfish, manipulative and controlling, henpecking Bob and telling him he's all the things she's becoming herself. All she thinks about is her boyfriend, gives no thought to her kids, and how dare Bob not conform to her "needs."
Then it happens. Helen divorces Bob and tells him she's marrying Syndrome to his face with the worst of smiles. There's the "waaaah I've been dumped" musical score, Dash & Violet have no identity and become more and more miserable, and despite Pixar warping him to a Homer clone every time he tries to make up with Helen, Bob still loves her and tries to get her back. There's even a little scene where Helen meets up with an old pet of hers (and for some reason, she and the pet are played by Esmeralda and Djali. Don't ask how my dreams work). The goat is excited to see her, and she tosses a Frisbee. She hurls it REALLY far, as far as she can. Then when the goat comes back with it, she completely ignores him, hanging out smugly with her two body guards. The goat whimpers. She shoos at him to go away, possibly yelling, to go away in the most digusting and conceited manner possible. I was even yelling at her what a fucking bitch she was. Her body guards raised their spears, threatening to slice me if anything else came out of my mouth. All three laughed slyly and went back up the building.
Bob learns his kids and even his wife are in trouble. So he hurries to the new building she and her boyfriend live in. Since they've been divorced and remarried, Helen snidely tells him to call her by her new last name (something like Madderly), proud of the new business she shares with her boyfriend. Cue another conversation in which it seems Bob turns it toward himself again, except this time there's no music, it's the climax, and Pixar wanted to shed some light at "redeem" him somewhat. In barges Syndrome. It turns out Helen is unhappy with her job (something about book publishing and how shallow it's been for her doing the same thing over and over as her boyfriend drains her without her knowing it) Then it goes video game mode with SNES!Clock Tower-styled graphics in which you have to unscramble a code which is supposed to be Helen's final sendoff to Syndrome. Except you gain no hints or clues whatsover and if you don't figure it out in time, she faints and dies as if Syndrome's been draining her energy or emaciating her all this time. I think it was trying again to solve the code for the third time when the programmer or player realized it was pointless, so it just... ended there.
There was a torn base over the movie for sure, a lot of people hating it. They hated the flanderization and how it was nothing like the Incredibles at all and how they victimized Bob and warped Helen. It's like the more Pixar tried to get us to hate Bob and pity Helen, the more it went the opposite way. There were even a few people who thought the sequel was "deep and underrated" and how heroes can "change for the worst and that's reality" and they were "saddened that it's so hard to find on DVD. It's truly worthy as part of the Pixar lexington." The whole thing was subtle too, so it's not like the whole thing was blaring OOC from the start... it's more like OOC taking the "guise" of being IC and Pixar slowly turning the heat up until we're so submerged we don't know exactly how fucked up it's all become anymore. I'm flipped between, "Wait a minute, there's no sequel to the Incredibles. Yet it's real. It's right here. But there's no sequel to the Incredibles, is there?" Then I woke up and I'm glad of the truth. :P
Huh. After typing all that, I had the slowing-down version of the Lavender Town theme from Pokemon CreepyBlack in my head, as if this dream was a sort of movie creepypasta. Weird. Doesn't make the dream any less disturbing though. D: If Pixar DOES make a sequel to the Incredibles, I can thank my lucky stars this'll be nothing like it was in my nightmare. I hope.
I wish Mom didn't call me so much, then I would've finished typing this much sooner like she'd have hoped.