AHHHH i love Torchy being portrayed as a little flame!! also the watcher symbol in grian's eyes is a great detail. joel plopping on the floor is such a mood. great work!!
Just a clarification - by "the watcher symbol," you mean the symbol shown on Grian's eyes in the the couple of frames after he says, "then you cannot re-roll," the symbol being the same one shown upon a fail at the secret-keeper. Right?
The symbol comes from the EVO smp from a while back. The reason everyone associates Grian with the Watchers is because at the end of the series Grian became one, and now because of Martyn the EVO lore has continued through the life series. It seems to becoming a bit more canon now with the Secret Keeper basically being a Watcher statue
Has anyone noticed that in episode 1 of secret life in Grians thumbnail it looks like he's wearing a cloak ON the secret keeper WHICH shows the Watcher symbol?
0:01 Probably the most embarrassing 'I luv u' 0:14 "WAAAAAAOOOOOO" -Tango 0:21 Two married men being a little sus 0:34 Rare footage of a Smallish Splat 0:39 Torchy Encounter Part 1 0:51 Grian LAYS DOWN THE LAW 1:02 Torchy Encounter Part 2 1:09 Asian Parenting Edit: Changed 0:00 to 0:01
i LOVE the way Grian's eyes became Watcher symbols for a moment when the portal opened! That timing this episode was impeccable and I love how people are interpreting the moment as Grian's Watcher side coming through to lay down the rules
This is one my favorite moments of all the life series, it was so well timed I thought Grian used a sound effect command or something. It wasn't until I watched Gem's POV that I realized it was just perfectly timed with the courthouse conversation that I had to rewatch it several times to fully absorb how amazing that moment is.
@nicholasjohnston1970 It's a long explanation so I'll try to shorten it. Basically, in a previous SMP that Grian, a long with a couple other Life Series members and other yourubers, was in called the Evolution SMP, Evo for short. In Evo, they played on an old version of Minecraft and the goal was to play through all the updates if the game. They did so by completing tasks/missions sent to them by these beings called the Watchers. The Watchers portrayed themselves as these benevolent angels that were helping guide the players through the updates by giving them tasks and then making Nether portals for the players to travel to the next update. However, it was later learned that the Watchers weren't so nice and supportive. While they did reward successful tasks, they also punished players if they did things they didn't like. Grian was often punished because he liked it prank and take stuff from other players. Eventually, the Watchers made the while server go through the End portal to fight the dragon, but instead of fighting together, every single player was separated and had to fight alone. Once the fight was over, when Grian stepped in the portal to return to the overworld, I stead of getting the usual dialouge/poem thing you get during the credits, Grian's screen instead showed a conversation between 2 beings labeled Watcher 1 & 2. They basically say that the server has gotten too unstable and that they will need to take one of the players out to help stabilize it. Grian agrees to go. Grian then gets turned from a human player into a Watcher a kind of demigod-like being. The other players return to the iverworld to see that Grian has gone missing and they've been moved thousands of blocks from their old spawn. The Watchers give the new mission of starting over on building basically. Instead the members go back to their old span to see it completely destroyed. This is when the players learn that the Watchers aren't just benevolent helping hands, but instead powerful beings who are just playing with the server members like pawns in a game of chess. Watchers feed off of the emotions of the players, so by making them run around and do things, they're basically farming the players for emotions to eat. The players don't like this and want to escape, and this is when they introduce the Listeners. The Listeners are the same kind of species/being as Watchers, but they disagree with how the Watchers are treating the players, so they devise a plan to help the players escape. Eventually, they do, and that's the end of Evo. The reason there's Watcher lore in the life series is that Martyn was in Evo, and if you watch his life series perspectives through the seasons of 3rd life and other seasons, he's been making it a part of his lore that the Watchers actually made the life series as a sort of hunger games-styke death match to brew up more emotions to eat and as a punishment for the Evo members for leaving. The Watchers learned that negative emotions taste the best, so things like reds killing players, team mate betrayal, etc. are all devised as a way to farm more meals for the Watchers. In Martyn's lore, Grian went Rouge from the Watchers, but because he left Evo before the Listeners came in, he doesn't know about them, so he's a lone Watcher. Instead of Watching his friends play to the death and suffer, he decided to join the SMP himself because he's k own for being chaotic and often silly, so he's trying to spoil the other Watchers' meals with more positive emotions. Irl, Grian doesn't write or participate in any of this lore, but he and the other Life members have given Martyn permission to write lore about their characters. A lot of people headcanon that as the games go on through more series, Grian is slowly slipping on his ability to hide his Watcher aspects. So like, when Grian said Mumbo had failed and the portal sound happened to play right after, the other members were like "wow spooky!", but what people are starting to headcanon for the Watcher lore is that Grian accidentally let some of his Watcher side slip and show, hence his eyes turning to the Watcher logo from Evo in this video. I hope this helped clear thi gs up! There's a lot more but I don't want to write a whole novel in this comment section. I suggest checking out Martyn's previous seasons if you want to see some of the lore in action. He's also done a couple of lore explanations in live stream, and vods of those are on his RU-vid channel. Or I can comment more if you like.
Yo @@Crow_in_Thornes I know im not the op but can you explain a little more? I wanted to hear abt it but I don't really have the time to watch loads of vids
You are a massive inspiration to me as an animator! I aspire to have the clean lines, smooth, small animation touches that make it pop, the ability to make them soooo fast, the facial expressions and more stuff I can’t think of right now! I ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You mean the Peter Griffin pose? Of course, what do I know. Homer could have done that pose in an episode as an Easter egg or something. I don't watch much Simpsons or Family Guy.
This session was so good 😂 I love your animation and the cute lil things like the way u designed torchy! And I was waiting for the “YOU ARE A FALIURE!!” To be animated that has been one of the funniest moments
Goodness I love these animations so much! The way you animated Tango falling over as he turns face to face with Gem's skeleton horse was incredible! It really fit his scream so well! The almost silent clip of Joel's body hitting the floor had me cackling. So glad you only included the one sound effect. Grian's eyes changing to the Evo symbol is always so good, and that moment was way too perfect! I also love how Etho, Mumbo, and Scar all jump, too. Their expressions are amazing! Skizz being endlessly confused by Tango talking to Torchy was beautifully animated as well. I love Torchy's design with the heart too! Wonderful work! Thank you for sharing!
Poor Joel, not only did he probably have an akward talk with his wife because of Etho and Grian but man also failed a bucket clutch in front of everyone X)
Honestly Joel really does give off jacket vibes with his monotone voice like I needed this to realize it but it makes SENSE and you draw it so well omfg, especially when he just keeps having his hands in his pockets mwah
I love this so much 😂 I love how we all agree that that portal opening was a watcher moment byt then theres just gem doing it for a task lol xd Amazing ❤
1:18 joel's scream is my absolute favorite part of session 3, i laughed so hard when i first heard it and i've replayed it countless times at this point 😂
I love these so much! Tango's full sail flip and freak out of pumpkin Gem, all the Torchy bits, The End portal opening as word of law by the Watchers and it being a thing inflicted through Grian and him noticeably being moved by it as it happens. SOOOOO GOOD!!!!
Wow! This is so amazing! It’s hard to find time to watch all the povs and these are actually a pretty good recap! I especially love the part where Grian’s eyes flash with the evo symbol because of the end. I rewatched it so many times! Amazing as always! ❤
Oh my gosh, when I watched that reaction to the portal opening, I legitimately went 'I bet his eyes turned purple'. I love the watcher symbols in his eyes, that timing was amazing. Although, I did see a lot of people saying that this was Grian laying down the law. What if opening the portal opened the door for the watchers? Like, the connection was doubled, causing the sound 'n eyes?
0:18 probably my favorite part, you hear Gem approaching but the jumpscare is still perfect. And I love how you draw Torchy, he looks like Calcifer from the Howl's Moving Castle movie!
This might be the funniest one yet, and they are all so great! Absolutely love your style, I am always just as exited to watch these animatics as I am to watch the actual episodes! :)
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