The Owl House Was Too Good to Live 

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Also said neurodivergent bisexual hero is granted the power of a bigender deity whose religion has been appropriated by said fascistic Christian fundamentalist.

Not quite: The neurodivergent bisexual hero chooses to simply walk away and leaves the weakened fascistic religious fundamentalist to slowly die and dissolve in the boiling rain. It is the hero's gay girlfriend, her middle-aged surrogate mother, said mother's non-binary fiance, and said mother's adopted cryptid son who stomp the fascist into the mud. A minor quibble, but Luz specifically chose to NOT engage in petty vengeance; she did not know her friends were going to choose to be petty when she took the 'high road,' but she let them have their fun, not even looking back on the scene.

@andrewdreasler428 Fair point but I included Luz being all NOW EAT THIS SUCKA as part of the curbstomping

​@@Advent3546 Fair enough. I mean, she physically wrenched the fascistic religious fundamentalist from his Christ pose by his f***ing ribcage. And then her not even saying anything when he begs for mercy while melting away...not gonna lie, that's pretty metal.

Point being, definitive choice to END him.

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not indie games tho. i payed to play an ant farm pvp and the makers confessed they spent it on booze and strippers. we appreciated the honesty tho.

give the land back or whatever

Forcibly expel colonial powers and take that power back for the people 🤔? Sounds fun to me tbh

As is the custom

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@@daneverharen1694 or am I a kid? I scream for I do not know

@@SpoopySquid ink is the only true constant

I get that capitalism is far from perfect, but I fail to see how such a future is exclusive to a "hellscape" of private ownership. Can we stop throwing capitalism under the bus for everything?

@@youtubeviolatedme7123 nah, they would stub their toe against the furniture and still blame it on capitalism. it's the root of all evil in their book.

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Corporations and businesses are literally always anti-art on a fundamental level. Not to say that ALL businesses or the concept of business is a bad thing, but art is inherently a chaotic thing because art is always New. Every new piece of art is made from scraps of inspiration from everything that came before, but also old art viewed by a new audience produces new inspirations and interpretations which are themselves colored by inspirations from everything that came before. Business, however, is about stability. The process of making money, of acquiring resources, is about efficiency and reliability. Even before getting to any moral or philosophical stance, just on a cold mechanical level, long term moneymaking really doesn't go well with the chaotic process of making art. Commerce isn't itself an inherently bad thing; I think the problem is that businesses, notably corporations that are supposed to be selling art, have gotten waaaay too big. They have too much control and they control too much stuff, and so their intrinsic anti-art nature has taken over enormous chunks of the culture.

@@ElevatorEleven Something else that I find interesting is the eternal conflict between the artists who produce the work, and their employers who fund, distribute, and advertise it. The relationship between artists and corporate overlords reminds me of those little birds who pick the scraps from alligators’ teeth. There’s mutual benefit from working together, but there’s always the risk of the alligator snapping its jaws shut-which is exactly what happened to The Owl House. At the end of the day, both parties want different things. Artists want to fill their lives (and the lives of others) with romance, but they also need money to make ends meet. Executives derive their ambitions from the basic evolutionary principles of expansion and consumption. They will do anything to increase their dominance over the environment. So basically, artists are emotional and executives are mechanical. Fundamentally different kinds of people forced together, neither one liking it very much.

Capitalism strikes again

sporovid5856 I wouldn’t say art is inherently romantic, a large part of the lead-up to the French Revolution was art shifting to a focus on logic and examining objective reality in response to the crown’s insistence that their rule was good and just by virtue of irreproachable divine right. I watched a character analysis video a while back that talked about how they thought all art is an attempt at seeking the truth in some way. An attempt to process a moment of inherently amoral, chaotic reality where everything and anything can happen and thus everything is equally trivial by making their thoughts and feelings about that moment a real, tangible image other people can experience too. Personally I think art and business are inherently opposed to each other because If Art seeks the truth, Corporate’s goal is to “make”the truth.

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I totally get what you're saying BUT I feel like modern media has all but replaced modern folklore ( well for the general public- I know that Creepypasta and internet mysteries can also be a form of folklore, my point is that those are relatively niche). What we experience now as a tailored media consumption may have been experienced as stories tailored to a village green or a market square, or even parents to their children or siblings to one another. In my opinion, all stories (and art) are conversations. Before the tv or books or scrolls or whatever, they may have been literally conversations. Now it feels like being shouted at with no room to question or respond.

Ok no my actual point is that asking people to just wait for indie media is kind of asking them to live with a hole of community through media that was previously filled by tv, but has existed longer than that and has been monopolized by modern corperations. Idk tho I might just be talking complete nonsense

tech is taking over indie spaces too. innovation is spaces where surveillance capitalism/ technofeudalism hasn't gotten its claws in yet, or where laws haven't constrained them.

This is a GREAT point

And I think it again works as a really lovely metaphor for the “weird” kids who fall into the lgbt or neurodivergence brands of weirdness, for whom threats are often disguised as helpful and caring and actual care often comes from the margins of society

"Appearance means nothing in this world" is SO RARE. I have seen so many stories where the angels are either outright villains or some rigid theocratic analogy that it's an expectation at this point. Maybe it's because you need multiple examples of many things, but good lord.

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"You are strong, child...but I am beyond strength. I am the end of everything. And I have come for you."

@@thirdcoinedge *touches mayo* "GRAHHHH"

hopefully Moon Girl doesn't join them

Rip 101 Dalmatian Street. Idk why Disney cancelled it, it was pretty episodic from what I remember.

Still devastated about Wander Over Yonder😭

@@SomeplaceScary ong bro

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That’s its absolutely biggest sin

And what's worse is that people seem to be complacent about it. The effort required to find better things is more inconvenient than the effort required to cope with apathy. Different stuff should be more accessible.

@@youtubeviolatedme7123 thissss. and its kinda everywhere too, like people complain that "popular music is becoming way too self similar" and others will retort with "we have so many small creators that could cater to your taste just look for the one guy making music specifically for you!" but neither bring up the fact that it requires substantially more effort to even LOOK for "that guy making music for you" making finding that guy almost a test of willpower. Not even touching on the fact that that guy is barely holding on and has NO support.

@@youtubeviolatedme7123complacency is where creativity, imagination, and passion goes to die. To me, to be complacent is to be one step away from death, at least in one’s character. This is why I strive for improvement, in fields I know I’m good at and fields I’m bad at. Can’t be complacent if you’re continuously growing

@@crystal_clear1639 Nobody would disagree with you there, but I think that's easier said that done.

As a neuro-divergent American, I agree completely.

A queer neurodivergent protagonist, even better

Yeah before the streaming wars ended and solidified everyone’s corporate presence again there was a nice little pop of good stuff. Gravity Falls is awesome (and has a lot of Owl House production team crossover)

There's still good tv out there. The following come to mind: -The Glory (2022) -Severance (2022) -Shogun (2024) Those are all on different streaming services, so hopefully you have access to at least one. Plus, speaking of Game of Thrones, I haven't had the chance to watch House of the Dragon yet, but doesn't everyone love it?

@@William1w1 I think it's less that good TV isn't getting made, but more so that streaming has encouraged mass quantity of content over quality content. We've passed peak TV, which means that we're still high on the graph up in terms of quality televised entertainment, but we're likely at the beginning of a decline in overall quality that will progress more over the next several years.

imho, GoT stopped being good already with season 5 and season 7 was as disastrous as season 8

@@thirdcoinedgeBetter Call Saul, Andor, and Squid Game are pretty good. I do agree that the amount being produced seems to make everything seem worse but I don’t think the last 2 shows would have succeeded on normal TV

@@gengisgio yeah, season 5 was the call for the downfall.

that's great, just don't give them an ipad with full access to the internet and especially youtube and tiktok. these two will stunt your children't intellectual growth

Big city greens is great! Also what the guy above me said, but more "Don't give your children unrestricted access to the internet, they will see stuff no one should see"

This is my dream too!

that may ultimately be why the show didn't last too long, it's more appealing towards a certain subset of 20-30 somethings than actual kids

to be fair; viewership was never the issue, as evidenced by Disney still seeing big numbers from it on even youtube uploads. The issue was; as Dana put it, corporate meddling finding the show to not be "On Brand" for the company. An opinion that even Disney execs realized was a bad take; when they saw the overflowing support for the last season. Plus; Disney has been fine with shows aimed at teens and kids being popular with older audiences. Star Vs. and Gravity Falls had no issues getting older audiences; the issue was, as always (and in this case something Gravity Falls had to battle with) depictions of LGBTQ+ themes and characters. This show was airing in during a big push to sponsor far right politicians; and then into the whole war on Disney Ron Desantes was (and somewhat still is) having in Florida. What's funny is; even with the show cancelled, Disney can still use it for marketing when it wants to, just look at the chibi stuff. So I wouldn't be surprised if there are people still looking at how they can make more money off of it, at least in the now. Not to mention the clicks it gets on youtube, or people who watch it on Disney+.

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Big sorry, I tried to tell the bugs to stfu but it turns out they don’t speak English

@@themorbidzoo the folly of language 😩 but seriously it wasn't too distracting, i was just scared that my car was going to explode until i paused the video and realized it wasn't on my end.

​@@themorbidzoohave you tried spanish?

Which sound? I think it's your car buddy

It's a cricket

OK summers ruin the milk in your broken lawn fridge and then set your lawn aflame and then blow both fridge and lawn into the neighboring county, if anything this line is a compliment haha

I can’t imagine the temperature in Oklahoma being that dramatically cooler than Texas lol.

I've lived in both, and the summers are definitely worse in Texas. Maybe not significantly so, but at least a couple of circles of hell lower. Based on the state government, probably circle 8

@@craigford9360 def hotter, fewer apocalyptic events

More idiots though, so I guess it's a wash

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@@themorbidzoo I'll trade my devoted loyalty to the Owl House, Bluey and fuck it god damn Steven Universe in exchange for a Bloodborne analysis

Yeah I’d guess they’re part of the same cultural moment

Welp, business runs the world. It Is a method of making sure that you will get by comfortably in life. Selfish, but if you are selfish, it is a good idea. The problem is that people in business are almost always, you guessed it, selfish, and will NOT compromise the efficiency of their respective businesses.

It’s an article in a book, I’ll put the sources in the description today. She talks about creator-driven programming in the same article, it’s excellent. I picked that quote because it fit the argument where I needed it, I’m not as concerned in this video with Disney being cookie-cutter and consumerist so much as how Disney manages to market consumerism to children as morally good and productive to society, which is pretty mutually exclusive to telling kids they should just have fun doing weird kids stuff

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@@themorbidzoo great video btw!

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Yeah. Also, I appreciate that Sam Lake has become so well known outside of video game circles after the release of Alan Wake 2 (he's recently met Robert De Niro, for Christ's sake!). He's like Hideo Kojima, with the cinematic inspirations, big themes, and celebrity cameos, but if he was more capable of subtle writing and actually had the time to make his convoluted narrative work more cohesively. Also he's weird in a fun Lynch-esque way (SHOW ME THE CHAMPION OF LIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!)

I dunno if I'd call Sam Lake weird for the sake of weird? He's just using surrealism, and dream-like story telling to challenge the ususal video game narratives, and tell post-modern (non-detogatoey) stories. Could call it Lynchian, but I dunno that feels a bit reductive because they're both doing different things with use of surrealism.

@@aragoonn Fair point, but also control’s story needs to be taken into account. He also seems to be doing it because I’m pretty sure he’s a big fan of weird narratives and appears to be writing what he likes.

@Ech_The_Sentiant oh for sure! He is clearly a huge fan of weird stuff. And those are the story's he wants to tell. But I never found surrealism in his works there 'just for the sake of it'. Control is so weird. But you could make the point that it's weirdness is there to further the narrative weight of an unknowable, massive department of the government, and the eldritch SCP vibes. To make the player feel more like the protag who's wandering into this living entity of a building and having to wrap her head around the new logic. Like the brutalist architecture that reinforces the dehumanisation of those kinds of beurocratic organisations. To me, the surrealism in his works help contextualise gameplay the player's experience both as an audience and an ctive participant in the story (cause lets be real playing video games is a surreal experience in of itself), and the themes of the work itself.

That perfect image was created because, at first, Disney made magical movies by DOING and not falling back. Security works when you are starting out, but as ideas are used, you have to take a risk. Walt is probably rolling in his grave.

Which is also kind of ironic considering how much brainpower is needed to conceive such elaborate methods of misdirection. It is probably more than it would be to push onto new ground.

Yessssss mission accomplished. It has a lot of crossover with the gravity falls production team!

@@themorbidzoo Well thanks, now there is an owl shaped hole in my soul no level of consumption inducing streaming service nonsense will ever be able to fill. But also thank you for explaning why s1e1 AT is a literal zombie slumber party. I never understood why Pendleton Ward thought of that as a good first episode. Also side note: Nebula?

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Well, Pixar always has a goal: take the concept they are given, and save it. Even their worst movies have at the very least been fun. A good sequel is still an original idea to expand a concept. So far, they have been doing pretty wellA

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lol that’s wild 😄

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I agree. Again, a sequel isn't necessarily a bad idea if you can expand on the concept. That in and of itself is a unique idea. However, those bold and fresh concepts are just as alluring as ever.

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@@HoldenCaulfield85 worthy topic

You’ll also retroactively resent its cancellation, much must be risked in the pursuit of good shows to watch 😔

@@themorbidzoo I know agdhfjf I’m preparing myself emotionally for it already by keeping ao3 and my friends’ dms on standby as a future coping mechanism

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