Looking For Some Silverlinings: Chapter Two

Looking For Some Silverlinings: Chapter Two

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Looking For Some Silverlinings: Chapter 1

The following is part of the dark!frisbeecamp au. To learn more, visit @darkultimatefrisbeecamp. There you can find ghoulish headcannons, spooky stories, and more. Feel free to comment or submit content. Enjoy. 

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Mythica, The Dark Spore (Movie 2) – Thoughts

I finished up on the second Mythica movie, The Dark Spore. And my consensus on this film is I liked it significantly less than the first one. It was a lot less fun than the first one and there were a lot of things going on I didn’t quite understand. There were leaps of character development that I didn’t feel was particularly earned. This film kind of felt like a jumbled mess of ideas that were never really cultivated all the way to closure. It had a lot of ideas that could’ve been interesting but it lacked development and follow-through.

With all that said, I did still enjoy it. The characters are still fun even if their character development was very weirdly done here. The world just keeps on getting more interesting and I really enjoy the soundtrack. I love how the soundtrack employs the usage of electric guitar. You don’t typically get sounds like that mixed in films like these and it really adds something to the atmospere.

Even though I was a little bit more critical on this film, I’m still greatly enjoying this franchise.

I agree with you, Persona makes fun of pretty much everything, and they had great representation in trough out the series, wich is why I genuinely don't think they meant any harm. I just pointed that out because, as someone that comes from a culture where that kind of representation usually is done with malicious intent (but not always, sometimes it's just a parody of everything, like South Park), and has negative repercussions. But I agree with everything you said.

Basically, the moral of the story is “don’t play the Persona series if you’re not willing to laugh, even when you feel a little called out.” – I’m glad you and I agree. Persona is a very… striking balance where they can delve into the deepest branches of psychology, and characterization, and story, and then turn around and beat you with a slapstick stick until you cry uncle. It’s parody. Sometimes it’s outright dark humor. It isn’t politically correct at all times, but I would dare to say it’s pretty damn woke, unless someone else has another RPG they can name off that is literally all about Fighting The Man and taking down giant corporate schemes and political manipulations and lifting the veils from the eyes of the public over how they’re manipulated in the day-to-day happenings. And I mean. Literally about that. Not in allegory or metaphor. Like it’s… it’s literally the entire point of Persona. Most Personas, but most vividly, Persona 5.

Mythica, Quest for Heroes (Movie 1) – Thoughts

Today, I decided to give the Mythica movie series another go based on the recommendation of one of my lovely anons. I had previously watched the first movie some years ago, I can’t really remember why I didn’t continue with it, maybe I got distracted with other things, maybe I wasn’t that impressed with it, who knows? But I’m giving the series another go at it.

The first Mythica movie is Quest for Heroes and even though I said earlier that when I first watched it, there was a possibility I wasn’t impressed with it…well, that’s not the case anymore. I really liked this movie.

I love worlds that have a magic based system plus a magic-based system with actual rules to it. I appreciate writers who don’t use magic as only a plot device or a maguffin and actually make it into their own character, if you will. I’m looking at you, Shadowhunters, with your non-existent magic system rules and ridiculous OP magic.

But the main pull this movie had for me was that it was essentially part 1 of The Hero’s Journey. It’s not a complete Hero’s Journey story, I imagine that’s what the other films are about. But it definitely flows like the beginning of a Hero’s Journey. And Hero’s Journey is one of my favorites story types to read. Indeed, my favorite Star Wars movie is Episode 4. I love meeting the hero and seeing them become the hero.

I wouldn’t say that this is a perfect film. I definitely feel like the pacing was a little off in certain parts. There’s parts where they’re constantly talking about never leaving their friends behind and while I appreciate the theme, I dont feel like we spend enough time with the characters interacting with each other to truly feel like those kinds of declarations were earned. But I can give a pass on it because the chemistry between these characters were so good. Just beat for beat, humor bit by humor bit, all of the characters (and the actors, themselves) were able to deliver on it and I could believe these people had the potential to care about one another.

I also love our heroine, Marek. She just has this real childlike exuberance throughout the entire move about going on this grand adventure and her enthusiasm for it is just so contagious and relatable and I love it. The actress also has some great facial expressions, and I don’t mean that in a bad way or anything. Every now and then when something ridiculous happens, she’ll give these expressions and I’ll just laugh because she’s so relatable in that moment.

This is a SyFy movie so of course, you can expect all the low budget quirks that usually accompany a SyFy film. But it certainly doesn’t detract from my enjoyment in this film in any way. In fact, it kind of makes me love it even more. I love being able to chuckle a little when I see a character get knocked out from a blow that it was super obvious that it never even connected with. Or the scene being cut and you suddenly see a stuntman go flying. I love stuff like that. Reminds me of my love for the Power Rangers franchise (yes, I do still watch Power Rangers, don’t judge, we all have our vices).

This is a film about a girl dreaming of an adventure and becoming a hero, she assembles a rag team and they all work together on becoming heroes for their own selfish reasons and it was very enjoyable to watch, but also along the way finding friendship and companionship with each other. Really, its everything I love.

Julia and Alice casting Battle Magic at each other.