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The Leila Hann Let's Watch Spoiler Thread: Seriously, Stop Spoiling Stuff

Moebius fans might be wondering why I commissioned The Airtight Garage in particular. I wanted something that Moebius scripted himself, so that rules out The Incal, The Long Tomorrow, and Silver Surfer: Parable, and technically also Arzach since it has no script beyond the title.
Airtight Garage then beat out World of Edena since it's shorter and therefore cheaper, and also his Blueberry run once he fully took over as that's less representative of his style.

I have considered Parable as a backup though, if Airtight Garage proves too hard to track down. Moebius did apparently script a little of that, but also because I don't think Leila's had the chance to review anything by Stan Lee himself yet.

The Long Tomorrow was also super-tempting, given its debatable status as the first ever cyberpunk story (by the writer of Alien too), massively influencing both Blade Runner and Neuromancer. Plus it's short
 
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Can I have a refresher on that series pls I wish I had the money to commission the acolyte I want to see Leila tear it apart
 
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Axeor the dark said:
Can I have a refresher on that series pls
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Which series do you mean? I presume you don't mean The Acolyte since you've made up your mind about it

krinsbez said:
I really need to read the Incal.
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For those who don't know, The Incal is basically the French Watchmen. In terms of impact and acclaim that is, as the plots aren't anything alike. The Incal was first too, so more like Watchmen's the American-British Incal.

Speaking of which, I've heard The Incal's getting a movie by... Taiki Waititi. Er, interesting choice?
I'm surprised Jodorowsky never adapted it into a movie himself given he wrote it, and tried to sue The Fifth Element for being too similar. But maybe he didn't want a repeat of what happened with his take on Dune
 
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ArlequineLunaire said:
You mean Ah My Goddess? Or one of the Moebius comics?
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Ah my Goddess and can you answer a question of mine what is the policy towards games I'm thinking of getting Lelia to play the coffin of Andy of Layla but I'm worried she will let the incest parts overtake the actual theme and meaning of the game it self
Or Mabey Oshi no Ko
 
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Axeor the dark said:
Ah my Goddess and can you answer a question of mine what is the policy towards games I'm thinking of getting Lelia to play the coffin of Andy of Layla but I'm worried she will let the incest parts overtake the actual theme and meaning of the game it self
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Ah My Goddess is a fantasy romcom manga that ran for 26 years, about the love between the goddess Belldandy and mortal Keiichi. I commissioned the first episode of the OVA since it's the shortest and fastest-paced version.
It was huge in Japan, but from memory only moderately popular at most in the West. Though most oldtaku will at least have heard of it.

It's also the only thing I've commissioned that I doubt Leila will like, given its questionable inciting incident and that Belldandy can feel more like a fantasy girlfriend than an actual character (which is why I briefly considered the TV series instead, as she has more personality there). Hence why I made it a comparison package with Verthandi in the Middle (my own series with a kinda similar premise) to sweeten the deal. Though for all I know I could be proven wrong.

As for games, for in-depth reviews the cost is $1 per minute of playtime. Nothing's specified for regular reviews of games, so you'd have to PM Leila to work something out. Since TCoA&L is pretty short from memory, it shouldn't be too much
 
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I'm currently feeling like the next thing I want to have added to the queue is Mob Psycho's separation arc. There are other things I've been meaning to try and get added, but I want to have that up there first, plus there's only much that I can spend.
 
Axeor the dark said:
Ah my Goddess and can you answer a question of mine what is the policy towards games I'm thinking of getting Lelia to play the coffin of Andy of Layla but I'm worried she will let the incest parts overtake the actual theme and meaning of the game it self
Or Mabey Oshi no Ko
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I'm actually friends with Leila and I am confident, though not certain beyond all possible doubt, that she would quite like Coffin of Andy and Leyley. It is absolutely worth commissioning her to play it, IMO. At the very least, she'd have neat stuff to say about it.
 
Kaiya said:
I'm actually friends with Leila and I am confident, though not certain beyond all possible doubt, that she would quite like Coffin of Andy and Leyley.
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I commissioned Johnny the Homicidal Maniac on the Fast Lane. While I have no idea what Leila will think of it, The Coffin of Andy and Leyley will probably look tame in comparison after it (especially since the incest is only in a single optional route), JtHM having 'homicidal maniac' in the title after all.

Huh, now I'm wondering if Vasquez was an influence on TCoA&L's art style, since they look kinda similar? TCoA&L isn't as jagged and squirrelly though
 
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Was interested if anyone had any ideas for 'versus reviews' or 'compare and contrasts'? Such as when she compared Epithet Erased's and RWBY's first episodes, Wednesday to Adult Wednesday Addams, or the one about the Norns* that I've commissioned? She's told me she's willing to charge less for them than she would for two separate reviews.

Another 'versus review' I've considered is Basil the Great Mouse Detective vs the BBC Sherlock episode 'The Reichenbach Fall'. With BtGMD, thought it'd be nice to commission a good Holmes adaptation after SHit22C (well, a good adaptation of a separate book heavily based on Holmes), and BtGMD is fairly overlooked by Disney's standards.
I've always wanted to see a BtGMD vs BBC Sherlock comparison, if only to see Sherlock get curbstomped, and Reichenbach Fall would be the episode with the closest plot to BtGMD (relatively anyway).

* I know Ah My Goddess' Norns aren't supposed to be the Norns from Norse myth, but naming them after them does inevitably invite comparison
 
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Winnie the Pooh was my commission, I went with two episodes from the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh cartoon. The first is 'Find Her, Keep Her', the episode which introduced Kessie and won the Humanitas Prize. It's a surprisingly heavy episode for Winnie the Pooh of all series (like having characters nearly get killed multiple times), and I've found it always gets interesting reactions from reviewers.

The other is 'The Piglet Who Would King' which is about colonialism of all things, the last subject I expected Winnie the Pooh of all franchises to address. Also has some of the show's most gorgeous backgrounds.

Yeah, New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was an… interesting show. It fluctuated wildly between staying faithful to A.A.Milne's vision, to going 'fuck Milne, we'll do whatever we feel like'
 
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krinsbez said:
Does she like it?
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To not give away too much, I'll just say 'Yes'.

On another topic, I reread Leila's old Konosuba review, and remembered that Aqua gets roped into the plot the same way Belldandy does in the to-be-reviewed Ah My Goddess. That is, by having the male protagonist wish for her to be with him.

Not sure if it's an intended reference, though I wouldn't be surprised if it was, with how popular AMG was in Japan. If it was intentional, I of course assume KonoSuba references that plot point as a joke. Because otherwise, it's probably the most uncomfortably dated part of AMG, due to how much it reads like a kidnapping (even if Keiichi didn't realise the implications of his wish)
 
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I've ended up adding some Shadows House EPs to the main queue. After that, what's currently on my mind is stuff that would likely require more than one person to help get commissions to this or that point (more chainsaw man, dungeon meshi).
 
I've just commissioned the 1969 Soviet movie The Colour of Pomegranates (nothing to do with Persephone, it's a musician biopic of all things) which will be... 'interesting' for Leila to tackle, given it has a reputation of being extremely difficult, if not impossible, to review. Hopefully the similarly surreal Soviet Skazka Skazok can serve as a good warmup.

Of course, given how pro-realism and anti-surrealism the USSR was, it's kinda of a miracle both films got made at all (both were post-Stalin natch).

For proof that Colour of Pomegranates can be reviewed, here's a good analysis. Just be warned it's longer than the film itself:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Xw3LvNT20


Also, speaking of weird, I stumbled on the strangest ever tweet about Ah My Goddess, which reads like one long shitpost
 
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Since I brought him up, are there any Don Bluth films people would be interested in seeing Leila review?

I'd say Titan AE makes the most sense. Being sci-fi makes it more in Leila's wheelhouse, and you can already find plenty of coverage on his 80s Big Four and Anastasia. His other 90s movies are out, since I at least try to pick stuff Leila might possibly like.

If I had to pick one of his 80s Big Four, I'd probably go with All Dogs Go to Heaven as it's the one I see talked about the least.


By the way, if you're familiar with Pepper Ann, you might've noticed I commissioned 'Miss Moose' but not its Part A 'GI Janet'. Reason I did that is it's an episode on video game violence, a discussion I feel has been more than run into the ground
 
Titan A.E. Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time... a long time.

I didn't discover anime until a couple years later, so seeing a cartoon that wasn't G-rated and had people shooting each other and breaking necks was quite the revelation. Also that animation was a good medium to do science fiction, since there were no practical limitations on what you could create.

Not that it was the first time that Bluth pushed the boundaries like that. Blood is shed in The Secret of NIMH as well.
 
Fun fact, Don Bluth had plans to adapt Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy before Titan A.E. bombed. Which is weird, since that's not a series I would've associated at all with Bluth. Adams' death would've thrown another wrench into it too, had it started production.

That said, while I have no idea if Bluth's HGttG would've been any good, it would've probably been 'interesting'. That's something even Bluth's worst films are, to his credit.

Also on Colour of Pomegranates, I said before it's notoriously difficult to review. What I forgot to add was that a reviewer once made a whole video just to explain why he couldn't review Colour of Pomegranates, despite him being used to difficult films (said video's since been privated)
 
Half baked idea; fighting game finishing moves, especially the latest (current and maybe two previous games before now) Mortal Kombat games' Fatalities. Although Guilty Gear is also worth a look (the latest in the series does not have Instant Kills, though, pity).

It might be too overly violent for the standard content, but it would be neat to discuss it. The spectrum from black comedy to just plain nightmare-ish. The presentation - little details that sell the violence*, references to past games or other media**, the artistic pacing in some of them***. Which ones we like the most. How fighting games handle maximal characterisation and style in minimal screen play.

Would need a big old content warning, though. The latest MK Animalities struck me as particularly gruesome.

* the eyeball getting torn out as the victim is dragged in Kabul's "Road Rash."
** Johnny Cage's "Who Hired This Guy?" is both a callback to the 90s movie and a glitch in the first MK game.
*** Barraka's "Brain Food" and Scorpion's "You're Next" both use a kind of rule of 3 escalation to their dismembering of the victim.
 
On Pepper Ann again, fans of the show may be wondering why 'In Support Of' wasn't commissioned, as it's arguably the show's most famous episode (it's the one where Pepper Ann flashes her school). Said fame is pretty much why I didn't commission it, since it gets the most attention already.

Then again, I did commission 'Case of the Cola Cult' and 'Find Her, Keep Her', which are arguably the most famous episodes of their respective shows (the Rescue Rangers and New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh), but I also commissioned more normal episodes alongside them to give a better sense of what these shows were like.

And speaking of 90s Disney shows, Leila's already watched TaleSpin in that anyone wants to commission that. She mentioned that way back in her MaoMao review. I've been watching it myself, and while there's a lot of good stuff about it (Don Karnage may be the best non-Gargoyles villain from this era) it still hasn't clicked for me the same way other Disney shows from the time have.
Maybe because the stories are less varied than they are in other DisneyToon shows, or because I don't really care for Baloo and Rebecca's Screwball/Cheers-style chemistry, especially since it makes Baloo much angrier than he ever was in Jungle Book
 
Fool Bloom being scheduled right after Owl House is kinda like G-Witch and Utena being scheduled together all over again. Though I didn't watch Owl House until after I started writing Fool Bloom, so I wasn't aware of the similarities at the time.
(Said similarities being 'LGBT+ fangirl runs away from home and gets semi-adopted by an anti-authority older witch, who has a broken relationship with another mage with long dark hair in authority'.)


Also, more Frieren being commissioned got me wondering if anyone was interested in commissioning Highlander (or maybe a spinoff)? Given Highlander was one of the first 'sad immortal' stories to be a smash hit (along with Tuck Everlasting and Interview with the Vampire), I thought it'd make an interesting comparison in seeing how the subgenre's changed over time
 
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