I kinda assume they cover normal stuff during all of the Boring Parts We Don't See. I.e. Xavier's school is an actual school with extra classes on superpowers. But writing sometimes does dumb things when that assumption can not apply too.
Like reflections in the glass!
Yeah rule of perception is in play there. People assume that a school existing and the cast attending it means that they take the classes and therefore the writer could use it to omit that from the narrative, even though that has the effect of people thinking the school here is just set dressing. (and it very well could be)
Discworld is fun because despite having an earlier example of the Wizarding School, Unseen University is already a parody of the trope and avoids pretty much all of the clichΓ©s Red talks about in this video.
The school's main goal is to teach wizards not to use magic. All the characters of prominence we follow from UU are the faculty members; only one book (Moving Pictures) features a main character who is an UU student. And there is zero teaching involved in the university, because the faculty likes to avoid students as much as possible.
Rincewind was a student when he started out. He got moved up some vaugeness and an official professorhood eventually but his first few protaognisting books had him as a student.
Rincewind was already a former student when we were first introduced to him. Well, he was kicked out of UU before he could graduate properly, but still.
The One with Knowledge of Things
In today's video, Blue talks about the complete history of Rome:
The One with Knowledge of Things
In today's Detail Diatribe, Red and Blue talk about Tears of the Kingdom:
Ahh, been waiting for this one, Red mentioned this being in the works in her Tears livestreams a few times.
Edit: Having watched it now... Even though this was fun, as most detail diatribes are... A lot of it is Red repeating things she's already said earlier, multiple times. There is something charming about how they just hit record and go, just talking excitedly, gushing about whatever they're talking about... But this didn't need to be an hour and a half.
Edited by diddyknux on Dec 1st 2023 at 9:12:51 AM
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In today's History-Makers, Blue talks about the Four Evangelists:
If spoken storytelling was good enough for the ancient rhapsodes of classical Greece, then we shouldn't be surprised when the same tools get put to use in the later Greco-Roman world. And I think that's pretty damn cool.
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In today's Trope Talk, Red talks about the Tone Armour:
Does the video mention super-strong anime protagonists who can be comically smacked around by their less powerful allies?
Owl House / Infinity Train / Inside Job Fan
Hey, guys, can you help me remember something? Red at least has gone on record as not liking the Percy Jackson series, right?
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.
The One with Knowledge of Things
In today's Detail Diatribe, Red and Blue are talking about the One Final Scene of Uncharted 4:
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Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
This time on Journey To The West Kai...
"You can reply to this Message!"
The Power of Toons and Anime
Another entry that makes you go: "Oh, so this is what that one part in early Dragon Ball was a parody of".
And Reds art just keeps getting more amazing with each new episode.
Edited by uncertanSearcher on Dec 29th 2023 at 6:57:45 PM
The sheer spectacle of this fight makes it pretty easy to see why Bull Demon King is Son Wukong's most famous adversary.
Man, Journey to the West really was the first anime, wasn't it? This was like an anime Movie. 'Hey, this guy was mentioned, he used to keep up with Sun Wukong, now what does that mean, and how many badass setpieces can we get out of it to pad our movie's runtime?'
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Wow, that one animated series really undersold Bull Demon King. Then again budget constraints!
Secret Signature
Like reflections in the glass!
To compared to DB for a bit. It really sis the BDK dirty making him the Bumbling Dad.
On that note I assume that Chichi was based off miss Iron Fan here? I don't recall any older women in her family and her "kinda Tsundere rival turned Goku's wife" and her personality in DBZ does seem to line up with Iron Fan warming a little to Wukong and her dynamic with her husband taking into the count the context changes
Related note, did someone attempt writing a Xianxia novel centered on her? That seems like some prime story material right there!
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Dec 30th 2023 at 9:20:41 AM
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Not really, not everything in Dragon Ball is based on Journey to the West. The thing about Journey to the West is that it has a lot of difference story arcs and not every viewers would remember them all, some take inspiration from this part while other take inspiration from the other parts. The iconic aspect of Iron Fan Princess is the Iron Fan. The iconic part of The Bull Demon King is that he is a giant Bull and was Son Wukong sworn-brother.
Not the Eye
Seeing DBK as a cheater whose wife decides to become human and divorce him rather than deal with his bs is so weird as somebody who watched Lego Monkie Kid.
Also, it seems that we also have to thank Journey to the west for Kaiju fights as well. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
The One with Knowledge of Things
In today's History Hijinks, Blue has a sequel to his first Dumb Italian Stories-video:
Edited by jouXIII on Jan 19th 2024 at 6:32:28 PM
I assure you, I'm a completely trustworthy person.
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Man Italian sure is a special beast.
Secret Signature
The One with Knowledge of Things
In today's Trope Talk, Red talks about the small mammal on a big adventure:
Strixhaven University in Magic: The Gathering is another example that plays with that formula. Each of its five Colleges specializes in magic's applications in real-world fields (Lorehold is history/achaeology, Prismari is art, Quandrix is mathematics, Silverquill is communications, and Witherbloom is biology/medicine). For example, Lorehold studies history by raising the spirits of historical figures.
The Living Guildpact rules that coffee is an acceptable substitution for rest as specified in subsection β¦ whatever.