• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Oh my god I hated that show so much when my daughter watched it as a kid.

    I realize that Disney characters aren’t the most well-nuanced to begin with, but they took what little personality they had and stripped it from them to make every episode as bland as possible. The conflict was minimal. Donald and Daisy never got angry, Pete was slightly self-centered but not especially bad.

    There was one on Netflix she loved called Mickey’s Road Rally where they decided to have a Road Rally- not a race because no one wins- and the big conflict was that Pete wanted to win anyway.

    And the really sad thing is They Might Be Giants wrote the end music.

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    As much as Disney uses Mickey as its main mascot, it really doesn’t respect the character. I don’t know what movie this is from, but it’s likely relatively recent. Yet, student CGI projects in the late 90s were putting out more complex scenes than this.

    Looking over the list of releases:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mickey_Mouse_films_and_appearances

    Disney has done very little with the character besides shorts, cameos, and home video releases. This is like if Nintendo only used Mario for Smash Bros and a few throwaway mobile app games.

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      6 months ago

      This is from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. It is mind-numbingly stupid, makes a vague attempt at being educational, has the cheapest animation I’ve ever seen in a children’s show, and it is basically crack for toddlers.

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        6 months ago

        And has a theme song from They Might Be Giants, which is right at the intersection of a corporate behemoth making the rare right decision and a beloved weirdo niche band selling out in a fairly impressive fashion.

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          Oh that’s just the tip of the iceberg. David Tennant inexplicably has a cameo as a talking door that only has 5 lines. Dick Van Dyke appears in what will almost certainly be one of his last roles. Yet they also put something like this horrifying, cross-eyed elephant onscreen.

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        6 months ago

        The word is based on the ancient Greek character Narcissus, who was put to death by the gods for not sexing anyone. Ancient greeks didn’t understand asexuals and thought we just don’t sex anyone because we think we’re better than others.

        Modern english speaking people ported the word over and used it to mean a selfish abuser, while pointing to the asexual Narcissus as an example of selfish abusers, because they forgot to think critically and just accepted the Greek cultural interpretation without question

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          6 months ago

          What? In the myth of Narcissus he was not cursed. There was a prophecy but no curse. Echo was the one who was cursed. Narcissus was just so vain he fell in love with his own reflection because no one else could compare.

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            Nah, one of the incels he rejected prayed to Nemesis to punish him, and she did. Read Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The prayer was “let him also love what he cannot have”, so she made him fall in love with his reflection. It was divine punishment.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah! These days it’s a slur for disabled people with subtle aphobic connotations! That’s much better! /s