#aussie-bookworm

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Rita: She used VPN software. I can’t track her IP

Juno: In English damn it!

Rita: We can’t find her computer

Buddy: In French damn it!

Rita: Nous ne pouvons pas trouver son ordinateur.

Vespa: In Morse code damn it!

Rita: .– . / -.-. .- -. -. — - / ..-. .. -. -.. / ……-. / -.-. — – .–. ..- - . .-.

Jet: In binary damn it!

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My mind keeps going back to this theory, and I keep coming up with more questions than I have answers. 

We know that Arum remembers his childhood because he makes a lot of references to it.

ARUM: Someone’s snippy. I apologize if I insulted your invisible friend. I put away fairy tales before I left the egg. (Knight of the Crown, Lord of the Swamp)

ARUM: I don’t care how tired I looked! You cannot just lullaby me like some hatchling anymore! It’s… inappropriate! (Moonlit Hermit)

ARUM: I’ve never lost in debate before and I won’t lose now. It’s magical. The lullaby that the Keep sung me as a whelp – it didn’t work every time, did it? (Moonlit Hermit)

Which gives us the questions:

How old was Rilla when her parents were banished?How old is Arum?Is he a singular creature, or is he a member of a species? How quickly does his species (if one exists) reach maturity? Is he a mature adult, or is he a young adult like Damien and Rilla (who are in their early twenties)?Is it actually possible for him to be that much younger than her? 

I personally like to think that Rilla’s parents weren’t the component parts that were used to create him-- because as hard as I ship it, does she really want to make out with a lizard that’s made out of her dead parents? 

But assuming Arum isn’t made from Rilla’s parents specifically, but from somebody else. 

We know that the Keep doesn’t actually need the Hermit to create life, because Arum was willing to get rid of it after the creation of the Living Saw. It was his tool to work with, not the Keep’s.

ARUM: And bring the Hermit, would you? After the trouble it’s caused, I… don’t know what I am going to do with it, but I’d rather it not stay here. (Moonlit Hermit)

ARUM: It is true that all the flowers here are born from the Keep… but so is all life in this Swamp. The Keep had a hand in creating every living thing here, and it is the source that keeps them living. (Moonlit Hermit)

So how does the Keep create life? Does it just will things into existence? Do they grow from it, like its vines and walls do? Is it a matter of selective breeding, genetic engineering, and cultivation? Are Arum’s methods of creation different than the Keep’s? 

ARUM: With selective breeding and a swamp’s worth of potent herbs, you can have rats of any kind you like. (Knight of the Crown, Lord of the Swamp)

ARUM: Be careful! Those tools took months to grow, you oaf! (Moonlit Hermit)

Like with the Hermit, do the component parts actually affect the outcome of the creatures it creates? Was his threat to Rilla actually more than empty bluster on some level? 

ARUM: A plant this large is always in need of fertilizer, takataka. (Moonlit Hermit)

Would absorbing a human corpse allow it to create a more humanoid creation?

And what is the process that makes its familiar distinct from literally everything else that it creates?

ARUM: The bond that passes between myself and this lifeform is more than your pitiful mind could ever comprehend, Amaryllis. I always know what it thinks. Always.

ARUM: I cannot expect you to understand the bond I share with such a creature; the depth of emotion and devotion I feel for that which gave me life, and that which it is my birth duty to protect—RILLA: So it’s your mom.ARUM: No it is not! Our… our relationship is far more complicated than that! The Keep has but one familiar at a time, a symbiotic soldier who both harnesses its infinite power and lives only to protect— (Moonlit Hermit)

Another pin pushed inTo remind us where we’ve been.And every mile adds upAnd leaves a mark on us.And sometimes our compass breaksAnd our steady true north fades.We’ll be just fine.

Oh yeah, absolutely. I am an extremely cruel director and make them do single takes of entire episodes (sometimes 25+ pages) and, while they are all very talented professionals, there’s bound to be some stumbling. 

Putting together a blooper reel is something I’m kicking myself over not keeping track of at the start because now there is just hours upon hours of footage that I in no way shape or form have any time to listen through and pull clips from. Maybe someday we’ll hire someone to do that because there are some good moments. 

One of my favorite bloopers from early on was in a Caleb episode. This was still in the first season, when I was trying to figure out the best way to record/take notes during recording/direct/etc. I now sit on my bed as the actors sit at a table in front of me and use 1-tap touch to highlight the script for notes, but back then I was trying a bunch of stuff out. 

I didn’t want my note-taking to interfere with sound, so I sat out in the hallway with my headphones and left Julia and Briggon in my bedroom. So I’m sitting on the floor staring at a closed door, and Briggon and Julia are just on their own. Briggon gets to a line that went something like, “I had a rough day at school”, but instead of school, Briggon goes full-adult and says “work”. And even though I couldn’t see Briggon’s face, I could just hear him have that moment of, “wait, what”.