#comparision

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Lightbulb and Nooby are very similar, they are the happy and active ones

Test tube and acorn are also pretty similar, they are the more smart ones of the group

Fan and bacon are pretty hypocritical, but they know quite a bit about a few topics

The remake keeps changing more characters outfits to black for some reason, even in the opening of this chapter Dayner used to wear dark blue but now she dons a black outfit.

Let's all pray Duke Artian is still alive in this version. Or don't, idk.

This also extends to Lispen who has had a similar colour swap in his outfit under the cloak.

I'm not sure what is causing the change here... but maybe the Artian household colour scheme has been readjusted?

Seems like the author has really skipped over the scene of the Helios employee being bribed by Lanoste to get Shic into the investigation team (?), because in the old version it occurred here but it is still absent in the remake.

People who read the old version probably picked up on it, but the design of our fake black magician has been changed.

He used to have darker skin and freckles, which have been removed in the remake in favour of pale and smooth skin like Blow.

I can understand the reason for the change; they mention that the "fake" isn't a handsome man like the black magician of rumours. The implication that someone with those features might not look as good as someone like Blow on account of them could be taken in a discriminatory way.

As someone who does have a darker skin tone I personally didn't mind the old version, instead I took it as part of the comedy that someone who looked that drastically different could pass as you-know-who with just dark hair and a hood and was funny. But I do think the remake is a much better way to have things... it packs its own punch in a way that people who may have vaguely seen him from the distance could still have been fooled. (But Shic isn't someone who would have seen him from the "distance.")

In the old version when lamenting over Shic chasing after the black magician Lanoste comments "To think he's chasing after some guy instead of a girl..." this has been changed to "I can't believe he's still chasing after him." If this is a dialogue change and not a TL variation, this has likely been changed to fit modern sensibilities, but on a level it almost makes more sense for him to comment such when his next line to comment on it being sad. (Since it puts more emphasis on the hopelessly chasing part.)

The old version features Shic really looming over the poor fake who's backed up against a table unable to escape him. But the new version features him simply moving in close to him.

The older version feels like it emphasises how the fake wanted to run but simply could not and was trying to bluff his way out. In the newer version it seems more like he thought he could successfully fool Shic while still being intimidated by him deep down.

The old version also features more expression on Shic, as we see him initially smile like he's amused at the idea before his face is contorted with rage at the insult and false lead.

But in the newer version he remains as impassive as ever. It's similar to the auction in the remake; where he did have more of a reaction to Tessiana despite her not being the one he was looking for before, but in the remake he just seems bored the whole time instead.

The explosion scene in the old version had a much bigger dust cloud and very clearly coincided with how Lanoste raised his arm like an accidental pointer.

But we have more perspective and buildings in the remake, plus Lansote has his arm down which make it harder to visually spot the explosion imo.

I kind of agree with this idea, but I also think that the adults we are supposed to like (Dumbledore, Mcgonagall, Hagrid, Arthur and Molly, for example) shouldn't be so damn prejudiced - because they are portrayed as "the good ones". And yet, we have many instances of them acting in ways that are ignorant at best, or agressive at worst. It's annoying how the narrative never acknowledges that.

In A Series of Unfortunate Events, all the adults are incompetent and dysfunctional, and either directly (when they are villains) or indirectly (when they are allies of the children) they end up harming the protagonists through their actions, either because they actively try to hurt them or because they end up doing so indirectly. The point is that the narrative always makes it clear that they are dysfunctional adults and that, despite their good intentions, they are bad for the children; even if they are not objectively bad people, they are bad caregivers and/or guardians. This is something that is repeated constantly, and the reader always knows that no matter how likable an adult may seem, every adult ends up screwing things up.

As I was watching the Round 7 MV on Friday, there were two things I was the most focused on, Luka‘s back & waist, and (MORE importantly) the peculiar design of Till’s pants. Especially in the moments after he’s shot and the illusion it is likely to create for the audience members

I mean, by now it’s pretty clear that the design of his pants is that way for legitimate narrative reasons too, instead of it just being… sick as heck (which it very much is though).

One of those reasons of course potentially being as some type of tie in or symbolic relation to the very end of Round 6, where Till stands in/near Ivan’s pool of blood

A 2nd reason, I might add, is because it serves to create an illusion for the audience/that, it conveniently ends up creating an illusion - an illusion that makes it seem as if more damage has been done than it actually is.

Rewinding a bit,,,

Round 7‘s stage is very interesting, in that it is incredibly different in layout from most other stages. While generally speaking the stages are more similar to football fields (aka the stages are surrounded ALL AROUND by places for the audience members to sit and view the contestants) Round 7‘s stage mainly only allows the audience to view the stage from one view, the front view.

There are some sitting arrangements on the side view of the extended platform which Luka and Till occasionally walk on while singing in the MV, but the main stage itself can only be properly viewed from one side, and it is on that front side where the VAST majority of audience seats are conjested

Other than this frontal look of the stage, unless you are sitting high up (which majority of the audience isn’t) you can’t get any other full on perspective of the main stage while you are watching and cheering

But why is this layout important?

Note the position Till is laying down in.

His legs are facing the alien audience, while his head and neck (the actual points of injury) are obstructed from their view.

And this is not simply cause of Mizi being semi hunched over (though it does play a part too), the way Till fell/is laying in general would just make it hard for the audience to see his injuries from where they are sitting. It doesn’t help either for the general audience that the seats are situated a bit below the main stage too (the platform of the stage is raised)

But even in the BEST case scenario, this is what they’d see

So clearly, a very… not at all clear view of his torso, neck, or even face (cause Mizi is hunched over it and also her arms on the sides), but rather ONLY of his shoes and pants.

…You see where I’m going with this?

Another interesting thing to note, is that there is literally no pool of blood around Till. He never bleeds out on the stage like Sua and Ivan do. There is some blood on his mouth & also on his neck (& thus on Mizi’s thigh), but there is so actual pool of blood around him

What there is, though, is the bloody pattern of pants, and the red from his shoes, reflecting on the reflective stage. It creates the illusion that more damage has been done than it actually is. And I mean that canonically.

Canonically his wounds are not messy enough to externally cause a pool of blood. To cause him to bleed out on the stage, but the general alien audience wouldn’t really notice that. Not with Till’s wounds conveniently positioned in their blind spot (for those sitting in the front of the main stage - majority of the audience.) due to Till’s pose, and then also Mizi’s hunching and arm positions blocking the view of his wounds when the aliens would already have not as much view clarity of those area (for those on the upper level). Not with how dim the lights already are by that point. And not with how they are all lost in their excitement and cheers.

Their favorite won! Why would they need to keenly analyze the parts of the stage they can’t even see? Rather than that, let’s cheer on the king and the special guests who just joined! [Not to mention, the reflective surface on the stage and the blood splatter design and his blood red shoe soles (which is already their main focal point from the perspective they are seeing)!]

See what I mean?

It all creates an illusion. An illusion that the damage is done - more damage than we (as the viewer) can see and know has happened. But from their literal and mental perspective, they can’t see that. Nor do they need to question what they see either. They have more emotions and excitement to loose themself in.

Thus (by the end of the Round 7 MV at least) the ‘illusion’ gets further enforced.

Sure, we know Till didn’t bleed out like Sua, or Ivan, or many other contestants, but they don’t need to question what they expect and what is being reflected to them

Bunch of funger