#midquel

Here is the midquel I promise! I'm gonna post this and the sequel each time! Hope you guys don't mind!

Anyways, chapter 1 is...

should we ever get a PN3, we need another midquel first. This one would take place a week or two after the events of the sequel. The plot would be Raz and the rest of the junior and adults Psychonauts track down and stop the rest of the delugionist cult. Surprises include…

You can not just play as Raz through his POV, but at some points you can also play as Lili, Sasha, Milla, Sam and more.

One of the missions involves rescuing Helmut fullbear’s cryogenetically frozen body from the frozen lake, thaw it out and rebrain him.

New powers include cryogenesis, Hydrokinesis and Electrokinesis.

For example, Pinocchio is almost always seen as a puppet still, Bambi is still a fawn, Robin Hood is still an outlaw pursued by Prince John, and many The Lion King stories show Simba as a cub.

The exception seems to be stories based on the princess movies, which almost always take place after their respective "happily ever after" endings.

Little Nightmares: Rewind midquel - Finding shelter

Midquel comic of my continuation/fix-it of @hezuart‘s Little Nightmares ‘Channel Change’ AU

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It is always ideal to find a roof to have over your head, especially when you now have others to look after as well as yourself.

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This is a midquel to my 'Rewind' comic, this takes place before the final image of the girls and the Nomes sleeping in the original comic, and after the rest of the comic.

This is also to set up the setting for sequel comics of this AU. The girls now live in an abandoned manor in an abandoned town with their Nome friends. Six remembers seeing Mono in the tree, but decides to not go back to that forest because she knows that the Hunter will also be there, so to set up why Mono will not be appearing in this AU. Plus they are well hidden in the manor, so the Ferryman won't find them, so they won't get taken to the Maw, thus Runaway Kid won't make an appearance either.

After having watched nearly all of them, I can say with absolutely certainly that two of those statements are 100% untrue. And the third, that they’re “cheap cash grabs” is only partially true.

Yes, a few of them early on were definitely produced on the cheap, using low-budget TV animation studios rather than the usual. But as time went on, the animation got better and better until it was nearly indistinguishable from theatrical animation. Heck, some of them were released at a time when Disney wasn’t doing 2D animation in theaters at all.

And as far as the other claims go, I think most if not all of them are very good films in their own right. And in some cases, I’d say they were actually better than the originals (Cinderella III comes to mind). Why they made so many sequels/midquels to movies that weren’t really that popular to begin with (Brother Bear, The Fox and the Hound, etc.) I’m not sure, but it never did any harm.

It’s sad that John Lasseter seemed to agree with the criticism when he pulled the plug on direct-to-video movies. And now that Disney’s been pumping out live-action remakes, the controversy seems so silly and pointless now. The remakes may not be cheaply-made, but they’re definitely cash grabs, and without a doubt disrespectful. (Just watch any of the direct-to-video films, and you’ll see a special thanks to the original artists in the end credits! The remakes give them diddly-squat.) But what makes things different now is that, unlike before, it feels like only a small number of people seem to think so. The box office numbers show that everyone else doesn’t seem to give a darn, and are more than willing to give the bigwigs at Disney more money to pump out more remakes.

I’ve heard the argument “it’s not made for you” and “the originals still exist, they’re not getting replaced” repeated ad nauseum, as if that really disproves the real issues these remakes have.

What happened between then and now that brought about these kind of apologists anyway? It seems like it’s been happening all over pop culture discourse in general- people who can’t see the problems with a piece of media, and will bend over backwards defending it. Sometimes it feels like you can’t criticize anything without somebody jumping on you and telling you that the people who made it can do no wrong and should be practically worshipped. (Of course, there's also the opposite type of person, who seems to think that they can do no good and that everything they make is terrible. I can’t decide which is more annoying.)