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“You’re a great kid, Ollie” 💙

Valentines commission- Lovin' McGee for @weirdkev27

The Poly Ship of the Day is:

From the "Frightmares on Main Street" episode: Molly dressed as the supreme court judge, Libby dressed as a pumpkin.

Ollie also dressed as the supreme court judge (they didn't plan it),

Andrea dressed as a prom queen, Sheela just wearing her karate uniform, and I think Kat is a witch (must have lost her hat),

Abigail dressed as a leprechaun, Nashua wearing a baseball uniform,

The Chens aren't wearing costumes, but if they were then they'd be the Ghostbusters.

And from Chibi Tiny Tales "Scratch's Sugar Rush", we have Molly as the sorcerer's apprentice,

Round four has arrived!

Day 20 Prompt-Family: Come on and do the (McGee) sibling dance! Scratch giving himself knees to slap is my favorite part of this one.

Day 21 Prompt-Jinxed: June and Jinx would have been such a duo! Jinx would be released in an attempt to reform her and wind up cursed to not only be unable to harm anyone, but to be bound to June like Scratch was to Molly. However, Jinx won’t be warming up to this girl anytime soon and is trapped as her ‘lab partner’

Day 25 Prompt-Star: Finally a use for all that glitter I bought! A golden wraith named Molly McGee shines as bright as a star in the sky!

Ruben: Well yeah, but who wants to be an immortal jellyfish?

Pete: I guess it would get kind of dull. Drift drift drift sting. Drift drift drift sting.

Geoff: You know, as long as I don't finish any business in the mortal realm, I'm basically immortal. That's really depressing!

Pete: Don't worry, with the rate you're going, I'm sure someone would put you out of your misery long before the ennui of immortality kicks in.

Geoff: Really? You mean that?

Jinx vs The Human World is... certainly an episode. It hasn't been talked much in comparison to The End because it has been greatly overshadowed by the later.

One thing that i think many of us can agree about Jinx vs The Human World is that it has super chaotic pacing. It doesn't give you room to breathe because it is already jumping to the next plot point and you can't digest well what you are watching. This hurts the emotional impact crucial character scenes have, because again, they aren't allowed to flow well, not letting the characters to react properly.

It's an episode that should have been around 44 minutes long since it covers multiple plot threads. With that ammount of time some things could have been better paced and given a proper conclusion.

As for the plot threads, i already talked about how i like Jinx as antagonist in this episode. She is fun, her song sequence is pretty good. She ends up capturing Molly and using her as away to power up her sobgoblins.

I really enjoy seeing Scratch finally having to deal with the consequences of not being a good leader. The reason the events of this episode happen are because of his own irresponsibilty, letting Jinx steal the Chairman robe and take over the Ghost World. He realizes that he has been messing up a lot and someone else should be in charge instead. He lets the chairman robe go and chose a more appropiate candidate to be the new chairman.

My biggest issue would be the Chens plot part. I do like the part of Ollie and June standing up to Ruben and Esther and trying to persuade them into helping them to stop Jinx. It's a scene that serves more or less well as a conclusion for their arc, even if Necro-Comicon and The Grand Gesture have this purpose, (more for Ollie's character)

The reveal that Geoff was the ghost that scared Ruben was nice too. It has been a thing that was foreshadowed back on ¨Book Marks The Sprite¨

What i'm not so fond of is how it was Geoff sneezing at him when he was a kid. I think it could been more interesting if it had been Geoff hurting Ruben by accident or scaring too much. That way Geoff apologizes to Ruben, showing to him that he didn't mean to hurt him that way.

Ruben also feels like he lacks proper scenes to show his change of mind. Sure, he realizes that Geoff wasn't evil as he thought he was, making him question things. But there isn't much else. I think there could have been a scene of Geoff saving Ruben from the sobgoblins and Ruben realizes how a ghost saved him, making him reconsider his views.

His change of mind is like it comes a bit out of nowhere. Another problem is how he seems to be super friendly around ghosts near the end which it is very weird. I think it could have been better if he had some expressions and lines that indicates that he is still trying to get used to not seeing ghosts as evil.

In addition to this, the Chens don't get to do much in this episode outside of trapping Jinx inside the phantom canister. I wished that they could have set up traps to catch the sobgoblins and contain them temporary at least, that would have given them a bigger role in the plot.

I do like some moments that June has, like her interations with Darryl and giving some funny moments. She is pretty enjoyable in this episode and she shines almost scene she is in.

In some other problems, i find the whole wraith transformation of ghost friends unnecessary, it doesn't have any funtion in the story aside from seeing how they look as wraiths (which is cool!) but the plot could have played out the same if it had been just Scratch and Molly going to the Ghost World.

The Ghost Council saying nice things about Scratch and that he wasn't so bad to give Molly joy fits well their character arcs this season, but, Sir Alister saying they are Scratch's ¨friends¨ doesn't add up since Scratch doesn't want anything to do with them and he has interacted with them because he was forced to be the Chairman in first place. I would change that line of dialogue and leave it as them thinking that Scratch is not so bad instead.