Daryla dragging herself across the ground by any means, including her chin... Wow.
Respect to the Six Blades, but, yes, Daryla was the better viewpoint character for the chapter. Besides what you brought up about it being interesting to be with a helpless Daryla, she enabled time skips on the surgery as she slept in and out of consciousness.
More importantly, despite your excellent job last week of giving the full love story in a single chapter, we don't know the Six Blades THAT well, while Lola and Daryla (and Pylpo) is a core relationship. Sure, Halbard's guilt/catharsis would be a good read, but, with the chapters before - Daryla struggling to deal with Lola's affair with Pylpo - her anger and hurt, to see all that cast aside in the moment of crisis for love and concern... Plus, while the Six Blades LIKE Lola, Daryla LOVES Lola. There's no one in the scene more invested in Lola's survival that Daryla, except maybe Lola. Even Pylpo I'm not certain if her thing with Lola is strongly emotional or just "friends with benefits."
Apparently Daryla's magic will return, so there's that. Our heroes survive, if only marginally intact.
Given Daryla and Lola still need to have an uncomfortable chat, and Lola will likely have a lot of pain and retraining in her recovery (have fun learning to walk with someone else's legs, which might not be the same length as each other, and almost certainly weren't the same length as Lola's, changing her center of gravity and balance) I'm sure Lola will spend a few months wishing she had died. That'll be another laugh a minute scene.
Messed up our Xmas main, did we? 🥺
Tuned in for Xmas Doctor Who (fun. Ncuti is magnetic. Moffat pulled his typical tropes of calling out part of his own episode for making no sense, and a cop out ending reversing any horrors inflicted, but there was one really brilliant scene), and was pleasantly surprised by the existence of the new Wallace and Grommet. Laura dozed off in the middle - blame the purring kitten on her lap - which was sad for her, because a Wallace and Grommet is always good for laughs, and the animation work always stunning. So was the lighting! Aardman did a brilliant job meshing the CG elements with the practical animation. Laura was happy when I told her at the end of the film Grommet finally got his head pats.
Other than the very 2010s-era CG explosion, the mixing of CG and animation was flawless. I assume all the water was CG, but couldn't really be sure (other than it not being possible in stop motion). The amount of character they get from Gromit and McGraw is stunning - especially given the penguin's super basic design. It manages to be extremely silly and fun while ALSO being a demonstration of artists at the absolute top of their game. So satisfying.
You're right - being able to dip in and out with Daryla's consciousness was another big reason for going with her viewpoint. I don't normally do more than one or two time skips (and/or perspective shifts) per chapter, so this was a way to have a lot more without it being weird.
As for Lola's recovery and physical therapy - I could aways treat it as comic relief, like when C-3PO is reassembled in a hurry by Chewbacca in Empire Strikes Back. Turns out Simova put the leg on her right arm, etc.
If you DID pull that gag it would have to come from Lola telling the SDC gang... Because Holland could have the most amazing reaction and jerk comment... Which would also be funny. Heh.
Also I LIKED the 2010's CG explosion with way too many fireballs. Lovely exaggeration.
I once shot a seminar with Peter Lord of Aardman (about making "Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists"). Lord spent the entire time on stage making a puppet head as he talked.
My director was being nice to me that weekend. Normally I'd be on close up cam, having to pay attention to push/pull/pan/reframe, depending on who's talking. That weekend Bruce put me on the safety wide, so I could lock my camera down and just listen to the panels. All I had to do was slowly pull full wide at the end to bring in audience as they applauded.
Daryla dragging herself across the ground by any means, including her chin... Wow.
Respect to the Six Blades, but, yes, Daryla was the better viewpoint character for the chapter. Besides what you brought up about it being interesting to be with a helpless Daryla, she enabled time skips on the surgery as she slept in and out of consciousness.
More importantly, despite your excellent job last week of giving the full love story in a single chapter, we don't know the Six Blades THAT well, while Lola and Daryla (and Pylpo) is a core relationship. Sure, Halbard's guilt/catharsis would be a good read, but, with the chapters before - Daryla struggling to deal with Lola's affair with Pylpo - her anger and hurt, to see all that cast aside in the moment of crisis for love and concern... Plus, while the Six Blades LIKE Lola, Daryla LOVES Lola. There's no one in the scene more invested in Lola's survival that Daryla, except maybe Lola. Even Pylpo I'm not certain if her thing with Lola is strongly emotional or just "friends with benefits."
Apparently Daryla's magic will return, so there's that. Our heroes survive, if only marginally intact.
Given Daryla and Lola still need to have an uncomfortable chat, and Lola will likely have a lot of pain and retraining in her recovery (have fun learning to walk with someone else's legs, which might not be the same length as each other, and almost certainly weren't the same length as Lola's, changing her center of gravity and balance) I'm sure Lola will spend a few months wishing she had died. That'll be another laugh a minute scene.
Messed up our Xmas main, did we? 🥺
Tuned in for Xmas Doctor Who (fun. Ncuti is magnetic. Moffat pulled his typical tropes of calling out part of his own episode for making no sense, and a cop out ending reversing any horrors inflicted, but there was one really brilliant scene), and was pleasantly surprised by the existence of the new Wallace and Grommet. Laura dozed off in the middle - blame the purring kitten on her lap - which was sad for her, because a Wallace and Grommet is always good for laughs, and the animation work always stunning. So was the lighting! Aardman did a brilliant job meshing the CG elements with the practical animation. Laura was happy when I told her at the end of the film Grommet finally got his head pats.
Other than the very 2010s-era CG explosion, the mixing of CG and animation was flawless. I assume all the water was CG, but couldn't really be sure (other than it not being possible in stop motion). The amount of character they get from Gromit and McGraw is stunning - especially given the penguin's super basic design. It manages to be extremely silly and fun while ALSO being a demonstration of artists at the absolute top of their game. So satisfying.
You're right - being able to dip in and out with Daryla's consciousness was another big reason for going with her viewpoint. I don't normally do more than one or two time skips (and/or perspective shifts) per chapter, so this was a way to have a lot more without it being weird.
As for Lola's recovery and physical therapy - I could aways treat it as comic relief, like when C-3PO is reassembled in a hurry by Chewbacca in Empire Strikes Back. Turns out Simova put the leg on her right arm, etc.
That's very dark humor, since Lola would have to mostly recover so she's healthy enough to chop things off again and switch the bits around.
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If you DID pull that gag it would have to come from Lola telling the SDC gang... Because Holland could have the most amazing reaction and jerk comment... Which would also be funny. Heh.
Also I LIKED the 2010's CG explosion with way too many fireballs. Lovely exaggeration.
I once shot a seminar with Peter Lord of Aardman (about making "Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists"). Lord spent the entire time on stage making a puppet head as he talked.
My director was being nice to me that weekend. Normally I'd be on close up cam, having to pay attention to push/pull/pan/reframe, depending on who's talking. That weekend Bruce put me on the safety wide, so I could lock my camera down and just listen to the panels. All I had to do was slowly pull full wide at the end to bring in audience as they applauded.