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OUaT is becoming the ultimate goofy Disney villain and heroes advertising show, walking well-trodden popculture lanes and ignoring the richness of the global fairy tale worlds, and that has not much of an appeal to me, though it might work perfect for U.S. market. Already didn’t fancy the Neverland arc that much, and was only slightly more interested in the Oz thing, because of Oz being so rich in tales, which they sorely avoided to make any good use of. I liked Victoria Smurfit in Dracula, and guess she will be a great Cruella, but I just don’t care at all about Cruella at this point. It wouldn’t matter that much, if they hadn’t butchered their characters though, what they did in 4×05 was plain awful IMO. This character news doesn’t get me any excited. Looks like I will be able to offer an open spot on my list of interesting shows to watch for this Spring.
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POST DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO DO THIS PLEASE… I would love to be able to block all the flashing gifs as the are REDUNDANT not mention very irritating… I stop reading post with too many of them
THANK YOUDepends on which browser you are using.
For forums I mostly use google chrome. Two extension are quite useful
Wizmage Image Blocker – loads the images but puts and overlay over them, so you see where the position of the image is, but you don’t see the image itself. You can easily toggle between show/hide images and can do it just for the open tab, so very handy if you don’t need to worry about bandwith and just want to ignore images, but eventually once in a while want to take a look at image.
Block Image – blocks images and videos from loading, so besides that you don’t get to see imagse, unless you want to, it helps to save bandwith.At the moment I’m using Wizmage, works nice, takes a few milliseconds maybe longer to load. Good experience with the other too but only use it when going mobile.
These extension work as well in most other browser based on the chrome machine like Comodo Dragon.
Firefox:
Image show/hide – hides images on a website, one can toggle it via button to reload and show the images
Image Block – prevents images from loadingNot all satisified with the extension in FF, there a bit less friendly to use, but they work otherwise quite fine as well.
Don’t work with IOs or Mac OS though.
On mobile devices (tab, smartphones) it can get a bit more tricky, no easy on and off extension for mobile browsers, but there is in most browser the possibility to turn of image loading in general in the settings.
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Hans Christian Andersen wrote a lengthy tale “The Marsh King’s daughter” about a girl named Helga. There is a connection to water lilys in it. Here a summary of it (it has a link to the text in it). As usual for Andersen it’s somewhat darker stuff,
And the founder of Hufflepuff is named Helga.
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Just a few additions.
What you deciphered as ‘kij’ is ‘king’ – the Ingwaz rune for ‘ng’ can have different forms, the one you see in Ingrid but as well can look more like a rhomb or square (in the Elder Furthak).
Why in ‘wueen’ they use Wynn rune, so ‘w’, instead of Kaun rune, ‘k’, like they correctly did in ‘king’, beats me. Etymological ‘queen’ is Old English ‘cwen’, so probably that’s why they used ‘w’, though would have made more sense instead of the rune for ‘u’, so ‘kween’, but whatever.
And I am pretty sure there is an ‘i’ before the rune for ‘d’, so it’s Astrid
As we can sure guess it’s Gerda
Good work.
(and nice that my nerdy exploration of runes for history class in high school pays of a bit now, lol)
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If Helga would be SnowWhite’s aunt, Ingrid or Gerda would have to be Snow’s mother. Or there would have to be another sibling, but that doesn’t make sense either. Leopold was a king in his own kingdom, so hardly any connection there to the three sisters, and there was no mention or hint for another, fourth sister.
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Are some of those runes real? Some parts jumped out of the screen as English letters with extra bits (“savior” and “Emma” in particular). It reminds me of the “blinkenlichten” pseudo-German warning on computers.
Most of the runes are real, Elder Futhark with some freedom of use though, and a few inventions. The rune for ‘w’ they use is an upside-down version of Futhark rune for ‘m’, their own invention, and they smuggled in a ‘V’ to write ‘savior’. Don’t know why they didn’t use the existing rune for ‘w’ though, maybe their computer font doesn’t have the right rune. But have to make compromises 😉
For example two words written in Futhark:
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Can make it short this time.
Least favorite:
Pretty much all of the episode. The Contrivance Fairy hopefully get paid for all the overtime she had to put into it.Most favorite:
The Snow Queen scenes, Elizabeth Mitchell’s Snow Queen already has me under her spell. The story gets weaker, but she still is a joy to watch.¯\_(?????? ?)_/¯
Animated characters are stylized…they aren’t *supposed* to look realistic.
Okay, stylized, but why in this way, with wasp waist? Women used corsets to create such small waist in real life, paying a high prize with deformed rips, harmful effects on muscles, internal organs including their reproductive organs, increased risk of miscarriages and maternal death. Not to mention eating disorders. I don’t call that style or art but a damaging misconception of beauty. Princesses have to be fragile and petite, then even if those women are shown as kicking butt and smart, they still are physical vulnerable, appealing to protective instincts and not threatening masculinity.
Just a few days ago was Niki de Saint Phalle’s 84th birthday, she passed away a few years ago though. A wonderful, inspiring artist, whose women figures are famous, her Nanas are stylized women, but they are empowering, unlike these wasp waist Disney princess, who are only helping to enforce an unrealistic beauty image.
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I liked Rumple – as an evil character, complex, grayish but evil. So, very much with Robert Carlyle here.
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