Annotated 20-5
Does this frighten you? pic.twitter.com/KkT7iTd8hj
— Netflix US (@netflix) August 8, 2016
Phil’s response to this script was to ask why Gravedust was so bitchy in panels 1 and 2. My response: “I didn’t see this as anything more than good-natured teasing, with full awareness that E-Merl is kind of a Nervous Nellie. Most people would be relieved to be accepted as part of the group, but E-Merl only feels MORE pressure as a result, since he still thinks he’s an unworthy screw-up. Better to acknowledge such issues in playful passing than to act like they don’t exist.” See how you take it.
I did accept Phil’s edit of “team-killing tendencies,” though. He had hopes we’d do a little series of awkward euphemisms: friend-murder problem, oopsie-genocide, sleepaxing.
Also, “Old Dwarvish” became “Old Savasi” and “Pre-Savasi,” because of more backstory Phil’d worked out–the dwarves of GD’s tribe, who are the only dwarves left, really, became “Savasi” when they left the Solates Mountains, much as Jews and other cultures have metabolized their history of persecution into part of their cultural identity.
That picture is from the Little Prince isn’t it? Something about how the adults all just see a sloppy hat while the child sees a snake digesting a person or water buffalo or something like that right?
That’s exactly what it is.
Yup, the author drew a snake that has eaten an elephant and the adults just said “that’s a nice hat.” No clue what Netflix was on about.
Presumably it’s from when Netflix put out their version of the little prince. (The author would draw that and ask adults if it frightened them, and they would ask why they would be afraid of a hat.)
Ha! I really like “oopsie-genocide” and “sleepaxing”.
Yeah, Gravy did seem bitchy to me on my first read, but your explanation helps. Plus, the re-read has reminded me of how bitchy Gravy was in general at the start of this story.
It’s probably more from John’s art than the dialog itself, but I read panel 2 as Gravy flirting with E-Merl.
So what was the line originally, before it got changed to “team-killing tendencies”?
Briefly, it was “problem,” and then I adjusted it to “friend-murder problem” based on earlier notes of Phil’s, and then he did his old note one better.
For some reason, panel two immediately made me think of “Would you like me to seduce you?”
Little call-out here, because pointing out that the Savasi are called dwarves by others in-universe makes it slightly more obvious that goblins, by contrast, don’t have any in-world reason (that we know about yet) to be called by what is presumably their exonym, except by people outside of their own group.
Which makes me wonder what their name for themselves is, unless they also use “goblin”. (Judging that we know from later on that Don Gobligno is one of their leaders, this line of inquiry would seem to have proven fruitless – unless I’m forgetting future events – but it’s the kind of thing that makes you wonder, y’know?)
Belatedly, it also occurred to me that this applies about equally to the avians, landsharks (surprisingly), gnolls, gnomes, and… elves.
Although, gnomes and elves have presumably been integrated into Gastonian culture long enough that they’re just using the “common” word for themselves, and don’t seem to have a separate language at this point that they use among themselves (with the exception of the Sky Elves, who evidently manufactured golems that speak their “sky elvish” because of, I dunno, factional infighting?)
Then again, Syr’s letters and Gravy’s journals were written in plain script, probably for convenience to the audience of being able to relate to them, but I don’t recall seeing written languages for their respective species…
I like the fact that Gravedust is prickly about his people — or the Rebels in general — being called “Savages,” even if they are currently the enemy. That should be a sore spot for him.