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rionaleonhart) wrote2020-09-30 02:59 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2020-09-30 02:59 pm
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When I Look At You It's Like I'm Looking At Me.
Rei and I were looking for a new television series to watch. We came up with a few things that had short episodes, so we could watch one episode each and see if anything clicked, and then we went to Netflix to put our plan into action.
Netflix immediately scuppered our plan for the evening by going, 'Hey, want to watch a show about a teenage girl who starts a band with three ghosts?'
It had not hit us until that exact moment, but we had wanted to watch a show about a teenage girl who starts a band with three ghosts for our entire lives.
Anyway, that's how we ended up watching Julie and the Phantoms. Julie meets the ghosts of three young musicians who died in the nineties! She's the only living person who can see them, except when they play music with her! They start a band!
Is it a ridiculous concept? Yes. Did it genuinely get me emotionally invested and make me cry? Also yes.
Julie and the Phantoms is silly, it's true, but it's also both a much better show and a much more emotionally devastating show than I could have anticipated. I realise what I'm about to say may show a lack of foresight, but I thought this was going to be a fun story about dead teenagers; I didn't sign up to be sad!
There's a moment in the final episode in which (spoilers, highlight to read) the ghost band members think they're going to, er, ghost-die, so they just lie down and cuddle up and wait to stop existing. This is the sort of thing that gets me straight in the heart, and it is also not at all what I'm prepared for in a show by the director of High School Musical.
Here is my favourite clip, in which Julie performs a song for her best friend Flynn in order to prove to Flynn that she has ghost friends who are only visible to other people when they perform music with her. I can't believe this is this show's concept. I can't believe I love it unironically. I can't believe I'm surprised by this, because this is exactly the sort of stupid thing I enjoy.
There's currently one series of nine episodes. Fingers crossed for a second.
I do not feel I have a solid enough grasp of the characters to be able to write them, but if I did I would probably be working on some ghost OT3 fanfiction. (There's a terrible part of me going 'you should rewatch the stupid ghost band show straight away to solidify your character voices'. No!!)
(I can't believe I posted this entry at first without using my icon from Final Fantasy X-2, a game about a woman whose clothes are haunted by a ghost who only appears when singing with her.)
Netflix immediately scuppered our plan for the evening by going, 'Hey, want to watch a show about a teenage girl who starts a band with three ghosts?'
It had not hit us until that exact moment, but we had wanted to watch a show about a teenage girl who starts a band with three ghosts for our entire lives.
Anyway, that's how we ended up watching Julie and the Phantoms. Julie meets the ghosts of three young musicians who died in the nineties! She's the only living person who can see them, except when they play music with her! They start a band!
Is it a ridiculous concept? Yes. Did it genuinely get me emotionally invested and make me cry? Also yes.
Julie and the Phantoms is silly, it's true, but it's also both a much better show and a much more emotionally devastating show than I could have anticipated. I realise what I'm about to say may show a lack of foresight, but I thought this was going to be a fun story about dead teenagers; I didn't sign up to be sad!
There's a moment in the final episode in which (spoilers, highlight to read) the ghost band members think they're going to, er, ghost-die, so they just lie down and cuddle up and wait to stop existing. This is the sort of thing that gets me straight in the heart, and it is also not at all what I'm prepared for in a show by the director of High School Musical.
Here is my favourite clip, in which Julie performs a song for her best friend Flynn in order to prove to Flynn that she has ghost friends who are only visible to other people when they perform music with her. I can't believe this is this show's concept. I can't believe I love it unironically. I can't believe I'm surprised by this, because this is exactly the sort of stupid thing I enjoy.
There's currently one series of nine episodes. Fingers crossed for a second.
I do not feel I have a solid enough grasp of the characters to be able to write them, but if I did I would probably be working on some ghost OT3 fanfiction. (There's a terrible part of me going 'you should rewatch the stupid ghost band show straight away to solidify your character voices'. No!!)
(I can't believe I posted this entry at first without using my icon from Final Fantasy X-2, a game about a woman whose clothes are haunted by a ghost who only appears when singing with her.)