1 | -> "Of all the special days, this is the one that really means something. Ask yourself—what would life be like with the stars of heaven?" |
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3 | ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XO3q6MA668 Today is Spaceship Day]]'', a 2019 short film with no discernible genre, is the result of a collaboration between a Botnik AI and Website/YouTube user [[Creator/GregoryAustinMcconnell Austin McConnell]]. Surprisingly, this is [[{{Film/Sunspring}} not an]] [[Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePortraitOfWhatLookedLikeALargePileOfAsh original concept.]] [=McConnell=] eventually released a children's book with the same story, characters and artstyle. |
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6 | !! This show provides examples of: |
7 | * EightiesHair: Charlie wears a mullet. |
8 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Most of the (supposedly) human characters have realistic skin colors, though Yaxley is green and an extra girl is blue-skinned. |
9 | * AnimateInanimateObject: Hagrid the table, who can walk and talk. |
10 | * ArtificialBrilliance: A few missteps here and there aside, the A.I that wrote the movie is surprisingly coherent. The plot is far more consistent than its spiritual predecessor ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePortraitOfWhatLookedLikeALargePileOfAsh'', featuring things like CallBack and a few genuinely profound dialogues. |
11 | -->'''Charlie:''' "The truth is that it was a big thing to eat with you... and it seemed to feel right. I’m full of ordinary sounding words, but when I say them, and you are there to hear them, all is well with everything." |
12 | * BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: The three protagonists simply remove their helmets while on a remote planet that doesn't seem to have an atmosphere, and seem just fine. |
13 | * CoolCrown: Yaxley wears some kind of Babylonian crown. |
14 | * DeadpanSnarker: Yaxley has a habit of making sarcastic quips. |
15 | --> "[[BeCarefulWhatYouSay Take care what you say]], Harrison and Dexter! People might hear you and take it seriously." |
16 | * DeathSeeker: Dexter, possibly. |
17 | --> "This journey will be the death of me," [[MoodDissonance he whispered affectionately]]. |
18 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Quite frequent, as expected from something written by AI. |
19 | --> "It was a very irritating feeling to be so nervous." |
20 | --> "Harrison thought desperately for about twenty minutes, and then finally finished thinking desperately." |
21 | --> "She (Charlie) seemed to be rather unhappy to Harrison, so he asked her. [[CaptainObvious "You seem to be rather unhappy?"]] |
22 | --> "Dexter nervously flattened himself against the wall to get rid of his anxiety." |
23 | --> "The spaceship did its best to do a good job." |
24 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Overlapping with MisplacedRetribution, Harrison slaps Dexter in the face after Charlie remarks she's not particularly impressed with space. |
25 | * DopeSlap: Harrison gives one of these to Dexter for some reason while annoyed at how unimpressed Charlie was by their voyage to the dark mystery beyond. |
26 | * HumanSacrifice: The titular Spaceship Day is implied to be a religious holiday in which this is done, by sending three people into "the dark mystery beyond". |
27 | * GreenAndMean: Yaxley, the closest thing to a villain in the story, has pale green skin. |
28 | * ImThinkingItOver: Harrison is lost in thought for ''20 minutes''. |
29 | * InsistentTerminology: Outer space is always referred to "the dark mystery beyond". |
30 | * LackOfEmpathy: Hagrid the Table does not seem to care about the students in the slightest, having no qualms about sending them into space. |
31 | --> "Hagrid stood before the crowd and spoke with a finality bordering on indifference to them." |
32 | * NervousWreck: Dexter is introduced as having a cold wave of sweat. [[RunningGag Later, the film constantly mentions his anxiety issues]]. |
33 | * OneHitPointWonder: Yaxley is instantly beaten with a single slap. |
34 | * UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}}: A number of lines are lifted directly from the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, with only a word or two being changed. |
35 | * TheRival: Yaxley is this to Harrison. When Harrison volunteers for Spaceship Day, Yaxley also takes the chance to volunteer. The two then engage in a BitchSlap fight to determine who gets to go to the dark mystery beyond. |
36 | * RummageSaleReject: Charlie wears pink pajamas under Spartan armor. |
37 | * SeriousBusiness: Narrator compares the rivalry between Harrison and Yaxley to a "historical disagreement". |
38 | * ShoutOut: There are quite plenty of references to the Harry Potter saga. Similar PowerTrio dynamics, a table literally named Hagrid, a boy with the last name Longbottom, lines of dialogue being taken straight from the books, and also Yaxley is likely named after Corban Yaxley and behaviour-wise resembles Draco Malfoy. |
39 | * SuicideMission: Apparently, there's no coming back from the dark mystery beyond. |
40 | * TomboyishName: Charlie is a girl. |
41 | * TwoGuysAndAGirl: Harrison, Dexter and Charlie. |
42 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Charlie thinks calling traveling to another planet incredible is a stretch. Also nobody questions the fact that Hagrid is a table. |
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