Lark: Oh, Woody Strode is the king of Ethiopia! Cool. And at least they cite their sources. They’re not good sources, but at least they cite them.
Also Lark: I do not like this font. The Y in Yvonne De Carlo is fancy but the last names aren’t.
Lark: I do like the fact that this one priest is just wearing leopard print. Clearly leopard print never goes out of fashion.
We do like the thousand yard stare on the mother whose child was just murdered. Give that woman some lines.
Lark: now here’s a question: if Moses doesn’t have a name, was he circumcised?
Rose: No, probably not.
Lark: Yeah, probably not until he came back.
Just because you have stairs built down to the Nile doesn’t mean that there aren’t still crocodiles there!
Lark: wouldn’t everybody just know that she… didn’t have a baby?
Rose: I know right?
Lark: apparently Moses is the first virgin birth. Or, well, pseudo virgin birth.
Rose: How do they know what that specific cloth means? Like that it’s Jewish, fine, but Levite specifically? Dude. Also Miriam is really not well-hidden.
Lark: That is some really shitty hiding of the cloth. And why don’t you just let that basket float away? Clearly Bithia failed her observation check.
That is a lovely painting of the sky. Do you love the color of the sky?
Rose: Yul Brynner is a total thirst trap.
Lark: Oh yes, that’s why I got quiet. I would lick Yul Brynner’s abs and they’re not that well-defined. It shows a man doesn’t have to have an eight pack to be attractive.
Lark: Is a pope hat or a penis hat that that the Pharaoh is wearing?
…Is that ragweed that she’s throwing?
Is that Bithia or Anne Baxter? Because she is definitely not wearing any underwear.
Lark: As I said, leopard print never goes out of style.
Rose: Also what is this, a wedding? Do we need sprinkles of flowers?
Lark: These are bad belly dance outfits. And that is definitely a penis hat.
Charlton Heston: not a thirst trap, even before he went off the wall with politics.
Lark: And notice Charlton Heston standing one step down from Yul Brynner to make them look the same height. It’s fun to play “How do they make Charlton Heston not look so much taller than Yul Brynner?”
“You conquered us, so let us give you our most valuable possession!”
Lark: This green stone, which is Kryptonite.
Lark: Sadly, to be fair to 1956, this is amazing representation. It’s showing Black people as a good culture.
Rose: It’s still racist as fuck but…you’re right, it’s amazing representation for the time.
Lark: …Trees of myrrh? No. Myrrh is the sap of specific trees.
Moses, Moses, Moses, it’s like Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!
Let’s play: can we see Anne Baxter’s nipples? Because she is definitely not wearing a bra.
Lark: your fragrance is like the whore of Babylon? That’s one interesting fragrance!
(The line is the wine of Babylon but…)
Lark: This is ancient Egypt, there is no such thing as girdles! Look at Bithia, she is clearly wearing a fucking girdle.
Rose: Also why doesn’t he have a shaved head?
Lark: Because Charlton Heston said no? Seriously how much is due to Charlton Heston’s ego? We should be playing spot the ego.
Lark: I do have to give this film 1950s credit, it has great special effects.
Lark: This is not what they used the slaves for. Mausoleums and pyramids require skilled labor. They used the slaves for the fields!
Dathan, who is the Jewish collaborator.
Rose: I love that Yul Brynner is going “I’m wearing a skirt and I look fucking awesome.”
Lark: I enjoy watching Yul Brynner lounge casually so the camera is focused on his genitals and then waving his spear over his genitals.
That is definitely not real stone. Foam? Plywood? Something else?
Lark: I am not sure this is how they did the movement.
Rose: We know more now though?
Lark: Where is my OSHA compliance? Why would you wear loose stuff around this! She’s not going to smooth the way, she’s going to make it difficult for you to move it! Bones are not lubricant.
Lark: Let’s show how horrible Egypt is by having them kick the old woman. Though that was really good stunt work sliding down.
Rose: Her hair and veil are asking to be pulled into machinery.
Lark: She’s wearing two fucking veils of really bright colors that don’t go with the rest of her outfit. I understand it’s to make her stand out but…
Lark: Why doesn’t she have a knife to cut herself free?
Rose: yeah, they need them for everyday stuff.
Lark: Oh look it’s Vincent Price. Also I really do not like the brownface. Though it is amusing to play “spot the bad brownface applications” – where they’ve slathered it on and it streaks or runs. Armpits are really good for that.
Rose: The whole “God will choose when to set us free” is very fatalistic and not very Jewish. It’s very Christian.
Lark: That is terrible grain rationing. Very bad! This is how you get ants. Do you want rats? This is how you get rats. You’re asking for the plague here!
Rose: Oh it’s the seeing her nipples scene. She’s wearing the blue dress.
Lark: Yup, it’s the nipples dress. They put so much work into the costumes and then they put Cecil Hardwick in gold lame.
Lark: Now I don’t know if that breaking of the staff was intentional or just a really nice throw it in moment.
Lark: Every woman must be compared to a dog or a horse.
Rose: Is it just me or was this filmed in two pieces? The back is not in the same place as the first.
Lark: Yeah, the backdrop is a screen and it’s being projected.
Lark: Cowprint also hasn’t gone out of fashion. Look at the background, there’s people wearing cowprint.
Lark: This is a little too early for obelisks, but cool?
Rose: You can tell this was made a long time ago. See how those statues are still white, they would’ve been colored.
Lark: But they are still being moved, you don’t paint them until they’re in place.
Lark: Yul Brynner is already doing the etcetera, etcetera, etcetera pose.
Lark: Even Nefertiri knows that yellow sucks.
Lark: were persimmons around then? It’s an Asian fruit.
Rose: *looks it up* Yup, China 2000 years ago.
Lark: Let’s try and keep the anachronisms to a minimum.
Rose: I will give Anne Baxter credit for the acting though.
Lark: Anne Baxter was a fabulous actress. There’s an interesting prophecy happening in this movie – Bithia says “If you breathe a word of it, it will be your last” and then she breathes a word and it is her last.
Lark: I do like that they actually decorated the walls of her room because they would have been.
We will now pause our watching to break out our Bibles to find out what actually happened here.
Lark: How would she know the mother? How would Memnet know who Yoshebel was? There’s a plot hole large enough to drive a truck through!
Lark: I do like that she’s actually doing a viable pastime but that’s not something that would’ve been done by someone of her rank.
We both really hate how fast he throws over his adopted mother.
Okay, looking at the Bible, this all happens really fast. (Rose reads the Bible section)
Lark: Okay so this explains how he’d know his mother’s name. Why didn’t they plug the plothole with the actual plot?
Lark: You know, I feel sorry for both of the women.
Rose: Can they just get married and raise him together?
Lark: I’m cool with a lesbian relationship for those two. Have no conversions, keep their religions, and raise him in both.
(And then we had a whole discussion about adoptive parents vs. birth parents and we both completely agree that his adoptive mother is in fact his mother and he completely throws her over for his birth family. We both understand him having complex feelings (especially since he literally just found out he’s adopted) but she’s still his mother.)
Interesting note!
The Bible (in the original Hebrew) does NOT use the word basket for what Moses was sent down the river in. The word it uses is “ark” – the same word as is used for Noah’s ark.
Lark: You do have the right to do family of choice, especially if your parents are abusive, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here.
Rose: Yeah I get why he wants to know where he came from, but she’s still his mother.
Lark: Is wheat even what they were using then?
Rose: Does wheat even grow in Egypt?
Lark: We’re back to the artistically smeared mud.
Rose: And she’s once again wearing clothing that’s going to get caught in stuff.
Lark: It feels like they’re trying to make this analogous to the Black slave experience, but I don’t know that the Jewish slave experience was the same.
Rose: No, I don’t think they were. The whole “house slave” thing is very…
Lark: Yeah, they wouldn’t have done this.
Lark: The closed captioning needs some work. And considering how old this is, they could’ve captioned properly.
Rose: You also notice how they have Black people carrying the guy? Like not actually having the white people playing Jews acting as slaves in that way?
Lark: Especially since Black Africans wouldn’t have been slaves in that time period.
Rose: Yeah, wasn’t Punt, which was Egypt’s biggest trading partner, probably African?
Lark: Yes, and no one knows where Punt was.
Rose: …Because rich ladies totally come to tour the slave fields.
Lark: the very dirty one that is not dirty at all. No, Charlton Heston is more oiled than dirty.
Back to the Bible: he’s hidden for three months after his birth, so he should in fact be circumcised and named.
Lark: It’s a bad projection. It’s like the film got ruined and they didn’t have a backup.
Rose: I mean, she does have a point, that if he’s in charge, he could’ve changed things.
Lark: Yeah, as he said before, only Pharaoh can free a slave – if he’d become Pharaoh he could’ve freed all the slaves. He chose a more difficult path.
Lark: Gold fringe: totally de rigeur in Ancient Egypt.
Rose: you know what it looks like to me? Like they took a European depiction of Pocahontas and turned the outfit into gold.
Lark: Beards of shellfish? Oh my god I do not want to smell that gown!
Rose: I like the Tarzan leap.
Rose: I love how he’s not stopping them from tying him up at all.
Lark: No, he’s helping them. And they tied him really shittily. He must be really into BDSM. If you can’t get out of those knots, you’re not trying.
Lark: what the…is he wearing legwarmers? They’re trying to be cavemen, wearing uncut leathers! Look at Charlton Heston, he went back to Planet of the Apes.
Rose: I think Joshua is wearing boots.
Lark: the blacks don’t match, this bothers me that the blacks don’t match!
Lark: I could scrounge this outfit out of my closet right now. I could totally make Yul Brynner’s outfit for Halloween.
Lark: How much of this is us being thirsty over Yul Brynner?
Rose: Only the parts that aren’t us being thirsty over Anne Baxter.
Lark: I know that’s supposed to be a scarab but it looks like Dathan is wearing a Buddha necklace.
Naturally, neither Rune nor I have actually read the epilogue update yet. This means the old dynamic where I can filter out the asks that broke the spoiler policy before they read it doesn’t work anymore, because now they’ll spoil me as well.
So please, read and respect the spoiler policy. It’s not hard, and it’ll let us enjoy the Final Homestuck to the fullest.
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*me looking at the clock* Okay if I skip every scene with Tsuge how many episodes can I watch before bed
Adachi looks very cute in a T-shirt
Kurosawa is such a nerd I love him
“Am I really giving off strong happiness vibes?” he asks as he grins at his phone
What in the heck
“It’s because he’s gay, isn’t it” lmaoooooo way to read the room
The most hilarious gay misunderstanding
Kurosawa should take everyone in this show to his salon to get haircuts
Okay I know it’s like the premise of the whole entire show but I also did not need to think about Tsuge having sex
‘We’re thinking about buying bicycles together soon’ I’m cackling why is that so fucking funny
Their little hoodies!!!
Wow the coworker was decent for once
Kurosawa’s photo taking is so adorable
That’s exactly how I feel on amusement park rides, Adachi, don’t feel bad
Kurosawa please get a grip
This is clever, Adachi. I too wish to communicate by sticker.
Nice going Adachi
Yeah there are some things you should never tell your significant other, and that you could read their thoughts in the first months of your relationship is absolutely one of those things. Take that shit to the grave Adachi.
