Frogs.
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#monsterdon Somethings afoot .. literally..

Hey that's not pegasus either #monsterdon

Calibos made a stealth check and/or Perseus failed a search check.

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Uh-oh FROGS #monsterdon

Typical. Can't remember where he parked. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

Galligator!

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"Artax!" "Artax!" #monsterdon

🎶 oh Calibos please, free my soul
I wanna go back to my bedroll
and drift away 🎶

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Calibos seems like he starts a lot of sentences with "Well, actually..." #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

Oooh so this is interesting, Calibos is feeding Andromeda impossible questions via the spirit world so nobody else can marry her

This is strangely coherent for #Monsterdon

This is what 15 years in a rock band does to you #monsterdon

the calibos stop motion is again honestly great

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The answer is.... injectable donut holes.

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PATHOS

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That was all Greek to me. #Monsterdon

The poster says NO KINGS #monsterdon

This stop motion is just marvelous.

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Is that your tail wiggling, or are you just happy to see me?
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I am pretty sure I have seen this and wow is it slow moving. Perhaps I was more patient as a kid. #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @gnomon little sonic booms

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Oh, this is the guy she was supposed to marry and then she decided she hated him because a terrible accident deformed him.

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Calibos is going beast mode, as it were

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I see this week's #Monsterdon is Clash of the Titans. I did not see the movie when it came out, but the hype around it was such that I started getting curious about #mythology. I got into it A LOT--so much so that by the time I did see the movie, my jaw dropped. ("Kraken" is one of my trigger words.) Y'all have fun tonight!

calibos is in charge of the Lost Boys? #monsterdon

@gnomon And why do his hooves make sound when he does so? #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai @trixter ahh gotcha, I didn't know that one

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Oh no. We have arrived at the poison swamp. Perseus you are in a Fromsoft game!
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Why does Perseus always has this "smell the fart" acting on his face?
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Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos

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Onward Pegasus, to the vulture's swamp of flies!

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So, uhm, I assume the shield that was so very important is like... uh... Shrunk down in a pocket?

I'm sure he didn't leave one of the super important artifacts behind again, right?

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A lot of helicopter shots of the wonders of the Greek countryside (bare rubble and scrub plants)

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So, who *else* had the experience of watching this movie in school with a teacher who forgot about the boobs?

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It wasn’t until the late 90s that we discovered what sound a vulture makes.

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POUT UP THOSE LIPS, HAMLIN. THIS MOVIE NEEDS MORE FANSERVICE! POUT!

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@jonny it's the astral projection of the man who walks every night into a silver cage where a sparrow files him to wherever is convenient for the plot

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@ricci "didn't Perseus like murder all of the other members of the Pegasus family" That was Calibos. We're about to get more of him. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

@saucerlost #monsterdon

I took my shirt off, in solidarity.

I’ve heard of some bad reactions from Ambien before, but this one takes the cake #monsterdon

"pegasus! follow that vulture!" #monsterdon

Good thing Pegasus has radar and infrared tracking #Monsterdon

Bird-propelled TARDIS #monsterdon

Yeah, give the horse some more of the brown water he performatively grazed his nose against. He seemed really into that. #monsterdon

Did they just flashback us to 5 minutes ago?

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so after three nights she comes back as a vampire, right?

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This GM is going to regret giving this guy so much while he is still level 1.

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is it safe for a flying horse to drink invisible water?

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#monsterdon Take Pegasus for a joyride and now he's your bestest buddy... like a school bus with a spoiler on the back.

I wanted Nerds Gummy Clusters, but they didn't have any. #monsterdon

@Wynter He's into ponyplay

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“When the full moon shines on the water, they say Pegasus comes to drink” #Monsterdon

5 minutes from now, that pegasus will take off with him sitting on it. Why can it not fly away right now, with him hanging on that rope?
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This is not as Sailor Moon had taught me.

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Pegasus is understandably upset at having to carry a lunkhead #monsterdon

Well this seems like a good way to fall to your death.

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#monsterdon Is he going to forget his clothes, too?

Horses don't roar, who wrote these subtitles? -- @WizardOfDocs

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@CactuarJoe #monsterdon
it's because Perseus didn't pay for the additional license.

The rotoscoping is pretty good, considering this is 1981. Very ambitious!

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Next up, Perseus spending six months taming the pegasus and teaching it to bear a rider.

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They do a lot of interspersing real creatures and people with the stop motion in this one. It's kind of cool. #Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

Perceus' clothes and accoutrements turn invisible, but not the rope lasso. Top tier movie logic #Monsterdon

#monsterdon The invisibility helmet is very specifically selective about its function domain. And then, when wrestling with a divine horse, it just pops off your head. At least continuity wasn't tossed out…

I'm confused didn't Perseus like murder all of the other members of the Pegasus family why does he thing think one is gonna be for riding?

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Oh, that earlier offhand remark by Zeus was Chechov's Pegasus.

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Horf!
(Yes I'm just going to coo over every animal that shows up on screen)

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A winged horse arrives with the leitmotif of the movie.
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Ah, a Tri-Star movie is about to start.

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Ok, one small snark:

"She's in the highest tower of the palace."

Camera cuts to the palace, which has two towers of equal height. 🤣

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Pegasus animation team takes a bow

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#monsterdon Awwww, it's Pegasus! Such a nice horse... whoosh whoosh... talk about pony express!

#monsterdon The lighting was always bonkers in this movie. Bright and dark, at the same time.

DAY FOR NIGHT

NEVER WORKS

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#Monsterdon *slaps the roof of this movie* "this bad boy can hold SO MUCH day for night"

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"An-DRO-mida??

"girlfriend in a coma, i know, I know, it's serious...." #monsterdon

Wait - how did we get back here again?

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a lot of myths don't really fit into movies because as parables they are both pretty short and to the point and also take place in a continuous narrative that makes up the entire culture of mythology, so when you narrativize them to 2 hours they either are like 80% padding or a random walk around related myths. getting the feeling this is the padding kind, and that is only ok if all the padding is various claymation animals doing things #monsterdon

perseus please stop being creepy. go fight a monster or something

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#monsterdon Young sweet Andromeda has uh... slipped into a coma. But you're still horny for her huh? Coma hot chick huh?

Perseus you gotta learn when and where it is appropriate to use your invisibility helmet 😬 #Monsterdon

Helpful guard with exposition dump! The plot now makes more sense to me! #monsterdon

Wait! If each suitor is asked a riddle, and none who've been asked have lived to tell it, how do we _know_ that the riddle changes for each suitor?

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On one hand, airlines back then were giant claymation buzzards.

On the other, you flight would actually wait for you to board.

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That bird would smell terrible.

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#Monsterdon astral projection? hells yes ssh right in girl

bird IS the word #monsterdon

I'm over here trying to screencap his doofy face, and somehow he went from wandering in the street to creeping in this girl's bedroom? You can't look down for a minute.
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Confirmed: Perseus is super creepy. If this weren’t the 1980s … ooh, birdie! #monsterdon

I want the story behind the blood-gutted marsh-flies.

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That there's a buzzard picnic, son.

And you best narry look inside a one o' them baskets.

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giant birb interlude

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curled up sexy, waiting for my vulture

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How did Perseus gain access to a sleeping princess’s chamber? WTF?! This is uber creeper level.

What did I miss?

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took this creeper about 3 seconds to start using the invisibility cloak to sneak into girls' rooms #monsterdon

#monsterdon Perseus is a creeper. Now all this has a much more kinky bent to it.

That guard totally was checking Perseus out #Monsterdon

The guard scoping out Perseus' cheeks was pretty great

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