Jason and the Argonauts
Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

*scribbling furiously in a notebook labelled Professional Leadership Ideas* accuse... my team... of treachery with murderous intent... and yeet them... into the sea

Bluedepth

Mostly the rocks are both plaid and paisley. You know, clashing…

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allanb

quick men, save the girl, ignore the dude hanging onto the rafters

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Katie is accusing the oar cadence drummer of "doing it wrong".

(Is there a specific name for that drummer? We must have some rowers in this monsterdon crew, don't we?)

Bluedepth

I don't believe in NUS’es... Nets of Unusual Size… I doubt they exist! *whoosh*

Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

Everyone prepare for an easy stroke on this ship of entirely men.

I have no comment on this.

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

"Beware of the Clashing Rocks!"
"How will we recognize them?"
"They'll be wearing checkered shirts, striped pants and orange and pink accessories."

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

We learn the dude who can't have a snack without bat women attacking him is Phinneas, who was blinded for misusing the use of prophecy and the gods sent harpies to deny him of snacks.

Jason and friends come to visit him and they are all wearing snazzy new outfits for some reason. Phinneas explains his predicament, does a blasphemy and then agrees to help them if they'll rid him of the harpies.

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

We interrupt this broadcast to bring you this video of a flying bat woman attacking an old guy who is just trying to have a snack at his favorite bistro, the ruined temple.

wohali
wohali
wohali@timeloop.cafe

"These are dream films... you are not trying to make it realistic... you certainly don't tell artists to make photographic copies of a landscape, that is why stop motion is so useful, it helps provide the dream-like illusion. Like King Kong..... it gives that never-never-land quality, which is a great addition."

-Ray

#monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Also, Jason has used up his last Hera token and can no longer bother the figurehead for advice. The figurehead is now just there to leer at the boys as they row the boat.

jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny (nonvenomous)
jonny@neuromatch.social

@SnoopJ yeah that's what i thought, that like there wasn't the manichaean good v evil thing so much as like "playing the hand you're dealt and listening up when something more powerful than you comes around and tells you what to do" #monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

After killing the giant robot, we get a building montage where we use carpentry to resurrect our rowboat.

Pretty sure some of the tools were anachronistic (for both the bronze age and classical era) but we did see some mortises and tenons.

Srol
Srol
srol@mellified.men

Guy is fortunate the orchestra is around to tell him the sudden arrival of a bunch of hot bird ladies is a bad thing.

#monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

The giant robot's weakness is the hatch in his heel, which you can unscrew, causing hot kool-aid to flow out of it, which deflates the robot and causes him to choke, then crack, then fall down, then shatter.

I'm not sure why the hatch needed to be in one of his heels, you'd think somewhere less accessible would be better, but I am not a bronze age giant robot designer yet.

Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

Somehow a whispering Hera head is even creepier than a talking one. Like ASMR uncanny valley worst of both worlds.

Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

Water does not scale to miniature sizes, that or droplets used to be the size of yoga balls.

Harvey Sandstrom
Harvey Sandstrom
cd0

I switched off not long after this last time. So I don't actually know what happens past the next terrifying talking Hera head scene.

wohali
wohali
wohali@timeloop.cafe

"The secret is that we film the background first and then reduce it to such a degree that when you rephotograph it with the model, it gives this gigantic perspective and size!"

#monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Unsurprisingly we made some mistakes in our insane plan and now our crew is running out of water. The shipwright dismisses this as grumbling and tells them to um... drink brine? While he goes to tell them this, Jason asks the figurehead for help and she tells him to sail to "the island of bronze" which is where the gods were making weapons and then gives extra advice that will be revealed later.