I made it to the end!😁

Well its no secret and no surprise that the beldam, being the game fanatic that she is, she loves a good challenge or more specifically challenging others. I think that's at least one of the reasons why all the garden tricks happend from the blue vines under the bricks to the birds grabbing the stone and the mantis tracker targeting coraline. And besides the beldam knew coraline had the garden tool with her so she knew coraline would be able to get herself out of the blue vines grasp. The other mother is not going to let this be easy for coraline but at the same time not too hard either.

1:35 now hear me out I personally think it acted so frantically was because it new the scientist was just as smart, and thus just as efficient and important as itself. Because it knows it's a clone.

I. Love dopey not so much grumpy or is he brouchy?I don't know which but he was leased up by favorite doors.I did like cock and dope and basketball and sneezy but not grumpy

When you said that the second Little Mermaid was the worst, my heart kind of dropped, it was (and still kinda is) my favorite sequel 🤣🤣

Sidenote, I wouldn't mind a Twisted Tale kind of story where Gaston wins over Belle and Adam (the beast) is the villain....just saying

If this is true that jareth is her mothers brother that means sarah and him are related....

I wish they made a second move to this Labyrinth the return of the goblin king

one thing i really think could be delved into further is the time aspect of this film, although i may not agree with every part of your theories the idea of time and the limbo do interest me, however ive not seen many people discuss the time element (the speed of time in the other world/sometimes real world to be more clear) also that jug you saw on the otherside of the kitchen to me appears to be a milk jug, kinda what youd use when youd bring out a pot of tea, but of course just for the milk :)

Another golfer is without a shadow of a doubt, a narcissist, a creep, a kidnapper and someone that is gaslighting or puzzle.I didn't reponsible at most.She's just creepy at worst.She's just creepy, just cmaybe.He's gonna mind Monica's standard.Not saying a lot from my mom.She's no mother she's a kidnapper

"Stupid Wbyie 🙄" Coraline: 🤣👍🏻 Edit: I love how much you can't stand Wybie 😂 (I don't know if you actually can't stand him or if it's an act but either way, love it)

I like your video called "Can Coraline ever return to the real world?" It, like you said, would be an incredibly difficult stealth mission, but thanks for the hope that years later, if she notices differences in everyone's behavior and is extremely careful, she could one day find a way back to the real world. It did give me hope while I do believe the downer conclusion that she is still in the limbo world at the end of the book and movie.

Pitcher plants..

I think the cat is just eccentric. In the books, it's more clear that he does what he does bcs...he's a cat, not human. He thinks himself superior to humans, and he goes to the other world bcs he can. He does as he pleases as most cats do. It's only when his lil spots get sealed up that he becomes scared. At the end of the film, it is curious that he manages to go through a portal, though. He could go to taunt the other mother, but tbh idk, he doesn't like being near her, plus she could trap him in there again. So, maybe at that point, the other mother has already perished?

I feel like part of it is that MLP FIM is a show about adult women for kids. Like I know they're ponies but in the context of the show these are adult females with jobs and careers and all the nonsense that comes with navigating the world as an adult. Hell Twilight is literally fresh out of what could be considered college at the start. I think that helped with the relatability to the adults who liked the show helping lead us to where the show's fan base led

I think cannonicly Toph was widowed at least once.

a few things to note in the scene where coraline makes the pillow people: 1. we can see that the glasses she puts on the pillow are a different pair. not unusual to have a spare pair of glasses. the ones he usually wears have a frame on top and wire on the bottom (i think thats how those types of frames work) and the ones on the pillow are clearly thicker on the bottom (you can tell when we get a shot of the family photo) 2. when mel left the house, her neck brace appears to be blue and white, but the one coraline puts on the pillow is a beige and white one (which we have seen her wear throughout the film) not sure why she would have multiple neck braces as its made clear that she was recently in a car accident and she hurt her neck, but yeah. it could just be the lighting but right before mel leaves its pretty distinctly blue and whhite. also in the mirror both mel and charlie are wearing their respective neck brace and glasses. of course this is the other world and the beldam is just making coralines parents look as familiar as possible and isn't changing anything about their appearance.

Plot twist they deliberately moved there after hearing about an apartment that has a history of missing children

Isn’t it strange the black cat doesn’t speak even though coraline is in the limbo pink palace 🤨 he must have to follow a set of rules. Again, he’s just like the spiders from “Gregor the Overlander”

i think the sink has a copper ring around the spout

I think you're hard on Coraline she's just kid😂

Going to get really dark here, but what if the following is ACTUALLY what happened? Coraline and Mel fight, Mel leaves for groceries. Coraline goes into the other world and when Mel comes home, she sees the little door open (a lure by the Beldam) and panics because she had already put that key up where she thought Coraline wouldn't get it. The door had given her the "bad juju" mom vibes. Anyway, she calls Charlie maybe and leaves a voicemail or gets him to rush home and then, leaving the groceries out because that's the least important thing, Mel goes on into the tunnel. And let's assume it's not a welcoming version. As soon as she's through, she's dead. Killed. The Beldam was lying in wait and just nixed her competition. So she takes Mel's clothes and pulls the same thing on Charlie when he arrives home as she does later with Coraline, perhaps to test the believability of her pretending to be Mel. It works, he goes through and he gets nixed also. So everything after that is the Beldam. Coraline DID go back to the real world and see the rotten groceries, etc but she was under constant surveillance by the cat and the mice. They might have even brought the glasses and neck brace over to make Coraline even sadder and more likely to go back to get her parents. Also, Charlie's glasses are for reading. Based on how he wears them low on his nose and looks over them, and being a full-time, lifelong glasses wearer myself, I can say that he doesn't have them on right for vision correction. AND being reading glasses, he'd have several pairs like most people do. Also also (sorry this is so long), but when my mom had a neck brace from whiplash, they gave her three so she could change it out and not keep the same filthy one on the whole recovery time. Just a thought. ❤

Sorry if this is random but just looked up the meaning of snapdragons and apparently one of the several meanings are: Deception and trickery. The Snapdragons unique “mouth” shape, which can be manipulated to open close, has led to associations with deception, trickery and cleverness. In fact some several meanings of stuff like the mantis revolve around Deception and trickery.

Congratulations on the wedding, lovely photos! ❤

I think maybe the positive growth milestones is probably referring to the following. -Social Development -Cognitive development More specifically: -Mutuality -Normative expectation -Empathy and understanding Examples: -Do more complicated problem-solving -Handle a higher level of academic challenges -Consider others’ points of view -Think abstractly as well as concretely -Pay attention for longer periods of time -Engage in cooperative group activities focused on cognitive tasks: puzzles, games, etc. However you're both probably correct.

wait, so if in the book, the balls are not eyes but instead, souls... What is Coraline speaking to in the mirror room? If their souls are trapped, how can they have a form that is able to speak and move around like spirits. Maybe the book explains this (idk, I never read the books) or maybe, another sign the ghost children Coraline sees are puppets. Because even in the movie, the ghost child's soul is speaking from the ball. So, either way, if they're imprisoned, the mirror room interaction doesn't make sense.

Thanks for talking about my comment. The part of kids hitting milestones slower and faster is both true. Its different for different kids of course but when it comes to things like emotional maturity they can be slower. Because the way children develop their emotions is dependant on interactions with others. Whereas things rhat entail their immediate survival ie: cooking, self care/hygiene, etc. Its the parts of development that require other humans to interact with that get delayed. Example Stranger Danger

love your videos

I looked it up and the first flowers. The one the frog pops out of. They're very similar to multiple carnivorous plants. Couldn't nail it down to one in particular. But it's pretty obvious that the frog is sitting in what I can best describe as the mouth/stomach acid of the plant. Frog isn't just chilling

About those flowers you were talking about. They are real, yeah. I'm not sure what they're called, but they're carnivorous plants. Bugs fall into them and the plants digest them

This has always drove me crazy, but during the ghost children scene they only cover ONE eye when they ask Coraline to find their eyes

Fungirl, the carnivorous plant where the frog, was called - "Nepenthes rajah".

So close to the end now...

So you said last week about how "Other Mother" Didn't give her a clue. I think she did. She was tapping her eye and then the tapping turned into the dripping faucet. I always thought the tapping was meaning like "the world is not always how it seems in the other world" Because we can tell when Coraline looks through the seeing stone. And then for me when the tapping turns into water dripping and looks out into the garden that just sealed it for me like "There's your clue"

I love this series so much, I'm gonna be so sad when it ends!! Oh to answer your question, those pod like plants, the one where the frog came out of look a lot like pitcher plants, a type of carnivorous plant that catches small pray using a sweet smelling liquid inside itself, but the inside of the plant is slippery, so whatever falls in can't climb out. The particular ones in the garden look a lot like the Sarracenia Purpurea Venosa, or the Southern Purple Pitcher Plant which are native to eastern North America ranging from the Gulf Coast of Florida to Nova Scotia and across the base of the Rocky Mountains. Which is curiously fitting considering that the Beldam lures kids in with SWEETS and other good things and then traps them and makes it difficukt or out right impossible to leave.

Hi, I love your videos! So, I'm Brazilian and in the brazilian dub the ghost boy says "there's still two PAIRS of eyes lost" and it always bothered me, because Coraline only got one of each and it was never mentioned again.

I love your Coraline analysis vids. Its interesting all the things that are there i would've never noticed.

[Edit: prefacing to note that i enjoy your content a lot and i still love your videos! I just also have thoughts!] Oof, child neglect works a spectrum (i.e. children can be neglected emotionally without it falling into the category of abuse) Another thing that's important to note is that the same kind of neglect can impact children in vastly different ways depending on the circumstances and the personality of the child. Not all neglected children are hyper-independent, neglect can have the opposite effect just as simply. Another thing with coraline's behavior and choices (arguably unrealistic recklessness, sudden realizations, noticing oddly specific details, having suddenly impressive dexterity or skill) are just sort of aspects of film in general? No matter how detailed and precise Laika is, their worlds are still stylized and fantastical. Sometimes things exist or characters think things because it moves the plot along (and I know that's so so boring and totally against the theorist spirit 😭) but things like the excessive recklessness of Coraline are what allow the story to function the way that it does. Same goes for the cryptic nature of the cat and neighbors, it feels like the style of the narrative/storytelling rather than what would be natural/logical in real life. Also, people do stuff that doesn't make all that much sense _all the time_ in real life, _especially_ children, so in conclusion my take on things is that though I recognize that this series is to examine the mechanics and details of every scene, I also feel like not everything in this narrative has to be natural, reasonable or realistic to work

My favorite animated movie

I dont think it's that deep that coralines dad has two glasses my dad has 3 😭

I love your Coraline analysis videos

Ooo😮 intriguing thought

Hi Megan! I wanted to chime in and let you know how much I'm enjoying this series. It's fun and I really enjoy how engaged you are with the films you're breaking down! Including the Barbie movie! Your unique voice is a delight! I hope we get more of these types of videos! I think doing analytical videos on MLP Friendship is Magic would be REALLY fun! I hope you do that! I'd love to see your perspective, especially as a mother, on the adventures of Twilight and her friends, and their 'friendship issues'. There have been a lot of perspectives on that show and its episodes, but mostly from its adult male fanbase. So, I think you'd give us a very refreshing point of view! I also recommend Miraculous Ladybug if you're interested! I used to be skeptical of it, but there's a LOT of theorizing potential, especially as its going on another season, and it's a really good show! Highly recommend! I'd watch it! I also miss your hot takes on the Disney Princesses lol. Ah the controversy... Your take on Rapunzel remains my favorite! Okay, enough of my rambling. Keep up the awesome work, The Fangirl, and have a FAN-tastic wedding!

She made herelf the villain of her fate. Demona showed her younger past self the future of what will happen to her brothers and sisters and the fate of Goliath and the rest. Her ideas to destroy humanity is both insane and somewhat genocide. Also you can't denied what she was going to do if her virus would've killed Macbeth; she would've died but her vengeance clouded her logic to remember that, not only that she even tried to steal Angela from Goliath to be a gargoyle to be a ruler without humans, but Angela would never loved it or her mother since Katerin took the eggs under Goliath request since raising 36 eggs would be hard for him since never can tell when a new enemy would come and try to raid the fallen castle Wyvern

This is one of my favorite movies! I used to always want commando elite and gorgonite action figures! My dad's old 3d printing company worked on this movie for the opening scene where they scan Archer's and Chip's body then mold it with resin.

I thought Beetlejuice was an elemental (a spirit that never lived) or a poltergeist that can be conjured by the living--especially adolescents going through highly emotional times. I forgot about Juno and the receptionist, to be honest until I saw this video. It could be that in the upcoming sequel, they'll answer the question of who he is and how he died.

In the novelization of the movie from the 80’s it says that Mogwai are originally from another planet.

honestly, victor is doing what most of the men do.

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I hope you are not an stepmother