The Mechanisms - Once Upon a Time (In Space) - 14 - No Happy Ending (Lyrics)

[@seamusrichardson6011]

this song demands choreography with the king and snow as opposites in almost a dance battle that incorporates a fair amount of Irish dance and possibly some more tango-like steps.

[@theroboticcat1370]

It really does

[@seamusrichardson6011]

And now, I have a vague idea, snow is more Irish step dance steps, Cole is either tango or paso.

[@thesorcererwiththepointyhat]

YOU PUT MY EXACT THOUGHTS INTO WORDS ASGDHJGJGDJ

[@markcangila1613]

Irish tapdancing

[@foundersolaris]

tfw you're THE MAN WHO ARRANGES THE BLOCKS

[@jonathansims967]

"face your fear" he really reused a line huh

[@imarson_404_2]

XD yeah

[@reynaclarke2110]

jonny really copy and pasts everything he works on

[@DoctorTardis100]

And we respect his craft

[@drownedtrashrat3501]

And we love that for him

[@insamitygacha2468]

unrelated but i really love your pfp its vv accurate lmao

[@cezar3169]

Not me listening to the mechs while waiting for the final ep of TMA edit and vague-vague-don't-even-know-if-they-count-as-spoilers type of spoilers: Oh god the ending is just . . . oh god.

[@alicemaxwell5427]

I think we might all be here honestly

[@ceaseless_spiral_avatar]

Oh man, that must have been so fucking painful back to back

[@sad_hedgehog]

yeah i know

[@skiesquiggles7319]

I only now have noticed the Tetris

[@dylanchouinard6141]

Also the instrumental is from Shipping Up to Boston by the Dropkick Murphy’s

[@TheVoidSings]

and it contains parts of Adama's theme from Battlestar Galactica!

[@jeremyguyet1680]

@@TheVoidSings Adama's theme feels like the sad instrumentals surrounding journal entries in Civil War documentaries.

[@flyer3849]

Korobeiniki

[@icara57]

Tetris theme is actually Korobeiniki, a Russian folk song

[@ShinyHappyGoth]

And the rest is based on "Morrison's Jig" (which does also seem to be the basis for "Shipping Up to Boston").

[@legendarydumpsterfire217]

this was my very first mechs song. ever

[@elanagatien5220]

me too, as of this morning 👍 discovered it through a TMA animation

[@constantlycomic1290]

Same here! Although I discovered it through a Dimension 20 animatic

[@iyzqx]

im in my first listen,, going in order and im going insane

[@dannythecheshirecat]

I'm here after the TMA finale. Anyone else?

[@cezar3169]

hi, present and not coping well. Jon fricking died and I'm in denial

[@dannythecheshirecat]

@@cezar3169 I completely understand that. I'm not doing very well either. Sending you virtual hugs if you want them!

[@TarantellistofHeart]

Im using this to cope with the ending lmao

[@dannythecheshirecat]

@@TarantellistofHeart Yup, I get that. Sending my consolations your way.

[@someoneawesome8717]

@@cezar3169 now, for all we know his eyes were just gouged out and now he's out there wandering about with Martin, yup he's just disconnected haha, they didn't find either of their bodies, we don't know and therefore I can deny it as much as I want

[@nikareading8356]

OH IT'S TETRIS I WAS WONDERING WHY I RECOGNIZED IT

[@Lycan_the_deerdog]

And shipping up to Boston

[@nikareading8356]

@@Lycan_the_deerdog not a song I'm familiar with

[@Lycan_the_deerdog]

@@nikareading8356 it's by the drop kick Murphy's. Good song

[@huhhuh9598]

Remember Korobeniki, the Tetris song? This is him now. Feel old yet?

[@whitepearlreaper]

Finally I can sing along reliably haha

[@pretentious_bitch5357]

Coming back to this song after mag 200 bc no happy ending lol :,)

[@someoneawesome8717]

I mean it's open ended enough to where you could have a sort of "happy" ending if you try, maybe?

[@agnieszkasalach4395]

@@someoneawesome8717 I mean, you could try to argue for individual happy ending for the characters, but (Spoilers) The fears have been set out into countless new worlds. There is no way around that part. This is not a happy ending in any capacity.

[@someoneawesome8717]

@@agnieszkasalach4395 true but I think that one thing we've proven with this series is that saving everyone is impossible, at least everyone is able to move forward now

[@someoneawesome8717]

Also we don't actually know if they've been fully released. For all we know Jon could've been able to contain all of "That Which Was Fear" and is now the ultimate embodiment of all the fucked up things that linger in the back of our minds. Like I said it's ambiguous enough that we could make any number of guesses and without actual confirmation we've got a Shrödinger's cat situation

[@agnieszkasalach4395]

@@someoneawesome8717 Well, I see the point. I guess it registers a bit different for me because I was firmly in the "Going along with Anabelle's plan is a very bad idea actually" camp. Like, I wouldn't hold it against the characters, since if I was in that situation I wouldn't probably have the strenght for heroics in me but I still think that even risking releasing of fears is objectively the worse choice. I guess the thing about all this for me is that a better ending was actually possible. Not a perfect one, but a better one. If we boil it down to its barest bones, they were faced with a choice: looking at the bigger picture or pursuing individual happiness for themselves. Both were basically achievable (and Basira, Georgie and Melanie did indeed achieve one of them) but Martin and Jon managed, through a series of terrible choices, somehow reach the worst case scenario possible: no guarantee of keeping the other worlds from contamination by fear AND no guarantee of individual hapiness. This could've gone ANY other way SO easily. I suppose though that this is what makes a tragedy - knowing how easily it could've turned differently and still watching the characters stumble their way into the worst ending possible I... do admit that in all of my thinking about the finale I did not take the possibility of Jon containing the fear in himself into consideration. Then again, chances are I haven't taken many things into consideration because it took me like a week to chew through my initial emotional reaction (and also there were parts where my English might've failed on me a tiny bit) so half the details might've been lost on me

[@beckwells25]

I went on a long trip with 30 songs downloaded, this album being some of them, so I solidly have all of the album memorized ksbdkendosndod

[@ValeraMoth]

I was searching for copper, but found gold

[@ValeraMoth]

My first mechs song, which i found seeking another song (which I didn’t liked in the end)

[@lachlanbrown3522]

The intro is "Wander My Friends" by Bear McCreary, from the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack.

[@MOLosey6]

anyone else notice the beginning sounds like the hymn "morning has broken"?

[@remmingtonreyburn8884]

It’s supposed to sound like an army march

[@neptuneknox7729]

I don't know about hymms but it sure does sound like a dawn, if that makes sense

[@lachlanbrown3522]

The intro is actually "Wander My Friends" by Bear McCreary, from the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack. If you look up the song, you'll see it's pretty much a 1-1 recreation

[@matteocasali202]

I'm shipping up to Moscow

[@risipieces]

0:40

[@wchemik7777]

This is perfect

[@jenniferhartshorn2391]

"Face your fear," huh?

[@nunyabisness7055]

this is the theme of tetris.

[@lardo_0]

Who is Snow and King Cole? Any context to this song? i really would like to know since it slaps

[@TheVoidSings]

the context is the album! kzbin.info/aero/PL6qTkVOYGwr2di3Qp-DUNH7ec5KTrGP8I the songs only really make sense if you listen to it in order

[@SingingSealRiana]

this is part of a storrytelling album. King cole is a tyrant and Snow(white) is the leader of the resistance figters. The story plays in a dystopian future, ist told by space pirates and reinterprets a lot of the clasical fairytales

[@oddgryffin]

another thing inside me and my friend's warriors world (see the twins video for character insight) the final showdown has come. planning to make a move on the wraith's evil group called the doers, the four good clans are caught off-guard by a cloudclan ambush. the fighting begins, with kits fighting full-grown warriors and apprentices made warriors too soon facing off with apprentices their age. many casualties are suffered. sandfur, the marbleclan deputy, witnesses the murder of her beloved leader, fairystar, as oleander rips her throat out. she remembers when they were kits, playing at their mothers' feet. how could things have gone sideways? one of her clanmates -- a former tribe cat named oakdapple -- is killed, and she makes the decision as oakdapple's brother challenges oleander to a duel. knowing the heartbroken brother won't win, she decides to take fate into her own claws; and murders oleander. a terrible shrieking, the wraith's ascent, and the thud of oleander hitting the ground declares the winner of the battle. finally, after many blood-ridden moons, oleander is gone. so is the wraith. the clans chase the doers from their forest, and cloudclan declares a new leader, one who will lead justly. but maybe, perhaps, not all peace is meant to last. because a few moons later, a cat by the name of fernpool rises to power as sandfur, now known as sandstar, grieves for her lost friend.

[@WholesomeCryptid]

so mag 194 huh?

[@mothsghosts]

how dare you hit me with this while I'm just trying to jam out

[@amniamin22]

why-

[@someoneawesome8717]

Ooh boi are you in for pain at 196

[@amniamin22]

@@someoneawesome8717 oh no-

[@mothsghosts]

@@someoneawesome8717 indeed I am- the suffering continues

[@constantlycomic1290]

So, any other Neverafter fans here?