Dead Boy Detectives Writers' Room Quotes Part 2

Dead Boy Detectives Writers' Room Quotes Part 2

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I have started another DBD rewatch and yet again realise how much Charles helps Edwin ti manage the surrounding world and humans.

- calming deep breaths

- "less scolding me, more reminding me"

- "bedside manner"

And many others - they have become almost codewords now for them, but Cahrles clearly had the self-reflection and the tools / habits to recognise things that were not ok, have an honest conversation with Edwin about this and get to a point where they both work to become better and also are forgiving enough of each other’s faults. And really, it feels like Charles was doing most of the work to update and help Edwin navigate the modern world.

Charles Rowland, you truly are the kindest person out there

I'm just going to say that whatever streaming platform takes on Dead Boy Detectives will have not only my utmost gratitude but also my money. I don't care what else they have they will have my subscription.

Because I haven't been this obsessed with any show or anything else really since I was a teenager. I'm talking actively-joining-online-communities-and-talking-in-voice-chat-despite-social-anxiety-obsessed. I'm talking posting-publicly-for-the-first-time-obsessed. I-made-a-bloody-twitter-account-just-for-this-obsessed.

I am so ready to spend all my adult money on what I love now that I am not 13 anymore and actually have money to spend.

Pacing in Dead Boy Detectives Episode 07

One of the things I really appreciate about Dead Boy Detectives is the way the writing is structured with regards to the pacing, and I really notice this in particular with Episode 07.

Episode 07 is the penultimate episode in the season, and there's a bunch of heavy stuff that goes on; everything's coming to a head.

There are so many shows where a pivotal episode like this would be absolutely relentless, with one thing piled after another. I think if that were the case here, I'd approach rewatches with mixed feelings. I'd want to watch the episode again because it was important, but would go in fully expecting that on a personal, emotional level, I was going to have a bit of a rough time for at least an hour or so.

But I've never minded rewatching Episode 07 at all, and I think that part of that is the pacing and the fact that it's so well-balanced.

The action sequences are important, but they're also fairly short and interleaved with quieter scenes. It's not consistently dark (both in emotional tone and in lighting), but cuts back and forth with more brightly lit and slightly-lighter-in-tone scenes. Even though there's a lot of emotionally high-stakes stuff going on, there are frequent reminders of love and hope and the characters supporting each other, even when they're apart.

And I think that's another part of what makes this show, in general, so enjoyable and so rewatchable, for me.

Dead Boy Detectives Writers' Room Quotes Part 1

Inspired by Zack Ogle's tweet

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