2 things

[dhampyresa]

1. For reasons of Fic Research, can y'all rec me episodes of kid shows about THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP? Whether that's teaming up to defeat the Bad Guy or converting the Bad Guy to the side of good.


2. I've just watched Illustre et Inconnu. Comment Jacques Jaujard a sauvé le Louvre a movie documentary about the man who saved the Louvre during WW2 and WOW. What was done was amazing. They emptied the Louvre of pretty much everything right before the war started -- and I do mean right before: the last work to be evacuated was the Winged Victory of Samothrace and it left the Louvre on September 3 1939, 5pm, right when French declared war on Nazi Germany. It's an amazing documentary both really well done and about a fascinating subject. A++ would totally recommend. (I want to know EVERYTHING about Rose Valland now.)

Comments

[the_rck]

The old Teen Titans cartoon (not Teen Titans, Go!) had a lot of power of friendship stuff. Almost every episode had elements of that as I recall, and it wasn't beat-you-over-the-head levels but rather more subtle.

Possibly Lilo & Stitch? The movie, I mean. I've never seen the spin off show.

[dhampyresa]

Teen Titans! Yes, of course. Any specific recs?

ooh, yes, that might work. Thank you!

[the_rck]

We've been rewatching bits of the first season. The very first episode has two of the characters quarreling and the group as a whole not being able to defeat the villain until they reconcile and work together. Later on, there's an episode where the three male characters get captured and the two female characters get bodyswapped. The girls have to master each other's powers which means understanding each other. At the end, after they've rescued the boys and switched back, each of them tries an activity that the other enjoys (which I'm sure is short hand for them understanding each other better now).

The end of season five pivots on lots of different teenage heroes coming together and working together. I'm not sure how much it's the power of friendship exactly, though. The entire season has the bad guys picking off heroes in isolation. The end has people who have never worked together and who don't have powers that mesh well trying to work together to rescue everyone who's been captured. (Avoid the very last episode of that season at all costs. It should have been the first episode of a new season. All it does is set up new plot threads that will never go anywhere because there never was a season six.)

[dhampyresa]

Thanks for the detailed reply! I need to (re)watch this show.

[schneefink]

I watched two episodes of Digimon in my whole life. In the second one they were fighting a monster that was too strong for them, until one guy, who had until then been very bad at teamwork, broke down crying screaming at the others "I'm not worthy of you leave me here to die", and somehow that activated the ~magical power of friendship, his digimon got an upgrade and they defeated the monster. I was so angry that apparently friendship = feeling unworthy, so much bullshit.
I still get annoyed when I think about that episode.

For an actually useful example, the first season of Beyblade has an episode on Lake Baikal, near the end of the season: Kai joined the bad guys to gain power, but Tyson and the others fight him with his own old blade, defeat him, save his life, and get him back to the side of good through ~the power of friendship. I haven't watched it in many years, but I remember that I really loved that story arc.

[dhampyresa]

D: That sounds appalling.

Thanks for the rec!

[melannen]

Rose Valland is so great. I only met her via the book Monuments Men but I kinda fell in (spinster archivist) love with her a little.

Oh, also: RE your first request: Any episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but the pilot is basically a platonic ideal of everything you asked for.

Steven Universe is about the power of all different kinds of love, including but not just friendship, although Steven's 'making friends with everything' superpower does come up a lot; I've only watched S1 but of those, the two-parter "Mirror Gem/Ocean Gem" is a good example of Friendship converting an antagonist, and the episode "Alone Together" does some interesting things with the trope of the Power of Friendship.

[ljwrites]

LOL I came here to mention that EXACT episode of MLP. Jinx!

I'm really really into SU but am less sure whether it uses the Power of Friendship trope per se, especially to defeat antagonists. Mostly it has fully-realized characters interacting in complex and realistic relationships, something I absolutely love. "Jail Break," the Season 1 finale, has friends working together to defeat a Big Bad, in particular the pivotal battle scene though that's less the Power of Friendship and more like the Power of... well, you know what I mean.

[dhampyresa]

I'm suddenly interested in this book! Rose Valland is so amazing.

Everyone is reccing MLP:FiM and I really should have thought of it myself, especially given the title. Thank you.

Thanks again!

[geckoholic]

That documentary sounds so interesting, shame my french won't hold up. XD

[dhampyresa]

It is super interesting and really well done! Hopefully there'll be an English version at some point.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

converting the Bad Guy to the side of good

Il y a un paquet de méchants qui sont passés du côté lumineux de la force dans DBZ. Bon, après, c'est plus le pouvoir du on-aime-se-taper-dessus-on-devient-potes et du on-s'allie-contre-un-ennemi-plus-fort que le véritable pouvoir de l'amitié. XD

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

nan, mais ça marche aussi. Va y avoir du de tapage dessus, je pense.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Of course, I immediately think of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic where basically every episode is about the Power of Friendship!!!

But let me see if I can find specific episodes elsewhere...

Or I could find this listing in TV Tropes that seems to cover...everything:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThePowerOfFriendship

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

+1 to My Little Pony. Personally I kind of stopped watching after the pilot of season 2, because it got a lot more cartoony for me, but I heartily rec the first season at least :)

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I watched the pilot to the first season and it was exactly what I needed, so thank you!

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT ONE LMAO

The pilot was perfect for my purposes, thank you.