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[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

From the studio that brought you "Mmm, Paste!"

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely no joke I would watch this all the way through.

The biggest complaint about Hallmark is how they lack creativity and every plot is the same. I feel like the missing piece to their formula is absurdism. Like a love child between the princess switch 2: switched again meets sharknado.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah. I'm imagining Sharknado production levels and Sharknado pacing, but following the Hallmark formula, and with really mundane absurdist details.

  • Those fragile little precious moments figurines and limited edition Star Trek ornaments need to be a recurring favored snack for the competing love interests who are lovable but wrong for our heroes.
  • One of those little Christmas village decorations sets needs to turn out to be an undiscovered life saving medication, when ground down to a fine glittery paste. Feeding it to someone's niece gives her the strength to learn to walk again.
  • Someone's talent for cross stitch needs to solve a decades old mystery about someone else's estranged and now tragically dead parent.
  • A poorly gifted and then ignored-for-years art set needs to be part of the big "they truly love me" reveal moment.

I think we have a potential masterpiece, here.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago
[–] NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is anyone else bothered by the last panel where they suddenly switch places?

[–] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

It's actually the 3rd panel that is the odd one out, since the 4th panel kept the orientation of both characters from the 1st and 2nd panels.