Saturday, 25 January 2020

Me, You, And...'s I Want To See The Moon

Based on Lebo M's song 'I Want To See The Moon' and inspired by 'Noddy & The Magic Night'.

Furaha fears the moon might crash into the earth after seeing the moon's guardian, the White Jackal, cry. That night, she uses her powers to "help" the moon stay up in the sky, but her brothers and sisters try to stop her. The next night, silly Furaha is lead by her parents back into the forest towards the moonlit pool, where they explain that the moon won't harm the earth in any way, and that, through our reflections, we are one family living under one big, changing sky.

Music To Think About Me, You, And...To

I just found this remix of the French-African film Kirikou Et La Sorciere on Youtube, and I found out its African feel is great for thinking about Me, You, And..., because the main characters come from Africa.

Me, You, And...Adventures - 25/1/20

The Care Bears and Transformers are to be featured in two sets of Me, You, And...anthology series.
The first set, set during Transformers Armada and based on Rhino's DVDs of the series, takes extracts from the story and sets them up as individual stories to help consider issues involving love, guidance and peace.
The next set is based on DVDs of the classic Care Bears series, featuring Kiburi and Ua as cubs helping the Care Bears with their problems and joining them in helping other people showing friends how they care. Each story focuses on one of Lord Mufasa's guardian angels as the almighty lord himself sends the featured guardian to join forces with Kiburi, Ua and the Care Bears to bring love and friendship to a learning world.

Me, You, And Transformers Energon: Furaha's Dream - I Went To The Animal Fair

The nursery rhyme 'I Went To The Animal Fair' plays a major role in Me, You, And Transformers Energon: Furaha's Dream. In 'The Truth', a chapter set during 'Each One Fights' and 'Unicron Unleashed', Furaha drinks Energon leaking from the walls around Alpha Q's lair and finds herself in a haunting hallucination where she is standing in a graveyard gazing at the graves of her dead family members, including her mother and father, which she cries deeply over. As she does, she hears her own voice singing a haunting rendition of 'I Went To The Animal Fair' in a crying and choking voice. She then finds herself in a much happier memory of her and Optimus Prime playing on the beach on earth, but the sounds of joyous laughter are blocked out by the upsetting song. Furaha decides to fight off her fears by singing her own version of the song about what she got up to during the Armada and Cybertron days:

"I went to the animal fair,
The birds and the beasts were there,
The Autobots searched for the Mini-Cons
Optimus was just like my dad

In the days of Cybertron,
I made new friends on and on
And now I have to deal with this
AND I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!"

And at once, she snaps out of the hallucination.

So, at the end of each chapter, the song is repeated with different lyrics recapping what happened, and what Furaha had learnt. Like for instance after Inferno's death in the chapter 'Goodbye Inferno' the lyrics are:

"I went to the animal fair,
The birds and the beasts were there,
My dad was suffering really bad
Because of Megatron

Who helped me? Well, no one
So Inferno flew into the sun
I had no choice but start to cry
He helped me through this life."