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Time Bandits (1981)

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Title: Time Bandits

Genre: Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Comedy

Cast: Craig Warnock, David Rappaport, Kenny Baker, Mike Edmonds, Malcolm Dixon, Tiny Ross, Jack Purvis, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Sean Connery, Michael Palin, Shelley Duvall, Peter Vaughan, Katherine Helmond, David Warner, Ralph Richardson, Tony Jay, David Daker, Sheila Fearn, Jim Broadbent, Peter Jonfield, Jerold Wells, Myrtle Devenish, Winston Dennis, Roger Frost, Andrew MacLachlan, Marcus Powell, Terence Bayler, Preston Lockwood, David Leland, Leon Lissek, John Young, Derrick O'Connor, Neil McCarthy, Declan Mulholland, Derek Deadman, Charles McKeown, Mark Holmes, Martin Carroll, Ian Muir

Release: 1981-07-13

Runtime: 116

Plot: Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.

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This is an impressive continuation and I can tell you have really studied the film closely. The detail about Horseflesh being mentioned in the original script and credits is exactly the kind of overlooked point that makes for great headcanon material. The idea of a true map also resonates strongly with the mythic tone of the original. I really like how you incorporated the spider governesses into Evil’s lore. That was a clever expansion. As someone who obsesses over continuity I appreciate how carefully you thought this through
 
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This is an impressive continuation and I can tell you have really studied the film closely. The detail about Horseflesh being mentioned in the original script and credits is exactly the kind of overlooked point that makes for great headcanon material. The idea of a true map also resonates strongly with the mythic tone of the original. I really like how you incorporated the spider governesses into Evil’s lore. That was a clever expansion. As someone who obsesses over continuity I appreciate how carefully you thought this through
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Thanks! I imagine them as Victorian spinstresses, elegant but dusty, like they’ve stepped from an attic in worn upper-class gowns. Their rooms are draped in webs, yet furnished as if still entertaining. They’re older, beautiful women who lure prey with charm, gossip, and drama. Amaranth still visits them from time to time.

She’s a bit unsettled when she sits down and notices a large body bundled up beside her. They hush her gently “Shhh, dearie, it's not one of yours, we'd never dream (yet they start chucking evilly, Evil has lost some of best henchman do to them. They love messing with him.)...it’s from the town.” Amaranth eyes it warily, then the bundle twitches. “Ah, Edith, it’s still alive!” Agatha cries, while the sisters sigh about how, in their older years, that their venom isn't as potent as it used to be. And Ama just there, sipping her tea all not my problem, watching the victim trying flee.
 
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(Just pretend it’s still the early ‘90s. so David Warner could’ve joined the cast! 😅 Also pretending Charlotte Hope [my face claim for Amaranth] and Eddie Redmayne [as an older Kevin] existed at the right ages, even though I don’t think either of them were born yet. Hence the “pretending,” lol.)

This was made back when Apple TV first announced they were doing a remake, that’s why I made that version of the logo. The project ended up being scrapped… until that new (and bad) reboot got mentioned around 2023, I think? Then it finally came out in late 2024.

THE PLAN IS! To get my friend, to redraw this poster in her style. (and why ama isn't in her cannon look, I had to work with what I got)


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This is meant to be a symbolic.
(if not allowed, I will remove just tell me please <3)

OH! And I do hope you lot help me out too,
with ideas and fix some other glaring plot holes I have.
No idea, how I will make this thing (never offcial of course)
but I want to try to make real web novel/comic!

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I just finished this write up.


The bed was the first true gift Evil ever gave her. Not a trinket, not some pretty bauble meant to adorn his favorite pet, but something deeper. At the time, he did not even understand what compelled him. He only knew that it felt wrong, wrong, even for him. To see his exquisite creation, his pretty minion, lying in a barren cell of a chamber that was little more than a sleeping place.

Compared to the squalor of his other minions, Amaranth had been living in five-star luxury. Yet to his blackened gaze, it was suddenly… insufficient. A pang pressed into him then, sharp and foreign, as if some long-forgotten organ twitched in protest. Guilt, though he would never name it. Evil did not do guilt.


And so, in a strange act of indulgence, he remade her room. He gave her a bed. Not just a bed, but a throne of a bed.. A thing so terrible and magnificent it could only belong to her, the jewel he was beginning to recognize not as a tool, but as something far more dangerous: his "daughter".

It was forged from a colossal dragon skeleton, that he himself had slain long before her making. Which he had kept just laying around for his future grotesque/macabre arts and craft projects.

The dragon’s body was arranged in a great curl, as though in repose, encircling the bed in a serpentine embrace. The focal point, was the skull looming over the place where she would sleep. Evil's rendition of a canopy bed. From certain angles it looked as though the skeletal Beast watched, an eternal guardian of its new mistress. (perhaps it just did)


For Evil, the bed was an experiment in the language he had not learned. He had offered it as a spoil, a monument of favor meant to mark the transition of his relationship with her: from instrument to indulgence, from possession to something that smelled alarmingly like care.


And of course, we all know how it ended. In time, he joined her in this bed of serpent bone, their forms tangled in passion and possessiveness. The bed/chamber, once solely her's, became theirs. By then, she was no longer just his creation. She had become his paradox, his Precious Flower, his empress. And, inevitably, his undoing.
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Am playing with idea, what if skeletal dragon does come to life, and acts as protector for her. A fail save Evil did. So it does watch her. But something must trigger that, for that to come to past.

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ALSO! Who wants to see my Evil x Ama shine(time bandits) am making XD!!!
 
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