How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment, Friday

[1000yearstoolate]

To say that this was going to be interesting felt like a gross understatement, but Amaya was definitely intrigued to see exactly which sort of direction that 'interesting' was about to take.

"Hello, everyone," she said, greeting the students (and the very attentive and shamelessly modded TA) with a nod, "and welcome to 'How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment.' Odds are, if you know what that is already, you know exactly what you're about to be in for, but there's a good chance you have no idea what that means, in which case, I'm going to leave explaining that to one of the two Radchaai in this room to do the actual explaining. Seivarden?"

Seivarden agreed with the interesting.

"You might be familiar with Earth movies. They are similar to Radchaai entertainments, although they usually make less sense, and are occasionally disturbing. A Radchaai entertainment includes drama, political intrigue, romance, adventure." She made a gesture with her hand. "Characters that you love or hate. Epic spaceship battles."

Here she glanced at Amaya to make sure she had noticed that last bit, and to see if she had anything to add to that description.

Oh, she'd noticed, as was indicated on the big grin on her face (which had appeared just in time to swipe away a less pleased expression at a certain other part of the description).

"The spaceship battles," she added, in a sort of whisper toward the students that was obviously intended to not be much of a whisper at all, "are the best parts."

"Depending on your taste," Seivarden added. "As we're going to make a whole entertainment, we're going to need the other parts too."

"Of course," Amaya agreed with a nod. "And those boring parts just make the good parts that much better! You'll see what we mean; today, we're going to watch a good example, one that has a little bit of everything you'd expect from a good Radchaai entertainment. And, in the following classes, we'll be slowly putting together our own: characters, plot, costuming and sets, and special effects, before we put it all together for the final project."

With two people who had never made a movie before in their lives. One of whom only even knew of movies once she got here. But they were very, very passionate about movies. For some reason.

"Also," Amaya added, with a nod and a statement that was about to unintentionally kill their TA before they even got things started, "we're lucky to have another Radchaai on hand as our TA to help with the finer details, being Radchaai herself, so hopefully Tisarwat's expertise can be put to good use, as well."

Seivarden smiled at Tisarwat, and was a little relieved to have someone else on board whom she was sure didn't mind things that weren't explosions.

"We have a few exciting weeks ahead of us," she said. "So let's get started with watching a good example."

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Re: Talk to the TA

[1000yearstoolate]

"Good to have you as a TA again, kiddo," Seivarden said, grinning. "What did you think of the entertainment? I quite like it."

Re: Talk to the TA

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

There was a few seconds where Tisarwat had to keep her face under perfect control, or else she'd have given Seivarden the most whithering of course you did sort of look known to Radchkind, but she, thankfully, had far more control than to let that slip.

And met Seivarden with a smile. "It was very well chosen," she said, carefully hedging around offering any actual personal opinions about it. "A classic plot and good action, so I can see how you and Amaya could agree on it as a good example. I thought the ship's captain's performance was especially good, too; I've seen her in a few other entertainments; she definitely gave this role her all."

Re: Talk to the TA

[1000yearstoolate]

"I thought you'd like it," Seivarden said, having expected more enthusiasm. Maybe there was something about Amaya not having looked at her enough.

Re: Talk to the TA

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Yeah, it was funny how seeing someone who'd hijacked your brain as a bid for revenge and power portrayed as a great, valliant hero of the people could really take the wind out of you, especially when you couldn't even mention it because even you thought that person was a great, valliant hero of the people up until the moment she highjacked your brain as a bid for revenge and power.

Still, Tisarwat tried to keep her smile bright. "You've definitely given the class a high bar to work towards," she said, and then laughed a little, which came easier when she focused on the class at hand instead of the example they'd watched. "Which should be interesting, with this group."

Re: Talk to the TA

[1000yearstoolate]

"It should be interesting, yes. And I promise I won't let Amaya turn it into an action movie. She really does like spaceship battles."

Seivarden grinned.

Re: Talk to the TA

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"I am very excited to see what she had planned for doing the special effects on those battles," said Tisarwat, who would be excited even to see Amaya eat breakfast. Or brush her hair. Or breathe...

Re: Talk to the TA

[1000yearstoolate]

"There will be explosions," Seivarden said. "Lots of them. We watch entertainments quite often, but I usually have to rewatch them later to get the actual plot."