Eh, first post here, I hope it won't characterize me too much as someone who "overthinks"
Ok I think this email is great and very funny, but I don't like to rate things or people
Does anyone except TBC themselves know the real reason why Marshmallow Last Stand was removed from the site?
I had my own theory even before seeing this email, and it fits with how they redid the MLS scene in email #135.
My theory is that aside from quality concerns, they removed the original MLS because of the scene where
's head explodes (or asplodes). I guess that people who play games like Resident Evil will find my theory ridiculous, but I think that the scene was pretty creepy and sounded eerily realist, as opposed to classic cartoon violence. You could see
lying on the ground with 1/4 of it's head missing and you could still hear him talk and grumble like he was really hurt. The way the scene is presented, I can see how it could traumatize a kid, or anyone who had to deal with a real life version of this.
In case you didn't notice, since MLS, characters in h*r almost never lost body parts, TBC seems to be very careful about this, and if you can find any (very very rare) occurrence of a character losing a body part like
losing his head in Virus, it's always done in a much more cartoonish and/or classy way.
TBC probably realized themselves that this particular image of a character with part of his head missing was powerful. Later they decided to play with this same idea, but at a more cartoonish level, and my theory is that Marshie is the result of their quest for a compromise between creepy and cartoonish.
Yeah I think Marshie looks like someone who just lost part of their head due to an accident, even more creepy is the halloween version where the "munched" part of the head is red. But since Marshie is marshmallow, is a cartoon inside a cartoon, and has a voice that is creepy in other ways, all wrapped up in a commercial, it smooth things out, to the point where someone could actually be healed from a previous trauma by Marshie! (Yeah I admit this is a little far fetched)
Ok so if you look at the "remake" in the current email you'll see how the scene where
's head asplode, was reenacted in a way where everything happens in a much more cartoony way, as if
's head is made out of glass and breaks into multiple little parts.
Oh well sorry for the long post... I'll try to be more compact next time
Anyhow, does it make sense to at least one of you?
Edit: for some crazy reason I had the word Last and Marshmallow reversed, and while rereading this post (unfortunately my first), I realized that I also reversed roles for common sense and stupid ideas