WEBVTT - Aquamarine with Demma Strausbaugh & Imani Davis 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.920 On the Bechdel Cast, the questions asked if movies have 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.960 women and them all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands, 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:12.400 or do they have individualism the patriarchy zeph and Beast 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.000 start changing it with the Bechdel Cast. 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:20.000 Jamie is the prettiest girl in the whole wide world. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.599 Kidly, it is the most beautiful person I've ever shared. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:29.240 A wing your life, Like, I, okay, can I be honest? 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:30.840 Those earrings are so creepy. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.440 I would rip my fucking ear off. I would be 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:38.559 like get like those things are killers, because you know, 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:40.880 the second you fall asleep they start saying bad shit. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.800 Yeah that was I couldn't stop thinking about the second 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.519 the second they were like what's the It's like that 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.320 old god, why did my brain go here? But like 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.560 that old Lemon joke where she's like you should kill yourself, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.360 it's like that's what the starfish earrings do the second 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.080 you start to drift off to sleep. And also, for 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.000 a reason, on the Wikipedia page for this movie, they're 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.440 all credited as the voices of their own starfish earings 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:11.760 and you're like, okay, say less, like I don't. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.720 Know, yeah, this is not information we needed. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:19.080 I reject that information. I yeah, the starfish earings, they've 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:23.160 gotta go, or at least like they needed a different voice. 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.080 Nothing is more obvious to me that my love language 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.560 is words of affirmation than in this moment. Because I 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:36.399 was into it, we. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.400 Got into the ocean and scavenge these tiny little starfish earings. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:42.840 I was honestly a little scared to say something. I 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.040 was like, oh, they weren't into it. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:47.320 No, speak your truth. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:52.920 Yes, all opinions are welcome, but you're right and objectively 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.600 terrifying starfish hearings. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.280 In retrospect, it is a creepy voice. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:03.640 The fact that they like do themselves is very interesting 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.600 and adds a new flavor. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.320 I mean, I guess it's self love and that's nice, 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.160 and it's still creepy. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:13.640 The mommy is amazing. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.720 I don't have enough faith in my own like my 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.480 version of self love sustains for like a minute at 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.760 a time. Like I would not go to sleep with 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.680 those things on, because it gets dark. It gets that's 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.400 when the dark thoughts come at night. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.800 Anyway, Hello, and welcome to the Bechdel Cast. My name 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.600 is Caitlyn Tourante, and Caitlin is the prettiest girl in 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:38.480 the word. 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:44.360 My name's Jamie Loftus and she sucks and she deserves 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:48.679 to die. And this is the Bechtel Cast, our podcast 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.000 where we take a look at your favorite movies using 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:55.400 an intersectional feminist lens, also using the Bechdel Test as 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.160 a jumping off point for discussion. But Caitlin, what the 0:02:59.160 --> 0:02:59.880 hell is that? 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.960 Oh gosh, it's a media metric created by queer cartoonist 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.320 Alison Bechdel, sometimes called the Bechdel Wallace Test. There are 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:11.720 many versions of it. Ours is do two characters of 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.399 a marginalized gender have names? Do they speak to each other? 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.920 And is the conversation about something other than a man? 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.360 And we also like it when it's a narratively substantial 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.400 conversation and not just throw away dialogue. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:30.720 Absolutely, And today we are talking about a movie that 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.560 I believe has been a consistent request for the entirety 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.640 of this show, of this program, and we have finally 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:43.840 found the right guests to discuss this beautiful. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.880 Incredible work. Yes, because they're both mermaids. Yes, it took 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:49.440 us this long, but we finally. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.160 Have expert opinions. Look, if you keep your podcast on 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:59.000 long enough, you will have mermaids as guests. Alfred Molina 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.360 then mermaids. How that's how. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.000 It works, a natural trajectory. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.600 Yeah, and we're covering the two thousand and six classic 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.440 Dare I Say Aqua Marine, based on the book by 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:12.680 Alice Hoffman. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.440 Wow. And our guests joining us are the hosts of Players, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:22.760 a film industry podcast. It's Dumma Strasbaugh and Immani Davis. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:23.320 Hello. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.480 Oh, thank you guys so much. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.000 Yeah, thanks for having us, thanks for being here. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.719 Excited to dive in. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.960 Wow, cooking already cooking already, Amani? 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.040 Who told? Who told that we were murmaid? 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:38.719 I know? 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:40.159 I swear? 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.599 Yeah, sorry to docs you. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.520 I love I'm so excited to talk about this movie 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.320 because the Mermaid rules to. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:49.480 Me are so chaotic. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:55.480 I love them. They're just like whatever they're Also she 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.800 is she's a mermaid, but also she's a genie, but 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.440 she doesn't follow the genie rules. She's like, there's no rules, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:01.440 it's whatever you want. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.440 It's only one wish, not three. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.440 Yeah, and one wish with no rules? 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:07.480 Right? 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.120 Does she say you can't kill someone or does she not? 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.240 Even the only stipulation she gives is that it has 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:19.400 to follow it can't like violate the laws of nature, which, oh, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.240 she said that it's very open to interpretation. I think 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.200 so that, Yeah, that's the only thing with the genie wish, 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:29.120 the one genie wish she grants. Her Mermaid rules are 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.520 basically like gremlins rules, because it's like she can't get 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:37.600 wet and during the daytime it's okay, but like, what 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.280 is it for gremlins after midnight? You can't feed them 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:40.719 or something. 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:42.560 You certainly can't get them wet, and. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:43.480 You certainly can't get them on. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.400 So well, I Aquamarine actually does need to be wet. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.919 It's a bit of a reverse gremlin because she has 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.720 to be wet at midnight because she's a. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.479 Fish, right, But I guess the rules for her to 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.800 be a human or to be in human form are 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.159 the like you can't get her and it's only during 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:01.520 the day. 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.800 It's a very complex text, very complex text. So Rich, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:11.320 let's talk about our experiences with this, Amani, what's your 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.640 history with Aquamarine, the book, the movie, the idea. 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:17.520 Yeah, I did't gets to read. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.960 The book when I was younger, but I remember the 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.960 movie coming out and being like super hyped and revisiting it. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.200 It's like such a Y two K time capsule, and 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.960 I feel like I definitely found myself being like I 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.200 want to be a mermaid for Halloween, Like I want 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:37.960 blue hair streaks, I want some of these starfish earrings. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.960 And so there's like there was this longing to like 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:46.119 be in this world of helping out my mermaid friend 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:47.080 get the guy. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:57.279 Ho title is old as Time, a tale whil it's okay, okay, Dema, 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.320 what's your relationship with it? 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.640 Slumber parties come to mind. It was a lot of 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:08.000 parallel giggling with the characters on screen. It's very much 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:12.760 for me a like Friendship Watch, where we were absolutely 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.760 gagged at the jokes and just falling for it and 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.280 very into it. And my child I obviously have very 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.720 different opinions about it now, which we'll get into, but 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.960 when I was younger was totally into. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:26.320 All of it. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.400 And also I was like, oh, this movie taught me 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.800 about true love, which I was very into when I 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:33.560 was young as well. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.480 So I do love the true love between friends is 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:44.280 so beautiful. My history with aquamarinas I more clearly remember 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.320 reading the book than seeing the movie. I think I 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.040 saw the movie at like a sleepover. But I very 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:56.480 clearly remember reading the book in sometime in elementary school 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.080 and really loving it. Obviously love a mermaid. For a 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.200 long time, it was the only thing I could draw, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.720 so people thought I was really into mermaids, which is 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.520 probably why I was given that book, But it was 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.920 just the only thing I could draw was a mermaid 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:16.480 that looked kind of fucked up. But yeah, I remember 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:22.240 being really affected by the book because the friends, and 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.920 it was also because I had a good friend when 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.480 I was a kid who moved away. But the fact 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.040 that I kept like expecting and when I was watching 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.360 the movie, I like felt that little pang again of 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.240 like oh my god. And then they don't enough together 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.120 at the end. It makes me so sad. I just remember, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.280 like more clearly than any of the weird mermaid rules. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.520 I don't really remember the differences between the book and 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.200 the movie, but yeah, like this like amazing friendship between 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.520 these two girls and then at the end they're separated. 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.400 And I think it affected me at the time because 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:57.400 I was like, it's like me and Amanda, and I 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.480 was surprised they kept it that same ending for movie. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.480 It feels like it's kind of a gutsy way to 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.560 end a movie, because I feel like it's so tempting 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.760 to Hollywood defy it and be like, actually, my mom 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:14.240 is going to work at you know, but they I 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.199 don't know. Yeah, I really enjoyed the book. I like 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.240 the movie. It is a wild time capsule. I'm like, oh, 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.439 there is a Weezer Island in the Sun plot point, 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.840 like that is I always associate that song with the 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.480 Mary kayn Ashley movie Island in the Sun, which is 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.760 literally named after that Weezer song, and I think would 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.920 have come out around the same time. Anyways, tweens loved 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:42.520 Weezer in the mid two thousands, and what an interesting 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:49.040 moment that must have been for Weezer. I liked this movie. Yeah, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:53.280 I found myself pleasantly surprised by it, and like, we 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:58.080 just covered angus thongs and Perfect Snogging, which is a 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.160 movie from the same era that I don't think hold 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.839 up quite as well. And so even though there's a 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.439 lot of the same you know, it's the same playbook. 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:11.280 But I really appreciate this movie. And also just I mean, 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.560 Emma Roberts, Jojo and Sarah Paxton, come on, come on. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.960 Two thousand and six we were there, Kitlyn, what's your 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:21.120 history with Aquamarine? 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:26.320 I had no exposure to it whatsoever. Never read the book, 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.679 never watched the movie. I had like aged out of 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.360 it by the time the movie came out. And I 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.360 don't know when the book was published. I meant to 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.000 look that up, but it was two thousand and one. 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:38.880 Yeah. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.160 I would have been to old for it then as well, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.360 so I was not interested. Yeah, so this was my 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:50.000 first time watching it, and watching this movie as a 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.520 full adult in the year twenty twenty four for the 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.320 first time. It's interesting. I agree that I was like 0:10:55.360 --> 0:11:00.280 surprised by the takeaway from the end and the kind 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:05.480 of twist, like no hetero romances be damned. This is 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.880 a movie about female friendship. I was like, what it 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.800 took me by surprise. So I'm excited to talk about 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.880 it further. But I have no attachment to this movie whatsoever. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.679 So Kitlyn's the neutral party, It's true. I also just 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.160 another I know, there's so many, very two thousands things 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:25.880 about this. It took me so long to figure out 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.319 who the villain was, and it's because she was on 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:34.560 Gilmore Girls. Any Gilmore Girl's watchers in the chat except 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.840 for Jamie. She was for all my Gilmore Girls heads. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.160 She was Dean's wife who and she also was like 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.959 had to play this kind of like shrill stock character 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:50.480 where she's like Dean, get to work, Dean, buy my food, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.400 and like they just this poor actor has to play 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.480 all these crummy parts. But that was where I recognized 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:56.880 her from. 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.480 I clocked her immediately because she was in Cinderella's Story 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.520 and I feel like she's like the two thousands, like 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:05.920 evil villain, lady. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:06.400 Mean girl. 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.000 It's like her and Megan Fox kind of who is 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.599 I believe the villain in Holiday and the Sun. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.360 Whoa and Confessions of a Teenage Dunk. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.000 John Tucker Must Die? 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:20.679 Yeah, yeah, so uh Cecilia is played by Ariel Kebble, 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.960 who I recognize from John Tucker Must Die. Right, she's 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.720 one of the people who are trying to kill John 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:28.960 Tucker question mark. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.440 Oh yeah, I forgot she was in that. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:30.839 Yeah. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.560 And she was in Fifty Shades of Gray too, in 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.920 the same Rolehh. Yeah, she was in like I think 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.320 it's actually the second one. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.559 Oh she plays she's Gia Matteo. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.920 Yes, and she's the person again the same cast words 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.560 like she's trying to steal Christian and like Christian is 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:54.480 just married, and there's like this standoff moment where Missus 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.319 Gray is like, you can refer to me as missus 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:58.920 Gray and then she kind of backs off. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.480 I'll ever do to anybody. They're just like this lady's mean. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:05.839 Wow. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.200 Okay, well shout out to her. I guess we all 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.360 know her for something different, totally. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:15.680 Yeah, So let's take a quick break and then we'll 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:29.839 come back for the recap of Aquamarine. All right, let's 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:36.600 dive in to the ocean and do the recap. Okay, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:41.959 we meet best friends Claire and Hayley, played by Emma 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:47.040 Roberts and Jojo, respectively, not to be confused with Jojo Siwah, 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.800 which when she started to become popular, I was like, 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.160 don't you mean Jojo, and I had to learn that 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.160 they were different pop girlies. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:14:00.680 I was happy to see that Jojo, like our our Jojo, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.880 is doing very well. She was on Broadway last year 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:12.000 playing Setine and Mulan Rouge the musical Like, yeah, like 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:13.400 she's she's thriving. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:14.200 Love this for her. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.360 Yeah, yeah, I mostly know her from that song Get Up, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:19.520 Run Out. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.600 Oh my god. I feel like I can close my 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.400 eyes and watch that entire music video front to back, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:27.680 just from memory. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.840 Yeah, frame for frame. She was also in a Sneaker's commercial. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.400 Yeah, but I still. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.880 Remember because at the end she's like talking about all 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.360 the things she has to do and then they show 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.240 her sneakers and she's like and a math test and 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.240 then it's like or no Sketchers, Sketchers. She was in 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.760 Sketchers commercials. I was like, Sneakers commercial, Sketchers. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:54.000 That feels very Jojo coded, can't explain exactly how totally. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.800 And that movie r V she was also in. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:02.400 Wow, I bravely saw r V in theaters. I think 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:03.560 thank you. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:05.360 With my mom. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.480 And this was and this was also the era of 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.080 Emma Roberts where she was on Unfabulous Too, and I 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.360 loved that show so much. 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.600 Much talk about a time capsule just watch okay truly. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.920 So the gals are in the movie playing Claire and Haley. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.880 They're at the beach somewhere in Florida. Some we're called 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.440 bay Bridge. I think. I don't know if that's a 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.840 real town or not. I didn't look it up. It's 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.120 the last few days of summer vacation before they start. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.800 I think eighth grade. Though, Hailey is about to move 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:45.440 to Australia because her marine biologist mom got a really 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.280 good job there, but Haley deeply resents having to move 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:54.640 and leave her best friend Claire behind. Claire's backstory is 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.960 that her mom and dad drowned at sea, and so 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:03.000 Claire lives with her her grandparents, who own I think 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.680 the local beach club. You hate something. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.840 To hear your parents drowned at sea? 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:11.320 You hate? 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.120 That is heavy? 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:13.760 I know. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.640 I also it's like, this was a completely irrational thought. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.680 But I was like, you could do that. In two 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:24.080 thousand and six, people were still drowning at sea, Like, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.760 I what were they even up to? 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.680 I don't know, it gives like eighteen hundreds Yeah. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.680 Yeah yeah, I was like, wait, what were they looking for? Anyways? 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.800 I don't know, they know Aquamarine. Maybe they taught her 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.480 the meaning of love or something. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:40.000 Yeah. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:45.320 Yeah, Aquamarine sees her parents and that's what inspires her 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.600 to come ashore to find love. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:52.120 Here's here's my horror pitch. Aquamarine whoopsie Daisies capsized the 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.320 boat he held her parents and. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.520 Was like, oh, not of jealousy. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.440 Yes, So she's like and then I'll strike when Emma 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:00.680 Robertson's vulnerable. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.800 I love that. Yeah, okay. So also on the beach 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:13.000 is a lifeguard named Raymond who the friends have a 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:18.400 big crush on. Then a mean popular girl, Cecilia, who 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.720 we were just talking about and her gaggle of mean 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.600 girl friends show up and flirt with Raymond the lifeguard, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:31.960 to Claire and Haley's dismay. That night, Haley like jokingly 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.280 casts a spell to try to make the ocean stop 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.600 her mom from moving to Australia. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:39.320 What a sentence. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.600 Yeah, she does it in jest, but like it like 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.480 is sad at the end when Jojo goes to Australia, 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.480 But you're also like good for her because they lived 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:51.520 in Tampa, Like. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:55.480 Yeah, you should absolutely go to Australia. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.399 Yeah, but she doesn't want to go there. She thinks 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:04.800 Tampa's amazing, and so she jokingly casts this spell and 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.120 there's like this storm and lightning strikes, and it seems 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.359 like the spell works, question mark, because the next morning, 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:18.320 Claire and Haley go outside to this swimming pool that's 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.239 right by the beach. Is that a thing? I don't know, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.760 But Claire falls in the swimming pool, and she sees 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.520 something in the water, but before she can get a 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.159 good look, Raymond jumps in and saves her, and she 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.639 tells Haley she saw something. So that night they sneak 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:42.560 back to the pool and discover a mermaid and she's like, Hi, 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.040 it's me a mermaid, and we will eventually learn that 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.199 her name is Aqua Marine, although it takes forever for 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:50.520 her to introduce herself. 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:52.639 Is a full half hour I had to check out. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.119 He's like, how is this the first time? 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.679 Yeah. They hang out for like a full day and 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.960 then she's like, by the way, I'm a marine. And she, 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.919 of course is played by Sarah Paxton. No relation to 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:07.920 Bill Paxton from what I can tell. 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.960 No, Okay, I tried to look into that too, Yeah. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.640 And I was like, this is important research that yielded 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.240 no results. But yeh, I don't think they're related anyway. 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.720 She seems nice and friendly, but then this guy, Leonard, 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.639 who works at the beach club and who Claire and 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.040 Haley are scared of, he starts to approach, so they 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.920 have to run off, but they tell Aquamarine that they'll 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.840 come back tomorrow. But when they do, they discover that 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.359 the pool has been drained, so they think she's like 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:42.280 gone forever or dead or something. But just kidding. Aquamarine 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:48.480 turned herself into a human with legs. Although this is 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:53.000 when we learn the Gremlins rules, where she can't get 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.240 wet or else her tail will come back, and her 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.919 tail will definitely come back no matter what when the 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.639 sun sets. But during the day she can be in 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:02.440 like human form. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.440 Oh and if you help her, you get one genie wish. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.399 Yes, but that has not really any more rules. 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.399 Yeah, she also makes fun of them. She's like, you 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:14.920 guys think genies are real. 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:17.840 That's so true. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.920 There's a little mix of Cinderella in there too, like 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.199 Gremlin's rules and like a little Cinderella. 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:24.280 Yeah. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.960 And then she also has the aerial thing going on 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.080 because she only has three days to fall in love. 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.720 Yes, it's just an amalgamation a lot of stuff. 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:35.720 Three days to fall in love, because this is very important. 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:37.679 The reason she doesn't want to go back into the 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.080 ocean is because she doesn't want to be a child bride. 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:46.320 Right. Yeah, that her father has arranged. Yep, correct picture this. 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.680 Your dad says, unless you can prove to me that 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.080 love exists, I will make you a child bride in 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.640 seventy two hours. 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.640 Really, I'm wondering, like what what fisher in the sea, 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.800 Like what of the murments? The men like that where 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.119 she's like this is awful, I can't. 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.520 It felt like they didn't have the budget to show 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:10.400 us a second Mermaid. 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:13.359 They had one nail. 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:18.480 It seems like mermaid culture is a patriarchy for sure, 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.760 and they don't believe in love. That's part of their culture, 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.359 a loveless patriarchy, just like ours. 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.439 Her is her dad, Poseidon. 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.679 It feels I thought like that is implied, but it 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.080 felt like she was avoiding saying his name. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.320 But like the mermaid names, took a long time. 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:46.120 They couldn't afford the rights, the rights to say pay 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.359 big Poseidon barely a form. 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:57.640 So they they bring her to Claire's house, where Aquamarine's dad, 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.199 who may or may not be Poseidon, calls her on 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:05.960 a shell phone hilarious basically on just like a conch shell, 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:10.639 and reprimands her for leaving because she ran away to 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:14.720 escape being a child bride, and as Sweeve said, she 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:17.400 has three days to find true love and to prove 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:22.040 to her dad that love is real. So then Aqua 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:26.679 Marine sees Raymond and decides he's the guy that she 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.520 wants to fall in love with, and she tells Claire 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.160 and Hailey that if they help make that happen, she'll 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:33.359 grant them a Genie wish. 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.840