"Here starts our incredible story, with strange news from the high seas ..."
Hello everyone!
As we begin the next chapter of House of the Dragon (which, I still have to watch the season 3 premiere, and I already know I'll be crying my eyes out) it's a good thing that we aren't knee-deep in too many other adaptations.
Dragons, by and large, require your attention no matter what!
But I digress.
Tonight, after going around the world and then to the center of the Earth, we're finally going under the sea, and Willy the gentle-lion gets to live out his fashion dreams of dressing like a captain.
So without further ado, let's hop right into it, shall we?
Because there's only so much time left, and we do in fact need to go 20 000 Leagues under the Sea with Willy Fog!
Unlike the previous two chapters, this one doesn't begin with a dare, but Willy has been an adventurer for so long that, when a mysterious sea monster starts attacking ships on the seas, the public turns to him to solve this mystery, and he's just curious enough to do it.
So, he packs up his luggage, his wife, princess Romy, and his servants Rigodon and Tico, and travels first to America, then across the ocean yet again in search of this monster.
They find said monster.
It sinks their ship, after Ned the harpooner doesn't manage to stick it.
Then, to their surprise, they find something solid to stand on IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN, and it turns out the monster is no monster at all, but a highly advanced submarine.
Initially taken captive, they eventually meet their captain, Nemo, whose sole goal in life appears to be playing the organ and taking out ships that wander into his path, because the man is CONVINCED any ship on the submarine's trajectory is there purely to attack them.
Willy and his crew, of course, know the easiest way to avoid detection would be for Nautilus (the sub) to simply change course and disappear, but you can't argue with stupid, although Ned manages to stop another torpedo from taking down a ship, and said ship flees.
Nemo's outraged, but Willy is calm: you can't just kill innocents because you see their ship! C'mon man, get it together.
Meanwhile, the sergeant of Nautilus, who wants to be its First Mate like nobody's business, is jealous of the easy rapport Willy's building with Nemo, so he sets out to destroy him, first by planting gold bars into the lion's suitcase, and then preventing oxygen from filtering into his underwater mask when the group go on a little walk along the seabed.
Thankfully, Willy manages to talk to Nemo about the gold, and Nemo's the one who notices him in trouble with the oxygen, but he doesn't know who to blame until Willy and the sergeant are the last ones to return to the Nautilus, and the sergeant tries to use a knife on our gentle-lion.
He's thrown into the brig for that, and everybody can breathe easy ... for a short time.
See, Nemo takes them to the South Pole, and they end up stuck under the ice, because of course they do. The Nautilus can't drill through an actual iceberg, and instead of finding a different location to surface, they have the brilliant idea to use pickaxes and a high-pressure water hose to get the job done.
Don't ask me about the physics here, I'm no physicist.
It does end up working, right on time too as they were about to run out of air, so huzzah! They're saved.
But they're also still plotting escape, because Nemo isn't all that keen on letting them go, obsessive to a fault and now considering Willy his literal BFF, while life under the sea is DANGEROUS as a giant squid attacks them. One crew member, however, helps distract everyone else while our crew rows a boat into the night, and gets rescued by another passing ship.
They once again return as heroes, and the Nautilus continues it's journey beneath the sea, with Nemo mournfully hoping he and Willy can someday meet again.
FIN!
Of all three movies, this one, I think, suffers the most from being a compressed and condensed version of the third season this series aired, because a lot of stuff is quite literally up in the air, however, Willy and the others remain as delightful as ever, and it's always a treat to watch how a lion with a cane will survive wherever he gets thrown into haha!
It's been a lovely nostalgic journey, and I've managed to find the full series online as well, so at some point I might make a post about that when I have the time.
Until then, we leave Willy and his friends to his adventures, while we start off on a new one!
xx
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