 We're talking Ruby volume nine spoilers. If you're not caught up, go get caught up and then come back, please. Barbara, big things this chapter. Finally, we've been waiting for it. We see Bumblebee on screen for the first time. What was that for you to finally see that happen on screen? Oh my God. I don't think I'm still mentally prepared for it. I went into the voice booth being like, how am I supposed to do this? How am I supposed to act this scene out that I know that so many of us have been waiting for? Feels like I've been waiting forever for that. I was weeping. Like, couldn't believe weeping in that moment. I think the design for that scene, the writing of that scene was just so perfect for that moment. It was a culmination of so many things that happened between Blake and Yang and finally getting to get to that moment, I think was just so meaningful for me and Erin. I have so many feelings that I think like, a lot of the characters kind of hinted in that moment, like, finally, we've been waiting for a while. But I think it was done in such a beautiful and perfect way. It's been so hard to sit on that for so long. Cause, you know, we obviously knew this was coming for a while and then we wrote this a long time ago. 2020. 2020, absolutely wrote it. We've been like just like straightened. I think we've also known this was gonna happen like even before volume one. It's been a thing. It's like it has been a thing for a very long time but we're very happy and we're happy for them and another, you know, big community out there that loves to see it and we love to see it too. I love to see it over and over and over again. Part of the thing too was that, you know, we wanted every kind of episode to feel like it's own little story and we liked putting our team at a literal crossroads through this ponder storm, right? Cause we wanted to have like just weird stuff happen to them in the ever after and it felt like a really good time to get the two of them with each other and then they have this weird weather pattern that is like forcing them to work out their issues, right? We didn't know exactly what that was gonna look like. And then in writing it, it was kind of like, oh, how do they take the next step? And that was the thing that felt like the right thing to do. This volume has let us be a little on the nose about things in a way that we're all very clear that we're doing it, right? And we try and do it in a way that is fun and different. I think also taking it away from remnant, like in this moment, it's just them. Like there is nothing else that exists in this moment just those two. You're not leaving until you solve this. So you confront this. It kind of forces them into this moment, which I think was, it was just so beautiful. What I took away from it too, was watching it again, writing-wise is like we have the whole play on the idea of, and they live happily ever after. This is a fairy-tale story. Well, they're living happily in the ever after. This might not be the end for them. This is the beginning of their new relationship. We've seen their back and forth. So we're literally addressing their emotional conflict and now together they will leave changed, but whole. I'm gonna need to watch every reaction video. Oh, I've been dying for it. Every single screening that we've had internally, like we're giving feedback and stuff. I just get Issa and Aaron just like, furious deciding. I've seen it like a dozen times at this point. It still gets me every time. I was really greedy, because I started out directing that episode and then I had to work on something else. So Issa took over, she did a great job. That one scene though, I was like, I'm still gonna do it. I'm still directing this one. It's funny, because I really wanted to write that episode. Everybody wanted it. Actually, what I really wanted to write was the reversal of the fairy-tale stuff, but it was like also pretty good secondary reason to be able to write that scene. Well, yeah, I mean, talking about that, Ruby has always been kind of steeped in fairy-tales in general. And this one is an in-world fairy-tale. Like you're writing your own fairy-tale inside of a fairy-tale. Like how was that structure important to the season? It felt like it gave kind of a, one a clear path for the characters to follow, right? Like we were trying to do the same thing that happened in the story. And then even as our characters are learning that it isn't always like it is in the fairy-tales and the fairy-tales aren't really real in the sense of the simplistic emotional messages, they actually learn that this fairy-tale they've been following is not, like it's a lie. And so it felt like a great moment, halfway through the season, this goal that they've had the entire time, this friend they've made in the cat to suddenly feel like, wait, why didn't the cat tell us everything? And now we've run into our old friend, John, and he is- Literally old. Yeah. Old friend. Our old friend. It was a part of the fairy-tale the whole time because it's a weird crazy time business. We're just like, we're gonna be weird. Let's get weird with it, you know? Like we talked about that a lot of like, it just, it's something I think felt not as interesting as like just seeing John and it was like, how do we do something with him? And, you know, we'll explore this more as the season goes on, but I mean, he's spent a lot of time on himself. I mean, look at that hair. Yeah. Oh no, he's hot. Yeah. Thanks for watching this Deeper Dive into this week's episode of Ruby. If you want more, come back every Tuesday after the episode and we'll talk about it and have fun. 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