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Welcome to My vertical Obsession. Today we are talking about
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playback on My Drama and Playback stars Amber Liaired as Mattie, Bryce,
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Royce Lundquist as Luke Rivers, Hannah Stocking as Samantha Stern,
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Sophie Summers as Clare Vance, and Sarah Simpino as Bella.
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If I said anything any of the names wrong, I apologize.
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I do my best to make sure and pronouncing them
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as correctly as I can. So. The synopsis for this
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one is a young songwriter from a funeral home quietly
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enters the world of a fading pop star, helping him
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rediscover the voice he thought he lost. But behind her
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quiet presence lies a secret. She's a superstar, hiding and
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plain sight. As they create music together, emotions rise, heartbreak, jealousy,
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and ambition, turning every moment into something deeper, which starts
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as tension slowly becomes a powerful connection. But secrets don't
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stay hidden or so. The overview that I Wrot wrote
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for this is Maddie's an inspiring singer songwriter who tries
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to convince Luke Rivers to sing her songs. She ends
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up getting her chant to write music and become a singer,
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only she is hiding a secret that she is the
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AI artist lux who's blowing up on social media. She
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did this because she wanted to be a singer, but
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she has stage fright, so this lets her be a
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singer and gets her songs out without showing her face.
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The more she works with Luke, the more her dream
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is coming true, the more she starts to fall for him,
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until they finally admit their feelings for each other. LUKE'SI girlfriend,
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It's not happy to see this and starts to cause problems.
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When she finds out Maddie is Lucks, she sets out
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to get rid of her. One of her plans is
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getting Maddie to sell Lucks and everything she has, so
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she teams up with Clara to get Maddie to sell Luck. Clara,
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who doesn't like Samantha, still agrees with it, unknowing to them,
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Mattie's family is going through some medical and financial troubles
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that force Maddie to sell. After she sells, Samantha forces
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Maddie to tell Luke she's Lucks, which makes Luke feel
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betrayed and he walks away without wanting anything to do
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with Mattie. Mattie thinks her dream is over and it's
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all done. But after her live stream and finally singing
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as herself, her fans tell her to play at Indigo
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Music Festival. She decides to go to stop Samantha as
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Lucks and get herself on the stage. After being caught
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by Clara, Mattie convinces her to help her get on
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the stage, to which Mattie plays a video of Luke's
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mom singing and then introduces herself before singing. Luke drewing
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to her on stage and the two get back together.
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Samantha ends up losing in the end and her music
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career ends. Clara starts her own music label and signs
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Maddie and Luke. Mattie and Luke get nominated for a
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Grammy Award. So that's just a little of the overview
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I had for the series. So now getting into the
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talking points, I have quite a few, so let's just
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kind of jump right into them. So one of them
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is Mattie's songbook, and there is two things with this one.
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So what I had said was there are some things
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I don't fully understand when it comes to Maddy's songbook.
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She is luck, So you think some of the songs
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she used would be in the songbook unless she takes
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them out when she used them. If she doesn't get
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rid of them, wouldn't you think Luke would have seen
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the songs Maddie had used for Lux. The other thought
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is maybe the songbook was just songs that she was
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trying to get Luke to sing and there weren't any
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of Luck's songs in it. It can be explained a
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couple different ways, but it still seems like a plot
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hole and seems like songs should have been in the
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book and Luke would have seen them. So that was
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one thing with the songbook is I was kind of
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wondering how all the songs work. It's like, if the
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songs she's using for Lux or also part of her songbook,
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wouldn't Luke have seen them? Because he had gone through
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the book, so I'm sure he would have noticed them.
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But then it's also like, well, maybe she doesn't use
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those songs for Lucks and maybe those ones were just
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specifically to try and get Luke to sing them. Type question.
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But I wasn't one hundred percent short, But those were
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kind of like the two theories I had with it.
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The other thing with the songbook is after the fight
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between Luke and Maddie, Luke is shown to have the
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songbook in the studio, and then it's shown to be
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with Mattie at her house. So did Maddie go and
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pick it up or did it get sent to her.
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It really doesn't seem like Maddie went back to the
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studio after her fight with Luke, because at one point
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she had bumped into Clara and Clara's like, I want
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nothing to do with you anymore. So from that I
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kind of gathered that maybe she really never stepped foot
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in the studio again. So then it's a question of
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when did she get it back, how did she get
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it back, and just how did that all happen. So
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it was just a little question, but not such a
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big deal. It was just one of those things where
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I was like, wait, how did she get it back?
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But fun little point out there. So the next note
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I had was about the fact that it was a musical,
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because it was advertised as a musical, which I loved
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and also one of the many reasons why I wanted
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to see this. So this was as advertised as a
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musical and it was, but just not in the way
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I expected. The series is about singer songwriters, so the
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music was very natural within the series. I'm used to
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musicals having songs or music in random places, but yet
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still work within the scene. Plus I'm used to the
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songs not sounding like ones you would hear on the radio,
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whereas this one the songs sound like you might hear
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on the radio or listen to your iPod. So this
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was a little different of a musical and I loved
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every minute of it. I love all the songs as well,
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and how you can listen to them on streaming. I
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do kind of wish you could buy them on iTunes
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to have, but it's okay. It's still cool you can
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listen to them on Spotify. I know. That is one
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thing that I wish the series that Missing rock Star
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is my husband had done with the music they had.
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They had good music too that I kind of wish
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you could save and download. But then again that might
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have changed. I haven't checked, but the last time I look,
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you couldn't same with this one. Last time I looked,
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and when I wrote this up, you couldn't buy the
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music off iTunes, but you could listen to it on Spotify,
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And I think on Apple Music, just not purchase it
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to buy, but again it could have changed since writing this.
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Hopefully the other series two similar things or put them
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on iTunes to buy, because I know I would really
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like that to be able to kind of have the
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music on my iTunes because I don't do Spotify or
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Apple Music. I prefer to be ones that I can
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buy and put on my iPod type music. But that's
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personal preference for me. I've mentioned in the past that
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I would love to see more series like this, that
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there should be more musical type vertical series. They're just
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so fun and they deserve to be more of them.
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That's what I said about the musical aspect. The next part.
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I really tried to get into this because I really
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love this. It's about two scenes and a great use
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of symbolism, so talking about the fireworks at the party.
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So what I had said about this was I love
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how the fireworks were going off during two big scenes.
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Was great use of symbolism. Who had the fireworks of
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a love confession and the scheming to portray the main characters.
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These two scenes were also happening while the fireworks were
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actually going off at the same time in the scene
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and it was a great way to connect the two scenes.
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In the first scene, the love confession was between Luke
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and Mattie. Luke opens up and tells Mattie how he
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cares about her and wants to be with her. Well,
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it's not him saying I love you, yet, it's still
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a moment of them confessing their feelings to each other.
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At the time, they had been working to make it
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look like Samantha and Luke got back together, and Mattie
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was worried that Luke would want to get back together
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with Samantha for real, So this was his moment to
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tell Maddie that she was the only one he wanted.
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So it's fireworks in the sense of romance. The second
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scene is two characters scheming to portray the leads. Samantha
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lets Clara know she knows Maddie is Lux, which Clara
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thought that she was the only one who knew. Samantha
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commits is Clara to help her get Maddie to sell Lux.
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That way, Samantha can have access to the program and socials.
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She wanted the fame that Lux currently had. Even though
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Clara didn't like Samantha, she still agreed to the deal
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because it would help get her money as well. This
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was fireworks in the sense of something explosive happening. These
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scenes happened back to back as the fireworks at the
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party are being fired off. It was a great way
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to show the fireworks both literally and figuratively within the
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two scenes. It was such a great visual element in
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the series. So I really enjoyed that whole moment in
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those scenes with the fireworks and the two scenes happening
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while the fireworks were going off. So that was really
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fun to watch. So next up, just a little issue
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I found, but then goes into kind of like a
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little bit of a question too. So it was about
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the color grading on the clips. So I did notice
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that there was a couple scenes that color grading for
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them wasn't on the clips. I wasn't sure if the
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clips were missed or it was a rendering issue. I
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know sometimes rendering can miss or skip clips. It's always
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frustrating when rendering or saving media files ends ends up
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with a clip or a clips that don't have color corrected.
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Sometimes if you aren't watching frame by frame, you might
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not see it as well. I get this is something
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that shouldn't have a mistake like this, but things do happen.
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After all, some of the biggest shows have mistakes, like
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Game of Thrones and that coffee cup. Not everything is perfect.
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Plus the program for video editing can cause issues too.
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This could be a human error or a programmer. To
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be honest, it didn't take away from the series at all.
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It was just a small thing that I had noticed
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when watching. It was just one minute the scene was
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light even though it was nighttime. The next to the
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scene was a lot darker, and then it went back
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to a lighter scene. It was just a moment that
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caught me off guard. This just continues to make me
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wonder how the editing works. Along with wondering how the
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editing of the series is done, I wonder what program
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is used. I know two of the main ones are
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Adobe Premiere Pro and APID Media Composer. I think Final
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Cut has been used, but it's more the other two.
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I know. It's a process I do hope to learn
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more about and I I think I've mentioned it before.
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Editing post projection is one thing that I loved so
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always wanting to learn more about it, especially now with
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all the verticals. I would love to kind of learn
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more about the behind the scenes with editing and how
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the process all works. So another point I had was
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about Luke's mom. When you first saw the video of
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Luke's mom, you knew Mattie was going to put it
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into a song. I figured it would be put into
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an intro into a song that maybe was about his
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mom or about love. It was nice to see that
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it was an intro to Maddie singing as herself, and
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I get it was for Luke and to apologize to him.
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I really do get that, but it also seemed random
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in the LUX situation. I also understand that it was
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meant to be a grand gesture by giving him videos
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of his mom back. It was her way of showing
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him how much she loved him, that she was willing
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to corrupt the LUX program for him. I do understand
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the reasoning behind it, and loved the moment so much
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it even got me a little teary eyed. I just
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miss how it connected to LUX Mattie's performance. Maybe that's
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the point. She was putting herself out there to apologize
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to Luke and give him this moment while also being
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on the stage and singing as herself, maybe in hopes
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that Luke would forgive her and join her. So maybe, so,
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just maybe that was the whole point, which would then
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kind of make sense. I love how this was how
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they ended up using the videos of Luke's mom It
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was sweet, heartwarming and a great way to win someone's heart.
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You give them the one thing they never thought they'd
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see or something they thought they would lose. Was one
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hell of a grand gesture and I loved it. So.
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One of the other points I made is about the song,
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the cover song that Luke sings. So what I had
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said was, I will say the first time I watched,
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I didn't really notice this, but when it came to
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the cover song, Mattie helped Luke create Samantha Manipulator to
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post it as Lucks. She knew Mattie was LUs and
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trying to get her away from Luke. She also knew