Okay, so I know opinions are mixed on Hazbin Hotel, and fair play, it's got plenty of issues. The pacing is hilariously bad, Alastor takes up way too much screen time, the morals are questionable, these are all valid criticisms. But look at it this way:
What would be a better use of your time? Watching the entirety of Hazbin Hotel (including the Youtube pilot, because let's be honest, that is more or less required viewing), or watching Disney's Wish and The Little Mermaid (2023)? Because both clock in a little under four hours.
I've seen Wish, The Little Mermaid (2023), and all of Hazbin Hotel, and frankly, the simple fact of the matter is that one indie animator who clearly struggles with a lot of writing hang-ups was able to provide a WAY more entertaining four hours than THREE professional directors working for the most successful media company in history who've been doing this for decades.
These were Disney's two BIGGEST films of 2023. And Hazbin BLEW THEM OUT OF THE WATER. The characters were WAY more fun and engaging, the stakes were infinitely higher, the songs, oh my God the SONGS! Who even REMEMBERS any of the songs from Wish? And The Little Mermaid doesn't count, all those songs were basically just covers (and I've seen several people express that they weren't as good as the originals). Meanwhile, Hazbin Hotel's Poison and Loser Baby are a pair of absolutely stellar original pieces that are getting a ton of praise and deserving every ounce of it!
Is Hazbin perfect? Absolutely not. Is Hazbin good? Debatable. Is Hazbin the best we're currently getting, in terms of feature-length musicals that aren't just adaptations of something that was already successful before? One. Hundred. Percent.
Step yo game up, Disney. And keep on improving, Vivziepop; I'm excited to see how far you go.
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Links & Quotes
Some links and quotes that caught my eye this week.
Romans 8:28 tells us that God uses ALL things to accomplish His purpose for our lives. Too many times I tried to rush through things without getting anything out of it. I have lots of new content every week, which you can check out on my YouTube channel.
He is 98 years old and he’s still busy serving other people! I pray we can all be as selfless and vibrant in ministering to others until the…
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If anyone ever tells you Catholics are stupid science-deniers, ask them if they know the man who first proposed the Big Bang Theory was a Catholic priest.
(Also that the first woman to earn a PhD in computer sciences was a Catholic nun named Sr. Mary Kenneth Keller who also helped to develop BASIC, the father of genetic sciences was a Catholic friar and abbot named Gregor Mendel, and the man who discovered arsenic is a canonized Catholic saint named Albertus Magnus, who wrote on botany, astronomy, chemistry, physics, biology, and geography. Just to name a few.)
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3/24/22 _ Apologetic, 1:00 AM
Self awareness starts with acceptance.
Knowing you have to admit failure
to move past your feelings for the sake of someone else
is the most difficult concept I’ve had to sit with.
It’s not Algebra or AP Calculus,
It’s nothing any academically challenged subject can teach;
It’s the way you treat people the same way that you would want
without taking it so personally if something were to go wrong.
School is the easy part. You become absorbent and reiterate
the information you were given.
With people, you have to learn through experience.
Emotions aren’t logical
Logic isn’t always moral
Morals aren’t meant to be decided emotionally.
I’m sure there has got to be a connecting factor
without having to rely upon one of the three
in any interaction I have.
I’m sorry to anyone I have caused pain to from
my heuristics. I hope to make peace with the
people around me and eventually with myself.
Today has not been the best day.
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Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
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God In The Footnotes?
What do we do with the parts of the Bible that seem to have been moved to a footnote? Do we ignore them? Do we excuse them? Or can we use them to point people to the glory of God?
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Can we trust our Bibles? There are some things that skeptics point to that we need to be able to defend—even in this model prayer that we have been studying. We come to the last verse of this…
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