#don't' care about action scenes

[st-just]

I have a friend whose, like, 7 for 10 on reccing me things I end up eally liking, but he always does so in a way that's almost designed in a lab to make them sound unappealing to me. Just incredibly vexing dynamic.

#I just #don't' care about action scenes #I SUPER don't care about super technical explanations of how peoples superpowers work #and describing 'badass'/'awesome' characters without context just ends up seeming idk fanficcy in a bad way #probably tmi #its 2am and I'm rambling

[add1ctedt0you]

What a plot twist you were. [x]

#Like. The narrator introduces jc to us as the antagonist #Then we got to know him. Not who people think he's. But who he really is #And we saw jc giving wwx a piggyback. Giving him soup. Rescuing him. Putting himself between wwx and any danger (madam yu/wen soldiers) #And even the staged fight. It's yk. Staged #jc wanted to protect wwx at any cost. But wwx wasn't willing to compromise. But jc did #The fight was wwx's idea. Because jc is an enabler (just like jfm and jyl) #jc is ready to bend for his loved ones sake #The point is. Every action jc takes. Is in the name of his loves ones' safety. And surprise. wwx is one of the people jc really cares about #Even after wwx' return. Aside a broken cup. jc isn't doing much to stop wwx or anything. We know that jl was able to free wwx from Zidian #only because jc - Zidian's primary master- wanted it! #And jc fling himself into danger countless times to save wwx even though wwx can't sit still with him for a hot minute #What I wanted to say it's that the jc is presented to us - the mean ungrateful man- is very different from the real jc - #the indulgent uncle who rolls his eyes at his nephew antics. the brother who buries the hatchet for his sister's happiness. #the uncle who kinda wants to help wn to get up from the floor because he was an ass to jc but he helped jl and that's what matters to jc #the sect leader who let two women speak freely their mind in a patriarchy society #People better than me have already said this. shit I can't remember my point lmao #Like. jc is presented as an antagonist but what this man wanted was an apology and an explanation #This post is a mix of a rant I wrote last year (ha) after seeing a bad take. About what I don't remember lmaoo. And me wanting #to make gifs of wzc in this scene. Why does he look so good. It should be illegal. Seriously #jiang cheng #*mgifs

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have a big google doc thing where I keep track of media and stuff (putting everything in loosely ranked categories), which is mostly just for my own reference so I know what tv shows I've already seen before, etc. and I never really look back through it, typically just a quick "okay, watched two movie in the past 8 months, need to quickly slap them somewhere in the lists. okay. done. save document. exit". But today I was actually reading through some of the old notes and there are like... MULTIPLE places where my comment is basically "It would have been good if it were about elves" or "I wish there was a fantasy show made in this same style" or "It's well made, but I just keep thinking about how I would like it more if everyone was an elf or was in old 1700s costumes" or etc like...... lol.... Most biased media ranking system on earth blatantly made by someone with an extremely hyperspecific range of narrow interests. It'd be like if a food reviewer only had 5 foods they actually liked, so they'd just go to a pizza place and be like "eh, the pizza was okay, but I just think it would be better if it was cereal instead. :/ ...2 out of 10"

#Which.. I mean... I am allowed to be biased because literally it's just for my own personal reference (or occasionall #y to send to friends or something if we're discussing the topic) so like.. nowhere am I saying 'I am the god of perfect taste and these #rankings are objectively the absolute truth and everyone should have my same opinion' or anything #BUT still.. it's funny to me sometimes #'Succession would be 100x better if it had the same cast/character quirks and shaky camera style and #acting choices/weird dialogue and general concept etc. EXCEPT it takes place within an elven noble family or something #managing the family business and everyone is in fantasy costumes now'' like.....okay...... but it's NOT that way..soo... thats not the show #''I like the acting style/general tone of Fleabag but i don't care for any of the characters or any of the subject matter and I wish it was #set in the 1800s and had vampires and was about magic instead'' okay..... again... you are making up an entirely new show in that case lol #OR my other beloved typical complaint ''The concept is good but theres too much plot and action and not enough people just sitting #around doing nothing and exposition dumping world and character lore'' ''this needs more goofy sideplots and filler episodes'' #''this Drama was too dramatic I think it should be more lighthearted & people need to sit around doing nothing just being weird more often' #''the Action Movie was ok except for the action scenes - which I skipped through all of- but I liked the costumes and worldbuilding'' etc. #ERM sorry your plot has too much plot. also elves have to be included somehow. bye #BUT SERIOUSLY!!!!!! I literally genuinely believe that any show I like (or even dislike) could ALWAYS be improved greatly by #putting people in fantasy or historical costume/setting/etc... why the FUNK would I want to see bland jeans and cars and cell phones #when I could see elaborate velvet cloaks and fantastical landscapes and interior design and innovative takes on historical or #magical technology or etc. etc. etc. I LIVE in the modern day. I see it all the time!!! BORING! stinky!! boo!!! #ANYWAY... another social divide for me.. People love to bond by discussing media. which is hard when I'm like #'I literally will not watch something at all unless it fits into one of these 10 extremely specific categories which are all i care about i #the entire world''.. I say this and yet I still dislike most fantasy or historical things I've watched lol. ok TWO main criteria then!! #it must 1. be in a different world or time period. 2. be goofy silly. Nothing ever has BOTH. It's always overly serious boring drama action #fantasy/history stuff OR it's comedic lighthearted but with modern day characters... WHY.. anguish and woe and so on.. #ANYWAY jhjnk... at least I can make that divide. Some people seem to project their own personal preferences and get really emotionally #defensive if you say you didn't like something - as if the fact that they DO like it is some Objective Truth or something rather than just #opinion/preference based. I can still easily say ''this is well made/well written/acted/good in a technical sense/has a lot of #points of appeal that most people would be drawn to/etc'' and admit that it's a GOOD show probably. I just PERSONALLY think its #bad because my tastes are very narrow. Some things ARE actually made badly but. things are not bad INHERENTLY just bc they dont suit ME lol #Better to recognize/accept whats odd about you and be peacefully aware of it than just being mad at everyone all the time for not fully #agreeing with you even when you're the one with the Weird opinion in that case lol.. I am right though :3 but.. lol... still. i get it

[cipher-zoo]

I honestly don't care what people think, the live action looks great to me and I can't wait to watch it!

#one piece #one piece live action #I don't care about the changes #It's an Adaption and honestly I don't want it to be scene for scene the same thing #Tbf I have seen mostly positive reactions so this is not about anyone really #I am just excited

[2ndalt]

Thea: Pfft, I don't have favorites, what a silly question!

Pamela: Hey we got kidnapped while in Egypt-

Thea: IS VIOLET OKAY??!?!

#geronimo stilton #thea stilton #thea sisters #lol this is a personal headcanon #don't get me wrong thea cares about all the thea sisters #but violet is probably her favorite (violet is everyone's favorite) #the other thea sisters are well aware of this fact but they're honestly fine with it/don't really care #given how many scenes in the books praise and focus on violet's actions i think it's safe to say that thea plays favorites

[katiehwang]

Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street

a.k.a the father & son moments I absolutely love and wish we can see more!

#I'm sad we didn't see much of the Kudous in the 1000+ chapters n episodes of the manga/show #And while it's a popular opinion that Shinichi kinda want to avoid his childish parents at all cost (which I also believed is true) #But here it seems they have mutual respect and miss each other #Perhaps it lacks the dorkiness and childish behaviour because there's murder case and danger involved (and Yukiko's absence) #Although I can't really tell which is the true dynamic since this is just movie #And we know some character are portrayed quite differently from manga sooo #I don't know what's the point of this post other than maybe I want to complain about the lack of this kind of plot in DC movies #Forget the flahsy action. I want to see the og character bonding moments and maybe some in depth stories about them #Although perhaps they won't get it right and I won't be satisfied anyway #But whatever #Yeah I love this movie because of Yuusaku and Shinichi's scene #But seriously must they act so professional all the time? #Kudou Yuusaku #Kudou Shinichi #Edogawa Conan #Detective Conan #Anyway it's nice to see Yuusaku caring about Shinichi while trying to solve a murder case #The Phantom of Baker Street

[markantonys]

thinking about gawyn during the coup. upon first read i took min's pov of his behavior at face value and was like "oh no, he's being so scary and cold!" but going back i realized Oh.............Actually, He Is Incredibly Traumatized :(

Worry and fear filled his blue eyes, and his face was a mask of determination not to give in to them.

He was as tight as coiled steel, ready to burst out in any direction.

Most frightening to Min, with that blood-masked face and half-glazed eyes, with his body tensed almost to quivering and his hand upflung as if he had forgotten it, he never raised his voice or put any emotion into it. He only sounded tired, more tired than she had ever heard anyone sound in her life.

“If anything happens to them,” he said in that expressionless voice, “to Egwene or my sister, I will find you, wherever you hide, and I will make sure the same happens to you.” Abruptly he stalked a dozen paces away and stood with his arms folded, head down as if he could not bear to look at them any longer.

he was brittle, ready to shatter at the wrong blow.

#in the books we only get min's pov of the coup and of the 5 minutes of gawyn's actions that she sees #and her assumptions about the rest of his actions #colored by her own MUCH GREATER knowledge/understanding of the siuan vs. elaida conflict #(information gawyn is not privy to in the slightest) #and filtered through a lens of 'gawyn!! how could you fight for The Wrong Side!!' #but i'd bet my bottom dollar that GAWYN'S pov of the coup would've painted a VASTLY different picture #and if we had gotten access to his pov of this scene then reader perception of him might have been different #many books later he reflects on the chaos and confusion of that day but by then it's too late #and the reader has already decided that he personally started the warder fighting and began murdering his teachers unprovoked #which is why i'm excited for the show! bc it will surely follow him during the coup and that will make him more sympathetic imo #also the way these passages could be so easily describing rand and HIS trauma reactions.........foils #gawyn trakand #wot #wot book spoilers #gawyn haters don't interact i just want to cry about my boy in peace with the 4 other people who care about him

[lloydfrontera]

mmgghh imagine julian having a zoe murphy from deh style breakdown as he tries to reconcile the brother he remembers, the one that abused him for years and years on end, that never brought him anything but pain, that would beat him up for the slightest provocation, with the one that meets him at the academy, the one that saved a city, the one that is working relentlessly to save their family from ruin, the one that defends him from bullies and tells him it was never his fault that others harassed him

just. julian getting to express the rage and confusion and conflicted emotions that would come with the person that abused him for years changing completely out of nowhere and turning into the older brother he'd always wanted.

so don't tell me i didn't have it right don't tell me it wasn't black and white after all you put me through don't say it wasn't true that you were not the monster that i knew

#i talk a lot <3 #tged #the greatest estate developer #julian frontera #if i think too hard about the fact that julian forgave his abusive older brother because of the actions of a completely different person #and we never got to see the fall out of him realizing the person he forgave never actually made amends with him #and all his feelings of rage and disgust were completely valid and he never had any reason for feeling guilty about hating his brother #because the person that he grew to care for and protected him was a completely different one. i do start going a little feral not gonna lie #i just!! don't like that julian was made to feel like he was in the wrong for feeling like he was the one that had it hardest!! #cause he did!! he fucking did!!! #this kid was abused physically and verbally since childhood by his older brother. basically ran from home the moment he was legally allowed #to and then also got harassed and humiliated by his classmates at school while all the authorities looked the other way #had it not been for suho transmigrating into lloyd's body (which is an external factor and should not be taken into account) #julian would by all means be allowed to say he had it the roughest of the family!!! #but because lloyd meddled (which is. to be fair. not a bad thing) julian was made to feel like he was being whiny #for thinking he had it rough while his older brother worked his ass off to save their family #i know no one cares about this but i do!!! i have so many feelings about julian!! he deserved better!! i needed more content about him!! #we never even got a scene with him being told that the brother he grew to love and want to make proud was not the brother that abused him #what's the point of it all 😭

[autistic-britta-perry]

like Shiv's mean sometimes and emotionally stunted and that's basically it She's a cheater but he was fine with possibly cheating and it was only when he thought she'd do it too that he was like no so like sorry I don't really feel bad about that part. And then there's the 'I don't love you' thing and that's it! she didn't send him to prison!!! he got himself into trouble, he could've exposed it and he did not and then he offered himself and she was like strategically that'd be good and then he was hurt that she didn't save him He keeps saying he loves her and that he cares throughout the first seasons and people just buy that fully and think Shiv doesn't when she's the one who shows it through actions! and like I get up until beginning of s4 Tom not knowing that but whenever I read people who watch the show saying she doesn't love her or that it was only Shiv hurting him until the betrayal I get so mad

#he cut her out he did!! #succession #anti tom wambsgans #bc i'm in my feelings #I did think he loved her in the same that she does him aka not really but yes #like she cares! he's her person but there's an element of interest which for shiv is about control and for tom's about getting power from #the family #(overly simplifying ) #but after s4 I'm like I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE #also rewatching tomshiv clear the air and would like some shiv x tom's mom content. I think she should fuck tom's mom #to be clear I understand tom up until first few chapters of s4 not KNOWING that shiv cares because all her actions are done without telling #him about it. she doesn't tell him she said 'just not tom' etc #but after logan's death?? after their argument? after seeing her schedule grief??? I. cannot make sense in my head of tom being kind to her #in that scene and others like telling her she's broken #as the same PERSON #it reminds me of the whole empathy roman thing where he can be so mean and then nice like with kerry in the funeral but I fully understand #roman there I don't have a problem fitting those two in the same character but with Tom I have such trouble doing it #shiv roy #clarification i'm not an i'm just tagging with anti so that people who like tom & tomshiv don't have to see my post

[starpros-sunshine]

Actually it is astounding the about of leverage Wataru has on Eichi I think the amount of stuff he could use to guilt Eichi into doing something really speaks as a testament to how much he loves that guy. They've been through All That and Wataru is still so smitten with Eichi if I wasn't so pissed with Eichi right now I would be crying on the floor in a puddle of my own tears.

#I loathe guilt tripping I despise it I hate it so so much you don't even know #I'm so done with it I'm so incredibly done with it #but like. Wataru has material.he could if he wanted to #he's not a scumbag though so he wouldn't #not seriously I mean #there's a fine line between a joke to make someone feel a little bad about something they fucked up #like when he mentioned he cried himself to sleep after that ep:link rooftop scene that wasn't a guilt trip to me #rhat was just a 'I would like you to know that your actions kind of hurt me' #not a genuine guilt trip #there's a difference #i think #wataei #but yeah no Eichi better be aware of just how much Wataru loves him #Eichi Tenshouin that man is the best thing that has ever happened to you and will ever happen to you do. not. fuck. this. up. #I hate cursing I really don't like it but it has to be done from time to time #I don't like the way the words sound if other people do it I don't care but I just don't really like doing it

[tathrin]

📽 action!: rank all six of the films (or three if you're a hater)

Answers for this LotR ask-game.

Ahh okay so at this point I have to confess something terrible: I still have not seen the third Hobbit movie. I'm sorry! I just couldn't do it. The fuckery of it all, especially in the second movie with Mirkwood and Thranduil and Legolas ("a lowly Silvan elf" what the FUCK what the fuck PJ WHAT THE FUCK), was just too much for me. Character-assassination is one thing, and I thought after Denethor I knew what I was going to be getting with Thranduil but NOPE! It was literal world building assassination and I just CANNOT.

Don't get me wrong, Lee Pace did an amazing job and actually seeing Mirkwood was amazing and it was genuinely delightful to see Orlando put those ears on again; but the OuTrAgE that filled my heart at the yeet-ing of what minimal canon we even have for the Mirkwood elves was just intolerable, and while I did mean to go see it, really I did, I just...couldn't actually get the motivation to go before it was out of theatres. I've heard the EE are better (less studio fuckery) so I'll watch them someday! Honest! I just...haven't. yet.

And as to the Lord of the Rings trilogy...man, I don't even know how to do this. In terms of which is the best film, or in terms of which one I enjoy watching most, or in terms of which on hits me in the heart hardest or...? I don't know if I can objectively rank my feelings about these movies even in my own brain because RotK ends with Into the West and I have FeelingsTM about the Undying Lands and Sea Longing okay. So the last scene of RotK at the Grey Havens is a fucking spear through the heart every time and I can't even describe the knot of feelings it engenders, and I think overall TTT may be my favorite but also it has Plot Issues that piss me off even more than the Plot Issues in RotK I think,...yeah, we're going to do this in terms of Film Crafting rather than personal favorites because I'm having too many feelings lmao. So! In order of most-well-done-movie to least:

Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

Return Of The King

The Desolation of Smaug

An Unexpected Journey

#look there are some REALLY LOVELY MOMENTS in the hobbit movies #(all three of them; i've seen enough stuff floating around the internet to know that even about the one i haven't actually seen lmao) #but the ratio of beautiful moments to what-the-fuckery is just so skewed to the latter #and the cartoonish unreality of most of the effects do NOT help #it's like somebody watched the mumakil bit from rotk and went ''more of that but dial it up to eleventy-one!'' and i just... #do y'all know how FUCKING EXCITED i was to see the White Council??? #to see GALADRIEL? #to see sauron thrown out of dol guldur? TO SEE THE WHITE COUNCIL!??? #because as soon as i heard ''three movies'' i knew I KNEW (i hoped) that they had to be adding that it #because how the fuck else were they going to pad-out that tiny little book into three whole movies? OBVIOUSLY with the white council!!! #and then...we got a chase scene in the mines that made the podracing look like it deserved an oscar #and the most cringe-inducingly-artificial cgi armies at war that i think i've ever seen even IN video games #it was like watching galactic battlegrounds middle-earth edition wtf #did y'all literally just make one elf and one dwarf and copy-past them a million times into the scene wtffffff #but i still need to make it clear that i DO love the good bits that's what makes the bad parts hurt so much! #like: does the fact that the elves coming to helm's deep make no sense and also VANISH from the plot as soon as it's over irritate me? YES! #but the battle itself is filmed with so much HEART that i don't care I DON'T CARE #i still cheer at ''no orc horn'' i still weep at haldir's death (GODS that MUSIC!) i still watch the whole thing RAPT and ENTHRALLED #but 80% of the hobbit's actions scenes don't DO anything they're just empty pixels with less purpose than the droid factory on geonosis #and there should be SO MUCH HEART because that's WHAT TOLKIEN IS auuuughhhhhh #and the fact that they missed the entire fucking EVERYTHING about MIRKWOOD of all fucking places...! UGH #DO YOU KNOW HOW AMAZING THESE ACTORS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THESE ROLES IF THEY'D ACTUALLY BEEN FILMING THIS STORY??? PJ WHY! #lotr movies #hobbit movies #middle earth asks

[thatcrazycrowgirl]

Absolutely no love for Jacob in that 15th Anniversary video, huh? Thanks, Ubisoft.

#and by thanks; I mean 'fuck you' #and Evie and Connor only get like one scene each? #wth? #it was nice to at least get some Arno in there #but it's pretty damn obvious that they didn't care about showing all the Assassins equally; just the newest and the most popular ones #I think even Altaïr only got like one short scene in the beginning #Shay wasn't even featured either; despite his game being in the mainline series #sorry for the salty post but once again; I am fucking disappointed #I was looking forward to seeing a live action video thing showcasing ALL of the Assassins #yes; including my personal favorite #but guess this is what I get for loving one of the 'black sheep' games of the franchise #but I mean; Jacob and Evie are a TEAM #they couldn't have featured both of them in one shot? #*frustrated and aggravated noises* #don't mind me; I'm just going to be over here drinking my big cup of salt and wondering why I dared to put any sort of faith in this company #(I'm sorry; my mood's been awful the past few days and this just set me off again) #Crowie Caws {personal}

[gayofthefae]

I mean like I’m sure they’ll probably continue but....um

Marisol for Eddie and all but he didn’t turn back. When he stopped I thought it was gonna be like “no, you know what, I’m gonna turn around and ask her” and I was - like how I liked Natalia generally but not for the arc - “you go dude!” because short term payoffs and all that

But he didn’t. And now I’m confused and unsure if she is gonna be in the next episode. Or was that just an example and reminder to him? Did he run back in the store afterwards offscreen?

Oh, maybe he got her number from helping her and is just gonna text her. But then why not say anything in the moment???

Also, side note, I find it narratively odd like a choice that for someone who is supposedly not supposed to be in comparison to Shannon she was still someone he had met previously and didn’t keep in touch with and then ran into later, hmmm?

But I thought he was gonna date her and like MAYBE he still is but then why not make that the end of the LOVE episode for him? Why make it the run in but not explicitly put them together? You have set it up so that if they do end up getting together we officially find out in an episode NOT about endgame happiness. DUDE !

#eddie diaz #911fox #wHAT? #i mean it isn't THAT big a deal but it does seed doubts for this relationship #like in-episode not just because of like past established arcs and buddie or anything #like the lack of action in the love episode is so crazy #911 spoilers #911 marisol #is gonna replace the natalia tag ig #because i think she is done and through #at first i thought they were gonna come back to her but then i contemplated her 'take care of yourself' comment or whatever (which if it was #that parallels taylor's final words to buck ftr) #911 parallels #maybe #after that i realized oh that WAS her moment of contemplation i thought she was gonna leave and come back like 'i thought about and this is #y issue with it but we can move past that' but then she said like such a final goodbye #and they ended the scene with a pregnancy joke and him not following her (bc he doesn't chase anymore yay but also one part of growing is yo #u don't have to actively oppose all your past habits because you trust yourself not to overuse them now ftr) #so yeah that is over ig #this should have been its own natalia post but whatever #911 natalia

[loverboybrightsideghost]

not too fond of this d&d movie coming out

#i will be the first to admit i don't know a lot about d&d or tabletop rpgs in general even though i've listened to a few ttrpg podcasts #AND I THINK THEYRE SO COOL AND I WANT TO DO IT ONE DAY SO BAD #but i don't like the vibes #like. that just feels like a random fantasy action movie to me #with some stereotypical d&d characters and monsters in it #like why do i care? what's making this cool? what's making this fun and interesting other than 'hey look d&d stuff!' #you know? #me da flojera #i'd rather listen to rqg or start listening to taz or something #like the tabletop part is what makes it particularly cool! #im not gonna watch it bc i don't wanna but i hope they at least make dice jokes or meta jokes in there somewhere #or even have a scene where a character goes 'WAIT' #and it shoots back to all the actors but as humans in real life sitting in someone's kitchen playing d&d and briefly arguing over the rules #like at the end of the movie or something i'll take it #anyways #not too fond of d&d movie 👍🏼

[colorisbyshe]

if i could kiss video players that let you speed videos up on the mouth i would. 1.25x speed i love you.

#1.5x/2x speed for action scenes i don't care about... i am your biggest fan #remember when there was sa panic about how this would destroy the film industry

[lord-squiggletits]

There’s two different types of bad writing, and one of them is the kind that’s actually infuriating.

There’s bad writing that’s just bad 100% of the way through, or it’s otherwise so low quality that there’s nothing of value to be gained from it. When writing is this bad, you can just ignore it and forget about it because it has no skill, no value, no memorability whatsoever. You don’t develop strong feelings about it because the writing is so bad you can’t even hate it because you don’t care about it enough to complain about it.

And then there’s bad writing that actually has gems of quality in it: There were interesting concepts, or character relationships that seemed interesting, or a setting or other plot device that adds depth to the world. Except it’s executed in such a shoddy way that it makes you scream from how much worse the actual writing is compared to what it could have been in theory. Bad writing that’s bad because of wasted potential is 1000% worse than bad writing that’s just bad because it’s just good enough to make you want to enjoy it.

The latter type of bad writing is pretty much how I feel about Barber’s work in phase 2 and it really annoys me lmao. Because Barber got almost every plot point that I was looking forward to reading about (Earth politics, Pyra Magna, colonies, Optimus fucking Prime being my favorite character of the whole continuity) and managed to turn it into a snail-paced boring slog full of contrivances that don’t make sense and only exist to force a certain plot to happen, with virtually no character relationships that are interesting and sloppy political allegories that aren’t actually told through a good story and are basically just Barber puppeteering the characters to scream “THIS IS A POLITICAL ALLEGORY DO YOU GET IT” as if this is entertaining or #deep when really it’s just boring and annoying.

#squiggposting #negativity #like i guess i can see the reasons other people like it #but not really because i don't understand how they even GOT THROUGH enough of the story to like the themes #when most of the story is just fucking stupid and there's almost no emotion besides unrelenting gloominess #and any 'commentary' it makes comes in the form of such brilliant scenes as #zeta prime quoting fascist propaganda and orion going 'but fascism is bad!' and zeta going 'it's cool when we do it' #like bro lmao my best friend loves his writing and the way she talked about it i was SO READY to love exrid/op #i was right here ready to be a stan and even a contrarian ready to enjoy it more than i liked mtmte #but no i absolutely get why no one talks about exrid/op because it's so fucking underwhelming and awful #and i barely even care about the characters so like why do i even care about whatever grand political commentary barber is trying to force #like lmao jro is a megatron apologist that shoehorned in megatron being not the worst guy ever but at least he made it entertaining #at least i felt pathos for megatron and other horrible people despite their shit actions #with barber's stuff i'm just like. this is a plot hole. this makes no sense. this is stupid. this makes no sense. #this is hamfisted. how many more issues do i have to read before i start caring again #it's just awful lmao #my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined #like IN CONCEPT i love so many worldbuilding and character ideas that are in exrid/op #but i would never recommend anyone to actually read it because like. there's almost no point #exrid/op is nothing but occasional glimmers of potential in a sea of depressing averageness