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A few days ago I finished watching Into the Badlands, a show I wanted to watch at the time it came out, but never did, so:
- Liked it way more than I thought I would.
- In spite of it being 85% made of fighting, bloodshed and violence, it has a damn good story following it all.
- Probably the closest thing to GoT you can get out there.
- Quinn! Damn, it's the character you want to hate so much, but you just can't. He's consistent with everything he does, to the very end, no matter what, and I love him for it. We need more characters like this out there, urgently. And like I've already said before, Marton's performance here absolutely took my breath away.
- I didn't like Lydia at first, she annoyed me, but in the end, she ended up being my second favorite character.
- My tradition of not liking the main character is prominent here because Sunny was one of my least favorite characters, and I didn't like him one bit. He was pretty good at being a hypocrite most of the time.
- I love the fact that they took "the chosen one" trope with MK, chewed on it and mercilessly spat it out.
- I know MK was annoying as fuck toward the end, but somehow his journey made sense and it went well with his struggle and temperament.
- I loved that towards the end, the main character role actually went to the Widow because from moment one, whether it was intentional or not, she sort of carried the story. Somehow, things always started and ended with her. And, she's my absolute favorite character.
- I've seen people complain about the way her story ended, but I actually think it was perfect, because in the end she got to be everything a woman can be. Most writers end up failing at this, they reduce female characters to just one thing. You can either be a woman and a mother, or you can be a warrior and girlboss who needs no one. The Widow ended up being everything a female character can be, a woman, a warrior, a girlboss and a mother. She got to face her own flaws and demons and got to know what it feels like having everything to lose the way people did fighting for her. And I loved that.
- What completely came out of the left field for me was her romance with Gaius thought. His entire character was kinda redundant. I mean, I did like him, but he felt like a plot device through the entire time he was there, a plot device that in the end didn't even serve as that, cause the story would've mostly been the same even if he wasn't there. I appreciate that they tried to paint some backstory with Minerva for them to actually make some sense, but it wasn't that convincing. I actually liked his character more than I liked Sunny, but he deserved more agency and should've been introduced way earlier for it to make any sense and not only serve as the baby daddy.
- I hated that for half of the show's run Sunny was reduced to just one thing, the way writers mostly do to female characters. He was reduced to a father and nothing else, and his entire story, if it wasn't for Bajie would've probably been my favorite thing to skip.
- I loved that Bajie wasn't just a blameless and sinless comic relief and that most of the time he was portrayed as not much of a good guy based on everything he's done. Just human and selfish pretty often.
- I'm sorry, but I fucking hated Veil. She was the most annoying character in the entire show. Followed by Odessa close by.
- Somehow, the only characters that were aware of the world they live in and what it takes to survive, without being merciless butchers, were The Widow and Lydia. That's why they're my favorite characters. They have gone through hell and learned, unlike other characters who seemed too naive most of the time, in spite of living in a literal hell on earth. I can understand that with young characters like MK and Tilda, but others don't really have an excuse for being fucking Starks.
- Which is why I was annoyed as hell with the Tilda turning her back on the Widow for selling Veil out to Quinn. You live in the fucking badlands, you do what you have to do to keep your head on your shoulders, but you have to do even worse things if you are fighting for something better than that. In spite of her action actually making sense based on the world she lives in, we still had the Widow face her own dark side and her own failures and mistakes, which is why she ended up the last one standing. Unlike a lot of other characters.
- Lydia did not have to die. Her death was useless and it kinda only served as a slap in the face of the Widow telling her "you fought and killed and sacrificed everything and everyone for the power you hold, you can't put it on anyone else's shoulders now, you can't run". It also gave Moon another revenge plot he would fail. I know he's supposed to be this badass clipper, but he kind of comically ended up being a walking failure. He failed to stay away from the badlands, he failed to beat Sunny, he failed to get revenge on Sunny, he failed to beat the Widow, he mostly failed as her regent, he failed to get revenge on the witch for Lydia.
- They didn't know they would get canceled, but somehow the second half of the 3rd season felt like they were rushing to wrap up the story and a lot of things felt a bit naive and off.
- Oh, and wtf is with the showrunners being alergic to love and sex scenes? You literally have bloodshed everywhere. You have a man's arms being broken and him being stabbed by the bones of his own arms, but have like two kiss scenes in the entire show. It's actually hilarious.
Probably forgot a lot of things, but all in all, I loved the show, and I didn't expect to love it as much. Would totally recommend.
#into the badlands#into the badlands amc#a review#i will now go back to watching older shows i always wanted to watch but never did#because i hate new shows#the widow killing people with high heels will forever live in my mind rent free#the fights are all so damn cool#of course it's a long post because i just can't shut up
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super mario bros wonder is fun
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So I watched the nun for the first time with my fiancee, and I gotta say it's not a very good movie. I don't understand how it's gathered hype because the priest and the non nun along with their pervy companion frenchy, have the collective common sense of a door stop, and the spooky nun? Not very scary, her powers? Who knows it's just random, the police? Who needs them when you have a priest that chases a child through the woods. And the cliff hanger at the end, eh. It's not the worst movie but it isn't anything special.
The nun 4.6/10
My fiancee 10/10, yes I know you'll see this
#funny#lol#meme#memes#dank memes#dank meme#humor#the nun#nun#horror film#horror#spooky#halloween#not a great movie#awkward#fiancee#wholesome#a review
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REVIEW OF IT ENDS WITH US: BY COLLEEN HOOVER (Spoilers)
Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure and honor of getting the chance to read It ends with us, written by Colleen Hoover. I have in my life come across only 2 books and a movie that have affected me and represented the reality of life. One of these books is It ends with us.
I admire the courage that the author took to actually put her mother's and her own experience into writing. Like many others, prior to this book, the idea of choosing to stay with someone who has abused you has been a simple binary question. While I read this book I fell in love with Ryle within the first few chapters and in the chapters in which Atlas's story was shared via her diary entries, I wished the chapters were shorter so that I could have more of Ryle. I absolutely his character and the banter and "naked truths" between Lily and him.
The abuse that Lily's mother went through in her marriage made me sick and also question her judgement, as it was the basic idea that was built into my mind. If they hit you, you should be able to leave easily. No excuses. But then I read the story through Lily's perspective when she went through the same exact thing. The first instance, I reasoned for her. He didn't mean it. It definitely wasn't the same. Ryle would get better as the story went on and it would be a happily ever after. The second incident, getting pushed down the stairs, I questioned my judgement. I felt sick and hollow reading what he had done, how he had denied it. But I wished that she wouldn't leave him. He was good, he was great, he made her laugh. The reason he gave made me feel relief. Deep down I knew it was wrong and several times I had to close the book in order to assess what was happening. I accepted it and I was glad when she took him back. The third incident was the worst and it was awful. But in my head I reasoned for her again. I knew it was wrong, to go through something so awful. But I blamed Lily for not telling him, I blamed her and tried to justify what he did wasn't in his control he needed help.
I suppose in a way I was trying to justify the countless times I have let myself give a chance to someone who gave me emotional pain and made me feel small and insignificant but I wanted to let him have another chance, because I missed him. Because he was good most of the times and those small moments when he wasn't shouldn't have defined our relationship. It wasn't the magnitude or physical level of abuse Lily went through. But I related to her. The waves of reasoning, the love she felt for him. I hated her despite everything for going to Atlas to save herself from him. I WAS WRONG.
What Colleen Hoover has managed to do through this book in the very end with the conversation with her mother about limits that we let the ones we love push and expand, just because we love them. Making things that they shouldn't ever have a right to do a reality. There are some limits we shouldn't let someone push and yet we do. It ends with us has done a commendable job in showing the reality of it. You let them hurt you more and more and give them more chances so when the next time they hurt you on the most basic level your worst case scenario is changed. You can justify that what they did this time wasn't at least something as bad as last time so it was okay. It's not. I admired her decision to leave him at the end, Colleen Hoover managed to speak to me personally while she explained that if the situation was turned, that you were the parent and someone did this to their child. You would beg them to live.
This book was a beautiful work of art and perhaps some people will not be able to understand the entire meaning behind the story. The amount of courage it took for the author to put to paper what she did. To share it with us and teach us what it means to be in an abusive relationship. To not only look at the reason. It hurts, it breaks your heart because you loved him in the first few chapters, but life moves on to the next chapter and we have to move with it because if we get stuck to that first impression we will never be able to escape and truly make the right decisions. It was not a risk worth taking. I would recommend anyone who wishes to get a greater understanding of love, of relationships to read this book. It doesn't have the happy ever after you want. But it is the one we need to read.
I thank the author for her work and for sharing this with us. I cannot express how much this book resonated with me and how much I loved it. I cannot wait to read the sequel. For everyone who has said that the book is not worth the hype, they haven't truly experienced love or rather haven't experienced love with heartbreak.
I think this just became my new favorite book.
Unity
#it ends with us#colleen hoover#spoilers#a review#rant#gratefulness#a review and a rant#IT DOES CONTAIN SPOILER DONT COME AFTER ME FOR THAT#literature#I know this isnt the best of reviews but its an honest one
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A Fan Review of “Rings of Power”
Rings of Power launched this week and immediately finds itself locked in a conversation that makes it hard to really get a sense of what’s real criticism and what’s a social and/or political statement about the show. I figured some folks here might appreciate a relatively focused review from a more casual fan of the source material.
The TLDR: I like the show and think it has done a good job so far, but also recognize that it’s probably easier for Lore-experts to think of it as the equivalent to Tolkien Historical Fiction rather than thinking of it as an attempt to perfectly portray what we know of the canon of the Second Age.
For lore-focused fans it would be like medieval historians watching something like Orlando Bloom’s “Kingdom of Heaven” where plenty of historical fact exists, but is in service to making a good movie rather than perfectly reflecting the events leading to the 3rd Crusade.
Since any review of this show is overshadowed by the concerns about its canonical or political relevance I figured I’d throw out my lack of qualifications to judge the review.
From a Tolkien-specific point of view, I’m a significant fan of Tolkien but not to the level of amateur or professional scholar of the material. I’ve read the Silmarillion a dozen times over the years at least, but I only ever dipped my toes into the more extended collections of writing (though I’ve gotten lost in a few wiki-dives on characters over the years). So I have a pretty extensive knowledge of the lore, but largely the surface stuff, not the deep lore.
From a political/social space I’m a left leaning cis straight white male from the US. So you won’t get any complaints about the racial or gender make-up of the show, but I almost certainly have blindspots. For example: I saw some complaints about accents being assigned to specific groups of characters, but simply don’t know enough about British regional accents and the associated social implications to recognize any controversy over it.
Casting: The casting ranges from good to fine. The Elves of Lindon feel more “real” then Elrond or Galadriel did in the movies but that’s clearly an intentional choice as they’re major characters here rather than mysterious and magical encounters. While I generally like Elrond, Galadriel, and Arondir, a lot of the supporting Elves are a tad bland. Dwarves, Harfoots, and Humans all have pretty good casting for their main characters. We haven’t seen as much of their respective supporting casts. There’s so far no one who irritates me every time they’re on screen (as a bad actor as opposed to making dumb choices).
My only real objection comes down to “it’s a TV series” and that’s that at times the world seems unpopulated at times. Beautiful and soaring establishing shots move into rooms with only a handful of people present.
Lore:
As I mentioned I’m a surface Lore fan. Because of this I spotted some lore inconsistencies that bugged me at times. Some could be easily explained (Galadriel monologuing about the Noldor going after Morgoth just skips right over the Kinslaying, which seems like something she’d do). Others were just off but I just made some sarcastic comments to myself. My only really big lore objection that actively bugged me was Valinor’s “modern” portrayal. You could easily explain around it if you wanted to “repair” the lore but they seemed to me to be treating it more as a magical Heaven rather than as an actual navigational destination you could go to. It’s not remotely a deal breaker...but the whole sequence sort of bugged me.
Plot:
The plot itself is only just beginning but they’re clearly trying to build out the world to tell stories in it. As much as I commented that the TV budget leaves some of the world feeling unpopulated, the same has always been a bit of a pet peeve of mine about Tolkien himself in the Silmarillion. The stories of the First and Second Ages that we know of tend to be about small numbers of named individuals, and then an indeterminate number of other people who are following them. That’s completely in line with the genre conventions he was aiming for, but it has its negatives.
The show is making sure to build out six or seven distinct communities of characters so that the plot can be built by all of them, rather than limited to a handful of Elves and Numenoreans. Because of that it’s a little disjointed at the moment, but also implies that the seven or so main characters so far are eventually going to cross paths.
The plot itself is also built on an era we know very little about, namely the time between the end of the First Age and Sauron returning. They’ve clearly decided to lean on one of the classic “Evil is dead and can never return” tropes, with our heroes being the wise ones who see the danger. I suspect they’ll be “squashing” the timeline a bit since thousands of years would likely remove some of the characters they’ve already created.
So is it good?:
It’s fine. After two episodes I have no reason to stop watching it. My lore-based pet peeves are easy enough to disregard, and I actively like a couple of the characters. We’re obviously about to get some Numenoreans in the next episode, and that will give us another set of neat establishing shots.
If you don’t want to watch it for moral or political reasons...don’t. This is a nice enough show but I don’t see it turning into the dominant fandom of the moment the way Game of Thrones or Good Omens did on their respective releases. There’s no social obligation to watch this, or to support the creators.
If you’re a lore-first fan, you’ll absolutely have to be able to check that instinct at the door before watching. There’s no question they’re modifying and messing with timelines, events, and characters. Depending on who one mysterious character is could throw things wildly out of whack. Some lore-fans will be able to appreciate what the creators are aiming for with the changes...but a lot of the others are just going to hate the adaption of the canon. If you can think of it as historical fiction for Middle Earth you might be able to enjoy it more. But as with others, there’s no obligation to watch it if you don’t want to.
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i would have played pretend on the playground with all of u btw
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this fucks
#i wish i could turn off the replies of this post now 😭#men are so insecure#you’d think barbie herself called to kill all the kens#barbie movie#barbie#barbie review#1k#10k#20k#30k#40k#50k#60k#70k#80k
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Goncharov coming third in tumblr's top 100 movies of 2023 is so damn funny. Imagine being a film studio exec who spent millions making some of the other 97 movies listed below it only to be beaten by a film that cost exactly zero dollars to make and doesn't exist
#goncharov#tumblr#goncharov 1973#year in review#movies#film#not that studio execs care what movies people are talking about on the unprofitable website but still lmao
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no offense but you guys need to learn the difference between someone implying their experience is universal and a post simply just not being about you
#i’ve seen people respond to my personal posts venting about my own experiences and say that it’s ‘not universal’ or ‘needs more nuance’#like??? no it doesn’t ?? it’s a vent#i don’t need to pass it through peer review#text post#10k#top posts#15k#20k#25k#30k#40k#50k#60k#80k
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people are drawing Steamboat Willie Mickey doing all this crazy shit and whatnot, but you could always do that. you can do that now, with current Mickey, just fine. it's fanart and it's legally protected. hell you could take Disney-drawn Mickey and put a caption about unions or whatever on it and it would still be protected under free speech and sometimes even parody law.
what is special about public domain is that you can SELL him. you could take a screenshot and sell it on a tshirt. you can use him to advertise your plumbing business. people have already uploaded and monetized the original film.
you could always have Mickey say what you want, but now you can profit off it.
#steamboat willie#Mickey mouse#Disney#public domain#you can't trademark him as like a logo or mascot of your plumbing business i just mean like#you can slap him in your commercial or side of the van#i just have seen soooo many people make ORIGINAL art of him and I'm like#no that's not the point!! you can already do that!!!#(obvs if it's a comic or something talking about him being free or whatever then yeah like i get it)#(but those people who put him as a fighter in their game?? Quinton reviews uploading the original video?? boss shit)#(THAT'S what it's about)
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btw if a trans man decides that they want to get pregnant and you're not normal about this and start spewing a bunch of transphobic shit i show up at your house and beat you to death with a baseball bat
#og#omg a hit tweet#yes this got flagged as mature. i am not requesting a second review because it'll be declined. o7#but also im not necessarily upset bc this label means less people see this post and my notifications aren't full of annoying people anymore#YIPEEE
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trying to have sex with my point-n-click wife but she keeps saying "hmm...i don't think those two things go together"
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“I want to decompose in a bog” well you clearly don’t know the first thing about bogs. poser
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NFL Awards 2024: A Review of the Season’s Best Performers
NFL Awards 2024: A Review
NFL Awards 2024: A Review
The NFL’s 2023 season was a rollercoaster of excitement, drama, and unexpected turns. With the thrilling Super Bowl LVIII closing the chapter, the league gathered in Las Vegas on February 8, 2024, for the annual NFL Honors. Here, the top performers of the season were celebrated, alongside the announcement of the 2024 Pro Football Hall of Fame…
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Oh how nice. Quinton Reviews released a new video. And this one is only 1 hour 14 minutes long. 🙂
Just 1 hour
and 14 minutes
and 27 seconds
and 47....
a-and 47...................
a-and 4-47....
no.
oh no.
oh no no..............
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This is what happen when people take the 'your brain doesn't mature till 25' pop-sci too literally and just ran with it, also transphobia
#england#britain#rishi sunak#trans#lgbt#lgbtqia+#natalie wynn#contrapoints#queer#trans rights#cass review#cass report
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