I think Hamlet is more compelling to me than Macbeth because revenge plots interest me more than power grab plots. If you're gonna do murder/evil/machinations, and it's just so you can be in charge of your shitty company/kingdom/country? Snooze. The extreme violence and gore in Titus Andronicus is not something I'd be up for if it were not in the service of vengeance. Ditto Blue Eye Samurai.
Spite is ok, too.
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it would be such a loss of potential and plot if naksu doesn’t show up in the final battle with her sword and fight jinmu like my girl has lived her whole life and went through all that trauma so that she can take her revenge and it would be such a pain if this doesn’t happen like if there is anyone who has suffered the most because of jinmu it’s her , she lost her family , her love , her life literally her everything and this should be her revenge battle like she’s the shadow assassin the same person of whom even the strongest mages we’re terrified of how cool would it be to see her team up with them and fight against jinmu LIKE PLEASE THIS IS THE ONLY RIGHT ENDING TO THIS SHOW
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Blue Eye Samurai (A Woman's Review)
I wasn't too sure about it at first, but the story caught my interest in spite of not being one of my usual picks for stories. I was even looking at reviews about this show today to see what other people thought of it. For some reason there were only men.
I watched the first season over the course of a week. It's gory. There's nudity and sex. It's not for children and not even remotely cute...well except for one of the characters...Rory if I remember correctly. He was cute. I tried to tell my mother about it and she said, I'm sure it's very cute. I said, no, not a bit.
I'm not usually into gore or explicit sex...I'm fine with it if it's part of the story and has a point. I don't go seeking it out though. I will never go out and see a slasher movie for example, I find them deeply unappealing.
As a whole, the visuals were fantastic. The story balanced and the characters had depth. This is the kind of story that never gets boring and even the larger than life characters in this story are shown to have human vulnerabilities.
The characters themselves are understandable and relatable. The main character, Mizu, is someone you both want to root for and question her motives. She is a grey character...or what people call an antihero. She's both a badass and spiritually broken.
The main plot is that Mizu is hell bent on revenge for her birth. In a certain time Japan...the Eddo period (I'm aware I likely misspelled that) they closed their borders to everyone, especially people from Europe and the U.K. Being a foreigner in Japan at that time was illegal and children of mixed race were considered worse than trash.
Mizu was of a mixed race, bullied a lot and orphaned at a young age. That prejudice against her and the loss of her mother, caused her to go on a path of revenge that she cannot be swayed from. She was almost turned away from it, but because of a betrayal of both her husband and her mother, she went back on the warpath.
The first episode of the series is long and Mizu disguises herself to look like a man for a couple of reasons. One of the main ones is because there are people hunting her and they are looking for a girl/woman so her mother made her dress like a boy. The other reason I think, is because women in that period of time were property and had no freedoms. Bartering chips, breeding stock or prostitutes, nothing more. In fact her true gender isn't revealed until the end of the first episode and it was an accident. Fortunately, it was Rory who found out about her, and he admired her and wanted to learn how to be a Samurai himself. A difficult thing for him, because he was born with no hands. He manages very well for himself in spite of his disability and goes on a quest to become great at something, anything and thinks Mizu can help him do that.
The story also contains real history and culture from Japan. There's an overall balance to the story telling. The music is good, though I generally don't pay attention to background music in movies and TV and wonder what they would be like without it sometimes.
Nobody has any complaints about this Netflix series and I'll have to agree with them. I have no complaints. This is one of those stories that might require to watch it again and to contemplate the plot. This is as story that requires some thought. Some people might not like that, but I do.
I wasn't expecting the gore. I was surprised the nudity and sex. But it did have a point. This is a layered plot. The motives of the characters not always pure. Especially Mizu's motives. They aren't completely sane, even though they are also understandable.
I'm keeping the spoilers down to a minimum. I recommend this story to anyone who's fully adult. I don't care how liberal you are with your kids, this is not a kid's story. It's on Netflix, the first episode is on YouTube. Overall, it's a good story. That's saying something since I'm not into gore. And it is very gory. The sex in the brothels is often weird. The plot pulls no punches.
I think I won't be the only woman who will appreciate this story. This is an antihero girl power plot with excellent supporting characters of both sexes. So, go check it out if you can.
(I know I contradicted myself about Mizu's mom being dead, then not, but that's part of the plot too.) I'd like to see some women give reviews for this series on YouTube and share their thoughts on it.
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I HAD THE MOST PERFECT DREAM LAST NIGHT
I dreamt that I was set to cat-sit for a neighbor. But THEN I found out that another neighbor had let the cat out and it DIED because it went swimming in a nearby creek and got hit by a motorboat (cat was orange male). So I went to Barnes & Noble to gather some research on revenge like Gone Girl, Titus Andronicus, etc. And then the manager, KEANU REEVES, asked me what I was doing with all those books because I was carrying the pile under my chin like Gus Gus with corn kernels in "Cinderella," and I told him, "They're not just books. They're ingredients." After I explained everything, Keanu decided to stop being the kindest man on earth to help me avenge the poor thing by hunting down the irresponsible neighbor and the boat guy. But we had to make out a little first, right there in the bookstore.
I WOKE UP WITH THE BIGGEST SMILE ON MY FACE
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Why The one Within the Villainess surpasses being just great
Among isekais, it's easy for writtings to fall victim of ill handled exposition, uninteresting or plain characters, shallow worlds or missuse of cliches. But The One Within the Villainess handles them well, with its few faults being covered by its greatly executed premisse and plot.
The premise of the history starts as the common villain reversal isekai of an otome game, but with a distinct framing. We see the narrative not through the eyes of the character that has been reincarnated into this world, but through the eyes of the villainess within her own body now possessed by the reincarnator.
This is used to set the motivation the main character will have moving forward. As we how the earnest reincarnator witnessed by the protagonist be wronged by the manipulative saintess.
Both the presentation of how the protagonist grew affection for the reincarnator in her body and how the 'targets' grew affection before being manipulated was well crafted and earnest, making good use of tropes presentation and passing. Similarly, the presentation of the saintess roten personality, inequacy and how her use of drugs and underhanded tatics to taint the reincarnators name is well built in a way that it convinces the viewer and greatly builds her as a roten antagonist.
After the confrontation event, the protagonist, now back in control of her body and deeply irated by the harm done to the reincarnators mind by the saintess, takes her steps for 'revenge'. For that, we see how she seeks to take the role of the saintess away from her, by making her an unessecity for the world.
The writting then does a great job in showcasing the cunning of the protagonist as well as her grimly motivated goodness, paired with good art and interesting progressing worldbuilding.
The manga ultimatly shines through the writing of the protagonist. Both her affections, motives and moves are all well constructed and interesting to read. Coupled with the good art and a loathable saintess as a distant antagonist to dream to see the downfall, I'll be eager to see where this story goes next.
So to the those that decide to read it, enjoy your meal.
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question people who read a lot of revenge plot books or fics, is there one where something like this happens
MC kills the final villain, to avenge their dead compatriots. They get down on their knees, looking at the blood on their hands, seemingly lamenting their decision. Blood begins to run down their arm. They begin to lick the trail it's left. They grab their weapon and slowly rise. They slowly turn to face the viewer. A deranged smile slowly creeps onto their face. (Along these lines, also i think this is a trope but i dont know what its called)
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[Revenge method]
Nie Brothers | Mo Dao Zu Shi
20-04-2021
We all know how nhs takes revenge for his loved one. He scheme and plot behind everyone's back, playing a big game of xiangqi while he plays the innocent and naive sect leader.
But what would nmj do?
like, I don't think he would do like nhs. his didi acted that way probably because he was not into fighting and slowly destroying his enemy by one day bringing out all the dirt on them.
but nmj doesn't seem like the kind of man to scheme in the background.
Maybe he would use Baxia to kill whoever ended his dear brother's life. Maybe he would make sure to make that person suffer as much as possible?
Like, nmj obviously loved his didi as much as nhs loved his da-ge. He would most likely not let the person who killed him slip away with what they did to nhs. maybe it wouldn't go on for as long as it did for nhs, but I feel like he would take a less behind the scene way and would just straight up make the person pay with his own hands.
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