Kung Fu Panda 4 was underwhelming. They had all the parts that makes a movie great but they forgot to buy good quality glue because it all fell apart in the end.
They had the lovable known character.
They had the new character who has something to overcome.
They had a powerful cool villain who desires something she can not have.
They had meaning in this story.
Then, they brought in villains from the previous movies... And...? None of them kept their personalities. It was like watching shells of characters who we all loved. Empty shells standing around for no actual reason. They didnt even show us any realistic reactions from them. They just stood there uncaring that their powers were stolen by the Chameleon. They just shat on Poh, and by they I just mean one of them. And how they returned back to the afterlife like that? I mean... Really?
They included so many unnecessary scenes when they could have used it to further develop the little fox thief. We didn't really need to see Tai Lung as much as we did.
In the end, they also sped up the mantle pass over moment for Zhen which only added to the disappointment.
I could not find myself really caring about the characters much, not even Po!
Further with Zhen, I did not mind that she came knowing things and being a fully fledged fighter and being able to go up against Po. That actually made sense to me and went against what was expected like with Po. But I did mind that they just did not flesh out her character a lot. We had three movies worth of Po antics, we know him well. All his quirks and personality. With Zhen? It wasn't bad but it was not good. We got another sarcastic traumatized girl who got delt a bad hand in life. And even further is that she was literally cared for most of her life by Chameleon. She only had to scrape by in the beginning of her life, before she ran off with the lizard. So they didn't even do the truamatize girl bit right.
They did not build up Zhen's and Chameleon's relationship at all, they legit only gave us one scene with them and it was almost lazy because they tried to use only one scene to explain what happened between her and her past mentor, why Chameleon took her in, and Zhen's inner conflict. One. Yet many scenes of Po's dad's going on their way to help him... Which were too long anyways and did nothing for the main story. They gave Po's bio dad's character more development than they do Zhen (exaggeration but it felt like it.)
I still liked it though. It was fun to watch. I loved the image of Chameleon, enjoyed Zhen, and it was well animated. It could have been worse but it was not.
i finished the latest season of true detective, and i have thoughts… it had such a good setting and premise, but it just didn’t deliver by the end.
had there been more episodes and perhaps time for writing, the links to season one and their relevance could’ve been more thoroughly fleshed out, the topic of violence against indigenous communities (particularly against indigenous women and children) could’ve been addressed much better, and navarro’s, danvers’, and prior’s backstories could’ve been explored in greater depth. it all felt too superficial for my liking.
the season had a good set of ideas behind it, but too much time was spent waiting for paperwork or watching corpses thaw.
I experience #pain most of all when I am overwhelmed with a knowing that i’am being underwhelmed by the communication as it pertains to the revealing of you/me/we/ they/other relate to each.
I experience pain when the communication that exists with a person with who I am in a relationship with… (Mom, Dad, Sister,Brother, Auntie, Girlfriend, bestie, neighbor,roommate, barber, co-worker, past classmate , florist etc) is not resulting with said person expressing how they are experiencing life’s revelations to me, it makes me experience a personal state of #Stagnation.
And stagnation on this earth - whether in the body or in the land- will either result in a volcanic explosive eruption or a slow invisible glacial deterioration.
This day I choose to experience a #Whirlwind for the rest of my days. #Stagnation will never be my state of being ever again. Henceforth I will be the tempest. And I will go where the #SpiritOfIntimacy takes me.
A majority of BookTok are falling over their ducks for this book. I listened to it today. It was fine. Honestly, I was underwhelmed. How unfortunate. I’ve got plenty of other books on hold that should be coming available soon. Maybe one of them will be a bit more to my liking. 🤞