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Infinity Train: Book Three [television]

 Infinity Train: Book Three [television] THIS ONE WASN'T QUITE AS GOOD AS THE OTHER ONES BUT THIS SHOW IS STILL INCREDIBLE. THE PACING WAS REALLY WEIRD THOUGH, LIKE THE SHOW WASN'T A COMPLETE STORY LIKE THE OTHER ONES WHERE A TON OF STUFF IS CLEARLY CONTINUING IN BOOK 4 AND ALSO THE LAST EPISODE HAD LIKE TEN TRILLION SUPER FUCKED UP THINGS HAPPEN REALLY FAST WHICH WAS REALLY WILD. FULL NUMBER SIMON WAS A VERY FINAL FANTASY LAST BOSS BUT BOY DID I NOT EXPECT TO SEE ANY OF THIS IN WHAT IS VAGUELY A CHILDREN'S CARTOON. ON THE OTHER HAND SIMON REALLY IS LIKE, ONE OF THE MOST OBJECTIVELY EVIL CHARACTERS I CAN THINK OF IN RECENT FICTION. I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO GO WITH SOME KEN ICHIJOJI PLOT BUT NOPE, HE'S JUST DOUBLE HITLER.  PS. THIS WHOLE SEASON EXISTED TO MAKE CAPTAIN JANEWAY MAKE A WEIRD REFERENCE TO THE PEEWEE MOVIE AND/OR THAT BAND.

Children of Morta [game]

 Children of Morta [game] IT'S WEIRD, I DON'T KNOW I HAVE EVER PLAYED OR EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT A ROUGELITE WITH A STRONG STORY, BECAUSE NORMALLY THAT IS JUST CALLED "A REGULAR GAME" BUT SOMEHOW THEY DID IT. IT'S EVEN GOT A GREAT STORY, OR WELL, IN A WAY NOT A TON HAPPENED BUT THEY TOLD IT WELL AND I CARED A TON ABOUT THE SHOCKING PART. PS. THE ONE PART THAT DIDN'T WORK IS THE PACING ON THE VERY ENDING. LIKE I GET IT, IT MADE SENSE, BUT IT WAS LIKE FIVE SECONDS AND IT WENT FROM "THE MOUNTAIN GOD IS AN ALIEN GOD CONSUMED WITH HATE" TO 'OH HE'S GOOD AGAIN, HERE IS A VERY ARTISTIC PIXEL ART RENDITION OF HIM FUCKING REA DANA" 

Kristy [movie]

Kristy [movie] THIS IS THE MOST NOTHING MOVIE EVER MADE. PS. IT FEELS LIKE A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKER THOUGH THE NAME KRISTY WAS COOLER THAN IT IS.

The Lego Ninjago Movie [movie]

 The Lego Ninjago Movie [movie] MAN, THIS MOVIE IS NOT GOOD. THE ORIGINAL LEGO MOVIE AND THE BATMAN ONE ARE GREAT, THE SECOND ONE IS FINE BUT THIS MOVIE IS JUST NOTHING. LIKE THE CAT BEING A CAT WAS FUNNY BUT I FEEL LIKE 50 THINGS HAVE DONE THAT JOKE. THE FAKE MOVIE LIST WAS SORT OF FUNNY I GUESS? PS. THE DANCE OF DOOM AFTER THE REAL CREDITS SONG WAS A LITTLE FUNNY AND I GUESS I'M GLAD I WENT TO THE BATHROOM AND LEFT THIS RUNNING INSTEAD OF TURNING IT OFF WHEN IT ENDED? BUT IT WASN'T THAT FUNNY. 

Hamilton [movie]

 Hamilton [movie]  I LIKE THAT THE DISNEY+ VERSION IS LIKE 99.99% JUST A STRAIGHT SIMPLE FILMING OF THE STAGE PLAY BUT THEN THERE IS LIKE MAYBE <5 SHOTS THAT ARE LIKE, OVERHEAD OR CLOSE UP JUST TO REMIND YOU THAT THEY COULD HAVE FILMED THIS FANCY AND SIMPLY CHOSE NOT TO. LIKE IT'S NOT EVEN LIKE THEY DID IT FOR IMPORTANT SCENES, JUST RANDOM SHOTS FOR NO REASON HAD FLAIR TO THEM. PS. I WATCHED THIS ON A COMPUTER MONITOR WITH THE AUDIO STREAMED OVER GOOGLE CAST TO A GOOGLE HOME MICRO AND IT MADE THE AUDIO NOT SYNC UP AT ALL WITH THE VIDEO. I WOULD NOT SUGGEST THAT IS A GOOD WAY TO WATCH THIS. 

A Song for a New Day [book, audiobook]

 A Song for a New Day [book, audiobook] HOOOOLY CRAP. I TALK UP THE NEBULA AWARDS BUT GOOD GOD. THIS IS THE 2019 NEBULA AWARD, RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2019.  IT'S A NEAR FUTURE FICTION WHERE THE CONCEPT IS THAT AFTER A SERIES OF PUBLIC SHOOTINGS AND BOMBINGS AND SEVERAL YEARS OF SERIOUS PANDEMIC THAT SOCIETY JUST OUTLAWED MOST PUBLIC GATHERINGS. AND IT'S LARGELY SET 10 YEARS IN FOLLOWING AN AGORAPHOBIC WOMAN THAT GREW UP HOMESCHOOLED IN A SMALL TOWN AND A ROCK STAR THAT HAPPENED TO BE THE LAST CONCERT HELD THE NIGHT OF A 9/11 STYLE BOMBING THAT MARKED THE LAST LARGE PUBLIC CONCERT BEFORE THINGS GOT SHUT DOWN. AND I LOVE IT, IT'S SUCH A SMALL STORY, THE WORLD IS PRETTY CLEARLY CRAPSACK BUT THERE ISN'T REALLY INDICATION THAT IT'S A DYSTOPIAN TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT OR ANYTHING, AND THE MUSIC COMPANIES SUCK BUT ROUGHLY IN LINE WITH HOW MUCH THEY REALLY SUCK, AND THEY NEVER REALLY OVERTHROW ANYTHING.  IT'S JUST A REALLY SMALL STORY WITH ONLY LITTLE CHANGES AND THE MESSAG

Kill la Kill the Game: IF [game]

 Kill la Kill the Game: IF [game] IT'S TOO BAD, THIS GAME ISN'T THE BEST THING EVER BUT IT'S PRETTY DECENT. I'M ACTUALLY SAD IT WAS SOME SUPER DISCOUNT BARGEN GAME. IT CAME OUT AT 19.95 AND I GOT IT FOR 9.99 AND LIKE, IT SET UP A WHOLE PLOT FOR WHY EVERYTHING IS AN ALTERNATE STORY AND IT SET THE FIRST ANTAGONIST MORE AS THE PROTAGONIST AND THAT IS REALLY INTERESTING BUT YOU CAN TELL THEY ONLY MADE LIKE 5 MODELS AND SO THE STORY TWISTS TO MAKE YOU FIGHT THE SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER. I DON'T ACTUALLY THINK I'D HAVE BOUGHT THIS AT FULL PRICE SO I GUESS THAT IS THE POINT. BUT I'D HAVE LIKED IT TO HAVE ALL THE ACTUAL 'WHAT IF' STUFF LIKE A MAKO CHAPTER OR STUFF ABOUT THE TENNIS GIRL OR WHATEVER. PS. KILL LA KILL IS LIKE TOP FIVE ANIME EVER BUT GOD IS IT AWFUL AND NO ONE SHOULD EVER LOOK AT IT. ALSO LOL AT THE UNLOCKABLE SOUND TEST STUFF THAT IS JUST THE ENGLISH VOICE ACTORS TALKING ABOUT ROOMBAS AND AMAZON AND STUFF. 

Eating Raoul [movie]

Eating Raoul [movie] EH, I FEEL LIKE I WANTED TO LIKE THIS MORE THAN I DID. IT HAD A FUNNY ENOUGH PREMISE, IT HAD SOME FUNNY SCENES, A GOOD CAST AND IT'S MADE BY THE GUY THAT MADE DEATH RACE 2000, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN REALLY GOOD, BUT IT WAS JUST KINDA MEH. LIKE IT HAD A FUNNY PREMISE AND TONE BUT DIDN'T MANAGE TO STRING IT TOGETHER INTO ANYTHING INTERESTING. PS. LIKE MOSTLY IT FEELS LIKE THEY WROTE IT AS A CANNIBALISM PLOT THEN SET UP A BUNCH OF JOKES AROUND THAT THEN DIDN'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING LIKE THAT EXCEPT THE LAST 2 SECONDS.  I GUESS YOU CAN SAY IT'S FORESHADOWING, BUT EH? 

Dr. Caligari [movie]

Dr. Caligari [movie] OH MAN, I LIKE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH. IT HAD SOME BAD OR BORING PARTS BUT MAN, IT'S FILMED LIKE IT'S A PLAY, ALL THE DIALOG SEEMS LIKE AN AI WROTE IT AND HALF THE ACTING IS LIKE THE SHADOW PLAY FROM UTENA. IT'S VERY GREAT AND I LOVE THIS MOVIE.  PS. IT'S FROM 1989 BUT MAN DOES IT HAVE THAT 90S TACO BELL AESTHETIC. 

Muppets NOW: Episode 1 [television]

Muppets NOW: Episode 1 [television] I DON'T KNOW, THIS WASN'T REALLY BAD BUT IT WASN'T REALLY GOOD. IT'S BASICALLY JUST "WHAT IF THE MUPPET SKETCHES WERE YOUTUBE CHANNELS" BUT THEN LAYERED ONTO "BUT THEN WHAT IF YOUTUBE SKETCHES IT WAS A DISNEY+ CHANNEL" IT HAS SOME REASONABLY FUNNY JOKES, BUT IT FEELS LIKE BEING A TV SHOW INSTEAD OF ACTUAL YOUTUBE VIDEOS MADE EVERYTHING FEEL LIKE IT WENT ON TOO LONG.  PS. LIKE KERMIT SAYING HE WAS GOOD AT PHOTOGRAPHY AND THEN IT TURNING OUT HE WAS SAYING PHOTOBOMBGRY AND HIM PRONOUNCING IT LIKE THAT WAS A FUNNY JOKE, THEN THE CONCEPT OF HIM PHOTOBOMBING A BUNCH OF STUFF WAS FUNNY. THEN THE SKIT IS LIKE 10 MINUTES LONG AND THAT WASN'T FUNNY.