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Monkey's Magic Merry Go Round [movie]

 Monkey's Magic Merry Go Round [movie] THIS MOVIE IS REALLY FRUSTRATING. MANY OF THE SCENES ARE REALLY WELL DONE BUT THE MOVIE OVERALL IS VERY JUST OKAY.  IT FEELS LIKE THE WRITER CAME UP WITH "MR RODGERS/BLUES CLUES BUT HORROR MOVIE" AND THEN WROTE A WHITEBOARD OF EVERY IDEA AND INSTEAD OF PICKING ONE SET OF THEM JUST DID ALL OF THEM, AND LIKE, A TON OF THE SCENES DO A GREAT JOB, BUT IT ALL FEELS LIKE A MESS. LIKE, STRUCTURE WISE EITHER THE PUPPETS OR THE HOST HAVE TO BE OVERTLY EVIL AND CRAZY (AND THEN THINGS CAN DEGRADE SO BOTH ARE). AND LIKE, HAVING MONKEY HAVE A SUBTLELY CREEPY DESIGN WORKS EXCEPT THEN FERRET(?) BEING DIRECT HORROR MONSTER RUINS THAT. AND LIKE, CONCEPTUALLY THE PUPPETS BEING ON THE PLAYGROUND AND HIM HAVING THE YARD IS SET UP LIKE A THING, BUT THEY KEPT MESSING WITH IT, AND NOT IN A 'RULES ARE BREAKING DOWN' WAY, JUST LIKE THEY WANTED THE SCENE WITH BIRD AND BEAVER AND IT'S JUST MUSH. PS. THE BIGGEST ONE IS THE HUMAN TRAP SKIN THING, THAT...

Digger [movie]

 Digger [movie] HEY, THIS MOVIE IS REALLY REALLY GOOD. IT'S FLOPPING EXTREMELY HARD BUT IT'S REALLY GOOD. I ALSO SAID THAT ABOUT MEGALOPOLIS, BUT THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY GOOD AND NOT JUST FUNNY BAD. THERE IS NOTHING I CAN EVEN SAY ABOUT IT. EVERYTHING I CAN SAY IS SPOILERS. IT'S A MOVIE THAT EXISTS FOR IT TO BE 25 YEARS FROM NOW AND PEOPLE TO REDISCOVER THIS WEIRD FAILED TOM CRUISE MOVIE AND SAY 'WOW, IT'S JUST LIKE THAT" PS. SORRY MOVIE I'M PRETTY SURE FALLOUT HAS THE SOLE RIGHTS TO DOING THAT WITH THE INKSPOTS, YOU DOING IT JUST FEELS LIKE COPYING FALLOUT NOW. 

Futurama (Hulu Series) [televison]

 Futurama (Hulu Series) [television] I LIKED ORIGINAL RUN FUTURAMA WELL ENOUGH. I KINDA ACTIVELY DISLIKED THE MOVIES AND THEN THE COMEBACK SERIES WAS KINDA ACTIVELY BAD (ALTHOUGH IT STILL MANAGED TO HAVE SOME GOOD EPISODES, LIKE LATE PHILIP J FRY AND THE TIME STOP FINALE WERE BOTH SOME OF THE BEST EPISODES OF THE WHOLE SERIES). THIS IS THE THIRD COMEBACK. IT'S AMAZING HOW PERFECTLY THIS REPLICATES THE ORIGINAL IN A WAY THE OTHERS NEVER DID. THE ORIGINAL IS JUST OKAY SO THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S AMAZING, BUT IT'S AMAZING HOW MUCH THIS FIGURED OUT THE CORE OF EVERY FUTURAMA JOKE IS SOMEONE SAYING A WORD THEN SOMEONE ELSE SAYING THE SAME WORD ("LETS GO TO THIS EXPENSIVE RESTAURANT".... "THAT SOUNDS EXPENSIVE"). LIKE YOU DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT BUT THAT WAS LIKE 75% OF THE JOKES IN THE ORIGINAL THEN TOTALLY WENT AWAY. NOW IT'S BACK AND IT'S SO OBVIOUS HOW CORE THAT WAS TO THE FUTURAMA FEEL. PS. FOR SOME REASON I REALLY LIKE THE WHITE HOLE EPIS...

Without a Hero [book]

 Without a Hero [book] BIG GAME: IT JUST FEELS LIKE THERE NEEDED TO BE MORE TO THIS STORY. LIKE GUY GOES TO CRAPPY SAFARI PARK TO HUNT CAPTIVE ANIMALS THEN IS STOMPED BY AN ELEPHANT. I DON'T KNOW, I GUESS. IS THE NAME A JOKE? IT'S A SMART JOKE IF IT IS, BUT IT'S NOT OBVIOUS IF THE BOOK IS THAT CLEVER. HOPE RISES: I REALLY WANTED TO LIKE THIS, IT FELT LIKE IT WAS GOING TO SAY SOMETHING, LIKE PARALLELLING THE DECLINE OF OLD AGE AND THE DEATH OF FROGS IN THE ENVIROMENT, OR WEIGHING IN ON IF "HOPE RISING" FROM WORMS GROWING IN SLUDGE IS OR IS NOT ACTUALLY GOOD. BUT THE STORY JUST ENDS WITH HIM FUCKING HIS WIFE WITH A BUNCH OF TOADS AROUND. MEH!! FILTHY WITH THINGS: THIS GOES ON A LONG TIME AND NOTHING HAPPENS. I WAS GOING TO SAY THE TWIST AT THE END WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER STORY BUT THEN THAT WAS THAT MOVIE I HATED SOOOO WITHOUT A HERO: DESPITE BEING THE TITLE STORY I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS EVEN A LITTLE BIT. …..EH, WHO CARES? THERE WAS LOTS MORE AN...

Dragon Age: The Veilguard [game]

 Dragon Age: The Veilguard [game] EH, THIS ISN'T NEARLY AS BAD AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE, BUT IT'S ALSO NOT GREAT. IT'S EXACTLY A GAME SOMEONE WOULD BE PLAYING ON A TV IN THE BACKGROUND OF A TV SHOW. IT'S FUNNY HOW DRAGON AGE IS A SERIES I FEEL LIKE I LIKE BUT IF YOU ASK ME WHICH GAME IT'S KINDA NONE OF THEM. I KINDA LIKE HOW THEY DID THE MASS EFFECT FINAL MISSION THING IN THIS BUT I PLAYED THIS REALLY HALF HEARTEDLY SO ALMOST EVERYONE JUST FLAT OUT DIES.  OH WELL! PS. MAN, I FEEL SO BAD, THE TAASH NONBINARY PLOTLINE SEEMED WAY TOO SILLY. IT WAS LIKE, WELL ENOUGH WRITING, AND FIT IN CONCEPTUALLY,  BUT YOU JUST GOTTA MAKE UP A FANTASY WORD OR SOMETHING, "NONBINARY" IS JUST NOT A COOL WORD FOR A DRAGON PERSON TO CALL THEMSELVES.

Coyote Vs Acme [movie]

 Coyote Vs Acme [movie] YEAH, THIS IS REALLY GOOD. IT WAS A MOVIE THAT WAS COMPLETED THEN ENTIRELY BURIED AND DIDN'T COME OUT TILL YEARS LATER. I KINDA BUY THE CONSPIRACY THEORY ON WHY IT WAS BURIED. LIKE THE CONCLUSION OF THERE BEING A BIG CONSPIRACY THAT A BIG COMPANY JUST HURTS PEOPLE AND TAKES SMALL FINES AND JUST KEEPS DOING IT AND GETTING TO THE BIG CLIMACTIC TRIAL AND THEN THE BAD GUYS BEING LIKE "YEAH, SURE, WE DO, SO WHAT" AND CONGRESS DISMISSING THE CASE. THAT'S LIKE, BIG COMMENTARY.  (ON THE OTHER HAND THERE WAS KIDS IN THE THEATER AND THEY SOUNDED BORED OUT OF THEIR MINDS AND THAT IS PROBABLY THE REAL REASON THIS GOT SHELVED)  PS. HAVING PETER LORRE BE A CHARACTER IS A VERY FUNNY CONCEPT.  

These Lifeless Things [book, audiobook]

 These Lifeless Things [book, audiobook] THIS IS A GOOD BOOK. IT'S A HIGH CONCEPT INTERDIMENSIONAL ALIEN INVASION SCI-FI, BUT SET IN A SMALL UKRANIAN CITY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND KIEV . THERE IS A FEW POINTS THEY HAVE TO FIGHT A SCARY SPACE MONSTER ALIEN BUT IT'S LARGELY JUST A SAD BEATEN DOWN SEIGE. WHICH JUST ISN'T A THING YOU SEE IN FICTION MUCH.  ON THE OTHER HAND, THE ENDING, OOF. I HATE IT SO MUCH. THE WHOLE BOOK SET IT UP SO MUCH, IT ABSOLUTELY COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY OTHER ENDING SO IT'S A GOOD ENDING, BUT IT MADE ME SO MAD.  PS. I HAVE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT, BUT I BET THAT THE GRANDMA STEREOTYPES EXPRESSED HERE ARE PROBABLY PRETTY TRUE EASTERN EUROPEAN GRANDMA STEREOTYPES. I WILL SAY THE ONE PART I DIDN'T LIKE ABOUT THE ENDING IS IT CUT OFF SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THE OTHER THEME THIS HAD SO HEAVILY, THAT BAD THINGS CHANGE YOU FOREVER AND IT PASSES DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS. 

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter [book, audiobook]

 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter [book, audiobook] I REALLY LIKE THIS BOOK. IT'S A NEBULA AWARD WINNER BUT NOT LIKE A *NEBULA AWARD WINNER*. MY FAVORITE PART IS THAT I COULD TELL THE AUTHOR HAD A PHD BY HOW MUCH IT WAS ABOUT LIKE, READING OLD DOCUMENTS WHERE ONE GUY IS WRITING DOWN ANOTHER GUY'S STORY (I THINK IT'S LIKE FIVE DEEP FRAME STORIES AT ONE POINT) AND JUST THE WAY IT WILL RANDOMLY BRING UP SOMEONE CORRECTING THE HISTORICAL INACCURACY. ) MY OTHER FAVORITE PART IS THE VAMPIRE SYSTEM JUST SEEMED WAY TOO SYSTEM HEAVY AND I KEPT WONDERING IF THIS WAS LIKE SOMEHOW BASED ON A VIDEOGAME OR SOMETHING THEN THE AUTHOR HAS A LITTLE ESSAY AT THE END AND EXPLAINS HE THOUGHT UP VAMPIRE RULES FOR LIKE TEN YEARS BEFORE ACTUALLY WRITING THIS AND YEAH, THAT TRACKS SO MUCH. ALSO I FEEL LIKE THIS WAS HEAVILY JOJO AJACENT BUT THE AUTHOR ALSO LIKE, CITED FINIUS AND FERB AT ONE POINT IN THE INSPIRTATIONS SECTION SO IT'S NOT LIKE THEY WOULD BE TOO EMBARASSED TO MENTION JOJO  PS. THE WORLD...

Masters of the Universe [movie]

 Masters of the Universe [movie] IT IS INSANE HOW MUCH YOU CAN TELL THIS WAS MEANT TO BE "BARBIE 2" AND ABOUT MASCULINITY THE WAY BARBIE WAS AN ESSAY ON FEMININITY. IT HAS SO MUCH SETUP AND LIKE, THREADS ABOUT THAT THEN JUST KINDA TURNS INTO STAR WARS FOR A WHILE AND FORGETS ABOUT IT.  I FEEL LIKE USUALLY THE MOST ANNOYING THING ON ANY REBOOT IS WHEN THEY SPENT TIME SNEERING AT HOW THE ORIGINAL IS, BUT MAKING THE STUPID NAMES A DIAGETIC THING WHERE HE WAS JUST A LITTLE KID TRYING TO REMEMBER DRAWINGS HE MADE IS A PRETTY FUNNY CONCEPT.  PS. THIS IS A VERY COLD TAKE AND EVERYONE HATES JARAD LETO BUT LIKE, I'D AT LEAST CONCEPTUALLY GET GIVING SKELETOR A DIFFERENT VOICE IF HE WAS LIKE, PLAYED AS A MORE SERIOUS VILLIAN. BUT LIKE, HE'S WAY MORE EXPLICITLY CAMP AND GAY IN THIS THAN HE EVER WAS, AND HE HAS A SILLY VOICE, SO LIKE, WHY A *DIFFERENT* SILLY VOICE THAN HIS ICONIC ONE? 

The End of Oak Street [movie]

 The End of Oak Street [movie] HELL YEAH, THIS MOVIE RULES. IT'S THE MOST 80S MOVIE IMAGINABLE. LIKE IT IS SET IN THE 80S AND HAS SOME "KIDS ON BIKES' GENRE STUFF, BUT MOSTLY IT JUST EXTREMEY FEELS LIKE AN EPISODE OF OUTER LIMITS AND LEGITIMATELY RULES HOW THE FANTASITCAL STUFF DOESN'T EVEN START TILL LIKE A THIRD OF THE MOVIE AND HOW NO ONE EVER REMOTELY WORKS TOGETHER. I THINK THIS MOVIE IS GETTING SOME AMOUNT OF HYPE NOW IT'S ALMOST OUT OF THEATERS BUT I FEEL LIKE IT WAS GIVEN THE MOST GENERIC TITLE EVER (IT WAS ORIGINALLY 'THE END OF FLOWERVILLE" OR SOMETHING) AND HAVING ZERO ADVERTISING (AND NO INDICATION IN ANY WAY WHAT THE MOVIE EVEN IS ABOUT) ABSOLUTELY KILLED THIS KICK ASS DINOSAUR MOVIE. ALSO THE ENDING WAS KINDA LAME BUT I LIKE THE DUMB O'BRIAN TWIST AND I LIKE THE RANDOM GIRLFRIEND GIRL HAS A TIME TWIN IN LIKE ONE SHOT AND IT'S NEVER COMMENTED AT ALL.  PS. 2MUCH CAT VIOLENCE

Goodnight Punpun Vol #3 [book, comic]

 Goodnight Punpun Vol #3 [book, comic] I FINISHED READING THIS A WHILE AGO, BUT DIDN'T WRITE A REVIEW. I DON'T KNOW, THIS REVIEW IS GOING TO BE ABOUT THE SAME AS VOLUME 1 AND 2, I DO LIKE THIS, BUT I AM STRUGGLING BECAUSE THIS IS LIKE ONE OF THOSE MEDIA I AVOIDED FOR A LONG TIME BECAUSE IT WAS "TOO GOOD" AND NOW I'M READING IT AND I LIKE IT BUT NOT AS MUCH AS HYPED UP. PS. (IT'S EASY TO PRETEND I DON'T RELATE TO IT BECAUSE I RELATE TO IT SO MUCH I'M IN DENIAL, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT IS REAL) 

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever [movie]

 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever [movie] I HAVE WATCHED EVERY SINGLE MARVEL MOVIE.  DURING 'PHASE 4' THE MOVIES GOT SO BORING I MOSTLY STOPPED WATCHING THEM,  BUT OVER TIME I ENDED UP CATCHING EVERY DUMB 10 RINGS AND ETERNALS AND WHATEVER AGAINST MY WILL, SO NOW I WAS IN THE UNCOMFORTABLE PLACE WHERE I HAD LIKE A YEAR WHERE I HAD SEEN "EVERY MARVEL MOVIE BUT BLACK PATHER 2" WHICH LIKE, WAS NOT INTENTIONAL BUT *FEELS* LIKE SOMETHING SOMEONE WOULD DO INTENTIONALLY. SO I WAS FORCE TO WATCH THIS. (IT WAS VERY PHASE 4 BORING) PS. NAMOR HAS SERIOUS HYDROX ISSUES WHERE HE ACTUALLY IS THE FIRST OREO COOKIE BUT NO ONE KNOWS THAT SO IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE THEY GAVE HIM A NEW MORE DIFFERENT DEAL THAN AQUAMAN. IT DOES FEEL KINDA WEIRD THEY DID THIS IN *THIS* MOVIE. LIKE IT KINDA GOES TO A WEIRD PLACE OF "BLACK PEOPLE'S NATURAL ENEMY: BLUE LATINOS" 

Spider-Man: Brand New Day [movie]

 Spider-Man: Brand New Day [movie] I DON'T KNOW, I LIKED THIS WELL ENOUGH BUT IT FEELS SO MUCH LIKE THE THUNDERBOLTS* MOVIE. I GUESS THAT'S FINE?  I FEEL LIKE IN GENERAL SPIDERMAN HAS A WEEZER PROBLEM WHERE IT'S GOOD WHEN THEY ARE LOSERS BUT THE SECOND THEY ARE SINGING ABOUT BRING RICH ON ISLAND THEY SUCK AND EVERYONE HATES THEM. THIS WAS LIKE A WEIRD ORIGIN LITE REDO MOVIE WHERE HE GOT TO LEARN TO USE A WEB SHOOTER AND FALL ON HIS BACK AGAIN AND LIKE GIRLS THAT HE CAN'T TELL. THAT'S FINE I GUESS. PS. IT FEELS SO WEIRD THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS ABOUT WEARING OR TAKING OFF HIS MASK AND HE IS LIKE, DOING FLOCK CAMERA STUFF A BUNCH SO CASUALLY AND IT'S NOT EVEN THE RIGHT PERSON AND THE MOVIE JUST LIKE... NEVER SEEMS TO CONNECT THOSE PLOT LINES? 

Fabulous Bodies [book, audiobook]

 Fabulous Bodies [book, audiobook]    I REALLY NON IRONICALLY LIKE CHUCK TINGLE AS A HORROR WRITER. I'VE READ ALL BUT ONE OF HIS BOOKS NOW, I DID REALLY LIKE THIS ONE BUT I FEEL LIKE I COULD NOT LOVE IT FOR A REALLY DUMB REASON:  I DON'T KNOW WHO EDDIE MICHAELS IS SUPPOSED TO BE. LIKE THE WHOLE BOOK IS ABOUT A DEAD 70S/80S QUEER ICON ROCK STAR, AND LIKE, THERE WAS LIKE 20 DIFFERENT 70S/80S QUEER ROCK STARS BUT LIKE, IMAGINING HIM AS FAKE DAVID BOWIE IS REAL DIFFERENT THAN FAKE GEORGE MICHAELS OR FAKE PRINCE OR FAKE FREDDY MERCURY AND I GET HE WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE, GENERIC OFF BRAND, BUT IT REALLY BOTHERED ME THAT I COULD NEVER REALLY PIN DOWN WHO I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IMAGINING. AT SOME POINT I FEEL LIKE I JUST STARTED PICTUREING CARTOON BEETLEJUICE INSTEAD? AS FLAMBOYANT SHOWY ZOMBIE GUY? I DON'T KNOW! IT'S STUPID BUT IT DRAGGED DOWN MY WHOLE ENJOYMENT!  PS. I ALSO KINDA FEEL LIKE IT SET UP A BUNCH OF MORE EMOTIONAL HOOKS BUT DIDN'T PAY THEM OFF. IT DEFI...

The Odyssey [movie]

 The Odyssey [movie] I DON'T KNOW, THIS MOVIE WAS DECENT. IT FEELS LIKE THERE WAS SOME SORT OF INSANE BACKLASH TO THIS AND EVERYONE DECIDED TO HATE IT FOR SOME REASON? LIKE FIRST RIGHTWING STUFF ON "ANTI-WOKE" GROUNDS BUT THEN IT JUST KINDA SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE DECIDED A BUNCH OF SUPER NITPICKY REASONS THIS IS BAD? WHO KNOWS. IT WAS FINE.  PS. ON THE OTHER HAND EVERYONE WAS 100% RIGHT ABOUT THE WRITING AROUND SEA PEOPLE/ZEUS RULE. IT FELT INSANE. IT FELT LIKE EVERY 25 MINUTES THE WHOLE MOVIE WOULD STOP TO READ WIKIPEDIA ABOUT IT. LIKE IT EVEN WORKS AS LIKE, CONCEPTUAL CORE FOR THE MOVIE, IT WAS EVEN A CLEVER LITTLE PULL. BUT I FEEL LIKE MY BRAIN WAS BLEEDING OR SOMETHING WHEN SOMEONE SAID 'OUR BRONZE AGE CIVILIZATION IS COLLAPSING", NONE OF THE REST OF THE WRITING WAS LIKE THAT! (ALSO THE MOVIE STARTS WITH ONE SECOND OF THE OCEAN BEING RED. FAN SERVICE, I GUESS!)

Midwinter Break [movie]

 Midwinter Break [movie] I DON'T KNOW MAN. I GET WHAT KIND OF STORY THIS WAS TRYING TO TELL BUT IT REALLY JUST CAME OFF AS "WATCH YOUR PARENTS ON VACATION: THE MOVIE" AND LIKE, I GET BEING SUBTLE AND RESTRAINED ABOUT EVERYTHING GIVES IT THIS LEVEL OF AUTHENTIC REALISM, BUT LIKE, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T LIKE WATCHING THE WORLD'S MOST MILD ALCHOLIC KINDA NOT GET ALONG WITH HIS ELDERLY CATHOLIC WIFE.  ACTUALLY IT FEELS LIKE THE OPENING SEQUENCE OF "UP" IF THE WIFE LIVED AND THEY HAD THE BABY THEN 55 YEARS LATER THEY WENT ON THEIR TRIP AND JUST KINDA MILDLY DISLIKED EACH OTHER OVERALL THEN KINDA MUDDLED AROUND AND WENT HOME.  PS. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY AMSTERDAM BASED MOVIE AND I WATCHED IT ON A PLANE FROM AMSTERDAM,  WATCH ME ON VACATION,  LOOK AT MY ALBUMS! 

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions [book, nonfiction]

 Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions [book, nonfiction] I DON'T KNOW, THIS WAS RELATIVELY INTERESTING. I WANTED A NEW BOOK AND WALKED BY A LITTLE LIBRARY AND GRABBED THE ONE THAT FELT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I'D NORMALLY READ. THIS IS A LETTER ABOUT RAISING A DAUGHTER IN A FEMINIST WAY AND IT ISN'T ANYTHING TOO WILD, BUT THE AUTHOR IS NIGERIAN AND WRITING TO SOMEONE NIGERIAN AND I REALLY LIKED THE POINTS WHERE  A CONCEPT WAS BROADLY RECOGNIZABLE BUT THE SPECIFIC EXAMPLE WAS UNIQUE. LIKE "USING EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO JUSTIFY SOMETHING SEXIST" IS DEFINITELY A THING HERE, BUT I LIKE THE EXAMPLE WAS "THAT IS WHY MEN HAVE TO PICK DAUGHTER'S FIRST NAMES" WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A THING HERE. MOSTLY PRETTY STRAIGHTFOWARD OTHERWISE (MOSTLY STUFF LIKE "DON'T JUST BUY A GIRL DOLLS, GET HER A HELICOPTER TOY IF SHE WANTS") PS. I LIKE THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST AN EMAIL THEY WROTE PUBLISHED INTO A BOOK. I GUESS THERE IS NOTHIN...

The Sheep Detectives [movie]

 The Sheep Detectives [movie] WHAT THE HECK? WHY IS THIS MOVIE SO GOOD? LIKE, I AM NOT GONNA SAY IT'S ANYTHING LIFE CHANGING AMAZING BUT IT'S LIKE THE MOST "BETTER THAN YOU WOULD EVER THINK IT WOULD BE" MOVIE EVER MADE. PS. RETURN TO OZ JOKE / PATRICK STEWART SAYING "MURDER" INCREASINGLY WEIRD / THE NEON SIGN STORE

There Is No Antimemetics Division [book, audiobook]

 There Is No Antimemetics Division [book, audiobook] THIS IS THE SCP BOOK AND I GOT RECOMMENDED IT ONE TRILLION TIMES AND EHHHHH, I GET WHY, I CAN IMAGINE A BOOK THAT IS 90% LIKE THIS THAT I LOVE BUT THIS JUST RUBBED ME THE WRONG WAY. LIKE, THERE IS A STORY ABOUT LIKE, A CIVILIZATION THAT DEVELOPED AN IDEA SO RADIOACTIVE IT WAS GOING TO DESTROY THEIR WHOLE CULTURE AND THEY HAD TO BURY IT AND DESTROY THEMSELVES AND MADE THE LONGTERM NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE THING THE INTERNET LOVES ("THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR") AND THAT IS LIKE, LEGITIMATE COOL IDEA. BUT THEN THE IDEA WAS..... A BIG SPIDER THAT EATS YOU. AND THAT SUCKS. IT SUCKS IT KEPT INVENTING LEGITIMATELY INTERESTING SITUATION THEN SOLVED LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE WITH A NEW DRUG. THE DRUGS EVEN HAD SEQUENTIAL LETTERING SO WHEN THEY SOLVED ONE PROBLEM WITH 'DRUG W' YOU JUST KNEW THE NEXT PROBLEM WOULD BE DRUG Y, AND THE FINAL SECRET DEUS EX BEING THEM USING DRUG Z IS JUST STUPID. BACKROOMS HAS A THING WHERE THE PO...

Supergirl [movie]

 Supergirl [movie] OH GEEZ, WOMAN OF TOMORROW CAME OUT LIKE 5 YEARS AGO AND THIS CAME OUT TODAY. IT'S SO SUPER OBVIOUS "RAPE PLANET THAT KIDNAPS LITTLE GIRLS" WAS WRITTEN TO BE 'THAT NIGERIAN GIRLS SCHOOL BOKO HARAM THING" WITH WEIRD MILD RACISM BUT THEN BETWEEN THEN AND NOW "RAPE PLANET THAT KIDNAPS LITTLE GIRLS" BECAME "OH YEAH, AMERICA" AND MADE FOR A MOVIE WITH AN ODD TONE. (THE TONE WAS MOSTLY JUST "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY" THOUGH) PS. I WAS GOING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW WEIRD THE BIG BADASS FIGHT WHERE SUPERGIRL IS JUST CLEARLY MURDERING EVERYONE RIGHT BEFORE THE HEART TO HEART WITH LITTLE GIRL AND HOW THIS WAS BAD MOVIE WRITING BUT THAT WAS 100% INTENTIONAL AND THAT IS GOOD MOVIE WRITING. NOW I NEED TO THINK HARDER IF THE WEIRD BAD "MY INNOCENT DAD: THE WEAPONS MERCHANT" IS BAD WRITING OR GOOD WRITING I AM GLOSSING OVER. ON THE OTHER HAND "THERE IS LIKE 10 SCENES OF SUPERGIRL GETTING HER POWERS BACK" SEEMED L...