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Thoughts on the Severance Season 2 finale
Mar. 21st, 2025 09:25 pmNo spoilers just the overall tone of my feelings/this post:
I had very mixed feelings on the episode. This post is pretty much all complaints.
And now, SPOILERS.
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I had very mixed feelings on the episode. This post is pretty much all complaints.
And now, SPOILERS.
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The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion
Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations.
Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations.
Review: Bodies (Netflix show)
Nov. 26th, 2023 12:17 pmA twisty scifi drama miniseries about diverse London police detectives from different time periods trying to solve the mystery of identical dead naked men who appear in the same alleyway in each era.
I overall liked this, it does a pretty good job of making you care about the different characters, and the central mystery holds together moderately well as Scifi Mystery Stories go. Themes of Society and Choice etc are vaguely gestured at but ultimately it just cares about it's characters solving mysteries, struggling against scary situations, and finding some measure of happiness. And on that level it's pretty enjoyable! My most significant problem with the show is that some parts/characters feel underwritten.
Trailer, though I'd skip it if you'd rather go in totally unspoiled:
No significant spoilers under the cut just more information, including content notes.
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I overall liked this, it does a pretty good job of making you care about the different characters, and the central mystery holds together moderately well as Scifi Mystery Stories go. Themes of Society and Choice etc are vaguely gestured at but ultimately it just cares about it's characters solving mysteries, struggling against scary situations, and finding some measure of happiness. And on that level it's pretty enjoyable! My most significant problem with the show is that some parts/characters feel underwritten.
Trailer, though I'd skip it if you'd rather go in totally unspoiled:
No significant spoilers under the cut just more information, including content notes.
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Reviews August 2022, games and tv
Aug. 26th, 2022 01:28 pmI bruised my elbow yesterday which makes typing hard so of course my brain now desperately wants nothing more but to write a review post after months of not feeling like it. This will likely be pretty succinct and stream of consciousness.
Computer games:
puzzle lines
Planet Crafter
mystic pillars
Live action TV:
Ghosts
Severence
Yellowjackets
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Computer games:
puzzle lines
Planet Crafter
mystic pillars
Live action TV:
Ghosts
Severence
Yellowjackets
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Just two because they both ended up being longish reviews. And they're both things I liked set in space!
Game/Let's Play:
( Star Wars: Fallen Order )
Book:
( A Memory Called Empire )
Game/Let's Play:
( Star Wars: Fallen Order )
Book:
( A Memory Called Empire )
Reviews January 2022
Jan. 8th, 2022 06:54 amBooks:
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Games:
I Love You!
One Shot
A Garden On The Sea
Doreamon Story of Seasons
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A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Games:
I Love You!
One Shot
A Garden On The Sea
Doreamon Story of Seasons
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Tags:
- book,
- computer game,
- dating sim,
- het,
- rec,
- review,
- romance,
- scifi,
- visual novel
Gravity Falls
Jul. 7th, 2020 09:19 pmSo I finally watched this show and it's really good for what it is! Which is basically a cross between The Simpsons and The X-files: a kid's cartoon about a twelve year old nerd Dipper and his wacky twin sister Mabel spending their summer holidays with their shyster great-uncle Stan in a weird little Oregon town called Gravity Falls. It's funny and strange and ends up telling a surprisingly coherent and engaging scifi/fantasy story about family bonds and growing up over it's two seasons.
( But I have some quibbles )
( But I have some quibbles )
She-ra feelings
Jun. 8th, 2020 04:19 pmI have finished all five seasons and it is GREAT. If you like girly animated scifi with MAGIC and SPACE SHIPS and PRINCESSES and GIRLS ANGSTILY TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER AND THEN KISSING then this is the show for you.
It's definitely a kids show based on an 80s toy franchise: the worldbuilding is silly, there's lots of dumb jokes, and everything ends in hugs even when logically it maybe shouldn't. But it's got a good story and characters, with a surprising amount of moral and emotional complexity, as well as thrilling fights and cool scifi explosions etc.
Also the level of queerness just...ramps up over time, and season 5 is VERY QUEER INDEED :D There's MULTIPLE canon same sex relationships, all with enjoyable levels of angst-then-fluff, as well as a delightfully morally ambiguous canon non-binary character. I mean it's not a show ABOUT romance, the focus is on Beating The Evil Robots With Friendship etc. But the writers went out of their way to NOT centre m/f relationships and feelings.
A repeated theme is characters screwing up due to traumatic upbringings and having to work past it. So (a) this means watching characters work through trauma (b) it's the kind of fluffy show where most characters end up friends by the end, including some characters who caused trauma or were really awful as a result of it. I overall liked how this theme was handled, but YMMV, and some redemption/acceptance arcs are a bit glossed over.
Also I both ship Adora/Catra and also kinda see them as sisters, so.
Now for some random reactions I wrote from about the middle of Season 5 to the end, so I didn't flail at various people who haven't watched it yet and don't want spoilers.
This isn't a reaction post in any organised way and will make no sense if you haven't watched all of She-ra.
** Spoilers**
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It's definitely a kids show based on an 80s toy franchise: the worldbuilding is silly, there's lots of dumb jokes, and everything ends in hugs even when logically it maybe shouldn't. But it's got a good story and characters, with a surprising amount of moral and emotional complexity, as well as thrilling fights and cool scifi explosions etc.
Also the level of queerness just...ramps up over time, and season 5 is VERY QUEER INDEED :D There's MULTIPLE canon same sex relationships, all with enjoyable levels of angst-then-fluff, as well as a delightfully morally ambiguous canon non-binary character. I mean it's not a show ABOUT romance, the focus is on Beating The Evil Robots With Friendship etc. But the writers went out of their way to NOT centre m/f relationships and feelings.
A repeated theme is characters screwing up due to traumatic upbringings and having to work past it. So (a) this means watching characters work through trauma (b) it's the kind of fluffy show where most characters end up friends by the end, including some characters who caused trauma or were really awful as a result of it. I overall liked how this theme was handled, but YMMV, and some redemption/acceptance arcs are a bit glossed over.
Also I both ship Adora/Catra and also kinda see them as sisters, so.
Now for some random reactions I wrote from about the middle of Season 5 to the end, so I didn't flail at various people who haven't watched it yet and don't want spoilers.
This isn't a reaction post in any organised way and will make no sense if you haven't watched all of She-ra.
** Spoilers**
( Read more... )
Rambling about Nier: Automata
Apr. 10th, 2020 09:05 pmSo I kept hearing about the game Nier:Automata being full of robot tropes I'm really into, but it also looked kind of ridiculous and sounded like not my sort of combat, so I finally decided to just watch it on Youtube.
As I watched I went back and forth between "THIS IS RIDICULOUS" and "AAAHH ROBOT FEELS", ending up mostly consumed by the latter and sniffling. It really is ridiculous in parts, but also good for what it is. Namely: philosophical meditations on the nature of the self, explored via hot robots shooting things.
I'll avoid spoilers to start with and give some general information and links, then mark when my spoilery thoughts begin.
Here's the trailer.
Note that the backstory plot involves a (ridiculous magical) pandemic, for anyone not up for that right now.
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As I watched I went back and forth between "THIS IS RIDICULOUS" and "AAAHH ROBOT FEELS", ending up mostly consumed by the latter and sniffling. It really is ridiculous in parts, but also good for what it is. Namely: philosophical meditations on the nature of the self, explored via hot robots shooting things.
I'll avoid spoilers to start with and give some general information and links, then mark when my spoilery thoughts begin.
Here's the trailer.
Note that the backstory plot involves a (ridiculous magical) pandemic, for anyone not up for that right now.
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I made this for my little brother after he mentioned pondering watching The Dragon Prince. It is thus aimed at his kinda mainstream tastes but thought I might as well post it here too.
It was weird writing a rec for She-ra for someone for whom "It's full of queer women" is not worth mentioning one way or the other haha.
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It was weird writing a rec for She-ra for someone for whom "It's full of queer women" is not worth mentioning one way or the other haha.
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My spoilery thoughts.
Under a cut for people who want to go in with no expectations. Good luck to those avoiding spoilers, I didn't manage it myself but may the force be with you.
( Non-spoilery thoughts )
Under a cut for people who want to go in with no expectations. Good luck to those avoiding spoilers, I didn't manage it myself but may the force be with you.
( Non-spoilery thoughts )
Media Reviews September 2019
Sep. 14th, 2019 08:32 pm(How is it September wtf)
Books:
Provenance by Anne Leckie: Fun space opera about a plucky young woman getting caught up in Alien Shenanigans. Set slightly after Leckie's earlier Imperial Radch series, but only references it very vaguely. Lots of unremarked queerness: the main character's culture has male/female/non binary genders as standard, and I don't think any relationships that show up on screen are m/f. Also beauty standards involve being fat with tightly curled hair. The romances are a bit underwritten but sweetly innoffensive, and the friendships are great. A little earnestly fluffy, but not too much.
Games:
Delete: Another twist on minesweeper, this time in three dimensions, with the ability to move around parts of the puzzle to see what that does to the numbers. A simple little game, but very cheap, and I enjoyed it!
Anime:
Demon Slayer: A nice Japanese boy's family are killed by vampire-esque demons...except his sister, who becomes one herself. The two of them go to try to cure her (and afaict a lot of demon slaying in involved, hence the title) Perfectly fine but didn't grab me.
Movies:
Love Simon: I understand the value of a m/m Conventional Highschool Drama About Nice Normal All-American Teens, but it's not a genre I'm into, and I got too irritated to continue.
Books:
Provenance by Anne Leckie: Fun space opera about a plucky young woman getting caught up in Alien Shenanigans. Set slightly after Leckie's earlier Imperial Radch series, but only references it very vaguely. Lots of unremarked queerness: the main character's culture has male/female/non binary genders as standard, and I don't think any relationships that show up on screen are m/f. Also beauty standards involve being fat with tightly curled hair. The romances are a bit underwritten but sweetly innoffensive, and the friendships are great. A little earnestly fluffy, but not too much.
Games:
Delete: Another twist on minesweeper, this time in three dimensions, with the ability to move around parts of the puzzle to see what that does to the numbers. A simple little game, but very cheap, and I enjoyed it!
Anime:
Demon Slayer: A nice Japanese boy's family are killed by vampire-esque demons...except his sister, who becomes one herself. The two of them go to try to cure her (and afaict a lot of demon slaying in involved, hence the title) Perfectly fine but didn't grab me.
Movies:
Love Simon: I understand the value of a m/m Conventional Highschool Drama About Nice Normal All-American Teens, but it's not a genre I'm into, and I got too irritated to continue.
Ryan Griffen is the Aboriginal creator of the highly lauded indigenous scifi show Cleverman. I haven't actually watched the show but found what he had to say really interesting anyway.
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Media Consumed: March 2018
Mar. 25th, 2018 12:35 amA whole lot of strongly recommended things this time including a scifi book, animated tv, and video games.
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Reviews for November 2017
Nov. 24th, 2017 07:53 pmI realise I've never explicitly said this, but each section is roughly ordered from most liked to least.
( Animated shows, books, games, and a movie )
( Animated shows, books, games, and a movie )
Things consumed April 2017
Apr. 27th, 2017 01:46 pmLong list of stuff I have read and played etc!
Note that almost all the tv and movies are on Australian Netflix.
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Note that almost all the tv and movies are on Australian Netflix.
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Star Wars Rogue One: SPOILERS
Dec. 15th, 2016 04:16 pmSO MANY SPOILERS OMG.
So, first, off, the triggering content warning!
( Spoiler: Just a line describing the trigger )
Ok and now some more detailed spoilery discussion, read at your own risk etc.
( MORE SPOILERS )
So, first, off, the triggering content warning!
( Spoiler: Just a line describing the trigger )
Ok and now some more detailed spoilery discussion, read at your own risk etc.
( MORE SPOILERS )
Star Wars: Rogue One: Non spoilery review
Dec. 15th, 2016 03:36 pmI quite liked it!
( Everything else under a cut for those who like to avoid all info )
( Everything else under a cut for those who like to avoid all info )
