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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I am counting this as a success
Apr. 1st, 2024 10:27 amSo, after much discussion with Cam, I eventually realised I had vastly misunderstood his base issue with most anime. Asides from things like tropes and genre etc, the main problem is certain specific kinds of sharp vocal sounds, which affect him on an almost physical level, and just happen to be especially common in anime, especially the sort with lots of over the top shenanigans and exaggerated expressions. Since I am not sensitive to that sort of sound I am not likely to notice if it happens, and even dubs might do it too, so we decided he really is better off just avoiding anime unless something seems so appealing he's willing to risk some discomfort.
But! Discussing what he likes tropewise that I've seen in East Asian live action (since he hasn't explored it much) got me to rec my favourite romance kdrama, Coffee Prince, and while Cam thought that sounded a bit too mundane for his tastes looking up the show and actors led him to watch the trailer for Goblin, a kdrama I had never heard of. And based on the first episode he LOVES IT.
Me: It sounds like it might have a tragic ending, that's pretty common in kdramas and one reason I don't watch many.
Cam: Oh I am SURE it's going to be tragic in the BEST WAY, it's about an angsty immortal who wants to die :D :D
Me: Ha ok we really do like different things. Have fun :)
So! Have a (qualified) rec from Cam.
(Note: This is NOT the gay Chinese Guardian, it's a het kdrama)
He also really loved the scifi kdrama Moving, which apparently has some really sweet romance along with badass superhero action.
So while my attempt to find him anime he liked didn't succeed at that, it did help him find a show, and hopefully someone else reading found an anime they might like.
And yes I have now recced him Hotel Del Luna, since I know that's another highly regarded kdrama about an immortal, and he said the gender dynamics with a female immortal/male mortal look fun. I poked![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skygiants kdrama tag and she DID review Goblin I just forgot about it, oops. But I also found Tale of the Nine Tailed which looked promising, in terms of modern day fantasy about angsty immortals.
But! Discussing what he likes tropewise that I've seen in East Asian live action (since he hasn't explored it much) got me to rec my favourite romance kdrama, Coffee Prince, and while Cam thought that sounded a bit too mundane for his tastes looking up the show and actors led him to watch the trailer for Goblin, a kdrama I had never heard of. And based on the first episode he LOVES IT.
Me: It sounds like it might have a tragic ending, that's pretty common in kdramas and one reason I don't watch many.
Cam: Oh I am SURE it's going to be tragic in the BEST WAY, it's about an angsty immortal who wants to die :D :D
Me: Ha ok we really do like different things. Have fun :)
So! Have a (qualified) rec from Cam.
(Note: This is NOT the gay Chinese Guardian, it's a het kdrama)
He also really loved the scifi kdrama Moving, which apparently has some really sweet romance along with badass superhero action.
So while my attempt to find him anime he liked didn't succeed at that, it did help him find a show, and hopefully someone else reading found an anime they might like.
And yes I have now recced him Hotel Del Luna, since I know that's another highly regarded kdrama about an immortal, and he said the gender dynamics with a female immortal/male mortal look fun. I poked
skygiants kdrama tag and she DID review Goblin I just forgot about it, oops. But I also found Tale of the Nine Tailed which looked promising, in terms of modern day fantasy about angsty immortals.I was inspired to make this while writing up a reaction posts offer at the new prompts community ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
promptmepromptly. They're currently taking prompts for text based fanworks, and apparently reaction posts count!
So I thought I'd write up a list of some things I've been meaning to try out that I think could be fun to write reaction posts to. If you want to prompt me, reply to my offer after the post opens in a few days.
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promptmepromptly. They're currently taking prompts for text based fanworks, and apparently reaction posts count! So I thought I'd write up a list of some things I've been meaning to try out that I think could be fun to write reaction posts to. If you want to prompt me, reply to my offer after the post opens in a few days.
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Avatar the Last Airbender (2024) Season 1
Feb. 24th, 2024 10:57 amJust finished the first season of the live action Avatar the Last Airbender show. I went in with low expectations, prepared for things to be changed, and with that mindset quite liked it! Not a perfect adaptation, nor a super faithful one, but made by people who liked and mostly understood the original and did a pretty good job at crafting their own take on it.
I'm a big fan of the original show but haven't watched it in a few years, Cam has watched it more recently, and we both agreed that while there were some parts that didn't work very well and some changes we didn't like, it captured most of the important things pretty well, and some of the changes were good, even an improvement. But I got into ATLA as an adult, and am pretty open minded about adaptations taking liberties. This is an ok-but-not-brilliant and not always faithful remake of a beloved children's classic, so I suspect a lot of people are going to be disappointed.
It's hard to say how it would work for people who haven't watched the original tv show, but I think it would be pretty entertaining, if you are interested in an action heavy fantasy-drama about a bunch of teenagers trying to save the world, in an Asian inspired fantasy setting with an all-Asian/Indigenous cast and occasional gestures towards "sexism is bad and women are awesome".
The overall tone is darker than the original children's cartoon, with fewer jokes and more overt on-screen death, but still moderately light and sometimes cheesy. There's no swearing or sexual references, and no significant gore except for one burned dead body early on. It's more shallow and less understated, less interested in philosophical questions but not totally uninterested.
The action scenes were fun. The actors were all fine to good, and the visuals/special effects were mostly pretty good but occasionally distractingly cheesy or CGI sludgey.
Like the original, there's zero onscreen queerness, and only really one disabled character, whose writing is just ok.
Content warnings for both versions: genocide, death, war, child abuse, trauma
Under the cut, I'm going to go into some of the specific things the show changed that I would have liked to know going in. I'll avoid spoiling any new plot since it can be fun to see how things play out for yourself. But if you haven't seen the original this will be very confusing and spoilery!
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I'm a big fan of the original show but haven't watched it in a few years, Cam has watched it more recently, and we both agreed that while there were some parts that didn't work very well and some changes we didn't like, it captured most of the important things pretty well, and some of the changes were good, even an improvement. But I got into ATLA as an adult, and am pretty open minded about adaptations taking liberties. This is an ok-but-not-brilliant and not always faithful remake of a beloved children's classic, so I suspect a lot of people are going to be disappointed.
It's hard to say how it would work for people who haven't watched the original tv show, but I think it would be pretty entertaining, if you are interested in an action heavy fantasy-drama about a bunch of teenagers trying to save the world, in an Asian inspired fantasy setting with an all-Asian/Indigenous cast and occasional gestures towards "sexism is bad and women are awesome".
The overall tone is darker than the original children's cartoon, with fewer jokes and more overt on-screen death, but still moderately light and sometimes cheesy. There's no swearing or sexual references, and no significant gore except for one burned dead body early on. It's more shallow and less understated, less interested in philosophical questions but not totally uninterested.
The action scenes were fun. The actors were all fine to good, and the visuals/special effects were mostly pretty good but occasionally distractingly cheesy or CGI sludgey.
Like the original, there's zero onscreen queerness, and only really one disabled character, whose writing is just ok.
Content warnings for both versions: genocide, death, war, child abuse, trauma
Under the cut, I'm going to go into some of the specific things the show changed that I would have liked to know going in. I'll avoid spoiling any new plot since it can be fun to see how things play out for yourself. But if you haven't seen the original this will be very confusing and spoilery!
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This isn't even the next review post I was planning on lol, but got_quiet asked and it seemed like something other people might be interested in.
Viki is a streaming platform which mostly hosts East Asian live action TV dramas and movies. Some things are entirely free, while others are paywalled past a certain number of episodes. There's a fair amount of BL.
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got_quiet asked and it seemed like something other people might be interested in. Viki is a streaming platform which mostly hosts East Asian live action TV dramas and movies. Some things are entirely free, while others are paywalled past a certain number of episodes. There's a fair amount of BL.
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M/M Romance Reviews
Jan. 19th, 2024 08:29 amI am MASSIVELY behind on reviews so some of these are based on vague memories but lets go! I realised trying to remember which things I'd reviewed before was getting in the way of reviewing anything, so some may be doubles.
Live action TV: Our Flag Means Death S2
Live action movie: Semantic Error
Animated TV:
Cherry Magic
Heaven Official's Blessing S2
Manga:
Tsurumaki-sensei no Sakka Seikatsu
Haru Kakete, Uguisu (Warbler, Sing of Spring)
Books:
Evil as Humans
Married Thrice to A Salted Fish
After I married the disabled war god as my concubine
Paper Lover
A Simple Way To Give Money
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Live action TV: Our Flag Means Death S2
Live action movie: Semantic Error
Animated TV:
Cherry Magic
Heaven Official's Blessing S2
Manga:
Tsurumaki-sensei no Sakka Seikatsu
Haru Kakete, Uguisu (Warbler, Sing of Spring)
Books:
Evil as Humans
Married Thrice to A Salted Fish
After I married the disabled war god as my concubine
Paper Lover
A Simple Way To Give Money
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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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TV and Movie reviews
Sep. 7th, 2023 08:23 pmThese are pretty old so I am probably forgetting things.
Nimona, Andor, Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse, Glass Onion, Kinnporsche, Moonlight Chicken
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Nimona, Andor, Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse, Glass Onion, Kinnporsche, Moonlight Chicken
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Spoilery thoughts on the end of Deadloch
Aug. 11th, 2023 11:16 amThis is all SUPER DUPER spoilery and the show is the kind of mystery it's a lot of fun to watch unspoiled. If you have any interest in watching, do that first! This post will be waiting!
Here is my non-spoilery review.
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Here is my non-spoilery review.
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Have you ever watched a gritty murder mystery set in a small town and thought "this is great, but I wish it had more jokes and lesbians"? Then Deadloch is the show for you!
An uptight workaholic lesbian cop is teamed up with a slap-dash chaotic female detective from the big city (of Darwin, lol) to figure out a murder in a little Tasmanian country town.
It does a great job of combining classic tropes (like the odd couple detective team) with subversions of the usual heterosexist murder mystery cliches, eg the show opens on a full frontal nude male corpse, and the town has a queer friendly arts festival happening instead of being all conservatives (though it definitely has those too).
If you have seen it and want to leave a spoilery comment here is my spoilery post.
(I am in a truly EXCESSIVE amount of pain today so hopefully this all makes sense)
( Doing my best to express further thoughts and content notes without spoilers )
An uptight workaholic lesbian cop is teamed up with a slap-dash chaotic female detective from the big city (of Darwin, lol) to figure out a murder in a little Tasmanian country town.
It does a great job of combining classic tropes (like the odd couple detective team) with subversions of the usual heterosexist murder mystery cliches, eg the show opens on a full frontal nude male corpse, and the town has a queer friendly arts festival happening instead of being all conservatives (though it definitely has those too).
If you have seen it and want to leave a spoilery comment here is my spoilery post.
(I am in a truly EXCESSIVE amount of pain today so hopefully this all makes sense)
( Doing my best to express further thoughts and content notes without spoilers )
Dropout TV
Jan. 17th, 2023 09:06 pmI recently subscribed to College Humour's streaming website, Dropout TV, and have been enjoying it enough to keep subscribed for something like two months over the 3 day free trial period so far.
It's about $9AU/$6US a month for access to a large backlog of generally humourous shows. The two I have been watching the most are the nerdy game show Um Actually, and the scifi roleplaying show Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey, both of which I've really enjoyed, but there's also a bunch of other silly game shows, comedy skits, and roleplaying.
The College Humour Youtube channel has a bunch of trailers, which imo generally aren't very good, and little clips of funny moments, which are what actually got me to try out the free trial. There's also full episodes and in some cases entire runs of a few shows. Dropout.tv has pretty good closed captions, from a brief check the Youtube ones aren't as consistent. It looks like you can subscribe on youtube instead and see all current subscriber-only releases but I'm not sure it has the full backlog.
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It's about $9AU/$6US a month for access to a large backlog of generally humourous shows. The two I have been watching the most are the nerdy game show Um Actually, and the scifi roleplaying show Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey, both of which I've really enjoyed, but there's also a bunch of other silly game shows, comedy skits, and roleplaying.
The College Humour Youtube channel has a bunch of trailers, which imo generally aren't very good, and little clips of funny moments, which are what actually got me to try out the free trial. There's also full episodes and in some cases entire runs of a few shows. Dropout.tv has pretty good closed captions, from a brief check the Youtube ones aren't as consistent. It looks like you can subscribe on youtube instead and see all current subscriber-only releases but I'm not sure it has the full backlog.
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Reviiiiiiewssss
Oct. 25th, 2022 09:21 pmI decided that if I could review the game about ALGEBRA BEING FUN I could probably review some things more of you might actually be interested in. So! Off the top of my head without overthinking, let's go!
Lots of m/m, some m/f, and a little f/f and gen.
Live Action TV: Sandman, Old Fashioned Cupcake
Games: Nurse Love Syndrome, London Detetctive Mysteria
Anime: My Dress Up Darling, SpyxFamily, Sasaki and Miyano, Hirano and Kagiura, Umibe no Etranger
Prose fiction: Light Tea and Sweet Wine, The Wrong Way To A Demon Sect Leader, You Boys Play Games Very Well,![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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Lots of m/m, some m/f, and a little f/f and gen.
Live Action TV: Sandman, Old Fashioned Cupcake
Games: Nurse Love Syndrome, London Detetctive Mysteria
Anime: My Dress Up Darling, SpyxFamily, Sasaki and Miyano, Hirano and Kagiura, Umibe no Etranger
Prose fiction: Light Tea and Sweet Wine, The Wrong Way To A Demon Sect Leader, You Boys Play Games Very Well,
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Tags:
- anime,
- comedy,
- computer game,
- dating sim,
- femslash,
- het,
- manga,
- rec,
- review,
- romance,
- slash,
- tv,
- visual novel
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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Live Action TV:
Our Flag Means Death
Murderville
Inventing Anna
Western Animation:
Star Trek Prodigy
Turning Red
Encanto
Anime:
Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into a Total Fantasy Knockout
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
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Our Flag Means Death
Murderville
Inventing Anna
Western Animation:
Star Trek Prodigy
Turning Red
Encanto
Anime:
Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into a Total Fantasy Knockout
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
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Reviews January 2022
Jan. 22nd, 2022 09:05 pmGames:
Lost in Secular Love
One Shot
Manga:
Love Me For Who I Am
Live Action Movie:
Jungle Cruise
Animated TV:
Arcane
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Lost in Secular Love
One Shot
Manga:
Love Me For Who I Am
Live Action Movie:
Jungle Cruise
Animated TV:
Arcane
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Tags:
Reviews October 2021
Oct. 28th, 2021 11:19 amLive action TV: Only Murders in the Building
Animated TV: Star Trek Lower Decks Season 2
Manga: Game-ya BL
Books: Transmigrating into the Heartthrob's Cannon Fodder Childhood Friend
Games: Melvor Idle
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Animated TV: Star Trek Lower Decks Season 2
Manga: Game-ya BL
Books: Transmigrating into the Heartthrob's Cannon Fodder Childhood Friend
Games: Melvor Idle
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Tags:
- book,
- computer game,
- manga,
- murder mystery,
- rec,
- review,
- rpg,
- slash,
- star trek,
- tv
What If...?
Oct. 28th, 2021 10:25 amA Marvel animated series about alternate universe versions of various characters and stories. Some of these were a lot of fun, like the first episode about a world where Peggy Carter becomes Captain America. Others were trite and OOC and seemed to exist mainly for the animators to have fun. Still, the animators obviously were having fun, even the dumbass episodes were fun to watch on a visual level.
The episodes start out as stand-alone stories, but the last two episodes tie everything together into a REALLY SILLY crossover story that solves everything with a bunch of nonsensical violence.
This show will have zero appeal to anyone not already invested in, and willing to put up with the flaws of, the MCU. If you're only interested in specific characters, you could just watch individual episodes, so I've done a summary of each below the cut.
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The episodes start out as stand-alone stories, but the last two episodes tie everything together into a REALLY SILLY crossover story that solves everything with a bunch of nonsensical violence.
This show will have zero appeal to anyone not already invested in, and willing to put up with the flaws of, the MCU. If you're only interested in specific characters, you could just watch individual episodes, so I've done a summary of each below the cut.
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Reviews September 2021
Sep. 10th, 2021 09:03 amLive action TV: We Are Ladyparts, Ted Lasso
TV Cartoons: Owl House season 2, Amphibia, Master of the Universe
Games: The World of Art, Spiritfarer
Books: The Raven Tower
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TV Cartoons: Owl House season 2, Amphibia, Master of the Universe
Games: The World of Art, Spiritfarer
Books: The Raven Tower
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Reviews August 2021
Aug. 18th, 2021 01:46 pmAnime: Comic Girls, Blend-S, Jingai-san no Yome
Western Animation: Centaurworld
Books: They All Say I’ve Met a Ghost, Artificial Condition
Webcomic: Survive as the Hero's Wife/This Villainess Wants a Divorce!
Games: GardenPaws, Calico
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Western Animation: Centaurworld
Books: They All Say I’ve Met a Ghost, Artificial Condition
Webcomic: Survive as the Hero's Wife/This Villainess Wants a Divorce!
Games: GardenPaws, Calico
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Book news!
Aug. 5th, 2021 12:32 pmTwo bits of news about fantasy m/m novels I woke up to this morning:
All three MXTX novels have been licensed in English! That's Scum Villain's Self Saving System, The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (upon which The Untamed is based), and Heaven Official's Blessing.
On the plus side this means we'll be getting better translations and can support the author. On the downside it's going to be harder to read any of them in English for the next 3 years until the official translations fully come out. I already have a copy of Heaven Official's Blessing and apparently there's PDFs of the others...around.
‘Valdemar Universe’ Fantasy Book Series In The Works For TV From Kit Williamson, Brittany Cavallaro & Radar Pictures I must admit I didn't really click with the series when I read it but I know a bunch of you are fans, and it will still be pretty cool to see an overtly gay fantasy story on tv.
All three MXTX novels have been licensed in English! That's Scum Villain's Self Saving System, The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (upon which The Untamed is based), and Heaven Official's Blessing.
On the plus side this means we'll be getting better translations and can support the author. On the downside it's going to be harder to read any of them in English for the next 3 years until the official translations fully come out. I already have a copy of Heaven Official's Blessing and apparently there's PDFs of the others...around.
‘Valdemar Universe’ Fantasy Book Series In The Works For TV From Kit Williamson, Brittany Cavallaro & Radar Pictures I must admit I didn't really click with the series when I read it but I know a bunch of you are fans, and it will still be pretty cool to see an overtly gay fantasy story on tv.
