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"Do not rush. Explore. You have waited this long to find the end, do not ruin this moment for yourself because you could not wait. YOU WILL WANT TO REMEMBER THIS."
#Ghil Dirthalen#Dragon Age#DATV#Dragon Age: The Veilguard#No Spoiler Reviews#dragon age veilguard#da4#Its Been 10 Years#Screaming Crying Throwing Up
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obsessed with this letterboxd review for CHALLENGERS (2024) by rocky/WAYSTIAR
#challengers#challengers 2024#i have linked to the reviewers specific review / letterboxd account / twitter for everyone's reference#go give them a like or follow on either platform#spoilers
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Just Re-Watch Ghil Dirthalen's and Kala Elizabeth's no-spoiler reviews.
"Here, Solavellans, I'm going to take you aside personally, I need you to take this advice personally.
Do not rush. Explore. You have waited this long to find the end, do not ruin this moment for yourself because you could not wait. YOU WILL WANT TO REMEMBER THIS."
prayer circle for me to have the mental fortitude to not actively look up datv spoilers beginning at 11AM EST 🙏🏻
#veilguard#datv#da4#dragon age the veilguard#No Spoiler Reviews#Ghil Dirthalen#You Will Want To Remember This
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Love it when the kinda half-formed observations you make about an episode finally come to the forefront.
Watching the start of "Dot and Bubble": Hmm, everyone in this episode is very... white.
Halfway through: The Doctor certainly continues to stand out, especially in that bright red sweater amongst all the pastels
Lindy freaking out about the Doctor and Ruby being in the same room together: I suppose that could be due to some cultural taboo about interacting in-person when everyone is supposed to communicate via bubble, but that doesn't track with what we've seen of her work day...
The "twist" that the chronically online, all white, super rich, entitled to the point of satire, willing to sacrifice others without hesitation, oh so eager to colonize people living in a literal bubble (TWO bubbles) are *gasp!* actually, devastatingly racist...
Yeah, that's not a twist. That's all deliberately interconnected. The episode didn't suddenly move from an argument about social media use to an argument about racism; the two historically go hand-in-hand.
#DW#Doctor Who#DW spoilers#Doctor Who spoilers#Dot and Bubble#Dot and Bubble spoilers#me looking at reviews for how “heavy-handed” the messages are and how “fake” the monsters look:#“You fools that's the soul of DW!”#anyway I'm loving this season#can't wait for next Friday#Edit: me realizing I wrote “Rose” instead of “Ruby”#RTD's return making me think it's 2005 again lol
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I have seen it 3 times now
#this is my review btw if that wasn’t clear#doctor who#doctor who spoilers#dw spoilers#dw#doctor who the star beast#doctor who special#spencer.txt
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Okay so I just saw the new Dungeons and Dragons movie
gotta say from the moment they went with the "let's dive out the window onto the Aarakocra" plan even as the council was like "WE PARDONED YOU" I knew it would be great because that is the exact kind of stupidity a D&D party would get up to
#dnd honor among thieves#dungeons and dragons honor among thieves#dnd movie#honestly my best overall review with minimal spoilers?#not quite gay enough but *definitely* neurodivergent enough#and my ace self was VERY HAPPY with the platonic found family
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hey. don't cry. matthew lillard with old springlock scars, ok?
#I can't believe I haven't seen any william girlies talking about this on here#I've been going insane since dawko covered it in his latest trailer review video#fnaf#matthew lillard#fnaf movie#five nights at freddy's#william afton#purple guy#steve raglan#springtrap#txt#fnaf movie spoilers#muted
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if you havent read my wife's gf fanfic WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!
(no sound)
#gravity falls#billford#gf theseus' guide#bill cipher#stanley pines#stanford pines#mabel pines#dipper pines#m.png#love having secret spoiler knowledge so i know whats on mabels sweater#4 hard years of learning storyboarding in college and the first animatic i make in the YEARS since i graduated....... is for a gf fic#who would have seen this coming... not me.... but then who would have thought my wife was a FUCKING GENIUS#if ur still not sold. my brother in laws review of the fic is 'it feels like im watching an episode of gravity falls'#and i gotta agree. the tone and characters are fucking nailed the whole way through#and chapter 7 makes me cry 👍
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I think it's kind of neat that Elidibus calls Urianger "Archon" rather than his name. He does the same when he tries to speak with Minfilia in the Waking Sands, calling her "Antecedent." By the standards of the Ancients, calling them by their titles is the polite thing to do, as he doesn't know them personally but wants to have a good working relationship with them, just as his own colleagues call him Elidibus and not Themis. It might sound stiff and cold to our ear, but to him, he's addressing them with courtesy and respect.
#elidibus#urianger augurelt#minfilia warde#endwalker spoilers#reviewing elidibus and urianger's relationship and i have many feelings about it#ffxiv stuff#afk by the aetheryte
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Another of my favourite humans, Eddie aka UniFadeWalker has his 'review' out:
youtube
The reason why I love him is because his reactions are my reactions. Emotional, messy, screaming crying throwing up and raging at the screen.
I FUCKING LOVE IT, I FUCKING LOVE THE GAME
Luv u.
#No Spoiler Reviews#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#Dragon Age: The Veilguard#datv#veilguard#Review Embargo Lift#Eddie#UniFadeWalker#Woke#The Dhwarf#Dragon Age Is BACK BABY#We're back in Thedas#da4#Youtube
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Some forehead kisses and a couple redraws for season four!
#moomins#moominvalley#moomin#the moomins#moomintroll#snufkin#snufkin fanart#moomin fanart#moomin sniff#snorkmaiden#little my#snufmin#does this count as spoilers?? I mean it’s redraws#changed my designs a bit for these drawings to look more like the mv designs#mini review no one is gonna read: it was a fine season really even if I was left disappointed by certain things like the comet storyline#how they handled characters etc etc but#overall I actually did like s4 a lot and will hopefully be posting more fanart for it#maybe I’ll post my full thoughts on s4 but I’m not that good at that lmao#tecoart
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So, uh, Netflix Avatar, huh? Yeah. I guess I'll make a really long post about it because ATLA brainrot has is a cornerstone of my personality at this point.
So.
It's okay. B, maybe a C+.
That's it.
Now for the spoilers:
The biggest issue with the Netflix version is the pacing. Scenes come out of nowhere and many of the episodes are disjointed. Example: Aang escaping from Zuko's ship. We see him getting the key and going "aha!", and in the next scene he's in Zuko's room. And then he just runs out, no fun acrobatics or fights, and immediately they go to the Southern Air Temple where he sees Gyatso's corpse, goes into the Avatar state, and then sees Gyatso being really cheesy, comes out of it, and resolves that conflict. Nothing seems to lead into anything. The characters don't get to breathe.
The show's worst mistake (aside from Iroh fucking murdering Zhao) is its' first one: they start in the past. Instead of immediately introducing us to our main characters and dropping us into a world where we have a perfect dynamic where Aang doesn't know the current state of the world and Katara and Sokka don't know about the past, thus allowing for seamless and organic worldbuilding and exposition, they just... tell us. "Hey, this is what happened, ok, time for Aang!" There's no mystery, no intrigue, just a stream of information being shoved down the audience's throats and then onto the next set piece.
The visuals are for the most part great, but like with most Netflix productions, they just don't have great art direction. It feels like a video game cinematic, where everything is meant to be Maximum Cool - and none of the environments get to breathe. It's like they have tight indoor sets (with some great set design) and then they have a bunch of trailer shots. It's oozing with a kind of very superficial love.
Netflix still doesn't know how to do lighting, and with how disjointed the scenes are, the locations end up feeling like a parade of sets rather than actual cities or forests or temples. As for the costumes, Netflix still doesn't know how to do costumes that look like they're meant to be actually worn, so many of the characters seem weirdly uncomfortable, like they're afraid of creasing their pristine costumes.
The acting is decent to good, for the most part. I can't tell if the weaker moments come down to the actors or the direction and editing, but if I had to guess, I'd say the latter. Iroh and Katara are the weakest, Sokka is the most consistent, Zuko hits the mark most of the time, and Aang is okay. I liked Suki (though... she was weirdly horny? Like?) but Yue just fell kind of flat.
The tight fight choreography of the original is replaced with a bunch of spinny moves and Marvel fighting, though there are some moments of good choreography, like the Agni Kai between Ozai and Zuko (there's a million things I could say about how bad it was thematically, but this post is overly long already.) There's an actually hilarious moment in the first episode when Zuko is shooting down Aang, and he does jazz hands to charge up his attack.
Then there's the characters. Everybody feels very static - Zuko especially gets to have very little agency. A great example of that is the scene in which Iroh tells Lieutenant Jee the story of Zuko's scar.
In the original, it's a very intimate affair, and he doesn't lead the crew into any conclusions. Here, Iroh straight up tells the crew "you are the 41st, he saved your lives" and then the crew shows Zuko some love. A nice moment, but it feels unearned, when contrasted with the perfection of The Storm. In The Storm, Zuko's words and actions directly contradict each other, and Iroh's story gives the crew (and the audience) context as to why, which makes Zuko a compelling character. We get to piece it out along with them. Here - Iroh just flat out says it. He just says it, multiple times, to hammer in the point that hey, Zuko is Good Actually.
And then there's Iroh. You remember the kindly but powerful man who you can see gently nudging Zuko to his own conclusions? No, he's a pretty insecure dude who just tells Zuko that his daddy doesn't love him a lot and then he kills Zhao. Yeah. Iroh just plain kills Zhao dead. Why?
Iroh's characterization also makes Zuko come off as dumb - not just clueless and deluded, no, actually stupid. He constantly gets told that Iroh loves him and his dad doesn't, and he doesn't have any good answers for that, so he just... keeps on keeping on, I guess? This version of Zuko isn't conflicted and willfully ignorant like the OG, he's just... kind of stupid. He's not very compelling.
In the original, Zuko is well aware of Azula's status as the golden child. It motivates him - he twists it around to mean that he, through constant struggle, can become even stronger than her, than anyone. Here, Zhao tells him that "no, ur dad likes her better tee hee" and it's presented as some kind of a revelation. And then Iroh kills Zhao. I'm sorry I keep bringing that up, but it's just such an unforgiveable thematic fuckup that I have to. In the original, Zhao falls victim to his hubris, and Zuko gets to demonstrate his underlying compassion and nobility when he offers his hand to Zhao. Then we get some ambiguity in Zhao: does he refuse Zuko's hand because of his pride, or is it his final honorable action to not drag Zuko down with him? A mix of both? It's a great ending to his character. Here, he tries to backstab Zuko and then Iroh, who just sort of stood off to the side for five minutes, goes "oh well, it's murderin' time :)"
They mess with the worldbuilding in ways that didn't really need to be messed with. The Ice Moon "brings the spirit world and the mortal world closer together"? Give me a break. That's something you made up, as opposed to the millenia of cultural relevance that the Solstice has. That's bad, guys. You replaced something real with something you just hastily made up. There's a lot of that. We DID NOT need any backstory for Koh, for one. And Katara and Sokka certainly didn't need to be captured by Koh. I could go on and on, but again, this post is already way too long.
It's, um, very disappointing. A lot of telling and not very much showing, and I feel like all of the characters just... sort of end up in the same place they started out in. I feel like we don't see any of the characters grow: they're just told over and over again how they need to grow and what they need to do.
To sum it up: Netflix Avatar is a mile wide, but an inch deep.
#avatar the last airbender#atla#atla spoilers#avatar netflix#netflix avatar#atla live action#netflix atla#zuko#iroh#katara#aang#sokka#zhao#ozai#review
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"Ah. Your distraction worked. Could have set it when we were farther away." / "Désolé. I didn't say it was a good plan."
#that last shot is everything to me#this is their introductory scene btw#this one is for me and the other six people who care about them so much rn. i can't wait for other people to also love them.#Evka Ivo#Antoine Dragon Age#Dragon Age: The Veilguard#Dragon Age The Veilguard#Dragon Age#Bioware can we give him a last name so I can tag him properly. There are two Antoines in Thedas but obviously this one is more important.#I swear to god I'm gonna tag him as Antoine Ivo if I need to.#Gena makes stuff#Gena's gifs#dragonageedit#datvedit#gamingedit#dailygaming#datv spoilers#veilguard spoilers#datv#actually I was going to have a source but then I remembered the game is out in like 36 hours so. and it's a review I feel weird about anywa
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Good Omens (2019-) + Letterboxd reviews⭐
bonus:
#good omens#good omens 2#good omens season 2#good omens spoilers#goodomensedit#goedit#aziraphale#crowley#inneffable husbands#aziracrow#myedit#did i basically spend an afternoon just reading through letterboxd to find these reviews before they get taken down?#yes i did#gosh i love this show sm
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the inexorable corruption of power and the question of: was it fate? or was it the individual choices of ten people, twenty--a thousand people's individual choices crushed into sediment over multiple centuries?
is that what we call fate? just stories.
beginnings are such delicate times.
#dune#dune part two#dune 2#dune spoilers#dune part two spoilers#my thoughts#my reviews#paul atreides#chani#lady jessica#stilgar
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And we're back
#lego monkie kid#lmk#lmk mk#lmk red son#spicynoodleshipping#lmk mei#lmk pigsy#lmk tang#my art#finally watched season 5#AND MY BEAUTIFUL RED SON!!!!!!#I missed you so much#THAT EPISODE AND FEW SECONDS WERE THE ONLY THING I NEEDED#that and that concept art image#as you can clearly see#review without spoilers? flying bark will be missed but the heart is still there#how many times I almost cried watching this season#LIKE A LOT#I love these characters too much
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