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Rating Marvel’s new New Warriors

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After seeing the character designs for Marvel’s new series of New Warriors comics as well as watching multiple reaction videos and reading other people’s reviews, I thought I would summarize some basic points and add my ratings/review. Please prepare yourselves for this hot garbage. 

Screentime: 3/10

wow starting off strong

looks like Ben 10 

basically if Alexa was your obnoxious Fortnite-obsessed younger brother

writers will probably make him say “Ok bOomEr” and unironically floss

got his powers from internet gas????? whatever the fuck that means??????

Superhero name makes him sound like he’s six and his parents are trying to stop him from watching Ninja for 12 hours a day 

useless in combat bc other than him having a smartphone for a brain he’s a regular kid (aka: will die in one hit from a villain with actual powers) 

only redeeming quality is his visor reminds me of  Geordi La Forge

Trailblazer: 3/10

Dora the Exploer if she got really into bad 90s fashion

Backpack looks like Sleeper from the Venom comics 

her description says she “she doesn't think of herself as a Super Hero,” which is good because she isn’t one 

slightly more useful in combat than Screentime because she could potentially pull an RPG out of her pocket dimension backpack or something

oh wait she can’t even control what comes out of it!!! nevermind!!!!

fucking Percy Jackson did this with Leo and even then he had his own powers as well as this 

there were so many fat jokes/fatphobia in all the reviews i saw on youtube and it made me want to smash my head into a wall (not related to the review but I thought it was worth mentioning if anyone wants to look up any reviews after this) 

I keep coming back to the color scheme and it’s just. so bad. Neon sucks  especially when it is clashing with other neon 

apparently she got the backpack from God, but  “not the god you’re thinking of...” very cool writers. Real quirky of you. Can you be any more annoying. 

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Snowflake and Safespace: 1/10

oh god

oh sweet jesus 

I don’t even know where to begin with these. the names? The costumes? The color scheme? Safespace’s fucking sideburns? help 

ok let’s start with the names 

it does not matter who you are on the political scale, where you are on the gender spectrum, or how okay you are with “”edgy/dark humor””- nobody who has even the slightest knowledge of 2017-era Twitter language will look at two superheroes named Snowflake and Safespace and think “these characters are reclaiming these otherwise insulting terms and using them as their own.” They will think the characters are a joke. It shows how utterly out of touch the writer is with modern day culture, which is not a good sign considering he’s writing  modern-era comic with all teenage characters. Snowflake is an insult. It just is. The idea of a “safespace” has been demolished because of the way it has been used by trolls online. No amount of woke points and “flipping the script” is going to change that. It’s a sad attempt to pander to a very specific audience, and the writers still manage to make it feel like a slap in the face. This is one of the poorest attempts to make a new-age, hyper aware characterization that I have seen in a long time. It fucking sucks. 

Also Marvel makes their first nonbinary character and they name them fucking Snowflake? Are you  kidding me Marvel? I’m going to scream 

Moving on to the costumes, they’re actually shit. It’s like if the Wonder Twins became semi-professional roller skaters who watched Tron once while tripping on LSD. Why do they have vests. 

Why is everything Neon??!?!! Does the designer not know how value and complimentary colors work?! Can the saturation not be constantly at 100 please my eyes are suffering

Apparently their characters are just as obnoxious as their hair 

“they see their Super Heroics as “a post-ironic meditation on using violence to combat bullying.” They're probably streaming this.” WRITERS HAVE YOU EVER INTERACTED WITH A TEENAGER. THIS READS LIKE A REDDIT POST DO YOU THINK WE TALK LIKE THIS 

the best components out of these characters are the powers, and even then the powers aren’t extraordinary. Ice shurikens and force fields? Fine. A little standard, but fine. I just wish their powers weren’t so connotative with their names. I can’t fathom that someone actually approved these characters. This is exhausting. 

B-Negative : 6/10

probably the best one out of them all 

what every emo kid wanted to look like in 8th grade

a cohesive color scheme that isn’t trying to attack me through the screen 

actually has super powers that aren’t googling things or pulling things out of a magical Jansport that not-God found at Target for $30 

apparently this is where the creativity ends though because in the end he is literally just a vampire minus the immortality (why, you ask? I don’t fucking know. It’s like the internet gas everything is a shitshow)

“B-Negative ages like a regular person (or does he?) and he definitely drinks blood (or does he?)” I don’t care. (or does he? Jk I don’t fucking care. Stop trying to be quirky, writers. It’s not cute.)

“The world is a vampire…and so am I.”  Hi what the FUCK does this mean 

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Final Thoughts 

I am very tired

Marvel doesn’t know their audience at all 

The creators of these characters tried to make modern characters despite being extremely out of touch, making the concepts already seem dated and unappealing 

I’m honestly suprised they didn’t have a Hijabi character for those sweet sweet woke points ™ 

please for the love of god can I get some neutral colors once in a while. I can’t take this much longer 

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Week 4 Critical Analysis (1960s) The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows

Tomorrow Never Knows is a song from The Beatles’ 1966 album “Revolver”. Recorded at Abbey Road studios in April 1966, the song remains one of The Beatles most influential and ground-breaking works. It uses a combination of recording tricks and shows the Beatles stretching their creative limits.

The instrumental was inspired by traditional Indian music that The Beatles were influenced by at the time. “Tomorrow Never Knows” relied almost entirely on one chord, that being steady C-chord. They used the sitar and tambura to achieve this sound.

John was inspired at the time of writing this song by his recent LSD usage, and the book The Psychedelic Experience written by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert. I believe John wanted to create an audible reference to the effects of LSD, and this lead to the unconventional methods to create this song. The song introduced many new ideas and themes that popular music had not seen at the time, including being tone of the first popular recordings to contain samples and revered instruments. It also had minimal deviation from one chord, which to this day still sounds strange.

I wrote some notes while listening to the song: 

• There is a Sitar or Tambura played as an intro. 

• At 4 seconds the Drums, Bass and Tambourine come in. The drums have a really sharp sound, which was apparently done by close-milking the drums and also putting a woolen jumper inside the drums to deaden the sound.

• Johns vocals come in around 11 seconds and at this point there are no effects added.

• At 42 seconds the Tambourine speeds up playing more notes

• At the 1.10 minute mark a reversed guitar solo is heard

• Vocals come back in and Leslie speaker effect is heard (1.30)

•  (1.51) The Tambourine, which went missing in the mix comes back at the 1.51 minute mark and changes rhythm at around 2.02.

• The 2.30 mark is when Johns vocals begin to fade out and at 2.48 you can hear a Piano playing. Apparently there was a full piano track recorded for the song but didn’t make it onto the final mix.

Another distinctive feature of this song was the use of its samples. These were made from looped recordings the band members made at home that had been edited. They are at times hard to distinguish but are all throughout the song. There is a “seagull sound” as an example, which was actually a recording of someone laughing which had been sped up while edited. Here are some of these samples and there times:

(1) A ‘seagull’ effect (0:07)

(2) Orchestral chord of B flat major (0:19)

(3) Mellotron played on its flute setting (0:22)

(4) Another Mellotron oscillating in 6/8 from B flat to C on its string setting (0:38)

(5) A rising scalar phrase on a sitar, recorded with heavy saturation and acceleration (0:56).

John felt he needed to go a very interesting direction with the vocals, and told producers he wanted to sound like the Dalai Lama shouting from the top at of a mountain. Engineer Geoff Emerick had the great idea of plugging the mic into a revolving speaker called the the Leslie 122. Johns strange vocals effect was because of the Lesley speaker and it sounds deeper and further away in the mix then the previous vocals, surprisingly capturing a sort of Dalai Lama shouting sound.

I used the SPAN plugin with Pro Tools to analyse the track and wrote the following notes: 

•  This track plays out with very heavy use in all ranges of the song

•  The low to mid ranges are filled with Ringo’s bass drum sounds and Paul’s bass, around the 135HZ mark you can hear the bass very clearly.

•  Most of the instruments are heard clearly in the high frequency’s around 4.00kHz.

• Johns vocals are Mid to High range frequency being its clearest at around 3.00kHz

• The drums are mostly Mid frequency heavy, being there clearest between 200Hz and 2.00kHz

•  The bass is in the low frequency's mostly and can be heard clearly at around 1.26Hz.

Here is a list of the instruments used for the song, this was taken directly from the Wikipedia page here 

John Lennon – vocals, Hammond organ, Mellotron, tape loops.

Paul McCartney – bass guitar, tape loops.

George Harrison – sitar, tambura, lead guitar, tape loops.

Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine, tape loops.

George Martin – tack piano.

Reference List:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Knows

http://www.beatlesebooks.com/tomorrow-never-knows

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/tnk.

https://theproaudiofiles.com/tomorrow-never-knows-by-the-beatles/

https://www.facebook.com/ed.stephens.75/videos/10153504176673348/

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Any scenario where Addie upsets the court of opinion (ie. a world run by Jerry’s and Beth’s):

First it was “under pressure” physically blocking my ear drums putting my brain into a vacuum

Now you just have the luxury of reducing the fixed potentials tied to the Lysergic acid dimethylamide receptor inducing an immediate permatrip from the sandwich I ate over three months ago

Can’t wait till it turns the the ATP battery inducing paralysis (we think)…oh wait…we’ve just arrived here too