#complaining about a dead show

[doesnotloveyou]

s04ep15 "indian wars" is a prime example of when miami vice gets really frustrating. they've got main characters standing at the edges of the scenes with nothing to do. trudy, gina, switek, are lucky if they have one line or one action. in one scene, olivia brown behaves like she's modeling for a magazine shoot except no one is looking at her

trudy's primary duties have always been, but are now explicitly, fetching faxes and making phonecalls (secretary). many of gina's shots are from behind her head so you can't even see saundra's face. it's like someone said "we need all the actors on screen" but then no one wrote anything for them to do. they used to, since it's an office, be at their own desks working on their own cases instead of all clustered in one spot and on one case. i get that it became the don johnson show, but even then could you at least have him interact with the other characters in the scene? like he used to?

anyway, good on john diehl for leaving in s3 bc they all deserved better

[oceanwithouthermoon]

people hate teenage girls so much that i can literally say "teruhashi is conceited, fake, judgemental, and manipulative, but she has incentive to change and is only that way because of how shes been treated her whole life" and theyll still go "wow are you justifying the horrible things she thinks? youre acting like shes a perfect, hurt little angel who did nothing wrong"

PLEASE READ !!! GENUINELY BEGGING YOU TO LEARN TO READ !!!

[distracted-obsessions]

So I never watched Dead Boy Detectives but I know people who did and if you did and you really want to stick it to Netflix and get them to bring it back then this is the foolproof way to do it.

Cancel your Netflix subscription.

Cancel your Netflix subscription and send them an email telling them why you canceled it. Because they always do this. They always cancel good shows after one season because a second season of an old show isn't going to draw in as many people as a first season of a new show. Complaining about it on the internet, if it does anything, isn't going to go as far as taking away their money.

If you hate 8 episode seasons, if you hate one season long shows, if you hate what a streaming service does, then show them. Stop paying them to disappoint you. Cancel your Netflix.

[thebirdandhersong]

Lol

[alyssaforevermore]

I haven’t really talked about season 2 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon because I just honestly haven’t known what to say lol Major spoilers below!!

For some positivity, there were quite a few moments I really enjoyed. I’m very glad they didn’t kill off Ash; he was a cool addition and I hope we do see him again, even if it’s in a different show. I think the Caryl reunion was pretty well done and seeing them back together was what I’ve been waiting for. I also enjoyed that they took the time to finally focus on Carol’s trauma over losing Sophia. It felt like she was rarely “allowed” to acknowledge her after a few seasons of the main show, especially once she lost Lizzie, Mika and Henry 😭

However, I do feel like the season was pretty weak 😬 I don’t know why Norman hyped up the finale so much because… it was just not it. Cordon running off was also frustrating but I’m hoping we see him again in season 3 (he’s a big highlight of this series for me).

Don’t even get me started on what they did with Isabelle this season. Such a waste of an interesting character and it really just seems like she was a placeholder for until Carol showed up and then they tossed her away. It would be fine if her death had some sort of impact on the story but she was simply shanked after making the dumbest move ever and then Daryl and Laurent were kinda sad. So odd. Also, I fully realize that I said don’t get me started but then I got myself started.

I’ll tune in for season 3 because Daryl and Carol are two of my most beloved TWDU characters but I’m very disappointed and hope this was just one weak season 😬

Edit: I wanna add that I think 6 episodes is hurting the general storytelling and I cannot believe they’re sticking to 6 episodes for season 3 🤨😩

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

i havent followed the manga in several months and im not interested in catching up again but has bakugo un-died yet. has deku saved him yet with the power of gay love. or is he still getting open heart surgery. has this boy been getting open heart surgery for the past 8 months.

[ibrokeeverything]

I'm so sad that zom 100 got screwed over by production issues. I have no idea what happened or why, but it always hurts to see a good show be dragged down by outside influences. Is it a perfect show? Of course not. Some episodes are better than others and I don't love the way they handle female characters and romances (kencho and akira have infinitely more chemistry than akira and shizuka and I will die on this hill) But it's a good show! It has so much heart and the themes of making room for joy, standing up for yourself, and the value community are heartfelt, impactful, and well-done!

You can feel the passion and love poured into the show, and the concept is novel despite its simplicity. A fun, colorful, bright, and joyful zombie anime is genius! It's such a great twist on the genre that paves the way for stories that other zombie media just can't tell with their grim and dark tones.

Zom 100 isn't perfect, but I'm really glad it exists and I hope it's audience continues to find it! (I'm aware that it made the rounds after it's first episode and the last three episodes were the only ones particularly egregiously affected by the production issues in the form of a lengthy delay, but my point still stands 😅)

[aeolianblues]

I'm not an extrovert. At all. In everyday life, I'm a yapper, sure, but I need someone to first assure me I am okay to yap, so I don't start conversations, even when I really want to join in sometimes! It's just the social anxiety acting up. God knows where from and why I lose a lot of my inhibitions when it comes to talking to people about music. I don't know where the confidence has suddenly sprung from. I've made a crazy amount of friends in musical circles, either just talking to people about common music or (since it is after all in music circles) talking to bands about their own music. I let out a sigh of relief any time an interaction goes well, because in truth it's going against my every instinct. I wish I could do that in everyday life

[greasydumbfuck]

metafrank but like the bits that make it obvious they are like really terrible together

[goblin-enjoyer]

*draws something for the first time in a while. “Man I suck at drawing! Maybe go back to being good at it if I draw more!”

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“Oh I got a neat idea for a drawing! Surely I have gotten better by now!” Loop post

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

hate when i see a youtube video that's like 'analyzing why [thing] is bad!' and you watch the video and they just say nothing for twenty minutes

[quaranmine]

The Backcountry Permit Situation

Rereading Firewatch AU again and I want to make a clarifying comment about the backcountry permit thing, since it's a such an important part of the plot from Chapter 5 - 10. I haven't seen anyone be confused about this yet fortunately, but in my opinion the distinctions in the plot get pretty in the weeds here. So this is just me walking through it.

The Forest Service IS supposed to be in the wrong about the permit. That was an actual mistake that probably cost Mumbo dearly in a roundabout way. They are also wrong to have not disclosed this to Grian or Mumbo's family.

But here's where I say that it's not a conspiracy. Grian's thoughts about the mistaken permit is that it impacted Mumbo's search process. He thinks that the Forest Service wanted to cover up their mistake, and as a result botched the search to hide it. Admitting that they made a mistake with the permit would indicate they were at fault, and they don't want to be at fault because they're the government, so they continue to search the Cloud Lake Trail like nothing happened. Grian thinks that they knew Mumbo wasn't there and kept searching it anway to make themselves look good. He thinks they purposefully searched an area Mumbo wasn't in to hide their mistake. He thinks that they should have pursued other areas, but didn't want the liability of admitting Mumbo wasn't on the trail. He and Scar both think it was unprofessional to not, somehow, explore areas that weren't even connected to the original trail because SAR should have been "able to predict that."

The non-conspiratorial reality is much simpler. The Forest Service mistakenly issued Mumbo a permit for a trail that hadn't been reopened yet because the person who issued it simply didn't know. It's pre-computer, so it's not like they had an electronic system to flag this. So when Mumbo is reported missing, they have 1) Mumbo's permit for that trail, 2) Mumbo's car at that trailhead, and 3) a witness who said they saw Mumbo on/near the trail. There is NO reason to assume Mumbo didn't go there anyway. All evidence actually points to him being there. In fact, as stated in the files Grian later stole, the SAR incident commander had determined that the damage to the trail made it more likely for Mumbo to get lost. He would have entered altered terrain where the trail was obscured, and might have taken a wrong turn since everything was no longer marked or clear. I have seen real life cases where this happened to hikers who got lost!

It's stated that the SAR did do aerial searches of some other locations around Cloud Lake, but only of official trails off the same road as Cloud Lake. Since, you know, those are the ones that officially connect and are close to where his vehicle was found. Grian himself says he never made it to Cloud Lake because he was "asked to help in other areas." So we can already see that there was search acitivity that wasn't concetrated on the the rockslide area.

When Scar asks what the Forest Service thought about Mumbo's things being found on a completely different trail, and why he was permitted for a closed trail, he's told they were "operating on information inconsistent with reality and conducting an investigation of it." They both treat this as sinister-sounding but it's pretty much just a roundabout polished governmenty way of saying "we have no clue why he was at Pinnacles either and are looking into it" lol.

When Grian confronts the District Ranger, he's mad. The District Ranger admits fault to him about the permit, but explains again that they didn't see a reason why Mumbo wouldn't be in the Cloud Lake area. Grian accuses them of purposefully blocking off the spur trail Mumbo took—essentially saying that the Forest Service knew Mumbo took that path, and quietly blocked it off without mentioning it. The District Ranger replies that the trail crews were just doing their jobs. That's the truth. Since the Cloud Lake Trail needed repairs to reopen, a trail crew worked heavily on it. Part of their job is streamlining the trail.

Unfortunately, most of the critical errors in Mumbo's case were always his own. He shouldn't have taken the unmarked trail, he should've turned around once he realized the Cloud Lake Trail was messed up. I don't mean it in a victim-blamey "he deserved his outcome due to stupidity" way. I simply mean it in the sense that we're all human and unfortunately some silly mistakes or moments of poor decision-making are final.

So basically:

Forest Service issuing the mistaken permit and not admitting it: actual mistake, they were wrong

Forest Service purposefully botching the search and focusing on an area they knew Mumbo wasn't in, to decrease their own liability: this didn't happen, Grian is wrong

Mumbo's family could probably sue them for wrongful death based on the permit thing, though. I don't know how successful it would be but in my purely amateur opinion I think there's a reasonable case to be made that Mumbo never would've been in the position to make his mistakes if he'd never stepped foot on the trail. He might've gone elsewhere and had an entirely normal trip. If only :(

[detectim]

going insane thinking about the months and months that 13 y/o t.im had to train before being let on missions and how much stricter b.ruce and a.lfred probably were on him than they were with the other robins

[blueskittlesart]

Hi! As someone who now kinda wants to check out Trigun because of the hype, do you recommend that I can start with Stampede? Or do I really need to watch the OG anime first to better understand/enjoy it? Thank you! 🙋🏻‍♀️

you can start with stampede! i'd say knowing the context of the original enhances the experience but isn't necessary to enjoy the show. I would consider stampede more viewer-friendly, especially for those of us who are used to modern storytelling conventions (the original suffers the consequences of general writing trends in anime at the time it was produced and of the fact that it was produced long before the manga was finished, so the story is somewhat disjointed and has a lot of filler which makes it REALLY hard to get into.) if you do end up liking stampede, however, I'd suggest trying out watching at least SOME of the original because it adds a lot of cool nuance and context to the story that stampede tells!

[perenlop]

finished “yellowface”. goddamn that was a ride… highly highly recommend if you like villain protagonists

[butterflyeffectiooon]

One last thing about last twilight ep 11. I’m never gonna be at peace with it I’m so sorry and I’ve already spoken at length about why but then I read I think aof’s reasoning for the break up I don’t even remember exactly who wrote this but it was someone on the production team. They said they talked to blind people while writing the story, we know this already, but one of them (ONE) said he was in a relationship in his early 20s and felt like his partner was overbearing or like overly concerned about him specifically bc he was blind and this wore him out over time so he broke up with them and later regretted it and felt it was an immature thing to do. Where do I start with this…. First of all that was one person’s story, it’s not like they talked to a bunch of blind people and this was a common theme in their relationships. So like. Ok whatever. I think they could have I don’t know talked to a few more blind people if the goal was to represent an interabled relationship well? But that is the least of my gripes! Let’s say, ok, they decide to use this one guy’s anecdote to shape THE episode 11 curse. This guy admitted it was an immature decision on his part and we see that day has made incredible progress over the course of the series so we’re gonna have to throw that out the window and revert him back to the asshole rich kid he was in episode 1. I don’t LIKE that but I’m still with you, I see your vision. Absolutely terrible characterization but with how quickly and easily they will make other characters grow I guess it makes sense they would undo all that growth equally quickly. If they had played their cards right the entire series up until this point it’s quite possible I would be able to accept their breakup, but that’s the thing, they DIDN’T!!!! The whole show, at least from the time they got together until the time they broke up, there was NO indication day ever felt uncomfortable with mhok’s intense level of care and consideration. And I’m not gonna sit here and pretend that man didn’t have tunnel vision to the extreme and that his brain received anything other than the My Boyfriend Day channel at all ever, but that’s just how he is man! He is not the way he is because day is blind, it��s evident in his relationships with all the other characters that he is just incredibly caring and unable to ever think about himself, we know this. But even so, day literally told him at the beginning of the episode to never leave him. We never saw a single second where Day felt like it was all too much, or even more that it was all bc of his disability. Or at least if we did I also had tunnel vision and 24/7 mhokday channel on and they didn’t hit me over the head with it so I didn’t notice. But I’m pretty sure I didn’t miss anything. Anyway, if they had thrown little hints that day felt mhok was overbearing, the breakup would be a much easier pill to swallow but they literally exchanged their first “I love you”s like MINUTES before the breakup. It came out of nowhere, which makes it feel even more wrong that day was willing to throw their love away over ONE breakdown of communication. I wouldn’t even call it a fight. Now I’m just rehashing all my previous complaints but the point is I MIGHT HAVE accepted this turn of events if it was ever alluded to before then. For all the foreshadowing they love to do they really just said let’s throw them a curveball they’ll never see coming and it’s just like. WHY!!!! The “where the fuck did this even come from” of it all just makes it feel that much more out of character which KILLS ME!!!! Oh and to bring it back to the one dude’s story- he said this wore him down OVER TIME, and idk, maybe for him and for day it all dawned upon them at the moment right before they decided to end things, but…. from a storytelling standpoint I just think it’s weak. You can show day’s discomfort without him VOICING it. And that would have gone a long way toward making this make sense and feel more acceptable to a lot of people.