#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

[lannisterdaddyissues]

people are only saying dead reckoning was bad bc ilsa died as if it wasn’t rebecca ferguson’s choice to leave… girl stfu unfortunately this has always happened to female characters in the franchise and she wasn’t as immune as we thought 😐

[day-mark]

god i fucking love competitive play, i love watching high level, skilled gameplay from passionate players, i love learning the statistics for each player and the game as a whole, i love hearing everyone and especially the casters glaze the fuck out of my favorite players. mc summit/mojang and mc.c you will be fucking dealt with .

[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 🤨😩

[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

[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 😅)

[marshmellowtea]

remembering why i hate being in active fandoms gklasjdflk

[greasydumbfuck]

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

[fortune-maiden]

Did... did Tsukasa just die?

And that was the 7 Zios special... I have so many questions

[a-bored-writer]

It’s late and this is kind of a vent post so don’t take me too seriously but I think “go to therapy” as an argument is the new “you’re just emotional”

Like, everyone I know who’s looked at me and told me about how great their therapy experience was (and mind you, I went through some therapy myself. I don’t hate it, not at all, I have nothing against the mental health field as someone who actively sought out counseling) were the worst people I’d ever met.

My dad, who made this house a terrible environment to be in and who I had to cut out, justified his actions because “when I told the therapist the story of how angry I got, y’know what he said to me? He said ‘I would be angry too’.”

Or you disagree with someone on ANYTHING and they start diagnosing. I had a (former) friend tell me I had a disorder because I didn’t eat breakfast, or that I had trauma because I wasn’t willing to answer invasive sexual questions in the mall food court.

Like, I’m sorry, but there are people out there who talk like a chatGPT-generated therapist and throw out terms without understanding what they mean, and they use that to be super manipulative under the guise of “oh I’ve done self help/therapy/etc.”

I just…wish people were more careful about therapy, I guess. At the end of the day, this is still someone being paid to validate your feelings, only hearing your side to any story (which can be very biased, especially when you literally intend to only reveal certain things and show how righteous you are), and who’s basically meant to be on your side. Using what your therapist (allegedly) told you in a session doesn’t sway other people, and spitting out self-help terms doesn’t make you any better than others

[marshmellowtea]

carewhumper robert learning that chris regresses and trying to coerce him into headspace because he thinks he'll be easier to handle/manipulate that way but he quickly learns that now he just has a very emotional, clingy toddler to look after..........like technically yes chris is more agreeable like this but that comes in exchange with having to constantly soothe his fits of tears and sacrificing ever having more than one hand free because if chris isn't begging pitifully to be held (and getting robert to cave surprisingly quickly with it lmao) he's clinging onto robert's hand whether robert likes it or not.............everyone is so baffled as to why robert keeps trying this strategy because rarely does it ever get him the results he wants but robert is stubborn and starting to become too accustomed to his role of bedraggled parent(tm)(tm) to give it up now ghkladjf

[born2beadorable]

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.

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

I saw a rant you made about overwatch... You got to get into the game Deep Rock Galactic, it will purify your soul like a rock polisher. It's a class based PvE cooperative shooter where you play as dwarven miners shooting big bugs on an alien world. The game engine has been optimized to hell and back so it can run on any computer. The game developers are about to drop season 5 and a story mode spin-off sometime this year. It's good but not as great as helldivers 2 which the DRG devs have played and openly expressed admiration for. I just hope this recommendation gives you some hope because you sounded miserable in that rant...

I read this and at first was confused because i have made many rants about overwatch

It hit me when you said “you sounded miserable” what exactly you were referring to lol

Anyways- that sounds sick as hell most of those words went straight over my head nyoom style but I love bug fighting dwarves!

[shsl-hubris-guy]

Piping hot take apparently but. Maybe if you're going to criticize a thing for poor writing you should actually watch it first

[saving-people-haunting-things]

It's really interesting how people perceive blame differently in the fandom. Like we have people yelling until they're blue in the face about how Sam can't be held responsible for s4 and raising Lucifer because Ruby was manipulating him and demons and angels were manipulating him, which, fair enough. But then those same people also say that Dean is personally responsible for every single fallout from the Gadreel incident even though his only real action was agreeing to let Gadreel try to make Sam say yes out of desperation. Especially since a) he agreed thinking that Gadreel was Ezekiel who Castiel vouched for and b) he originally intended to tell Sam the truth but then Gadreel essentially held Sam hostage to force him not to. Like, yeah, it was shitty, but I find it really strange that if Sam isn't to be blamed because he was desperate and hurting and outside forces tricked him, why doesn't that apply to Dean?