#interviews were boring

[silveragelovechild]

A few comments about “Squid Game the Challenge”

First, I did not watch the original series it was based on.

After hearing about the potential lawsuit, I watch the first episode.

I decided to continue but I ended up fast forwarding through most of each episode.

I thought the one-on-one interviews were boring.

The group conversations in the dorm room were also boring.

The Red-Light/Green-Light challenge looked rigged.

It also revealed the basic problem with the game - it was all up to chance.

Even though the contestants made strategies and alliances, it was pointless… too many of the games were up to chance.

There were only two points in the show that I thought were interesting… (1) when the women bonded together to prevent themselves from being eliminated; (2) Two gay men reached the final episode.

The winner was unlikable.

I won’t watch the already announced second season.

[sevenines]

i saw this tweet and found it interesting for two reasons. one is that some people base how good cartoon network would be to toh by how it treated su, and despite the fact that su’s treatment by the network was considered poor at the time, now its thought to be exceptionally good in comparison to modern shows.

two is how exactly su got impacted by a limited budget. a common criticism is how characters like connie, peridot, and lapis are left out of missions. but balancing a lot of characters is not only hard but also costly (extra animation, extra voices—it’s been revealed that the show is limited to a set number of characters per episode otherwise they’re over budget). animation mistakes are not uncommon since retakes cost extra. the entire reason the original show got cut short was due to loss of funding!

[glitteringpoet1685]

Anne Rice will really write a whole chapter about an incredibly interesting and compelling character who seems to have ties to a lot of important plot points and characters only to turn around and go: "Hey, you're invested in the character's story now? Fuck you, they are never going to appear in any meaningful way in a single one of the other 10 books I am going to write in this series."

[elektroblues]

alan wilder and dave gahan, 1984

[batsplat]

if more people knew Herstory (aka 2004 season and sete&vale) so many questions wrt 2015 season(mostly “why would vale….”) would immediately be answered addfghjk like guysssss guyssssss

it is kinda funny that there's a simple cheat code out there to understanding most of valentino's career but it's just about long enough ago that most people simply... ignore it. like there's a three year span that more or less tells you what you need to know about him. it's like you say! pretty much every possible "why would vale..." secretly has a straightforward answer, and 9/10 it's something that was established in 2003 to 2005. simple as

if anything it's almost annoying because it's too easy. the 2004/2015 stuff in particular is incredibly funny. oh, so you say you have a controversial last lap at assen where valentino beat a rival in direct combat and said rival reacted surprisingly poorly, making valentino reevaluate his relationship with the rival? might that tell you something about how a seed of suspicion once sown can remain dormant for months until valentino is given cause to revisit it? valentino quite literally says in his biography that he could never have hated biaggi because he wasn't a friend and didn't have the power to hurt him... the sepang pressers thing is genuinely just silly, I know this is mainly a function of when they happen in the calendar but what a bizarre coincidence. 2015 is like a slightly more opaque funhouse mirror version of 2004 - but so many of the major beats are virtually identical. which means you've got a season Out There where a younger less experienced less guarded less cynical valentino basically walks you through his internal processes so you get a really good handle of what his deal is. he's piecing together his identity as a competitor going forwards in real time - and then in 2015 he just reminds you of what exactly that identity involves. it's a reaffirmation and not a departure... he's not that inscrutable after all, in the end

[ovcii-doodles]

[REDACTED]: You're writing down an awful lot there. Counselor: Just my observations. Does this evaluation make you...anxious?

washed hands interview my beloved

[anotherdescentintomadness]

Rénjiān Zhì Wèi Shì Qīng Huān (Love Actually)

WANG YIBO as Zhai ZhiWei (2017)

And a little treat for all you thirsty bitches

[pristina-nomine]

Anyway I might have reached the Point of No Return with IWTV, I watched Lestat the Musical the other day and genuinely had a good time. A snobbish show-only fan no more 😔✊🏻

[laniidae-passerine]

people think the theories are getting too crazy well I don’t think we’re getting crazy enough. we need weirder shit. Armand wasn’t Alice. Louis was Alice. how does that work? it doesn’t. but it’s only Tuesday and I can’t day drink rn so we’re gonna work with this until the weekend

[un-pearable]

Civil War (2024) is a mechanically good film but the commitment to not stoking real world political tensions in a movie about the potential consequences of those tensions leaves a gaping hole in its worldbuilding and reduces its impact to just. a series of melodramatic images of “what if the bad war happened here”. completely declawing any potential impact it could have had for the sake of not being controversial

[not-so-rosyyy]

we simply don't talk enough about the fact that she essentially confirmed 1.0 by spilling that the sweatshirts he stole from set ended up with her because she stole it from him like that's so gf of her fr idk

also her lil giggle while saying that like girl GET UP 😭

[taisorato]

it is almost certainly the sports animanga (and general sports) enthusiast in me but i just think challengers should have loved tennis the way that tashi and patrick did.

maybe they feared losing their audience's attention if they got more technical, maybe the disinterest in tennis itself was intentional, maybe it's just too hard to do in live action (esp with actors who aren't actually pro tennis players), but all i could think about during the last set was how much harder all the emotional beats would've hit if it was paired with on court action instead of point totals. 'tennis is a relationship' but none of the psychological warfare was actually being played out during any of the rallies and it made that One Shot where the camera was the tennis ball feel very silly even though it's technically very impressive. everything is tennis except tennis which is sex yeah yeah but they went about it in the most boring way possible imo.

it really doesn't help that the haikyuu movie is coming out soon which has a similar arc and every single action of that match MEANS something and speaks for itself. like i don't think i'd have this kind of complaint if i didn't know it could be better but i also wouldn't have been so excited for this movie if i wasn't already a fan of sports stories.

like i love a good homoerotic-laden love triangle, my url is quite literally one and i thought tashi, art, and patrick were great, but if the cornerstone of their relationship is tennis, then i do actually need the movie to care about tennis.

[thesmokinpossum]

Why are HR people the most annoying fuckers on the face of the Earth?

[br1ghtestlight]

love how elusive the years between 18 and 30 are for both bob and linda in the show. we dont know ANYTHING we don't know if linda went to college if she had friends or roommates how she met ginger if she was still living with her parents how she met hugo WHAT HER PREVIOUS JOB WAS?? and for bob we don't know if he still worked at his dads restaurant after their fight if he still lived with him where he could've lived or worked otberwise if he had friends or roommates what his plan in life was. and we'll never know the answers to these questions either bcuz I don't think the writers actually thought that far ahead

[kaesaaurelia]

My mom's spent a bunch of time arguing with me about how I should be a lawyer and I keep telling her I fucking hate arguing and conflict and the fact that I'm arguing at all is being used against me. :\

Also she keeps insisting I could do it because I'm sooo smart. There's thousands of lawyers out there who are dumber than me, that isn't the issue, the issue is do I have the temperament and how much more can my mental health take.

[trujellyfish]

its 10pm. i can either lie in bed for 4 hours reading fanfic til i finally slip into sleep

or i can play the outer worlds until i pass out on the couch....................