#mr robot spoilers

[lesmurples]

So I haven’t finished Veilguard yet, and I gotta ask… is Varric a ghost?

He’s inserted into every scene kinda in the background, never with his own chair, talking only to Rook and no one else… is he a ghost? Is Rook hallucinating him? Is he haunting Rook? Did he originally die and they inserted him back into the game last minute and they didn’t have time to record other character dialogue with him

God and with all his You Must Be Good Leader Boi mentor dialogue with Rook, he sounds like a ghost whose unfinished business is making sure Rook takes up his mantle or w/e.

Istg this is going to turn into Fight Club or Mr. Robot and Varric will have been in Rook’s head the whole time. It’s all coming together…

Edit: GOD. DAMNIT.

[mediademon]

MR. ROBOT - eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h

[protectspock]

Mr Robot will always be legendary for making the audience one of the protagonist's delusions.

[retro-cows]

here's an art class assignment i did

[spacelobsterm]

Mr Robot season 4 episode 10 spoilers

I'm officially at a loss for words

How did we get here

Remember when Mr Robor introduced Elliot to F society

Remember when Elliot first met Whiterose and she said they'd never meet again

Remember when Ollie

Remember when Elliot used to work for AllSafe

Remember when remember when Elliot and Angela almost became a thing

Remember when Edward Alderson was revealed to be deceased

[pretty-ichor]

[jenovacomplete]

thinking abt mr robot and god is the entire thing with tyrell so, so insanely fucking funny with the benefit of hindsight. like imagine you hate this company so fucking badly you mentally replace all mention of their name with "evil" and then one of their senior executives not only falls in love with but basically worships your annoying alter who is your DAD and now he won't leave you alone and he doesn't know you have did (and you don't either, long story) and so it's just really awkward. Absolutely legendary, no notes

[todayingoodmusic]

AHHH this is awesome

i have so many feelings abt them. but im also very tired so these aren't as high effort as id like them to be

[thebestestbat]

i dont know what to say about my mr robot feelings in general since i feel like a big part of my disappointment is just that it wasn't what i wanted it to be. like for example, i wanted darlene to be part of elliot's abuse realization, which just wasn't the story. and i wanted it to be more horror when it was clearly from the beginning science fiction! i also don't feel i'm the person to comment on how it portrayed DID.

but two thoughts. one is that it was just not very subtle, and i guess this is also preference, but i feel like the first 3.5 seasons were in fact subtle and then the last few episodes, in their rush to wrap things up, became very unsubtle. (i don't mean here the abuse reveal and things like that being stated, but the Themes being stated in dialogue. e.g. "we just keep going" etc). so that was a little disappointing. yes i am "guy who loved the last scene of twin peaks s3" but like, mr robot didnt have to end depressing and horror! going back to one of my favorite movies, inside llewyn davis. that had a similar theme to mr robot, but no one outright stated it.

second more important thought is just, my fear was realized! it had no coherent politics and is reactionary. a point that is really getting to me is how whiterose, in The Good World, was publicly living as a woman and using her billions to donate to charity, and this is as far as the show goes with that. nothing about homophobia or transphobia, nothing about class. that was very disappointing.

i do recommend it for rami malek. would watch again.

[egophiliac]

oh no, I love them

(super quick doodles done between other stuff, there will be better things later I promise :')

[ondeemand]

Transformers One Review

For the sake of convenience, I’ll be referring to the characters as their new names (Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee) instead of their old ones (Orion Pax, D-16, B-127).

Also, I didn’t grow up with Transformers, so this will be mostly from an outsider’s perspective. I can’t tell what possibly was or wasn’t a retcon or how accurate to the source material it was, but I think the background info on their world held up very well and they were able to explain it clearly to new viewers like me. It definitely would have hit harder if I grew up with Transformers and knew more than just facts from cultural osmosis, but I still enjoyed the movie a lot.

Notes/Things I’m Neutral On

Very weird to hear my name (Dee) being said throughout most of the movie by Chris Hemsworth’s bad American accent.

Also, I forgot that Megatron has transformed into ground vehicles before. I only ever knew him to turn into a jet, so I was kind of confused that he was a tank in this movie. I hope we get to see him get upgraded to a jet in the next one, but the tank is still cool.

Pros/Things I Liked

Simple but effective color theory with their eye colors. Main good guys have blue while Megatron has yellow, sitting between good and bad. Still a friendly color at first, but slowly turns closer to orange and then fully red as his anger and hatred consume him (and after he met the red-eyed Starscream, a cowardly man who ends up enabling Megatron‘s more violent/aggressive tendencies)

○ Also I don’t know if I was just seeing things, but it looked like Megatron’s eyes got more yellow whenever he looked at Optimus which is so sad and so gay.

I really thought they were gonna push a romance between Elita and either Bumblebee (goofy manchild x competent woman trope) or Optimus (male lead x female lead, blue x pink), but I was pleasantly surprised that they didn’t. Sadly, there’s still time for it in future installments, but I can dream.

Not to be gay, but spider woman sexy. Airachnid was so obviously evil that it was funny, but I can’t fault Sentinel for having her around because I, too, would want a deadly goth woman to be my right-hand lady. They felt like the evil, less developed versions of Mustang and Hawkeye. I am in love.

The animation is gorgeousssss. The environments, the character designs, the fight choreography, the transformations, the lighting, the texture, mwah mwah MWAH STUNNING!!!

○ Sorry, I’m never gonna stop talking about this. The way they were able to make square/blocky figures move so fluidly was fantastic (and proof of concept that a fully animated Minecraft movie would have worked). ○ The camera angles were also great for framing both the dramatic, intense, and/or high-action moments like fights or chase scenes, while also adding a lot to the comedic moments. Like when the camera stays tracking Optimus’ face when running through the forest, only for him to suddenly fall down a cliff neither he nor us saw coming, only to then zoom out to the perspective of the guards below, showing them stumbling and falling. ○ The contrast between the mechanical and organic elements on the surface were really cool, and the way it was introduced was able to convey this idea that organic life was this strange, alien thing. ○ The way the surface just rebuilds itself into these jagged, blocky terrains was really unique and interesting! It felt like a glitched computer model because of its rougher shapes which really added to the fear and hostility of the surface.

90% of their jokes landed and they landed hard. The bit where Optimus looks like he’s about to transform and then just fucking books it is incredible. The audio and camera work help add to these as well, like the music building as Optimus pretends to transform, the camera zooming in close to different parts of him, only for all background noise to cut out as it shows Optimus running away. I won’t name every joke and quip I found funny or we’d be here all day, but they’re certainly a highlight of the movie.

I love Keegan-Michael Key, but I wasn’t a fan of him as the comic relief character of Toad in the Mario movie. When Bumblebee showed up I got a little nervous, but I really loved his performance of the character.

I really liked the midpoint pep talk about hope. That’s a really nice reason that Optimus is the leader despite not being as skilled as other people. He has the hope for a better future and it was a core part of his character from the beginning, and I really like the idea that a leader is someone who can envision a brighter future no matter what.

Alpha Trion transforming was SICK AS FUCK!!! I love that he was more animalistic when the rest of the cast become vehicles. His final fight was so cool, and it actually made me kind of emotional to see him at the end with the rest of the Prime ghosts.

The stabbings? The beheadings?? The branding??? The way Megatron tore Sentinel in half and then ripped his heart out on-screen holy shit???? This movie was incredibly brutal and I loved it. It’s such an interesting phenomenon that children’s media is allowed to be about as graphic as they want as long as it’s against robots, even incredibly sentient ones like in the Transformers series.

○ I watched the 1986 Transformers movie for a class earlier this year, and while it also had a lot of brutality in it’s fights, the new movie felt more intense. Part of this could be attributed to me watching the 2024 movie on a big screen vs the 1986 movie in my living room, but there are other reasons as well. The 1986 movie had more upbeat songs playing over the fights, specifically songs like The Touch and Dare, which helped keep the tone lighter and more exciting. The 2024 movie didn’t have anything like that, allowing the action, while still cool and exciting, to take on a more serious tone. This is also emphasized by the graphics of the movie being 3D instead of 2D. While the 2D 1986 movie is a stunning masterpiece, people still view it with the idea in mind that, since it’s a cartoon, the stakes and story will be less intense. The 2024 movie being 3D with very detailed graphics and lighting already has more visual intensity. The characters are still these bright, poppy colors, but they can come across more moody and dark due to the environments, lighting, and textures that the 3D medium more easily allows. And while the painted backgrounds and cell shading of the old movie are great, the CGI backgrounds are a lot closer to realism, so the harsher elements like metal and rock, which make up a vast majority of the environment and characters, look real too.

The way Megatron’s hate consumed him to the point where he started acting more villainous and, while not entirely similar to Sentinel, still ended up hurting innocent people was tragic. Trying to push away and deny everything about a person only to wind up being just like them. This was perfectly shown in the end credit scene where Megatron is branding himself and the new Decepticons with Megatronus Prime’s face. To him, it may be him reclaiming the traumatic experience and literally using it like a badge of honor, as well as thinking he’s honoring Megatronus Prime. But in reality, he’s just inflicting the same trauma done to him onto others, just like Sentinel. Such a cool way to show how every villain is the hero of their own story.

The doomed yaoiiiiii I’m never gonna get over them. The only other Transformers media I’ve consumed is the 1986 movie, which kills off Optimus Prime in the first 25 minutes and Megatron becomes Galvatron, so I never knew the depths of their homoerotic relationship.

I’m a sucker for “the hero and villain used the be friends (and maybe even lovers?)” trope, so Optimus and Megatron’s relationship and the general premise of the movie was already a slam dunk for me.

I’m also a fan of legacy stories like Avatar and She-Ra. While this movie didn’t get as in-depth with the concept, I enjoyed that they played with the idea of legacy and taking up the mantle of the former Primes.

I absolutely loved the end message that Optimus gives us. Hope, freedom, and autonomy are incredibly important things to learn, and as a trans person who very much wants to keep control over what I do with my body, I really resonated with that last one. I think it’s really cool that they included a message like that in this children’s movie about robots that turn into cars.

Regarding the message of autonomy, I love that it gives the term Autobots a new meaning. Auto meaning “automobile”, since they transform into cars, and Auto meaning “self”, as they are now fully their own bots with control over themselves.

Cons/Things I Disliked

Mid vocal performances from everyone except Brian Tyree Henry and Keegan-Michael Key. And as I mentioned before, it was hard not to focus on Chris’ attempts at an American accent, not to mention how recognizable his, as well as Scarlett Johansson’s, voices are.

The plot felt a little disjointed in the first 1/3-ish.

○ Good setup with the main characters being an oppressed working class with one dreaming of better things and the other hesitant to fall out of line or take risks. But then suddenly there’s a race, and then they’re in it, and then they lose, and then their leader wants to promote them. At first it feels like there are hints that he’s a scummy celebrity-type and that meeting their hero is what will spur on the disillusionment with their society. But then some random douchebag that doesn’t like them reassigns them which goes against their leader’s command, and that’s how the plot kicks off? ○ Also, Elita’s involvement felt kind of rushed/hand-waved. They all get stuck on the surface, but instead of trying to make her way back to report them like she was saying she would for the past few minutes, she makes a complete 180 and heads the expedition herself. ○ It all just felt a little strange, but once it got going the rest of the plot felt fine.

Megatron’s descent into “evil” felt kind of rushed. I understand that he feels betrayed and I really love where the character ends up by the end, but it felt like a real 180 without a lot of build up.

Some jokes fell flat or felt annoying and kinda cringe. That’s the territory of children’s movies though, so par for the course.

TLDR

Overall, this movie was a really fun watch and I’d love to go see it again. While some parts fall a little flat, the movie is lifted from mediocrity by its many Pros. From the stunning visuals, to the quick humor, to the tragic origins of two friends driven apart by their ideals, I’d recommend this movie to anyone interested in animation or the Transformers brand.

8.82/10

[noahsfault]

I was thinking about specifically these two when I drafted this

Can’t get over how in every role I’ve seen Christian Slater play he has a minimum of two lunatic rants about how we live in a society and he’s been doing this literally since he was 18

[faggling]

ive decided im singlehandedly going to bring mr robot back from the dead because if any show deserves to have a revival in popularity it does

like.

can you fucking imagine the discourse??? the possibilities are endless

[casxmanis]

Oppenheimer (2023)

[illdothehotvoice]

It only took 17 years but we did it boys. An actual solid confirmed reference to Super Paper Mario in a game that isn't Smash Bros 🫡. The Mario RPGs are healing.

[spacelobsterm]

Mr Robot season 4 episode 10 spoilers

Shoutout to this show for giving us closure after the main conflict ended

And not even just a single episode with a timeskip where we don't see firsthand any development, a meaningful look at and step forward for two main characters with a complicated relationship and even more trauma

When I saw the title was "Gone" I expected an episode dedicated to Elliot and Mr Robot and probably Mr Robot having a "my work here is done" moment. BUT IT WASN'T. IT WAS ABOUT DARLENE AND DOM AND I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE PROUD OF THIS SHOW

These two have such a complicated relationship and I really wasn't expecting any kind of conclusion to it, but when presented with this episode's plot I really wanted the two of them to go together. But I never realized the ending would be so much more satisfying after the entire episode heavily focused on Dom's stubbornness to leave and Darlene's fear of being by herself.

The two are getting what they need the most and unfortunately it's not each other, but they're going to be better because of it

I don't think this is queerbait (I mean it's literally not right?) it is upsetting to see a Sapphic couple be separated like this but I do think the intention was pure. These characters are so much more than just a lesbian couple so at the very least I'm glad they were never treated that way in the show