#the finale wasn't bad btw. It's just it coupled with season 4 and 3 has me tired

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Welp, I've finished the season 4 special...

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so the first part of the finale came out and it's... Not great.

honestly, a 5/10. The pacing was so off and rushed. All exciting interactings were quick and with no real substance. When it comes to character writing they were also off?

Here, let me go scene by scene.

HEAVY SPOILER WARNING BTW!

The beginning of the episode:

What the balls. That was pretty good and giving an explanation as to why cobs has only one egg and how the other got lost while also not showing what cobs has done with the egg he has.

The real beginning;

(Note; all scenes have the problem of not enough build up or screen time.)

1, the introduction into the party:

- This scene is pretty well done, can't see hpw it could be better

2, suitcase seeing balloon again:

n- I am happy for their return to each other, but as stated before, nickel and balloon are a

 - This scene was well done, just upset about acknowledging season three and everything that happened with nickel and balloon. Suitcase tried so hard to make them at least tolerate each other, only for them to just suddenly become besties.

3, soap and mic, then knife:

- I am INCREDIBLY happy to see them getting to talk and be friends again. 

- Knife walking by and mic calling out and giving them a high-five and friendship was utterly delightful and well done.

4, Trophy and knife:

- here's where problems arise. 

- Knife already had his arc about not being ashamed of who he is and his dora doll, so talking to trophy of all people shouldn't convince him otherwise. If anything, Knife would actively do the OPPOSITE of whatever trophy says. So to suddenly imply that trophy made knife insecure is fucking wild. Last episode he was justifying murder and cannibalism!

- Trophy saying how knife has gone softer also doesn't make sense given knife justifying murder and not having changed much throughout the show. If he has changed, it's been slow and steady and because he wants to do better.

- I do vaguely enjoy the idea of trophy accepting the idea that knife should hate him and want to harm him, knowing what he did was bad and wanting knife to be upset as he deserves.

5, suitcase and balloon again, this time with nickel and soon fan, cabby, candle and goo.

- I don't even wanna talk about it.

- Suitcase deserves to be upset and confused that season three happened. I'm also upset it happened.

- One enjoyable thing was seeing the season three guys in the season two art style.

6, mephone hiding from cobs call and encountering tissues.

- I like how tissues wasn't at the party, and the added detail and pill containers.

7, taco, meepad, and finally, pickle.

- Pickle was fantastic in this scene and this wjole scene was probably the best written.

- "Then I guess it wasn't all an act. Maybe you really are stupid." Was the best line in the entire episode.

6, again. We're back with mephone and tissues.

- kind of fun to see tissues get more character other than his sickness.

Section 2: The beginning of the end.

1, body discovery;

- error with the bowties missing. That or mepad just took theirs off.

- Taco crying over pickle was a good way to add even more to her regret and remorse, watching him die and never getting him to hear her out.

2, the couch of finalists;

- I enjoy Knife and suitcase being friends, her going to him for comfort and support, to vent about how stupid it is that nickel and balloon are friends.

The banger intro is back!

3, the plan;

- Knife was so proud of suitcase for commiting thievery.

- Of course mephone is using this as a challenge, what else did we expect?

4, the noise;

- "I... Know that sound anywhere." Was really good.

- payjay the married Couple...

- Lightbulb avoiding problems and trying to keep everyone happy despite the circumstances.

5, up up and away;

- More knife and suitcase being friends.

6, The return to meple.

- The song is honestly well done and a genuine banger.

- Knife being cornered and hesitating, only to think about pickles dead body was short and I wish more explored and expanded upon, but does also work as a quick memory of what's at stake.

- Adding the the knife thing, adding his punce to the lyrics of "I don't care" was a lovely touch.

7, back to the hotel.

- soap and muc nodding at their child cherries.

- TROPHY AND PAPPER TALKING!? I didn't notice this the first time and honestly I'm here for it. I want trophy salt and pepper to shit talk people.

8, Divorce.

- Their conversation was such a nice topic and question that would've been fantastic to explore, but instead Oj fucking dies and doesn't acknowledge it even before he died. Speaking of that, the idea of paper's last talk with his husband being an argument and then watching him fucking die? A fantastic topic that they will not explore, I garentee it. And then paper's issues will just be glossed over when Oj comes back.

9, Purgatory mansion.

- fan continues to carry the season. Funny fan man.

- why are they not freaking out about Ghost bow?

- Marshmallow! Apple has horsie

10, a memory that wasn't mine.

- 3GS, being suddenly conscious and aware as apposed to when we saw him in mephones memory. Either the memory is off or something happened in between. Why is 3GS even alive still? Shouldn't the battery be depleted after all this time? He didn't boot up like last time. 

- Suitcase comforting 3GS was nice.

- "Please... Don't." In response to coming back was so interesting.

11, a party without a host.

- Nickel is also dead in fron of baseball.

- Mic frantically looking around for soap was heart wrenching.

12, The big headed puppeteer pulling the strings. The big reveal.

-  Knife: "The big tough guy act isn't fooling anyone."

Suitcase: "And he would know!"

Knife: "Yeah I would- what?"

Good bit.

- Cobs Talking down to mephone, calling him a kid and like he's five is such a nice detail.

13, The big reveal.

- This was a fantastic scene. As you can sew from my notes slowly getting shorter, the episode slowly got better.

- I ain't saying what the reveal is.

Final thoughts!

Wow. It was paced weird and rushed heavily. So much in twentyeight minutes. Really can take away from the hard hitting scenes. Despite this, i still think the episode was well done and does deserve praise. This isn't some big studio, this is a small group working on a passion project that became bigger and more lore heavy than the possibly imagined. They didn't plan to go this long or think this far ahead. Things happen on the fly. There are errors in consistency. It's going to happen. I cannot expect perfection, but I still can expect better than what we got. When things went slower, things went better. Build up is insanely important.

Anyways, thanks for reading this bullshit.

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Captain Marvel: I dream of Breezy

People, the time has come!

Ever since we saw Nick Fury sending out a message at the end of "Infinity War", we've been waiting... which in the moment seemed out of place. The world is literally disappearing before our eyes, The Avengers took a big L, and Nick Fury decides to... what? pull out some high-tech weapon to save the day? - no. Pull out some type of device that will save himself from disappearing? - no. But, he's got time to take a selfie or tell his women "bye" - or so I thought. He was actually sending a message to the mysterious (at the time) Captain Marvel!

BOOM!

Brie Larson, who plays CM, was always hanging out at Marvel events, and we finally figured out why. It was strange at some of these events tho... like the Black Panther Party - all of these people from Wakanda -

- and then there's Brie Larson.

And they're like "What the hell, woman?! Why are you here?!"

But, now we KNOW! - she's Captain Marvel!

SPLADOW

- and she's going to play a huge role in saving the day. Then, we found out that she's getting her own movie, and it's about damned time it has arrived.

I had a dream about Brie the night before this movie's release. She was sitting on the couch, and was upset about something. She also had... well, maybe she was pregnant... or she had a beer gut. But, in this dream, I remember feeling a deep love for Brie, so even if it was a beer gut, it didn't matter to me. It would also mean tht she's passionate about beer, which I am as well:)

I don't know if we were a couple, or if she was the other woman, or if I was the other man... or if I was trapped in the friend zone, and thought I'd use this time of her being upset to break free and into her arms... Who knows?? I also don't know what she was upset about. But, towards the end of the dream, I was on the couch with her, giving her a hug:) - she let me, so I know she wasn't upset at me. I woke up and shouted "Brie!" And within seconds, I realized it was all a dream... or was it? Maybe she's my wife in another dimension. We'll solve that mystery later, it felt real as hell tho.

Anyway! We have Brie as Capt M. We also have a digitally young Sam L Jackson!

Before the brooding, the scars, the all black uniform, the badass eye patch, and him demanding to know what's in my wallet, he was a young pup of a detective, who loves cats apparently. I was excited to see more of his story.

Jude Law is also in this movie. He's rockin that look when you're losing your hair, but you jell it up a bit to look like you're still young and hip. Some people can pull off the look, but it's always the beginning of mid-life crisis. Whenever I see people walking down the street with that look, I always tell them that I'm praying for them.

When was Jude's last big movie? I ask because Jude is supposed to be a big star right?? - or at least he was. Yet I never see him at any Marvel parties. Is he not invited? Why don't they like Jude? "Jude" is such a cool name. I'd want him at the party, so I could say things like "You know JUUUDE'S going to be here." and "Excuse me, but I need to go speak with JUUUDE." Why don't they want him there? Is it because of his mid-life crisis? I have a feeling that when rich, famous, white men go through their mid-life crisis that it's ten times worse than other non-those things people. Anyway, yet another mystery to solve.

Djimon Hounsou is up in there as well - I feel like he never gets enough credit for being in everything. And Ben Mendelsohn, who's frickin awesome as a villainous character.

We've got a great cast, some kick ass special effects (which btw they put their budget to good use - the bg's and fight scenes were dope), AND we got the 90's going on! We saw from the trailer that Capt Marvel smash-lands through the roof of a BlockBuster Video store. Memories, am I right?? Some of you are prob too young to remember the pain of renting a DVD season. I remember trying to rent epi's 3 & 4 or something, but they might only have 1 & 2 and 5-10. I'd have to search around at other BlockBuster's (especially if I promised a lovely lady on a date that we'd watch a certain episode when we got home) or say "eff it!" and watch it out of order. I used flirt with the clerks to ensure they'd lmk when the epi's I needed were in. Turnin BlockBuster tricks for episodes... the 90's were rough. The movie takes you down a fun lane of memories, if you remember those days tho.

In the midst of nostalgia Capt Marvel is snatched away from her successful life as a pilot, taken to space where she is made into the Capt Marvel that we come to know, finds herself back to earth to hang out with Sam L while piecing together the memories of her past, all while a war is going on with a shape-shifting alien race called "Skrulls"

 - they kinda look like Yoda's people.

Ooo! maybe tht's another mystery! It would fit too, because a lot of this movie feels like Star Wars - like Star Wars meets a 90's buddy cop sitcom.

I enjoyed the movie. I had a fun time with it. There are some compaints out there: Some wanted this movie to be deeper in story. Some wanted this movie to be more soaked in serious feminism. Some wanted this movie to be less soaked in general feminism. Some were bothered by Brie Larson, believing that she's too stoic in her delivery.

Um... I don't understand the complaints about feminism (on either side). If you are looking for the feminism, it's def there. BUT, if you simply want to enjoy a movie without too much serious world stuff in it, that's def there too. You'll see or not see whatever you want, I guess. I would compare this movie more to "Ant-Man" in tone. Not as goofy, but it stays fun and light.

Now, it definitely could have been a deeper movie - CM is kidnapped, violated, and lied to - but Marvel ain't dumb - they don't want THAT to be the kid's first impression of her - that might effect sales. Besides, we don't always have to be so serious and tense all of the time.

Ex. In Ant-Man, he always goes big at some point and ends up crushing people's property, and probably crushing people around him as well - we don't talk about that. And what about his manipulation of those ants?! When you think about it, that shit ain't right! But, we don't need to talk about it:)

And I'm of course going to defend my wife from another dimension (Breezy). A lot of her personality is implied from the flashbacks, but we see she's snarky, fun, and a bit of a loose canon. I understand to a degree what people are saying, but I think the blame goes more to the writers than Brie. Also, the fact that there's non-stop war going on throughout the movie, so there's not a whole lot of down time to get to know her in depth.

The writing to me, is the biggest flaw of this movie: The villainous character that Ben Mendelsohn plays brilliantly is inconsistent. In the beginning of the movie, he's no-nonsense "We need to kill her and anyone who gets in our way". Then, later on, it's like he joins in the 90's buddy cop sitcom fun. He's crackin jokes and talkin shit - which btw (and I admit this is a nitpick) how does he know how to use slang and idioms, if he'd never been to the planet before? I also have other questions about shape-shifting - like... they can change into whomever they see, but... how do they get the details right? - or do they? Let's say somebody has a third nipple and a bad case of athlete's foot... how could they get those deets down? or even the voice - how do they copy your insides? And how do they copy your mind enough to fool people? I'm getting way too deep into this, I suppose... more mysteries smh.

Can you imagine if we all had the ability to copy one another?? Which takes identity theft to a ho nova level. Also sexual harassment... I mean let's say you wanted to feel what Chris Hemsworth's butt felt like.... you kinda could whenever you wanted to. Like I said, we don't need to go deep with everything:)

The writing is also too quick; the whole movie is - we don't get to know much more about Fury or any of the characters really - especially CM. At the end of the movie, I found myself not being invested enough in Capt to care if a sequel is made. I mean, I care if my wife from another dimension gets more of that Marvel money, but that's something different. There's also a part in the movie when she realizes she has been lied to... she gets over this very quickly. Most of us with that type of power would have went on a drunken rampage, but she just throws a slight tizzy, and moves on to kick butt. It would have been a great time to show some human traits that would have helped us relate to this character.

I also fear that they might run into the prob they run into with Superman. Supe is sooooo powerful and he doesn't have many flaws. It's flaws that draw us to characters as much as anything. We didn't get enough of the human side of CM. BUT, all in all (like I said), I enjoyed the film. But, I didn't have any expectations going in. I think if you go in like that, you'll be satisfied.

Grade: B

I wonder if Brie had a dream about me as well. I wonder if she's blogging about some lovable, praphitic... and sexy black man whom she feels like she had a loving life with, but then woke up. She's probably telling someone right now "I was preggo with his beer child (idk what that is, but it's another dimension - diff rules) and he was about to comfort cuz I was upset over stubbing my toe." That's prob all it was right?? I guess we'll never know:)

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Op's tags @fansids: #the finale wasn't bad btw. It's just it coupled with season 4 and 3 has me tired#I'm sure a lot of people like it#I'm honestly just really tired#I think I've just fallen deeply out of love with lmk#which is sad cause it had me by a chokehold for years#I could rant but I no longer like the show enough to give such an emotional response#Season 3 was already very high stakes and emotional. Season 4 did not need to be#even if I agreed with all the decisions they made. Having 2 high stakes world ending situations with so much angst is emotionally exhaustin#what drew me to lmk to begin with was the villain of the week format it had going#low stakes episodical things with super fun and endearing characters yk#sure they could have an overarching story. I don't actually mind the LBD plot at all#but what they did to SWK... I started watching the show because I saw a clip with him in it and I loved it so much I sought it out#they've massacred my boy#and then the continued angst and stress they tossed onto Mk. I don't appreciate it#maybe I can focus on making aus instead#season 1 and 2 still hold a special place in my heart (season 1 waaayyy more than season 2)#so maybe I'll rewatch those and see if I feel anything#but as of now I think I'm done with the show#ah well

Welp, I've finished the season 4 special...

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