#trailer looks intriguing

[thewiglesswonder]

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN

[misa-bun]

Cant figure out my feelings with the new Prime Asset. I’m repulsed—intrigued—disgusted—excited to play on July 16th…but… what the fuck… I expected nothing less from Red Barrels though—

(I don’t own this image—it was posted on a FB community Outlast page.)

[catocappuccino]

[daisythornes]

speedrun of things that cause me agony in the wondla tv series trailer:

whyyy did they have to make the sanctuary so sterile and minimalistic? the book sanctuaries had this charming clunky 70s sci-fi design to them – they were blocky and durable and Eva's was tangibly lived-in, even worn in some places, because that was the point! they were an experiment that outlived their usefulness, but people kept living in them & they felt like it. this feels like Kim Kardashian's creepy white torture house.

"this... is me." has this line not become extremely passé in trailers, like almost to the point of parody?

that is NOT Muthr. idk who that is, but she is not mothering. it's like they took her book design and stripped away anything that may have been even slightly challenging to the cocomelon-smoothed zeitgeist of current animation. she's just so... nothing. she doesn't even look like a robot so much as like.. the lame soul design from pixar's soul. book Muthr looked WEIRD, but you can see the ways in which she's literally a synthetic + superhuman recreation of a Mother Figure: her head shape mirrors the beehive hairdo, her big eyes are saccharine sweet, she has four arms bc she always needs to do a million things at once, etc. i get that this version of Muthr was probably way easier to animate, and i don't even think they had to stick to the original design 100% as long as they still did something interesting for her, but. they didn't.

rip Eva's sick as hell hairstyle. :( seriously, her complicated braids were so important. bc 1) they were an homage to Dorothy's braids in the wizard of oz, the book to which the whole trilogy is a love letter. 2) they immediately gave her a unique visual identity as a character. 3) they contributed to the world of Wondla feeling genuinely strange and foreign to our current one. 4) they subtly spoke to things like Eva's boredom and loneliness and all the time she had to herself.

the paltry mini braids and single low bun they gave her instead are WEAK. again, they didn't have to follow the books to the letter, but. they did kinda need to give us something more memorable and distinctive than this.

i mean... there is ofc the obvious question of why'd they make her 16 instead of going on 13 like she was in the books? but also, perhaps even more crucially, why does she look like a whole ass adult woman? wondla is very much a coming of age story, and it's really good at capturing the messiness of that experience in every way down to its character design. this Eva doesn't look messy, she looks like an influencer. also i hate that current disneyesque cgi character design.

her outfit's like... fine. but it was so fucking cute in the books. cute and ultra utilitarian, and unlike anything i'd ever really seen before. can't a girl have a vest with a funky collar, cool billowy balloon sleeves, and scrunchy knee socks? do yknow how many kids would want to be Eva for halloween if they simply gave her an outfit that looked cuter? they're leaving money on the damn table.

she wasn't done with her training for life on the surface in the books, and that was important. :/ not that anything could've really prepared her, but the fact that she was so young made her terror and anger all the more palpable. i guess i don't think it's inherently terrible for her to be a bit older in adaptation, but idk, at least let her retain that trial by fire/still kind of a scared kid quality that's integral to her arc.

the placement of the 'wondla' letters on the page makes no sense. it's meant to be the wonderful wizard of oz (or the wonderful wizard of oz by l. frank baum. i forget which, but ONE of those for sure), so by all accounts the l and a shouldn't be right next to each other like that, there should be more space between those two letters.

now i don't fully remember, but i super don't think that 'Eva find me' note was in the books. Eva would've been way more obsessed with it if it was. in the books, she doesn't know the 'wondla' page was actually left for her, it's just this strange anomaly she finds that gives her hope, but she sort of creates that hope herself. its origin is an honest to god mystery until the second book, and therefore, the meaning that Eva gives it is what really comes to define it.

it's not just that no one had seen a human in a long time, most aliens on Orbona had never seen a human at all until Eva came along. that's a big difference! though, this audio does sound chopped up from multiple sentences, so maybe disregard this.

i don't like that they gave away the 'Orbona was once Earth' twist right off the bat. i know it's not a wholly original trope in sci-fi, but this is a middle-grade/family series, and it straight up blew my mind to see as a kid that hadn't ever really read true sci-fi before. and Orbona is SO bizarre, and Eva is SO desperate to find other humans, that the reveal is extra jarring and bleak, and it creates such powerful tension. why give the impact of that away in the trailer?? why not just let people think she's stuck on an alien planet until they get the full emotional gut punch when they actually watch it for themselves?

where's the lake in Lacus? :/ that was... kinda the basis of Lacus' culture and design and all. like ok i see some water, but Lacus should be almost more water than village.

Otto's design!! why god why.

why is Otto furry, why are his eyes Like That, etc.

nooo, don't show the ruins of New York in the trailer, that's for the audience to discover in horror along with Eva.

also why does Otto (i think that's him talking at least?) sound like that? thumbs down.

what are the. uh. shark tale-looking creatures running on water. they're very shark tale-looking (derogatory). they don't look like they belong in this series?? like did this footage just get misfiled?

egads it's coming out at the end of this month. i'm gonna watch it of course. but the whole time i'll be thinking about what could've been. and i'll reread the books, too. >:|

[italianpersonwithashippersheart]

New official trailer for Shadow The Series

I'm so hyped

I'm ready for los espookys @respectthepetty

[perpetuallylocked]

MAY 7?!?!?!?!

[sotiredmostnights]

when i first played pokemon conquest i really loved it, but i couldn't help but wish there was more emphasis on the relationships between the different characters. later on i discovered fire emblem awakening and my god, the way it took everything i loved about conquest and dialed character relationships up to an 11 truly captivated me and i haven't been the same since

[mayasdeluca]

I’m not nearly as interested in Grey’s as I used to be but seeing Amelia’s interaction with that new lady doctor has me 👀 and I very much hope they give them a proper chance and let that happen naturally because I’m already here for it! Let Amelia be happy for more than 5 seconds 🙏🏻

[d0d0-b0i]

i know that i will never fall into the genshin hole simply because there are no body types except for lean. where’s the muscle? where’s the fat? where the FUCK are the MILFS??????

[aromanticasterisms]

iansan relevance right off the bat let's fucking go

[deanwax]

I guess deep in my heart I knew I'd live to see Netflix absolutely Fuck Up And Not Get Right a beloved childhood book series but I reeeeaaally wish it wasn't THAT one

[claitea]

local 20 year old almost gets teary eyed over a mario game

[bikananjarrus]

watching the acolyte trailer feels like those all beige baby rooms. like help my brain isn’t developing bc it’s suffering from a lack of color and vibrancy

[tenrose]

I've finishe Bird Box, the book, I haven't seen the movie but the concept of having a character blindfolded work very well for the book. It cut all descriptions out, and you really can feel the fear and anxiety because as the reader you are only provided with what the character can touch, smell, hear and feel. And I'm kinda curious how they managed to make it work for the movie since it's a media based on visuals.

[thatrandombystander]

I'm only now re-watching the new trailer for proper processing (I was busy and tired yesterday) and wait a fucking second is that Zack (and mako catatonic Cloud?????) in Midgar AFTER the Sector 7 plate has fallen?????

I was half convinced that the FF7 Remake clip of Zack showing up at Aerith's church wasn't actually set post-game and was a fake-out, but nope I guess we've just flat out got an alive Zack (and Cloud????)

Based on some hints I was picking up from Remake, I'd guess the most likely option is that they're somehow from an alternate timeline/parallel dimension (hence the second Cloud)

The other option, or one they could play with anyway to mess with Cloud, as that there's some sort of Hojo science/Jenova clone shenanigans involved. Like come on og Cloud already has a full break down when he finds out he's got clone cells with memory problems, imagine how much more it would mess him up that would be when confronted with seemingly concrete evidence that his entire existence was created in a lab and all his memories were just implanted. See look there's another Cloud just like you, you're not a real boy you're just a puppet!

[daincrediblegg]

dain cancel saltburn i have insane news. joker 2 trailer

I wanted to hate this. I wanted to hate this so bad. But I might not. And this troubles me.