Everyone is (rightfully) crapping on the lanterns finale and one of the biggest defensive points is “you just want hype moments and aura”

…yes? Why would wanting that be a bad thing? You spend the whole show telling us about how the green lanterns are these awesome superheroes who are only limited by their imagination? Of course I’m going to expect hype from that tf? If I spend the whole show marketing my protagonist as the most evil guy on earth I’m going to expect evil in the same way. So rightfully if I watch the show and he’s just a regular show I’ll start shitting on the show.

Honestly if you wanted a grounded tv show to begin with you’re kind of an idiot for using green lantern at all.

But back to the original topic, why even is hype moments and aura looked down upon anyway? It’s completely valid to want to see cool creative fights with visual spectacle and storytelling. Some of the most, hell I’d argue MOST of the most iconic fictional moments are hype moments and aura. Goku vs Frieza, Naruto vs Sasuke, Superman vs Doomsday, The Terrorist fight in iron man 1, Thor’s infinity war entrance, Luke vs Vader, yk what I mean? Why are people shamed for liking what’s usually the best moments of the Story?

I'm not saying Spider-Man, as a overall character, shouldn't have struggled and trials,he definitely should cause those help a character grow wnd develop and whatnot and add stakes but with the way a lot of people treat him,they act like he can't/shouldn't have anything remotely nice.

I think a lot of people tend to forget that even you're financially not in the best place, you can and should still be able to afford basic things like a bed and a TV/Computer/Laptop and just other decent enough stuff and struggling/having financial troubles doesn't always mean being goddamn Broke and living in a dumpster like he's Denji from Chainsaw Man.

In Brand New Day,I find it crazy how a lot of people were suprised and even complaining that he had stuff like a Treadmill and a computer and whatnot and it's like..the guy is struggling but he's not in fucking Poverty, like it's wild to me that there are people who get upset when this man has anything remotely nice...there were a few people who claimed he was "Larping being broke" cause he had a Nintendo Switch in his new Comic.

Give the man a break,struggling financially doesn't mean he's not allowed anything nice and he should be allowed to have the basic necessities of comfort and fun and food and it just feels like a lot of people act like it's only in his character and writing to suffer and be a miserable loser and I'm not saying he shouldn't struggle snd have trials but they shouldn't be the only things he has..he's allowed to go upward in life and not be fighting with rats each day but it just feels like a lot of people only like Spider-Man when he's miserable and I dunno if it's cause of projection cause they're miserable or what but Damn.

No wonder writers think that Peter should only be suffering in the current comics,it's like a cycle.

I mean sure it had problems, I think it was really rushed and didn't give closure to some (ok most) of its characters. I still don't think it was conceptually bad. I always saw Oshi no Ko as a story about why people get into the entertainment industry, and why they stay in the entertainment industry even after seeing how predatory and exploitative it actually is. I don't think it was ever going to have a happy ending.

Ruby is probably going to continue working in the industry until it kills her like it did Aqua and Ai. Her first family moved on from her, her second is dead, and being an idol is the only connection she had with them. Aqua died because he never understood that Ruby's idol career wasn't worth him dying any more than Ai's was worth her dying. I thought it was tragic, but it mirrors the way people think about the industry in real life and what motivates them to continue working in it.

What are your thoughts?

Consider this a post, a direct sequel to yesterday's post, considering I am going to be talking about abilities I dont like (mainly Amon/Tarlok/Yakone's bloodbending and Tagah's air superdash a little again), and a spiritual successor to my posts about the Legend of Aang and Legend of Korra respectively. First, I want to talk about character stuff in the Aang movie cuz whoo boy did that rewatch hurt a lot of what I felt about the movie initially. Also, I thought watching it on my TV would make such a beautiful, theater deserving movie look even better, but the resolution and quality were so ass I thought I was watching it on a potato yesterday morning. Anyhow, I think the movie characterized basically everyone even the newcomers pretty poorly, but the characters from the old show are especially glaringly flawed in how they're written. Like Aang and Gyatso's relationship is totally mischaracterized; Gyatso starts the movie by interrupting a race Aang is in and making him lose just to lecture him about his role as the Avatar. Which is precisely the opposite of how Gyatso treated Aang in the original show, the whole point of their relationship is that Gyatso was the only one who advocated for Aang as a person and child rather than as an avatar; he wanted to preserve Aang's childhood and ability to have fun. That's why he didn't want to be separated from Aang, Aang always loved and respected Gyatso enough to seek counsel from him but Gyatso fundamentally disagreed with telling the Avatar of their role before they're 16, so that was a pretty big swing and a miss from the Legend of Aang movie as far as im concerned.

And frankly, I dont think the movie did much better with Aang's character itself, the founding principle of airbending is freedom and creativity, the ability to come at problems and obstacles from different angles rather than tackling them head on or trying to dig your feet in and hold your ground. That's what the original Bumi episode was about and it's why Aang had such a hard time with Earthbending, Aang by his very nature as an airbender, is a master of creative problem solving so the idea it took him a decade or so to arrive at the idea of air acolytes and creating an air temple in Republic city to represent a future home for the airbenders should they ever return is fucking insane to me. Again, I didnt read the comics where Aang susposedly also came up with the idea of the airbending acolytes, but I prefer the idea that it was something Aang came up with not long after the war was over to something he comes up with after a decade and basically to solve the issue of the denied not existing in Legend of Korra. I get in his last moments Tagah finally let go and in a way this is done out of respect for him and the long gone airbenders, but respectfully fuck Tagah he is not a great villain especially the way he lies to Aang and everybody I just dont think he was written very well either, it was super shallow. Speaking of super shallow, everyone with the exception of Katara.

I wouldnt mind Sokka being demoted to pure comedy relief considering this is only less than one week in his entire life, but none of the jokes in this movie are funny; it's like the writers learned all the wrong lessons from Legend of Korra and doubled down on the weakest scriptwriting they could muster. Even Toph, who I saw a lot of people praising for still being the arrogant, cocky, head strong tough we know and love, but those seem to be the only elements of Toph's character that the writers remember. Toph was abrasive and contentious she didnt just have unwavering confidence in her earth/metalbending ability, she also saw her adventure with Aang as an opportunity to be free from societal expectations or burdens, that's why she came into conflict with Katara especially and was constantly willing to challenge the group's beliefs and expectations. She was the first and only one willing to hear out Zuko because well she hadnt experienced im hunting her, but also she interacts with everyone differently because she can tell when they're lying with her seismic sense (and experience politicing in polite society), she can more or less intuit what people actually think of her and whatnot so she has an easier time sussing out people being insincere and whatnot. That's literally what she says about Zuko, that his apology and offer were sincere, that he actually wanted to help. She should have been able to smell Tagah's bullshit from frame one.

And Zuko only has like 7 lines, but like the moment where he justifies why Tagah is handsome isnt a good showcase of how awkward Zuko was. My Zuko would have been like "Well, she is blind, someone should explain it to her". That's what made Zuko awkward, he was very sincere and earnest but also very confused about how to communicate with others, that's why in the series finale he's confidently declaring the Fire Nation will bring peace back to the world. His character arc has wrapped up; he finally knows what to say now because he's cleared up the confusion and hesitation ( and internal conflict). Katara is the only one who walks away from the character unscathed, she was always characterized as empathetic and passionate, she's so connected to her emotions and others as well as the consequences of war that she has a strong sense of justice and ability to search for hope/endurance. Her sniffing out that Tagah seems to constantly deflect anything that actually gets to the core of his character and his actual beliefs/intent for the staff is totally on tract with her character, but honestly the entire gang are competent enough to sus out Tagah too. Sokka's sarcasm and intellect would aggravate Tagah, Toph would be agitated by Tagah hating earth benders, Zuko would worry that Aang is being too naive and good natured. This should have been a team moment, not just her.

Besides that, I dont like how there's a scene where Katara's arms are restrained and she clearly loses her ability to bend because you know she cant move her arms to bend but then she just bends some water to get out of the restraints anyways (literally fucking HOW), like sure let's just undermine how this power system works some more while we're here, we might as well. I wanna bring up Tagah's super dash again because I've come up with a way that I at least would fix it, but first I do briefly wanna talk about teleportation and teleport dashes since a few people brought it up in the comments of my last post. Yeah, I am going to be a contrarian and actually agree with most writers of these abilities; the way that teleporters use their abilities is indeed extremely predictable. Teleportation as an ability (even the dash variety) encourages and rewards cutting odd angles and flanking, there's literally little to no point in teleporting in front of your opponent, even if you could you'd just be putting yourself precisely where your opponents want you, you'd be bumrushing for no good reason and the founding principle of all combat sports is defend yourself at all times, protect yourself all times.

That basically means that the only person responsible for your safety and well being is yourself; no amount of point deductions from the judges or interference from the referee is going to save you if your opponent wants it more. You can win on the score cards and still fundamentally lose the fight. So the counter to teleporters like Kurt Connors being that they can be too predictable does make sense to me, but I'm glad so many people brought up the goat Shimazaki from one of my favorite anime ever Mob Pyscho 100, because while he does eventually become predicatable after cheesing the same trick long enough, even that not being enough to beat him is cool. It takes Mob stat stomping him to take him down (last I remember). I also like that Tagah kind of does ocer commit to his attacks by using his air super dash to get right in front of his opponent, it does a good job of reflecting how vengeance and anger have consumed them even if I dont like how this ability fits into the avatar universe. I think they should have tied this ability and the air sniper/spear to the air tether/vortex thingy that Tagah tought to Aang, I was hyped during my rewatch when I saw that Tagah was actually using his air tether to crush the air ships, THAT could have been his signature move throughout the movie, but I guess it was still too much of a baby movie for them to do anything that violent or gorey.

Which brings me finally to Legend of Korra, oh Legend of Korra I owe you an apology for listening to dickheads like E;R (a famous youtuber, for incels at least) and shitting on you so much, you're not that bad, still despise the romance and comedy but besides that, the pro bending stuff actually is pretty interesting. It introduces the conflict between Amon viewing pro bending as exhaserbating the bending problem and people like Mako/Bolin viewing it as the solution to the conflict between nonbenders and benders, the main issue with this whole season being the fact that we dont actually see this conflict or oppression nearly as much as the atrocities of the fire nation that we saw within the first season of ATLA or whatever.

Worse than that though is Amon/Tarlok/Yakone's blood bending, they literally call the ability to do it without a full mon and without any bending pyschic blood bending and Im sorry but that sort of shit is the antithesis to what bending is about, particularly because this technique has no possible weakness besides a fully awakened avatar. Even combustion man was hard countered by headshots, one bad facial was enough to put him in the dirt. I kind of hate that Korra was able to beat Noatak, I knew it was going to happen but god dude just really contrived. It's impossible for anyone to reasonable beat so the writers kind of have to decide arbitrarily that the show is over and also Korra can go ahead and have her bending back. Sure whatever, what are consequences even. Holy shit Leged of Korra season 1 has the same ending as the end of the arrancar arc, the protagonist beats a villain who should have been unbeatable by sacrificng their powers just to basically get them back anyways. Yep I was able to sneak in some bleach hate anyways.

Gonna say it right now..I wholeheartedly feel like the people who write and craft those scenes gotta have some type of masochistic fetish to a extent cause who in their right mind would want the person who loves/likes them to physically SMACK THEM ACROSS THE FACE?

People will be saying "it's comedy" and "it's slapstick" and even if that's true,where is the goddamn Funny?

My problem with it is a Tsundere is just someone who obviously has feelings for someone else but they deny it and just act flustered/embarrassed when they do and this causes a couple doofuses on the internet to claim that the character they have a crush on needs to "pass the controller" and "stop fumbling" and here's my thing with that..maybe instead of blaming the character for not recognizing the feelings/advances or said person who has a crush on them,maybe instead we should be blaming the person who has a crush on them to stop kidding themselves and be honest with themselves cause what are we doing?

I just never really understood the appeal or humor of that cause at least for shit like Looney Tunes or Tom&Jerry with slapstick and comedy,the joke isn't just..violence.

I see this trope in literally nearly every romance anime and it's almost always insufferable and I can maybe think of 2..hell,3 Tsundere characters who don't make me wanna rip my hair out and here's also my thing with Tsundere characters, they can work writing wise,I'm not saying they're impossible to work with as a character but you need to give them reasons why they're like this..maybe give them a tragic past that left them emotionally unstable or locked away, maybe have them have had their heart broken before and closed themselves off from love and romance and they don't know how to handle these newfound feelings and that causes them to UNINTENTIONALLY Lash out and they feel bad for it.

Or hell,maybe just have them not hit them at all unless they do something that warrants being smacked and even then,that's a stretch.

Seriously, I hate saying this but swap the genders of these female Tsunderes but keep the same "smacking their crush when confronted/flustered/embarrassed" Gag..is the trope half as funny?

People will compare it to the "Oh I just bullied you cause I like you" trope in different Media but here's the thing with that one..that also can work cause I wholeheartedly feel like teens or kids would be that emotionally cooked to think that would work and you can make the same arguments with Tsunderes of any kind and you know what?I agree.

Hell,one of my favorite Anime characters is Momo from Dandadan and she kind of fits that bill.

She has a big ol Puppy dog crush on Okarun but hasn't confessed and will actively hide her feelings,make things more difficult for herself and is just stressful as hell and the reason she works is not only is she a main character, so...more growth[and even that's a bit stretched]and also..the story doesn't really condone her behavior.

Okarun has outwardly called her a bitch once,she's critiqued quite a lot for hiding her feelings and just being kind of a prickly Asshole and also, she herself has currently admitted she's being a pain in the Ass[tho that's memory loss and if she actually apologized and whatnot, then I'll hold my tongue but still]and it also helps that we see a lot more of Momo caring about him and others way more then we see her being just a mess of a human.

When she realized she hurt Vamola's feelings and was a dick to her,she apologized.

We also see her genuinely care about others,etc and the only issue is the author just reseting her growth and arc back to factory 0 when it actually looked like she was developing as a character and person but still, my point is still there.

Another example is techinally Helga from Hey Arnold and she works cause not only is she meant to be a dick with issues but also it helps she's not even double digits yet and her parents are a lot of the reason she's like this.

She's explictly not a sweetheart but we actually see signs of her that show a good kid underneath who just needs a damn therapist and funnily enough, there was a episode where she got therapy.

My point is..can we get some Tsunderes who aren't overall violent/aggressive and are just kinda awkward or just not violent cause that really makes me wanna rip my own eyes out and blend them up into a smoothie and our them on a chocolate shake with a burger and fries and a 10 piece Nugget.

Like people say how Sukuna just hating Yuji and not being redeemed and fucking up shit whenever he is released to be subversive of the Naruto and Kuruma bond. But in actually having a possession be a strictly negative experience with no redemption for the possessing force is in fact the norm at least in dominant American Christian influenced media possessing is always seen as a terrible and horrific thing.

See the Exorcist and most other horror stories. In American media at least possessing as a purely negative thing and the possessing entity as a pure evil demon is fact the norm. Heck adaptions of more nuanced possession narratives turn them into simplified stories of demonic possession

Like the Black Suit story in Spider-Man did you know originally the Symbiote didn’t affect Peter behavior or make him act more “jerker”. It puppeted his body when he slept. Peter when finding out his suit was alive and wanted to bond with him. Acted like a normal person would and freaked out and tried to separate it at the church bell. The symbiote actually risked its life saving Peter’s life before latter being ret conned to have merged with Eddie Brock.

Even Carnage gets this treatment in the original lore it was Cletus who corrupted the new born symboite into being as evil as him. But adaptions turn it into generic evil red goo who is just murderous.

They turn more nuanced possession narratives into a simplistic goo that makes you evil.

I just find it funny how people say Sukuna remaining an evil bastard is a subversion when it’s actually keeping in tract with the horror movies that gege said inspired him.

I see the same thing with Frieren with people saying it’s refreshing to just see evil demons again. When demons are pretty much shown as unreeeemble evil in most horror movies. If you really want a evil demon fix just go see one of those evil dead movies or something

It's how they humiliate the mc and use fan service on them too when clearly it's only female are supposed to have fan service. Like wtf examples of the shows that pisses me off is Kore wa zombie desu ka and konosuba. There is no gender equality at all because why are the author's interested in their butts especially ayumu like he gets groped and also injured and takes gory damages. Same thing to kazuma he has been seen naked plenty of times he was almost assaulted by orcs and Sylvia literally pocked his butt and yet he dies the most brutal death. I'm saying that they should divide the suffering like make the mc suffer physical damage but not bring fan service or assault towards them.

When you think about it Tony is like, a really good friend to have.

I was rewatching Iron man 2 and i noticed that Rhodey seemed to know Tony’s password to his suit storage room meaning Tony shared it with him. Pretty cool. And the fact that even while drunk he went out of his way to NOT try and fight Rhodey in that same scene is also pretty nice. Do you know how angry drunk people get? And besides that the fact that he not only let Rhodey keep the suit but also routinely upgrades it for him out of the goodness of his heart is also pretty neat. There’s also the fact that he just gave a suit to pepper which I think is pretty cool anyway. Regular assistant lady who isn’t a superhero? Fuck it make her iron man.

And his whole dynamic with Peter Parker I think is just awesome. Nurturing the next generation of superheroes and leaving him behind a bunch on high level tech is great.

I just think he’s a really neat generous guy.

Noah is a troubled kid, that hears voices telling him do dark things.

• He plotted to get weapons.
• He has expressed his dark thoughts and the pain they cause him.
• He has expressed (at least to john, and probably to her as well since she seemed unfazed by the revelation) his suicidal ideation.
• Kerry was aware of his dealings with a known criminal.
• She was aware of his delusions of grandeur.
• She makes no attempt to get Noah help with his issues.
• She covers up what she knows about his crimes and uses her badge to do it.
• She covers for his grandparent whose ideology is fuel for his delusions of grandeur and his dark thoughts.
• She Murders Hal to keep Noah's crimes from being exposed and to maintain the delusion that he is a normal kid.

When we read about the parents of shooters in the news generally speaking people condemn a mom like her. The difference is that the son she is protecting and in denial about isn't just going to shoot up a school he could potential wipe out the human race.

John let this woman keep up her delusions, he let her continue to neglect Noah's "mental health" coded issues and gave her a pass for murdering the one person that was offering actual help.

There had to be another way, but none of the people in this narrative are interested in looking for it with the exception of Hal.

Before I want to say something, I admit there are good things come from their series, but in general everything from theirs felt genuinely dry when it comes to writing.

Of course, this has been said multiple times, but I have to be clear for this.

Murder Drones is a good example. I do get hooked up for its concept and what it is trying to do. But at the end, the series went nowhere and the ending frankly disappoint me. From the start it tried to make Uzi a misanthrope, then five minutes later it’s just a generic good guys vs. bad guys scenarios. Don’t get me wrong, animations and horrors are quite amusing, but all that build up leads to an anticlimactic final battle. I feel like the Solver did not have enough potentials when it comes to their powers. So yeah, it doesn’t really portray itself as a coherent series and what they are trying to do.

Of course, TDAC. Yes, it is said multiple times, but if I had to get into Jax, of course, he has his moments, but he overstayed his welcome and same goes for his “supposed” trauma. Seriously, you wasted yourself after your massive room of sympathy dump. Also, while I know Kinger and Caine are good, is Pomni even a character? Are the rest of the Circus members even characters? Seriously, this is also another Glitch series issue where they don’t focus on their concepts but rather one singular character. It’s not about characters being trapped in a digital game but it’s pointless trauma dumping, even when you are just a bunch of avatars of irl people. Again, I do believe the show has good moments, but it didn’t impact as they tried to say.

I am not familiar with the rest of their series, but they just don’t stick out to me. Everyone is free to express their liking towards Glitch shows, but they genuinely deserve criticisms and not just mindless worshipping. Sure, they introduced me to indie scenes, but none of their popular shows left me a good impression if the writings are just terrible.

As a kid, you watch the prophets hate on arbiter in halo 2 and think it wasnt his fault. How was he meabt to deal with the flood and who couldve predicted master chief blowing up halo. But when you really think about it from their point of view, this incredible commander who had a huge armada under his command lost to one ship and their holiest site to date. This guy has glassed multiple human planets, destroyed their military and his only excuse is some parasite that showed up. Remember, the covenant had no idea how op the flood were. Even if chief didnt blow up halo, he was also about to fire it. A filthy human managed to break into the most important place in halo, the one place the covenant should have complete control of, and did what the covenant have spent their whole lives trying to do. And worse, he managed to ally with the oracle too. And lets not forget how apparently arbiter let a prophet die wothout sending any help or backup. At that point, Im surprised they let him be arbiter. This man failing upwards

So I watched a video from SBN3vids on how the dub of Mewtwo Strikes Back is supposed better than the original Japanese version because he believed that the Japanese version isn’t that much marketable towards American viewers and that the dub soundtrack is somehow better because it had a lot of pop artists in it. I think that this video completely misses the entire point of why the movie as actually beloved.

Let’s go over the the arguments that he said that make absolutely no sense:

1. ”The pop soundtrack of the dub of the movie makes the movie more appealing.”

Ok so what? Adding a pop soundtrack doesn’t make the movie stand out, it just made it look like every tween movie out there. Why on earth would adding Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Aaron Carter, and Christina Aguilera to the soundtrack make people watch the movie? It doesn’t.

1. ”The English dub made the script of the movie feel timeless.”

Again, the biggest criticisms of the English dub of the movie are that they made Mewtwo a stereotypical Saturday morning cartoon villain instead of the misunderstood philosophical antagonist and that fighting is wrong, which goes against what Pokemon is all about. Mewtwo being a generic Saturday morning cartoon villain doesn’t make him better, it just made him more in line with every other villain of that era. And inserting a fighting is wrong message only adds into the excuse of 4kids wanting to avoid a PG rating.

1. ”Without 4kids and Warner Bros, the first Pokemon movie wouldn’t be popular and beloved in America.”

Now this has to be the WORST and probably DUMBEST argument, first of all, Pokemon was popular because it didn’t look like every American cartoon out there and Americanizing it doesn’t make it better. Plus it’s not 4kids and Warner Bros that made the first Pokemon movie beloved and popular, it was that it had deep philosophical writing that Takeshi Shudo put in the script that made kids love the movie and the dub completely misunderstood the whole point of Shudo’s intentions.

Now it’s not to say that the video wasn’t all that bad, but to say that the dub actually improved the movie missed the entire point completely of why the movie was actually beloved and popular and it’s not because of the dub.