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Very strict and critical⊠most of the time.Muy crĂtico y estricto⊠la mayor parte del tiempo.
Some ratings are very objective and others are mix.
Algunas calificaciones son muy objetivas y otras son mixtas.
The more solid ratings are the ones that I made reviews of, because I thought about them the most.
Las calificaciones finales son aquellas de las que hice reseñas, porque pensé mås sobre ellas.
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You might be wrong about Spinel.
Posted : 3 weeks, 6 days ago on 10 October 2024 05:01 (A review of Spinel)0 comments, Reply to this entry
Furiosa is her birth name? Da hell?
Posted : 4 months ago on 9 July 2024 01:21 (A review of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga)I was at least hoping that Furiosa was a name she earned by being a boss or something, her personality on the battlefield and shit, but no. She was just fucking born with it, I guess. Or maybe not, who knows? Feels like most girls in that place will be like that.
EDIT after rewatching Fury Road: Oh, it was established already. That was always her name. Well, fuck me.
Maybe a focus in the romance would have work. I mean, is not like she needs any more reasons to want revenge, he already killed her mum, so I don't really see the point of even having the guy. But since you decided to include love, do something with it. Instead we barely scratch the surface, so I don't care about the guy, cause he wasn't around much time.Â
Maybe give her a relationship with the wives and how she sees that treatment, that life, and her fear of it, her compassion, and then her desire to help them, her friends, part of womankind and stuff. You know, something fucking human in all this craziness. The fight of decency vs darwinism. But FINE, fuck it, is just an action film. I'm just saying, it had the potential for more.
EDIT after rewatching Fury Road: Is even worse now, because she mentions wanting redemption. So why not see her making decisions in her work as Imperator, which she does to survive, and feeling remorse over it? Fucking hell. What a disappointing film.
Feels kinda weird giving it a 6 when I mostly complain about it, but that's life. It was entertaining, it was fun, I didn't feel it too long. Is a nice watch.
I'm out.
Alaoz!
PS: Was casting Anya a good idea? I mean. She does not look anything like Charlize, in fact, Anya does not look like anybody in the history of mankind...
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The B Files.
Posted : 4 months ago on 7 July 2024 12:07 (A review of The X Files)Hey, unless I didnât use the S word.
Now, is not all bad. I mean, there are like⊠7 good episodes⊠Iâm kidding!! More like 9.
A lot of them are weird stuff that is never explained. I donât like that. Once in a while, yeah is cool, but it is a lot of them, a lot of the time, and they are lazy as well. Feels really easy to write a X Files case. Just make up some strange stuff and then donât explain it. Mulder cracks a few jokes, suggest some crazy theory, Scully does an autopsy, rolls her eyes, calls him a retard, he is right, and youâre free to go.
Some of them are good, some are alright, some are bad, some are shit. You know the drill with episodic shows. I donât really have strong feelings about those, they are not really my problem. No, is the amazing lack of continuity and stagnation. Like, they never talk about stuff. Scully doesn't believe in any alien stuff or the conspiracy to cover it up, even when she saw alien bacteria or whatever and it was silenced, and at the end of season one she holds an alien in her hands, Mulder got kidnapped and beat up for it, and a dude died, but they never mention it again. Which leaves me toâŠ
First problem: The Dynamic; Scully.
Chris really likes to milk the âI believe and I donât believeâ dynamic. It gets really old, real fast, man. Because of this milking, Scullyâs character gets hurt. For the first six seasons or so, she reboots every episode. She sees some wild shit, seems like maybe she might open her horizons, but by the next episode, is like nothing ever really happened. And for all intents and purposes, might as well nothing had happened, because thereâs almost never an acknowledgement of it. Like she was never there. Mulder suggest something, and she alright cuts him and refuses what he is saying by basically going: âPoppycock, Mulder, poppycockâ. What? She lives in London, she probably talks like that all the time.
She is very condescending as well when she does it. Like it is so stupid and nonsensical, when she has seen worse shit.
They were only TWO moments in the whole nine original seasons, when Mulder does what I was doing constantly, and the first time is a very subtle one. He says in that one: âAnd how many times have I been wrong?â when being question by her about a supernatural or weird explanation for something. The second one is clearer and more like I was saying all the time. âWell, what about that one time?â
She sees some WILD shit, seems to accept it because is really hard not to, and then, episodes later, Mulder suggest something similar that is way less weird and she goes âPoppycockâ. Like, bitch, you seem weirder stuff. What you mean thatâs crazy?
It wouldnât be so bad if she wasnât so harsh about it. So definitive. âAlright, man, is probably not that, but lest go aheadâ. Something like that. Because, indeed, Mulder is wrong sometimes. And of course, I donât expect her to believe in something just cause something else under the same broad umbrella has happened, without evidence and stuff, but a lot of them are linked together, cut of the same cloth. And her first response is always to find it really stupid when she has witness them before.
You know whatâs wild? When Reyes says she felt evil, and she responds by going: âI felt something like that beforeâ. WHAT? You met the fucking devil. You talked to him, you saw him, he attacked you. Da fuck you mean you felt?
Is like she has Alzheimerâs or something. Iâm telling you, she fucking reboots. She is the ârational oneâ, but she is being irrational by still trying to be so rational in the face of all this crazy shit. Sheâs met mutants, demons, angels, ghost, mythical creatures, a hot genie, visitors from other dimensions, a fucking yoda looking alien and STILL you can go: âI saw a cat with wingsâ. And she will go: âPoppycockâ.
When Doggett gets introduced, Chris actually tries to find a reason as to why somebody could be so fucking obtuse. And you can actually see him be afraid of believing, at the beginning at least. Eventually he becomes like Scully was, calling everybody a retard. I mean, Scully had her reasons, but, not really. She was just being force to be what Chris wanted. Maybe she was afraid sometimes, but most of the time, she just thought it was all poppycock.
Chris likes to milk that shit so much that when she changed, he had to bring somebody else to do the same boring part. And I donât believe she changed as a progression of her character, but because Doggett was coming and you canât have two motherfuckers doing the same shtick.
The two never talk about the stuff they see, it doesnât affect their worldviews that much, the way the look and think. Scully doesnât wander why none of that shit is on the bible. In fact, all religions are based on alien stuff, apparently, so... Does that test her faith?
Problem 2: Forgotten ideas and genres not coexisting well.
This is more personal, I guess.
Like two demons threaten Scully and Mulder⊠and nothing happens. Lucifer himself did that with Scully and fuck all happened. âThe demon knows you nowâ. Cool story, bro.
I donât think futuristic alien technology works well with supernatural and demonic elements. I mean, is really funny to think about a final battle for supremacy between little gray man on flying saucers and actual biblical demons. Sci-fi and supernatural stuff feel so opposed to each other that I canât really see them working well together. But I mean, is really personal, I guess, that is what a lot of people believe the real world is so⊠Donât mind me. To me the idea of kicking down the door with a plasma gun and shooting the girl in the Exorcist feels very silly, but maybe others donât. Maybe you would do that if in fact the power of God does not compel.
The way the X Files makes it work is by never having them interact with each other, which is basically not making them work together, soâŠ
For that reason, a demon can threaten Mulder, and he still only cares about government conspiracies and aliens. You will think he would try to find shit about it to protect himself, but since the show only really cares about the alien and government stuff, it makes the world not feel alive and very much a jumbled mess.
If only they had a secondary overarching plotline with the demons, it might have work, but no. Demons do very petty shit and then they go away, happy to be able to get away with it. While the aliens are trying to replace humanity and conquer the earth or some shit. The demons are staying behind, mate. They are not sending us their best...
Either you have supernatural stuff and Lovecraftian aliens, or futuristic aliens with mutants and cyborgs and stuff, because you are probably not going to be able to do both well in tone, and is gonna go real bad.
Thereâs more, because a lot of the stuff that gets established in the cases, would change how the world works, but there is never any repercussion or consequences from them. Remember the genie? More on that in the next part.
Problem 3. The overarching alien plotline and Mulderâs sister.
Is sad because the canon final story is good, but I just did not give a shit anymore. If it was all done in one season arc, then cool, but it is stretch for so long that is hard to care, man. Unlike Doggetts son, that gets resolved much faster, if only because they got cancelled, was much more satisfying.
About the aliens, well⊠Is just as stupid as it is in really life. Super advance aliens crashing on the planet, getting shoot down by human weapons, kidnapping humans for dumb reasons, needing to sneak like little bitches, trusting humans to do stuff despite reading minds and shit. Is all just very dumb. They do try to come up with a reason why they would crash in the last episodes of the original run, but it comes really late and still doesnât really work. The super soldier needed to be very close to it, so a spaceship would have to be flying really low, so no much of a crash, and even then, they would learn how to avoid them, no? They don't have emergency brakes?
And again, I mention the lack of worldbuilding and consequences. Why not clone that dude that can literally bend reality with his imagination? An army of him might win you the war, buddy. Use the evil kid too. Why not? The genie anyone? She worked with presidents. The government has no idea? âI wish for an alien cure⊠no, eradicate the aliensâ. She can do that!
What about the two AI's?
Why is the Smoking Man fucking inmortal?
I sincerely do not like this show at all. I enjoy it 30% of the time. The revival is absolute crap as well, three decent episodes, and two of them are comedy, soâŠÂ Specially cause Chris decided to reinvent the wheel again and apparently all 9 previous seasons are a lie. Da hell?
Look, I can't point every problem I saw, there are a lot of episodes and I forget. I could write for days in here, man. I decided too late to write this review.
Scully is a bad catholic, by the way.
Anyway.
Ice and Darkness Falls are great. Vince Gilligan episodes are usually good. Chris Carter episodes sometimes are. There is good in here, of course I was kidding when I said only 9, is more than that, like, 13. It is mostly bad tho. A lot of the episodes are forgettable and the overarching plots are an unnecessary complex mess. Fuck em. Is carried by decent leads, charismatic actors and not much else.
Iâm going to bed now. Fringe is way better.
PS1:Â Simpsons crossover was god tier.
Iâm surprised he is not on the revival too.
Heâs on fucking Millenium as well? Jesus!
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NANANANANANANANA BATMAN!
Posted : 4 months, 1 week ago on 28 June 2024 05:25 (A review of Nana)NANA isâŠpretty good. It's not my kind of story to watch for that long, slice of life stories with a focus on romance don't tend to interest me much most of the time, unless they're funny, have an important theme or have something special enough, and NANA has that.
Let me tell you something first: I dislike the drawing of the characters, I dislike the âanime facesâ they sometimes make that are very cartoonish, the overreactions, and I dislike the voice of Nana Komatsu, or Hachi, in Japanese, because it is shrill and I have sensitive ears. All of that would easily take me out of this anime and make me run into a lava pit and yet, I didn't.
I can see past all that, and that's because it's so damn well written. It's not the most impressive, but it manages to create believable characters with flaws and conflicts, which makes me connect with what's happening, even though the visuals don't help me at all.
Now, NANA has a very extensive cast of characters, and of course, the two protagonists are the winners of the big, fat, veiny prize, but the vast majority of the secondary characters are quite solid and three-dimensional in a way that gives life to the world.
A fault of the series is that it does not focus enough on them, I think they could have given a little more, but is not like they were abandoned. Everyone has their moment to shine and even if you don't care for their stories, you have to admit that they work. But like I said, a little more wouldnât hurt. Like Ren and his addiction to⊠I'm not sure what, and Shin and Reira. Because if that relationship doesn't work, Shin's supposed problem that the relationship was fixing is never resolved.
The two protagonists are complicated, they are the ones who have the most flaws, the selfish ones (whether consciously or unconsciously) who must mature, and both have friends who are already mature, who give them advice and who sacrifice themselves for the good of the rest, something they must learn the hard way. They never get rid of these primordial personality flaws, but they learn to recognize, manage and understand them, although the bad practices and desires never leaves them.
Did I mention they were complex?
Komatsu is the girly one, the overly emotional one, the one who falls in love easily and is naive, but she matures as the series progresses, she questions herself, she hates herself, and in the end, she makes the difficult decision, the executive decision, the pimp decision, and must deal with the consequences of said decisions, and of her flaws. She is a person who does not fully understand herself, she is somewhat stupid and continues to search tirelessly for what she really wants, and what she needs.
Osaki is the more rebellious, the cool one, the one with the dark side that I wish we had seen a little more of. She acts as a calculating villain a couple of times, and that was fun. But the same thing happens with her, she improves as a person, she questions herself, she tries to accept the decisions of others, but she is someone who is difficult and very selfish and, like Komatsu, wants everything for herself and doesn't quite understand what she really wants.
They are in their twenties, it is understandable. They are good characters, very human and slaves of passion. But aren't we all? Except me, of course, am chemically castrated⊠Don't ask.
I want to give a special mention to Takumi. Because at the beginning I thought that there were two paths in which the series was going to go, either making him the stereotype of the womanizing Rockstar, or the counter-stereotype of the misunderstood. Yes, it's anime, I didn't trust it.
Luckily, they took the best path, the superior one, the one that has nuances on the track. They put him sort of in the middle of both things, in addition to giving him a more Machiavellian and upright personality. He is an organized, determined and responsible guy. He is quite good, deeper than he initially seems. It was a pleasant surprise.
Something that helps a lot is that the series has the advantage that many audiovisual series lack and that books do have: internal monologues. I've never understood that criticism that it doesn't feel right or that it's weird, blah blah. I have seen some series and movies that have some narration and internal monologue and I have never felt that problem. Damn, Fleabag is a series where the protagonist speaks directly to you and I still enjoyed it. It's a stupid complaint, and it makes me angry... Anyway. A lot of animes have that, and I wish it was more common in other things.
Also, NANA is divided into two parts, each one focused more on each Nana, from their point of view, with their own narratives full of personality that rounds them out as complex and human characters.
It makes it stand out among so many other slices of life with boring formats.
So much style!
These narratives add a mystery that intrigues you. I thought damn Osaki was dead or something. They make you think: What? What happened? I need to know!
Of course, it's not all dancing titties in NANA. What I've talked about is mostly good things with a few flaws, but the following is a complete flaw. It's a waste of a narrative and stylistic tool. My biggest disappointment was the songs in universe, because there are only two of them. I myself have a couple of characters who are musicians, and I write songs to reflect something that they or people close to them are experiencing in the story, is a different way of presenting the theme, in a poetic way and full of emotion.
But there is very little of that in NANA. Osaki doesn't write anything despite how important what is happening is to her. More than just a message on TV one time, she could have written a song for Hachi, where she subtly tells her what she's going to do and what she means to her.
Ren and Reira probably should have made a pair. We spent an entire chapter with Reira and her difficulty with writing something, but in the end, we barely listened to her and it didn't have much to do with what was happening or what was most important to her. Then Ren's idea of making real art and not just to keep selling was never touched upon. We didn't explore that side of the series much, the importance of art and music.
It's strange considering how important it is to the series.
Well, that's my biggest complaint.
In the end, there are certain plot lines that feel incomplete, that are incomplete, but also more or less work as is. The reason is that the manga was not complete, and they preferred to leave it until then than try to finish it themselves. Which is something they could easily do, because the reason they more or less work as they are, is that you see where most of them are going to end up.
The thing about Nana and Ren seems kind of difficult, and from what I saw happen in the manga I don't like the idea, but I would have to see the execution to judge.
And the ending of the series is the most screwed up, because it seems that Osaki disappeared, and I don't understand why, and it's a very strong question that maybe they shouldn't have asked if they weren't planning to answer it. The series could have easily ended without the time jump.
That's all. I don't like to extend myself much into things that I like, I like to say something as a recommendation and explain why I like it, and let you enjoy it if you haven't seen it.
It's a good series, with good characters and a decent story. He didn't blow my mind, but it was very competent. I'd give it an 8, but the final time jump drops it to a 7, a pretty solid one. I don't usually punish something too much for being incomplete, I prefer it to it ending badly, but they did just that, they ended it badly.
So⊠Yeah.
Goodbye.
PS: The English dub is decent.
PS 2: The openings and endings are good songs.
PS3: Two girls meet by accident and both are called Nana? What are the odds of that!? I don't know, man. Sounds like a convenience to meâŠ
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Good, but not The Better Place.
Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago on 26 February 2024 01:04 (A review of The Good Place)But besides Eleanor and Chidi, the two other humans of the main group I don't really care for much. I don't like the whole "dumb guy comedy" as a whole most of the time, so that can't help for Jason, but it is kinda worth it for the: "Jason figured it out?" and to be more fair, he does have his moments when he is more than that.
Eleanor and Michael pretending to be evil and doing the evil laugh together was just... tv masterpiece.
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While you were living a fulfilling life...
Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 7 September 2023 01:48 (A review of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice)Thanks character limiter. You ruined my title!!
I love Sekiro, but is not quite the game that it could have been, or that I would have hope it would be. There are some issues that I mostly donât care about, but some that I do, and the ones I donât care about donât affect me, but maybe they should, like the lack of combat options.
I just like deflecting.
I mean, the combat system is great, I love it, Iâll deflect night and day, is hot! But there is a surprising lack of combat arts and prosthetics and actual quality to said prosthetics. In my case, I barely use them, they are mostly boring, to be honest. I ended the game with 998 spirit emblems, so, you know.
Iâm trying to use them more in newer playthroughs, but they barely make a difference and there is a reason I never felt attracted to them. They are not very useful in important moments or most boss fights. Youâll have a better time using your emblems for Mortal Draw or something like that.
In my case: I used the axe in Hirate state and never again, the shurikens against the shooters surrounding the spear general the first 3 tries and never again. I beat Gyoubu third try without the firecrackers because I totally miss them. I would have use them otherwise, the firecrackers are actually god. The spear never. The flame barrel only with the chained ogre. Mist Raven fucking never, although, it does look cool. You can just dodge, tho.
I did use the Umbrella against Albino Ape, because Iâm not running away like a bitch from the terror bullshit. Like seriously, terror? Terror? Instant dead? Really? Iâm fighting the fuck, Iâm clearly not that scared. IÂŽm face to face with the headless, trading blows like a boss. Iâm not fucking scared! Ter⊠Ok, just lest move on.
I did use malcontent for Demon of Hatred, because it is the most dogshit fight in the whole game and I wanted it to be over as fast as possible. I mean, I did not choose Sekiro to be fighting like fucking Dark Souls. I⊠I really hate that fight. I mean, an hour or so is not that long for that fight, I guess, but I was annoyed and bored the whole time. I tried to deflect and have fun but I keep getting burn and I justâŠ
Isshin did make it up for it, tho, thanks the heavens.
And thatâs it. Not much use to them. I mean, I upgraded them because I have to, too much money and nothing to use it with, and the ones I actually wanted, were, for some reason, not available unless I upgraded another one that I didnât actually want to use. WHY? Why are the prosthetics an interconnecting tree? Is annoying.
Anyway, is a universal truth that people only consistently use the firecrackers and thatâs it.
The game is not long enough to justify the upgrades for the prosthetics
No smoke bomb prosthetic?
The âbestâ combat arts are unlocked way to fucking late to actually care or matter for your first gameplay, and the lack of replayability and actual usefulness of said combat arts makes it not really worth the grind to get them unless you just want to experiment. At the end of the day, you will just go back to Ichimonji, because is God. If I beat the game, just gift me the fucking things or at least make a special boss to win an exp box or something.
And why not add the possibility of changing the arts mid fight? Cool combos can arise from that.
Stealth is worthless, enemy reaction is dumb as fuck. The dead bodies of their friends mean nothing to them. And am I crazy or it was supposed to be a mechanic when you hide the corpses to avoid detection? I could swear I saw that. Is half baked, is what I mean. You should deal with the consequences if you fuck up. Like, make it mean something, make it hard.
What else can I complain about? Oh, right. The Shura ending is kinda shit. Why not the Shura path rather? I mean, you make the decision, the game gets cut short, two special boss fights and thatâs it. You allegedly go in a path of destruction and mayhem⊠I would have liked to play that⊠Like, killing the friends that you made along the game because you are now a killing machine that only cares about the euphoria of the fight, and you can feel both powerful and horrible. And maybe a new combat art tree only for the Shura, a shorter one, probably, but brutal and awesome. Let us feel how it is to be drowned in the horror of war.
I donât know. Maybe I ask too much.
What else?
Game is too short, specially fountainhead palace, such a beautiful place, over in a half an hour. Fucking LOL. The world does not feel big enough despite the many different places. I loved it to much, I want to spend more time in here.
Genichiro is annoying in the final game battle, but I would have like to fight him more times, as he gets more powerful and learns new shit and stuff, to keep it fresh. Like a whole story boss, you know?
The Bosses attack patrons could have been improved, more diverse and less repetitive. The Resurrection mod show me that.
Thereâs is also a lack of women enemies⊠Now I donât say this a feminist thing, I just want to kill womenâŠ
Difficulty: Boss fights. I think the bosses should try to recover their posture like the minibosses do, fuck, even some regular guys do that. I know is easy to disrupt, but they can do it when they are far away or when they stagger you, as punishment for fucking up your posture like a dumb fuck. I feel like it should be possible to code that when they are low on posture they do that, and only when you are low enough on health, they try to kill you after breaking you.
Gyobuâs fight makes no sense. He is supposed to be like a hardcore motherfucker, a very powerful warrior, but he is one of the easiest bosses. I know he is technically the first big boss, but he should be more punishing, at the very least in NG+
The first phase should either force you to deflect his attacks while you can only damage the horse, then the horse dies, and you fight him in the ground in phase two. That would train you hardcore on how to deflect consistently. Or, the horse dies, he eats him and transforms into a centaur that hits you with his giant dâŠ
Isshin should recover posture if he hits you with the Ichimonji if you fail to deflect.
Anyway. NG+ after doing the Shura ending is kinda worthless. Whatâs the point of having seven opportunities?
If you finish the endings, you should install the Resurrection mod and play it again. Have fun relearning the bosses new moves, vastly different, more varied, way more aggressive, way more fun to deflect, way more effective at making you RAGE. Is Sekiro hard mode. PLAY IT.
Thatâs enough. This is getting long.
First playthrough is an 8.
Goodbye.
Alaoz!
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The worst for the end.
Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 31 August 2023 07:13 (A review of The Last Man)We always get told the characters personalities, their traits, that are always the fucking same anyway. Every main character is basically the same person, so full of honor and romanticism, such pure souls, so kind, so smart so... Shut up, Lionel! We always get fed the information directly, we barely ever learn something about them through the actual story. You know what I mean?
It makes them all feel so distant and not real that it is really hard to empathize with them most of the time, and because I hate Lionel, the narrator, and his over embellishing words, I care even less.
Perdita is a bitch, by the way. Fuck her too. I might have enjoy her decision, but Lionel fuck it up. It would still be a shit thing to do either way, but at least it would have been fun. Don't abandon and hurt your fucking kids cause you're sad, please.
The first volume is the worst, because you are expecting apocalyptic stuff, interesting stuff, but instead you have to suffer through long nine chapters of melodramatic, overly flowery love stories like the sort of thing you would see in a telenovela. The idea is to show you this people so you care about them later, but it just made me hate them.
The second volume is more exciting, there is war and plague and shit actually happens. But that does not last long and is meh at best anyway.
You don't care about the war, you barely know anything about it, you care only for one main character who's there fighting. But I hate him so I didn't. Glad he fucking died. Yeah. Glad.
The third volume is all about the world going to shit. The thing you were waiting for!! And you get some nice things about people being charitable, helping each other out, nobles and common people alike. A couple of crazy guys. People getting sick and shit. Raiders that one time. But this is all being told by Lionel, we don't lived this things through the pages, the world doesn't feel alive. He just tells us "that happened, and then that happened", so I don't care about it. Because I hate him and all his friends.
Now you might think this is all very subjective. It probably is. But you are gonna hate it too. I have a lot of resistance to "boring" things. But this is fucking dreadful. It feels so dated. No one talks like this anymore, no one behaves like this anymore without being on medication. I doubt they ever did, to be frank. The whole thing just feels fake. And boring. And overly flowery. And Melodramatic. And fucking shit.
I do hate this book, with a passion. But I guess is fine.
Lionel is indeed the last man. Yeah. The worst for the end.
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Jujutsu Kaisen is cursed.
Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 4 April 2023 02:00 (A review of Jujutsu Kaisen)Real talk: I saw an image of Maki Zenin from the manga and I was⊠âthatâs a cool designâ. Also, Iâm the type of guy that would watch something just because there is a hot femme in it. So, it was obvious that I was going to give it a chance. Besides, the animation looks pretty, so why not?
Well, turns out there are a lot of reasons to say no.
The show actually started kind of okay, I mean, I liked it a bit, nothing special but enough to continue. The anime was lucky to have those first 6 episodes, cause, it got really shit afterwards. All of the shonen anime tropes yet again sometimes done worse than usual, which is funny because a character makes fun of tropey cliche horror movies. Talk about self-awareness.
Now, tropey or cliche is not bad by itself, is when writers donât do even the bare minimum to make it their own. Like the story with the bullied kid, it happens in real life and everything, but the way that was done was almost exactly the fucking same that other bad animes that I seen: incredibly basic, exaggerated, pretentious, sort of nihilistic, very emo shit. What is the unique lens and perspective of the author? Who knows.
âPeople have no heartsâ Is this kid retarded?
The answer is yes, since he thinks that the weird looking dude that brutally murdered some children for talking to loud in an empty movie theater is a good person. I know heâs biased, but Jesus fuck, man.
Now, at the very least that guy gets manipulated by a villain and that could be cool, but again, that was also, very, very, painfully basic. Also, the villain. I thought he was fucking dogshit at the beginning, he had a very common personality for anime villains, that exaggerated childish and bubbly behavior, contrasted by exaggerated sadistic behavior. But, he is a child, technically, so I guess it makes sense, also, he is born of just pure evil emotion. He is a main villain, so I would give him some leisure to develop and be better, but I wonât hold my breath, the anime hasnât earned shit from me. Iâm just extremely good faith sometimesâŠ
That whole arc was boring as fuck, tho, super edgy, super shit. I almost quit.
But no, I stayed for the even more boring tournament arc. Now, Iâm not gonna say much about that cause⊠why would I bother? I fell asleep.
That arc illustrates one of the worst aspects of this show: the sheer inability to correctly deliver information, and giving unnecessary information in bad times. In other words, the exposition is dogshit. And that is the central theme of my thesisâŠ
Not only do characters explain shit outloud for no reason about their abilities and backstories in battle, but they also explain their abilities in internal monologues to⊠themselves? Like WTF? They do not only make that basic mistake of explaining what every character around already knows, but they also explain in their MINDS shit that they already know about themselves. Thatâs insane, do you understand?
âI can do this shit, and invoke this many motherfuckers to do this and thatâŠâ Who are you talking to, my dude? Stop it.
And they often do it in the middle of a battle, stopping the flow of said battle. That is not how you deliver information in an audiovisual medium. Why are the other characters listening to this shit? I thought you bitches were fighting.
Is the clumsiest and most artificial way of letting the audience know whatâs happening or can happen with their powers. Iâm not retarded, I can understand whatâs happening by seeing it, you donât need to tell me in the middle of the fight. You can explain later what is not self-explanatory or explain it before in a natural way. Or even during, that could be fine, but it has to be natural, it has to make sense.
âHe used it as a decoy and released it?â Yes. I just saw it. Why are you telling me, close eyes? I saw it with my blood-filled eyes because youÂŽre giving me cancer!
âWater? Iâm being swept away by the volume and pressure?!â OMG, dude. Iâm seeing it. Right now! Why are you narrating? Whatâs going on!?
I fucking hate that guy. Emo boy is no better, he explains part of his philosophy in the middle of the fight. Why? It doesnât matter. Just punch him! That was annoying, but the monk guy? Oh, the monk guyâŠ
âIâm doing this for my momma, I canât loseâ. Dude, shut your mind!! âI need to keep pretendingâ NOOOOOO.
Why are they telling me all the secret motivations for this people and the secret things that they are doing and thinking? Those things are plot twist, mysteries, revelations that allow you to see characters in a different light. But no, the show is allergic to these compelling things, instead opting for letting you know every single thing about them when is not fucking relevant. This is not the time!
Whatâs the point of Nobara remembering her friend? It means nothing to the story at hand and its just distracting. Just let us know that she REALLY wanted to leave her hometown and way later, when I give a shit and is important, explain why.
One last thing about that episode. I thought the point was to see what would she do in a dire situation like that, what hard choice would she make. But then the protagonist helps her, completely destroying said moment and⊠then what? I didnât learn anything. She wasnât force to act, it got cut so fast. What would she do? I donât know.
Lost opportunity to learn her way of thinking. She does say something important in the final episode, but thereâs no context as to how or why she got there, she just does, which is fine!! But is kinda underwhelming considering that early scene. Does that kid have a sit in her life? Humm.
The only one that matters is the twins story, the rest were not necessary at all. And even that one was bad, very poorly explain. Oh yeah, thatâs also the thing, the show is very bad at backstories, they are always so short and vague and could be cut off and lose nothing. The only good one is the one from salaryman. Is was not important for the plot, but it did help to understand him more.
âLiarâ, thought Mai.
Iâm sorry, is she holding her sister accountable for what she said when she was like 6 years old? Fucking LOL.
Continuing with the unnecessary information in bad moments, another example is the evil brothers of the last arc. We fucking learn that they are at least part human BEFORE the main characters do, so instead of being shocked that they are not disappearing after death along with them, we already know, so it means nothing. The revelation is underwhelming.
Why tell me their origin story? Huh? Leave it for later, man. Is not important at the moment and it would be WAY more impactful if we learn it along with the characters. Stop telling me the backstories like they're fucking TED Talks⊠And now that we are on that note. Stop explaining me stuff like a fucking PowerPoint presentation. The glasses guy randomly appears to explain things like the Rat in Horrible Histories. Is dumb.
Another example of unnecessary information in bad moments, is the old guy literally thinking to himself and remembering the evil secret plan he just hatched. My dude, my brother in Ala, can you please stop?
I would say tho, in good faith, it kinda works, cause, spoiler, his plan dies like immediately and is sort of SNK moment when the colossal titan reappears, you remember? When Eren is talking big shit and BOOM, surprise motherfucker!! Kinda like that.
Still, is really dumb. I could and should have happen in real time, like with the meeting, because yeah, is not illegal to not have a mystery or secret plan in certain moments, thatâs not what I saying, is just that the show does it all the time. It happens the way that it happens not because is more effective, but because thatâs the only way the show knows how to deliver information.
So, thatâs my special issue with this show, is probably the worse anime I ever seem in the exposition department. It damages everything it touches. Thatâs the only reason I wrote this review, because Iâm not only complaining yet again about a shonen being cliche crap.
I still think the show has potential, but that could only be my thirst for Maki speaking.
There are some okay stuff, like Todo. I actually⊠donât hate him. He was really shit at the beginning, but he actually has an interesting way of seeing stuff. Besides the retarded âwhat type of women do you like?â, heâs obsession with the idol (that only works for Shinpachi), and his ridiculous personality, he has cool standards for what a friend should be, and he would let you die if you donât fulfill that. Thatâs actually interesting.
Iâm hopeful for Maki as well.
And thatâs it.
3/10.
PD: I bloody hate Kamo.
PD2: What is up with those after credits scenes? Youâre not Gintama, show, youâre not that funny.
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The Doctor without a license.
Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago on 22 January 2023 03:31 (A review of The Thirteenth Doctor)With the thirteenth Doctor we have a Doctor that killed someone for no reason and let go free a killing AI, to then say that systems are never actually problematic and it just people, which is just plain wrong. She also supported a super corporation without knowing all about them, which were a bunch of fuck up shit, totally contrary to the moral principles of the Doctor. She does nothing to remediate this. All of that in one shitty episode (Kerblam!).Â
She is also a Doctor with a childish view on guns, so against shooting, that she champions slowly suffocating and starving to dead as a more moral option (Arachnids in the UK). A Doctor that embodies a fundamental misunderstanding of the gun principle (The Ghost Monument) so much that she wonât let you defend yourself against killer robots with a gun even tho under her own moral system, it is okay to attack them because they can be repair.
She is a Doctor thatâs okay with stasis, being trap in the cusp of life and death, when she originally was totally against it. (The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos).
How incredibly obscene, right?
She also comes up with unnecessary dangerous solutions to very easy problems (Resolution). Just take the Dalek of him with your hands!!! She almost kills that guy.Â
But thatâs not the end, she is also a Doctor who is apparently ok with someone being mistreated and possibly torture because of the color of their skin (Spyfall part 2). She also forgot to save her friends life, by the way. Needed to be reminded of it.
A Doctor that abandons two people she could easily save because she prefers to give a speech to characters who already agree with her (Orphan 55).Â
And she is a Doctor who abandons her friend to suffer emotionally alone because is too awkward (Can you hear me?).
She is a Doctor that chose her own life above someone else. (The Timeless Children). Organic genocide is fine if someone else does it, I guess. Tenth was on a similar position with Donna's grandfather, and he chose to die and save him. Cause thatâs what the Doctor would do!! Damn it Chibnall, you are a fan of this show!! WHY?
And she is a Doctor that sacrificed a Tardis, a living being for all we know of them; they have consciousness.
AND, AND, she is a Doctor that committed TRIPLE, not double like the War Doctor, but TRIPLE genocide⊠for no reason!!! There was no reason that would have work, and it didnât. A Passenger was necessary to end the FLUX. She is so stupid, that for some reason, she thought that tree fleets would be enough to stop a force design to eat the fucking universe. No doubt while doing it, no remorse after it. What in the actual fuck?
Superficially she seems to be the Doctor, but the meat of it is rotten. She did not let Yaz in, never got a proper resolution to the revelation of her past lives, never learn from her mistakes o dealt with anything actually morally grey. She learned nothing as a person, and so did her companions. What a worthless and empty era. So glad is fucking over. What an absolute waste of Jodie and the first female Doctor. Is probably his fault that we have a man again so soon. Goddamnit, Chibnall!
Thatâs it.
Alaoz!
PS: Watch The Haunting of Villa Diodati, only time she truly feels like the Doctor.
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A Signal straight to my heart.
Posted : 1 year, 10 months ago on 8 January 2023 06:05 (A review of Signal)INTRO
I just rewatch the show in Netflix and I wanted to share the review I wrote 4 years ago because there are some people who haven't watch it yet, which is wrong, and those people do not deserve happiness until they do.
Now, thereâs one issue⊠just a tiny one. Season 2 isnât out yet and I been waiting a while for it now and⊠maybe this year. Yes. This year.
Now, the first time I saw this show it absolutely shattered my world.Â
âIt did what?âÂ
Shattered my world!!Â
I fucking loved it so much. I still do, it just wasnât as powerful all around the second time, but still pretty fucking good.
This is a short one, as I donât want to spoil much.
START
Signal is a drama-detective show, a procedural where a detective from the present communicates with a detective from the past and together they solved âcold casesâ which are cases that happened in the winter. They use a radio for this. Now, you might be thinking that the cases are solved easily because of this, but you would be wrong. They can only communicate for around a minute or so and the cases are solved by good old-fashioned police work, sometimes mundane police work, the boring stuff that is usually not shown, but here is never really boring. Donât ask me how, Kim is a magician ... God, I love her.
Anyway. Where was I?
Minimal spoilers incoming!
TIMEY WIMEY STUFF
Right. The timey wimey stuff is mostly there to kick start the case, to make it possible, to give it a gentle push, but is never used in a cheap way to solved the case when they hit a wall.
Part two of that is the butterfly effect and all that jazz. Now, writing time travel is usually a very bad idea because it is so hard to do correctly, to make it make sense, but, after years of Doctor Who, I donÂŽt really care that much at this point. Is a flaw, but at the end, if is not that egregious, that obviously wrong that it is stupid, I can be fine with it if the rest is good. And the rest of Signal is very good. The time stuff is good too, I think.
I mean, the outcome is always bittersweet. They might save a person by solving the case or interrupting the killer, but another person dies as a consequence. Someoneâs life is always getting fuck no matter what. Thereâs a point when they even regret doing the thing because so much shit went wrong and they almost quit. Thereâs a balance, an equilibrium that grounds the stakes and creates powerful drama. Some of that shit even impacts the main characters directly. One thing goes right, another gets wreck.
In terms of making sense, it kind of does. Is a very small âeffect locationâ. I mean, is not impacting stuff in a big way, it does not care about the whole fabric of history and shit, only the lives of the characters related to the case, and how those changes impacted their existences, emotionally and physically. Is quite tight and small in scale, I didnât notice crazy stuff going on, is all very minimized to avoid said butterfly problems and focus on the good stuff.
I only remember one moment that was kind of weird, because a character almost quits, but the reason it does not do that is because it gets advice from someone else, but that someone only gives the advice cause of future shit. But it can just be that originally there was another reason to stay and I pretty sure that I know what that is xD
Oh, and of course, the very basis of the show is... problematic, it seems to be a paradox, a sort of causal loop. But I mean, the show is not over so... I trust in Kim.
Lastly, IÂŽm not sure if they are following a rule like Doctor Who with time being in constant flux, capable of changing in âreal timeâ at every point, or a more cause and effect straight line. Thereâre glimpses of the first one, tho. At least a similar one.
TECHNICAL STUFF
Now, the show has long episodes, but shit is always happening, case stuff and character stuff, learning about them in the past and present, their values and histories, and other present stuff beyond the immediate plot, and ⊠uff.
Both timelines, both plots are happening at the same time in screen. Somehow, is not confusing, because is so competently weaved together that⊠god I love Kim so much. Writing and directing are on point. The transitions from thing to thing are fucking seamless, is just crazy good storytelling, crazy good television. Always keeps you engaged and trust you to get it and doesnât explain stuff to you. The acting greatly helps with that.
Is so obvious compare to ⊠Iâm also rewatching the Thirteenth Doctors era because I hate myself, and my dad wants to see it anyway. They tell you the traits and conflicts of the characters to your fucking face! Not here, my darling, is all told to you thought filmmaking and acting, as is supposed to be.
Sorry for the detour, I just truly hate⊠Back to the review.
The cases last more than one episode because of this, is not solely focus on the crime, but in politics and character exploration. Now, thereâs a bad side of this, episodes sometimes do not end when the case is over, so, you might want to rest and think about what you just saw, but the fucking thing keeps going. I guess it depend of what you like.
Lastly, the acting is fantastic, so much that a simple and basic character of a grieving mother is so powerfully portrait that you forget sheâs not real and truly believed is a non-acting human being crying in front of you. She barely says anything, barely has anything beyond "someone kill my child and I'm sad" in the very few scenes she gets, and is still gut-wrenching seeing her pain.
Iâm just saying that I usually donât care when is just that, but damn.
The music is kinda meh. I used to criticize the repetitiveness of it, but now I feel that gives it that memorable touch, I mean, you hear the music and you immediately think of Signal. It could have achieved that in a different way, with more of a unique sound, but I donât care that much. I donât particularly like the sad one, tho, is kinda shit.
The directing is REALLY fun. I donât think is unique of the show, in fact, is not, but I have never notice it as much in other shows or movies (Memento?). Is not a thing they use a couple of times, is a constant thing, every episode, and is tied to the time stuff.
Is simple, thereâs basically a whole scene, but you donât get to see the whole thing at once, you get little bits of the scene, or the scene from a particular character perspective, or just enough of the scene that is related to the current events or the knowledge the show wants you to have at that particular moment.
For example, you see a character escaping, and then, later, you see how exactly did he escape. So, if you thought that that was to easy, you learn that no, every little detail was well thought of and the show does not take easy routes.
You see a scene and think: âWell, that was all of it, surelyâ, and then, episodes later, you see even more of it and youÂŽre like: âOh shit, it was worse that it seemedâ. That also applies to seeing a condensed version of the scene, as if it were a âpreviously inâ, with all the heavy hitting moments highlighted, and then watching the whole of the events that feel like a knife slowly reopening the wound.
You might think Iâm crazy for hyping a very common narrative style or technique, but its use in Signal is masterpiece levels. This capacity of creating tension, intrigue and âoh shitâ when you get more context that makes a previous scene even stronger, a character more complex or tragic, or simply rewards your capacity to remember what happened, is glorious. Is a great back and fourth from present to past that makes everything more entertaining and elevates its content.
THEME
Is quite simple: Perseverance, never losing hope, corruption of people and the injustice of the world in which the rich and powerful get away with dark shit. âIs the way of the world, thereâs nothing you can doâ. Is a serious show, but it has a lot of moments of relaxation. It shows horrible people, but also very nice people, and grey too. It has people that never compromised their values, good examples to imitate, but it also has people who gave all that up for money and moving higher in the ladder.
So, the complexity of the human being is correctly explored.
I would have like to see more exploration of the morality of changing the past and stuff. But maybe later.
CHARACTER
Lastly but not least, actually, is the most important thing: Character.
They are very good, okey? Fucking great.
They have defined and different personalities that touches even the way they talk, they are quite human, they make mistakes, get carried away by their emotions, show every range of human emotion, and have views fuel by their experiences. And at least the most important ones, you get to know them well both as people and as professionals (things from their past, their relationships and feelings). They donât get character development in âreal timeâ but they all had it.
They are not the most original thing in the world, they are born of common archetypes in police stories, but they are so well constructed and portrait that they come to life. They are also not like real police, real cops are just doing a job, they donât really care that much about justice and shit, in the show they really do. Soo-hyun says that you donât really get use to seeing a dead body, but real detectives get desensitize real quick. And is fine they went with that, not everything has to be The Wire.
My favorite of the three main ones is Lee Jae-han, the detective from the past, he is simply excellent: heâs idealistic, kind, a real-life hero, a very smart, competent and noble men, but also has his flaws as a person, he is hotheaded, brash, rude, basically socially incompetent, heâs also very eager to get himself kill, and surprisingly insensitive. He is a deeply emotional and sensitive men, but he can really be an asshole sometimes, although is mostly cause heâs kinda dumb in that department. He is also very aggressive and loud, but so sweet too.
God damn, I love that guy.
The bad thing is that the majority of the criminals are just cunts, so, they are not particularly complex. The show makes it up for it with the rest of the characters around and inside the case, but still.Â
I have more criticisms that the first time, in the more objective mark, I think is an 8/10.
But, in my heart, is still a 9/10.
Will I ever get to see season 2? Azathoth only knows.
Thatâs it.
Alaoz!
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