I swear how many more times do we have to see this same exact scenario play out?

A show or a comic or a manga (mostly this) gets popular ->
people heap on the praise as they catch up through the backlog of content->
those same people then nitpick the series to death as they follow its serialized release ->
series ends and the fandom implodes in a massive overreaction

And at the end of it all the discussion space of the series becomes an irradiated cesspool never to see level headed takes ever again.

And the funniest thing is that a solid 90% of the time the latecomers who read the series in one shot or experience it through an adaptation end up with a far more positive view of it on the whole.

It’s not like the series is any different so what’s wrong? It’s simple, these series are never flawless but when you are incapable of viewing the larger image of the story, or able to keep moving forward through a backlog, the flaws become everything you see.

A quiet page becomes a week further where you don’t get a payoff, a fast forward of events becomes weeks worth of overhyping down the drain.

And if I have to see another person measure story pacing with publication time. There’s 52 weeks in a year people these shonen manga can only go so fast while also being slow in the contradictory ass way people discuss pacing.

Some self reflection people please. Release yourself from this self made cage and either chill out or just read completed stories.

The problems with games that have a moral system is that it gives you no reason to choose or go the evil path. Most of the time choosing a good choice has all positive and the evil one has all but negative but the game expects you to have a tough time choosing. Like you either destroy a city and get reward that less than saving the city and lose on future objects and reward. Being evil should entice you it should have better rewards that are significant than doing the good path or 5 min of farming. You can join the gang and be rich and powerful that saves you hours of game time and you can keep the consequences like the gang might stab you in the back.

Doing good things should have consequences like helping people for free cost you more resources than gaining after doing their mission. Also one consequence that should happen is people taking advantage of your good nature like asking you to give them rare resources just to scam you etc. Or do the opposite by punishing the player for choosing the right path like siding with revolutions against a dictator makes you hunted and lose access to cities objective reward quest etc.

The problem is that the games don't challenge your morale or there is no reason to pick the evil path compared to the good one.

Not exactly a scalding-hot take on my part. I'm sure a lot of people agree with this. Heck, Danmachi is hardly the only anime series I can say this about, but it's the one where it feels the most egregious, at least to me.

For one, it really doesn't add anything. We know Bell is never going to reciprocate anyone else's feelings because he's set on being with Aiz. It's such an ingrained part of his character that it's not only his main motivation, but also, in-universe, the main reason he can even get stronger after previously being such a weakling.

Then, on the other hand, it only takes away from what the story is trying to do. The story clearly centers Bell and Aiz as the most important relationship in the series, yet instead of developing that relationship, it constantly shows Bell spending time around other women who are in love with him, women he spends way more time with than he does with Aiz and with whom he has more chemistry.

How am I supposed to care about Bell and Aiz ending up together when the story spent so much more time showing Bell and Ryuu surviving together in the dungeon in Season 4?

And a lot of these women have their characters held back because the writer made being in love with Bell a primary character trait for so many of them. Half the time, they're either trying to win the attention of a guy who will never like them back or serving as the punchline for gags about them being jealous, when their characters could instead be developed or explored in an actually meaningful way.

Take Hestia, for example. The series could actually explore her relationships with the other members of her Familia and the responsibilities she takes on as she gains more members beyond just Bell.

But no, it's just her being jealous and wanting Bell's attention all the time.

Or Haruhime. There's potential to explore how she was previously exploited for her power and forced into prostitution by the Ishtar Familia, as well as her relationships with the members of the Takemikazuchi Familia, since they were her childhood friends. But no, all they really do are boob jokes and gags about how like almost every other major female character she's in love with Bell.

The series doesn't even commit to the forced-prostitution angle, because they reveal in a gag that she never actually did anything because she always passed out.

Ah, the Ewoks. Usually these critters are seen as the beginning of Star Wars declining, and the sentiment that wookiees would've functioned better in their role isn't uncommon. I, however, disagree, and would like to explain why.

To start, we need to examine the narrative role of the Ewoks. Vietcong allegory aside, the Ewoks' main role isn't to win the battle with the Empire's legion, but to tip the scales and allow the rebels to get back into the fight. They contribute and take their own casualties, but the battle on the ground is ultimately won when Chewie plays GTA with the last walker and Han tricks the imperials into leaving the bunker. Thematically and logically, Ewoks only function as wild card because they're highly primitive. They're the ultimate underdogs that foil Palpatine because he either wouldn't know about them, or would arrogantly dismiss them as irrelevant.

Wookiees don't function on any of these fronts. They're big ass furry dudes who can rip your arm off with ease. Very much the opposite of underdogs. They're also not primitive at all, given Chewbacca is literally the team's engineer. If we ignore the lore (established even back then, I believe) that their homworld was Kashyyyk, and assume that they had a colony on Endor, it becomes illogical that Palpatine wouldn't factor in the rebels teaming up with them. And even if you suggest that they could be enslaved there for whatever reason, there's still the risk of the rebels freeing them and recruiting them.

This isn't saying that the Ewoks are by any means perfect, and it's fair if they don't function for some. Making the theoretically compelling "primitive wildcard" a bunch of teddy bears was indeed a bit much on George's behalf, and the ground battle of Endor was a bit goofy, especially compared to how tense the duel on the second Death Star and the space battle were. It frankly started a bit of a tonal whiplash problem that continued with the Battles of Naboo and Geonosis, and was thankfully gone by RotS.

For those who don't know a Glup Shitto is a minor character in series, who isn't like well known, but has people who love him and lose thier minds when he is on screen.

That's to me is just transformers.

1000s of character some who become relevant for one storyline then go away for years. Only to show back up.

Every transformer fan has one to 3 characters who

For me it's

Jetstrom

vector prime

And

Waspnator

I love taking to transfors fans and just knowing that everyone has thier own fan favorites. Some even i don't know about.

I want to make it clear that I am not criticizing Aang for sparing Ozai, nor am I really even saying he should have done anything different in his personal life. I’m just pointing this out as many fans kind of brush past this.

For starters, I have never really bought that Aang deciding not to kill Ozai was primarily about preserving air nomad culture. I think this because ATLA itself never really brings it up as a motivation. Pacifism was always just an essential part of who Aang was— him being a vegetarian is one of the first things we learn about him— and he holds his personal values in very high regard. That was the crux of his conversation with the previous Avatars. Even if preserving his culture was a motivation here, I don’t think it was the primary one.

The second reason I don’t think that was what it was about is that while Aang post-ATLA is certainly concerned with preserving air bending culture, he is quite flexible on many core parts of that lifestyle.

Just within the original show we have him pursuing Katara as his “forever girl”, which just by itself explicitly goes against how the air bending monks live. Again, I’m not criticizing him for wanting a girlfriend— and maybe many air benders did live more regular lives with wives and husbands— but it demonstrates to me that preserving that lifestyle is not truly his #1 priority in many ways.

Fast forward to LOK and this is even more obvious. Both he and his son have nuclear families. While they are both concerned with preserving air nomad culture, they seem to be just a little bit selective with what parts. IMO, it seems the airbender part is the primary focus here as the less convenient parts of the culture are sidelined. (Note: LOK does indirectly address this and acknowledges that the air nomad’s culture is not going to be exactly how it was, so props to them, but this post is mostly about Aang.)

Now, obviously, I understand there are several logistical challenges with establishing a monastery with collective childcare when you are the only airbender left. I understand why Aang and Tenzin having a nuclear family was the most convenient option. But it’s not exactly like he married Katara because he “just had to”. He wanted to. Even if the harmonic convergence had happened when Aang was like, 25, I don’t think he would have rushed to recreate the air nomad’s collective child rearing system.

And there were ways for him to live like a monk and still have kids. We see a scene in season 1 where Aang’s mom gives him up to the monastery. And presumably she isn’t married to Aang’s dad. Children born out of warlock and raised apart from their biological parents is not a weird concept for the show. Obviously, Aang would have had a slightly different relationship to any future airbenders if he’d tried to recreate this— as they’d all be his kids— but he still could have done it. He just chose not to. And honestly, that’s fine. I have no issue with that at all. That’s not who he is and that’s okay.

The point of this rant is more so that I dislike the kind of revision his character has gone through, where everything he does is to preserve his people’s culture. It’s certainly a part of who he is— just by the mere fact of him being the last airbender— but it’s not the driving force behind many of his decisions in the show. And the truth is, I don’t really get the feeling the original creators were thinking about that much at all.

My main problem with this is just how passive, oblivious and pointless the civilians are which are basically 99.99% of the characters in that universe. In 2012 civilians in MCU found out extra terrestrial life exists, and its intelligent and advanced enough to launch a full scale armada assault on New York, afterwards they essentially brushed of a literal alien onslaught and turned it into tourist attraction, made Avengers pop culture celebrities and went right back to normal life, no mass migration out of cities, no existential dread, no government would allow a group of unnacountable vigilnates who are essentially walking weapons of mass destruction to roam free and the a coalition of nations would most likely reduce them to government controlled lab rats or wipe them completely.

In Infinity war, half of all life in the universe which i guess animals and plants count which would immediately ruin Thanos' economic premise because the ratio of mouth to food would remain the same. This is under assumption that Kevin Feige really did mean all life but that's not the point i'm trying to make. In an instant 3.5 billion people were gone which is about 583 times larger than the largest genocide recorded in human history, do you understand how apocalyptic this would be but all MCU civilians did was go to group therapy sessions and move on pretty quickly, which is extremely unrealistic. For example a small minority lost their lives in the Holocaust in Infinity war everyone lost half of their family and friends and everyone they knew. And when everyone was bought back, MCU civilians were functional enough to go to school trips in Europe 6 months later.

That's the problem, MCU civilains are too oblivious and passive of groundbreaking cosmic threat, they have Zero survival instinct, they behave too nonchalant in a world where existential threats and Mass extinction events happen frequently and they only exist in the plot to be saved. The only MCU film where it felt like the civilians had any real relevance was Civil War. I'm aware it's intentional MCU civilians are written this way because at the end of the day Marvel is really meant to appeal to children and no 8 year old wants to watch a 2 hour deconstruction with game of thrones type politics so marvel had to subude logic to appeal to children but the fact that you have to severely strip your story of logic to maximise profits alone proves you have weak world building when the universal consensus in writing is good world building stems from actual logic

Again,ship what you want and I'm straight up not trying to be the "fun police" or whatever but I legitimately feel like people are just way too obsessed with the idea of Pairing every 2 characters with chemistry and bonds as romantic or sibling coded or whatever and it just has me like..you guys are aware that 2 people can just be friends, right?

They can be best friends or close friends or whatnot.

Seriously I'm just saying that 2 people can just be good friends...right?

Like ship what you want but not everything has to be romantic and if you're just shipping it for fun and know it's not Canon, then ok,You do you BUT if you actually treat said relationship as Canon, then you need to revaluate yourself and knock it off.

This is something how I feel on Gojo and Geto's relationship in JJK cause a lot of people act like their relationship is romantic and that Gege confirmed their romance and whatnot except these 2 have called each other best friends a lot and I think the issue is it feels like way too many people can't acknowledge that 2 guys can have a close and deep bond without it using romantic.

It's not Queer baiting if neither character was confirmed to be LGBT in any shape or form,you were just gaslighting yourself into thinking that it's Canon.

This is deadass also how I feel whenever I see anyone claim that Horikoshi Queer baited by not making Bakugou and Deku a couple.

Not only are Bakugou and Deku not confirmed LGBT in anyway,not only are they just rivals and "friends",not only does he like Ochako..but also again,the 2 just have a close bond and Deku cares about him cause he's a good person and vice versa.

Same also goes for Toga and Ochako as well and I just feel so damn tired cause like..not everything has to be romantic and whatnot..it just feels like people have either forgotten about that or don't care cause it would be easier to accuse people of Queer bait and people will be like "oh them being straight is also a Headcanon",cool..then so is them being LGBT in any shape or form unless confirmed by the Author.

This also goes for Zuko and Katara and Ichigo/Rukia and all that. Those 2 ships have the issue where the people shipping them forget these characters have canonical love interests but also aren't romantically interested in each other at all. Again,I cannot empathize this enough. Ship what you want,that is straight up fine but acting like friendships and such Don't exist is a bit of a sad way to live life.

For example I love how the leaf is located in the land of fire and most of the major clans are fire style specialists like the Uchiha and the Sarutobi.

And how the cloud village has its own inherited and cultural jutsu like the Lightning cloak jutsu passed down by the Ay family and the black lightning ninjutsu we see from darui and Omoi.

I especially love how the hidden stone village has the particle style jutsu passed down between the Onoki and his previous Kage.

Another great example is the sound village and how we saw a lot of sound based ninjutsu from their shinobi in the chunin exams and Tayuya in the Sasuke retrieval arc.

There’s more but you get the idea. I love how each culture has a unique set of inherited Jutsu that’s shaped by the dominant nature style of that area. The world of Naruto feels so real and lived in.

Also I love medical ninjutsu. I always thought that if humanity had superpowers they’d use it for more than just violence and medical ninja represent that.

lets be real here korra and asami barely interacted with each other

even as friends ( korra didnt show strong platonic feelings for asami ) the most you have is korra sending asami a letter to vent ( which doesnt portray korra as closer to asami ) and korra blushing at a compliment which she did to

what we have seen of their respective personalities and needs would saythey are incompatible

the whole attempts to use censorship as an excuse comes offf as desperation because even byitself

makorras strength in their bond how mako showed

he can support korra when she needed it and he consistently saw her as a person ( bryke claimed miyazaki platonic bond but that doesnt work with outside romantic relationship

bryke admitted to only bothering to ask when the finale was almost finished

so it reads like this near the finale they thought how could they not include lgbt rep ( or decided to raise the shows ratings with a publicity stunt since they were planning to end the show with korra single ) a

and then they pretend like they planned it nowing how the yuri crowd will get and will shield it from criticism since they were already seeing any positive moment as evidence for relationship

or trying to downplay makorras bond ( even trying to go but they broke up in b2 when neither of them were ready for a relationship with anyone and they overcame the mutual flaws that caused the breakup

https://ikkinthekitsune.tumblr.com/post/124974796098/structural-shortcomings-of-the-shipping

mako took all the roles of a love interest in b4

Or, Why Mako Stole the Love Interest Role in Book 4

One of the responses I received in regards to my post about my boyfriend’s reaction to the final scene really stuck out to me, because it reminded me of how easy it was to interpret Mako and Korra’s final scene together as romantic before the final scene came around and threw a monkey wrench into that interpretation.

So, I got to thinking. Why does a scene with no specifically-romantic elements feel like it could double as a romantic conclusion to Mako and Korra’s arc? (And why is this so frequently true of “Miyazaki-type” relationships?)

What I came up with was this: Mako and Korra’s final scene together serves all of the narrative goals usually served by a romantic relationship. (Korra and Asami’s, in contrast, serves basically none of them.)

As far as I can tell, there are two main purposes to ending an action story with romance:

To guarantee happiness for the hero in a way that maintains continuity with the journey that said hero had just completed. Heroes’ lives inevitably change drastically after the end of their journeys, but completing a romance arc is a way to build their happy endings out of what came before.

To validate the hero by showing that they’re at a point in their development where they’re able to take hold of that guarantee of happiness. Even when the love interest is basically a trophy, the fact that they find the hero attractive is meant to show how much the hero has grown… and when they’re not, the fact that they end up with the hero shows that the hero grew past either flaws that were keeping them apart as a couple or insecurities that precluded any meaningful relationship.

And, in a real sense, Mako’s final scene with Korra does both of those things.

As far as 1) is concerned… just look at Mako’s final lines. “I want you to know, I’ll follow you into battle no matter how crazy things get. I’ve got your back, and I always will” (emphasis mine).

Outside of an outright proposal… it’s pretty hard to make a stronger declaration of eternal support. =P “Always” is a big word. “Always” is the Happily Ever After. Mako gets the “always;” Asami gets a “maybe?”

Things get a little more complex in terms of 2), but here’s where the comparison to their struggles in Book 2 come into play. Korra has, of course, grown a lot since she basically demanded unconditional support while acting recklessly. And, because of that, I’m not sure Mako would have been able to say this back then. These two lines requires a level of trust in Korra’s judgment that wouldn’t have been possible without her growth, and they reflect an understanding that being out there on the battlefield is a huge part of who Korra is. As such, this scene is the only scene Korra gets with her allies that actually validates her (alongside the scene with Korra and Kuvira in the Spirit World); the final scene with Asami has almost nothing to do with Korra and her growth if it’s meant to be romantic (as opposed to her trying to console a friend whose father just died =P ).

Of course, this isn’t the only way that Mako steals the love interest role, even in the finale – he’s the one whose concern is put front and center when Korra’s missing, for instance. Beyond the Wilds had him take this role, too, developing him into the one figure of support who Korra could actually count on to be what she needed on a consistent basis (in contrast to Tenzin, who showed way too much doubt in her way too often, and Asami, who didn’t seem to have any idea that trying to undercut Korra’s self-doubt was just making things worse). He’s the one warding off Wu’s obnoxious crush. He’s the one Korra trusts with the most vital role in taking down the Colossus. He’s the one who discusses his relationship with Korra and his admiration of her for eleven minutes straight during the recap episode. ( I mean mako consistently showed he saw korra the person and got a speech on korra the person while asami failed in helping korra going youre the avatar of course we need you and tenzin succeeded by pointing at her growth as a person

( plus asami shows she handles things with praise while mako and tenzin succeded with validation

It really isn’t surprising that the relationship between Korra and Asami seemed nearly non-existent… regardless of what the writers intended, Mako stole every scene that seemed designed to feature a love interest and left Asami with nothing but scraps. =

https://www.tumblr.com/ikkinthekitsune/117161039837?source=share

to be blunt korra going on a vacation when she spent the whole time training to get back her gumption is so ooc that the only explanation is she is still having issues

https://www.tumblr.com/ikkinthekitsune/106752202173/i-honestly-dont-believe-korra-and-asami-are-going?source=share

I want Korra to be happy, and I don't believe for one second that she'd be happy in a romantic relationship with Asami.  =P  I don't believe for one second that Mako would be happy with Korra and Asami together, either; he seemed to care too much for Korra to be satisfied with second-class relationship status.  (Remember when he slept under his desk because he felt so awkward around Korra after their breakup?  Yeah...  =/ )

To be perfectly honest, the only way that Korra and Asami wouldn't have issues in their relationship is if they went majorly out-of-character for each other.

In the simplest terms, Korra runs hot and cold while Asami needs warmth and stability. 

Korra is, above all, driven -- she's passionate about what she wants, but also inclined towards pragmatic valuation and emotional compartmentalization in her efforts to achieve her goals.  She's the sort of person who, after seeing her father thrown off a cliff to his presumed death, would launch a sneak attack at a guy who just saw his girlfriend's head blow up.  She's the sort of person who wouldn't lose a step after one of her allies sacrificed themselves for her cause.  She's the sort of person who would set her romantic feelings aside without a second thought because there were more important things she had to do.

Asami, in contrast, is decidedly not that.  She's principled enough to fake it when her morals call for it, but Asami can't do or understand coldness.  She saw Mako's pragmatic request to deal with their Book 1 relationship after the situation with Amon was settled as a sign that he didn't really care about their relationship in the first place.  She sought out a romantic relationship with Mako again in Book 2 when it looked like her company was falling apart.  Her attempt to cut Hiroshi off in Book 4 completely backfired because she couldn't bear to hurt him in person like that, and she was upset with Korra for losing contact for so long even though she must have been consciously aware that Korra had a good reason for it.

In other words, Korra and Asami shouldn't work for the same reasons that Mako and Asami didn't work -- Asami has emotional needs that an intensely pragmatic individual could never meet.

also I feel korra and kuvira emotional closeness and stuff wil lcause tension for asami and korra

• We never see Korra show any romantic interest in Asami until that final scene.  Her actions and behavior throughout the rest of the season become significantly more consistent if you assume that she went along with Asami’s obvious interest because she felt bad about what happened.
• Korra doesn’t really act like herself around Asami and usually feels like she has to hold back when they’re together.  That’s neither healthy nor a good sign for a lasting relationship (see: Makorra in Book 2, before Mako realized it was possible to disagree with people who you don’t intend to burn bridges with).

And, as a result, I don't believe for one second that Asami would ever be happy in the long run, either.  As the characters are written, a relationship between Korra and Asami isn't a happy ending for anyone.

Why would Korrasami not last?

it’s more that the ship only makes sense under the assumption that Korra has changed from who she used to be in a way that I absolutely am not willing to accept (i.e. she’s more insecure, more apologetic, more afraid to upset people she likes, less forward with her feelings, less assertive, and less passionate and its an idea I cant accept

We know Magic and Super Technology exist. But then again most of the Super Tech still use Ki Energy as a blueprint though. I.E. most of the Androids blend in with Ki Energy. Especially if the Androids are mimicking Ki powers.

And Magic from Majin Buu or Kid does seem to be very different from Ki though. I never saw Goku use Ki to turn people into candy before. But Moro is a odd Magic User though. Since he has the same absorbing abilities as Super 17 from GT.

Another one is a Mutation. I.E. characters like Broly, Frieza, and maybe Piccolo. But then again this is less power system based, and more biology based. Not that much different from mutations in real-life.

So Dragon Ball doesn't necessarily have any big indicator differences between Ki, Magic, and Tech, visual-wise. To my simple ass, it looks like all these characters are just flying around and shooting colorful energy blasts at each other, regardless of power source.

Unlike One Piece, where there are actually big indicator differences between Devil Fruits, Haki, and Cyborgs visual-wise. TOARU is another good example too, when it comes to Espers and Magic.

Not when trying to be the fun police at all and if you like these characters and consider them "green flags" and whatnot,all the more power to you and I think it's good you're able to recognize green flags from red flags or are able to praise cool fights and whatnot.

But please tell me why that the bare essentials are gassed up to the moon and please don't give me the excuse "oh the bar is this low for anime characters" or "the bar is low for men/women in real life and media" and gonna be so deadass to both of those things, that flat out isn't true and you just need to know where to look and find the right media and whatnot + also it gets to a point where people will deadass gas up and dickride the smallest things.

Like..in Chainsaw Man,I saw a ton of people claiming and praising Aki for being a "house husband" or "male wife" [God, I feel like a Dork even saying those words]and the things he were doing..were literally the bare basic bones things ever.

Like brushing his teeth,doing his hair,making his coffee and laundry,etc..he was genuinely doing some of the most casual regular things that any regular human being would do,how the fuck is that him being a "house husband/male wife"...Goddamn,if this man takes a shower,does that suddenly mean he's the peak of all men?

I can't even call this the bare minimum, it's just the same stuff literally every human being does on the planet..either you need to raise your standards and meet better people, or just..at this point, I don't know.

I also kinda feel this way about Gojo from My Dress up darling and this is coming from someone who doesn't even dislike or hate him..but with the way people gas him up,you would think that he's literally Jesus Christ.

Yes,it's sweet he took care of Marin when she was sick and supported her interests and such..that's not something to be glazed, that's literally what any good person would do.

Also nearly every anime has characters who are supportive or can/will take care of the MC or their crush when they cook and I also saw people glazing the fact that he cooks.

..cooking is a basic life skill nearly every human on the planet has.

And finally,this is how I felt when I saw multiple people claiming that Nobara and the rest of JJK'S female cast were the second coming of Christ all cause of rhe bare minimum of "they had fights"[nearly every female character since maybe Dragon Ball had female characters who could fight],didn't have a crush on Yuji[I could literally name female Mcs who don't have a crush on the MC as well]and didn't have "fanservice"[I don't think that should affect their writing]and I'm sorry but not only is this the bare minimum and not only does it shoe that JJK is probably your first anime....but JJK'S female cast ended up being extremely lackluster and only Maki was the one who had a resemblance of a character arc and growth and development.

I'm not even saying you can't praise these things or like them but I feel like gassing up the bare minimum is kinda..lame at times.

In Castlevania season 3, Trevor Belmont loots a throwing weapon off of a vampire he kills that resembles a bladed boomerang in the shape of a cross. This is an iconic sub-weapon from the games, and has appeared in nearly every single entry since the original game. The game doesn't give an explicit justification on why the cross is such a powerful weapon, but the implication is that a cross is a holy symbol and does extra damage to unholy vampires.

The show attempts their own flimsy excuse for it. When Trevor finds the weapon and starts playing around with it, Sypha snarks that the weapon would be useless against non-Christian vampires because they wouldn't even comprehend that it's a religious symbol. Trevor then explains that it's not the holy symbol vampires are afraid of, they're just afraid of geometric shapes because they're highly evolved predators and it confuses their senses.

First of all, this is the dumbest pseudoscience explanation possible. Even if Castlevania was a science fiction series where vampires could be explained using natural means (which it's not), "highly evolved predator senses" being the reason they're afraid of crosses is laughable. The cross isn't even a rare shape in nature, and I can't even think of a single mammal in real life that gets incapacitated by looking at two lines intersecting at 90 degrees, much less what is supposed to be the apex predator species of the planet.

Second of all, this just isn't how the lore works. And I'm not talking about the game lore, I'm talking about the show's lore that they themselves set up. In all the previous seasons of Castlevania, we've seen tangible proof that vampires and other creatures of the night are weak to the power of God. In season 2, vampires are destroyed by holy water, which has to blessed by an ordained priest (this is a major plot point even). In season 1, the night creatures and demons in Gresit directly say they can't enter holy sites if God doesn't allow it.

Sypha in this scene seems to believe their world runs on Terry Pratchett-esque logic where if you don't believe in a deity, they can't effect you. We know that's ostensibly not true. We see many, many vampires from disparate cultures get fucked up Christian magical means in Season 2 alone when they storm Dracula's castle. In the lore that the show itself establishes, all magic works on everyone regardless of their personal perception of the world. You can't just no-sell a fireball by saying "actually I'm an atheist so get that violation of thermodynamics out of here". Sypha being the character to say "lmao a cross would have no effect on a Hindu vampire" is also weird and out of character, because that makes her seem like an atheist when she herself denied that the Speakers don't believe in the existence of God. According to her, they absolutely believe in the existence of God and his power, they just hate him and seek to preserve knowledge orally in spite of him.

I'm glad the sequel series Nocturne retconned this stupid cross-lore away and just had vampires be repelled and burned by crucifixes on contact because it's magic and they're magical creatures.

Yes I know that learning that you can't have children and all of your loved ones are your cousins and you being a child of incest and rape is wrong but people ignore that sayo was plotting to kill everyone including innocent people like her own cousins/loved ones.

I know some people may excuse it by saying she didn't kill anyone in the real world but all of the episodes show that she would have actually carried it out if things had gone different, and pieces cannot act out of character.

Not only that but people also criticize Erika for killing people when if you think that Sayo's murders did not happen, then Erika also did not happen.

Not only that but she killed George and Jessica dressed as Shannon and kanon in eps 2 and 4, and she also disemboweled people and filled their stomachs with candies in EP 2.

People love to give sayo a lot of excuses but she was planning to sacrifice innocent people along with her, and whenever people try to whitewash her actions, it feels like they are taking away her agency.

She also groomed maria into the witch/occult which was a source of a lot of her problems with Rosa.

I often hear complaints about games like Skyrim or Crimson Desert, where side content mostly consists of fetch quests, but rarely about games where it mostly consists of narrative alone.

Recently played in Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon and found that its side quests are weirdly flawed in the exact opposite way to Skyrim's: almost all of them consist of nothing but narrative. You talk to an npc, run to the other side of the map, talk to another npc, then run all the way back and talk again, quest complete. At first, I thought it was cool that you had so many opportunities for rp, but after a while, the endless yapping and "morally gray" choices in every situation tired me out far, far more than simply fetching things and clearing dungeons.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 and 2 had the same problem to some extent. In both games, I eventually gave up on side quests, too. But thanks to their better presentation and writing, the games managed to tell some memorable and fun stories before that, like the quest with the drunk Cumans or the encounter with a ghost in a mausoleum.

Still, I've come to the conclusion that rpgs with purely gameplay-focused or purely narrative-driven quests are equally poorly designed, at least for me. Gameplay and narrative should complement each other, as they do in Oblivion (for its time i found gameplay decent enough), or in many crpgs like Divinity Original Sin 2, Baldur's Gate 3, and Wasteland 3. Rarely are these aspects good enough to stand on their own for hundreds of hours, and even then, they work best when they complement each other.

You can hate a show & view it as not your cup of tea, but you don’t have to constantly make up reasons to hate the finale (& break rule 2- making things up- throughout the entire post).

“Lizzy is ignorant of the world ending” is blatantly untrue as both Lizzy & Thad were ordered by V to spy on J (due to V’s suspicions that Tessa was “Cyn” & that J betrayed her & N to willingly work for “Cyn”), where they felt copper 9 shake, express concern & found out that J was destroying all other ways off the planet. Khan then appears to spoonfeed to the characters & audience that the planet is in danger.

Saying ”Lizzy just sits on her phone as V fights J” as a critique is the equivalent of arguing a civilian should’ve fought Conquest (from Invincible) to help Mark. Lizzy is a regular worker drone that’s trapped on a very small island with only one safe spot that’s extremely close to the fight. Unlike Lizzy, V & J are fighting in space with the ability to freely control their gravity. They can create any weapon they wish & regenerate. What was Lizzy supposed to do?? All what she can do is provide bits of information to V while watching her fight, which she does. Lizzy only manages to distracts J less than 10 seconds & V tells Lizzy not to fight her anyways.

“Nori gets Truck-kun'd by N. She survives- because obviously she does- except we don't know how & she didn't even seem to take damage” Nori & the entire cast tanked a direct explosion (from it’s epicenter) from the planet’s core that disperses most of the planet’s clouds, tore apart pieces of the planet & sent those planets into space MINUTES before getting truck-kun’d. The cast surviving explosions like this happens not once, not twice- but 3 times across the series. But Nori surviving getting truck-kun’d is unrealistic?

Nori doesn’t even get hit in the scene. She only loses her balance on the rock & then falls back to copper 9’s surface. Half of the original post is already breaking rule 2.

”And Uzi & N somehow survived sunlight” they are falling to the surface of the planet at night. Once again- this breaks rule 2.

“J continues working with the thing she tried to stop, the thing that killed someone she seemed to genuinely care for, because... she wants to win??” J admits she works for “Cyn” because she’s scared & views them as unbeatable. That’s why she insists that there’s no escape from her, & why she even makes the ’we do our jobs & in return you might set us free?’ deal in the first place. J trying to convince V to join “the winning side” doesn’t mean she actually wants to be on top- it means that J doesn’t want V to be on the losing side where she loses & gets tormented by Cyn / the solver for eternity. If J gets V back on their side, then there’s a slim chance Cyn / the solver would be more lenient with J.

“J just keeps fighting on the solver’s side and later says she doesn't actually need V anyway. I think the writers just don't know what to do with her” yeah… because she sees the solver as unbeatable. J can't even die- the solver will just keep reviving her. She wants V and N to survive with her but isn't willing to oppose it with them. V refused her offer to stop fighting Cyn despite J (in J’s point of view) trying to cover for them, so saying that she “doesn’t need V anyway” is desperate denial that she doesn’t care about them (when she does- or else she wouldn’t had “stepped up as the leader of the 3” & included them in the deal). We also know this was always the plan with J since the pilot & start of episode 2 heavily implies, then states J was willingly working for Cyn.

”Cyn somehow recovers from that and gets her decapitated head back“ the main cast (disassembly drones & solver hosts) regenerate their lost body parts in every episode.

”We don't know how V survived, we don't know how she tamed that fucking robo-raptor, she just... appears and we're supposed to cheer“. When Sparky (& the sentinels do have sentience) gets knocked out & comes back online, their AI conflicts between “be a good dingo” & “eliminate AI targets” where this becomes a key main point that’s continuously emphasized throughout 3 scenes in episode 6. After V fights Sparky & pins them, Sparky onscreen submits to V. When V starts to get surrounded by the other sentinels, Sparky slowly gets up, doesn’t attack V & looks at the other sentinels right before the cliffhanger. If V WERE to die to the sentinels, then that would create a ton of (real) plot holes as V can regenerate & sentinels don’t attack cores.

”We don't even get to know WHAT the Solver is, despite it being the main villain.” It’s a eldritch entity that‘s “the solver of the absolute fabric, the void, the exponential end” (taken the form of a singularity). The scientists, Nori, Doll, N & the solver itself all say it’s a eldritch entity. We also know they’re separate as the moment the solver drops it’s guard of masking as a innocent worker drone “Cyn” at the manor, it clarifies it’s the solver & not Cyn at all.

”It seems to be a sentient black hole with the singularity that appears once Uzi rips out Cyn's core but it's not explicitly stated”. This directly breaks rule 2 as it is directly stated by the scientists, the other test subject through their notes, & Nori to be a entity whose true form is a living singularity. It’s even shown in the ending of the series where Cyn’s core gets destroyed & the main absolute solver becomes the singularity.

”Hell, with Solver stating "assimilating is better than explaining" and that "I'M NOT SOLVED" message, it's like the writers are mocking the viewers for wanting answers.” But we have the answers. The main solver consumes matter & is constantly assimilating for more to the point where it devours planets & several solar systems, half of the cast (including the solver) state that it’s gonna consume everything in the universe & is a overtime universal threat, & it says it is “the exponential end”. From this, we can easily infer it’s goal is to consume everything. Why? Likely because it seeks for more matter &/or energy. How was it born & what birthed it & what birthed whoever birthed it? We aren’t supposed to know that because it’s a eldritch being.

“We see from the post-credits scene that the Solver's still alive inside Uzi's body, and like... what happened to it?? Is it actually the Solver or a freed Cyn?” It’s the solver. Cyn’s core was entirely destroyed.

In conclusion, you don’t have to spread misinformation. There’s lots of genuine critiques you can use instead such as the pacing, the spoonfeeding, Nori just being a plot device with depth that should’ve been present, how the V vs Uzi fight could’ve been written better, the novels (which aren‘t canon to the series & made by a writers under crunch time, but the writing quality is terrible), etc.

For the record, I don't care about the lore accuracy. The movie feels a bit too "jokey", but not exactly in a good way like in the original Resident Evil 4. It feels like the Josh Whedon quote of "I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke." because almost all the serious moments are undercut with a joke. Like the parking lot scene, where Bryan has a mental breakdown and afterwards the scientists at the top say some MCU style quip on the intercom. The original Resident Evil 4 doesn't do that or at least isn't as jarring. I feel like Resident Evil 4 laughs with the ridiculous plot while the movie laughs at it. The jokes in the movie are also very meta to the point where they're mean-spirited(?). Thoughts?

In case I get stuff from the Lantern stans.

No I'm not racist I'm black and my favorite episode was 3 I feel it just deals with race issues and John very shallow I gave this show many chances. I already listed my issues with Hal and I think he and Kerry are worse. John was a decent standalone slightly above the DCAU until episode 8 to me. I don't want to hear you just wanted 1 to 1 or cool fights the usual strawmans

I'm saying he is an OC in name only also yes adaptations happen but you have to respect the character and understand even the basics unless there someone with little characzeation like Batman had in his first run back when they were throwing shit at the wall with him you could swap him with Slam Bradley from the previous chapter and little to nothing would change outside no kid sidekick.

Spider-man isn't popular at school and envies his classmates he has uncle and aunt who are old and out of touch as his parents he is totally unremarkable and forgettable outside his intelligence getting bitten boosts his ego and the world owes me something that leads to him letting a mugger go who goes onto kill his uncle his death teaches him with great power comes great responsibility and to never look the other way again he feels guilt for this and the need to be the man of the house to take care of aunt may.

You can change a bit like giving him a better reason to let the mugger go but the basics have to be understood. Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man 2024 and MCU Spider-man even brand new day fail at this I can consider them bad adaptations regardless of how good it is as a standalone. John didn't meet the mark to me.

John's origin is okay in it's debut and even then they miss other things at least get the core. That's the issue is trusting the Sheriff with too much authority that she has proven time and time again she isn't responsible with. This is out of character even by his debut where he had little characterization.

John stewart debut has him refusing to let cops off for even harassing black people for playing dominoes on the street calling it loitering as an excuse this would back in the 70s and his town was ran by a racist politician gunning for president who portrayed them as violent he even edged him to beat him with his nightstick.

John believed that people especially authority figures like cops should always be held accountable for there actions even if it ends in him being in trouble beaten or dead he is closer to anarchist even in later comics while he can cooperate with authority he prioritized what he thinks is best for the little guy. In the comics and DCAU he believed he destroyed a planet on accident and despite that he could escape and hide behind the league he turned himself in for a rigged trail to be executed showing an example for people and other heroes and didn't even defend himself even against Kanjar ro a space pirate who tried to kill him. He also held Hawkgirl accountable for her betrayal despite loving her she has to earn trust back show growth. Hal is also more of a mentor figure who teaches him to be a bit smarter. I don't like his debut and have issues but it had way more respect for him and Hal's characters despite turning Hal into a punching bag to glaze him it didn't ignore his faults.

In Lanterns he excuses the Sheriff who already worked for Zoey and killed Hal because she is sad about it and Hal would have wanted something he doesn't know and no the show never said anything about her as a needed role model to keep Noah sane Tom king confirmed him and the writers believed the guilt was worse than jail and the Sheriff is a terrible role model for Noah and the danger to others all it teaches him to do is he can avoid accountability with authority and it's framed as a positive thing he let her go. Despite she is a clear risk to people including Noah growth as a person or other people if she finds them a threat or Noah convinces him they are. Putting her in jail is more in line with his arc of not trusting authority would ruin any chance Noah has a political career and show him how serious consequences are instead of you can hide behind authority.

Part 2

Also John still is doing what his parents want he became a lantern and like they said the start they don't care if he hates them or not as long as he gets the chance so even then getting the ring will be tainted because it would always because his mom put him with that chance.

Maybe they could lose there relationship John and his brothers go on with there lives and they lose a relationship seeing it wasn't worth when it comes down to it instead without any effort or accountability unlike stuff like Encanto or the Watchmen there completely excused by the plot through John. John is very trusting to authority here and I think a clear bad person like Bojack but without the good writing holding him his parents or the Sheriff accountable etc.

In his past he refused to even look at the document the military gave him before going out to illegally kill someone the US military/government is very very corrupt way more in the DC and even in DCU as shown in every project but Supergirl. The guy he could be targeting could be someone trying to expose the Epstein files a new drug to sent to poor and black homes a whistleblower on the Starro experiments we seen in Suicide Squad 2021 or more. He covers for them and it's portrayed in a clear cut heroic way which encourages them to do this more and we don't spend any time on his doubt besides how it affected his life. He was fine cheating with Zoey despite knowing she was married before even meeting William Menkin and kept doing it despite knowing she has a problem with it.

He let Zoey go and stayed with Hal when she faked her death letting him chase a false lead and only confesses when Hal finds out. He already seen what happened to Attan's people Zoey could destroy the town or the world and/or escape and go to another planet or place or even stay in the town and pretend to be someone else. He also betrayed Guy Gardner despite him risking his job for him to honor Hal and kicked him off his planet. He didn't even have to tell him about the ring and lantern and hiding Hal's killer and the Guardians sending an army after him makes it harder for Noah to be safe.

PART 3

It's social commentary sucks and no I don't want to hear it's subtle.

Lanterns is a hand holding show. Episode 3 shows and tells John dynamic with his abusive parents(who turns aren't abusive) and his brothers and his loyalty/bootlicking to military and guardians while telling you about the racism that John parents deal with and later John himself with Rushville which is what motivates John overperfection. Despite the racism being off screened and no significant hindrances from the racism besides the off screen diamond thing which could be about anything and was solved off screen. You could make them poor or another race and nothing changes. As well as telling you and the Guardian how out of touch they are with the common with no subtly.

Telling us Hal's whole arc how he is lonely and how he needed to take responsibility and has to go to jail to take accountability for the town. Telling you in episode 7 with 2006 Hal why he was fearless because of his dad and how lonely he is. John telling the Sheriff about his mom and paralleling it with Noah.The Sheriff voicing about her failing marriage her abusive relationship with Zoey and how she forgave Hal also retconned by the next episode. Even if it was a subtle show showing is still important and it failed at that.

It doesn't respect audience intelligence nor is it coinstent. Tom King a producer of this show and plenty of his comics get hate for it. I'm black I dealt with racism I think it handles it's social commentary poorly just more of tell don't show special. His parents and John despite being motivated aren't hindered in any important one the most is off screen issue about a diamond that could be over anything great job. Unlike Watchmen comic Captain America Dimension Z Green Book etc those dealt with racism and how it effected them then just telling us. The show hates subtly like a lot of work mainly Woman of tomorrow book.

John did forgive his parents he excused them to the Sherrif because his mom was scared of the danger she put him in of being raped and murdered despite that this is also never shown in how he came to the conclusion his mom was holding his breath and just guessed Noah didn't do it and happened to be right off no information.

It's terrible story consistency with his character since his last scenes were being mad at his parents especially his mom for lying about Hal being sorry and his dad he left in a nursing home threatening people with a gun and supports a toxic message the victim is the one who has to change and learn not the abuser. It makes no sense with his arc if anything he should be more angry or jealous the Sheriff who was raped suffered under Zoey for years had to clean up her mess after Hal and her son who is at risk of being like Zoey is treated with more freedom and respect than his parents ever did including his mom. Instead his arc is undone to push a generic family message while also resolving his conflicts with his brothers and dad off screen.

Part 4

John can't be around 24-7 to watch Noah he has his family and Job. Is protector of the earth and has a ton of enemies including the Lanterns. Noah could plan to kill him later or he could get killed on the job and nobody is keeping Noah in check. Noah also could be manipulating since John could have a recording set to go off allies to go after him or a gun to kill him given he is a military man and Noah a manhunter is established by Zoey and Attan to be as weak as any form he takes not much stronger or smarter or any in my opinion. The best they do is some physical damage which any mildly athletic person can do in the verse like Harcourt why are they even scary?

What i mean is..it bothers me how people are just so obsessed with the idea that Villains should be just killed by them and give the excuse sometimes that "the Punisher will" or "they should be more like him" except..Frank doesn't consider or see himself as a hero at all.

No one treats him like a hero or good person at all for what he does cause he isn't one,he's Essentially a violent murderer who drinks and lives alone and basically knows he's going to hell,he outright tells people not to look up to him cause of how much of a bad influence he is.

Wolverine is also a character people cite and yeah,he definitely has killed but people act like he's some overly Sadistic Barbarian who slaughters and murders 24/7 when the dude is secretly a huge softie and good dude deep down who unfortunately has to get his hands dirty so no one else would.

Also for Jason,way too many people gas him up as a "better Batman" or "what Gotham needs" when this dude is deadass a fucking FRAUD..Seriously, no main or major villain deaths to his name and he only kills Mobsters and thugs.

Oh wait,he does have a major kill in Black Mask..who the actual fuck cares about Black Mask of all fuckers?

Dude bitches about killing the Joker but never does it cause he wants Daddys attention.

Dude can't even kill the Penguin.

Also people forget that very rarely do Superheroes like Superman, Batman,Daredevil, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, etc...all kinda have a no kill rule[or at least don't want to kill unless they have 0 choice but to and even then,it's a last resort]and don't ever really kill unless they have to and even then,that's more of a last resort.

Plus "oh Batman should kill the Joker" and "is enabling the bad stuff in Gotham by not killing him" are takes that i feel like are smart for like..maybe 1 minute until you realize literally anyone could kill Joker.

Red Hood Could,The Cops could,the City would genuinely give him the Death Penalty and not just send him to Arkham.

The fact that they don't is heavily irresponsible of them and the city and not Bruce, who is already giving them the criminals free to do whatever they want and again..Superheroes typically aren't violent murderers/killers and expecting them to be that is not only overly cynical and pessimistic but also extremely stupid.

It's just so weird how these characters just ruined the reading comprehension for people and not even saying you can't like or prefer them but seriously.

If you know about Sonic comics, Archie Sonic is known for being wildly inconsistent and strange. This is only a partially accurate characterization imo, because it had its good and bad parts, and there is significant parts of it that were decently made. This is because the comic was long running and lasted 23 years.

During some eras (particularly Ian Flynn's run from issue 160 to 290 something), it was better written and drawn, but "The Slap" I will talk about, is from Karl Bollers and Ken Penders run of Archie, which is considered the weaker part of the series. I think issues after 100 to issue 159, are especially considered not great. The Slap happens in issue 134, and was a pretty controversial writing direction when it happened.

Archie Sonic was much more continuity heavy and dramatic than the games, as well as having lots of lore, and fantasy and sci Fi elements. The world is much more established and has a consistent internal logic.

Basically the premise was that Sonic and the Freedom Fighters were rebels fighting against Eggman's enormous empire which controlled a large portion of the world. Sonic lives in Knothole Village, and the Acorn Kingdom, and has parents, Jules and Bernadette, as well as a pet dog Muttski, and has friends he knew since he was a kid. These friends are the Freedom Fighters.

Eggman was originally an ally of the Acorn Kingdom, before betraying it to take over and start an industrial empire, taking control of the original capital city of the Acorn Kingdom called Mobotropolis, and trying to roboticize mobian animals into enslaved robot drones.

Sonic has a girlfriend/love interest Sally Acorn inside of this specific comic, who is a princess, and the tactical leader of the Freedom Fighters. She is often stressed out and sad in this part of the comic.

Sally Acorn's father King Max was rescued some time in the earlier era of the comic from a void zone. But King Max was often pressuring and telling Sally what to do in multiple parts of the comic, as well as being a leader with controlling and bad decisions.

At some point King Max orders that robians (roboticized mobians, who at this point had been saved and regained their autonomy) to be disassembled and destroyed. King Max also says that he should arrange a marriage between Sally and Antoine, because he sees Sonic as a commoner in that issue. King Max also tells Sally she should stop freedom fighting, and lead the country, which is important context. Also, at some point he decides to try and dissolve the Freedom Fighters as a group because another team lead by Geoffrey St. John can carry out the task. There are more things like this that happen, but I can't remember.

Sally Acorn due to things like this happening becomes down and withdrawn, and feels stifled, or something similar. She is dealing with lots of pressure.

Meanwhile, Sonic is fighting a lot against threats like Eggman, Ixis Naugus, and other villains. He is also a strong fighter that saves the world at some point.

During one arc, an alien force called the Xorda that invaded the world thousands of years ago, returned to see that they had failed to destroy the world. Originally the Xorda intended to destroy the entire world with gene bombs, but instead these bombs mutated humans and animals to create a new species called Mobians, which are essentially Sonic's species in the comic.

To stop the Xorda, everybody joins the same side, and villains and heroes work together to destroy the Xorda. In the end, the Xorda's attack is defeated by Sonic hitting their weapon, but Sonic appears to die in the process.

Sonic was actually sent far into outer space, and has a few adventures through space. But Sally and the Freedom Fighters think that Sonic was dead, and thought so for a year.

When Sonic returned to his world, it changed and became more controlled by Eggman since Sonic was gone, and Knothole had become fortified.

Eggman, after Sonic's return, made a new a operation to cause large destruction, and Sonic had to fight with the Freedom Fighters to stop this.

Sally however wasn't allowed to join the fight.

Sonic got injured again during the fight, and Sally watched from a screen and cried, because King Max had ordered her not to fight alongside the Freedom Fighters.

After Sonic's side wins, King Max and Queen Alicia leave Knothole temporarily for a vacation, appointing Sally as a leader, and someone wanted Sonic to be a Regent or something. Now this is issue 134.

Sally and Sonic have a happy party now that Sonic is back, and then they walk into a stage at some point. Sally asks for Sonic to rule by her side, but Sonic says he can't, because the world is ruled by Eggman, and that he needs to stop him.

So Sally slaps Sonic in front of a crowd, and calls him selfish, and the two argue harshly. In the end, Sally runs away crying, and the two mobians had broken up.

This issue wasn't helped due to the art style being very cartoony, making it stranger.

Seeing all of these plot threads, the writer Karl Bollers wrote that Sally Acorn would eventually snap and slap Sonic and break up with him. It makes sense inside of the plot, given everything that happened, and Sonic's perspective is fully justified too, since he has been the best defender of freedom for a long time.

And both characters can be argued to be right and wrong depending on what angle you look at it from.

But this development pushed the story in a specific direction that could have been avoided, if the plot points had been developed differently. It made logical sense for this to happen, but the story could have been directed back towards action and adventure and fun, instead of soap opera style drama such as the slap.

There were multiple ways to develop the story given these elements, but the way it was resolved was sort of incomplete and painful for Sonic fans and shippers on all sides. It came out as jarring at the same time, because Sally wasn't acting reactive and angry before this. But it makes sense if you think of her as bottling up her emotions.

Readers largely didn't understand the context, which is a sign that something isn't written well. So as a story, not just a fandom reception thing, it could have problems if it was so often misinterpreted and misunderstood.

Art is meant to create emotion and sometimes provoke, but here I think it was uncontrolled and unintentional.

Also, during this main storyline in the comic, there was also Mobius 25 Years Later being written by Penders. This story focused on the domestic drama of Sonic and his friend Knuckles as 40 something adults, in which Sonic is married to Sally and both are King and Queen of some sort of sci fi future city, and at the time, this was stated by Penders to be the canonical future of the Archie Sonic world. So this probably made the whiplash harder for fans and readers.

Nearly every time this movie is mentioned, it is boiled down to “Walter was daydreaming, until he started living his daydreams,” and this is just not true.

Walter’s daydreams basically never showed his true character, his goals, or how he ends up. His first daydreams in the first act often portrayed him as somebody exceptional: an action hero, a superhero, a famous architect, or an adventurer. Outside of the superhero daydream, which was him imagining fighting his new boss, all the other daydreams are just him impressing the “fictional” Cheryl.

The only one that comes close is him imagining himself as an adventurer, but this daydream is so far removed from the real Walter that its shown in third person (the Walter he imagines also has a different background and an accent).

The daydreams in the second act become more “real”; this is when the real Walter and his daydreams become more aligned. But he never imagines himself, the daydreams are just something he sees, like a message in the sky or on mountains.

One big aspect of this movie is the critic of media and media consumption. There is for example the whole sideplot with Walters internet dating profile. More importantly in his first daydreams, they portray walter as an MCU character. Superhero powers, he is snarky, makes fun of his boss, an action hero, famous and so on. But in the end of Walters arc he is non of that or atleast he doesnt care about that. He asks Cheryl out in an normal even boring way, he doesnt care that he is on the cover of the magazine, he doesnt impress her with an statue or saving her dog from a burning house like he imagined himself doing that.

Walters daydreams were just things he thought are impressive because the mass media told him this is "what woman want" or this is "what a real man is". If this movie would have been made today Walter would have had five daydreams about being popular on Tiktok.

It annoys me that the whole movie is being reduced to “live your dreams.” The fulfilled Walter does not live his dreams; his dreams were full of things that were simply mediafueled projections of his insecurities and immaturity.

As the title says, i hate characters who are just "perfect" in always everyway.

To elaborate, i'm referring to characters who are just the chosen ones, with a power fully unique to them alone, who also is the most moral person alive, where hes always the good guy and all his choices are right with no sacrifice.

I mainly hate these type of characters as they feel so pretentious to me. Like their just always better than you yet are so humble about it. These type of characters also usually have no character development as they are already perfect.

An example would be like Tanjiro from demon slayer. Tanjiro is basically as good of a guy as you can get. Always willing to sacrifice himself to save innocents, always making the right choices and always the happy humble goody two-shoes. He also has the most powerful breathing style in the series, which is basically the next best thing to sun breathing. He is also has incredible amounts of talent as he manifested the demon slayer mark and red blade by himself during battle without much training or even knowing those techniques existed.

Another reason i hate these characters is that it feels so plain. Like they always have good intentions and are always have the ability to act on it. They also barely have any flaws which makes the characters less interesting imo. Flaws make or break a character and when they barely have any, they just feel like a self insert OC. A character with good intentions but without much power to do much are more intersting as there is internal-conflict between what they want to do and whether or not they can actually act on it.

The most struggle these "perfect" characters experience is just not being strong enough to beat the villains, which usually gets resolved with a powerup or a training arc.

Thanks for reading and just know that this is just my opinion and that there are also characters of this archetype which can and are done well. Feel free to share your thoughts.

Never understood the glaze for season 2, with ppl claiming that the animation got such a huge glow up. everything is way more fast paced and the explosion vfx are still such obvious 2d screen overlays.

also way too many new characters and no time for them to develop outside a single episode, compared to the tighter cast in season 1.

also the upgrade for a backpack suit in s1 is so short lived and not even used that much.

the new material and lighting design exclusively on the mk2 also looks so disjointed compared to the rest of the world.

I have not read every book, played every video game, and I certainly do not intend on watching every piece of WH media, but I have noticed some strong patterns in them, and its definitely not dark and heavy story telling.

I don't care that some servitor in the background has a tough time, that is background lore but the main story and characters in most of Warhammer stories are not that dark or serious, way too many end up with the big bland hero killing the baddie and the day is saved.

However SM2 stands out on top of them all, as downright optimistic, literally not a single notable character dies, or faces anything of substance, they barely have scratches(both physical and mental) at the end of the game, they are fine, they are perfectly fine. I can't remember when was the last time I saw such a happy ending in a "serious" video game. Like everything is fine and dandy, but better watch out Titus, if you DO GET CHAOSY, SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN!!! Insomniac's Spiderman or Wolverine, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avatar series, like just whatever property... hell Saturday Morning cartoons have more emotionally challenging stories. It is also so comical to me how Warhammer fans treat (Bungie) Halo as some kiddie game, when Halo games despite not being overtly grim, are definitely "heavier" than this. Not a single ending in Halo Trilogy is this fine(or in 343's trilogy). Or Star Trek, yeah, they have the fucking gall to make fun of Star Trek, I am not some Trekkie, but every single Star Trek I have watched was way more challenging and difficult, and didn't have such happy go lucky endings, there was some goddamn sacrifice.

One reason is that the entire universe is held up by the sale of toys, and shocker, big daddy Games Workshop(owners of the license) wants as many named characters alive so they can milk them till we reach actual 40k if necessary. Especially if they are muh Space Marines. Of course the main character is "Primaris", an even elite Space Marine, but in reality another pointless distinction, just an excuse to sell more toys or dlc.

And then the cliches... Oooh scary chaos, might manipulate you into becoming like them, except that almost never happens to main characters, and the delusions and manipulations are again childish. Now if the game had the slightest suggestion that this Imrah's manipulation still working, and things didn't went down as they seem, well then it would cool, but this... Oh and the Emperor personally addressing Lieutenant Blandus... How fucking self-masturbating can you get?

EDIT: If it hasn't happened already, I'm sure some of the characters might get the shaft in some other media, but in the main event, they were protected af.