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It's like a terrible band doing covers of your favourite band's greatest hits.
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You're the annoying friend that keeps talking and complaining throughout the whole film, who everyone wishes you hadn't swapped your McDonalds shift with Steve, because Steve is better company.
Why are all the female Devs so not very feminine?
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when they are feminist, everyone cries about stereotyping and objectifying. then you do the opposite and you get this crying. Congratulations.... you are always offended... we get it. Boo Hoo. :sob:
Never been read harder than when my little brother saw this and said ‘I really liked it but YOU’LL love it’. This must be how some trans people felt seeing the Matrix, feeling seen, feeling called out, a generational disillusionment and a deep dysphoria acknowledged. But The Matrix is a power fantasy by directors who love to ape black aesthetics but hold a disdain for us, blame us. This is a cautionary tale, one full of empathy but good god I cannot be this.
I thought I had scheduled an appointment for this morning to talk to a provider about HRT. I spent the previous night wrapped in anxiety about what if things go wrong, what if they change for the worse, what if it won’t ’fix’ me, what if I talk to these people and they call me out, I’m not trans enough, I’m confused. It didn’t go through, I guess. They never called. I scheduled another in two weeks, got the email confirmation. And a part of me was relieved. Passed the buck down. A misunderstanding I can wash my hands of, a perfect excuse I could not be faulted for.
And then I saw this. As if to wash the doubt away. This hollowed me out. I feel raw and exposed and empty like it dug my heart out. I’ve been Owen. I am Owen. I don’t talk right, it’s hard to look people in the eyes, my skin doesn’t fit right, I feel hollow and I look in the mirror and often I see something disgusting and rotting. Owen in the ending is like my biggest nightmare put on screen. I got chicken tenders at the theater, I know, I’m a weirdo, and they asked for the name of the order and I used my birth name. Here. At no risk to me, nobody who knows me, I still couldn’t use Jaycee. I don’t use it at drive throughs. The name I chose, that the people I love and trust call me across the internet, that I use on the dating apps, I couldn’t use. Why? Because I don’t feel like I’ve earned it? Because it doesn’t feel time? There is still time.
I could say more about how this hits as someone who grew up on Buffy and Whedon shows for better and worse in high school despite being born a year before the show premiered, how it hits a nostalgia of a time I knew from behind the screen and then how time skips into now, like a shattering of the escape. I could talk about the attachment formed to a show before the Internet showed you all the fans who loved it like you, seeing yourself in it, projecting onto it what may not be there and reckoning with that as you grow. I could talk about Smith’s aching wound of a performance or Liddy-Paine’s killer monologue, or the breathtaking lighting and cinematography, but all I need to say is what I needed to hear.
There is still time. But that doesn’t mean there’s time to waste. I’m going to do that appointment. I’m going to use my name. I’m going to claw to who I want to be and who I am inch by inch. And like Owen, I may be alone when I take that path but I will be so relieved to be on it, I will know who I am, and that will be in part due to seeing the TV glow.
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@nwithan8 Really? The movie's themes were very effectively conveyed and it was obviously a very personal work of art for the director that touched many people, myself included. It sounds like you were frustrated at the lack of a tidy ending, but you have to look past that and see how the ending amplifies what the director is trying to say. Calling the movie "nothing more than a test of the audience's patience" and OP's very personal comment "a copy-pasta" is blatantly insulting and incorrect.
I love that there are still MAGA cult morons in the comments screeching about the show going "woke".
They've been mask-off openly mocking you for two seasons now. Surely it can't all be going over your head...right? Right...?
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@drkickflip13 MAGA cult is the reason why the episode has become so cheap and tacky, they have to shove it to the audience that they disagree with the MAGA folks.
ON THE OTHER HAND... idiots who think criticizing the show they love = MAGA cults are a part of the same problem. You need to learn to distinguish abrupt screenwriting with shallow identity politics that both libs and right-wingers love.
What is this? It feels like I'm watching something else entirely? An hour wasted totally. And that Frenchie Colin c**p? WTF? Where did that come from? And for what exactly? That adds nothing to the story and just destroys the Kimiko storyline they've been building for the past 3 seasons. Why?
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bro really complained about a scene not adding anything to the story in the gore-sex shock value show :skull:
If "Jacob had a thing for numbers" is all the explanation they give us about the numbers being everywhere. I have a feeling that all the other mystery explanations to come will be very disappointing as well. It's starting to seem like the writers just threw any weird mystery they could think of in the scripts with no idea how to explain them.
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@jarvis-2836163 There have been more in-depth explanations for the numbers. Specifically, they're factors in an equation that predicts the end of the world, and the dharma initiative was attempting to change the factors to delay the end of the world. This was explained in an ARG that took place between seasons. But also, the next episode after this has another explanation which pertains to why each number applies to each candidate.
Just realize that while the show throws a lot of lore at the audience, the intention was never to explain it all. It's primarily a show about the characters, and so the characters' journeys are the most important thing to cover. Leaving some mystery is always preferable to trying to explain everything. The writers of LOST always used midichlorians from star wars as an example of what goes wrong when you try to explain every mystery in the world.
I think I'm done after this season, what a waste. First season was very suspenseful, now I'm just waiting for the episodes to be over with cause its so bad and boring.
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Same. We will never get answers and eventually it will get cancelled. I'm so tired of this format.
I think I may be done with this show. It started off pretty intriguing but at this point I feel bored and uninterested. Seems to be a lot of fluff and not much else at this point.
I may finish out this season, if I run out of other shows.
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@jeffb-tv I feel like there have maybe been a lot of developments, but their impact has not been felt at all because the characters never discuss them. Like, the entire house collapsing and the message with the radio were talked about in a couple of scenes and barely explored. It's like these characters are very dumb.
Seems this show is hoping cleavage is enough to keep them going. There might be enough incels to keep the show afloat
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@cyn-c Looking through your history of ratings and comments you seem extremely fragile whenever a tiny bit of nudity or "cleavage" appears in any media. Rating an entire show or episode a "1/10" because you can't handle to look at a woman naked is quite funny and I had a good laugh mate.
Would be an ok episode were it not for:
- A musical scene
- Seth Rogen
- tired BLM and Antifa references
- Seth Green nude jacking off
- people not communicating to further the episodes
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@mansemat it continues to amaze me that Americans think being anti-fascist is a bad thing...
Amazon Prime making Stranger Things, but different enough to avoid a lawsuit.
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Nah, I've read the comics. This is way better than Stranger Things lol.
