"But Rozzy, the main pull of the animated show was always the characters and writing!"No, the main pull of the show was originally the road-trip-through-a-fantasy-world setup, the potential for cool fight scenes, and the kid-show humor. People didn…
So, I saw the first few episodes of the new show. It's pretty good, I like it.
By not doing the episode The Northern Air Temple, it's automatically achieved massive props over the original in my book. It also has lots of helmets and hats. I'm a s…
You don't care about the things I care about. I don't care about the things you care about. Given that there exist people who share your concerns, and there do not exist other people who share mine*, the fact that I feel aggravated at the results …
On the one hand, I have some strong ill-feelings towards Democracy, but, on the other hand, I don't want to sound like one of those intellectuals who (1) keep saying that Democracy is doomed and doesn't work, and (2) have been saying so for at least…
Well, since nobody ever reads or responds to this thread, I guess it’s time to post the insane and secret ramblings that go on within my skull with even less concern for whether or not I ought to.
I feel like the lack of the letter A in LGBT means …
I try not to talk about matters of religion all the time. I don't have the thing-I-lack-words-for to do a good job of it most of the time, and it's too important to me to risk doing a bad job in so many cases. I've never persuaded anyone of anythi…
There are a few good ones, but those are mostly remembered for their imaginative elements rather than anything else (The invisible Man is remembered for having a man who is invisible, not for what it says or implies about the psychological and socia…
I despise fiction intended to be speculative. It's the insertion of "realism" into stuff of which the appeal comes from the imagination. It gives banality to the fantastical, instead of giving wonder to the mundane. Worse, it gives us that cursed…
7: Okay, so, the Fire Nation, being a volcanic island chain featuring (as far as we know) exclusively stratovolcanoes, would be more geologically similar to Japan than to Hawai'i (which is mostly shield volcanoes). Stratovolcanoes tend to give sil…
Between my own biases and the fact that I often perceive "familiar/unfamiliar" as "good/not-good", I feel like I ought to enjoy more current media than I do, given how many people are disappointed by the prevalence of nostalgia-based-stuff and remak…
I mean, everyone knows that Atlas Shrugged sucks, but did YOU know that it sucks for mentioning Midland, Utah as being five and a half miles from Elgin, Utah when there never was such a place as Midland, Utah, much less one five and a half miles fro…
So, books are set in locations, and often include place-names. Big old print atlases exist in real life with wonderful maps full of neat place-names. The internet features scans of public-domain archival information.
The potential for massive nerd…
Gosh, the concept of Acceptable Targets is absolutely terrifying to me. It almost makes me feel that hatred of authority I had in elementary school, that fear of being powerless against people bigger than me, that surefire knowledge that nobody wil…
Unrelated: I wouldn't vote for a member of my own faith, or someone who is neurodivergent, to be president of the United States of America. The presidency is a nexus of hate; I do not think that it is worth it to elevate one person of a group and …
To big-budget extravaganza movies: Give me more establishing shots and fewer shots focused on faces. A good close-up can do a lot, and making it the standard shot minimizes its impact. Furthermore, the main visual appeal of going to see a movie o…
Recommendation: a 20-year moratorium on using the words "character", "script", "writing", "plot", "dialogue", or "story" in criticism of non-print media. This may need to be extended, if that time is not sufficient for a renewed appreciation of eve…
Ms. allow_laws will provide the ideal succession setting of Absolute-Cognatic Ultimogeniture. This way, every child gets to be the heir, at least for a little while.
The first five generations go like this
Emperor/Emperess > Monarchs. All child…