This is an old video and you probably won't see this comment, but I agree in part. I like writing stories and one I'm working on is about a lesbian hero. She had dealt with oppression and homophobia having grown up in the 1960s. I wrote her struggling to do the right thing. She learns that one of her old tormentors was the person she had to save, and for a split second she wanted to let the person die, but she didn't, ultimately she helped. My idea was that while it's okay to hate a person who bullied you, that doesn't mean you should want them dead. Be better than them
There is a book series from the 1980s by Tonya Pierce called the Song of the Lioness that I think would be a good review. I read the entire series in the 2000s as a teen. The female protagonists actually goes through hardship in her training to become a knight after switching places with her twin brother who wanted to study magic instead of being a knight.
To be fair the quote of George is out of context, he’s also quoted as saying LOTR and Tolkien far supersede him, which might just be him being polite but still
It's a minor point, but there's the bit during one of the mother-and-daughters scenes where Osha says that she wants to join the Jedi but Aniseya tries to talk her down from it by pointing out that she's young and thus her desires could change. And yet she wants the twins to permanently commit their lives to the coven at such a young and supposedly fickle age... Potential parallels notwithstanding, the fact that this hypocrisy isn't acknowledged at all just shows how biased the writers are towards their OC witch coven, how committed they are to seeing them as right and the Jedi as wrong despite everything on screen...
Like many of the videos I’ve seen on here, this one is deliberately ignoring context shown in the film for clicks and likes. Rey wasn’t just out there raising herself; she was left in the custody of Unkar Plutt, who employed her as a scavenger from a young age. She’s living alone when WE first encounter her, but that doesn’t mean she was all alone her entire life. Even the dialogue-which many of you supposedly bright people intentionally ignore-details how she worked for Plutt repairing ships and finding components. Even your defense of Luke is biased. “We can assume that he knows how to shoot guns and fight because he grew up on a farm on a hostile planet.” Off what? I can grow up on a farm crop dusting; doesn’t mean I know how to fly into heavy aerial combat. All you’re doing is giving Luke the benefit of the doubt and refusing to do the same for Rey.
So Mae was the one who set the fire that destroyed the coven, and is hunting down the Jedi who were attacked by the coven first, simply because they were there when it happened. She is blaming the Jedi for the crimes SHE committed. And the soy pods can't figure out WHY this show was cancelled?
It got even funnier with Episode 7, where it's revealed why the coven was dead: the whole group except the two moms banded together to mind control Kelnacca, and they all died when Indara severed that connection. The Jedi yet again acting in self defense, and inadvertently placing the witches as in the wrong *again,* but also... Mei completed her revenge mission in episode 1. No need to go after anyone else. She's just flat out evil.
Ep 3 as Ep 1 to fix the plot makes sense. And this Episode needs to be only show the perspective of Osha. That means only scenes were Osha is a part of.
I found the "show don't tell" advice in regard to setting up a desire for explanation later in the story an interesting point of feedback. I'm a gamer and it always feels like no one understands that and instead dialogue vomits explanations up front.
Ironically, it would have been more progressive if they did make the thread stronger with more thread users, showing that people are stronger together joined together in solidarity and the goal of the well being of the collective in mind
The coven leader stealing darth plagius's and obi Wan's work is literally women stealing men's work. I don't really care about gender politics, but such blatant hypocrisy pisses me off
I think that the difference is that from a western perspective (I am speaking incredibly simplified here) internal development is FOR THE SAKE of solving the external conflict and while the external confict often helps develop the internal self that development is then almost immediately turn to the benefit of the rest of the world. While in eastern storytelling the external confict is for the sake of the internal. While there is often external developments those are used as a way to explore the internal reaction to them. Now, I would say this is more a point of emphasis than category. Western stories do include internal development for its own sake and eastern stories include external developments for there own sake. But the focus is pointed a curtain way and one is considered more prevalent and important than the other.
For Enchanto, the grandmother's obsession with the perfection is an issue that happens in real life too. She is smart and if film theory is right and she was making sure their closed of home doesn't have too close of blood relations, she's a smart woman that knew what problems can come from staying closed off. But the trauma from when she first made that home was driving her to choose the more round about answer, causing unhealthy expectations to be met by her children and grandchildren in order to remain closed off.
I think it would be interesting for one of you guys to go back and review Underworld. you, littleplatoon, efap guys.. What interesting there is Selene is a girlboss, who also does not go through a traditional heroes journey. Shes a badass right from the start. She does learn and grow. But, in a skill, or physical manner. How she treats and respects everyone around her is important. Reverence for elders. she acts feminine. Even to Kraven, who is presented as the inferior male leader. At no point does she show him up in a girl boss way. She doesn't kill him, or embarrass him to show how great she is.
It issue isn't only just the writing and wokeness, but also that America is so hard-focused on the superhero stuff, or at least, the same handful of superheroes. We rarely think about other genres or superhero characters from other publishers like Dark Horse, Image, Top Cow, Detective, Archie, Antarctic Press, etc. How many times have we rebooted universes or jumped to alternate realities with the same characters?
The issue with Rey identity isn't that it is unaddressed centre part of the story - it's the fact that her character breaks previously established rules of the world which is jarring to the viewer. Some stories where no concrete answers are given about the main mystery can work - look at H.P. Lovecraft short stories.
8:53 I know men don't have to know about this stuff but jsyk, that was a napkin or pad, a tampon is a different thing but they have the same purpose anyway
Star Wars isn't just about good people vs evil people. More specifically, Star Wars is about people who choose to be good vs people who choose to be evil. There's a difference. And in Star Wars... Light Side = Good Dark Side = Evil The Force is a gradient. Light |---l---l---l---l---l---l---| Dark One end is the light side, the other end is the dark side. The Star Wars characters appear on different points across that gradient. As a frame of reference, Yoda would be the farthest point to the light end and Palpatine would be the farthest point on the dark end. Meeting in the middle would be characters like Qui-Gon and Count Dooku, where Qui-Gon was considered the most roguest Jedi on the council and Dooku was a fallen Jedi who did have legitimate grievances with the Jedi but allowed himself to commit evil in defiance of them Anakin's story is so interesting because he starts fully on the light side as a boy. As he grew up his philosophy to always protect the ones he cared about no matter the cost was heroic, but Palpatine was able to twist his judgment over the years until he was convinced it was worth committing horrific acts to protect the ones he loved. THAT is the point when he transitioned from the light side to the dark side. And when Padme died and Anakin became Darth Vader, he doubled down on his evil behavior believing he was beyond redemption, which moved him farther and farther into the dark side. It was only Luke's existence and defiance of the Dark Side that led to Anakin believing in himself himself again and sacrificing himself. In his last moments, Anakin was convinced that the good still existed within him, and so turned back to the light side and away from evil.
I know this has nothing to do with the video and I'm a little ashamed of knowing this, but I'm pretty sure Steven Universe's creator stated that Rose shape-shifted a reproductive system in order to get pregnant and give birth to Steven.
it's ironic to me that Aniseya is the "cool" one and Coril is the "Harsh one" when Coril is the one that carried the twins and thusly bears responsibility for them while Aniseya (as the feminists would say) pumped and dumped.
I do have to push back on two points so far ( 12:17 ) 1. Rebeling isn't inherently bad, which is what you were describing with your examples of the tw8ns here and mentioning Encanto and Brave. I'm not saying they did the story well here, but a child rebeling against their parent(s) is a common trope and can make a compelling story. 2. Having different names for "The Force" isn't a bad thing, and in fact makes sense. You can just llok to the real world, where not only do we have different languages which inevitably lead to different words for the same concept. We also have different philosophies based around the natural laws of physics. Again, I'm not arguing the writers did a good job at showcasing this, but the idea isn't bad.
On 2... On one hand, I agree. Especially since in a setting as vast as Star Wars is, it actually makes perfect sense that different people groups would interact with the Force and come up with different names for it, different ideas of what it is and how it works, all that. That part's okay. What's not okay in Acolyte's case is that when the leader is having her lesson she says "some call it a 'Force', they think it's a power that they wield", pretty much directly saying that the Jedi have the "wrong" view of what it is and their coven has the "right" view. Which combined with how the show as a whole tries to frame the Jedi... comes across as attacking the previously established stuff.
“The power of many” is so frustrating, not because it’s cringe (it is) but because in theory, it seems akin to Aes Sedai linking Saidar and performing powerful feats with it by combining their energy and letting it flow through a single foci. But instead of that, we get this rancid slop.
I understand videos are a lot of work but this pace is crazy slow. The show has already been cancelled and you're still talking about episode 3. This is one hell of a forgettable show, by time time you're done no one will even remember it. At this point you might as well just stop and talk about something else
