Fucking thank you. Once again proving yourself as the best damn poster around.
Goblin Slayer and Dungeon Meshi are my only painkillers during this time...
Thank you sir.
Honestly, I've been going more into anime sort of stuff because Western media has decided that my entertainment dollar is no longer valuable and has decided that virtue signaling and propaganda is more important than escapism (don't get me wrong, anime has storytelling problems. But not any western baizou shit. At least, not yet. God fucking help us.). Like I have no obligation to keep consuming garbage. I was a big Star Trek fan. Stopped caring and never saw STD (best nickname ever, because that shit is fucking herpes) and Picard looks to be an epic fucking disaster. Same with Star Wars. I stopped after TFA. Like not even bought a singular thing after that. Not a game, not a movie, not a rug, nothing. Its like TPM. I never saw any of the prequels after it. This need to keep consuming is fucking baffling to me. I've got a LOT of options. I don't need to be loyal to anything anymore. This isn't 1995 where I have to make an effort to find things. Things are just thrown at me constantly, and I have the freedom to pick and choose what I want to spend my money on. And there's always something else.
Which is why I dislike any cuck faggot that constantly consumes this shit. I hate fanboys, as they're the most brain dead cunts on the planet. Like that dumb little bitch crying over the trailer of RoS. Eat a bullet faggot. This is why everything is shit nowadays, because pure soy like him get their micro-penises erect whenever mediocrity occurs. Stop. Fucking. Buying. Shit. Just. Fucking. Stop. They will never replace you, just stop spending your money and they will be forced to listen to you. But fucking no. They just keep buying it and buying it and buying it.
I’m working on a theory about what’s truly inspiring the SJW media to suck Rose Tico’s/Kelly Marie Tran’s dick at every opportunity. While some of it is undoubtedly an attempt to score woke points, I also think it’s clickbait.
Except for her sabotaging Finn’s attempt to sacrifice himself to save everyone else, I was mostly indifferent to the character. But seeing people falling all over themselves to praise an embarrassing character and the mediocre actress portraying her has made me want to reflexively dunk on Tico/Tran, which isn’t entirely fair, especially not to Tran who isn’t really to blame. And if that’s my reaction when I was mostly indifferent, imagine how the high-key Tico/Tran haters are reacting.
They're counting on hate clicks/retweets and flame wars for attention and revenue, and they don’t seem to care how that affects Kelly Marie Tran as a real human being who will be lucky to have a career after all this dies down. It’s also notable that they’ve fixated on Tico specifically as a character that needs more content and not Tran as an actress who needs more work. They could be singing her praises to try to get others in the industry to cast her in something, but doing that doesn’t enrage anyone, which means advocating on Tran’s behalf is worthless to them.
Seriously, the worst possible thing you could do to Kelly Marie Tran is to give her more work as Rose Tico. Unless she makes enough money from it to retire on, any continuation of that character will drive a stake in the heart of her career.
Tran has the unenviable position of forcing to kowtow to these fucktards who are only holding her up because she has slant eyes. She doesn't have the star power to tell these people the truth, nor does she have the pull. So she's got no say in the matter for these people using her name, ruining her career to virtue signal. It sounds bad, but Rose Tico could literally be anyone else on the planet who looks Asian and can pass as a female, all these people would hold any actress up. I mean, if you've got a modicum of self awareness and dignity, that's got to be fucking soul crushing.
Just think about it. You finally made it in a gigantic blockbuster movie and nobody cares about you, the actress. They only care about your slant eyes. They do not give a singular fuck about you as a person or your performance, just your race. That's all their celebrating. Therefore any part they advocate for you is going to be people trying to guilt you.
And that's really the problem. Everyone outside of the Twitter progtard Star Wars community dislikes the character massively. And because she was forced on everyone, no one likes the actress. So this will definitely harm her career profoundly. It would be immensely better for her if everyone forgot Rose Tico existed as soon as possible, but people on Twitter whine about it constantly for virtue points.
In a similar situation. Had no plans on buying Disney+, and then my generous in-laws gifted an entire year to us for Christmas.
I plan to start watching The Mandalorian on Monday. As someone who refers to herself as an "ex-fan" in regards to Star Wars these days, I wonder if I'll be impressed and get excited upon watching every new episode.
I'm bitter, y'all. Is it even worth my time?
You have to take it this way:
The Mandalorian has more in common with Star Trek the Next Generation and The X-Files than modern shows like Game of Thrones in that it resembles a show in the early days of serialization. That is, there are a few plot interconnected episodes with stories of the week which have no connection to the main plot interspersed in them. The problem with this is that in the early days of serialization, you had seasons running for 20+ episodes, so you could take breaks. The Mandalorian only runs for 8 episodes however, so you might be disappointed with what seems to be filler in too tight a timescale.
That and The Mandalorian's episodes are typically smaller. Average being about 30 minutes (with a few exceptions) in contrast to typical stream shows of 1 hour to 45 minutes. But to be honest, I'd argue the only problems are really with the show's format. Otherwise its an amazing throwback to shows in the 1980s and it feels like it should have a grainy, shot on film style instead of the far-too clean digital Disney look. The music is very Enrico Morricone. Its more Star Wars than the Sequel trilogy because it successfully blends dramas, while Star Wars blended Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Mando blends Sci-Fi with Westerns. You get a VERY Western feel of the show in plot and music. The end credits are also fucking amazing, where they show you colorized story-boards for every episode, which also has a very retro feel and the art is simply amazing. The character design of everyone basically outshines the sequels.
Its very respectful of the material and almost reverent of it, using the same wipes the original trilogy used in episodes Favreau directed. I'm not a big Star Wars fan at all, but it uses bits and pieces of the universe to great effect, to the point where you wonder if the people who made this show should have been given the universe from the start. Its going to hurt to think about what Disney Star Wars could have been with a trilogy directed by Favreau and someone not in charge like Kennedy.
Honestly, The Mandalorian is the best produced piece of Star Wars media since RotJ. Its really sad because of Disney's own incompetence, greed and spite it just ruined this franchise for no real reason. So if you're bitter, I don't think watching this is going to help you. Its going to be uh, bitter sweet. Because on one hand, its really good. On the other, it just serves as a foil for how badly Disney fucked up.
For me, I sum up the Madalorian as just ok. Because it is forced and constrained by the sequel trilogy. There's a lot of media out there not constrained by garbage, and it just ends up superior because the show is basically a nice Persian rug thrown over a bloated and decaying corpse and trying to pretend its not there. Its just not enough to hide what happened to Star Wars.
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