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Quotes like “Anakin blew up the death star” and “The Jedi are gonna take some Ls” make me yearn for the days of “I may have gone too far in a few places” and “Jar Jar is the key to all of this”
At least George seemed to recognize he made some questionable decisions that might not pan out.
Pretty sure when he said “Jar Jar is the key to all this” he was referring to the fact that a fully CGI Motion Capture character which had never been done before, and which opened the door to a lot of special effects that have been used countlessly since, not just in Star Wars, but other movies as well.
And as for the “I may have gone too far in a few places,” I’ve said that about projects I’ve worked on and ended up getting it to work. I mean, in context, Lucas was reacting to the first rough cut of Phantom Menace. And you hear him reference scenes that aren’t in the final cut like “Anakin returning.” And everyone from Martin Scorsese to even Rian Johnson admit that the first cut is never good and will make the author feel sick.
Actively mocking the franchise you own and misremembering it = admitting your mistakes and storyboarding? Wow...
@@Сайтамен The point of the comment is that George’s are obviously preferable, not that they’re equivalent, you massive
@@ECKohnsThe point of the joke is that George’s quotes, while still silly, are infinitely preferable to Leslie and her casts. NOT that they are equally bad
"What am I doing to these young women"
Bit of a Freudian slip from Harvey Weinstien's personal assistant
Yeah, that was sketchy
How is this lady being welcomed as a director when she had literally no way of now being intimately involved in Weinstein raping countless women by coercion
@@fastlandcliffhanger6962 Glad I wasn't the only one that caught that lmao
I can see a pattern with modern Star Wars writing.
Darth Vader goes and hunts down Obi Wan
"So you have come to destroy me?" - Vader
Smilo to the group of people who never knew he existed to begin with.
"You won't let me live!" - Smilo
They don't understand how words work.
"Always two there are. No more. No less. A master and an apprentice."
*Shows photo of Headland and Weinstein standing together*
“But which was cancelled? The master or the apprentice?”
"have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Weinstein the degenerate?"
The old master is cancelled... Darth Headlamp is now the master
@@HANCHtv Move over, Darth Diddler! Its Darth Headlamp's time to shine!
*insert obnoxious Marvel-esque whooping and wooing as Headlamp flies the franchise into yet another wall*
Justice for Yordel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey there. I'm a writer for collider, and I just wanted to say that I'm as frustrated as these articles as you guys are. I'm only at the job because I don't have anything else at the moment and it lets me practice media journalism. It is crazy how many writers at Collider only care about how queer something is, to the point that they'll gang up on those who don't agree with their ideals. I got into trouble with some writers because I dared to not like movies like Nimona or Raya and the Last Dragon. A few of my articles have even gotten editorial notes because I "didn't have enough female characters" in them. Keep pushing against this kind of bullshit, EFAP!
You wrote an article that didn't have enough female characters in them?
Forgive me if I'm being stupid, but: what the fuck does that even mean?
It's an article, not a book. Was it that you didn't mention enough women from pop culture? Cause that's the only thing I can think of possibly being the problem.
Well I hope you're not planning on taking that practice with you into a mainstream journalism career. Such a thing no longer exists.
I'm sorry for you dude. It must suck to need to work for such a company that represents the lowest form of journalism. I hope the best for you!
I immediately believed you work for them when you had spelling errors in your first sentence.
Why didn't you like Nimona?
I wish we still had GDELB at times, because I feel like the "We had tried using identical twins, but it was very difficult to tell them apart." would be perfect for that.
The real GDELB were the clips/memes we made along the way
Wait there is no more GDELB ? those were the funniest videos ever, mainly because all that nonsense was sadly quotes from real humans being with a supposedly functionning brain.
HE STOPPED GDELB? JUSTICE FOR GDELB!
What is or was GDELB?
@@Tacti_cat it was a parody of a video essay featuring all the real quotes from the most brain rotted individuals, released on april fools, it was pure nonsense concentrated but filled with actual sentence from previously covered efap, featuring such line as : "they were vietnamese, almost alien like, so different from us"
Yes, Luke Skywalker, the stereotypical ultra-tough manly protagonist, whose fight with the big bad ends in him rolling around on the floor screaming, begging his dad to help him...
"Hggnnn~! Daddy help~!"
- Lucutie Skycoomer
@@nananamamana3591 Dont give the woke anymore ideas!
Don’t worry. In the sequels he mans up and tries to kill his nephew because he had a bad dream. I show my son that scene daily just so he knows what it’s like to be a man.
@@ericshaunfield9304damn, that comment got me more than it should've 😂😂
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Timestamps in progress....
0:00 Normality & Cortosis
1:50 Prologue
2:23 The Boys
41:54 Article: The Review Bombing
1:22:06 Star Wars Theory
1:24:00 Star Wars Interview: Canon
1:40:40 Twins, Brains, Yord & Mog
2:02:17 Press Tour
2:09:04 Acting & Writing
2:13:36 The Witches
2:18:12 Child Actors
2:40:13 Tattoos
2:46:46 Roasting
2:48:17 Disparu Leaves
2:52:40 Characters, Inspiration, Comparison & Misbelief
3:06:00 WW84
3:07:57 Wasted Characters
3:17:17 Care & Appreciation
3:27:24 Wokie
3:44:40 Smilo Ren & Humanz Representation
4:01:45 Saul & The Mission
4:06:44 Smilo Ren Motivation
4:16:00 Jedi Rules
4:20:10 How many episodes?
4:21:10 Smilo Evo
4:29:40 The Jedi
4:50:42 The Mark
4:57:05 Seduction
5:21:05 Saul & Twists
5:30:44 Pivoting & Writing
5:37:13 The Balance
5:47:00 Mystery & Necessities
5:50:00 Conclusions
5:52:30 Article: Star Wars Biggest Problem Is The Fans
5:57:33 Abuse & Negativity
6:11:10 The Toxic Racist Sexist Fandom
6:33:30 Disney Changes, Trilogy & Other Projects
6:44:04 Inclusivity & Representation
6:48:36 Bigotism Rising
6:53:42 Ending
6:58:05 Bad Guy (Duh)
6:59:33 Boba vs Mando
7:01:04 Madame Web
7:05:57 Closing
7:07:45 Jedi Brooks
7:09:08 Jon Graham
7:10:42 Halo
7:12:10 Bye Bye
this should be pinned
George Lucas directing the kids for Revenge of the Sith...
Seriously made me laugh out loud
An upvote for the timestampman, and a reply for the algorithm.
The power of Jaun
The power of Tu
The power of Manny!!
Am never sure if I should just up vote these, are comment on them in hopes it'll rise faster to the top..... thanks either way, your a saint!
Seduce.
Latin. French. "Se" - apart, as in "se-cession, se-parate, se-gregate". "Duce" - to lead, as in "in-duce, re-duce, de-duce".
Literally means "to lead someone astray from their path/duty".
The sexualised use of the word is effectively a metaphor, flowery use which plays upon the idea of marriage or fidelity to one's partner being a duty (i.e. "the duty of marriage"). There's nothing inherently sexual about "seduce", demonstrated by Mauler correctly phrasing his point as "sexually seduced".
Lucas wrote clunky, almost antiquated dialogue. It's just his style and the Star Wars movies are both famous and infamous for it. Things like "delusions of grandeur" and "I have a bad feeling about this" added to the charm of the OT and prequels, also providing them with stylistic consistency.
When Obi-Wan and Yoda mention "seduction", as written by Lucas in his usual clunky style, they are employing the term literally. Anakin was led astray from his path/duty as a Jedi by the Dark Side of the Force. Overall, the Dark Side is "quicker, easier, more seductive." There is NO intended sexual implication in those uses of the term.
The LEAD WRITER on a Disney Star Wars show did not understand this very basic and simple point. She heard "seduce" as a child, thought it was weird, then as an adult "learned what the word meant", and so incorporated that "knowledge" into episode 6 of the Acolyte. All the while, never grasping that in fact she has NOT learned what "seduce" actually means, and nobody else involved in the Acolyte corrected her.
This is as bad as people saying Sam's "He's a villain!" line in LOTR is too literal, due to not grasping that the word "villain" does not simply mean "bad guy in a movie" or "supervillain", etc. Except in the case of "seduce", we're talking about the actual writer of the show. To say she should know better is a monumental understatement. This is truly horrific, like finding out the writer of a Star Wars show doesn't even know what a real-world sabre is.
On a related note - Headland thinks it's weird to use the term "human" in Star Wars because everyone in the franchise is from a galaxy far, far away. She simply is not aware (plus nobody told her) that the specific term "human being" is explicitly used in Star Wars multiple times (usually by C3P0, e.g. "Sometimes I just don't understand human behaviour"). She just doesn't know this is the case, strongly indicating that she has never actually watched the OT.
Unbelievable.
Brilliant write-up!
Bold of you to assume Headland doesn't know the difference between the literal definition of seduce, and the colloquial use of it.
You have *NO* proof that this was not in fact, her vision. That she wanted a strong, lesbian of color to abandon her morals and sexual identity to the murderous psychopath who stabbed her would-be girlfriend not even a day before hand!
I for one, choose to believe in women, and in the competence and ability of Leslie Headland! She *absolutely* meant for this story to play out exactly as it has!
No no, you shan't convince me otherwise! I am set in this belief!
Unless... you were to take your shirt off... and murder like, I dunno, six or seven people including my significant other right in front of me then kidnap me and show me your ding-a-ling...
Counterpoint: Believable
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yeah but what about sith cock, the colours and giants moths? seems to me like your just being a bigot and hate females. Joke aside, now i know why i didn't understand headlamp talking about the "seduction". thanks
Eric Kripke admitting proudly that they included a sequence of a character getting sexually assaulted because they thought it was “hilarious” is genuinely disturbing and concerning.
We know what his browser history looks like...
I'm getting "4chan MCU plan leaks" flashbacks.
Do i wantvto know what tgat is? Cause this is the first time ive heard of that@admiraltonydawning3847
@@adrianoippolito1999 You will need to decide it yourself. You can check them out on EFAP 256, at roughly 2h38m mark.
To be fair hugie didnt really get raped. He got his feet tickled... starlight atleast had to blow the deep.
I have to thank EFAP for helping to build my self-esteem. I used to think I was bad at speaking, but seeing people like Leslye Headland fumble their way through interviews assures me that I have a leg up on people who apparently can convince executives to give them millions of dollars for projects.
You don't have dirt related to Epstein, you'll never be in that position.
Good for you... We need more to come to the light... To actually see the truth. Who is lying. And who is not.
It happens to everyone. At some point. We need more and more to stand up. And not be afraid TO SPEAK UP.. especially to those spitting lies and falsehoods
Leslye is like Larys; her career hinges on appearing harmless and convenient.
I am pretty certain you're just fine at speaking. if we're wise enough to think we're bad at doing something others do easily, we likely believe we're worse than we are. keep at it. record yourself doing it -- just audio, no video. listen back. repeat. it's a process, and you can learn how to speak good just like you can learn how to paint good. and write gooder.
On the point of Batman donating to prisons and the GCPD, there's actually dialogue in Arkham Asylum saying that Bruce Wayne donated the scanner at the entrance of the building in order to prevent villains like the Joker from smuggling weapons in.
There are also moments in the comics that make mention of what Bruce tries to do for the city. At the beginning of The Court of Owls, he's invested and oversaw the creation of new skyscrapers for the purposes of creating new jobs and allowing for cheaper office space via more supply. I don't think there ever has been a time where Batman on the out of costume side hasn't been trying to help.
@@ZerogunRivale There's even a scene in one comic where Batman defeats Black Mask by playing a video of Bruce Wayne guaranteeing all of Black Mask's goons a job at Wayne Enterprises if they simply leave right then and there. All the goons walk out and Black Mask is defeated without Batman having to throw a single punch.
But according to Eric Kripke, he just beats up poor people so he can incarcerate them for money.
@@HaythamKenway383Do you think he really thinks that of Batman?
@@MegaSpideymanI mean, that's literally what he says in the interview, so it's pretty fair to assume that he thinks that.
I believe in Arkham Knight, the Isolation Pod that houses Poison Ivy (and eventually Man-Bat) has “Wayne Industries” or something on it. Pretty nice thing to have donated for the Force.
I really appreciate MauLer’s redirection of the conversation about SA from the boys. It is refreshing hearing someone not trying to compare traumas and instead critique how shit is handled
MauLer's unironically really healthy about human rights
@@samwallaceart288which is rather odd since he's an eldritch being beyond mortal comprehension that can only be contained by constantly playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Early seasons of Simpsons.
@@akumasstorytime3910 MauLer is definitely one of the more benign Keter-class anomalies
When the question arises about how many episodes are needed to develop a character, I often remind the first scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. In less than ten minutes, we have a complete picture of Indiana Jones's entire skillset and personality while masterfully weaves humor, tension, betrayal, and power dynamics, and even introduces the antagonist.
My favorite example of how efficient a good writer/director can be introducing a character and making her likeable is the first 2 minutes of Iria Zeiram: the Animation. A cult 90s anime (there are episodes on yt, you can look it up). In 2 minutes flat they introduce the main character, show her motivation, establish that she's competent, kind and held back because she lives in an unfair world, making her relatable and likeable before you can finish a sandwich! Star Wars couldn't do that to Rey in 3 movies.
Genndy Tartakovsky can greatly characterize entire arcs in 10 minutes with no dialogue. Master of visual storytelling. These people can't make a character in the first place.
The first episode of Frieren has you care for a character and kills them off in 24 minutes.
@@DaMaster012that must be a massive shirt
TF2's Meet the Teams are great as well for short-form characterization
"The Writer's Blatant and Not At All Disguised Fetish."
"YEah! Right! So like, there's this girl right? And she meets this child, and she's a sheltered little girl but like, she's also like, super smart and super nice but really sheltered, and like, these two girls are hitting it OFF right? They're SO great together... BUT THEN! A psycho killer comes in and like, KILLS everyone the main girl knows! And it's awful, it's like, he just murders them all SOOOOO easy, he's just SOOOOO strong they NEVER stood a chance. Then, he kidnaps the girl, right? And she breaks free and sneaks up on him whule he's bathing right? And she gets his weapon, and she has him at her MERCY but he like, steps out right? Naked, right? And she spots his LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG~!"
- Lesylie, furiously describing the romance plot to a boardroom of very concerned looking executives.
"... We'll have to put her age as 18 on the wiki... For legal reasons."
- One of the executives, wiping Lesley's 'juices' off their face.
"The internet has never made it easy for people to speak their minds." No, Collidor editors, you mean before the internet there weren't people who could see your dumb takes and tell you how wrong you are. *Now* we (thank god) have people who'll tell you what's what, and we need them more than ever with how many unhinged defenders of poor writing and ridiculous decisions made for shallow productions there are now.
Uncensored Internet is essential for real democracy
The single dumbest quote in that article. The internet made it POSSIBLE for a lot of people to speak their minds. Of course that's not ideal for big publications, because people speaking their minds makes it harder for them to push whatever narrative they want.
2:23:25 Hayden Christianson said when they filmed that youngling scene he yelled Boo at them that’s why the kid was startled at him not the saber lighting up
>Be me
>Child
>Robed man comes into my classroom
>Pulls out his long saber
>"Boo!"
>mfw
:O
Awww, that's just cute.
Okay that is really wholesome.
Hayden is such a bro
Prequel trilogy is looking better every day
in the comics tech-knight had a tumour in his head making him hyper sexed up, and he Actively fought to not let it hurt others. eventually he dies from the tumour while imagining saving the earth from an asteroid (by fucking it).
Sounds rather different to this.
Infinitely better characterization and much, MUCH funnier than the show.
But slightly too complex for lizards, or something.
That definitely sounds a LOT better than the show.
@@329link It is. It's honestly worth reading just because of how ridiculous it is.
Te tumor's mentioned in Gen V. But there they say he just wants to fuck every hole he sees. Donuts, trees, hand-dryer, decorative skull...
The big moment for me this episode is when they're reading the Boys interview and the writer says "Be careful what you wish for." I mean, you are just flat-out admitting you shouldn't be trusted working with the IP at this point.
That, and even more, the way that both Leslye and the guy behind The Boys said almost identical "We simply HAD to do it, how could we not" to doing creepy weird degenerate stuff. Like Leslye HAD to make the antagonist a thirst trap for nonbinary protagonist and the few girls who call themselves "Disney Star Wars fans", and The Boys simply HAD to have the main character be sexually assaulted and demeaned in a disgusting setup because, well, they HAD to teehee xD!!! It was funny!!!!!!!!!!
What is wrong with these people?
I mean, I wouldn't trust 180 million dollars to a person who describes the plot of the project with “The Jedi are gonna take some Ls”. That's super infantile, like the showrunner sounds like a person that's jokingly telling the story and not like somebody that takes care about the craft of storytelling you know.
I feel really bad for the actor. He seems like a cool guy who just wants to do something entertaining
@@HerohammerStudios That's how the vast majority of us feel about basically all the actors and actresses in these things. Like lets be real, did Carrie-Anne Moss and Lee Jung-Jae hope their characters would die off stupidly and be a bumbling idiot respectively? Did Rosario Dawson, who was SUPER hyped up wanting to play live action Ahsoka long before the show was even planned, hope her character would be a tired, worn out, meandering, slow idiot who barely does anything in the entire season? There's no way these actors, especially lesser known ones like all these supporting cast in The Acolyte for example, despite what they say in their mandatory Disney press junkets, actually wanted to play bumbling idiots who accomplish nothing then just die to discount Ezra Miller.
We all know it's not their fault.
@thehoerscorral8565 Even Amandla, who has acted with the same face and two emotions (angry and passive) despite playing two characters, is working with some really bad writing, dialogue and direction. I'm not really familiar with her body of work, but despite her annoying personality I wouldn't assume she's a bad actress just because she's bad in this trash.
its funny how for years Collider and other shitty websites have been saying "well if you're this mad at *thing* they will stop making it" and yet it still hasnt worked
i wish the audience really did have this superpower
I want all my favourite franchises to die so badly, and it's insane they've managed to put me in this position
Long time WWE viewer here✋
As long as they're making money, and shareholders don't complain, nothing will improve.
It can actually get worse.
*laughs*
"What am I doing to these young women?"
- Harvey Weinstein's former Personal Assistant everyone.
4:09:20 I sent this superchat, so I decided to look into things a bit. Jecki is 18 in the show, and her species (she is technically a Theelian-human hybrid) lives to about 70, so she would be "of age" all things considered. But it's still weird that Osha asks her out for drinks and Sol calls her a child in the same show. Sol calling Jecki a child would make sense for his character, but Leslye also calling her a child is very strange. And she doesn't just call her a child once, shd harps on that point a lot. Either she is a child and it's weird that Osha asked her out, or she isn't and it's weird she's calling her a child. But then again, I expect nothing less from Weinstein's former assistant
In fairness, the show has already demonstrated that not only is chronological age is something they're willing to twist, but, the nature of the lore of species. Given Leslye's desire to "give X-23 with a lightsaber" I can imagine she viewed the character as a child, as X-23 in her appearance in Logan *is* a child. It is very likely the script and interviews refer to her as a child, because the intial intent of the story was that she was intended to be a child (not necessarily like a small child IE: X-23, I imagine they were aiming for a teenager), but realized when they wanted to suggest a romance with a character in her early-mid twenties, they did what many Japanese studios do when translating character ages to western audiences and slapped the *lowest* "legal" age they could onto her for official documentation. It's how you end up with pokemon character who are aged "13-20" in their wiki entries, as an example.
Which is to say, in fairness to the assertion Headland is a disgusting paederist who wanted a child to be romanced by an adult -- not to Leslye herself.
I'm reminded of the ancient slogan of a long gone internet artist...
_"All characters are over the age of 18, even if stated otherwise"_
- *Shadman*
I'm still stuck on what the f they were thinking with the hair, also how lame and unimaginative the "aliens" that are just humans with some makeup and weird hair (or lack there of in the case of the green lady) look, the only worthwhile aliens are ones that don't look like humans who put on makeup from a halloween store. Also the girl who plays jecki is pretty but you would'nt be able to tell from how they made her look in this show lol
Or constantly calling those 10 year-olds 'young women'. She definitely has a fucking graveyard in her closet
To use "-coded" correctly for once, Jecki is absolutely child-coded. They cast a young-looking actor in childish colors and styling, who acts like a sassy kid play-arguing with her chill dad.
She isn't technically a kid, but she has all the appeal of one.
If it was a guy writing it, they would be side-eyeing him the same way loli artists get side-eyed for "100-year-old kid" characters
@@samwallaceart288 just checking, you're not saying people who think the actress is pretty are weird, you're saying the writers are weird for how they wrote her like a child? If you look at the actress she is like 20 and fully grown
Headland: I feel sorry for the young twins we hired for a Star Wars project.
Me: You brought them here.
The part about the identical twins is mindboggeling. Didn't cast them cause she couldn't tell them apart. And then says it's fine when an adult actor plays two parts, because they can do that. But not the kids ? But the kids don't play TWO characters you re****d. They play one each , and it's YOUR job to direct them. YOU KNOW, so they' ACT different.
The adult actress in this show can’t even play one character much less two. I’ll give the child actors a lot of leeway but not Amandla Stenberg.
Must be hard for the Screen Rant 'be careful what you wish for article' to exist when a few weeks from now a Pitch Meeting could drop roasting the Acolyte for millions to see. Actually it will be super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
I think Ryan's not working for them anymore, right ?
@@therealfakecaptain7978correct
Good for him. Pitch Meeting makes the rest of Screen Rant look like it's actually just that rantings of goombas.
It's just funny that they still keep his videos at least 2 years old on the screen rant channel. Videos where he crushed Star Wars.
I'm convinced he watches these streams bc some of his videos have very particular points brought up by MauLer
Hearing about The Boys handling the abuse of Starlight with such gravity and Hughie's so flippantly reminded me of The Wheel of Time. There are several times in the books it's alluded to that a woman was abused and it was always handled seriously. Mat Cauthon is kept prisoner by a queen who uses her servants to stalk him and tie him up and assault him and it's clearly intended to be humorous. When it finally comes to light Elaine and Nynaeve think it's hilarious and his just desserts because he likes flirting with barmaids. It's always a laugh when men are abused.
That's disappointing. I have a few Wheel of Time books, so that's discouraging.
I do kind of hate that stretch of the book. I empathise with Mats frustration and anger when no one takes him seriously. It makes both him and other characters look worse. And I feel like it was a contrivance to keep him at a convenient arms reach in Ebou Dar instead of having him do far more interesting things elsewhere.
It's just women revealing their utter hatred for men to the point of dehumanization.
Nynaeve did take it seriously and wanted to stop it, Mat told her not to step in because he was embarrassed. Mat wasn't necessarily against it either and comes to care for Tylin, he just likes to be the one doing the chasing.
"Because he likes flirting with barmaids." That is the dumbest thing to get "comeuppance" for. That writer is a psycho.
Man, I missed on that initial segment describing The Boys and Kripke's moronic response to a very fitting question. Whenever I hear the words "Batman" and "fascist" in the same affirmative sentence I just zone out. Like okay, your discourse is the same copy-pasted nonsense from people that have never touched a Batman comic book in their lives, or did with maybe one or two of them and formed the same stupid idea that tells you way more about those same individuals and their single braincell than It does about the character or the book itself.
Why would people actually think he's in any way that?
@@MegaSpideyman I´m not kidding when I say that that is the most sane question anybody could ask. This is probably gonna be a somewhat long answer, the reason why is because I don´t want to limit the answer to what´s probably the most surface level "argument" being made from people who actually think Batman is a fascist, which is...Because he´s rich and white, as sad as it is, that´s pretty much the extent of it, if those two things are present in a character like him, there´s people who will instantly jump to that very stupid, non-sequitur esque, conclusion. As you can see, there´s zero logic to this, but we´ll get back to it.
The longer, relatively more obscure answer is that to some extent, it stems from personal views of some comic book writers in regards to the superhero genre, writers that (or at least the ones I´ll mention as examples), have earned a name and a position within the industry, some of them include Garth Ennis (who wrote The Boys comics) or Alan Moore himself. Especially in the case of Moore and as great as his most known works are, he has a well-known disdain towards the concept of superheroes as we understand it, and if memory serves, considers it to be fascist in nature.
The thing is, people that are too politically driven like he is are often times not very good at making logical, sensical arguments, they are very good at making political arguments, claims and/or statements, that´s how they look at things. However, politics does not require of logic in order to be able to work, which makes it easier for it to reach people´s minds and/or feelings. In addition to that and especially when it comes to authors like him, there´s always some level of appeal to authority involved, or "an incredibly accomplished writer said this is true, therefore it must be", and yet again, there´s zero logic to it.
@@MegaSpideymanseveral reasons (none founded or make sense). He's white, rich, cares about people, sets up charities, straight, likeable and charismatic, fights criminals. These reasons are just a few why they hate him, either jealousy, racism, misandry, or they like/pretend to like communism and hate capitalism/democracy or that he's a better character than most if not all the ones they either like or create. He's a popular character so of course they try to bring him down, or mould him into their icon of whatever. It's why they're so desperate to either replace him with something else or turn him into their preferred vision (one comic tried to turn him gay despite having more girlfriends than Mauler has had guests). It's the same for loads of characters, from Superman to Captain America, Iron Man to Flash. Even female character aren't exempt from that. They get distorted from being attractive and beautiful with character of their own to frumpy, ugly, toxic lesbians who get what they want and hate men (Batwoman is a famous example of this)
It just doesn’t work as an analysis; most of Batman’s villains are insane (which one could totally analyze to be problematic) or completely ideologically driven. The Riddler, Mr Freeze, Poison Ivy, Azrael at times, Ras Al Ghul are all have a belief system that conflict with Batman, not just empty pockets
@@SkepticalBucketman
It's also important mention Frank Miller, who has been instrumental in perpetuating the idea super heroes are facists, by interpreting a lot of super heroes *AS* facists, unironically and nearly explicitly, while having plenty of *unflattering* interviews that read like a man trying to tell you why he thinks Funny Mustache Man may have had a point...
So, when you have writers of comics who are critical of comics calling super heroes fascists, and writers of comics who sound like they're fascists writing super heroes as fascists, and a popular trend in media to "deconstruct" heroes by presenting them *as* fascists; you get a popular sentiment among media "tourists" that superheroes are fascists, or, more likely to be fascists than they are not.
Even people who fall outside of that niche lean into it. Nolan's Dark Knight has a scene where Batman creates a surveillance state and, if taken totally alone in that context, that's a very fashy thing to do (nevermind he gives that power to the man he trusted more than himself with it and told him explicitly to destroy it once they no long needed it, which they did). But you've even got Rocksteady's Arkham-verse which presents a Batman who becomes progressively more militant in both his design and modus, to the point where he (canonically) uses fear gas on the populace to appear as a horrific demonized version of himself just to maintain the potency of "The Batman" after he's unmasked as Bruce Wayne.
It's a *fine* line for the average consumer, because their exposure to fascism is police states, military goonsquads, and the underprivileged and defiant being brutalized by those wielding these things either directly or indirectly -- it is very easy for a person to see Batman riding around in a metal suit, beating on some thugs just trying to earn a living, then running their car over with his huge tank-mobile before feeding them to the police as a "fascist" thing to do, doubly so, when some would view our real world police as none-too-dissimilar to a nescient fascist tool.
It can be very hard for people to accept fiction on the grounds of fiction, entirely divorced from reality. It can be hard for people to see the GCPD as *fictional* cops and that they don't go around gunning down people all because an acorn fell on them, because that's a failing of REAL cops, NOT the fake cops.
It's not a failing on them that's *entirely* their fault, as the understanding of what fascism is has declined *unilaterally* across the major markets for western comics (namely the USA) but, it is none the less really disappointing people don't engage with fiction as a fiction free of their preconceptions about institutions in real life.
Tldr: I wish people (consumer and producer alike) would leave their politics at the door when they engage with comics. It'd really help prevent these gross misconceptions about Bruce Wayne from ever starting.
I wonder if the former assistant to Harvey Weinstein is often worried about what she does to young girls.
Nah she gets off to those thoughts.
We all know she was in the room with her boss, watching.
It's insulting that with everything she knows about the Hollywood meat-grinder, she somehow spins it back _on us, the viewers_ as being the big danger.
Actually disgusting
Captain Marvel killed the "Anticipation Score". That is hilarious. 😂
The modern trend of writers/directors telling fans they have a moral deficiency because they don't like what the writer/director made will probably have its own unit in economics and marketing classes in the future.
It already does! This shit is *TEXTBOOK* modern marketing.
audiences have no backbone that's why. I literally stopped watching almost everything.
@@3_smh_3 I used to be a very big games workshop fan. As soon as I felt they were no longer providing a good service to me as a consumer I stopped buying their products. I now prirate all my models and books and actively encourage others to do the same.
I don't understand why other consumers don't adopt similar attitudes! Its exasperating.
4:29:44
"The Jedi are not the Jedi that they are in the prequels."
Well, except for Yoda and Mundi, right? They're literally the same Jedi.
“There was a lore master who was so bad Star Wars lore historians turned their back on him, but we shall not name him”,,,,,,,”I DONT GIVE A FQ HIS NAME WAS PABLO,,,,fqn PABLO!!”
For all the people who are attempting to demonize the audience by pushing the failure of Star wars unto them rather than the creators I have this to say. You can say it's review bombing all you like. You can say that your audience is toxic all you like. You can call your audience racist or sexist all you want. It will never change the fact that people will stop watching and you will make no money. You can't lose money forever and your audience has no incentive to watch your stuff after you've demonized them this much. I hope your socks are wet and your tea is lukewarm!
5:08:00 This part still blows my mind, not knowing what Seduce means when first watching the movie (Understandable), learning it's meaning (Great!) and then being confused at how(/the phrasing?) Anakin was seduced to the dark side and so you end up thinking it was sexual (..Wut?).
It's...a take I never thought to actually hear.
Creamy Sheev's voluptuous bosom got Anakin to fall to the dark side.
I've only read a few Batman comics and hearing that man describe how he views Batman just makes me think "How could you come away with this view?" He sounds worse than Snyder.
@Rotom0479my man criticism of him is more so about the setting, because i can't believe there is no death penalty for people like joker. But that is more of a comic issue than a Batman issue specifically.
@@zacharybreen8891 There are laws that prevents the execution of "mentally impaired" convicts.
@Rotom0479We see this often enough I've seen a couple of episodes of the animated series where he does host charities and stuff as Bruce. Even in comics and such.
It's weird because many of these same people will suggest that Bruce Wayne is Batman's disguise.
Like... so you're telling me that Batman, a fascist, is disguising himself as a wealthy billionaire fascist? That's his big brain play?
Like, let's assume Bats is a fashy. He wants to beat up the poors and make a police state where he can go around and curbstomp minorities and people who bad mouth the rich and powerful. Let's say that's true.
You're telling me, to hide this from people, he, as Bruce Wayne, financially supports those things? And yet, the cops are *STILL* powerless to oppress the people?
The idea of Batman being a fascist isn't a bad one. Exploring a Batman who, through Bruce Wayne, utilizes his wealth and status to *keep* people in poverty *expressly* so he can get the catharsis of beating on the underprivileged and downtrodden, all the while using his charisma and generous donations to political figures and law enforcement to ensure nobody can properly investigate this is an interesting angle to take a more villainous batman. I don't think anyone would be opposed to that.
But that would require understanding HOW a conspiracy of that caliber works, and I don't think anyone writing these characters wants to explore how a billionaire could create a myriad of "charities" that effectively serve as terror groups, which in turn drive a more militant and less restrained response from law-enforcement which in turn drives up social unrest which in turn drives up acts of crime which in turn drives up crime rate which in turn drives up the price of business and lowers the price of property which in turn creates more poverty as the wealthy buy property, and the poor are forced to submit to landowners demands if they dont want to be homeless which in turn drives people into desperation and destitution, which in turn drives people to join gangs who are, covertly, funded by the billionaire, who is also funding the police, and in this case, is also funding his own personal arsenal with which to beat the shit out of people with.
Because that'd require a lot of effort to pull off, and it's much much easier to just say "lol he's rich? Like, why doesnt he just like, buy all the crime away??? Lmao he just WANTS to beat up people lol otherwise he'd just do the things to stop crime forever lol".
@Rotom0479 how is he anything like a bat? Just the ears standing up on his mask, he is just a man, he can be shot on the part of his mask where his mouth is, at least with Spider-Man he was bitten by an actual powerful Spider and gained super powers .
I don't care what they teach yoou in school. Spock blew up the Death Star.
Shortly after he transitioned.
To radical Islam.
That’s my favorite part of Stargate.
@@ECKohnsIndeed
But he was a Skrull since Man of Steel
So many layers! Harry Potter is such a complex story.
And then converted to judaism
Anyone who still watched the boys expecting the political overtones NOT to kill the quality after season 2 was just deluding themselves.
Really? A literal Nazi and "girls get it done?" That wasn't enough of a red flag for you?
When Robothead was praising season 2 I was done with him.
A Nazi that doesn’t say slurs at that.
Because that’s where the Nazi superhero would draw the line…
@@nhagan001Did she really not say any?
@@nhagan001Look Hitler had given Nazis a bad name and they have to rebrand this movement to be more socially acceptable. You gotta be like the commies and softly say you are going to kill people and not insult them.
@@MegaSpideyman she said very safe ones. I remember she called an Asian she killed a “yellow bastard”, but she certainly didn’t drop the N-word ever. That’s a pretty easy one to signify a racist I would say.
52:20 Fringy missed Leslye's extreme narcisism here. The "perhaps" was meant to cast doubt if the audience score and review were ever reliable at all.
Leslye Headland answers interview questions with the mindset of not thinking about and answering the question, but how to just get past it and move on.
"What was the process behind the decision to cast twins in your show?"
"Ahh, yeah, so... With twins, you kinda have this... two people thing going on, a sort of... what do you call it... like a yin and yang thing between the two, so there's that sort of connection that we've never seen in Star Wars before. It's really interesting and unique to have... one on the light side and one on the dark side, it's a very... it's a very human story to tell, yeah."
“Those two brothers from the Old Republic MMO and the two clones from Battlefront Elite Squadron never existed, don’t look at those”
@@eriadorranger2196Battlefront Elite Squadron is such a lost gem.
@@eriadorranger2196Far more than that, how about some of the Luke and Leia EU stories? Or, hell, the decade-long story arc of Jaina and Jacen Solo?
Funny how decades of content simply never existed to these hacks.
I always find it hilarious when people say that "Conservatives" (meaning non progressives) liked the boys season 1 because they identified with Homelander. Homelander has been a complete and unredeemable psychopath from episode 1, he's fun to watch as a villain, but nobody really identifies with him.
Season 1 the Boys was a pretty decent criticism of Corporate overreach, not only overtly with the "Girls Get it Done!" type jabs at Disney/Marvel and DC, but also with the idea of the Superheroes themselves being a metaphor for Corporations. Those all powerful entities that can step on you at any moment with no repercussion, they destroy people lives, kill and and abuse them, etc, and The Boys being normal working class victims joining to fight back. Then after season 2 non-progressives agreeing with them spooked the creators and they went heavy on criticizing any right wing ideas way more severely until we get to now where Homelander is basically just another Trump caricature. Very creative. 🙄
I mean, the anti-corporate veneer is literally just an attempt at gaslighting people that corporations are "untouchable," meanwhile the government is ACTUALLY the untouchable entity.
Everything Leftists do is projection.
It's so strange to me how many extreme leftists and socialists carry water for giant corporations.
5:37:00
"The galaxy is out of balance because too many Jedi" is like saying "this town sucks because there are too many good neighbours."
2020s America, basically.
Sorry for what? My master taught me not to be ashamed of my lightsaber. Especially since it's such good size and all.
Yeah, I see that. Your master gave you good advice.
Your schwartz is as big as mine.
Mog is from “space balls” John Candy’s character, “Barf,” is a Mog…
“ I’m a mog half man half dog… I’m my own best friend.”
So from what I understand, Lesley believes that if a trainee police officer gets killed in the line of duty, its the Police's fault for sending them out there?
In this case scenario, I’d be willing to defend this death in the acolyte……..only because it ironically created a double negative of subversion by having the female Jedi die like that.
Course this one praise is enough for people like this who make constant mistakes and activism pushing that a single ounce of anything good is a victory to them…….also if they still get money 💴
ACAB :/
"You killed my opinion!"
"You brought it here."
Brutal burn.
This makes me think of what Plank did to our lord and savior the Don. These people have the most disproportionate response to anything. Smilo just wanted to be left alone so it's justified to them that he killed all these people because he is the "counter culture".
Normally I would want to be charitable and say she's explaining, not condoning. What I'm realizing this time is that Leslye surely thinks of hereself and her comrades as counter culture if for no reason other than gender identity and sexual orientation. I don't think I can devil's advocate my way out of this one.
@@David_the_PsalmistI think you're right, and it's telling what kind of fiction she chooses to write
"[on Smylo Ren] He's the... He's the voice of-of-of the... You know, the-the counter culture of this era." -Leslye Headland... Wow, just wow.
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She and her fans defending Smilo’s killing of a child, is like someone defending Kevin spacey in Seven Sins
There's a joke in there about Leslye Headland's wife's head in a box, but I don't care enough to formulate it.
@@DeadlyPlatypus From allegedly helping Weinstein rape women, to helping disney rape star wars. It's like poetry, it rhymes.
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There's an even worse joke to moke about Leslye's wife's head in a box that includes a common slur for lesbians that rhymes with Mike, combined, with the old internet meme song "It's my dick in a box~".
It would be very edgy to make, but, probably, very funny if you like edgy jokes.
Or defending Kevin Spacey in general lol
Not only do they not care bout these stories, they're specifically discriminating against anyone who does. They're intentionally hiring people who know nothing about it.
I'm disappointed the Headland interview didn't involve an eating contest. Two strong competitors there.
I swear, that entire interview, I kept seeing a slow progress bar pop up on Headlamp’s prodigious forehead whenever she was asked a question, followed by the occasional Windows Error Tone and a blue-screen flashing across her eyes.
“Off screen” 180 MILLION DOLLARS should be no “Off screen”
A little note on the bookshelf: It is the Ivar line from IKEA. I love them, in no small part for how cheap and easy to set-up they are.
Setting up all the shelfspace in frame takes a single person less than one hour.
So it is absolutely possible that this 'studio' was set up in a hurry.
they probably had all those Lego Star Wars UCS sets on standby then
ain't no way they're getting built in an hour
also the Lego Typewriter is there for some reason
Genuinely can't believe Mauler would so callously name-drop Wade like that at the end of the stream. Too fucking soon man, this Wade shaped hole in my heart needs more time to heal.
The Boys immediately looked to me like "what if Seth MacFarlane was commissioned to adapt The Watchmen for TV?" Which is why I never bothered with it. Glad to hear it seems I prejudged correctly.
Season 4 is ultra weapons grade dogshit.
I think that's unfair to Seth MacFarlane.
Nah this is more like if they have Seth Rogen the responsibility
That's a great description
Kevin Smith used to sexualize everything too, and he’s a lifelong comic book fan. He was different after the heart attack and just cries at everything now.
I'm so glad I quit The Boys after season 1.
There's a lot of anti-batman memes where they joke about him being a trust fund brat who beats up petty criminals who shoplift so they can eat. Obviously there's exaggeration in satire but I've never seen him characterized anywhere near like this. I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of Batman but usually he's depicted stopping violent criminals from physically hurting innocents or taking down rich crime lords. And he (almost) never kills! That's way better than the police usually do.
I never see these complaints about other superheroes. Is it because he's rich? It's because he's rich, isn't it?
Those anti-Batman memes show what kind of moral depravity we're looking at. Batman's a "trust fund brat" becuase his parents died, as you said he doesn't beat up petty criminals, and no one shoplifts "so they can eat." Degenerates impose their screwed up worldview onto Batman and then wonder why normal people aren't receptive to it.
And because he's white, just ask G4Tv
The Plinkett Review of RotS was dropped on December 30, 2010. Which means it would’ve mostly been viewed and gained popularity in 2011. That was absolutely what Leslye (annoying pretentious spelling 😡) was talking about.
Thats why you call her lesbian headlamp. Not only is it an insult it's also easier to spell.
@@ffffdsdhow is that an insult? Headlamps are bright
@@anaccountforcommenting6651how about Headempty?
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Yeah and lesbians make great pornography! I think we need a better name, this one just misses the mark...
Can we call her Sex Offender instead?
@@anaccountforcommenting6651 besides 'Headland' is way fucking funnier for spongebrain squarehead over here
Pablo Hidalgo said the hyperspace kamikaze made sense because Anakin did it in TCW he didn’t he set a droid cruiser to ram into a moon and broke the Nav Computer
Except that was made under false surrendering pretenses.
@@RhysCallinan-hf7qx yeah they commit war crimes like a to-do list
@@HectorLopez0217 Tbf war crimes are only war crimes if the winner says they are
Difference I have always seen is that hyperspace was always said to be dangerous to the ship doing it unless proper precautions are taken, but the consequences of a bad jump would be solely for the ship initiating the jump and nothing else.
And if this is about the destruction of the Malevolence, that would work, though admittedly I do take issues with how it is depicted, with a massive explosion of the Malevolence.
@@TheTriforceDragon Which is the only way to look at it. Otherwise, who needs a Death Star, just send a bulk cruiser into a planet at warp speed and it's game over.
Just got say, I love Jon being a regular guest on the podcast, and I hope he continues to be. Jon adds so much to the conversation and really has a good grasp of story writing to be able to critique well and articulate the problems. He fits right in with the rest
The Boys discussion is just funny as I think of how often the OG comic does better than the show, despite people constantly trying to say that it's complete trash.
In regards to Tekknight, yeah the whole thing begins and ends with the old "joke" of, "Heh, Batman and Robin are totally gay for each other, yeah?" But there's more in it than just that. As much of the comic is a a parody/critique of celebrity culture, it gets into how two-faced these people are with support and representation, making the Robin character homophobic despite constantly being seen as an icon for Gays.
Or the other heroes being backstabbing opportunists as they cut ties with Tekknight as he goes through his "penetration issue,". Even a bit of development for Hughie as he starts getting over his own hangups regarding gay people.
Sure, the comic has more edge than Shadow sharpening knives, but it's still pretty good in places so long as you go into with that in mind. Especially with the show collapsing in itself to become the very thing the comic would've made fun of if the "woke agenda" was more of a thing at the time.
Watching EFAP is the only joy in my life coded.
"... what am I doing to these young women?"
Leslye, honey, you of all people don't want to pursue that line of dialogue.
I want the Batman movie where he's walking around like Elmer Fud shooting poors, that sounds hilarious
It's not that the wookie died off screen.... Smilo got away from Mae... ran around her to the hut. Killed the wookie and then ran off and changed clothes....
So... if we are to have seen the scene .... did Smilo speed run him? Straight sprinting in and deleting him before he even had time to notice?
You've reminded me of that one scene from phantom Menace where Qui Gon and Obiwan use "Force Speed" but we never see it used again.
@@MediumRareOpinions in the movie they were in an empty hallway not a dense wooded area. He would have made a whole lot of noise hitting branches or be brused from getting hit by branches.
Had Mae betrayed him days earlier it could have worked .... and been kind of cool. But she does it minutes before arriving.
@@wrayday7149 oh I'm not suggesting it fixes the scene, it's just funny thinking back on all the scenarios where things need to happen fast but the Jedi don't use that ability.
Exactly what the force can do has become needlessly confusing.
Thinking about the sith having a fight club initiation all that came to mind was them chanting "his name was Darth maulson."
His name was Darth Maulson!
“Tell that to Yord’s snapped neck!” Leslo Headgins
I know that when my car operates at its peak state, I have just as much fuel in my tank as sugar. And I only drain half the old oil, so that I only have a balanced amount of new oil and old oil in there. Half my tires are properly aired up, the other are deflated, you know, so it’s balanced. Good and bad.
🥴🥴🥴
and of course, half the windows are broken. It's not balanced to have a windshield AND a rear window!
@@TheBenAustin1986 Heck, let's just buzzsaw it right down the middle so you can drive a perfectly balanced half-car, half-not-car.
Headland seems like someone that would say "but I ate breakfast yesterday."
What's even worse is that no one above her seems to realize this, otherwise everything she says would be tightly controlled. Either no one at Disney is keeping a close eye on her or they are and they don't see any problems with her doing a stream of consciousness interview, either possibility is just baffling.
I'm pretty sure there's been no quality control in cast/crew interviews for years. Almost everything I hear from Disney's creatives these days reinforces my impression that no one knows what they're doing.
@@DuneStone6816 My theory as to why this is happening is that after years of mistreating creators they’ve run out of potential hires and are forced to rely on themselves, entirely unqualified people and people who just don’t care and realize that Disney won’t say no regardless of the quality of the script.
I always answer that I don't eat brekfast very often.
@@shogunofpie8303 There are not enough qualified people who also tick all the boxes that they "HAVE" to have. It's more important to them to have a woman, or black person or "non-binary" than it is to hire not just the best person but even just a compotent person at all.
Why does everything need to be hyper sexualized these days
SoCal is infested with people with 0 boundaries. They run on lizard-brain impulses, and that's the main one.
Hyper sexualization leads to unhealthy relationships between men and women.
Unhealthy relationships between men and women result in fewer marriages that are less stable.
Fewer and less stable marriages destroys the nuclear family as a real world phenomenon.
This performs two functions:
1. Depopulation (to satiate the environmental lunatics who belive we're killing Gaia)
2. Eliminates generation-to-generation knowledge and wealth transfer at a private level (to satiate the lunatics who believed Marx and Engels weren't lyssencephalics).
Those two group's circles overlap almost entirely and onto one political "side's" position.
it is what the owners want. it is in their culture. this is such a sick culture that God made them rules like "you shall not kill" and "you shall not steal". These values that normal cultures understand without God. The censored people are insane thanks to 5000 years of inbreeding.
because traditional morals are evil. This is healthy. Everyone agrees.
VAGINA!
1:11:28
It's really funny to hear "don't _make_ me turn this car around!" on a road made of magma and angry wasps, in a car driven by someone who hates you, where the destination is _off a cliff._ These people don't even know how to make threats and it's hilarious to me.
0:36:10 - If "The Boys" had gone down that road, the show would have been Brandon Sanderson's "The Reckoners," which is a fantastically good book series with that exact premise!
Reckoners is very good, Ill say I think none of the followups quite live up to the initial Steelheart but I do really like a lot of ideas he played with and wish he'd actually write Apocalypse Guard one day
Hughies dad dying is just as badly written as you think when you consider Hughie was gunna give him V
My favorite part in The Acolyte, is when the 2 twins swap places and then are immediately known to have swapped anyway.
When the lads talked about having Ryan Kinel in the Star Wars writing room and losing his mind, I'm picturing that scene in The Simpsons when they were making the Radioactive Man movie.
Executive: "I don't see why Ranier Wolfcastle should be the star. I think we should bring back Dirk Richter. Kids will want to see the original Radioactive Man."
Producer: "I keep telling you, he's 73 years old AND HE'S DEAD."
It's funny to watch LH put thought into this story and these characters for the first time during this interview.
There's an anime called Go Go Loser Ranger that I'd argue did this same premise way better than the boys, the main character is weak as hell but he can shapeshift and he's immortal.
For reasons he wants to destroy the dragon keepers who are basically power Rangers with twisted mindset, at least in that show the MC disguised himself as a human, tried to get close to the Rangers and find out their weaknesses ultimately to kill them. The boys at this point is let's run around a circle. I expected this show to come to an abrupt violent end once homelander finds out who the boys were and he just actively starts hunting them. This could've been so good but now it's like homelander is a super powerful clown.
I just watched season 1 of that anime……….i really like the perspective and the direction, so thank you for pointing it out.
I’m thinking as it goes along they may drop the ball with the morality they’re juggling with, but for what I’ve seen, it’s a very cool series
@TheKpa11 Yup I've seen enough overpowered MCs and Loser Ranger was a nice addition this season seeing someone who tries to think to overcome obstacles. We've been renewed for a season 2 so I'm really looking forward to seeing how it goes.
I really enjoyed it and I hope it gains a little more traction since it's a hidden gem, especially with the fluidity of the animation. There's scenes that blend together so smoothly and I'm actually rooting for Fighter D.
on "review bombs" vs the prequels.
Episode 1, most of the negative attention was on Jar Jar Binks being "problematic" and a "racist stereotype", generally from within hollywood, which caused Lucas to remove Jar Jar from his plans for the rest of the trilogy (almost completely). Jake loid was razzed by some for sure, but like, generally people were quite happy with the movie.
Episode 2, obviously the attention was on the Padme / Anakin scenes being rough, and the cringe comedy with C-3P0. the film had more serious issues natch, but people weren't too harsh on it, at first. i loved it when i watched it in theaters. when i rewatched it on DVD, the anakin / padme scenes hurt to watch, but first watch was still good.
Episode 3, as far as i remember was purely positive. like, some complaints about Greevious and Dooku being jobbers, but everyone seemed to like the film a bunch.
later the memes set in and people collectively shit on the prequels, but at the time i remember them being quite positively recevied.
A lot of the discourse, especially for Jar Jar and Lloyd, was spurred on by the Access Media. So when they go on about attacks and stuff by reciting this crap they only have themselves to blame. They even revealed both their addresses which is criminal.
1:11:23 My response to the franchise dying would be like the priest and the town people's response in Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit. 'Allow me to share in your moment of sorrow... YAAAAAY!!!'
Is bombing a review the same as review bombing? food for thought.
I think she catastrophically misunderstood anakin's relationship with padme. TBF--the prequels dont do this great justice but it isnt that anakin loves padme more than himself and to the detriment of all else but that anakin loved his relationship with padme more than all else (including more than he actually loved and cared for padme) to the point that he would do anything to preserve his relationship with padme even if it means betraying everything padme would want. He is unwilling to accept that he will lose her and because of that, is turned to the dark side. His love for her is selfish. Something later foiled against luke's appeal to him where he ultimately does sacrifice himself for Luke and is redeemed.
Given the interview that Leslye Headland did, she really isn't very bright or inventive. At best, she's saying really basic, simple writing things and story beats. At best.
But the Acolyte story doesn't make any sense logically. Which is the LEAST you should be asking from any story.
Boogie would allow Tarkin to blow up earth for a Mtn Dew
"Letting Darth Luke blow up the Klingon's home planet of Galifrey with the Stargate is the only thing that gives me joy in life."
- Boogle Faggins
*Diabeeto, not Boogie. But maybe Boogie too.
I hate when people assert themselves into speaking over people, or dominating the conversation when they have nothing substantial or meaningful to say. Jedi Brooks I'm looking at you. One Rags is more than enough for this podcast.
Was looking for this. Nothing against the guy but he seems like he enjoys hearing the sound of his own voice.
Why is EFAP talking about the Acolyte? There's starving children in Africa.
Why are we talking about starving children in Africa? Spiderman is coming out!
Why are we talking about spiderman coming out? The Elden Ring DLC is here!
Why are we talking about the Elden Ring DLC? EFAP is talking about the acolyte!
(this is the only thing that brings me joy in life)
Did you bought your suplie of slurpo I heard a jar is guaranteed in one of every three quibgifts.
@@Szymnides I'm sorry, the current starving children in africa caused me to have a drought of fleemcurrency. I've had to mortage my second shlurpo to those kids.
The fact that they think twins are a core element to Star Wars are missing the point of Star Wars. There are many MANY things and themes that make Star Wars what it is. It's also silly to think that all force twins should be special.
They keep trying to do Jacen and Jaina solo from the EU
Take a look at how those characters were depicted in the EU then look rey and Ben solo from the sequels
They look pretty much exactly like Jacen and Jaina solo hell Jacen does end up wearing a cloak and mask I believe
@@ComradeCommissarYuri it still pisses me off that they insisted they had “no source material” then they tried to copy it poorly like that.
Oh but just you wait, by the way. I dunno if you watched “Ahsoka” but did you hear what Hera and Kanon’s son’s name is? I’ll give you a hint (🙄🙄🙄) you said it in your comment three times. I sincerely hope they don’t try to just adapt the character straight up now only it’s Hera’s son. I don’t know if they plan on even making anything else that far in the future, but I don’t want to watch them ruin that character too…
4:22:50 I can see how she's the writer. She's got just nothing going on. Her head is hollow.
What was the phrase again... "If you ever had a thought it would die alone and afraid."
A coup, a rebellion against a tyrant and a child's tantrum are all technically "rebelling against authority", but they are in no way equivalent or comparable. I'm not sure Smilo whatever even counts as rebelling. He seems more like the tyrant than the rebel.
It’s devastating that there is genuinely better content on TH-cam than on television
The thing to understand about The Boys and Garth Ennis is it's not a parody in the sense of something like The Tick where Ben Edlund loves Superheroes and he's just having fun with the tropes. No Garth Ennis hates Superheroes and the point of The Boys is to take the piss out of Superheroes and their tropes. It's meant to make Superheroes look like psychopaths and a-holes. It's meant to be Cynical.
It’s edgy for the sake of being edgy, not edgy with a purpose with ASOIAF
It was never a very "smart" comic, but the show makes it look genius.
I like how unapologetic the comic was. Even if it was gross, at least it knew that.
The show is as 'safe edgy' as anything else, it's full of blood and violence and not 1 single offensive word.
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They even made the Nazi a hot chick, because playing that character straight, as in, an actual super powered nazi man with no marketable qualities beyond how hilariously, radically evil he is, is not good for the brand.
But! If the nazi is a hot laaaaady? Why! We can sell that character on the sex appeal of fetishized nazi girls!
@@axiss5840 I’m sorry, but the comic sucked. The first season was already leagues ahead of it and even then it was fine.
I'm not even Zulu but purely as an African myself, Amandla should have made more of an effort to get people to say her name right. Or maybe her mother says it that way too and she doesn't know how to ssy it herself. As far as South Africa goes, that might be the most popular word known internationally because of It's history. Considering how woke she is, I'm surprised she lets people get away with amanda-la. It's not that hard compared to some of the other tongue crushing names I know.
It is pronounced Amanda-la.
See, here in the West, what we decide is de facto.
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Remember when Africa had this rich history of diverse and populace tribal cultures dating back millions of years?
Haha, yeah nah, me neither, I'm glad that's all like, fake news. # WakandaForver!
In fairness, while this may not be a great snapshot, I spent a lot of time in Liberia, and the people I worked with their all gave me handy nicknames to call them as their names were difficult for my purely english speaking tongue to formulate and they cared a *lot* about the proper pronunciation of their names -- it was easier to give me a name I could say, than it was to deal with the insult of me saying their actual name incorrectly.
I wouldn't blame her if she just said "Yeah call me Amanda-la" because nobody around her can say it correctly anyhow.
She’s Danish
@@nananamamana3591 understandable but Amandla isn't that hard and that's not a comparable working environment. Shxt like 'Discourse' and the narcissism show a person that might be bothered by disrespecting a name. During my time in highschool, it was common for white teachers to get major disrespect from some students if they struggled with some names.
I want a faction of force users that are hyper Jedi in order to show that the Jedi ARE the balance to the force. Like an order that's the force equivalent of extreme Buddhist monks that completely turn their back on the world. The ignore all the strife in the world and completely focus on the force. They let atrocities go on because suffering is temporary but the force is eternal or something like that.
If you want more character variety and nuance in an "evil Superman" concept, read "Irredeemable".
6:15:44 "Critic" gets basic film history exactly opposite. He couldn't be more wrong about 70s cinema. The 70s was a huge wave of subversive, culture-critical movies back to back to back. Part of why Star Wars and Jaws had such appeal is they took the best of 70s experimentalism and darker tone, and combined it with more classical storytelling and optimism that the audience was missing at the time.
Specifically, the classical Hollywood epics crashed and burned under their own bloat vis-a-vis Cleopatra bombing in theaters, and Hollywood experienced a dark age and renaissance as indie directors moved in, got rid of the decency codes and restrictions to create small-budget hits that reinvigorated cinema. But these were more challenging and negative on the audience making cinema more of a niche thing.
Star Wars and Jaws were significant in how they were a return to the classic epics that also synthesized and learned from the successes of the new wave filmmakers, to be the best of both worlds.
Star Wars won people over with is classic values of heroism and good vs evil, but it did so with the risky development of introducing Eastern philosophy into the mix which the epics of the '50s wouldn't touch with a ten-foot-pole for being too "un-American".
Star Wars was a risky venture, making the princess a bossy tactician who roasts her own rescue, by making the masculine Han Solo the butt of the joke most scenes while the emotionally-sensitive pipsqueak Luke is the actual main character, by having the Imperial invaders overthrown by oppressed natives in the jungle, by having a morally complex black man be the one to blow up Death Star II, by having the wise mentor teach tranquility and non-intervention instead of war and righteous vengeance. All of this stuff was "hippie nonsense" back in that era. Every single opportunity to push boundaries and diversify, Star Wars took it when hiring another white guy would be far more studio-friendly.
The article doesn't just misunderstand the most well-documented beginner-level film history of what Spielberg and Lucas represents; it's just flat out anti-true.
This article is like liberals calling George Washington an imperialist.
Susana White of Generation Kill Fame directed 3 episodes of andor and she did a pretty good job like its not like Disney doesn’t have competent female directors they just ignore them to hire idiots for large projects
“Human music! I like it!” - Jerry Smith
The audience score for Revenge of the Sith is 66 percent. Nice.
Every time I see Lesbie Headlamp I keep thinking about "Pillow Cube"😂
Episode 7 Sol is going to cast his mind back 16 years and tell the story of what happened that fateful night.
This was an excellent, engaging, funny and thoughtful conversation. Thank you so much for this; I thoroughly enjoyed it