So lately I watched The Boys season 3, it was real good, solid drama, lots of fun times, crazy as always, brutal as hell. Butcher was solid, evil, intense, dedicated, absolutely mad, but still admirable and likable, easily the best character in the show. They did enough of what makes everyone love it, evolved their characters and their storyline, deviated just enough to keep things exciting and didn't stick to just the tried and true format, while they still chickened out a little at the end and set things back to business as usual, there was enough to change up that things should feel different enough for next season.

All in I'd give season 3 8.7 out of 10, it wasn't LOST or West World season 1, but it was very good.

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Now onto the big dog, Stranger Things.

Season 4 was released in two parts, the first part was groundbreaking, character expanding, they flexed hard on other TV shows again, it was extra creepy, the bad guy was dynamic this time, had real character.

As far as their character building goes this show is way ahead of the others. Not only do their old characters feel fleshed out and updated, their relationships with each other also evolve naturally and grow in good ways, but where they really shine is in their newly introduced characters, they're iconic, great to watch, entertaining, deeply flawed, and honestly, in a lot of ways, even better than their original characters.

Now onto the split section, as I mentioned the first part of season 4 was great.. the second part though highlighted in all the usual ways what they lack, and that is mostly in follow through. The second part was not good, a lot of wasted time of meaningless stuff and not a lot of logical stuff going on, more of just pushing for all the characters having SOMETHING to do, even if those somethings were totally illogical and irrelevant, making a lot of it just seem like burning time and having their characters chase their own tails just so they get screen time.

The major way they don't follow through though is always in a lack of real stakes, in the second part the bad guy is meaningless, weak, makes no sense and his plots are.. mostly stupid. We don't get an expansion on his lore or motives, he's just soulless retarded evil.. and gets defeated in his first outing, I cannot stress enough of much of a mistake this is, if your bad guy loses in his first outing, he will never be taken seriously again, he doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.

Also every season, ONLY NEW CHARACTERS DIE, if only new characters die, there are no stakes.


So if I rated each part that came out separately I'd give the first part of season 4 a 9.3 out of 10, something like that, damn near perfect.

The second part though.. like 6 out of 10, it was entertaining, but mostly too much of what we already had with no real hard take on anything that actually mattered, they threw away several characters that could have served the plot well and instead killed them just for the purpose of killing them while avoiding anything that would have been perceived as a real loss.


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And finally West World season 4, haven't gotten real far on it yet, only a few episodes, it's still going way too woke for my liking, white characters standing around looking stupid, wondering what's going on while black characters lead them around by the hand or straight up enslave them. Maeve still larping around as a samurai and just generally being insanely overpowered is single-handedly ruining the show, now she's joined by another retarded story of someone taking over the setting and running the whole game, again a black female character that wasn't introduced under those pretenses just for social justice points. Really pathetic what wokeism is doing to storytelling these days.

Those things aside I want to talk about what they're doing right, which is a lot of things, Black Rider is at his butchering best, menacing, intimidating, downright dark, and with sinister, mysterious motives, he's a great good guy or bad guy, as he's been both several times throughout the story to this point.

West World always accurately feels like it's in the future, everything feels expensive and yet loathsome, everything we see is advanced, so future and yet so similar to what we now like it's a fantasy upgrade of our world and it feels like our world, with all the dread and disgust that we have for each other and our culture. On the surface everything is so beautiful in this show, it really gives a sense of immersion, and once you get into it, everything is so fucked up and wrong, as executed in season 1, culminating to a grand crescendo of poetic excellence.

And then onto the other huge thing done right this season so far, Dolores, she is the heart and soul of this show, without her they have nothing, her storylines are always what matters, the actress is excellent and she carries every scene she's in. Her storyline this season is creepy and weird, feels like everything is hinging on it and I have no idea what's going on with her, it's everything the show should be about if only they weren't worried about being woke trash enough to please the brainless mobs.

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As for movies, the new Jurassic World sucked, the plot was stupid, the acting was.. only decent, the writing was absolute garbage, it was hollow and weak.

Doctor Strange 2 has been the only good Marvel movie after End Game and it wasn't THAT good, it did feel like Doctor Who when Doctor Who was still good, but it was WAY too woke. All the storylines, all the solutions, the main villain, all the powers that mattered, were ALL female, Doctor Strange felt like a guest in his own movie. The more Marvel goes woke, the more they fuck up everything.

Nicolas Cage hit a homerun with The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, it felt like classic Cage but updated to a modern approachable setting, it was funny, had heart, meta self-reference and even making fun of everything it was about like a movie within a movie, reminded me a lot of Tropic Thunder.



Edit: Witcher season 2 sucked, the first episode was good, the rest was woke trash.

Has anyone seen the Eastrail 117 trilogy? What are your thoughts on it? Slight spoilers:

They always talk about a "grounded, realistic, superhero movie" and I found the trilogy to be the most realistic depiction of superheroes. Aside from being well-acted and generally well-written (we will get it), I love those movies almost more than the MCU. As for the writing props on making it a surprise trilogy and the climax, its a sucker punch but that's what makes it so believable in my opinion. As for the dénouement, yeah you can tell it was supposed to be released a decade ago; but not too shabby.

The only one I saw was Unbreakable, guess I now have 2 extra movies to watch.

As for grounded Superheroes, while not nearly as ground into dust as Unbreakable and the like, I am quite fond of The Boys, also the character of Butcher reminds me of myself a great deal, but a stylized fictional version without restraint.

Oi Huey, you’re a good cunt.

I saw Avatar 2, the CGI was totally out of this world again, just like the first time, but obviously way better in the second movie.

However it had major problems plot-wise and it was kinda boring, a lot of the same as the first movie but less innovative and or creative in general, I won't go into too many details until a bit later to avoid any potential spoilers.

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Now onto the real thing I wanted to talk about and the reason I made this post, Willow. George Lucas is some kind of fucking genius, not only did he make Star Wars and obviously we all know a lot about that, but it turns out his talent isn't only in sci-fi and special effects. I recently rewatched a couple of the prequel trilogy movies and the only reason I can come up with for why people didn't like them is pure unadulterated retardation, the stupidity of the masses essentially.

Willow is a fantasy epic from George Lucas, and I was blown away by how good it was, it has a bit of cheese and wokism in it, because what the fuck now a days doesn't, but fuck does it do a lot right. There is great characterization, it has a fun and funny D&D adventure style to it, the nostalgia feeling hits home hard and this has so much heart, you can feel what made Star Wars so magical just seeping out of Willow everywhere.

It's medieval fantasy with lots of magic and strange creatures, the beginning is a little rough but once you get over the adjustment period it hits the ground running. The lore is deep and every character feels like they have a real history already established when you meet them and it only gets better as it goes, again George Lucas' touch is all over it, the man is magic.

I strongly recommend giving Willow a shot, it's so exactly what a lot of our writing has tried to be or wished it could be and watching it has brought me back around to the idea that characters need to be nerfed, to virtually the point of disgrace and fracture and that's one of the things I still struggle with to this day, that's also something that they pushed in LOST, West World, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, etc.. we still have a lot to learn.

One T.V. show that I have been pretty impressed with (at least for the time being) is 'The Last of Us". I haven't ever played the game, but given I've watched the cinematics for the game on Youtube, I can see how they've kept with the basics of the actual game story and expanded on it to make it into a beautiful show so far. I haven't watched Willow yet, but from what I have heard, it is above average to average to many fans of the movie. Regardless, I'll take a look at it soon and see for myself.