Writer and essayist, focused on examining media through a critical lens. I will not pretend to be unbiased. I joined KZread because I suspect James Somerton was probably going to plagiarize me sooner or later, so I'll put my flag here before someone else copies my writing. Bylines on Dread Central, Anime Herald, Anime Feminist, CBR, and more. My views are my own.
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I think the toxic fans are the reason why George sold Lucaslfilm to Disney. There was a documentary in the mid 2000's called George Lucas ruined my childhood and the documentary wasn't very good. I'm not a huge fan of the sequel Trilogy and the Mandalorian Season 3, Book of Boba-Fett or the Kenobi Show. I found Ahsoka to be pretty good
A berserk section in a magneto video essay? Sign me up. 10/10
I grew up during the CGI Clone Wars series, so that period of Star Wars is the most nostalgic for me. The Last Jedi is the first movie where I felt that "I don't care about this anymore" emotion. I didn't hate the whole movie, but there were some particular fake out moments where it felt like the writers didn't commit to sacrifices that would have given meaning to the events on screen. But I came to a realization that the movies just aren't my thing, anymore. They belong to a different audience, now. The best thing for me to do now is sit my old-ass in the corner and let the kids have fun, lol.
The problem with X-Men being an allegory for racial bigotry (eventually changed to other allegories for other groups, in less fitting ways, I'd argue in some cases) is mutants genuinely can be more dangerous. There's mutant named Nitro. His power is he just BLOWS UP. In fact his blowing up is what really kicks off the even lt Civil War. That's terrifying. Or the mutant boy in ultimate X-Men who just naturally accidentally kills his whole town just by existing.
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He shows a map made by a fan and criticizes Rowling's choice of school districts lol. You can even read in the video that the legend says "Wizarding schools (my interpretation)", meaning the fans interpretation, but here he is, criticizing that India and Pakistan are in the same district, when in the canon map they're not.
Wow..... now i want to hear your thoughts on things like Lego Ninjago or Lego Bionicle. Regardless of if you think it is good, not good, or just something else you didn't know before.
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My first Pokemon game is Pokemon Ruby version. I even still have the cartridge inside my Pokemon Diamond case. I consider it my # 1 Dime.
And people literature devil or their fans will scream at you “long man bad!” When you say a video like there’s is too long and not worth viewing. No. Your videos just suck and make no points. I’ve watched the Hbomb plagerism video multiple times. The moviebob analysis of Batman v. Superman more than I can count. It’s not that long videos are bad. It’s that they’re bad at making them.
100%. The problem isn't length. It's focus.
Lily also has a oc which is yhis weird clonw hybrid child gardevoir who she labelled as autistic.
5:52 Bloomsbury and Scholastic Press created all-black-with-gloomy-real-world-object "adult" covers for the books so that adults wouldn't be embarrassed to be seen reading HP books in public. Twilight's book covers would ape them down the line.
My god the Madoka Magica one like Lily do you not know what a genre deconstruction is? Are you going to complain that the supes in Watchmen are thugs for the police state? Yeah like that’s kind of the point, because if superpowered beings were real of course the state would use them for control that’s the point
37:08 THANK YOU!!!! finally someone has said it. It’s so funny how Rowling didn’t bother to take the Pakistan India conflict into consideration when it’s a direct result of British colonialism. I didn’t expect her to address the colonialism but at least she should know how the countries hate eo’s guts!!! I’m Pakistani so it’s even funnier to me
As a child, I'd get every book that came out as thats what everyone did. I loved books and would go through them so fast, but I always struggled with Harry Potter. I hated the world, just everything about ot rubbed me the wrong way. I think it was the 4th book when I fell off. There were just so many more interesting books out there.
Flannery taking about having a crush on flannery when she was younger sound creepy mainly cause if you lol ooo into her she is werud
...Okay hang on, I'm two minutes in but already I'm bewildered by the stupidty of this woman. Did Jo just... sleep through every history class in school? Because idk about anyone else but by like, year 4 of UK secondary school at the latest, we had absolutely been taught about this stuff. At least the well known Nazis methods. We knew all about their strategies for demonising and destroying whatever groups they didn't appreciate. We had print outs of the antisemetic propaganda, the videos where they were BURNING BOOKS, the speeches... I remember our teacher using the blue-eyes-brown-eyes demonstration on my class. (ironically, or perhaps fittingly in this case, he used our School's *House* system as the dividing trait). Is she just... incredibly inobservant of reality? Like, I noticed that parallel once I got like, half a book in. An ELEVEN YEAR OLD could've figured that out if their junior school teachers were sensible about it. It's not exactly a subtle, clever bit of storytelling, Jo. You grew up in England, we've been surrounded by political propaganda going one way or another all our blooming lives.
Sometimes I think that the whole "Harry Potter got me into reading" mindset is kinda what made it hard for a lot of people to think somewhat critically about Harry Potter. Because it was their first novel of the sort, they had absolutely no point of comparison, and when they started reading other books, they couldn't find the books that replicated that spark that made them want to read books in the first place (either because they went looking for similar stories and couldn't find something close enough that wasn't a copy, or because they went for something totally different that didn't speak to them on the same level). And since they love it, then it made it the best series. As someone who got into reading via other books and kinda only read HP because I was tired of the surprised look of people who were confused that a big reader had never read the HP books (ans also because I was stuck on a trip with a sprained ankle with only adult litterature that was too grown up for me haha), had HP not gotten those big adaptations and marketing behind... I would probably just have remembered it has a fun story I had read once between the many okay YA novel I've read as a teen ; and I might still have gotten into the fandom (I am not going to go over what was said in the video again but as a fandom old it is clear to me that the stories that got the biggest fandom are often those where there are things the reader can put somehting of themselves into -- whereas story with really solid storytelling and worldbuilding, while they make for a better book, tend to not lend themselve to fandom spaces as easily), but I would not have put it on such a high shelf. Hell, I never actually reread the books, only relied on fanfiction when I wanted that itch scratched. [On a side note there is also the fact that, despite having made up words, HP is actually really easy to read -- which does make it great for a kid who doesn't speack english as their native language to use, but is also in fact a really good open door for kids who are not used to reading but got interested because of the films : they're not struggling over the action of reading, and what may be complicated is compensated by the fact they already have the gratification aspect since they know they will like the story. But that's another point] One thing that I can't help but think is that Harry Potter is to YA novels what Naruto is to mangas: not only do they have similar grievances (the system is shown to be flawed but nothing really change, same vibe with the ending with the kids and all is well, technically very big world that pure canon (not counting fillers) allude to but deosn't really flesh out, thus allowing the reader to put somehting of themselves into it, magic system that look like hard magic but crumbles the moment you try to make it make sense...) but they both are held on that special category because, for a lot of people, they are what made them go into that specific media/storytelling type, even though that media existed before them and continued after and had other (better) existing stories. But people will held them up to that special standart, as if they were THE reference, and nothing can equal that.(There's just so many thing that could be said in regard to fandom with these two stories and the more I think about it, the more similarities I found)
Just finished the Wheel of Time. I wouldn't recommend it. The story is so needlessly long, and there are a couple of forgettable books in the middle where it feels like almost nothing happens.
24:53 What's up with this watermelon?
I think Snyder needs a better writer.
In a lot of ways I think extremists see the Avengers and other Marvel heroes as “one of the good ones”. Condescending double standards made manifest. (This feels so bleak you could call it “the boys”)
26:05 I would have been four when this came out 💀
Harry Potter is a children's series.It's a fictional world. I don't think it's a particularly well crafted one but it is one of the first books a lot of kids remember reading and immersing themselves in.Take it for what it is. Digging through the works of previous generations and finding they don't align with modern sensibilities should be an expectation not a shock.It's a work of a time and place.This type of analysis is worthless and supercilious.I think the series will last only because it's entertaining not because it has some deep social commentary.
26:36 that is a problem with the way Marvel and in general superhero comics operate. The Xmen can't save the day on an Avengers comic and the Avengers can't save the day on a Xmen comic. They are characters that deserve their spotlight to take main stage in their own works. But that, due to the nature of the Xmen civil rights theme, has the unintended side-effect of making the Avengers seem like bigots that side with the racist humans than with their mutant friends.
Big disagree on the show "heroizing" US Agent.
i played mass efffect recently and it shocked me quite a bit how sexualized the characters were and honestly yeaaaaahhh it might be a age gap thing I didn't really grow up with these games