Let's start with a positive. I think out of all the new animes I'm watching "My Hero Academia" is easily my favorite. Holy crap, this show, this theme song (of the 1st Season...and Episode 14 and so one of the 2nd Season) to the closing theme of the 2nd Season (episodes 14 and so on), this show just has excellent characters, a good narrative and a strong sense of storytelling. I am THRILLED to have discovered this show and had the wherewithall to check it out. Once again, Himiko Toga was my sole reason for checking this series out (I'm a sucker for demented cuties) but Izuku Midoriya is such an amazing character that I can't help but want to continue watching his story. It got to the point where I completely forgot about Himiko and I wasn't disappointed at all that I only saw her in one episode. All that being said CANNOT wait to see where this show goes in it's 3rd Season!
So for awhile now I've been saying I want to do a Strangeverse webcomic continuing the storyline onward from Season 5, and I haven't given up on that at all, just due to my living situation and other priorities, putting the time, energy and effort into such an undertaking (with no financial incentive to do so) is going to be INCREDIBLY difficult. That isn't to say I'm making zero progress on that matter as my ability to draw women has been increasing. Now that I feel as though I have a decent enough handle on drawing women I intend to spend a great awhile drawing mainly nothing BUT women to the point where they become as easy for me to draw as men are. All that to say is that the advancing of my artistic abilities will aide me in the future of finally launching The Strangeverse webcomic if/when that ever gets off the ground. At the moment it's just a want, until I actually start drawing frames and such it'll remain a want.
Now on to "Justice League". This won't be a review but if you want my quick thoughts on it, the movie was WOEFULLY underwhelming and was basically your standard bargain basement action flick with superheroes sprinkled in. I won't touch on the inaccuracies of The Motherboxes and their function, Steppenwolf as the main villain and how generic he was, the fact that parademons when killed when somehow form an outline that showcases the Motherboxes...I could go on and on but I won't. Instead I think I'll just say that the BIGGEST problem "Justice League" has is the fact that you can't ignore what came before it. "Batman v Superman" did not show a world that loved and adored Superman, it showed a world that was largely conflicted about his existence. They didn't showcase any moment where Superman was looked to as a symbol of peace and hope etc. etc.
However, in "Justice League", the opening of the film would have you believe that all hope was lost from the opening song to the imagery. Zack Synder is a great visual director but horrible at storytelling. He can tell a story visually but the narrative has to work with it and it didn't because of what was established in "Batman v Superman" was ignored in "Justice League". It wasn't even a "You don't know what you have til it's gone." sort of thing. It'd be one thing to see Superman's critics in "Batman v Superman" come back in "Justice League" and say "We should have thought differently about him." that's not the case. At no point in "Batman v Superman" did I believe that Superman was a symbol of peace or hope or anything.
I'll level with everyone, I'm tired of beating up on DC Movies, they deserve it and I'm hoping they fail and fail HARD just for the sole purpose of getting their stuff together but I'm tired of all the nit-picking. A LOT of people were harping on Henry Cavill's CGI'ed out moustache and truth be told, I didn't even notice. Wouldn't have noticed unless someone pointed it out and even then it wasn't even bad. I've seen BAD CGI and that was not it, but the fact that this is now a meme when the DCEU has given us such a gem in "Why'd you say that name!?" (and I'm sure many others down the line). Anyways, now that "Justice League" is out and over and done with and I'm officially stating it right here on this blog that I am DONE, done with all DCEU Movies and yes that includes the Black Adam starring The Rock. I'm done. They've let me down way too much and this was their opportunity to turn it around and sadly, they did not. Here's to hoping in 20 years they finally get someone in charge who knows what their doing and finally give the Justice League some justice, but until then I won't be holding my breath.
Moving right along to "Star Wars", I did enjoy "The Last Jedi" however, I did have some problems with it. The good? I LOVED the relationship between Kylo Ren & Rey, the fact that she goes from hating his guts to wanting to rescue him is nothing short of excellent character development, and I love how they fleshed out Kylo's character a bit. However, the bad is they more or less walked Kylo's character development back after he took the role of Supreme Leader and he went back to being loud and unhinged. This movie presented Kylo as more of a wounded dog, tired of being told who he was and what he was etc. etc. and his declaration of letting the past die after killing Snoke was a complete honest moment for him which showed that he doesn't want to be a Sith Lord, he doesn't want to be a Jedi he just wants to be who he is and that was real, so it's sad to see him go back to being how he was, hopefully however his mutual understanding with Rey remains.
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| Peace out, Snoke. |
More over, Rose is not a good character or at least her presentation in "The Last Jedi" didn't do her any favors. He love of Finn comes out of nowhere and at a moment when something REALLY ballsy was about to happen. Finn sacrificing himself would've been a ballsy move and would've solidified Finn's standing in "Star Wars" history but along comes Rose and unlike her sister (who made a hero sacrifice) she made a...heroic save? He declaration of love for Finn being spoken as the cannon blasts down the door...just a really poor moment. And speaking of poor moments that who casino planet could've been done without.
I'd have liked more Snoke as I found him absolutely delightful as a villain. He was a lot like Palpatine in the prequels, evil and loving it. Sadly, we'll never know what we wanted to know about Snoke and that sucks but oh well. All that being said, I do NOT understand the fascination people have with shirtless Kylo Ren and the varying memes stemming from that. I don't get it and I don't wanna get it.
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| Seriously, though, what's the deal? |
That's all I'll say on "The Last Jedi". That being said, still on "Star Wars", this December will see a Han Solo movie...and maybe I missed something but most people don't seem interested...the general consensus seems to be for an Obi Wan movie...this confuses the hell out of me because we had an Obi Wan movie...3 of them...So unless they intended to get Liam Nesson back as Qui Gon Jin, I really don't see the appeal of an Obi Wan movie. Also what would the timeline of an Obi Wan film be? Because at the end of the prequels Obi Wan went straight to Tattoonie, he didn't go anywhere else...and if he did what would he be doing? I just don't get it and I'm not interested in an Obi Wan film.
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| Not excited. |
Now on to some weird discussion. It should be no surprise to anyone that I'm hoping to become a screenwriter in Hollywood one day, however due to recent events I'm none too keen on the idea. What I'm talking about is the sexual abuse going on in Hollywood along with the outcries and revelations now revealed. Needless to say I have a few issues with everything going on. For starters, we're lead to believe that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted a lot of big names in Hollywood, yet there was radio silence about his activities until now. Harvey Weinstein isn't a nobody in Hollywood, and even one of The Obama Girls interned for him, but now it's revealed that Harvey was groping everything in sight and my question, and I think the important question is "Why now?".
I'm not victim blaming but this needs to be said, as much as I wanted to be a screenwriter/director in Hollywood if Meryl Strep (and I'm using her because I don't find her attractive, and I can't imagine any of women Harvey fondled found him attractive, so the hypothetical fits) promised me a check with lots of zeros and free reign for whatever project I wanted to do IF I would sleep with her my answer would be "Hell to the No!". And that's ultimately my point, say what you will and call me whatever but let's be completely honest here, a lot of the women coming forward knew what the deal was and were silent because of it. Because being COMPLETELY honest A LOT of women have come forward with various rape allegations about *insert Hollywood big wig here* and were dismissed and discredited and they're Nobodies right now, but a Somebody took down Harvey Weinstien. Somebody with some clout and with some pull took down Harvey and now everyone else is jumping on the dog pile. Where were you when there wasn't a dog pile?
I'm not giving Harvey a pass and I'm not saying anyone deserves to be harassed or anything, what I am saying is that many of them went along with it and kept their mouths shut because they were getting somewhere and were willing to sell their souls to get where they are now, that's the truth. The reason I say so is because a lot of these people have husbands and money and enough pull to call up ANY Hollywood journalist or any journalist for that matter and say "Yo, Harvey Weinstien told me to suck such and such for this and that.". I mean Selma Hayek has written an entire article about Harvey's misdeeds. Why wasn't this article written before? We've all heard rumors of "the casting couch" and things of the like and they were "the best kept secret" in Hollywood...only because no one had the balls to say it and the people who did were silenced.
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| Even you, Quentin said you knew enough to do something but didn't... |
But in all honesty, if something like that happened to one woman...it probably happened to more, and it just raises my eyebrow that none of these woman talked to each other and said "Hey, Harvey just did this thing...did anything like that happen to you?". I think I said enough on this topic. I'm just really disenfranchised with this whole thing. No other profession is plagued with abuse and drugs like the entertainment industry and my question is WHY? Demi Lovato was apparently high on cocaine, Kevin Spacey was coming on to 14 year old boys and a rapist of a 13 year old girl got thunderous applause...what the hell is this industry anyway?
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| Add Roman Polanski and Kevin Spacey and I feel like there's a joke in this somewhere... |
Anyway, as for myself, if you've read my previous blog, you'll know I'm getting increasingly better at drawing women. This is all leading up to the eventual Strangeverse webcomic I hope to create somewhere down the line and that's about it. My life has taken many strange turns and becoming a father is by far the strangest, my life is not my own, my time is not my own and I slowly feel myself disappearing. I'm losing my identity and it's kinda painful. Either way, I love my son, dearly and he's an awesome baby but being a parent is tricky work...let alone alone being a parent in a house with (excluding myself and my son) 3 other people (one of which is his mother a.k.a my wife, the others being in-laws). Being the only males in a female dominated household is nothing I'm not used to but the need for Kim and I to get our own place is quickly becoming paramount. We'll see what 2018 holds for us, until then here's proof positive that O'Brien's pimp hand is strong. Catch you guys later!
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