The book is fine. The opening pages tell us clearly that we are nuking bugs on planets with intelligent beings, using all the ammo (because it’s too expensive to return with nukes) and leaving for another planet with bugs.
After that we jump to our protagonist, who is being brainwashed in high school.
Finally, Heinlein was writing his father’s worldview and wanted to take it to its logical end.
I love that book and movie.
There’s a theory that the main character actually is suffering from cancer and that the love interest is also a lens for him to confront who he really is.
Fascinating how that upends it all, but I am not sure I believe it.
He did engage, by saying that the only superhero is Jesus, which did indeed kill the humor.
It’d be even more amazing if the original owner was still around and then it was stolen.
SCP was kinda my entrypoint into creepypasta, so I appreciate the clarification. Wouldn’t have known there was a prior inspiration to it.
Looks like the IKEA SCP as a movie.
As someone who followed the trial as it happened, the cops really botched the investigation and the prosecution was incompetent.
It was clear that he was guilty but the defense introduced enough wiggle room, like telling him not to take his arthritis medication on the day he was to try on his murdering gloves in court.
His hands swollen, the gloves don’t fit, and the prosecution allowed it to happen in open court.
I’m a Community superfan. Still waiting on the movie.
I think his point isn’t that the shows are great but that the actors are in a show that airs five hours a week, and there isn’t really anywhere else in tv to get that amount of time working and developing your skills anymore.
This makes perfect sense given the massive purchase they just… hey, wait a minute…
More or less agreed.
It was overstuffed, but since it was never meant to be a theatrical cut, chose to lean into the excess.
The Zack Snyder Justice League cut was not a good movie, in my opinion, but it did justify Ray Fisher’s complaint that Joss Whedon cut the soul from the movie while editing out the Cyborg arc.
The Netflix shows did a great job of making their version of New York be connective tissue between them.
There was an elephant too?!
The thing that changed my viewpoint is learning that the act of remembering changes the memory in your brain.
So when something pops in from your past and you cringe and beat yourself up over it, you also poison the well. Suddenly you find there are no memories left that don’t evoke shame.
You have to forgive yourself, or at least try. Most of us have nothing that terrible to be ashamed of in the first place, and the rest… this will still help whittle down the list to things you’re ashamed of that you can atone for in acts of service.
I have put way too much effort in self-hatred. I’m trying to be more self-forgiving. It’s a slow process.
Maybe there are techniques to pursue, akin to meditation and mindfulness. I honestly don’t know if it’s possible to treat aphantasia, but looking into it is worthwhile.
For me it’s isn’t complete aphantasia but nearly, as I can only get a fleeting glimpse when I visualize something.
But I am a creative individual in many ways, so I try not to beat myself up over the ways in which I lack, especially given that I have no control here.
I think it’s just tier enough.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a Daredevil parody/love letter.
They get their powers from the same accident that gives Matt Murdoch his.
Mentor? Splinter / Stick. Enemy? The Foot / The Hand.
Good but not great. They dump the battlesuits entirely. For budget reasons this makes sense at the time but that investment in equipment (and to a lesser extent the soldiers within) shows the cost of space travel and how we are spending insane amounts to kill space bugs that are on most worlds.
But they, in turn, use the infantry rush of unarmored soliders pretty well to show the cost of war.
The use of propaganda in the media mirrors the indoctrination well enough. It keeps the audience from completely getting on board with the propaganda since it’s so on the nose. (Some will still swallow it, the same way some people saw The Boondock Saints as an awesome hero flick rather than an over-the-top action comedy.)