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The main difference between 'Fuck this show (derogatory)' and 'FUCK THIS SHOW (lovingly)' is that the first one is really rooted in 'I am finished with this show's bullshit' while the second is 'I expected happy-fun times and instead I'm feeling things and am being forced to confront things I'm not ready to as I sob while eating ice cream'
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I think I need to take time off to recover.
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Harrow would be so proud of Ezran 🥺😭😭😭
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ASSFDGFNFJDGCGFUFHJ NEW DRAGON PRINCE SEASON 4 CLIP!!!
CALLUUUM!!!! Holy crud I love the new look!
(Please don’t get obsessed with the mirror like a certain somebody)
Also, ITS COMING TO NETFLIX THIS NOVEMBER!!
(At least, it says so in the description of this clip)
Anyways,
How To Train Your Dragon (2010) / The Dragon Prince (2018—?) / The Sea Beast (2022)
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I just rewatched the Dragon Prince in honor of season 4 releasing, and I’m totally nerding out over the parallels between Harrow and Ezran in the their last days as king.
Harrow is a good man, caught in cycle of violence he can’t stop because he views the conflict with Xadia as a narrative of strength. A philosophy that feeds on centuries worth of conflict and pain, and perpetuates a war that could’ve ended centuries ago.
And the directors show us this by having Harrow march TOWARDS the Katolis towers, where his war and throne rooms await him (obviously he chose neither, but there’s a whole different discussion as to why.)
Ezran does the opposite. Despite being in literal, physical chains at the end of his reign, Ezran broke the metaphorical chains of history when he chose to make peace with Xadia.
And because of that, Ezran is moving AWAY from the towers, and all that they represent. He chooses to reject Katolis’ self destructive narrative of strength, and walk his own path, unknowingly fulfilling Harrow’s dying wish.
And just in case that wasn’t enough of a gut punch, Frederick Weidmann (the show’s composer) uses the same score (Last Sunset) in both scenes to nail home the connection.
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Deadpool 3 announcement. Deadpool 3 release date: September 6th 2024
America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)
To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.
They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.
The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.
BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.
The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.
I think this model is the best one for several reasons:
It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups
It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.
It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader
This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.
#you might notice that there are a lot of similarities between cult techniques and those of abusive partners#and that is an important thing to be aware of
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in case youre wondering, the local puriteens pull numbers on the bite model
I feel like this is more relevant on social media because no one will tell you they find you ugly in person but people will fucking tear someone apart in the comments under their selfie if they don’t find them attractive
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I'm not throwing my hat into the discourse ring at all on this but I think it's really really weird and strawmanny for people to paint everyone who wishes at least some grocery stores or restaurants remained 24 hours as like. bougie office workers who just got done getting plastered at a party who really want a sandwich instead of the people I actually regularly saw at 24 hour places during the "odd hours" which were blue collar 2nd and 3rd shift factory workers and truck drivers and other food service workers. like it's fucked up and an obvious direct example of capitalism ruining peoples lives and sleep schedules for endless profit that such a convenience has to exist at all but pretending your enemy who wishes they could get food after their shift ends is just as selfishly entitled as a six figure earning tech bro either means you want an easy argument to win or you don't see the people who already live in the time zone underbelly of your society as existing in the first place
night shift factory worker.
I would pay double if I could go to the dentist at 2am.
Night shift convenience store/cafe worker here:
Yeah, we get our fair share of bar patrons and stoners throughout the night but do you know who else comes in for food? The bartender. The chef from the local restaurant after he closes for the night. The delivery drivers from the pizza shop across the street who get back too late from their last run to have the cooks make anything for them. Two companies worth of sanitation workers on their way to work. Construction workers about to travel to their job site. Doctors and nurses getting off shift or on their way in. Utility workers on call for emergencies. Police and EMTs. Sex workers. Road maintenance crews. The owners and staff of the donut shop and little bakeries in town. So many truck drivers. I'm on a first-name basis with the woman who drives the huge USPS mail truck making deliveries to poat offices who stops in every time she drives past because we are the only place open on her route where she can use the bathroom and grab a cup of coffee. Teachers on their way in early to lesson plan or set up or attend meetings. Panicked parents of sick children who are always so upset that we don't carry medicine for babies and kids but are so grateful that at least they can get pedialyte and soup and popsicles.
Walmarts in my area close at 11:00 pm and have since the pandemic started. All of the local Dennys diners close at 8:00pm after a server was brutally attacked because someone's food was taking too long. Every shop and restaurant around has now hiring signs posted. The town Facebook page is constantly full of announcements of shortened business hours and "Sorry we can't open today because we don't have staff." When Mom and I wake up in the evening and don't feel like cooking we know we will probably have to call 2 or 3 different places to find somewhere that is open to pick up food from because so many restaurants around only stay open until 6:00 or 7:00. Most small businesses in the area have closed permanently. People come from 30+ minutes away because they know we will be open. So many of our regulars were devastated last week when we had to shut down the kitchen overnight for a few shifts because Mom and I were out with covid and we are literally 50% of the overnight staff. Thankfully most of our regulars were understanding and were so happy to see us back and hear that we were feeling better.
Yeah, the night shift is busier than it has ever been and staffing is terrible (on all shifts, not just ours) and we sometimes have to scramble to get everything done, but I try not to let it get to me because our main customer base is other people keeping odd hours to make a living and keep society running and they are very appreciative and grateful to have somewhere to go at all. And even the drunks and stoners and college kids getting mozzarella sticks at 3:00am are usually really nice and happy we're open.
I too would pay extra to be able to go to the doctor or dentist at like. 6am or (gods forbid!) On the *weekend* 😱
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Yeah, Daredevil might be good, but we all know that no role Charlie Cox plays will ever be as good or as iconic as his role as Tristan Thorn in Stardust (2007)
Lord of the Rings:
Vs.
Game of Thrones:
"But where's that light coming from" BITCH IT'S FANTASY WHO CARES
Ok but also from a like, theatrical storytelling perspective, there’s a thing called “willful suspension of disbelief” which is basically the concept that in order to let ourselves be immersed and enjoy a story, we need to turn off our knowledge that it’s all fake anyway.
like yes, we all *know* it’s unrealistically bright for a night time war, but it needs to be so we can SEE the story being told, and the lighting designer used blue light to show it was night time. We KNOW that Sir Ian isn’t actually a wizard but we SUSPEND that DISBELIEF because we want to be entertained.
theres the moon, theres the stars, in this fantasy world the stars might be four times as bright or there might be two moons or, considering this is a land without electric lights, its assumed that everyones eyes, including those of the viewers, have adjusted enough to the darkness that yes normal ass moon and stars provide sufficient illumination to actually see that the elf king is not wearing sweatpants like youd be able to tell or who the hell was that who just got stabbed thats kind of an important detail in an action scene
Elijah Wood said he brought this up with Andrew Lesnie, cinematographer on LOTR, once and asked him where the light was coming from in a particular scene, and Lesnie just smiled and said “same place as the music”.
i’m very willing to suspend disbelief because the helm’s deep scene is awesome, but it is just very obviously white spotlights for the sake of the audience and not as someone put it just brighter moon and stars. that being said, as a realism nerd outside of high fantasy the darker scenes of game of thrones are fitting to the grittiness of the show
Not really.
They're just impossible to watch.
That's the whole point of this post: you can have a gritty, atmospheric vibe while still permitting your audience to see what is happening.
And aren't we past defending a creative team who so clearly rushed their way through that season to get to go make Star Wars that they actually ruined their own careers?
I mean if you want a recent, "gritty" movie that did a good job with lighting, look at Prey. There are scenes by torch/firelight and by moonlight and both can be seen clearly by the viewer. It even takes place on (gasp) Earth! Proving that realistic lighting Can Be Used in a way that still allows the viewer to see!
I actually Lost My Shit during a scene because it was lit by torchlight and then they snuffed the torch and I could still see!
Game of Thrones had lazy lighting in the name of "realism" when the show featured dragons and ice zombies. Spider is 100% right.
The genre where it is acceptable to have incredibly dark scenes on purpose is: horror
And if you look at those scenes in horror films, they are almost always lit such that your Potential Victim and/or the foreground is visible, and the Creepy Thing is just barely visible so that you (and, believably, the Potential Victim) don't see it at first.
here is an example from a long twitter quote-tweet chain about single shots from films that will haunt you forever (along with a well-lit nighttime scene from the person he's quote-tweeting):
One thing about this that hasn't been spelled out in this thread is that just as important as the amount of light in a scene is its placement.
You can have a really dark scene, major parts of the screen just black, and as long as the light you do have is positioned such that it's hitting the relevant planes and edges of the focus of the shot, you're fine. The frame is intelligible.
Just. Get some contrasts in there, egad.
Film involves pointing a camera at a real object, but it still relies on the same basic composition principles as drawing and painting. You are making an image out of light to be processed by a human brain. That doesn't change.
I get the impression this is less and less emphasized in cinematography and the directors calling the shots know less and less cinematography, as time goes by.
Because of course, Getting The Light Right is a specialized union job that takes time and equipment, and it's faster and therefore much cheaper to just take the shot and plan to 'fix' any issues with lighting 'in post.' Which simply doesn't work very well, considering the whole point of 'taking a shot' is capturing existing light, especially if you want it done cheap and fast. Post should be enhancing what you've got, not trying to add stuff you left out.
(Other than obviously the dragons. Although those would usually be better as CGI-enhanced practical effects too ngl.)
Most of it is the corner-cutting that labor abuse and easy digital editing encourages, but I think it's exacerbated by another element of the shift to all-digital filmmaking, too.
Because digital cameras literally don't see light the same way film ones do; they soften and smooth and color-balance and by default tend to equalize it, while also picking out a new style of detail-crispness, and have definitely changed how the toolset available to lighting coordinators and other people who focus on lighting technique will practically apply to the finished product.
Which can't have helped maintain the importance of their expertise, since it had to be urgently updated on the fly just when there was motive to listen to them less anyway.