maeve and reid are the biggest example of women in fridge i have ever seen.
the only reason i cared about her death is because of what it would do to spencer and that is not my fault. the writers made her a nothing character until her final episode when they tried to stuff everything in before her death.
i felt like i understood diane way more than maeve.
they should have started building up her character way earlier i know that it was probably a last minute idea but they introduced her for a couple episodes before the fridging they could have said more about her as a person than just reid’s geneticist crush
it feels like she was just created to make their special little guy have more trauma
and like i love spencer as much as the next guy, he’s my fav, but it was cheap. we deserve better reid content than fridge and female characters that are more than bad writing tools.
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I agree with your DAV take! I was really really excited. Pre-ordered deluxe, finished in about four days, and was left with mixed emotions. I'm curious what your opinion will be once you reach the third act, because imo that was the best part of the game. But, yeah, this is the first DA game where I've been more interested in continuing the main story than doing any of the companion questlines. Which is both a bad and good thing. Mostly a bad one. Once you finish the game, I definitely recommend taking a look at the veilguard art book. Google Books has about 50 or so preview pages, and @/felassan has posted them on their tumblr as well. There's a lot of art from the original concepts the dev team was brewing immediately after Inquisition. Before execs were like "fuck that we actually need live service games", and before David Gaider and other DA veterans left or were let go. It feels so much more like dragon age, and I've just been mourning what we could've had lol. But it's interesting to see the concepts that made it into the final product after all that, and how much ended up sanitized in that distinctly corporate way. But, yeah, I just wish the dev team had been given the resources and freedom they needed. Also sorry for rambling in your ask box lol I'm just obsessed with DA
I have still yet to finish it. I've literally been choosing Supermarket Simulator and Sims 4 over the game. Which is just such a sad sign to me. I want to like it so very badly. I really do. And I will finish it (no spoilers) but it's just one of those things where I think the only reason I am playing is for Solas content. Because I love him so much. But I remember when Inquisition came out. I called off work and played it like crazy for days. When the end twist came, I literally called my husband at work to scream.
The opening of Origins with the dragon flying by still gives me chills. It transports me right back to my first apartment that I shared with my mother. To steaming mugs of tea that I would drink so I could stay up and play it just a bit longer. Me surviving on eggs because it was the quickest thing to cook so I could get back to playing.
I don't know if I'm just not in a stage of my life anymore that allows me to immerse myself or if the game was just that uninteresting. And like I said, I will finish it, but I just don't care about any of the characters and half the time, they start talking about something, and I zone out.
Though, this is a case and point to the fact that writers and developers just need to be free to do their own thing without the higher ups intervening.
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HOPE
Hope,
Like tiny bubbles
In the mirky depths
Of liquid life,
Traveling to the surface
They expand,
Realizing only too late
They have traveled too far
And burst.
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By Lorenakoran 11/10/1223
There was a big man with big blond hair, long mustache and baggy blue jeans
He walked into the place never looking my way
He sauntered around the corner right up to a machine
Without much time passing he began to swear
Until it made him exclaim something in glee
To my surprise he didn’t linger but heaved himself back around the corner
Barely glancing my…
I've been on a bit of a Kaiju kick (it's a longstanding love, I always come back to it) so I decided to give the three anime films on Netflix a try.
I've finished the first two, and so far these are solid Sci-fi movies that explore themes of what it means to be human. But the focus has been on the relations between the three alien races and humanity, with the conflict against Godzilla and the presence of Kaiju being a metaphorical backdrop for philosophical differences.
Which is really cool? Honestly?
But it means that they don't feel like Kaiju movies. There's no camp. There's no humor or joy in the ridiculous. Or awe in the impossible. The human characters don't love their Kaiju, they just want to kill it. There's no humility before nature, there's the call to pride. The imperative of humanity to reclaim and conquer rather than learn and live.
And there's no monster battles. It's all been humans in tiny scifi battle suits attacking Godzilla. There are no cities to be destroyed or cars to pick up and throw. For a movie baring his name Godzilla spends a surprisingly small amount of time on screen, and he barely moves!
It feels... like an appropriation? Like someone wanted to write a future scifi alien horror and was told they had to add Godzilla to the setting, which was done without an appreciation for why people love Godzilla.
Movie two delt with Mecha Godzilla and I was entirely disappointed by its execution, because I love Mecha Godzilla, and while there was a cool Gundam mech design... it was Gundam, not mechagodzilla. At no point do we see a robot dinomonster.
And movie three seems to be Ghidorah's movie, but I'm not sure I trust them anymore to do him justice. And Mothra and her twins have been a chekov's gun, but I worry if they will let her show up as more than a background presence supporting the humans. I was feeling disappointed enough that I had to stop after the first bit of movie three and write my feelings out. But I feel like I keep waiting for these movies to get around to remembering they are giant monster movies? And I feel like I'm having to stop and calibrate my own expectations to the fact that they are not.
I want my movies to be what they say they are. If these had been advertised to me as scifi alien phycological thriller I would have enjoyed them for being that. They address the politics and psychological strain of space travel beautifully.
But they said they were Godzilla. And. It looks like him? In basic outline? The silhouette of the monster matches. But it doesn't act like Godzilla outside of the first flashback scene.
