#disney plus moving

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The Wonderfools feels like Moving at its least serious and that is high praise from me. Eun-bin’s grumpy goth character is so delightful, there is literally no role she cannot pull off!!!

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My poor little meow meow Ju-won ended up in an Oldboy revenge plot 😭 this explains why present day gangsters quiver in their boots whenever he looks at them sternly. They can sense the 1000+ times he got stabbed and kept going

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Moving episode 8

I immediately got my answer: there is a sexier dilf around, or at least there was in the 90s. Love everything about this setup!!! Kind of want an entire show only about this trio

It’s just so delightful that Mi-hyun is sent to seduce a fellow agent wearing not like, a tight red dress and stiletto heels, but her tiny German sociologist glasses, an oversized gray suit, and a slightly disapproving expression. Mr Min really looked at her and was like: 10/10 no notes you are exactly his type

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this is asking you what you think with a bit of a ramble. What do you think about the characters with disability in moving? With the dad and the butcher's son. I found interesting the emphasis on them not being a burden, the detail of putting the butcher's son in the end, helping his mom I found touching, especially seeing that Korean society is heading or already is in that every human being must be perfect (perfect skin, perfect height, perfect face, perfect grades…)

Love the ramble, and I think they put that in there with a light but beautiful touch. I would love to hear what others think about this, too. To my mind, the writer or PD or both wanted to inoculate their story against the eugenicist implications of superhero storytelling. The state is running a eugenics unit: there's a breeding program, they are grooming the kids with abilities in that school, and Mr Min turns away from Jae-man in disgust when he realises that he has a disability. It means he can't use him.

I like the counterpoint of the butcher's son being somewhat like two other two neurodivergent characters with superhuman physical strength (Yong-deuk and Jae-man). He, too, has an intellectual disability and is physically overpowering. Mi-hyun uses his strength as a tactic to get cribbing customers to shut up. But he doesn't have super abilities. He's an ordinary person. I think that, too, is a conscious break in the pattern. The idea is not to suggest that someone with an intellectual disability can be valuable because they have some compensatory talent.

There are superheroes, and then there are heroes. In both Jae-man and the butcher's son's case those are the women in their lives. One has a wife who has clearly fought like a tiger her whole life to protect her husband. And one has a mother who loves her son but understands the importance of not keeping him tied to her. He isn't a burden: he is his own person. Perhaps in Yong-deuk's case that person is Hui-soo: someone who sees him not as a foreigner but one of her own.

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Catching up with Arthdal and finishing Moving back-to-back has been more than my tiny brain can handle, even though it's been the most enjoyable week of television watching I've had in a while. I don't need to say how much I love and adore Writers Kim & Park, I really think they're able to do what no other writer can today when examining power and political order and I am waiting with bated breath to see if they are allowed to pull off the extraordinary again in Arthdal 2.

But they're also really fascinated by power in that classical way. They write about kings and sages the way Shakespeare wrote about kings and princes, and, without levelling it as a criticism, I think there's a mesmeric effect at work: they're so deep in trying to figure out how power legitimises itself that their attention is its own kind of legitimacy. You know what I mean?

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And in walk the dirtbags making Moving, with the attitude of conscripted soldiers tired of pretending that the order imposed by all our obligatory structures - school, the military, the state - is anything but a protection racket. Their heroes fight themselves and they fight each other and they know none of this means anything good. So they put a bullet each in the brains of the bosses and get off the train.

I think this is one of the few times that execution-style killings to beat the villains has worked for me. For one, the villains aren't beaten: Park Byung-eun in his Yoon Seok-yeol cosplay heralds the renewal of something worse than the Min Yeon-jun regime. Something unimaginably worse must be taking place in Jun-hwa's Pyongyang.

For two, the villains aren't beaten by superior strength. Superpowers are what help the supers escape. But it's defiance that kills the villains - resistance.

The heroes have not made things better. But, the makers of Moving seem to be saying, things need to get worse. I don't think anyone who has lived through the last decade on this planet agrees that that is a good idea. But we are living in an endlessly renewed drama, and Moving has been made by people who aren't sure they're going to come back with a second season. They've made their stand: they've pushed power off its pedestal. They've said the fuck you that needed to be said.

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Obsessed with the revelation that Mi-hyun takes off her glasses to improve her super sight, indicating that she’s wearing them just for the aesthetic

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Moving episode 7

• I knew Frank’s backstory would be bad but holy shit!!!

• The bus car chase is so unhinged. Can buses even go that fast? (Also Frankie what happened to keeping a low profile… this isn’t Counterstrike… you can’t just run pedestrians over with your truck)

• Since most of the superpowers seem to be inherited, is Frank somehow related to Hui-soo and her dad? And since dad has those bullet scars is there a special gun that can kill them? And is Ryu Seung-ryong the hottest dilf around? Only time will tell

• I’m sure Bang-seok would be a great boyfriend but I’m sorry I can’t help it. I’m rooting for Gang-hoon

• Excellent son-mom scene towards the end

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Moving episodes 4-6

Swish toss pow

I got what I wished for with the Electric Man (x2) flashbacks. The mom's energy being stored in a battery is one of those imageries that I know is going to quietly haunt me for a very long time, even after I forget many other things about this show. We saw Electric Dad use it to power up during his last fight but we didn't know... we didn't know...

Gonna hazard a guess rn and say that moral of the story is gonna be: always be nice to bus drivers

Getting some whiffs of a supremely tragic backstory for Frank who simply cannot comprehend why these parents all fiercely protect their kids, biological or otherwise. Maybe U.S. imperialism was the true villain all along

Don't know how I feel about 아버지 being translated as "hey, pop"

NOT MI-HYUN!!! Frank idc how sad and pretty you are, you leave my girl alone!!!