Photosensitivity warning for The Incredibles 3. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised, considered how spectacularly bad Incredibles 2 was with the strobes, but you’d think that after a nine-year wait, they’d fucking learn from the past and avoid using strobes, or at least put up a Goddamn warning screen or SOMETHING. But no. Film producers just refuse to learn. I just hope that President Gaga does something about this when she takes office.
It’s a real fucking shame because Violet coming out as bisexual and finding out that her new girlfriend is the alter-ego of her own arch-nemesis was written SO well, and bi representation, while common these days, is always amazing to see. There will never be enough! And Voyd is trans in canon now! It just WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO SEE IT.
Happy Flash Forward Friday! Kicking these posts off with...
The Offspring - “You're Gonna Go Far, Kid” (2008) *
[for lyrics, see video captioning]
* Caution: F-bombs galore, so don’t blast this unless you’re alone in the car or something (highly recommended, btw)
Now dance, f**ker, dance
Man, he never had a chance
And no one even knew
It was really only you
This is like a preview (overture?) for the next playlist, Animorphs: The Guerilla Arc.
This song is full of driving power beats as you rush into the fight, mouth set in grim determination. The adrenaline-fueled panic just before you pull off an impossible attack. The sweet thrill when you get away alive. The smug relief that you bested your enemy.
This would be the perfect battle theme if our kids didn't have to deal with moral dilemmas and just happily mow down the Yeerks like a video game. Sadly, that is not the case. You can’t escape the crash and burn. Loss of self. Despair. The next playlist will cover the rest of that and more.
Still, I love all the lyrics and the drumming always gets me pumped. How perfect is the chorus?
With a thousand lies
And a good disguise
Hit ‘em right between the eyes
Hit ‘em right between the eyes
I want an AMV where each time they eyeball-scoop a Controller is timed to those two last lines, lol.
And if you can’t get what you want
Well it’s all because of me
...
Trust, deceived!
I originally wanted this song for Jake. The lyrics are about hit-and-run guerilla fighting tactics while in disguise. I thought it fitted Jake’s dynamic with Tom’s Yeerk. Imagine the song switching POVs between Jake and the Yeerk as they both try to outwit the other at the dinner table and in the Yeerk pools.
IIRC, Jake fantasizes the day when he can free Tom and reveal to his family and the Yeerk that he was an Animorph the whole time. This song embodies that moment of somber satisfaction. If this song had been released in the 90s, I bet Jake would have it on repeat in his CD Walkman.
