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this is the mfer who produced Goncharov (1973)

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started watching Resistance. Kaz is pissing me off so much. Part of it is that it is playing in the same space as Andor, with the spy stuff, except it is a cartoon for kids so it has to be dumb as shit for some reason. why are you walking around the public corridors saying shit like "i have to start to spy, whatever that means." like stfu. he has the boy overconfidence with none of the backing, which is just so tiring so far. Ezra was also the same type of cocky, but at least he was worldly, and rebel adventurer lends itself a lot better too cartoon shenanigans than spying imo. Kaz just seems like a complete idiot, which is the point ofc, but I cannot wait for him to get one ounce of swag or trauma or something that makes him a bit less two dimensional. I like the art style, it is cute, though it doesn't look as good as later clone wars to me. and the idea of keeping it in a delimited setting is also pretty cool.

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i've been pestering my brother to watch Andor for years

one day in december he calls me and asks if he can come stay with me during the week. this is not routine. we hang out when i'm in town, sometimes on our own, but mostly during family dinner. i do not typically have guests over, though i have a sleepable couch partly so that i can. i am working full time so we could only hang out after work. i am excited. i am burning out and waiting for my first contact with the mental health resource. i wonder about why he suddenly wanted to come over. i live in a smaller town. there is not much to do, much less in the middle of december. i remember that this week the national broadcasting network is hosting a charity drive in town. it is livestreamed 24/7. a bunch of artists coming in to play a few songs live on air. the studio is on a stage in the middle of the town square with a public viewing area. it had been hosted in my home town a few times. there it blended in with the noise of the city. here, it is the talk of the town. i put on the stream in the background while at work. in the crowd i see a few cosplayers of stormtroopers and darth nihilus, of all things. i've been playing knights of the old republic 2 for the first time during the fall. i quit sometime after the halfway point. i don't like dnd. i meet my brother at the train station after work, stopping by the charity drive on the way. it is noisy. christmas trees line the square and bonfires fill the air with smoke. i ask him if he's scoped any particular artist to watch. no, he hasn't. we go to one of my favourite burger places for dinner. i pay because giving to the people that i love is the reason i work, because he is unemployed, because this place is more expensive than it needs to be.

"so i watched Andor"

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finished s07e10 and so far this final arc is everything I could've hoped for. i can't believe they managed to tie the Ahsoka and Mandalorian throughlines together like this. the lightsabre fights have never looked better. they got a chance to cook clone wars one last time and they served dinner like holy fuck i'm drinking it all up. they need to release this on DVD so AMCA can finally see.

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Ahsoka looks so fucking good in cw s7. it is a crime that her own show is a live-action and not done in the cw style. what the hell

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"where did you learn to fight like that?"

"my older brother taught me"

i am going to SCREAM

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my girl looks fucking amazing

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so i finished Resistance. I was getting better at the end of season 1, but season 2 was like, fully a dud. this is the most sw animation has ever felt like it was made purely for kids younger than 10.

it seems confused about its own stakes. for being a show so centred around spying, its idea of intelligence gathering is fully based on sneaking around and hiding behind crates and doorways. it is poorly thought out and most episode conflicts seem to not have been developed beyond the whiteboard pitch. it revolves heavily around the logistics and transportation of people and ships, but it never feels anchored in a consistent set of rules for how things operate. i dont think all sci-fi needs to be hard, but if you get too soft you at least need a story worth telling so that the handwavy use of tech doesn't become a pressing concern.

it is focused on the characters, but they are all very flat and inconsistent. the nuggets that are in there--the relation of Kaz and Torra, capt Doza and Yeager, Synaara--are never delved into or developed. Kaz never stops being pathetic, even as he gets slightly better. in the finale, he is still cartoon running around with his arms in the air while getting shot at by stormtroopers.

l could go on. i would not recommend this show to anyone. no juice, no ideas, nothing to say.