#nitpicking

[startrekprodigyfan]

I feel like we’ve lost the plot when it comes to criticism. People these days seem to think that there’s an objective number you can quantify to determine a movie’s quality. If it’s not CinemaSins it’s Rotten Tomatoes. It’s all the same nonsense.

When I was younger I had these books: “The Nitpicker’s Guide for Classic Trekkers.” The title alone was a play on the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so you knew right away not to take it seriously.

Inside these books, every single episode and movie of classic Star Trek was laid out. First with a summary of what happened, then a list of “nitpicks” detailing mistakes or trivia the writer found. These could be anything from simple wardrobe malfunctions, to incorrect turbo-lift numbers, to genuine plot holes.

All of it was done with a tongue in cheek way. You weren’t supposed to take these seriously. The idea that someone would dedicate THIS MUCH TIME to nitpicking a sci-fi TV show was part of the in-joke.

Then something weird happened during the mid 2000’s, and now nitpicking and listing off “sins” for films has become a quantifiable metric people will actually use.

Which is stupid.

Art is subjective. No amount of legitimate continuity errors makes a film automatically good or bad if the positive feelings it creates resonates with you. This is one of the reasons why people love watching “bad” movies.

I just really dislike that something we used to do for fun to show how much we loved a show/movie has turned into this really negative hateful past time and commodified thing. Especially for Star Trek, the show that unironically has episodes like “Spock’s Brain.”

[orionhelluvarant]

You may think this is purely my nitpicking (and I suppose you'd be correct), but part of the reason why I can't enjoy the majority of canon Hellaverse couples is the instant attraction. And by "instant attraction" I don't mean initial interest or friendliness. I mean the moment (flashback) when characters meet and one (or both) of them performs the "heart eyes mf" move.

Stol!tzø, M&M, Chaz/Moxx!e, Chagg!e, Lucil!th (probably), Cherr!snake (not from the start but right after their transition from enemies to allies Pentious' having a crush out of fucking nowhere) - all of them reproduced this pattern to varying degrees.

A funny observation: the more developed the couple is, the more explicit their primary lovey-dovey expressions get.

The exceptions that come to my mind are Ange!Husk (which started out with harassment, how lovely, isn't it?) and Madmaid (the only canon ship that I truly adore, my freaky pookies❤️). Backstories of the remaining couples have been staying unknown.

And yes, perhaps, the problem is me not being fond of the "love at first sight" trope. I find it quite lazy, boring, naive and superficial. Instead of gradually developing relationships and exploring character dynamics, we get: "Character A suddenly fell in love with Character B because... well, they're fuckable... Wow, the power of love!" I'm not asking for the slowburn lasting for hundred episodes, I just think maybe it'd be much more interesting if characters didn't fantasize about a marriage from the very first seconds of seeing each other, over and over again?

[justhere4lols]

one of the things that pmo about how they treat Evangeline's character even into the early seasons AKA season 1 is that is it wasn't even hard to just make her more competent as she was introduced to be.

it isn't a case where you have to jump over hurdles and do olympic races and all that jazz to make the character competent and smart, all they had to do was tweak a few scenes and shit.

for example; the poisonous rose episode. like are you telling me it was THAT hard to make Evangeline go to the back to protect Amalia and write an alternate way for Amalia to get bit since you wanted her to get bit for the filler plot??? like it took me like 5 minutes to come up with an idea for how she could get bit without making Evangeline look completely and utterly incompetent at her job despite her being a trained soldier.

just make one of the things crawl up her leg in the background while the others don't notice cuz they're busy staying still so the roses won't get them. easy peasy lemon squeezy dawg

in addition to that, have them both realize at the same time what they're standing in since Evangelyne has grown up amongst Amalia's people and should know to some extent what they are.

it also makes no sense to me that she didn't know that the doll was connected to Amalia, considering that she is her assigned BODYGUARD, and should know somewhat about her and how her doll and powers work in case of emergency.

oh and for the cherry on top, since I'm already nitpicking and complaining about this episode, why on EARTH would you let the doll get its grimy hands on YOUR bow, that you apparently treasure very much going off of episode 19.

and even if you DON'T treasure it that much, you're still her BODYGUARD. you should have your weapon on hand in case any threats pop up?????

TLDR; TOT is a bitch ass motherfucker and can't write women (or men he doesn't like)

(actually as I was writing this, I also remembered how all of the demigods, excluding Goultard or wtever since tot loves him, have less screen time than Kriss Krass, who has shown up for at MINIMUM one scene without fail in almost every piece of wakfu (and waven, if tgw is waven era and not wakfu era) era media. He literally has his own comic.)

(I love Kriss Krass, mind you, but there is no way that literal demigods, who should be very important to the story, have less screen time than a (albeit beloved) side character.)

@cocoacatoo @cocogum @saturnyukaa @laneylunen @irreverent-sword @saturnyukaa chuhhhh

[marzipanandminutiae]

You Didn't Do Enough Geographical Research For That Movie/TV Show, a game I love

The Handmaid's Tale: when June and Moira are trying to escape the Red Center, they mention trying to get into downtown Boston. but the subway station they enter has a sign that says "ARLINGTON" being removed. there IS an Arlington, Massachusetts outside the city- but it doesn't have a subway station. the real Arlington Station is in the middle of the Back Bay...in downtown Boston

The Handmaid's Tale again: Moira and Emily are comparing notes on the gay scene in Boston, and Moira says Emily seems "like a Somerville kind of girl" and mentions her going to Club Cafe in the same breath. Club Cafe, a well-known Boston gay bar, is also in the Back Bay, and Somerville is a suburb north of the city

Also The Handmaid's Tale: there are way too many hyper-modern buildings for that to believably look like the Boston area. I get that they filmed this in Toronto, but they could at least...TRY to make it look like the city it's set in? probably more than half of the buildings here are pre-1920s. June and Luke apparently live in Somerville- they take the Red Line, so I'm guessing around Davis? but their apartment is once again super-modern. most apartments in that area are duplexes built around 1910-1920

Legally Blonde: Brooke apparently has a pool and a pool house while living on Beacon Hill. Beacon Hill is mostly row houses with very little outdoor space- while apparently some do have small and/or indoor pools, it's extremely unlikely for any to also have a pool house. there just isn't any room for it

Also Legally Blonde: that doesn't look like Cambridge. at all. come on, now

Legally Blonde again: 45 Dunster Street (not "Dunston" as they said in the movie), Cambridge, doesn't have a lawn or a long front drive. it's right on the street, with just a bit of sidewalk in front. it's also not a residential house- in 2001, it was the home of the Fly Club, an all-male Harvard social club

Brooklyn 99: at one point, a criminal's alibi is that he was at a nightclub in Cape May, New Jersey. Cape May is a very quiet family-friendly resort town, with lots of Victorian summer houses converted into BnBs. my dad's cousin used to own one; we went to visit her a few times. it's not a nightclub type of place at all

[dougielombax]

The same stupid geese bitching about The Odyssey not being “historically accurate” (it’s a MYTH! A fiction! It was written by Homer!) because it has black actors (Lupita Nyong’o, who is a fantastic actress btw) are the exact same dumb motherfuckers who genuinely think that Jesus was a white guy. (Which he wasn’t. He was a dark skinned Middle Eastern Jew. A Israelite)

I am BEYOND tired of this shit! I was tired of it when it kicked off back in 2015! And I’m beyond tired of it now!

I saw this shit for what it was when its present incarnation kicked off around 2015 ish. (Gamergate shite!)

All because Elon Musk and/or some idiot Angry Movie Reviewer (NITPICKERS!) types on YouTube TOLD them to do so!

Speaking as someone who knows about history!

Fucking morons!

End it!

[laur1393]

So I saw a post on X mentioning how they think the pacing of the show is too fast. And after some thought I have to agree, at least on one thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving every moment of this series, but I do have a nitpick with rapid development of Lucy and The Ghoul's relationship. Considering how hostile they behaved towards each other in series 1, its quite surprising how quickly they've allied. Sure, he asked her to tag along, but there wasn't much hostility between them from episode one, other than him berating her for not shooting the fucking rope. They had a wee fallout (hehe) in episode 2 with the scorpions, but next time he sees her he rescues her and things are good from then on. And by episode 5 they both look heartbroken at his betrayal. It's just a bit too quick, in my opinion. I would have loved to see them bicker more and actually work together properly as a team in a very dangerous situation BEFORE we got to the betrayal. To me it would have felt even more impactful (and probably killed us in the process, but hey, worth it) to stretch it out longer. I get they probably want to skip past the filler stuff to get to the bigger plot points, but to me the little moments that build a relationship from hostile to friendship is never filler, it's what I'm here for. Does she even know his name? I feel like she would have asked but we never got to see how that went down and I feel a bit robbed of that, whether he told her or not. The "breakup" feels like it should have happened just before the finale, not mid series, when we haven't had much time to see their dynamic evolve. I was really excited to see how they would impact each other over the course of the series, and though I'm not exactly disappointed, I would have liked it stretched out for longer. They have both lived very different lives after all and are set in their ways. And that's why I enjoy them both as characters.

Still, I'm excited to see what's left in store for us and lose my mind over it. And I have to admit, after that episode, I've been lead to the "Ghoulcy mountain" and am starting up the trail 😆 Send help.

[princesssarisa]

The phrase "Insta-Love" annoys me.

That trope already has a perfectly good name: Love at First Sight.

I know I sound like my dad right now... my status as a poet's daughter is showing... but why throw out a perfectly good, time-honored phrase, and replace it with an uglier, less elegant one that's only a single syllable shorter and no easier to say?