is that some sort of code?

this is a tv blog always vamp diaries trash currently into revenge, hart of dixie, and pretty much any other show on netflix

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@ the writer on Roswell who had Michael say “my entropy changes”: shut the hell up. shut the entire hell up

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the hardest to watch but ALWAYS the best, most rewarding part of a movie is the part where the protagonist is just absolutely blowing up their life (generally the end of act 2 downturn but sometimes it’s like, the whole middle part). partially because it’s a movie, and you know everything will be resolved by the end of this hour and a half, but also because....idk. it’s like someone else out there knows how people can just obliterate their life in a few hours. and they know how long it takes to rebuild. and they write stories about it! and about fixing things, which is always the other side that is so so so scary but that’s what people are. breaking shit and fixing it. 

idk

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trying to watch daredevil season three but every time karen page is on screen i’m so fucking distracted by how GOOD she looks ... when she puts on those jeans i literally spent a whole episode like “oh my god dress down more karen you look so GOOD in that sweatshirt and those JEANS” those jeans..god bless

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me noticing a minor continuity error: oh ahah that makes no sense. eh whatever

some douchefuck noticing an error: OH MY GOD. THERE IT GOES! MY SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF IS JUST FUCKING GONE OUT THE WINDOW. I AM WATCHING TV ABOUT GODDAMN ASS SUPERHEROES BUT THIS SHADE OF ORANGE WAS INVENTED IN 1994 WHILE THIS IS SET IN THE 80s. BULLSHIT. I CALL FUCKING BULLSHIT

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goddamn netflix shelling out these fuckin hard-hitting stories about loss and pain and grief and just. how tragedies rip families apart and GOD DAMN but the ending of this weird ... not even quite a series about horror ... like hugh saying “some things can’t be told. you live them, or you don’t” 

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aaaanyway i cried through basically the last 2 episodes of maniac because it struck home on so many things??? especially with annie and her sister. just fucking wrecked me. and i haven’t gone out looking for reviews but i spotted one that just said “it’s super netflix-y in a BAD way” and i was like ??? and maybe this is off base but i do not think maniac is for everyone! i think if you’ve never suffered a major loss and never suffered from mental illness... i don’t think it’ll resonate the same way. 

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anyway i really want more movies that have teenagers thrown into weird ass situations (i’m watching power rangers rn) – I WANT THESE MOVIES TO LET THEM SAY FUCK. like they’re in high school of course these motherfuckers gonna go “what the fuuuuuuuuuuuck” at all this bullshit

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though to be sure the space alien shit in this movie isn’t the most implausible part. where i draw the LINE is that this earth doesn’t have power rangers

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anyway i really want more movies that have teenagers thrown into weird ass situations (i’m watching power rangers rn) -- I WANT THESE MOVIES TO LET THEM SAY FUCK. like they’re in high school of course these motherfuckers gonna go “what the fuuuuuuuuuuuck” at all this bullshit

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so i’ve been watching Black on netflix and besides the gratuitous gore, i’m really liking it

it starts out pretty slow but the more i watch the more i would actually describe the plots trajectory as inexorable - slowly fitting each piece together, layer by layer, circling and circling around the same string of events 20 years ago that are driving everything happening the present

super cool! very well put together! still has a fucking accidental kiss which i found super hilarious!

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alright things i’ve learned from korean dramas (and one taiwanese one)

every hot rando on the street is probably a CEO of some kind

hate a guy because he’s always a dick? he is probably in love with you! or getting there. one of those for sure

gotta find me some soju 

accidental kisses happen infinitely more than you may think. as in, you may think they never happen, but they totally do

jealousy works every time

staring at people while they sleep: not creepy. romantic as hell

you know how sometimes people walk around with their phone in their pocket blaring music? i’m thinking of doing that with really touching romantic piano tracks

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ok so i’m watching strong woman do bong soon and firstly, i can’t believe i haven’t fallen into the korean drama black hole before, it’s literally right up my alley? every single rom com trope i adore is represented? whatever. 

there are 2 main plots going, right? the love triangle between bong soon, gook du, and min hyuk, and the kidnappings in dobong-dong. these make sense. what does NOT make sense is the bizarre subplot of the identity crisis that the leader of a gang has after bong soon beats the shit out of all of them multiple times over the course of the show. like, whatever, the earlier bits are about her growth as a fighter & gaining confidence in herself and her powers - cool. 

but why continue to follow the gang leader? we see their recovery in the hospital, his meltdown following the poop wine consumption, and at episode 13/16 the update on him is that he’s hanging out at a temple with a clearly fake, VERY sassy “monk” (THAT OTHER CHARACTERS HAVE COMMENTED ON. ON HOW HE IS FAKE. 100%)

it’s absurd and just a really sharp tonal shift from the very serious like end of act 2 downturn shit that’s going on with bong soon’s friend being kidnapped and her breaking up with min hyuk to attempt to protect him ??? K DRAMA. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND. IS THERE A CULTURAL DISSONANCE THING HAPPENING HERE? WHY IS BAEK TAK HANGING OUT AT A TEMPLE WITH A FAKE MONK

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idk storytelling thoughts i’ve been mulling over the last couple of days

i’ve been watching the punisher and i read an AV club article complaining about the slow bits where frank visits sarah and they just. talk. and i was wondering why that bothered me so much, because i really didn’t find it brought the plot to a screeching halt at all

it was like, i don’t remember where i saw this, but it was a movie director talking about this really foreign concept (for americans anyway) where movies just take a breath and sit for a second. sit with the characters. and i really do think that in the slow bits, where there’s just dialogue, it doesn’t quite matter what is happening so much as how it’s happening.

frank goes and talks with sarah about loss and moving on. sounds a bit depressing, let’s get on with the punishing and violence, right? and yeah, frank deserves revenge for his family and for the wrongs committed against him. but karen pointed this out - there has to be a next. or at least there should be. and talking to sarah is one of two things for him. it’s firstly his roundabout way of talking to david and saying i know how you feel because i’ve been there, i’ve been deeper, and i’ll help you get out because you deserve it, your family deserves it and then there’s the reassurance frank gets while he’s there. that sometimes your family isn’t better off without you. that sometimes they miss you so much it’s unbearable. but that also, sometimes, things get fixed. slowly but surely. and there are people out there feeling a similar, if not same, hurt as him.

karen says it best - “when i look at you, all i see is this huge, echoing loneliness.” AND I’M ONLY HALFWAY ISH THRU THE SEASON SO I MAY EAT THESE WORDS IN A FEW HOURS but damn if frank isn’t learning that he doesn’t have to be a one man punishing shit show

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aight i’ve spent a really long time thinking about how much i adore blade runner 2049 and i gotta talk about it so

spoilers ahead obviously

it’s so easy find stories about special people. the chosen one. The Only One For The Task. they’re easy to find and easy to tell and fun to imagine because we all render ourselves the heroes of our own story, and we all love to daydream about how we are the only one suited, whether born or raised or found or somehow made that way. the harder stories to tell, and the harder to hear, are the ones where someone isn’t special. 

like K. he’s just... a new model. sent on a job. and god but he wants to be the one, he wants to be A Born Thing, he desperately wants the soul he thinks this entitles him to. “What am I to you?” Decker asks him, standing in the snow outside of the facility where the real Born Thing is held. i think, maybe, that Decker is proof, to K. proof that you don’t need a soul in the way humans think you do in order to be human, in the most fundamental ways. isn’t dying for the right reason human? isn’t perseverance against all odds, against all reason, human? isn’t wanting to be special human?

so what separates humanity from something else? memories? lived memories? or is it nothing at all, really, when you get down to the meat of it?

K, paradoxically, is wonderful and special exactly because he isn’t, but how badly he wants to be. humanity is such a monumental fuckup in the best way - always making things in our own image, sometimes better than ourselves, somehow... more. 

fucking.....blade runner 2049 is such an amazing movie about human nature. and it’s so damn pretty. please watch it

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side note: loving that they pulled a goddamn x-files and the lead is just straight up pregnant in the second season but they kinda hide it with clever camera angles and big loose shirts

i was wondering why the fluffy coat was never off. like, never ever

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dolls giving wynonna the BIGGEST heart eyes and i’m dying

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so this is supposed to be like, an emotionally charged character dying flashback scene, but the whole thing is so fucking undermined by the fact they’re all in these dorky hilarious frog costumes 

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i’m dying, minato is the coolest

honestly actually watching the fight between tobi & minato is the worst tho because. it only ends one way. and i just feel so much for naruto hearing this story from his mother (HIS 99% DEAD MOTHER WHO HAS TO PEACE OUT LITERALLY LIKE RIGHT AFTER) and just

they would have been such amazing parents. minato and kushina are the best and i’m so fucking sad about it