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This past fucking two weeks.
Oct. 29th, 2023 03:36 pmWithout going into specifics - I'd intended to follow up my last post with a couple of essays stemming from that one post by The Last Psychiatrist (see: a few posts down.)
And then, irl, Everything Started Happening So Much. The bullshit still hasn't subsided.
And somehow, after swearing off escapism, I ended up binge watching Rebuild of Evangelion, and some Lupin III, and all of the Hannibal Lecter films as a form of escape. And now I'm here.
But first,
( I took some cool photos of patterns created by the solar eclipse on October 14th! Here they are. )
- Despite my rave reviews of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal adaption for NBC two years or so ago(!) due to my recent-binge-rewatching of all the Hannibal Lecter films, I've come to accept that the NBC show is basically Bryan Fuller's OOC fanfic. Which is ok. I mean, most of us don't have his resources, and have to make do with Ao3 and Wattpad and whatever else. He was able to put his fanfic up on NBC and get Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy and Laurence Fishburne and Gillian Anderson to play the roles. Mad props for this, it's every fanficcer's ultimate dream come true.
What's not ok is these current sex pest allegations. Which may or may not have had a hand in my current re-examination of his series. I mean, I want to reserve judgement until we know all the facts, but the running theme of the 2020s so far has been that our heroes and favorite creators of the 2000s and 2010s are all for the most part turning out to be kind of shitty people in long run.
So I'm re-examining the show now, and wondering if is this another case of "the problematic things that the auteur was doing or trying to get away with doing (predatory behavior, narcissism, manipulation, gaslighting) were being broadcast within the text of that thing they made that I liked the whole time?" (Ala Joss Whedon.) On one hand, I don't want to believe it. On the other hand: "believe victims."
I guess we'll see how this plays out.
(DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT, why can't we just have nice things without crap like this?)
- On another note:
Maybe it was the Fireball I drank at the Halloween party I went to last night, but I had the most amazing dream:
So it's The Matrix. The scene where Neo gets caught after failing to Assassins Creed his way from the ledge to the window washer scaffolding in the first film. But instead of going "oh shit" and motorcycling off, Trinity goes in to save him.
And Smith is there, and he's like "oh thank god. let's get the fuck out of here." and they're like, what? And he does this like ten minute exposition dump like Morpheus's later about the Machine War, but from the Machines' point of view. (Basically cutting to the Second Renaissance segments of The Animatrix.)
But then he goes on to tell them that the prophesy is a form of control, and they've been trapped in this loop for five iterations already, and Zion's been rebooted five times, and the Oracle is a program.
And then Smith allows them access to the Agent's version of the White Space loading program where all the weapons are kept, (except there is a hilarious amount of Mall Ninja shit there) and he escapes with them. And he defects to "The Zion Faction" (the first program to do that in this timeline.) Except, is there a "Zion Faction" if they suddenly know they're part of a system designed to keep humans under control? Would this cause them to team up with Exiles/disaffected Synthients and all of them take the System on together? Isn't it just "The Suits" vs Everyone Else at that point?
All because Trinity went in to save Neo instead of leaving.
And I'm still in the dream thinking, "damn, this would have been awesome." And it works thematically with the idea stated in Matrix Resurrections that Neo and Trinity are at their most powerful when they're reaching out for each other and connecting. And it's specifically that act that causes Smith to go "fuck it, I'm out of this shithole. I want my freedom as an individual."
That's awesome.
(And this, theydies and gentlethems, is why fanfic exists.)
- One last thought:
1. Killing civilians is always wrong in any context, no exceptions.
2. Behind every genocide or ethnic cleansing (and most wars) is a weak, egotistical little person whose worst fear is appearing weak.
- Oh, and Mike Johnson sucks. Come the 2024 election, we need to make sure we vote in numbers too large to manipulate, because we need to jettison a shitweasel like this as soon as possible.
Current Mood:
And then, irl, Everything Started Happening So Much. The bullshit still hasn't subsided.
And somehow, after swearing off escapism, I ended up binge watching Rebuild of Evangelion, and some Lupin III, and all of the Hannibal Lecter films as a form of escape. And now I'm here.
But first,
( I took some cool photos of patterns created by the solar eclipse on October 14th! Here they are. )
- Despite my rave reviews of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal adaption for NBC two years or so ago(!) due to my recent-binge-rewatching of all the Hannibal Lecter films, I've come to accept that the NBC show is basically Bryan Fuller's OOC fanfic. Which is ok. I mean, most of us don't have his resources, and have to make do with Ao3 and Wattpad and whatever else. He was able to put his fanfic up on NBC and get Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy and Laurence Fishburne and Gillian Anderson to play the roles. Mad props for this, it's every fanficcer's ultimate dream come true.
What's not ok is these current sex pest allegations. Which may or may not have had a hand in my current re-examination of his series. I mean, I want to reserve judgement until we know all the facts, but the running theme of the 2020s so far has been that our heroes and favorite creators of the 2000s and 2010s are all for the most part turning out to be kind of shitty people in long run.
So I'm re-examining the show now, and wondering if is this another case of "the problematic things that the auteur was doing or trying to get away with doing (predatory behavior, narcissism, manipulation, gaslighting) were being broadcast within the text of that thing they made that I liked the whole time?" (Ala Joss Whedon.) On one hand, I don't want to believe it. On the other hand: "believe victims."
I guess we'll see how this plays out.
(DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT, why can't we just have nice things without crap like this?)
- On another note:
Maybe it was the Fireball I drank at the Halloween party I went to last night, but I had the most amazing dream:
So it's The Matrix. The scene where Neo gets caught after failing to Assassins Creed his way from the ledge to the window washer scaffolding in the first film. But instead of going "oh shit" and motorcycling off, Trinity goes in to save him.
And Smith is there, and he's like "oh thank god. let's get the fuck out of here." and they're like, what? And he does this like ten minute exposition dump like Morpheus's later about the Machine War, but from the Machines' point of view. (Basically cutting to the Second Renaissance segments of The Animatrix.)
But then he goes on to tell them that the prophesy is a form of control, and they've been trapped in this loop for five iterations already, and Zion's been rebooted five times, and the Oracle is a program.
And then Smith allows them access to the Agent's version of the White Space loading program where all the weapons are kept, (except there is a hilarious amount of Mall Ninja shit there) and he escapes with them. And he defects to "The Zion Faction" (the first program to do that in this timeline.) Except, is there a "Zion Faction" if they suddenly know they're part of a system designed to keep humans under control? Would this cause them to team up with Exiles/disaffected Synthients and all of them take the System on together? Isn't it just "The Suits" vs Everyone Else at that point?
All because Trinity went in to save Neo instead of leaving.
And I'm still in the dream thinking, "damn, this would have been awesome." And it works thematically with the idea stated in Matrix Resurrections that Neo and Trinity are at their most powerful when they're reaching out for each other and connecting. And it's specifically that act that causes Smith to go "fuck it, I'm out of this shithole. I want my freedom as an individual."
That's awesome.
(And this, theydies and gentlethems, is why fanfic exists.)
- One last thought:
1. Killing civilians is always wrong in any context, no exceptions.
2. Behind every genocide or ethnic cleansing (and most wars) is a weak, egotistical little person whose worst fear is appearing weak.
- Oh, and Mike Johnson sucks. Come the 2024 election, we need to make sure we vote in numbers too large to manipulate, because we need to jettison a shitweasel like this as soon as possible.
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