Recent content by BloatedGuppy

Ironically, Pandaria was both one of WoW's best expansions and featured some of its best narrative writing. I will concur, however, that a race of Panda people living on an Asian-flavored continent called "Pandaria" is faintly ridiculous. You can go back to the oft-lionized WC3 for that...

Came here to say exactly this. WoW's storyline is a fucking mess and has been since the beginning. It's a stew of anime tropes and pop culture references, and it hasn't been until very recently that Blizzard started undertaking even a cursory effort to start curating it, thus leading to a...

The term "Mary Sue" is entirely colloquial. It's flexible enough and vaguely defined enough that it can be a blanket thrown over almost any protagonist if the person making the charge is motivated enough to dislike them. It's like having a four page forum argument trying to decide whether or...

No, it isn't. A thread titled like this one is a good way to artificially stimulate "conversation" though. "Is [Popular Thing] Overrated? PLZ Comment Within I Am Terribly Lonely."

The volume of the screeching is because she's a girl. It's not like there's nothing wrong with the character. Other than Kylo Ren, it's hard to think of a character from the new films that merits much praise. She has some basic character texturing...she's pugnacious and earnest and eager for...

There is plenty of criticism of Rey. Some based on real writing concerns, some based on a perceived hysteria about "Cultural Marxism" destroying Star Wars by pandering to minorities and women. Did you watch the YouTube video I posted for you? Would it be an insult or a smear against the moral...

It's never that black and white, Ogroid. It's seldom a case of "Roar, I hate vaginas, and thus will condemn all female characters ever for having one", and more likely a case of "My hackles are already up because the character is female, so I'm far more cognizant of flaws/faults than I would be...

Oh absolutely. Rose is a terrible character, and her entire excursion with Finn is exhausting and pointless. There are lots of perfectly valid angles from which to eviscerate her. "She's fat" is not one of the compelling ones, and is more illustrative of the person making the complaint than any...

Yes. Yes. Unfortunately, the conversation around the character quickly became polarized, so any kind of nuanced discussion is impossible because of those polarities. And it became polarized because of the people you're questioning the existence of, and their counterparts. As a "dyed in...

1. Empire Strikes Back. 2. A New Hope Those two stand alone in their own tier. While both have plenty of technical flaws and nitpicks, they're structurally sound films that set the template for blockbuster film making for decades to come. Fantastic, primal storytelling. 3. Return of the...

TIL females are special interest groups. BTW, you forgot Han and Luke in TFA and TLJ respectively. So the main cast of these new movies is White Female, Asian Female, Black Male, Latino Male, and Normal Person. Honestly do you guys even read back the shit you write before you hit post?

What a strangely impotent gesture. We already know who this guy is, Anonymous.

Overall it was pretty bad. Superior to the soggy biscuit that was Rogue One, and vastly superior to the Ed Wood level shenanigans in the prequels, but a seriously problematic movie that half derails the entire tentpole trilogy.

TFA was a spineless exercise in franchise rebooting necessitated by the prequel backlash. Accusations that it was boilerplate filmmaking are not unfair, but as a monomyth Star Wars was never "original". It was always about Rule of Cool, warmed over philosophical rambling and Big Moments. TFA...

Disney was a safe choice to steward a special effects tentpole series of blockbuster films after their run of success with Marvel. Like or loathe the MCU, it was a commercial juggernaut that succeeded on high concept like Rule of Cool, breezy dialogue and bankable stars. As this was the exact...