How appropriate for Robin Hood to feature under a title that is a very long bow to draw.
It was about Squid Game. It was about how the show took about 10 years to make, and the real life versions that appeared on YouTube took way less time to make, and made more than double the money.
I have yet to watch, and will probably never, but from all I've heard this is the biggest "flaw" of the film. Take out the name "Joker" and the Wayne family and nothing would change.
This movie always felt like a one and done for me. I consider it just good, but it is emotionally draining. I know my mom got it for me as a gift last year, and I only watched it once more, and after that never touched it again. I traded it in for something else at a used video store.
It was something like "Squid Game took ten years to make, but Mr Beast's Real Life Squid Game only took 7 days to make and has more views, the future of media is creator made because they have more flexibility and creativity"
Ah... Mr Beast. I dunno who he is but everything I've seen about him makes me want to delete my YouTube account. How could he possibly get more views though? Doesn't Netflix track the time spent watching, not the number of times one clicks on an episode?
Of course it only took 7 days. 99% of the hard yards were done by someone else for them to basically copy wholesale.
Nice breakdown of most shonen (and plenty of story). Everybody loves the underdog but also want the self insert character to be super overpowered and have a bunch of gift that they receive without doing any real effort. So to combine these two aspects you need every character in the story to ignore all the amazing gift the main character has while spouting some generic BS about hardwork winning the day.
I think this is a big reason why animes like Demon Slayer and Boku No Hero Academia became really popular. They're both shonen with the usual "I am the Special" set up, but buck the trend because the protagonists still need to work hard as fuck and get the shit beaten out of them constantly. Although I will say Boku No Hero has definitely started sliding towards the stereotypical shonen route as of late.
I still haven't started Season 5 yet. Want to get on that, but wanna watch other stuff.
I dunno about Boku, he ultimatly get super power of the #2 quite trivially (essentially just has to hit the gym for a few weeks). imo it would work much better if he never got super power and instead became a super hero using some other means than just being handed out a power (or alternativly if he had a really weak/lame power and managed to become a super hero regardless of that handicap).
The latter is basically what they did the in BNHA spinoff/prequel.
I think season 5 is supposed to cover the infamous villain arc. I kinda fell off the anime after season 3.
I rather an early conclusion than a stretched story that goes nowhere and gets cancelled, the creator dies (Trinity Blood, Berzerk, and High School of the Dead), or ends like a bad fan fiction. The third option means you Naruto and Shaman King (manga version). Or in another worse direction where manga never fucking ends, because the creator just keeps going with ideas that have long worn out their welcome. Seriously, One Piece should not even be this long. Glad I dropped the series in 2008. I pray the creator of OP finds ending soon before something happens to him and leads back options 1 and 2.
