For me…
Downtown Abbey is terrible. I watched the entire show because my friends kept saying that it would get better and I was tryin’ to like it, but it never got better. From the first episode I was like, ‘This is crap…’
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The MCU films are at their worst when they’re trying to be funny. James Gunn is the only one who managed to pull it off well, and even then it felt out of place.
Also Thunderbolts is a solid “meh” at best. It felt like an extended tv show, not a movie. It ended once it finally got interesting.
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Omg, yes about Forrest Gump! That story is as feel good/uplifting as news stories about people living in a city that left potholes unfilled for so long that a literal child starts risking their safety and filling in the ones in their community and then the mayor commends them on doing the thing that the city should have done… (Yes, it’s a real story, and yes, the news tried to make it sound like a heart-warming tale.)
Related to Downton Abbey, I’ve been disappointed in the Gilded Age. It’s done by the same show runner.
We’ve got so many parallels they could draw to today. But instead of talking about concentration of wealth, and mistreatment of labor, they focus on costumes and sets, and everybody looking pretty. And of course we are supposed to root for the uber rich people as the protagonists.
For example, did you know that one of the architects who got barely a mention on the show was a pedophile who groomed the original Gibson girl? Where’s that storyline?
We did get at least one decent mention of how the Brooklyn Bridge was actually designed by a woman behind the man. And there was a labor strike, but uncharacteristically it was settled peacefully. In real life, all of those people would’ve been shot back then and the rail baron wouldn’t have given in.
So many missed opportunities. But everybody sure looks great!
That is so common with this type of thing. So frustrating.
I really want to like that show… but I just don’t. It’s all the elite, the characters are forgettable and other than it bring visually gorgeous, it don’t have much.
Before Palpatine became emperor, there is reason to believe the Sith were more righteous than the Jedi. They, the Sith, operated far more based on negotiation and human experience and did not believe in immediate sectarian suppression. If only they weren’t also fans of death and destruction.
Every time I watch Bridge to Terabithia, the death scene screams “this was a suicide”.
[cracks knuckles, does deep knee bends, runs in place for a bit]
The Last Jedi is an absolute masterpiece and most opinions to the contrary are objectively wrong.
[Runs away like that dude in the “Danger Seekers” segment of Kentucky Fried Movie]
Rising Tide was right
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The group who wanted to take SHIELD down in the first season of Agents of SHIELD, which was around that bit in the MCU when it turned out that SHIELD was absolutely infested with Nazis
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