Just finished Severance. Holy shit balls, it’s incredible. I didn’t want it to end. I want more.
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Thanks, that definitely a coherent interpretation. I definitely didn’t get all of that. Do you happen to be fluent in Japanese? I could imagine it maybe some stuff was lost in translation.
Got some questions:
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What exactly was the Queen of Hearts game? I still don’t get it
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Why did the King of Diamonds just decide to suicide himself? Same question for the Queen of Hearts. Seems like she could have just kept them drinking tea in perpetuity as there was no rule against it.
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I still don’t get why the fuck some people choose to stay. When they’re not playing do they just get to chill with the other weirdos and hang out, living fairly normal lives?
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Why does the Queen of Clubs want Arisu so bad? Why doesn’t she tag Usagi when she has the chance. She easily could have but just chooses not to. And tagging her does increase her chance of getting Arisu.
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Is Arisu an actual Japanese name?
I’ll probably think of more. It was entertaining. But I don’t think it made a lot of sense.
Not watching the series but I can answer #5. Yes.
Man’s name? Woman’s name? or Both?
Women’s. And not all that common, but in Japan, it’s becoming more popular for parents to find characters that map phonetically to a foreign name, and so while it is a name that is routinely found in Japan today, it’s not a purely original Japanese name like Kyoko or Keiko.
In this show, it’s a dude.
Does the show contain any non-binary themes? For I’ve yet to meet or hear of a male Arisu in Japan.
Yes, but completely unrelated to that character.
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I also didn’t enjoy Dune, found the visuals boring and the music horrible. The story is good but I didn’t find the way it was told compelling.
(fwiw I did read the book years ago, and I’m not a Villeneuve fan in general, except for “Arrival” and that one scene in “Sicario”)
that’s a hot take lol. I wanted to like it, but the only way I managed to stay entertained watching that movie was when I realized the Han/Chewie “conversations” are the exact same as the ones I have with my cat.
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I watched Dark all at once and it was good (though I think it’s generally a little overpraised, it has a tinge of YA about it) but I don’t think S1 of that was comparable to S1 of 1899. The characters and relationships going into a hypothetical 1899 S2 are pretty thin and the story is sort of warmed over PKD.
I will not stand for this revisionism. Phantom Menace was awful dogshit from day 1, I did at not any point think it was good. The Darth Maul fight scene is good and holds up today but the rest of the movie is start to finish dreadful. I enjoy watching AotC more, frankly, because at least there’s a bunch of funny-bad corny scenes and not just grindingly unwatchable scenes with trade disputes and bratty kids and cartoon rabbit aliens.
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No Japanese language skills. I did go on Reddit a bit after to piece together my sense of what happened and understand it better (I do that with most shows I like).
I don’t have good answers to any of your questions lol. They’re all valid questions. There’s a manga of the same name that’s probably more coherent and with fewer plot holes or weird hanging questions.
Second series in spring I think
Watched season 3 of Jack Ryan first followed by Slow Horse. I like the latter more. Imo its a lot more believable. I think the Jack Ryan stuff works good in a film but over 8 episodes the hoops you have to jump through to make all this stuff happen are too many for me. Does anyone really believe Ryan could move freely in Russia when his opponent is essentially the minister of defense? I found it almost refreshing that the US president didnt act just on the word of one operative alone. It doesnt have to be 100% realistic but the small stuff adds up over time for me.
Im sorry to hear that, but you must admit your opinions tend to be a little upside down 
I apologize in advance if
- that’s not funny
- you’re not Australian
I’ll pull as much public and film critic coverage as you want for me to prove my point. It’s in hindsight a dog shit movie, but most people didn’t have that perception until a while after release.
I don’t know about “dog shit”. But I definitely walked out disappointed.
There is no doubt it aged poorly, but my immediate reaction was “WTF was that?”. As you suggest, I’m sure I think it is even worse today.
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The last however long of clones was pretty good in the theater, from say when the three of them were to be executed to yoda vs dookie. Also some merit in the assassin chase scene early on and Obiwan at the cloning facility. Except for the brief lightsaber scene, I liked literally nothing about The Phantom Menace. But it never sunk as low as the budding romance scenes and the killing of the sand people, which was some of the worst material in movie history.
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My theater erupted when this happened.
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Yeah, I don’t care what anyone says, Yoda with a lightsaber was the nuts. I’d been waiting my whole life for that.
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Yeah Chris is right. Disappointment in TPM was definitely a thing when it came out. It had a low RT score at the time (it’s gone up since), and I remember proto-meme emails circulating breaking down how stupid most of that movie was with the notable exception of the two Darth Maul scenes.
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