We actually recorded this episode ready to release next week while intending to do a live episode today because Fringy will be gone for two weeks but as it happens... we realised that you guys would probably wanna see The Acolyte coverage now, instead of in a week. So, we will be recording next week's episode while this is premiering to release that while he's gone next week! hope that all makes sense and... Enjoy!
"This isn't about good or bad it's about power" is basically just what Voldemort said In the Philosopher's Stone and that couldn't even convince a child 😂
I feel like most creatives in Hollywood are just way too cynical 24/7 to write optimistic, inspiring stories anymore, coupled with the “if noone’s laughing at it, noone’s engaged” attitude the whole industry has regressed to
Social change is NOT only made through starting political movements. Social change both bad and good can be made through inventing technology or writing entertainment among other ways. If I invent a fusion reactor and thus I make it so that the US never needs to depend on oil again, am I not causing social change when the Middle East's main export stops being valuable?
That’s because these types of people think handing power over to a governing body/entity is the only way to solve problems. They also put so much emphasis on “political movements” because all they want to do is virtue-signal. Yell at people or protest in the streets, and it ends there. They don’t donate their time to help the people they purport to care about or anything else tangible and even have immediate benefits, because it requires more than complaining. Protesting can be useful, but if you’re berating people so vociferously because of your righteous indignation, you should be doing more actions than just blabbing. The whole “Texas sends migrants to L.A. sanctuary cities” is one example. Whines that “nobody” is helping, and then complains when they’re held to their word. Wasn’t a clean cut situation, but you get the point. They’re just complaining and hoping “someone else” will solve the problem so they can say/feel like they’re useful, and take credit for other people actually helping.
@@BrennanCh06Considering he put a clip of a supervillain who wants to kill a species for having more power than he does and labelled it "positive social change" I would pick the words "evil" and "deranged" to describe his preferred social changes
That "Black Protagonist" haircut is the new ubiquitous hair that everyone thinks is unique, like when every woman shaved one side of their head or did the Ramona Flowers look.
He seems upset that superheroes in fiction don’t institute “might makes right” oligarchical dictatorships. It also seems that he can’t bring himself to admit that superheroes being both super and heroes make them superior beings when compared to gen-pop, thus their intervention actually represents improvement that regular people aren’t capable of. He’s trying to have it both ways, and they’re mutually exclusive to their core.
@@Mac-eo4bc Injustice suffered from making its corrupted Superman too evil regardless of his loss. The way Billy Batson is treated in the first game alone just tells you that the creators are cheap and resorting to shock value when it comes to pointing out the problems of a superhero dictatorship.
"Sure the avengers stopped alien invasions that would have ruined the lives of everyone on the planet, but what did they ever do to make the world a better place?" 🤣
It's also the dumbest argument in the world if you apply it to real life. " This doctor who saved my dad with an operation sucks because he doesn't also build homes on the weekends for poor people"
The superheroes have done a lot outside of fighting villains . Tony created clean energy, and Stark Industries help advanced that world's technology . T'Challa set out to open up Wakanda to the world and provide resources in Black Planther . Pym Industries distributes Pym Particles to the public in Quantumania . Steve provided group therapy for people dealing with the blip in Endgame . Sam helped suffering veterans in The Winter Soldier . Peter helped with charities in Far From Home . Scott did public book readings in Quantumania
That’s the problem with people today, they think it’s all about the power and superheroes using just the superpowers to help shit, when their alter egos also have done good things without it. It shows you who is a good person and someone who will be corrupted with power real quick.
No the problem is that these people are actually tyrants are heart that would abuse the power the heroes have. They'd be villainous but they have no self awareness
It's also a nonsense argument. You don't say a firefighter sucks because he doesn't spend his weekends curing aids. Is he a good firefighter? Nuff said.
1:15:05 As someone who has acted as historical advisor I can confirm this is true, they hire you so that they can say they hired an advisor and that's it, they don't listen to anything you say, unless it is in line with what they already wanted to do (huge generalisation of course, but definitely with big directors like Ridley Scott)
2:44:18 It was Rebels actually where that happened and I’m convinced that the problems with Ahsoka now started in that episode. Instead of giving her an honorable end where she stays and fights Vader to the death, instead Filoni had to save his waifu by using floopy WBW magic. She shouldn’t have lived past season 2 of Rebels IMO.
@@dragonpaulz_ I will politely disagree, but I will say her existence creates problems, I see her as a take it, or leave it kinda deal. Filoni ruined her in rebels and the ahsoka show, terrible.
This is stupidity in writing compounding upon itself. The temple _exploded._ What was stopping Filoni from having the explosion fling Vader to one side, his waifu to the other and that's how she survives? Instead, no, we need time travel... Time travel that doesn't even fkn make sense with what we see, originally we see Ashoka walk out of the temple then fall down, presumably dying. Then later Ezra time travels to save her from being cut in half by Vader much earlier in the fight, so, what the fuck happened in the original timeline Ezra undid? It sucks even at sucking!
They also never take the chronological passage of time into account let alone the juxtaposition of the tormented immigrants journey corrupted by the twin demons of American racism and capitalism as imbodied in the Scar Face narrative with Vegetas Sayan dark prince to husband redemption arc. Their critiques are poor.
it's always prerecorded even when it's "live", Mewbshly just records himself making different voices for all the guests and assembles them to make an EFAP
3:30:50 "Does the Joker even have a plan?" "He even says he doesn't have a plan" The Joker pulls of incredibly complex plans including bank heists and political assassinations, he says he doesn't have a plan because he does everything he can to appear unpredictable and spontaneous, but his schemes are anything but. He planned to take control of the criminal factions, done. He planned to push Gotham to the edge, done. He planned to force batman to kill, done.
Yep, it’s shows why he still the best comic-adapted villain. People still believe that everything he does is random or just chaos for chaos sake. He’s plans are basically systematic chaos up to the end
Some of the "occasional acts of charity" in the MCU (off the top of my head): - Spiderman raising money for those displaced by the blip - Iron man approving and funding all those students' projects in civil war - Cap creating a support group for survivors of the snap - Hope using her company to help world hunger and housing issues - Tchalla giving wakandas tech to the world (at least we're told that 😅) - Hulk inventing time travel and literal immortality - Daredevil doing a bunch of pro bono cases - Iron Fist lowering the price of a medication to its cost (yes I'm going there) And that doesn't include saving the world/universe countless times, and half of the avengers agreeing to be directly involved with government (while the other half still helps people in secret)
What you mentioned are mostly throwaway lines and isolated scenes that don't really amount to much, and ironically were made specifically to address those criticisms. I think what he's saying is that, I dunno, maybe dealing with the fallout of one of these world-ending or universe-ending events deserves an entire movie and/or tv show without a big supervillain that the superhero can fight in a big punch-up that creates even more damage. Justice League: Unlimited had entire episodes where they showed what the superheroes did on their days off, I don't know why Marvel shows didn't at least try to do that. Like, why couldn't we get a light-hearted guys night-out episode for Loki?
@zogwort1522 You're right. What you're saying is what he's saying, but what that other respondent is saying he said is what he should have been saying. Also. I can't tell if EFAP know what a neoliberal is, which, interestingly, demonstrates how borked and dishonest our political terminology has become.
@@iivin4233 To be fair, right now the panel is one American, one Aussie, one Brit, two Canuks, and a German. If they were to, as the kids say, "get political," they'd probably spend a good long time quibbling over terms like liberal and neoliberal.
Calling the MCU's heroes saving the world "reactionary" and dismissing them being benevolent, upstanding citizens outside the fighting as "occasional acts of charity" has the same energy as an abusive/parasitic girlfriend/wife saying, "Yeah, but what have you done for me _lately?"_
@@zogwort1522 "Anarcho-socialist" is a fundamentally contradictory, mutually exclusive oxymoron. Anarchy is no government and no law, socialism is the penultimate totalitarian, top-down, central planned, anti-individual liberty and anti-natural rights collectivist dictatorship. Looks more to me like they're trying to throw some buzzword in front to take the edge off the dirty word of "socialism," like how they tried throwing around the term "democratic socialism" (as if collectivist tyrannies become okay because a majority voted for it) until their patron saint, Bernie Sanders pussed out twice and used all their campaign donations to buy himself a third mansion.
Fringy's talk about Bounty Hunters makes me remember KOTOR 2 HK-47 "class" on how to kill Jedi, and how sad the state of Star Wars is now that we will never see something like that ever again.
They had some interesting droid bounty hunters in Fallen Order. Star Wars has precedent in universe for robots with interesting personalities and they rarely ever use it.
That part of the game was so interesting! Finding out that The Force isn't all powerful was intriguing. I'd love seeing an enemy equipped with gas grenades and sonic cannons--it'd be a challenge!
It makes sense because Weird Al made a song called "Yoda" which was a parody on the famous song "Lola." He stole the tune and just changed the words and made much more money than the original. The original was also an example of men stealing from women, because Lola was a transgender person who never would have had a song written about him unless he pretended to be a woman.
When I was at uni, 20 years ago, I was in a program that required I take a certain amount of extra classes from different departments, and the choice was basically only limited by availability. Since my own department had really harsh requirements, I took the handful of classes that were useful to me, and filled the rest with a bunch of Humanities stuff (ex. "Porn" "Deconstructing Fairy Tales" "Queer Theory"), because they were very easy. The reason they were easy, once you got the hang of it, was that they started from a conclusion and then worked their way back, so I got to grab a bit of pop culture I enjoyed, and then fit bits of it into the mold of the expected premise, using references to seminal post-modern and/or X-Theory papers to support that foregone conclusion. It was actually a fun, relaxing game. Then I had to go back to my actual studies where whatever theory or hypothesis we were working with had to be tested against reality, and if the predictions were wrong, either the theory or the method had to be reworked, because evidence trumped theory. I didn't imagine back then that the types of fun, unserious stuff I learned in those extra classes would ever escape the confines of academia, because, like many, I assumed it would just bump into reality and shatter. So I was wrong. Too many people went to uni and were only ever exposed to that kind of thinking, with no grounding in anything more solid, and some of them, turns out, became video essayists. And so whatever they want to claim about something reminds them of Marx, or whoever they choose to use, who said something that could be marginally applicable to what they want to say, if looked at from a certain point of view, and geeks and nerds have to deal with this half-assed cherry picking thinking, because they don't care about the thing they're using to make their point, they just care about validating their world view.
Oh, if only they had stopped with video essayists, this crap has infected politics and society as a whole. Just reframe Humanities as Social "Sciences" and you command the authority of a Science, then add the mantle of "Representation" and claim to speak for the oppressed "minorities" and suddenly you command a powerful lobby that can fabricate any new rules as they see sit. They can literally change law application without changing laws themselves or even going through a vote, by redefining the words used in said laws.
3:52:43 old mate complains about superheroes being "reactionary" yet when Tony (albeit mistakenly) creates Ultron to proactively ID and engage threats - thats hubris. So hes wrong either way, is what old mate is saying
"But all we see Tony Stark do is build high-tech weaponry" So you're telling me the person whose job was to design weapons before becoming a superhero... is trying to improve the world by designing weapons? And his problem is that he isn't lobbying for political candidates or running for office? Isn't it more meaningful to show someone using the skills they were given to try and make the world better? Isn't it also hypocritical to say that if you yourself are making a video essay (something you think you are good at) instead of protesting and running for office?
It's also a lie, he doesn't just do weaponry. In fact he actively avoids sharing his weapons because of his war merchant background and seeing how people abused it. That's why he goes into building clean energy and other non-weapon tech. He even has the social programs this guy claims he doesn't have, like the Stark scholarship programs.
I think its funny how Andor was apparently the worst thing star wars has put out but the Acolyte is apparently very much like Andor according to the showrunners and now all these shills are excited about it.
It’s so funny they’re willing to say anything out of their ass. The main appeal of Andor is incredible writing with zero appearance of Jedi and lightsaber
Andor is a boring show about a character no one cares about, but the seriousness and gravity the show writers, actor, and director treated the show its what we want more of. I'll never watch Andor, but I do want new star wars stories to be taken seriously and not a vehicle for a cunt like Leslye Headland's politics.
This show will be nothing like Andor 💀 they’re comparing it to Andor just because they didn’t use the volume lmao. They’re basically saying “look guys we used real sets just like Andor!!! Our shows are very similar!”
Why is it always "I hired someone who isn't a fan of this so that they'd make a better story?" Look. I know we got Wrath Of Khan by getting someone who didn't like Star Trek, but that just hasn't been working for pretty much anything else.
It's a problem with the people themselves, not the concept. KOTOR 2 is an example of how this idea should work: The lead writer admitted he really didn't like Star Wars and the Force going in, but gained a much better appreciation of them while in the process of making the game. That's how we got so much fantastic writing that deconstructs the Jedi, the Sith, and the Force as a whole. It wasn't about the writer hating Star Wars, it was that he was very skilled and willing to actually engage with the thing he was so critical of, in order to write the best story he could. But we don't get more of *that* because practically everything these days is managed and written by a bunch of brain-rotted children with delusions of intelligence, wisdom, and apparently empathy too. It's not just limited to this one idea, another example is all of the "subverted expectations" shit like, GOT S8, Terminator: Dark Fate, and everything written by Rian Johnson. And it's not like we don't get things that are good (or even great) anymore, they're just overshadowed by the sheer quantity of truly awful garbage being pumped out. We've gotten stuff like GoW 2018 + Ragnarok, Arcane, Andor, and plenty of others that EFAP has covered, just off the top of my head. Bad creators make bad products, good creators make good products; it's as simple as that.
Hollywood doesn't make movies to please you, they make movies to change you, as they constantly proclaim. They need someone who will put change above everything else so they intentionally hire non-fans or preferably anti-fans.
I think the most telling line of the trailer is “it’s about power and those who get to wield it.” My prediction is that the Sith are going to be the disenfranchised characters in the story trying to take back power from the Jedi. The show will excuse away everything evil about the Sith in order to hammer home the idea that power = bad, Jedi have power, therefore Jedi = bad.
"End [an] illegitimate source of power." Like, for instance, if a superhero were to use their power to force unwanted and unsupported socio-political change on normal people against their wishes? That sort of illegitimate power? Or is it only wrong if that illegitimate source of power doesn't do what Macintosh wants?
How can Mauler say Thrawn was ruined? Losing every battle and having his plans completely foiled is the only thing that brings him joy. It was all part of the master plan guys, trust me!
according to folks over at the A Discord Far, Far Away in the Disney Star Wars canon you would have to deliberately corrupt kyber crystals with the dark side to make them red. so you cant just find a red crystal or whatever, you have to be evil in the EU red crystals were mostly synthetic since the mines were all controlled by the republic so the sith had to make their own
The only problem with the synthetic crystals thing is that Darth Vader uses a red blade, but The Empire would have access to the mines right? Otherwise, it makes a lot more sense that Sith always use the same color because of the artificial nature. It's also thematic because they took the shortcut and just made a crystal instead of patiently prospecting and mining. Whereas the Disney thing of cooking them with dark side marinade makes no sense, because meditating calmly for a long time is something Jedi would do and because all the crystals would end up being various shades of red.
@@silverprimus321boi9 so you’re telling me you’d rather just find a red crystal and then bam you’re a Sith. But having to actually develop hatred poor that hatred into the crystal and then use that crystal that now has a stronger connection to you. Yeah that’s edgy. OK dude whatever you say again, whatever you say bro if you say, so, whatever you say, if you say, so, whatever you say.
The original line is "Your eyes can deceive you. Don't trust them." This was spoken to Luke by Obi-Wan during a very specific training scene. Of course Disney's DEI hires don't understand the context so they just throw it out there as a general rule.
You forgot the alien kid who could not blink, he was targeted by vaguely Asian Jedi Master, and was the only hero in the whole trail-her. ‘How dare you…’ ;D
Imagine the Obiwan show was just him getting bit by a highly venomous Tatooine snake that sends him into a psychotic stupor, and the show is just him having trippy flashbacks, nightmares about Vader trying to kill him, and the ghost of Qui-Gon trying to coach him through the poison fever, and he can only pull through this trip by making peace with his nightmares and using the Force to calm himself and let the poison pass. Could have whole scenes of Qui-Gon talking about his own regrets with Dooku, Clone Wars characters Obiwan let die haunting him, Vader can Vader, and oscar-worthy acting from Ewan McGregor, all while doing zero damage to the OT timeline.
Coming back to this after The Acolyte happened was quite amusing. That poster may have taken on some further implications, considering the director's statements about the symbology of lightsabers. . .
I wonder how an edit of Pop Culture Detectives video would look if everytime he says 'status quo needs to change' it is replaced with, 'The Avengers bursting into rich people houses to rob them is proactive betterment of society' and 'Humanity just existing without the threat of genocidal war is the status quo' .
I remember when Efap covered a Lily Orchard video about how rebels should never be the villains and the status quo should always be demolished. Okay, Lily. We have a status quo of not partaking in cannibalism. Are you advocating that we should all become cannibals?
I"m hoping they'll go to tatooine and it will be non desert planet that is facing climate change. Just to like, transcend character assassination and move into location assassination
This is a real plot point in KOTOR, actually. The Rakata were an ancient super-civilization that bombed the ever-loving shit out of Tatooine when it was a nice happy jungle planet, and it did so much ecological damage to it that it fell apart into its current desert form, and never recovered. However, this happened around 25,000 BBY, which is completely beyond the scope of the Acolyte. Not that it would stop them, but still.
That hidden politics of MCU reminded me of Jim Sterling vid where he argued that "The Dark Lord" Dark Souls ending is the good one because it represents change therefore progress therfore his political standpoint thefore correct. I dunno if you lads ever did that vid but if you didn't you might want to check it out.
That video was the reason i unsubscribed from him. I was putting up with his lefty takes and jabs for a while, but trying to analyse DS lore through socialist lens in attempt to prove that "everything is political" was the final straw for me, so i wished him the best of luck with fighting anti-consumer practices and unsubscribed. I could not explain to myself at the time why that video rubbed me so wrong, i just knew that it was. Took me years to understand.
The thing is, this is *NOT* just how Jedi dress. The first time we see a Jedi, it is Obi Wan and he is a hermit in the desert, so we saw him in a robe. The prequels decided they all dress that way, when it made no sense, and no one questioned it. He was IN HIDING, why would he DRESS LIKE A JEDI? lol
Exactly. I also just don't really like the Jedi Robes thing from an aesthetic perspective. Could've been cool if the Jedi had some other more distinctive uniform.
They kind of establish it in the OT with Yoda wearing similar robes in Empire, Luke wearing Black but similar robes in Return, and when Anakin shows up as a ghost at the end, he's wearing "jedi" robes. I think George was leaning that direction from the get go.
Timestamps because either Julian isn't doing them or I'm blind. 0:00 We're Not Live 0:54 What's Today's Stream (Cough, Video) About? 2:40 The Acolyte Trailer, Leslye Headland and Rag's Critique of The Brown Alien. 6:50 Key jangling, High/Old Republic and Baby Yoda. 9:37 The Trailer Begins, No Pausing Allowed. 11:37 Ending, Conclusions and Good Vs Bad CGI Uses. 16:24 Media Being Aware Of Its Affects on The World. 18:20 Cheap Production Vs Andor Production. 22:40 Trailer Round 2. 1:07:45 End of Round 2. 1:08:20 Acolyte Is Not Liked And Other Disney Sludge. 1:16:42 The Return of An Old Villain. 1:34:46 Onto The 1st Video Called "Thoughts on The Acolyte. FIRST TRAILER BREAKDOWN". By Lightspeed. 1:40:59 Bizarre Editing Choices. 1:42:32 Its Setting, Breaking Continuity & The Disney Formula For Tv. 2:05:50 Empty Video, Sith Ladies Become Good & The Actors In Media. 2:11:26 Peak, Pique & Peek + Filling In Gaps. 2:24:30 Karate Chop Hands & A Ring Finger Ring While Unmarried. 2:26:10 Darth Plagueis Again & Feeling Like An Ad. 2:30:00 Tell Me Why & The Final Minute. 2:41:20 MauLer Is Wrong About Twilight of The Apprentice ( Ahsoka was dead until Filoni ret-conned that by time travel ) 2:43:44 Video N.1 Ending, Conclusions & Pronouns. 2:45:43 From Sludge Wars To Sludge She Universe With Pop Culture Detective. 2:49:15 Video N.2 Starts, Called "The Hidden Politics of Marvel Movies: Defenders of The Status Quo". By Jonathan McIntosh. 2:51:13 Life In The MCU Would Be Nightmarish & Writers Not Addressing Key Events. 2:54:45 The Avengers Don't Help Earth Enough. 3:02:59 Saving Face & Loki's Journey. 3:07:00 An Almost Good Kilmonger Scene & Wasted Bounty Hunters Archetypes. 3:10:30 Celebrities being in TV and Movies. 3:15:20 Back To The Video. 3:18:00 Ideology Essay Introduction & The Heroes Aren't Progressing Society. 3:47:35 It's Just Bad Writing. 3:51:02 Ultron. 3:55:30 Metal Leaves. 3:56:44 The Avengers Are Lazy & Political Video Essayists. 3:59:14 Disney+ Home Page. 4:03:35 The MCU Is Just Episodic TV, Despite Evidence To The Contrary. 4:14:42 Endgame's Time Travel Not Brought Up or Used. 4:22:28 Doctor Strange (2017) Fucks Up Jonathan's Video. 4:26:35 Assassinated Characters. 4:34:00 The Meaning of Status Quo At Well Over 7 minutes In, Neoliberalism & Stopping Climate Change, Exploitation, ETC. 4:52:30 Falcon Being Cool In Civil War and Improving The Economic Systems. 5:02:30 Iron Trump & The Villains Were Right To Be Evil. 5:17:47 We Find The Bad Guys Compelling Because They Want To Destroy The World. 5:24:55 Lying Vs Political Bias and Those Villains Totally Weren't Terrorists. 5:42:00 Batman & Daredevil Are Legal?/Defending Status Quo Is Good, Now? 5:49:25 Holding Out For Nebula & How Real Social Change Is Done. 5:51:10 Lightshot, a Worthy Sponsor?/ The Media Literacy Bell Curve. 5:55:15 Protests In The MCU. 6:01:30 Civil War Is Finally Mentioned and The Public Only Worships Superheroes. Saving Face 6:10:39 We Don't Want Shitty Politics In Movies. 6:12:05 Characters Not Brought Up. 6:12:55 Video N.2 Ends. 6:14:30 The Panel. 6:16:44 Goodbye.
@@enkiduthewildmanWell it can be argued that Obi Wan and Yoda, both being in hiding and exile were wearing "hobo clothes" so as to remain inconspicuous. Only Anakin's ghost proves definitively that their attire was the official Jedi garb, as he would not project wearing "hobo clothes" or an outfit that wasn't a Jedi outfit.
36:00, KOTOR with HK-47 does it fantastically with an entire dialogue discussing different methods and with many cautions that make perfect sense based on the powers they have. If future projects took that as inspiration they would do so much better with this. You don't go to melee combat, you don't use blasters you try with traps or mines, you can try poisons but they aren't the best and just weaken them, over planning is deadly since they can sense it, etc. etc. It's absolute gold for any media that wants to portray people trying to actually kill Jedi.
Kind of insulting to Ed Norton that they took his idea and made it dialog for Ruffalo's hulk later on. I think they should have let Norton do his thing. He obviously cared enough about the character.
2016 was the year that Brexit happened and Trump was elected. But 2012, The year that The avengers premiered, was also the year that Obama got elected to a second term. So what the hell are we actually saying here?
People comparing Acolyte to Andor is plain ignorance to why things are good. Andor wasn’t good because it was dark, gritty, or realistic. It was good because it was written and run by Oscar nom Tony Gilroy. Who’s making Acolyte again?
There we go! Even tho the acolyte in my opinion was subpar starwars regardless it was well written and acted and clearly someone with passion put and care put effort into it unlike the acolyte
I'd count Grogu as Yoda key jangle, wondering about his connection to Yoda was a big selling point for the character at 1st, that's why we called him "Baby Yoda". Now he's pretty much just Gizmo, he's there to be cute.
"The social, political & economic structures under which we all live" "For most societies today those structures include...militarized nation states, neo-liberal governments, privatized industry..." This may be borderline true, when only looking at successful societies and ignoring all nuance. Of course, there's a whole bunch of totalitarian, theocratic, communistic, oligarchic and/or dictatorial countries, with billions of humans living in them, in which industries are often nationalized and there certainly isn't a free market. Countries do tend to have militaries, that much is true, but "nation states" depends on your definition of nation, because there's plenty of countries whose citizens aren't or don't consider themselves as part of other nations they share the country with, which is often where wars happen, or worse. And this is just touching on where he's poisoning the well regarding the real world. Marvel's universe also has several fictional countries that don't fit that mold, and the MCU in particular has a crazy person who's been murdering anyone who didn't follow his plans, and everyone inside all the parallel universes where anyone didn't follow his plan, so that's also a thing. Can't say he's not preserving the status quo with extreme prejudice, but he's a villain, so I guess it doesn't count.
Something that I've noticed about video essays like John MaCintosh is that they always criticize the very PRINCIPLE of there being a 'status quo' rather than the systems of which a status quo allots. Which sort of ties into two paradoxes, one about the state of being a Progressive and the existence of a Status Quo; The Paradox of Progressivism is that change for it's own sake is always good, no matter what that change may be. That something that is built inherently into our system must be flawed because the act of conserving, or conservatism for that matter, is stagnant. Of course the issue with that is that certain things being the way that they are is for a reason, and that it is isn't stagnant that, for say, our wanting to have clean water, heating, and shelter is some kind of conservative slant. The other problem with this paradox is that it is a way for Progressive to self perpetuate their own existence, as once something has changed to the point of perfection, they would be unnecessary. So in a sense, for a progressive to remain as one they have to champion a state of perpetual torment that which they will always forever climb upwards on, no less different from the tale of Sisyphus. As for the paradox of the Status Quo, it is simply that anything that is normalized or codified in our society will become the status quo. Notions of communism and socialism as normal frameworks in our society would inevitably make themselves part of the status quo, which by the logic of 'status quo is bad because status quo', means that in essence, NOTHING can be made sacrosanct if one is to believe that 'preserving' the state of things is inherently bad. This ties into the Paradox of Progressivism that they get themselves into a point of inventing problems that they can create makeshift solutions to, IE BullyHunters as one; treating online harassment as a ongoing, untreated epidemic while ignoring the very tools we take for granted and offering a frankly convoluted and unhelpful workaround is baked into the very belief that the status quo of things was bad and that this measure would 'improve' it somewhat, while ignoring that IF it was made to be that that in of itself would become the status quo. I think it's with these two very concepts is why modern internet society is so borked, that you have literal walking contradictions that talk out of both sides of their ass about social values yet either do nothing to enact them or regress even further beyond the issues they've espoused. Hasan Piker, Idubbbz, Jim Sterling to name a few; perpetually spinning wagons on progressive issues while tacitly doing nothing to make them into a reality, because if they were ever to see the light would be seen for the drivel they are. And also that with their hatred of the status quo in mind, that they know full well their dreams can't be realized because those dreams WOULD become the status quo. Is it any wonder then, that these people carry themselves with such hatred, such defeatism, such vitriol in the way they behave?
4:56:00 that's why communists often view charity as counter revolutionary. Because helping people makes them content and not want to over throw the system. Because heaven forbid people actually be content in a non-communistic system.
One thing that drives me crazy in pop culture critiques are these meta narrative criticisms that take the consequences of the media and act like that should be accounted for within the narrative itself. The most common one you see is the criticisms of Batman and how he is ineffective in preventing crime in Gotham. The evidence for this (constant escape out of Arkham, etc.) is a consequence of the serial nature of the media. It seems like there's always a supervillain because that's how Batman adventures are. Sadly, this sort of nonsense has even seeped into the writing itself, like we saw in Injustice League.
1:12:44 Whenever I see things like this all I can think is the "we hired people who hate Halo" article for Halo 4. It didn't work then and I don't think it'll work here.
Say that and they'll clap back with a reference to Wrath of Khan. What they don't realize is that they're still being ridiculous. Sure, let's go with this plan because it worked one time. Never mind the hundreds of other times it didn't.
Yo ngl the idea of the Obi wan show being like A History of Violence legit made me sad. So much potential and they went with the misadventures of tiny princess Leia instead.
I can already tell Graeber knows fuck all. The very first Superman story is him kidnapping the two commanders of opposing armies and threatening them into a one-on-one. In doing this it stops the war.
HOLY FUCKING EWOKS! It's Pointer! He's back! Bro I was genuinely smiling ear to ear. Burst of nostalgia. Glad to see he's doing well and has a beard now!
so i havent looked into the acolyte but all i can say,,, good for disney that they hit their diversity quota for the series, im sure that DEI money will really help stave off bankruptcy
5:21:00 This one in particular stood out to me. Destruction can JUST be destruction. If we want to quote historical thinkers, Nietzsche talked about resentment and the destruction it brings for no other reason than to temporarily mollify the pain of the destructor. It's incredible hearing the verbal prezel-twisting McIntosh is putting himself through to come around to the position that he and others like him often seem to come to: identifying with the villains. I think it's because they identify more with the resentment than anything else.
3:16:00 Fringy brings up a good point that I wish the MCU could’ve explored of essentially sacrificing a whole planet with life on it to create a celestial, so the celestial can go create millions more planets and stars. What a cool concept of having the living celestials having to decide what planet to sacrifice so many more planets can be created. Too bad the writers didn’t give it more than 2 seconds of thought.
@@canaldecasta I read a brief little Forbes article and, while some places called it a conspiracy theory, it's hard not to buy in to. I feel like I already knew this but not the name for it lol, cheers
DIT has the same philosophical foundation as the simulation hypothesis, yet exactly the faction that insists the validity of the latter, requiring far more assumptions, reject the former, definitive and provable as it is, as conspiracy theoretics.
These types of theories about reality are just modern day flavored myths. It just replaces ancient symbolism with modern images and concepts but underneath are just as contrived and implausible when taken literally enough. They should all be grouped together as superstition.
21:09 - We gonna pretend Han didn’t have a bit of a smirk on his face when he said “May the Force be with you” to Luke? That’s partly why Luke glares at him and says nothing.
This is the first EFAP I’ve watched. Came here after listening to you and Drinker on his podcast. I listened to the entire show. Fucking brilliant man. I’m an over-the-road truck driver and y’all really made my drive much more interesting! Cheers!
The red lightsaber wouldn't have shocked anybody familiar with Old Republic considering 'Acolyte' is a word used in reference to Sith It's so predictable when they start their videos with "progress" - You're like "Ah here comes the Communism"
1:43:12 I remember asking ChatGPT for a Batman movie synopsis and it basically gave me “Under the Red Hood”. The basic plot being “an investigation into a crime spree pits [character: Batman] against a dangerous warrior from his past”
In case you guys are still wondering why Carrie Ann's fight scene feels odd it's her stance, it's way too rigid. No footwork and her back is way too straight, feels like she's fighting in a body cast.
Funny thing about the Blip, have you noticed that none of the new characters introduced since Infinity War have been affected by it? The blip has not be incorporated into anyone's backstory. Non of the new people we've met have either been dusted or had anyone close to them get dusted, or if they did, it didn't impact them enough to warrant a mention. The exceptions are Yelena and Monica, and in both cases they were dusted just so they could return to find their relative dead. You don't actually need the blip to set those up. I guess the flag-smashers were also affected by it, although their motivation only makes sense if they and everyone they care about was spared. The Blip should have interrupted everyone's lives, but it feels like it only impacted the Avengers and their friends.
We actually recorded this episode ready to release next week while intending to do a live episode today because Fringy will be gone for two weeks but as it happens... we realised that you guys would probably wanna see The Acolyte coverage now, instead of in a week. So, we will be recording next week's episode while this is premiering to release that while he's gone next week! hope that all makes sense and... Enjoy!
How long is this one
@@crackbane1330imma say 5-6 hours
Where could Fringy possibly go? Doesn't he live in a prison colony?
@@craigthebadguy
His home planet
FYI - I'd rather have live episodes than timely coverage of a show I'm not going to watch. I can enjoy you tearing it apart just as much next week.
"Someone is murdering Jedi."
Yes. Her name is Kathleen Kennedy.
I lost my job, and it's all Kathleen Kennedy's fault!
Kathleen Kennedy had an affair with my sister's husband and ruined their marriage. :(
What?! The opposite is the case. She is saving them. We never had so many Jedis survive Order 66. She's like Space Jesus or something.
Put a chick in it, make it lame and gay!
@Firguy I got news for ya, that wasn't your sister's HUSBAND, KK scissor reel ;). I'm sorry your sister was queer for KK
"This isn't about good or bad it's about power" is basically just what Voldemort said In the Philosopher's Stone and that couldn't even convince a child 😂
An eleven year old child who had been physically and mentally abused his whole life. 🤣
I feel like most creatives in Hollywood are just way too cynical 24/7 to write optimistic, inspiring stories anymore, coupled with the “if noone’s laughing at it, noone’s engaged” attitude the whole industry has regressed to
Once again the Unlisted Gang suddenly cries out in terror as they see an EFAP that's listed before it has even started.
Unlisted Gang's Death Star moment
Unlisted Efaps are the only thing that brings me joy in life. Now I am sad 😞
We waz unlisted kangz
The unlisted used to do its FUCKING job.
Am sad 😢 No live EFAP Saturdays hurts my soul.
"There you are watching your superhero movie and suddenly you are a conservative."
Again!?
Who's behind the treachery this time? It's Trump isn't it? Cursed orange man and his subvertive message in marvel films!
"And it's treated no differently than being a techno-socialist ant."
Pretty smart ants
Welcome to the MCU to alt-right pipeline
Lawl. The idea people think they’re some political pipeline always makes me chuckle.
Social change is NOT only made through starting political movements. Social change both bad and good can be made through inventing technology or writing entertainment among other ways. If I invent a fusion reactor and thus I make it so that the US never needs to depend on oil again, am I not causing social change when the Middle East's main export stops being valuable?
That’s because these types of people think handing power over to a governing body/entity is the only way to solve problems. They also put so much emphasis on “political movements” because all they want to do is virtue-signal. Yell at people or protest in the streets, and it ends there. They don’t donate their time to help the people they purport to care about or anything else tangible and even have immediate benefits, because it requires more than complaining. Protesting can be useful, but if you’re berating people so vociferously because of your righteous indignation, you should be doing more actions than just blabbing. The whole “Texas sends migrants to L.A. sanctuary cities” is one example. Whines that “nobody” is helping, and then complains when they’re held to their word. Wasn’t a clean cut situation, but you get the point. They’re just complaining and hoping “someone else” will solve the problem so they can say/feel like they’re useful, and take credit for other people actually helping.
Not to mention I'm willing to bet the social change.He wants is stupid
@@BrennanCh06Considering he put a clip of a supervillain who wants to kill a species for having more power than he does and labelled it "positive social change" I would pick the words "evil" and "deranged" to describe his preferred social changes
@@BrennanCh06 The social change he wants isn't merely stupid. The social change he wants is genuinely evil.
That "Black Protagonist" haircut is the new ubiquitous hair that everyone thinks is unique, like when every woman shaved one side of their head or did the Ramona Flowers look.
About as ugly as the "Richard Spencer" haircut. Remember when that thing was ubiquitous?
"If superheroes aren't bringing about the socialist revolution, it's capitalist propaganda." - armchair revolutionaries and champagne socialists
He seems upset that superheroes in fiction don’t institute “might makes right” oligarchical dictatorships. It also seems that he can’t bring himself to admit that superheroes being both super and heroes make them superior beings when compared to gen-pop, thus their intervention actually represents improvement that regular people aren’t capable of. He’s trying to have it both ways, and they’re mutually exclusive to their core.
@@realistic_delinquent We literally have this in _Injustice_ (both game/comic timelines)...
It was sh¹T
@@Mac-eo4bc Injustice suffered from making its corrupted Superman too evil regardless of his loss. The way Billy Batson is treated in the first game alone just tells you that the creators are cheap and resorting to shock value when it comes to pointing out the problems of a superhero dictatorship.
There are only comrades and capitalists in this world.
@@mikeyua7 THIS. Injustice is so poorly done is hard too take it seriously.
"Sure the avengers stopped alien invasions that would have ruined the lives of everyone on the planet, but what did they ever do to make the world a better place?"
🤣
It's also the dumbest argument in the world if you apply it to real life.
" This doctor who saved my dad with an operation sucks because he doesn't also build homes on the weekends for poor people"
Same kind of Scott’s family who shat on him for not saving them lately in Quantumania
Why is that whole video just that one scene from Life of Brian?
@@HerohammerStudios"What has Rome ever done for us?"
@@nont18411 Teen Cassie's unearned self righteousness is the same kind of lazy slacktivism I was sensing from this guy. I miss kid Cassie.
The superheroes have done a lot outside of fighting villains
. Tony created clean energy, and Stark Industries help advanced that world's technology
. T'Challa set out to open up Wakanda to the world and provide resources in Black Planther
. Pym Industries distributes Pym Particles to the public in Quantumania
. Steve provided group therapy for people dealing with the blip in Endgame
. Sam helped suffering veterans in The Winter Soldier
. Peter helped with charities in Far From Home
. Scott did public book readings in Quantumania
And Hawkeye was a good dad!
That’s the problem with people today, they think it’s all about the power and superheroes using just the superpowers to help shit, when their alter egos also have done good things without it. It shows you who is a good person and someone who will be corrupted with power real quick.
No the problem is that these people are actually tyrants are heart that would abuse the power the heroes have.
They'd be villainous but they have no self awareness
Tell that to Zodds snapped neck
It's also a nonsense argument.
You don't say a firefighter sucks because he doesn't spend his weekends curing aids.
Is he a good firefighter? Nuff said.
1:15:05 As someone who has acted as historical advisor I can confirm this is true, they hire you so that they can say they hired an advisor and that's it, they don't listen to anything you say, unless it is in line with what they already wanted to do (huge generalisation of course, but definitely with big directors like Ridley Scott)
"Tony Stark making unlimited free clean energy? You Gotta Do Bettah!"
2:44:18 It was Rebels actually where that happened and I’m convinced that the problems with Ahsoka now started in that episode. Instead of giving her an honorable end where she stays and fights Vader to the death, instead Filoni had to save his waifu by using floopy WBW magic. She shouldn’t have lived past season 2 of Rebels IMO.
She should have died in the clown wars there would have been good but after she left the order she should have had her end there
Ahsoka just shouldn't have been created. terrible character
@@dragonpaulz_ I will politely disagree, but I will say her existence creates problems, I see her as a take it, or leave it kinda deal. Filoni ruined her in rebels and the ahsoka show, terrible.
This is stupidity in writing compounding upon itself. The temple _exploded._ What was stopping Filoni from having the explosion fling Vader to one side, his waifu to the other and that's how she survives? Instead, no, we need time travel... Time travel that doesn't even fkn make sense with what we see, originally we see Ashoka walk out of the temple then fall down, presumably dying. Then later Ezra time travels to save her from being cut in half by Vader much earlier in the fight, so, what the fuck happened in the original timeline Ezra undid?
It sucks even at sucking!
I’m tired of the EFAP crew just tearing into this stuff and never once just pretending it’s what they wanted…. Very disappointing.
Not one mention of how it made them...... FEEL
They also never take the chronological passage of time into account let alone the juxtaposition of the tormented immigrants journey corrupted by the twin demons of American racism and capitalism as imbodied in the Scar Face narrative with Vegetas Sayan dark prince to husband redemption arc. Their critiques are poor.
They should focus on the middle it's the most important
Making shows is hard. They should focus more on positivity.
They all laugh but guarantee you they never even tried it
What if you, were to catch an EFAP live.
But Mauler said: "Premiere"
it's always prerecorded even when it's "live", Mewbshly just records himself making different voices for all the guests and assembles them to make an EFAP
3:30:50 "Does the Joker even have a plan?"
"He even says he doesn't have a plan"
The Joker pulls of incredibly complex plans including bank heists and political assassinations, he says he doesn't have a plan because he does everything he can to appear unpredictable and spontaneous, but his schemes are anything but.
He planned to take control of the criminal factions, done. He planned to push Gotham to the edge, done. He planned to force batman to kill, done.
Yep, it’s shows why he still the best comic-adapted villain. People still believe that everything he does is random or just chaos for chaos sake. He’s plans are basically systematic chaos up to the end
He's the most meticulous planner in the Nolan movies.
Burtons Joker is the one that actually just "did things"
Joker is extraordinary smart and a calculated billion but like Stanley said it all depends on who’s writing them and their intelligence level
@@goodgamesir1750Dare I say his chaos is... organized?
@@SplandoCalzone 😐
Some of the "occasional acts of charity" in the MCU (off the top of my head):
- Spiderman raising money for those displaced by the blip
- Iron man approving and funding all those students' projects in civil war
- Cap creating a support group for survivors of the snap
- Hope using her company to help world hunger and housing issues
- Tchalla giving wakandas tech to the world (at least we're told that 😅)
- Hulk inventing time travel and literal immortality
- Daredevil doing a bunch of pro bono cases
- Iron Fist lowering the price of a medication to its cost (yes I'm going there)
And that doesn't include saving the world/universe countless times, and half of the avengers agreeing to be directly involved with government (while the other half still helps people in secret)
What you mentioned are mostly throwaway lines and isolated scenes that don't really amount to much, and ironically were made specifically to address those criticisms.
I think what he's saying is that, I dunno, maybe dealing with the fallout of one of these world-ending or universe-ending events deserves an entire movie and/or tv show without a big supervillain that the superhero can fight in a big punch-up that creates even more damage.
Justice League: Unlimited had entire episodes where they showed what the superheroes did on their days off, I don't know why Marvel shows didn't at least try to do that. Like, why couldn't we get a light-hearted guys night-out episode for Loki?
@zogwort1522 You're right. What you're saying is what he's saying, but what that other respondent is saying he said is what he should have been saying.
Also. I can't tell if EFAP know what a neoliberal is, which, interestingly, demonstrates how borked and dishonest our political terminology has become.
@@iivin4233 To be fair, right now the panel is one American, one Aussie, one Brit, two Canuks, and a German. If they were to, as the kids say, "get political," they'd probably spend a good long time quibbling over terms like liberal and neoliberal.
Calling the MCU's heroes saving the world "reactionary" and dismissing them being benevolent, upstanding citizens outside the fighting as "occasional acts of charity" has the same energy as an abusive/parasitic girlfriend/wife saying, "Yeah, but what have you done for me _lately?"_
@@zogwort1522 "Anarcho-socialist" is a fundamentally contradictory, mutually exclusive oxymoron. Anarchy is no government and no law, socialism is the penultimate totalitarian, top-down, central planned, anti-individual liberty and anti-natural rights collectivist dictatorship.
Looks more to me like they're trying to throw some buzzword in front to take the edge off the dirty word of "socialism," like how they tried throwing around the term "democratic socialism" (as if collectivist tyrannies become okay because a majority voted for it) until their patron saint, Bernie Sanders pussed out twice and used all their campaign donations to buy himself a third mansion.
Fringy's talk about Bounty Hunters makes me remember KOTOR 2 HK-47 "class" on how to kill Jedi, and how sad the state of Star Wars is now that we will never see something like that ever again.
They had some interesting droid bounty hunters in Fallen Order. Star Wars has precedent in universe for robots with interesting personalities and they rarely ever use it.
Atton had some fun info about hunting and killing jedi too in Kotor 2.
@@Jasper_Silva Fallen Order and Survivor are like anomalies in SW storytelling, I wasn't expecting a goth gf and being able to use lightsaber + pistol
That part of the game was so interesting! Finding out that The Force isn't all powerful was intriguing. I'd love seeing an enemy equipped with gas grenades and sonic cannons--it'd be a challenge!
@@deviousdelibird I would be even happy with the bare minimum, as in, Flamethrowers and maybe the Flechette guns that the Dark Forces games had.
Can't wait to find out that Yoda is just another man taking credit for a woman's work
It was Yodel all long who taught those kids and she also inspired Yoda
@euglenii through her raw sex appeal, looking at you grongu
It makes sense because Weird Al made a song called "Yoda" which was a parody on the famous song "Lola." He stole the tune and just changed the words and made much more money than the original.
The original was also an example of men stealing from women, because Lola was a transgender person who never would have had a song written about him unless he pretended to be a woman.
Leslye Headlund: Close your eyes
*HARVEY WEINSTEIN INTENSIFIES*
Why is my face wet and sticky?
When I was at uni, 20 years ago, I was in a program that required I take a certain amount of extra classes from different departments, and the choice was basically only limited by availability. Since my own department had really harsh requirements, I took the handful of classes that were useful to me, and filled the rest with a bunch of Humanities stuff (ex. "Porn" "Deconstructing Fairy Tales" "Queer Theory"), because they were very easy.
The reason they were easy, once you got the hang of it, was that they started from a conclusion and then worked their way back, so I got to grab a bit of pop culture I enjoyed, and then fit bits of it into the mold of the expected premise, using references to seminal post-modern and/or X-Theory papers to support that foregone conclusion. It was actually a fun, relaxing game. Then I had to go back to my actual studies where whatever theory or hypothesis we were working with had to be tested against reality, and if the predictions were wrong, either the theory or the method had to be reworked, because evidence trumped theory.
I didn't imagine back then that the types of fun, unserious stuff I learned in those extra classes would ever escape the confines of academia, because, like many, I assumed it would just bump into reality and shatter.
So I was wrong.
Too many people went to uni and were only ever exposed to that kind of thinking, with no grounding in anything more solid, and some of them, turns out, became video essayists. And so whatever they want to claim about something reminds them of Marx, or whoever they choose to use, who said something that could be marginally applicable to what they want to say, if looked at from a certain point of view, and geeks and nerds have to deal with this half-assed cherry picking thinking, because they don't care about the thing they're using to make their point, they just care about validating their world view.
Oh, if only they had stopped with video essayists, this crap has infected politics and society as a whole. Just reframe Humanities as Social "Sciences" and you command the authority of a Science, then add the mantle of "Representation" and claim to speak for the oppressed "minorities" and suddenly you command a powerful lobby that can fabricate any new rules as they see sit. They can literally change law application without changing laws themselves or even going through a vote, by redefining the words used in said laws.
how the hell is the Iron Monger an example of changing things when he's the one who wants stark Industries to keep making weapons?
20 minutes is longform apparently lmao
3:52:43 old mate complains about superheroes being "reactionary" yet when Tony (albeit mistakenly) creates Ultron to proactively ID and engage threats - thats hubris.
So hes wrong either way, is what old mate is saying
"But all we see Tony Stark do is build high-tech weaponry"
So you're telling me the person whose job was to design weapons before becoming a superhero... is trying to improve the world by designing weapons? And his problem is that he isn't lobbying for political candidates or running for office? Isn't it more meaningful to show someone using the skills they were given to try and make the world better? Isn't it also hypocritical to say that if you yourself are making a video essay (something you think you are good at) instead of protesting and running for office?
It's also a lie, he doesn't just do weaponry. In fact he actively avoids sharing his weapons because of his war merchant background and seeing how people abused it. That's why he goes into building clean energy and other non-weapon tech. He even has the social programs this guy claims he doesn't have, like the Stark scholarship programs.
I think its funny how Andor was apparently the worst thing star wars has put out but the Acolyte is apparently very much like Andor according to the showrunners and now all these shills are excited about it.
It’s so funny they’re willing to say anything out of their ass. The main appeal of Andor is incredible writing with zero appearance of Jedi and lightsaber
Andor is a boring show about a character no one cares about, but the seriousness and gravity the show writers, actor, and director treated the show its what we want more of. I'll never watch Andor, but I do want new star wars stories to be taken seriously and not a vehicle for a cunt like Leslye Headland's politics.
This show will be nothing like Andor 💀 they’re comparing it to Andor just because they didn’t use the volume lmao. They’re basically saying “look guys we used real sets just like Andor!!! Our shows are very similar!”
I think there's a line between people who think Andor is bad and people who have just checked out of Disney Star Wars and don't care.
Why is it always "I hired someone who isn't a fan of this so that they'd make a better story?"
Look. I know we got Wrath Of Khan by getting someone who didn't like Star Trek, but that just hasn't been working for pretty much anything else.
It's a problem with the people themselves, not the concept.
KOTOR 2 is an example of how this idea should work: The lead writer admitted he really didn't like Star Wars and the Force going in, but gained a much better appreciation of them while in the process of making the game. That's how we got so much fantastic writing that deconstructs the Jedi, the Sith, and the Force as a whole. It wasn't about the writer hating Star Wars, it was that he was very skilled and willing to actually engage with the thing he was so critical of, in order to write the best story he could.
But we don't get more of *that* because practically everything these days is managed and written by a bunch of brain-rotted children with delusions of intelligence, wisdom, and apparently empathy too. It's not just limited to this one idea, another example is all of the "subverted expectations" shit like, GOT S8, Terminator: Dark Fate, and everything written by Rian Johnson.
And it's not like we don't get things that are good (or even great) anymore, they're just overshadowed by the sheer quantity of truly awful garbage being pumped out. We've gotten stuff like GoW 2018 + Ragnarok, Arcane, Andor, and plenty of others that EFAP has covered, just off the top of my head.
Bad creators make bad products, good creators make good products; it's as simple as that.
Andor.
But the person who did Wrath of Khan did his homework. He watched all of TOS.
Hollywood doesn't make movies to please you, they make movies to change you, as they constantly proclaim. They need someone who will put change above everything else so they intentionally hire non-fans or preferably anti-fans.
Remember, nothing is happening to your beloved media, but if it is - then it is good actually. 😵💫🌀
I think the most telling line of the trailer is “it’s about power and those who get to wield it.”
My prediction is that the Sith are going to be the disenfranchised characters in the story trying to take back power from the Jedi. The show will excuse away everything evil about the Sith in order to hammer home the idea that power = bad, Jedi have power, therefore Jedi = bad.
*Female Sith good
An OG EFAP mini coverage of the two new HotD trailers would be cool to see.
As always thanks for all the hard work lads.
2:02:20 Volcanos are peak fire.
Glaciers are valley ice
Thanos is a social justice villain?
Doesn't he know 99% of people killed in the snap aren't in the top 1% of earners?
"End [an] illegitimate source of power."
Like, for instance, if a superhero were to use their power to force unwanted and unsupported socio-political change on normal people against their wishes? That sort of illegitimate power?
Or is it only wrong if that illegitimate source of power doesn't do what Macintosh wants?
How can Mauler say Thrawn was ruined? Losing every battle and having his plans completely foiled is the only thing that brings him joy. It was all part of the master plan guys, trust me!
It's okay, Thrawn has protein in his urine, all his plans will make sense later.
He forgot to pretend it's what he wanted. TYPICAL MAULER 🙃
Pretty on brand for someone defeated by space whales.
"Acceptable losses"
according to folks over at the A Discord Far, Far Away in the Disney Star Wars canon you would have to deliberately corrupt kyber crystals with the dark side to make them red. so you cant just find a red crystal or whatever, you have to be evil
in the EU red crystals were mostly synthetic since the mines were all controlled by the republic so the sith had to make their own
That having to corrupt the crystal in my opinion sounds more cooler
@joshgamingvlogs5203 sounds pretty edgy and a bit boring to be honest
I'm with Ryan Kinel on this, bleeding kyber crystals is massively stupid.
The only problem with the synthetic crystals thing is that Darth Vader uses a red blade, but The Empire would have access to the mines right?
Otherwise, it makes a lot more sense that Sith always use the same color because of the artificial nature. It's also thematic because they took the shortcut and just made a crystal instead of patiently prospecting and mining.
Whereas the Disney thing of cooking them with dark side marinade makes no sense, because meditating calmly for a long time is something Jedi would do and because all the crystals would end up being various shades of red.
@@silverprimus321boi9 so you’re telling me you’d rather just find a red crystal and then bam you’re a Sith. But having to actually develop hatred poor that hatred into the crystal and then use that crystal that now has a stronger connection to you. Yeah that’s edgy. OK dude whatever you say again, whatever you say bro if you say, so, whatever you say, if you say, so, whatever you say.
"Close your eyes. You can't trust them."
That sounds like something a PDF file says to a bunch of kids after they take one of them away.
“Written by Leslye Hedland, former personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein”.
Sound advice though. Whenever there are new Disney products, we can just close our eyes and pretend they don’t exist.
I mean…it IS Disney, so that’s not OUT of the realm of possibility
The original line is "Your eyes can deceive you. Don't trust them." This was spoken to Luke by Obi-Wan during a very specific training scene. Of course Disney's DEI hires don't understand the context so they just throw it out there as a general rule.
The trailer abridged:
Don't watch this trailer, it will lie to you. Also fire and someone kills jedi. Look, lightsabers.
The end.
You forgot the alien kid who could not blink, he was targeted by vaguely Asian Jedi Master, and was the only hero in the whole trail-her. ‘How dare you…’ ;D
No white guys allowed. Don't forget that.
Imagine the Obiwan show was just him getting bit by a highly venomous Tatooine snake that sends him into a psychotic stupor, and the show is just him having trippy flashbacks, nightmares about Vader trying to kill him, and the ghost of Qui-Gon trying to coach him through the poison fever, and he can only pull through this trip by making peace with his nightmares and using the Force to calm himself and let the poison pass.
Could have whole scenes of Qui-Gon talking about his own regrets with Dooku, Clone Wars characters Obiwan let die haunting him, Vader can Vader, and oscar-worthy acting from Ewan McGregor, all while doing zero damage to the OT timeline.
Coming back to this after The Acolyte happened was quite amusing.
That poster may have taken on some further implications, considering the director's statements about the symbology of lightsabers. . .
22 minutes in, and we're still in the first frame of the trailer.... yep, im in the right place
I wonder how an edit of Pop Culture Detectives video would look if everytime he says 'status quo needs to change' it is replaced with, 'The Avengers bursting into rich people houses to rob them is proactive betterment of society' and 'Humanity just existing without the threat of genocidal war is the status quo' .
I remember when Efap covered a Lily Orchard video about how rebels should never be the villains and the status quo should always be demolished. Okay, Lily. We have a status quo of not partaking in cannibalism. Are you advocating that we should all become cannibals?
Which fap that was?@@shagohad3
@@shagohad3Yeah, the Rebels should have beaten the Federals in the American Civil War. Lily Orchard, slavery apologist.
“May your lens be long and your focus be shallow.” 😂
"Close your eyes. Your eyes can deceive you. We must not trust them."
I suppose you think that was terribly clever.
Woman lead director and writers of course it’s garbage, genuinely it’s tragic how woman ruin so many things…
@dantecatalfo9826 Oh come on Master Gan-Dalf, did you see their faces?
I went to high school with a kid named Jacob Suggs, and he literally acted exactly like this Jacob Suggs. Weird that this happened to me twice.
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I"m hoping they'll go to tatooine and it will be non desert planet that is facing climate change. Just to like, transcend character assassination and move into location assassination
Boy it sure it nice having all this water on on our planet
-Tusken Farmer
This is a real plot point in KOTOR, actually. The Rakata were an ancient super-civilization that bombed the ever-loving shit out of Tatooine when it was a nice happy jungle planet, and it did so much ecological damage to it that it fell apart into its current desert form, and never recovered. However, this happened around 25,000 BBY, which is completely beyond the scope of the Acolyte. Not that it would stop them, but still.
@@Tundra. That's why the perversion of that to turn it into some lazy, current year shit would be location assassination
Surely it has been stated that the world did have water and a forest so technically if they did do that it wouldn’t break cannon
@@joshgamingvlogs5203 it was bombed into being a desert thousands of years before the prequels (as seen i KOTOR
Close your eyes, pretend it’s what you want, see how you feel.
* pitches tent *
That hidden politics of MCU reminded me of Jim Sterling vid where he argued that "The Dark Lord" Dark Souls ending is the good one because it represents change therefore progress therfore his political standpoint thefore correct.
I dunno if you lads ever did that vid but if you didn't you might want to check it out.
That video was the reason i unsubscribed from him. I was putting up with his lefty takes and jabs for a while, but trying to analyse DS lore through socialist lens in attempt to prove that "everything is political" was the final straw for me, so i wished him the best of luck with fighting anti-consumer practices and unsubscribed.
I could not explain to myself at the time why that video rubbed me so wrong, i just knew that it was. Took me years to understand.
Was this before or after his doa volleyball sperg out cause that was when I gave up on him@@ArtekGeneral
I guess the Frenzied Flame ending was the good one too. It represents change, everything is on fire now.
@@VaporeonEnjoyer1 "People can't live in inequality if there's nobody left alive."
-Socialists probably
@@VaporeonEnjoyer1 "Let starvation take the world!"
-Socialists
Pre-recorded? Ugh, that's so valley bro. So ice ice. We are so nowhere.
No cap
The thing is, this is *NOT* just how Jedi dress. The first time we see a Jedi, it is Obi Wan and he is a hermit in the desert, so we saw him in a robe. The prequels decided they all dress that way, when it made no sense, and no one questioned it. He was IN HIDING, why would he DRESS LIKE A JEDI? lol
And you guys said it like 2 minutes after I posted, LMAO. good job.
Exactly. I also just don't really like the Jedi Robes thing from an aesthetic perspective. Could've been cool if the Jedi had some other more distinctive uniform.
Obi Wan in The original is clearly dressed differently that all Jedi in the prequels.
They kind of establish it in the OT with Yoda wearing similar robes in Empire, Luke wearing Black but similar robes in Return, and when Anakin shows up as a ghost at the end, he's wearing "jedi" robes. I think George was leaning that direction from the get go.
“The prequels decided” you mean George?
George Lucas decided.
And yes it made no sense.
Things: Happened
Orlando Bloom: 🗿
The classic of what's wrong with his acting, well he can't emote and he can't deliver lines, pretty much sums up his entire career 🤣🤣🤣
That's a bit too much emotion there my dude 😂😂
Jedi teacher: close your eyes.
Orlando Bloom: 🗿
Hey that's not fair, he gets angry and axes a table in Pirates! He grimaces at orcs sometimes!
I hate this spam bullshit so fucking much
Timestamps because either Julian isn't doing them or I'm blind.
0:00 We're Not Live
0:54 What's Today's Stream (Cough, Video) About?
2:40 The Acolyte Trailer, Leslye Headland and Rag's Critique of The Brown Alien.
6:50 Key jangling, High/Old Republic and Baby Yoda.
9:37 The Trailer Begins, No Pausing Allowed.
11:37 Ending, Conclusions and Good Vs Bad CGI Uses.
16:24 Media Being Aware Of Its Affects on The World.
18:20 Cheap Production Vs Andor Production.
22:40 Trailer Round 2.
1:07:45 End of Round 2.
1:08:20 Acolyte Is Not Liked And Other Disney Sludge.
1:16:42 The Return of An Old Villain.
1:34:46 Onto The 1st Video Called "Thoughts on The Acolyte. FIRST TRAILER BREAKDOWN". By Lightspeed.
1:40:59 Bizarre Editing Choices.
1:42:32 Its Setting, Breaking Continuity & The Disney Formula For Tv.
2:05:50 Empty Video, Sith Ladies Become Good & The Actors In Media.
2:11:26 Peak, Pique & Peek + Filling In Gaps.
2:24:30 Karate Chop Hands & A Ring Finger Ring While Unmarried.
2:26:10 Darth Plagueis Again & Feeling Like An Ad.
2:30:00 Tell Me Why & The Final Minute.
2:41:20 MauLer Is Wrong About Twilight of The Apprentice ( Ahsoka was dead until Filoni ret-conned that by time travel )
2:43:44 Video N.1 Ending, Conclusions & Pronouns.
2:45:43 From Sludge Wars To Sludge She Universe With Pop Culture Detective.
2:49:15 Video N.2 Starts, Called "The Hidden Politics of Marvel Movies: Defenders of The Status Quo". By Jonathan McIntosh.
2:51:13 Life In The MCU Would Be Nightmarish & Writers Not Addressing Key Events.
2:54:45 The Avengers Don't Help Earth Enough.
3:02:59 Saving Face & Loki's Journey.
3:07:00 An Almost Good Kilmonger Scene & Wasted Bounty Hunters Archetypes.
3:10:30 Celebrities being in TV and Movies.
3:15:20 Back To The Video.
3:18:00 Ideology Essay Introduction & The Heroes Aren't Progressing Society.
3:47:35 It's Just Bad Writing.
3:51:02 Ultron.
3:55:30 Metal Leaves.
3:56:44 The Avengers Are Lazy & Political Video Essayists.
3:59:14 Disney+ Home Page.
4:03:35 The MCU Is Just Episodic TV, Despite Evidence To The Contrary.
4:14:42 Endgame's Time Travel Not Brought Up or Used.
4:22:28 Doctor Strange (2017) Fucks Up Jonathan's Video.
4:26:35 Assassinated Characters.
4:34:00 The Meaning of Status Quo At Well Over 7 minutes In, Neoliberalism & Stopping Climate Change, Exploitation, ETC.
4:52:30 Falcon Being Cool In Civil War and Improving The Economic Systems.
5:02:30 Iron Trump & The Villains Were Right To Be Evil.
5:17:47 We Find The Bad Guys Compelling Because They Want To Destroy The World.
5:24:55 Lying Vs Political Bias and Those Villains Totally Weren't Terrorists.
5:42:00 Batman & Daredevil Are Legal?/Defending Status Quo Is Good, Now?
5:49:25 Holding Out For Nebula & How Real Social Change Is Done.
5:51:10 Lightshot, a Worthy Sponsor?/ The Media Literacy Bell Curve.
5:55:15 Protests In The MCU.
6:01:30 Civil War Is Finally Mentioned and The Public Only Worships Superheroes. Saving Face
6:10:39 We Don't Want Shitty Politics In Movies.
6:12:05 Characters Not Brought Up.
6:12:55 Video N.2 Ends.
6:14:30 The Panel.
6:16:44 Goodbye.
To be fair, the Prequels didn't solidify Jedi garb, Anakin's Force Ghost in RotJ did. Even the Sebastian Shaw ghost.
That’s a great point
Even before that, Yoda was wearing the Jedi robe in Empire.
@@enkiduthewildmanWell it can be argued that Obi Wan and Yoda, both being in hiding and exile were wearing "hobo clothes" so as to remain inconspicuous. Only Anakin's ghost proves definitively that their attire was the official Jedi garb, as he would not project wearing "hobo clothes" or an outfit that wasn't a Jedi outfit.
It is stupid and uncreative regardless of where it started.
@@SolarDragon007 sure thing dude
This guy forgot that Tony successfully privatized world peace.
36:00, KOTOR with HK-47 does it fantastically with an entire dialogue discussing different methods and with many cautions that make perfect sense based on the powers they have. If future projects took that as inspiration they would do so much better with this. You don't go to melee combat, you don't use blasters you try with traps or mines, you can try poisons but they aren't the best and just weaken them, over planning is deadly since they can sense it, etc. etc. It's absolute gold for any media that wants to portray people trying to actually kill Jedi.
All that we've seen from the assassin is that they're absolutely terrible at their job.
So you’re telling me, Star Wars can’t even piss, standing up?
Their wife walked on them
no this is supposed to be alfred
they don't know what up is. So yes.
Pissing standing up was the only joy in life Scoot McNairy had in life. in life
Of course not it’s run by all women now and that’s why it’s been fun into the ground
Kind of insulting to Ed Norton that they took his idea and made it dialog for Ruffalo's hulk later on. I think they should have let Norton do his thing. He obviously cared enough about the character.
His movie isn’t all that poor either, just average. And his Hulk design is the best.
@@trevorcoyle517 I agree. I really liked it back in the day. I wasn't terribly critical of it, as a ten year old, but still.
It's the prototype for cannibalizing the EU into Disney Star Wars.
I loved when Brooks said that Elisabeth Olsen was too hot for the mirror Dimension, cause that was my headcanmon for the ridiculous scene^^
The mirror dimension was like nah fam you to hot you gotta get out of here
“It doesn’t make sense!” .. that line is the perfect epitaph for Star Wars.
2016 was the year that Brexit happened and Trump was elected. But 2012, The year that The avengers premiered, was also the year that Obama got elected to a second term. So what the hell are we actually saying here?
Obama was the only US President who didn't bend over for the Nazi Netanyahu.
I mean, they're communists complaining about others having simplistic and idealistic solutions
2012 was a bad year
2016 - 2012 = 4 ?
The left won't be satisfied until everyone is assimilated or dead.
People comparing Acolyte to Andor is plain ignorance to why things are good. Andor wasn’t good because it was dark, gritty, or realistic. It was good because it was written and run by Oscar nom Tony Gilroy.
Who’s making Acolyte again?
There we go! Even tho the acolyte in my opinion was subpar starwars regardless it was well written and acted and clearly someone with passion put and care put effort into it unlike the acolyte
@@joshgamingvlogs5203Wait, you already watched The Acolyte?!?!
@@eduardoprisbrey9157 andor I meant andor
I'm never going to bore myself with Andor, but I do want new Star Wars stories to be properly written and run with the seriousness they showed Andor.
@@abstractjwl806”never going to bore myself with Andor”
“Want more serious stories like Andor”
Sensing an issue here.
I'd count Grogu as Yoda key jangle, wondering about his connection to Yoda was a big selling point for the character at 1st, that's why we called him "Baby Yoda". Now he's pretty much just Gizmo, he's there to be cute.
How do you cast Andy Serkis as Klaw, and you don't motion capture him into Jack Kirbys fever dream
I'm beginning to think he might be our real life matrix architect.
"The social, political & economic structures under which we all live"
"For most societies today those structures include...militarized nation states, neo-liberal governments, privatized industry..."
This may be borderline true, when only looking at successful societies and ignoring all nuance. Of course, there's a whole bunch of totalitarian, theocratic, communistic, oligarchic and/or dictatorial countries, with billions of humans living in them, in which industries are often nationalized and there certainly isn't a free market.
Countries do tend to have militaries, that much is true, but "nation states" depends on your definition of nation, because there's plenty of countries whose citizens aren't or don't consider themselves as part of other nations they share the country with, which is often where wars happen, or worse.
And this is just touching on where he's poisoning the well regarding the real world. Marvel's universe also has several fictional countries that don't fit that mold, and the MCU in particular has a crazy person who's been murdering anyone who didn't follow his plans, and everyone inside all the parallel universes where anyone didn't follow his plan, so that's also a thing. Can't say he's not preserving the status quo with extreme prejudice, but he's a villain, so I guess it doesn't count.
Something that I've noticed about video essays like John MaCintosh is that they always criticize the very PRINCIPLE of there being a 'status quo' rather than the systems of which a status quo allots. Which sort of ties into two paradoxes, one about the state of being a Progressive and the existence of a Status Quo;
The Paradox of Progressivism is that change for it's own sake is always good, no matter what that change may be. That something that is built inherently into our system must be flawed because the act of conserving, or conservatism for that matter, is stagnant. Of course the issue with that is that certain things being the way that they are is for a reason, and that it is isn't stagnant that, for say, our wanting to have clean water, heating, and shelter is some kind of conservative slant. The other problem with this paradox is that it is a way for Progressive to self perpetuate their own existence, as once something has changed to the point of perfection, they would be unnecessary. So in a sense, for a progressive to remain as one they have to champion a state of perpetual torment that which they will always forever climb upwards on, no less different from the tale of Sisyphus.
As for the paradox of the Status Quo, it is simply that anything that is normalized or codified in our society will become the status quo. Notions of communism and socialism as normal frameworks in our society would inevitably make themselves part of the status quo, which by the logic of 'status quo is bad because status quo', means that in essence, NOTHING can be made sacrosanct if one is to believe that 'preserving' the state of things is inherently bad. This ties into the Paradox of Progressivism that they get themselves into a point of inventing problems that they can create makeshift solutions to, IE BullyHunters as one; treating online harassment as a ongoing, untreated epidemic while ignoring the very tools we take for granted and offering a frankly convoluted and unhelpful workaround is baked into the very belief that the status quo of things was bad and that this measure would 'improve' it somewhat, while ignoring that IF it was made to be that that in of itself would become the status quo.
I think it's with these two very concepts is why modern internet society is so borked, that you have literal walking contradictions that talk out of both sides of their ass about social values yet either do nothing to enact them or regress even further beyond the issues they've espoused. Hasan Piker, Idubbbz, Jim Sterling to name a few; perpetually spinning wagons on progressive issues while tacitly doing nothing to make them into a reality, because if they were ever to see the light would be seen for the drivel they are. And also that with their hatred of the status quo in mind, that they know full well their dreams can't be realized because those dreams WOULD become the status quo. Is it any wonder then, that these people carry themselves with such hatred, such defeatism, such vitriol in the way they behave?
4:56:00 that's why communists often view charity as counter revolutionary. Because helping people makes them content and not want to over throw the system.
Because heaven forbid people actually be content in a non-communistic system.
Marc makes some good points but he still doesnt have a leg to stand on.
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Hey now, he has a leg to stand on, even if it's just the one.
I didn't have "EFAP reacts to Pop Culture's Detective m3in k4mpf" in my bingo card 😂
One thing that drives me crazy in pop culture critiques are these meta narrative criticisms that take the consequences of the media and act like that should be accounted for within the narrative itself. The most common one you see is the criticisms of Batman and how he is ineffective in preventing crime in Gotham. The evidence for this (constant escape out of Arkham, etc.) is a consequence of the serial nature of the media. It seems like there's always a supervillain because that's how Batman adventures are. Sadly, this sort of nonsense has even seeped into the writing itself, like we saw in Injustice League.
1:12:44
Whenever I see things like this all I can think is the "we hired people who hate Halo" article for Halo 4. It didn't work then and I don't think it'll work here.
Say that and they'll clap back with a reference to Wrath of Khan. What they don't realize is that they're still being ridiculous.
Sure, let's go with this plan because it worked one time. Never mind the hundreds of other times it didn't.
The updated miles suit is so you can see his king's krown so you know he's black at a glance.
Me: *watching live*
Also me: Man, I hope timestamps guy commented
Yo ngl the idea of the Obi wan show being like A History of Violence legit made me sad. So much potential and they went with the misadventures of tiny princess Leia instead.
Captain Trees shutting down nuclear power plants would be ironic if anything. Nuclear power is greener than other forms of power!
I started late, rewind to the beginning. Rags you are the only one that is right about baby Yoda being a key jangle for yoda. Yes he absolutely was
Exactly! Why else call him Baby Yoda? It’s in the name!
"He is really fun and he is British" is a description for many British characters.
O my goodness
O my gosh
I think we've gone full McIntosh
I can already tell Graeber knows fuck all. The very first Superman story is him kidnapping the two commanders of opposing armies and threatening them into a one-on-one. In doing this it stops the war.
Anyone else getting similar vibes at 4:53:09 to that "Paw Patrol is Copaganda" video?
Crouching Jedi hidden good white guys...
The most dangerous creature 😂
HOLY FUCKING EWOKS! It's Pointer! He's back!
Bro I was genuinely smiling ear to ear. Burst of nostalgia. Glad to see he's doing well and has a beard now!
so i havent looked into the acolyte but all i can say,,, good for disney that they hit their diversity quota for the series, im sure that DEI money will really help stave off bankruptcy
5:21:00 This one in particular stood out to me. Destruction can JUST be destruction. If we want to quote historical thinkers, Nietzsche talked about resentment and the destruction it brings for no other reason than to temporarily mollify the pain of the destructor.
It's incredible hearing the verbal prezel-twisting McIntosh is putting himself through to come around to the position that he and others like him often seem to come to: identifying with the villains. I think it's because they identify more with the resentment than anything else.
I had a 3hr route delivering packages. You guys made it entertaining, thank you...
“Can’t believe they shot a movie called Star Wars. Can’t wait for more!!!” - Jacob Suggs
3:16:00 Fringy brings up a good point that I wish the MCU could’ve explored of essentially sacrificing a whole planet with life on it to create a celestial, so the celestial can go create millions more planets and stars. What a cool concept of having the living celestials having to decide what planet to sacrifice so many more planets can be created. Too bad the writers didn’t give it more than 2 seconds of thought.
Brooks needs to calllllmmmm downnnn
I thought that from his first appearance, but I figured he was just excited to be on EFAP. Turns out that's how he is all the time.
The pointing guy's tweets further reinforces the Dead Internet theory.
Whazzat?
A grimm reality. Check it out. Good read.
@@canaldecasta I read a brief little Forbes article and, while some places called it a conspiracy theory, it's hard not to buy in to. I feel like I already knew this but not the name for it lol, cheers
DIT has the same philosophical foundation as the simulation hypothesis, yet exactly the faction that insists the validity of the latter, requiring far more assumptions, reject the former, definitive and provable as it is, as conspiracy theoretics.
These types of theories about reality are just modern day flavored myths. It just replaces ancient symbolism with modern images and concepts but underneath are just as contrived and implausible when taken literally enough. They should all be grouped together as superstition.
We called it the High Republic, because you'd have to be high to think this is acceptable writing... ba-tum-tish
All I know is, Disney needs to peel their ass out of their seats and find some new writers fast or they'll be hurting real bad.
I declare shenanigans!!!
Ah yes, the newest member of the Lucasfilm Story Group, Miss Batum Tish. She sure does have a lot of witty things to say.
21:09 - We gonna pretend Han didn’t have a bit of a smirk on his face when he said “May the Force be with you” to Luke? That’s partly why Luke glares at him and says nothing.
1:19:32 Rags might even go so far as to say, there was a suspicious? amount of women in the Acolyte trailer?
Written by women and directed by women. Absolutely garbage
The idea of people with super powers working for the government is pretty terrifying.
This is the first EFAP I’ve watched. Came here after listening to you and Drinker on his podcast. I listened to the entire show. Fucking brilliant man. I’m an over-the-road truck driver and y’all really made my drive much more interesting! Cheers!
Of course someone like Jonathan Macintosh would be upset at the mean heroes putting a stop to the noble violent revolutionary villains.
Just pretend it's what you wanted
The red lightsaber wouldn't have shocked anybody familiar with Old Republic considering 'Acolyte' is a word used in reference to Sith
It's so predictable when they start their videos with "progress" - You're like "Ah here comes the Communism"
1:43:12 I remember asking ChatGPT for a Batman movie synopsis and it basically gave me “Under the Red Hood”. The basic plot being “an investigation into a crime spree pits [character: Batman] against a dangerous warrior from his past”
In case you guys are still wondering why Carrie Ann's fight scene feels odd it's her stance, it's way too rigid.
No footwork and her back is way too straight, feels like she's fighting in a body cast.
We can see, she looks stiff and you can clearly see the wires
So it's because they gave her a cheap wire harnest that uses a back brace kit instead of a waist one? Makes sense.@@joshgamingvlogs5203
Funny thing about the Blip, have you noticed that none of the new characters introduced since Infinity War have been affected by it? The blip has not be incorporated into anyone's backstory. Non of the new people we've met have either been dusted or had anyone close to them get dusted, or if they did, it didn't impact them enough to warrant a mention. The exceptions are Yelena and Monica, and in both cases they were dusted just so they could return to find their relative dead. You don't actually need the blip to set those up. I guess the flag-smashers were also affected by it, although their motivation only makes sense if they and everyone they care about was spared. The Blip should have interrupted everyone's lives, but it feels like it only impacted the Avengers and their friends.
Gonna be here for the premiere. My Eldest Brothers Getting Married today, & I’m his best Man. It’s a huge honor. Have a fun Stream Lads. 🎉
Get your priorities in check
Cheers 🍾
Askers?
Good luck! Hope you score with some nice bridesmaid if you're single.
Give the happy couple my regards and a long happy life together
a fully clothed Wookie is like putting needles in my retinas.
Imagine how uncomfortable that must be for the Wookie. Itchy.
Asceticism is pretty normal for the priestly types.