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All police function as a mechanism of coercive terror
I do not understand why this video is not sponsored by the Umbrella Corporation. I wanted some weaponized clonemonsters for 10% off.
I love politics and philosophy in games. I HATE insincere corporate virtue-signalling ala Nike (also known for child labor) and sickening attempts to avoid being political while making games that are incredibly statist and authoritarian ala Ubisoft.
My fraternal twin brother was also eaten in a tragic international mishap, it's more common than people think 💜🍄
My fraternal brother escaped into only place untouched by postmodernist woke brigade - S P A C E
Damn my fraternal twin just became one with the universe and is in deep meditation under the Tree of Life itself to this day
RE tends to get near misses on the micro level too, I remember getting to the end of VII and Ethan monologued about how the Baker's were victims in all this and then stopped talking and I'm sitting there going, "Also the little girl who was used in horrific human experimentation, she's also a victim here"
Yes, exactly. I hardly ever see it acknowledged that Eveline is also a victim. I feel sorry for her.
A fair point but then again Wesker was experimented on as a child and indoctrinated by Spencer, presumably getting his superiority enforced at every step and then to top it all off send to infiltrate the US police force. I´m not sure where he should have been able to learn empathy and understanding along the way, guy was trench coat wearing victim too.
@@Skip-Towne but she ain’t or ever was an actual real kid but a bio weapon that went out of control, it was designed to be a weapon and always acted over that principal of using its power to harm other, just that she used it to get a “family” which its kinda sad that she just wanted a loving family but she isn’t a real human and she could’ve never been a normal kid; is obviously the fault of whoever created her more than she herself but still it’s hard to feel empathy for a monster who forced others to get what she wanted and murdered dozens of persons.
Unfortunately, Lucas turns out not be a victim. He’s just an evil mentally ill man who becomes Jigsaw because his parents are too busy terrorising his sister, and locked a school bully in the attic and left him to die when he was a kid.
I mean to be fair I don't think the game needs to spell that out for you, even the way Jack talks about Eveline in a sympathetic tone saying "she just wanted a family" was enough to tell that the game does see Eveline as a victim, but in a more complicated manner since she isn't necessarily completely blameless like the Bakers were (aside from Lucas ofc, that boy is just a whole mess lol)
I've watched hundreds of hours of Resident Evil video essays, and you are the first and only person I've heard to address any critical plot, character, event, and ideological details within the franchise. No other content creator has asked questions, or posed thoughts about, literally anything you've addressed in this video. I learned of Said this semester, and I'm reading on Foucault, and it's interesting to see the ways Resident Evil display, describe, and attribute power to corporations and governments. This is brilliant work, and I hope more content creators do critical analysis like this in the future.
Noah-Caldwell Gervais does in his big RE video, albeit not in an entire video structured around it.
@@grahamcarpenter5135 yeah. Mr. Caldwell-Gervais' videos are primarily a critique of games but he fully analyses any interesting point he happens upon.
And he has the best takes.
You've watched hundreds of hours of RE video essays but none of them have addressed critical plot points or character events?
@@EmissaryofYogSothoth I'm sure "hundreds of hours" is an exaggeration, but I think I know what he means. A lot of so-called "video essays" for games and movies end up just being lazy story recaps without any real attempt to identify/address any of the themes, ideology, etc. It's pretty annoying.
Really, the first one? That's a lie, almost every UA-camr who done a video of RE addresses these points in some fashion or another. I don't know what your talking about, and furthermore, you need to lose A LOT of the ''RE'' content subscribers you have added on your list, they are all seperate trash humans.
"trusting puppy-dog, bottom-energy, simp, boy-band haircut, down bad for ada wong" yeh thats sums up Leon pretty perfectly
Depends on the incarnation.
I've always said, even in defense of the films (I know it hurts), REs stories retold sound completely nutso, the underlying fear that "who/whatever we put our trust in will fail us" just works and is brilliant.
It’s okay I loved the shit out of the mess that were the movies too. Alice will forever remain in my gay heart….but yes the criqtue on systems of power and the powerful themselves were ever present in all forms of RE media and it was at least great to see zombie based media actually be explicitly political.
@@jo0rd73 No, it's just about a pharmaceutical company (run by eugenicists) developing bioweapons to sell to various militaries. SJWs putting politics in everything these days, smh.
@@jasonfenton8250
If its made by people: theres going to be underlying tones and biases incorporated somewhere in the material, and usually said biases include what you view as "political" things. Its in everything. Just look around at all the media you consume, someone's engrained opinions are to be found.
@@parentalonion6552 pretty sure it was a sarcastic comment
Depends on how you retell it .
Victor Hugo in the 1860s: Creates a policeman antagonist character who views the world as being made up of "sheep" and "wolves" with himself as the "dog born from wolves" standing guard and protecting the "sheep" in order to demonstrate his rigid, simplistic, and erroneous thinking.
Police today: Completely unironically adopt this exact worldview and philosophy, but with an added obsession with and veneration of violence.
What could go wrong
And then you have Commander Vimes.
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Your Grace.”
“I know that one,” said Vimes. “Who watches the watchmen? Me, Mr. Pessimal.”
“Ah, but who watches you, Your Grace?” said the inspector with a brief little smile.
“I do that, too. All the time,” said Vimes. “Believe me.”
- on accountability | Terry Pratchett, Thud!
@@johannageisel5390 the Watch in disc-world are “good police” but even in that series the watch has is shown to be a corrupt instrument of the tyrannical state. It’s only after a revolution, and the watch all but being disbanded -it’s down to 3 members- that it is reformed into a new institution of peace keeping, not policing.
@@Isrjisoneavalable Yes.
Basically, Vimes gives them the example on how to BE a "good cop", in his role as John Keel.
And at the same time, you have the "bad police" - those torture goons of Lord Snapcase.
I totally love that book, btw.
The scene in which Vimes sits on the stairs of his watch house and drinks cocoa is awesome.
@@johannageisel5390 I love Pratchett. He was a great satirist, and my favorite author. R.I.P.
People conveniently forget whose flesh the shepherd feeds the sheepdog.
I really appreciate the segment about copoganda; I do acting work and do background work a lot and the irony of my dislike for cops and the justice system entirely I keep getting cast to play an armed to the teeth goon cop or FBI agent for so many different shows.
It’s even funnier when some of the crew even dislike the show they’re working on and call it propaganda out loud away from the show runners ears.
Anyway as a leftist who loves Resident Evil and only recently discovered your channel I love your content!
@Lind Morn I just mostly do background work, and I work in NYC so it’s a more diverse crowd I interact with. Mostly my assumption is since the USA is so casually right wing most actors seem more centrist compared to their followers. And this is content on shows such as Law and Order, FBI Most Wanted, etc.
Yess
@chandllerburse737 The Outbreak spin-offs focus on "non-police" average joe characters(janitor, mechanic, firefighters, security guard and etc). Besides that, the Raccon police department is clearly shown as being led by a corrupt and delusional police chief that took bribes to cover the experiments, silence the discoveries made during the mansion incident and then sabotaged the public forces efforts in quelling the infected and the defense of the police station.
We are talking about an urban setting, most who never touched and are actively afraid of guns and violence and with no idea how to form a organized line of defense.
"For the purposes of unpacking Resident Evil, what is Eugenics" is a hilarious sentence out of context
Seeing Chris Redfield and Leon Kennedy framed as the protagonists of the Resident Evil series really threw me for a loop. Mostly because when I think Resident Evil, I think Jill Valentine. They sure went a long way to write her out of her spot as series protagonist after the end of RE3.
agree. for a game franchise that started off so strong with dual scenarios with claire/leon and chris/jill, they could also have easily wrote two main narratives in 4 mainline entries. they were not incapable of telling us 4 stories.
@That Hippie Gamer I mean, it seems like they're setting up Rose to be a new generation protagonist.
Yeah it really is a big shame... Also its sad to see strong characters like Rebecca not getting another chance at being a protagonist...
@@skornie123 I wanna know what happened to Billy and Barry
She only had 2 games. But they’re all protagonists
The Chris DLC for RE7, Not A Hero, has some files that explain a lot about Blue Umbrella and Chris's relationship with it. This version of Umbrella is the old Umbrella, reincorporated as a PMC, and it still retains a lot of the old employees. Their mission statement claims that they want to clean up their mess by fighting BOW around the world. It remains to be seen how honest they are, or what else they do as a PMC.
Chris doesn't work for them, he only works with them during the Baker Incident because they asked for his assistance and the BSAA vouched for them, though he still doesn't trust them.
By the time of RE8, Chris has figured out that the BSAA itself is corrupt. He gathered a small squad of his most trusted people and completely stopped responding the BSAA command. Chris's attack on Ethan's home and the later assault on the village seems to be just him and his squad acting on their own with no support or oversight.
He's not so much corrupted by the organization he works for, as he is a rogue agent acting on his own because he didn't want to work for a corrupt organization.
He does seem to be part of some larger structure by the time of the epilogue, so I guess we'll see how the series gets there.
Always felt that as of RE4, the series is almost a science fiction horror parallel to the Metal Gear series
Where as metal gear is based in cybernetics, big robots, and nanomachines (not to mention Ninjas)
Resident Evil is more based in viral weaponry, monsters, parasites, and mutation
The two series have a few concepts in common
Age old conspiracies, super soldiers and clones, as well as mind transference
I love these series so much for this
Chris is almost becoming the series equivalent of Snake (even down to the fox/wolf/hound/dog motif... plus Chris was a smoker back in the day with the cigarette lighter being a key element to his and his sister's character
Sophie: Stockholm Syndrome
Me: Oh no.
Sophie: *goes on to explain that Stockholm Syndrome is a bunch of bullshit to cover up how fantastically awful the handling of that hostage situation really was*
Me:*whew*
Though to be completely accurate, it wasn't the police who actually coined the term, it was the psychologist/criminologist that was working with the police that same up with "Norrmalmstorg syndrome," later called Stockholm syndrome, in an interview sometime later in response to Enmark's criticisms of his and the police's handling of the situation. And not only did he make the term up, he made it up without ever having once spoken to Enmark.
@@jacksquatt6082 So many are just in stockholm syndrom wit capitalism.
@@jacksquatt6082 It is a real phenomenom but acting like Stockholm syndrome is a distinct thing is some bullshit.
The way I've had it explained is that trauma-bonding is a real phenomenon and it's a complex, logical and effective survival method, but "Stockholm Syndrome" is a simplistic, sensationalized notion about captives working against their own best interests (because how else could someone POSSIBLY not think that police are their heroes??).
@@jacksquatt6082 Being friendly with your captors/abusers/aggressors/etc. because you're scared and don't want to die is a real thing, but it's not because your brain has become delusional and decided you're on the same side. It's because you've made the decision that if you're nice and play along, the aggressors will have less reason to hurt you, and maybe even start to like you enough that they don't really want to hurt you, increasing your chances of getting out of the situation safely.
@@laurelgardner Yeah, trauma bonding is a thing that more often happens in long term abusive relationships (of any kind, not just romantic) rather than in a hostage situation. It comes in part from abusers not being all mean all the time, but alternating it with periods of overt affection and kindness -- often called the honeymoon stage in romantic relationships or love-bombing when talking about cults/radical groups. Plus people who end up in abusive relationships are usually already vulnerable and/or isolated and their abusers typically manipulate them into being more so over the course of the relationship. Basically the abused has complex feelings because it is a complex situation.
This is as opposed to Stockholm Syndrome which is some kind of magical brain rot that can set in within a day (seriously, one of more well known "cases" involved a woman who was held captive for a total of 29 hours) and makes you hate "the police and authorities".
"Hitler famously based a lot of his ideas for the Nazi regime on the founding of America" - or rather famously, unless you live in America itself, in which case you will never, *ever* hear about this until maybe college-level history courses, if at all.
This is absolutely a microscopic tangent, but I'm just still so incredibly angry at how worthless and thoroughly propagandistic my history education was.
Which it rally shoulsnt be, even tthe fact that htler wa a big fan of americashould be enough as red flag. Taught
I read that the Nazi based their segregation ideas from Jim Crow laws.
This is exactly how I felt when I took a college class on racism. All of that information should’ve been taught in high school, but you have to pay thousands a year to get it or do the deep research yourself.
This was also absent from my history classes. I'm from Germany and here students are not told too much about Hitler's ideas and their origins (except for social-darwinism and antisemitism). We also don't learn a lot about how the war went. In both cases I heard it is, because they are afraid they somehow glorify and/or pass on certain ideas from that time. What leaving stuff like this out really does, is to create this illusion, that Hitler was just this one really crazy guy with crazy bad beliefs and he was of course completely alone with those beliefs! Also it's the reason why shockingly many Germans have no clue about how many and what countries had been terrorised by the third reich and its allies.
The origin of Stockholm Syndrome was rather mind blowing. I also particularly enjoyed the critical analysis of the great social philosopher KRS-One.
Pretty intereting its more dog day than anything.
Imagine pathologising empathy towards people you think don't deserve empathy.
To be honest, I wasn't sure where that bit was going. I needed a little clarity, I'm glad I checked the similarities.
That adorable little squeak that Nat gives while you're transforming into your "monster form"!
This is specifically what I live for.
THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING ANTISEMITISM! I feel like I’m banging my head against a metaphorical wall pointing out that Antisemitism exists and is central to Euro-American Fascism.
@Meme Frog Bad ✋🏻
you're right but resident evil is japanese lol
@@buttsauceable look up Japanese antisemitism
@@arnoarno1092 Who did they hate? Even more oriental jew?
@@krasmazov1959 Well... yeah. There are and were Jews in Japan and in the Asiatic territories it conqured during WW2.
"Gamers are Afraid of Politics"
Quote of the Year
Big fat yes to the Lady Dimitrescu cosplay.
Truly. That and the intro music was *chef's kiss* iconic.
this whole series has been fantastic!!! thank u so much for creating and sharing this wonderful trilogy with us. i learned a lot and had a great time, and can't wait to rewatch them all again soon. :) wishing u a really good new year!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really like the idea of the Mold as a mass of interlocking opressive systems and the paralallel with that every entry comes a new way that the viruses mutate, and/or we found out another fucked up point of origin of them
I've been to Mold and this is accurate
Wow this resimania series went places I seriously did not expect, and I loved every minute of it. Great video, thank you.
Glad to hear it!
Sophie: "I need to chill out for a whole while now!"
Also Sophie: "I'm doing WEEKLY interviews starting ... now!"
Love your work, take it easy, happy new year.
SOPHIE. The Lady Dimitresque cosplay, the forced-persepctive shots - excellent and beautiful. Was already looking forward to seeing the continuation of this series but hot dang.
'You know what they call a serial killer who passes the entrance exam? Not Guilty' DAAAAAAAAAAMN 🔥🔥🔥
Wonderful video as usual! You've outdone yourself, and that's saying a lot! This was an excellent series and I'm excited for what's next.
Thank you so much!
I have to say this incredible series blew my mind about the game. For the longest time, I've only ever thought of RE as a generic zombie shooter series. Thank you Sophie, for this amazing work.
I hadnt realized that Wesker was a child of eugenics but after you mentioned it, i remembered the only big pop culture reference to them that i could think of. Max Zorin from the James Bond movie A View to a Kill, played by Christopher Walken, and holy shit do they resemble each other. So the only real question now is,"How are you gonna get on KillJamesBond to talk about this when they have already covered A View to a Kill?"
The succinct phrase, "Gamers fear Politics" has just clicked SO MANY puzzle pieces into place for me.
Thank you, I'm flabbergasted this never occurred to me sooner.
That part where you say that critical gamers who don’t ‘necessarily have the patience for a story about the systemic, indifferent evil of neoliberalism’ got me. I’ve long been amused with the American pundit’s focus on Fauci as a ‘bad’ individual, and had down to a difference in ontology. However, it’s probably just as likely that the constraints of certain mediums mean that a Fox News host hasn’t the luxury of an engaged and willing audience who have the ‘patience’ to learn about the indifferent evils of neoliberalism. Certainly something to mull over.
I’ve been looking forward to this one in particular. The overt politics of the whole franchise but the second trilogy in particular has always been fascinating to me and seeing it articulated this well, both in where it misses and where it hits the nail on the head, is extremely validating.
I think the interesting takeaway from RE is how the most overtly stupid thing can be the most effective at sending messages like this. Seeing RE confront Imperialism, eugenics, and the intersection between them with the same degree of subtlety as, say, a beef man punching a boulder is such a distinct and wonderful thing and I’m thrilled that we have it.
Granted less racism would be nice but hey, Japan learned it from watching us.
>punching a boulder
Jill Sandwich.
@@InternetMameluq Exactly.
Also BLOOD. Hope this is not, CHRIS'S BLOOD.
what makes you say imperial japan was completely a product of american racism?
Loved the video, one thing… RE4 is set in Spain, the villagers speak spanish with, well, spanish accent. It is painfully obvious when you’re spanish-speaking in America (the continent, not the country that hijacked for itself the whole name… but that’s another Can of worms).
I'm fully on board with them just redoing (remaking) RE5 and RE6. RE6 in particular had a lot of genuinely intriguing elements, it just got fumbled. And RE5... yeah. The goofiness is one thing, I could deal with it. But they really, really needed someone to come in and get them to see the rather hardcore racism, and find a better way to approach things.
However, I also fully expect that taking the racism out of RE5 would trigger _those_ Gamers(TM). The same ones who were very angry when RE5's racism was originally pointed out way back in 2009/2010. Because, you know, _racism isn't political,_ but _removing_ racism is?
There are times when it's really difficult to not see all of the _anti-SJW, anti-woke_ Gamers(TM) as nazis and nazi boot-lookers. The only politics they hate are progressive or humanitarian politics, because _those_ politics stand out as different from their cultivated world views. Right? Because _racism_ is fine and doesn't even register. Misogyny is _as it should be._ Glorification of war on poorer countries is fine and normal. Authoritarian violence is just the natural order of things. But two women in a relationship or a woman who works out? Nope, no, can't deal with it, can't even consider it as the very real and societally neutral reality that it is -- gotta rage against the humanity, but love the machine.
nah, they are nazis fr lol
@Chandller Burse this issue with thiis argument is that you're using in universe logic. People calling out discrimination in games are questioning the personal motivation behind the developers putting certain images and ideas in the games. Yes Alex is dressing like his sister because of his own instability(he didn't actually think she was dead) but that was a motivation created by developers to justify him cross dressing. The idea of it being transphobic comes from the question of why they specifically made that choice for the character.
Also it's pretty counterproductive to complain about people insulting others when they bring up counter points, only to start your comment off with insult
@Chandller Burse yeah, you're insulting them. Do you thinks it's not an insult because you're not singling anyone out?
Look, I've just started watching the vid, can't comment on anything yet, EXCEPT! Sophie is clearly having a blast with whole mommy vampire cosplay. Also, "tossing and turning in my vampire boudoir" just sends me :D
to borrow from Sir Terry the source of all sin is treating people like things. If you need a simple phrase of the totality of all the stuff you called the mold I think it's that. Treating people like things.
Fantastic series! If you do want an informative look at eugenics that uses another fictional setting/series, I’d really highly recommend Spice8Rack’s Yawgmouth: the Scientific Priesthood of Eugenics, which discusses the subject through the lens of Magic: the Gathering lore
Seconded
I wonder how much of Resident Evil's ideology is present in the original Japanese versus was created in translation. Because to my understanding, Resident Evil is a series that has been aggressively localized and has large number of substantial and important things changed in translation. Stuff like Wesker's overt Aryan-ness is too obvious to be lost or overlook, but I'm curious if the minutia is the same across languages.
Excellent video as always! Can't wait to see what you have in store for us next year!
Thanks so much!
It took me like 45 minutes to figure out the jingling noises was from Sophie's jewelry and not from some unseen cat's collar.
Also I loved the deep dive into eugenics and police brutality 👍
Usually, when people talk about loud accessories, they're calling them "gaudy" rather than "noisy".
Police are truly awful. There may be the occasional one that cares and is trying to make a difference but corruption runs deep.
I would say that technically Leon never got to be an actual cop, I.E. not a bastard, because the whole department was devoured by zombies before he ever actually started his job, but then the numbskull turns right around and joins the Secret fucking Service.
It seemed more like he was Shanghai’d into it so that he wouldn’t be able to whistleblow on the whole, you know, American military trying to buy a bioweapon that led to the complete destruction of Raccoon City thing.
But yes, it is worth questioning why the one thing this poor orphan genius wanted to do more than anything was become a cop in a Midwestern town. Kind of like why a child prodigy biochemist would graduate college and rather than pursue further studies would decide to join an elite antiterrorist police squad in 1998. What was the RPD recruiter feeding these impressionable youths?
This whole series was incredible. All the depth. Love this and you. 💚
my brain usually finds political subtext even where the author doesn't intend, and yet resident evil was a piece of media that snuck past my internal analysis weirdness, until today, thank you.
The only experience I’ve had with police that was good was when I left my wallet in the city and somebody handed it into the police and they contacted me so I could get my wallet back. That function did not require that police have guns, tasers, telescopic batons, and the right to legally murder me. Police didn’t need to be “police” to serve that role in the community. I think police should be abolished and be replaced by varied departments which can better serve the “good” functions that police currently provide. I’ve heard it said that the ideal training for a police officer would be social work, but as I see it right now the institution is designed to attract people who really want to hold a gun. That’s not exactly akin to a social worker now is it?
Basically the entire premise of Alex Vitale's book.
A lost and found service would be a positive replacement of the police force
@Chandller Burse true. A lot of people think they have all the answers, when really all they have is nice ideas
Doesn't sound like a great alternative sonic.
An idiotic idea. Not seen even in the most sucessful and advanced nations, even those that some insist are actually good(Cuba, North Korea and soviet Russia).
There will always be a need for those who use violence to enforce the law and keep social cohesion, even if we disagree to what extent
God it's great to finally have a good sit down and look at this series and the actual dark crevices of the haunted house. This is an incredible essay and this entire series has been wonderful and so well made. Thank you for all you do and for powering through- this work is immaculate and really necessary to hear and discuss.
I have a feeling I know which content creator had the "protect everyone like a real cop does" take.
Im glad to watch someone talk about games in a wider political and artistic context
dya mind mentioning which one in particular?
The Church of the Algorithm officially certifies this video in the ones and zeroes of The Recommending Holiness.
This is the one I've been waiting for 💜💙🖤
Already saw transcript so seeing the skits and scenes now is just a extra bonus. :) Still on the topic of those specific gamers being scared of Politics, how do fellow viewers and peeps, hell hope you: Sophie the 4th child of the Vamp mama, can answer or discuss this soon: how can we help them be less scared or aware of it in way that makes them less angry and lacking in critical reflection?
from what i can tell looking at comments of certain hbomb and shaun videos, it looks a lot like persistently offering evidence that their beliefs are fundamentally untrue without turning unnecessarily to accusation or ad hominem attacks, whether or not the person agrees with it in the moment, has yielded some qualitatively interesting results at the very least, if not quantitatively. lots of people stop by on videos saying that an essay they hate-watched and flamed in the comments stuck with them nevertheless for having stated its facts plainly and in no unclear terms, and a few years later (seems to be about 2 on average) come back to thank them for the opportunity to change for the better that began with that stubborn seed of a True Thing that they just couldn't ignore forever
who knows? maybe the line "All Cops Are Bastards... Including Leon" may actually get through to some people given the time and opportunity. i hope to see their comments here, even if they come first with hate before they return with apologies and gratitude
I work to try and show people that what they're enjoying in games is smarter and both more philosophical and political than just stabby shooty splashy punchy
@@SophiefromMars I am so happy to get this response and agree completely. I also think even in my own experience the problem isn't so much that escapism from politics but why they escape. They likely believe if it's reality will not work their way or has failed in a personal expectation, that avoiding it completely is the only way to have some false conscious level of "control". When the world's politics of neoliberalism, capitalism, and many other systems even on a unconcious level has failed them, perhaps those specific gamers (tm cr), feel that denying the reality of politics is the only way they can live with themselves in it, especially in things they enjoy like games. Sad to be honest. I too like my shoot shoot punchy punchies for stress relief but without acknowledging the reality of it being only half of what one should experience through art or recreational activity it becomes as you said in your witcher analysis prior, a void for their own views rather then seeing views within the work itself and not growing their understanding of art's political reality in turn. A way which like our current social media structures, ironically become a loop that echo chambers in on itself if not critically reflected on at all unless it's in service to that closed loop. Again, sad, but not surprised since you start with games as a child and that childish world view isn't always so easy to break when it's sometimes what gets you into games in first place. But that is just my theorizing nuerodivergent brain going into overdrive on stuff like this. XD
@@southparkking2 as a right winger I enjoy Sophie's videos because I get to see how someone on the opposite side sees things because then I actually get to see which view weighs out evenly. For instance I disagree with their take on copoganda but I didn't see before but agree 100% that the corporate exploitation of other nations and their own people through war, weapons testing and generally just not giving a fuck. I also do agree about the idea that the systems are just strongly flawed. I just disagree with her views on reform being impossible. However even coming this far took me a long time because I needed to hear videos essayists and other talk, books etc that didn't just accuse me of being evil or stupid because I disagree. Jokes are different obviously because if you can't laugh at yourself you aren't self aware enough to evolve thought
That really depends on the peron i believe and the only real denominator is personal conection in some form outside that echochamber of "gamers".
Acrator can be a personal relationhip if parasocial i imagine
"I'm going to talk about ideology *schniff*"
10/10
Hey Sophie, so sorry to hear about your brother's "mishap". Is there any chance you might re-record some of his old videos, maybe with some added commentary? It would be a shame to lose all the work that was put into them.
she has a playlist of the unlisted videos if u want to access them there just not available publicly on her channel :) but i agree i would love to see them revisit their older video subjects
Hey Sophie, I've come to really love your videos over the past year and change. While I totally understand unlisting/removing the videos from your fraternal brother who went to live on a farm and I cannot visit him, I truly came to find the video on CONTROL as one of my favorites/comfort videos. Do you ever think you'll remake some of those older videos as Sophie's Version? If not, completely understand. Thank you for all your amazing work!
They appear to be available in playlists on the channel, in case you haven't found them yet. They're just not listed as individual videos. Seems an odd choice to me, but whatever works I guess, and I'm simply glad that they're still around in some capacity.
@@jemolk8945 I haven't found them yet lol.
And just like that, suddenly I do have plans for my new years eve night.
I remember playing as a kid in Spain and laughing my ass off hearing the characters saying "mierda" "Cabron!" but with a mexican accent. And I think it was supposed to be Galicia, where they speak a different language, gallego, and even when speaking Spanish they have a very specific accent. So we found it really funny here xD
This was a fantastic series, makes me wanna write a fic where Leon goes full anti cap and anti cop
I think a better phrase to use with the statement "like a real cop would do" is "like an _ideal_ cop would do." Ideally, police should be protectors of the people but, in practice, that seems to be rarer. It is a system that could use a helluva lot of fixing, possibly even completely burning to the ground and rebuilding.
cant believe sophie is a tall vampire from mars
Sophie knows just how to brighten my day: with a little bit of Zombie Politics
After watching your other Resimania videos, I was genuinely looking forward to this video as I was really curious to hear your thoughts and takes on the series. I can safely say my expectations for this video were blown out of the park, and I am genuinely looking forward to watching what projects you have in-store in the future.
Also your Dimitrescu cosplay is just fabulous 💕
This series has to be my favourite ones you've done and probably the best resedant evil content I've seen
Really loved all three of the videos. Thank you!
I've never played the games, just watched the movies and this series makes me want to change that.
Also holy shit your nails and lipstick match and are an amazing color choice.
Listen, I love this series so much and I have awaited every instalment with great excitement every week since the first... but rather than say anything useful about how brilliant it is, I'm just going to yell about how amazing Alcina's aesthetic looks on you, to the degree where I'm like... are you in fact an actual vampire and have you in fact just outed the time period of your birth? Just the cut of the dress's neck/shoulders is sending me.
I would like to thank you for this video being almost exactly the same length as my jogging route
Glad it was helpful! :P
@@SophiefromMars You should make a “Politics, Run!” app.
I managed to watch this video without spoiling Village for myself by frantically skipping every time you brought it up
Looooved this. Thanks so much for making this series. There was something political to Resident Evil that always resonated with me since I was a kid but I had difficulty articulating it, and you described it perfectly here. Will def be watching more of your vids from here on out. Keep up the great work!!!
Also: You look extra fabulous in the Lady D outfit. 💚
Big Jimquisition energy from your channel. Nice to see more young NB folks getting into vidya analysis and journalism. Good writing and nice video editing and b-roll usage. Subbed!
This was really good and probably my favourite of the Resimania Trilogy.
I really appreciated how you flowed from one topic to another and it really shows how much effort went into the writing.
Very nice video.
Also, awesome outfit.
27:51 for more about the Angola prison, highly recommend the book "How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" by Clint Smith.
I wish that I had a better description, but I feel that this video is the most "Sophie from Mars" video so far. Thanks!
I've been brain poisoned by memes too much and now when I see Mr X push aside the wrecked helicopter I manually hear the DMX song in my brain.
Eternally love your work, this series is no exception. 💜
Wow, thank you!
I really enjoy the way you've broken this series up- I've really looked forward to coming back for each new bit! Can't wait to watch them all together!
16:28 omg that's cathedral! I played that so much with my mom when I was little!
Ngl the opening was excellent enough that I said out loud "that's, _soo,_ _good"_ and liked immediately
Also the bit in the media where you're going on about how terrible cops are I turned into the sickos meme
Mommy? Sorry - Mommy- Sorry, Mommy? Sorry- Mo-
I've been going nuts this whole video wondering where that jingling is coming from and what my cat has gotten into. Finally realized that it is Sophie's jewelry picking up in her mic when she gets really animated with her gestures.
25:19 just wanted to say thanks for this entire section of the video - the information you provide here is incredibly informative about the way that the modern world perceives police and law enforcement, I referenced a bunch of what you metion here, like the Lousiana State Penitentiary, in a piece of university assessment on decolonising the future and ended up getting a First
i've stopped watching video essays abt media i don't care for but you're the only exception. you're vibes are simply immaculate.
It's too rare to hear someone call out the evil of the IMF.
Damn, can’t believe that cops are being told to think of themselves the way Frank Miller’s Batman does… wonder if there’s any ideological connection there…
I'm very sorry to hear about your fraternal twin's death at the hands of vicious Italians. While I will miss watching those old essays, as they were beautifully written, it is important we honor that death.
RE6 might not be the best game in the series, but to me it's the most fun. I think everyone struggles on their first playthrough because the game absolutely should not be played like RE4 or 5, and the game fails to teach you any of the new mechanics. You should be playing it like a kid who's just seen the Matrix for the first time. You can slide while firing dual pistols as Leon at a zombie and then shoulder check them so hard their head explodes. Plus it has more enemy variety than the entire Uncharted series put together.
I don't really get the complaints about the story either. If anything, a billionaire using viruses not as a superweapon but to clone the woman he has a crush on is the most believable use so far. Also there's nothing wrong with Jake, he's like a DMC character guest-starring in this game and he fits the new combat system perfectly. Leon hates him because he's hanging around the girl he rescued from Raccoon City and Chris hates him because he's Wesker's son, but he's a good person and in the end reduces the price for his blood with the virus antibodies from millions of dollars to free.
11:49 💀god that is EXACTLY what i thought and felt playing the game as a romanian person.
The pronuntiation of certain words like "Dimitrescu" never failed to trigger me, Especially since Capcom is such a big company, you'd think they'd at least search on fucking google how to pronounce certain words, but i guess that's too hard.
Also, although i understand why many people are pissed about how the village looks, aesthetically, i actually LOVED the semi-empty eerie-ness for the horror/gothic atmosphere, and i couldn't fail but notice some small things, that really made me feel like i was in my small romanian village on a winter day with a particularly bad weather, since i live in the old part of town. Again, i understand the choise made for the aesthetic, AND the people pissed at it.
What bothered *me*, instead, was that the village had modern stuff??? weirdly enough??, like plastic barrels, so i didn't understand why the villagers where dressed like that, a type of dress that wasn't even worn in the actual like, 19th century in village? I would've loved to see more traditional clothes or cultural references, like i *really* felt like they just scratched the surface of my culture.
Another thing i didn't like was the home of ethen and mia, because it was such an American Big House, with like, some traditional motifs slapped on the pillows and rugs, it really gave me, a kid who grew up in poverty in the 2000s, those icky white american that move to a big house in a poor european country just for the taxes, but like, works from home in english, have a native houswekeeper, send their kids to american schools, and back in america pretend to have become natives like bruh, stfu💀
I don't want to riff on The End of Policing too hard - so I won't - but I think an eminently superior book on the topic is Our Enemies In Blue. It provides a more interesting definition of police and policing, a more thorough history of its inception and the trajectory towards now, and, most importantly to me, is from an explicitly anarchist perspective.
I played through RE6 couch co-op style with a good friend and had enough fun with it to easily overlook it's shortcomings.
ngl I feel smarter whenever I come out of watching any of your videos. Excellent as always!
You know, as someone from latin america and a spanish speaker (Though not from Mexico), i for some reason never noticed the zombies in re4 spoke in a more "neutral" spanish than... well, spanish from spain. Then again, i can't say i'm too annoyed- i feel like it was done this way, perhaps, because it's a more "neutral" use of the language. It really doesn't sound "mexican" to me?
Really? I felt that they spoke with a thick Spanish accent and jargon. I’m from Colombia so maybe that’s influencing my hearing of it?
@@edgardpolanco322 Well, maybe i just didn't pay that much attention to it?? It definitely didn't feel "off" in any way that would make me do a double take; what i'm sure of is that it didn't sound mexican.
I'm from Argentina, in case it matters too.
awww, the "you doing great" is so precious. and very true may I add.
most people online say that rosemary's name is a reference to rosemary's baby but tbh. i always thought it was just an RE in-joke. she's named after a green herb
I am so excited for the future projects you've got coming up and also yes, please go rest! You do a lot!
CIA Femboy was the greatest bit, and your acting just absolutely sold it.
the evil was never the resident
it was always the landlord
i’m not sure if i fully agree with the analysis that Resident Evil 7 plays into classist stereotypes as i feel the reveal that the Baker family were corrupted after an ecological disaster happened at the hands of a major corporation holds some compelling subtext regarding corporate america’s distortion of the lower and lower middle class in the southern united states, but then again i may be biased due to the fact that my family falls into that disenfranchised southerner class
regardless i’ve really loved this series though!
edit: 49:00 i definitely agree!
These have been incredible! 💕 A really deep dive into this franchise that I have yet to see done in this level of detail!
I recognize the board game, it's a puzzle game called Cathedral. It's about planning out a medieval city. I played it a lot as a kid. I also didn't have many friends.
Whenever CIA Catboy is not on screen everybody should be asking "where was CIA Catboy during the Bay of Pigs?"
I am impressed you worked the word "palimpsest" into a script
59:00 - 1:00:08 one minute of the most clear and succinct explanation of why the free market is evil I've ever heard.
I am going to rewatch this like 34663 different times. such an amazing analysis
The little "ideology *sniff*" gets me every time
I came down here to find out if anyone had explained what that "*sniff*" meant and yours is the only comment I can see to even mention it!
Is she implying it's a coked up ideology? What does she mean?
Thanks in advance!
@@YukiteruAmano92 it's a Slavoj Žižek reference
@ I see. Thank you!
I've finished the Resident Evil franchise a couple of months ago, playing from RE1 remake to RE8. And I must say, these points brought in the video match many ones I had during the playthroughs, and brought many delicious others too. Love it as always!
And I must say, I understand why it happened, but I've missed several times the videos of your lost brother, that I've rewatched many times (just like the current ones), may god rest his soul.