Thread: Rudy's TV Screen

Youtube Addicted to Film Theorists and Game Theorists on Youtube right now. My favorite video of his so far is the one where he talks about how Neo from the Matrix is not really The One from the prophecy. I also really liked his analysis of Breaking Bad. The Nintendo game theories are interesting but not necessarily funny. Some of his film theory vids have me cracking up out loud. TV Been watching Limitless and Person of Interest like crazy lately! Limitless only has one season on Netflix because it was canceled. Watching it, I can understand why. I mean it's great and entertaining but...it's basically Psych with drugs. Like instead of a pretend psychic, the funny guy gets his observation skills from a new drug on the market. Pretty tame but I can understand audiences being uncomfortable with a drug addict as the protagonist, even if for the most part, they try to let you forget that is basically what he is doing by taking this magic fix your life pill. Occasionally, when he suffers symptoms and withdrawal...it is a stark reminder as he mirrors the usual heroin or crack addict imagery, red rimmed eyes, sweaty, bent over at the waist, and struggling against his body's need for this chemical. It can be offputting for a person who is in it for the quirky crime solving dramedy. Me? I fucking love that shit. I know there's nothing glamorous about drug addiction. I know that. ....but I'm kinda enthralled and enamored by it, especially when a guy is the one going through it. I love that shit, making him all helpless and vulnerable and needy for this thing. It's creepy and taboo, you know? Anyway, Limitless is good but expect it to end abruptly with no resolutions. Also, don't expect it to do anything new. Entertaining, yes, but sorry to keep comparing it to Psych, but that is basically what it is. They replace Shawn Spencer with a more doofy guy who's a bit more teddy bearish but all the archetypes are the same and they word for word fill the same roles. Plus, they make Bradley Cooper, who looks very, strikingly similar to the main guywhich is super weird and creepy like most people who know Cooper are going to be watching the first episode and think to themselves, Hey, this guy kinda looks like Bradley cooper only to have him actually show up as a character in the series later on...the dissonance is a little like a kick to the junk they make him like the head of the conspiracy with this drug and...you don't know if he's good or not. Cooper's super intense as it is, so, when he says he's good, you feel like Yeah, I don' believe you for some reason... Person of Interest is my absolute favorite thing right now. I hate them so fucking much for...a character death that happens at the end of season 2. Things were going perfectly and it almost made me wanna quit. Thankfully, they kinda step up and fill the vacuum with Root and her bizarre connection to the machine. My favorite episode right now is the one where she's captured and gets tortured and interrogated by that Control Lady. omg, as soon as Root gets the machine back in her ear and starts talking to the Lady...it's like she's been possessed by God. I got chills even as I celebrated Root taking control of the situation again. It's almost to the point where everybody else can kind of just go away and I'd be entertained by her alone but they keep themselves relevant by John and Shaw basically acting like funny siblings, Finch playing daddy. The quips and humor are well written and timed perfect. Fasco. Film I rewatched The Craft the other night in preparation for the plot I'm currently working on. There's a lot of little nuances and stuff I didn't notice before. Back when I first watched it in my teens, Nancy always seemed stone cold and sociopathic, right from the start. Sarah seemed so emotional and I used to really feel for her. Rewatching it, all these little complexities come blaring out at me. Like how insecure and jealous and petty Nancy is. This time, even knowing how it all ends, I semi-believed her when Sarah gets the upper hand again and Nancy is all whiny and trying to explain how her insecurities and need for love got the better of her. Almost. Sarah's patheticness was highlighted this time as she stumbles around at the end, crying and rocking on her bedroom floor, it all felt really chaotic and messy. Funny how perceptions change as you grow up and I definitely feel like being 29 this year is a factor in my inability to truly empathize with the teenagey woe is me act that Sarah plays. Even Bonnie, Please take my scars, please take my scars, was cringeworthy to me now. Rochelle wouldn't need to do anything nowadays. SJWs would eat Laura Lizzie alive just for saying I just don't like negroids let alone fucking bullying the girl.