ryanjtongue

Bellinda spent time with children, family, and genuinely seemed happy. She had more character and depth in this episode than any before it. The Doctor seemed happy too. Was that the intended effect? No. Conrad seemed mildly sympathetic for some reason. Is that good? No. Disabled people are invisible... for reasons that didn't really make any sense. Did that make sense? No. Doubt was the goal, but also... not the goal? Why?

Why did nothing make any sense? Why were bad things presented as half-good? And why are we making right-wing people see their ideals played out in a bizarrely pleasant seeming reality with a sympathic alt-right leader?

As time goes on I'm growing more convinced that Russel T Davies has suffered some sort of head-injury in the last decade, and somebody should encourage him to rest. He seems confused.

It felt like ChatGPT had tried to write a Doctor Who episode, but had only fed itself a bullet point summary of a 2007 episode as a prompt,

I hated this film. I hated everything about it. I only watched 40 minutes, then walked out and went to a Nando's. I'd read the novel, so knew roughly what I was in for plot-wise and had seen the trailer so knew it would be relatively artsy, but this made me feel a strange blend of miserable and irritated that only The Favourite has made me feel before. Lily Rose Depp was pretending to be a Victorian woman in an extremely irritating way, and nobody could like her character. Nicholas Hoult was playing a withdrawn polite guy who pulled some sort of anime-fear-face pretty early in, and I can't imagine why anybody would like him either. The count's voice was just deeply, deeply annoying, and it took him far too long to say anything, and was largely just a shadow lurking in the dark, such that whatever artistic quality that might have the main takeaway from it is: "I don't like this. I don't like the way he speaks. This feels like a waste of time, and I can't see anything. Let's leave" and that would be the sensible thing to do. No regrets. This was only irritating, miserable trash.

I am one of the people who's criticised every Marvel film for years. Hell, I criticised Endgame when it came out because it detracted from Infinity War. In an ideal world Disney Marvel would've ended at the blip.

But it didn't, and I have admittedly disliked quite a lot of the stuff that's come since due to interpreting it as "preachy". Not only does it not make sense, but it also feels like it dislikes me as a viewer, and I felt left out.

This film though I didn't feel left out at all. Which is mad considering this film has intentionally stripped people like me out of it all together. Still, somehow, I managed to connect to the character..,, possibly because it's actually written well, and quite funny.

Two points actually made me laugh out loud - the part where Fury reacts to Carol falling to the ground, and the part where Carol turns out to be a princess.

I have no idea what's different about this film, but for the first time I wasn't left feeling confused and slightly accused, but actually felt like I was understanding roughly what was happening and that the filmmakers wanted me to enjoy the experience.

Surprisingly good easy going film. 8/10.