druberwolf

It is very funny and very touching, while at the same time showing also how some relationships fail to take off, and others destroyed or nearly destroyed, so there is food for thought there as well. I get in a good mood every time I see it, and think it is one of the best rom-coms ever (hence the rating).

Recently the director have uttered weird stuff about the lack of diversity, and yes, there is no teuton knight for the golden-haired goodess, which would be true diversity in this day and age, and there is not a single actor from Korea, China or Japan, so, fair enough, it lacks in diversity. But does that really matter? In K-dramas or Chinese movies there are hardly any white people, and so what?

Leave classics alone!

First of all, the plot is not half bad, and the revelations are nicely spaced out. Good writing skills there. The characters are a nice blend of real life personalities and whatever fits the plot, gaining depth as we go along, and not too easily foreseen.

However, when we are finally learning who is behind everything the consistency of the plot unravels completely, and illogic has the day, for if what they tell us would have happened to be true history would have been different, and so would Vought's progress. Out of nowhere an old Nazi appears, and wants to turn the deserving parts of the US into superhumans. Why she has been gone from the scenes we do not know, but the funny thing she is not Germanic at all, but Jewish. Either this is a subtle case of irony from the writers, or just American lack of understand of the world.

At least she should have been blond and blue-eyed, with a touch of übermensch about her. Granted, Himmler et al weren't that high on the scale of Aryanism either, so maybe I am just being difficult.

Such wanton destruction of a great story (up to book 6, I seem to recall) should be forbidden. The worst part is not the wokery, it is the characters, whom it is impossible to care about, and that is a mortal sin in films and books. See a k-drama instead.