u/AmaterasuWolf21

It was tedious, it dragged and I was waiting for it to be over but people told me I should have skipped it and I'm glad I didn't

It has good moments, the Jordan and Samantha vote off were hype, I love watching Sandra play and Samantha stealing the idol was jaw dropping but it still led to nothing, the reason why I don't regret it is because of HvV right after

I just watched episode 7 (the Fraser vote off), and I'm speechless. Watching Jordie's journey in a boring season feels like a payoff for some reason. It makes it feel much more rewarding

I’m not someone who’s a hardcore F4 fan; I enjoy them, but I’m not crazy over them. I still don’t think Pedro Pascal was the right choice for Reed, but still, I was looking forward to this movie, the aesthetic being my main drive.

Then I watched the movie, and it’s very good! I find the dynamics charming; Silver Surfer was enjoyable. The world is gorgeous, Reed being showcased as autistic was cute, especially as a neurodivergent. “Sometimes you being you hurts me” - “Well, I don’t mean to” is spectacular. Herbie is the GOAT and is one of the few characters I’m looking forward to in Doomsday.

So why do I never want to watch it again? 

I don’t think there’s a scene I’m dying to rewatch or any tense character moment that stuck with me; I can tell you the plot alright, but nothing really pops out, and as a non-F4 fan, the references at the beginning do very little for me. Galactus is there, and I feel like his main sell is that he’s comic-accurate.

However, I still don’t know what it is, because again, the movie’s pretty neat; I just don’t know what it is about this movie that makes this so un-rewatchable… If you have points, please share them, I want to figure out what it is xD

Star Wars loves to use their toys, especially for nostalgia; they used Luke, Leia, Han, and now, for one reason or another, they can’t use them, so they then moved to prequel nostalgia, Obi-Wan show, Ahsoka show with storylines from Rebels and many more!

However, not all the shows have been a hit, and the more you fail, the more you exhaust the toybox and the more you run out of Glup Shittos your audience can recognize.

Heck, not even their new additions like The Mandalorian are exciting people.

Except for one! Jar Jar! All we know from his post-Revenge of the Sith (I don’t think it’s canon anyway) is that he was an outcast for giving Palpatine emergency powers. Now imagine if you want to make a Rey movie, not a full trilogy, just one movie, you don’t even need the “he was always evil” but you can say she has to find a newly emerged sith lord, and boom, you have Darth Jar Jar.

Now, I don’t think that the idea of Darth Jar Jar works that well outside of a comedic angle like Rebuild the Galaxy, nor do I think they would make $2B at the box office from this; what I am saying is that they’re exhausting the toybox so much that at one point, Jar Jar will be the biggest name they’ll have.

At that point, you already love fanservice; just market it as a Darth Jar Jar, and a lot of people will watch it out of curiosity.

So this thing blew up last year in terms of fandom, so let's check it out? 18k fanfics, that's an insane amount and definitely something that blew up in popularity, older fandoms have way less than that.

However, you see that a popular ship is Polytrix, Rumi/Mira/Zoey, and if you don't vibe with it, you exclude it and you get 11k, a big drop but still pretty good.

Now you have your afternoon free and decide to really dig into some good stories, so you set the minimum of 20k words, and you get the glorious result of 1.1k.

That's an insane drop from the original 11k, let alone 18k. Maybe you got greedy. Let's bring that Polytrix tag back in… 2.3k fics, and that's not excluding the Explicit tag, so get ready for sesbian lex.

Out of nearly 20k fics, only 2% are above 20k words, which means the rest are fluff, smut, or something in between that you can finish in an hour if you're passionate.

No, this isn't bad. It's just that I expected more from an original result of 18k. Rant over

Edit: Ignore my math, it's ass and I have no idea what I'm talking about, thanks for giving the real percentages