u/The-Lychee

No joke, the Prequels are the worst because Lucas didn't do anything for those 20 years.

Look, I get that the Prequels are bad. They are. It's fucking legendary that they're bad in all the ways you summarize them. In my opinion, Rise of Skywalker has more watchability than Revenge of the Sith mainly because Hayden is Hayden, and Daisy is an actor.

But every single goddamn time I see people slander Lucas's work on A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, I lose my shit so fucking hard.

His ex-wife Marcia Lucas literally said it was his imagination despite being involved with making it work. George Lucas wasn't just a film nerd who had respect from the big shots, he made things like American Graffiti and THX 1138 alongside her, and these films are...

...I never actually want to watch either of it because Ahsoka's design during his time. And Maron. But he helped make Indiana Jones! Yes he can a horn-dog and not that great in dialogue before, but he was capable of making Star Wars because he had it. And gathering and listening is also a part of his instincts.

But my point is that this is disturbingly obvious that Lucas lost a lot of that skill during the 20 years he did nothing related to the craft of films. He didn't do any film editing, didn't try to bounce onto shows until Clone Wars which was after the Prequels.

Like, imagine something as intensive as directing, and deciding to not work on that skill despite being a film nerd for 2 whole decades.

Gameoverse really does a good job of explaining why it never got picked up for years.

I'd say that pilots and first episodes are different things, but with Glitch, every pilot is a first episode and Gameoverse does not have a good one, even if it was a pilot.

For starters, the dinosaur Gobbles has the most unfitting voice I've ever had the displeasure of hearing. The character is clearly coded towards youthful-ness-as strange and grossly oversimplifying as that term can be-and yet Arin voices him in a way that really makes me think of a stunted 40 year old. Arin is so clearly not built for this, at all. The pacing for his speech where he "learns" is wonky and bizarre, which adds to that.

Kit is a strange character. Basically, we're thrusted into the show past a few events after seeing the world she had completely explode, but it moves really too quick for me to even connected to her character. She mostly gets an arc midway through the episode, but it's so fucking quick it's deranged that no one looked at this and thought "save the therapy-talk for when you get greenlit, 'kay?"

There's just this level of disconnection, where her troubles exists more-so as an addition to her, than being actually integral to her.

Like, maybe this is a strange comparison, but look at KoG. While Andi does go through an arc about thinking twice on being dependent on Park Planet, it's pretty minor all things considered. We get a decent grasp of her on the spot with her dynamic towards Frankie, who's very much socially-inefficient but technologically skilled.

Kaboodle is … really just decent? Like Schlatt is doing good enough that I can forget him from my memories of him as a Youtuber, which is easier than you'd think, but he's not really all that exceptional. Like, I can't narrow down what trope he does, but he is very much a "seen this before" despite the fact that I haven't.

Gobbles fucking sucks. Like, he is genuinely a horrible addition and badly acted character.

The pacing of the episode just rushes through the arc for Kit so quickly it feels incongruent with the idea that this is a pilot/first episode.

And finally, the fanservice.

And no, I'm not some puritan, I'm a trans-woman with actual thoughts about the gender disparity in the depiction of female characters.

Why is every woman given the same body-type? The curvy hourglass body is basically everywhere except for the slug with tits that dies and the gross crab woman which is its own type of misogyny.

Funniest part was watching a post from the subreddit arguing about how some of them have slight differences so the criticism is actually invalid somehow.

But I can't exactly look away from the outfit swap scene where the frame motion is basically jiggling her assets and the scene where Miss Information is tied up and not think "Arin, have some class", and meanwhile, KoG has some actual diverse body types for women and treats them with dignity.

And for my final thought, watching the fans basically say shit you'd find in anti-woke commenters, shit about "attractive women" and "puritans" is immensely interesting, watching the sludge of words after seeing those people scream about Stellar Blade.

Edit: Getting real tired of constantly replying, here's my addon.

The male characters can have immediate, striking designs, the women have nothing but the same hourglass shape with the biggest difference being slight proportions being dissimilar. The only striking female design is the crab, who's joke is being gross.

The weird way the animated Kit shifting between clothes, the moment Miss Information is tied up with the angle of the camera. The fact that the character motions, in terms of development and proactivity, is given more-so to Gobbles and Kaboodle.

It highlights how they treat the opposite gender, what they approve within the writing room. If you can't filter women through the objectification lens for men, then your ideas don't exist. It shows how they "other" the women in their story.

I'll be the first to say that despite my enjoyment of Brooklyn Nine Nine, it has a substantial amount of flaws, Gina being a very glaring one amongst the political miasma of it all.

But then I recall Charles Boyle. I will be honest; At times, he's a fun character. And in the same hand, he can be the only character (within the show) I've ever desired to lynch after dipping him in boiling oil while rigging the road to electrocute him.

So, to recap the events the title suggests: In the season 4 finale, Officer Melanie Hawkins, who is a corrupt officer and bank-robber, framed Jake and Rose for her crimes which got them both arrested. And so, Season 5 starts off with a two-parter called "The Big House". This was settled after Amy informed the crew that crime boss Seamus Murphy has the tip, which Holt secretly takes for the group. He then finds himself dragged by the group onto a trip for an interview to become Commissioner for the NYPD after attending a funeral and learning he's on the shortlist.

And "99" is a fun episode. "I'm never gonna stop hearing it!" Is a great joke. But one of the things that bothered me was how Charles was obscenely intrusive about Rosa's life.

See, in the first season, Charles's attempts to flirt with her can come off as … well as sexual harassment, not even trying to avoid it past for a joke. His behavior is genuinely uncomfortable to watch. Now, the writers course-corrected on that, but "99" does something weird.

Here's my problem: Charles actively shoves himself into Rosa's privacy despite her repeatedly telling him to fuck off. And he only learned of her bisexuality by essentially eavesdropping on her, who again, does not want him to know anything about her personal life. And in the next episode, she comes out to the precinct because she couldn't trust him to not out her.

And the fact that it's played off as comedy absolutely infuriated me to no end. This also plays into how the dynamic of racial characters in the show is always so off-putting.

Remember when Holt, a black gay man, was forcibly kissed by the white and blonde Madeline Wuntch and how it wasn't portrayed nakedly as what it was; sexual assault?

Or hell, recall everything with Terry and Gina, and Doug Judy's sister in her episode.

And let's not forget that in "The Ebony Falcon", we basically see Gina obstruct and deliberately sabotage the work of her friends trying to help her and we're supposed to basically go along with her sappy explanation as a reasonable justification for being a jackass towards the black gay man, Latino woman, and Cuban woman trying to help her.

All in all, I fucking hate Charles.