Wow this is the best comment I’ve ever gotten! I really liked your video and I appreciate your energy and time! I’m not sure if you have read parable of the sower (currently reading) but it’s ever presence is so infectious and the balance of hope and action is definitely a central theme! I’d love to hear your thoughts on the work! I’m hoping our current administration is helping people realize the power and impact of organize locally and being apart of community but that maybe my bubble! I do think community organizing is the most important thing for our current reality and I hope others feel the same! Why does calling Seth Rogan a liberal feel generous, you are so right tho, I’m surprised he didn’t get blackballed for sausage party. I read the opening volume of the idw Tmnt and the Batman crossover which was so goofy so hearing all that makes me curious in exploring their actual comic history. Comparing Hob to magneto is something that clicks immediately even though I would have never made the connection myself! I appreciate this rad comment! I have tv show allergies 💀

X it's the first one I played and the game that got me into Final Fantasy games in the first place

XIV. Content, story, and music.

might be recency bias but rebirth the combat, characters, story, the world, just amazing to me

Great comment! I love this kind of discussion and generally I agree with you! Definitely some takes can come off hyperbolic in the video essay format but I totally believe there is room for multiple readings and equally valid interpretations of these characters. I think that’s a great point that I don’t really emphasize in the video enough, the movie does justify splinters fear of extreme and ridiculous violence being carried out. Some of the excerpts I chose from “when they call you a terrorist” about Monte’s time in prison truly seem unreal. I do think that your idea of being able to differentiate being the defining contrast between splinter and superfly, is an extremely valid reading and honestly probably what the writers were going for. My problem is with how it reinforces ideas of model minority and peaceful protest. Minorities are often held to an unfair standard and asked to accept half as much for twice the work. Marginalized groups being framed as villainous for not differentiating while police, news organizations, and private military commit violence against those communities is something we see often, and I think it’s even more problematic that superflys plan is not to explicitly commit violence against humans, but seek liberation for mutants. The generalization, or differentiation that the story has constructed about superfly is not even legitimate. He plans to mutate all animals on the planet, the kaiju is never part of his plan. He becomes a Kaiju because his family and friends turn on him…. and literally push him into the mutagen. His ideas are viewed as dangerous because they don’t conform to the turtles way of appeasing humanity and that’s what turns the people around him against him. I think it’s fair to say it’s not addressed at all is a bit hyperbolic, they are framed as a generic villain/antagonist and their action aren’t praised or glorified. Ultimately, I just wasn’t a fan with how casual and flippant the violence explicitly committed against stockman was depicted. I do think that splinter fight is great, especially as an ode to Jackie Chan fight scenes. You right he gets some good licks in. I just think it also feeds into splinters characterization as complacent with the status quo, as he really only moves into action to uplift and protect his immediate family regardless of the effects it has on the other mutants around him, an unfortunate parallel to the model minority. I definitely agree with you generally though, I don’t think splinters depictions is explicitly negative or leaves no room for a more generous interpretation. Ultimately you are correct the mutants are being turned against each other and there is some amazing room to explore with the further installments! I think online political discussion is very polarized and I’m definitely not immune to that, so I may have given splinter less grace that deserved. I think splinter and superfly are equally valid as minority allegory and I think there is space and necessity for both of them in the fight for mutant liberation; the movie does not offer superfly the equal space and the validation it offers splinter so I had to speak up for my man’s! Thanks again, truly well thought out reflection of the movie and my analysis 🙏🏾

@@BlahNetworkBro Thank you for your answer! There is definitely room for multiple readings. But I think I agree with you more than I read it differently. I was just addressing what I stumbled upon in your essay and was hoping for an answer. And I was very happy that you answered in such detail. I'm not sure what the writers were going for. The movie doesn't feel to me like it's sure what it's going for. I think it's a kids movie and it uses that as an excuse to be shallow or not clear. For example, I'm not sure if the transformation into a kaiju was intentional to portray a lack of differentiation or if it's just a coincidence that fits my interpretation. I think it's more the latter. Kaijus represent forces of nature. Godzilla is nature's answer to the atomic bomb. You can't negotiate with a force of nature. Superfly should have lost the ability to speak, maybe even to think clearly, maybe he would have become a hive mind. But none of this happens. You can negotiate with him. And as you say, the Turtles don't use that. That's messy. I agree with you, it's not his plan to become a kaiju and be powerful enough to reshape the world. His plan is to create a ruling majority of mutants. He is turned into a kaiju. The Turtles are trying to fix a mistake that they made themselves. He is about the same age as the Turtles, but he is not adopted by Splinter at the end of the movie. Instead, Splinter falls in love with a bug who is the same age as his sons. Baxter Stockman died protecting the little Superfly. He sacrificed himself for him. And this is not addressed. I fully agree with you on the problem of peaceful protests. Accept half as much for twice the work. I think there's no escaping this dilemma. It's the dilemma of injustice. That's why it's easier to choose the wrong thing than the right thing. And when you fail, you become what you fight against. If the film had handled the issue of differentiation in a more consistent way, it would not have dehumanized the guards. Then we would have seen them doing their job and being told lies, as it is implied at the beginning. They are even threatened if they fail. The guard whose face gets hurt by Superfly could have a kid who goes to class with April or something like that. That would have revealed Cynthia Utrom as the real villain, as well as the system and the manipulation. A complex issue presented in a layered but approachable way. Sorry for replying so late. It's been a wild few days. And thank you for your answer and for discussing these issues and thoughts! EDIT: Additional thoughts: At the beginning of the movie, Baxter Stockman talks about his test animals and how he won't let TCRI turn Superfly into a soldier. He wants to achieve this by creating more mutants. Superfly continues this plan. Perhaps the mutation is the liberation of the animals and Superfly is not striving for mutant liberation but for animal liberation. And the movie doesn't have the guts to go full PETA and really explore that theme. It's weird that the Turtles are against mutating animals. None of them wants to be a normal animal again. And it is just Superlfy who ends up as a normal animal.

Ty! The Three artists used through the video are featured in the description and you can check out their bandcamp pages for the albums I featured and for Sevyn I featured her set on blackhouseradio, their socials both in the description as well! :D

Raphael and Mikey are my favorites.

Really excited to talk about strangers of paradise that game gets a bad rep and I love it! You’re the first person to find the drwho video also! I appreciate your kind words and support!

@@BlahNetworkBro it's unfortunate, but a lot of people don't look at the description. It's better to put it as a pinned post in the comments since that's where people go to first honestly. I try to do it, but I forget a lot of the time.

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Hey appreciate a lot man! You really learn it’s one of the sickest the more you play! Definitely slide me your discord I’ll be lookin for some more matches once I get these combos consistent!

haha you too i haven't re-connected with theater ppl in a long time:( , Im always down to smoke tho!

you had no choice, youre already in this video you were pre drafted lol

absolutely ready to do some more voice work! shoot me a call on disc whenever (:

TY man excited to make more again :)