*spoilers for season 2* Even though it was in her head, Silcos final speech felt more like what he should’ve always said instead of what he did. The act of breaking the cycle and walking away.

“Stay with me here” Ma’am, you brought up berserk while talking about Arcane… Id stay with you through anything, my queen.

The hair may just remind her also of her home so thats another reason to keep it despite impracticality

And that's why arcane SEASON 1 is amazing

i had a similar thought about the first wonder woman. she is from a classical, tribal civilization with a first brush with the european culture of WW1. WHHHHYYYYYYYY IS SHE SO MADE UP?!?!? this is not to say that they can't get her into a makeup chair and do some work... but it's possible for women to have an "invisible" makeup look that still enhances. THIS IS NOT WHAT GAL GADOT LOOKED LIKE! in the "no man's land" slomo sequence, she looks like a COVER MODEL! she's made mabeline perfect. it makes sense for BLACK WIDOW to look like that. she's a modern woman living in an affluent western world. she is thoroughly of our time and culture. wonder woman in that first movie sooooo would not be. and it's not like she was pulled into action from a cocktail party. so where the hell did she get all dolled up?!?!?

Clicked the video for the interesting crossover, stayed for the great analysis

im gonna say a lot here so apologies in advance: first of all, excellent video, i love the analysis and the metaphor of the castle and the bodies, i think you did a really good job unpacking and verbalizing the theme of ambition in the show. its something that i sort of picked up on as a viewer but had no way of verbalizing. one of the only points i disagreed with you on is silcos understanding of how much he cares for jinx. in the video you said that he didnt fully realize how much she meant to him until he was directly faced with the threat of losing her, and i kind of disagree. the relationship between jinx and silco is one of the most complicated in the show, and i think theres a lot of room for interpretation, but in my opinion, he was very concious of how much she meant to him. as you said, when he first adopted her, it was out of a sense of both sympathy and ego, but i believe it very quickly evolved. one of the most telling things is his trust in her. he allows her to sit on his lap, inject shimmer into his eye, which he would never let anyone else do. silco is a hardened man who keeps himself cold and distant, creating a very clear line between him and his subordinates. but with jinx, he shows her a side that nobody else gets to see. he defends her every step of the way, protecting her as much as he can. his manipulation of jinx, his creating her dependence on him, shows his care for her. its deeply toxic, obviously, but i think he created her dependence on him out of a desire to protect her from what he believes to be a deeply corrupt world. he doesnt trust anyone but himself to take care of her, not even jinx herself. its abusive and manipulative, but his relationship to her is born out of the deepest love he can manage. hes a man who has been betrayed by those he considers family (vander) and he never wants to experience that again. hes obviously selfish, but at the end of the day, i think hes fully aware of how much jinx means to him, and it terrifies him profoundly. the other thing i wanted to talk about here is the dynamic between zaun and piltover. as you said in the video, season one is constantly showing us these tensions between the two, building it up until it reaches a boiling point at the end of s1. this video made me realize what was disappointing to me about season 2, which is that i feel like we never fully got to see the consequences of that boiling point being reached. in act 1 of s2, we see the collapse of zaun after silco gets taken out, and how cait rises to become a dictator of sorts, unleashing violence against the undercity. but we never got to see the full clash, the full conflict of it. only some flashy images of cait and the enforcers storming zaun with the Grey. like you said, arcane is a war story, and a story about the cost of ambition. but the war ended up being not about the conflict between zaun and piltover, but about piltover and noxus. i think a far more satisfying course of the story would gone something like: zaun and piltover go to war, revolutionaries against opressors, with jinx and cait at the helm of the conflict. but then, as the story progresses and noxus enroaches on piltovers territory, the tide turns. and suddenly, the greatest enemy of both becomes noxus, rather than each other. jinx loses isha to noxian soldiers, and cait witnesses the destruction that they are willing to commit. we couldve gotten a story where zaun and piltover negotiate between eachother, brokering peace to be able to face a much larger threat together. that way, the conflict between piltover and zaun couldve had a definite resolution while still exploring the horrors of all-out war that noxus brings. i loved season two but i just think it had a lot of untapped potention story-wise. sorry for writing a whole ass essay lol. again, really loved the video, and i thank you for letting me yap away about all of this

I love the Picture of Dorian Gray and I kinda want to make a comic adaptaion, where Dorian gets to live his best Shoujo anime boy life.

I stumbeled upon your channel, this is the third video I watched, thank you this is really good!

Your video helped me put into words why I've always disliked prequels. The first reason is that there's no progress made in the story. There's no forward momentum. There's no destination new or unexpected. You already know the ending so the mystery and tension are constrained from the start. The second reason is that it feels lazy. Instead of treading new ground, the author is just filling in details about established characters and settings that already have a predefined template to follow with predetermined parameters that must be followed leading to a predetermined destination. The third reason is that there's a disenchantment that happens when meaningful ambiguity and a sense of mystery are replaced by a dry recounting of information, as if reading from an encyclopedia. By their very nature, prequels divulge information, answering questions that didn't need to be answered in the first place. When this happens, we go from actively engaging in the storytelling process to merely being a consumer of information, like a student studying for an exam.

I really like furiosa! For me, it is the best movie of the franchise. The most important sequence for me is the one in which furiosa's mother tries to save her. THAT mother is the mother I want to be to my 2 children (7yo and 4yo). She is an unstoppable force, the true representation of strength and stoicism. She is so prepared and ready to fight every terrible aspect of life she faces silently. Is there a more amazing mother in movies?! Rosemary? Who wanted and loves her baby, even knowing he was demonic? Ripley, when she adopts the girl in aliens and uses the exoskeleton to save her later? Sarah Connor for terminator 2? Mothers are underestimated and underrepresented in movies... maybe because we are always tired, always sleeping less than we should, always busy... or overwhelmed.

6 seconds in and already referencing Berserk Subbed

A Mad Max video, and you say you discuss Arcane too? This is all tailored for me

Excellent video

I liked the movie and was excited when she cut her hair for the first time. Seeing her hair super long again BROKE me. I still think, in her child mind, she would associate long hair with bad things, not with rebellion. That being said this video is amazing, great analysis!

Wow! What a satisfying analysis.

yes that hair during that scene in thumbnail is so stupid, I could feel the vibes of some expired men weren't having it and bribed them to included that man into for romantic scene. The kind of people that get lonely and pay editor/director to dopamine training girls to go for them that's gross, they need to stop self-inviting themselves and their culture into it as "good guys". Yes we know you want to be the "good guy", we're just not impressed

The Viktor part becomes more interesting when you finish season 2: Viktor starts to climb again when he convinces himself that the bodies he is pilling up are not bodies, they are just... changed

Why did she suggest I drink hot chocolate and stairs at the ceiling :/

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Aww, you put a dead pixel in the top right corner. How cute.

Not where I thought this was going, but I loved it

By no means am I suggesting that deep analysis of this kind isn't worthwhile in Mad Max movies. However, it is important to keep in mind that George Miller is a mad man, and that prolonged examination of his work will only result in your own madness.

Came for Arcane, hard opening of Berserk IMMEDIATELY sold on this video

Singed and his daughter are left standing on the shoulders of every dead giant throughout the runtime of the show.

This was a great video. I especially like the analysis on Jimmy’s relationship with his job. While some people may find their jobs completely fulfilling, I think many of us don’t. The game of life has kinda been structured as a competition by dead people thousands of years before us, so it seems we often have no choice but to compete. Which is kinda sad, since it pushes the idea that happiness is obtained through climbing the ladder, and that a good job equates to a good life, rather than engaging in activities we find personally fulfilling outside of our work

This was a really interesting video

I’m glad you included the end bit, Mouthwashing goes really hard in the worst way 🙃🫠 cheers 🍹

I found the "treenis" at the climax to be a bit on the nose

So did you enjoy the game?

Of note: It’s also kind of important that the job itself is one funded by a predatory company that provides no sense of quality of life, value or enrichment. Most people only spend 8 hours at their jobs, this was a dedicated full year. While the cycle of “get up, go to work, watch TV, go to sleep, repeat” is referenced, the idea of a job consuming a man’s life is more literal here. Similar to other sailing/long term shipment jobs, it consumes your life, in a sense.

Furiosa was the first movie I ever walked out off due to disappointment and.. well, boredom. I really don't see what everyone sees in this movie and feels like I'm the only one at this point. All the gaps Fury Road left on purpose in Furiosa's backstory made for a great opportunity to come up with so many possibilities. But oh no, let's overly explain every thing we enjoyed imagining in Fury Road. Remember the impactful scene where Furiosa looks off into the distance and answers simply 'Redemption' when asked what she's looking for? Anything you can imagine she may have done to harbor such regret and emotion is infinitely better than what we got. It did not help that Chris Hemsworth was a pain to sit through, he's neither scary, nor morbidly funny, he's just a buffoon; and the action was a pale, pale shadow of what we got in Fury Road. I really don't see what people see in this blandness. In the words of a better villain, it was 'mediocre'

Now… did you have to borrow ladders or did someone just so happen to be a ladder collector?

I love the idea that Berserk has such good writing and archetypes that it's looked to when analyzing shows. Peak recognizes peak

Oh for God Sake, let the courts deal with Neil. Stop convicting someone before tge legal system has. If hes proven guilty then yes stop supporters his work by all means. But you are creating the same paranoia that created the 16th century witch hunts - it stupid and possibly incorrect. And if this is your way of punishing a artist for his/her crimes i will challenge you to look deeply into the history of all artists of all the material you enjoy. No one is who you believe you think they are. Now to be clear, if he has committed these crimes, yes do what you will. Also i am not saying the woman who have bought these allegations are lying - it takes an enormous amount of courage to talk about things like SA and there is no reason to disbelieve them. But we are not the legal system and as far as the court of public opinion, humans have proven for thousands of years to be very bad at getting the right answer. So let the legal system do its job. If you want to boycott an artist do so, but stop saying they are guilty of a crime until the legal system has said they are.

There are some cases in the beauty industry where influencers tried to keep up their appearance to hide their illegal activities and not just look young. Eben in the beauty industry presenting a beautiful and youthful appearance is just as much about looks as it is about trustfullness.

Hot chocolate and stairing at the ceiling sounds like a shout

Its still the smart video. Thank you! I'm gonna cut my hair! 😆🖖👏

Thank you for this. The story is neglected but important. I am a Pratchett completist. I bought _Good Omens_ before I knew who Gaiman was. I forgot somebody else's name was on it for years, because there was no _voice_ in it other than Pratchett's. The author is Pratchett. If anything Gaiman was a young author Pratchett was a good enough egg to mentor. Gaiman may have helped with word-smithing and ideas, but his contribution is superfluous to the quality of the work. He has since said he wrote 75%. This is likely a low ball figure. Despite the rage on which Pratchett's work is primarily based, the man himself was too gracious not to understate. I started reading Gaiman later. I read a lot, but it was immediately apparent from his text that Gaiman was at minimum a very bad egg indeed. So I have never bought a Gaiman book other than _GO,_ which is only nominal. I am not concerned with criminal charges, which are matters for the courts. I do not trust the courts or prosecutors in the slightest and have direct personal knowledge they routinely convict innocent people by employing physical torture, but if courts were good, there would be negligible chance of a conviction. I am not concerned with allegations. I am concerned with three things: (1) The text. I describe how in a comment to a @baldbookgeek video, which you are welcome to read. The trick is to do a moral dialectic of pretty much any two of his works. Note to the inevitable illiterates: it is not because he writes about bad characters and events. So does Pratchett, and he was the moral opposite of Gaiman. (2) Gaiman's reputation. For longer than the overwhelming majority of people here have been alive, Gaiman has repeatedly been banned from speaking venues for observed sexual impropriety including once having to be prized off a 15-year-old. (3) Geiman's spoken words. Tortoise Media played audio of his telephone conversations with a victim. It is a master class-even a PhD thesis-of the crudest and most obviously pathological manipulation and exploitation. There is a lot more, but even this is too much for the viciously stupid people who believed Gaiman was not utterly contemptuous toward women because he cosplayed and larped feminism to get more soft targets. They seem to form the bulk of what little commentary there is. Still, people, especially young women, *should* read Gaiman if only as an object lesson. I see no problem with enjoying it, especially as enjoyment enhanced learning; so does discomfort. Just beware which lesson you learn and consider how much is there to soften young women up. It is entirely natural to be attracted in some sense. It is entirely natural to feel betrayed. It is entirely natural to deny having made a mistake. (I do not suggest you necessarily do.) It is entirely natural to blame innocent men and vilify them for pointing this out, saying they are _blaming the victim._ It is also entirely to be traumatized over and over again for continuing the cycle. What is not natural in the slightest is communication in good faith, but I recommend it. Be entirely natural and even rational at your own peril.

The idea of Vi and Jinx, basically the main characters of the story, not being any of the people heading towards the castle but being the bodies under foot, gave me chills.

"Stay with me here" - Oh my friend, you had me hooked at "Berserk"

Awesome video, very well done!

Said the chick with a dirty mop on her head.

Mention of Plague of Gripes!

Piltover: Israel Undercity/Zaun: Palestine Think about it.

>opens up arcane video >its berserk joking ofc this was a delight i absolutely loved the use of the castle analogy in response to how everyone views the importance (or lack thereof) of power

Like how the military shaves the heads of male recruits.

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