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Mar. 27th, 2017 12:59 amYoung Pope #10:
Or that.
Legion #7:
It's making its Inception debt weirdly overt. Under the nerd theory David's cobbling together his fantasy out of stuff he finds relevant and cool, so I guess he just likes Inception? He gives himself a British accent just prior to deciding his father is Professor X, and the logical leaps he makes telling the story of his adoption and infection are not very logical - and the stick figure head's necessary baldness suggests that choosing a stick figure at all was a form of auto-inception, a way to make oneself feel that what one would merely like to be true had instead been suggested by reality (which is easy for David since he wholly controls his). Kinda looked like he was also borrowing Bonitis from Futurama? Being abandoned, left for dead or forgotten seems to be the episode theme - Farouk being defeated, David being given up, Bill Irwin leaving the girl, Jean Smart leaving the group in the forest, both David and Farouk being locked "underground," the sister forgetting about her husband, the telekinetic guy being forgotten, the Eyes being dismissed and then crumpled up like a rejected draft page. To what end? Just stressing how isolation can be maddening? Everyone in the brain-world seems to know what everyone else does, and the series of magical items and escapes that they give each other don't work for long, sort of tracking how one's rationalizations and reinterpretations will just be stopgaps if one's basic trouble remains unaddressed (and perhaps unaddressable).
Star Trek Beyond:
Seemed like a nearly point for point attempt to redo the terrible second one. Not actually good, though its vague cheers for friendly cooperation and cosmopolitanism resonate well in the Trump era. Not that the era is his, just that this is the era with a Trump visible from every point of it.
Or that.
Legion #7:
It's making its Inception debt weirdly overt. Under the nerd theory David's cobbling together his fantasy out of stuff he finds relevant and cool, so I guess he just likes Inception? He gives himself a British accent just prior to deciding his father is Professor X, and the logical leaps he makes telling the story of his adoption and infection are not very logical - and the stick figure head's necessary baldness suggests that choosing a stick figure at all was a form of auto-inception, a way to make oneself feel that what one would merely like to be true had instead been suggested by reality (which is easy for David since he wholly controls his). Kinda looked like he was also borrowing Bonitis from Futurama? Being abandoned, left for dead or forgotten seems to be the episode theme - Farouk being defeated, David being given up, Bill Irwin leaving the girl, Jean Smart leaving the group in the forest, both David and Farouk being locked "underground," the sister forgetting about her husband, the telekinetic guy being forgotten, the Eyes being dismissed and then crumpled up like a rejected draft page. To what end? Just stressing how isolation can be maddening? Everyone in the brain-world seems to know what everyone else does, and the series of magical items and escapes that they give each other don't work for long, sort of tracking how one's rationalizations and reinterpretations will just be stopgaps if one's basic trouble remains unaddressed (and perhaps unaddressable).
Star Trek Beyond:
Seemed like a nearly point for point attempt to redo the terrible second one. Not actually good, though its vague cheers for friendly cooperation and cosmopolitanism resonate well in the Trump era. Not that the era is his, just that this is the era with a Trump visible from every point of it.
