A lot of people are confused in the new episode about Elesa's outfit, saying that they think it IS just stripes on the front and showing off, since as a model she'd have unusual outfits. Problem with that theory can be seen in shots like this.
Either the front of Elesa's body is actually triangular or it's just a shirt that weirdly has stripes that are the same color as her skin.
Seeing it from the front sells the idea of it JUST being straps a little better... but man, her breasts would have no support and it still seems kind of iffy around her left one.
And then there's this shot, where I first brought up that I think it's just stripes, where her breasts would have to be SUPER perky to not even see any underside of them at this angle.
Basically what I'm saying is I don't think even the animators knew what was going on with it.
And the official artwork shows the other problem of it just being stripes: it would mean she has no belly button.
...wait, is she actually a robot? Is that why she has the head things?
This thread is also making me wish I had an edit button on Twitter, since I realized I might be confusing what the argument is over - whether her outfit is stripes or just straps.
Commenters think it's straps showing off her actual skin, I say it's a striped shirt with skintones
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As per the vote, now watching Sadako 3D while I edit!
Unsurprisingly, first shot of the movie, where a guy dumps a woman down a well, is distractingly bad because it's done with the 3D gimmick in mind and since I'm not watching in 3D, it looks like a cardboard cut-out falling.
Opening credits are very generic "shaky, slightly staticy movie horror credits," even feels like I've seen the font they used, too.
It's over a guy giggling as he scribbles on walls and sews together white dresses (presumably for all the Sadakos he's been dumping in that well).
Actually, that's kind of an amusing point - we saw a shot from inside the well and he's been dumping women who look like Sadako in it so there's a great big pile of 'em. Reminds me of how in the first movie they needed to empty the well of water to get to her corpse...
Alrighty, finally going to start watching Discovery season 3!
NO SPOILERS, NO "OH, YOU'LL SEE" OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. LET ME MAKE MY OWN OPINIONS ABOUT IT FOR MYSELF AND THEN AGREE OR DISAGREE BASED ON WHERE I'M AT.
And let's start things off on a few bits of aesthetic issues that keep nagging at me whenever I watch this show:
God, either CGI artists or directors or SOMEBODY is obsessed with CGI sand sculptures. Don't know what I mean? I mean they like thousands of tiny grains of CGI...
...sand forming into objects - like 3-D printing stuff with nanotechnology or whatever. You see it in big CGI battles where we need THOUSANDS of tiny things flying around or in the opening scene where stuff just gets formed out of nothing and it stopped being impressive years...
I freely admit that, being a part of the caustic critic craze of the late-2000s/early-2010s, I helped contribute to a culture that only embraces surface-level, unthinking criticism and angry, bitter, hateful reactions to creators. It's shameful to me since you can draw a line...
...from that kind of attitude to the toxic, bitter, hateful assholes that hurl death threats and abuse at actors, writers, directors, etc. It's one of the many reasons I've tried to be more thoughtful in my critiques and desperately reinforce when appropriate to not attack...
...creators, why even in the new theme song (the one that premiered in the 600th episode and will likely become the full-time theme in the new year when I make the annual changeup to the theme) I don't namedrop awful creators anymore. Hell, even Liefeld - who just in the...
You know what? Fuck it, I should be working on the 600th episode, but this has got me on a tear. Let's talk about the anniversary movies, what I like and what I don't like, with the benefit of hindsight.
Kickassia is a farce. It's an hour and a half long farce about a bunch...
...of internet personalities getting convinced by a narcissist to take over a country and think they know what the hell they're doing. It's goofy, it's ridiculous, and understands its tone.
FFS, I put on a Starfleet uniform with an army helmet and do a bad Patton impression...
...it knows it's not supposed to be taken seriously at all. A lot of people are written out of character (or dated references are made and were pointed out that they'd be dated on set but it was largely ignored), but it's a little more forgivable because there are clear lines...
Dan Didio has held MANY titles during his tenure at DC, but most of them are all in some kind of executive or editorial position where he has dictated how the DC Universe has progressed.
And quite frankly he's not been that great at it.
Oh, sure, there are plenty of successes to be named during his tenure - many good comics and good directions for the DCU have been made... but sometimes those were in SPITE of what Dan Didio wanted.