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What we autistic and adhd and stoner bitches like about Better Call Saul is how slow paced it is. It gives us time to be dreamy.
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thinking about how if the dea did in fact dig up laloward in the aftermath of brba, they may have come to the conclusion that is was walt who killed them………………… 😑
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woozapooza · 2 years
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That post I just reblogged about how Better Call Saul handled Jimmy’s prison sentence so deftly reminded me of something related that I’ve been thinking about since the finale aired: how the BCS finale makes me really grateful for El Camino. I mean, I was already grateful for El Camino, I absolutely loved it, but it feels even more important in the light of “Saul Gone.” I’m okay with Jimmy going to prison (okay with it on a narrative level, I mean) for all the reasons articulated beautifully in that post, but also for another reason that’s possibly the most important, without which I might not be fully at peace with the ending of BCS: the fact that Jesse doesn’t go to prison. It is so incredibly important that we’ve seen one of our main characters get away without any legal consequences. Jesse is in many ways a victim of circumstances, but he is a criminal yo, he’s a drug dealer, he has blood on his hands. Legally, he should absolutely be in prison. But he gets away, and we in the audience are supposed to be happy that he gets away, and that, more than any other detail about the Badverse (Gilliverse, methverse, whatever we’re calling it), tells me unambiguously that in the world of the story, just like in the real world, the law is not synonymous with morality. Because of that, I’m 100% confident that we are not supposed to read Jimmy’s ending as mere justice. It’s a lot more complicated than that, which is exactly the kind of beautifully, maddeningly nuanced storytelling I would expect from Gilligould & Company.
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dhawanmasters · 4 months
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CREATIONS FROM EVERY MONTH OF 2023
Post your favorite and most popular post from each month this year (it’s okay to skip months).
tagged by the ever so talented @saw-x 🥰💖 truthfully, this year wasn't as gif-heavy as the one before it, what with my photoshop computer glitching for about a month and a half and me getting fed up with the ratios but the siren song of making funky moving pictures of my niche blorbos continued to call to me nevertheless
FEBRUARY
MOST POPULAR: javier peña 2x01 FAVORITE: the corinthian + posture
MARCH
MOST POPULAR: adam brody for inverse FAVORITE: tlou x ethel cain
APRIL
MOST POPULAR: norman bates FAVORITE: hbd gerard way, heathers x paramore
MAY
MOST POPULAR: renfield FAVORITE: evil dead parallels (via thebabysitter)
JUNE
MOST POPULAR + FAVORITE: jennifer’s body
JULY
MOST POPULAR: daniel le domas FAVORITE: bullet train + pantone colors
AUGUST
MOST POPULAR: across the arachnohumanoid polymultiverse FAVORITE: saw traps + headgear (via sawsource), lalo salamanca (via gilliverse)
SEPTEMBER
MOST POPULAR: saw x behind the scenes (via sawsource) FAVORITE: jennifer’s body x olivia rodrigo
OCTOBER
MOST POPULAR: carnival of souls FAVORITE: ice nine kills meat & greet, amanda young x ethel cain
DECEMBER
MOST POPULAR: dhawan!master in spyfall FAVORITE: dhawan!master x the sharpest lives
tagging (no pressure!): @userparamore @iero @capinejghafa @tennant @crumb @marks-hoffman @spdrgwen @sonyarebecchi @thevelvetgoldmine
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gilliverse · 1 year
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GILLIVERSE + clownery from our discord (we take this very seriously) [insp.]
HAPPY END OF 2022 — it feels like yesterday that we started the blog but really it's been almost 5 months (??!?) full of laughing crying clowning and giffing :) we have an exciting year ahead of us, celebrating 15 years of breaking bad next month (and the 10 year finale anniverary in september!!!) as well as cheering on the cast and crew of better call saul during their final awards season!
to all of you who have followed the blog, sent requests, posted your own creations and of course reblogged those of others and of ours; thank you for being in this little corner of fandom!
to the members; i love you guys, I am so lucky that you're doing this with me and I'm proud of what we've created here ❤️ @andmoonlight @scarychristmas @jimmymcgill @nadezhda-wexler @kimwifexler @johncho @nikolatexla
— anna (@wexler-mcgill) <3
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seraphtrevs · 2 years
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This is part of a larger point about the Gilliverse that I’ve been brewing on for a while, but I feel like talking about it now.
Howard is right about so much in his “fuck you” speech to Jimmy and Kim, but he is absolutely wrong about Jimmy being born evil and unable to help himself. It’s very easy to fall into this trap because the shows actively invites you to think about the characters’ morality or lack there of, but this Calvinist thinking is so nihilist and cynical. Like, Walt, Jimmy and Kim are just Bad people, they were born bad and every action they do is therefore bad, and they didn’t have any choice in it like they’re hyenas or alligators - just some dumb animals doing what Nature programed them to do.
Both shows explicitly give the characters opportunities to make different choices, which the characters decline. But saying that they were secretly Bad all along strips the meaning from those choices. If they really didn’t have any choice, what’s even the point of these stories? Being a “good” person with “good” intentions doesn’t matter either, btw. There’s no such thing as Good people or Bad people. There are good choices and bad ones, and we are all free to make them. Getting on the bad choice road is an act of agency, not destiny. 
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jimmymcgill · 3 months
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a creation for every month of 2023 tagged by the amazing @vindicia and @thelvadams 💛 to post my favourite and most popular post from each month this year.
january
most popular: the banshees of inisherin
my favourite: bcs + red
february
most popular: you've got that look on your face, mulder
my favourite: call saul (from gilliverse)
march
april
most popular: we're death wrestling with ogres
my favourite: better drink coffee
may
most popular: you're scheduling your grief?
my favourite: blood beard/stache cinematic universe
june
most popular and my favourite: fashion icon jimmy mcgill (from gilliverse)
july
august
most popular and my favourite: favourite episodes from brba and bcs (from gilliverse)
september
october
november
december
most popular and my favourite: games played in 2023
tagging gilliverse lovely members @samanthamulder, @andtwelfth, @dhawanmasters, @nadezhda-wexler, @kimwifexler, @johncho, @linusbenjamin, @quincybf💛 (if you want)
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gilligould · 1 year
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Hi! I’m pretty new to the BCS fandom and I’ve been having trouble finding active blogs, do you have any recommendations?
hi, welcome! congrats on your derangement! 😌 this once-little community grows larger each and every day, and i couldn’t possible tag everyone, but alas. i’ll happily shoutout some of my beloved mutuals / fellow bcs aficionados!
@odekirk @howabhwmwn @cauldronofmorning @laloslayamanca @salamancussy @dangerscully @mcwexlerscigarette @alcompasdemicaballo @jimmymcgill @cheesybadgers @moon-crimes @ilovesaulgoodman @tracksuitjimmy @aminta @charlestrask @sharedsmoke @slipping-kimmy @transmantraut @kimberly-wexler @pr
also! @normalaboutbcs hosts weekly rewatches every monday at 9:00 pm est, all via discord! we’d love to have you! :)
and last, but certainly not least! @gilliverse is a hub for all things brba + bcs, the contributors there share all kinds of incredible content from unbelievably talented creators! always a good place to find fellow fans!
if you’re reading this and i’ve forgotten you, go right ahead and give me a lil slap. i probably deserve it. xoxo.
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pinkmandias · 1 year
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im thinking ab mike again and i just. love moments in the gilliverse where mike is disillusioned with gus or challenges him on shit bc it goes against the audiences initial perception of him where he functions as gus’ primary sort of “yes-man”.
like his near pleading to not have to kill werner & his insistence that they find some way to not just outright kill nacho after using him like his life means nothing are what makes him human to me.. (he still does these terrible things & has to live with them obviously but it’s so important to me that even years & years in he still questions his orders) & i wonder if he didn’t (he did) also see the similarities in the way gus treated nacho as less than human/“a dog” & the way walt treated jesse.
walt was apt to use a heavier & more inexperienced hand than gus used to manipulate jesse (& others) in brba, but the way gus treats nacho in bcs (also seemingly heavy handed & inexperienced) is just. eerily similar. to the extent that it’s hard to put into words but has to be so obvious to mike who was so affected by nacho’s death that he reached out to his father in an attempt to comfort himself…
walt has his claws in jesse even deeper than gus could have ever imagined with nacho, though, with years of trauma bonding between them and a preexisting student & teacher dynamic and with jesse also functioning as the scapegoat & the “dog” i cannot imagine how wearily mike had to have come to that realization. like. i would also be as emotionally standoffish & hesitant to show jesse anything other than the most stone cold demeanor if yet another figure walked into my life to bring out my dormant paternal tendencies & warm and protective feelings only to eventually be violently taken (sometimes by my own hands) from me yet again
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how do u feel about breaking bad’s ending? i love breaking bad to death but my hatred of walt cant accept felina. i kinda understand what vince was going for but for me it doesnt align with the actions have consequences philosophy of the show. he deserved so much worse. i hate that jesse’s life was still in his hands and his choice to make. the only choice jesse gets thats truly his own is alsaka. you hate walt as passionately as i do so i was wondering if u agree.
Heyy @axolotlv sorry it took me so long to get around to answer this but honestly I haven’t quite parsed my feelings ab Felina myself, which is weird to think ab bc BrBa has been my hyperfixation for like six?? Some odd years?? It’s been awhile and there is no cure in sight. However I do have to disagree w your opinion on Jesse’s ending, esp now that we have the added context of El Camino to go off of. I thought it was perfect. I talked before in my post on Todd and Lydia as character foils to Jesse and Walt ab how Jesse strangling Todd is him freeing himself from a prison of both Walt’s making and his own, seeing as Todd and Lydia are both responsible for Jesse’s imprisonment and how they parallel Jesse and Walt respectively. I think the Gilliverse in general does a good job of both holding Jesse accountable for his choices while cutting him some moral slack on account of Walter’s abuse of power towards him. Jesse’s life is in Walter’s hands because Walter has essentially kept him in a state of mental captivity over the last few seasons, but he is the one who makes the choice to end it, by refusing to do Walt’s dirty work for him anymore, by refusing to commit another act of violence on his behalf. By putting the gun down. And in El Camino, he chooses not just to go to Alaska, but to accept what he has done and redeem himself not through jail time, but through becoming a better person, becoming the kind of person who puts as much good into the world as he did bad. And as much as we the viewers might have wanted Jesse to shoot Walter in the dick, at the end of the day, Jesse loves Walt. Despite everything, because of everything, Jesse loves and hates Walter as much as one might an actual abusive parent, and I think actually shooting Walt would have followed him for the rest of his life, no matter how justified he might have been in doing so.
With regards to Walter’s ending… my feelings are mixed. I’m willing to accept it because I think it brought Jesse a sense of closure that a more fitting punishment for Walt might not have, which was maybe the point. That it’s not about Walter anymore. He’s dead, his story is done, and he was so far gone that the only thing he could do in the way of redemption was do right by the person he hurt and loved the most. He allows Jesse’s story to continue at the expense of his own, and it’s maybe the first selfless thing he’s ever done in his life. And maybe the only thing he ever really did for his family. And, maybe, that he got what he wanted was also the point. Because on the surface, he’s had everything stripped away, he didn’t get what he wanted at all. Everyone who has ever met him wants him dead, including his whole family, his empire has fallen as soon and as fast as it rose. But all of those things were just stand-ins for what Walter really wanted, which was some agency over his own death, because he felt as though he didn’t have any over his own life (good thing he didn’t project this lack of agency onto anyone else, huh). So it’s sort of a monkey’s paw thing, where he gets what he wants, a good, meaningful death, at the expense of a good, meaningful life. Narratively speaking, it’s brilliant.
But I still kind of wish Jesse had shot him in the dick.
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downoverabqpromo · 9 months
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welcome to downoverabq!
this post to get everyone who is interested familiar with the intentions and plans for the server. the most important thing to note here is, the server is still very much a work in progress.
what is downoverabq?
downoverabq is a discord server for rp set in the breaking bad universe. it will hopefully follow an overarching storyline set in the gilliverse, and i would love to hear your ideas about what you would want to see.
what are the requirements to apply?
you must be 21 or over to apply. there isn’t a proper application process yet, but it will most likely follow a similar format to other rp servers i’ve seen. for now, you can drop your discord handle in the askbox and i’ll be happy to message you about who you’d like to play and send you an invite.
what are the rules?
just be decent. respect others and their identities. there will be other rules formed of course, but as it’s all taking shape the most important thing is that we’re kind to one another. don’t push ides onto anyone or try to single anyone out.
what should i know before going in?
this is still in its really early stages, and i’m new to this. i haven’t done much discord rp so i’ll have a lot to learn but i’m going to do my best. if you’re triggered by topics such as murder, death, or drugs i would strongly suggest reconsidering before you join. breaking bad deals with very dark topics and while i’ll do my absolute best to respect everyone’s triggers, there’s still a lot that can’t be changed for the sake of fitting into the universe. also, you can play a character who isn’t in breaking bad, wether that’s an oc or a character from a different piece of media entirely. as long as you can find a way to make them for into the universe believably, throw em in there.
who runs it?
my name is marie, i’m 23 and i’ve been in the breaking bad fandom for years. i’ve been doing mostly brba rp for around six years and have mainly done it on an oc blog. i’m rusty since it’s been awhile but i’ve been hoping to reignite my love for rp.
i’m also looking for others to run it with me, since it’s a big job, and to be transparent I’m getting married soon. so i would love to have someone who’s hands i know i can leave it in should things get a bit hectic around that time.
if you have questions, are interested, or have some ideas, please reach out to me on discord (my handle is methriver). you can also message this blog or send an ask. hopefully i’ll be hearing from you guys!!
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quincybf · 3 months
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a creation for every month of 2023 tagged by @jimmymcgill (ty 💗) to post my favorite and most popular post from each month this year.
january
most popular and my favorite: frank + micro
february
most popular and my favorite: alice in borderland 1x08/2x08
march
most popular and my favorite: god danm frankie, i love to watch you work
april
most popular: nacho + mike
my favorite: something beautiful
may
most popular: nacho in 4x08 (from gilliverse)
my favorite: lalo / elektra
june
most popular: lalo in 6x05 (from gilliverse)
my favorite: yellowjacks x hannibal
july
most popular: nacho + his girls in 5x03 (from gilliverse)
my favorite: the deer king (2022)
august
most popular: and by god, i of course mean you
my favorite: zafiro añejo (from gilliverse)
september
october
most popular and my favorite: crazy handful of nothin' (from gilliverse)
november
most popular and my favorite: crozier in 1x03
december
most popular: jujutsu kaisen 2x21
my favorite: instant spirit body of distorted killing
i tag whoever sees this and wants to do it :D
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thinking about how quietly important lalo’s age is to his character. i don’t know if they considered this when they cast a man in his late 40’s to play a mexican drug lord in 2004, but lalo’s age is perfect when you zoom out and consider the larger history of drug trafficking through mexico. the colombian cartels didn’t start shifting their trafficking routes away from the caribbean until the late 70s (i’m fairly sure) which means the mexican cartels didn’t really take their full forms until the 80s. (idk if the guadalajara cartel exists in the gilliverse, but i’m gonna assume a similar timeline). tony dalton’s 47, so let’s say lalo’s 47 in 2004. this means that in the 80s, lalo would have been 23-32. (isn’t that crazy— lalo was 32 when hector killed max). what an exciting age to be at such an exciting time! lalo spent the very first decade of his adulthood embroiled in one of the most cataclysmic periods within the history of organized crime. the salamancas were probably involved in trafficking marijuana and maybe even some heroin into the united states prior to rearrangement of the south-to-north american smuggling routes, but that would have been nothing compared to the empire they must have set up in the 80s. i’m now thinking that lalo wasn’t necessarily born a “cartel prince,” but became one in his late teens and twenties. and in his twenties, he must have actively participated in the violent, meteoric rise of (i’m assuming, because it hasn’t been addressed in story) one of the largest, most dangerous drug cartels in (fictional) mexico.
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gaysails · 1 year
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dhawanmasters · 1 year
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a creation for every month of 2022
post your favorite and/or most popular post from each month this year (it’s okay to skip months!).  
tagged by @robert-englund and @capinejghafa - thanks friends! 💖
january
favorite: hammerstark x therefore i am 
most popular: the empire strikes back
february
favorite: inception
most popular: matt murdock
march
favorite: memorable horror kills
most popular: prince friedrich x edwina
april
favorite: peacemaker & ‘motherfucker’
most popular: jennifer/needy x jenny was a friend of mine
may
favorite: lalo salamanca
most popular: poe dameron
june
favorite: gerard way x hot hot leg
most popular: hocus pocus 2 (and then i never even watched it lmaooo)
july
favorite: lalo salamanca x the devil
most popular: matt murdock 1x05 (via daredevilhub)
august
favorite: mcwexler x my mistakes were made for you (via gilliverse)
most popular: the corinthian 1x08 
september
favorite: get to know the corinthian
most popular: the corinthian + 👅
october
favorite: 13 days of Halloween 2022 (yeah, fuck it, all of them)
most popular: cast of black panther: wakanda forever
november
favorite: the corinthian x sick muse
most popular: tenoch huerta as namor
december (my flop month lol)
favorite: tony stark x my love
most popular: nell crain x a tale
tagging (no pressure ofc):  @andmoonlight, @talesfromthecrypts, @userbill, @jimmymcgill, @wexler-mcgill, @tennant, @bloodlst, @thematrixs, @castlesrichards, @astarkey, @dickgraaysons, @daniel-bruehl, and whoever would like to have a go! 
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endpoem · 1 year
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Stuff I liked in 2022
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‘Saul’ good (and other TV)
It’s not easy to say goodbye to Better Call Saul, the supposed end of Vince Gilligan’s Albuquerque cycle. I bought my dad the complete Breaking Bad on DVD for Christmas in 2014, and we watched the entire thing together, back before I had kids or a real full-time career. Jesse Pinkman, Nacho, Jimmy and Kim—these characters have meant the world to me for the better part of a decade, and Saul was absolutely the pinnacle.
El Camino, Saul season five, and the two halves of season six have been such a gift of flawless storytelling these last few years; sometimes they were the thing that got me out of bed in the morning. Logging into work on a Monday ain’t so bad when you’ve got more of Kim and Jimmy’s mischief to look forward to. Peter Gould, Gilligan, and company stuck the landing. If one of your favorite characters must die, you can’t ask for a more beautiful sendoff than “Rock and Hard Place.”
Bob Odenkirk’s book, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir, was a great way to spend a weekend, as well, deepening my appreciation for an actor who’d already won my heart in the first couple seasons of Saul. (I’ll admit it: The character was never my favorite part of Breaking Bad. It took the Jimmy dimension to win me over and sell me on the idea of a spinoff. Mission accomplished, I guess.)
It’s a nice treat to see Odenkirk back in his home country of comedy, and it made for a good excuse to watch Mr. Show season one while I was waiting for Better Call Saul to come back from its mid-season break. Bob and I have a shocking number of things in common: five-nine, Irish-Catholic, Illinois guys, a cynicism born of trauma, severe impostor syndrome, et cetera. Anyway, I can’t wait to see what he does next.
I loved Atlanta season three; “New Jazz” was my favorite episode by far, probably because it focuses on Al (Paper Boi) and is weird even by Atlanta standards. I also enjoyed Stranger Things season four, which was a definite high for that series—Joseph Quinn was brilliant. And as a Halo fan going all the way back to 2001, I mostly dug the TV adaptation’s first season, though the finale was a bummer.
I’m a couple seasons into a Mad Men rewatch, trying to fill the void left by the Gilliverse, and it’s a different show now that I’m a father with two kids and more of a career. Unbelievably good.
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‘The Rings of Power,’ classic Tolkien, and other fantasies
This was the year I got really into epic fantasy outside of, say, the Elder Scrolls games. The Rings of Power came along just in time to cure my post-Saul blues, and it certainly did the trick. It’s a gorgeous (and expensive) spectacle, with a rich, expansive world, mythic stakes, and some really great performances. And have you seen how beautiful that cast is? I’ve been known to develop the occasional TV or movie crush, Your Honor, but Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel is in a league of her own. My God. She’s great in Saint Maud, too.
After Rings of Power, I rewatched the extended cuts of the movie trilogy and bought a stack of books for good measure—The Hobbit, Rings, The Silmarillion, The Fall of Númenor, Tolkien’s translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I just finished Fellowship of the Ring, which is exquisite, and I’ve been reading The Hobbit aloud to my daughter. We’re about three-fourths of the way through that one.
I finally saw the original Willow and Legend (1985) earlier this year, and thought both were excellent. (The Legend Blu-ray from Arrow Video looks stunning.) House of the Dragon was pretty fantastic—as good as Game of Thrones in its earlier seasons, only more focused. And the Disney Plus Willow series is probably my second-favorite fantasy work of 2022; it’s playing around with the same kind of Lovecraftian terror as John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, and I can’t help but see it as a riff on the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
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‘Andor’ and more
There was some good star stuff on the tube this year. “The Tribes of Tatooine,” the second episode of Book of Boba, elevated that series above the disposable feel of Mandalorian season two (“The Believer” notwithstanding). And Deborah Chow’s Obi-Wan Kenobi gave those of us who grew up on the prequels a magnificent bookend to the Obi-and-Ani relationship.
Light & Magic, the six-part docuseries on ILM, offered a phenomenal overview of special-effects history beginning with the inception of Star Wars and ending with the biggest breakthroughs of the CGI era. You could easily do a second season on the last couple decades of blockbusters and stuff like StageCraft, but maybe that’s a series for down the road.
But of course no Star Wars discussion this year could pass without addressing the main event, Andor, which can safely be called the best Star Wars story since 1983. Tony Gilroy is a masterful writer and showrunner, responsible for much of what people loved in Rogue One, and he brings all his intelligence and rage and love to Andor. He and his crew ought to be very proud. Who knew that all Star Wars needed was more Andy Serkis and Diego Luna? Gilroy, evidently.
Shadow of the Sith, a 496-page novel by Adam Christopher, was another Star Wars highlight in 2022. If you’re looking for a good Luke Skywalker book, or a good Lando Calrissian book—or some spooky Sith magic—you’ll find all of that and more in this moving Rise of Skywalker tie-in. For those curious about Rey’s parents, this is largely their story, as well, and it’s beautifully done. My favorite Star Wars book in years.
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Always gamin’
I’m not a full-time games journalist anymore, so my gaming habits are a lot more relaxed than they used to be. Which is to say I play to have fun, now, and I can’t recommend it enough. I buy far fewer new games these days, for one, though I did love Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, and several games I’ve started but not yet finished.
One of my biggest games this year was Final Fantasy VII Remake, which I finally finished on the PS5. Hell of a game—if any video game can be called a masterpiece, that one comfortably belongs in the category. I also rolled credits on Mass Effect 2 and 3, and thought the latter was far superior to the middle chapter in spite of the general consensus. Regardless of how you feel about the very end, that game is quite an achievement for BioWare, and I hope Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is even half as engrossing.
I spent a lot of time playing Fortnite and Call of Duty online this year—something I plan to do a lot less of in 2023—but had plenty of fun doing it. I replayed a lot of familiar favorites: Skyrim, Halo Infinite, Fallout: New Vegas, Miles Morales. Most of my hours on the Nintendo Switch were spent with KotOR and KotOR II, and I’m currently struggling through an attempt to replay Morrowind on the Xbox, which is both painful and rewarding. I’m rediscovering a lot of the reasons why I fell in love with it twenty years ago.
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At the movies
I didn’t go to the theater much this year, but I did watch 209 movies—most of them at home on my 65-inch TCL 5-Series. My top ten films of 2022 were The Fabelmans, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis, del Toro’s Pinocchio, Watcher, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Pearl, The Batman, Nope, and Hellraiser. Fabelmans and Top Gun in particular made my heart soar; it’s nice to see both Spielberg and Cruise still delivering career-best work a full two decades after Minority Report, which was my favorite movie for a long time.
Outside of those ten, I also loved Kimi, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Revealer, and Confess, Fletch.
As far as new-to-me classics, I had a very fulfilling year working my way through the gaps in my Carpenter and Mann viewing, if nothing else—They Live, Prince of Darkness, Elvis ’79, Big Trouble in Little China, In the Mouth of Madness, Cigarette Burns, Ali, The Insider, The Keep… I spent a lot of time studying my favorite Carpenter flicks last year as I wrote the treatment for a horror script that’s lived in my head for a while, but I didn’t want to watch Prince of Darkness till after I’d finished a detailed outline of the story. In 2022, I logged fifteen Carpenter films and seven from Mann.
I saw Citizen Kane, F for Fake, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Godfather, Part II, Solaris (2002), The Meyerowitz Stories (every bit as good as Marriage Story), Twin Peaks season two and The Missing Pieces, Killing Them Softly, Jaws, Your Name, The Gambler (the one with James Caan, not Marky Mark), Bonnie and Clyde, Near Dark, The Hidden, Silent Running, the original 3:10 to Yuma, Joe Kidd.
It’s been a hard, stressful, scary, transformative year. But I’m grateful for the strides I made, both personal and professional, and for the media and stories that inspired me along the way.
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