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reachgirl · 4 years

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My thoughts on “Buddie”

1. I think if Fox could realize that sometimes you can’t *plan* for chemistry, it just happens, and when it does it’s magic and you need to let it play out, they would be so far ahead of the curve of other shows and fans beyond their core audience would take notice. The material IS there to defend it actually happening against claims that they just bowed down to the shippers.

2. On the one hand, I believe that the writers are very deliberately writing a lot of subtext and the directors are leaving in scenes where the actors are making certain choices, both Ryan/Oliver and Peter/Kenneth/Aisha/JLH. But is it just as a “shout out” to the Buddie shippers, or an actual deliberate effort to make a point of how close they are and how dependent they’ve become on their relationship?

3. I’ve talked before how I think deciding on your character’s sexuality before you actually write them out for a while just doesn’t make for believable humanity based on reality. If we’re looking at these two examples,

Buck has been written in a way that could very well make him bi/pan and not everybody who is and is secure in their identity will go and talk about it constantly. I would also like to remind everyone that bi does not mean you have to stick to a certain quota, like keep your relationships 50/50 male/female. There are many people who are bi who tend to end up in more relationships/even just sexual ones with one gender, and that doesn’t make them less bi or pan. So just because we have only seen him have female love interests during the show, there are some scenes (”Your man crush on Eddie”/”I’m not setting you up with my brother/Hey Now”) that could be interpreted to mean that might not always have been the case, Maddie being the one who would have been there to witness it. We also see Buck not really caring about the social conventions - not only of who he dates - he is consistently written as meeting every person he meets on eye level - even making sure the guy who stole his identity to catfish women wouldn’t lose his dignity in death, but also romantically, we can see him building a connection with Abby through the phone first and falling in love with her as a person, and not caring about her being quite a lot older.

Eddie, and I’ve written about this before, is a little bit of an enigma. Again, we have only seen him in one relationship, and while it doesn’t seem like it was the happiest of marriages, in the end it really did seem like he loved Shannon and wanted to make it work. Up until Ms. Florez we have also seen him almost making a point of not looking to date (”They’re not my type”/”You didn’t set me up, did you?”), and that is pretty much all we know about him. Again, the fact that he was married to a woman and once flirted with one briefly, does not prove or disprove anything. He grew up in Texas, in latino culture, and spent a good amount of his formative years in the US Army, all of these can traditionally be quite conservative. From personal experience even I have seen many people who grew up in conservative environments fall in line with the expectations set for them by their communities (often very early, and Eddie and Shannon did get married quite young), especially if their community doesn’t provide a lot of LGBTQ-visibility or role models. Yes, Eddie does “act” straight, whatever that means and whether that is an actual concept, but the way he behaves in a lot of scenes with Buck, and I’ll get back to this in point 8., could be interpreted in other ways.

4. TV today has gotten a lot better at showing LGBTQ relationships that aren’t a) just on the sidelines b) serving as collateral emotional damage to drive the plot or c) are written in a way that is basically just taking a hetero-couple-storyline and casting two people of the same gender in it. I am worried that they think they can’t do the “coming out later in life” storyline again with Buddie because they already have Michael (which brings me back to point 1. Let the damn magic happen when it’s right in front of your eyes), and they can’t have another main cast LGBTQ character - or two - because they already have Hen (and Karen). Obviously these are not valid reasons, look at other shows like 911 Lone star for representation within the main cast, but of course, this is a double edged sword because there is a concern that they gave us 911 Lone Star to do what they wouldn’t or couldn’t do with the original. (On a side note, Owen Strand is the fairy godfather of Texas and I live for that show)

5. Parallels. This has been talked about a lot, and there are much better posts about it than this one. But writers aren’t stupid, or careless, so I do believe that to a certain extent they’re aware of how they are setting up parallels between Buck and Eddie’s love lives. We have them agreeing to “have each other’s backs” in contrast to Shannon telling Eddie that he never had hers. We have Eddie telling Buck that there is no one he trusts more with Christopher than him, while he makes it clear that while he thinks he can forgive Shannon, he doesn’t think he can trust her. We had Shannon coming back just as Buck decides to leave Abby behind finally, and we had Ali showing up when Shannon dies, and now Ana when the writers point out how single Buck is.

6. Themes. The episode themes in 9-1-1 are kinda like horoscopes, they’re meant to be able to work for multiple storylines and connect all the main characters through one focus. But we’ve seen a lot of themes surrounding family or trust or love that have an obvious connection to a Buddie moment on the show. Chosen Family. Home. Being able to trust your partner. Seizing the day. And even when it’s something that doesn’t immediately connect the two, the scenes are cut in a way that imply there’s a connection, like Eddie telling Chim to tell Maddie he loves her, because tomorrow isn’t promised. Chim calls Maddie to invite her to dinner to finally do this, and right before this we see Eddie asking Buck to lunch - this is probably just a coincidence, right? But we can be sure that the director, writers and cutters were aware of this, and made the choice to do it this way, for whatever reason. Because this is their exact job, telling stories through how they cut scenes together. 7. Christopher. So this might be what makes Buddie a little more unique compared to the, admittedly, dozens of other seemingly “straight bromances” that people have shipped. Most scenes we get with Buck and Eddie that are outside of work, involve Chris in some way. It’s probably safe to say that part of the reason they became so close is because Buck and Chris have a connection that I would wager goes beyond what most friends have with their single-dad-friend’s kid. We see how important Buck becomes in Christopher’s life, and vice versa, pretty much a few episodes after they meet for the first time. Eddie trusts Buck with Chris’ life, and he trusts him with any problems relating to Christopher that he needs to work through. Buck’s his sounding board for his role as a parent, which is interesting considering Eddie has other friends at the 118 that actually are parents? *cough* Chosen family *cough*

8. Closeness. As I said above, sometimes writers plan one storyline, but the magic happens somewhere they didn’t expect, and if that is the case, and you want to be faithful to your characters, you should seize that opportunity. I think we can all agree this is one of those cases where the chemistry is just off the charts. There are long looks, there is a lot of being in sync, there’s constant physical contact when they’re sitting or walking next to each other. Personal space, who? Again, this is something the director could discourage, or use a take that didn’t have Buck grab his belt buckle and invading Eddie’s personal space in his own kitchen, but they decided on this take. They decided on the take of Eddie clearly checking out Buck’s behind and Chim noticing. Now Buck seems to be pretty comfortable with closeness anyway, but Eddie isn’t the most touchy guy with anyone else, so this is noticeable. And it works.

9. Look. Somebody sat down and wrote “You want to go for the title?” and I would pay a lot of money to see the stage directions on that script because holy fuck. There’s a lot of info in their exchanges - and it implies that there are lots of moments that these two talk that we don’t get to see - Buck immediately knows about Eddie and Ana, and he knew about the situation with Shannon too (and didn’t hide his jealousy very well). When they don’t talk, it clearly gets to Eddie, who doesn’t have that many other people he really trusts and can open up to. Cue “husbands fighting in the supermarket”. But what’s also interesting to me is that their dynamic involves a lot of Eddie teasing Buck. “Exoskeleton” “Aren’t you still in that phase?” “You would have talked me into buying a more expensive one”.. and Eddie sometimes uses it to keep their conversations from getting into dangerous, emotional territory, like during the kitchen scene. And I don’t know about y’all, but that sounds like something I’ve done before when I knew there was something to get into, and I just didn’t know how or when.

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Wow I could keep going but this is already so long. I’m so sorry everyone. But I figured we all now have two weeks so we have time to do a lot of reading 😅Thanks everybody for reminding me about the things that do make it seem like Buddie is an actual possibility, because most of the time, I have to admit, I’m like 70/30 against the hope of it becoming reality. Long live fanfiction! In conclusion, please make it happen, or explain all the choices you have made. YOU CAN’T!

#buddie #911 #911 season 3 #911 on fox #please make it happen

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ordinaryschmuck · 3 years

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What I thought about WandaVision

Y'know, it's kind of crazy to think that it's been over a year since we've been given any content involving the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Studios announced so many great movies, on top of new TV shows that actually impact the story, way back in the summer of 2019. But then 2020 happened. Resulting in everything, and I mean everything, we were promised getting pushed back for another year. So, when it was finally announced that the series WandaVision was, at last, ready to be released, fans were both excited as well as skeptical. Because the first thing that would reintegrate us back into this franchise would be a show about how two Avengers are stuck in a sitcom. It might be new, long-awaited content, but it also doesn't sound all that interesting. Could a story involving two characters who have yet to stand on their own be enough to carry a brand new adventure? Well, for eight whole weeks, fans were given that answer. And personally, I will admit that WandaVision might have been better than anybody could have ever expected...for the most part.

(Final spoiler warning if you haven't seen the show yet)

WHAT I LIKE

It Just Goes: This is easily the best way the series could have started. We are given no context about what is going on. We're just shown that Wanda and Vision are currently stuck in a sitcom, and that's it. By making it a mystery, fans are given this sort of interaction with the series as they find clues and come up with theories about how and why this happened. Sure, some assumptions were more far fetched than others (did people think Mephisto was confirmed just because of one misinterpreted line involving the Devil?), but it still makes the show a ton of fun to watch. Plus, even when we're given answers, it's only tiny pieces of the puzzle. We're always given a chance to figure out the bigger picture, resulting in an image that is, I'll admit, somewhat satisfying to see. Just as long as you ignore the crybabies who get upset that their favorite theories turned out to be wrong.

The Homages are on Point: I also love how straight the cast and crew play with the idea of two superheroes being stuck in a series of sitcoms. Everything they use fits in the era each sitcom takes place in. With things like camerawork, set design, special effects, acting quality, tropes, and even theme songs, everything works as a proper homage than just having two episodes in black and white and the rest in color. Each new sitcom that Wanda and Vision are rebooted in feels so genuine, to the point where they seem like they could be actual shows that could have existed. Seriously, my dad showed me stuff like The Dick Van Dyke Show when I was a kid, so trust me when I say that the very first episode nails the style that it's honoring. Not only is it charming as all forms of hell, but it also works in making these moments when characters break from the spell (get it) all the more jarring and even disturbing at times. Because when you're so keen on watching what seems like a fun and cheesy sitcom, you feel a bit unsettled when a character suddenly acts in a way that's a tad foreboding. Still, it's fun to watch and is easily the central hook for what makes this show work.

The Comedy: The homages also nail the comedy that came from each type of sitcom. The jokes fit with each period, from the cheesy and charming 50s to the cynical and dry 90s and early 2000s. It's another thing the writers play straight with, and I think it works. The only jokes made by most stories like this are just pointing out that these serious characters are stuck in a silly sitcom. Instead, the writers tell jokes that work for the period it's in, and it is all genuinely funny if you're used to those types of goofs and gags. If you didn't laugh, that's because the comedy isn't trying to reach out to you. It's reaching out to the people who actually watched these types of sitcoms. Or, in my case, the type of people who had their parents show them these types of sitcoms. And even then, I still think there are these lines and deliveries that are still funny even if you don't get the joke. For example, there's this brief moment with Vision and a toy baby that got a genuine chuckle out of me for how absurd it was. I wasn't expecting to laugh that much, but on top of the many surprises this show gave, being funny was definitely one of them.

“My husband, and his indestructible forehead”: He...hehe...hehehehahahaHAHAHAHA! AH! HA! HA! HA!

*Slowly starts sobbing*

>Squeaks<

I see what you did there.

Paul Bettany as “Vision,” “Vision,” and Vision: Can we give Paul Bettany a round of applause for basically playing three different characters, each with their own varying levels of emotions and purposes? Because goodness gracious, this man is a champion! I've seen tons of people praise Elizabeth Olson for her performance as Wanda, and to be fair, she does do a fantastic job...aside from one blatant issue (which I'll get into later). But as great as Olson is, Bettany still deserves some credit. Throughout most of the series, he has this level of comedic-timing that I didn't even know he was capable of, by going ham or just having a dry wit. Seriously, was someone going to tell me that Paul Bettany can be funny, or was I supposed to find that out for myself? On top of being hilarious, Bettany delivers such raw emotion that none of us would have ever expected from this character. That screaming match “Vision” has with Wanda shows the very first time that any version of him has ever been angry, and Bettany does a great job at making that moment as jarring as it needed to be. And that's just from playing one version of the character! I didn't even talk about how he nails the naive yet still wise Vision from the flashback in "Previously On" or the cold and robotic "Vision" from "The Series Finale." Bettany has range, and WandaVision is a great show that proves how. One just needs to have the right amount of vision to see it (HhhhhhhhhhhHA!)

Developing Wanda: But as great as Paul Bettany, and to a lesser extent, Vision, is, Wanda Maximoff is clearly the star of the show here (And yes, I know that it's Wanda who's the character and Elizabeth Olson is the actor, but...I'll get into it!). If WandaVision has taught me anything about these Disney+ shows, it's that we are finally going to get some long-awaited development to characters that are starved from it. And Wanda definitely needed it. Don't get me wrong, Wanda was great in past movies but wasn't that compelling of a character. Here, trust me when I say that the opposite is true.

We are given a deep dive into not only Wanda's morality but also her psyche. The writers really play around with how scary Wanda can be. As well as questioning if Wanda has the capability of being evil. Because, yeah, what she did was not right. True, our "heroine" was going through some rough s**t, but that doesn't excuse the amount of torture Wanda put the people of Westview through, no matter how unwittingly. Just look at that scene where everyone grills Wanda about what she's doing to them, not only pleading for whatever compromise they can get and even begging for her to kill them instead. That is dark! That is the darkest concept the MCU has ever offered, and the ending of Avengers: Infinity War exists!

But, while it doesn't entirely excuse everything, there is a reason why Wanda did all of this. You see, throughout WandaVision, Wanda goes through the five stages of grief. It all starts with denial as she pretends to live in a sitcom that she created where Vision is alive, and they get to even have kids together. Soon comes anger when she destroys anything and physically harms anyone that tries to bring her back to reality. Next, there's bargaining as Wanda strengthens her hex and expands it to keep outsiders out and keep Vision in. This leads to depression as the weight of all of Wanda's actions finally sinks in, and she's forced to realize the damage she's causing. Until all of it ends with acceptance, as Wanda finally, finally, gets to say goodbye to Vision. Something she never really got when Thanos ripped the mind stone out of Vision's forehead. It's both incredible to watch as it is fascinating. Wanda, through the course of her own little spin-off series, just went from a decent character to one of the most intriguing to dissect in the MCU. And we have this show to thank for it.

The Commercials: These commercials offer three things.

They're more homages to classic television, each product and filming for each one honoring how commercials looked in each era.

They offer more of an insight into Wanda's psyche as we see how each commercial shows bits of her history, regrets, and deepest desires. You see all of the above in the Lagos' paper towel commercial.

There are neat bits of foreshadowing of what's to come, like how Hydra Soak ends by saying it's for "your inner goddess" or how the 90s commercial ends by saying Magic isn't meant for the weak.

With all of that, these commercials are as fun to analyze as they are disturbing as hell.

The Dinner Scene: This was the moment it was clear that WandaVision wasn’t going to just be fun and games. The second that "Mr. Heart" starts screaming at Wanda about why she and Vision came, it becomes clear that the whole wacky scenario our heroes are in isn't as harmless as we all thought. And when "Mrs. Heart" playfully tells her husband to stop it when “Mr. Heart” starts choking, only to desperately scream at Wanda to stop it, audiences begin to piece together that the people of Westview are prisoners--no--victims. As for Wanda? She's the unknowing dictator forcing them to do what she says. And it was this scene that I knew I was going to really enjoy this show.

The Blip Scene: And it was this scene that made WandaVision skyrocket into top-tier MCU territory! As much as I love Spider-Man: Far From Home, I will admit that making a joke with the concept of something like the blip might not have been the best move. But showing the chaos of everyone coming back all at once? On top of showing the confusion that a person would have from being told that a five-second nap was five years? Yeah, that's more in line with what we want.

Returning Characters: Not only was I surprised by the fact that these pretty minor characters in the MCU made a return at all, but I was also shocked to find out they work better in this series than they did in their respective movies. First, there's Monica. Not only is she reintroduced as a brand new hero (with, admittingly, confusing superpowers), but she also works as the anti-Wanda. Both characters had someone they care about dearly die without getting a chance to say goodbye. The difference is that Monica doesn't have the abilities Wanda does and is instead forced to quickly accept that her mom is dead and won't come back. She even admits that she would bring her mom back if she could. But that just makes Monica the perfect person that Wanda needs. A person that understands where she's coming from and tries to convince Wanda to do the right thing, no matter how hard it is. Monica's methods may have been a tad bit sloppy, but she is still ten times more intriguing than that little girl who screwed around with the color scheme on Captain Marvel’s suit.

Then there's Jimmy Woo, who is both funnier here than in Ant-Man and the Wasp, and actually shows signs of being a competent FBI agent. A step up, I might add, from the hilariously incompetent character we saw in his previous appearance.

And also, Darcie is here...and still slightly annoying...but at least she still has a couple funny lines here and there! Which is more than I can say with Thor and Thor: The Dark World.

In my opinion, it's a good move having these characters with pretty small roles in vastly different stories make a return. It shows that they are not limited to their one little corner of the MCU. And that they can branch off into taller tales that suit them perfectly. It's pretty cool, and it makes me wonder what other small characters could make a triumphant return.

Billy and Tommy: These two are...fine. Billy and Tommy give me Zach and Cody vibes sometimes, the kids playing them do a decent job, and they both offer some great emotional moments. The problem is that out of the list of characters that WandaVision introduces and reintroduces, there's not much to talk about with Billy and Tommy. Honestly, the only reason why I briefly mentioned that I like them is that I don't want dozens of people crucifying me for not saying anything about them. I don't hate them, but I don't much care for them either.

Evan Peters as Quicksilver: Although I would have loved it if it was Aaron Taylor-Johnson who made a return, seeing Evan Peters in a good Marvel movie again is more than worth it. He plays a much more fun version of Quicksilver while still nailing the sibling relationship the character has with Wanda. In a way, it's a lot like how Marvel cast J.K. Simmons as J Jonah Jameson at the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home. It's admitting that no one could have played the character better than this one actor and briefly making fans happy in the process. While also not doing something crazy like having it be the exact same Quicksilver from the X-Men movies. Only f**king idiots would believe something like that...

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...But hypothetically speaking, let's say some people were stupid to believe that. While making an outrageous claim that the writers "lead them on to doing so." In which case, I will say the same thing that one would say when friend-zoning someone: "Nobody led you on to s**t. You were just too busy focusing on what you wanted to see instead of what you needed to see."

Because there was no evidence that it was the same Quicksilver other than the fact that it was the same actor. And, hypothetically speaking, if there were dozens of crybabies who were upset about it not being the same Quicksilver, then I have so much more respect for this character being nothing more than a boner joke. Because you did this to yourselves...hypothetically speaking.

Retconning Wanda’s Powers: ...I'm ok with this. Retcons happen all the time in the comics, as well as in movies and television. It's just a matter of making the retcon believable enough where there are few holes in what you're telling people. As for Wanda apparently having magic this entire time, but the mind stone amplified her powers? I can buy that. Besides, it's an acceptable excuse to make Wanda as powerful as she is in the comics (from what I've been told), so like I said, I'm ok with this.

“I can’t feel you…”: ...That's fine. I didn't need my heart anyway.

“Vision’s” Talk with “Vision”: Forget the horrible CGIed battles. I want more of this!

Now, I put both Visions in quotation marks because while they're both the same character, they're also...not the same. Which is, funnily enough, what this scene is: A philosophical discussion between two versions of the same android about what makes them both/neither the definitive version. One may look the same, and the other may be the same body, but neither "Vision" really is the true Vision. However, the fact that these two stop their fighting so they can have this discussion in the first place helps secure that while different, they are still the same. It's a thought-provoking discussion, and it is ten times more interesting to watch than Wanda and Agatha's CGI fight in the sky. Although it is kind of odd that White-Vision just peaces out the second Hex-Vision gives him a reboot. But hey, that's for the future movies to deal with.

“Thank you for choosing me to be your mom.”: >Deep inhale<...Girl.

Wanda Saying Goodbye to Vision: >DEEPER INHALE< HOOOOOOOOOOO BOY! I did not expect this much emotional turmoil from f**king WANDAVISION!

Joking aside, this is a well-handled scene. It's incredibly emotional to see these two characters say goodbye to each other as their arcs come to a close. "Vision" peacefully leaves knowing who he is in the world, and Wanda can finally start moving on as she gets to say goodbye to her one true love. It's as bittersweet as it is beautiful.

WHAT I DISLIKE

MCU logos flashing in every episode: You know how CinemaSins has this bulls**t excuse about how the MCU opening logo wastes time to get to the good stuff? This is the only instance where that's applicable. Because the opening logo was cool to see again for the first episode, but having it play in every single one after breaks the immersion when trying to binge the series. It's for a couple of seconds, sure, but after a while, it does get pretty annoying.

Elizabeth Olson as Scarlet Witch: Now, to be clear, I have no problems with Elizabeth Olson's acting ability in this series. She juggles being funny, heartbreaking, and threatening so well that I am likely to laugh and cry with her as I am to s**t my pants while in her presence. Elizabeth Olson does a great job with this character. The problem? Well, in the comics, Wanda Maximoff is Roma, and Elizabeth Olson...isn't. This means that WandaVision, and the MCU as a whole, has a bad case of white-washing.

I could go on about the issues this brings, but I am not as educated about this subject, and all I know is just stuff that seems like common sense. For instance, I believe it is more than reasonable to hire an actor of a specific race or ethnicity for a character who is of a that same race or ethnicity. But that is as far as my knowledge and personal stance goes, and to expand on it would be too much of a risk because I have no right to criticize the representation of something I am not a part of. So instead, I'm going to point you to @earnestdesire‘s blog and Jessica Reidy’s article on the subject. They do a great job at discussing the issues with Olson’s Wanda and pointing to the issues the MCU has in representing Wanda and Pietro's representation in the comics. And they do it in a far better way than I ever could have. So check them out to truly see why, despite doing a great job, Elizabeth Olson should not be the person donning the suit.

It Was Agatha All Along: AND I STILL F**KING HATE THAT!

I know, I know, I am in the minority on this one. And I still don't understand why! To me, Agatha has all of the problems that Hans has in Frozen. Sure, there are hints if you pay more attention during a few select scenes that are slightly questionable. Like how she refers to Wanda as "the star of the show" or coincidentally shows up with a dog house for Sparky. However, much like how Frozen didn't need a villain like Hans, WandaVision didn't need a comic book villain like Agatha. The story was perfectly passable as a personal conflict involving Wanda's grief where the only obstacle was the director of S.W.O.R.D. and his agents. There is nothing Agatha adds to that.

"But she helps Wanda find out what happens!" Yeah, but Monica could have done the same thing by actually breaking through to Wanda and calmly asking what happened. From then on, they could have worked things out together by having Wanda retrace events that transpired through the information that Monica knows as well.

"But Agatha helps Wanda realize what she's doing is wrong!" So could Vision! He could have shown up, did that mind-meld thing to the townspeople, and Wanda would finally learn what she was doing was wrong through the person she trusts the most.

"But Agatha helps Wanda learn that she's the Scarlet Witch!" Ok...but did that need to happen in this series? Because when you think about it, when the central conflict is all about exploring Wanda's grief, throwing in this narrative about becoming the Scarlet Witch has little to do with anything. Meaning that if you cut it from the story, little would change other than cutting a CGI battle that everyone agrees is the worst part of the series.

The most Agatha adds to the story is a secondary conflict that could easily be cut, and the overall quality would stay the same, if not better. And that is a problem. Agatha needs to add to the central conflict in a way that no other character could have. Like, give her a reason to be involved in Wanda’s life that goes beyond feeding off her magic and leading Wanda to her destiny. Because as is, even if you argue that Agatha is a good twist villain, she's a villain that really didn't need to be here.

Director Haywood: But as much as I don't like Agatha, I think we can all agree that Director Haywood is the worst villain in the MCU. Because one issue that Haywood has is a lack of motivation. For instance, why does he try so hard to write off Wanda as this supervillain? It was never explained, and for something so bizarre and crucial to his character, I feel like it needed to be. It would be passable if he was motivated out of fear and ignorance, but Haywood goes so far as to misedit security footage to prove his point. And I don't get why.

Is he sexist?

Did Wanda not show up at his kid's birthday party?

Did he secretly want to use Vision as a sexbot and didn't want Wanda to get between them?

I don't know, and I'll never know.

Plus, on top of having no motivation, Haywood is just forgettable. Agatha may piss me off to no end, but at least I'll remember her. I honestly forgot Haywood's name half the time, and I'm willing to bet that you did too. Case in point, his name isn't even Haywood. It's Hayward. And in the off chance that you didn't even know about that misspelling just proves my point about how forgettable Hayward is. While it's one thing to be hated, it's another to be forgotten. Because that just means that you left so little impact that you aren't even worth getting upset about.

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And that is what I thought about WandaVision. If I had to base this off my usual score, I'd have to give the show the same 7/10 that everyone else gave it. Because there's a lot that I love, but the stuff that I hate is so problematic that it takes the WandaVision down on a couple of notches. It's still a fantastic series with a solid story, a great message, incredible acting, and phenomenal character development. It's just that not everyone is going to be willing to tune in as much as you might think.

#marvel cinematic universe #wandavision #mcu reviews #wanda maximoff #vision #agatha harkness #what i thought about

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Hoshiai no Sora Production Notes #03

Akane Kazuki answers questions asked by the fans!

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Q.: Between traditional Japanese, Western and Chinese cuisine, what’s Maki-kun’s specialty? Also, I would like to know if there’s any cuisine that he’s good at in particular.

A.: He can generally cook anything without having a particular specialty. The reason why he often made Chinese food in the cooking scenes of the series is that Chinese food can be made in a short span. For dishes that take up time, he makes and stores them on Saturdays, then uses them for his lunch boxes.

Q.: I want to know the hobbies of all the club members!

A.: Maki has an interest in astronomy, so astronomical observation. Touma likes dinosaurs and fossils. Rintarou collects cat goods. As for Nao, fishing. In Itsuki's case, I guess it would be horror-type shooting games or the like. I feel that his older sister, Namie, likes them indiscriminately and would join him. Taiyou plays with his father using his miniature cars, which are also his hobby. Tsubasa might not have a hobby that actually seems like a hobby. Shingo watches anime with his little sister.

Q.: I want to know the reason for everyone except Maki to have joined the soft tennis club!

A.: I guess the only one who joined it because he wanted to play soft tennis was Touma. Middle schoolers in general must join some club, and many of them join clubs that they pick due to having no other option. I think that the club members of Shijou Minami also ended up gathering there because each of them had no other place to go, but as they all carry wounds that do not show on the surface and have formed a relationship where they understand one another without saying anything, it has turned into their own little place to belong.

Q.: The production of not just the soft tennis scenes, but also daily life scenes where Maki cooks and everyone eats with relish in their own way, is rather sensible, to a surprising extent. With what kind of policy did you proceed on that?

A.: What is interesting in animation is not just showy action; there is also warmth, reality and sense of presence in simple dramas, so this time, I wanted to make an anime where these things would become its charm by being portrayed sensibly. The detailed play of the cooking and daily life scenes were interesting even for me when I watched them, so I think they turned out as something that the viewers can enjoy too. This is of a higher difficulty level than flashy action, but even worldwide, I believe it is something that can only be done with Japanese animation.

Q.: At the beginning of episode 2, when Touma helped Yuuta, he was described as someone to be feared, but what was the reason for that?

A.: Because he snaps easily. He must be famous for it.

Q.: What were the words that Nakao-kun threw at Itsuki-kun on episode 3?

A.: He chose cruel words and spoke them out. Sakurai also says it during the series, but his words were meant to show that they can hurt someone. However, that terminology unfortunately seems to be forbidden from being said on TV, so during the post-recording, we decided to mute it.

Q.: Who made the lemon honey pickles that were placed on those two benches at lunch in episode 11?

A.: It was Yuuta. Yuuta was also making drinks for everyone during practice, so I think he was providing modest support while nestling close to the feelings of the club members.

Q.: I want to know what the recordings are like!

A.: The number of people was so big they could not fit inside the booth, but I could feel an unanimous enthusiasm towards series from all of them. There were also many cast members who came to me with questions even about things that were not depicted in the animation in an attempt to understand the characters’ personalities. On the other hand, when the New Year’s issue was announced, we gathered in front of the TV and made merry, and we got along well.

Q.: I want to see the floor plan of everyone’s houses!!

A.: I believe this will be included in the setting reference book, although it is just a part of it, so please look forward to that. When making the rooms, we created them after deciding on the floor plans, having in mind the daily life style of each family. I had even the parts that were not animated be made in detail, so I think I gave the settings designer a hard time. *laughs*

Q.: Were there any references to actual players or games for the soft tennis parts, such as forms and play styles?

A.: We actually went to collect data at middle school competitions in Tokyo, and used references from the practice skills of middle schooler clubs such as the ones from Seimei Academy, as well as the Lucent Cup and other such tournaments that involve influential national athletes, including their different levels of prowess.

Q.: Do all the club members know that Touma-kun likes dinosaurs and Nao-kun likes fish?

A.: They do, somehow or other. I think boys their age have their hands full with their own matters, so they do not mind other people’s tastes that much.

Q.: What kind of practice do the soft tennis club members of Shijou Minami do on rainy days?

A.: We have depicted a little bit of this in the drama CD of the second volume, so please look forward to it.

Q.: About the incident that happened in the soft tennis club five years earlier, which Sakurai-sensei knows of. Does it have anything to do with Ryouma, who was the ace back then, and his pair, as well as little Touma and Maki? I am also concerned about the clover protection charm.

A.: The story of their past is one of the things I want to write about in the future. There are also hints in each of their lines, so please try to watch the main story again.

Q.: What was the intention behind not giving a title to each episode?

A.: “Hoshiai no Sora” was written through taking cuts of those children’s lives, so we did not make any conveniences for the developments of the stories from each episode. Therefore, our intention was that the first episode was the first story and the last episode was the last story, thus we did not give them titles.

Q.: I want to know in detail the reason why the Itsuse brothers started playing soft tennis, their family structure and their school lives! (Sorry if this has already been made public...)

A.: This is part of what I want to depict in episode 13 onwards.

Q.: Why did Itsuki only give pet names to Maki and Kanako? Is there any sort of specific criteria for Itsuki’s usage of pet names?

A.: Itsuki has actually given everyone a pet name in his mind. They are peculiar nicknames fitting of a cynic person like Itsuki. He merely does not voice them because he thinks the other person will get angry if he says it to their face.

Q.: Why does Tsubasa-kun wear a T-shirt that says “15”?

A.: It is 15 as in “fifteen years old”. He looks up to that age, or rather, he might just want to ride off on a stolen bike. *laughs* Tsubasa is still thirteen, though. Thirteen-year-olds think of fifteen-year-olds as grown-ups.

Q.: Everyone’s individualities show through in that scene from episode 2 where they are all running and I quite like it, but how did you decide on and animate the particularities in the way each of them runs?

A.: I drew a rough sketch of the characteristics in each of their running styles, then had them clean-copied by the animation director, Irie-san.

Q.: Who has the best grades amongst the characters? Also, who has the worst ones?

A.: Rintarou has the best grades regardless of subject. Since he is a hard worker, his grades are top-class in his school year. On the other hand, the biggest dummy is Shigo. I am thinking of including the anecdotes related to this in episode 13 onwards.

Q.: I have the impression that you write about “things that might not be commonplace, but are a part of commonplace daily life”, without making the issues that each character bears into something excessively tragic. If there was any point in the shooting where you planned this out, I would like you to tell us.

A.: I believe animation already has a special filter for the shooting just from the fact that it is hand-drawn. That’s why I thought that dropping the ostentatious performance and making pure animation art would suffice this time. Since we were handling sensitive contents, we did not do an unnecessarily exaggerated staging. This might not be as interesting if shot in the same way as live actions, but the portrayal as animation is in itself enough for the shooting. Shots where they are walking, for example, are already an incredibly special picture, so isn’t this the greatness of animation?

Q.: Are Yuuta-kun’s feelings for Touma romantic love? Or is he sitting on the fence between love and friendship? Maybe it is admiration?

A.: I think there’s a part of him deep inside that has not yet figured it out. Surprisingly enough, Maki is the one who seems to understand it accurately.

Q.: How did you choose the rackets of each club member? Please tell us about the rackets of Arashi, Joy, the Itsuse brothers and Ryouma as well.

A.: For the rackets that have models, I picked them after deciding on my images of the position and skills of each one. Rackets have their own levels and popularity in real life, so for that part, I referenced the information I received from each maker. For example, I selected a racket that is, just as Touma said, easy for beginners to use as Maki’s first racket.

Q.: Jizue-san’s music was impressive as there is a sense of transparency to it, but the environment sounds were rather effective in that scene right before getting to the EV at the end of episode 5, so it felt like an extention of daily life and the sense of tension came alive. What kind of points were you particular about when making it?

A.: Music and sound effects can convey what the dialogues and acting do not. Even if a character is laughing, they aren’t always truly smiling on the inside. On the other hand, it’s not like we are going to play dreary music just because they’re scared. We did not put music in that scene precisely in order to enhance the unease. If we put music in it, we end up restricting its image. What we wanted people to feel was not fear, but the anxiety of wondering if something was about to happen.

Q.: How did you do the paste-up of the rackets’ gut strings?

A.: We had it pasted during the shooting. There were so many materials to be pasted other than this, such as books and cloth bibs, that the photography staff screamed. There were also many parts that we ended up omitting in the main story. Speaking of gut strings, there were special scenes where we did them as animation instead of paste-ups. The scene where Maki’s racket was destroyed was also entirely hand-drawn.

Q.: What was the reason for the OP and ED being cut off in the last episode?

A.: To emphasize that episode 12 is not the end of the story. The story of those boys that exists inside me is not yet complete, and I have only depicted half of it. I wanted the viewers to feel that the story would continue after this, so I directed it that way.

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Cobra Kai: How the Show’s Martial Arts Level Up in Season 3

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Despite its iconic standing within the martial arts genre, the martial arts in The Karate Kid have never been outstanding. Sure, the crane kick is a classic, but from a technical standpoint, it’s not that impressive. Ralph Macchio had no martial arts training prior to undertaking the role of Daniel. In many ways, that’s part of the charm. Whether you know martial arts or not, Daniel’s wax on, wax off awkwardness makes Macchio’s portrayal more genuine.

Throughout the film franchise, it was Daniel’s adversaries who were the martial artists. William Zabka (Johnny Lawrence) had a background in wrestling prior to the first film and continued to train in Tang Soo Do under Master Pat E. Johnson after it wrapped (Johnson played the referee and trained the actors for the film.) Martin Kove (John Kreese) studied Gosoku-ryu Karate under the founder of that style, Grandmaster Takayuki Kubota. The villains in the sequels all had previous training too. Yuji Okumoto (Chozen Toguchi) began Chito-ryu Karate when he was thirteen and was a brown belt by the time he appeared in The Karate Kid Part II. In The Karate Kid Part III, Thomas Ian Griffith (Terry Silver) practiced Taekwondo since childhood and holds a black belt in Kenpo Karate. Stage combat is one of his specialties. And Sean Kanen (Mike Barnes), like Okumoto, studied Karate since he was thirteen, only his style was Shotokan. He also worked professionally as a bar bouncer.

Because Macchio was a much weaker martial artist than his adversaries both in the story and reality, it was challenging for the stunt choreographers. It limits the vocabulary of where the fights could go. Without a strong martial artist in the lead role, the fight choreographers had to create work arounds, like the crane kick. But again, that was part of the charm of Daniel. No one could play Daniel LaRusso like Ralph Macchio.

Cobra Kai faces a similar situation because like Macchio, few of the lead actors had previous martial arts training. For more authenticity, newcomers to the cast were not only tasked to learn Karate, they had to do some of their own stunts. With that in mind, Den of Geek spoke with Macchio and more about season 3’s ambitious combat, and the training and editing that goes into major fight scenes.

No Mercy

Cobra Kai suffers from the same constraint as the original films had with Daniel. All the high school kids are amateurs. We bear witness to their inductions into Karate, and their meteoric rise in skills (Just like The Karate Kid, Cobra Kai takes major liberties on how quickly someone can progress in the martial arts, but so do most stories in the genre). They’re teenagers, not ninjas or Shaolin monks. The fight scenes cannot pivot on extreme Jackie Chan moves. To remain genuine to the story, the next generation must retain some of Daniel’s awkwardness.

However, stunt coordinators Jahnel Curfman and Hiro Koda did excellent work in keeping it real. In the premiere episode, Johnny’s first fight showed that Zabka had kept up on his Tang Soo Do and could still throw a decent kick. It served the story perfectly, showing Johnny as slightly out of shape, but still formidable. As seasons 1 and 2 progressed, the fight choreography complemented its story arcs appropriately, but Cobra Kai wasn’t a show just to watch for its fight scenes.

This changed with the season 2 finale “No Mercy.” Curfman and Koda composed a thrilling high school brawl with a solid long take shot – a “one-er” where there are no cuts in the action. It was a thrilling fight, full of complex cinematography and enough close-ups that we could see that many of the actors did their own stunts.

The season 3 finale fight in the LaRusso residence was even better, longer, and more complex. According to Xolo Maridueña (Miguel), Cobra Kai’s second one-er was a challenge. “When you film an episode like the finale of season 2, you get to the point where you’re like, ‘How do we top this?’ It feels like we kind of achieved everything that we wanted. And I think at that point, we did achieve everything that we wanted. We got this really, really great scene that felt so grand. And in season 3, we want to give people that same kind of feeling, that same rush that you get from watching so many moving parts working together, but it needs to be different.”

How was it different? Maridueña elaborates. “I think that you see that the motives of a lot of these characters are different. The circumstances, the need to win I think is much higher in a finale. And I think up until the very end and even after the fight feels concluded you still feel that sense of weight on your shoulders.”

The Long Take One-Er

Cuts make fight choreography easier. When there’s one cut for every strike, retakes aren’t as difficult. If there are two strikes before a cut, it’s twice as hard. More strikes increase the challenge exponentially. In the original film, The Karate Kid, there was a one-er, but it wasn’t a fight scene. When Daniel first enters the All-Valley Karate Tournament from the locker room, it’s a continuous long take that clocks in just shy of a minute and a half. The blocking is complicated but it’s not as complex as a fight scene would be, and according to Macchio, the scene took 35 takes to get right.

In filmmaking, one-ers are always held in high regard for their technical achievement. Hitchcock’s Rope was a pioneering example with the entire film consisting of only 11 one-ers. The critically acclaimed World War I film 1917 was nearly a single one-er. When it comes to fight choreography, this is why classic Kung Fu films from the 70s and 80s are so highly respected by martial art movie connoisseurs. While they weren’t one-ers, those fights, like what was coming out of Shaw Brothers Studio, went dozens of moves before a cut. Some recent films like Atomic Blonde and the John Wick trilogy have showcased one-er fights. What’s more, they are shot in such a way that we can see that Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron are doing a lot of their own stunts. In contrast, in Netflix’s latest assassin thriller Ava, all of Jessica Chastain’s fights are one strike, one shot, and her stuntperson takes over for all the heavy lifting.

There are some trade tricks to one-ers. The first is a stitch where the camera pans to a featureless surface. This can disguise a covert cut, making the scene appear seamless. But in actuality, there was a break. The other is what is known in the stunt industry as a “Texas switch.” This is where an actor is swapped out with a stunt person by somehow leaving the shot, like being tossed out of frame or ducking behind an obscuring set piece.

Television fight choreography has leveled up in the last few years. Daredevil was a game-changer for TV one-ers. The show kept upping its game every season. Season 1 episode 2 “Cut Man” ended with a one-er hallway fight that caught every martial arts fan’s attention. It had a lot of stitches and Texas switches. During that one-er, the camera repeatedly moves across featureless hallway walls hiding cuts and Daredevil is masked, allowing for multiple stuntmen to take over. Nevertheless, it’s still a thrilling fight and top-notch choreography. Season 2 episode 3 “New York’s Finest” featured another brutal one-er in a staircase fight. Again, Daredevil is masked so swapping stuntmen was easy. On top of that, Daredevil knocks out the lights, so a lot of the fight is in the dark, obscuring more stitches and switches. In Season 3 episode 4 ‘Blindsided’ Daredevil pulled off their most spectacular one-er of all and one of the best that has ever made it to the small screen so far, the prison fight. In that scene, Daredevil is not masked so Charlie Cox can be seen doing a lot of his own stunts. It clocks in at over 10 minutes. The fight choreographers on Daredevil, Chris Brewster, Philip Silvera, and Roberto Gutierrez raised the bar on TV fight choreography.

Karate And Stunt Training

The one-ers in Cobra Kai aren’t nearly as long, but they do showcase the actors doing many of their own stunts. And like Macchio, few of the cast have had previous training. Jacob Bertrand (Hawk) has a purple belt in Karate and Taylor Buchanan dabbled in Taekwondo, but that’s about the extent of the young cast’s experience. Beyond learning their lines and finding their characters, the actors had to take a crash course in martial arts.

“I only started learning in season 2,” says Peyton List (Tory), “and that was just in episode 4 of season 2, when I first came in. And I just take everything I can get, and I love learning it. So I’m trying to do everything I can even from home, but that one-er was one of the most fun. Jahnel, my stunt double, she was like, ‘You’re doing this all on your own.’ And that was a big moment for me, and I’m excited for everyone to see that.”

“My training is something I take super seriously,” adds Mary Mouser (Sam), “because I know that a lot of people who watch this show love martial arts and love the fighting aspect. As much as all the other fun things we have, we have a lot of really cool martial arts fans. So I want to make them proud. I am clearly still a novice in this world, but Samantha is not. So it’s fun to get to stretch myself, to see how much I can push myself to look like I’ve been doing Karate for all these years, when in total probably have about a year’s worth of training so far.”

Bertrand’s Karate background doesn’t make shooting a one-er any easier. “The next couple of days after those types of shoots, you’re definitely sore for at least two days. You’re running the same thing over and over again at 110%, but honestly, I’m just so excited for everyone to see that final fight, it’s going to be so great.”

Forever Young

In season 3, Daniel says he’s now as old as Miyagi was when they first met. Despite his baby face, Macchio is 59. He admits doing fight scenes no isn’t as easy as back in the day. “The challenge is always as I get older or attempt to look younger, is the physical stuff. Staying in shape, not getting hurt. It requires work and attention and focus.”

Macchio is like David Carradine, who played Kwai Chang Caine in the television show Kung Fu. For their defining roles, they posed as martial arts masters, however they are actors first and foremost, not martial artists. At the very least, Macchio has maintained his integrity by never claiming to be an expert. Carradine milked his master role by writing martial arts books and selling instructional videos, despite his martial mediocrity. Today, Carradine’s martial products are generally disregarded, even mocked, by earnest practitioners. Most considered them to be a joke (the fact that Carradine’s Kung Fu uniforms looked more like Klingon athleisure suits didn’t help). Macchio could have easily cashed in doing the same but to his credit, he never did.

Will Cobra Kai attempt an even bigger one-er for Season 4? “As soon as the fight is over you’re ready to watch the next one,” teases Maridueña. “And I think that’s all you can ask for in a fight scene.”

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Hyper Projection Engeki Haikyuu – The Tokyo Battle

ModelPress Interview Translation with Nagata Takato

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The next tour will be a new production that illustrates the heated matches of the Tokyo qualifiers for the Spring High national volleyball tournament. It will expand the story by featuring a rival school as the main characters, and for Hyper Projection Engeki Haikyuu, that will be a new venture. Yes it will. When it was decided, I was really quite happy. Because we were making the fans’ wishes into a reality. There were so many people who said that they wanted us to feature Nekoma’s Tokyo Prefectural qualifier matches on-stage. So we’re really grateful to all the fans.

It seems like it’ll be quite a fresh new play. There may be people who know Haikyuu who’ll say, “Kenma as the leading role?” One of the great things about Haikyuu is how it really shows the spirit of the sport, and all the passionate feelings that go into participating in that sport, and I’ve always found that really interesting. But even though Kozume Kenma is influenced by Hinata, he’s not that exuberant, so to have a character like him be the lead in Engeki Haikyuu does make me a little nervous.

When you play Kenma, what are the most important things to you in playing his character? Because we have an original manga to work from, I try to keep in mind the image of his character. Among the Haikyuu characters, he’s the most laid-back, and I think he’s the type to not move very much, but you really can’t be that way on-stage. I have to make him move to some extent, and if I don’t perform that properly, it doesn’t feel complete. But even so I have to make him seem laid-back. I get pretty fussy about that. After that, there are the tosses. Since my position is that of a setter. As much as I can, I try to give meaning to each and every toss.

This is a stage production that has plenty of realism, but before the tour, what types of concerns and struggles are there? For our team, we prioritize everyone matching our breathing and being in sync. There have been lots of times when only our team stays behind after rehearsals to run through the performance over and over. We practice team parts a lot, because we all think that if we don’t put in the time, then we won’t be any good. In particular, Nekoma High has a persistent, “connecting” defense, that’s our team specialty, so we have a lot of movements where we crawl and roll around on the stage floor. We get a lot of bruises that way, and that sort of feels like we’re back in high school as part of a sports team.

Is it hard on your stamina? At rehearsals we work hard on our physical strength and endurance. We need at least enough so that we can perform two shows in one day.

In your time playing Kozume Kenma, please tell us something that you’ve learned or a way in which you’ve grown. Technically speaking, it would be vocals and articulation. He’s a character that’s not very lively, you get the impression that you’re talking to a stick. After that, I’ve definitely grown in my performance.

Kenma and the main character, Hinata, both influence each other, and they’re illustrated as pushing each other to get better and excel. Is there someone like that in your life, Nagata-san? There is. He used to play Kageyama Tobio, it’s Kimura Tatsunari-kun. He has things I don’t, he’s like this all-mighty guy that can do anything, so I always feel like I don’t want to lose to him. In that respect, he’s a rival, but whenever we have days off, he’s the first guy I contact. We talk about useless stuff 80% of the time though. But we can talk seriously if we need to. At first, I got the feeling that he might be hard to deal with, but as I’ve gotten to understand him better we’ve become really good friends. We had a lot of scenes where we were matched against each other, and he always has a really great look in his eyes. We were both setters, and he helped me out with that a lot, so he made me feel like I can’t just lose to him. He’s not really the type to give you advice or anything, but he’s the type to show you how it’s done and lead the way.

That’s a wonderful relationship. Do you have any particular memories of Suga Kenta-san, who’s played Hinata until now? Whenever Hinata and Kenma have an exchange in that week’s JUMP, my LINE blows up (laughs). He’s like, “Oh my god! Oh my god!” (laughs) To be honest, I really wanted to have the Battle of the Trash Heap at nationals between Karasuno and Nekoma together with him, but Suga-kun finally graduated last year with the fall production. Suga-kun is of course going to be someone that’s always in our minds for everyone on our team and other teams, and for the production as a whole; he was such a skilled and clever person. Because of that, to be the main character after someone like Suga-kun makes me think, can I do this? I do have my worries about it.

Taking over after Suga-san means you have to work hard, doesn’t it! It does. Although I still want him to come to rehearsals everyday. (laughs)

What are some things you’ve learned while working on Hyper Projection Engeki Haikyuu? Responsibility; It’s changed how I think about my work as an actor or how I can capture something. It’s not good enough to just act, at Engeki Haikyuu they really take into consideration what the actors think about the staging and any suggestions the actors have. That’s always fun, and it makes me think more about how I can present something. After that, teamwork. Everyone works together to build up this one production, so we have a very strong sense of unity.

Outside of Engeki Haikyuu, your other stage work includes the Tokyo One Piece Tower’s “One Piece Live Attraction” where you played Monkey D. Luffy, “Rock Musical Bleach ~Another World~” where you played Hitsugaya Toushirou... so Nagata-san, you’ve been able to play some pretty popular characters. But there’s quite the difference between your characters. Well some of that is thanks to the make-up artists and the costume designers... (laughs) There’s a part of me that acts as though I’m possessed by the character. A little bit like middle-school syndrome* (laughs). Maybe because I think it’s important to have that character’s aura.

*中2病 or chuunibyou, refers to a kind of behavior that’s most common in middle school students, where generally he/she acts like a mature know-it-all and/or thinks they have special powers, etc... Although Takato falls back on chuunibyou as an explanation, a western actor might instead call it “method acting.”

In the work you’ve done so far, what’s something that became a turning point in your career or something where your awareness of things might have changed? Last year in summer, I was in a play called “Takarazuka Boys,” and I feel like I was able to really tap into the depths of acting again with that show. I thought it was fun, but even some of the fun parts were quite difficult. I discovered some new things while working on it.

Speaking of expanding your breadth of experience, you’re currently in a TBS serial drama, “A story I read on the day I first fell in love.” I think you’re in the middle of accumulating a lot of varied experiences, but do you have an actor you aspire to be like, or a goal for yourself? An actor I admire is Tsutsumi Shin’ichi. I love the drama “Yamato Nadeshiko!” I would love to appear in a romance movie, or a suspense/thriller. I want to play the type of character that makes people go, “So he actually wasn’t the culprit!” (laughs) And then because of playing Kenma I feel like I’ve developed a specialty for playing simple, modest people. I want to play a lot of characters like him too.

I’m looking forward to seeing all those variations of you, Nagata-san. And now, in preparation for Engeki Haikyuu “The Tokyo Battle,” please share with us your thoughts. I think that this upcoming tour is going to have some things that the other shows haven’t done yet, and it’s going to become a new challenge for us. Of course I’m really looking forward to it, but we’re replacing the main characters from Karasuno and making Nekoma the main, and we don’t know how it’ll turn out, and honestly there are aspects of it that make us nervous. I wonder if I’m fit for the lead, and whether or not I’ll be able to pull everyone together, but this will be a show that’ll cross over into a new era* even, and for myself personally, it will be my 5th Engeki Haikyuu. I have a lot of experience already, and I need to make sure I show that off. I very much want people to come to the theater to see this Engeki Haikyuu featuring Kenma and Nekoma as the leading characters, and see how we take shape on-stage.

*In 2019, the Heisei era will come to an end on April 30th, with the abdication of the current emperor Akihito, and a new era will be named as his son Naruhito ascends to the chrysanthemum throne.

And lastly, Nagata-san please tell us your secrets to making your dreams come true. I think a lot about the things I want to do. “One day I want to be like this,” is something I think a lot. I’ve made my dream come true of appearing in a TV drama, and after accomplishing that, I start to come up with all kinds of bigger goals, and I want to make each of them come true one by one. Being the lead in Engeki Haikyuu is one more dream that’s come true. This really is a show that exists because of the fans, so I want to do my best on it without forgetting my gratitude to them.

Thank you very much.

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A Brief Description of 3D Rendering

3D rendering is perhaps the most loved and quickest developing mechanical skill legitimate now on the planet. However, there are people out there who are unquestionably almost no respected to this time span in picture chart or inside arrangement industry. Along these lines, here's the inner shy of this mechanical skill and why this tech is very tons imperative and arranged to use in the inside outline industry.

On the off chance that we see through human species history, we can see the caverns are brimming with drawings that had been drawn via our precursors. Through the channel of advancement, the pc has arisen as our cavern and photo format programming program has become our canvas.

3D rendering is the present-day evolutional baby of contemporary design. Even though we are considering it a youngster, this science was once begun to hoist three quite a while past. From these 30 years as of recently, 3D rendering has purchased developed sufficiently to work with it consistently. Furthermore, this tech has demonstrated to us that glims have been accepted as unrealistic during the 80s.

3D rendering is presently not just sure to the photos graph undertaking as it were. For its significant practicable stages, this science has long past one industry. It is just an awesome designing miracle that is utilized in the logical business, video industry, entertainment world, structural industry, etc. Also, this article objectives to deliver you a message of why and how this 3D rendering tech is ought to be utilized for future innovative advancement.

What is 3D rendering?

So what 3D rendering genuinely is? 3D rendering is a delineation of a two-dimensional electronic wireframe. What's more, this wireframe is given basically the ideal shadow, lighting, surfaces as appropriately the same number of times utilized gear and substances into the edge. The charming angle is, looking at a board or a magazine's graphical picture, we don't fathom that these are utilized 3D engineering rendering. Love to see Tony Stark donning his enormous metallic automated constitution battle with the terrible folks and blazing them with a hand-connected weapon in Iron Man film?

We as a whole love it anyway what a number of us perceive that all the activities are made utilizing 3D rendering? This mechanical ability is basically all over the place, in the magazine, on the TV, on the cowl of our books, in the notice, and numerous extra computerized media. This innovative ability is moving rapidly to such an extent that even we can't protect and adapt to it.

The Post-mortem of 3D rendering.

There are two kinds of programming program needed to entire a 3D rendering mission and they are

Modelers and

Renderers.

Rendering begins advanced with just an intense 3D model. That life-sized model is comprised of a succession of mathematical shapes in a which are connected in a third-dimensional manner. These mathematical shapes are alluded to as 'Polygons'. These mathematical shapes or Polygons are the spine of any advanced 3D demonstration. The 3D life-sized model is made and controlled by the utilization of PC programming programs like 3DStudio Max, SketchUp, or Rhinoceros 3D.

The designs that come from this product program are a crude model of the leftover model. The designs are demonstrated as a RAW wireframe scene or item. Crude styles need to be inconspicuous via giving them conceals, surfaces, manufactured gentle sources, and various channels. The stop item is just refined and appropriately shaped using 3D rendering.

There is also some additional product program wished after the demonstrating and rendering undertakings. In any case, these are not, at this point obligatory. It is known as the after creation measure. Programming like Photoshop offers a definitive item a closure contact which makes the chart look alive.

To do this time-taking and convoluted programming, a 3D rendering craftsman should need to have this product program expertise in his/at the tip of her finger. Something else, a definitive item will presently don't be of the best quality.

The Birth of 3D Rendering.

The airplane is marvelous. It flies us bunches of ft over the mists and crosses us the Atlantic sea in a check number of certain hours. However, the experience of the aircraft is no longer as easy as we might suspect. It experienced issues. Also, these challenges furnished us with a response alluded to as 3D rendering. You can likewise ask me that, what is the connection between plane and 3D rendering. Indeed, there is a relationship. Furthermore, the relationship lies in an airplane's cockpit. Back in nowadays, no plane had whatever was alluded to as autopilot. In 1990, a pc pix dressmaker named William Fetter used to be given a dare to utilize the place of an airplane's cockpit.

There was once a need for an autopilot gadget because of the reality of the pilot's exhausting hours-long excursion. William Fetter was once wound up with a PC created an orthographic outline of the human structure. He named it 'PC Graphic' and after that the entire thing is history

Strolling in the strides of William Fetter, Dr. Ivan Sutherland tested stage above and beyond. He concocted a sketchpad and the world previously saw an entire 3D PC displaying program. This product program empowered a man or lady to work with or make a photo on a PC screen. It was previously the primary stride of Graphical User Interface (GUI).

From that point forward, we as a whole perceive what occurred. All happened sooner than our eyes. A PC purchased quicker, programming program got more intelligent and the hardware that needs to control all the muddled works of 3D, end up refined.

3D Rendering Software/Tools

Possibly you are wanting to be a rendering trained professional and can't find the quality programming system to do it! Alright, venture out. Begin picking up information on what 3d rendering is and why you should break down it. On the off chance that you are not, at this point a style designer from the base, at that point research the basics first. Something else, it is highly unlikely left to dissect to deliver.

3D structural rendering is the present innovative heading to design an inside or outside shape in a photographic picture. That is the reason the world over 3d building rendering contributions are getting parcels celebrated and a standard calling.For more information click here

you are a specialist?

At that point, this article is bearing for you. We've assembled 22 incredible and most predominant rendering programming. These are the lovely option for movement motion pictures, results then again then just doing 3d rendering. 3d rendering is a definitive phase of 3d liveliness or 3d model. Since 3d rendering is a muddled system and an important part of the film or structure industry, there is so a terrible parcel of programming programs available today. In this way, it needs to end up being extra testing to find the ideal and suitable programming system to accomplish exact work. To help you to find the appropriate 3d rendering programming, we've assembled the solution for your task.

3D Rendering in Films

Possibly this Film venture (the alleged Show Biz) is the undertaking that has gotten the most impact on 3D rendering. Every yr an impressive amount of energized films is dispatched proposing a Raccoon or a Panda or boundless characters. We can see them in the top-notch attainable pragmatic manner. Their body development, their mouth development, their looks appear to be nothing anyway genuine! Studios like Pixar, DreamWorks have changed the complete direction of vivified delight which incorporates the movement media canvas.

In those days during the 70s, PC produced symbolism was once now not viable like these days by any means. Yet, again at that point, in the wake of seeing the 'Star Wars', individuals got dumbfounded. Their jaw dropped to their toes thinking, 'How the damnation did they do it!' It was previously the first run through when 3D rendering used to be utilized in a film. It was at one time the innovative ability that nobody had considered previously.

And afterward, the development occurred. Still one of the quality no-nonsense heads named Mr. Spielberg conveyed us ' Jurassic Park' in 1993. What's more, it developed to be an elite hit. Individuals initiated adapting to the association of mechanical expertise in a business film. At that point, Hollywood arrived up with the ' T2: Judgment Day'. What's more, we know about what passed off with that film. Up until this point, 3D rendering is taking care of its responsibility. It has nothing anyway the incredible to the film venture so some distance and will go on superbus!

Architecture and Design

Architecture has procured a sentimental contact with the help of 3D rendering. Presumably about that. The impressive contact of it made the incredible make genuine. We are talking about architecture, right? Not a sentimental story! Apologies, I lost the tune (quink)!

Alright, photograph a 50 celebrated development comprehensive of its inside and outside. Picture the divider, the furnishings, the passage, the bed, and numerous different things. Impractical? It is plausible via outlining an arrangement of each fundamental issue that development can hold. However, presently not in envisioned mode, right? Before the inclusion of 3D rendering in the structure business, planners, designers, and specialists arrived up with paper sketch-based considerations sooner than their customers.

In any case, with the sentimental contact (!once more) of 3D rendering administrations, designers can make that paper arrangement into a photorealistic shock that can be without issues analyzed through the customers. What's more, if the shopper doesn't want or like anything, basically put off it and substitute it with various pre-made material. 3D rendering is the charming buddy of a draftsman and designer. It makes them display the venture, presently not advise them.

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Lady Gaga, slowly walking the stage, sets a hypothetical scene: imagine you meet a stranger or go on a date, and you bare your soul to them. You tell them your darkest secrets and let them in. Knowing all of this, they still reject you. Then you must say, she finishes, “I was born this way.” And, as you’d imagine, she then steps heart-first into the triumphant throbbing of “Born This Way” during which a dancer wraps Gaga into a white tulle floor-length skirt that looks suspiciously like a visual nod to a wedding dress.

This sounds close enough to a vampish and actorly display from 2012-era Gaga, but things have changed. Last year's Netflix doc Gaga: Five Foot Two was always going to colour this imaginary anecdote of rejection and numerous moments in the tour. The film showed the severe physical pain Gaga endured while making Joanne – the very same illness, in fact, which led to her European tour (including this Milan gig) being rescheduled last September. Many people were jarred by the Gaga, the person, displayed in that making of her fifth studio album. They didn’t expect the impact a uniquely demanding schedule would have on someone they’d naively perceived to be bulletproof. In the film, she can appear exhausted, irritable to the point of cross, in physical pain, and surrounded by people at all times but essentially, pervasively, lonely. A human being. “I sold 10 million and lost Matt. I sold 30 million and lost Luke. I did a movie and lose Taylor. It's like a turnover. This is the third time I’ve had my heart broken like this,” she says, sadly and plainly. What Gaga wants nearly as much as her career and fans, is a partner, a family. The physical and emotional strains of stardom are evidently sacrifices for brilliance.

If Joanne is Gaga being quote unquote authentic, if it represents a clear down-to-earth break from previous albums, then the first of her subsequent live shows in Milan intriguingly reveals the ongoing tussle between ‘art project Gaga’ and ‘vulnerable Gaga.’ This gig feels like the moment she emerges from the intimacy of people’s iPads and TVs and back to her well-established position of blinding live performer – but now she’s pulling at the contours of artifice versus “realness” more than ever.

As the show opens, half a set list before her heartfelt “Born This Way”, Gaga appears onstage alone in a simple sparkly cowgirl outfit with the Joanne hat on, singing “Diamond Heart” into a vintage mic. Mimicking the Joanne track listing, she swoops into “A-YO” next, this time joined by other guitarists who accompany her as the camera swings into her face at dodgy angles like an 80s glam rock video. Imagine The Fame Monster Gaga doing classic ‘guitar music’. This is high production make-believe in a dive bar; stripped-back Gaga. But it’s not all ‘someone accompany me on that guitar for a second.’ Longtime appreciators get to enjoy “Telephone” and “Poker Face”, or revel in how Gaga sashays about and rides a man like a horse on “Alejandro.” A ginormous PVC dress she wears at one point, which looks like an oily dessert, is the sort of thing she’s famous for. And frankly few others in recent pop have ramped up glamorous camp ridiculousness better. There’s a reason your mum would’ve known who Gaga was if you’d just described one of her outfits circa 2010.

Watching these sections of the show, their drama is rendered all the more impressive when you remember the full extent of the hard work and physical pain poured into them. That, after all, became a major trope in Gaga: Five Feet Two. As the film did then, this gig exemplifies how performers in general and women in those roles especially are supposed to dazzle and beguile, but we’re never meant to see them sweat. This is just as true if they are also one of the most famous solo artists in the world.

Gaga explores showing a crack in that public veneer, with a series of short videos that play between stage set-ups. In one, she’s laughing and drinking bubbles in a well-lit dressing room – call it a Moulin Rouge moment. Suddenly it morphs into something Black Swan-like, chants of “Gaga” and the cries of a crowd sending her spotlit face into contortions. In another video, she writhes between two looming white walls that appear to be closing in and ready to squash her. These could realistically be a metaphor for anything. But all I could think was: is this the suffocating fight between two Gagas – the one everyone wants and the one she feels she is? And more than that, is this a sort of aggressive turmoil she feels is a part of this album’s story, now that so many fans would have presumably seen her struggle in last year’s documentary?

Two highlights of the show come from the Joanne album. She retells the touching story of her belated aunt who died from lupus – a disease she herself tested borderline positive for – before performing the album’s title track simply, seated and accompanied by two guitarists. The song hits as hard as it did when she played it off her phone to family members in a particularly intimate scene fromFive Foot Two. Her approach to staging the show’s closing track, “Million Reasons”, becomes the second highlight. Who else would perform this otherwise straight-forward ballad while wearing a sparkling cowgirl hat on a holographic crystal grand piano with lasers firing down onto the keys as she plays?

There’ll no doubt be some who prefer the sex and flamboyance of older Gaga material. But that hasn’t disappeared entirely and her show is still, as it’s always been, utterly conducted for the fans. Her Little Monsters are named and spoken to throughout. They aren’t seeing a different Gaga, rather the same singing, dancing, spectacular star they’ve followed from the start. It’s only her live performance that’s in mid-evolution.

None of this should be a surprise. Even early interviews depicted this same multifaceted pop star. In a 2011 Guardian profile, friend and performer Lady Starlight says of Gaga: “She just throws herself into her work. She’s very focused on ‘What am I doing next?’ That’s the way; just the tunnel vision.” That profile later depicts her in all her “contradictory glory” as business woman and “needy neurotic”. In a Vogue interview from a similar time, she spent the entirety of the previous day self-soothing in bed by rubbing her foot, something she does when she’s feeling lonely. In a back and forth with Stephen Fry for theFinancial Times she says, “…people are imperfect in a perfect way. I always find it’s so interesting to have conversations about my work because in the past ten minutes you’ve pointed out to me that some people find me to be artificial while others find me to be quite real with the world. Isn’t that interesting?”

It is interesting that many people had forgotten that dichotomy, or supposed one: confident, shock-pop, ‘artificial as if coated with glossy lacquer’ performer, and sensitive, real, longing-to-be-loved human. As Gaga took a slight backseat in pop culture consciousness over the last few years, the flamboyance, meat, feathers and YouTube videos of her fabulous diva moments became the caricature that remained. Joanne and Five Foot Two reinstated that. These shows are the stepping stone towards a new and textured Gaga, one who will no doubt continue to evolve during her Vegas run. Fantasy and reality were always supposed to co-exist with Gaga – now she wants you to see them gel.

#lady gaga #joanne world tour #milan

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It was also a really disordered panicky dream with a lot of stuff that didn't fit into that semi coherent narrative. I guess just a mashup of all my stress from yesterday? The misc things:

* suddenly briefly was starring as myself in the regular non jrpg version of my dad's kitchen which was kinda scarier. It was that recurring horrible situation where he'd go out for the weekend and I'd get PEACE AND HAPPINESS AND BEING NOT HIT AS MUCH and then I'd be completely on edge waiting for the sound of him opening the door

But also this time I think I was watching some sort of scary thing on the television? I don't think it was the cyborg ferrets dream but I got the feeling it was whatever dream I had before that one, and that I'd forgotten parts of this big ol scary sleep session. Cannot remember ANY details of it tho, its just like a big empty void with 'you will be scared of this' written there. And I dunno, maybe something about the mid 2000s TV magician David Blaine?? Which might be because an episode of a mystery show that focused on stage wizards was like the biggest nightmare of my childhood. My other abusive grandma was being stupidly neglectful and had the whole family sit down to watch Johnathan Creek every night as a family. I'm only just realizing how fucked up that is as an adult! Its not only full of horrible murders but also a surprising amount of sex scenes, eurrgh. And loaaads of racism and homophobia like seriously Britain why u gotta be so fucked up. Anyway there was an episode of someone dying in THE MOST GORY WAY by being split it half by a buzzsaw LENGTHWISE THROUGH THE CROTCH during a failed magician trick, and then her partner stealing her identity and pretending it was her who died and then like.. Stealing her children too?? And they didn't even know this wasn't their mom until asshole racist detective man reveals to them that nope your mom is horrible sexualized deadness and this is the lady who did it. And somehow its sympathetic to her and she keeps the damn kids?? Like, the death being an accident = makes sense not to blame her, but HIDING THE DEATH AND STEALING HER IDENTITY IS KINDA FUCKED UP

Anyway in that dream snippet dad came home and I was worried he'd be mad at me for watching scary movies but he suddenly got all detective himself and was like 'aha there's a secret message hidden in the binary code for the mpeg file hmm hmm yes we should use dish soap on the aliens'

And then it just went back to the aliens dream and now I knew what to do??

* there was also a REALLY EEALLY CREEPY totally unrelated segment where a bunch of east Asian people where being kept in some sort of human farm??? Like reservations and segregation taken to an even worse extent. Why was this in my dream?? It was just like twenty minutes of getting attached to this poor family and then finding out they were trapped in a creepy 'wildlife sanctuary' set up by white people and like.. Having to pretend to be dumb animals while they secretly planned their escape and just YO, DREAM, I AM WHITE AS FUCK, I DONT HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE THIS DREAM. Any other sort of sci fi dystopia human farm situation yeah maybe, but not a crushingly realistic one because LITERALLY THERE WERE ACTUAL 'HUMAN ZOOS' FOR SLAVES. God, history is scarier than nightmares.

Uncomfortable.

And it had a really depressing ending where only the eldest daughter managed to escape and THE GRANDMA DIED and just god I don't wanna see any of this. I think it was vaguely inspired by the previous dream cos that Johnathan creek mystery show had a really racist protagonist. But like.. God

Dream-me, there's no constructive point to a story about racism awareness that just shows everyone dying and no hope and also its a sci fi fantasy thing so racists can easily deny its remotely grounded in reality and thus never actually change. And seriously 'racism story for the racists' is such an overdone cliche, Jesus Christ.. I feel like such a fuck that this stupid ass thing appeared in my goddamn dream *shudder*

* And the only impact that part of the dream had on any of the rest was that I apparently unlocked that protagonist as a skin?? Like literally suddenly a character select screen in my jrpg aliens dream. Apparently she was like the original guildmaster or something and that's why everyone disrespected pacman, cos he was the new replacement. So like.. She noped so hard out of racism dream that she landed in alien dream and apparently had a long and successful career as a jrpg space marine. Well at least thats mildly a more optimistic ending?

* A COMPLETELY UNRELATED DREAM AGAIN which was like the symbol of how much I miss my baby sister that I never got to see again after I left my abusive parents. I was playing as someone or other who had to look after a little sister and I think I was at a post apocalyptic version of Glastonbury music festival??? (I guess cos my grandma lived near there??)

And I just remember I had to take the lil sis to the bathroom but when I opened each porta potty it was everything except a bathroom. The closest I managed to get was this non euclidean structure of chrome sinks and nothing else, just a wall of sinks fused together like Tetris blocks.

So somehow I found one door in the infinite line of inter dimensional porta potties that led to Lockerroom Panic Memories. Ah, the horror of being a young in-denial trans kid not even knowing why you feel terrified changing in the girls room. :(

So yeah thankfully it was all empty and I mean I'm an adult now so its not the same sort of scary. It was just like that hallway from willy wonka where it keeps getting smaller until you get trapped. But eventually we did manage to find the door to the gym, and then back into the main school building where we could find the bathrooms.

And then I realised that all this time my baby sister was 5 centimetres tall and inside a block of butter (???) and it was like those grows-in-water toys??? So I was like 'darn I should have stuck with the sink wall' cos this one was a wall of only toilets.

Then I woke up.

So overall I didn't wake up in a panic cos my weird nightmare decided to end on a funny note?? Well OK then???

Anyway I need 2 try and get back 2 sleepe

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Mr. Robot's new season has business as usual—epic hacks, innovativeness in the midst of mayhem Elliot is back, so too is the high-wire filmmaking and haywire plot.

Mr. Robot appears to know we as a whole need CliffsNotes now. Pause, what's Stage Two once more? How does this character realize that character? Its Season 3 debut to a great extent tosses gatherings of people a bone with some table-setting, reintroducing us to the principle players as they get the pieces in the fallout of different Season 2 turns. Keep in mind, the FBI caught Darlene, Elliot got shot, Angela consented to enable the Dark Army, to control blackouts ran widespread in NYC, et al. So fight the temptation to interruption and make a beeline for Wikipedia, and Sam Esmail and co. will remunerate you with adequate in-scene updates.

In view of the previous evening's first hour ("eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h"), everything still is by all accounts rotating around the dismal Stage Two on a large scale plot level. As we adapted late last season, Elliot (well, actually Mr. Robot) conceived an assault with Tyrell and the Dark Army where E-Corp's paper records will vanish through huge blast, in this manner finishing his revolutionary objectives to pulverize the advanced shackles keeping up riches imbalance. It turns out the femtocell Elliot modified for Darlene (that Angela sneaked into a FBI transitory camp) didn't seek to catch proof of the agency's snooping, rather it was implied for hacking E-Corp. What's more, now Mr. Robot/Elliot/Tyrell/the Dark Army trust they can fill a high rise with hydrogen and cause the transformers inside to light the circuit—Elliot's Batman-like no-murder ethos be cursed. (As an aside: that was tech consultant Ryan Kazanciyan's most loved S2 hack, and it took seven days in addition to deal with, as he let us know on our on-break Decrypted podcast. Kazanciyan has effectively laid out his work from S3 debut if intrigued.)

This being Mr. Robot, obviously things will just turn out to be more confused than that. The debut makes it clear Elliot and Mr. Robot have diverse objectives, and few out of every odd real player has all the earmarks of being mindful of that. Anticipate that S3 will truly commute home how confounded life can get when everybody from your youth closest companion to an omniscient pioneer of a universal hacking ring appears to be mindful of your condition to changing degrees and tries to use it in quest for their own particular advantages. Phew.

Be that as it may, in case despite everything you're following alongside Mr. Robot after a hit-and-miss S2, odds are plot isn't the main (or even the most essential) thing keeping you around. Also, fortunately, in view of screening some of this current season's initial scenes, the show keeps on conveying on a ton of different fronts regardless of whether its story can feel extended now and again.

Seek imagination, remain for Cannavale

Quickly, the show's novel visual pizazz invites watchers back. Power-blackout stricken NYC looks especially troubling and enables bits of neon (from BBQ to shop lights or hacking rivalry scoreboards) extremely pop right off the bat, building up a shading palette not at all like whatever else on TV. Esmail keeps on discovering camera points others don't, as well. One especially remarkable grouping begins our vantage point with a tight shot on Whiterose inside an E-Corp atomic office, step by step raises us skyward to look downward on a dull NYC building, at that point flawlessly transports us into the retina of one Elliot Alderson (all while a Julie Andrews' rendition of "Shrieking Away" cunningly scores it). On the off chance that the stylish keeps you viewing, there's no indication of Mr. Robot's creative filmmaking backing off here.

Try not to stress. The hacking aspiration and specialized detail that draws in such a dedicated Internet following returns also. We see Elliot discover a Def Con CTF (catch the banner) rivalry as yet occurring between worldwide aggregates in spite of the city being without control for seven days ("A CTF competition, programmer Olympics," Elliot considers. "The whole city is enduring a vitality emergency while they're here practicing their inward political agitation"). What's more, even in this first scene, Mr. Robot compensates the individuals who have taken after security news in the previous year—I can't think about another auto pursue that closures like that in late memory.

The show likewise keeps up its comical inclination (Alf slaughtered somebody on-screen a year ago, recall) in spite of just extending its dull, dim representation of society and human instinct. Elliot meanders the avenues in a Josh Groban shirt at a certain point; Whiterose still holds her partner's allegorical hands as she stuns them with pleasantry. And keeping in mind that Leon's affection for Seinfeld is mysteriously gone yet, new expansion to the cast Bobby Cannavale ventures in as a delightfully "excessively" fixer for the Dark Army this season.

Cannavale's character has an always disconnected quiet joined with a know-it-all conceit, kinda like that old Jason Sudeikis character on SNL (directly down to the Bluetooth headset) however all the more debilitating given Cannavale's partners here. At a certain point he traces the defective rationale of not getting a free shake for his unwaveringness card punch 'til the following visit, just to leave the clerk with an unpropitious tip. "It's not about the cash, it's the guideline," he advises her. "When we lose our standards, we welcome tumult." Given the surprising significance new characters tend to demonstrate later in Mr. Robot seasons, we'll be checking this person.

Be that as it may, in maybe its most entrancing convention, Mr. Robot has dependably been a judicious show with regards to building its reality in a way that uncovers facts about our own. S1 set up an Occupy-powered fight over imbalance some time before Bernie Sanders began filling fields over the US. S2 highlights government hacks, crypto-ransomware gone wild, alongside references to the division of uncouthness versus damaging force inside a certain eventual legislator. What's more, despite the fact that these seasons disclosed in 2015 and 2016 separately, the scholars' room concocted such ideas much further ahead of time.

In this debut, we get an expanded monolog from Elliot that reminds us the show will keep on having bounty to say in regards to the present regardless of whether it stays set in this semi-prophetically catastrophic form of 2015:

"They're having their way with us—they bundled our battle into item, transformed our plummet into protected innovation, broadcast an unrest with business breaks, repaired the realities at that point increased the cost, lobotomized us into their VR ghastliness appear," Elliot opines in one of his mark monologs while pictures of Antifa and Nazis, environmental change and Brexit montage-on by.

"Imagine a scenario in which as opposed to battling back we surrender, give away our protection for security, trade poise for wellbeing, exchange insurgency for mistreatment. Imagine a scenario where we pick shortcoming over quality?" he proceeds with, his discourse now joined with sound of Donald Trump expressing "these are not the general population that made our nation awesome, these are individuals pulverizing our nation" amid some battle occasion.

"This is the thing that they needed from the start: for us to purchase in on our most exceedingly terrible selves, and I simply made it less demanding for them. I didn't begin an upheaval, I simply made us sufficiently quiet for the butchering."

In indeterminate circumstances (regardless of whether you characterize them through the viewpoint of individual, political, worldwide prosperity or something unique totally), watching appears about calamitous destructions complemented by viciousness can be excessively dreary. This present reality creates enough uneasiness, as indicated by this line of reasoning, so why dedicate whenever to this? Such rationale got me out of The Walking Dead long back, and it'll likely make them skirt an apparently agonizing rendition of The Justice League later this fall.

The plot of Mr. Robot focuses on turmoil, decimation, and control, however now the show's plot might be the slightest of numerous watchers' worries. Mr. Robot likewise demonstrates the benefit of depicting reality through its way to deal with hacking, it indicates how workmanship can at present be found in even the darkest settings, and it requests that watchers ponder conceivably annoying true powers (from psychological sickness to disparity to autocracy to reconnaissance states and back once more) through a current idea analyze rather than one set in a world far, far away. So regardless of whether we'll likely need the Cliffsnotes again by the end, S3 of Mr. Robot at first hopes to have bounty to offer those hopping in for another 12-scene ride.

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