My Roasting of Power Rangers Wild Force: disc 4

Huh. I was wrong. Animus got much, much worse. Show of hands, did anyone actually LIKE Kite?

I know that every Ranger with a Wolf theme is legally required to have a 'Go it Alone' episode, but was there REALLY a point to this with Merrick? This was not only something that felt incredibly forced, but also just...dumb. Although his showing true affection to the pub owner was nice.

Master Org confirmed Nice Guy Incel. Who did not have to wear that bald cap, but apparently did it for the bit.

Annnnnnd we continue with Max being played up as Team Child once more. Just gonna throw this out there to appease myself: he was absolutely an only child, probably homeschooled, DEFINTELY over eighteen, but in that weird place where he's so socially awkward that he hasn't even kissed someone yet and doesn't know how to interact with his teammates beyond being the voice of hope and excitement.

Money down, the only reason they had Ransik get half-blown up by three powerful beings and undergo REVERSE mutation was so they could show off Vernon Wells being fucking sexy.

I rolled my eyes so hard at the "fight" between Shayla and Merrick over their "music date" that I think I gave myself vertigo.

*Throws a wrench, an axe, a lawn chair, and a whole ass piano at the writing staff and directors* NO to Alyssa being made into a furry to beg at the feet of a gross monster! SHAME ON YOU!

Okay, did we ever get any background into how Jindrax even HAS a brother? What?? How??

JINDRAX IN A BUNNY SUIT THROWING KNIVES!!!!

*pokes Princess Shayla with a sharp stick while she sleeps on the ground* This is a really fucking stupid defense mechanism. How are you not dead?

*gently cups Jindrax and Toxica to lightly kiss them on their cute little heads* You continue to be the absolute best part of this series and I don't give a damn what anyone else says. Jindrax, your inferiority complex when it comes to yourself and yourself alone is stellar; and Toxica, you are the boss bitch that we don't deserve and Taylor WISHES she could have been. *MWAH*

it is actually so unfair how being quiet is treated as a character flaw that needs fixing in every area of life

when you have little guy energy and chose being a merc as a career, you gotta get creative with your insults

dude I just gotta say thank u for all ur amazing art bc I JUST finished y7 last night and I'm missing my emo losers (daigo and masato) ONLY TO FIND THEM EVERYWHERE HERE plus mine!!! ur fics are also on point as well I think I commented on the "quiet" one but everything aside ur style is just so nice on the eyes and very fun! bonus ur nanba is very cute he's so silly to me fr :3

HIIIIIIII ive been watchin you go through all my art in real time ngl LAKRJLRKJ SO THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!! masato's my evil awful toxic girlfriend and i miss him every day and i love being delusional about him and daigo so im glad my goofy postings do somethin for others too lol.... thank you so much for all your love and support !!!!!!

Erich Maria Remarque books

I've read all Remarque's books and they are all undeniably great,every single one of them shattered my heart to pieces. Even though the endings were bitter and sad, I liked them because Remarque's unfortunate endings are a reminder that, no matter what, his books are close to reality, and sometimes in reality no matter how much we sacrifice and deserve a good ending, we never get one, because life isn't a happy and fair fairy tale.

While I don't know much about it, I would probably bet there are tons of issues with the cruise industry that would make me not actually appreciate it broadly speaking - HOWEVER, I do really love a lot of the interior design of some cruise ships.. How it's almost like a miniature city crammed into one area. Multiple sections with all different aesthetic designs, a variety of shops, restaurants, activity centers, community seating areas, communal use spaces (like gyms, laundry, pools, cafeteria/buffet (which I always love anywhere)), etc. etc. but then also everyone has a little nice clean comfortable looking space of their own to retreat back to if they'd like to be alone. Maybe it's something akin to the idea of 'walkable cities', where everything you could ever want to do is kind of right there just a short walk away? I also especially love how so much stuff is stacked on top of other stuff, a layered cluster of spaces, bright open atriums, and when they're set up with little walkways down the center between a bunch of rooms so it's almost like a mini city street with apartments lining it, etc.. They often seem like they'd be SUCH a cool place to live permanently, IF only something identical was just built on solid land instead lol

If you could turn back time, would you wanna play TWDG series for the first time again? Your blog and posts would still exist but your memory would have no prior knowledge of the game

Hell yeah, I would. This blog has 5+ years of twdg content on it and if my memory of just that was erased, it would be a lot of fun to replay the games now, then read the stuff that past CJ thought and wrote. I'm a different person than I was five years ago because that's how time works, funny enough, so I wonder how differently I would think, y'know?

Plus, on top of cringing at my very old posts, me and past CJ would disagree on some things. I mean, I have changed my mind on quite a bit but you get me.

and I dunno, I haven't posted a lot on this blog lately but outside of it and in all my fandoms, I'm very much in my "oh no I've lost most of my fucks" era where I like what I like, I dislike what I dislike, who gives a shit? So I feel like if I were to get into twdg for the first time now, I would be a lot more open with my opinions and interpretations of the series and a lot less worried about conflict in the fandom.

I would also get to experience Lee dying for the first time again, and I would get to experience tfs all over again, THAT I would especially love.

I really feel absolutely normal until like the day after socializing a lot & then I begin to reflect & start to think that my friend’s autistic girlfriend might have been right about me being a little autistic lmaoooo

when you thought you knew how you learn best but turns out you really don't or was either too lazy or too frazzled by how much there was to cover to put it into practice.

grr. i need. to find a NEW JOB. eyeing a decent looking factory one on indeed rn but its scary bc i KNOW im not getting fired from my current one anytime soon it feels safe but i dont know about other ones and i currently really cant afford to fuck around with finances..... grr

my future when it comes to still being Active on social media is teebeedee, but my main resolution for 2024 is like...be comfortable w/ being completely offline even if it's just for a day or a week.

Finished up some more cursed city friends over the week as some chill time from wildly stressful work

this motherfucker left the tour 2.30 hours in, when the tour was 3h long, so first of all that’s your poor planning problem not my problem (we finished at 12.45 bitch) and second of all: what the fuck do you mean a lighthearted approach, my bitch. I was talking about fascism, what’s lighthearted about fascism?

My Week(s) in Reviews: January 29, 2023

Reading The Count of Monte Cristo this month really left me little time to catch many movies, but I did get a few new ones in the past couple weeks.

The Whale (Darren Aronofsky, 2022)

I had some major issues with this one, especially the disgusting screenplay and Aronofsky’s direction in the latter half of the film.

Brendan Fraser, though... Wow!! He takes this character and ignores all of the ugliness to bring an empathy to a man who’s all but given up entirely. There’s a sincerity to the way Fraser plays up the character’s flaws that never makes it seem like judgement is being passed or fun is being made (that’s left for the Aronofsky to do, for some reason), and how he blends those flaws with the character’s heart makes for some moments of overwhelming emotional richness in a film otherwise devoid of it. Fraser’s co-star Hong Chau and Sadie Sink are pretty damn fantastic, too. It’s a shame the film they’re in is so judgmental and ugly. - 5.5/10

The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2022)

Not very good... at all. No, Prince-Bythewood didn’t even deserve Oscar consideration, never mind one of the five spots, and hell no Viola Davis didn’t deserve a nomination alongside powerhouse performances like Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh’s. If anyone deserved awards attention, it was Lashana Lynch, who stole every second of screen-time she had. And even then, the film surrounding her is so painfully formulaic and dull that it made her great performance less memorable by association. - 4/10

A Man Called Otto (Marc Forster, 2022)

I LOVED Fredrik Backman’s book. That being said, while the film stays mostly true to the heart of the book, some of the bigger emotional moments lost some of their heft in the adaptation, as did the excision/changing of some of the material in the flashbacks. Thankfully, the cast - especially Tom Hanks, who while not quite as curmudgeonly as Ove in the book, was really damn good - and Forster’s ability to maintain the balance of humor and emotion throughout made this book fan happy with the final product. - 7.5/10

All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger, 2022)

It’s been sitting in my Netflix queue since like a month before it even dropped, and for some reason it just kept slipping through the cracks. After its impressive showing in the Oscar nominations last Tuesday, I figured it was time I gave it a go. Damn. Let’s just say I’m glad I did so before I locked and posted my Best Directors and My Top 10 Films of 2022 lists.

This is one bleak, filthy, visceral, and brutal anti-war film. It’s focus on the people fighting makes even the bigger set-pieces feel intimate, yet no less exhausting. The direction and camera work is just stunning, patient and unforgiving and technically impressive. The makeup is so effectively grimy it had me wiping mud out of my eyes sitting warm and comfortable on my couch. And the performances were chock-full of a hope-tinged desperation that made each and every inevitable death all the more soul-shattering. - 9/10

Enjoy!

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

Favorite audio of 2022

For the past couple years I’ve been trying to make a habit of doing a sort of year in review post of my favorite audio from the past year, mainly for my own memory. So this is a non-comprehensive, unordered list of all the new music and podcasts I extra loved from 2022!

It’s funny to me that there’s only like two standout non-fiction podcasts from this year for me, not because I didn’t listen to a lot of non-fiction stuff (it’s my job) but because I haven’t been as up on new non-fiction shows.

Music:

Dragon New Warm Mountain by Big Thief

Few Good Things by Saba

Renaissance by Beyoncé

Home, before and after by Regina Spektor

Stumpwork by Dry Cleaning

Blue Rev by Alvvays

Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Fiction podcasts:

Who Killed Avril Lavigne (Super Normal Media)

Doctor Who Redacted (BBC)

Batman: The Audio Adventures (HBO)

Goblet Wire (indie)

Shipworm (Two-Up Productions)

Quiet Part Loud (Monkeypaw Production + Gimlet)

Two Flat Earthers Kidnap a Freemason (Good Pointe)

Non-fiction podcasts:

Cover Story Season 2: Seed Money (NY Mag)

The Last Cup (NPR + Futuro)

Honorable mention: Suave (Futuro) which came out in 2021 but won a Pulitzer in 2022