Basically my response: "Oh the directors of Resolution and The Endless are directing Daredevil now. Why?"

(They've worked on a couple other Marvel shows already, but the point stands...why?)

The fight scene was pathetic too. Started in a fog cloud, cut away to other things, back to the action (still in fog), door closes so we can't see again, door breaks, they fight up the stairs in partial darkness, and when they get up to the roof it's foggy again and then the camera cuts away at least one more time while the fight was still happening.

It's like they were *terrified* by the idea of properly choreographing and filming a fight scene.

It was sort of sad to see that it was directed by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, whose weird indie horror movies I love, but it's not exactly shocking to me that they are bad at this type of show. None of the things I like about their films would indicate that they would be good at it.

Also it turns out that because I didn't watch Echo, I don't know what the heck is going on with some characters, so that's great. Apparently to understand this show I was supposed to rewatch the original show AND watch Echo so I would be prepared, because the show cannot be bothered with showing anything.

Despite the fact that 75% of the dialogue is exposition (they went sooo hard on "tell, don't show"), they don't explain the stuff that would provide context

But most of all... it's copaganda. It's definitely copaganda. The very first conversation we hear, the very first moments of the show are centered on the fact that it's sad that a lot of cops are retiring and quitting. Literally the first thing they have to say.

Five minutes into the new Daredevil and I'm going...wait a minute...is this whole thing going to be copaganda?

Not a great start.

@DavidM_yeg
No apologies necessary! It's infuriating as hell that "parental rights" apparently are more important than the actual health and well-being of children, and we shouldn't quietly accept this state of things.

The conservative Christian homeschooling movement (which I grew up in) had a huge hand in promoting the concept of "parental rights" internationally. The concept is explicitly intended to include the "right" of parents to abuse and/or neglect their kids.

Sometimes it feels like no one actually respects the rights and personhood of children, and it constantly infuriates me.

We don't allow children to make major decisions for themselves because they are not yet prepared to do so, but despite that admission that they are vulnerable persons, no one actually has a fiduciary responsibility to make the most beneficial choices for their well-being.

The fuck is that about?

@Bislick is sooo close to their goal to be able to reunite with their cat, but their profile has been limited on .social (what fun). Who wouldn't want to help a cat get back to her beloved person? I mean, look at this cutie.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-reunite-with-mia

It's so weird when men complain about female characters existing in movies. Like, do you really think of life as just a series of interactions with other men? Don't you regularly interact with women out in the world (at work, at the store, at social events)? Isn't it fucking *weird* to tell only stories about exclusively men?

Do these dudes just not notice ALL OF THE FREAKING WOMEN IN THE WORLD?

At the hospital at 6am for 🐢's ankle surgery. They're repairing the damage from the poor job they did a couple years ago on his broken ankle (seriously, when the surgeon looks at the MRI and says "I don't know why they did it this way. No wonder you're in so much pain," that's not fun to hear).

Surgery in about an hour, should last a couple hours and then there's recovery a bit before going home, but we should be out of here before mid-afternoon, I think. Oof. This is stressful.

I kind of miss being able to pray about stuff, but also... praying is not always all that different from worrying, so maybe it's for the best.

She's so beautiful.

#CatsOfMastodon

I think I need a better understanding of how people form and change their opinions.

I am clearly an outlier in terms of how informed I try to be & how much analysis of things I try to engage with. But since I hang out with people like me, this feels "normal".

It's clearly not though...why do some of us compulsively engage in the effort to understand, interpret, and react to current events in the larger world? And why don't other people?

Why do I feel the need to have a multi-year game-plan for resisting fascism and other people shrug and go "shit is always bad"? Why do I think it's an obvious necessity to get into all the messy details and try to find opportunities for change?

What is going on here? What drives other people on a daily basis? What keeps them so "in the now" that they don't have time or interest in the bigger picture? Why don't they want to know? And am I fucking broken for *needing* to know & *needing* to act?

@FlashMobOfOne
It can be worth interacting with media like that at least to have an awareness of how other groups of people are receiving and processing information.

I have been finding the difference between the level of knowledge and discourse shared on Fedi and the level of knowledge even among my fairly well-educated friends "IRL" really jarring lately. It's not even "an echo chamber"—it's just confusing that others get their info and form their opinions in such different ways.

@FlashMobOfOne
Maher's anti-Muslim sentiments are what first made him unbearable to me, and that was back when I was still taking tiny baby steps on recognizing xenophobia...like, I was still very conservative, and even then I found Maher's bigotry offensive.

I have a hard time giving him the time of day because of that.

I think I just need copies of Cronos and Nightmare Alley and then I will have a complete collection of Guillermo del Toro feature films to date.

#ThisIsAGuillermoDelToroFanAccount

Can I just say it?

The quote "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but backwards and in high heels" annoys the fuck out of me, because it isn't true.

It may sound very feminist to say, but...no, Ginger was not the same type of performer as Astaire was and she did not even WANT to be at his level (he was impossibly perfectionistic and rehearsed obsessively, and Ginger was not into that). She was a wonderful dancer, but she did not do everything he did. It's just factually inaccurate.

My piano teacher always told me to pause before playing a piece, just for a moment, and hear it—*feel* it—before I played the first note.

In that moment, I felt suspended in time, as though nothing existed but me and the music I was about to bring into the world. It didn't matter if there was a judge there or an audience or whatever. For a moment I was alone.

That's magic.