OneShot ending spoilers
I asked a child to sacrifice their life to maybe-save a world they aren't even a part of and I'm really jumping through some moral hurdles to try to justify that to myself
(I mean, within the fiction)
Like, being a hero is good, but can you always say the same about forcing other people to be a hero?
re: Bohemian Rhapsody spoilers
Anyway, the positives are that the performances are great and it's important to remember that "well-adjusted adults who don't hold grudges against each other" aren't allowed to be shown in biopics accurately
re: Bohemian Rhapsody spoilers
Basically uhhhhh the first boyfriend is kinda framed as this decades-long corrupting influence on Mercury responsible for his solo albums and possibly medical problems and just a hedonistic villain instead of a complex individual the way his first wife is? I dunno.
Bohemian Rhapsody spoilers
So this movie was pretty entertaining, has lots of great music, and tells a pretty uplifting story... but there are lots of factual inaccuracies! Notably that the band didn't form that way, didn't break up *ever*, and the timeline of the aids diagnosis didn't relate to their Live Aid concert that way.
And it's a little... weird about Mercury's sexuality. Weird in ways that are tough to explain to people. :X
Fascinating history of East German (Stasi) surveillance of C64 game nerds in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall: https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd/komplettansicht
I wish the scary, subversive games they were worried about had been anything other than boring ass war games, but ah well, that's the Cold War for ya I guess.
re: cursed primetime television
THE B-PLOT OF THIS EPISODE IS BERNADETTE TRYING TO GET BETTER AT FORTNITE THAN HER HUSBAND
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