Scavengers Reign

 

Really good TV series. Well, HBO max series. I saw a trailer of this a while ago and thought it might be a good watch (then forgot about it), then finally decided to watch it with my husband when I saw it on Netflix.

From Wikipedia

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The series follows the survivors of the damaged interstellar cargo ship Demeter 227 who are stranded on Vesta, an alien planet bustling with flora and fauna but filled with dangers. Initially the survivors are separated into three groups: Azi and her robot companion Levi, Sam and Ursula, and the isolated Kamen, who travels with a telepathic creature named Hollow. Over time all their paths converge towards the crash-landed Demeter.

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Visually stunning with creative designs of alien species. I won't explain much, because it's simply a must watch.

I did want to point out one thing though. 

I'm quite prejudice against 'woke ideology' when they push a narrative that doesn't fit the whole story just to preach about LGBTQ. I have nothing against the LGBTQ community or feminism. I'm a women myself and I'm all for women's empowerment and I think there should be some representation of diversity and LGBTQ. But when a story revolves around the matter or pushes it in a forced manner, I find it pretty distasteful. Like having black elves in the Rings of power, or making Ray in Starwars overpowered just to make 'strong women' type thing with all the men around her, almost like fumbling idiots. Can you imagine walking through Wakanda and just randomly seeing a middle eastern man who's supposed to be a bred and born Wakandan? No... I wish historical or geological settings kept it's race dynamic because if they just force other races in it... it just takes me out of the emersion. But you know where diversity fits in perfectly? In futuristic settings and in a completely different universe that's not based on the current world we live in. Adventure time, Cyberpunk, Arcane are all series that has diversity, and sexuality but fits in with the world setting very well. 

Well I thought Scavengers Reign is also a great example of when these diversity issues are done very well. There are empowered women, diverse races and sexuality, but none of those interfere with the whole story and fits very well with the time and setting.

(Movie review) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

A movie for children. Unfortunately I saw this movie as an adult and there were too many plot holes or unexplained stuff for me to enjoy. Pity because I did like the visual effects and some ideas of the story. 

The children were all basically more than 60 years old, since they kept their memories each day but just had their bodies reset (which doesn't really make sense in my mind) but all of them seemed to still acted like children, which I found strange. 

It's almost as insane to think someone would go "I must keep my children safe" and keep them stuck in a certain age in the same place forever, getting them to repeat the same 'chores' every single day, over and over again. If any mom did that to their own child, they'd be in a mental hospital straight away. I guess the children did have the choice to leave the place? But it seemed like they were some what stuck as 'children' that needed looking after, which meant that they couldn't easily just leave. That whole thing made Miss Peregrine look insane. She seemed like she had the insane eyes as well every now and again and my partner noticed her hands shook as she held the pipe which didn't help the case. The introduction to her felt real badly done. Her time thing saying "You're 49 seconds late" or something just felt really weird and off, like an overbearing mother who scolds her children for the most minor mistakes. 

Then there were the Hollows. The threat that the children needed protecting from. Like... you knew about the Hollows, time flies on outside and you can get all the information you want, even bring in outside material (since Peculiars can go in and out) but your main weapon stash is... crossbows?? seriously?? No guns, no training, nothing. Like the children seemed like they've never been prepared for this kind of threat ever in their life until Jack came by and instructed them what to do. 

Another thing is... the time loop thing... just didn't make sense to me. So when Jack goes into the time loop, grandpa was alive, because that was in the past. We all saw when they killed Baron and the Hollows or whatever, it was in modern time. There were electric trams and stuff... So when they go back to 1940 or whatever, Baron and all that should be alive again right? Plus since Jack decided to stay in the past and live for a year there to get to the right time,  he should arrive there just at the beginning of when they start the time loop? So basically, none of that whole killing the Baron stuff would've happened? 

Because this was a kids movie, the Baron didn't kill any of the children on the spot when he could have... that was an eye roller. Like any logically psychopath would've murdered them as soon as they had the chance when they were obviously in the way. He could change his arm into a weapon for god sakes. But no, he instead turned into Jack?? I didn't understand that...

I also found it mildly amusing that Jack's only special power was to be able to see the Hollows. Well, since Baron and his Hollows are dead, is his powers completely meaningless? haha I guess one of the other girl just had a mouth at the back as her peculiarity, but that just made me wonder about all kind of minor defects. Like kids with 12 toes, kids with tetrachromacy, hermaphrodites, photographic memory etc... And where were all these children from? Where they all just abandoned by their parents? or did Miss Peregrine convince them to give them away? She didn't just... Take them right?!?

Sigh... anyway, like I said, I probably would've enjoyed this movie if I was a kid. Like a 10 year old who didn't know enough to say, "hey that's cool." It sucks having a brain sometimes.