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  • vateso5074@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEllirulet Page
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    11 hours ago

    I liked him in Super with Rainn Wilson. It wasn’t a perfect movie but I thought his performance was fine and it was a fitting movie to anticipate the Marvel saturation in the coming years (which director James Gunn would eventually actively participate in).

    I also thought he was fine in Inception. Not the standout performance of the movie but I didn’t walk out thinking “ugh, Elliot Page really gunked that up” or anything, and he apparently worked well enough with Christopher Nolan to get brought back in for The Odyssey.



  • If that is truly the case, then it is just a bit potentially concerning that you might be codependent on this person, given the extent to which your conversations with others keep circling back to them.

    I am not one to judge others on the way they want to live their lives, so it’s all good as long as you’re happy and safe.

    But if you happen to feel like this person might be restricting your autonomy or that everything has to revolve around them, it might not be a bad idea to reach out to other people you can confide in for some support.







  • vateso5074@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneTayrule Swift
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    3 days ago

    I’ve definitely been there. I think it’s like what English teachers say when they see their students reading whatever latest YA drivel has been published (e.g. Twilight):

    At least they want to read something.

    Encourage their passions, even if you really hate what they’re currently doing with it, and trust that eventually they’ll get a better sense of taste when they learn more about what else is out there.

    Take the “lead a horse to water” idiom but add the corollary that the horse definitely will not drink if no one leads it to water in the first place.






  • That season was a fairly close adaptation of The Last Wish, which is a collection of short stories in the Witcher universe and explains why the first season was more fragmented and episodic.

    It is the first book in the Witcher series and sets a lot of the very formative worldbuilding details that resurface later on, and so it makes sense for it to be the first season, but subsequent seasons would have to be different.

    From my anecdotal experience, I think more people liked the first season than the ones that followed. But I don’t think it was necessarily because of the shift from episodic plots to the serialized season-long plots that followed. I blame the fact that the writers for the series felt they could write better than the original author and started doing their own thing with it.

    Original writing can be good, and there are definitely some parts of the Witcher books that haven’t aged well (or simply wouldn’t be good fits for TV), but the TV writers took a chainsaw to the plot when they probably should have taken a scalpel, and if that happens too early and too severely in a story, it just snowballs and gets worse from there.