TV BLOG Unfuckery Afoot

Not too sure why but I have been feeling such a strong surge in lack of motivation recently. I haven't worked on a goddamn thing for my TV recap blog so since the beginning of this year - 3ish weeks- my posts have been entirely off of scheduled posts that I wrote months ago. Which means I haven't been updating show's gallery links, nor in putting "previously on" links on current posts. I used to REALLY be on top of that but for the past 3 weeks I have been in a real slump so I haven't been doing that. I'll spend today and maybe the weekend to catch up on that.

The struggle is real.

As much as I loved the premise of this blog it just isn't attracting blog views as much as anticipated so that's why I have experienced such a slump in excitement to update this blog. I am even struggling to write new posts! I have often been able to write multiple tv recaps in a single day! Yesterday when I tried to get back in the saddle and write a recap for Interview with the Vampire for episode 5, I barely reached half of the episode recap in my draft before I called it a day. I truly am burned the fuck out. It would have totally helped if I knew there were more visitors to this blog.

I mean, I even revamped the blog layout a little bit. Experimenting here and there. I only did that because due to me posting too many pictures on a given post it would affect how many posts showed on the front page. I did find a loophole but I had to have a new layout for it to work. Oh well.

I have like 30ish posts left in my schedule to be posted but upon some auditing, many of those don't have pictures!!!! So maybe I should focus more on that then writing recaps.

So that's the update. I also wanted to try to focus more of my time to my Beyond Bizarre blog. I want to at least post one post a month. Ideally I want more but I am also struggling with that blog as well. 

I really thought that if I took a long enough break then I would get back to writing like a mad man like I did around this time last year but nope. I am just a fucked up person and every little thing seems to piss me off. I really need to get into meditation. I have all these creative ideas in my head that it truly does get overwhelming and nothing productive ends up getting done. I guess I need to just focus on baby steps. Eventually those baby steps will turn into bigger steps and accumulate to a much bigger accomplishment. I just need to keep reminding myself of that. I wish I didn't get so burned out so easily on everything.

Death's Game

New show I started watching!!!!

It's currently on Amazon Prime and it's called Death's Game. Holy hell I literally love the premise! It's like a mix of Quantum Leap with Final Destination. It's a South Korean show about this dude who commits suicide but Death, in the form of a pretty lady, tells him that he is bound for Hell for insulting death while he was alive. His 2nd chance is that if he can avert an abrupt yet imminent death in someone's life (that he will temporarily possess their body), he will get a 2nd chance and be able to live out the rest of that person's life he saved. If not then he is going straight to fucking HELL. He has 12 chances in 12 bodies to avert the death which also takes form of a clock that ticks down for every death he is unable to prevent.

He finds himself leaping from life to life. Struggling to put back what once went wrong....okay so this line is the opening to OG Quantum Leap but it interestingly still strikes quite the resemblance to Death's Game.

I am totally not the best person to explain stuff but yeah this is one awesome show. I quickly noticed that Death is played by that one chick in Parasite (the daughter). I quickly noticed that!!! Cool. I also looooove how different lives often connect to each other. Like how the bully from one life appeared in a life further down the line. More examples but holy shit my mind is blown.

I am currently on Episode 4. There's only 8 episode! Ugh. I am totally going to put this on my blog. Will definitely take a long ass while until it lands on there though. Highly recommended to watch!!!

Update: I finished the show. BUT...

I ended up disliking the final 8th epiisode and even disliking this show as a whole at at the ending.

Why?

It honestly ended up a dramatic PSA of anti-suicide and basically shaming people who even dare to thinking about suicide by saying they are a selfish person that has no right to feel sad because "someone always has it worse than you" narrative. If you feel otherwise then that just makes you an ungrateful brat.

Really gave me the impression that the creators behind this show see suicide as a very black and white issue. It is honestly frustrating to see that they fail to see suicidal ideation more complex than just being down on your luck.

Don't get me started on the ending. SPOILERS but as expected, the main character restarts his life which now leaves a number of plotholes. All the lives he was in was mostly interconnected with each other, including the killing of the love of his life. It's a whole ass butterfly affect so...if he changes history and doesn't kill himself then many of these catastrophic events and deaths would not have happened...so they just don't die????

And what the fuck was with that insane time loop?!?! You know what I am  talking about. He basically created his own trauma of seeing a man die before his eyes. In one of his lives, he was THAT MAN. I knew that opening scene in 1st episode had a significance!!! That itself is one of the many plot holes. My brain is just on the verge of short circuiting the more I think about the plot holes.

Anyway, I felt the ending was a huge fucking let down. I felt it would have been more impactful to NOT have a happy ending and for him to embrace death but nahhhhh After his 12th and final death he BEGS for another chance and Death graciously gives him that? She puts a bullet (signifiying his chance to restart his real life) in a chamber and says if the bullet shoots at him then he will get just that. As per usual and against all odds he gets that bullet and averts his suicide to pick up that phone call from his mom.

A good ending would to leave that last 15 second visual out and end it with a fade to black and a shot.

AN EVER BETTER ENDING  was like I said before, embrace his fate and take that L. While I don't ever believe he should go to hell, he should have been walking through those doors to be judged by "God" and accept his fate.

The world is not ready for such a somber ending like that and without a doubt have have caused a huge backlash from fans of the webtoon and new fans like me. 

So I get why I just don't agree with it. A different ending would have been more impactful.

I have this same issue with Disney's Soul. It's about where a guy dies and his soul lands in a cat. Man was destined to die so the ending should be having him accepting death when he actually died but then again DISNEY where right when he is on his way to the GREAT BEYOND, that astral guide magically gives him an unprecendented 2nd chance at life. BULLSHIT MOVIE but I am way more lenient because it's Disney but they really blew their chance to truly explain death to kids in a very easy to digest manner. Oh well. This movie is hella years old at this point.

New Year New Blog!

It is the beginning of a new year and without further ado, here is what's popping:

I came across this new Indian horror show called The Village. The first scene is so freaking gory!!!! Brutal deaths so if you can get past that scene then I have a feeling you will enjoy this series. It's about a man and his family who get stranded and arrive at this abandoned village filled with mutants, lepers. Gory deaths ensue. It's more bloody that Adhura. I am just fangirling the hell out of Indian horror stuff. It feels like a whole new world I'm being exposed to since I was so used to American and American-adjacent media that I've grown to dislike their style of writing. My interest gets more likely to get piqued in foreign media. Thus, being why I made 2 blogs dedicated to least a huge portion of it to foreign movies and tv shows. I still like select stuff from the USA so don't get it twisted.

Pro tip should you watch this: change the audio to தமிழ் which is their mother language, Tamil. Amazon Prime defaults it to "English" and by that it's actually Indian voice actors dubbing in..well, English. Turn on English subtitles and enjoy. It personally drove me crazy to see in inaccurate subtitles to English dubs. It was literally every line that was slightly changed!!!