Media Medium

This is going to be my dump of media thoughts whenever I have something finished instead of having them buried in the journal entries. Current watchlist is on the other page:Link to Log

Tunica

I’m not sure why I’m basically sundering my entire media log into smaller pieces when the end result is going to be a huge mess regardless lol.

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The only things here that’ll remain for now are shows like cartoons and anime which will then be moved to a retired page once the year ends unless I haven’t finished the thing or I drop it.
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This pretty much summarizes the way I treat media ever since 2023 so if I ever start something and then drop it for a long period of time here’s why, I found this in one of my tumblr posts!!

"Honestly, these days I sort of feel like I have the opposite problem of my past self in which I had too little games and too much time, but now the problem is that I have far too many games and not enough time to go through every single one of them, leading to my experience with "new" games feeling sort of scatterbrained. And not new as in brand new, but new as in I haven't played them before or it's in a new series that's already been established and there are multiple games recommended to start with, but I'm the kind of person who'd rather go from the beginning. Between shows I haven't watched, movies I've never seen, books I haven't read, and IRL compounding it with its own set of problems (which range from work sucks and I wish I didn't have to do it to I am not emotionally equipped to handle these problems and I don't even have the energy to juggle all of these things at once there's no way I could put in the total attention span required to sit through a single 70+ hour JRPG (as an example) but it feels like I'm definitely not doing myself a good service either by jumping from game to game to game and eventually forgetting what games I've played and where I ended up leaving off in a game."

As an aside, I already noted that this page is going to be opinionated. It's also going to be messy, it's in no way an essay on "yeah this thing is good and here are my reasons why and it's 10/10 5 stars mwah mwah perfect". I'm not trying to greatly "rate" anything as I think things can have good and bad in them unless it's a hateful spite created thing. The mark of a good media is when it has parts of it you love and adore and also parts of it you despise with every part of your heart and I can say for everything I've ever enjoyed there's someone who probably hated it for the same reasons I liked it.

What's with this writing style. I'm basically just livetweeting in the notes tbh.
It’s levels of like tumblr esque ramblings and notes that are like “the watcher might be stupid for not noticing this detail”

I don't like the concept of uh, calling it consuming media. What would I call myself instead of a consumer (derogatory).

A media philogist? Instead of just one genre, they’re going out of their comfort bubble to experience the various pieces as recommended to them by vestiges of the internet! No, that sounds derogatory.

That’s not really me though, I just get bored and google “shows and movies to watch.” Or I ask friends. I intend to read more comics in order to not be like, the one guy who’s like “I have never interacted with a marvel thing outside of the MCU”. Spectacular Spider Man is pretty good.

Sidenote rambling: The “ick scale?”

I don’t really do recs or full reviews here and most of my stuff is just a notes dump unless I summarize before hand and it’s a mess and I tend to note stuff that I found to be weird writing decisions.
It’s more or less like the philosophy of I read and watch things based on online recommends and ratings and if a lot of people are watching it and I drop them if there’s something I don’t like or I just find it boring. If the writer is doing something weird then I can just close the page. This becomes slightly more difficult when you are invested in a media and then the writer adds a new weird thing that wasn’t there before and you have to do your best to ignore it and hope that it doesn’t become like a mainstay go away.
This is ultimately because I do not have a vetting process before I go into watching things which means I will be blindsided and flash banged by the worst writing decisions of all time. Like in my mind there’s a gross meter and I measure some things based on how ”ick” I find them. Things I find “ick” tend to be stuff like unnecessary fanservice (hot springs episodes have hit that) or like goon type characters (unfortunately not like henchmen goons). When I was younger this kind of stuff flew over my head and I was in places that normalized some tropes and there’s more that I can think of that I’d probably be like “ick” about now but that’s just a part of growing up and finding tropes you dislike/find weird.
I don’t think exposing yourself to things you don’t like will help you with like, the things you dislike. It’s like me and the bount arc because like I don’t want to see them or the mod souls, I want to see Aizen’s wild plans play out and these guys are a hindrance. I’d definitely use a filler guide for bleach. And I’m not actively reviewing things either, it’s more or less “I watched things because I’m bored and I’ve got free time, here’s my raw unfiltered thoughts.” The thing is I am not 100% or even like 50% correct about anything and that includes my opinion most of the time.
I’m not a stick in the mud though, I just find somethings to be like, unfunny or tasteless and I tend to point them out because these are like my notes on media I watch. Like a lot of things I find to dislike being fanservice and weird shots are basically like inherently baked into the shows since the target audience is teenagers who are like, generally figuring stuff out. So the real answer here is I need to watch things that aren’t just shonen!

But sometimes... I wish I didn’t have to deal with fanservice moments all the time when it feels uncomfortable even though the characters aren’t real and it’s just a moment meant to appeal to the audience. The audience will be primarily teenagers so it’s fine to put the teenagers into fanservice moments in theory but the teens aren’t the ones buying the hyper expensive figurines, you know…

What the heck happened here?!

So rather than having a page that has literally everything I've watched by time frame, I just decided I'd rather make a seperate individual page by genre.

I don't know what my thing with scope is, I could've kept it the same and now I've just got a bunch of extra links I'll have to keep adding to whenever I make a new page.

Genre Pages

I'm making them and their definitions as I go, give me some time and I'll probably have them all...

Lineup:

To Watch (but I'm not keeping track of like EVERY show I'm watching because otherwise I'd be here a while>

To Watch: s2 ep 27, golden lagoon Voltron DOTU: secret of the white lion Beet the vandel buster, episode 20 S1 ep 4 GI Joe XY EP 36

Various Opinions

Sub or Dub?
Been watching dragon ball daima lately in December and the dub got announced it’ll be coming later on. Honestly, depends on the vibes I want to get. And if they take out the original soundtracks. Mostly the later thing. Like if I know that the entire show gets heavily altered to the point it’s a new show, I might just watch the subs. Something like the Dic Sailor Moon should bother me based on that, but I’m used to watching that since that was my first version of sailor moon to watch. The new dub should be “better”, but at that point if I really want to rewatch sailor moon I just watch the subs. Some shows that I’ve watched for years were sub only too, so this is just a question of convinience and preference. I like subs mostly.

More demos

Knowing me I just broke half the damn website lmao

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Surprise!!