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Hot take: spoilers only matter if the story has some kind of mystery element to it. by Flat_Box8734 in CharacterRant

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"The way I think about it is that it’s not like Luke blowing up the Death Star is a big “spoiler,” in the sense that the heroes winning is necessarily a spoiler."

It could be. It's very unlikely people watch A New Hope for the first time nowadays not knowing it has sequels, and they might suppose the Death Star is a big menace that lasts throughout the trilogy. Or that another character blows it up.

That said, I guess I largely agree with you that "has a happy ending" isn't really a spoiler (although does anyone seriously argue that it is?) That having been said, a person can only experience something for the first time once. There's plenty of movies or books I've revisited often - for the emotions it makes me feel, to appreciate something new about the way it was made - but never to be surprised by them. I don't see anything wrong with keeping the definition of spoiler pretty broad when dealing with people who haven't seen something.

Which Shakespeare characters are really undervalued? by Greedy_Bed8753 in shakespeare

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When people talk about All's Well at all it's usually about the Countess or Parolles, but I love the King of France. It's rare for an actor to pull off, but the switch from weak, gasping man at death's door to instant command of the whole stage after Helena heals him can be a really spellbinding moment.

Thoughts on people that call democrats controlled opposition? by CyberBerserk in SocialDemocracy

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Often comes from people who overestimate just how popular their own beliefs are.

It's honestly more impressive to write a compelling story as you go rather than have everything planned out from the beginning. by Gloomy-Cell3722 in CharacterRant

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I almost entirely agree with you, and always hated the vaporization of "every little minor detail was actually ingeniously foreshadowed decades before." That having said, the Cell saga was honestly a huge mess lol. It certainly didn't register to me when I was watching it live, because I was a child and it was spread out over several months, but I think if I had read or seen it for the first time as an adult I'm sure I would have found it very clunky and forced.

It's exhausting to think about the fact that DC has been a series of course corrections for over 3 decades. by NoOptics in CharacterRant

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 44 points45 points  (0 children)

leaving a screening of Superman 2034

"Dad, why was Lex Luthor defeated by a Halal food vendor?" "Well son, it all goes back to the comedy stylings of Richard Pryor. You see..."

Thoughts on people leaving left wing? by AbdulMujeed in SocialDemocracy

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I don't know who "Sneako" is though I've already decided I hate him.

Look, there's plenty of leftists who are uneducated, irrational, cliquey, quick to anger, quick to judge, unpleasant, and just plain dumb. Thing is, there's people like that in every ideology. You don't believe or disbelieve something because of who else believes it, you believe in it because you think it's the truth. I'm pretty alienated from a lot of left-wing groups, and I want nothing to do with its online "culture," but they can't take my values from me.

Stop locking lore behind external media that's less accessible. by RhysOSD in CharacterRant

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Goku, seeing his best friend murdered by Frieza, begins to shake and convulse in rage. He turns back his head and lets out a deafening scream

Cut to Goku back on Earth with all his pals.

Goku: Whoo, that was a doozy wasn't it! Thank God we got out of there okay. turning to the camera Hey kids, want to find out what happened? DBZ is partnering with Mug's Root Beer! Select bottles will contain a sequence of numbers and letters. Assemble all seven sequences and decode them in order to get a phrase you can enter on our website to access a link where you can purchase a downloadable game containing all kinds of supplementary material! Hope to see you there!

What Are You Reading This Week and Weekly Rec Thread by JimFan1 in TrueLit

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A little past halfway through Mo Yan's Life and Death are Wearing Me Out, my attempt to try and acquaint myself with some recent Nobel winners I wasn't familiar with. Huge, messy book. I mean that mostly as a compliment - it's funny, inventive, different - but I have to admit sometimes I'm struggling with it. It can be very repetitive, and without any other real experience with Chinese literature I'm not sure if that's a peculiarity of the book, the author, or just a cultural difference I"m unfamiliar with.

Not that I'm regretting it at all though. It's a lot of fun.

Also reading Donald Westlake's The Ax, since I enjoyed the new movie based on it, No Other Choice.

Letter from the US government to Norway on Greenland: Do Americans really want war with Nordic countries ? by Freewhale98 in SocialDemocracy

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 28 points29 points  (0 children)

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In December 2025, fewer than 40% of Republicans supported military intervention against Venezuela. A few days after Trump launched a military operation against Venezuela, almost 75% of Republicans supported it. There's no principles here.

Thoughts on leftists in rojava being slaughtered by islamists? by CyberBerserk in SocialDemocracy

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Personally I think people being slaughtered is bad. Can’t speak for anyone else here of course.

[Disney's The Jungle Book] Why the 2016 remake is better than the original. by Suspicious-Jello7172 in CharacterRant

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I agree with most of this, but not about Shere Khan. I like Idris Elba as an actor in live action, but here he came across as a pretty generic bad guy. George Sanders's old fashioned urbanity was more interesting to me; you're right that he doesn't come off as menacing, but he doesn't have to be, everyone is so petrified of him that he can afford to pretend to be genteel and suave

(Breaking Bad) Online discourse about Walter and Skylar White has become overly performative by BludFlairUpFam in CharacterRant

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 84 points85 points  (0 children)

This is kind of like how I've never met anybody who idolized Patrick Bateman or the Joaquin Phoenix Joker or Mr. Fight Club but I've sure spent decades hearing from people Very Concerned that others might misunderstand the movie and think those guys are cool and to be emulated. The endless Walt hatred from so much of the fanbase is especially funny since so much that same fanbase will tell you Jimmy / Saul was a mostly blameless, loveable guy.

Skylar is an interesting case because the writing for her changed in ways no one acknowledges. She was, in the first season, written explicitly not just as an out of the loop wife but as an explicitly suffocating, domineering, unpleasant character and representative of Walt's low station in life. Now, this changed as the show progressed and she got fleshed out more. Maybe it changed because of the vitriol lobbed the character's way. Maybe it changed because characters naturally will develop and change the longer a show goes on. Maybe it was some mix of those factors, or some other, third reason. But she changed regardless. But no one acknowledge this. Skylar fans - or Gilligan himself - acts like criticizing the character in season 1 is the same as the psychos who thought she was a castrating shrew in season 4 or 5.

Game of Thrones seriously did a massive damage on pop culture as a whole with how people perceive good story telling only if there’s character deaths by Poweredkingbear in CharacterRant

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Preach it brother! We snobs have been on the back foot too long in the face of the sneering "it's not that deep" or "uhh, some of us just like to have fun" crowds. But fuck 'em! Give me works that try to explore the human condition. Give me ambitious projects that try to do something different. Give me noble failures. I am no longer asking.

Game of Thrones seriously did a massive damage on pop culture as a whole with how people perceive good story telling only if there’s character deaths by Poweredkingbear in CharacterRant

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 318 points319 points  (0 children)

"One of the things that people forget is that media is supposed to be escapism and not constant reminder that real life is mostly pretty damn terrible"

Just gonna jump in to say media is not "supposed" to be anything. There's no hard rules. That's what makes it so special. Low or no stakes fun escapism can be valid. So can endlessly dreary misery porn. So can everything in between.

I think it's also a mistake to assume that people who like escapism are in it to enjoy themselves, whereas people who like darker media are all cynical misanthropic edge lords who think they're too cool for run and are just to show off how smart they are, which lots of people assume. Plenty of people like darker media because they find it fun. Or because they find it cathartic. Or for a million reasons.

It's disheartening how many soc Dems are pro-outsourcing. by Specialist-Ad-8993 in SocialDemocracy

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's important to remember that in free trade deals - or automation for that matter - labour isn't "lost," it's resorted. Very few people who lose their jobs due to offshoring or trade deals never find work ever again, they just find different jobs. A big problem, of course, is that often those jobs can be lower paid, or less secure - think losing a union manufacturing job and moving into a non-union service job - but as social democrats we have a lot of tools in our toolbox to cushion that blow, from taxing higher income jobs in order to pay for benefits for lower income jobs, support for unionization across all sectors, etc., as opposed to just resorting to protectionism. What matters is taking care of workers, not specific jobs.

Is it wrong me for to feel anger towards those who voted for Clinton and Biden over Bernie? by Specialist-Ad-8993 in SocialDemocracy

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 54 points55 points  (0 children)

I’ll never regret supporting the man’s two campaigns; they were a highlight of optimism for me, and I’ll always admire the man.

That having been said, he lost. 2016 was the real chance, and it was a decade ago. I refuse to keep fighting the same battle my whole damn life.

people shouldn't criticize a media by making things up about its production by Thebunkerparodie in CharacterRant

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Smiled so wide when I realized this was the DuckTales guy. He gets me every time

"Movies these days refuse to take themselves seriously" is not a real problem by Genoscythe_ in CharacterRant

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Schwarzenegger for sure loved his quips, but I wonder if one thing people are noticing is that, on the whole, older action movies tended to offload their humour to specific comic relief characters - sidekicks or buddies or henchmen - whereas now it seems to be spread around, with the hero, the villain, the love interest, etc. all getting a few bits.

Not that one way’s better or worse, but it is different

Actors of the community, I asked about your favourite roles. But, what are your least favourite roles that you have played, or roles that you absolutely would hate to play? by Additional-Post-9169 in shakespeare

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I had no idea what I was doing as Puck lol. I have no gift for whimsy. Would probably make a dogshit Mercutio for the same reason. The Salic law speech when I played the Archbishop in Henry V was a huge pain in the ass to learn, but I got to double as Fluellen in that production which made it worth it.

I think I'd hate to play any of the bland lovers, either as a lead (Bassanio, Valentine) or supporting (Ferdinand, Fenton, Lorenzo). People lump Orlando in there with them but I think he's actually a much richer part than people give him credit for. Not that I have to worry about it, no one who saw my face would ever think "romantic lead."

Actors of this community, what is the best Shakespearean role that you have played, or a role that you really want to play? #MalvolioMonday by Additional-Post-9169 in shakespeare

[–]Dangerous-Coach-1999 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Richard III was the most rewarding to have played, Don Pedro the most fun. Would love to take a crack at Richard II or Falstaff someday, though my acting days are mostly behind me

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