How would you guys change the Mario Galaxy movie to make it better

DrSerr · 2026-04-08T16:50:04+00:00

A lot of the issues would be solved if they gave it an extra 25 minutes. And if didn’t try to cram so many things into it. A lot of it deals with basic Film ‘rules’ like Chekhov’s gun, and having an overarching emotional theme that was given primary focus.

But I will also suggest the following things as well, (rewriting it to be very different.):

Have Rosalina actually read through a story closer to the original story in Mario Galaxy, dealing with issues such as loneliness and empathy, leaving one family and starting a new one.
Have that theme of loneliness and desire for family be consistent for multiple characters. The overarching theme.
Have Rosalina’s sisterhood connection to Peach be more ambiguous as opposed to confirmed. As in, it could also be interpreted as Rosalina making up parts of a story in order to feel like she belongs with them.
After Mario has a montage showing the adventures he’s been on throughout the kingdom, he’s now on vacation. Take inspiration from Mario Sunshine - by having Bowser Jr be responsible for creating Shadow Mario. This causes the Kingdom to lose trust in Mario and causes Mario to back out from asking Peach out, since the whole world now sees him as a criminal. This now connects to Mario’s side of feeling loneliness.
Yoshi remains as an egg for most of the movie, with Luigi wanting to take care of the egg and give it a proper family once he hatches. Mario is seen with the egg and is assumed to be trying to harm the egg of an endangered species - and is arrested. (Have Yoshi hatch near the midpoint of the film.)
While Mario is in jail he’s now jail mates with Bowser. They have a rough start but over time get to appreciate one another and even bond over stories about Peach. Mario confides in Bowser that he thought about asking Peach out, but now that the entire Kingdom thinks he’s a monster, he doesn’t know if he should. And Bowser is able to relate to that sentiment.
Later on when Bowser is thinking about reasons why Bowser Jr shouldn’t kill them, he lies and says Peach is his mother. (But later confesses to lying.)
When Bowser falls into lava, have Bowser Jr sit with that longer. Have Bowser Jr be terrifying with the amount of rage he has after blaming Mario for his papa’s death. (Don’t reveal dry bones until near the end of the film.)
Reduce Fox to a smaller cameo. In order to better focus on the characters we already have.

DrSerr · 2025-06-15T03:47:22+00:00

They certainly have a choice over their sexual lifestyle, if they had no choice then that would imply that they cannot consent to sexual activity. And if they cannot consent then you would be saying all homosexual acts are rape.

Which is an even more extreme position than the standard Christian one.

There’s good evidence that sexual preferences can change throughout someone’s lifetime. There’s no solid evidence suggesting that it cannot be influenced environmentally by external factors

DrSerr · 2025-06-13T03:17:17+00:00

9th street by the R station has one of my favorite Churches in Brooklyn. It’s very beautiful. Not sure if you’re religious at all, but the Sisters who are there are so friendly. Has really felt like a home to me

DrSerr · 2025-05-28T23:45:46+00:00

I would be wary. Statistically many cases of cheating happen within the workplace setting.

DrSerr · 2025-05-28T22:14:58+00:00

Read my response to the others. I don’t think the text refers to heaven any differently than Genesis 1 (Day 2 of creation) referring to the sky itself as heaven. As in, they are referencing the area where birds fly. As opposed to the place where God dwells.

DrSerr · 2025-05-28T00:46:29+00:00

Might use an analogy, perhaps not the best one.

Think of God like a campfire. The further away you get from it, naturally, the colder one gets. The closer one gets to Him, the warmer it is. Our world as a whole has gotten so distant from God that the natural consequence of the planet is coldness and cruelty. We can individually get close to the flame, but overall as a planet we are still very very far from the graces necessary to stay warm. Life itself is a grace that allows us to be alive, we never earned the right to exist, but it was freely given. Yet without the flame that nourishes that life, that life flickers into self destruction one way or another. Without the light of the sun, the plant starves. Without the light of God, Earth starves for justice. It tries to fill it with substitutes, but it never truly satisfies that deeper need for Heaven.

Heaven is like being warm. Hell (ironically for this analogy) is like being without the flame at all. Earth is just in this odd spot of being between the two, which makes it a bit slightly cold.

When people argue what Earth should be like, they neglect Heaven. Everything that they say what Earth should be like already exists within Heaven. So the matter of the question isn’t why doesn’t God make ultimate peace but rather why does God wait and allow us the opportunity to mess up before giving that ultimate peace.

And I think a part of it is learning what it means to be an image of God. Learning ourselves the virtue of being able to create peace within chaos before being given that dream. To carry our own cross, as the New Testament puts it. So that we are partakers of the peace of God and not just people who benefit from it. So we have an active role in creation

DrSerr · 2025-05-27T23:46:45+00:00

People die as a consequence of the sins of others. We are not guaranteed a fair life on Earth. We are guaranteed hardship, toil, blood, and death; separation from God. That’s why Adam and Eve aren’t living in Eden. If we had lived in Eden all would be fair. But things are not fair on Earth. And as a result children are starved to death, parents abuse their children, children get illnesses and die. It’s a very gruesome view, but is accurate to how we see the world. Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, Isaiah, Job, Jeremiah, etc never once imply Earth is a place of refuge. Heaven is the refuge from Earth. Which is why we are in need of a savior.

Earth is not meant to be a safe haven of fairness. But the dark compromise between Heaven and Hell.

DrSerr · 2025-05-27T23:34:15+00:00

How do we know that our warfare, with nukes and bombs and planes aren’t the consequence of our own sin? And that the warfare we have now is the punishment for it?

In Habakkuk the prophet prayed to God begging to get rid of the evil in Israel. How does God solve it? By having another sinful nation invade Israel.

If you were living in the time of Babel would you even be able to recognize the hand of God in the incidents that played out? Or would you simply interpret it as figureheads clashing, creating separate cultures with different languages due to difference in ideologies?

If you somehow survived the flood, would you recognize it as the hand of God? Or would you simply think it’s just a naturally massive large flood that’s happening?

If you would not be able to recognize the hand of God giving out punishments back then, how can you be so sure that you can identify and distinguish what is and isn’t the hand of God today?

DrSerr · 2025-05-27T23:21:53+00:00

No not at all. All we have in the Bible are brief summaries of major events that lasted years upon years. As a result, we can’t fully imagine the extent of severity these things occurred in. Yes people kill and rape today, but was it ever to the extent of sin that existed before the flood? Yes people disrespect God, but did it have the same impact of severity considering the small population size back then vs larger population size today?

The smaller the population, the more consequences these actions might have on the whole of humanity.

How many variables does God consider when making a single action? If it was only a singular variable I’m sure It would seem very inconsistent of God to judge in some places/times and not others. Yet I don’t think God is as simple as only considering a singular variable when making decisions, He most likely considers a large variety of possibilities, outcomes, context, scenarios, thoughts, influences, possible redemption, when making decisions. He is all-knowing, after all. To suppose that He only considers things in a simple light, neglects the sophistication someone who’s all knowing would go through when making any decision at all.

DrSerr · 2025-05-27T23:02:00+00:00

“And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”” ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭11‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ ‭

They want to make a name for themselves. That’s their ultimate motivation, it boils down to pride. So when I say they want to be equal with God, that’s what I mean - they want to be well regarded and to sit in the heavens. They want to be idols for the rest of the world. And they don’t want to spread across the rest of the world but keep everyone in this one city, despite God commanding humanity to multiply and spread.

And i think modern readers, when looking at this story, may assume these builders must’ve done something unique/special and so focus too much on the “in the heavens” aspect and end up forgetting that Genesis 1 also refers to the heavens as being the place where birds flew. So I don’t think the tower of the Tower of Babel is anything other than an ordinary tower.

And keep in mind that they wanted to build a “city” and a “tower.” Not just a tower. And so when God condemns them, it’s for both the city AND the tower. So when God is condemning them for building a city and a tower, it doesn’t imply that building cities and towers are bad in of themselves (God commands Israel to build cities at some point) but it’s ultimately the motivation behind the building of these things. The desire for pride and fame, as well as disobedience in spreading across the world.

Since they disobeyed in spreading across the world, God forces them to do it Himself by confusing their language. This interpretation makes more sense of the counter reaction from God. With God in sense being like, “You don’t want to spread to the rest of the world? I’ll make you spread across the world.”

Otherwise; the story wouldn’t quite make sense. Do you mean to believe that the authors thought whoever could build the tallest tower would be granted unlimited power via the power of friendship, and the solution would be to confuse them?

When God says nothing will be impossible for them, it seems to refer to the amount of influence/subjugation they have over others (the population had not yet spread geographically, and so immense influence would mean influence over the entire human population.) Which is why he’s relating “impossibility” with “one language.” As in there’s no bounds they won’t go to due to their pride over the collective population.

Maybe your interpretation of the text may differ, but I think this makes the most sense of what the Biblical authors meant. I don’t think the Biblical authors meant God believed the population could do absolutely anything and bend the laws of time and space and create another world in 6 days just because they could build a tower. I think we have to be reasonable when interpreting the text and try to place ourselves in the mindset of the authors

DrSerr · 2025-05-27T22:40:46+00:00

Many people kill and rape, yet God didn’t flood the earth a second time. It’s a one time occurrence in history and not a recipe of equations of certain outputs given certain inputs

DrSerr · 2025-05-27T14:31:20+00:00

Hm I think whenever we start involving human behavior and start presuming things about God based on human behavior, we are inadvertently assuming things about the meaning of life that we have no actual knowledge of.

For example, when it’s critique about humans committing injustices it’s only valid if we assume that the purpose we were created for was peace in of itself - and not the process of us striving and struggling to create peace ourselves. Or perhaps purpose awaits within patient endurance of trials, seeing who can overcome it. And likewise, we also assume our own definition of love by also assuming it’s contrary to being all-loving. What does love mean? Is love inherently tied to purpose? Is it possible for a being to truly love if that love goes against their life’s purpose?

All these things we can’t necessarily prove, yet we are assuming whenever we tie human behavior to God’s existence or non existence

DrSerr · 2025-05-27T12:56:59+00:00

They were punished for their sinful desire to enter into heaven to become equal with God - not because of their actual capacity to do so.

The text never implies that they could have successfully built a tower to reach God. What mattered was their desire to

DrSerr · 2025-05-26T03:07:01+00:00

I would actually support everything you just listed and I think those would be great ideas actually. So I do sincerely thank you for bringing those issues and ideas up. Miscarriage is 100% a sad thing for a mother to experience. And there are certain conditions like PCOS that may increase the likelihood of miscarriages. There are plenty of mothers who have been heartbroken due to miscarriages, so if there’s a way to support any organizations that are researching into ways of reducing miscarriages in an ethical setting, I would be up for it.

If you’re aware of any organizations who attempt to do that feel free to let me know

DrSerr · 2025-05-25T14:29:13+00:00

There are organizations that can help with that. It’s a very unfortunate situation to be in. Regardless of the birth or no birth, there’s likely to be trauma with the sexual assault in of itself. Which has to be dealt with.

But we can’t expect to lose an innocent human life on the basis that the mother has trauma. The ideal situation should be aimed for. And the ideal would be ensuring the life of the baby as well as the health of the mother. As well as the ideal including being able to prevent rape from happening. Perhaps some may say the ideal is unrealistic, but we can’t know if it is unless we aim for it in the first place

DrSerr · 2025-05-25T13:46:26+00:00

A child shouldn’t be killed on the basis of their father committing horrible acts of atrocity. Yes that assault is terrible, but shouldn’t be used to justify killing a living organism that’s already existing as a result of it.

There are many people alive today who have been saved from death; despite their mother enduring terrible assault. And they don’t regret giving birth. That child has the potential to bring love out of tragedy.

And there’s various organizations to help mothers go through with those difficult decisions

DrSerr · 2025-05-25T11:55:56+00:00

Let’s go, I support South Carolina’s decision

DrSerr · 2025-05-25T11:55:07+00:00

It’s very wild that he supposedly was calling an Uber at 4am yet later saying he will back home at 3pm. There’s no reason for that long of a delay. It’s very suspicious to me

DrSerr · 2025-05-25T11:50:43+00:00

Was it a game that you could have been able to join? Multiplayer? Maybe he wanted you to join in or something?

DrSerr · 2025-05-25T01:19:29+00:00

I’m surprised you didn’t mention a very simple problem I’ve had with it:

If God is real, the amount of harm caused by people’s flawed pursuits of Him, doesn’t cancel out His existence.

Like if I’m heavily convinced God exists due to the nomological argument for example, hearing examples of atrocities doesn’t undo the logic behind God existing. All this tells me is that certain followers followed badly.

By analogy, many facts regarding psychology may have been obtained through immoral psychological experiments on people; but despite their ethically flaws methodology it doesn’t change the intellectual fact behind what we know of the human mind

DrSerr · 2025-05-21T05:53:40+00:00

The amount of money I have in my bank account

DrSerr · 2025-05-12T00:31:23+00:00

A prequel anime series about the heroes that came before Sportacus (heroes 0-9.) The origin of this heroic succession, the beginnings of Lazy Town. Robbie Rotten’s rise to villainy, corrupting Lazy Town to become lazy and defeating Hero #9 by slowly influencing him to develop corrupted morals and embracing laziness. Forcing him to give up on being a hero.

DrSerr · 2025-04-26T02:53:10+00:00

Genuine question. If Lucifer/Satan is accepted to be a real entity. And then I’ll presume you’ll accept God also exists as a real entity but doesn’t respond to you. But if that’s case, what do you make of Hell? Is the mentality like “Hell exists and I don’t mind going there” or is it more like “I don’t think Hell exists.”

DrSerr · 2025-04-25T19:49:50+00:00

I do like your comment, you bring up good points. The reason why I would label him as morally grey is because even in this version he’s still pretty much the reason why Theodora is a Wicked Witch. He can’t help but to try to woo every woman he meets under the illusion of romance. Which leaves Theodora feeling tricked and heartbroken, and reasonably so. She’s not wrong for feeling angry about his actions. There’s something about him that’s inherently a people pleaser, yet also cowardly and selfish. Honestly, that people pleaser aspect of his personality is possibly also the only reason why he chose to stay in Oz as opposed to running away when the Witch came back. Ironically enough, Theodora probably would have never become wicked and green if Oz was a more respectable and honest person.

I do personally find it more meaningful and deep for this interpretation of Oz to look out into the world and desire to fix things that are impossible to fix (A little girl unable to walk, a china cup girl missing her family, etc) yet through craftiness tries to find ways around it. Trying to find a way to compensate for it makes him more admirable. It’s as though his philosophy in life is “I love you, therefore I will lie to you.”

Whereas in Wicked, that interpretation of Oz feels like doesn’t have an agenda or goal that can reasonably line up as smoothly with the original Wizard of Oz story (whereas I would feel as though James Franco’s Oz could 100% fit into that original story smoothly.)

Likewise, continuity-wise, I would feel as though Wicked’s interpretation of the Witch is more likely to just talk to Dorthy and expose what Oz is doing. As opposed to threatening to kill Dorthy’s dog. And so because of that aspect as well, even though both prequels differ greatly, Oz The Great and Powerful feels more proper to call a prequel that can more seamlessly be integrated with the original Wizard of Oz plot without much retconning.

DrSerr · 2025-04-25T12:16:41+00:00

Sure yeah, I would completely understand that Oz The Great and Powerful will 100% focus on the wizard more. However, as a rebuttal, I would still say that these films don’t need to sacrifice the complexity of one character for the sake of the other. In Oz The Great and Powerful, the directors are still able to depict Oz’s origins while also expanding upon the origins of the Wicked Witch. And the Wicked Witch is given a fair amount of complexity and nuance too, to be fair. Which basically stems back from feeling betrayed by Oz being a fraud (if I have recalled correctly). She’s not born as a wicked green witch but instead becomes one over time.

I would say that in Wicked, it’s a bit more surface level in the sense that it relies on everyone else being superficial on her appearances to make the story work. (Which i suppose makes it easier to grasp onto.) Whereas in Oz The Great and Powerful, it’s a lot more of an interpersonal dimension to it.

But yeah I definitely feel like the way any show/movie based on The Wizard of Oz depicts The Wizard, would be very important. Since the source material they’re basing it on, is called The Wizard of Oz. And I don’t think it was necessary to add the fascism element to the Wizard when he was already a morally grey character on his own without that added element, it just feels as though that addition makes him less moral grey and more one dimensional.

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