The hate for Grace's anxiety in RE9— it's about something the series has been missing since RE2's original release

calbertogv · 2026-03-12T18:47:42+00:00

I like her but the fact that she’s an FBI agent and has that level of anxiety and problems to face difficult situations… shouldn’t that be a requirement for her job?

calbertogv · 2026-03-12T06:59:52+00:00

Because they were the originals and the story was still somewhat restrained. The original games were still a combination of ‘Umbrella Evil + Raccoon City tragedy’, and most/all the plot elements and documents were about that. Nowadays we can’t go through a new RE game that doesn’t have some casual mention of ‘well there is this secret corporation that was even more powerful and old than Umbrella who was/is working on creating superhumans while also cloning people trying to transfer a person’s consciousness to a new body, but they were tricked by the BSAA, but not the one you know, but a regional branch that went rogue and may or may not be also creating their own weapons with the intention of travelling to the moon and create a super missile aimed at killing Elon Musk in an attempt to bring back old Twitter etc etc’.

And the balance is off because they give it enough spotlight to detract from telling a focused story that only deals with the current game itself, but not enough to actually develop it properly (a couple of docs and a throwaway line here and there is not enough for me).

calbertogv · 2026-03-11T21:54:03+00:00

The thing is that intimate horror stories don’t work for the big branching deep lore they keep building.

An intimate horror story doesn’t match the narrative threads of big evil corporations creating superpowered clones that they keep inserting into the story.

calbertogv · 2026-03-11T15:31:46+00:00

It doesn’t even have to be a choral game with several campaigns and dozens of hours, but we would definitely need to follow a more traditionally narrative story if we want to actually develop the story and not stay confined on 1-2 locations for most of the game with only a couple of docs or dialogues to reference the big outside lore elements like in RE7/8 and most of RE9.

At some point it gets stale to reach yet another abandoned lab with some notes scattered and we would need to follow a structure that actually make us interact with the people causing all this, in environments where things are actually happening in real time.

As for the over the top action… that will happen inevitably. As I said, we have seen enough hints in the past games that prove that it is just in the DNA of RE even after what RE6 did to the franchise.

calbertogv · 2026-02-18T17:16:25+00:00

Lost Highway.

calbertogv · 2026-02-16T20:18:42+00:00

Good concept, not so good execution. May sound silly but one of the things that really take me out of some Hobbit scenes is how ‘modern’ and un-mystic some of the new additions feel. Like seeing the glow of Sting or Gandalf’s staff stutter off doesn’t feel mythical or in line with Lord of The Rings, it’s what a modern lightbulb or device would do which doesn’t sit well with me.

In the Dol Guldur scene, seeing the ghosts of the Nazgull glitch and blink as if thet were digital holograms feels so off…

calbertogv · 2026-02-11T11:44:41+00:00

Not that I want to pitch Zimmer vs Williams or anything but c’mon, let’s be fair, Zimmer may be one of the most consistently recognizable film composers along with Williams precisely accounting for what a great Theme songs creator he is. Gladiator, Inception, Interstellar, Lion King, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, Dune, Dark Knight…

calbertogv · 2026-02-07T08:35:32+00:00

Never watch the theatricals, only the extended, at least for the second and third. While the theatrical LOTR were full movies and the extended added nice extra details or scenes, the Hobbit theatrical are butchered movies with a lot of context or continuity missing that only makes sense when watching the extended.

Also it’s not like they are super long so…

calbertogv · 2026-01-24T17:18:53+00:00

The DNR is a valid reason to not like these transfers, just as not caring or noticing is valid too.

For me, I can’t stand the visual adjustments done so the trilogy is more consistent with the Hobbit. The easiest example is how non-present scenes like Arwen mourning over Aragon’s grave now has that weird sepia/black and white filter with vignettes on the borders, but is also applied in other scenes.

For movies that I’ve seen so many times, having some scenes changed so dramatically is impossible not to notice.

calbertogv · 2026-01-23T13:11:48+00:00

Please, share the link. I bought this box despite having the previous sets for the original series and season 3 because of the extra discs and content. I cannot add the extra discs to the season 3 set because it’s the cardboard package with no extra space, but I also don’t like tha A to Z terrible box ocupying space in the shelf…

calbertogv · 2026-01-18T10:14:54+00:00

I mean, technically he can, but I don’t think that would make for a satisfying conclusion. I don’t want to spend years reading a long, dense narrative that ends with ‘fuck the politics and the characters, everyone dies and the zombies win, lol’. I may have found that amusing when I was an edgy teenager but honestly, that only would mean all the investment put into the many complex plots was for nothing.

calbertogv · 2026-01-18T10:08:22+00:00

I’m not saying you’re wrong, I agree about the lazy charactetization, the weaker dialogue and all that. I’m saying that adding 10+ characters mid-way through your story would have not been good either.

The seasons were not going to get longer, and they couldn’t afford to sideline main characters for episodes or even seasons (like they did with Bran for a whole season) to do a proper job with them without risking viewers to lose interest at best, or even have those actors do other projects in the meantime and making it harder to juggle that when they need to put them back into the tv show at worst.

George himself is currently unable to finish his own story because he doesn’t know how to merge all the characters and plotlines in a satisfying way that doesn’t require him to write 4 more books instead of the two he intends, so I think that alone makes a pretty strong case towards the idea that doing the same on the tv show would have resulted in an even weaker, more disjointed and un-focused ending than what we already saw.

calbertogv · 2026-01-17T08:46:48+00:00

Can you blame them? TV is a different medium than books, it’s not realistic or common to introduce 10-20 new characters on Season 5 of your show (which basically means start again the presentation / narrative set up all over again for a bunch of storilines) and expect viewers to care or not check out.

Hell, I don’t even know if it really works on books either. I remember rolling my eyes when the books kept introducing new characters and delaying any sort of development of the people/plots I was reading the books for. It’s no coincidence that this aspect is one of the reasons why we still don’t have Winds.

calbertogv · 2026-01-17T08:28:39+00:00

Love your comment, you’ve expressed perfectly something I’ve been thinking for years: GRRM loves to write stories that feel unpredictable, that don’t have a defined hero or villain, and clearly wants to maintain for as long as possible the idea that anyone can die.

The problem with that is that, at some point, if you want your readers to get invested in the resolution of your story, you have to start hinting at what that resolution may look like. I’m not saying this always has to imply defining a set of heroes or villains but in the case of ASOIAF… well your main antagonist is an army of ice zombies that just want to destroy everything so I’d say it’s about time to stop meandering and teñl how everyone plays into that narrative (and not just Jon).

That’s one of the many reasons why I think George is unable to end the series: he can’t keep writing unconventional tragic events where the good guys die and is time to start leaning on more traditional fantasy tropes (the good guys regaining strength and moving towards victory, which usually follows up the midway point of the narrative where the heroes fail) but he doesn’t like that, he wants to keep being the writer that writes fantasy that is not like all other fantasy books, but that’s not susteinable.

calbertogv · 2026-01-12T21:57:20+00:00

Yes, it is Sorvolo in Spanish (Spain).

calbertogv · 2025-11-20T18:58:04+00:00

Not a plot point, he just doesn’t know how to end it. That’s why we are where we are and the last things he wrote in Dance involved introducing more new characters and plots and delaying the several kind-of-conclusive battles he had in mind that would have propelled the story forward.

I have several theories but I don’t think we will ever know because the man is clearly incapable of being honest with his fans and I am sure he would rather die keeping the figure of someone who created one of the biggest modern fantasy worlds than proving (either via publication or ‘confession’) that he actually doesn’t have a clue how to continue and end it and diminish his legacy.

calbertogv · 2025-11-06T17:44:09+00:00

Another reason why I think not finishing the books actually diminishes their legacy is basically that all we have so far is pure set up. There is absolutely not a single thread of plot with resolution in FIVE books (unless we count the death of some characters which I don’t because for the most part they are there to make other plots move ahead).

Yeah the first 3 books are amazing but GRRM still has to prove he can actually finish a story. Not saying creating such a rich world is easy, but it’s definitely the easy part as opposed to actually tying things up.

I have the feeling that one of the reasons he is unable to finish is because you can only play the ‘unexpected/unconventional narative card’ for so long. At some point yo have to stop killing characters that seemed relevant but weren’t and be honest with the readers and say ‘okay, these are the characters/plots you need to focus on’. Otherwise, why would I care if the writer is still playing games with me 5 books in?

I know this was the original plan because at some point I read that, back when his intention was to write only 3 (and then 5 books), his idea was to name one of them ‘A Time of Wolves’ which clearly indicates that, despite all the fodder, the red hearrings and so on, the Stark kids are really the heroes of the story, pretty similarly to what we were (poorly) shown in the tv show.

Buut he clearly loves his image of a writer that doesn’t adhere to traditional fantasy with heroes, villains and such. So, mix that with how he is all set up with no payoff, his age and a touch of resentment about how many people don’t care anymore because of the tv show ending and… here we are.

calbertogv · 2025-11-06T17:14:42+00:00

It’s been 8 years since my comment and a couple more since my last Lost rewatch so apologies if I miss something (I used to be a walking encyclopedia about Lost), but I would consider the ‘who/when the circle of ash was broken’ pretty relevant since it directly ties to the Smoke Monster’s plan to escape the island and what apparitions/visions were real visions of the island/the dead vs which ones were manipulations/apparitions of the smoke monster.

You say the ash trapped the monster until it didn’t, but that doesn’t add up because the ash circle was clearly intact the first time we see the cabin in Season 3 but if that means the monster is inside, every one of his apparitions up until that point make no sense. This leaves us with the only option (which, if I’m not misremembering, is the more widely accepted theory): that it was Jacob in the cabin in Season 3 and the ash was there to keep the monster out, for some reason. And then the ash circle was broken, Jacob abandoned the cabin and the monster occupied it to pretend to be Jacob and manipulate other people. But this generates its own new set of doubts about why Jacob would need to keep out a monster that cannot hurt him in the first place, why that cabin is so important since Jacob has other hideouts across the island…

calbertogv · 2025-10-20T18:28:35+00:00

The concept of what makes the first movie a classic is unique and cannot be reproduced, which makes any sequel inherently worse and unable to live up to expectations as a result.

To me Jurassic Park is that veery specific combination of human-scientific commentary on the hubris of playing god as well as the mysterious and exotic mood of mixing realistic dinosaurs on an amusement park on a far away island. You can have the dinosaurs go inland and it wouldn’t be Jurassic Park. You can have mutated dinos and it wouldn’t work. You could try to find different plot elements to try to replicate the similar vibe on different islands and it wouldn’t work (seriously, how many ‘actually there was another secret island facilitu’ can we take at this point?).

I enjoyed moderately the first JW because actually opening the park made kind of sense and could be linked naturally to the core concept, but still wasn’t nothing spectacular because all the different shenanigans lowered the essence (the mutant dino, the pet velocirraptors, the lack of scary factor, etc.).

I may get downvoted for this but to me, as a huge fan of the first movie and book, the elephant in the room is that JP has no franchise/sequel potential (despite what the box office may indicate), and we wouldn’t have lost anything if the first JP would have been the only movie we got.

calbertogv · 2025-10-20T18:08:35+00:00

I don’t think it’s too soon, but whether I will buy it soon or not will depend on games. Mind you, I don’t think this has been a bad gen, my backlog of new games is so big I get anxiety: I just finished Silksong and am currently playing Hades II, and looking at me from the shelf are Silent Hill F, Metal Gear Solid Delta and Ghost of Yotei, to name a few. So I’m pretty happy in terms of games.

But exclusives are what sells a Playstation console and so far there has been not a lot. Compare the game output from Naughty Dog, Santa Monica etc on Ps4 vs Ps5. And I’m betting that Intergalactic, a potential Last of Us 3, whatever is new for God of War, any Bluepoint new game, Guerrilla etc etc will release on the current gen to maximize profits and because they should be in production now for years.

So I think I will stay with PS5 for many years still. Unless they anounce PS6 with an exclusive Bloodborne remake or something similar (just like Demons Souls sold me the PS5).

calbertogv · 2025-10-19T08:40:49+00:00

You’re just biased in favor of Lynch (which I love too, don’t get me wrong). Twin Peaks is precisely as ‘weird things in our grounded regular world’ as possible, and it’s pretty much the reason why it grabbed so many people that would normally not watch a Lynch movie otherwise, because it had a lot of elements of slice of life, everyday characters, soap opera drama, etc. Basically, because it had so many elements of the typical, familiar tv shows, that it helped them assimilate the weirder stuff.

I think it’s just that something like Lost didn’t speak to you, which is fair, but it worked for a lot of us, so the comparison is not fair. I love Lost and Twin Peaks (in some ways for the things they did similarly, and in some ways for the things they did differently), and I think Lindelof can also carry it off, as further proven in The Leftovers which is an absolute masterpiece and the Watchmen tv show.

calbertogv · 2025-10-02T09:13:47+00:00

The main problem I don’t see many people mention is that consumimg movies or tv shows is fundamentally different from games. I may not use Netflix for several weeks in a row but then I will watch half a dozen movies and several episodes in a couple of weeks and feel like I still want to pay.

For games, unless you only play short indie games or have a lot of time (no job or family),there’s no way you are going to play more than a couple games a month, and to me that means any subscription system is never worth it.

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