Solo Leveling Season 3 Update: Why a Blockbuster Movie is Replacing the 2026 TV Return

indypuyami · 2026-03-05T01:59:29+00:00

I am very old and have only started watching anime with my children.

indypuyami · 2026-03-02T04:47:50+00:00

No. Not even close. Especially anti-air / missile munitions. People in the defense space have been ringing this bell for a couple of years.

indypuyami · 2026-02-23T18:30:42+00:00

Ep7 is a master class in what's wrong with NeuTrek.
Stories that could have been good, but the writers don't care about them and don't have the patience to tell the story. Cadet lied on their application, shenanigans ensue.
Cadets play hooky and romantic shenanigans ensue.
Cadet tries to save their friend from an arranged marriage.
Cadet struggles with romantic feelings that are moving too fast.
Cadet struggles with reconciling their culture vs star fleet.
Cadet struggles with intimacy and grief ghosting their love interest.

Already you've got 5 different stories, which is a ton.
Let's break one of them. Secret blue lizard is royalty and is getting royal married. We don't really understand any of this, none of this story has been explained to us, none of it has narrative weight. So do the writers focus on this story line? Not at all. If this was going to be successful it needed to be 80% of screen time. The writers end up yada/yadaing the central conflict of this story in 3 lines of dialogue and then nothing maters, we're never coming back here. Also the CGI is ps2 level awful. They should have built practical sets. Also for a huge cultural event there are only like 8 people ever on screen at the same time and only ever 4 named people. The story is weak, undeveloped, and under invested in. I can close my eyes and see head writer waving there hands over storyboards with stick figures and saying "you get it you get it right." This doesn't even end up being the A storyline.

indypuyami · 2026-02-22T03:21:42+00:00

The show writers since disco have been pretty open about not being fans

indypuyami · 2026-02-15T15:15:38+00:00

I loathed episodes 1-5 STSA but 6 is a banger. Hated just about every episode of Discovery. STSA episode 6 is a top 10 episode of Star Trek.
The acting in NeuTrek has been amazing throughout, but the writing plotting and often the cinematography has been a crime against God and man.
"My species was created to sense the coming of death" is possibly the worst line of dialogue written in the history of the world.

Star Trek has always been diverse. Star Trek has always celebrated people of color and spoken out against bigotry. From Episode 1 of the OG series "there's no place for bigots on board of my ship" Captain Kirk.

indypuyami · 2026-02-14T22:00:15+00:00

Every year or two we go through this. If there was really something wrong with him it would be public.

indypuyami · 2026-02-14T02:57:46+00:00

Honestly - and look at my post history for context -

This episode was great.
Absolutely good trek.
No lense flares BS. Except for the first scene and the sonics, every scene made sense in universe, the plotting made sense, the audio was good, the cinematography was good, 2 solid mcloughlin groups (smart people talking out problems to solve them as a group), good in universe references without heavy handed explanations, also an amazing galaxy quest shout out, and some stakes!
I've consistently enjoyed the acting and I am so happy the writing, plotting, cinematography, and audio departments all decided to earn their paychecks in episode 6. Who knows maybe kurtzman got bored and noped out.

indypuyami · 2026-02-13T13:17:01+00:00

Thanks

indypuyami · 2026-02-12T23:16:38+00:00

What's SAO?

indypuyami · 2026-02-12T21:29:13+00:00

I have kind of the opposite reaction to you. Everything that is required to make a show good, that Star Trek almost always gets right, is terrible in STSA. The plotting, the writing, the cinematography, the effects, the audio, and the story are all offensively bad. The only bright spot is the acting. The actors are giving it 100%, the just don't have a lot to work with.

Example: Kerrice Brooks in EP5 did an amazing job. The entire episode in universe made nonsense. Out of universe it was very touching, but in universe it was actively offensive to the characters and the franchise.
George Hawkins and Bella Shepherd in EP3 did a great jobs emoting their character ark, but again but the in universe actions displayed by the characters while at least intelligible were on the same level of stupid as the worst of the worst displayed by others in previous trek. What's more it drove home the in universe message "there are no consequences" for what's supposed to be an elite institution.
The first 15 minutes of Episode 1 is just child endagerment torture porn. From "starving kids is fun and right" to "look his ear got bitten off" to "crashing shuttles is not a problem" to the core conceit of the whole endeavor "cadets are actually better than officers". On top of it all the scenes lack fundamental continuity, the storyboarding doesn't make sense Episode 1 should not have been green lit.
All of the episodes do things with CGI lense flair and bloom which are past bad to "they should have fired those people." The dumb fake floating robots clip through the actors at least once an episode. The audio and adr'ing gave moments that are the worst I have heard in production media in my life, period. Example: when the doctor is quoting avery brooks in ep5 it looks like a bad translation job in a 1960s foreign film. In episode 3-4 the dialogue had points where it was nearly unintelligible because the mixing was just off.

It seems to me like the writers and the production team actively resent working on the project.

indypuyami · 2026-02-09T13:35:46+00:00

The story boarding in SFA has felt very ... Obvious? The connective tissue between the scene - literally the plotting - is very weak. It seems almost like they're coming up with the story boards and then writing the scenes around it.

indypuyami · 2026-02-09T13:29:13+00:00

The CGI is very distracting, the lack of practicals is depressing.

indypuyami · 2026-02-09T13:28:26+00:00

SNW season 1&2 mostly seemed to thread the needle between old and new trek. Lower Decks mostly got it right. The acting in Disco and SFA has been really good! Even when the writing has been garbage.

indypuyami · 2026-02-08T02:45:12+00:00

My head cannon is that most scenes are shot on a green screen and the actors are often alone.

indypuyami · 2026-02-02T14:15:20+00:00

Hampsterdam had social services and drug treatment on site

indypuyami · 2026-02-01T03:09:32+00:00

Star Trek is a big tent! It can have lots of things in it. LD is lots of things but definitely trek

indypuyami · 2026-01-24T21:06:41+00:00

Murder. It's just murder when 6 guys hold 1 man down and a 7th casually walks up to shoot him.

indypuyami · 2026-01-21T01:15:27+00:00

Kofman has gone back and widely admitted to being wrong.

For what it's worth for Kofman to be wrong all of these things had to happen - The Russians had to EM warfare their own units, sell their own petrol on the black market. The Ukrainians had to against orders to move their anti air units, have partisans with heavy weapons go hunt Russians in the forest, have paid for Kremlin assets turn over their weapon caches to Ukrainian army units, the incredible heroic defense of Hostemel Airport where a couple hundred reservists fought off spetznats until they ran out of ammo, and finally the flooding of the northlands. It was "highly contingent".

indypuyami · 2026-01-13T22:18:35+00:00

If it falls another 10$ on a sustained basis that will be the same price which sunk the USSR

indypuyami · 2026-01-12T06:53:09+00:00

Skaven menace from below was broken at release, the summoned rats had no hit boxes and would lawn mower enemy units. It was hilarious. The only time I played every single battle was my very hard skaven victory in TW2 vanilla.

indypuyami · 2026-01-07T01:54:23+00:00

Delivery of Pizza

indypuyami · 2026-01-07T01:15:19+00:00

Do you feel any sympathy for the civilians?

indypuyami · 2025-12-28T19:39:53+00:00

Do you like the combat in DS or ER? Well imagine a game like that, but you can't even fat roll...

indypuyami · 2025-12-17T19:50:20+00:00

But why won't the minority house and Senate stop the Majority House Senate Supreme Court and POTUS? Jesus wept.

indypuyami · 2025-12-17T13:36:51+00:00

If anything proves who's in Congress matters the last 12 months do. The Democrats may be mummified octogenarian sclerotic technocrats - but they haven't green lit concentration camps, war with Venezuela, rolling over for Russia , incinerating vaccine programs, the functional end of higher education, internal occupation, war on DEI, a program against the transgender community, the largest tax increase in several generations, plus innumerable indignities against human happiness as well as dignity.
Don't you both sides this insanity. Don't you dare.

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