There's so much more to unpack here, but I'm going to address one thing in particular:

Adventure Time has not been in a decline, consarnit! Seasons 6-8 are the absolute peak of the show.

I had thought Navy was because of the whole naive/curious disposition from earlier episodes, but I must have misremembered. Leggy also makes sense.

I think it moreso means the brain transplants given the current limitations of those processes.

I think they did really good work to give it impact and consequence even within those constraints.

The review was published last week, actually.

Don't we all, girl?

So I basically had to read this review and find out what people were reacting to, and I am not disappointed. I definitely have to watch this show now.

There's one girl in the movie who is mostly to the side and stays very quiet for the first half, and then you finally get an interview with her after 40+ minutes. You find out she stabbed her father to death because he was raping her and her mother.

I saw it last March at the documentary festival in my town, and…yeah, it really is. It's excellent and very moving, I would say maybe a little less hard than people might expect, but I certainly still understand any reluctance.

"I've been noticing the beep the whole time!"

Yeah I completely stand by her in seeing the film primarily through a feminist prism, of its main themes being patriarchal repression of womanhood and identity (with some personal sensing and resonance of queer woman repression within that) and of the ending as absolutely satisfying and happy as outlined above in…

The witches aren't good people, but they are entirely free from the shackles of patriarchal society and being able to not be good people, especially in spiteful embrace of what you're accused of and assumed to be regardless of who you are, is a part of that freedom. Her options are limited, yes, but it is a cathartic,…

Tell it to someone who gives a f*ck.

Not to mention Vaxxed, the documentary made by Andrew Wakefield, the man who started the anti vaccine movement. Yes, the one who started it, made a documentary about the movement. Who could possibly see how that'd turn out poorly?

Woody Harrelson's evil twin brother, man.

I believe the first trailer was originally released back in, sigh, January.

I completely agree that the ending is joyous and cathartic and satisfying, but the movie as a whole is still one of the scariest films ever for me, so much of the film is, probably the most so being Caleb's exorcism/death which was extremely powerful and multilayered in emotions and themes, and also possibly the most…

I mean, sure, but that doesn't speak well for the film, to my mind.

Tom McCarthy being the worst The Wire character is a fascinating additional turn in his weird, weird career.