Lissea's Constant Complaints

I had many qualms with The Sea Beast movie but I can’t remember most of them now, so I’m just going to go with the ones I can remember.  An absolutely brilliant start sets you up for something the movie never becomes, despite later similar scenes. It’s almost like a genre jump, but instead it really just undermines its own set up. As you probably already know I like protagonists fighting with Beasts. What I don’t like is when it’s set up to be this only for it later to become, oh, the Beast is nice and misunderstood, and let’s make some upper-class humans the real villains instead.  Yes, it was okay to have these human characters, in fact they are perfect for the setup of the stakes, but they would have been better as secondary villains or even as simply a device. This so called twist – been done quite a few times now so easy to see coming after that initial give away shot if you know what to look for – undermines everything the movie sets itself up to be before this point....

In Always There we see Angel pass every decent house and see at least one dog living at each. We also see a lot of dogs in the pound in the first movie. Yet, all the Junkyard Dogs bar Buster get new homes instantly at the end. The whole point with Angel is that she couldn’t get a home, and I doubt the others weren’t in a similar position to begin with, and later embraced the Junkyard lifestyle later on.

I won’t deny Survivors is good, but at the same time it feels like an inferior version of Warriors. Not only that, but every piece of world building feels like an equivalent, yet a reaction against, Warriors, in a deliberate and very self-aware attempt to make it different. This also gives it an inorganic feel, and takes you out of the story.

This song really annoys me. It hurts my ears. The sentiments are shallow and untrue. Love can last years, while friendships come and go very quickly, and a lot more easily. Yes, I understand that in some ways you could say I’m missing the point, but on the other, it comes across as nonsensical, shallow drivel. The sort of thing passive aggressive girls might say to each other when they are pretending to be friends with one another.

I was never the biggest fan of the movie, but this still bothers me. So, let me get this straight, you get some deleted movie material that was removed because it detracted from the film, or was replaced with something better, then you use it, completely changing the plot in the process, and making it into an early draft. It comes out like a much inferior version, as anyone could have predicted. And then you wander why it isn’t received well.

Okay, I know it’s stated elsewhere, but why did everyone assume Scootaloo’s aunts were a couple before this information came out? It is never stated in the show itself, and they could just as easily have been her mother or father’s siblings (or one of each). While people say aunts in this way, it isn’t actually correct if they aren’t blood relations, so the assumption should have been they were blood relatives. Was there hype for this I am unaware of because I’d stopped watching the show itself at that point (only returning to finish it years later)? Or were people so desperate for representation that they jumped on the idea before it officially came out as canon? I may never know.