Lissea's Constant Complaints

When I realised this movie was Nora Twomey (simplifying for clarity) my heart sank. Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, My Father’s Dragon, and Wolfwalkers are great films in theory but by goodness are they slow and boring. Considering all the factors that should make them brilliant, none of these films seem to come off nearly as well as they should – I supposed I would call it somehow drained of interest, as that is how they make me feel. I prepared myself for another disappointment, however, The Breadwinner actually got it right! It is really good, but I should warn you, brutally real. Some people might be disturbed by some parts. The only thing I have to complain about it is yet another movie that ends without really ending. I could do a whole post on this topic in general. It really feels like there ought to have been another scene or two to finish it off. On a side note just for interest really I tried to get work experience with Cartoon Saloon back in the day (had no chance!) b...

If you had asked me after Season 3 of Friendship is Magic if it had great villains I would have said, yes, but there are too few of them, and I’m not much of a fan of Discord, mostly due to his episodes feeling depressing, rather than him as a character. I was A Canterlot Wedding nut, I loved Nightmare Moon, and Sombra was great in my opinion (I know some people were disappointed with him).  Later, we got Tirek, returned from G1. It sort of all starts to fall apart after that, although I didn’t realise it at the time.  To summarise villains either became reformed, and nearly always unconvincingly, or were made lamer upon their return. Let’s take my most hated episode where Chrysalis returns. She is utterly incompetent to put it mildly. Yes, she does better later on, but she’s already been retconned into much less of a threat.  Discord, reformed but with personality intact, acts more like a toxic friend when the plot demands it, making him the only character to bridge the ...

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.

A lot of people point out that Tootie should have godparents, but no-one seems to consider that she might have already had them and lost them. This could have happened before Timmy even got his. Vicky has always been ruining Tootie’s life after all. Given how Tootie behaves in the episode where Timmy loans her his fairies, this idea seems very likely. She might not have kept them very long at all, as is explained being the case with many kids in that special with the magic cupcake.

Christopher Hart thinks Mean Girls and Tsunderes are the same thing in his drawing book. They really aren’t. Tsunderes have tough outside and soft inside, Mean Girls are simply that, mean. There is rarely anything beneath the surface, and certainly no development or change. Tsunderes on the other hand are complex, and often show their softer side as their relationships develop. Their behaviour is also often linked to them crushing on the person, if they are displaying mean behaviours.