Lissea's Constant Complaints

 I inadvertently saw a post on Reddit (need to stop my Reddit addiction returning!) that questioned the Warriors series location. Quite frankly I’m not sure why this question was being asked, and certainly not in paragraphs of detail. Redditors have a thing about you not having done the research yourself first, and a simple look-up will tell you that Warriors is set in the UK. The only argument could be that while the lead writer, Vicky, thought it was based in the New Forest, the other two initial writers envisaged it in other UK locations when they were writing. By the second series a bit more liberty was taken but the setting basically remains the same – making it somewhere more fictional, but still in the UK. The rest is mistakes, and by that I mean all the American animals that pop up in later series, most likely included by the newer writers. They were never mentioned previously because they didn’t exist in the UK. Unfortunately it seems to be a matter of human nature to ...

In the first scene nothing of significance happens. Just an annoying kid messing up and then trying to get those she has put out to help clear up the mess she made. There are huge issues apparent immediately. The animation is odd and off putting, as is the style – and certainly not something you’d use in a feature. The titular character (the dog) has been relegated to third wheel at best. The dialogue is unnatural and the beats follow-on is random and unconvincing. It is jarring, and not by intention. I’ve never seen anything that so much did the opposite of adding up to something. There are other inconsistencies too, such as that guy who laughs at self and with crown when his underpants on the washing line are there for the world to see, but in the next shot we see him he is having quite a different reaction. This is not just an animation error, as this sort of thing is happening low-key with other characters too. So then we get to the second scene. The villain is overly over th...

This is the first film I have watched in a long time that has any true vision or creativity. It reminds me a bit of the Nutcracker Fantasy, only the plot keeps going. It is weird and creepy, but in a good way – especially that villain, in a way I can’t explain. It could potentially be watched as an occasional alternative to Corine.  The obvious comparison would be Toy Story, but if it was darker with Lord Of The Rings level world building. The animation variation and ambition is something I have never seen since Yellow Submarine.  It isn’t a film that can satisfy you in a normal way, or leave you with that light-hearted positive feeling, but it satisfies in its own ways – maybe how a sad ending can be satisfying if it is done well enough.  It actually reminded me of some of the experimental animation techniques I came up with and tired while at college. I have never seen any other film use anything remotely similar until now. Just goes to show I could have done something ...

Psycho-Pass: Providence is absolutely brilliant. It does everything nothing else can do. It is dark, without being grim. It has multiple poignant deaths, without being depressing. It has a sad ending, which is still satisfying. It makes you think and has a message – naturally, and through storytelling – not by being forced. My only complaint today is that I don’t know what happens next!

For me, an eight-year-old watching KPop Demon Hunters is like an eight-year-old reading Twilight. They like it, but they don’t truly understand it (not that Twilight has that much to understand!). To find that the lower end of KPop Demon Hunters target bracket is that age group seems ludicrous to me. When I first saw the film I assumed it was aimed at teenagers, and was glad companies were finally doing what I thought they should have been doing all along – and I am no teen, or eight-year-old! They say films and books ‘find their audience’ and to me, that’s what happened. While objectively there is nothing unsuitable for children this age (assuming you are talking up to them as, say, anime generally does), it does feel too deep and dark to be purposely aimed at them. Everything about the film from the direction, to the dark tones in the art work among the colour etc screams teens or older. Truly, it is verging on Young Adult (general sense, not publishing sense!). In fact, to me it...

Surprised I haven’t got to this sooner in a way. Someone wrote something on DA saying Disney didn’t copy Kimba because it would have been a bad business choice. This sounds a very innocent viewpoint to have, and while I wrote a few points in a comment then (only indirectly addressing the subject), it set me on the track of writing a proper piece related to that and the topic in general.  First off, as we can see from the modern day, Disney doesn’t care about their reputation. Or at least, it isn’t their main priority. There is mountains of evidence that Disney did copy it all over the internet, from comparing images, to script that’s the same, to white Simba concept art. All the characters have an exact counterpart who very frequently looks very similar too.  There’s also the well known fact that half the people working on it thought they were working on a Kimba remake. This at least means, Disney were copying it, even it were a misunderstanding of sorts. Kimba’s creator and D...

 Campion has been working against Woundwort this whole time, only to save him? It is not convincing Campion would do this. A lot of the spy stuff doesn’t make sense actually, but this is the limit. He has Primrose and Blackberry to protect for a start. Conflicted he might be, yes, but that level should only make him mournful when Woundwort is dead, not prevent it from happening. There are a lot of implications too, like Campion basically being responsible for every bad thing that happens in series 3. Speaking of series 3, this ending makes Campion’s series 3 setup utterly ridiculous. So, Campion saves Woundwort, and Black Rabbit be like, you’ve got to kill Woundwort now. If this was supposed to be deliberately dark and ironic, it would be super clever. Unfortunately, it clearly isn’t, not to mention that this setup comes to nothing in the end anyway, but I digress. The big one for me though is that the Watership Downers themselves should not have reacted to Campion’s perceived deat...