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The abdication of the 4th estate in guarding the public interests and freedoms people fought and died for.

The end of Battlestar Galactica.

They literally tied up all the loose threads into a bundle labeled "God did it" and then refused to speculate about God because that's distasteful.

It's sci-fi. You speculate. It's what the genre does.

It’s happening right now.

The oligarch’s buying out the US mass media is fucking criminal and truly unforgivable.

Social media, print, video and television is all owned by a few elites that have been manipulating the minds of society, gaslighting and outright lying to our faces.

It’s why we have a fascist pedophile as president, our social support systems being dismantled and the right of women, minorities and immigrants being taken away.

I haven't forgiven the fact that the Star Wars sequel trilogy doesn't include more of Anakin

I forgot that they made multiple The Hobbit films.

After watching the first one, I mentally erased their existence.

As a young person, I loved A Wrinkle in Time and the entire set of sequels.

And so I say a heartfelt FUCK YOU to Ava DuVernay, who crappified this masterpiece into vapid pap film that felt like it was written by Kellogg's marketing team in conjunction with the Ad Council of America.

Apparently the film lost $130 million. Thank God there is little chance of a sequel.

The One Punch Man anime turning into One Frame Man in its third season.

From battles consisting of transparent PNGs sliding from the bottom left to the top right corner of the screen, to ludicrous censoring techniques like replacing a cigarette with a lollipop.

For the fourth season they just inversed the poster from the third season. Tbf it will be actually Season 3 part 2, but it shows they aren't even trying.

Juxtaposed to this is the Dorohedoro anime, that also dropped a new season this year, after six (!) years.

The long wait had a good reason. The animator loves the manga, but was busy working on the Attack on Titan anime and didn't want to rush Dorohedoro's second season. It's a huge improvement over the first season, refining its mix of 3D and 2D hand drawn content into a wonderfully horrifying experience.

You remember Highlander 2?

Yeah, me neither.

Editing to add: Eragon. The only, one singular, thing that film got right was the opening scene. The rest of the film was an epic, blot-out-the-sun middle finger to the book and the fans.

The Halo games.

I think Bungie fumbled a bit but overall did a good job telling the story of Master Chief. Halo 3 really felt like it was intended to be his end because MC was right back where he started - A super weapon kept in cryo, only this time drifting indefinitely into space with very little chance of ever being found.

Then Bungie did Halo: Reach as a follow up and showed you could have a good Halo game without MC as the protagonist, telling a new(ish) story with new characters.

Then of course Microsoft ditched Bungie and kept the IP, now looking at now the vast amount of Halo novels and comics and other media, decided to dig up Master Chief again and shoehorn him into a bunch of other game plots.

I won't say Halo 4/5/Infinite are terrible or anything to that level but I don't think 343 nailed it.
Even more frustrating now that Microsoft seems keen to remaster the whole Halo Master Chief story arc (again).

The engagement bait, algorithmic nature of social media is up there for me. Everything has to be the most extreme, divisive there's no room for gradients and equivalency.

How different and vastly inferior Ready: Player One the movie was compared to the book.

I've never been so confused and upset at a movie.

Lost. I don't even wanna talk about it.

I hate watching Mexican telenovelas because they are not color graded yellow. Because there is no color grading and the cast is almost entirely white, I keep thinking everything is set in the United States. Super confusing.