Looking For Some Silverlinings: Chapter Two

Looking For Some Silverlinings: Chapter Two

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Mythica, The Iron Crown (Movie 4) – Thoughts

Everyone, I’m so excited to talk about this film. I LOVED this one! It was so much fun, so zany and crazy and ridiculous…really, everything I need in an adventure movie.

While I’ve enjoyed all of the films so far, this one was definitely my favorite. The first had a really awesome introduction to the world, it was a light, fun adventure. However, we kind of lost that feel in Dark Spore and Necromancer, but this film had it in spades. It was so much fun to watch. It kind of took me back to the days when I first watched The Mummy and The Mummy Returns (which are my favorite adventure movies, btw). Just fun.

We had some new antagonists along with the old antagonists and they were just as ridiculous and it was amazing.

We had a strong plotline throughout the movie with strong character arcs. My favorite character is still Dagen but the MVP for this film has got to be Zombie Girl. Because in a ragtag group of heroes wherein you have a mage, thief, and warrior…so of course a zombie fits right in. This new character just added so much more zaniness to the story and I’m so relieved that she wasn’t legitimately killed. I was like Dagen and I was really sad when Marek left Zombie Girl for dead. But she showed up at the end of the movie and I’m absolutely elated and I hope she shows up in the 5th movie. She just completes this team, really.

But this was a great movie, I absolutely loved it and I’m excited to see what movie 5 has in store for me.

I agree with you that Persona 5 is amazing, but what do you think about the LGBT representation in the game being basically completely based on stereotypes, and the lack of same-sex romance options? Those are some of the very few things I didn't like about the game.

I think we need to stop trying to base our expectation of every culture’s every-product based on the battle within Western society. Japan itself has very different base culture. Homosexuality hasn’t been illegal there since like, 1880. They don’t have religious stigma against it (and the brief period of 1800s illegality was when Western culture tried to stick its toe in the door), and so on. While there’s still some age based resistance to it and the ilk, we can’t even begin to pretend that Japan has nearly as much struggle for representation in its media that we have here, and I really don’t consider it productive at all to start picking fights over every single object everywhere not fitting our local expectations of representation or what we consider stereotypes or lack thereof.

Persona itself has already had LGBT representation, like Tatsuya and Jun, or the gender identity and gender role struggles of Naoto and Kanji. Yeah, people feel like they made a joke out of Kanji, but that was kind of the point? He felt like he was cornered into a box of being a big brute motherfucker to be a man, and that he must be gay or weird or feminine if he likes knitting and making toy bunnies and shit? And Naoto literally wasn’t being taken seriously in the detective profession and wanted nothing more than to be a man so people wouldn’t look down on “her”? 

That’s not to say it’s perfect or easy being queer in Japan, but they’ve had a pretty much entire culture of NOT being hunted down and stoned for it there, a large dose of the queer content we received in America came through Japanese product to begin with, and so on. So I’m not particularly miffed at the lack of it, especially since I have business understanding and since P3, Persona has been globalized. P2 had the most blunt and progressive relationship content, but that’s when it was a small franchise. One might think “big franchise, big rep!” but considering they’re now expected to shell out to innumerable countries to maintain traction and, say, Russia and other countries will outright ban games with that option, the real frustration probably shouldn’t be turned at the SMT series but against other countries that remain aggressively regressive and make issue for it on a business level. This paragraph, specifically, in regards to the lack of an overt dating option – which ATLUS still considered and the original P4 sound files let you pull out Japanese dialogue of a romantic ending with Yosuke. So guess where that got axed? Not on a dev team level. They were still thinking about it.

In the end, P5 touches on a much, much larger issue that affects literally everybody, gay or straight, so the fact that there’s a game where LGBT or gender issues aren’t being explicitly tackled doesn’t bother me. We’re ALL shackled into this mindless work machine. You can help the independent politician fight, you can battle against the corrupt ones, you can find what shackles you and everyone you know down and realize what parts of the world you’re coded to just stop THINKING in and are simply prisoner to a controlled design. Because gay or straight or whatever, the politicians up top don’t REALLY give a shit. They just rile up the masses against trained biases between classes, colors or genders, and in the end, isn’t that what P5 is really about?

He’s just a kid – just a kid with a criminal record – just a punk nobody; and every step is set up for his failure.

In the end, I mean yeah, they COULD have coded it in, but after P4 had the coded ending with Yosuke recorded but stripped out I’m going to assume that’s well above the dev team’s heads while dealing with international expansion, and they still managed to make a really meaningful, impacting story that should be able to speak out to all of us. I also genuinely admit I didn’t even friggin’ bother with the dating at all this playthrough, I was so swept up in the other elements of rebelliously dungeon diving, holding heists and hold ups, dismantling the government and whatever else that my MC may as well have been an aro ace MFer that just had a lot of awesome friends, and I don’t feel like it would have impacted me one way or another if they kicked in an LGBT pairing in it for 5.

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Mythica, The Dark Spore (Movie 2) – Thoughts

I finished up on the second Mythica movie, The Dark Spore. And my consensus on this film is I liked it significantly less than the first one. It was a lot less fun than the first one and there were a lot of things going on I didn’t quite understand. There were leaps of character development that I didn’t feel was particularly earned. This film kind of felt like a jumbled mess of ideas that were never really cultivated all the way to closure. It had a lot of ideas that could’ve been interesting but it lacked development and follow-through.

With all that said, I did still enjoy it. The characters are still fun even if their character development was very weirdly done here. The world just keeps on getting more interesting and I really enjoy the soundtrack. I love how the soundtrack employs the usage of electric guitar. You don’t typically get sounds like that mixed in films like these and it really adds something to the atmospere.

Even though I was a little bit more critical on this film, I’m still greatly enjoying this franchise.

Mythica, Quest for Heroes (Movie 1) – Thoughts

Today, I decided to give the Mythica movie series another go based on the recommendation of one of my lovely anons. I had previously watched the first movie some years ago, I can’t really remember why I didn’t continue with it, maybe I got distracted with other things, maybe I wasn’t that impressed with it, who knows? But I’m giving the series another go at it.

The first Mythica movie is Quest for Heroes and even though I said earlier that when I first watched it, there was a possibility I wasn’t impressed with it…well, that’s not the case anymore. I really liked this movie.

I love worlds that have a magic based system plus a magic-based system with actual rules to it. I appreciate writers who don’t use magic as only a plot device or a maguffin and actually make it into their own character, if you will. I’m looking at you, Shadowhunters, with your non-existent magic system rules and ridiculous OP magic.

But the main pull this movie had for me was that it was essentially part 1 of The Hero’s Journey. It’s not a complete Hero’s Journey story, I imagine that’s what the other films are about. But it definitely flows like the beginning of a Hero’s Journey. And Hero’s Journey is one of my favorites story types to read. Indeed, my favorite Star Wars movie is Episode 4. I love meeting the hero and seeing them become the hero.

I wouldn’t say that this is a perfect film. I definitely feel like the pacing was a little off in certain parts. There’s parts where they’re constantly talking about never leaving their friends behind and while I appreciate the theme, I dont feel like we spend enough time with the characters interacting with each other to truly feel like those kinds of declarations were earned. But I can give a pass on it because the chemistry between these characters were so good. Just beat for beat, humor bit by humor bit, all of the characters (and the actors, themselves) were able to deliver on it and I could believe these people had the potential to care about one another.

I also love our heroine, Marek. She just has this real childlike exuberance throughout the entire move about going on this grand adventure and her enthusiasm for it is just so contagious and relatable and I love it. The actress also has some great facial expressions, and I don’t mean that in a bad way or anything. Every now and then when something ridiculous happens, she’ll give these expressions and I’ll just laugh because she’s so relatable in that moment.

This is a SyFy movie so of course, you can expect all the low budget quirks that usually accompany a SyFy film. But it certainly doesn’t detract from my enjoyment in this film in any way. In fact, it kind of makes me love it even more. I love being able to chuckle a little when I see a character get knocked out from a blow that it was super obvious that it never even connected with. Or the scene being cut and you suddenly see a stuntman go flying. I love stuff like that. Reminds me of my love for the Power Rangers franchise (yes, I do still watch Power Rangers, don’t judge, we all have our vices).

This is a film about a girl dreaming of an adventure and becoming a hero, she assembles a rag team and they all work together on becoming heroes for their own selfish reasons and it was very enjoyable to watch, but also along the way finding friendship and companionship with each other. Really, its everything I love.