If I wanted to be really nitpicky, they do pay extra attention to Fern's chest after she grows up. And some of the shots can be a little "male pov." This is not a diss to the show. I really, really enjoyed this series and would absolutely recommend it.
I hate this time line. All the advancements just to make life worse. I saw an article yesterday of a European country looking to raise the retirement age since people live longer. Even at work I have a program that monitors me to the second, and can tell if I'm clicking, typing, or "just moving the mouse." WFH can mean being on call 24/7. Any advice is always how to make do, or downsize. Which isn't bad in itself, but it's to "cope" with oligarchs wringing us dry for every second of time, and any money we happen to have. As things get "better", they just manage to make it worse. It's like the mere idea of a employee being treated like a human being and not their ID never is blasphemy. We have kids in factories and fast food jobs. This is ridiculous, and cruel. We should all be working less.
In the US? Worse, much worse. We'd have kings and queens at this point. The rich would make sure that their wealth always came back to them. People would probably have to test who their baby was before, probably a lot of adoptions and what have you. I could see parents suing the rich person if they didn't share their wealth, likely new laws would need to be enacted to insure the wealth isn't shared with anyone (and we know it'll pass because anything that hurts people always passes). I could even see a greater decline in birthrates. Who wants to carry a baby to term just to have it snatched away by the Walmart empire and leaving you with nothing but the scars? Or what if you happen to get a murderer who did heinous things?
Oh god, and debt would never, ever die. As soon as you're 18, they'd drop those same bills off, likely with interest. There would be no end to suffering, no peace at the end. You'll be in your 80's, still working to pay off debt that may be from two lifetimes ago. It would be harder for new artists as well. Just keep throwing Beyonce out there. Why get a new actor? Just keep putting the same guy in there, over and over.
Only thing I could see getting a little better is racism. Since you can't control who or what you come back as, kind of hard to hate brown people when you're just a flip of a coin away. They literally wouldn't be able to judge a book by its cover.
Of course. We have people in government who don't believe in germ theory. Education is extremely expensive, and if you don't pick a "Good" major, not only are you in debt, but shamed and mocked for it, since no one "forced" you to go. Jobs that require these degrees, even doctors, are not paying enough for people to live, study, and afford food. Why would you stay?
I think that was amazingly awesome. The people saying there's a time and place, you're correct. This was the time and place. Take a stand, make noise, make people uncomfortable. Quiet compliance is what got us here in the first place.
Cats is not a complicated musical. All they had to do was animate it and get actual voice actors/singers. I've seen sketches for what I think was a Tim Burton sketch, and that would have been a million times better. I don't know who looked at Cat's and was like, "Yup, we need CGI." It looks horrendous and sounds bad more often than not. The musical is already pretty out there, how much more fun would that movie had been if we had animators working on it. The creative visuals, colors, motifs. Not to mention a cat is a wonderfully complex animal to animate just because of how they move. That movie could have been a visual delight in part with the Spiderman movies if they let it, but noooooo. Let's make a nightmare.
"Should I try and fix the mistakes of my predecessor? Help people? Nah, I'll just quit cause I don't wanna be shot for killing millions of people. Daddy needs a new yacht."
That is horrifying. It's all horrifying. I always thought that with everything online that we'd all look at each other and do something, but from this to genocide, it feels like we're stuck in "thoughts and prayers" mode when we should be at "torches and pitchforks." They're human beings, we're human beings. We only get one life. Why the fuck are we doing this to each other.
There are concubines, brothels, and child sexual abuse in that one. Not the most racy depictions, but still 🤷🏿♀️