*Impression gathered from the games and animated movies, minus Resident Evil 7. Plunging into the harem fuelled, sexually repressed world of Resident Evil is such
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Prison Break: Theodore Bagwell’s Psychological Portrait
A psychological portrait of Prison Break’s Theodore Bagwell incarnated by Robert Knepper, explaining the character’s behaviours and actions, and why he can be so sympathetic while so evil at the same time, to the audience, + explaining authorial intent as well.
The Walking Dead: Dead City—Maggie Shouldn’t Be Expected To Forgive Negan or Get Over Glen’s Death
In The Walking Dead and its spin-off Dead City, Maggie’s character should not be expected by the narrative to get over Negan’s character killing her husband, Glen. Instead, the characterial direction she should have been made to take, was to fully embrace the path of vengeance.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Review / Mediocrity to the Extremes & Copycat of The Last of Us + Zombie Apocalypse Tropes
Review of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live explaining this new The Walking Dead’s spin-off disappointing mediocrity, lackluster acting, and discussing its attempt at imitating the success of The Last of Us, another prominent zombie apocalypse story.
True Detective Season 1 Complete Review — Can we quit tolerating blatant misogyny on TV?
True Detective Season 1 Complete review, answering the question, is True Detective season 1 the best season, and exploring its misogynistic themes in-depth.
James Cameron’s Titanic (1997) – An Ode to the Ocean / Thoughts & Review (2023)
The Overly Self-Righteous Critic explores and reviews how James Cameron’s Titanic (1997) is a timeless ode to the ocean, both a love story to the forces of nature and a cautionary tale instructing people not to let the shortsightedness of greed and ego get the better of us, and forget our place in the universe.
The Last of Us Finale: Thoughts / Violence as a Defense Mechanism
In this analysis, The Overly Self-Righteous Critic reviews The Last of Us’ finale, how protagonist Joel’s physically violent reaction is a coping mechanism born out of the first trauma he experienced of losing his daughter to representatives of the system, who were alright with ripping what matters most to him away from him, for the sake of a greater good ideal.
Narrative Tools — Tess’ Death in The Last of Us + Joel & The Nature of Trauma
The Last of Us features prominent uses of Death as a narrative tool (Tess, Henry), to remove unwanted characters and bring about outcomes desired by the author.
Avatar: The Way of Water — A Slice of Life Filler
Avatar: The Way of Water is a visually stunning slice of life film, that sometimes feels like a filler. While it can be improved upon, it holds its own as a sequel to Avatar 1.
Is the hunt for Earth 2.0? contributing to our neglect of Earth itself?
The rush to space begins here?—?down on Earth