Hallmark's Adaptation of Sense & Sensibility 2024
Overall, I enjoyed it. It was better then I expected to be honest and it did something I've not seen before, which was put Elinor & Edward's story centre stage instead of Marianne & Willoughby. I think they cut a bit too much of the M&W story because it totally fell flat, but I enjoyed having a well-developed relationship between E&E.
They also did a really good job of explaining why Edward staying engaged to Lucy was an honourable thing and we even hear Elinor say she admires him for it. The inheritance issue was well explained too, though more blame should have gone to John Dashwood. Did not love Fanny as Lady Macbeth.
But yeah, leagues ahead of Persuasion 2022 because Elinor felt right. They turned up Edward's sassiness, but it is something that exists in the novel (he calls himself "saucy" at one point). What it really needed was Marianne actually looking desperate and sick before the rain scene.
The only characters that really felt wrong were Mrs. Jennings (not so fun), John Dashwood (too nice), and Robert Ferrars (too hot and too nice). Also, Anne was technically right but Lucy should have been correcting and shutting her up more often.
6/10?
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Rambling Thoughts on Netflix’s One Piece Teaser Trailer
After that Teaser Trailer, I’m still remaining cautiously lukewarm on Netflix’s One Piece adaptation. Particularly after the debacles of Death Note, Mob Psycho & Cowboy Bebop’s Netflix live action projects, even Oda’s direct involvement doesn’t feel like a boon for the show. A common refrain from behind the scenes of projects on this scale is executive/studio interference after all & which is rarely surmounted.
My Likes:
- Casting seems great so far with Sanji & Luffy standing out as particularly good.
- I actually really love the fact that Luffy has a distinctive accent
- Designs from ships & buildings like the Merry & Baratie look alright
- The CG Sea King actually looks alright too
- Clip of Zoro saving Luffy from drowning, Sanji readying for a fight & the Strawhats’ barrel break did tickle my hype gland
My Dislikes:
- “Gum-Gum” rarely sounds good coming out of anyone that isn’t a cartoon
- Even for the normally stoic Zoro a lot of the acting in the teaser was bland & stiff beyond Luffy’s actor who is rightfully leaning in
- The yellow/sepia-tinted color grading on so many shots looks just soooo abysmal to me personally. It triggered a memory of some big movie/show having a similar issue a while ago but can’t remember any specifics beyond that it wasn’t & rarely is liked by audiences & I include myself in that camp
- Luffy’s rubber CG feels like one notch below the point where it wouldn’t be distractingly noticeable, once again, at least to my eyes
My Worries:
- Crossing my fingers for Chopper to look good. Honestly, a route of using a hybrid of a physical puppet/animatronic just with some touching up via visual effects might work out best in my eyes but what do I know LOL It is the same technique used for Grogu in The Mandalorian so I’m hoping for at least that much.
- Praying that the effects for all the other Devil Fruit abilities are great
- My single biggest worry at the moment might be the show’s ultimate pacing. Live-action TV is forced to be economical in a way that animation & manga aren’t as beholden to. There’s a reason that so many of the big climactic emotional & victorious events in OP’s manga/anime hit hard & it’s due in a large part to pacing for both anticipation building & character development. Rush + an inability to allow the story & characters to breathe will absolutely suffocate the whole thing
At this point, my plan is to cease all engagement with the show until the first season is done & taking the consensus. Might read a few first impressions from a fan & a newcomer but no trailers or reactions or clips until season end (I’m just assuming it’s going to be scheduled at least since Netflix & other streaming networks are eschewing the bulk drop/binge format these days.)
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I'm watching this video, and I just saw a really good observation that went:
'People go to (x radical community) to get upset. Every emotion is converted into anger.. because sadness, fear, and despair are paralyzing, but anger is motivating! Whatever someone's problems are, there's always someone they can scapegoat for them, a person feels less helpless when they're pissed off. And while that person is hopping up on reassuring nonsense, they're also topping up on stress. And since they're cut off from the people they used to associate with, which happened because of their radicalization, the only place they can go to release that stress is back to the place that gives this stress to him.
It's a feedback loop
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it looks like a pie but its really a bomb. made in a bomb factory. smells like cherry... or blueberry... or apple...
A pie!!
oh boy what flavor? Pie flavor! *Guitar riff*
“We’re not trusting a pie from him!!” Tony chucks the pie while Ella dramatically falls to the floor and yells. “WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS!?”
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The struggles of a Black Immigrant Women Abroad
In the vast expanse of global migration, the experiences of black immigrant women remain a narrative often overlooked, yet profoundly significant. The intersectionality of race, gender, and immigrant status creates a unique set of challenges that shape their journey abroad. From facing systemic racism to navigating cultural barriers, the struggles encountered by black immigrant women are…
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"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.
The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.
Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.
The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.
“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.
“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”
The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.
“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”
By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.
The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.
However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."
-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024
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