#anti-netflix

[gemsofgreece]

You thought Black Cleopatra was bad?

New Netflix documentary claims Italy conquered Greece “after breaking through its weak resistance” in WW2.

For the record, Greece successfully blocked Italy’s invasion, then counterattacked and then repelled Italy’s counterattack. It has even become a meme, like, it is actually well known. That was happening for about half a year. Greece ceded after Germany came to Italy’s aid with the collaboration of Bulgaria, surrounded the country and invaded from all sides. It took the three of them an extra two months to fully occupy the country. Overall it was one of the longest resistances in Europe, maybe the second after Russia, and if not, certainly among the longest anyway. During the occupation, Greece also had one of the most notable partisan resistance groups.

Who makes these Netflix documentaries after all? Because literally even history nerd YouTubers make infinitely better documentaries than Netflix.

This one, I really take issue with. People died. Grandparents fought. Inaccuracy is disgrace.

[somebluenovember]

I want to own things - music, movies, books, shows, games - again. I want hardware, physical. Stuff that will wear out, but until it does, it is MINE. I am willing to buy shelves. 

[makesitprecious]

I agree with this whole heartedly in support of women, but also how could be clearly half Black and also the palest woman in the entire comic run? Her father is Caucasian, but could arguably be Hispanic.

Before anyone comes at me, I know that mixed children can take on their Caucasian dna. I personally have family who are pure blooded Guatemalan and upon having children with a Caucasian had their girls birth as pale white. It's sad to see they went with that science instead of my other family member, who also had a child with a Caucasian and came out a twin of her mom, mixed Guatemalan.

These panels from The Magic Order #2, a Netflix-owned book by Mark Millar and Oliver Copiel show the backstory of Cordelia Moonstone, a main character from Image Comics partnership with the streaming serve.

Not so fun fact: The book that nearly topped the monthly best seller charts because According to what we've been told, ReedPOP quietky purchased 140,000 copies of The Magic Order #1 in exchange for Mark Millar appearing at cons These were ordered at 90% off which effected the entire economic demographic of the #1 issue and it's total sales in general. Was #1 popular? No. It was a cooperate deal.

It's honestly sad, because the art is outstanding.

[k8lynjoy]

I'm so tired of people telling those of us who are upset about the LA atla remake that we are "being too dramatic" or are just "finding things to be upset about". We are allowed to be upset that something that we love so dearly has been butchered, AGAIN. If you liked it, then that's your personal opinion, but don't sit here and tell those of us who didn't that we're the problem.

I personally think the CGI, costumes, and sets all look terrible. None of it is immersive. Sure, it LOOKS like atla, but it doesn't FEEL like atla. The heart of the og is gone, and people are allowed to be upset about this. They've altered characters to the point that they aren't the character anymore (looking at you Aang and Katara), which is a huge upset for me personally because Katara is one of my favorite characters ever. So watching her be turned into someone meek and docile is more than a slap to the face. Not to mention them removing her as the narrator as if Bryke themselves didn't state that Katara is the person the story is being told through. And before you start telling me that Aang is the same. No, he isn't. Major parts of his development through season 1 (him coming to terms with the fact that he's the avatar and embracing that role, and him also accepting the fact that he RAN AWAY and how he is never going to do that again, which is also pivotal to his character later on) are completely removed. And don't even get me started on what they did to Kataang. Regardless of whether you ship them or not, those 2 are deeply connected to one another from the start, and their relationship is a big part of the show, so to see that butchered is heartbreaking for me.

This isn't just about them "making some changes" or it not being a 1:1 adaptation. I'm fine with adaptations that aren't 1:1. What I'm upset about is that the changes they are making are VITAL changes to characters and dynamics between characters. They're rushing through the plot and condensing the story (and I will scream if I hear one more person say that it's because they couldn't fit it all in with their runtime. The runtime is an HOUR LONGER than the og, so yes, they did have the time). The changes they are making make it evident that they do not understand the og show, and if you don't feel like that, fine, once again, that's YOUR opinion, just as this is MY opinion. So stop telling us we have no right to be upset and that we just want to hate everything. That's not true. What is true is that we are expressing valid complaints about another bad adaptation of something dear to us.

Edit: If you also come at people who are upset bc they were expecting a faithful adaptation and didn't get it bc "its not supposed to be the cartoon," you're missing the whole point. An adaptation is ADAPTING SOMETHING from one medium to the other, not rewriting it. "Yall expected it to be just like the cartoon." No, I expected a FAITHFUL ADAPTATION and was met with poorly written fanfiction.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

keep seeing people make memes of "oh when the live action atla gets to ember island players–" lmao girlies what is this """when"""????????? you think these eight-episode cut-all-character-development no-self-awareness motherfuckers are going to put in the ember island players episode???? they didn't even have the fucking earthbender prison break episode you think they're gonna do ember island players? bitch they ARE the ember island players

[lilithism1848]

[votel4dybird]

credit: @artist-gif-aka-ril

[outtagum]

A very strong Tik Tok debut from PENN BADGLEY 😂👏

[azural83]

I need everyone who defends natla's writing to raise their standards because the current entertainment industry takes advantage of your "anti criticism" mindset and gives us mediocre shit like this😭

[lordystrange]

Almost as if Netflix Nordic wanted everyone to say Mleven… 🤔👀

And they did:

Now I don’t love the unnecessary Mike hate but for sure after their breakup people will better see Mike as who he really is and start liking him again :)

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

running around in circles. nimona and ballister. do you get it. she wakes up from a nightmare and immediately calms down when he comforts her because she trusts him. he quite literally jumps off a balcony because he knows she’ll catch him. she tells him what shapeshifting feels like. lets him bandage her leg. he’s absolutely overjoyed when he sees her again at the end. he goes from rejecting her to accepting her to begging her to come back to rejoicing when she does. not only does she come back to life but she comes back to HIM. to her HOME. SHE FINDS HIM AGAIN IN ANOTHER LIFETIME. SHE GOES BACK TO HIM ON PURPOSE. DO YOU GET IT.

[gemsofgreece]

My God Netflix... take a fucking hint maybe. Let it rest, honestly, such projects are apparently not for you, it's okay.

Also, can I just add some screenshots from the Hercules thing because

Okay, who watches this unironically and then unironically gives it a 3/5... come forth! I can't stop laughing it looks like bad porn

I will give Tarak and Saphirra the benefit of the doubt as apparently the movie has little to do with accuracy to mythology anyway. There are some scarce myths that Heracles had visited India with Dionysus but that’s nowhere in the plot. And I also doubt this is how the names were in Sanskrit but I don't know much about that.

Lucius is a Latin name, hope they din't give it to a Greek that was "contemporary" of Heracles, also hope they don't gave it to a Roman because there weren't Romans at the time of Heracles. But as I see in the wikipedia page that someone chose to make for this film, apparently, Heracles was sold to a gladiator slave promoter, who was Lucius, so I guess indeed according to Netflix Heracles / Hercules lived with Romans and more so at the time of their peak.

BUT all this is fine compared to SOTIRIS. Sotiris, a pal of Heracles. Sotiris is a Greek name all right and it has an ancient Greek origin indeed.... Soter or Sotir in the modern pronunciation is an epithet meaning "Saviour" and it was a way several gods were called i.e Zeus Soter. Then also some Hellenistic kings used it as an epithet, i.e Ptolemy I Soter. And finally, Jesus. The famous early crypto-Christian fish, if you know. Early Christians who did not want to be discovered and persecuted by pagan Romans and Greeks used as their secret symbol the fish, which in Greek is ΙΧΘΥΣ, and served as an acronym for Ἰησοῦς Χρῑστός Θεοῦ Υἱός Σωτήρ (Iēsûs Chrīstós, Theû Huiós, Sōtḗr - Jesus Christ, Son of God, the Saviour).

The problem is that from Soter the adjective Soterios was derived, meaning the same thing, and soon enough Sotirios (because the pronunciation was already half-modern at the time) was popularised after Jesus and Chirstianity as a first name for normal people that were getting baptised. Nowadays, girls are baptised as "Sotiria" (salvation, the noun, for them) and boys are baptised as "Sotirios" (the adjective) and almost always go with "Sotiris" for shorter.

In other words, they really went for "Hercules and Jack" or something.

This is the Thanos thing happening all over again.

[edwinspaynes]

Netflix: *cancels Lockwood and Co (a high-quality supernatural mystery show) after horrible marketing*

Netflix: *cancels Dead Boy Detectives (another high quality supernatural mystery show) after horrible marketing*

Netflix: *hardcore milks Stranger Things despite its declining quality, totally derailed plot, and shamelessly Zionist star*

Netflix: heeheehee The Duffer Brothers are getting a NEW SUPERNATURAL MYSTERY ❤️ a LONG TIME from now ❤️ hyping it up ❤️ sUpErNaTurAL mYsTeRy ❤️

[gayhenrycreel]

something i would like people to note is the difference between piracy and plagiarism.

plagiarism is taking someone elses work and claiming it as your own, often to make money off it.

piracy is illegally stealing something, without making or spending money. every single pirated copy of anything that ive ever had still credits the creators correctly. books still say who the author is and shows and movies still include the end credits.

people plagiarize because they are assholes.

people pirate because they are too poor to afford all these expensive streaming services, because such services can take media away at any time (piracy is a great way to make sure media does not become lost, google The Mysterious Benedict Society), or because the company that made it is awful and dont deserve money (disney, bbc, netflix, amazon).

both are legally stealing, but law and morality are not the same thing. piracy and plagiarism are very different, and should be treated as such.

[gothgleek]

Something about Joan is Awful and the digital age… stealing from people to create faster content… creating deepfakes that actually ruin lives… having no control over your image… people… creating a system of exploitation to avoid creating your own content and paying writers… capitalism thriving on negative self image… people doing whatever they want without your consent… telling you this is what you signed up for with your fame/gender/sexuality…

Much to think about

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

we also got robbed of sokka in dress and aang in flower crown :( how dare they