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Implying there's anything worth pirating on Netflix these days.
Wednesday was pretty good
You mean today? Today is Wednesday.
...my dudes.
I send that to my students through Google Classroom literally every Wednesday. I teach high school juniors and seniors.
Today is football
No it wasn't. The show made ZERO sense.
Wednesday running around trying to PREVENT murders? That makes no sense!
Plus, she's being admitted into a school for people with special powers, but at the time of admittence, she has shown NO powers whatsoever. They do come later, but.....when she's admitted, she's just a 16 year old girl.
Plus, that thing where she looks back on her ancestor with the last name "Adams", but the ancestor is on her mothers side? Why would the ancestor have the last name Adams? That implies that if she's both an Adams, AND the mothers ancestor, that the whole Adams family is built on incest.
And before you say the husband could have taken the mothers last name, first off, we know Morticia didn't, and second, it would imply EVERY woman in the family timeline dating back to the 1700s also did this.
Simple solution to all this.....first off, make it so Wednesday has some motivation or reason why she's not the one committing the murders, but also make it a reluctant reason. She still enjoys the murders, but she'll get kicked out of school if she's involved. Then make it so without the degree she can't get her liscense as an embalmer. Which without that, she's forced to get a normal person job.
Then, keep her quirky room mate exactly the same. The only difference is, she's not a warewolf. She's just a preppy girl. Exactly as she was. She can turn into a warewolf later at the hands of Wednesday creating a potion or whatever, but it's not naturally in her DNA.
Now onto the school. It's not a school for monsters. It's just a regular ol' private school.
The preppy girl is the one solving the murders. Wednesday is reluctantly helping her. The rest of the school shits all over Wednesday, but this preppy girl is the one person who accepts Wednesday for who she is. So even though Wednesday LOVES the murders, she also sees the good in the preppy girl. She becomes protective of her. The rest of the town can fuck off, but the preppy girl is different.
So she goes around town with the preppy girl TRYING to stay out of actually solving the murders, while still supporting the preppy girl. The problem is the preppy girl is REALLY BAD at solving these murders. Remember, she's just a regular 16 year old girl. Meanwhile Wednesday has her periodic visions that solve the murders.
And the bad guy makes no sense either. He hates the school because they have magic powers. So to defeat them he creates a cult of people with magic powers?
I say make him just hate the Adams Family, including Wednesday. And his plan isn't to do magical spooky shit. He's just going to straight up kill Wednesday, until the preppy girl drinks the warewolf potion.
See? Now it all makes sense, and doesn't go against the core concept of the character. You can even keep in the viral dance.
in my best Harrison Ford impersonation: — It's not that kind of movie, kid.
Wednesday is for people who grew up on Harry Potter and want more of it but know that won’t happen because Rowling is a terf wacko
This is an absolute testament that you can back-of-napkin a better story than 99% of the dirge slop swill that studios pump out because they're all money obsessed banker finance fuckheads with a fetish for being seen as creative. There is a DESERT of dry dead writing rooms crushed in spirit by "what if they're sisters??" meddling corpos who can't be told to fuck off because of reprisals. We really are in the scumsuck bullies-in-control-of-the-school timeline where everything has an implicit fate to suck because of the ego and complacency of corporate media.
I think at least a few of those objections are addressed in the show.
The reason I didn't like it is that all the previous incarnations of Wednesday had her as vengeful to those who deserved it, but basically decent, if a little sardonic, towards those who didn't. Whereas this new one was a colossal B to everyone she met by default; made it kind of hard to root for her.
I think the new one coded her much more clearly as autistic, and ND people can come off as alienating to neurotypicals. I'm autistic myself and I didn't consider her that way however.
Dunno if I agree with all that. I still liked it.
Love death and Robots
Black Mirror
Season 2 available yet?
You want Season 2 of Wednesday? I'm still waiting for season 4 of G.L.O.W.
I'm still waiting for part two of the final season of stranger things.
That's another thing I forgot about Netflix: all the shows cancelled without any decent conclusion or even a plan for one.
I know that's common on TV too, but when a show fails they don't usually continue advertising it.
I liked Kaos. Of course, it only got one season.
Too good for Netflix
The latest Black Mirror is excellent!
Really enjoyed One Piece live action
Ye that one was good too