i have not properly gone back to buffy, something that i loved growing up (i found a buffy shot glass i got when i was like 14 and didn't drink) although never finished because i stopped getting the channel that showed it and couldn't afford buying it all. but i do wonder how i would react to it now at this point in my life
as the brain worms continue to devour my mind, i am now also annoyed by the opening 'so let me get this straight' line. previously the only line i didn't have a complaint about lol
saying 'let me get this straight' normally proceeds a concise explanation or summary of something and seeks clarification/confirmation. "so let me get this straight. you, a hobbit, have to take this magical ring all the way to mordor and throw it into mount doom to destroy it? and you're just going to walk right into mordor?"
but i don't feel it works here. nothing is being clarified or cleared up, it's just listing a bunch of unexplained things. is she trying to explain the things she's experiencing by just... naming the things with no explanation? i'm trying to imagine the conversation around it but it's a struggle. what's the other person meant to say? "yes, you have observed those things." is she meant to be doubting the things she is seeing? are you not talking to a cuff or seeing freaking dragons?
if it had started with something else like "what the hell is going on, i'm somewhere that's not earth...." that expresses confusion, i felt it would work better with the rest of the dialogue. or if the rest of the dialogue was different so it sounded more like a request for confirmation/clarification ("let me get this straight. i've been transported to somewhere that's not earth, there's freaking dragons flying around, and a sentient cuff is talking to me?"). i think it would flow better although i still don't like the rest of the dialogue (why are you 'seeing' dragons? does no one else see them? are they not really there? are you 'seeing-seeing' dragons and this game is actually a monster fucking dating sim?)
this trailer has been covertly designed to break certain people's brains and i'm sorry, i am one of those broken people
some of the quote tweets are criticising the strong reaction to this compared with other things, pointing out that this has a black woman as the lead. i'm wary to jump on these sort of things because there's often a big current of complaining about how 'woke' something is. and i don't really want to contribute to that because i don't have a problem with it. i just don't like the words being spoken here.
i don't mind that they redid ghostbusters with an all-female cast. keep on changing the genders and race of characters for reboots to be more diverse, go hog wild. but also, i wasn't that interested in seeing the lady ghostbusters film because i didn't like the kind of improvy comedy vibe it seemed to be going for (and i've been generally ambivalent about remakes/reboots until something really catches my eye).
