Reviews

The few positive points this series has are ultimately tarnished by the inability of the showrunners to decide a tone for the series. Why? Because the best elements Echo has are the violence, the blood, the intense fight sequences that are hard to find in any other piece of media Marvel (Feige Marvel and Disney Marvel, not Netflix Marvel) has put out. However, these elements are hard to balance with the storyline the show tries to develop; for example: the characters. The vast majority of Maya's family, the protagonist, are way too marvel-ly, too childish, too good-people; the "enemies" instead are actual bad people, criminals, a mafia who controls a city and kill people because they want more power.

So far so good, that's something that you can have on your show and still make a good piece of media. BUT, this is Marvel, a company known for its heroes. However, there're not real heroes in this series, but, sadly, the ghost is still there. Because the series tries to appeal at the same time to a heroic kind of public, who laughs at the bad jokes and is there for the humorous action sequences, and a serious public who expects to see a double faced vigilante taking off the bad guys in ruthless ways, dealing with trauma and such. The result is a show that's divided into two different shows, like if Ms. Marvel and Netflix' Daredevil had a child, a really ugly child.

And at the end of the day, the Marvel side of the show ends up winning and killing all the seriousness the trailers preached this would have and the fight scenes and the Kingpin character tried to build throughout the development of the series but failed misserably.

Lots of filler or material to catch up, basically if you didn't watch the Hawkeye series. A little rushed too, but it's got its positives. The chemistry between characters is really good and I quite like the dialogues. And the fight scenes, the few we got, and the choreographies for such, are great. For this it helps a lot the sound mixing; given the character of Echo is deaf, we get her perspective of the fights and tbh it's really interesting.

So far, the only stuff that has not been convicing is what already wasn't convincing back in Hawkeye. Really hope the creator will turn that around because that series was mediocre at best. No much more conclusions since this was only a setup character.

I can understand the average score because this isn't your classic game, your usual gamemodes or your average survival horror, this is a story told within a game, you're only visiting it and playing it to come to know about it. But, within doing so, you will find yourself very intrigued with incredible and really creative puzzles (not your classic "oh, the door is only opened when there's weight on that plate, but maybe that box there could be of help..") and misteries that will have you in the edge of your seat; I can't explain how satisfying was when I got to solve these puzzles due to the level of difficulty they held.

In addition to that the mechanics are accompanied with a great soundtrack that I'm going to listen in depth now, great coloring, great design and great art for the cinematics. It really is like a movie.

A little warning: this game is really criptic, this is real horror, depression inducing tbh. But great nonetheless.

When I started watching this I found myself quite displeased with the way things were told, in some sort of sarcastic way, to make fun of things, and with great amounts of "unverifiable" stuff; this was not the way to tell a biopic. And I stood by that opinion until almost the very end of the story, in fact, until the very last scene. And this is why: I Tonya is not trying to give an "objective" vision of the events of 1994, it's actually trying to do the complete opposite. I would say the main point of this movie is to show you how there's no such objective point of view, as media in general is always trying to perceive to a certain audience, just as the skate judges. And so, the whole world only got to see what the media wanted you to about Tonya, therefore creating a "universal" opinion. The movie shows us what the media never wanted to, Tonya's point of view, Tonya's life, and how it was distorted by everyone else to make her look like a monster, be it true or false, because there's no truth except what each person claims it is.

That's all I gonna say, no spoilers (tho there's not much to spoil), nothing in this series makes sense, characters change their mind from one scene to the other, a lot of plot-lines are left open, with no answer whatsoever, there are several blank spaces that we are supposed to fill in, I guess, but there's nothing we can fill it with as there's no consistency or character anywhere.

At least this chapter didn't have an insane amount of sex, tits, butts, moaning, for no reason; previous one I was afraid my neighbours would think I was watching porn.

Anyway, don't bother with this, this show is horrendous.

I recently played and completed this game and I must say what a ride it's been. I downloaded it knowing absolutely nothing about it, I didn't even know it was an RPG or how to play at all; when I first put a foot on shady sands I was absolutely scared because I didn't even know there was cities or people out there, just like the character, that's the level of immersion this game has. Only approaching the end of the story I was kind of lost and I had to search for a walkthrough online, but the rest of the gameplay was totally from scratch and natural, and I gotta say the search of the waterchip was one of the greatest adventures a video-game has put me through.

This game doesn't age, give it a shot if you want great characters, great mechanics and a great story.

To begin with, I had never been one of the Bella-haters with their "she looks nothing like the Ellie from the game" or "she seems like a different character" but she still had to prove (to me I mean) she was worthy of the part, at first she did it great at crafting an incredible and believable chemistry with the Joel character and now she's made very evident she's an amazing actress, with subtle performances that contribute to create the "childishness" of Ellie and raging and furious states where she demonstrates all the pain and suffering her character went through, overall she's made Ellie a multilayered character different from the one in the game but really believable.

This chapter on the other hand was good, not incredible, mostly a filler but it served as an Ellie back-story and it had a great atmosphere, an enjoyable episode that makes us understand why Ellie is so attached to Joel and won't abandon him as much as don't want to be abandoned by him.

That's it. The movie started when Kang appeared, he's a really charismatic, determined and terrifying character, and Majors plays him perfectly, after all he's a fantastic actor. The rest of the movie, the writing, the fight scenes, the so-called climatic moments, went from bland to straight bad. THE CHARACTERS, my god. Except from Kang of course, the rest of them were apalling, horribly written and let's not even start with developed, from Scott to Modok, not even a single one of them was funny, relatable, realistic, they didn't feel like real humans with emotions.

And don't get me wrong, I am a Marvel fan, not a hater, I went to watch this movie on the premiere day because I was really hyped, so picture my disappointment. Don't bother with this, really hope the GOTG third movie is at least decent.