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seeyatOne of the most uncomfortable, yet beneficial consequences I’ve noticed while developing healthy communication skills and setting boundaries to protect my mental and emotional health is to see when “entertainment” is purely and unflinchingly competitive and non-cerebral.
From a communication perspective, Marvel Thunderbolts and Marvel Zombies are some of the most toxic and mindlessly violent things I’ve ever seen. I tried to watch them with my brain turned on, attempting to find reason and rationality behind the unrelenting fighting and teasing but that’s pretty much all they are…
Friends, enemies, everyone is just teasing and making fun of or ignoring the other’s plea for respect. In Thunderbolts, the only person who even attempts to open up a discussion with Sentry, Yelena gives up and tries to stab him while halfheartedly saying, “stop.”
I felt sincerely concerned and downright sick about the essentially brainwashing bombardment of excessively unhealthy communication and I refused to watch any more. I couldn’t find a decently complex or intriguing plot behind either one beside Valentina… Elaine is a sadistically “Mericah”-brained politician with no morals and dominance values who makes a mistake and creates a mentally unstable god… and I just gave up after seeing Sentry seems to turn evil because it just reminded me of the ridiculous amount of unhealthy or halfassed communication from people I’ve seen assigned by institutions to medicate and monitor instead of hold conversational space in a therapeutic way. …and Elaine just wants to use the man who’s clearly suffering from confusion, conflict of identity and some self-trust issues as a tool which is pretty much the most crystal clear analogy for how US mental healthcare services just prescribe pills to keep people numb and silent enough to hold their hammers and sell their burgers without complaint.
Nobody ever bothers asking anyone about their feelings or personal values and goals but everyone seems to want to tell everyone else what they want them to do or how they want to use them and that’s just nauseatingly familiar to me.
I generally wouldn’t choose to watch horror. I prefer to avoid much of it and I don’t feel fulfilled by violence for the sake of violence. I wanted to watch them because I know so many people who love Marvel and bleed Disney colors. I just… don’t feel comfortable with these two. Hard pass.
Just so this doesn’t sound horribly judgmental and ranting I can personally say I loved Loki’s character development across the show with most of the characters and the plot was excitingly complex to a degree of rewatchability. I love when I can examine a character’s mindset and personal growth.
The aforementioned shows just don’t have any of that. One just has gore and numb jokes about the perceivably unimaginable horrors playing out in front of everyone and the other is pretty similar.
One seems like thoughtless fandering and the other is a poor attempt at emulating Suicide Squad. At least Suicide Squad had a modicum of character development.
From a communication perspective, Marvel Thunderbolts and Marvel Zombies are some of the most toxic and mindlessly violent things I’ve ever seen. I tried to watch them with my brain turned on, attempting to find reason and rationality behind the unrelenting fighting and teasing but that’s pretty much all they are…
Friends, enemies, everyone is just teasing and making fun of or ignoring the other’s plea for respect. In Thunderbolts, the only person who even attempts to open up a discussion with Sentry, Yelena gives up and tries to stab him while halfheartedly saying, “stop.”
I felt sincerely concerned and downright sick about the essentially brainwashing bombardment of excessively unhealthy communication and I refused to watch any more. I couldn’t find a decently complex or intriguing plot behind either one beside Valentina… Elaine is a sadistically “Mericah”-brained politician with no morals and dominance values who makes a mistake and creates a mentally unstable god… and I just gave up after seeing Sentry seems to turn evil because it just reminded me of the ridiculous amount of unhealthy or halfassed communication from people I’ve seen assigned by institutions to medicate and monitor instead of hold conversational space in a therapeutic way. …and Elaine just wants to use the man who’s clearly suffering from confusion, conflict of identity and some self-trust issues as a tool which is pretty much the most crystal clear analogy for how US mental healthcare services just prescribe pills to keep people numb and silent enough to hold their hammers and sell their burgers without complaint.
Nobody ever bothers asking anyone about their feelings or personal values and goals but everyone seems to want to tell everyone else what they want them to do or how they want to use them and that’s just nauseatingly familiar to me.
I generally wouldn’t choose to watch horror. I prefer to avoid much of it and I don’t feel fulfilled by violence for the sake of violence. I wanted to watch them because I know so many people who love Marvel and bleed Disney colors. I just… don’t feel comfortable with these two. Hard pass.
Just so this doesn’t sound horribly judgmental and ranting I can personally say I loved Loki’s character development across the show with most of the characters and the plot was excitingly complex to a degree of rewatchability. I love when I can examine a character’s mindset and personal growth.
The aforementioned shows just don’t have any of that. One just has gore and numb jokes about the perceivably unimaginable horrors playing out in front of everyone and the other is pretty similar.
One seems like thoughtless fandering and the other is a poor attempt at emulating Suicide Squad. At least Suicide Squad had a modicum of character development.
