Jacob Miller

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I'm not gonna spoil anything about the book, but it really does paint Jennette McCurdy in such a new light in my eyes. It really goes to show that actors and celebrities are people just like us, and they really aren't the character they portray in the shows they star in: they aren't immune to trauma and anxiety either, and McCurdy goes into expansive detail to teach us that aspect. After reading her book, I can safely say that I, too, am glad her mom died, and that she has my utmost respect not as a celebrity, but as a human being.

I've been a Pokémon fan for just about my whole life, but Sword and Shield is the one that killed it for me. The story (if any) is a rushed mess, the characters are bland and uninteresting, the whole Dynamax/Gigantimax gimmick is essentially just another obligatory win button (like Z-Moves and Mega Evolution prior), and the graphics are surprisingly unpolished for a Switch game. Pokemon has been going down a slippery slope as of 2013 (in my eyes), and Sword and Shield is most certainly rock bottom. Honestly, if this is the path Game Freak is deciding to go with, I don't want to play Pokémon anymore.

Marvel's Eternals really surprised me: I can safely say that an MCU film is genuinely a stinker. Honestly, with how everyone working on the film were so up their own egos about it, I should have seen it coming. With a story that just keeps dragging on with little to no action and plot points that come out of literal nowhere and make little to no sense, this movie failed to please me. The movie also suffers from something I call "Suicide Squad Syndrome (SSS)", where it has way too many main protagonists and only magnifies one or two of them. Aside from the one girl who could change the molecular structure of objects and Icarus, every other character was just so uninteresting. All in all, the movie is a boring and forgettable mess, and a Marvel-ous waste of my time.

I'm a huge fan of Tom and Jerry, but that was just... yikes. Usually, we're given either Jerry's escapades trying to avoid Tom, or just the two fighting over something. In this one, Jerry is played off as a pure antagonist, effectively ruining the barbecue Tom's owner (I forget his name) made, and framing Tom for his own antics. Sure, one can argue that Jerry is seen as a sort-of antagonist in the show prior, but it can be justified by either Tom's actions or the setting of the episode, case in point "The Cat Concerto". In "High Steaks", however, everything Jerry does has no justified excuse, making him seem like a much more nasty character. Speaking of harsh, Tom's owner is abominable. The way I see it, he was made to replicate Mammy Two-Shoes, Tom's former owner from the original series (with obvious reasons for being cut). She was rather harsh when giving Tom a whack with a broom, but this new owner ramps it up eleven notches with the cruelty. Like, geez: every scene with this guy shows him harming Tom in some way, shape, or form. I wholeheartedly understand why he only appeared for three episodes, but what I'll never understand is how someone managed to think of making someone this harsh to Tom... Another thing about this episode is that it felt kind of boring to me. The original Tom and Jerry had a variety of jokes with each episode. With this one, these jokes were pretty forgettable (aside from the cruel slapstick with Tom and his owner). All in all, this episode was not good, especially for Tom and Jerry standards. I always thought these Gene Deitch episodes were some sort of fever dream when they came on Boomerang when I was a kid, but looking back on it, I really wish I could've stuffed it back in the recesses of my mind...