Stephanie Ong – Google

This game has it all if you have empathy and understand that Tribalism is not a good thing. The gameplay is similar to the first game with the addition of new mechanics like dodging and prone. Also, you can spend days on the Guitar "mini-game". They also have an excellent variety of accessibility features that allow people who can't play normal video games due to being differently-abled. The story is awesome too. It works IF you are smart enough to understand that a certain character's death had to happen, it had to happen early and it had to be senseless. If you think that showing the killer and creating a connection first would have been "better" you don't understand that your new timeline would undermine the whole purpose of the narrative. Imagine if you see a stranger all the sudden kill a gay person or black person and later learn they grew up bigoted or racist and slowly grow to be anti-racist or anti-bigoted after getting to know one and gaining the understanding that everyone is human and doesn't deserve the hate. (That is a good story). Do you think wanting to first see that person grow up racist/bigoted, meet and befriend someone, and STILL kill them after having met them, after having gotten to know them as a human being, after having been presented with everything they needed to not be bigoted or racist, and still kill them based on their previous ideology is any better even if they later become anti-bigoted/anti-racist from some other narrative catalyst? You have to be really twisted to want that second story and think it is "better" at creating empathy. If you believe in Us vs Them. If you care for your families, your culture, and those who share your ideals and also fear the Other and fear learning about others and expanding your mind and society to be more inclusive and less bigoted you are going to hate this game. This is not a game for people who: believe in replacement theory, think CRT is bad, want to build a wall, think it is a good idea to separate children from their parents, think you should violate Human Rights and use deadly measures to prevent illegal immigration, or think giving Equal Rights to women and LGBTQ+ people somehow diminishes your Rights. This is not a game for those who lack empathy, are tribal, or believe Equality is Oppression. This is NOT the game for you if you don't see anything wrong with Joel leaving the family, with a CHILD, on the side of the road when Sarah was still alive. It IS a good way to determine the value system of someone and if they are worthy of your friendship. 9.5/10

As a fan of the Original this show may not be exactly the same but the SOUL of the show is there. QL was about the trials of people, famous or regular. It was ALWAYS "woke" because it commented on misogyny, racism, bigotry, etc, (So the idiots who say the show is woke, as if that is a bad thing, don't know the original at all.) They have switched it up a bit and are focusing on not just the Leap but the people of PQL BUT that is NOT a bad thing. Especially if their goal is to have some conflict with the future runners of the Project/change the Project's fate. It would be important to show our current Team slowly shift or looses control to that future. How it becomes possible, and how to thwart that shift towards abuse, or how it becomes inevitable and unchangeable. (if that is how they plan on steering the story). Even if it is just a misunderstanding, we still need context. Just because some of the show focus has shifted doesn't mean the show is not the same. Just like we can't fix the past unless we understand it, we must understand the present to fix the future and that includes the timeline outside the Leap.

I don't see this movie as a Horror by any means. I think the message of this movie is a good one but many would say it is barbaric and immoral. I am one of the rare ones who this movie appeals to, but then again, I LIKE the society in Brave New World (Everyone was created with a purpose and loves their life and doesn't covet the life of others - people call this book Dystopian because they say free will was removed and the children are brainwashed young but the society resulting from those methods was a happy one which to me is very Utopian). If you support a character as a good guy who made a big sacrifice or see them as a villain/monster deserving of the fate they got all depends on how you see life and society and what is more important to you. In the end, it all depends on how you answer the last line/question of the movie. "I guess it is better this way. Right?" I find it sad that society has brainwashed us into feeling that one of the characters even has to ask and doesn't know deep inside that it is. This movie reminds me of Gone Baby Gone and I wholeheartedly agree with Jack and Angie's speech at the end. Patrick, his speech and his deed is proof that society brainwashes people.

This movie is lovely and moving. And to correct another reviewer -it isn't the 1800's. The German is put in prison because of WWII. The story spans the boy's 18 years and is set slightly before, during and after the war. That means it is less than a hundred years ago and when the movie was filmed Apartheid was ending so unless your parents are born after 1991, they would have been on the globe at the same time as Apartheid was happening.