R. K.

Ugh what is going on with Disney and laying it overly thick with healing trauma narrative? Everything under its umbrella, from Pixar to Marvel is dealing with it in ways that's so on the nose - the script is literally laid out to the audience, as if they have no brain of no own to deduce or infer anything. "I have had childhood trauma. Let's go in your mind. Let's deal with it head on, because you're not alone." Literally watching someone's cheap ass therapy session when you're there trying to go see a comic movie. It's totally fine to show it as a reason why & depth to the character, but not the entire narrative of the movie!

I don't enjoy gore and horror at all. Even though I had to skip some parts and kind of feel nauseous after watching it, I watched the whole thing and could really appreciate what this movie was trying to get across. The message is on the nose and not hard to understand, but the extreme way they did this was very clear how alarming, urgent they felt it was, and the age old way wasn't going to get the point across. Afterall, how many times has that been done with no success? I find this was kind of genius. Although it's not my genre, I give it 5 stars because I can't think of a better way to have delivered the message with this amount of impact and disturbance.

If there's one thing Frasier can do that perhaps no other show can is the depth of character development that spans over generations. I watch David and understand the spoken and implied elements because I've followed Niles and Daphne for years. I watch Freddy and understand his nuances because we've known Frasier and Lillith. I also get his being a firefighter because I've known Marty and Ronee, and perhaps those ethics, heroic everyday man skipped a generation. The very first episode opens as "the Good Father" so fittingly named because we've followed his bachelor and husband days, to his days working on being "the Good Son", and now "the Good Father". It highlights what this series can uniquely do. Most of the critics of this show are busy comparing it to its yester-years. What it WAS in the 90's, how his witty remarks WERE, how current characters compare to previous ones like Niles. Or others say they get something too reminiscent without the cast to support. What I think they miss, that most die hard fans seem to catch, is his evolution from all of the characters and events of the past that have molded him into what and where he is now. Of course there are familiarities because it's the same man; of course there are differences because he's evolved.