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I've seen this Brooklyn 99 Episode at least four times now, in fact, it's my most watched B99 episode. This episode focuses quite strongly on police racism, at the start of the episode Terry is desperately looking for his twin daughter's toy, Moo Moo. While looking he's stopped by a white police officer, and the only real reason the cop can seem to give is that Terry was arrested because he's black. Which isn't exactly the best look or reason. I believe the creators have chosen to tell this story as police racism is still very prevalent in countries like America, where they show is set. And even in 2019, there is still police racism going on, although the episode wasn't released in 2019 the creators chose this issue as it wasn't a small little problem that would fix itself in a week, but a long problem that's going to need to stop over a long period of time. With Brooklyn 99 being a popular comedy show, it has a massive platform to inform people o...

After many weeks and me consistently missing the lessons in where we watched these episodes last year, I've finally seen the episodes, even if it took me forever. And I'm not particularly a fan of the show, but hey I saw the episodes and that's what matters. Last year I also saw season 1's paintball episode, so I did manage to get a few of the callbacks in this episode. Such as the black and orange paintball gun (seen in the above image) that was used at the end of the last paintball episode. In A Fist Full of Paintballs, the most obvious genre is that they're using is western. A few main things are able to tip us off to this, such their choice of fashion during the episode, which again is shown in the image above. Another notable thing when each of the characters is seen for the first time in the episode there's a freeze frame that only shows the character with a background and then their name (the cards they picked in a previous episode). And if I remembe...

Marvel movies are great, and I've pretty much seen all of the ones that have come out in the last 4 years, besides a few like the X-Men and Captain America. This means I'm sitting on the release of the Disney streaming service and I'm reading a fair few of the Marvel Now! comics. But me catching up on all of the comics (and waiting for the Young Avengers to be put into the MCU) isn't important here. What is important is last years Thor Ragnarok. Just visually Thor Ragnarok is very bright, and not many other MCU/ DC movies have been that colourful, well besides one which would be the Guardians movies. Since I haven't seen the other Thor movies, I'm not sure what the humour is like in them, but the humour used in the movie is similar to the style used in most of the other MCU films, and the addition of Korg just makes everything better. Describing this movie to someone who has never seen it before is basically Guardians meet Asgard and then Thor joins a fight...

So it turns out that this is the first time I've seen the entirety of Shrek 1, I'm 14 and have only just seen all of Shrek 1. Because when I was a kid all I saw was Shrek 2 since we owned that on DVD, so I was never exposed to Smash Mouth's All-Star until it became a massive meme. Now I'm doing a reflection on this film after seeing it for the first time. Shrek has plenty of pop culture reference in it and I think it makes the whole thing a lot cooler. While it's not in the Ready Player One level of references, it's always super cool to see something that you recognise in another film. I think that it adds to the story as it makes it a lot more exciting, but I can see why other people may think that it distracts from the story. Mainly because they may start thinking, where have I seen that before and then miss part of the story. Ultimately I think having pop culture references in Shrek makes the movie a lot better. Hallejuah is used in the movie after Fio...

That 70s takes a very unique approach to slip in potentially inappropriate content. They slip it in the same way someone would put in an Easter egg. For example, when they are looking at the obviously inappropriate magazine they never state it is, but from the characters reactions, we as the audience gain the knowledge of what it is. When checking through the Australian classifications, the show gets its rating for stuff like mild and frequent sexual references, adult themes and mild drug reference it's surprising it's not M. It's all too similar to Pixels PG rating when it had mild themes, violence, coarse language and sexual references, but a show like Love Live receives an M rating only for sexual themes even though it's a few scenes it happens in (Nozomi touches a few people inappropriately). Ultimately I think that 70s show should have landed an M, but then they probably wouldn't have slyly slipped in stuff. The way the show shows drug use it also interest...

Just before I start this reflection I missed out on the first half of the film, so there's probably some important stuff I missed. For me personally, this is the only Jumanji I've seen as I haven't seen the new one, but I reckon it would be interesting to see the how each movie is different. One of the things I noticed while watching the movie is the CGI animals that show up in the film, especially after the boy tries to finish the game and then transforms into a monkey. Those monkeys, as well as the other animals, certainly haven't aged well. They look very out of place in comparison to everything, although these effects haven't aged well we have improved our CGI animals in movies as seen in the live action Jungle Book movie. The same would go for when the boy turns into a monkey although it's impressive it falls into some area of the uncanny valley. However, the vines are probably one of the most well-aged effects they look good and are sort of realistic ...

Compared to many of the other shows I've reflected on Community is one I haven't seen before, so modern warfare is my first experience of the show. Personally, I wouldn't say this episode is one of the best episodes to show a newcomer to the series since it's pretty hard to get a grip on who the characters are and what's going on. The episode mainly revolves around the school having a paintball fight about who should win the prize, with the prize being a Blu-Ray DVD player, but that was stolen so it was changed to 'TBD' (later revealed to be priority registration). The genre that the episodes represent is very clearly action with multiple references to other action movies such as Die Hard and The Matrix. Whether the episode slots in with another movie genre I'm not quite sure. One of the movie references I picked up while watching the episode was the Die Hard reference (although it was thanks to the Brooklyn 99 character Jake Peralta's love fo...

I've talked about Brooklyn 99 before on this blog, but I haven't yet talked about the pilot episode of the series. The pilot episode of a show is one the most important episodes, it's meant to set up the show and get viewers interested and the pilot for Brooklyn 99 does exactly that (it's what made me want to watch the rest of the show so clearly it did a good job). The episode was mainly structured to set up for the rest of the series. It introduced to all the characters with short descriptions of each and it showed two different crime scenes to show the crew working together. I think it was very important that they introduced all of the characters, as without the knowledge of who everyone is, it makes the show feel a bit empty. All the characters were introduced quickly with memorable scenes (that are all in the opening so you can remember them). This made it quick and easy to remember everyone and to choose a favourite. Rosa is easily one of my favourite ...

On May 5th Childish Gambino released his new song This is America. The music video covers such themes as gun violence, racism and many other big issues in America. It explores the flaws within the country, without ever explicitly stating the flaws. The biggest and most important message in the music video is, of course, showing the state that America's in. That's why the music video is called This is America, it's showing you what America is. A country that likes to believe it doesn't have any flaws. The dancers show the carefree nature of the country while everything going on in the country is happening behind is everything they choose to ignore. So gun violence, racism, police violence, being a bystander by just recording a video, gangs, and most likely some other things that I didn't pick up on that the video shows. I found a lot of the issues that were shown in the video interesting, but the most notable one was the people with masks taking videos o...

The Halloween episodes of Brooklyn 99 are undoubtedly some of the best in the show (if they aren't then they totally are to me). The first one starts the long saga of the Halloween Heists. In this one, Jake promises Holt that he will be able to take Holt's Medal of Valour. While this one isn't my favourite of the Halloween episodes it certainly started the legacy of amazing Halloween episodes. I like to think that the purpose of these episodes is to have something fun and very different in the series. All of the Halloween episodes seem to have a very different vibe to all of them. It's like we see a different side to some of the characters, especially Holt. It's very strange to see Holt acting differently to how he normally is, but I guess that's part of the appeal of these Halloween episodes. It also gives us a break from the normal episodes, where sometimes the plot can be a bit heavier. After this first episode, the purpose of the Halloween episode is, o...

Unlike everything else I have reflected on in this blog, Life - Creatures of the Deep is the first Non-Fiction show I will reflect on. Now just like Fiction stories, Non-Fiction can still tell stories (although some are pretty much just facts). Biographies are amazing examples that Non-Fiction topics can indeed convey a story some you may have heard of include, 'The Theory of Everything', 'The Winds Rises' and 'Tokyo Idols'. Creatures of the Deep also tells a story, but this one is split up into many different segments. And each of these segments focused on a different animal. There is one segment about cuttlefish, another about starfish, one about a coral reef and one about crabs. During the cuttlefish segment, it told the story about the cuttlefish mating season and how the males protect the females. When it goes to the starfish, it covers their daily ways of life and how they kill. Then there is the story of how a coral reef starts and develops. And final...

Describing Adventure Time to somebody who has never seen it before has gotten increasingly harder as the series has gone on. In the first few seasons, you probably could have said, 'A boy and his dog go on wacky adventures.' When we watched it, we jumped straight into season 9, and I was surprised to see that Fin had a robotic hand. Last time I saw Adventure Time, he had two completely normal hands, and now he has a robotic hand. Without watching the prior seasons, there is no explanation as to why he has this. Similar to what I said in my Steven Universe reflection, it starts off with a fairly simple idea which evolves into a bigger and deeper storyline the more popular it becomes. So if I were to be explaining to a first timer, I would probably say: A boy and his dog go on wacky adventures, which lead to relationships, sad scenes, loss of limbs and deep plotline. Seeing where the series is now, it's best to start with episode 1, rather than whatever episode is curren...

I think that the medium they used helped the story. The art style and the animation helped give a feel for what was happening, for example, is there was smoke in a scene then art on the sides would rise up to make it look like it was smoke or if the water was very harsh then the text would go from side to side. Although at sometimes I am unable to identify which character is which because of the art style. The pros of The Boat being a digital narrative is that it may be more entertaining to view than if were just words on a page. With the animation and sound it makes it a lot more immersive then if it didn't, it will also help get story more traffic. Dotted around the chapter are a few small side stories which allow people to get a deeper experience then they would with a normal story. One of the cons for the story is that because of some of the text moving a lot it may hard for people with dyslexia to read, especially during chapter one where the text rocks from side to sid...

Proposing Steven Universe as a live action series is an interesting idea, where I'm sure some people would enjoy Steven Universe as a live action show I personally cannot see it being able to all that well. The show has this absolutely amazing art style that would be hard to capture the feel of it in real life, without excessive CGI (then you get into Mars Needs Moms territory, which we don't need). Another thing that I find with a cartoon to live action is that it appears almost impossible to get characters right. Whether it be age, hair colour or strangely everything about a character is changed. I'm quite nitpicky about these things, I believe that if you are running a high budget show you should be able to afford those things like coloured contacts and good looking wigs. And even if cosplayers achieve a characters looks perfectly it appears that a lot of the time Hollywood would rather go with what they think looks best (I could spend hours tearing apart the d...

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