YES. It's a show i find hard to watch for Reasons, but i think it's generally very compassionate to its characters.
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I really need to finish Monk. I just tend to get uncomfortable watching it. I think because of how often the humor is based in embarrassment and...I don't know, maybe I'm too empathetic or something. I just don't enjoy it. It's a big reason why I can't do sitcoms.
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Replying to @CWGaither @iridienne and
I don't get amused. I just feel like my skin is about to fall off and I want to go find whoever it was who did the thing and tell them it's okay.
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Replying to @CWGaither @iridienne and
I couldn't finish the joker
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Replying to @ImpPercyPtible @iridienne and
I have not watched the Joker and I have no desire to. Like...I kinda heard all of the Joker's talking points in the incel corner of reddit, and just...I dunno. The urge to make a comic-cannon mass murder psychopath into either an abused woobie or a desirable boyfriend is just...pic.twitter.com/xqWrOlRykq
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Replying to @CWGaither @iridienne and
That's an issue of course, in my case I was trying to watch so I could criticize it when people brought it up, but the reason I wasn't able to finish the movie it's because the character is portrayed as out of place with his environment, but completely un-self-aware of that.
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Replying to @ImpPercyPtible @CWGaither and
Like, the joker is cringe-indulcing on purpose. And tbh I don't think they should have done that with a character that is a villain but also someone who struggles with his mental health.
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Replying to @ImpPercyPtible @iridienne and
I just don't EVER buy the message that being treated poorly by society is what tips somebody over into being that level of monster, because there's a negation of responsibility, a kind of "look at what you made me do" that absolves the actor of consequence.
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Replying to @CWGaither @ImpPercyPtible and
The weird thing is the movie doesn't fully commit to this narrative either, like by the end of it it's made very clear that Arthur Fleck is a hugely unreliable narrator and nothing we've seen through his eyes can be trusted
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CWGaither and
And this whole basic question about his past -- is he Thomas Wayne's bastard or not -- is left completely unresolved Hence the question of what his grievance actually is and how serious it is and how much it's connected to his madness is also unresolved
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Which means it isn't even actually the movie its most ardent defenders want it to be, whether or not it's a good movie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ImpPercyPtible and
I'm sure it's a very good movie, I just don't want to see it. Whether or not it has quality is a moot point to me. I don't like it. I don't like what it chooses to say. Even with an unreliable narrator the implicit conclusions it draws even in summary are IMHO toxic.
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Replying to @CWGaither @arthur_affect and
And that's the problem with telling any narrative from the villian's POV--it's going to be inherently toxic. Because you're telling the story from someone doing reprehensible things, while believing they are completely justified in doing so.
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