Finally watching EEAAO
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Pretty good and funny so far, halfway in, but tbh I don’t get the extreme reactions. Live action Rick and Morty seems about right. Similar structural premise as multiverse of madness.
All Chinese main cast is inspired though. Works better somehow.
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Okay done. Some novel features in the last bit, and the detailed plotting across universes was interesting, but I guess I’m too old for this to really hit the way it seems to have hit some people.
Definitely a very fun movie though, and Michelle Yeoh in comic bits was great.
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Better than marvel multiverse, not as good as Rick and Morty, though can’t strictly compare since the mood in the second half is different
The mechanics of the multiverse here weren’t as special as I was led to believe, though I can imagine keeping it all straight was tough
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The intercutting (or whatever the camera/editing techniques are called) between multiverses looked very clever, the way the matrix slo-mo looked very clever in 1999. I’m guessing there was a lot of process innovation there that I’m not film-literate enough to grok
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I like how multiverse fiction is getting a distinct identity different from time travel fiction. Rick and Morty even played that for a macabre laugh in S4E8 redo button episode, though that particular plot device imo was pioneered by The Prestige.
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Multiverses where they occur as adjuncts to ordinarily time travel plots tend to be dull, basic counterfactuals like in Doctor Who. R&M, MCU, and EEAAO all future something more like an uncollapsed superpositions/wave functions of timelines with more interesting logics
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James Gleick wrote a good book on time travel and how it had to be actually invented by H. G. Wells. Ideas don’t seem obvious and familiar until they do. There literally weren’t stories about traveling through time before
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I disagree. It fails several tests. Does come close though, as does Rip Van Winkle.

