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Foundations of Dune
Another excerpt from my forthcoming main channel video: Dune: A Short Critique.
This section begins by looking at the political philosophy that underpins Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, before contrasting it with Frank Herbert's Dune - which, after all, is a deliberate response to that other science fiction great.
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Dune: Paul Atreides is NOT a Hero
Просмотров 103 тыс.2 месяца назад
An excerpt from my forthcoming main channel video: Dune: A Short Critique. This section compares the well-known Hero's Journey formula, usually associated with Joseph Campbell, with the lesser-known mythotype pattern constructed by Lord Raglan. The former is, famously, the structure adopted by George Lucas for Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, while the latter more closely matches Frank Herbert's de...
Madame Web: The BEST Film of the Year
Просмотров 171 тыс.4 месяца назад
If you watch Madame Web as a comedy, you'll have a brilliant time. The full review will follow on my main channel next week. The Full Review: In Progress... Main channel: @TheLittlePlatoon Video editing and Vtuber design by Altries! Here's his website (for commissions and such): altries.squarespace.com/?fbclid=IwAR3dfY6uRCu0xp lJaD_YLf7UNufdIUi1xF7UMEZ6rYKcfwXvjvb_OhtIs Monday night LIVE: The B...
The MCU is BROKEN
Просмотров 187 тыс.5 месяцев назад
An excerpt from The Marvels: A Complete Catastrophe on my main channel, The Little Platoon. The full video: ruclips.net/video/hrXiboEuNGI/видео.html&ab_channel=TheLittlePlatoon Main channel: @TheLittlePlatoon Monday night LIVE: The Best Show in the Universe (Probably): @BSUPyt *Support the channel!* Patreon: patreon.com/thelittleplatoon VTuber design and rigging by Fritz: vecchiof...
The MCU has a Woman Problem
Просмотров 363 тыс.6 месяцев назад
An excerpt from The Marvels: A Complete Catastrophe on my main channel, The Little Platoon. The full video: ruclips.net/video/hrXiboEuNGI/видео.html&ab_channel=TheLittlePlatoon Main channel: @TheLittlePlatoon Monday night LIVE: The Best Show in the Universe (Probably): @BSUPyt *Support the channel!* Patreon: patreon.com/thelittleplatoon VTuber design and rigging by Fritz: vecchiof...
Captain Marvel is a VILLAIN
Просмотров 202 тыс.6 месяцев назад
An excerpt from The Marvels: A Complete Catastrophe on my main channel, The Little Platoon. The full video: ruclips.net/video/hrXiboEuNGI/видео.html&ab_channel=TheLittlePlatoon Main channel: @TheLittlePlatoon Monday night LIVE: The Best Show in the Universe (Probably): @BSUPyt *Support the channel!* Patreon: patreon.com/thelittleplatoon VTuber design and rigging by Fritz: vecchiof...
The Jedi are RUINING Star Wars
Просмотров 47 тыс.7 месяцев назад
An excerpt from part three of my Ahsoka series review that argues the Jedi are, in fact, ruining Star Wars. The full video: ruclips.net/video/YK_lNO1u7GM/видео.html&ab_channel=TheLittlePlatoon Main channel: @TheLittlePlatoon Monday night LIVE: The Best Show in the Universe (Probably): @BSUPyt *Support the channel!* Patreon: patreon.com/thelittleplatoon VTuber design and rigging by Fritz: instag...
Ahsoka vs A New Hope: Star Wars Scene Comparison
Просмотров 11 тыс.7 месяцев назад
An excerpt from part three of my Ahsoka series review in which I compare Obi-Wan training Luke on the Millenium Falcon to Ahsoka training Sabine on the ghost. The full video: ruclips.net/video/YK_lNO1u7GM/видео.html&ab_channel=TheLittlePlatoon Main channel: @TheLittlePlatoon Monday night LIVE: The Best Show in the Universe (Probably): @BSUPyt *Support the channel!* Patreon: patreon.com/thelittl...
Rewriting Disney Star Wars
Просмотров 21 тыс.7 месяцев назад
An excerpt from part two of my Mandalorian Season 3 review in which, keeping the same characters and as many plot beats as possible, I attempt to create a more sensible outline for Disney's expanded Star Wars Universe. The full video: ruclips.net/video/FCC0XeFteT8/видео.htmlsi=3Qu_aiXO_Qk06ZYp Main channel: @TheLittlePlatoon Monday night LIVE: The Best Show in the Universe (Probably): @BSUPyt *...
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - The Definition of Mid
Просмотров 22 тыс.Год назад
By modern (Marvel) standards, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is not a bad film. By sensible standards, it's an incredibly safe, unambitious, mostly forgettable tale that doesn't even try to make use of the immense amount of lore and world-building created by its forebears. You could tell a much better story on your tabletop. The Full Review: Pending... Main Channel @TheLittlePlatoon Pa...
Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania - Who Cares?
Просмотров 82 тыс.Год назад
The MCU's Phase 5 kicked off with an entirely forgettable rehash of a film. Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania achieves nothing, and is proud of it. The Full Review: Pending... Main Channel @TheLittlePlatoon Patreon: patreon.com/thelittleplatoon?Link&
Terrible Arguments for Avatar 2: The Way of Water
Просмотров 24 тыс.Год назад
An excerpt from the forthcoming review of Avatar: The Way of Water on my main channel, The Little Platoon. Dealing with a set of arguments commonly - and wrongly - deployed in defense of the film. Full video: ruclips.net/video/Ql2VVMMOsto/видео.html Main channel: www.youtube.com/@UCYcOHH6u-8w2yB1mKbXP1Uw Patreon: patreon.com/thelittleplatoon?Link&
Avatar 2: The Way of Water - This Film Deserves to Flop
Просмотров 146 тыс.Год назад
The first Avatar was the most expensive cheap rehash in cinematic history. Avatar: The Way of Water is worse. Truly awful writing, tedious vistas, a cynical attempt to hide its non-existent story behind a pretty façade of oceanic beauty. It deserves to flop. Main channel video: ruclips.net/video/Ql2VVMMOsto/видео.html Main Channel: www.youtube.com/@TheLittlePlatoon Patreon: patreon.com/thelittl...
The Tragic Myth of Wakanda
Просмотров 129 тыс.Год назад
An excerpt from the third part of my Wakanda Forever review over @TheLittlePlatoon. This mini-essay looks at the unpleasant, isolationist (and even segregationist) ideals underpinning Wakanda as a concept, and the damaging messages sent out by the films in which it features. The full review: ruclips.net/video/kOX_6Soxp80/видео.html Main Channel: www.youtube.com/@TheLittlePlatoon Patreon: patreo...
Rings of Power Sucks at Diversity - Here's How to Fix it
Просмотров 103 тыс.Год назад
An extract from part two of the Rings of Power critique series from my main channel, @TheLittlePlatoon - explaining why the diversity of RoP is a failure, and how it could be fixed while remaining faithful to Tolkien's world. The full video: ruclips.net/video/XYgcSEW6nPc/видео.html&ab_channel=TheLittlePlatoon Main channel: www.youtube.com/@TheLittlePlatoon Patreon: patreon.com/thelittleplatoon?...
Star Wars - Andor is Better than You Think
Просмотров 71 тыс.Год назад
Star Wars - Andor is Better than You Think
Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever - It's a Bad Film
Просмотров 42 тыс.Год назад
Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever - It's a Bad Film
Fake Plastic Trees - (live) Radiohead cover
Просмотров 10 тыс.Год назад
Fake Plastic Trees - (live) Radiohead cover
Yellow (Coldplay cover)
Просмотров 3,2 тыс.2 года назад
Yellow (Coldplay cover)
Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover
Просмотров 11 тыс.2 года назад
Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover
Skinny Love (Bon Iver cover)
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Skinny Love (Bon Iver cover)

Комментарии

  • @brennanboyd8381
    @brennanboyd8381 9 часов назад

    I’m not gay, but for your beautiful voice I would be. This guy put into words what we were all thinking…And then some!!

  • @ghostreyn
    @ghostreyn День назад

    I remember some people i knew were defending this film saying how good it was however i could not see the difference between the two films or a point for the second to exist exept to attempt to make money. It's the same premise, colonizers want to colonize. Sure the visuals were pretty, but that was it, the plot was the same.

  • @ghostreyn
    @ghostreyn 2 дня назад

    Its not just the MCU its Disney. When we see films being marketed as "this film as ____ representation in it, go see it." they are throwing the bar super low for the film, in my opinion. It's no longer about how good a story is.

  • @jemmaskinner-du8yd
    @jemmaskinner-du8yd 5 дней назад

    Woman don't even want to watch women's superheroes they want to watch male superheroes because they're much cooler in every way imaginable

  • @elbuhogrunon8957
    @elbuhogrunon8957 5 дней назад

    having only women as a target audience isn't that bad, if you offer a good story like barbie it will make sense to look after that target audience. But marvel doesn't even care to make an interesting character, an interesting story or anything that will conect, on their business brains only adding a character that coincidentaly is pakistani, black or a woman is enough

  • @timhenley3602
    @timhenley3602 5 дней назад

    "Paul Atredies is NOT a hero"...well, he's not a villian, either. Dune isn't so black and white. Paul is closer to being a Tragic Hero, certainly not the fitting the mold of the 'hero' as so often depicted in Western culture.

  • @kjvail
    @kjvail 6 дней назад

    This is fantastic. I love this analysis.

  • @Papamarmottin
    @Papamarmottin 6 дней назад

    This should be placed on your main channel as well. Thank you, dear!

  • @jamesblackwell7497
    @jamesblackwell7497 7 дней назад

    Well done. It is nice to see it articulated so clearly. I feel like many fans have intuited this but it have only been able to frame it in a. “I don’t like it and it’s different from what I like” and in seeking to articulate it come off as racist. You have really honed in on the core issue and articulated it well. Bravo and thank you. Respectfully, Jimmy

  • @jamesblackwell7497
    @jamesblackwell7497 7 дней назад

    I have been main lining a lot of your videos and on the whole i resonate with a lot of your critiques. However for this one I soundly disagree. My impression of this film was that it was written as a table top adventure, it felt that way and that was the charm, I resonantes as a player and a DM. You could tell between a PC and an NPC, you could almost see the unexpected crit fails and successes. Perhaps my favorite part was when they jail break at Chris Pines parole hearing. They were going to release him anyway. While it comes off as sloppy writing and a cheap joke, as someone who has run a game it is exactly the kinda thing that would happen. I would have a nice scene to set the stage and give some flavor and my players would interpret it as something that needed their initiative and completely add unnecessary complications. There were many other instances where I felt I could almost see the mechanics behind the plot and character arcs which is what was the charm… for as you said it is the structure that the games provide that is the uniting factor. I know it might be feel like an excuse for bad writing, but if we got a tight story it would not feel like a gaming session, which really was the charm of the movie for me. Respectfully, Jimmy

  • @surgc6278
    @surgc6278 7 дней назад

    Soild it soild it soild it.

  • @ImpKnt80
    @ImpKnt80 8 дней назад

    One small nitpick with the writing on the last one, the imperial officer would have killed off Cinta instead of meekly allowing her to murder him with a small knife in a doorway if only by forcing her blade back into her body as she was trying to shank him with it. This would have introduced more conflict and character into shallow Vel so her character wouldn’t be as thin as watered down cardboard in season 2. I would also very much hope they actually make better use of Syril Karn as a nemesis for and or next season instead of as a simp for Dedra, the lady ISB agent.

  • @BdogFinal14
    @BdogFinal14 9 дней назад

    Well Nia DaCosta definitely made history, making the worst performing MCU film. And I disagree, Black Panther wasn’t an “urban targeted” film. I was it twice in San Antonio, with mostly white audiences. Disney screwed up with Wakanda Forever. They should have recast T’Challa. And Black Widow should have got a better film, before Endgame and Infinity Wars. A Black Widow / Hawkeye team up would have worked. We could have finally seen what happened in Budapest. WandaVision could have led directly into House of M, introduced the X-Men and the multiverse.

  • @user-jd4bl1qz5u
    @user-jd4bl1qz5u 10 дней назад

    They f ck Ed matrix 4

  • @ikept_the_jethryk2421
    @ikept_the_jethryk2421 11 дней назад

    I took my troubles outside on a breezy afternoon, a beer in hand, on the patio out back of the pub. The band took a break and I took an earnest sip. Suddenly on the microphone was my friend, with whom I normally discuss movies. I didn't even know he could sing! And he did, and sang well, high and heartfelt, straight to my soul. I will never go to the microphone, or look good in a sleeveless shirt. But the things I do, I can do better with friends like you, even though we shall never meet, and the pub is the upstairs hallway, and the beer is just my phone playing a song while the kids brush their teeth. I took a mighty sip and now a toast: Thanks to the whole Platoon, movie cynic and casual vocalist. Thanks and Good Night!

  • @JohannBinu-om5xc
    @JohannBinu-om5xc 13 дней назад

    I feel like they should only keep black widow and wanda ,the actors r extremely sweet and lovely amd their characters are way nore relatable,since they have experienced many hardships and ttials,they deserve to say,nothing beats cap,iron man,thor,hulk,black widow,wanda,black panther and ofc loki and such characters like these they r amazing

  • @tommydeamon7657
    @tommydeamon7657 14 дней назад

    They had north star from alpha flight fir the gay types and if they need more for gods sake create new ones stop ruining charechters that clearly been not bi not gay but strait alot of them for like what 75 years I don't know but it's been a damnd long time

  • @tommydeamon7657
    @tommydeamon7657 14 дней назад

    The mcu doesn't have a woman problem the hot strong in charechter and powers and all that are part if the appeal to it all they got a director lack of vision problem the got this grand monopolizing mouse on there back that is agenda driven to the point if destroying decades long storied charechters there tring to put the square in the round thing ya know they can have strong women charechters without having that femanazi agenda allways hoping it's ugly head in storyline that it don't belong I mean a second string charechter like captain marvel carol denvers who with a bit of decent story has allways fluctuated between 1st string and second bottom line on that there trying to make her more powerful than thor who the giant fuc$ are they kidding get youre christian hands outa the pie Thor represents a hole culture and a hole time period as well as the present bottom line even if you pray to a God that is not of you're blood( like Christianity) people in today's world still vary much pray and believe in thor not mere mythology so,s ill put it like this hear let's say some how they woulda made Jesus kool enough to be a marvel charechter would you punk him out just for a femanazi agenda probably not the main problem with marvel is diseny and a tottal lack of respect for like 50 + years of kick ass story lines and I ain't saying dont do something new iam saying stop shiting on what's came before or create youre own damnd universe to push youre activist bull shit through keep the church the state and fuc%$÷ up agendas a Out of star wars out of marvel and take that shit to tge news to the streets make some new charechters in the Marcel universe but for the love of anything decent stop craving on marvel just to get youre psycho agendas through on a major movie screen stop diseny youre destroying all the world's childhood

  • @eddiewalker2957
    @eddiewalker2957 14 дней назад

    Whenever I have imposter syndrome at work I remember that a billion dollars company hired these people who ran it into the ground and they didn't for one second doubt themselves. How did shareholders not do something years ago about this. It's absolutely mental

  • @nesrevarcadia4755
    @nesrevarcadia4755 15 дней назад

    Love u so much brother ❤️ 💙

  • @Pimploaf_YTP
    @Pimploaf_YTP 16 дней назад

    Thanks for putting this context together, I'm a big fan of the Dune (at least the four books I've read), but I really didn't grasp the context they arose from. I don't think I can align myself with Herbert's (or Asimov's) conclusions, but his point of view is fascinating to me. I wonder what he'd think of me currently making a YTP out of the audiobooks of his work, hah.

  • @James-cs2wi
    @James-cs2wi 16 дней назад

    Now we know why Elon Musk is making space rockets so we can move to Pandora lol 😆 😂 😄

  • @tla_studios
    @tla_studios 16 дней назад

    Time is only proving Andor to be uniquely high quality. Platoon nailed it. Now, back to The Acolye (uuuuugh)

  • @mrbojangles8133
    @mrbojangles8133 20 дней назад

    interesting as always

  • @torresstormer9136
    @torresstormer9136 20 дней назад

    When i saw Avengers Endgame I wanted an OG Hellicarrier vs Thanos Space ship showoff that ended in the Hellicarrier raming the Thanos Space ship

  • @Kmwallace90
    @Kmwallace90 21 день назад

    since it seems the full video will never survive the youtube strike system, I will have to do with this incredibly interesting video essay instead. Incredibly fascinating excerpt as always :)

  • @cking9145
    @cking9145 21 день назад

    I like how Disney seems to have absolutely no clue how to save the mcu while the fckn whole internet is full of one big opinion, why mcu fans hate the new kind of marvel movies ..

  • @TheHotShotProject
    @TheHotShotProject 22 дня назад

    Paul is a hero, if they wanted him to be a villain they should have wrote him like that.

  • @isaiahsmith7123
    @isaiahsmith7123 22 дня назад

    When can we expect the full review?

  • @cking9145
    @cking9145 24 дня назад

    You can see that the mcu was created by men who were marvel fans, when they were young. And now the bosses of the mcu are feminists 😅

  • @cory2477
    @cory2477 24 дня назад

    4:36 Johnathan Majors' outburst just proves some people think playing characters on screen somehow helps 'their people,' all while boosting their own egos.

  • @zshah3107
    @zshah3107 24 дня назад

    The Force don't always work like That!

  • @zshah3107
    @zshah3107 24 дня назад

    Dude, Stop blaming the Jedis besides Dave Filoni was such a Moron, Wallahi!

  • @JPG.01
    @JPG.01 26 дней назад

    Paul isn't a Hero. He is no villain either. He is indeed an anti-hero. The guy who becomes a monster or starts to go down a monstrous path because it is necessary for the good of humanity. He still serves humanity, in becoming what is necessary and that is, in his case just not the good guy. Much like Kain in the Legacy of Kain series. Both of them refuse the necessary sacrifice. For different reasons but with the same intended outcome. All to give the world the bitter taste of that terrible illusion; Hope.

  • @militant_daisies2194
    @militant_daisies2194 26 дней назад

    you did well

  • @hawkstringfellow
    @hawkstringfellow 28 дней назад

    Blackwidow was awesome... we all love her sexuality is a power shes is deadly yes sir depth to her character full range I loved her

  • @hawkstringfellow
    @hawkstringfellow 28 дней назад

    The personalities suck and the female characters are mostly bringing there politics and who they are instead of playing the character studios allowing this shit is losing money

  • @joemo1033
    @joemo1033 29 дней назад

    Joseph Campbell was an absolute treasure. His talks are still amazing today. Watch his stuff on rights of passage. Amazing.

  • @shadowzone2588
    @shadowzone2588 29 дней назад

    And people wounder why everyone hates her.

  • @user-zl9sh9mz6h
    @user-zl9sh9mz6h Месяц назад

    I love Marvel Comics, but I hate Marvel movies. The comics have drama, but the movies only have stupid quips.

  • @k98killer
    @k98killer Месяц назад

    To be fair, the White US government hunted the bison nearly to extinction just to force the Plains Indians onto reservation under threat of starvation. It was not the Plains Indians who caused the near extinction of bison.

  • @heinricho
    @heinricho Месяц назад

    41:00 I think he was onto something...

  • @MrMalvolio29
    @MrMalvolio29 Месяц назад

    What **REPEATEDLY** baffles me is that these “directors,” “actors,” and “content creators” here in the third decade of the TWENTY FIRST CENTURY **actually** seem to BELIEVE that “female empowerment” in Mary Sue characters lacking any dramatic tension or characterological struggles or flaws is a NEW, “INNOVATIVE” phenomenon in Hollywood films…..It is *stunning* that a privileged, seriously overpaid actor with little to zero contact with the workaday, 8-to-6 reality most of us inhabit can *un-ironically* think “their” (sic) mere “representative” presence in a *Marvel* film does ANYTHING AT ALL substantive toward rectifying real inequality and other social problems endemic in the real world from which Hollywood does all it can to insulate “them.”

  • @MrMalvolio29
    @MrMalvolio29 Месяц назад

    I have a request, Platoon…Could you give your lovely voice the task of covering Death Cab’s “I’ll Follow You Into the Dark”? Think of it as a paean for all of us who’ve lost so much, we’ve vowed never, *never* to let our supercilious, insouciant masks slip again for sentiment…

  • @MrMalvolio29
    @MrMalvolio29 Месяц назад

    Radiohead too?!?!?!? Wow. You do pleasantly surprise one, Little Platoon…

  • @MrMalvolio29
    @MrMalvolio29 Месяц назад

    I am seldom “sincere,” yet just this once, Platoon, I have to say this is truly a beautiful rendition of one of my childhood favourite songs….If, perchance, you ever performed near me, I could quite possibly feel motivated to put down my copy of *PARADISE LOST* (teaching it in my seminar this fall); get my languid self moving about; and attend. You are, delightfully surprisingly, worth it!

  • @mediumsage3383
    @mediumsage3383 Месяц назад

    They just need to write the women the same way they would men. And men the same way they would write woman. The problem I see if them still filtering everything through binary gender roles.

  • @mrnateallyn
    @mrnateallyn Месяц назад

    This was fantastic. It almost makes me forgive you for referring to American football as “gay rugby” in the Echo video. I have been trying to come up with a similar label for SOCCER but so far the best I’ve been able to do is “gay lacrosse.” Not a perfect comparison, but feel free to let me know if you can think of something better. Also, please sing more.

  • @BrickChick
    @BrickChick Месяц назад

    Isn't being a villain under the criteria of "on purpose" ?

  • @manisaaja3069
    @manisaaja3069 Месяц назад

    Is Not Real Marvel Anime Girl.