DHMIS Day 1: Creativity

“What’s your favorite idea? Mine is being creative!”

The line above kicked off one of the awesomest, weirdest, strangest and most troubling video series youtube has ever known. Over the past few years the series titled “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” intrigued and disturbed us, but sadly the series will come to an end with the sixth and final “episode” this summer. Since June 19 is the date featured in all episodes, huggers (fans of the series) are predicting the final episode to be released on that date (there are a bunch of other evidence that support this prediction, if you are a hugger, you probably already know them), but no official info was released yet (at least not to my knowledge). So with the finale five days away, I would like to share my reactions to the first five episodes. And then wrap up Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared week with a review of the final episode, which will hopefully be released on June 19^th!

So let us begin with part 1, creativity!

Orphan Black SN4 EP9 – ‘The Mitigation Of Competition’

Don’t know about you, but I REALLY missed the Helena crazy murder dub-step theme, and in this episode, it had its long awaited triumphant return!

A lot of other stuff happened this episode too, so let’s begin!

Elizabeth Banks Not Directing Pitch Perfect 3, WHAT?

Elizabeth Banks announced that she won’t be directing the third installment of the ever popular Pitch Perfect series. The internet, being the weird place that it is, decided to read too much into this.

Orphan Black SN4 EP8 – ‘The Redesign of Natural Objects’

 

Last week I predicted it, and this week it happened!

Super Duncan/clone club team up is a thing now. But their end goal is to put Susan back on the Neolution throne, and of course, cure the incurable clone disease.

Some other interesting things happened this week, so let’s begin the breakdown!

Orphan Black SN4 EP7 – ‘Antisocialism Of Sex’

Everyone deals with grief differently. Even twins. And according to the latest episode of Orphan Black, clones too.

This episode mainly deals with how our dear sisters are coping with the loss of Kendall Malone, the original. Needless to say, this episode was filled with emotionally draining scenes, which I think was a great way to mourn the loss of such an epic character.

Enough about me telling you how emotional the latest episode was, it’s time I show you!

Rachel: the captive clone is no longer in captivity. After the loss of the original and her genome, Susan Duncan lost all hope, and let Rachel go free. There is no longer a point in keeping her in her cell. She, along with Charlotte and Ira are going to die soon. To add salt to injury, Evie Cho, the new head of Neolution, announces the official end of the clone programs. She also states that there is no need to even bother with the remaining Leda clones, except for the “self-aware sisters”.

Alison: Alison tried to keep herself busy with organising a birthday slumber party to Gemma (her adopted daughter). Donnie can see that she is suffering, and tries to get her to talk it out. She ignores him and keeps working. The slumber party seems to be a success, until the police comes in to arrest Donnie for his drug dealing past. As Donnie is being taken away by the police, Detective Duco (Evie Cho’s henchman) talks to Alison, gives her his card as he asks her about her feelings towards Kendall’s murder.

Cosima: out of all the clones, it felt like Cosima was the one who had the hardest time dealing. For starters, she saw the murder happen. Added to that, she blames herself for the ordeal, cause after all, she was one who pushed for the deal that lead to the kidnapping, and then murder, of the original. While discussing her chances of survival with Scott, she reveals that she swiped Sarah’s cheek worm after its removal. Maybe they can use it to try and fix something? With the amount of stress she is under, she starts to believe that placing the cheek worm in her could be the solution to her problems (for a person who lost everything, and is about to die anyway, a risky, uneducated and unaided “operation” is not that much of a risk). Halfway through the blind insertion, she gets a call from Felix whose somewhat good news stops her from doing the dumbest thing she has ever done.

Sarah: Siobhan blames Sarah for the death of her mother. So she confronts Sarah, and tells her to just leave again, and never come back. Sarah wants to take Kira with her, but obviously Siobhan won’t stand for it. This leads Sarah to “get off track”. She goes to random clubs, takes drinks from random strangers she’s never met, and even sniffs some white powder! She even starts to see Beth’s ghost everywhere, urging her to follow suit.

Felix: I left Felix till the end because he was the hero of the episode! When he finds out what Mrs S told Sarah, he runs out looking for his sister. On his search and rescue mission, he gets a call from S telling him that Kira had a feeling (I am beginning to think that Kira’s feelings are a sort of super power) that Sarah is following Beth’s lead. On his way to the train station, he gets a call from Scott who needs help with Cosima, which is when he remembered that he didn’t share the news about Delphine Krystal told him. Apparently, after getting herself shot, a yet unknown group took Delphine somwhere while still alive (so there is hope!!). He eventually finds Sarah on the side of a bridge, standing there, thinking of jumping. Felix of course, stops her, managing to save the day twice in the span of 5 minutes!!!

I really, really, REALLY enjoyed this episode. It was just what we needed after the bombshell of an episode that preceded it. Not only was the episode dark and depressing, it also sort of teased for a bright possible future. And that possible future is Rachel and Susan working together with clone club to take back Neolution (just speculating here). Another possible future is a Cosima/Delphine reunited!!!!!!

I am super excited about this week’s episode, and can’t wait to see the next one. How about you? Are you enjoying the direction this season is headed? Do you think we will see a super clone club/Duncan team up? Do you like the idea of a super team up? And of course, do you think Delphine is still alive somewhere (I personally hope she is)?

Videogame Movies, Yay or Nay??

Movie adaptations of videogames have always sparked up controversy among gamers. Most adaptations manage to offend every fan in existence (Resident Evil comes to mind), while a select few actually look really good (the Warcraft film, can’t wait to see that!). So the movie industry is still and will always keep making them in hopes of convincing gamers to watch more movies.

However, recent adaptation announcements/ releases are worrying this blogger.

A Review Of X-Men Apocalypse

Days of Future Past was an X-men movie that basically reboot the entire X-men universe through an awesome time travel plot that was insanely heartfelt and inspiring (I remember leaving the cinema all teary eyed with the general feeling that everything is possible). In other words, it is a given that any follow up to this film would be an awesome re-introduction to the newly re-created X-men universe. And the Apocalypse trailers did show a LOT of promise, I mean it is only fitting that a universe gets destroyed right after it is created!

However, Apocalypse, with all his might, did not have the power to live up to my expectations.

Orphan Black SN4 EP6 – The Scandal of Altruism

Earlier this week I thought that having to recap 5 Orphan Black episodes in one go was going to be challenging. With the release of episode 6, and having to recap the mind-blowing and emotional events of the episode made me wish I could write something that easy again…

A lot has happened in this episode, a trade, some science stuffs, a kidnapping/murder, a flashback, and a LOT of tears. So let’s begin shall we!

‘Tetris’ A Surprise Of A Movie

Videogames always had epic storylines that Hollywood loves to adapt into movies. And more often than not, those movies are hated by the hard-core gamers. Cause let’s face it, how on earth do you expect to give an average 20+ hours of gameplay justice in a 2 hour movie.

However there are still some game movies that are building up quite a good rep (Warcraft comes to mind). Added to that, a somewhat recent announcement captured our interest.

A Rocky Remake (Pun Intended)

As someone who wasn’t even born when the original movie was released, I may not be the best authority to comment on the reboot film’s trailer. But as someone who found the film at a crucial time in his life, and learned to accept his weirdness (which is actually akin to awesomeness) no matter what, I think I do.

So fasten your seat belts and get ready for my reaction to the reboot trailer!!