Quill & Claw/Pen & Paw

Theme parks look like money makers. The crowds, the merchandise, the people willing to pay big bucks to wait in line more than actually doing anything like seeing attractions. They really can cash it in. Since you pay one, always raising, price, you can't wheel and deal and budget. One lump sum into the pockets of various shareholders. Movie makers? On the other hand? Simple. You can rotate your property to digital home services for those who aren't willing to shell out the movie tickets, and maybe make some kind of profit. The theater? That doesn't have to be rebuilt, you just install another movie. And you can play it a few times a day to earn your cash. Disney, always looking for another way to sell their wares (these people can get the lint out of your pockets, so don't say you weren't warned-and don't worry, I drank the Kool-Aid too, every single fucking time), elected to rebrand their famed attractions at the turn of the century. Taking a page from t...

First the Handmaid's Tale . A novel approach to, well, a novel-it went ahead and made me think of critiquing something in a different manner. Such a brave new world, with such people in it. Now? This. As you know, I'm kinda into my Disney crap. This blog is not a location for such elaboration, but more of an intro as to where I'm going with this. I was afforded an opportunity this weekend, on Mother's Day, to be exact, to see Disney World's latest "land" over at their Animal Kingdom. This land? This specific locale is based on the famed Avatar  and it's setting, the off-planet moon of Pandora. This new land located in the area that used to be housing Camp Minnie-Mickey, a completely failed attempt to fill space that was going to be holding the "legendary beasts" section of the park. They already had real animals. They had extinct animals over in Dinoland. This was going to be the corner of the park that housed dragons and mythical beast...

Yeah, I did put a question mark in there. This film, for lack of a better term, rides a very different track that I have to acknowledge before I get down to the review's brass tacks. This particular work appears only on Hulu right now. And I watch it on my television. Only it's not built like a tv show. There's a moment, when you binge watch something on one of these subscription services, where you can see the jet black cutout for a commercial. It was made for and, well, written directly with the concept that there's going to be a commercial. So I know and interpret it as being television. Back in my younger years, when I did summer stock, one of our assignments was to create a soap, to write one of those intricate tales of multiple short scenes. And we were taught, you create from commercial to commercial. So, even though I was watching this ON my television, it had nothing linked to it being television. In fact, it's episodic nature suggested it could probab...