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where can i watch the mysterious benedict society show.

#i don't take no for an answer #the mysterious benedict society

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my head constantly has 10 screens open.

no, not 10 windows. not 10 tabs. not 10 applications.

10. separate. monitors.

so you can imagine my distress at having only one physical laptop screen to work with.

#me #work #i'm ded

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wow, i didn't realize how annoying i can be when i add excess letters to words until i reread some of my old comments.

#me #meee #seeeee #it's suuuper annoying #i sound suuper fakeee

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why use their given name when you can just give them a name?

#filipinos #philippines #seriously #veronica? who's that. you mean auntie baby? #??? #that's not herman that tito boy #WHAT. THE HECK.

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curiosity killed the cat, but not because she learned something she wasn't supposed to know.

curiosity killed the cat because with that extra learned information, everyone used her as a database of knowledge, and she died from exhaustion and spreading herself too thin.

#lessons to learn #work #me #i suffer from having to know everything because it helps me with my work to understand process #but getting bogged down with process and knowledge can prevent actual action #and sooner or later you'll be so entangled in the process that you can't escape #there's an ecologies card game metaphor hidden here somewhere #don't become an essential part of the process. it could very well be your downfall.

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i think about how my sisters and i had very different childhoods. i think about how my parents talked about money and how i always offered my own. i think about how i hated halloween because i didn't like people seeing me. i think about how i was certain my cousins didn't like me. i think about how i hated driving because i was afraid of what i'd do. i think about how my speech impediment affected me. i think about how my weight and clothes defined my attitude toward myself. i think about how i never told anyone any of my interests. i think about how i liked staying with my father when he dropped off my family at the front of the store. i think about how the lack of a youth group warped my perspective. i think about how i sometimes freeze in high-stress situations. i think about how i need to control my tongue. i think about how my future children will develop under my influence. i think about how all of these things have shaped me to be who i am today.

and i praise God that, despite all of it, i have nothing to fear.

#mine #prose

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you're mean because you can be. i'm kind because i want to be.

#mine #quotes #work #or #you can't help but be a jerk. i choose to be a friend. #what you think of me says more about you

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#stars in the night #tenth avenue north #Spotify

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OHHHHH. THE MONSTER FROM WEDNESDAY REMINDS ME OF THE MONSTER FROM OVER THE GARDEN WALL.

#wednesday netflix #over the garden wall #it makes sense all things considered #just. not a complete mutation in otgw #i would consider it more.. transformation~

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bucket list item #18

see the sky where there is absolutely no light pollution.

#maine was beautiful but like #it was only a single night #and it was freezing #but #speechless #bucket list

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it's so funny how once every week i am reminded that tumblr live exists just for me to go into my settings, snooze it for another seven days, and proceed to forget about it.

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Today’s Series - Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope (2023)

Created by Eric Garcia

A new mini series on Netflix where the episodes are presented in random order to each subscriber allowing the story to be experienced anyway one chooses in order to impact your point of view. I really liked that idea when I first heard about it, but it didn’t really play like I thought it would.

For any series I discuss, there will be spoilers involved. Consider this the warning.

The order Netflix gave me was Green, Yellow, Violet, Orange, Blue, Red, Pink, and White. I moved Violet to the top and kept the rest. It’s pretty much the chronological order, but with the heist saved for last which the show prefers people to do.

I had imagined this show to really influence my thinking based on where I started. But that’s not what happened at all. Instead it was mini cliffhangers and then you get the full info later. Not exactly how it was advertised. I could see how someone would be lead to think they know what’s going on if they went in a more random order, but they’d have answers soon enough and eventually we all meet at the same point of view.

I will say, this show is pretty good. It has elements of Ocean’s Eleven, Reservoir Dogs, and a hint of GTA (a character even says as much).

It’s fun, incredibly well acted from the entire cast, and is a decent heist story. The problem? The ending is so bleak that I never want to rewatch it.

Giancarlo Esposito’s character of Ray learns the lesson that he has to let his desire for vengeance go because it will get him and his crew killed. His daughter saves him by stealing the bonds back and sending them to the Triplets. That’s the big twist and final reveal. But…Ray ends up dying anyway as does most of the crew, and the two left alive are miserable anyway. So what exactly were they all saved from? I honestly feel the people making this show missed the point.

Take Agent Abassi. We learn her heartbreaking backstory of having to raid the mosque’s of innocent people after 9/11 which lead to her problems with addiction and in turn losing custody of her son. She turns things around, but can’t stop ignoring her gut, works hard at this case, and she ends up dead? What the fuck?!

“Well she pushed too hard and the rich people had her killed.”

“She remained an addict, she just transferred it to her work.”

And?! That’s the moral of the story?! A person is trying to fix a wrong in the world and they have to die for it? Because she didn’t stop to smell the roses, be with her son, and just give up on bringing criminals to justice, she’s dead? What kind of Jigsaw level thinking is that?!

By the end of this show, pretty much everyone we care about is dead or barely getting by. This series is like the anti Glass Onion for me. It sends the message of let the ultra rich win because it’s all pointless.

But then I got to thinking. What if that’s not what happened? What if there was one little hint that suggested otherwise?

In her last conversation with Ray, there is a FedEx package behind Hannah. It’s the exact same size box she and her sister used to swap out the bonds. She says she is sending the bonds back to the Triplets so that they can claim the insurance and double their money. But we don’t see that. What if she kept it? That makes her unreliable and we cannot trust her.

My theory: Hannah kept the bonds because she never really forgave Ray. She also wanted Roger taken down because she blamed him too. Hannah gets her revenge on both men, keeps all the money knowing her career is about to end, and provides for the family that raised her. She lies to everyone, the Triplets included, which means no one is looking at her, and she let’s the crew fall apart over the next 6 months.

Then when Ray called her, what happens shortly after? He’s killed. Presumably by Roger’s son, but how does a college dropout know how to track an expert thief? Hannah tipped him off.

So there you have it. Kaleidoscope only makes sense to me when I take the view point that Hannah was the mastermind all along. After all, we learn a lot about her as an adult doing this very thing in conning the woman in order to steal the gold bars. She has no problem emotionally manipulating people to achieve her goals.

We are also told that family clouds one’s judgement. It’s why Ray wavered at being a thief in the beginning and why Roger had no problem walking away. Hannah’s family is her sister of 24 years and her newborn baby. That’s who she takes this risk for.

So overall, it’s a good show, but nothing special. Go in whatever order you like, but odds are you will come to the same conclusion no matter what.

#i knew i liked hannah and liz #not because of their morals #oh goodness gracious not for anyone's morals in this show #but like. i was thinking this too #clever girl #too clever #spoilers #kaleidoscope spoilers #kaleidoscope netflix #tho i do think she really did love her dad and forgave him #she just played him for what she believed was his best #she said as much in the white episode and i believe that

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white:

idk was that a lock.? anyway. the heist.

i knew it. i knew fedex was important. and when the elevator stopped at the mailroom, yuuup, it made me smile.

but sucks that it all went downhill after that~ for the main characters, that is. i mean, i knew i liked hannah and liz.

ok but for real tho. rj. i knew he was gone i was just very upset at how it happened. i am very upset. they did not do his character justice. but then... they all got justice, i guess. hm.

ok, i don't think i'd watch this show again but it was a good story~

i'm watching kaleidoscope in roy g. biv order. so red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and pink and then will end with white.

i'll tell you how it goes!

#i knew i liked hannah and liz #spoilers #kaleidoscope netflix #kaleidoscope spoilers

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i mean, i kinda wish they did pull it off if only to have a "happier" ending. but then again, you see the whole story unravel and you think, "no, this is how it was always going to end up. it's the only way it could have."

really starting this year on a high note, aren't we?

i'm watching kaleidoscope in roy g. biv order. so red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and pink and then will end with white.

i'll tell you how it goes!

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pink:

a gun. yeah... 6 months after the heist, i wasn't expecting it to go well for any of them... i just... aghh, let me know what happened to rj! and what happened to the bonds.

mmmhm. dang. that was a brutal ending. i mean, still gotta watch the actual heist go down but, this episode already shows us their future. the heist at this point is just another puzzle piece, but who knows how much closure it may actually give~

a pretty good episode, tho.

i'm watching kaleidoscope in roy g. biv order. so red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and pink and then will end with white.

i'll tell you how it goes!

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i have more to say but it can be summed up with this: rj you cinammon roll!

#kaleidoscope netflix

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show me where you're brave. now show me where you're strong.

#kaleidoscope netflix #quotes #i caan't