leejooheon | Entries tagged with f: kfp

i've been really struggling with settling on a routine and developing consistent habits. If anyone has any tips about that I would appreciate them! Either way I've made a schedule and it's flexible enough that I don't feel super pressured and includes a bunch of stuff I wanted to do but hadn't gotten around to because it felt like too much. I think writing it all out makes me feel a lot less anxious and overwhelmed.

I need to fix my sleep schedule. It's literally 4am right now. I also still need to pick out an activity that makes me get out of the house like my psychiatrist asked me to. Ugh. I'll deal with that tomorrow.

Me and my friend watched kfp: the paws of destiny together. It was so much fun! We're both hyperfixated on kfp so I really like watching things with them. And honestly, the show was... surprisingly good? So far, at least. I like it way more than LOA. It's not perfect, but it's pretty clear to me that the writers were having fun creating their own lore. Po has been fairly in character so far, the kid characters are endearing and Jindiao is such a well executed antagonist. Overall, I'm having fun. I saw someone say that they really disliked the show and so far I can't really understand why. I think it has fairly solid writing and pretty interesting ideas. By far my biggest complain is that a lot of the characters look really iffy and just out of place. Not Jindiao though. He was such a fantastic design, oh my god.

We may be watching more tomorrow, so I'm excited!

I've been rewatching Free! lately and it's doing something to my brain. I was briefly obsessed with it a couple of years ago, and this is my second time watching it. It feels good to revisit it. I don't think Free! is anything amazing, but it does have its charms. It's lighthearted and chill, which I enjoy. It makes it a very easy watch.

I've finished s1, and it was good! I find the contrast of everyone having fun and then Rin just going through it constantly kind of amusing. His whole character is quite funny to me. He's completely lost sight of what he wants and what swimming means to him, but is too stubborn to admit to himself that he needs friendships in his life to feel better about himself, so he's just fighting back against his own wishes for no reason. He's very mentally ill.

S1 is enjoyable, but not my favorite. I recall s2 being the strongest, but s3 has my personal favorite character, so I'm really excited to watch those again. I am also pretty excited to watch the ending movies, since I never actually got to watch them.

In terms of shipping, I am a multishipper, and Free! has quite a lot of combinations to choose from. Rinharu and Makoharu are the most popular, for obvious reasons, but they don't quite do it for me. I am however a big Makorin fan! Pretty ironic, I guess. I just find it amusing to think that those two somehow get over their homoerotic obsessions with Haru and end up together. Plus the contrast in their personalities scratches an itch in my brain.

I am a big fan of Nitorin as well. Mostly as an unrequited ship, but still. Nitori's crush on Rin, and the way Rin slowly warms up to him are cute to me.

But Sourin is where it's at for me. I was obsessed with them during my Free! phase. I am so excited to watch s2 and experience their relationship all over again.

I've also been thinking about rewatching steven universe. I started following someone who posts about it a lot on twt and it's making me really miss the show. I think I will start my rewatch tomorrow? I have a million other shows to finish, but what's one more, right?

I've been watching Legends of Awesomeness, the kfp nick series, and after making it halfway through I've gotten tired of it. It's just not really adding anything interesting to my perception of the world and the characters. The most worthwhile aspect was Monkey's backstory, which honestly was pretty interesting, and I choose to believe it's canon. There are two other kfp shows, Paws of Destiny and The Dragon Knight. As far as I know, The Dragon Knight is infamously bad, but I've seen interesting things about Paws Of Destiny, so I'm kind of eager to start that one. I have heard it targets relatively young children, but I think I can handle that. Hopefully it'll be better than LOA.

not to talk about kfp AGAIN, but i have a lot of thoughts and i need to write them down so they let me sleep.

i find it so incredibly frustrating watching people online consistently miss the point of the third movie. i think it gets a lot of undeserved hate for being the most lighthearted entry into the series, and a lot of that stuff gets easily dimissed as filler. but i think that's just... really missing the point.

a lot of the scenes with the pandas are undeniably comedic and funny, but they absolutely do serve a point to the plot! reconnecting with his heritage and culture, and bonding with his dad is important, and while i understand maybe wanting the movie to have less scenes of that, there's something really cathartic to me about watching a genocide survivor explore things he never got the chance to, and i'm just never going to fault the movie for simply allowing po a chance to experience pure joy and showing it to the audience in its fullest extent.

the movie also does have emotionally heavy and mature moments. li is a literal trauma survivor, and so much of his motivation in this movie is connected to his trauma. and there's some really touching stuff about parenting and the familial struggles relating to po as a an adopted child, and how his adoptive father deals with those issues.

there's some pretty clever stuff too about what genocide does to people, on a personal and cultural level, and it's all handled with so much respect and subtlety. maybe TOO much subtlety considering how much people missed it.

the way this movie thematically connects the previous two is also really clever and just good story telling all around. it understands it marks the end of a journey, and it chooses to make po look back at what he's learned in a really coherent way.

anyway, this movie is so sweet and well put together, it's so disheartening to see people rip it apart over what, in my opinion, boils down to bad media literacy and not anything super substantial.

after the 4th kfp movie completely disappointed me, i decided to go back and binge the original trilogy. still really great! but i think spending so much time with it is giving me a little bit of hyperfixation burn out, so despite myself, i'll probably have to keep my mind busy with some other stuff to not completely overload.

watched kfp 4 on a shady piracy website with a friend last night and oh boy.

things i liked:

-mr ping and li's scenes were very fun and charming. they weren't needed at all, but they gave me joy.
-tai lung had some very charming scenes and i ultimately think this is a good direction for his character... at least in theory, but i will get to that.
-i liked some of the ideas behind the chameleon. her being this toxic mother figure is pretty interesting and i enjoy the shapeshifter thing. big fan of her design as well.

things i didn't like:

-kai and shen were really there for no reason, had no dialogue and ended up adding nothing to the movie.
-as much as i think tai lung's storyline is good in theory, in practice there was no actual lead up to it. that final scene of him saying goodbye to po would hit so much harder if it was in a movie that had actually fleshed both of them out.
-i like the ideas behind the chameleon but not the execution. this whole movie somehow feels like a super early draft? because so much of her story actually needed some reworking.
-i don't like zhen. much like the chameleon, i do feel she had potentially but they do nothing with it. she also has no chemistry with po nor is she an endearing character.
-that ending sucked ass.
-the furious five's absence is very felt, and it makes the whole movie feel awkward.
-the pacing was so weird.

conclusion: in my opinion, a good kfp movie needs good emotional beats, good action sequences, strong character writing, and a compelling villain. and out of all these, we really only got good action, and even then it never made me feel the way the og 3 movies did. it felt like a bunch of disjointed ideas put together with glue. i was really disappointed.

i should be sleeping, but instead i'm thinking about kfp (yes, the hyperfixation has not gone away) so here are some headcanons in no partucular order.

1. i've given a lot of thought to what exactly happened to kai in the third movie. how can you kill someone who is already dead? the idea i have landed on is that his soul is still there, it's just scattered, and it needs some time to pass before it can reform.

2. po has been dealing with nightmares his whole life. initially he couldn't understand what was happening in them or why he would wake up so unsettled, but after learning about his past and his repressed trauma, it all started to make sense.

3. tigress is a trans woman.

4. po was a very lonely kid growing up, partially because he was fat and partially because he was neurodivergent and so other children immediately noticed he was "weird."

5. shifu keeps a bunch of tai lung's old belongings in his room that he looks at every time he misses him. tigress once accidentally found it when she was a child and shifu immediately lashed out, so she never went into his room without permission again.

6. this is one that i could make an entire post about because i have given it a lot of thought. since tai lung and shen appear to be the same age i like to think they were childhood friends. tai lung being imprisoned was a huge blow to shen's mental health, and it made him unwell enough that it was almost a catalyst for him going down a dark path too.

so the kung fu panda 4 trailer dropped a few days ago and it made me want to revisit the first two movies and watch the third for the first time. this had the unintended effect of causing me to hyperfixate on the franchise and it's an interesting feeling.

nowadays most of my hyperfixations are things i've been into for a long time, and they are mostly at the back of my mind until something reminds me of them and suddenly i cannot stop thinking about it. but this is a kind of hyperfixation i haven't experienced this intensely in a little bit: the kind where i can't spend a single second without thinking about it. it's pretty consuming emotionally speaking, and i am not used to these kinds of hyperfixations anymore, so it's been a bit of a whiplash. especially because i really didn't see this one coming. i always hyperfixate on the things i don't expect to.

i'm having a lot of fun thinking about the series. it's a really great movie series so there's plenty of fun things to talk about when it comes to it, which is always a joy when it comes to hyperfixation. i just gotta find a way to balance it. i also wonder how long this one will last? i give it a month i think, but we'll see.

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