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Welcome back to Streaming with Sqrlmog, where my Head, Heart, Guts and Inner Child engage in robust discourse over something I've watched off the Internet recently.

Duck Tales (Season 1)
2017
25 episodes
Have I Seen This Before? Nope

HEY. So this is actually a fairly recent animation, unlike the previous stuff I've been writing about. If you care about spoilers you should know that this writing will contain spoilers for Season 1 of Duck Tales 2017.

If you don't want to be spoiled for this goofy duck cartoon, don't read any further.
( The rest of you, grab on. )

See you next feature!

Crossposts: https://xyzzysqrl.livejournal.com/608127.html

Disney's The Black Hole
1979
Have I Seen This Before? Yes.

I want you all to know that the temptation to call this movie "Disney's Black Hole" for the entire post was absolutely incredible and my restraint qualifies me for sainthood.

( Read more... )

See you next feature!

Crossposts: https://xyzzysqrl.livejournal.com/607617.html

All the furniture is still plastic-wrapped, the set decorations haven't arrived, and I still have a price tag in a very uncomfortable place, but we're set up enough around here that we're ready to roll with this inaugural episode. But hey, if I'm in a state of disarray, at least I'm not as bad as the Disney Plus launch. They were simply not ready for the sheer number of people trying to watch at once. TV shows were in a strange jumbled order, the search bar didn't, the website was slinging error messages every second click, and the movie list would stop loading whenever it felt like it.

That last one isn't a problem if you really like films starting with the letters A, B, C, and D but it was kind of a problem for everyone with a taste for deeper cuts of the alphabet.

There was some stuff I thought about, writing this first entry. Did I want to have a rating system?
(No, not really.)
How long should I write for something like this?
(Begin at the beginning, go on 'til you come to the end, then stop.)

Most importantly, though... what would I watch first? What would set the proper tone, what's the best beginning? When a company like Disney dumps a shedload of their history in a giant heap on your lawn, even starting to pick through it is a daunting task.

Would I go with a beloved legendary classic or one of those weird and fascinating bombs dug out of the bins of history? Should I just click at random, or try to impose some sort of order? What do my heart, head, guts, and inner child have to say about this?

I gave those four some weapons and let them rampage around while I added stuff I wanted to check out later to my watchlist. Eventually they came back with a consensus.

( Steamboat Willie, naturally. )
See you next feature!

Crossposts: https://xyzzysqrl.livejournal.com/607342.html

There are some things here that I want to lay out in the open.

First, what am I doing?
I'm going to pick up a Disney+ account (on the 12th, when it comes out) and start randomly spinning the dial to select something to write about. If it's a movie, I'll watch the whole thing. If it's a series, I'll watch as much as seems appropriate. Then I come over here and type. I'll tag these "Streaming with Sqrlmog" so it'll be nice and formalized. I like a slightly rigid form in my writing projects.

Cool. Why?
A number of reasons.
- I'm disillusioned with the current state of video gaming and feel like I could use a longer break from it.
- I feel like I should watch more movies and TV.
- You folks keep saying you'll read anything I write and I want to cruelly test that by outputting 3,500 words about 1971 film "The Million Dollar Duck".
- I'm slightly addicted to blogging and feel like I really need to get back on it, but I haven't felt like I had anything to say. This at least gives me a subject line to bounce on.

Okay, why Disney+?
I miss liking Disney.
Over a period longer than my lifetime, they've gone from 'beloved guardians of children's entertainment' to something a lot less fun and enjoyable.
They're a monolith of shiny facetless consumerism with a nozzle that pumps out oatmeal-thick Movie Product now, and I feel like I want to run my hands over that monolith and feel for cracks in the facade, to see if I can pry it open and get what I liked as a kid back, to see if I can find what's good to love in the newer stuff, and to sigh at their missteps along the way.
Also I haven't seen all the Marvel movies yet. I didn't say -I- wasn't a consumerist product-slurper.
I could really do this with any streaming service (Netflix, Hulu, VRV, DC Universe... we subscribe to those) but I'm starting with Disney+. Before long I might decide to branch out and throw stuff from those in too, but Disney is the biggest Cultural Touchstone out there. If I can't find something to write about in their product history, what am I even doing writing about stuff at all?

You gonna tear some crap apart?
Nah I'm aiming for respectful but goofin' here. I'm not very caustic anymore.

How often?
I'm aiming for one post biweekly. Expect more frequently to start because novelty, and then I'll start trailing off. Maybe this experiment will last a couple months and I'll go back to playing MMOs in my free time.

"Streaming with Sqrlmog" huh?
Ever try to find a word that means anything remotely like "viewing" or "watching" that starts with X? Anyway this way if I get back into gaming, I can gently transition back to Twitch streaming too.

We're good?
We're good.

Crossposts: https://xyzzysqrl.livejournal.com/606634.html

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Entries tagged with streaming with sqrlmog

Streaming With Sqrlmog: Duck Tales (2017)

Streaming With Sqrlmog: Disney's 'The Black Hole', 1979

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