2026 Media Log
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💗 liked it | 💔 didn't like it
✨ favourite | 🔄 rewatch/reread
(click each title for more detail; may contain spoilers)
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2026 Media Loglegend💐 good | ⭕ ok | 🍅 bad 💗 liked it | 💔 didn't like it ✨ favourite | 🔄 rewatch/reread (click each title for more detail; may contain spoilers) |
was really surprised how much I didn't like this one after all the hype. shallow and muddled themes, treated the audience like they're dumb (why did we need like four flashbacks/overlays to confirm the nurse was the old man), and 30min too long. some great effects and successful body horror but even then it felt purely arbitrary sometimes.
a complete sensory nightmare. which was the point and was very well-executed and I loved the lead's performance. but I was in pain.
DANA! Santos and Whitaker are soooo cute and funny. hate the new white boy but love his rivalry with Javadi. the old Jewish lady berating Robby for going on a motorcycle tour and calling him SAD! is so real. but otherwise I feel like this season hasn't gripped me as intensely and immediately as S1 so far.
rewatching while Dasha watches it for the first time. really stressed out to have to face Tuco again.
this is like. my 3rd to 5th time watching some of these eps. but Dasha and I were showing our friend. his favourite was episode 3 which I think is kind of fucked up
2026 is my year of Animorphs. I read a few books as a kid, and then listened to all of a podcast about it in college, but I've been collecting the physical books for almost five years now and I'm finally going to read through them all.
I knew Animorphs tackled pretty heavy themes head on but I still wasn't quite prepared for how truly grim these books are right off the bat. I loved reading this, they're so tightly written and use their short lengths so effectively!!!
this book carried the first book's momentum and style strengths, I absolutely love reading how they put an animal's instincts and personality into words so well. I cried in public while reading about Rachel pushing the time limit on her cat morph to spend some time comforting her crying former friend. every character is layered and lovable in these books but I think I'm a Rachel girl above all...
only took three books to get to the first suicide attempt. again, even with full advanced warning of how grim these books get I still wasn't quite prepared! my favourite little moment was when Tobias made a self-deprecating joke about wanting a mouse for lunch and Marco laughed his ass off while everyone else just stood there looking uncomfortable.
after telling my girlfriend about the plot of the first three books in detail, I ended up reading this one out loud to her, which was great luck because she's a sea creature fan. we got such a kick of everyone constantly dragging and poking at each other. feels organic. like these kids are friends in different capacities but also all the five were never besties with each other. they're like coworkers now. it also gets me every single time when they're like "okay guys we gotta wrap up this save-the-world meeting, I have math homework". they're just kids...
also read this one out loud, somehow all in one sitting. I knew the twist that was coming at the end and waited in dread the whole time. really big fan of everything Ax brings to the table. king of being ambiguous and building space technology from Radio Shack
we are officially reading all of these out loud going forward so that we can both experience them in real time. because this shit is crazy. I remembered the main plot point of this one but I didn't realize it happened so early in the series. Jake experiencing all the memories of the yeerk and its previous hosts as it died inside his head was really genuiinely sad and horrifying. these books are written so effectively it's honestly a marvel.
another book where I thought all thise stuff happens way later in the series. what do you mean book 7 out of 54 already introduces the omniscient time being! anyway. another deeply sad book. the position Rachel is in would already be devastating even without all the guerilla warfare. also immediately after reading the early cockraoch chapter I walked into my kitchen and saw the first cockroach I've ever seen in my life.
AX BOOK!!! Dasha bawled her eyes out while reading this to me. this book was so sweet and funny at times but also haunting me at other times. killing any host whose Yeerk dies in their head. Ax's unique brand of loneliness and being forced into various scapegoat positions. Visser Three's Andalite begging to be killed. the Seerow's Kindness reveal. god. but also Ax impersonating Jake and eating like four bowls of chili to Cassie's horror. and Ax's little diary entries at the start of the chapers were so cute :')
my favourite thing is when Animorphs says stuff like " 'Don't call me Prince,' Prince Jake said."
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