Remember when I said last month that after the 13th I would be free? Mostly correct, but I spent the remaining 17 days mostly watching stuff instead of reading web fiction.1
I’m not a movie/TV show reviewer, I swear for the fifth time or so. I give you my word by next month I’ll read AT LEAST three stories by the Median QuestionableQuesting User. For now, re-views.
Also, check out the new informational post:
I might present some stats based on it in the future…
★: Sinners, Peggle Extreme
*: The Legend of William Oh, Lord Voldemort and the Intricate Plots, Black Mirror Season 7
Previously, on Record Crash:
A Minecraft Movie
I………. watched the Minecraft movie.
I was told it was the worst thing ever by some, and that it was some masterpiece of TikTok shitposting by others. Everyone was wrong.
This is just another children’s film with a MacGuffin hunt and an evil sky laser. There are a lot of faithful references to the video game. There also are five one-dimensional characters with highly telegraphed “character arcs”. There are a few actually funny jokes.2 However, no one does anything particularly smart and the good guys practically win by plot fiat.
It’s the definition of a 5/10. I don’t think the punctuation is raised if you’re a fan of the game, either, even if it’s technically a good adaptation. No one would ever remember this movie two months from now if it wasn’t for the Chicken Jockey Theater incidents, which are funnier than everything in the movie put together.
Can I review those instead?
The Legend of William Oh*
I’ve complained about Super Supportive and Cafeteria Worker before, Royal Road darlings with endlessly-stretchable kitchen-sink-yet-somehow-generic worlds wherein nothing ever happens.
William Oh starts off as that, but man, what a swerve it does in Chapter 4. I almost dropped at the first chapter, it felt that generic and uninspired. It’s no masterpiece, but it’s pretty good once it gets going.
There are a ton of these “dungeon world” stories, but I’m really most reminded of Danmachi, maybe because I stupidly keep reviewing its fanfiction. There’s an entire society built around this gigantic tower3 with randomly generated monsters and… alien invaders? The diegetic game system seems to be self aware and uses adventures to protect itself. This is a lot like Wake of the Ravager, another story by the same author, but it’s less “the point” of the story and more just another weird element to keep track of.
Our hero starts out as a generic scrappy orphan, but the decisions he makes turn him into a (highly highly overstated) living legend, thus the title. The reasons and executions of those decisions are often very funny, and he plays off well against his second-in-command, a Taylor Hebert expy. Really, comedy is this author’s strongest point, at the detriment of everything else. I guess there’s also cool magic item munchkinry right out of Worth the Candle. I think that one is new.4
Unfortunately I keep stumbling into the same problem with this author, Macronomicon. I read 30 or so chapters of his new story, sometimes even catch up, then forget about it instantly, despite my enjoyment. I always feel a need to move on. It’s hard to put my finger on what exactly makes this happen, but I think it might just be the simplistic characters and their lack of development permeating his bookography. The lack of relatability fails to build a bond between me and the story or something. Who knows.
Anyway, despite dropping it after 100k words, I enjoyed those words, so it gets a light recommend for fans of the genre.
Star Trek: Enterprise
I5 started Enterprise like three years ago, but dropped it at the start of season 4, its last. It’s been a long road, getting from there to the series finale.
The show is a prequel, pretty much the earliest period in time you can set a Star Trek show in and still have it be science fiction adventures. The famous Federation doesn’t even exist yet, and humans have to deal with paternalist Vulcans telling them which parts of space they’re allowed to explore.
I had dropped it because, much like the preceding Trek show Voyager, it wasn’t actually fulfilling its stated premise at all. It was meant to be a PREQUEL. Instead, over the course of the show there are two big serial storylines: a 9/11 allegory with our heroes invading space Iraq to get revenge (I’m not shitting you, it was 2003) and a “temporal cold war”, which is even stupider than it sounds. Throughout the first three seasons and these two subplots, there isn’t that much prequely shit going on. The writers contrive to have anachronistic Ferengi and Borg in the show, even. It’s just slightly lower quality Trek that doesn’t often set itself apart from its superior brothers, modulo a ship grappling hook.
The first episode of Season 4 was the end of the temporal cold war arc. This didn’t signpost “the show gets good” to me, though, because it was a terribly boring episode in and of itself, with time traveling aliens helping the Nazis take over the world, as they oft do. Fans justify the episode as a violent purge, something awful that had to be done in order to never have to mention time travel again (many such cases). For me, it just meant “drop the show now, even THIS was awful”.
Anyway, I decided to come back after reading for the tenth time “oh no, why did they cancel Enterprise just as it was getting good?”. Apparently, the brunt of its last year was handled by a different writer, Manny Coto, and he “cooked”.
Ultimately, I have to agree, the final season is what you’d expect the show to be like from the description. We finally see the Federation being slowly formed, and exploring Vulcan, Tellarite and Andorian (the founding races) society in detail, filling all the voids in the lore that previous shows kept writing around. I enjoyed it as a Trek fan, though it wasn’t a masterpiece on an objective level. The least we can say about the finale (a ten year timeskip portrayed as a historical document that a character from a different Star Trek show is watching, and no, I’m not merely making it sound bad), the better.
Do I recommend the show? Not really, even though I’m personally glad I put the effort into finishing it. This is pretty much the lowest priority content in the franchise, not taking into account the truly vile entries like Section 31 and Discovery.
Star Trek: The Next Generation Movies
Yes, more Trek, this time a rewatch, the coda to the batch of weekly streams I’ve been doing in my server (and then someone took over to stream The Fast and the Furious, more on that later). They’re mostly action movies, nothing deep to discuss, so all you’re getting are bullet points. They’re all flawed in different ways, and only worth a watch for completionism’s sake.
Generations: a very contrived two-hour plot so that Picard and Kirk, the captains of the two main shows, can meet and fight together for like… ten minutes of runtime. There are many fun scenes in the first half, but the “climax” happens too early, and then the tension goes away, you’re left with endless boredom and simplistic old men fights. It should have probably been a crossover of the two crews, not just the two captains.
First Contact: lead actor Patrick Stewart got a bit too much power, and he wanted boring diplomat Picard to be an action hero. This becomes a lame shooty film about the Borg, featuring a B-plot in which pretty much nothing happens, and an A-plot with only a couple fun scenes and many couples of total character assassination. Often beloved by Trek fans to my total befuddlement.
Insurrection: the best of the bunch, a film about the villains (the Federation) beating the heroes (some admittedly creepy-looking guys trying to bring immortality to the masses). Alas, people are pretty much correct when they say it’s basically a long The Next Generation episode, unambitious and with few highs.
Nemesis: it’s one of those films where they slap a known IP on a completely unrelated sci-fi story that otherwise would never get greenlit. I’ve complained about character assassination in First Contact, but this one isn’t even Star Trek, honestly. Out of these four films, this is the one that’s actively boring and annoying, down to monochrome color grading and Patrick Stewart forcing the director to let him drive a dune buggy for what feels like forty minutes. I actually regret rewatching this.
Dragon Ball Z
Usually when I dive into these crucibles of unlimited cultural alpha I return with something new, finally understand something that mere osmosis could have never provided.
In this case, nah, the collective unconscious got it right. Dragon Ball Z is about people screaming about power levels and training and fighting until everyone dies, then Dragon Ball-wishing them back to life. Nothing else. Virtually all I got from reading the manga was character knowledge (and only six out of 100 characters are anything more than commentators by the end!). I suppose, in the end, that’s all that’s needed for The Optimised Wish Project and other DB fics (look forward to those reviews).
There’s so little depth to any of it, you can’t believe. People always say the original Dragon Ball was aimed at younger kids, but they couldn’t be more wrong. Honestly, even the art is worse. I should watch Dragon Ball Z Abridged next, at least that’s probably funny.
Lord Voldemort and the Intricate Plots*
The title isn’t lying. This Voldemort is the most neurotic character I’ve ever been placed in. Right off the bat we’re faced with walls of text as he triplethinks and quadruplethinks the best way to bypass the prophecy he just heard. Somehow, through a chain of only slightly twisted logic, he ends up adopting Harry Potter and letting his mother live.
It’s not even a comedy. It’s just a very fresh approach to the character, and it doesn’t rest on its laurels, it ends up becoming a dual-viewpoint story about two characters who philosophically and literally take each other’s place or something. It’s very weird and very good.
Slightly dampening my praise is the fact that the triplethinking never stops. There are so many paragraphs of internal monologues that could have been edited down. It’s like the distorted stereotype of rational fiction.
Also, this was last updated in 2014, but it’s still an easy recommend.
The Fast and the Furious 1, 2, 3, 5
There’s this famously terrible graphic about shows about dumb people for smart people and viceversa:6
I kept thinking about the graphic when watching The Fast and the Furious, but “dumb” doesn’t quite get the full picture across. This is a movie franchise about douchebags, for douchebags, by douchebags.
I watched four movies so far,7 but they don’t warrant a bullet point review. They’re all paper thin plots around excuses to have cars onscreen, except the fifth one, which is something even worse, a by-the-numbers Heist film.
A core problem with Fast and Furious is that it relies on establishing strong friendships between the leads, but Vin Diesel cannot at all portray this as an actor,8 and the writing isn’t trying too hard either. A barbecue scene is all we get. The rest is Vin talking about how much he cares about his Family while thinking about his tax returns.
Making this worse is the aforementioned douchiness. Vin Diesel is a car thief who robs innocent people to get more money to race cars, because he only feels alive when he races. He says he lives his life “a quarter mile at a time”. The second most important character is an undercover cop who goes native… not because the cops are wrong in trying to stop Vin’s thefts as he continues to accidentally kill random passersby, but because he just likes him that much. Then Vin escapes to Mexico and the cop becomes an FBI agent or something9. Then he betrays his cop friends again because Vin is back.
I’ve liked films with unlikable asshole protagonists before, like The Suicide Squad. This is not that. It exemplifies the petty in “petty criminal”, pointless and unfunny.
Structurally, as a franchise, it’s a mess. Case in point, Tokyo Drift, which feels like a spinoff but was turned into a core entry retroactively. One character that dies in this film was so “beloved” that they had to make the following 4 or so films prequels in order to be able to continue using him. They even retconned the year it was taking place in to continue pushing it.
And of course, the spinoff characters are also douchebags. One guy simply loves being a lackey for the Yakuza, that’s his motivation. Except he’s also skimming money from the top. Is he raising money for his dying sister? Nope, just a scumbag. Oh, yeah, this is the beloved character I mentioned earlier. It would be fine if these films lacked a human element like many action movies, but if they want to have it, at least they shouldn’t force the most unlikable people and their selfish motivations in your face over and over. Why would you want to side with them?
The action isn’t even that good. There is ONE. ONE good sequence in the four films I watched, near the end of Fast Five. It could be because it comes after a very boring and standard heist setup, but…
That’s just a masterful series of stunts, I was legitimately impressed and on the edge of my seat the whole time.
Does it make up for the other shitty 400 minutes of runtime I had to watch? Not even close.
In other news, I’m going to watch two more F&F films next month because a guy is streaming them weekly. Maybe there will be more vault moments.
Black Mirror Season 7*
Holy shit, there’s a website called “Kino Check”, I should have come up with that name.
Black Mirror is an anthology (about the potential evils of technology, in case you live under a rock, what if your ma turned into an iPhone, shit like that), so it’s unfortunately time for yet another point shootout review. Overall it’s a return to form, though no episodes were truly amazing:
Common People: both a critique of shock streamers and subscription services (in your braaain), but a good one—most people including me say it’s extremely depressing but no one says it’s manipulative. I thought this one was hampered by the classic Black Mirror “where the fuck is the government and why aren’t they stopping this?” problem more than any other episodes, and it could have been palliated by showing a more futuristic setting instead of… the UK, famously laidback government. Best episode of the season, but don’t expect an Emmy.
Bête Noire: this is one of those scripts where it’s definitely in the wrong show, but it’s also bad on its own. There’s no satire or social commentary, and the technology is magic,10 to the point the buzzword “quantum” is used. There might be some kind of metaphor about racist gaslighting, except it’s muddled by the fact the “victim” is a bully. I like one moment I’ll spoil in footnotes,11 but otherwise it’s a wash.
Hotel Reverie: I think this is the show’s response to the inevitable replacement of actors with artificial intelligence, and it feels very forced. It’s about a going-into-old-movies machine used to make a modern remake12, except the lead AI actress was partially trained with off-movie interviews and her real personality starts coming through. It sounds cool, but the episode basically gives up halfway through before it can say anything about it, and it just fizzles out. Tried to be a new San Junipero, but ends up forgettable.
Plaything: the episode (about a plausibly sentient The Sims-style video game) has a Roko’s Basilisk reference, which tells you exactly what it’s going for. Also a very derivative Fincher pastiche, but made for fun popcorn media.13
Eulogy: this is Black Mirror as its purest, right out of season one. While the technology is a going-into-photos-machine (the effect looks great, but wow, I wonder what technological developments inspired two of these plots in one season), it’s mostly about the fallibility of human memory, in very much the same style as that short story I reviewed a couple months ago. Pretty good.
USS Callister: Into Infinity: I love Star Trek and I still thought the first episode was only fine. A sequel was fully unnecessary, got predictable, and needed a million handwaves to still feel unsatisfying, whilst saying absolutely nothing. Total garbage. No more sequels, for the love of god.
I know 2.5/6 good episodes sounds awful, but even the bad ones weren’t boring. If you liked the show in the past, I think it’s worth another look.
Face the Music
This is alright, decently written, but it also perfectly showcases the reason why I don’t like one-shots.
Anakin Skywalker, you know, the guy who becomes Darth Vader, starts hearing the Star Wars film soundtrack around him. This lets him know who’s sketchy, when situations are resolved… and then the story ends only a thousand words later. It doesn’t even fully lean into crack either, it takes itself fully seriously.
Maybe stories like these should stay a Tumblr post.
Sinners★
I……………………… watched Sinners.
Knew nothing about the movie (only two words, one of which is sadly kind of a spoiler) before walking in. After Joker 2, I’ve ironically started trusting reviews once again, and when I saw how universally loved this movie was, I went with the crowd and it paid off.
As I think the absolute best way to experience Sinners is to do what I did, I’ll preserve your virgin mind and not mention the plot at all, or have a trailer. Don’t even look at the poster! In fact, tab away from this review, look for your closest theater’s website, buy a ticket, go watch it before someone spoils what it’s about.
You’re still here? I guess I’ll just be infuriatingly vague.
Negatives: the plot and character actions make no sense. If you’re a Cinemasins/YMS type guy, you’re going to be annoyed. In fact, I am making a formal prediction that the TVTropes “Headscratchers” page for this movie is going to be the longest out of any movie released this year. People praise the cinematography of night scenes, but during the darkest ones I kept perceiving “wrong-angled laptop screen”-style color shifting that made me want to sit up. That might just be me or my theater, though.14
That’s it, that’s the negatives. Now, onto the positives.
The music is fucking amazing. I know it’s one of the aspects that tend to redeem the shittiest films for me, but here it’s just synergistic, it enhances the experience. It’s the Black Panther dream team again, Coogler and Ludwig Göransson, and yes there are multiple scenes where genres fuse into something truly special. It’s not only instrumentals, there’s a heavy focus on vocals. If there’s a 10/10 element in this movie, it’s this one.
Michael B. Jordan plays twins. Quickly, and with the help of color theming, you learn one is the contemplative dark type and the other is a jokester who loves life. The illusion never breaks, both are portrayed distinctly and excellently. He’s supported by a bunch of no-name actors that the casting director must have been really, really lucky to find, because their performances were surprisingly great too.
It also looks good and is very well paced. The nonsensical plot does hamper things somewhat, as mentioned. I kept trying to figure out the metaphor15 before giving up, turning my brain off, and letting my enjoyment rise to eleven. I think my theater did the same thing, as the atmosphere visibly changed after enough instances of “wait, why did he do that—oh whatever”.
To hinge on it further: excellent theater film, I even regret not watching this on IMAX, which I heard makes it even better. Go watch it while you can, with as many people as you can find.
Deku the Hunter
“The only good My Hero Academia fic I’ve ever read.” - Some Guy.
During the two-year wait after Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter fans invented their own subgenre of fanfiction, “Independent Harry”. All its fics follow the same beats. Dumbledore is evil (since he seemed mildly uncaring in the latest book), Harry is going to befriend the poor forgotten goblins because he said Thank You to one of them, then he discovers he’s got a massive inheritance (since the concept of owning property was introduced in the latest book), this makes him incredibly powerful somehow, but not because of capitalism, mostly because he finds and removes the block in his soul that Dumbledore placed.
I think “Support Class Deku” has to be up there in predictability. Of course it turns out that science is magic and every villain’s weakness is being sprayed with Mysterious Science Gel X. Of course he befriends that one low standards big-titted mechanic character that everyone in the fandom loves.
I have enjoyed some Independent Harry fics. They just have to add some spice to the formula, or simply amaze in execution.
Deku the Hunter, though, is even worse than the average fic, somehow? The cast is anemic, nearly every scene is Deku with one of two girls. The only significant villain is incredibly one-dimensional and doesn’t seem to have a life beyond messing with Deku. It’s all so bare and bereft of originality.
I need to find who Some Guy was and stop taking recommendations from him. Oh god damn it it was one of you. Please read something like Just Deserts: Revised Edition★ to learn what a good MHA fic actually looks like.
Peggle Extreme★
If you’re like me, you’ve only ever heard of Peggle in the context of games like Bejeweled or Angry Birds. I simply assumed it was an extremely casual game that got old fast, and ignored it.
But no, there’s a surprising amount of depth to this game. It’s kind of like Pachinko meets Bust-a-Move meets Breakout. The skill ceiling is impossibly high,16 while the skill floor isn’t nearly as low as I you’d expect. I have more trouble with this than I had with Plants vs Zombies, which I’m finding is roughly aimed at the same target audience.
Peggle Extreme in particular is essentially a free demo on Steam, like those old shareware downloads in the 00s that came with only a few levels. Good idea on their part17, and it means you can just click here and see for yourself the game is as fun as the star implies.
What We Do After Dark
This is some bizarre RPF (Real Person Fiction) based on the regulars of a splinter Discord server attending a magic school with a death game as its entry exam.
I know two of the regulars, vaguely recognize the name of 50% of the rest. I am not the target audience for this. You are definitely not it either, but in 2023 I signed a pact with the Web Fiction Devil (he kind of looked like the author of Delve, actually) and now I have to review everything I read, so here we are.
You know, there’s some advice some writer gave, I think maybe Borges? He said to summarize the story you wish existed, then just release that summary. I suppose it’s a good tactic if you’re naturally wordy, but I think it’s terrible advice for the average writer. It seems to have been wrongly applied here. The narrative is very, very compact yet still airy. It’s character introductions followed by a big fight, followed by a timeskip, followed by a bigger fight, then the first act ends.
There’s barely room to breathe, and only two or three characters out of ten really get a spotlight. There wouldn’t be any room if this writer didn’t love going on endless internal monologues filled with puns and Ready Player One-style terminally online references. Without exaggerating, there are probably over fifty dick jokes in 30k words. You see, the writer lost his genitals as a consequence of everyone isekai-ing into their Discord avatars, his being a Lich. A bit cringe, but I can’t help but admire the sheer tryhardness of the concept:
When I was inside my room, I noted the white walls and the dark brown wood lining them, and how they reminded me of one of those stereotypical Japanese mansion walls. It gave me a great idea.
"Moshi mosh, frastron desu."
I mimed calling on the provided equipment as I sat in my candle-lit dorm room, having browsed all of the rules and having made a quick tour of the grounds around the dorms. I had not gone to the tree yet as I priorly Chekhov'd,18 since I wanted to check this place out first.
Miming the call was an important detail, since I didn't really feel like calling anyone at the moment. Both in the normal way and the euphemistic way.
Well, maybe the euphemistic way. I was horny, but unlike horns there was no keratin to be found anywhere in me, only calcium. I was bonely, robed and a little ashamed.
Despite the problems, I finished this fic with ease, and don’t regret picking it up. It’s short so far, sure, but the airiness of the narrative and the low mental stakes shonen feel of it all helps. It’s like your best friend telling you about their day, some supersubstantial attribute keeping the story interesting.
Should you read this? Almost certainly not.
I’m still looking for more fic recommendations, so leave your comments below. Just think, if I hate them I can put you on blast like I did with that guy above.
Plus some stuff that didn’t make it to this article, like a four-season TV show I’m one episode away from finishing, The Rehearsal season 2, which isn’t done yet, one and a half Dark Tower books, which will get their own review eventually…
Though I saw the one that got the most laughs out of my theater (the mid-credits scene) coming from the very start, which defused it for me.
The exact dimensions or even metaphysics of how the tower works still elude me. They enter the first floor through a huge door, and there are mirrors on the ceiling “left by other adventurers millennia ago” that reflect the light from the outside into the rest of the level. That’s pretty cool. Further floors seem to be Dream Drive-like fully featured universes you simply teleport to, no mention of walls or ceilings. Muddling the issue further is the fact the first quest takes place in the real world, where there also reside monsters or aliens or whatever the fuck those bug guys are.
It really makes me miss Worth the Candle, where the main character would sit and ask a hundred questions to his friend until he got a map and list of potential dangers. It’s very unclear if the author of William Oh has the full picture himself.
Lame example: our hero has an oath preserving pipe that debuffs you a percentage of your total stats if you break a contract. It can keep track of a limited number of contracts at a time, intended for use of multiple people. William realizes he can instead just stack all deals on a single person, making the same contract over and over. This raises the penalty from debuffs to death, since lowering any stat to 0 kills you. But wait, wouldn’t that be dangerous if William broke his side of the deal? Nope, he takes turns with a party member for their side of the contracts. They get 50% stat penalty each if they break it, the other guy dies if he does.
Can we please pause and focus for one moment on how pointlessly long that trailer is?
"Jesus I don't think I've seen an image jerk itself any harder than this one.” - /u/IckGlomah.
And the bafflingly terrible and even more bafflingly pointless “Los Bandoleros” lorefilm. Just read the plot if you don’t believe me. Do NOT watch it.
I remember watching Pitch Black and I think I watched the sequels (which are mostly forgettable if competent action movies) and I don’t remember Vin Diesel being a particularly bad actor, he’s no The Rock. I guess he just doesn’t have any range.
This was in the fourth movie, which we skipped because it was allegedly bad and just a rehash of the first. I am a very serious reviewer.
Of course Demon 79 last season was pretty good, and it was the same deal. Still the wrong show though.
I liked that the villain had virtual omnipotence and had already tried taking over the world, but it didn’t fix her childhood traumas, so she went back to what gave her personal satisfaction. I love when a high concept motivation turns out to be a deeply human one, like Scion’s in Worm.
I kept expecting the episode to be smarter than it ended up being. My running theory was that both instances of the video game had gone sentient, and that’s why the episode takes place in a mildly dystopian future—the first AI is already in control, unbeknownst to the protagonist but maybe known to the second AI, who just wants to establish communication. Incidentally, I think the episode wants to make it ambiguous whether the guy is just crazy or not, like Bandersnatch, but come on, they went too far in one direction.
The theater I usually patronize has those leaning couch things.
I was sure it was about the “descent” of “Black” music into White genres, but if so the metaphor gets so muddled by the end the movie basically makes no statement whatsoever. Obviously racism is a theme, but it’s hard to see this movie saying anything specific about it.
I’ve linked a speedrun, but haven’t actually watched it, so I haven’t confirmed this, but… I kind of suspect there might be some subtle angle manipulation from the game sometimes to make you win after you’ve lost enough times. There is one special power that’s literally luck manipulation/path-to-victory, so the engine would certainly support it.
Even though it didn’t make me a paid customer, because the full Android version is delisted, only surviving as a random archived .apk file. I’m playing that right now, actually.
The narration and dialogue is filled with Buffyspeakish neologisms like this one. I do it all the time myself, so I can’t complain.
Renewing my recommendation for The Count of Monte Cristo. No, it wasn't published on the web, but as a serialized story for magazines, it carries/started/popularized a lot of those trends in both format and genre. It's the edgy revenge story from which uncountable edgy revenge fics were forged, and better than most of them too. It does the 'gotta hit the chapter wordcount so here's a deluge of details', many of them managing to feel essential anyway but some of them clearly padding (I know for a fact you'll read stuff that does this much worse anyway.) As a capable driven man hiding his identity, Edmond Dantes is in many ways a precursor to characters like Batman and that whole genre idea.
Because of its serialized nature, it feels much more modern than something like Dracula, and even if you don't like it, I suspect your analysis of it would be very interesting. Certainly, I've never seen a literary analysis where it's been compared to fanfic/webfic despite some stark similarities, and if you disagree with me about that, I think that analysis would be interesting too.
I ended up spending an all-nighter reading Just Deserts. It was good enough that I briefly wondered why it wasn't somewhere on the Shills List, though the ending was admittedly a bit lackluster and the OC's personality was most interesting in the first chapter before they got good at social interaction. The search function didn't show a review for it, what are your thoughts on it besides being just generally better than the average MHA fic?