Berri's Couch

Finally Bee fulfilled the self imposed requirements to get to ramble on about Beauty and the Beast. We start with it's origin point, whether it holds up and why it perhaps stands out amongst the list of other fairy tales that made it into the pop culture.

Well we danced around the issue enough, time to break the glass and discuss the conventions on a narrative and what happens when you break them? If they should be broken? And can they even be broken and still be good narratives in their own right?

So we finally reach the episode about wrestling, Bee tries to verbalise why that form of entertainment is important and a legitimate form of storytelling. Jerri is along for the ride and even comes to a new appreciation for the live stunt shows and the way they uniquely tell stories.

What is this? A short prompt and no clear line where a story is going can tell a narrative? Well thank god we're here to make some noise as we question who's line is it anyway and if these small moments that break walls count as narratives or are they just ways to entertain the smallest of us?

Stories told over a table with others while battling not only interpersonal dramas but also the whims of statistical chance, completely ridiculous right? Right. But the math rock stories are so much fun and unique so let's see why that is.

It's the showcase of the immortals, if said immortals were giant kaiju with generational beef. Kong and Godzilla are now separated but there is a challenger for top ape and he has a tag partner, can Kong find him an unlikely tag partner or will he lose everything? Does this film mark a pinfall for this series or will Bee run out wrestling references before she can finish this blurb?

It's at least the latter

After so many years finally we see the big ape fight the radioactive lizard. Does the story telling around the grudge match hold up to our fervor however? And with a new director at the helm can the change in finalised visions lead these films astray from where we started in favour of a Fast and Radioactive franchise?

The King, a usurper, and a flip flopping Dr who needed to figure out what she is actually doing in the plot. All present and mostly visible in this film exploration of the consequences from the last film, building on the foundations the past film set but can it stand up to it's predecessor or is it just lost in the shadows?

After an........... attempt in the 90's we finally got a Godzilla film from a studio outside of Japan and it's good. So good it started a universe of films and juggled themes of fatherhood and trauma. But how does it hold up now or were we just happy it wasn't a lot of fish?

We made it. The ring has been cast into the fire and into the West we travel but before the ship finishes it's journey we look back onto the journey and ponder upon why this journey has stayed with everyone in a way the other's contemparies didn't. Why has Tolkien defined the genre and what are the ramifications of that? Legacy is complicated so let's attempt to talk through some of it.