Jeffrey Yohalem
@jeffreyyohalem.bsky.social
Narrative Dir/Lead Writer of Immortals Fenyx Rising. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Child of Light, Far Cry 3, Brotherhood, AC2. Videogame Designer & Lost Child
Yeah, tremendous! I reached out to Jalen and they commissioned three large scale prints of their work, and designed the frames for each too. I’ll have to show you the other two.
May 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Yeah, tremendous! I reached out to Jalen and they commissioned three large scale prints of their work, and designed the frames for each too. I’ll have to show you the other two.
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May 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Is this JD Vance inside a Myst prison book (please say yes)
March 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Is this JD Vance inside a Myst prison book (please say yes)
I guess real lasting solutions are up to us.
November 27, 2024 at 11:22 PM
I guess real lasting solutions are up to us.
Part I ends with Elphaba tearing free from western white society: rising above her false ally and the system that has let her down to truly be free. Chu can’t truly save her, but she is given a year to defy gravity (the system all around drowning her).
November 27, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Part I ends with Elphaba tearing free from western white society: rising above her false ally and the system that has let her down to truly be free. Chu can’t truly save her, but she is given a year to defy gravity (the system all around drowning her).
The second half has no bangers, and little plot. Overall, it’s too much screen time for the story it’s telling. So then why? I think it’s so that we arrive at a much more daring conclusion…. at least for a year.
November 27, 2024 at 11:21 PM
The second half has no bangers, and little plot. Overall, it’s too much screen time for the story it’s telling. So then why? I think it’s so that we arrive at a much more daring conclusion…. at least for a year.
Wicked will eventually end in a similar place, one where the status quo must be upheld at all costs, BUT Chu has done something truly radical in the meantime. There was a lot of discussion last year about why he would divide Wicked into two parts.
November 27, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Wicked will eventually end in a similar place, one where the status quo must be upheld at all costs, BUT Chu has done something truly radical in the meantime. There was a lot of discussion last year about why he would divide Wicked into two parts.
Gladiator II tells everyone to keep dreaming of a better future and that the worst possible thing is to tear it all down, to be Denzel (fun Elphaba), someone who was hurt by the well meaning (but at that point uneducated) white allies and then never got over it.
November 27, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Gladiator II tells everyone to keep dreaming of a better future and that the worst possible thing is to tear it all down, to be Denzel (fun Elphaba), someone who was hurt by the well meaning (but at that point uneducated) white allies and then never got over it.
So Gladiator II is saying Trust the white allies! They kind of messed everything up, they had slaves, but their hearts are in the right place. They’re going to grow into your saviors, all you have to do is educate them.
November 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM
So Gladiator II is saying Trust the white allies! They kind of messed everything up, they had slaves, but their hearts are in the right place. They’re going to grow into your saviors, all you have to do is educate them.
Pascal’s Roman general, similarly, has experienced oppression and now sides with the minority. They are the only hope to save Rome.
November 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Pascal’s Roman general, similarly, has experienced oppression and now sides with the minority. They are the only hope to save Rome.
He is both one of the powerful AND one of the oppressed.
November 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM
He is both one of the powerful AND one of the oppressed.
Gladiator II’s analysis is much safer. Rather than critiquing all of society it blames everything on a corrupt government. The main character is basically bro Glinda, a white man who has grown up in the other culture, thereby empathizing with and learning their plight.
November 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Gladiator II’s analysis is much safer. Rather than critiquing all of society it blames everything on a corrupt government. The main character is basically bro Glinda, a white man who has grown up in the other culture, thereby empathizing with and learning their plight.
The enemy here is society, the system, itself.
November 27, 2024 at 11:18 PM
The enemy here is society, the system, itself.
Even if you believe Glinda isn’t doing it intentionally, that doesn’t matter. Wicked shows how that same equation gives Glinda power, it’s how she’s been taught to maintain her power since birth, so from her perspective why shouldn’t it work for Elphaba? Both are living in different realities.
November 27, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Even if you believe Glinda isn’t doing it intentionally, that doesn’t matter. Wicked shows how that same equation gives Glinda power, it’s how she’s been taught to maintain her power since birth, so from her perspective why shouldn’t it work for Elphaba? Both are living in different realities.
Elphaba’s only ally tries to cut her legs out from under her. Glinda offers Elphaba comfort, protection and friendship in return for giving up her power.
November 27, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Elphaba’s only ally tries to cut her legs out from under her. Glinda offers Elphaba comfort, protection and friendship in return for giving up her power.
These people will become your friends, keeping you down. When Elphaba is making the final decision to jump, about to risk it all to spread her wings, Glinda says: “Maybe you're not as powerful as you think.”
November 27, 2024 at 11:17 PM
These people will become your friends, keeping you down. When Elphaba is making the final decision to jump, about to risk it all to spread her wings, Glinda says: “Maybe you're not as powerful as you think.”
Specifically focusing on the hidden, subtle oppression perpetrated by allies and the supposed good guys who use goodness and the system as a mask to hide their racism while taking advantage of the same exploitation.
November 27, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Specifically focusing on the hidden, subtle oppression perpetrated by allies and the supposed good guys who use goodness and the system as a mask to hide their racism while taking advantage of the same exploitation.
In his hands, Wicked illustrates the oppression, the shackles, all of western society places on anyone who isn’t white, and how it exploits them and steals their power.
November 27, 2024 at 11:17 PM
In his hands, Wicked illustrates the oppression, the shackles, all of western society places on anyone who isn’t white, and how it exploits them and steals their power.
As a director Chu has focused in the past on scenes of wish fulfillment like the one at the beginning of Crazy Rich Asians, where western culture is taken down by an extremely powerful family who isn’t encumbered by the shackles that western culture has put in place to control the social order.
November 27, 2024 at 11:16 PM
As a director Chu has focused in the past on scenes of wish fulfillment like the one at the beginning of Crazy Rich Asians, where western culture is taken down by an extremely powerful family who isn’t encumbered by the shackles that western culture has put in place to control the social order.
And they both arrive at the same answer, but through very different routes. And only one risks revolution.
November 27, 2024 at 11:15 PM
And they both arrive at the same answer, but through very different routes. And only one risks revolution.