Nicknames to Names:

Sub-Zero and Scorpion are very cool names, but the official policy of '100 Waifus' is to name children after the real names of fictional characters, not their nicknames.  Now that the Mortal Kombat movie has provided real names for these characters my book must follow and name them the same.  Sub-Zero is now Bi-Han, and Scorpion is now Hanzo.  There are tons of different Sub-Zero's and Scorpion's running around in Mortal Kombat lore so it's good to put a specific name and face onto these two.  Now we know we're talking about the people in this specific movie with these particular actors as their faces.

Bi-Han is as villainous as you get so it might be strange to name a child after him, but at a certain point when your villain becomes cool enough and brave enough and defiant enough against overwhelming odds he becomes admirable anyway.  Bi-Han did his best and was beautiful and that's all anybody is going to remember.  You also have a sense that Bi-Han was acting out of revenge for the Lin Kuei, not personal gain, but misplaced love.  He isn't a cheap villain but a deep one.

Hanzo meanwhile is both heroic and cool.  His path to honorable mention is much less bumpy.

It's funny that three of the only good characters invented by western authors are Asian -- Hanzo, Bi-Han and Liu Kang.  It's one of life's little ironies.  Even when the west does something right it's due to Asia.

I tried to watch Westworld but it became too repetitive, tiresome and long.  They should have shut down the park on episode 4 and liquidated all the AI's.  They are totally out of control and nothing good can come from this.  Instead the insouciant humans keep acting like everything is normal and watch blankly as the world unravels.  Which means all drama after this point is unnecessary and artificial.  When your problems are due to your own bad choices they aren't interesting at all.  Just don't make bad choices, there, problem solved.

Red Tails was actually watchable.  I'm pro-Nazi and anti-black, but I still enjoyed the simple thrill of fighter combat.  Like a primitive version of Top Gun.  Most of the movie was aerial dogfighting, how bad can it get?

But when I'm reduced to stuff like Red Tails it's obvious HBO Max is out of content and I need to jump ship to some other streaming service.  It was nice while it lasted.