User blog:ArtisticLoner/Endless Summer Con: Pop-culture References

I'm gonna talk about the rest of Endless Summer, but I feel I have to talke about certain parts of it in different blog posts. I will address my overall feelings on the series at the end of my blog posts, but I'm gonna start with one of my biggest problems: the pop culture references. Oh go, these were annoying. I could tolerate a few from the other series, but these were just AWFUL. The only ones I found fine was from Jake. He at least only used them as nicknames for people and there was a bit of self-awareness when Isis was confused when Jake called her "Princess Leia". But I found this annoying from the other characters, like Diego and Craig. Examples:

Diego: It's like that scene in Frozen with Elsa! Except...

Sean: Just 'netflix and chill'

Diego: We're gonna go all Return of the Jedi on them.

Raj: So I'm guessing that's not a friendly ghost?

Zahra: Stormtroopers are here.

Diego: I would just go a binge-watch Friends

Even then, there are still some pieces of cringey dialogue:

-I'll show you why they call me "Bottomless Raj" and not just because I don't wear underwear..

-Yeah boiii!

-Shizz!

-Yolo!

For a series that has intense moments, you'd think that there weren't be diaglogue this bad. There are definetely good parts though:

-Quinn: It’s not just that. It’s trying to figure out who I am. My whole life has been defined by my illness. Every moment, every choice, it’s always been there, in the background of my mind. I’m Quinn, the dying girl. That’s who I’ve always been. Even if I never told anybody, all because I wanted it to never define me…somehow it still defined me to myself.

But there are very few in-between, especially when there are millenial stereotypical characters who just wanna party. This adds to other problems, which I will mention later.