Juniper Bug

Like... You ever think about the fact that the star Trek universe is irreconcilably different from our own, simply because Star Trek does not exist in it? That marvel and DC universes are both a world where comic superheroes must exist on a completely different scale to our own? That every single piece of media set in the future necessitates an alternate history where it was never made, and in fact most likely many similar works were also never made?

Stories never talk about this stuff because it's boring, but it's a FASCINATING alternate history question. What does British television look like in the world of doctor who given that... There was no doctor who? How has it changed? I think about this stuff constantly.

Like, there's some beat em ups that do a lot with improvised weapons, but nothing immediately comes to mind that hits the sweet spot of intense fight scenes AND goofy comedic stunts at the same time for me in the way his movies did.

the biggest problem, I think, is that Jackie Chan movies are extremely extremely intentional about every aspect of combat. every item is there for a reason, every move is used for a reason, he put way too much thought in every punch and swing and even when he's being goofy it's all exceptionally planned

Like, everyone immediately thinks "well, a best em up brawler" but as soon as you do He Hits People With Ladder Like In Da Movie you've basically already lost because you've turned a choreographed, planned out fight scene into a reusable item. the combat has to last so you have 20 fights and each of them have a Ladder in them and now you've ruined it.

so how do you capture the intentionality of a Jackie Chan film, where every combat is planned, every hit is choreographed, and every big setpiece is fun to watch in an unexpected way?