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I feel like lots of shows are beloved not for what they were, but for what they gestured towards being. I’ve definitely got favorites of my own like that
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This was actually something that made my recent Trigun watch kinda interesting - Bebop's well-executed enough to achieve a certain timelessness, whereas Trigun demonstrates all the particular weaknesses of its creator, production team, and era of adaptation
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Honestly Barbarians is really fun/stupid and looks incredible. It's the closest cinematographically to a Vallejo painting that we will ever see. And it's SO dumb and silly. It rules
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You don't say
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While the others seek a "correct" solution that frequently leaves them passive, Nyamu and Umiri have no expectation of perfection, and just commit themselves to doing the best work they can with what they have. Them existing outside the "glow of destiny" is used very well
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Love when she busts out the Clark Kent glasses for secret meetings. Very discrete, Anon
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Yeah, that's a fair read. I suppose the triple threat of his stewardship of the Marvel/Star Wars/"live action" remake empires makes it hard for me to take his search for authenticity at face value
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I actually read Chef as in line with his overall philosophy - “I’m done trying to please self-important critics, because there’s nothing more honorable than creating endlessly replicable content for general audiences”
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Their every work is suffused with the core theme of “I have created a product to sell for money”
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One of the most ubiquitous weaknesses of modern anime - considered layouts and textured backgrounds being widely replaced by anonymous CG environments
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I've still got Doremi and Sun & Moon!
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Watch Galaxy Express, folks! As concentrated a dose of beautiful melancholy as you could ask for
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Yeah, it's basically just Raids Again that follows the original model; with the switch to color, it's impossible to evoke the same feelings as the black and white photography, so they wisely switch up the formula
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Feels like a hard claim to stake; King Kong's attempting to shove a tree in Godzilla's mouth by his third-ever appearance. Even where I'm at, he's been our good boy with a bad temper for far longer than he's been an atomic metaphor
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Been interesting watching this series develop over time, shifting from sober disaster films to lighthearted adventures. Godzilla threw a guy and then did a victory high kick! Wild times
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Dang, I usually just pull the Little Nephew leg-pants reference. This one's a deep cut
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The first game was both a sprawling commentary and a delicate, deeply personal articulation of survival in a fallen world. It meant more to me than most stories ever will, as I wrote just before the plague demonstrated its prescience
wrongeverytime.com/2020/01/03/o...
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Oh yeah, excellent show. A lovely post-apocalyptic travelogue, with a perspective that seems appropriate for our current moment
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Yeah, it seems very deliberate. I wrote a whole piece on how much I like this aspect of the series
wrongeverytime.com/2023/08/21/c...
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It and Demon's Souls are the only ones you actually have to play slowly, but Demon's Souls is at this point too canonical to get heat for that
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Happy birthday!