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Maybe I know fuckall about geopolitics and less about this situation, but... I was under the impression that Jews were not the targets of this particular genocide....

Ehhh... it comes off a little better if you just accept he was putting up a front from the start. Whole family is dead, and he knows his favorite brother did it, he knows the whole village gives him the side-eye as a potential traitor/usurper just because of his family, etc. It's not so incredibly unreasonable that he decides to push everyone away before they have a chance to turn their back on him. Sure, in fairness, he does get carried away with letting himself believe he's actually better than everyone and they're all beneath him. But that's kinda where Naruto comes in to prove him wrong. In his own way, he sees through the front, sees the whole "I'm better than everyone" act as a means of keeping everyone away, and he's determined to break through it. He sees it because he knows his own actions were a way of controlling how everyone shunned him. That's the whole dichotomy here, that they were both doing it, exerting whatever control they could to twist the glances and whispers into a narrative of their own choosing, rather than something out of their control. While I'm not explicitly opposed to the "romantic" memery, it's really only ever seemed to me like this is blatantly just a "two sides of the same coin" scenario. They both needed to work on accepting themselves. Y'know, a little self-love. Maybe with each other.

Totally called it being a flashback-heavy ep (I mean.. I guess you could flip a coin on that and it'll usually be right for this show......) But, it did kinda work with the structure of being a bunch of disjointed memories. Despite the flashbacks, the episode very clearly had to be laid out the way it did; there's no other way you could've gotten those final shots without setting up the whole episode for the reveal. With all the ways this has been going so well, it's really hard to imagine the final stretch of episodes being able to hold onto this level of quality.

This thread is also the first I'd noticed they're actually airing the sub version as well.. Was there, like.. a reason for that? Admittedly didn't really dig the Morris VA.. Should probably record an ep just to see the bumpers for it, if they're any different.

Finally all caught up with backlog. "Huh, this opening kinda reminds me of.. Oh hey! It is! Coldrain, who did the opening for Fire Force."

Weird that everyone is criticizing the extent of their "friendship," like.... that's half the damn point here. You can't judge their friendship on what you expect friends to actually be, because Sasuke is a bitch ass punk. A rival is the closest thing he understands to friends. Naruto's whole point, his entire character, is killing enemies and rivals with kindness. And a good beatdown is the only way Sasuke is going to understand the extent of their friendship. Just like with literally everyone else in the entire show, it's down to Naruto wearing him down. Honestly, it's just impressive that they kept this giant mecha chakra battle to just these two episodes. Respect for not dragging that out longer than it needed. ..I see after this there's a couple "mixed canon/filler episodes before one last batch of filler.. got a bad feeling "mixed canon" means "we'll replay the last bits of this fight before seguing into another pointless flashback."

Catching up, and.. I'll just say it, last week's episode was better than any episode of Naruto had any right to be. I mean.. maybe not Sasuke's whole monologuing bit.. other than that part, it felt pretty solid. The flashbacks, such as they were, actually contributed to the setting in a meaningful way. If you only showed someone one singular episode of this show, and it was that episode..... you'd be setting an awful high bar that none of the rest live up to.

Space Ghost the vtuber.

Could've.. uh.. maybe mentioned the article had spoilers for the finale.....

I really dislike these episodes where fuckall happens while we dedicate time to backstory of a character you'll forget about once the arc is over. There's gotta be a more elegant way to incorporate some of this while still progressing what's actually happening. Whole episode could've been designated as filler and skipped with nothing significant lost.

The target voting base is getting old and hard of hearing (and senile... at best). So you kinda gotta shout out loud to be heard.

Yeah, jumping straight into a marathon day maybe didn't help, could've been eased in with some others. Cow and Chicken was always very much a "small doses" show for me.

Yeah, that shit definitely needs closed. Like, sure, there's a logic to it. But, if you're hitting that period and needing forgiveness, chances are you're in no position to pay the taxes on it either.

Yeah, yeah, it'll help plenty, to be sure. Still, feels like a small first step that hopefully leads to more. I've also never been clear/certain on the whole discharged/forgiven thing after 20-25 years, and whether that just ends up hurting you on taxes instead..

Imagine taking out less than 12k in loans. That's like "gave up half-way through" money.

Dumping this here because why not Looks like Cow and Chicken are getting worked in now as well. And unlike the starting lineup, this one hasn't aged so well... not that it was great to begin with.

This was a known quantity from the start. Kid with a god complex, thought he could "kill all titans" at the age of 12 or w/e. I knew this ending was coming, and it's even more satisfying to hear the admission that this was all really stupid. I regret not dropping this show completely years ago.

You ever see a thumbnail and just know you have to click it to find out if it lives up to the weird?

Feels like it's no coincidence this song took until now to pop into my feed.....

I began to wonder, watching last week, how much screentime Zoro would still have if you trimmed out all of the "you're going the wrong way" padding. Genuinely adds nothing at all but filling time.

Because slavery is frowned upon.

9 months.. so they just wanted to carry that bad idea to term. Gotta respect the commitment to deny their own abortions.

I began to question if they were chatbot generated, or a series of faked accounts.