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Y'know what, tournament arcs are great for epic fightz and all, but, if I'm honest, they kinda drag on for me. You maybe get a little bit of character development, but there's usually very little plot progression. This entire time has been spent on one single day (I presume), and nothing much of great importance has happened here. Just starts feeling like the writer(s) use these arcs to stall for time to work on the actual story. Suppose I should prepare myself for massive disappointment when this season is entirely this festival thing.

Pfft. I'm still salty that Eren didn't stay dead and eaten back in season 1, I ain't cutting him any slack. =p

Soo, question 1: If the juice works just by licking it, what's the fucking point of making it an injection? Question 2: What the hell happened to turn the kid into a whiny emo little shit? Spend 40 episodes believing he's the most badassiest punk that ever lived and he's going to be the greatest of all time, and suddenly now he realizes what an insignificant twat he is? I mean, he's an insufferable little bitch either way, but it's a pretty wild swing. Put up no resistance to the idea that he's responsible for every problem and deserves to die. Feels like he really shoulda been screaming about how he can still fix everything himself. My dvr failed to record, so I had to wait until this came up on the on demand list.

There's a flying dic right outside your kid's bedroom window.

The forced aspect ratio when they went back to the offices got me good. Otherwise, I'm not really sure why this exists.

Forgot the pop tarts.

My major disappointment is that Haruko felt a bit superfluous to the whole ordeal. She shows up each episode to do her Haruko thing, but didn't really contribute much to the story. Kinda the same with Medical Mechanica. Taken as a slice of life story with FLCL elements, I suppose this wasn't so bad. I enjoyed the characters. Good balance of weird, I guess. Can't really complain. Didn't expect anyone to really capture the original magic after so long. More than that, such an attempt always seems doomed to me. The very act of attempting leaves a sense of being forced, which kinda cheapens the whole thing. But I still enjoyed the ride.

Man, if you guys think Naraku is depressing, you don't even want to know how sad and pathetic/lonely my life is. I don't know enough people to get caught up in group invites to anything.

That was probably one of the best things about them. More places ought to carry the malt vinegar. Fuck ketchup.

I'd be willing to believe that's the majority of their customers. People that used to go there when they were younger, with older relatives, reliving the nostalgia, planting the same seeds in their own offspring.

We were all dumb kids that liked bad things once. It's good to revisit them once in a while to remind yourself just how dumb you were.

That makes me feel better about not knowing the difference between a calzone and a stromboli. Cuz the place I used to work at, they were basically the same thing, except the stromboli wasn't a crescent, and you didn't get any choice of what went in it.

Unless it's going to bring serious rainfall and flooding danger, the only places that really need to worry are near landfall. Once the eye starts falling apart, it's nothing exceptional.

So, I meant to post this earlier in the week or something, a thought I had related to that whole Hank possibly henching theory or whatever. Sponges was pretty much on the nose already, but the thought I had was, as much as Hank idolizes Batman, I knew he'd never go down that road. But seems like pretty much all the theories came together pretty well. Everything just sorta blew over, and Hank is hitting his own "finding himself" part of life. Overall, almost a bit disappointing, with no real big twists or cliffhangers. The big family secret is out in the open (maybe). The Monarch and the Guild seem to be back to the status quo. Like, all I can really think of for the future is just how this makes a decent end point, wrap up some loose threads, start in on the next saga if it's going to keep going. Hank's deal is still a little up in the air, but otherwise?

The highlight of the episode was definitely Hank concussing himself.

That's because the lady doctor hasn't even premiered yet. BBC America is marathoning until the premier next week.

This was the big flaw in your plan. Nobody here will ever amount to anything.

Ah, right. Morrel did seem to be trying to get around the fight.

Was also confused by that line. Not really too bothered by all the slo mo and narrating. I think it puts into perspective how intense this is supposed to be. No monologuing, no grand standing. They all know this is now or never time, and they're throwing everything they've got into it. Less talk, more action. Also not entirely sure where Knuckle fits into the plan at this point. Wasn't he supposed to be dashing to the king? Or is he just the secret weapon in the stairway fight? Maybe we could do with a recap of what folks are actually trying to accomplish in all this mess. Everyone in the stairway keeping one royal guard occupied. Ikalgo is going after Palm I think? Gon and Kill were... also trying to find the king? Were they basically all planning on splitting up and aiming for the king, or keeping the attention of a royal guard, depending on who they ran into first?

Kid eating his dad and hopefully all the psychological trauma that comes with it almost makes up for kid not staying dead at the start of the series.

I was really hoping this season would grow out of such shallow writing. Each episode's theme just feels too obvious and forced. Despite that, still mostly enjoying character interactions.

One thing I really with the localization team took a bit of liberty with was (what I assume is) Naruto's nicknames for people. "Pervy sage" might be funny as a joke once in a while, but when he uses it so much it's clearly literally what he refers to him as, eh, not so much. "Granny Tsunade" or whatever. Old frog sage, or I don't even remember what dumb thing he came up with. Maybe it works better in Japanese, but it sounds really retarded in English. Also a bit disappointing that this jump in time slot coincides with nearly-filler trash.

Your friend wants to give you cancer by suggesting cancer shows. All things considered, not sure I could blame them. I need to go punish my brain for opening this thread and reminding me of just how bad this show was. The very idea of having both Jojo and SAO airing on Toonami at the same time makes me want to give up on tv altogether.