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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.

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.

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?

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.

Can't really refute any of that. I'm not so sure how much you were meant to be truly attached to any villagers, tho, as much as maybe just.. appreciating the village as a whole. An arc more about Irumyuui than anyone else. But, I mean, in the end, I enjoyed it, so naturally I'm gonna try to spin it for myself as getting something worthwhile out of it. Still, not wrong, in the long run, likely not really much importance to the story as a whole. I might also throw out, like.. it's definitely a funny series to get hung up on "attachment" to anything, really. Another thing the story does weird, the way Riko can just so casually toss everything aside and continue on deeper, knowing she'll never see any of these people again. There's a sadness in leaving and loss, but she's always able to look ahead with a smile. Knowing that, it's a bit of a feat that the show can manage to build up any attachment at all, flimsy as it may be.

Eh, I'm more on board with S2 for at least keeping on theme. I'm less invested in the adventure part, I see the story being more about finding the light of optimism amidst crushing despair, with a side helping of "sins of the past." But, the criticisms are definitely valid. Took a while for the threads to really start weaving together, and all told, pretty light on "progress." That's just, like... the whole show. =p But, is also some of its appeal. It's far from tame. Edgy, some would say. But, the story still tries to make some good come of it all. I'd say it's that juxtaposition, the gap between gruesome and wholesome, that works for drawing people in.

Personal conspiracy: They were approaching the end episode somewhere in the high 400s and decided "let's just fluff this up a bit with some garbage to hit a cool 500." Knowing everything had been written, and thus, nothing new would be contradicting filler back-lore, they were free to just make up whatever they liked.

Criticism: Air tanks. Not oxygen tanks. At no point did they separate hydrogen/oxygen from water, they were just pumping in straight air. Which is good, because pure oxygen would've been no help. (also, while I can buy cobbling together a tank to pressurize, big doubt on just throwing together a regulator with whatever's on hand..) Plus the three of them could've easily just shared regulators, splitting up the air, to not rely on believing a) he could actually get a gulp of air off someone trying to speak without also inhaling a load of seawater, and b) that he could swim back to the surface on that one gulp while also carrying half a statue. Seriously, Senku, really shoulda planned ahead on a strategy to actually lift stone up from the seabed. Extra ropes to haul from the surface, and/or lift bags to add air to for help from buoyancy. Sand art ending is pretty cool, tho.

These are probably largely fixed in the "New UEMB Copy Test" theme, which seems to be the one made for making changes to nail things down without constantly changing things for users still on one of the older themes. Pretty sure the spaceships aren't so much a theme thing as a site thing, requiring digging into actual site code, if they can be removed at all.. (much like how I hate the sidebar creating a ton of empty space in large threads..)

It does cleanly wrap up the "Why is Hank blond?" question.. But it also caused me to consider.. I suppose you could make a case for that contributing as well to Hank's dichotomy of having delusions of heroism and villainy both. That makes Hank the grandson of Force Majeure. Certainly a plot thread any sequel (or fanfic) could follow up on..

Eh, is fair. I just didn't want to make a new thread for a one-off thought. I get it. Moving things over is tidy. There's really not so many special cases like this where it's a big event more than just a singular episode (since we don't really get movies anymore..). And we all know how rare it is for not-Action to generate any discussion besides..

Movie discussion got archived, so here works (srsly, archiving serial episodes I get, but.. eh) Debbie mentioned Rusty took her mom's invisibility and gave it to her, and Debbie gave him "..my stuff I wasn't planning on using using." Was the implication there that she never wanted kids and gave Rusty her ovaries or eggs or whatever he needed to create his artificial wombs for the boys?

Hm, yeah, I'd stick with it. I don't really interact with a great deal more of the site, so not much else to give input on.

I've been on the ASMB Vibes 2.0 theme, switching over to make notes. Personally, more a fan of the lighter grey for post backgrounds, a la ASMB. The black-on-almost-black is a bit much. On the other hand, the ASMB theme has the awful greenish yellow color for things like the top banner, new reply circles, etc. Literally anything is better than that. Blue thread title font is ok, think it's same/similar on all themes? But the green-on-hover is kinda clashy. Square vs circle avatars, not a huge difference, personal opinion and all. There's probably some design philosophy that says circles are more aesthetically pleasing or something. I'd probably lean more towards squares.

Maybe meant as a "new here, wave hello."

Honestly, very nearly tempted to try to add up just how much of Shippuden has been eaten up by flashbacks, filler or otherwise. I'm pretty sure, since Madara showed up, we've had, like, a dozen episodes, tops, that stuck with current events..

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