Top Gun

I pity the FBI agent who has to decipher this.

Everyone asking "when is gummy?" while no one asks "how is gummy?"

I'm shipping the hell out of them and you cannot stop me.

It'd save us all a lot of time if these assholes all just whipped them out and measured.

I enjoy how we spent half of this episode looking at a random shot of a shrine because God forbid we see a certain symbol.

This show is so fucking good it's almost not fair.

Living the dream.

The one time I had to drive up most of 95 (ugh) I saw like a dozen signs for one location but I did not partake.

And I would gladly ditch every single thing involving the prequels in favor of The Last Jedi. ...well okay not Episode 1 Racer or Duel of the Fates, those can stay.

Meanwhile we just had a freeze warning a few nights ago.

Man I hate when I travel back in time and wind up in a bath with a bunch of naked dudes.

If memory serves this episode is technically almost entirely filler, but it fits pretty seamlessly into the arc and makes sense to have happened. Carrot: "What is this, an island for ants?!"

This show is the best goddamn thing ever and I will hear no arguments.

Me, 30 seconds into this episode: "Oh this is gonna be hella dumb isn't it." Me, two minutes later: "Oh this is hella fucking dumb."

o7

Hell yeah. This show is awesome.

So is Girls Gone Wild included?

Okay Packard.

Yeah, Steins;Gate does some fantastic stuff with the concept of multiple timelines that I hadn't seen any other time-travel story tackle before, specifically with the idea of how much change would be required to jump from one timeline to another and truly change the future. To say much more would spoil it, but as naraku said, the series does a great job of providing a rational framework for its mechanics. The only reason I brought it up is because the end of this episode reminded me of it, with the sense that Takemichi seems trapped by these same negative outcomes even after making what seemed like substantial changes in the past. At this point it feels like we have a mix of different time-travel stories in play: the initial premise of going back in time to stop a murder is a dead ringer for Erased, Takemichi (and Naoto apparently?) not having memories of his own changed past smacks of Marty's situation at the end of the original Back to the Future, and then there's the S;G stuff. I won't claim that it handles things nearly as expertly as any of those examples, but I'm willing to forgive some hand-waving if I'm enjoying the series, which I definitely am. Speaking of, the ANN review for this episode brought up a good point that I didn't think about: the fact that Hinata was deliberately targeted here implies that her initial death in the initial unchanged timeline was no accident either. Coupled with Akkun being the one who originally pushed Takemichi onto the subway tracks, that's two (attempted) murders that happened before the timeline was ever changed. So why does someone want the two of them dead so badly in the first place?

I don't think anyone in the history of anything has ever been fucked as hard as Jack just was.

I chuckled at the blatant Ranma setup going on here, but they went way further with it: Jiji is literally singing Ranma's opening theme during the episode. Incredible.

I mean I'm enjoying this show well enough for what it is, but Steins;Gate is a fucking masterpiece.

Okay this is literally Steins;Gate now.

Seiko wasn't using her powers there. She'd prepared the seals inside of Taro beforehand, but her apprentice was the one who said the incantation to activate them. The rest of it was just a good ol' fashioned gmilf ass-whoopin'.