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This is also going to poison the entire oncoming Sasuke vs. Leaf storyline which I'm sure will stretch to the end of the series... remembering it all sprung from this IDIOTIC MOTIVATION THAT RUINED A CHARACTER AND MULTIPLE STORYLINES!

I don't think I've ever seen anything this bad in an anime... maybe any story.

OOOOOOOOOH. So aaaaaallll that bullshit... Ruining the Sasuke and Itachi story (even though it wasn't the best it got the job done), retconning multiple plotlines and character motivations, ruining Itachi's character, was to get Sasuke to go after the Leaf Village?! REALLY?! God damn it Kishimoto. There were plenty of other ways you could do that. Sasuke was already apathetic to them. Not too hard to steer him towards hatred and declare war on them. I mean, he's already fought against them several times! This is just... uugghhh. It's like he doesn't even read his own manga.

Okay Itachi never sounded this nice. He was always kind of a dick to Sasuke. This is fucking stupid.

Kishi is trying to retcon it by making it more flowery and pleasant than it ever was. When you go back and watch this Itachi is always pretty much being kind of a dick to Sasuke.

I thought it sounded okay...

I'm sure it only gets stupider.

Does Sasuke going from "cool rival" to series protagonist explain why he only just won a fight because his opponent held back and now he's getting mind-raped? >

So one last gasp of good stuff, then it goes into a downward spiral of horribifuckus. Somehow I don't think it will be ridiculously horrible so-bad-it's-good like when Blue Exorcist went off the manga rails... This is just going to be very long... slow, and painful. I have a feeling we won't even derive much pleasure from making fun of the shittiness. With this retcon right here... I'm just disgusted and appalled. This shit... I don't even. AND THE LONGER MADARA TALKS TO TRY TO JUSTIFY THIS BULLSHIT THE WORSE IT GETS!

What are you talking about? Itachi wanted to buttbang his lil bro!

Madara is Tobi. Or rather, Tobi was a false persona Madara created for... reasons.

You know we can never stay in a good story line in Naruto for too long! Must divert to Sasuke--Who am I kidding? This isn't your garden variety Sasuke annoyance... this is just... this is just... wow... this is awful. That promo makes that comic sound horrible. "If only they could be bothered to care!" Uuuggghhhghghghhh

WHAT lover? And seriously you kill your lover but not your brother? You kill your mom and dad but not your brother? There's no logic there now that the original reason has been retconned. So I guess it's just incest then. This is sooooo fucking stupid.

"That is Itachi's truth.That is Kishimoto's bullshit!" You're right Sasuke. This is a bunch of crap. ROFL the only reason Sasuke won was because Itachi held back. Well, at least Kishimoto didn't make Sasuke THE GREATEST EVAH for once. "He was pretending to steal your eyes." :D :D :D Okay this literally looks like Kishimoto pulled this all out of his ass right after the conclusion of Itachi and Sasuke's battle, and story. IT WAS FINE THEN. THEN HE GOES AND FUCKS IT UP RIGHT AFTERWARD WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK! Sasuke... is the voice of reason, and the voice of the audience... never thought that would happen.

This is getting more nonsensical and idiotic the longer Madara talks. KISHIMOTO, STOP. THE MORE YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN THIS THE WORSE IT GETS! *facepalm* *facepalm* *facepalm* *facepalm* *facepalm* *facepalm* Okay and seriously the whole Sasuke and Itachi story was just resolved. It was fine. Why immediately assfuck it all up the next episode?!

THIS IS SO FUCKING STUPID! Okay, in all fairness, you can say this explains the tension between Itachi and his father, and the other Uchihas... sort of... wait, no, they were pissed because Itachi was a dick that killed his best friend. You almost had me there Kishi! It sounded like he said The Third Grade Ninja War! > Oh hey it's that one guy from THE ROOT, or whatever the fuck. I forgot his name. These "motivations" for Itachi make nooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking sense. Good god this is retarded. I swear it's like some fanfic writer shoved Kishi out of the chair. The fuck is this shit?

Rofl what was that? MST3K with Madara and Sasuke? YOU ALREADY SAID ALL THIS LAST WEEK!

Hiatus is over. I got home just in time. 8)

I was gonna say just straight up gay, but yeah, we can't deny his attraction to women, either. So yeah, he's pretty much bi. Of course, it's all just nonsensical writing (unconvincing BEST FRIENDS) and/or fan service teasing from Kishimoto. :

It's a good place. Very good place. I just don't like to eat raw stuff. We got this big boat with a bunch of sushi on it one time. It was for my Grandma's birthday actually. So I can say I tried raw sushi, but it was once, haha. Won't happen again. At least there was some cooked on it though.

Oh fuck yes. Yep, they are pretty much one movie at this point. Not sure if anyone cares, but this extremely obscure blink and you miss it ship from Return of the Jedi is in Rogue One, and it's going to be in Rebels! I caught it in the recent Rebels trailer! Anyway, I knew I saw some Klingon-ass looking ship in the Rebel fleet in Jedi all these years! I wasn't crazy! The name even sounds Klingon! http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Braha%27tok-class_gunship The Braha'tok-class gunship is in the lower right. Oh, and of course, the Ghost was there! I didn't even catch all this stuff on the first viewing! I'm still not sure what Pablo Hidalgo's position is. Is he like the Demarco of Lucasfilm? But yeah, this just goes to show you LucasFilm's extreme attention to detail, their loyalty and love of the fans, and how big of Star Wars fans they are, that they put in stuff like this. Okay, Stars Wars nerd tangent over.

We had some of my birthday festivities tonight. Little Caesar's Deep Deep Dish Stuffed Crust Supreme Pizza, and homemade authentic Black Forest Cake! My Grandma gave me this awesome Aristo-Craft G Guage Jack Daniel's train set she won in a drawing years ago! Never thought we'd find it back in her house! It's awesome! On the 19th, my actual birthday, I'm going to my favorite Japanese restaurant for lunch. They've got bento boxes, sushi (cooked as well, thankfully), a hibachi grill, bar, you name it. I'm definitely doing the hibachi again this year. Great place. In April, we're going to ride on the Texas State Railroad, steam train ride with period locomotive and vintage cars. Good times for sure! Anyway, some of my family are going to see La La Land so I am going to see Rogue One... for the third time! I love that movie. My third favorite Star Wars after Empire and Sith now. So I'll probably miss a good amount of Toonami. My recordings will be waiting for me. Anyway, enjoy the night, everyone!

It's all good. I doubt I'll ever have time to watch it at 8. Between Rebels, and my re-watches, podcasts, everything else. I actually had to set up a manual recording at 10:30pm CST to get my DVR to record the Toonami airing every week. Otherwise a series recording defaults to the AS airing. Don't want that version. Want the Toonami goodies, and regular AS usually plays stupid shit during their ad breaks.

It's called Emerald City. I can appreciate a reimagining, a different take on a classic. The Syfy mini-series versions of Peter Pan and Wizard of Oz were quite good in this way. But this... hoo boy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKeRnyFIHWs Spoilers are below, not that you're missing anything. In this version, Dorothy lives in a trailer and Todo is a German Shepherd. A cop tries to shoot her when the tornado is happening for some reason but then he gets swept up in the tornado. She takes off in the cop car and ends up in The Land of Oz. "The Mistress of the East", not Wicked Witch, for some reason, lies dead, and she just thinks it's some person she hit with her car. The witch's body disappeared and her clothes flattened out, so I gotta' give credit for that little touch. Instead of munchkins, she then meets some creepy ass tribal people who start water boarding her because she killed a witch and only a witch can kill a witch! Somehow she gets out of this, I don't remember how, and the leader of the creepy tribesfolk takes her to get her out of town and beg for forgiveness from the Wizard of Oz. They go through a dangerous cavern behind a waterfall and a deep mudpit full of writhing, moaning people, who the tribesman said were thrown in this "jail" for using magic. That's right, the Wizard of Oz in this is evil, and in league with the witches, but he outlawed magic, so they have to become "mistresses", like the "Mistress of the West" who is a soothsayer or oracle or something. Not sure how that's not magic, but okay. Anyway, she works for him, because why the fuck not, while we're screwing everything else up about this story. He has her look in on things and try to watch, tell him what will come, etc. There's even a conversation about how he outlawed magic, but she says it's okay because he gave her this other line of work. WHY WOULD WITCHES SIDE WITH SOMEONE WHO OUTLAWED MAGIC?! Oh, and the big "illusion" of Oz is that he's actually bald and wears a wig, and has some major paranoia and other issues, I guess, putting up a front as the confident and powerful dictator of The Land of Oz. This show is fucking stupid. A flying monkey is featured, but it's mechanical. This is fine. In fact, the actual Emerald City looks really cool, and there's these big "Ancient Guardians" everyhwere which are supposed to protect Oz from cataclysms and I guess monsters and such. But aside from some of the visuals and world designs, character designs, aside from Dorothy herself, Todo, and the Scarecrow (we'll get to him later), this thing is all crap. Anyway, the tribal chief finally gets her to "brick road," as he calls it, because yellow-brick road is too fun and cheerful, I guess. And get this, the road is yellow because of poppy pollen! In fact, the chief says exactly this when Dorothy picks some of them up and asks him about them - "POPPIES! OPIUM!" At some point, Dorothy runs into a witch, who looks exactly like the "Mistress of the East", so I'm guessing it's her. So I guess getting hit by the cop car wasn't enough to kill her, even though her body disappeared. Dorothy manages to trick the witch into shooting herself with the gun Dorothy was apparently carrying, which is shown in full graphic detail. Lovely! Also extremely stupid that the witch just trusts whatever she says. Not sure if the gun was Dorothy's or taken from the cop car. We cut back to the Emerald City at some point Oz says this of Dorothy, after they had found out she killed the witch, which means she used super-powerful magic and this is the sign of some dangerous prophecy coming true or some shit - If it's alive, kill it. If it's dead, bury it. Now, Dorothy finally meets the Scarecrow. Get this, he's some guy that was crucified, tarred and covered with straw. I can't make this shit up if I tried. It's so cartoonishly DARK!!!1 it's ridiculous. Scarecrow has amnesia because of course he does, and there was a sword by his side, because reasons. Not long after this, I checked out. Gotta' say it didn't look bad from the previews, and I was thinking of something along the lines of that SyFy mini-series from some years back. But this... this was just garbage. It's one thing to do a different take on something, but it's another to go in the complete total opposite direction and spirit of the original work, and just be downright shitty in its own right, like this was. Not really sure what NBC was thinking with this. Anyway, if you see any promos or get the curiosity up to watch this - don't. It's not even so-bad-it's-good entertaining. It's genuinely appalling and unpleasant.

Well, we already know how forgiving you are of shows.