The very first episode had "Ho ho we're on a date I'M NOT GAY hey everybody, we're dating NO WE'RE NOT ho ho." That was the dialogue, verbatim.

It's irritating to have just enough subtextual gayness to get the fanfic writers interested but never to have anything gay actually happen. Here, though, Sherlock is just perfecting something that happens in every bigtime movie that comes out these days.

WHAT you;'re REBELLING against the people who REBEL against the REBELLION!!!

I felt this way about Sherlock for a while, though I kind of think nobody REALLY likes that show. There's only so much I can take of Sherlock being smarter than everyone and never losing and things happening for no reason other than showing how he always wins and is smarter than everyone, including the characters…

I ended up kind of hating Breaking Bad, mostly because the Walt Is Smart Than Everybody got SO annoying and predictable, culminating in the ultra-stupid finale where he invents a magic machine that makes no sense, and gets one up on the smarty-pants liberal woman who dumped him and her limp-dicked new man because…

Except Uranus isn't genderqueer, exactly… and even if she is, it's problematic to attribute her attraction to women to that.

I live in everlasting shamepride that there is a record of myself at 13 on the internet, and it's in Sailor Moon fanfiction form.

I think it was pretty progressive that they were REALLY gay, and it wasn't that weird fake-lesbian japanese schoolgirl thing where "ohh I love you and will until these beautiful days of our youth fade like the summer sun." They have an actual relationship and actually have sex. It's also pretty awesome that one…

Azumanga Daioh is amazing and Yukari is the best character.

A great choice. Usagi is an annoying-ass character, and you don't replace an actress who can make her likeable.

Dude, Neptune's totally the boss of that shit.

To give a little sympathy to the devil, I don't think they ever dubbed anything where Uranus and Neptune were actually dating. For a while at the beginning, they were just lesbians totally into one another, but who didn't admit it because something about a holy mission or something. So they didn't actually have…

One awesome thing about Sailor Moon when I was a kid was how mind-blowingly astounding it was that it wasn't a dark show (quite the opposite), but there was darkness in it. The shows I was used to were very easily identified: cutesy, slapstick, or adventure. This was a brightly colored show… but there was this…

Heh. I like Princess Tutu, but I pretty much just saw it as an Utena retread. I should give it another shot.

I think Excel Saga is a better Magical Girl deconstruction than Madoka Magica, personally. Though its genre makes it pretty easy. Just the opening moments alone, where the hero skips merrily to school singing to herself about how much she loves her boyfriend, wanders into traffic, and gets hit by a truck… that says…

I wonder if the Evangelion comparison hurt it for you, partly because that show is supernaturally good (no one would look at you sideways for thinking it's the best anime ever) and because its brand of Lynchain fucked-upness is different from Utena's (different from everything but FLCL, basically).

It's all in how deeply you get involved in the secondary characters. If you don't care about Miki and Juri and whoever (much less the overarching mystery), then everything's just gonna be "oh look, another swordfight. Oh look, someone is in desperate love with someone." But if you do, then all the imagery and…

Utena, even with its filler Nanami episodes problem, completely blew me away. It's in the top-five anime series of all time, in my opinion.

I'm still wondering if it was incompetence or trenchant rebelliousness that led them to recast the lesbians as cousins… and then remove precisely none of their sexual tension.

Each season is really different from the others. The second and third seasons (SailormoonR and SailormoonS because who the fuck knows why) are legit really good, but there's a lot of padding and repetition.