I like that song, too.

I made my case with, like, arguments and stuff. You resulted to insulting me. Good job.

Basically, the writers set up rules in this episode and then ignore them when it comes time to enforce the rules. They go too soft on Jet.

And as I wrote in my review, that doesn't make sense for two reasons: 1) because of what Alisa said about how she has to be able to make her own decisions about her own life and 2) because Jet was never looking for Rhint in the first place. Saying that Jet can't let go of Rhint implies that he was looking for him.…

Sorry but that logic doesn't cut it in light of Alisa's speech at the end. He has to let her make her own decisions. But he doesn't. And Rhint goes to jail. Decisions are still being made because Jet wants them to be made, which is what Alisa was complaining about. It shows that the show's writer(s) didn't know how to…

Yup. I double-checked before posting.

Spider's right: that is in the dubbed version.

Surgeon Clouseau, I think I love you.

Maybe I didn't make this explicit enough in the review but yes, I deliberately avoided talking about the accident that caused him not to age. Because it's a Macguffin explanation that doesn't fully address the WHY of the event in question. The immediate mechanical reason is there but not the greater one. I mean, even…

I write about 6-8 pieces per week and proof each piece twice before filing them. There's only so much I can catch.

Thanks, Catgun!

Oh, she does? I didn't remember her saying that.

I only infrequently switched between the English dub and Japanese subbed version for this ep but I did notice some irritating changes between the two. For instance, it really bugged me that during the scene where Faye mistakenly identifies Spike as the guy that's supposed to give her the code-breaking chip that, in…

I know, but referring to them as the three old men is easier than saying their names.

It is a theme specific to Spike because the show is largely ABOUT Spike. I said that last week! And it is about gender just as much as it's about chauvinism because chauvinism is, according to that quote, a matter of someone dismissing everyone but their kind because they are not one of them.

The two are inseparable, Chryso. I have seen the show and I know where it goes. So I am dealing with the writers' "whole picture" while trying to engage with how they're setting that picture up on a case-by-case basis (ie: an episode-to-episode analysis). You seem to object most strenuously to the fact that I'm…

Sorry, but it is chauvinism. I did not take a gender studies class but I can tell you based only on my ability to Google the term "chauvinism" that I did not misuse the term. Wikipedia says: "…it [ie: the term] has come to include an extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of any group to which one belongs,…

Otto, that's exactly what I meant: these assumptions are laid out now so that later the show can overturn Spike's assumptions.

Nope, not grading this show. Didn't grade it last week either.

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION and PARANOIA AGENT were my second and third choices for coverage. So hopefully, if this goes well, I'll cover one or both of these later.