There's a lot of good reasons to hold Athens over Sparta in retrospect, be it: not building their entire society around war, producing a lot of lasting ideas, actively incorporating art into society.

Superman started as like a warrior for the little guy, standing up for the working class.

yeah, that's a more pointed statement than mine
I said "this is my new favorite terrible movie" on the way out of the theatres; if none of the characters ever spoke i think it'd be a fantastic scifi odyssey.

Rush is a significant touchstone in the books plot; i think they literally walk thru a Rush-themed world at one point

yeah Valerian is great. there's way more bonkers-imagination in there than you expect

the thing about that is that by and large, the 'other people' (them big city liberals)… don't get it worse than they do? most of the really brutal policies seem to worsen things for the old, or the drug addled towns of middle america, or etc; it seems to me there' a weak point there that could be hammered on.

i mean everybody ages the same amount, but according to a googling, she does have a decade on him.

the sister guitar solo singlehandedly sold me on the concept of guitar solos after a decade of ravenous music listening, during which i loathed them across the board. that piece is magical.

SAC, at least season 1 of it (i'm far less excited about s2), is less philosophical and more sociological. If you've seen Black Mirror (bee episode, some of the mob justice episodes, some others) it's honestly maybe even closer to a season of that than it is to the actual GitS movie. It's a slow burn, and the…

there's a whole thing about it being offensive that a white woman is playing the lead in an adaptation of a japanese cartoon, but unlike the Death Note adaptation where there's some sort of merit to the argument, it requires a lot of iffy assumptions in Ghost in the Shell's case: the major is not some Japanese…

yo just skip to episode 2 or 3, both are much better. i didn't finish episode one, but i plan to return after the rest. it's very heavy on cringeyness (due to an intentional coupling of humor with feelings and the misreadings thereof), but in a funny and meaningful way that you learn how to get over time.