Though to be fair, I think one of the reason fans of the anime like is *because* of its reliance on “cool” over “logic”. The anime is a show people love for its style and its inventiveness and its mashup of different styles that make it unlike anything else, not because of tight storytelling.

I mean it’s kinda hard to create a youtube series focusing on film form and not criticize Marvel movies from time to time.

Oh wait, this is the every frame a painting people? I’ll have to check this put because they’re the GOAT. Nice to see that they’re getting paid.

The thing about Greg is that’s unique among that characters is that he isn’t malicious and does genuinely seem to want the best for other people. But on the other hand he’s super-impressionable and spineless and seems to just float through life. So I am rooting for him and Comfrey (and even if they don’t work out…

To give a less pithy response, the anime is a world where there’s been a gate explosion, and the earth is largely uninhabitable, and living conditions are generally worse than they are in modern day America. From what we see, there aren’t a lot of good job prospects readily available for the characters, and being a…

I mean, the answer to this is basically, “because capitalism”

I’ve always gotten the sense that the president was more of a standard issue Republican, I think my mental image is like if Dick Cheney became president somehow.

As someone who liked The Magicians (especially the later books) and loved A Deadly Education they are rather different. My memory of The Magicians is that it’s largely about the main character learning to get over himself, while in A Deadly Education everyone is under threat of sudden death at literally any instant…

This is something that some anime series like Cowboy Bebop and Neon Genesis Evangelion are really good at that I wish more American shows would try to do.

I’m glad I’m not the only person who’s disappointed whenever “Sinnerman” starts to play and it turns out to be an inferior cover.

One thing I’ve always liked about this show was all of the characters played by actors speaking with (at least more or less) their natural non-American accents. Just among the main cast you had:

In universe I can believe that Mack is just kinda misinformed about FDR and knows him superficially as the Democratic president who did the New Deal.

Season 1 of this show is kinda like season 1 of Fringe (which admittedly is a better Season 1 than Season 1 of this show) in that it looks better in hindsight because it sets up the better stuff in terms of character and plot. As opposed like Season 1 of Legends of Tomorrow where they pretty went, “well this isn’t…

She seemed kinda similar to the colder Simmons we saw at the beginning of the season after a year in space looking for Fitz. Which would sorta make sense if she’d spent at least a few years without any friends around except Fitz essentially on the phone.

*Pushes up music nerd glasses*

Stranger Things takes place in an alternate universe where those things were released slightly earlier.

The season’s been pretty high on contrivance, but Izel meeting up with Fitz/Simmons doesn’t bother me too much. I can believe that she’d been tracking them and was a few steps behind them, and then they met up when Enoch returned them to where they’d just been.

[deleting double post]

I actually like where they’re at with Fitz-Simmons where they bicker and snipe at each other (and the show plays a lot of it for humor) but they’d never consider breaking up or anything.

I haven’t seen the last couple MCU movies (I usually catch them on home video) and memory of the ones I’ve seen is kinda shaky. But I don’t think she’s affiliated with SHIELD anymore, or at least not this version of SHIELD. Looking it up in a wiki, it looks like she left SHIELD to be part of Stark Industries.