I don’t really do recs or full reviews here and most of my stuff is just a notes dump unless I summarize before hand and it’s a mess and I tend to note stuff that I found to be weird writing decisions.
It’s more or less like the philosophy of I read and watch things based on online recommends and ratings and if a lot of people are watching it and I drop them if there’s something I don’t like or I just find it boring. If the writer is doing something weird then I can just close the page. This becomes slightly more difficult when you are invested in a media and then the writer adds a new weird thing that wasn’t there before and you have to do your best to ignore it and hope that it doesn’t become like a mainstay go away.
This is ultimately because I do not have a vetting process before I go into watching things which means I will be blindsided and flash banged by the worst writing decisions of all time. Like in my mind there’s a gross meter and I measure some things based on how ”ick” I find them. Things I find “ick” tend to be stuff like unnecessary fanservice (hot springs episodes have hit that) or like goon type characters (unfortunately not like henchmen goons). When I was younger this kind of stuff flew over my head and I was in places that normalized some tropes and there’s more that I can think of that I’d probably be like “ick” about now but that’s just a part of growing up and finding tropes you dislike/find weird.
I don’t think exposing yourself to things you don’t like will help you with like, the things you dislike. It’s like me and the bount arc because like I don’t want to see them or the mod souls, I want to see Aizen’s wild plans play out and these guys are a hindrance. I’d definitely use a filler guide for bleach. And I’m not actively reviewing things either, it’s more or less “I watched things because I’m bored and I’ve got free time, here’s my raw unfiltered thoughts.” The thing is I am not 100% or even like 50% correct about anything and that includes my opinion most of the time.
I’m not a stick in the mud though, I just find somethings to be like, unfunny or tasteless and I tend to point them out because these are like my notes on media I watch. Like a lot of things I find to dislike being fanservice and weird shots are basically like inherently baked into the shows since the target audience is teenagers who are like, generally figuring stuff out. So the real answer here is I need to watch things that aren’t just shonen!

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I’ve begun watching The Batman (The cartoon). Looks like Teen Titans(same design studio since WB and CN are the same overlapping group/company? Maybe there’s an artist who gave similar designs since the crowds look similar. Like with TFA and Mystery Incorporated and Ben 10).
I think the funniest part of Batman as like a character and concept is that he can just do all of that. Like other guys have superpowers but it’s always been explicit that Batman has tools (tm) not powers. When technology stops being indistinguishable from magic when does the line stop because Batman having a billion doohickeys might as well be magic but replaced with science. I have no knowledge on comics so I probably won’t be saying more on that.
I like how since it’s a children’s cartoon they can’t kill people so instead the jonkler uses his evil laughing gas to permanently freeze people into smiling. Sometimes I wish shows on streaming services had a shuffle button (minus the two parters). A lot of old shows were made to be watched in any order as stand alone…ish.
Bane just looks like the red guy from Ben 10. The Batman (tm) is defeated Suspicions large bat shaped robot shows up.
The joker really did cause a lot of havoc. He's got the joker gas and the joker putty. He doesn't have powers either, he's just a clown. The uh, the penguin guy was there too, he's got the power of birds. I think the secret identity thing is cool to balance but that's because I mostly know batman as a concept more than as a thing, like, I've only watched one batman movie. Catwoman was there too. The last thing I would've expected was the clayface from this show, in 13 episodes they had like a whole finale arc on the development of batman being the guy hunted down and now batman is hunting the guy down.

The riddler be like “solve my riddle”
This guy is really just out here blowing up bridges if you don’t solve puzzles Where do they get henchmen from in Batman anyways Bro has the scepter. That’s literally just magic. There's quite the rogue's gallery for batman plus detective Yin working alongside batman while both fight against clayface is an interesting dynamic. No clue what was up with her new partner, he was kind of incompetent. Commissioner Gordon seems like he'll be a new guy to add to the whole vigilante aspect he's got going on. The people of gotham adore the dark knight.
I think in the movie I watched Gordon was black and he’s white in this one and I’d probably be like, killed on any other social media for saying this but whenever people start clamoring that a character is a different race I gotta wonder the question of “is being white integral to this character in terms of role, personality, and plot?” Honestly it’s probably just racism and misogyny whenever there’s complaints about the race or gender thing. I’m overthinking what is an obvious answer. So a lot of stuff being followed up with season 1 is pretty good but also a lot of these episodes kind of blur between batman and his secret identity followed up with Alfred, Clayface made a return, Detective Yin and Batman are working together and more or less this is a serialized show where every episode's pretty much able to be aired as is. Honestly, these seasons are pretty short, only 13 episodes...
I gotta wonder where the rest of the bat guys are so like, Robin is probably gonna pop up.
Magic is real in Batman, they've got puppet masters and spell casters and zombie people. I did not know all this, I did not know that the batman had such a varied cast of weirdos he just beats up. Comics into cartoons are cool...

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