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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!

Why am I watching an 80s commercial for cool trucks
I got a linkin park AMV in my recommends and I was like “this looks tight as hell” and I saw a clip compilation of Starscream from various canons and I was like “what an interesting fellow, I would like to see more of him” so I started watching transformers. I mean, I’ve seen some transformers before, but never been like in depth. Current lineup for transformers stuff I’m watching is G1 + the movie, the Cartoon Network animated one, and prime.
Note: this was being written in between the time frame of the release of transformers One. Note: The lineup thing immediately went sideways during season 2. Maybe if there are more on streaming services that I have I will watch them as well but for now I’m mostly using the hasbro official YouTube spots.
Beast Wars seems like it’s fun but it’s also like idk what’s worth watching about it or not. I’ll consider the other ones later on. The TFwiki is also kind of hilarious because of the way it sounds like it was written by someone who only knows about transformers and questions every single thing that isn’t canonically in transformers itself. It’s great. Scattered notes in a way where it’s more general instead of like every episode, because that would be stupid, I’m not doing that anymore.
Gen 1 Season 1 The true watching experience is hopping onto the hasbro livestream, getting pissed off they keep airing the episode where the dinosaurs get tricked by Megatron to fighting Optimus, and then properly watching it in the order on the playlist but apparently that’s not even the right order either since it’s not the production order. Thank goodness it’s episodic because I’m just using the playlist for the experience of what it’s like to watch a show on demand without all the episodes.
I like how for the first episode before they land on earth they all had their like non car forms. Where does the trailer come from though.
The gen 1 show is very blatantly a cartoon commercial in which it’s very clear they were like “what do boys like, dinosaurs” so they’d just add in dinosaur robots for an episode. They’re mainstays and they’re stupid because they were made with the intellect of actual dinosuars. I love them. It truly encapsulates the feeling of a kid playing with his toys. Like they’ll just be giving characters new superpowers because one time OP just had laser eyes. Never again.
It’s also an 80s cartoon in terms of random animation quirks too which I learned is like a multiversal canonical singularity explained in the comics or something??? Theres human characters but i think in terms from my scale of obtrusive human characters so far they rate pretty low, this one’s mostly on the transformers fighting except when it’s not. Like theyre not Chris thorndykes or various movie human centric dramas that might have the title character in it too sometimes (so basically the opposite of the bay movies). It’s kinda interesting how the civilians have no clue what’s going on usually because there was an emphasis on the fact they’re robots in disguise. Literally the only reason spike is even there is because his dad was like “we know more about earth than you do because we live here”. The decepticons will be calling humans flesh creatures and everyone just has to live with that. Why is Dr. Wily here. They just had a mob of people try to attack but like none of their attacks work I think it’s akin to like a bug. In the first episode megatron picks up a pipe and throws it at the humans.
The transformers can just do whatever they want sometimes. They can also just like. Fly. Without having to turn into vehicles. I love when you watch an early installment of a franchise before things get established so like nothing has been set in stone like the way gen 1 pokemon was where every writer could make things up. Rumble was the size of a human man in episode 1 but their sizes fluctuate depending on the writing/artist anyways.
I’ve mostly been watching the season 1 livestream through hasbro pulse’s YouTube minus when I’m not. There was a clear philosophy in that the “good” transformers were all convenient vehicles like trucks and hospital vehicles and cars and meanwhile the “bad” ones were mostly weapons and war machines and meanwhile Megatron was an actual gun. Minus the guy who’s a camera and Soundwave being a cassette player.
Megatron needing to be wielded by someone else is also driving me nuts. Literally putting his life into another’s hands to be shot… like putting yourself into the hands of the robot who is going to betray you or at least try to is kinda crazy. The fact that it’s an actual war is like, since they’re robots, there can be more easily justified violence but like most of the time I used to think “wow cool robot” no they are in a civil war. But also sometimes the decepticons are incredibly incompetent as extremely petty and it depends on the episode as to how badly everyone gets owned like the episode where Megatron got thrown off an pyramid and immediately called for a retreat like on some team rocket timing.
Are the insecticons even evil, they’re just hungry or something. They’re like bugs. They’ve got a little echo effect. I don’t remember every single guy from the cast so all of them being called sometimes helps. They gave that bug lightning powers.
Optimus Prime in my mind I thought of mostly being a nicer calmer leader guy but in Season 1 he’s calling Megatron trash and stuff. I guess they didn’t really have his character fully written down yet. It’s real hard for like notes when the good guys are just like nice but kind of snarky and like perfectly fine but then the villains are all just weirdos in their own right and could carry a show in their perspective alone. I like how they keep going “yay we got rid of megatron” but he just keeps coming back like this happens multiple times he keeps going “I will be avenged”. He’s not dead yet though. Megatron trapped the autobots in quicksand one time. Plus the decepticons have robots that combined to make a bigger robot. That’s rad. And they’re green and purple, some of my favorite colors. That rules, their debut episode was fighting the dinobots. Megatron tried to cheat in the same episode too and Starscream tried raising up the legality of the dual and Megatron went IDGAF right until it blew up in his face and he fell in the lava and did his usual. I don’t think lava would kill him.
The good guys are nice but like they kind of all fill out tropes of like, the medics, the kid character, and the human stand ins, and some guys. They really do just have some guys on the team who I have to hear their names multiple times to remember like who is Prowl. That’s just some white car guy when they have like 4 other guys that are white cars. Like Ratchet has the exact same head type. (Is there a robot named Clank…)They got recolors on the team and sometimes they recolor the other guys that look alike. Sometimes they just stand in the background and say things to remind you they’re there. I’ll literally just say “who is THAT guy”. There’s just a red Bumblebee. There’s actually two of them, red bumblebee and his brother, tall bumblebee. Big Red. Same with the decepticons, they’ve got some recolors like the Starscream’s. They’re made to sell money. Who was that purple guy in episode 2 who was a camera. There’s definitely some glups in the cartoon. There’s an invisible guy. I mean, there are comics to read through so maybe there’s less glup energy. There’s some guy who speaks in rhymes. They gotta have their little quirks and powers and things. They are nice, but, I need more episodes with them individually versus in a group because I’m not remembering all of them. I have said multiple times now “who is that I have never seen or heard you before.” Minus the dinobots because they’re literally just dinosaur brained. I mean it would be weirder if the T-Rex could articulate in full sentences I think.
I’m like 50% sure chip and spike have the same VA they were working those guys in the studio overlap because the same guys are in GI Joe like it must’ve been like back to back recording sessions or something crazy.
Thinking about it, the whole thing about the villains stealing energy is yet another 80s cartoon with an environmentalist message, huh… they’re just doing whatever they want tbh. The plots are whatever, the writing might as well have spawned into existence. Same with the stereotypes for humans. They’re really something sometimes. Why are there so many various gems of power. Like they’ve got the 80s sci-fi terms of logic circuits and battle computers and what not.
Season 1 is the shortest since it’s only 16 episodes which I guess is why it’s the only one that gets livestream privilege (note: This was written before they moved onto season 2 on the livestream). But on hasbro’s other channels they’ve got the other ones too.
There’s animation errors but like that’s kind of part of some of the charm. Like the recolors keep swapping. Sometimes they launch at comedy speed. The stock sounds kill me a bit. The random moments of competent animation where there’s almost high quality or sakuga is insane because I have to rewind and go “wow” because they’ll come out of nowhere.
The episodes being out of order by broadcast and not production is a bit bothersome because the ultimate doom is clearly more of a season finale than the insecticon introduction since it is like a big battle and Megatron brings Cybertron to Earth. If Hasbro was really cooking they’d make the commercials actually happen when the logo says “the transformers will return right after these messages.”
Current favorites: Soundwave, Starscream, Megatron, Grimlock, Jetfire
The Section on the Decepticons
The entire reason I even began watching transformers was because I saw a clip compilation of starscream from different iterations and I was like “what an interesting character.” Saying it like, with the intent to put him under a microscope. I want to put him in a little maze and watch him run around. He’s 25 years old. I’m not joking, thats in his casting bio. In the pilot episodes megatron was like “if you get rid of me there will always be someone trying to get rid of you” which makes sense I guess. Megatron’s a questionable guy in terms of like, his leadership, but he’s pretty entertaining sometimes like how in episode 2 he was cackling while flying with his mace helicopter. Villains do end up usually getting the more interesting things going on like Soundwave having multiple guys as cassettes and Starscream’s recolors being a part of a group with their own powers versus the autobots where I end up going… “that guy’s power is… digging?” . Megatron’s mad smart for manipulating the dinosaurs in that one episode with his like might makes right mentality. Megatron has the plans but the thing I feel like Starscream is impulsive and if he was given a chance to, he would just stab someone. I’m a big fan of this horrible guy who tried immediately blowing up the Earth when he thought Megatron was dead. Heavy Metal War is the epitome of “dang, the decepticons have really cool skill sets.”
Transformers prime is rather interesting in terms of the way that starscream looks like completely different if you take a glance at his gen 1 iteration but they still match up somewhat in terms of mannerisms in like the fact they’re consistently like, scheming and tricking and whatnot. That reflects on prime/aligned being like. Thin as hell in reference to the like… ambigious trickster archetype . Dude’s the smallest guy normally in a scene but he’s also like incredibly sharp, he has claw hands. Both are seeking power but do it in ways that reflect similarly but not exactly??? Fascinating how different takes on a character lead to different results that can still translate as like, the same. I watched less clips of Animated so I have less to say on that guy. So naturally to “get” starscream, I went back to his gen 1 edition.
I have learned of Armada somewhat being like the most different take of Starscream in that he’s like this duty bound honorable warrior who breaks out of Megatron’s violence and becomes his own robot who works with the autobots after questioning Megatron’s capacity as a leader and ultimately he sacrifices himself and he is the big hero or something. That’s very interesting, so maybe I’ll add Armada to the watch list. The thing I’m thinking is there’s already a robot who matches that profile description of questioning the decepticons, his name is Thundercracker. But to be honest I’m not sure if the Armada one fits what I’m currently envisioning, I want him (Starscream) to be worse and do crime. There are like multiple starscream recolors and I’m starting to be able to recognize them by name and association. I’m cooked.
The episode I saw where Starscream rescues his one friend who was trapped in an iceberg is kind of a lot of depth for him in my mind because most of what I saw of him in clips he was always getting like insulted or like being like “I’m gonna be the leader! me!” Like the constant schemer villain of a movie who’d get killed in the final act but instead he’s always getting owned for his ego. I like Starscream because he is a hater but like that episode is also driving me nuts because like there was a Starscream that like had a friend and was a normal scientist guy on Cybertron and that friend Skyfire/Jetfire represented the old life before the war and Starscream was nicer to him and being like “you’ll be my second in command” that it’s making my brain grind like “rrrrgghhhhhhh” we love to see complexities . Skyfire and Starscream are the funniest concept of like Skyfire was so like large that none of the autobots attacks even like remotely phased him and like he was entombed in the ice and then immediately bailed and took off his decepticon brand like it was nothing and then for the rest of the show Skyfire was mostly just the guy carrying the others around. Starscream fumbled so bad.
We don’t get to see much of Jetfire/Skyfire after because copyright issues from macros/harmony gold pretty much made him a side character which is also why he has two names. Like they for real tried to kill Skyfire within his debut episode and then he just pops back up again. Missed opportunity. Also the messed up order does make this kind of hilarious because like now in the order that it's in Starscream was going to blow up the Earth before he knew his old friend was actually still alive on it. It was a bit silly in his return episode that it was kind of nonchalant of “oh yeah, we forgot about that guy, we thought he died.” Then he spends the rest of the show as the autobot taxi.
How did Starscream’s life before the war end up with him the way he is now, what made him the chronic betrayer that he is. How did he claw up to the ranks in the decepticons in canon aside from “well, he just is”. Obviously the answer was “this is a kids cartoon and we need to make it so that the villain isn’t just like the big evil guy we need comic relief” but like Starscream is in this cycle of constantly wanting to one up Megatron just because he thinks he would be the better leader. And like no one is actively questioning megatron’s plans as much and simultaneously there is no good explanation to why Megatron keeps him around??? I swear that Megatron is like the king and to him starscream is the court jester who is also simultaneously his evil advisor wizard who will try consistently poisoning him with every meal but like, Megatron has immunity to the poison. I By the way, the court jester is the only one allowed to humiliate the king freely without punishment. Obviously that is not the case for Starscream as he deals with cartoon violence. I love him, he sucks. He gets called geeky.
The thing is like, everyone in the decepticons is more or less like in it for themselves and actively working against Megatron or too incompetent to set off on their own because even Shockwave in his g1 bio says that he’d take the role from Megatron which he does! Multiple comic continuities have that happen apparently. I like Soundwave as well but there is less to say about him unlike Starscream because Soundwave is the robot that gets things done for Megatron efficiently and he has a cool voice mod and he shoots out cassette tapes that turn into little decepticons and he is just a cool guy. Soundwave is carrying the group project as well. I don’t think Starscream would even be a good leader, he just wants the power and attention that he’d get from being the leader but also it’s kind of funny how in early season 1 Megatron got sent on the space bridge and everyone literally did follow Starscream with zero hesitation (granted season 1 was like. Not established.) Incredibly disorganized military group aside from when they lock in. The insecticons literally betrayed the group within their debut episode...episode. They trash talk each other as they do jumpings.
Favorite Episodes (Season 1 Lineup): Divide and Conquer SOS Dinobots Ultimate Doom (all parts) Fire in the Sky Heavy Metal War Fire on the Mountain Plague of Insecticons That's basically like the entire season pretty much. It is the shortest one...

I need to get a t-shirt or button that says “I was on tumblr during the Voltron release” and have never stepped foot into the discourse and as far as I know maybe it was like a mass hallucination or something. I’ve only seen the 80s show through exposure with my dad, I have never seen anything fanart wise of the robot. As a big robot fan, I feel that is dire and sort of a dangerous warning.
Pidge reminds me of tails. I like Pidge. Is this gonna be like surf Dracula where I gotta spend like a whole season before I see him get the board (the team in the robot) Who is Shiro to Keith intergenerational friendship/co-workers is the vibe I’m getting
It’s nice that they’re all wearing color coordinated clothes so you can tell who’s what color lion …that’s what Voltron looks like here? Fantasy alien elves! The mice! From the first show! What are my thoughts on the new Voltron design It looks like a transformer could snap it like a twig
How do the aliens know English They made 8 seasons in 2 years… Voltron incident. So if Pidge was disguised how come no one recognized her as looking as a dead ringer for the missing brother I don’t think the show is going to answer those questions, this is about alien robot wars.
I like them comparing earth time to alien time, that was a nice scene. Most of lance is him being a chaser so far or just beefing with Keith for no reason I think Keith is his rival type Can’t really tell the leader yet… I think fundamentally to have a good mecha you need to have good hype music to back up the fight scenes and like how am I supposed to be hyped when the robot shows up if the soundtrack is mostly just a dinky little orchestra electronic thing the entire show Switch up the genre, give me some jazz or someting I wanna feel like this is sick as hell and like it could be, but the soundtrack isn’t pulling it’s weight Why is it so quiet Dang, allura’s life sucks. She has to kill her AI dad. Her entire race is gone. Lance keeps flirting with her. Voltron LD doesn’t even have a kickass vocal intro theme song It’s instrumental and pivotal to have a vocal insert song I’ve spent more time with them out of the robot than in it As a character driven space show about alien fights it’s alright I guess but as a big robot show this is dire. If your show is advertised as a big robot show I better see the robot!! The epitome of surf Dracula
Season 2
How much of hunk’s jokes revolve around throwing up and eating and being afraid I get itttttt You know a character who was a big guy who wasn’t just a food guy Benkei from Beyblade Metal Saga who then became a resturaunt owner in the sequel after metal fury I haven’t watched beyblade in years so who knows if he was good or not thinking about it Big guys do end up falling into two tropes of being either the food guy or the big bully type
I like everyone aside from Lance currently because Lance feels like the writers were trying to make a Sokka but didn’t understand that fundamentally the thing of Sokka is that he learns to respect women and he has a character to bounce off of in both ways of both validating and invalidating him when he does something dumb or smart (Katara, Aang) but the thing is currently in Voltron no one likes or respects lance and he has like negative rizz but I guess that is what character development is for You know, a lot of alien shows really need to commit to it… I think a show about a Voltron tourist would work pretty well but we gotta deal with the cosmic war or whatever but then I feel like we’d probably also be dealing with more space racism, as is the usual when there are space shows
Considering that every “season” is 13 episodes I’m gonna just go with treating the seasons as if they are one long season Having 13 episodes for a single season I feel is starting to become detrimental in terms of pacing for shows like these. Two bros 6 feet apart in a pool chilling The big alien spaceship doesn’t have stairs? What was the point of being in space if there’s just a regular space mall When do they get back to earth I think a big issue with a show/movie/book/anything is when you end up going “damn… i kinda don’t care.” So far, I only care about four characters out of an 8 man cast. (Allura, Shiro, Pidge, Hunk).
Cow. Keith’s interesting enough since he’s a Galra now. They gotta have some kind of glossary for these new words or something I feel a bit lost It is a good character driven show, I can say that much, but the soundtrack is really not helping me because I’m zoning out more than I probably should be This had 8 seasons but season 2 already feels like a whole finale to itself How much am I going to watch a decline in real time Well, I’ve got a few weeks to find out.

Actually Finishing Naruto Pt 1 in spite of saying the last one was me finishing it. Gaara literally just cleared that guy in a single hit with a sand spear I like the energy of “Naruto’s finally going to train with Jirarya! Everything else was just an off screen adventure!” I also watched some of the movies and they were basically “hey can we copy your homework from the filler episodes or something, no one will notice” The last ending foreshadows Naruto’s new fit for Shippuden I’ll be honest, I watched multiple seasons of filler and I don’t remember a thing aside from like, the ramen competition, the mermaid, the mail carrier guy, and the fake grandson thing. Maybe more. Idk.
Part 1 was good I guess. I feel like there's ideas here, but the fact that they aren't followed up probably feels like a waste for non filler people. They’ve got all this crazy stuff and spells but like, what if there was a cowboy. It’s kinda funny how like all of the filler is usually “we’re a village in a land you’ve never heard of doing incredible techniques and we think your village sucks and your ninja techniques are lame and you will never hear of us again.” Alternately “orichimaru might be involved, JK, it was just some other guy” There’s probably someone out there who has rewritten all of Naruto with all of the villages. Like a mad person. Toph and Gaara would probably be a good crossover fight Sand. They keep having a lesson of “being a ninja means being a tool and you should be human” and like these 12 year olds sure are philosophical. Sakura’s healing powers are kind of terrifying, she can kind of do necromancy. Naruto’s ambition is kinda great, because like, he wants to be the president. Hinata wants to join him. The talent thing is the dumbest argument I’ve ever heard. Did a YouTuber really plague Naruto discourse that badly. I’m not starting Shippuden right now, give me til next year, it’ll probably TAKE me a year to finish it anyways with how much filler I’ve heard is in it.

Well, I finished up korra Korra S3
I feel like a lot of korra season 2’s ending was like “hmm, I don’t think connecting the modern human world and the wild spirit world was a good idea” and the spirit world feels like less chaotic nature and more of like black and white viewpoint of “that’s bad and that’s good and that’s HIM, that’s the BAD SPIRIT KILL HIM” and like how is the big owl and the face stealing guy supposed to live within the human world and uhhh they are not going to address that, huh. There was definitely a philosophical change and/or writing decision made to make the spirit world less of a violent thing of natural chaos because nature cannot be defined as good or evil, it just exists. Also Iroh’s chilling there. I kind of imagine the worst case scenarios because so far there have been fumbles.
Now people are getting powers who didn’t have powers before and there is chaos in the city and also an assassin or something because criminals are gaining superpowers Bro you can’t rebuild the air nation just because people got air bending powers through sheer randomness It’s like the Jedi code Korra attempts to get a guy through the power of “nuh uh”
There is a government conspiracy Where are this child’s parents That’s not Zuko’s voice actor Who is that
I like when they revisit old places and they look different Like ba sing she has grass now But they turned the lower ring into the plates from Midgar Bolin and Mako met their uncle! That’s nice. Wait, there’s Zuko’s VA right there. Actually there’s a huge extended family! Korra’s tone is all over the place sometimes with a lack of subletly and it’s like there’s a lot of over explaining sometimes and the dialogue revolving around like fart jokes literally happening after a guy fell off a bridge Like the feelings are “there” but it feels more like they put a thing there of like a cue to be like “be sad” I know the grandma never met the mom, but she didn’t have to say that, she could’ve just said the thing about Bolin having his mom’s eyes And that the characters feel like too naive to be falling for some things that feel like blatant traps The romance is also like whack, same with the family drama There feels like a writer wanting to make things be extremely serious and it gets undercut by a writer who keeps making jokes so I can never tell what to get from this
I’m not really liking much of this show past season 1. Then again sometimes I feel like things are unintentionally funny because of like woah, there’s a guy with super powers heading towards them but also he is standing on top of a guy’s car Sometimes it feels like the bending fights get like extreme high budget that makes the rest of the show look stilted in comparison I feel like all of the villains having like all of the powers of the various guys aang fought should be an interesting thing on paper but in the world of nostalgia pandering I’m here like “oh boy, how’s this gonna play out”
Would I be less harsh on Korra’s inconsistent tone if it didn’t try for these more mature themes while still constrained by being a children’s network and then sometimes undermining things with jokes Yeah, probably.
After the last airbender live action Netflix thing though it could be worse Okay so a splinter group of the white lotus doesn’t sound very good Let Bolin make friends with the bad guys I like him. I feel like he’s trying his best. He feels like a light in this story.
I feel like if season 3 held the same amount of seriousness it held in the episode with the temple under fire it would’ve been Too much but escalation goes way too fast… I feel like manipulating the spirit world should’ve been like a series finale sort of thing instead of season 2 The order feels a bit backwards. If season 4 tries to go back to comedy out of this I don’t think this is gonna work. There’s a scene during one of the episodes where korra’s dad lands and I’m not sure why it looks like one of those like 4k edits you’d see on a YouTube video where everything’s in slow mo for a fancam It was a bit out of place.
Yo, bro activated creative mode He’s buddha maxxing Do not say that He said he abandoned his earthly desires What if Korra was chained and poisoned by the red lotus is literally happening right now
She didn’t deserve this, she just wanted to have adventures in the city and be a sports girl and now I’m watching her be tortured
Current Full Series Thoughts Comparing this to season 1 is something else man. I feel like the show is trying to have too many different conflicts when something like Amon could’ve been a full antagonist of like “how do benders feel about this” The escalation is kind of like fighting a guy who can steal powers to literal god to some guys is not the way it should go, I think? It feels like the writers didn’t have a cohesive narrative in mind and just went with a cool idea that was out of order.
I don’t know how to describe it in a useful way. I think there could’ve been more emphasis on like, a clash of modernity with the ancient ways of the avatar which I think is what season 3 was going for but it’s kind of like the ideas are there on paper, but in execution, it just feels like it’s not sticking. I feel the same about the romance in this show which is completely awkward nearly every time it’s attempted because the writers don’t know who to pair korra with and they keep introducing new characters for the brothers who I feel like are the ones I’m enjoying the most potential because they’re like, the noir detective and the unintentional movie star who could both offer an interesting thing about republic city since they lived there the longest and had gang connections if the seasons didn’t immediately move onto exploring all of the world again. I’m more interested in the supporting cast than the main character and it’s not Korra’s fault, it’s just the writers deciding that for some reason she has to continuously fail and suffer and go on a downspiral.
Korra is kind of reminding me a bit of RWBY in that there was a singular location (beacon) that could’ve been explored more in depth with an antagonist that was established before the bigger bad (It’s kind of a mix because RWBY had a lot of villains before Salem was shown as the biggest bad) and all of this stuff maybe could’ve happened in republic city because I feel like it’s supposed to be analogous to New York City, right? (I’m thinking of the rogue gallery of like superhero comics) I feel like Korra season 1 is a significantly different show from the rest of the seasons after because the problem was smaller scaled. This is a sequel thing I’ve noticed where it’s like to say the sequel is more serious than the earlier show they raise the stakes up higher. I feel like all these later seasons are converging on trying to use korra for nefarious purposes by exploiting her avatar powers. It also doesn’t help that there’s like no time to fully explore the ideas introduced within a season because every season is only 13 episodes. There’s a good setup but not enough time so it’s like “wow, cool idea, I can’t wait to see how this plays out—oh, it’s already over.”
You ever think whoever’s next on the reincarnation cycle is gonna be like “hey where’s all the other guys in the cycle” and then korra just has to shrug and be like “I don’t know how to tell you bro….”
I like the show so far but it just feels like there was missed opportunities because of how condensed the seasons have to be.

Season 4
She’s been gone for 3 years?! They’ve modernized the airbenders now I think this kuvira lady is getting the bandits to attack the states so the earth kingdom is united Again, could this have been an entire series in itself of like an earth avatar being born into like fallen royalty
Korra is having the worst time of her life The cracked mirror, the mirror matches, she has been forgotten This is miserable They gave her trauma The letters are piling up Cartoons will give out a full scene of trauma and the frustration of recovery and then immediately undercut it with a fart joke but thankfully they didn’t do that This is hard to sit through
Find meaning in suffering or something Ah hell nah, Korra’s in the white fog and she has to deal with a manifestation of her inner self
Toph has just been chilling in a swamp The world has kind of moved on from the avatar and I think that’s a major conflict from korra This guy is like just the puppet king now There’s nothing for him because the kingdom has been overtaken by the army woman who I feel like since no one else is introduced either korra is facing herself as the final boss or the army woman If this little prince guy actually gains character development and becomes a good guy then maybe it’ll work
Korra was still poisoned the whole time Literally my point just happened because Korra had an entire nightmare sequence and then I saw that little guy puke She has PTSD.
Okay they did pull a funny joke with Ikki being tied up and then she immediately pulled her arms out of the ropes so she could use the map Kuvira is doing a forced hostile takeover because the monarchy sucked which was true in Korra because they were hoarding the wealth and letting the rings suffer but she’s being too hostile about it and I’m wondering if she funded the bandits
Varrick is literally funding like the propoganda and evils for profit and he rescued the assistant girl and he’s gaining a conscious and I can’t tell if this guy is being set up to be killed or not Bollin get out of there they’re exploiting you Kuvira is speedrunning oppression I think another one of the writers worked on the dragon prince so I guess I’m watching that next
CGI robots. Varrick made a BOMB. Sometimes the random foot soldiers will be taking down entire groups of benders What is with the grandma’s complete adoration of the queen It’s a running gag. The season’s pacing is all over the place like why is Mako having a clip show of his romance failures You’re telling me there was enough time to dedicate an entire episode of Mako’s fumbling with commentary by a peanut squad and a bunch of speech bubbles
Whyyyyyyyyyy They had a full episode of various clips and — Wait let Varrick cook The villains are having a 4 way phone call Who gave Raava the phone The show is attempting to convince me that opening the spirit world was a good thing and I’m still not buying it There’s a reason they were separated
Zhu Li’s been sabotaging the weapon Kuvira’s got a big robot now with an arm cannon That’s the final boss? To be fair, it is a pretty big robot….
I think that an interesting conflict would be like using the spirit tree exploration as a boss for an earlier Eason that then leads to vacation being released because of the world being destabilized by people attempting to exploit the spirit world
In my mind, the avatar order would be like this Season 1, season 4’s conflict, season 3, season 2 I feel like killing the dark avatar isn’t something that should be done in the second season
Kinda mixed on season 2 and 3’s order but i think having the spirit world unleashed needs to be more established and more of a conflict and idk I didn’t think it was handled properly I’ll be honest, I respect the little prince guy, he might be like the leader they didn’t want but i respect him for sticking to his guns even if his singing sucks. Bro is installing a democracy “We’re popping the biggest bottles when…” words uttered before disaster.
Korra final thoughts
Well, I think this show would’ve benefited from every season not being short but considering this was a show from like 2012 the nick executives probably sabotaged it the entire time so let me get that out of the way in terms of speculative critique. Okay, I think season 1 is still like, good, but every other season after it suffered from not following up on season 1’s bender and non bending conflict and hopping straight to global scale threats again. So more or less I’m already imagining a different show in my head, and this gets doubled down when the spirit world is treated like a good thing of the world that must happen and then everything goes wrong throughout all the seasons when the spirit world is opened. Too many bathroom jokes. I know kids find them funny, but I don’t anymore. Sometimes they handle the topics well. Like the part with korra’s trauma? That was handled pretty well. The romantic involvement was kind of lame and I’m not against the characters involved but like the whole “he cheated and she cheated and they’re back again and uhh nvm” and I’m like “never let these writers do this for more than a season.” I’m glad Korra figured out who she wanted to be with in the end. The show could be a lot better if they didn’t have all of these ideas executed season by season and instead stuck to one overarching thing but like, I guess the writers really wanted all of their ideas to get across but there wasn’t enough time because 13 episodes is a mini series and 26 episodes is a regular season’s worth. So it’s kind of like if I gave it a rating it’d be like a 6/10. Watchable enough if you’re bored but easy to pick apart.

Murder drones 4-8 (complete) Last time I watched murder drones: there’s an illusion robot doing things and uh, the drones can murder for real
N is such a goofy you forget he’s a killer robot vampire They are investigating the secret vault
The awkward pausing, the humor that’s not really humor, this is a show about teenage robots. I like how since they’re robots the sense of danger is nonexistent and they’re just nonchalant about dying sometimes. The one blonde drone is always like “I don’t care” Uzi has like the special power for some reason, maybe because of her mom, but I think it’s making her evil Also her mom can draw a cool S and maybe that will become plot relevant
One girl’s reading book called final girl survival guide like they know tropes They don’t even acknowledge the murders The entire show is built on this premise of teenage robot drama and also occasionally murder I like how N is the guy who ignores all of the red flags ever and has self preservation skills 100%
The humans are just shadow figures to not model them lol The visuals are nice but idk the plot aside from horror and kill
Uzi and N’s character dynamic is clown to clown communication. Most compelling relationship I’ve seen this year.
What was the end of murder drones Well uh they murdered and stuff and there was a thing that wanted to kill everyone so Uzi stopped it The fight scenes were good This sounds like a child wrote it notes wise Idk man there were a lot of things happening
Amazing digital circus (1-3) Rewatched Episode 1 to refresh
Well pomni is trapped in the circus, if they freak out too much they get abstracted, i forever associate the lemotif with that one scene of Choso from JJK, uhhhh, I started from episode 1 and like it kinda sucks to be trapped in the digital 3D cgi 90s dimension
At least it’s not purgatory I guess The amazing circus is all ages but I saw it labeled as pg on Netflix Also how is it on netflix
Pomni is the new sad pitiable character after N was finished up but now as the protagonist Will she escape? Probably not. Will she abstract? Nah. What is Jax. He’s annoying. I don’t like him. Is he an NPC or something, why does he have keys and talk to the audience There are so many doors crossed out with an X already, how many have abstracted 1 view! The commercials keep getting more deranged They gave that chess guy a shotgun
Let’s go Larping! Why does that one crocodile do the PT taunts So all these guys in this world are NPCs I guess Since all the other guys in the world who are alive are in the circus and Caine has to not have NPCs around Sucks if the NPCs get aware too Can they also abstract?
They’re in the test world The amazing existential crisis Pomni theory: maybe she was a game tester or dev since she knew about collision
Caine called himself a war criminal??? You’re telling me if they say Caine’s bad at his job then they all get screwed
Damn they weren’t kidding That was a creature
Why was this horrible hellscape adventure programmed into the thing He misses his wife… man. I think Jax should get more increasingly annoyed that everyone keeps changing things to be nicer I want him to do a crime

I have like an entire backlog and instead I just rewatched JJK in the dub Sukuna has a voice that is borderline tweaking at any given time and it’s absolutely nutty. JJK0 got moved to the cinema section.
They’re making itadori into a sacrificial lamb Dub itadori oomf Nobara cool! Country kid besties!
Nah I’d win. Is this one thing that got me tripping… This is all the footage that people ever use in King of Curses, Jogoat. Quite frankly if I was Junpei I would not let talk to a dude who did that Being a sorcerer sucks but having to work for a living wage also sucks Mood Facing life or death situations do not make you an adult He’s a whole teenager Mahito’s a whole jerk and he’s like 3 years old at best Just because he looks human does not mean he’s human Oh yeah they still think Itadori’s dead
ED1 really is just jujutsu swag The Japanese depiction of the school bullying system in anime that then leads to the victims in the show lashing out and then proceeding to have nothing actually done about it in their IRL cases is outright bizzare because when said kids die as a result of it then the bullies clam up and say they didn’t have anything to do with it. How vile. And it’s a constant repeated plot point in shows too for years, you think someone would go “huh, maybe we should stop having it be common enough to be a popular plot.” Not like the States version of bullying is any better because teachers usually just end up going “both parties are at fault we have zero tolerance here”. Complete bullcrap. Junpei out here having philosophical conversations with a guy who was planning to kill him from the start
Jujutsu Jumping! That image of “life is meaningless and we have no value” and Junpei’s on the miserable side and Yuuji’s on the swag side with the sunglasses He was really about to kill his teacher before Yuuji came out of nowhere overtime as in he gets his own powers increased if he does more time So cool! It was a trap the whole time We got him How are you supposed to save someone who doesnt want to be saved whatsoever It was really mean of them to put him in the opening like he’d live
JJK really went from the get go “hey things are bad but don’t worry theyre gonna get way worse” Murder is bad Them both just laughing at him like “lol, lmaoooo” Tbat’s the JJK magic baby! Kill! Nanami and this bakery girl, he just wants a fulfilling kind of job or something like the reason for living
JJK would've benefited with filler that works like the way naruto doe if it was an entirely different show where they're like ghost busters or something.
JJK rules are so funny like what do you mean explaining it makes it work better I still have no clue what a black flash actually is outside of it being the coolest thing possible like “we concentrated this energy so hard you get lightning” sick Cuz your battle is my battle Why they hitting the Mario Luigi combos How are you supposed to deal with a power that is just canonically locking in My favorite part of watching JJK and knowing all the memes as the forefront thing is that megumi doesn’t really have the opportunity to ever summon mahoraga because he keeps getting stopped so as far as the viewers know Nobara and Todou are seriously putting in a ton of work and then it gets accentuated in later parts where they’re still getting extreme meme stocks like the boogie woogie My man canonically imagines an idol girl as his like stand at one point how do you deal with that too in terms of standing out as a character I thought that episode title said “Jututsu Kaisen” and I was like “no wayyy” but it was actually Jujutsu Koishen. Akechi Goro Megumi real ITS NOT RIGHT OR WRONG It really doesn’t help that while Nobara hit the black flash megumi was taking a snooze Brother fell asleep He had his whole domain expansion moment and talked about his sister and then went “honk shooo” So since Sukuna’s JP VA is Archer (Junichi Sawabe, also Erasherhead from MHA) does this mean it’s another case of “ideals blah blah”

Naruto filler is perfect for mindlessly feeling your soul being drained out of you while job hunting and stuff Naruto’s perspective for part 1 is that “being a ninja sucks because you become a tool” but then it contradicts this right before filler hell by being like “Sasuke leaving the village marks him as a traitor”. It’s a world that is fueled by war. Like Metal Gear. Does this make Kurama REX and like the council Shadow Moses? Idk. I haven’t watched MGS related content in years. I'm still watching filler as if any of this is relevant.
They kinda just go with “Naruto has to do some missions to get Sasuke” but like, if they were so concerned about contradictions to canon they couldn’t have made up some episodes focusing on other characters without naruto or something, because I feel like a lot of these episodes would do better with a lack of naruto. Main character syndrome is kicking in again where I go “man this story would be way cooler if that guy wasn’t here” and that guy in question is the titular guy.
The effect of “whee yay adventures fun” and then I think too hard and it’s like “these are children and they have barely any kind of adult support system that isn’t made up of adults that were also children that fought and other adults have tried to kill them and the world as a whole is reliant on training children as tools to solve their problems” and it is an incredibly common trope. Children fighting children for the fate of the world or children fighting adults that were used by the system as children again, is a common trope. Especially for you know, children or teenage centric media. The system itself is corrupted but the status quo isn’t going to be changed is a trope that is common, especially when you get characters who say that theyre going to change it become things that they’ll end up swept up in like the military or police. It’s like what happened with MHA before I dropped it where even when all might and all for one were gone the power vacuum immediately brought in a new number one hero and crimes still continued going upwards (note: I didn’t finish MHA but I know the LOV immediately got brought back to the front alongside AFO). Apparently burrito or something still has the child ninja soldiers so clearly my plot prediction of “Naruto abolishes the ninja child soldier training regime program” is not happening. Naruto and Bleach sort of have the same thing going on that Organization 13 does with like a group of dark hooded mysterious blokes KH2 came after dummy
Filler I think is good in moderation, but 3 seasons of straight filler is insane Filler is good for when you don’t need to pay attention and do like chores and stuff
I just watched an episode where Sakura basically sinisterly mentally attacked these two imposters and I wish she held this energy within the story proper None of these lands are canon The latest arc I’m in feels like a scooby doo scenario, so I guess that makes Naruto Shaggy and Neji Fred Naruto was in the land of birds and he saw a ghost The guy paying them was the bad guy Just like Scooby Naruto how are you a guy with a fox demon inside you but also afraid of ghosts In the new credits Naruto is dressed up like a dog (everyone dressed up like dogs) Sasuke was not there so I did not have to see that Characterization does not exist for these episodes because they need something to do That one theme where the little whistle is playing is like the definition of “nothing is going on.” I’m saying Naruto is about ramen
The ramen guy is fighting a ninja for cooking Naruto is using his rasengan to cook ramen Ain’t no way Naruto has the shadow clone jutsu and can make 100 of himself why even ask that question you saw him do that I feel like the writers just drew straws out for what characters got what filler arc story wise Prediction time Isaribi is the one who’s actually the demon but being framed I see, orochimaru was behind the kidnappings Is that a horse? Yo… imagine if naruto had like cars. That would be weird. they have radios and stuff and demon creatures of magic powers but a car is where you draw the line yeah
Naruto got so mad at his clone eating his ramen he nearly had the fox destroy the town How did naruto even know about the jutsu to begin with, isn't he like 12 jiraya was so dissapointed by naruto messing with his manuscript that stopped a war with such a large cast of ninjas normally there's no time in the story proper to talk about them since the manga is usually on the main character which is a problem i had with sailor moon's manga adaption that goes straight as possible and makes it so that if you want to know anything about a character if it's not in the chapters it doesn't show up and the 90s anime is non canon so i guess filler is good for making it so that these characters actually get to exist at all instead of being side characters that people go "they had potential but they didn't get to show up" We'll see you again naruto nuh uh, you're a filler character and the best you might get is a 3 second cameo The dog got arrested
What about movies. WHAT ABOUT MOVIES. There’s only 3 movies for Naruto before shippuden so as a treat I will watch them Like a carrot on a stick to finish up 2 seasons of straight filler Will I finish it before summer ends? Absolutely not. at least its fun filler I still gotta get through pokemon XY anime and it's been like pulling teeth and they removed the site where i was watching the subs

what if naruto fought a castle chances are i should've skipped but like i feel like this is definitely a show that has made me completely turn off my brain to the point that i no longer think about the logical fallacies and just go "ninjas cool" and like none of this has consequences so like i can watch these characters actually do things instead of being like "i miss part 1" it is definitely the sunk cost fallacy kicking in this episode is focused on lee where it's like "lee as long as you train you can do it" but like there are clearly freaks of nature that will always outpass lee and that is why naruto (part 1) is ultimately not about talent, but it's about ramen and how being a ninja sucks hard work and perseverance vs raw talent and rock lee

are you telling me that this argument on the internet originated from a goddamn filler episode because like a good chunk of these filler episodes have been either "naruto goes on missions and learns ninja society sucks" or "naruto talks about ramen" why is might guy fighting mokujin

Naruto eating some ramen with an old guy and this guy goes “you are my boy now” like its what I’ve been saying even though this guy made like one of the most elaborate plans to destroy the entire village he gave up because Naruto was super enthusiastic and reminded him of his son so he kept buying Naruto ramen It’s about ramen The ramen itself is symbolic. For bonds.

Naruto fell for the genjutsu though This segment has turned into “the leaf shinobi fight an old guy” It was all an elaborate prank

They’re doing a clip show episode. Is this like the first time we’ve heard sasuke since he left Naruto and sasuke’s epic fight was number 1 obviously This new opening’s pretty nice vocal wise but why did they dress up everyone like that in suits and give gaara that fit I went and looked at the count and I’ve actually almost finished filler hell and if I get it done before the site revamp gets pushed I’m gonna be pissed off at myself What if Naruto met a girl who could control the weather through her paintings

I completely ruined my YouTube recommends and now I’m getting stuff like Gohan saves Minato from Obito and Vegeta and goku and trunks tag teamed in too They for real jumped obito for naruto

Rabbids Cont. Rabbids are okay in this in small dosages. And the human characters don’t infuriate me like other video game mascot driven shows. The episode where they all start speaking English was funny.


Rising impact (to continue) Golf Watched in English and immediately went “is that the jimmy neutron VA” and of course she was because once you hear that voice more than once it’s like playing the game of spot the VA only works for me on a 50-50 roll and it’s quite the recognizable voice They shipped this third grader to Tokyo

Watching miraculous ladybug: I’m only on season 1 and the only other context I have is the movie, tumblr posts that felt like when you’re fishing and see the discourse pass by on a hugeass boat, and YouTubers complaining about 7 seasons of the show. I have yet to see a fandom that hates their creator more because of a single character not getting a redemption arc and rerailing back to be a mean girl but Chole is really funny because she's just a Y7 Regina. The show's pretty flimsy because I feel like if you know that people turn into monsters when they feel heavy emotions you'd stop being mean but teenagers are just full of emotions either way. Honestly just turn your brain off, it's a Y7 cartoon. It is not that serious.

Listened to: Hai Yorokonde/ Kocchi no Kento Ohh, so this is the meme people were referencing Get it done!
Power star Rewatch (watched 8/10)
How many sprite animations were based off people watching the matrix and/or being inspired by other Mario sprite fighting animations So why exactly was Luigi just watching his brother get possessed by ghosts Don’t ask questions just watch the edgy AMV fights It’s so funny how Mario world sprites basically have turned him into this fighting chaos demon between this and all the castle chaos videos and whatnot while superstar saga sprites are now basically just seen as Goku because of all the other sprite fights The part where they just whip out katanas and keep going is crazy but this happens more than once (Okay, but you really can’t make me take Mario seriously especially if you keep in the voice clips from actual Mario going “broough” because it’s not gonna work, it’s why all the SM64 personalization stuff didn’t effect me as much because seeing Mario BLJ past the spooky crap inherently is funny in spite of it trying to be creepy) I like how you can sometimes tell what a person is into based on their music choices, like the creator liked tekken music. Tekken music goes hard. Good choreography too especially with the limited sprite set but once you start recognizing the metal slug explosions outside of metal slug you realize that a lot of people just used the same sprites and effects for their projects It still holds up compared to the other ones I’m probably gonna rewatch on the Mario side of sprite animations (Should I watch old MapleStory sprite animations? It’s been so long since I’ve even seen any of them or their posters and one of them moved onto being an FFXIV streamer so I doubt he’s coming back.)
Watching documentaries on animals and being into bird cams reminds me that i need to go back to my Pokemon tracking concept. It’s pretty funny because even if a pokemon was tagged like animals are like what are people supposed to do if the pokemon just blows up the tag or some trainer catches it. I guess this idea spawned from pokemon go since the trainers do catch a lot of one pokemon to send them to professor willow’s lab to be researched.
No longer allowed in another world
Watched the first episode of no longer allowed in another world. they put the hotline on the YouTube video Do you think the truck industry in Japan has been affected by the trope? Dazai Osamu… That’s the guy who wrote no longer human, right? I saw that book in alter ego. It’s on my reading list. Same writer for the anime wrote the mermaid princess guilty meal I think I read that too… she was sad because she was eating fish. I read the manga too I love a story that actually doesn’t meander on the plot and gets things done.

YouTube recommended me the entirety of lucky star in the dub and why did I sit there and watch it engaged and go back to watch the other parts while coding up the site Judging by the release date of lucky star and reference to the PS2 the MMO she was referring to was FF11 Konata is out here watching anime and being a forum user and staying up late instead of working… she’s just like me FR… Shes playing monster hunter 2…. I should play one of those games at some point. Wow, they started singing cha La head cha la, this is just a show about high schoolers hanging out, slice of life is great. Some parts of this show are timeless. Konata’s father probably shouldn’t be allowed within a certain foot radius of schools though. The definition of tsundere being discussed has gotta be funny as hell because I’ve seen people have that argument before. Konata’s game talk is still real… Oh god, this was out in 2007? This is almost 20 years old soon?! The endings randomly switching to an IRL guy was good.
Before marathoning it in pieces through this YouTube video the only thing I knew about this show was the out of touch Thursday meme from tumblr. This is a show about hanging out. I guess the anime cameos here are from the same studio, right? In place advertising. she uses cooking mama recipes to help her cook... the brown haired girl in the new class has a VA I recognize but I don't know her name at all Oh, it's Kari's VA (digimon). I like how there was almost a warm family moment for purple girl and then it immediately cut to a joke with Konata Maybe I'll continue the 2nd part later, I kinda thought the first part with the girl dynamic was good but adding in new girls and leaving purple girl with them is going alright, I guess?

Surprise!!