Re: OT The Nerdy stuff Thread
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:51 pm
DOT wrote:How I've been waiting for the One Piece scans after a month long break
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DOT wrote:How I've been waiting for the One Piece scans after a month long break
j4remi wrote:KnicksGadfly wrote:Gotta bring this thread back. What are people watching? I feel like One Piece is ramping up, just from the headlines I'm reading, but I'm resisting picking it up until it's bingeable. I'll probably watch Shogun soon.
Watching Three Body Problem now...it does a good job with the trauma of the Cultural Revolution. It shows a bit of how crazy effin Mao was, and the trauma an entire generation of Chinese people carry. What Mao was able to get the teenagers to do...Apparently, a lot of Chinese internet users were pissed about how the show portrayed China.
I'm kinda letting the new anime season load up backlogs, so I can binge shows to at least their halfway points. X-Men '97 just hit us with its best episode yet, so I'm excited to see how that keeps stacking.
I'm halfway through Fallout, and I genuinely love it. I think it really captures the world for both its lighter bits AND the darker side of things. The action is fun, and the plot has a healthy mix of world-building and intrigue. It's really good for popcorn purposes.
And my new binge series is Fargo. I always heard good things and gave it a start...I damn near can't go a day without watching an episode or two now.
Other than that, my watchlist has been heavy on horror movies because there was no great horror for the first two and a half months of this year. A couple of decent straight-to-VOD flicks dropped, but we got the worst of Blumhouse cash grabs to start this year. Nightswim was about a haunted swimming pool! But now we have four promising titles that dropped in the past couple of weeks for horror heads: Abigail, Late Night with the Devil, Immaculate, and The First Omen.
So, I'm watching horror movies and playoff sports all weekend...and Fargo...it's really good.
j4remi wrote:DOT wrote:How I've been waiting for the One Piece scans after a month long break
MrDollarBills wrote:I just read this month's Boruto chapter. I teared up a bit, not gonna lie.
DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:I just read this month's Boruto chapter. I teared up a bit, not gonna lie.
What a coincidence, I had to stop reading Boruto because it kept making me tear up.
MrDollarBills wrote:j4remi wrote:KnicksGadfly wrote:Gotta bring this thread back. What are people watching? I feel like One Piece is ramping up, just from the headlines I'm reading, but I'm resisting picking it up until it's bingeable. I'll probably watch Shogun soon.
Watching Three Body Problem now...it does a good job with the trauma of the Cultural Revolution. It shows a bit of how crazy effin Mao was, and the trauma an entire generation of Chinese people carry. What Mao was able to get the teenagers to do...Apparently, a lot of Chinese internet users were pissed about how the show portrayed China.
I'm kinda letting the new anime season load up backlogs, so I can binge shows to at least their halfway points. X-Men '97 just hit us with its best episode yet, so I'm excited to see how that keeps stacking.
I'm halfway through Fallout, and I genuinely love it. I think it really captures the world for both its lighter bits AND the darker side of things. The action is fun, and the plot has a healthy mix of world-building and intrigue. It's really good for popcorn purposes.
And my new binge series is Fargo. I always heard good things and gave it a start...I damn near can't go a day without watching an episode or two now.
Other than that, my watchlist has been heavy on horror movies because there was no great horror for the first two and a half months of this year. A couple of decent straight-to-VOD flicks dropped, but we got the worst of Blumhouse cash grabs to start this year. Nightswim was about a haunted swimming pool! But now we have four promising titles that dropped in the past couple of weeks for horror heads: Abigail, Late Night with the Devil, Immaculate, and The First Omen.
So, I'm watching horror movies and playoff sports all weekend...and Fargo...it's really good.
I'm letting my backlog pile up. Frieren and Apothecary Diaries have satisfied me for the time being.
X-Men '97 has been absolutely fire. I still have to watch Fallout. I'm also catching up on Shogun.
MrDollarBills wrote:I assume you saw the spoiler. That's what made me tear up because I thought he was gone for good.
DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:I assume you saw the spoiler. That's what made me tear up because I thought he was gone for good.
Maybe once or twice, honestly that's a big part of why Naruto falls off is cause death is just no longer a real threat. Like, don't kill off Kakashi and half the villagers off screen only to bring them back right away with Rinne-bullsh*t jutsu.
KnicksGadfly wrote:Preach. It felt like such a cowardly move when this happened...I was actually gutted when Kakashi died, and then he brought him back. Just ruined everything.
DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:I assume you saw the spoiler. That's what made me tear up because I thought he was gone for good.
His death was stupid, but I'm of the opinion that except for select few stories, you should have death be final. Maybe once or twice, honestly that's a big part of why Naruto falls off is cause death is just no longer a real threat. Like, don't kill off Kakashi and half the villagers off screen only to bring them back right away with Rinne-bullsh*t jutsu. At least for Gaara he lost Shukaku and the old woman had to die for him to come back, or like, just let Guy die if he's not gonna do anything in the future. Pointlessly lowers the stakes
I think after having read it twice and watched the entire anime, I get why people like it. I want it to be good, there absolutely is a good story in there, it just doesn't follow through
Honestly, bringing Kurama back, especially in baby form, just screams to me that Boruto knows it's a manga for actual babies and they need to sell merch to justify its existence. I know all art needs to be profitable under a capitalist system, but you can't tell me that was a narrative decision and not a marketing decision.
DOT wrote:KnicksGadfly wrote:Preach. It felt like such a cowardly move when this happened...I was actually gutted when Kakashi died, and then he brought him back. Just ruined everything.
I'm not gonna say it ruins all stories, cause One Piece is notorious for "killing" characters only to bring them back right away when their role in the story isn't big enough that you need them to stick around, or like with Ace where he's killed off and then replaced with basically a second Ace in Sabo (not entirely the same, but more or less)
But it's also kind of wasted potential, like think of the potential gut punch of having Kakashi be one of the people Kabuto reanimated for the final war especially if he's been dead since the Pain arc. There's a bit of that with Asuma, but if one of them were Kakashi? Oof.
MrDollarBills wrote:One point though, if I'm not mistaken, the Tailed Beasts always reincarnate after they are destroyed/killed. Don't hold me to that, I'd have to look it up, but I swear it was stated in Naruto: Shippuden that they always come back eventually. Kakashi's love interest was killed when she had a Tailed Beast in her and it reincarnated soon after. So Kurama being Reborn probably isn't an ass pull. Maybe.
MrDollarBills wrote:That would have been emotionally damaging I was relieved when they couldn't reanimate Jiraiya. That would have been so messed up
KnicksGadfly wrote:DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:I assume you saw the spoiler. That's what made me tear up because I thought he was gone for good.
Maybe once or twice, honestly that's a big part of why Naruto falls off is cause death is just no longer a real threat. Like, don't kill off Kakashi and half the villagers off screen only to bring them back right away with Rinne-bullsh*t jutsu.
Preach. It felt like such a cowardly move when this happened...I was actually gutted when Kakashi died, and then he brought him back. Just ruined everything.
DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:One point though, if I'm not mistaken, the Tailed Beasts always reincarnate after they are destroyed/killed. Don't hold me to that, I'd have to look it up, but I swear it was stated in Naruto: Shippuden that they always come back eventually. Kakashi's love interest was killed when she had a Tailed Beast in her and it reincarnated soon after. So Kurama being Reborn probably isn't an ass pull. Maybe.
Yes because they're pure chakra beings, but according to Dr. Kurama, world-renowned physicist, he was essentially doing nuclear fusion which would destroy his chakra forever
It's not the worst asspull, but it's still an asspull.
DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:That would have been emotionally damaging I was relieved when they couldn't reanimate Jiraiya. That would have been so messed up
Yeah but like, think of the angst
I'm just saying, I don't think anyone Naruto fights who's been Edo Tensei'd has any sort of emotional weight to them, like I'm pretty sure Zabuza and Haku are mindless when he sees them, the closest is probably Itachi and Nagato, but even then he knew each of them for like 5 minutes
It's like a lot of stuff with Naruto, really cool concept but just not properly explored.
DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:j4remi wrote:
I'm kinda letting the new anime season load up backlogs, so I can binge shows to at least their halfway points. X-Men '97 just hit us with its best episode yet, so I'm excited to see how that keeps stacking.
I'm halfway through Fallout, and I genuinely love it. I think it really captures the world for both its lighter bits AND the darker side of things. The action is fun, and the plot has a healthy mix of world-building and intrigue. It's really good for popcorn purposes.
And my new binge series is Fargo. I always heard good things and gave it a start...I damn near can't go a day without watching an episode or two now.
Other than that, my watchlist has been heavy on horror movies because there was no great horror for the first two and a half months of this year. A couple of decent straight-to-VOD flicks dropped, but we got the worst of Blumhouse cash grabs to start this year. Nightswim was about a haunted swimming pool! But now we have four promising titles that dropped in the past couple of weeks for horror heads: Abigail, Late Night with the Devil, Immaculate, and The First Omen.
So, I'm watching horror movies and playoff sports all weekend...and Fargo...it's really good.
I'm letting my backlog pile up. Frieren and Apothecary Diaries have satisfied me for the time being.
X-Men '97 has been absolutely fire. I still have to watch Fallout. I'm also catching up on Shogun.
I started in on Apothecary Diaries. I didn't realize how hilarious it was gonna be, that scene where Maomao is explaining sex to the concubines and the youngest one is silently having a stroke just slayed me
Once I'm done with that, I'm gonna go back and watch Spice and Wolf the original so I can watch the new one with full context, cause I feel like that's something I've heard about for so long I just need to watch it at this point.
DOT wrote:KnicksGadfly wrote:Preach. It felt like such a cowardly move when this happened...I was actually gutted when Kakashi died, and then he brought him back. Just ruined everything.
I'm not gonna say it ruins all stories, cause One Piece is notorious for "killing" characters only to bring them back right away when their role in the story isn't big enough that you need them to stick around, or like with Ace where he's killed off and then replaced with basically a second Ace in Sabo (not entirely the same, but more or less)
But it's also kind of wasted potential, like think of the potential gut punch of having Kakashi be one of the people Kabuto reanimated for the final war especially if he's been dead since the Pain arc. There's a bit of that with Asuma, but if one of them were Kakashi? Oof.
KnicksGadfly wrote:So yea…it’s more the way it was done rather than the fact that he came back. Guys coming back in stories, not just anime, isn’t new. Just has to be done well.