Ah, anime, right. I have to bone up (ooer) on that for my History of Animation journal at some point. I know exactly sod-all about it.

I wonder if Morse was ever aired in the States. Arguably UK's greatest TV detective. But it's very shall we say deliberately-paced and full of highbrow references as he's an opera buff and something of an embittered intellectual.

Interesting. I did like season one but Vaughan put me off ever watching season two.

Vaughan was fine but the fact that it wasn't season 1 was a crippling blow.

Hey! I see there's a season three. I didn't know about that. Download, download.... :D

I generally despise most animes but Serial Experiments Lain is an absolute gem.

the best episode of the show "friends"

I'm rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer in its entirety for the first time, I'm at the beginning of season 5 at this point. Thoughts so far:
- season 3 is still amazing and the Mayor is my favourite main villain.
- it's as I suspected: now that I'm (sort of) an adult I relate much more to Buffy. I still adore Willow but I feel like I outgrew some of the things I recognised in her (which wasn't much to begin with, I've never been a meek exemplary student with a preference for fluffy pink sweaters)
- Some of the feminist and racial missteps are more disturbing than I recall, although maybe that's partly due to knowing about the Whedon scandal
- Faith <3<3<3
all she wanted was a cute blonde slayer gf and she deserved better and of course she did some very wrong things and I don't care
- To me, Helpless is still the hardest episode to watch in the first half of the series
- Now that I'm more invested in Buffy and her feelings I'm less annoyed by her relationship with Angel, but only for her sake. David Boreanaz' acting really doesn't help.
- I still think Dawn is great and an asset to the series and I will die on this hill
- If the Initiative plot didn't suck so much season 4 would be incredible. Also, the roommate drama episode hit different after my housemate troubles, and Hush is eerily reminiscent of the corona situation in some ways

There’s something about Joss Whedon's dialogue writing that doesn’t get through my screen of fun-averse misanthropy to where I can enjoy things. People around me love this show but I can’t watch it without going “oh so I guess this just happened” at the screen in my most annoying voice.


That's the one thing I like about anime: no matter how awful it is, the sound of Japanese is always fun. Who even needs to read the subtitles to try to follow what's going on, just listen to the funny voices!