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Is it weird that Monogatari placed importance on Senjougahara's attempted rape in Hitagi Crab, and then went on to portray molestation in the way it did?

There seems to be some kind of cognitive disconnect in Isin's head when it comes to Araragi's actions - he's allowed to be a gross creeper and that's cool, but the rest of the series is gonna be busy over here talking about the long-term consequences of abuse. I've said it before and I'll say it again - Monogatari definitely has a price of entry.
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I wonder if these "some critics" (maybe it's secretly just the asker?) claiming that Shirobako's sillier moments aren't realistic have ever worked in an office before. People get silly, esp. on tight teams/projects.

Yep. The not-so-occasional silliness is a core component of the show, anyway. Shows can possess multiple tones!
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Liked by: Arjuna Chatrathi Adam Martinez Rose Bridges

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Well some critics think Shirobako loses its realism of the production environment for the sake of making cute girls do cute things (Yano slap colleague's ass, Ema doing the dumb dance, the new girl that doesn't speak). The fanservice advertisements don't help much either.

Next you're gonna tell me Goth Loli-sama's pitching form isn't realistic.
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Liked by: Daniel Huslig L. Jerome Arjuna Chatrathi Adam Martinez Eelz

Gamergate has made me paranoid about the internet.

You probably should be, at least a little! There are plenty of people out there who just want to Do Harm, and the tools to prevent that are currently pretty weak.
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re: ZnT, OK, so you're saying we're supposed to feel empathy towards the leads without outright approving their actions? That makes a lot of sense. How do you know the show asks us to do so?

Well, first, it seems very unlikely that basically any show's message is going to be "terrorism is awesome." Terrorism is an awful thing, and its badness is self-evident. Second, the way the show frames the actions of the leads makes their terrorism seem alternately frightening, incredibly dangerous, or tragic - the violence itself is not glamorized by the show's framing. Third, the whole message of the show isn't that "governments deserve to be punished through terrorism," it's that oppression and disenfranchisement automatically create cycles of violence and further oppression. The leads' actions aren't portrayed as a righteous battle so much as a tragic symptom - even in their lashing out, they're still playing roles. The moments the show portrays as unequivocally "good" are the ones where the children get to actually be children, or be a family.
Honestly, I don't think the show really needed more than the first one, though. Terrorism is such a default "bad thing" that basically any show about terrorism is at most about the context that creates it. There's no real pro-terrorism culture the show is playing into.

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Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late is releasing in America this week. You gonna get it? It's really fun.

While I applaud the wonderful ridiculousness of that title, I probably won't be picking it up.

ZnT does favorably portray the leads' various irresponsible acts of terrorism (blowing up buildings, stealing an atomic bomb, setting it off causing a pacemaker-hostile EMP) because they were desperately looking for attention. Their life sucked and they have every right to be pissed, but come on...

The show doesn't portray them as outright villains. That's preeetty far from actually agreeing with their actions - they're tragic reflections of circumstance, not heroes. We're in pretty serious trouble if shows aren't allowed to portray non-villainous characters performing terrible actions.
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Liked by: Proxy Rose Bridges Eelz Daniel Huslig Monocle Grizzly

How do you know if a question has been paid for?

Once Patreon processes the first month for everybody, I'm just going to send out messages to everyone on the contributor list asking them for the questions they'd like for me to copy and answer.

Did you like Interstellar?

Loved it. It's messier than some of his other movies, but it might be my favorite anyway.

I was going to write about how TDK shows torture doesn't work, but eh... that's nitpicking. So here's a more interesting question, how seriously should the whole running gag of "Christopher Nolan doesn't understand human emotion" be taken?

Where does that even come from? I could maybe see you pooossibly applying that to like, one or two of his movies, but Inception? Interstellar? Some of his stuff is pretty damn heart-on-sleeve, and he can put together an occasional moment of real emotional grace.

What do you think of the view that Zankyou no Terror endorses violence?

That I disagree, I guess? I'm not really sure how you'd arrive at that conclusion.

Do you like TDK despite its seemingly reductive view on terrorists?

Yep! It's a very good movie. I don't expect any one movie to explore all the nuances of a given issue - media is powerful because it puts multiple ideas together in a human, emotional context in order to evoke subtleties of lived truth, and I think The Dark Knight does that well while also telling an extremely engaging and well-composed thriller story.
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Liked by: Monocle Grizzly Rose Bridges Anime GX

What do you mean by Bush Doctrine apologism, and how does it relate to The Dark Knight?

I mean that a big part of the film's drama comes from Batman going beyond moral means to fight the Joker - torturing him, using that network that hacks everyone's devices to find him, etc. This was essentially a parallel of stuff like the Patriot Act and Bush's wars of nation-building being justified because "there was just no other way to fight these villains," with the Dark Knight continuously engaging with the question of "how can you stay within just means while fighting people who have no qualms about using any methods at all?" Methods that stay within American values don't work against "people who just want to watch the world burn," etc. The Dark Knight has doubts about Batman's methods, but it ultimately vindicates him, and seems to state that it's only the existence of people like Batman that allow everyone else to pretend our society succeeds through wholly just means.

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Liked by: Arjuna Chatrathi Monocle Grizzly Eelz Rose Bridges Anime GX

You have a song called "Kiri-kun's Lament" weeeeeeeebbbbb

SOMEONE clearly wasn't around for my Crime Edge writeups. I PUT MY HEART AND SOUL INTO THOSE.
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Liked by: Sophia

"I'm also planning on doing some streaming video stuff as soon as I figure out how to." What are you having trouble with?

I just need to sit down and figure out how to most easily stream, how to record that for posting to youtube, what kind of camera I should get, how I should set up my stream's appearance, maybe get a new headset, etc etc. Lotta busywork in areas I'm not familiar with.

So when are you going to start making youtube reviews?

Not really planning on it. I'm not a fan of video reviews in general.

"This list is not very good, it is not the 30 best anima it is the 30 best in someones opinion" holy shit bob I can't handle this

It's pretty great. Just remember that every time you talk about "objective criticism," this is what you sound like.

Are you as disappointed with Death Cab's new material as I am?

The single seems pretty meh, but I like The Ghosts of Beverly Drive and No Room in Frame, and Death Cab albums always grow on me anyway. I wasn't initially enthusiastic about either of their last two albums, and now I like those as much as any of them.
I'm more worried about Chris Walla leaving the band. Hopefully this isn't like Jay Bennett leaving Wilco - I wouldn't want to see a zombified version of Death Cab.

What was the central conflict in The Dark Knight?

Order versus chaos, I guess. The impossibility of holding to a just code in an unjust world.
The Dark Knight is essentially Bush Doctrine apologism, and its simplifying of the nature of crime and terrorism removes the context that makes that doctrine untenable, but it's certainly a compelling conflict for a simplified world. And I actually like its cheeky way of rationalizing its own simplification - the Joker's "wanna know how I got these scars?" speech. The fact that the speech always changes is the film essentially saying "it doesn't matter if evil has a tragic past. Evil exists. What are you going to do about it?"
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