Bartimaeus

Literally the only place I've ever heard of this show is the couple of mentions you've given it in this thread, . "middle of season 2" >has 5 seasons. Yikes. Let me guess: you hate-watched the rest of it? Hawk's Eye, and I quote: "She's got a kid with her. Well, that's okay - it might make it even better." My gosh, this whole mother sob story with Hawk's Eye is so incredibly uncomfortable, I'm just letting it play without actually watching right now. How the hell doesn't Ikuko recognize her children or their voices - COME ON, LADY! Oh, actually, she was passed out. Hey, Minako used Love Me Chain to move Usagi and Chibi-Usa out of the way - that's what I'm talking about regarding different attacks having different uses! I thought Ikuko might actually be spared after Sailor Moon's Sailor Body Attack, but alas, .

Okay, I think we can now pinpoint the exact moment Usagi completely regressed in SuperS: her mom showing her terrible test scores to everyone while not giving her a piece of the lemon meringue pie. It was a quintuple whammy - humiliated just like back at the start of season 1, and denied her greatest and most favorite vice: food...and then it turns out she WAS supposed to get a piece but Chibi-Usa ate it, then her mom told her to be the bigger person, AND THEN her mom told her she was basically stupid and to grow up! It all makes sense!

Yeah, that was pretty messed up by Tiger: he seemed even more creepy than usual in this episode than the rest of the season that I saw him. Also, unlike later, I did watch all of the first episode, since I was curious about the stock footage. It was greaaaaat. Seems to happen in both English and Japanese: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/gk2qo6znvndqpc9/YpS51mE0wr.mp4 Very strange, since, again, only the first four episodes (and my episodes are all from the same source, so that's a weird coincidence that it was these episodes in particular that were missing!). Minako and Usagi abusing the hell out of Artemis and Luna in tandem - good job, girls. Those cats have it coming to them, especially Artemis. Well, not really, but Chibi-Usa with the stone-cold, "...Welp, I guess she's handling things pretty darn well." Even though she has a serious horse problem, I'm pretty sure I've liked Chibi-Usa a bit more this season than I have Usagi. At least Chibi-Usa's still a twerp to explain some of her more childish regressions...Usagi doesn't have that excuse as much. Tiger Horse is making me cringe so bad right now, why is he so much creepier now than he is later? Do I already have amnesia for SeasonS even though I haven't even finished it yet? This dancing sequence with the minion, though... Also, we have Matoki's sister targeted in the first episode, then Matoki's girlfriend in the next? This poor guy - with all the random people that were targeted this season, friends and family alike, I'm surprised Fish Eye didn't target like Shingo or something at some point. (e): Good lord. Well, I guess I should've watched the next episode preview first before saying that, because I guess the next one is going to be Usagi's mom... What the hell?

Gesundheit! Actually, I think I've seen this episode...I haven't seen all of the series, and what I've seen is patchy (i.e. not concentrated to any specific season), but I pretty much universally despised all Troi episodes, and I especially remember disliking the ones with her mother.

To a degree - and coincidentally, I've had more free time lately, which is why... Yay, I finally got properly introduced to Pegasus. Chibi-Usa running down the streets in a dream-like sequence, desperately looking for the sources of those neighs... Nobody noticed the giant lightning storm that happened while there was no other light? "Sometimes, you just have to hop on your white horse..." NO, BAD CHIBI-USA! Tiger Wallet is being extra creepy in this one. Chibi-Usa and Usagi are at least getting along like it's still the end of S, though! Oh man, this old stock footage (not to mention the lack of a super long attack animation) is so much nicer than the new stock footage - kind of wish they'd just stuck with that, especially with Chibi-Usa just humorously running into frame, . (e): lol, I just noticed that in the second episode, the cast just screams "SAILOR MOON...SUPER!" during the title drop. For some reason, they only do this for the first four episodes, coincidentally the first four episodes I didn't see yet?

Firefox as well. I remember that when I tried to link from the wikia a month back or two, I had similar problems, while whenever I link from my own dropbox account (or imgur), there are never any problems, so I'm fairly confident it's an issue with the wikia sites. lmao @ them, looking real swell. Also, good news: got the first four episodes, I'll be watching them shortly - hurray, go me, woo, great...really looking forward to it.

I tried that, but it didn't work. Similarly, that link you just posted also doesn't work - it's still the tiny version. I don't think it's the forum software's fault (surprisingly), but I think a problem instead with hotlinking from the wikia. What happened to poor Naru? Looks like a shapeshifter-approximated version of her, .

There's an R Movie, S Movie, and SuperS Movie. None of them are important to the story in any way, but they're fun and solid enough (well, I haven't seen the SuperS one yet). @majestic That does not look like good art, although it's a little difficult to tell for sure at the small resolution. Regarding Steven Universe:

Does anyone know if the Sailor Guardians ever dress up as lowercase sailors at some point? It would be an awful shame if they didn't. I almost feel like I have a memory of them doing so already in some past season, but it might be a false memory. I forgot that this was also the episode where the villains actually got away with stealing a Crystal Heart for the first time...except the monster randomly decided to be a pal and make sure that Hotaru was feeling okay. Whoops.

Can't recall that happening either, not even back to season 1. Outside of one-off episode exceptions, it's always Usagi being a problem with Rei, Chibi-Usa, and Mamoru, .

It's the same with Usagi and Chibi-Usa, really - beginning of R the relationship was totally adversarial and only worked/were together because they had to be, by the end of S they had seemingly developed a bit of a genuine mother-daughter relationship and solved most of their problems, and now...and now they constantly switch between the end of S and the beginning of R states within the same episodes for no real reason, and it's bizarre.

Yeah, that's kind of more how I imagined it going, but for some reason, it didn't. And yeah, although that Makoto episode was pretty good, it had such a dour ending (even if they tried to force it not to) that it decidedly felt un-Sailor Moon-ish. I'll let you know about the Sailor Stars stuff when I get to it. @KP: Hm, odd: usually, when Rei and Usagi are fighting, I pretty much always think it's Usagi's fault that things escalate. Sure, Rei sometimes says something a little sharp, but Usagi always reacts so badly and usually starts to get violent. Hope you enjoy the dentist episode - I did!

Alright, good to know, but I'll probably wait until the season is over to give it one last hurrah. Love and Beauty Shock actually made me a little sad - Love Me Chain is my favorite attack, and it seems whenever they get new attacks, the old ones are immediately phased out even if the attacks fulfill different purposes, (...although I think they have very rarely cast old attacks, like Ami casting Bubble Spray every blue moon, and I think Makoto has even done one or two Supreme Thunders as well). @Hotaru: Nice, glad I settled on that instead of Sailor Suicide, although that one ended up being pretty prophetic too, now that I think about it... The idea was decent, because it's something that's...almost come up a number of times but has been neatly averted or otherwise side-stepped, but yeah, sadly, the execution was...not good.

I did see that and was like "wat" but I'm pretty sure I skipped past his dialogue after because I just can't handle him or his voice. Anyone remember Hotaru and how she made it so that Chibi-Usa had a friend to hang out with and wasn't obsessing after Mamoru? I remember...

Episode 27: Episode 28: Episode 29:

"damming" is that a water joke because it was an ami episode

That's fair - the basic elements were indeed very similar. Relative to the first half of the season, though, it was a masterpiece, .

That Nazi thing sounds hilarious, although I'd probably be tempted to photoshop a character into being a Nazi rather than use an actual real life one. I could probably turn Lisa Simpson or Pearl or somebody else into a Nazi. ...Although, uh, why do it yourself when somebody apparently already has for you? Apparently many of my favorite cartoon characters are actually white supremacist symbols deep into the darkest places on the internet - who knew?

Those scenes are gonna be so much better with the English voice cast, I can already tell! I can already imagine Minako's ridiculous voice as she's yelling at random passerbys that they're actually assassins or whatever. It was weird to hear Ami talk about her father and his apparent inability to communicate like a normal human being and absence from home. Didn't feel like something you'd just suddenly bring up out of the blue in the fourth season of a five season show, . Nice. Well, in that case, at least it was for a good cause: do Skarpen and Bruce next, .

Episode 152: Episode 153, this is a legitimately great episode:

It's hard not to notice that a lot of the not-Usagi/Chibi-Usa Sailor Guardian-centric episodes have tended to be highlights of their respective seasons. It's kind of a shame they didn't have more of them - I could've done with more Ami, Makoto, Minako, and Rei episodes, even episodes that aren't necessarily strictly about some of their biggest personality quirks (as much fun as it is for Minako to keep upping how how crazy she is, my favorite episode of hers is still the more serious "I'm getting screwed by life AND I'm a screw-up and I don't like it BUT ALSO I'm not going to do anything about it!" one she had near the beginning of S). Too young to have experienced the bulletin board systems of olde, though I've seen enough of them to know that I think I'm glad for forum-based software instead - it's the new social media systems geared at hosting a trillion different sub-conversations for massive amounts of comments and participants that grind my gears...but I stay off of those anyways, so it works out. *googles "define slash fiction"* Well guys, it was fun watching Sailor Moon with you all, but I have to find another forum. Sayonara!