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Oh crap, was there really not a monster in that episode at all? I totally overlooked that. Hell yeah to dinosaurs then! Sometimes, I get the feeling that the whole 4 year and beyond university system is a complete joke for the majority of fields. Well, would you look at the time, seems like it's just about time to send the next generation through...

Republican Congressman Ron Wright dies from Covid after contracting it from the insurrection while refusing to wear a mask.

Oh boy, projects were always my kryptonite. It's not that I'm necessarily anemic towards actually completing something functionally useful - I work on and complete projects of various technical degrees for my own purposes all the time, after all. It's more that I can't...roleplay and make up imaginary problems fitting ultra-broad goals and criteria and try to react to and solve them as if they're real. Give me something concrete that I actually need to fix or solve, and I can at least put mind to it and probably get it done. Alas, that's never how they ever went. Nevertheless, I did manage to finish four years of college with a 4.0 GPA...and I don't feel like I actually accomplished or learned a single thing the entire time. It takes real talent to be given so much and do so little with it, . I'm not sure if dinosaurs actually truly exist in the Sailor Moon universe. I can only assume that particular episode was total filler, and the writers went on a bender.

Very poignant for me, given the last episode I watched was S3E11.

Yeah, I thought Mamoru stunk in R as well. Really forced, and really does absolutely nothing for him. Best as I can figure, they just wanted an excuse for Usagi and Mamoru not slobbering all over each other in season 2 as well as introduce some kind of major conflict...but there's already enough going on that they don't need to really worry about the latter, and for the former...um, like, they completely avoid that problem later on with virtually no explanation (and there never really feels like there's any need for it), so what the heck was the point? As I've mentioned many times before, I'm also not too big on Ami - she's always the responsible one, always making the correct choices, always chiding others for their lack of both of those...but lacks much else going on, doesn't really get a lot of good or likable characterization. Comes across as a bit of a Mary Sue. @majestic Don't know enough about that character to say, I'm more curious to see what the end result of that character actually is, since I'm not really sure where the hell it's going, .

Wish I was into betting - I really had trouble seeing the Chiefs winning unless literally everybody played perfectly and Mahomes went into god-mode, and I just couldn't see that happening with so many weaknesses in their offensive line against that defensive front. Really could not believe the Chiefs were favored on the betting line. Hope everyone now understands and remembers that even the best QBs are going to get walloped if they're consistently heavily pressured and their defense isn't able to do the exact same back to the opposing QB...but I know nobody ever will because QB winz, .

That makes way more sense for Minako than Rei. I thought it was really strange at the time that it was Rei with the singing part. Guess now I know why.

Yeah, it stinks, especially since every time she does get her moments (or, in this case, an entire episode dedicated to her!), it reinforces that she's my favorite. I said early into R that I think she would've made just as good or even better of a protagonist as Usagi, and I continue to stand by it! I think Usagi was meant to be a little more of the every-man (well, girl) that unites everyone else, though...but I would've been perfectly good with a little different protagonist type, too. Also, Minako is similar enough that she probably could've fulfilled that role anyways. I've also heard that Crystal is so much worse - apparently, the show revolves around Usagi and Mamoru like 100% of the time, which just sounds miserable to me. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with those two, but in a cast full of fun colorful characters representing a number of different personality types, strengths, and weaknesses, it's a huge waste to not have fun with them. And also, Mamoru, speaking personally, was at his best early into the show when he was that odd and mysterious mix of sarcastic and suave (as opposed to increasingly solemn as well as flat...when he decides to show up at all), so that doesn't exactly excite me. The team is a big part of the show's strength - it's literally what it makes it so fun for me, at least.

How'd you like Chibi-Usa's introduction? It just about killed me. I certainly don't hate her, but I did find her a little wearing in some of the episodes where the majority of the episode was told from her perspective.

I'm really looking forward to meeting that pegasus. For sure. Yeah. ...Remind me to read these posts again when I actually get to these episodes. I'll be able to more properly respond to them when I've actually seen them, . My hope is that I'm not quite as creeped out by some of this as you are...but uhh, probably a fat chance of that, huh? (e): Also a sufferer of astigmatism (and the double-vision phenomenon you just described is exactly what I get), I always thought it was completely normal and never told anyone, but it apparently isn't. On the other hand, I've always had good hand-to-eye coordination and depth perception even with it (no myopia, though), so I don't know how that works out.

Steven Universe: It probably won't be, licensing with Cartoon Network shows is almost always terrible, I'm genuinely surprised the first season is somehow on Netflix (99.9% sure it's not in the U.S.). I jumped in while the fifth season was just starting, and used a combination of re-runs, live-airing, and illegitimate* sources to watch it. I don't know how you'd want to solve that. It's a shame, too - the second season is when I became fully convinced it was my favorite show due to a particularly great stretch of episodes. *Gabe Newell once said that piracy is usually the result of service problems. Well...he wasn't wrong.

Unrelated to Sailor Moon: I'm gonna have to try out this show sometime.

that guy: dig ditches, dig more ditches, ditches in ditches, ditches on ditches, ditches before the ditches, ditches beyond the ditches, ditches ditches ditches it seems like ditches were important.

lmao

It is a very different time. Also, when you watched it, the episodes were still new (and presumably you couldn't obtain the manga or read Japanese), so that would have kind of prevented you from looking up anything either, . One thing I've noticed is that this show goes a lot farther with Usagi's expressions than with anyone else's. She has so many different "meme"-ish expressions that nobody else really does. The two closest things I can think of are Rei and Chibi-Usa sticking their tongues out (at Usagi no less), as well as a commonly shared between everyone (including even the cats) exasperated expression. But Usagi's had so much more than that. I guess it's a benefit of being the protagonist...and being the most expressive character with the most screen time. (e): One positive thing I'll say about the generated villains, is that even if their designs aren't particularly memorable, I do appreciate that they are very often humorously built off of their situation/surroundings. It's not always enough to make them notable, but at least they were trying to do something.

Yeah, consider what I say to me be thinking out loud and fan-theorying, not actually asking for any genuine information/spoilers, .

lmao that could've been the worst, glad it wasn't I've only ever read one manga before, and that was the original Dragon Ball (I discovered that simply reading the manga was a lot less painful compared to actually watching the show, ). That was an experience. (e):

I read your entire post, and the good news is that I had my brain in don't-remember mode and already forgot 95% of what you said, so one of the actually good episodes of SuperS remains unspoiled, . Actually, I was also going to ask about how close SuperS follows the manga - thought there might be a Game of Thrones situation where the writers are good at adapting material, but not so good at coming up with brand new material...but it seems like from what you've said, SuperS doesn't deviate *that* far from the manga, though you'd probably actually have to read it at length to know for sure. @KaineParker R stays pretty normal in that sense, I think. It's S where it starts getting a little wackier, and then it's SuperS where it blasts off to the moon, . The good news is S is possibly the best season of the show so it's forgivable - FORGIVABLE! - whereas in SuperS...well...

I assume you meant to say "dislike"? I'm the same way - even for some of my biggest media loyalties, I've never adopted a particular label from them to describe myself as, .

Moonie is a really bad term. I can't think of anything better that fits, though, which is probably why it stuck.

The Makai Tree arc was really funny (but actually has even worse minions than season 1 that I actually complained about at the time when I was watching early R - I do not like Pokemon-style monsters that just shout their own names over and over...thankfully, that particular type does pass). I'll no doubt find it even funnier knowing how everything works out when I re-watch the show years in the future.