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Out of all things Nanoha I've watched at this point, and I'll leave out the two films for now because I really don't think they're going to be better, the only part of the franchise that's worth watching is StrikerS, and I have no idea how well that works without watching the prior two seasons. While Nanoha, Fate and the Belkan Knights are more or less side characters with a decent amount of focus in StrikerS, what they go through and do is still most likely better when having gotten to know them earlier. Therein lies an issue that as a whole make me unable to recommend the entire franchise. While I would disagree with the assessment that the Nanoha franchise was made solely as a magical girl alternative for perverted 30 year olds, it certainly contains elements that spin the idea of fanservice way too far, particularily in its first season (and episode 5 was made for perverted 30 year olds), and in the first ViVid season. StrikerS on the other hand does have some nudity even outside of the transformation sequences, but it's only there when it makes sense (medical checkups, by far and large), even if it all still could probably have been done differently. I'm fairly sure that my assessment of StrikerS as a whole is correct, given the fact that fans of the first two seasons and anime fans in general complain(ed) very vocally about the pacing and how there's not enough action in the series, and that it got 26 episodes where 13 would have sufficed. Yes, 13 episode would have been enough to transport the main story, but not everything the showrunners wanted it to transport, and were actually pretty sucessful at transporting. StrikerS has like 10 protagonists, or at least the four main characters and a often focused on larger supporting cast, and Fate and Nanoha are arguably main characters too, and after the 26 episodes I ended up more or less liking each one of them (in spite of starting out not liking Erio, Teana or Subaru for somewhat obvious reasons). Instead of rushing the character development, they rushed the story conclusion by the end, cramming too much into the final six episodes, even resorting to phoney feeling exposition once. But it remains, quite frankly, quite a feat to give the large cast of protagonists their time to shine, their time to develop, some time to breathe and eventually a satisfying conclusion. Except perhaps for Nanoha and Vivio, where the final fight vectors off into silly Sailor Moon story episode territory. It also comes the cost of having the least interesting villain, but Presea Testerossa from the first season wasn't special either. Hayate and the Belkan Knights are what made A's more interesting than it would otherwise have been. Overall, it's not a total loss, and StrikerS was pretty great, if you look past it's downsides and the franchise it is attached to. Which is somewhat hard to do, and definitely not for everyone. Or probably anyone. Heh. Yeah. No point in hiding the thread for me, I know it's there, even if I don't see it. There's not much left, only two movies, and they'll have characters I like, at least, so unless they're completely incompetently made the worst is behind me. Yeah, famous last words and all that. Heh. Re: muting sound, yes, that could be a workable option, but that would kill the only thing I'm sort of enjoying about watching Komi, and that's Tadano reading what Komi wrote out aloud, which is more helpful than you'd think with the learning the language thing. I'm not sure that tradeoff will be a net positive, but I can try.

It's taking me a barely describable amount of control not not post in the political thread at the moment. Sigh.

There's still two Nanoha movies left >.<, and one of them contains the scene that lead to this: No, but I could potentially stop inducing second-hand suicidal thoughts by never talking about it, although that would erase a signification portion of the enjoyment I get being as part of the meta-experience of participating in this thread. Normally, yes, and so this is precisely where my caveat for the final conclusion comes from. At this particular time, between the other series and films I've watched recently, this is exactly the right sort of boring at the right sort of time. Call it meditational if you will. ViVid Strike! never made me want to kill myself, unlike Discovery or Komi Can't Communicate, even though it well and truly has nothing going on that could make me recommend this to anyone, regardless of their tastes. Even die-hard martial arts or tournament arc fans will find nothing for them there. Here's another helpful and potentially shocking secret: As bad as Discovery is, Komi Can't Communicate is worse. What I'm posting about this anime doesn't even remotely transport the desire to blind myself and pierce my eardrums whenever one of the side characters is on screen, and unlike for @KP on top of ZA WARUDO, that does include Najimi and their (Najimi is a person of undefined gender - dresses like a girl but referes to himself as, well, himself) constant yelling. The descriptions of the Nanoha shows, Discovery and Komi are fairly accurate. I'm not going to say I never embellish for effect, because I often do that if it makes for a better joke, but these don't really need it. Especially not Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, that good for nothing compilation movie for the first Nanoha season or Nanoha's first season sexualized underage nudity scene. Discovery's terribleness speaks for itself, all I need to do is paraphrase what's going on and for Komi, well, that's just the thing. There's a nice show hiding in Komi, if they'd just do it right, which makes it all the worse, in the same way that Mari is worse in NGE than she'd be in any random other show or movie because she's in NGE and sticks out like a sore thumb even if she's just contrasted by mere shadows of the characters of the original show. Answer to the original sentence, which I don't find that offensive: It's for the same reason I can sit through ten thousand hours of grinding in MMOs. I'm just dead enough inside for it to take a special amount of awful to make me want to bang my head against a wall until it stops wanting to continue.

The entirety of episode eleven is spent on Fuu and Rinne beginning to brawl, instead of having a martial arts fight, as things move beyond silly things like getting stronger so nobody ever looks down on me again or I HATE MYSELF. Rinne helpfully begins to see images of the past flashing her by, she works past her issues and for the first time in forever actually smiles, which Fuu rewards with a knockout blow, having achieved her goal of beating sense back into Rinne. Meanwhile her coach realizes that she's been torturing Rinne and pushing her beyond her mental limits for nothing else than her own ambition after a permanent injury forced her to quit shortly before a title match. Rinne sees her dead (adopted) grandfather and he says おめでとう (congratulations) to her. Okay, no, the last part was a joke. It's a metaphor for Rinne letting go of her anger and finding her way back to the light side of the force, or whatever you want to call it. I can't help but acknowledge that there's been a decent amount of setup for this particular payoff, it is just mired in an otherwise boring series. Two former friends beating the friendship back into each other isn't something very creative or original in itself either, but there's nothing wrong with the last two episodes once you forgive the anime for making Fuu capable of standing up to Rinne in the first place, which realistically shouldn't be possible. It's fine though really, and it's still a magical girl martial arts show. I just hope the final episode of the series (or the third OVA afterwards) doesn't contain a ludicrous bathing scene. I'm also a bit surprised that the show took a turn like this, in the beginning it really looked like this wouldn't be a street fight but simply the finals of the tournament. Nothing is out of place or heaven forbid original, but hidden somewhere deep inside of all of it are themes similar to the ones in StrikerS, except everything is executed in a less well crafted way. Which sadly means that no matter how the final episode or the OVA goes, there's really no point in watching this unles you have a whole lot of time to kill and want to watch a girl waffle between hyper-focused shounen dolt, Shinji and something in between for a bit. Caveat: This comment was made in contraxt and in a context with Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, so I am perhaps overrating it simply because the former was nothing but offensive and poorly written, animated and directed. Now all that's left is to see if Einhart will give Rinne a title match regardless of not meeting her conditions. No, because the OVA is spending two or three minutes detailing what went on. Rinne became champion after Einhart moved to the under 19 category undefeated (which I suppose implies that she won her Winter Cup final match against Fuu that is never shown on screen). Now Rinne and her coach invite everyone to... their gym's medical and R&R place. It's summer and there's a beach ressort. Ah well, guess it had to happen eventually, eh? Time to see how bad it really gets. Well, it's a beach episode, but even compared with the shower scenes already in ViVid Strike! this was by far and large harmless. How odd. Also, you'd think an episode dedicated to doing nothing much would be fun, but then they went and had a beach volleyball competition that was just plain boring. Eh, sure, I'll take anything over the sexual assault madness from ViVid. That's one done and dusted. Final verdict: There's no reason to watch it, unless you're seriously bored and want to... experience more boredom for a minor payoff at the end.

Who says you can't? Born to live forever, or die trying. edit: Happy New Year to all too, of course.

ViVid Strike! is mostly just boring. 21 Jump Dreck is offensive and terrible, not to mention a whole lot longer. There's not a lot of thought that went into setting this ViVid Strike! storyline up, but it proceeds apace, doesn't do excessively stupid things beyond the initial setup and the most questionable part of the show at the moment where I'm at is how and why Fuu, who has only four months of martial arts training and a couple of years as a street fighter behind her can go toe to toe with Rinne, who by all accounts isn't just a once a century prodigy but also went through Pai Mei's demanding training. The fight is, more or less, just a standin for what they're talking about, being estranged childhood friends who each had horrible life experiences and very different martial arts masters shape them into what they are. It's not the worst stuff, but it's not interesting enough and the characters are too flat to make it truly matter. Three episodes left, but I'll leave those for tomorrow. Well, today, as it already is past midnight, but hey... splitting hairs and all. Endure. In enduring, grow strong. Althoug that's not entirely right, but it looks like I'm pretty much immune to intelligence drain by now.

Not at all, apparently, because Vivio stands up and gives Rinne a well deserved lesson in humility. Uhm, writers... I mean I know I complained about how this looks like a dime a dozen martial arts tournament show, but what now? The bad guy is supposed to lose in the final fight after a dramatic match where the contender is almost down and then does what Vivio did here, not earlier. edit: Episode nine sees Rinne switch from being a testosterone driven shounen character to Shinji mode, moping around in her room. I don't know, I feel like these scenes would be more effective if Rinne was even a bit likable (beyond breaking bully faces, but even there she overdoes it, *melon squish*). Vivio drops out of the tournament because she suffered an injury in the fight against Rinne, making the final match Einhart against Fuuka. edit 2: Einhart promies Rinne a title match if she fights against Fuu and wins. Rinne is back to OVER NINE THOUSAND in an instance after moping and wanting to quit. edit 3: Oh no, the girls are going to go on a training camp to Lutecia's exile planet where the fight will also be held (apparently asatte, i.e. the day after tomorrow). Not entirely sure, the subtitles were a little too quick now. And yeah, that planet is the one with the hot springs. Please. No. Please. Don't do this. Not now. They agree on some sort of street fighter rules, i.e. no rules, and fighting until someone's down. That seems like a good idea given Rinne's inability to stop herself from smashing her contenders to bits. edit 4: The fight begins, and thankfully no hot springs visit yet, but that can always come later. End of episode. edit 5: Fuu and Rinne have a nice talk, actually, if they wouldn't be taunting and beating each other in the process that might even be a nice scene. Fuu tells Rinne that she learned a lot, from many people, but that Rinne is just shutting herself off from the world, and whacks her so hard she breaks Rinne's bones, who still keeps going. Sure. Why not. Rinne is doing an excessively long I HATE MYSELF inner monologue.

ViVid Strike! Episode 7 6. Episode count was wishful thinking on my part, I guess. That was 6... sigh. The tournament begins, Rinne fights Miura and ends up breaking her ribs. That about sums up the episode. Rinne is the bog standard martial arts final boss of a movie or TV show at this point, and it's about time Charlie Sheen hits her with some deadly sweets. edit: Almost all of the actual episode seven is spent on Rinne fighting Vivio, and it's not over yet. Two episode fights, how awesome. This fight so far reminds me a little of the fight of the Exile againt Darth Scion insofar as Vivio is sapping Rinne's power by talking to her. Other than that it's a whole lot of testosterone pumping from Rinne, and the only thought on my mind is that Nanoha would have probably won by now. She'd Chinese Martial Arts master her ass and then just look sad. edit 2: Episode 8, Rinne expectedly downs Vivio, because how else is she going to fight either Einhart or Fuuka in the final.

Oi, she took an arrow to her knee?

At this point in my posting "carreer" I've begun making multiple copies of my posts even while writing them once they get past a length I'd be okay with if I had to re-write it. Which happens every other post. I just realized I actually have to spoiler this because Amentep is watching Discovery's first season right now. That's how everything works in Discovery. On the other hand, it tried a more long-term characterization of an issue last season with the Dilithium explosion boy, and if that was any indication then by Heaven's Light, it's better they glace over everything. You don't think it's good to be seen? That, and because Alex Kurtzman has some dirt on CBS and they can't just axe him, or whoever is in charge of CBS actually likes this trash. There's of course the potential that this is raking in lots and lots of viewers for CBS' streaming service, but I refuse to believe that. You know how Netflix is known for funding every piece of trash they get offered, right? Netflix co-financed the first season and told CBS to stuff it when they came looking for more money for the second one. That's how bad it really is. Netflix, undesputed king of funding dumpster fires, thought it was too bad to continue.

No, you aren't. Everything about this whole subplot has already happened on Star Trek in one form or another, and it was consistently done better. It's really hard to properly state how God damned awful that dialogue was, so I'm not going to try and do the next best thing. To translate a joke by a Kabarett artists who I really enjoy (who sadly retired in the face of all the insanity in the world): I like to quote Merkel verbatim as I have yet to find a better way to insult her. So let's Discovery speak for itself, shall we? Spoilered because it's spoilers, and for brevity. All this show does it blow hot air into the bubble it's stuck in, and it does that in the worst possible way. Voyager's doctor was a real character who the crew got to accept and appreciate over time. He wasn't just the bestest doctor ever, but was obnoxious and had flaws. Like real people do. Emergent AI was already done in TNG with Professor Moriarty, which I didn't exactly like because I didn't care for the Sherlock Holmes holodeck stuff at all, but that's my fault, not the show's, and I could still appreciate what it did with the episodes. This here, this... travesty, isn't doing anyone a service, especially not if the message it transports is that if you have an issue with something for whatever reason and you can't just get over it in an instant, you're terrible and need to be cancelled. Emotionally, as much as that's possible, I understand that, to a point - but that's just not how people work, and works like these that try to be super-inclusive simply don't achieve anything at all - or exactly the opposite. But yeah, we talked about that two weeks ago.

It's that time of the week. I think I should turn this into a drinking game where I take a shot every time something wondrously stupid happens, but that'll turn me into a raging alcoholic, or worse, might even make me like the show. Beverly Hills Dreck, Jumpin' to 90210, episode, uhm, 7. Burnham crying counter: 1:4. If she doesn't cry this episode, I'm dropping it. Mr. Crusher, start the episode, warp 2. Engage! Well, at least the show won't be continuing until February. Count your blessings. Dropping the Burnham counter for the shots game. Would have been fifteen in this episode. That's not so bad, assuming an amount of 2cl per shot. Huh.

Okay this episode of Komi is where the anime finally goes off the deep end. This is it. Insane Stalker Girl (I think it was her) fakes fainting to be able to film under Komi‘s Maid Cafe skirt. Silly me thought the sausage scene was as bad is it can get.

Well, that sucks. Not really surprised, but that... sucks. On the bright side though, Mr. Anderson said that he's finally going to be done "soon" with his final Witcher video, which I'm really looking forward to. He also finally seems to have caved and will upload it in parts. A year back he was "done" and had technical issues with breaking YouTube's upload limit with his 7 hour video, and now it's... uhm, 11 hours and some change that he will upload as eleven separate episodes.

Komi helps majestic read random Japanese sentences, episode 11. Begins with Insane Stalker Girl(tm) saying that they should create a haunted house for their school festival, because in a dark room nobody will notice when they're all fondling Komi's ass. Najimi wants to put her into a maid café uniform, Insane Dragon Power girl wants to form a band and Komi is supposed to sing (well, that'll work), God Girl wants to play whack-a-mole with her as the mole who is whacked by Komi, the Komi-Bodyguard Ninja troupe wants to make a movie, Insane Stalker Country Girl wants to sell nigiri, Competitive Psycho wants to play games, weirdo who I don't really remember (maybe she's a new character) wants to play "Are you compatible with Komi-san", so some sort of relationship oracle stuff and finally some other weirdo with glasses who is new and helpfully called "Non-Otaku Yuuji Otaku" wants to write fanfiction and put Komi into cosplay. But halt, it does not end here. Insane Stalker Girl(tm) also wants to sell sausages, probably to make Komi kneel and eat her sausage again. Someone else wants to build a dance club or disco, and they vote... again, and it's a tie. Again. Which by the way is 同票, the kanji for "same" and "ballot", so more literally the same votes. The first I already know, and the second I'm pretty sure I'll not remember if I ever happen across it again, but hey, at least the first five minutes of this episode aren't a complete loss. The content is - again - making me contemplate that having a stroke right now might not be the worst thing. Time to get through the remaining 20 minutes. edit: Now they've added an obviously high girl to the cast who got lost at a home depot, and I'm out for the time being. Time for a nap, I'll finish this later. Maybe I'll get lucky and die in my sleep.

Having "Leo" and "J-Law" in the same film makes this really more unappealing than it would otherwise be, but I'll probably check it out. If Hurlshot calls it too cynical then it's probably just spot on (sorry man, I just don't share your optimism ). That reminds me, @Hurlshot, like, post-Trump presidency, do you still think Iron Sky was too heavy-handed? The film is dangerously close to not being funny any more.

A 12 piece series isn't that much longer, especially not on twice the playback speed, however, I'm not quite ready to give up on it yet. It'll probably really be the last time I attempt to follow a creative team from one project to the next, that did not work too well with CLAMP or Sato/Itō, and it doesn't look like it will work well here, but I'm willing to give it a chance, assuming it stays the only incidence of stupid. To its credit it didn't show anyone bathing except for two old guys, and there only the back, so... I'm going to count my blessings there. Yep. Well, then Venus Wars is out until I completely run out of material, and that's probably never going to happen. Adjusting ratings, yeah, sometimes... sometimes things drop a lot, although for me that often happens when I try to replay a game, like it happened with the original Half-Life. I loved the game when it came out, a recent replay, well, the presentation is still top notch, the combination of shooter and awfully inaccurate first person platforming elements is decidedly less fun than it used to be. For films or shows that usally happens if they were all impressive visuals and no substance (hello Avatar rewatch), or are the specific sort of film that are more interesting on a first watch because there's a mystery to figure out or they're based on a plot twist, although in the latter case it's sort of feels unfair to downrank them on a rewatch. Well... if either of us wins the lottery we can commission a translation. The thing is... I'm not playing any, so that's statistically even less likely to happen than an actual win is. Didn't take it as snarky, no worries. I also really ended up asking the grammar video guy about the loan words and he replied, saying that keeping the pronunciation closer to the original in Japanese is really something that is a recent development as more and more people learn English and grow up with the required sounds. That was two days ago, and yesterday he released a new video detailing what's been going on in his life (which next to teaching Japanese is interestingly enough being part of a machine learning research project with the goal of offering personalized and efficient language learning experiences). I almost fell off the ergometer when he mentioned my comment in his video indirectly, that was kind of funky. Also only really possible with small channels that appreciate comments and don't just go all "leave a comment if you have any questions" so YouTube ranks them higher because it detects a call to action.

I will, eventually.

Oh dear God, why did I... do that. It's like everything I touch recently is, dunno, cursed. So, of course there's a bathhouse in Tamako Market. In the first episode. There's also the talking bird that catches a glimpse of the protagonist bathing and promtply gets a nosebleed. Beakbleed? Well, at least there's no ridiculous nudity (or any nudity). Still, pretty much everything about this is seizure inducing. Tamako also goes and gets some coffee. The owner hands her a cup and says Einspänner gold blend. Except that's not an Einspänner, and they make it worse by adding milk. Not that I mind milk in a coffee, but Einspänner are served black with a whipped cream topping (that was traditionally placed there not to make the coffee sweet, but to add insulation so it stays warm longer during coach rides). Get your coffees right writers! Well, so far that's pretty much about Tamako and his royal birdness who just gorged himself on mochi so much he grew fat over a couple of days and now can't fly. Uhm. Everything else is a bit of a Romeo and Juliet setup, there's the daughter and the son of rival mochi shop owners. Sure, seen worse. Looks a bit like K-On! on crack. Nothing too offensive except for that beak issue. Anyway, at least it's short, and it's not ViVid Strike!, so that's... probably not going to end up being a favorite, but at least, eh, yeah. Time to sleep. What, how's that even possible?

Sure thing, I have the day off tomorrow, so maybe I'll just torture myself. Wouldn't be the first time, and at least this time it'll be with eyes open. The biggest issue I'm forseeing is simply that the movie is most likely going to ask me to feel any sort of empathy for the protagonist and his attempts at redemption, and I already know that's not going to work, and from that everything will just fall flat. Or, maybe, I'll just go and try Tamako Market, that looks like eye cancer too, but at least it's potentially fun eye cancer, and not one that'll make me feel like being a terrible person for not being able to feel any empathy just because the poor bully is now a victim himself. Cry me a river. It's tough to like a film when you hate every character. Except Kei, but she's not in the movie enough to matter. Some things are just unfortunate, like the name Kozue. Depending on the voice actor saying it that almost sounds like Kotze, and that's German for puke (and the etymological basis for the English c-word, originally meaning a very low class prostitute), and also the reason why Kozue was the only character to receive a name change in our Attack No. 1 dub. I liked 2049 too, but that has probably a lot to do with expecting nothing and finding a surprisingly watchable film, except for every scene where Harrison Ford shows up. Feels like he's been phoning it in since the late 80ies now. It was a bit too long for its own good, but I didn't find it to be terribly boring. I also didn't have to pause the playback. I'll make a mental note to probably not check out Venus Wars. I liked your description of it, but now I'm less certain. Part of the issue I had with Akira is that it does too much, and nothing of it properly. I generally have no problem with weird endings, one only needs to look at my posts about the Utena movie, or the series finale. I generally prefer my entertainment to be as free of allegory and metaphors as possible, but if it's done well enough, I don't mind, assuming it doesn't cross into intellectual wankery. I know that done well enough is a debatable when it comes to Utena as a whole because the series really drags in the middle, but I'm mostly talking about the ending, and I also cannot properly define when something stops being well done and becomes intellectual wankery. The original ending of NGE was dangerously close to being the latter, and it was also not much of the former, even though it still worked as a thematic closure to the series. Akira himself - the character, not the film - was a bit too crude as a metaphor for my tastes. It's different if you use a Kaiju to do the same (like the most famous example, Godzilla). The actual ending was set up by a throwaway line of exposition in between. It features social unrest that erupts into a rebellion lead by Tetsuo but does nothing with it and just rushed through it. There's the military takeover of the civilian government that happens almost as a minor afterthought. There's the commentary on the dangers of unethical research. Finally, and most glaringly, you have Tetsuo being able to fight off several laser gun equipped soldiers at one point, and then being almost unable to deal with Canada alone. Sure you can explain that in some manner, but then explain. Do something. Make Tetsuo talk and be blindsided by Kaneda. Anything. Or make that first shot count for more. If you want to bore me with a 20 minute sequence of Tetsuo turning into the evil overlord version of the Starchild, then at least make it interesting. It's not impossible to do any of that properly, given more time. For a single feature film, perhaps stick to one subject and set it up better. Lastly, the biker gangs I mentioned are a stand in for my dislike of juvenile delinquents when they're shown to be ultra-unsympathetic, violent and toxic but stick it to the "man" and rage against the "system" for whatever reason they have, but are largely unfocused, annoying and just simply criminal instead of inspirational. I see nothing of value in a gang of street thugs, and quite frankly, Kaneda and his friends are just that. For some reason that's usually biker gangs. Guess that comes with the renegade image bikes carry, or whatever, really. I also get nothing out of cars or bikes, so that's... adding another layer on top. I guess that basic setup is my personal soft piano music intro. Now the actual rebels, those would have been interesting, but they're in the movie just as a vehicle to get Kaneda to Tetsuo and for a seizure inducing (albeit good looking) and way too long action chase scene. Should I ever get to a level where I can understand spoken Japanese I'll check the series out, but that's probably years away, if the point ever comes at all, especially with reading being a lot more fun than listening. It would probably be better to badger someone into making fan-subs. I mean, there are fan subs for ViVid, so what the hell, anime community, what the hell?

That's r00fles. /counternitpick.

Post-2018 that was fairly easy to predict: NAZI. End of posting. edit: Also, only NAZIs ignore someone and then click on the reveal button. That makes you a NAZI too!

My condolences. Have fun watching the KLINGORKS battle the FEDERATION, and always keep in mind, this is the best the series gets in overall quality. Which doens't say much, because it's a steaming, fresh turd, but then the show gets a particularily bad case of dysentery in the second season, only to contract cholera in the third. Not sure yet what that is in the fourth season. Probably the stench of death coming from something that died of dehydration.

No, that's probably not going to happen, but there is a whole host of other things that could, and I just recently noticed that with the, uhm, incident in ViVid Strike!, it's not a good idea for me to watch anything that touches on the subject matter too much, and A Silent Voice seems to be entirely dedicated to it. As much as I'm otherwise incapable of carrying a grudge, there's a deep-seated echo of a resentment leftover from times long gone. If something comparatively incompetently crafted as ViVid Strike! can do that, I don't want to be exposed to something that's by all means apparently well made. Works for me. I'm really not sure that I want to, and I don't mean because every review on the planet mentioned it being depressing to the point of wanting to kill yourself (although not in the way @Bartimaeus means, heh). Violet Evergarden was hard enough to watch at times, and that's just commenting on the topic of a similar result, not a root cause.

Well, that explains a few things... If you want to re-evaluate the film, be my guest.