You ever read Boy's Abyss? That's some real misery pr0n. I fell off out of distaste. I'll give Maria a look.

The thing about Shakespeare is funny to me, because I don't know if you follow Kevin Smith at all, (I only watch his Fatman Beyond podcast with Marc Bernardin) but he has mentioned time and again that all his corporate overlords ever asked of him was to treat the source material with respect, like it's Shakespeare, if you will. Literally in those words. And the way he talks about it, he's totally confident that he nailed the assignment.

And you see it most in the monologuing from Skeletor and Hordak, the waxing poetic and the groan-inducing alliteration. I don't know, did these guys do that a lot in the old show? I don't remember. To be clear, I'm not saying it is Shakespeare, just that I think Smith believes that's what he's accomplished here.

I did like how Hordak snorted derisively at Skeletor at one point, that was a nice touch. And I did genuinely laugh at a couple jokes, I just don't recall what they were at the moment. One of them was one from He-Man towards the end of the fifth episode.

You mentioned the Snake Men, and I did like what they did with Teela in regards to that. I don't know if you ever had any of those mini-comics they used to pack in with the figures, but one of the earliest ones had that green-skinned Teela character, and I'm not sure she was even referred to as Teela at that point, to be honest. But then later when she got her own toy, they mostly kept that same design (albeit with the swapped out skin tone) complete with her cobra hood and scepter.

Also, seeing Rio Blast and Snout Spout animated was pretty sick, even if they were purely visual and inconsequential as actual characters.

And from the way Kevin talks about it, it sounds like Revolution is being very well received. He sounds hopeful that they'll get to do more.

I thought the final episode was a really good payoff overall, but man, I found a lot of the dialogue throughout to be fucking awful.

I wouldn't be opposed to them coming back to it at some point down the line, though. Going by the epilogue, they clearly have some ideas.

I watched Wish. Not great. A couple of the songs were a little catchy. The backgrounds/environments were all very flat/drab/dreary.

I don't think it's as insufferable as everyone says on its own, but when you factor in that it's supposed to be this grand centennial celebration of Disney's theatrical animated features... yeah. Kind of a dud.

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You know, I think I like the idea of new shows a lot more than actually committing to watching new shows. A lot of these that have left me feeling relatively optimistic after the first episode, when it comes time to chell out episode number two I can't even force myself to sit through until the end.

So few shows feel special or vital. It's mostly just a bunch of hastily-assembled refuse piling up at the end of a conveyor belt.

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Mr. Villain's Day Off, yeah. I should just use show titles instead of vague descriptions.

I definitely enjoyed the second episode of Solo Leveling more than the first. I'm sorry to say that I didn't read most of your post, because for stuff I'm not already familiar with, I prefer going in blind. Ignorance is bliss! And if it shits the bed somewhere down the road, I'll just drop it.

MAPPA is on some S-tier shit with Bucchigiri. First episode is so detailed, and so colorful, and so kinetic, and I loved every minute of it. Easily my frontrunner for the season thus far.

I watched the first episode of the one where the femcel gets off on assaulting magical girls. Pretty vile. Japanese television is getting kind of brazen with their content. I'm no prude, but why does so much of this stuff always lean so heavily towards noncon? "Grr! The fact that they're clearly NOT enjoying it is PRECISELY what gets my motor running!" Blech.

Deaf Girl Monogatari was cute, but you're right, they seem to inhabit a world where evolution favored feminine traits.

I gave Solo Leveling a try, because like you I caught wind of all the excitement surrounding it, and I did end up liking it more than I thought I would. That being said, I'm guessing everybody gets a wardrobe change at some point, because right now all the character designs look like they came straight out of the Sears Fall Catalog circa 1998.

Poor Things. Wonderful film. Surprised how much fucking there was. Probably the most fucking I've seen in a non-pornographic movie.

The Iron Claw. Another excellent flick. Super depressing, though. Like, God damn.

Godzilla was great. I'm having a really hard time imagining that upcoming Godzilla x Kong thing being even half as good as Minus One.

The Boy and the Heron was pretty good. Looked really nice. Not sure it's an all-time Ghibli, though.

Tiny Toons Looniversity came out almost three months ago to such little fanfare that I only found out about it today. And it was even on my radar!

I guess nobody watched it. And I really shouldn't be surprised because the same thing happened with the three seasons of new Animaniacs. Nobody cared.

Is the nostalgia well running dry?

Yeah, my interest in that one fell off a cliff when I realized Omega Force was the developer. No thank you.

Season (series?) finale of Loki was solid. Wish more of the episodes could have been like that. Had one of the most "epic" moments the MCU has seen in a very long time.

It felt weird watching a Marvel thing again and actually caring about the characters and what was happening to them.