I totally understand where this sentiment is coming from. The entire point of fiction is to get emotionally invested into it and gain new insights into the human condition from it. Even SAO, bad as it is, works on this principle.
So should I just post a draft here and ask you guys if it's too inflammatory? It looks like I'll have to try harder than this.
Going by what I've gathered from people whose opinions I hold in high regard, it's a poorly-structured misogynistic teen male power fantasy that just keeps making worse and worse plot and character decisions (particularly in the second season) until it finally ends. With some pretty animation.
If your aim is to improve the scene you're in, promoting good work does a lot more than tearing down bad work.
I mean if you just really hate the thing that much and are venting, go for it I guess, but at that point you're not criticizing something, you're just mad that it exists.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
liberal: corporations arent to be trusted. you cant trust corporations. everything they do is for profit. can never trust them corporation: Look at these two #Gay men holding hands and enjoying the great taste of Taco Bell!!! #WokeBaes liberal *laughing and clapping hands*: ahaha!! i like these guys now
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
...Were we mocking the 14-year-old's post? If anything I thought we kind of agreed with it...I mean people giving corporations brownie points for half-assed token efforts at inclusiveness is definitely a thing I've observed in the past.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
As for that article...I would say "okay, when did bogleech turn into John K." but then, he was always kind of like that. The rest is just simple values dissonance; the 1990s were a lot more permissive of things we'd consider gross now, and some of the ~edgy~ humor on TTA and A! certainly qualifies.
(There was one episode that was pretty much a hatchet job on Siskel and Ebert, complete with fat-shamimg and homophobic sight gags. I thought it was over the top even back in 1993!)
I don't necessarily agree with all of the sentiments being expressed, but he has a point. The visual style was very repetitive and erred on the side of being kind of ugly but not in a particularly interesting, and the humour definitely aimed older than the intended audience in a way that went a bit beyond the parental bonus and was at times detrimental to the show as a whole. Honestly, I know that a lot of contemporary cartoons are going to seem dated in their own way in twenty years, but I doubt time is going to be quite as harsh on the best of them as it has been on even the best of the '90s stuff.
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if you'd rather just go for it, then do that
i'm just saying that "it's ok to like shit" strikes me as kind of rude
besides birdseed
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead