Sublime, really. Good sci-fi is always concerned with the human experience on the edge of the human experience, in pushing past what is real and imagining what is possible. And really good sci-fi never loses track of the people living their mundane lives on that razorblade. Tomino is the absolute king when it comes to that aspect, not afraid to show people being people, saying strange things, doing strange things, living strange ways. And Blade Runner is wonderfully human in…
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Angel's Egg 1985
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” - Matthew 10:34
“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” - Isaiah 53:3
“And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he…
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The Call 2025
Felt like a retread in a bad way, with the central conflict being sidelined by a new conflict that ... doesn't push anyone to make a decision? Like, Mr. Van Life stomps over a conversation everyone is invested in, has his crap friend jump onto his dream, and then he just ditches the whole plan rather than telling his friend he can't come with him? And then Mr. New Money is coming to terms with his new money likely being…
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011
I'm more than a decade late to the party, but hey, I finally finished Harry Potter in both mediums, and I gotta say ... well, a fair few things.
First, hot take of the century here: Harry Potter books ... good? 🤯 Crazy right? I hadn't read a Harry Potter book since Half-Blood Prince came out ... 20 years ago????
Holy stink, man, what?
Goodness, give me a moment here to recover from the psychic damage.
Okay. Anyway, after watching…
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Samurai Champloo 2004
The series as a whole: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The baseball episode: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack 1988
One of the ironic stories of pop culture is how Warhammer 40k was started as a parody and deconstruction of hyper masculinity but then became exactly what it was parodying when the people who had grown up loving it started writing and designing its continuing world. I'm sure there's more to it than that, but it's really interesting how often we love something simply for its aesthetic, especially things we grew up with. For kids, that's kinda all pop culture…
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