Quote from: SecondClass on March 21, 2017, 04:55:50 PM

Quote from: Ian on March 21, 2017, 04:34:58 PM

When you say work nights, do you mean overnights or just closing somewhat late?

9pm-7am

Why was it a 10 hour shift?

1st and 2nd were both 7 hours

3rd was 10

When you say work nights, do you mean overnights or just closing somewhat late?

9pm-7am

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Azula is just a brat on a power trip.

just ignore the junkie carson

Is it the Azula type of badass, one whose status as a fearsome, dominant force in the show comes from the skills and traits they have? With this kind of character, you know they're scary because you've seen what they can do and they have a concrete, in-lore reason for being so badass. Other characters like this are Walter White, Samurai Jack, Magnum PI, most drama characters, superheroes, etc.



Or is it the Mandy type of badass, one whose status as a fearsome, dominant force in the show is completely unexplained and exists because of the status quo? This is commonly referred to as toonforce, and is usually present in less serious works, but it's still a type of awesome that kind of transcends the Azula-like kind. With this, the lack of explanation lends itself to much greater hilarity and impact than if we would have expected it. It's almost a meta, fourth wall thing in that the universe itself bends to the will of these characters, and even in situations where we clearly would expect them to fail, the world itself subverts our expectation. Other characters like this are Bugs Bunny and Megan Parker.

I think the first of these feels a bit more earned, but the second is more interesting to me and I like it better. What do you think?

fuck working nights and being a server

goodbye disposable money hello disposable time

anyway I did the coward thing and just didnt show up and blocked my boss' number, no way am I working there another two weeks

tl;dr verb has a hate boner against adult swim and is against SJ now because of that

i'm talking about jack's physical conflicts this season, not emotional conflicts

silly person

and even then, i'm not questioning whether it's believable--i'm questioning why it's even taking place to begin with

why did this series need jack to kill human beings for the sake of drama--is that really what the show needed

it's called tension

the daughters of aku are stronger than any threat he's faced

and yeah, he needs to kill a human because that's a plot point that's dying to be addressed. (him killing sentient robots/humans in the original series and feeling seemingly nothing over it)

Jack has always been presented as a normal person. He gets scared, he gets lonely, there's an entire episode in season 3 about him giving up the fight. To say these thoughts are unprecedented or unbelievable after 50 years of constant combat honestly means you don't know shit about the show.

Quote from: SecondClass on March 19, 2017, 11:07:13 PM

Jack has never been faced with a human dying at his hands before

congratulations, you have identified the point

And you obviously missed it if you're bitching about a necessary result of it

As I feared, the blood is slightly off-putting just because it's literally never been present before. It just comes off a little fan-fictiony, like when people write swears in the dialogue of characters who never actually swear in the source material? It's a little distracting, but whatever.

there was blood in the original all the time, it happened whenever human characters were injured

of course, the blood here is much more graphic, and it's used purposely (not senselessly) to highlight the moral conflict of killing another human - you know, the plot.

Every change they've made to the series has been in service to the characters and plot, and that's far from fanfictiony

When the episode opened with the fire lair backdrop and Aku's evil humming theme I was SO excited

I love this idea that Aku is deliberately avoiding Jack and is going just as crazy as him because he STILL can't squash his pest. His passive aggressive exit from his scientists and the "therapist" he had to talk to because of all this were both hilarious

Baldwin's voice was disappointing, but you just can't top Mako's hammy, perfect performance. Side note: "I think I'm in the computer........yes! That's me!" is still one of the funniest deliveries I've ever heard from anyone. Anyway, I'm just going forward with my personal theory that Aku is tired and depressed after 50 years and doesn't have the same gusto he used to have (actually mentioned in the episode with the Old Aku/New Aku line).

Other main thought: Jack's whole scene hiding under the metal dome was amazing. I never noticed how different S5 Jack sounds from the original one, but the ghost of who he used to be was voiced like 2004 Jack - Phil LaMarr killed it with that subtle touch. But even the whole message of that scene - his psyche is begging him to kill himself, he's been trapped in this nightmare for half a century, he has nothing to fight or live for. But there's this weird mix of honor and pride that doesn't let him do that.

I'm glad that the "darkness" of this season is out of necessity to the plot and characters, not for its own sake. They kept Aku funny and charming, which is a blessing just by itself.

kill yourself my man

better than being a retard like you who thinks they can actually transition

le edgy and cool racism xDD

and no, it's not a rumor. It happpened.