#also I'm rewatching and I am definitely confused about who's doing what in the Ice Fortres so if someone wants to try to summarize it for me

[animaddie-live]

Yuri on Ice final thoughts

So there we have it, I have finished watching my first ever anime! And I LOVED IT!!!!!! Yuri on Ice is now one of my top 5 favourite shows of all time. I think my favourite episodes were 6, 9, and 2. My favourite character was definitely Christophe Giacometti. He was what made me watch this show in the first place.

I've never laughed so much watching a show before. So many audible reactions came from this. Will certainly be rewatching this for years to come. It was a nice story, I always love a good gay fluff pieces. But there were also so many side characters that I was also invested in. I grew to really like Yurio as well, his sass and anger was very amusing.

Now Viktor, Viktor makes me question so many things about myself. I get such gender envy from him. And loved seeing him explore his feminine side in his programs. Why can't I be a twink on ice. Also I found myself weirdly attracted to him. Idk I'm gay don't do this to me. But Viktor Nikiforov and Chris own my heart.

Yuri had fantastic character growth, I was so proud to see him find his confidence. He also grew the most as a skater, I can't believe he beat Viktor's record. And Yurio also beating the record. I was actually happy to see him win the world cup, it was well deserved.

I was left wondering. Were Viktor and Yuri ever confirmed to be in a relationship? Throughout the series I was always confused on whether it was canon or not. We never saw an on screen kiss. (There was that off screen speculated kiss at the end of ep7). I know I probably sound crazy for even questioning it, but it didn't seem like they had a conventional thing going on. I think it was all still in the flirtatious stage and they at no point were together together.

Similarly, when Yuri talks about "mine and Viktor's love" is this referring to romantic love? Or is it the bond between student and coach, or both? He often publicly talks about his love for Viktor, so is this them being out as a gay couple, or do people think it means something else? I was disappointed to see there was no outright decleration/acknowledgement of their relationship status. But maybe that is me just being fucking blind and unable to pick up on subtext. I shouldn't be so shallow. But overall, it could have been gayer.

Now the whole engagement thing, I did not understand why they did that. If they were dating it seemed farrrrrrrrr too premature to even be considering engagement. And to base the whole 'we will get married when he wins gold' seems so immature. I definitely felt like the first half of the show was significantly better than the second half. I didn't really like how things were left. It started so strong, but disappointed me in the end.

I wanted so badly to believe that they were soulmates, but we were just shown time after time again the immaturities/ incompatibilities. But I will continue to be delusional and jump on the Vikturi train because I am desperate lesbian who is very much alone.

If I may embody Chris for a second: in regards to Vikturi it felt like we were edged all series and denied a happy ending. It just felt like there was a lot of build up, but their relationship ultimately didn't progress that much in the end. I will be poking my head into the YOI fanart and fanfics because I am invested in these characters and need to see more of them.

All in all, I was disappointed and dissatisfied with how the show wrapped up. But that won't ruin it for me, I still thoroughly enjoyed it.

Quotes from my live blogging that sum up my experience:

ep2: "this is like some fever dream self insert fanfic written by a gay 13 year old"

ep6: "why are we the audience being edged so hard whilst they go off and make this many innuendos aaaaaah"

ep6: "is he also down bad, why am I being forced to watch the strangest foreplay ever play out"

ep 9: "that caught me so incredibly off guard, I haven't laughed that loudly in ages"

take a shot everytime I said something caught me off guard, or I said that I cackled. <- I feel like that encapsulates my experience perfectly

[businesstiramisu]

Finally watched Inception right before it goes off Netflix! I wrote down some thoughts as I watched to try to keep track, might as well publish them here:

leap of faith

The “how did you get here Ariadne” scene looks cool but it kinda lands flat for me b/c movies elide stuff like “how did the characters get here” all the time.

folding the city is cool but where is the sun coming from?

Totem: does Cobb know exactly how long the top should spin for?

“simplest version – his [Fischer’s] relationship with his father” – that doesn’t seem simple??

Chemist?!?!

MY CABBAGES BANANAS

Saito saw Cobb’s top in Mombasa. Did he see enough of it’s behavior to fake it?

How is Mr. Fisher’s relationship with his father? “Rumor is it’s quite complicated” – LOL

Why is Saito dreaming while they’re planning the Fisher infiltration in Paris?!?!

He thinks his father doesn’t notice him/care about him (the photograph) – so make him think that his father will want to spend time with him and ignore the business? Something like that is my guess.

Well the team went a different direction, about suggesting that he break his own path (and his father would approve of it). We shall see if they are righrt

“STUCK IN A DREAM FOR 10 YEARS!!!” – why did the first level start at a week though? ALSO TODO: does the math check out?

HAH Saito is pulling is weight. “I bought the entire airline” (although wouldn’t Fischer know about that?!?!)

Cobb’s dream elevator has 12 levels (+basement so 13 actually). I wonder if they’re all populated or only some of them? We saw at least 4 (makeout room, beach, kid’s no faces room;train tracks; basement)

The team letting Fischer see their faces on the airplane – the forger even calling attention to his! Edit: the movie didn’t follow up on that so maybe I misconstrued that scene. I thought it would make Fischer suspicious during the Mr. Charles gambit but apparently not.

His drink seems like a risky way to drug fisher? …oh nvm I guess it worked

First level – is it Yusufs I guess.

yeah real asshole move of Cobb not to tell the team about this Limbo shit

Forger impersonating uncle: emphasizing that Father didn’t respect him (“he said he’d tell you the combination”)

“You’re going to become an old man” – I guess that’s the opening scene

“At the end he pulled me close, and I couldn’t only make out one word: disappointed.” –Fischer on his dad’s last words

wait does Cobb even know how the top is supposed to work properly? If he got it on the anniversary maybe he only got the dream version.

also the framing makes it look like she’s in the building across the street?!?! Seems dream-like and unrealistic architecture

“I’m asking you to take a leap of faith” – echo Saito’s business proposal

“You’re waiting for a train” – OH that’s where the train in the taxi seen.

If she jumped how did Cobb get charged with murder?!?!

In mythology, Ariadne leads Thesues out of the maze with the ball of twine, right? Is Ariadne going to succeed in getting Cobb (or Mal?) out of this mess?

Drugging their eyes for the second level?!?! Is that a thing?!?!!

Okay we’re up to “Reality”: plane; “Level one”: car; “level two”: hotel

God this is a really Pretty movie. I love the turbulence in the drinks. An d lots of other lnice effects but that one just happened

I also like the costumes, lol

Well Mr. Browning is telling them exactly what the team wants Mr. Fischer to think

“Third level”: ice fortress

Also the time dilation seems a lot less extreme than they said?? LIke Yousuf should only have had a few seconds so far I think?

OH THE HALLWAYS SPIN SCENE!!!

SO COOL

Ariadne said “I designed it” rigth in front of Fischer – wouldn’t that make Fischer suspicious that she (or all of them) are working for Browning?

Would a van actually be drivable after that sort of roll? (honest question)

WAIT THE VAN LEVEL IS HELPING THE TEAM NOW?!?! Who put the bridge barriers up to stop the subconscious security?

OOOh I like the stairs that Arthur runs into – EDIT: I like the look of them before it turns into an Escher callback, is what I meant, lol

the avalanche also looks super cool

lol @ Fischer complaining about the cold – he picked the ice fortress, in some sense

“when the van hit’s the water” – again with the Cocteau (is that the right French guy) “breaking through the water” image

Ariadne should not have her hair loose but I appreciate that it makes her easy to tell apart from literally everyone else in the ice fortress level

why does the ice fortress still have gravity, actually?

the antigravity in the hotel room is pretty cool. I wonder how they did it – are wires and CGI enough?

WHO BLEW UP THE ICE JEEP? Did Eames just kill himself?

LOL it’s mal

No Eames did not blow up the Jeep. IDK what that was about then

“As soon as you hear the music, blow up the hospital” – what hospital?!?!

All the antigravity shenanigans in the hotel continue to be cool

Good thing the whole team is super skilled in everything – hand-to-hand combat, good aim in shooting, knows medical stuff, etc

Huh, I wonder how old James and Philippa are in the real world (if there even is a real world version of them…)

Prediction: Cobb incepted something in Ariadne’s mind to get them down there and rescue Mal, and that’s why they’re both in Limbo right now

OH NVM, the movie is saying that Cobb incepted “the world is not real” in Mal, so he is responsible for her death (if she actually died in the real world)

“I’m going to see them [his kids] up above” – in heaven?

Why would Mal down in Limbo be the real one?

they’ve shown Mal locking the spin in the safe twice – I don’t think they needed to show it twice for clarity so why the repeat?

maybe “the top spins forever in dreams” was made up in limbo too?

okay the train is death, how did I just get that

ope, guess Saito just died in the Ice Fortress (hence the scene of him old at the beginning of the film – he’s stuck in Limbo)

WAIT THEY STILL HAVENT FOUND FISCHER IN LIMBO – lol I’m a second ahead of Ariadne on bringing that up

heh, powering the elevator like a rocket ship!

wait, in the ice fortress Fischer is and moving even though he just got shot in the chest��

“I was disappointed that you tried.” Looks like the Team succeeded in incepting Fischer. Good for them I guess

what’s the windmill toy?

Now the faces we aren’t seeing are Mal & Cobb’s “growing old together”

Lol peter turned back into the Forger and Robert Fischer didn’t notice

Uh oh, now Cobb is incepting Saito, to rescue him

Okay Cobb wakes up straight in the plane? Very suspicious

Huh, he passed by and made victory eye contact with everyone on the way out of the airport – except Arthur! (Unless I just missed arthur??)

Huh, Philippa and James are still the same age? Perhaps that’s evidence that it’s still a dream? Or just that Cobb hasn’t been on the run for very long? Probably something people spent a lot of time arguing about on the internet

Okay, yeah, that’s a pretty good movie!! 8.5/10