#first scenes of part two of the episode

[bobbie-robron]

What’s that thing about… my enemy’s enemy is my friend. (Part 2.1)

‘Lowlife’ Cain offers his services to Jimmy to take care of the Sugdens with ‘discreet, professional service.’ Diane isn’t happy with Jack’s violent streak (she didn’t marry a ‘brawler’). The trio of Jimmy, Robert and Jack plot a bonfire of the barn to make it seem Andy wants an insurance payout. Unbeknownst to Robert, Andy has fixed the quad bike so their plans won’t go as planned. The trio arrive at the farm.

28-Jul-2005

[arscorpii]

episode 12 / episode 34

episode 12 / episode 37

there were several similarities i noted between the two episodes (12 and 34):

within the specific scenes: both touga and akio reached out and touched utena's left hand with their left hands, but touga covered her hand with his, while akio took her hand into his. in episode 12, utena and touga were accompanied by anthy and wakaba (during the day, out in the open cafeteria), while in episode 34, utena and akio were alone in akio's room (during the night); anthy was aware of it, but she was in her and utena's room and couldn't do much about the matter. anthy also couldn't do much for utena in episode 12 due to the rules of the rose seal (she was engaged to touga). also, the two scenes in episodes 12 and 34 took place after very tragic incidents happened to utena: losing the duel to touga, and consequently, losing anthy as her rose bride versus akio raping her (unarguably even more tragic).

correlation with utena's sense of self: in episode 12, utena tried (and succeeded) to take back who she was via a rematch (losing to touga made her doubt who she was as a person). who utena was as a person at this point may be referring to the role of a prince that she was able to truly embody due to her engagement to the rose bride (e.g., utena saving anthy in episode 3 from anthy's dress incident and then dancing together, utena saving anthy who was trapped in a coffin in episode 9). or, more like how the engagement with the rose bride allowed utena to be more/most like herself, one of which would be largely comprised of the princely ideals she adopted/learned and idealised (as told in her monologue of meeting the prince; utena also said she wanted to be a noble prince who saves princesses in episode 1) (i'm not sure for this part).

in episode 34, we learned the real reason utena had the rose crest ring, the real reason utena wanted to become a prince: to save a little girl suffering a fate worse than death. ultimately, in both situations (episodes 12 and 34), anthy influenced utena's sense of self, to an extent. regarding the prince, taking into account the context of episode 11, i'm quite sure utena still believed that touga was her prince in episode 12. meanwhile, episode 34 gave us (more) indisputable confirmation that akio was the prince that utena met in her past (this fact was heavily hinted at since episode 25). however, i don't think utena made the connection yet at that point. nevertheless, as a whole, in both situations, touga and akio were framed as utena's prince (to utena [episode 12] versus to the audience [episode 34]).

a common conflict/theme underlying both scenes was the pressure of conforming to ideal gender identities and presentations. this was evident in the scene with touga (complimenting utena's girl uniform and asking her out). however, it's infinitely more severe with akio because he was actively grooming utena to that end; some events of this episode were just parts of the long process (in the specific scene: asking if they're friends, mentioning that she didn't take off her ring "that night," trying to kiss her). in addition, the visuals of both touga and akio somewhat covering utena's rose crest ring with their hand gestures could be seen as analogous to them trying to suppress/diminish her princely ideals/role (touga said that losing the duel gave utena a chance at being a normal girl; he then actively tried persuading utena to this end, i.e., the compliment on the uniform and the ask for a date. moreover, touga critised utena for not knowing about the true power of the rose bride when she "fancied herself as anthy's prince." also, to reiterate: akio brought up the fact that utena didn't take off her ring when he raped her while stroking the ring; he expected that that event would be sufficient for utena to take it off [give up the role of the prince]).

i think episode 12 is an interesting foreshadowing/parallelism of some kind for later events in the final arc, with regard to utena/touga/anthy and utena/akio/anthy dynamics.

[5hrignold]

I LOVE HIM

[ithinkdogshouldvote2]

Solo leveling was so ass I'm sorry I have no idea how people like this show oh my god.

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: We Do What We Can (2.11, LWT, 1972)

"I have to be careful."

"You're big and ugly enough to look after yourself."

"Not with this little firm I'm not."

"Which firm?"

"Jimmy Sutton's. He don't believe in straighteners. Goes in for surgery."

"Surgery?"

"Amputation with a sawn-off shotgun."

"Ah. Well, you can always apply for a claim at the Criminal Injuries Board."

"I wouldn't have a leg to stand on, would I?"

[sskk-manifesto]

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[navree]

you know what, it's been a good weekend for content. i got malevolent yesterday where john's spouting off about how much he loves arthur left and right, i got MAWS today with significant screentime for my favorite boy ever, anime prince slade wilson, and i don't know what the fuck else happened in HOTD but i DID watch the rhaenicent reunion on twitter and it fucking ate

[calico-kiwi]

fuck man the absolute gut-wrenching emotional scenes in d20 go fucking hard

[bobbie-robron]

Look what you’ve done between ya. That lad’s DEAD because of YOU TWO! He’s done nothing… and he’s DEAD! (Part 1.1)

Robert wants to get Max out of the jeep but it’s too late as another explosion sets off. It’s at this point Jack shows up wanting to know what’s happened. Robert just snapped (as he did in 2019) causing the accident to happen and Andy tells Jack that Robert SAVED him. But Max is dead Jack reminds both of his sons.

Note: I was planning to combine more scenes per post but will be spreading the gif love on them, so more posts for part one 😉. Part two will be one post.

03-Oct-2005

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

Pokémon Horizons Episode 26 spoilers under the cut!

OH SO WE WEREN'T BEING JUST DELUSIONAL,,,,,, THEY'RE DOING IT,,,,,,,,,,,, THEY'RE ACTUALLY DOING IT,,,, , ,

[skitskatdacat63]

The Last of Us 1x06 x "El Paso" - Marty Robbins

[mariocki]

Double Doctors! William Hartnell has a terrible time as wounded robber Jeff Richards, while Patrick Troughton is the unnamed (and uncredited!) tramp who finds Jeff's hiding place in Dial 999: 50,000 Hands (1.16, ABC, 1959)

[volunruud]

okay that was literally the worst episode ive ever seen.

[aparticularbandit]

Also like.

Fruits Basket s1 is introductions to (most of) the main cast and here's some surface trauma and how the curse is inconvenient.

Fruits Basket s2 is here's the rest of the main cast, here's more trauma, here's why the curse is actually horrible and should be broken, and also Akito's kind of fucked up, huh?

But both of those have shenanigans and breather episodes. They're not filler; they're BREATHERS.

And those two seasons are also pretty much a faithful chapter by chapter adaptation of the manga volumes they represent.

Fruits Basket s3 is thirteen episodes of punch after punch after punch built on everything from those first two seasons with hey, now that you know the extent of how bad the curse is, how do we end it?

S3 cuts from the manga. (I'm not sure how much because it's been a while since I've read the full manga.) Part of it they moved to a prequel movie, which makes sense, even though I regret that that makes it feel...less important or...not necessary to the main plot, when that's not the case. Parts of it just got cut entirely (I think Kakeru's girlfriend and her ties to Tohru got entirely cut, and I think more of the Hanijima and Shishou stuff...and some of the Yuki/Machi stuff, which upsets me because that's my ship, bro).

Which does change the pacing a little bit.

But honestly, in this case, I think it makes the pacing of s3 tighter. I think going punch after punch as the dominoes fall and ripple out isn't a bad decision. I'm not sure if I'd say s3 is stronger for that (again, it's been a while since I've read through the end of the manga to know what all they cut).

But I understand why they made that decision.

[noonvoid]

since it’s on netflix u all have to watch killing eve now no take backs

[swampjawn]

Time to talk an unnecessary amount about floors!

Episode 6 of Dungeon Meshi was produced in collaboration with a smaller studio, Enishiya - and it went way harder than I expected, for being made up of two relatively simple and self contained stories focusing on one character each.

And you can really see how those extra resources meant the animators could give full focus to both halves of the episode. Let's take a look at one piece that stole the show.

The first half was handled primarily by episode director/storyboard artist Keita Nagahara and co-animation director Hirotoshi (or Hiroaki? [1]) Arai. It's actually kinda insane how much of this section can be attributed to these two.

But the real star of the show is the second half, Chilchuck vs the mimic, led by co-animation director Toya Ooshima in his first animation director role for TV anime!

And the biggest aspect that knocked my dang boots off was something that's very consistent with Ooshima's style: background animation!

By animating the backgrounds rather than using painted still images, Ooshima and the team of other similarly skilled animators are able to create these beautiful dynamic camera movements that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Like these cuts by Takeshi Maenami where the camera becomes an expressive part of the scene, zipping forward and backward, and tilting to emphasize the speed of this murderous hermit crab. (Maenami's style is also very recognizable here - snappy timing and quick camera movements)

Or this cut by the incredible Kaito Tomioka which cleverly combines a traditional background for the walls with a fully animated floor. The level of detail in these tiles is just completely insane, and used to great effect with this wide, diagonal angle, and the way the camera tentatively drifts forward before reversing direction, and the tiles blur out as it speeds up.

I don't think I'm the only one caught off guard by how much they full-assed this little side story, but it was a pleasant surprise!

I broke down the entire episode in this video here. A lot of research went into this one, and I think it's the best one of these videos I've made so far, so if you're at all interested in more of this type of analysis in video form, I would really appreciate it if you checked it out, or re-blogged this post! Thanks

[1] It's listed as Hirotoshi on Anime News Network, but Hiroaki on a key frame that Studio Trigger shared on Twitter, so I'm not sure which one is wrong.