Altered Carbon S1E5: "The Wrong Man"
Time to keep kicking my way through this overproduced trainwreck.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood S2E37: "The Other Side of the Gateway"
The nameless child dies as it lived; struggling to escape the object of its desire.
Altered Carbon S1E4: “Force of Evil” (continued)
It's got a really strong sort of JJ Abrams "look at how intricate and clever I think I am" asspull feel to it.
Altered Carbon S1E4: “Force of Evil”
The sort of charisma she uses is equal parts primal fear and primal allure. Like you can't tell if you're afraid she's about to burst out of her human suit and tear you to shreds, or if she's just the sexiest thing ever
....okay, rereading that paragraph right after I wrote it is making me a little worried about myself, ngl.
Altered Carbon S1E3: "In a Lonely Place" (continued)
Kovacs' writing might not measure up to his baseline in this scene. Hubert might be making me hate him. But, try as one might, there is simply no outdoing Detective Kirsten "Garfield Minus Garfield" Ortega.
Altered Carbon S1E3: "In a Lonely Place"
How are Kovacs and Ortega in the same script? It's seriously night and day.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood S2E36: “A Fierce Counterattack”
I could have sworn we already had an episode called that? Back during the Briggs arc, I think? Something very similar at least. Well, regardless!
Altered Carbon S1E2: “Fallen Angel” (part 3)
Oh god what has Ortega been doing to this corpse she stole holy fuck why.
Altered Carbon S1E2: “Fallen Angel” (continued)
He's one of the good slumming meths. When he kills one of his favorite hookers, he always buys them a brand shiny new sleeve, often younger, healthier, and hotter than the body they had before.
"Whenever" he kills one.
Altered Carbon S1E2: “Fallen Angel”
It turns out that Laurens Bancroft is...well, exactly as popular as you'd expect.
Altered Carbon S1E1: “Out of the Past” (continued unto the conclusion)
Raven is the best. I really hope that Kovacs stays in that hotel in the semi-long term, so that Raven isn't just a one episode wonder. Hell, I want Raven to be the Cortana to Kovacs' Master Chief and play adjutant/dispatch for him over neural commlink. It's not like that would be much sillier than the baseline for this show. Yeah, I'll say it: I fucking ship it.
Altered Carbon S1E1: “Out of the Past” (continued)
Kovacs is so much better written than any of the other characters that he actually feels out of place in this show.
Altered Carbon S1E1: “Out of the Past”
Industrial commodification of human minds and bodies. It's almost like this is cyberpunk or something.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood S2E35: “He Who Would Swallow God” (part 2)
Fullmetal Alchemist generally does a good job of managing to be both a cerebral philosophical journey AND a dumb punchy-man shounen series at the same time. Sometimes it leans more heavily in one direction, sometimes in the other. Occasionally, the two things that it's trying to be come into conflict, to the story's detriment.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood S2E35: “He Who Would Swallow God” (part 1)
Pretty sure he already did swallow God, unless the visuals at the end of the previous episode were misleading.
Bakemonogatari E9: “Nadeko Snake, part 1”
You know what someone should do? Do an extensive edit of this show, excising all the pedo shit, as much as possible of the harem shit, and stitching what's left together into some new starting and stopping points for episodes. Release this new cut under a title like "Bakemonogatari, But For Human Beings." It would be a good show. I'd watch it.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood S2E34: “Eye of Heaven, Gateway of Earth”
For all that it hates humanity for creating it, how much more must it loathe its original self? For every second of every minute of every day, for nearly five hundred years, it's known that someone else has what it's lost.
RWBY S6E7: "The Grimm Reaper"
There was ONE point, at the end of "The Coming Storm," where I actually wanted to watch the next episode for its own sake. Where I'd managed to regain some scrap of the investment and goodwill that I first started the series with back in 2017, and was interested to see what would happen next. But, it was short lived.
RWBY S6E6: “Alone In the Woods” (continued)
...the title of the episode is a knock-off of "Alone in the Dark," isn't it? Only without even making sense, because no one is alone in this episode. Just cram in another reference no matter how inappropriate it is. Goddamnit.