I've never heard of this! It sounds really fun!

Excuse you? I'll have you know that if one singular person ever does any sort of extended discussion on a show, then NO ONE ELSE is allowed to make a thread about it!

Gosh, very inconsiderate! Jeez!

Totally fair, and completely my oversight. It's actually why I was so glad that Fish did a Wizard thread, since it spared me ever having to deal with Shunpei again.

->Joins boards to vent frustrations with Ghost
->Does own fake-out death storyline half a decade later

Truly a perfect circle! No wonder you made OOO the place for this!

I'm glad to see you're already realizing the healthier middle ground here where you also don't have to force yourself to not write about tokusatsu stuff if (when) the mood ever strikes you again. I'd have to imagine pretty much everyone else here feels this way too, but at least personally, I can tell you I've never been at all concerned with the frequency of these threads? I don't think of them in terms of how many episodes in a week or how many shows in a year -- I just like getting to read your thoughts, and when I'm not on an extended break of my own, I like to kick in my thoughts as well. Honestly, to me, you finally figuring out it's okay for that schedule to be way less rigid just sounds like important positive character growth. Again, kinda like a fake-out death storyline in Ghost! :p

Unlike Ghost, I promise not to do this three or four more times, to increasingly diminished drama.

And I appreciate the other, less Ghost-inspired musings! I don't know that I ever thought people expected a certain level of output, so much as I originally enjoyed the steady progress of making my way through a show, and the schedule helped me to stay on task. I like routines, probably as the result of some undiagnosed spectrum stuff, and there was a soothing reliability to knowing that another episode was just around the corner, and another chance to refine my thoughts along with it.

As my circumstances changed from the whole A Global Pandemic Ended thing -- IRL, not Ex-Aid -- that aforementioned reliability became a difficult balance, and eventually a pressure. However, the brief window of absolving myself of that pressure also reminded me of how much I like the basic experience, and its roots in that Ghost exploration, where I just sort of wrote what I wanted, when I wanted. I like that, and doing Outsiders 7 out of absolutely nowhere yesterday really reactivated that part of my brain -- writing as a hobby, instead of as an expectation. No one ever put that on me, the obligation, but I somehow made myself feel like it was there. I don't know. I'm really weird, and doing this for so long made me forget why I started.

It's nice to think about letting my passion burn a little brighter, now that I've remembered how vital it is, you know? Just like that one show... I want to say Kiva?

I'm not sure if this is really relevant to the current conversation, but I figured here is a decent spot to ask, since we all just watched OOO...

What episode is the scene where Eiji stretches both of his arms to the sides and says "this is as far as I can reach. I will do whatever I can to help those in this reach"? I think he was outside, and talking to someone, but I don't remember the context and wanted to rewatch the scene.

It's the story with the guy who's secretly giving money to the family of his old teacher... 32? I think?

Ah, that should be the one! I knew it was in the 30s, and mistakenly watched the later episode with Eiji's high school friend. Thank you!

No problem! You caught me when this show is still fairly fresh in my memory. If you asked next month, I'd probably be convinced it was a Saber episode or something...

About Ghost repeating the revivals, wdyt about this explanation about why it's done?

Sure! I like people giving their own reading to the material, and I especially like to see people finding new ways to enjoy maligned shows. This is a neat interpretation!

(Also, like: the show's name is Ghost. Dude's gonna die a bunch of times! Drive's gotta drive a car, Double's gotta be two guys, and Ghost has to get killed several times. )