[dreamcastegirl]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I really hope that didn't get too heated, but I've stored up a lot of these feelings on Kiva for a while. Seeing this thread come into existence, and then see a lot of criticisms be different from my own... it flared something up in me, what can I say!

Oh, please don't apologise! I love reading your posts because they're always so detailed and thoughtful, so even when I feel as if we're not on the same page about something—like with the '80s sections of this show—I really appreciate you taking the time to articulate your thoughts and discuss the matter! This is why I'm here... well, this, and the fact that my cat just doesn't respond when I talk to her about these shows, so I'm glad to finally meet people who will talk to me, lol. It's almost like I'm a violin making boy with a bad haircut waiting to discover the meaning of friendship.

I absolutely agree with you about the way in which the two halves of the stories inform one another. I am one of those people who could broadly live without the 2008 segments, but I know that deep down this is not what I want, because the relation and reaction between the halves of the tales are what kept me watching it even when I doubted myself—if anything, I wanted more interaction between these two stories.

I know I'm always super incendiary when I post these long form re-watch posts, and I think it would probably have been easier if I had maintained my old toku blog back in the day to dump all these on, but I really cherish getting to talk with you about this stuff, so thank you for being so patient with me even though I'm relatively new-ish on the forums (this time around). As with Ryuki, re-watching this makes me want to watch the DCD and Zi-o arcs again, because I feel I might get a bit more out of them this time.

But fret not! Next on my re-watch list is a Showa show, and you know I'm going to give my favourite era a free pass, so imagine me from hereon in as Misato from Evangelion with a beer in my hands, crowing about how this is the "good stuff."