Kayne was the one who put John back? Dang it. But hey, at least we got John back and hopefully this season we get to stay on earth because the dreamlands were way too confusing for that to happen again.

Hearing Arthur see (or should I say hear?) John again was so much fun. I love it. This series is getting longer as the episodes are going on for AN HOUR. Hopefully it returns to its regularly scheduled 30–40-minute episodes because the episodes are enjoyable, but my golly are they slow at times.

I like how they added in the detail of Arthur having claustrophobia.

Why is John surprised that Arthur wants to kill Larson? He knows Arthur has a temper and that killing things is relatively common on their adventures. Though their relationship with the likes of killing is so complex as they do it out of necessity instead of the likes of joy. Unless you count Parker and Grandma.

Even though the pacing is a little fuckywucky at times, I enjoyed the show a lot. It's nice, it's short. Took me about a month to finish it.

This anime was fantastic. All the characters were perfect. My personal favorite was Simon or Kamena. Call me a member of the sheeple if you will but the writing was just so fantastic on both of them. The animation is probably the greatest of any anime I've watched that was released before I started watching.

Now, this is the antithesis of what Evangelion isn’t and is in the same existence. They are both mech anime that focus on themes of loss and depression and what we should do to move forward in life. Simon doubts himself yet he only allows himself to fall to sadness once he is at his lowest while Shinji is constantly sad and only allows himself to be happy at his lowest. Yoko is supportive of both Simon and Kamena whilst also not being afraid to throw hands with them once they do something stupid meanwhile Asaka has a tragic backstory and treats Rei and Shinji terribly. Kamena is a confident and supportive senior of the group who is never afraid to do what he feels is right whilst also retaining a charisma and neverending amount of ambition. On the other hand, Rei barely ever says anything and always falls in line with the likes of Gendo. Gurren Lagann is always about how even when things look like they're going for the worst, you should always keep your head up, meanwhile Evangelion is about why should we keep on going even if things are looking downwards.

A Young Criminal Genius Combats a Government Official in a Battle of Wits.

Death Note, Money Heist, and Prison Break.

A Game of Cat and Mouse Where the Main Character is Pursued by Another Character Shortly Before the Rivalry is Cut Short By a Third Party.

Death Note and No Country for Old Men.

The Hero Defeats the Villain, but a Larger Threat Arises and They Have to Team Up to Fight the Larger Threat.

Death Note, Banshee, Gurren Lagann, and Dragon Ball.

Like, "Whoa, you really don't know anything about movies or superheroes, do you?"

They were not strangers or some kind of barbarians. They were his friends' children, he knew them and loved them. In other life they'd have been his son's closest friends.

Penelope knew them since they were kids. They spent time in their palace. We can assume Penelope and Odysseus loved inviting them, wanting kids but not having their own, so they enjoyed their company: playing with them, teaching them, feeding them. They probably were happy to introduce Telemachus to them when he was born, enjoying the thought that even if they don't have more children, Telemachus will still have many older brothers.

And then Penelope watched them grow older, she watched them become ambitious, watched them, who she knew as children, come to her palace to marry her, watched them flood the palace and waste Odysseus' wealth (Odysseus would invite them and feed them himself once), watched them grow wary of Telemachus as he was getting older, watched them become more and more impatient with years. She watched this and she watched her own feelings change. She used to love them, she used to enjoy hearing their laughter in the palace, she used to order slaves to prepare best parts of meat for them, and then she couldn't bare the sound of their voices, couldn't stand them wasting all the food, she came to hate them with all her heart, even though she could never forget how happy she was once to host them at Odysseus palace.

Odysseus remembered them as kids eating from his hands, he remembered how Penelope enjoyed the childish stories they would tell her, he remembered them as children he loved and trusted, he remembered them crying on the shore looking at the ships when he was taking their fathers away. Then he returned home to see that the children of his friends who he all lead to war and who he all lost one by one, some of whom he held as they were dying maybe even promised to look after their sons at home, feasting on his wealth, abusing his wife and threatening his son.

Odysseus lead their fathers to death and then killed all of them himself.

Penelope watched them as they changed from infants to boys to men and then to dead men. She loved these boys and grieved for them, she hated these men and felt relief to see them dead.

I mean not that Achilles has any business being in the Odyssey either on account of being dead but come on Achilles played by a trans dude would have actually been really cool considering the backstory, who tf asked to include fucking Sinon