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Ship It

What made you ship it? Their complex general dynamic, basically.

What are your favorite things about the ship? Saionji's ability to see through Touga's bullshit (I particularly liked when he doubted Touga really wanted to be like Akio like he claimed, and one of the cameras fell over as if to suggest he was right on the money); the fact that a messed-up relationship like their can be mended; the parallels I can draw between this ship and Juri/Shiori.

...on the one hand, every part of this is well thought out and makes sense... and on the other hand, part of the tragedy of Ohtori was always that things couldn’t progress, things couldn’t escalate and reach a tipping point, everything was... stuck. I guess we’re back to seeing it as an alternate universe, then? Huh. It does make sense with how things were going, but Ohtori is eternal, so....

Also, I still don’t see how Anthy “killed” Akio in the movie. Everyone was treating it like that’s what happened, but we saw him... stumble out a window? She didn’t do that. Maybe I missed something? Are we supposed to assume she poisoned him?

Yeah, I really liked that Kozue scene when it came by because it felt like “yeah, fucked up kids react in unpalatable ways sometimes” but to have it be her only scene doesn’t do her justice. It is really, really hard to try and compress such a complex and ensemble-cast story into an hour and a half, and I do think they stumbled in several places. It was still enjoyable, but nothing close to the series.

Yeah, I didn’t think they’d been swapped either, though I see what you mean about their narrative roles. And the idea of this being the show’s Anthy... I don’t like it. I can see where it’s coming from, but I don’t like it. Yes, she’s more forward with Utena, but not in the way that someone who had been through so much with her would-- it really came across to me as that trauma response of trying to take control. Her throwing herself at Utena wasn’t helpful, you know? It just freaked her out.

everyone being hyped for ilulu meanwhile i just want to see them all again and have a good time

' No seriously i am definitely expecting the girl member of this squad to be treated exactly the way DC treats Wonder Woman.' So she is the only character who will star in a good movie?

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

yeah that’s one of the big reasons he won was signing up so many new members. incidentally, he signed up 47,000 members, though he only got 35,000 votes and overall votes were only 65,000 (turnout was 51% of members). there was nothing resembling a mass movement or sign-up like with corbyn’s campaign in the uk, he won because he managed to get even a small amount of people excited, something none of the other candidates were able to muster.

i don’t know how well that corresponds with boisclair, but singh’s ability to recruit people to the ndp is a strength not likely a weakness. and the ndp all things equal are probably likely to hold or pick up some seats with singh. it would be against normal trends for trudeau to increase his majority, my guess would be he holds on with some seats going to the ndp and conservatives.

so is singh likely to be a good choice for the ndp electorally? probably, compared to any other milquetoast social democrat. but his election shows that there is no significant left-opposition in the ndp, no mass grouping within the party capable of moving it left. singh will likely offer a platform slightly left of mulcair, that’s the political climate we’re in now, but there will be no transformation of the ndp into a party that challenges the status quo in a meaningful way, and no offering of policies that significantly break with neoliberalism. the ndp will continue to be a slightly more idealistic version of the liberals, and fail to gain back their height of seats from 2012.

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