#i...guess?

districts:

district one - inuyasha and kagome

district two - sango and miroku

district three - rin and shippo

district four - sesshomaru and kagura

district five - naraku and kikyo

district six - koga and kirara

district seven - bankotsu and jakotsu

district eight - kohaku and kaede

day one:

this is the funniest thing i've seen thus far LMAO:

in character

????? MIROKU ????

me too shippo. me too.

me reading this with yashahime in mind:

LMAO WHAT

day one conclusion: miroku does the unthinkable, sesshomaru actually sheds real tears, kagura Would Never, and koga - checks screen - trips over a log.

night one:

koga's early death was inevitable i'm afraid

day two:

something something koga vengeance

??? EXCUSE ME???? KIRARA??? YOUR SON?

babe kikyo should be running from you...

day two conclusion: more heinous acts are committed and kagura Would Never part 2.

night two:

canon behavior:

CANON BEHAVIOR:

sorry kikyo it was bound to happen with your track record.

day three:

deserved for the wife murdering my guy...

sesskagu in MY simulator?? more likely than you think

night three:

FATHER AND DAUGHTER??? DAMN

kaede also gets a five course meal and kagura gets an ipad so...do with that what you will. kinda of scared for next night bc if inuyasha or kagome die...

day four:

the simulator has him all figured out

i was about to be like "is nobody dying this round" only to read this:

like okay i won't jinx myself again...damn.

ENTERING THE FINAL STRETCH...our final five contestants are inuyasha, kagome, kagura, kaede, and shippo. place your bets or something idk.

night four:

NARAKU YOU LITTLE BITCH???

i played this for amusement not to be reminded of how depressing some aspects of inuyasha's character are okay. get this off my screen.

day five:

look. kaede in the last round was said to have fallen asleep to the sound of people screaming, and i was so sure multiple people would be dead next round...EVERYONE IS ALIVE!!!

night five:

IM -

what do i even say what do you want me to say. goodbye shippo.

day six:

INUYASHA?? KAGOME????

inukag are the only ones remaining.

well.

night six - winner: INUYASHA

i think his memory is fine cause that involves processes further back in the brain, however i think he has difficulty with fine motor function (has trouble holding things, definitely can't write with a pen anymore or use silverware the same, it's hard for him to shave, etc) afterward and his expressions become even flatter than they were before. ironically however, since this is the right frontal lobe, he'd get a bit wordier, so that part evens out (ie he loses some of his nonverbal communication but he becomes a bit more verbally communicative so)

however he has a lot of difficulty with spatial awareness afterwards, not even just cause of his eye making him lose depth perception, but cause the frontal lobe deals with stuff like that. so i can see him get a cane to help him with balance and to help him. for example he can tap forward to double check his estimation of a distance is actually the same distance in reality

and yeah, I’m sure some of that is just that I have some issues with having, knowing, and defending my own opinions about literally everything, which I’m fairly sure can be traced back to when I was a kid and I was taught by implication that having opinions or preferences usually equated being fussy/difficult/wrong. (I was the oldest daughter, I was way more conflict-averse than my sister, I often tried to do the peacemaker thing, I was raised evangelical and conservative, my dad is a lawyer with a lot of very strong opinions so he’s good at arguing them anyway, plus everything he believed was pretty much the foundation of my life for many years, it’s a whole mess of factors.) but it’s also...

I mean, I know taste is wildly subjective, and it’s totally possible for two people to come to a text in good faith and still develop very different interpretations, and of course people have different priorities and dealbreakers when it comes to fiction. but things like pacing or writing storytelling in general are a little more objective, right? whether you like a thing, or think it has more good parts than bad, isn’t really relevant to a discussion of whether it’s flawed in more technical ways (although of course the subjective aspects will influence how much importance and attention you assign to various technical aspects).

and, you know, I haven’t spent a lot time actually studying visual media in a non-fandom way, but I have a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in English literature, I taught freshman English for two years as a TA while getting my MA, and I have years of actual professional experience in different kinds of editing. I have at least a halfway-decent idea how to analyze a text, in other words, both for thematic aspects and for more technical ones. I also like to think I’m not a bad writer, in both technical and more subjective ways.

so--I’ve mostly liked the Loki show thus far. some of that is intentional on my part, which I’m aware gives me a bias right off the bat; I’ve basically been determined to like it, so I’ve actively looked for things to like, focused on opinions from people who also found stuff to like, and sought out analysis or alternate takes for stuff I didn’t care for on first watch. but on a purely technical level, I’ve found the show to be...pretty good, in general? some moments of sloppy writing, certainly, especially within the larger context of the MCU, but the vast majority of it seems...pretty competent to me. and if we’re focusing on technical aspects, that’s not so much a matter of opinion--it’s a lot more possible to be just plain wrong, and evidently I can’t tell the difference. (as a side note, “it’s totally okay to like things that are objectively garbage! ☺️“ is, uh, nowhere near as validating/comforting/whatever as a lot of people seem to think it is.)

with episode 4, specifically, my general reaction was one of relief, because I saw in it some payoffs to at least one major thing that had been bothering me from the beginning (i.e., the perception of the TVA as The Good Guys) and something of a return to the more serious tone I preferred from the second half of episode 1. and maybe I just need to be following different people, but my response...doesn’t seem to have been the general fandom reaction at all. in fact, multiple people I followed recently for their takes on the show, people who posted almost entirely positive stuff about the first three episodes and sometimes even engaged in a bit of scolding others who were more critical, kind of hated it, to the point that their negative reaction to episode 4 seems to have colored their reactions to the show in general and now they’re primarily posting criticism too. (and no, their reactions had nothing to do with ship wars, at least in terms of massively preferring one ship over another.) I also follow people who liked episode 4, but for various reasons they haven’t posted about it anywhere near as much, so that doesn’t help much in terms of getting a balanced perspective. and it’s sort of just...messing with my head that there’s such a huge difference in reactions to this episode, in both technical and more subjective terms.