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…It dawns on me one unfortunate thing about liveblogging on Dreamwidth is that I have to like, Manually save/upload/copy images, if I include any (and given that the visuals are so significant, I very well might be). Maybe I will just use video timetamps and links, for the sake of not stopping for like five minutes every time I want to stick a little screenshot in.

Anyway!

( post-watch disclaimer: I got the names wrong until now so pardon the first “anthy” )

← first impressions | intermission / episode 2 →

I am under the impression [Revolutionary Girl Utena] is something resembling a diegetic shoujo princess/knight story but it is under a billion layers of metaphor and symbolism and cool silhouettes that had a formative impact on modern cartoons, and also someone turns into a car

^me, yesterday. I was telling myself I wouldn’t start watching this until I checked a couple things off my to-do list (art and replies, namely), and in the name of self-control I… should probably stick to that, actually. Got a busy couple days ahead too, which could throw a wrench in the binging plans, but I have a lil bit of time to kill so I’m going to bang out some current impressions/thoughts. And then later we can see if I’m anywhere near accurate :D

( impressions were unclear there are no cars til the movie, but still )

Oh yeah, I should also mention: I don’t have a spoiler policy/preference, since I don’t tend to avoid them in general, so there’s other random tidbits I’ve heard vaguely about but didn’t think to note above. (Something something incest something something.. eggs?? That One Pose with the dramatic sword through the torso. And anything I might recognize from SU.)

But that being said, I’m going in pretty blind as far as the overall plot trajectory is concerned, and would probably* like to stay that way! Vague ominous hints like “oh you’re gonna love this next part” are cool, outright “xyz happens next” nah. (*Well, probably. If I read a wiki or something that’s on me. :P)

liveblog start: in which I actually get Utena and Anthy’s names right →

Current Music: buncha songs from someone’s OC playlist; “Colliding with Mars” by Keia is chill

Oh, Infinity Train. ~~Not to sound like a Disney villain, but~~ I really wanted to love you.

Despite losing the motive to keep up my post-watch thoughtdumps after a couple nights, I actually did enjoy the past few episodes, especially yesterday’s. I was hyped to replay clips again and again, admiring the attention to detail and picking it all apart, ever so curious about the deal with One-One and the Secretary and the train in general. I liked (still like?) Tulip! I wanted to see her find her way home, even if it didn’t answer all my questions about the train and its purpose. It seemed like it was building up to be a big literal metaphor for personal growth and I’m down with that.

And then… (first and final spoiler warning) it turned into robot fights and some British guy?

Oh dear.

( Hell hath no rant machines like a fan disappointed. )

_{Final stray thought: In some ways I feel like my standards have gotten lower as of recent; sometimes I let myself enjoy the garbage and that is #valid. On the other hand, I’m still way more motivated to pick things apart than gush about the positives, so something something negativity bias I wish I didn’t walk away with the impression “maybe I should’ve lowered my standards” and yet.}

Infinity Train thoughts, round two!

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“liveblog” of the first Infinity Train episode, unedited because where else am I supposed to dump stuff like this

( notedump from the other night )

HMM okay so my overall thoughts were like. really narration-/tulip-talking-to-herself heavy but it’s a kids’ cartoon debut so whatever ig. did Not expect like a quarter of the ep to focus on her home life but that’s an interesting touch & I wonder if the code camp will end up having something to do with the whole train mystery? it definitely felt like a prologue more than a complete story on its own which is pretty dang cool for what could very well be a long-running overarching story

admittedly if I have one teeny tiny gripe it’s that the animation feels a Tad stiff but I’m starting to feel like that’s like.. Modern Cartoon Problem and not at all exclusive to this/She-Ra/SU/what have you but anyway. Cool Stuff^TM

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Entries tagged with media musings

utena 1: the bridening

all aboard the utena train: a very formal prelude

:^T

one plus one is (episode) two

ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN

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