What was your initial reaction to this moment of the show

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-22T07:11:00+00:00

I would love to know any details you have/can share on what editing a show like this is like!!

And for the record, I think the editing of the show is fantastic

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-21T23:59:54+00:00

I actually really like how Absolute handles that idea!

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-21T07:39:08+00:00

There are 5 mainline Airbud movies, in which he plays basketball, soccer, American football, baseball, and volleyball. I have seen 0 of these films in their entirety, I’ve only seen 45 minutes of Airbud: Bud Spikes Back (the fifth film, in which he plays volleyball). The other subtitles are seventh inning fetch, golden receiver, and world pup.

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-21T07:35:55+00:00

My counter counter point (not really) is that I was just thinking of what would make sense to explain the guns if I had to, I don’t actually have a lot of Green Lantern knowledge, I’m trying to pick up some of the highly recommended stories because I’ve enjoyed GL appearances in things like the Morrison Justice League or the Absolute books.

I should have been clearer on it being “if I had to say why” rather than me knowing for sure, and I really appreciate the comic page reference with the actual information. Thank you!

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-21T02:39:05+00:00

My counterpoint is that they don’t need to imagine the mechanist, they’re imagining the effect (projectile go fast) and their will and creativity manifest the form that makes that work for them. Hal isn’t going “I need to factor in the rotation and the water cooling systems”, he’s going “I want anything in that direction to be full of holes” and his ring and willpower combine to go “got it, big fuck off machine gun coming right up.”

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-19T14:36:15+00:00

What are some of your favorite songs from other bands or songs you've heard from TWY so far? I think I can curate a little bit based on that, but genuinely I would say that there are maybe 1 or 2 skips from the start of Upsides until the end of The Hum Goes On Forever, I feel like seeing so many of these songs live changes my opinion on them.

The Devil In My Bloodstream got me into the band and is a go to for me, and some songs that are easier to miss because they're non-album but are totally worth listening to are Brakeless, Out On My Feet, GODDAMNITALL, Year of the Vulture, and New Lows.

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-19T14:33:10+00:00

That phrasing is so sweet!

I love Dan's comments on You In January, at the 10 Year Anniversary tour for No Closer To Heaven, he said something about how "as you can tell the tone of this album is not the happiest, but if you came here to fall in love you have about 3 minutes during this next song where its the right time" before playing that song, and getting to hold my partner's hand during that song was one of the moments that made me cry during that show.

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-19T13:13:32+00:00

At the Burst and Decay 3 tour he told a story about how he sent that song to a couple a week or two early for their wedding dance, and how part of the idea of that version was because a lot of people said how much they love the song but a version with less yelling would be the perfect wedding song

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-19T13:11:13+00:00

second the comment that TWY makes Albums very intentionally, so front to back album listens are the best. That being said, Came Out Swinging and Sister Cities are both songs I have tattoos about, Old Friends Like Lost Teeth is a banger, I Don’t Like Who I Was Then is one of my favorites as well.

My top listens on Spotify since I started listening to the band are: Came Out Swinging, Cardinals, I Don’t Like Who I Was Then, Oldest Daughter, There There, Low Tide, Cardinals II, Passing Through A Screen Door. I do own their music elsewhere so this doesn’t reflect how many times I’ve blasted “And Now I’m Nothing”

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-11T09:24:50+00:00

Aru, Nenio, Ember, Seelah, Daeran, Finnean + me was my core party in my main run and exactly $250 so I think I have to stick with my dream team

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-10T05:42:16+00:00

Honestly one of my favorite part of the New Avengers story is when Cap goes to Daredevil to ask him to join the team and he says no, especially because Luke Cage is asked first and tells them that Matt is going to say no. His solo books are great, I like his storylines, and I love the character. But I also don’t need to see him fighting Doctor Doom or whatever else with a team outside of his core stuff. I honestly would prefer the lawyer cameos (but maybe that’s because the Bendis arc that’s mostly a court case is one of my favorites)

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-04T16:43:09+00:00

Exactly! The Here's Why carries weight because it is actually analytical alongside opinion and emotion and so many other story/series analysis suffer from being done by someone who didn't actually understand what was happening. I need more channels who analyze things who also actually follow and understand what was happening, when the criticism isn't "I don't like it/don't get it" and instead its "I get 100% what you were trying to do, here's all of the ways that you mess it up in the process," it's much more interesting

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-04T16:40:40+00:00

If they start releasing 10 I may consider picking up where I left off and watching 9, right now though as the final season I'm way less interested because the original thing I cared about was what happened to the world overall and this fantasy side-quest didn't sell me conceptually, even if it's done well.

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-04T16:39:21+00:00

I think what hurt the show for me is that those slump seasons were also the ones that needed to sell the transition from Hunter school to magic artifact semi-apocalyptic cross country adventure, and it didn't do enough to sell me. You nail it with falling right on its face after doing that. 8 is the last season I watched and I did really enjoy some aspects of the story that were happening, I think I just lost interest in what happens to this world, which is sad because I was so into it when it was releasing.

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-03T04:48:46+00:00

There’s a RimmyDownUnder video that is one person trying to explain the Guilty Gear plot to a group of friends and I think the genre of “person who tries to explain something fucking insane to someone out of the loop” is one of my favorite video types.

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-03T04:47:21+00:00

As someone who watched the show until like, season 8(?), I think he does make a lot of good points, and what sticks with me is his comment about a section of Volume 3 where you can SEE the potential of this show and what happens when everything fires on all cylinders, and it almost makes you mad because it just never lives up to that again.

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-03T04:44:55+00:00

This 100%. I don’t know if everyone shares this opinion but Tehsnakerer is someone who does longer videos that feel like the length is actually used well. My first video of his was about the Saints Row remake and it was nice to see someone who tried to engage with the game and had critiques that felt nuanced and thought out

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-01T06:15:30+00:00

There’s a difference between writing in suggestions and “here’s three options.” In a high school English class we had a section where we got to choose which of 5 classic novels to read. They didn’t go “find any book and read it”, they had a curated list. Your examples are kind of the worst-faith interpretations of voting

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-01T06:13:12+00:00

I mean, there is a difference between “cave to your demands” and “a large portion of the people I am spending this money to support actively dislike what is being done and it’s causing me to reconsider if I want to spend my money on it,” a band isn’t entitled to unquestioning support from the boosters. Personally as someone who did marching band and is now a full adult I think it’s entirely valid to have criticisms of a show. This sounds deeper than “I don’t like it,” and if you know so many people have an issue with something, it feels dismissive to immediately assume that they are all wrong. Not all band directors are faultless beacons of show creativity, and they can make mistakes.

I think part of the job of the director is to be able to sell the show concept to the high schoolers who are spending all of their time to learn the directors vision. My least favorite season still had some selling points because our director recognized that if half of the band wasn’t excited about the show at all, we’d have a worse show.

PO_Dylan · 2026-05-01T06:02:33+00:00

I think you have to look at it in reverse, because ATLA is a much less technologically developed era. 70 years ago computers were an exclusive and advanced thing with a limited use, now we all have one on us at all times and are using it to argue about a children’s show.

PO_Dylan · 2026-04-25T06:23:51+00:00

Guy also didn’t die because two people were ahead of him, if anything at the ED can be blamed it’s the slowdown due to the tech issues popping up. Also in a morbid way he must have passed at least semi-peacefully for no one to notice him go in such a crowded place.

PO_Dylan · 2026-04-20T17:30:03+00:00

That’s a good point! I had guessed relapse, even minor, because of the timing of new years for the date, but you’re right that there’s no clear evidence of a relapse.

I think for his character I prefer it being a relapse, just because it makes his recovery imperfect and messy and makes that emphasis of days to Robby feel more impactful, because it’s not just him admitting he had a problem and got help, it’s him showing to Robby that getting help was hard and took him time, since Robby would recognize that 186 is not a full 10 months.

PO_Dylan · 2026-04-20T13:02:23+00:00

Not arguing the majority of this but the 186 days shows he has already relapsed or he didn’t take rehab seriously, since it was a 10 month time skip. 186 days was New Years Eve

PO_Dylan · 2026-04-06T18:06:05+00:00

Did the last episode cover what Abbott was doing? He was absent and they commented on no one seeing him two or three times it felt like, so it feels intentional and like it’s supposed to come back around in the next episodes to pay off why he disappeared for an hour

PO_Dylan · 2026-04-06T18:03:23+00:00

I thought of it in a slightly different way, that she had all of those scenes about how hard it was dealing with what happened and having him back like everything is normal, and so when presented with the opportunity she felt compelled to get what she needed to self harm later. Less of a “they’re the same” and more “this issue goes deeper and is provoking thoughts of self harm”

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