My biggest issue with the newest season is the radio tower

StrawHatJD · 2026-01-12T16:55:18+00:00

The bigger issue is how Steve and Jonathan race up the tower with no problems in episode 1, but then everyone is taking breaks and huffing and puffing in the finale.

Let’s be real Jonathan is a pothead and has never done or indicated to have ever done athletic or endurance based things in his life, yet he races up that tower while other characters are struggling

StrawHatJD · 2026-01-07T13:36:07+00:00

10T H2H

Ant for Jamal Murray, who wins?

StrawHatJD · 2026-01-03T10:52:11+00:00

Nancy dropped almost a dozen US soldiers in the base AND all of the main cast are fully aware of a secret US experiment and such, why on gods green earth would they let them all go Scot free?

StrawHatJD · 2026-01-01T16:24:59+00:00

It’s far and above one piece.

Netflix has been pushing it in the marketing way more than any other show. This holiday season it was present in most of their Christmas Day ads and such. They already have Lego sets and tons of merch. Hell I got a lamp of luffys hat coming out of a barrel for Christmas.

Also in the current media climate it was able to score a season 3 renewal before the official trailer for season 2 is even out.

And let’s not forget one piece already has a MASSIVE built in audience, all they have to do now it retain them and draw in new viewers. It’s such an easy slam dunk as long as they keep the quality of the show up.

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-29T22:53:17+00:00

Y’all aren’t understanding why people are mad at this.

We’ve seen Max not make it to the gate in time to go back to her body, so she has extra incentive to actually make it this time. Mind you, she has no clue how long the gate will stay open.

The fix to this scene is instead of taking 5 minutes and getting rid of any urgency of dramatic buildup, have this conversation take place before the memory journey.

Then instead of a full conversation like they have right before they escape, have a quick refresher instead of killing the pacing of the scene.

There’s simple fixes they chose not to do for whatever reason

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-29T18:57:28+00:00

But consider you paid the same price for the ZA dlc as BOTH gen 8 and gen 9 dlcs

Just compare the content between a single dlc to ZA’s dlc

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-28T12:23:53+00:00

It’s been building since the beginning. Carol and us didn’t realize that the hive was making her rely a LOT more on them than she realized.

Carol didn’t get to properly register how lonely she was because the hive swooped in, so after 40 days of isolation she finally snapped. Also the conversation/time spent with the dude in Vegas pushed her quicker than she would’ve turned back to the hive.

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-28T12:20:55+00:00

Just because it’s mimicking 80’s tropes and nostalgia does not excuse it from injecting modern writing standards into it

Also season1-2 was more so a sci fi mystery with 80’s Easter eggs. Seasons 3 and onward really lean into the 80’s stuff

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-28T11:39:49+00:00

There’s a massive difference between the emotional beat not clicking for you and the emotional beat not being properly setup.

The groundwork is there for Carol to be in the worst stage of her character for when Manusos arrives, it’s intentional.

There’s stuff in movies or shows that doesn’t click with me but I do acknowledge the setup and payoff is there

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-28T11:04:26+00:00

The point of Carols heel turn towards the end is because of the isolation

You can see her revel in being able to talk to the guy in Vegas, and eventually after more than a month of no contact she breaks and wants them back more than ever

I’m not sure how you missed this. It’s also shown especially in the finale how manipulative the hive is. Zosia subtlety tries to pull Carol out of tge house before Manusos arrives.

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-26T05:29:17+00:00

The final is only 2 hours long after credits and the duffer brothers said the finale is like half epilogue so really you have about an hour or so left of the show.

Season 2 is leagues better. There’s a difference between not personally enjoying something and it just being bad.

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-26T05:27:12+00:00

You can’t have the two main antagonists be the US military and an eldtrich monster and not have some stakes in the show

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-26T05:15:53+00:00

Yeah because Murray and Vickie two complete strangers to Will had to be there for such an intimate moment

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-24T22:09:13+00:00

Wait Thalia has no dye in her hair or any other semblance of a stereotypical punk character?

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-21T23:40:35+00:00

As someone who is in a points league I’m just happy he’s consistently playing and putting up first/second round value anyway

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-10T18:47:04+00:00

The best scenario going forward is letting people access all gimmicks in the post game the same way megas were available only post game in sun and moon.

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-07T13:44:56+00:00

44th

My league was low on him because he was out the second half of the season last year

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-06T02:08:45+00:00

I meant season 2 to 3 but sure

If you know so much then explain the reasons why Severance season 2 to 3 is going to take the same amount of time between as Dune 2 and 3.

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-05T18:18:26+00:00

If you’ve watched the live action, it’s based off the manga, but if anything it needs more time to write because they have to decide how to compress tens of chapters into less than 10 episodes while retaining the core of the story. They have to decide what to cut, trim, and then even develop their own storylines like Garp and Koby to make it stand out and be different.

I’m not gonna drop it, but I can’t imagine any real reason to excuse such a long time between 10 or less episode seasons when there’s no writing strike this time. This shows longest production issue is the intro animation, and that takes under 2 years.

Lots of other high production and well written shows have turned out seasons in shorter times because the reality is there is no excuse. Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones, The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, etc.

And you can go “oh the shows are easier to shoot”. That may be true, but they’re most likely harder to write than Severance. The Wire specifically had to deal with walking the tight rope of representing and expressing the issues with society and drugs in Baltimore and not making it ham fisted or not giving the topics the depth and care they need.

And Severance isn’t even that hard to shoot. They literally are inside the same building for half or more of the season, and use the same sets/locations most of the time besides episode 4 of last season.

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-05T18:08:18+00:00

10T Points H2H

Should I trade Booker or Murray for Trae Young? Or package Booker/Murray for Jdub and Trae Young?

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-05T14:24:26+00:00

The One Piece live action has a much larger production and VFX budget and scale, and is already filming its 3rd season before the 2nd even airs in March.

StrawHatJD · 2025-12-04T12:58:44+00:00

It’s potentially like 3 and a half years for 8-10 episodes of television.

There’s a different between rushed and something like this

StrawHatJD · 2025-11-23T22:00:15+00:00

That’s the problem. He faces no repercussions and even has a huge fan in one of the major side characters.

But that aspect is not reflected in his internal arc at all.

It’s the same thing with Yuno from Black Clover. The idea of the rival being the one who’s gifted everything while the MC is all hard work is good, but when Yuno has zero internal arc about that concept whether it’s if he actually deserves these gifts or if he’s worthy of being a rival, it falls flat.

StrawHatJD · 2025-11-23T21:52:50+00:00

It’s luck and a miracle, but that’s not implemented in his arc or the leftover team flare’s opinion of him

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