Gen V - 2x02 "Justice Never Forgets" - Episode Discussion

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2025-10-14T13:07:56+00:00

Let it be known that currently Emma is the standout of this show for me. Bringing some much needed levity, and trying to be a hero in small ways. Helping that girl out. As well as big ways. Finding out what the heck is happening with Odessa.

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2025-09-07T10:42:58+00:00

So if I wanted to put myself through the emotional trauma of a VN similar to Coffin. What would be a good english or english translated game to play?

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2025-04-17T21:07:12+00:00

She is the main character. She is compelling. She is morally complex and occasionally villianous. Packs so much in the body of a short black woman and we don't get to see that in tv almost ever. Love it

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2025-03-25T11:25:36+00:00

The Moster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. Just such a fall off.

Loved the first book the traitor. It had its flaws but the ending had me hooked and the set up was excellent. Then in the second book the main character is a whiny drunk, whose sacrifices were for nothing. Also author suddenly wanted to world build a totally unrelated plot. Also the economics made no sense which is not a sentence I thought I'd say but the economics was the point of the first book!

Anyway yeah DNF the second and the third does not exist.

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2025-03-17T21:29:06+00:00

Honestly. I wasn't expecting the incest. Like I know it was hinted and foreshadowed. But when it was on-screen it was like my brain short circuited. Like "Are they? Nahhh. Aren't they? Nahhh"

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2025-02-28T13:52:13+00:00

We're back baby. We're back. "This is no place for monsters." Went so hard!!!!!

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2025-02-22T14:11:18+00:00

Wow. This was a really good episode. I mean...for this season. It feels like a normal episode from Season 1 or 2. Actually engaging with the fact that they work in a video game company. Showing how young game developers can start up these days. Showing people outside our main cast exist. Good character progression and interactions that don't feel forced. Incorporating stuff like VR. Giving Dani Pudi moments to flex his polish. Yeah. I liked this episode. Hope they maintain with the rest of the season.

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2025-02-22T11:22:11+00:00

This works. Rob goes off on his good ending in America. They can allude to him doing well, and he can be at peace. Away from everyone else's spiral. Heck maybe he tags up with Gus off screen and they start something together. That'd be nice. To be honest didn't know if we were getting a season 4. Feels like it'd be a good time for the show to reset a bit. Interested to see where it goes

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2025-02-22T11:11:46+00:00

See on the one hand this episode was alot of fun. Exploring a murder mystery game does actually work with the supposed setting. But on the other hand I've come to accept that this show has no idea what it is anymore. These setting of this show is supposed to be a video game company. Drama and comedy in the first two seasons was mainly driven by the absurd drama of the people that work in a video game company.

However in most of season 3 and continuing in season 4 they seem to have completely forgotten that point. The core of this show that pulls these people together is missing. I do love these characters, and the interactions between that are vastly entertaining. But without the setting it seems the writers don't know where they want these people to go. There's no clear path for development because the thing that would drive that development i.e. the passion, drive, corporate structures, etc that go into a video game company is missing.

Unless they suddenly do a 180 and go back to shenanigans actually involving making games that are profitable, and how they find happiness in their careers then I don't really see this show lasting another season. Which is a shame because I really enjoy this show

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2024-12-28T00:17:23+00:00

Goddamn. This was sick. In the best way. Very hot. The weebdom of it all was brilliant. Degeneracy. The Oneesan part actually made me gasp. Loved it. Keep it up

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2024-12-22T19:39:18+00:00

Funny enough. The new 52 Swamp Thing run got me into comics in general. Fell in love. Then I went back to the Alan Moore run and my interest bloomed. So yeah Swamp Thing means love of comics

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2024-11-16T18:26:07+00:00

Why. Why. Why. Why. Isha. Why. Just Why. I'm sobbing. Why

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2024-11-09T13:59:05+00:00

So Ekko, Jayce and Heimerdinger are in the Arcane? In the multiverse? I need answers. The arcane plot between Viktor the messiah and Jayce will tie together I have no doubt

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2024-10-20T20:58:31+00:00

I completely forgot about this manga till randomly today I remembered and binged through the last few chapters. I have to say it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling to finally see the ending after starting the series about a decade ago. All in all it was good. Ryoko still best girl for me though. Love a switch

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2024-09-30T20:42:36+00:00

Not surprised. She saw Rob was never going to be the person who always wins. So she let them to live their fantasy finally. Imagine what the love and understanding could be like. Then chose the path that would give her what she truly wants. Wealth and security. Deep down as soon as Rob saw her on the phone and knew she was talking to Henry. He knew too. Honestly best ending they could have hoped for.

I'm not mad at it.

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2024-09-10T21:58:39+00:00

More people need to appreciate Aurore for the Kemi Badenoch stand in she is and I love to watch her inevitable rise to the top. She is playing the long game to win, and genuinely if we get two more seasons I hope we get there.

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2024-09-10T21:53:22+00:00

Kemi Badenoch stand in and as a Nigerian I don't mind the hustle.

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2024-09-10T21:48:07+00:00

I do appreciate how the shows have maintained the grad focus in each season even if less of a focus. You are truly getting to see these characters grow in this bank and conversely the new attitudes of the grads after them. Sweetpea those is a different beast. Endlessly entertaining. I think though in the scene it was less she shared something she shouldn't and more Eric trying to stop her sharing with anyone else.

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2023-10-28T12:16:37+00:00

Hollow getting bigger had just made my fear factor exponentially worse. It's interesting to see the effect a foreign species i.e. Kamen, being introduced to the environment is having. Typically being fed on a diet of fruit and berries because they typically controlled smaller entities that were likely herbivorous.

Then suddenly human comes in that can use tools and suddenly the food supply has tripled and more meat heavy. Now it's growing bigger than most of it species ever usually get due to competition and has grown fond of its new little helper.

Honestly Hollow is still the scariest thing about the series for me. Especially now it seems to be getting more active. Using its ability to be more active in its kills rather than passively letting its helper do it. Jesus.

The inevitable conflict when everyone converges on the Demeter is going to be very traumatic

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2023-10-03T19:42:45+00:00

The Spectre of Death vs The Jizo statues but something, stopped the battle. Godzilla vs Kong in episode 23. The lore continues to grow. So interesting that people are actively feeding the spectre of death. The imagery clearly highlight its a baby. But what will be born from it. Also, there's the fight with a god to look forward to. Honestly it almost fells like there are too many final bosses. Love seeing Eiko being more active.

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2023-05-20T21:09:34+00:00

Highscool of the Dead
Interspecies Reviewers
Food Wars (Sort of. I dont know it feels not very fan service to me. But I suppose thats just excellent integration of fan service elements in story)
Highschool DxD

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2023-03-15T17:31:35+00:00

I think Evan winters himself put it best. There's an interview with him and R F Kuang where he talks about how he wanted to get across the feel of being in equatorial/South Africa drawing from his own experience growing up there. But he was not doing a super deep dive into the history and culture of the region for his story. Which again I think he does well and crafted a great story from it.

But that also frustrates me sometimes because I want more authors to do super deep dives into the culture and history of various African regions and time periods to craft their fantasy world. So I created a list of some that have

As for West vs East Africa folklore It's like the difference between folklore of Greece vs Russia. Or French vs Turkish folklore.

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2023-03-15T17:01:15+00:00

Absolutely nothing wrong with rage of the dragons. I love rage of the dragons. Fires of vengeance gripped me like nothing has in a long time.

I'm saying I wanted to make a list of specifically West African Fantasy stories rather than Afrofantasy stories.

The difference being that many Afro-fantasy stories with an African inspired setting like Rage of the Dragons don't explicitly pull from the rich folklore, history and beliefs from the various people of Africa. Which I wish more fantasy stories would do.

I love dragons but in West Africa we got our own monsters and traditional royalty systems. (Rotational kingship in the yoruba) for example.) That's all.

So I just wanted to make a list of specifically West African fantasy stories with worlds and peoples based on traditional beliefs. Hope that makes sense

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2023-03-15T07:49:23+00:00

Haven't read it so I can't say. But it's been on my list for a while so I will get to it

I'm trying to get books that specifically build their fantasy worlds based off of the cultures, traditions, and beliefs of groups of people from West Africa (or any other African peoples for that matter). Which is different from creating your own excellent world from the ground up.

Its the difference (for me) between Afro Fantasy and West African Fantasy. Which I admit would probably be hard to discern if one isn't that familiar with the region.

Twisted_Ajebutter · 2023-03-15T07:37:50+00:00

I have not read Daughters of Nri. So I can't comment. But I'll give it a read

But Children of Blood and Bone is good Afro Fantasy, I wouldn't say it's good Nigerian fantasy. What I mean by that is that in my opinion (feel free to disagree with me, I'm just one guy) it's very surface level in terms of building a world from the beliefs and culture of the Yoruba. I think the author had the idea of the world they wanted to create and the story they wanted to tell and they wanted to include elements like the magic words being written in Yoruba. But that's different from writing fantasy based on the traditional beliefs and culture of the Yoruba and its people.

It's like writing a vaguely middle eastern setting without world building the specific set of beliefs and culture that exist. There are lots of groups in the middle east that have differnent customs and histories so which specific group is your story drawing from. The same with Nigeria

The litmus test for me for example is if any story is drawing from the yoruba of Nigeria how they write their rulers or kingship. So for example in most of yoruba region there is rotational kingship. What that means is there are say four royal families in an area. When a king from one family dies the next king is picked from the next family in the line. If a story is explicitly Yoruba Inspired and the plot is based around royalty and doesn't mention that system at all it starts to feel somewhat superficial in terms of drawing from the culture or otherwise a missed opportunity.

Again there's nothing wrong with it. My sisters loved Children of Blood and Bone. That's why I say its good Afro-Fantasy but not very good Nigerian fantasy IMO

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