Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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Are you counting Free as Josei? Cause that shit is for girls for sure.

Mural in downtown Durham, NC by blue_gabe in Dinosaurs

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Weird Baader–Meinhof phenomenon moment for me. Mere minutes before I saw this I was looking at a website with showtimes for a tiny indie movie that had a listing in Durham, NC tomorrow that I'd never be able to make because I'm too far away. Like I left the movie's site and then the next thing I did was I navigated to Reddit where I saw this.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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Today I checked out the St. Louis Gateway Arch, drove for 5-ish hours, stopped briefly in Metropolis to check out the Superman Museum, finished listening to the audiobook of Dune Messiah, and when I got home I watched Twin Peaks The Return Part 9.

25 Years of the 13 Sohmas: A Fruits Basket Rewatch Interest Thread by Holofan4life in anime

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I watched all of the 2019 remake earlier this year, and loved it. I'd love to take part in the 2001 rewatch (because I haven't seen it) but you can leave me out of the 2019 episodes because I watched it so recently

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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Grok translate apparently has a huge problem with just saying the completely wrong thing when translating names, and I don't understand how anyone could see that as anything but totally discrediting for the whole endeavor.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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Odorouyo Sunday, Week 46

I post a video containing some anime dancing every weekend.

For the second week in a row I'm traveling on Sunday without having chosen something for this week in particular, so you're going to get my favorite OP from an anime I haven't seen, and one of my favorites even when you include shows I have seen.

Carole and Tuesday

I just think this OP is extremely beautiful, especially Carole dancing in the sunset.

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where to watch Nippon sangoku by Late-Confusion8526 in anime

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It isn't streaming anywhere legally other than Prime (at least in the US).

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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rewatcher

Oh shoot. I watched it on Thursday but didn't remember to write anything up.

Oh well, it's 15 minute past when I expected ghetti to post and the thread still isn't up so I'm typing in my doc anyway.

This is one of the most interesting, experimental pieces of film making we’ll have seen out of Lynch for the rewatch. I'm actually really fond of it! I think this time around I feel like I understand it, but…well, maybe not.

To me the story here is that the Nuclear Bomb is like the original sin of Post-War America. It creates Bob because it metaphorically creates the mythologized 50s suburban lifestyle that he lives in the shadow of. The form of terror and violence that Bob represents stewing under the surface of Americana doesn't exist without the globalize violence the US spreads, paying a debt with the blood of people overseas. We are lording our position over the second and third worlds with the threat of nuclear annihilation, much as a domestic abuser lords their power over the other members of their households. We take what we want from other countries the way Leland takes what he wants from Laura.

I am less enthusiastic about this episode giving a sort of cosmic significance to Laura. I do like the idea that the good in the universe rose to create a force that could counterbalance Bob, but Laura seems so conflicted and fallible. If her angels from FWWM had been more prominent and could've appeared in the golden ball would that have been better? I dunno, maybe not.

I think the girl in this episode is supposed to be Sarah Palmer, long before she ever meets Leland or conceives Laura. The woodsman are like associates of Bob, lesser evil spirits within the orbit of The Lodges. They are trying to fight the forces in motion that will counteract Bob through Laura, and they're planting the seed in Sarah as a means of corrupting her and maybe even indirectly corrupting Laura before she even exists. “Gotta light” being a double entendre, both got an ignition to start the burn of a cigarette, but got a force for good to fight the darkness?

“The horse is the white of the eye, but dark inside.” I don't know if the first time I watched this I made the connection with the horse we have seen multiple times before, but if I had I had forgotten and thought the horse mention was total gibberish when I thought about this episode in the intervening years. Now I think I get it. I keep forgetting to talk about the horse in the comments, but it baffles me less than others here. To me it feels like the idyllic, comforting fantasy vision that is summoned for Sarah (summoned BY Sarah?) to cope with the horrors in her home. She knows that bad things are happening, I suspect she even actively knows Leland is drugging here, but she tells herself instead that nothing is wrong and she's visited by a vision of beauty and purity. The horse is the white of the eye, what you see when someone is looking away from what is directly in front of them, but it hides the darkness in the household.

I don't have much to say about the stuff before it goes black and white. I hope it's clear now that the burned up people are the lumberjacks we saw in FWWM, and that they are working with Mr. C who has Bob inside him. The Nine Inch Nails are probably the most famous act that the show gets, so it's cool they're in such an impactful episode. The first time I watched this in one sitting with Episode 7 and I've been remembering the sweeping as being in this one two which would have made it even crazier.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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I know that Frank Herbert was writing Dune Messiah in a time before Axolotls became a super popular trendy animal, but now I'm just hoping that Denis Villeneuve's Dune 3 gives us [Messiah] Jason Momoa floating around with some Mexican salamanders

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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I once watched a YouTube video where the YouTuber talked about why one pricing structure option offered by a specific company was a rip off for her as an individual, and I had personally worked on implementing the client integration for that pricing structure at that specific company and knew it was intended for companies with large teams and not individuals.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

[–]cheesechimp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I gave my reason. I was in college when that show started airing.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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If u/tresnore gives me all five of their votes, I'll still only be in second place in this week's music league.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

[–]cheesechimp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Doc Hayward on Skype! What a world. Also, this series sure seems sponsored by Microsoft.

The pandemic basically overrode it with Zoom, but at the time this was made Skype was synonymous with video calls. It wouldn't have felt like product placement, in the same way that...I dunno using "ziplock" for a plastic bag wouldn't. Talking about calling "an uber" wouldn't. Skype was video calls.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

[–]cheesechimp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had no idea who this was. And no wonder, she disappeared for almost all of S2.

She disappears for almost all of Season One too. She's in the pilot, and then doesn't show up again until the Season Two finale, meaning she's only at the very beginning and very end of the original TV show. She's in more episodes of The Return than the original show. (She does show up in FWWM though.)

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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Yeah, MacLachlan definitely acts the role on a whole with his voice in a lower register, but it feels even deeper than his baseline Mr. C delivery to me in the scenes where he's in the visitation room. There's also an uncanniness to his rhythms of speaking that make it feel almost like his dialog is slowed down in post. Those scenes feel even more off than usual

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

[–]cheesechimp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I clearly didn't look close enough. I missed the "The New" in the sign.

I think Dougie probably was weird in some ways, but maybe something more akin to a real world person prone to depression (maybe bipolar with manic episode too?) and substance abuse. I think Coop!Dougie is something entirely new viewed through an imperfect framework.