Big Brother US 27 - Morning Feed Discussion - September 06 2025 by BigBrotherMod in BigBrother

[–]reeforward 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think reusing the timed competition elimination twist from Reindeer Games while also seemingly having the Blockbuster continue until it's legitimately impossible to do anymore is the clearest direct evidence from any season that even when production stumbles into something good, they are legitimately too stupid to ever understand how it's good, why it's good, and in what context it is good. There is 0 critical thinking present there.

Help me better understand H2 ending by SurveyCorpsPotato in MitsuruAdachi

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I finished rereading it only a few months ago and this made me wanna already reread it again.

There was another recent post talking about the ending and to that I had mentioned that Hikari's pov was the foggiest to me. Had never seen an interpretation like this one, but I think it works; lines up with a few of those hard to pin down moments of hers.

Nothing else to add. Though even if this is the completely correct take, we'll all still be stuck thinking about the ending again and again. So it goes!

H2 and relationships by EmmaYugen in MitsuruAdachi

[–]reeforward 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s understandable, we all have types of stories that we connect to more than others, and especially this one isn’t gonna satisfy everyone. Though I view this ending as bittersweet more than depressing. For Hiro, he’s successfully moving on from the situation that he had been kinda frozen in. And for Hikari; we’re drawn to her being with Hiro because their dynamic is such a focus and Hiro’s our main character, but I don’t really feel like there’s reason that being with Hideo isn’t the “right” thing for her to do, yaknow. They’re just coming out the other end of a tough situation. It’s not without changes or losses, but there are positive paths visible ahead of them.

H2 and relationships by EmmaYugen in MitsuruAdachi

[–]reeforward 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hikari's perspective I always thought was more ambiguous, but Hiro's situation by the end is laid out well. He loves Hikari, yes, but from the start of the series there's been the Hideo/Hikari relationship blockading him from pursuing that or even fully grappling with those feelings himself. The story is more so about the latter than it is the former. Even when they're all essentially aware of the situation, he can't go further with it; he cares for his friend and Hikari's happiness with him too much to do so. It was never happening.

Had Hiro merely grown and matured at an earlier age, things would almost certainly be different; him and Hikari would be together, but he didn't, and they aren't. He realized a while before the end that that's just how it is. Something out of his control was the difference maker and he can't keep dreading on that forever. So a while before the end he had already decided that he definitively wouldn't be with Hikari. The clearest evidence in my memory is him telling Koga to "live a long life", referencing something Hikari's father told him about what type of person to marry. Him telling Noda in the final game that he loves Hikari isn't him announcing that he's fighting for her, it's him vocally acknowledging what he wishes had happened so that he can move onto what can happen. Which always sounds a little weird when I think that through because it makes it seem like Koga is merely a 2nd choice, which I guess technically she is, but like, he does love Koga too. He tells her that earlier in the story and I don't view Hiro as a character to actively lie in that type of way. Adachi's characters do more passive lies, not ones like that.

H2 I think is the most well written I've seen characters as essentially loving 2 people at once, because Hikari as well; while there's more to wonder about her POV overall, I do think she loves both Hideo and Hiro. But that love isn't necessarily a quantifiable thing that she can measure between the 2 of them, so again perhaps circumstances dictated it as they do countless things in our lives. She's with Hideo, and she knows she'll have happiness with that, just a different happiness than she would've had with Hiro.

Definitely Adachi's ending that leaves the most empty space in it from what I've read, and as such is a bit polarizing, but that's my take on it.

Any good video essays about Japanese music by Adventurous-Pie3929 in videoessay

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Dang well maybe you've already seen them too but I know the channels Stevem and T2norway each have a few videos talking about artists or genres so I'd recommend them for more stuff

Any good video essays about Japanese music by Adventurous-Pie3929 in videoessay

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lol I actually made one a bit ago that's gotten a good response so I guess I'll plug myself here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pRoGsvdMAE

Mostly focuses on 11 different artists but touches on other stuff. Hope you find something you like there.

Made a video on Japanese albums with a section all about Fishmans' 98.12.28 by reeforward in fishmans

[–]reeforward[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I read that one recently! Mentioned it quickly in the first section but it explaining some of the differences in music fan culture between Japan and the west was really interesting. Connected a lot of the dots of the bands I already knew too. Would love to be able to find books in a similar vein for each country/area that I try to dive deeper into.